Scoop: Fall’s breakout TV hits — watch ’em

The fall television season is only a little more than a month old, but the breakout hits are becoming painfully obvious. And with sweeps just around the corner, shouldn’t you know what those shows are? Or at least some of them?

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Flaming Lips to headline Earth Day show in DC

Rock band The Flaming Lips is headlining an Earth Day concert on the National Mall this weekend, and Chevy Chase is scheduled to help thank thousands who volunteered to improve parks and schools in 10 major cities.

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Capital One buying Chevy Chase Bank for $520M

Capital One Financial Corp. said Thursday it will acquire Chevy Chase Bank for $520 million in cash and stock, as it continues to bolster its deposit base to help fund operations amid the ongoing credit crisis.

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Chevy Chase to host Newport Jazz Festival again

Live from Newport: it's Chevy Chase. Chase, the comic actor and original cast member of "Saturday Night Live" will host the Newport Jazz Festival for the second year in a row.

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Ford Showed Athletic Prowess at Michigan

His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a klutz. In fact, Ford was one of the nation's fittest and most athletic presidents.

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Poll. The National Lampoon Movies. Did you read the magazine beforehand to get the connection?

I loved most of the National Lampoon movies. Of course "National Lampoon's Animal House" is the classic and the standard. It is the level of comedy that all other comedy movies need to be judged against since it came out.

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To right talkers, life--always and everywhere--is unbearably congested with insufferable people impertinently rights talking, and behaving, the way you and I, of course, have a real right to.

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The last survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic share stories that offer a glimpse at the forgotten history of one of the world's worst plagues, when the virus killed at least 50 million people and perhaps as many as 100 million.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. actor and comedian Chevy Chase has signed on to play a recurring role on the Swedish sit-com "Hjalp!"

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What do you think of political comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? —Crystal Bruneau, Los Angeles

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Chevy Chase shares a memory about Gerald Ford. From the article: IN recent days, I've been bombarded by requests to comment on my relationship with President Gerald Ford.

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In recent days, I've been bombarded by requests to comment on my relationship with President Gerald Ford. Until now, I've tried to say nothing — any remarks from me during the Ford family's private time of grief would have been inappropriate.

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Awesome!!!!

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