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| FRIDAY • JULY 3, 2009 |
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 U.S. ‘READY’ FOR N. KOREAN MISSILE: U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times.
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 US MARINES PUSH DEEPER INTO SOUTHERN AFGHAN TOWNS: U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.
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MISSILE EXPERTS SEE SOVIET PARTS IN NKOREAN ROCKET: With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***The UN’s top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. ***Diprivan is a powerful I.V. anesthetic drug used for patients undergoing certain surgeries and diagnostic procedures.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***New York City, one of the world’s most visited places, is seeing a downward slide in tourism this summer even as it battles other economic woes. City tourism officials project about 11.3 million people will visit this summer, down nearly 6% from last summer’s 12 million. Industry officials say they need the long July 4 holiday weekend to reverse the momentum. ***Beijing is steering a push toward wind and solar power, while the U.S. is just starting. ***Richard Trumka, who is running to become the next president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is expected to bring a more combative style to Big Labor.
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LA BRACES FOR HORDE OF MICHAEL JACKSON MOURNERS: City officials are scrambling over the holiday weekend to try to figure out how to accommodate a public memorial service for Michael Jackson at a venue that can hold no more than 20,000 people. The event has been set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the downtown Staples Center, according to a statement from the Jackson family’s publicist. The service is expected to draw tens of thousands of spectators wanting to pay their respects to the King of Pop, who died June 25. How city officials will handle the massive crowd remains to be settled.
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PREPARING FOR RUSSIA: The president said that Vladimir V. Putin had one foot in the cold war, but that Dmitri A. Medvedev was ready to move on.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists? Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers. The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion — Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists.
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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By JOSEPH STALIN: “If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a “peace conference,” you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” (1913)
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NO MISUSE: Republican Gov. Mark Sanford didn’t misuse public money for trips to visit his Argentine mistress, state investigators concluded after a review of executive travel records.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Dustin Lance Black (who won an Oscar for writing “Milk”) waiting in line to get a CD signed by the Broadway cast of “Hair” at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in NYC. ***Alfred Molina, who was Dr. Octopus in “Spider-Man 2,” breakfasting at Brasserie Cognac while he read the papers . Courteney Cox grabbing summer tees and shorts at the Alice + Olivia boutique in Malibu. ***Paul Sevigny dee-jaying at The Eldridge in NYC at the launch of new Absolut 100 cocktails. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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NO EVIDENCE: The agency destroyed 92 videotapes that showed C.I.A. officers using harsh interrogation methods, including water boarding, on two Qaeda detainees.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By TONY MEDLEY: NBC should be barred from telecasting tennis. For the first week of Wimbledon, ESPN had live matches on on multiple channels, so viewers could pick and choose what they wanted to watch. When NBC’s contract swung into action for the second week, NBC forced its antiquated 20th Century addiction to delayed and truncated telecasts on the tennis world and banned ESPN’s blanket coverage. Wimbledon is to tennis as the playoffs and Super Bowl are to football. It should be live and uncut.
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Venus and Serena Williams, who will contest the Wimbledon singles final for a fourth time in Saturday, reached the final of the women’s doubles for a second successive year on Friday. The three-time defending champions defeated top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and America’s Liezel Hueber 6-1, 6-2. ***The F.B.I. is investigating the possibility that letters of Harry Wright, manager of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, may have been taken from the New York Public Library.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Cynthia Littleton at Variety reports that Steve Brennan, a longtime reporter and editor for The Hollywood Reporter, died today at Cedars-Sinai after a yearlong struggle with cancer. ***John Arthur, the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be leaving the paper as part of a series of shakeups that involve promoting the sports editor to a top position, the chief editor announced on Thursday.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL LEVINE: The brutal facts are this: I live in a bankrupt city (Los Angeles), in a bankrupt state (California), in a bankrupt country (USA).
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
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LBN-COMMENTARY By FAREED ZAKARIA (He is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN): The situation is fluid. The challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, and the former president, Khatami, are still criticizing the government for stealing the election. That is an extraordinary level of dissent at the highest levels of the establishment. But the most likely outcome remains that for now, the regime will be able to reassert order. But it has become a naked dictatorship, losing the facade of the Islamic and democratic political ideals that are important to it.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By GORDON BROWN (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom): When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon meets the military dictatorship in Burma today he will have the whole world with him. His mission is critical to the future of the Burmese people.
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 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: South Africa is just one of the 23 foreign countries with daily LBN E-Lert readers.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: When contemplating the United States and its future, its impossible not to think about Americas role in the world and its relationship with China.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Ricci case — that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well — will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By PAUL BEGALA (AUTHOR, POLITICAL CONSULTANT, COMMENTATOR, AND FORMER ADVISER TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON): I’m reading The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. Jenkins, one of the most gifted sportswriters of our time, teams up with an eminent Harvard historian to bring a little-known (and deliberately hidden) chapter of our history to life. Newton Knight led a band of heroes in Jones County, Mississippi to oppose the Confederacy. A mini-civil war, with much of the cruelty and carnage of the larger war, played out in Jones County. The book is filled with original research from heretofore unknown documents, yet it carries the reader along a compelling and powerful narrative. A must read for anyone who thinks they know the history of the Civil War, the American South, and race in America.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By JON PERLMAN (Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon): My favorite magazine? I enjoy reading “Dazzling Oceans” the newly published and elegant international magazine dedicated both to philanthropy and the cause of ocean conservation. Authors of articles in the first issue include Ray Kurzweil, Sylvia Earle and other experts in their varied fields. The stated goals of the publisher are to contribute all profits to provide educational opportunities for underprivileged children, and for the empowerment and financial independence of women in third world countries. Fairly lofty but worthwhile goals.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the notorious Charles Manson murder spree that terrified Los Angeles — and Warren Beatty remembers the savagery like it was yesterday. “This hit the movie community very deeply. On the 10-point scale, it disturbed me at around a 27,” the Oscar-winning actor-director, who’s wed to Annette Bening, recalls in this month’s Los Angeles magazine. ***”Girls Gone Wild” gets lampooned in Harvey Weinstein’s upcoming killer-fish film, “Piranha 3D.” Paul Scheer, of MTV’s “Human Giant,” says he and Jerry O’Connell play Joe Francis types who tape hotties for “Wild, Wild Girls. ***Gary Colemen’s wife has a dirty, filthy, foul mouth — this according to the police report filed after she was busted for domestic violence and disorderly conduct.The doc says Shannon Price locked Gary out of his house in Utah on Wednesday night, then proceeded to destroy everything in his bedroom. When cops arrived at the scene, Shannon “yelled and called the officer ‘f***er’ and told the officer ‘f**k you and f**k him several times.” The report says Price admitted she “thrashed” the room and told Gary “you deserve this after how you treated me.” She was arrested and released on $1,205 bond.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Teenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of Wisconsin. ***Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998. ***Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights. ***Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Sadly, the bikini that makes you look slimmer has yet to be invented” — Elizabeth Hurley.
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LBN-HISTORY: On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
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LBN E-Lert Edited by Shannon Donnelly
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| THURSDAY • JULY 2, 2009 |
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 467K JOBS CUT IN JUNE; JOBLESS RATE AT 9.5 PERCENT: Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy’s road to recovery will be bumpy. The Labor Department report, released Thursday, showed that even as the recession flashes signs of easing, companies likely will want to keep a lid on costs and be wary of hiring until they feel certain the economy is on solid ground.
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 OPPOSITION LEADERS COURT ARREST BY DEFYING ‘UNLAWFUL IRANIAN REGIME’: Three of Irans most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejads Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was tantamount to a coup. Its not yet too late, he declared on his website. It is our historical responsibility to continue our protests to defend the rights of the people . . . and prevent the blood spilt by hundreds of thousands of martyrs from leading to a police state.
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U.S. LAUNCHES ‘MAJOR OPERATION’ IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban resistance to a major U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan has been light and sporadic, consisting of intermittent small arms fire, the Marines said on Thursday. “Indications are the militants break away shortly after they make contact,” said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Abe Sipe, referring to what is regarded as the Taliban’s habit of running and hiding after troops confront them.
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AIR FRANCE PLANE CRASHED INTACT - REPORT: The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard “did not break up or become destroyed in flight,” the French air investigation agency announced Thursday. “The plane went straight down … towards the surface of the water, very very fast,” air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said.
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CONGRESS’S TRAVEL TAB SWELLS: Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galpagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
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HONDURAS RESISTS PRESSURE TO ALLOW ZELAYA’S RETURN: Rejecting the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’ interim leaders dug in for a fight on Thursday after governments across the region demanded the deposed leftist be restored to power.
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 U.S. NUNS FACING VATICAN SCRUTINY: The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and keeping parishes humming. But for the last three decades, their numbers have been declining to 60,000 today from 180,000 in 1965.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Prominent TV producer Scott Sternberg having lunch yesterday with LCO Vice-President Liam Collopy and LCO Senior Account Manager Ali Duncun at the less than half empty Grill in Beverly Hills. ***Actress Maria Bello having dinner recently at the popular Frence Cafe & Bar on Abbott Kinney Blvd. in Venice. ***It’s goodbye Jennifer Aniston, hello Renee Zellweger for Bradley Cooper. The star of “The Hang over” was spotted on a cozy date with the “Bridget Jones” cutie (left) at Antonucci on East 81st in NYC the other night. ***Penelope Cruz being fawned over by the steward esses on an American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK and de planing with much more than the maximum baggage allow ance. ***Betsy Johnson and granddaughter Layla fash ionably noshing on lobsters at The Lodge in East Hampton. *** The Mentalist’s Simon Baker was lunching with three male friends outside R+D Kitchen in Santa Monica. *** The Cougar host Vivica A. Fox, dancing up a storm to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” during Heineken’s BET Awards after party at Mr. Chow in L.A. ***Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough helped costar Lacey Schwimmer celebrate her 21st birthday with a JETT vodka-sponsored pool party at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The duo wrapped their celebration with a dance party at West Hollywood nightspot Guys & Dolls. *** Selena Gomez, listening intently as pal Ken Baumann (from The Secret Life of the American Teenager) introduced speakers and poets at the Raise Hope For The Congo event at Jane’s House in West Hollywood. Meanwhile, 90210’s AnnaLynne McCord attended the event with her sister. *** Courteney Cox Arquette, cheering her husband David Arquette as he faced off against table tennis pro Biba Golic at the Killerspin-hosted picnic at the Malibu Lumber Yard. Also in attendance was James Marsden, who showed off his expert forehand during his own game as his 3-year-old daughter Mary James watched.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KEN KRAGEN (Music Manager and Activist): My favorite magazine? We’ll my daughter thinks I’m a geek but I love Popular Science magazine. Although I have spent my life in the entertainment business I am a technology nut and even at my age I can’t get enough science, astronomy and looks into the future. I used to subscribe to Sky & Telescope and Astronomy but just don’t have the time to read them all now. I am, however, preparing to leave later in July for a trip to the South Pacific to view a total solar eclipse so I guess it’s not so unusual that I read these magazines.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By MICHAEL JACKSON: If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. (2006)
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 LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of people.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Manhattan apartment sales plunged more than 50 percent and the average price dropped 21.4 to 24 percent from a year ago, as the U.S. recession forced many who own a piece of the Big Apple to eat humble pie, several reports said. The average price of Manhattan apartment in the second quarter slid to $1,312,920 down from $1,669,729 a year earlier, according to a Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate report released Thursday. ***Dov Charney’s L.A. firm today was “fingered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for employing some 1,600 workers at its Los Angeles factories whose eligibility documentation is ’suspect and not valid,’” Brad Greenberg reports at the Jewish Journal’s God Blog. Another 200 workers had documentation that could not be verified. That spells trouble for about a third of American Apparels employees.” Charney has been a prominent advocate for immigration reform, putting Legalize L.A. on a t-shirt and in ads. ***June sales figures showed another difficult month for some automakers, yet provided a hint demand for new vehicles in the U.S. might finally be on the upswing.
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NO JOB LOSS: No LAPD officers will be fired over the excessive force incident on May Day in 2007 at MacArthur Park, even though Chief Bratton had sought to terminate four employees.
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OSAMA IN AMERICA: THE FINAL ANSWER: The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the course of various journalistic and biographical research, has now seemingly been settled. Osama was here for two weeks in 1979, it seems, and he visited Indiana and Los Angeles, among other places. He had a favorable encounter with an American medical doctor; he also reportedly met in Los Angeles with his spiritual mentor of the time, the Palestinian radical Abdullah Azzam. All this is according to a forthcoming book by Osamas first wife, Najwa Bin Laden, and his son Omar Bin Laden, to be published in the autumn by St. Martins Press.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***John Stossel is telling his own network “Give me a break!” after it pulled his health-case insurance segment off the air to give more time to the death of Michael Jackson. “I am sick of the Michael Jackson coverage,” the “20/20″ co-host wrote on his blog page at abc.com. “I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece.” ***The Jackson family has just retained the services of high-powered publicists Ken Sunshine and Shawn Sachs.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***New York-based literary agency Rob Weisbach Creative Management has tapped a team of senior associates — Erin L. Cox, David Groff and Jake Bauman — to maintain and support the company’s comprehensive development plan. Cox, former book publishing director at the New Yorker, will work primarily in publicity and promotion; while, veteran book editor Groff is set to scout and develop writers. Bauman, former director of development at the Weinstein Co., will develop and represent authors and screenwriters.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Candace Parker, the reigning rookie of the year and most valuable player in the W.N.B.A., is preparing to return after having a baby in May. ***Sixth-seeded Andy Roddick served 43 aces in beating Lleyton Hewitt in five sets to advance to his first Wimbledon semfinals since 2005.
