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Maybe President Bush was feeling his oats with his polls on the rise. Maybe he wanted to tweak journalists for reports that he has been closed off. Maybe he was playing to Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, a former White House correspondent who was following him around for the day. Whatever the reason, the President acted as if it were the most normal thing in the world. "I've got a little extra time on my hands," Bush said mischievously as he wrapped a speech about Iraq to the Philadelphia World Affairs Council...
Will their banter flow like Matt and Katie's or stall like Dan and Connie's? Trying to usher in a shiny, young, coed era in network news, ELIZABETH VARGAS and BOB WOODRUFF will succeed the late Peter Jennings as anchors of ABC's World News Tonight on Jan. 3. Vargas, 43, cohost of the network's 20/20, will become the first nightly-news anchor of Hispanic descent. Woodruff, 44, anchor of ABC's weekend news, will hold up the venerable white-guy-with-good-hair tradition. The pair will attempt to stanch the migration of network-news viewers...
...time Jeff Skoll, CEO of the newly formed film company Participant Productions, got the script for Good Night, and Good Luck--about the showdown between heralded 1950s news anchor Edward R. Murrow and infamous communist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy--it had been turned down by every studio in Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally...
...machinations of shadowy government archetypes. Matt Damon, as energy analyst Bryan Woodman, tackles technical jargon with authority while simultaneously showing the reasoning behind ethically ambiguous decisions. Jeffery Wright’s (“Angels in America”) smooth portrayal of lawyer Bennett Holiday serves as another anchor, showing that a good side does not guarantee a good man. Several talented supporting actors, including Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) and Amanda Peet (“A Lot Like Love”), make sure that scenes never lose persuasive authority. Like “Traffic...
...Kansas diver through the first four rounds, but pulled away during the final two.“[Papadakis] is extremely talented,” Davidson said. “She really stepped up and did a great job.”Mulkey captured the 100-yard freestyle and anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team in dramatic fashion along with sophomores Amanda Slaight and Meaghan Colling and junior Emily Wilson. When Mulkey started her leg, she trailed the Jayhawks’ anchor by a second, but was able to pass her on the home stretch to give the Crimson...