Forced out

Published 4:11 pm Friday, October 31, 2014

I’ve got a bad feeling about this: Some residents of the Lewis County town of Vader, population 600, want to change the town’s name back to Little Falls, as it was known in the 1800s).

Reached for comment from the set of the next Star Wars movie, Lord Vader said, “I find their lack of faith disturbing.”

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Back to you, Bob: Its ratings dipping, the daytime chatfest, “The View” is being moved from ABC’s entertainment operation to its news division.

With new bosses, “View” panelists Rosie O’Donnell, Nicolle Wallace, Rosie Perez and Whoopi Goldberg will each be handed Action News parkas and microphones and will stand out in front of house fires, police-scene tape and ribbon-cuttings.

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Is funny. Rocket nyet supposed to go boom: Boeing’s defense chief says the spectacular failure of a Soviet-era rocket engine this week on a Virginia launchpad could mean renewed efforts by the U.S. to end its reliance on Russian-made engines.

They’re also looking pretty closely at one particular Russian rocket engineer who insists on going bare-chested everywhere he goes.

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