----- Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You, with scenes from "Love Actually" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcimpWgCT0 -----
iJUSTINE - ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq86oMh6v-M
----- Though Love Actually is one of my favorite films of the past 15 years, and not just because the Prime Minister is named David -Hugh Grant- the original trailer, with so many cliched songs running through it, nearly scared me off the first few times I saw it months before the film came out. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi362021145/ Fortunately, the great cast and the talented people behind the film -writer and director Richard Curtis, who'd written Four Weddings and a Funeralnine years earlier- had done work I loved, so despite the fact that it might well be one of the worst film trailers ever made for a very good movie, I've seen it about a dozen times, though it's too bad that USA Cable has to edit out some of the best dialogue of the film. http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/love-actually/ ----- iJustine video from JD Lasica on Vimeo Justine Ezarik, better known asiJustine, interviewed after first meeting of the Intel Insiders at Intel headquarters in San Jose, Calif., 2008 iJustine fromhttp://vimeo.com/jdlasica
http://vimeo.com/1298582 Surprising observation: That by now, given the technology revolution and the sorts of ambitious and attractive women who are forever being attracted to South Florida, South Florida would have actually have aniJustine-like personality all its own, someone well-known for her efforts and promotions, i.e. making lots of amusing videos in locations throughout the region, yet there isn't one. Why do you suppose that is?
I'd been thinking about this weird musical connection, this multi-media ying-and-yang that seems to connect pop stars Chery Cole and Lilly Allen for a while, ever since my October 12th post about Taylor Swift'simpression of a Minnesota soccer mom on BBC Radio's Switch with Annie and Nick http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/taylor-swifts-impression-of-minnesota.html
But my great idea hadn't reckoned on some of the videos on YouTube that I needed NOT being embeddable for my blog, so I'm afraid you have to go thru this in four steps the old-fashioned way, and sort of keep it all in your head without the visual cues the embeds give you. But it's worth the effort.
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Cheryl Cole talks with Alan Carr about Simon Cowell - The Sunday Night Project, Channel 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpJnm5msVBc
Marie Claire U.K. story on her TV appearance at: http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/511010/watch-cheryl-cole-s-acoustic-live-performance.html
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Step. #2
Lily Allen's impression of Cheryl Cole on BBC Radio's Switch
But EricBana won't be starring in Steven Spielberg's historical film "Lincoln," which was originally going to star Liam Neeson as the 16th U.S. president, but which will now feature Daniel Day Lewis, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/ but rather in a very different sort of film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051509/ Here's the exclusive story with casting Bana as Honest Abe as I came to learn it last Thursday in my daily First Take email from Sharon Waxman's savvy Santa Monica-based entertainment industry news site, TheWrap, http://www.thewrap.com/ And you know how I love Santa Monica!
The Wrap Exclusive: Eric Bana Circling 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' By Jeff Sneider December 16, 2010 @ 11:52 am
EXCLUSIVE Hollywood may be looking to continue to outsource the role of Abraham Lincoln.
British Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis was recently set to play the 16th President in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," and now another foreign import is being eyed to play Honest Abe.
Australian actor Eric Bana is circling the title role in 20th Century Fox's big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's novel "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" TheWrap has learned.
While Bana hasn't landed the coveted role yet, he's scheduled to meet with director Timur Bekmambetov soon, and is certainly in contention for the part. Read the rest of the exclusive story at http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/column-post/exclusive-eric-bana-testing-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-23294
The last time we saw Daniel Day Lewis in buckskins was 1992's The Last of the Mohicans, which I've seen about a dozen times. Hope DDL wears some as Abe!
------- Eric Bana's upcoming film is Joe Wright’sHanna, co-starring Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett, which opens in the U.S. on April 8th, 2011.
As you can see for yourself below, the trailer really grabs you from the get-go! Hanna (2011) HD Official Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bucFp1tQ0z8
"Sometimes, children are bad people, too." -Marissa Wiegler
Speaking of Fantasyland, a not-so-funny thing happened to the well-heeled legal and lobbying forces of development behind the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa's efforts to roll over the people of Hallandale Beach and Hollywood and make their Quality-of-Life go straight downhill. As I extensively chronicled here earlier in the year to a fare-thee-well, a grass-roots coalition of concerned citizens in the community -including yours truly- organized themselves and beat back the Diplomat's efforts, despite being heavily out-financed and out-lawyered and the South Florida nes media largely ignoring the story.
