Word: springered
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Talk show host Jerry Springer told a packed Ames courtroom at the Harvard Law School on Friday that although his is the "stupidest show on television," its presence in the marketplace helps "endorse the concepts of freedom and liberty...
...Like Diana, the movie refuses to be confined by traditional definitions. With its charged brawls and minimalist cinematography, Girlfight is as much Jerry Springer as it is artsy indie flick. And while Diana's high school friends don't exactly look as saccharine as the Clueless chicks, Girlfight's youthful cast and plot often veer into teenybopper territory. Ultimately, however, Diana trades her sassy catfights for the more sophisticated gender-blind featherweight boxing circuit. Her subsequent struggle to be accepted by both the all-male boxing club and by her own father allows the film an emotional depth that strikes...
...Daniel D. Springer contributed to the reporting of this story...
...exactly two years ago, at that moment in the Lewinsky matter when Bill Clinton was making his sweatiest dodges about "inappropriate" behavior, that Bill Bennett, the saturnine Republican, phoned Joe Lieberman, the deeply religious Democrat. For several years Lieberman had been Bennett's partner in a fight against Jerry Springer, blood-spurting video games, Marilyn Manson and the general run of rap lyrics. Now Bennett wanted Lieberman to speak to Clinton. "You need to tell him to resign," he said, "because you're Nathan...
...because this week the vice presidential nominee-to-be and guardian of America's morals is wading into the sewer. For years, the Connecticut senator and professional scold has given out "Silver Sewer Awards" to the Hollywood productions deemed most offensive, castigated smutty broadcasters like Howard Stern and Jerry Springer and generally impugned the moral responsibility of the same Hollywood bigs who will be feting and writing checks to the Democrats all week at the convention in Los Angeles. And Wednesday night, he'll exercise his right to free expression on television - the very medium that he's spent...