Three things — 9/24/09
Three things I’m loving this week: 1. CBS. Among all the reality, death-and-crime and talent shows on the major networks, there are a few hilarious 1/2-hour comedy gems and most of them are on CBS....
View ArticleSpanx founder becomes billionaire
Move over, Oprah. At 41, the gal who made a comfortable girdle into a new-age garment and called it Spanx is on the Forbes magazine’s list of billionaires. Sara Blakely, the youngest woman to hit the...
View Article‘Dallas’ returns tonight with old and new greed
Greed is on the oil barons’ menu at Southfork Ranch again tonight as the Ewings return on TNT beginning at 9 p.m. Here’s a link to a TNT refresher course that reminds us who’s who among the Ewings....
View ArticleCollege textbooks — options to save some cash
If you find your textbooks cost as much as a college class, you do have options. My kids used a variety of eBay sites to track down college textbooks, but even more options exist now. New books can...
View ArticleMichael Clarke Duncan from ‘The Green Mile’ dies at 54
I saw on the news this morning that Michael Clark Duncan died. He was an Academy-award nominee for “The Green Mile,” but I also remember him for his hysterically funny role on “Two and a Half Men“ on...
View Article‘Young and the Restless’— 40 years young — still restless
My mother watched it. I watched it. My college roommates watched it. In retirement, my father watched it — peeking around the newspaper so we didn’t think he was watching. “The Young and the Restless...
View ArticleRIP Jeanne Cooper, ‘Y & R’ Mrs. Chancellor
Soap legend Katherine Chancellor of “The Young and the Restless” is a household name in soapdom. Jeanne Cooper played the role of the epic rich woman who battled alcoholism. She was a complicated...
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