"I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.... "
Colbert has made a name for himself by playing a "willfully ignorant" conservative character first on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and later "The Colbert Report."
The transition will be a big one for fans who only know Colbert's fictional late-night character.
ComiXology offers a well-designed app for buying and reading comic books from more than 75 publishers. It makes it easy to see new comics, which sell for the same price as in store, and it's easy to buy back issues, too. There are also always comics on sale, including collections for a great price.
Although publishers like Marvel offer their own buying and reading apps, comiXology's may be the smoothest and it is the most comprehensive.
Reading comics on a mobile device is a surprisingly good experience. On an iPad you can view the whole page at only slightly smaller size than you would in print. You can also view comics frame-by-frame, which is the only way to do it on an iPhone, and this is a fine experience too.
Digital comic collections won't increase in value like print comics in rare instances can, but they are much easier to store.
Digital comics are also much easier to buy. Only last night I went on by far my biggest and most expensive comic book binge ever, not to mention my first-ever in-app purchase binge, buying issues 103 through 120 of "The Walking Dead." It cost $40. That series is so good and it is so easy to buy comic after comic that I couldn't help myself.
It helps if you share an account with a friend who bought the first 102 comics and who will also enjoy anything you buy (probably in violation of the terms of agreement).
Comics, in case you haven't picked one up recently, are better these days than ever, with many sophisticated stories aimed at adults and creative series even appearing at Marvel and DC, in addition to sometimes less creative mega-crossovers and movie tie-ins.
There are plenty of unknown stories behind popular songs that have become part of our lives.
Some famous songs were initially rejected, written for someone else, by someone else, or have hidden meaning in the lyrics.
From Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" to Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.," learn the surprising stories behind your favorite songs.
Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body” was originally written by Pharrell for Michael Jackson.
One of the best songs on Justin Timberlake's debut solo album, "Justified," was meant for Michael Jackson.
Timberlake's "Rock Your Body," which was also written by Pharrell Williams and The Neptunes, was supposed to be on Michael Jackson's final album "Invincible." However, Jackson's management ultimately rejected the song and it ended up with the beat-boxing Timberlake instead.
For JT, this helped jumpstart his solo career with "Justified" debuting at No. 2 and selling more than 3.5 million copies in the U.S.
Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" was originally written for Celine Dion.
1998's "Armageddon" would have sounded a lot differently if not for Aerosmith's power ballad "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing."
Especially if it went to the artist it was intended for ... Celine Dion.
Since the film starred singer Steven Tyler's daughter Liv, the band was set to write a song for the soundtrack. Yet with the band running low on time and ideas, they went with a song written by Diane Warren for Dion.
Kurt Cobain accidentally named Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" after a deodorant for teenage girls.
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ushered in the age of grunge, and changed music forever.
However, the song takes on a new meaning when you realize its title was a complete accident that had to do with a deodorant for teenage girls.
Katherine Hanna, the lead singer of Bikini Kill (and band mate of Cobain's girlfriend at the time), scribbled the phrase on Cobain's wall as a joke about his smelling like the female deodorant "Teen Spirit."
Cobain — mistaking it for a rebellious phrase — turned it into a song title, helping "Nevermind" to sell 30 million albums worldwide.
On "The Colbert Report" Thursday night, Stephen Colbert addressed his imminent move to "The Late Show" for the first time, in a way that was befitting of the persona he has developed hosting his own show.
Colbert played coy and focused the opening segment of his show in praise of Letterman, who he said had been one of his idols when he was younger.
"I learned more from watching Dave than I did from going to my classes," Colbert said, noting Letterman had started on late night during Colbert's freshman year in college. "Especially the ones I did not go to because I had stayed up until 1:30 watching Dave."
Colbert said Letterman has influenced every host who came after him — and "even a few who came before him, he's that good."
"I have to tell you — I do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair," Colbert said, earning a raucous round of applause from the studio audience. "Those are some huge shoes to fill."
This Sunday marks the beginning of the end for Madison Avenue's most famous ad agency, as the first half of the final 7th season of "Mad Men" premieres on AMC.
But before we begin to say goodbye, here's a refresher of everything you need to know before returning to Sterling Cooper.
Warning: spoilers ahead.
When we last left Don Draper (Jon Hamm) he was still married to his young actress wife, Megan (Jessica Paré).
