Everyone was thrilled by the exploits of Newark Mayor Cory Booker when he saved his neighbor from a burning building.
Well perhaps his Republican opponents were less than enthused by the Super Hero Mayor.
Ellen did a video interview with Mayor Booker, posted it on her website and on YouTube then pulled it. Continue reading
Noah Wyle is pictured in handcuffs at a protest by the disability rights group ADAPT in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2012. - (photo National ADAPT)
Hollywood stars are coming out for social activism and the ER cast is leading.
Noah Wyle, who played medical student John Carter in ER, was arrested and taken away in handcuffs at the ADAPT disability rally in Washington. DC.
George Clooney was recently arrested for civil disobedience at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC protesting the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan.
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Nicollette Sheridan with my cousin Steve Pate - her hand has a bandage and he has no scars (inf.com photo)
The Daily Mail is reporting Nicollette Sheridan got thrown from her horse. Again?
“Nicolette’s boyfriend Steve, a wealthy financier. looked equally dashing in a black suit with an open neck white shirt.”
“The trendy steak house appears to be a favourite of the couple – just two weeks ago the pair were also seen arriving for a spot of dinner.” (Daily Mail)
She’s been heavy dating my cousin Steve Pate for ages now that the horse accident story seems… well … a little old.
It’s a better excuse than Tiger Woods came up with for his SUV accident.
My aunt from Texas assured everyone on the family mailing list that Steve has no scars or bruises on his face.
Maybe Nicollette did hurt her hand falling off the horse.
Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives, Nicolle’s old role, was a man-eater not a man-beater.
We all breathed a sigh of relief that Steve wasn’t taking it on the chin, if you know what I mean.
Those movie stars can be high strung fillies and Steve’s just a good old boy from Texas.
Steve is used to gorgeous women in Texas, but he also knows you can’t tell a Texas woman nothin’.
Steve CANNOT get Nicollette to wear a riding helmet. That might have saved her head but not her little finger, which is the item of faîte du bandage as they French say. Continue reading
Sunset at Regis' Clambake on PEI
As PEI watched, two New York celebrities poured on the charm. Regis was unrepentant in his disdain for oysters but liked lobsters and clams. Kelly was charming and teasing.
The best line of the show was about Kelly’s dinner at Churchill Arms in Charlottetown. She and her family were watching the soccer match and enjoying the fish and chips (good choice).
Kelly likes to Tweet so she tweeted her location. Fans tweeted back “Try the curry.”
Of course try the curry at Churchill. She sampled five different kinds and loved them so told the audience.
Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
Who didn’t wear a coonskin cap and talk like Davy Crockett? Everyone remembers the genial remake of history by Walt Disney in the 1950′s. As a Tennessean Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett killed a “bar”, chased Indians and showed bravery at the Alamo, the American Waterloo.
Disney was a master at creating the American myth and then capitalizing on it. The merchandising of Davy Crockett hats, coats, guns and other memorabilia became a marketing legend. Kids begged, including this one, their parents to but them Davy Crockett gear. My mother was a pacifist so I had to get my own coonskin cap and gun. I hide it from her.
Buddy Ebsen (Wizard of Oz, Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones) was Davy Crockett’s sidekick in the TV series. Fess Parker went on to play the role of Abraham Lincoln.
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Serena Williams
Word is out, all over town, Serena and Rapper Common might be getting hitched.
“Rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, better known as Common, has fueled rumors that he will marry Serena Williams by going public with his love for the tennis champion.”
“Serena is a beautiful, fun and a strong woman. I love her heart and her strength. She’s a warmhearted human being. I think she’s incredible,” quoted Common, 38, as saying. (IANS London)
Look out – marrying a Jehovah’s Witness when you aren’t one of them is a case of the bad news bears. JWs, as they are known, have strict rules about marrying people “in the Truth” which is code for one of us.
Just like RC in the old days, the non-believer has to promise to bring up children “in the truth”, study the Watchtower diligently and pray for Armageddon to come soon destroying all mankind other than the strong “brothers and sisters in the truth”.
Rappers are generally the antithesis of what JWs preach will survive the coming cataclysm.
Rapper Common may be a betting man and figure the end isn’t coming soon. Just say the words man even if you don’t mean it.
By Robert Glenn, Painters Keys
Andy Warhol figured everyone was now going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. Courting celebrities and his own celebrity, he needed more time at it than that.
J.D. Salinger wrote a novel and a few short stories he didn’t want to talk about. Thus he became famous for not wanting to be famous.
We are living at a time of obsession with celebrity. People substitute celebrities for friends and acquaintances. TV heads are good enough. Question is, I know David Letterman but does he know me?