Gina Smith sighting!

[satrngrl]

If you are not watching The Nineties on CNN, you are missing some serious 
Internet nostalgia, including interviews with Gina Smith. No C-U C-Me (I know I 
know, how was that spelled out?)
-Deb...AOL login music earworm must stop.


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Re: No more laughter at the 'The McLaughlin Group,'

[satrngrl]

Bye BYE.
-Deb(damn) 

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:22 PM, danny burstein  
wrote:
 

 [Twitter]

John McLaughlin, host of 'The McLaughlin Group,' dies at 89 - 
@McLaughlinGroup http://bit.ly/2bDUra7

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[ALUMNI] Jonathan Fucking Larsen is Fucking Back.

[satrngrl]

You Only Need to Subscribe to One Newsletter From Now On: ‘The F*cking News’
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Forget Lena Dunham and her Lenny Letter. Newsletters from punditsand 
politicians like Laura Ingraham and Ron Paulare so over. You only need to 
subscribe to one newsletter now and you can find it by heading over to 
www.TheFingNews.com.When you get there, you’ll see a header that says this:

Context and Analysis of all the Latest Bullshit
Brought to you by a ragtag band of plucky veterans from The Daily Show and 
Countdown w/ Keith OlbermannWhat’s that? You want your news…without the 
bullshit?
Without giving “equal time” to debate whether evolution is real, climate change 
is manmade or Wall Street bankers choke their hookers?
Sign up now and get The Fucking News in your fucking inbox every fucking day.
Built on the backs of other newsletters that have come wildly out of pocket in 
terms of taking themselves way too seriously over the past year or so, The 
Fucking News is punchy, raunchy, and aware that you may have had some bad 
newsletter experiences in the past. They either come too often, have horrible 
graphic failures, or overload you with hyper-specific personal essays.Features 
you can usually look forward to are “Your Daily Fucking Planner,” “Word of the 
Day,” and “Today’s BFD,” among plenty of others, so watch out for varying 
features every day. There are no frills. There are no clumsy graphics or 
blinking texts.As a young woman, I am constantly being prompted to sign up for 
newsletters. Sometimes, the pop-ups are downright harassing. The text will say, 
“Sign up for our newsletter to get the top ten exfoliators sent to your inbox 
as a special gift!” The options to close the window will either be a text-entry 
box in which to place an email address or a button that says, “No, thanks! I’d 
rather have clogged pores and flaky skin!”Super demoralizing, right? I don’t 
know what the prompts are like at other sites, but I’m sure you’ve run into 
something that makes you feel a little dirty like that. Further, on the 
occasions I have entered my email address, I have received uncomfortable 
fantasy-land fever dreams in my inbox. They look like a Pinterest board but are 
more nefarious because they come to me daily in an effort to answer the 
question “Can women have it all?” by showing me how to make crafts out of mason 
jars, find new intimacy in my romantic relationships, and Dress to impress to 
get that promotion! There isn’t much to really learn there.Certainly, those 
types of letters are specific to a particular kind of website, but I’ve found 
that even newsletters that are supposedly more about politics or current events 
are still pretty cringeworthy. Don’t just take my word for it, though! That’s 
what TFN founder Jonathan Larsenthought, too, and he is an alum of Up With 
Chris Hayes and Al Jazeera America.Here’s how he described the thought process 
behind the creation of his newsletter:
I’ve worked in both news and comedy, and it struck me that we really don’t have 
a source for topical comedy that reliably hits all the day’s big stories, 
especially political stories, in a timely fashion. So I’m hoping to give folks 
who care about the news–because it fucking matters–an outlet that treats the 
news as if it actually does matter and isn’t just horse-race bullshit, and also 
finds what’s both hilarious and horrifically depressing about it.
In other words, if you’re someone who wants to know what’s really going on out 
there and wants to hear it from someone who gets it, this is the letter for 
you. It doesn’t hurt if you have a filthy mouth, either![image via TFN]For more 
from Lindsey, you don’t need a newsletter! She has a Twitterand Facebook!
--Deb...fuck yeah!

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Re: grumble FB uggh...

[satrngrl]

Yes. "Help him celebrate!"Yo, Aaron. 

-Deb
 

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 10:29 AM, Richard de Give 
 wrote:
 

 Yo, List Dad
On Jan 19, 2016 6:52 AM, "danny burstein"  wrote:

It kindly lets us know that

"Aaron Dickey's birthday is today"


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[MEDIADEADPOOL] RIP, Al Jazeera America

[satrngrl]

Looks like some of our old friends are back in the job market. 

Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operationsd

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NBC Overnight on YouTube

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Part 1 of 4...sigh.
NBC News Overnight - June 25, 1983 (Part 1 of 4)
And so it goes...-Deb

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Re: two tv news folk shot, killed, in Virginia

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This is beyond horrible, and hits me at least indirectly. Anyone who has ever 
worked with an unstable person probably feels it every time there is a 
workplace killing. But working in media where there is, shall we say, probably 
a larger concentration of inflated and/or easily bruised egos - it's different. 
People get fired every day for the usual reasons, but also because of ratings, 
new management, whatever. 

I've worked with such a person, and the ego thing was magnified by the fact 
we're an entertainment trade, and the job comes with access to important 
business people as well as famous artists. Not supposed to get all wrapped up 
in that, let alone abuse the access and line up freebies, VIP passes or 
impersonate the editor and claim to be booking a festival...all happened in 
this case. Naturally he was fired. We were subjected to Facebook threats, he 
was calling agents and telling them what horrible homophobes we were, etc. Some 
of us were sure he was coming back someday with an Uzi. Nobody talked about it, 
of course. A few of us are talking about it today. 

Fortunately, he moved cross country two years ago.
I think I need to turn off the coverage now.
-Deb




 


 On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:29 AM, damonb...@gmail.com 
damonb...@gmail.com wrote:
   

 What just transpired in the last twenty minutes:
   
   - Former WDBJ reporter Bryce Williams, apparently the shooter, posted video 
to Twitter and Facebook that he took as he shot the victims.
   - The video spread pretty rapidly thanks to morons who retweeted it without 
thinking, hey, maybe some folks on my timeline don't want to see a snuff film.
   - Twitter suspended Williams' account. Facebook, as usual, is moving slowly 
and had not suspended his account there at last report.
   - Everything is terrible and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I did not 
watch the video, but knowing that it exists, and knowing that other people 
unintentionally (or intentionally!) saw it, is too much.


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f ::  t :: li :: 202/765-9143
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Mike Ward mw...@iname.com wrote:

Holy crap. I used to work in that market, in radio (WFIR/960 Roanoke).
WDBJ/7 is the local CBS affiliate. Here is their latest web story:
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/law-enforcement-investigating-incident-at-bridgewater-plaza/34923086

Moneta is a tiny town just north of the Smith Mountain Lake resort area. It is 
not at all known for violent crime.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:47 AM, kbrabant via World News Now Discussion List 
wnndl@googlegroups.com wrote:

Of course, what is scary for me is that my eldest son is interning at a TV 
station in Tuscaloosa, AL and going on all sorts of reports in both tech and 
shadow-reporter roles.  All I need is to start worrying that this can become a 
new area for crazies to start exploring their inner serial killer.  
Prayers to those in VA.
And so it goes, 
Kevin Brabant (can't even come up with a dark joke for this)kbrab...@aol.com
 

-Original Message-
From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 9:44 am
Subject: two tv news folk shot, killed, in Virginia

 
 
 
probably just about everyone's caught this already, but 

just in case: 

 

Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Of WDBJ7 

 

Plus a third shot and wounded. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/FBNewswire/posts/943286142376174 

 

VIRGINIA TV SHOOTING: Television journalist Alison Parker and cameraman  

Adam Ward were shot dead by a gunman on Wednesday while reporting live on  

air at Bridgewater Plaza, Moneta, Virginia. The WDBJ7 crew was carrying  

out an interview when gunshots were fired. The crew could be heard  

panicking before transmission quickly returned to the TV studio. 

 

The Facebook profiles for Adam Ward and Alison Parker are here: 

 

Adam Ward: https://www.facebook.com/adam.ward.3388630 

Alison Parker: https://www.facebook.com/alisonparkernews 

 

- me, I'd be checking into any former boyfriends. Just saying.. 

 

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Re: [scotusblog] DOMA decision... It's toast

[satrngrl]

Oh, and though I know he's not the only member of the team in these parts, 
he's not here to celebrate so:

YO, TOM. YOU SEE THAT?

-Deb


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 Subject: Re: [scotusblog] DOMA decision... It's toast
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7:21 AM
 [DEADPOOL] DOMA
 
 And likely a dismissal but no decision on merits of Prop 8
 in California. So we'll likely have it on the ballot again
 ASAP.
 
 --- On Wed, 6/26/13, danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 wrote:
 
  From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
  Subject: [scotusblog] DOMA decision... It's toast
  To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
  Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7:02 AM
  Amy Howe:
  5-4 per Kennedy.
  
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[BREAKING] You can't spell subpoena ...

[satrngrl]

... without AP.

-Deb
speaking of cr{AP]


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-subpoenas-obtains-wide-set-of-ap-phone-records-in-investigation/2013/05/13/cec4065c-bc0a-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

Government obtains wide set of Associated Press phone records in investigation, 
using subpoena

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, May 13, 4:27 PM

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone 
records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news 
cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into 
how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the 
work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office 
numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number 
for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to 
attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming 
calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone 
lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact 
number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, 
but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were 
targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP 
President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought 
and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any 
specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and 
destruction of all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the 
telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These 
records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all 
of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, 
provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations and disclose information 
about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable 
right to know,” Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records. Officials have 
previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is 
conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information 
contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story 
disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in 
the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United 
States.

In testimony in February, CIA Director John Brennan noted that the FBI had 
questioned him about whether he was AP’s source, which he denied. He called the 
release of the information to the media about the terror plot an “unauthorized 
and dangerous disclosure of classified information.”

Prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the seizure of 
records from such a wide array of AP offices, including general AP switchboards 
numbers and an office-wide shared fax line, is unusual.

In the letter notifying the AP, which was received Friday, the Justice 
Department offered no explanation for the seizure, according to Pruitt’s letter 
and attorneys for the AP. The records were presumably obtained from phone 
companies earlier this year although the government letter did not explain 
that. None of the information provided by the government to the AP suggested 
the actual phone conversations were monitored.

Among those whose phone numbers were obtained were five reporters and an editor 
who were involved in the May 7, 2012, story.

The Obama administration has aggressively investigated disclosures of 
classified information to the media and has brought six cases against people 
suspected of providing classified information, more than under all previous 
presidents combined.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the investigative House Oversight and 
Government Reform Committee, said on CNN, “They had an obligation to look for 
every other way to get it before they intruded on the freedom of the press.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in 
an emailed statement: “The burden is always on the government when they go 
after private information, especially information regarding the press or its 
confidential sources. ... On the face of it, I am concerned that the government 
may not have met that burden. I am very troubled by these allegations and want 
to hear the government’s explanation.”

The American Civil Liberties Union said the use of subpoenas for a broad swath 
of records has a chilling effect both on journalists and whistleblowers who 
want to reveal government wrongdoing. “The attorney general must explain the 
Justice Department’s 

[obWNN] Hey, who's minding the store?

[satrngrl]

Per TVNewser:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc-names-rob-nelson-correspondent-john-muller-to-co-anchor-world-news-now_b170206

ABC, Revolving Door
ABC Names Rob Nelson Correspondent, John Muller To Co-Anchor ‘World News Now’
By Alex Weprin on March 11, 2013 9:34 AM

ABC News is promoting “World News Now” co-anchor Rob Nelson, naming him a 
correspondent for all programs and platforms.

“Rob distinguished himself on the overnight leading the network’s coverage of 
the Japanese tsunami, a story that broke just before WNN airtime,” writes ABC 
News president Ben Sherwood in an email to staff this morning. “He also led a 
two-hour ABC News Special Report last summer following the late-night theater 
massacre in Aurora, and he’s reported often for the weekend editions of World 
News and GMA.”

John Muller will be named the new co-anchor of “World News Now.” Before joining 
ABC as a reporter in 2011, Muller spent 11 years as the anchor of the PIX 11 
morning news on New York’s WPIX.

Sherwood’s note, after the jump.

After nearly three years as co-anchor of World News Now and America This 
Morning, I’m delighted to announce that Rob will move dayside as a 
correspondent reporting for all platforms and programs.

Rob distinguished himself on the overnight leading the network’s coverage 
of the Japanese tsunami, a story that broke just before WNN airtime.

He also led a two-hour ABC News Special Report last summer following the 
late-night theater massacre in Aurora, and he’s reported often for the weekend 
editions of World News and GMA.

As overnight anchor, Rob’s reporting, grace and humor infused each 
broadcast with a winning style he perfected over many years covering the Big 
Easy at The Times-Picayune and WWL-TV, New Orleans’ top-rated station.

I’m also happy to announce that John Muller will become the new overnight 
anchor for WNN and ATM.

John is a seasoned anchor and terrific broadcaster.  Before joining us in 
2011, John spent 11 years as the anchor of the Emmy Award-wining PIX 11 Morning 
News in New York City.

He has reported on a great variety of stories for all our programs and 
platforms including the Valedictorian Murder Trial in Michigan and the Mayan 
Apocalypse (with an “exclusive” live hit from Times Square to prove the world 
had not come to an end).

We expect great things from John and his co-anchor Diana Perez and I’m 
confident they’ll keep up the strong tradition of breaking news and engaging 
conversation on our overnight programs.

Please join me in wishing Rob and John the best of luck in their new 
assignments.

Ben


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[BOHRMAN] Current to Al Jazeera?

[satrngrl]

I'm sure no one is going to talk on the record (cough, cough) but it appears 
Bohrman's network is on the block...

-Deb

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/al-jazeera-said-to-be-acquiring-current-tv/

Al Jazeera Is Said to Be Acquiring Current TV
By BRIAN STELTER

Al Jazeera is putting the final touches on a deal to take over Current TV, the 
low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore and his business partners 
seven years ago.

If the deal is completed, Current will provide the pan-Arab news giant with 
something it has sought for years: a pathway into American living rooms. 
Current is available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the United 
States with cable or satellite service.

Rather than simply use Current to distribute its English-language channel, 
called Al Jazeera English and based in Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera will create a 
new channel based in New York, according to people with knowledge of the deal 
negotiations. The channel may be called Al Jazeera America. Roughly 60 percent 
of the programming will be produced in the United States, while the remaining 
40 percent will come from Al Jazeera English.

Al Jazeera may absorb some Current TV staff members, according to the people, 
who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. 
But Current’s schedule of shows will most likely be dissolved in the spring.

The plan will bring Al Jazeera, which is financed by the government of Qatar, 
into closer competition with CNN and other news channels in the United States.

To date, the country’s cable and satellite distributors have been reluctant to 
carry Al Jazeera English. It is available in just a handful of cities, 
including New York and Washington. To change that, Al Jazeera has lobbied 
distributors, called for a letter-writing campaign by supporters and promoted 
its widely praised coverage of the Arab Spring.

Acquiring Current TV, and thus its distribution deals across the country, would 
solve this dilemma for Al Jazeera, at least partially.

Current is hard to find on many cable lineups, and some analysts say it’s at 
risk of being dropped by some companies because of low ratings, but it would 
give Al Jazeera a foothold on the country’s cable and satellite service 
lineups. Then Al Jazeera could revamp the channel and promote it as a new 
American-based news source.

Representatives for Current TV and Al Jazeera did not immediately respond to 
requests for comment. There was no immediate word about the sale price.

Current was conceived in 2005 after Mr. Gore and another co-founder, Joel 
Hyatt, bought the small cable news channel Newsworld International. Current’s 
owners, along with Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, include several venture capital 
firms and two major distributors, Comcast and DirecTV.

After several years in obscurity showing viewer-submitted videos and 
documentaries, Current tacked to the left in 2011 with the hiring of MSNBC’s 
Keith Olbermann. A year later, Mr. Olbermann was fired, but a liberal minded 
channel made in his image remained. The channel now simulcasts liberal radio 
shows in the morning and features news-talk shows in the evening by Joy Behar, 
Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and others.

