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Post by artemis on Mar 10, 2013 6:19:40 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Mar 12, 2013 8:02:28 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Mar 13, 2013 15:14:33 GMT -5
"Ed Asner: Hospitalized After Bizarre Performance
He’s one of classic Hollywood’s most beloved figures, and Ed Asner is currently in the hospital after suffering a strange episode during a stage performance.
The “Mary Tyler Moore†star was giving a one-man show in Gary, Indiana when he had to cut things short when he became confused and had difficulty with his lines.
Asner portrayed Franklin Delano Roosevelt in “FDR†at the Marquette Pavilion, though he reported to his call time 45 minutes late.
As of today, Ed is “resting comfortably,†and his doctors have determined that he was experiencing a bout of exhaustion."
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Post by lucy on Mar 13, 2013 18:37:06 GMT -5
What is this Mary Tyler Moore connection? First she looks like a bloated replacement, then Valerie Harper's cancer and now Ed....
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Post by artemis on Mar 14, 2013 4:52:45 GMT -5
There is smth in the store for F/VALERIE, thats for sure, that cancer, if it exists, isnt for nothing....
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Post by artemis on Mar 14, 2013 7:06:13 GMT -5
'I went off the rails': Carrie Fisher opens up about her manic bi-polar episode which lead to bizarre cruise ship performance
She was hospitalised for treatment for her bipolar disorder after a manic episode on a cruise ship last month.
And as she continues to recover and adjust to new medication to help her mental illness, Carrie Fisher has opened up to People magazine about the incident.
Back in February, shock video footage emerged of Carrie onstage, pacing around, singing snippets of a song and stopping along the way to clean up after her dog who had urinated and soiled the stage.
The 56-year-old Star Wars actress says that she does not recall what happened nor what she did that day aboard the Holland America Eurodam.
'I went completely off the rails,' she says. 'I don't really remember what I did. I haven't watched the videos that people took.'
Carrie, who has been battling bi-polar disease for many years, in addition to a well-documented struggle with drugs and alcohol, says she was in a 'severe manic state' at the time.
'I was in a very severe manic state, which bordered on psychosis. Certainly delusional. I wasn't clear what was going on. I was just trying to survive,' she explains.
'There are different versions of a manic state, and normally they're not as extreme as this became. I've only had this happen one other time, 15 years ago, so I didn't have a plan of action.'
Carrie describes having a conversation with a television all those years ago as she sat in a psychiatric ward in hospital.
'I was being talked to by the television, hallucinating. I wasn't inside the TV, this time, thank god,' she says.
The actress, who has previously battle alcoholism, insists that she had not been drinking ahead of her cruise ship performance back in February.
In fact, Carrie says she was even attending on site AA meetings at the time of the incident.
'I wasn't drunk. Anyone who knows me knows that's no possible. On the ship, I had gone to AA meetings a couple of times, and those guys were very sweet and grounding for me. They actually came onstage and saved me,' she says.
Carrie says that warning signs came early in the trip when she started scribbling on everything in sight.
'I wasn't sleeping. I was writing on everything. I was writing in books; I would have written on walls. I literally would bend over and be writing on the ground and (my assistant) would try to talk to me, and I would be unable to respond,' she recalls.
She says that at the time of her manic episode she was on an anti psychotic medication called Seroquel, but it was clearly malfunctioning.
That, in combination with her sleep cycles being 'off', caused the 'perfect storm of events', leading to the bizarre onstage appearance.
The following day after the onstage incident, Carrie deboarded the ship in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
She immediately checked herself into the UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital for treatment.
The actress was there for five days before moving to a residential facility where she is currently residing.
Now she says she is focused on getting used to her new medication.
The only lesson for me, or for anybody, is that you have to get help. It's not a neat illness. It doesn't go away,' she says.
The California native says she first realised she was bi-polar at around the age of '14 or 15 years old.'
Her father, famous actor Eddie Fischer, also suffered from the mental illness.
Carrie recalls the moment her father came home from a trip to Hong Kong with '180 silk suits' and also claims that the pair did drugs together.
'We were like badly behaved children,' she recalls.
