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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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5:04 PM
by Gene
"The fact is that if we do not do something to stop carbon emissions in this world, we are going to see a diminution of the quality of life and, eventually, all life," declared Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, at a celebratory press conference. What cares the party of ABORTION about life? Schwarzenegger had insisted on creating an escape clause that would allow for a delay in the deadlines in case of a natural or economic disaster. He got that. I guess that makes him a moderate-to-liberal Democrat.
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4:56 PM
by Gene
(Via the indescribable Romy)
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1:51 PM
by Gene
Any ideas whether it's useful in washing out MAHDAM SEHKRUTEHREE's mouth?
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1:44 PM
by Gene
Bernstein takes the brunt of the criticism in the uncorrected galleys for the 288-page book. Shepard calls one chapter, "Bernstein Unchaperoned," and quotes from the divorce records of his breakup with Nora Ephron, as well as a 14-page letter he wrote to her about the depiction of the husband in her semi-autobiographical "Heartburn" movie. [Excuse me, there may have been a book before that. What does GREG know? --ED] But she also explores Woodward's three marriages, his failures in the infamous Janet Cooke episode at the Post, and the problematic nature of his reliance on anonymous sources. Yes sir, we can call them -- LEGENDARY! (Via the usual Romy)
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1:40 PM
by Gene
Just one problem: the zillions of computers with Bill's Bugs.
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1:38 PM
by Gene
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11:39 AM
by Gene
Another 300 who were sacrificed to the god that failed.
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11:31 AM
by Gene
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11:27 AM
by Gene
LET THEM EAT FOREIGN NEWS! (Via [oh well] The Corner)
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11:19 AM
by Gene
As urgently as it's acted on Iran? ![]() Let us know when you get to Darfur!
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10:10 AM
by Gene
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9:42 AM
by Gene
(Via the no-doubt-tone-deaf Romy)
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9:34 AM
by Gene
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9:19 AM
by Gene
LEGENDARY! LEGENDARY WELCH! They need you in the hospital executive suite! STAT!
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8:30 AM
by Gene
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8:17 AM
by Gene
Here we thought this guy had something to say, and he proves just another Hollywood ass. Isn't that what JACK'S PROFOUNDLY HELPFUL ALPHABET SOUP does? And what if somebody doesn't like the rating then? These idiots should stick to excreting toxic waste. And every day he's in his job, SAMMY GLICKMAN offers more evidence of senile dementia. (Via MediaBistro)
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8:15 AM
by Gene
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8:14 AM
by Gene
Old newsrag editors never die, they just spout their CW somewhere else. (Via MediaBistro)
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8:11 AM
by Gene
Coke North American President Resigns Donald Knauss To Become Chairman-CEO of Clorox
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6:51 AM
by Gene
C'mon guys, your idea of a great president would be a cross of U. S. Grant and Silent Cal -- with a good dose of TRICKY DICK thrown in.
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6:48 AM
by Gene
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffft!
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6:40 AM
by Gene
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6:38 AM
by Gene
Klein said he must waste "millions of dollars creating jobs we don't need" - money that could be used to hire 80 teachers - because the assistant principals' jobs are protected by their union contract and state law. Sounds like government to me. Maybe we can get Dubya to finance a few more.
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6:32 AM
by Gene
![]() Glenn Ford has died. Among other things he was lucky enough (lucky is an understatement) to star in two movies with Rita Hayworth. I think I can see why. “Noel Coward once told me, ‘You will know you’re old when you cease to be amazed.’ Well, I can still be amazed,” Ford said in a 1981 interview with The Associated Press.This man must have been something to have known Noël Coward. But then he knew and worked in Hollywood when it was still worth knowing and working in, and we envy a man like that. Yet another small piece of the old show-biz disappears, leading us closer to its oblivion. Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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5:37 PM
by Gene
The bad news: It'll become craftier in making it up.
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5:02 PM
by Gene
What does this mean, RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? Do this mean we can let bygones be bygone and just hop into bed with Nukeman? Does this mean we throw all sorts of high-tech at them? Does this mean we're happy the country has an Islamic dictatorship? Does this mean we send half of Foggy Bottom over to celebrate the anniversary of the hostage taking? Does this mean Jimmah is our ambassador? And who are these diplomats? Are these the same invented straw men Your toadies always knock down in DA POST and THE WEEKLY STANDARD? Four posts with RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s name in one day is not good for the sanity.
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2:37 PM
by Gene
Paris Hilton’s debut album — which was first unveiled here last winter — has been rejected by pop fans. Paris sold just 76,000 copies in her first week, which means it’s over. Considering how much time and money were put into this ridiculous project at Warner Music Group, when “real” acts are waiting their turn, well … don’t get me started … Don't get her boyfriend (and your boss) RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! started!
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1:21 PM
by Gene
Make no mistake: this will appear in THE PAPER OF RE-CORD soon -- and then disappear. We'd like to see a LIBERAL NRA amass the war chest the real one has. This "if-you-can't-beat-them-co-opt-them" approach further underlines the liberal rot. Moreover it shows that on some positions, with some groups, true opposition is untenable. That said, the NRA is pretty skunky smelling too; it played a big part in turning our politics into a national tantrum in a whorehouse.
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12:36 PM
by Gene
Ranks of uninsured Americans grow to 46.6M LEGENDARY WELCH! Is that you laughing?
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11:21 AM
by Gene
Just the first. Figures: she had an arrest record.
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10:57 AM
by Gene
The Plato's Retreats of academe decided long ago in loco parentis is squaresville.
