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Mogul was plied with alcohol, drugs by cheating husband in last days: suit The final days of the Manhattan mogul who made a fortune selling idyllic Snow Babies and Dickens Villages were a hazy, alcohol-soaked nightmare because of his grifter husband, the late millionaire’s family charges. Edward Bazinet, 73, who made as much as $100 million selling holiday figurines, was plied nightly with booze and drugs by Brett Jordan, who was 43 years younger and cheated on him regularly during their mere months as a wedded couple, according to the Manhattan Surrogate’s Court filing. Jordan “used Bazinet and he abused Bazinet, all while indulging himself in luxuries and wealth unimaginable to the boy from Tennessee who had often told stories . . . of a childhood steeped in abject poverty and abuse,” Bazinet’s family charges. Bazinet’s relatives have been battling Jordan over the businessman’s $54 million estate, most of which was set to go to a Minnesota trust before Jordan entered Bazinet’s life. Now Jordan, a real estate broker who also netted hefty commissions by buying apartments with his spouse, stands to inherit $32 million. The secret November 2017 nuptials were a “premeditated . . . scheme to defraud Bazinet,” the family alleges. Relatives charge Jordan made his true feelings clear in texts to friends, writing, “I HATE HIM,” while complaining about the older man’s incontinence and declining mobility. A lawyer for Jordan called the “spurious” allegations “a malicious smear campaign.”

Don't have a Madonna choice, but Cher's is definitely BTW... If you listen to the lyrics, she's either singing to the guy who's leaving her for a guy or she's a lesbian singing to the woman who's leaving her for a guy. Either way, she needs to hone her gaydar.

Like that could ever happen! :D:rolleyes:

It's all his bitch wife's fault... Man convicted again for killing guy who answered ad for sex with pregnant wife An Illinois man was convicted for first-degree murder – again – for shooting dead a man who allegedly went to his house to pay for sex with his then-pregnant wife. Timothy Smith, 34, was convicted Thursday for the murder of Kurt Milliman, who was shot and killed in 2011 after answering a Craigslist ad Timothy had placed offering paid sex with his wife, Kimberly. It’s his second conviction of the same charge in the case following a retrial, the Chicago Tribune reported. Judge Sharon Prather ruled Thursday that Smith’s claims that he fatally shot Milliman by accident, or, alternatively, in defense of himself and his wife were not credible. Milliman, a former bar owner and sheriff’s office employee, went to Smith’s McHenry County home after answering a Craigslist ad for sex with Smith’s wife that was posted by Timothy. However, when he arrived, Kimberly Smith got cold feet and decided she didn’t want to proceed. And HE'S the one locked up?!?!? Bitch probably planned it all. Milliman reportedly got angry and violent and when Kimberly Smith called for him, her husband ran in from the next room with a gun. He shot Milliman in the back. And HE'S the one locked up?!?!? Bitch probably planned it all. Smith was previously convicted of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting, but he was granted a retrial after an appeals court ruled that Prather should have instructed jurors that they had the option of finding Smith guilty of the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. In the retrial, Prather said there was no proof that Milliman presented “a threat or danger that required the force applied” and noted that Smith initially lied during a 911 call and to police, claiming the man was a home intruder. On Thursday, Prather rejected less serious verdicts of second-degree homicide or involuntary manslaughter when she announced the new conviction. Smith will be resentenced next month. He was initially given a 50-year prison term. Timothy and Kimberly Smith have since divorced. And HE'S the one locked up?!?!? Bitch probably planned it all. Man convicted again for killing guy who answered ad for sex with pregnant wife... a better headline would've been A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE!

Yeah, but doesn't that say more about YOU than them? :D:rolleyes:

As if a woman beating a man could be anything other than a myth... :D:rolleyes:

I occasionally recognize 'celebrity' voice-overs in commercials. For some reason, Frank Whalley's voice drives me up the wall in his Honda ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHNfONwuxg How do feel about Ellen Degenerate's voice-overs?

