Outside the Beltway

The Gulf and Western singer, songwriter, and mogul has died at 76.

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

The tough guy actor best known for the “Smokey And The Bandit” movies has passed away at the age of 82.

The Director of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus,’ both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has died at the age of 86.

While examples of Hollywood sexism are seemingly endless, this is not one of them.

Alex Pareene’s quip that “Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals” has gone viral.

Insult comic Don Rickles told a joke about President Obama being a janitor. Like most of Rickles’ material over the last several decades, it wasn’t funny.

A disappointing beginning to 2012.

Yes, the Jack Nicholson character (Colonel Jessep) had some great lines and it was easy to cheer for some of them. But Jessup was a villain in the flick.