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| WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 18, 2009 |
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 JACKO MOLEST-RAP DAD KILLS HIMSELF: A tormented New Jersey dad, who spent nearly two decades grappling with his son’s sensational molestation claims against Michael Jackson, finally ended his pain with a gunshot to the head, authorities said yesterday. The body of Evan Chandler, 65, the father of Jordan “Jordy” Chandler, was found in his luxury Jersey City apartment on Nov. 5 — still holding his .38-caliber revolver as he lay in bed, officials said yesterday. There were five different prescription drugs in the home. No suicide note was found.
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OBAMA ‘ANGRIER THAN BOB GATES’: Nobody likes a leaker, least of all President Obama. During a round of network interviews, Obama told CBS’s Chip Reid that he is “angrier than Bob Gates” about the leaks surrounding his deliberations on strategy in Afghanistan. Obama said, “we have these deliberations in the Situation Room for a reasonbecause we are making decisions that are life-and-death,” calling the slips “not appropriate.”
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OBAMA: GITMO WON’T CLOSE IN TIME: On Fox News, this may in fact be good news. Speaking to Fox’s Major Garrett for his first interview with the network since July, President Obama acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that the prison at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he had set. Obama said that he “knew this was going to be hard,” and added that he still hopes to close the prison sometime next year.
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BYRD SETS CONGRESS RECORD: A lot has changed in the last 56 years and 320 days since West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd first took office. On Wednesday he became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, breaking a record previously held by Carl Hayden of Arizona, who served in the House and then the Senate from 1912 to 1969. Byrd, who turns 92 next week, has been in office long enough to rescind his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and repeatedly voice his regret about joining the Ku Klux Klan an eternity ago.
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THANKSGIVING: HIGHWAYS WILL BE MORE CROWDED: Holiday travel expected to rise by 1.4% from last year, but fewer Americans will fly, AAA says: After a sharp drop last year, more Americans are expected to travel for the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday, although travel by air will decline, according to a forecast from motorist group AAA issued Wednesday. AAA said that 38.4 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for the Thanksgiving weekend, an increase of 1.4% from last year, when 37.8 million traveled. The average distance traveled will be 815 miles, the group said, though more than a third will travel 250 miles or less.
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 TOUGH PARTNER: President Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the U.S.
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MAERSK ALABAMA ATTACKED AGAIN: No Navy SEALS required this time: The Maersk Alabamathe U.S. ship whose captain was freed from Somali pirates after a dramatic rescue attempt in Aprilwas attacked a second time by Somali pirates on Wednesday. Guards on board the ship repelled the assailants with gunfire.
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CORONER ON STANDBY AS POLICE DIG AT HOME THAT HID 11 BODIES: Six members of the coroner’s office were summoned Wednesday to a home in Cleveland, Ohio, where investigators recently found 11 bodies. The coroner’s office was on standby after investigators returned to the house Wednesday to dig by hand, said Powell Caesar, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office. The digging focused on “suspect areas” near the home of Anthony Sowell, a registered sex offender who served 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted rape.
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CLINTON MAKES UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will attend the
inauguration of Hamid Karzai and meet with Gen. Stanley
McChystal.
