Ronald Reagan: Informant. Ronald Reagan would quip that [as an actor] he became the Errol Flynn of the Bs, the low-budget second features on double bills. Through 1943 [when he was in his mid-30s] he would appear in thirty-one films, mostly light romantic or action movies in which he played his preferred role of a traditional hero—cavalryman, football star, government agent. While filming “Brother Rat,” a 1938 comedy set at a military academy, Reagan met the actress Jane Wyman. They were married in 1940, the same year he played his signature role of George Gipp in “Knute Rockne, All American.” Their daughter, Maureen Elizabeth, would be born in 1941, and they would adopt a son, Michael, who was born in 1945.
But America had been edging toward war, and in the midst of this Reagan was notified that he would be called for duty. Guthrie suggested the studio send a retired military officer who was close to General Peak, commander of the U.S. Reagan was there just five weeks. World War II had jolted Reagan. Trump vs. “Loser Salon” Open Thread. NBC’s war for fun and profit. Judith Miller (journalist) Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an American journalist and commentator. She worked in The New York Times Washington bureau before joining Fox News. Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations,[1] particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi.[2][3] The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate.[2] According to commentator Ken Silverstein, Miller's Iraq reporting "effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist.
Miller was later involved in the Plame Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became widely known. Early life and education[edit] New York Times career[edit] Anthrax hoax victim[edit] The Iraq War[edit] Accusations of Same-Sex Hanky-Panky Provoke Bigoted Response, Then Apology, From Florida's Anti-Gay Lt. Gov. July 23, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Yet another Republican is caught up in a potential sex scandal. But this time there's a twist: the politician in question, Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, is black, a woman, and alleged to have been sexually involved with a female member of her staff.
Carroll is an anti-gay Republican; her accuser, former staff member Carletha Cole, claims Carroll fired her after she walked in on Carroll and a travel aide, Beatriz Ramos, in a "compromising position" in Carroll's office. Seriously. The problem is that when you have these accusations that come out, it’s not just one person you’re attacking.
Carroll's comments provoked a national firestorm, outraged responses from black lesbian and bisexual women, and a July 25 petition from LGBT organization Equality Florida calling on her to apologize. It's this gender-policing aspect of Carroll's comments that I find most disturbing. Bush clothing line fails to find market. In the early morning of August 4th of last year, a handful of senior executives from Ross Dress for Less, the popular discount department store, flew by private plane to Crawford, Texas, and presented the 43rd president of the United States with a creative business proposal: a signature George W. Bush clothing line. “He loved the idea right away,” said a Ross executive who attended the meeting. “We shook hands on the deal, and then he gave each one of us a bag of Funyuns and told us to follow him out to the garage, where we spent a few hours watching him play Q-Bert.”
Later that evening, the executives flew back to California and immediately set to work on the project. But the “43” clothing line, which was rolled out last month in Ross Dress for Less stores nationwide, failed to meet expectations and was recently pulled from the shelves only three weeks after its debut. Many people who were involved with the project are still upset with Mr. The “43” clothing line isn’t Mr. Some of Mr. Lady Gaga's Office Depot Partnership Slammed For Inspiring Teens 'To Embrace Homosexuality' Tripp Palin Gay Slur: Bristol's Son Calls Aunt Willow A 'Faggot' On Reality Show. Bush diary secrets. The White House diary of George W. Bush, which the 43rd president faithfully maintained throughout his two terms in office, has created a media firestorm and stirred both controversy and intrigue since it was published by the New York Times on its Web site early yesterday morning. The diary has already received more than 35 million hits.
Critics of the former president are pointing to the diary as evidence that Mr. Bush was a detached and disinterested commander-in-chief who was out of his depth as president. “If a chimichanga isn’t deep fried then it’s JUST A BURRITO!” Wrote the frustrated president. Many of the entries are difficult to interpret because of their brevity. Many of the president’s diary entries do not contain any words, but are simply drawings of characters from popular animated children’s programs. The president also describes occasional disagreements with his advisors. Mr. A spokesman for President Bush declined to comment for this article. Bush: Should I run again? On a Saturday afternoon in early March of this year, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, summoned several former senior advisors and prominent GOP donors to his Crawford, Texas, ranch and announced that he was considering running for president. Mr.
Bush reportedly told his inner circle that he was not considering jumping into the current presidential race but is “seriously considering the 2013 election next year.” “I thought it was just one of his usual gags,” said one source who attend the meeting. “But I knew he was serious when the delivery guy showed up with those Dogzillas from Fuddruckers. Seems like he always eats those things when he’s telling us something really important, like when he decided to appoint Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, or when he finally topped 200,000 on Donkey Kong.”
The former president reportedly has a history of making imprudent decisions when keeping his own counsel. As president, Mr. Mr. Bush unwelcome at dodgeball game. Every Saturday morning after cartoons, in the upscale Dallas suburb of Preston Hollow, the neighborhood kids gather at the local elementary school for a friendly game of dodgeball.
“It was lots of fun until ‘Mr. Dickface’ started showing up,” said one 9-year-old boy who regularly participates in the games. According to a number of sources interviewed for this article, ‘Mr. Dickface’ is a reference to Preston Hollow resident and former president of the United States George W. Bush, who recently started showing up uninvited to the weekly dodgeball game, much to the annoyance of the neighborhood kids. “The first time he showed up, he just stood on the sideline for a long time with this big smirk on his face, laughing at us once in a while like we sucked or something,” said one source, who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. We didn’t know what to do, so we all just looked at him for a long time.
Mr. A spokesman for the former president declined to comment. George W. Bush: 'Eight Years Was Awesome, And I Was Famous And I Was Powerful' George W. Bush finds life as a former president just fine and dandy. "Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful. But I have no desire for fame and power anymore," he said in a new interview with the Hoover Institute's Peter Robinson.
(Watch the interview, above) Bush said that he has looked to his father, George H.W. Bush, as a model for how to act as an ex-president. "I thought long and hard about that and decided that not being on the stage was something I was comfortable with," he said. Bush said that he also believed it was "bad" for the presidency to "have former presidents bloviating, opining and telling people how it ought to be done. " The former president is promoting a book on economic growth -- "The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs" -- put out by the George W.
Politico notes that in the Hoover interview, Bush also revealed that he is a fan of the iPad. Also on HuffPost: Keith Richards' Housekeeper Has Braced Herself For Finding Dead Body Every Morning Since 1976. WESTON, CT—Since her first day on the job in October 1976, Keith Richards' housekeeper Rosemary Velasquez, 64, has mentally and emotionally prepared herself every single day to find the hard-living Rolling Stones guitarist lying dead somewhere in his home. "Each morning before I leave for work, I look in the mirror, take a deep breath, and think to myself, 'Rosemary, you could very well find Keith Richards' dead body today," Velasquez told reporters Thursday, adding that from the moment she was first hired by a "nearly comatose" Richards, she began steeling herself for the inevitable discovery of the guitarist's wiry corpse in his bedroom or kitchen.
"It's never been a question of if I would find him dead, but where and how soon. " Velasquez said her workday begins as she pulls into Richards' driveway and braces herself for the potential sight of his stark-naked cadaver sprawled out on his front lawn. "I've had to call 911 at least 30 times since I started working here," she added. "Mr. Donald Rumsfeld grilled by Judge Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch. The 25 Most Absurd Hillary Clinton Photoshops. Ann Curry Will Be Fired As Co-Host of the Today Show Because Everybody Hates Her. Ann Curry Will Be Fired from the Today Show Before the Olympics Because Everybody Still Hates Her. Thank GOD. Since the initial announcement, I have been scratching my head as to why TODAY brass would ever have put this supremely awkward, unwatchable woman in this role, and she has proved me right.
She has absolutely no rapport with the rest of the team, and no sense of humor or ability to banter. She steps on other people in every interstitial, and makes remarks that not even Matt or Al (or the audience) understand. On top of that, she adopted a bizarre style of dress that has made people question if she thinks she's a 5-year old, pregnant, or just crazy. Dizzyingly colored, swing-style babydoll dresses are not becoming on a 50-something woman. Thomas Friedman's New State of Grace | Matt Taibbi. Antonin Scalia, ranting old man. Newt Gingrich has been described as a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. I’ve heard the same remark made about Antonin Scalia, and until today I would have said that was unfair. Scalia has always had a taste for over-the-top rhetorical flourishes, as well as an unnecessarily high opinion of his own intellect, but these weaknesses had to be balanced against … oh never mind, I can’t do this any longer.
Scalia, who 25 years ago had a certain gift for pointing out the blindness and hypocrisy of certain versions of limousine liberalism, has in his old age become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age, and now an author of hysterical diatribes against foreign invaders, who threaten all that is holy. Like many a graying eminence, Scalia is becoming a caricature of his younger self.
More bull from Bristol Palin - TV. At the end of the first episode of Bristol Palin’s new reality show, “Life’s a Tripp” (which premieres tonight on Lifetime), Palin and two friends find themselves at an L.A. bar with a mechanical bull. Bristol, her son, Tripp, and her younger sister Willow have recently moved from Wasilla, Alaska, to a mansion in Beverly Hills full of bidets, so that Bristol can “work” for a charity. (She does volunteer, but it seems clear it was her reality show, not her job, that precipitated the move to SoCal.) On this night Willow’s watching Tripp, and the 20-year-old, giggling, cheerful Bristol, feeling “like a kid again,” rides the bull, as everyone in the bar takes pictures.
