touched a high-voltage power line while painting the Ridglea Baptist Church in November 2008. The man received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor, and has had more than 38 surgeries. However the transplant, which was paid for by the US military, was unable to restore his sight, and some nerves were so badly damaged from his injury that he has partial sensation on hi…
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…Kim Gatlin, author of the novel Good Christian Bitches, were in Tyler to see Larry Hagman’s one-man show, The Confessions of a Texas S.O.B. “It was delightful, and he was going to edit it to run just 20 minutes for the luncheon,” Kay Hammond said. The history of Southfork Ranch began in 1978 when Lorimar Productions chose the North Texas mansion as the site for a new CBS series, only originally e…
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ow. “I didn’t want any authority,” he told her at their one lunch. But he did think a consultancy wouldn’t be out of the question since basically, Dallas relies on all the characters he created in the 1970s – JR Ewing, Bobby Ewing, Sue Ellen, and their family, even the same Southfork Ranch set. …
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…in 18 miles (30km) of the Kenya-Somalia border, reminding travellers that there had been earlier attacks in Kenya carried out by Somali militia. Two nuns from Western Europe were kidnapped in November 2008 and three aid workers were abducted in July 2009. Accordind to Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said the couple had come from a trip to the Masai Mara reserve and were the resort’s only g…
tarring alongside other original actors including Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. Linda Gray was at Larry Hagman’s side when he passed away on Friday and described him as “my best friend for 35 years”. “He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented and I will miss him enormously,” she said. ̶…
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…he loved most,” said the family. ”He was surrounded by loved ones.” Long-time friend Linda Gray, who played Sue Ellen, was by his bedside. “Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years,” said Linda Gray in a statement released by her agent Jeffrey Lane. “He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, generous, funny, loving…
…emergency for Dallas and Hutchins!” Dallas tornado tosses trucks across the skies as dangerous twister targets Texas Local television footage shows a large funnel cloud on the ground near Interstate 35 south of Dallas. The weather service says the “large and extremely dangerous” tornado was near Lancaster about 20 miles south of Dallas and moving north. The weather service is also reporting othe…
…her down a little bit,” he told the station. “She said she was bipolar.” A cell phone video showing for the first time the flight attendant who caused panic aboard AA flight has emerged today Flight 2332 was halted after the woman commandeered the plane’s public address system and told passengers there were technical difficulties. First class travelers helped the cabin crew subdue the attendant,…
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…er members of the family. “We all called each other,” said Linda Gray, after being asked if it was a group decision to make the comeback. “People don’t remember that we’ve been friends for 35 years and we see each other all the time. “So it wasn’t like we hadn’t seen each other for 20 years. This was friendships reigniting and we could work together again. That was the grea…
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…episode Jesse Metcalfe plays Christopher Ewing who, along with cousin John Ross Ewing (Josh Henderson), continues the legendary family rivalry on Southfork ranch. The original Dallas, which aired from 1978 to 1991, centred around Ewing brothers JR and Bobby’s long and bitter battle over the family fortune. US critics gave it mixed reviews, with some accusing the show of “cashing inR…
Jun 15 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » …elease of fellow tribesman who was jailed after the 2004 bomb attack at the resort of Taba that killed 31 people. The Americans were reportedly travelling through the Wadi al-Sual area of Sinai, about 40 km (25 miles) from St. Catherine’s, when a vehicle carrying masked men armed with machine-guns forced the bus to stop. The gunmen took the tourists’ money and valuables before grabbing…
…a. Moscow’s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters the resolution was one-sided and supported the armed opposition. Western nations praised the resolution, which passed by 133 votes to 12 with 31 abstentions. It criticizes both the UN’s own Security Council and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its use of violence. The assembly debated the resolution, which was p…
bell to open up trading on Wall Street. Jordana Brewster and Julie Gonzalo looked glamorous as they posed up together before heading to the podium where they joined their male co-stars Josh Henderson, 30, and Jesse Metcalfe, 33, to ring the opening bell. Jordana Brewster, 32, opted for a color block outfit, tucking a red blouse into coral shorts and topping off her look with a white blazer and tan…
