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| MONDAY • APRIL 26, 2010 |
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 IMMIGRATION LAW PROTESTED BY MORE THAN 2,500 AT STATE CAPITOL: To the sound of a conch shell and Native American drumbeats, protesters marched to Arizona’s state Capitol on Sunday to join about 2,500 others in opposition to the state’s new immigration law. The 2.5-mile march through downtown Phoenix was led by the civil-rights advocacy group Nahuacalli Embassy of Indigenous Peoples, but included a crowd of about 300 people from varied backgrounds. Sunday marked the third day of peaceful protest against Senate Bill 1070, which Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law on Friday. Sunday’s protest drew groups from California, Colorado and Texas.
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 DEATH ROW INMATE CHOOSES TO DIE BY FIRING SQUAD: Utah’s decision to allow a man to be executed by firing squad is reigniting debate about whether the death penalty is cruel and unusual. But shockingly, some experts say that compared to other methods—including lethal injection—the firing squad may be more humane. Ronnie Lee Gardner has opted to die by firing squad June 18 because he’s already “been shot a bunch of times,” he told his cousin. Gardner was convicted of murdering a lawyer while trying to escape custody in 1985; he was fleeing a courthouse where he was facing charges related to a 1984 robbery and deadly shooting.
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 PALIN MADE $12M LAST YEAR: She has made $12 million in the past year alone, says New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman. He calls her “a singular national industry.” She makes $100,000 per speech; $1 million per year from Fox News; and will make about $250,000 per episode from her Mark Burnett-produced Alaska series. Assessing her place in the American political landscape, Sherman writes, “No one else has rolled politics and entertainment into the same scintillating, infuriating, spectacularly lucrative package the way Palin has or marketed herself over multiple platforms with the sophistication and sheer ambitiousness that Palin has shown, all while maintaining a viable presence as a prospective presidential candidate in 2012.”
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 LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Justin Bieber was forced to cancel his concert in Australia when the Canadian teen caused a crowd stampede.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***NBC and the producers of “America’s Got Talent” are partnering with YouTube to put the show’s audition process online. Aspiring acts can now upload their videos onto a special page to be considered for the summer show. From the submitted videos, producers from FremantleMedia North America will select 40 contestants to be posted on a “Got Talent” YouTube Channel for users to vote on. ***“Avatar” is already the year’s top-selling home entertainment title after just four days since Fox Home Entertainment began selling the “Avatar” discs Thursday. Consumers snapped up 6.7 million copies of the first “Avatar” DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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2012 PRELUDE: GOP HOPEFULS GO ONLINE: President Barack Obama’s prospective 2012 Republican rivals are investing heavily in the Internet, looking to cut into what was an overwhelming advantage for Obama in the 2008 campaign. The online competition has taken a variety of forms. Palin has hired the two young founders of a fan site that zealously defends her honor and upbraids her critics. Pawlenty has hired online consultants from the 2008 presidential campaigns of Romney and Rep. Ron Paul Gingrich has developed a sophisticated in-house micro-targeting operation. And Mike Huckabee, political group member, has deployed volunteers to man social networks.
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 POLICE LET TERRORIST SLIP THROUGH: Port Authority police were told to stop and search would-be subway bomber Najibullah Zazi’s car last September as he drove up to the George Washington Bridge—but waved him across without finding two pounds of explosives hidden inside. The failure to uncover the explosives after an alert about Mr. Zazi from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been widely discussed among police but never publicly disclosed. It stoked longstanding tensions between the Port Authority Police and the New York Police Department, which are more pronounced since the 9/11 attacks.
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SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF STATES CAN REGULATE VIDEO GAMES: The Supreme Court will decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children. The court on Monday agreed to review a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento said the law violated minors’ rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments.
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 ALIENS MAY EXIST BUT CONTACT WOULD HURT HUMANS: Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking warned Sunday. “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be similar to when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans,” said the astrophysicist in a new television series. The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Adam Kane will be directing the pilot for the Stephen King-created supernatural series “Haven” for the Syfy Channel and Showcase Television in Toronto, Canada. ***Playboy founder Hugh Hefner saves the day as he donates $900,000 to the activist group Trust for Public Land in order to secure Cahuenga Peak, the 138 acres behind the iconic Hollywood Sign. With Hefner’s contribution, TPL now has raised enough funds to buy and protect the land behind the Hollywood landmark.
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L.A. HOTEL TO TURN INTO POT-FRIENDLY RESORT?: The new owners of Hotel Normandie hope to turn it into America’s first pot-friendly resort. Still advertising a weekly special of $300 or a daily special of $50, real estate investor John Evangelista and the father of the legal pot dispensary, Dennis Peron, envision a hotel that charges $420 for a two-day stay at a pot-tel. Nadia Smalley, a write-in candidate for governor, said she hopes the hotel will achieve its pot-friendly pipe dreams.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***President Obama has thrown his support behind a proposal to eliminate capital gains taxes on investments made in 2010 and 2011 in qualifying small businesses. The House of Representatives has already passed the legislation; the Senate has yet to take it up. ***The Shanghai Composite Index has dropped 5.7% this week, with property stocks in particular losing ground. ***UAL’s United Airlines and Continental Airlines are continuing their merger talks, but disagreements have emerged over which share price to use for the stock-swap deal.
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 DOZENS KILLED IN SOUTHERN DARFUR CLASHES: Fighting in southern Darfur killed dozens of people over the weekend as soldiers from Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army clashed with armed members of an Arab tribe, state media reported Sunday. The fighting was part of an outbreak of violence over the weekend that killed as many as 54 people on Saturday, according to Ashorooq. Dozens more were wounded. Sudanese government officials accused SPLA of instigating the violence, according to Ashorooq.
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DAYS AFTER RIG EXPLOSION, WELL POURS THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF OIL INTO GULF: Officials worked Sunday to try to stop oil leaks coming from the deepwater well drilled by a rig that sank last week near Louisiana, but they acknowledged that it could be months before they are able to stem the flow of what is now about 42,000 gallons of oil a day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. The response team is trying three tacks: one that could stop the leaks within two days, one that would take months and one that would not stop the leaks but would capture the oil and deliver it to the surface while permanent measures are pursued.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Josh Fields’ first season in Kansas City could be over before it ever got started. Hampered by stiffness since spring training, Fields will have surgery on his right hip, a procedure the Royals say could end his season. ***Dallas Mavericks center Erick Dampier said late Friday he was miffed at the overall officiating in the 94-90 Game 3 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Dampier didn’t mince words in criticizing a crew that included one of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s least-favorite referees, Danny Crawford.
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DEMS AND GOP UNWILLING TO COMPROMISE: Time to start targeting Republican votes: Senate Democrats agreed on Sunday to require banks to spin off their derivatives-trading arms, with Senator Chris Dodd accepting the harsher language of Senator Blanche Lincoln. Two Republicans have supported Lincoln’s language, but the GOP will block a vote from taking place in the Senate on Monday. Democrats are mostly gearing up for a fight rather than for a compromise with the GOP, though they appear willing to throw the $50 billion bank fee that Republicans have attacked on the scrap heap. Another showdown is also in the works amid the SEC’s allegations against Goldman Sachs. John Carney writes that the financial giant is enjoying a “Kool-Aid” level of unity, and at least one banker there thinks the lawsuit will help business.
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 FANNIE OFFERS SPUR TO AVOID FORECLOSURE: Fannie Mae will make it easier for some struggling homeowners to buy houses in the future if they avoid foreclosure in the present. Under rules released this month that will take effect in July, some troubled borrowers who give up their homes by voluntarily transferring ownership through a “deed in lieu of foreclosure” or by completing a short sale, where a home is sold for less than the amount owed, will be eligible in two years to apply for a new mortgage backed by Fannie. Currently, borrowers who complete a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure must wait four years before they can take out a loan that Fannie is willing to purchase.
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 LBN-BOOK INSIDER: ***With her new memoir, The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman is primed for a comeback. Much of The Bedwetter is taken up by Silverman writing about thinking about writing it: the porn she watched while procrastinating, the different exposed body parts she photographed and sent to her boyfriend, pages copied from her childhood diary and testy email exchanges with her editor, reprinted verbatim. “I was eight months late,” she said. “They were all in a tizzy. But you know what? I’m not gonna shit out something I don’t like. It’s got my name on it.”
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Author and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick having breakfast at Carnegie Deli in NYC. ***New York financial adviser Richard Imprescia having lunch at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse in NYC. ***Amanda Seyfried shops at The Future World in Manhattan’s East Village. ***Singer Chris Robinson of the Black Crows performs at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented By Shell at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. ***Actress/author Alicia Silverstone speaks during the 15th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA in Los Angeles. ***LCO Executive Vice President Liam Collopy, Alexandra Camarillo and Actor Jamie Foxx at Foxx’s Wild, Wild West Party in Agoura Hills Saturday. ***Actor and producer Vince Vaughn attends the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of “Just Like Us” in New York City. ***Bill Murray attends the Kristen Ann Carr Fund’s “A Night to Remember” Gala at the Tribeca Grill in Manhattan. ***Television personality Laura Croft walks the red carpet at the Halfway to Halloween Party at Eve nightclub in Las Vegas. ***”Supernatural” actor Jensen Ackles leaves Katsuya restaurant in Hollywood. ***Courtney Love at the album-release party for Hole’s new CD “Nobody’s Daughter” at TAO in Las Vegas. ***Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale were spotted out with their sons, Kingston and Zuma, at Mexicali Cocina Cantina for a tasty Mexican meal in Studio City. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Urologist Dr. Peter Loisides along with along with over 317,000 other “influencers” who understands that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool in all 50 of the United States and 24 foreign countries.
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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: ***The top three deadliest fast foods are: #1 Wendy’s Baconator Triple; #2 Sonic’s SuperSonic Cheeseburger, #3 Burger King’s BK Quad Stacker. ***An estimated 878,000 Americans will travel internationally for a medical procedure this year, according to a report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. That number is expected to nearly double by 2012. ***Doctors say the percentage of people who should worry about significant adverse effects of wearing 3-D glasses is small, especially the possibility of seizure. More commonly, people may experience dizziness or other discomfort after watching something in 3-D, including a feature film.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MEGHAN MCCAIN: Let me say upfront that I do not support the bill that was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. I believe it gives the state police a license to discriminate, and also, in many ways, violates the civil rights of Arizona residents. Simply put, I think it is a bad law that is missing the bigger picture of what is really going on with illegal immigration.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BEINART: Our government is actually doing a pretty good job of providing role models for the 20 percent of American women who don’t want kids. Where it’s failing is in providing role models for the 80 percent that do. I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it’s a woman with kids.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By JANICE KAPLAN: Reports on rates of infidelity—in or out of the office—vary dramatically, but fairly reliable data say that about 10 percent of people have sex outside their marriages every year. Surveys in magazines tend to suggest 60 or 70 percent stray over the course of a marriage. Hypocrisy doesn’t seem to be a problem. Many Republican leaders who lectured President Clinton about morality and voted for impeachment either had mistresses at the time or were later caught in their own scandals. Sex knows no party affiliation.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By QUEEN VICTORIA: When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state that a young wife generally is doomed to - you can’t deny it is the penalty of marriage.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband, Ojani Noa, is filing for bankruptcy, claiming the legal battle over the couple’s private home videos has left him broke and depressed. Lopez filed a $10 million suit against Noa in November and obtained court orders to prevent him from using the home videos for a movie he was producing on his life. ***Troubled Lindsay Lohan has been banned from hot LA club Trousdale after throwing her drink, including the glass at ex Samantha Ronson’s head. ***Fashion world power couple Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone have split. Rumors state that Martone is planning on moving out of the Chelsea Merchantile apartment soon.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Laura Hall is the first person ever banned from drinking alcohol anywhere in England or Wales. ***Justin Timberlake quit smoking pot until he remembered “how fun this is” in 2006. ***‘A-bomb’ is slang referring to marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarettes. ***In 2005, SNL (Saturday Night Live) star Tracy Morgan was charged with a D.U.I. and narcotic possession. ***April is National Humor Month.
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LBN-QUOTE: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 26, 1929, the first non-stop flight from England to India was completed.
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| SUNDAY • APRIL 25, 2010 |
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 REPORT: CLOSE-RANGE BLAST SANK S. KOREAN SHIP: An explosion at close range, and not a direct hit, caused the 1,200-ton patrol ship Cheonan to sink last month, a team of South Korean military and civilian investigators has tentatively concluded. The investigators’ determination was reported Sunday by the Yonhap news agency. “Instead of being directly hit by a torpedo or other underwater weapon, the Cheonan was affected by a strong explosion that occurred below its bottom at a close range,” the news agency quoted a government official as saying. The explanation matches one that investigators offered shortly after the ship’s stern was salvaged 10 days ago. A final result is not expected for a month.
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 MISSISSIPPI TORNADO LEAVES PATH OF DEATH, DESTRUCTION: Hundreds of homes, buildings are now flattened by nearly mile-wide twister that hit Mississippi yesterday. dawn broke Sunday and rescue crews prepared to reach hard-hit areas, officials fear the death toll will rise from a tornado that tore through Mississippi a day earlier. The twister, almost a mile wide, killed at least 10 people and decimated neighborhoods as it raked cities from the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama. It leveled a church, sheared roofs off houses, overturned cars and plunged large swaths of the state in darkness as it toppled power lines. “You could just feel the glass and debris flying in and cutting you,” one survivor said. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour plans to request emergency federal aid on Monday.
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 GRAHAM DITCHES CLIMATE CHANGE: Monday’s unveiling of the Senate climate-change bill has been postponed after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) pulled out of “tri-partisan” climate-change negotiations in the Senate, crying foul at Democrats’ plans to move up debate on immigration reform.
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 NO EXIT SEEN FROM THAILAND’S VERY UN-THAI CRISIS: Whether keeping rapacious colonial powers at bay, averting political violence or settling family squabbles, Thais have earned a reputation for deft diplomacy, thwarting confrontation and achieving compromise, or as they proudly say, “bending with the wind like bamboo.” Until now, it seems. The latest iteration of Thailand’s political crisis, which pits a largely rural movement against the government, is in its seventh week. There is no end in sight and seemingly no one able to break the deadlock that has seen protesters occupying key areas of Bangkok for weeks. Individuals and institutions, including the monarchy, that once played key mediating roles, are either powerless or silent. Confrontations have so far taken the lives of 26 people and paralyzed central Bangkok, where the protesters, known as the Red Shirts, occupy a square-mile (half-kilometer) of some of the capital’s most glamorous shopping areas.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BROKEN A CAMPAIGN PROMISE: Like presidents before him, President Obama refused to say “genocide” while commemorating Armenian Remembrance Day on Saturday. Skirting around the g-word, Obama said “On this solemn day of remembrance, we pause to recall that 95 years ago one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century began. In that dark moment of history, 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire.” American presidents have always resisted saying “genocide” out of fear of offending Turkey; however, Obama had promised in his presidential campaign that he would call the Armenian killing “genocide.”
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 THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2009:
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 REP. CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF HIS STATE: In the wake of the controversial immigration bill signed into law by Arizona’s governor Friday, Rep. Raul Grijalva is calling on companies to boycott his own state as both an “embarrassment sanction” as well as an “economic sanction.” The law requires police to stop anyone who gives them cause to think they’re in the country illegally and requires people to show proof of citizenship. Many say the law will lead to racial profiling, which Gov. Jan Brewer disputes. Arizonans are nervous, as the state depends heavily on tourism, including 4 million legal visitors from Mexico a year.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Lydia Hearst, the publishing heiress who started modeling as a teenager, has switched agencies again. The daughter of Patty Hearst has been repped by Ford, then One Model Management, and then Elite — and now Lydia has signed with Wilhelmina, where she joins Alexandra and Theodora Richards, Rebecca Romijn, Natasha Bettingfield and Fergie. ***As the countdown to the 63rd Festival de Cannes continues, organizers announced a special screening of Lucy Walker’s “Countdown to Zero” among other late additions to the lineup. ***According to the Sunday Times’ annual rich list, Simon Cowell increased his personal fortune by $69 million in the past year. The “American Idol” judge has earned for than half of his fortune from television work alone over the past two years. *** Marisa Tomei and musician Josh Groban have joined the cast of the Steve Carell-Ryan Gosling marital crisis comedy for Warner Bros.
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BRITAIN APOLOGIZES FOR POPE JOKES: Britain’s Foreign Office threw together a quick apology to Pope Benedict XVI, who is set to make his first visit to the country, after the leak of an internal memo in which officials joked that, while there, the pope could open an abortion clinic, launch his own line of condoms, sing a duet with Queen Elizabeth, bless a gay marriage, and establish a hotline for abused children. Junior officials wrote the list of ideas during a brainstorming session to discuss possibilities for the visit, which will be the first by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since Pope John Paul II in 1982. Government officials condemned the proposals as “ill-judged, naïve and disrespectful.” Britain’s ambassador to the Vatican met with papal officials for a formal apology.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Celebrating her 38th Birthday, Carmen Electra was the guest of honor at Set Nightclub in Miami Beach alongside her Otep musician beau, Rob Patterson. **Whitney Port and her new actor beau Ben Nemtin stepped out for the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival as they checked out the”Sex & Drugs & Rock n’ Roll” premiere after party held at The Breslin in New York City. ***Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian joined together to throw a belated birthday bash for Kourtney at the Wet Republic Pool at MGM Grand Resort Casino in Las Vegas. ***Nikki Reed shops at Alice + Olivia on Robertson Blvd. in West Hollywood. ***Kristin Cavallari hosts a pool party at the Liquid Pool Lounge at the Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 PORN QUIETLY LEADS THE WAY: Days after the release of the iPad—One of the world’s biggest porn companies claimed it had created a way to stream its videos onto the device, skipping the Apple store and its restrictions on salacious content. The announcement illustrates a widely acknowledged but seldom-spoken truth of the technology world: Whenever there’s a new content platform, the adult-entertainment industry is one of the first to adopt it.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By LUKE PARKER BOWLES: RED has to be the most striking and mesmerizing play on Broadway right now. Not simply because of John Logan’s disarming writing, but to see sheer, breathtaking performances from Alfred Molina and surely one of the greatest young actors performing today, the incomparable Eddie Redmayne. If you are lucky enough to get a ticket, then you will know what I am talking about.
