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Premiering during the Super Bowl 2012, this advertisement was criticized by several leading US conservatives, who claimed it implied that President Barack Obama deserved a second term. In response to the criticism, Eastwood stated "I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about job growth and the spirit of America."
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Added: 4th September 2012
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Here is the opening montage to Turnabout--an NBC sitcom that lasted just seven episodes in the early months of 1979. Starring John Schuck and Sharon Gless, the premise of the show was that a happily married couple, Sam and Penny Alston, secretly envy each other's life. (Sam was a sportswriter and Penny was a big wheel with a cosmetics company.) Because of their collective wish--and helped along by a magic statue--one morning they wake up and find themselves having acquired the other's personality and interests. The viewing public never took a liking to the Alstons. Turnabout debuted on January 26, 1979 and was off the air by March 30, 1979.
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Added: 2nd February 2014
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This is risque stuff for the wholesome sitcom My Three Sons. In this scene from a 1967 episode titled "The Homecoming," Robbie and Katie return from their honeymoon trip. No one--except for wise Steve Douglas--can comprehend why the newlyweds didn't take advantage of the resort's various attractions.
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Added: 3rd February 2014
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James Bond video of the Moonraker intro
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Added: 5th September 2012
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It's not often that the U.S. National Scrabble Championship tournament prompts a discussion on an ESPN panel show, gets feature coverage on CNN, is reported in numerous overseas newspapers, and has an op-ed piece in the New York Times written about it, but it happened at the 2012 tourney in Orlando. Why? A youthful competitor was disqualified for cheating. It was the first time in the tournament's 35-year history that a player was booted out of the Nationals. The minor, whose identity is being protected by the North American Scrabble Players Association because of his age, was caught 'palming blanks' before his 24th-round match on Tuesday, August 14. At the previous year's tourney in Dallas, suspicions were raised about the same player because he only had six tournaments' worth of experience and did not possess especially strong word knowledge, yet he consistently scored exceptionally well. After the tournament, one suspicious opponent polled the boy's other opponents and discovered the youth had gotten about 90% of the important blank tiles over 31 games--which is statistically improbable. The legitimacy of the boy's 2011 performance was widely debated on Internet Scrabble forums, with the accusers often being denounced as jealous or sore losers. At the 2012 event, the boy's 'lucky tile drawing' again appeared. Before round 24 began, after all 100 tiles were supposed to have been put into the tile bag, the youth's opponent suspected that the boy had palmed the two valuable blank tiles instead of placing them into the bag. He summoned a tournament director (referee) to examine the bag to see if it contained 100 tiles or just 98. Just as the director was about to begin his count, an alert player at a nearby table shouted, 'He just threw two tiles onto the floor!' Sure enough, they were the two blank tiles. The youth was quickly disqualified--and the close-knit tournament Scrabble world knew about it almost immediately through Internet tournament coverage and social media. The I-told-you-so crowd had a field day. The news spread quickly beyond the Scrabble chatrooms. Within 40 minutes the story was on ABC News' website and on CNN's within an hour. Without much delay, the story spread to most of the English-speaking world, garnering print media coverage in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, among other far-flung places. The British enjoy a good scandal, so it was not too surprising that UK newspapers were escpecially interested in the youth's disqualification. A picture of the youth, cleverly Photo-Shopped to show him playing Scrabble behind prison bars with the vertical caption 'BUSTED' (written in Scrabble tiles, of course), circulated in cyberspace. John D. Williams of the National Scrabble Association joked, "We're one step away from drug testing." Nigel Richards, a brilliant New Zealander who lives in Malaysia, won the the tournament and the $10,000 first prize for the third time in four years in a spectacular manner--but Richards' feat was almost completely overshadowed by the juicy cheating scandal.
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Added: 5th September 2012
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The last installment of the beloved comic strip Peanuts was drawn by its ailing creator, Charles M. Schulz, on January 3, 2000. Schulz was afflicted with cancer and was no longer well enough to continue drawing Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and the rest of the gang after nearly 50 years at the helm. Since newspaper cartoon strips are typically drawn well in advance of their publication date, the final Peanuts cartoon appeared in Sunday newspapers on February 13, 2000--the day after Schulz died at age 77. This is part of it.
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Added: 6th September 2012
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Bob Denver Passed away today That song will forever be etched in my brain Im sure im not the only one May he rest in peace I
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Added: 7th September 2012
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Like so many, Steve Burns left the small town of Boyertown Pennsylvania and moved to a basement apartment in Times Square to become an actor. He found his first work as a voice over talent when he landed the role of Steve on Blues Clues. After 6 years and over a 100 shows in the role he finally left to pursue his first love of music. Many rumors of his departure swirled mostly that he died a heroin overdose to being killed in a car crash. Steve toured the media circuit to dispel the rumors, which also helped publicize his new career.
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Added: 10th September 2012
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