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Director John Hughes Dead at 59

Tony Lindskog — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:11:35 +0000

Prolific film writer and director John Hughes, whose credits include the ’80s teen films “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died of a heart attack while walking in Manhattan on Thursday, his spokesman said. He was 59.

Hughes also made Macaulay Culkin a star, writing and producing the three “Home Alone” movies. His spokesman said Hughes was visiting friends and family in New York when he died.

In the last decade, Hughes had largely turned his back on Hollywood to run a farm in northern Illinois. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, two sons and four grandchildren.

The 59-year-old was taking a morning walk in New York when he went into cardiac arrest, according to Michelle Bega. He was in Manhattan visiting his family.

Hughes was famous for his countless hit movies in the 1980s including “Sixteen Candles,” “Home Alone” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” His films made such young stars as Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Andrew McCarthy household names in the 80s, with fans dubbing the group of actors “The Brat Pack.”

The Brat Pack

The Brat Pack was a defining part of the 80’s movie scene that included Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Keifer Sutherland, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Micheal Hall, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Charlie Cheen, Judd Nelson, Sean Penn, Matthew Broderick, Ralph Macchio and many more.

80’s movie icons

Some of the movies that directed are the quin-essential What’s what of the 80’s – Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s day off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Trains and automobiles, She’s having a baby, Some kind of wonderful, The Great outdoors, Curly Sue and many more great movies.

Hughes was born in 1950 in Michigan and began his career in the field of advertising. At the time of his death, he lived in Illinois and set many of his films in the Chicago area. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, with whom he had two sons, John and James.

Rest in peace John – The 80’s would not have been the same without you!

Mel Gibson says girlfriend is pregnant

Tony Lindskog — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:33:39 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Mel Gibson, who is going through a divorce from his wife of 28 years, said on Monday his Russian girlfriend is expecting their baby.

“This is true,” Gibson said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” after the host asked him to confirm speculation that musician Oksana Grigorieva was pregnant.

Gibson, 53, who already has seven children, gave away few details, replying jokingly, “A human being, I think,” when Leno asked about the baby’s gender.

Celebrity gossip websites said the baby was due in the autumn.

Click here for more on this story from Reuters

Acress Bea Arthur dies at 86

Tony Lindskog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:47:13 +0000

LOS ANGELES — Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls” and who won a Tony Award for the musical “Mame,” died Saturday. She was 86.

Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, Watt said, declining to give further details.

“She was a brilliant and witty woman,” said Watt, who was Arthur’s personal assistant for six years. “Bea will always have a special place in my heart.”

Arthur first appeared in the landmark comedy series “All in the Family” as Edith Bunker’s loudly outspoken, liberal cousin, Maude Finley. She proved a perfect foil for blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor), and their blistering exchanges were so entertaining that producer Norman Lear fashio’ “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Biloxi Blues.” One of his Tony nominations was for “Mame.”

In 1999, Arthur told an interviewer of the three influences in her career: “Sid Caesar taught me the outrageous; (method acting guru) Lee Strasberg taught me what I call reality; and (‘Threepenny Opera’ star) Lotte Lenya, whom I adored, taught me economy.”

In recent years, Arthur made guest appearances on shows including “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Malcolm in the Middle.” She was chairwoman of the Art Attack Foundation, a non-profit performing arts scholarship organization.

Arthur is survived by her sons and two granddaughters. No funeral services are planned.

Source: Fox News

The recession is over!?

Tony Lindskog — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:41:50 +0000

`Temporary’ workers bear brunt of Japan recession

Bomb blows big hole in Lenin statue’s butt

Tony Lindskog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:20:40 +0000

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A bomb has blown a large hole in one of Russia’s best-known statues of the founder of the Soviet state, Vladimir Lenin.

The blast hit the towering statue in the square outside Finland Station in St. Petersburg.

The bronze statue, portraying Lenin with his arm raised, commemorates a speech he gave outside the station when he returned to Russia from exile in April 1917, a few months before the Bolshevik Revolution.

No one hurt after explosion damages memorial in St. Petersburg

City police spokesman Vyacheslav Stepchenko says no one was injured in the blast that took place before dawn Wednesday. The bomb had the power of about 400 grams of TNT, he says.

