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Defending Mel Gibson

Posted by Carl Mitchell on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, In : Celebrity

As anyone who owns a TV, computer, Smartphone, radio or has read a newspaper in the last few days knows by now actor-director Mel Gibson’s new career as a recording artist has gotten off to a very rocky start. I’m referring of course to audios that the site radaronline first obtained of Gibson railing against his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, in which he threatens her and uses the n-word and other slurs and expletives. (Listen to the tape here.) One of the things Gibson can be hear...
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Goodnight, Mr. Phelps

Posted by Carl Mitchell on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, In : Celebrity

The first thing I remember seeing Peter Graves in was the TV show “Fury.” For those of you not old enough to remember the show ran from 1955 – 1960 and was the “story of a horse and the boy who loved him.” Graves played Jim Newton, owner of the Broken Wheel Ranch. The show centered on a black stallion and Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton. Weekly some bad guy or hazardous situation would necessitate the intensely loyal stallion coming to the aid of his friend Joey and or his ...
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Why I’m not accepting Tiger Woods’ apology

Posted by Carl Mitchell on Monday, February 22, 2010, In : Celebrity

“Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends...” Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

We all knew it would happen eventually - Tiger Woods has joined the pantheon of celebrities who have made a very public mea culpa for a very private affair. On February 19, Woods gave a televised speech from the PGA Tour headquarters in Florida in which he apologized for the affairs he admittedly had with several women. As I watched this public bloodletting it reminded me of the other notables who came ...
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Michael Jackson: Enabled to Death

Posted by Carl Mitchell on Thursday, February 4, 2010, In : Celebrity

Well there has been another, albeit not totally unexpected chapter added to the continuing story of the late-Michael Jackson: His doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, is now according to Los Angeles law enforcement sources and TMZ, likely to be charged with involuntary manslaughter. According to both sources, those charges could be filed as early as next week. Anyone who didn’t see this coming probably would have been so blind as to have not seen the severe psychological wreck that was Jackson –...
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