My Steelers are playing the World Champs Sunday, Halloween night- WHOO HOO!! My Tar Heels are playing national football powerhouse William & Mary Saturday.
The next Batman movie now has a title: “The Dark Knight Rises” Christopher Nolan tells the LA Reporter "Our ambition for the third movie is to complete a story that has begun. This is not starting over, this not rebooting. We’re finishing something, and keeping a consistency with what’s come before has real value." Nolan also reportedly told the paper there will be no Riddler in this film.
Don’t miss this Sunday night’s premiere of AMC’s “Walking Dead”. It’s one of those over hyped things that I’m actually looking forward to seeing. It’s mostly filmed in and set nearby in Atlanta, Ga.
For a laugh, you may want to consider Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive" tomorrow at 12 pm ET up in Washington, DC. I’m sure CNN/Comedy Central will cover it live.
It’s been a busy couple of week’s death wise.
•James MacArthur, Danno from (Original) Hawaii Five-O, dies 72
•Lisa S. Blount, actress from 'An Officer and a Gentlemen' Dies 53
•Paul The Octopus dies of Natural Causes, 2 1/2 years old.
•Alex Anderson, creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dies 90
•Gregory Isaacs, Reggae Singer, Dies 59
•Johnny Sheffield (played Tarzan's son 'Boy') Dies at 79
•Tom Bosley, Happy Days' Dad, Dies 83
•Barbara Billingsley, June Cleaver on "Leave It to Beaver", TV mom, dies 94
•Simon MacCorkindale of "Falcon Crest" Dies of Cancer
•Beach music icon General Johnson dies
•Stephen Cannell, prolific TV writer-producer, dies 69
•Joe Mantell, Academy Nominated actor, `Marty,' `Chinatown' dies 94
The latest as of early Friday afternoon is James "Jimmy" Wall. Wall was Captain Kangaroo's stage manager before he convinced the show to create its first black character, Mr. Baxter. Wall, in fact, worked at CBS as a stage manager for nearly 50 years. He played Baxter and another recurring roll on the show until 1978.
What is wrong with the Texas Rangers? Game 3 starts Saturday in Texas. Let’s hope they at least show up and not get shut out or lose by 9 runs!!
More wackiness regarding the filming of “The Hobbit” and New Zealand.
Saw 3D isn’t getting good reviews. I think the 1st couple of movies were interesting, then they seem to become what many serialized horror movies become; caricatures of their old selves.
Space shuttle Discovery is prepared for its final launch into space, which is scheduled for this Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010 from K-S-C,; yo? I’m a big fan of the shuttles and everything NASA, but it’s kinda ironic that leaks and other minor issues are besetting this, the final launch. Maybe they ARE right in mothballing the fleet. It pains me to write that.
Ready for some more McDonald’s law suit craziness? A Brazilian court ruled this week that McDonald's must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds (30 kilograms) while working there for a dozen years. When this madness comes full tilt to the US, I’m gonna be RICH!!
Hospitals in Indonesia are struggling to cope with scores of injured survivors of a devastating tsunami, including a newly orphaned two-month-old baby found in a storm drain.
Here’s some ‘unpopular’ science - I thought this was hilarious.
Here’s a feel good story..
And finally, when real life sadly imitates art – 2 stories of woe. Though history is replete with these incidents, this week we’re reminded of 2 stories of Hollywierd woe.
What the hell is going on with actor Randy Quaid? Last month, he and his wife were arrested in Santa Barbara, California for felony vandalism while living in a home they used to own without the consent of the current owner. THEN they run up to Canada seeking asylum citing that there are people in Hollywood trying to kill them like they killed actors David Carradine Heath Ledger. Quaid and his wife were arrested in Vancouver last week and jailed on outstanding U.S. warrants related to the felony vandalism charges mentioned above. This wackiness is very much akin to Quaid’s character, Clark Griswold’s cousin Eddie Johnson. Quaid he is not crazy but rather the victim of a criminal conspiracy to take his wealth, and perhaps his life
What the hell is going on with actor Charlie Sheen? It seems that he cannot separate reality from his character “Charlie Harper” of ‘Two and a Half Men’. Kinda sad, really. Now to make his story about an allergic reaction to prescription medication and the subsequent nude rampage more salacious, the female he was with, and also accused of stealing a $100k watch from the actor, is an ‘adult film’ or ‘erotic’ actress.
Now neither of these stories affect my life, nor dare I say, the lives of anyone I know one iota. For the most part, after the usual roll of the eyes and/or one lined water cooler jokes, these stories or events are often dismissed. To me, each one of these situations, and even the ones that involve death, is just one of those things that has always happened and unfortunately always will” There’s nothing we can do but sit back and watch it go by.
I read it all with glee and the one to die will not be me. :) Hee hee hee!
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