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  • UK police checking new information on death of Princess Diana

    08/17/2013 1:44:24 PM PDT · by upbeat5 · 23 replies
    Foxnews.com ^ | August 17,2013 | Fox News Staff
    LONDON – British police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information's "relevance and credibility." Scotland Yard declined to provide details about the information, only saying Saturday in a statement that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit. The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris. Sky News reported that an unnamed source said the new information...
  • SARANDON MOVIE ON CBS FINISHES LAST PLACE IN OVERNIGHTS

    04/21/2003 6:55:08 AM PDT · by Skooz · 171 replies · 473+ views
    Drudge ^ | 4.21.03 | Drudge
    SARANDON MOVIE ON CBS FINISHES LAST PLACE IN OVERNIGHTS
  • Halle Berry says she thinks she's 'ugly'

    04/19/2003 9:01:58 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 416 replies · 3,567+ views
    Halle Berry solidified her place as one of the world's sexiest women with her role as Bond girl Jinx in "Die Another Day." But the Oscar-winning actress (Monster's Ball) says she still doesn't see herself as a beautiful star. "To be totally honest, most of the time I think I'm ugly," she told the German magazine Journal fur die Frau. "I see myself without makeup every morning and that's why I don't have illusions anymore. I certainly don't feel like a big star." Berry added that being black still hinders her progress in Hollywood. "For many film studios and directors...
  • Sandy Duncan Speaks Out (Doesn't 'respect' Pres. Bush, Dubya not 'really smart' or 'globally aware')

    04/21/2003 9:21:31 AM PDT · by ewing · 304 replies · 1,019+ views
    MSNBC ^ | April 1, 2003 | Jeanette Walls
    The Dixie Chicks aren't the only Texas natives bashing President George W. Bush.Sandy Duncan who is performing in South Carolina, told a local paper that she questioned the decision to go to war, and wishes that rather than President Bush, the United States had a leader who was 'globally aware' and 'really smart.''I just wish men would quit thinking they could just duke it out with each other,' the native of Henderson, Texas, told the Times and Democrat.'I don't have all of the facts, and who knows what's really the truth, but I really don't respect [President Bush's] way of...
  • Dixie Chicks slated to appear on NBC's Saturday Night Live tonight and on ABC's PrimeTime Thursday

    04/19/2003 8:12:18 PM PDT · by Zacs Mom · 11 replies · 350+ views
    From NBC Saturday Night Live : MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY/DIXIE CHICKS11:30pm 2003-04-19Matthew McConaughey hosts Saturday Night Livewith musical guests Dixie Chicks. TV-14    From The Washington Times: The Dixie Chicks, recently boycotted by country music fans after lead singer Natalie Maines said she was "ashamed" of President Bush, will be featured on ABC's "Primetime" on Thursday to tell their side of the story. 
  • Citigroup Yields to Pressure by Environmentalists - Hollywood Celebrities

    04/17/2003 11:42:29 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 12 replies · 519+ views
    yahoo.com news ^ | April 17, 2003 | Jim Lobe,OneWorld US
    Washington, DC, Apr 17 (OneWorld) - A major environmental group has declared a ceasefire in its three-year campaign against Citigroup, the world's largest private financial institution, after new commitments by the giant lender to adopt more responsible social and environmental policies in deciding what projects to finance. Citigroup's decision to more seriously engage one of its main critics, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), came one week after the San Francisco-based group launched a major ad campaign to persuade Citigroup credit card holders to destroy their cards to protest the company's support for projects and industries that environmentalists consider particularly harmful. The...
  • Madonna's Epiphany

    04/18/2003 7:36:06 AM PDT · by HumanaeVitae · 24 replies · 414+ views
    USA Today ^ | 4/18/03 | Edna Gunderson
    <p>LOS ANGELES — She's publishing a series of kiddie storybooks.</p> <p>She's working with scientists who have discovered how to neutralize radiation.</p> <p>She's plotting to make a documentary about Kabbalah, a religious philosophy based on Jewish mysticism.</p> <p>Who's that girl?</p> <p>These days, Madonna strives to be neither material nor immaterial. After straddling the heights of wealth and celebrity for two decades, the pop diva is on a quest for meaning. And in American Life, due Tuesday, that means questioning the impulses behind her own rise to riches.</p>
  • Natalie Maines (Dixie Chick member) Bashes Toby Keith's Patriotic Anthem