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I'm the only person in the world who admits to owning her greatest hits CD. I AM WOMAN actually had great lyrics. The song was originally recorded by Smokey Roberds, singing under the name of "Freddie Allen". It debuted within a wedding-themed television commercial for Crocker National Bank in California in the winter of 1970, with Williams on vocals. Hal Riney of the San Francisco-based advertising agency Hal Riney & Partners had commissioned the song to help Crocker appeal to young people. The song played over footage of a couple getting married and just starting out. In the song, direct reference to the bank was left out, in part to make the song more marketable. The commercial turned out to be very popular, but it attracted customers the bank was not interested in, young adult customers without any collateral for loans, so the campaign was eventually suspended, after which the concept was franchised by Crocker to other banks. Richard Carpenter saw the TV commercial and guessed correctly that Williams was the vocalist (both of them were under contract to A&M Records). Carpenter ran into Williams on the record company's lot and asked if a full-length version was available. Although the TV commercial had only two verses and no bridge, Williams stated that there was a bridge and an additional verse, forming a complete song; he and Nichols went on to write them. For Williams, the song was a personal victory; it was his first collaboration with Nichols that resulted in a hit single, and it opened the door to many more thereafter. In 1998, the recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings "of lasting quality or historical significance".

Speaking of naked exercise... https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/3926969-naked-pursuit-suspect-bails-from-stolen-truck-during-pursuit-in-east-la-flees-on-foot/

The Village Voice is no more The storied New York tabloid the Village Voice — already down to just over a dozen employees — is now officially dead, its owner announced Friday, according to Gothamist.com. Half of the staff will be fired, with the other half hanging on briefly to work on an online archive, owner Peter Barbey told them Friday. The publication has stopped publishing new material. “I bought The Village Voice to save it,” Barbey told staffers, relaying the bad news by telephone. “This isn’t how I thought it was going to end up,” he said, blaming “basically, business realities,” according to an audio of the call obtained by Gothamist.

I assume you know Richard saw Bette Midler singing Superstar on THE TONIGHT SHOW and thought it would be a good song for his sibling to sing. Much like he saw a bank commercial and thought We've Only Just Begun would also work well for sis.

THIS is actually the headline in the NY POST: good spelling! Abadoned animals at Japanese aquarium spark public outcry The plight of a lonely dolphin and dozens of penguins that have been abandoned in a derelict aquarium in Japan since the start of the year sparked protests this week, with activists and ordinary Japanese alike calling for the animals to be saved. The female bottlenose dolphin, nicknamed Honey, was captured in 2005 near Taiji, a western port town that has become notorious for its annual dolphin hunt that was featured in the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove”, media reports say. The practice of Japanese aquariums buying dolphins from Taiji came under heavy criticism following the release of the film. The hunt involves driving hundreds of dolphins into a cove, where some are taken alive for sale to marine parks, while others are killed for meat. The Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums has since agreed to stop buying dolphins from Taiji. The operator of the Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium in the city of Choshi in Chiba prefecture, just east of Tokyo, shuttered the facility in January citing a decline in visitors after the 2011 earthquake and nuclear crisis. Honey and 46 penguins, along with hundreds of fish and reptiles, remain at the aquarium, an official with the Chiba prefectural Health and Welfare department said. Employees have been regularly feeding the animals, he added, but photos and video taken by activists in March and August from outside the park show Honey floating in a tiny pool in an eerily empty facility. In another picture, dust-covered penguins can be seen perched on a crumbling structure near a pile of debris. “Honey is a symbol of both the problem of marine parks and Taiji’s hunting practices,” said Akiko Mitsunobu, chief of aquarium issues for Animal Rights Center, a local group. “When we went to check on the facility, she was showing signs of stress, putting her head weakly in and out of the water.” Repeated calls to Inubosaki Marine Park and its parent company went unanswered. A Choshi city official said they have also been unable to reach park representatives. “I get feelings of danger and doubt from the fact that they are so silent about this,” said Sachiko Azuma, a representative of local activist group PEACE (Put an End to Animal Cruelty and Exploitation). “As a group that handles animals, they have a responsibility to explain what they intend to do with Honey and the other animals.” News of the abandoned animals spread quickly over social media, with Twitter users posting photos captioned “Save Honey”. A resort hotel’s offer to give them a new home sparked a flood of retweets. “I beg the authorities to get in close contact with each other and push ahead with this,” wrote one Twitter user.

