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Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history.  His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his works, is part of a massive class-action lawsuit that has been underway for the past year. As my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes, the infringer has effectively already admitted owing at least $50 million and the full claim...

Only a few years before her time spent with our beloved agents/actors Don Adams..., she was a model and a commercial actress. This commercial for Top Brass Dandruff prevention was what people recalled of her early days in acting.

Norris’ flat onscreen persona has spawned an ironic Internet movement, and now, a book by Norris himself. Sean Macaulay analyzes the strange afterlife of the worst actor in action. It's official. Chuck Norris can tame anything, even his own meme. The iconic action star's new book, The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book, is Norris’ personal selection of Internet-spawned “facts” about himself, and it's already the bestselling martial arts book in the country. An unofficial Chuck Norris fact book—The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human—did have the nerve to appear two years ago, but as any...

When Tiger Woods was brought to the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., his condition was more serious than previously reported. According to a person with knowledge of Woods’ hospital admission, the star golfer had to be admitted directly to the hospital’s intensive care unit, where he was immediately intubated and his breathing stabilized. Also, there’s clarification about the police interview with Woods’ neighbors, who called 911. At the time of the 911 call, neighbor Jarius Lavar Adams told dispatchers that Woods was asleep on the lawn, snoring. “Although the body can snore in any state of unconsciousness, it’s unlikely...

Start off your week right by checking out this video of the high school students in the Chamber Choir of South Kitsap High School of Port Orchard, Washington were the students perform a great rendition of Halleluia! This was in Dec., 2008 in the Winter Festival. Freeper Lynn D's wife actually made 4 of the monk costumes, both Lynn and his were in the audience during the presentation of this concert. Great work Lynn and thank your wife for such a great job on the costumes. Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

The grandmother of Ekaterina Ivanova, the girlfriend of Ronnie Wood, has told the Rolling Stones guitarist to leave her granddaughter alone. "That Ronnie - what a nightmare!," said Mrs Ivanova, who is closer in age to the Rolling Stone than her granddaughter. She threatened to "get even" with him if he hurt her granddaughter. "She is climbing her way to hell," she added.

Here is what President Obama said about Springsteen: Finally, we honor the quiet kid from Jersey ... who grew up to become the rock 'n' roll laureate of a generation. For in the life of our country only a handful of people have tapped the full power of music to tell the real American story -- with honesty; from the heart; and one of those people is Bruce Springsteen... It's no wonder that his tours are not so much concerts, but communions. There's a place for everybody -- the sense that no matter who you are or what you do,...

All Hail the iPod touch By Om Malik December 6, 2009 As the competition for smartphone domination starts to heat up, it is becoming increasingly clear that the iPod touch is Apple’s ace up its sleeve, and according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, 24 million iPod touches represent about 40 percent of the total 58 million iPhone OS devices. From the time I first laid my hands on the iPod touch, I have been a big fan of it — after all, it is just like an iPhone except that it has more storage, is...

Forget The iPhone: The iPod touch Is Where It’s At Posted 12/07/2009 at 8:33:11am by J.R. Bookwalter Apple may have to fend off a number of competitors for the iPhone’s crown of smartphone dominance, but one area where there seems to be comparatively little competition is the roost ruled by the iPod touch. Based upon a report by Flurry, a San Francisco mobile analytics company, there are 24 million iPod touches in use, which represent 40% of the total 58 million iPhone OS devices, according to Gigaom’s Om Malik. After all, the iPod touch has one big advantage over the...

Start off your week right by checking out this video of the high school students in the Chamber Choir of South Kitsap High School of Port Orchard, Washington were the students perform a great rendition of Halleluia! This was in Dec., 2008 in the Winter Festival. Freeper Lynn D's wife actually made 4 of the monk costumes, both Lynn and his were in the audience during the presentation of this concert. Great work Lynn and thank your wife for such a great job on the costumes. Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

Benedictus XVIJoseph Ratzinger  Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - The Musical Offering in MP3 The Musical Offering A selection of sacred and classical music in Mp3 played by teachers and students of Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, called the "best ballad singer I'd ever heard in my life" by singer Bob Dylan, is dead at the age of 74, his manager said.

They sound great together on this nostalgiac Christmasy song . Very nice ...

