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Attracted by tax incentives that went into effect Jan. 1, Universal Pictures has committed to shooting portions of its upcoming Johnny Depp film "Public Enemies" in Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday. The movie is likely to include scenes filmed at locations in Milwaukee, Baraboo, Oshkosh, Madison and Columbus, Wis., said Scott Robbe, executive director for Film Wisconsin and a leader behind the development of the tax incentive program. "Milwaukee will play prominently in the film," Robbe said, adding that Depp will come to the city for the shoot. The movie company reached agreement Tuesday with the Wisconsin Department of...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Delegates to the state Republican convention unleashed a rare chorus of boos and hisses at U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss on Saturday, as he spoke up for a bipartisan immigration reform package unveiled in Washington this week. Hear it for yourself by clicking here. Chambliss had just finished emphasizing his devotion to border security provisions contained in the measure, and brought up agriculture’s need for temporary, foreign workers. “We’ve got to face the fact that we’ve got to create a new, truly temporary worker program” — the boos started here, but Chambliss plowed on — “for that segment...

(Posted Vanity due to copyright restrictions) We have just learned from our local Gannett Newspaper site in Broome County NY that Johnny Hart, creator of "BC" and "Wizard of Id" died in his Ninevah NY home yesterday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The mother of a boy abducted 24 years ago said she's bewildered by two photographs left at her front door, apparently showing her son and two other children bound and gagged.

I ain't goin' nowhere(Geoff Mack/Rick Moranis) I never go nowhere, man I never go nowhere Traffic’s bad out there, man. I’m savin’ wear and tear. I like conditioned air, man I never go nowhere I go Upstairs, downstairs, backyard, lawn chairs, Living room, bathroom, bedroom, furnace room, Hot-tub, cedar deck, build a fire, washer/dryer, Pantry, patio, Bartiromo video, Cold cellar, rec room, ping-pong, mah jongg, Beer count wearin’ thin, speed dial, Order in. I ain’t goin’ nowhere, man. I ain’t goin’ nowhere It’s dangerous out there, man Might ‘a been a big bomb scare. Hard to get off of this...

Poor Johnny: One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up -- fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth. But Johnny was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and make love with him for money." The teacher,...

Go, go Johnny go - but to Belgium? Kim Willsher in Paris and Justin Stares in Brussels (Filed: 15/01/2006) Disbelieving French fans have accused the country's ageing national pop icon, , of betrayal following the revelation that he has applied to become a Belgian. News that the 62-year-old singer known as the "French Elvis" is seeking to become a citizen of France's small neighbour has been greeted with widespread astonishment. Bad enough that Hallyday should consider turning his back on the country which has taken him to its heart - much worse that he should turn instead to the nation...

Well, Oscar Night is upon us again. And if Chris Rock is nearly right, I might be the only straight white man who watches the Oscars for both the pretty women almost dressed plus the primetime fun of making rude comments as the awards are handed out. I think I seen about every Academy Awards when I've been able to since my folks got a television set in 1955. It was always in the back of my mind to one night walk up and accept one of those small golden guys. I tried the acting route, even obtaining a SAG...

Just the Jokes, OK? Johnny: "Sis - Boom - Bah ED: "Sim - boom - bah Johnny: What sound does an exploding sheep make?

Sorry for the vanity, wanted to send a heads up,

>Subject: Fwd. fwd. Re: Georgia Senate Race >Date: Sat, 18 Sept 2004 21:02:14 -0400 (EDT) Y'all should take a look at the candidates' websites. I think the links are down there somewhere in this forward. I personally like the Buckley guy, but like the forward says he doesn't have a chance of winning. God Bless! Fellow Georgians - I'm writing you as a concerned Christian and Georgian. As I am sure you are well aware, the upcoming election is very important. We are making a choice about a president that will shape our future. But there are other important races...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sick and consumed by grief after his wife's death, Johnny Cash struggled to record his last songs and spoke regularly with the Rev. Billy Graham for comfort, according to a new family authorized biography. "He would look at me, a couple of times with tears in his eyes, and he would say, 'I can hardly wait to see heaven, to see the Lord and to see our family,"' Cash's sister Joanne Yates tells author Steve Turner in his book, "The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend," set for release Sept. 13....

Georgia Right to Life Action Alert 7-17-04 At 6:53 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, 2004, Congressman Johnny Isakson cast a fateful vote for H.R. 4200, Vote #197. No other Georgia Republican Congressman joined him in the vote to allow abortions in military hospitals. Yet, four Georgia Democrats (Sanford Bishop, John Lewis, David Scott and Denise Majette) voted with Johnny Isakson. The vote failed just as it did the two previous years that Congressman Isakson voted to allow abortions in military hospitals. The day after the vote, Sadie Fields, executive director of the Georgia Christian Coalition, said, "We're extremely disappointed in the...

