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TUESDAY • MAY 4, 2010
GOT HIM! — BOMBER CONFESSES: Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was arrested late on Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he tried to take a flight to Dubai, local and federal officials said. Shahzad, 30, was due to appear in federal court later on Tuesday to face charges of “driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1,” officials said. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, experts said. “He’s admitted to buying the truck, putting the devices together, putting them in the truck, leaving the truck there and leaving the scene,” the law enforcement source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He’s claimed to have acted alone. He did admit to all the charges, so to speak,” the source said, adding that investigators were still looking into his activities during a recent trip to Pakistan.
 

 

 

LBN BEATS USA TODAY WITH LATE NEWS:  Last night, all 317,000 LBN E-Lert readers got the Late-Breaking News that Federal agents and police detectives arrested a man in connection with Saturday’s foiled Times Square attack early Tuesday: The Connecticut man, Faisal Shahzad, 30, is a naturalized American citizen who is originally from Pakistan. LBN readers got the news BEFORE USA Today and many other major news outlets. LBN readers win again!   Officials took him into custody at JFK Airport, The New York Times reports. He was nabbed “at the last second,” a source tells CNN—the flight he was on, headed to Dubai and had to return to the gate for authorities to make the arrest. Shahzad reportedly paid cash three weeks ago for the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder later found parked in Times Square and rigged with explosives; no paperwork was apparently involved in the sale. He also recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.
 

 

 

‘FELA,’ CAGE’ TOP TONY NOMS: Star wattage will burn bright at the 2010 Tony Awards with Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kelsey Grammer among those receiving nominations Tuesday. Washington and Law were each cited for best actor performances in “Fences” and “Hamlet,” respectively. Zeta-Jones was nominated for best performance by a leading actress in a musical, “A Little Night Music,” and Grammer was nominated for lead actor in a musical, “La Cage aux Folles.” “Fela!” — nominated for best musical — and “La Cage aux Folles,” nominated for the best musical revival, each received 11 nominations, followed by “Fences” with 10 nominations.
 

 

 

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D.C. MAY LEGALIZE WEED: Washington, D.C.’s perennially stressed politicos may have a new way to unwind, as long as they have a doctor’s note: The D.C. Council will vote on Tuesday whether or not to legalize medical marijuana and thus dispensaries for patients who qualify. The drug’s widespread use is something of an open secret in the city, which studies have shown to have one of the highest rates of use (and highest rates of arrest)—11 percent of District residents admit to lighting up over the past year in spite of heavy fines, according to federal surveys.
 

 

 

LBN-INVESTIGATES: The world’s first nuclear reactor was built in a squash court beneath a Chicago football stadium on December 2, 1942. While it only generated enough power to light a flashlight, it proved that nuclear power was feasible.
 

 

 

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***A lost iPhone may be the least of Apple’s problems: Rumors are swirling that antitrust authorities may investigate the company after it issued a new licensing agreement for iPhone application developers that prevents them from using non-Apple software to create the apps. New advertising restrictions may also give the company’s iAd service an unfair leg up over other companies, and both new restrictions will be the subject of talks in the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, which will determine whether or not an inquiry is needed.
 

 

 

WORLD’S OLDEST PERSON DIES: Once again, the world’s oldest person has died. Kama Chinen of Okinawa, Japan, passed a week before her 115th birthday. Born in 1895, Chinen lived through three different centuries. As a Japanese centenarian, she was in good company: At last count, the country had over 40,000 people who are more than 100 years old. The title of world’s oldest person now belongs to 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard of France.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Comedians lining up to sing “Happy Birthday” to George Carlin next Wednesday, May 12 at the Laugh Factory. Carlin, who died in 2008, would have been 73. It’s all part of a huge birthday party celebration of the life of George Carlin at the Laugh Factory.
 

 

 

LBN-VIDEO LINK: White Women’s Workout: Ladies, call Ty Bowman to lose weight.  He’s a large scary black guy who will chase you down the street.  Yes, he is sneering in this picture.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***A former CBS producer who admitted trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman over the late-night host’s affairs is bracing for time behind bars. Robert “Joe” Halderman is to be sentenced Tuesday to a six-month jail term, as planned when he pleaded guilty in March.   ***Dan Lagani, the former president of Conde Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Group, is moving to the Reader’s Digest Association. In the new position of president of RD Media, he will oversee the publishing of the flagship magazine as well as other company businesses.   ***MTV has just announced some of the big name presenters for the June 6th MTV Movie Awards, held at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City. The evening presenters include: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Shaun White, Jonah Hill, Steve Carell, and Russell Brand.
 

 

 

PAKISTAN ARRESTS TWO IN CONNECTION WITH TIMES SQUARE BOMB: Pakistani authorities have arrested two people in connection with the failed bombing in Times Square, according to an intelligence official who was not authorized to speak for the record. One of the suspects, Tausif Ahmed, allegedly traveled two months ago to the United States to meet with Faisal Shahzad, the American citizen who has been arrested by U.S. law enforcement.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:    ***Jack Nicholson dining with two of his kids, a son and daughter, at Elaine’s in NYC.  ***Ted Nugent, Avid Hunter, at Primola in NYC with Lenny DePaul, the star of A&E’s “Manhunters.”    ***Stars of the CW’s “One Tree Hill”, romancers in real life Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols strolling hand in hand at the corner of Sunset and Vine.  ***Helen Hunt and her daughter having dinner at Louise’s Trattoria in Brentwood.   ***Adam Sandler enjoying lunch at Louise’s Trattoria in Brentwood.   ***Wall Street Journal op-ed editor having dinner at the beautiful Azalea restaurant in the theater district on 51st and Broadway in New York City.   ***Actor and comedian Jason Stuart, who is up for a Emmy Nomination for his guest shot on “THe Closer,” was seen having a salad with “Baywatch” Babe Alexandra Paul, recently seen on “Mad Men” at Basix in West Hollywood.   ***Pamela Anderson walks three miles in the California Wildlife Center’s “Walk on the Wild Side” event on Zuma Beach in Malibu, California.   ***Angelina Jolie films “The Tourist” at the Rialto Market in Venice, Italy.   ***Michael J. Fox, Oscar De La Hoya, Paris Hilton, Jeremy Piven, Will Smith, Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon were among the celebs watching the WBA welterweight boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.   ***Kristen Stewart commits what some critics describe as a “Chanel catastrophe” at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
 

 

 

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OIL SPILL APPROACHES FLORIDA KEYS: Gulf Coast residents are anxiously eyeing the path the oil spill will take, hoping it doesn’t sully their beaches. So far, weather has mostly kept the slick off the coastlines, but it’s approaching the Loop Current, which would carry the oil south along the Florida coast and into the Florida Keys. Officials expect it will take another week before one hoped-for solution—the placement of a huge box over the source of the leak—is in place. The Alabama Press-Register notes that the federal government did not have a single boom on hand when the oil leak began. Meanwhile, BP, the oil giant behind the spill, is now apologizing after trying to get local fishermen to waive legal rights in exchange for $5,000, reports The Daily Beast’s Rick Outzen from the Gulf Coast.
 

 

 


LBN-SPORTS INSIDER:   ***Manny Pacquiao has agreed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s previous cut-off date for a random Olympic-style drug testing protocol.   ***A male University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with first degree murder Monday after a member of the school’s women’s lacrosse team was found dead in her apartment, police said. Police were initially called to the off-campus apartment by a roommate who reported “a possible alcohol overdose,” said Tim Longo, chief of police in Charlottesville, Virginia. Police identified the dead student as Yeardley Love, 22, a senior from Cockeysville, Maryland. 

 

 

 


LBN-BOOK INSIDER:   ***The attempted car bombing in Times Square is similar to the events imagined by author David Goodwillie in his new novel “American Subversive.”   ***Writer Scott Turow, the king of legal thrillers, brings back his fictional defendant in ‘Innocent,’ the sequel to his first novel, the 1987 blockbuster ‘Presumed Innocent.’

 

 

 

CLINTON FACES OFF WITH IRAN’S LEADER AT UN NUCLEAR CONFERENCE: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced off with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations on Monday, accusing Tehran of “flouting the rules” of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and calling for “a strong international response.” Iran “will do whatever it can to divert attention from its own record and to attempt to evade accountability,” Clinton said at the opening of a month long conference on nuclear nonproliferation.
 

 

 


LBN-HEALTH INSIDER:   ***As controversial as mammograms are for women in their 40s, some get them even younger — and new research casts doubt on their usefulness.   ***Cancer is all too common in dogs, especially golden retrievers: 60% of them die of it, more than twice the average rate for all breeds. That includes lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells; osteosarcoma, a cancer of the bones, and hemangiosarcoma, a particularly nasty cancer of the cells that line the blood vessels whose first symptom may be sudden death.   ***Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the birth-control pill in the U.S. 

 

 

 

LBN-MUSIC INSIDER:    ***MILAN - La Scala has canceled Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” with tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday night because of a strike called by unions protesting government emergency measures regarding the finances of Italy’s 14 opera houses.   ***Spotify, a new music service from Europe might be the first legitimate iTunes contender. And it’s coming soon to the United States.   ***On May 19, under a “Music Saves Mountains” banner at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews and eastern Kentucky native Patty Loveless will raise money for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s battle to end mountaintop removal. 
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By KERRI ZANE: Every woman over 40 has experienced that life altering moment of forgetfulness. The OH NO! Where did I put my keys? Where are my glasses? Or why the heck did I just walk into the bedroom? It is these very times that give us pause. Are we really getting that old? Has early Alzheimer’s set in? Or are we just simply overwhelmed and having a synapses meltdown? And for gawd sakes can we please put a pin in it. We’ve got too much to do!
 

 

 

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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: The influence of governmental policy is largely a matter of its effect on cultural fabric and social bonds.
 
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By ROGER COHEN: What was it like? I would ask myself, the years I lived in Berlin. What was it like in the leafy Grunewald neighborhood to watch your Jewish neighbors — lawyers, businessmen, dentists — trooping head bowed to the nearby train station for transport eastward to extinction? With what measure of fear, denial, calculation, conscience and contempt did neighbors who had proved their Aryan stock to Hitler’s butchers make their accommodations with this Jewish exodus? How good did the schnapps taste and how effectively did it wash down the shame?
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS SOWELL: Recent stories out of both Philadelphia and San Francisco tell of black students beating up Asian American students. This is especially painful for those who expected that the election of Barack Obama would mark the beginning of a post-racial America.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By BARACK OBAMA: I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By JES ALEXANDER (Publisher of Herald de Paris): Last week I spoke with a mortgage lender, and asked him how many people he had been able to help under the governmental mortgage reform program.  He said the requirements of the “reform” program were so convoluted that the only person he was able to help was a cardiologist with a $500,000 mortgage, who didn’t really need help.  The program does not allow him to help those who really need to refinance.  If this is a fair sampling of the current ruling parties’ “reform” programs, the trillion-dollar stimulus is just another smoke-screen to pacify the voting public and serve the private interest groups.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By STACEY OLLIFF (Senior Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs of Comcast Interactive Media): The News reports recently said the $8,000 homebuyer incentive was largely given to people who would have bought homes anyway, so the effective cost per incremental home sale stimulated was an incredibly inefficient $30,000 or more. That’s $30,000 that the country’s taxpayers don’t have to spend on something else. The same was true of the cash-for-clunkers program and other supposed “stimulus spending”. It is thinly disguised crony-capitalism with favored industries with powerful lobbyists like automakers and realtors getting short-term, meaningless subsidies that everyone else will pay for. The government can’t create wealth, only redistribute it and reduce aggregate wealth in the process.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By CHARLES DE GAULLE: A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***Jimmy Fallon has been named host of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, which will air on NBC in August.   ***Actor David Boreanaz has admitted to cheating on his wife of more than eight years. He’s that actor who starred in Angel and Bones, but here’s the really interesting part: RadarOnline.com says his mistress was Rachel Uchitel, the same one who carried on an affair with Tiger Woods. Boreanaz only came clean about his affairs after he was threatened by a mistress who is represented by Gloria Allred, who also represents Uchitel. TMZ confirms that Boreanaz’s mistress is represented by Allred, but disputes that he ever had an affair with Uchitel.   ***David Carradine’s third wife, Gail Jensen, has died after a long history of alcohol related health problems. Jensen, 60, passed away late last week in a Fresno County, California, hospital after falling and hitting her head.   ***Jenna Jameson and one of her two boys with Tito Ortiz were rushed to the hospital in an ambulance last night around midnight — after her son Journey began projectile vomiting shortly after 11 PM.
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE:  “Everything is much richer if we understand that these qualities, good and evil, are distributed on a spectrum, throughout everybody.” -Peter Straub.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
 
 

 

 


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MONDAY • MAY 3, 2010

 

 

 


U.S. ARRESTS CONNECTICUT MAN IN TIMES SQUARE BOMB PLOT: 
 
 
Federal agents and police detectives Monday night arrested a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing on Saturday night.
 
 
The suspect is the buyer of the sport-utility vehicle used in a failed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square a law enforcement source said Monday.

 

 

 

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MONDAY • MAY 3, 2010

 

 

 


U.S. ARRESTS CONNECTICUT MAN IN TIMES SQUARE BOMB PLOT: 
 
 
Federal agents and police detectives Monday night arrested a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing on Saturday night.
 
 
The suspect is the buyer of the sport-utility vehicle used in a failed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square a law enforcement source said Monday.

 

 

 

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MONDAY • MAY 3, 2010
POLICE SEEK TIMES SQUARE SUSPECT: The manhunt is on: Police are seeking a white man who appears to be in his 40s after he was recorded walking away from a vehicle containing a car bomb in Times Square. In the surveillance footage, he is seen removing his shirt as he walks away from the SUV. Meanwhile, ABC News reports that the bomber made several mistakes that probably explain why the vehicle failed to explode: For starters, he used a non-explosive kind of fertilizer. He also did not open the valves on the propane tanks.
 

 

 

WORKERS EYE 5 SOLUTIONS TO OIL LEAK: Workers are currently developing five potential solutions to deal with the catastrophic oil spill off the Gulf Coast: The first would inject dispersants into the sea floor to break up the oil; the second will attempt to close the blowout preventer that failed; a third would drop steel boxes on the slick to try to redirect the oil into pipes on a ship; the fourth is trying to install new pressure-control equipment on the well; and the fifth is the drilling of two relief wells. Despite all this, The Huffington Post says even the best-case scenario has the well leaking for at least another week.
 
 

 

 

PAKISTAN TALIBAN LEADER THREATENS US CITIES: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has vowed to attack major US cities in two purported new videos released months after his reported killing in a US missile strike. The videos emerged after an attempted car bombing in New York City, for which his faction claimed responsibility in a third video, and provided the most substantial evidence so far that he survived a US attempt on his life. Mehsud threatened to retaliate against the United States for the killing of Islamist militant leaders, appearing in a nine-minute video allegedly made on April 4, after his supposed death in January.
 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL LINKS INCREASINGLY LIKELY IN TIMES SQUARE BOMBING ATTEMPT: The failed car bombing attempt in Times Square increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links, Obama administration officials said. White House officials also characterized the incident as attempted terrorism for the first time, dramatically stepping up their description of the intended attack. “I would say that was intended to terrorize, and I would say that whomever did that would be categorized as a terrorist,” said press secretary Robert Gibbs.
 

 

 

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ROMAN POLANSKI BREAKS HIS SILENCE: Roman Polanski, the director who fled the U.S. after copping to having sex with a 13-year-old in 1977, has declared in a blog post that he “can remain silent no longer” in the face of his treatment by the American and Swiss governments. Polanski, under house arrest in the fancy ski resort town of Gstaad, accuses the judge who was to sentence him of perjury and betrayal. The director says the extradition request against him is founded on a lie, and that the months he spent in a diagnostic facility after his arrest was to be his full sentence. Polanski also notes his victim has requested the case be dropped to spare her harassment. “I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago,” Polanski says. He says he wants to “find peace,” be reunited with his family, and “live in freedom in my native land.”
 

 

 

UNITED,CONTINENTAL AIRLINES MERGE: MEET THE NEWEST MEGA-AIRLINE: The parent company of United Airlines has approved a merger with Continental, in a deal valued at over $3 billion, the airlines announced Monday. The deal would make the new airline, which will keep the United name and be based in Chicago, the worlds largest. Continental’s lead executive will be running the new mega-airline. With 21 percent of the domestic market, the merger will also put the airline ahead of Delta, which had become the top carrier after buying Northwest Airlines in 2008.
 

 

 

CONAN OPENS UP ABOUT NBC: Appearing on television for the first time since he left NBC, Conan O’Brien told 60 Minutes Sunday that his departure from the network was like “a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, and quickly.” Of losing his dream job to Jay Leno, O’Brien said: “I got very depressed at times.” And when asked about his new beard, O’Brien responded: “That was my small victory, you know,” he said, referring to his beard. “O.K., so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them—I’ll stop shaving.” The funnyman also discussed his new nationwide tour, which helped distract him from his post-Tonight Show sorrow, and talked about his deal to host a late-night show for TBS in the fall.
 

