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Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation CEO and president, Mr. Media Interview,
2008-03-16 20:52:00
(Return to Part 2)(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Knight has, I think, two areas of focus ? community and journalism. How do you balance those competing needs?ALBERTO IBARGUEN: The Knight brothers always had both of those interests. Jack especially, was a journalist first and foremost. His brother, Jim, was more the business manager. Jack had all the editors reporting to him, and Jim had all the general managers reporting to him, and they actually ran the company almost as if they were two separate companies, two parallel companies. So they had, literally, lifelong commitment to quality journalism and to delivering news and information and to, as Jack Knight used to talk about, giving the people the information they needed so that they could determine their own true self-interests. But they also had a really very, very clear sense, and that?s, in part, why they created this foundation. They had a clear sense that they were community builders. They did well when their commu...
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Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation CEO and president, Mr. Media Interview,
2008-03-16 20:52:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I was just thinking about a conversation I had in the last year or two with Karen Dunlap at the Poynter Institute. It was at a time when a lot of moguls were looking at getting into journalism. I think it was mostly over the Tribune Company, Sam Zell, but also David Geffen and some other people. I suggested that maybe Poynter or Knight or one of the other non-profits might consider doing either a private presentation or seminar for some of these moguls and get them early on and say, ?Here?s the business side, but here?s also the side that you really can?t add up.? And that?s the stuff that you?re talking about that the Miami Herald is in Miami, the Chicago Tribune is in Chicago, and this is what it adds to the community, and this is what goes beyond. We?re gonna have a lot of people, I think, buying more newspaper companies and probably, as you say, not necessarily for the newspaper assets.ALBERTO IBARGUEN: I don?t know Mr. Zell. I have met ...
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Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation CEO and president, Mr. Media Interview,
2008-03-16 20:42:00
With $2.6 billion in assets, the Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is the 22nd largest foundation in the United States. Its mission is the betterment of the 26 communities in which it works and the promotion of journalism as a career and industry nationwide. The latter part of Knight?s mission is particularly challenging at a time when traditional newspapers are shrinking and, in many cases, evaporating. That puts Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the Knight Foundation and a former publisher of the Miami Herald, at the same crossroads that silent movies encountered with talkies, talkies with radio, radio with television, television with cable, and now traditional print journalism with online reporting, blogs, podcasting, v-logs, streaming media, and so on. Since 1950, the Knight Foundation has invested more than $300 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide. It has a vital interest in seeing journalism survive in whatever form it takes. I int...
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You'll Beg, "Please Tell Me This is an Urban Legend"
2008-03-13 03:15:00
Sheriff: Woman spent 2 years sitting on boyfriend?s toiletThe Associated PressMarch 12, 2008WICHITA | A 35-year-old woman who apparently spent two years in her boyfriend's bathroom in Ness City had become stuck to the toilet seat, authorities said Wednesday."She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body. It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself," Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said in a telephone interview, adding that it appeared her body fat had grown attached to the seat.Authorities planned to present their report to the county attorney later Wednesday to see if any charges should be filed against her 36-year-old boyfriend, Whipple said.The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding he never explained why it took him two years to call.He said the boyfriend had brought the woman food and water during the two years and told investigators h...
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LIVE on Mr. MEDIA: Monday, March 10, 1 p.m. EST!
2008-03-10 04:13:00
MONDAY: MARCH 10, 1 p.m. ESTPHILIP SHENON The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, historian and New York Times reporterPhilip Shenon is an investigative reporter with The New York Times, where he has worked since 1981. He was the lead reporter on the investigation of the September 11 commission and has held several of the most important assignments of the Washington Bureau, including chief Defense Department correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, Congressional correspondent and Justice Department Correspondent. www.thecommissionbook.comListen live and call in with your own questions on the next LIVE episode of Mr. MEDIA LIVE on BlogTalkRadio.com.The number is 646-595-3135.THURSDAY: MARCH 27, 1 p.m. ESTBILL ADAIR PolitiFact.com, editor and journalistPolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers analyze the candidates' speeches, T...
