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...broadcast journalism, which was your major in college. Is it that much of a departure? I think Tom Brokaw would have been a wonderful actor. Brian Williams? Come on! Watch Brian Williams on Saturday Night Live and tell me where broadcast journalism is such a radical departure from acting. Pick anybody in your local news and throw them into any 8 o'clock TV show on Fox and you'd be surprised...
There are the things you admit to in Hollywood--that you've been to rehab, that you wrecked your first marriage, that it took 12 people to pick out your outfit. And then there's the thing you don't admit to: that you vote Republican. "I preface it by saying I've been convicted of child molestation, and that breaks the ice," says director David Zucker of sharing his political views with liberal-leaning colleagues. "Then being Republican doesn't seem so bad to them...
...since the Depression, argues cultural historian David Tucker in The Decline of THRIFT in America. That crisis, he writes, invited economists to recast THRIFT as "the contemptible vice which threw sand in the gears of our consumer economy." A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child "a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things." These days you can buy your baby daughter a BORN TO SHOP onesie with little pink...
...fishing booth and the promise of a slinky to any successful fisherman. “It’s the place for you to channel your inner kindergartner,” said Robin E. Mount, the interim director of OCS. Forget about your lack of employment prospects and pick up some Play...
...were caught in a hot mike incident on MSNBC saying, after the Sarah Palin pick, "It's over." Someone posted the audio on YouTube. Did that experience make you nervous about what you say? Did you pull back at all? Anyone who speaks intemperately into a live mike - bottom line, it's their fault. You gotta do your best every day and share your point of view, so you can't let it bother you too much. You just gotta push forward...