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 BENNETT: SANFORD NEEDS TO STOP ‘EMBARRASSING HIMSELF’: Mark Sanford is “embarrassing himself” and needs to resign as governor of South Carolina, conservative talk radio host and CNN contributor Bill Bennett said Thursday on CNN’s American Morning. Bennett, the latest high profile conservative to call for Sanford’s ouster, said it’s time for the onetime Republican rising star to ditch politics and focus solely on getting his life back in order.
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SECOND AUTOPSY — CARRADINE DEATH ACCIDENTAL: A private autopsy performed on David Carradine’s body suggests the actor’s death was accidental. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said the cause of death was from asphyxiation — and that binding on his body helped rule out suicide. Baden said Carradine’s hands were tied above his head, not behind his back — but he still needed more information from Thai police to completely rule out the possibility he was killed by someone else. Carradine was found hanging naked in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room on June 4.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***The eldest of the Jonas Brothers, heartthrob Kevin, yesterday popped the question to Jersey girl Danielle Deleasa, a 22-year-old former hairdresser — but it’s fans who are over the moon. “It’s great for him to have someone who thinks of him just as Kevin, her fianc,” gushed one Facebook entry.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DARYL HANNAH (Actress and activist): Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR? Don’t feel bad, my friends are intelligent, well-read and informed people, but most of them had never heard of MTR (Mountain Top Removal) either.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROSANNE M. LEIPZIG: Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Doctors and other health care professionals should have it in order to improve care for older people.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By JEWEL (SINGER SONGWRITER): I just watched Priscilla Ahn online. I think she’s an amazing new artist. She’s really talented. I was pretty blown away by her and I haven’t been blown away by somebody for a while.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Federal drug agents have been asked to join the investigation into Michael Jackson’s death, ABC News has learned. Until now, the probe into the pop star’s death has been managed by the LAPD alone. ***The Michael Jackson funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7, at Los Angeles Staples Center. Sources tell me that AEG Live, which owns Staples and next-door neighbor Nokia Theatre, will use both facilities and the surrounding plaza. ***The censors are literally circling around “Bruno” and his privates. Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy about a horny gay Austrian fashion journalist was re-rated R, from NC-17, after cuts and revisions. One change is that black circles have been superimposed over naked body parts during three scenes, including one where Bruno has a slap-and- tickle with his Pygmy boy friend. ***Ryan O’Neal allowed TV cameras into Farrah Faw cett’s funeral, but not his own son. Griffin O’Neal, Ryan’s son with Joanna Moore, drove 300 miles to LA to attend Fawcett’s service, but Ryan had him barred. ***Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish - and she does it with an Iberian accent. The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language. ***We’ve learned legendary wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was busted for suspicion of DUI early this morning in Hollywood. Law enforcement sources tell us 55-year-old Roddy, real name Roderick Toombs, was stopped by police at around 1 AM — he was given field sobriety tests and then arrested. Roddy’s bond is $5,000.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers. ***A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Whos going to tell her? I dont know who is going to tell her this. I cant tell her this.”-KASSIM BAKARI, on telling his 14-year-old daughter, the sole survivor of a Yemeni airliner crash, that her mother is dead.
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LBN-HISTORY: On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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467K JOBS CUT IN JUNE; JOBLESS RATE AT 9.5 PERCENT: Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy’s road to recovery will be bumpy. The Labor Department report, released Thursday, showed that even as the recession flashes signs of easing, companies likely will want to keep a lid on costs and be wary of hiring until they feel certain the economy is on solid ground.
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OPPOSITION LEADERS COURT ARREST BY DEFYING ‘UNLAWFUL IRANIAN REGIME’: Three of Irans most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejads Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was tantamount to a coup. Its not yet too late, he declared on his website. It is our historical responsibility to continue our protests to defend the rights of the people . . . and prevent the blood spilt by hundreds of thousands of martyrs from leading to a police state.
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U.S. LAUNCHES ‘MAJOR OPERATION’ IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban resistance to a major U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan has been light and sporadic, consisting of intermittent small arms fire, the Marines said on Thursday. “Indications are the militants break away shortly after they make contact,” said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Abe Sipe, referring to what is regarded as the Taliban’s habit of running and hiding after troops confront them.
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AIR FRANCE PLANE CRASHED INTACT - REPORT: The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard “did not break up or become destroyed in flight,” the French air investigation agency announced Thursday. “The plane went straight down … towards the surface of the water, very very fast,” air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said.
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CONGRESS’S TRAVEL TAB SWELLS: Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galpagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
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HONDURAS RESISTS PRESSURE TO ALLOW ZELAYA’S RETURN: Rejecting the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’ interim leaders dug in for a fight on Thursday after governments across the region demanded the deposed leftist be restored to power.
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U.S. NUNS FACING VATICAN SCRUTINY: The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and keeping parishes humming. But for the last three decades, their numbers have been declining to 60,000 today from 180,000 in 1965.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Prominent TV producer Scott Sternberg having lunch yesterday with LCO Vice-President Liam Collopy and LCO Senior Account Manager Ali Duncun at the less than half empty Grill in Beverly Hills. ***Actress Maria Bello having dinner recently at the popular Frence Cafe & Bar on Abbott Kinney Blvd. in Venice. ***It’s goodbye Jennifer Aniston, hello Renee Zellweger for Bradley Cooper. The star of “The Hang over” was spotted on a cozy date with the “Bridget Jones” cutie (left) at Antonucci on East 81st in NYC the other night. ***Penelope Cruz being fawned over by the steward esses on an American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK and de planing with much more than the maximum baggage allow ance. ***Betsy Johnson and granddaughter Layla fash ionably noshing on lobsters at The Lodge in East Hampton. *** The Mentalist’s Simon Baker was lunching with three male friends outside R+D Kitchen in Santa Monica. *** The Cougar host Vivica A. Fox, dancing up a storm to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” during Heineken’s BET Awards after party at Mr. Chow in L.A. ***Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough helped costar Lacey Schwimmer celebrate her 21st birthday with a JETT vodka-sponsored pool party at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The duo wrapped their celebration with a dance party at West Hollywood nightspot Guys & Dolls. *** Selena Gomez, listening intently as pal Ken Baumann (from The Secret Life of the American Teenager) introduced speakers and poets at the Raise Hope For The Congo event at Jane’s House in West Hollywood. Meanwhile, 90210’s AnnaLynne McCord attended the event with her sister. *** Courteney Cox Arquette, cheering her husband David Arquette as he faced off against table tennis pro Biba Golic at the Killerspin-hosted picnic at the Malibu Lumber Yard. Also in attendance was James Marsden, who showed off his expert forehand during his own game as his 3-year-old daughter Mary James watched.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KEN KRAGEN (Music Manager and Activist): My favorite magazine? We’ll my daughter thinks I’m a geek but I love Popular Science magazine. Although I have spent my life in the entertainment business I am a technology nut and even at my age I can’t get enough science, astronomy and looks into the future. I used to subscribe to Sky & Telescope and Astronomy but just don’t have the time to read them all now. I am, however, preparing to leave later in July for a trip to the South Pacific to view a total solar eclipse so I guess it’s not so unusual that I read these magazines.
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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By MICHAEL JACKSON: If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. (2006)
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of people.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Manhattan apartment sales plunged more than 50 percent and the average price dropped 21.4 to 24 percent from a year ago, as the U.S. recession forced many who own a piece of the Big Apple to eat humble pie, several reports said. The average price of Manhattan apartment in the second quarter slid to $1,312,920 down from $1,669,729 a year earlier, according to a Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate report released Thursday. ***Dov Charney’s L.A. firm today was “fingered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for employing some 1,600 workers at its Los Angeles factories whose eligibility documentation is ’suspect and not valid,’” Brad Greenberg reports at the Jewish Journal’s God Blog. Another 200 workers had documentation that could not be verified. That spells trouble for about a third of American Apparels employees.” Charney has been a prominent advocate for immigration reform, putting Legalize L.A. on a t-shirt and in ads. ***June sales figures showed another difficult month for some automakers, yet provided a hint demand for new vehicles in the U.S. might finally be on the upswing.
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LBN-SNAP:….Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter…..
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NO JOB LOSS: No LAPD officers will be fired over the excessive force incident on May Day in 2007 at MacArthur Park, even though Chief Bratton had sought to terminate four employees.
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OSAMA IN AMERICA: THE FINAL ANSWER: The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the course of various journalistic and biographical research, has now seemingly been settled. Osama was here for two weeks in 1979, it seems, and he visited Indiana and Los Angeles, among other places. He had a favorable encounter with an American medical doctor; he also reportedly met in Los Angeles with his spiritual mentor of the time, the Palestinian radical Abdullah Azzam. All this is according to a forthcoming book by Osamas first wife, Najwa Bin Laden, and his son Omar Bin Laden, to be published in the autumn by St. Martins Press.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***John Stossel is telling his own network “Give me a break!” after it pulled his health-case insurance segment off the air to give more time to the death of Michael Jackson. “I am sick of the Michael Jackson coverage,” the “20/20″ co-host wrote on his blog page at abc.com. “I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece.” ***The Jackson family has just retained the services of high-powered publicists Ken Sunshine and Shawn Sachs.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***New York-based literary agency Rob Weisbach Creative Management has tapped a team of senior associates — Erin L. Cox, David Groff and Jake Bauman — to maintain and support the company’s comprehensive development plan. Cox, former book publishing director at the New Yorker, will work primarily in publicity and promotion; while, veteran book editor Groff is set to scout and develop writers. Bauman, former director of development at the Weinstein Co., will develop and represent authors and screenwriters.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Candace Parker, the reigning rookie of the year and most valuable player in the W.N.B.A., is preparing to return after having a baby in May. ***Sixth-seeded Andy Roddick served 43 aces in beating Lleyton Hewitt in five sets to advance to his first Wimbledon semfinals since 2005.
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BENNETT: SANFORD NEEDS TO STOP ‘EMBARRASSING HIMSELF’: Mark Sanford is “embarrassing himself” and needs to resign as governor of South Carolina, conservative talk radio host and CNN contributor Bill Bennett said Thursday on CNN’s American Morning. Bennett, the latest high profile conservative to call for Sanford’s ouster, said it’s time for the onetime Republican rising star to ditch politics and focus solely on getting his life back in order.
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SMART PEOPLE READ THE LBN E-LERT: Legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers” understand that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool.
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SECOND AUTOPSY — CARRADINE DEATH ACCIDENTAL: A private autopsy performed on David Carradine’s body suggests the actor’s death was accidental. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said the cause of death was from asphyxiation — and that binding on his body helped rule out suicide. Baden said Carradine’s hands were tied above his head, not behind his back — but he still needed more information from Thai police to completely rule out the possibility he was killed by someone else. Carradine was found hanging naked in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room on June 4.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***The eldest of the Jonas Brothers, heartthrob Kevin, yesterday popped the question to Jersey girl Danielle Deleasa, a 22-year-old former hairdresser — but it’s fans who are over the moon. “It’s great for him to have someone who thinks of him just as Kevin, her fianc,” gushed one Facebook entry.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DARYL HANNAH (Actress and activist): Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR? Don’t feel bad, my friends are intelligent, well-read and informed people, but most of them had never heard of MTR (Mountain Top Removal) either.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROSANNE M. LEIPZIG: Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Doctors and other health care professionals should have it in order to improve care for older people.
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LBN-RECOMMENDS By JEWEL (SINGER SONGWRITER): I just watched Priscilla Ahn online. I think she’s an amazing new artist. She’s really talented. I was pretty blown away by her and I haven’t been blown away by somebody for a while.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Federal drug agents have been asked to join the investigation into Michael Jackson’s death, ABC News has learned. Until now, the probe into the pop star’s death has been managed by the LAPD alone. ***The Michael Jackson funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7, at Los Angeles Staples Center. Sources tell me that AEG Live, which owns Staples and next-door neighbor Nokia Theatre, will use both facilities and the surrounding plaza. ***The censors are literally circling around “Bruno” and his privates. Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy about a horny gay Austrian fashion journalist was re-rated R, from NC-17, after cuts and revisions. One change is that black circles have been superimposed over naked body parts during three scenes, including one where Bruno has a slap-and- tickle with his Pygmy boy friend. ***Ryan O’Neal allowed TV cameras into Farrah Faw cett’s funeral, but not his own son. Griffin O’Neal, Ryan’s son with Joanna Moore, drove 300 miles to LA to attend Fawcett’s service, but Ryan had him barred. ***Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish - and she does it with an Iberian accent. The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language. ***We’ve learned legendary wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was busted for suspicion of DUI early this morning in Hollywood. Law enforcement sources tell us 55-year-old Roddy, real name Roderick Toombs, was stopped by police at around 1 AM — he was given field sobriety tests and then arrested. Roddy’s bond is $5,000.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers. ***A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Whos going to tell her? I dont know who is going to tell her this. I cant tell her this.”-KASSIM BAKARI, on telling his 14-year-old daughter, the sole survivor of a Yemeni airliner crash, that her mother is dead.
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LBN-HISTORY: On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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LBN E-Lert Edited by Shannon Donnelly
Contributing Editors: Kathleen Spennrath, Meridith Berk, Rosalyn Isidoro
LBN E-Lert Disclaimer: 1.) The LBN E-Lert accepts no liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided. The LBN E-Lert is not associated with any commercial or political organization and is transmitted via the web for the sole benefit of its subscribers. 2.) Unfortunately, computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.
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| THURSDAY • JULY 2, 2009 |
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467K JOBS CUT IN JUNE; JOBLESS RATE AT 9.5 PERCENT: Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy’s road to recovery will be bumpy. The Labor Department report, released Thursday, showed that even as the recession flashes signs of easing, companies likely will want to keep a lid on costs and be wary of hiring until they feel certain the economy is on solid ground.
