Hollywood is abuzz about Jodie Foster’s semi-coming out speech at the Golden Globes speech tonight. Which really was about as shocking a bombshell will have to wait for Lance Armstrong’s confession will be to Oprah.
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Forget the controversy over whether or not “Zero Dark Thirty” needs a disclaimer…. no one’s going to top Amy Poehler’s line on director Kathryn Bigelow. ““When it comes to torture, I trust the woman who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
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If any woman didn’t already have enough reasons to love Hugh Jackman, hard to beat closing an award acceptance speech by telling your wife she is ALWAYS right.
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Saw “Argo” Sunday. I’m no film critic. But hard to believe there were really five directors who did a better job in 2012 than Ben Affleck. (And apparently the Hollywood Foreign Press agrees with me.)
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The NY Mets apparently are taking a look at erstwhile SF Giants closer Brian Wilson. What’s more optimistic – that Wilson will return to form after his second Tommy John surgery? Or that the Mets will have games to close?
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In Paris, hundreds of thousands of people marched to protest the French president’s plan to allow gay couples to marry and adopt children. And this is the country that ridicules the U.S. for making a big deal of politicians who have mistresses?
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The world’s oldest person, Koto Okubo, 115, died Saturday in Japan. The best part of this story – she had lived in the same nursing home as one of her sons.
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Who knows what next week will bring . But Atlanta Falcons may have set a record today for survival after serious self-asphyxiation.
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Denver Broncos thought they were the biggest NFL choke story of the year. Turns out they were barely the biggest choke story of the weekend.
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49ers fans may not like the prospect of going to Atlanta, but SF Bay Area fans sure had to enjoy the look on Pete Carroll’s face at the end of the Falcons-Seahawks game.
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Colin Powell said today on “Meet the Press” that he’s still a member of the Republican Party. The questions is whether some GOP members of Congress can honestly say the same thing.
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Nate Silver predicted that the Seattle Seahawks would be in the Super Bowl. Maybe Pete Carroll should have consulted with Silver as to whether he thought the odds favored icing the Falcons’ field goal kicker.
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January 13 was apparently the 12th annual “No Pants Subway Ride” day around the world. Which means for those in the know that January 14 will be the 12th annual “Stand Up Instead of Sitting on the Subway Seats” day.
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From Bill Littlejohn: “Callers to 9-1-1 in Virginia reported seeing a lion that turned out to be a dog. Detroit fans can certainly identify.”
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