 

 

 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***CBS “Late Night” host David Letterman has revealed that the Super Bowl commercial in which he, Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey squabbled on a sofa was originally conceived to include Conan O’Brien. However, O’Brien declined, Letterman says, so Winfrey took his place.   ***A raging battle continued down to the last moment before deadline on Friday at the New Yorker over the contents of a magnum opus by veteran writer Connie Bruck about media billionaire and Democratic stalwart Haim Saban, WaxWord has learned. According to knowledgeable individuals, the piece is a staggering 11,000 words about the Egyptian-born, Israeli-bred mogul with a hotline to both Clintons. Bruck has apparently been working on the piece for an equally staggering eight months. According to two people close to the process, Saban’s former tax lawyer Matthew Krane has provided anecdotes to Bruck, including one suggesting that Saban used political influence to help complete his sale of the Fox Family Channel to the Walt Disney Company for $5.3 billion in October 2001. But Saban’s lawyers sent a letter warning the New Yorker of their intention to take action if the piece has inaccuracies or is “disparaging” of the mogul, according to one person close to the process.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Todd McCarthy, the film critic laid off in March by the Hollywood trade paper Variety as part of a cost-cutting campaign, will start a new website called Todd McCarthy’s Deep Focus. The site will be in association with SnagFilms as part of its IndieWIRE blog network.
 

 

 

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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER:   ***Carly Simon still won’t say who her 1973 hit, “You’re So Vain,” was about. But she’s more open about why she finally decided to make a video. “I never really thought about it until I was on the ‘Today’ show recently, and had a 103-degree temperature,” she told the crowd at 1Oak during a Tribeca Film Festival party. “I was completely out of it, but I realized, why don’t I have a video for ‘You’re so vain?’ “Instead of creating her own, she held a contest. The winning entry featured a Hasidic Jew searching for a pie.   ***Country singer Chely Wright’s reasoning was sound. “There had never, ever been a country music artist who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality,” she tells People magazine. “I wasn’t going to be the first.” But now Wright is changing her tune. “Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out,” she says.   ***Bret Michaels continued to make tremendous progress in his recovery this weekend — and one source close to the singer tells us the whole thing is nothing short of “amazing.” We’re told Bret was “very aware” and in a “good mood” this weekend during an evaluation with a specialist — the singer was even described as “somewhat talkative.”
 
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Renee Zellweger strikes a pose on the red carpet at the L.A Gay & Lesbian Centre’s “An Evening With Women” event in Beverly Hills.   ***Adam Lambert visited Helsinki, Finland as a guest on the Finnish edition of “The X-Factor.”   ***Avril Lavigne attended the Race to Erase MS Kickoff fundraiser at the Kitson Melrose venue in Los Angeles.   ***Ashley Olsen arriving at the 2010 Lucille Lortel Awards at the Terminal 5 Club in New York City.   ***Enjoying a family shopping trip, Khloe Kardashian joined husband Lamar Odom and her sister Kendall Jenner at the Kitson boutique in Beverly Hills.   ***Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz took their son Bronx Mowgli for a hike at Mulholland Canyon Park in Los Angeles.   ***Taking a break from filming her new movie “Just Go With It,” Nicole Kidman enjoyed a day at the links with her husband Keith Urban at the Wailea Golf Course in Maui, Hawaii.   ***Rihanna was spotted enjoying a late night visit to Puro Lounge club in Berlin, Germany for her after show party following her concert.   ***Colin Farrell and his “Ondine” co-star/ girlfriend, Alicia Bachleda, arriving and leaving its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.   ***Simon Delaney, star of the Irish comedy farce “Zonad,” having a quick drink with director John Carney at Bar 13 in NYC, right before its Tribeca screening.   ***Ivanka Trump crossing West 34th Street in a crowd — “she stood out like a sore thumb” — and walking into Daffy’s in NYC.   ***Chris Noth, Alec Baldwin and Eric Bogosian at the opening night of “Enron” on Broadway in NYC.   ***Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli texting during lunch at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-INVESTIGATES: Kissing at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony can be traced to ancient Roman tradition where a kiss was used to sign contract.
 

 

 

LBN-SEE IT: BMW Germany ’s campaign for their factory approved “pre-owned” cars.
 

 

 

SLY: RAMBO IS DEAD: Sly Stallone says Rambo is finito. The action star has abandoned plans to bring a fifth installment of his heroic character to the big screen.  Work on the series had been scrapped, Stallone admitted.
 

 

 

LBN-TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Golda Meir (1898) Meir was Israel’s first female prime minister and the first woman in the world to hold such an office without having familial ties to a previous head of state or government. A signer of Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948, she served in the fledgling nation’s parliament and held posts as minister of labor and foreign minister before becoming Israel’s fourth prime minister in 1969. During her tenure, she sought to ease tensions in the region through diplomacy.
 
 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: Can he follow it up with a championship ring? LeBron James won his second straight MVP award on Sunday night. The Cleveland Cavaliers star received 116 of 123 first-place votes, with Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant finishing a distant second. “Since I was a kid, I always said I’d find a way to put Akron on the map,” James said in comments that are likely to fuel speculation that he’ll leave Cleveland after this season. “It will always be my home and it will always be my life.” James became the 10th player to win consecutive MVP awards.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By KATIE LEE (TV Food Critic and Chef): The new show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution on ABC is great. Plus, it’s filmed in my hometown of Huntington, West Virginia. Jamie is truly revolutionizing the way kids eat in school by introducing healthier alternatives and totally revamping my home community. It’s really wonderful to see.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By ANN LOUISE BARDACH:  Throughout the eight years of her husband’s presidency, the subject of Laura Bush’s role in a deadly car crash when she was a 17-year-old high school senior was considered off limits to the press. With an assist from friendly Texas officials, George W. Bush’s staff prayed the details of her deadly crash would never emerge. For many years, the Midland city attorney and police department blocked the release of the police report of the accident, until lawyers for the tabloid The Globe successfully appealed to the state’s attorney general. At the same time, the Bush family cautioned friends and former neighbors to be circumspect in their comments. During the 2000 election run-up, when I reached Billie Ruppe, who lived across from Laura’s family, the Welches, on Humble Ave. in Midland for 25 years, she said quickly, “I’m not going to give you any information till I talk to Laura. I would need to get permission from her.”
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN, (Developer of nameberry.com): Sandra Bullock’s choice of Bardo as her newly-adopted son’s middle name puts the spotlight back on the O names — names that begin, end, or otherwise emphasize the letter O.
 
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By ROMAN POLANSKI: It is true: 33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. That period was to have covered the totality of my sentence. By the time I left prison, the judge had changed his mind and claimed that the time served at Chino did not fulfil the entire sentence, and it is this reversal that justified my leaving the United States. This affair was roused from its slumbers of over three decades by a documentary film-maker who gathered evidence from persons involved at the time. I took no part in that project, either directly or indirectly. The resulting documentary not only highlighted the fact that I left the United States because I had been treated unjustly; it also drew the ire of the Los Angeles authorities, who felt that they had been attacked and decided to request my extradition from Switzerland, a country I have been visiting regularly for over 30 years without let or hindrance.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: The disastrous oil spill in the gulf could help reverse environmentalism’s long political slide, but it will require leadership.
 
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PEGGY NOONAN: We are at a remarkable moment. We have an open, 2,000-mile border to our south, and the entity with the power to enforce the law and impose safety and order will not do it. Wall Street collapsed, taking Main Street’s money with it, and the government can’t really figure out what to do about it because the government itself was deeply implicated in the crash, and both political parties are full of people whose political careers have been made possible by Wall Street contributions. Meanwhile we pass huge laws, bills so comprehensive, omnibus and transformative that no one knows what’s in them and no one—literally, no one—knows how exactly they will be executed or interpreted. Citizens search for new laws online, pore over them at night, and come away knowing no more than they did before they typed “dot-gov.”
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:    ***Actress Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family’s acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of “Georgy Girl” and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances “Shakespeare for My Father” and”Nightingale,” has died. She was 67.***Bloomberg reports there are “signs of renewed confidence in the art market,” and showbiz types are opting to cash out, including ex-power agent/erstwhile Disney exec Michael Ovitz and fashion designer/recent film director Tom Ford. Even the late author Michael Crichton’s estate has a collection that could fetch its $74.3 million estimated value. Another collector, the late Frances Brody, has a lot worth an estimated $194 million, including a Picasso expected to nab $90 million.    ***Celebrity media expert and author Michael Levine is back in L.A. after a week in New York City. During his visit Levine was caught up in the Times Square bomb scare. Levine’s home is about ten blocks from the area and the streets in front of his house were all closed. “The New York Police seem very well prepared and rehearsed” said Levine.   ***TMZ has learned Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz have agreed to reconcile, and the plan is for Tito to move back in the family home midweek.   ***Peter Lopez — the music attorney who had close ties to Michael Jackson — left a suicide note that was completely silent as to why he took his life, sources connected to the situation said. We’re told the one-page, handwritten note expressed his love for his wife and kids and asked for forgiveness, but did not even hit at why Peter would end his life. A source close to the family said Peter dropped the kids off at school at about 9:00 AM Friday.  When he got home, we’re told Peter went to the backyard and shot himself in the head.  
 

 

 


LBN-DID YOU KNOW:   ***Dogs have about 10 vocal sounds; cats have over 100.   ***2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.   ***Orgies were originally Greek religious events. They were offerings to the gods.   ***A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28   ***Kissing is said to help prevent tooth decay.

 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “One can see how political, national, cultural and religious beliefs do separate people, do create conflict, confusion and antagonism – this is an obvious fact – yet we are unwilling to give them up.” - Krishnamurti.
 

 

 


LBN-HISTORY: On May 3, 1921, West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
 


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TOYOTA TO TEMPORARILY STOP SELLING LEXUS:
 
 
Toyota says it will temporarily stop selling the Lexus GX460 after Consumer Reports said the SUV carried an unusually high risk of a rollover accident during certain types of turns.
 
 
In the latest blow to Toyota’s reputation, the Japanese automaker says it will suspend sales of the SUV while it conducts its own testing.
 
 
Consumer Reports says that in handling tests, the seven-seat SUV slid until it was nearly sideways before the electronic stability system regained control.
 
 
The magazine says this could lead to a rollover accident in real-world driving. It gave the GX460 a rare “Don’t Buy:
Safety Risk” label until the problem is fixed.
 
 
Toyota has sold about 5,000 GX460s in the three months since it went on sale. It is not covered by Toyota’s faulty gas-pedal recalls.
 
 

 

 

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TUESDAY • APRIL 13, 2010
MEDICAL SCHOOLS CAN’T KEEP UP: As Ranks of Insured Expand, Nation Faces Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years: The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors. Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.  That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.
 

 

 

TERROR PLOT AIMED AT TIMES SQUARE: Three men had planned to attack the subway stations at Times square and Grand Central, according to a federal law enforcement source. Najibullah Zazi and and two others, all from Flushing, Queens, had plotted to bomb the stations last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. After being stopped by the police, Zazi fled to Denver, where he was arrested by authorities. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
 

 

 

ANDY STERN LEAVES SEIU: After 14 years in charge of the Service Employees International Union, Andrew Stern is expected to announce his resignation. Since he took over the union in 1996, Stern has grown into one of the most influential union leaders in the country and built the SEIU into a pillar of the labor movement, particularly after he made the bold move of taking it out of the AFL-CIO to form a rival federation in 2005. Under Stern, the SEIU’s membership continued to grow, even as other unions like it contracted.
 

 

 

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TWITTER STARTS RUNNING ADS: After four years, Twitter begins running ads on its site Tuesday. The ads appear on the popular microblogging site when users conduct a search, much like the model Google uses. In the future, ads may appear in the stream of posts that visitors see when they use the site. Among the original advertisers are Starbucks, Virgin America, and Best Buy. At most, only one in ten users will actually see the ads Tuesday. Since its inception, observers have wondered how exactly Twitter would profit.
 

 

 

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FIRST LADY MAKES UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO HAITI: First Lady Michelle Obama is making her first visit to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.  Obama took a helicopter tour Tuesday of the Haitian capital, where hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless following the Jan. 12 quake. The first lady was traveling with Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Jill.  President Barack Obama’s administration says the purpose of the visit is to underscore U.S. commitment to the Haitian recovery effort. The U.S. has provided nearly $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to Haiti and pledged another $1 billion. Haiti’s government says an estimated 230,000 people were killed in the earthquake.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Out promoting the remake of “Death at a Funeral, star Chris Rock has revealed that he will write an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for director Mike Nichols. Black Voices reports that Rock is replacing David Mamet on the rewrite. Mamet’s screenplay was first commissioned by executive producer Martin Scorsese back in 1999.   ***In his beautiful, non-fiction feature film OH MY GOD (Hay House/April 15, 2010) filmmaker Peter Rodger sets out on a global quest to understand what the concept of God means to people in all walks of life. Frustrated by religious turmoil and fanaticism he posits the age-old question, “What is God?” to religious leaders, zealots, spiritual luminaries, humanitarians, fundamentalists, and ordinary people, along with celebrities including; Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, HRH Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield, and John F. Demartini; all who share their unique perspectives and understanding of God. This provocative film is now available on DVD from Hay House.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada having lunch yesterday with LCO Executive Vice President Liam Collopy at The Counter on Sunset Blvd.   ***Christopher Mintz-Plasse, now in “Kick-Ass,” at Prime Italian in Miami, is becoming increasingly annoyed with “Superbad” fans calling him “McLovin”.   ***Anna Wintour, daughter Bee Shaffer and other family members at Bowery pizza joint Pulino’s in NYC.   ***Orlando Bloom walking his big, black dog on Madison Avenue near Barneys in NYC.   ***Lance Bass and grooming guru Kyan Douglas brunching with Marlee Matlin and Joel Schumacher at Hotel Griffou in NYC.   ***Cirque du Soleil CEO Guy Laliberte and Claudia Barilla, the mother of two children, dining late at Serafina on 61st near Madison in NYC.   ***Elin Woods was spotted boarding a private jet in Orlando, the same day Tiger Woods finished fourth in the Masters tournament at Augusta, Georgia.   ***Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper were spotted eating lunch at the food court at The Grove in Los Angeles.   ***Kara DioGuardi rocks out in the booth with DJ Sky Nellor at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey.    ***Roberto Farnesi and Lola Ponce attend a photocall for the Italian TV movie “Colpo Di Fulmine” in Rome.    ***Danielle De Niese attends the 2010 Classical Brit Awards nomination launch held at The Mayfair Hotel in London, England.    ***Demi Moore and Susan Sarandon meet with groups working to fight child slavery in Port Au Prince, Haiti.    ***Denise Richards attends the “My Brother Charlie” book-launch celebration in Culver City.    ***Malin Ackerman attends a party at Tao Beach in Las Vegas to celebrate the launch of Rerock Denim.   ***Michelle Hunziker enjoys the warm weather on Miami’s South Beach.    ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-BOOK NEWS:   ***Hyperion today announced plans to publish an historic new book based upon never-before-disclosed interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy.  The book is scheduled for publication in September 2011. Conducted in the spring of 1964 and intended for deposit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum—not yet in existence at the time—Mrs. Kennedy’s conversations with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. were part of a wide-ranging oral history project that captured the recollections and reflections of those close to President Kennedy shortly after his death.  The seven interviews have remained strictly sealed since then in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes.
 
 

 

 

PENNY MARSHALL’s BRAVE FIGHT: Penny Marshall is now exploring alternative medical treatments in a desperate attempt to beat her deadly cancer according to sources. “At this point, Penny is open to anything,” a family friend revealed.”  She can feel herself getting worse and, according to her doctors, her condition is terminal, and she is not expected to live another year.  “Penny is still going for her radiation and chemo treatments, but now she is trying this new therapy.”
 

 

 

LBN-SEE IT: Piano man, Billy Joel.
 

 

 

OBAMA, CHINESE LEADER DISCUSS POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS: President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao held a private meeting Monday before the start of a nuclear security summit, with the focus on Iran — and its opposition to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. The United States and its allies believe Iran is aiming to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian government, meanwhile, indicates that it only wants a peaceful nuclear energy capability.
 

 

 

AFGHANS PROTEST AFTER NATO SHOOTING: The strafing of a bus by NATO troops that killed four passengers Monday prompted protests and harsh words from Afghans whom the U.S. is courting for help in defeating the Taliban. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, which has been trying to minimize civilian casualties as it battles the Taliban for the support of ordinary Afghans, said it “deeply regrets the tragic loss of life.”
 

 

 

‘GROWING CONCERN’ OVER MARKETING TAINTED BEEF: Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencies have failed to set limits for the contaminants or adequately test for them, a federal audit finds. A program set up to test beef for chemical residues “is not accomplishing its mission of monitoring the food supply for … dangerous substances, which has resulted in meat with these substances being distributed in commerce,” says the audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General.
 

 

 

POST OFFICE NEEDS TO CUT DEEPER: The U.S. Postal Service is laboring under an outdated business model and needs to cut salaries, close facilities and take other steps to to aggressively slash costs, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.
 

 

 


LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***Former Washington Mutual Chief Executive Kerry Killinger defended the collapsed bank’s actions and said it shouldn’t have been seized by regulators in 2008.    ***With Washington searching for ways to cut the budget deficit, IRS officials face intense pressure to collect more revenue. The agency plans more audits, especially of taxpayers in high brackets or those who are self-employed and deal in large amounts of cash.   ***Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said China is set to overtake Japan as its biggest market outside North America, as the coffee giant plans to open thousands of stores in China over time.   ***The German maker of a new tablet computer, ‘WePad’ is setting out to rival Apple’s iPad with the promise of even more sophisticated technology.

