Cristiano Ronaldo Hooks up with Kim Kardashian
In breaking celebrity gossip news, several sources are reporting that Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was seen smooching with reality TV star Kim Kardashian. This is not the first time Ronaldo has been spotted hooking up with an American reality TV star, as last summer he made his rounds with Paris Hilton while rehabbing from ankle surgery in Los Angeles.
Media outlets report that on Monday, Kim had a romantic lunch with Ronaldo at eatery La Dorado in Madrid. An onlooker at the restaurant observed the pair "kissing" and being "very affectionate. The image here shows each leaving La Dorado separately, but the pair then traveled in separate cars back to Ronaldo's mansion, where the Kim stayed for several hours.
One of Kim's pals explained that Kim and Ronaldo recently met in Los Angeles and when the he heard that she was in his home city they decided to meet up.
Interestingly enough, just yesterday news also broke that Ronaldo is taking legal action against Spanish TV show 'Salva-me' who made public claims that Ronaldo had thrown wild parties that lasted until the wee hours of the morning, both before and after his teams Saturday loss to Barcelona. Ronaldo "categorically" denied the claims saying:
"It has come to my attention that in the programme 'Salva-Me' on Spanish television channel Telecinco, there were references made to alleged parties held at my house, one on Friday, the eve of the game against Barcelona, which reportedly lasted until five in the morning, and one on Saturday night itself, interspersed with several comments which were intolerably depreciating to my dignity and my professionalism...With a game the next day, it is more than obvious that I spent Friday night resting and, on Saturday night, my spirit was anything but festive...Considering the gravity of the charges, I have instructed my lawyers to, without any reflection, use all legal means to restore the truth of the matter and ensure that those responsible are punished to the fullest extent legally provided."
Sad news today as Chief Gates passed away. He was diagnosed with cancer several months ago. The last I saw Gates was in 1996 while I was on patrol in the Montecito Heights area. Chief Gates was jogging up a hill. My partner and I stopped to talk with him. At that time he was 69 years old and had been retired for four years. As we drove off the last words I heard Chief Gates say was you kids will always be my family."
Gates was running up a steep hill, and he wasn't even out of breath. I still have my glass mug from his 06-23-92 family reunion. Gates is a hero and a patriot.
The lying biased media hated Chief Gates, which only means Gates was effective. Gates later became a State Licensed Private Investigator, a talk show host and consultant.
Below is from the LAPD blog and a video of him from my own archives. I plan to attend his funeral.
Los Angeles: Daryl F. Gates died today at 83 years of age after a short battle with cancer. The 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department passed away at his Newport Beach home with his loved ones at his bedside.LAPD Chief of Police Charlie Beck eulogized, Daryl Francis Gates was a one-in-a-million human being. He inspired others to succeed and, in doing so, changed the landscape of law enforcement around the world.
Born August 30, 1926, Gates grew up in Glendale and the Highland Park Area of Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Navy. Except for his two-year tour in the Navy, Gates was a lifelong resident of Southern California. He attended and later earned degrees from the University of Southern California. Gates Joined the Los Angeles Police Department on Sept. 16, 1949 and rose through the ranks to become the 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Gates served as the Chief from March 1978 until his retirement in 1992. Chief Gates accomplished great things in both good and difficult economic times. And the successes of several major programs and events in the City of Los Angeles and around the world, especially the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Games, have their roots in the leadership achievements of Daryl Gates. Chief Gates is survived by his long-time companion, his brother Retired LAPD Captain Steven Gates and his two children. A media advisory will be issued when details about a memorial service are finalized.
Biography Kristen Wiig
Carroll Christian Wiig was born August 22, 1973, is an American comic actress who currently appears as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
He is a member of the Groundlings, and also appeared in the first season of Spike TV Show The Joe the fool.
Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York. At the age of three years he and his family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then to Rochester, New York, where she lived until she graduated from Brighton High School in 1991. He continued to study at the University of Arizona with a major in art. He was employed as a graphic artist by a plastic surgery clinic to show clients what they would look like after surgery, but went to Los Angeles before ever starting the job to pursue an acting career. In Los Angeles he joined The Groundlings, working odd jobs.
He was married to actor / comedian Hayes Hargrove.
Wiig work is mainly in the comedy circuit, including as a regular player at The Perks, the show featured on Comedy Empty Stage Theater that runs ended in 2000. In 2003 she starred in the Spike TV show spoof fools Joe Show, a satire of reality television in which he plays Dr. Pat, the Quack Marriage Counselor.
