Word: karens
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...eight years she co-starred on NBC's hit comedy Will & Grace, Emmy-winning actress Megan Mullally perfected the swagger, voice and over-the-top attitude - part Mae West, part Minnie Mouse - of rich diva Karen Walker. Now Mullally - who won her second Emmy on Sunday for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - is venturing into daytime television as host of The Megan Mullally Show, a syndicated talk/variety series that debuts Sept. 18. TIME's Jeanne McDowell talked to Mullally about the challenges of daytime yakking, life after Will & Grace and why she and Sean Hayes (who played flamboyant...
...stay up that late I use to watch Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin and variety shows like Carol Burnett and the Smothers Brothers. Then I sat in for David Letterman and really liked it. I wasn't nervous at all. Also, it was so satisfying playing the character of Karen that after eight years I didn't have a real big desire to play another character. So when NBC-Universal called about doing a talk show, it was an offer I couldn't refuse...
SURRENDERED. Johnny Htoo, left, child soldier who, along with twin brother Luther, led a band of ethnic Karen rebels known as God's Army against Burma's military junta in the late 1990s; in southern Burma. Htoo, believed to be about 18 years old today, turned himself in to government forces along with eight fellow rebels earlier this month, according to reports. The brothers, revered by followers who believed they had mystic powers and could not be hurt by bullets or land mines, fled to a Thai refugee camp in 2001, where Luther reportedly still lives with his wife...
...CLEARED. Ciaran O'Reilly, 46, Nuin Dunlop, 34, Damien Moran, 26, Karen Fallon, 35, and Deirdre Clancy, 36, of criminal damage to a U.S. Navy aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2003; in Dublin. While the five antiwar activists admitted to causing $2.5 million of damage by attacking the plane with hammers and an axe, they said they were acting to protect lives and property in Iraq. The jury took less than five hours to reach a unanimous decision, an outcome the U.S. embassy plans to discuss with the Irish government...
...That position, responds Dr. Karen Loeb Lifford, a Boston Ob-Gyn who serves as medical director for Planned Parenthood in Massachusetts, "sounds incredibly reasonable. Who can disagree with parents making health decisions for their children? But take a closer look at that argument: it's denying the vaccine to many people who won't have access to it unless it's mandatory." Many parents might not know to ask for it, or be able to afford it. "If it's available in theory but it costs $375, its not available to everybody. If it's only effective before women have...