On the Radio With Gary Stern
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- May
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Today’s “High Noon” radio program will feature an interview with my friend and associate, Gary Stern, who covers religion for The Journal News.
Stern will discuss his recently published book, “Can God Intervene?/How Religion Explains Natural Disasters,” (Praeger Publishers, www.praeger.com). The book touches on the age-old question of God’s existence in the context of the great tsunami of 2004 that killed 230,000 people in Indonesia and India.
I highly recommend this fine work by a nationallly recognized journalist.
Listen in today at 12 noon at 1460 AM on WVOX or if you are out of the immediate listening area, log on to www.wvox.com.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
A more apt song is the one at http://www.myspace.com/rudymcromneymusic
which is a tongue in cheek country-rock campaign song for Republicans looking to show just how “Right” they are. Written and performed by Stuart M. Rosenberg.
Back to disasters, what was Paul Newman doing touring Indian Point? What’s next for the Point? An Evening with Joan Rivers? How about Steve and Edie in Concert?
I didn’t know Newman was there…He sells salad dressing, no? (Great actor)
Oh yeah, he was there alright. I guess being a movie star/race car driver/salad and sauce huckster makes him an expert on nuclear energy. At least Entergy thinks it does. Do you think he downed his usual case of Coors before taking the tour? The article states he was pleased with safety measures taken at the Point and that he lives in Westport Conn.,about 40 miles from the plant. I was always more impressed with Steve McQueen’s honest reactions and not Paul Newman’s ponderous emoting. Newman was once a bastion of the left, now I guess he’s just a left over.
Popcorn, salad dressing, fruit juice, pasta sauces, the list keeps on growing. And to think, all this money goes to charitable causes and to his hole in the wall camps for sick children. This coors guzzling, wanna bee Mario Andretti huckster has some nerve.
Even Don Imus has his charities, and good ones they are. That does not make Imus an expert on race relations any more than it makes Newman an expert on Indian Points safety precautions.
I agree with you completely on that point. I just don’t think a man who raises over 200 million dollars for charity, and who runs a camp for seriously ill children and funds it by selling food products qualifies as a “huckster”. The word philanthropist comes to mind, or maybe just a decent human being.
Okay, okay ,I stand corrected for the ” huckster” remark and apologize to Mr.Newman. How about “well meaning corporate dupe” is that better?
Newman is a great actor. Or I should say, “was.” Saw a report today that he’s retired frm stage and screen. I rank “Cool-Hand Luke” in my top 50, and high up on that list, too.