Alan Pergament
- Bochco's bar set higher than his new show can reach
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By Alan Pergament
Updated: 08/28/08 8:19 AM The problem with being an extremely successful writer-producer like Steven Bochco is that the bar is
- ‘Cheerleaders’ cover Olympics on British TV
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Alan Pergament
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM Anyone who thinks that NBC’s announcers went way overboard cheering on American athletes during the Beijing Olympics, should have been forced to watch a few hours of British television during the 2008 Games.
- Sports on the Air: Jack Armstrong fans out his resume
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By Alan Pergament
Updated: 08/16/08 9:51 AM If you’re one of the local radio listeners who have tired of WGR 550’s vision of sports talk radio, the Canadian station just to the right of it on the dial has given you another reason to give it a try.
Carolyn Hax
- Dedication to his kids riles date
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM D ear Carolyn: Am I a big whiny baby with unreasonable expectations, or are most men in Washington State cavemen who know more about deer and salmon than they do about women?
- Support, don’t defeat her purpose
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Carolyn Hax
Updated: 08/24/08 6:52 AM Dear Carolyn: I am about to marry a man with a wonderful, smart, kind 13- year-old daughter. She is a strict vegan because her mother became one in the last year. Although it’s presented to her as a “choice” by her mother, it’s not much of one. The mother doesn’t allow any nonvegan foods.
- Carolyn Hax: Parties present an awkward situation
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By Carolyn Hax
Updated: 08/23/08 11:34 AM Dear Carolyn: Bad history is interfering with a friendship. A casual female friend whom I miss invites my new wife and me to her parties. The problem is that she may still be good friends with a person with whom I had a relationship (before marriage) that ended with extremely ill feelings.
Dear Abby
- Acts of kindness go a long way
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Dear Abby
Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM Dear Abby: “Missing the Old Days in Arizona City” (May 8), the mother of a small child, wondered how parents can feel safe raising kids in a world that is “crazy and scary.” I, too, worry about the state of the world today, but find comfort in my children and in the fact that I am trying to raise them to be among the “good guys.”
- Wife should stop her worrying
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Abigail Van Buren
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM Dear Abby: For the past 25 years, my husband, “Don,” has had his hair cut by a woman I’ll call “Barber-Ella.” She’s slim, attractive and full of energy. Don has mentioned that she often pats him on the leg and kind of flirts with him.
- Silence not a sign of disrespect
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Abigail Van Buren
Updated: 08/26/08 6:56 AM Dear Abby: Would you please tell your readers that not reciting or participating in the Pledge of Allegiance does NOT mean that someone is a “bad American”?
Janice Okun
- Restaurant owners can make life easier on themselves
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Janice Okun
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM It’s no secret that these are bad times in restaurant land. Rising prices for food and supplies, money worries for customers — even the most savvy restaurateur is caught in a painful bind. It’s a difficult business anyway and now, especially, uncertainty lies ahead.
- Samurai offers good Asian food in a nice setting
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BY JANICE OKUNNews Restaurant Reviewer
Updated: 08/22/08 10:44 AM I don’t know if you’ve noticed it yet, but Western New York has been undergoing a sort of Asian invasion of late. There’s been lots of Far Eastern activity. Asian/fusion/sushi bars — whatever you want to call these places — are opening or enlarging all over the place. If this keeps up, there may soon be as many Asian places as Italian dining spots around here.
- Gourmandise
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Janice Okun
Updated: 08/10/08 7:08 AM Kraft has introduced a new product just in time for summer sandwiches and salads. Kraft Mayo with Olive Oil Reduced Fat Mayonnaise, also made with canola and soybean oils, is being touted not only for its Mediterranean taste, but also for the fact that it has half the fat and calories of regular mayonnaise. There are 45 calories and 4 grams of fat in every one tablespoon serving.
