It seems Katie Holmes will get to do her best Jackie O impersonation for the masses Stateside after all. The Kennedys — the shelved political miniseries slighted by The History Channel last month — has found new life on The ReelzChannel, the network revealed this week. The production stars Greg Kinnear as President John F. [...]
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JFK Presidential Library Launches New Cloud-Based Archive
January 13th, 2011 |
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The archive contains 40TB of material–some 200,000 document pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 reels of film and 1,500 photos. – A half-century has gone by since President John F. Kennedy declared his famous call to action on that frigid Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1961: quot;Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. quot;
Next week, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library amp; Museu…
Showtime Doesn’t Want “The Kennedys†Either
January 13th, 2011 |
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Showtime says it will not air The Kennedys, a controversial miniseries about the American political dynasty starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as President John F. and First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Just days after The History Channel cancelled plans to broadcast the controversial miniseries, Showtime has also passed on the show. The History Channel was [...]
Dec. 7, 1963: Video Instant Replay Comes to TV
December 7th, 2010 |
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1963: The college football game between Army and Navy marks the first use of video instant replay during a sports telecast. Many fans find it confusing.
The annual matchup between these two military service academies always garners plenty of national attention, but the ‘63 game carried added significance after the Nov. 22 assassination of President John [...]
Erykah Badu Sentenced To Six Months Probation, $500 Fine For Nude VIDEO Shoot
August 17th, 2010 |
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Grammy Award-winning neo-soul songstress Erykah Badu has been sentenced to six-months probation and fined $500 after she was found guilty of running naked through the streets of historic Downtown Dallas during a shoot for her music video “Window Seat” last March.The mother of four sparked outrage when she walked naked through the Dealey Plaza March [...]
Rachel Weisz anxious about playing Jackie Kennedy
May 20th, 2010 |
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Actress Rachel Weisz is already feeling the huge responsibility of playing Jacqueline Kennedy in husband Darren Aronofsky’’s new film – because she’’s a Brit portraying an American icon.
The Mummy star will be play the role of Jackie and the film will portray Jackie’s life and how she coped with her husband President John F. Kennedy’s [...]
Katie Holmes Jackie Kennedy “The Kennedys†History Channel Mini-Series
April 28th, 2010 |
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In a major career coup for Mrs. Tom Cruise, stylish former Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes has been tipped to play the ultimate fashion icon – iconic former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy — in the History Channel’s first original miniseries The Kennedys, the network announced on Wednesday.The eight-hour series — while will star Greg [...]
Erykah Badu Cited For Disorderly Conduct Over “Window Seat†Nude Scene
April 4th, 2010 |
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Programming Note: Happy Easter/Passover, My Lovely PopCrunch Fam! I apologize for the lack of updates over the past few days. I’m still struggling through this nasty flu/sinus infection, so please bare with me. Hopefully I’ll be feeling back to normal one day soon. Now that that’s out of the way, on to the celebrity foolery!
The [...]
Erykah Badu Went Too Far with her Video
April 4th, 2010 |
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According to Erykah Badu, a lot of people talk about her latest music video, in which she strips off her clothes as well as allusions concerning the murder of President John F. Kennedy, has been rudely misinterpreted.
Erykah Badu is a singer and she is from Dallas. As a matter of factб she is [...]
Texas Mother Filing Criminal Complaint Over Erykah Badu’s Nude Video Shoot
March 31st, 2010 |
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Ida Espinosa is upset that her 9-year-old daughter was in downtown Dallas, Texas on March 17, the same day neo-soul queen Erykah Badu filmed a video that included the removal of clothing in public as well as a mock shooting scene.
Badu has come under fire for stripping in her latest music video ‘Window Seat,” which [...]
Matt Damon to play U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
February 25th, 2010 |
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Actor Matt Damon is in talks to star in a new biopic about late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Damon, 39, is considering the role in the untitled project with Seabiscuit director Gary Ross, reports the Daily Star.
The website reports the movie will be based on Evan Thomas’ biography of Kennedy, [...]
JFK Photo Features Then-Senator On Boat With Naked Women
December 28th, 2009 |
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UPDATE: A representative for Playboy is calling foul on TMZ’s JFK photo exclusive. According to Playboy bosses, the iconic men’s mag first ran the image as part of a photo spread in Nov. 1967, four years after JFK was assasinated.
The bunny-logoed pop culture staple tells TMZ.com, which posted the photo on Monday morning, that [...]
Sheldon Filger: Obama Versus JFK on Corporate Greed: A Telling Comparison
July 27th, 2009 |
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In the past six months, President Obama has revealed his towering intellect, basic decency and sophisticated world view. However, we have yet to observe the toughness and passion required to take on the forces that drove the U.S. and global economy into a ditch.
July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport
July 24th, 2009 |
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1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket.
Cape Canaveral, a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern shore when, in 1948, an Air Force committee recommended its procurement for a missile testing range.
Actually, [...]
Bill Chameides: Is NASA Spacing Out?
July 20th, 2009 |
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the first lunar walk, and, not counting the late Michael Jackson, it’s been almost that long since the last…
Andy Ostroy: The Passing of Walter Cronkite
July 20th, 2009 |
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The year was 1983. I was a boy from Queens, NY, in the final leg of earning a Journalism degree. Like so many other…