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Hackman incident shows need for bike helmets
Crime and Safety - Sun-Sentinel?? One of the Crime & Safety blog's favorite actors avoided serious injury after the Florida Highway Patrol says his bicycle??was??struck by a truck in the Florida Keys. Gene Hackman, 81,??was taken to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami on??Friday, Jan. 13,...Tags: Gene Hackman, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Department of Transportation, Entertainment Events, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Bucky's The Amazing Race recap, 2/27
Reality CheckHere is Bucky's take on the latest episode of "The Amazing Race": Here we are, back with the second half of the first leg of Amazing Race: Loser Alumni Association. I expect a lot of page views this week, because......Tags: Entertainment, Charlie Sheen, Dance, Condos and Houses, Goth (genre)
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'American Idol' recap: Songs from the movies
Reality CheckJanell reports on last night's American Idol, which was songs from the movies, but should have been "[Most of] the Contestants Ignore Jimmy Iovine.":Did you hear? Pia got eliminated last week! I know, like, whoa. If I can summarize some......Tags: Entertainment, Jennifer Lopez, Rock and Roll (genre), Tom Cruise, Paul McDonald
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From the blogs, mid-morning reading
Dining@Large1) From the Economist's Gullliver blog on business travel, this post on the increasing practice in Great Britain of tacking service charges on the restaurant bill. The comments are fun to read (and you thought we were cranky) -- nineteen......Tags: Travel, Restaurants, Caribbean Vacations, Dining and Drinking, Business Trips
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Lohan's 'Inept, Tawdry' Flick Airs Saturday
The TV ZoneThe good folks at pay-cabler Starz really know how to make lemonade out of lemons (or turkey a la king out of a turkey). They want the world to know that on Saturday at 9 p.m., the channel will be......Tags: Entertainment, Film Festivals, Movies, Lindsay Lohan
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Obama inaugural: 'Setting the right tone'
The Swampby Richard Simon and Jill Zuckman As Washington gears up for a big night of inaugural balls, a delicate dance is taking place. Planners want to stage a splashy celebration worthy of the historic moment but are doing it in......Tags: Jimmy Carter, National Government, Government, Celebrities, Education
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Obama party planners mull bad times
The Swampby Frank James How much should the Obamas and their supporters party to mark his inauguration and how much should be spent considering the anguish so many families are experiencing because of the economy? That's the implicit question in a......Tags: Entertainment, National Government, Fred Astaire, Democracy, Government
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Top Fourteen TV Trainwrecks! The 2008 Edition
The TV ZoneIf you've headed over to Newsday's big, full, complete, no-story-left-unturned "Top Ten" compilations of 2008, you may have noticed a glaring omission - the biggest TV frak-ups of 2008. Oversight hereby corrected. Here's our list di tutti lists -......Tags: Entertainment, Diane Keaton, Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Project Runway (tv program), Brooke White
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Sid Rosenberg to cover Grammys for Don Imus' show
WatchdogIs Sid Rosenberg becoming a semi-regular on Don Imus' WABC show? Maybe. Fresh off a well-received gig reporting for Imus from the Super Bowl, Rosenberg will be doing so from Sunday night's Grammys, and possibly also from the Oscars later......Tags: Don Imus, Super Bowl
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Peter Puck was a towering media figure in the 1970s
WatchdogExcellent job out of Fang's Bites rounding up these old Peter Puck episodes from the 1970s. I quite enjoy Sundays in late February and early March. No NFL, no March Madness, no baseball. Nothing but cold drizzle and the numbing......Tags: Gene Hackman, National Basketball Association, Tatum O'Neal, Billy Dee Williams, Mickey Rourke
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(Mankind) Foley endorses Mickey Rourke's 'Wrestler'
WatchdogHere is the main element of my Friday newspaper column, in which pro wrestling fixture Mick (Mankind) Foley, Ward Melville High alum and still a resident of the Town of Smithtown, talks about Mickey Rourke's performance in "The Wrestler," which......Tags: Wrestling, Mickey Rourke, Sports Illustrated
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Slumdog Millionaire: Barack Obama 'era'
The Swampby Mark Silva Lost, perhaps, in the hoopla surrounding the expectations for Slumdog Millionaire, the story of the Mumbai Idol poised for a romp at the Academy Awards, is the notion that this is "the first emblematic film of the......Tags: Entertainment, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009), Movies
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