 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER:   ***Missouri billionaire Stan Kroenke has decided to exercise his matching rights and try to purchase the remaining 60 percent share of the St. Louis Rams.    ***Kobe Bryant, who sat out two games last week to rest his legs and alleviate swelling in his right knee before returning to play in the Lakers’ 91-88 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday, will not play in the Lakers’ final two games of the regular season because of the avulsion fracture in his right index finger   ***A French events promoter named Greg Akcelrod, an amateur soccer player, nearly conned his way on to one of the winningest soccer teams in Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia.
 

 

 

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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER:   ***By adding length or bulk to your teeth, dentists are looking to reshape the facial structure to smooth wrinkles and give a younger appearance.  ***The World Health Organization said yesterday it did a poor job of communicating the uncertainties about the H1N1 virus which then caused confusion among the public.   ***Dodger Stadium understands that the food gets (almost) as much attention as the game. So Executive Chef Joseph Martin and restaurant partner Levy Restaurants have made sure that when the Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks on Opening Day next Tuesday (April 13), fans will be able to munch on exciting new food while warming those bleachers.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***Sarah Jessica Parker - star of “Sex and the City 2″ and mother to two new baby girls - graces the May cover of Vogue.   ***“Polytechnique” wins nine Genie Awards in Toronto. “Polytechnique,” a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, on Monday night dominated the Genies, Canada’s film awards, with nine trophies, including best film. Denis Villeneuve earned a Genie for best director for “Polytechnique,” Karine Vanasse won for best actress, and Maxim Gaudette, who played the role of gunman Marc Lapine, earned the best supporting actor prize.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By RICHARD P. WENZEL: One year ago today, a government worker in Oaxaca, Mexico, became the first person to die of swine flu. At the bedsides of other men and women struggling to stay alive in Mexican critical care units, we clinicians noticed early on that this novel H1N1 flu virus diverged from influenza’s usual pattern of activity in striking ways. It began in the Northern Hemisphere, not in Asia, and in mid-spring, not late fall or winter. It also had a worrying predilection for children and young adults, not the elderly and newborns. In the months after those first deaths, the virus ignited a global pandemic. While the epidemic never became as deadly as we initially feared, it was not as mild as some experts now believe. What’s more, it exposed some serious shortcomings in the world’s public health response.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN (International Humanitarian Activist): The naysayers are wrong; it is not too late to put the nuclear genie back in its bottle, where it belongs. History has shown us that, through consensus, we can address the most vital global questions.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By DESMOND TUTU (1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner): Students are helping to pave a path to a Middle East peace, and I heartily endorse their divestment vote, encourage them to stand firm on the side of what is right, and urge others to follow their lead.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER LAURIA: Conan O’Brien gave TBS a discount—a salary below $15 million—to join the network in exchange for something he now values more: ownership of his own show.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By TUNKU VARADARJAN: It’s time to end the sleazy whispering campaign against Karzai—and empower Hillary Clinton, America’s best hope to salvage relations with Afghanistan.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By PATRICK SWAYZE: If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember that’s not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***After three months off the air, Conan O’Brien performed before an audience on Monday for the first time since his ugly $32 million buyout from NBC in January. “This is the first time anyone has paid to see me. They’ve paid me to go away,” O’Brien told an audience of more than 2,500 in Eugene, OR.   ***Sigourney Weaver has launched a blistering attack on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, saying James Cameron didn’t win the Oscar for Best Director because he “didn’t have breasts.”   ***Hugh Hefner is giving up having multiple girlfriends now that he’s 84. The Playboy legend says he’s sick of keeping a whole harem happy and he wants to stick just with new love Crystal Harris.   ***Jon Voight went on Fox News over the weekend to sound the alarm about the red menace in the White House. In an open letter to the American people, the Oscar winner warned of “the greatest lie” being “orchestrated President Obama has been cleverly trained in the Alinsky Method a socialistic, Marxist teaching with which little by little, he rapes our nation.” Chicago radical Saul Alinsky was known as the father of “community organizing.”
 

 

 

LBN-MUSIC INSIDER:   ***The Tonight Show announced its Bandleader, Kevin Eubanks, will officially leave Jay Leno’s side on May 28th   ***The 53rd Annual Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 13, 2011. Albums and songs released between September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for awards   ***Hank Williams received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize yesterday for “his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity.”
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.” – Robert A. Humphrey.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 announces “Houston, we’ve got a problem!” as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon.
 

 

 


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TUESDAY • APRIL 13, 2010
MEDICAL SCHOOLS CAN’T KEEP UP: As Ranks of Insured Expand, Nation Faces Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years: The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors. Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.  That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.
 

 

 

TERROR PLOT AIMED AT TIMES SQUARE: Three men had planned to attack the subway stations at Times square and Grand Central, according to a federal law enforcement source. Najibullah Zazi and and two others, all from Flushing, Queens, had plotted to bomb the stations last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. After being stopped by the police, Zazi fled to Denver, where he was arrested by authorities. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
 

 

 

ANDY STERN LEAVES SEIU: After 14 years in charge of the Service Employees International Union, Andrew Stern is expected to announce his resignation. Since he took over the union in 1996, Stern has grown into one of the most influential union leaders in the country and built the SEIU into a pillar of the labor movement, particularly after he made the bold move of taking it out of the AFL-CIO to form a rival federation in 2005. Under Stern, the SEIU’s membership continued to grow, even as other unions like it contracted.
 

 

 

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TWITTER STARTS RUNNING ADS: After four years, Twitter begins running ads on its site Tuesday. The ads appear on the popular microblogging site when users conduct a search, much like the model Google uses. In the future, ads may appear in the stream of posts that visitors see when they use the site. Among the original advertisers are Starbucks, Virgin America, and Best Buy. At most, only one in ten users will actually see the ads Tuesday. Since its inception, observers have wondered how exactly Twitter would profit.
 

 

 

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FIRST LADY MAKES UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO HAITI: First Lady Michelle Obama is making her first visit to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.  Obama took a helicopter tour Tuesday of the Haitian capital, where hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless following the Jan. 12 quake. The first lady was traveling with Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Jill.  President Barack Obama’s administration says the purpose of the visit is to underscore U.S. commitment to the Haitian recovery effort. The U.S. has provided nearly $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to Haiti and pledged another $1 billion. Haiti’s government says an estimated 230,000 people were killed in the earthquake.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Out promoting the remake of “Death at a Funeral, star Chris Rock has revealed that he will write an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for director Mike Nichols. Black Voices reports that Rock is replacing David Mamet on the rewrite. Mamet’s screenplay was first commissioned by executive producer Martin Scorsese back in 1999.   ***In his beautiful, non-fiction feature film OH MY GOD (Hay House/April 15, 2010) filmmaker Peter Rodger sets out on a global quest to understand what the concept of God means to people in all walks of life. Frustrated by religious turmoil and fanaticism he posits the age-old question, “What is God?” to religious leaders, zealots, spiritual luminaries, humanitarians, fundamentalists, and ordinary people, along with celebrities including; Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, HRH Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield, and John F. Demartini; all who share their unique perspectives and understanding of God. This provocative film is now available on DVD from Hay House.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada having lunch yesterday with LCO Executive Vice President Liam Collopy at The Counter on Sunset Blvd.   ***Christopher Mintz-Plasse, now in “Kick-Ass,” at Prime Italian in Miami, is becoming increasingly annoyed with “Superbad” fans calling him “McLovin”.   ***Anna Wintour, daughter Bee Shaffer and other family members at Bowery pizza joint Pulino’s in NYC.   ***Orlando Bloom walking his big, black dog on Madison Avenue near Barneys in NYC.   ***Lance Bass and grooming guru Kyan Douglas brunching with Marlee Matlin and Joel Schumacher at Hotel Griffou in NYC.   ***Cirque du Soleil CEO Guy Laliberte and Claudia Barilla, the mother of two children, dining late at Serafina on 61st near Madison in NYC.   ***Elin Woods was spotted boarding a private jet in Orlando, the same day Tiger Woods finished fourth in the Masters tournament at Augusta, Georgia.   ***Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper were spotted eating lunch at the food court at The Grove in Los Angeles.   ***Kara DioGuardi rocks out in the booth with DJ Sky Nellor at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey.    ***Roberto Farnesi and Lola Ponce attend a photocall for the Italian TV movie “Colpo Di Fulmine” in Rome.    ***Danielle De Niese attends the 2010 Classical Brit Awards nomination launch held at The Mayfair Hotel in London, England.    ***Demi Moore and Susan Sarandon meet with groups working to fight child slavery in Port Au Prince, Haiti.    ***Denise Richards attends the “My Brother Charlie” book-launch celebration in Culver City.    ***Malin Ackerman attends a party at Tao Beach in Las Vegas to celebrate the launch of Rerock Denim.   ***Michelle Hunziker enjoys the warm weather on Miami’s South Beach.    ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-BOOK NEWS:   ***Hyperion today announced plans to publish an historic new book based upon never-before-disclosed interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy.  The book is scheduled for publication in September 2011. Conducted in the spring of 1964 and intended for deposit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum—not yet in existence at the time—Mrs. Kennedy’s conversations with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. were part of a wide-ranging oral history project that captured the recollections and reflections of those close to President Kennedy shortly after his death.  The seven interviews have remained strictly sealed since then in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes.
 
 

 

 

PENNY MARSHALL’s BRAVE FIGHT: Penny Marshall is now exploring alternative medical treatments in a desperate attempt to beat her deadly cancer according to sources. “At this point, Penny is open to anything,” a family friend revealed.”  She can feel herself getting worse and, according to her doctors, her condition is terminal, and she is not expected to live another year.  “Penny is still going for her radiation and chemo treatments, but now she is trying this new therapy.”
 

 

 

LBN-SEE IT: Piano man, Billy Joel.
 

 

 

OBAMA, CHINESE LEADER DISCUSS POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS: President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao held a private meeting Monday before the start of a nuclear security summit, with the focus on Iran — and its opposition to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. The United States and its allies believe Iran is aiming to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian government, meanwhile, indicates that it only wants a peaceful nuclear energy capability.
 

 

 

AFGHANS PROTEST AFTER NATO SHOOTING: The strafing of a bus by NATO troops that killed four passengers Monday prompted protests and harsh words from Afghans whom the U.S. is courting for help in defeating the Taliban. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, which has been trying to minimize civilian casualties as it battles the Taliban for the support of ordinary Afghans, said it “deeply regrets the tragic loss of life.”
 

 

 

‘GROWING CONCERN’ OVER MARKETING TAINTED BEEF: Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencies have failed to set limits for the contaminants or adequately test for them, a federal audit finds. A program set up to test beef for chemical residues “is not accomplishing its mission of monitoring the food supply for … dangerous substances, which has resulted in meat with these substances being distributed in commerce,” says the audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General.
 

 

 

POST OFFICE NEEDS TO CUT DEEPER: The U.S. Postal Service is laboring under an outdated business model and needs to cut salaries, close facilities and take other steps to to aggressively slash costs, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.
 

 

 


LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***Former Washington Mutual Chief Executive Kerry Killinger defended the collapsed bank’s actions and said it shouldn’t have been seized by regulators in 2008.    ***With Washington searching for ways to cut the budget deficit, IRS officials face intense pressure to collect more revenue. The agency plans more audits, especially of taxpayers in high brackets or those who are self-employed and deal in large amounts of cash.   ***Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said China is set to overtake Japan as its biggest market outside North America, as the coffee giant plans to open thousands of stores in China over time.   ***The German maker of a new tablet computer, ‘WePad’ is setting out to rival Apple’s iPad with the promise of even more sophisticated technology.

 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER:   ***Missouri billionaire Stan Kroenke has decided to exercise his matching rights and try to purchase the remaining 60 percent share of the St. Louis Rams.    ***Kobe Bryant, who sat out two games last week to rest his legs and alleviate swelling in his right knee before returning to play in the Lakers’ 91-88 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday, will not play in the Lakers’ final two games of the regular season because of the avulsion fracture in his right index finger   ***A French events promoter named Greg Akcelrod, an amateur soccer player, nearly conned his way on to one of the winningest soccer teams in Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia.
 

 

 

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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER:   ***By adding length or bulk to your teeth, dentists are looking to reshape the facial structure to smooth wrinkles and give a younger appearance.  ***The World Health Organization said yesterday it did a poor job of communicating the uncertainties about the H1N1 virus which then caused confusion among the public.   ***Dodger Stadium understands that the food gets (almost) as much attention as the game. So Executive Chef Joseph Martin and restaurant partner Levy Restaurants have made sure that when the Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks on Opening Day next Tuesday (April 13), fans will be able to munch on exciting new food while warming those bleachers.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***Sarah Jessica Parker - star of “Sex and the City 2″ and mother to two new baby girls - graces the May cover of Vogue.   ***“Polytechnique” wins nine Genie Awards in Toronto. “Polytechnique,” a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, on Monday night dominated the Genies, Canada’s film awards, with nine trophies, including best film. Denis Villeneuve earned a Genie for best director for “Polytechnique,” Karine Vanasse won for best actress, and Maxim Gaudette, who played the role of gunman Marc Lapine, earned the best supporting actor prize.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By RICHARD P. WENZEL: One year ago today, a government worker in Oaxaca, Mexico, became the first person to die of swine flu. At the bedsides of other men and women struggling to stay alive in Mexican critical care units, we clinicians noticed early on that this novel H1N1 flu virus diverged from influenza’s usual pattern of activity in striking ways. It began in the Northern Hemisphere, not in Asia, and in mid-spring, not late fall or winter. It also had a worrying predilection for children and young adults, not the elderly and newborns. In the months after those first deaths, the virus ignited a global pandemic. While the epidemic never became as deadly as we initially feared, it was not as mild as some experts now believe. What’s more, it exposed some serious shortcomings in the world’s public health response.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN (International Humanitarian Activist): The naysayers are wrong; it is not too late to put the nuclear genie back in its bottle, where it belongs. History has shown us that, through consensus, we can address the most vital global questions.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By DESMOND TUTU (1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner): Students are helping to pave a path to a Middle East peace, and I heartily endorse their divestment vote, encourage them to stand firm on the side of what is right, and urge others to follow their lead.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER LAURIA: Conan O’Brien gave TBS a discount—a salary below $15 million—to join the network in exchange for something he now values more: ownership of his own show.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By TUNKU VARADARJAN: It’s time to end the sleazy whispering campaign against Karzai—and empower Hillary Clinton, America’s best hope to salvage relations with Afghanistan.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By PATRICK SWAYZE: If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember that’s not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***After three months off the air, Conan O’Brien performed before an audience on Monday for the first time since his ugly $32 million buyout from NBC in January. “This is the first time anyone has paid to see me. They’ve paid me to go away,” O’Brien told an audience of more than 2,500 in Eugene, OR.   ***Sigourney Weaver has launched a blistering attack on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, saying James Cameron didn’t win the Oscar for Best Director because he “didn’t have breasts.”   ***Hugh Hefner is giving up having multiple girlfriends now that he’s 84. The Playboy legend says he’s sick of keeping a whole harem happy and he wants to stick just with new love Crystal Harris.   ***Jon Voight went on Fox News over the weekend to sound the alarm about the red menace in the White House. In an open letter to the American people, the Oscar winner warned of “the greatest lie” being “orchestrated President Obama has been cleverly trained in the Alinsky Method a socialistic, Marxist teaching with which little by little, he rapes our nation.” Chicago radical Saul Alinsky was known as the father of “community organizing.”
 

 

 

LBN-MUSIC INSIDER:   ***The Tonight Show announced its Bandleader, Kevin Eubanks, will officially leave Jay Leno’s side on May 28th   ***The 53rd Annual Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 13, 2011. Albums and songs released between September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for awards   ***Hank Williams received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize yesterday for “his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity.”
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.” – Robert A. Humphrey.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 announces “Houston, we’ve got a problem!” as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon.
 

 

 


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SUNDAY • APRIL 11, 2010
MOURNING PROCESSION WITH LECH KACZYNSKI’S BODY ARRIVES AT PRESIDENTIAL PALACE: The mourning procession with the body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski who died in an air crash arrived on Sunday at the presidential palace as tens of thousands of Poles lined the streets to pay last tribute.
Kaczynski, his wife and other top officials died Saturday morning as the Soviet-made Tu-154 aircraft carrying them hit the top of trees as it attempted to land at a Smolensk airport in western Russia in thick fog. A total of 96 people on board - 88 passengers and eight crew - died.The burial date has not been defined yet.
 

 

 

PLENTY STILL LIGHT UP ON PLANES: It may be illegal, but passengers on U.S. planes are still finding ways to smoke. Over the past five years, the Federal Aviation Administration has raised nearly 700 cases against those caught, some ending in civil fines costing the perpetrators thousands of dollars. The ban on lighting a cigarette has been around for 20 years. Yet most cases don’t end up like last week’s when a diplomat from Qatar, who helps manage the Qatar embassy in Washington, was found smoking in a lavatory. When he was asked by a flight attendant, he claimed he burned part of his plastic sandal in an attempt to mask the smell. The information was considered threatening and two fighter jets were scrambled to escort the plane the rest of the way.
 