But he was having an affair with his married neighbor, Sylvia (Linda Cardellini).
The affair goes on until Don's daughter Sally (Kiernan Shipka) catches him in the act.
Later this month, we're finally going to learn the truth about one of the biggest video game myths in history — whether or not Atari buried millions of video game cartridges in a New Mexico town in 1983.
If you're into video games at all, you're probably familiar with the story of Atari's failed "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" game.
If not, here's a brief account of how the legend goes:
To coincide with Steven Spielberg's astronomically successful film "E.T.," Atari purchased the rights to the character for about $22 million to release a game of the same name.
According to VGChartz, the game sold under 2 million units. While it was one of the Atari 2600's better-selling games, it was estimated there were millions of cartridges that went unsold. According to multiple reports, Atari buried those copies in a landfill in Alamogorodo, New Mexico.
A 1983 article in The New York Times confirmed Atari games were indeed disposed of, but there were no mentions of specific titles:
"The company has dumped 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and other computer equipment at the city landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. Guards kept reporters and spectators away from the area yesterday as workers poured concrete over the dumped merchandise. An Atari spokesman said the equipment came from Atari's plant in El Paso, Tex., which used to make videogame cartridges but has now been converted to recycling scrap."
31 years later, Fuel Entertainment, Xbox Entertainment Studios, and LightBox Entertainment have been given permission to excavate the Alamogorodo landfill.
Thursday morning, Xbox announced on its blog it will dig up the location to see what was buried by Atari.
The excavation will be part of an upcoming documentary series from Xbox Entertainment Studios and producers Simon Chinn ("Man on Wire") and Jonathan Chinn (". It will be directed by Zak Penn ("The Avengers").
Microsoft is welcoming spectators to come to the dig site that will take place Sunday, April 26 from 9:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Here's the address:
Alamogordo Landfill
4276 Highway 54 S Alamogordo, NM 88310 (Near First Street and White Sands Boulevard)
At the end of the day, it would be tough to tell whether the E.T. games were buried since reports say the cartridges were crushed and ultimately covered with cement but it may finally put to rest a video game legend.
Just a day after Christopher Evan Welch landed a career-making role on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” he received some heartbreaking news. The lung cancer he’d been battling successfully since the fall of 2010 had spread to his brain.
Chris was sitting with his wife, Emma, and his doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. “I have to go shoot this pilot,” he said, stunned.
Welch was 47. Before his diagnosis, he’d been a fanatical cyclist, winging around Central Park on his fixed-gear bike, his thin brown hair flying behind him. Nobody could say why the cancer had attacked his lungs, then his prostate, and now his brain. He was a casual smoker, and he enjoyed the occasional steak at Keens, but so did lots of people. Maybe the weeks Chris spent after the 9/11 attacks helping out at ground zero were a factor. Or maybe it was all just the result of some horrible mutation that lay dormant in his DNA all along.
With aggressive treatment, Chris and the doctors had kept the tumors at bay so far. The latest news was bad, but he and Emma were used to that. One more fight in a grim slog.
It was agreed the surgery could be put off for a month, and Chris went to Los Angeles, where he created the role of comedically awkward, creepily soft-spoken angel investor Peter Gregory.
Based loosely on the slightly less awkward, creepily soft-spoken PayPal cofounder and Facebook angel Peter Thiel, Gregory is a linchpin of the series, funding the startup, Pied Piper, around which the action revolves. More than that, he’s a poster boy for the tech world’s imperiousness, its brilliance, and its odd alienation from the very world it is forever trying to make “a better place,” as one character after another puts it in one of the show's running gags.
Welch shot five episodes before further complications related to the cancer took his life this past December.
While the show is charming and keenly observed, and will likely thrive even in his absence, watching Peter Gregory, TED-talk Socrates and sesame-seed tycoon, drive his absurdly narrow Smart car off into the Northern California sunset won’t be easy.
Judge has long specialized in wounded, insecure, painfully uncomfortable men (from “Beavis & Butthead” and “King of the Hill” to “Office Space”), and despite Peter Gregory’s brief time on screen, he is already among the most indelible. Amid a cast that often seems like a taxonomy of male social inadequacy, Gregory is the most awkward of them all. Letting his hands dangle helplessly like a neurasthenic T. rex, speaking with an exaggerated formality, he’s a ridiculous, magnetic, and deeply human figure — the irreplaceable heart of the show.
