Posts Tagged “2008 Summer Olympics”
- A "Who’s Who" of top female singers, including Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Sheryl Crow, Rihanna, Melissa Etheridge and nine others will join to record a single to benefit the Stand Up To Cancer initiative, which will air on ABC, NBC and CBS on September 5. This bunch, including a pair of cancer suvivors in Etheridge and Crow, won’t just stand up to cancer–they’ll obliterate it with the sheer force of their collective wills…
 Avril Lavigne is having difficulty performing a concert in Malaysia, where officials say her show would be, "unsuitable to Malaysian culture" and its scheduled date of August 29 is too close to the nation’s independence celebration. Avril needs to follow the lead of Beyonce, who was in a similar situation recently–she made sure her costumes were inoffensive, her songs weren’t controversial, and her multi-zillion dollar husband was standing by just in case to write them a big check…- The Olympics have been good to Michael Phelps, and Michael Phelps has been very good to NBC–its coverage of the summer games grabbed the top 7 spots in TV ratings last week, pulling in an average audience of 28.7 million. Al Roker had better hope Phelps has no major weatherman aspirations…
 The people of Milwaukee honored one of their own–on TV at least–when they unveiled a bronze statue of Arthur Fonzerelli, better known as "The Fonz" from 70’s sitcom icon Happy Days. Most of the cast of the show was on hand, except for the guy who played Potsie–he spent the day on the show’s Hollywood set, wondering where everybody else was…- Roger Moore, who played James Bond in 7 films in the 1970’s and 80’s, writes about his experiences in a memoir out November 4 and reveals that many of the stunts left him in less than ideal conditon–including one boat-chase scene that catapulted him into a wall, cracking teeth and twisting his knee. Apparently, the villan for the rest of the movie was the stunt coordinator…
- Bobby Brown is in more legal trouble–only this time it’s from his own attorneys, who say he owes them $90,000 in fees stemming from his divorce from Whitney Houston. At least this time it isn’t any of those drug dealers he stiffed…
Tags: 2008 Summer Olympics, ABC, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Bobby Brown, CBS, Happy Days, James Bond, Malaysia, Mariah Carey, Michael Phelps, NBC, Rihanna, Sheryl Crow
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 Residents and tourists in Key West are making preparations to evacuate as Tropical Storm Fay heads for the Florida coast, with expectations it will reach there by Monday night and reach wind speeds sufficient for a Category 1 hurricane, the region’s first since Wilma struck in 2005. I guess you could call it the calm before the storm…- After signing a cease-fire agreement with Georgia, Russian officials say they will withdraw troops from there beginning Monday–only how fast and how many is uncertain. Anyone who was around for the Cuban missle crisis might find all this oddly familiar–except for where we practiced hiding under our desk in Mrs. Johnson’s class…
 Pakastani president and US ally Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, saying he wanted to spare his nation from an impeachment battle and that his actions had been "for the people and for the country". Considering the fact that he was in fact being impeached, that he had grown even more unpopular after the assassination of popular opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and the celebrating in the streets over Musharraf’s announcement (see left), there may be just a few people who disagree… - Michael Phelps indelibly etched his name into sports history Saturday when he won his decisive eighth Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Games along with his 4X100 individual medly relay team, finally passing Mark Spitz to become the all-time winningest althlete of the Olympic Movement. Phelps will return home to Baltimore to take some time away from competition–he could hire himself out to help fish swim better…
- California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had surgery on his right knee Sunday after injuring it while exercising about two weeks ago. I understand he actually participated in the procedure–he showed them just where to solder and everything…
- The leader of a Hawaiian pro-sovereignty group that broke into a historic palace Friday night and planned to chain himself to the throne ran into a problem–he had never been there before and had no idea where the throne was. Unfortunately, asking guards for directions didn’t go as well as he’d hoped…
Tags: 2008 hurricane season, 2008 Summer Olympics, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Florida, Michael Phelps, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Republic Of Georgia, Russia
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The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Denver, and on center stage of this show of party unity and presidential history will be the wife of America’s first black presidential nominee, Michelle Obama–whose task will be to show America the human side to Barack Obama and that she is up to the challenge of being First Lady. So does that mean she will or she won’t fist-bump Howard Dean?
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