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 WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Comedian Adam Christing along with along with over 317,000 other “influencers” who understands that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool in all 50 of the United States and 24 foreign countries.
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 ARMENIANS MARK WWI KILLINGS, TIES WITH NEIGHBORS’ FRAY: Armenia marked the 95th anniversary on Saturday of the World War One killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, against a backdrop of failed peace with Turkey and fresh sabre-rattling with enemy Azerbaijan.
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 LBN-SNAP: Gerard Butler (in hat), seemingly fondled his The Bounty Hunter costar Aniston while greeting fans in Paris.
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LBN-HEALTH NEWS: ***After rising for 16 years, the rate of premature births in the United States dropped for the second year in a row. Despite the good news, still more than half a million babies are born early in the country, putting them at risk for conditions such as respiratory disorders, blindness, and learning disabilities. ***Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm. The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barr? syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell’s palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. The data is being collected through five of the networks the government is using to monitor people who were inoculated against the swine flu.
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FINANCIAL REFORM DEAL NEAR: A deal is close on a Senate financial reform bill, the leading negotiators said today, but Republicans warned they are not yet prepared to launch debate on the measure.
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 LINDSAY LOHAN’S BANNED FROM CLUBS, OUT OF WORK & TWITTERING HER NIGHTS AWAY: Lohan’s been banned from an entire chain of high-end LA nightclubs, from Madonna’s VIP area at the Meatpacking District’s Boom Boom Room, from Avenue on the far West Side (the latter ban since lifted) and, possibly, from the entire nation of India after making false claims regarding child labor. (They’re still deciding.) A veteran of three aborted rehab stints, she is now $600,000 in debt, has no roles lined up, spends days sleeping and nights partying. Her favorite pastimes include stalking ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson, ditching court dates, tweeting the details of familial dysfunction and her permanent state of victimhood, and getting photographed while stumbling out of nightclubs and into cacti and other plant life. Yet all is well in Lindsay Lohan’s world, according to Lindsay Lohan.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Paramount and DreamWorks Animation’s 3D cartoon “How to Train Your Dragon” stays strong in the Box Office at #1 bringing in $15 million this weekend in its fifth frame. CBS Films’ romantic comedy “The Back-Up Plan,” debuted at the #2 spot this weekend, bringing in an estimated $12.3 million, while Warner Bros.’ action comedy “The Losers,” only brought in a disappointing $9.6 million during its debut weekend at the Box Office. ***Advertising Guru, Donny Deutsch, has been pulled from MSNBC’s 3PM hour as the host of “America the Angry” after including Keith Olbermann in a montage of angry media personalities. The Times’ Brian Stelter reports that “four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention” of Olbermann.
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 OIL SPILL CLEANUP DELAYED BY HIGH SEAS: The cleanup of an oily mess off the Louisiana coast was put on hold for a second consecutive day because of high seas in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Petty Officer Erik Swanson said Sunday that 7-foot swells made it impossible for crews to contain the spill about 40 miles from the coast. The leak was discovered Saturday where an oil rig had blown up and then sank last Thursday. Experts say that Up to 42,000 gallons of oil a day could be escaping into gulf.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***14-year-old girl competes in NASCAR race Katie Brice isn’t allowed to drive herself to the mall or school, but she can race in NASCAR.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Emails showing Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein bragging about the bank’s profits from subprime-mortgage short bets have already fueled the flames of popular resentment against the investment bank.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL GOODWIN: Here’s a flip-flop worth applauding. President Obama looks to be dropping his failed hard-line policy toward Israel and is moving closer to the position he inherited from President Bush.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By FELIX SALMON: There is no scandal whatsoever associated with Goldman Sachs emails released by Senator Levin today. They show Goldman people going about their line of work, doing what Goldman people do, taking long positions, taking short positions, sometimes even taking big short positions. This is what broker-dealers should do if they have decent risk management. The most interesting bit about them, for me, is the glimpse they give into the Goldman PR machine.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ALEXANDER FLEMING: It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Forty-eight hours after his hospitalization for a brain hemorrhage, rocker and reality-TV star Bret Michaels has awaken and is in good spirits. But according to Michaels’ official website he is still in critical condition with further tests to be run. ***Michael C. Hall, the actor who won a Golden Globe earlier this year for his role on Dexter, has “fully recovered” from his cancer, according to his wife, Jennifer Carpenter. The 38-year-old Hall was suffering from a treatable form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ***Fergie took over the turntables at Stacey Bendet’s Hollywood home during a party to celebrate MAC Cosmetics’ collaboration with Alice + Olivia for a makeup line. ***Two days after her dad attempted to stage an intervention, a director has confirmed he fired Lohan from what was supposed to be her next flick, The Other Side.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Henry Gibson starred in the Disney Channel original movie The Luck of the Irish. *** The Twilight script was finished in 6 weeks. ***Tichina Arnold became the first African American woman to sing the National Anthem at an NHL game on February 11, 2010, during which Wayne Simmonds of the LA Kings was honored. ***In 1620 Cornelius van Drebbel, a Dutch inventor, managed to build a submarine. ***Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. ***Canned pet food was introduced by James Spratt in 1865.
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LBN-QUOTE: “If we continue to fail to act at a federal level, we will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country.” – Barack Obama, at a naturalization ceremony, referring to Arizona legislation giving state police officers extensive leeway regarding suspected illegal immigrants.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 25, 1967, Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.
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1. Name: Mark Joseph.
2. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My face when I’ve put on a few pounds.
3. Which band would you like to see reunite? Kansas (the Elefante era).
4. If you could get the answer to any question, what would you ask? Why is evil allowed to flourish?
5. What or who is the greatest love of your life? God.
6. Occupation: Writer/Producer.
7. What is the quality you like most in a person of the opposite sex? Helpfulness.
8. What is your current state of mind? Excited.
9. How would you like to die? Singing and shouting.
10. E-mail and website: mjmpress@gmail.com, www.markjoseph.com, www.bullypulpit.com, www.mjmgroup.com .
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| SATURDAY • APRIL 24, 2010 |
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MISSISSIPPI TORNADO FLATTENS HOMES; RESCUE EFFORTS UNDER WAY: A tornado almost a mile wide tore through Mississippi on Saturday, raking cities from the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama, the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi, confirmed.Forecaster Mark McAllister stated that the path of the twister, as reported by spotters, stretched from a half-mile to a mile wide. The tornado touched down in the towns of Valley Park, Yazoo City, Durant, and was headed toward Starkville, he said.In Yazoo City, According to Fire Chief Roy Wilson, between 20 to 30 houses were destroyed, and said some people were trapped inside structures. Wilson said he didn’t yet have confirmed numbers on injuries.
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| SATURDAY • APRIL 24, 2010 |
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 GOLDMAN SACHS MESSAGES SHOW IT THRIVED AS ECONOMY FELL: In late 2007 as the mortgage crisis gained momentum and many banks were suffering losses, Goldman Sachs executives traded e-mail messages saying that they were making “some serious money” betting against the housing markets. The e-mails, released Saturday morning by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, appear to contradict some of Goldman’s previous statements that left the impression that the firm lost money on mortgage-related investments. In the e-mails, Lloyd C. Blankfein, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged in November of 2007 that the firm indeed had lost money initially. But it later recovered from those losses by making negative bets, known as short positions, enabling it to profit as housing prices fell and homeowners defaulted on their mortgages. “Of course we didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,” he wrote. “We lost money, then made more than we lost because of shorts.”
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OBAMA: AUTO INDUSTRY IS RECOVERING: Bailing out the auto industry may have been one of Barack Obama’s more unpopular decisions, but now he says it is paying off. In his weekly radio address, the president boasted signs of recovery at General Motors and Chrysler and used them to push for the financial reform bill, which will come before the Senate this week. GM has decided to pay back $5.8 billion in government loans and Chrysler turned an operating profit for the first quarter, with losses from the auto industry overall falling to $28 billion from an initial $85 billion.
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70% OF ARIZONA VOTERS FAVOR NEW STATE MEASURE CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: The Arizona legislature has now passed the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country, authorizing local police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 70% of likely voters in Arizona approve of the legislation, while just 23% oppose it.
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 NETANYAHU REACHES OUT TO PALESTINIANS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a conciliatory tack ahead of new peace talks with Palestinian leaders, releasing about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners and expanding the Palestinian Authority’s reach within the West Bank. According to Israeli paper Haaretz, Netanyahu also conveyed through American officials a proposal to grant Palestinians statehood in 60 percent of the West Bank with final borders to be worked out down the line. A negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, however, responded that a temporary state was out of the question.
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 QAEDA RANT OF BOMB ZOMBIE; NYER COPS TO SUBWAY PLOT AMID HATE SPEW: An al Qaeda-controlled New York city cabby who became a subway bomb plotter went on a tirade of hate yesterday, blaming “Zionist Jews” for “destroying this country from within” during his guilty plea in Brooklyn federal court. “I believe that real enemies of this country are the ones who destroy from within,” railed Zarein Ahmedzay, sporting a short black beard and wrinkled blue prison scrubs over a long-sleeve shirt. “And I believe these are the special group, the Zionist Jews, I believe, who want a permanent shadow government within the United States.”
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world. The falls are 3230 feet in height with an uninterrupted drop of 2647 feet. Angel Falls are located on a tributary of the Rio Caroni.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Researchers have identified a gene that they believe affects human hair growth. Mutations in the gene, known as APCDD1, cause a hair condition called hereditary hypotrichosis simplex. A progressive condition, it begins in childhood and causes hair follicles shrink and narrow. This, in turn, causes thin, fine hair to replace the normally thick hair that grows on the scalp. Scientists hope the discovery will someday lead to new treatments for hair loss as well as for excess hair growth issues.
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 DEADLY FUNGUS SPREADING IN NORTH AMERICA: Could this be the next swine flu? A deadly fungus that typically affects those with weak immune systems (such as AIDS patients) has been spreading among healthy animals and adults in the United States and Canada, according to scientists. Cyroptococcus gattii has infected a total of 270 patients in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and caused 40 deaths so far after mutating from its original form, a change scientists speculate could be caused by climate change. Though the fungus typically is found in wooded areas, one researcher said, “The outbreak may continue to expand into the neighboring region of Northern California, and possibly further.”
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Jay Sures and Tracey Jacobs at UTA have signed Darren Star who was formerly represented at WME by George Freeman and Nancy Josepshon.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, and Gwyneth Paltrow attend a photo call at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles for their upcoming Paramount Pictures & Marvel Entertainment film, “Iron Man 2.” The London premiere of the film has been recently moved to Los Angeles due to the volcanic eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. ***Jennifer Aniston, Adam sandler, and Nicole Kidman filming a scene for their upcoming movie “Just Go With It” on location in Maui, Hawaii. ***After his recent break-up with Paris Hilton, Doug Reinhardt seems to be moving on rather quickly, as he and his new girlfriend head out to dinner last night to Boa in Los Angeles. ***”Gossip” guy Chace Crawford poses with fans after an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles. ***Stephanie Pratt met up with fashion designer Yana K for a bite to eat at Joan’s on Third in West Hollywood. ***Kristin Cavallari makes time to stay fit and healthy at Iron Gym in Santa Monica. ***Shakira was spotted arriving at the Los Angeles International Airport in from Miami as she gears up for “American Idol.” ***Miley Cyrus paid a visit to Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City. ***Plugging away at the European leg of her “Last Girl On Earth” tour, Rihanna took the stage in Frankfurt, Germany.***”American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest having lunch at Spago in Beverly Hills on Canon Drive. ***Prominent L.A. jewelry designer Danielle Welmond having dinner last night at the Charthouse in Marina Del Rey. ***Bode Miller showing his three Olympic medals to supermodels Elena Kuletskaya, Carolina Bittencourt and Alicia Rountree at watchmaker Hublot’s Cipriani Wall Street press conference in NYC. ***Bernie Madoff victim Kevin Bacon eating dinner in a middle booth at Indochine in NYC with his daughter, Sosie, and a few friends as other guests remarked, “I guess Madoff didn’t make him that poor”. ***Whoopi Goldberg dining at Benjamin Steakhouse in Midtown NYC and signing autographs for fellow diners on her way out. ***Lainie Kazan having a late dinner at Shelby’s in Orinda, CA. ***The legendary rock group KISS holding interviews for their new tour at the Guitar Center on Pico Blvd. in L.A. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 CHARLIE SHEEN’S WIFE MOVES OUT: According to a source, Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller are finally separating. “Charlie has returned to his old habits,” said the insider. “Brooke has moved out of their family home. Brooke and Charlie still talk, but they don’t see each other.” The Two and a Half Men star’s rep confirmed to People.com that they’re living separately, saying, “Sometimes when couples are trying to work things out, it’s better if they don’t reside under the same roof.” Though the rep says there are no plans for Sheen and Mueller to divorce, the residential split comes on the heels of numerous allegations that have been brewing since Christmas, including domestic violence and substance abuse. The actor is still in rehab, according to E!’s source, who says the couple’s children are with their mother full-time. Besides his marriage, Sheen’s status on the CBS sitcom is also in limbo as he has yet to sign on for the next season. “Nothing is for sure yet,” the informant added.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***The Redskins traded five-year veteran quarterback Jason Campbell to Oakland. Details were not immediately available, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Redskins would receive Oakland’s fourth-round pick in the 2012 draft in exchange for Campbell.
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 LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Mindy Kaling may play ditzy Kelly Kapoor on ‘The Office,’ but the actress has also proven to be a shrewd businesswoman and writer, penning episodes of the hit show, a popular blog and now a book, which will be released in 2011. The actress, whose book of essays, titled ‘The Contents of My Purse,’ will be published by Crown Publishing Group in the fall of next year.
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WORLD LEADERS SCRAMBLE TO NEGOTIATE $60 BILLION RESCUE PLAN FOR GREECE: European and International Monetary Fund negotiators were racing Friday to hash out a $60 billion rescue package for Greece after its prime minister, who called his country a “sinking ship,” put out an urgent call for help to prevent a national default.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: *** A year after CBS dumped plans to air the Daytime Emmys –CBS announced that it will broadcast the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, June 27 at 9 p.m. This year’s awards show will take place in Las Vegas (at the Las Vegas Hilton) for the first time. *** The makers of the documentary “Crude” are resisting efforts by Chevron to turn over hundreds of hours of raw footage created during the making of the movie, which chronicles the oil company’s years of litigation with local Ecuadorians over oil spills and toxic dumps in the Amazon rain forest.
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 THE UNIVERSE: Iceland is just one of the 24 foreign countries with daily LBN E-Lert readers.
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UNDERCOVER PERSUASION BY TECH INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS: The influence peddlers of K Street have discovered the power of social networking on such Web sites as Twitter and Facebook. Using their own names without mentioning that they work in public relations or as lobbyists, employees of companies with interests in Washington are chattering online to shape opinions in hard-to-detect ways.
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 LBN-CURRENTLY READING By TIPPI HEDREN (Award winning actress, founder of the Shambala Preserve for Big Cats): I am reading a murder mystery called First Person Cat by Jacque Heebner (Peppertree Press). “I love the book so much that I offered to write a review on it. It’s about the beautiful Beverly Hills Tiffany, Tiff to a select few, and will guide you through a most fascinating, page flipping murder mystery. It deals with the rich, the conniving, the rock and film stars, the devious and then ever clever detectives. By the way. Tiffany is a hot tortoise-shell Persian Cat!”
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 COAST GUARD CALLS OFF SEARCH FOR 11 MISSING IN OIL RIG FIRE IN GULF OF MEXICO: The Coast Guard on Friday called off its search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig this week off the Louisiana coast. Rear Adm. Mary Landry said crews had spent three days searching a large area surrounding the rig but could not find the missing workers. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) called for a congressional investigation of safety practices at offshore oil rigs, saying the Tuesday explosion “shows we need to be asking a lot more tough questions of big oil.” Nelson has led opposition in the Senate to offshore drilling.
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 LBN-BEHIND THE SCENE: Michael Levine’s “Be the Paparazzi” roof-top celebration lured over 400 of Hollywood’s beautiful, rich and glamorous to the super-hot Kress Nightclub in Hollywood last Friday night, here are a few exclusive pictures. 1. Suzanne Sena 2. Julia Alexander 3. Frank Mottek 4. Dr. Peter Loisides 5. Howard Askenase 6. Adam Christing 7. Wally August 8. Terry August.
