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Hearne: Enquirer Dings Romney With Valentine’s Day ‘Love Triangle Shocker’
There’s little doubt Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney‘s campaign could use a little oomph…
But is it possible that one of the most boring presidential candidates ever was caught up in a "love triangle"?
Hey, maybe. And at this tender stage of the game, the idea of Romney getting strafed by The National Enquirer in a Valentine’s Day sex scandal story might be a positive. Anything to knock Mitt out of that flavor-free, flip-flop box he’s been trapped in the past four years.
Glazer: Time Warner Boots KU – K-State Basketball Broadcast
If you’re anything like me, you wondered, "Did my cat chew the damn cable again?"
Last night we got to watch the exciting first half of the KU / K-State basketball game get dumped. No picture. No sound, nothing. What!
Yeah, it was crappy out – we our first real snow – a slushy mess with clouds and yuk. Not to worry, we had time to race home to watch a somewhat big basketball game at 8 PM. Make a small wager on the home school. Me, I love KU basketball and MU football. So I was on Kansas -4 and under 135 1/2 – got it?
So I sit back, get a nice cold drink, turn on the set and…sorry, NOTHING!
Jolly: Hooters To Go, It’s Where Not to Eat!
God I love Hooters….
You know, the restaurant. And not just because of the T and A or the table service which is sometimes sub-par owing to the revolving door of semi-hot waitresses the chain is infamous for.
On a side note, I firmly believe that this restaurant chain is where many ex-strippers go after they stop being HOT, but retain some minimal customer service skills. I wouldn’t bring this up but, if you consider getting take out food there, you’ll see what I mean.
The ridiculous shorts, the scent of patchouli, the lack of actual hooters.
New Jack City: Clint Eastwood–Hollywood’s Real Mensch
Clint Eastwood‘s Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler has garnered him renwed attention and respect…
The kind I bet he wishes might have been timed closer to the release of his latest (directed) picture J. EDGAR starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Even Saturday Night Live tipped its hat to the venerable Hollywood legend this past Saturday.
So what is Eastwood like in real life?
I’m here to tell you that with Clint, what you see is what you get. And I know that for a fact!
Star Search: Shock & Awe Hits 18th & Grand, New Publisher Announces Layoffs, Furloughs
I have to admit, this one caught even me by surprise…
New Kansas City Star publisher Mi-Al Parrish stunned the newsroom today when she unleashed her first ever round of layoffs at the newspaper.
"It was a shock, because people weren’t expecting it," says one source.
In addition to eliminating "seven staff positions," Parrish’s memo outlined that a one week unpaid furlough would be implemented for "most employees" to be taken in the first half of the year. That on the heels of a week’s furlough late last year.
"That’s two weeks with no salary," says another surprised Star staffer.
Hearne: Westport Lobbies KC for Festival License to Compete w/ P&L District
It’s time to level the party playing field…
For four long years the Power & Light District downtown has held a huge advantage in festival licensing over other Westport and other Kansas City entertainment districts. All while costing Kansas City taxpayers millions of dollars in subsidies with deficets projected as high as $15 million a year.
Unfamiliar with festival licensing?
It’s the practice of allowing patrons to carry drinks outside of bars and restaurants onto streets and sidewalks. Kinda like Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
It’s a competitive advantage the Power & Light District has had for far too long, says Westporter Bill Nigro.
Glazer: Scribe Comes Clean, Confesses to Being a Phony
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Man, it’s finally gotten to me, all the thoughtful comments some of you have been leaving…
They’ve made me see the error of my ways. After all, you’re the people who care, want to help me and make the world a better place. You’ve pointed out my lies, shortcomings and such. And now I can’t hide from the truth any longer, so I CONFESS!
WHERE TO BEGIN?
Jolly: On the To-Go Plan at Red Lobster in Overland Park at 95th and Metcalf
I’ve always considered Red Lobster as the Aldi or Walmart of seafood restaurants…
Poor man’s sea food. They don’t serve the expensive, palate-pleasing fish such as monk, shark, or Chilian Sea Bass like the Bristol or Capital Grille. Instead they give you standard options like salmon, tilapia, and grouper. However they do come through bigtime in quality, portion size and value. And they care, which is hard to find these days for the hard-earned dollar.
