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Post by artemis on Mar 19, 2012 4:57:59 GMT -5
So a perfectly healthy and fit 23 yo man has a cardiac arrest... 4 times? Almighty handlers have destroyed him, poor guy! Wishing him the best!
"Fabrice Muamba remains in critical condition in intensive care
Bolton's Fabrice Muamba is critically ill and will remain in intensive care until at least Monday morning.
The midfielder, 23, is at the London Chest Hospital's heart attack centre after suffering a cardiac arrest during Saturday's FA Cup tie at Tottenham.
At 2030 GMT on Sunday the hospital said Muamba remained in intensive care and is being kept sedated.
Bolton chairman Phil Gartside said: "I ask for everybody to keep Fabrice in their prayers and thoughts."
In a statement on the club's website, Gartside added: "The staff at the London Chest Hospital have been nothing short of exceptional and I would like to thank them all at this ongoing critical time.
"The support that we had from Tottenham and our own fans was fantastic - the staff, the fans, the players and the officials at the game - it was unbelievable."
Muamba's fiancee Shauna Magunda, the mother of his son Joshua, has thanked well-wishers for their support.
"Where there is life there is hope," she tweeted on Monday.
Earlier she said: "Please keep praying for Fabrice, it's really helping I can feel it."
Speaking outside the hospital on Sunday, Bolton manager Owen Coyle said: "From our end, and on behalf of the family, we certainly want to say thanks to everybody.
"Everybody is praying for Fabrice which is very important and that has been a real source of strength to the family.
"We know it's such a difficult time for everybody involved, our thoughts are with Fabrice's family."
Coyle had earlier stated: "It's very serious. There's no getting away from that. God willing, he makes it through."
Bolton's Premier League game at Aston Villa on Tuesday has been postponed.
Medics spent six minutes trying to resuscitate the former England Under-21 international on the pitch after he fell to the ground with no other players around him.
The score was 1-1 when the quarter-final was abandoned after 41 minutes.
The Press Association reports that it took medical staff two hours to get Muamba breathing again.
The hospital said in a statement on Sunday: "Fabrice received prolonged resuscitation at the ground [White Hart Lane] and en route to the London Chest Hospital, where his heart eventually started working. His condition continues to be closely monitored by the cardiac specialists."
Members of Muamba's family and his fiancee have been attending the hospital.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said in a statement: "Our thoughts are with Fabrice's family and Bolton Wanderers, and we are all willing him to pull through. Events such as this put everything into perspective.
"We are immensely proud and grateful to the medical teams at both clubs, their response was immediate and professional. Our thanks also to both sets of fans for their support and behaviour.
"Too often we read the negatives about football and yet last night, at a time of intense emergency and uncertainty, we saw the true humanity and empathy of the footballing family."
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp added: "Football is the last thing on anyone's mind when an awful situation such as this happens. All we are thinking about now is Fabrice and his family."
Medical staff gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Muamba, who was born in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) but moved to England aged 11, and tried to revive him with a defibrillator.
In total, six medics were treating the player, who joined Wanderers from Birmingham in 2008 and has made 148 appearances for the club.
Both sets of supporters chanted Muamba's name as he was taken off the pitch on a stretcher.
Referee Howard Webb called the visibly shaken players off the field after consulting with Coyle and Redknapp. After Muamba had been taken to hospital, the match was abandoned.
The former Arsenal midfielder was accompanied in the ambulance by Coyle and club captain Kevin Davies."
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Post by artemis on Mar 22, 2012 6:15:16 GMT -5
I know I posted before on this sick creep, but still...
"Hitchcock the Psycho: As Birds star Tippi Hedren reveals he tried to destroy her when she spurned his advances, how all his blondes lived in fear of the sadistic director
The confrontation was one that no one who witnessed it was ever likely to forget. The scene was the sound stage at Universal Studios in Hollywood on a day in January 1964.
Behind the camera, his pendulous lips exhaling bad breath and extraordinarily obscene jokes in a lugubrious Cockney accent, stood the corpulent figure of Alfred Hitchcock, acknowledged as cinema’s master of murder, mayhem and suspense.
In front of the camera, poised, elegant, remote, and seemingly unattainable, reclined the exquisitely beautiful Tippi Hedren, his latest star, and the last in a long line of ice-cool blonde screen goddesses with whom Hitchcock had become fixated during his 40-year career.
Hedren, a former model, was then 34 — more than 30 years his junior. She had a six-year-old daughter — now the movie star Melanie Griffith — and was about to marry a second husband, her agent Noel Marshall.
But Hitchcock, in spite of knowing this, had become dangerously obsessed with Hedren, behaving as the ultimate Svengali. He had started to bombard her with crude sexual overtures, and had ruthlessly sought to control every aspect of her life, off the screen as well as on it.
The flare-up that occurred that day had been a long time coming. After their second film together — the psychological thriller Marnie, in which she starred opposite Sean Connery — Hedren was nominated for the Photoplay Award as the most promising new actress of the year.
She asked Hitchcock’s permission to travel to New York to appear on The Tonight Show, where the award was to be presented. But Hitchcock could not bear the prospect of her departure, even for two days. He abruptly refused permission for her to go, telephoning the network on her behalf to reject the award and cancel her appearance.
For two years, Hedren had preserved an iron self-control in her dealings with the great director, refusing ever to rise to his sexual advances.
But that day, unable to contain herself any longer, all the pent-up emotion poured forth as she exploded, screaming at Hitchcock and allegedly calling him ‘a fat pig’ in front of the assembled crew on the set. Hitchcock froze. ‘She did what no one is permitted to do,’ he complained bitterly. ‘She referred to my weight.’
Furious, Hedren demanded to be released from her exclusive contract with Hitchcock.
From that moment, he brutally excised her from his life, threatening to ruin her career and declining even to address her personally, except through intermediaries. He never again uttered her name, referring to her only as ‘that girl’.
This astonishing saga is now to be the subject of a 90-minute BBC2 television drama, The Girl, starring Sienna Miller as Hedren and Toby Jones as Hitchcock, with Imelda Staunton as Hitchcock’s wife, Alma, and Penelope Wilton as his loyal assistant, Peggy Robertson.
Miss Hedren, now 82, is the artistic adviser on the film. Her ‘one reservation’, she says, ‘is that I worry they will not portray me as strong a character as I was — and still am. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock.
‘He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.’
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, the son of a Catholic greengrocer, was born in the East End suburb of Leytonstone in 1899. His father, William, was a strict disciplinarian who took to sending his son to the local police station with a note explaining that he had been ‘naughty’.
On arrival, a custody sergeant known to the family would lock the boy in a cell for five or ten minutes before releasing him. The clanging of the door, Hitchcock always insisted, used to cause him ‘dread’, and gave him a lifelong fear of arrest, jails and policemen. It also evidently appealed to his sense of drama.
His mother, Emma, was sharp-tongued and exacting. She compelled her son to stand at the foot of her bed and recite his daily activities — something he later referred to as his ‘evening confession’.
For years afterwards, he bitterly resented his mother’s tyranny, and close friends suspected that whenever he had one of his heroines murdered or violated on screen, he was mentally attacking his mother.
His marriage in 1926 to the film editor and screenwriter Alma Reville was to prove sexless. With the exception of one isolated occasion when they somehow succeeded in conceiving their daughter, Patricia — an experience in which he would admit to finding the ‘mechanics unpleasant’ — Hitchcock would remain celibate for the rest of his days.
By way of explaining this to friends, he would insist that he was ‘sexually impotent’.
His love life and more extreme sexual fantasies thereafter were played out on screen through his celluloid heroines, rather than in reality. And as the years passed, the line between that reality and his darker fantasies, arising out of his own desperate frustrations, often became invisible.
From adolescence onwards, Hitchcock’s principal obsession was with blonde women. Significantly, his wife, who had reddish hair, did not belong to that category.
His first screen blonde was the West End musical comedy star known only by her first name, June.
