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Alt-news mogul aims to rock prime-time with 'Vice'
Big and beefy with a scraggly beard, Shane Smith looks more like an aging roadie than a thrill-seeking foreign correspondent or a budding media mogul. But Smith is both those things. Vice Media Group, the company Smith co-founded and is chief...
Tags: Journalism, Suicide, Dennis Rodman, Vice (movie), 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Stanley Karnow dies at 87; author of epic Vietnam history
Stanley Karnow, an award-winning author and journalist who combined insightful reporting with personal accounts and historical sweep in books on the Vietnam War and the Philippines and the critically acclaimed public television series that accompanied the...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Paris, Journalism, Authors
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Midori is sweet on Los Angeles
Since she made her solo debut at age 11 in 1982, violinist Midori has grown up — and grown middle-aged — under the full glare of the media. Reporters dubbed her a child prodigy when she first stunned audiences as a last-minute substitute...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Culture, Arts and Culture, New York University
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Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer
As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program.
Beginning in 1968, as one of...Tags: Politics, Robert Wagner, Journalism, Concerts, Judaism
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'60 Minutes' surveys art market with Eli Broad, Jeffrey Deitch
Culture MonsterEli Broad, Jeffrey Deitch and Tim Blum were among the art-world leaders interviewed by "60 Minutes" for Sunday's segment about the art-market boom.... -
Andy Rooney dies at 92; curmudgeonly commentator on '60 Minutes'
Andy Rooney, CBS News' longtime resident curmudgeon whose whimsical and acerbic essays on "60 Minutes" turned the rumpled writer into an unlikely — and reluctant — TV celebrity, died Friday night, only weeks after retiring from the show. He...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Journalism, Gays and Lesbians, Concerts, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Betty Ford dies at 93; former first lady
Former First Lady Betty Ford, who captivated the nation with her unabashed candor and forthright discussion of her personal battles with breast cancer, prescription drug addiction and alcoholism, has died. She was 93.
Ford died Friday at the Eisenhower...Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Crimes, Jimmy Carter, Hospitals and Clinics
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What '60 Minutes' Andy Rooney just won't do
Show TrackerRetiring from "60 Minutes," Andy Rooney says he doesn't sign autographs and isn't about to start.... -
New book, '60 Minutes' question if Van Gogh really killed himself
Culture MonsterSteven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith's 976-page biography and on '60 Minutes' question the accepted story that Van Gogh went into the fields at Auvers-sur-Oise, France, on the evening of July 27, 1890, took out a revolver and shot himself in the chest...... -
Why Bernie and Ruth Madoff are back in the news
Nation NowBernie Madoff: Bernie Madoff and his wif, Ruth Madoff, have both given high-profile interviews that have been made public this week. Bernie says he's happier in prison; Ruth says the couple attempted suicide.... -
Appreciation: Andy Rooney, 1919-2011
Show TrackerThe American humorist Andy Rooney, who last month retired from his longtime seat on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," which he would cap each week with an observation about this thing or that -- or more often this thing...... -
Andy Rooney gives his last word Sunday on '60 Minutes'
Show TrackerAndy Rooney gives his final word on ''60 Minutes' this Sunday after...
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