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Sara Zarr, "Sweethearts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 1
2008-03-09 02:14:00
If you?ve ever thought about writing novels, you might want to think about envying Sara Zarr?s career.Her first, best-selling, young adult title, Story of a Girl, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Awards. Book two, just released this month, is Sweethearts. It has earned glowing reviews and -- even better -- excellent sales.I interviewed Sara a couple months ago, the morning after the 2007 National Book Awards. She was a delightful guest, even in the face of disappointment, and I made her promise to come back when Sweethearts was released.SARA ZARR AUDIO!Click to open separate windowALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Happy Valentine?s Day. How are you spending Valentine?s Day?SARA ZARR: I am spending Valentine?s Day unpacking from my little Sweethearts tour, and then I?m gonna help a friend move, and then I?m gonna watch ?Project Runway,? which was recorded last night. So if anyone calls in and gives it away, I?m g...
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Sara Zarr, "Sweethearts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-03-08 23:16:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Michael, we probably have some people listening or maybe reading the transcript later who are wondering how did she get that separation from the slush pile, which is, for those who don?t know, the slush pile is basically all the writers who send in stuff unsolicited, and it just piles up, and eventually, the agents look at it. How did she get separation from that big pile of manuscripts to become ?Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist??MICHAEL BOURRET: There were two things. One was that her query letter was well constructed and direct. Was it the most brilliant pitch for a book I?d ever heard? Honestly, Sara, no, but it said what the book was.SARA ZARR: I know.BOURRET: It said what the book was about so I understood. It also mentioned her qualifications, which were that she had won an award, the Utah Council of the Arts Award for 2005, is that right?ZARR: 2003.BOURRET: 2003, geez. Time really flies. That?s scary. So the fact that it menti...
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Sara Zarr, "Sweethearts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 3
2008-03-08 23:11:00
(Return to Part 2)(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: So, Sara , you deleted the stuff that might get you on Howard Stern, and you kept the stuff that would get you on Oprah.SARA ZARR: Exactly, exactly Bob. Or on Mr. Media .ANDELMAN: Or on Mr. Media, exactly!ZARR: But it?s been great. I know a lot of writers read my blog and a lot of librarians, too. If anyone out there writes a blog, you can start to think that the only people who read your blog are the ones who comment, and that might be like 12 people. And so you think, ?I?ve got 12 readers. I can be pretty loose.? But I can?t tell you, when I?ve gone to national conferences like American Library Association and things like that, the number of people that come up and say, ?I read your blog everyday,? and they?ve never commented. And then you have to multiply that by whatever factor. So you do want to kind of make sure you?re not coming across as a jerk.ANDELMAN: Or worse. I maintain a couple of blogs, Mr. Media, of course, an...
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No Debates for CBS News and Katie Couric?
2008-03-05 15:31:00
?It wasn?t a financial decision. It?s a programming decision and finding an appropriate time to put it in prime time. It does cost a fair amount of money in preemption costs to put them in prime time. But that wasn?t the primary reason it didn?t happen.?-- Sean McManus, president of CBS News , trying -- unsuccessfully -- to explain why TV's highest paid news anchor, Katie Couric , did not host a single one of the 348 televised presidential debates. He was interviewed by The New York Observer's Felix Gillette for the story "Why No Debate for CBS Star Katie?" What's even worse? Nobody noticed Couric was MIA until this week.Tough week for CBS News anchors past and present, as it was also revealed that former "48 Hours" original anchor Dan Rather was excluded from the celebration of that show's 20th anniversary. He was apparently too busy hosting "The Search for Geraldo Rivera" on HDNet. Oh, and Edward R. Murrow is still dead. (Thanks to Media Bistro.com for the tip!) Amazon.com Widgets
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I'm Your 2-D Father, Luke
2008-03-05 04:03:00
"There was no 'Should I or shouldn't I?' I was fresh out of high school. I was worried where the next paycheck was coming from. And here was this amazing opportunity. It obviously came with a lot of baggage. I wasn't naive about that. But there wasn't any part of me that was going to say, 'Nah, I think I'll wait for the next one.'"-- Hayden Christensen , who played Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. He's featured in a Details magazine cover story by Adam Sternbergh intended to promote his new movie, Jumper . But Mr. Media came away from the story just feeling bad for the kid. The best coverage that Darth Vader can get is Details? Following in the footsteps of Kevin Federline ? Really?
