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The Perils of Punditry
Evan Thomas 6/13/2009 12:00:00 AM
I am an occasional talking head on TV, and I try to appear relaxed, though I am sometimes anxious. In those moments, I can say something that is wrong or that I regret. I don't just put my foot in my mouth on television—I do it at dinner parties, too—but at least, in that case, it doesn't show up on YouTube. Appearing on Hardball With Chris Matthews on June 5, I compared President Obama with God.
Live Your Best Life Ever!
Weston Kosova 5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
In January, Oprah Winfrey invited Suzanne Somers on her show to share her unusual secrets to staying young. Each morning, the 62-year-old actress and self-help author rubs a potent estrogen cream into the skin on her arm. She smears progesterone on her other arm two weeks a month. And once a day, she uses a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina. The idea is to use these unregulated "bio-identical" hormones to restore her levels back to what they were when she was in her 30s, thus fooling her body into thinking she's a younger woman. According to Somers, the hormones, which are synthesized from plants instead of the usual mare's urine (disgusting but true), are all natural and, unlike conventional hormones, virtually risk-free (not even close to true, but we'll get to that in a minute).
Perspectives
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NEWSMAKERS
Rimes Has No Reason
3/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Do you ever wonder how boring life would be without the Internet? For example: we wouldn't have been able to watch security-camera footage showing (apparently) country singer LeAnn Rimes (married) making out with her "Lifetime" movie costar Eddie Cibrian (also married) at a southern California restaurant. We wouldn't have been able to read Rimes's nondenial on her blog: "This is a difficult time … not everything in our lives is black and white." And we would have missed the almost pleading response from Dean Sheremet, Rimes's husband, on Twitter: "I love my wife!!!" How nice. And nuts.
TELEVISION
Midnight Madness
Joshua Alston 2/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
It's hard to imagine pitying someone who just got a glitzy, lucrative, high-profile job (or any job, for that matter). But Jimmy Fallon, the charming, if a bit fratty, "Saturday Night Live" alum who is taking the reins of NBC's "Late Night" talk show, shouldn't be the object of anyone's envy. Fallon is taking over for Conan O'Brien, who will take Jay Leno's vacated desk at "The Tonight Show." Leno, meanwhile, will move to a similar show in prime time. That will make Fallon's show the third in NBC's late-night roster, so essentially his mezzanine seat got picked up and moved to the nosebleed section.
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30-Second Spot
Johnnie L. Roberts 1/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
Between them, Mark Gross and Barry Burdiak have made a remarkable 52 appearances in over 21 Super Bowls. Yet while most of the game's global audience has never seen either man, they're probably familiar with their work. The duo are the "Mad Men" behind some of the Super Bowl's most memorable ads. Gross, 40, is the creative force behind Bud Lite's 2006 spot "Secret Fridge" (the owner of a beer-packed refrigerator attaches it to a revolving wall that comes to a spot in the next-door apartment, where dudes empty the magic fridge of the brews). Then there's Burdiak's Bud Lite ad about an underdog Clydesdale horse who finally makes the hitch team in Rocky-esque fashion after a year of rigorous training under the supervision of a Dalmatian.