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HERE ARE A COUPLE OF PICS FROM THE KENNY CHESNEY / LEANN RIMES CONCERT FRIDAY NIGHT. WHAT A GREAT SHOW! YOU'D NEVER KNOW THAT KENNY INJURED HIS FOOT AT A CONCERT JUST A WEEK AGO. BACKSTAGE, HE TOLD US THAT HE WAS FEELING MUCH BETTER, AND ASKED IF WE'D SEEN FILM OF THE ACCIDENT ON YOUTUBE. WHEN WE SAID NO, HE SAID, "EVERYONE ELSE HAS!" AND HE SAID HIS FRIENDS HAD BEEN TEASING HIM ABOUT IT. WHAT DO YOU BET TIM MCGRAW WAS ONE OF THE STARS WHO WAS TEASING HIM? ;) HERE'S A PIC WITH CUTIE-PIE KENNY, AND ALSO WITH THE GLAMOROUS LEANN RIMES. BTW, WEREN'T KENNY AND LEANN FUN ONSTAGE TOGETHER? GREAT CHEMISTRY!
PLUS, HATS OFF TO OKLAHOMA'S OWN NICK GIBSON, WHO MADE US PROUD, ROCKING THE FORD CENTER AS KENNY AND LEANN'S OPENING ACT - AND LATER, ONSTAGE WITH KENNY! WHAT A NICE GUY NICK IS, SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY. HERE'S A PIC I TOOK WITH HIM THE NIGHT HE WON THE "NEXT BIG STAR" CONTEST, AND THAT OPENING ACT GIG!
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Today's Birthdays:
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Tina Yothers |
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1973 |
Actress (T-V's Family Ties)-singer (Jaded) (Age: 35) |
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Kurt Loder |
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1944 |
M-T-V newsman and music journalist (Age: 64) |
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Lance Henriksen |
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1943 |
Actor (Pumpkinhead, Aliens, The Terminator; T-V's Millennium) (Age: 65) |
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Michael Palin |
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1943 |
Actor (Monty Python) (Age: 65)
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Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) |
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1942 - |
The country music legend is best known for the song "Stand by Your Man." |
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Roni Stoneman |
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1937 |
Banjo player, singer, "Hee Haw" regular (Age: 71) |
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Ann B. Davis |
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1926 |
Actress (T-V's The Brady Bunch and The Bob Cummings Show) (Age: 82) |
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Karl Marx |
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1818 - |
By writing The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, the German political economist and philosopher created communism. |
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POP TRIVIA: Who was Alice's boyfriend on "The Brady Bunch"? (answer is posted below)
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This Day In History: |
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2005 |
German supermodel Heidi Klum is voted the "Hottest Mom in Show Business" in an Internet survey, beating out Angelina Jolie and Pamela Anderson. |
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2005 |
Reba McEntire receives one of the annual "Outstanding Mother" awards at the National Mother's Day Council's luncheon in New York City. |
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2004 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger sues Ohio Discount Merchandise, the makers of a Schwarzenegger bobblehead doll. |
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2004 |
Major League Baseball announces its plan to install webbed logos pushing Spider-Man Two on bases and on-deck circles at the 15 Major League ballparks hosting inter-league games during the weekend of June 11th. After an outcry, they back down. |
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2002 |
Brad Paisley, then-fiancee Kimberly Williams and Kelsi and Kassidy Osborn of SheDaisy are among the 105 people aboard an American Airlines flight from Nashville to Los Angeles that loses one of its two engines after blowing a tire during takeoff. The plane spends three hours burning off fuel for a possible emergency landing, but lands safely back in Nashville. |
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2000 |
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton marry in Las Vegas. The two Oscar-winners exchange vows in a short ceremony at the Little Church of the West. It's the fifth marriage for Thornton, 44, and the second for Jolie, 24. Needless to say, it doesn't last. |
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1999 |
Winners at the A-C-M Awards are Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, Steve Wariner, Mark Wills and Jo Dee Messina. |
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1998 |
Garth Brooks' six-C-D box set, The Limited Series, LeAnn Rimes' Sittin' on Top of the World album and Mark Wills' Wish You Were Here album are released. |
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1997 |
Gracie Katherine, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's first child, is born. |
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1997 |
Married with Children broadcasts its last episode. |
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1995 |
Mark Chesnutt tops Radio & Records' country chart with "Gonna Get a Life." |
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1995 |
The Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics in the last N-B-A game played at the Boston Garden. |
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1990 |
Actor Paul Hogan marries his Crocodile Dundee co-star, Linda Kozlowski. |
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1989 |
Ronnie Milsap's Greatest Hits, Volume Two album is certified platinum. |
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1986 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and Atlantic Records) chairman Ahmet Ertegun announces that Cleveland has been chosen as the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. |
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1979 |
John Conlee's "Backside of Thirty" goes to number-one on Billboard's country chart. |
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1978 |
Pete Rose gets his 3,000th hit. |
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1974 |
Marty Robbins comes in 15th at a NASCAR Winston 500 race in Talladega, Alabama. |
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1973 |
Secretariat wins the 99th Kentucky Derby. |
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1972 |
Warren Beatty announces that he has brought together 30 stars -- including Michelle Phillips, Mama Cass, Judy Collins, Goldie Hawn and Jack Nicholson -- to perform at a series of benefits for George McGovern's presidential campaign. |
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1961 |
Alan B. Shepard Junior becomes America's first man in space with a 15-minute flight. |
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1904 |
Denton "Cy" Young pitches baseball's first perfect game, leading the Boston Americans to a 3-0 win over the Philadelphia Athletics |
WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:
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A Wisconsin woman thought she found a new way to earn an honest buck -- but she found herself behind bars for accepting a dollar to shoot her eight-year-old daughter with a B-B gun. Angelique R. Vandeburg was charged with one felony count of intentional child abuse after pumping a pellet into her daughter's thigh in order to win a bet with her boyfriend. Vandeburg told her daughter to keep quiet about the incident, saying it was a "family thing" and that the mother would go to jail if the girl told. She's currently free on five-thousand-dollars bond.-- originally reported by the Sheboygan [WI] Press. |
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Don't be afraid to poot in public anymore. French doctor Frederic Saldmann says that passing gas can be a huge help in the fight against cancer. That's but one of the bad habits that the good doctor recommends to his patients -- he says that burping, passing gas, and sweating can all help prevent cancer of the esophagus and lower the risk of painful hiatal hernias.-- originally reported by Reuters. |
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A former Mister Gay U-K has been charged with murder and is being investigated for possible cannibalism after authorities found chopped up body parts on his kitchen counter. Anthony Morley was arrested last week when police found part of Damien Oldfield's right leg been carved up and the flesh diced and cooked in his home. According to a police report, it appeared that part of Oldfield's body had already been eaten.-- originally reported by The Telegraph [UK] |
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POP TRIVIA: Alice's boyfriend on "The Brady Bunch" was Sam, the Butcher.
