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Anne Heche, Star of Another World and Men in Trees, Dies at 53

The death of Anne Heche, an Emmy Award-winning actress and mother of two, comes a week after she crashed her car into a home in Mar Vista, California. Loved ones pay tribute

For the past few days it was one of the most fuckedup under-the-radar celebrity stories in recent memory. She was smashed on alcohol and blasted her car into a strangers house, then was filmed raising like Lazarus on an ambulance gurney from a helicopter news camera directly above. She led an interesting life, to say the least.

OK! Staff  /  Aug 12, 2022  /  EXCLUSIVE,Anne Heche

'Why I Left Steve Martin For Ellen, My Fantasy Fulfilled & The BEST SEX EVER': Anne Heche Told All Before She Died, Exposing Her Wild Hollywood Life

Anne Heche exposed her Hollywood life before she died — get the scoop on her crazy life.

Two-hundred million dollars. USD.

Aaron Couch  /  Aug 11, 2022

Warner Bros. Weighing Fate of ‘The Flash’ as Its Ezra Miller Problem Grows

The studio ponders three paths forward for the expensive DC film, with a worst case — if unlikely — scenario including the project being scrapped.

I am a sucker for cat videos, especially fluffy ones with brains and athleticism.

@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 I can honestly say that the song does nothing for me. The video is cool but I didn’t grow up with the early 80s British Canadian Quebec music.

They also had a pair of lesser-known hits, incl. “Pop Goes the World” and this one, featuring puppets, before Ivan quickly went solo and became quickly forgotten.

Anybody else heavily into his La Belle Province contemporary Mitsou?

Not too many 2-minute pop songs come with a 45-second drum solo, but this one does. And you can dance to it. A classic.

You don’t see this every day.

In 1967 Tony Williams was 21 years old, and had already been a legend since he was a teenager. This made many rock drummers deeply insecure, they were in awe and could only dream to possess such talent.

Waylon. Now, see, that’s a man’s voice. A real man. Some damn fine pickin’, too.

@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:

This article from Quincy Jones has always irked me a bit.

How do you define good / bad musicians? Ability to play a tune or ability to write a tune?

Ability to compose / put together a song, or ability to play a very complex time signature?

He can talk about Paul McCartney being a shitty bass player as much as he wants. But he owned Glastonbury this year playing bass, piano, guitar and singing. At 80 years old.

Quincy Jones opinion here is worth less than used toilet paper.

He can be kinda snob dickish in his opinions, but I like to hear from genius unfiltered, and I always listen to what he says, he’s a musical genius. He comes from a jazz background, and for him the height of musicianship I suspect is probably throwing sheet music in front of a band and having them nail it on first inspection in the company of an ensemble, and/or to improvise in a live performance. That has always been the highest aspiration of rock drummers like Ginger Baker and Bill Bruford and Charlie Watts, to be taken seriously as musicians by their jazz contemporaries. you just have to see the credits on his records to see the supremely highquality of musicans he employed, the highest paid studio session musicians in the business, who could nail a hit record in one take in the morning, record live big band arrangements with Sinatra for lunch, and then recording a movie soundtrack in the afternoon. He could get pretty psychedelic too.

“I want some of that. It looks… orgasmic!”

@Stockcar86

So long as Levesque isn’t booking himself, he’ll do a good job. If he knows what he’s doing, he’ll emulate the relationship Berry Gordy had with Smokey Robinson, hand the keys to Paul Heyman and tell him he has the green light and backing to do whatever he wants.

You’d have to believe he’ll be inducted into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

Equally applies to the stupid stuff thread.

“The investigator said he wouldn’t describe the locking mechanism but acknowledged it would not be exceedingly difficult to crack.”

Jul 21, 2022  /  California

Mystery shrouds colossal Brink's heist at I-5 truck stop: Who stole millions in gems, gold?

It took just 27 minutes to steal tens of millions in jewelry and gemstones from a Brink's trailer in Lebec, Calif.

“We are looking at more than $100 million in documented losses,” he said. “This was an absolutely huge crime. One of the largest jewelry heists ever. We are talking gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and loads of luxury watches.”

i just returned from a week in the remote wilderness, untethered to ‘news,’ only to be a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disappointed to discover he wasn’t shitcanned five days ago. Wtf?

Party time, excellent.

Incarcerated transgender woman Demi Minor impregnates two inmates at...

I really hope s/he wins.

Reuters  /  Jul 19, 2022  /  Sports

Trans swimmer Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year award

The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the American college sports regulating body said.

@Tim said in All Blacks vs Ireland - series decider:

That's 2 wins from our last 7 games against tier 1 opposition.

Coaches have to go now.

It shouldn’t even be a debate.

“LARRY claimed that while at the river, he discovered JIMMY intended to feed him to sasquatch/bigfoot,” the affidavit said. “LARRY indicated JIMMY attempted to get away from him so that the sasquatch could eat LARRY. LARRY would not let JIMMY get away. LARRY punched JIMMY and struck JIMMY with a stick. LARRY and JIMMY fought for an extended amount of time on the ground. LARRY confirmed he killed JIMMY by choking him to death near the river.”

Andrew V. Pestano  /  Jul 13, 2022  /  U.S. & World

Man Arrested in Alleged Slaying of Fisherman Out of Fear of Being Eaten by Bigfoot: Authorities

An Oklahoma man allegedly confessed to killing a fellow fisherman out of fear he’d be left alone in the wilderness to be eaten by Bigfoot, authorities said.

So, after risking and digging their heels in for the tournement getting downgraded to an exhibition friendly and stripped of Tour points, the womens title was won and awarded to a Rooskie. Because optics, or something.