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The 1927 Chicago White Sox were baseball's version of a soap opera. During spring training in Shreveport, LA, popular center fielder Johnny Mostil attempted suicide with a razor. He was discovered in a booster's hotel room lying in a pool of his own blood. Several teammates administered first aid, got him medical treatment and saved his life. (Two Shreveport doctors later sued Mostil and the White Sox for non-payment of $6,000 in medical bills.) What prompted Mostil's out-of-the-blue suicide attempt? The official team statement said Mostil was feeling the negative effects of a painful bout of neuritis. However, the whispers were much more interesting. Mostil was rumored to be having an affair with Irene Faber, the wife of White Sox pitcher Red Faber. Shortly after the suicide attempt, Mostil's girlfriend, Margaret Caroll, began dating Bill Barrett, another White Sox player. The two eventually married. Mostil did not play until September. By 1929 his career was over. He died in 1970.
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Added: 26th October 2009
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Steve Landesberg may have been best known for his role as the intellectual and sometimes annoying Detective Sgt. Arthur Dietrich on the long-running 1970s cop comedy "Barney Miller."
But younger audiences knew him too — for a slew of recent parts such as the doctor on the 2008 hit movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
The veteran actor died Monday at age 65, his agent, Jeffrey Leavitt, told The Associated Press apparently from cancer.
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Kristen Renee Cornett was born in July 5th, 1974, She grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and she fascinated severe weather an early age, she can remember standing out with her parents drag her inside in the front porch during storms, She wanted to see a tornado, She done some tornado chasing and stood of the eye of a hurricane, She also fascinated by earthquakes & volcanoes, If she couldn't be a meteorologist, She would be a volcanologist or a selsmologist.
She attended the University Of Kentucky intitially and thought she would be a doctor, She came up with an idea to work of Broadcast Meteorology sooner, But up until then she always viewed her fascination as just that, She ended up transferring and earned her degree of Geoscience of Emphasis in Meteorology from Mississippi State University, From there she went to forecasting for Local Television, In 1996, She started her career at WCBI-TV in Columbus, MS where she was a Weekend Meteorologist, In 1997, She worked at WAAY-TV in Huntsville, AL with Adrian Gibson and Gary Dobbs, In 2001, She was a Storm Team Meteorologist at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KY, Then in 2004, She worked at NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati, OH, where she was a afternoon meteorologist, In March of 2006, She was a Staff Meteorologist at NBC Weather Plus, where she appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Early Today and The Today Show
In 2007, Kristen came to St. Louis, She worked at KMOV, She joined the 4 Warn Storm Team in October 2007 and provides the weather for News 4 on weekends, She provides Go Green reports for Tuesdays and Fridays for the 6 pm news, you may catch her filling for Matt Chambers on Awake with News 4 or Reporting on a feature story or Helping out during 4 Warn Storm Mode Coverage tracking the storms or on the web or live on the field, Kristen in 1999, She earned the Seal Of Apporval from The American Meteorological Society and also a member of The National Weather Association.
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Added: 20th January 2011
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Debralee Scott was an actress best known for her role on the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Her first film appearance came shortly after her 18th birthday in 1971. It was an uncredited role as a nude corpse in the Clint Eastwood cop flick Dirty Harry. At age 22 she found fame on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, playing Mary's sister, Cathy Shumway. In 1975-76 Scott appeared on the first season of the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter as female sweathog Rosalie 'Hotsy' Totsy. Later she had a role in the Donna Pescow sitcom Angie, playing Angie's younger sister, Marie Falco.
Among her other credits were the 1973 feature film American Graffiti and the 1974 film Earthquake.
Scott also regularly appeared as a celebrity panelist on Match Game between 1976 and 1982. Scott continued to act, appearing in two Police Academy movies, but she later retired from acting and became an agent for a company in New York City called Empowered Artists. The last few years of Scott's life were replete with tragedy:
Scott's fiancé, Port Authority police officer John Dennis Levi, died during the 9/11 attacks. In March 2005, Scott moved from Brooklyn to Amelia Island, Florida to care for her ailing elder sister, Carol Anne, a producer who had worked on many Robert Altman films.
