Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson and Dana Perino have joined Fox News as contributors, the Huffington Post has learned. Carlson hosted the 6PM hour on MSNBC until March 2008, when his show, "Tucker," was canceled. Since then, he served as a senior campaign correspondent for MSNBC and has written for The Daily Beast. Perino served as White House Press Secretary from September 2007 through the end of George W. Bush's second term. Last month, it was announced she'd be joining Mark Penn's public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, as "chief issues counselor."

After stints at CNN and MSNBC, Tucker Carlson is getting his pundit passport stamped by the third cable news network (and the most popular of the three), the Fox News Channel. Mr. Carlson will be a paid contributor for Fox, appearing on programs to talk politics. Might the former CNN and MSNBC talk show host become a host of his own program on Fox, too? “I’m doing whatever they want me to do,” Mr. Carlson said in an interview Friday.

Mr. Carlson, a prominent libertarian, worked at CNN for five years, mostly as a co-host of “Crossfire,” the now-defunct political debate show. In 2005 he moved to MSNBC, where he dropped his signature bow tie and anchored for three years until his program was canceled in March 2008. He was hired both times by Rick Kaplan, a former president of CNN and MSNBC who now produces the “CBS Evening News.” During Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., are now occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.

disney presidents

Celebrating its 20th birthday Friday is Disney's Hollywood Studios, the third theme park created at Walt Disney World, that tourism behemoth that rates among Chicagoans' top year-round destinations.Here's the rub: Walt Disney Imagineering was preparing all its wondrous filmmaking and Hollywood ideas in planning a new pavilion for Future World in Epcot. But there proved to be too much to contain in just one pavilion.

Disney also is renowned for a meticulous attention to detail that gives its architecture its famous authenticity -- such as the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom, a to-scale replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and the Temple of Heaven in the China pavilion in Epcot, a half-size replica of the Beijing original. Likewise, the buildings that line the Studios' Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard are replicas of Hollywood buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930s. Walt Disney Imagineering used the original 1927 blueprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood to construct the exact replica in the Studios, with a façade built to full scale. And the Carthay Circle Theater building on Sunset Boulevard is an exact replica of the original Carthay Circle Theater in Beverly Hills, where " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" premiered in 1937.

fargo marathon

FARGO - Chris Erichsen, just one year removed from St. John's University (Minn.) and a second place finish in the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, may be finding the 13.1-mile distance to his liking.The Minneapolis resident won the half marathon division of the Fargo Marathon on Saturday, crossing the line in an unofficial time of 1:06:50. It was just his second race at that distance.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) Thousands of runners are taking to the streets of Fargo, for what might be a record Fargo Marathon. Marathon executive director Mark Knutson says this year's field is the largest and best, in terms of elite runners. This year's route was changed because of Red River flooding. The course for the last four years has meandered near the Red River in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. This year the route will be reduced to a 13.1-mile two-loop course.

The men's field for the 26.2-mile race Saturday includes at least three Kenyans one who posted a 2-hour, 12-minute time in 1999. The Fargo Marathon men's record is 2:30:34. The women's field includes a Canadian who posted a 2-hour, 40-minute time last year. The Fargo Marathon women's record is 2 hours, 50 minutes.