There is no shortage of touching eulogies for Mike Wallace, the legendary CBS News correspondent, who died Saturday at the age of 93. Journalism colleagues, including the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, CBS News correspondent Bob Simon and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh, remembered the brazen tactics Wallace would often employ to get the story first. Hersh recalled the day Wallace scooped him on a story by interviewing his traveling companion over the phone, as Hersh was taking the subject to New York. "Wallace had scooped me by interviewing [Charles] Radford while I was flying with him in tow," Hersch wrote in The New Yorker. "I was more embarrassed than angry. The Old Man had shown me his moves, and taken my candy away."
"Abrasive" And "Tender" Candy-Snatcher: Mike Wallace Remembered By His Colleagues
Whitney Houston's Newark Church Mourns Her Death
Tributes continue to pour forth for singer Whitney Houston, who died yesterday at the age of 48. Subway riders broke into spontaneous song last night, local music writers wrote moving personal pieces, and multiple celebrities expressed their anguish on Twitter. And at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where Houston got her start singing, there have been services dedicated to the singer all day: "She was a treasure on a global scale and, on a personal note, with our church family. We’re asking everyone to pray for her family at this hour. We’re asking all to respect them at this hour of grieving," said Rev. Joe A. Carter last night.
Stock Up On Your 9/11 Memorial Wine...For $19.11 A Bottle
It's a product we could have imagined the perpetually classy 757 owner Donald Trump spitballing while slicing up a double-layered pizza with knife and fork...and then rejecting for being unclassy. And yet, you can now drown your memories of that painful day with commemorative booze: a Long Island winery has created a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Merlot and a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Chardonnay. And each costs $19.11 a bottle if you buy directly from the winery.
Natasha Richardson Remembered
Last night Natasha Richardson's family broke their silence and released a statement letting the world know "their beloved Natasha" had died at Lenox Hill Hospital, following her fall skiing on Monday. Over the past few days, being kept alive on life support, visitors to the hospital (beyond her family) included her first husband producer Robert Fox, Lauren Bacall, Meryl Streep, and Joan Didion.
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