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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Baby, 5 others shot in Mardi Gras Parade
NEW ORLEANS -- An infant and at least five other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers, police said. Two suspects were in custody and the victims were recovering.
The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Hundreds of truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.
"It sounded like a string of fireworks, so I knew it was more than one shooter," said Toni Labat, 29, a window company manager. She was with her two children, a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.
"Everybody was petrified. They hit the ground, the floats stopped, everybody on the floats ducked," Labat said.
Labat said one man dragged himself on the ground screaming for help after being wounded and another man was gasping for air and bleeding from his mouth.
Police spokesman Bob Young said the victims were taken to local hospitals. The infant was grazed by a bullet and not seriously hurt, Young said.
Dr. Jim Parry, 41, a surgeon who was with a gathering of doctors near the shooting site, ran over to tend to one man who he said had been shot in the abdomen. "He kept asking me, 'Was I shot? Was I shot?'"
Paramedics arrived and took over for the Air Force reservist.
"I'm off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan," Parry said.
Two male suspects, ages 18 and 20, were in custody and three weapons believed used in the shooting had been recovered, Young said.
The violence along the oak-lined Uptown streetcar line marred what had been a generally peaceful day of revelry in which hundreds of thousands of people partied in the streets on the final day of Carnival. Another shooting was reported on Friday night after an argument, but otherwise, the event was generally problem-free.
Beau Beals, 45, said he was outside a house party on St. Charles Avenue when the shooting erupted. He said he and other revelers tossed children over a metal fence to get them to safety, but others kept waiting for beads and other trinkets being tossed from the floats as if nothing had happened.
"They had an ambulance out here picking the guy up off the street and people didn't stop vying for throws," Beals said.--Associated Press
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen
HOLLYWOOD — If only he'll wear those gold lamé pants.
As word got out that Hugh Jackman would be this year's Oscar host, a clip from the 2004 Tony telecast of his performance from "The Boy From Oz" made the rounds. If you happened to miss the 2004 Tonys, Jackman, playing the flamboyant Australian songwriter Peter Allen, sang, danced and writhed his way across the stage in a leopard-skin top and skin-tight gold lamé pants.
Will the Oscar gift baskets include smelling salts?
Jackman, who has hosted the Tonys several times and won an Emmy for doing so in 2005, certainly knows how to hold a stage — he won a Tony for "The Boy From Oz" — and by choosing him, first-time Oscar producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon are betting that Broadway can do what comedy could not.
Previous hosts — Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Rock — followed the traditional stand-up model, and the ratings have soured steadily. Obviously a change is required, and although I would lean toward thinking "television" rather than "Broadway," Jackman is, of course, another way to go.
Clearly Mark and Condon are less concerned with solving the ratings crisis than they are with creating a new vibe for the show. Jackman may have more talent in his little finger than most of us do in our entire bodies, but he doesn't have the fan base of DeGeneres or Rock. If you are among the thousands who loved his hosting of the Tonys, you're probably not only watching the Oscars anyway, you're hosting your own annual Oscar party.
Yes, Jackman was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive last year, and yes, he is Wolverine of the "X-Men" film franchise, but do we want Wolverine hosting the Oscars? Probably not. Otherwise, Jackman's movie career has been less than memorable, capped by last year's box-office dud "Australia." And, as last season's mercifully short-lived "Viva Laughlin" proved, one talented person does not a television show make. Or at least not a good television show.
But Mark and Condon are the team that brought us "Dreamgirls," which actually makes Jackman an obvious choice. There's nothing wrong with a big Broadway-esque opener similar to Billy Crystal's famous musical clips, but with more hip action. Beyond that, however, it gets a little worrisome. The Oscars have a prickly relationship with singin' and dancin', and as anyone who saw Rosie O'Donnell's recent disaster knows, nothing fails bigger than a failed variety show.
What Jackman does have in his favor is an unapologetic, unabashed love for, and understanding of, theater. He isn't snarky and isn't an outsider. He is a from-the-bottom-of-his-heart performer who seems utterly happy and at ease in front of an audience.
No doubt those in the Kodak Theatre will enjoy an energetic and dazzling evening. How it will play on television remains to be seen.
But maybe it's time we stopped caring about that so much.
Is Lisa Rinna Drunk at the Oscars?