Her natural hair colour was light brown. But when he cast her as the threatened heroine in his silent version of a thriller called The Lodger in 1927, about a Jack-the-Ripper-type serial killer who enjoyed slicing up golden girls on foggy nights near London Bridge, Hitchcock insisted that his leading lady had to be blonde.
To her outrage, June found herself compelled to wear a blonde wig, the curls on which Hitchcock meticulously arranged personally. ‘By the end of the first week,’ she complained, ‘I looked like Harpo Marx.’
His second British blonde was the bisexual Joan Barry, mother of Henrietta Tiarks, Duchess of Bedford. As the young wife in Rich And Strange, Barry was filmed by Hitchcock in a water tank swimming with her husband, played by Henry Kendall.
Barry stands astride, daring him to swim between her legs. When he does so, she suddenly locks his head between her thighs until bubbles rise from his mouth. As he surfaces, he splutters: ‘You almost killed me that time.’
Barry responds: ‘Wouldn’t that have been a beautiful death?’
To Hitchcock’s infinite regret, the scene — perfectly capturing his lust for, and fear of, the alluring blonde — was killed by the censors.
The biggest star Hitchcock directed in the new talkie era was the reigning sex symbol of the day, Jessie Matthews. But Matthews, though teeming with sex appeal, was brunette and had no sexual message for Hitchcock.
She was also too powerful a box-office asset for Hitchcock to be able to impose his will on her, and she abruptly rejected his suggestion that she should adopt ‘a mincing operetta style’ in Waltzes From Vienna.
When he tried to insist, the head of the studio, Sir Michael Balcon, ordered him to desist, fearing that Matthews would walk off the picture and away from the studio. Hitchcock never forgave her snub to his authority, and was still hostile to her 40 years later.
Much more to his taste was the crystal-cool blonde Madeleine Carroll, star of The 39 Steps. But like his other blondes, Carroll fell victim to Hitch’s sexual fantasies. His fascination with bondage was satisfied on the first day of shooting by handcuffing Carroll to her co-star Robert Donat, whom she had never met before.
He then pretended to have lost the keys, leaving them shackled together in embarrassing discomfort and proximity for most of the day — a predicament they then also had to act out in the film. He lived in the land of kink. Perverse sex, kinky sex, that fascinated him... essentially he was a voyeur. - ARTHUR LAURENTS, SCREENWRITER
A streak of ruthless sadism began to characterise Hitchcock’s dealings with his leading ladies. His first Hollywood blonde, Joan Fontaine, playing the shy second Mrs de Winter in the 1940 film Rebecca, was deliberately isolated by him.
‘He would constantly tell me that no one thought I was any good except himself,’ she said. He then undermined her by saying that her co-star, Laurence Olivier, disliked her and that she was liable to be replaced.
The much earthier Swedish blonde, Ingrid Bergman, tried to arouse Hitchcock’s dormant sexuality, but left him utterly humiliated when he proved physically incapable of responding to her overtures. He was hopelessly infatuated with her, a situation that caused tensions in his marriage to Alma.
Bergman, a warm-hearted, highly-sexed woman who was genuinely fond of him, believed him to be starved of affection and tried to remedy this, but his repressed libido could not be aroused, even by her.
Hitchcock’s perfect prototype of the screen blonde was undoubtedly Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco.
He was not deceived by her sedate, ladylike and refined facade. He would dine out with glee on her convoluted love life during the filming of Dial M For Murder, in which her frenzied struggle against strangulation had distinct sexual overtones.
‘That Gryce!’ he would declare in his sibilant Cockney. ‘She f****d everyone! Why, she even f****d little Freddie (Frederick Knott), the writer!’
American Kim Novak was another blonde whom Hitchcock bent to his will.
‘Before filming started on Vertigo,’ records one of his biographers, ‘he invited her to his house and chatted about everything except the movie — art, food, travel, wine — all the things he thought she wouldn’t know much about. He succeeded in making her feel like a helpless child, ignorant and untutored, and that’s just what he wanted — to break down her resistance. By the end of the afternoon, he had her right where he wanted her, docile and obedient.’
Janet Leigh also became a blonde sex object for the director. In the notorious shower scene in Psycho, the blade of the knife was employed to convey the impression of violent rape and sexual invasion.
