Ted Nugent creates stir with inaugural ball performance

Austin, Texas – Hours after Gov. Rick Perry kicked off his second full term in office, Ted Nugent helped him celebrate at a black-tie gala, but not all attendees were pleased by his performance.

Using machine guns as props, Nugent, 58, appeared onstage as the final act of the inaugural ball wearing a cutoff T-shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and shouting offensive remarks about non-English speakers, according to people who were in attendance.

Perry’s spokesman, Robert Black, downplayed the Tuesday-night incident.

“Ted Nugent is a good friend of the governor’s. He asked him if he would play at the inaugural. He didn’t put any stipulation of what he would play,” Black said.

Others said the appearance was inappropriate.

“I think it was a horrible choice,” GOP strategist Royal Masset said. “I hope nobody approved it.”

Judge: Seinfeld owes broker $100,000 in commission

New York – Jerry Seinfeld’s high-priced Manhattan home is going to cost him more than he thought, about $100,000 more.

A Manhattan judge has ruled the 52-year-old comedian owes about that much as a commission to the broker who helped him find a town house on the Upper West Side that he and wife bought for $3.95 million in February 2005.

Seinfeld had argued that the broker, Tamara Cohen, didn’t deserve the commission because she failed to show the brownstone on the Jewish Sabbath, the day the Seinfelds wanted to see it.

The Seinfelds looked at the house and made a deal to buy it without Cohen after they were unable to reach her and she failed to return their calls.