None of the shows have drawn significant audiences. On a typical night in 2012, 
about 42,000 people were watching the channel, according to Nielsen. Mr. 
Spitzer quipped to a reporter from Mediabistro last month, “Nobody’s watching, 
but I’m having a great time.”

At the end of October, Current confirmed that it was considering selling 
itself. Mr. Hyatt said in a statement at the time, “Current has been approached 
many times by media companies interested in acquiring our company. This year 
alone, we have had three inquiries. As a consequence, we thought it might be 
useful to engage expertise to help us evaluate our strategic options.”

Since then, uncertainty has plagued the staff of Current, which is based in San 
Francisco. Mr. Spitzer, the 8 p.m. host, remarked that someone needed to buy 
the channel. Ms. Granholm, the 9 p.m. host, renewed her contract for just three 
months. Plans for new programming at other hours have stalled. After the 
elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., the channel replayed the gun 
documentary “Bowling for Columbine” dozens of times.

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Re: [DEADPOOL WATCH?] Ominous sounding NWS statement

[satrngrl]

Being in California isn't sparing me from hurricane heebee jeebees. 

My mom's on a cruise ship south of Bermuda somewhere. I think the worst is over 
for her, but my brother tells me he spoke with her Saturday and she's bored, 
seasick and pissed off about missing Martha's Vineyard and Charleston. So I 
guess that means everything is pretty much under control.

They were supposed to port in Bermuda yesterday, but couldn't -- no reason 
given -- so they are heading to Ft. Lauderdale.

She's not on one of the major lines, so reports about itinerary changes and 
location are pretty much non-existent.

It's been a nerve-frying week.

--Deb
...110 days until pitchers and catchers report, approximate

--- On Mon, 10/29/12, Joseph Nebus neb...@rpi.edu wrote:

 From: Joseph Nebus neb...@rpi.edu
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL WATCH?] Ominous sounding NWS statement
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Monday, October 29, 2012, 10:10 AM
 
 On Oct 30, 2012, at 1:08 AM, Mark Sunshine armoredb...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  My gal owns a beach front house on NJ's Long Beach
 Island. 3 ft flooding so far...bay and ocean have met.
 Garage doors and front doors compromised. 2 more tides to
 go. She's Aussie and she tells me plainly, says I'm
 frock's
 
     Yeah, my parents have a house in Jackson
 about twelve miles inland.  Well, eight miles now, but,
 it's … OK, six miles inland, but … let me get back to
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[ALUMNI] Bring Back The Bee Tie!

[satrngrl]

Some things really don't change! Mark Mullen is asking for tie advice on his 
Facebook page. I think he should ditch the two he's contemplating, and 
resurrect the Bee Tie.

https://www.facebook.com/MarkMullenNBC

--Deb

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[TVHEALTHWATCH] Goodbye, Nightline?

[satrngrl]

No word yet ...

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' moves to 11:35 p.m.
ABC latenight talkshow ready to take on Leno, Letterman
By Stuart Levine
Jimmy Kimmel Live is ready to play with the big boys.

After being in the midnight timeslot since 2003, the ABC latenight talkshow is 
shifting to 11:35 p.m. in January.

More to come. . .

Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.lev...@variety.com

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Not So Fast...Nightline MOVING. [WAS] Re: [TVHEALTHWATCH] Goodbye, Nightline?

[satrngrl]

Screw Variety. Even the LA Times manages to sort it out...

ABC moves Jimmy Kimmel to 11:35 p.m., adds 'Nightline' Friday run


By Scott Collins

August 21, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

ABC's Jimmy Kimmel is about to get a promotion — to 11:35 p.m.

Following a flurry of rumors, the network confirmed Tuesday that it will move 
Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier by one half-hour, to 11:35, starting Jan. 8.

That will put it in direct competition with NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno 
and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman for a three-way ratings brawl.

Nightline— the storied late-night news program that has survived attempts to 
demote or kill it for years — will start at 12:35 a.m. and also, starting March 
1, get a new prime time Friday newsmagazine.

The timing of the move may seem odd, given that Kimmel's hosting of the Emmy 
Awards next month would have given ABC a natural promotional platform for the 
switch.

However, ABC executives felt that a making a change during the busy 
presidential election season — when stations rake in huge amounts from 
political ads — would have been disruptive. Instead, the network will use Ryan 
Seacrest's New Years program as well as Dancing With the Stars and the Bowl 
Championship Series on sister network ESPN to tell viewers about the switch.

Kimmel has seen ratings improvement in recent months, while Leno in particular 
has experienced a slump after NBC made a disastrous experiment with Conan 
O'Brien in the Tonight slot. Tonight last week laid off some staffers and 
Leno took a pay cut to prevent further departures.

Given the passionate fan base 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has built over the past 
decade, and the show's ratings and creative momentum this season, the time is 
right to make this move, Anne Sweeney, cochair of Disney Media Neworks and 
president of the Disney/ABC Television Group, wrote in a statement.

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 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 10:21 AM
 No word yet ...
 
 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' moves to 11:35 p.m.
 ABC latenight talkshow ready to take on Leno, Letterman
 By Stuart Levine
 Jimmy Kimmel Live is ready to play with the big boys.
 
 After being in the midnight timeslot since 2003, the ABC
 latenight talkshow is shifting to 11:35 p.m. in January.
 
 More to come. . .
 
 Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.lev...@variety.com
 
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Re: mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, near Denver (fwd)

[satrngrl]

#5 has already been floated on Free Republic.  The massacre was set up by 
Obama to connect to Romney.  

Mass murder : Batman : Bane : Bain : Romney

It's SO obvious. O_o

But mostly they are fixating on Snuffy and Brian Ross saying the guy was tea 
partier on the basis of some other real tea party fixture having the same name. 
They want their heads for this, of course. Just like they do every time Fox 
News IDs some closeted Republican in a wide stance scandal as a Democrat. 

Oh, wait

--Deb






--- On Fri, 7/20/12, Steven Otte steveno...@att.net wrote:

From: Steven Otte steveno...@att.net
Subject: Re: mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, near Denver (fwd)
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012, 9:02 AM

Those who took the under, you win, thanks to Tea Party wingnut Louie Gohmert of 
Texas. 
And the bonus loony theory was #3, though that wasn't his primary argument. 
I couldn't even imagine that theory: the root cause of the shooting was 
separation of church and state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/louie-gohmert-aurora-shootings_n_1689099.html?1342794304

--

Steven Otte

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--- On Fri, 7/20/12, Steven Otte steveno...@att.net wrote:

So, you're taking the under, then?
Extra points for accurately predicting which peabrained argument will be 
presented first (I expect them all to be put forth eventually):
   - This guy who was clearly intent on committing numerous Class 1 felonies 
would have been prevented from doing so if only gun violations had tougher 
civil penalties.   - Only obvious lunatics like this guy have any desire to own 
guns.   - If other people in the theater were armed, they could have fought 
back and stopped this guy before he could shoot
 more.   - This attack is obviously a plot to horrify Americans into passing 
draconian gun bans. Just like Fast  Furious was!   - The attacker must be an 
Obama supporter, since he dressed up as the
 character Bane, trying to mentally associate his crime with the name of 
Romney's company Bain. (Rush Limbaugh edition)

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Yo, Tom!

[satrngrl]

Two years ago today. I still think of him often. I miss the commentary on the 
GOP primaries he surely would have been all over. What would he have thought of 
Lady Gaga -- basically, a female Elton. And damn, I just plain miss him. 
Especially when his face continues popping up on my IM buddy list at ALWAYS the 
exact weirdest time.

Yo, Tom.

xoxo
Deb

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Re: Yo, Tom!

[satrngrl]

And correcting my own mistake, it's been THREE years, not two. Sigh. This last 
year's been a blur to me, but yeah, it doesn't seem possible.

--Deb
AIR COOL!

--- On Fri, 5/4/12, Joseph Nebus neb...@rpi.edu wrote:

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 Subject: Re: Yo, Tom!
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, May 4, 2012, 6:38 PM
 
 On May 5, 2012, at 5:22 AM, satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 wrote:
 
  Two years ago today. I still think of him often. I miss
 the commentary on the GOP primaries he surely would have
 been all over. What would he have thought of Lady Gaga --
 basically, a female Elton. And damn, I just plain miss him.
 Especially when his face continues popping up on my IM buddy
 list at ALWAYS the exact weirdest time.
 
     It's hard to believe it's two
 years.  Both that it's that much and that little
 time.  
 
     Don't none of you go anywhere soon. 
 
 
 
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Re: You didn't beat the reaper

[satrngrl]

I'm afraid we may have a new AOD amongst us.

I met Peter Bergman back in 1998 at a Pollstar conference awards party.

I met Ronnie Montrose at a Pollstar conference awards party a couple of years 
ago.

I met Davy Jones at the same Pollstar conference awards party.

I met Steve Bridges, the Bush impersonator, in 2006 at a Pollstar conference 
awards party.

I hope Lewis Black is in good health. He hosted five of the Pollstar Awards 
shows.

--Deb
...some award

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 Subject: You didn't beat the reaper
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:09 PM
 The Firesign Theatre is now down to
 three or four crazy guys.  Member
 Peter Bergman has died.
 
 http://firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?member=Bergman
 

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Re: [POLKA] Which joker waved a Terrible Towel...

[satrngrl]

--- On Fri, 1/6/12, kbrab...@aol.com kbrab...@aol.com wrote:


OK, so I think that the folks at WNN should give mugs to all those who are 
mugless and can answer a really good WNN history question.  Like
I am not mugless but am happy to pass on any bonus points to whomever gets the 
other answers. And to Kevin, for coming up with the history quiz.



 






What was the name of Mike Mullen's most famous piece of clothing?




The Bee Tie, of course. :)


 


--Deb...still pissed at Now Evil Affiliate ABC30


 


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Re: Happy 20

[satrngrl]

Thank YOU seems insufficient, but by god, it's short. With apologies to Linda 
Ellerbee.

THANK YOU.

--Deb
...was it Louise Guerin who interviewed Dick Sullivan?

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 Subject: Happy 20
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 Just wanted to say bravo and thank
 you to all who have watched...
 and to all who have helped produce World News Now over the
 last 20
 years
 
 We never imagined our little effort would last so long, do
 so  much,
 and launch so many great careers
 
 David Bohrman
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Re: regarding the WNN anniversary...

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Confirmed. Louise Guerin interviewed Dick Sullivan. :)
-Deb

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 Date: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 8:12 PM
 Who was it hear who got ahold of
 ?Dick Sullivan?
 of Gold Bond Fame way back?
 
 - and anyone remember which of the characters
 WNN interviewed? Was it Mr. Sullivan?
 
 Thanks
 
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Re: [deadpool] Steve Jobs...

[satrngrl]

Confirmed by Apple.

Man, I know the iPhone announcement was underwhelming but not enough to put him 
underground, she said Octoberishly. 

--Deb


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 Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:42 PM
 Per reports on twitter
 
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[DEADPOOL] Cherry Die

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/jani-lane-warrant-dead.html

Jani Lane of rock band Warrant is found dead in Woodland Hills
August 11, 2011 | 10:58 pm

Jani Lane, former lead singer of the 1980s glam-band Warrant, was found dead 
Thursday evening in Woodland Hills, police said.

Lane, 47, was pronounced dead by Fire Department personnel who responded to a 
call shortly before 5:30 p.m. in a hotel in the 20100 block of Ventura 
Boulevard, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

The cause of death was unknown, and the case was turned over to the Los Angeles 
county coroner's office, LAPD Officer Sara Faden said.

Warrant's two first albums -- Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich in 1989 and 
Cherry Pie in 1990 -- sold more than 2 million copies each, achieving 
double-platinum status.


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[ALUMNI] Will Olbermann Get A Polka Now?

[satrngrl]

Breaking News
Date: August 08, 2011
Variety.com

David Bohrman named Current TV president

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Re: [ALUMNI] Will Olbermann Get A Polka Now?

[satrngrl]

Here's Current TV's press releaset:

http://current.com/press-releases/93383948_david-bohrman-appointed-president-of-current-tv.htm

Veteran executive from CNN, ABC and NBC, known for innovation, to oversee 
Current’s new programming direction
Heading into election season, Bohrman to lead Current’s emphasis on news 
analysis and political commentary, with “Countdown” as centerpiece

San Francisco, August 8, 2011 – Current TV, the 
Peabody and Emmy Award- winning television network, has appointed 
veteran broadcast and cable television executive David Bohrman as 
President. Bohrman, an award winning journalist and news executive who 
for three decades has helmed political and special event news coverage 
for major broadcast and cable networks, begins his new post immediately.
Bohrman, known for his unique combination of news programming and 
technical acumen, will work closely with the network’s co-founders, 
Current Chairman and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and CEO Joel 
Hyatt.

“Current’s mission has always been to shine a light on important 
issues, to spark debate and to speak truth to power. Earlier this year, 
we advanced this mission when we brought Keith Olbermann to Current and 
clearly stated our intent to be a truly independent, conflict-free, 
progressive voice in the news and political commentary arena,” said Mr. 
Gore. “David Bohrman passionately shares our vision. He has innovation 
in his DNA, and he has the unique qualifications and relationships to 
take Current to a whole new level in programming and production. I very 
much admire David’s excellent work, his integrity, his drive and his 
consistent track record of innovation. He will be a tremendous leader 
for Current, and Joel and I are proud to have David join us in this 
exciting venture.”
For the past decade, Bohrman was CNN’s senior vice president of 
programming and Washington, DC bureau chief, and in May of this year, he
 became CNN’s SVP and Chief Innovation Officer Worldwide. As Current’s 
President, he will be based in New York and San Francisco, and will 
oversee programming, production, broadcast operations, digital and 
technology. He will also work closely with Current’s Chief News Officer 
Keith Olbermann, who is host of Current’s centerpiece program, 
“Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” as the network expands its primetime 
line-up and election coverage.

“Re-defining media in a world of consolidation requires some 
game-changing measures,” said Joel Hyatt. “Having Keith Olbermann join 
Current was a game- changer. When we sought world-class leadership in 
the programming, production and digital areas, David Bohrman’s name came
 up time and again. Al and I believe that society needs, and audiences 
want, programming that delivers more than sound bites. People want an 
explanation, they want context, they want understanding. And they want 
tools that will get them engaged in making a difference about issues 
they care about. David is highly skilled in bringing information and 
clear-eyed analysis on important matters to multiple screens. And no one
 can touch David when it comes to developing innovative ways to tap the 
zeitgeist and get audiences immersed and involved.”

“There has been a profound change in the media landscape in terms of 
what’s being covered, how it’s being covered and how audiences want to 
consume it,” said Mr. Bohrman. “Those of us inside the media business 
have a responsibility to anticipate what viewers want and need, and we 
must constantly reinvent the medium. Today more than ever, I think 
audiences demand intelligent discourse instead of shouting. They want a 
way to be part of the discourse instead of being passive outsiders. I 
have been watching what Al and Joel and Keith have been doing at 
Current, and I believe that Current has a real opportunity to be a truly
 vital medium for a new breed of savvy, intelligent viewers. I’m 
extremely energized and inspired by this opportunity to work with them 
to establish Current as a significant and influential voice in the news 
and political commentary arena.”

During the three-decade span of his career, Bohrman has brought some 
of the world’s most memorable events to television. He spent more than a
 dozen years at CNN, where he oversaw newsgathering, political coverage 
and Washington programing, including the network’s 2008 “Election Night 
in America,” which generated CNN’s highest primetime ratings in its 
history and topped every other broadcast and cable networks’ audience 
numbers. He served as executive producer of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning 
coverage of the Presidential primary campaigns and debates throughout 
the 2008 election season. He also oversaw several other CNN 
Washington-based programs including “The Situation Room with Wolf 
Blitzer,” “John King, USA,” and “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.”
 He oversaw CNN’s major political event coverage and is known for his 
innovative use of technology to help the network 

Re: (DEADPOOL) Just sit right back and you'll see me die...

[satrngrl]

Per the TMZ report, Harper Valley DOA would have worked, too.
bad day on the sitcom circuit.
--Deb

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, James Stanley Barr james.stanley.b...@gmail.com wrote:

From: James Stanley Barr james.stanley.b...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: (DEADPOOL) Just sit right back and you'll see me die...
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 9:54 AM

That would have worked better for when Bob Denver died...:D

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Steven Otte steveno...@att.net wrote:

Where's the little body, little buddy?

(From MST3K's The Crawling Hand)
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--- On Tue, 7/12/11, James Stanley Barr james.stanley.b...@gmail.com wrote:


http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/12/legendary-tv-producer-sherwood-schwartz-dead-94-the-brady-bunch-gilligans-island-ozzie-and-harriet/



Sherwood Schwartz, dead at 94.










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[NOISE] Google plus, anyone?

[satrngrl]

Just setting up a Google+ account and wondering how many of you already are 
playing with it, and what you think of it. And if you know how many invites you 
get to distribute...one of mine will be to a secondary account so I will have 
twice as many to dish out! whee! 

The point of this, I guess, is to figure out how it works, is it useful and, 
since I have all these indeterminate number of invites to invite with, I'm 
putting them out here first. We are, in a way, the earliest early adopters. 

I've set up a circle for Nowbies which I assume anyone else can, too.

So...let me know if you want an invite. 

--Deb
...yay one more distraction

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Great news!

[satrngrl]

Awesome, Mike. 

And I said it on Facebook, but probably not here, congratulations on yer butt 
kicking son. :)



I sometimes think our WNN fam ain't what it used to be, for all the 
reasons we all well know, but this is the kind of moment that makes me 
happy that we all got to e-know each other over all these years. Even if
 WNN fades away, seems to me we are all pretty much joined at the ..uh? 
byte? I'm happy to know you all and hey, maybe someday we'll have 
Terry's NowbieCon. 



Congratulations again, Michael, and I'm gonna guess the rest of us Nowbies are 
hooting for you, too. :)



hugs

Deb



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Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Great news!
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Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 10:13 PM

We won an Emmy for Best Newscast tonight (which marks my 4th! Woohoo!)



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We won an Emmy for Best Newscast tonight (which marks my 4th! Woohoo!)



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Re: unconfirmed, but looks like his death...

[satrngrl]

Appears confirmed:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/27/136731274/gil-scott-heron-poet-and-musician-has-died

--Deb

--- On Fri, 5/27/11, debbie speer satrn...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 From: debbie speer satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 Subject: Re: unconfirmed, but looks like his death...
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 7:34 PM
 Harry Shearer just tweeted an RIP. I
 guess I'd better start checking the wires. Sigh. And yet it
 will be Jeff Conaway who gets all the obit attention.
 
 -Deb
 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
 
 -Original Message-
 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Sender: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 21:46:22 
 To: wnnwnndl@googlegroups.com
 Reply-To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Subject: unconfirmed, but looks like his death...
 
 looks like his death, was NOT televised
 
 http://twitter.com/#!/baddabyng
 
 
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Re: [DEADPOOLWATCH] Taxi To The Cemetary

[satrngrl]

Death Cab For (onetime) Cutie

At least Bobby Wheeler was. :P

--Deb

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Subject: [DEADPOOLWATCH] Taxi To The Cemetary
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Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 3:21 PM

Click here:  Report: Jeff Conaway to Be Taken Off Life Support | PopEater.com









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[ACCORDIONS]

[satrngrl]

Arizona congressman named FLAKE attacks accordions, non-miming mime troupe in 
anti-National Endowment for the Arts screed. Apparently, though, The Hill 
doesn't know that the San Francisco Mime Troupe isn't about pantomimes, 
either...

--Deb
Supports accordion-playing pantomimes, too...

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/160491-obama-arts-chief-grilled-at-house-appropriations-


GOP blasts NEA grants to 'Frisco mimes, accordion festival
By Erik Wasson - 05/11/11 11:40 AM ET

A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday grilled the chairman of the National 
Endowment of the Arts over grants to San Francisco mimes and an international 
accordion festival. 

“Those just kind of grants lend themselves to ridicule,” said Rep. Jeff Flake 
(R-Ariz.) at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. “These are a bit 
tough to justify … how can we justify these types of grants?”

Flake questioned NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman over a number of grants, 
including those to an international accordion festival and to the San Francisco 
Mime Troupe. Making grants like these “feeds the cynicism out there about 
everything we do,” Flake said. 

Landesman responded that many of the programs that win NEA support could not 
exist without the help.

“The marketplace shouldn’t be the sole determinant of what is allowed to 
flourish,” Landesman said, adding that the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe 
would likely not be able to survive solely on ticket sales.

Flake said he will do anything it takes to kill funding for the accordion 
festival, a statement that prompted Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) to say that 
Flake will be getting hate mail from Polish folk musicians. 

“Even during difficult budget times, we have to protect, preserve and grow the 
arts,” Serrano said. 

Flake also scrutinized NEA support for small university presses and university 
drama programs. He noted that some of the richest universities in the country, 
such as Yale and Columbia, receive NEA grants.

Landesman answered that the drama programs and small university presses are 
generally fiscally independent from the universities and their billion dollar 
endowments.

He said NEA is doing more to ensure that poor-quality programs do not receive 
funding. 

“There has been fear of death panels being conducted at the NEA,” he joked.

Landesman said that NEA needs more staff in order to conduct field visits to 
ensure quality arts programs.

The Obama administration is seeking to reduce NEA funding by 13 percent from 
2010 funding, but the agency could see deeper cuts as the House tries to cut 
discretionary spending across the board.

Flake said he wants to see funding cut even further, below 2008 levels.

Appropriations subcommittee chairman Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) emphasized he is a 
strong supporter of the NEA, especially for its rural outreach program. 

Simpson said after the hearing that the level of funding for NEA has not been 
figured out. The subcommittee is aiming to mark up a bill within weeks.

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Yo, Tom.

[satrngrl]

Two years ago today. 

I was going to say I have especially missed the magnificent bastard these last 
few days, but realize I've missed him every day he's been gone. 

--Deb
...Air Cool!

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[HOLYSHIT] NHK English Stream

[satrngrl]

NHK's English broadcast is now streaming here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

Discussing the finer points of the difference between melting and meltdown. 
Press conference in progress right now.

--Deb

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Re: (AOD) He was born a father to a son on a Christmas Day ...

[satrngrl]

Well played. :)--Deb

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Subject: (AOD) He was born a father to a son on a Christmas Day ...
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Date: Monday, December 27, 2010, 9:33 PM

Roy-ters, even!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_eltonjohn

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Elton John and his partner have become the 
proud parents of a son born to a surrogate in California on Christmas 
Day, US Weekly reported on Monday.

The boy, named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, is the first for the 
British rock star and Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, who have been 
together since the early 1990s.

We are overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment,
 US Weekly quoted the pair as saying. Zachary is healthy and doing 
really well, and we are very proud and happy parents.

The magazine said the boy weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and it quoted a 
representative for the 63-year-old musician as saying that no further 
details about the surrogacy arrangement would be disclosed. John's 
spokeswoman told Reuters the report was accurate.

The pair, who entered into a civil union in 2005, tried to adopt an 
AIDS-infected orphan in Ukraine last year, but were thwarted by 
government regulations.

Their son's middle name is a possible nod to John's 1971 song Levon, 
whose lyrics were written by the rocker's longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin 
and inspired by Levon Helm, the drummer and singer for The Band.


 



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[AP] You can't spell crap without....

[satrngrl]

I'm perusing the wires this morning in search of news that isn't about the 
Spider-Man fiasco and there, under entertainment no less, do I find THIS 
(updated w/byline to make sure the moron responsible gets proper blame):

Date: 12/23/2010 12:45 PM

BC-EU--Germany-Puppies,1st Ld-Writethru/525
Eds: Updates with quotes and detail. Adds byline. AP Video. This story is part 
of AP's general news and entertainment services.

German dog to be neutered after 17-puppy litter
JUERGEN BAETZ,Associated Press


BERLIN (AP) — Ten weeks after giving birth to 17 puppies, the Rhodesian 
Ridgeback mother is to be neutered while her cute offspring leave for new 
homes, the dog's owner said Thursday.

[SNIP, INDEED]

That's one very talented dog.

--Deb

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[DEADPOOL] Old Feller

[satrngrl]

Credit New York Times.
--Deb

Bob Feller, a Pitcher Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Bob Feller, who came off an Iowa farm with a dazzling fastball that made him a 
national celebrity at 17 and propelled him to the Hall of Fame as one of 
baseball’s greatest pitchers, died Wednesday at a hospice. He was 92.

His death was announced on Major League Baseball’s Web site. He announced in 
August 2010 that he was being treated for leukemia. He had recently been 
treated at the Cleveland Clinic for pneumonia.

Joining the Cleveland Indians in 1936, Feller became baseball’s biggest draw 
since Babe Ruth, throwing pitches that batters could barely see — fastballs 
approaching 100 miles an hour and curveballs and sinkers that fooled the 
sharpest eyes. He was Rapid Robert in the sports pages. As Yankees pitcher 
Lefty Gomez was said to have remarked after three Feller pitches blew by him, 
“That last one sounded a little low.”

A high-kicking right-hander, Feller was a major league phenomenon while still 
in high school in Van Meter, Iowa. His debut as an Indians starter, during his 
summer vacation, was spectacular: he struck out 15 batters.

Three weeks later he struck out 17, tying Dizzy Dean’s major league record. He 
pitched a no-hitter, the first of three in his 18-year career, when he was 21. 
(He went on to throw an astonishing 12 one-hitters.) He had more than 100 
victories at age 22.

By the end of his brief rookie season, Feller was the best-known young person 
in America, with the possible exception of Shirley Temple. When he returned for 
his senior year at Van Meter High School, the governor of Iowa attended a 
welcome-home ceremony. When the 1937 season opened, Feller’s picture was on the 
cover of Time magazine. And when he graduated from high school in June of that 
year (he had been tutored while on road trips), NBC Radio carried the ceremony 
nationwide.

Feller was not particularly big — 6 feet tall and a chunky 185 pounds — but by 
most estimations he threw harder than anyone who had ever pitched, except 
perhaps Walter Johnson and Lefty Grove.

Feller’s career predated the use of radar guns to measure a pitch’s speed, but 
he was nonetheless able to show exactly how fast he was in a demonstration in 
August 1946, when he threw 30 pitches through the hole of a photoelectric 
device before a game in Washington. They averaged 98.6 miles an hour.

“I don’t think anyone is ever going to throw a ball faster than he does,” Joe 
DiMaggio was quoted as saying during his epic 1941 season, when he hit in a 
record 56 consecutive games. “And his curveball isn’t human.”

Feller capitalized on his fame.During the late 1940s, the average major league 
salary barely exceeded $10,000, and only DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg and Ted 
Williams reached $100,000. Feller, in a 1990 memoir, said he earned more than 
$100,000 in 1946, drawing on a base salary of $50,000 in addition to incentives 
tied to victories and attendance; the profits from endorsements, most notably 
for Wheaties and Wilson sporting goods; and the proceeds of a barnstorming tour 
in which he led major league stars in games against top players from the Negro 
leagues. His total income climbed to $150,000 the next year, he said.

Feller set a record, since broken, for most strikeouts in a game (18) and 
struck out 2,581 batters in his career. His three no-hitters included the only 
one ever thrown on opening day. He led the American League in victories six 
times and in strikeouts seven times.

Feller entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 with Jackie Robinson; they 
were the first to do so in their first year of eligibility since the inaugural 
inductions 23 years earlier.

Back in 1945, Feller, always outspoken, had created a controversy involving 
Robinson soon after Robinson had been signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers 
organization to break baseball’s color barrier. After pitching against Robinson 
in California on a postseason barnstorming tour, Feller told a reporter in Los 
Angeles that Robinson was too muscle-bound to handle major league pitching and 
expressed doubt that Robinson would be considered for the big leagues if he 
were white.

Feller eventually acknowledged that he had been mistaken, but it appears he 
never expressed regrets directly to Robinson. He did say that he had taken 
pride in giving black players exposure through his barnstorming tours. And in 
his memoir, “Now Pitching, Bob Feller,” written with Bill Gilbert, he said it 
had been “extra meaningful” for him go into the Hall of Fame “with major league 
baseball’s first black player.” Robinson, in turn, said it was a pleasure to be 
inducted with Feller.

Feller won 266 games in his 18 seasons, all with the Indians, but military 
service in World War II interrupted his career in his prime and might have 
deprived him of 100 more victories.

“I know in my heart I would have ended up a lot closer to 400 than 300 if I 
hadn’t spent four seasons in the 

Re: [DEADPOOL] Old Feller

[satrngrl]

--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Mike Ward mpw...@gmail.com wrote:


 Thank you, Deb...and RIP Rapid Robert.
 
 He's been in the news locally due to his Cleveland Clinic
 visit, and
 there's been a little talk about his, uh, grumpiness and
 the fact he
 didn't feel he got enough love from the public.
 
 But his career stands on its own, even for those of us who
 were far
 too young to watch him play.
 

When I was at mom's at Thanksgiving, we got caught up in MLBtv (I don't get it 
at home, damn you, DISH). I don't recall the name of the show, but they were 
doing basically a marathon of baseball history hosted by the Elfin Sports Boy 
including quite a bit of Bob Feller. I was kind of surprised to see he was 
still living. A week or 2 later I saw he'd been moved to hospice, and now this.

There aren't many of those old school ballplayers left, and certainly he was 
the last of his era. 

Have I mentioned how much I hate winter, even in California? (all pity to those 
of you in the arctic zones including Florida). I just checked, and it's exactly 
60 days until pitchers and catchers report. Hope springs eternal.

Wistfully yours,
Deb

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Re: [DEADPOOL] Old Feller

[satrngrl]

--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Richard de Give rduhg...@yahoo.com wrote:

Oh, and Deb? Just got a note from the Grizzlies, and the World Series trophy 
will be at the Fresno Hot Stove dinner in February ... if you wanted to see it 
... [/October]
Now wait just a minute, bucko. I don't think either Rose or myself invoked 
October over that. But I was living in LA in 1988 and went to the bash at 
City Hall. So, um, I've already seen it. ;)
--Deb


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Re: [DEADPOOL] Old Feller

[satrngrl]

I'm sorry about your grandfather, Jim. I'm also insanely ticked that I'm 
missing that 1960 game...like I said, damn you DISH, damn you to hell.

--Deb

--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote:

 From: Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] Old Feller
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 9:07 PM
 On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:38 PM, satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 wrote:
 
  When I was at mom's at Thanksgiving, we got caught up
 in MLBtv (I don't get it at home, damn you, DISH). I don't
 recall the name of the show, but they were doing basically a
 marathon of baseball history hosted by the Elfin Sports Boy
 including quite a bit of Bob Feller. I was kind of surprised
 to see he was still living.
 
 My grandfather passed away the week before Thanksgiving --
 he had an autographed photo of Bob Feller that someone had
 gotten for him some years ago, and we put it on display at
 the funeral home for the viewing.  Although my
 grandfather lived in New Jersey, he was an Indians fan, both
 because he hated the Yankees (and the Indians were the only
 team to challenge the Yankees' dominance of the AL in the
 years after World War II), and because both he and Feller
 were originally from Iowa.
 
 So I had also recently had a wow, Bob Feller is still
 alive moment, when we looked it up.
 
 I'm right now watching Bing Crosby's recording of Game 7 of
 the 1960 World Series on MLB Network, which has nothing to
 do with Bob Feller, but is still interesting.  Would be
 more interesting if they hadn't cut out all the commercials
 and sponsorship announcements.
 
 -- 
 Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv
 http://www.ellwanger.tv/

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Request from Tom's photog friend

[satrngrl]

Hi all, just got a Facebook message from the photographer who shot those great 
pix of Tom a couple of years ago. I'm looking for the Xmas card envelope Tom 
sent me that has his parents' address on it, but if anyone has it immediately 
handy, please let me know.

Scott Pasfield December 12 at 7:56am Report
hey debbie, u had commented on tom's page after he passed away about the pics i 
took of him for my gay american project. i have a favor to ask... i am 
negotiating with a publisher and wanted to get in touch with tom's family. any 
chance you know who i should contact to find out how to do that?
thanks for your help,
scott

--Deb

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[DEADPOOL] File under: They Got The Wrong One

[satrngrl]

CNN Breaking News
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 2:00 PM
From:
CNN Breaking News breakingn...@mail.cnn.com

-- Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Sen. John Edwards, has died after a 
battle with breast cancer, her family says.

