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Post by artemis on Jul 14, 2012 15:48:21 GMT -5
"Miley Cyrus - The Return of the Mysterious Scratch Marks t's been a few months since Miley Cyrus denied having a self-mutilation problem -- but today in L.A., the singer surfaced with several ominous-looking scrapes on her left forearm. Back in April, Miley sported similar marks on her arm, causing a firestorm of speculation that the singer had been harming herself. Miley responded to the rumors, insisting she does NOT self-mutilate ... but she never explained what caused the mystery marks. Now, they've suddenly returned. We reached out to Miley's camp for comment -- so far, no word back."
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Post by artemis on Jul 14, 2012 15:52:59 GMT -5
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Post by sherlok on Jul 14, 2012 17:51:49 GMT -5
Bogey and Blake in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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Post by lucy on Jul 17, 2012 22:12:34 GMT -5
Blake was also part of the Little Rascals series...about the time they had the kid named Froggie....The post Alfalfa era...
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Post by artemis on Jul 20, 2012 5:02:01 GMT -5
"Tom Davis, Al Franken's 'SNL' partner, dies in NY
HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Davis, a writer who with Al Franken helped develop some of the most popular skits in the early years of "Saturday Night Live," was remembered by his former partner as "great friend, a good man, and so funny." He was 59.
Davis' wife, Mimi Raleigh, said he died Thursday of throat and neck cancer at his home in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City. He was diagnosed in 2009.
Davis is best known as the thinner, taller partner in Franken and Davis, the off-kilter comedy duo who performed in the early years of the show. They also were among the first writers hired for the new show in 1975 and helped create memorable work such as the "Coneheads" skit with Dan Aykroyd and what evolved into the "Nick the Lounge Singer" skit starring Bill Murray performing lounge-lizard versions of songs including the "Star Wars" theme.
Raleigh said Davis and Franken "were two of the first writers hired — with one salary."
As performers, Davis was the quiet guy, overshadowed by the flashier Franken, who is now a Democratic senator from Minnesota. Davis, in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press, said, "If we were Sonny and Cher, he would be Cher."
Franken said he spoke with Davis's mother Thursday, and she recalled fondly all the laughter that would come from the basement when the two first got started in comedy.
"I visited Tom two weeks ago, and though he was deathly ill, we did a lot of laughing," Franken said. "He was a great friend, a good man, and so funny."
Dudley Riggs, founder of a comedy theater and improv in Minneapolis where Franken and Davis got their start in the 1970s before heading to "SNL," said Davis would always find "an oblique way" to tell a joke and had "a knack to be able to surprise."
Screenwriter Pat Proft called Davis and Franken a "perfect comedy team."
"Last I saw Tom he was happy," Proft said in an email. "He wrote his book. We talked. Had a wonderful time. I'm sorry for his wife. His family. For Al. For all of us who know him. A very sad day."
Davis met Franken at a suburban prep school in Minnesota, where their first gig was making announcements at morning chapel. They hit it big with "SNL" and stayed there until 1980, then returned a few years later. Davis left the show in 1994, feeling frozen out. Still, he told the AP he would always treasure his time on the show.
"It's my family. It's my extended, dysfunctional family, and I love them," Davis said.
"SNL" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels said "no one saw things the way that Tom did."
"He was funny, he was original and he was always there to help no matter the hour," he said. "And I always trusted his laugh. I can still kinda hear it."
In the 2009 interview with AP, Davis recalled spending his childhood watching "The Mickey Mouse Club" on television while wearing Mouseketeer Ears. He was the older of two brothers. Their father worked for 3M and their mother was the 1950 Queen of the Lakes of the Minneapolis Aquatennial, an annual summer festival.
In his memoir, "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL From Someone Who Was There," Davis also detailed friendships with counterculture legends Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, his own drug use and his travel as a young hippie to India in the 1970s.
Davis kept up his quirky sense of humor to the end, writing an essay on his experiences with cancer and the coming end of his life.
"I wake up in the morning, delighted to be waking up, read, write, feed the birds, watch sports on TV, accepting the fact that in the foreseeable future I will be a dead person," Davis wrote. "I want to remind you that dead people are people too."
Veteran "SNL" writer Jim Downey said Davis had a sense of humor different from everyone else, seeming to come out of nowhere.
"He was a loyal friend, a generous and supportive collaborator, and utterly unthreatened by the success or talent of those around him," Downey said. "His old pals have known for some time that this day was coming, but still it's hard to accept that he's now no longer out there, somewhere, thinking those crazy thoughts that no one else would think."
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Post by artemis on Jul 21, 2012 18:23:36 GMT -5
As expected....
"Usher's Stepson Kyle Dead After Jetski Accident
Usher‘s 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover has passed away from injuries sustained after a jetski accident earlier this month, TMZ reports.
Kyle‘s mother Tameka Foster Raymond struggled with the decision to take him off life support after he was found to be brain dead shortly after the accident occurred.
Kyle was reportedly hurt while riding in an inner tube connected to a pontoon. A family friend lost control of a jetski and collided with Kyle. The accident is currently under investigation."
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Post by artemis on Jul 21, 2012 18:24:07 GMT -5
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Post by lucy on Jul 21, 2012 21:48:38 GMT -5
FOOD poisoning.....my foot....she was a trainwreck for how long...short circuiting and the handlers not able to get the "wiring" back to "normal"....
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Post by sherlok on Jul 22, 2012 0:12:16 GMT -5
Celebrities suck
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Post by artemis on Jul 22, 2012 14:05:09 GMT -5
Id rather rephrase it and say "Celebrity sucks"....
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Post by artemis on Jul 22, 2012 14:06:01 GMT -5
"Katherine Jackson Reported Missing by Family Member
11:40 AM PT -- A source tells the AP that Katherine is is with her daughter Rebbie and has been prescribed rest by a physician.