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…ile Matthew McConaughey has been on a slim-down mission for six months, Jaredo Leto has transformed his physique in little over a month after only recently getting involved in the project. Jared Leto, 40, who has waxed his body hair and eyebrows for the movie. This week, Jared Leto told Vulture about how he has been suffering for his art, revealing he has essentially starved himself for the past…
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Gunmen have kidnapped a security agent working for the Italian embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. The Italian man was taken to an unknown destination from a street near Italy’s embassy in south-west Sanaa, security and diplomatic sources have said. Police have said they are trying to track down and identify the gunmen. Gunmen have kidnapped a security agent working for the Italian emb…
…ng and screaming” last Monday after she was abducted and her husband David Tebbutt shot dead at their Kenyan beach lodge in Kiwayu Safari Village. A Kenyan man is due to appear today in court at Lamu, 40 miles south of the murder scene, to face charges of abduction and robbery. Ali Babitu Kololo, a Kenyan handyman, was arrested over the abduction of Judith Tebbutt Ali Babitu Kololo,…
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Gladys Remigio, a teenager from Santa Ana, California, who lied to her boyfriend about being pregnant, allegedly hatched an elaborate plan to kidnap her roommate’s two-week-old baby. Gladys Remigio, 17, allegedly asked gang members Steven Quirino, 20, and Robert Rodriguez, 19, to steal the child. The teenager then intended to ride with the men to her boyfriend’s, where she would pass the baby off…
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…rnment said at the time of the kidnap that it believed the al-Shabab Islamist group, which has since merged with al-Qaeda, was behind the murder and kidnap. The group denied the allegation. In October 2011, Kenya sent troops into its neighbor in pursuit of the militants and in support of the weak interim Somali government, which controls only the capital, Mogadishu, and a few other areas. Rachel C…
…Ethiopian government accusations that it sponsored the gunmen involved. Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war. Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, said Ethiopian Television (ETV). It said the two injured tourists had been taken…
Matthew McConaughey was spotted a couple of days ago looking unrecognizable and showing off a gaunt frame on the set of his new movie. Matthew McConaughey, 42, appeared thinner than ever as he returned to his Manhattan hotel on Thursday. A white v-neck T-shirt, which would normally be fitted across his usual muscular torso, literally hung off the Hollywood hunk, while his blue jeans were even mor…
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…is to like the man,” President Barack Obama said of his predecessor. “He is a good man.” The last time all five living presidents were together was shortly before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, when he said he needed their advice before taking office. “We’ve been called the world’s most exclusive club – and we do have a pretty nice club house – but the truth is…
Kings of Leon interrupted a concert Friday in Dallas, Texas subsequent to guide performer Caleb Followill informed admirers, “I’m going to move behind the scenes and I’m gonna vomit, I’m gonna drink a beer and I’m gonna come back out and play three more songs.” The rocker by no means came back to the stage, that pushed the other members of this rock band to s…
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…s flying right in front of me in the air – shingles, dirt, tree limbs. The tornado funnel was coming right at us, then went directly behind the apartment building I was in and then made a right toward 45 North.” One tornado tore through the Flying J Truck Plaza in Dallas, grabbing two trailer trucks and tossing them, said truck driver Michael Glennon, who caught the destruction on his video camera…
Jason Witten, a 6’6” NFL player weighing 265lbs, took down Melissa Kellerman, a cheerleader rooting for his own team, Dallas Cowboys. Tight end Jason Witten, 29, ran out of bounds in a game and ended up taking down cheerleader Melissa Kellerman, 22. Jason Witten caught a Tony Romo pass but was forced out in the fourth quarter of a 20-19 win over the Miami Dolphins, reported the Los Angeles Times….
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A shrinking Matthew McConaughey reported for his first day on the New Orleans set of The Dallas Buyers Club Sunday. The normally buff 42-year-old was spotted walking by his trailer in 1986 period garb – grey T-shirt, which hung loose, blue jeans, and glasses. Sporting a Burt Reynolds moustache, Matthew McConaughey also had a visibly large lesion on his forehead, an ominous sign of the AIDS…
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