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acceptance speech stories: 6 news summaries

 Rourke Steals 
 Show at Spirit Awards 

Funny, profane acceptance speech made the evening

Feb 22, 09 10:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Mickey Rourke brought the house down with his acceptance speech last night at the Independent Spirit Awards, a 5-minute ramble that ran the gamut from thanking the Santa Monica Police ("for giving me a bed 10 years ago") to praising co-star Marisa Tomei's pole-dancing skills. Rourke praised Wrestler... More »

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Hollywood • award show • Independent Spirit Awards • acceptance speech • Mickey Rourke • The Wrestler

 Peanut Gallery 
 to Fey: No, 
 You Suck It 

Internet poster fires back after acceptance speech

Jan 13, 09 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Only moments after Tina Fey lofted her Golden Globe and told several bloggers who've been chronic detractors to "suck it" Sunday night, they fired back with shrieks of sophomoric glee, reports the Daily News. "Give me something to suck on," posted "Cougar-Letter" on the... More »

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Internet • forums • Tina Fey • award show • blogger • Golden Globes • acceptance speech

At 27, Favreau's Writing Speech of a Generation

Obama's top writer puts away videogames for Inaugural address

Dec 18, 08 9:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Writing the inaugural address of an epochal president known for his oratory would be a daunting job for anyone, but 27-year-old Jon Favreau had to ditch his roomies and videogames in Chicago to do it for Barack Obama, reports the Washington Post. “If you start thinking about what's at... More »

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Barack Obama • speech • acceptance speech • Jon Favreau

(Newser) - She was the toast of the town—and much of the nation—today, but 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper isn't letting her starring role in Barack Obama's acceptance speech go to her head, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "It's nothing unusual really," said Cooper, the Atlanta resident Obama talked about... More »

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Barack Obama • Atlanta • Election 2008 • acceptance speech

OPINION

 Why Her
 'Servant's
 Heart'
 Matters
 

Palin's speech demonstrated ordinary, old-time conservative values

Sep 6, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has the “power of the normal,” and she has the Democrats rightfully running scared, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. The mother of 5 with her hockey-mom jokes and imperfect voice is "vividly genuine," a trait that helped her be the... More »

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Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • conservatives • opinion • Republican National Convention • acceptance speech

GLOSSIES

 How to Write a Rousing
 Acceptance Speech

Radar provides the blanks, you inject your own story into a clichéd mold

Sep 5, 08 6:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - For those whose daydream ambitions skew a little less rock-star and a little more presidential, Radar has a neat, automated form readers can use to produce their own nomination acceptance speech. Who doesn’t want to put their own stamp on clichéd, barn-burning oratory? But what, the discerning... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential campaign • nomination • acceptance speech • madlibs

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