Shaking the 'M-word' Can Johnny Isakson out-conservative the conservatives? BY SCOTT HENRY In the summer of 1990, just after losing the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Zell Miller, then-state Sen. Roy Barnes was making the obligatory bury-the-hatchet speech to endorse his former primary opponent. Joining Miller in the Marietta Square, Barnes attacked GOP nominee for governor Johnny Isakson on his home turf with the most damning charge he could muster -- accusing the east Cobb Republican of being "more liberal than Zell." Just another example of how, if you wait long enough, nearly every statement made in the heat of a...

Posted on Thu, Jun. 24, 2004 Senate candidates to debate Sunday Collins, Cain will attend; Isakson declines invitation BY RICHARD HYATT Staff Writer Three Republicans want to go to Washington as Georgia's new U.S. senator but only two of them want to come to Columbus for a televised debate. Rep. Mac Collins and businessman Herman Cain have accepted invitations for a Sunday night debate at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. Rep. Johnny Isakson has declined. This won't be the first debate held without the presence of the GOP frontrunner. To date, he has passed on five different debates, most...

Friday 3.26.04 Like an unexpected third topping, Cain is changing the face of the GOP race for U.S. SenateWhile the Legislature has dithered, the shape of the U.S. Senate race in Georgia has undergone a subtle change. Not the Democratic side. That remains an embarrassing disaster. We're talking about the Republican contest. The campaign of Johnny Isakson on Thursday passed around some points from his well-known Washington pollster, Linda DiVall. Any candidate poll that reaches the public eye is by definition self-serving. And Isakson's is no different. His name ID is high, his favorability ratings are unassailable. Ho-hum. The real...

The three-day shoot for the video was about to wrap, and director Mark Romanek needed just one more shot from his singer star, Johnny Cash. As Romanek recalls, "I said to John, 'This is the last take. So if you want to get angry or smash something up, this is your last chance.'" Cash didn't get it. He thought Romanek meant this would be the final shot in the ailing star's life, so he had better make it good. Cash wouldn't, couldn't surrender to such defeatism. "I hope it's not the last take," he said in that baritone growl, which...

However, Johnny loves “France and [to] be living in a tiny village with nothing around. There is still the possibility to live a simple life. You can go to the market, walk about, buy fruits and vegetables -- the things they did 100 and 200 years ago. We have moments when we're sitting in our house and our kids are playing, and we look at one another and think, 'Thank God we escaped.’” For Johnny, buying a cucumber or a cabbage from a market is primitive living and living and being in America is a place and state of being,...

1941 Bismarck sunk by Royal Navy On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic near France. The German death toll was more than 2,000. On February 14, 1939, the 823-foot Bismarck was launched at Hamburg. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hoped that the state-of-the-art battleship would herald the rebirth of the German surface battle fleet. However, after the outbreak of war, Britain closely guarded ocean routes from Germany to the Atlantic Ocean, and only U-boats moved freely through the war zone. In May 1941, the order was given for the Bismarck to break...

Congressman raises money, eyes Senate seat By ROB CHRISTENSEN, Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- There is little mystery why U.S. Rep. Richard Burr has become the hottest commodity in the North Carolina Republican Party -- the White House's choice for the Senate seat held by Democrat John Edwards. Burr, a 47-year-old Winston-Salem resident, is bright enough to master the intricacies of national health-care policy, funny enough to trade quips with radio host Don Imus, and charming enough to sell his political views the way he once sold microwaves. With the endorsement of party elders ranging from former Sen. Jesse Helms to...

For Immediate ReleaseMonday, July 15, 2002 Contact: Paul Wilkinson202-225-6168 Policy Chairman’s Child Support Enforcement Act to be Introduced News Conference: 11:45 a.m., Tuesday, July 16, Cannon Terrace, with Rep. Cox, Sen. Boxer Helps Families Owed Child Support WASHINGTON--House Policy Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will join a group of parents and children owed child support Tuesday to introduce legislation that gives immediate relief to over two million families owed child support, and encourages delinquent parents to pay child support on time. “I’m pleased that the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support will be joining...

Sure, we've all seen the image below of John Walker Lindh ... but have you seen the images that were taken after the first one...now you can!  

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --  Lawyers for John Walker Lindh have sought to block publication of an "instant book" about his life, calling it "grossly and outrageously false and defamatory."</p> <p>"Publication would be at your peril," Attorney George Harris wrote in a letter faxed to the book's publisher, San Jose-based University Press. Copies of the legal threat were sent to Amazon.com, Borders Inc. and Barnes & Noble, all of which were still taking orders Friday.</p>