As one of his screenwriters, Arthur Laurents, remarked: ‘He lived in the land of kink. Perverse sex, kinky sex, that fascinated him . . . essentially he was a voyeur.’ And then, one day in 1961, while watching a TV commercial for a diet drink, Hitchcock glimpsed his greatest blonde obsession of all, Tippi Hedren.
Putting her under exclusive contract at $500 a week — Poverty Row pay by Hollywood standards — he chose her clothes, her make-up, her jewellery, her coiffure, advised on what she should eat, whom she should see, and how she should live.
‘She’s already reaching the lows and highs of terror,’ he announced in 1962, and it was almost an understatement.
As the distraught heroine of The Birds, she was assured by Hitchcock that only mechanical birds would be used, instead of which Hedren endured five days of prop men, protected by thick leather gloves, flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her, with their beaks clamped shut with elastic bands.
When one of the birds gouged her cheek, narrowly missing her eye, Hedren collapsed on the set, crying hysterically. A physician ordered a week’s rest, during which she was assailed by ‘nightmares filled with flapping wings’.
Small wonder, as she increasingly realised the full extent of Hitchcock’s domination of her, that in panic she finally rebelled and broke free from him.
He kept her on salary, holding her to her contract for two years, during which he refused all other requests for her services, including one from the acclaimed French director, Francois Truffaut, an offer of which Hitchcock never even informed her.
In 1967, after finally breaking free by accepting Charlie Chaplin’s invitation to appear in his film, A Countess From Hong Kong, Hedren grudgingly agreed to have tea with the Hitchcocks at Claridge’s.
The idea was a peacemaking bid by Alma, but it proved to be a strained and tense occasion on which Hitchcock could barely conceal his bitterness towards her. There are those who believe he never recovered from the blow to his pride that Hedren’s defection inflicted. He made only four further films after Marnie — Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot — none of them vintage Hitchcock.
By 1980, when he was belatedly knighted, he had utterly withdrawn into himself, was declining food, refusing to get out of bed, and staring coldly at the very few visitors he received. He died on April 29, 1980, three months short of his 81st birthday.
If Tippi Hedren, through his egomania, lost her chance of major stardom, at least in the end she won back her freedom and reasserted her independence from a tortured and tormented genius."
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Post by artemis on Mar 30, 2012 14:53:47 GMT -5
"Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonstruck, 61, hit with $5m lawsuit by 26-year-old who claims he choked her with a belt during rough sex
*Amanda Jencsik claims she needed medical attention after encounters with John Patrick Shanley *She alleges he laughed at her cries of pain and complained when her blood stained his sheets
An Oscar-winning screenwriter strangled a young actress with his belt during sadistic sex, she claims in a $5million lawsuit filed yesterday.
Amanda Jencsik, 26, says she feared for her life during an abusive four-month relationship with Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, who is 35 years her senior.
Miss Jencsik alleges the 61-year-old would slap her and hold his hands over her mouth and neck during their encounters at his Manhattan apartment.
The writer often asked her if she felt like he was raping her, the suit says.
She claims their rough sex sessions were so violent that she believed Mr Shanley was trying to kill her, and says she grew light-headed when he wrapped the belt around her neck.
Brooklyn-born Miss Jencsik says she suffered severe physical and psychological trauma at the hands of the older man - but did not report him to the police 'due to her mental state', the New York Post reports.
Sal Strazzullo, the lawyer representing Miss Jencsik, said Mr Shanley had a 'Svengali-like effect' on the aspiring actress, which kept her from severing ties.
Mr Shanley, who wrote the 1987 Cher film and also adapted the plane crash survival drama Alive in 1993, said he knew nothing of the lawsuit when it was filed yesterday.
Miss Jencsik's statement says the pair met via Facebook in October 2009, with Mr Shanley striking up the correspondence by asking her about her hair colour.
They did not meet in person until a dinner date in January 2010, she claims.
The 26-year-old alleges that, after a second date later that month, she followed Mr Shanley to his apartment and they had sex.
