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The Birthday Boys on IFC: How a Cult UCB Sketch Group Became a TV Show

Mike Wallace, Deceased, Leaves Behind This Commercial for Golden Fluffo

Renowned 60 Minutes cast member and respected journalist Mike Wallace passed away this past Saturday at the age of 93, after over 50 years as a TV journalist.

Broadcast Journalist And 60 Minutes Legend Mike Wallace Dies At 93

Mike Wallace, veteran broadcast journalist known for his contributions to CBS' 60 Minutes has died. Wallace, 93, died at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan Saturday night, Conn. Wallace, who was known for his hard hitting interviews with controversial public figures, had said in interviews following h ... More >>

Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!)

​Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industry? Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Capitol Hill about bills that would affect those companies. Conflict of interest? Just a teensy ... More >>

Andy Rooney Dies; FARC Leader Killed; Attacks in Nigeria

​60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney died yesterday in New York at the age of 92. Rooney retired from 60 Minutes last month after 33 years of closing out the show with short, observational essays. Over the years he recorded 1,097 of the segments, which often focused on small gripes about the m ... More >>

What Will Andy Rooney Talk About During His Last '60 Minutes' Appearance?

​Tonight, after 33-years on CBS's 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney will be stepping down. Rooney's short segments, 1,096 of them in all, were must-see TV. His essays were observations on everyday life, but he was at his best when he was complaining about modern life. Tonight, 60 Minutes is airing a ret ... More >>

Ray Kelly: the NYPD Could Take Down an Aircraft if Necessary

​NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly appeared on 60 Minutes last night to talk about New York City's counterterrorism unit, created after 9/11, which now numbers 35,000 uniformed police officers and 15,000 civilian employees. The interview with Scott Pelley includes a look at the NYPD's $3 billion joi ... More >>

He's So Dumb....

​He has to get naked to count to 21. It takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. He thinks an innuendo is an Italian suppository. He tripped over a cordless phone. He has to go into a dressing room to change his mind. He stole a free sample.

Lance Armstrong and His Accusers: Processing the Unthinkable

Lance Armstrong, flanked by two guys accusing him of nothing. Yet.​During Lance Armstrong's recent comeback, the Voice kept a fairly close eye on him. Despite what some commenters seemed to believe, we actually have admired the man and his incredible cycling exploits. For years, of course, Ar ... More >>

Lara Logan Speaks on Her Sexual Assault in Egypt

Lara Logan in Cairo​As the deaths of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Honros sadly reminded us last week, journalists continue to face dangers all over the globe, and especially in the volatile Middle East, where a rash of uprisings have created historic opportunities to capture news, ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Asks, 'Is God Fattening?' Study Says Yes.

Lo-cal communion wafers.​A new study reveals that people who regularly attend church or other religious institutions are 50 percent more likely to be obese than non-religious folk. And, if you happened to catch Morley Safer's profile of Archbishop Timothy Dolan on 60 Minutes a couple weeks bac ... More >>

But Really, Is It Okay for Men to Cry?: A Retrospective

​Following House Speaker-designate John Boehner's Sir-Weeps-a-Lot moment on 60 Minutes recently, along with the salty, flowing waves of 2010 man-tears (including Charlie Rangel's please don't censure me sobs and Chris Brown's spontaneous waterworks at a Michael Jackson tribute), the Today Show ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg to Debut New Facebook Profile Page Tonight on 60 Minutes

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will use Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes like one giant commercial for his company, unveiling the new profile page design on the air. Above is a screenshot of the episode's preview, giving us the pleasure of a first glimpse. In the clip Zuckerberg is described ... More >>

Spike Jonze and Vice Founder Bribe Their Way Out of Jail in Yemen

​An interesting and surprisingly hip item out of Saturday's Page Six: director Spike Jonze (Adaptation., the new Arcade Fire video) and Shane Smith, the founder of the once-coke-fueled Vice magazine who isn't Gavin McInnes, were detained in Yemen while searching for al Qaeda during the filming ... More >>

Harlem Children's Zone, Is It Working?