Wiig debuted on Saturday Night Live season immediately into 31 companies, on November 12, 2005. In Wiigs first sketch, he played the wife of Jason Sudeikis; two accidentally took a killer escape (Jason Lee), unwittingly giving full powers to the killer into their home and violate their blind niece. Wiig SNL escaped the budget cuts, became a full member of the repertory players at the beginning of the season in 32 events in 2006. Wiig characters including Penelope, one-on; Gilly, very naughty school children, Sue, who can not control the excitement over the surprise; The Lady Target, an employee at the chain stores and collectors of kitsch; and Judy Grimes, the nervous travel agents often appear in Weekend Update. He also has played a real life person like Suze Orman, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
According to New York magazine, Wiig appeared in more sketches on Saturday Night Live Season 34 than members of other players, appearing in 124 sketches, and viewing an average 5.8 per episode. He is also the only female cast member on SNL during the regular season, 34, following the departure of Amy Poehler to work in the NBC sitcom, Parks and Recreation.
Wiig big screen debut in Judd Apatow, s 2007 comedy Knocked Up as Katherine Heigl, s passive-aggressive bosses. He also played opposite John C. Reilly in the Jake Kasdan, Walk Hard s, another film Apatow-produced, and the opposite Ricky Gervais in the David Koepp, Ghost Town s. Wiig also appeared opposite Ryan Reynolds in Greg Mottola, s Adventureland, Mike Judge, s Extract, co-starring Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr., and Mila Kunis, and in Whip It!, Drew Barrymore, s directorial debut with Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden and Juliette Lewis.
He co-wrote a script with colleague Annie Groundlings Mumolo for Universal Pictures. Judd Apatow will produce the film. Upcoming work includes Greg Mottola, s Paul, co-starring Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, and Bill Hader,, MacGruber, opposite Will Forte SNL castmate AU, and the first purely dramatic role opposite Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella in Andrew Jarecki, s All Things Good. Wiig also has signed on recently appeared on SNL castmate Casey Wilson, s upcoming 2011 comedy Ass Backwards.
In December 2008, Wiig was featured in Entertainment Weeklys list of 15 Performing Great for imitating him in Saturday Night Live, and in April 2009, Wiig is featured in EWs list of the 25 Funniest Women in Hollywood.
On July 16, 2009, Wiig was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for his work on Saturday Night Live.
On December 17, 2009, Wiig called on special holidays SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas featuring new sketches with Gilly and highlights from old clips.
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By Anne Saker, The Oregonian
April 15, 2010, 6:18PM
View full sizeAndy Kuno/The Associated PressJack Herer (left) with Dennis Peron (right), founder of the Cannabis Buyers Club, in San Francisco in 1996.Writer and activist Jack Herer, whose 1985 book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" ignited the modern marijuana legalization movement, died Thursday from complications from a September heart attack that felled him moments after speaking at a Portland rally. He was 70.
Herer had been recuperating since March in Eugene. His wife, Jeannie, was at his side at the house the couple had rented when he died.
"I never accepted that he was really going to go," Jeannie Herer said. "I'm sad that it happened, but I'm glad that it happened in Eugene. Everyone has been wonderful to us here."
Fellow activists expressed sorrow at losing the man who racked up hundreds of thousands of miles crossing the country for nearly 40 years campaigning to restore the hemp plant to American agriculture.
"He was one of my personal heroes," said Madeline Martinez of Portland, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Herer died just as the movement is gaining momentum. Oregon and 13 other states plus the District of Columbia now permit medical marijuana. Last fall, the Obama administration said it will not prosecute for possession in medical marijuana states. In November, California residents will vote on a legalization initiative; activists in Oregon and Washington are gathering signatures now for similar initiatives.
That political advance grew from Jack Herer's crusade.
He was living in Portland in the early 1980s when he wrote "Emperor," now in its 11th printing.
The book says the government banned hemp in 1939 as part of a campaign to eliminate the scourge that went by the Mexican slang marijuana. But few people, Herer wrote, realized that marijuana was the dried flower of the female hemp plant, which humans had used as medicine for thousands of years.
The rest of the hemp plant, Herer argued, could do nothing less than save the world. For millennia, he said, people made fiber, clothing, rope, fuel, high-protein food from the fast-growing, easily cultivated plant, and they could again.