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10:32 AM
by Gene
Hey Jeff Zucks! Hey Little Jeffy! Why don't you make it 24 hours a day and call it The Today Network? Then you'll really boost your profits! (Via the inevitable Romy)
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10:30 AM
by Gene
Study: Product Placement to Surge 25% in '06 You deserve it!
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9:24 AM
by Gene
We're of two very annoyed minds about this. The Christianity of professional college football is the Christianity of Babbitt and Dubya. On the other hand a certain Muslim (think SUPERHOOPER) screams every time he can't get his way. Whatever happened to the idea of the Brotherhood of Man?
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9:02 AM
by Gene
The West is being run, more or less, by the most incompetent generation of middle-aged white men since the 6th century -- when they let the Roman Empire collapse without providing for an alternative (other than the Dark Ages.) BRING BACK NEWT!
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8:59 AM
by Gene
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8:38 AM
by Gene
Despite millions readers [SIC] in the Arab world, Mr Mahfouz's books are still unavailable in many Middle Eastern countries because of his support for the Camp David peace treaty that Anwar Sadat, the late Egyptian President, signed with Israel in 1978 - a peace move viewed with fury by many in the Arab world at the time. He was also stabbed by a holy cockroach. Perhaps the worst infamy, however, is that RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does not mention him by name on His home page. Which comes first, the Arabs living in peace with Israel -- or Hell freezing over?
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8:36 AM
by Gene
OINK OINK!
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8:28 AM
by Gene
the most active developer in New York City, the Related Companies; one of the largest landlords, Glenwood Management; Tishman Speyer, which controls Rockefeller Center; two publicly traded real estate companies, Archstone and Vornado; the international bank UBS; and the Blackstone investment firm, as well as the Rudin, Durst and LeFrak real estate familiesin the bidding -- $20 billion! $50 billion! $100 BILLION! THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!! Then we can Rendellize it full bore with $100 MILLION CONDOS and.... Why do we think the winner will end up a loser?
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6:43 AM
by Gene
One afternoon the New York Post ran six full pages about Kann's [SIC] private life. "PERV'S LAIR. INSIDE JONBENET SUSPECT'S SEEDY BANGKOK DEN OF SIN," trumpeted the Daily News. "SEX CHANGE SHOCKER" came next. (The word "shock" is the key to tabloid reporting, with "Britney Baby Shocker" the ideal headline. One new publication is dispensing with pretense altogether and naming itself "Shock!") Now I realize you can't expect much from the News and Post but unfortunately both are coupled to rather sensible editorial pages -- and remember, the alternative is reading the New York Times. 1. That depends on your definition of "sensible." 2. I guess a "sensible" editorial page can't overcome the senselessness of RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s hacks. Maybe we're not so credulous.
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6:35 AM
by Gene
[H]e is expected to stay with Newsweek, possibly working on some broader strategic job.... Translation: they give him a cozy office and a fatter salary, and he attends meetings all day. Hardly different from his current job except he's not the editor of AMERICA'S NO. 1 -- 2 NEWSRAG. Now we have to think of a nickname for his successor. We'll find one! P. S. And sooner than we thought: his successor is one of REV. PETERS's boys, meaning he'll put the fire of the lef -- TRUTH into the rag! We're looking forward to your slant -- TAKE on the news! I know -- Jonny the Boy Wonder! Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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5:52 PM
by Gene
"IT HAS SUDDENLY BECOME A BUYERS' MARKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" [Overemphasis added] And what story on the Cooling of Condo-mania is complete without RealTORs® complaining that the NEWS BIZ forced them to build 500,000 condos?
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5:27 PM
by Gene
That's BRILLIANT marketing, Bugmeister! #50 in Amazon.com, and the upgrade's #45 -- people are roaring to buy this! (Pffffft!) But explain this, Bug: Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
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5:09 PM
by Gene
Katrina, as much as 9/11, seared our nation's rudderlessness into our psyches, and it will take more than harebrained schemes by anybody to put us right.
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8:38 AM
by Gene
![]() Let's everybody SMILE!
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8:26 AM
by Gene
We can be sure of this: 1. Several of the shows will be willed to success because Branson East's cash flow depends on them (Mary Poppins, Les Miz); 2. Several of the shows will be willed to success because they're self-evident IMMORTALITIES (A Chorus Line, the genius of HERR DOKTOR SONDHEIM); and 3. Several of the shows will be willed to success because the critics already have the raves in their hard drives (that sex musical). That there's not one worthy work among these masterpieces is obvious (Quick! Sing us an F-bomb!), but that won't prevent the BENs from selling them, or Branson East from deluding itself it's not a tourist trap.
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8:24 AM
by Gene
If these imbeciles spent as much time making good entertainment as they spend in ego battles we'd have the MEGAPLATINUM AGE the hacks always say we live in.
Posted
6:54 AM
by Gene
See! Fidel's good for something!
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6:49 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: They're still pointing fingers and still doing nothing.
Posted
6:45 AM
by Gene
Collapse of JonBenet murder case stuns US [Home-page hed] This is like that stupid hed Stale.com ran the other day. I wasn't stunned. I suspect even many who followed the story closely weren't stunned. Not only do British news hacks not have to be bribed, they don't have to be bribed to be stupid.
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6:42 AM
by Gene
Monday, August 28, 2006
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7:16 PM
by Gene
Tom Cruise's production company, ousted last week in an unusually public dispute with Paramount Pictures, has signed a two-year financing deal with an investment partnership headed by Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. PREDICTION: Snyder has money troubles with both. How can he finance a candle burning at both ends? By the way Dan, Couch Jumper isn't 22 anymore. I like the name too -- First & Goal. After a few flubs it may have to be called Fourth & Long. P. S. We forgot: he controls Six Flags, another money maker. He was going to be the next Walt Disney. We're waiting, Uncle Walt.
