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June 15, 2007
"Sensational" Sherri passes away
WWE is saddened to learn of the death of WWE Hall of Famer “Sensational” Sherri. She was 49.
In the early 1980s, Sherri began her career in the AWA. In 1985, she defeated Candi Devine to become the AWA Women’s Champion. Their rivalry lasted more than a year with the championship trading hands on several occasions.
It was during this time that she began perfecting her skills as a manager, leading “Playboy” Buddy Rose and “Pretty Boy” Doug Somers to the AWA Tag Team Championship. On June 28, 1986, Martel would win the AWA Women’s Championship for a third and final time from Candi Devine.
On July 24, 1987, “Sensational” Sherri debuted in WWE, pinning her trainer and mentor the Fabulous Moolah to become Women’s Champion. Sherri defended the gold against Debbie Combs, Velvet McIntyre, and Desiree Peterson.
She quickly earned the reputation as someone who would do anything to win, even if it meant using unsavory tactics. Her rivalry with Moolah continued as they became the captains for the first-ever female Survivor Series teams in 1989. Sherri held the championship for 15 months before losing to Rockin’ Robin.
In the early ‘90s WWE phased out the Women’s Division, leaving Sherri to focus on managing the male wrestlers. Her first client was “Macho Man” Randy Savage. It was during this time that she became “Sensation Queen.”
The couple had rivals with Miss Elizabeth, Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. In 1991, “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase enlisted her services. After that relationship dissolved, she took on the managerial duties of Shawn Michaels.
In 1994, Sherri appeared in WCW as “Sensuous” Sherri managing Ric Flair during his rivalries with Sting and Hulk Hogan. After separating from Flair, she became “Sister” Sherri guiding Harlem Heat to seven WCW Tag Team Championships.
Sherri was enshrined in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase was her presenter.
source: wwe.com
Nashua father and son fighting eviction over $25
After living in the same apartment for 29 years and earning the nickname “Mr. Canterbury” by other residents, Clarence “Buddy” Cochran thought he would have been treated better.
Cochran and his son Chris, 17, have been given until July 6 to leave Canterbury Apartments in Nashua because of a rent dispute between the apartment management and the Nashua Housing Authority.
He’s been a good tenant who has always paid his rent on time and never caused a problem there, Cochran said.
“It’s all because of a lousy 25 bucks,” Cochran said, shaking his head.
Canterbury requested a $25 a month rent increase, which the housing authority denied, and which Cochran isn’t himself allowed to pay.
Because of the rent dispute between Canterbury and the housing authority, he and as many as 10 other assisted housing tenants of the large complex will have to find somewhere else to live, Cochran said.
Cochran appears to be caught in the middle of a dispute that stretches to Washington, D.C., and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meanwhile, the housing authority, which disperses the HUD money locally, and the apartment management are pointing fingers at each other.
Carmen Fitzgerald, manager for Canterbury Apartments, said the problem lies with the housing authority “because they’re not approving any rent increases.”...More?
source: nashuatelegraph.com
June 14, 2007
70% of Wrestling Fans Will Not Be Watching TNA's Pay Per View
TNA: SLAMMIVERSARY THIS SUNDAY, BUT OVER 70% OF WRESTLEMAG READERS SAY THEY WON’T BE WATCHING
by Phil Lowe
In our latest poll, we’ve been asking whether or not you’ll be watching TNA’s Slammiversary PPV which takes place this Sunday from Nashville. Here’s how you voted:
Yes I’ll be ordering the show - 24%
No I won’t be ordering the show - 71%
I’m still undecided - 5%
source: wrestlemag.com
I could have told them TNA sucks without the poll.
Meet the Body Behind Fantastic Four's Silver Surfer
You don't know his face (see photo) or his voice (Jones is usually dubbed), but you know his, ahem, body of work: In the 1980s, the 6' 4", 140-pound contortionist was the shades-wearing moon in McDonald's "Mac Tonight" ads. In 1997, director Guillermo Del Toro cast Jones as a humanoid cockroach in Mimic and, in 2004, as the seaweed-hued Abe Sapien
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Hulk Hogan's Daughter
How much Brooke?
Is Brooke Hogan actually wearing a gold dress ... or is this a spray tanning session gone horribly wrong?
With South Beach for a backdrop, Brooke Hogan stuffed her girls into this glaring gold evening "dress" and smiled for the cameras. Always the accessorizer, she sadly made sure her handbag, skin and hair all matched.
