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Washington has always been bad in the eyes of Texas, but more so nowadays than ever. And so the Lone Star State's governor, Rick Perry, wrapped up his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination with an ad that played several times on the final night of the Olympics just to make that point. In front of a large Texas flag, he opened with the simple statement: "Washington is broken." And exhibit No. 1 of how bad Washington had become in his eyes? Fellow Texan Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior U.S. Senator who was once the prohibitive favorite to succeed...
...idea of charity records began with the Beatles. Or, rather, with some Beatles. Following the breakup of the Fab Four, George Harrison helped organize 1971's Concert for Bangladesh, the first star-studded event of its kind. Proceeds from the concert's live triple album went to UNICEF. Paul McCartney followed suit with a 1979 collaboration, cheekily dubbed Rockestra, for the victims of Pol Pot's purges in Cambodia. The first certified charity smash didn't arrive, however, until 1984, when Band Aid--a British and Irish supergroup that included Sting, Bono and George Michael--recorded "Do They Know...
...Teddy sometimes cagey-witty, sometimes stupid (he keeps mispronouncing escape as excape). Gruff and heavier than usual, with a few days' beard, he could be channeling Orson Welles' wily lawman in Touch of Evil. The onetime heartthrob from Titanic has always been a shifty character actor in a movie star's body. A star performance here would give the audience someone to root for; DiCaprio instead provides them with the spectacle of a creature fighting to creep toward a freedom that might kill...
...team’s senior night, co-captain Jeremy Lin was the star once again...
...bother straining the scalp? Nearly eight minutes into overtime, Canadian Jarome Iginla, probably the team's second-most recognizable and beloved star, shoveled a neat pass to Sidney Crosby, No. 1, the modern-day Great One. Crosby's shot slipped through the wickets of American goaltender Ryan Miller, who was so terrific throughout the Olympics that he was named tournament MVP long before the game was decided. Iginla to Crosby for the gold medal? Are you kidding me? "You're going to see a lot of kids growing up now, dreaming they were Sidney Crosby, scoring in overtime...