We filed this under the “Oh yeah, right,” category:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airforce.ufo/index.html
First no explanation, and no aircraft in the area, but now that news buzz persists and “Larry King Live” has addressed the topic, it’s “…F-16’s…”
Umm hmm.
BCB
It’s called poetic license folks:
www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/film.american.gangster.ap/
BCB
On the day the Oscars nominees are announced, found dead in his NYC apartment:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html
BCB
’bout time someone posted this at YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZzfTdR6T8
The baddest song Kool and the Gang ever dropped, and no one ever remembers it.
BCB
If you don’t see us in the near future, we’re hanging out here:
http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com
BCB
Anyone who said Marilyn McCoo was just in The Fifth Dimension for window dressing, or that all they sang was bubble gum, was trippin’:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytx_KAwMr0
BCB
A CNN headline and story provoke a spirited response:
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/emails.race.gender/index.html
Hell hath no fury, baby.
BCB
Wanna get drivers’ attention? Promote pure sex- the Christian way:
www.local6.com/news/15109415/detail.html
BCB
The Academy Award nominations have been named. Ruby Dee earned a Best Supporting Actress nod for the shortest screen time in the history of the honor (and the slap heard ’round the world). Her co-star didn’t. The important question is, will the writers’ strike be settled in time to broadcast the proceedings?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/oscar.nominations/index.html
And will Hillary slap Obama?
Goodbye to actress Suzanne Pleshette, who was 70. The other night our local PBS station aired a special about Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ life, and we thought of Pleshette as another Franco-American beauty. Where Bouvier possessed a whisper, Pleshette had that throaty feminine voice- the Demi Moore of her day (hey, Demi’s a French name).
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/pleshette.obit.ap/index.html
Talk about a boyhood crush. Those flicks with Dean Jones and such. And when we were older, “The Birds” on t.v. “Mr. Buddwing” and such. Girlfriend was so fine she has graced the header image of this very blog. Pleshette was created for the large, black and white movie screen, her genre before “…Bob Newhart…” fame. She was also funny, which led to her tube longevity and appeal.
(also dead, t.v. “best friend” character actor Allan Melvin, who played buddies on series from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “The Brady Bunch”- the latter in which he was Alice the maid’s beau. Melvin was a master at what he did, and he also had a memorable voice)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/obit.melvin.ap/index.html
BCB
Where 25% of the GOP voters are Mormons:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/19/nevada.sc.main/index.html
Did you see all the prostitutes for Paul (candidate Ron, not the Biblical apostle) at The Bunny Ranch on “Nightline” last night? Hilarious, but the one was very well-versed on the issues. Problem with Romney re- post Michigan-Nevada momentum is that either Hucakebee or McCain will take snowy South Carolina, which is holding a primary, not a caucus. Then the big states come, where Rudy has tried to work his all-for-nothing strategy. How will Mitt play in some of those?
BCB
Our new DC Basketball Blog here:
http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com
The launch of the general DC Basketball website, dedicated to the history of the local game, is imminent.
BCB
We’ve been wondering for years when one of MLK and Coretta’s progeny would tie the knot (they were all over 40 when Yolanda, the eldest, died):
www.wsbtv.com/news/15090657/detail.html
BCB
The corporal suspected of killing a fellow Marine who had accused him of sexual assault was videotaped making purchases law enforcement officials believe may be linked to hear death:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/18/missing.marine/index.html
BCB
Maybe that trade that involved 10 players for Herschel Walker wasn’t that lopsided after all:
www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/uga/stories/2008/01/17/walker_0118.html
BCB
After purported associations with the Worldwide Church of God, paranoia, and vagrancy, a chess legend ascends:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fischer.obit/index.html
BCB
Imagine getting fired over the cover design of a magazine issue wherein you were discussing what some perceive as an insensitive remark another journalist made:
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/2940.cfm
That’s worse than what happened to the original sportscaster (she was suspended). We take no side in the matter- not having a dog in the fight- but it’s odd- like an unrelated party losing a job over what Imus said about the Rutgers’ ladies basketball team.
BCB