Several years later Carrie went to rehab and got sober, but while her sober buddies all 'calmed down', she says 'she went in another direction'.
'I went to the doctor and said: "I felt normal on acid" and he said that is consistent with what we know as a manic state.'
Carrie has previously discussed her problems with drugs, and struggle with bipolar, most notably on ABC's 20/20 and The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive with Stephen Fry for the BBC.
British icon Fry described his good friend Fisher as 'not mad enough to be committed, but not sane enough to lead much of a normal life.'
She has also opened up on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments, saying she receives ECT every six weeks to 'blow apart the cement' in her brain, and also survived an overdose.
Carrie also told chat show queen Oprah Winfrey: 'It makes me feel better, it is not like it was.
'They put you to sleep and give you a medication so there is no convulsions and put these films on you and it is over very quickly.'
Carrie also spoke to Australian newswire AAP, saying: 'Slowly, I realised I was doing a bit more drugs than other people and losing my choice in the matter.
'We did cocaine on the set of Empire, in the ice planet [the second film of the original trilogy]. I didn't even like coke that much, it was just a case of getting on whatever train I needed to take to get high.'
Despite her struggles, Carrie has continued to work in the entertainment industry, notably voicing Angela in Family Guy, and for penning bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge. She also featured in episodes of Weeds, 30 Rock and Entourage."
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Post by artemis on Mar 15, 2013 8:12:18 GMT -5
"Lil Wayne 'hospitalised again after suffering multiple seizures whilst shooting music video'
Lil Wayne has once again been hospitalised after suffering from seizures.
The 30-year-old rapper was rushed to Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, reports TMZ.
The emergency dash came after the singer fell victim to multiple seizures whilst shooting his music video.
Wayne was released the following day on Wednesday and is reportedly now recovering well, according to sources.
This is not the first time the singer has suffered from seizures.
Back in October, Wayne was onboard a flight from Texas to LAX when he started to convulse.
The flight was immediately diverted to Louisiana where he was admitted to hospital.
TMZ reported at the time that he was released after receiving treatment and recovered at his mother's house.
The rapper later tweeted to his fans, assuring them that he was doing well.
'Thanx for all the prayers! I am good,' he wrote on the social networking site.
Just hours prior to the incident, the star's private jet was also forced to make an emergency landing in Texas when he suffered from the same health scare.
After being taken to a local Texan hospital, a spokesman for the rapper insisted he was only treated for a severe migraine and dehydration."
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Post by beatlies on Mar 15, 2013 16:38:29 GMT -5
"Ed Asner: Hospitalized After Bizarre Performance He’s one of classic Hollywood’s most beloved figures, and Ed Asner is currently in the hospital after suffering a strange episode during a stage performance. The “Mary Tyler Moore†star was giving a one-man show in Gary, Indiana when he had to cut things short when he became confused and had difficulty with his lines. Asner portrayed Franklin Delano Roosevelt in “FDR†at the Marquette Pavilion, though he reported to his call time 45 minutes late. As of today, Ed is “resting comfortably,†and his doctors have determined that he was experiencing a bout of exhaustion." Why do they use that demeaning and insensitive headline "BIZARRE performance"? The man is in his eighties, and he became ill and confused on stage; troubling but doesn't really justify the word "bizarre".... unless maybe there was some strange stream of gibberish language that came out, which this article fails to describe, and which would correspond to the "gibberish" bizarrenes of Judge Judy and perhaps Tracy Morgan at public events, and which goes with the youtube-shown sudden gibberish attacks on-air of some American TV news reporters.
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Post by lucy on Mar 15, 2013 18:25:06 GMT -5
Also would be of interest as to who wrote the article..the source of "bizarre" and if they had sound resources. It used to be that you had to have some real source and not a "nameless" source....
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Post by artemis on Mar 16, 2013 6:54:01 GMT -5
Well not hard to google that, lucy. Some say "bizzarre", some not....
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Post by artemis on Mar 16, 2013 7:06:54 GMT -5
"Lil Wayne Reportedly Hospitalized and in Critical Condition
During a music video shoot with Nicki Minaj on Tuesday (March 12), Lil Wayne suffered multiple seizures and was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital.
