Archive for April 25th, 2007

Trump Vs Rosie… Trump Wins!

After one season, four public feuds, a few hundred thousand viewers and countless headlines, Rosie O’Donnell is calling it a day on daytime.

The larger than life View cohost announced on Wednesday morning’s show that her first season as moderator of the femme-fueled coffee klatch would also be her last, with her tenure scheduled to end in mid-June.

SNL: Trump vs Rosie…

“This has been an amazing experience and one I wouldn’t have traded for the world,” O’Donnell said. “Working with Barbara, Joy and Elisabeth has been one of the highlights of my careers, but my needs for the future just didn’t dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me.” - Yahoo

‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3′ Captain Jack Sparrow Featurette

Walt Disney Pictures has revealed a second featurette on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End about Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the highly-anticipated third installment.

4 Year Old Kid Prodigy Quarterback Gets Sacked By College Receiver!

Don’t Worry. The kid was fine. He also got an autographed football signed by the head coach of the university

Kryptonite Is Discovered

Watch out, Superman! Scientists have found a mineral on Earth with the same components as kryptonite, the space rock that erodes your powers.

The mineral was found in Serbia by geologists with Rio Tinto Plc, the world’s third-largest mining company, London’s Natural History Museum said today. After being unable to match the rock to any known mineral, they sought help from Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at the museum. Working with Canada’s National Research Council, the scientists identified the chemical components of the mineral, then turned to the Internet.

“I just typed into Google `sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide,’ and this match with kryptonite came up. It was really astonishing,” Stanley said in a telephone interview today. - Bloomberg

Sanjaya Malakar On The Late Show W/ David Letterman 4/23/07

Sanjaya reads the Top Ten things he learned from American Idol.

Darth Vader Hot Air Balloon

It was created by a mad Belgian inventor named Benoit Lambert, who, according to StarWars.com, received permission from Lucasfilm to build the balloon as long as it was used for non-commercial activities. It can carry two passengers and a pilot. There’s no indication of when Lambert will build a lighter-than-air Death Star. - Crave

Julio Franco marks 25th anniversary of debut

He started with the Phillies and among the players on that Phillies team were Pete Rose, Steve Carlton, Tug McGraw and Mike Schmidt. Schmidt, who like Carlton is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, went on the disabled list with a rib injury that caused Franco to be called up from the minors. The Cardinals shortstop in that game was Ozzie Smith, another future Hall of Famer. Keith Hernandez was the Cardinals first baseman.

Twenty-five years has its way of blurring memories. So it is with Julio Franco, who, on the silver anniversary of his big-league debut, can’t dig out details of the night that became the intro to an epic.

“There’s not too many guys that can say they’re here 25 years later,” Franco said of the gaffe. “So I’ll take that.” - MLB