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KLMNO THE RELIABLE SOURCE Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger


LOVE, ETC.  Born: A son, Daniel Bret


Baier, to Fox News anchor Bret Baier and his wife, Amy, at Sibley Hospital in D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. Seven pounds, 13


ounces — and a full head of junior-


Baier, adding another. Dratch, awaiting her first.


anchorman hair already! Older brother Paul just turned 3.  Expecting: “Saturday Night Live” veteran Rachel Dratch, who at 44 is pregnant with her first child, People reports. No word on who the dad is.


 Split: Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, after actually staying engaged for a full year after meeting on ABC’s “The Bachelorette” and . . . why is it even news when these couples break up anymore?


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op Chef: D.C.” contestant Timothy Dean didn’t need to go on reality TV to find kitchen drama: He has plenty of it in


real life. Dean, 39, a Washington native and acolyte of “That’s


something that would create jobs. So you see, I think out of the box like that. It’s not something a typical person would bring


up.” — Alvin Greene, South Carolina’s mystery Democratic candidate for Senate, in yet another cryptic interview, this time with the U.K.


Guardian, explaining that his state should encourage the manufacture of Alvin Greene toys: “Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an Army uniform, Air Force uniform, and me in my suit.”


the late culinary legend Jean-Louis Palladin, came into the home-turf season with high expectations. But in recent episodes he has struggled to keep a foothold in the cooking competition — and this week, he filed suit against National Harbor, claiming it undercut his deal to open what would have been the first black-owned restaurant in the Prince George’s County mega-complex. A lawyer for Dean said the chef signed a deal in 2008 to open a white-tablecloth restaurant and jazz lounge called Timothy Dean Bistro, for which the developers agreed to invest about $600,000 in improvements. But Dean’s attorney, Jimmy A. Bell, said that after Dean put $1 million of his own funds into the project and obtained all the permits — transforming “a virtual nothing into a beautiful restaurant” — National Harbor failed to come through with the cash. Then, Bell alleges, the developers evicted him and changed the locks on the place. National Harbor reps did not return calls for comment. “We can’t wait to get this in front of a jury and


let the chips fall where they may,” Bell told our Post colleague Ruben Castaneda. It’s not the first time Dean has found himself


at odds with a landlord. In 2002, he sued the downtown St. Regis Hotel, claiming managers conspired to drive out of business his much- promoted restaurant there (also called Timothy Dean) because of his race. Dean brought into evidence an e-mail in which a manager referred to him with a racist slur; hotel lawyers countered that he had forged the document. The case was settled confidentially out of court. More recently, Dean’s T.D. Bistro Inc. — the holding company for his now-defunct TD Lounge in Baltimore — filed for bankruptcy, shortly after shuttering. His new steakhouse, Prime, in the same spot, has different ownership and hasn’t been affected.


“Top Chef: D.C.” contestant Timothy Dean filed suit against National Harbor this week over a restaurant he planned to open at the complex.


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It’s a sad truth — the older you get, the lamer you become. This is not exactly 100 percent scientific fact, and the Bill Murrays, Nick Caves and Betty Whites of the world seem intent on proving otherwise. But they are clearly exceptions to the rule. This reality is often harsher in rock-and-roll, which has always been the playground of the young.


But sometimes what happens


later in life makes it impossible to enjoy what came earlier. With Sting coming to town on Sunday, we decided to look at five rockers whose later-in-life actions (and music) have rendered their quality music unlistenable. The Police: Does it get any worse than Sting? That’s a serious question. It’s easy to get into “So Lonely” or “Can’t Stand Losing You,” but then you picture Sting playing lute while in the backseat of a Jaguar as the Royal Philharmonic soundtracks some tantric sex act and you just have to turn it off. Cream: Clapton Is God,


Ginger Baker is rock’s best drummer, and Jack Bruce ain’t too shabby himself. All power trios wish they had the power of Cream. That band is basically the opposite of everything Eric


