Hoda Kotb takes her broadcast persona retail in White Plains:
At a reading for her new memoir, Hoda, the "Today" host showed why she's beloved by the masses.
Bio: Daniel is a writer who has contributed to Newsweek, The Awl, The Daily Beast, and This Recording. He was previously the editor of the college news and gossip site IvyGate, and was on Jeopardy! once.
Hoda Kotb strode in, carrying a black leather bag with the zipper part of a Ziploc bag sticking out of the top. "Hell-oh!" she cried, to a crowd that burst into applause. Kotb let Community Relations run the show during introductory remarks, with the perfect level of show-stealing, that Ed McMahonish impression of attentiveness coupled with a soupcon of show-stealing: a stage-whispered "yeahhh..." at a mention of Kathie Lee Gifford, a cocked eyebrow at the descriptor "serious journalist," applied to herself. At the end of a litany of her awards, the crowd applauded again, but for the only time in the evening, Kotb stopped posing. Her lower jaw had receded a bit and she may have been staring at the flower display on the signing table, some artificial-looking 'mums with a straw scarecrow sticking out. More
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on October 21st, 2010 8:41amAs Rakoff’s collection moves towards arguments against the constructed worlds of Rent and of LDS Utah, though, the sense of Rakoff’s book being hard to argue with becomes a weakness, not a strength. (This is leaving aside, for the moment, his lengthy condemnation of the Bush administration in the first essay—none of Rakoff’s demographic will disagree, but some may be hungry for some fresher red meat.) More
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