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Last month, the Wall Street Journal immortalized Jim Gibbons with one of its trademark ink dot portraits.

Unfortunately for Gibbons, the story that went with it was nothing he would want to clip out and add to his scrapbook.

Despite pleas for privacy, the governor and his mansion-sized marital problems have gone global.

In the last week alone, the ongoing saga has spurred stories in People Magazine and two major daily newspapers in London.

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star, and the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City also have carried news of the governor’s alleged affair and pending divorce.

The widening coverage comes as no surprise to one man who has made a career out of gleefully spreading gossip.

“In the world of clean, healthy gossip, if you’re a chef this has all the ingredients,” said celebrity maven and Las Vegas resident Robin Leach. “It’s got everything: sex, lust, avarice and a government official to boot.”

He expects the frenzy to intensify in the wake of Tuesday’s revelation that Gibbons used his state-issued phone to send more than 860 text messages in six weeks to another man’s wife.

“This guy must own the speed championship title. He must be the fastest texter in the world,” Leach said. “You couldn’t write this stuff. A script writer in Hollywood wouldn’t touch it because no one would believe it.”

But is this a bigger story across the country and around the world simply because it is happening in Nevada?

State Archivist Guy Rocha isn’t so sure.

Nevada and its laissez faire ideas about marriage, divorce, gambling and prostitution might give coverage “a little boost,” Rocha said, but a story like this would still make news “even in Bismarck, North Dakota.”

Leach agreed.

“If this had happened in Britain to the village priest or the local mayor, it would have Business Credit Cards been front page news everywhere,” he …continue reading

Source: Las Vegas Review - Journal (Original Article)

Last month, the Wall Street Journal immortalized Jim Gibbons with one of its trademark ink dot portraits.

Unfortunately for Gibbons, the story that went with it was nothing he would want to clip out and add to his scrapbook.

Despite pleas for privacy, the governor and his mansion-sized marital problems have gone global.

In the last week alone, the ongoing saga has spurred stories in People Magazine and two major daily newspapers in London.

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star, and the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City also have carried news of the governor’s alleged affair and pending divorce.

The widening coverage comes as no surprise to one man who has made a career out of gleefully spreading gossip.

“In the world of clean, healthy gossip, if you’re a chef this has all the ingredients,” said celebrity maven and Las Vegas resident Robin Leach. “It’s got everything: sex, lust, avarice and a government official to boot.”

He expects the frenzy to intensify in the wake of Tuesday’s revelation that Gibbons used his state-issued phone to send more than 860 text messages in six weeks to another man’s wife.

“This guy must own the speed championship title. He must be the fastest texter in the world,” Leach said. “You couldn’t write this stuff. A script writer in Hollywood wouldn’t touch it because no one would believe it.”

But is this a bigger story across the country and around the world simply because it is happening in Nevada?

State Archivist Guy Rocha isn’t so sure.

Nevada and its laissez faire ideas about marriage, divorce, gambling and prostitution might give coverage “a little boost,” Rocha said, but a story like this would still make news “even in Bismarck, North Dakota.”

Leach agreed.

“If this had happened in Britain to the village priest or the local mayor, it would have jigsaw been front page news everywhere,” he …continue reading

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Major League Baseball is cool with youth teams using its nicknames and logos on uniforms and caps. It wants the apparel to be bought through Majestic Athletic, MLB’s exclusive trademark licensee, as one Little League learned the hard way.

A retailer provided uniforms to the 700-player Tinley Park Bulldogs in suburban Chicago, but failed to pay the licensing fee for the trademarks, according to The Herald News of Joliet.

MLB’s response: Drop the big-league names or face a big-league lawsuit. The team did, hence their nickname: “Bulldogs.”

MLB says the issue is not with the kids donning uniforms with big-league team names, it’s with those profiting without authorization.

“We want nothing more than youth league players using the names of major league teams,” says MLB spokesman Matt Bourne.

“Our issue is simply with counterfeiters who are making MLB team product illegally for their own gain.”

Bourne says approximately 4,000 leagues in the USA wear official MLB uniforms.

Little League, the most well-known brand of youth baseball, says it has “never restricted” any team from using major league nicknames.

However, in a statement to USA TODAY, the Williamsport, Pa., organization says it “strongly” encourages teams “to use only those items authorized and licensed by Major League Baseball.”

