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GARRISON KEILLOR
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The care and feeding of ex-celebrities
The new musical that's moved into Washington -- New All-Star Cast! New And Cooler Songs! Awesome Dance Numbers! -- has bumped the old attractions off the avenue. The wax museum of Ann Coulter, the Fox vaudeville acts, the woofing of Rush and O'Reilly -- they're playing the VFW circuit now. When Barack and Michelle walked down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, you could tell just by looking at them that the photographers are not going to be lying in wait for Sarah Palin just now. You heard the sudden sucking sound of vanishing celebrity, but it's not the worst thing that can happen to a person.
Making rudeness acceptable
In his autobiography, Steve Allen writes of how he once went to see the movie "If I Had a Million," a 1932 anthology film that foreshadowed the 1950s TV series "The Millionaire."
Letters to the Editor
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