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The Insider’s love affair with television developed relatively late in life. For four Air Force brats who spent three formative years in Germany, English-language TV was often unavailable. And it would be years before a sense of irony would develop to make hearing Tonto address the Lone Ranger with ...
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The Insider is no Cybill Shepherd, but she can now brag that she, too, has made out with Elvis. Not the thin Elvis or the fat Elvis, but the four-legged Elvis who was evicted all too early from “Greatest American Dog,” the underappreciated spin CBS put on reality programming last summer. THE PERSONAL...
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The Insider has never led a life that includes dining at Le Cirque, the oh-so-elite New York restaurant. But a documentary that will debut on HBO Dec. 29 provides a juicy look at Sirio Maccioni, the restaurateur who decades ago became a New York institution by catering to the chic set. It’s also the...
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The evening started with a mad post-work dash to the International Press Freedom Awards dinner, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 18th annual benefit. The event raised almost $2.25 million last Tuesday and reminded all the working press there of just how good we have it in this country—cutbacks,...
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The Insider had planned to wait a bit longer to do her exit interview with Fox News Channel “Special Report” anchor and Washington managing editor Brit Hume. The newsman is getting ready to retire after 12 years at the network, where he was a founding and defining personality. But she was struck by how...
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Debra L. Lee can take a joke. And the BET Networks CEO can deliver one, too. You may or may not agree with The Insider that it’s just funny—and not in a ha-ha way—that of the 25 recipients of the Frank Stanton Award from the Center for Communication, she is only the second woman to have had a chance...
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The Insider is not about give up her TV. Indeed, she feels about her remote control what the late Charlton Heston felt about his right to wield a rifle: You’ll have to pry it from her cold, dead hands. One look at her week’s worth of prime-time entertainment appointment viewing and The Insider’s best...
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CNN, which has assiduously weeded the fashion, entertainment and shout shows from its lineup in recent years, did an about turn last week and announced it is launching an “unconventional” weekend show hosted by D.L. Hughley, a comedian whose take on life and news makes The Insider think and laugh. D...
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The Insider has long had a soft spot in her heart and on her funny bone for comedian Jeffrey Ross, so she was starting this season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” with something she usually didn’t have: a predetermined rooting interest. Then fate, and partner Edyta Slewinska’s fingernail, intervened...
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An honest-to-goodness family thrives at “One Tree Hill.” The CW’s sudsy and often heart-wrenching drama has created real history and roots in Wilmington, N.C., the youthful coastal town where it is filmed. The EUE Screen Gems studio drew the cast and crew of “Hill” to Wilmington and holds a number of...
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“Project Runway” is leaving Bravo with a runway show that includes more whimpers than big bangs from the five designers who showed collections Friday in what has become the coda to New York City’s Fashion Week in Bryant Park. Over its five years on Bravo, the runway taping has turned into a must-be-there...
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“The Rachel Maddow Show” debuts on MSNBC tonight, right behind “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” where she has become known as a guest and as a substitute host who can say what Mr. Olbermann might say without irritating as many people. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow On the eve of back-to-back political conventions...
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The Insider returned from the “Fringe” premiere party Monday night in Manhattan no wiser about how Fox’s big-bet series from J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman looks. But this she can tell you: Everybody looks great where the glow of the Big Apple after dark meets manmade otherworldly lights...
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Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! The Insider will hold her head up higher and stand a little taller the next time a so-called friend pooh-poohs her obsession with “Big Brother,” an obsession not unknown to faithful readers. It turns out she’s part of CBS’ biggest online experience. Bigger than “CSI,” even...
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Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! The Insider will hold her head up higher and stand a little taller the next time a so-called friend pooh-poohs her obsession with “Big Brother,” an obsession not unknown to faithful readers. It turns out she’s part of CBS’ biggest online experience. Bigger than “CSI,” even...