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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: Florida Highway Patrol, Entertainment Events, Florida Department of Transportation, Gene Hackman, 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: Metal, Melissa Leo, Rentals, Condos and Houses, Dance
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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: Sammy Hagar, Rock and Roll (genre), Rod Stewart, Nat King Cole, 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: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Travel, Caribbean Vacations, Restaurants
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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: 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: Health and Safety at School, Education, Government, National Government, Taxpayers for Common Sense
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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: Dance, Democracy, Government, Los Angeles, National 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: Dancing, Jason Castro, Television Industry, Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Chuck (tv program)
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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: Super Bowl, Don Imus
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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: Gary Cooper, National Football League, Wallace Beery, Harold Lloyd, Gene Hackman
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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: Sports Illustrated, Wrestling, Mickey Rourke
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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: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009), Movies
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