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...member Andrew G. Barr ’04 says the team came together over the purpose of the book at the very first meeting, where Franken argued that the liberal bias in the media was a myth...
Flynt made a major splash on the national political stage during the 1998 impeachment of President Clinton, when he publicly offered $1 million for compromising information about the private lives of prominent Republicans, seeking to expose Clinton’s tormentors as hypocrites. His investigation revealed that Representative Bob Barr, a chief Clinton foe and fervent pro-lifer, had paid for an ex-wife’s abortion. It also raised infidelity allegations that caused Representative Bob Livingston, the heir apparent to Newt Gingrich as speaker of the house, to resign. As he told the audience in Sanders, when...
...going to make my new husband executive producer of my sitcom!) seems to be not self-indulgent but good business sense. When they slip out of that zone (I'm going to have my blue-collar sitcom character win the lottery!), the damage can be irreparable. That Barr's comeback plan involves slinging salsa on basic cable only adds poignancy. It is like watching the deposed dictator of a mighty power plotting with her die-hard retainers to return to glory by taking over Luxembourg...
Letting Cutler show her this way was a risk, but it pays off. Reformed or not, she's still funny, and you cheer for her out of the sheer force of her will to fame. And Barr says the show finds her "trying to be nice. Then you see me screw up all the time. I'm showing I'm the best example of a really horrible person who has changed...
...that the real Roseanne? The real Roseanne, the show suggests, is not on camera: she is the mega-celebrity who once was and may or may not return but whose memory keeps her retinue in line, keeps her audience at attention and keeps Barr working, toward the day she might be just Roseanne again. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles