Roger Ebert Has an Impressive New Silicone Chin (Photos)
Yes, that’s Roger Ebert, the film critic. He’s wearing a new silicone prosthetic jaw created for him by doctors at the University of Illinois.
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Eric Schmidt’s Top 10 Quotes
The Wall Street Journal has ’em. Number 10, when asked last year if a Google brain implant was being developed:
Mafia Nicknames from the New York Bust
Here’s a fun list from the Village Voice, The 20 Best Nicknames in the Big Mafia Bust.
It includes gems such as:
Anthony “Baby Fat Larry” Durso
Vincent “Vinny Carwash” Frogiero
Anthony “Tony Bagels” Cavezza
John “Lumpy” Hartmann
Anthony “Firehawk” Licata
Joseph “Junior Lollipops” Carna
Did John Kennedy Kill the Hat Industry?
Not so much. It was American Express what done it.
John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration: The Beaver Hat!
This is the beaver-and-silk hat worn by John F. Kennedy at his inauguration as U.S. president on this day 50 years ago.The John F. Kennedy Library describes the top hat this way:
Is the Poe Toaster Toast?
Edgar Allan Poe’s secret admirer failed to show up for the second year in a row. Four imposters gave it a shot, though.
More Nim Chimpsky: Who2 Nim Comics!
Like Nim Chimpsky, I was raised almost like a human in the 1970s. I feel a certain kinship with Nim. I’m not even jealous that he’s the star of Jim Marsh’s new documentary, Project Nim.
I wrote about Nim earlier in this post about Marsh’s film.
Inspired by Nim’s story of being raised as an un-chimped people during the 1970s, I scrawled out this artist’s rendering of what his life might have been like:
Nim Chimpsky and Project Nim
Remember that famous chimp from the 1970s, Nim Chimpsky?
Jim Marsh, the documentary maker (and Oscar winner) who did 2008’s Man on Wire is screening his film about Nim Chimpsky at the Sundance Film Festival this month.
Jim Marsh’s film is titled Project Nim.
Who2’s Betty White Biography, with Photos and Comics
We have a new Betty White biography on Who2, with photos.
The other day I bought a comic book, another in the Blue Water Comics series Female Force.
Blue Water has an extensive series of these bio-comics (biographix?), and I’ve already read one on First Lady Michelle Obama and one on the former Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin.
This time I decided to go out of my “safe zone” and get one that isn’t political.
WWJLD?
What will Joe Lieberman do at his press conference tomorrow? Retire? Declare that he’s running in 2012 as a Democrat? As a Republican?The Fix speculates.
President Lyndon B. Johnson Orders Some Slacks
Anyone with an interest in the United States presidency should delight in this brief telephone conversation between clothier Joe Haggar and President Lyndon B. Johnson in August of 1964.
LBJ is on the hunt for some lightweight slacks, so he calls up Haggar to order some. He needs them about half an inch bigger in the waist than what he had before, and President Johnson goes into some detail about what he needs.
Did Kwilliam Snub Marack?
A new email rumor has Prince William and Kate Middleton snubbing President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle with a pointed non-invitation to their royal wedding in April.
Philip Glass Would Like You to Please Leave Him Alone
Philip Glass pauses for 4’33” while rehearsing at City Recital Hall before his performance tonight in the annual Sydney Festival.
Gabrielle Giffords Surgery Update
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had eye socket surgery today, and it wasn’t too simple:The operation involved opening a window in Giffords’ skull through an
incision over her eyebrow, removing the rim of her eye socket, removing
the bone fragments and then reconstructing the socket with the help of
metal mesh, doctors said. She will need another skull repair surgery,
but that will be done later.
Steve Jobs’s Health: A Chronology
Steve Jobs has announced that he will take a fresh medical leave from Apple, Inc. He didn’t offer details. Steve Jobs also took medical leave in 2009, when he had a liver transplant. Here’s a helpful chronology of his health problems from the LA Times.This was his note to employees today:Team,
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the White House’s Awkward Embrace
Here’s a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., one said to be the last before he was killed:
James Earl Jones is 80 Years Old
The great James Earl Jones was born on this day in 1931. Happy 80th birthday to him!
Miss America 2011 Wants You to Taste the Pigskin
Here’s Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, holding an NFL football last night just minutes after being named to her new post.
Miss America 2011 Biography (with Photos)
Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, exults as she receives her crown in Las Vegas on Saturday night, 15 January. She’s only 17 years old.
Splitsville for Zsa Zsa Gabor and Her Fibula
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s right leg has gone the way of her first eight husbands. Gabor and the leg were formally separated on Friday.