Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich — “Blago” — says in his just-released Esquire magazine interview: “I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived.”
A juicy thought about the Jay Leno brouhaha at NBC: If Leno goes on at 11:35, and Conan O’Brien moves to 12:05, that means David Letterman will have to fight two opening monologues opposite his show.Points out Ken Tucker.
Stud mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary died two years ago today. His family marked the occasion by walking a new seaside trail named for him in New Zealand. Hillary was 33 …..
Singer Katy Perry is engaged to British comedian Russell Brand.[Editor’s note: Yup, they married later in 2010.]
NBC confirms the rumors. Jay Leno will be back at 11:35 after the Winter Olympic games.
Is 3D really the future of television? Really? Really?
Fans of the Jeff Bridges movie The Big Lebowski should love Adam Bertocci’s terrific blend of William Shakespeare and the Coen brothers:Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.
To honor the death in 1943 of Nikola Tesla, we’ve hauled out a few links to enjoy.
Philip K. Dick’s family seems to think so.”Nexus One” is the name of Google’s new phone, which uses the company’s Android operating system.
On this day in 1811 Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts.