Wang Dalin is the winner of this year’s bee bearding competition in Shaoyang City, in Hunan Province China. They say he was able to attract nearly 27,000 bees to his body. You can read more about it here (there are more photos, too). Below is the competition’s runner-up, Lu Kongjiang. He was only able to attract about 23,000 bees:
We’ve posted a Roy Scheider biography recently to go along with this spur-of-the-moment drawing:
Today is singer Linda Ronstadt’s birthday. She is 65 years old.
She has a great voice. I’ve liked some of her songs over the years, but her career has never quite been on my radar screen. I know that Philip K. Dick thought she was the cat’s pajamas.
Here she is with the Stone Poneys, singing “Different Drum” in 1967:
The perjury trial of highly-decorated baseball pitcher Roger Clemens came to a halt on the second day of testimony when Judge Reggie B. Walton declared a mistrial.
Because prosecutors presented barred evidence to the jury. Oops.
As this piece from the Washington Post says: “His lawyers, unable to supress grins, declined to comment.”
“She was a timebomb strapped to Murdoch’s leg.”Once his “fifth daughter,” Rebekah Brooks becomes the latest casualty in the UK’s Rupert Murdoch wars.
“What a thrill! I was 19 or 20 years old and I’d grown up listening to Red Skelton’s show on a crystal set under the covers… He was such a big hero to me, and I was cast as his sidekick.” The late Sherwood Schwartz may not have loved Red Skelton, but Jamie Farr thought he was aces.
Sherwood Schwartz gave birth to Gilligan and the Bradys, yes, but he was also a veteran of 70 years of comedy. (Dude was born during World War I, after all. He began …..
Robert Peston wonders:”If Parliament is sovereign, there is something slightly odd about the idea that the vote can be passed and that Mr. Murdoch can choose to ignore it.”
Please read our new biography of French caricaturist J.J. Grandville. That’s him just above, a self-portrait from a museum in his hometown of Nancy, France. If nothing else, follow the links from our biography to see some examples of his work beyond what we’re showing here:
Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry received the Congressional Medal of Honor today from President Barack Obama. From the official citation: “Instantly realizing the danger, Staff Sergeant Petry, unhesitatingly and with …..
Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan and the Brady Bunch, has died. He was 94 years old — over 823,0
The answer is clear, but it may surprise you.Hint: Harry Potter is only third (so far) and Batman is sixth.
Liza Minnelli was awarded the French Legion of Honor on Monday in Paris.
It’s no secret that Cedars-Sinai is our favorite Hollywood hospital.So we’re thrilled — thrilled — to report that two celebs had babies there this weekend.
To understand the News of the World phone hacking scandal, you can’t do better than this calm, clear layout from Nick Davies, the Guardian reporter who’s been on the story …..
Yesterday was the first day day in the perjury trial of Major League Baseball great Roger Clemens.
It’s all about conservative voter turnout, says Nate Silver:
Al Pacino played the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a TV movie just last year.Now Al Pacino is playing another living person. Can you tell who it is from this on-the-set photo taken yesterday?
In a long-overdue show of “I can do the modern world, too,” President Barack Obama has apparently *tweeted* — asking for your opinion:
President Nixon: The Jews are born spies. You notice how many of them are? They’re just in it up to their necks.Haldeman: Well, got a basic devious abil– deviousness that–President Nixon: Well, also, an arrogance, an arrogance that says– that’s what makes a spy. He puts himself above the law.