Michael Jackson Key Jacko Defense Witness Won’t Testify Very bad news for Michael Jackson‘s slow-moving defense team. A key witness who could help Jackson in his child molestation case will not take the stand to help him, even if subpoenaed. Vincent Amen is thought to be one of five unnamed …
Read More »Ahead of Schedule
Legendary CEOJack Welch (search)used to say, if you set a deadline, mean it,meet it and, if you can, beat it. He did that routinely at GE — sometimes to his own detriment. So convinced was Wall Street that the company’s quarterly earnings would beat their expectations that they built in …
Read More »Hindsight Is 20/20
I’m a big believer in speaking English, or at least trying to. That’s why these9/11 Commission (search)hearings drive me nuts. I don’t even have to wait around for the report to know the final headlines. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations botched some things. That’s fine. But playing political games …
Read More »Carlie Brucia's Brutal Murder
Carlie Brucia is dead because the criminal justice system would not protect her. Her alleged killer, who apparently told police where her body was, is 37-year oldJoseph Smith (search), a drug addict, who has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993. In ’97, Smith was tried in …
Read More »General Consensus?
And now the most engaging two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: General Consensus? Democratic Presidential CandidateWesley Clark (search)said today it should be up to Congress to determine if what he called President Bush’s march to war in Iraq amounted to a criminal offense. Clark has repeatedly …
Read More »Janet and Justin: Together Again
Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake | Woody Allen | DMX | Ex-Playmate’s Ex Janet and Justin Duet in the Works It looks like Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake may have to face the music once more. That’s because they’ve recorded some kind of duet for Quincy Jones‘ next album, according to …
Read More »Reporter's Notebook: Eyes on the Border
SAN DIEGO – It felt like we were back in the Middle East, but this was much closer. Our crew, three of us, arrived at the border southeast ofSan Diegolate in the morning. The location, an abandoned Korean-War-era Air Force landing strip, had seen better days. This is the home …
Read More »What's Drugs (Got to Do With It)?
Murder Inc. | World AIDS Day It’s ‘Murder’ at Universal’s Hit Factory The noose is getting a little tighter over at Murder Inc., the rap record label that launched the platinum careers of R&B singer Ashanti and rapper Ja Rule. The label’s accountant, recently indicted by the Brooklyn D.A., has …
Read More »Mottola Leaves Sony Music
Tommy Mottola|Pirates of the Caribbean |Super Bowl Show|Whitney Houston Mottola Leaves Sony Music The 14-year reign of Tommy Mottola at Sony Music is over. According to sources at Sony Music, where the phones have not stopped ringing, Mottola only found out he was leaving when he arrivedThursday morning at 550 …
Read More »The Fallout After the Recall Election
Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. The fallout after the recall election, and that is the subject of this evening’sTalking Points Memo. The big loser here is the Democratic party, which had control of the nation’s most powerful state and completely botched it. Almost every high-profile …
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