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France’s creative First Lady

Good news, more or less: At least one country appreciates a First Lady who wants to have fun.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that the French adore their new First Lady Carla Bruni- Sarkozy, a former supermodel who has posed nude, slept with both a married man (with whom she conceived a child) and [...]

Hollywood green-lights Obama

Hollywood gave Barack Obama the proverbial “green light” (as in, “The studio green-lighted your movie. Go make it!”)
at a gala fundraiser Tuesday night.
A-list actors, directors and producers made the scene at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, former home of the Academy Awards. Longtime Obama supporters like Kal Penn (pictured, left), Dennis Quaid and Don Cheadle were [...]

Latino Republican for Jedi Knight

A Latino Republican may be hard for many Democrats to understand, but who doesn’t love a “Star Wars” fan? Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias  (right, sort of) appeared on “The Daily Show” last night to talk about how former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired him because he had too much integrity to follow George W. [...]

Tony Award rapper hits the “Heights”

¡Felicidades! Lin-Manuel Miranda not only won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score for his Broadway hit “In the Heights,” he also gave one of the best acceptance speeches ever!
Check out Miranda rapping his Tony speech on YouTube.
“In the Heights,” by the way, is a high-spirited new musical about life in Washington Heights, [...]