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After more than eight months on the missing in action list Kansas City Star television critic Aaron Barnhart has resigned his post at the newspaper.
In a letter to the staff Star editor Mike Fannin put things this way: Continue reading
Hearne: Ailing StarTV Critic Aaron Barnhart Quits Newspaper
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Glazer: Scribe Mourns for Cancelled MTV Series ‘Jersey Shore’
Well it’s over, Jersey Shore was cancelled last week…
This will be the last season, number six. Are you sad? I doubt it. Snooki has been the target of tons of jokes and ridicule – I hear it weekly from the comics on our stage.
But hey, give those guys credit. They had no talent really, just a group of knuckleheads who wanted to party, fart, fight and cuss. Which was funny only because they were just kinda stupid. Rarely were there any real jokes or smart scenes. And to be honest I only watched Jersey Shore a few times to see what the big wow was and didn’t find much to like.
Then again, I don’t like Basketball Wives either – boy am I a loser. Continue reading
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Hearne: Funkhouser Fingers Zoo for Past Illicit Cash Stash
Talk about boo at the zoo…
When it comes to potential taxpayer ripoffs, the sky’s the limit in Kansas City – at least at the zoo. Or so it would seem based on an example cited by former Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser in a recent story written in his current gig as director of The Governing Institute.
“Back in 1996, while I was city auditor of Kansas City, we undertook an audit of cash control that discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars stuffed in trash bags at the zoo,” Funk begins. “That was only the worst of what we found at the dozens of different locations throughout the city that collected cash.”
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Whinery: What (Little) to Expect From The Democrat Convention
What can we expect from the Democrats?
Check out demconvention.com and peruse the list of “winners” they’ve lined up. What a bunch of rejects and retreads!
Obama must be the egomaniac he’s accused of being with this motley crew. There’s no one on this list that’s gonna be half the “Master-Orator” the President is.
Take “Georgetown Law Graduate” Sandra Fluke– who’s only real claim to fame is Rush Limbaugh calling her a “slut” on his radio show for complaining she has to choose between “food or birth control.”
Or something like that. Continue reading
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Whinery: Republican Convention Recap & Future President Alert
Having taken a few days to digest the results of the Republican Convention, I’ve come away with a somewhat jaded opinion of the whole thing…
For starters, I only saw one President take the stage and it wasn’t Mitt Romney. It’s not that I’m not going to vote for Mr. Romney or don’t think he will be a MILLION times better President than Mr. Obama, he’s just not very exciting. He’d be a brilliant turnaround artist, should he win- which is precisely what the “failed corporation” called the United States of America needs at this time in our history.
All due respect to Mr. Romney, Marco Rubio was the ONLY future President I saw at the convention. Continue reading
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Glazer: KC Export Nikki Glasser Gets MTV Show, In Town This Week
Think of it as an early Homecoming Game for KU…
Former Lawrence resident Nikki Glaser is getting her own TV show! That’s right, the 28 year-old Jayhawk has hit it out of the park.
It seems like only yesterday I was bugging Johnny Dare to put her on his show. Johnny was not overly excited, “What, a young chick with no credits, are you serious?” he asked. I told him she was a tall blonde, well-endowed, very funny and smart as hell. Continue reading
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Hearne: The KC Confidential Crass Comments Cleanup Conundrum
To be or not to be, that is the question…
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous verbiage. Or to take journalistic arms against a sea of profanities, and by opposing end them: to die, to sleep no more; and by a sleep, to say we end the heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks that reader’s eyes are heir to.
Could I state it any plainer?
Of course I can, and so I shall. Continue reading
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Glazer: Scribe Lays Down a Few College Bets to Get Things Started
I was going to wait until next week for a full slate of pro and college football picks but…
There are a couple good games today and tomorrow in college football, so let’s take a fast look around the track and pick a couple winners to get things rolling.
The early game is Notre Dame vs. Navy.
Boy does Missouri hate Navy. Remember when Navy beat MU in bowl game three years back? Continue reading
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Leftridge: August Royals’ Recap: The Blessed End is Near
The infuriating thing about the Kansas City Royals is that baseball doesn’t exist in a world of “coulda.”
Baseball is a universally black and white affair (hold the Dominican jokes, please), wherein a team plays 162 games during the course of a grueling regular season. If they win a small percentage more than they lose (typically, anyway), they stand a reasonable chance of earning a postseason spot.
Unfortunately, Royals’ seasons are often marred by some variation of the following sentiment: “if ONLY they’d won even HALF of the games they lost during the ___ game losing streak back in ___, they’d be in good shape right now!” (the blanks are usually filled as follows: double-digit figure, and usually April or May—and occasionally June).
This season, it was “12” and “April.” Early April, at that, thereby toppling the canoe only feet from the lakeshore. Continue reading
Starbeams: Navy Seal Sex, World’s Oldest Joker, Prom Date & Bugs
I’ve decided the sex in the new Navy Seal book is much better than the sex in 50 Shades of Grey.
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Besse Cooper of Georgia is the world’s oldest person. She turned 116 this week and still spends most of her time writing jokes for me.
