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TMZ (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Filed under: Beauty , 'Memba Them?! Mary Ann Mobley is famous for being Miss America 1959, married to Gary Collins and co-starring on shows like "Diff'rent Strokes." Guess what she looks like now! ... Permalink
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. When you google the address for this A. Quincy Jones post & beam, the name Conrad Bain ---the patriarch of 70s-80s TV show "Diff'rent Strokes"---comes up. Whatcha talkin 'bout, Willis! And yes, the listing agent confirms this is Bain's residence. The listing...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The always-amazing Colson Whitehead has a great editorial over at the New York Times , celebrating one year of a postracial society . He argues: I have observed that journalists employ Google searches to lend credence to trend articles, so I compared recent hits on the word “postracial” with those of a previous year. There have been more than 500,000 online mentions of postraciality this...
The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
CNBC’s Fast Money program is definitely entertaining, and if there are no syndicated reruns of Diff’rent Strokes on, I will occasionally tune in. My fave pundit Doug Kass will be on this evening and, I assume, he will try his best to keep up with the frenetic pace of the banter. If he doesn’t, they may not [...]
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Afghans are bracing for another election after President Hamid Karzai agreed to a run-off following widespread fraud and irregularities from the Aug. 20 first-round vote. Here's a look at the candidates on the upcoming ballot: Hamid Karzai . Abdullah Abdullah , former Afghan Foreign Minister. Ralph Nader, consumer rights advocate. Abdullah Abdullah , Jr., Abdullah Abdullah's son . Cruz Bustamante ,...
Gheorghe: The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Errata in the Film Version of my Memoirs I know it's a great privilege to have one's memoirs made into a feature film, and I realize that a film needs to have mass appeal and can't have the sophistication of a book, but (and I don't mean to gripe) I have a few complaints about the liberties taken with my work. First, the title. My memoir is called "Wasted Soul." Although the film retained...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
THEN/NOW: What was it about this classic family sitcom that doomed many of its stars to lives of drugs, desperation, and disaster?
The Essential Read (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
One of the research topics in creativity that has always fascinated me has been creative polymathy - the ability to be creative in more than one domain. The roots of creative polymathy are under debate; some scholars argue that creativity is a general ability. People who are creative in math would also be more likely to be creative in music or art or business, according to this view. More recently,...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Four years after her husband Dean McDermott left her for 90210 star Tori Spelling , Canadian TV chef Mary Jo Eustace is set to tell her side of the story in a book titled, Divorce Sucks: What to do when irreconcilable differences, lawyer fees, and your ex's Hollywood wife make you miserable . One of Mary Jo's revelations : A producer of Tori and Dean's reality show approached her with an offer to...
Final Girl (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The entire world, it seems, is touting Paranormal Activity as the scariest movie in the history of ever, a film so frightening that your eyeballs will defy the laws of science as they up and die from terror-induced heart attacks. There's so much effing hype surrounding this movie that over 4,000 people lined up for a free midnight screening in Los Angeles. Trailers and teasers don't need to show much...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
DOWNLOADS: (53) PLAYS: (191) Lou Dobbs is upset that a Latin television station wants to make people less afraid of census workers by including a plot line in one of their soap operas titled "Don't be afraid to be counted." DOBBS: Well, fans--if you like that, you're going to love this. Fans of telenovellas on Spanish-language television could soon be seeing more than they tuned in for as...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
From Slate: Why do we never hear about acid rain anymore? Did it just go away? Back in the 1980s, when the Lantern herself was just a little penlight, acid rain was the environmental scourge of the day. Canada's environmental minister proclaimed it an "insidious malaria of the biosphere"; it menaced the Transformers; it turned Kimberly's hair bright green in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes....
Idolator (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
If you spent some time recently thinking about how awesome it would be to have Diff'rent Strokes star/cautionary tale about celebrity Gary Coleman appear on a noise album, and you have a few bucks sitting around waiting to be spent---well, today's your lucky day, as a composer is currently taking donations that will be put toward compensating him for the use of his voice and likeness in "an abstract...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Image courtesy of New York Fries. Being a former child star can become a fate worse than death. Often exploited and then kicked to the curb when the cuteness wore off due to impending puberty, these former moppets spend their adult life trying to detach from the likes of Steve Urkel, Screech, Rerun, and Danny Partridge—and their characters' respective catchphrases. But a person's gotta pay the...
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