Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Category: RIP (Rest In Peace) | Tags: david gilliland andy allen
Rip Michels won the NASCAR Super Late Model race portion of the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale. Michels, the winningest driver in driver in Irwindale history, won the crash-filled race that was red-flagged three times because of accidents.

The race was cut short, from 100 laps to 66. The race ended under a green-white-checker flag. Michels held the lead for the final three laps o read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://www.news.com.au)
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AN ADVERTISING campaign teaching people to swim parallel to the beach to escape a rip could be putting lives at risk, a beach safety authority has said.

Surf Life Saving Australia launched the print and television campaign late last year, urging people to swim in line with the shore if they were caught in a current. read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://blogs.indiewire.com)
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Karen worked on a lot of great films, but she will always be known for helping craft Errol Morris’ later films, such as The Fog Of War, Mr. Death, Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control, and Standard Operating Procedure. If you ever want to see a master class in documentary editing on display, check out her work in Fast, Cheap. It’s one of the best jobs of editing a documentary, I’ve ever seen. At last yea read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://books.blogs.starnewsonline.com)
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He even morphed into a character: “J.D. Salinger” appears in “Shoeless Joe,” the W.P. Kinsella novel that inspired the movie “Field of Dreams.” (They change his name for the film version and cast James Earl Jones in the role.) In the 1997 movie “Conspiracy Theory,” Mel Gibson’s character compulsively collects copies of “Catcher in the Rye” — it turns out he’s been brainwashed and — but that’s ano read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://bigthink.com)
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January 27th will primarily be remembered as the date of President Obama’s first State of the Union address. But it will also be remembered as the day America lost two of its most prominent literary figures: JD Salinger and Howard Zinn. While their personalities seemed vastly different, their works converged in the minds of many of the people who contributed to the president’s winning campaign. A read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://www.mirror.co.uk)
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The full cost of lawyers chasing compensation claims from the Health Service hit £175million last year, the Sunday Mirror reveals today.

Not only is this an extraordinary figure but one in four NHS trusts pays more to lawyers than to the patients they represent. This is an obscene situation created partly by greedy lawyers and partly by the incompetence of NHS managers. read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://www.mirror.co.uk)
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he bodies of men from the British 61st Division were discovered two years ago in six mass graves outside a small French village, close to where they died in 1916. The British and Australian soldiers were buried with full military honours yesterday in the first Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery to be built for 50 years. read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 222 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
Category: RIP (Rest In Peace) | Tags: don geiss sissy spacek
Torn, 78, was being held on $100,000 bond after state police responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bank in Salisbury, the Connecticut town where the actor lives, and found him inside the closed bank "with a loaded revolver" and "highly intoxicated," according to a police report issued on Saturday.

He was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief and weapons charges. read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 223 days ago (http://abcnews.go.com)
Category: RIP (Rest In Peace) | Tags: john travolta kelly preston
"We work hard every day with our church on healing. And Kelly and I and Ella have all been working very hard and they've been helping us," the actor told Reuters Television at the New York premiere on Thursday of his new action comedy movie "From Paris With Love." read more »
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Avatar Posted by ggts 224 days ago (http://www.google.com)
Category: RIP (Rest In Peace) | Tags: alison krauss robert plant lil wayne
In 2008, jazz legend Herbie Hancock - then 68 - climbed the stage to collect his 12th career Grammy, besting more buzzed-about competitors Amy Winehouse and Kanye West in the album of the year category.

Last year, it was Alison Krauss and Robert Plant who brought their collective career Grammy count up to 33, beating out such MTV-friendly competition as Lil Wayne (who had the year's bestselli read more »
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