AC 360 Gets Graphics Backwards For CBS Iraq Camera Team Update to the story on the CBS News team attacked in Iraq from the bid-ness side. On Monday night's Anderson Cooper 360, while fill-in host Carol Costello read the names of correspondent Kimberly Dozier who was injured and cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan
who were killed, CNN’s graphics stated the exact opposite as true.

No word of a correction or retraction as of this posting.

- AC 360 Inverts CBS Iraq Camera Team Killed/Wounded Status… (Inside Cable News)  ¶ 12:30 AM 0 comments

  Two Members Of CBS TV Crew Killed In Iraq A three-man CBS News television crew embedded with the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army came under attack today in central Baghdad. London-based cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed in the attack. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier sustained serious injuries in the attack and underwent surgery at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad.

CBS News Statement: CBS News Crew Came Under Attack In Central Baghdad (CBS News)
Kimberly Dozier Bio (CBS News)  ¶ 11:40 AM 0 comments

  Memorial Day 2006 Americans are honoring their war dead on this Memorial Day holiday. President Bush spoke for the nation at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the country's largest military cemetery. About 300 feet from the entrance to the cemetery, a handful of protesters from an anti-gay group stood across a four-lane highway, separated by a line of police cars, from a conservative group supporting the troops. This is all on the heels of yesterday's parade of motorcycle riders for through Washington for "Rolling Thunder," honors missing U.S. soldiers and prisoners of war and showing support for veterans’ rights.

- Bush Honors War Dead at Arlington (Forbes)
- US Honors Fallen Troops on Memorial Day (Voice of America)
- Memorial Day Demonstrators Face Off (Washington Post)  ¶ 10:48 AM 0 comments

  An Excuse To Put Byung-Hyun Kim In An Headline Barry Bonds hit his 715th homer yesterday, passing Babe Ruth for sole possession of second place for the career home run record, and now starting a Bonds-watch countdown of 41 to beat Hank Aaron's record of 755. Bonds already holds baseball's single-season home record.

Bonds reached his mark on a 3-2 pitch from Colorado starter Byung-Hyun Kim over the center-field fence in the fourth inning of the Rockies' 6-3 win over the Giants yesterday in San Francisco. He had 17 at-bats over fives games between hitting number 714 and number 715.

- Bonds hits historic 715th home run (CNN International)  ¶ 4:59 AM 0 comments

  Happy Birf-Days For 5-29-06 These famous and use to be famous people are celebrating a birf-day while we Americans celebrate Memorial Day today:

Bening, Annette (American Beauty, The American President) is 48
Appeared in a 1990 episode of "The Sopranos" as herself

Actor Rupert Everett (The Next Best Thing, My Best Friend's Wedding) is 47
Was expelled from London's Central School of Speech and Drama for insubordination...

Singer Melissa Etheridge is 45
Sang at Brad Pitt's and Jennifer Aniston's wedding...

Actor Steve Cardenas is 32
Happy Birf-Day to the second Red Power Ranger...

Actress-singer Melanie Brown (Scary Spice) is 31
Enjoyed a successful debut on Broadway with the lead role of Mimi in the musical "Rent..."  ¶ 4:08 AM 0 comments

  Happy Birf-Days For 5-23-06 These famous and use to be famous people are celebrating a birf-day today:

Actress Joan Collins ("Dynasty") is 73
The eldest of three children. Sister Jackie Collins is an author, brother William Collins Jr. is a real estate agent...

Actor Charles Kimbrough ("Murphy Brown") is 70
Was nominated for Broadway's 1971 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Company..."

Comedian Drew Carey ("The Drew Carey Show," "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") is 48
Eliminated himself shortly after entering the World Wrestling Federation's 30-man "Royal Rumble" match as the fifth participant in January 21, 2001...

Actress-model Karen Duffy is 45
Started her stint as VJ Duff for MTV in 1991...

Singer Jewel is 32
Lived in a VW bus in San Diego with her mother before making it big...  ¶ 4:48 AM 0 comments

  Happy Birf-days for 5-22-06 These famous and use to be famous people are celebrating a birf-day today:

Actor Michael Constantine (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, "Room 222") is 79
Starred in the television programs "Kojak" and "My Palikari" (1982) with friend Telly Savalas...

Actress Barbara Parkins ("Peyton Place", Valley of the Dolls) is 64
Appeared in a number of "Playboy" pictorial spreads...

Singer Morrissey is 47
Famously said during a 2002 tour "Bring me the head of Elton John..."

Singer Johnny Gill is 40
Solo artist who took Bobby Brown's spot in New Edition...

Model Naomi Campbell is 36.
Her 1995 debut album Babywoman released the single La, La, La Love Song with Japanese singer Toshi and reached #1 in Japan...  ¶ 9:23 AM 0 comments

  Happy Birf-Days For 5-21-06 These famous and use to be famous people are celebrating a birf-day today:

Actress Fairuza Balk (The Craft, The Waterboy,) is 32
Fairuza means 'turquoise' in Farsi...

Actor Judge Reinhold (Beverly Hills Cop, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is 50
Once worked in a frozen yogurt shop...

Actor Mr. T ("The A-Team", D.C. Cab, Rocky III) is 54
Voted by a BBC-run poll the fourth most influential American in history...  ¶ 11:10 AM 0 comments

  David Blaine Doesn't Do It Again I don't t truely David Blaine didn't break the world record for holding his breath in last night's overly-hyped, newest waste of time special on ABC. He also didn't die trying, as overly advertised.

Blaine was pulled from an aquarium by divers near the end of the two-hour Monday night special, the offcial time holding his breath underwater was 7 minutes, 8 seconds. He was shooting for 9 minutes, with the record he was hopping to break at a meer 8 minutes, 58 seconds for holding one's breath underwater.

This will probably be the last David Blaine special for a hopefully long while, as ABC producer Shelley Ross, the true person responsible for this, is at the end of her contract with the network, and is not expected to resign.

- David Blaine's Bubble Bursts (E! Online)
- Blaine Fails to Set Underwater Record (ABC News)
- David Blaine Inhales, But It’s Shelley Ross Who’s Holding Breath (New York Observer)  ¶ 4:47 AM 0 comments