CHARLIE WITH MISS NEBRASKA 2008-2009, GRETCHEN BERQUIST. GRETCHEN PRESENTED THE NEBRASKA BROADCASTERS AWARDS TO THE WINNERS AS CHARLIE ANNOUNCED THEM AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE STAGE THIS PAST WEEK IN OMAHA.
Gretchen is a communications student at my hometown University of Nebraska-Kearney, and is interning at the local television station. She’s obviously got a great future in front of the camera.
MISS NEBRASKA, GRETCHEN BERGQUIST, TALKS ABOUT HER FUNNIEST MOMENT AT THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT IN JANUARY OF 2009!
CHARLIE WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS EXECUTIVE VP, JOHN DAVID!
John is headquartered in Washington D.C., and was my former newsman at KOMA radio in Oklahoma City. He spent the first few minutes of his keynote luncheon address to the Nebraska broadcasters remembering all the crazy stuff and stunts we pulled while just a couple of kids working together in the mid 60’s. One of them I had forgotten about was during one of John’s newscasts, everytime he would pause between sentences, I would open my mike and sniff very audibly at the end of his sentences. As John pointed out, the listeners must have thought he had a terrible cold. He admitted that was the one time he did finally break up on the air.
CHARLIE WITH JOHN MITCHELL AND HIS WIFE MARY, AND CHARLIE’S MOM ON THE FAR RIGHT! JOHN GAVE ME MY FIRST JOB IN RADIO IN MY HOMETOWN OF KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, ON THE STATION HE OWNED, KGFW, WHEN I WAS A 16 YEAR OLD SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL. HE BELIEVED IN ME BACK THEN SO MUCH, HE MOVED ME TO THE MORNING SHOW JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER I WAS HIRED!
One very special note about my mom, pictured above on the right! She bought me a used 78 rpm record player for $2, which she painted to look like new, when I was just 5 years old. She also got me a bunch of old records to play, since she realized that I wanted to grow up to be on the radio because I loved listening to our local hometown morning radio personality, Jack Lewis. I used to sit in my room playing all that music and pretending I was on the air……you know, I just realized that’s what I still do, only now it’s actually going out on the radio!
CHARLIE WITH NEBRASKA GOVERNOR DAVE HEINEMAN! NEBRASKA HAS THE 2ND LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE NATION AND FINANCIALLY IS IN GREAT SHAPE! THEIR STATE CONSTITUTION SAYS THEY CAN’T SPEND WHAT THEY DON’T HAVE….WHAT A CONCEPT!
CHARLIE WITH HIS NEBRASKA COUSINS AND AUNT, AND OF COURSE IN THE CENTER, MOM!
From left to right, cousin Maize, my Aunt Elaine, cousin Dan, my Mom, my mom and Elaine’s cousin Kathryn, Charlie, cousin Rosie, and cousin Judy! Cousins Tim, Maureen and Patrick were unable to attend, but they’re all like brothers and sisters to me!
WRAPPING UP THE NEBRASKA AWARDS NIGHT, CHARLIE WITH HIS MOM, MISS NEBRASKA GRETCHEN BERGQUIST, AND NAB EXECUTIVE VP JOHN DAVID!
IT’S WOODSTOCK’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND: CHECK OUT THESE CLASSIC VIDEOS STARTING WITH JOE COCKER!
MAX YASGUR’S 600 ACRE FARM WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER WOODSTOCK & RICHIE HAVENS!
CANNED HEAT GOT THINGS COOKING AT WOODSTOCK ’69 WITH “WOODSTOCK BOOGIE”!
WATCH THE BUILD-UP OF THE STAGES AT WOODSTOCK WHILE CROSBY, STILLS & NASH PLAY!
ONE OF MY LISTENERS, MARIE MASSON, HAS STARTED A PETITION TO HAVE ME INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME! PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN THE PETITION!
ALL SUMMER LONG, THERE ARE FREE CONCERTS AT WARNER PARK-WOODLAND HILLS!
Who: Valley Cultural Center has been doing free community concerts since 1975 (34 years). VCC is a non-profit (501-c-3) organization located at 21550 Oxnard Street, Suite 470, Woodland Hills, CA 818-704-1358. Concert “Toll Free Hot Line” 877-704-3456 or our web site: www.valleycultural.org
What: Free Concerts in the Park at Warner Park has a Food Court with hot and cold foods, beverages and snacks available.
Where: Warner Park, 5800 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
When: Concerts are every Sunday from June 7th through August 30th. Most concerts start at 6 pm until 8 pm. Opening day concert is a Playboy Jazz Festival Community Concert starting at 4:30 pm until 8 pm. June 28th is the Woodland Hills-Tarzana Chamber of Commerce Family Fun Festival starting at 2 pm. The Annual Dennis P. Zine July Fourth Extravaganza (on July 4th) starts at 6 pm until 9:30 pm. Fireworks will start approximately at 9 pm or as soon as it gets dark. On August 16th we have the Neighborhood Council Earth Day Festival starting at 4 pm.