Well, to be completely factual, we had no money and had no lawyer. But everyone knows that the Diplomat management and their owners STILL want another bite of the apple in the future.
Today, Buddy Nevins gives us a peek at what was going on behind the scenes earlier this year and how the Broward Sheriffs Office was used in the election battle between Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger and Steve Geller.
She voted "No" to development in the spring and she won the election in November.But now we're learning how some of the dots were connected on the developer's side.
----- Broward Beat BSO’s Latest Trip To Fantasyland By Buddy Nevins
It is the season of fantasy.
There is the story of Santa Claus. There is the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Then there is today’s astounding flight of fancy on Sun-Sentinel.com that the Broward Sheriff’s Office actually investigated an allegation of extortion over a union endorsement last year.
The story is more proof that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti has no business investigating the county commission.
Don’t get me wrong. The story is great.
Read the rest of the post at: http://www.browardbeat.com/bsos-latest-trip-to-fantasyland/
Water for Elephants film trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiNVZLwHbLc
Monday afternoon's Los Angeles Timesbooks blog, Jacket Copy, subtitled "Books, authors and all things bookish," had a very interesting piece by Carolyn Kellogg titled An early look at 'Water for Elephants' interviewing author Sara Gruen about her book-turned-film that is generating so much positive buzz and excitement five months before its U.S. release on April 15th.
One of the most important things you need to know about this film is that it's Reese Witherspoon in a very good film, not a frothy banal one, so you know she's going to take it up a notch and be sensational. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000702/
To me, she's always at her best in productions that feel and look intelligent and positively oozes context, and this looks to be such a film, as savvy entertainment folks I know and trust implicitly on the Left Coast have been urging me to buy the book ever since she was signed to star in it, something that I've resisted thus far. And I hear the script's dialogue is great. But I must say, the trailer, which I saw again today for about the fourth time in a week, looks so damn good that I may well have to change that status quo situation before too long.
As I've commented before, in my opinion, Reese Witherspoon is one of a handful of actors and actresses on the scene today whom I believe the majority of American and European film audiences actually root for oftentimes, despite the actual quality of the films they're appearing in, and if the truth were known, they'd actually prefer to see her in more high-minded films -even if that meant less films by her- simply because it drives them crazy to see her in forgettable or frothy fare where she has to play less than, well, the Reese we love, in films that leave no lasting impression except for a few scenes here and there.
The sorts of films where when she's out promoting them on TV talk shows like David Letterman's, they actually cringe inside, despite how much they like HER. In fact, I should know, I'm one of those such people myself.
Reese Witherspoon on CBS-TV's The Late Show with David Letterman in November 2010 promoting her film, "How Do You Know" http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=rrQVumXofQNKpTvyZXJUKyyjg8zQ5Tte http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341188/
I feel the same way about certain other film actors, one of whom as many of you know, famously, is Ashley Judd. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000171/
Ashley Judd on cover of Condé Nast Traveler, September 2005, only one of my favorite photos of her.
Everyone who knows me very well knows that I've adored Ashley from the very beginning of her show business career, yet I'm still waiting for her creative follow-up to Ruby in Paradise that leaves me dazzled the way that film did, though she's been good in supporting roles.
Ruby in Paradise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108000/ Ashley's talent is so very obvious to me, and has been since 1993, but it needs to come out in something of quality and high-mindedness that I can respect. Rather selfishly, I guess, I need to have that faith of mine in her reaffirmed on the big screen in a starring role.
I guess that's more my problem than her's, but some of Ashley's films, well, to be honest, I've just plain avoided them for the same reason that I've avoided seeing Reese in a film as a ghostly presence in a San Francisco apt. , i.e. 2005's Just Like Heaven co-starring Mark Ruffalo. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425123/ Sorry, I don't want to see Reese or Ashley as a plucky ghost or wife-done-wrong at a movie theater, or have to see her do fare that seems more like it's designed to appease grandmothers with their daughter and teen grand-daughter in tow over the Christmas holidays at the Mall cinema megaplex. For me, that's "A Bridge Too Far..."