The first limo hasn't even arrived yet -- and Joey Fatone is already accusing his TV Guide co-host Lisa Rinna of pounding down a few too many champagne cocktails. This is gonna be fun.
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http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/22/lisa-rinna-drunk-oscar-red-carpet/
2. Thats right lIsa drown your sorrows away. But save some of the liquor to wash off the twenty inches of makeup you got on.... She was such a pretty girl what a waste.
Posted at 6:01PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by Zoya
3. She's often uncomfortably silly and over the top and I think it's just her trying too hard. She mght have had a few, but probably not too drunk to function - just a mixture of silly and a little bubbly.
Posted at 6:02PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by ann
4. OMG, her mouth in that picture! LMAOOOO! Hemorrhoid lipz!
Posted at 6:05PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by HolySh*t
5. Those lips are as big as sofa cushions.....yikes!
Posted at 6:11PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by Luke Warmwater
6. eeew, whore.
Posted at 6:13PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by angie
7. TMZ needs to tune in to E!. Nicole Ritchie just announced that she's expecting her second child and not peep about it from tmz. tsk tsk
Posted at 6:13PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by keep up
8. Wow! Talk about plastic surgery gone wrong! That make-up just ecentuates all the work she has had done. What a shame. She used to be pretty. Now she is plastic and on the heels of Joan Rivers.
Posted at 6:26PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by Nikki
9. I think she really is drunk - just saw her interview some people....it looks like its going to be a long night over at TV Guide.
Posted at 6:26PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by watching
10. she looks terrible, she can't even move her face.... people need to know that it IS ok to grow old....
Posted at 6:32PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by Jennifer
11. Everytime I see Lisa R. my stomach turns. Who in the h--l keeps hiring her for jobs? I wish she would ride off in the sunset so noone has to see or hear her big stupid mouth again. She is so gross and creepy, you would think that she would go hide in a closet. Yuk--Double Yuk!
Posted at 6:32PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by Blackjack
12. fakey... fakey..like her boobies and her lips and every word that comes out of her mouth.....
Posted at 6:34PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by ilovetheshowmadmen
13. My local cable is on black for the tvguide channel! Has something happened or are they just incompetant again?
Posted at 6:41PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by kjunea
14. She's in CALIFORNIA. We can buy pot here. She should have done a bowl of pot only, brushed her teeth, & then had fun.
TOO MUCH BOOZE = SLOPPY.
TOO MUCH POT = SLEEPY & HUNGRY. Legalize it.
Posted at 6:55PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by San Francisco
15. Wow!Not a chance in missing that kisser.Canyou say "sucking on an exhaust for three hours"! She can't possibly think she looks good! Maybe she just joined the "joan Rivers Posse"
Posted at 6:57PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by sillyb13
http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/22/lisa-rinna-drunk-oscar-red-carpet/
Live Text: The Oscars 2009
By Justin Parkinson of BBC News
0055 The stars are out in force now. Meryl Streep and Robert Downey Jr are doing interviews.
0052 The BBC's Neil Smith writes: "James Bond is here," says one TV commentator excitedly as Daniel Craig turns up. Queen Latifah is here too, reportedly to sing I'll Be Seeing You during the death reel. Anne Hathaway and Evan Rachel Wood look like old-time movie stars in shiny white gowns. Amy Adams, though, is wearing a necklace that looks like something she made herself out of second-hand marbles.
0051 Spare a thought for Mike Myers. His film The Love Guru has won three Golden Raspberry Awards - a sort of anti-Academy Awards celebrating the worst offerings of the year. Sir Ben Kingsley, a previous Oscar winner, was among those "honoured" for his role alongside the former Wayne's World star. He's here on the red carpet, though, with pride seemingly intact.
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0047 The BBC's Neil Smith writes: Mamma Mia's Dominic Cooper is here; will he perform as has been mooted online? So is Natalie Portman in perky pink. Mllk star James Franco looks dashing, though I think he's wearing the same suit from the Spirits. (Oddly, his director Gus Van Sant and Slumdog composer A R Rahman have gone for almost exactly the same shade of ivory tie.) Supporting actor candidate Josh Brolin is doing the rounds with his partner Diane Lane.
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0034 What are you doing to celebrate Oscars night? Across the UK many people are holding all-night parties, with a devil-may-care attitude to work on Monday. Let us know what you are up to using the form in the top right-hand corner of this page.