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4:55 PM
by Gene
Now (presumably) back to square one, where this seemed destined for all along.
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4:49 PM
by Gene
Is there nothing RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s site can't be linked to? (Via USAOKAY!!!!!.com)
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2:49 PM
by Gene
Hey if all I had to do was use a word, I'd do that too!
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2:07 PM
by Gene
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10:47 AM
by Gene
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10:36 AM
by Gene
If only we hacks could return to the golden age of Vietnam, and not have to run such a graf at ALL.
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8:52 AM
by Gene
Why? It wants the money!
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8:41 AM
by Gene
Do you find something slightly distasteful in this line? I do. For years the hacks kept calling Dick Clark a teenager, even when it was obvious he looked his age, albeit with better hair and skin tone. Now that he's making a painfully slow recovery from his stroke, NOW we admit to it. Maybe if we'd shown a little sense earlier we wouldn't have had to make this offensive statement. But to think news hacks have any sense is to think the sun rises from the west.
Posted
8:27 AM
by Gene
We thought your side won!
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8:21 AM
by Gene
(Via the inevitable Romy) Sunday, August 27, 2006
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7:28 PM
by Gene
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2:34 PM
by Gene
And no, just because they work for an allegedly "con-SER-va-tive" news operation means nothing. P. S. at 7:40 p.m.: I think I should explain myself to those of you coming across me via Real Clear Politics (thank you AGAIN, RCP!): First off, I hope you read me, and find me amusing. Second, it's a tradition with me (or rather a very bad habit) to use rows of exclamation points after the names of conservative outfits that have an exaggerated sense of power, or with anything related to Rupert Murdoch, who is with his empire what Khrushchev was with his shoe. I know I have a weird way with my words, but I'd rather be weird than bland. And I meant to say that I wonder if even a conservative news organization can't be subjugated by PC politics just as easily as AP or Al Reut; and we should remember at heart Rupert is no conservative. Again, I hope you read me, and come back at least a couple of times.
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2:31 PM
by Gene
SO WHAT? P. S. While Mr. Sherman’s firm has been shedding some of its newspaper stocks, largely at the direction of dissatisfied clients, about 10 percent of his portfolio remains invested in newspapers. (As of June 30 his firm owned 13 percent of the common stock of The New York Times Company.) PIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCH!!!!!
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10:25 AM
by Gene
![]() The ASSociated Press is VERY selective of its sponsors! That's okay -- midriffs set us on fire too!
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10:21 AM
by Gene
Preparing for the plenary. Parliament’s political groups will devote most of the week to preparing for the Strasbourg plenary session of 4-7 September. The main points on the agenda will include a vote on a report on EU – China relations, as well as debates on the events of the summer. Lebanon. The Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a special meeting to debate the Middle East crisis with representatives of the Council and the Commission. (Tuesday) Congo. Development Commissioner Louis Michel will take part in a discussion with MEPs in the Development Committee on the observation mission for July’s elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Monday) Human Rights. A public hearing organised by Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Human Rights will discuss the concept of ‘transitional justice’ and the alternatives to impunity for past human rights violations in societies moving towards democracy. The meeting will analyse various approaches which have been taken in Africa, Latin America and the Arab world. (Monday) Pre-session press briefing. Any changes to the plenary agenda made by the Conference of Presidents will be announced at the regular pre-session press conference at 11am on Friday 1 September in Brussels. Polish Prime Minister. EP President Josep Borrell will hold a meeting with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Prime Minister of Poland. (Wednesday) Just to let people know The World's Most PC Deliberative Body (well, outside the Cornell University Faculty Senate) keeps up with world affairs.
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10:05 AM
by Gene
Somebody tell Larry and Sergey (if they know what Blogger is): November 1 will be the one-year anniversary of "Maintenance on Saturday" on the Dashboard. Are you zillionaire clowns keeping it up because it was an especially good fix? Or an especially bad one? And November 14 (a Tuesday) is the one-year anniversary of "Maintenance on Monday, November 14." Are you morons trying to turn these into national monuments?
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10:03 AM
by Gene
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8:50 AM
by Gene
Most Democratic candidates in competitive congressional races are opposed to setting a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, rejecting pressure from liberal activists to demand a quick end to the three-year-old military conflict. You guys running as Republicans? What would Speaker Babs think?
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8:43 AM
by Gene
N.D. town short on police cars Man leads officers on a destructive chase and crashes his van into 10 cruisers NASCAR Kenseth rolls to victory
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8:37 AM
by Gene
And the TWXSTERS aren't any better today -- they're navel-gazing about stars. Are we thinking of expanding our outreach? Well one of the TWXSTERS got in the spirit -- he rootrootroots for Ms. Babs. We want a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!! Can you help? Do birds fly? (Certainly we help with this story: you'd almost have to guess Babs has a 3 lifetime rating from the ACU, and a 95 for 2005 from the ADA. I smell THE NEXT HENRY LUCE! [Pe-eeew!]) Saturday, August 26, 2006
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5:38 PM
by Gene
Part of the fun of being a hit writer would be to know the cream of society. Who do we have now? Today, for instance, I think of a very catchy tune called "Drop That Name" from Bells Are Ringing (starring Judy Holliday, who was all of 43 when she died), and just beholding the verse you know what any ambitious writer with an itch for social climbing is up against (I quote from the fine cast album): Man: Don't be flustered miss. Do as they all do -- just drop a name! (He and members of the chorus start dropping names:) Ed... ...Murrow! Noel... ...Coward! Humphrey... ...Bogart! Bennett... ...Cerf! Somerset... ...Maugham! Jennifer... ...Jones! Lalala la, lala! Just the first six names and the sensitive soul is done for. The whole song has forty-five names. And it makes one madder at the pee-wee age we live in to think that the songwriters, Styne, Comden and Green, probably knew nearly all the names! One other thing: I have reason to believe (I think it's in the piano-vocal score) that when Humphrey Bogart died not long after the show's open his name got replaced with Sammy Davis's, so the rot already set in. Can anyone think of one name, one name from today that could stand squarely and proudly in the company of those first six?