Former ‘ER’ actress Vanessa Marquez shot dead by police California police shot and killed former “ER” actress Vanessa Marquez when they visited for a welfare check and she pulled a “BB-type” gun on them, according to a new report. Cops were called to Marquez’s South Pasadena home around 2 p.m. Thursday after a landlord reported that the woman was in some kind of trouble, Lt. Joe Mendoza of the LA Sheriff’s homicide bureau said at a press conference, The South Pasadenan reported. “At the time [of the shooting], there was an LA County mental health clinician here with the officers,” Mendoza said. “They began to communicate with her; she became very uncooperative and during that contact, she armed herself with a handgun, she pointed it at the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred.” Cops later recovered a BB gun that “resembled a semi-automatic handgun.” Mendoza said the woman, who sources identified as Marquez, “was undergoing some medical problems, some seizures, [and] it appeared that the female was gravely disabled,” according to the report. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident, as is protocol for all police-involved shootings, according to the report. Police had been called to Marquez’s home in the past for help, Mendoza told the outlet. Marquez played Nurse Wendy Goldman on the popular NBC drama “ER” from 1994 to 1997. She also played the role of Ana Delgado in the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” and appeared in the flicks “Night Children” and “Blood In, Blood Out,” among others. In October, Marquez accused former “ER” co-star George Clooney of helping to blacklist her from the show in 1995 because she complained about being sexually and racially harassed on set. “Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up abt harassment on ER. Women who dont play the game lose career…I did,” she tweeted at the time. In a statement, Clooney denied the claims. “I had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted. I take her at her word,” the actor said at the time. “I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show. I had nothing to do with casting. I was an actor and only an actor. If she was told I was involved in any decision about her career, then she was lied to. The fact that I couldn’t affect her career is only surpassed by the fact that I wouldn’t.” Witnesses and sources called Marquez a talented woman who was beloved by her friends — but had recently battled with health issues, including celiac disease and seizures. Marquez was a member of the cinephile group Turner Classic Movies Party, which paid tribute to her in a tweet. “I am devastated to say that Vanessa Marquez @R2DivaLA was shot and killed by the South Pasadena police on Thursday afternoon,” Turner Classic Movies tweeted late Thursday. “I met her through #TCMParty, I hope she knew how much we loved her and I hope too that she is at peace.”

Either way...:rolleyes:

My take-away from this is that you like to get smashed. Almost every day.

Does anyone watch? I recently discovered this late-night guilty pleasure.

Tag team bandits wanted for robbing a sweet shop and a fried chicken joint A tandem team of junk food bandits indulged their sweettooth for cash when they held up a candy shop and a fried chicken joint in the Bronx, police said. The duo turned sour during one of their capers, pistol whipping the cashier of a Kennedy Fried Chicken. Hagie Touray, 27, was working the register at the Belmont restaurant at 2273 Crotona Ave. at E. 183rd St. on Aug. 17 just before 2:30 a.m. when the two men came in, one of them waving an automatic pistol, according to the NYPD. The gunman shoved one worker out of the way as the other ordered Touray to open the register, grabbing him by the back of the neck and shoving his head down toward the machine. “They ordered me to open the cash registered,” Touray said. “I had the wrong key because I was panicked. It made noise and that’s when he started to beat me up.” The fast food worker said the man said nothing while he cleaned out the loot. The man, who wore black latex gloves, a blue ball cap, white undershirt and jeans, turned to his partner and said “Dale, dale,” Spanish for “hurry, hurry.” The two men made off with a $1,000, according to police. Touray said that he didn’t feel the pain from the attack til the next day, but even then it was only a few bruises. “Right now, I’m OK,” he said. “Of course, I’m scared.” The two men hit again about a half an hour later in Kingsbridge when they knocked over Broadway Candy shop at 249 W. 231st St. This time, the men covered their faces as one waved a gun at the clerk and the other cleaned out the cash register. They stole $5,500, police said. Both robberies were caught on surveillance camera.

