Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, Texas, who became the first person in the US to receive a full face transplant, got married on Saturday to fellow burn patient Jamie Nash that he met at a support group. Dallas Wiens was severely injured in a bizarre construction accident in 2008 when he came into contact with a high-voltage power line. Jamie Nash, of Garland, Texas, nearly died in a car crash in Enni…
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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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8221; Larry Hagman featured in a promotional video shot on the first day of filming for the new series and posted last month. The next season makes its premiere in the US on the TNT network on January 28th. Dallas was resurrected in the summer, more than 20 years after the original ended, with Larry Hagman starring alongside other original actors including Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. Linda Gray…
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…the 1960s television comedy I Dream of Jeannie. He first performed as JR Ewing in 1978 and became its highest-paid star, as the programme came to define 1980s excess. The actor himself owned more than 2,000 cowboy hats. When Dallas finally finished in 1991, Larry Hagman went on to appear in hit films Nixon and Primary Colors. His forthright biography, Hello Darlin’, detailed his youthful dru…
…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 great part.” Larry Hagman admitted Linda Gray had to persuade him to take part in the show, but “money” certai…
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…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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…exas 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 other developing tornadoes as a band of severe storms moves through the area. A tornado watch is in effect for most of…
…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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…to play the role of a HIV-positive transsexual woman in the Dallas Buyers Club Explaining his involvement in the Jean-Marc Vallée-directed movie – which marks his return to the big screen after 2009′s Mr. Nobody – Jared Leto said: “I’m playing a transsexual woman. I didn’t get involved in the project until a few weeks ago, three and a half weeks ago.” Jared Leto has gained…
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Tonight will see the debut of the hotly anticipated Dallas reboot, 21 years after the original show ended. So the cast of the new version yesterday got the opportunity to quite literally ring in their show at the New York Stock Exchange. Josh Henderson, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo and Jesse Metcalfe were given the prestigious honor of ringing the bell to open up trading on Wall Street. Jordan…
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…, even when I was little,” his daughter Yvette Carroll has said. But that appeal all changed when he got sick, as Yvette Carroll said: “It was awful to see him like that. I couldn’t handle it, even at 21 years old.” Ron Woodroof was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given just six months to live Over the years, several A-List stars have had their names attached to play the role of Ron Woodroof in t…
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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…
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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…appeared thinner than ever as he returned to his Manhattan hotel on Thursday Matthew McConaughey is currently in New York filming The Wolf of Wall Street, based on a memoir by Jordan Belfort who spent 22 months in jail for offenses related to stock market manipulation and running a boiler room. Work on the movie began in Manhattan earlier this month. The film, directed by Martin Scorsese, also fea…
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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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…letely done,” she told ABC’s Dallas affiliate WFAA. An unprecedented cluster of tornadoes ripped through major towns and cities in Texas yesterday A grandmother in Diamond Creeks, Forney, where 20 to 30 homes were severely damaged, sought refuge in a bath-tub with her grandchildren as the walls of her home collapsed. The woman was forced to hold on to her 18-month-old grandson’s legs…
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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Larry Hagman’s belongings will be auctioned off by Bonhams’ Entertainment Memorabilia on May 5 in Los Angeles. The Dallas star passed away aged 81 on November 23, 2012, from complications of throat cancer. According to Reuters, the centerpiece of the items owned by Larry Hagman is a silver-and-gold belt buckle engraved with the initials of his character J.R. Ewing. The garish trinket…
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…loe Kardashian and Lamar Odom have had a tough marriage as of late, but Khloe defended the union on Twitter, making us hopeful that they’re trying to work things out. When a fan told Khloe Kardashian, 27, on Twitter how upset they were with the rumors, she wrote: “it shows you how sick people are. They would rather have pain then love… Sad world.” However, multiple sources claimed that there are t…
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…face, her sagging lip, her missing left eye, her missing left hand and four cracked teeth. Lauren Scruggs tells her story in her memoir Still Lolo, published next week. The book is the first time the 24-year-old fashion blogger has spoken in depth of the moment she walked into a spinning airplane propeller in December last year – and her slow, agonizing recovery. By January, Lauren Scruggs…
Nov 9 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » …this year in stripper movie Magic Mike. The Dallas Buyer’s Club starts filming next week and follows what happened when Ron Woodroof was given six months to live after contracting the disease in 1986.He ended up spending the next six years smuggling medicine into the U.S. to help himself and fellow sufferers. The heterosexual, homophobic electrician died in 1992 after illegally smuggling HIV…
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…e explosions were also reported from the facility. Giant plumes of noxious smoke, which could be seen for miles, rise from the Magnablend Chemical Plant, not far from houses and apartments on Highway 287 Bypass in Texas Ellis County emergency management authorities issued an evacuation order for an apartment complex, an elementary school and a junior college. Waxahachie Independent School…
…ials vowed to rebuild Big Tex, who was made mostly of fibreglass and clothed by a Texas fabric company. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tweeted that the cowboy would become “bigger and better for the 21st Century”. The flames quickly engulfed Big Tex’s structure, leaving behind little more than a charred metal frame The Texas State Fair and Big Tex are intricately linked. The fair…
Oct 20 2012 | Posted in
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fell on Christmas Day was 1926. Even Dallas, Texas, could see flurries for Christmas – though likely no accumulation. The last time Dallas saw snowfall on Christmas Day was 1997 – though a 2009 blizzard left several inches behind on Christmas Eve. “Southern Oklahoma and Arkansas look like they’re going to get slammed with some serious snow, strong winds – four to eight inches in…