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5:34 PM
by Gene
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4:06 PM
by Gene
Some things will never change.
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1:08 PM
by Gene
On the way home I passed (as I often do) the Curtis, its name a relic of a long defunct publishing empire, and it's no doubt a healthier-than-ever institution that's seen better days. No one struggles graduating from the Curtis. But no one changes the world either. That wasn't always so. Leonard Bernstein, after all, graduated from here (as did Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti, and a number of Bernstein contemporaries known mainly to the professional classical music buffs, like Vincent Persichetti and Lukas Foss). It had great teachers too, like Fritz Reiner, a bruising martinet -- and a brilliant conductor. Now it's the workmen of the trade, the cellists and trombonists who make their comfy union wages playing Brahms symphonies over and over ten hours a week, or the supporting singers at the Met, or maybe the star of a regional opera company. But has anyone from Curtis lit a spark in ages? And what does it say about our culture when an institution like this can be healthy and irrelevant at once?
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1:08 PM
by Gene
Another reason for Germans to get mad that taking the RIGHT side on Iraq didn't insulate their already thick behinds.
Posted
12:56 PM
by Gene
When THE GOLFING MACHINE talks, CEOs listen.
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12:45 PM
by Gene
Hitchens Gives the Finger to Maher's Audience for 'Frivolous' Jeering of Bush Now, this being BRENTCORP, does that make him a hero or a villain? We say a hero -- it was just Chris's version of PATRIOTIC GORE. (Via the usual KLO)
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8:41 AM
by Gene
And at the first sound of gunfire they run home screaming?
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8:19 AM
by Gene
He who misuses public funds....
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8:13 AM
by Gene
In addition, industry observers felt both of the folded Hearst magazines were highly derivative of magazines already on the market. Where would magazine publishers be without copying? Friday, August 25, 2006
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5:49 PM
by Gene
Don't businesspoops ever do anything that's morally and ethically right?
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5:42 PM
by Gene
Yet ANOTHER reason not to buy newspapers.
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5:15 PM
by Gene
And how's your friend Dick "$187.5 Million is Too Little [Larry Kudlow]" Grasso doing?
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4:58 PM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: I'm not responsible! I would say some people ought to think before they talk but if they're public officials they may have nothing to think with.
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2:06 PM
by Gene
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE BLOGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2:06 PM
by Gene
P. S. The Bon-Ton probably now does not have a single downtown department store in its chain -- and that's no accident; having lived in central Pennsylvania I know it always seems to close downtown stores when it acquires them. The good news is it's having trouble swallowing its latest acquisition.
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1:23 PM
by Gene
(Via IWantMedia.com)
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12:27 PM
by Gene
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12:11 PM
by Gene
Will the new clock rules speed up the game? The first new clock rule states the clock will start when the ball is kicked, not when the receiving team touches it. The other rule states the game clock begins on a change of possession when the ball is ready for play. The new changes are expected to shorten games about 10 to 24 plays a game, which could affect statistics, records and end-of-game situations. Which is why the changes have rankled plenty of coaches before the first second of the season's clock has ticked. "I don't particularly like it because I think it's all geared to speed up the game for television. Television, I think, is dominating everything we do," Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. Paterno's suggestion? Cut some commercials. Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
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11:52 AM
by Gene
Please give us more such forward-looking columns!
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11:45 AM
by Gene
Thanks holy cockroaches for catching others in your crossfire!
Posted
11:24 AM
by Gene
Now if only we could associate the word with G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE and its suddenly conniptious BLOGGER!
Posted
11:09 AM
by Gene
Schuster said that it was not by chance that CNN gained the scoop, adding: "The first time he did full-scale interviews, bin Laden and his people were weighing up should he be on CNN, should he be on the BBC or should he be on CBS show 60 Minutes. "They were savvy enough to say that the audience that they wanted to reach was CNN's international audience and its audience in the US." Why not Lou Dobbs or Larry King? Osama, what economic impact do you think your terrorist activities will have on the world? Sammy, if you had one building you’d like to blow up, what would it be? Come to think of it, we know why he chose Peter Arnett -- he was speaking to a sympathetic person. Although Mike Wallace would have been every bit as good. (Via IWantMedia.com)
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9:52 AM
by Gene
We recall, Pete, that few hacks got the '94 election right; one reason the luxury news suites were in such a funeral mode was because they honestly didn't expect it. Now these same hacks are saying their friends will rout the GOP. Never trust the hacks when they talk CW, which is all the time.
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9:50 AM
by Gene
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9:46 AM
by Gene
Sorry, but will LENNY and his WEBB FOR SENATE staff please stop running MACACA STORIES on A01?
