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February 2009
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Friday February 27 2009

Jerry Oppenheimer
Author, "Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel". A tour of Mattel’s seamier side, highlighting its dubious corporate practices and kooky cast in this scathing portrait to be published to coincide with Barbie’s 50th anniversary. Drawing on personal interviews and public sources, Oppenheimer paints a bleak picture of the peculiar practices of the adults running the toy company—including the “playboy” Jack Ryan, known as the “Father of Barbie” and rumored to be sexually obsessed with his creation, and Mattel cofounder and white-collar criminal Ruth Handler, who took credit for Barbie’s invention.

Sheyla Hershey
28 year old Houston, Texas woman who is now in record books for having the biggest breast implants ever — size 38KKK, according to Britain's Daily Star.
www.sheylahershey.net

Thursday February 26 2009

Fred Zuckerman
President of the Teamsters Local 89 in Kentucky. 400 liquor industry executives and workers criticized alcohol and cigarette tax increases at a Frankfort rally that culminated in protesters dumping bottles of bourbon on the Capitol steps. Teamsters drove beer and alcohol delivery trucks around the state capitol.

Mike Birbiglia
Promoting his off Broadway show "Sleepwalk With Me". The new comedy penned by and starring Mike Birbiglia, has extended its run at the Bleecker Street Theater through March 2009.
www.birbigs.com & http://sleepwalkwithmike.com

Wednesday February 25 2009

Daniel Sunjata
34 year old actor who plays firefighter Franco Rivera on Rescue Me. On FX Wednesday 10:00 PM.  

Kevin Meaney
Promoting his appearance at Feb 27- March 1 Comix, NYC and his CD “That’s Not Right”.

William Lobdell
Author, "Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America — and Found Unexpected Peace". He is a former religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Tuesday February 24 2009

Dave Chameides
He lived with his trash for a year.
www.sustainabledave.org   

Richard Milner
Creator of “Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert.” He also has a book coming out called Darwin Universe. The CD album, Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert, includes all the Darwin and evolution songs: 23 tracks, 12 songs.
www.darwinlive.com  

Monday February 23 2009

Terry Gardner
50 year old legal secretary in California, returned home from work recently to find two police officers waiting. Her brother had told them he thought she might be having a breakdown because she had shaved her head. She told the officers that she was fine and had shaved her head for an advertising campaign by Air New Zealand, which had hired her to display a temporary tattoo.
www.cranialbillboard.blogspot.com  

Linda Lou Taylor
The 68 year old Anderson, Indiana woman has been married 23 times. Now known as Mrs. Linda Wolfe, she is the most-married woman in history and is thinking about marrying again.

Matt Atchity
Editor in chief of RottenTomatoes.com , the go-to site for film fans. Here to talk about the Oscars.
www.rottentomatoes.com  

Friday February 20 2007

Jim Belushi
Appearing in Mardi Gras parade this year.

Daniel Bergner
Author, "The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing".
www.danielbergner.com

Thursday February 19 2009

George Wendt
Promoting his role in "Minsky's". The musical’s Depression-set tale centers on the famous Gotham burlesque house run by Billy Minsky. Christopher Fitzgerald (“Young Frankenstein”) heads a cast that includes Beth Leavel, George Wendt and Rachel Dratch.

Ben Sherwood
Author, "The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life".
http://bensherwood.com & www.thesurvivorsclub.org.

Sean Phillips
Yahoo! Movie Expert. Sean will share his industry insight into this year's Oscar race. The 81st Academy Awards are Sunday on ABC at 8pmET.
http://movies.yahoo.com  

Wednesday February 18 2007

Graeme Warring
Owner of Mini Me Model Works, the company selling the "Smash-Me Bernie" doll. Mad at disgraced investor Bernard Madoff? There's a toy just for you.
www.minimemodelworks.com

Carol Carrozza
Marketing vice president of Ansell Healthcare, manufacturer of Life Style Condoms to talk about how condom sales are up in this bad economy. During last year's fourth quarter, sales of the safe-sex items increased by 5 percent nationwide. USA Today said Thursday condom sales in January increased 6 percent compared with the same time period in 2008.

Harry Shearer
His radio show "Le Show" is on Sundays @ 4pm ET on XM Public Radio channel 196
and @ 10 pm ET on Laugh Break Sirius Channel 105. Latest CD, ”Songs of the Bushmen”, a musical satire of the Bush Administration on Courgette Records.
www.harryshearer.com & www.mydamnchannel.com  

Tuesday February 17 2009

Sean Daly
A reporter and pop life critic from the St. Petersburg Times tried out mantyhose - pantyhose for men. The manufacturer,ComfiLon calls them ACTIVSKIN® Legwear for Men. "DESIGNED FOR MEN, APPROVED BY WOMEN".

Robert Rhine
Editor and publisher of Girls and Corpses Magazine, a funny parody magazine which features scantily clad women in various poses with corpses.
http://girlsandcorpses.com

Beth Barnes
Member of a movement to reduce her carbon footprint by unplugging her fridge which 99.5 percent of American homes have.  

