For years, Ed McMahon promised wealth, comfort and happiness as a pitchman for the American Family Publishers’ sweepstakes. Now, he could use some of that cash himself.
As of Wednesday afternoon, McMahon’s Mediterranean-styled house was still in the process of foreclosure; the bank hasn’t taken it over yet and no trustee sale date has been set. [...]
The thing that gets him?
He called her.
Not just the first time, either. The first three. Or four times, even.
%26quot;Hello,%26quot; he said. He dialled her number and everything. He had to get it from her friend.
Later, when he thinks about it, its this that gets him: the irony. Well: theirs is an ironic generation. Irony squared.
He [...]
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Before I went to Japan, all my impressions of the place came from novels and movies. I’d read Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, which is haunted by inexplicable suicides and peopled with brittle, miserable characters. I’d seen Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru, about a council worker who discovers he has stomach cancer and wants to accomplish [...]
Politicians beware: Parody is returning.
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
Both late-night shows were shuttered after the Hollywood writers strike began seven weeks ago. The comedy duo are the latest late-night hosts to announce their return [...]