Soon after her arrival in Florida, Scott collapsed and lingered in a coma for several days before waking. Since doctors could not ascertain what caused the coma, she was released two days later. Three days later, on April 5, 2005, she took a nap and never woke up. She was three days past her 52nd birthday. Despite an autopsy, the cause of death remained uncertain. Scott's body was cremated. Her sister died of heart failure on July 13, 2006.
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Added: 27th February 2011
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Ever had something so nutty happen like he did?
Remember 1983, or is that too far now to even think about?
Can you even remember the different places you went to back then? I'm talkin' about screens.
Did you know there was a plan for a second part all based on the original premise? Strangely, it never happened due to the final results. More was suspected from it.
I suppose word-of-mouth ruined it. Even if it was a partial success, it could of had a chance.
But a partial success was all it could come up with. The new idea given was eventually discontinued.
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Added: 28th April 2011
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Harmon Killebrew, the big-swinging Hall of Famer whose tape-measure home runs made him the cornerstone of the Minnesota Twins, died Tuesday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., after battling esophageal cancer. He was 74.
The Twins said Killebrew passed away peacefully with his wife, Nita, and their family at his side. He announced his diagnosis just six months ago and last week Killebrew said doctors had deemed the "awful disease" incurable.
Killebrew is 11th on baseball's all-time home run list after a 22-year career. His eight seasons with 40 or more homers still is tied for second in league history to Babe Ruth, and his upper-cut swing formed the silhouette that inspired Major League Baseball's official logo.
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Added: 17th May 2011
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Throughout his life, the Londoner was always identified in the public as a certain unusual character, and was such a prominent person, that he was very hard to forget, especially if you were of a certain age-bracket then. In fact, he was the 3rd outta a long-line (11) to take on the old theater style character that provoked spurred on fiction. His enthusiasm was clearly revealed in his work. At times, he seemed like a time-moving magician, when in reality, he is known to be a well-aimed type of alien of some different kind with destinations that continue today. *E*
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Added: 22nd September 2011
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In 2004 entertainer Bill Cosby found himself in hot water for speaking his mind. During an NAACP celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education school-desegregation decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, Cosby upbraided poor black parents for buying their children expensive sneakers but not teaching them proper English.
"These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education--and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around," Cosby said at the event.
"I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby continued. "And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak [proper] English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth."
After his comments sparked a nationwide debate, Cosby was surprised at some of the negative reactions. He said in a statement that he meant for his remarks to be a call to action to improve the overall English skills of black students.
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Added: 10th April 2012
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I have recently found out that there are quite a few of you who do remember '80. At least it appears to be just that. Isn't that why we and you are sitting here?
In truth, it was based on a book about immersions into darkness and light.
Who wrote it? Actually, the writer had only one book in him. With the film, I still remember seeing it in the theater just after Christmas.
And you? Remember? It sure made an attempt at making you think on the entire likelihood of it. Do you believe? It was a pretty odd story at the time. *E*
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Added: 12th April 2012
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The Fugitive was a highly successful adventure/drama series that aired from on ABC from 1963 to 1967 and starred David Janssen. Here was the premise: A doctor, Richard Kimble, is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to death, but then he escapes custody in a train wreck while being transported to prison. With this unexpected turn of events, Kimble roams the country as a wanted man, searching for his wife's true killer. The series concluded with two-part finale that aired on August 22 and 29, 1967. At the time, the second part was the the most watched episode of an American TV drama in history. (It was later surpassed by Dallas' "Who Shot J.R.?" episode in 1980.) In the eagerly awaited climax, Kimble eventually tracks down his wife's murderer (the infamous "one-armed man") but is then caught by the police detective, Lieutenant Gerrard, who has been chasing Kimble throughout the entire series. Kimble convinces the police to let him prove his innocence, which he does via the killer's last-minute confession during a shootout at an abandoned amusement park. Some 25.7 million American households watched Dr. Kimble go free.
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Added: 14th June 2012
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