July 16th, 1969: launch day for Apollo 11, the ship that put the first men on the moon.Who2 will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 for the next three weeks, right through splashdown on 24 July. We’ll have a photo a day, mostly from the marvelous NASA history archives, along with assorted notes and commentary.
“She said yes, yes, yes, like 500 times super fast in a row.”He was the first to reach 21, and he’ll be the first to lose his purity ring.
“You want to have him on the site in Neverland. That’s where Elvis is at Graceland.””On the site.” Hah!The MJ story has moved along to tasteful speculation on whether Neverland can become the next big-money Graceland.
Malden said he got his celebrated bulbous nose when he broke it a couple of times playing basketball or football, joking that he was “the only actor in Hollywood whose nose qualifies him for handicapped parking.”Actor Karl Malden has died at age 97.
It could be the biggest SoCal processional since OJ and Al Cowlings.
Can you name this popular singer in disguise?Hint: It’s not one of the Jonas Brothers.Answer here.
Definitely.The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the Minnesota Democrat beat Norm Coleman in November and is entitled to be seated in the U.S. Senate.Coleman finally conceded later in the afternoon, and Govenor Tim Pawlenty said he’d sign the formal election certificate.
Turns out Michael Jackson’s famous chimp companion, Bubbles, now resides at the Center for Great Apes, in Wauchula, Florida.Here’s his profile from the Center.
Jiminy, what next with South Carolina’s Mark Sanford? He’s made yet another emotional confession, this time to the Associated Press, to explain that when he said he’d met his mistress four times last year, he meant he’d met her five times.The new confession included his admission of two trips to New York City. “Multi-night stays” is how it’s described in the story.
US Weekly now claims that Michael Jackson is not the biological father of his two oldest children.The real father is Jackson’s dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, says the mag.
That didn’t take long.
Or “Señor Citizen,” as they called him in Barbarosa.In any case, Gary Busey turns 65 today.
Johnny Depp puts down the mascara and picks up a tommy gun for Public Enemies, the new action flick coming out this week.
Master fraudster Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail from a New York judge today.Madoff will be 221 years old when he gets out in 2159.
In explaining his absence, two critical questions were left unanswered: Why would Sanford have been near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Thursday, as his cell phone had indicated? It is 80 miles from the Appalachian Trail…
Groucho is included.
I will now reveal a secret I’ve been keeping for the last 20 years about Michael Jackson.Michael is dead now, alas, so I assume I won’t be creating any gross legal or ethical difficulties in revealing my little tale.
Among the Farrah Fawcett photos supplied to us by our friends at WENN is this memorable Charlie’s Angels promo shot from 1976:
Farrah Fawcett, yes. Michael Jackson, yes. Jeff Goldblum, no. Reports of Goldblum’s death are not true. His publicist says the actor is alive and well in Los Angeles.Apparently the rumor, that Goldblum had fallen off a cliff in New Zealand, first began in 1999 and somehow cropped up again today.