Mike's Nude Switch

It wasn't quite a year ago when Mike Wallace stated that he would never take his clothes off onscreen.

But never say never.

The 87-year-old news star has now changed his mind.

"I'm OK with being topless in front of people," he recently told the New York Daily News.

Then he remembered his previous coyness: "But I'm not sure if I'd want to do it onscreen.

"If it's a story that's going to win me a Peabody, it would be different," he then said, in stark contrast to his thoughts of last year.

In June 2005, the 60 Minutes star revealed: "You will never see me in a nude scene.

"I don't think that's what's needed to win a Peabody for me.

"Personally, I think there are other things you can do to give people the news."

Does his change of mind come after he accidentally revealed his right nipple at an event last week?

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The Smoking Gun, God bless them, found a shot of "NEWSWATCH 16 Action Consumer trouble shooter" Bill O'Reilly '75.

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Piss Christ 2

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.

The Los Angeles Times investigates Christian painting superstar Thomas Kinkade:

In litigation and interviews with the Los Angeles Times, some former gallery owners depict Kinkade, 48, as a ruthless businessman who drove them to financial ruin at the same time he was fattening his business associates' bank accounts and feathering his nest with tens of millions of dollars.

In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.

"He had been falling down, and he fell off the stool, and he was laying on the ground and just looked up at her and flipped her the bird and told her, you know, just to 'F you' several times," Dandois testified.

"He approached [her] and he palmed her breasts and he said, 'These are great tits!'"

"But you've got to remember," [Kinkaid] said, "I'm the idol to these women who are there. They sell my work every day, you know. They're enamored with any attention I would give them. I don't know what kind of flirting they were trying to do with me. I don't recall what was going on that night."

You can see his work here.

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