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OPPOSITION LEADERS COURT ARREST BY DEFYING ‘UNLAWFUL IRANIAN REGIME’: Three of Irans most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejads Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was tantamount to a coup. Its not yet too late, he declared on his website. It is our historical responsibility to continue our protests to defend the rights of the people . . . and prevent the blood spilt by hundreds of thousands of martyrs from leading to a police state.
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U.S. LAUNCHES ‘MAJOR OPERATION’ IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban resistance to a major U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan has been light and sporadic, consisting of intermittent small arms fire, the Marines said on Thursday. “Indications are the militants break away shortly after they make contact,” said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Abe Sipe, referring to what is regarded as the Taliban’s habit of running and hiding after troops confront them.
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AIR FRANCE PLANE CRASHED INTACT - REPORT: The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard “did not break up or become destroyed in flight,” the French air investigation agency announced Thursday. “The plane went straight down … towards the surface of the water, very very fast,” air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said.
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CONGRESS’S TRAVEL TAB SWELLS: Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galpagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
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HONDURAS RESISTS PRESSURE TO ALLOW ZELAYA’S RETURN: Rejecting the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’ interim leaders dug in for a fight on Thursday after governments across the region demanded the deposed leftist be restored to power.
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U.S. NUNS FACING VATICAN SCRUTINY: The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and keeping parishes humming. But for the last three decades, their numbers have been declining to 60,000 today from 180,000 in 1965.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Prominent TV producer Scott Sternberg having lunch yesterday with LCO Vice-President Liam Collopy and LCO Senior Account Manager Ali Duncun at the less than half empty Grill in Beverly Hills. ***Actress Maria Bello having dinner recently at the popular Frence Cafe & Bar on Abbott Kinney Blvd. in Venice. ***It’s goodbye Jennifer Aniston, hello Renee Zellweger for Bradley Cooper. The star of “The Hang over” was spotted on a cozy date with the “Bridget Jones” cutie (left) at Antonucci on East 81st in NYC the other night. ***Penelope Cruz being fawned over by the steward esses on an American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK and de planing with much more than the maximum baggage allow ance. ***Betsy Johnson and granddaughter Layla fash ionably noshing on lobsters at The Lodge in East Hampton. *** The Mentalist’s Simon Baker was lunching with three male friends outside R+D Kitchen in Santa Monica. *** The Cougar host Vivica A. Fox, dancing up a storm to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” during Heineken’s BET Awards after party at Mr. Chow in L.A. ***Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough helped costar Lacey Schwimmer celebrate her 21st birthday with a JETT vodka-sponsored pool party at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The duo wrapped their celebration with a dance party at West Hollywood nightspot Guys & Dolls. *** Selena Gomez, listening intently as pal Ken Baumann (from The Secret Life of the American Teenager) introduced speakers and poets at the Raise Hope For The Congo event at Jane’s House in West Hollywood. Meanwhile, 90210’s AnnaLynne McCord attended the event with her sister. *** Courteney Cox Arquette, cheering her husband David Arquette as he faced off against table tennis pro Biba Golic at the Killerspin-hosted picnic at the Malibu Lumber Yard. Also in attendance was James Marsden, who showed off his expert forehand during his own game as his 3-year-old daughter Mary James watched.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KEN KRAGEN (Music Manager and Activist): My favorite magazine? We’ll my daughter thinks I’m a geek but I love Popular Science magazine. Although I have spent my life in the entertainment business I am a technology nut and even at my age I can’t get enough science, astronomy and looks into the future. I used to subscribe to Sky & Telescope and Astronomy but just don’t have the time to read them all now. I am, however, preparing to leave later in July for a trip to the South Pacific to view a total solar eclipse so I guess it’s not so unusual that I read these magazines.
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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By MICHAEL JACKSON: If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. (2006)
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of people.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Manhattan apartment sales plunged more than 50 percent and the average price dropped 21.4 to 24 percent from a year ago, as the U.S. recession forced many who own a piece of the Big Apple to eat humble pie, several reports said. The average price of Manhattan apartment in the second quarter slid to $1,312,920 down from $1,669,729 a year earlier, according to a Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate report released Thursday. ***Dov Charney’s L.A. firm today was “fingered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for employing some 1,600 workers at its Los Angeles factories whose eligibility documentation is ’suspect and not valid,’” Brad Greenberg reports at the Jewish Journal’s God Blog. Another 200 workers had documentation that could not be verified. That spells trouble for about a third of American Apparels employees.” Charney has been a prominent advocate for immigration reform, putting Legalize L.A. on a t-shirt and in ads. ***June sales figures showed another difficult month for some automakers, yet provided a hint demand for new vehicles in the U.S. might finally be on the upswing.
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LBN-SNAP:….Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter…..
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NO JOB LOSS: No LAPD officers will be fired over the excessive force incident on May Day in 2007 at MacArthur Park, even though Chief Bratton had sought to terminate four employees.
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OSAMA IN AMERICA: THE FINAL ANSWER: The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the course of various journalistic and biographical research, has now seemingly been settled. Osama was here for two weeks in 1979, it seems, and he visited Indiana and Los Angeles, among other places. He had a favorable encounter with an American medical doctor; he also reportedly met in Los Angeles with his spiritual mentor of the time, the Palestinian radical Abdullah Azzam. All this is according to a forthcoming book by Osamas first wife, Najwa Bin Laden, and his son Omar Bin Laden, to be published in the autumn by St. Martins Press.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***John Stossel is telling his own network “Give me a break!” after it pulled his health-case insurance segment off the air to give more time to the death of Michael Jackson. “I am sick of the Michael Jackson coverage,” the “20/20″ co-host wrote on his blog page at abc.com. “I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece.” ***The Jackson family has just retained the services of high-powered publicists Ken Sunshine and Shawn Sachs.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***New York-based literary agency Rob Weisbach Creative Management has tapped a team of senior associates — Erin L. Cox, David Groff and Jake Bauman — to maintain and support the company’s comprehensive development plan. Cox, former book publishing director at the New Yorker, will work primarily in publicity and promotion; while, veteran book editor Groff is set to scout and develop writers. Bauman, former director of development at the Weinstein Co., will develop and represent authors and screenwriters.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Candace Parker, the reigning rookie of the year and most valuable player in the W.N.B.A., is preparing to return after having a baby in May. ***Sixth-seeded Andy Roddick served 43 aces in beating Lleyton Hewitt in five sets to advance to his first Wimbledon semfinals since 2005.
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BENNETT: SANFORD NEEDS TO STOP ‘EMBARRASSING HIMSELF’: Mark Sanford is “embarrassing himself” and needs to resign as governor of South Carolina, conservative talk radio host and CNN contributor Bill Bennett said Thursday on CNN’s American Morning. Bennett, the latest high profile conservative to call for Sanford’s ouster, said it’s time for the onetime Republican rising star to ditch politics and focus solely on getting his life back in order.
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SMART PEOPLE READ THE LBN E-LERT: Legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers” understand that information is power and the LBN E-Lert is a power-tool.
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LBN E-Lert Sponsor ~-Click Here–
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SECOND AUTOPSY — CARRADINE DEATH ACCIDENTAL: A private autopsy performed on David Carradine’s body suggests the actor’s death was accidental. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said the cause of death was from asphyxiation — and that binding on his body helped rule out suicide. Baden said Carradine’s hands were tied above his head, not behind his back — but he still needed more information from Thai police to completely rule out the possibility he was killed by someone else. Carradine was found hanging naked in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room on June 4.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***The eldest of the Jonas Brothers, heartthrob Kevin, yesterday popped the question to Jersey girl Danielle Deleasa, a 22-year-old former hairdresser — but it’s fans who are over the moon. “It’s great for him to have someone who thinks of him just as Kevin, her fianc,” gushed one Facebook entry.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DARYL HANNAH (Actress and activist): Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR? Don’t feel bad, my friends are intelligent, well-read and informed people, but most of them had never heard of MTR (Mountain Top Removal) either.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROSANNE M. LEIPZIG: Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Doctors and other health care professionals should have it in order to improve care for older people.
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LBN-RECOMMENDS By JEWEL (SINGER SONGWRITER): I just watched Priscilla Ahn online. I think she’s an amazing new artist. She’s really talented. I was pretty blown away by her and I haven’t been blown away by somebody for a while.
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LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW:….Levi Johnston….
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Federal drug agents have been asked to join the investigation into Michael Jackson’s death, ABC News has learned. Until now, the probe into the pop star’s death has been managed by the LAPD alone. ***The Michael Jackson funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7, at Los Angeles Staples Center. Sources tell me that AEG Live, which owns Staples and next-door neighbor Nokia Theatre, will use both facilities and the surrounding plaza. ***The censors are literally circling around “Bruno” and his privates. Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy about a horny gay Austrian fashion journalist was re-rated R, from NC-17, after cuts and revisions. One change is that black circles have been superimposed over naked body parts during three scenes, including one where Bruno has a slap-and- tickle with his Pygmy boy friend. ***Ryan O’Neal allowed TV cameras into Farrah Faw cett’s funeral, but not his own son. Griffin O’Neal, Ryan’s son with Joanna Moore, drove 300 miles to LA to attend Fawcett’s service, but Ryan had him barred. ***Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish - and she does it with an Iberian accent. The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language. ***We’ve learned legendary wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was busted for suspicion of DUI early this morning in Hollywood. Law enforcement sources tell us 55-year-old Roddy, real name Roderick Toombs, was stopped by police at around 1 AM — he was given field sobriety tests and then arrested. Roddy’s bond is $5,000.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Whos going to tell her? I dont know who is going to tell her this. I cant tell her this.”-KASSIM BAKARI, on telling his 14-year-old daughter, the sole survivor of a Yemeni airliner crash, that her mother is dead.
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LBN-HISTORY: On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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| WEDNESDAY • JULY 1, 2009 |
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 FRANKENS VICTORY BOLSTERS DEMOCRATIC GRIP IN SENATE: After nearly eight months of waiting, almost 20,000 pages of legal briefs, and millions of dollars in election costs, Al Franken emerged Tuesday as the next United States senator from Minnesota, ending one of the most protracted election recount battles in recent memory. Mr. Franken, 58, a former comedian and author, could be seated in the Senate as early as Monday, leaders there said, providing Democrats with something they had long hoped for: 60 votes, and thus at least the symbolic ability to overcome filibusters.
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SUPREME COURT: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a canny strategist this term, and the Supreme Court appears poised to move to the right in the Obama era.
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INTERNATIONAL REPLY: The United Nations marshaled an unusually broad effort to condemn the military seizure of power in Honduras, turning over the podium to Manuel Zelaya.
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 JACKSONS WILL CUTS OUT EX-WIFE DEBBIE ROWE: DOCUMENT GIVES POP STARS ENTIRE ESTATE TO FAMILY TRUST: Michael Jackson’s 7-year-old will was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust but cutting out his former wife Debbie Rowe. The will, dated July 7, 2002, estimated his estate at that time at more than $500 million. It gives the entire estate to the Michael Jackson Family Trust.
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ARIZONA APPROVES BILL ALLOWING GUNS IN BARS: CRITICS OF THE MEASURE SAY GUNS AND ALCOHOL ARE DANGEROUS COMBINATION: The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol. The 19-8 vote completes legislative action on the bill and sends it to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. She has not said whether she will sign it, but she has long been a supporter of gun rights. The measure has pitted powerful groups representing gun and bar owners against each other, sparking a debate about whether guns and alcohol can coexist without bloodshed.
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 OAS GIVES 3-DAY DEADLINE TO HONDURAN COUP LEADERS: The Pentagon said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that suggests the U.S. could further curtail dealings with the new Honduran government.” We’ve postponed any activities in Honduras right now as we assess that situation,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.Whitman would not be specific, but the suspension could have broad implications because the United States runs a large Central American security and counternarcotics operation from a jointly run air base in Honduras. Whitman said only operations affecting Honduras itself are on hold.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***A rule requiring manufacturers to install Internet filtering software on new computers was delayed one day before the deadline for the software to be installed on all computers sold in China.
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NEW EVIDENCE: A DNA test has cast doubt on the guilt of two men convicted in the killing of four teenage girls in Austin, Tex., and their retrial has been delayed.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: A federal advisory panel voted to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin because of their effects on the liver. ***Among people counted as medically insured are some who have coverage so meager that a medical crisis means financial calamity.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***ICM head Chris Silbermann having lunch yesterday at the Breeze restaurant at the Century Plaza Hotel. ***Dustin hoffman having dinner at the quaint and authentic Japanese sushi restaurant in Culver City called Mori. *** Nicole Richie and her 17-month-old daughter Harlow shared a play date at the children’s gym Fit for Kids in West Hollywood. *** Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, had dinner with her glam squad at The Bazaar by Jos Andrs at SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. *** Slumdog Millionaire stars (and real-life couple) Freida Pinto and Dev Patel were seen shopping at the Steve Madden store in Philadelphia. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT - Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By LESLIE CARD (Film Writer/Director, TV Host): My favorite magazine and why? I read Newsweek cover to cover every week, so I keep abreast of everything from politics to medicine, entertainment to sports, pop culture to economics. And their Conventional Wisdom Watch with thumbs up or down to everyone from politicians to filmmakers is not to be missed. The LBN E-lert keeps me apprised of daily happenings, and Newsweek gives me a global perspective on a weekly basis.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Netflix CEO Reed Hastings believes that DVD rentals have four to nine years to keep growing, despite inroads in Internet delivery of movies. For all the hoopla over YouTube and Hulu, there is still demand for DVDs, he says. “A lot of consumers prefer the simplicity of discs.” ***Vibe magazine founder Quincy Jones, distraught over the news that the famous hip-hop title is shutting down, says he wants to buy it back. Owner Wicks Group “messed my magazine all up. You better believe it, I’m'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over.”
