On Norman Lear’s 100th birthday in 2022, Vulture asked his friends and collaborators including Rita Moreno, Mackenzie Phillips, John Amos, and more to reflect on the TV legend.
Everybody knows the story. The young babysitter, all alone in the house with the kids in bed, and the telephone rings. There’s a creepy guy’s voice on the other end of the line asking “Have you checked the children?” She hangs up but the guy keeps calling back. Finally the babysitter calls the police who tells her… the call is coming from inside the house! While the “get out of the house, now!” twist had been used in
Black Christmas, When A Stranger Calls taps into a different fear.
As director and co-writer Fred Walton tells us, it’s not just the idea that this could happen. People believed it already had.
british journalists and politicians. thank you. the evidence i shall give shobi the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. your witness statement is dated the first of may this year. if you looked at the last hurrah of, you will see a signature which is yours. the statement is given in light of the ongoing investigation. is that right? yes. you started working as a journalist in 1989. is that correct? yes. you edited a column. in the year 2000, you were deputy editor of news of the world. in january were appointed and now editor. on the 26th of january, 2007, you resign. in june, we will come to the exact date when you give evidence, you were appointed director of communications to the conservative party. is that right? yes. you started work in to buy, and after the next general election, you were appointed director of communications at downing street. is that correct? yes. can i ask you this general qu
is very extraordinary . it may be the most exclusive club in the world. the private and public relationships of the american presidents, from truman and hoover to george h.w. bush and bill clinton. sunday at 8:00 on q&a . defense secretary leon panetta says that if congress changes keep parts of his department s budget proposal, there could be risks to national security. he and general martin dempsey spoke reporters for a half hour. good afternoon. let me let me begin with some comments on the defense budget. i have spent much of this week, including two hours this morning on capitol hill, dinner last night here at the pentagon, reaching out to members of congress and to senators to talk about where things stand as congress begins to debate, mark up and consider the defense budget in earnest. my message to congressional leaders remains the same. congress passed the budget control act. it requires a reduction of defense spending of $487 billion over the next 10 years.