August 11, 2006
I finally caught up with Monday's episode of "The Closer" and for the most part liked it, at least until it got to that cliched justice-in-the-parking-deck moment. I felt as if the show wanted things both ways — to show that the system sometimes lets bad guys get away, but also to satisfy the audience [...]
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August 11, 2006
Word has come that Mike Douglas, the daytime talk-show host and former Clevelander, is dead. (UPDATE: You can find my piece about Douglas for today's Beacon Journal here.) He was 81.
I had a lunch interview with Douglas back in 1997, when Rosie O'Donnell's praise had brought him back in the public spotlight, and it was [...]
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