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Re: (deadpool) Surely I can't be dead

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I like to think if there's an afterlife, he's teaching Tom to play golf
--deb

--- On Sun, 11/28/10, Michael King mhk...@gmail.com wrote:

From: Michael King mhk...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: (deadpool) Surely I can't be dead
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 6:16 PM

And don't call me Shirley...

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Richard de Give rduhg...@yahoo.com wrote:



Nielsen rose to fame with roles in the Airplane and Naked Gun film 
franchises. He had apparently been suffering from pneumonia for more 
than a week.
“Today at 5:30 with his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep 
and passed away,” his nephew Doug Nielsen told Manitoba radio station CJOB68.


Read more:  
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/11/28/comedian-leslie-nielsen-dead-at-84/#ixzz16dHiRgDE
Veteran
 comedian and actor Leslie Nielsen has died in a Florida hospital, his 
family confirmed to Global News on Sunday evening. The Canadian actor 
was 84.





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Re: (deadpool) Surely I can't be dead

[satrngrl]

Found on the YouTubesffwd to the :34 mark for the commercial for Bad Golf 
Made Easier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0SIXsBwFU0
And evidently someone recorded the actual video off a TV and posted it.Part 1 
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHWqd0CAPNE
And the quality is absolute crap. but hey.
--Deb... all of the other four letter words were taken

--- On Sun, 11/28/10, James Stanley Barr james.stanley.b...@gmail.com wrote:

From: James Stanley Barr james.stanley.b...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: (deadpool) Surely I can't be dead
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 8:25 PM


 
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MARGIN:0px;}


 
 


And don’t call him Shirley..
 
If I recall correctly, they were planning on a fourth “Naked Gun” 
film.  
 
Nevertheless, his talent will be sorely missed.  


 

From: Steven Otte 
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:29 PM
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com 
Subject: Re: (deadpool) Surely I can't be dead
 

He shouldn't have had the fish.
 
Last week I saw Airplane! and Airplane 2: The 
Sequel for the first time. I've always liked Nielsen in Naked Gun and 
Police 
Squad! before that. He was a brilliant comedian and will be 
missed.

--
Steven Otte
steveno...@att.net

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  Nielsen rose to fame with roles in the Airplane and Naked Gun film 
  franchises. He had apparently been suffering from pneumonia for more than a 
  week.
  “Today at 5:30 with his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell 
  asleep and passed away,” his nephew Doug Nielsen told Manitoba radio station 
CJOB68.

Read more: 
  
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/11/28/comedian-leslie-nielsen-dead-at-84/#ixzz16dHiRgDEVeteran
 
  comedian and actor Leslie Nielsen has died in a Florida hospital, his family 
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[PINKSWEATER] The things you find on YouTube...

[satrngrl]

...when you are looking for bad golf tips. 

I bring you Dick Sullivan, in 15 seconds of faded pink glory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9q2h9HdnUs

--Deb


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Re: Scarborough suspended for political contributions

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Because the suspension of Olbermann worked out so well for them. Meh.

-Deb


--- On Sat, 11/20/10, Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
 Subject: Scarborough suspended for political contributions
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 5:58 PM
 MSNBC Suspends 'Morning Joe' Host
 Scarborough for Political Donations
  
 Cable-news channel MSNBC said Friday that it has suspended
 host Joe
 Scarborough for making $4,000 in political donations
 without permission, its
 second suspension of a high-profile host over contributions
 in two weeks.
 
 Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who now
 co-hosts MSNBC's
 Morning Joe program, made eight donations of $500 to
 local Florida
 candidates in recent years, the network said. His
 suspension, without pay,
 will bar him from his weekday show for two days, and he
 will return Nov. 24.
 
 Since he did not seek or receive approval for these
 contributions, Joe
 understands that I will be suspending him for violating our
 policy, Phil
 Griffin, president of the General Electric Co. network,
 said in a statement.
 It is critical that we enforce our standards and
 policies, he added.
 
 Scarborough apologized to the network in a separate
 statement provided by
 MSNBC. I recognize that I have a responsibility to honor
 the guidelines and
 conditions of my employment, and I regret that I failed to
 do so in this
 matter, he said.
 
 At least five of Mr. Scarborough's donations were made
 since 2005 to local
 Republican candidates, according to Florida Division of
 Elections records.
 Mr. Scarborough said in his statement that because he had
 given for personal
 reasons to his brother and three longtime family friends,
 I mistakenly
 believed that I did not need approval from MSNBC. I also
 apologize for that
 oversight.
 
 http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/11/19/msnbc-suspends-morning-joe-host-sc
 arborough-for-political-donations/tab/print/
 
 Regards,
 
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Re: [misc] Gravity 1, treehugger 0

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Re: [misc] Gravity 1, treehugger 0

 
 And even in California, November isn't summer. At least not
 this far north. 

Nor this far south. Br...cold windy and rainy tonight for Cali.

I'll hand it to her, though...she's gotta be 20 years older than me, but I 
couldn't climb a tree to save my life these days. All I can do to drag my azz 
out of bed in the morning, let alone get out of a frackin treehouse.

--Deb


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Re: Olbermann suspended for political contributions

[satrngrl]

I guess the main question is whether Keith O is a reporter. He might think he 
is, but when was the last time he was actually in the field reporting and lot 
leaving it to his producers? On the other hand, I was listening to Commie 
Radio, err Pacifica's California report on the way home from work tonight and 
Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe has apparently shoveled a few thousand bucks the 
GOP's way. Will this apply to him, too, or is MSNBC taking Keith out as a 
result of the election?
It also occurs to me that Keith's historical shelf life on any given show has 
never been more than 5 years or so before he crosses the boss.
Too bad Jonathan Larsen bailed on us. I assume as goes Keith, so goes Larsen. :(
--Deb



--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Jim O'Connell hunthu...@earthlink.net wrote:

From: Jim O'Connell hunthu...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Olbermann suspended for political contributions
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com, wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 1:21 PM


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sans-serif;background-color:#ff;color:black;}#yiv1937961802 p{margin:0px;}

 
 I think so. I know of local reporters who are absolutely scrupulous when it 
comes to this. Why should we expect less from people at the national level.



-Original Message- 
From: kbrab...@aol.com 
Sent: Nov 5, 2010 4:16 PM 
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com 
Subject: Re: Olbermann suspended for political contributions 


Ok, I'm looking for others at this point...in this cycle only...I've seen 
Hannity giving money...are we really going to say that these partisan people 
(and both Hannity and Olbermann are certainly partisan) should be suspended and 
fired?  
 
And so it goes, 
 
Kevin Brabant (it's not like these guys are trying to be journalists)
kbrab...@aol.com





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From: Jim O'Connell hunthu...@earthlink.net
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Sent: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 4:08 pm
Subject: Re: Olbermann suspended for political contributions


True, but that doesn't excuse it. Obie broke one of the primary rules of 
J-School 101. I don't think a suspension is enough.


-Original Message-
From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Kevin G. Barkes wrote:

Meanwhile, how much money have his corporate bosses, most
especially including General Electric, given both directly
and in kind?

Oh wait. they're corporations.

never mind.

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[GOODMAN] Bring Me The Head of Tim Goodman

[satrngrl]

Everything Tim Goodman knows he learned from television and is taking it all to 
the Hollywood Reporter, sez Mediabistro. Or, taking off the cranky pants.

October 20, 2010: Tim Goodman has been named chief television critic at The 
Hollywood Reporter. He had been television critic at San Francisco Chronicle. 
(FBLA)

--Deb
Sigh.

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Birthday wishes and Tom Lehrer to boot!

[satrngrl]

Hippo bird tweet to list mom and all that!

So tonight I find that Commie Pacifica Radio is pledge driving a Tom Lehrer CD 
and DVD set. So, hie thee to http://www.kpfa.org and pick it for I think $80. 

And be a Commie. Or NOT at Truther (the truthers really hate this stuff). Or, 
really, to support alt-music and etcetera us Nowbies probably don't seek on 
cracked Spotify. Or whatever. 

--Deb
wtf am I saying? oh just get the Tom Lehrer set. Tom would love that. 

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Re: [Happy Birthday]

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Hippo bird tweet and all that.
Too late to wish you a brain melting round of shots, but early enough to raise 
a mimosa in your honor. 
love you, list mom.
--Debgo, whoever is playing the Gnats...

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Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 7:02 PM

Happy Birthday Rose!! Wishing you a great year!
 Glenda M. Collins    email: glendamcoll...@yahoo.com  Cell Phone: 408-772-1285

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Happy Birthday :-)

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To Rose, with a twist of lime...





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[NOISE] A New Contender For Best Headline Ever

[satrngrl]

The New York Post's infamous Headless Body In Topless Bar may have some 
serious competition with Butts Arrested In Boob Murder Case.  Just sayin'.

http://wearecentralpa.com/wtaj-news-fulltext/?nxd_id=203465shr=addthis

--Deb

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[DEJAVU] Another oil rig explodes in Gulf

[satrngrl]

My first thought was that someone at CNN accidentally resent a 6-month old news 
blast. Now I only wish that were so.

CNN Breaking News
Thursday, September 2, 2010 8:37 AM

-- Oil rig explodes 80 miles off Louisiana coast; 12 people reported overboard 
and one missing, the Coast Guard says.

--Deb
..surprised to learn she shares a birthday with Harry Reams. Thanks, KGB. :)

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[DEADPOOL] Croak Along With Mitch

[satrngrl]

wow..a classic case of I thought he was already dead.
--Deb
usual (cr)AP disclaimers apply...

NEW YORK — Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to 
Sing Along With Mitch on television and records, has died at age 99.

His daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, said Monday that Miller died Saturday in 
Lenox Hill Hospital after a short illness.

Miller was a key record executive at Columbia Records in the pre-rock 'n' roll 
era, making hits with singers Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis and 
Tony Bennett.

Sing Along With Mitch started as a series of records, then became a popular 
NBC show starting in early 1961. Miller's stiff-armed conducting style and 
signature goatee became famous.

As a producer and arranger, Miller had misses along with his hits, famously 
striking out on projects with Frank Sinatra and a young Aretha Franklin.

The TV show ranked in the top 20 for the 1961-62 season, and soon children 
everywhere were parodying Miller's stiff-armed conducting. An all-male chorus 
sang old standards, joined by a few female singers, most prominently Leslie 
Uggams. Viewers were invited to join in with lyrics superimposed on the screen 
and followed with a bouncing ball.

He is an odd-looking man, New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote in 
1962. His sharp beard, twinkling eyes, wrinkled forehead and mechanical beat 
make him look like a little puppet as he peers hopefully into the camera. By 
now most of us are more familiar with his tonsils than with those of our 
families.

Atkinson went on to say that as a musician, Miller was first rate, praising 
the clean tone of the singing, the clarity of the lyrics, the aptness of the 
tempos, the variety and the occasional delicacy of the instrumental 
accompaniment.

An accomplished oboist, Miller played in a number of orchestras early in his 
career, including one put together in 1934 by George Gershwin. Gershwin was an 
unassuming guy, Miller told The New York Times in 1989. I never heard him 
raise his voice.

Miller began in the recording business with Mercury Records in the late '40s, 
first on the classical side, later with popular music. He then went over to 
Columbia Records as head of its popular records division.

Among the stars whose hits he worked on were Clooney, Page, Bennett, Frankie 
Laine and Jo Stafford. His decision to have Mathis switch from jazz to lushly 
romantic ballads launched the singer as a superstar.

He had a less rewarding collaboration with Sinatra, whose recording of the 
novelty song Mama Will Bark, featuring a barking dog, was considered the 
nadir of the singer's career. Still, Miller became known for his distinctive 
arrangements, such as the use of a harpsichord on Clooney's megahit version of 
Come On-a My House. He used dubbing of vocal tracks back when that was 
considered exotic.

To me, the art of singing a pop song has always been to sing it very quietly, 
Miller said in the book Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music.

The microphone and the amplifier made the popular song what it is — an 
intimate one-on-one experience through electronics. It's not like opera or 
classical singing. The whole idea is to take a very small thing and make it 
big.

Miller and a chorus had a No. 1 hit in 1955 with The Yellow Rose of Texas, 
and that led to his sing-along records a few years later.

The years of Miller's biggest successes were also the early years of rock 'n' 
roll, and many fans saw his old-fashioned arrangements of standards and folk 
favorites as an antidote to the noisy stuff the teens adored. As an executive 
at Columbia, Miller would be widely ridiculed for trying to turn a young Aretha 
Franklin into a showbiz diva in the tradition of Sophie Tucker.

But Miller was not entirely unsympathetic to rock 'n' roll.

In a 1955 essay in The New York Times magazine, he said the popularity of 
rhythm and blues, as he called it, with white teens was part of young people's 
natural desire not to conform, a need to be rebellious.

He added: There is a steady — and healthy — breaking down of color barriers in 
the United States; perhaps the rhythm-and-blues rage — I am only theorizing — 
is another expression of it.

Miller has often been maligned as a maestro of 1950s schlock ... Yet Miller 
injected elements of rhythm and blues and country music, however diluted, into 
mainstream pop, Ken Emerson wrote in his book Always Magic in the Air.

In the Martin Scorsese documentary on Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, Miller 
acknowledged that he was dubious when famed producer John Hammond brought the 
nearly unknown Dylan to the staid Columbia label in the early '60s. He was 
singing in, you know, this rough-edged voice, Miller said. I will admit I 
didn't see the greatness of it. But he said he respected Hammond's track 
record in finding talent.

In recent years, Miller returned to his classical roots, appearing frequently 
as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras.

In 2000, he 

[GMA-W] Vote in the GMA Weekend Anchor Poll!

[satrngrl]

Jeremy Hubbard is not one of the poll choices, but there is a write-in option 
on the TVNewser poll:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc/who_should_get_the_weekend_gma_coanchor_job_168735.asp

Seems like a job for the Elite Guard to me.

--Deb
onward!

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[OUTRAGE] WTF? JEOPARDY?

[satrngrl]

Seriously, I had to RUN THIS BACK on the DVR.

Tonight's Jeopardy had a Late Night category. 

Including the answer:  Ted Koppel hosted this show for 25 years.

Questions? Only one attempt: What is 'Dateline'.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. 

I'm sorry. I'm ... verklempt...to say the least. Just chased the S.O. out of 
the house to run the sprinklers thanks to RANTING. agh.

Just WTF.

--Deb
Noting that the Polka this morning was the old school, stuff you saw on 
Koppel's show and Gee Thanks Mr. Jennings! version of Barry's Greatest Hits. 
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Re: [deadpool] st peter 1, yankees 0

[satrngrl]

So many missed opportunities, no doubt.

I figure that 1) he waited for Bob Sheppard to dive into the deadpool in order 
to announce his entrance to ...wherever. and 2) whatever it took to overshadow 
the first National League All Star game win in 12 or so years...

I'm sure Tom would snort at all of this. And say that Costanza would now be The 
Boss..or something. :)

--Deb

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 Subject: Re: [deadpool] st peter 1, yankees 0
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 9:50 PM
 
 On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:45 PM, rych wrote:
 
  George Steinbrenner dead at 80 of heart attack.
 
     Man, a lede like that, and no sick jokes
 that everyone hasn't already made.
 
 
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Re: What I'm dying about, Willis

[satrngrl]

Diff'rent Stroke.

--Deb

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From: Steven Otte steveno...@att.net
Subject: Re: What I'm dying about, Willis
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 12:23 PM

Life is short, and so was he.

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Subject: What I'm dying about, Willis
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 2:10 PM



tlc
 
 

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Re: [EMMY] Yippie!!!

[satrngrl]

That is just awesome. Congratulations Mike, and keep doing the good work. We're 
all proud of you, not that you needed to be told. :)

--Deb

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 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 9:32 PM
 
 On May 9, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Michael King wrote:
 
  I just got official word that I've been nominated in
 three different categories for Emmy Award this year!
 
     Oh, that's fantastic. 
 Congratulations and good luck.
 
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Re: In a very special WNN goodbye

[satrngrl]

That explains Barry's mystery polka referenced on Facebook.
No Aaron or Lisa? Sigh.

Hoisting a beverage of choice mug to Peter. 