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9:34 AM
by Gene
As they did with CBS' Dan Rather for years, conservative Republicans see Couric as "liberal" and "biased," while Democrats, independents and liberal Republicans gave favorable opinions. So what does this vaunted Pe-ew poll prove? It proves that liberals love the network news and conservatives hate it. We need a poll to prove this? And we need USAOKAY!!!!! to waste our time "reporting" it? Thursday, August 24, 2006
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7:53 PM
by Gene
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7:37 PM
by Gene
Winfried Nachtwei, national security spokesman for the Greens, said the decision was wrong because Germany had obtained no guarantee the submarines would not be used to carry nuclear weapons. "This red line should not be crossed," Nachtwei was quoted as saying by the newspaper Taz. Some Democrats crossed the red line a long time ago. David Menashri, an Israeli expert on Iran, said Tehran is clearly determined to obtain nuclear weapons and "the purchase of additional Dolphin submarines by Israel is a small footnote in this context." What also makes Tehran dangerous, Beaver said, is that it may not understand the consequences of carrying out a nuclear strike. "They (Iran) have a belligerent leadership and that's why Israel is prudent in ensuring that it has that deterrent capability," Beaver said. "What they (the submarines) are is a very good insurance policy." The problem is, 1. Either Iran does not understand the consequences of carrying out a nuclear strike, or 2. It does. Either way, will Chamberlainism really help? (Corrected 8/25 at 9:10 a.m. after I found out I was linked on REAL CLEAR POLITICS. [I called them "nuclear subs".] Thannnnnnnk YOU RCP!)
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4:55 PM
by Gene
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3:43 PM
by Gene
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2:50 PM
by Gene
I do know, guys -- I'd be girding for a TAKEOVER!
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1:24 PM
by Gene
Apple recalls laptop batteries And we thought Mike "FORE!" Dell cornered the market. They're a...SONY too!
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1:20 PM
by Gene
Stock still hasn't gone up?
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11:59 AM
by Gene
I know -- we'll dump a whole BASKET of wet noodles on them!
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11:42 AM
by Gene
Last fall, University of Miami janitor Julio Ramos made $6.70 an hour cleaning the buildings on campus. Next week, thanks to a union contract he helped negotiate, he'll be making $9.15 an hour -- a nearly 40 percent pay hike. ''Without the union, we couldn't have done this,'' said Ramos, 48, who has worked for contractor Unicco Services at UM for five years. Under the contract ratified by Ramos and other workers Wednesday, he will also get two weeks vacation, three personal days and healthcare coverage that costs him $13 an month. We forget that before they became associated with politicking and glorified loafing on the job unions DID something. There's no reason to think unions couldn't come back -- if they'd campaign for employees and not for PRESIDENTS.
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11:15 AM
by Gene
OR: Roubini is a professor of economics at New York University and was a senior economist in the White House and the Treasury Department in the late 1990s. SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
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10:45 AM
by Gene
It is not until Schickel reaches the 1940s, when Kazan had his first Broadway hit with The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), a Thornton Wilder opus about the history of the world that is almost as dated as Thunder Rock but was regarded as deep literature back then, and his first Hollywood success with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) that Schickel's book finally becomes anecdote-rich and engrossing. This "history of the world" business is news to us, for heretofore we hadn't the foggiest idea what it was about, except that it's long been the favorite of certain grade-double-A eggheads, and is quite unreadable. What is it about, anyway? War, the Bible, Atlantic City? It unfolds like one long and relentlessly unfunny practical joke on the audience. And yet it was acclaimed a masterpiece, and inevitably won the P-Ulitzer prize (though the acclaim was not unanimous), and it had an extraordinary cast, with Fredric March, and Tallulah Bankhead, and E. G. Marshall, and Montgomery Clift (THAT must have been something), and even little Dickie Van Patten as a telegraph boy; and if it weren't for colleges doing it to death no one would remember it, or want to.
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10:26 AM
by Gene
Referring to sound technology, Mike Howlett, who chairs the Music Producers Guild, said: "If there is a problem then it lies with the quality of the music; therefore Dylan seems to be confusing quality of performance with sound quality. The top end of digital equipment gives a highly accurate reproduction of the signal coming in, so it is neither helping nor hindering the sound." But he said the sound of analogue equipment gave "some interesting distortions", which lent music "a certain character". TRANSLATION: Old music has character. Newly-recorded music does not. (Via the usual ArtsJournal.com)
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10:21 AM
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9:53 AM
by Gene
(Via Yahoo! News)
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8:44 AM
by Gene
Figures: the guy resigned because he wasn't going to be CEO, which would have gone well with those three-month vacations at THE GAMES. Maybe his successor can spend more time devising fake blogs -- er, fake blogs.
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8:40 AM
by Gene
I thought it was just their drivers. (And maybe their PUTTERS too.)
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8:35 AM
by Gene
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7:01 AM
by Gene
Presumably Republican members think Big Insurance did hunky-dory, which is why DEMOCRATS are holding what some news hacks may soon call a "hearing." Of course with the Dems' "concern" for Big Insurance comes other -- less desirable things. Republicans for corruption; Democrats for defeatism. What a choice.
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6:53 AM
by Gene
Now back to electing our man to the Senate -- LENNY!
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6:35 AM
by Gene
![]() CVS, WALGREEN AND RONG-AID. Just what America needs: three big, bloated, mismanaged, Medicare-leeching, unintentionally funny drug store chains.
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6:32 AM
by Gene
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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8:28 PM
by Gene
Cough! Cough!
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5:30 PM
by Gene
JonBenet suspect's family seeks movie, book deal
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5:09 PM
by Gene
Shucks, he should've gotten a recording contract.
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5:03 PM
by Gene
I don't know, Mac -- this puts it back on A01 -- and into the hands of JIM WEBB'S OPERATIVES!
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1:52 PM
by Gene
Either 1. The bar's getting lower for prospective Hitlers or 2. Someone's preparing an "autobiography."