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Lanky and floppy-haired, Welch grew up in Dallas, the oldest child of a Korean War vet and a homemaker and entrepreneur. A theater geek in high school, he attended the University of Dallas on a full scholarship, then went on to grad school in Seattle, where he fronted the Ottoman Bigwigs, a brainy indie-rock band with a small but devoted cult following.
He arrived in New York in 1997, appearing in a revival of Molière’s “Scapin,” opposite neo-vaudevillian Bill Irwin, delivering a slapstick tour de force that The New York Times called “a sensational debut.”
In the years that followed, Welch built up an impressive career as a character actor, one vaguely familiar to anyone paying close attention but, as Vulture rightly noted, maddeningly hard to place. Except for one unhappy attempt to wait tables in Dallas during college, he made his living — modest though it was — exclusively as an actor.
Welch did his share of “Law & Order” episodes, like every New York actor, and was a regular presence off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. He made it to Broadway a couple times as well, most notably as the tormented Reverend Parris in a 2002 production of “The Crucible,” opposite Laura Linney and Liam Neeson. But he also did plenty of experimental and regional theater, and it was while appearing in an out-of-town show, a 2005 revival of J.M. Barrie’s “Dear Brutus” in Westport, Conn., that he first met Emma Roberts. “We played husband and wife, and we wound up falling madly in love,” she remembers.
Chris could be snobby about doing commercials, although as an obsessive newspaper reader he was thrilled to land a New York Times ad. He had a great voice. He narrated Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona,” and made decent money reading audiobooks, including the young adult “Last Apprentice” series, “The Imperfectionists,” and John Grisham’s “Playing for Pizza.”
He was a big guy, over six feet, but he exuded vulnerability. His face, hawkish but soft, had something of a permanent wince about it, as if he expected to be smacked at any moment. Even when he played smarmy or sinister, that fearful look around his eyes, that cosmic flinch, made him relatable and drew audiences in.
He became a regular on AMC’s short-lived spy series “Rubicon” and, especially in recent years, began building an impressive film resume, turning in uniformly stellar work in small roles — in films like “Lincoln,” “The Master,” and “Synecdoche, New York” — the latter two of which co-starred his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose death just two months to the day after Chris’ dealt a further blow to New York’s tightly knit theater community. In light of the two losses, Welch’s existential barn-burner of a speech in “Synecdoche,” a performance he pulled together with just 24 hours’ notice, is shattering.
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It started with a persistent cough, which led to an X-ray, which led to a CT scan. This was in 2010. A radiologist diagnosed Welch with stage IIIA lung cancer. Emma was six months pregnant.
The doctors wanted to admit him immediately, but Welch was in a play, “The Little Foxes,” at the New York Theatre Workshop, and like most stage actors, he was determined never to miss a performance. Besides, they needed to process the news. “We’re getting out of here and we are both going to drink a glass of wine,” Emma said. “I don’t care if I’m pregnant.”
Welch went onstage later that night. Then, even as he began chemo, he continued the run while spending his days rehearsing for yet another show he’d been offered, “The Coward.” He finished that run as well. Once he even went on after waking up from general anesthesia.
Things kept happening; life marched along.
A few weeks after “The Coward” closed, their daughter, June Harper, was born.
The lung surgery happened not long after that.
Chris’ health was much improved by February 2013 when his agent called to tell him about “Silicon Valley.” The producers wanted him to read for either one of the rival Internet moguls, Gavin Belson or Peter Gregory, and he picked Gregory. Since he had to stay in New York, where he was appearing in an off-Broadway show, “The Madrid,” with Edie Falco, he taped his audition. Chris knew basically nothing about the tech world. Except for an addiction to Words With Friends on his iPhone, he was basically computer illiterate. But out of the blue, he decided to give Peter Gregory an odd vocal inflection. “I’m setting my voice back in this weird way,” he told Emma excitedly. He felt instantly he’d found the character.
Chris didn’t know then how right the choice was, but as it happens, Peter Thiel also happens to speak rather haltingly. Chris was offered the role immediately.