How: Directions to Warner Park – Take the 101 freeway to the Topanga Canyon Blvd. NORTH exit. The park is less than a mile north of the freeway. Main cross streets are Topanga Canyon Blvd. just one block south of Oxnard Street. Parking in nearby parking structures is $10 per car for concerts and $15 per car for July 4th.
WOODSTOCK 40TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND COMING UP: A LOOK AT CCR BACK THEN!
THERE ARE SOME PRETTY SMART PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD…JUST READ ON BELOW!
BRAD PITT & ANGELINA JOLIE STIR UP THE EXCITEMENT AT “INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS”!
Before hitting the red carpet for the L.A. premiere of “Inglourious Basterds” Monday night, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped traffic outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, ambushed a tour bus, shook hands with fans and then dished about it.
“This is my neighborhood,” Pitt told me afterward, as the power couple headed down the carpet into Quentin Tarantino’s World War II flick. “I ride my bike up and down [Hollywood Boulevard] a lot, and there’s always fans and tourists out here, so I always try to give them a little wave.”
WANT TO GET SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON REALLY ANGRY? WATCH!
FOOTBALL SEASON IS GEARING UP WITH ONE OF THE BEST FAKE PUNT PLAYS EVER!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, HERE’S STEVEN TYLER OF AEROSMITH’S FALL FROM THE STAGE!
A PREVIEW OF HEATH LEDGER’S FINAL MOVIE ROLE THAT HE DIED HALFWAY THRU!
Heath Ledger as The Joker is an undeniably classic performance. And a tragic one. The Dark Knight landed in theaters only months after the actor’s death by accidental overdose and, thus, his role in the film became iconic in more ways than one.
But that wasn’t his final gig. Ledger died halfway through shooting his role in the whimsical Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam. Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell stepped in to make sure his final work could be completed.
PETER RIVERA (pictured in the center), FORMERLY OF “RARE EARTH” THIS PAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON OUR INTERNET VIDEO BROADCAST WHERE WE LEARNED PETER LOST HIS ABILITY TO HIT THE HIGH NOTES SINGING HIS HITS FOR OVER 3 MONTHS AND THOUGHT HIS SINGING CAREER WAS OVER YEARS AGO, PLUS HE REVEALED HE AND THE BAND LISTENED TO JOHNNY MATHIS RECORDS TO GET READY FOR THEIR CONCERTS IN THE 70′S!
TEN NEW NECESSITIES THAT DRAIN YOUR CASH
Here are ten “new necessities” you might find you can downsize or even live without from BankRate.com. Average prices quoted are courtesy of Costhelper.com:
1. Daily latte — Brew your own and save $25 a week, or $1300 a year.
2. Cable TV — Dropping premium channels should save you about $25 to $30 a month, or $300 to $360 a year. If you’re more ambitious, you can save a bundle by dropping premium and basic service
3. Manicure/pedicure — Standard manicures average $10 to $15 at nail shops and $20 to $25 at spas and salons. If you only skipped one of each per month, you would save $50 to $110 a month, or $600 to $1,200 a year.
4. Bottled water — Some people consider bottled water a necessity, even though the perfect low-cost alternative is available from any faucet in their homes. Drink tap water and pocket the $25 to $40 monthly fee for bottled water delivery, based on online averages.
5. Second car — Hands down, a second car is the highest-ticket “new necessity” in America today. Forget this and you’ll miss the car payment, maintenance, license, registration, insurance fees and outlay for gas.
6. Cell phone — You can save $40 to $60 per month on average, or $480 to $720 per year, for every cell phone you eliminate. A prepaid plan used sparingly will save you money over a contract plan.
7. Lawn service — The average cost for weekly mowing, hedge trimming and leaf blowing is $65 to $90. It’s hardly a savings to shell out $260 to $360 a month, is it? Mow your own and save the dough. If you do enough lawn and garden work, you may even save the $35 to $40 you shell out each month for your fitness club membership.
8. Clothes — Where would retailers be if we only bought clothes we need? But satisfying your wardrobe jones with a measure of frugality can save a bundle.
9. Private school — You’re already paying for public school anyway, so go public and save anywhere from $8,000 to $35,000 per year.
10. Pet grooming/walking — The cost of grooming your dog averages $30 to $50 for small breeds, $50 to $70 for midsize breeds and $70 to $90 for large breeds. A pet walker on average runs $15 to $27 per walk. To save money, invest in a $25 set of electric clippers and learn online about how to groom your pet.
