interesting things
President Obama and Mitt Romney appeared in a comedy sketch opening the CMT Music Awards on Wednesday night, reaching the country music fans who populate so many battleground states.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/in-a-moment-of-levity-obama-and-romney-poke-fun-at-politics/
Have you heard a little buzzing in your ear while out on the patio or in the backyard? It seems that everyone agrees that this summer is going to be a bad one for mosquitoes in the Northeast.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/opinion/mosquito-coast.html
Republicans have accused the Obama administration of leaking for political advantage, and Democrats lodged their own protests about high-level disclosures.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/world/americas/drones-and-cyberattacks-renew-debate-over-security.html
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is making a rights deal for David Grann’s massive article in the May 28 issue of The New Yorker, The Yankee Commandante, with George Clooney attached to direct. He will produce with his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov.
The article is about William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista. He’d reached the status of Comandante, the sole foreigner other than Argentinian Che Guevara to be so highly regarded. Shortly after, Morgan, a shadowy man whose motives for being there were subject to suspicion, was imprisoned and facing a firing squad, charged with working for U.S. intelligence. At the same time, his exploits as a rebel soldier led J. Edgar Hoover and everyone else scrambling to sort out his motives and who he was working for.
Clooney most recently directed The Ides of March, and got an Oscar nom for The Descendants. He just produced the Ben Affleck-directed Argo and stars with Sandra Bullock in the Alfonso Cuaron-directed 3D space adventure Gravity for Warner Bros. Clooney is repped by CAA, which also brokered the deal for Grann.
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via Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/focus-features-options-new-yorker-article-the-yankee-comandante-george-clooney-directing/
He says he was ‘disturbed” by the leaking of classified information in the cyberattacks story.
via POLITICO Top Stories http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo
In the final chaotic moments before Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, it took the captain of the aircraft, who was on a scheduled break, more than a minute to return to the cockpit, despite his two co-pilots’ frantic calls…
via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/air-france-captain-woman-flight-447-trouble-214157897–abc-news-topstories.html
Players were warned they would be yellow carded if they walked off the pitch after being racially abused at the European Championships.
AP reports that “packages containing a human foot and hand were discovered at two schools in Vancouver on Tuesday, in what could be the latest gruesome twist in the case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of dismembering and eating his former lover.” As noted in a previous BB post, murder suspect Rocco Luka Magnotta, also known as Eric Clinton Newman, has been arrested in Berlin.
The proposed $1-per-pack tax would raise $735 million per year if implemented.
via POLITICO Top Stories http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo
The celebrity magazine bet $850,000 — and appears to have lost — on the pictures of Maxwell Drew published in its latest issue.
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