Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than it looks. On the first show, Republican Congressman John Kasich was so bothered by feedback in his earpiece that he had to keep removing it to answer the questions. A week later, host Tony Snow kept referring to Labor Secretary Robert Reich as "Senator." Snow, a conservative newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...filed fascinating dispatches from the campaign trail, including information on his own body odor; and Jacob Weisberg, probably the most brilliant young fogy to pass through the magazine since Michael Kinsley; and Mickey Kaus, author of a book on welfare reform and a worthy Kinsley successor as the TRB columnist. Margaret Talbot, executive editor since 1995, might be the best contender if it weren't for her boss's Groucho Marx-like problem: Would he give the job to someone who already works there...
Fenway, which dates back to 1912, will be the next to fall, if only because Boston sees another Camden Yards knockoff as a fait accompli. There are a few holdouts, most notably Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, but he's up against no less a personage than Ted Williams, who says, "I would not be sentimental about moving into a new ball park." And you won't find any Fenway supporters on the current Red Sox, either. "Blow it up," slugger Mo Vaughn said one day last year. "Blow the damned place up." The Red Sox may as well...
...Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird don't sing, Papa's gonna buy you...Oh, I don't know...Europe?" --Bill Gates' lullaby to his new daughter, as imagined by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield, in USA Today...
...Hollywood romantic comedy. (One false move and he may be making From Dusk to Dawn vampire sequels from here to eternity.) One Fine Day, due out later this year, pairs the roguishly charming newcomer with that gleaming icon of glamour MICHELLE PFEIFFER. Clooney plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall in loathe. What do you think will come to pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when...