My own belief is that film audiences have such highly positive feelings towards Reese Witherspoon, esp. in the Midwest and the Plains, that they almost instinctively want her to be in a film they can honestly highly recommend to their friends, rather than for them to have to hem-and-haw when asked afterwards whether they really liked it or not. They want to be affirming about Reese because they like her so much already. That's not really such a bad thing -or place to be in your career- now that you think about it.
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Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy blog, An early look at 'Water for Elephants' by Carolyn Kellogg December 20, 2010 | 1:12 pm
Sara Gruen's bestselling "Water for Elephants," a love triangle set in a 1930s circus, is coming to the big screen. Although it's not due in theaters until mid-April, the trailer is already out. Though there's nothing wrong with watching it on a computer, it looks really fantastic projected in a movie theater (at least it did at the ArcLight, where I saw it this past weekend).
The film stars Reese Witherspoon as a circus starlet, Robert Pattinson (famous for appearing in another literary adaptation) as the young veterinarian taken by her, and Christoph Waltz as her husband. Read the rest of the post at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/12/water-for-elephants.html
Video that provides an overview of what she was up to that day... Robyn gästade Musikhjälpen- Skanskan.se video Reporter: Ralph Bretzer http://bcove.me/thhffpck
Separate complete videos of Robyn singing her two songs are below, but here's the most thorough article on her appearance I've found but it's in Swedish, so use your Google Translate if you don't talar svensk.
Skansen.se Många ville se Robyn i glasburen på torget Av Karsten Bringmark 18 DECEMBER 19.24 2010-12-18 19:24:00
MALMÖ. – Skitkul att vara här. Och det tyckte också många Malmöbor som följde Robyn i Musikhjälpens glasbur på Gustav Adolfs torg.
Jublet dränkte all julmusik efter hennes sång.
Fler hundra flockades framför glasburen när Robyn blev intervjuad, och smickrad av programvärdarna; hennes senaste visit i Musikhjälpen är det enskilt mest visade klippet.
David Benvenuto YouTube Channel: Robyn - With Every Heartbeat - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded August 23, 2013 http://youtu.be/IrLzKJKjSCo
Max Holmberg YouTube Channel: Robyn - Hang With Me - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded December 18, 2010. http://youtu.be/St4cojiZ3bo
My last post on Robyn was from July 28th of this year titledRoad-tripping across the U.K in an RV with a Swedish pop star is fun... Robyn - Hang With Me (Official Video)http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/road-tripping-across-uk-in-rv-with.html Love this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a2qoyONVA Back on November 22nd, the Miami Herald ran a short piece on Robyn on their PEOPLE page in the first section of the newspaper, under the header, Robyn earns Swede revenge. Really. And as if that wasn't dopey enough, it used the words "teeny-bop star" in the very first sentence.
I snapped this shot of it that day at the Panera Bread here in Hallandale Beach, mostly to show those of you overseas or at least out of HB, how truly lame the newspaper is when it tries to appear hip. Or, actually, tries anything these days. #Fail ------- For more information: @musikhjalpen https://twitter.com/musikhjalpen webpage:www.Musikhjälpen.se If you need to catch up on some moments from the festival... http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3946
One of the best YouTube Channels for music out there, with an ear for what makes really good Scandinavian music POP is this one by Damian, which I subscribe to and urge you to check out: http://www.youtube.com/user/SwedishStereo
Robyn's official record company website is http://www.konichiwa.se ---------- Updated Wednesday December 22, 2010 I usually try NOT to go back to individual posts days after-after-the-fact, except in rare cases where there's an inadvertent spelling mistake I catch, a dead link someone tells me about, or some mistaken information that might prove troublesome, but I make an exception now and then when I think it's appropriate and today is such a day.
