Karl Rove Gets a Divorce
Karl Rove is getting a divorce. Politico: Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, has been granted a divorce in Texas after 24 years of marriage, family spokeswoman …..
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Grandpa Gene Storms the Beaches
It won’t make anyone’s best-of-2009 list, but I got a snort out of this ad for Kayak.com — featuring Ryan Cutrona, the actor who played dotty Grandpa Gene in Mad Men.
Brooke Mueller 911 Call: AUDIO
The LA Times has the audio of the 911 call made by Brooke Mueller to Aspen police on Christmas Day. Mueller tells cops later that her husband, actor Charlie Sheen, has a knife and that she feared for her life. Later in the call Mueller tells the dispatcher that Sheen is “trying to sneak out the back,” but just then the cops arrive.
Charlie Sheen “Threatened to Kill” His Wife
More details of the Charlie Sheen arrest on Christmas Day have come out. They aren’t pretty:The Aspen Police Department on Monday released the 911 tape in which Brooke Mueller told an emergency dispatcher that Sheen threatened her with a switch-blade knife and that she feared for her life.
Birthday Twins: Paula Poundstone and Patricia Clarkson
Happy 50th birthday to comedian Paula Poundstone and actress Patricia Clarkson.Both were born on 29 December in 1959, about 500 miles apart: Poundstone in Huntsville, Alabama, and Clarkson in New Orleans.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:463:]]
Which Dumb Celebrities Are We Using for Our Dumb Passwords?
Techcrunch just dug up Twitter’s list of 370 banned passwords — the ones so painfully obvious that every newbie uses them. Number 1 on the list is “111111,” for example, and #19 is “abc123.” It’s alphabetical, so the all-time classic — “password” — is at #241.
The Weekend of the Naked Kennedys
This week’s flap over the JFK naked-women-on-a-yacht photo — the one that turned out to be a big fake — came at an odd time for our family.
Latinos Love Alvin and the Chipmunks
Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” collected $50.2 million over the weekend and $77.1 million since it debuted Wednesday. Its crowds were 70% families and heavily Latino. “The Squeakquel” also grossed $36.5 million from the 42 foreign markets where it launched. That’s more than twice as much as the first “Alvin” opened to in the same countries in 2007.”Heavily Latino”?
Charlie Sheen – Brooke Mueller Brouhaha Update
It’s complicated, as they say at the movies.
Colonel Sanders Impersonators: Are These the Worst Ever?
We came across this archival beauty while adding photos to our profile of Colonel Harlan Sanders. The five men pictured are taking part in a Colonel Sanders lookalike contest held in Beijing, China in 2007.