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LIVE on Mr. MEDIA: Wednesday, March 5, 3 p.m. EST!
2008-03-04 20:31:00
WEDNESDAY: MARCH 5, 3 p.m. ESTROBERT SCHIMMEL Cancer on $5 a Day, author and standup comedianRobert Schimmel, named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics, has had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs, a Fox TV pilot, consistently sold-out club dates, and is a regular on both Howard Stern and Conan O'Brien. In the spring of 2000, Schimmel was riding high. He'd won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down - he was diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. www.robertschimmel.comListen live and call in with your own questions on the next LIVE episode of Mr. MEDIA LIVE on BlogTalkRadio.com.The number is 646-595-3135.FRIDAY: MARCH 7, 1 p.m. ESTKRISTIN HARMEL The Art of French Kissing, How to Sleep With a Movie Star, novelistKristin Harmel is a novelist whose books have been translated into numerous languages and are sold all over the world. Cosmopolitan magazine has called h...
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How to Interview Stephen Chao, CEO of WonderHowTo.com, by Mr. Media
2008-03-03 17:20:00
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Brian Alexander, "America Unzipped" author and MSNBC.com columnist: Mr. Med
2008-03-02 18:13:00
(Return to Part 2)(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: In your column and even in researching the book, why do you think so many people tell you so much about their private lives?BRIAN ALEXANDER: People have asked me that. I don?t really know how to answer the question other than, when I was going around the country for America Unzipped, I would try to make some sort of contact with people I wanted to talk to before I went wherever it was I was going to go. And I think that they sensed that A) I had done a lot of advanced research so I was not just showing up out of the blue, I knew a little bit about what I was talking about, and B) I think even when I met people for the first time, if I hadn?t made contact before, like people in the adult store, for example, I think they sensed I was not going to judge them. I think they thought this guy has an open mind to what it is I want to say. I think this attitude is departing, but I think sometimes it?s still here. People are tired of...
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Brian Alexander, "America Unzipped" author and MSNBC.com columnist: Mr. Med
2008-03-02 18:02:00
Sex, sex, sex.Seems like that?s all there is on the Internet some days. Well, this is one of those days, my friends. My guest today is Brian Alexander , author of America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction.Brian also writes the ?Sexploration? column on msnbc.com.BRIAN ALEXANDER AUDIO!Click to open separate windowALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: We?re delighted to have you here. Any day we can talk about sex and get away with it is a good day.ALEXANDER: It?s a career choice.ANDELMAN: For one of us it seems to be. Now, you?re probably sick and tired of talking about sex, but since you?ve written a book called America Unzipped, that?s just going to be too bad today.ALEXANDER: That just goes with the territory.ANDELMAN: I?m afraid so. I?m afraid so. One of my revelations from reading your book is that you?re an odd choice for a guy to write about sex.ALEXANDER: Well, I do have it.ANDELMAN: Not to say that you don?t,...
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Brian Alexander, "America Unzipped" author and MSNBC.com columnist: Mr. Med
2008-03-02 17:55:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I know 20 years ago -- and I?m going to link to this from the Mr. Media site at some point -- 20 years ago, I did a story with a woman about swingers and swingers clubs in the Tampa Bay area where I am, and I approached it in a similar way that you reported this. We went to these things, and I have to admit I was uncomfortable. We went to a bar that was a swing club, and it looked fairly normal at first, just a big bar and a lot of people hanging out. As the evening wore on, everybody?s going and introducing themselves, and people are getting a little looser, and the clothes are getting a little looser, and there was a point at which I said to my wife -- because I went with my wife -- I said, ?I think I want to go.? I kind of wondered, when you did this, and you?ve got sections on, I think, a fetish convention and swingers, where does that line between observer and participant come for you? Was there ever, in doing your research, was there a...
