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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
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tv review

 Project Runway 
 Limps to Season's End 

Like the rest of Season 6, finale was a bore

1 hour, 25 minutes ago
OPRAH VACUUM

 6 Candidates
 to Rule Daytime Talk 

Rachael Ray, Sarah Palin, and other potential Oprah replacements

1 hour, 54 minutes ago
movie review

 Bullock Shines in 
 Crowd-Pleasing Blind Side  

Football chick flick lacks suspense, delivers happy ending

2 hours, 18 minutes ago
Movie Review

 Don't Land On Planet 51 

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

2 hours, 55 minutes ago
MOVIE REVIEW

 Bad Lieutenant Is 
 Terribly Fantastic 

Cage's unhinged performance dazzles, and Herzog keeps up

3 hours, 41 minutes ago
bloodthirsty

 How Twilight 
 Rescued Hot Topic 

Goth retail mainstay is relevant again thanks to books, films

4 hours, 9 minutes ago

Pub's Bad Service Leads
to Arrest—of Irate Patrons

No skipping gratuity, restaurant says

4 hours, 29 minutes ago

  Top 9 Oprah Moments 

Crazy Tom Cruise, faker James Frey, and Sarah Palin make the cut

6 hours, 1 minute ago

 Demi Moore: 
 That's Really 
 My Hip! 


W mag cover not photoshopped, she says, even if unbelievable

6 hours, 35 minutes ago
Movie Reviews

 New Moon So Bad It's Funny  

Sequel lacks thrills, sense of humor of first 'Twilight'

7 hours, 24 minutes ago
MOVIE REVIEWs

 Broken Embraces  
 'Gorgeous and 
 Seductive' 

Almodovar's latest mixes noir with melodrama

7 hours, 37 minutes ago
Analysis

By Ending Show, Oprah Bets Big on Cable

Move will wound ABC, CBS—and Winfrey?

8 hours, 0 minutes ago

 Pre-Lady Gaga Wowed NYU 

She used to be Stefani Germanotta, student

13 hours, 3 minutes ago

 Chicago Suburb Tops 
 Best Family Towns 


Best spots to raise kids boast good schools, low crime

14 hours, 19 minutes ago
SURPRISE, SURPRISE

 Sullivan Back; Still Hates Palin 

Calls her book 'manifesto for the imagined life'

Nov 19, 09 8:49 PM CST
men of the year

 Eastwood Is 
 Top 'Badass' 

Kobe Bryant, Chris Pine, Barack Obama make 2009's elite list

Nov 19, 09 7:33 PM CST

 New Moon Eclipses 
 Ticket Records 

Twilight sequel leaves Potter pre-sale mark in dust

Nov 19, 09 6:52 PM CST

 Oprah Ending Show in 2011 

She will offer more details during tomorrow's broadcast

Nov 19, 09 5:42 PM CST

 Movie Popcorn = 
 3 Quarter Pounders, 
 Plus Butter 

It's as unhealthy as it was 15 years ago

Nov 19, 09 4:10 PM CST

Kate Moss Slammed for Anorexic Motto

'Nothing tastes as
good as skinny feels,'
says supermodel

Nov 19, 09 3:53 PM CST
OPINION


 Levi, You're 
 the Buffoon 
 of My Dreams 

Meghan Daum on why 'Sex on Skates' is an important media figure

Nov 19, 09 1:03 PM CST

 McDonald's Gets 
 Euro-Chic Makeover 

But 'it looks like Swatch had a baby with Ikea'

Nov 19, 09 12:41 PM CST
OBITUARY

 Artist Jeanne-Claude, 
 Wife of Christo, Dead at 74 

She made her mark creating giant environmental artworks with husband

Nov 19, 09 12:29 PM CST

 Post Office  
 Drops North Pole 
 Letter Program 

Cancellation infuriates Santa's helpers in Alaska town

Nov 19, 09 12:18 PM CST


RSS

Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

2
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

14
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

5
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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