Obituary First Lines: Bo Diddley
Guitarist Bo Diddley has died of heart failure at age 79.
Biographies
Obama Resigns from Congregation
Senator Barack Obama has resigned his membership in Trinity United Church of Christ.The Chicago Sun-Times has the story. The paper also has the transcript of his Q&A with the press, with Obama speaking at length on the issue.
McClellan on Countdown
The Baltimore Sun has the complete (and lengthy) transcript of Scott McClellan’s interview with Keith Olbermann on the MSNBC show Countdown last night.
Harvey Korman, 1927-2008
Rough week for stars of the 1960s. First it was Dick Martin and Sydney Pollack; now Harvey Korman has died at age 81.The LA Times, quoting Korman’s daughter, says the actor died of “complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm that ruptured four months ago.”
Siegried and Roy and Cindy
Gossipeuse Cindy Adams can be insufferable, but she has a touching report today after flying Austrian Airlines (first class, she points out) with entertainers Siegfried and Roy.
“The way I play now, I don’t really consider it golf.”
Colorful Sporting News article today about golf great Jack Nicklaus. He’s still frank ‘n feisty.
McClellan Likes, Admires, Hammers Bush
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has a new book coming out Monday, titled What Happened.The website Politico got its hands on an accidental early copy, and broke the story yesterday that McClellan’s book has some not-so-nice things to say about George W. Bush.
Stone to China: Bad Karma
Sharon Stone has a way of keeping herself interesting. Sometimes it’s by wearing a leopard-print dress, and sometimes it’s by insulting China.
Obituary First Lines: Dick Martin
TV comedy star Dick Martin has died at age 83. Here’s how some major news outlets are summing up his life.”Dick Martin, co-host of ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,’ which popularized the phrase, ‘Sock it to me’…” -Bloomberg News “Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ took television by storm in the 1960s…” -The Associated Press
Sydney Pollack Dies of Cancer
Whoa! Film director Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. He was a very young 73.Pollack won Oscars for directing and producing Out of Africa in 1985. And he made the comedy hit Tootsie (with Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman) in 1982.