She gets thrown, and as she picks herself off the mats, a stranger yells out, “Did you ride Levi like that? Your mother’s a whore!” Palin goes over to the heckler, a 47-year-old man, as he continues to scream at her. Up until this point, my sympathy was with the composed Palin. M.T. Graves and Charlie Baxter Present The Dungeon. G.G. Remembers M.T. The Early Years M.T. Graves, monsterfully played by Charlie Baxter, first appeared on WCKT, Channel 7 in Miami, Florida. The Dungeon was on from the late 50’s to the late or middle 60’s, and came on at 4 pm or 4:30 pm on Saturday afternoons. If it was on at any other time or day I don't remember. M.T. Opening The Dungeon The program began with the cell door rising up with the sounds of screeching and squeaking and a loud clank. Hi there fiends!
The Dungeon Set and Supporting Characters M.T. was stuck in a dungeon cell located somewhere underneath the TV station. "Count Down the Vampire" and "Reginald" were M.T.’s sidekicks in those days. Show Business as Usual M.T. spent his time in The Dungeon (between naps in his coffin) planning and carrying out his schemes to try to outsmart the Warden. On another occasion, after his plans had been foiled, he looked directly into the TV camera and said "Well, fiends! A Personal Appearance One time M.T. M.T.' M.T. Captain M.T. Bristol Palin on Lifetime and Carole Radziwill on Bravo. The Empress Is In - Amy Sacco Holds Court at Another New York Nightspot. Danny Ghitis for The New York Times Amy Sacco in the rec room of her new venture, No. 8. Nearby, after dancing in the chic rec room full of record albums, Anne Hathaway shimmied near the D.J., then scanned the scene from a V.I.P. booth with a zebra-striped couch and one-way mirror.
Near the downstairs bar, under a massive spinning chandelier, Peta Wilson lowered her pants to show off her line of colorful panties. Nobody seemed shocked. Towering over the scene, like a cross between a very tall cheerleader and a socialite godmother, was Amy Sacco. “There’s so many people here I know and love,” Ms. In late May, Ms. As every remotely social person in this town knows, Ms. Now, Ms. “We haven’t been to a nightclub since Bungalow closed,” said the decorator Celerie Kemble, who was greeting old friends during one of No. 8’s previews. Euan Rellie, the highly sociable husband of Lucy Sykes Rellie, said, “It’s like déjà vu being here.” No problem with that, since Ms. Then, in 2001, Ms. What Does It Mean To Be Cool? It May Not Be What You Think - News Room. Where have you gone James Dean? June 07, 2012 Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness?
Can performers James Dean and Miles Davis still be considered the models of cool? Research led by a University of Rochester Medical Center psychologist and published by the Journal of Individual Differences has found the characteristics associated with coolness today are markedly different than those that generated the concept of cool. “When I set out to find what people mean by coolness, I wanted to find corroboration of what I thought coolness was,” said Ilan Dar-Nimrod, Ph.D., lead author of “Coolness: An Empirical Investigation.”
“I was not prepared to find that coolness has lost so much of its historical origins and meaning—the very heavy countercultural, somewhat individualistic pose I associated with cool. “James Dean is no longer the epitome of cool,” Dar-Nimrod said. The researchers conducted three separate studies. Ali G Learns About Vietnam Vets. Ali G and Donald Trump. Ali G- Ralph Nader. David Letterman, HQ, Sarah Silverman, 10/13/08. Letterman Owns Paris Hilton. Miss Universe Files Defamation Suit Against Miss Pennsylvania. To Introduce Justin Bieber’s Girlfriend Fragrance, a Social Media Campaign. Man Arrested For Stealing More Than $50,000 In Beards From Hank Williams, Jr. Letterman to OReilly: Youre a goon. Diamond Jubilee Marred By Drunken Queen Elizabeth II Encouraging Guests To Fuck.
Trump-o-Gram - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/30. Trump: I Would Be the 'Best Choice of All' for Romney's VP. - StumbleUpon. Lady Gaga Barred From Indonesia | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Bankrupt Gary Busey -- Acting Crazy for $4,500 a Week. Hey, That Guy Lives There - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/17. Too much information - War Room. Obama and Romney Try On Old-Timey Presidential Beards. Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Sexiest Twitpics-1. The resurrection of Hillary Clinton. Gary Busey -- Hail to the Chief. Sarah Palin Would Punch You in the Neck. Joan Walsh. Lunch with the FT: Kenneth Rogoff. Paris Hilton’s Custom Drunken/Booty Call Ring Tones Have Arrived.
Dr. Clooney, I Presume? Jon Hamm is right about Kim Kardashian - Kim Kardashian. Maxwell Snow, Photographer, Sets His Demons Aside. Second-tier celebs cash in on fan phone calls. Dr. Conrad Murray -- I'm Rail Thin From Explosive Diarrhea. Report: Only Matter Of Time Before A 'SportsCenter' Host Snaps, Blows Brains Out On Live Television. Gary Busey -- I Graduated From Debt School!