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"Actor and game show panelist Arlene Francis took the blame for one of the stranger accidental deaths on record,Read More »
when an exercise dumbbell fell from her eighth-story Manhattan apartment
and killed a man who had just emerged from the popular Le Pavilli
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"The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner,
Because the revolution will not be televised, Brother."
Gil Scott-Heron has died at age 62. The news came out today via a tweet from his publisher, Jamie Byng. No cause of death was announced.
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Dude was an early investor in Skype and Foursquare.
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"I have known few greater honours than the opportunity to address the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster Hall. I am told the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her Majesty the Queen, and Nelson Mandela, which is either a very high bar or the beginning of a very funny joke."
President Barack Obama, opening his speech to Parliament today with a little joke. Heh!
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Howard Hughes and J.D. Salinger, step aside. You're pikers compared to Miss Huguette Clark, who was a wealthy recluse for SEVENTY FIVE years:
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Science fiction author Connie Willis has won her seventh Nebula award, this one for Blackout/All Clear, her two-volumes-makes-a-book time travel novel.
Read the news account here. Find out more about the Nebula award by reading the rules provided by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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