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Art Buchwald Facts

2007-01-18T09:33:00.000-08:00

The long running syndicated humorist Art Buchwald dies Wednesday of kidney failure. Here's a few facts about him:

* Buchwald checked into a hospice in February 2006, assuming he was near death. Influential friends such as author William Styron wrote eulogies at his behest, but he survived for nearly a year and wrote a book, "Too Soon to Say Goodbye," about his unexpected lease on life.

* He and partner Alain Bernheim sued Paramount Pictures in 1988 for plagiarism, claiming the Hollywood studio stole their script idea for the Eddie Murphy moving "Coming to America." They won and accepted a settlement from Paramount.

Buchwald never knew his mother because she was institutionalized shortly after his birth. He spent part of his childhood in foster homes and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

* Buchwald talked openly about his bouts with depression and once joked that he considered suicide but did not follow through because "I was afraid I wouldn't make it into The New York Times obituaries."

Technorati tags: Art Buchwald, humor, Eddie Murphy, movies

Very Amusing

2006-12-11T03:46:00.000-08:00

Over at the Celebblog there's a very amusing story about Kendra Jade.

Apparently she's in a committed relationship but this doesn't stop her from leaping into bed with Kevin Federline. Kendra Jade and the K-Ferret an described as simply being friends who have sex a lot.

She has been, apparently, starring with Kevin Federline in rehearsals for the Britney Spears Sex Video.

I guess the thing is that if you work in that end of the film industry the definition of 'committed relationship' is rather different from the more usual one used out here in the real world.

You know, if your living is made by appearing in sex videos then perhaps you have a different definition of sexual continence than other people?

Hmm, perhaps sexual continence isn't the right phrase there. Doesn't include sex in hte meaning of committed perhaps?

Soo, Getting Closer

2006-12-10T08:46:00.000-08:00

After all that pfaffing around I've been doing and the procrastination, now about to actually start using this blog. That'll be nice, won't it?

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2006-04-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

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