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5 November 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Presidential candidate Barack Obama and NBC anchor Brian Williams both appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live over the weekend. Critical response to the Obama appearance was generally favorable but some critics wondered whether Williams would suffer a blow to his credibility by his appearance. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for example, wrote that Williams risked "tainting his newsman credibility by hosting" the show. The Canadian CanWest News Service commented: "The already fuzzy line between news, truthiness and infotainment is about to become more blurred." However, other analysts pointed out that the line probably never existed. The late John Daly, while anchoring the news on ABC-TV in the 1950s and '60s, also served as host of the weekly game show What's My Line. Associated Press TV writer Frazier Moore commented that Williams "displayed some solid comedy chops -- and a readiness to laugh at himself." Obama's appearance was a surprise. Indeed, while other SNL regulars appeared as political candidates in a Halloween sketch at the beginning of the show, Obama removed an Obama Halloween mask and remarked to a faux Hillary Clinton, "You know, Hillary, I have nothing to hide. ... I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween." Obama then provided the opening "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night" announcement. (While Obama's appearance would have almost certainly been uploaded onto YouTube before NBC demanded that all NBC shows be removed from the site, it did not even make it onto NBC's own Hulu video site(s). It was immediately uploaded onto Obama's campaign website, however.)

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19 April 2007 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Broadway theatres dimmed their lights last night to honor revered stage and screen star Kitty Carlisle Hart, who died on Tuesday after a long battle with pneumonia. The 96-year-old actress, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended a private school in Switzerland, began her career as an opera star before becoming a Hollywood singer. She made her mark in the movies when she appeared with The Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera. Other films followed, including Here Is My Heart, Murder At The Vanities, Larceny With Music and Woody Allen's Radio Days. But Hart was perhaps best known for her Broadway successes in the mid-1930s. She appeared in operettas like White Horse Inn and Three Waltzes and the American premiere of Benjamin Britton's The Rape of Lucretia. She met writer and director Moss Hart in 1946 and later married him. The couple was married until the songwriter's death in 1961. On TV, Hart became a beloved regular panelist on US game shows To Tell the Truth and What's My Line.

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13 April 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Tucker Carlson is going from conservative commentator to talk show host to dance contestant to game-show host. Carlson, whose bowties drew as much attention as his opinions when he co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, jumped to MSNBC, doffing his bowties and much of his right-wing punditry in the process. Last year, he turned up as a contestant on ABC's Dancing With the Stars but was eliminated in the first round. He has now been tapped to host the pilot of a game show, Do You Trust Me? He appears to be following in the footsteps of other former news personalities dating back to the early days of television when ABC anchor John Daly hosted another game show that ended in a question mark: What's My Line?

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