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...know each other very well. The existence of wide open spaces and large groups watching playoff baseball and political events on television not only brings the tutors and masters into the common rooms to cheer alongside us, which they do, but also brings shy residents into a forum without awkward silence...
...search. Rather than use the appearance to promote his new book, Stewart launches into a comic assault on the show itself, accusing hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begalla of being “partisan hacks” who hurt the quality of political discourse in the country. After an awkward exchange, commercials cut off the confrontation as Stewart finally resorts to calling Tucker a “dick.” Unfortunately, Stewart’s point, while important and valid, is lost in the hilarity of the exchange...
...problem with asserting moral authority nightly on live TV is that inevitably someone will one day challenge it. For Fox News anchor BILL O'REILLY, that time is now. His former producer ANDREA MACKRIS filed a sexual-harassment suit against him last week with some very awkward talking points: Mackris alleges O'Reilly bombarded her with unwanted sex chat in person and by phone, including a fantasy of massaging her with a loofah while sharing a shower in the Caribbean. On his show, O'Reilly, who is suing Mackris for extortion, called her suit "the single most evil thing...
...seems, at the very least, far less awkward than any character in his films. After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist...
...Carell, for next year--a nerve-racking prospect, given that NBC's last such import was Coupling. Executive producer Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) says the show will have a new setting--the Dunder-Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa.--but similar characters and sensibility. "We love the awkward pause," he says...