Word: bobbed
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...Tennessee, the black vote typically accounts for about 25% of the vote in a Democratic primary and the latest Rasmussen poll gives Clinton 49% of the Democratic vote to Obama's 35%. While Clinton and Obama both tried to claim an advantage in Tennessee from John Edwards' exit, Bob Tuke, a former state Democratic Party chairman who is backing Obama, concedes the advantage is probably Clinton's, since some voters are "reticent about backing a black...
...writers' strike affecting you? Do you think talk-show hosts should go back to work? -Bob Marcus, Ruskin, Fla.It's affecting everybody, but it is important that the actors support the writers. You can't take away residuals. I'm not happy about the [talk-show hosts] going back when they haven't made a deal, but it is complicated; you don't want to put everybody out of work...
...turned her down, and the ones who did work there weren't doing much business. "Mitzi was just crestfallen," says Argus Hamilton, the young comic from Oklahoma who was her errand boy and confidant at the time. "She had built that room for Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene, Bob Newhart - all those guys, her ex-husband's generation, who were ruling the roost in Vegas at the time. They refused to play the Main Room because they thought it would hurt their Las Vegas draw." Hamilton and another comic, Biff Maynard, suggested that Mitzi instead try to fill...
...Lewis, Bardem and Christie as front-runners for their respective Oscar awards. Dee was a sentimental favorite among the membership: Ossie Davis, her actor husband of 57 years and another lion for racial equality, died two years ago. But she still has stiff competition from Cate Blanchett, who impersonated Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, and Amy Ryan, multi-award-winner as the rotten mom in Gone Baby Gone...
...move to John McCain" - whose views on the environment and human rights align more closely to their own. Still, Romney's membership in the LDS church, once thought to exclude the prospect of evangelicals' support, says Green, has been largely neutralized by the endorsements of such religious leaders as Bob Jones...