Mayor Michael Bloomberg has returned to planet Earth. With a white-cheeked gibbon swinging from branch to branch and a Malayan Tapir drooping its head over a muddy puddle behind him at the Bronx Zoo, on Nov. 24, Mr. Bloomberg explained why, after all the talk over the last couple of years about the stratospheric national Read More
As the new season of Saturday Night Live gets under way on Oct. 4, Darrell Hammond-the show’s chief political impersonator, once Bill Clinton and, at this year’s Emmy Awards, the squinty-eyed Donald Rumsfeld-can’t wait to contort himself into the likeness of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.
“I’m sitting there with writers, saying, ‘ Please give Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.–It was after 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 29–the early morning hours after the 87th annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner–and the well-dressed media types (along with a smattering of politicians) were beginning to filter out of Michael Bloomberg’s jiggy after-soirée at the Trade Ministry of the Russian Federation.
“This is not a Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