Sometimes we need a little brevity in our day. It is my wish that you all will get a kick out of the creative way these high schools students give a great rendition of Halleluia! Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

<p>Somewhere along the line — at a wedding, at a child’s birthday party, in third-grade music class — everybody has done the hokey pokey. Admit it: you sang the silly song, you did the silly dance.</p> <p>And you shake it all about.</p>

Billy Joel’s 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan today after ingesting a large number of sleeping pills in what police consider a suicide attempt, The Post has learned. Medics were called to Alexa Ray Joel’s Bethune St. apartment in the West Village at approximately 12:21 p.m. this afternoon, sources told The Post. A female caller told a 911 operator that Joel had taken several pills and wanted to die, sources said. A family spokeswoman issued a brief statement later this afternoon confirming Joel was in the hospital. Alexa Ray Joel, only daughter of legendary pop singer...

Wanda Sykes- liberal lesbian black woman comedian, called Barack Obama a fancy christmas package you are all excited to get, but then you open it up and it turns out to be a 3 pack of underwear Then she went on a 5 minute monologue about "Is this it?" and "We had high hopes" and even "if this is the best he can do he is REALLY going to screw up for the next black president.. It was actually funny

Here's a great uplifting tune with a positive message from Christian pop group "Go Fish Guys". It's probably been posted before, but well worth a replay. Merry Christmas!

A rare opportunity for Star Trek fans to record "Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. This is my personal favorite Star Trek movie and, as far as I know, unavailable on DVD. I have looked. It is on right now, to be repeated at 11 pm, PDT on CH HDNMV, Ch 383 on The Dish Satellite TV service. Enjoy!

Billy Joel’s 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan today after allegedly ingesting a large number of sleeping pills in what police consider a suicide attempt, The Post has learned. Medics were called to Alexa Ray Joel’s apartment at 19 Bethune St. apartment in the West Village at approximately 12:21 p.m. this afternoon, sources told The Post. The 911 call came from a roommate who reported that Joel had taken too many sleeping pills, sources said. Joel was conscious at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and is expected to survive. Joel is the only daughter of piano man Billy...

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Ronnie Wood Held 'For Trying To Throttle' 21-Year-Old Girlfriend Ekaterina [Pics in URL] CHRISTIAN GYSIN 04th December 2009 Ronnie Wood has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his 20-year-old Russian lover. Witnesses claim they saw the 61-year-old Rolling Stone slap Ekaterina Ivanova and appear to throttle her while holding a cigarette. They say Wood dragged her along by her hair and coat and tried to take her handbag from her, while hurling foul language at her. Age gap: Ronnie Wood, pictured with his Russian girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova, was arrested and bailed on suspicion of assaulting her Former health centre manager...

Today was supposed to be the day that Rachel Uchitel and celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred came out to the press with an official statement. Actually, it was supposed to happen right now. Well, that's been canceled last minute. Hmm. There are speculations that Tiger Woods was in communicado with Uchitel as recently as last night, and sources say Tiger's representatives spoke with her for 30 minutes before coming to some sort of "agreement". Does that translate into dough? Gloria Allred is not known to cancel press conferences, so this deal may very well have been enormous.

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Any Freepers watch this premier last night? Anyone want to move to Jefferson County, LA?

Daniel Craig hinted in October that the cameras on Bond 23 would start rolling towards the end of next year, and now Dame Judi Dench who plays M. told MTV that she is expected to start filming in Spring 2011.

Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering and recording rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87. Keane, who survived non- Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosed when he was 80, died of renal failure Saturday in an assisted living home in Hollywood, said his son, Tom Keane. "He was like the original independent record man in those days," said Tom Keane, a songwriter and record producer. "He was the guy going out and finding talent and developing it and getting it out to the masses." A clarinet player...

Or so sources say, although this report does jibe conspicuously with the details of that blogospheric catnip Us Weekly tossed out last week. Remember that dream I had about debating social security with an Orion girl? This is better: “[Jolie thinks] President Obama is a great communicator but not interested in issues outside the United States,” says a Hollywood insider close to the Oscar-winning actress. “Angelina has worked very hard to get first-person accounts of what is going on in the world with her briefings from the UN, [while] Brad is a ‘Johnny Come Lately.’” Jolie even thinks Obama will...