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Bob Horowitz, "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials" and "The Singing Bee" exe
2008-03-02 05:55:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Have you already seen 2008?s Super Bowl spots? Are you privy to those?BOB HOROWITZ: We?ve seen some of them, the GoDaddy spots. We?ve seen one of the Budweiser spots where the Clydesdale and the Dalmatian, the dog, are training together. Some of them we have seen. You?ll have to watch the show to see cause it?s embargoed until tomorrow night, but the Budweiser one is very good.ANDELMAN: Do celebs have any edge over talking animals? HOROWITZ: No, I don?t think so. We talked about the Kevin Federline spot. I think that was great, right? Then you remember the Budweiser spot with the chimp that was talking, right? That?s great. I really don?t think that it really, really matters. It?s just all about that which is clever. Again, go back to your ?Saturday Night Live? analogy: they always have the guest star on ?Saturday Night Live.? The skit is funny, or it?s not, really having nothing to do with whether the star that night is in that skit...
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Bob Horowitz, "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials" and "The Singing Bee" exe
2008-03-02 05:53:00
Here?s something you probably don?t know about Mr. Media. The second of my nine books was actually about football -- Why Men Watch Football, in fact. So when the opportunity to interview Bob Horowitz came about, how could I resist?Bob is the creator and producer of the annual special, ?Super Bowl ?s Greatest Commercials.? You may also know one of Bob?s other creations, ?The Singing Bee,? hosted by Joey Fatone, which was a summer hit for NBC in 2007 and will return soon, or the CBS interactive golf special, ?Rules of the Game.?BOB HOROWITZ AUDIO!Click to open separate window ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I?m fascinated by your show. As a football fan and someone who?s done a little writing about why men watch football, I actually find it kind of hard to believe anyone still scoffs at the notion that half the fun of Super Bowl is the commercials, but I?m guessing there must be a few.BOB HOROWITZ: The people that scoff ...
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Well, Excuuuuuuse Him!
2008-03-01 23:53:00
"I cut my hair, shaved my beard, and put on a suit. I stripped the act of all political references, which I felt was an act of defiance. To politics I was saying, 'I'll get along without you very well. It's time to be funny.' Overnight, I was no longer at the tail end of an old movement but at the front end of a new one. Instead of looking like another freak with a crazy act, I now looked like a visitor from the straight world who had gone seriously awry."-- Steve Martin , writing in his quasi-autobiography Born Standing Up about the development that took his act from small time to one of the all-time comedy greats. If you're looking for a great read and have any familiarity with Martin's stand-up career in the 1970s, this is a must read. Hopefully, he's already at work on a sequel covering his early movies...

Jimmy Kimmel Gets His Revenge on Matt Damon
2008-02-25 19:26:00
In this hilarious clip, the host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" gets even with Matt Damon for f***ing his girlfriend, Sarah Silverman . Wait till you see how. (Thanks, Kent, for the tip!)
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TUESDAY, FEB. 26 LIVE on Mr. MEDIA!
2008-02-25 18:30:00
TUESDAY: FEB. 26, 1 p.m. ESTDANNY FINGEROTH, Disguised as Clark Kent and Superman on the Couch, author and former Spider-Man group editor at Marvel Comics A large number of the creators of the most famous superheroes were of Jewish background, secular, religious, or both. DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT, by Danny Fingeroth, explores how the Jewish consciousness of these individuals impacted the content of the comics and contributed to making characters such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman the most familiar popular-culture icons of all time. A former group editor of Marvel Comics' SPIDER-MAN line, Fingeroth is currently the creator and editor of WRITE NOW! magazine.Listen live and call in with your own questions on the next LIVE episode of Mr. MEDIA LIVE on BlogTalkRadio.com.The number is 646-595-3135.