I never call in a to-go order at Red Lobster because…
1. I like to decide when I get there because the menu is so vast.
2. And I like to see the bartenders make a thousand frozen drinks while waiting on people who don’t tip and have their tabs transfered to a table. Then I thank GOD I bartend where I do.
Leftridge: TV Time; Much Like the Mighty Missouri, ABC’s “The River” is Full of Waste
Rivers are inherently frightening things. If you’re not being Jeff Buckley’d or Ned Beatty’d (drowned and raped, respectively), you’re encountering catfish-punching rednecks, Mexican picnics and hill-people on homemade watercraft. Rivers—especially around these parts—are muddy, murky affairs, perfect for getting attacked by unseen, underwater beasts like the alligator gar, or inadvertently inner-tubing with the dismembered corpse of Prospect Corridor hookers.
Gone are the days of pursuing a Twain-ian river adventure, where one listlessly rafts down a scenic bloom of natural beauty. No longer is one liable to stumble through the thicket to find a kick-ass Alan Jackson river party, replete with plastic cups of Budweiser and bikini clad temptresses grilling Oscar Mayer hot-dogs. Today’s local streams have much more in common with their seedy South American counterparts.
The Amazon is the world’s longest river, running 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil—coast to coast, in other words—and, during the wet season, can stretch to 30 miles wide.
That’s fucking huge.
Jolly: The Eternal Quesion; Tip on To-Go Food?
People have been getting take out food for hundreds of years, or something like that…
Whether they stabbed it, shot it, found it or called in to their favorite restaurant. Today we pick it up and drive it home, instead of hauling it home on our shoulders to the cave that we used to dine in. Thank you evolution.
Unfortunately evolution hasn’t helped with the gratuity issue.
The absolute rule is, don’t mess with anybody that handles your food or drinks.
Star Search: Star Readers Rep Derek Donovan the Gatekeeper for Fewer Errors?
Another day, another handful of watered down news items….
Make no mistake, the Star dishes out more than its fair share of quality local news. When it wants to. Too often though it’s easier for all concerned – editors and reporters – to kinda let stuff slide and stay on the sunny-side-up plan.
Too often there’s little incentive to probe deeper – in part because of limited competition – and partly because keeping sources happy means you’ll likely be first in line when the next "scoop" surfaces.
I can think of dozens of examples, but let’s take a look at just one before moving on to today’s.
Whinery: OBAMA COUTURE ROCKS GOP FASHIONISTAS’ WORLDS
Fashion forward Obama supporters can now flaunt their fervor by sporting high-end gear such as T-shirts, tote bags, scarves, dog bowls and sweaters- even nail polish!
The mastermind behind the “Runway to Win” project: Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who solicited top designers like Mark Jacobs, Vera Wang and others to donate their time and talent to raise money for Obama’s 2012 re-election effort.
Not surprisingly, Republicans are crying foul, saying the effort violates campaign finance laws.
I think they’re just jealous.
Glazer: Scribe Challenges Readers to Name KC’s Most Hated, Win Dinner & Comedy
Some of the top "MOST HATED ATHLETES" are also the best known in the world…
Most of the Top 10 are huge stars in the game they play or played in, and sometimes being on this list can be a good thing. But I suppose it’s not one these guys particularly want to read.
Number One: Easy, Michael Vick. We all know why, the dog fighting and torture of small animals. I agree with this one. Jim Rome didn’t. Rome had Vick on a few weeks back and said, "I think the guy is reformed." Me, I’m an animal lover and if Vick was ripping my little dogs teeth out with pliers, I’d have to put one in him. A bullet. Major jerk.
Number Two: Tiger Woods.
Hearne: Whitney Houston Death Hardly the Surprise Characterized by Most Media
Enough already…
From CNN and MSNBC on down, media pundits have expressed shock and dismay at singer Whitney Houston‘s death at the young age of 48.
As a reluctant follower of Houston’s fall from grace in the pages of the National Enquirer though, my take is just the opposite.
I can’t believe she lasted this long!