He invited her back the next day but was not home when she arrived, the suit says.
When he eventually showed up he was drunk, Miss Jencsik alleges, and once inside he 'forcibly turned [her] over onto her stomach' and sodomised her.
Though she told Mr Shanley he was hurting her he laughed, the suit says, and afterwards he complained that his sheets had been left stained with her blood and makeup.
The third and final time they had sex, she says, Mr Shanley sodomised her again - this time looping the belt around her throat.
After she split up with him in April 2010, Miss Jencsik claims, she was in pain but too scared to seek medical help. The lawsuit adds that it took her a whole year to approach a doctor, who diagnosed her with a bowel obstruction."
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Post by artemis on Apr 5, 2012 5:57:24 GMT -5
FILEY's abuse: "Is Miley Cyrus Cutting?
"You can clearly see several defined lines that could possibly be some kind of scarring.
There’s definitely something there, and I’m actually kind of concerned for Miley. If these aren’t just regular wear-and-tear scratches that girls get from, I don’t know.
So far there’s been no response from Miley’s camp about the alleged scars, nor has there been a whole lot of internet coverage to the magnitude that you’d expect over something like this. These photos, though, they kind of tell a disturbing story. I just hope it’s not a true one."
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Post by lucy on Apr 8, 2012 13:40:34 GMT -5
Probably ritualistic branding or cutting that is covered up by the handlers.
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Post by artemis on Apr 9, 2012 3:46:14 GMT -5
Talk about massive brainwashing:
"Cox forgets her Friends
FRIENDS star Courteney Cox is so absent-minded she can hardly recall many episodes of the show that made her a household name.
Courteney – Monica in the hit sitcom – admits forgetting guest stars who appeared on its ten series. The mum-of-one, who separated from hubby David Arquette in 2010, said: “My memory is the worst of anyone I know. Every time I see an old episode of Friends I’m surprised by what happens because I just don’t remember them.
“People come up to me and say, ‘I loved the episode so-and-so was in’.
“And I’m thinking, ‘Really? That person did Friends?’ "
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Post by beatlies on Apr 9, 2012 15:31:03 GMT -5
Talk about massive brainwashing: "Cox forgets her Friends
FRIENDS star Courteney Cox is so absent-minded she can hardly recall many episodes of the show that made her a household name.
Courteney – Monica in the hit sitcom – admits forgetting guest stars who appeared on its ten series. The mum-of-one, who separated from hubby David Arquette in 2010, said: “My memory is the worst of anyone I know. Every time I see an old episode of Friends I’m surprised by what happens because I just don’t remember them.
“People come up to me and say, ‘I loved the episode so-and-so was in’.
“And I’m thinking, ‘Really? That person did Friends?’ " Brainwashing or just the fact that it's a sloppily briefed imposCIAter actress who can't be bothered to read the history briefing book on the previous Fourteney Phox imposter agents? Reminds me of the framed December 8, 1970 Jann Wenner-Charlie Brill interview in which we find Fohn Fennon claiming repeatedly throughout "I can't remember.... I don't know. I don't remember...." and at at one point in response to his alleged memory failure, Wenner actually says "hmmm" (this is in the printed interview transcript).
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Post by lucy on Apr 10, 2012 13:08:28 GMT -5
I've even seen "Bill/Faul" on Larry King when the "love" show in Vegas began, he, Fingo and Yucko were being interviewed and Larry asked "Faul" what was his reaction when he heard Fohn Lennon was shot...and he hesitated, put his head back and looking up as ceiling as if the answer is there for him. It was a very peculiar response, I thought, for someone who supposedly was friends with this person since his teen years....
When thinking about the Featles, I recall watching Anthology and "Feorge" talking about the early years and thinking how generic the answers were. Very vague and so pathetic that the average person who knows any amount of Beatle history could have given a more colorful answer.
Which helps me to think a person is replaced when details of the early years are not given. They are not scripted to give detailed responses, and they would certainly not give anything interesting, like talking to an older person and being reminded of something and they give details as it comes back to them....providing you're talking to a "normal" person who has not been brainwashed.
