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Tom Brokaw dropped out of the University of Iowa, where he says he majored in "beer and co-eds", but got his BA in political science at the University of South Dakota.

In the U.K., news "anchors" are called "presenters." It's high time we make that distinction here in America, too.

Funnymen Albert Books and Patton Oswalt may not have scored an Oscar nomination this morning, but at least they're getting plenty of comedic mileage out of it.

This Week on TCM spotlights a highly subjective selection of the week's essential or undiscovered films on the Turner Classic Movies channel to help plan movie viewing, DVR scheduling or TCM Party attendance.

For over forty years, Albert Brooks has been a comedic Renaissance man, writing, directing and appearing in short films for the first two seasons of "Saturday Night Live," before making classic comedies like Real Life , Lost in America and Defending Your Life .