By Rex Reed 9/28/11 11:44am

movies

Sarah Palin

Northern Exposure? You Betcha!

There may be worse things in life than sitting through a 90-minute movie about Sarah Palin. At the moment, I just can’t think of any.

For a shrill, obnoxious loudmouth spouting more semantic goofs in public than Mrs. Malaprop, she has mangled more facts, misquoted more people and been on the wrong side of so many things that she’s ready for a cinematic firing squad. And for a veteran documentary filmmaker with the credits of British director Nick Broomfield, I expected Sarah Palin—You Betcha! to be a hair-raising exposé. But he didn’t have to put in much overtime. All he had to do was go to Wasilla, Alaska, open his eyes and ears, and keep his cameras rolling. As her family, friends and enemies—including just about everybody she has ever worked with as mayor, governor and vice presidential nominee-—prove in every scene, Sarah Palin defines self-parody. Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/10/10 12:12pm

Did Former Senator Ted Stevens Die in a Plane Crash?

A 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter carrying eight people crashed on Monday night 20 miles north of Dillingham, Alaska. Former Senator Ted Stevens, 86, is believed to have been on board — he was traveling in the area yesterday — and reports from people on the scene of the crash indicate that there are survivors. Mr. Read More

By Andrew Rice 9/02/08 9:31pm

The Alaskans on Palin, Themselves

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.—Bill Noll, an Alaskan delegate to the Republican convention, has been a coal entrepreneur, an appointed state officeholder and the mayor of a small town in his home state. “Smaller than Wasilla, actually,” he said with a grin. It had been four days exactly since John McCain had made Alaskan Sarah Palin the most Read More

By Steve Cohen 8/30/08 7:30pm

Science, Governor Palin and Environmental Policy

On January 5th of this year, Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrote an op-ed in the New York Times opposing listing polar bears on the endangered species list. Her argument was well reasoned and thoughtful, although in the end, unsatisfactory. In her piece Governor Palin noted her support for policies Read More

By George Gurley 1/16/06 12:00am

GEORGE AND HILLY

It was a few days before Christmas, and it was well past 7 p.m. Hilly was late to couples therapy.

DR. SELMAN: All right. I have to be out of here by 8:30. So how are you?

HILLY: Fiiiine!

GEORGE: You had a party?

HILLY: Some thing … yeah.

GEORGE: You look really nice. Read More

By Staff 11/18/05 9:27am

Friday-Morning Roundup

That’s why condo prices are so high! The Times reports that Francine Blacher, a Manhattan real-estate agent, has pleaded guilty to filing a false income-tax return for 2001. She apparently hid income in a bank account in the Bahamas.

Looks like the Mayor and the Governor have a bit of friction between their Read More