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Genial and just corny enough on camera, Barker is beloved, other than by pets hoping to leave a genetic legacy. For my money, The Price Is Right is the best game show in history. For 35 years it has made entertainment out of the survival skills of middle-class life--budgeting, saving, deciding what's a fair price for a dinette set. Its winners are not held up as better or smarter than the home audience, just luckier. By me, that's as commendable as controlling the cat population...
...morning after the North Koreans tested a nuclear device, White House press secretary Tony Snow held one of the informal off-camera "gaggles" that's meant to give reporters some sense of what the Administration's take is on the stories of the day. One reporter began to ask, somewhat playfully, "It seems there's this massive event; now we're waiting for something to happen--" Snow interrupted. "A massive event?" The reporter clarified. "I mean, a big-deal event, that they tested a nuclear--"Snow interrupted again. "A big-deal event?" Surprised, the reporter asked, "It's not?" Said...
...give us a steady point of view. Describing her family's long passage across the ocean, Munro swerves like a roaming camera from one heart to the next, and the happy result is that we see all her people as they seem to themselves--but also as they look to everyone else...
...They are aiming at the transgressive, something that will shock people down to their boots. But in so doing, they travesty Arbus. Her photographic manner was quite objective. Mostly she just had her subjects stand before her and stare, more or less expressionlessly, into her camera. Her pictures often seemed like snapshots raised to flashpoint and their intention seemed to me to reinsert the freakish back into the quotidian, to make us see the human normality lurking beneath the outer forms nature cruelly imposed upon her subjects. To put it simply, underneath her apparent artlessness there was great artfulness...
...Haggard put out the word to evangelical groups to avoid the film. In it, he is seen telling a crowd, "We don't have to have a debate about what we think about homosexual activity. It's written in the Bible." Shortly after that, Haggard looks mockingly into the camera to say, "I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife." The crowd responds with peals of laughter. Then he says with a wide smile, "If you use any of this...