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 WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Plastic surgeon Dr. Jon Perlman along with along with over 317,000 other “influencers” who understands that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool in all 50 of the United States and 24 foreign countries.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By GAIL COLLINS: Election season has started in earnest, and one thing is crystal clear. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are hopeless.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By BILL O’REILLY: It may seem strange, but a cornerstone of the liberal media in America is “The Daily Show” starring Jon Stewart. Younger Americans, in particular, love him, and his sarcastic, cool wit delights left-wingers from coast to coast. That’s because his barbs are overwhelmingly directed at conservatives.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By JES ALEXANDER (Publisher of Herald de Paris): I think “Smoking Nazis” HAVE gone too far. If someone wants to ruin their health in the privacy of their own home, let them! As for public outdoor space, who says who is in-charge of OUTDOORS. Absurd.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By BENITO MUSSOLINI: It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Rapper T.I. just got out of jail for a gun conviction, but he’s still expecting the royal treatment. He stormed off when he turned up at the ESPN Magazine NFL Pre-Draft party at Espace and was told all the VIP tables were filled. ***Cheeky Chevy Chase poked fun at billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. in front of wealthy bidders at Christie’s auction house, joking that his “Sailors for the Sea” charity encourages people to “protect the ocean and molest young boys.” ***Kyle Wilson celebrated being drafted by the New York Jets at Greenhouse with 10 buddies, eight bottles of champagne and Zico coconut water. The Jets picked the Boise State cornerback in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday. ***Lindsay Lohan was axed from a movie because she’s not “bankable” — this according a source connected with the production of the flick. Lindsay was slated to star in “The Other Side,” a movie about a grad student working on a deserted island. ***Pamela Bach just got the book thrown at her; she’ll be spending 90 days in jail. Bach — whose divorce with David Hasselhoff is epic — was just sentenced for a DUI she got in November. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in jail. But Bach was on probation for a previous DUI — so the November DUI constituted a probation violation, Bach was sentenced to an additional 60 days.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***John F. Kennedy had a sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded. ***Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC’s Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981. ***Penny Marshall was the first female film director to have a film make more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this with the 1988 film Big. ***Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard ***Winston Churchill, one of England’s greatest politicians, historians and statesmen, was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
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LBN-QUOTE: “We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic - yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people with HIV from entering our own country.” - US President Obama, as U.S. lifts a 22-year immigration ban on people living with HIV/AIDS.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire rounded up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople at the start of what many scholars regard as the first genocide of the 20th century in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died.
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1. Name: Leisa Naples.
2. What Makes You Unique? I can get my four little girls ready for ballet, do eight French braids, pack four “healthy” lunches, check spelling worksheets, redirect 2 toddler meltdowns, throw on a coat of mascara all while having a conference call with a business associate!! Raising two sets of twins one year apart – I have learned to become a professional multi-tasker!!
3. If you could sleep with one celebrity, who would it be? If I was single - Definitely Mark Wahlberg. Not just for his sassy looks, but he is a man of many trades crossing from music to acting and producing. I have not seen one movie or television series that he produced or starred in that wasn’t fabulous! Come on – doesn’t every woman want to sleep with Marky Mark?
4. If you could have dinner with one dead person, who? Anna Pavlova, one of the most cherished of famous ballet dancers. I would love to learn how her imprint on the world of ballet became so huge soon after being rejected from the Imperial Ballet School.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? I would have to say Italy. My father was born there as well as many relatives. He spoke the language fluently, but would never teach his children. I would love to reconnect and learn more about his past to discover more about myself.
6. Occupation: Lifestyle Correspondent, Creator of Living Well with Leisa Lifestyle Reports, Children’s Dancewear Designer, President of twinstwicetutus.com & most importantly mom of two sets of identical twins!
7. What’s the best thing about your job? Being able to work from home and be with my four little angels! I could not imagine having a job that would take me away from them every day.
8. Who would you want to be in another life? Barbara Walters.
9. Do you know anyone who’s had sex for money? No, but didn’t Brendan Behan quote, “The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less”.
10. E-mail and website: http://www.leisanaples.com/ and info@leisanaples.com.
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| FRIDAY • APRIL 23, 2010 |
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MIKE MEDAVOY (Producer and Author): I think we are giving these people, the T party, too much space and credence. They do not know what they are about—the Boston party was about the issue of no taxation without representation, that is not the case here—these people do not understand history, much less care. For the good of the country, eventually, both the Republicans and the Democrats will have to get into substantive arguments as well as philosophical arguments and the majority should rule, that is what democracy is about. That’s why we vote them in or out of office. The rest of it is just noise and terribly counterproductive and, furthermore, politically motivated stupidity. It is all about where this country needs to be in the 21st century and it shouldn’t be about the privileged few. The age of civility must return but, before that can happen, reason must prevail. Not noise and placards but clear-thinking arguments without bringing in the issue of guns and the 1st amendment. If you want to argue what is too much government, let’s have an argument at the ballot box. We are only here for a nano-second and the world has shrunk; everyone knows instantly what others are doing. There are already too many dangers lurking out there—not the least of which is nuclear annihilation—polarization and extremism are one and the same. It is not about who has the largest gun, because someone will eventually build a bigger one. We are all children of God and were brought here for the purpose of creating a better place for the generations to come; that is what was preached. That ought to be our mission. That can only be done with real knowledge and an educated population with imagination and compassion.
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DISGRACE - WHILE ECONOMY CRUMBLED, TOP FINANCIAL WATCHDOGS AT SEC SURFED FOR PORN ON INTERNET: MEMO: At the SEC, all they thought about was SEX. The country’s top financial watchdogs turned out to be horn dogs that spent hours gawking at porn Web sites as the economy teetered on the brink, according to a memo released Thursday night. The shocking findings include Securities and Exchange Commission senior staffers using government computers to browse for booty and an accountant who tried to access the raunchy sites 16,000 times in one month.
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ELEVEN ALLEGED PIRATES BROUGHT TO UNITED STATES FOR PROSECUTION: Federal authorities are flying 11 suspected pirates from East Africa to Norfolk, Virginia, to be prosecuted for alleged attacks on U.S. Navy ships near Somalia, according to multiple federal law enforcement sources familiar with the operation. The accused pirates have been indicted on a series of charges that remain under court seal until the suspects appear before a federal magistrate in Norfolk early Friday, the officials said.
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 SALES UP: Sales of new homes surged 27% last month, bouncing off the previous month’s record low and blowing past expectations as better weather and government incentives boosted sales. The Commerce Department said Friday that new home sales rose in March to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 411,000. It was the strongest month since last July and the biggest monthly increase in 47 years.
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: Around 32.5 million Americans (more than 10 percent of the population) had at least one foreign-born parent in 2008.
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WHOLESALE PRICES RISE IN MARCH AS FOOD COSTS JUMP: Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years. But excluding food and energy, prices were nearly flat. The Labor Department said the Producer Price Index rose by 0.7 percent in March, compared to analysts’ forecasts of a 0.4 percent rise. A rise in gas prices also helped push up the index.
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 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Iraq is just one of the 24 foreign countries with daily LBN E-Lert readers.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Self-help author Donna Estes Antebi having lunch yesterday at Sparks Grill on Pico in L.A. ***Tera Patrick at Whole Foods, West Hollywood. ***Rant columnist Ericka T. Bass eating hot dogs at Carney’s on the Sunset Strip before noon yesterday. ***Jack Black at Caffe Primo in West Hollywood. ***Paul Escoll having lunch at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills. ***Ashley Tisdale was spotted leaving the Vancouver International Airport after finishing filming a pilot for her new series “Hellcats.” ***Paris and Nicky Hilton, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Nicole Scherzinger, Sofia Vergara, and Audrina Patridge were among the celebs who attended the US Weekly Annual Hot Hollywood Style Issue Event at Drai’s Hollywood in Hollywood. ***Jessica Alba joined Director Brian Hill at the premiere of his documentary, “Climate of Change,” at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City’s School of Visual Arts Theatre. ***Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko were spotted with the cast of Avatar at a party at the JW Marriott LA Live. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Arabic news network Al-Jazeera says it’s taking a more showbiz slant — and plans to air a panel discussion with Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and “My Trip to al Qaeda” director Alex Gibney, whose film is being screened at the TriBeCa festival. The network organized the May 4 event, to be hosted by its chief political analyst, Marwan Bishara, on the roof at Hudson Terrace. A source said, “Hudson Terrace owner Michael Sinensky was initially resistant to the idea and was concerned about anti-American sentiment being expressed. But he was assured by Al-Jazeera that it is not going to cross into that area and it will be about Hollywood’s role in chronicling history.” Sinensky told us, “We don’t want Hudson Terrace being used as a platform for certain extremist geo-political views. However, in the name of free speech, we’ll roll the dice and open our doors.” The show airs in September. ***We don’t mean to interrupt the quiet truce in the Late Night War, but: Anyone who thinks “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” has been an instant, dramatic ratings improvement over “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” really ought to check out last week’s numbers. In the adults 18-49 category NBC has repeatedly said it cares most about, Leno averaged only a 1.0 rating/5 share — despite facing a week of repeats from “Late Show with David Letterman,” which earned a 0.8/3. It was Leno’s lowest demo score since returning to 11:35 p.m. in March.
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 LBN-THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Oldest Free Public School Opened in the US (1635)The Boston Latin School in Massachusetts, originally a school for boys that had just a handful of students, is now a coeducational institution serving more than 2,000 youngsters. It has the distinction of being the oldest public school in the US and claims many influential Bostonians as alumni, including four Harvard University presidents, four Massachusetts governors, and five signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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 LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Researchers say that about one third of all people who use indoor tanning beds become addicted to the practice. These people are also more likely to suffer from anxiety and more prone to abuse alcohol and drugs. Some research suggests that exposure to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning beds releases endorphins, chemicals in the body that improve mood, so tanners may be using the beds as a way to cope with distressing emotions. Addressing underlying issues may help tanning addicts reduce their use of sunbeds.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Helen Mirren will step into a role created by the late Sir John Gielgud in Warner Bros.‘ remake of “Arthur.” Mirren will play the Hobson part - which in the original was a butler/confidante/father figure to Dudley Moore’s wealthy impish drunk. Hobson will be re-imagined as a nanny to Russell Brand’s Arthur in the new film. ***Clancy McCarty — daughter of Kim and Michael McCarty, who own the bicoastal Michael’s restaurants in Santa Monica and on West 55th Street — is getting help from her well- connected parents in promoting, “No Woman, No Cry,” the documentary on maternal mortality she produced with Christy Turlington. The proud parents are inviting their regulars to the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. ***Actor Bradley Cooper has just dropped his longtime manager Susan Calogerakis at Thruline Entertainment. ***Gersh talent agent Sarah Shyn is switching to management and joining 3 Arts this week. ***A court denial late Thursday of Roman Polanski’s latest petition could see the Oscar winning director back on U.S. soil within months.
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INSPECTORS FOUND NEGLIGENCE AT WEST VIRGINIA MINE MONTHS BEFORE BLAST: Federal safety inspectors who visited Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal mine early this year said senior managers showed “reckless disregard” for worker safety by telling a foreman to ignore a citation the mine had received for faulty ventilation, according to the inspectors’ handwritten notes. The notes, from inspections in early January, say the president and a vice president of Massey Energy’s Performance Coal subsidiary told a foreman at the Upper Big Branch mine “not to worry about it” when he spoke to them about a ventilation problem cited by federal mine safety inspectors three weeks earlier. They told the foreman “it was fine,” according to the notes, citing the account of a mine employee.
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 MILITARY’S HEALTH CARE COSTS BOOMING: Military health care spending is rising twice as fast as the nation’s overall health care costs, consuming a larger chunk of the defense budget as the Pentagon struggles to pay for two wars, military budget figures show. The surging costs are prompting the Pentagon and Congress to consider the first hike in out-of-pocket fees for military retirees and some active-duty families in 15 years, said Rear Adm. Christine Hunter, deputy director of TRICARE, the military health care program.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: President Obama has to do what’s right for the country when it comes to financial reform. If that hurts the bankers, so be it.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: The stale, old debate of big government on the left versus small government on the right is back with a vengeance.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BOB DOLE AND ELIZABETH DOLE: The need for Americans to enter public life has never been greater, as the nation faces recession, high unemployment rates and a huge deficit.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.: The debate over slavery reparations ignores Africans’ role in selling human beings.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By JONAH GOLDBERG: The problem with socialism is socialism, because there are no socialists. Socialism is a system based upon an assumption about human nature that simply isn’t true.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMNETARY By CHE GUEVARA: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Rumor circulating around Hollywood that producer Christine Peter and her former husband Jon Peter are planning a reality show together. ***Valerie Plame, who was outed as a CIA agent by officials in the George W. Bush White House in 2003, is heading to the Cannes Film Festival next month to hype “Fair Game,” in which she’s played by Naomi Watts. ***“Gossip Girl” star Chace Crawford, stranded in London by volcanic ash, made the most of it by romancing a British actress. Crawford, who’s been linked to Bar Refaeli and model Jennifer Akerman, took the blonde, named Tessa, on dates to Le Caprice and the Whiskey Mist club.
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LBN-QUOTE: “I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.” – Elton John.
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| THURSDAY • APRIL 22, 2010 |
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 OBAMA TO WALL STREET: ‘JOIN US’: President Obama pays a visit to New York today to deliver a speech on financial reform. “It is essential that we learn the lessons of this crisis, so we don’t doom ourselves to repeat it,” he will say, according to prepared remarks. “And make no mistake that is exactly what will happen if we allow this moment to pass.” He will also ask financial lobbyists to come around to his side: “I am here today because I want to urge you to join us, instead of fighting us in this effort.” The president will emphasize that what happens there fuels what happens on Main Street. But don’t expect bankers to take too kindly to the pop-in. “I don’t think Wall Street is expecting any kind of olive branch on the substance of the legislation, but I think folks on the street would like to see cooler rhetoric,” said one analyst. “I’m not sure that they’re going to get it.”
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 AT LEAST 11 MISSING AFTER BLAST ON OIL RIG IN GULF: The U.S. Coast Guard launched a major search effort Wednesday for 11 people missing after a “catastrophic” explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico engulfed the drilling platform in flames. Another 17 people were injured — three critically — in the blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which occurred about 10 p.m. Tuesday. As of late afternoon Wednesday as many as six firefighting vessels were working to contain the massive fire caused by the explosion.
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 IRAN STARTS PLAYING WAR GAMES: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader, isn’t a big fan of America’s new nuclear policy, telling state television Thursday that the strategy would led to “atomic threats against Iranian people.” In a more dangerous riposte, Iran has stepped up its war game exercises in the Persian Gulf. In his Nuclear Posture Review, President Obama deliberately left the door open to using nuclear weapons against Iran, an administration adviser told The New York Times. A leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard told state television that the exercises, which will last three days, will demonstrate “Iran’s strength and will against the threats of the enemies.”
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 LAST CALL FOR KEIFER: Keifer Sutherland drinking himself into grave after wild bender, pals fear. After the notorious boozer went on bender in London, pals fear the 24 star is drinking himself to death and urge him to get to rehab. “It’s last call for Keifer as far as most of his friend are concerned,” a source close to the troubled thesp said. “He’s killing himself!”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***BusinessWeek is showing its first major changes following its acquisition by Bloomberg last December. On the cover of Thursday’s magazine, Bloomberg will get equal billing. Inside, readers will find twice the number of stories as before. Having gutted its staff, much of Businessweek’s new content will be written by Bloomberg’s massive army of reporters. Some moves have led to staff grumbling. “We never expected to flip a switch and for it to be Nirvana,” Bloomberg President Daniel Doctoroff told the Wall Street Journal. Readers of The Economist will find the layout of the new number familiar. It is divided into five sections for stories: economics, companies, politics and policy, technology, and markets. ***Joe Adalian just joined the Wrap last June, but he’s taking his address book and his TV MoJoe blog (originally started at TV Week) to New York Magazine’s entertainment site Vulture.
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 SOUTH PARK CREATORS ARE WARNED: Revolution Muslim, a New-York based Islamic group, issued a stern warning to the creators of the Comedy Central cartoon South Park following an episode that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in a bear costume, while showing traditional images of other religious leaders. The group likened Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the duo behind the irreverent program, to Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker murdered by an Islamic militant in 2004. Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee wrote in a blog post that the episode “outright insulted” the Prophet. “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: In recent years, the average American’s diet has increasingly incorporated added sugars, defined in a recent study as “caloric sweeteners used by the food industry and consumers as ingredients in processed or prepared foods to increase the desirability of those foods.” In the mid-1990s, 15.8 percent-or 359 calories a day-of the typical American’s diet was composed of added sugar, an increase of more than 5 percent since the late 1970s. This is problematic because research shows that the more added sugars people consume, the lower their levels of HDL-C, or “good cholesterol,” and the higher their levels of triglycerides.
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BLACK FARMERS CALL ON CONGRESS TO PAY RACIAL BIAS SETTLEMENT: African-American farmers hoping for government settlement money in a racial bias case met with lawmakers Wednesday and called on Congress to come up with a way to fund the $1 billion deal. Litigation known as the Pigford Case established a longstanding pattern of discrimination at the U.S. Agriculture Department against African-American farmers who had applied for farm loans and support from federal programs.
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 HEATHER LOCKLEAR HIT & RUN: Heather Locklear busted for hit & run accident. The Melrose Place beauty was given a citation for a hit-and-run at around 4 AM last Saturday near North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, CA. A “no parking” sign was knocked over and there were obvious signs of a car rising onto the curb and striking the sign. An investigation confirmed that the car in question was indeed Locklear’s black BMW.Under the penal code of California the offense is a misdemeanor, so luckily Heather was not taken into custody but she did receive a citation.
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 NAPOLITANO MAKES COMEBACK AFTER XMAS FUMBLE: If most Americans know Janet Napolitano’s name, it is because of her bungled reaction to the failed Christmas bombing of last year, when President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary went on television to praise the country’s security protocols, saying the “system worked.” Since that misstep, the former Phoenix governor has regained her footing, becoming one of the most powerful members of the president’s Cabinet, Anne Kornblut writes in Thursday’s Washington Post. Napolitano is being mentioned as a possible Supreme Court appointee. She’s on the lips of those speculating about the next attorney general. This week, she was out front at a memorial for the Oklahoma City bombing. About that “system worked” comment? “There’s no time to sit and moan about a quote that’s something you said,” Napolitano said. “You’ve just got to move.”
