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“Rudy Ray Moore, a raunchy 1970s comedian who played the title role of a flashy pimp in the movie ‘Dolemite’ and influenced a generation of rappers, has died. He was 81. Moore died Sunday evening at an Akron nursing home from complications of diabetes, said his brother, Gerald Moore.” [Link]
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“LucasArts and BioWare on Tuesday announced their forthcoming massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game takes place chronologically about 300 years after the previous Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic franchise and about 3,500 years before the Star Wars films.” [Link]
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“The launch of Chandrayaan-1, as the vehicle is called (it means, roughly translated, ‘Moon Craft-1’) comes about a year after China’s first moon mission. The Indian mission is scheduled to last for two years, prepare a three-dimensional atlas of the moon and prospect its surface for natural resources, including uranium, a coveted fuel for nuclear power plants, according to the Indian Space Research Organization, or I.S.R.O. Allusions to an Asian space race could not be contained, even as Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, was due for a visit to China later in the week.” [Link]
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Anna Paquin appears in HBO’s True Blood series.
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“Delta Enterprises is voluntarily recalling nearly 1.6 million older versions of its drop-side cribs after two infant deaths. The cribs were made between 1995 and 2007, according to the company. The cribs either required safety pegs that may have been lost during reassembly or replacements for pegs which may have worn out after many uses, the company said.” [Link]
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“Skylar Deleon — a child star on TV’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers — has been found guilty of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast. According to The Associated Press, Deleon, 29, was convicted Monday in the deaths of Tom Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, who were thrown from their yacht in 2004 during a cruise” [Link]
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“In a filing with the SEC last week, Playboy revealed that it is planning to dump the production of its bunny-laden soft core DVDs and concentrate on producing content for online viewing instead. ‘We will continue to deliver more of our content digitally, using our assets across multiple distribution platforms and adding more a la carte offerings,’ CEO Christie Hefner (yep, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s daughter) wrote in a memo to employees. ‘Given the declines in the DVD market, we will exit that business in phases over a few months to concentrate on selling that content online.’ ” [Link]
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“‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than ‘Larry King Live’ on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.” [Link]
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Hilary Duff performs at Factory Night Club
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Bianca Beauchamp takes a lick of her gun. [Link]
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“Along with Julie Walters, Fern Britton, Harry Redknapp, Boyzone’s Keating and, yes, Star trek’s Patrick Stewart, UK girl group Girls Aloud will appear in a new Nintendo Karmarama-created campaign for the Nintendo DS.” [Link]