    04/16/2003 10:56:39 PM PDT · by faithincowboys · 74 replies · 1,202+ views
    2002-08-08) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (LA Daily News) - ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings is apparently not the only celebrity to take issue with Toby Keith's chart-topping country hit, "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)." Now, the Dixie Chicks's lead singer, Natalie Maines, freely shares her dislike of the song. "Don't get me started," Maines told the Los Angeles Daily News. "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant. It targets an entire culture - and not just the bad people who did bad things. You've got to have some tact. Anybody can write,...
  • Protesters Have Right to Speak

    04/17/2003 6:11:20 AM PDT · by Temple Owl · 50 replies · 545+ views
    County Press ^ | 4-16-03 | William W. Lawrence
    Second Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 04/15/2003 We hear so much about young Americans -- teenagers and early 20s -- who give Americans a bad name. Then we watch our young GIs and our chest swells with pride.They were freeing an oppressed people while naked women, transvestites, dogs, dancers and singers joined Harry Belafonte in an antiwar protest to "praise the patriotism of the demonstrators" and condemn the military action in Iraq."We denounce governments that act with tyranny," Mr. Belafonte told the crowd. He was talking about our government, not Saddam Hussein's. Listen, there were always war protesters.I was a...
  • ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world (To Hollywood Celebrities)

    04/16/2003 4:03:56 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 110 replies · 875+ views
    Media Research Center via E-Mail | April 16, 2003 | Brent Baker
    ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world. Not weapons of mass destruction or terrorism, but another vast right-wing conspiracy at home, specifically, the supposedly "well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war." Jennings ended Tuesday's World News Tonight with this plug for Wednesday's show: "That is our report on World News Tonight. Tomorrow on the broadcast, the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a good evening, and good night." I...
  • Free Republic in the News: DC Chapter Freeps Tim Robbins

    04/16/2003 5:46:09 PM PDT · by FreeTheHostages · 130 replies · 937+ views
    CNSnews ^ | 4/16/03 | cnsnews
    'Human Shields' Protect Reporters from Pacifist Actor By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief April 16, 2003 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - "We're here to protect you," members of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Free Republic told reporters gathered to cover an anti-war speech by self-proclaimed pacifist and actor Tim Robbins. "We're here to demonstrate against Tim Robbins and act as human shields for reporters in case they ask a question that Tim Robbins doesn't like and he threatens to harm them like he did Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post ," said Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the group. Grove...
  • Hollywood Liberals Hate Free Speech

    04/16/2003 11:28:05 AM PDT · by stratman1969 · 123 replies · 820+ views
    ChronWatch.com ^ | April 16, 2003 | Kevin Willmann
    Actor/Director Tim Robbins hates free speech. So does his long-term partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as Janeane Garafolo, Martin Sheen, The Dixie Chicks, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Chrissie Hynde, and other ''anti-war'' celebrities. They only love free speech when they are using it to bash the military, President Bush, and America, both in our own media and overseas. However, when the American consumer, offended by their blame-America first rhetoric, reacts with petitions and boycotts, the words ''blacklist,'' ''undermining free speech'' and ''suppressing dissent'' are used by these celebrities. Hollywood is scared, because...
  • Jennings Warns of “Aggressive Efforts” to Hush Anti-War Celebs

    04/16/2003 8:31:56 AM PDT · by Zacs Mom · 128 replies · 501+ views
    Jennings Warns of “Aggressive Efforts” to Hush Anti-War Celebs ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world. Not weapons of mass destruction or terrorism, but another vast right-wing conspiracy at home, specifically, the supposedly “well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war.”     Jennings ended Tuesday's World News Tonight with this plug for Wednesday's show: “That is our report on World News Tonight. Tomorrow on the broadcast, the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war. I'm Peter...
  • Tim Robbins - Beyond The Pale at National Press Club Today - Hollywood-Hero Responds

    04/15/2003 3:21:27 PM PDT · by lisaann8 · 154 replies · 633+ views
    www.hollywood-hero.us ^ | 04-15-03 | www.hollwyood-hero.us
    04-15-03- I was going to write an Op-ed today to go with our weekly Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame awards. Then Tim Robbins spoke to the National Press Club today.  I've recorded it for your listening disgust.  To say it's beyond the pale is an understatement.  He has declared war on the 77% of the people in this country who support our president, this country and our troops. Here is the audio.  Hollywood-Hero needs to say, one more time for the record, free speech does not mean free of consequences.  Freedom to choose what we watch, rent or...
  • DC CHAPTER'S KRISTINN, aka "The Warlord" on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough TONIGHT 4/15/03 !!

