REAL LIFE DRAMA -- Following their tabloid-hammered split and subsequent divorce, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have set sail on the remainder of their lives with Katie returning to the boards on Broadway in "Dead Accounts," and Tom filming another "Mission Impossible." Interesting script. His impossible mission is trying to locate the assets he hid during his divorce settlement. 
armed helicopter gunships. Asked for her reaction, Michelle Bachman told reporters that she hopes the dog food factory is spared.
TARGET PRACTICE -- Former vice president Dick Cheney shocked GOP operatives by telling ABC's Jonathan Karl that naming Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate "was a mistake" because she was ill-equipped to be president. John McCain was quick to respond in kind. "A mistake maybe, but not as bad as shooting a friend in the face." 
THE A-TEAM -- Gene Perret,
Jeffrey Barron and Martha Bolton would help staff the Bob Hope specials beginning
in the mid-eighties. Gene, who had begun his career submitting jokes to
Phyllis Diller while in middle management in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania,
began contributing to Hope’s monologues in 1969. Later, he and I would
travel with Hope to London, Stockholm and Tahiti. Martha was from
Arkansas, was married to a sergeant in the L.A. Police Department and
showed up at just the right time. Considerably younger than most of us,
she brought a softer, more Norman Rockwellian, Readers Digest
sensibility to the material that balanced the edgy, smart-alecky tone
the old-timers thrived on and that seemed less and less suitable for a
comedian who was, by then, 83.
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