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McClellan: White House 'heads in sand'
The SwampBooks on the president, including McClellan's. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) by Mark Silva The White House isn't fond of having past and present members of the administration testify before Congress, but Scott McClellan, the now-readily-forthcoming former...Tags: Parliament, Heads of State, National Government, George W. Bush, Upper House
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Press Tour: In Which the Critic Named Gay Arrives
The TV ZoneI'm here! In Beverly Hills, California (movie stars...cement ponds...) Damn, I MADE it. The press tour. The one that everyone keeps predicting will end after this week - you know, because newspapers keep firing TV critics. A pox on......Tags: Beverly Hills, Simon Cowell, California
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Mike Francesa gets quite a few things off his chest
WatchdogWell, my friends, I officially have lost all sense of reason and proportion. I just spent hours transcribing all 23 minutes of Mike Francesa's rant on WFAN in response to slights and perceived slights over the past month in the......Tags: Football, New York Jets, Family, NBC (tv network), CBS Corp.
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Mike Francesa's Tuesday rant, annotated edition
WatchdogI now am tanned, rested and ready to tackle the particulars of Mike Francesa's Tuesday monologue. (Just kidding about the tan. I live in a basement.) This will require the care and diligence of a Talmudic scholar, but that's what......Tags: Entertainment, Television Industry, NBC (tv network), CBS Corp., National Football League
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Mike Francesa says weight is 'fair game, absolutely'
WatchdogIn a blog promo that accompanied my Sunday newspaper column, I promised to post 7,500-plus words from my interview with Mike Francesa last week. Well, I've decided to (partially) renege, in the interests of clarity and sanity. But I'll still...... -
Colin Cowherd is 'strangely unaffected by criticism'
WatchdogIn my Friday newspaper column I broke the news Colin Cowherd's national show will be heard on 1050 ESPN from noon to 2 effective March 16, with Max Kellerman's local show being trimmed an hour to 10 to noon. Mr.......Tags: Keith Olbermann, ESPN (tv network), Bob Costas
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Shales on Why We Need TV Critics
The TV ZoneGreat column by esteemed Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales on why the world needs TV critics - and it was not even remotely self-serving. The second graph (and go here for the whole piece...): "Sadly, there are people......Tags: Popular Music (genre)
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Labor Sec'y: No 'quick fix,' peaks, valleys
The Swampby Mark Silva Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who still has $250 million to "roll out'' for job creation, maintains that the Obama administration is "not looking at just a quick fix'' for the economy and allows that this is "the......Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Trade Agreements, National Government, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Economic Organization
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Top 10 Things to Expect When Dining With a Restaurant Critic
Dining@LargeFirst of all, I should thank Josh, who sent me a link to a blog called Under the High Chair. I'm stealing the idea for this Top 10 post from it, although the list isn't the same as it would......Tags: Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Salads, Restaurants
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Sarah Palin: The book, the movie
The Swampby Mark Silva From San Diego comes some interesting insight into the woman behind the woman, the professional collaborator helping Alaska's Sarah Palin write Going Rogue. The 400-page memoir is on such as fast-track that the publisher plans to release.......Tags: Sarah Palin, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Travel, Emergency Planning, Comedy (genre)
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Bill Clinton: Obama 'polishing his Nobel'
The Swampby Mark Silva When a Democratic president is too busy to attend the annual Gridiron Club dinner, one of Washington's longest-running rituals of humor for power-brokers and the press, there's a good chance that he can find a substitute --......Tags: Al Gore, Washington (U.S. state), Heart Attack, Utah, Dick Cheney
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Roger Ebert: Not just a film critic, the film critic
For as long as I can remember following movies, I remember following Roger Ebert. I remember looking forward to watching every episode of “Siskel & Ebert” as a kid. I remember the “Siskel & Ebert” episode of “The Critic,&...
Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Entertainment, Chicago Sun-Times, Gene Siskel
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