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Apparently You Can Use Dancing With The Stars To Delay Surgery
2008-05-01 01:02:00
What an overly-dramatic week on Dancing With The Stars . Overly - not because there was a lot of real drama - but because we had to hear and see the replay where Cristian de la Fuente hurt his arm ad infinitum, and hear Samantha Harris reflect upon how sad it was ad infinitum. He hurt it during the samba with Cheryl Burke. At first Tom Bergeron told the audience that an EMT diagnosed it as a severe muscle cramp. But last night, de la Fuente announced that his doctor said he'd torn a tendon. Here's the kicker: the doctor told him he needed surgery to repair it, and Cristian said that he chose to delay the surgery and continue on with Dancing With The Stars. Now: if you have a serious tendon injury, are you even able to compete in full-out professional dancing? It makes no sense to us.
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Gavin DeGraw's New Album, And...Sandwiches?
2008-05-01 01:00:00
Gavin DeGraw, the multi-platinum singer who came out with a couple of our faves, I Don't Want To Be and Chariot, is coming out with a brand new self-titled album on May 6th, Gavin Degraw including his new single In Love With A Girl. This week he's on The Heyman Hustle with Paul Heyman (watch here). Heyman notes that Elliot Spitzer could be throwing the biggest party in New York and he would have finished his corn beef on rye first; but for Gavin, he put down the sandwich and made the trip.
More About: Sandwiches , Album , Gavin

Bernanke Lowers Interest Rate, Another Blow To The Dollar
2008-05-01 00:58:00
The Federal Reserve and its Chairman Ben Bernanke announced through a statement on the Federal Reserve's website today that they will cut the key interest rate for America down to 2%. The Fed believes this is a way to combat the recession. As you may know, one of our top articles of this month was Hey Bernanke, Ron Paul's Been Prescribing The Salve For Years, in which we compared Ron Paul's prediction of a recession (as early as back in the year 2000) to Bernanke's moves in the opposite direction of Paul's solutions.
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New Kids On The Block Announce Reunion Tour Dates
2008-05-01 00:57:00
After an appearance on The Today Show to confirm rumors that they are officially getting back together, NKOTB sent out an e-mail to their fans last night announcing the initial dates for their reunion tour. The New Kids On The Block will be back on The Today Show on NBC with Meredith Vierra on Friday, May 16th.
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Barack Obama Holds Press Conference Over Reverend Wright
2008-04-30 01:04:00
Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been the topic of the day for days and days and days now, so we've kind of avoided it (you can find it everywhere already, that kind of thing). But since Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held a press conference today to discuss recent comments by the Reverend - and since some of Wright's comments at this week's symposium were rather explosive - we figured we'd address it today.
More About: Press , Press Conference

FreePress Urges Further Investigation Into Pentagon's News Pundits
2008-04-30 01:01:00
The New York Times published an article by David Barstow exposing a media Trojan horse. If you're not familiar with what a Trojan horse is, it's commonly used to describe a computer virus. In this case, it's meant to desribe a virus spreading in the mass media. An investigation by the Times uncovered military analysts and retired military officers that were showing up on network news to appear objective and discuss terrorism and the Iraq War--after being given briefings from the White House, State Department, and Justice Department (including Vice President Dick Cheney himself, and former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld). They'd been given talking points; and internal Pentagon documents repeatedly referred to these people as message force multipliers, surrogates, and those counted on to deliver the current administration's themes and messages to America.
More About: News , Investigation

April 29th News Roundup, Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
2008-04-30 00:59:00
President Bush blames Congress for inaction over economic issues; the CDC says children are undervaccinated; former UCLA Medical Center employee indicted by a federal grand jury for snooping into celebrity medical records including Farah Fawcett and Maria Shriver; John McCain and his money; all this and more in the April 29th News Roundup .
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Mindy McCready, Roger Clemens Sensationalism
2008-04-30 00:57:00
We happened to have ESPN on last night when the ticker at the bottom of the screen began saying, Roger Clemens had an inappropriate relationship with country singer Mindy McCready. The story stemmed from a New York Daily News story at midnight on Sunday, which cited unnamed sources and claimed that professional baseball player Roger Clemens carried on a 10 year affair with McCready - beginning when she was a teen and he 28 years old, already married and the father of two kids. Our first thought was that someone wants to discredit Clemens, who filed a defamation lawsuit after the Mitchell Report listed Roger Clemens as having used Human Growth Hormone (HGH).

