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Week of 13 October 2008
13 October 2008
Magic Johnson lied about having HIV, say radio knuckleheads ...
Ted Nugent outlines his Presidential platform ...
Lehman Brothers approved $100M payouts to top executives as company swirled down the drain ...
Ringo Starr says he's done signing autographs after October 20 ...
Star Jones still holds a grudge against "those girls" on The View ...
Former Florida Congressman Paul G. Rogers dies at a Washington, DC hospital, suffering from lung cancer ...
14 October 2008
Angelina Jolie brings out the knives for son Maddox ...
Ludacris isn't welcome in secret society at Yale ...
Emily Dickinson was a horndog ...
Sharon Osbourne attacks Nicole Kidman over alleged botox lies ...
Stephen Hawking says if we survive the next 200 years, we should be OK ...
15 October 2008
Twenty-watt light bulb goes on over Paul Volcker's head ...
Ridley Scott takes on Joe Haldeman's sci-fi classic The Forever War ...
Gary Coleman pleads not guilty in bowling alley incident ...
Venezuela tax agency orders a one-day closing for McDonald's ...
Michelle Obama is invited to visit the grave of slave kin in South Carolina ...
Autism is just stupidity, says Denis Leary ...
Rep Tim Mahoney (D-Florida) denies breaking law in $121K payment to mistress ...
Gordon Gecko's view on the economic crisis might be interesting ...
Author Milan Kundera is accused of being an informant ...
Singer and comedian Edie Adams dies of cancer in Los Angeles, CA ...
Taiwanese plastics billionaire Y. C. Wang dies in his sleep while on a business trip in Short Hills, New Jersey, aged 91 ...
Game show host Jack Narz dies at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills ...
16 October 2008
Kevin Smith's new movie gets free advertising via rejected ads ...
Tony Curtis whines that Hollywood wasn't fair to him ...
Armor Holdings pays $30M "settlement" for knowingly selling feds bulletproof vests that weren't bulletproof ...
Vice President Cheney cancels campaign event over abnormal heart rhythm ...
Nancy Reagan is hospitalized with broken pelvis ...
CNN lets D. L. Hughley loose in the building ...
Katie Holmes draws rave reviews on Broadway ...
Mayor Richard M. Daley will shut down Chicago city government for six days in budget crunch ...
Christopher Buckley walks off dad's magazine after endorsing Barack Obama ...
Alwaleed bin Talal says he'll build the world's tallest skyscraper, a kilometer high ...
Iceland turns to Russia for emergency loan in financial crisis ...
17 October 2008
Jenny McCarthy slams Denis Leary over calling autistic kids 'junior morons' ...
AIG, flush with $85B Fed bailout, is lobbying to relax oversight rules ...
Movie to tell the life and times of Hervé Villechaize ...
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni split after actor finds texts from Billy Bob Thornton ...
President Bush's conversion to socialism is tauntingly celebrated by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez ...
Google receives a visit from Queen Elizabeth II ...
Internet Movie Database turns 18 ...
Gale Harold suffers brain swelling after motorcycle crash ...
Singer Levi Stubbs, lead vocalist for The Four Tops, dies in his sleep at his home in Detroit ...
18 October 2008
Mark Wahlberg threatens to 'crack' Andy Samberg's nose ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) calls for McCarthy-like investigation of liberals ...
PayPal glitch freezes sellers' cash for weeks ...
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-New York) is convicted of drunken driving ...
19 October 2008
Colin Powell jumps the Republican ship to endorse Barack Obama ...
Dan Rather covers the US election for French TV ...
Soul Train's Don Cornelius is arrested for domestic violence ...
Electronic Frontier Foundation challenges constitutionality of telecom immunity in Federal Court ...
Singer Dee Dee Warwick dies at a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey ...
Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles, suffering complications of an intestinal infection ...
Actor/comedian Rudy Ray Moore dies from diabetes complications in Toledo, Ohio ...