Reports the Associated Press --"A video from a bonus feature of the DVD to Chaplin's 1928 film "The Circus" shows a woman talking into something she's holding up to her ear.It appears to be a mobile phone, although they weren't invented until the 1970s. It's likely the actor is holding a hearing aid, but that hasn't stopped the video from amassing more than two million views on YouTube."
James MacArthur was "Danno," the character, detective Danny Williams on "Hawaii Five-O,"
From NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams --"Without him (James MacArthur), we would not have one of the great phrases in the modern American lexicon. Book him, Danno. murder one. "
Mr. Wall was a former vaudevillian. In 1962, he joined the crew of Captain Kangaroo, the popular children's show, as a stage manager. Six years later, in 1968, the persuaded the show's producers to create its first African-American character. Until 1978 Mr. Wall played Mr. Baxter, a recurring character on the show.
But no jail time. No court date. Just a police escorted trip to a psychiatric hospital to see if his head is on straight, and a night spent cooling his heels, while his head got a look at.
The word is that Mr. Sheen trashed a hotel room, after he got drunk, in the company of a lady for hire. The word from his people is that he had a negative reaction from medication. Oh, boy, what an original excuse for Mr. Sheen's bad boy behavior.
So what else is news? Not this. A new survey is out with old news. Those who conducted the survey issued the underwhelming results: "Half of Women Have Bad Sex."
Last night on their show The Young Turks devoted time to this survey, Right. See the video.
Yesterday, everybody had sex on their mind. Well, that isn't anything new either. The Huffington Post ran article on the new sex survey that is supposed to answer the " how sex has changed in the last 20 years?"
The very talented actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi. have fled north of the border. The Quaids say they are fearful of prosecution in the states and want to start a new life in Canada.
During the last few years, it seems that Mr.Quaid has been living the kind of life that a character, in the kind of movies that he likes to make would live.
The man has been living beyond his means, running up hotel bills then skipping out on them, living the life of a squatter in a house that he once owned, sold and moved out of long ago.
But what can the judge do? Send her to jail? Wouldn't that be a waste of jail space? Cutting her free? Well ,the judge can't do that. Suggesting that she pull a Roman Polanski and just flee. Well, Ms Lothan, -- at this point, I seriously doubt anyone would want her back. Maybe she could join Polanski in Paris?
Item from ITV News -- "Deutsche Bahn's 200mph ICE train is unveiled at St Pancras International ahead of Channel Tunnel service to Frankfurt." See the video.
That German rail company plans to have a high-speed train running from Germany to England by 2013. The train is to carry passengers through the Channel Tunnel to Belgium, and to other destinations.
We, in America, don't have a high-speed train running from Washington to New York -- Not a truly high speed train, running from anywhere to anywhere.
The Germans, the Europeans, are moving ahead, and Uncle Sam is sitting on his fanny, while America is lagging behind in the field of public inter-city and regional transportation.
Buses just don't do it, and they're slow, and carbon deficient. The passengers rail system that we have is not doing the job.
It was cool to subscribe to Playboy, to have it delivered right in the mail box of your very own bachelor apartment. The magazine came in a wrapper. I guess the wrapper may have been another brilliant brain child of Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder and publisher, who didn't want to encourage the mailman to keep of all the copies for himself. Maybe?
Ms. Henderson told Us Magazine that she "was a little surprised, but you know I've watched this show since it began, and I've seen absolutely shocking things happen on it, so somebody has to go."
Well it could be politics? What do you think?
I like that show. I really like it. Why? Because it is funny. It it easy to take. It is the ideal. The ideal is forever simple and filling too. The show is entertaining, not in a foolish way. It's been called Tom Sawyerish. June Cleaver has been called the mom who everybody want their mom to be.
I just watched on-line the Today show interview Jerry Mathers who played the Beaver.
Jerry Mathers from the Interview said of Barbara Billingsley --
So it must be official.
Well, this Florida hustler pastor of bluster, Mr. Terry Jones was offered a brand new automobile by an enterprising automobile dealer, if he would only not burn the Quran.
I've seen a few sites recently devoted to making beer and/or ale from pumpkins. (Here's one.) As Halloween, the season of the Great Pumpkin, is upon us, I thought I would share one of the more disgusting videos on pumpkin brewing- or should I say pumpkin spewing? I'll let you decide.
All 33 Miners in Chile Rescued.
This is happy news. It is good news for the families of the once trapped miners, good news for Chile and good news for people everywhere. It speaks well for the survivability of man and for the resourcefulness of man, to overcome hard obstacles, and to do what would have seemed to be impossible. It speaks well for the communal effort, of man pulling together to save those thirty-three lives.
Well done to Chile, and to all the folks who helped in the rescue.
Song writer of soulful songs, writer of who reached into the heart and beyond. Man whose music will live beyond him. Talent that does not die. Solomon Burke his physical body died early this morning, Sunday.
Solomon Burke was on a plane, arriving at the Amsterdam airport, on a flight from LA. He was on his way to perform in an Amsterdam club. He was 70 years old. His physical body died, but his music will not die.
Yesterday, John Lennon fans remembered.
From the Associated Press -- " A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park's Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from "Imagine" on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday. On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the floppy-haired British superstar who just wanted to give peace a chance."