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 LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY: The French government is drawing up new legislation to make it illegal for Muslim women (or presumably any women) to wear a full-face veil in public. The new law will stop the niqab and the burqa (pictured above) from being worn in the streets, shops and markets and not just in public buildings. President Nicolas Sarkozy intends to press ahead with the bill claiming that the veil is an “assault upon women’s dignity”. “We’re legislating for the future. Wearing a full veil is a sign of a community closing in on itself and of a rejection of our values,” commented Luc Chatel, a spokesman for Mr Sarkozy, on leaving a cabinet meeting led by the President.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Kristy Watts, Danielle Steel’s former assistant, has been sentenced to two years and nine months in the federal poky and 400 hours of community service for stealing $768,000 from the romance novelist, largely by manipulating her accounts, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. Watts said that “envy and jealousy” of Steel, plus greed, motivated the theft. Watts worked for Steel for 15 years, using Steel’s online payroll to pay herself extra, using Steel’s credit-card reward points for gifts and airfare for herself and her family, and depositing checks made out to “cash” in her own account.
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 LBN-TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Immanuel Kant (1724) Kant was a German metaphysician who shook the foundations of Western philosophy. In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant proposed that objective reality is known only insofar as it conforms to the essential structure of the knowing mind and that things beyond experience are unknowable. He thus concluded that the existence of God, freedom, and immortality can be neither affirmed nor denied on theoretical grounds.
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LBN-BUSINESS NEWS: ***U.S. President Barack Obama scolded Wall Street for risk-taking that led to the financial crisis and urged the banking industry to stop its “furious efforts” to block tighter regulations. ***A new study suggests by 2018 there will be more jobs in the U.S. than people to fill them. ***ACA, the main investor in a failed mortgage-securities deal that prompted fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, appears to have caused some of the $1 billion loss itself.
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 MARIE OSMOND’S SON ATTEMPTED 3 SUICIDES: Marie Osmond’s son had been suffering from depression due to “bad school grades and a recent visit from a former girlfriend,” this according to witness statements in the L.A. County Coroner’s report on Michael Bryan’s suicide. Ruthann Clawson — a close friend of Michael’s — said the young man also confided in her that he had three previous suicide attempts by hanging. Clawson said Michael smoked cigarettes daily and was a social drinker, but had not recently used illegal drugs.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***London Marathon organizers have spent $230,940, mostly on private planes, to get competitors to the British capital for Sunday’s race after plumes of volcanic ash led to unprecedented travel chaos. ***Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, and maybe even Montreal’s inability to score more goals in a dominant second period, drove Canadiens goalie Carey Price to a couple of piques of frustration. ***Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will ride in next week’s five-day Tour of the Gila event, organizers announced Wednesday.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Ron Scalera, executive vp and creative director of the CBS Marketing Group, died Wednesday in Los Angeles after collapsing during a morning walk. He was 49. Scalera, who joined CBS in 1997 as senior vp/creative director of advertising and promotion, helped make the Eye “America’s Most Watched Network” with the creation of branding and launch campaigns for many successful series.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Producer Kerri Zane having dinner last night at elegant Michael’s in Santa Monica. She was greeting by the owner Michael McCarty who said he was off to NYC to care for his other Michael’s restaurant in the Big Apple. ***Kevin Bacon outside the Wink boutique on Spring Street in NYC with his daughter, Sosie’s, prom dress in a bag as she shopped inside for shoes to match. ***Tina Fey and Fred Armisen with their kids in the Tecumseh Playground at 77th and Amsterdam in NYC, where witnessess buzzed over Fey trying to go unrecognized in sunglasses and a wool cap and “Fred Armisen was dressed as Fred Armisen, but no one was buzzing about him.” ***Zoe Saldana and Jeffrey Dean Morgan pose together at the Hollywood premiere of their movie “The Losers” at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. ***Charlize Theron and Julia Louis-Dreyfus were among the celebs sitting courtside at the LA Lakers playoff series game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. ***”Entourage” hunk Adrian Grenier speaks at Marvell’s Avanta Launch Party at the W Hollywood in Hollywood. ***Jessica Alba and a group of local kids each hold up a finger for the Global Campaign for Education event on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. ***Gabrielle Union addresses an audience at the Bounty public schools “Make A Clean Difference” event in Washington, DC. ***Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were spotted at the LA Family Housing 2010 Gala at the Avalon Hollywood. ***Newly weds, Kevin and Danielle Jonas were spotted enjoying a gorgeous spring day in Beverly Hills as they shopped at Kitson, Intermix, and All Saints Boutique on Robertson Blvd. ***Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony attend the Los Angeles premiere of Lopez’s new flick “The Back Up Plan” at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By LIZ LANGE (Fashion designer and co-creator of Shopafrolic.com): Just finished Norris Church Mailer’s memoir A Ticket to the Circus, which I could not put down. Startlingly frank, deliciously gossipy, and psychologically astute, it’s a larger-than-life tale of a larger-than-life love affair. And populated though it is by movie stars, presidents, and literary lions, it is at its heart the poignant story of a strong woman trying to make her way in the world. Read it!
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LBN-COMMENTARY By CHARLIE GASPARINO: Goldman will pay a fine though not enough to break its bank. It made $12 billion last year and is on track for a repeat.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DONNA ESTES ANTEBI(Author of The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper): It’s already a tough enough world for women. Don’t make the mistake of making such a big deal about sex that you run your life around it, or ruin your life because of it!
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LBN-COMMENTARY By Robert G. Zuckerman: Cigarettes are evil: they cause cancer, they pollute our planet and they start deadly fires among other things. And they cost a lot of money, that could be put to much better use. As with guns, the world would be a much better place without cigarettes.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MEGAN BLAKE (Pet-Lifestyle Coach and Host of the PBS show Animal Attractions TV): Freedom of speech is a valued key to our society and protection of the constitution, equally regarded. However, illegal acts like child-pornography, threatening TSA agents are not weighed as more valuable than protection of the innocent. Animal Anti-cruelty laws exist to protect voiceless creatures, especially those bred as trusting companions. Allowing videos of women stomping and piercing kittens and puppies with stiletto heels is a vile contradiction to our ethics. The Humane Society of the US has begun work on legislation to “fix” this.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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 THE FINAL WORD FROM PASTOR BOB (Pastor Bob is the Founder of the First Fundamental Church of the Bible): ***The Bible has the answers to all of life’s questions. You may not like the answers. But they’re true. ***American churches are weak today because ministers stopped preaching about Hell. ***God expects you to be patriotic, not idiotic. *The LBN E-lert is pornographic. And the editors will one day have to answer to God for that. ***Husbands are the head of the house. Period. But if you aren’t loving your wife, then you aren’t a real man. ***Get clear about this: God hates the sin, but loves the sinner. ***The Roman Catholic church is a big cult. Praying to dead people. Molesting young boys. The list goes on. If you are Catholic, find a good Bible-believing church instead. ***I’m praying for Catholics today and I’m praying for you.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Keith Olbermann is running wild again at MSNBC. Network higher-ups put the kibosh on Donny Deutsch’s weeklong stint hosting a 3 p.m. show called “America the Angry” after Olbermann “went ballistic and threw a fit” when he was featured in a segment on Tuesday, sources said. “After Olbermann saw the clip, he started freaking out and called Phil [MSNBC head Phil Griffin] to say he wasn’t going to do his show unless Deutsch was taken out,” says an insider. “MSNBC knows he’s nuts, but they kowtow to him.” ***Hulk Hogan has sued his insurance company, claiming it compromised his $30 million fortune in the near-fatal car crash caused by his son. According to the lawsuit, Wells Fargo Southeast — which provided insurance for the Hogan family — only paid $250,000 to John Graziano, who is severely disabled — the result of the Nick Hogan car crash.
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LBN-QUOTE: “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 22, 1976, Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network new anchor.
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| WEDNESDAY • APRIL 21, 2010 |
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LBN-INVESTIGATE: A human brain comprises only 2% of the body, yet it uses 20% of the oxygen and blood. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz.
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 OBAMA COURT PICK BY MAY 26: Supreme-Court watchers will have to wait no later than May 26 to learn who President Obama’s choice to replace outgoing Justice John Paul Stevens is. President Obama is currently meeting informally with potential nominees, and a senior official tells The Hill that it’s “entirely likely” the president’s choice will come “well before then.” Republican intransigence, meanwhile, may backfire: “The president is making this decision with a pretty clear view that whoever he chooses is going to provoke a strong reaction on the right,” another official tells Talking Points Memo, meaning that he could choose a more-liberal justice, since GOP opposition is a given no matter what.
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 MISSING WORKERS SOUGHT AFTER ACCIDENT ON OIL RIG: Rescuers searched waters off Louisiana’s coast Wednesday after an explosion and fire on an offshore drilling platform left seven workers badly hurt and 11 missing. Most of the 126 people were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion on the rig Deepwater Horizon at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O’Berry said. The rig, about 52 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, was listing about 10 degrees and still burning Wednesday morning. “It’s burning pretty good and there’s no estimate on when the fire will be put out,” O’Berry said.
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ARIZ. DEMANDS OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE: Can’t wait to hear if John McCain has something to say about this: Right on the heels of passing the strictest anti-immigration laws in the country, the Arizona House has passed a provision that will require President Obama to show his birth certificate in order to get on the state’s ballot. The state House voted 31-22 to add the measure, which will require all U.S. presidential candidates to prove they meet constitutional requirements, to a larger bill, which still faces a vote. One Democratic state rep. said that Arizona is becoming “the laughing stock of the nation,” but the state may in fact be in good company: similar laws have been proposed in Florida, Oklahoma, and Missouri.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings nearly tripled as the Internet company’s revenue edged up for the first time in more than a year. ***The ash cloud from the Iceland volcano is taking its toll on U.S. businesses. Air traffic to and from Europe has been disrupted for days, and that is keeping goods grounded. ***Apple’s sold almost 11 million iPods last quarter and doubled its iPhone sales from this time last year, selling a record 8.8 million smartphones. ***General Motors has made a final payment of $5.8 billion to the U.S. and Canadian governments, paying off the last of its $6.7 billion in loans, the company said Wednesday. ***Chrysler lost nearly $4 billion since exiting bankruptcy last year, but the company reported a first-quarter operating profit this year and increased its cash reserves.
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 POLAND SETS ELECTION FOR JUNE 20: In the wake of Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s death in an airplane crash in Russia on April 10, acting President Bronislaw Komorowski has scheduled a new election, set for June 20. Reuters reports that the acting president is leading opinion polls by a considerable margin, and is likely to beat out Jaroslaw Kaczynski—the late president’s twin brother—who leads the main opposition party.
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 WATER DEPARTMENT CUTS CONNECTIONS TO THOUSANDS OF CITY’S POOR: Detroit’s water utility supplied 20 percent less water in 2009 than it did in 2003. The obvious reasons for the decreased supply include a steep decline in Industrial activity and population. Michigan’s largest city – home to 820,000 residents, 1 million less than in 1950 – is losing 10,000 residents annually. But a third important source of the department’s diminishing market is that many poor residents simply can’t afford the basic service. Thousands of Detroit residents have had their water connections cut by the city, forcing people to adopt informal methods to gain access to drinking water.
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GOLDMAN SACHS WAS A TOP OBAMA DONOR: For Goldman Sachs, a large financial investment in President Obama does not appear to be paying off. Wall Street’s top investment bank was a generous contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign.
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EX-MILITARY LEADERS: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’ More than a quarter of young adults are unable to meet physical requirements to join the military, creating a potential threat to national security, a group of retired armed forces leaders said Tuesday. About 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military, according to Mission: Readiness, a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders.
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 AL PACINO AS DR. KEVORKIAN: Al Pacino is hardly recognizable behind a Midwestern accent and big glasses in HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack, a biopic about Jack Kevorkian, The New York Times reports. The film isn’t meant to weigh in on the moral and legal issues surrounding Kevorkian, who rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s for his work promoting euthanasia. Instead, Pacino and director Barry Levinson focused on bringing nuance to Kevorkian’s story. As Pacino put it, “He turned away the vast majority of people who came to him, he didn’t take money for what he did, and he did not see these patients as people he was killing. He saw them as people whose pain he could relieve.”
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***We’re just happy to hear it’s not Tim Burton and Johnny Depp: Disney is said to have a Wizard of Oz prequel in the works, and the Los Angeles Times says Robert Downey Jr. is in talks with producers to star as the wizard. The movie would be about the wizard before he came to Oz. The top candidates to direct, meanwhile, are American Beauty director Sam Mendes and Hairspray director Adam Shankman.
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 SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN LAW BANNING DOGFIGHT VIDEOS: The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law designed to stop the sale and marketing of videos showing dogfights and other acts of animal cruelty, saying it is an unconstitutional violation of free speech. The 8-1 decision was a defeat for animal rights groups and congressional sponsors of the unusual legislation.
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 LBN-BOOK INSIDER: ***LCO(www.LCOonline.com) announced that it has signed Certified Life Coach and author Donna Estes Antebi for media representation. ***In “Cyber War,” Richard Clarke and Robert Knake warn that the threat of online attacks is a national security matter that needs closer attention. ***In “Beatrice and Virgil,” Yann Martel (”The Life of Pi”) spins a tale featuring animal characters as he considers the Holocaust and the nature of cruelty.
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 CHINA PAYS TRIBUTE TO QUAKE VICTIMS: China lowered flags to half staff and pulled all entertainment programming from the airwaves Wednesday to mourn more than 2,000 people killed during last week’s earthquake in the country’s northwest, Chinese media reported. The death toll has risen to 2,064 from the quake that struck the impoverished county of Yushu last week. Another 175 people remain missing and 12,135 were injured, rescue headquarters said, according to the newspaper.
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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: ***Plant breeders are developing modern versions of heirloom tomatoes that they promise have the distinct flavors and funky looks of heirlooms but are more disease-resistant and abundantly productive. ***Packaged food and restaurant meals may face federal limits on sodium, following a new report from the Institute of Medicine. ***”The craft beer movement is at its peak,” says Jim Koch, chairman of Boston Beer Co., which makes the Samuel Adams label.
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WOMAN, CHILDREN MAKE RARE APPEARANCE IN GAMBINO INDICTMENT: New York’s Gambino crime family might have hit a new low by allegedly introducing underage prostitution into its operations, authorities say, but just as shocking to some was the appearance of a female among the list of defendants in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. Suzanne Porcelli, 43, was the only female among 14 reputed Gambino crime family members and associates indicted on charges including racketeering, murder, sex trafficking of a minor, extortion and drug trafficking. Thirteen defendants including Porcelli entered not guilty pleas on Tuesday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office, and they are expected to appear Wednesday before a federal judge who has been appointed to the case.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will receive a suspension of four to six games from the NFL on Wednesday. ***Chick Hearn, the announcer who called 3,338 consecutive Lakers games, is honored with a Staples Center statue. ***With the good-humored but hard-playing Glen Davis filling in while the Celtics’ emotional leader, Kevin Garnett, served a one-game suspension, Boston rolled to a 106-77 victory Tuesday night that Miami coach Erik Spoelstra called “embarrassing.” ***Former All-Star pitcher Edinson Volquez was suspended 50 games Tuesday following a positive test for a banned fertility substance, a punishment that will cost him money but won’t hurt the Cincinnati Reds’ rotation.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Canadian indie producers Brightlight Pictures and Rhombus Media have joined up with Reese Witherspoon’s Type A Films to develop “Under the Bridge,” a true-crime feature about the 1997 murder of a 14-year-old Canadian high school student. ***A&E and FX set premiere dates for their summer series. A&E announced that its new crime drama series has been retiled “The Glades” (previously titled “Sugarloaf”) will debut Tuesday, July 13 at 10p.m. as the network’s tent pole scripted entry this summer. “The Glades” is a police procedural from Fox TV Studios starring Aussie actor Matt Passmore(“McLeod’s Daughters”), Kiele Sanchez (“Lost”), and Carlos Gomez (“Sleeper Cell”). FX will counter-program with its Emmy-nominated drama “Rescue Me” and new comedy series “Louie,” starring Louis C.K. on Tuesdays at 10p.m. starting June 29th.
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 LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***After building shows around the Beatles and Elvis Presley, Cirque du Soleil’s next big star-driven show will focus on the late Michael Jackson. The Quebec-based circus troupe has made a deal with the Jackson estate for the creation, development and production of Michael Jackson projects based on the King of Pop’s music and songs.
