Hope Springs Eternal…
Here's a medley of political cartoons about the passing of Bob Hope. You may note that in his honor, they repeat a lot of the same gags over and over. […]
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Python sans Python
Earlier, I linked to an article in Playbill about a planned Broadway show using Monty Python material. A well-placed source tells me that the Playbill item is wrong and that no such show is likely to materialize, though there are some new Python-related projects in the pipeline. I believe my well-placed source on this. […]
Rant-Man Rants On
The other day, I linked to Jim "Rant-Man" MacQuarrie's website and a lot of you laughed yourselves silly over his exchange of e-mails with one of those gents who wants to share Nigerian cash with a stranger. You enjoyed Part One and you really enjoyed Part Two. Well, Part Three is now up. Enjoy. And […]
Just Realized…
There's something weird with that UPI story I just linked to. It says the gent at the Richard Nixon library said the alleged conversation which Magruder describes between Nixon and John Ehrlichman never took place. The UPI quotes the Chicago-Tribune quoting the director (John Taylor) as follows… The Chicago Tribune quoted Taylor as saying: "The […]
Watergate Stuff
The director of the Richard Nixon library says that the conversation Jeb Magruder claims to have overheard did not occur. Or at least, Nixon's daily diary shows no record of him having talked with John Ehrlichman the day that Magruder says he eavesdropped on them discussing the Watergate break-in. This is one of those "we'll […]
Recommended Reading
Go read Jimmy Breslin. It's about a 21-year-old American soldier who died recently in Iraq. Very touching. Very important. […]
Wallowing…
I really enjoyed Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History, which is a PBS special that retells the tale of the scandal that brought down Richard Milhous Nixon. It ran tonight on KCET in Los Angeles and airs on various PBS stations over the next few days. It was a bit rushed in the latter parts […]
Coming Soon…
Would you like to see a live Monty Python stage show? Yeah, me too. But would you like to see it if it didn't feature any members of Monty Python? I don't know how I feel about this. […]
Recommended Reading
Garry Wills sort of reviews Hillary Clinton's autobiography but really uses it as an excuse to talk about her in a larger context. Those who want to believe she is either blemish-free or demon-possessed will not like the portrait he paints of her. But it may be the most accurate of the many that have […]
And More…
And from Jon Belmont himself comes an e-mail… i'd been joking in speeches and on that air that bob hope planned to get back at me by outliving me. like mark twain and — until sunday night — ole bob, i'm glad that reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated. So am I. We've never […]
Correction!
Several folks are informing me this morning that, contrary to the item I posted, newsman Jon Belmont is not dead. He's the one who reported that Bob Hope was dead when he wasn't, but he's now the morning newsperson at WTMJ radio in Milwaukee. Sorry for passing on misinformation but in this case, it almost […]
People Are Getting Smarter
Ben Varkentine was a wise, perceptive critic when he reviewed my first collection of columns. Now with its sequel, he's gotten even wiser and more perceptive. […]
Semi-recommended Viewing
In each of the last five years, Comedy Central has televised a heavily-edited and sloppily-bleeped Friars Roast. The subjects were — and I'm not sure of the order — Jerry Stiller, Rob Reiner, Drew Carey, Hugh Hefner and Chevy Chase. The last of these was horrible. They couldn't get too many celebrities to show and […]
Recommended Viewing
If you have three and a half minutes (and RealPlayer installed on your computer) you might like to watch this video clip of an interview that Jon Stewart did last week on The Daily Show. It's the second half of a chat with Joseph Wilson, who was the former ambassador who was dispatched to investigate […]
Recommended Reading
Here's an article about Watergate and the new claim by Jeb Magruder that he overheard Nixon authorize the infamous break-in. As I said earlier, I'm skeptical about Magruder's delayed-action admission but I do think that it's highly likely Nixon okayed the plan, either in the abstract or the specific. One of the things that always […]