Below The Beltway

If you were a kid growing up in the 1970s like I was, one of the big rights of passage came when your parents finally said you were old enough to watch The Tonight Show.
Not that self-indulgent dreck that’s on NBC every night with Jay Leno, the real Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and his […]

The Cowboy’s Tony Romo positively massacres Take Me Out To The Ballgame at Wrigley Field:

Harrison Ford does his part to help Mother Earth:
LOS ANGELES, Calif. –
Harrison Ford has played arguably some of the greatest characters in the history of film.
Han Solo.
Jack Ryan.
Indiana Jones.
But on a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, Access Hollywood was with the legendary actor as he sat down for an experience which left Harrison feeling a […]

Actor Wesley Snipes, previously convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file income taxes, has been sentenced to three years by a Federal Judge:
OCALA, Fla. — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison for willfully failing to file tax returns.
Mr. Snipes, who was convicted in February, […]

Isn’t there something just really odd about a 15 year-old girl writing her memoirs ?
Miley Cyrus, teenage star of Disney’s Hannah Montana TV series, has signed a book deal to tell her life story.
The 15-year-old’s memoir will focus on her relationship with mother Leticia, according to the Disney Book Group.
“I am so excited to let […]

Bruce Springsteen has come out for Barack Obama:
Dear Friends and Fans:
LIke most of you, I’ve been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.
He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our […]

Filmmaker Spike Lee isn’t a Clinton fan anymore:
The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That’s not misspeaking; that’s some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that’s over with. These old black politicians say, “Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was […]

One of the most memorable actors in Hollywood passed away last night:
Charlton Heston, 83, one of the most prominent and politically active movie stars of his era, who won an Academy Award and played the hero in many major epics, died last night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
A spokesman for the actor confirmed […]

Remembering the great Arthur C. Clarke:
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.
Rohan de Silva, an aide to Mr. Clarke, said the author died after experiencing breathing […]

Apparently, before she left the Court yesterday Heather Mills dumped a pitcher of water over the head of Paul McCartney’s attorney:
Raging Heather Mills tipped a glass of water over the head of Sir Paul McCartney’s lawyer yesterday after winning a £24.3million divorce deal.
Heather, 40, who had demanded £125million, said the lawyer had been “baptised […]