--Deb

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 From: rych r...@rych.org
 Subject: In a very special WNN goodbye
 To: World News Now Discussion List wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 10:46 PM
 'World News Now' Stage Manager to
 Give his Final Cue
 By Chris Ariens on Apr 29, 2010 11:23 PMFriday morning on
 World News
 Now (yes, you'll either have to stay up really late, or
 wake up really
 early) the show will say goodbye to Peter Grimm who has
 been World
 News Now's stage manager for the past 17 years.
 
 Grimm, who we hear will sleep in until Noon on Monday, has
 been floor
 director with virtually every host in the early morning
 show's
 eclectic anchor history. And as a tribute 21 of them will
 wish him
 off. That includes Ryan Owens 2007-2008, David Muir
 2003-2004, Tamala
 Edwards 2003-2005, Alison Stewart 2000-2002, Liz Cho
 2002-2003, Kevin
 Newman 1994-1996, Thalia Assuras 1993-1997, Bill Greenwood
  Sheilah
 Kast 1993-1996, Derek McGinty 2001-2003, Asha Blake
 (pictured with
 Grimm) 1997-1998, Heather Cabot 2005, Ron Corning
 2004-2006, Mark
 Mullen 1996-1998, Anderson Cooper 1999-2000, Andrea Stassou
 2003,
 Taina Hernandez 2005-2007, Hari Sreenivasan 2006-2007,
 Melinda
 Wittstock 1998 and Juju Chang 1999-2000.
 
 Also, Barry Mitchell will be in to do a special live polka
 for Peter,
 with the original Mitchellettes his back-up singers on
 the first WNN
 polka back in 1993. Set your DVRs kids! Or look for video
 tomorrow,
 which will include a certain creator of the show who has
 gone on to
 bigger, magic-er things at another network.
 
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[HEALTHWATCH] He must be in the front row...of the operating room

[satrngrl]

Credit: MLB.com Bleacher Report
--Deb

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b3TXj



04/27/10 6:01 PM ET
Uecker to have heart surgery
Popular broadcaster, actor expected to miss 10-12 weeks

By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
MILWAUKEE -- Brewers Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker has always been better 
at turning a comedic phrase than turning on a fastball, so it came as no 
surprise when he delivered sobering news on Tuesday with a touch of his famous 
humor.

Uecker, 75 and in his 40th season in the Brewers' radio booth, will undergo 
heart surgery on Friday and is expected to miss the next 10-12 weeks of the 
baseball season. Dr. Alfred C. Nicolosi will replace Uecker's aortic valve and 
a portion of his aortic root.

After that procedure, Dr. Jim Kleczka will determine whether additional bypass 
surgery is necessary.

It has to be done -- that's the bottom line, Uecker told a packed news 
conference. I don't want to go on the road and 'take a Dixie' there. I'd 
rather do it here.

Flanked by a group of well-wishing players that included Prince Fielder, Trevor 
Hoffman, Rickie Weeks, Casey McGehee, Jim Edmonds and Wisconsin's own Craig 
Counsell, Uecker said he has known about his heart problem since last September 
but had hoped to get through the 2010 season before undergoing surgery. He 
planned to work Tuesday's and Wednesday's games against the Pirates as usual 
before surgery Friday morning at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

At the same time, the Brewers will begin their first road trip without him in 
19 years. Uecker's radio partner, Cory Provus, will handle play-by-play 
throughout the trip with color analysis by Fox Sports Wisconsin's Davey Nelson. 
After the trip, the Brewers and the team's flagship radio station, WTMJ-AM, 
will review its options for the remainder of Uecker's absence.

Uecker also had surgery in 1991 to repair two abdominal aortic aneurysms and 
made a full recovery in about five weeks. That's the longest he has been away 
from baseball since his hometown Milwaukee Braves signed him in 1956.

Until now.

A lot of people have problems worse than mine, Uecker said, tearing up. I 
wasn't worried about it because they told me I could swim, you know. It was 
just in the last three months that this thing started to increase in size. I 
know, because I saw it [on an EKG] yesterday.

After his 1991 surgery, Uecker was told that there was a likelihood of a 
recurrence of similar problems. They manifested last September, when Uecker saw 
a specialist for tests to determine whether he had diabetes. He didn't, but the 
physician heard a heart murmur and notified Klezcka, who was alongside Uecker 
on Tuesday at Miller Park.

Further tests revealed that Uecker's aortic valve was leaking quite badly, 
Klezcka said, and he also found that the aortic root above the heart was 
enlarged. He monitored Uecker in the ensuing months.

Those two problems often go hand in hand, Klezcka said. It's not something 
that necessarily requires surgery immediately, especially in people who don't 
have any symptoms. At the time, Bob was having no symptoms.

But the latest scans that we've gotten have shown that the aorta has grown 
larger, and even though Bob doesn't have any symptoms right now, it's grown to 
the point that something needs to be done because I'm afraid he would have 
problems in terms of this thing potentially rupturing before the end of the 
season.

That decision was made after the Brewers returned last Thursday night from a 
three-city road trip.

Things changed dramatically, pretty much, Uecker said. I was advised not to 
go on this [upcoming] trip and that the surgery was going to be moved up. I was 
kind of hoping I would go to the end of the year and have it during the 
offseason, but it didn't work.

Uecker has been calling play-by-play on Brewers radio broadcasts since 1971 and 
was inducted into the broadcasters' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame 
in 2003. He was inducted into the Miller Park Walk of Fame the same year, and 
then was added to the Milwaukee Braves Wall of Honor at Miller Park in 2009.

He's better known nationally for his work in film and television, including 
appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. It was Carson who dubbed 
Uecker Mr. Baseball. Uecker went on to star in commercials for Miller Lite, 
in the hit TV series Mr. Belvedere and the Major League series of films. He 
also hosted a pair of Wrestlemanias and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame 
last month during Spring Training.

He is an avid swimmer who maintains a locker at Miller Park for his afternoon 
workouts in the team's resistance pool. Acquaintances could see even at the 
start of Spring Training that he was weak, but Uecker continued to swim a mile 
every morning, right through last week's road trip.

Even as he received treatment over the winter and called early-season games 
while woozy with medication, Uecker never considered taking time off until the 
doctors 

[UNDEADPOOL] The Return of Tony Clifton's Alter Ego

[satrngrl]

Tony Clifton's been doing shows again, the 25th anniversary of Comic Relief is 
upon us, and that can mean only one thing: It's time for the rumors of Andy 
Kaufman's faking his death to begin swirling again.

http://www.andykaufmanlives.com/

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[DEADPOOLWATCH] Celebrity Hemorrhage, Or Every Hearse Has Its Thorn

[satrngrl]

And the word on the grapevine is, if you remember Princess Diana, the news is 
expected to be grim.
--Deb

ABCNews.com

Bret Michaels Hospitalized Following Brain Hemorrhage: Report
Ex-Poison Frontman, Reality TV Star Reportedly in Critical Condition


Over the course of a few days, Bret Michaels went from rocking reality TV to 
reeling from health problems.
Photo: Bret Michaels Hospitalized Following Brain Hemorrhage: Report: Ex-Poison 
Frontman, Reality TV Star in Critical Condition
Bret Michaels attends an American Diabetes Association fundraiser at the South 
Street Seaport in New... Expand
Bret Michaels attends an American Diabetes Association fundraiser at the South 
Street Seaport in New York in this Oct. 2009 file photo. The ex-Poison 
frontman, former star of VH1's Rock of Love With Bret Michaels, and current 
Celebrity Apprentice contestant was hospitalized at an undisclosed facility 
Thursday after suffering a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding at the 
base of his brain stem, according to People magazine. Collapse
(John Lamparski/WireImage)

The ex-Poison frontman, former star of VH1's Rock of Love With Bret Michaels, 
and current Celebrity Apprentice contestant was hospitalized at an 
undisclosed facility Thursday after suffering a massive subarachnoid 
hemorrhage, or bleeding at the base of his brain stem, according to People 
magazine.

Michaels, 47, was in critical condition and under intense observation by 
doctors while they run tests to determine the cause of his bleeding, People 
reported.

ABCNews.com's calls and e-mails to Michaels' publicist were not immediately 
returned.

Last weekend, Michaels revealed to his fans that he was rushed to a hospital on 
April 11 for an emergency appendectomy. 

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Re: [PING] Southern Californians?

[satrngrl]

Prelim magnitude upped from 6.9 to 7.2, located about 150 miles SE of San 
Diego-ish. Lots of video of people freaking out at waves in their swimming 
pools but so far no damage reports. Imagine there won't be (in California, 
anyway). 

Am amused/disgusted that CNN feels the need to explain that BAJA California is 
uh MEXICO, which is not actually California although my mom would probably 
argue that point. :)

Oh, another 5-ish about a half hour ago in the Cali. desert...but a low 5 is 
good Disneyland ride for most of us.

--Deb
quake free in Fresno...

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     Hey, CNN as well
 as responsible news sources are reporting a fair-sized
 earthquake out in the Baja-to-Alta California area. 
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[JOBSPOOL] Brian Rooney Cut, Talks ABC News

[satrngrl]

Always a drag to read these things. Also, I didn't know Brian was Andy Rooney's 
kid...
--Deb

http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2010/03/exabc-correspondent-rooney-massive-cuts-will-have-unintended-consequences.html

  Ex-ABC correspondent Rooney: Massive cuts will have unintended consequences

By: Michael Schneider
Published: Wed, March 24, 2010, 7:03 PM
| Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

Longtime ABC News correspondent Brian Rooney found out late Monday that he was 
being let go as part of the news division's massive downsizing.

Since joining ABC News in 1988, Rooney has covered big events such as the 
Indian Ocean tsunami, the Southern California wildfires, the Oklahoma City 
bombing, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the 1989 
student uprising in Tiananmen Square and the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

He also covered the recent Late Night Wars -- and I spoke to him several times 
over those crazy days in January.

But with ABC News cutting as much as 25% of its workforce -- and half of its 
domestic correspondents -- I asked Rooney to talk a bit about his sadness in 
leaving ABC, and whether this has soured him on broadcast news:

ON THE AIR: Did you see this coming? After 22 years at ABC News, how did you 
take this news?

ROONEY: In some ways I saw it coming. Once the word got out they were cutting 
as many as a quarter of the employees, I knew I was vulnerable. My contract 
expired in the middle of all this, and often in these situations they fire the 
people they are able to fire quickly, regardless of value or skill. I don’t 
take it personally. They know I’m good at what I do and no one had fun firing 
me. So when they told me I took it like a man, although in private moments I 
have not.

ON THE AIR: What’s the mood in the bureau been like since the ABC News 
downsizing was announced?

ROONEY: The mood not just here in Los Angeles, but all over ABC News is dark. 
Friends are disappearing and few people know whether they will have a job or 
what their job might be at the end of this. Just as an observer, aside from my 
personal interest, I have never seen a corporate reorganization as drastic and 
immediate as this. It will have unintended consequences. They will and already 
have lost people they want to keep. But the amazing thing -- I just love 
journalists -- these people will do their jobs until they are told to leave the 
building.

But I want to say I do think, despite how hard this is for me, David Westin is 
trying to save ABC News from extinction. There are aspects to this that for 
him, must be devastating.

ON THE AIR: Can a major news operation exist without any bureaus? How do you 
think the network will cover the next big L.A. story?

ROONEY: I can’t say whether they can really cover the news without bureaus. 
Local presence is like having listening posts ahead of the front lines. You 
can’t survive without them. So I don’t think ABC will be without bureaus. They 
will just operate differently and they will be smaller. We have not seen the 
blueprint for how they will do it, so I can’t say how they will handle major 
news, or even minor.

ON THE AIR: We’re all trying to figure out whether there’s even a future for 
print journalism. What’s your take on the fate of broadcast journalism? Of 
network news?

ROONEY: Despite all the hand wringing about the fate of the news business I 
believe there will be print and television journalism in the future. Who will 
be doing it, I don’t know. When I grew up PF Flyers were one of the most 
popular sneakers kids wore. PF Flyers are long gone, but we still have sneakers.

Rooney, by the way, is the son of 60 Minutes fixture Andy Rooney.

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[DEADPOOL] It Really DID Start at a 500-watt station in Fresno....

[satrngrl]

From the New York Times.
--Deb

March 4, 2010
Gene Chenault, Who Changed Rock Radio, Dies at 90
By DENNIS HEVESI

Gene Chenault, who with his business partner, Bill Drake, reshaped rock radio 
in the 1960s with prepackaged programming that delivered more music and fewer 
commercials to hundreds of stations, creating the automated format common 
today, died on Feb. 23 in Tarzana, Calif. He was 90 and lived in Encino, Calif.

The cause was non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his wife, Susan, said.

The programming, using reel-to-reel tapes of tightly spaced Top 40 hits, was 
primarily designed by Mr. Drake and marketed and syndicated by Mr. Chenault. It 
raised ratings at station after station and brought a certain big-city sound to 
many small towns. At the press of a button a local D.J. could jump in with his 
own boisterous one-liner — no more yarns about teenage romance — or a 
station-identifying jingle. To maximize the music, the Top 40 were sometimes 
edited, speeded up and pared to 30.

The new format gave rise to the stock phrases “boss jock” and “boss radio,” 
which first took hold at KHJ in Los Angeles in 1965. (The word boss was derived 
from California surfer slang for good, as in “That’s a boss wave.”) Within a 
year KHJ leapt from 12th to first place in the Los Angeles ratings. Its slogan: 
“Much More Music.”

“The big idea is to unclutter and speed up the pace,” Time magazine wrote of 
the Drake-Chenault format in August 1968.

“The next recording is introduced during the fade-out of the last one,” the 
article continued. “Singing station identifications, which sometimes run at 
oratorio length elsewhere, are chopped to 1 ½ seconds. Commercials are reduced 
to 13 minutes, 40 seconds an hour — almost one-third less than the U.S. 
average.” By cutting down on commercials, the stations could sell advertising 
at higher rates.

Newscasts were scheduled at unconventional times, usually 20 minutes after the 
hour, so that when the competition was reporting a local crime, the syndicated 
station was running a “music sweep” — three or four recordings back-to-back to 
lure away dial switchers.

It worked. Besides the rise of KHJ in Los Angeles, KGB in San Diego went from 
last to first in its market in 90 days. In New York an upstart FM station, WOR, 
brought in Mr. Chenault (pronounced sha-NAULT) and Mr. Drake when it decided to 
go up against the Top 40 powerhouses WABC and WMCA. By 1967 WABC was still the 
leading New York station, but WOR-FM was No. 2.

Marc Fisher, the author of “Something in the Air: Radio, Rock and the 
Revolution That Shaped a Generation” (Random House, 2007), said in an 
interview: “What Drake and Chenault did in California and then exported around 
the country was the idea that you could virtually automate the combination of 
hit music, D.J.’s with bigger-than-life personalities and the overall sense of 
possibility and danger that the rock revolution was bringing to pop culture.”

Though boss jocks could be raucous, there was a certain homogeneity to the 
formula. “The positive spin is that they brought a more professional kind of 
entertainment to places that had been fairly amateurish,” Mr. Fisher said. “But 
if you look at their work from today’s perspective, they emerge as the founding 
fathers of predictable, automated music-radio formats.”

Still, by 1975, Drake-Chenault Enterprises, their consulting company in Canoga 
Park, Calif., was serving about 350 client stations with makeover advice and 
totally automated packages in six formats. In 1979 the company produced “The 
History of Rock ’n’ Roll,” a 50-hour documentary that met with phenomenal 
success. Stations clamored to schedule it, first as a blockbuster weekend 
special, then in repeat broadcasts of shorter segments.

Lester Eugene Chenault was born in Eldorado, Okla., on June 12, 1919, one of 
two sons of Leonard and Fannie Burnett Chenault. When he was 4 the family moved 
to Los Angeles.

Besides his wife, the former Susan Akiko, Mr. Chenault is survived by his son, 
Mark; his daughter, Carol Moore; and four grandchildren.

While in high school Mr. Chenault got an acting job at a radio station in Los 
Angeles. On graduating he was hired by KFRE in Fresno, Calif., but was soon 
drafted into the Army. After World War II he and a friend started a station in 
Fresno, KYNO; he eventually acquired full ownership.

