Random Predictions for 2010
Rather than look back on the Best or Worst of The Aughts or The Zeroes or the Two-thousands, we thought we’d look ahead to some predictions for 2010.Where to begin?
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Rush Limbaugh in the Hospital
Radio host Rush Limbaugh is “resting comfortably” in a Hawaiian hospital, after suffering mysterious chest pains while on vacation.That’s what this report from ABC News says.Rush’s official site confirms the news and has updates on his condition.
Now He’s SIR Captain Picard
(Patrick Stewart as a Picard-like MacBeth, 2007)
Dick Clark Still Rockin’ at 80
Dick Clark turned 80 in November, but he’ll still be on camera for his ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ program tonight in Times Square.
George Clooney Sticks Out His (Slightly Aging) Neck in ‘Up In the Air’
Movie Review: Up In the AirDirected by Jason ReitmanAt the AMC Newport on the Levee 20Pre-movie meal: pomegranate seeds and a half-shot of JTS BrownIs there any other movie star in America today who would give us an honest peek at his starting-to-get-wrinkly 48-year-old neck the way George Clooney does near the end of Up In the Air?
Meet the 80-Something Harvard Prof Who Taught Iranians How to Protest
How come we’ve never heard of this guy before?After massive protests shook Iran this past summer, Iran singled out an obscure American political scientist in his 80s as a key figure behind the unrest.
Bar Refaeli, Love Child – PHOTOS
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:799:]]Model Bar Refaeli spent part of December dressed as a hippie love child for a photo shoot for Fox Fashion. The setting: a nature preserve in Israel’s Hula Valley. The male model is Noam Tur.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:800:]]Don’t all hippies look like this?[[wysiwyg_imageupload:801:]]”Roswell” — nice touch.
Karl Rove Gets a Divorce
Karl Rove is getting a divorce. Politico: Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, has been granted a divorce in Texas after 24 years of marriage, family spokeswoman …..
Grandpa Gene Storms the Beaches
It won’t make anyone’s best-of-2009 list, but I got a snort out of this ad for Kayak.com — featuring Ryan Cutrona, the actor who played dotty Grandpa Gene in Mad Men.
Brooke Mueller 911 Call: AUDIO
The LA Times has the audio of the 911 call made by Brooke Mueller to Aspen police on Christmas Day. Mueller tells cops later that her husband, actor Charlie Sheen, has a knife and that she feared for her life. Later in the call Mueller tells the dispatcher that Sheen is “trying to sneak out the back,” but just then the cops arrive.
Charlie Sheen “Threatened to Kill” His Wife
More details of the Charlie Sheen arrest on Christmas Day have come out. They aren’t pretty:The Aspen Police Department on Monday released the 911 tape in which Brooke Mueller told an emergency dispatcher that Sheen threatened her with a switch-blade knife and that she feared for her life.
Birthday Twins: Paula Poundstone and Patricia Clarkson
Happy 50th birthday to comedian Paula Poundstone and actress Patricia Clarkson.Both were born on 29 December in 1959, about 500 miles apart: Poundstone in Huntsville, Alabama, and Clarkson in New Orleans.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:463:]]
Which Dumb Celebrities Are We Using for Our Dumb Passwords?
Techcrunch just dug up Twitter’s list of 370 banned passwords — the ones so painfully obvious that every newbie uses them. Number 1 on the list is “111111,” for example, and #19 is “abc123.” It’s alphabetical, so the all-time classic — “password” — is at #241.
The Weekend of the Naked Kennedys
This week’s flap over the JFK naked-women-on-a-yacht photo — the one that turned out to be a big fake — came at an odd time for our family.
Latinos Love Alvin and the Chipmunks
Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” collected $50.2 million over the weekend and $77.1 million since it debuted Wednesday. Its crowds were 70% families and heavily Latino. “The Squeakquel” also grossed $36.5 million from the 42 foreign markets where it launched. That’s more than twice as much as the first “Alvin” opened to in the same countries in 2007.”Heavily Latino”?
Charlie Sheen – Brooke Mueller Brouhaha Update
It’s complicated, as they say at the movies.
Colonel Sanders Impersonators: Are These the Worst Ever?
We came across this archival beauty while adding photos to our profile of Colonel Harlan Sanders. The five men pictured are taking part in a Colonel Sanders lookalike contest held in Beijing, China in 2007.
Happy 82nd Birthday Simon Raven, You Naughty Boy
The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after his own. He ought, by rights, to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50.British author Simon Raven was born on this day in 1927 and died in 2001, prompting one of the more colorful obituaries of the decade.
Sean Goldman Goes to Disney World for Christmas
Sean Goldman, the American boy brought home after five years in Brazil, went to Disney World for Christmas Day.
Bikinis, Beer and Crocodile Traps Are a Smart, Sensible Mix
While Americans are playing boring old football and Indians are dabbling in cricket, the Australians have invented a new sport: swimming into baited crocodile traps.It’s possibly not a good idea.The craziness of the stunt is matched only by the wonderful Aussie slang used to describe it: