Janet Jackson talks MJ: Your take?
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ken Tucker: ABC special inevitably focused on her brother, yet still gave us a more complete picture of her
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Mary Ann Mobley: 'Memba Her?!
TMZ (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: Beauty , 'Memba Them?! Mary Ann Mobley is famous for being Miss America 1959, married to Gary Collins and co-starring on shows like "Diff'rent Strokes." Guess what she looks like now! ... Permalink
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New to Market: A. Quincy Jones in Brentwood
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. When you google the address for this A. Quincy Jones post & beam, the name Conrad Bain ---the patriarch of 70s-80s TV show "Diff'rent Strokes"---comes up. Whatcha talkin 'bout, Willis! And yes, the listing agent confirms this is Bain's residence. The listing...
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Life in These Postracial United States
Slog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The always-amazing Colson Whitehead has a great editorial over at the New York Times , celebrating one year of a postracial society . He argues: I have observed that journalists employ Google searches to lend credence to trend articles, so I compared recent hits on the word “postracial” with those of a previous year. There have been more than 500,000 online mentions of postraciality this...
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Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
*Nov 3 1755 The colony of Massachusetts offers a 20 pound bounty for scalps of Indian boys or girls under the age of 12. Warrior scalps fetch a...
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IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: History of NOTA
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Yesterday, I sketched the legal theory behind the Institute for Justice’s challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 in which our clients seek to strike down the provision that makes it a serious crime to compensate bone marrow donors. Today, I’d like to explain the history of NOTA and why the inclusion of bone marrow in the statute is so irrational as [...]
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The Popdose Podcast: Episode 2
Popdose (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Popdose...in your ear! Join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton for another irreverent pop culture discussion -- it's Episode 2 of the Popdose Podcast!
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Microsoft Shocked — Shocked! — By Offensive ‘Family Guy’ Content
Epicenter (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
In its long-running ad campaign featuring Justin Long as a Mac and John Hodman as a PC, Apple has done a good job portraying Microsoft’s Windows as the preferred operating system of stuffy, slightly clueless nerds. To judge from the ads, Mac is a skinny, slouchy hipster in an untucked shirt and Windows is a [...]
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A Whole Episode of Fast Money in One Sentence
The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
CNBC’s Fast Money program is definitely entertaining, and if there are no syndicated reruns of Diff’rent Strokes on, I will occasionally tune in. My fave pundit Doug Kass will be on this evening and, I assume, he will try his best to keep up with the frenetic pace of the banter. If he doesn’t, they may not [...]
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Afghans Ready to Return to Polls, Again.
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Afghans are bracing for another election after President Hamid Karzai agreed to a run-off following widespread fraud and irregularities from the Aug. 20 first-round vote. Here's a look at the candidates on the upcoming ballot: Hamid Karzai . Abdullah Abdullah , former Afghan Foreign Minister. Ralph Nader, consumer rights advocate. Abdullah Abdullah , Jr., Abdullah Abdullah's son . Cruz Bustamante ,...
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Errata
Gheorghe: The Blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Errata in the Film Version of my Memoirs I know it's a great privilege to have one's memoirs made into a feature film, and I realize that a film needs to have mass appeal and can't have the sophistication of a book, but (and I don't mean to gripe) I have a few complaints about the liberties taken with my work. First, the title. My memoir is called "Wasted Soul." Although the film retained...
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The 'Diff'rent Strokes' Curse
Fox News (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
THEN/NOW: What was it about this classic family sitcom that doomed many of its stars to lives of drugs, desperation, and disaster?
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That's DR. Winnie to you: A New Child Star Stereotype
The Essential Read (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
One of the research topics in creativity that has always fascinated me has been creative polymathy - the ability to be creative in more than one domain. The roots of creative polymathy are under debate; some scholars argue that creativity is a general ability. People who are creative in math would also be more likely to be creative in music or art or business, according to this view. More recently,...
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Tori And Dean And His Ex Wife?!
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Although she's a mediawhore of the written word, Dean McDermott's ex-wife, Mary Jo Eustace has no intention of entering into the exploitative world of reality TV. In her book Divorce Sucks, Eustace claims that she was approached by producers of Tori and Dean to appear on the show for a drama-inducing good time. And it [...]
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Dean McDermott's Ex Turned Down TV Confrontation
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Four years after her husband Dean McDermott left her for 90210 star Tori Spelling , Canadian TV chef Mary Jo Eustace is set to tell her side of the story in a book titled, Divorce Sucks: What to do when irreconcilable differences, lawyer fees, and your ex's Hollywood wife make you miserable . One of Mary Jo's revelations : A producer of Tori and Dean's reality show approached her with an offer to...