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Sideshow: Bill Cosby on allegations: 'I've never seen anything like this.'

Given the sexual-assault allegations made against him by 40 women, we'd have thought Bill Cosby would avoid the media.

Bill Cosby says he still has lots of ideas for television projects. Later yesterday, he spoke to high school students in Selma, Ala. (Albert Cesare / The Montgomery Advertiser)
Bill Cosby says he still has lots of ideas for television projects. Later yesterday, he spoke to high school students in Selma, Ala. (Albert Cesare / The Montgomery Advertiser)Read more
    by By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer | Columnist
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Cosby talks, says little

Given the sexual-assault allegations made against him by 40 women, we'd have thought Bill Cosby would avoid the media.

But there he was, chatting away Friday on Good Morning America. He disclosed little of any substance . "I have been in this business for 52 years, and I've never seen anything like this," Cosby, 77, told Linsey Davis of the sheer tonnage of trouble piled his way. "And reality is the situation, and I can't speak." So what would Cosby, a champion of education, tell youngsters if they asked him about the women's charges?

"I think that many of them say, 'Well, you're a hypocrite, you say one thing, you say the other,' " said Cosby. Uh-huh.

Cosby also denied his showbiz career was over.

"I have a ton of ideas to put on television about people and their love for each other," he said.

Letterman is afraid

Come Thursday, David Letterman will be unemployed. "I'm naked and afraid," he tells Jane Pauley in a chat set to air Friday on CBS. "Any enormous, uprooting change in my life has petrified me, really petrified me." He says he knows he'll "come through the other side."