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It took four trips and 117 days to play "Survivor," but "Boston Rob" finally outplayed, outwitted and outlasted everyone. And in the show that aired on Sunday night, he was crowned winner of "Survivor:. Redemption Island
Rob Mariano received his check for $ 1 million on "The Early Show" on Monday.
He won an additional $ 100,000 for his voted the fan favorite.
But Mariano is no stranger to "Survivor" winnings. His wife, Amber Brkich Mariano, won the show $ 1,000,000 in 2004.
"Boston Rob" finally wins Survivor, the fourth try
Photos: "Survivor: Redemption Island
So with all those prices, it's no surprise that Mariano arrived at "The Early Show" with a smile.
But he had his doubts when he game in Nicaragua.
"That last tribal council I had a good feeling, but with everything in" Survivor ", do...
Monday, 16 May 2011
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Etta James Hospitalized with Blood Infection
Etta James is an American blues, soul, R & B, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter.
Jazz vocalist Etta James in hospital with a blood infection.
The three-time Grammy winning singer of "At Last"was recorded in a hospital in Riverside, California earlier this week with a urinary tract infection and sepsis, her son, James Sametto, told Reuters.
Check out the pictures of Etta James
"It was a very bad infection," said James. "Right now she is doing a lot better."
James, 73, has struggled with obesity and underwent gastric bypass surgery in 20...
Ashton Kutcher is much different 'Man' for the job
Ashton Kutcher is gnarly.
That simple fact makes the news that Charlie Sheen's place he will take on the "Two and a Half Men" very intriguing. It also helps establish the extent to which Kutcher creates a high contrast image-wise to Sheen. And how, presumably, he will be a new spin on the hit CBS sitcom was released from Sheen.
Bottom line: What does gnarly, Kutcher is not - that Sheen's lexicon, it represents much of what he claims to be famous and celebrated.
On Friday, CBS and Warner Bros. Television announced that Kutcher will top-rated TV comedy join next season.
This switcheroo will be nothing but deep.
For starters, Kutcher has a baby-faced 33 years old, while Sheen is a sharp-featured, party hard 45.
The character that Sheen played eight seasons on "Men" - a fast life, womanizing CAD...
Anna Kournikova puts her mansion on the market; For $9 million, it can be yours
Former tennis hottie Anna Kournikova is not often great headlines for her skills on the court. This is yet another one of those cases.
The Russian beauty, who looks good invented a kind of tennis skills they had, its 6600 square meter Miami home on the market. The water estate is fully equipped with a heated pool and two-story house, but Bleacher Report points out, no tennis court. Surprise, surprise.
The house is beautiful, over the top and is surrounded by greenery. To see detailed pictures of the "house" (if we can call it that) in all its glo...
Kym Johnson doing ok after 'Dancing with the Stars' practice fall
Kym Johnson on "OK" after a crash Friday during practice for "Dancing with the Stars" in Los Angeles, her publicist said.
E! News said professional dancer was transported to a hospital by ambulance after she took a tumble, while working with her partner, Hines Ward.
It was unclear what exactly went wrong or what part of her body that she hurt.
"She's doing OK," said her representative E! News. "Better safe than sorr...
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
The New Girl': Zooey Deschanel's TV Pilot Gets Fox Pickup
Long the poster girl for the artsy indie crowd, her light touch voice fluttering through both records and beloved independent films, Zooey Deschanel is making the big move to mainstream, network TV.
Deschanel's sitcom pilot, "The New Girl," was picked up for next season by FOX on Tuesday night, meaning the actress will get her crack at charming a national audience. According to Deadline, in the show, Deschanel plays, "an unlucky-in-love elementary school teacher who moves away from her former boyfriend and in with three unruly guys."
In other words, fulfilling the unlikely fantasies of a lot of potential male 18-34 viewers.
Deschanel made her excitement about the pickup known all over the internet, tweeting last night "I am thrilled that our show got picked up & so excited to work with...
Hesher': Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks Natalie Portman
There is an awkward tension in the air between the titular nihilist Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Hesher and oppressed beat Natalie Portman's clerk Nicole, but the set of their new indie dramedy "Hesher," it's all kind words and good feelings between the two.
