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Marion? Edith? Mitzzee?

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Several times during the telecast of the Academy Awards , I turned to Jason and said, "I can't believe how much Marion Cotillard looks like Mitzzee ." Mitz, you must dress up as Édith Piaf for Hallowe'en.

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I have often thought that CNN's Jack Cafferty and Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show were very similar. Senior, learned voices struggling to be heard in a din of youthful boisterousness. The types who would be most apt to remind us that having no knowledge of the past dooms us to repeat it. Clucking their tongues in disapproval. My heroes! In James Wolcott 's column "Flooding the Spin Zone" ( Vanity Fair , November 2005), Jack Cafferty is given the props he so justly deserves. Analyzing the coverage of hurricane Katrina, Wolcott examines CNN's new program The Situation Room and my Jack, writing that Cafferty's "ire showered the mediascape with volcanic ash." Jack'll call the world on its bullshit, that much is for sure. Wolcott continues his dissection of Cafferty and in particular his pairing with Wolf Blitzer ("inspired casting") by writing that "Blitzer maintains a lack of affect whatever Cafferty's provocations, b...