Jeff Miers
- Sound Check: Remastered discs show U2 on threshold of dream
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By Jeff Miers
Updated: 08/01/08 12:11 PM Now, he’s the butt of jokes, the guy every late-night comedian and radio blabbermouth will point to when they need a cheap laugh at the expense of liberal “save the world” types. Back then, he was a spotty Irish kid just out of his teens, whose heart was threatening to burst wide open, and whose passion ran an arm’s length ahead of his abilities.
Jeff Simon
- The further decline of the TV movie critic
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/17/08 6:46 AM It’s my favorite Web site ad: “TIRED OF AMATEUR REVIEWS?” it asks on the masthead of the appropriate movie info Web site — and then goes on to tell you about the newly available 2009 edition of “Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide” (formerly “Movies on TV”), now 17,000 movies strong and 40 years in.
- Jeff Simon: ‘Buffalo Gal’ plays best in NYC
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/12/08 10:45 AM When Betty Buckley left town after her stint in A. R. Gurney’s play “Buffalo Gal,” the cast and crew of the Studio Arena Theatre production gave her a toilet seat with my picture on it. So I was cheerfully told by people there later.
- Loss of star power dims local TV news
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Jeff Simon
Updated: 08/10/08 7:09 AM Go ahead. Call me crazy. You won’t be alone. Even though the retirement of Carol Jasen in 2002 was followed by an initial downturn in the ratings of all Buffalo TV news, my notion still wasn’t an idea that sat well with the indentured followers and analysts of TV metrics.
Liz Smith
- A little Emmy history
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM “Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other,” said the late Ann Landers.
- Berkley sizzles on ‘L Word’
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Judith Martin
- Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/22/08 7:14 AM “Aphrodite! There appears to be no end to the number of times she can demonstrate her ability to destroy a powerful man in an instant!”
- Follow the boys of ‘Xanadu’
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/20/08 7:05 AM This is what I know. When you ask to go backstage to congratulate any or all of the cast members in the musical “Xanadu,” you are advised that they dress and undress together in a very small space and there’s no room for anyone to “visit” with them.
Miss Manners
- Statute of limitations on divorce?
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Judith Martin Judith Martin
Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM Dear Miss Manners: On an application, when does one check the divorce box versus the single one? I say you’re divorced for one year and check the divorced box, then you are to check the single box. One can’t be divorced forever. Some people with kids prefer to use the divorced box, but one should use the single box if they are single.
- Control your irritation with others
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Judith Martin Judith Martin
Updated: 08/26/08 6:56 AM Dear Miss Manners: With the onset of global warming, now more than ever must we be more environmentally aware and do more to ensure a safer planet for all of us. I believe that making small changes in everyday life can have a great impact on creating a more ecofriendly world.
- Read the subtext at party
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Judith MartinMiss Manners BY JUDITH MARTIN Judith MartinJudith Martin
Updated: 08/24/08 6:52 AM Dear Miss Manners: My husband and I recently went to a very “lax” after-dinner party where we knew only the host and one other couple. While we were there, the host as well as several other guests kept texting other people.
Susan Martin
- Susan Martin: Taking steps to prevent falls at home
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Susan Martin
Updated: 08/22/08 7:33 AM On Tuesday, I heard a story that unfortunately has become a too-familiar one: Someone we know fell and broke her hip.
- Susan Martin: Selling your house? Get extreme
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Susan Martin
Updated: 08/15/08 8:18 AM If I wanted to sell my house – which I don’t –would I agree to scheduling not just an open house but an Extreme Open House – complete with live music, catered food and cool prizes?
- Susan Martin: Shopping for school clothes takes smarts
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Susan Martin
Updated: 08/08/08 8:03 AM I’m looking at a skirt hanging in my daughter’s closet that she has worn two, maybe three times. She didn’t pick out this skirt; I did.
Other Life Columns
- ‘House Bunny’ is a cute tale
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Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM “The House Bunny” (PG-13, 1 hour, 40 minutes)
- Generics under scrutiny
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Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM How good are generic drugs? The Food and Drug Administration tells everyone — patients, physicians, pharmacists, hospitals and insurance companies — that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts.
- A little Emmy history
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Tribune Media Services
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM “Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other,” said the late Ann Landers.