In 1962 Mr. Chenault hired Mr. Drake, a brash up-and-coming D.J. who shared 
some of his new boss’s notions of rock ’n’ roll programming. As KYNO’s new 
program director Mr. Drake, who died in 2008, adopted a jampacked playlist and 
pared down the D.J. talk. Within a year its major local rival, KMAK, switched 
to country music.

“Gene Chenault’s name is less familiar than that of his partner, programmer 
Bill Drake,” the Museum of Broadcast Communications’s Encyclopedia of Radio 
says of the partners. “Yet behind the impact of Drake’s contributions to the 
Top 40 format were Chenault’s management skill and marketing 

RE: Rushing Rush to the hospital

[satrngrl]

Which explains why Obama and Pelosi are trying to KL HEEEM. 

Apologies to Free Republic. (OK not really, but it's been said there, 
predictably).

--Deb


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 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 12:02 AM
 Someone showed him Obama's birth
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Re: Fwd: Talk of the Nation Fouth Annual Obit Show

[satrngrl]

Thanks, Patrick.
Tom sent me a few of his concert reviews and I was especially happy he got a 
decent one out of chris daughtry, after i'd had such a terrible one with him 
for pollstar. I'll see what I have in my archives for you. Thank you for doing 
this. Almost makes up for you never telling us you got married. And yet WNN 
lives. grin

Bur damn do I miss tom right now.

--Deb


--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Patrick Murray mattapois...@earthlink.net wrote:

 From: Patrick Murray mattapois...@earthlink.net
 Subject: Fwd: Talk of the Nation Fouth Annual Obit Show
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 2:02 PM
 When this came
 to my Inbox the first person I thought of was Tom.  If
 any of you who knew him better would like to put together
 something, I will pass it on to the Producers .  The
 show airs on New Years Eve Day so the sooner the
 better.
 Take Care 
 -Patrick 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Talk of
 the Nation is getting ready to do
 its fourth annual Obit show. Every year there are
 noteworthy people in
 various walks of life who do not get a New York Times obit,
 yet to their
 family, friends and colleagues their legacy and
 contributions are significant. 
 Tell us your pick for someone who passed on this year, that
 you want to
 remember.  As you make your choice please
 consider contributing between 150-300
 words about this person and their significance to
 you.  Your essay may be
 chosen for a web buildout to accompany the broadcast
 or you may be
 asked to appear on the program to talk about your
 pick.
  Here’s a
 link to what we did last
 year.  Please let us know if you want to
 participate.
  
  
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[DEADPOOL] Finally Called Home

[satrngrl]

From:   CNN Breaking News breakingn...@mail.cnn.com
To: textbreakingn...@ema3lsv06.turner.com
Date:   12/15/09 12:41PM
Subject:CNN Breaking News

-- Evangelist Oral Roberts has died of pneumonia complications, his spokesman 
said. He was 91.

Only about 15 years late...
--Deb

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Re: [BREAKING] Gay marriage approved in DC

[satrngrl]

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, damonb...@gmail.com damonb...@gmail.com wrote:

{snip}


 D.C. City Council officially passed a bill that would legalize same-sex
 marriage on Tuesday afternoon. 

Well by golly, the next thing you know they'll want to get married on Wednesday 
mornings!!!

--Deb
..heh


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[FAIL] Happy birthday to Connor

[satrngrl]

Another epic moment in morning news show buffoonery.  Should bring back some 
warm and fuzzy memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3W5F49BjwQ

--Deb

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[DEADPOOL] Death, the Great Equalizer

[satrngrl]

'Equalizer' star Edward Woodward dies at 79

(AP) – 6 hours ago

LONDON — Edward Woodward, the star of films including Breaker Morant and The 
Wicker Man, died Monday. He was 79.

Woodward, who starred at The Equalizer on television, died in a hospital in 
Cornwall after an illness, said Janet Glass of the Eric Glass Ltd. agency in 
London.

He won an Emmy Award in 1990 for Remembering World War II and a Golden Globe 
in 1987 for The Equalizer, which ran for 88 episodes from 1985 to 1989 on the 
U.S. network CBS.

In a career that began in 1946 in a regional production of A Kiss for 
Cinderella, Woodward played roles in productions ranging from the popular 
British soap opera Eastenders to productions of Shakespeare, and at least 40 
films for theater or television.

His last film appearances were in Hot Fuzz in 2007 and Congregation of 
Ghosts, now in post-production.

He also recorded several albums including Love is the Key in 1977 and The 
Jewel that was Ours in 1994.

I think I've probably more television than any actor living, Woodward said in 
a 1987 interview with The Associated Press. I've done over 2,000, could be 
3,000 now, television productions.

I suppose there is also the feeling that it is the largest medium by far for 
information, education and above all, entertainment, he added. And after all, 
that's what an actor's life is all about. Getting work and entertaining people.

At the time, Woodward was promoting a U.S. television film of Uncle Tom's 
Cabin, in which played the wicked slave owner, Simon Legree. He found the role 
strangely refreshing.

If you are a British actor, you do lots of Shakespeare and lots of classical 
work. There is always a great actor who has just played your character, he 
said.

Lucky for me, Simon Legree has not been done very often, he added.

Woodward is survived by his second wife, actress Michele Dotrice, their 
daughter, and two sons and a daughter from his first marriage, which ended in 
divorce.

Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

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Re: misc ping: Californians re: the IOUs

[satrngrl]

News to me. Since I never had an IOU from Cali, it doesn't affect me. 
Some banks accepted those once upon a time...I suspect this doesn't really 
affect a lot of us little people. Your mileage may vary. Rose? Rich? Jim? 
Rych? Patrick? 

--Deb
more concerned about the notice my Cali payroll tax deduction is about to 
double...yay, republican tax raising governator!

--- On Sat, 11/14/09, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:

 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Subject: misc ping: Californians re: the IOUs
 To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 9:22 PM
 
 The California State IOUs were supposed to
 be redeemable on (or before) Oct. 2nd.
 
 To my big surprise looking through Google and Goole News
 to find out what happened... isn't as easy as I'd have
 hoped.
 
 Anyone out there in California who can update? Thanks
 
 _
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[NOISE] Headline of the Week. No, Year.

[satrngrl]

Oh, Christian Science Monitor. Please keep current on your pop culture 
references, especially those wacky acronyms.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1112/p99s01-duts.html

--Deb
...apparently that's one lucky Irish priest. :)

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[BREAKING] Up Up and Away

[satrngrl]

Man, this kid's father better be in the running for Bad Dad 2009. 
But in all seriousness, I sure hope this kid gets down OK.
---Deb


FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado 
in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.

The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with 
helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into 
the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered 
at the boy's home.

The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time.

Fort Collins police and other authorities have been alerted and Airtracker 7 
has launched in an effort to locate the boy.

Airtracker 7 located the craft at 12:35 p.m. at about 8,000 feet in Weld 
County. It appeared to be slightly tilted.

Skies in the area are partly cloudy and southwest wind speeds are 15 to 20 
miles per hour.

It is believed the device could rise to 10,000 feet, said Eloise Campanella, 
Larimer County Sheriff's Officer spokeswoman.

The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of 
extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all, said 
Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager.

Deputies from Larimer and Weld counties are tracking the balloon as it drifts.

FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the agency has been notified and it was unclear 
whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.

The balloon may drift into air traffic control corridors used by Denver 
International Airport, based on its current location and direction.

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Re: [BREAKING] Up Up and Away

[satrngrl]

Video link here: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/18205848/index.html

Requires Windows media player.

Damn, this thing looks like something out of Lost In Space!

When I was a kid, we only talked about lashing a bunch of helium party balloons 
together to try to fly. Damn

--Deb

--- On Thu, 10/15/09, satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 From: satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 Subject: [BREAKING] Up Up and Away
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:02 PM
 
 Man, this kid's father better be in the running for Bad Dad
 2009. 
 But in all seriousness, I sure hope this kid gets down OK.
 ---Deb
 
 
 FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over
 northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities
 are racing to try and rescue him.
 
 The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in
 foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a
 passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near
 Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became
 untethered at the boy's home.
 
 The father and son had apparently been working on the
 aircraft for some time.
 
 Fort Collins police and other authorities have been alerted
 and Airtracker 7 has launched in an effort to locate the
 boy.
 
 Airtracker 7 located the craft at 12:35 p.m. at about 8,000
 feet in Weld County. It appeared to be slightly tilted.
 
 Skies in the area are partly cloudy and southwest wind
 speeds are 15 to 20 miles per hour.
 
 It is believed the device could rise to 10,000 feet, said
 Eloise Campanella, Larimer County Sheriff's Officer
 spokeswoman.
 
 The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is
 in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any
 kind of a crash at all, said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County
 Emergency Manager.
 
 Deputies from Larimer and Weld counties are tracking the
 balloon as it drifts.
 
 FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the agency has been notified
 and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it
 up on radar.
 
 The balloon may drift into air traffic control corridors
 used by Denver International Airport, based on its current
 location and direction.
 
  
 

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Re: (noise) Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a ballplayer out of my hat!

[satrngrl]

The Las Vegas [Area] 51s are pretty cool, too. Right down to the space alien 
face on the sleeves.

--Deb
Since the majors already have the rockies, let's name the next new team the 
bullwinkles...

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 From: Rose Ellen Auerbach auerb...@armory.com
 Subject: Re: (noise) Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a ballplayer out of my hat!
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 2:45 PM
 That is almost, but not quite, as good as
 the Albuquerque Isotopes.
 
 --Rose
 
 On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM,
 Richard de Give rduhg...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/sports/professional/professional_baseball/article/flying_squirrels_picked_as_new_baseball_team_name/299518/
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
 By
 JOHN O'CONNOR
 
   
   Published: October 15, 2009
 
   Flying Squirrels was announced this afternoon 
 as the
 nickname for the new Richmond Double-A baseball franchise.
 
 
 Also under consideration as finalists were Rhinos,
 Flatheads, Rock
 Hoppers and Hush Puppies. The new team will begin playing
 at The
 Diamond next season and is affiliated with the San
 Francisco Giants. 
 
 The nickname was picked by franchise owners and managers
 in
 conjunction with their marketing partner. It was submitted
 in a
 name-the-team contest that drew approximately 6,000
 entries. Team
 management selected five finalists. Hush Puppies joined the
 competition
 as a wild-card entry. 
 
 Hambones, one of the finalists, was removed from
 consideration
 because a hambone is the foot-stomping, thigh-slapping
 dance brought
 here by enslaved West Africans and later performed at
 minstrel shows. 
 
 Team officials made the announcement at the downtown
 offices of the
 Richmond Times-Dispatch, which was a sponsor of the
 contest. 
 
 The Eastern League franchise moved from Norwich, Conn.,
 on Sept. 23.
 There, the team nickname was the Defenders, a nod to the
 defense
 industry in Connecticut. 
 
 Opening day at The Diamond is April 15.
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

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[SPORTISH] Lucia Pamela's Daughter's Football Team May Get A New Owner

[satrngrl]

Almost slugged it [DEATHWATCH] St. Louis Rams if his previous foray into 
football is any indication. Credit: LA Times.
-Deb
...making al davis look good

Rush Limbaugh says he's trying to purchase Rams
October 6, 2009

Rush It appears conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh wants to be an NFL 
team owner.

In a statement released today, Limbaugh said he's partnering with St. Louis 
Blues owner Dave Checketts  in a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh didn't 
go into details, but said he and Checketts have made a bid to buy the Rams and 
are continuing the process.

It's unclear whether Limbaugh and Checketts will buy the team outright or 
purchase a majority or minority stake in the franchise. Georgia Frontiere's 
children own a 60% stake in the team, and billionaire Stan Kroenke owns a 40% 
stake.

Hopefully, Limbaugh's latest foray into the pro football will go a little more 
smoothly than when he worked briefly as an NFL commentator for ESPN in 2003. 
Limbaugh resigned after saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb 
was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback do well in 
the NFL.

Last year, Forbes listed the Rams, which moved from Los Angeles in 1994, as 
worth $929 million (23rd highest in the NFL).

The Rams went 2-14 in 2008 and have lost their last 14 games.

-- Austin Knoblauch


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Re: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman

[satrngrl]

Happy October 1.

Somehow, this makes me wonder wtf Tom would say. 

--Deb

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:

 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Subject: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman
 To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:35 PM
 Letterman Discloses Extortion Threat,
 Admits Sexual Relationships 
 W/Staffers
 
 Earlier this evening, David Letterman told his talk show
 audience that he 
 was the victim of a $2 million extortion attempt—and
 that he had sexual 
 relationships with staffers. He said (the show airs at
 11:35 p.m. on WCBS 
 2), This morning, I did something I've never done in my
 life. I had to go 
 downtown and testify before a grand jury.
 
 According to the Daily News, The 'Late Show' host received
 a package from 
 an individual who claimed to have information on his
 dalliances and said 
 he would be outed unless he came up with $2 million.
 Letterman went to 
 the Manhattan's DA office, which instructed Letterman to
 mail a phony $2 
 million check to the individual, which led to the
 extortionist's arrest on 
 Thursday.
 
 Letterman said of the affairs with staffers, My response
 to that is, yes 
 I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public?
 Perhaps it would. 
 I feel like I need to protect these people -- I need to
 certainly protect 
 my family.
 
 The News spoke to Letterman's mom, Dorothy Mengering, who
 said, I knew he 
 was being blackmailed and that someone was arrested today.
 So far that's 
 all I know. I'm looking forward to seeing the show tonight
 to see what he 
 has to say. She added that she heard about the extortion
 attempt from 
 Letterman's wife of 7 months, Regina Lasko (she and
 Letterman had been 
 together since 1986 and have a 5-year-old son).
 
 UPDATE: According to TMZ, the identity of the arrestee is
 Robert 
 Halderman. He's 51 years old and lives in Norwalk, CT.
 Halderman has a 
 business in Manhattan, where he was arrested today.
 
 http://gothamist.com/2009/10/01/letterman_discloses_extortion_threa.php
 
 _
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Re: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman

[satrngrl]

Dodgers are doing their best to stink it up, true

BITE ME. 

-Deb
thanks, beau ;)

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, damonb...@gmail.com damonb...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: damonb...@gmail.com damonb...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:42 PM
 I guess it turns out that literally about
 two percent of Americans are faithful to their spouses or
 significant others.  That's the main thing I've
 learned between being 20 years old and being 30 years
 old.
 
 Lame.
 Beau
 PS -- The Dodgers suck.
 
 On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 23:38, 
 satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Happy October 1.
 
 
 
 Somehow, this makes me wonder wtf Tom would say.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

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RE: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman

[satrngrl]

nah, he'd do it here.

10. Thinks interns don't have to get paid for overtime.

carry on.

-Deb

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Greg Stanko gregsta...@comcast.net wrote:

 From: Greg Stanko gregsta...@comcast.net
 Subject: RE: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:17 PM
 
 A plaintive damn, damn, damn. would be heard from
 SD.  And then one of his own (likely blue) top 10 lists
 about things that Letterman and Bill Clinton had in common
 would be shared, privately.
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 [mailto:wn...@googlegroups.com]on
 Behalf Of
 satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:38 PM
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Re: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman
 
 
 
 Happy October 1.
 
 Somehow, this makes me wonder wtf Tom would say. 
 
 --Deb
 
 --- On Thu, 10/1/09, danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 wrote:
 
  From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
  Subject: Late extrotion with... Dvid Letterman
  To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
  Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:35 PM
  Letterman Discloses Extortion Threat,
  Admits Sexual Relationships 
  W/Staffers
  
  Earlier this evening, David Letterman told his talk
 show
  audience that he 
  was the victim of a $2 million extortion
 attempt—and
  that he had sexual 
  relationships with staffers. He said (the show airs
 at
  11:35 p.m. on WCBS 
  2), This morning, I did something I've never done in
 my
  life. I had to go 
  downtown and testify before a grand jury.
  
  According to the Daily News, The 'Late Show' host
 received
  a package from 
  an individual who claimed to have information on his
  dalliances and said 
  he would be outed unless he came up with $2 million.
  Letterman went to 
  the Manhattan's DA office, which instructed Letterman
 to
  mail a phony $2 
  million check to the individual, which led to the
  extortionist's arrest on 
  Thursday.
  
  Letterman said of the affairs with staffers, My
 response
  to that is, yes 
  I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made
 public?
  Perhaps it would. 
  I feel like I need to protect these people -- I need
 to
  certainly protect 
  my family.
  
