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TV: Estelle Getty, Salty Irascable Golden Girl, Dies

An Appreciation by Noah Mallin
Estelle Getty, who donned a white wig to play Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls in the 1980s and practically stole the show from her three better known castmates, has died. Getty portrayed the mother of Bea Arthur’s character though in real life Arthur was actually older. Getty’s broad zinger fueled [...]

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TV: Happy Now? Thanks to the Haters Now There’s No News — At Least in England

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Interspecies Relations: You Know What They Say: Big Foot = Big Crazy Internet Perv

Expose by Noah Mallin

Leon Harris was always a cheery upbeat presence back when he was on CNN and he brings that same twinkle in the eye to his current gig at DC area station WJLA. Recently they unearthed the story of a Stafford, Virginia gentleman who was convicted of trolling cyberspace looking for teenage boys [...]

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TV: The Sweet, Sticky Curse of Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan and Mary-Anne check out the Professor’s kind bud
Of all the characters on Gilligan’s Island who I could picture getting stoned, naive man-child Gilligan and sweet girl-next-door Mary-Anne are at the bottom of the list. Now the Professor sure, but mainly for experimental purposes. Ginger? Hell yeah, probably while partying with Bobby Kennedy. The Skipper [...]

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TV: Is Bitch The New Black? Tina Fey Throws it Down on SNL

Tina Fey: My kind of bitch
Cool chick who graduated Tina Fey returned to her Saturday Night Live alma mater this weekend and just had to take a turn at the anchor desk. She used her spot to make a hilarious and impassioned plea on Hillary Clinton’s behalf. Her shootdowns of the anti-Hill arguments were pretty [...]

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