Mitt Romney achieved what he had to do during the first Presidential debate on Wednesday night: He came across as confident, equal to holding a stage with President Obama. Right out of the gate, he was animated where a still, stately Obama spent the first 45 minutes or so seeming to warm up. As a television presence making pithy statements — in pure matters of style; whether the majority of his assertions were accurate, factual, is another matter to be parsed — Romney dominated. And when you dominate the camera on TV, you probably leave the audience feeling you’re making the more convincing arguments. READ FULL STORY »
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'SNL Weekend Update Thursday' review: Mitt Romney in a 'Cash Cab'
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It’s election season, so Saturday Night Live is back with its Thursday night half-hour somewhat-political-humor specials. As you could have predicted much — much too much — of the material was devoted to the 47% video, and unfortunately for SNL, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have already beaten NBC’s show to the satirical punch on that subject. READ FULL STORY »
Saturday Night Live: Seth MacFarlane did his best
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Seth MacFarlane brought all his voices to hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. The Family Guy creator came off as a genial fellow who gamely enjoyed being in a bunch of mostly unamusing SNL sketches. MacFarlane’s opening segment was a series of voice performances of some of his best-known characters from Family Guy, with a few other impersonations (Droopy Dog, Kermit the frog) thrown in, with a bit of the mildly accomplished Sinatra-style crooning that MacFarlane is fond of doing and he’s powerful enough to compel producers and audiences to submit to. READ FULL STORY »
Clint Eastwood talks to Obama at the Republican Convention: 'What do you mean, 'Shut up'?': VIDEO
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Clint Eastwood spoke to an empty chair, pretending it was President Obama, in a rambling, odd, sometimes funny, sometimes implicitly profane speech that added some eccentric spontenaity to the Republican Convention. “Mr. President, how do you handle the promises that you made?” Eastwood asked the chair. “You don’t know? OK.” Pause. “What do you mean, ‘Shut up?’ … You’re absolutely crazy… I’m not gonna shut up, it’s my turn.” READ FULL STORY »
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