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...love of television. Edward R. Murrow praised young Bingham in a letter to his parents. “If you and your wife are not inordinately proud of your son, I shall take steps to excommunicate you,” he wrote. “While listening to your boy, I kept hoping that mine who is now 13 will turn out to be an equally consequential citizen.”Robert W. “Worth” Bingham, Bingham’s older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long...
...work as a reporter. Except that it was Daniloff’s interest in government service that took him on a fateful trip down a street in Washington. He saw a sign for The Washington Post, went inside, took a typing test, and was hired as a copy boy. But despite a distinguished career in which he served at the foreign affairs desk and the Moscow bureau of United Press International, some were still unconvinced of Danlioff’s innocence, Ruth says. “Ronald Reagan didn’t have that great of credibility, so when...
...Rosenthal’s first assignments as a Crimson reporter was also one of his most memorable. After an excited two-minute interview, Rosenthal says he knew then that he wanted to be a reporter.“If I had any doubts about journalism, boy that would have assuaged them,” he says.But not many doubts had presented themselves. Long before he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982, Rosenthal made and distributed a newspaper as a kid for his neighbors on an old typewriter. He also voraciously read his hometown paper, The Oregonian, where he later worked...
...Though it may be a bit wordy, Fun Home's depiction of a love-starved childhood leaves a lasting impression. Bechdel recalls her period of OCD, her father's arrest for buying an underage boy a beer, and family trips accompanied by male baby-sitters with as much of a sense of their tragedy as their dark comedy. She will slip in the occasional sick joke amid the scenes of frustration and bewilderment. Loaves of Sunbeam bread repeatedly make appearances, for example, echoing her father's eventual demise by being run over by a truck from that same company. Gradually...
...plays what he calls another "flawed Jew," Piven got top billing over co-stars Ben Affleck and Andy Garcia. His days of coming in on short notice to bring some instant comedic pop to films such as Singles or Rush Hour 2 may be over. "You can be favor boy for the rest of your life," says Piven. "I want to contribute a little more...