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Death Watch '07: Fidel Castro Not Yet Dead
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Mon Jan 15th, 2007 at 06:30:41 PM PDT
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A man just can't retire gracefully, can he?
Hey, cigar aficionados! Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro is, according to an MSNBC bulletin I can't yet link to, in serious condition.
Yes, as if Dapper Danny's Faaaab-ulous Showtune Revue: Ger-SCHWING! wasn't enough, looks like there'll soon be even more dancing in Miami.
Update [2007-1-24 21:1:48 by Paul Shrug]: Nope. Not yet. According to close confidantes, Castro is recovering and, exact quote, almost jogging. Careful, ole Cubana boy, remember what got Jim Fixx! (Uh... namely, high cholesterol and possibly genetic disposition.)
Do we care? Nay! Castro is officially named the 2007 Satanosphere Death Watch "One to Watch!"
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Exclusive: Saddam Hussein Says Ta
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Sat Dec 30th, 2006 at 02:18:06 AM PDT
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Shortly before Saddam Hussein was executed Saturday morning, he was asked if he had any final words. He declined the opportunity, and aside from some sectarian shouting he made shortly before the noose was applied to his neck, he did not leave a final message for the world.
However, shortly before the execution, the UPS guy came by and gave us an Overnight Letter envelope that had been damaged in transit. He didn't ask us to sign for it. Inside was a rambling two-page letter, typed on a typewriter with a defective "s" key. The letter is addressed:
"Dear Satanosphere..."
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Death Watch '06: Saddam Hussein
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Fri Dec 29th, 2006 at 03:49:55 PM PDT
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That'll do it. Romance novelist Saddam Hussein has been executed.
So if you get e-mail about reinvesting in tech stocks from someone named "S. Hussein," it's like totally a scam, dude.
Exclusive content soon!
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Death Watch '06: Gerald Ford
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Tue Dec 26th, 2006 at 11:38:51 PM PDT
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I just can't cut a break, can I? Everybody wanna get in da club 'fore they close the door on '06, izzatit?
Former President Gerald Ford, the only president who was never elected to the Executive Branch by popular vote and who was played by Chevy Chase on TV, has been given an ecclesiastical pardon at age 93.
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Death Watch '06: Ahmet Ertegun
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Fri Dec 15th, 2006 at 09:07:17 AM PDT
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Ahmet Ertegun, who founded Atlantic Records, thereby introducing or helping introduce America to figures like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Drifters, AC/DC, Ruth Brown, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, the Spinners, Buffalo Springfield, Cream,
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Death Watch '06: Peter Boyle
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Wed Dec 13th, 2006 at 10:05:45 AM PDT
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Ah, dammit. Peter Boyle, the workhorse character actor who played the monster in Young Frankenstein and the patriarch figure on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond (which I never watched) is puhhh-in ah-na riiiii! at age 71.
My favorite role of his was that of the title character in Joe, where he played a homicidal angry young bigot. It was also Susan Sarandon's first film.
I saw Boyle filming something once in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.
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Death Watch '06: Robert Altman
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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 09:21:00 AM PDT
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Major, major, major bum-out on this one. Film director Robert Altman, whose big casts, overlapping dialogue and multiply intertwined plot threads made him one of the most distinctive and recognizable filmmakers in America, has died at 81. The cause is as yet unknown.
You should rent one or all of these later:
M*A*S*H
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Long Goodbye
Nashville
3 Women
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Tanner '88 (this was a TV show)
Vincent and Theo
The Player
Short Cuts
Gosford Park
Altman's last film was the well-received A Prairie Home Companion.
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