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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
What if the fat person asks his or her mate to stand in front of them in a picture? Isn't that the same thing?

ETA: I like Eeyore's suggestions. That is what a good photographer would suggest in that situation, where one is concerned about height differences (same as the above with the overweight person).

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
DH and I are basically the same height. I wore white flats at my wedding, and it also made for a more comfortable day since I was on my feet so much.
Not a Cruise fan anymore, but want to be fair. It's quite possible that it was Katie's instint/idea to crouch, OR the photographer asked for that pose. At our wedding the photographer, called the shots, litteraly! Chances are there are tons of pix where the height difference is evident. But they chose this pic, so THEY MUST feel its the most flattering. (shrug)

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I always try to pose a thinner, smaller person in front of Bigdog. It just looks better.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
It sure doesn't look to me like she is squatting, for heaven's sake! It looks more like he is standing on a higher level or has lifts on. I wear heels to look taller. I guess I'm a freak, too.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I don't like the Tom/Katie wedding picture. That glare in the background is really distracting. They look stiff.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Star Jones Reynolds Announces New Show
November 15, 2006

ET breaks the news that STAR JONES REYNOLDS will be executive producing and appearing on a new TV program.

"We are executive producing the first year ender on Black America," Star told us Wednesday night in Los Angeles. "We are doing a full look at the issues, the people, the conversations that were held in Black America, something that... has been a project that I've always wanted to do."

Star told us that her show will air on TV One, a cable/satellite network geared towards African American adults.

link

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 6:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh kool.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 10:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I saw that announced a couple of days ago on TV but can't for the life of me remember where... Seems she is bouncing back and landing on her feet, huh?

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 12:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I don't keep up with Hollywood too much so bouncing back from what, Seamonkey?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
From being let go from The View; losing her job.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
"O.J. Simpson book, TV special canceled By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
6 minutes ago



NEW YORK - After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It."

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

A dozen Fox affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned — like the Fox network — by News Corp.

In both the book and show, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Goldman.

Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans.

"He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron's future and life. And for that I'll hate him always and find him despicable," Fred Goldman told ABC last week.

The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying "Fox should cancel this evil sweeps stunt."

One of the nation's largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murder in a case that became its own TV drama. The former football star and announcer was later found liable for the deaths in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.

Judith Regan, publisher of "If I Did It," said she considered the book to be Simpson's confession.

The television special was to air on two of the final three nights of the November sweeps, when ratings are watched closely to set local advertising rates. It has been a particularly tough fall for Fox, which has seen none of its new shows catch on and is waiting for the January bows of "American Idol" and "24."

The closest precedent for such an about-face came when CBS yanked a miniseries about Ronald Reagan from its schedule in 2003 when complaints were raised about its accuracy. The Reagan series was seen on its sister premium-cable channel, Showtime, instead.

One station manager who had said he wasn't airing the special said he was concerned that whether or not Simpson was guilty, he'd still be profiting from murders.

"I have my own moral compass and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville.

For the publishing industry, the cancellation of "If I Did It" was an astonishing end to a story like no other. Numerous books have been withdrawn over the years because of possible plagiarism, most recently Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," but a book's removal simply for objectionable content is virtually unheard of.

Sales had been strong, but not sensational. "If I Did It" cracked the top 20 of Amazon.com last weekend, but by Monday afternoon, at the time its cancellation had been announced, the book had fallen to No. 51."


Snee
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06-26-2001

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Snee a private message Print Post    
michael richards--kramer from seinfeld--went on a racist rant when confronting some hecklers at the laugh factory on the weekend. yikes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UomfLKQr57U&NR

Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
Holy moley. They just reported about this on ET...I'm speechless.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Just a heads up: the Michael Richards story is also being discussed in the Black History thread.

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
thanks huk. i've been wanting to discuss this here at TVCH but couldn't find a thread. i didn't want to post about this at the gossip thread.

i'll go check out the BH thread.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, November 20, 2006 - 6:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
OMG, it was on the news here earlier and I wasn't paying attention and then I looked up where you could see more in the subtitles than you could hear due to bleeping and I almost fell over! I had no idea who he was and didn't care, but guess I wonder where THAT came from!

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 12:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I know I'm ignorant about Hollywood issues but I thought Starr Jones quit The View. I know I would have if I were her. She can do better anyway.

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 12:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Does anyone know if there is a clip of what happened before Richards' tirade started? I'm sure he didn't just walk out on stage and start screaming that awful stuff at someone so I'm wondering what started all of this.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 6:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Tom Dreesen is a comic from Chicago. Dreesen was in the room in when it happened. (He had been on stage before Richards.) Host on a big talk radio station in Chicago just had Dreesen on. He said it actually started with people in the room (a group of Blacks) just talking during Richards' act. Richards told them to shut up. Then it turned into heckling and grew and went on from there. As Dreesen said, Richards is an actor, not really a stand-up comic. He hasn't "paid his dues" in stand-up for years and doesn't know how to handle heckling and the like. Dreesen said Richards is used to coming on stage (during Seinfeld filming before a live audience) and being applauded, etc., etc. Totally the opposite in comedy club. He didn't know how to handle it. His career (whatever it was) is over.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I tell you, though, people who can't sit quietly and enjoy a performance, or leave if they don't like it, and hecklers, get my knickers in a bunch.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
OG, I'm with you on that. But since Richards' reaction was way over the line, the hecklers (who did say they didn't like the show but must have been superglued to their seats and couldn't leave) apparently no longer have any fault in this.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Why would the hecklers have any fault in this?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I have to agree there, very annoying to have people talk over a performance you have paid for.. but performers have to deal.

When Joan Baez (and I) was/were young she would refuse to sing unless it was dead quiet.

I saw her many years later and she joked about that and said she had lightened up, getting huge applause from her adoring audience. Musicians at least have huge sound systems they can crank up (well Joanie was acoustic back in the sixties).

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
I am by no means suggesting the hecklers deserved the response they received but they did rudely start the chain of events.

Holly
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06-19-2005

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
<Why would the hecklers have any fault in this?>

Because heckling is rude and designed to start trouble?