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***George Clooney is moving from his longtime home at Warner Bros. in Burbank to Sony Pictures in Culver City, where he and production partner Grant Heslov will hang their Smokehouse Pictures shingle with a two-year first-look deal. ***Even a couple of blockbusters haven’t kept heads from rolling at Paramount, as 31 more people got the ax Tuesday amid reports that the studio also is to merge its home entertainment administrative and physical distribution operations with either Sony or Fox. ***Variety has announced a joint venture with Bob Dowling and Unicomm to partner in the 3D Entertainment Summit. Variety will provide industry outreach, marketing and sales support and help with content development for the September conference, set for the Universal Hilton.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Wall Street finished its best quarter in years on Tuesday, but it would take almost three more rallies to return markets to where they were before the financial crisis. ***Steve Chen, YouTube’s founder, left the online video site to work at parent company Google.
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Lance Armstrong, who will try to win his eighth Tour de France in July, has encountered some tough going since returning to cycling after a three-year retirement.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MANOHLA DARGIS: Michael Manns Public Enemies is a grave and beautiful work of art.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MIKE HALE: Monsters Inside Me, a series beginning Wednesday on Animal Planet, tells real stories of parasitic infection and detection in a suspenseful, ticking-clock style.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy bill that just passed that I absolutely hate. It is too weak in key areas and way too complicated in others. A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg contraption. It is pathetic that we couldnt do better. It is appalling that so much had to be given away to polluters. It stinks. Its a mess. I detest it. Now lets get it passed in the Senate and make it law. Why? Because, for all its flaws, this bill is the first comprehensive attempt by America to mitigate climate change by putting a price on carbon emissions. Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined clean energy initiatives everywhere. More important, my gut tells me that if the U.S. government puts a price on carbon, even a weak one, it will usher in a new mind-set among consumers, investors, farmers, innovators and entrepreneurs that in time will make a big difference much like the first warnings that cigarettes could cause cancer. The morning after that warning no one ever looked at smoking the same again.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: Stay focused, ladies. Here is The Practical Guide to Help Spurned Political Wives Survive Old Problems in the Era of New Technology. 1. Skip the press conference, especially when your husband is copping to call girls, gay pickups in airport bathrooms or tragic and forbidden telenovela-style love stories. Stoicism at the skunks side is overrated and, as Larry Craigs wife learned, sunglasses dont help. 2. When theres an Associated Press bulletin quoting your husband saying that he has found his soul mate but hes going to try to fall back in love with you, change the locks. (At your second home, too.) 3. If you cant maintain a dignified Silda Spitzer silence; if you cant find a girlfriend, a shrink, a personal trainer, a hairdresser or a yoga teacher to confide in; if you must unburden yourself of your fury about your loser husband, go to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or even Deepak Chopra before crying to The A.P. A news wire is not a spiritual adviser. 4. When your husband turns into a Harlequin romance, babbling to The A.P. yes, even The A.P. thought it was T.M.I. about a magical encounter on an open-air dance floor in Uruguay, a soul that touches yours in a way that no ones ever has, and the left brain and right brain compartmentalization of the world of ideas that impact this country and state and the pursuit of happiness, whatever that is, just beat it.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID JACOBS: I would like it to be known that Michael Jackson (the aptly titled ‘King of Pop’), has sold over 1 Billion albums to date and after his demise will sell hundreds of millions more. Stores and websites are sold out of his projects and the demands are intensifying on astronomical levels. You see, this feat of selling over a billion records should have been another accolade for the Guinness book of records to document. But the evil heads of the record industry have denied and hidden this truth. Why? They are mercenary men who devilishly and blatantly rob artists blind of their hard earned dollars. This is nothing new - an practice that has been thriving for decades. And we thought the Madoff scandal was a gasper. Face it, Madoff is a minor scandal among hoards of others. Isn’t america just beautiful?
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DICK MORRIS: Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Barack Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a political issue.
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By OSAMA BIN LADEN: We–with God’s help–call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan’s U.S. troops and the devil’s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson. (1999).
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LBN-QUOTE: “An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.”
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LBN-HISTORY: On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
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ALL OVER THE WORLD: In addition to being read in all 50 of the United States, this LBN E-Lert is read every day in 23 foreign countries including: China, Iraq, India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, England, Greece, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Israel, France, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, Sweden among many others. Please FORWARD the LBN E-Lert to all of your international friends and family.
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AP SOURCE: 10 OTHERS TO BE CHARGED IN MADOFF PROBE: Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, wouldn’t detail potential charges or say whether the 10 would include Madoff’s family or former employees. So far, only Madoff and an accountant accused of failing to make basic auditing checks have been criminally charged in the multibillion-dollar hoax.
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IRAN’S ELECTION AUTHORITY: PARTIAL RECOUNT SHOWS ELECTION VALID: Saying it had completed an investigation into alleged voter irregularities, Iran’s election authority on Monday stood by its findings that gave hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an overwhelming victory and sparked more than two weeks of chaos in the streets.
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 GLOOMY U.S. CONSUMERS CLIP HOUSING RECOVERY HOPES: U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy.
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 BOY, 5, RESCUED AFTER JET CRASHES IN INDIAN OCEAN: A passenger jet carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Officials said one child was plucked alive from the sea.
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 OUSTED HONDURAN LEADER MAY FACE ARREST ON RETURN: Honduras’ ousted president, bolstered by international support, said he will return home this week to regain control. The man who replaced him said Tuesday that Manuel Zelaya could be met with an arrest warrant.
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OIL SOARDS: Oil prices rose to near $72 a barrel Tuesday after briefly jumping above $73, an eight-month high, due to a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it easier for viewers to bypass commercials. ***Apple said that Steven P. Jobs, its co-founder and chief executive, had returned to work following a five-month medical leave during which he had a liver transplant.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***As the economy takes a toll on many publishing companies, authors have turned to self-publishing through the use of Web-based companies which has proved to be very efficient: cheaper with a greater audience. ***Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of The View co-hosts, is being sued for copyright infringement for her book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide. ***Alistair Reynolds has signed a 1m book dealone of the biggest science fiction book deals. ***Journalist Roxana Saberi, noted for her imprisonment in Iran for 4 months, has a book deal with HarperCollins to publish a memoir by March 2010.
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DEFICIT FORCES CALIFORNIA TO ISSUE IOUS: California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red. Once the USs richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country.
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 LBN-SEE IT: The Consumer Product Safety Commission sets off fireworks inside of a watermelon to demonstrate the dangers of fireworks and encourage safety on the fourth of July, Tuesday, June 30, 2009, on the Mall in Washington.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***The makers of Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications are trying to dissuade regulators from placing new restrictions on their popular painkillers, including possibly removing some of them from store shelves. The Food and Drug Administration has assembled more than 35 experts to discuss ways to prevent overdose with acetaminophen the pain-relieving, fever-reducing ingredient in Tylenol and dozens of other prescription and over-the-counter medications. ***Health experts are warning parents against holding “swine flu parties” in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus. Talk of swine flu parties has emerged on Internet forums. The idea is that exposing a child to the H1N1 virus while it remains relatively mild will give the child immunity if the virus returns in a more virulent form later on. ***A vaccine has been approved for a new form of the flu virus which has affected horses first, then dogs, but no humans so far. ***About 47,000 elderly Americans are treated in emergency rooms each year from falls associated with walkers and canes, according to a study.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Weddings are big sellers for the entertainment weeklies, so US Weekly dropped $120,000 on exclusive rights to Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett’s nuptials in LA last weekend. But Michael Jackson’s death quashed plans to run it on the cover. “They were trying to get out of paying so much because they have to put Michael on the cover,” a source said. ***Fired Fox News entertainment columnist Roger Friedman filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Fox News, News Corp, 20th Century Fox and Rupert Murdoch in New York State Supreme Court Monday, the Huffington Post has learned.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BARRY FARBER (RADIO TALK SHOW HOST): The Presbyterian minister took a walk down the block on Christmas morning to visit his young granddaughter. The five-year-old was joyously playing with her generous tower of toys.
“Did your friend next door, Rachel, get Chrismas gifts as nice as yours?” the grandfather asked the little girl.
“Oh, no, Grandpa,” she said. “Rachel’s not Christmas. Rachel’s Chanukah. And Rachel’s not Easter. Rachel’s Passover.”
Then her little face lit up as she added, “But we’re both Fourth of July!” ***To reply directly to Barry Farber, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put Barry Farber in the subject line).
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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: ‘Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.’ (1964).
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARK KRIKORIAN (Executive Director Of the Center for Immigration Studies): English *is* the official language of the United States the Constitution is in English, so are all the laws, court rulings, etc. A formal recognition of that fact couldnt hurt, but I dont think it would make as much difference as either supporters or detractors think.
More important than language policy in defending the primacy of English is *immigration* policy. Whatever Congress says about the official status of English, were going to have press 1 for English on the phone and bilingual signs at the Home Depot so long as we continue our current policy of mass immigration. ***To reply directly to Mark Krikorian, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net. (Please put Mark Krikorian in the subject line).
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Two weeks before he died, Michael Jackson wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the “Dome Project” that could be the final finished video piece overseen by the King of Pop, The Associated Press has learned.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Early salary figures from Simon Cowell’s “American Idol” contract negotiations are leaking out and they’re eye-popping. Cowell, who reportedly made $36 million last year for judging the hit competition show, has been offered three or four times that amount — between $100 million and $144 million per year — by co-producers Fox and 19 Entertainment to stick with “Idol” when his contract expires next May, according to The Guardian, a London newpaper. ***Fox is reportedly facing budgeting issues with the Denzel Washington-starrer “Unstoppable” from director Tony Scott. The film is said to have slowed down with studio insiders indicating Fox is wrestling with mounting a big-scale action pic that would include the star salaries of Scott, Washington and Chris Pine, for whom “Unstoppable” is a follow up to his breakout in “Star Trek.” ***Impressionist Fred Travalena has succumbed to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on Sunday, June 28, 2009, after a seven-year battle with the disease.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DR. EARL MINDELL (Author and Vitamin Expert): My favorite magazine is The Week magazine. It tells you what the latest things that are happening in the USA and abroad. It keeps me up to date with movies, theatre, TV, books, fashion etc. I read it cover to cover each week. For international news, I read The Economist. It is by far the best written magazine when it comes to world affairs on the market. For quick up to date news, I refer to LBN. ***To reply directly to Earl Mindell, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net. (Please put Dr. Earl Mindell in the subject line).
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LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY BY MARIAN C. DIAMOND: ‘The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across.’ (2009).
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 LBN-COMMENTARY BY ANDY OSTROY (New York City-based political analyst): The streets are littered with evil predators searching for their next victims. It’s best we know that and not fall into a false sense of security because, “Phew! Bernie’s in jail!”
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Diane Keaton enjoys her roly-poly role yesterday until a sumo wrestler’s belly bump leaves her dazed. A reel-life wrestling match ended in a real-life scare for Diane Keaton yesterday when she was injured filming a scene for “Morning Glory” on Sixth Avenue in Midtown. Keaton, 63, was in an inflatable sumo suit, but the padding didn’t help when a real sumo wrestler gave her a belly bump, knocking her to the ground. She lay there for a half-hour until medics put her neck in a brace and put her in an ambulance. She was “in good health” later in the day, a Paramount statement said. ***A will drafted by Michael Jackson in 2002 which divides the singer’s estate among his mother, three children and one or more charities could play a central role in determining how his tangled financial relationships will be unwound. ***Erika Jayne who recently hit No.1 on the Billboard Chart for Breakout Artist of the Week is playing in New York City on June 23 at Hudson West. *** Michael Jackson’s body will be taken to Neverland Ranch in California for a public viewing on Friday.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years.
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 MADOFF SENTENCED TO 150 YEARS IN PRISON: DISGRACED INVESTOR GETS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR MASSIVE PONZI SCHEME: Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison after apologizing to victims for a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme that the judge called “extraordinarily evil.” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin handed down the maximum allowable sentence in a New York courthouse packed with his victims and the press. Defense attorneys had sought 12 years, while prosecutors wanted the maximum. The federal probation department had recommended 50 years.
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 JUSTICES RULE FOR WHITE FIREFIGHTERS IN BIAS CASE: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that white firefighters in
New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that Sonia Sotomayor, a
Supreme Court nominee, endorsed as an appeals court judge.
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 JACKSONS MOM FILES FOR CUSTODY OF HIS 3 KIDS: Katherine Jackson also petitions for kids estate; hearing set for Aug. 3: Michael Jacksons mother is caring for the singers three children and asked the court Monday to declare her their guardian. The guardianship papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday. A hearing has been set for Aug 3. Jackson left behind three children: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince Michael, 12; Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, 11; and Prince Michael II, 7. The youngest son was born to a surrogate mother.
