Maher helps kick out rowdy protesters

Los Angeles – Bill Maher can add “security guard” to his job description alongside comedian and political commentator.

Maher on Friday night helped security remove a rowdy protester from the studio during his weekly HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and it was all captured on live television.

Maher was talking science during one of his weekly panel discussions when a protester in his audience stood up, held up a smuggled-in sign reading “9/11 is a cover up fraud” and shouted comments to the same effect.

The host tried to shout down the audience member, who only became more agitated.

“Do we have some (expletive) security in this building,” Maher yelled, “or do I have to come down there and kick his (expletive)?”

When security reached the man’s aisle and the man resisted leaving, Maher ran into the seats and helped them push him out the door, shouting “Out! Out! Out!”

Coppola’s first movie in a decade premieres

Rome – It is Francis Ford Coppola’s first movie in a decade, and the Oscar-winning director said Saturday that audiences should be in no hurry before deciding if “Youth Without Youth” is good or bad.

“Youth Without Youth” is Coppola’s first movie since “The Rainmaker” in 1997. It was having its public premiere Saturday evening at the Rome Film Festival.

At an earlier screening for the press, reactions were mixed, and Coppola asked people to see it more than once.

“Youth Without Youth” tells a metaphysical story about a 70-year-old Romanian professor of linguistics who miraculously becomes younger after being struck by lightning. The accident gives him abnormal intellectual abilities which attract the attention of the Nazis as World War II looms.

DeGeneres’ former pooch gets new home

Los Angeles – The pooch at the center of the dog-adoption drama between Ellen DeGeneres and an animal rescue agency has found a new home.

Iggy was placed with a new family earlier this week, a spokesman for the agency’s owners said Friday.

“We’re not revealing the family’s identity to protect their privacy,” attorney Keith A. Fink told The Associated Press. “The dog is fine.”

The tug of war over the little dog named Iggy began after DeGeneres, who had initially adopted the terrier mix, gave the dog to her hairstylist after Iggy couldn’t get along with her cats.