Gretchen defends Slade against his haters.
For his next movie, he's using the laugh.
Everything's coming up roses.
We have a little 'Goon' in all of us
Former BET talk-show host Tavis Smiley, who was fired by the black cable network last March after he sold an interview to ABC's PrimeTime Thursday, is close to a deal that would see him hosting a daytime talk show on ABC as well as contributing to its magazine shows -- including PrimeTime Thursday -- on a regular basis, published reports said Wednesday.