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 WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT: Legendary Radio talk show host Barry Farber along with over 317,000 other “influencers” who understands that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool in all 50 of the United States and 24 foreign countries.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***The handsome editor of Malibu Magazine Jason Rouse having dinner last night at Tra di Noi Ristorante in Malibu. ***Tom Cruise and Katie having a midnight snack with friends at the Sunset Towers. ***Marking the 62nd Anniversary Celebration of the birth of Israel, Haim Saban and Master of Ceremonies Sam Rubin, continued the grand opening celebrations of the newly renovated Saban Theatre, hosting a joyous crowd of 1,800 people. Speaking with producer, Mike Flint and co-producer Keren Perlmutter, who were on the scene exciting interest in their feature-length documentary, “Angels In The Sky: The Birth of Israel,” were Jacob Dyan, Consul General of Israel/Los Angeles, Democratic gubernational hopeful Jerry Brown and his key supporter Alan Casden, as well as Los Angeles 3rd District County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and holocaust survivors Jona Goldrich and Av Perlmutter, both of whom fought in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. The events’ biggest surprise came when Mayor Jimmy Delshad, announced to a cheering crowd that a street in Beverly Hills will be named after the founder of modern Zionism, visionary Theodor Herzl. ***Longtime pair Annette Bening and Warren Beatty walk the red carpet at the premiere of “Mother and Child” at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood along with the film’s co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and his wife La Tanya, Kerry Washington, Gloria Garayua, Tatyana Ali, Brittany Robertson and Writer/Director Rodrigo Garcia. Invited guests included Amanda Seyfried, Marc Blucas and Samm Levine. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By MARIO BATALI (CHEF AND TV PERSONALITY): I had one of my favorite meals of the year at Dos Toros, which is just a small taqueria on 4th Avenue and 13th Street in New York City. It was started by two brothers from the Bay Area who ate at their favorite taqueria nearly every day of the week growing up and were disappointed upon moving to New York that no such place existed. So they opened their own. It’s perfect. It’s fresh. It’s inexpensive. It’s delicious.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I’ve been thinking about President Obama’s foreign policy lately, but first, a golf tip: I went to Dave Pelz’s famous short-game school this winter to improve my putting and chipping, and a funny thing happened — my long game got better. It brings to mind something that happened to Obama. The president got health care reform passed, and it may turn out to be his single most important foreign policy achievement. In politics and diplomacy, success breeds authority and authority breeds more success. No one ever said it better than Osama bin Laden: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By JOHN STOSSEL: I won 19 Emmy Awards by reporting a myth: that business constantly rips us off — that capitalism is mostly cruel and unfair.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By BEN STEIN: Mind you, I don’t blame Mr. Obama for magical thinking. Mr. George W. Bush engaged in it when he said he would bring democracy to the Mideast (which would be a disaster for us since most of the voters would be for the jihadists).
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By HARA MARANO: A sense of multiple alternatives, of unlimited possibilities, breeds in us the illusion that the perfect person is out there waiting to be found.
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 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: ***If you missed the recent wave of Hitler “Downfall” parody videos, you may be out of luck. On Tuesday – coincidentally, Hitler’s birthday — many of the parodies were removed from YouTube over copyright claims. “Downfall” director Oliver Hirschbiegel doesn’t seem to mind that his very serious film “Der Untergang” has provided the basis for the popular internet meme, but German production company Constantin Films, which owns the rights to the movies, is less pleased. ***CBS President Les Moonves’ wife, Julie Chen, could soon be the face of a new daytime panel chat show for mothers. Chen — who has a son, Charlie, with Moonves — and “Roseanne” star and lesbian mom Sara Gilbert are preparing to shoot a pilot for the network for a show to rival ABC’s “The View.” Other possible panelists linked to the project are Lisa Rinna and pregnant “Real Housewives of New York City” star Bethenny Frankel. A CBS source said, “It’s a daytime panel show to take on ‘The View,’ targeted at women with children and hosted by celebrities, journalists and regular moms. A pilot will be shot in early May.”
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***After Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy in 1995, Steven Spielberg sent a note that said “cover yourself up” along with a quilt and a copy of the magazine with all her pictures altered so that she appeared fully clothed. ***Unusual deaths have plagued the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of films, including 12-year-old actress Heather O’Rourke, who died of septic shock. ***Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital. ***Fatty Arbuckle, popular silent film comedian was charged with the rape and murder of the beautiful, but promiscuous, actress Virginia Rappe.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The Catholic Church needs a Sexorcist more than an Exorcist.” – Ericka T. Bass.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 21, 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years. He was put to death for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.
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 RAHM WANTS TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO: Under-fire White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel may soon be out of a job, but he seems to know where he would like to land next. Confirming the rumors, Emanuel said he would like to run for mayor of Chicago at some point—the next election is in 2011. “I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection,” he told Charlie Rose on PBS Monday. “I will work and support him if he seeks reelection. But if Mayor Daley doesn’t, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. That’s always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.” Emanuel had once aspired to be Speaker of the House, but now says that those dreams are “over.” The main draw of Chicago’s top job, he said, was the daily contact with constituents.
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: More than 14 percent of the world’s population speaks Mandarin Chinese as a first language; 5 percent of the world’s population speaks English as a first language.
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 FINANCE OVERHAUL FIGHT DRAWS A SWARM OF LOBBYISTS: Assessing the battle to overhaul the nation’s financial regulations recently, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, left no doubt about the consequences if Congress cracked down on his bank’s immense business in derivatives. “It will be negative,” he said. “Depending on the real details, it could be $700 million or a couple billion dollars.” With so much money at stake, it is not surprising that more than 1,500 lobbyists, executives, bankers and others have made their way to meet at the Senate committee that will take up legislation on Wednesday to rein in derivatives, the complex securities at the heart of the financial crisis.
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 LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Queen Oprah has deigned to reply to Kitty Kelley’s new biography of her, but only indirectly. While presenting an award to her closer friend Gayle King at The New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards, Oprah said the previous week had been “a rough one” for King when a “so-called biography came out.” “Gayle got herself worked out with all my new daddies coming out,” Oprah said, alluding to the book’s claim that Vernon Winfrey is not her biological father. She concluded, “This, too, shall pass.”
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 10-YEAR-OLD’S PREGNANCY FUELS MEXICAN ABORTION DEBATE: A pregnant 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, has become the latest lightning rod in the country’s heated abortion debate. The girl’s stepfather has been arrested. But advocates on both sides of the issue say their battle is just beginning. Abortion is legal in Mexico’s capital city, but prohibited or significantly restricted in most of the country’s states.
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LBN-TRACKER: Best and worst 2000 Census participation: BEST: Wisconsin-81%; WORST: Vermont, Alaska and Hawaii-64%.
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 POT SMOKERS CELEBRATE THE MARIJUANA ‘HOLIDAY’: April 20 is a date born out of many myths, it was police shorthand (“420”) for marijuana smoking, the time of a daily toking ritual of a high school crew in San Rafael, California, or an orchestrated event by Deadheads in the early ‘90s. Regardless of origin, 4/20 is now universally known as the annual date of celebration for those with pot-smoking, counterculture pride. This year, thousands across the States are lighting up: University of Colorado hosts its annual smoke-out, Olympia, Washington has the annual Oly 420 Cup, and the All American Health and Healing Cooperative will host a 420 Celebration fest in Los Angeles where, for $75, attendees can learn to clone plants, enter a raffle for five ounces of pot, and snag a photo-op in the “Garden of Weeden.”
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 LBN-TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Harold Lloyd (1893) Famous for his comic portrayals of a wistful innocent with horn-rimmed glasses who blunders in and out of hair-raising situations, American movie actor Harold Lloyd was the most popular film comedian of the 1920s. He appeared in over 500 films, including many shorts, spanning both the silent and sound eras
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: We’d plot this one somewhere right in the middle: Bravo has purchased a television show based on New York Magazine’s popular “Approval Matrix,” the back-page feature that places cultural happenings on a grid ranging from “lowbrow” to “highbrow” on one axis and “despicable” to “brilliant” on the other. The show was sold by Michael Hirschorn, the former executive editor of the magazine and a current television producer. It will be called Approval Matrix and will feature “rotating pop culture pundits” discussing the week’s “buzzworthy news items.”
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 GAY RIGHTS PROTESTERS INTERRUPT OBAMA SPEECH AT FUNDRAISER: Gay rights protesters interrupted President Barack Obama’s speech at a fundraiser for California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) Monday night in Los Angeles. Activists from a group called GetEQUAL began shouting at Obama while he was speaking at the podium. They expressed frustration over the slow progress of repealing the ban on openly gay people serving in the military.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***”I thought we gave 100 percent physically. Mentally, I’m not sure. I think mentally we need to get better.” It might seem like a clichéd quote on the surface until you realize the constructive criticism, issued after the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, 87-79, in their playoff opener, was uttered by none other than Ron Artest, arguably the most colorful and mentally unstable player in the NBA ***Indianapolis Colts defensive tackle Eric Foster faces allegations that he sexually assaulted a 22-year-old college student before the AFC Championship Game ***Kyle Singler, voted the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, announced Monday that he will return to national champion Duke for his senior season. ***Keli McGregor, president of Colorado Rockies baseball team, found dead in a Salt Lake City hotel today, police say.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Crisis PR meister Mike Sitrick has been sued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by a former employee (on behalf of them all) who says the boss at Sitrick and Company manipulated the ESOP to deprive current and former employees of millions of dollars. Anita Busch, the former Hollywood Reporter editor in chief who was the victim of those threats by Anthony Pellicano and others, gets in an A-1 quip in the comments: “Sitrick drips more oil than a 1964 Corvair.” Says Sitrick’s lawyer: “We don’t believe there is any basis to the lawsuit, if indeed one has been filed.”
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 LBN-SEE IT: Shauna Sand, yesterday and today.
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ICELAND VOLCANO ASH COSTING U.S. AIRLINES $20 MILLION A DAY: The enormous ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has shut down European air space is costing U.S.-based airlines tens of millions of dollars per day, according to an analysis from an airline expert. The five largest U.S.-based international carriers — Delta Air Lines UAL Corp.’s (United Airlines, AMR Corp.’s American Airlines, Continental Airlines and US Airways are collectively losing $21.9 million per day, according to Robert Herbst, analyst and founder of AirlineFinancials.com.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Bill Klein of TLC’s The Little Couple taking a detour going home from vacation and shopping with Jimmy Au’s in Beverly Hills, camera crew in tow. ***Author Aura Imbarus having coffee at Starbucks on Main Street in Santa Monica. ***Brooke Shields attends the “Furry Vengeance” Los Angeles Premiere at Mann Bruin Theatre in Westwood. ***Alicia Keys arrives at 2010 Silver Rose Gala & Auction benefiting The Jenesse Center at Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills. ***Megan Blake Pet life-style coach and host of PBS show Animal Attractions TV along with animal advocate Luke Robinson on the 2 Dogs 2,000 Miles walk across America last week to raise awareness for canine cancer. ***Rihanna kicks off her ‘Last Girl On Earth Tour’ in Antwerp, Belgium. ***Jennifer Lopez interacts with her fans after an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show to talk about her new movie “The Backup Plan,” in New York City. ***Tina Fey, Sheryl Crow, and Mariska Hargitay pose for photos at the 2010 Matrix Awards presented by New York Women in Communications at The Waldorf Astoria in New York. ***Lauren Conrad signs a petition to declare “I Love Reese’s Day” at the Hershey Times Square Store in New York. ***Vanessa Williams arrives at ABC Studios in New York City for an appearance on ‘Good Morning America’ to promote her Broadway play, “Sondheim On Sondheim.” ***Mickey Rourke hails a cab with his model fiancé Elena Kuletskaya on 6th Avenue Greenwich Village in New York. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***CEO, pharmacist and lawyer are among the 10 most lucrative job titles for women, according to the study released Tuesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. But while women in those positions earned median pay topping $100,000 a year, that was just about 75% of what men with the same job titles earned. ***Drug companies sharply raised prices last year, ahead of increased rebates they must pay to Medicaid and other expenses tied to the federal health overhaul passed last month.
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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: Susan G. Komen’s latest addition to the pink ribbon product army is KFC, which is selling “specially designed pink buckets of grilled and Original Recipe chicken.” Komen gets 50 cents from every sale, with a minimum $1 million donation from KFC and a target of $8 million to fund breast cancer research and local Komen affiliates.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By TINA BROWN: During Paulson’s celebration at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club of his firm’s $15 billion windfall, the host served up $500 bottles of Château Haut-Brion, Château Margaux, and Château Lafite-Rothschild. Jumbo crabmeat and avocado, Colorado rack of lamb with tarragon jus, and Parmesan polenta cake was eaten by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside those walls, it was the dark days of November 2008, and the financial crisis had become so grave it was clear the country—his country—was on the verge of another Great Depression.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: In 2001, Cass R. Sunstein wrote an essay in The Boston Review called “The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?” Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago who now serves in the Obama administration, raised the possibility that the Internet may be harming the public square. In the mid-20th century, Americans got most of their news through a few big networks and mass-market magazines. People were forced to encounter political viewpoints different from their own. Moreover, the mass media gave Americans shared experiences. If you met strangers in a barbershop, you could be pretty sure you would have something in common to talk about from watching the same TV shows.
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 LBN-SEE IT: Former “Charlie’s Angels” stars Cheryl Ladd, 58, and Jaclyn Smith, 64, looked heavenly at an awards show in L.A. this weekend.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By ROGER LOWENSTEIN: While the Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations that Goldman Sachs defrauded clients is certainly big news, the case also raises a far broader issue that goes to the heart of how Wall Street has strayed from its intended mission. Wall Street’s purpose, you will recall, is to raise money for industry: to finance steel mills and technology companies and, yes, even mortgages. But the collateralized debt obligations involved in the Goldman trades, like billions of dollars of similar trades sponsored by most every Wall Street firm, raised nothing for nobody. In essence, they were simply a side bet — like those in a casino — that allowed speculators to increase society’s mortgage wager without financing a single house.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By RAJA ABDULRAHIM: For the last decade, U.S. Muslim organizations have faced criticism that they don’t do enough to condemn — or prevent — extremism and terrorism. But now that many of the groups are speaking publicly about the radicalization of Muslim youths and even developing scared-straight-type programs to steer young people away from extremism, they are being criticized in their own community for saying too much.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By HELEN KELLER: Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Unlucky-in-love “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has dumped boyfriend Emilio Masella after accusing him of “using her for fame.” She learned Masella was trying to land a role on MTV’s “Real World.” While muscled fitness trainer Masella initially claimed he fell for Snooki because of who she is, not her TV persona, a source told us, “Snooki realized he was just after fame all along. She ended it last week.” Masella yesterday announced on Twitter, “Back on the market.” ***Comic genius George Carlin would have been 73 on May 12 of this year so in his honor his former publicist Michael Levine will be hosting a celebrity birthday party in his honor at the renown Hollywood comedy club The Laugh Factory where Carlin often performed. The evening will include comedians singing Happy Birthday in a “We Are The World” style. ***Steven Seagal’s ex-wife, Kelly LeBrock, tells TMZ she’s “not surprised” by the allegations that Seagal treated a former female employee as his own personal “sex toy.” LeBrock — who had three children with the action star during their marriage from 1987 to 1994 — added, “I will refrain from saying anything specific now because of our 3 children.” And why is Kelly so tight lipped? Well, here’s a small clue LeBrock told us, “I have many shocking things to say about Mr. Seagal which will be known soon when my book comes out.”
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LBN-QUOTE:“Never give up the ganja!”-Morgan Freeman.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 20, 1832, Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. It was the first national park in the U.S.
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| MONDAY • APRIL 19, 2010 |
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TWO TOP AL QAEDA FIGURES IN IRAQ KILLED, PM CLAIMS: The U.S. military confirms the two leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have been killed in a joint operation with Iraqi forces. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the killings of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri earlier Monday at a news conference in Baghdad and showed reporters photographs of their bloody corpses. U.S. forces commander Gen. Raymond Odierno says the deaths are potentially the most significant blow to the terrorist organization since the beginning of the insurgency.
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 L.I. Teenager Guilty of Manslaughter in Fatal Stabbing of Immigrant: Jeffrey Conroy, the Long Island teenager accused of stabbing and killing an Ecuadorean immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, in a racially motivated attack, was convicted on Monday of manslaughter as a hate crime. After four days of deliberations, the jury also found Mr. Conroy guilty of attempted assaults on three other Hispanic men. He was acquitted of the most serious of the 20 charges against him, second-degree murder as a hate crime, which could have meant life in prison. Mr. Conroy, 19, faces a minimum of eight years and a maximum of 25 years when he is sentenced on May 26.
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CONGRESS DIVIDED OVER FINANCIAL REFORM BILL: Congress appears to be headed for a major partisan showdown over the financial regulation reform. Senate Republicans reiterated their opposition Sunday to a bill that Democrats say will prevent another Wall Street meltdown like the one that precipitated the U.S. recession.
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: The most lava ever recorded from a single eruption was the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland. Although there was no single big explosion, this eruption killed one fourth of Iceland’s population by producing poisonous gases and clouds of ash that resulted in widespread crop failure and starvation.
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 BOXER EDWIN VALERO FOUND DEAD IN JAIL: Former boxing champ Edwin Valero committed suicide in his jail cell on Monday just hours after he was arrested in his wife’s killing, police said. The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself from a bar in his cell early Monday, Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker and Universal Studios President Ron Meyer are in a race for the finish line as Comcast moves to acquire NBC Universal from General Electric. Entertainment blogger Anne Thompson writes, “It’s likely that only one will survive the Comcast acquisition. Each one wants to win.” There’s no love lost between the two: An e-mail leaked to reporters said the execs “long ago came to the realization that they neither like nor respect each other.” The tipster explained, “Zucker thinks Meyer is all fluff no substance. Meyer thinks Zucker is a fool, too full of himself to realize what a disaster he’s been at the helm of NBC.” The war is one art East Coast [Zucker] versus West Coast and partially an issue of differing constituencies. Meyer is liked in Hollywood and Zucker is not. An NBC source claimed the feud is nonexistent saying “Ron and Jeff are not only colleagues, they are friends” and that “they talk almost daily.” He adds, “This whole thing is just someone’s attempt to stir up trouble where there is none.” ***How is Conan O’Brien’s arrival at TBS going to change things at the network? Don’t expect the programming to change much: The network is still likely to “stack” episodes of a single show—The Office or Family Guy, for example—for three hours in the run-up to Conan’s upcoming 11 p.m. show. This style of programming has made TBS the number-one cable network among viewers age 18 to 34. “If you look at what George Lopez is doing,” says one media insider. “Conan is going to do as well or better and very likely better. TBS is probably going to establish a pretty strong talk-show lineup.” ***While Paramount and Marvel Entertainment’s “Iron Man 2″ doesn’t hit theaters until May 7, a promotional blitz is already reaching consumers at virtually every imaginable touch point, says AdAge. The trade today takes a look at the summer tentpole’s marketing bonanza that’s valued at more than $100 million and reports on who’s getting what and how many brands are too many. ***CBS is developing a hidden camera show with “The Price Is Right” host Drew Carey and producer Tom Forman. The project entitled “WTF!” - which stands for “Wow That’s Funny!” - Sees Carey and a troupe of comedic agents wreak havoc in public places. ***CAA signed Terrence Howard and songstress India.Arie. ***Gersh agency signed Angela Bassett.
