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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Known for his confrontational interview style, Mike Wallace, one of the original correspondents and hosts of 60 Minutes, died over the weekend at age of 93. “Wallace took to heart the old reporter’s pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” explained former colleague Morley Safer. “He characterized himself as ‘nosy and insistent.’… Read More

Television

RIP: Andy Rooney, Cornerstone of ’60 Minutes’, Dies at 92

By Emily Temple on

According to the New York Times, CBS News commentator and America’s most well-loved curmudgeon Andy Rooney died last night “after complications following minor surgery.” He was 92 years old. Until this past October, Rooney had appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes every week from 1978 to 2011, usually ending the program with light and… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. A London coroner has ruled that Amy Winehouse died from drinking too much alcohol — not from withdrawal, as was originally thought — and in fact, she had consumed 4.5 times more than the legal limit for driving in the UK at her time of death. [via The Daily Beast]

2. Community’s… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Yesterday, Mitchell Hurwitz told an audience at the New Yorker Festival that Arrested Development may be returning to the small screen as soon as next fall; according to Inside TV, producers are currently in talks with both Showtime and Netflix about “airing a limited number of original episodes that will update fans… Read More

Television

10 Things That Make Andy Rooney Cranky

By Caroline Stanley on

In his more than 1000 broadcasts over the past 33 years, we’ve rarely heard about what 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney likes — in fact, only ice cream and natural eyebrows immediately come to mind. But we’ll be the first to admit that watching him wax poetic about his favorite things wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining as listening to him rant — often nonsensically — about what most of us take for granted as byproducts of progress. Plus, it would make playing the Andy Rooney Game a lot much less fun. Click through to watch some of the most curmudgeonly segments we could find, and be sure to tune in this Sunday night if you’re interested in seeing his last regular appearance on the show. … Read More

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Andy Rooney Retires From ’60 Minutes’

By Alison Nastasi on

Andy Rooney, the commentator for CBS’s 60 Minutes‘ opinion segment since 1978, will be retiring from the show. CBS News made the announcement that the 92-year old will be leaving after he completes his 1,097th installment this Sunday night. Rooney is expected to share the news with his viewers, after which the show will air a retrospective of his long career with the network. Rooney has said before that he would work at CBS until he shuffled off this mortal coil. “How long am I going to work? How long am I going to live? That’s the question. I will work until I drop, or until I lose my head. Until somebody tells me different, I’m not going to quit,” he once mused. CBS News chairman and executive producer Jeff Fager has reassured that Rooney, ” … will always have the ability to speak his mind on 60 Minutes when the urge hits him.” Hopefully the urge doesn’t hit him too hard, since the TV personality has grown increasingly cranky with each passing year. With him goes the last of the great TV curmudgeons. A fine example: in the video below, Andy gets cranky about contemporary/public art. … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in the Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we watched the official trailer for Scenes From The Suburbs, Spike Jonze’s companion short film to his music video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs.” We were horrified to hear that Larry King may join the cast of The Daily Show. We couldn’t decide which Disney movie Broadway musical… Read More

Comedy

Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes vs. Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents Dinner

By Judy Berman on

If you think the most recent late-night wars, between longtime Tonight Show host Jay Leno and his younger, funnier successor, Conan O’Brien, are over, you’ve got another think coming. While Leno may have his show back, Conan has amassed an army of fans, won the unconditional support of just about everyone on the Internet, launched a massively successful comedy tour, and is set to premiere a new series on TBS. With both careers still going strong, we don’t see this rivalry ending any time soon.

This weekend, both comedians made high-profile public appearances. While Leno addressed President Obama and the White House Correspondents Dinner, Conan opened up about the ordeal of losing his show on 60 Minutes. Who came out looking better? Watch video of both and check out our take after the jump. … Read More

Television

Video of the Day: A Few Minutes in Andy Rooney’s Closet

By Caroline Stanley on

Best Week Ever dredged up this old clip of 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney going through a cardboard box of clothes trying to decide what to donate to charity and what to keep. (He was born in 1919, so there are some real gems.) Like the majority of Rooney’s segments, it is both convoluted and hilarious — particularly the moment when he says his old suit makes him looks like he runs a pawn shop. Whatever that… Read More