December 31st, 2011
11:04 PM ET
.. AC360's Isha Sesay reports.
AC360's Isha Sesay gets a behind-the-scenes look at just what it takes to ring in the new year.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Before The Crystal Ball Drops
December 31st, 2011
11:04 PM ET
.. AC360's Isha Sesay reports.
AC360's Isha Sesay gets a behind-the-scenes look at just what it takes to ring in the new year.
Isha Gets Ready
December 31st, 2011
08:15 PM ET
.. Isha Sesay reports.
Tune in tonight at 10pm E.T. on CNN.com as Isha Sesay reports from behind the scenes.
In One Word: "Anderson!"
December 31st, 2011
06:20 PM ET
.. Anne Clifford and Ella Chick report.
We asked revelers in Times Square for a single word to define the year. What's your word? Tweet it to @AC360 using #CNNNYE.
Tune in for Isha Sesay's behind-the-scenes webcast at 10 p.m. ET and then Anderson and Kathy's epic show from Times Square at 11 p.m. ET! Tweet your New Year's Eve messages using #CNNNYE and you could see it on-air. Also, submit your questions for Anderson and Kathy on our Facebook and Google+ pages.
Before It All Begins
December 31st, 2011
06:27 PM ET
Have a look behind the curtain as the team gets ready for CNN's fabulous New Year's Eve blow-out.
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Ha! Ha! Ha! It's A Joke!
Anderson Cooper Set to Propose to Kathy Griffin at Midnight
Posted on December 31, 2011
Posted by P. Beckert
Well, folks, you can stop wondering whether (1) Anderson Cooper is gay; (2) Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin are dating; (3) Kathy Griffin is really a guy; or (4) Kathy Griffin is really a guy, gay and dating Anderson Cooper who is also gay, because, evidently, after the ball drops in Times Square tonight, Cooper just may be setting himself up for an even bigger ball drop by proposing to Griffin.
Yep, you heard that right. Sources very close to Anderson Cooper claim that the nice guy of mainstream media fame is ready to propose to the most abrasive woman in show business (in his age group at least). Now all that is left is the answer.
Oddsmakers in Vegas say the sure money is on Kathy yelling ‘yes’ so loud, it will be heard over the noisemakers in Times Square where the two will be hosting “New Years Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin.” And they are pretty sure she’ll get something in there about being so excited she just peed her pants before jumping all over Cooper like a red-tufted lemur. There may also be nudity so it is advised that you might want to send the kiddies into the next room to watch “Night of the Walking Dead with Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest” instead.
Most of us can’t imagine what would possess mild-mannered newsman Cooper to go for the self-proclaimed diva whore of stand-up comedy who has openly said more than once that Cooper can’t help it if he was born gay.
“The only way we can possibly explain it,” says Cooper’s best friend Sanjay Gupta, “is that the rumors that the poles are shifting, causing a magnetic disturbance at the equator has somehow affected our Cooper’s thinking and he is just not himself.”
Meanwhile, Cooper remains mum on tonight’s proposal. “If you are asking me straight up if I am going to propose to that madwoman, the answer is a definite no. But, if you are asking me if I could be crazy enough to marry someone like Kathy Griffin, the answer is, ‘hell, man, I’ve stood in Japan in the middle of a nuclear meltdown and took radiation levels on myself for a 24-hour period.’ I think I can handle a firecracker like Griffin.”
5 Things We Already! Know
5 Things You Don't Know About Anderson Cooper
December 30, 2011
He's been dispatched to hotspots all over the world during the year covering stories for CNN and once again this year, he'll join funny lady Kathy Griffin on New Year's Eve for the network's coverage of the nation's biggest celebration in Times Square. Here are five things you don't know about this respected news anchor, whose on-air giggle fit earlier this year made headlines on its own.
1. Born in New York into one of the city's wealthiest and most respected families, the Vanderbilts. His great-great-great-grandfather was Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, a 19th-century business tycoon. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, is a prominent socialite and famous jeans designer.
2. Spent six months living in Vietnam and studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.
3. Modeled for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's from age 10 to 13.
4. While studying at Yale, did an internship over two summers at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.
5. Although a self-described news junkie, his guilty pleasure is reality TV shows, especially The Real Housewives series.
Top 10 RidicuLists
RidicuList Winner 1/10
December 30th, 2011
09:29 PM ET
In the year's #1 top RidicuList, the usually cool and calm Anderson Cooper gets a case of the giggles over Gerard Depardieu.
I voted for him!
[Never mind that woman selling (probably cheep) gold bracelets or something...
I have no idea how she got in there.]
Follow Him! Or Him. Or Him...
December 29th, 2011
03:50 PM ET
We're getting ready for an epic #CNNNYE show hosted by Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin at 11 p.m. ET! We want to take you behind the scenes this year and give you an insider's perspective from the platform in Times Square to the party in Nashville, the celebration in Key West and the control room at CNN. Get the scoop directly from Anderson, our correspondents and producers by following them on Twitter on Dec. 31:
Live from Times Square @andersoncooper
The AC360 account will bring you the latest all night @AC360
Host of the 10 p.m. web show in Times Square @IshaSesayCNN
Producer on the platform in Times Square @jackgraycnn
Correspondent in Nashville @BrookeBCNN
Correspondent in Central Park @GaryTuchmanCNN
Producer in Key West @CNNkimsegal
Correspondent in Key West @CNNzarrella
Producer in Central Park @JoneilCNN
Senior producer in the control room @JennyBlancoCNN
Producer and site manager in Times Square @JulianCummings
Line producer in the control room @AnnieCNN
Producer in Nashville, Jason Morris @JMOCNN
Don't miss Isha Sesay's behind-the-scenes show on CNN.COM at 10 p.m. ET! Tweet your New Year's Eve messages using #CNNNYE and you could see it on-air. Also, submit your questions for Anderson and Kathy on our Facebook and Google+ pages.
I've never seen him before, but I hope to see More of him from now on.
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