PHILADELPHIA – Actor, comedian, and former Temple football letterwinner Bill Cosby helped the Owls unveil their new uniforms for the 2007 season on Tuesday at Lincoln Financial Field. Head coach Al Golden and former head coach Wayne Hardin were also on hand to help promote the season opener against Navy on Friday, August 31 at 7:30 PM. The jerseys are solid cherry or white, with collar and sleeve trim in the opposite requisite color. The collars will be trimmed with diamonds to reference Temple founder Russell H. Conwell’s “Acres of Diamonds” lecture. The Temple “T” will be featured at the […]
BREAKING: Phil Spector Defense Team To Rest Case
LOS ANGELES — In an unexpected move, Phil Spector’s attorneys said they could conclude defense testimony today in the music producer’s trial. Spector’s witness list included scientific-evidence heavyweights such as Michael Baden and Henry Lee, and testimony was expected to stretch into next week. But defense attorney Christopher Plourd said yesterday outside the presence of the jury that three or four minor witnesses would be called today to testify about what was discovered on actress Lana Clarkson’s computer. Spector, 67, won’t be called to testify. Prosecutors said they were surprised by the announcement, but would work to have witnesses ready to […]
RUMMY TO CONGRESS: ‘Hard Out There For A Pimp’
(CBS News) WASHINGTON Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended himself and took no personal responsibility Wednesday for the military’s bungled response to Army Ranger Pat Tillman’s friendly-fire death in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld, in his first public appearance before Congress since President Bush replaced him with Robert Gates late last year, reiterated previous testimony to investigators that he did not have early knowledge that Tillman was cut down by fellow Rangers, not by enemy militia, as was initially claimed. Tillman’s death attracted widespread public attention because he walked away from a lucrative career in professional football to join the Army after […]
THE EARLY WORD: Pay To Play, Bitches!
Kinda sucks the high hard one that people have to pay mad money just to have their showbiz dreams shattered. Shame on you, Lil’ Wayne.
Welcome Time Readers, I Am You
Wow! First, Person Of The Year and now this*? We are touched and, well, almost sorry we ever called Time irrelevant and, with its week-long lead time, completely beside the point in the age of nanosecond news cycles. Almost. *Time linked to our John Roberts epilepsy post and, like, a bazillion of people came to Phawker.
SCHLOCK THE VOTE: HOW JOHN EDWARDS DISARMED THE WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
First came this video… To which the Edwards campaign responded with this video… And finally, this video… After Nixon’s 1968 Peace Feint, Watergate, Willie Horton (or the toned down version where the scary black man that will rape your wife and kill your family if Michael Dukakis is elected was merely implied, not explicitly shown) Gennifer Flowers, the Great Swiftboat Slander — is anybody starting to notice a pattern here? A lattice of coincidence? A vague constellation of recurrence, perhaps? Happens about every four years…always to the detriment of one party and the benefit of another…Is this ringing a bell? […]
BREAKING: Murdoch Purchases Wall Street Journal
Rupert Murdoch’s bid for The Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. has won enough support from the company’s controlling shareholders to ensure its acceptance, the newspaper reported Tuesday. The Journal said, quoting unnamed people familiar with the situation, that Bancroft family members representing 32 percent of the company’s vote had agreed to the deal. A family spokesman declined to comment. NPR: Reportedly His First Plan For Manipulating The Journalism Of His New Toy Is To Dial Back The Rightward Tilt Of The Editorial Page So That It At Least Confirms With The Dictates Of Observable Reality. Just Kidding. […]
THE EARLY WORD: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
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NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Paul Rudd, who co-starred in Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, produced and stars in the new independent film The Ten — a series of irreverent vignettes that reinterpret the Ten Commandments for a modern audience. Rudd [pictured with Sharon Pinkenson at the opening night of the Philadelphia Film Festival] also stars in the upcoming movie I Could Never Be Your Woman, with Michelle Pfeiffer. His other films include Clueless, Anchorman and The Cider House Rules, and he’s been seen on TV’s Friends and Reno 911! RADIO TIMES Hour 1 According to Pulitzer-prize winning reporter TIM […]
THE BREAKDOWN: Let Us Praise The Common Man
BY M. EMANUEL It’s been a wet-firecracker of a summer for hip-hop. Gone are the days when summer was the season to expect a heavy rotation of full-lengths from your favorite MCs — things have changed. Record sales are in the toilet, digital downloads are either destroying or saving the industry (depends on who you ask and what day you ask them) and cautious record labels are releasing albums at a snail’s pace, and only after they are assured that there is enough radio-friendly material to justify the six-figure palm-greasing required to make them hits. In the midst of this […]
JUNK SCIENCE: Made In The Shade
BY ELIZABETH FIEND LIVING EDITOR In 1978, the FDA established a labeling system for sun block that measures how well the product protects the skin from the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. This is the Skin Protection Factor, or SPF rating. UVB rays cause sun burn, skin wrinkling and cancer. The FDA said they’d get right back to us and establish a rating system for the other deadly rays, ultraviolet A, which penetrate the skin even deeper and also cause cancer and skin aging. Twenty-nine years later, we are still waiting. Yes, shocking but true, the SPF rating only […]
FROM PROVIDENCE: It’s The ‘Essentializing’, Stupid!
EDITOR’S NOTE: So, it turns out Mr. Terror Dentist /Wilco’s Pet has got himself a woman these days. Saints be praised. And not just any woman, but a cultural anthropologist who, get this, just got back from India after 16 months spent studying the everyday lives of policemen in Uttar Pradesh. Apparently pecking out lengthy observational dispatches on the biomechanics of ethnicity and identity politics is their idea of fun during a romantic getaway to Rhode Island, which is where my letter found Anand. Her name is Beatrice Jauregui and she makes a lot of good points, and many that […]