Jolly: Take Out Pasta Wars, Carmen’s Cafe versus Garozzo’s
Carmen’s Cafe is new to Leawood on the very cool restaurant strip near Town Center Plaza…
They have a great location that’s close to shopping, movies and other restaurants that offer similar upscale cuisine. But Carmen’s does it better, way better than the shadow that may follow them from its Brookside location.
That said, they’re under an even bigger shadow, that of Garozzo’s.
Garozzo’s has four locations in KC, one in Olathe (but who the heck wants to eat there?), another in Overland Park on College and the original on 526 Harrison downtown. The fourth’s in Lee’s Summit.
Who knew if you became a successful restaurateur here you’d open locations in the two most white trash cities in the area?
Hearne: KC Confidential Adds New Restaurant Critic, Column
Fasten your chinstaps, KC Confidential is about to unleash a new Food Dude…
His name is Reid Jolly and for what it’s worth, the 30-something, Shawnee Mission Northwest grad’s high school mascot was a Cougar. Fittingly, Jolly comes equipped with a penchant for both Italian food and adult movie star sex.
"Uh, I’m alright with it," he says. "The more women in it the better."
As a single dude, Jolly’s mostly blogged about the good, bad and ugly of getting restaurant food to go. Something former Star restaurant critic Tim Finn almost got fired for several years back. Unlike Finn however, Jolly was up front about styrofoaming it with his readers.
I digress.
Jack Goes Confidential: Staying Alive Ain’t Easy in Dizzying SAFE HOUSE
SAFE HOUSE is a gritty, R-rated action-thriller that pits inexperienced CIA operative Ryan Reynolds against once proud but now rogue agent Denzel Washington.
Their location: a safe house off the grid in Cape Town, South Africa where Reynolds is holding Washington who’s in possession of some heavy duty agency secrets that must be protected at all cost.
But when the you-know-what hits the fan—an attack on the safe house—the unlikely duo is forced to escape and make their way through the deadly underground. All while Reynolds is trying to keep Denzel from taking a hike.
But make no mistake, everbody betrays everybody in this movie.
You’ll have to pay close attention or you could become hopelessly lost. But if it’s stark violence you’re seeking, SAFE HOUSE delivers. Or as Washington puts it: "You do what you have to do."
Consider yourself forewarned.
Glazer: Scribe Forecasts Trouble Ahead for Tom Brady & Gisele on Marital Front
They’re the best looking couple in the nation, if not the world…
I’m talking about Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. Yes, I’m putting them above Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but have you seen Pitt lately? Plus Tom and Gisele are younger. However, now come the hard times. Brady is down due to his second Super Bowl loss and Gisele is busy and probably gone from home a lot.
In celebrity marriages, this is the stuff that often can cause trouble.
Hey, I’m totally in agreement with what Gisele said on that elevator. "My husband can’t fucking throw the ball AND CATCH IT." She was 100 percent correct and I’m sure that’s what Tom thinks but just can’t say.
Tom Brady played a near perfect game, save the interception.
Starbeams: Brady’s Balls, Google’s Pole Dance, Newt’s Morals & Cheap Thrills in Mission Hills
Sounds to me like Gisele Bundchen is a better ball handler than the Patriots wide receivers. I’m sure Tom Brady’s cool with that.
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Google will pay $10 for each utility pole it attaches cables to in Wyandotte County. I haven’t seen this kind of money shelled out for pole since I was a Chippendale. And where will Wy Cow store all that dough, in a "pole vault"?
Glazer: He Who Laughs Last; Todd Haley Makes Bank in Pittsburgh
OK, so he isn’t a head coach this season…
Former Chiefs coach Todd Haley is the next best thing, the offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers. That’s one of the best jobs in the NFL outside of being a head coach. The Steelers are "money" when it comes to the post season. And the Super Bowl has been all too often a stop for this storied franchise.
"I am excited about the opportunity to come back home and work for a tremendous organization," Haley says.
Translation: The Kansas City Chiefs organization is nothing.
It’s no secret that Scott Pioli and Haley hated each other, as first reported here on KC Confidential, where I was told by a comment idiot to stop making stuff up or I could be sued. Then I explained that it was a hate war between them and Haley knew he was to be fired soon. I offered as evidence that Haley and his wife had quit Woodside and the two wives didn’t speak anymore.
Well, it all ended up true, huh haters?