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Glazer: Scribe Picks Chiefs to Finish Last in Division
Well, so most Chiefs fans are worried…
Worried a little, but not too much, right? I listen to sports radio sports shows like on 610 Sports and callers think we’ll likely be 10 and 6, that it’s just the preseason.
Did this one and three preseason really matter?
Where the Chiefs playing possum? Do they have secret weapons? Is Romeo saving his best for Game One with Atlanta? I guess next Sunday we’ll all find out.
What do I think? I don’t want to repeat myself ad nauseam but…
Green Bay‘s backups just waxed our asses. We didn’t lose three games in a row, we got run over. We were never in any of those games with the first string let alone the third.
I say preseason games do matter. Continue reading
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Hearne: Entercom’s Point Lands Popular Jack FM Host Nycki Pace
There’ve been damn few free agent radio deals go down since the era of people-metered ratings dawned a few years back…
For the most part music radio deejays are lucky to hang on to their paychecks period. Shut up and just play the songs being the current mantra.
And as of late it’s been open season on female air personalities, as evidenced by the recent firings of Alice 102’s Shorty and The Point’s Tanna Guthrie.
Which is funny because women listeners are one of the most sought after demos.
With that in mind, it’s good to hear that a female of the radio species has actually moved up the ladder to the higher ($$$) ground. Continue reading
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Jack Goes Confidential: ‘Celeste and Jesse’ Shine In Genre
It’s not often that that I review a made to order chick flick…
However CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER in a strange sort of way seems to go the extra mile.
No, it doesn’t have a Jennifer Aniston or Jennifer Garner—or for that matter any Jennifer in its lead. Instead we get Rashida (‘Parks & Recreation’) Jones, who incidentally co-wrote the screenplay. Continue reading
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Starbeams: Good News for Aging Royals Fans, Clint Eastwood, Buick & Lance Armstrong
Let me get this straight. Republicans are going to shed their rich, old-white guy image by sending Clint Eastwood to the podium?
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A new study from the National Institute on Aging shows a low calorie diet does nothing to shorten the length of your life. This might be the best news to hit Kansas City since the 85 World Series.
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Whinery: Republican Convention 2012, Night Two
Finally, some electricity from the convention floor last night…
Not surprisingly it was led by none other than vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. I take back everything bad I ever said about him! He’s managed to do the impossible, make Medicare a positive issue for Republicans.
His zinger, “We know the difference between saving a program and raiding one,”
portraying ObamaCare as looting Medicare was brilliant.
Ryan also made serious inroads with the CENGA’s (College Educated Not Going Anywhere) demographic. Continue reading
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Hearne: Ousted KU Athletics Head Lew Perkins’ Quiet Comeback
Long time no Lew Perkins…
The fallen former KU athletics director hit the skids and then the road two years back after seven years of shaking down Jayhawk faithful for basketball and football ticket donation dough, a pair of hugely unhappy football coaching changes, ticket scalping, travel and bribery scandals and a controversial, undeserved $2.6 million going away paycheck.
Since then mum’s pretty much been the word around Lawrence where nobody seems to know much about Perkins current whereabouts, nor care.
Oddly though, in June an oddball campaign to restore Perkins good name began to pop up on obscure web sites like jumpchrisjump.com. Continue reading
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Glazer: Scribe Disses Sports Illustrated, Charts Disaster Ahead for Chiefs
Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King has spoken…
The Kansas City Chiefs will go 10-6, win the West and win one playoff game against the Buffalo Bills. Yes sir, you can count on Sports Illustrated to get it right. King has the Chiefs winning the West, with Denver and Peyton Manning also going 10-6, being a wild card and ending up in the Super Bowl.
Then Denver loses to Green Bay for the championship.
What do I think now that the preseason is done after tonight’s Packers game? Continue reading
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Glazer: Mitt’s Kinda Cool but Barack’s Better
Mitt Romney is one of the better looking men at age 65 you’re ever going to lay eyes on folks…
Now he’s the official Republican Candidate for President of the United States.
But can he win?
“This man will not fail. This man will not let us down,” said Ann Romney his wife of more than 40 years. Hey, that’s a landmark right there. A handsome mega millionaire staying married that long, that’s rare today.
I give him credit. Continue reading
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Whinery: The Republican Convention 2012 – Day One
Suffering through the Republican Convention – so you don’t have to – here are a few observations on the first nights speeches…
Ann Romney: The nominee’s wife gave a decent speech… She made some strides in “humanizing” Mr. Romney. Explaining his generosity towards others, how he built Bain Capital, how he dealt with her battles with MS and breast cancer. Those are all solid points to make. I just don’t know why she focused so much on how they started out in life with “nothing.”
Does anybody really believe that the son of a wealthy Michigan governor subsisted on “pasta and tuna fish” while in college?
Even if it is true? Continue reading
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Jack Goes Confidential: ‘Lawless’ Pits Bootlegging Brothers Against Corrupt Law
They’re the Bondurant Brothers and in their own mind they’re indestructible…
Brothers Tom Hardy, Jason Clark and Shia LaBeouf protecting and defending their turf, honor and alcohol.
This is LAWLESS, the bloody new prohibition drama set during the depression era in 1930’s Franklin, Virginia as the local clan of bootleggers is about to be muscled out by rival distillers and a corrupt U.S. Marshal who wants his cut. Continue reading
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