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 TIGER AND JESSE MISTRESSES TO HOST REALITY TV: The inevitable has arrived: Jesse James’ alleged mistress #1 and Tiger Woods’ who-knows-what-number are in the works to front a show called Celebrity Cheaters. According to TMZ, Michelle “Bombshell” McGee and Jamie Jungers would host the show highlighting adulterous celebrities who cheat on their partners. The show was created by Bobby Goldstein who, in 2000, dreamed up the series Cheaters and would be centered around trying to “catch celebrity cheaters with their pants down.” Nothing has been signed and the show hasn’t found a home, but Goldstein says both McGee and Jungers have agreed to come aboard.
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U.S. MILITARY UPDATES PLANS AGAINST IRAN: The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command are updating military plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, as they prepare up-to-date options for the president in the event he decides to take such action, an Obama administration official told CNN Sunday. The effort has been underway for several weeks and comes as there is growing concern across the administration’s national security team that the president needs fresh options ready for his approval if he were to decide on a military strike, according to the official who is familiar with the effort. In January, Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote a classified memo to the White House, raising concerns about whether the administration had a sufficient policy in place along with military options for stopping Iran’s progress in getting a nuclear weapon, the official confirmed.
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 BIN LADEN FACEBOOK PAGE: The Facebook page for mass murderer Osama Bin Laden has been shut down. After attracting more than 1,000 “fans” and posting videos of his threatening videos and speeches produced by al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Sahab Media Group has been sent packing by the social networking site. “People often attempt to register fake accounts under the name of famous or infamous people,” a Facebook spokesman told ABC News. “There is no evidence to suggest that the account in question or the other dozens of people who have tried to present themselves as Osama bin Laden have any relation to the terrorist,” he said.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Most of the funny people attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on May 1 will be sitting with The New Yorker. Judd Apatow, his wife, Leslie Mann, and Tracy Morgan will accompany Editor-in-Chief David Remnick and a few other DC insiders. Remnick was especially excited about Morgan being there. “He’s a huge fan of ‘30 Rock’ and thinks Tracy is hilarious,” said a source close to the magazine. This year marks a return to the annual dinner for the weekly, which hadn’t attended for several years.
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 LBN-TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Glenn Seaborg (1912) In 1941, American nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues discovered plutonium. He joined the Manhattan Project the next year and was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, which he unsuccessfully pressed President Truman not to use on civilian targets. In 1951, he and Edwin McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on Tran uranium elements.
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SCHUMER: Five major airlines commit to no carry-on fees. Sen. Charles Schumer announced Sunday that several major airlines have promised not to charge passengers for carry-on baggage. Schumer, D-New York, said he personally contacted officials at American Airlines, Delta Airlines, JetBlue, United Airlines and US Airways, and secured commitments from all five companies. Two weeks ago, local carrier Spirit Airlines became the first in the United States to propose charging passengers $45 to store luggage in overhead bins.
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 DOG “THE COWARD” VS. “THE GREAT WHITE DOPE” DR. PHIL: Bizarre feud between “Dog” the Bounty Hunter Chapman and Dr. Phil explodes with taunting vehemence. Dog aka Duane Chapman is furious that America’s most famous TV therapist branded him a “coward.” And now he’s looking for payback. Lashing out at Dr. Phil recently on Chelsea Lately show, Dog growled: “He’s kind of the Great White Dope to me.” And he’s also slammed the TV icon as an “arrogant jerk.”
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CHINA’S $20 BILLION BOLSTERS CHÁVEZ: China has promised to lend $20 billion to Venezuela, the country’s President Hugo Chávez said over the weekend, underscoring the Asian giant’s push to deepen ties to oil-rich nations in the developing world. The credit—which Mr. Chávez said ranks among China’s biggest foreign loans ever—shows the growing importance of oil in China’s energy mix, and the lengths the fast-growing nation is willing to go to secure it. Once a net oil exporter, China is now the world’s third biggest oil importer.
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 SECOND DEADLY ATTACK IN 2 DAYS IN PAKISTAN: A suicide bomber killed seven people Sunday at a police station in Kohat — the same northwest Pakistani town where attackers targeted a camp for displaced people and killed at least 41 a day earlier. Kohat is a town in the North West Frontier Province where the Pakistan military has stepped up its offense against the Taliban in recent weeks. The fighting has caused a flood of displaced people to pour into camps. More than 250,000 people are registered as internally displaced people in the towns of Kohat and Hangu after fleeing the fighting between government troops and the Taliban in Orakzai and Kurram, two districts in the country’s tribal region.
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TOYOTA INDICATES IT WILL PAY $16.4 MILLION FINE: The Toyota Motor Corp. has indicated to the U.S. government it will pay a $16.4 million fine — the largest ever against an automaker — for failing to notify the Department of Transportation of a “sticky pedal” defect in its cars for at least four months, according to a senior Transportation Department official.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Citigroup delivered its strongest results since the start of the financial crisis, as the banking giant reported a first-quarter profit of $4.4 billion Monday. ***The first-quarter reporting period kicks into high gear this week, even as investors continue to mull the ramifications of Goldman Sachs’ fraud charge and the latest batch of readings on the recovery. ***Today, Naples real estate sells at a 29% discount and the median home price is just $165,500, down from more than $390,000, according to the newly released 2010 report compiled by IHS Global Insight and PNC Financial Services (which bought National City).
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Kelsey Grammer at Ted’s Montana Grill in the Time-Life Building in NYC for a concierge event in conjunction with Broadway’s “La Cage Aux Folles”. ***Mayor Bloomberg at Testaccio Ristorante in Long Island City with Diana Taylor and another couple. ***Larry David dining at Cache in Santa Monica with a young brunette. ***Sugar Ray Leonard celebrating wife Bernadette’s birthday with friends Jeff and Deborah Wald at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse on Canon Drive. ***Actress Anne Harvey chatting with the owner of Traverna Tony’s restaurant in Malibu last night. Also, dinning in the restaurant was singer Michael Bolton. ***Peter Mensah (Spartacus: Blood & Sand, Avatar), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Annie Wersching (24) serving as celebrity judges for Hollywood Dog Tricks at Nuts for Mutts - The Walk & Festival Sunday in Calabasas ***Carrie Underwood was honored as Entertainer of the Year at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Brooks & Dunn, and Luke Bryan were among the country stars that took home ACM Awards as well. Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, Jewel, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, and LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian also attended the ACM Awards. ***Living it up on day three of the annual Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival in Indio, many celebs turned up including, Kate Hudson, Kristen Stewart, Katy Perry, Anne Hathaway, Kate Bosworth, Whitney Port, Abbie Cornish, Dita Von Teese, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Kimberly Stewart, Jason Statham, Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Devon Aoki, and Kelly Osbourne, who was accompanied by fiancé Luke Worrall. ***Heidi Klum enjoys a nice lunch with her mother and two children, Leni and Henry, at The Grove in Los Angeles. ***Eagles front man Glenn Frey stopped at UCLA on his way to sound check at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday. He delivered a two hour lecture to the delight of John Hartmann’s Music Management class. ***Halle Berry arrives at the 2010 Silver Rose Gala & Auction at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ***Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, and Pamela Anderson attend the 8th Annual TV Land Awards held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. ***Mos Def was spotted outside of the Mayfair Hotel in London. ***Ice Cube, Teri Hatcher, and Jack Nicholson cheered on the LA Lakers in Game 1 of the NBA Playoffs against the Oklahoma City Thunder at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. ***Enjoying some time overseas, Olivia Wilde attends the 21st Annual Romy Awards in Vienna, Austria. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Not everyone’s lining up for Lady Gaga: When the pop star asked Grace Jones to collaborate with her, Jones said no. “I’d just prefer to work with someone who is more original and someone who is not copying me, actually,” Jones explains. “I’ve seen some things she’s worn that I’ve worn, and that does kind of piss me off.” Jones was a Studio 54 star and a muse of Andy Warhol.
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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: ***A report from TIME.com lists Fluoride, among other household Items, as an “Environmental Toxin”. ***New research on vitamins has offered conclusions that weren’t crystal clear. But researchers generally recommend getting vitamins from foods, not supplements, to boost your health. ***A new generation of smokeless, flavored tobacco products that look like breath mints or breath-freshening strips may be life-threatening for children who mistake them for candy, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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LBN-BOOK INSIDER: ***The New York Society Library says President George Washington borrowed two books on October 5th, 1789 — and never returned them. Now 220 years late, the fines, when adjusted for inflation, come to about 300-thousand dollars. Library officials say they’re not concerned about the fines, but they would like the books back. ***New York City has transformed the way it buys textbooks. It has abandoned the decades-old process in which numerous vendors competed in door-to-door and bazaar-like settings, and has chosen one in which nearly all textbooks are purchased via computer from two large discount wholesalers who have promised savings of 30 percent. ***No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, Jerome Corsi, presents The Shroud Cordex, his first fiction effort that combines the Vatican, particle physics, atheism, the Shroud of Turin, what appears to be dramatic supernatural events and much more, all into a stunning mystery of science and faith.
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 LBN-SEE IT: Actor Nicolas Cage, yesterday and today.
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 WOMAN WINS RIGHT TO GARDEN TOPLESS: A Colorado woman who likes to garden wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has won her fight with her landlords, who wanted her to cover up. Boulder Housing Partners has decided not to outlaw tenants from going topless outside. That will allow 52-year-old Catharine Pierce to keep gardening the way she likes. The housing authority had threatened to evict Pierce and her husband, Robert, after getting complaints from neighbors and passers-by. Robert Pierce said he’s happy with the housing authority’s decision.
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LBN-REALLY???: An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cookbook after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. The reprint cost $20,000 but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is “extremely hard” to do so, Penguin said.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By KATHERINE HEIGL: I just started watching Life Unexpected. It’s an unbelievable show on the CW. I think it’s an amazing story. I’d worked with the show’s star Shiri Appleby years ago on Roswell and she’s spectacular on it. I love the story. It’s about parents who give a daughter up for adoption and she comes into their lives 16 years later. I liked that perspective on it. I watch it and I think about what it cost my adopted daughter Naleigh’s parents to let her go and that it was the best thing they could do for her, but how hard that must be emotionally. I sit and watch this show every week from the birth mother’s perspective, and it’s amazingly well done.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Sunday marked the 52nd anniversary of the Dodgers’ first regular-season game in Los Angeles, a 6-5 win over the San Francisco Giants at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. ***The Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat in more ways than one. In game one of the first round series between the two eastern conference teams, Celtics star Kevin Garnett drew a double technical and ejection in the melee that unfolded after Paul Pierce tumbled to the ground near the Miami bench with 40 seconds left in Boston’s victory. Game two of the series will now be played without the center in which his actions resulted with a one game suspension.
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THE LIST RANT By ERICKA T. BASS: 1. Any sad soul who has ever spent an idle Sunday morning watching Washington talk shows has probably wondered like me: how the f–k did these people become entitled to earn six-figure salaries jerking off on TV? 2. I never worry, even for a moment about the possible hatred of my subordinates. 3. Why do idiots in Hollywood make such a big deal out of Michael Levine’s birthday? Who gives a crap? 4. My fantasies easily drift off into Never-never-never Land. 5. If your marriage is in trouble after only six months, get out now. 6. I had a dream about a weightless ghost who ate a lot of Sushi and then threw up. 7. Gay bars make me happy. 8. Chicken is chicken whether you label it haute cuisine or country cooking. 9. Screaming children in a restaurant gives me a headache and cramps. 10. They say it’s always darkest before dawn. Meeting me with a few drinks is proof of that, I promise. ***Shout back at Ericka T. Bass- Email: LBNElert@TimeWire.net. (Please Note: The opinions expressed by Erika T. Bass are those of her alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the LBN E-Lert or its staff.)
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: It looks as if fraud played a significant role in the financial crisis, and reform of the kind now being contemplated could have prevented some of it.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By BILL CLINTON: Fifteen years ago today, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City claimed the lives of 168 men, women and children. It was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in United States history. But what emerged in its aftermath — the compassion, caring and love that countless Americans from all walks of life extended to the victims and their families — was a powerful testament to the best of America. And its lessons are as important now as they were then. Most of the people killed that day were employees of the federal government. They were men and women who had devoted their careers to helping the elderly and disabled, supporting our veterans and enforcing our laws. They were good neighbors and good friends. One of them, a Secret Service agent named Al Whicher, a husband and father of three, had been on my presidential security detail. Nineteen children also lost their lives.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By REBECCA DANA: If the right parts of your body are puffy enough, and the bones of your face unnaturally prominent, then you can probably get an agent or a manager these days.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By BENITO MUSSOLINI: It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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 LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW: Hitler Baby.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren were back in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, but the rocky couple did not speak a word to each other, fueling the speculation that a split is on the horizon. They returned from separate trips Friday, but stayed at different houses and spent time individually with their children. Elin questions his commitment to rebuilding their marriage and remains furious over Tiger’s decision to return to golf just a few months after his scandalous affairs went public. ***Lingerie model and Charlie Sheen’s reported mistress, Angelina Tracy, denies allegations of any involvement with the actor. Tracy responded to the reports, stating, “My interaction with Charlie has simply been rehab-related and we are JUST FRIENDS.” ***Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez have been making time for each other despite their busy schedules. Cameron is currently filming in LA with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, and A-Rod is busy at Yankee Stadium as the Yankees kick off their MLB season. Yet, reports state that the actress and the baseball star have been frequently jet setting to Miami to spend time with each other at A-Rod’s multimillion-dollar bungalow at W South Beach.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***The first Boston Marathon was held in 1897. ***Eliot Ness published The Untouchables in 1957. *** Britney Spears told Leno that she had tried several ways to shed the pounds without success until discovering acai berry. ***Cocoa beans contain polyphenols (similar to those found in wine) with antioxidant properties which are health beneficial. ***Cheesecake is said to have originated from Greece.
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LBN-QUOTE: “When I think of work, it’s mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what’s out there.” – Gary Sinise.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 19, 1932, President Herbert Hoover suggests a five day work week.
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 GATES: NO LONG-TERM IRAN PLAN: In a secret memo to top White House officials, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns that the U.S. has no long-term policy for handling Iran’s nuclear program as it continues to progress. The memo has sparked intense work in the Pentagon, White House, and among intelligence agencies to come up with new strategies for the president if sanctions and diplomacy fail to discourage Iran from building the bomb. Gates warned that the administration has no strategy to deal with a likely scenario: Iran builds all the main parts of a nuclear weapon but does not assemble them, thereby becoming a “virtual” nuclear state while still abiding by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Officials have said that there is a line that Iran will not be allowed to cross—acquiring nuclear capability, which would come before the creation of an actual weapon. But Gates is worried American intelligence agencies will miss signs that Tehran is close to producing a bomb. Officials said the memo was a “wakeup call,” though others disagreed with that description and said the Obama administration had been working on an Iran policy for 15 months.
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 POPE MEETS ABUSE VICTIMS, SAYS CHURCH WILL BETTER PROTECT YOUNG: Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and told them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for pedophile priests and implement “effective measures” to protect young people from abuse, the Vatican and victims said. Benedict expressed his “shame and sorrow” at the pain the men and their families suffered and prayed with them during the meeting at the Vatican’s embassy in Malta, the Vatican said.
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 VENEZUELAN POLICE DETAIN EX-BOXING CHAMPION VALERO ON SUSPICION OF MURDER: Former WBC lightweight champion of Venezuela, Edwin Valero was detained on suspicion of killing his wife on Sunday, police said. Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores said Valero was arrested after police found the body of his 20-year-old wife in a hotel in the city of Valencia. Valero left the hotel room around dawn on Sunday and allegedly told the hotel’s security personnel that he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said. The 28-year-old boxer has been in trouble with the law before. Last month, Valero was brought up on charges of harassing his wife and threatening medical personnel who treated her at a hospital in the western city of Merida.
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VOLCANO CLOUD COULD CLEAR BY MIDWEEK: Airlines across Europe canceled over 77 percent of their flights for another day during the continued disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull. Accuweather, however, is predicting weather changes April 22 that might clear things up for the northern and central European nations. “Expect ongoing interruptions for the next four or five days,” said an Icelandic meteorologist. “The eruption is still in full swing, and the volcano is spewing pretty dark ashes as high into the air as 5 to 6 kilometers.” Airplane grounding began April 14 and only about 5,000 flights were expected to go out across Europe Saturday compared to the normal 22,000 on a weekend day. Eruptions could continue for months, and the last time Eyjafjallajokull went off, it lasted for over a year. However, A spokeswoman for KLM — one of the airlines that conducted test flights — said the flights show European air space is safe with the exception of Iceland. According to the EU Secretary of State Diego Lopez Garrido, results of test flights show “there’s no impact” in European Union air space from the volcanic ash that has disrupted air travel this week. European transport ministers plan to discuss the results of flight tests at a technical meeting Monday.