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 IRAN SENTENCES 5 TO DEATH FOR POST-ELECTION PROTESTS: Iran said Tuesday that it has sentenced five people to death and another 81 to prison terms of 6 months to 15 years for their roles in the protests that followed the country’s disputed presidential elections. The five who received death sentences were convicted of membership in terrorist groups and for carrying out bombings across Iran, the Tehran Judiciary said in a statement that was reported by state media. The others were found guilty of various charges, including acting against the national interest, disturbing the peace and destroying public property.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Jane Fonda at a Pasadena Playhouse performance of “Baby It’s You” on Tuesday. ***Old friends veteran producer Barry Josephson and media expert and author Michael Levine having lunch yesterday at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills. ***Sen. Chuck Schumer pushing a cart down the aisles at Costco in Brooklyn. ***Tim Burton celebrating the opening of his MoMA exhibit at the Russian Tea Room with toasts of vodka by Johnny Depp, Danny DeVito, Patti Smith, Danny Elfman and Helena Bonham Carter. ***House Speaker Nancy Pelosi breakfasting at Tarallucci e Vino on East 18th Street in NYC. ***Legendary photographer Herman Leonard dining at the sushi bar at Shu in the Beverly Glen Plaza near Mulholland Drive. ***Freida Pinto and boyfriend Dev Patel had an intimate dinner at San Diegos Nobu restaurant. ***Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake celebrated her new album release at L.A.s Hyde Lounge. ***Rachel Bilson and Kristen Bell went shopping with their stylist at Pop Up Boutique in Los Angeles. ***Brody Jenner hosted a party at Chicago nightspot Enclave. Also at Enclave were Cris Judd and Brooke Hogan. ***LL Cool J grabbed a quick bite at Kitchen 24 in L.A. for dinner with his dad. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 MANY DOCTORS TO STAY COURSE ON BREAST EXAMS FOR NOW: Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change. Its kind of hard to suggest that we should stop examining our patients and screening them, said Dr. Annekathryn Goodman, director of the fellowship program in gynecological oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. I would be cautious about changing a practice that seems to work.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***No need to sweeten the deal here: Hershey Co. is lining up billions of dollars to launch a rival bid to Krafts $16 billion offer for candy maker Cadbury. Hershey may team up with a partner like Ferrero SpA, the Italian maker of Tic-Tacs, Nutella, and Ferrero Rocher chocolates. ***Criticized over bonuses, Goldman Sachs said it was working with the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett in a $500 million project to help 10,000 small businesses.
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THE QUAID SOAP OPERA: The Daily Beast is reporting today on the bizarre tale of Randy and Evi Quaid - a couple whose saga is increasingly turning into a tragedy. Reportedly, the Quaids have failed to appear at four separate criminal court hearings and a Texas neighbor has accused them of vandalizing his house. TDB also says that Evi Quaid sent a letter to a Seattle theater critic, containing nude pictures of herself - holding a gun - and that she is developing a museum to her husband’s film career, in possible violations of local zoning laws. The site details the saga beginning with an October 19 court date in Santa Barbara at which the couple was supposed to be present to face charges of burglary, fraud and conspiracy after they’d skipped out on a $10,546.96 bill at the San Ysidro Ranch resort hotel. After they didn’t show up, official extradition proceedings were begun to force the Quaids from their home in remote Marfa, Texas back to California to face the music.
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LBN-BRUTAL FACT: An average of 667 million pieces of mail are processed each day by the U.S. Postal Service.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions is finalizing plans for a new daytime show featuring interior designer and “Oprah” show regular Nate Berkus. The project could roll out in fall 2010. The new show follows “Dr. Oz,” another show built around an Oprah personality. ***CBS is approaching a 90% sell-out for its Feb. 7 broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV, according to the network’s head of sports sales, meaning the network likely has only between six and 12 30-second ad spots left to sell. Sales have been “surprisingly good.” ***Bloomberg LP is naming Time.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel as editor of BusinessWeek magazine. Tyrangiel, who is also deputy managing editor of Time magazine, understands “how print and online can work together,” says BusinessWeek chief Norman Pearlstine. ***Conde Nast will celebrate the holidays Monday at Aureole, the restaurant in the Bank of America Tower. Conde Nast canceled its annual holiday lunch last year. But this year — with six magazines shuttered and hundreds laid off — the company aims to prove it “survived.” ***Mail.com and magazine maven Bonnie Fuller are officially launching HollywoodLife.com as a female-focused celebrity news site. HollywoodLife already has content partnerships with iVillage and AOL’s Popeater. “HollywoodLife will keep growing,” Fuller says. ***Publicly, Charlie Gibson has “tremendous respect and fondness” for Diane Sawyer, slated to replace him as anchor of ABC News, but privately, he can barely stand her, according to ABC insiders. An unnamed source said that’d he’d always given Sawyer “the stink eye” and that he “bad-mouths her openly and often.”
