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By Ellis Henican and Sam Hollander
“It’s News to Us”
SILLY SEASON SERENADE LEVI, JACKO, JON & US
“Kiss This One Goodbye,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, September 6, 2009
Come Tuesday, things will all be different.
Come Tuesday, the unofficial end of summer, sanity will again prevail.
But for one last weekend, the silly season will still be with us. For one last, glorious weekend, summer will proudly reign.
Michael Jackson will refuse to leave the [...]
BLOW, BILLY, BLOW…. FAR, FAR AWAY
“Small Taste of Hurricane Bill Is Enough,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, August 22, 2009, page 2
It was the prudent thing to do.
Hurricane Bill was roaring northward. Who felt like being stubborn now? Swimmers would be ordered out of the water. Long Island’s beaches would have to be closed.
Waves were already pounding the shoreline, 8 [...]
Will He Or Won’t He? Rudy’s Time to Decide
“Who’s in Rudy’s Mirror?” Ellis Henican column, am/New York, p. 4,July 31, 2009
Pretty soon, Rudy Giuliani will have to look in mirror and decide who’s looking back.
Is it a used-to-be mayor of New York with a lucrative consulting business?
Or is it a pumped-up Republican leader for today, beginning another run for public office?
It’s Rudy’s choice [...]
DON’T REVEAL! CONCEAL, YOUR HONOR!
“Let’s Reinvent the Process,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, July 19, 2009
She spoke in tones as flat as a law book. She was as difficult to ruffle as the court’s wooden bench. In day after day of direct interrogation, the nation learned barely anything.
So Sonya Sotomayor had a very successful week.
Try as they might, the [...]
HE’S BAD! HE’S BAD! WHY HIDE IT NOW?
“In Death, Jacko’s Flaws ‘Beat It,’” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, June 28, 2009, p. 2
Never speak ill of the freshly dead.
So deeply embedded is that dictum, people attend funerals of relatives they hated and priests deliver eulogies for mobsters and hoods.
Well, watch as the dictum is tested now.
Michael Jackson was a talented but [...]