Today, it's specifically because of something that I found out about thru a friend that I think might add to what I wrote above. Since I initially posted above, a fashion-forward friend in Sweden who read what I wrote -but who wasn't at Musikhjälpen-has sent me an email with a link to an interesting blog that is the handiwork of a really personable, talented -and very cute!- woman in Malmö, one of the world's great university towns, who is a combination student, Ford model, blogger and dancer, and did I mention, DJ? I think I was looking for someone like her the whole time I was in Bloomington at IU, that is, if blogging technology has existed then. IF only I had had a blog back then! Besides, how can you not love a woman who writes at the end of her blog profile: "Pluggar konst på vardagarna och dansar om nätterna. Life is good!" Lina Sandberg is this blogger's name and her blog isici: http://lina.metromode.se/ Lina is one of the more popular bloggers on the very popular Metromode.se blog network, which tends to focus on women's fashion and related subjects, a lifestyle and demographic that advertisers desperately want to be simpatico with, whether in the U.S. or Europe. Well, anyway, Lina actually was at the Robyn concert in Malmö for a bit, and has some photos of her day that are worth checking out. In fact, she even played DJ for a bit before Rebecca & Fiona did their thing. I hope to have more about the wildly-popular Rebecca & Fiona in an upcoming blog post, but for now, here's the URL for the post Lina wrote about this past weekend: http://lina.metromode.se/2010/12/19/2210/
Judges of Florida's First District Court of Appeal wanted a courthouse in Tallahassee with “wow factor.’’ They built a $48.8 million copy of the Michigan Supreme Court building that opens Monday at 2000 Drayton Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0950.
See Michigan courthouse photo at: http://courts.michigan.gov/supremecourt/# See old FL courthouse photo at:http://www.1dca.org/ According to the photo on the website, there are about 15 judges based there, theChief Judge of whom is Robert T. Benton II. --------
St. Petersburg Times Taj Mahal timeline: How a $50 million courthouse got in the budget but stayed off the radar By Lucy Morgan, Times Senior Correspondent December 19, 2010
In an extraordinary case of collective amnesia, nobody can quite remember just how it happened. As the country headed toward the worst recession in years, the Florida Legislature handed $50 million to judges to build a courthouse now branded the Taj Mahal. The building that opens to the public Monday began as a request to spend up to $20,000 to determine if a floor could be added to the existing courthouse.
Over the next four years — often in secret — it turned into a building fit for royalty and a multimillion dollar debt taxpayers will pay down for 30 years. The story of the Taj Mahal is told in documents — e-mail, minutes of court conferences and building committee meetings, and a trove of other records. It's remarkable for the over-the-top details — like the soundproofing in the judge's individual bathrooms — but mostly it's the way things get done in Tallahassee.
Read the rest of this compelling article, complete with amazing photos, athttp://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/taj-mahal-timeline-how-a-50-million-courthouse-got-in-the-budget-but/1140773
----- St. Petersburg Times Appeals judges slip into controversial new $50 million courthouse By Lucy Morgan, Times Senior Correspondent Saturday, December 18, 2010
TALLAHASSEE —
For some, the moving vans outside the 1st District Court of Appeal were reminiscent of the night the Colts moved out of Baltimore in the middle of the night on their way to Indianapolis.
On Friday, Gov. Charlie Crist said the judges at the controversial court should have waited until legislators had a chance to review the process that led to the construction of a new courthouse filled with African mahogany, granite desk and countertops and other luxuries not traditionally found in state buildings.
Sen. Mike Fasano, head of the senate committee on court funding, wrote a letter to Crist and other state officials Thursday trying to halt the move. It was too late. Shortly after dark Thursday the first moving van was loaded and ready to leave the downtown courthouse where the 1st DCA has been since 1981. It was too late.
Read the rest of the article at: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/appeals-judges-slip-into-controversial-new-50-million-courthouse/1140711 I first read the articles online on Saturday afternoon and then quickly emailed them around the state to various civic activists and pols I know because it's the best account I've seen yet of how this financial outrage came to be.