According to reports, the "Lollipop" singer was released Wednesday morning (March 13) and showed signs of perfectly good health, though his rep has yet to comment to the press.
Meanwhile, according to reports from TMZ, Wayne was hospitalized again on Friday (March 15) and is in critical condition. The publication continues to claim that the 30-year-old rapper's mother is en route to LA, implying his condition is more severe.
On the other hand, Mack Maine, the president of Wayne's record company Young Money tweeted, "Wayne is alive and well! We watching the Syracuse game...thanks for the prayers and concern..he will update you all soon."
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Post by artemis on Mar 17, 2013 15:57:37 GMT -5
"Rap artist Tone Loc collapses on stage in Iowa: reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-winning rapper Tone Loc reportedly collapsed on stage late Saturday night during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
Amateur video posted Sunday on the Des Moines Register newspaper website showed several emergency personnel kneeling over a prone body on a stage at the Bridge Bash, a St. Patrick's Day concert featuring Loc and other hip hop artists.
The condition of Loc, who was born Anthony Terrell Smith, was not known on Sunday. A representative did not immediately return a call for comment.
The newspaper said on Sunday that several news staffers attending the event reported that Loc completed a song and then fell onto the stage. The audience was ushered out of the stage area about five minutes later, according to the report.
The singer, whose hits include "Funky Cold Medina" and "Wild Thing," collapsed on stage in Florida in 2009 and in Atlanta in 2011, according to NBC News.
Loc burst onto the music scene in the late 1980s. He received two Grammys in 1990 for Best New Artist and Best Rap Solo Performance. He has also starred in more than a dozen movies, including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Heat."
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Post by lucy on Mar 18, 2013 19:24:25 GMT -5
What's happening with the RAP singers??? Strange...
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Post by artemis on Mar 27, 2013 5:11:51 GMT -5
"French Version of “Survivor” Cancelled After Horrific Death Shocks The World
You know when people always say that the Hunger Games is unrealistic, and our world would never become like that? A fascination with the morbid, and people deriving pleasure from watching other people suffer? Well, think again. Shows like Survivor and Amazing Race [to a lesser extent] always trivialized what it was putting its contestants through. The line was always drawn because all those people were ‘volunteers’, fighting for a chance to win fame and fortune if they put themselves through enough humiliating and sometimes life-threatening courses. Unfortunately, some of those people pay a higher price than they bargained for. It was reported today that on the French version of ‘The Survivor’, Koh-Lanta, a contestant died during the first day of filming.
The details are not clear, but all we know is that the victim, Gerard Babin, 25, suffered a cardiac arrest during a game of tug-of-war. The show claims that everyone underwent medical testing, but we don’t know the details behind what caused it. Apparently, Babin was complaining of cramps on the set and while he was being transported to a hospital via helicopter, he suffered ‘a series of cardiac arrests’.
A spokesperson for channel TF1 told THR [via Fox News], “It is not really a question” about whether to cancel the season. Everyone is being flown back to France.”
At least they know where to draw the line. And to be fair, we don’t know what caused his cardiac arrests. But how long will this be on the news today? A minute? An hour? And none of the other countries’ versions of ‘Survivor’ are cancelling their versions of the show, are they? You may think I’m being unnecessarily harsh. But this is how people become immune and desensitized to the innate violence of these shows. We watch it for fiction all the time, so who’s to say that watching it in real life won’t be the next step?
It was the right decision to make on TF1’s part, but really, they should reevaluate their medical screening conditions. Obviously, it looks like Babin had a pre-existing medical condition, but it’s the show’s job to prevent life-threatening injuries. Although we’ll know more about what caused his cardiac arrest in the next few days, reality shows that focus on strenuous physical activities need to understand that they are broadcasting the show to millions of people and they need to be wary about the message they’re sending about what is an acceptable sacrifice to win the show."
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Post by hotman637 on Mar 27, 2013 12:01:14 GMT -5
I am 99% positive I read that Louie Anderson had died some time ago and yet here he is on"Splash"the new diving TV show. It is hosted by Freg Fouganis and also has Kareem Jabbar(another guy who was"dieing"of brain cancer). Crazy.
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