KFC will give $11,000 to first baby born on Sept. 9 who’s named Harland If you have a baby on Sept. 9, Kentucky Fried Chicken might just give you $11,000. But KFC isn’t giving money away to just any baby. There are two big catches: First, you must name your precious baby Harland, in honor of KFC’s Col. Harland Sanders. Second, your baby must be the first Harland born in America on Sept. 9. This isn’t a clucking joke, people. The first baby born whose legal first name is Harland between midnight and 11:59 p.m. Eastern time (or the equivalent in other time zones) on Sept. 9 will get an $11,000 college donation. Why $11,000 you might ask? Because of KFC’s 11 herbs and spices, of course. If you’re willing to gamble with your child’s first name, bookmark https://www.kfc.com/babyharland. The entry site will go live on Sept. 9 and stay open for 30 days. Parents must submit name, date and time of their baby’s birth (via birth certificate, hospital records or other official record) along with their contact information. KFC’s baby-naming promotion is held in honor of founder Sanders’ 128th birthday. The fried-chicken behemoth was displeased that the name Harland ranked only 3,257 among the most common baby names in America. (At that point, wouldn’t it be easier to include it among the least common names?) “Even though vintage names are making a comeback, our iconic founder’s name was dwindling in popularity, and we couldn’t just stand idly by and let that happen,” said Andrea Zahumensky, KFC U.S. chief marketing officer. “We hope that this birthday celebration honors the Colonel and encourages the next generation of people aspiring to live the American dream.”

Boy swept in sewer sticks finger out of manhole and is saved An 11-year-old boy sucked into a flooded Wisconsin storm sewer was saved when an eagle-eyed firefighter saw the boy's fingers pop through an opening in a manhole cover. The astonishing rescue Tuesday evening came as storms pounded the southern half of the state and southeastern Minnesota. The Calumet County Sheriff's Office said the boy was playing with friends in a flooded drainage ditch after the rains passed around 6 p.m. in the Village of Harrison. He disappeared under the water and didn't surface. A dive team, sheriff's deputies and volunteer firefighters responded. Deputy Fire Chief Wesley Pompa said that when they arrived they found a bystander trying to hold onto the boy but he was sucked into a culvert that led to the storm sewer. Pompa said the water was rushing so quickly it would have sucked a full-grown man into the culvert. The rescuers could do nothing except try to determine where the flow might take the boy. Pompa called the village road superintendent, Bob Kesler, to the scene to help map out the sewers. Pompa and Kesler were standing on top of a manhole cover about 30 feet (9 meters) away from the ditch when Pompa saw the boy's fingers pop through an opening in the cover. The boy had found air pocket just beneath the manhole cover and was hanging onto a ladder leading up to the manhole. The firefighters wrenched the cover open. Pompa and Kesler lifted the boy to safety. "He was hollering and talking to us and he was able to reach up for us," Pompa said. The boy was taken to the hospital, and authorities said he was alert and conscious after his ordeal. Pompa said he never got the boy's name. "I just thank God he was alive and he'd made it that long," Pompa said. "It could have gone a million different ways but this one way it worked out for him." A string of storms began moving through the region last week, flooding streets and farm fields and cutting power. One man was killed in Madison as he tried to escape from a flooded ditch last week.