9:30 AM PT -- Katherine's lawyer released a statement, saying in part, "Concerned family members, particularly Michael's children, have since made ongoing pleas to those believed to have knowledge of her location for information regarding her whereabouts. The only reports provided have been both conflicting and confusing -- especially those pertaining to the status of Katherine Jackson's health. When Michael's children last saw their grandmother on July 15, 2012, she was in great health physically as well as mentally."
She continued, "Prince, Paris, and Blanket are the light of Katherine Jackson's life, as she is to those children. Out of concern for Mrs. Jackson's well-being and in an effort to ensure her being safely reunited with her grandchildren as soon as possible, a report was filed on Saturday with the Sheriff's Department who will be investigating this matter."
4:44 AM PT -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued a release that says, "Katherine Jackson is reportedly with family members. Late Saturday night, a different family member reported that he was unable to speak with her and is concerned for her well being. Deputies are continuing to make efforts to reach her and ask that she contact the Malibu / Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department."
0314_divider_graphic Katherine Jackson has been reported missing by her nephew late Saturday night ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
According to our sources, a nephew of Katherine's filed a missing person's report with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department after her grandchildren had been unable to reach her for over a week.
Jermaine Jackson tweeted earlier this week that Katherine was in Arizona resting up on doctor's orders. But early this morning, Paris Jackson tweeted, "yes, my grandmother is missing. i haven't spoken with her in a week i want her home now."
She followed that up with a plea for people to call the authorities if they see her, then added, "the same doctor that testified on behalf of dr murray saying my father was a drug addict (a lie) is caring for my grandmother... just saying."
Katherine Jackson's lawyer told CNN she has never gone more than 24 hours without speaking to her grandchildren.
As TMZ previously reported, the Jackson family has been feuding of late ... with Randy, Jermaine, Tito, Rebbie and Janet Jackson seeking to have the executors of the Michael Jackson Estate resign from their positions.
A letter that leaked on the internet, written by the aforementioned Jacksons, claimed that John Branca and John McClain had "taken advantage of the family ... and have stressed out Katherine Jackson so much, that she recently suffered a "mini-stroke.' "
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Post by artemis on Jul 23, 2012 6:25:52 GMT -5
A bruised leg LiLo photographed last night as she was arriving at the infamous CHATEAU MARMONT...
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Post by lucy on Jul 23, 2012 11:54:39 GMT -5
While celebrities are like the rest of us, in that they can bump into things and get bruised, or cut themselves on objects accidentally, when you see constant bruises or other strange scratches, marks, and in strange places that would not be typical of "bumps"...you know someone is beating them, most likely a "handler"...in the cases of "LiLo", Miley, Fangelina, Brittney and other such notorious icons.... And if it's the case of a double that has been abused and mind controlled as well, when they are in appearance and captured on film, you will see the marks on them as well. But when you see famous folks and one time they seem to be taller and thinner, and the next emaciated, and the next time looking more "filled out" and it's not that far between public appearances, it's obvious that doubles are being used. People's heads don't change shape, you can't make your legs longer and then shorter, or other body shapes. As well as how one appears to have a certain nose, or chin and the next day they are seen and they look different, how many times have we talked about countless people day to day looking different??? It's like a huge game board and these celebs are the tokens moved around by the "handlers"...a very strange game of celebrity, fame, infamy....notoriety, whatever you want to call the parade of characters that appear and then disappear for a while, all the time characters are shown and they go into "hiding" for a time....it's as if the handlers use them for a bit and put them in the shops for repairs and touch ups, and use another group of people to parade around. Where do they go when they are NOT in public eye? Re programming, or being replaced....or other such experimentation. Celebrity is not just movies, tv and red carpets, it's about hidden places of programming, torment and medical experiments. It's a strange world, who really wants that?
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Post by artemis on Jul 23, 2012 13:58:27 GMT -5
She may be found, but still she remains lost, if u know what I mean....
"Katherine Jackson: Found in Arizona
"Over the weekend her nephew Trent reported her missing, but now Katherine Jackson has been contacted by the Los Angeles Police Department.
It turns out that the missing persons report was a big misunderstanding, as the Jackson family matriarch has been on a planned vacation in Arizona with her daughter Rebbie the whole time.
Jermaine Jackson issued a statement to the press regarding his mother, noting that the ordeal has had a detrimental effect on the late Michael Jackson’s kids, who are under Katherine’s guardianship.
"It dismays me that such an alarmist 'missing person' report has caused unnecessary anxiety among Michael's children who will understandably react to what they misunderstand, hear or are told.”
Paris Jackson previously tweeted, "Yes, my grandmother is missing. i haven't spoken with her in a week i want her home now."
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Post by artemis on Jul 24, 2012 5:36:22 GMT -5
"Sally Ride, The First Female American Astronaut In Space, Has Died Of Cancer
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, had died. According to her website, the 61-year-old passed away peacefully today after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. A physicist, former NASA astronaut, science writer, and most recently, businesswoman, Ride is most famous for her voyage on the Challenger shuttle, which launched on June 18, 1982. A statement from Sally Ride Science, the company she founded, is after the jump.
Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, joy, and love. Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless. Sally was a physicist, the first American woman to fly in space, a science writer, and the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science. She had the rare ability to understand the essence of things and to inspire those around her to join her pursuits.
Sally’s historic flight into space captured the nation’s imagination and made her a household name. She became a symbol of the ability of women to break barriers and a hero to generations of adventurous young girls. After retiring from NASA, Sally used her high profile to champion a cause she believed in passionately—inspiring young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, to become scientifically literate, and to consider pursuing careers in science and engineering."
Wonder if the cancer was "natural" or provoked....
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