Friday February 13 2009

Ruth Houston & Todd Morris
Author, "Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs". Todd Morris, CEO of BrickHouse Security. Ruth has identified 21 major categories of signs of infidelity, comprised of over 800 individual telltale signs. Headquartered in New York, BrickHouse Security is dedicated to assisting the public and government with their security, safety, protection, covert surveillance, and counter-surveillance needs.
www.InfidelityAdvice.com & www.brickhousesecurity.com

Anthony DeLorenzo
Co-author, "Warning Signs". Anthony DeLorenzo and Dawn Ricci are the founders of infidelity.com and are leading private investigators for Allstate Investigations, founded by DeLorenzo more than thirty years ago. DeLorenzo has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, 20/20, CNN, and Inside Edition. Anthony and Dawn live in Manalapan, New Jersey.
www.infidelity.com   

Thursday February 12 2008

Nicholas Boothman
Author,"How to Make Someone Fall in Love With You in 90 Minutes or Less".
www.nicholasboothman.com

Mike Burge
Radio host at KVSH 940 AM in the small town of Valentine NE, will talk about the local Butt Bandit. He was sentenced in December to 13 1/2 months in jail after being convicted of eight misdemeanor counts of public indecency and one of disturbing the peace.

Jamil Barrie & Seth Lockhart
Owners of TitleDoctors an LA-based movie marketing firm specializing in developing marketable movie titles that maximize the potential of major motion pictures at the box office.
www.titledoctors.com  

Wednesday February 11 2009

Bruce Marks
CEO of NACA, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a non-profit, community advocacy and homeownership organization.
www.naca.com

Gerry Meyer
Suffers from wind turbine syndrome.

Jen Bilik
Owner of website Knock Knock.Biz and publisher of "The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs".
www.knockknock.biz    

February 10 2009

Edgar Otto
The 79 year old and his 66 year old wife, Nina, had their dog cloned. The Ottos didn’t hesitate when the California company BioArts International offered a five-day auction for the chance to clone a pet. The Ottos were a winner with their $155,000 bid. Just months after Sir Lancelot died, the Ottos were preparing to bring him back.

John Meils
Editor and contibutor the book "101 Things Every Man Should Know How To Do".
www.webook.com

Wayne DeAngelo
N.J. state assemblyman, formerly president of the union using a 10 foot tall inflatable rat to protest low wages. The state's Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the rat has free speech rights in New Jersey.  

Monday February 9 2009

Geoff Cater
General manager of The Famous Wild Boar Hotel in Britain's Lake District where they serve squirrel.
www.elh.co.uk

Nadine Artemis and Ron Obadia
Arrested after 2.5 pounds of chocolate in their carry on luggage tested positive as hashish. This has happened twice to them.
http://livinglibations.com  

David Whitlock
Colorado Springs Police Lieutenant to talk about recent robberies with a Star Trek Klingon Bat'leth blade. "If this individual is arrested, the charge will be the same as if he carried a gun," said police spokesman Lt. David Whitlock. "It's considered a deadly weapon."

Friday February 6 2009 

John Squibb & Crazy Legs Conti
Amateur eater Super Squibb has won Philadelphia's Wing Bowl by downing 203 chicken wings in about 20 minutes. Pro eater, Crazy Legs, was also there.
www.crazylegsconti.com 

Jon Basso
The owner of heart attack grill is being persecuted because his "nurses" (waitresses) are  not real nurses. The motto of the Tempe, Ariz., restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill is "Taste … worth dying for." That's because it serves only artery-clogging food like big, greasy hamburgers with names like the Quadruple Bypass -- that's four half-pound patties -- and Flatliner fries, deep-fried in lard. It refuses to sell diet anything.
www.heartattackgrill.com  

Thursday February 5 2009

Stu Rasmussen
The transgendered business owner who just became mayor of Silverton, Oregon.
www.sturasmussen.com  

Joe and Dave Herbert
From Herbert Brother Entertainment. They won the contest for the Dorito Super Bowl ad. They had been unemployed before winning $1 million in the contest. 
www.herbertbrothers.com

Arno Herwerth
42 year old ex-cop is suing the NY DMV to have GET OSAMA as a liscense plate.  

Wednesday February 4 2009

Kimbra Hickey
She is a foot and hand model. The hands cupping the apple on the "Twilight" cover are soft, white, disembodied – and no longer anonymous.

Spencer Potter
Selling Jenny's number 867 5309 on Ebay. The number was made famous in the song 867 5309 (Jenny) by Tommy Tutone. The 28-year-old DJ is selling the number he got for free five years ago.

Brooke Ferencsik
Senior manager of media relations for TripAdvisor.Com to talk about their list of dirtiest hotels.
www.tripadvisor.com  

Tuesday February 3 2009

Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher & Thomas Tabback
Promoting his book "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the
American Dream". The book follows his life since his 15 minutes of fame began.
www.secureourdream.com

Casper Noz
He built his own castle in Snelling CA, near Yosemite National Park. The Kasteel Noz, the turreted brick castle with two towers and a moat that Casper Noz, a 51-year-old contractor has worked on — designed strictly from his childhood memory — every weekend since 1988, mixing his own mortar in a wheelbarrow, forging the iron bolts, latches and other hardware, making the oak doors and fir spiral staircases and laying the bricks, about 40,000 and counting, by hand (he occasionally uses a forklift).  

Monday February 2 2009

Jennifer Calandra
28 year old woman bought a Mattel Fisher-Price Toys "Little Mommy" doll for her 5 and 7 year old daughters that plays infant cooing sounds at Wal-Mart in Buron S.C. At the end of every third revolution it also says "Islam is the Light."

David Faustino
Promoting reality show Star-ving on Crackle. "Married with Children’s" Bud Bundy, David Faustino, is back and bare-assed! David & his whacked out side kick, Corin Nemec of "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", will do anything to get back on top.  Nobody ever said that being a short, broke, alcoholic, sex maniac, ex-child actor was easy.
www.crackle.com