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...1970S, WHEN GAME shows "starred" guest panelists who appeared for years, smoky-voiced character actress Brett Somers--familiar from spots on such TV sitcoms as The Odd Couple and Love, American Style--became a household name when her then husband Jack Klugman insisted she deserved a spot on Match Game. A smart, bitingly witty performer, she became a favorite on the hit show, bantering bawdily with fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly and delivering a mean impression of Ethel Merman. "It was the best job I ever had," said Somers...
...movie has a few guest artistes: Bono as a Ken Kesey-style drug emancipator, and Eddie Izzard, with Blue Meanies as his backup group, doing a raffish "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite." There's also an excellent "Come Together" performed by Joe Cocker, who, astonishingly, has outlived both crimes against his body and most of his contemporaries. (He and Jerry Lee Lewis are the very improbable Indestructibles of rock 'n roll...
...played to two packed houses of Toronto Mooreomaniacs, mixes the forms of a rock-concert movie (with reaction shots of adoring fans, including one woman holding a "Hug me, Michael" sign) and Triumph of the Will (the star lands in a city, meets the locals, attends a rally with guest speakers, then wows the crowd himself). Among the guests are Celeste Zappala, the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and a cadre of antiwar diplomats. At some venues, famous musicians are on hand: Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, ex of Rage against the Machine...
...some, TIFF is an Oscar reunion party; this year's 500-plus guest list of actors, directors and producers includes more than a score of Academy Award winners, from George Clooney to Jodie Foster, Sean Penn to Susan Sarandon, Michael Caine and Michael Douglas to Michael Moore. The new hot couple, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, will show up to promote their politically charged drama Rendition; and perpetual hottie Brad Pitt will light up the city when he appears in support of his western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Rock icons Lou Reed and Eddie...
...Lichter, a professor of communications at George Mason University and president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, traces candidate talk show guest appearances back to the 1988 campaign. At that time, George H.W. Bush's campaign manager Lee Atwater watched Johnny Carson's quips on The Tonight Show to see which candidate jokes got the biggest laughs. "It was 1988 and it was the first time anyone ever thought about political humor having any significance," Lichter explained. "What happened was the political writers started taking note of the comedians and this realm of entertainment became a part...