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Media misses the point about mosque
America?s news media are always so delicate and discreet about the wrong things. They?re so politely vague, but only to protect the feelings of the bad guys. The Lower Manhattan mosque debate has returned an infuriating habit of the news media ? the inability of TV, radio and print...
 
Betty White, Neil Patrick Harris score Emmys at creative arts ceremony
LOS ANGELES ? The Betty White phenomenon keeps getting bigger. White won an Emmy Award for best guest actress in a comedy series for her turn as host on "Saturday Night Live." The honor came Saturday at the creative arts ceremony that is precursor to the main Aug. 29 Emmy show...
 
Working for the jerk
When are the suits in Hollywood going to figure out that reality shows about "the glamorous world of celebrity PR" are doomed to fail? It didn't work for powerhouse celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman, ("PoweR Girls" on MTV) who went from celebrity publicist to annoying celebrity, publicist and ex con...
 
AC is ready to roll
Atlantic City is gam bling on HBO's new est series, "Board walk Empire," becoming a hit. The semi-fictionalized account of the life of South Jersey, Prohibition-era political boss Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, "Empire Boardwalk" premieres next month with a $10 million ad campaign. But already, the Jersey resort is offering...
 
One truly amazing Grace
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals stretched the heat wave past sunset Thursday night with a sizzling free concert under the stars in Bryant Park. The performance, taped for the PBS pop music program "Live From the Artists Den," was a gripping moment in music where a girl and her band (who...
 
Last chance for summer
With Labor Day only two weeks away, it?s time to squeeze in everything you didn?t do this summer. But don?t panic, there are still plenty of outdoor film festivals, baseball games and seaside activities to give your summer a proper send-off. * Minor League Baseball: When it comes...
 
Tours de force
The hottest thing to do in Brooklyn these days is go on tour ? and not with your band. Turns out factory tours are all the rage! There was so much demand at the Sixpoint Craft Ales brewery in Red Hook, the hot spot had to suspend all tours until it...
 
What's so special about Rooney Mara?
She?s a virtual unknown, but she landed the role of the decade. Rooney Mara, 25, will play the part coveted by every A-list actress in Hollywood: the punk, bisexual hacker named Lisbeth Salander in the David Fincher-directed remake of Swedish thriller ?The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.? And speaking...
 
'Talent's' New York circus act
Rudy Macaggi is not clowning around. The third-generation circus acrobat, who emigrated to the US from Italy in 1982, is willing to risk his life to win Season 5 of "America's Got Talent." On the Aug. 3 live show, Macaggi, 43, cheated death by performing a handstand three feet...
 
Real 'Good'
'The Good Wife" is keeping things real. The hit CBS series -- which borrowed its premise from the real-life Eliot Spitzer scandal -- will see even more ripped-from-the-headlines episodes this season a la "Law & Order." An episode based on "the BP oil spill is right away," star Julianna Margulies told...
 
OWN gets sued
Oprah Winfrey's upstart OWN cable network is facing its first lawsuit. An ex-OWN employee who suffers from multiple sclerosis is suing the company for creating a "hostile work environment." Catherine Dunn, 57, who began working as an assistant at OWN in August 2008, claims she had to take a...
 
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