Lucy Morgan archives:http://www.tampabay.com/writers/article380272.ece
Under the Ice in Cleveland -TEN Network News, Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgq-c7E9D7I
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Cleveland Lighthouse iced over on Lake Erie - photojournalist George Payamgis http://www.wkyc.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=710985383001#/Wind%2C+water+create+%27ice+wonders%27+on+Lake+Erie/710985383001
Story at http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=164226
Channel 4 News: U.K. snow strands air travellersCorrespondent Victoria Macdonald at Heathrow Airport http://bcove.me/byscxokf Story at: http://www.channel4.com/news/uk-snow-strands-air-travellers
Despite knowing that it was highly likely that the Chelsea-Manchester United football game would not go on today as planned in West London (at 11 a.m. my time in Miami) due to, supposedly, the treacherous road conditions caused by the unrelenting snow and ice -or as one website put it, "ran afoul of snow"- I'm still disappointed NOT to be able to see the game on Fox Soccer Channel, which has substituted a game in Switzerland between teams I've never heard of for the canceled game at Stamford Bridge. http://www.chelseafc.com/page/Home/0,,10268,00.html
Especially disappointing when I am hearing differing stories today on what the actual road conditions around Fulham Road, SW 6 are like. But then I have many viewing choices in the U.S., and was, of course, planning on watching the NFL games this afternoon, including the Dolphins game here against the Buffalo Bills and C.J. Spiller, whom I wanted the Dolphins to draft back in May.
Those choices I have put in rather stark perspective a strong sentiment I heard often yesterday and today onBBC Radio's5 live about the much-discussed idea of the Premier League following the Bundesliga in Germany and taking a winter break, so that games are not scheduled when you know in advance that the conditions could be quite problematic weather-wise.http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/
After the jaw-dropping World Cup debacle in South Africa, where the English National Team performed perfectly miserably and looked old, slow, unenthusiastic and not-so-talented in their last game against Germany, there were many knowledgeable callers tolive 5in the immediate hours afterward who said that one of the many things that needed to be done to make ENT relevant again, was to finally end the idea of playing games at times of the year that don't make sense weather-wise.http://www.thefa.com/England
It was said often that this continuous playing of league matches, daily practice plus games in various UEFA tourneys and the FA Cup that pay big money and have much prestige, leads to players being worn out in ways that even vacations to the sunny climes of South Beach can not mend. My own experience is that you tend NOT to get 'fresh legs' in South Beach. Just saying...
Well, yesterday, the opposing sentiment to this notion of a winter break came in fast and furious and I must admit, it's self-evident nature caught me a little short. "Then what are we going to do in the winter?"
Hmm-m...I hadn't actually thought of that!
On this show and many others I've heard since this summer, one caller after another has volunteered how much their own childhood memories of Christmas had to some degree been shaped by the Boxing Day fixtures on Dec. 26th, big games that I have watched for years from afar, but read about and followed in newspapers, magazines and books, and now online, for years, since they tend to get more mention historically.
They're NOT just regular season games because people's memories of this year's holiday will be shaped in some part based on how their own team does, regardless of what division they're playing in.
For some fans of more modest means, this may be the one home game they go to all year, or the only one they attend with their family and not their friends from work or the neighborhood. That's not insignificant. In some ways, though it's far from an exact comparison, those Boxing Day football fixtures are England's version of the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always playing on Thanksgiving Day, and those NFL games becoming part of the national consciousness in ways that other NFL regular season games don't.If you're a sports fan, esp. a devout one, they become almost a subconscious part of your memory. Real American sports fans of a certain age can even recall great games or foul-ups from years gone by that happened in Turkey Day games, even when they didn't involve their own favorite teams. The 1993 Dolphins at Cowboys game, featuring Leon Lett, comes immediately to mind, though that is of a different sort, owing to my being a Dolphin fan for 40 years, since I still recall games I was at from 1971 and the Perfect Season of '72.
The idea that English sports fans would have little to choose from for their spectator or TV-viewing satisfaction is something that can't be underestimated.
There's no NBA or NHL or NCAA college basketball, men or women, plus the lack of the corresponding youth and High School teams in these sports to the extent that is true in the U.S. and Canada. It's simply a different sporting culture.
I'll have more to say on this issue of a winter break for Premier League teams in the future, just wanted to share a few thoughts now since it seemed a propos. Earlier today, just before Noon my time, I received my daily Channel 4Snowmail, with Chief Correspondent Alex Thompson penning his pithy overview of stories that'd be appearing later in the night on the Channel 4 newscast, with weather being an integral part of that.
