Friday, February 14, 2014
What do bananas have to do with Valentine’s Day? They are on a short list of little known aphrodisiacs along with honey, almonds, watermelon and sushi, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Daily Dish. Instead of telling your guy to eat his Wheaties, this article suggests asparagus. Interesting. Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing the father on TV […]
Friday, February 14, 2014
Hollywood is getting ready for its biggest awards affair — the Academy Awards. Officially, the final voting for the 86th Academy Awards began today for online as well as paper balloting. Some voters may have been able to jump the gun. Some members of the Motion Picture Academy Arts and Sciences reportedly got their ballots in the mail earlier […]
Friday, February 14, 2014
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
Thursday, February 13, 2014
A lot of chatter today about the surprise (too most of us) announcement that Comcast has struck a deal to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion. Wall Street big money guys are thrilled with the deal, but consumers are worried about higher rates and a deep drop in customer service. What’s the impact on Hollywood? Deadline has that. Celebrity […]
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Outside news racks for The Burbank Leader have been disappearing from the city streets for some time. I have been critical of that fact in the past. Now the word from the editor, Dan Evans, is that all the Burbank Leader news racks will be history soon. Bad news. Terrible idea. The reason, Evans says, it’s “theft.” In a recent […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Another Hollywood star has passed away. Sid Caesar died today in his Beverly Hills home. TV talk show host/long time friend, Larry King, broke the sad news on KNX 1070 radio today. King called Caesar a “giant of comedy” for making his mark back in the 50s on such TV hits as “Your Show Of Shows,” “Caesar’s Hour,” and “The Sid […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Human skeletal remains discovered in the Burbank hills were removed today by Los Angeles County Coroner’s investigators. A short while ago, Burbank Police tweeted out “We have cleared the area. Awaiting identification by LA coroners office.” A city worker reportedly found the remains in brush near the Stough Canyon Nature Center yesterday afternoon. This morning, BPD officers with cadaver dogs […]
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Mega Millions jackpot stands at $122 million for tonight’s draw. Sure the odds of winning are long, but folks do get wealthy scoring a lesser prize. Last Tuesday, 27 year-old Carlos Cardenas of Whittier bought $5 in Mega Millions lottery tickets. Today, he’s nearly a million dollars richer — after picking all the winning numbers except the Mega Ball in the […]
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Temperatures heating up again in the Southland with weather watchers predicting 70’s and 80’s for the rest of the week. By noon today, it was already 75 in Burbank and the high is expected to be near 80. This latest patch of hot, dry winter weather is in the forecast through Monday. Hopefully, there will be a dramatic change soon, […]