SOME FUN WITH YOUR MOUSE TODAY! PLACE YOUR MOUSE AT THE TOP OF THE PHOTO AFTER YOU CLICK ON THE WEBSITE LINK AT http://61226.com/share/hk.swf YOU WILL NOTICE IT IS 6:10 A.M. BRING THE MOUSE DOWN SLOWLY OVER THE PHOTO. NIGHTTIME APPEARS AND THE LIGHTS COME ON….AT 7:40 P.M., IT’S DARK! PHOTO TECHNOLOGY AT ITS’ BEST! DON’T HOLD THE BUTTON DOWN.
GOT MILK? FUNNY MILK COMMERCIAL TO SHOW HOW IT DOES A BODY GOOD!
HERE’S A TERRIFIC TRIBUTE TO DIRECTOR JOHN HUGHES AND ALL HIS FILMS!
John Hughes, the popular, almost-mythic filmmaker who made teen angst hurt so good in biting comedies such as Sixteen Candles only to leave Generation Xers largely on their own as the Molly Ringwald-ruled 1980s ended, died after suffering a sudden heart attack during a walk Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 59.
“John Hughes wrote some of the great outsider characters of all time,” Judd Apatow, the currently hot filmmaker from the Hughes mold, told the Los Angeles Times last year.
It probably would be quicker to list the 1980s movies Hughes wasn’t responsible for as either a writer, director or producer.
His credits included: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, all starring Ringwald; Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful and She’s Having a Baby, all quotable—and quoted—in their own right; and, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the signature Matthew Broderick, if not Hughes, comedy.
Though most associated with the 1980s, the 1990s brought Hughes his biggest box-office hits via the Home Alone franchise. Hughes also produced the Michael Keaton hit Mr. Mom, the John Candy-Steve Martin hit Planes, Trains & Automobiles and the Chevy Chase blockbuster National Lampoon’s Vacation.
Born in 1950 in Michigan, Hughes’ writing career began in Chicago, the leafy suburbs of which served as future home to the Buellers, the Saturday-morning detention gang at Shermer High and nearly all his screenplay characters.
In 1979, the former ad copywriter and National Lampoon magazine staffer scored his first Hollywood credit on a short-lived sitcom spinoff of Animal House. Within five years, Hughes was in the director’s chair on Sixteen Candles.
”I stumbled into this business, I didn’t train for it,” Hughes told Entertainment Weekly in 1994. “I yelled ‘Action!’ on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.”
Actors whose careers were helped mightily by Hughes’ allegedly accidental one include Jon Cryer, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson and Home Alone revelation Macaulay Culkin. Some, like Sheedy, Estevez and Nelson, became members of the unofficial 1980s film society known as the Brat Pack. Some, like Culkin, featured in the Candy-starring Uncle Buck, worked on multiple Hughes films.
Hughes walked away from directing after the 1991 family film Curly Sue. And while he continued to produce and write (occasionally as Edmond Dantés, a pen name used on the Beethoven movies, Jennifer Lopez’s Maid in Manhattan and the Apatow-produced Drillbit Tayor), he abdicated his angsty crown.
Wrote Variety of Hughes in 2008: He “doesn’t give interviews, has no publicist and lives in Wisconsin.”
BEN STILLER IS FINALLY ONLINE WITH FACEBOOK AND TWITTER! CHECK HIM OUT!
PETER RIVERA, FORMERLY OF “RARE EARTH” & CHARLIE INVITE YOU TO JOIN THEM!
Meet Peter Rivera, formerly of the rock group “Rare Earth” for an hour of music and conversation! Charlie will be checking in from his studio on the phone with Peter!
Here are the coordinates and instructions for the event which starts at Wednesday, August 5th at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET!
The username and password will apply to both pages.
user: ilinklivemusic
pass: celebrate
That will lead to a bandwidth choice page.
The High Bandwidth page will be streaming at about 600K total and I would recommend cable broadband customers only for this page.
The Low Bandwidth choice will be at about 220K total and a solid DSL connection should work well although the quality of picture and sound will be better on the High Bandwidth stream.
If you would like to test their bandwidth, you can do so at http://www.speedtest.net and click on the “rotating star” to get a reading. Any reading above “1.5 Mbps Download” should be good for High Bandwidth. A lower reading will necessitate going to the Low Bandwidth page.
If there is an interruption in audio (the lowest priority for streaming video programmers…..of course) it should easily be restored by simply clicking on the internet browser’s “refresh” button (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome). If the problem is chronic and they’re on the High Bandwidth page, switch to the Low Bandwidth page
THE TWO AMERICAN JOURNALISTS HELD BY NORTH KOREA, LAURA LING AND EUNA LEE, BROUGHT HOME SAFELY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON TO BURBANK AIRPORT IN LOS ANGELES TO AN EMOTIONAL FAMILY REUNION, AFTER BEING FREED BY NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG IL TUESDAY!
