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...quality of written work in all forms of media is declining, editorialist Andy Rooney told an adoring audience at the Harvard Law School Friday evening...
...Rooney, who is known for his three-minute editorial commentaries on CBS's 60 Minutes, was in hortatory mode last night, though he allowed flashes of his down-to-earth...
...Cover That Lens! b) These Old Broads c) Mickey Rooney's Red Shoe Diaries d) The Old and the Beautiful...
...grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy Credico, an activist from New York. Credico also happens to be a middle-aged standup comic, who's performed in Vegas and does a Mickey Rooney impression even when he isn't asked for it. Earlier this year he served as campaign manager in the jokey bid for the New York Senate of Al Lewis, a perennial Manhattan character-about-town most famous for playing Grandpa on TV's "The Munsters...
Social and cinema history back him up. The first great movie epic (The Birth of a Nation) and the first talkie sensation (The Jazz Singer) wallowed in racial derision, personified by white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...