West Hollywood neighborhood may be famously liberal, but when Chad Michael Morrisette, a professional window display designer dressed a mannequin to resemble Sarah Palin, the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, complete with trademark glasses and beehive hairstyle and, hung the effigy by the neck from the eaves of his home for Halloween, it proved too much for even the most liberal of its residents, and the subsequent growing frenzy of protestors and media attention forced him to remove it quickly.
Wednesday night’s 11:00 p.m. half-hour campaign ad special on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart featuring Democratic presidential candidate – Barack Obama, pulled in its biggest audience averaging 3.6-million viewers, managed to beat its own 8th October record by 600,000 viewers, when Michelle Obama appeared on the show. 
With appearances scheduled in eight key states, an optimistic Obama embarks on the final stretch of his presidential campaign, much buoyed by a half-hour prime-time television advertisement campaign 26-million Americans watched and after receiving an impressive endorsement from former president Bill Clinton.
The Neil Young concert that was to be held at The Forum, Los Angeles on Thursday night has been cancelled, as the 62-year old rocker-activist would rather cancel the show than cross the picket line, the striking local faction of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) union of which both Young and his wife are honorary lifetime members, plans to form there during the show against The Forum’s owner, Faithful Central Bible Church, due to disputes over contracts.
