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A famous singer songwriter dies, someone you never found time to appreciate, so you go back and start listening and recognize the distant music you heard long ago walking through the fairgrounds of rock, a snatch of song coming from over there, not far, just a whisper away if you'd taken another turn somewhere between Van Morrison and David Bowie.
The longest, loudest standing ovation of the Kennedy Center Honors gala wasn't reserved for Al Pacino, Mavis Staples or the Eagles. Instead, it went to the man sitting to their left, attending his eighth and most likely his last honors presentation: President Barack Obama.
MURDER IN THE AIR is the final entry in the Brass Bancroft of the Secret Service Mysteries Collection, available from the Warner Archive . Ronald Reagan plays Bancroft in this fourth and final film in the series.
For the fourth year in a row, retail customers of Nebraska Public Power District will see no increase in overall retail rates in 2017 following approval Thu... -- A gunman is on the loose after a protester was shot during an anti-Donald Trump demonstration early Saturday morning in Portland, Oregon, according to poli... -- Four people were killed and 17 others were injured in a deadly Taliban suicide bomb attack inside Bagram Airfield, the large U.S. military base in Afghanistan." I am... Financial stress in the farm sector is continuing to make a slow and steady climb.
"I don't see a lot of difference between Kubrick's totally insane General Jack D. Ripper and our totally insane Donald J. Trump. Do you?" actor... James Corden opened the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday in Beverly Hills by noting the timing of the early awards show.
I've seen all of the eight films James Stewart made with director Anthony Mann , and STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND is a personal favorite. I'm thus happy to report that it's now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Olive Films .
President Barack Obama laughs as he hands out treats to a child who is dressed up as him during a Halloween event at the South Lawn of the White House Oct. 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. President Obama told kids to go nuts eating candy and did some of the "Thriller" dance with First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Halloween party.
Before the Civil Rights marches of the 1950s and 1960s, there were a group of young African-American men who fought for equality and the right to defend their country. The stories of these exceptional men will be shared in 'Fighting for the Right to Fight: African- American Experiences in World War II,' a new exhibit on display through March 5, at the St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 Second Ave. NE, St. Petersburg.
Here, every seat in the United Nations General Assembly is filled as President Harry S. Truman addresses the assembly at Flushing Meadow, New York, Oct. 24, 1950 on the fifth anniversary of the U.N. charter. On Oct. 24, 1962, a naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy went into effect during the missile crisis.
Since announcing his bid for the presidency in June 2015, Donald Trump has steadily accrued a number of endorsements from celebrities - some of whom are more notable than others. At this year's boisterous Republican National Convention in July, Trump trotted out three of his lesser-known supporters - actor Scott Baio and reality TV stars Antonio Sabato Jr. and Willie Robertson - as speakers for the event.
A third candidate made it to the 2016 presidential debate stage after all. Sunday night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both managed to summon Abraham Lincoln to their dustup at Washington University.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump casts a shadow as he speaks at the Polish National Alliance in Chicago, Wed., Sept. 28. From the moment the first scribe etched a paean of praise to Nebuchadnezzar into a stone tablet, it's reasonable to conclude that never in history has the media covered a single human being as it has Donald Trump.
Only 20 people work here now, down from a peak of 120, and the rest will soon be gone, too, following their colleagues and fanning out to the campuses. Disassembled cubicles and crates of documents are piled in the corners of the 36,000-square-foot space, and light shines from the doors of the few lonely offices still occupied.
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama . A paperback edition is coming in March 2017.
Season 42 of "Saturday Night Live" debuted with "Suicide Squad" star Margot Robbie as host and musical guest The Weeknd. But both host and musical guest played second banana to the real star of the show, the 2016 presidential election.
This week's presidential debate! It was a something, right? Since presidential debate season is upon us , this time around we're taking a slight detour from films: For our next Political Theater segment, we'll watch a " Game On ," the debate episode of The West Wing . "Game On" finds President Bartlet running against the George W. Bush-esque Governor Ritchie, and the episode contains, for my money, everything I love to hate-and hate to love-about The West Wing : blithe partisanship, broad-brush treatments of complicated public policies, optimistic institution porn, characters delightfully pranking each other.
Jeff, the J.S. reader who wrote in before with great thoughts about The Candidate , followed up with a fascinating tidbit I hadn't been aware of: The movie almost-almost-got a sequel. "In case you hadn't heard," Jeff writes, "there was talk a few years ago of a sequel, in which an older Robert Redford would play Bill McKay as the president he went on to become later in his career.
"WE LIVE in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns," snarls the demonic Colonel Jessep at the end of "A Few Good Men".