    04/15/2003 6:12:28 PM PDT · by tgslTakoma · 121 replies · 1,299+ views
    self | April 15, 2003 | tgslTakoma
    Head's up, everybody !! The DC Chapter did a Stealth FReep of Hollywood liberal Tim Robbins this afternoon at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Kristinn will be appearing on "Scarborough Country" hosted by former Florida Congressman and Conservative, Joe Scarborough. The program begins at 10:00pm, EDT. Angelwood is working on the after-action report of the FReep now and will post it soon.Speaking of Our "Ringleader" Angelwood, she was also on MSNBC earlier this evening, as they showed footage of the protest today, to promote the segment tonight.
  • War on Hollywood: Return of the Blacklist

    04/14/2003 8:35:55 PM PDT · by Chirodoc · 123 replies · 1,212+ views
    Coshocton Tribune ^ | 04-14-2003 | Ken Paulson
    <p>Ken Paulson is executive director of the First Amendment Center with offices in Arlington, Va. and Nashville, Tenn. His mailing address is Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave South Nashville, Tenn. 37212.</p> <p>C O L U M N This just in: Janeane Garofalo is now more un-American than George Clooney.</p>
  • DC CHAPTER - HUMAN SHIELDS FREEP OF TIM ROBBINS AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - 4/15/2003

    04/15/2003 7:01:29 PM PDT · by Angelwood · 129 replies · 1,019+ views
    DC Chapter of Free Republic ^ | April 15, 2003 | Angelwood
    The DC Chapter of Free Republic learned through an anonymous source that Tim Robbins (actor, anti-war activist, significant other of Susan Sarandon) would be the guest speaker at a National Press Club luncheon on April 15, 2003. Accordingly, a few of us made plans to meet and greet Mr. Robbins when he arrived at the building to present his speech. I stepped out of my taxi a few minutes before Noon. The sidewalk outside the Press Club building was full of activity. There were people out enjoying the Spring weather, many going into the building, several cameramen waiting patiently, delivery...
  • Anti-war activist Tim Robbins says his freedom violated by baseball snub

    04/15/2003 7:18:49 PM PDT · by jern · 100 replies · 1,169+ views
    AFP ^ | Apr 11, 2003 | AFP
    Anti-war activist Tim Robbins says his freedom violated by baseball snub Fri Apr 11, 8:40 PM ET Add Entertainment - AFP to My Yahoo! LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US actor Tim Robbins (news) said that Baseball's Hall of Fame had violated his freedom of expression by scrapping a screening of one of his movies because he publicly criticized the US-led war in Iraq (news - web sites). The actor and his Oscar-winning partner Susan Sarandon (news) had been invited to attend the 15th anniversary screening of their 1988 baseball movie "Bull Durham" at the New York-based Hall of Fame later...
  • The Actors, the War and the Hall of Fame (last word on Sarandon and Robbins)

    04/15/2003 6:09:46 AM PDT · by Liz · 51 replies · 283+ views
    NY TIMES ^ | 4/15/03 | lettres to the editor
    Re "Cooperstown Muffs One" (editorial, April 12): The politically motivated decision by Dale Petroskey, the president of the Hall of Fame, to cancel the 15th-anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" because he takes offense at Tim Robbins's and Susan Sarandon's opposition to the war in Iraq mocks the very values that baseball and our country purport to represent. I suppose that Mr. Petroskey would like to bar all of us who oppose the war from Cooperstown as well. As we number in the millions, perhaps this is the only way for him to receive a long overdue lesson in...
  • Janeane Garofalo: 'I Have Nothing to Apologize For'

    04/13/2003 6:42:26 AM PDT · by kattracks · 157 replies · 1,637+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 4/13/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
    It looks like outspoken Iraq war critic Janeane Garofalo won't be honoring her pledge to apologize to President Bush anytime soon. "I have nothing to apologize for," she told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, who requested an interview with the comedienne-turned-peacenik for his Sunday morning broadcast. Malzberg tells NewsMax that instead of agreeing to the interview request, Garofalo boasted that her upcoming TV show on ABC is going forward despite a tidal wave of complaints received by the network. "Boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity," she dared before reiterating, "There will be no apologies." Just five weeks...