Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Miscellaneous items

On February 1st, comedienne Sarah Silverman's first starring TV show "The Sarah Silverman Program" drops on Comedy Central. The Village Voice's gossip columnist Michael Musto has a no-holds-barred profile of our nation's loveliest provocateur.

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He's been unleashed in the Senate! Bernie rules.

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The Oscar nominations were announced and here I was still waiting for the big pictures to come out. What a dud year for cinema.

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This baseball item barely made it into Sunday's Chicago Tribune within a story about ticket sales, but the Cubs have given Sammy Sosa's old uniform #21 to former Cardinals oil rig fire Jason Marquis. So much for the debate about whether the club would ever officially retire the number. Those are some short memories in the Cubbies' front office. One of the things I distinctly remember about the evening of September 8th, 1998, was the announcement by Cardinals' co-owner Bill DeWitt that Mark McGwire's #25 would one day join the Birds' list of retired numbers. Six years after Big Mac's retirement from the game, we're still waiting for that honor to be bestowed as well.

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