Future country rocker. Watch video.

F&F had a violinist close out this mornings show. i thought he was great. They said he would play some more on the "After the Show Show" but he didn't. Did anyone catch his real name?

Washington, D.C. (December 1, 2009) -- DIRECTV is now running a series of clever TV commercials depicting a fictional cable TV company discussing ways to combat the satcaster's HDTV programming lineup. The commercials, which feature actors who often star in film spoofs by director Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show), smartly uses humor to portray the 'cable guys' as dimwits who don't understand how to provide more HD channels. (Note: Guest directed the commercials.) However, in DIRECTV's latest commercial, the satcaster seems to take the viewer himself for a dimwit, someone that it can bamboozle into thinking he...

"Christmas Time Is Here" http://www.links2love.com/christmas-time-charlie-brown-song.htm

Robin Williams went out on a limb defending Chicago's Olympic bid, and now Rio de Janeiro wants to sue him. Williams told David Letterman during an appearance on the Late Show that he wasn't surprised Rio won the bid instead of Chicago. "Chicago sent Oprah and Michelle Obama," Williams said. "Rio sent 50 Strippers and a pound of blow. It wasn't really fair, you know?" Williams' comments have been replayed several times on news shows across Brazil on Tuesday, while city mayor Eduardo Paes says Williams is envious of Rio's achievement.

December 1, 2009 Beauty Queen Solange Magnano 'Died For A Firmer Behind' Solange Magnano [Pic in URL] A former Miss Argentina has died after undergoing cosmetic surgery to get firmer buttocks. Solange Magnano, 38, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires, a normally routine procedure which involves placing implants in the buttocks to give them a firmer outline. The mother of eight-year-old twins, who won the beauty crown in 1994, died on Sunday after three days in a critical condition. Roberto Piazza, a close friend, claimed that the procedure also involved injections and the liquid...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. actor Alec Baldwin says he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure. "I don't have any interest in acting anymore," Baldwin, 51, told "Men's Journal" in an interview for its December issue. Baldwin, best-known for his Emmy-award winning role in the NBC comedy "30 Rock" and the man chosen to co-host the 2010 Oscar ceremony, added: "Movies are a part of my past. It's been 30 years. I'm not young, but I have time to do something else".

Alec Baldwin, the US actor, has said he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure. "I consider my entire movie career a complete failure," he told the magazine. "The goal of moviemaking is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that." Baldwin has expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do if he quit acting.

We ca never allow it to be only what it is. Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer in the history of the game. We can’t stop there. No, he’s also the world’s greatest human. And to suggest anything less means you’re the one with the problem. Hmmm, perhaps you even have a problem with the color of Tiger’s skin. Team Tiger, you may recall, dropped that hint, early. So if you know what’s good for you, stick with the story, especially you TV guys: Greatest golfer, greatest human. Got it? Now don’t forget it. But the world’s greatest golfer has...

Julie Andrews to return to London stage (AFP) – 4 days ago LONDON — Julie Andrews, the star of "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music", is returning to the London stage for the first time in 30 years with a one-off show in May, the organisers announced Wednesday. The 74-year-old Oscar winner and five other performers will wend their way through some of the greatest musical theatre songs of the last 50 years, many of which Andrews made famous. She will also narrate "Simeon's Gift", the best-selling children's book she wrote with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. Andrews' singing...

Twilight star Ashley Greene has confirmed what girls all around the world are secretly wondering - that vampire sex is better than regular sex! Greene, who plays vampire Alice Cullen in the Twilight Saga series, tells men's magazine Maxim: "Take the best sex you've ever had in your life, multiply it by 100 and that's vampire sex."

Jay Leno has done more than just bomb in his prime-time slot on NBC. He may have started a revolution there. It seems that not only are viewers tuning out Leno and other shows offered at 10 p.m. -- they are actually using the slot to catch up on shows they've recorded. DVR usage, which like live programming is measured by Nielsen Co., is up by 1.4 household ratings points in the 10 p.m. slot, while NBC has lost an average of 1.8 points compared to fall 2008. "The DVR phenomenon is a little bit higher than we thought," said...

