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...Dream Catcher, the rare tell-all that does tell a lot, is expected to sell briskly when it hits stores on Wednesday. Among the Daddy Dearest revelations: J.D. experimented with Scientology, advised her to abort her baby, had a brief marriage to a Nazi and is now profoundly deaf. Margaret, 44, told the New York Times she's still close to her father, though "he probably hates my guts too, I would say operatically." Yes, probably...
...hour of stand-up material. But I suspect that if someone had made a truly light, witty and funny commercial - the ad that this spot claims to be - it wouldn't have been red-meat enough to please the party hacks. Instead, "Really" sounds not just nasty but tone deaf, down to what should have been a classic punch line: "(Gore:) 'I took the initiative in creating the Internet.' Yeah, and I invented the remote control, too." It's a beauty - right up until that final and redundant "too," which utterly screws up the rhythm of the joke and would...
Clinton pledged to urge his allies to reduce Nigeria's debt - so long as it remains on the path to democracy - but his pleas may fall on deaf ears. After all, the White House told hundreds of visiting U.S. business executives and journalists to bring cash - preferably in the form of $100 bills - to avoid having to use their credit cards in scam-rich Nigeria. Foreigners' credit-card receipts often are seen as "legal tender" by unscrupulous Nigerians, who will use numbers plucked from receipts to buy goods for themselves...
...Advocates for the deaf expressed anger that the season finale of NYPD Blue featured a deaf actor signing a prayer that deaf viewers claim made no logical sense...
Although calls to reform SCRs have not fallen on deaf ears in the council of masters and in the administration, many differ on the best method...