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1:06 PM
by Gene
How much time do the MadAve cretins waste on PR like this? No one believes advertisers, no one believes they police themselves, no one believes JACK'S ALPHABET SOUP, and no one believes such stunts are even FIG LEAVES. And in MORE proof this doesn't even qualify as a JOKE: New York, NY – August 23, 2006 – The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., has recommended Warner Brothers refrain from advertising “Superman Returns,” rated PG-13, during television children’s programming hours. [Emphasis added] The tentpole has ALL BUT ENDED ITS THEATRICAL RUN. This is FLAGRANT POSING by the ADVERTISING FRAUDS.
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12:35 PM
by Gene
Buddhists? P. S. I guess it wasn't THAT breaking-newsy.
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12:14 PM
by Gene
Study: TV ad barrage may make viewers tune out And not just here -- elsewhere! Bird flu? TV ADVERTISING!
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10:17 AM
by Gene
I like li-te-rah-teeyure!
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10:04 AM
by Gene
"Advertisers have to take responsibility for their ads," said Mr. Bozell. "I've been told by several network executives that advertisers make them do it [run the edgy content]." Schmoozing and "edgy" go together -- especially on OUR MONEY.
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9:59 AM
by Gene
OVERSTUFFED CLOSETS!
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6:48 AM
by Gene
He condones so much "unacceptable behavior" in His empire you have to wonder why He picked on poor TOM.
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6:40 AM
by Gene
Can he invent himself another job? Or will he have to rely on his daughter? Tuesday, August 22, 2006
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6:32 PM
by Gene
The planned attack here stunned Germans who thought the country's vehement opposition to the Iraq war would insulate it from becoming a terror target almost five years after the attacks on Washington and New York. Some people are insulated to the point of having concrete skulls.
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5:21 PM
by Gene
This week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would make the garter snake the state reptile, which would bring the number of statutorily designated emblems to 51. Well, at least they didn't raise taxes. But they will -- perhaps to pay for all those state emblems.
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5:07 PM
by Gene
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose re-election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, referred to his house painter as "a nice little Guatemalan man" and suggested that worker as well as employees of a roofing company he hired might be in the country illegally. "The other day, the little fella who does our maintenance work around the house, he's from Guatemala, and I said, 'Could I see your green card?'" Burns said at a June meeting recorded by Democrats. "And Hugo says, 'No.' I said, 'Oh gosh.'" No doubt Conrad's an ass; but why must news hacks ALWAYS do their friends' BIDDING? AOK ON A01 TOMORROW! P. S. The nice thing about being the ASSociated Press is that when running campaign press releases you can ignore little things -- like, oh, what state Conrad represents. And what state would that happen to be, Mary? Oh, it appears in the NINTH GRAF? Well, not all of us are as smart as you CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES.
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5:01 PM
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3:15 PM
by Gene
At least Allen is now too old to kiss girls on screen: that is a relief. P. S. We do suspect, however -- and we just tripped over this ourselves, twenty minutes after posting it -- that Stanley has been reviewing movies too long -- longer even than Woodster the Perv's been making CI-NE-MA: Allen plays Splendini (aka Sid Waterman), an American magician appearing in London. For one of his tricks, a person's disappearance in a box, he asks a member of the audience to come onstage. At one performance, that person is a young American girl, Sondra, who is a college student aspiring to journalism. In that magic box she meets the spirit of a recently deceased London journalist who gives her a tip on a hot story. I forgot to mention that previously we have seen a small ship bearing the newly dead into the Unknown, with Death at the helm. That journalist is aboard and is galled because he had a hot tip for a story that he now can't finish. He slips back to earth to pass the tip on to a reporter. Why he chooses this girl, and why Splendini then accompanies Sondra on her pursuit of the story, are only two of the oddities that this film asks us not to question. We can answer these oddities quickly: 1. The girl is Scarlett Johansson (a hottie of the moment) and Splendini's THE SEX MACHINE (or rather the JEWISHY NEBBISHY SEX MACHINE); and 2. Splendini accompanies Sondra to prove to the world he can still DO IT. Any more questions, Stan? (Corrected at 5:10 p.m., no thanks to my own stupidity.)
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2:46 PM
by Gene
An international laughingstock -- but think of all the geese it's saved! PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
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2:15 PM
by Gene
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
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1:50 PM
by Gene
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1:13 PM
by Gene
The White House is scrutinizing how federal aid is spent. [PFFH-HH-HH!!] "Should there be more requests, our job is to be sure it's based upon good data," says Donald Powell, federal coordinator of Gulf Coast rebuilding. Some in Congress say enough is enough. "Not another dime should go," says Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, one of 11 Republicans who opposed the largest spending bill last year. Others want offsets in the budget. "Maybe we should stop funding Radio Free Europe," says Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. [Or your EARMARKS? NAHHHHHHHHHHH.] The flow of money has some worried about precedents. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., budget committee chairman, says when floods struck his state in May, "people were wondering why they didn't get the same amount as Katrina" victims did. Thank you, Congressluts; you've trained the public like Pavlov's dogs to go WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
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10:05 AM
by Gene
TICK...TICK...TICK.... Reservists told of insufficient provisions, of having no water in the summer heat and being forced to drink from canteens of dead Hezbollah guerrillas, shortages of combat equipment and indecisive orders. TICK...TICK...TICK....
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8:54 AM
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8:32 AM
by Gene
The rag that told us THE DONALD was worth $200 BILLION or something and whose ghost slut turned LEGENDARY WELCH into a GOD unveils yet ANOTHER writer who MUST tell us GAWKER is a HITHITHIT without disclosing the details. Is it any wonder biznews reporting is as trustworthy as, oh, Kenny Boy? And since we must mention something called brandchannel.com, here's "This Week's Lead Story": ![]() Compelling reading, no doubt.