The timing was perfect. With the illness, Chris hadn’t been working as much, and money was tight. Suddenly, things were looking up. Every actor dreams of an HBO series. “This was the job that changes the game,” Emma says.
After taping the pilot, Chris underwent surgery to remove the brain tumor, and the operation was declared a success. But then came yet another blow. His blood-cell counts were dropping, and the doctors diagnosed AML, acute myeloid leukemia, most likely brought on by the earlier radiation treatments.
“He was just really unlucky,” Emma says. “So unlucky.”
There was really nothing to do but keep fighting. After a grueling summer, including six weeks in the hospital and repeated visits to the emergency room, Welch began what seemed like a miraculous recovery. “The lung had been removed and that was the end of it,” Emma recalls. “The brain was fine, the leukemia was in remission, the prostate was under control.” During a physical with a doctor working with the network — a standard requirement for an actor signing on to a TV series — he disclosed his medical history and was declared fit for the job. “You’d be surprised how many people I see who have cancer,” the doctor told him.
“We thought we were home free,” Emma says.
Chris and Emma moved into a rented bungalow in Santa Monica with June, who was then 2. He was in remission and holding steady. They were living near friends, in a great house a few blocks from the beach. Welch was needed on set only a couple of days a week, and the rest of his time he devoted to June, playing elaborate games, telling stories, singing songs, and going to the park.
Things were good. Welch enjoyed being “the old guy” on a set full of young comics, and he was thrilled to discover that one of the show’s producers was Clay Tarver, guitarist for one of his favorite bands, Chavez. Mostly, he loved inventing Peter Gregory. “I’m just locked in,” he said. He even began to fantasize about being nominated for an Emmy.
The work seemed to be contributing to his recovery. He was putting on weight and feeling healthier than he had in awhile.
Then, the show took a break for Thanksgiving.
The Sunday after the holiday, Chris suddenly felt awful. He couldn’t get out of bed. He was vomiting, and his blood pressure dipped. There’d been rough days before, though. Nobody panicked. Emma started making calls, first to the ambulance, then to some friends, to come look after June.
“Do I need to make a call to HBO?” she asked.
“I don’t know, maybe,” Chris replied.
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That evening, Chris lay in intensive care with Emma by his side. He was suffering from septic shock. Five hours after heading to the hospital, in the early hours of Dec. 2, his heart gave out.
Emma thinks it may be for the best that Chris died the way he did — so suddenly, during such a high point, without time to brood about what he’d be missing. The last months of his life were idyllic, she said. June missed her dad, of course, but she was just 3. She would be OK. And Chris had written to her in case something happened — letter after letter she could reread when she was old enough.
But Chris was a dedicated performer, and knowing that he wouldn’t be able to finish what he’d started on “Silicon Valley” would have been unbearable in its own way. It was good he was spared that.
Faced with a similar situation, many producers might well have opted to put off a show’s premiere and reshoot a character’s scenes with another actor in the role.
Executive producers Mike Judge and Alec Berg never even considered it. “The brilliance of Chris’ performance is irreplaceable, and inspired us in our writing of the series,” they said in a joint statement. It was bad enough that they had to rewrite subsequent episodes in which Peter Gregory was originally going to appear, reimagining several major story points. “Cutting Chris out of those scripts was among the most difficult things we have ever had to do as writers,” they added. “The entire ordeal was heartbreaking. But we are incredibly grateful to have worked with him in the brief time we had together. Our show and our lives are vastly richer for his having been in them."
For the series' viewers, too, the loss will be acutely felt. We won’t have seen nearly enough of Peter Gregory or of Christopher Evan Welch. Then again, it was so nice getting to know them both.
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Emma Roberts Welch was kind enough to share a video their friend Jennifer Kleinman put together for Chris' memorial service. It's a beautiful tribute to his life and career.
And here, a wonderful track from the Ottoman Bigwigs' self-titled 1996 album, with Chris on vocals.
A 30-year-old Tosh.0 production assistant was shot and killed in West Hollywood, Calif. on Monday, after a trio of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department mistook him for the suspect in a stabbing incident, opening fire and hitting him once.
John Winkler, who worked on the Comedy Central viral video lampoon, had been on the premises of the Palm Avenue apartment complex visiting friends in a neighboring unit when he became involved in the hostage incident after hearing screams, officials said.