Playboy: The Olive Garden Edition
2008-04-30 00:55:00
Kendra Wilkinson, one of Hugh Hefner's girls, has made it no secret that she love Olive Garden . What you may not know is that she finds their servers to be extremely hot.
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Anna Lynne McCord Makes Stylish Appearance At Events Of The Heart
2008-04-30 00:54:00
We totally want this outfit (from the neck down)! 20-year-old Anna Lynne McCord plays Eden Lord in the most recent season of Nip/Tuck. She was previous a star in horror flicks, The O.C., Ugly Betty, and has just signed up for the spin-off series of Beverly Hills, 90210. Lori Loughlin (formerly of Full House) and Dustin Milligan will also be in the new CW Series.
More About: Events , Stylish , Heart , Appearance

Use Static Electricity To Charge Your Cell Phone
2008-04-30 00:52:00
Designer Amanda Parkes has figured out a way to harness all that static electricity that builds up. She's actually designed clothing that creates a piezoelectric effect on purpose. Which I'm pretty sure means they get static build up deliberately. The only difference is that her clothes have a small battery that stores the energy for later.
More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Electricity , Cell , Charge

Richard Gere, Hilary Swank Filming Amelia
2008-04-30 00:48:00
Richard Gere and Hilary Swank are currently filming Amelia, directed by Mira Nair and written by Susan Butler, Mary Lovell, Elgen Long, and Ronald Bass. Its a movie about the life of the famous American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and was a women's advocate who set many records in aviation. Swank is a phenomenal actress - and who doesn't love Richard Gere?
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Rosie O'Donnell Talks Miley Cyrus, Annie Leibovitz
2008-04-30 00:47:00
Oh, Rosie O ! Sometimes, Rosie O'Donnell says things we strongly disagree with. Yet other times, many times, it's like hearing ourselves talk. Rosie posted a Talky Blog yesterday in which she mentioned the whole Miley Cyrus cover photo for Vanity Fair that made news articles every which way from Sunday. Now, yesterday we posted an article on Hilary Duff and started it out with, We're going to skip the whole Miley Cyrus / Vanity Fair...drama today.
More About: Annie Leibovitz

Ron Paul On CNN, FOX, And Bloomberg TV Today
2008-04-29 01:25:00
Stop the presses. CNN, FOX, and Bloomberg TV all have Ron Paul on today. We say stop the presses because anyone who's been following Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul's campaign knows that the mainstream media has given him very little airtime for the past year plus--GOP debates included, even--leading many supporters to call it a media blackout on Paul. But over the weekend, the Nevada GOP Convention was actually suspended due to Paul supporters pushing a rule change to allow other delegates besides presumptive nominee John McCain.
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Angela Bassett Joins The Cast Of ER
2008-04-29 01:23:00
Angela Bassett will be joining the cast of ER in its fifteenth and final season. She'll play the part of an attending physician who did a stint in Indonesia.
More About: Cast , Angela Bassett , Angela

Third Party Presidential Candidates In May
2008-04-29 01:22:00
We felt kinda good about providing an update on the third party Presidential candidates this month. It didn't get as many comments as other things might, but it's somewhat fulfilling to cover those that are out there struggling to campaign without the recognition that top-dollar candidates do. Maybe one day the Presidential elections in the US will be set up so that it's all on public broadcasting and campaigns don't need to accrue a combined $859.4 million + that could be spent on pressing issues. Anyhow, here's the update for third party events in May.
More About: Party , Candidates , Third Party

Rocky The Bear Is Fired From Showbiz
2008-04-29 01:20:00
Rocky the Bear who was recently featured in Semi-Pro is officially blacklisted from the business after fatally injuring his trainer, Stephan Miller. Nothing like trying to snack on the boss to put a crimp in your career. PETA investigated the same facility where Rocky resides just last year.
More About: Rocky , Showbiz , Fired

April 28th News Roundup, Other Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
2008-04-29 01:16:00
Coca-Cola pours $100 million into Beijing Olympics; Four U.S. Soldiers killed in Iraq today, and the deadliest month since September; Following the Clinton, Obama, and McCain campaign trails; Texas officials announce more than half the teenage girls at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas were pregnant.
More About: News , April , Roundup , Stuff , Miss

Maryanne From Gilligan's Island Talks About Arrest
2008-04-29 01:14:00
Dawn Wells, the actress that played Maryanne on the famous TV series Gilligan's Island was on The View today and discussed her Idaho arrest in February. Wells was charged with one count of reckless driving and paid a fine, after failing a field sobriety test. Dawn told Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd about the incident and what she says really happened.
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Hillary Duff Talks Fighting, And New Movie War, Inc.
2008-04-29 01:12:00
We're going to skip the whole Miley Cyrus / Vanity Fair did she agree to the cover photo, did she not agree to the cover drama today and go with Hillary Duff on Regis & Kelly. Regis Philbin marveled about how much older she is now (20 years old) since they first had her on the show. Duff was there to promote the new movie War, Inc. with John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Akroyd and others.
More About: Movie , Fighting

Laundry Detergent Bottles Shrink
2008-04-27 22:26:00
So we go shopping recently, and while hunting the laundry detergent aisle, thought for a second we'd walked through Rick Moranis' enlarging machine on Honey, I Blew Up The Kids. Everything had shrunk overnight. We search and search for the large detergent bottles--who wants to go to the grocery store for that every week?--and they're all gone. Tide's bottles are tinier, Purex compressed, Gain got smaller, Cheer...all the way down the line.
More About: Laundry , Bottles