  The News spoke to Letterman's mom, Dorothy Mengering,
 who
  said, I knew he 
  was being blackmailed and that someone was arrested
 today.
  So far that's 
  all I know. I'm looking forward to seeing the show
 tonight
  to see what he 
  has to say. She added that she heard about the
 extortion
  attempt from 
  Letterman's wife of 7 months, Regina Lasko (she and
  Letterman had been 
  together since 1986 and have a 5-year-old son).
  
  UPDATE: According to TMZ, the identity of the arrestee
 is
  Robert 
  Halderman. He's 51 years old and lives in Norwalk,
 CT.
  Halderman has a 
  business in Manhattan, where he was arrested today.
  
  http://gothamist.com/2009/10/01/letterman_discloses_extortion_threa.php
  
  _
  Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
            
     dan...@panix.com
  [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13
  encoded]
   
  
 
 
 
  
 

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[DEADPOOL] Looks like it's time for a new e-mail handle

[satrngrl]

Sigh. From CNN Money.
--Deb


GM kills Saturn after Penske ends deal

Auto dealer terminates deal with General Motors, citing future vehicle supply 
concerns after GM stopped producing the Saturns.

By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: September 30, 2009: 5:18 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Car dealership operator Penske Automotive Group 
announced on Wednesday that it has cancelled plans to acquire General Motors' 
Saturn unit. As a result, GM said it will wind down the brand and dealer 
network.

The announcement comes nearly four months after Penske agreed to buy the rights 
to the 19-year old brand from GM when the automaker was in bankruptcy.

As part of the deal, GM would have continued making Saturn's three 
highest-selling models: the Aura sedan, and the Vue and Outlook cross-over 
SUVs, for the rest of this year and next. Penske, an auto distributor but not a 
manufacturer, would have sold the cars for GM. In 2011, Penske said it would 
find another third-party manufacturer to make new Saturns.

But negotiations with another manufacturer fell through after an agreement was 
rejected by the unnamed manufacturer's board, according to Penske.

Without that agreement, the company has determined that the risks and 
uncertainties related to the availability of future products prohibit the 
company from moving forward with this transaction, the company said in a 
statement.

As a result, GM said it would begin to wind down the brand and its roughly 350 
dealerships nationwide.

Penske's deal with GM, which was expected to be completed in October, would 
have saved more than 13,000 jobs at Saturn.

GM called the news very disappointing. The automaker said Saturn owners will 
still be able to have their cars serviced at GM dealerships after Saturn is 
shuttered.

A spokesman for GM said the broken negotiations with Penske would have no 
anticipated impact on plants or related losses.

Penske (PAG, Fortune 500) is owned by former race car driver Roger Penske, who 
owns NASCAR and IndyCar racing teams and distributes Daimler AG's Smart cars in 
the United States.

-- CNN's Ekin Middleton contributed to this story To top of page

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[DEADPOOL]'s Summer of Death

[satrngrl]

Sad to say, it feels like it all started with Tom.
--Deb
oh, bite me.

usual (cr)AP disclaimer applies.


By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer 
NEW YORK – We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in 
threes, not in the dozens.

But all through the summer of 2009 came a ceaseless and somber drumbeat, as 
idols of all walks of life passed away. From Walter Cronkite to Sen. Ted 
Kennedy, the nonstop loss of luminaries continued almost as if a seasonal 
occurrence — as much a part of summer as hot dogs and humidity.

If a filmmaker were trying to capture the summer of 2009, Michael Jackson news 
would be playing in the background. Many thought coverage of Jackson's death 
was too much; a Pew Research Center poll released in July found that 64 percent 
of those surveyed thought the media blitz was overdone (though none could top 
MTV Japan, which designated an entire week of mourning for Jackson).

But news outlets went heavy on coverage for the many others who passed. 
Collectively, it made the constant commemorating hard to escape, especially for 
anyone active on social networks and the Web.

It's relentless because of the impact of the Internet, said Adam Bernstein, 
the obituary editor of the Washington Post. Twitter feeds go out. Every death 
seems to become more of a tempest rather than just the simple news of what it 
is.

Hayes Ferguson, the chief operating officer of Legacy.com, a site dedicated to 
providing a way for readers to express memories and condolences, believes media 
and technology can offer comfort to those grieving.

People are able to reminisce and collect their thoughts after reviewing career 
highlights of prolific artists such as Michael Jackson, said Ferguson. The 
number of Kennedy and Jackson tributes has been particularly large but there is 
a demand for this type of information.

Even with the media-inflated memorials, the parade of deaths was unusual. The 
phrase summer of death popped up, perhaps first used by New York magazine, 
which cheekily claimed the trademark. There's no particular reason for such an 
aberration; the death rate is typically higher during winter.

Early May saw the passing of the beloved Dom DeLuise, 75. But the portly 
entertainer was only a springtime harbinger of what was to follow.

On June 4, the Kung Fu actor David Carradine, 72, was found dead in a Bangkok 
hotel room. On June 23, Ed McMahon, the loyal Tonight show sidekick to Johnny 
Carson, died at the age of 86.

Just two days later, two icons of Generation X died. First was the news that 
Farrah Fawcett, the `70s sex symbol and Charlie's Angels star had died of 
cancer at 62. Late in the day, came the more unbelievable reports that Jackson 
had died.

Jackson's cultural importance alone would have been enough to keep his passing 
in the news cycle for weeks. But the complex nature of his estate and the murky 
details surrounding his death (eventually labeled a homicide by the medical 
examiner's office) insured Jackson remained on front pages and on cable news 
crawls. He was only buried on Sept. 3. Prosecutors are still investigating.

Before the end of June, the TV pitchman Billy Mays died. Like Jackson, he was 
just 50.

Early July saw the passing of Robert S. McNamara, 93. The Pentagon chief who 
directed the escalation of the Vietnam War — and was vilified by many for it.

Cronkite, who memorably commented in 1968 that Vietnam appeared an unwinnable 
stalemate, died on July 17. A voice of authority and the premier TV anchorman 
of the century, Cronkite's death was felt across journalism.

Don Hewitt, the TV news pioneer who created 60 Minutes and was, like 
Cronkite, a CBS legend, died later in the summer on Aug. 19. That was just a 
day after the passing of political columnist Robert Novack.

Two days after Cronkite's death was Frank McCourt's. The teacher and Angela's 
Ashes author, died of cancer at the age of 78. Perhaps more than anyone, the 
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer blazed the trail of the popular modern memoir.

August saw the death of writer-director John Hughes, whose films such as The 
Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles defined `80s 
youth. Hughes was 59.

On Aug. 11, Eunice Kennedy Shriver died. Famous to some for being the sister of 
President John F. Kennedy, Shriver's great accomplishment was founding the 
Special Olympics.

Two days later, Les Paul died at the age of 94. His contributions to music 
can't be underestimated; he developed multitrack recording and the solid-body 
electric guitar.

And just two weeks after Shriver's death, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died at his 
home in Hyannis Port at the age of 77 after battling a brain tumor. The liberal 
lion of the Senate served for 46 years in Washington where he helped pass 
countless laws on many parts of civic life, from civil rights to health care.

The glamorous New York author Dominick Dunne, who specialized in stories about 
the rich and famous, died on Aug. 26 at 

Re: [DEADPOOL]'s Summer of Death

[satrngrl]

Hence the disclaimer. 
Apparently, this summer also marked the death of the copy editor.
--Deb

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 From: damonb...@gmail.com damonb...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL]'s Summer of Death
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 10:58 AM
 
 On June 4, the Kung Fu actor
 David Carradine, 72, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room.
 On June 23, Ed McMahon, the loyal Tonight show
 sidekick to Johnny Carson, died at the age of 86.
 
 
 Arguably an editing error -- since the word show was
 right there next to Tonight, there's no reason they
 couldn't have gone with Tonight Show as the
 shortened form.
  
 The Pentagon chief who directed the
 escalation of the Vietnam War — and was vilified by many
 for it.
 
 Not a sentence.
  
 That was just a day after the passing of
 political columnist Robert Novack.
 
 Novak is spelled wrong.  Automatic F in my freshman
 journalism class.
  
 The teacher and Angela's
 Ashes author, died of cancer at the age of 78.
  
 Lousy punctuation -- the comma is unneeded.
  
 And just two weeks after Shriver's
 death, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died at his home in Hyannis
 Port
  
 , Mass., unless Hyannis Port was added at some point
 to the list of cities (Boston, Philadelphia, etc.) that
 don't require state identifiers.
  
 The liberal lion of the Senate served for
 46 years in Washington where he helped pass countless laws
 on many parts of civic life, from civil rights to health
 care.
  
 No grammar errors here -- just bad writing.
  
 Last week, Patrick Swayze.
  
 Again, not a sentence, although one could argue that
 this was acceptable style (unlike the fragment above).
  
  
 I award this Jake Coyle no points, and may God have
 mercy on his soul.
 
  
 
 
 

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Re: Time for a Die In : (Variety) Actor Henry Gibson, 73

[satrngrl]

What a namby pamby.

--Deb
RIP Judge Clark.

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:

 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Subject: Time for a Die In : (Variety) Actor Henry Gibson, 73
 To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 3:15 PM
 
 From: BobF b...@surfwriter.net.not
 Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
 Subject: (Variety) Actor Henry Gibson, 73 - Starred on
 1960s classic TV show 'Laugh-In'
 
 Actor Henry Gibson dies at 73
 
 Starred on 1960s classic TV show 'Laugh-In'
 
 By PAT SAPERSTEIN
 
 Henry Gibson, whose gentle poet persona on 1960s classic TV
 show
 Laugh-In made him one of the original flower children,
 died Monday
 in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73.
 
 A favorite of director Robert Altman, the diminutive,
 soft-spoken
 actor more recently had a five-season stint as Judge Clark
 Brown on
 Boston Legal and provided the voice of newspaperman Bob
 Jenkins on
 King of the Hill.
 
 Gibson developed the persona for which he became known --
 the humble
 poet laureate of Fairhope, Alabama, whose name was a pun on
 the name
 of Henrik Ibsen -- while working in New York in the early
 1960s. His
 appearances on The Tonight Show and The Joey Bishop
 Show caught
 the attention of Jerry Lewis, who cast him in The Nutty
 Professor.
 
 He made guest appearances on classic 1960s shows such as
 The Beverly
 Hillbillies, My Favorite Martian, The Dick Van Dyke
 Show and
 Bewitched before joining Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In,
 where he
 played characters including a priest and the poet, who
 performed his
 poems grasping a giant flower for three seasons. Two comedy
 albums,
 The Alligator and The Grass Menagerie as well as a
 book, A Flower
 Child's Garden of Verses were released based on his
 poetry. He used
 the success of the Laugh-In character to further his work
 in the
 environmental movement, writing op-eds and poetry for
 publications
 such as the Washington Post and the Christian Science
 Monitor.
 
 Gibson appeared in four Altman films, started with The
 Long Goodbye,
 in which he played the evil Dr. Verringer. He won a
 National Society
 of Film Critics award and was Golden Globe-nommed for his
 perf as
 country singer Haven Hamilton in Nashville, for which he
 also wrote
 the character's songs. His other Altman films were Health
 and A
 Perfect Couple.
 
 Born James Bateman in Germantown, Penn., he began acting at
 the age of
 8 with a touring theater company. After graduating Catholic
 U., he
 served in France with the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence
 officer,
 then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in
 London.
 
 His early roles included a Broadway stint opposite Ruth
 Gordon and
 Walter Matthau in Lillian Hellman's My Mother, My Father
 and Me, and
 a role in Billy Wilder's film Kiss Me, Stupid.
 
 Other roles included the voice of Wilbur the Pig in the
 animated
 Charlotte's Web, as the Illinois Nazi pursuing John
 Belushi and Dan
 Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers, and roles in The 'Burbs,
 Magnolia
 and The Wedding Crashers.
 
 In 2001, he returned to Broadway in the Encores! New York
 City Center
 production of Rogers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee.
 
 He is survived by sons Jon, a business affairs exec at
 Universal;
 Charles, a director and visual effects supervisor; James,
 a
 screenwriter, and two grandchildren.
 
 Donations may be made to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation
 and
 Friends of the Malibu Public Library.
 
 Read the full article at:
 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008714.html
 
 
 
  
 

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Re: Goodbye Charlie, Hello Diane

[satrngrl]

That's what he gets for mispronouncing Tujunga.

Variety also confirms.

--Deb


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 From: kbrab...@aol.com kbrab...@aol.com
 Subject: Re: Goodbye Charlie, Hello Diane
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 8:27 AM
 
 Damn, I didn't see this one coming.  Well,
 another day, another transition.
 
 
  
 
 
 And so it goes, 
 
 
  
 
 
 Kevin Brabant (and I liked Charlie in Peter's
 chair)
 
 
 kbrab...@aol.com
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 
 From: Terry Knab te...@knab.org
 
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 
 Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 11:21 am
 
 Subject: Goodbye Charlie, Hello Diane
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Breaking: Charlie Gibson To Step Down from ABC 'World
 News', Diane Sawyer to 
 Anchor Broadcast
 By Chris Ariens on Sep 02, 2009 10:37 AM
 
 Gibson_9.2.jpg
 
 TVNewser has learned ABC News will announce today that
 Charlie Gibson will leave 
 World News in January and that Diane Sawyer
 will be named the new anchor of 
 the network's evening newscast.
 
 Gibson has been the anchor of World News since
 May 2006, after the pairing of 
 Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff was broken up when
 Woodruff was seriously 
 wounded in an IED attack in Iraq.
 
 Woodruff and Vargas were named co-anchors of the program in
 Dec. 2005 after the 
 death of longtime anchor Peter Jennings.
 
 DEVELOPING
 
  More: ABC News tells us Gibson is announcing his
 retirement from ABC News at 
 which point Sawyer will tak
 e over the broadcast.
 
 Click continued to read the emails from ABC News president
 David Westin: 
 Diane's presence will certainly be missed on Good
 Morning America. But we are 
 fortunate that both Charlie and Diane will remain with
 their current broadcasts 
 for the next four months..
 
 ...and the email Charlie Gibson sent to his staff: It
 has not been an easy 
 decision to make. This has been my professional home for
 almost 35 years. And I 
 love this news department, and all who work in it, to the
 depths of my soul.
 
 From: Westin, David L.
 Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:52 AM
 To: #ABCTV News ALL
 Subject: World News
 
 Today, Charlie Gibson announced to his colleagues at World
 News that he has 
 decided to step down as anchor effective at the end of this
 year. I attach below 
 Charlie's full email.
 
 I have asked Diane Sawyer to serve as the next anchor of
 World News, and she 
 will assume that position in January.
 
 Charlie and I have been talking about his decision for
 several weeks, and he has 
 persuaded me that this is both what he wants and what is
 best for him. I respect 
 his decision, just as I respect the enormous contribution
 he has made to ABC 
 News through the years. Most recently, he stepped in to
 lead World News after a 
 difficult and turbulent time - both for the broadcast and
 for ABC News over all. 
 We suffered from the loss of Peter and then the severe
 injuries to Bob. Charlie20
 came to the fore to keep us on the path of doing the first
 rate journalism that 
 had distinguished World News for many years. We owe him
 much for the leadership 
 he gave us when we needed it most.
 
 Since then, Charlie has covered all the major events with
 the substance and 
 grace that we all expect from him. Most importantly, he
 headed our coverage 
 during a presidential election unlike any other. Now,
 having accomplished so 
 much in so many different parts of ABC News, Charlie has
 decided it is time for 
 him to step down. I have told him that he has an open door
 to continue to work 
 with ABC News, but he’s asked for a bit of time
 before he comes back to us.
 
 Diane Sawyer is the right person to succeed Charlie and
 build on what he has 
 accomplished. She has an outstanding and varied career in
 television journalism, 
 beginning with her role as a State Department correspondent
 and continuing at 60 
 Minutes, Primetime Live, and Good Morning America. She has
 interviewed every 
 President since President George H. W. Bush up to and
 including President Obama. 
 She has handled an array of breaking news special events,
 including on 9/11 and, 
 most recently, the presidential election. She has done
 distinguished 
 documentaries on topics as varied as North Korea, the
 plight of women in 
 Afghanistan and in prisons here at home, and poverty in
 Camden, New Jersey, and 
 in Appalachia. We are fortunate to have a journ
 alist of Diane's proven ability 
 and passion to step into the important position of anchor
 for World News. She 
 will continue with her documentaries in her new role.
 