Ready for this weekend, Gordon-Levitt stars Portman and release in the history of anarchist and a checkout clerk who become best friends of a 13-year-old boy grieving for his mother. Portman, in her new course of work behind the scenes, helped the film, one of many reasons why Gordon-Levitt sings her praises in this new interview with PopSugar produce.
"Natalie's just someone I've admired since I saw 'The Professional'," he admitted. "She is such a great actor, and yes, they produced 'Hesher," it is the first film's production company has...
Donny and Marie Invited to See Book of Mormon
Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, the incredibly talented two lead actors of the monster Broadway hit, "The Book of Mormon," tell me Donny and Marie Osmond have an "open invitation " to come and see the show whenever they want.
Chat with both Tony Award-nominated actor backstage LXTV, it was obvious that they could not be prouder to be part of the show. That said, nor have to hold their breath about getting Donny and Marie, proud members of the LDS Church, to come out and the controversial and hilarious sh...
Osama Bin Laden and the Terror of Narcissism
Osama Bin Laden was angry. Osama Bin Laden was feared. He was also, it seems, a sort of pathetic. Among the items U.S. troops pulled out of the compound of the terrorist leader last week, videos of Bin Laden in a blanket, watching himself on television. If true reports, the warlord is seen as "a vain pathetic old man." When I put this in the New York Times read, I immediately thought of the 1990 song "Mr. Jones" by the band Counting Crows: "When I watch TV, I want to see me staring back at me."
And what did the old fox was seen not only himself, but a younger version. U.S. forces confirm that bin Laden was his beard die, to manage his image to appear more vibrant to his supporters around the world.
Should not we be really surprised. The nature of evil, ultimately, is narcissism. And the end...
Reports Of Mortgage Fraud Rose To Record Level Last Year
Nevada has cleaned up its act when it comes to cases of mortgage fraud, according to a new report.
For the third consecutive year Nevada has stayed in the top 10 states in cases of mortgage fraud and deception. The report of the LexisNexis Mortgage Asset Research Institute just one top 10 list releases, but Nevada exclusion is an indication that mortgage fraud has declined in the state and is even lower than it should be based on the volume of loans, said Jennifer Butts, the institute's manager of data processing and co-author of the report.
Butts said that usually a reflection that state regulators, institutions and others have a good job of monitoring and preventing fraud to do.
"It seems that the supervisors and others do their jobs and attention," said Butts.
Despite the improvement over...
Oil futures fall As Traders Await US supply Data
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) - Crude oil futures fell Wednesday, pulling back from gains seen in the previous session as traders await the release of a U.S. government report expected an increase in crude supplies to show. June crude / quotes/comstock/21n f: cl \ m11 CLM11 -2.09%, a decrease of $ 1.70, or 1.6%, to $ 102.18 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Energy Information Administration's weekly supply report will be at 10:30 Eastern. Analysts polled by Platts expect the EIA to an increase of 1.6 million barrels of crude oil inventories to sh...
Is Africa inspired Bob Marley film?
Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning director, said he was inspired to his documentary about reggae star Bob Marley while filming in Africa.
The film, named Marley, is the story of the biggest reggae star, who died 30 years ago at the height of his fame.
Kevin told Screen Magazine: "When I was working on The Last King of Scotland in Uganda, I remember looking in the slums of Kampala and seeing flags with his face and hearing reggae pumping out. Everywhere you go in the world Marley speaks to people. "
The film, which will be reviewed at the Cannes Film Festival, the director sees a trip to Jamaica, India and the U.S. to discover the story behind the star and contains an interview with reggae veteran Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Kevin won an Oscar in 2000 for his documentary One Day In September, the...
Tsa Baby Pat down Photographer
A baby allegedly receiving a pat-down by airport security has ignited debate over whether screening procedures have gone too far.
The photo tweeted by Rev. Jacob Jester was taken at the Kansas City International Airport Saturday after he cleared security.
The photo shows a baby - only a few months old - is held by a woman and searched by two Transportation Security Administration agents. The family in question has not been identified.
