New York, Dec. 10: If it was John F Kennedy's 51-year-old daughter Caroline expressing a desire to be nominated to Hillary Clinton's New York junior senate seat last week, she now has competition in the form of actress Fran Drescher.

Drescher, also 51, is best known for her starring role in the 1990s television comedy "The Nanny" and an adenoidal voice that could strip the rust off an engine block - a talent that might come in handy during a Senate filibuster.

New York, Dec 9 : Animated American television sitcom `Family Guy' known for its politically incorrect humour, has stirred controversy with its "Laura Bush killed a
guy" catch phrase on the December 7 show.

Family Guy is loved for its "They did not just say that" variety of comedy, but the Laura Bush phrase was said to be totally out of the shows context.

New York, December 9 : Singer Lily Allen has said that she has been trying to sober up after having had had a string of drunken public instances.

The Brit songwriter, who had to be carried out of the Glamour Women of the Year Awards by her brother in June because she had had too much to drink, said that she had stayed away from the bottle since September this year.

Allen had further told Elton John onstage to "F--- off," while she was under the influence of champagne at the U. K. GQ Men of the Year Awards in September.

New York, Dec 8 : Classic toys are making a comeback this Christmas, with American kids jotting them down on their wish lists as gifts they would like Santa to bring them.

As per a recent eBay survey, Barbie dolls and board games are back in demand, and at the Times Square ‘Toys “R” Us’ store, kiddies can be seen picking out toys that had once been famous during their parents’ time.

“I want Hungry Hungry Hippos,” the New York Daily News quoted Nicholas Campos, 4, from Brooklyn, as naming the ''70s board game.

“I always wanted to play it!” he said.

His 6-year-old sister Ariel chose an Easy-Bake Oven over the other toys.

New York, Dec 7 : After spending 30 years in coma, Manhattan socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died in a New York nursing home. She was 76.

She spent the last decade at an upper East Side nursing home, surrounded by pictures of grandchildren she never got to meet.

Sunny was found unconscious in the marble-tiled bathroom of Newport, R. I., estate in December 1980.

Her second husband, Claus von Bulow was convicted of trying to kill her with an insulin overdose - then acquitted after an appeal got him a retrial.

The events were turned into a 1990 Hollywood film, ‘Reversal of Fortune’.

New York, December 7: Actor Bill Cosby’s extremely popular family sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’ that reigned the 1980’s is said to have a revival as a porn spoof.

The veteran’s TV comedy, which had run for eight seasons on the NBC television network, had beem amongst the biggest TV hits spanning from 1984 to 1992, reports the New York Post.

The household comedy, which focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York, may now be turned into "Not the Cosbys XXX".

The production will reportedly have an actor mimicking the comedian’s signature Cliff Huxtable character while being in the middle of the X-rated action, reports avn. com.