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VIOLENCE ACROSS NORTHWEST PAKISTAN KILLS DOZENS: CLASHES COME AS U.S. PRAISES PAKISTANI MILITARY’S OFFENSIVE: Pakistani jets bombed suspected Taliban hideouts after a stray mortar shell crashed into a mosque during prayers, part of a wave of violence that claimed nearly 70 lives in 24 hours along the northwest region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The clashes came as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, praised Pakistan’s ongoing offensive against insurgents. Many of those al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are suspected in attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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 HONDURAS TORN BETWEEN OUSTED LEADER, REPLACEMENT: HONDURAS IS NOW TORN BETWEEN TWO PRESIDENTS: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation’s congress, courts and military.Presidents from around Latin America were gathering in Nicaragua for meetings Monday to resolve the first military overthrow of a Central American government in 16 years, and once again Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took center stage, casting the dispute as a rebellion by the region’s poor.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: **Newly appointed Paramount Film Group president Adam Goodman has made his first major acquisition with a deal for action-comedy pitch, “License to Steal.” Goodman reportedly paid seven figures for the script to be written by Shane Salerno and based on a Marc Weingarten article from Salon.com. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing. ***As Comic-Con continues its light-speed morph into a not-to-be-missed event for the industry, studios and networks plan to promote more TV shows than ever before at next month’s conference.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***The immunosuppressive drug golimumab shows promise in treating rheumatoid arthritis patients who don’t respond to other drugs, according to a new study. Golimumab is from the family of drugs called tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) inhibitors. ***New research shows that people who eat a high-fat diet may be more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, especially if their dietary fat comes from animal foods, such as meat and dairy products. ***The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says that JBS Swift Beef Company of Greeley, Colo., is recalling about 41,280 pounds of beef products because they may be contaminated with E. Coli.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Joey Logano uses a crash and Mother Nature to become the youngest driver to win a NASCAR race. ***Roger Federer found himself in a serving contest Monday at Wimbledon and won. ***Brazil’s “Beautiful Game” came alive in the second half Sunday with three comeback goals in a 3-2 win over the United States in the Confederations Cup final. Luis Fabiano scored two of the goals and Lucio added the third in the 84th minute to give Brazil its second straight Confederations Cup title and third overall.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***News Corp.’s KTTV in Los Angeles is said to be cutting nearly 100 jobs in all newsroom departments at the Fox affiliate station. “Editors, writers, promo people, our chief helicopter guy …” News Corp.’s New York TV stations, WNYW and WWOR, laid off 20 staffers last week. ***Time Warner’s TMZ broke the news of the death of Michael Jackson. But TMZ’s dubious tactics make other news outlets — including corporate sibling CNN — reluctant to cite its reporting. Major advertisers such as Procter & Gamble avoid TMZ, wishing to “maintain their integrity.” ***CNN once again jumped to the ratings foreground during a national news event Thursday night, easily dominating its cable news rivals, Fox News and MSNBC. CNN averaged 3.9 million viewers with its coverage of Michael Jackson, an increase of about 381% over its usual numbers.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take peoples minds off his own cheating scandal. Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Youngs book proposal. St. Martins Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunters infant daughter Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.
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LBN-NOTICED: *** Gabrielle Union and NBA star Dwyane Wade, cuddling at Plunge nightclub at Gansevoort South in Miami Beach. *** Scrubs star Donald Faison, celebrating his 35th birthday with girlfriend CaCee Cobb and other celebrity pals (including Chris Evans) at Madame Royal Hollywood. *** Gwen Stefani where in at the Lush Cosmetics store in Uncasville, Conn. *** Meanwhile in West Hollywood, Carmen Electra got friendly with Bridget Marquardt at the 944 Cuervo Platino Penthouse Party. *** Leonardo DiCaprio held court at MyHouse in Los Angeles with his usual gaggle of guys Kevin Connolly and Lukas Haas. ***Ashlee Simpson-Wentz shopping at Alice + Olivia on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. Also shopping at Alice + Olivia Jennifer Love Hewitt. ***Demi Moore in Paris with her daughters eating at Le Stresa Restaurant with Kylie Minogue. *** Jessica Szohr with David Annable of Brother & Sisters at LAVO in Las Vegas. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DEEPAK CHOPRA AND DR. DREW PINSKY: Whether or not Michael Jackson’s sudden death was directly caused by prescription drugs, this tragedy highlights the need to crackdown on M.D.s who become enablers of addiction.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By HARVERY WEINSTEIN (Co-chairman of The Weinstein Company): I watched The Hangover this weekend. It is brilliantly funny and plain brilliant. It combined mystery, pulp fictions, film noir action and comedy like no other movie I’ve seen.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARTHA ZOLLER (Radio Talk Show Host): I do believe English should be the official language of the United States. Americans are many different cultures united by one language, in this case, English. Business and Governments needs to have one language as the official language of record. The only way we can be “out of many, one” is to have a common denominator. We will always be a country of many cultures, but our language unites us. ***To reply directly to Martha Zoller, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net ( Please put Martha Zoller in the subject line).
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By MOHAMMED: Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Katherine Jackson, Michael Jacksons mother, has temporary guardianship over his three children. ***Leighton Meester filmed for Cobra Starships new music video Good Girls Go Bad. ***Despite Rihannas absence in the 2009 BET Awards, she picked up trophies for both Beautiful Hair and Viewers Choice Award. ***Britney Spears goes brunette for the summer. ***Janet Jackson honored her brother at the 2009 BET Awards followed by a tribute performance from Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Action is the foundational key to all success.” - Pablo Picasso.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 29, 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
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| SUNDAY • JUNE 28, 2009 |
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IRAN ALLOWS DEMONSTRATION DESPITE WEEKEND CLAMPDOWN: Iran’s government will allow a demonstration at Tehran’s Ghoba mosque Sunday, CNN has confirmed. The gathering is officially meant to honor Mohammad Beheshti, a hero of the 1979 Islamic Revolution who was killed in a bombing on this date in 1981. The demonstration comes after two weeks of protests against the official results of the June 12 presidential elections, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won. A post on a Web site associated with opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi urged people to go to the rally.
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 REPORT: ‘INFOMERCIAL KING’ BILLY MAYS FOUND DEAD IN HOME : Television pitchman Billy Mays who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets died Sunday, FOX News confirms. Mays was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Tampa Police Department. Police said there were no signs of forced entry to May’s residence and foul play is not suspected. Authorities said an autopsy should be complete by Monday afternoon. Mays, 50, was on board a US Airways flight that blew out its front tires as it landed at a Tampa airport on Saturday, MyFOXTampa.com reported.
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I.D. FOR INDIA: India is planning to provide its 1.1 billion-plus citizens with ID cards. Entrepreneur, Nandan Nilekani has been chosen to lead the ambitious project which will be the second largest citizens’ database in a democracy, with China being the biggest.
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WAR ABROAD: The Pakistani military has claimed success in the Swat Valley, but the stability may be threatened by the militants decision to flee, possibly to return later.
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HONDURAS PRESIDENT ARRESTED: The military arrested Honduras President Jose Manuel Zelaya on Sunday morning, the same day he vowed to follow through with a referendum that the country’s Supreme Court had ruled illegal, local media reported.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***In bad times, the Four Seasons model of spare-nothing service is worrying the owners of the hotels it manages, but the company resists cutbacks that could diminish its brand.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***At Friday’s show - Aretha Franklin performing at the Hollywood Bowl: Rev.Jesse Jackson, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett ***James Purefoy, star of NBC’s “The Philanthropist,” celebrating the show’s premiere at El Quijote in NYC with Sting, Andrew Stein and Ben Silverman. ***Johnny Depp, Patti Smith and four friends drinking a Jeraboam of 1999 Sassicaia with dinner at Da Silvano in NYC. ***Jay-Z and Beyonc catching The Roots at the Highline Ballroom in NYC after Lenny Kravitz’s daughter, Zo, opened. ***Philip Smith, the Shubert Organization chief whose ex-wife Tricia Walsh-Smith continues to embarrass herself on YouTube, dining at Primola in NYC with theatrical producer Dasha Epstein, whose grandfather made a fortune by inventing a type of light switch.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Michael Jackson was working on a song about climate change in the days before his death, his friend Deepak Chopra has disclosed. ***Former Michael Jackson manager Jim Morey said yesterday - “I have refused all interviews. There are lots of questions and the good Lord knows that I don’t have the answers.”
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IMMORTAL GEORGE: George Washington could have turned into a Frankenstein’s monster had his personal physician prevailed. In “Strange But True, America,” out in August from Lone Pine, John Hafnor and Dale Crawford reveal that when the father of our country died at age 67, his body was packed in ice. “Dr. William Thornton proposed thawing the body — first in cool water and then with warm blankets and rubbing of the skin, with a subsequent tracheotomy, artificial respiration at the tracheotomy site and a transfusion of lamb’s blood,” they write. Luckily, Martha Washington firmly vetoed Thornton’s bizarre plan for an attempted resurrection.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube. Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.
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LBN-COMMENTARY BY DAVE BARRY: A piata is a festive party item, usually shaped like a classic fairy-tale character such as Spider-Man; it is used to traumatize children at birthday parties. This has become very popular: As the parent of a 3-year-old, I attend approximately 84 birthday parties per weekend, and every one has a piata, as well as (this is federal law) a clown. In fact, it was a clown at a recent party who got me thinking about piata safety. She had been clowning professionally for 20 years, which is a long time — maybe too long — to be spending every weekend wearing comical pants and a scratchy wig, endlessly twisting balloons into shapes for children who, over the years, have become harder to please, who aren’t satisfied with your classic balloon dog or balloon sword, no, these kids want balloon versions of every licensed character that comes along-they want Nemo, they want Lilo, they want STITCH for godsakes, and when you try to warn them — when you say, ‘’Don’t take the balloon outside! You’ll pop it!'’ — they go outside anyway and … POP, now they’re crying, and they want you to make Stitch AGAIN, and … and that’s pretty much how this clown sounded. Her technique for creating a magical mood for the children was to bark things like, “Be careful on those chairs! You’ll fall over backward and crack your head!'’
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: With his Argentine lover, Mark Sanford was no longer the penny-pinching governor, but someone more fascinating: Marco, international man of mystery.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I was at a conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, a few weeks ago and interviewed Craig Barrett, the former chairman of Intel, about how America should get out of its current economic crisis. His first proposal was this: Any American kid who wants to get a drivers license has to finish high school. No diploma no license. Hey, why would we want to put a kid who can barely add, read or write behind the wheel of a car? Now what does that have to do with pulling us out of the Great Recession? A lot. Historically, recessions have been a time when new companies, like Microsoft, get born, and good companies separate themselves from their competition. It makes sense. When times are tight, people look for new, less expensive ways to do old things. Necessity breeds invention. Therefore, the country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter and more innovative and endows its people with more tools and basic research to invent new goods and services is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road. We might be able to stimulate our way back to stability, but we can only invent our way back to prosperity. We need everyone at every level to get smarter.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DOUG GILES: “Obama said in his latest hem-hawing, foreign policy bloviating, what-the-hell-is-he-talkin’-about press conference that “we need to have a vigorous debate” regarding Iran’s current tyrannical Muslim-based governmental crushing of young people who desire a touch of freedom.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***The Michael Jackson family has hired a private pathologist who completed a second autopsy on the performer’s body today, according to sources familiar with the case.The second autopsy came a day after an initial examination by the L.A. County coroners office did not immediately determine a cause of death. Officials said additional lab tests, including a toxicology screen, were required to uncover why the 50-year-old pop starwent into cardiac arrest in his rented Holmby Hills mansion Thursday. The “personal physician” who was at the side of Michael Jackson when the pop icon died was questioned Saturday by Los Angeles police, who said he provided useful information and is not a suspect. ***Katie Couric likes to keep her private life private, so she declined to pose for photos the other night at Greenhouse with young beau Brooks Perlin. ***In a wedding fit for a princess, Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson wed her NFL player beau Hank Baskett at her onetime residence, the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles’s exclusive Holmby Hills, on Saturday. ***An alarming portrait of Michael Jackson in his final months has now been sketched by the nanny who cared for his three children. Grace Rwaramba, 42, tells The Times of London that she routinely pumped out the pop star’s stomach after he’d ingested a dangerous combination of drugs. “I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it,” Rwaramba said, referring to drugs. “There was one period that it was so bad that I didn’t let the children see him,” she is quoted as saying. “He always ate too little and mixed too much.”
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LBN-QUOTE: “America is changing more quickly than the government. They are lagging behind the crowd. But if I remember my poli sci from college, isnt that the way it always works?” LINDA KETNER on progress in gay rights.
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By JESUS: And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
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1. Name: Frank M. Beaty
2. Occupation: [Frank Beaty] CEO, Beaty Four Entertainment, Inc
3. What is your greatest extravagance?[Frank Beaty] My grandchildren
4. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?[Frank Beaty] Hopelessness. When a person losses all hope, life descends to its lowest point.
5. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be and why? [Frank Beaty] I would like to come back as a person, wiser and more humble than I am
6. What is your most marked characteristic? [Frank Beaty] Friendly and compassionate.
7. Who are your heroes in real life?[Frank Beaty] My mother
8. What’s the worst fashion crime a person can commit?[Frank Beaty] Socks with sandals
9. What is your motto?[Frank Beaty] Theres nothing wrong with believing in a dream.
10. E-mail and website:[Frank Beaty] frank@beatyfour.com, http://beatyfour.com
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| SATURDAY • JUNE 27, 2009 |
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OBAMA IMPLORES SENATE TO PASS CLIMATE BILL: Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit. The sharply debated bill’s fate is unclear in the Senate, and Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to ratchet up pressure on the 100-seat chamber. The 219-212 vote marked the first time that either house of Congress has approved a bill aimed at curbing the heat-trapping gases scientists have linked to climate change, and it could lead to sweeping changes in the economy.