 

 

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IRAN TO COMPLAIN TO UN OVER OBAMA NUCLEAR ‘THREAT’: Iran will file a formal complaint with the U.N. against the United States after President Barack Obama excluded Iran from a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Obama’s implicit threat to use nuclear weapons against Iran was a “threat to global peace and security,” according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency.
 

 

 

ITALIAN WORKERS HELD IN AFGHAN ASSASSINATION PLOT: Afghan authorities have arrested three Italian medical workers in a plot to assassinate the governor of the southern Helmand province. The three workers were arrested Saturday along with six Afghans from a hospital run by Milan-based Emergency in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. The nine were planning to conduct suicide attacks in the province, said Daud Ahmad, the provincial governor’s spokesman. Authorities said the suspects had taken $500,000 from the Pakistan Taliban to launch their attack in a crowded location when Gov. Gulab Mangal was present.
 

 

 

LBN-INVESTIGATES: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest point in Earth’s oceans. The bottom there is 10,924 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, were placed at this location it would be covered by over one mile of water.
 

 

 

RUSSIAN RESPONSE EARNS POLES’ RESPECT: After years of tension, relations between Moscow and Warsaw had been on the mend in recent months as both sides toned down the rhetoric and focused on areas they could cooperate, such as energy supplies. Last week’s ceremonies around Katyn — where Soviet agents killed thousands of Polish officers in 1940 — were to help bring closure to one of the darkest chapters in Polish-Russian relations. Since the crash, Moscow has mounted an unprecedented response, winning appreciation from Poles, both officials and ordinary citizens alike. “The behavior of Russia’s leaders and citizens demonstrates that there’s been real change,” said Adam Rotfeld, Poland’s former foreign minister. “Many issues can be resolved on the wave of the empathy toward Poles. This may turn out to be a breakthrough.
 

 

 

SENATORS SIGNAL BRUISING CONFIRMATION BATTLE ON SUPREME COURT NOMINEE: Two leading senators on the Judiciary Committee, which will consider President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, signaled a bruising fight ahead. Committee chairman Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vermont, called the current conservative-leaning Supreme Court the most activist he had seen, while ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama wouldn’t rule out a filibuster if Obama nominates someone the GOP perceives to be a liberal activist.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Nancy Pelosi lunching at Gabriel’s in NYC with New York Times Democratic cheerleader Bob Herbert, and dining in a private room at SD 26 with such guests as P.R. powerhouse Ken Sunshine.   ***Al Pacino being interviewed by Katie Couric on Cornelia Street at the site of Caffe Cino in NYC, where he performed in the ’60s.   ***Viggo Mortensen on the taxi line at La Guardia getting ogled by women, including one who said, “He’s even better looking than in the movies.”   ***Geoffrey Rush and his agent Fred Specktor were having dinner at the SoHo House last night.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
 

 

 

SHROUD OF TURIN GOING BACK UP BEFORE THE PUBLIC: The long linen with the faded image of a bearded man is the object of centuries-old fascination and wonderment, and closely kept under wrap. Starting Saturday, and for six weeks, both the curious and those convinced the Turin Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ can have a brief look. By late Friday, 1.5 million people had reserved their three-to-five-minute chance to gaze at the cloth, which is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case. Organizers said earlier this year they hoped some 2 million pilgrims and tourists would see the linen during the special viewing from April 10 to May 23.
 

 

 

LBN-CURRENTLY READING: Cyndi Lauper (Singer; Spokesperson for Mac Cosmetics Aids Fund) - The Meaning of Matthew by Judy Shepard.
 

 

 

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U.S. STEPS UP PROBE OF HIRING IN TECH: The Justice Department is stepping up its investigation into hiring practices at some of America’s biggest companies, including Google Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Apple Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp., people familiar with the matter said. The inquiry is focused on whether companies, particularly in the technology sector, have agreed not to recruit each others’ employees in ways that violate antitrust law. Specifically, the probe is looking into whether the companies’ hiring practices are costing skilled computer engineers and other workers opportunities to change jobs for higher pay or better benefits.
 

 

 

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***Sunday is the 63rd anniversary of the Apple Pan restaurant opening on Pico in the Rancho Park/Westwood neighborhood, across the street from what is now the Westside Pavilion.
 

 

 

JIM CARREY: ELIN KNEW TIGER CHEATED: Tiger Woods has an unlikely ally in Twitter land. Jim Carrey came from out of the blue to stick up for the sex-obsessed golfer this weekend and take a shot at Tiger’s wife, Elin Nordegren. Carrey tweeted: “No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle.” The “Ace Ventura” actor also said the public should back off: “Tiger owes nothing 2 anyone but himself. 2 please his father he gave up his childhood and his freedom in the world. That’s enough!”
 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: A New Jersey congressman says he will demand a government inquiry into Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire poised to buy the New Jersey Nets, for his extensive business dealings in Zimbabwe — a bombshell that could blow up the $200 million team deal and threaten the future of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards.
 

 

 

DIXIE CARTER DEAD: ACTRESS DIES AT 70: “Designing Women” star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, has died at age 70. Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. He declined to disclose the cause of death or where she died. Carter lived with Holbrook in the Los Angeles area.
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By SIR ELTON JOHN: I love the new Hot Chip record. It’s called One Life Stand. It’s just a great album by a British band. I really love it. It’s my favorite album of the moment.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: When I was in Saudi Arabia, I had tea and sweets with a group of educated and sophisticated young professional women. I asked why they were not more upset about living in a country where women’s rights were strangled, an inbred and autocratic state more like an archaic men’s club than a modern nation. They told me, somewhat defensively, that the kingdom was moving at its own pace, glacial as that seemed to outsiders. How could such spirited women, smart and successful on every other level, acquiesce in their own subordination?  I was puzzling over that one when it hit me: As a Catholic woman, I was doing the same thing.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By JON MEACHAM: Nostalgia for the Confederacy isn’t about heritage — it’s about racism.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By GEORGE WILL: Today, nearly half of Social Security recipients choose to begin getting benefits at 62. This is a grotesque perversion of a program that was never intended to subsidize retirees for a third to a half of their adult lives.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By LADY GAGA: I’m single right now and I’ve chosen to be single because I don’t have the time to get to know anybody. So it’s OK not to have sex, it’s OK to get to know people. I’m celibate, celibacy’s fine.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By MARIAN ANDERSON: Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can’t see it, you can’t find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***Break out the bubbly. Rihanna told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that Katy Perry and Russell Brand were getting married in India later this year. Brand had proposed to Perry in India while on vacation on New Year’s Eve and they will be returning to tie the knot. Rihanna also told Seacrest, as Perry’s “BFF,” she will be in charge of planning the “I Kissed a Girl” singer’s bachelorette party. “She put that on me last week,” said Rihanna. “I have to come up with something cool because she’s getting married in India so I’m like ‘OK, now what do I do to match that?”   ***Justin Timberlake and his ex, Cameron Diaz, have been repeatedly spotted “laughing and flirting” between takes on the set of their new romantic comedy “Bad Teacher.” The pair, who ended their four-year relationship in 2007 before he began dating Jessica Biel, have astonished the crew by getting on famously on the LA set, we’re told. A spy said, “They are acting like a couple of teenagers, constantly laughing and joking with each other. There’s a lot of good chemistry there.”
 

 

 

LBN-DID YOU KNOW:   ***The longest song title is 305 characters (including spaces) by Rednex.   ***When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary Billie Holiday.   ***Before composing Beethoven dipped his head in cold water.   ***The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.   ***Jimi Hendrix was thrown out of high school for holding the hand of a white girl in class.
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “All eyes were on him. He got a warm welcome from the crowd. He was very low-key. He reminded me of a dog, when it gets home from being neutered” — Jimmy Kimmel on Tiger Woods’ first day at the Masters.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On April 11, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 

 

 

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1.      Name: Barbara Schumann.
 
 
2.      What Makes You Unique?  My friends think I’m a “Fearless Renaissance Woman”.
 
 
3.      If you could sleep with one celebrity, who would it be? Dermot Mulrone.
 
 
4.      If you could have dinner with one dead person, who? Grace Kelly.
 
 
5.      If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where and why?  India – Peace Corp or Munich – Recharge my batteries,
 
 
6.      Occupation: Skin Therapist and Skin Care Manufacturer/CEO of Touche’ Beauty.
 
 
7.      What’s the best thing about your job? The positive impact I have on People and their lives.
 
 
8.      Who would you want to be in another life?  Me again, knowing what I know now.
 
 
9.      Do you know anyone who’s had sex for money? That would be a matter of opinion.
 
 
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SUNDAY • MARCH 21, 2010

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE VICTORY FOR OBAMA IN HOUSE:
 
The House delivered Sunday night on President Obama’s top priority, a historic restructuring of the nation’s health care system that has eluded his predecessors for more than a century.
 
The 219-212 House vote, coming after a tumultuous day of protests and rancorous debate, paves the way for Obama to sign the major portion of his 10-year, $940 billion plan early this week. The House was to vote later Sunday on a package of changes and send it to the Senate for final passage.
 
The vote assured that about 32 million Americans will gain health insurance coverage and millions more will win protections against losing theirs. The legislation will raise taxes, largely on the wealthy, and reduce future Medicare spending by about $500 billion.
  
   
 

 

 

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FRIDAY • FEBRUARY 26, 2010
OBAMA: HEALTH DEAL MAY NOT WORK: Was it all for naught? President Obama concluded Thursday’s health-care summit with Republicans by saying that he did not think a bipartisan deal with Republicans was likely and suggested Democrats would use reconciliation to pass it over a Republican filibuster. “We cannot have another yearlong debate about this,” Obama said. Particular sticking points were covering the uninsured and outlawing insurers from rejecting customers with preexisting conditions. “I don’t know frankly whether we can close that gap,” Obama said. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were expected to count votes in their caucuses after the summit.
 

 

 

 DESPITE PRESSURE, CHINA STILL RESISTS IRAN SANCTIONS: Despite intense public and private pressure by the Obama administration, China has not yet shown any sign that it will support tougher sanctions against Iran, leaving a stubborn barrier before President Obama’s efforts to constrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Diplomats from two major European allies said this week that China had refused even to “engage substantively” on the issue of sanctions, preferring to continue diplomatic efforts with Tehran. And one senior diplomat said he believed that the most likely outcome might be a decision by China to abstain from voting on a resolution in the United Nations Security Council.
 

 

 

TWO BLASTS ROCK KABUL: Just one day after lifting an Afghan flag over Marja, the Taliban have claimed responsibility for a car bombing and suicide bombing in central Kabul that left at least 18 people dead and 32 wounded The New York Times reports. The car bomb hit a guesthouse popular with Indians, while suicide bombers descended on another guesthouse popular with Britons and Americans.
 

 

 

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OVER AND OUT: Embattled New York Gov. David Paterson will not seek full term in office, Democratic Party source say.
 
 

 

 

LBN READERS WIN AGAIN!: The House Ethics Committee found Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel violated House rules when he accepted trips to the Caribbean. Rangel’s jaunts are considered hidden financing by corporations, and were accepted in knowing violation of House rules. Yesterday afternoon, all 317,000 LBN E-Lert readers got the news. BEFORE Fox News, CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
 

 

 

COMMON GROUND: President Obama and Congressional Republicans sparred over health care during an all-day televised forum, with Republicans repeatedly urging the president to scrap his bill and start over.
 

 

 

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***The Federal Reserve is examining the stratagems devised by Goldman Sachs and other big banks to help Greece mask its burgeoning debt over the last decade.
 

 

 

Kim Yu-Na Wins Gold: South Korea’s Kim Yu-Na triumphed Thursday, winning the Olympic gold with a record total score of 228.56 points after skating a 150.06 in the long-program and flawlessly executing a series of jumps, including the triple-flip. “I’ve been dreaming about this moment,” she said during a press conference. “I can’t believe this is not a dream any more.” Although Japan’s Mao Asada successfully performed two triple axels in the long program, she only managed the silver after slipping twice, errors that she said made her “full of regrets.”
 

 

 

KILLER WHALE TO BE SPARED: SeaWorld will keep Tilikum, the killer whale who killed a trainer in front of an audience on Wednesday, instead of destroying him or setting him free, MSNBC reports. The chief of animal training at SeaWorld said that the beast has been captive too long to return to the wild, and that he would not be killed because he is part of the amusement park’s breeding program and a companion to its seven other whales. SeaWorld has suspended all orca shows until it completes a review of how the trainers interact with the animals. One thing will definitely change: VIP visitors who were occasionally allowed to pet the whales will no longer do so.
 

 

 

WAGE LEVER: One in four Americans work for companies with federal contracts, and administration officials see an opportunity to lift more families into the middle class.
 

 

 

SIRIUS XM POSTS PROFIT, ITS FIRST SINCE MERGER: The satellite radio company Sirius XM Radio posted its first quarterly profit since its merger and said it expected to add 500,000 new subscribers in 2010 as the recovery in the car market increased demand. The results on Thursday suggest that the company, run by the media industry veteran Mel Karmazin, has solidified. Just a year ago, it flirted with bankruptcy.
 

 

 

SENATE HIJACKED—AGAIN: A rogue retiring GOP senator is single-handedly blocking a bill that would extend expiring unemployment benefits and health care payments to jobless Americans. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), largely considered a pariah within his own party after he was essentially forced by GOP leaders to retire this year rather than run for re-election, is demanding that the benefits be paid for with unused stimulus funds rather than add to the deficit.
 

 

 

GADDAFI CALLS FOR JIHAD AGAINST SWITZERLAND: Libya’s dispute with Switzerland was intensified Thursday after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called for ‘jihad’ against the European nation “with all means” due to its referendum to ban minarets.  “Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against (the Prophet) Mohammad, God and the Koran,” Gaddafi said. “The masses of Muslims must go to all airports in the Islamic world and prevent any Swiss plane landing, to all harbors and prevent any Swiss ships docking, inspect all shops and markets to stop any Swiss goods being sold.”
 

 

 

NYC CANCELS SCHOOL: A whole bunch of kids must have done their snow dances: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg canceled school for the city’s 1.1 million public school students on Friday after a massive snowstorm dumped 10 inches of fluff on the city, with more slated to come.
 

 

 

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REPORT: CRIST TO BOLT GOP: Sinking in the polls against his Republican primary opponent, Marco Rubio, and branded as unacceptably moderate by conservative activists throughout the country, Governor (and LBN reader) Charlie Crist’s time with the GOP may have finally come to an end. According to a report by Jack Funari of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, sources say Crist is laying the groundwork for an independent bid in order to bypass his contest with Rubio. His recent behavior certainly indicates as much: After being hammered in his primary over his early praise for President Obama and his backing of the stimulus bill, Crist forcefully doubled down on his decisions earlier this month despite their extreme unpopularity among Republicans.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Nadya “Octomom” Suleman let loose Wednesday after her appearance on “The View”.  The mother of 14 showed up at Greenhouse in NYC with a fur vest-wearing, Birkin handbag- toting male companion and a photographer pal about 11 p.m., drank water, and left by 12:30 a.m. The trio returned at 3 a.m. and drank shots at the bar.   ***Mike Myers wearing a Canadian jersey as he watched his Canadian hockey team beat the Russians at the Blue Seats Sports Bar on Ludlow Street in NYC.   ***Astor trial juror Judi DeMarco –who says she voted to convict Anthony Marshall after being threatened by another juror — enjoying drinks with friends at Pete McManus’ bar on 17th and 19th in NYC.   ***Renee Zellweger tying a blond labrador to a tree outside Le Pain Quotidien on Madison in NYC, telling a fan it’s her boyfriend’s dog. (Bradley Cooper has a German shorthaired pointer and a chow-retriever mix).   ***Rant columnist Ericka T. Bass singing “God Bless America” at the Hamburger Hamlet on the Sunset Strip last night around 11p.m. She had not been drinking.   ***Before returning to London  Jude Law was spotted sunning at “Do  Brazil” on Shell Beach , St Barth’s along with a group of male and lovely female friends..    ***Sarah Jessica Parker at the Nations Capitol for the 2009 National Arts and Humanities Medal Ceremony last night. *** Nicole Kidman was spotted mingling with fellow guests at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the 12th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards.   ***Jimmy Fallon arrives in Vancouver to tape his show, “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” during the Winter Olympics.   ***Anne Hathaway turned up for the world premiere of Alice in Wonderland at London’s Odeon Leicester Square on Thursday.   ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT- Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
 

 

 

THE REAL STORY: The untold shocking story behind why Patrick Kennedy has forsaken Congress - to help his mother Joan, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s ex, battle her booze-driven demons. That’s the heartbreaking family secret behind Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s decision to quit politics - he’s leaving public life to care for his troubled mother Joan.
 

 

 

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***Rupert Murdoch will turn 79 next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of News Corp., his empire is said to be facing a growing internal factionalism. That conflict is likely to be the focus of a New York magazine story on the company, due out next week.   ***Jay Leno returns to “The Tonight Show” on Monday night. But the network still must address the issue of who will one day replace him as host of the important late-night franchise. NBC “would be wise to start test-piloting guest hosts” to fill in for Leno, who turns 60 in April.   ***Howard Stern “definitely” won’t be joining “American Idol” as the judge replacing Simon Cowell, according to sources close to the hit Fox show. 19 Entertainment, the London-based creator of the franchise, is expended to spend $38 million on Cowell’s replacement.    ***LARadio founder Don Barrett is today’s guest speaker at prominent Hollywood P.R. firm LCO’s monthly P.R. training program for staff and interns.
 