“The apartment door suddenly opened and a male victim came rushing out,” Sheriff’s officials said in a statement. “He was covered in blood and bleeding profusely from the neck.
Officials continued, “Winkler ran out of the door, lunging at the back of the fleeing victim,” and both of the people were running “directly at the deputies.”
According to authorities, “Winkler was similar to the description of the suspect and was wearing a black shirt,” and “believing Winkler was the assailant and the assault was ongoing and he would attack the entry team, three deputies fired their duty weapons at him.”
The actual suspect, a 26-year-old man named Alexander Tor McDonald, was arrested in connection with murder, attempted murder and torture, and has been held on $4 million bail after pleading not guilty to the charges in a hearing Thursday. He returns to court May 8.
Winkler, a Washington state native, had hoped to be a TV producer. Tosh had yet to address the incident on his Twitter page early Friday.
We’ll keep you updated on the latest in this story.
The buyer is reportedly CBS President and CEO Les Moonves.
Allen paid $25 million for the gorgeous white-walled contemporary home in 2010, though he apparently spent little time there since the sound of the ocean kept him up at night, a source told the Post. He "hated the sound of the ocean," the source said.
The house is located on Malibu's ultra-pricey Carbon Beach, a stretch of oceanfront property that's been dubbed "Billionaire's Beach" for its many high-profile residents. David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Eli Broad, and Larry Ellison all own property here, with Ellison owning as many as a dozen.
There are plenty of legendary addresses in New York City, but 15 Central Park West stands out.
The ultra-luxury condominium on the corner of West 61st St. and Central Park West has been home to a long list of bankers, celebrities, and assorted bold-faced names, including Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Sting.
Completed in 2008 by developers Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf, it offers a ridiculous array of amenities to New York's moneyed elite, including an in-house chef, a skylighted lap pool, and a private screening room.
15 Central Park West took three years and about $1 billion to construct, including the land. It was an immediate success, ringing up $2 billion in sales. Even today, the building continues to break real-estate sales records.
15 CPW architect Robert A.M Stern was inspired by the great New York apartments of the 1920s, not today's glassy towers. The building has two sections with 201 units total, as well as a formal driveway.
Here's a pretty neat feature of Verizon's FiOS app for the iPhone — You can see what's trending on FiOS.
This reminds us of the Internet, where traffic is easily measured. It's not too hard to get an idea about which webpages are popular. It only makes sense that Verizon can measure the same for TV shows.
We asked Verizon for an in-depth explanation of what this really means, and here's what he said:
"This feature of the My FiOS App grew out of some customers saying 'there are so many channels we don’t know what to watch.' The 'Trending' feature is designed to give customers an aggregate view of what our 5.3 million FiOS TV customers (as of year-end 2013) are watching across the national footprint. That aggregate view is collected from our various Video Hub Offices every 15 minutes. The thought is that when there isn’t an event happening – like the upcoming MTV Awards or the Academy Awards, Grammy’s, Super Bowl, etc. customers can get an idea of what everyone else is watching and check it out – either by tuning to the channel or recording it directly from the App, or of course by going to the Interactive Media Guide on the TV system."
Here's a look at what's been popular today at different times of the day:
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" doesn't come out until next month but we're already seeing a ton of early reviews for the sequel.
Although the reviews seem positive, with a very healthy 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, many reviewers have noted its overriding focus on setting up sequels and spin-offs — in other words an attempt to replicate Disney’s superhero success at theaters.
That may leave a bit of a bad taste in moviegoer's mouths.
"There’s great action and compelling performances – Garfield is Spider-Man – but there’s also an obvious pressure to rapidly expand the Spider-Man universe that threatens to derail the film at points."
"The intention is clear – Sony wants their own expanded universe to rival Marvel, since Spidey joining the Avengers will remain the stuff of Garfield and other fans’ dreams. Paul Giamatti’s Rhino and Felicity Jones’s Felicia Hardy are given glorified cameos clearly designed to pay off down the line, in ASM3 or ASM4 or the already-promised Sinister Six spinoff.
What all this means is that the film often seems more focused on franchise-building than storytelling, nowhere more so than in its final few scenes."
