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What Are You Like? Anne Thompson

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
April / May 2015

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As a television correspondent, Anne Thompson has covered events as far ranging as Tonya Harding in Portland, Oregon to Ground Zero on 9/11. It’s a job some might find enviable, even glamorous for its range, travel, and publicity. “I was in Rome for 38 straight days covering the resignation of Pope Benedict and election of Pope Francis,” she said in an interview with Bill … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Anne Thompson

“King Conan” Receives Warm Finnish Welcome

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2006

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Conan O'Brien, host of NBC's Late Night talk show, marked his arrival in Vantaa, Finland on February 12 by kissing the ground at the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, renamed "Conan O'Brien Airport" for the day. His visit was prompted by a supposed resemblance that O'Brien (pictured above) has to Finnish President Tarja Halonen (above right). The Late Show ran a series of mock campaign … [Read more...] about “King Conan” Receives Warm Finnish Welcome

Dennis Swason: WNBC

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2002

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Dennis Swanson is president and general manager of WNBC in New York, the flagship station of the NBC network. Less than a week after the World Trade Center tragedy, WNBC-4 launched a public service campaign entitled "We Shall Overcome." The two-minute video featured Fire and Police Department and civilian rescuers accompanied by a Bruce Springsteen version of the song that was … [Read more...] about Dennis Swason: WNBC

Those We Lost: Al McGuire

By Elizabeth Raggi, Contributor
April / May 2001

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On January 26 the sports and television world lost one of its true champions. Known as "the James Joyce of the airwaves," sportscaster Al McGuire passed away in his Milwaukee home surrounded by his loved ones. McGuire's renown as former coach of the Marquette Warriors basketball team, and later NBC then CBS commentator for the NCAA basketball tournament, was matched only by … [Read more...] about Those We Lost: Al McGuire

The Acting President

By Tom Dunphy, Contributor
October / November 2000

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Martin Sheen, the star of The West Wing, is a complicated, ebullient tangle of philosophy, Catholicism, politics, altruism, and homespun wisdom. ℘℘℘ It's a disconcerting sight: The leader of the free world is, uh, combing his eyelashes with a small mascara applicator... Okay, so it's the make-believe leader of the free world. And it's not such a far-fetched notion that … [Read more...] about The Acting President