Pamela Bach, David Hasselhoff's Ex-Wife, Charged With Drunk Driving November 29, 2009 Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife was charged with drunk driving Saturday night and faces a Christmas Eve court date, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday. Pamela Bach was stopped just after 8 p.m. on Laurel Canyon Boulevard just south of the 101 Freeway. She recorded breathalyzer tests of .14 and .13, a CHP spokesman said. The legal limit is .08. Bach appeared in 14 episodes of "Baywatch" as cafe owner Kaye Morgan, according to the website IMDB.com.

A massive row has broken out in New after former BBC host Paul Henry called Susan Boyle "retarded." Talking on his TV show this week Henry laughed as he described how the global superstar was "starved of oxygen" at birth and suffered an intellectual disability.

LONDON (AP) - In the contest, she finished second. But on the charts, she's number one. Susan Boyle's debut record, "I Dreamed A Dream," entered the British album chart in the top spot Sunday. The 48-year-old Scottish songstress famously finished second on "Britain's Got Talent," but the variety show launched a career that has seen her win success on both sides of the Atlantic. Millions of people have seen an online clip of Boyle auditioning for the judges. Wearing a somewhat dowdy frock and with a halo of untidy hair, Boyle told Simon Cowell that her dream was to be...

It was supposed to be "Woodstock West" — a free concert that would draw hundreds of thousands of fans, feature some of the biggest names in rock and solidify the still-blossoming Flower Power movement.The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was also envisioned as something that would emerge as the most famous music event in Bay Area history. It did just that, but for all the wrong reasons."It was just a big mess," says Rock Scully, the longtime manager of the Grateful Dead and one of the primary organizers of the festival. "But the ball was rolling and it couldn't be stopped."Some...

Isn't it an irony that PBS/KCET provides a number of Christmas Specials but their producers and supporters who ask for donations cannot bring themselves to wish its viewers a Merry Christmas? As part of the new Conservative Revolution from Tea- Parties to the Sarah Palin anti-RINOs movement, it's time to bring back the Christ into the Christ Mass . Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the PBS hat? No, siree, not a penny from me.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines by announcing he was becoming a woman, then returned to work as a man, has been found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported on Saturday.

Susan Boyle Climbs Past 625k, Approaches 675k, Lambert #2, Lady Gaga Two in Top 10 Steve Barnett's Columbia Records and Susan Boyle have a lot to be thankful for this weekend. And that goes for you two, Adam Lambert and Lady Gaga. Going into the weekend, Simon Cowell's gal Boyle is a runaway for #1 on next Tuesday's HITS Album Sales chart, with a total almost three times her closest competitor, 19/RCA/ RMG's Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream is on target for between 625-675k in sales, which would be the year's biggest debut, besting Eminem's 608k...

He needs our help and he is exceptional, it is Joe Dan Gorman of JoeDanMedia, which started up this past August.   Please visit JoeDanMedia and check out a couple of his videos, it ain't no joke. With ZERO budget, and a laptop in the basement, he passed 100,000 Unique Hits on YouTube in less thank 4 months, has a fan page on facebook  and he has done this by creating powerful masterpieces. This is RED MEAT stuff;  And he is under attack by nasty Liberals...so you know he's doing something right! I promise you will like him.  We need...

He needs our help and he is exceptional, it is Joe Dan Gorman of JoeDanMedia, which started up this past August.   Please visit JoeDanMedia and check out a couple of his videos, it ain't no joke. With ZERO budget, and a laptop in the basement, he passed 100,000 Unique Hits on YouTube in less thank 4 months, has a fan page on facebook  and he has done this by creating powerful masterpieces. This is RED MEAT stuff; I promise you will like him.  We need to get him noticed.  He's been doing this for free, but he's out of money....

I have been listening to and collecting Christmas music for over 30 years now. During this time, I have collected well over 3,000 songs. I consider practically every song in my collection to be of high quality and in the spirit of the Christmas season. My point is that there is a huge library out there of excellent Christmas music. My question is, why is so much of what we hear on the radio, at the shopping malls, and even in the movies, so horribly lame? Already there are many radio stations (including two on Sirius satellite radio) playing Christas...