"Just saw # tsa agents in a small petting baby @ KCIAirport pretty sure that's extreme," Jester tweeted.
The baby's stroller off an alarm during a screening for explosives, the TSA said.
Although the Kansas City Airport makes use of screening agents of Primary Transportation Security, a company used by the TSA, they still meet TSA guidelines.
The TSA the following...
Royal Honeymoon Reportedly Begins In Seychelles
So waiting for a royal honeymoon was not long after all.Prince William and his wife, the former Catherine Middleton, has left for a honeymoon at a secret location, palace officials said yesterday declined to elaborate on where or how long. They have also requested that the young couple's privacy be respected at this time.
British media coverage had been sprayed in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. William has two weeks leave from his job as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, but palace officials would not say whether the couple will be gone the whole two weeks.
After the media blitz surrounding their April 29 wedding at Westminster Abbey, the couple made it clear that they want to be left alone by photographers. Still, their decision to delay a honeymoon surprise many....
Euphemism Watch: Callista And Newt Gingrich ‘Had A Nontraditional Start
Callista Gingrich, who is "perhaps best remembered for the affair six years that have contributed to the political demise of her husband," is now expected to play an important role in the presidential campaign of her husband, the New York Times.
It is "a remarkable story of Washington reinvention" in which the Georgia congressman off "counts on the third Mrs. Gingrich for his political salvation."
"Gingrich is presenting itself as a family man who has found God and embraced Catholicism, and his wife as a kind of character witnesses. Depending on your point of view, it is a reminder of his complicated past, or his secret political weapon."...
Jermaine Dupri Sued Over Child Support Payments
An Atlanta-area woman complains music producer Jermaine Dupri on missed child support payments after a magistrate ordered him to pay her.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Margaret Dorsey said the Grammy-winning producer in March to $ 2,500 per month and an additional $ 7.500 payable at Sarai Jones, based on the results of a paternity test.
Jones' attorney, Randy Kessler, said Jones hopes that she and Dupri "can work together to co-parent their beautiful baby girl," who is 7 months old.
Dupri's lawyer, James Kane, declined comment.
The lawsuit was filed at a time when Dupri's financial problems. His house was in foreclosure and set to be auctioned last week, but the sale was canceled at the last minute.
WSB-TV obtained records from the Georgia Department of Revenue, said that Dupri owes the...
Heart Attack Grill Trademark Lawsuit
An Arizona restaurant trademark suit against the 2nd Ave Deli's "Instant Heart Attack Sandwich" is full of baloney, according to a federal lawsuit Tuesday.
The Heart Attack Grill, which "proudly serves unhealthy and excessive calorie dishes like burgers, fries cooked in lard," claims in a letter that the famous New York Deli won his idea for the sandwich and a planned "Triple Bypass Sandwich."
The 2nd Ave Deli, fought back with a lawsuit asking a federal judge to declare that no copyright infringement.
The New York Deli says it's her version of the sandwich-home sales - of two large potato pancakes (latkes) served with a choice of corned beef, pastrami, turkey, or salami piled high - since 2004, while the Arizona eatery is only Open since 2005.
The Phoenix-based grill, which actually sells...
Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr Dropped as Gossip Girl regulars
Looks like Taylor Momsen will be much more time to concentrate on her musical career. The actress / singer will not return to "Gossip Girl" next season. And when they look for someone else to the Pretty Reckless included is Jessica Szohr also looking for work. She will not return to The CW drama's fifth season.
TV Line reports that the ladies are no longer series regulars, but have been invited as guest stars (that sounds pretty vague to us). So who made the cut? Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford will all be back for more drama. And, it seems that Taylor's loss is Kaylee and Jessica's delay to get. She was promoted to a series regular.
If Hollywood Crush Taylor said one month ago, she alluded to the fact that they are not even sure if she would make...
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Indonesia:plane crashes off Papua
There were no survivors of the crash of an Indonesian passenger plane into the sea with up to 27 people aboard, a navy officer said.
The plane went to sea in bad weather shortly before the runway serving the small port of Kaimana, in the eastern province of West Papua.
