Alex Trebek robbed in SF

He's okay.

July 29, 2011 at 2:08PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this June 19, 2011 file photo, television personality Alex Trebek arrives at the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Las Vegas. Trebek says he snapped his Achilles tendon while running after a burglar who had stolen cash, a bracelet and other items from his San Francisco hotel room. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

There has to be a simpler way to set this up. The rule of entertainment writing, as you should know by now, requires a clever reference to the artist's work, preferably twisted around a little or put into pun form. But this just seems like a lot of work.

Right. If you knew that, you didn't need it explained. If you didn't know that, the opening made no sense. Anyway, I just like the fact that he says things like "ignominious heap."

They got the thief:

Moyers, however, believes she has been SET UP.

Trebek, 71, begs to differ:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

She was arraigned in court yesterday. Probably plead not guilty. The bracelet could come out of her left ear while she's in court and she would claim she'd never seen it before.

Alex tells the story himself:

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