 

 

LBN-VIDEO LINK:  Selling in a tough economy.
 

 

 

DEAD BEAT DAD LEVI MUST PAY: A judge has ordered baby dada Levi Johnston to fork over big bucks in his child support war with ex Bristol Palin. Based on Levi’s earnings from various promotions and media outlets,the judge ordered the father of teen prego queen Bristol’s child to pay over $18,000 in back child support.
 

 

 

LBN-INVESTIGATES: The highest medal count for the United States in the Olympic Winter Games is 34, which the U.S. team attained in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
 

 

 

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: Approximately 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections are diagnosed every year. In a recent study–the first to investigate the costs associated with this problem–researchers concluded that pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in hospitals killed 48,000 patients in the US and cost $8.1 billion in 2006. Patients who developed sepsis, a bacterial infection in the bloodstream, after surgery had to stay in the hospital an average of 11 days extra, at a cost of $32,900 per patient, while pneumonia patients stayed an extra 14 days after surgery, at a cost of $46,400.
 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER:   ***Kim Yu-na was nearly flawless, and became South Korea’s first Olympic champion in figure skating. Mao Asada of Japan took silver and Joannie Rochette of Canada the bronze.   ***Shannon Szabados stopped all 28 American shots and Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice in a 2-0 victory over the United States.   ***A great divide exists between countries like Germany and Argentina in sliding sports — in the standings as well as in financing, coaching and gaining access to the world’s 16 courses.
 

 

 

DAVID GEFFEN IS “YOU’RE SO VAIN”: CARLY SIMON REVEALS SONG INSPIRATION?: According to an interpretation of a clip of a remastered version of “You’re So Vain,” Carly Simon named David Geffen as the target of the song. When the song is played backwards, at least as heard in the clip, a voice whispers “David.” Geffen was the head of Simon’s record label at the time, and was supposedly paying more attention to Joni Mitchell. That would mean it is not about exes Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger or Kris Kristofferson.
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By TERRY MORAN (Co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline): Bomb Power. Great title. And for Garry Wills, one of our most insightful and provocative public intellectuals, it’s the key to the story of how the president became “an American monarch.” The answer, Wills says in this impassioned historical argument, can be found in the awesome power of The Bomb. Because the president had it, and could use it at a moment’s notice, “a huge secret empire” was constructed over the years—an empire of laws and constitutional innovations and a worldwide network of intelligence and military assets. It all amounted to a loaded weapon embedded in Article II. And every president since Hiroshima—especially George W. Bush, but including Barack Obama so far—has wielded it. Though Wills’ book sometimes seems to be an idée fixe (there are other factors at work in the triumph of executive power), it is essentially a call to constitutional conscience. Don’t miss it.
 

 

 

LBN-FILM REVIEW By MANOHLA DARGIS: “A Prophet” is one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: The health care summit may not have bridged the partisan rift, but there were moments of hope for the next set of reformers.
 

 

 

LBN-FILM REVIEW By A. O. SCOTT: From time to time, “Cop Out” offers glimpses of the giddy, goofy delight it might have been.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: Since Republicans didn’t bother making much of a case at Thursday’s White House meeting, Democrats may have the last laugh by finishing the job and enacting health reform.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By JANE FONDA (Activist, advocate and actress): Women accounted for just 7% of directors on the 250 top-grossing movies of 2009. That’s the same number as in 1987.
 

 

 

LBN-FILM REVIEW By MANOHLA DARGIS: “The Art of the Steal” is a hard-hitting documentary about a high-cultural brawl.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By HARRY HOUDINI: But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:    ***As we reported yesterday afternoon, the body of Andrew Koenig was discovered Thursday by Vancouver police, in Stanley Park. Koenig played sidekick to Kirk Cameron’s character on the hit 1980s TV show Growing Pains, and had been missing since Valentine’s Day. At a press conference, Koenig’s father said that the actor had taken his own life. Koenig had been on antidepressants, but stopped taking them last year.   ***Tiger Woods wasn’t amused by billboards that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals planned to put up bearing his face and the slogan, “Too much sex can be a bad thing.” Lawyers for the golfer threatened to sue the activists if they used his once-valuable image in their campaign urging owners to neuter their pets. So now PETA says it will feature another famous philanderer, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, with the possible tagline: “Your dog doesn’t have to go to South America to get laid.”   ***Grace Jones will perform at this year’s Elton John AIDS Foundation’s annual Oscar viewing party on March 7 at the Pacific Design Center in LA. Details are still under wraps, but as with recent shows at Hammerstein Ballroom and the Hollywood Bowl, the 61-year-old singer’s act will include a lengthy wait to take the stage and multiple, dramatic costume changes. In past years, Elton booked such artists as Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and the Scissor Sisters.   ***It’s official. Simon Cowell is getting married! Beautiful Mezhgan Hussainy told RadarOnline.com exclusively that she and Simon are officially engaged.   ***Jon Cryer, co-star of “Two and a Half Men,” was the target of a hit engineered by his ex-wife this according to the woman’s ex-boyfriend. According to documents filed in the custody battle between Cryer and ex-wife Sarah Trigger, Trigger’s lawyer claims on December 21, 2009, Trigger told her that her ex-boyfriend, Eddie Sanchez, had said he was going to kill Cryer and Trigger’s estranged husband, David Dickey.
 

 

 

LBN-DID YOU KNOW:   ***Coca-Cola was originally green. ***People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet. ***Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year. ***Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. ***Blueberry juice boosts memory
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “A damn fool with a plan beats a wandering genius a 100 times out of a 100.”-Michael Levine.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

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WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 17, 2010

 

 

 

TIGER TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE FRIDAY:
 
Tiger Woods will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks to the media for the first time about his middle-of-the-night accident that sparked shocking revelations about his infidelity.
 
Woods will talk to a small group of reporters at 11 a.m. Friday from the clubhouse of the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home of the PGA Tour.
 
 

 

 

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MONDAY • DECEMBER 7, 2009
NO SET PLAN FOR WITHDRAWAL: Hope you hadn’t marked it on your calendar: President Obama’s advisers have been working to downplay the significance of the July 2011 withdrawal date for Afghanistan that the president set in his speech last week. Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton have emphasized that that date will only be the start of a transfer of power to Afghan troops, and that any such transfer will be slow.
  

 

 

COPENHAGEN KICKS OFF: Diplomats from 192 nations are attending the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen, which opened on Monday, in what may be the world’s last, best chance to protect the world from a global-warming calamity. The conference is the culmination of two years of negotiations, and the first week of the two-week gathering will focus on refining the text of a draft treaty. According to conference president Connie Hedegaard, the key will be finding a way to funnel public and private funds to poor countries for years to come to help them combat climate change.
  

 

 

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U.S. FORECASTS SMALLER LOSS FROM BANK BAILOUT: The Treasury Department expects to recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it lent to ailing companies during the financial crisis last year, with the portion lent to banks actually showing a slight profit, according to a new Treasury report.
  

 

 

DE NIRO, SPRINGSTEEN HONORED: This weekend, a surprise list of star performers celebrated Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, director Mel Brooks, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, and opera singer Grace Bumbry at the Kennedy Center Honors. Three hundred guests, including Jack Black, Edward Norton, Sting, and Martin Scorsese, attended a reception in the East Room of the White House to celebrate the occasion. “I think when all my awards go to eBay, it will be the last,” Brooks said of his.
  

 

 

U.S. MILITARY CHILDREN ARRESTED IN JAPAN: Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said. An 18-year-old man, a 17-year-old girl and two 15-year-old boys were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road.
  

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***New York magazine survived the sudden death in October of owner Bruce Wasserstein. Still, hard economic times have forced editor Adam Moss to cut the budget by more than 10%, reduce freelance contracts and slash writers’ pay. He still employs a large editorial staff of 100.   ***Conde Nast’s former Portfolio.com is being reinvented as “helpful and earnest” under the new ownership of American City Business Journals. The site is adding features, like a tool called BizWatch that lets readers get updates on companies and execs from selected news sources.   ***Simon Halls and Cindi Berger were made co-Ceo of the Hollywood P.R. firm PMK/HBH after their president Nat Schreiber left on Friday.
  

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***After debuting in the shadow of “New Moon,” Warner Bros.’ “The Blind Side” has gained consistent box-office yardage week after week and has now topped the chart in its third weekend of release. With an overall year-to-date box office total of $9.66 billion through Sunday, this year is poised to beat 2007’s record revenues of $9.68 billion early this week.   ***Over a 100 winners of the Academy Award read the LBN E-Lert every day.   ***Debbie Harry, Kanye West and Paris Hiltonappear in a movie immortalizing the Gramercy Park Hotel. The film, directed by Douglas Keeve, also has cameos from Julian Schnabel Karl Lagerfeld, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Russell Simmons, The Post’s David Landsel, and Ian Schrager,who transformed the hotel in 2005. “Hotel Gramercy Park” premieres on the Sundance Channel tonight, while Keeve and producer Wendy Ettinger will hold a private screening at the hotel penthouse.
  

 

 

OPRAH AIMS FOR TIGER: One woman is talking to Tiger Woods who isn’t saying she slept with him: Oprah. The queen of talk has “personally reached out,” according to the New York Daily News. Over the weekend, the number of women claiming to have slept with Tiger since his marriage grew to seven, including a porn star and a waitress at a Perkins eatery, who claims the golf star liked to spank her.
  

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Tennis ace John McEnroe and rocker wife Patty Smyth raised eyebrows during a dinner hosted by Vito Schnabel for the “Happy Endings” exhibit at the W Hotel in Miami. The couple surprised diners, including artist Terence Koh, actor Stephen Dorff and Jann Wenner’s son Theo Wenner, by passing around what looked like a spliff during a discussion on marijuana reform. “They were talking about grass reforms and the next thing you know they were lighting up,” laughs an attendee. “No one seemed to mind, though.”   ***Joy Behar dining with Oliver Stone at A Voce in the Time Warner Center in NYC   ***Kelly Rutherford and Alexis Bledel drinking Akvinta cocktails and browsing at the alice + olivia pop-up shop on Third and 73rd in NYC.   ***Saturn Award winning actor and musician James Marsten and a lady friend at the world premiere musical comedy “Love in Bloom” at Santa Monica Playhouse Sunday night.   ***Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony cheered for the Dolphins as the team faced off against the New England Patriots in Miami.   ***Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. stepped out to dinner with friends at West Hollywood’s Phillip Chow.   ***Kim Kardashian was spotted at The Trevor Project’s Annual Cracked Xmas fundraiser at L.A.’s Wiltern Theatre.   ***Halle Berry attended the Beverly Hills Hotel held at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Woman in Entertainment breakfast.   ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
  

 

 

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TOY HAMSTER MAY BE TOXIC: Well, at least they haven’t become self-aware: This year’s holiday toy sensation, the Zhu Zhu robotic hamster, may contain toxic levels of tin and antimony. Consumer health Web site GoodGuide released a report Friday that found that the stuffed toy hamster contains 93 parts per million of antimony, above the 60 ppm limit enacted by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
  

 

 

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LBN-RECOMMENDS By JANE ROSENTHAL (Film Producer): One of the films that really sticks out in my mind is a movie that will be airing on PBS soon called Pray the Devil Back to Hell. It is about a group of women who pushed the warlords out and elected a woman president and that was pretty extraordinary.
  

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL (The Nation’s editor and publisher): Robert Frank’s black-and-white photographs are now in a compact and chronological exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A couple of weeks ago, I skipped out of work and spent two hours wandering through Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans. In June 1955, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank bought a used Ford and set out across America. During his trip, Frank shot 27,000 images, which have been pared down for the show.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: History shows that cap and trade, a system specifically designed to bring the power of market incentives to bear on environmental problems, does work.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By ROBERT A. IGER (President and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company): Curbing piracy and making it easier to visit our country are straightforward and immediate ways to spur long-term job growth. The decline in foreign visitors has probably cost the country around 245,000 jobs. Piracy has cost another 375,000.
  

 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***Tiger Woods told one of his alleged mistresses his marriage was a sham — “It’s only for publicity” — this, according to her lawyer.   ***Marc Christian MacGinnis, who won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 1991 from the estate of his ex-lover, actor Rock Hudson, after convincing a jury Hudson had knowingly exposed him to AIDS, has died. He was 56. Known as Marc Christian, he died of pulmonary problems June 2 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. The details were confirmed Friday by his sister, Susan Dahl, who said she did not publicly announce his death earlier because of her brother’s wish for privacy.
  

 

 

DID YOU KNOW:   ***The world’s first book, the Diamond Sutra was first produced in China in 868 AD.   ***C. Hopffer patented the fire extinguisher in 1722.   ***Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.   ***Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.   ***The statement “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
  

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “This Administration is a calamity. I never said that about any Presidency, including the Carter Presidency. This is a total disaster.”—-Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
  

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By WILLIAM FAULKNER: Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. (1932)
  

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed.

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SUNDAY • DECEMBER 6, 2009
HOW OBAMA MADE UP HIS MIND: How did the president come to one of the most important decisions of his time in office? “I don’t want to be going to Walter Reed for another eight years,” President Obama told his advisers when explaining his thinking about the toll that an escalated war in Afghanistan might bring. In a detailed retelling of the day-to-day thinking behind the decision to add 30,000 troops to a war half a world away, Peter Baker of The New York Times writes that Obama was troubled by human and financial costs. Leaks caused a “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” reaction from the Pentagon. The president warned: “What I’m not going to tolerate is you talking to the press outside of this room.” Obama took to reading a book on Vietnam called Lessons in Disaster. Before every meeting, Vice President Biden sent the president a secret memo.
  

 

 

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GATES SAYS NO BIN LADEN INTEL IN ‘YEARS’: In a startling admission, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. has not had any intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts in “years” on ABC’s This Week. Gates could not confirm reports that a detainee in Pakistan claimed had seen the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan earlier this year.
  

 

 

 

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JURORS ‘DRAINED’ BY KNOX DECISION: In the wake of 22-year-old Amanda Knox’s conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher, the mood surrounding the trial is a somber one. Kercher’s brother recently described the conviction as “not a time for celebration… not a moment of triumph,” and jurors on the case are now talking to the press about the difficulty of their decision. “No one slept the night before the verdict was handed down, and I think we were all—judges included—in tears before the verdict was announced,” said one juror, adding that everyone involved was “emotionally drained” by the process. “Knowing what happened to Meredith, combined with having Knox and Sollecito sit in front of us every day made this psychologically tough,” said another juror. “I don’t see them as evil people, not like some of the Mafia killers on trial for massacring people. What mattered was the evidence, which you can’t ignore.”
  

 

 

GEITHNER: YOU ALL WOULD HAVE FAILED: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Bloomberg News that all banks would have failed without a government bailout. “None of them would have survived,” he said, countering claims made by Goldman Sachs executives that they could have gotten through the financial crisis without assistance. Geithner also went after Wall Street’s high bonuses in an interview with Al Hunt. “It is very important that we change the way these executives are paid, the form of compensation, this year,” Geithner said.
  

 

 

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GITMO COMING TO ILLINOIS: Welcome to the neighborhood? Terrorism suspects now being kept at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will most likely be relocated to a state prison in Thomson, Illinois. The move would come over the vocal objections of congressional Republicans who do not want to see the prisoners land on American soil. Prison officials briefed members of the Illinois congressional delegation last week about the relocation.
  

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Derek Jeter dining with a male friend at Nino’s Positano on Second Avenue in NYC, where he asked for his usual table and dined on grilled chicken with Italian sausage and shitaki mushrooms.   ***Artist Les Rogers, whose show, “Last House,” opens at the Leo Koenig gallery in January, watching football with Sean Avery at 77 Warren in NYC.   ***”The City” star Erin Kaplan, p.r. maven Lizzie Grubman and Tucker Blair publicist Zachary Weiss planning a reality show over food at Pastis in NYC.   ***Tippi Hedren, queen of the cats, was singing at the piano bar at David Murdoch’s Penthouse Regency Club in Westwood, celebrating the lavish Launch party of her friend’s book First Person Cat by Jacque Heebner.-co-hosted by David Webb Precious Jewels, and Edward Lozzi.   Along with 200 other guests singing, glad-handing and munching on caviar, lobster and lamb chops were Lou Ferrigno dancing, David Murdoch ducking, Kelly Lange reciting, Shirley Jones humming, Frank Stallone crooning, Roger Williams smiling, and famed attorney Tom Mesareau pontificating.   ***Jessica Stroup attended Variety’s 3rd Annual Power of Youth event held at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.   ***Jessica Alba picked up a Christmas tree from L.A.’s Mister Greentree.   ***Victoria Beckham took her sons Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz to dinner at the Montage in Beverly Hills.   ***Britney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick enjoyed a romantic dinner at The Little Door in L.A.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
  

 

 

LBN-HEALTH WATCH:   ***For years, experts have investigated the health effects of cell phone radiation, particularly whether it increases the risk of brain cancer. According to Danish researchers, who analyzed the incidence rate of brain tumors in adults between the ages of 20 and 79, there has been no substantial change in the number of adults developing brain tumors since cell phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s. Though heartening, researchers say these results do not prove that cell phone radiation does not cause brain tumors to develop. Because it may take many years of exposure for cell phones to promote tumor development, longer follow-up studies are needed.
  