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Netscape This! Marc Andreessen's NY Times Deathwatch
2008-02-25 18:21:00
"When you have an obsolete, inconvenient physical product that nobody wants in an era of universal access, the appropriate strategy is clearly to raise the price."-- Marc Andreessen, co-author of what was once the Internet web browser, Netscape , raging against the machine of The New York Times in a Fortune magazine column by Josh Quittner, "A Tech Pioneer's Newspaper Deathwatch." (Quittner and Andreessen no doubt had a lot to talk about. Time Warner put both of their babies to death in the past year, Andreessen's Netscape and Quittner's Business 2.0 magazine.)One more thing: Quittner's column, "Techland," isn't exactly the highest of high tech. In its online version, companies mentioned are highlighted as links. But his link to Andreessen's blog isn't. So here you go: blog.pmarca.com

RX: Will Ferrell
2008-02-23 19:23:00
"What kind of cannabis are we talking about? Because I only smoke medical-grade marijuana. For my glaucoma. Do you have glaucoma? You should contract it. It's fantastic."-- Will Ferrell , on tour at the University of Rhode Island, responding to a business major who asked if the comedian would like to smoke a blunt with him after the show. Ferrell, whose new movie, Semi-Pro, opens on February 29, is featured in an Entertainment Weekly cover story by Josh Rottenberg.

THURSDAY, FEB. 21 LIVE on Mr. MEDIA!
2008-02-23 03:21:00
THURSDAY: FEB. 21, 1 p.m. ESTSTEPHEN CHAO, WonderHowTo.com web entrepreneur and former president of FOX TVCall in and ask Stephen Chao about his newly launched web site, WonderHowTo.com or about the early days of the FOX TV network, when he was responsible for bring "Cops " and "America 's Most Wanted" to network television on the next episode of Mr. MEDIA LIVE on BlogTalkRadio.com.The number is 646-595-3135.Don't miss these other upcoming, exclusive and LIVE Mr. Media interviews:2/26/2008, 1 PM EST - Danny Fingeroth, Disguised As Clark Kent, author and former Spider-Man group editor at Marvel Comics: A large number of the creators of the most famous superheroes were of Jewish background, secular, religious, or both. DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT, by Danny Fingeroth, explores how the Jewish consciousness of these individuals impacted the content of the comics and contributed to making characters such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman the most familiar popular-culture icons...
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Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad" and "Deadwood" actress: Mr. Media Interview, Part
2008-02-23 02:57:00
(Return to Part 1)ANDELMAN: A year ago, having a series on AMC would not have been a likely path to success, but I?m guessing that ?Mad Men,? which won the Golden Globe for Best Drama, changed that perception. I?m just kind of wondering at what point did you get involved with this relative to ?Mad Men? coming on the air?GUNN: At the time I got involved, I knew that they had another show that they were, I believe ?Mad Men? was, yes, it must have been shooting already, but that?s all I knew. I knew a little bit about what the storyline was, and I had a few people that I knew working on it, but that?s about all I knew. So I was excited because of AMC making its foray into the dramatic series world. They are tremendously brave. They?re risk-taking with both of these shows. They?re completely different stories, they?re completely different periods, and they?ve given them such a broad range to reach out, and they?ve given them a real opportunity to explore the true core of these stories. ...
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Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad" and "Deadwood" actress: Mr. Media Interview, Part
2008-02-23 02:44:00
Anna Gunn?s arrival in the city of Deadwood on the HBO series of the same name set off one of the craziest love triangles in history. The widow of Sheriff Bullock?s brother changed that crazy, foul-mouthed, Wild West town forever.Now, it?s early in the run of the new critically-acclaimed AMC series ?Breaking Bad,? but I suspect that as Bryan Cranston?s wife, Skyler, the lovely Anna Gunn will be anything but shy and retiring.ANNA GUNN AUDIO!Click to open separate window ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: You have done a lot of TV in your career, but these last two series, ?Deadwood? and now ?Breaking Bad,? must have really changed your career trajectory.ANNA GUNN: Absolutely. Yes, they absolutely have. I just feel like it?s been an amazing ride into a new place for me, and it?s been something I?ve dreamed of. I?ve dreamed of working with ...