St. Petersburg was the cradle of the revolution, which overthrew the tsarist system and allowed the formation of a communist state that lasted until 1991.

The city was renamed Leningrad in Lenin’s honor in 1924 but the name was switched back to St. Petersburg after the demise of the Soviet Union.

Lenin’s remains are still on display in a mausoleum beneath Moscow’s Red Square. He died in 1924.

Source: MSNBC

Alfie Patten, 13, DNA shows negative

Tony Lindskog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:50:37 +0000

A DNA test showed a 13-year-old boy in Britain is not the father of a baby born to a 15-year-old he had unprotected sex with once, The Mirror reported.

Chantelle Stedman told Alfie Patten, who was 12 when he slept with her, he was her newborn daughter Maisie’s father.

The story caused a worldwide media frenzy, while politicians criticized what they called Britain’s declining morals.

At first Stedman said Patten was the only boy she had ever slept with, but soon after other teens came forward saying they too could be the baby’s father, because they claimed to have had sex with the girl.

Last month a friend of the Stedman family claimed Patten was scammed by the girl’s parents who wanted to cash in on the sensational story.

It is still not clear who the baby’s father is.

Source: Fox news

Lights worldwide to go dark for Earth Hour

Tony Lindskog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:35:57 +0000

Calling it a visual vote for climate action, organizers of an “Earth Hour” initiative expect 2,800 cities, dozens of companies and hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide to turn off or dim their lights for an hour Saturday night.

Commitments have come in from 84 countries, according to the World Wildlife Fund, which organized the event because of its concerns about warming’s impact on humans and wildlife.

“With Earth Hour, millions of people from all walks of life will demonstrate their commitment to take action on climate change,” WWF CEO Carter Roberts said in a statement. “Turning off the lights is just the beginning. We’re asking everyone to also make commitments to reduce their energy use during the rest of the year and to ask their elected representatives to do the right thing because we need climate legislation now.”

Most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, a process that emits carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas tied to warming. While renewable energy sources like solar and wind have no direct carbon emissions, they have yet to displace fossil fuels due to costs and efficiencies.

McDonald’s will even soften the yellow glow from some Golden Arches as part of the time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to highlight global climate change.

Key landmarks expected to go dark or dim include:

New York City’s Broadway theater signs, Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building
The Las Vegas strip
The Opera House in Sydney, Australia
The Eiffel Tower and Elysee Palace in Paris
The Acropolis in Athens, Greece
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Niagara Falls
The Great Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt
The London Eye Ferris wheel
The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For the full story, go to MSNBC

Are we giving the robots that run our society too much power?

Tony Lindskog — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:45:21 +0000

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In the Army, there’s no recession

Tony Lindskog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:21:00 +0000

RAMADI, Iraq – Spc. George Graham spends most nights driving the dangerous streets of northern Iraq, riding in an armored vehicle as his 81st Brigade Combat Team unit escorts supply trucks between military bases.

The Tacoma native knew a deployment to Iraq was likely when he joined the Washington National Guard last June to help pay for tuition at Clover Park Technical College, where he studies landscape management.

Graham plans to leave the Guard when he returns home this summer – but not because he wants to get out the military.

The 27-year-old father, now serving in Mosul, plans to switch to active-duty status with the Army, driven in part by the promise of financial security for his two sons and himself.

“It’s a stable living,” said Graham, who grew up on Tacoma’s Hilltop. “And the Army is a better life than where I came from.”

As the nation’s economic woes drag on, more local guardsmen are choosing to continue military service by re-enlisting, extending their stay in Iraq or transferring to active-duty status.

The reasons for continuing service are varied and often complex; incentives range from tax-free bonuses to sure-fire promotions, from camaraderie to patriotism. But a reliable paycheck during an economic recession is an increasingly important factor, according to guardsmen whose job is to retain soldiers.

CASH AND CAMARADERIE

Sgt. 1st Class Jerry Frazier is a 42-year-old Fircrest resident serving as the brigade’s noncommissioned officer in charge of retention. He has processed paperwork for more than 375 soldiers during the Iraq deployment – more than 10 percent of the brigade’s total personnel.

For the full story, go to The News Tribune