"It's wildly overstuffed. Sony seems to have taken the lesson from the mammoth success of "The Avengers" that people want an abundance of characters in their superhero movies, but the script from J.J. Abrams acolytes Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci flits around from plotline to plotline shapelessly, and the result is something bloated, that at 141 minutes, is way too long."
"Plans are already afoot for installments 3, 4 and Venom and Sinister Six spinoff movies, and that feels like a big a part of the problem here -Amazing Spider-Man 2 seems more like an exercise in calculated franchise architecture than its does a cohesive stand-alone blockbuster.”
Since "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" it feels like every impending superhero movie will ultimately have some sort of set up toward a larger franchise.
Still, the movie, out in theaters May 2, should be an enjoyable one.
Many reviews praise director Marc Webb's action sequences — a NYC Times Square scene that’s been heavily promoted stands out — and the romantic storyline between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone on screen.
A grieving father whose son died heroically fighting in Afghanistan inspired a hit country song that recently won an Academy of Country Music Award.
Two years ago, Paul Monti said on a public radio program that he drives his son Jared Monti’s truck to help remember him. "It's him. It's got his DNA all over it,” Monti said on the show "Here and Now."
“I love driving it because it reminds me of him, though I don't need the truck to remind me of him," he added. "I think about him every hour of every day."
Sergeant First Class Jared Monti was killed in action in a 2006 Afghanistan battle when he tried to save a wounded comrade. The effort earned him the Medal of Honor posthumously.
After Monti's death, the mother of another soldier killed in the same battle — who also drives her son’s truck — urged Monti to listen to a popular country song called “I Drive Your Truck.”
The song was particularly moving to Monti since it resembled his life so eerily. “I remember not being able to listen to the entire song; I'd get into it a few bars or so, and just kind of welled up,” Monti said, in an interview with the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered."
Despite the obvious similarities, Monti had no idea the song was inspired by him. “I wondered who wrote this song,” he said.
That was songwriter Connie Harrington, who listened to Monti’s comments on the radio two years ago. While driving, she frantically scribbled notes when Monti said he hasn’t cleaned the truck since before his son’s death and is happy driving it despite the poor gas mileage. “I’m crying and driving and I'm trying not to run off the road,” recalled Harrington of that moment.
Performed by country singer Lee Brice, “I Drive Your Truck” won Song of the Year April 6 at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Harrington recently contacted Monti to let him know his words had inspired the hit song. Watch the music video below to see the similarities.
If you made it to the end of that music video, you've heard more of the song than Monti, who admits he hasn't listened to it all the way through because it is too emotional.
According to Tapper, Jared cared more about helping others than obeying strict Army rules. While serving in Kosovo, Jared personally drove Muslim kids to their schools to prevent Christians from harassing them. When he stopped a private from beating up on another, Jared was demoted for touching a soldier of lower rank.
In 2006, Jared was one of 16 American soldiers ambushed on a high Afghanistan ridge by approximately 50 enemy fighters with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
A soldier named Brian Bradbury lay wounded in the open closest to the enemy’s position, 60 feet from his comrades. Jared volunteered to rescue him, exposing himself to overwhelming enemy fire from three directions. On his third attempt to reach Bradbury, Jared was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade that stopped him in his tracks.
He was in excruciating pain, but the intense fire prevented rescue from his comrades, who tried to soothe Jared by asking him questions about home. Tapper documented Jared’s final words to his comrades: “Tell my mom and dad I love them. Tell them I made my peace with God.”
In his interview with NPR, Monti describes his son as the type of person who always did what was right and never gave up on anything. “Trying to save Brian Bradbury and going out to get him not once or twice, but three times was just — well, that’s Jared — he won’t give up,” Monti said.
Soon-to-be -married "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara just dropped $10.6 million on a villa in the heart of Beverly Hills, according to Trulia.
The 11,400-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, including a master suite with separate his and hers closets and a balcony terrace. The estate grounds include a pool, spa and room for two maids to live.
The Colombian-born beauty is the highest-paid actress on television for the second year in a row, according to Forbes, bringing in $30 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Her fiance is businessman Nick Loeb who is related to the founders of Lehman Brothers and his uncle is the late Canadian Billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Of course, most of us might end up on its radar through some suspect tax deductions or filing errors— not because a major publication announced our estimated salary to the world.
