Bob Dylan’s been singing that song a long time….
He’s 70 years old today….
Let’s hope he keeps going and the times keep changing…
Here he is singing another one of his songs:
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Remember When? Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise was- for one brief, shining moment- cool.
This was before Scientology…
Before becoming overly self-conscious and self-absorbed made him a joke…
Before he jumped on Oprah’s couch…
Before Katie Holmes…
Before he became a jerk…
This is how I like to remember him…
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Friday The 13th Superstitions: Where’d They Come From?
Beware!
Only kidding…
It usually works out that I’m usually on an airplane on Friday, the 13th…
This year, I’ll be on the road….
Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
From the Huffington Post:
Friday the 13th happens at least once a year due to the modern calendar. Like last year, there’s just one this year, but watch out: there are three in 2012 (January, April, July).
When you combine an historically unlucky day (Friday) with an unlucky number (13), all sorts of weirdness is bound to ensue. Hence the obsession with Friday the 13th.
Historically, some unlucky events are believed to have occurred on the day too. French King Philip IV rounded up hundreds of monks and tortured them for heresy on Friday, October 13, 1307. Some say Jesus Christ was crucified on Friday the 13th. More recently, on Friday, March 13, 1992, an earthquake in Turkey killed nearly 2,000 and left 50,000 homeless.
The No. 13 itself has driven people crazy for centuries, in large part due to Friday the 13th. Some people are so obsessed that triskaidekaphobia was born — the fear of the number 13.
That fear has led the human race to make some strange decisions. Here are 13 examples. Vote on the most ridiculous and be extra careful today!
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Was Your High School Boyfriend Gay?
I have to keep checking this site to see if I show up….
I figure it’s only a matter of time before someone turns me in…
The site is My High School Boyfriend Was Gay…
Love it!
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Rupert Everett: Beyonce is Dull and Sharon Stone Unhinged
I’ve loved Rupert Everett ever since I saw him in one of my favorite movies, “Another Country.”
He’s definitely off the wall- and very outspoken…
He kind of reminds me of someone I “dated” back in the 1980’s who was also great fun, but totally crazy…
Believe me, no matter how enthralling they are, it’s best to observe guys like this from a distance….
From London’s The Daily Mail:
‘When I got to Hollywood I had this fantasy that all these huge stars would be these amazing, fabulous creatures. I grew up devouring books on Montgomery Clift, and so much of his appeal to me lay in the gutter side.
‘But you get to Hollywood and everybody’s so boring. Being an actor in Hollywood is like joining the Army or something.When you see them in a restaurant raising an arm, it’s more likely to be to make a call to their banker than swig back a glass of champagne.
Rupert described Madonna as smelling ‘vaguely of sweat’ and being an ‘old, whiny barmaid’
‘So many of these stars today are just boring, boring, boring. Listening to Beyoncé Knowles talking about her life, her career, is like listening to an Army general talking about a military operation. Beyond dull.’
via Rupert Everett: Beyonce is dull and Sharon Stone unhinged | Mail Online.
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Whitney Houston In Rehab: It’s Crack Again
It’s truly scary when Bobby Brown is coming off as the sane, responsible one….
This is really tragic.
Whitney could have been the biggest thing in show business.
Beautiful, an amazing singer, on her way to becoming a very good actress…
Then Crack…
And she’s turning out to be more Judy Garland than Barbra Streisand…
So sad to think of what might have been….
Singer Whitney Houston was using crack again when she went back to rehab, RadarOnline had learned, and her use of the highly-addictive drug terrified even ex-husband Bobby Brown!
A source close to R&B star Brown said he is so worried about his ex-wife that he fears “she might not pull through.”
“Whitney is doing crack again,” the source said about the 47-year-old Houston, the singer of top 1990s hits like I’ll Always Love You. “It’s the worst it’s ever been. Whitney went on tour again, and that’s when the relapse occurred.”
Brown, 42, has also told friends that Houston, 47, has increasingly isolated herself.
“Whitney’s shutting a lot of people out of her life,” the source said. “It is a dire situation.”
Bobby and Whitney were married for 14 years and were officially divorced in 2007. Both have a history of substance abuse. Their 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was recently caught on camera snorting lines of cocaine.
via Whitney In Rehab: It’s Crack Again, And Even Bobby Brown’s Freaked Out! | Radar Online.
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Elizabeth Taylor at a Florida “Fat Farm”
I want to go!
This sounds like so much more fun than that “boot camp” stuff that’s the rage now for getting back into shape….