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: The world’s largest cut diamond is an unnamed Fancy Black, containing small red diamond crystals. It weighs 555.55 carats and was polished into 55 facets over several years and completed in June 2004. The repetitive use of the number five is culturally significant in the Islamic world, and was inspired by Ran Gorenstein (Belgium), who also commissioned this creation.
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 BRITAIN’S NEW CHURCHILL: With less than a month to go until Britain goes to the polls in its national election, Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has shown a stunning rise in the eyes of voters. According to a poll in The Times of London, Clegg is the most popular British politician since Winston Churchill. Since Clegg’s performance in a debate against Labour’s Gordon Brown and the Conservatives’ David Cameron, the Liberal Democrats have moved from also-ran status to being neck-in-neck with the country’s two leading parties in the polls. A strong finish by Clegg’s party will result in a hung parliament, giving the Liberal Democrats unprecedented power.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***It’s another close weekend at the box office, with the animated adventure “How to Train Your Dragon” and the superhero comedy “Kick-Ass” dueling for No. 1. ***Jack Kevorkian and Al Pacino walked the red carpet together in New York at the premiere of HBO Films’ biopic “You don’t know Jack”.
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 AHMADINEJAD: IRAN TOO ‘MIGHTY’ TO ATTACK: Iran is so powerful today that no country would dare attack it, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday during an annual army parade. “Iran’s army is so mighty today that no enemy can have a foul thought of invading Iran’s territory,” the Iranian leader said, according to state media. “Of course, Iran is a friend and brother of regional and independent nations and it wants peace, progress and security for all countries,” Ahmadinejad said.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Ken Auletta encourages off-the-record sniping from confidants of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apple’s Steve Jobs in the latest New Yorker. On the rivalry between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad, an Apple insider tells Auletta the iPad is especially important to cancer survivor Jobs, 55, as he ponders his legacy. “He’s in a hurry to create in the next two years what he may have been thinking about in the next 10 years,” the source says.”What keeps him going is his vision. Nothing is going to stop him, except death.”
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 UGANDAN KING TURNS 18, TAKES FULL CONTROL: One of Uganda’s last remaining kings turned 18 in a boisterous four-day ceremony that ended Sunday and allowed him to take full control of his kingdom in the western part of the country. King Oyo is among the world’s youngest reigning monarchs. He ascended to the throne at age 3 after his father died in 1995.As a minor, kingdom officials had appointed a board of advisers to help him rule.The board was disbanded to mark his birthday, which means the teen can now make major kingdom decisions on his own without consulting with his advisers.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Jay Leno and friends having dinner at La Bottega Marino in Beverly Hills. ***After a 15 hour flight to the Land Down Under, Kim Kardashian was spotted entering the Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, Australia before heading off for the day’s work duties. ***Kourtney Kardashian enjoys a family dinner at Taverna Tony’s in Malibu with her baby Mason Dash Disick, mother Kris Jenner, and sisters, Kendall and Kylie. ***Having already finished up their stage duties the previous day, Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z turned into spectators at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA, as they were spotted checking out MGMT and the White Stripes. ***The second day of the annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio brought in many stars such as Dita Von Teese, Hayden Panettiere, Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Whitney Port, Mischa Barton, Camilla Belle, Isabel Lucas, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Kristin Cavallari, Kate Bosworth, Peaches Gedolf, Bridget Marquardt, Shannon Elizabeth, and Kelly Osbourne. ***Joined by Jarrett Barrios on the red carpet, Adam Lambert attends the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles as one of the evening’s performers and nominees for the ‘Outstanding Music Artist’ award. ***Reese Witherspoon was spotted heading to Jennifer Garner’s 38th birthday party at Garner’s home in Pacific Palisades. ***Hilary Duff enjoys a shopping day at Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles. ***Jessica Stroup grabbing lunch at La Conversation in West Hollywood. ***Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers turned up at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. ***Fergie and Josh Duhamel attend the Santa Monica Red Cross Red Tie Affair Fundraiser Gala at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 GODFATHER’ OF CUBAN TOBACCO DEAD AT 91: Alejandro Robaina, considered a legend among Cuban tobacco growers, died Saturday, according to Cuban cigar company Habanos S.A., which produced cigars named for him. Robaina was 91. He was diagnosed with cancer last year and died on his farm in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, said Habanos spokesman Jose Antonio Candia. Robaina’s tobacco leaves are considered some of the best in the world. In Cuba, he was called “The Godfather.”
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Researchers say that infertile men may have an increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer. A study of 22,000 Californian men who had been evaluated for infertility between 1967 and 1998 found that infertility increased their chances of being diagnosed with aggressive tumors by 2.6 times. It remains unclear why this link exists, but it may help doctors identify which patients should be screened for the cancer. Prostate cancer is one of the most common invasive cancers among males, affecting about 160 per 100,000 every year.
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 LBN-SEE IT: Today, the most photographed little girl on Earth, Suri Cruise, turns four.
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: The New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals could have played over two games yesterday in the time it took them to finish one. After 20 innings that lasted six hours and 53 minutes, the Mets, who did not get their second hit until the 12th inning, came out on top in a 2-1 victory at Busch Stadium. Both teams had to look outside of their bullpens for pitching help as their entire staff had been exhausted, but the Mets have been in this situation before, having gone through a 23-1/2 inning debacle with the Houston Astros in 1968 before eventually losing 1-0 at the Astrodome. This time, Mets’ Jose Reyes’ sacrifice fly brought in Angel Pagan, the go-ahead run, and Mike Pelfrey hit the mound for the final three outs of what was a marathon of a game. Nobody felt it more, though, than Jason Bay, who struck out four times in a 0-7 showing at the plate.
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 SMART PEOPLE READ THE LBN E-LERT: Psychology Today Magazine Senior Editor and Author Hara Marano along with 317,000 other “influencers” understands that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By JONATHAN KARP (Publisher and editor in chief of TWELVE imprint): The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk will give new hope to those of us who have not yet written a classic sonata or played center field for the Yankees. With a flair for explaining scientific research, he debunks outdated assumptions that genes are destiny and shows how environment and mindset are just as important. In a footnote, Shenk says he calculated the time he spent on this book and realized he wrote an average of eight words per hour. Given the clarity and compression of his writing—his chapter on twin research is a tour de force—those hours were well spent.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By GEORGE WILL: When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it — after the 16th Amendment is repealed.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: You’ve heard that saying: As General Motors goes, so goes America. Thank goodness that is no longer true. I mean, I wish the new G.M. well, but our economic future is no longer tied to its fate. No, my new motto is: As EndoStim goes, so goes America. EndoStim is a little start-up I was introduced to on a recent visit to St. Louis. The company is developing a proprietary implantable medical device to treat acid reflux. I have no idea if the product will succeed in the marketplace. It’s still in testing. What really interests me about EndoStim is how the company was formed and is being run today. It is the epitome of the new kind of start-ups we need to propel our economy: a mix of new immigrants, using old money to innovate in a flat world.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BONO: I spent March with a delegation of activists, entrepreneurs and policy wonks roaming western, southern and eastern Africa trying very hard to listen — always hard for a big-mouthed Irishman. With duct tape over my gob, I was able to pick up some interesting melody lines everywhere from palace to pavement .Despite the almost deafening roar of excitement about Africa’s hosting of soccer’s World Cup this summer, we managed to hear a surprising thing. Harmony flowing from two sides that in the past have often been discordant: Africa’s emerging entrepreneurial class and its civil-society activists.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DONALD KENNEDY: When antibiotics are given to livestock to help them grow and avoid infections on crowded farms, people face a greater threat from drug-resistant bacteria.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By SUSAN SCARF MERRELL: Now that Russia has suspended all adoptions to the United States after a Tennessee mother made the unfortunate choice to send back her adopted son, everyone’s looking for someone to blame. But if this boy had been released into the foster care or juvenile justice systems in this country—“returned” in the quiet manner in which such situations like this are normally resolved—we would never have heard a peep about this boy, or his mother. It’s a dirty little secret that no one likes to talk about: Adoptions fail. More of them than we’d like to admit. And because we don’t talk about it, when they do fail, we look for someone to blame instead of looking at the problem.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By KARL MARX: Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***George Lopez’s carefully staged delight at the arrival of Conan O’Brien to TBS is a total act, sources say. In fact, Lopez was warned by network chiefs he would be axed if he didn’t welcome O’Brien with open arms. “George was initially opposed to the idea of moving his time slot to make room for Conan on TBS,” said a source. “He was told that if he wasn’t supportive, his show would not be renewed. The Lopez camp is even more disheartened by the fact that Conan’s contract states that if Lopez’s show is canceled, then Conan will be able to develop a show for the midnight hour, as well. ***Tommy Lee’s still pals with Pam. As a matter of fact, Tommy Lee has nothing but nice things to say about on-again, off-again ex-wife Pamela Anderson. The rocker was overheard telling friends at the Mario Barth King Ink tattoo parlor grand opening at the Mirage in Las Vegas that he watches “Dancing With the Stars” every week. An insider said, “He was telling his friends that he was at Pam’s house last week with their kids voting like crazy and how proud he is of her.” ***Russian-born New York socialite and real-estate mogul Janna Bullock has hired uber-publicist Max Clifford to battle a malicious Facebook campaign that falsely claims she’s massacring mustangs by organizing safaris in which wealthy hunters shoot the wild horses with poison.
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DID YOU KNOW: ***All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator. ***All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job! ***All the swans in England are property of the Queen. ***Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold. ***America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”-William James.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 18, 1923, the first baseball game was played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with New York beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
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1. Name: Dr. Paul DeBell.
2. What makes you unique? I know that I am not unique.
3. If you could sleep with one celebrity, who would it be? Sandra Bullock.
4. If you could have dinner with one dead person, who? Rumi, the Sufi poet.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where and why? Paris because I have many good friends there, I like the general ambience and enjoy the good food.
6. Occupation: Psychiatrist, author.
7. Whats the best thing about your job? I get to talk with people from every walk of life about what life is really like for them.
8. Who would you want to be in another life? A healthy, intelligent woman of average looks, and strong mind. A resolute character living in a place of beauty, security and peace.
9. Do you know anyone who had sex for money? Yes, both casually and to hold another person to them.
10. E-mail and website: pauldebell@decodeyourmessages.com, decodeyourmessages.com .
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| SATURDAY • APRIL 17, 2010 |
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 LBJ’S DAUGHTER LUCI HOSPITALIZED: Luci Baines Johnson, the younger of the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s daughters, has been hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, according to a former member of Johnson’s staff. Luci Johnson, 62, was first taken to the Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday after complaining of extreme weakness in all her extremities, said Tom Johnson, who worked for the Johnson administration and later served as president of CNN in the 1990s. Doctors there recommended that she be treated at the Mayo Clinic for what physicians believe is Guillain-Barre syndrome, Johnson said. It’s an autoimmune disorder affecting the nervous system.
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| SATURDAY • APRIL 17, 2010 |
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 VOLCANIC ASH CONTINUES TO WREAK TRAVEL CHAOS: World leaders’ plans to reach Poland this weekend for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski is in a limbo as the volcanic ash from Iceland continues to ground flights to and from Europe. Britain, Germany and northern France have grounded all air traffic. The travel disruptions are also wreaking havoc on trade and tourism for nations hit hard by recession. And the volcano is still erupting. A cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano still continues to blanket Europe, shutting down airspace in 23 countries and causing travel misery for millions of people. About 16,000 flights are expected to be canceled in European airspace Saturday air traffic authority Eurocontrol said. About 6,000 flights are expected to take off Saturday, compared with the normal 22,000.
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 AIDE SEX SUIT VS. MASSA: Former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa’s chief of staff has filed a sexual-harassment complaint against him. Joe Racalto’s attorney Camilla McKinney said yesterday the complaint against the congressman, who resigned last month, was filed March 23. The day after Massa, 50, resigned on March 4, he reportedly cut a $40,000 check to Racalto for working on the congressman’s 2010 re-election campaign. Massa’s attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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DNC TO POUR MILLIONS IN RESOURCES INTO RACES: Bracing for potential losses in congressional and gubernatorial elections, national Democrats plan to spend $20 million to defend their candidates in November’s contests. Democratic officials discussed the campaign push, a collaboration between top White House and congressional Democrats, on Friday only on the condition of anonymity because no announcements were ready.
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 SEC SUES GOLDMAN SACHS OVER $1B ASSET ‘FRAUD’: Goldman Sachs, long Wall Street’s most powerful and revered firm, was charged with fraud yesterday for selling risky mortgage investments without disclosing that the securities were actually created by a client betting on them to fail. The move by the Securities and Exchange Commission — the most significant action it has taken since the mortgage meltdown kicked off a global financial crisis — sparked a stock market sell-off and emboldened advocates for Wall Street regulation. Goldman Sachs — famous for its executives’ Mega Millions-sized bonuses and unrivaled influence in Washington — failed to tell European banks that hedge fund king John Paulson helped pick and then bet against the very securities they were buying, according to the civil fraud complaint by the SEC.
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 GEORGIA COPS LEARN OF 2ND WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY STEELERS’ QB: While investigating a college student’s claim that she was sexually assaulted by Ben Roethlisberger, Georgia police learned about another woman to whom the star quarterback allegedly exposed himself and became “forceful” with after putting “his hand up [her] skirt,” according to police documents. A drunk Roethlisberger — who has twice been accused of sexually assaulting women in two other incidents but has never been charged by police — allegedly refused to let a woman leave his house after she drove him home from a party, according to a police report.
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 FEDS: NO CIVIL RIGHT CHARGES IN TEEN’S FLORIDA BOOT CAMP DEATH: More than four years after the death of 14-year-old Florida boot camp inmate Martin Lee Anderson, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced no federal criminal civil rights charges will be filed against eight staff members. The announcement effectively closes the case.
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 HAITI DENIES CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST AMERICAN MISSIONARIES: Haiti’s top prosecutor on Friday denied reports that charges have been dropped against nine of the 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children after a devastating earthquake hit the nation in January. Attorney General Joseph Manes was responding to news from the office of U.S. Sen Jim Risch, R-Idaho, whose staff on Thursday said the charges had been dropped against all but one of the Baptist missionaries. Group leader Laura Silsby remains in a Haitian jail. Risch spokesman Kyle Hines said the senator had been contacted by officials at the U.S. State Department, confirming that the kidnapping charges against the other nine were dropped.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Over 400 of Hollywood’s beautiful, rich and glamorous ventured to the roof-top of the super-hot Kress Nightclub in Hollywood last night, to have their photo taken with the birthday boy Hollywood publicist Michael Levine in a much anticipated party called simply “Be The Paparazzi”. The rules of the night were simple and direct - no one was to be admitted without a camera. “There were more flashbulbs than the Oscars. I’ve never seen anything like it” said one overwhelmed guest. ***Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward of She & Him perform as part of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. ***Nicole Polizzi and Jenni Farley shopping in Miami, FL. ***Emma Roberts running errands in Los Angeles, CA. ***Beyonce and Jay-Z at Coachella. Beyonce in front row alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife Maria Shriver and their daughter all the while Jay-Z took the stage and did his thing. ***Taylor Swift eating at Jack n’ Jill’s with her band members in Los Angeles, California. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 DALAI LAMA SEEKS TO VISIT QUAKE-RAVAGED AREA OF CHINA: The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader long exiled from China, is seeking to visit the Tibetan region rocked by a deadly earthquake this week. In a statement issued Saturday from Dharamsala, the northern Indian town where he lives, the religious leader said the devastated region is where he was born and that he wants to go there to help people cope with the tragedy. “To fulfill the wishes of many of the people there, I am eager to go there myself to offer them comfort,” said the Dalai Lama, who went into exile in 1959 after an aborted Tibetan rebellion against Chinese rule.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: Dow tumbles 126, but clings to 11,000. Stocks tumbled Friday, with the Dow industrials skidding to end just above 11,000, as financial shares retreated after U.S. regulators charged Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors.
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 MISSISSIPPI VET CLAIMS HE’S OPRAH’S DAD: An ailing, 84-year-old World War II veteran is making a desperate plea to Oprah Winfrey: Please admit I’m your father! Norh Robinson, a dirt-poor Mississippi farmer now living in a rural VA hospital, wants Oprah to submit to a paternity test that he says would once and for all prove that he sired her in 1954. Robinson said he dreams of just once speaking with Oprah as father and daughter before he dies — and revealed that, years ago, he tried to reach the talk-show queen to beg her to agree to a DNA test. “I told her [in a letter], if she wanted, I’d give her one,” said Robinson. In the letter, he placed mementos from his life, including his Social Security number and a picture of him from the Navy in World War II, “I never got no answer,” Robinson said.
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 LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: ***The fallout of volcanic ash over parts of Iceland could jeopardize the safety of drinking water, health authorities warned Friday, but said the greatest health risk was to livestock.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Matthew Vaughn’s comic actioner “Kick-Ass” topped the Friday box office with an estimated $7.6 million haul, including $1 million from Thursday night performances. ***The FCC has requested additional information on key aspects of the planned acquisition of a 51% stake in NBC Universal by Comcast Corp. This will push back previously set deadlines for comments on the deal.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***After getting the go ahead from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to create the Trend Exchange, Media Derivatives next must obtain the green light for the exchange’s trading contracts, tied to weekend box office receipts, and they face a challenge in convincing a very vocal and high profile lobby, led by the Motion Picture Assn. of America, that it will not only include effective safeguards, but that it actually will be beneficial to Hollywood.