LONG GONE: From Sting to Gene Simmons to Elvis Costello, many rock legends have lost their cool. MICHAEL TODD/ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Clapton has done with himself since then, from making those tortured faces when he plays a solo to inspiring John Mayer to having his own signature Fender T-Mobile cellphone. Rock-and-roll! U2: It’s Family Feud. The question is: “We surveyed 100 people and asked them to name a sanctimonious rock star.” Could that question even make the show? Wouldn’t 100 people just answer “Bono”? Kiss: If you think Gene Simmons is crass when it comes to objectifying women, that’s nothing compared with how crass he is when it comes to


being a shameless corporate shill. Elvis Costello: A couple


years ago I deleted “My Aim Is True,” “This Year’s Model” and “Armed Forces” from my iTunes. Partly because those songs are all so internalized but also because he just seems like an uptight and humorless dude. (Maybe it was always the case: “Elvis was really ambitious. He was overtly and dangerously ambitious, I suppose,” his old labelmate Wreckless Eric told me a few years ago, and that was about young Elvis.) You aren’t fooling us with those guest appearances on “Colbert”


and “30 Rock.” Honorable Mention: Lou


Reed. It’s hard to defend much of what Reed has been a part of over the last 30 years, from “My Red Joy Stick” to his crotchetiness that knows no ends. Not to mention his mediocre-at-best output and that soul-crushing moment when 16-year-old me saw him at 9:30 Club reading lyrics off a teleprompter at a 1997 concert. Still, none of this changes the fact that the Velvet Underground is the greatest rock band in the history of music, and their albums will never be tainted. david.malitz@wpost.com


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CNN fires editor who posted pro-cleric tweet


by David Bauder


new york — CNN has fired an editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing ad- miration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement. Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet, but CNN’s senior vice president for international newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, said Wednesday that Nasr’s credi- bility had been compromised. The Atlanta-based Nasr


worked at CNN for 20 years, start- ing as an assignment editor on the international desk. Her job was mostly off the air, but she oc- casionally would appear as an on- screen analyst during discussions of Middle Eastern news. Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah


Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah died Sunday after a long illness. He was staunchly anti-American and linked to bombings that killed more than 260 Americans, a charge he denied. In a Twitter posting over the


weekend, Nasr said she was sad to hear of Fadlallah’s death. She called him “one of Hezbollah’s gi- ants I respect a lot.” CNN issued a statement on Tuesday calling it an error in judgment for Nasr to write such a simplistic tweet. Nasr later said in a blog that she had been referring to Fadlal-


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Mourners show support for Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.


lah’s attitude toward women’s rights. The cleric had issued edicts banning “honor killing” of women and giving women the right to hit their husbands if at- tacked first.


She wrote that Fadlallah was


“revered across borders yet desig- nated a terrorist. Not the kind of life to be commenting about in a brief tweet. It’s something I deep- ly regret.” But Khosravi said in a memo Wednesday that she spoke with Nasr and “we have decided that she will be leaving the com- pany.”


—Associated Press ROXANNE ROBERTS/THE WASHINGTON POST


Chef José Andrés watches with anxiety as Spain plays Germany.


Celebrity chef gets a kick out of Spain’s win


“Goooooooooooooooooooooo- ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo- ooooooooooooooooooooooooo- oollllllllllooooooooooooooooooll- lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,” tweeted José Andrés seconds after Spain scored its winning goal against Germany in Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal. Excited? Ya think? The


celebrity Spanish chef — so nervous he barely slept Tuesday night — invited friends (Ambassador Jorge Dezcallar, 9:30 Club owner Seth Hurwitz) to watch the match at his restaurant Jaleo in Bethesda. With the score 0-0 at halftime, Andrés was cautiously optimistic about what a win would mean for his homeland. “It’s going to be important for the country, for the young kids, for pride, to look into the future and to say, ‘Well, we may have economic issues, but if we keep doing things right we’re going to get through them.’ ” The minute the 1-0 game was over, he was booking a flight to South Africa for Sunday’s title match, Spain’s first-ever World Cup final. And yeah — chefs are as superstitious as any other fan. In honor of Paul the psychic octopus (the eight-legged oracle at the Oberhausen Sea Life aquarium correctly predicted the outcome of all German World Cup matches, including Spain’s victory), Andrés announced that he was taking octopus off the menu at all his restaurants until further notice.


THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010


DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau


CUL DE SAC by Richard Thompson


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