I know for myself, I may not remember something that happened, but my sister or brother reminds me of something and it comes back to me. So, if someone was reminded of a co star or guest star, it should come back.
But then, we are not discussing an "normal" situation. This clearly tells me someone was replaced that does not have the information, or someone who has been mind controlled so much that they have had certain memories erased, in order to put other information into their minds to carry information to another handler.
Read Cathy O Brien's book TranceFormation of America, and you'll see what happens to a mind that is used to carry info from one political figure/handler to another. IT's disturbing and shocking!
This is just a reminder of bad training...or a "celebrity" being interviewed by someone who has been asking questions not normally given in a "snippet" interview.
Something else that comes to mind with the last thought, if you ever notice that lately, so called interviews with "celebrities" are very short, and perhaps little snippets are given over a number of episodes of the program to draw idiots to watch, as well as only giving out selective info by certain people. When I think of the length of an actual interview on any given "talk" show or information program, it's very little. More time is spent on hype and the build up to an interview, than time actually spent with the celeb.
It's quite pathetic when you think about it. Anymore, if I do spend any time to watch any of these types of programs, it's not about the stars, but the type of info that is given about these people. Depending on the type of program like a 'morning" show or "late" show, or an "entertainment" news type of thing, or one of those "talk" shows where they have 4 or 5 people, mainly women, talking about "stuff" each day. It's not like the "old days"...and even back then, there was more hype to lead up to it, rather than the actual time spent with that particular "star" and most of it was talking about whatever they are promoting, film, tv show, etc. It's not like these people just show up on a talk show just to "talk", they are promoting something......
I've babbled on long enough on the subject of "celebrity interviews"......
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Post by artemis on Apr 10, 2012 14:21:42 GMT -5
No, u havent babbled, ur post was very interesting. Keep it like that!
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Post by artemis on Apr 12, 2012 15:45:41 GMT -5
"Clark Gable Jr's girlfriend, 41, found dead in their Malibu mansion
The girlfriend of John Clark Gable Jr. - the Hollywood legend's son - has been found dead in their Malibu mansion.
Christiane Candice Lange, 41, was found dead on Wednesday in their Morning View Drive home, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said.
Authorities do not suspect foul play but are looking into a prescription drugs overdose as a possible cause.
Lange, a celebrity make-up artist, told Gable she did not feel well and went to sleep. When he checked on her at 10 a.m. he was unable to wake her.
'It could be a natural [cause of death],' Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter told City News.
'It was reported as possible prescriptions. She takes a couple of meds. It may have been a heart attack. There is no indication of foul play or obvious trauma.'
Winter, who had just returned from the scene, said the house 'was nothing fancy, but up on a hill with a nice view'.
He told the L.A. Daily News: 'There were neat pictures of his dad.'
Deputy Mark Pope of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau told the Malibu Patch that an investigation was underway.
An autopsy is pending and should be completed within days.
But the cause of death could be deferred pending toxicology tests, which take six to eight weeks, the L.A. Times reported.
Lange had worked as a celebrity make-up artist. On her personal website, she writes that she trained with Alexis Vogel, the makeup artist credited with giving actress Pamela Anderson her signature look.
On her Twitter page, she has recently uploaded pictures of her and Gable Jr., the son of movie icon Clark Gable, taking part in off-road car races.
John Clark Gable Jr. was born four months after the death of his father from a heart attack in 1960, when he was 59.
The movie star, famous for his roles in Gone With the Wind and The Misfits, among others, had one other child, a daughter Judy.
Gable Jr.'s mother was actress Kay Williams - Gable's fifth wife.
The professional off-road truck driver has been married twice: once to hairdresser Tracy Yarro, with whom he has a son, 24, and a daughter, 26.
In early 2002, he filed for divorce from his second wife, Alexandria Remlin Gable, on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
His son, Clark Gable III, who is also an actor, was arrested last year on charges of shining a laser light at a LAPD helicopter over Hollywood."