Geoffrey Canada's charter-based educational organization, Harlem Children's Zone, has won awards from just about everyone, including fawning portrayals on 60 Minutes, and in the recent documentary, "Waiting for Superman." All of those plaudits have generated large donations to Canda's network of sch ... More >>

LONG LIVE COCO!

Off from NBC, but always in our hearts

STORY TIME

Laugh along with Mike Birbiglia

Jose Andres Gets Anderson Cooper Tipsy on 60 Minutes

If you happened to catch Jose Andres on 60 Minutes last night, you might have noticed Anderson Cooper's straight-man façade (ahem) starting to crack under the pressure of tasting so many molecular cocktails. This extra clip of him sampling an aquatically inspired gin and tonic might explain that ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette--KFC Kerfuffle Ruffles Feathers & In-N-Out to Come to NYC?

This week in blogs... Chowhound aims to answer the question of hot to deal with "restaurant food gawking," that is when fellow diners star hungrily at your food. [Chowhound] Eat Me Daily reacted to the recent Gourmet piece on Alice Waters, denouncing the author for defending the slow food maven by ... More >>

Johnny Zs Pounds Milk & Cookies

Alice Waters' 60 Minutes appearance left us hungry for more fooderati coverage, which we got in the form of dessert virtuoso Johnny Iuzzini being featured on Nightline's Platelist segment Friday night. The pastry hunk says the journey to sweets success began in his childhood when he would come home ... More >>

Commenting on Alice Waters

There's a really good commenters' thread going over at Serious Eats on the 60 Minutes Alice Waters interview. Reactions range from this:I appreciate her message, her commitment, etc. But one of the things that bugs me about her, whenever she addresses the cost- and time-prohibitive nature of living ... More >>

Deep Waters: Slow Food Maven on 60 Minutes

The mother of the slow food movement in the U.S., Alice Waters, was featured on 60 Minutes yesterday in what was a somewhat bland piece on her legacy and vision for an America that eats and cooks local, organic and sustainable food. "Say 'frozen' and Alice Waters shudders," pronounces correspondent ... More >>

The Joys of DIY Disco, Courtesy of Revenge of the Nerds

A New York label offers twisted edits in stunning, anarchic packages

L.A.: Hot and miserable; Barack Obama: Cool and refreshing

Obamas on "60 Minutes"; Press Plays Nice

IT'S YOUR CHOICE

A pupu platter of punditry

Welcome to HewTube: '60 Minutes' Creator Takes on Web

New 'Village Voice' Editor: David Blum

Freeh/Willie: A Pathetic Video

The Silencing of Sibel Edmonds

Court won't let public hear what FBI whistleblower has to say

Prisoner of War

Flashback to Abu Ghraib, where a soldier's day only feels like a year

No News Here

How the CBS memos helped re-elect george W. Bush; cataclysm foretold in the Atlantic

Anatomy of a Story

How missing explosives in Iraq burst into the presidential election

Torturegate

The first press-generated scandal since that two-bit burglary at the Watergate

Mike Wallace, the Redeemer

CBS's 60 Minutes takes the case, and judge Charles Pickering gets his reputation back

I, Vermin From Under Rock

Once I dared criticize Richard Clarke. Now I live in infamy.

Say What?

The Itch

Why a Reporter Is Drawn to War

Smoke Signals

Koppel Says Yes to Military Censorship in Iraq

A Reporter as Prosecutor

Managing News at 'The New Yorker'

The Americans Who Stopped My Lai

‘I Wasn’t Taught to Murder and Kill’

Who Made Bob Kerrey Do It?

Gerhard Klann: ‘We Just Slaughtered Them’

The Wrong Man

Louima Could Not Identify Charles Schwarz

Letters

Crisis modes

Serpico: 'Nothing Has Changed'

Cops in Danger from Other Cops

Crisis Modes

The Last Picture Show

The optimist's guide to the Millennium's final fall-movie crop

Dead Reckoning

60 Minutes Starring Jack Kevorkian

Serious as Cancer