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Bush and Britney top thumbs-down list for ’06

WASHINGTON (AP) – Bad guy of 2006: President Bush. Good guy of 2006: President Bush.When people were asked in an AP-AOL News poll to name the villains and heroes of the year, Bush topped both lists, in a sign of these polarized times.Among entertainment celebrities, Oprah Winfrey edged out Michael J. Fox as the best […]

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CBS wins a lackluster pre-holiday week in prime-time television

NEW YORK (AP) – When a five-minute football postgame show qualifies as the most-watched prime-time program of the week, you know people have other things to do besides watch television.The networks recognized this, filling the week before Christmas with reruns and the occasional holiday show. One perennial, “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer,” hit Nielsen Media Research’s […]

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Looking Back

Everything comes to him who waits and so the Turner people who have been peering dimly into the future searching for the rays of the long promised electric lights, and who have ever and anon turned wearily to turn up the wick of the kerosene oil lamp, are at last rewarded. Workmen were wiring Dr. […]

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TV briefs

On New Year’s Eve, the backseat of a taxi is the only place you need to be for a healthy dose of sex, drugs and rock “n’ roll.Bravo will premiere three episodes of HBO’s “Taxicab Confessions” on Friday, followed by a New Year’s Eve marathon of the Emmy-winning docudrama.The long-running HBO series featured producers posing […]