I was born too late…
From Maury Hopson in Vanity Fair:
When Elizabeth was living in Washington, D.C., during the late 70s, her spirits were not great. She spent a lot of time in bed, but not for the usual reasons. She and I joked that her only exercise was changing the TV channels with the remote—I told her she was going to end up with an overdeveloped thumb. Plus, the fried chicken, biscuits, and creamed gravy made by the wonderful chef in the downstairs kitchen were only an intercom call away.
When she would come up to New York, the photographers were always everywhere she went, and some unflattering photographs of her began to appear in the press. As her friend, I knew it was hurtful. So I talked to her about going to a spa to drop a few pounds and clean up a little. In those days, there weren’t rehabs all over the country like there are now—only luxurious “fat farms” where people voluntarily checked in to get in shape and stop drinking, all while being pampered with massages and facials. Not exactly where one went after an “intervention.” At the time, I had been to several of the more high-profile ones for fashion shoots with Glamour and Vogue.
Elizabeth reluctantly agreed to go, if I would go with her. I contacted a friend of mine at Vogue, who told me about a facility in Florida that was low-key and only a short flight from Washington. I flew down from New York, picked Elizabeth up, and off we went. The flight was stormy and terrible. We had one last drink. By the time we landed, we could have used another—but instead we just got into the car provided for us and drove in the dark to our little two-bedroom bungalow on the edge of the spa’s golf course. We toyed with the idea of naming it “Butterball 8,” but decided on “Butterfield Ate”—our home for the next three weeks.
More: Photos: Charming Photos of Elizabeth Taylor at a Florida “Fat Farm” | Vanity Fair.
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With 56% of American Internet connections now capped, advocates ask FCC for probe | The Raw Story
To me, this seems like just another way to limit access to information…
This is so wrong…
Unlimited Internet is the norm in most other countries…
Just another way for the telecom’s to make more money….
They are as bad as the Oil Companies…
The practice of capping Internet bandwidth and selling it as a metered commodity has fully taken hold, to the point where 56 percent of U.S. internet connections are now on plans that restrict how much information users can access before triggering additional fees.
For an Internet landscape that’s been accustomed to unlimited access to information the world over, this represents a sea-change for many broadband subscribers. And to at least two prominent Washington, D.C. advocacy groups, it’s cause for immense concern.
That’s why the directors of Public Knowledge and New America’s Open Technology Initiative — two Washington tech policy groups — have written to the Federal Communications Commission to request they investigate the potential for these practices encouraging anti-competitive activities.
“These caps, which are now a fact of life for 56% of all broadband users, can perniciously undermine each of the goals set out by the Commission in the National Broadband Plan while at the same time stifling the competition and innovation that has established itself as the sine qua non of the internet economy,” they wrote.
More: With 56% of American Internet connections now capped, advocates ask FCC for probe | The Raw Story.
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Oprah on Broadway
Somehow, I just can’t see the Big O doing 8 shows a week….
I’ll wish her well and give her credit for trying….
She will surely pack the houses….
And anything that brings attention to live theatre is a good thing….
Oprah Winfrey has long said she would love to return to acting. But as her iconic, Chicago-based talk show approaches its final episode, Winfrey clearly is moving quickly to turn her dream of appearing on Broadway into reality.
“I have a stack of plays in my bag right now that I am reading,” Winfrey said with great enthusiasm and determination last week as part of a frank and wide-ranging interview on her Chicago past and professional future that will appear May 22 in a special section of the Tribune. “And just this past weekend, I was in New York meeting with producers. We were just talking about what would be the best route to take. But yes, this is really going to happen. … Life is too short.
“I think,” Winfrey said, “that an ensemble production is the way I should go.”
Winfrey was very nearly already acting on Broadway. Kenny Leon, the director of the high-profile Broadway revivals of “Fences” and “A Raisin in the Sun,” came to Winfrey about two years ago and said he wanted her to appear in “Fences.” Talks, Winfrey said, progressed to a advanced and serious stage.
“I had always wanted to do “Fences,” Winfrey said. “I went through the idea of trying to take my show to New York, shoot a show during the daytime and appear on Broadway at night. But I couldn’t do it. And finally, Kenny said he couldn’t wait any longer.”
So that didn’t work out. But once “The Oprah Winfrey Show” has wrapped, Winfrey will have a lot more freedom.
via Oprah’s Broadway acting dream is on the express track – The Theater Loop.
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Lost in the 21st Century 
Mom Defends Decision To Give 8-Year-Old Daughter Botox
Instead of calling “Good Morning America” someone should call Child Protective Services…
If this isn’t technically both physical and mental child abuse, it sure sounds like it to me…
I thought we left this mentality behind in the 1960’s….
via Mom Defends Decision To Give 8-Year-Old Daughter, Britney Campbell, Botox (VIDEO).
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