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Showing posts by Jacob Bernstein- Features Writer
When a pop star, soon to be turning 50, issues a statement saying, "I
have no plans to get divorced at this time," it generally means, "my
plans to divorce will be announced soon." When the publicist for a
vehicularly challenged starlet says, "I have not heard that," it
generally means, "it's true, but I'm half denying it." Then there's
the all-purpose, "We have no comment," which is designed to introduce
doubt to a rumor, but usually means the same thing: "Yup."
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The coif in question.
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Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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Sarah Palin
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Ethan Miller/Getty Images
When news broke that the Republican National Committee spent almost $150,000 of campaign donations to buy clothes for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, there was no shortage of outrage. Democrats wondered aloud how the Republican ticket could "waste" so much money on clothes for a supposed "hockey mom" from Main Street, particularly after the GOP's attack machine had been so vituperative about John Edwards' $400 haircut.
At the Vanity Fair/Google party Thursday night, Fred Thompson was heading toward the seafood bar when he was asked what he thought of John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. "I'm just enjoying the party," he said.
If you came to the Twin Cities looking for action, the opening of the Republican National Convention has left a lot to be desired.
Partly, it's that things on Wednesday were only just beginning to get back to normal after Hurricane Gustav wreaked more damage on the political calendar than the State of Louisiana. And partly, it's because there just don't seem to be as many must-attend events as there were in Denver with the Democrats.
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The parties at the Democratic convention were not exactly roof raisers. Aside from the Kanye West show on Wednesday night, almost nothing that happened at night could match the intensity of the speeches themselves. Partly this is because the Democrats appeared to be on edge, with polls tightening between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, and a general malaise fomenting among members of the press, who seem exhausted from chasing Obama for months and months and not having their affections reciprocated.
Don't mess with Texas.
Star child.
Talaya Centeno
They know, deep down (well, not really deep down, because who in the press is really deep down?), that things have been on an upswing for the Democrats starting with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday and continuing into Wednesday as John Kerry and Joe Biden attacked John McCain in their speeches. They also could not help being excited and surprised at the end of Wednesday night when Obama took to the stage.
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Shawn Johnson
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Bob Rosato/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images
But the same cannot be said for the women's gymnastics at the Beijing Olympics, which had me cringing all week long. It wasn't just the obvious physical damage the sport has wrought on its best-known practitioners, whose "gnomish" bodies -- as Guy Trebay put it in the Times Thursday -- are "more muscularly developed and yet at the same time troublingly arrested" than ever.