Original Mouseketeer and Baby Boomer crush Annette Funicello succumbed to complications from Multiple Sclerosis on Monday.
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Annette Funicello, 1942 — 2013
April 9, 2013I Say, Those British ….
March 10, 2013Home movie sketch show I Say I Say I Say (1964) by Peter Sellers, featuring Lord Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones) and his then-wife Princess Margaret, Britt Ekland (then Mrs. Sellers), and financier and publisher Sir Jocelyn Stevens and his wife Jane Stevens (lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret). The film was shot on the grounds of the Stevens residence.
h/t: Mike Springer
More:
“In search of the hidden Sellers, Jasper Rees, The Telegraph
“I Say I Say I Say: A Delightful Home Movie by Peter Sellers (1964),” Mike Springer, OpenCulture.org
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Palin Kicked Off Fox News
January 26, 2013
Sarah Palin, former part-time Temp-Governor of Alaska, has ended her relationship with Fox News. Mrs. Palin impersonated a political commentator on the cable news outlet with the same authority she brought to the 2008 GOP presidential campaign, and Fox was tired of looking like John McCain.
Sarah Palin was on Fox for three years, a year longer than she was Alaska’s governor, but may draw on her other past experience in future endeavors. The former Miss Wasilla would be a great spokesmodel for products like Naughty Monkey high-heeled shoes or Bushmaster assault rifles. And Mrs. P, who now has a home studio, was once was a sportscaster on an Anchorage TV station. Here’s an aircheck we’re submitting to ESPN:
Library Moves Lance Armstrong’s Books to Fiction Section
January 22, 2013
Celebrity cyclist Lance Armstrong has written a bunch of books about his life. After he finally admitted he was liar, an Australian library moved Armstrong’s memoirs to the Fiction Section.
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Lance Armstrong’s New Charity: Oprah’s Cable Network
January 17, 2013
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong was forced to abandon his Livestrong foundation, but he seems to have found a new pet charity: Oprah Winfrey’s money-losing OWN video venture. OWN has been bleeding money at an alarming gush, over $300 million as of last May. Oprah’s exclusive Armstrong interview will be a powerful shot in the arm, and the Queen of Confessions is hyping it for all it’s worth.
As for the interview subject himself, here’s the best take:
“Lance Armstrong Admits To Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs To Show Remorse,” The Onion
Free Elmo!
November 14, 2012
“The man who accused Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of the Sesame Street character Elmo, of an under-age sexual relationship has recanted that claim, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
The reversal came a day after the claim was published by the gossip Web site TMZ, threatening Mr. Clash’s reputation and alarming parents and other fans of the beloved children’s television franchise.”
Lance Armstrong Stripped of Titles, Banned From Cycling
October 22, 2012
Lance who?
“Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten, says UCI,” First Post
More:
“Armstrong ‘has no place in cycling,’” Euronews
“World Cycling Body Strips Armstrong of Titles,” John Revill and Vanessa O’Connell, Wall Street Journal
“Lance Armstrong Is Stripped of His 7 Tour de France Titles,” Juliet Macur, New York Times
“Cycling’s governing body agrees to strip Lance Armstrong of his 7 Tour de France titles,” AP via Washington Post
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Nike Drops Lance, Lance Drops Livestrong
October 17, 2012
“Due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade, it is with great sadness that we have terminated our contract with him. Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner.
Nike plans to continue support of the Livestrong initiatives created to unite, inspire and empower people affected by cancer.”
Clint: What Kind of Idiot Asks Me to Speak at a Convention?
September 23, 2012
Republicans were nuts to ask him to speak at their National Convention, says Clint Eastwood. ”If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get,” Eastwood told interviewer Jerry Penacoli.
More:
“Clint Eastwood: Republicans Were ‘Dumb’ To Ask Me to Speak at RNC,” TMZ
“After the chair: Clint Eastwood’s tormented legacy,” Andrew O’Heheir, Salon
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Palin Canceled by Fox News?
September 2, 2012
When Sarah Palin, the former Temp-Governor of Alaska, was signed by Fox News as a political commentator, it looked like God’s Own Plan. The word now is that Mrs. Palin may be fired by Fox or, more precisely, her contract will not be renewed. We should have known after the conservative cable outlet scratched her spots at the GOP Convention and she responded with a Facebook snit.
The Discovery Network canceled Sarah Palin’s Alaska after a single season, a half-season longer than she lasted as Alaska’s Governor. An attempt to sell another “reality” show (America’s Got Moose or something) failed.
There is no truth to the rumor that Fox is replacing Sarah Palin with Tina Fey, since we just made that up. You read it here first.
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