Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Turn of Events Barack Obama’s church is scrambling to undo the impression it is a ministry for blacks only with a radical message. The Web site of the Trinity United Church of Christ has been purged of a section which spoke of …
Read More »Common Sense: Bulls, Bears and Braggarts
Do you know what’s worse than a bear market? Someone who tells you he saw it all coming. Now, to be fair, some did. But most did not. And what I find incredible are those perennial bears that have come crawling out of the woodwork to say, “I told you …
Read More »Kevin Spacey’s Bobby Darin Pic In Chaos
Kevin Spacey | Angelo Badalamenti | World Trade Center Charities Kevin Spacey’s Bobby Darin Pic In Chaos The shark has big teeth, dear. It’s about to chew up and spit out the late famed singer Bobby Darin. Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, who is about to hit movie theaters in K-Paxand …
Read More »Michael Jackson Keeps Changing Managers
Michael Jackson | Mercedes Benz| George Harrison | John Kennedy Jr. Michael Jackson Keeps Changing Managers Out of the frying pan and into the fire: Over the weekend, Michael Jackson‘s whole career was in jeopardy again. As of today, it seems that Jackson has traded up, as it were, and …
Read More »Talking Points: Even Greenspan's Losing Money
Well, there’s some justice in the world. Greenspan and his merry gang are losing some of their money, too. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. According to the Financial Market Center, a private organization that analyzes financial data, Alan Greenspan, and four other Fed big shots lost …
Read More »The Truth
The big Las Vegas welcome, as Wayne Newton would say, to all our new viewers in Nevada, where the Fox News channel is being carried on Cox Cable. I know many of you Nevadans tried very hard to get us on out there. And we appreciate it very much. Talking …
Read More »JLo Lower Than Expected in Year End Survey
Jennifer Lopez| Sam Moore| Jim Carrey JLo Lower Than Expected in Year End Survey The end-of-the-year charts are here for best selling CD’s, as compiled by Billboard and Soundscan. The best-selling album of 2001? After all the hype, the news items, and the publicity, the winners are none other than …
Read More »FDA Censors Diet-Health Debate
“Cran it,” said the Food and Drug Administration to Ocean Spray about posting on the Internet information on health claims related to its grapefruit juice products. But the FDA’s information superhighway roadblock may extend beyond the cranberry growers cooperative to other food processors. With much new diet and health information …
Read More »Anniversary Party Is Early Retirement Party for Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates|Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep|Jennifer Jason Leigh| Robert Altman| And Another Thing| Inside.com | Thursday Bites Anniversary PartyIs Early Retirement Party for Phoebe Cates Phoebe Catesstars in The Anniversary Party, which opens tomorrow in selected cities. But she is not coming out of retirement. The almost 38-year-old actress — …
Read More »Jane Fonda's Coming Home Gets Star Syndrome From Lincoln Center
Jane Fonda | Paul McCartney JaneFonda’s Coming Home Gets Star Syndrome From Lincoln Center It was a starry, starry night, to paraphrase Vincent vanGogh via Don McLean. JaneFonda— two-time Academy Award winner, political activist, controversial figure, and all-time sex symbol — got the five star treatment last night from the …
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