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JACKSON SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK: Michael Jackson, who was with a cardiologist when he collapsed at his rented home in Los Angeles, appeared to have suffered a heart attack, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity, said Jackson suffered a heart attack, which is a blocking of the arteries that deprives the heart of adequate blood. That can lead to cardiac arrest, an interruption of the normal heartbeat. The body of Michael Jackson, who died Thursday, has been released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Coroner Investigator Jerry McKibben says Jackson’s body was returned to the singer’s family Friday night and was moved to an undisclosed mortuary.The source told FOX News investigators conducting the autopsy were also surprised at how healthy Jackson was. While he wasn’t necessarily normal, he appeared to be stronger than they expected. Investigators were surprised to see significant scarring on his face, this being the first time they had seen Jackson without make-up. He had bruises on his chest consistent with someone trying to revive him, but there were no obvious signs of a heart attack, which leads investigators to believe some sort of drug or drug combination caused either the heart to stop beating or the lungs to stop breathing. Craig Harvey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner, said Friday there were no signs of foul play in the autopsy and further tests would be needed to determine Jackson’s cause of death.
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HOMELESS? RUTH MADOFF TO LOSE PENTHOUSE, OTHER HOMES: Ruth Madoff, the wife of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, will lose the couple’s $7 million Manhattan penthouse, according to a stipulation agreed to by the government and Madoff’s defense attorneys. The couple’s other homes in Palm Beach and the Hamptons are also set to be sold by U.S. Marshals. Meanwhile, the government late Friday submitted its sentencing request, asking Judge Denny Chin to sentence Madoff to 150 years in prison a term that is the equivalent to consecutive maximum sentences on all the counts of his indictment.
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 LBN-SEE IT:…..In the UK a Muslim police officer was allegedly told by his boss that he looked like Osama Bin Laden because of his long beard, an employment tribunal heard yesterday. Tariq Dost (pictured above) has accused West Midlands Police and the police authority of racial and religious discrimination and victimisation following the remarks made to him from 2007.
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JENNY HITS BACK: South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair. “I said absolutely not. It’s one thing to forgive adultery; it’s another thing to condone it,” Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press during a 20-minute interview at the coastal home where she sought refuge with their four sons. They were her first extended comments on the affair.
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LBN-RECOMMENDS By ADAM CHRISTING (AUTHOR AND COMEDIAN): I’m not Jewish, but I know this–the best show producers are Jewish moms. Bar and Bat Mitzvahs are amazing parties. There’s a giant Mitzvah Trade tomorrow, Sunday June 28th, at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Free admission. Free entertainment. Free gifts bags. Heck, I’m taking my whole gentile family: www.MitzvahsandMore.com
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***International photo-journalist Peter Borsari died Monday, May 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 67. He had undergone knee surgery two days earlier having had successful surgery on the other knee a year ago. .His death was unexpected, report his business associate and fellow photographer, Laura Luongo, as well as his assistant of 13 years Dana Baker and his former wife, Monica Borsari-Nathan with whom he had maintained close friendship despite their divorce 20 years ago.
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY BY MOSES: Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.
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THE FINAL WORD FROM PASTOR BOB: Im getting several questions from folks about Michael Jacksons death:
Q: Did Michael Jackson go to heaven?
A. No. Not unless he left the Jehovahs Witness cult and accepted the Lord.
Q. Should we celebrate Jacksons life?
A. Celebrate his talent. It was a gift from God. But condemn the terrible things he did with children, fame, and drugs.
Q. Should I pray for Michael Jackson now?
A. Its too late! After a person dies they are judged and go straight to Heaven or Hell, not some Limbo Land like Catholics believe.
Im praying for Michael Jacksons family . . . and Im praying for you.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KIRK HONEYCUTT (MOVIE CRITIC, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) : Bottom Line: Sacha Baron Cohen might have gone to the well once too often. We all knew Borat. Borat was a friend of ours. Bruno, you’re no Borat. Unfair to be sure, but because everyone is going to compare Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno” to his insanely funny “Borat,” let’s be honest: While pushing the PC envelope in new and imaginative ways as well as the MPAA’s R rating, especially insofar as the male member is concerned, “Bruno” is only intermittently funny and all too often the “ambushes” of celebrities and civilians look staged. The movie is even a tad — dare we say it? — tedious.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ALASTAIR MACAULAY : Michael Jackson will be remembered as a great and widely imitated mover. Other things about him will be remembered too, but it is amazing how many of them are apparent in his dancing.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By TIM RUTTEN: Newspaper editors and TV producers undercut the value of serious news media when they let website hits and social media volume dictate their coverage.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Michael Jackson, 50, was taking up to three (3) powerful narcotic pain relievers at the same time when any more than one is deemed potentially fatal. Sources close to the singers entourage said he was injected three times a day with Demerol - the potent painkiller given to him before his collapse at home in LA on Thursday. Jackson, who suffered a heart attack, was taking another painkiller, Dilaudid. And sources said he had recently been prescribed yet another narcotic pain reliever, Vicodin. His other drugs included muscle relaxant Soma, a sedative called Xanax and anti-depressant Zoloft. He also took Paxil for anxiety and heartburn pill Prilosec. ***NO one ever accused Sacha Baron Cohen of good taste, but Universal Pictures exercised caution Thursday night before screening “Bruno” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood by deleting a scene with La Toya Jackson. Since her brother Michael had died just hours before, the suits cut the scene — shown at screenings in London, Paris and Madrid — which features gay fashion journalist Bruno trying to get Michael’s phone number from La Toya’s BlackBerry as he interviews her in an LA apartment, where Mexicans are bent over and used as furniture and sushi is served off a naked man. ***Sources close to the Jackson family tell us Michael Jackson’s three children — Michael Joseph, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine and Prince “Blanket” Michael II — say they want to stay with their grandparents, specifically Katherine.
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LBN-QUOTE: “His career is not a concern of mine. Hes going to have to worry about that. Im worried about my family and the character of my children.”JENNY SANFORD, wife of the governor of South Carolina, who announced this week that he had a mistress.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
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 LBN-FACESPACE:
1. Name:
dani’el dharanee kannan
2. Occupation:
Disciple of Jesus of Nazareth / Inspirationalist / Motivator / Music Talent Manager
3. What is your greatest extravagance?
I don’t have any, i’ve always learnt to be content with what I have and am grateful and thankful for all things
4. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being in hell, perpetually…
5. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be and why?
I can die at anytime I want, that’s suicide and a sin and within my control but I’ve no control over how i’d come
back…..i realise the difference between the Creator and the created
6. What is your most marked characteristic?
My generousity for the “least of our bretheren…”, my willingness to offer help to anyone, unflinchingly
7. Who are your heroes in real life?
Jesus of Nazareth
8. What’s the worst fashion crime a person can commit?
Have you seen the people who have no clothes and wear rags…..What fashion are you talking about…
9. What is your motto?
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling…”
” When i was hungry, you gave me food, when i was thirsty, you gave me drink, when i was a stranger,
you welcomed me, when i was a prisoner, you visited me, i was naked and you clothed me,
when i was sick, you came to me…
10. E-mail and website:
danielkannan@yahoo.com
daniel@covenantartists.com
www.covenantartists.com
www.covenantartists.blogspot.com
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1. “Use Safe Effective Homeopathic Hormone Rejuvenation instead of risking health problems and severe toxicity from BHRT and HRT. Call 800 219 1261 today.”2. Elegant one and two bedroom apartments with fabulous views, full kitchen, cable, & internet available short term. Go to www.ClebiasPlace.com for details, pictures and rates.3.Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Were here to help! David Boufford dboufford@gmail.com Are you ready to book more gigs, for more money, more often? www.StartGettingBooked.com 4. LBN Reader Comment: As water shapes itself to the vase- A wise man adapts to his surroundings and circumstances.—–William N. Roemer - Jackson, CA4. LBN Reader Comment: As water shapes itself to the vase- A wise man adapts to his surroundings and circumstances.—–William N. Roemer - Jackson, CA5. Clickers & Flcikers Photography Network: Photographer, Musician & Didgeridoo Crafter, WILLIAM THOREN, presents The Mystical Didgeridoo and Majestic Santa Monica Mountains at C&Fs photo-networking dinner, June 30. RSVP: 626-794-7447. http://www.ClickersAndFlickers.com6. Looking for an organized, highly skilled PA? I will keep your life running like a clock! My job is to help you do yours more efficiently. zleeann@aol.com7. Do you have a question or problem and want advice or just to talk? Dating, Family, Friends, School, Work, Whatever. Non-Judgmental, Discreet, Understanding. I care about you. I’ll listen. FriendlyPhoneAdvice.com8. Smart Mouth Dog & Cat Dental Cleaning. Anesthesia-free. Vet recommended. Convenient. House-calls LA to Goleta. Providing loving caring service for 10 years. 888.828.4858 or 818-710-0022.
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| FRIDAY • JUNE 26, 2009 |
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WORLD MOURNS KING OF POP: Michael Jackson was due to make his triumphant return to the stage in London next month - but instead his sudden death has left millions of fans feeling they’ve lost a lifelong friend. The dramatic death of the brilliant singer seemed to obscure his recent controversies and kindle warmer memories of Jackson the child star and Jackson the show-stopping, moonwalking headliner.
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LAPD ‘SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL JACKSON DOCTOR’: Los Angeles police were reportedly searching for Michael Jackson’s personal physician today to question him over allegations that the star received a potentially fatal dose of the painkiller Demerol before his death yesterday afternoon. News of the manhunt broke on the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com, which was the first to report the star’s death. The police action followed earlier reports that Jackson had been given an large dose of the drug - which can prompt cardiac failure - to help deal with the pain after a rehearsal for a series of 50 comeback concerts in London.
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CAUGHT: Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said he saw his mistress while on a government-funded trip, raising new ethics concerns. He vowed to reimburse its costs.
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 SANFORD’S WIFE: ‘HIS CAREER IS NOT A CONCERN OF MINE’: Jenny Sanford said Thursday that her husband Mark Sanford’s political career is “not a concern of mine” and that she’d be just fine — regardless of whether their marriage survives. She would not speculate whether her husband would resign as South Carolina governor. “His career is not a concern of mine,” she told reporters as she departed the family’s vacation home in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. “He’s going to have to worry about that. I’m worried about my family and the character of my children.” She added that she would be fine, with or without her husband.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Health officials estimate that as many as 1 million Americans now have the new swine flu. Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, voiced the estimate at a vaccine advisory meeting Thursday in Atlanta.
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LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Bob Dylan and The Band made some legendary music together, but it sounds like there’s no love lost between them. . “Playing with Bob is a job . . . That kind of a job cuts off anything else,” drummer and mandolin wizard Levon Helm, whose new solo record, “Electric Dirt,” is out June 30, tells next month’s Relix. He adds, “When you are playing with Bob, it is all about Bob.”
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MUST TESTIFY: In a 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said analysts must testify when scientific evidence is used in criminal cases.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Jeffrey Nemeroff, longtime art director at Architectural Digest, has left the magazine after butting heads with editor in chief Paige Rense. ***Viacom, which lost the bidding war for MySpace in 2005, may still want to nab the social network, which could go for a bargain nowadays. But when contacted, Viacom says it is “not interested.” Former Viacom CEO Tom Freston lost his job for failing to acquire MySpace. ***CBS’ David Letterman has beat NBC’s Conan O’Brien in the late-night talk-show ratings race on a weekly basis for the first time since O’Brien succeeded Jay Leno as host of “The Tonight Show.” Letterman has also won the weekly ratings for the first time since December 2005. ***Rumors are circulating that Vogue, the perennial fashion category leader and flagship of Conde Nast, will have a hard time producing a 500-page edition this September. Vogue’s biggest September issue ever was in 2007, with 727 ad pages. Last year, it slipped to 607. ***Brant Publications’ Interview magazine, the celebrity title launched by Andy Warhol in 1969, is now seen as a shell of its former self, having fallen “significantly” into the red. Interview’s travails “stem from a clash of business cultures and of egos among the top brass, as well as poor timing.”
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DANYEL SMITH (Danyel Smith is the chief content officer of Vibe Media Group and the editor-in-chief of Vibe): The sorrow at his passing is palpable, and wet, and illogical — in my 20 years of being a critic and an editor, I’ve never met him. But this is a death in the family. I’ve known Michael Jackson’s work since I was 5 years old and was given The Jackson 5’s “ABC” as a gift. He was on the surface the most uncomplicated of all boys — beautiful, emotional, untouchable, ours. Michael has bruised my heart many times — his antics and the accusations, his seeming desire not to be, at least physically, who he’d been. Which is who I am. But as his funeral is prepared, I, like the Jackson brothers sang with optimistic melancholy in 1976, think about the good times.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DEEPAK CHOPRA (Author, Sirius radio host, founder of the Alliance for a New Humanity): Michael Jackson’s mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness was intimately known to me. For twenty years I observed every aspect, and as easy as it was to love Michael — and to want to protect him — his sudden death yesterday seemed almost fated. What began as idiosyncrasy, shyness, and vulnerability was ravaged by obsessions over health, paranoia over security, and an isolation that grew more and more unhealthy. He was surrounded by enablers, including a shameful plethora of M.D.s in Los Angeles and elsewhere who supplied him with prescription drugs.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By SHARON WAXMAN (Sharon Waxman is the editor-in-chief of a new site covering the entertainment industry, TheWrap.Com) : A star at 11, a teen idol as an adolescent and the King of Pop before he hit 30, Jackson spent what should have been the best years of his life confused, hounded and haunted.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By HARAH ESTROFF MARANO (Editor of Psychology Today): Do I believe English should be the official language of the U.S? Oui because this isn’t Azerbaijan, or Estonia, or Mexico, or France, or anyplace else. it’s the u.s. ***To reply directly to Harah Estrofff Marano, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By OSAMA BIN LADEN: Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims. (1998).
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ALESSANDRA STANLEY: Farrah Fawcetts stardom traced that cautionary Hollywood arc: meteoric fame followed by years spent trying first to overcome it, then seeking to recapture it.
