The Gracie Awards Honor the Best Women’s Work–In the Media
Gracie Allen would have been proud. This 36th annual edition of the awards bearing her name, the Gracies, went off without a hitch – and with a lot of laughter and applause along the way. Hosted by Patricia Heaton and presented by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and title sponsor Dove, the Gracies honor exceptional programming and individual contributions of those who create portrayals of women in all forms of media,...
The Good Wife, Men of a Certain Age and Justified Score New Gold
Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now. The co-executive producer and costar of TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes awarded in New York at the 70th annual Peabody Awards presentation. Just days earlier, at the technically challenged TNT/TBS upfront held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Romano was one of the network’s talent– along with...
Love That Fell Off a Cliff. Arnold and Maria: The Next Chapter
From the outside looking in, it’s hard to tell what really triggered the breakup of the 25 year high-profile union between Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was always an unlikely match, she of the family that is the closest thing we have to American royalty, he of the drug-drenched bodybuilding world who immediately climbed many steps up the ladder to mainstream legitimacy with their union. Some speculated Maria liked...
US Forces Assassinate bin Laden and Jack Bauer Would Have Been Thrilled
There couldn’t have been a more apropos blending of fact and fiction on Sunday night as the astonishing news broke that U.S. Special Forces had assassinated Osama bin Laden nearly 10 years after the devastating attacks he ordered on September 11, 2001 that forever changed the world. I happened to be catching up on season two of “24,” the part where a nuclear bomb has gone off in Los Angeles and Jack Bauer is on a...
What to Get the Couple Who Has Everything: How About a Charitable Donation, Or Some Priceless Perfume?
You wouldn’t dare attend a wedding without sending a gift, but you’ve got to hand it to Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose nuptials on Friday will be attended by less than 2,000 people but watched by untold millions around the globe. The royal couple has requested that donations in honor of their matrimony be made into a fund that will support 26 charities in Commonwealth countries from Kenya to Canada, although...
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