BARBARA LIPPERT
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- Live From The Trial, It's Stormy Daniels in
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05/07/2024
With Stormy on the witness stand yesterday, the morning played out like a cross between "Law & Order" and modern Shakespeare.
- Meat Has Problems -- And Other Impossible Burger Beefs in
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05/06/2024
"Come on, let's punch cholesterol in the face!" says the Brawny Man-type hero in this over-the-top ode to the way meat historically made the man.
- 'Unfrosted,' Unfunnied in
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05/05/2024
A whole solar system of comedy stars has been hurt making this film -- including Melissa McCarthy as a former NASA employee .
- What A Fan Wants? The End Of 'What A Pro Wants' in
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05/02/2024
An AT&T ad in heavy rotation during NBA playoff games spawned intense hatred on social media this week.
- The Murderer Durst Lives On In 'The Jinx: Part 2.' But Are We Jinxed Out? in
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05/01/2024
If you wanted to make up a character like Robert Durst, you'd have trouble matching his actual crime spree. It's too preposterous.
- Can Snickers Calm The Hungry Skies? in
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04/30/2024
At 45 seconds, "Hungry Skies" shows a plane full of passengers who are acting out in recognizable but sometimes funny ways.
- Kristi Noem's Dog Day Afternoon in
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04/29/2024
The one thing citizens of both parties agree on: Executing a puppy in cold blood and then bragging about it is unacceptable.
- Pecker Payoffs, Oh, My! in
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04/26/2024
"Enquirer" publisher used Walmart as the morality police, figuring the words "porn star" on a cover would be massively offensive to shoppers.
- Smokey At 80: Respect The Bear in
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04/25/2024
A moving PSA compels us to take stock of Mr. Bear's decades of professional forest-fire-fighting work.
- Fugitives And The New Civil War in
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04/24/2024
"I'm gonna need you to step out of the vehicle and take a pregnancy test," an officer says to a young woman in "Fugitive."
Comments by Barbara All comments by Barbara
- Kristi Noem's Dog Day Afternoon
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/29/2024)
Hee hee!
- Kristi Noem's Dog Day Afternoon
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/29/2024)
Hi Ed-- I know that nature can be brutal and so can life on a farm.What I didn't get was why she would choose to include this incident in her memoir.
- Pecker Payoffs, Oh, My!
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/26/2024)
Thanks for noticing, George! I appreciate your comment!
- Do We Stink?
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/23/2024)
thanks for commenting, Michael. Interesting question. Like the "Balance of Nature" fruits and vegetables supplements, Lume ads are constant. I'll start looking into it.
- Golden Bachelor Bombshell!
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/13/2024)
Yup! But he was such a good actor in the beginning!
- When The Moon Eclipses The Sky Like A Big Pizza Pie, That's Promo Marketing
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/07/2024)
Perhaps Pizza Hut riffed off this song because it's one of hte cheesiest videos ever made in the '80s, and that's saying something.
- Dramamine Gives Barf Bag The Old Heave-Ho
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
04/04/2024)
Thanks, Melissa. So glad you've found great results via the Dram!
- Kate's Transparent Bravery Is Lesson For The Firm
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
03/25/2024)
Thanks, Cynithia. I agree completly. I didn't mention her hair because I thought it was a wig. It was much longer and had different kind of curuls than her own. The other thing I didn't mention was how many opiners went out of their way to diss Meghan while discussing Kate. I'm happy to hear that she kept her composure at the wedding.
- Oprah And The Blame Game
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
03/20/2024)
Thanks, Teresa! Yup! But that satiny powder blue! :-)
- Kellogg's CEO Pilloried for Pushing 'Cereal for Dinner'
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Barbara Lippert
(Mad Blog on
02/27/2024)
I was responding to his interviewer asking him directly that his language there had the possibility of not landing correctly, and he didn't see that.
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