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...Olympic Committee normally has its hands full dealing with doping track stars and unprepared host cities. But this month the committee is tackling a new threat to sportsmanship: comedians. The agency said it would sue the ImprovOlympic--a 24-year-old Chicago club that launched comics Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Andy Dick--if it doesn't change its name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words...
...show his energy bill is about more than drilling for oil in Alaska, President Bush visited a plant in Virginia that turns soybeans into a clean-burning diesel fuel-which the President hopes will one day be used to power oil-drilling machines in Alaska." -TINA FEY, on Saturday Night Live...
Saturday Night Live used to be known as a boys' club. This season Amy Poehler--who joined Tina Fey on "Weekend Update" and contributed sharp parodies of such celebrities as Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul and Kelly Ripa--helped bring the females to the forefront as never before. She took time out from rehearsing for last weekend's season finale to talk with TIME's Richard Zoglin...
...talk has its limits. Reilly cheerfully told reporters that NBC had spent the past year "spinning" them that there were no problems with Joey. But now, he assured us, he believed honestly and candidly that the show "wasn't broken." (In a "Weekend Update" skit at Radio City, Tina Fey was not so kind. The HDTV broadcast of Joey, she said, was so clear, "you could actually see Matt LeBlanc's panic.") The new schedule NBC was announcing would go a long way toward turning around the network's fortunes. But, then again, they might change it within weeks...
...California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity has been slipping in recent months as residents slowly begin to realize they elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to be their Governor." --TINA FEY, on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update...