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...sure, Short also trots out his expected gallery of TV characters - the nerdy Ed Grimley, the old-codger songwriter Irving Cohen - and an ad-lib segment in which Short's most tiresome character, Jiminy Glick, does an interview with a surprise guest from the audience (Channing Frye of the New York Knicks the night I was there) nearly brings the show to a stop. For that matter, the whole self-referential, show-about-doing-a-show conceit (see The Drowsy Chaperone and off-Broadway's [Title of Show]) is in danger of becoming a clich?...
...African-American women to name their all-time political hero, eight picked Hillary, he says. But the Clinton opposition is at least as ardent. Hillary has already figured as Lady Macbeth in enough volumes to fill a bookmobile, and in the next year the publishing industry will be adding to the collection with such titles as Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton and Whitewash: How the News Media Are Paving Hillary Clinton's Path to the Presidency. One of her hapless opponents for the Senate seat ran an ad against her last week that featured pictures...
...race was something of a test run. As a sitting President, he could beg off anything more than the occasional campaign appearance. Safely behind the scenes, however, Bill went over her speeches line by line, hassled her staff when they overscheduled her, oversaw her debate prep, second-guessed her ad buys...
...just saw you on television," the elderly woman is saying from behind her screen door. "Were they attacking me, or was I talking?" Steve Laffey, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island, asks. It was an ad, the woman says. About your parents. Alzheimer's, she says. Laffey's father has Alzheimer's. The ad is about the working-class modesty of the Laffey family. The candidate is going door to door on Lionel Avenue in Coventry, R.I., on a soft summer evening. He is accompanied by a mob that includes his wife and five children, plus...
...kind of slapped my back and said, 'Good job, Jonathan,' and he handed me two bucks," Paton says. "I just felt completely humiliated. I went home back to my apartment, and I was just sitting there in my boxer shorts watching TV late at night and an Army ad came on. I thought, 'You know, I really need a change, something that will challenge...