And Herer loudly proclaimed the right to get high, arguing that in fact, people ought to get high, morning, noon and night. He found medical research showing that marijuana can protect the body against cancer.
Born in New York City, Herer grew up in Buffalo, N.Y, the youngest of three children. He dropped out of high school and joined the Army, serving in Korea. After his hitch, he picked up work as a sign painter.
In the early 1960s, he moved his wife and family to Los Angeles. A short time later, he divorced but stayed close with his children. He married and divorced twice more before marrying Jeannie Hawkins in 2000.
Herer came to marijuana relatively late in life, smoking his first joint at 30. He chucked the sign business and opened a head shop on Venice Beach, then made a lifelong friend in "Capt." Ed Adair, another head shop owner and a longtime marijuana advocate in Los Angeles.
In 1973, the men pledged to campaign until marijuana was legal, everyone imprisoned for possession was freed or they turned 84. Adair died in 1991 and Herer fought on.
Herer was arrested in 1981 for trespassing on federal property while collecting signatures for a California ballot initiative. He served 14 days in prison and started writing, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes."
After his release, Herer moved to Portland to open a head shop called The Third Eye, now a fixture on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. He completed the book in Portland, got it printed on hemp paper and began his years-long travels across the country.
In 2000, at a hemp festival near Eugene, Herer suffered a stroke and endured a long, agonizing recovery. He had improved in recent years and resumed his speaking schedule. He attributed his better health to daily use of a highly concentrated marijuana oil.
He resumed his heavy travel schedule, which included a Sept. 12 speech at Portland's Hempstalk at Kelley Point Park. He delivered a tub-thumbing speech, walked offstage and fell over from a heart attack.
He survived and eventually his wife rented a house in Eugene, where she cared for him until his death.
Herer is survived by his wife, six children, a brother and a sister. Funeral arrangements are not completed.
-- Anne Saker
on Bloomberg News at 10 a. growing up in the 909 I would tune into his radio show The Art Laboe Sunday Special which actually was.
Sundays were meant for Art Laboe. with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business News and at 7 p. he talks census with Art Laboe on 92.
Art Laboe accepted his Lifetime Achievement honor at the LARadio. I have a cd called Art LaBoes Dedicated to You vol.
I heaerd it mostly in the western US on Sundays any ideas Thank you for your help His name is Art LaBoe. He has some of the slower jams Ever. budget moves at 9 a.
The older and maybe even younger people in the local area may be familiar with Art Laboe and his Oldies But Goodies record series now moving over to CDs. BloodStone with Natural High Alone Blows Mind. these songs written all stand on their. com awards luncheon last week at Vitellos in Studio City.
Requesting Art Laboe Killer Oldies Discography. I hope this helps you.
Art Laboes Dedicated to You Vol. with Ali Velshi on CNN at 1050 with Larry Mantle on KPCC AirTalk at 330 p. Spinning oldies but goodies and taking dedications everyone knew who he was from politicians to vato locos and in between. Hes now an icon across. Art Laboe is STILL on the radio now many years later still playing those oldies.
Really nice Column One by Esmeralda Bermudez on Art Laboe the disc jockey who has been sending out dedications to LA lowriders for 50plus years.
Casting a large shadow over the entire Eastside sound was one man Art Laboe. As far as DJs between Laboe and. This man the one who trademarked Oldies But Goodies is a major part of my musical foundation. James Brown is trying Me.
Los Angeles based disc jockey and businesman Art Laboe is being bestowed with the 2010 LA Radio Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday January 30 2009 at a very intimate affair that will include a onehour interview by Don Barrett. Quality is the romantic music RNB Timeless.
Art Laboe (born Art Egnoianc.1925) is an American pioneering disc jockey, songwriter, record producer, and radio station owner who is generally credited with coining the term Oldies But Goodies..
Through his Original Sound Records company, Laboe put together the first-ever record album to feature hit songs by various artists from more than one label. Titled Oldies But Goodies, the album stayed on Billboard magazines Top 100 LPs chart for over three years.
For decades, Laboe was at the heart of the West Coast music scene, and worked on such pioneering stations as KPOP, where he broadcast a live show from Scrivners Drive-In in Los Angeles, and KRLA in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, all the way through to the present. The city of Los Angeles declared July 17, 1981 to be Art Laboe Day when he received a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Art Laboe memorabilia can be seen at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museums interactive Rock and Radio exhibit in
