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Last night, before hosting the Kennedy Center “honors,” Trump blasted Jimmy Kimmel as an awful host for one of those previous tributes. That was with this year’s honorees—three members of KISS, Sly Stallone and George Strait, behind him. Trump then became the first president to actually host the show.
SNL’s cold open last night, a Pentagon press conference.
….and Weekend Update:
Speaking of Saturday Night…a happy birthday to my old buddy Sir Tom Waits, born on this date just two years after me, here with his early classic:
And on this date in 1972, as I have noted before, I trekked up the Hudson with Crawdaddy colleague Peter Knobler and a kid named Bruce Springsteen for the latter’s concert (with newly-formed band) at Sing Sing Prison. Knocked out, we then prepared the first major magazine piece on him just as his debut lp came out. Quite a few years back, before I became a “real” filmmaker, I did this little 4-minute video about it with the aid of my son, enjoy:
From Tunes to Toons
Ann Telnaes:
Wuerker:
Goris:
Boris:
Goris:
Wuerker:
Photo Finish
“Giacometti at the Guggenheim.”
perfect. the spokes of an umbrella.
Women get hotter….It conveniently left out getting uglier on the inside (and outside too, that maga look is as fake as this “presidency”)