 Diane's presence will certainly be missed on Good
 Morning America. But we are 
 fortunate that both Charlie and Diane will remain with
 their current broadcasts 
 for the next four months; we will be making further
 announcements well before 
 any changes are made.
 
 Here is Charlie's email to his staff:
 
 
 I have always been taught you should never bury the lead -
 so I write to tell 
 you that I 

Re: August 28

[satrngrl]

I remember this post. 
I was playing around with Google maps satellite images recently and maybe the 
photos are a bit dated, but the lower 9th surely still looks like the bombed 
zone it looked like when those were taken. 

Thanks for the reminder, Kevin.

--Deb
visiting DC/Baltimore area this weekend and bringing my rain gear...



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 From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
 Subject: August 28
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:36 PM
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0F4iXEzOqY
 
 http://tinyurl.com/mm9u9f
 
 Regards,
 
 KGB
 
 -
 Kevin G. Barkes
 Email: kgbar...@yahoo.com
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RE: August 28

[satrngrl]

thanks...have it here somewhere but am going batshit trying to get my shit 
together for this ridiculous but totally fun WORKING trip arranged by a sponsor 
and not considered EVIL FREEBIES by my publisher. Go figure. ;)

heck, anyone else I'm not thinking of in the DC/Baltimore area?? 

Not sure if this will kill me or bore me. All I know is I should arrive at 
Dulles about 5 p.m. Saturday, presumably close to the time of the Kennedy 
Corpse Flight. Fun! Shuttle to Columbia, Md., and boring time in a hotel of my 
sponsor's choosing. 

Maybe I should consider sleeping. ;)

thanks
deb


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 From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
 Subject: RE: August 28
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 1:23 AM
 
 In case you didn't see it on Facebook,
 
 gregsta...@comcast.net
 
 Regards,
 
 KGB
 
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  -Original Message-
  From: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 [mailto:wn...@googlegroups.com]
 
  On Behalf Of satrn...@sbcglobal.net
  Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:31 AM
  To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
  Subject: Re: August 28
  
  
  I remember this post. 
  I was playing around with Google maps satellite images
 
  recently and maybe the photos are a bit dated, but the
 lower 
  9th surely still looks like the bombed zone it looked
 like 
  when those were taken. 
  
  Thanks for the reminder, Kevin.
  
  --Deb
  visiting DC/Baltimore area this weekend and bringing
 my rain gear...
  
  
  
  --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  
   From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
   Subject: August 28
   To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
   Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:36 PM
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0F4iXEzOqY
   
   http://tinyurl.com/mm9u9f
   
   Regards,
   
   KGB
   
   -
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RE: August 28

[satrngrl]

Oh great. Thought this was private to KEVIN. 
No harm, no foul!

STANKO. EMAIL ME. ;)

--deb
blind after midnight...

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 From: satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 Subject: RE: August 28
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 1:33 AM
 
 thanks...have it here somewhere but am going batshit trying
 to get my shit together for this ridiculous but totally fun
 WORKING trip arranged by a sponsor and not considered EVIL
 FREEBIES by my publisher. Go figure. ;)
 
 heck, anyone else I'm not thinking of in the DC/Baltimore
 area?? 
 
 Not sure if this will kill me or bore me. All I know is I
 should arrive at Dulles about 5 p.m. Saturday, presumably
 close to the time of the Kennedy Corpse Flight. Fun! Shuttle
 to Columbia, Md., and boring time in a hotel of my sponsor's
 choosing. 
 
 Maybe I should consider sleeping. ;)
 
 thanks
 deb
 
 
 --- On Fri, 8/28/09, Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
  Subject: RE: August 28
  To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
  Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 1:23 AM
  
  In case you didn't see it on Facebook,
  
  gregsta...@comcast.net
  
  Regards,
  
  KGB
  
  -
  Kevin G. Barkes
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   -Original Message-
   From: wnndl@googlegroups.com
  [mailto:wn...@googlegroups.com]
  
   On Behalf Of satrn...@sbcglobal.net
   Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:31 AM
   To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
   Subject: Re: August 28
   
   
   I remember this post. 
   I was playing around with Google maps satellite
 images
  
   recently and maybe the photos are a bit dated,
 but the
  lower 
   9th surely still looks like the bombed zone it
 looked
  like 
   when those were taken. 
   
   Thanks for the reminder, Kevin.
   
   --Deb
   visiting DC/Baltimore area this weekend and
 bringing
  my rain gear...
   
   
   
   --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   
From: Kevin G. Barkes kgbar...@gmail.com
Subject: August 28
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:36 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0F4iXEzOqY

http://tinyurl.com/mm9u9f

Regards,

KGB

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Re: [deadpool] LIBERAL LYIN' down

[satrngrl]

CBS interrupted programming, obit on now.
--deb
..playing with her new crackberry

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 Subject: [deadpool] LIBERAL LYIN' down
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 10:30 PM
 
  
 Ted Kennedy Dead... Msnbc reports
 
 
  
 

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[DEADPOOL] The Deadpool Club

[satrngrl]

Ferris Bueller's Life Off
Planes, Trains and Hearses
etc

Director John Hughes dies at 59  
John Hughes, prolific director of culturally significant films such as The 
Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles 
and Home Alone, died suddenly today of a heart attack while taking a morning 
walk during a trip to Manhattan. He was 59.  

Source: Variety

--Deb

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Re: teevee worth listening to [a]: Pete Seeger's 90th birthday bash

[satrngrl]

oh yes, check local listings.
My local PBSer is in yet another pledge drive, which meant that instead of Pete 
Seeger's [1] 90th birthday concert, we will almost certainly be subjected to 
yet another rerun of Your Decade: Doo Hop Hits of the 50s or Gary Null: How 
To Live Forever. [2]

Last time around, they replaced the new American Masters on Neil Young with a 
repeat of an Andre Reiu concert. Not even a particularly recent one. And last 
night was a rerun of American Masters: Bob Newhart (OK, but EVERY FRIGGIN 
PLEDGE DRIVE?) followed by the zillionth rerun of Make Em Laugh. When it's 
not the AM: Bob Newhart rerun, it's Bob Hope or Lucille Ball. Those three are 
guaranteed to preempt any AM profile of anyone under 75.

--Deb
Still not old enough for PBS...except for Huell Howser. 

[1] He's a commie, you know
[2] The average PBS viewer age is assumed to be 90. They don't *really* want 
them to live forever, or else they wouldn't have so many estate planned 
giving promos, now, would they?



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 From: Jim O'Connell hunthu...@earthlink.net
 Subject: Re: teevee worth listening to [a]: Pete Seeger's 90th birthday bash
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com, wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 7:51 AM
 
 Pete and Arlo... such a great combination.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Sent: Jul 28, 2009 10:16 AM
 To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Subject: teevee worth listening to [a]: Pete Seeger's
 90th birthday bash
 
 
 [a] with apologies to the NBC Red Network for grabbing
    one of their watch us slogans from
 way back...
 
 Pete celebrated his 90th birthday with a public concert
 and
 tribute by lots and lots of friends... earlier this
 year
 at Madison Square Garden.
 
 PBS is televising it as part of the Great Performances
 series
 in the next week or two. Check local listings.
 
 info/story (watch for line wrap):
 http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-5/124878283966860.xmlstorylist=simetrothispage=1
 
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Re: Cronkite... Corrections - NYTimes.com (fwd)

[satrngrl]

Well. And so it goes. :)

--deb

--- On Tue, 7/21/09, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:

 From: danny burstein dan...@panix.com
 Subject: Cronkite... Corrections - NYTimes.com (fwd)
 To: wnn wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:37 PM
 
 [reformatted]
 
     The Arts
 
 An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite's career
 included a number of 
 errors.
 
 In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. 
 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
 was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr.  Cronkite's
 coverage of D-Day. Dr. 
 King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30.
 
 Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a
 warplane;  he did not storm the 
 beaches.
 
 In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July
 20, 1969, not July 26.
 
 The CBS Evening News  overtook The Huntley-Brinkley
 Report on NBC in the 
 ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after
 Chet Huntley retired in 
 1970.
 
 A communications satellite used to relay correspondents'
 reports from around 
 the world was Telstar, not Telestar.
 
 Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr.
 Cronkite would turn 
 to for reports from the field after he became anchor of
 The CBS Evening News 
 in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor.
 
 Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated
 the name of the news 
 agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after
 World War II. At 
 that time it was United Press, not United Press
 International.
 
  
 

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Re: [Cronkite] Live from '69: Moon Landing

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--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Alan Hamilton al...@arizonaroads.com wrote:

 Last night the History Channel ran a half-hour of footage
 from 
 Cronkite's coverage of the moon landing.  It's on
 their website now:
 http://www.history.com/content/space/history/apollo-11?bcpid=29888950001bclid=28790072001bctid=29915152001
 
 I had forgotten about the cheesy CBS Simulation bits.

I DVR'ed that. It made me think of Jules (Verne) Bergman Week, which I miss 
dearly. It should be resurrected this time of year, like Shark Week.

Did we all catch the Walther Cronkite special in lieu of 60 Minutes on Sunday?  
No idea he was a Deadhead AND a Parrothead. Nice humorous touches to counter 
the historical drama he was so much a part of.

--Deb



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RE: Uncle Walter Closes The Show

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I was just clocking out of work when the CNN breaking news blast showed up in 
my office email. My first thought was the flash, apparently official.

But I came home, cracked a bottle of wine, and watched the tributes before 
coming online.

Not much to add. As a kid, my folks were Huntley/Brinkley Report watchers while 
that lasted, but switched to CBS when Chet Huntley retired. Still carry clear 
memories of the nightly Vietnam War dead count, on both sides, as a kid. He 
must have been horrified to see what passes for news these days, to take his 
leave at what we all know is the time and day of the week to break news you 
don't really want noticed. Fat fucking chance.

Farewell Uncle Walter. We owe you, big time.

--Deb



--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Rychard Withers r...@rych.org wrote:

 From: Rychard Withers r...@rych.org
 Subject: RE: Uncle Walter Closes The Show
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 9:15 PM
 
 
  
  
  
 It's a sad day for me .
 Walter was a hero of 
 mine.
 He loved sailing and seab...@cbsnews
 was his email for a long time 
 after he had retired. I found his email one day in the CBS
 global directory and 
 sent him an email and told him a story about how as a five
 year old, I started 
 school in Fresno. My parents were from West Virginia and
 Alabama and I had a 
 ferocious southern accent when I started elementary school
 and got teased 
 unmercifully.
  
 After school I would sit and watch
 the news with Walter 
 Cronkite and imitate him and trained myself to not have a
 southern accent but a 
 Midwestern accent. Later in school I often had English
 teachers asking me when I 
 had moved to California from the Midwest. They all had a
 hard time believing I 
 had grown up here, as I didn't have San Joaquin Valley
 speech patterns like git 
 and ah-gin, warsh  it and then put it thru the
 wrench cycle, etc. 
 
  
 I told him thanks for being there
 and he had inspired my 
 occasional forays into the journalism
 world.
  
 He wrote a note back saying he loved
 my story and it made him 
 laugh to think there might have been a nation of toddlers
 running around 
 imitating him.
  
 I just retired the somewhat hokey
 KFCF radio promo for our 
 news stringer fund I had done in my (poor) Walter Cronkite
 impersonation. I just 
 aired a radio documentary he had hosted on Glacial 
 melting.  
  
 America has lost a legend, and a
 voice.
  
 Rych 
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 From:
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 [mailto:wn...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard
 de 
 Give
 Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:29 PM
 To: 
 wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Re: Uncle Walter Closes The 
 Show
 
 
 
 
   
   
 If Danny doesn't mind me stealing
 his teevee worth 
   watching line, CBS will air a retrospective on
 Sunday at 7 p.m. (in the 
   60 Minutes timeslot, no less.
 
 --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Glenda 
   Collins glendamcoll...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
 
   
 From: 
 Glenda Collins glendamcoll...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: Uncle 
 Walter Closes The Show
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com 
 wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Cc: wnndl@googlegroups.com 
 wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 6:05 
 PM
 
 
 
 Very sad indeed.  How lucky are we
 that 
 saw and heard his broadcasts.
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:23 PM, kbrab...@aol.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
   Expected, but still sad.
 
 
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 Sent: 
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[NOISE] One Too Many at the Regal Beagle

[satrngrl]

Includes mug shot. Yikes.

http://tinyurl.com/kpgu8u

--Deb
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Greg Stanko, Your T-Shirts Are Here

[satrngrl]

You and your cow-orkers really need to get in on some royalties:

http://oldmanrecords.com/store/index.html

--Deb
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Re: [DEADPOOL] Lt. Mike Headstone

[satrngrl]

Maybe he will reincarnate. :)
--Deb

--- On Wed, 7/1/09, gregsta...@comcast.net gregsta...@comcast.net wrote:

 From: gregsta...@comcast.net gregsta...@comcast.net
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] Lt. Mike Headstone
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 1:13 PM
 
 Loved him as Omar Bradley in Patton.  
 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
 
 -Original Message-
 From: satrn...@sbcglobal.net
 
 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:53:31 
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Subject: [DEADPOOL] Lt. Mike Headstone
 
 
 
 
 Karl Malden, dead at 97, per CNN tweet.
 
 A Streetcar Named Expired
 Life Strikes Out
 On the Mortuary Slab
 
 carry on.
 
 --Deb
 oh please please no more michael jackson...
 
 
 
  
 

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Re: [DEADPOOL] -- Beat It?

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LA Times confirms 911 call, Jackson not breathing, quoting LA Fire Dept.

A contact at Billboard in LA is hearing he's already dead.

And on fucking deadline, too.

--Deb
back when i hear more...


--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Michael King mhk...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Michael King mhk...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] -- Beat It?
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 2:24 PM
 The news director just looked at me
 like I was nuts for laughing so hard I'm crying over
 here ;)
 
 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM,
 Steven Otte steveno...@att.net
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 Damn! A day earlier, and he could have donated his asshole
 to save Farrah Fawcett.
 
 
 
 --
 
 Steven Otte
 
 steveno...@att.net
 
 
 
 
 
 --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Michael King mhk...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
  There are multiple reports from
 
  Los Angeles that Michael Jackson was rushed to the
 hospital
 
  this afternoon, possibly in cardiac arrest. 
 
  According to the LA Times, paramedics said he
 
  was not breathing when they arrived...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

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Re: [DEADPOOL] -- Beat It?

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TMZ (i know, i know) is now reporting the Michael Jackson has died.

http://www.tmz.com/

R.I.P.
Michael Jackson Dies

Posted Jun 25th 2009 5:20PM by TMZ Staff

Michael JacksonWe've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were 
unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse 
and they never got a pulse back.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris 
Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Blanket Michael Jackson II.

Jackson had 13 number one hits during his solo career.

Story developing...


--- On Thu, 6/25/09, kbrab...@aol.com kbrab...@aol.com wrote:

 From: kbrab...@aol.com kbrab...@aol.com
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] -- Beat It?
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 2:39 PM
 Does he not know that you are a member
 of an e-mail list with the worst possible reputation?
 
 
 
 And so it goes, 
 
 
 
 Kevin Brabant (just waiting for the real
 deadpool...He's Dead, He's Dead)
 
 kbrab...@aol.com 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 
 From: Michael King mhk...@gmail.com
 
 To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
 
 Sent: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 5:24 pm
 
 Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] -- Beat It?
 
 
 
 
 
 The
 news director just looked at me like I was nuts for laughing
 so hard I'm crying over here ;)
 
 
 
 
 
 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM,
 Steven Otte steveno...@att.net
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Damn! A day earlier, and he could have donated his asshole
 to save Farrah Fawcett.
 
 
 
 --
 
 Steven Otte
 
 steveno...@att.net
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Michael King mhk...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
  There are multiple reports from
 
  Los Angeles that Michael Jackson was rushed to the
 hospital
 
  this afternoon, possibly in cardiac arrest. 
 
  According to the LA Times, paramedics said he
 
  was not breathing when they arrived...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Save energy, paper and money --
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