Death: Christiane Lange, the girlfriend of Clark Gable's son John and a make-up artist, has been found dead at the couple's Malibu homeQuestions: Authorities are looking into prescription drugs as a possible cause of the deathBereaved: Lange was living with boyfriend John Clark Gable, the late Hollywood actor's only son. He found her unresponsive in their home on WednesdayScene: Gable Jr and his girlfriend lived on Morning View Drive in MalibuWhat about that Star of David there? It is absolutely weird!
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Post by artemis on Apr 13, 2012 15:37:25 GMT -5
"Denise Richards leaving acting class in L.A. (4/12)
Pacific Coast News says that Denise Richards' "appeared to have some bruises around her neck" as she left an acting class yesterday in Hollywood. Acting class? Funny thing to call an underground sex club where you get off by letting strange men choke you."
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Post by artemis on Apr 14, 2012 4:39:25 GMT -5
"Robin Gibb, 62, in a coma as doctors fear he only has days to live
Robin Gibb is lying in a coma as doctors fear he only has days to live, it has been reported.
The Bee Gees star's family were keeping a bedside vigil, praying for the 62-year-old's survival.
He appeared to have made a recovery from liver and colon cancer this year, but doctors believe a second tumor may be present, reported The Sun.
He has also developed pneumonia.
His wife Dwina, brother Barry, 65, daughter Melissa, 37, and sons Spencer, 39, and Robin-John, 29, were at his bedside at a private hospital in Chelsea, West London.
A family friend told the newspaper: 'Our prayers are with Robin. he has kept so positive and always believed he could beat this.
Sadly, it looks like he has developed pneumonia, which is very bad in his situation.
'If there is anyone you would put money on pulling through such a dire situation, it would be Robin because he is a fighter. But this is a battle he will struggle to win.'
Robin revealed his battle with cancer in October 2010.
He had emergency surgery to treat a blocked bowel, before a further operation to treat a twisted bowel. Colon cancer was then discovered and it spread to his liver.
His twin brother Maurice died of complications resulting from a twisted intestine in 2003, aged 53.
Robin famously appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh Show looking pale and gaunt and has cancelled a handful of appearance over the past two years because of his health.
Barry Gibb earlier this week jetted into the UK from Tennessee in the U.S. to join other members of the family.
His brother's arrival this week comes after his nephew - Robin's son - RJ described the overwhelming moment the family learned that the Bee Gees star was in remission from cancer.
The 29-year-old, full name Robin-John, revealed that he was sitting next to his famous father in his hospital bed when the doctor told them the happy news.
'I leant over the bed and I kissed him on the forehead and just said, "I love you",' RJ told the Mirror.
'Then we sat together for ages, just taking it all in and being together without saying anything. 'It was the best news we could have hoped for. It was the most beautiful feeling and instantly life was so much better.'
However, this isn't the first time that Robin's family and fans have been left worried as the singer also re-entered hospital back in February.
Robin was admitted into a London clinic as part of his treatment and rehabilitation.
At the time a family source told The Sun: 'We feared the worst. But doctors have said they are astounded at his response to treatment.'
But it was only a matter of week's before this that Robin insisted he had made a 'spectacular' recovery.
Speaking to BBC Radio 2 host Steve Wright, he revealed that he felt better than he had done for a decade.
'The prognosis is that it's almost gone and I feel fantastic and really from now on it's just what they could describe as a "mopping-up" operation,' he said. 'I am very active and my sense of well-being is good.'
Gibb also suggested that reports about his health had been conjecture, adding: 'I mean the fact is, I've never spoken to anybody about my condition or the condition that I was in and a lot of them go over the top to the point where they're telling me things that I didn't even know about myself.'
And despite being admitted to hospital last week for further intestinal surgery, the singer had been given the all clear.
A statement released on the singer's behalf said: 'On Sunday 25 March, Robin Gibb underwent further intestinal surgery.
'He is currently recovering in hospital and therefore, for the time being, all existing commitments prior to the Titanic Requiem concert, have had to be cancelled.'
Robin and RJ had composed the music for the Royal Philharmonic performance at Westminster Central Hall next week.
In February he had talked about feeling 'fantastic' following his treatment and said he had begun to put on weight after looking increasingly gaunt.