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LBN-REALLY???: The Texas Board of education recently dropped Thomas Jefferson from its list of, “Great political thinkers,” and replaced him with religious figures John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas. Jefferson is only considered one of the most influential political thinkers in the entire world, from 175- on, but according to the Texas Board of education, he’s been condemned for having coined the phrase, “Separation of church and state.”
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LBN-LYRICS OF LIFE By BOB DYLAN:
The evening winds are still
I’ve lost the way and will
can’t carry you where they will
I just know that they meant
I’m always on my guard
admitting life is hard
without you near me.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ANGIE HARMON (ACTRESS): What happened [with Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts] shows that the people have spoken, [Obama’s healthcare is] not something we’re interested in, and I agree wholeheartedly. I’m happy it turned out this way.”
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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 LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW: Elin Nordegren.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Kim Kardashian has dished out the ultimate revenge to ex Reggie Bush — by canoodling with the world’s top soccer player, notorious playboy Cristiano Ronaldo. Curvy Kardashian jetted to Madrid for a romantic meal with Ronaldo, who is worth about $130 million, to watch him play for the Real Madrid team last week. The pair was spotted “kissing and laughing” as they dined at a restaurant before driving back in separate cars to his gated community. It’s believed Kardashian, who has since jetted back to the US, met Ronaldo during one of his regular trips to the Beverly Hills Hotel. ***Larry King’s wife, Shawn Southwick, was the last person to know of her husband’s alleged relationship with her younger sister, Shannon. Employees and regular customers at Nate ‘n’ Al’s Delicatessen in Beverly Hills — where King has had breakfast for years — knew about their closeness. One said, “He used to bring Shannon in for breakfast — all the regulars knew about it. No one can believe it took this long to get out.”
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer. ***Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies. ***Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple! ***Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master’s degree in Special Education. ***Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” - Ernest Haskins.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 17, 1492, Christopher Columbus received a commission from Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.
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1. Name: Mark Austin Thomas.
2. What is your profession? Radio News Director/News Anchor.
3. Which living person do you most admire? Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
4. Which president of the United States was/is your favorite? President Barack Obama.
5. Do you believe in UFOs? I believe there are objects we have no explanation for.
6. Who are your heroes in real life? My parents, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Jordan.
7. What’s the most important thing in your life? Developing compassion for all living beings. I fall far from this.
8. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Excessive self-criticism.
9. Where is your ideal location to live? Italy, near the water.
10. Email: mark.a.thomas@citcomm.com
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| FRIDAY • APRIL 16, 2010 |
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EDWARDS’ WIFE HEARTBREAKER: Locked in a bitter divorce war with her cheating husband and a courageous battle with late-stage breast cancer, Elizabeth Edwards has gotten heartbreaking news - doctors have given her just six months to live. Estranged hubby John Edwards is telling pals that Elizabeth’s treatment is no longer effective against the disease, according to a close source.
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 S.E.C. ACCUSES GOLDMAN SACHS OF FRAUD ON MORTGAGE DEALS: The federal government is accusing Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors in its disclosures about securities it sold that were tied to subprime mortgages as the housing market was faltering. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents. The agency alleges that the company marketed complex subprime mortgage securities and failed to disclose to investors that a major hedge fund had bet against the securities.
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 DEATH TOLL FROM CHINA EARTHQUAKE REACHES 760: The death toll from the 6.9-magnitude quake that struck China earlier this week rose Thursday to 760, with more than 11,000 injured, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing Yushu Earthquake Relief Headquarters. The relief headquarters said there were 234 people missing after Wednesday’s earthquake, Xinhua reported. Of the injured, 1,174 suffered severe injuries, Xinhua reported, and 4,200 have been treated and released from the hospital.
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 OBAMA ORDERS HOSPITAL VISITATION RIGHTS FOR GAYS, LESBIANS: President Obama has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a rule that would prevent hospitals from denying visitation privileges to gay and lesbian partners. Obama requested that the regulation make clear that any hospital receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, which includes the vast majority of U.S. hospitals, must allow patients to decide who can visit them and prohibit discrimination based on a variety of characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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 VOLCANIC ASH CAUSES TRAVEL CHAOS FOR SECOND DAY: Volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic across Europe for a second straight day Friday, causing the cancellation of thousands of flights, according to the intergovernmental body that manages European air travel.
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 OUSTED KYRGYZ PRESIDENT QUITS, LEAVES COUNTRY: Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev left the country and resigned Thursday after negotiations among the government, the president, and international states and agencies. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said a plane carrying Bakiev had landed in Taraz, a town in bordering Kazakhstan. An official in the interim Kyrgyz government, Edil Basilyev, a senior adviser to interim government chairwoman Roza Otunbayeva, said Bakiev had resigned.
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LBN-HEALTH NEWS: ***US researchers have found a gene mutation that causes a progressive type of hair loss known as hereditary hypotrichosis simplex and say their discovery is likely to affect research and improve treatments for different types of hair loss, including male pattern baldness. ***Undergoing weight-loss surgery before having a baby greatly lowers the risk that obese women will develop major health problems during pregnancy, a new study reports. ***Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive prisoners to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” by segregating them in violation of international law, two leading U.S. rights groups said on Wednesday.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Super producer Anthony Cohen(Face Off & Swordfish) with LCO Executive Vice President Liam Collopy, LCO Account Manager Ryan Ribstein (pictured), “Office Space” star Ron Livingston and Bridget Marguardt, former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner and star of E!’s reality show “The Girls Next Door,” all attend the Hollywood premiere of “Sex Tax” at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday night. ***P Diddy was spotted walking into his dentist’s office in Beverly Hills. ***Whitney Port gets her nails done in Beverly Hills at Beverly Hills Nail Design. ***Model Alice Dellal attends the Avalon launch party in Malaga, Spain. ***Andie MacDowell and daughter Rainey Qualley attend the premiere of “As Good As Dead” at the 10th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival. ***Ethan Hawke films “The Woman in the Fifth” in Paris. ***Pamela Anderson looks gorgeous as she leaves the CNN Studios in Los Angeles. ***Paris Hilton was spotted kissing her grandfather, William Barron Hilton, after dining with other members of the family at Dan Tana’s in West Hollywood. ***Kristina and Karissa Shannon attend OK Magazine’s “Hollywood’s Sexy Singles” event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. ***Hilary Duff and her Edmonton Oilers fiancé Mike Comrie join friends for dinner at popular Pace restaurant in Los Angeles. ***Kevin Spacey attends a dinner to celebrate the opening of Ralph Lauren’s flagship store in Paris. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – Send your celebrity sightings to: LBNElert@Timewire.net.
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 C.I.A. DOCUMENT DETAILS DESTRUCTION OF TAPES: Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday. Shortly after the tapes were destroyed at the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the C.I.A.’s clandestine service, Mr. Goss told Mr. Rodriguez that he “agreed” with the decision, according to the document. He even joked after Mr. Rodriguez offered to “take the heat” for destroying the tapes.
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CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN HAITI:
Charges have been dropped against nine of the American missionaries held in Haiti earlier this year.
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 Immigration Raid Targets Vast Network: More than 800 federal agents fanned out across Arizona and other states Thursday to dismantle a loosely connected network that allegedly transported thousands of illegal immigrants from the Mexico border to cities across the U.S.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Lawmakers voted Thursday to push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment benefits until June 2, a measure President Obama promptly signed into law. The measure restores federal unemployment benefits to more than 200,000 jobless Americans who started losing them on April 5 after lawmakers let that deadline pass. Checks would be retroactive to that date.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***A New Jersey man is facing charges after police say he intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl and her father in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies game. ***Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy will have surgery on his right knee on Friday and will miss the first-round playoff series against the Phoenix Suns, the team announced. ***FIFA says 100,000 World Cup tickets have been sold in the first 24 hours of the final phase, and the semifinals and final are sold out.
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 HAVE IRAN AND ITS ALLIES BEEN PASSING PHONY $100 BILLS IN IRAQ?: At least $4 million in counterfeit U.S. currency has flooded into Iraq since December, and U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to determine how much of the counterfeiting is purely criminal and how much might be an Iranian attempt to influence Iraqi politics. While some of the bills were crudely made and easily detected, U.S. military officials said, much of the money seized so far has been sophisticated fake hundred-dollar notes that require special printing presses, ink and paper. In the Middle East, such capabilities typically belong to Iran and its proxies, notably branches of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, the officers said, citing recent briefings from the U.S. Secret Service.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***It looks as if the Weinsteins have managed to fashion a winning bid in the Miramax auction and will take back operating control of the company they founded in 1979 and sold to Disney for $80 million in 1993. ***HBO is doubling down on Bill Maher, giving his talk show a super-sized renewal. The pay-cable network is picking up “Real Time With Bill Maher” for a ninth season as part of a two-year deal with the host. As part of the agreement, “Real Time” will air 35 episodes beginning in January. ***Canadian screenwriter Rob Sheridan is partnering with Warner Bros. Television to develop a comedy. The blind pilot script deal will see Toronto-based Sheridan, whose writer, story editor and producer credits include HBO Canada’s “Less Than Kind,” the CBC’s “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” and CTV’s “Corner Gas,” land a six-figure package and move to Los Angeles this summer to start developing a half-hour comedy series.
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 U.S. BISHOPS TRACKING ABUSE CLAIMS AGAINST FOREIGN PRIESTS: For the first time, American Catholic bishops have begun tracking complaints of sexual abuse against foreign-trained priests working in this country, raising questions about the screening process in place in U.S. dioceses. In the U.S. bishops’ most recent annual survey, church officials reported that of the 21 clergy sex abuse complaints made in 2009 by minors, nine involved priests sent by overseas dioceses. The information comes when the U.S. church is importing hundreds of priests and has been under intense scrutiny for its handling of sex abuse cases, including the movement of abusers from one country to another.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz are in negotiations to star in “Deathgames,” an indie action movie from Motion Picture Corporation of America. ***There’s been a shakeup on NBC comedy pilot “Beach Lane”: Patton Oswalt is out of his co-starring role a few days after being cast. ***The Olympics and disappointing box office results for such releases as “Green Zone” were a drag on NBC Universal’s bottom line in the first quarter. However, top executives of controlling shareholder General Electric on Friday touted NBC ratings improvements, strengthening advertising market trends and continued cable network growth. ***”Friday Night Lights” and “Criminal Minds” are adding to their casts with new recurring roles, and more parts have been filled on several pilots. ***Lionsgate unspools the proudly vulgar comic-book adaptation “Kick-Ass” with hopes of an eponymous opening weekend. ***Jessica Simpson may have gone bare-faced on the cover of Marie Claire, but Kim Kardashian is taking this new, “all natural” trend one step further and going bare-assed inside the pages of May’s Harper’s Bazaar to prove that un-retouched bodies are just as worship-worthy as the nipped and tucked torso’s other covers flaunt.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***The Rolling Stones will release “Plundered My Soul,” a track never heard before, as a limited edition vinyl single to mark Record Store Day Saturday which aims to support struggling music retail outlets. ***Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and his business partner sued Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz on Thursday for naming a Dominican Republic nightclub after their chain of 40/40 Club sports bar lounges. ***Rock singer Melissa Etheridge has split from her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels after nearly nine years together.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARCUS WALKER: Why does the state spend so lavishly but collect taxes so poorly? Many Greeks say the answer needs only two words: fakelaki and rousfeti. Fakelaki is the Greek for “little envelopes,” the bribes that affect everyone from hospital patients to fishmongers. Rousfeti means expensive political favors, which pervade everything from hiring teachers to property deals with Greek Orthodox monks. Together, these traditions of corruption and cronyism have produced a state that is both bloated and malnourished, and a crisis of confidence that is shaking all of Europe.
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LBN-FILM REVIEW By MANOHLA DARGIS: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Blood Bath. Kiss-Ass is a story about a teenager who yearns to be a superhero; “Kick-Ass” is fast, periodically spit-funny and often grotesquely violent.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER LAURIA: CEO Philippe Dauman has been making the moves of someone planning to auction his company, reports Peter Lauria, and his contract extension means he may well be around long enough to execute on that plan.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By GINA PICCALO: Once, she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. Now, Demi Moore can be found in oddball movies like The Joneses—and tweeting as @mrskutcher.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By BILLY MAYS: You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I’m coming after you and taking back what’s mine.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***The clock has run out on “24″ — but not on Kiefer Sutherland’s thirst for rough-and-tumble action. The hard-partying star was drunk, disorderly and shirtless at 4 a.m. yesterday as four huge bodyguards dragged him out of a London strip club and threw him into a car. ***Will Chelsea Clinton has to limp up the aisle? The former first daughter broke her foot and has a plastic cast on her right leg, and has no idea how it happened. ***Wardrobe malfunctions don’t rattle Tila Tequila. While performing on Wednesday night at Greenhouse, the onetime reality-show star’s loose top slid off. Rather than fix it, Tequila instead “asked the crowd whether they liked what they saw,” a spy tells Page Six. “She then just continued on unfazed. Very classy.”
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Even though she appears in ads for Tommy Hilfiger’s True Star fragrances, Beyonce is reportedly allergic to perfume. ***At age 10, Justin Timberlake won 1991 pre-teen Mr. America pageant. ***As a 2nd grader Jamie Foxx was so talented at telling jokes, his teacher used him as a reward. If the class behaved, Jamie would entertain them. ***Tom Cruise admits that he still does the Risky Business underwear dance when he’s at home alone. He calls it his “dance of freedom”. ***Mariah Carey was nicknamed “Mirage” in high school because she never showed up for class.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Paralyze resistance with persistence.” –Woody Hayes.
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LBN-HISTORY: On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
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Contributing Editors: Teju Jyothi, Rachel Yip, Kevin Aquino, Marissa Stone, Delia Ramos, Ben Yano, Anna Alaverdyan.
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| THURSDAY • APRIL 15, 2010 |
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LBN-INVESTIGATES: From 2000 to 2007, 93% of all new jobs created in the state of New Jersey were government jobs.
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 DINE WITH OBAMA FOR THE PRICE OF A CAR: President Obama is entering full fundraiser mode as he flies around the country raising scratch for his party and for promising candidates in November’s midterm elections. In Florida Thursday, couples will pay $30,400 to meet Obama at a fundraiser at singer Gloria Estefan’s mansion. On Monday, the price tag will be $35,200 per couple for an L.A. gathering. “It always helps to have the president come down,” a Florida Democratic Party official told The Wall Street Journal. “You can never have too much money.”
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 OLIVER STONE, WOODY ALLEN TO LEAD CANNES: The lineup for this year’s Cannes’ film festival has finally been released. Sixteen films from 13 countries will compete for honors, including two countries in competition for the first time. The festival will also see the screening of Oliver Stone’s sequel Wall Street: Money Never sleeps, with Michael Douglas reprising his iconic role of Gordon Gekko, and Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger with Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts, although neither of these films will compete for honors. French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard will be courting controversy with his documentary Socialism, while Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood will open the festival on May 12. The real story may be the news coverage—Reuters, Getty Images, the AFP and Associated Press boycotted Thursday’s news conference to protest the 2010 press restrictions and may not attend if they can’t come to an agreement with festival organizers, who signed video exclusivity contracts with sponsors Canal Plus and Orange.
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 OFFICIALS SAY IRAN COULD MAKE BOMB FUEL IN A YEAR: Two of the nation’s top military officials said Wednesday that Iran could produce bomb-grade fuel for at least one nuclear weapon within a year, but would most likely need two to five years to manufacture a workable atomic bomb. The carefully worded testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee provided the most complete recent public assessment of how much time President Obama and his allies have to head off an Iranian nuclear weapons capability.
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 ‘SUPERMAN’ SPITZER BEDDED THREE HOOKERS IN ONE DAY: BOOK CLAIM: Eliot Spitzer was once so voracious for sex that he ordered three different hookers for three separate visits - all in the span of a few hours in one day, an explosive new book claims. The passage from Peter Elkind’s “Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” describes how the Attorney General-turned-governor procured the women from his favored service, the Emperors Club VIP, using the alias “George Fox.”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Media expert and author Michael Levine making another appearance on “Good Morning, America” today to discuss celebrity scandals. ***U.S. first lady Michelle Obama says Facebook and other social media sites are a generational divide in raising her children. She and President Obama limit the use of computers for their daughters and talk with them about the dangers of Facebook and “that sort of gossip mill.”
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 GOV. MANCHIN: LET’S HONOR MINERS FRIDAY WITH SAFETY REVIEW: West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin asked his state’s miners to put down their tools on Friday and use the day to re-evaluate safety procedures rather than to produce coal. Manchin made his plea nine days after an explosion in the Upper Big Branch Mine in Naoma killed 29 miners in the worst such accident in the United States since 1972, when 91 miners died in a fire at the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Profits at JPMorgan Chase jumped 55% from a year ago to $3.3 billion on the back of the bank’s Wall Street business and an improvement in the overall economy. JPMorgan Chase earned 74 cents a share during the first quarter, easily topping what investors were anticipating.
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 VOLCANO ASH SHUTS MANY AIRPORTS IN U.K.: Many airports were shut and flights were grounded across the United Kingdom on Thursday because of ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland, airport authorities said. Ash from Iceland has prompted aviation officials to restrict flights over parts of Norway and the United Kingdom. The ash also caused delays in some flights leaving the United States.
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CHINA GDP GROWS 11.9%, HIGHLIGHTING OVERHEATING RISK: China’s economic growth accelerated to the fastest pace in almost three years in the first quarter, highlighting overheating risks that may prompt the government to scrap the yuan’s peg to the dollar. Gross domestic product rose 11.9 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said at a briefing in Beijing today. That was | | | |
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