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/ 31 October 2007
Singer-actor Robert Goulet, whose rich baritone voice made him an instant success when he played Lancelot in the original 1960 Broadway hit Camelot, died on Tuesday at age 73. The performer, who suffered from the lung disease pulmonary fibrosis, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.
His pompadoured henchman, Silvio Dante, is barely breathing and full of holes; his brother-in-law Bobby is dead and Tony Soprano himself is left in a darkened bedroom, clutching a machine-gun. Even his therapist has dropped him as a patient after being convinced that ”the talking cure” doesn’t work on sociopaths.
Shock jock Don Imus, who has made a career out of outrageous comments, was suspended on Monday for making racist remarks by both the radio and television networks that carry his programme. CBS Radio and MSNBC suspended Imus for two weeks for saying the mostly black Rutgers University women’s basketball team looked like a bunch of ”nappy-headed hos”.
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/ 25 October 2006
Showman PT Barnum never said ”There’s a sucker born every minute” although he wished he had. And Civil War Admiral David Farragut probably never said ”Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead” — words that have inspired generations of fighting men.
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/ 11 September 2006
The controversial British film Death of a President, a fictional documentary showing the assassination of United States President George Bush, had its first public showing on Sunday, receiving mild applause from an audience that seemed more interested in how it was made than why.
A day after one of Hollywood’s most powerful men publicly scolded actor Tom Cruise, the film capital began to think cost-conscious studios may finally be fed up with giving stars the star treatment. But some industry insiders believe Viacom chairperson Sumner Redstone’s rebuke of Cruise was more a sign that a great money-making career was on the wane.