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Week of 14 December 2009
14 December 2009
Goldman Sachs "scales back" on $16-billion in planned year-end bonuses ...
Chris Brown blows a gasket after finding his CD isn't for sale at Wal-Mart ...
Facebook pushes people to go public ...
Frank Frazetta's son is accused of trying to steal paintings ...
The Republican Party's leadership has drifted too far to the Left, explains Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) ...
Paul Reubens wants Pee-wee Herman to fly ...
Economist C. Lowell Harriss dies from natural causes at his home in Bronxville, New York, aged 97 ...
15 December 2009
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood celebrate their anniversary at McDonald's ...
Chris Brown de-Twitters after quick-typed tirade ...
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)'s Hanukkah song is tearing up the charts ...
Courtney Love legally loses teen daughter Frances Bean Cobain to Kurt Cobain's mother ...
Cancer claims wife of Charlie Murphy ...
Leonardo DiCaprio and Mel Gibson go Viking ...
Televangelist faith healer Oral Roberts dies of complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California, aged 91 ...
16 December 2009
If you're Citigroup the I.R.S. has your back, with $38B in tax exemptions ...
Washington Post's Public Enemy correction brings the noise on Twitter ...
Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) will lead "prayercast" against health bill ...
Nick Cannon wants to revive Josie and the Pussycats ...
Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney dies of stomach cancer at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA ...
17 December 2009
Puff Daddy wants to be adopted by President Obama ...
Blue Shield of California threatens to cancel coverage for anyone late with a payment ...
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) calls flight attendant a bitch ...
Alleged extortionist worried that he'd be killed by David Letterman ...
Garth Brooks says he'll sue hospital for $500K ...
Actress Alaina Reed Hall dies of breast cancer at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA ...
Former movie actress Jennifer Jones dies of natural causes at her Malibu, California home ...
Science fiction screenwriter Dan O'Bannon dies of Crohn's disease in Santa Monica, CA ...
18 December 2009
Melanie Griffith has skin cancer surgery ...
Sarah Jessica Parker got kicked by a cow ...
Rage Against the Machine slams Simon Cowell and drops F-bomb on BBC ...
US Supreme Court says "torture is a foreseeable consequence" for suspected enemy combatants ...
Rue McClanahan thinks a good haircut is priceless ...
Former FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard dies of a brain hemorrhage at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills, California ...
19 December 2009
James Randi joins the ranks of the global warming skeptics ...
Former Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) is the baby-daddy, say court documents ...
Domino's Pizza changes recipe to get out of last place in taste tests ...
Betty White wants Robert Redford in her Christmas stocking ...
Former US Ambassador to Brazil and President of Johns Hopkins University Lincoln Gordon dies at Collington Episcopal Life Care in Mitchellville, Maryland, aged 96 ...
Kim Peek, the savant who inspired Rain Man, dies of a heart attack in Murray, UT ...
20 December 2009
Lil' Wayne is detained for marijuana, reschedules performance ...
Governor Haley Barbour (R-Mississippi) pardons cold-blooded killers who do odd jobs around his mansion ...
US Internal Revenue Service wants $8M in back taxes from Sinbad ...
Actress Brittany Murphy dies of pneumonia at her home in Los Angeles, while suffering from anemia and intoxicated on a cocktail of prescription drugs, aged 32 ...
Character actor Arnold Stang dies of pneumonia in Newton, MA, aged 91 ...