Tiger Still Stumbling, One Year Later

In the early morning hours after last Thanksgiving, a barefoot Tiger Woods left his home, quickly pulled his Cadillac Escalade out of his Windermere, Fla., driveway and made an awkward, unnatural 210-degree turn into a tree and a fire hydrant.

By the time the cops came, his wife, Elin, had smashed his back windows out with a golf club and mentioned Tiger may be on Ambien. Then his world exploded.

The crash came in the wake of a National Enquirer story about Tiger cheating on Elin. It caused a tidal wave of mistresses to step forward in a nearly unprecedented tabloid fury. There were wild tales from VIP hostesses and porn stars. There were cringe-inducing admissions about a college-aged neighbor and the waitress at the local Perkins where Tiger and Elin used to go and read the newspaper...More

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Hit Film Director Now Lives in Trailer Park

In the world of comedy, more human beings have seen a movie directed by Tom Shadyac than have ever seen a movie directed by Woody Allen. From 1994-2007, Shadyac had a nearly unprecedented run of comedy hits, from "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" to "The Nutty Professor" to "Liar Liar" to "Bruce Almighty." His style was slick, impersonal and to-the-point: He delivered movies on time, under budget and with little-to-no fuss. It made him a millionaire. He now lives in a trailer park.

He's there by choice. After 2007's "Evan Almighty" -- coincidentally his worst received, most over-budget film -- he decided that he wanted no part of the Hollywood life. So he sold his Pasadena mansion and most of his possessions, moved to a trailer park in north Malibu and began work on his documentary "I Am." What's "I Am" about? It's about how human beings are too competitive, about whatever is hard-wired in our brains that makes us want to work against each other rather than cooperate. That's quite a step from "Patch Adams."

What made Shadyac make such a drastic turn? It might have been a concussion he suffered a few years ago -- Shadyac says it isn't, but you know, of course he'd say that, concussion and all -- or it might have just been the emptiness that seeps in when you realize that making massively popular Jim Carrey comedies just doesn't do it for you like it used to. In our favorite detail from the story, he now requires his agent and representatives, before they take a meeting with him, "paddle-board in the ocean with him before anyone can start talking business."...More

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Cowboy's Coach Drop-Kicked Over 1-7 Record

Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips has been fired, and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett has been promoted to the head coach position. The initial reports were first confirmed by the CBS-TV affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth. In his 3½ years as the Cowboys' head coach, Phillips amassed a 34-22 regular-season record, and a 1-2 mark in the postseason with a team built by Bill Parcells. The tipping point in a horrible 1-7 season was the "Sunday Night Football" game against the Green Bay Packers.

It was one of the worst defeats in Dallas Cowboys franchise history -- a 45-7 Sunday night loss at Lambeau Field in which the score didn't really indicate how lopsided the game was. The Pack outgained the ‘Boys by more than a 2-1 ratio (415 to 205 net yards), had 71 offensive plays to Dallas' 48, and converted 67 percent of their third downs to 40 percent for Dallas.

The difference in rushing yards was the real embarrassment -- once again, Dallas' prized backfield was an afterthought, as the Cowboys gained just 39 yards on the ground. That was in part a result of how far ahead the Packers were early, but it's been a problem all season...More

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O-blah-blah on Dem Losses: "It Feels Bad"

A noticeably somber President Obama acknowledged that his party took a "shellacking" at the polls Tuesday night, telling a White House news conference that he takes "direct responsibility" for the frustration voters feel, particularly on the economy.

Yet Obama repeatedly refused to say that historic GOP gains across the country were a widespread rejection of the policies his administration has pursued. Instead, the president argued that voters were more angry at the lack of progress in crafting effective policies, and the perception that business as usual in Washington wasn't changing. "We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn't change how things got done," the president said, promising to "work harder" to build consensus with Republicans.

The election, Obama said, "underscores for me that I have to do a better job."

Obama's message wasn't so different from George W. Bush's in 2006, when the then-president went before reporters after Democrats took control of Congress and admitted his party had suffered a "thumpin'." Like Bush, Obama echoed the opposing party's call for "greater civility" and pledged to work together....More

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