Fifteen bodies have been recovered by rescuers searching for survivors.
The Indonesian archipelago is heavily dependent on air transport and has one of the worst air safety records in Asia.
"I can confirm that all passengers were slain when the plane exploded as it crashed into the sea," the unnamed naval officer, who participated in the search and rescue operation, told ElShinta radio.
"The aircraft was beaten to pieces ... We have found 15 bodies floating on the water and the other passengers are trapped in the wreck."
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Contador focuses on giro d italia,directs pressure on Nibali
Italy (UN) - Alberto Contador says he does not let his ongoing Clenbuterol case to distract his attention come in the Giro d'Italia and defended his right to stand in line for the start of the season Saturday the first grand tour.
Riders from a number of teams left out of the Giro d'Italia because of unanswered questions about possible links to doping, including BMC's Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Satambrogio and riders from Lampre, but Contador said his case is different.
"I do not know the situation with the other riders, but my situation is different," Contador said at a news conference Friday. "I know what is going on in my case. I've been cleared and I am hopeful for a favorable outcome. You can not make comparisons between that case and mine."
Contador is back on the Giro for the first...
Nicki Minaj Drops 'Super Bass' Video
Young Money diva Nicki Minaj is still high drive off the success of her debut album Pink Friday and with her fifth official single "Super Bass", the curvy beauty reveals her more sensitive side when she playfully chases in a handsome potential suitor by of her feminine wiles. The video, like Minaj itself, nothing but color. From riding on the back of a motorcycle made of ice, Nicki Minaj lookalike backup dancers and a neon-lit strip tease dance sequence, it is an amazing visual matter if nothing else.
Excited fans and the necessary adversaries weighed on the video, offering mixed opinions across the web and especially on Twitter. Even with Nicki shows a girly and whimsical side of himself, seemed an even distribution of the approval of the clip. "It was a cute video. Simple and girly, tweeting...
Cabela's First Oregon Store
Cabela's officially opens the doors of its Springfield, Ore., store - the first in Oregon - on Thursday, May 5
Do not expect a ribbon cutting: instead, Cameron Hanes, host of Outdoor Channel "Every Chronicles", who instead of cutting the ribbon, it will shoot with bow and arrow.
The grand opening ceremony is scheduled for 4 hours in Gateway Mall and will be comments from Springfield Mayor Christine Lundberg and Cabela's Chief Executive Officer Tommy Millner, among other special guests.
The opening day festivities, with live music by local country band starting Bump in the road about 2 hours, are only the beginning of the celebration of the company from his 33rd save.
During the three days after the opening ceremony, will host Cabela over a dozen outdoor television personalities such as hunting...
Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley
MANILA, Philippines - There is no doubt Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao and former three-division champion Shane Mosley are among the best boxers of their generation.
On Sunday (Manila time), they'll try to knock out in a battle to be watched by millions around the world.
Reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will try to prove that he is, indeed, the king of the 147-pound division.
Mosley, on the other hand, will try to show that the naysayers in 39 years, he still has what it takes to be a world champion.
ABS-CBN News.com ANC fastball down with Bill Velasco, Boyet Sison and Boom Gonzales and veteran boxing analyst Ronnie Nathanielsz in a head-to-head comparison of the two warriors.
We asked them about Pacquiao against Mosley and disadvantages...
Kentucky Derby 2011
The 2011 Kentucky Derby kicks off on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs. Look at our race day story stream for wall-to-wall coverage of the race.
May 7, 2011 - It is the biggest day in horse racing as the finest three-year-olds take to the track at Churchill Downs for the 2011 Kentucky Derby on Saturday afternoon. The hats and horses will be in full force at Churchill Downs as massive crowds converge on the track to catch all the action. With a full day of the race, culminating in the functioning of the 137th Kentucky Derby, there's enough to keep hardcore and casual fan entertained.
Here is all you need to know for the race on Saturday.
Post time: The mail call for the 2011 Kentucky Derby is set for 6:24 p.m. EDT but is subject to change on the day of the competition.
TV coverage: As usual,...