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Todd Gitlin’s UNDYING, about a philosopher, who is diagnosed with lymphoma while struggling to write a book contending that Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought stemmed from his ill heath, and who is also compelled to contend with a severely errant daughter, as well as the trauma of George W. Bush’s 2004 victory, sold to Jack Shoemaker at Counterpoint, by Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group. ***David Kipper MD and Steven Whitney’s ADDICTION RX, a new paradigm in treatment by a Beverly Hills doctor who treats addiction as a neuro-chemical disease triggered by stress, sold to Shannon Welch at Rodale, for publication in November 2010, by Steve Troha at Folio Literary Management (World). ***Chelsea Lately writer and frequent Chelsea Lately Round Table comedian Heather McDonald’s YOU’LL NEVER BLUEBALL IN THIS TOWN AGAIN, recounting her quest to lose her virginity though humorously, she remained a virgin until 27 years old, sold to Zachary Schisgal at Touchstone Fireside, for publication in 2010. ***NYT bestselling author Richard Reeves with Harvey Sawler’s JFK: A YOUNG PRESIDENT, a visual history of the Kennedy administration and first family featuring photographs by Cecil Stoughton, chief photographer during the Kennedy administration, sold to Deborah Aaronson at Abrams, for publication in Fall 2010, by Amanda Urban at ICM representing Reeves and Rick Broadhead at Rick Broadhead & Associates representing Sawler (World). ***TV and film star Harry Hamlin’s FULL FRONTAL NUDITY, recounting his unconventional childhood, formative years and his early twenties in this well-written and humorous book, sold to Beth Wareham at Scribner, for publication in 2010, by Michael Broussard at ISB New Media (World). ***Web pioneer, TV and radio pundit, and rising conservative political star Andrew Breitbart’s THINKING BIG, a call to arms in fighting back against the Democrat Media Complex — the natural alliance of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and Hollywood, sold to Rick Wolff at Grand Central, at auction, for publication in early 2011, by Gene Brissie, returning as head of James Peters Associates (world).
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By ANDREA CAVALIERE (Chef): Im in love with Langhe in Piedmont, Italy. This hilly, foggy, and picturesque region provides us with white truffles, castelmagno, robiola, wine, mushrooms, and Fassonea special breed of cow that is only bred in Piedmontthat yields the best meat. You can dine in any small osteria or trattoria and experience one of the best meals of your lifepreferably one that includes bollito misto. Autumn is the best time of year to travel to this region.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: Poring over Sarah Palins book to find anything in common with this apotheosis of traditional American values.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Clean energy opponents believe global warming doesnt exist because that is the only way their arguments make sense.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By JOHN STOSSEL: Bill O’Reilly is mad at me because I’m not mad enough about taxes.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By STEVEN SIMON: If the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial provides a propaganda platform for anybody, it will be for our side.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***There was panic the other night when Gloria Estefan lost her $220,000 diamond Bulgari bracelet getting out of a car in Miami. The singer was heading to dinner with Ricky Martin and Bulgari CEO Francesco Trapani to celebrate the jeweler’s 125th-anniversary collection at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. A source told Page Six: “Gloria went to say hello to Ricky and show off her jewelry to Francesco — but the bracelet was gone. Her husband, Emilio, ran outside. After 30 minutes searching on the cobblestone walkway in the dark with a security team, he found it and returned it to Gloria.” ***Only in the world of Ryan O’Neal does being shut out of a will equate true love. The “Love Story” star claims he and longtime lover Farrah Fawcett agreed he shouldn’t get a dime from her living trust and that nearly all the money should go to Redmond O’Neal: “Farrah’s and my relationship was based on a deep love and respect for one another and for our son Redmond. After discussing how her financial affairs would be handled in the event of her passing, we agreed that our son Redmond would be the primary beneficiary of her estate.
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DID YOU KNOW: ***People who cannot taste or smell suffer from anosmia. ***The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear’s snout is called the rhinarium. ***An easily remembered melody is called a tune. ***Someone who habitually picks their nose is called a rhinotillexomaniac. ***People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.
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LBN-QUOTE: Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. -Mohandas Gandhi.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 18, 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By Marie Curie: I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. (1934)
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