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Michelle Obama: You're Once, Twice, Three Times A Lady
2008-02-21 16:27:00
In its February 25, 2008 cover story on Michelle Obama , Newsweek goes out of its way to make sure readers know that the spouse of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not "emasculating" him. Just count the number of times it repeats this direct quote from her:"It's just sort of, like, 'Do you think anybody could emasculate Barack Obama?' Really now."1. Page 29: Cover Story: Barack's Rock, by Richard Wolffe2. Page 34: Q & A: Michelle Obama , by Richard Wolffe3. Page 35: A Real Wife, in a Real Marriage, by Raina Kelley
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Somebody Alert the ASNE!
2008-02-20 18:05:00
Thanks to "Pearls Before Swine " cartoonist Stephan Pastis, the American Society of Newspaper Editors can stop worrying about whether they're to blame for falling sales of daily newspapers. It's those pesky lions in circulation! (If you missed Mr. Media's interview with Stephen Pastis, it's never too late. Click here to read it or hear it!)
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Lindsay Lohan's Boobs
2008-02-20 18:05:00
Can you believe this is even a conversation? I'm thinking the shock is that Lindsay Lohan really is completely nude in New York magazine's Bert Stern photos, which seek to emulate his original Marilyn Monroe photo shoot. So does this put Lohan ahead of Britney Spears in the race to burn out early and leave us all scratching our heads and wondering why? And is that Amy Winehouse coming up from behind?Surely Paris Hilton will not let this challenge to her idiosupremacy stand unanswered.Related stories you may enjoy:PRNewser: Publicists Debate Lohan's BoobsRadarOnline:Calling Foul on Naked Lohan Spread

Big Brother: After Dark-Time for a New ChenBot?
2008-02-19 20:11:00
Summer after summer, one of our guilty pleasures is watching "Big Brother " on CBS. And when the show added "Big Brother: After Dark " on Showtime last year, it added more depth - if you can call it that - to the reality show. Adult themes and adult language made the show more real and it became the guiltiest pleasure. But watching the three-hour raunch fest last night -- on a one-day delay and thanks to 4x fast-forwarding -- I was less shocked by the topless and bottomless bubble bath pool party than I was that Julie Chen is still technically the host of the show, albeit in prerecorded spots.For a certain demographic, "Big Brother After Dark" on Showtime is a fun viewing; I have no problem with adult themes and situations for adult viewers. But isn't it time for the co-host of "The Early Show" -- produced by CBS News -- to step aside in favor of a more appropriate host? Like maybe Artie Lange from "The Howard Stern Show" or "Mr. Skin " from www.MrSkin.com?
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Wendy Pini and Richard Pini, ELFQUEST, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, comic book
2008-02-16 22:10:00
You know when you meet someone early in your life how that?s the person they will always be in your mind?s eye? That?s how I?ll always see Wendy Pini. I was a teenager with a comic book fixation, and she was a stunning redhead who dressed up at comic book conventions as Red Sonja, the chain-mail, bikini-wearing, female barbarian that emerged from Marvel?s Conan the Barbarian comics. She also participated in a nightclub show put together by comics artist Frank Thorne, with Thorne as ?The Wizard.? My friend Bob Pinaha was a little older than me at the time. Well, I guess he?s still older than me, now that I think about it, and he had a real thing for Wendy, so I always saw his latest Polaroid snapshots of her. Wow! We were all doubly impressed over the years as Wendy re-emerged in comics as a successful artist, writer, and publisher and the creator of the Japanese manga-influenced Elfquest books that have endured for the past 30 years. Elfquest, most recently published by DC Comic s, w...
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