 

 

OBAMA DEATH THREATS LEVEL OFF: Threats against Barack Obama’s life have leveled off after a spike just before his inauguration and another in the first months of his presidency, The New York Times reports in a chilling article that recounts several threat scenarios. In one of many troubling cases, a young Marine, Kody Brittingham, pleaded guilty in August to threatening to kill the president in a chilling plan that was meticulously laid out with maps and photographs. Brittingham wrote that he’d taken an oath to “protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic,” and signed a “letter of intent” in which he identified a “domestic enemy” in President Obama.
  

 

 

ARRESTED: Three boys and a girl from an American military base were arrested on charges of attempted murder for allegedly toppling a woman on a motorbike, causing her to suffer a serious head injury.
  

 

 

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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***The U.S. based Damah Film Festival will hit the road this December, as Damah Film Festival in Hiroshima opens its doors on December 11-13, 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan with showcases featuring this year’s nominees as well a special screening of a full length feature film. The renowned film festival, known for highlighting short films that focus on the importance of story and spirituality in filmmaking, will screen the feature film thriller, The Least of These starring Isaiah Washington, which was executive produced by Damah juror Ralph Winter.
  

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. (1893)
  

 

 

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:    ***The date of the Beverly Hills Media Tea featuring Sharon Waxman, founder of The Wrap has been changed to Dec 15th due to her busy travel schedule. It will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
  

 

 

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LBN-COMMENTARY By BILL KELLER: In “Invictus,” Morgan Freeman conveys the manipulative charm, the serene confidence and the lonely regret of Nelson Mandela.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By FRANK RICH: Obama’s speech, for all its thoughtfulness and sporadic eloquence, was a failure at its central mission. On its own terms, as both policy and rhetoric, it didn’t make the case for escalating our involvement in Afghanistan. It’s doubtful that the president’s words moved the needle of public opinion wildly in any direction for a country that has tuned out Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq alike while panicking about where the next job is coming from.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By PEGGY NOONAN: A deep and perhaps the deepest benefit of the speech was that a Democratic president asserted compellingly, and with a high degree of certitude and conviction, that the United States is and has been immersed in a long struggle with intractable enemies.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By DOUG GILES: What are the global warming grunts going to do now that the Apostles of the Holy Church of Climatology have been busted for cooking the “truth”.
  

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: In the end the United States’ strategy in Afghanistan is not about how many troops we send or deadlines we set. It is all about our Afghan partners.
  

 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***It may be time to add more names to the ever-growing list of women Tiger Woods has had affairs with outside of his marriage to Elin Nordegren. Sources are saying that over the past few years, Woods kept himself busy with Cori Rist, another blonde that he met at upscale New York City bars, Mindy Lawton, a 33-year-old Florida waitress who spoke with London’s News of the World as well as Jamie Jungers, a Las Vegas model. “I love Tiger, but he got careless,” said a source. “He’s been doing this for years. He wanted to run with the big dogs.” Rist has issued a resounding “no comment” in response to the story, but Lawton was more than happy to detail her relationship with Woods: “Sometimes, I looked like a rag doll after we’d made love…. He really did like it rough,” she said. Lawton says they met in 2006 and on a scale of 10, she would give him a 12 in the bedroom, but while she wanted to be “the next Mrs. Woods,” all he cared about was a physical relationship.   ***The 23-year-old daughter of Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley tried to kill herself yesterday by swallowing sleeping pills — adding another chapter of sadness to a life she has sometimes described as lonely and overwhelming. Medics were summoned to Alexa Ray Joel’s apartment on Bethune Street in the West Village at 12:21 p.m. after a female friend dialed 911 from a cellphone to report a possible overdose. The friend told 911 operators Alexa had taken eight pills and wanted to die, but felt funny and then wanted to live, sources said. When rescuers arrived, they found she was having difficulty breathing, Fire Department officials said.   ***Two stars of the “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here” television show have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming.   ***Tiger Woods’ mistress Jaimee Grubbs has been described as a cocktail waitress but  Jaimee has been working in a medical marijuana “pharmacy” The woman who had a several-years affair with the athlete regarded as a golfing legend has been working at City Organic Remedies in Studio City, CA.
  

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.” - Albert Schweitzer.
  

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.

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WEDNESDAY • DECEMBER 2, 2009

 

 

 

SALAHIS DECLINE TO TESTIFY BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE: Tareq and Michaele Salahi will not testify before Congress on Thursday about how they got into the White House last week for President Obama’s first state dinner, the Associated Press reported. The Salahis’ publicist said in a statement that the couple had already provided information to lawmakers.
 

 

 

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WEDNESDAY • DECEMBER 2, 2009
PRESIDENT’S AFGHAN DRAWDOWN PLAN CALLED RISKY, ‘UNREALISTIC’: President Obama’s timetable for winding down the war in Afghanistan may be too short for the United States to achieve its war aims but too long to hold American public support, observers said Tuesday. Obama announced the deployment of another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in a Tuesday night speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, senior administration officials said. The announcement is coupled with a plan to begin withdrawing the American contingent in July 2011, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
 

 

 

AMANDA KNOX LAWYER MAKES EMOTIONAL PLEA FOR ACQUITTAL: A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared its conclusion. Knox is the American student accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, at the villa they shared in Italy. “We suffer at the memory of Meredith. But we look at the future of Amanda,” Luciano Ghirga said in his defense summation. “Meredith was my friend,” he quoted Knox as saying, rejecting the notion that she hated her roommate, who was fatally stabbed in November 2007.
 

 

 

TIGER WOODS APOLOGIZES AS GOSSIP MAGAZINE REPORTS AFFAIR: Golfer Tiger Woods apologized Wednesday for “transgressions” that let his family down — the same day a gossip magazine published a report alleging he had an affair. “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves,” he said in a statement on his official Web site. Woods did not admit to an affair and offered no details about the “transgressions” in his statement.
 

 

 

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AHMADINEJAD: IRAN WILL FURTHER ENRICH URANIUM: PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS SEEM TO RULE OUT U.N.-BACKED NUCLEAR DEAL: Iran said Wednesday it would produce whatever nuclear fuel it needed on its own, the latest indication it was rejecting a U.N.-backed deal aimed at reining in Tehran’s nuclear program over fears it is geared to produce weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran will enrich its uranium to an even higher level on its own, after expressing frustration over the ongoing negotiations over the U.N. deal to exchange its low-enriched uranium for more highly enriched fuel rods.
 

 

 

REPORT: 2,600 BODIES FOUND IN KASHMIR GRAVES: Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human rights activists said Wednesday, alleging some of the dead were likely innocent people killed by security forces. More than a dozen Kashmiri rebel groups have been fighting for independence from India or a union with predominantly Muslim Pakistan since 1989. Rights groups say there have been more than 8,000 disappearances since the rebellion began.
 

 

 

SEXTING’ BULLYING CITED IN TEEN’S SUICIDE: 13-YEAR-OLD HOPE WITSELL HANGED HERSELF AFTER TOPLESS PHOTOS CIRCULATED: Hope Witsell was just beginning the journey from child to teen. The middle-school student had a tight-knit group of friends, the requisite poster of “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson and big plans to become a landscaper when she grew up. But one impetuous move robbed Hope of her childhood, and eventually, her life. The 13-year-old Florida girl sent a topless photo of herself to a boy in hope of gaining his attention. Instead, she got the attention of her school, as well as the high school nearby.
 

 

 

ATLANTA MAYOR’S RACE HEADED FOR RECOUNT: CANDIDATES SEPARATED BY 758 VOTES; CONTEST EXPOSED CITY’S RACIAL FAULT LINES: A race for mayor of Atlanta headed for a recount on Wednesday after a knife-edge election that exposed a racial fault line running through the biggest city in the U.S. Southeast. Former state Senator Kasim Reed declared victory overnight when official results from the runoff vote showed him beating city councilwoman Mary Norwood by 758 votes out of 83,000 cast. But Norwood declined to concede defeat and is almost certain to demand a recount under rules that permit one when less than 1 percent of votes cast separates the candidates.
 

 

 

FACEBOOK TO LOSE GEOGRAPHY NETWORKS, ADD PRIVACY FEATURES: Facebook users will soon lose the ability to join a network of friends who live in the same area but will gain the widely desired ability to control who sees every piece of information they post. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in an open letter to users that appeared on the site Wednesday morning, said the social networking site has outgrown the usefulness of regional networks. “[A]s Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy,” he said in the letter.
 

 

 

‘DAWN OF A NEW ERA’ FOR AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA?: South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma announced new policies to tackle the country’s AIDS epidemic, on Tuesday. On World AIDS Day, Zuma spoke of “the dawn of a new era” in a speech where he took a markedly different approach from his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, who had questioned the link between HIV and AIDS.Speaking in the country’s capital, Pretoria, Zuma announced policies that would see more people treated for HIV, including treatment for all HIV-positive babies under the age of one. He also announced a campaign to mobilize all South Africans to be tested for HIV.
 

 

 

CLIMATE SCIENTIST AT CENTER OF E-MAIL CONTROVERSY TO STEP DOWN: A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is stepping down while the university investigates the incident. Climate skeptics have seized on several e-mails from Phil Jones, director of the university’s Climatic Research Unit, to other researchers as evidence that prominent scientists have sought to silence their voice in the debate over global warming. The e-mails were pirated and posted online last month.
 

 

 

AUSTRALIA’S PARLIAMENT DEFEATS GLOBAL WARMING BILL: Australia’s plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration’s proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government’s bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.
 

 

 

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NANCY PELOSI SPENDS $2,993 ON FLOWERS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent $2,993 in taxpayer money on flowers between June and October. House Majority Whip James Clyburn has a thing for Chantilly Donuts, spending about $265 at the Virginia shop in the past quarter. And Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), a fiscal conservative, decided to give about $2,000 in unused office funds back to the government to help reduce the deficit.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Celine Dion cheered on the Miami Heat along with her husband René Angélil and their 8-year-old son René Charles as the team faced off against the Boston Celtics at the Miami American Airlines Arena.  ***Natalie Portman enjoyed dinner with friends at Jose Andres’ L.A. restaurant The Bazaar.   ***Britney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick were spotted at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood.  ***Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie shared an intimate dinner together at La Dolce Vita restaurant in Beverly Hills.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***Sumner Redstone is prevailing in his latest family legal squabble, this time with his nephew over a disputed trust in a case that could have cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. Michael Redstone claimed that he had been unfairly deprived of shares in National Amusements.   ***Charles Gibsons’s last day as anchor of ABC “World News” will be Dec. 18. The network says it plans to spend a good deal of time during his final week on the air looking back at the stories he covered. Gibson will be replaced in the evening news chair by Diane Sawyer.   ***Arianna Huffington insists free online content is here to stay, in her address at the FTC journalism gathering. “Desperate” publishers need to “stop whining” and get busy figuring out how to make free content work for them, she says. “The news has become social.” Ms.Huffington is launching The Huffington Post Los Angeles today. “There are a lot of conversations going on in Los Angeles,” says Huffington, who previously launched local sites for Chicago, New York and Denver. The new site will be led by Willow Bay and Billy Silverman.   ***The Forbes family is said to be close to a deal to sell its New York headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue for about $55 million. The Forbes clan is selling assets as it faces financial pressure from the advertising slump. However, a spokesperson says: “Forbes has not signed any contract.”    ***Prominent talk radio show host Martha Zoller reads this LBN E-Lert every day and quotes it frequency on her popular radio show in Georgia.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***Charles Gibson will sign off from “World News” on Dec. 18, with Diane Sawyer succeeding him as anchor soon thereafter.   ***On the heels of “Glee’s” early success, Brad Falchuk has inked his first overall deal: a two-year, seven-figure pact with series producer 20th Century Fox TV.   ***Urged by clients to move faster, Nielsen responded with a plan to accelerate the rollout of the Internet meter to its national people meter sample. The plans call for Nielsen to complete the roll out by Aug. 31, 2010, instead of some time in 2011.
 

 

 

LBN-BOOK NEWS:   ***The editors of the Literary Review magazine said best-selling American author Jonathan Littell was awarded Britain’s “Bad Sex in Fiction Prize,” for a cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster. Littell’s book, “The Kindly Ones,” is a 900-page epic narrated by a fictional Nazi officer.   ***Julie Powell admits readers may find her new book “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession” — a bit jarring. Powell dissects the pain caused by her two-year affair with an old college flame that sent her into an emotional tailspin and almost sunk her marriage.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By GEORGE ORWELL: Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. (1950)  
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By DICK MORRIS: As the Congress prepared to vote to let us enter the world of waits for doctors, waits for specialists, waits for testing and waits for surgery, radiation and chemo, we should pause to consider the relative records of the private medical care system in the United States with the socialized system in the U.K. In 2008, Britain had a cancer death rate 0.25% while the United States had a rate of only 0.18%.  The UK cancer death rate was 38% higher than in the United States. The Guardian, the UK’s left wing daily, estimated that “up to 10,000 people” are dying each year of cancer “because their condition is diagnosed too late, according to research by the government’s director of cancer services.”  While many people die because of late detection due to their own negligence, there is no reason to believe this self-neglect is more common in the UK than in the US.In Canada, the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the United States.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By WILLIAM MOYERS (President of the Hazelton Foundation): How likely is it that addicts who receive treatment will recover? At Hazelton, roughly 50% of patients remain abstinent in the year following treatment. That might seem low, but it isn’t – especially compared to the treatment of other chronic diseases with a behavioral component, like diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. There is still no cure for addiction – more research is needed. But there is a solution that includes personal responsibility.
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By JERMAINE BROWN (Artistic Director, Victoria’s Secret): I love the song Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon. They sing with passion. It’s mixing a lot of different elements together. Right now, music has taken a turn and we’re looking for someone who is going to bring something different and these guys are bringing something different and they perform with passion.
 

 

 

LBN HEALTH NEWS:    ***Golf player Doug Barron is suing PGA for suspending him from professional golf.  Although Barron has been receiving synthetic testosterone shots monthly since 2005 for medical reasons, he is the first to be punished for synthetic testosterone doping. ***At Lincoln University, PA, obese students with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above are required to take a fitness course that meets three hours a week; those who do not complete the course cannot graduate. ***Based on recent data and research, the US Oral Cancer Foundation believes that HPV is replacing tobacco as the new primary cause of the spread of oral cancer.
 

 

 

LBN BUSINESS NEWS:   ***The ADP National Employment Report said that 169,000 private sector jobs were lost in November 2009, fewer than the 195,000 jobs that were lost in October but worse than the 160,000 cuts expected by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. This is the eighth consecutive decline in job losses at private companies, evidencing that the economy is recovering, albeit slowly. ***The slowdown in job losses also poses a problem for rehiring, proposing a challenge for President Obama as he plans his stimulus package before tomorrow’s meeting with business leaders. ***The Vanguard Group Inc. reports that 60 percent of their 401(k) accounts have recovered now back to where they were before stocks tumbled roughly two years ago. Participants who continued to contribute had a higher chance of recovery.
 

 

 

LBN SPORTS INSIDER:  ***A Los Angeles cocktail waitress has emerged as the third woman in the Tiger Woods’ scandal, after a voicemail message he allegedly left on her cell phone was made public by Us Weekly on Wednesday. Tiger Woods released a written statement “apologizing for his transgressions,” and that he has “left his family down.” ***Allen Iverson has signed to play with the Philadelphia 76ers again, after playing only 3 games with the Memphis Grizzlies. ***Star closer Billy Wagner has agreed to sign a $7 million, one year, free-agent contract with the Atlanta Braves.
 

 

 

LBN HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***John Mayer helped reunite exes Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson Monday at New York City nightclub Butter, shuttling back and forth between their separate tables throughout the night. The two women were talking before the night ended, and seen laughing, but left separately.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By Malcolm Gladwell (Best-selling author): The school year in the United States is on average 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long. The Japanese school year is 243 days long. In America, we do not have a public education problem; we have a “summer vacation” problem.
 

 

 

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LBN- LYRICS OF LIFE By GEORGE HARRISON:   There’ll come a time when all of us must leave here Then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you As nothing in this life that I’ve been trying Could equal or surpass the art of dying Do you believe me?
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***It’s just a coincidence Meredith Baxter recently appeared in the Hallmark Channel’s ‘’Bound By a Secret,'’ but ironically the actress revealed a very personal secret on ‘’Today'’ this morning. Baxter, perhaps best known for her seven years playing TV mom Elyse Keaton on ‘’Family Ties'’ in the 1980s, will be the latest star to come out of the closet, revealing she is a lesbian. Meredith Baxter took a Caribbean cruise catered to lesbians, according to the National Enquirer.
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. -Hedy Lamarr.
 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW:   ***Algeria gained independence from France on July 5, 1962. ***Bees do not have ears.   ***There are approximately 73,000 types of spiders.   ***The popular band U2’s original name was Feedback.   ***Many, if not most, of the best recordings in the first 40 years of Grammy history failed to win a Grammy, including seminal records by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane, and many others.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

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TUESDAY • NOVEMBER 24, 2009
OBAMA SETS DEC. 1 TROOP DEADLINE: More numbers for the administration to swat down? NPR is reporting that President Obama plans to announce his troop plan for Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec. 1, and that he will announce a “sizeable force of additional troops.” Obama will explain his decision during an address, likely Tuesday night, Politico reports.
 

