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Paris’ black hole |
| July 7th, 2006 under Celeb Oops, Paris Hilton. [ Comments: none ]
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Ike and Tina together again, sort of? |
| July 7th, 2006 under Stage. [ Comments: none ]
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WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT stars LAURENCE FISHBURNE and ANGELA BASSETT are set to team up again for a new play in Pasadena, California. The stars, who played IKE and TINA TURNER in the hit biopic, will play opposite each other in celebrated playwright AUGUST WILSON’s FENCES, when the production debuts at the Pasadena Playhouse next month (AUG06). It marks the fourth time the actors have appeared together in a project – they also starred in AKEELAH + THE BEE and BOYZ ‘N THE HOOD. In Fences, Fishburne will play an embittered former baseball star-turned-garbage collector, coming to terms with his lost dreams and his splintered family.
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Tom Petty’s recording attracts termites |
| July 7th, 2006 under Music. [ Comments: none ]
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Rock starTOM PETTY has been forced out of his home studio – by termites. The FREE FALLIN’ singer has closed down the studio in Malibu, California, after the place became infested by bugs. He explains, "We have termites in the walls. They (pest control experts) just emptied everything out and covered the wall with plastic, and they were going to blast this place with insecticides, "Of course, out of the whole home, the only room to have termites would be the studio."
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Wonder if he ws listening to Live’s Lightning Crashes at the time? |
| July 7th, 2006 under Odd. [ Comments: none ]
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A teenager who was hit by lightning over the weekend talked about his close brush with death Thursday.Jason Bunch was mowing the lawn and listening to his iPod at his home in Castle Rock in the 3200 block of Cherry Plum Way on Sunday when he was struck.He was taken to the hospital and was then put into the intensive care unit. Bunch recovered and was released from the hospital."I woke up and blood was coming out my ears," Bunch, a Douglas County High School senior, said.Bunch has large scars on his feet and smaller burn marks on his hands."From where the iPod was, it damaged my hearing and it ruptured my eardrums. Where the cord was, it burned me all down my body," said Bunch. "We need to shave my head because my hair is like dreadlocks. It’s all sticking together.""I’m just extremely blessed to be alive," he said. It was just two weeks ago that doctors in London warned of the dangers of listening to an iPod or using a cell phone during a thunderstorm.
KMGH
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The worst name ever goes to… |
| July 7th, 2006 under Odd. [ Comments: none ]
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After nearly two decades of ridicule, a father has agreed to change his son’s name from "Fined Six Thousand and Five Hundred" — the amount he was forced to pay in local currency for ignoring Vietnam’s two-child policy.Angry he was being fined for having a fifth child, Mai Xuan Can named his son Mai Phat Sau Nghin Ruoi after the amount he was forced to pay — 6,500 dong (50 cents), said Dai Cuong village chief Nguyen Huy Thuong.In 1999, local government officials tried to persuade Can to change the name because the boy was constantly being teased by classmates at school. But Can, a former People’s Committee official, refused to back down, Thuong said. They appealed to him again recently, and this time it worked."I told him that as his son is growing up, he should have another name — not that weird name — and he finally agreed," Thuong said.The son, now 19, finally got a new name: Mai Hoang Long, which means golden dragon.
AP
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