MLB moved on a similar issue in March when it stopped a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama from selling T-shirts online that read “Obama” in script similar to major league team names.

The Little League issues has become an I with MLB as the corporate villain.

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Evil monkeys play a part in Dario Argento’s horrorfest, “Mother of Tears.”
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A reader recently wondered why I continue to review horror films if don’t like them. But it was never a question of my liking them (I do). It’s a matter of too few of them being made by the Italian director Dario Argento. His new bloodbath, “Mother of Tears,” traverses the same trashy terrain as the average horror movie. It begins with a lot of stock satanic imagery, ye olde demonic choral chanting (complete with a voice that hisses, “moootherrrr”), and the words no opening-credits sequence is complete without: “And Udo Kier.”But the average horror-thriller seems average only because - starting with 1970’s “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage” and culminating with 1975’s “Deep Red,” 1977’s “Suspiria,” and 1982’s “Tenebre” - Argento set a standard a lot of moviemakers are desperate to surpass. It’s not simply that he’s crazy about gore and supernatural hokum. It’s that he understands that storytelling is both an art and a craft. His filmmaking carries you along on the illusion of effortlessness; amusement, suspense, a certain elegance follow.”Mother of Tears” is deceptive that way. Argento’s not at all at his formal best, but for all the strangulations by intestines, evil monkeys, and hellish orgies, the film really is wondering about the great questions: Is there, for example, a higher power pulling the strings? This is the sort of philosophical questions an art restorer-slash-archeologist might find herself asking, and so Sarah Mandy, the film’s hotly pursued art restorer-slash-archeologist played by the filmmaker’s fearless daughter Asia Argento, asks.Sarah does that while evading the hell that breaks loose after she and a co-worker open an compare credit card ancient urn. Suddenly, Rome is suffering …continue reading

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Looking for a cause?June is more than just the kickoff of hurricane season (for the Atlantic and Central Pacific regions). It is also designated to be: Celibacy Awareness Month (a celebration, not a plea for funds);
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Marriage superstitions
This is traditionally the wedding month and, in the Junes of olden days, people were still relying on pagan superstitions for some of their marriage planning. A few, cited by Chambers’s Book of Days (1891 edition):
A girl had only to agitate the water in a bucket of spring water with her hand, or to throw broken eggs over another person’s head, if she wished to see the image of the man she should marry.
A union could never be happy if the bridal party, in going to church, met a monk, a priest, a hare, a dog, cat, lizard or serpent, while all would go well if it were a wolf, a spider or a toad.
A considerable sum of money was put into a purse or plate, and presented by the bridegroom to the bride on the wedding night, as a sort of purchase of her person - a custom common to the Greeks as well as the Romans.
Button it. Here he comes
A June 2, 1908, story from Globe archives reports that a kyrre haakaas pastor in Little Falls, N.Y., declared …continue reading

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A&E’s remake of The Andromeda Strain was a 'blink and you’ll miss it' affair. Once upon a time, a lavish four-hour miniseries based on a Michael Crichton novel and executive produced by Ridley and Tony Scott would have been a headline television event. Those days are long gone.

Whether this re-make disappeared off the radar because of changing audience tastes, or because it was witless and inept, we’ll never know. Either way, audiences are lucky that this dreadful misfire will soon be buried in DVD remainder bins. The only point of interest in this dreadfully tedious affair is as a measuring stick, a point of reference for how far science fiction has regressed.

Originally a novel by Michael Crichton, and filmed for the first time in 1971, the story is about a team of scientists who race to find a cure for a mysterious pathogen that crashed to Earth. The original film is a worthwhile piece of work. On the surface, it’s awkward and dated. The main laboratory set is a late '60s version of cutting-edge modernity. It’s bright and clean, Kubrick-influenced sterility. The scientists are square-jawed and nondescript, blank cogs with little more than dot-matrix printers at their disposal.

Now, in the post-Matrix world, science has to be dimly lit with green fluorescent bulbs. Labs are built like submarines, and scientists stare at automated beakers controlled by hyperintelligent computers. The scientists are all attractive automatons, differentiated only by a daytime television cliche.

The remake re-invents almost nothing from the original novel. Since the scientists actually do very little science, the script pads out the running time with plenty of pseudo-science, giving every actor a chance to graft on some ludicrous exposition without actually explaining a thing. One of the most curious deletions in the re-make is the entry procedure into the high tech lab.

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