The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘Joey, Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?’

Peter Graves is dead at age 83 and it’s odd that, despite his signature role as James Phelps, leader of the “Mission: Impossible” team, all I can think of is his later comic role as Capt. Oveur in “Airplane.” Same thing with Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen, I guess. They made careers on […]

‘Dude, I’m So Wasted’

It was nearly midnight in D.C., and I was sitting on the patio of the Dubliner with my friends Victor Morton and Pete Parisi of The Washington Times, when I saw Sean Pean walking past on F Street. “Dude, that’s Sean Pean,” I said. Pete and Victor turned to look, but Penn had his back […]

HOLLYWOOD EXCLUSIVE!

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Hollywood reacted with shock today when it was learned that Sunday night’s Oscar telecast was edited to omit one of the most prestigious Academy Awards. “This is an outrage,” said Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Officials of the ABC network had no immediate comment about the […]

Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist?

The Oscar-winner for Best Actress is, after all, a Southerner — her father is from Alabama and she attended Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia — and her Academy Award was based on the true story of a football player at Briarcrest Christian Academy in Memphis, who subsequently signed a scholarship at Ole Miss to […]

In Case You Missed the Oscars

Thanks to Michael Tunison at the New Ledger for this: It was for many years my duty, as Sunday night editor on the national desk at the Washington Times, to compile and update our “from combined dispatches” stories about the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys — through three editions. I don’t miss that at all. Awards […]

Meghan McCain: Chase Peterson Interviews the Great American Mind

From the Pasadena Patriots.

Stripper Movie ‘Is a Really Good Story’ for Young Girls, Actress Says

Kristen Stewart, who won legions of young fans in the popular “Twilight” vampire drama, plays an exotic dancer a stripper a dirty whore in her new film Welcome to the Rileys. And it’s a wholesome family funfest! “Most Twilight fans are young girls and this is a really good story for them,” the actress, 19, […]

The View Out My Window

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. No, I’m not going the Sully route, and I’m too lazy to upload a photo, but the view out my window tonight is beautiful. It’s a clear night, about 70 degrees outside, and the lights of Los Angeles stretch off in the distance as far as the eye can see. Tuesday night, I crashed […]

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