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...York Post, where Dick Gephardt is currently vice president, reported last week that Haylie “The Other” Duff, sister of Lohan-hater Hilary, was overheard dropping the H-bomb at the Sundance Film Festival, telling friends she’d been accepted at our fair school. Turns out she meant the, cough, extension school. Not to be out-Duffed, Hilary decided to jump on the bandwagon, writing on her e-dairy that she, too, would be "attending" classes on the internet. "The teachers film their lectures then link it to the web and I can watch...
Which brings us back to my friend Howard Dean. I strongly opposed his candidacy for president. I was angry about his cheap shots at Dick Gephardt. I was disdainful of his intemperance (well before the Iowa scream), scornful of his disproven theory that all you need to win is an excited liberal base (the base isn’t big enough), and—I confess—absolutely gleeful at the news that Mr. Fiscally Conservative Governor had squandered tens of millions of the Deaniacs’ Internet money...
...really, you say, but what about that wildly idealistic Inaugural Address the President delivered two weeks ago? What about the continued power and influence of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld? No doubt, Bush's speech will stand as the template for this Administration's future rhetoric, but sometimes politicians use high-minded oratory as tactical camouflage. In the Reagan White House, tough talk-"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"-set the predicate for real diplomatic progress. This President is not one to announce a change of course, since that would imply a defective previous course. A moderate turn...
...conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University of Nebraska...
...know. As McMahon once said, in a remark I find both delphic and profound, John packs a tight suitcase. Even those closest to him had trouble figuring out if they had pleased him, and some of them suffered when, without realizing it, they fell short. He fired his brother Dick from directing the show (Dick then directed Merv Griffin's daytime schmoozathon). He summarily canned Art Stark, who had produced Who Do You Trust? and, for its first five years, the Carson Tonight Show. He broke up rancorously with his agent-lawyer-manager Henry (Bombastic) Bushkin. He also divorced...