PAULA ABDUL IS NOT RETURNING TO “AMERICAN IDOL” FOR THE NEW SEASON!
Paula Abdul’s “American Idol” journey has ended. Less than a week after it was confirmed Kara DioGuardi would be returning to the judges’ table, Abdul wrote on Twitter Tuesday that she will not be back for the show’s ninth season.
“With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all…being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon,” read two tweets posted shortly after 7:30 p.m.
Fox confirmed the news shortly afterward.
“What I want to say most, is how much I appreciate the undying support and enormous love that you have showered upon me,” Abdul continued. “It truly has been breathtaking, especially over the past month.
“I do without any doubt have the BEST fans in the entire world and I love you all.”
“Paula Abdul has been an important part of the American Idol family over the last eight seasons and we are saddened that she has decided not to return to the show,” Fox and producer FremantleMedia North America said in a statement. “While Paula will not be continuing with us, she’s a tremendous talent and we wish her the best.”
Abdul’s rep didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but her manager, David Sonenberg, was rather blunt recently when asked about Abdul’s prospects in the wake of the $45 million deal inked by Ryan Seacrest and the even more mind-boggling sum reportedly being negotiated by Simon Cowell.
Sonenberg told the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago that producers hadn’t even approached Abdul with a number, a lack of action he called “kind of unconscionable and certainly rude and disrespectful.”
An Idol source said that the invested parties made Abdul what they considered to be a “fair offer,” but that she turned them down. And “Kara made her expendable,” the source said.
MICHAEL JACKSON’S MOVIE IS A REALITY: COLUMBIA PICTURES LANDS IT!
Michael Jackson’s final days are coming to a theater—or DVD rack, at least—near you. Sony-owned Columbia Pictures has purchased the rights to the King of Pop’s 2009 rehearsal footage from concert promoter AEG Live for $60 million, according to court documents filed Friday by Jackson’s estate.
MORE RAW REHEARSAL FOOTAGE OF MICHAEL SINGING “SHE’S OUT OF MY LIFE”!
A judge still needs to sign off on the transaction, which would allow Columbia to craft a PG-rated, feature-length film revolving around Jackson’s preparations for what was supposed to be a 50-date comeback engagement in London.
The $60 million encompasses merchandising rights, product tie-ins, a special director’s cut, etc. AEG has said that more than 100 hours of footage exists, though the movie is allowed to be no longer than 150 minutes.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CELEBRATES HIS 48TH BIRTHDAY WITH PRESS ROOM!
President Barack Obama has made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room on his 48th birthday.
Obama carried cupcakes into the room where reporters were gathered to quiz his chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, at the daily briefing. The president took note of another birthday, however. He sat down next to longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas and and noted that she, too, was celebrating a birthday.
Thomas, a columnist with Hearst Newspapers, turned 89 Tuesday. Obama told her: “I will leave it up to you, Helen, how you want to distribute the cupcakes.” Obama joked that Helen was wishing for peace, no prejudice and a health care reform bill.
His own birthday didn’t go unnoticed in White House. Kids on a White House tour sang “Happy Birthday” on the North Portico steps.
Meanwhile, he spent his lunch with most of the Democratic Senate Caucus discussing a new health care bill.
DID YOU SEE THIS BUILDING DEMOLITION EXPLOSION WHICH ALMOST BACKFIRED!
NOW THE LADIES OF “THE VIEW” ARE ARGUING OVER THE COOKIE MONSTER!
During Monday’s Hot Topics segment on “The View”, the conversation between Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd turned acrimonious due not to religion or politics but to Cookie Monster.
Tempers flared when the ladies began discussing Sesame Street’s upcoming healthy eating PSA, in which the ravenous blue cutie is taught about the benefits of smart food choices by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a particularly well-informed stalk of broccoli.
For the ad was Shepherd, who apparently blames C.M. for the poor dietary habits of our nation’s youth. In the other corner was the Whoopi, who had this to say: “Bull! I think it’s stupid!…It’s a puppet!”
KEVIN COSTNER BARELY SURVIVES WIND AND STORM SWEPT CANADA CONCERT!
Kevin Costner and his country band, Modern West, were moments away from taking the stage Saturday, August 1st, at the Big Valley Jamboree, a Canadian music festival, when a major storm hit the venue.
A huge, sudden gust of wind caused the stage to collapse, killing one person and injuring 75. The Field of Dreams star and his bandmates were caught underneath the fallen stage.
Costner offered up this statement following the incident: “We are so sad about the loss of life and injury that occurred on a day that carried so much promise, but turned so wicked so quickly. We hope to return to Alberta in the future to help with the healing.”
That would include participating in any type of benefit for the victims, the actor’s rep said.