In the case of Gisele Bundchen — international super model, wife of Tom Brady, and commissioner of gargantuan mansions— that may be exactly what happened.
Bundchen wasn't exactly thrilled to spend seven years on the 2013 Forbes report of the world's highest-paid models, which again named her as number one in 2013 with $42 million in earnings.
"I have been audited in the U.S. because of the Forbes list," she told Brazilian publication MdeMulher in an interview translated from Portuguese by Vogue. "And frankly, whether or not I'm in this ranking, I do not care."
Unsurprisingly, she didn't confirm the salary that put her at the top of the list. "It's sad, because the people who write these things don't have my bank account details," Bundchen said. "I do OK, I earn plenty, but not as much as they say."
Television fans and advertising industry insiders alike are rapt with anticipation of Mad Men's seventh and final season.
To celebrate, AMC and Attack! Marketing teamed up to install a 200-gallon Scotch glass outside Madison Square Garden. As the season premiere approaches, liquid will drain out of the glass, emptying right when Mad Men goes on the air Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern.
When asked, Attack! Marketing vp Pete D'Andrea told Adweek that the liquid in question is, in fact, real scotch.
Barbara Corcoran, an investor on "Shark Tank," tells us what really happens between investors on the hit TV show, and how Mark Cuban makes his investment decisions.
Produced by Justin Gmoser. Originally published in November 2013.
"Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage is known as the laid back fun loving Tyrion Lannister on the popular HBO series, but in real life there's one thing that irks him.
While the actor said he's generally a private person the only thing that upsets him is people trying to sneakily take his photo.
"One thing that sort of gets to you are the cameras/cellphones," Dinklage wrote. "People try to be sneaky and try to get your picture without coming up to you or asking, and that’s what kind of gets to me."
Dinklage added he has seen "every combination" of people trying to get his photo.
"Some people will even send their kids over to ask for directions!" he said.
Instead of being embarrassed or trying snap a quick shot, the actor said he rather have fans muster up the courage and ask for a picture.
"If you see me on the street and want a photo, ask!" he said wrapping up the AMA. "It's just weird when your kid asks for directions."
Although many fans don't know what to expect, Colbert has proved himself as a smart and hilarious guy ever since growing up the youngest of 11 children in a Southern Catholic family.
The youngest of 11 children, Stephen Colbert was born in Washington, D.C. on May 13, 1964.
Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, his interest in acting was sparked by parts in several school plays.
It helped that he grew up in a home full of singing and dancing. His actress mother, Lorna, taught him how to do stage falls by pretending to faint on the kitchen floor.
For more than 50 years, actor Jonathan Goldsmith worked as a journeyman actor before landing his iconic role as "The Most Interesting Man In The World."
The Dos Equis spokesperson accumulated hundreds of credits in movies and television shows.
During a visit to his farmhouse in rural Vermont, Goldsmith regaled us with stories about his run-ins with Hollywood legends such as Dustin Hoffman, John Wayne, and Warren Beatty.
Reading comics on a mobile device is a surprisingly good experience. On an iPad you can view the whole page at only slightly smaller size than you would in print. You can also view comics frame-by-frame, which is the only way to do it on an iPhone, and this is a fine experience too.
Welch did his share of “Law & Order” episodes, like every New York actor, and was a regular presence off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. He made it to Broadway a couple times as well, most notably as the tormented Reverend Parris in a 2002 production of “The Crucible,” opposite Laura Linney and Liam Neeson. But he also did plenty of experimental and regional theater, and it was while appearing in an out-of-town show, a 2005 revival of J.M. Barrie’s “Dear Brutus” in Westport, Conn., that he first met Emma Roberts. “We played husband and wife, and we wound up falling madly in love,” she remembers.
He became a regular on AMC’s short-lived spy series “Rubicon” and, especially in recent years, began building 
Chris and Emma moved into a rented bungalow in Santa Monica with June, who was then 2. He was in remission and holding steady. They were living near friends, in a great house a few blocks from the beach. Welch was needed on set only a couple of days a week, and the rest of his time he devoted to June, playing elaborate games, telling stories, singing songs, and going to the park.
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A grieving father whose son died heroically fighting in Afghanistan inspired a hit country song that recently won an 
Soon-to-be -married "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara just dropped $10.6 million on a villa in the heart of Beverly Hills, 