April 27th News Roundup, Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
2008-04-27 22:17:00
Commercial bakers and general consumers are stocking up on flour and rice in fear that US supplies are dwindling; Tyra Banks takes on the subject of 'fatsploitation' talking to morbidly obese women like Queen Raqui about fat acceptance; President George W. Bush speaks at the White House Correspondents Dinner; 30 Ohio inmates seek new DNA tests to prove their innocence; Bette Midler goes outdoors with the Blue Man Group to plant trees for Arbor Day; all this and more in our April 27th News Roundup , the news you don't want to miss!
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Apparently Barack Obama Playing Basketball Is Top News
2008-04-27 22:15:00
We understand that it was kind of a slow news week last week, depending on where you're looking. But, really: can you imagine the press following any of the other presidential candidates bowling or playing basketball? Eh, maybe they would. Anyhow, The Associated Press has a YouTube channel on which they post the top news of the moment, and one of yesterday's top stories is Barack Obama Hoops It Up in Hoosier State.
More About: News , Basketball

Medieval McCain Girls Sing For Geraldo
2008-04-27 22:12:00
Oh, no, no, no, no no. This is the kind of clip that is almost morbidly horrifying to watch, but at the same time you want to watch it because you're glad you are not one of these people. Two women - Barbara Baskin and Jamie Robin (no relation to the ice cream brand that we're aware of) - that call themselves The McCain Girls went on Geraldo At Large today and sang a song they call, It's Raining John McCain. One of them is wearing a dress that looks just like the medieval number I picked up for Halloween a few years back.
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Perez Hilton Buys Designer Pup, Then Speaks Out About Puppy Mills?
2008-04-27 22:09:00
Don't expect blogger Perez Hilton to practice what he preaches. Perhaps in an attempt to counteract the typical venom he selectively spews at Hollywood F-listers, Perez has created a relatively new section on his Hollywood's Most Hated blog dedicated to Inspiration. In a recent post, he lists the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)'s very worthy campaign to stop Puppy Mills. I'm sure it is pure coincidence that it's the same month Oprah Winfrey spoke out about it.
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Jason Beghe Calls Scientology Slavery Of The Mind
2008-04-27 22:06:00
Actor Jason Beghe played Jeffrey Lindley on Melrose Place, and has had parts in many series such as The X-Files, CSI, Dharma & Greg, and Veronica Mars, just to name a few. In his personal life, Beghe was an OT5 Scientology member, and a loyal follower of what some call a religion - others a cult - for 14 years. Now, Beghe is no longer a Scientologist, and is speaking out about the belief he followed for so long, referring to it as empty and slavery of the mind. At one point, referring to the story of Xenu and the loyal officers, Beghe says, its retarded.
More About: Slavery , Calls , Mind

Clay Aiken After Broadway
2008-04-27 22:05:00
Clay Aiken 's run on Broadway with Spamalot will end on May 4th. So what's next for the former American Idol contestant-turned actor and pop star? Aiken will be releasing a new album reportedly titled On My Way Here, to be released on May 6th; the first single off the album will be On My Way Here, a song written by Ryan Tedder of One Republic. Amazon has a preview of the title track here. He'll be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and even QVC in May.
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Ouch: De Niro And Pacino Get Put Through The Ringer
2008-04-25 19:56:00
These two faces would be more than welcome at most any dinner table in America. Am I wrong? And, I'm sure more than a few thousand million internationally. But in Tinseltown, veteran actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have been given an icy cold shoulder this month. 88 Minutes, the newly-released movie starring De Niro and Pacino, opened last Friday at the box office with about $2.37 million. It has been torn to shreds by critics, and Hollywood blogs that are posting a quote shakily attributed to a CAA agent that heavily disses De Niro, who broke off from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) last week.
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Help A Child Smile Message
2008-04-25 19:55:00
For more than 25 years, Operation Smile has been helping children around the world afflicted with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. Stars like Jessica Simpson, Roma Downey, Billy Bush, and Mariah Carey have all volunteered on behalf of the nonprofit organization in recent years. A child born with a facial deformity is mocked and ridiculed. Eating and speaking are difficult. These children often end up totally dependent on their families who may even shut them away, believing they are cursed. Child ren who grow up with unrepaired cleft lips and cleft palates have difficulty developing social skills or leading productive lives.
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Ron Paul Thanks PA Supporters, Runs On
2008-04-25 19:53:00
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul posted a YouTube video yesterday thanking all of the volunteers and supporters in Pennsylvania, and insisting that he's continuing to run. As we mentioned Tuesday, it will not be until next Tuesday (April 29th) that all of the provisional ballots for PA will be validated and counted; but Paul accepted and referenced the 16% of the PA vote that the media has projected.
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