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8:28 AM
by Gene
Who'll be its nominee? (Via the usual Romy)
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8:23 AM
by Gene
Why would ANYONE want to be the GM OF MOVIES? Isn't FOUR clunkers enough?
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8:19 AM
by Gene
As always, the festival was loaded with great Bay Area musicians: singer Claudia Villela, percussionist John Santos, trumpeters John Worley and Khalil Shaheed, trombonist Adam Theis, pianists Glen Pearson and Dahveed Behroozi, saxophonists Dayna Stevens and Dann Zinn, an explosive, rock-solid tenor player whose exchanges with trumpeter Julius Melendez made for some of Sunday afternoon's very best moments. (An admission: Zinn is my son's saxophone teacher.) [!] Still, I didn't feel that pleasure-filled prickle of panic, which has sent me racing from stage to stage to sample the profusion of deep talent at past festivals. If you look at the lineups from recent years -- including the likes of Jason Moran, Greg Osby, Bobby Watson, Lizz Wright, Bobby Sanabria, Geri Allen, Mary Stallings, Babatunde Lea -- this year's came up short, jazz-wise. For the thousandth time: maybe these are all GREAT performers, but I've never heard of any of them -- I suspect most in the Bay Area haven't heard of them -- and that's the problem for all the arts: great technical proficiency, perhaps, but not a single spark of the inspiration and uniqueness that make for enduring art. Anybody can play a trumpet; only one person could be Satchmo. (Via ArtsJournal.com)
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6:56 AM
by Gene
Who says the phone biz doesn't have the CABLE BIZ in it?
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6:47 AM
by Gene
When Republicans took over the House in 1995, there were five earmarks in the Labor, Health and Human Services bill, amounting to $2.4 million. By FY 2005, the number of earmarks attached to this bill had soared to 3,014 or $1.18 billion. But this year, the committee is proposing 1,811 earmarks. ...back?
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6:33 AM
by Gene
More such COURAGE, hacks, and we won't need a news biz. Monday, August 21, 2006
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7:16 PM
by Gene
Cue the clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch is getting into the content business. The country's largest brewer is launching its own in-house film and TV production company that will make humorous shorts and sitcom-type programs to be broadcast over the internet and to cellphones, according to four people familiar with the matter, and could branch into full-length films. I'll say it again: the top priority of many consumer-products execs is to SCHMOOZE. Bud, stick to brewing.
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7:00 PM
by Gene
Yep, and all he has to do is step into a room. (Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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6:54 PM
by Gene
Interesting thing. I save recordings of choice golf and tennis tourneys, and, while I have saved a number of recordings of Pete Sampras's victories, I have saved very few of Tiger's because they're usually pretty dull.
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5:11 PM
by Gene
America's obsession with JonBenet Ramsey. I'm not obsessed. How many others share my non-obsession? Maybe you HACKS are obsessed because you think it a PROFIT CENTER. Look before you generalize, STALE.COM.
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5:09 PM
by Gene
All together, news hacks, liberals, DEMOCRATS: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
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5:05 PM
by Gene
Hooray for the Texas Longhorns, national football AND party champions!
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3:09 PM
by Gene
BREAKING NEWS: RAMSEY SUSPECT'S ONBOARD DINNER INCLUDED PATÉ AND FRIED KING PRAWNS BREAKING NEWS: RAMSEY SUSPECT HAS HAD CHAMPAGNE, A BEER AND GLASS OF WINE ON PLANE Okay, which of the BIG THREE OF CABLE NEWS did this? Does it matter?
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12:20 PM
by Gene
YES...! [Jonah Goldberg] I saw the William Shatner Roast last night on Comedy Central. I thought there were moments of true, unbridled hilarity. I also thought it got too blue over time. The gay George Takei jokes just got stale after a while, for example. Alas, I'm back on dial-up today and I have a pile of work to do. So more to come later. I just didn't want 1,000 "Did you see the Shatner Roast ...?" emails to pile up while I wasn't on line. Posted at 10:58 AM With any justice it'll be 10,000 emails.
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11:25 AM
by Gene
AN URGENT investigation was launched last night after Israel accused Britain of indirectly supplying Hezbollah terrorists with military night-vision equipment that helped them to target Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. TONY! Where are you hiding NOW? When the export was agreed, Mike O’Brien, then Junior Minister at the Foreign Office, told the Commons: “The goods are for the use on the Iran-Afghanistan border against heroin smugglers.” He said there was “no risk of these goods being diverted for use by the Iranian military”. So we really think we can make the Iranians heel by YAKYAKYAKKING, huh CHAMBERLAINS?
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11:08 AM
by Gene
Can we do AL REUT one better? (Via IWantMedia.com)
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10:01 AM
by Gene
![]() "I saw a video once ... that's about 5 to 7 minutes long and consists entirely of John Edwards fixing his hair in preparation for a recorded speech. He pushes it, has it sprayed for him, teases it, fluffs it, has it sprayed some more ... stares at it for a long while, fluffs it, primps it, smiles into the mirror," recounts js. "Not a man's man, nor a ladies' man. Or a man that I'd want running the world's most powerful country." Those who are curious can view the video here. Would Marty endorse HIM? (Sorry for the WONKETTE, but that's all Google had.)
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9:44 AM
by Gene
There's an explanation -- and it doesn't require three pages or 2,374 words: the newer shows stink; the successes rely on overblown spectacle (hum a tune from WICKED); and even in Branson East there aren't stars anymore. Who wants to pay $150 for THAT? (Via ArtsJournal.com)
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8:44 AM
by Gene
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8:33 AM
by Gene
![]() Words cannot do: We meekly salute Joe Rosenthal, the man who took this immortal picture. The Chronicle put the obit on A-1. That's EXACTLY where it belongs. (Via Romy)
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8:25 AM
by Gene
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6:54 AM
by Gene
We're WAITING!!!!!
