by admin
Jul 22, 2008
Thank you for being a friend Estelle Getty!
Emmy-winning actress Estelle Getty, best known as a wise-cracking ‘Sophia Petrillo’ on the popular 1980’s sitcom “The Golden Girls” died on Tuesday at age 84.
Getty, who spent four decades toiling in show business before winning fame and critical recognition as Bea Arthur’s sassy, 80-year-old mother on the hit show, had been suffering from dementia.
Born Estelle Scher in New York City in 1923, Getty wanted to be an entertainer from an early age, despite her small size and the initial objections of her Polish immigrant parents.
She got her start as a comic at resorts in New York state’s Catskill mountains and pursued her dream as an actress in regional theater and off-Broadway productions while raising two sons and working office jobs to make ends meet.
She won a breakthrough role in a production of “Torch Song Trilogy” that brought her to the attention of Hollywood. She was ultimately cast as the oldest of four female retirees living together on “Golden Girls” even though she was slightly younger than Bea Arthur - her screen daughter.
by db
Jul 10, 2008
Larry Harmon, (also known as ‘Bozo the Clown‘), died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
Harmon was not the original Bozo, but portrayed the popular clown since 1954, after buying the rights to the character (from Alan Livingston who invented Bozo in 1946), licensed it out, namely to numerous television stations around the country. The Chicago version of Bozo, for one, ran on WGN-TV in Chicago for 40 years, and famously sold five years’ worth of audience tickets in five hours.
by CMAC
Jul 5, 2008
Liked cock
In celebration of our country’s assumption of independent statehood, Senator Jesse Helms died yesterday. He was 10,000 years old.
A five-term North Carolina senator, Helms was perhaps best known for hating black people, Chinamen, Canadians, gays, women, puppies, circus clowns, rainbows, warm summer days, love songs, table tennis and sentient life. What was NOT generally known about Helms is that he was actually one of the masked members of the band Slipknot. In fact he was this guy:
When he wasn’t touring with his metal band or submitting legislation that would require all minorities to live in heavily-guarded labor camps until they could no longer work 15-hour days, at which point they would be ground into a protein-rich nutrient paste for use as an additive in McDonald’s hamburgers, Helms enjoyed blowing hobos. A lot. Not a day went by when Jesse Helms didn’t have some drifter’s junk in his mouth. He’d let the spooge drool down his chin and he’d say “yummy!” over and over again until the hobo got scared and ran away. Then he’d shoot the hobo in the back. The end.
by db
Jun 30, 2008
The happy face of now dead Russian supermodel Ruslana Korhunova
I’m thinking of starting a band and calling it “Supermodel Suicide” – tell me that’s not the fucking coolest name ever?
Of course I was inspired by the story of 20-year-old Russian supermodel Ruslana Korshunova who graced the cover of Vogue in Russia and plummeted to her death on Saturday in Manhattan. For some pictures of the scene on the street check this out…
And I just read the excerpts from her blog (hilarity) - I mean is this supposed to give us insight as to why she commited suicide or as to how poor her English was or how lame her 20-year-old brain was?
Did you know that that in Borat’s homeland (Ruslana was actually from Kazakhstan) suicide is 3 times more popular than it is in the United States with teen girls - now you do….
Worst of all I found out that this hottie was dating a douchebag and that her previous boyfriend was also a douchebag….
So band rehearsals and auditions start in a week. Our first performance will be in Manhattan, we’ll be performing in the street. The middle of the street - on our backs….
