Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Showbiz talents who are also Democrats routinely raise money and campaign for political candidates -- but rarely run for public office themselves. So I've been watching with special interest Minnesota native son Al Franken's challenge for the U.S. Senate seat. FNow, for the first time, he's moved into his first solid lead over incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, according to a [...]
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | yesterday
Karthik Rajaram and five family members were found dead from gunshot wounds in their Porter Ranch home in the San Fernando Valley Monday morning in an apparent murder suicide. The bodies were found by police officers who went to the home after Rajaram’s wife failed to show up at a neighbor’s house to go to work. Rajaram, [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
By David Lambert - Bon voyage! The crew of the Pacific Princess sets sail once more on Paramount's January 27th DVD release of The Love Boat - Season 2, Volume 1. This release will include the episode... (more)
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
A 61 year old Boston computer consultant named Christian Mogensen shot and killed his wife Sharon Glassman, 60, and then turned the gun on himself last night, September 28, 2008. Prior to carrying out his premeditated plan, Mogensen posted a wedding photo of the couple on his website and added their date of birth, marriage [...]
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Thiago da Silva Thiago da Silva, a Brazilian soccer player, was brutally tortured and murdered by assassins hired by his ex-girlfriend Alyne Padula. Da Silva, 25, was practicing on a field last Thursday when three men overwhelmed him. He was handcuffed, beaten and tortured. When he tried to flee he was hit by three bullets. According to reports, [...]
donnaville (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Slumming around Youtube, searching for Waylon Flowers… I don’t know why, I found this: I love the Riunite on ice commercial with the mime couple. Was that Shields and Yarnell or Mummenschanz? I don’t know. And the Rock Hudson and Madame clip!!??! Classic! I also love seeing John Ritter fighting a bear, [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Amid the growing silliness of the political campaign – including all that inane wackiness about lipstick on pigs and sex education for kindergartners – there appears to be growing consensus on at least one major issue. Republicans and Democrats appear to be agreeing that somewhere, sometime in the not-too-distant future, more lands beneath the sea will be opened to offshore oil drilling.
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Mark Guardado, the president of Hells Angels of San Francisco, was shot and killed outside a bar Tuesday night after a brawl. Mark “Papa” Guardado, 45, was found with gunshot wounds around 10:30p.m. about a mile from the group’s clubhouse. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he died a short time later. According to [...]
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
This morning bloggers had the opportunity to hear about the grassroots upswell which helped shape the Republican platform. California Congressman Kevin McCarthy headed up an effort which invited and received over 11,000 email and numerous YouTube submissions, including a few original songs. Ooookaaay...sounds like something I might do. (As former Congressman Sonny Bono said on at least one occasion,...
She Knows Best - Lifestyle Tips for Guys (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
I first whined (pouted) about Robert Downey JR’s mustache last month. I really don’t like it. It reminded me of his Chaplin character. Some of my friends commented that it actually reminded them of Sonny Bono. :( Looking at the new pictures, I’m this close to calling a shrink to cure my early [...]
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) – I want to raise a question: if Hollywood is a nest of liberals and Democrats, why is it that virtually every Hollywood celebrity-turned politician has been a Republican. I give you: Ronald Reagan, Fred Thompson, George Murphy, Sonny Bono, Fred Grandy, Arnold Schwarzenegger. How can this be? The one exception I [...]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Ten years ago the United States carried 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic. Now? A mere 25 percent, according to estimates from Andrew M. Odlyzko, a well-regarded specialist in these matters. Just the decentralized nature of the Internet means that America can’t control the beast forever. But Luddites in D.C. are unwittingly speeding up [...]
Wax Banks (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
'Conservatives' like Hugh Hewitt are acting excited about Palin, too much so - compensatorily so. The purely imagistic aspects of the pick seem to have worked on the expected partisan types. The National Review kids are into it, etc. I...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The Sonny Bono copyright term extension law has resulted a torrent of creativity output, right? Leaping out of his grave at Rockville cemetery, F. Scott Fitzgerald has just pulled off some new Hollywood deals to make up for his past failures. Brad’s Reader and PW have the details. The real joke in this case: It’s on [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1987: Sonny Bono inaugurates his political career when he announces his bid to run for mayor of Palm Springs, Calif.The Almanac Advises for August 26: "From Bob Dylan's polemical folk songs to Public Enemy's status-quo-challenging... Read more