 

 

1 IN 4 BORROWERS UNDER WATER: Home sales may have risen in October, but this ought to damp any celebration: The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth rose to 23 percent. With nearly 10.7 million households having negative equity in their homes in the third quarter, a sustained housing recovery is unlikely.
 

 

 

HASAN’S LAWYER: DUE PROCESS TRAMPLED: Paralyzed from the chest down, a groggy Maj. Nidal Hasan wavered in and out of consciousness during an hour-long hearing in his hospital room this weekend and lawyer John P. Galligan claims these circumstances that do not meet the accused’s due-process rights. As pretrial proceedings for the most infamous military psychiatrist-turned-gunman begin, Army officials say Hasan requires “unique and tailored” proceedings, but Galligan doesn’t trust it. “What does that mean?” Galligan, a retired colonel, asked. He continued, “Already on most basic fundamental parts of pretrial process, I am not saying it is totally derailed, but they need to do some maintenance to make sure we stay on track.” Galligan says the military has ignored procedural requests and his request to question Hasan’s unit commander, noting also that Hasan was transferred between units last week (while still in the hospital) for unclear reasons.
 

 

 

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OBAMA SAYS HE’LL VISIT INDIA NEXT YEAR:  President Obama said Tuesday he has accepted an invitation from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit India next year. Citing India’s importance, Obama called it fitting that Singh should be the first official state visit of his young presidency. “This reflects the high esteem in which I and the American people hold your wise leadership,” Obama said in a welcoming ceremony for Singh at the White House East Room. “It reflects the abiding bonds of respect and friendship between our people, including our friends in the Indian-American community who join us here today.”
 

 

 

TRAPPED ‘COMA’ MAN: HOW WAS HE MISDIAGNOSED?: A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. For years he listened to the conversations going on around him but he was unable to communicate with his doctors or family. Rom Houben was 23 at the time of the near-fatal car crash in 1983 that left him paralyzed. Doctors presumed he was in a vegetative state following the accident and they believed he could feel and hear nothing. Neurologist Dr.Steven Laureys of the University of Liege, in Belgium carried out a brain scan using state-of-the art scanning system and discovered that Houben’s brain was fully functional.
 

 

 

DOT FINES AIRLINES FOR SIX-HOUR TARMAC DELAY: CONTINENTAL, EXPRESS JET SLAPPED WITH $100,000 PENALTY FOR AUGUST INCIDENT: The Department of Transportation issued a fine against Continental Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines for stranding passengers in Rochester, Minn., for nearly six hours last August. It is the DOT’s first-ever fine for an airport stranding. The agency levied a total civil penalty of $100,000 against the carriers for their roles in the Aug. 8 incident, according to a press release. DOT also penalized Mesaba Airlines $75,000 for the way it handled ground operations.
 

 

 

LIEBERMAN DIGS IN ON PUBLIC OPTION: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I’m going to be stubborn on this.”
Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a “public option,” or government-run health-insurance plan, as the current bill does. His opposition is strong enough that Mr. Lieberman says he won’t vote to let a bill come to a final vote if a public option is included. Probe for a catch or caveat in that opposition, and none is visible. Can he support a public option if states could opt out of the plan, as the current bill provides? “The answer is no,” he says in an interview from his Senate office. “I feel very strongly about this.” How about a trigger, a mechanism for including a public option along with a provision saying it won’t be used unless private insurance plans aren’t spreading coverage far and fast enough? No again.
 

 

 

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UK POLICE HUNT FOR FORMER ROYAL AIDE WHO KILLED BOYFRIEND: A former royal aide convicted of murdering her boyfriend has failed to return to prison on schedule, British police said Tuesday.Jane Andrews, 42, did not report back to East Sutton Park prison, southeast of London, on Sunday night, Kent Police said.”We have no information to suggest she is a threat to the general public, however we must be mindful that… she was convicted of murder,” Assistant Chief Constable Andy Adams said in a statement calling on the public for help in finding her.
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Prominent business attorney Rick Citron having lunch yesterday at The Breeze restaurant in Century City Hotel.   ***Avril Lavigne broke bread with Chris Jones, Charlotte Ronson, Roman Jones, and Scott Storch at Macalusos in South Beach.   ***Lady GaGa signed copies of her new CD at Best Buy in Los Angeles.   ***Hayden Panettiere chatted with Deryck Whibley at Voyeur in West Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan was also at Voyeur.   ***Carrie Underwood went shopping at Bloomingdales in L.A.s Beverly Center. Kelly Clarkson was also at the Beverly Center, stopping in at the Solstice Sunglass boutique.  ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***The axe is starting to fall on the staff of 20 producers and reporters that Lou Dobbs left behind when he left CNN two weeks ago. CNNers are being told that they can start applying for new jobs at the news network, with the implication that their old jobs will soon end.
 

 

 

LBN- LYRICS OF LIFE By LAURA NYRO:
 
Do you hear what I hear
 
When your lips are kissing mine
 
Can you hear the bells darling
 
Can you hear them when Im kissing you
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By GAVIN DEGRAW (SINGER-SONGWRITER): I used to play on the New York bar scene with an Irish friend of mine named Collin Smith, he just put a record out called The Wilderness. Proper Irish tenor vocal, just a wonderful singer.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By SUSAN ESTRICH: So, as it turns out, did I not need to have my breasts squeezed in the mammogram machines every year between the ages of 40 and 50? Could I have missed the two scares in there, especially the one when both of my kids were babies? Maybe. Or rather, in my case, thank God, yes. Then againWhen I saw my doctor yesterday, the one I have trusted with my life and the lives of my children for all these years, the one who sent me for all those tests, I asked him if he would still be sending his women patients who are in their 40s for mammograms. The short answer is yes.
 

 

 

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LBN-RECOMMENDS By HEIDI KLUM (The Project Runway host-and proud mother of four): My favorite hotel is The Hyatt Regency in Japan. Its fantastic. They have heated toilets, and when you push the button, it flushes up! The first time its a bit of a surprise.
 

 

 

LBN COMMENTARY BY JOY BEHAR: ***My favorite 5 talk show hosts are: Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Joan Rivers, Larry Sanders, and Dick Cavett.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY PRIVATE ADVICE MEMO TO ADOLF HITLER By LARRY Grobel(Best-Selling Author): Dear Adolf:  why? You dumb f**k!  Did you have any idea how history would use your name as a synonym for the Devil? Stay out of Poland. Don’t invade Russia in the winter. Return to your painting.  Apologize.
 

 

 

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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By Sharon Tate: I honestly don’t understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It’s silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can’t watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn’t make any sense, does it? (1969)
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   *** Itll be a dreamy entertainment lineup for the first state dinner of the Obama White House: singer Jennifer Hudson is set to perform Tuesday night. Hudson, who won an Academy Award for her role in the movie Dreamgirls, is part of a larger lineup that also includes Indian performers, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the dinner wont be announced until later in the day.   *** Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her. Deen tells WGCL-TV: “I thought it busted my lip, but it didn’t.”   *** The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 plus tax on Saturday.   *** The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed Friday when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star wasnt on board, Virginia State Police said. Sgt. Thomas Molnar said the bus ran off the left side of Interstate 85, struck an embankment and overturned. The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. in Dinwiddie County, about 40 miles south of Richmond. Speed and weather werent considered factors.
 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW:   ***The word encyclopaedia is derived from two Greek words meaning “a circle of learning.   ***Sumerians invented writing in the 4th century BC.   ***The first novel, The Story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman Murasaki Shikibu.   ***The largest horse statue in the world, the Zizkov Monument in Prague, stands 30 ft tall.   ***The first novel sold through a vending machine - at the Paris Metro - was Murder on the Orient Express.
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

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WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 4, 2009
LBN-INVESTIGATES: As of November 2009, the Earth’s population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.795 billion. About 227,000 people are added to the world each day.
 

 

 

IT’S TWINS! STEVE MARTIN, ALEC BALDWIN TO HOST OSCARS: Breaking with tradition, a pair of hosts — Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin — will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars, said Shankman and Mechanic.  Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event.  I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin, said Martin.
 

 

 

GOP WINS BOTH GOVERNOR RACES: Republicans swept Tuesday’s gubernatorial races, with Bob McDonnell easily winning in Virginia and Chris Christie squeaking ahead of incumbent Jon Corzine in New Jersey. The New Jersey loss is a big blow for Democrats, as President Obama had campaigned heavily for Corzine.
 

 

 

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MAINE REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE: One year after California rejected Proposition 8, gay marriage has once again failed to find popular approval: Voters in Maine opted on Tuesday to repeal legislature-approved gay marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***While the week-long American Film Market opens Wednesday in Santa Monica amid signs of a general economic rebound, producers and sales agents are still expressing trepidation about the unstable commercial landscape.
 

 

 

BLOOMBERG HANGS ON: Michael Bloomberg is still New York City’s mayor, but at least challenger Bill Thompson made him sweat. Bloomberg won a third term 51 percent to 46 percent, after polls showed him winning in excess of 15 points; four years ago, he won by a 20-point margin.
 

 

 

WHITE HOUSE DISTANCES ITSELF FROM DEM LOSSES: Voters responding to ‘local issues that didn’t involve the president’: The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President Barack Obama. The Republican victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey energized the opposition and are a setback for Obama as he struggles to overhaul the U.S. health care system, win passage of climate change legislation, and build political support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan.
 

 

 

ITALY CONVICTS ‘U.S. AGENTS’ IN CIA KIDNAP TRIAL: Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court for their role in the seizing of a suspected terrorist off the streets of Milan in 2003, Italian media reported. They did not appear for trial and are not in custody, but the ruling could effectively make them international fugitives. The trial was the first to deal with a practice that human rights groups call “extraordinary rendition,” and they say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.
 

 

 

POLICE DISCOVER AT LEAST 10 VICTIMS AT ANTHONY SOWELL’S HOME: Police have discovered four bodies and the remains of a fifth this afternoon at the home of Anthony Sowell, bringing the total body count to 11. Sowell’s home on Imperial Avenue now ranks among the deadliest crime scenes in Cleveland history.
 

 

 

MAN STABBED SELF TO KEEP JOB: TORN UNIFORM PANTS LED BLOCKBUSTER WORKER TO HATCH BIZARRE PLAN: Meet Aaron Siebers. The 27-year-old Denver man, a Blockbuster employee, was skateboarding yesterday afternoon when he fell and ripped his uniform pants. Due to work last night–and concerned about getting “written up” by Blockbuster superiors for not wearing his work-issued khakis–Siebers came up with a harebrained idea. Instead of just calling in sick, he stabbed himself in the leg and showed up at work claiming to have just been attacked by three Hispanic males. Siebers, who told cops he was assaulted as he walked toward the Blockbuster in Edgewater, had a deep stab wound in one leg and several other minor cuts on his face and stomach. As investigators began hunting for the assailants, they reviewed surveillance video from outside a Target store where Siebers claimed the attack occurred. The footage, however, showed no such assault. Confronted by cops, Siebers, pictured in the below mug shot, admitted that he had stabbed himself. He told investigators about the skateboarding accident, the resulting ripped pants, and how “he did not want to lose his job so he stabbed himself in the leg.”
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***It turns out Jay Leno is having a positive effect in the ratings. Unfortunately, the impact is on another network’s numbers. According to a ratings analysis by ABC, the Alphabet’s collective adults 18-49 Nielsen ratings with scripted series in the 10 p.m. slot have gone up an eye-popping 16 percent since “The Jay Leno Show” debuted this season.   ***A Nielsen analysis of media use finds that 77% of adults are reached by radio on a daily basis, second only to television at 95%. The Web reaches 64%, newspaper 35%, and magazines 27%. The study “proves that radio is still a popular medium,” says the Radio Advertising Bureau.   ***The New York Times might have ended up as part of Google, according to Ken Auletta, author of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” Auletta tells IWantMedia.com that Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt discussed buying the Times, “but in the end decided that if they succeeded, it would sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine.” Of co-founder Sergey Brin’s suggestion that he should put his book online for free, Auletta says, “I think [he] has an innocent faith in the Internet and inadequate knowledge about how books are published.”
 

 

 

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***Sumner Redstone thinks the skies are brightening for Viacom. By keeping a sharp eye on costs while continuing to invest in programming, Sumner said during an earnings call today, Viacom is in a strong position to benefit as the economic clouds begin to part.   ***Film biz haunt restaurant Orso is closing. The New York Times reports that the 20-year-old restaurant will shutter by November 21 after suffering a shift in the town’s center of gravity when CAA and ICM moved to Century City. The hangout was also hurt by losing a mainstay when New Line - once the biggest house account, according to the NYT - cut hundreds of employees in a corporate restructuring. Orso will follow in the footsteps of other Hollywood power spots like Morton’s, Chasen’s and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard.   ***Call it an EU-turn: General Motors announced on Tuesday that it will retain its European division, Opel. The move is, the Financial Times writes, an embarrassment for the German government, which had thrown its weight behind the sale of Opel to Canada’s Magna and Russia’s Sberbank.   ***Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world’s largest chip maker.
 

 

 

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11-YEAR-OLD GIVES BIRTH AT WEDDING: An 11-year-old Bulgarian girl recently became one of the worlds youngest mothers after giving birth at her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova was rushed to the hospital in her wedding dress. “I’m not going to play with toys anymoreI have a new toy now,” Kordeza said as she showed off her daughter. Kordeza met her babys 19-year-old father after he rescued her from bullies on the playground. The marriage was arranged after the father, Jeliazko, faced six years in prison for sex with a minor.
 

 

 

SMART PEOPLE READ THE LBN E-LERT: Veteran literary agent Bob Diforio along with approximately 317,000 other “influencers” understand that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool.
 

 

 

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: Lung specialists are hopeful that a new technique that repairs lungs deemed too damaged for transplantation will increase the supply of organs available to patients who need them. While more research is needed to see if the repairs will hold up inside a human body, the results of laboratory testing have been promising. The technique, an out-of-the-body gene therapy treatment, promotes the production of interleukin-10, a substance that helps reduce damaging inflammation in the lungs. Human lungs subjected to the treatment showed significant improvement in their ability to take in fresh oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy have been giving their library cards a workout.
Their original script “Once Upon a Time in Hell,” which landed on the Black List of most liked screenplays last year, has sold to Phoenix Pictures. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ classic revenge tale “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Hell” updates the story to modern London’s organized crime underworld.
 

 

 

LBN- LYRICS OF LIFE By WILLIE NELSON:

 
Theres a home place under fire tonight in the heartland
 
And the bankers are taking my home and my land from me
 
Theres a big achin hole in my chest now where my heart was
 
And a hole in the sky where God used to be
 

 

 

GREAT WHITES STAY CLOSE TO COASTS: Ever feel like you’re swimming with the sharks? You may be right. New research shows that great white sharks spend months each year near the central and northern California coastlines, passing close to populated beaches as they hunt elephant seals, sea lions, and other prey.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By JULIA BAIRD: Barbara Ehrenreich argues that positive thought has at times made us deaf to the pleas of those who warn of potential dangers- the Iraqi resistance, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the Wall Street implosion.  Urging positivity is not just beside the point when our circumstances are rotten, it’s also dangerously distracting.
 

 

 

LBN-BOOK NEWS:   ***Lower costs helped to boost third quarter operating profit at Harlequin, with earnings up 22.5%, to C$22.9 million ($21.6 million and current exchange rates); profits had a C$2 million benefit from foreign exchange.   ***Sassy former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s new book, “Read My Pins,” is flying off store shelves — and publisher HarperCollins has just ordered a third printing. “I am thrilled,” Albright told Page Six. The tome recounts how Albright used her collection of brooches as a diplomatic message-sender — starting with an elaborate snake pin worn to meet Saddam Hussein after he blasted her as an “unparalled serpent.” “People want a little bit of fun in our all-too-often grim world,” Albright said. “So why not foreign policy with a nice piece of jewelry?”
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By CONNIE MARTINSON (TV Show Host): One year from now, will Obama win or lose the healthcare debate? One year from now Obama will have achieved some of his objectives and he will have lost a few, such as changes in Medicare that AARP objects to. The Obama White House will declare a victory and healthcare progress will have inched into the future. Loose threads will remain, how to handle illegals who have children born in USA, how much financial aid to senior citizens on aggressive treatments, and the big question of population growth or abortion.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By Michael Levine: Americans correctly believe that public servants are not punished for any wrongdoing other than at the next election. As a public servant you can strike out as many times as you like and there is never, ever any accountability.
 

 

 

DISNEY TO OPEN RESORT, PARK IN SHANGHAI: ITS THE YEAR OF THE MOUSE IN CHINA: The Walt Disney Company has won approval from the Chinese government to build a theme park in Shanghai after a 20-year courtship. The $3.5-billion parknot including resorts and infrastructurewill be one of the largest foreign investments ever in China. The initial resort is slated to open in five or six years and will be slightly bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: The World Series gave News Corp.’s Fox network world-class ratings last week as the New York Yankees squared off against the Philadelphia Phillies in four much-watched games. Fox can thank baseball for a huge average audience of 14.69 million viewers.
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By DUSTIN HOFFMAN (Actor): Id recommend Circle Mirror Transformation, which I just saw at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on 42nd Street. It takes place in an acting class. I come from that world and it was accurate. Its a wonderful and intimate space with only about 80 seats.
 