He asks a very reasonable question that nearly everyone seems to be asking, "It is almost invariably lorries which stop [U.K.] motorways in snow... Why is this state of affairs allowed to continue?"
On the roads there is still serious disruption. It is time to tell a simple truth here: it is almost invariably lorries which stop our motorways in snow. They cannot handle the hills, they drive too fast too close (as every motorway-user will testify) and they jack-knife. As I write an LPG tanker's gone over on the M25, closing the motorway that is rarely far from crisis on a balmy June afternoon. Why is this state of affairs allowed to continue? Why cannot the haulage industry - including their heavy clients like the supermarkets - be instructed to take their fleets off the road for the six to 12 hours needed, once or twice a year?
We will not starve. We will not run short of fuel. Life will continue. And most of all the motorways will function far better because the gritters and ploughs can get through. In any case - since when was a very expensive truck, static for eight hours on a motorway, good for anybody's haulage bottom line?
TONIGHT Snow showers will continue in northeast Scotland overnight and outbreaks of snow will spread into the far southwest. It'll feel bitterly cold everywhere, with severe frost, ice and freezing fog patches.
TOMORROW The snow in the southwest will spread to most of Wales, the south Midlands and southeast England during the day. It will be another very cold day with many places staying below freezing.
OUTLOOK There's no sign of a break in the bitterly cold weather. Snow and ice will continue to be a problem throughout the week. -----
Part 1: Palin for President?Sarah Palin on future and possibly entering the 2012 race.12/17/2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/part-palin-president-12428592
Part 2: Palin on MotherhoodFormer VP candidate on marriage and raising five kids.12/17/2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/part-palin-motherhood-12428604
In 2006 Sarah Palin defeated an incumbent governor of her own party in order to get the Alaska GOP gubernatorial nomination. After winning that nomination battle against longtime GOP U.S. Senator and sitting governor -and pork-loving blow-hard- Frank Murkowski, father of recently-re-elected U.S. Senator -and permanent sour face- Lisa Murkowski, Palin then got to run against the Democrat, another recent former Alaska governor, Tony Knowles. And won. As of two years ago, there was not a single LIVING Democratic politician in the entire United States who had ever run that sort of gantlet to get elected governor of their respective state.Just saying...
While it's easy for people to throw stones at Palin, especially from a distance, doing what she did, as mayor of a small and otherwise obscure city in Alaska that even most well-informed people in the Lower 48 had NEVER heard of, was and is pretty amazing. That no LIVING Democrat has done anything like that is the proof. I've always liked women with moxie, and Sarah Palin has that in abundance. As far as I'm concerned, whatever else she may lack, that particular quality will always help compensate for an awful lot, and endear her with average American voters, who quickly tire of pretentious, self-promoting phonies like John Kerry or John Edwards, whose innate shallowness, self-deception and disconnectedness to most of the country's genuine concerns eventually shines thru, no matter how talented or skillful their speechwriters.
The Washington Post'sChris Cillizza chimed in on Sarah Palin's political future on Friday from his WaPo blog, The Fix, pondering aloud, "Why Sarah Palin could struggle in 2012."
Transcripts of his Friday morning "Live Fix" online and video chats are at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2009/08/19/LI2009081903062.html
Here's the interactive schedule for the Washington Post's reporters, columnists and bloggers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/liveonline/
Yes, you're right, South Florida, in the year 2010, soon to be 2011, the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel have nothing even close to this in terms of breadth of quality or quantity.Why? Now, that's a good question. Why don't the publishers of these two newspapers want to address those issues with concerned readers in South Florida?
Sarah Palin's Alaska:http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/sarah-palin-alaska/
America by Heart -Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin http://www.harpercollins.com/books/America-Heart-Sarah-Palin/?isbn=9780062010964 http://files.harpercollins.com/AudioFile/9780062026910.mp3
YouTube videos mentioning Sarah Palin are added daily, almost hourly, regardless of whether they are pro or con.This chron link should provide you a way of seeing the most recent additions. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_filter=1&search_query=%22Sarah+Palin%22&search_type=videos&suggested_categories=25%2C43%2C23&uni=3&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
See also: http://abcnews.go.com/nightline http://abcnews.go.com/gma http://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews