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6:44 AM
by Gene
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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9:32 PM
by Gene
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6:31 PM
by Gene
Isn't it a little late to go after the fruits-and-nuts vote?
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2:25 PM
by Gene
We may ask, when do our BIGMEDIA friends take care of THE LAST TABOO?
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1:56 PM
by Gene
For more than two years, I’ve been proposing a formula that might lead to the end of our occupation of Iraq. The first step would be for this administration to say unequivocally that our country has no desire to occupy Iraq in the long term. It has not done so. And I am mindful of the many comments by those who pushed so hard for this war to the effect that we should set up a long term “McCarthurian” [SIC!!!!!] Regency in Baghdad. We should say clearly to the people of Iraq and the region that we have no plans for a long term presence in the country. This will take the moral high-ground away from the insurgency in the eyes of the Muslim World, and it will diffuse the concerns of some Iraqis that we plan to stay for good. This will also put the Iraqi government on notice that it must cooperate and bring order to its people. We should not build permanent bases in Iraq. Right now from all reports there are four permanent bases being built there without much discussion among the American public. We don’t need them. If we’re leaving, it sends the wrong message if we’re building them. In the short term, we could move the bulk of our troops home while positioning some units out of the country but within the region; strong possibilities from discussions that I have had with military leaders could be Jordan and Kuwait, until a fuller measure of stability takes hold in the region. And I believe that the Congress should make sure of this by banning any expenditures for permanent bases in Iraq. The second step would be for us to begin immediate discussions with those countries that are culturally and historically invested in Iraq, and arguably aligned with us, to become overtly involved in the diplomatic solution. They could take responsibility at some level for future stability among Iraq’s competing factions. The countries that immediately come to mind are Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and those sorts of countries. I believe this is doable, but quite frankly it’s going to be more difficult in the wake of our failure to take similar steps during the early stages of the recent incidents [?] in Lebanon. You might recall that during those first days of that action, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain all condemned Hezbollah, as did the Beirut government, initially, for inciting the Israeli attacks. By not taking advantage of these gestures we lost a great opportunity to bring some long term stability in both countries. TRANSLATION: Cut and walk, and hope the Arabs can keep the peace there. Sure, Jimmy, sure.
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12:22 PM
by Gene
"Buyers are saying, 'I can't wait five years. I could be dead,' " said Allan Domb of Allan Domb Real Estate, who has been contacted by developers about taking over their projects.... WHICH IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR THOSE SEEKING OUT APARTMENTS: Last year, Domb said, he had 55 high-end rentals available; this year, 13. And he says he's as much to blame as anyone else: "Investors who had held on to condos and rented them out since the 1980s gave them to me to sell over the last three years." WHICH ENABLED YOU TO BUILD $50 MILLION CONDOS NO ONE WANTED.
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12:15 PM
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Further good news: total B.O. was down about 10 percent from last year; and the stunt did less than even the critical prognosticator of Hollywood Elsewhere predicted. GOOD! But we must not forget THE NEW EFFETE EDELSTEIN OF STALE.COM: Who knows whether Snakes will have—forgive me—legs [NO WE WILL NOT, AFTER ALL THE IDIOT PUNS YOU HACKS GAVE US], but it's more than awesome enough to assure opening-weekend euphoria for those who were waiting for it already, and their positive word-of-mouth should draw plenty of people who weren't. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!! P. S. at 9:23 p.m.: PAUL DRECK eructs another of the EGREGIOUS SOUND BITES that have made him -- famous: "New Line did not set out to create this Internet buzz. [?!?!?] That's actually a marketer's dream, but when marketing translates into awareness but does not inspire people to get out from behind their computers and into the theater, that's a problem." A problem which, of course, has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVIE.
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10:24 AM
by Gene
HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!
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10:20 AM
by Gene
"I'm concerned that the homogenization across the L.A. dial is going to make it harder to attract young listeners. But if I just put on highly specialized channels, this company would die. There isn't much room for experimentation in modern radio." WHY SHOULD YOU WORRY WHEN YOU BRING IN THE NUMBERS?
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9:53 AM
by Gene
WWII Interrogators End Silence [home-page hed] Soldiers who interrogated Nazi POWs have finally admitted they could not find any clues as to where Sen. George Allen learned his racial prejudice. Oh -- that's not it? Sorry. We won't look again -- until tomorrow.
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9:49 AM
by Gene
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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5:23 PM
by Gene
So that's why it isn't $2 million a share -- yet?
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5:16 PM
by Gene
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1:56 PM
by Gene
The DSCC has launched a new site tittled Sankes on a Senate. NRO's tradition of typos MARCHES ON!
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12:40 PM
by Gene
In short, it IS possible to PUBLICIZE TOO MUCH -- a lesson lost on our SUPERIORS the MEDIA CRETINS. We're also in a good mood because with this flackery failing the BIZ may be entering a new double-digit SLUMP TIME -- we can hope. P. S. One wonders if 9/11 might also be to blame; this is, in the end, an airplane disaster movie -- and the fans didn't seem too hot for the last one. [E]ven within New Line, there were skeptics who viewed "Snakes on a Plane" as nothing but a simple programr [SIC] with a "stupid title." You TWXSTERS should have quit while you were ahead. P. P. S. One wonders too if THAT CATCHPHRASE did it. Perhaps people figured all this movie was about was a middle-finger-in-the-eye gimmick. P. P. P. S. For once, USAOKAY!!!!! CALLED IT. (Via Hollywood Elsewhere)
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