Friday Buzzkills: Writers rot, Truth renews, Cosby raps, Rove returns

February 1st, 2008
So Super Tuesday has you feeling the strangely unfamiliar stirrings of optimism for the first time since 2001, like the promise of a brighter dawn is just around the corner. Obviously you've forgotten that we're still a year away from any discernible change, the real backbiting and smear campaigns are still to come and, oh yeah, there's still nothing good on TV. Grind that up with the usual grab bag of misery--celebrities making stupid decisions, revered movies being fed through the remake machine, and the bafflingly immortal success of people who (in a fair world) would have been stoned to death a long time ago--and you've got a fresh, steaming cup of Friday Buzzkills to wake up to. It's morning in America! - It’s been a while since we checked in with the writers’ strike, but at Day 89 there just has to be some good news to report, right? Right?! After all, the recent bout of informal talks between WGA leaders and studio heads was supposed to result in the sort of interim agreements that put David Letterman back on the air and gave Paul Haggis another chance to