Week of March 8, 2007

French President Jacques Chirac announces that he would not run for a third

term after 12 years in office and 40 years in politics.

Retail sales were up .1% in February.

In South America - President

Bush chats with President

Democratic leaders outline

plans to compel President Bush

to withdraw U.S. combat forces

in Iraq as soon as this summer.

President Bush asks Congress

for $3.2 billion to pay for 8,200

more U.S. troops for

Afghanistan and Iraq on top of

the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January.

Fire sweeps a crowded Bronx home, killing 8 youths and an adult. There were at

least 22 people living in the small house. All were members of an extended

family of immigrants from the nation of Mall.

Rudy Giuliani is presumed to be the Republican Party’s frontrunner for the 2008

presidential nomination.

Defense secretary Robert Gates defends a Pentagon decision to hold secret

hearings for 14 suspected terrorists transferred to Guantanomo Bay, despite the

fact that similar proceedings have been held in open session.

Iraq - A suicide bomber rams a car with explosives into a flatbed truck carrying

dozens of pilgrims home after a weekend Shiite celebration and 31 die.

In Buenos Aires - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - mixing his

characteristic style of humor, bombast and sarcasm calls President Bush a

political cadaver, denouncing his swing through Latin America as an “imperial”

excursion.

Atty. Gen. Albert Gonzales acknowledges, “mistakes were made” in the dismissal

of eight U.s. attorneys last year, but rejects calls for his resignation from

Week of March 8, 2007

Democrats who have become incensed that the Bush administration testified

inaccurately about its role in the controversy.

Business -

Ford confirms that it was selling a controlling stake in Aston Marton.

Costco Wholesale Corp says that its fiscal second-quarter profit dropped 16%

hurt in part by costs associated with revamping its consumer electronics return

policy, but revenue increased by 7.5%.

Sports - Major League Baseball shifts its Extra Innings pay package from

cable/Dish TV exclusively to DirectTV and some fans are not happy. But, a

provision allows the package to remain on cable and Dish Network if certain

criteria are met.

Chris Simon of the New York islanders is suspended for 25 games after hitting

Ryan Hollweg with his stick.

studio owned by technology and media

federal curt to force Google to identify people

who put its copyrighted videos on Google

Video and YouTube. Cuban has been a critic of

YouTube and once called any potential buyer

of YouTube a “moron” over possible legal

liabilities of allowing the uploading of

copyrighted videos without permission.

YouTube has always contended that it will

remove copyrighted video uploaded without

permission if it is notified, per U.S. law.

Online only - Disney says it’s going to shoot 80

episodes of a new series called “Prom Queen,”

each lasting just 90 seconds. It’ll begin showing online at YouTube, Veoh.com

and Vuguru.com.

Passing - Actress Betty Hutton - WWII pinup girl. She was 86.

Music news -

Starbucks and Concord Music announce the formation of a join record label

called “Hear Music.” Of course, they’ll be sold in Starbucks .

Week of March 8, 2007

Passing - Brad Delp (55) - lead singer for super 1970’s group “Boston.”

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame is acknowledging hip-hop by inducting pioneering

Bronx rap group grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Television news -

Full circle - Star Jones has a new gig at Court TV. She’ll get new own one-hour

show. Starr was a commentator for the channel back in 1991.

Another Reality Show - this one with

Love” with Dean McDermott, her

second husband. Look for it in March

on Oxygen.

On “Saturday Night Live” - Drew

Barrymore with musical guest Lily

Allen.

Debuting On Fox this week - “The

Riches” - centered around a married

couple and their three children in a

comfortable community.

Friday night television -

CBS - Ghost Whisperer, Close to Home, Numbers, Late Show, Craig Ferguson

NBC - 1 vs. 100, Las Vegas, Law & Order, Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien,

Carson Daly

ABC - Grey’s Anatomy, Wife Swap, 20/20, Nightline, Jimmy Kimmel

PBS - Washington Week, Suze Orman: Woman & Money

MyNet - Movie

CW - WWE Friday Night Smackdown!

Fox - House, Wedding Bells

ABC Family - Dukes of Hazzard: The Begiing, Whose Line Is It?

CNBC - The Big Idea with Deutsch, Mad Money w/Jim Cramer

WE - John Edward Cross Country, Designer to the stars

SmackDown! - Batista vs Kane; Finlay vs. the Undertaker.

Week of March 8, 2007

Norah Jones

David Letterman - Ricky Gervals, Forest

Whitaker and The Shins.

On Dr. Phil - Bullying and bossy

spouses.

At the movies -

300

Wild Hogs

Zodiac

The Astronaut Farmer

The Number 23

Reno 911: Miami

Breach

Bridge to Terabithia

Ghost Rider

Music and Lyrics

Norbit

Because I Said So