 

 

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LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***Who knew Nicole Kidman was such a bad girl? The actress, who kept her lips locked about her 10-year-marriage to Tom Cruise, drops some sultry dish about her love life in an interview with British GQ magazine. The demure Oscar-winner admits that she’s explored everything from monogamy to “obsession” and even “strange sexual fetish stuff” — although it’s not clear when the kinky canoodling unfolded, according to London’s Daily Mail. In contrast to her super-private relationship with Cruise, she describes her current marriage to country-crooning hunk Keith Urban as “a very extraordinary, adventurous place to be: incredibly raw, incredibly dangerous.” Nicolas Cage  is blaming his ex-money manager for his money problems. But insiders say it was Cage who spent his way into big troubles. Jacob Bernstein reports on the star’s head-spinning treasure trove: more than a dozen houses, two Bahamian islands, dinosaur skulls, shrunken heads, the shah of Iran’s Lamborghini (and more). Fun while it lasted.   ***Does James Franco have a funny bone? The Golden Globe-winning actor will be guest starring on sitcom 30 Rock, a source tells Entertainment Weekly. His story line will play out in a romance with Jane Krakowski’s character, Jenna.   ***Tom Ford struggled with depression after he left Gucci. Ford, creative director of the fashion house for 10 years until 2004, told W: “I started to sink emotionally, spiritually. I became a little bit lost. It forced me to really think: Well, what am I, who am I, what am I about? It took me a bit of time to figure that out.” Adding, “I am a very spiritual person now,” Ford said he hadn’t changed completely: “Fashion is one way in which we hold ourselves together. Just because I’ve become spiritual doesn’t mean I can’t love crocodile.”
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Veteran literary manager Peter Miller having drinks at The Avalon Hotel last night.   ***Katie Holmes and Anna Paquin taking a break from filming the indie production, “The Romantics,” with meals at the Frisky Oyster and La Cuvee on Long Island’s North Fork.   ***Moon-walker Buzz Aldrin in stitches as a buff young man in a revealing astronaut outfit dropped by the Park Avenue apartment of Vivian and Nat Serota for the party for his new book, “Magnificent Desolation,” about his battle to recover from alcoholism.   ***Emmy Rossum and boyfriend Adam Duritz were spotted at McDonough’s in Savannah.    ***Isla Fisher went shopping at L.A.’s Trina Turk boutique.    ***Kara DioGuardi vacationed at the Grand Wailea in Maui with husband Mike McCuddy.   ***Zac Efron was seen working out at a Toluca Lake gym.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ADOLF HITLER: It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today. (1940)
 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW:   ***The Queen of England has 30 godchildren.   ***The word quiz was allegedly invented in the 1830s by a Dublin theater owner named Richard Daly and was a result of a bet where Daly said he could make a nonsensical word known throughout Dublin in 48 hours. This fact is disputed, however.   ***A raccoon will eat everything except tomatoes.   *** All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats.   ***Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph).
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: ” The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money”-Margaret Thatcher.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.

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LBN-INVESTIGATES: As of November 2009, the Earth’s population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.795 billion. About 227,000 people are added to the world each day.
 

 

 

IT’S TWINS! STEVE MARTIN, ALEC BALDWIN TO HOST OSCARS: Breaking with tradition, a pair of hosts — Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin — will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars, said Shankman and Mechanic.  Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event.  I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin, said Martin.
 

 

 

GOP WINS BOTH GOVERNOR RACES: Republicans swept Tuesday’s gubernatorial races, with Bob McDonnell easily winning in Virginia and Chris Christie squeaking ahead of incumbent Jon Corzine in New Jersey. The New Jersey loss is a big blow for Democrats, as President Obama had campaigned heavily for Corzine.
 

 

 

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MAINE REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE: One year after California rejected Proposition 8, gay marriage has once again failed to find popular approval: Voters in Maine opted on Tuesday to repeal legislature-approved gay marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***While the week-long American Film Market opens Wednesday in Santa Monica amid signs of a general economic rebound, producers and sales agents are still expressing trepidation about the unstable commercial landscape.
 

 

 

BLOOMBERG HANGS ON: Michael Bloomberg is still New York City’s mayor, but at least challenger Bill Thompson made him sweat. Bloomberg won a third term 51 percent to 46 percent, after polls showed him winning in excess of 15 points; four years ago, he won by a 20-point margin.
 

 

 

WHITE HOUSE DISTANCES ITSELF FROM DEM LOSSES: Voters responding to ‘local issues that didn’t involve the president’: The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President Barack Obama. The Republican victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey energized the opposition and are a setback for Obama as he struggles to overhaul the U.S. health care system, win passage of climate change legislation, and build political support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan.
 

 

 

ITALY CONVICTS ‘U.S. AGENTS’ IN CIA KIDNAP TRIAL: Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court for their role in the seizing of a suspected terrorist off the streets of Milan in 2003, Italian media reported. They did not appear for trial and are not in custody, but the ruling could effectively make them international fugitives. The trial was the first to deal with a practice that human rights groups call “extraordinary rendition,” and they say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.
 

 

 

POLICE DISCOVER AT LEAST 10 VICTIMS AT ANTHONY SOWELL’S HOME: Police have discovered four bodies and the remains of a fifth this afternoon at the home of Anthony Sowell, bringing the total body count to 11. Sowell’s home on Imperial Avenue now ranks among the deadliest crime scenes in Cleveland history.
 

 

 

MAN STABBED SELF TO KEEP JOB: TORN UNIFORM PANTS LED BLOCKBUSTER WORKER TO HATCH BIZARRE PLAN: Meet Aaron Siebers. The 27-year-old Denver man, a Blockbuster employee, was skateboarding yesterday afternoon when he fell and ripped his uniform pants. Due to work last night–and concerned about getting “written up” by Blockbuster superiors for not wearing his work-issued khakis–Siebers came up with a harebrained idea. Instead of just calling in sick, he stabbed himself in the leg and showed up at work claiming to have just been attacked by three Hispanic males. Siebers, who told cops he was assaulted as he walked toward the Blockbuster in Edgewater, had a deep stab wound in one leg and several other minor cuts on his face and stomach. As investigators began hunting for the assailants, they reviewed surveillance video from outside a Target store where Siebers claimed the attack occurred. The footage, however, showed no such assault. Confronted by cops, Siebers, pictured in the below mug shot, admitted that he had stabbed himself. He told investigators about the skateboarding accident, the resulting ripped pants, and how “he did not want to lose his job so he stabbed himself in the leg.”
 

 

 

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER:   ***It turns out Jay Leno is having a positive effect in the ratings. Unfortunately, the impact is on another network’s numbers. According to a ratings analysis by ABC, the Alphabet’s collective adults 18-49 Nielsen ratings with scripted series in the 10 p.m. slot have gone up an eye-popping 16 percent since “The Jay Leno Show” debuted this season.   ***A Nielsen analysis of media use finds that 77% of adults are reached by radio on a daily basis, second only to television at 95%. The Web reaches 64%, newspaper 35%, and magazines 27%. The study “proves that radio is still a popular medium,” says the Radio Advertising Bureau.   ***The New York Times might have ended up as part of Google, according to Ken Auletta, author of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” Auletta tells IWantMedia.com that Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt discussed buying the Times, “but in the end decided that if they succeeded, it would sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine.” Of co-founder Sergey Brin’s suggestion that he should put his book online for free, Auletta says, “I think [he] has an innocent faith in the Internet and inadequate knowledge about how books are published.”
 

 

 

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:   ***Sumner Redstone thinks the skies are brightening for Viacom. By keeping a sharp eye on costs while continuing to invest in programming, Sumner said during an earnings call today, Viacom is in a strong position to benefit as the economic clouds begin to part.   ***Film biz haunt restaurant Orso is closing. The New York Times reports that the 20-year-old restaurant will shutter by November 21 after suffering a shift in the town’s center of gravity when CAA and ICM moved to Century City. The hangout was also hurt by losing a mainstay when New Line - once the biggest house account, according to the NYT - cut hundreds of employees in a corporate restructuring. Orso will follow in the footsteps of other Hollywood power spots like Morton’s, Chasen’s and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard.   ***Call it an EU-turn: General Motors announced on Tuesday that it will retain its European division, Opel. The move is, the Financial Times writes, an embarrassment for the German government, which had thrown its weight behind the sale of Opel to Canada’s Magna and Russia’s Sberbank.   ***Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world’s largest chip maker.
 

 

 

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11-YEAR-OLD GIVES BIRTH AT WEDDING: An 11-year-old Bulgarian girl recently became one of the worlds youngest mothers after giving birth at her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova was rushed to the hospital in her wedding dress. “I’m not going to play with toys anymoreI have a new toy now,” Kordeza said as she showed off her daughter. Kordeza met her babys 19-year-old father after he rescued her from bullies on the playground. The marriage was arranged after the father, Jeliazko, faced six years in prison for sex with a minor.
 

 

 

SMART PEOPLE READ THE LBN E-LERT: Veteran literary agent Bob Diforio along with approximately 317,000 other “influencers” understand that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool.
 

 

 

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: Lung specialists are hopeful that a new technique that repairs lungs deemed too damaged for transplantation will increase the supply of organs available to patients who need them. While more research is needed to see if the repairs will hold up inside a human body, the results of laboratory testing have been promising. The technique, an out-of-the-body gene therapy treatment, promotes the production of interleukin-10, a substance that helps reduce damaging inflammation in the lungs. Human lungs subjected to the treatment showed significant improvement in their ability to take in fresh oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
 

 

 

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:   ***Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy have been giving their library cards a workout.
Their original script “Once Upon a Time in Hell,” which landed on the Black List of most liked screenplays last year, has sold to Phoenix Pictures. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ classic revenge tale “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Hell” updates the story to modern London’s organized crime underworld.
 

 

 

LBN- LYRICS OF LIFE By WILLIE NELSON:

 
Theres a home place under fire tonight in the heartland
 
And the bankers are taking my home and my land from me
 
Theres a big achin hole in my chest now where my heart was
 
And a hole in the sky where God used to be
 

 

 

GREAT WHITES STAY CLOSE TO COASTS: Ever feel like you’re swimming with the sharks? You may be right. New research shows that great white sharks spend months each year near the central and northern California coastlines, passing close to populated beaches as they hunt elephant seals, sea lions, and other prey.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By JULIA BAIRD: Barbara Ehrenreich argues that positive thought has at times made us deaf to the pleas of those who warn of potential dangers- the Iraqi resistance, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the Wall Street implosion.  Urging positivity is not just beside the point when our circumstances are rotten, it’s also dangerously distracting.
 

 

 

LBN-BOOK NEWS:   ***Lower costs helped to boost third quarter operating profit at Harlequin, with earnings up 22.5%, to C$22.9 million ($21.6 million and current exchange rates); profits had a C$2 million benefit from foreign exchange.   ***Sassy former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s new book, “Read My Pins,” is flying off store shelves — and publisher HarperCollins has just ordered a third printing. “I am thrilled,” Albright told Page Six. The tome recounts how Albright used her collection of brooches as a diplomatic message-sender — starting with an elaborate snake pin worn to meet Saddam Hussein after he blasted her as an “unparalled serpent.” “People want a little bit of fun in our all-too-often grim world,” Albright said. “So why not foreign policy with a nice piece of jewelry?”
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By CONNIE MARTINSON (TV Show Host): One year from now, will Obama win or lose the healthcare debate? One year from now Obama will have achieved some of his objectives and he will have lost a few, such as changes in Medicare that AARP objects to. The Obama White House will declare a victory and healthcare progress will have inched into the future. Loose threads will remain, how to handle illegals who have children born in USA, how much financial aid to senior citizens on aggressive treatments, and the big question of population growth or abortion.
 

 

 

LBN-COMMENTARY By Michael Levine: Americans correctly believe that public servants are not punished for any wrongdoing other than at the next election. As a public servant you can strike out as many times as you like and there is never, ever any accountability.
 

 

 

DISNEY TO OPEN RESORT, PARK IN SHANGHAI: ITS THE YEAR OF THE MOUSE IN CHINA: The Walt Disney Company has won approval from the Chinese government to build a theme park in Shanghai after a 20-year courtship. The $3.5-billion parknot including resorts and infrastructurewill be one of the largest foreign investments ever in China. The initial resort is slated to open in five or six years and will be slightly bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
 

 

 

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: The World Series gave News Corp.’s Fox network world-class ratings last week as the New York Yankees squared off against the Philadelphia Phillies in four much-watched games. Fox can thank baseball for a huge average audience of 14.69 million viewers.
 

 

 

LBN-RECOMMENDS By DUSTIN HOFFMAN (Actor): Id recommend Circle Mirror Transformation, which I just saw at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on 42nd Street. It takes place in an acting class. I come from that world and it was accurate. Its a wonderful and intimate space with only about 80 seats.
 

 

 

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LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW:….Comedian Sarah Silverman….
 

 

 

LBN-OVERHEARD:   ***Who knew Nicole Kidman was such a bad girl? The actress, who kept her lips locked about her 10-year-marriage to Tom Cruise, drops some sultry dish about her love life in an interview with British GQ magazine. The demure Oscar-winner admits that she’s explored everything from monogamy to “obsession” and even “strange sexual fetish stuff” — although it’s not clear when the kinky canoodling unfolded, according to London’s Daily Mail. In contrast to her super-private relationship with Cruise, she describes her current marriage to country-crooning hunk Keith Urban as “a very extraordinary, adventurous place to be: incredibly raw, incredibly dangerous.” Nicolas Cage  is blaming his ex-money manager for his money problems. But insiders say it was Cage who spent his way into big troubles. Jacob Bernstein reports on the star’s head-spinning treasure trove: more than a dozen houses, two Bahamian islands, dinosaur skulls, shrunken heads, the shah of Iran’s Lamborghini (and more). Fun while it lasted.   ***Does James Franco have a funny bone? The Golden Globe-winning actor will be guest starring on sitcom 30 Rock, a source tells Entertainment Weekly. His story line will play out in a romance with Jane Krakowski’s character, Jenna.   ***Tom Ford struggled with depression after he left Gucci. Ford, creative director of the fashion house for 10 years until 2004, told W: “I started to sink emotionally, spiritually. I became a little bit lost. It forced me to really think: Well, what am I, who am I, what am I about? It took me a bit of time to figure that out.” Adding, “I am a very spiritual person now,” Ford said he hadn’t changed completely: “Fashion is one way in which we hold ourselves together. Just because I’ve become spiritual doesn’t mean I can’t love crocodile.”
 

 

 

LBN-NOTICED:   ***Veteran literary manager Peter Miller having drinks at The Avalon Hotel last night.   ***Katie Holmes and Anna Paquin taking a break from filming the indie production, “The Romantics,” with meals at the Frisky Oyster and La Cuvee on Long Island’s North Fork.   ***Moon-walker Buzz Aldrin in stitches as a buff young man in a revealing astronaut outfit dropped by the Park Avenue apartment of Vivian and Nat Serota for the party for his new book, “Magnificent Desolation,” about his battle to recover from alcoholism.   ***Emmy Rossum and boyfriend Adam Duritz were spotted at McDonough’s in Savannah.    ***Isla Fisher went shopping at L.A.’s Trina Turk boutique.    ***Kara DioGuardi vacationed at the Grand Wailea in Maui with husband Mike McCuddy.   ***Zac Efron was seen working out at a Toluca Lake gym.   ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ADOLF HITLER: It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today. (1940)
 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW:   ***The Queen of England has 30 godchildren.   ***The word quiz was allegedly invented in the 1830s by a Dublin theater owner named Richard Daly and was a result of a bet where Daly said he could make a nonsensical word known throughout Dublin in 48 hours. This fact is disputed, however.   ***A raccoon will eat everything except tomatoes.   *** All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats.   ***Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph).
 

 

 

LBN-QUOTE: ” The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money”-Margaret Thatcher.
 

 

 

LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.

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MONDAY • NOVEMBER 2, 2009
HAMID KARZAI DECLARED RE-ELECTED AFTER RUNOFF SCRAPPED, OFFICIALS SAY: Afghan officials on Monday cancelled Saturday’s run-off presidential vote following the withdrawal from the race of the last challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, and declared President Hamid Karzai to be the winner of the country’s fraught elections. President Obama faces a new complication in Afghanistan: Enabling President Hamid Karzai to regain enough legitimacy to help the United States find a way out of the war.
 

 

 

PAKISTAN BOMBER KILLS 34: A suicide bomber killed at least 34 people on Monday as the United Nations removed its expatriate staff workers from the northwest region of Pakistan. The second bombing of its kind in a week, the attack showed the strength of al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan.
 

 

 

SENATE DAYS AWAY FROM FINANCE BILL: A bill will be introduced “within days” in the Senate to redraw the financial regulatory map and alter the way that rules are put forward by the U.S. Treasury and Congress, the Financial Times reported Monday.
 

 

 

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NORTH KOREA: LET’S TALK: North Korea indicated on Monday that it is prepared to end a year-long boycott of nuclear disarmament talks with the United States. The call comes a week after a North Korean official visited the United States on a rare trip. “The conclusion we have reached is that the direct parties, which are the North and the United States, must first sit down and find a rational solution,” a North Korean government official told an official news agency.
 

 

 

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