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.
The Baltimore Sun has the complete (and lengthy) transcript of Scott McClellan’s interview with Keith Olbermann on the MSNBC show Countdown last night.
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.”
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.
Colorful Sporting News article today about golf great Jack Nicklaus. He’s still frank ‘n feisty.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Naked Cowboy is in Ohio this weekend, appearing at the Taste of Cincinnati festival.He seems to be a complex figure. We can report from personal observation that the Cowboy has tattoos on each shoulder: Jesus on the left and Satan on the right.
Dick Martin, co-host of the groundbreaking TV show Laugh-In, has died at age 86.The cause was respiratory failure, says The New York Times.
This clip has been around awhile, it seems, but we just spotted it for the first time: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards dealing with a fan who charges onstage.
Is film director Steven Spielberg obsessed with “the repairing of the fractured family”? So says Chicago Tribune pop critic Mark Cano:
We’re not sure if that’s surprisingly old or surprisingly young. (He is hosting The Price is Right, after all.)Drew Carey was born in Cleveland in 1958. (As an aside: that was just a few days before Annette Bening was born in Topeka.)
Last month’s gapper was a famous painter. This month it’s a famous composer: George Gershwin.
Here are some details about the malignant brain tumor of Senator Edward Kennedy.
The new Frank Sinatra stamp is here.
We’ve got a new profile of racehorse Big Brown, who won the Preakness with ease on May 17th. He’ll go for the Triple Crown on June 7th at the Belmont Stakes in New York.Big Brown is trying to become the first horse in 30 years to win the Triple Crown. Affirmed was the last horse to do it, in 1978.
Wow — it’s now been 18 years since Muppets creator Jim Henson died.