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...does a President even sign his name with so many pens? Does he print it? Does his signature come out looking disconnected and wobbly? What if he runs out of letters? "I've been practicing signing my name slowly," President Obama joked in January 2009 when he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - for which he used seven pens. President Kennedy had the process figured out: when he needed more letters, he wasted ink by spelling out his middle name and adding a flourish under his signature. (See Joe Biden's top 10 gaffes...
...there's a simple lesson here, not just for TV but also for the rest of old media, including print. As no less an old-media guy than longtime CBS chief Leslie Moonves told the New York Times, "The Internet is our friend, not our enemy." Yes, new technologies can change old institutions and sometimes end them. But they can also enhance old media and even help those of us in the contentmaking business do our jobs. (I kicked around ideas for this column by checking in with TV fans who were following my Twitter feed, twitter.com/poniewozik....
Watch Your Mouth, And the Road, Joel I loved Joel Stein's essay "My Prius Problem" [Feb. 22]. What a brave man you are, Joel. You certainly like to live dangerously. From experience, criticizing women in general, and wives in particular - especially in print - about their driving is like having a permanent death wish. Michael Mayers, BARNET, ENGLAND...
Several countries - including Finland, Israel and France - have issued guidelines for cell-phone use. And San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who began researching the issue when his wife was expecting their first child, is hoping his city will adopt legislation that would have manufacturers print radiation information on cell-phone packaging and manuals and require retailers to display the data on the sales floor...
Barry loved a good laugh, and I loved to be in his company (we were friends for more than 25 years) because he was as stunning and funny in speech as he was in print. He gave you the sense that you were clever and engaging, so when you were around him the conversation moved freely. His talk would take on a peculiar phrasing that was unpredictably antiquated--he said he owed it to the King James Bible and Shakespeare--and sharply hip at the same time. Where that came from was a genius that resided someplace in his finely...