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Remembering Four Seasons Chef Christian "Hitch" Albin

17 June 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news

A portrait of Christian “Hitsch” Albin by John Varriano.When I learned of the passing of The Four Seasons restaurant’s executive chef Christian “Hitsch” Albin earlier this week, I was reminded of something Bruce Springsteen said last year at the memorial service for his friend, the late Tim Russert. Right before playing “Thunder Road” in the newsman’s honor, Springsteen told the crowd of mourners that Russert, who had anchored NBC’s Meet The Press for almost 17 years, “believed in the honesty of service.” The “joyful duty of the honesty of service,” Bruce continued, was “the legacy of journalists, politicians, and rock musicians.” It is Hitsch’s legacy, too. When he died suddenly on Sunday, at the age of 62, just five days after being diagnosed with cancer, the Four Seasons released a statement that I thought beautifully summed up Albin’s 36 years at the restaurant: “He was always an

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Ratings For Meet The Press Fall

15 May 2009 2:41 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

The loss of Tim Russert as moderator of NBC's Meet the Press continues to affect the ratings for television news's longest-running program. Sunday's ratings were its lowest since Russert's death -- 20 percent below those for the comparable day a year ago, when Russert still moderated the program, a month before his fatal heart attack at age 58. At the same time, ratings for CBS's Face the Nation which featured a provocative exchange between host Bob Schieffer and former Vice President Dick Cheney was up 17 percent in the ratings. Fox News Sunday was also up -- 15 percent.

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ComicMix Politics: Obama's Mad, Caroline Kennedy, and Editorial Cartoons with closing papers

11 January 2009 7:28 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

A quick wrapup of the mix of comics and politics:

* Obama meets Spidey. Yeah, yeah, everybody's covered it by now. But most people haven't seen Mad Magazine asking what Barack Obama will do during his first 100 minutes in office. Indecision 2008 has the sneak peek. Hint: lots and lots of cigarettes in the Rose Garden.

* And while we're on the subject of Obama, one of his biggest boosters was Caroline Kennedy, who's currently under consideration for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. And Caroline Kennedy's been in comics a lot longer than most.

* Editorial cartoons are getting endangered, with newspapers beginning to fold up shop. Tom Spurgeon has a very informative write-up (boy, that's redundant) on the problems at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and what that means for comics.

You can now go back to watching Meet The Press.

Glenn Hauman

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