We dub thee Donatella lite. Get ooooouttt!
source: tmz.com
Critics Are Outraged That Lauren Jones Is Reporting the News
Would you watch a former swimsuit model read the evening news? Fox is betting you will. The network's new reality show "Anchorwoman," a takeoff on Will Ferrell's 2004 movie "Anchorman," stars former model Lauren Jones, who is trying to make it as an anchor at KYTX-TV, the local CBS news station in Tyler, Texas.
Jones' fellow cast members are real reporters, and the station has already put her on the air. While few people deny the buxom blonde is pleasing to look at, many are outraged that someone with no reporting experience has been put in the anchor seat for the sake of entertainment. "What they're doing is making a mockery of every legitimate local news station in the country, the people that work there and the viewers whose trust they and we, as an industry, try to earn every day," said Brad Streit, general manager of station KLTV-TV.
Jones isn't just a former model. She's also a former soap star and World Wrestling host. Despite her stage experience, she's not exactly comfortable at the news desk. Though Jones has only been working in Tyler for about a week, KYTX-TV viewers have observed her trip over her lines more than once. The station said Jones had undergone training on how to report stories and read the teleprompter. It defends the decision to put Jones on the air.
"Not only is she beautiful but she is as brilliant as she is beautiful," said KYTX-TV personnel director Carol Daniels. "She is putting forth the effort to come through on this and do a good job. She really is." With "Anchorwoman" set to hit screens across the country at the end of August, it's likely Jones' performance will be scrutinized and debated in the coming weeks.
"This is like a bad joke," said Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz. "A former swimsuit model with zero journalism experience pretending to be a television anchor at KYTX. What on Earth is the station thinking?"
source: abcnews.go.com
The Main Event: Paris vs. The Judge. vs. The Sheriff vs. The Attorney
From the mind of Eric Bischoff:
...All because some no talent dolt with too much money doesn’t have the brains to have a driver chauffer her way too skinny ass around Hollywood when she is drinking. Then she and her profoundly stupid team of attorneys, p.r. people, and family decide the best course of action is to piss off the judge who sentenced her to a whole 23 days for violating probation by getting caught driving not once, but twice on a suspended license as a result of a d.u.i. (including speeding at night with her headlights turned off).
Here is how I think I could turn this entire situation around and produce the biggest Pay Per View in sports entertainment history: Paris should just do the time. Smile on her way in and on her way out of jail. Own the moment, write a book about her time in jail and call it something like “Hard-Time Diaries” (sorry Mick). Just take it on the chin…I’ve seen her home movies and I know she is capable. Then when she is released, we produce a live PPV from the Palms Hotel and Casino in Vegas.
The Main Event: Paris vs. The Judge. vs. The Sheriff vs. The Attorney.
Imagine the turn out. Celebrities at ringside willing to spend thousands of dollars for a ring side seat. Sponsors like Trojan condoms and pharmaceutical companies that produce herpes virus medication lining up to take advantage of the marketing opportunities that this media frenzy will produce. Law students from around the world descending upon Las Vegas to watch legal precedent take a back seat to a good ole fashion ass whoopin. Millions of people around the world making this event “must buy” Pay Per View...
source: ericbischoff.com
Bill Clinton: Al Gore Will Enter Race
Hillary Clinton may be the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but her husband Bill thinks she’ll likely face stiff competition from a yet unannounced source – Al Gore.
Bill was at a get-together at the apartment of Air America’s new chief Mark Green when political blogger Andy Ostroy asked the former president if he believes Gore is going to run, according to the New York Post’s Page Six column.
"Someone’s got to fizzle,” Clinton answered. "If someone fizzles, then yeah, he could enter the race. He’s got plenty of money, his own money, to do it.”
Ostroy predicts that it will be Barack Obama who fizzles by September, and "Gore will toss his hat into the ring and enlist the junior senator from Illinois as his running mate. An unbeatable ticket.”
Source: Newsmax
June 13, 2007
Judge Who Seeks Millions for Lost Pants Has His (Emotional) Day in Court
Before trial began yesterday in the case of the D.C. judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners after they lost his pants, the most extraordinary fact was Roy Pearson's demand for $65 million in damages.
That was before Pearson, an administrative law judge, broke down while testifying about the emotional pain of having the cleaners give him the wrong pants. It was before an 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair told of being chased out of the cleaners by an angry owner. And it was before she compared the owners of Custom Cleaners in open court to Nazis.
"I knew it: It's all my fault," said the reporter from German television who was sitting next to me.
The global import of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners was evident from the start. The courtroom was packed with members of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association and reporters from print and broadcast outlets in at least five countries. The guy from the tort reform lobby handed out bright green buttons protesting the $65 million "pantsuit." The gent from Fox TV sported neon-color paisley pants....More?
source: washingtonpost.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