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0027 Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle, nominated for best director, tells the BBC the film's success is really down to the actors. Will he let them go to the podium on his behalf if he wins, then?
0025 What kind of a show are we in for? Amid concern over falling viewing figures in recent years, there is speculation that we might be in for a little more pazazz. Host Hugh Jackman, no stranger to musical theatre, is reportedly planning to get things under way with a song-and-dance routine involving the efforts of Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. Will a little bit of Australian stardust give the Oscars a lift?
0023 The BBC's Neil Smith writes: Said hi to best actress outsider Melissa Leo, who was so gracious at the Spirit Awards on Saturday I almost hope she wins. (She won't, of course. Even she wouldn't bet on herself.) Supporting actress hopeful Viola Davis, nominated for Doubt, is positively glowing in a golden gown. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical fame have turned up together, which is sure to get the Twitterverse twittering. Oh, and there's best actor nominee Richard Jenkins looking distinguished.
0020 The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan writes: We've been given a copy of the menu the stars will tuck into at the Governors Ball, the official Oscars after-party. It is lavish and includes lobster, sushi, poached shrimp, lobster tails, crab legs and mussels. 1500 guests are expected to attend.
0015 The red carpet is swarming. Sir Anthony Hopkins is meeting and greeting.
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0009 A Hollywood legend is here. Mickey Rooney is doing interviews, with the same aplomb as the days when he and Judy Garland were two of the biggest names in film.
0007 It's 80 years since the first Academy Awards, but does 2009 also mark the 70th anniversary of the greatest ever? The year 1939 saw Gone With the Wind take best film, beating the likes of The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Goodbye, Mr Chips. How does 2009 compare?
0001 One of the big nominees has arrived - The Visitor's Richard Jenkins, who is up for best actor. He's probably the least recognisable of all the main nominees.
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thefashioncult tweets: Miley Cyrus looks like a sugar coated Disney character. Read thefashioncult tweets
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2347 The BBC's Neil Smith writes: And we're off. The Slumdog Millionaire crew have arrived, director Danny Boyle flanked by around 10 members of his cast and crew. (Rather delightfully, they include the film's young stars, who have been flown in specially from India.) Supporting actress hopeful Taraji P Henson is also here blowing kisses at the camera, as is Sharon Stone in a red dress that matches the carpet. Milk actor Emile Hirsch is here, looking rather smarter than he did at the Spirits yesterday. And look, there's previous best actor winner Anthony Hopkins. Oh, I could murder a nice Chianti.
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2336 So who and what are the favourites for this year's big awards? The smart money seems to be on Britain's Kate Winslet for The Reader winning best actress and Mickey Rourke best actor for The Wrestler. Slumdog Millionaire is the pundits' favourite for best film. It would also be a major upset if the late Heath Ledger did not take best supporting, making him only the second dead actor to win an Oscar, following Peter Finch's honour for Network in 1977.
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Louis C.K.’s Hilarious Tour skeds Playhouse Square stop
From the Cleveland Playhouse Examiner
Louis C.K., one of America’s hottest stand-ups, is bringing his ‘Hilarious Tour’ to Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theater on April 25th at 8 p.m.
Tickets to see this brilliant, jack-of-all-comic-trades go on sale today, February 20. Tickets start at only $10. Get them by going to www.PlayhouseSquare.org or call 216-241-6000.
A major force in American comedy, Louis C.K. has scored big time as a writer, filmmaker, actor and stand-up. He’s written for Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Dana Carvey and Chris Rock. He teamed up with Rock to co-write ‘Down to Earth’ and ‘I Think I Love my Wife.’
C.K. also wrote and directed 'Pootie Tang,' the hilarious film based on a character he created for The Chris Rock Show. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootie_Tang
Before his break-out HBO special, ‘Shameless,’ in 2006, C.K. frequently plied his trade on Letterman, Leno, Conan and Jimmy Kimmel. This past October, C.K.’s latest stand-up special, ‘Chewed Up’ debuted on Showtime.
Born Louis Szekely to an economist father and Harvard-educated mother: (He's Jewish-Hungarian, she's Irish Catholic and if you’re familiar with his act, that explains a lot.) His stage name derives from the preferred pronunciation of his family ‘s last name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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1. Eeew look at her LIPS!!!!!!!!!
Posted at 6:01PM on Feb 22nd 2009 by CaliGirl