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LBN-VIDEO LINK: Michael Jackson Super Bowl Performance: WATCH.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By A. O. SCOTT: If The Hurt Locker is not the best action movie of the summer, Ill blow up my car.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PAUL KRUGMAN: President Obama has eloquently explained the case for health care reform, but will he compromise so much to get a plan through Congress that it wont do the job?
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***A secret library of over a hundred songs recorded by Michael Jackson could now be released following his death. One of the singers biographers, Ian Halperin, claimed that the unheard songs had been made for his children. Nora Ephron has one big regret about her brief stint as a White House intern in 1961 — not jumping into bed with President Kennedy. “Jack Kennedy was one of the handsomest men I have ever laid eyes on. No picture does him justice,” the Oscar-nominated writer-director tells the July/August issue of More. “I totally regret not having had an affair with him. Who wouldn’t? It wasn’t up to me, of course.” ***A close member of Michael Jackson’s family has told TMZ Jackson received a daily injection of a synthetic narcotic similar to morphine — Demerol — and yesterday he received a shot at 11:30 AM. Family members are saying the dosage was “too much” and that’s what caused his death. ***Michael Jackson the singer was also Michael Jackson the billion-dollar business. Yet after selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S. and having a decade-long attraction open at Disney theme parks, the “King of Pop” died Thursday at age 50 reportedly awash in about $400 million in debt, on the cusp of a final comeback after well over a decade of scandal.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining. ***The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer. ***Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
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LBN-QUOTE: “This is Gay Pride Week in New York City, and you know what that means. Liza Minnelli will be husband-hunting” — David Letterman.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
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| THURSDAY • JUNE 25, 2009 |
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 LBN READER WIDELY FAVOR BURQA BAN; SICKENING SYMBOL OF UGLY REPRESSION: Readers of the LBN E-Lert have weighed in on the burqa and the answer ain’t pretty. The Islamic burqa is not welcome in France and should be banned, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced recently. Yesterday over a thousand LBN readers from all over the world cast their vote - 85% in favor of banning the burqa with most comment referencing it being a “sickening symbol of ugly repression”.
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U.S. ECONOMY: JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE IN SIGN LABOR MARKET STAGNANT: The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a reminder that companies will keep cutting staff even as the economy stabilizes.
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IRAN STEPPING UP EFFORT TO QUELL ELECTION PROTEST: Iranian officials stepped up efforts to crush the remaining resistance to a disputed presidential election on Wednesday, as security forces overwhelmed a small group of protesters with brutal beatings, tear gas and gunshots in the air. Intelligence agents shut down an office of a defeated presidential candidate, saying it was a headquarters for a psychological war. The nations leadership cast anyone refusing to accept the results of the race as an enemy of the state. Analysts suggested that the unyielding response showed that Irans leaders, backed by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had lost patience and that Iran was now, more than ever, a state guided not by clerics of the revolution but by a powerful military and security apparatus.
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CALIFORNIA SET TO ISSUE IOUS AS FISCAL CRISIS WEIGHS: California’s controller said on Wednesday that he would have to issue IOUs in a week if lawmakers can’t quickly solve a $24 billion budget deficit, and the state’s treasurer plans to tap a reserve fund to meet debt service costs.
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NKOREANS MASS AT RALLY IN CAPITAL TO DENOUNCE US: Tens of thousands of North Koreans shouted slogans to denounce international sanctions at a rally in central Pyongyang on Thursday, as the communist country vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” in the event of a U.S. attack.
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 SAYS OBAMA ‘MADE A MISTAKE’: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared Obama on Thursday to former President George W. Bush. Reacting to Obama’s comment Tuesday that he is “appalled and outraged” by crackdowns in Iran, Ahmadinejad said, “Mr. Obama made a mistake to say those things … our question is why he fell into this trap and said things that previously Bush used to say.”
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SUPREME COURT RULES STRIP-SEARCH OF GIRL WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Upholding a lower court decision, the Supreme Court ruled that officials at an Arizona public school violated a 13-year-old student’s constitutional rights when they subjected her to a search of her bra and underpants for prescription and over-the-counter drugs that were forbidden by school rules. But the court said that the officials should be immune from liability in the case and that lower courts should decide whether the school district could be held liable.
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 CONN. CHURCH CREATES STIR WITH GAY EXORCISM VIDEO: A Connecticut church has outraged gay rights advocates by posting a video of members performing an apparent exorcism of a teen’s “homosexual demons.” The 20-minute video was posted on YouTube before it was taken down.
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 SOUTH CAROLINA GUV’S WIFE — OUTTA THE HOUSE!: The wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford told her husband “to leave two weeks ago.” Jenny Sanford says when she found out about her husband’s infidelity she “worked immediately to first seek reconciliation through forgiveness.” At a point, however, she says “to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong, I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.” She says she asked the Guv not to contact the family during the separation. She says she had no idea where he was the past week. We can assume it didn’t help things when she found out he was in Argentina with his mistress.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ surprise announcement that it would expand the Best Picture Oscar race to ten films from five, took the industry by storm yesterday. Reactions ranged from huzzahs to harrumphs with many folks just trying to parse the information. While the shift up to ten Best Picture Oscar nominees seems conceived to open the field to more commercial fare - and thus bigger ratings for the Academy telecast on ABC - the indie world is by and large rejoicing at the news. ***If Eddie Murphys career were an injured horse, it would be shot and the carcass buried in the remotest part of the desert to ensure no one ever stumbled upon it. That harsh sentence, written on June 12 by Rick Bentley in The Fresno Bee in California, is as good an example as any of the prevailing sentiment about Mr. Murphy these days. With two big flops in a row (Imagine That and Meet Dave), another risky project on the way (A Thousand Words) and a diva reputation, people seem to be confused. Why does Hollywood keep hiring this man? ***Grossing $60.6 million, Paramounts sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen easily scored the best opening day ever for a Wednesday release at the domestic box office, according to preliminary estimates.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER: I do not believe English should be declared as the official language of the U.S.
(1) English is de facto the official language of the United States, and we don’t have to pass a law declaring it to be that, any more than we need to pass a law stating that ice cream tastes good.
(2) To pass such a law would not improve anyone’s command of English, but would be a gratuitous slap in the face to all those immigrants, like my grandparents, who came to this country and never really learned to speak English but sent their children to school and to college and saw them grow up to speak better English than most children of native-born parents. ***To reply directly to Rabbi Harold Kusher, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put Rabbi Harold Kushner in the subject line).
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Ashlee Simpson-Wentz shopping at Alice + Olivia on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. Also shopping at Alice + Olivia Jennifer Love Hewitt. ***Demi Moore in Paris with her daughters eating at Le Stresa Restaurant with Kylie Minogue. ***Carmen Electra at Cain at The Cove in the Bahamas. *** Jessica Szohr with David Annable of Brother & Sisters at LAVO in Las Vegas. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT - Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The heads of the top U.S. companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they’re switched off when it comes to social media, according to a new study that said CEOs should be more connected to their customers. Research conducted by the blog UberCEO.com looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to determine how many were using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, or had a blog — and found they were mostly absent from the rapidly growing social media community. The study found only two CEOs had Twitter accounts and 81 percent of CEOs did not have a personal Facebook page. ***Facing an economy that is perking up slightly but still in recession, the Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates low for an extended period.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt’s THE DAY I SHOT CUPID, exploring the new landscape of modern dating and offering a wide range of practical tips, from text-flirting and IM-ing to what men and women really want, and how to start over after a breakup, sold to Gretchen Young at Voice, with Sarah Landis editing, by Kirby Kim at Endeavor (world).Former Oprah Winfrey executive producer now co-producing The Marriage. ***Ref with Jerry Seinfeld Ellen Rakieten and interior designer Anne Coyle’s UNDATEABLE: 311 Things Men Do That Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating or Having Sex, a humorous guide for every woman who’s ever wondered where to draw the line, and every guy who’s ever asked “What did I do wrong?,” takes a look at the many common mistakes that turn otherwise acceptable men from a “maybe” into a “no way,”sold to Jennifer Smith at Random House Trade Paperbacks, for publication in February 2010, by Andrea Barzvi at ICM. ***Conservative historian and author of RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE Richard Brookhiser’s James Madison, a major new biography of the politician, philosopher, and president who fought in the revolution, led the country through the War of 1812, and lived long enough to fear the Civil War, sold to Lara Heimert at Basic, by Michael Carlisle at Inkwell Management (NA). ***Dick Van Dyke’s memoir, spanning his entire career in show business, sold to John Glusman at Harmony, for publication in fall 2010, by Dan Strone at
Trident Media Group and manager Jeff Kolodny at Luber/Roklin Entertainment. ***Former WWE superstar Mick Foley’s COUNTDOWN TO LOCKDOWN, centering around the author’s arrival to TNA and his premiere fight with one of his greatest rivals — Sting — as well as covering other issues such as leaving the WWE, steroids, and as always, Tori Amos, sold to Ben Greenberg at Grand Central, by Matt Bialer at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (World English). ***Scott Watrous, who has led the Globe Pequot Press since 2006, has resigned as president and publisher, effective immediately. Jim Joseph, COO of GPP, has assumed Watrous duties on an interim basis. Joseph, who has been with GPP for 11 years, thanked Watrous for his energy, vision, and tireless leadership these last three years, and said in his absence business at GPP will continue as usual.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Facebook is revamping its publishing and privacy capabilities, giving users greater control about who sees the status updates, photos and messages they post on the service. The social network is increasingly emphasizing its “real time” elements amid competition from Twitter. ***Fox News, which is believed to be benefiting from an Obama presidency, is averaging about the same number of viewers as rivals CNN, CNN Headline News and MSNBC combined. Fox News currently ranks third behind USA and TNT among all ad-supported cable networks. ***For the first time in its 24-year history, Elle magazine is attracting more advertising pages than rival Vogue. In the first half of the year, the Hachette Filipacchi title held 970 ad pages, compared to the Conde Nast mag’s 956 pages. The big test lies ahead, with the September issue. ***Veteran publicist Elizabeth Wolfe has been tapped as senior VP by the London-based public relations firm, Freud Communications. ***PR firm 42West has promoted Heidi Slan to deputy head of its talent department.
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 FEDS ARREST HEAD OF ANTI-GANG GROUP IN LA: A man who said he left a ruthless street gang in Central America and later won praise for his anti-gang work in Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday by authorities who allege he conspired to kill a rival even as he spoke out against gang life. Alex Sanchez, 37, who heads the local office of the nonprofit Homies Unidos anti-gang group, was taken into custody at his Bellflower home on federal racketeering charges, authorities said.
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 LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ELVIS PRESLEY: Im not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck. 1956
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LIBYA’S QADDAFI GAVE CONDI RICE $212,000 IN GIFTS, INCLUDING A DIAMOND RING: In its final months in office, the Bush administration made out pretty well in odd and exotic gifts from foreign leaders - including diamond jewelery, a taxidermied lion, and Israeli bike shorts. One of the most generous gift-givers was Libya’s Moamar Qaddafi, who seemed particularly grateful for former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Tripoli last year, giving her gifts with a total value of $212,225, including a diamond ring and a locket with his own picture inside, according to a newly-released State Department report.
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 JACKIE ONASSIS SEDUCED MARLON BRANDO: Marlo Brando enjoyed two nights of passionate sex with Jacqueline Kennedy and wanted to bare the intimate details to the world, a new book reveals. In “Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story,” which details a purported post-JFK assassination affair between Jackie and Robert F. Kennedy, C. David Heymann has obtained passages from Brando’s account of how he hooked up with Jackie in 1964. They were in the first draft of the Oscar winner’s 1994 memoir, “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” until an editor friend of Jackie (by then also the widow of Aristotle Onassis) at Random House insisted they be cut, Heymann writes. The first time, “according to Brando, [their] three-hour meal included a good deal of drinking . . . Jackie and the actor danced and drank. During their dance, Jackie, deeply attracted to Brando, ‘pressed her thighs’ suggestively into his. They danced again, then sat down and began to ‘make out,’ ” according to Heymann.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL BARONE: There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BART: Universal has banned reviews of “Bruno” for another week, but the blogosphere is already steeped in commentaries and rumors: Is the film being re-edited? Are scenes being reshot? The answer is no, but having seen the film Monday, and vowing to respect the review date, I cannot resist making one quick appeal: Please, Sacha, no more Borats. I realize this film is titled “Bruno” and the central character is a gay Austrian, not a crazed Kazakh, but Bruno and Borat are essentially the same character — they’re offshoots of the brilliant and bizarre subconscious of Sacha Baron Cohen.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID RIEMER and ALAIN ENTHOVEN: For a public health plan to raise the quality of health care, it should use the three most essential market forces choice, competition and incentives.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Actor Lou Diamond Phillips was named winner of the reality show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here on last night’s finale, defeating fellow finalists John Salley and Torrie Wilson. ***The estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been indicted on several charges in the death of a 1-year-old girl she was baby sitting in central Florida. Amanda Brumfield, 29, was booked at the Orange County Jail on Wednesday. She faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The bottom line is this, I have been unfaithful to my wife.” - MARK SANFORD, the governor of South Carolina.
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 NKOREA THREATENS US; WORLD ANTICIPATES MISSILE: North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days. Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.
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OBAMA CONDEMNS VIOLENCE AGAINST IRAN PROTESTERS: Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran’s disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the violence against protesters Tuesday and lent his strongest support yet to their accusations the hardline victory was a fraud. Obama, who has been accused by some Republicans of being too timid in his response to events in Iran, declared himself “appalled and outraged” by the deaths and intimidation in Tehran’s streets - and scoffed at suggestions he was toughening his rhetoric in response to the criticism.