At first his illness was thought to have been due to the hereditary intestinal condition which led to the death of his twin brother.
Speaking about his cancer, last month he said: 'The prognosis is that it's almost gone and I feel fantastic and really from now on it's just what they could describe as a "mopping-up" operation.'
In an interview earlier this month, Gibb pondered whether his illness is 'karma' for the fame and fortune.he has enjoyed.
‘I sometimes wonder if all the tragedies my family has suffered, like Andy and Maurice dying so young and everything that’s happened to me recently, is a kind of karmic price we are paying for all the fame and fortune we’ve had.
‘But we’ve worked hard for everything we’ve achieved.’ "
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Post by artemis on Apr 14, 2012 17:29:43 GMT -5
"Italian footballer dies after collapsing on the pitch, all Serie A matches postponed
Four weeks after Bolton's Fabrice Muamba improbably survived a cardiac arrest on the pitch during an FA Cup match, a similar scenario has played out in Italy -- but this time without the happy ending. Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini collapsed on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest in the 31st minute of a Serie B match against Pescara (as with the Muamba incident, we will not be showing video of this).
Medical workers attempted to resuscitate the 25-year-old on the pitch, but according to the AP, a cardiologist at the hospital to which Morosini was taken reported that he was dead upon arrival and never regained consciousness. The match was abandoned as players left the pitch in tears.
A defibrillator was used on Morosini on the pitch, but the ambulance was held up by a police car blocking its path. From the AP:
''He looked at me in the eyes when he was taken into the ambulance,'' Pescara's general manager, Danilo Iannascoli, told Sky Italia. ''We are living through a drama.''
Italian media reports said a car belonging to traffic police blocked the ambulance's way into the stadium and a window had to be broken so the car could be moved.
''I don't know if the ambulance was late, but I know that the entrance onto the pitch was blocked by a vehicle,'' Iannascoli said. ''Morosini collapsed, he tried to get back up but then collapsed again.''
Pescara president Daniele Sebastiani said that Morosini suffered "three cardiac arrests in quick succession." Morosini repeatedly tried to get back up after his initial fall, while his teammates shouted at the referee -- who had his back to Morosini -- to have play stopped.
Morosini, a former Italian youth national team player, was on loan at Livorno from Serie A side Udinese. The Serie A club informed Italian football's governing body (the FGIC) that they would not be able to play their scheduled match against Inter on Saturday evening after such a devastating shock and all Italian matches across all divisions scheduled for this weekend were suspended a short time later."
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Post by lucy on Apr 16, 2012 13:04:32 GMT -5
I don't know what program it was shown on, but doing some channel surfing I saw something about Tupak Shakur performing as a holograph. The one thing that came to mind was Star Wars and OB 1..."you're my only hope"....
Now another thing that comes across my mind are these thoughts....
Is the lack of real talent among today's music offerings that bad that we have to use holographs of dead rock/rap stars to perform.....or is this conditioning people to accept any "image" as being entertained by?
If that's the case, forget these so called "talent" shows and blast the folks with holographs of Elvis, Michael Jackson, John Lennon and any other departed icon.....you don't have to feed them, and the images don't need drugs...
Sad commentary in the days we are living....
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Post by artemis on Apr 16, 2012 15:19:33 GMT -5
I don't know what program it was shown on, but doing some channel surfing I saw something about Tupak Shakur performing as a holograph. The one thing that came to mind was Star Wars and OB 1..."you're my only hope".... Now another thing that comes across my mind are these thoughts.... Is the lack of real talent among today's music offerings that bad that we have to use holographs of dead rock/rap stars to perform.....or is this conditioning people to accept any "image" as being entertained by? If that's the case, forget these so called "talent" shows and blast the folks with holographs of Elvis, Michael Jackson, John Lennon and any other departed icon.....you don't have to feed them, and the images don't need drugs... Sad commentary in the days we are living.... U mean this: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2130357/Tupac-Shakur-resurrected-Coachella-2012-late-rapper-joins-Snoop-Dogg-Dr-Dre-stage.html
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