Greatest Wimbledon Tennis Score Ever
6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6… 70-68.Match time: 11 hours and 5 minutes.
Biographies
Is Al Gore a “Crazy Sex Poodle”?
The National Enquirer reported this week that a 54 year-old massage therapist says former Vice President Al Gore made unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances on her in a Portland, Oregon hotel back in 2006.
Today’s issue of The Oregonian reports details of the incident, taken from police records and from a statement the woman made to investigators in 2009.
Photos of Charlene Wittstock, Monaco’s Future First Lady
Charlene Wittstock is officially engaged to Prince Albert of Monaco, says the royal palace. At age 52 the royal bachelor scalawag has finally decided to settle down with a fellow Olympian 20 years his junior. (She swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; Albert was on the Monaco bobsled team in five straight Winter Olympics from 1988 through 2002.)We have photos of Charlene Wittstock, starting with the official engagement photos released by the Monaco royal palace.
General Petraeus to Replace General McChrystal
Those nasty things said in Rolling Stone magazine by U.S. General Stanley McChrystal have cost him his job.
President Barack Obama met with General McChrystal this morning, then announced that the general was being replaced by General David Petraeus as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Nurse in Famous WWII Photo Dies
Edith Shain, who appeared in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of a soldier kissing a nurse at the end of World War II (she’s the nurse), has died at the age of 91.
Happy Birthday, Bruce Campbell!
As a tribute to Bruce Campbell, the star of Army of Darkness, some photos and videos:
First, some photos from his memoir, If Chins Could Kill:
A Hard Work Editing: Scorsese and Kubrick
From the blog of Leandro Copperfield, a wonderful mash-up of scenes and sounds from movies by directors Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick:
Billion Dollar Jacko
According to this story from MTV News, the estate of pop legend Michael Jackson has generated $1 billion since his death almost a year ago. MTV News got their information …..
Happy 101st Birthday, Errol Flynn
Actor Errol Flynn was born on this day in 1909.(Trivia note: jazz saxophonist Lester Young was born the same year and died the same year as Flynn, too: 1959.)Read more about Errol Flynn’s wicked, wicked ways.
James Thurber, Bookcases and Naked Women
The Paris Review has put many of its grand old interviews online, including a wonderful 1955 interview with humorist James Thurber. A sample:INTERVIEWER
You say that your drawings often don’t come out the way you
intended?