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U.S. CONTACTED IRAN’S AYATOLLAH BEFORE ELECTION: Prior to this month’s disputed presidential election in Iran, the Obama administration sent a letter to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for an improvement in relations, according to interviews and the leader himself. Ayatollah Khamenei confirmed the letter toward the end of a lengthy sermon last week, in which he accused the United States of fomenting protests in his country in the aftermath of the disputed June 12 presidential election.
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NEW YORK TIMES POLL SHOWING 72% SUPPORT FOR OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE PLAN WAS STACKED WITH OBAMA SUPPORTERS: A New York Times/CBS News poll released Saturday that showed broad bipartisan support for President Obamas health care reform, over-sampled Obama voters compared to McCain voters, critics say. The poll, administered June 12-16, found that 72 percent of respondents favored the creation of a government health-insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.
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 ON NIXON TAPES, AMBIVALENCE OVER ABORTION, NOT WATERGATE: On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence. Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster permissiveness, and said that it breaks the family. But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases like interracial pregnancies, he said. There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white, he told an aide, before adding, Or a rape.
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SANFORD MET IN ATLANTA AFTER RETURNING FROM SOUTH AMERICA: S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford arrived in the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this morning, having wrapped up a seven-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, he said. Sanford said he had not been hiking along the Appalachian Trail, as his staff said in a Tuesday statement to the media. Sanford’s whereabouts had been unknown since Thursday, and the mystery surrounding his absence fueled speculation about where he had been and who’s in charge in his absence. His emergence Wednesday ended the mystery.
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 LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY: The Prince of Wales costs a fortune. Charlie got funding from the taxpayer that rose by almost a quarter last year, official accounts showed yesterday. The money from grants-in-aid and Government departments jumped 23.5 % from 2,454,000 to 3,033,000. The main cost was a 48 % rise in official travel by air and rail which increased from 1,157,000 to 1,710,000. Charless private income increased by just 1 % (shame) to 16.4 million during the last financial year. The money, which comes from the surplus generated by the Duchy of Cornwall the landed estate given to the heir to the throne increased by 185,000 to 16,458,000. His official expenditure rose by nearly 20 % from 10,451,000 to 12,513,000. The heir to the throne paid less tax, with his bill falling from 3,429,000 to 3,093,000 a drop of almost 10 %. Nice to see hes empathizing with his hard-pressed subjects. The Princes non-official expenditure fell by 23 %, with the drop being attributed in part to the heir to the thrones decision to holiday in the UK last year. His senior aide, Sir Michael Peat, said Charles had been mindful of the recession.
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LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY-PART 2: An Islamic court in Somalia that sentenced 4 men to have a hand and a leg cut off postponed the punishment yesterday, saying the sweltering weather could cause them to bleed to death. The court sentenced the men in the capital, Mogadishu, after convicting them of stealing mobile phones and guns. The court is run by al-Shabab, a powerful insurgent group that is trying to topple the UN backed government and impose a strict form of Islamic Sharia Law. The sentence will be carried out later, an al-Shabab official said, It was postponed because of the hot weather and fears that the victims will bleed to death.
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LBN-THE “INSIDE” QUESTION?: The Islamic burqa is not welcome in France and should be banned, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday. In comments which were likely to infuriate radical Muslim leaders, he said the body covering is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience, adding: It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic. LBN-The “Inside” Question : Do you agree they should be banned? Send your reply to: LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put LBN-The “Inside” Question in the subject line.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Simon Cowell, one of the worlds biggest TV stars, has joined forces with Sir Philip Green, the British retail billionaire, to form a global entertainment company that will create and own television content on both sides of the Atlantic. The two men, close friends for the past decade, have been working closely together in recent weeks, with Sir Philip travelling to Los Angeles to advise Mr Cowell on a new contract to appear on the Fox networks American Idol. ***Washington Post staffers were notified last night that three cases of swine flu have been reported at the paper’s 15th and L headquarters. ***Time Warner is the best stock in the media business, according to Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce. The company has a good shot at more than doubling during the next two years, he says. News Corp. is ranked further down on the list at No. 11, for “bulking up in newspapers.” ***CBS chief Les Moonves’s compensation was slashed by 76% last year, according to Salary.com. Still, Moonves took home $13.6 million. CBS’s stock price fell by two-thirds in 2008, due in part to the advertising slump. About 2,000 employees lost their jobs. ***News Corp. is naming Rebekah Wade, the editor of the British tabloid the Sun, as CEO of News International, the unit in charge of the company’s U.K. newspapers. Wade will oversee the Times of London, the Sunday Times, News of the World and thelondonpaper. ***Nikki Finke is selling her showbiz news site Deadline Hollywood Daily to Movieline owner Mail.com Media, in a deal said to be worth as high as $15 million. A New York-based journalist will be hired to report to her. The site will become available on “every device imaginable,” Finke says. ***McGraw-Hill is rumored to be shopping BusinessWeek magazine. Potential suitors, however, may be hard to find. The struggling business title is estimated to have operated at a loss of $20 million last year. Officially, McGraw-Hill says: “We don’t comment on rumors.” ***Bauer’s In Touch is topping Time Inc.’s People as the best-selling celebrity magazine on U.S. newsstands, selling 1.2 million copies thanks to its cover photo of Kate Gosselin spanking one of her eight children. People’s “Hot Bachelors” issue is selling less than 1.1 million copies. ***Craigslist’s Craig Newmark is among the supporters of All For Good, a new, online “Craigslist for service” searchable database of volunteer opportunities across the United States. Other supporters include Arianna Huffington, YouTube, Aha! Ink and FanFeedr. ***The New York Times Company and the papers largest union agreed to cuts in wages, benefits and job security.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARC GERMAIN (Radio Talk Show Host): I dont believe English should be made the official language of the U.S. Those who think that since the majority of Americans speak English, it should be our official language beware: one day soon, Spanish may be the language of the majority. Somehow American has thrived for nearly two and a half centuries without an official language. It would be easier for me if everyone spoke MY language and every immigrant to this country would say the same for their native tongue but our great nation progresses in spite of this deficiency. Many European nations have official languages and they serve as barriers to progress. The French are so guarded about their “official language” that there are penalties for using English words! The French are cheese-eating, surrender monkeys. ***To reply directly to Marc Germain, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put Marc Germain in the subject line).
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LBN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By ELVIS PRESLEY: Im not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck. 1956.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***A night out with the boys may get Justin Timberlake in hot water with girlfriend Jessica Biel. According to an eyewitness, the singer was in party mode at Chelsea hot spot Avenue one recent night. “Usually Justin is pretty in control, but he was acting pretty crazy,” a spy tells. “He was drinking tequila all night. At one point, he cleared out a little space and started break dancing. He was bumping into people and spilling drinks. It was hilarious.” The source also says that at one point, Lindsay Lohan, currently off with on-again, off-again girlfriend Samantha Ronson, tried to dance with Timberlake, but “he shooed her away.” ***Brazilian soccer god Ronaldinho at Frederick’s Downtown in NYC being swarmed by adoring fans, including restaurateur Frederick Lesort. ***Jack Nicholson sweating at the La Tomate Bistro in DC after shooting a scene for “How Do You Know?” — the Jim Brooks comedy starring Reese Witherspoon in a love triangle with Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd. ***Richard Branson chatting with Samuel L. Jackson over cocktails at the Jumeirah Essex House before leaving for Virgin Atlantic’s 25th anniversary party in TriBeCa in NYC.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely considered the most powerful vice president in history, is expected to be published in Spring 2011, a few months after President George W. Bush’s book comes out. Cheney’s work is currently untitled and will cover his long career in government, from chief of staff under President Ford to vice president under Bush, from Vietnam and Watergate to the first Gulf War and the Sept. 11 attacks. ***Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Conde Nast’s Wired magazine, admits to lifting text from Wikipedia for his new book, “Free.” Publisher Hyperion says it is “working with the author to correct these errors both in the electronic edition before it posts, and in all future editions of the book.” ***Total revenue from the 30 companies that report figures to the Audio Publishers Association fell 6.7% in 2008, to $331 million, the trade association said Tuesday. The sales figure compares to the $172 million sales estimates released by the AAP and the $229 million estimate of the PW/IPR sales index. This is the first time the APA has released actual sales figures from its members.
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 STEVE JOBS RECOVERING AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is recovering after undergoing a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, the institute’s program director said Tuesday. “Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis,” said Dr. James D. Eason of Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. He added that Jobs had given his permission for the information to be released. Eason did not say when the operation took place.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***David Fincher is in talks with Columbia to direct the Aaron Sorkin-scripted “The Social Network,” a Facebook origin story. The talks are alternately characterized as ‘early’ and ‘advanced’ while producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti are looking to move into production later this year. Slash Film reports, meanwhile, that the film is actually an adaptation of “The Accidental Billionaires,” an upcoming book by Ben Mezrich. ***Radical Pictures has plucked producer Courtney Pledger to become senior vice president of production. Company prexy Barry Levine made the appointment. ***After 35 years as a tenpercenter, ICM’s Elliot Webb is exiting the agency biz. Webb will leave the agency in August to pursue other options in showbiz, ICM said Monday. He’s been an exec veep and top lit rep at the percentery since 2006, when it acquired the Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann agency.
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 MARTINA NAVRATILOVA SUED FOR MILLIONS BY ‘WIFE’ AFTER BEING ‘DUMPED WITHOUT WARNING’: Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is being sued for millions of pounds by a former lover who claims she was dumped without warning after nearly eight years. Toni Layton, 56, who married the nine-times Wimbledon champion in an official wedding ceremony, is demanding a share of four multi-million dollar homes bought during their time together. Her lawsuit extends to the ‘emotional, mental and physical trauma’ she suffered after being ‘removed’ from 52-year-old Navratilova’s life a year ago. Toni Layton, right, has filed a ‘domestic partnership lawsuit’ against Martina Navratilova, claiming she endured ‘emotional, mental and physical trauma.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Four Iranian footballers have been “retired” from the national side after protesting against the contested election result in the country during a match against South Korea, according to media reports. The players drew attention to the situation in Iran by wearing green armbands during last week’s World Cup qualifying match in Seoul. ***President Obama will throw out the first pitch at this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis. He will be only the fourth president to throw out the ball in the game - “joining John F. Kennedy (1962), Richard Nixon (’70) and Gerald Ford (’76 and ‘78), reports MLB.com. ***Alex Rodriguez started for the second time in five days but looked run down, and his June batting average fell to .143.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LOUISE MCCREADY: Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By LOUISE MCCREADY: Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID WESTIN (President, ABC News): Sadly, some see every issue as material for a sort of political high theatre. I would have thought that a subject as important as the health care received by the American people would rise above this sorry spectacle.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: World leaders may have flaws, but Barack Obamas nicotine addiction is positively monkish compared with Silvio Berlusconis Vesuvial vices.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Iranian reformers dont need praise. They need the United States to end its dependency on the oil that finances Irans Islamic dictatorship.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By ROCCO DI SPIRITO (Chef and author): There are “it” girls and “it” boys, “it” shoes and “it” cars, but did you know that there are “it” Ros wines? At under $10 a bottle, Cavas Hill Brut Reserva is a recession-busting sparkling Spanish Ros whose intense cherry-red color tells you all you need to know. It’s fruity, ripe, and delicious. Cavas Hill Rosado is to Ros what Megan Fox is to sexy movie starsonce you get a taste, it’s the only thing you’ll think about. At least, that’s my analogy. Forget Domaine Ott…that was so Summer ‘06.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Perez Hilton isn’t apologizing for using a gay slur. The openly gay gossip blogger said in a statement Tuesday that he would continue to say things upsetting to gay and straight people alike. The comments came after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called for Hilton to apologize Monday for unleashing the word during an altercation at a nightclub with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am. ***These two are better than a pair of Manolos! Sarah Jessica Parker’s surrogate gave birth to twin girls, reps said yesterday. Parker and Matthew Broderick, who wed in 1997, conceived James Wilkie, 6, but had no luck getting pregnant again. The twins, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, were born Monday at East Ohio Regional Hospital, each weighing about 6 pounds. ***Model Rachel Hunter has been left devastated after her fianc Jarret Stoll cancelled their wedding just seven weeks before they were due to tie the knot. Canadian hockey player Jarret, 27, suddenly called off their engagement by emailing guests informing them the August 14 nuptials were off. Rod Stewart’s ex-wife, 39, has been left confused and heartbroken after Jarret failed to give her a reason behind the cancellation. ***Jazz legend Herbie Hancock can still attract a crowd — but last night he got an unexpected audience in the form of the LAPD. Cops showed up at Hancock’s pad in the Hollywood Hills just before midnight last night. Turns out he accidentally tripped the silent alarm in his house. Since that usually means a robbery in progress, six officers and a supervisor showed up on scene. When they got there, Hancock realized his mistake and was extremely apologetic to the officers.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***Due to eating habits in the USA, on in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes. ***The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy. ***A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
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LBN-QUOTE: “While this loss is raw and extraordinarily painful, we also know this: Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”-PRESIDENT OBAMA, on Iranian demonstrators, including a 26-year-old woman who was shot on a Tehran street.
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ALASKA GOV. SARAH PALIN TO RESIGN & WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Alaska says she will resign from office July 26 and will not seek a second term in 2010, according to sources familiar with the governor’s thinking, freeing her to build a national political team and travel the country in support of an expected 2012 presidential bid.
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KARL MALDEN, EVERYMAN ACTOR, DIES AT 97: Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor whose half-century in show business carried him from the theater to films and then to television, where he policed the streets of San Francisco and became indelibly identified with a commercial for traveler’s checks, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.
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MICHAEL JACKSON DIES: It has been reported that Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back. 
FARRAH FAWCETT — GRIM REPORTS: Farrah Fawcett is reportedly close to death. Numerous reports have surfaced that family members are gathering for their final goodbyes.
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