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Connecting Rashida Jones and Robert MacNeil
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
In 2012, she starred opposite Andy Samberg in the film '' Celeste and Jesse Forever'', which she co-wrote.
Andy Samberg
On December 17, 2005, he co-starred with castmate Chris Parnell in the Digital Short show "Lazy Sunday", a hip hop song about a quest to see the film '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''.
Chris Parnell
American actor
He has since made uncredited cameo appearances on the show, including parodying newscasters Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, and Bob Schieffer.
Jim Lehrer
He worked as a correspondent for the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), where he met Robert MacNeil.
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Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Jones previously campaigned for Democratic candidate John Kerry during the 2004 election, speaking at student rallies and a public gallery in Ohio.
John Kerry
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
Republicans including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain and then-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, said that Kerry's comments were insulting to American military forces fighting in Iraq.
The committee's report, which Kerry endorsed, stated there was "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia." In 1994 the Senate passed a resolution, sponsored by Kerry and fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain, that called for an end to the existing trade embargo against Vietnam; it was intended to pave the way for normalization.
John McCain
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, succeeding the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and conservative icon Barry Goldwater upon his retirement.
McCain succeeded Arizona native, conservative icon, and the 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater upon Goldwater's retirement as U.S. senator from Arizona for 30 years.
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Barry Goldwater
Journalist Robert MacNeil, a friend of Goldwater's from the 1964 presidential campaign, recalled interviewing him in his office shortly afterward.
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Jones's other 2011 films were ''Friends with Benefits'', starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis; '' The Big Year'', with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black; ''The Muppets'', with Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris Cooper; and ''Our Idiot Brother'', with Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Emily Mortimer.
Wynn Handman
American theatre director
Plays he has directed at The American Place Theatre include: ''Manchild in the Promised Land'', which he adapted from the novel by Claude Brown; ''I Stand Before You Naked'' by Joyce Carol Oates; ''Words, No Music'' by Calvin Trillin; ''Drinking in America'' by Eric Bogosian; ''A Girl’s Guide to Chaos'' by Cynthia Heimel; ''Free Speech in America'', and ''Bibliomania'' by Roger Rosenblatt, with Ron Silver; ''Coming Through'' also adapted by Handman; ''Spokesman'' written and performed by John Hockenberry; ''Fly'' by Joseph Edward; and ''Dreaming in Cuban and Other Works: Rhythm, Rum, Café con Leche and Nuestros Abuelos'' by Cristina García and Michael Garcés.
Roger Rosenblatt
American writer (born 1940)
Before turning solely to literary work, he was a columnist on '' The Washington Post'', during which time Washingtonian Magazine named him Best Columnist in Washington, and an essayist for the ''NewsHour'' on PBS. With Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, he created the first essays ever done on television.
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Jones had a small role in the 2010 Kevin Smith film '' Cop Out''. She appeared in '' The Social Network'' (2010), alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, which is set at Harvard.
Andrew Garfield
He starred in Dustin Lance Black's miniseries '' Under the Banner of Heaven'', an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's book of the same name, that same year.
Jon Krakauer
''Three Cups of Deceit'' is a 2011 e-book that made claims of mismanagement and accounting fraud by Greg Mortenson, a humanitarian who built schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and his charity, the Central Asia Institute (CAI).
Al Neuharth
Each year, the Freedom Forum gives out the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media. Past winners include Walter Cronkite (1989), Carl T. Rowan (1990), Helen Thomas (1991), Tom Brokaw (1992), Larry King (1993), Charles Kuralt of CBS (1994), Albert R. Hunt and Judy Woodruff (1995), Robert MacNeil (1996), Cokie Roberts (1997), Tim Russert and Louis Boccardi (1998), John Seigenthaler (1999), Jim Lehrer (2001), Tom Curley (2002), Don Hewitt of CBS (2004), Garrison Keillor (2005), Bob Schieffer of CBS (2006), John Quinn and Ken Paulson (2007), Charles Overby (2008), Katie Couric (2009), Brian Lamb of C-SPAN (2011) and Marilyn Hagerty of the Grand Forks Herald (2012).
