Former Kettering resident Drew Hastings will keep em chuckling during a benefit show for Dr. Creep and his medical expenses called “Comedy for a Cause,” 8 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at Wiley’s Comedy Nightclub, 101 Pine St., Dayton.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Wiley’s or Jackass Flatts, 6024 Rip Rap Road.
Dr. Creep (Dayton Daily News)
Dr. Creep, Dayton’s “legendary horror host,” has had a string of serious medial problems including strokes.
He hosted Shock Theatre locally between 1972 and 1985. Learn more about Dr. Creep (Barry Hobart) and his show at Drcreep.com.
Hastings will have four nights of comedy shows. The other times are 9 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $5 to $12 depending on the night.
Visit wileyscomedyclub.com or call (937) 224-JOKE (5653) for more information.
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It’s a nice space, but Kiersten Fenton and Chad Rowland won’t wed at the American Legion in Fairborn after all.
That’s because the pair’s wedding day budget has been upgraded from $6,000.
The Englewood couple learned today, Monday, March 15, that they are the winners of Bridal-N-Tux’s “25,000 Reasons to Say I Do” drawing.
The new day includes amenities and services from Stafford’s Jewelers, Little Miami River Catering, Childer’s Photography, Flower Shoppe, The Cakery, Prime Time Party Rental, Beats Feet, Salon Reveal, Mark Lang Video, Entertainment Unlimited Events and Eric Lane Entertainment.
The ceremony and reception will be held at Carillon Historical Park.
Fenton was selected randomly from nearly a thousand entries submitted during the four week contest, said Scott Wells, owner of Bridal-N-Tux.
“Everything taken care of she doesn’t have to worry about anything,” Wells said. “I am sure her mom and dad are breathing a sigh of relief.”
Fenton, a secretary at Dayton’s Patterson Kennedy Elementary School said she and a coworker/ bridesmaid got the news Monday morning.
“We went crazy ,” the 25-year-old said. “I am very grateful.”
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The Las Vegas woman forever known for the finger licking scam she tried to pull on Wendy’s in 2005 admitted recently how she prepared the finger she falsely claimed came with her Wendy’s chilli, CBS affiliate KPIX-TV said.
“I cooked it,” Anna Ayala said.
(PAUL SAKUMA/ASSOCIATED PRESS )
Gross!!
It seems Ayala prepared her co-worker’s finger in chili similar to that made at Wendy’s, the TV station reports.
Ayala was released from prison a year ago after serving 4 years of her sentence.
As a condition of her parole, she cannot go in to a Wendy’s.
The finger was traced back to Ayala’s co-worker who lost it in an work accident. The co-worker gave it to Ayala’s husband to settle a bet.
There were plenty of jokes made about the case. But Wendy’s wasn’t laughing.
Based in Dublin, Ohio, the fast food chain claimed it lost $2.5 million in sales because of the bad publicity.
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Solid Rock Church’s Jesus statue off I-75 in Monroe, officially named “King of Kings” and constructed in 2004, has its detractors, admirers and a handful of nicknames - Touchdown Jesus, Quicksand Jesus, I Can’t Believe its not Butter Jesus, etc.
For better or worse, Huffington posted called the 16,000 pound steel, wood and styrofoam sculpture “Big Butter Jesus in all its artery clogging glory.”
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A role on “Glee” might be a ride to Cincinnati or a video upload away.
Cincinnati FOX19 and Cincinnati Bell will host live auditions noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Great Hall in Tangeman University Center on the University of Cincinnati campus for those dreaming of being on the popular FOX show.
(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Glee is having a national casting call for three new roles that will be added to the show’s second season.
The FOX19 audition could be an advantage. The station will produce a submission for the winner of its contest and send it directly to Glee casting producer.
Audition participants must be between ages 16-26 and able to belt out “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going,” “Gold Digger,” “Keep Holding On,” “True Colors,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Lean On Me,” “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “Sweet Caroline,” “Hate On Me,” “Rehab,” “Take A Bow,” or “Can’t Fight This Feeling.”
If hitting the road isn’t in the cards, upload a short video - 60 seconds or less - explaining why you should be the next Glee cast member.
According to FOX 19’s website, ten winners will be selected at the live audition. Nine others will be selected by online voting from the online submissions.
The 19 will compete on April 19.
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Larry King played the role of Beyonce Knowles on his CNN talk show Monday, March 8, giving Kanye’d documentary producer/director Roger Ross Williams a chance to finish his interrupted Oscar acceptance speech.
After a mad dash to the Oscar stage Sunday night, Williams’ co-producer on “Music by Prudence” did her best impression of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift last year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
In talking over Williams during his acceptance of the Oscar for short documentary, Elinor Burkett provided one of the more interesting moments of 2010 Oscars.
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(“Music by Prudence” beat ‘The Last Truck’ about the 2008 closure the Moraine GM Plant.)
Salon.com says reported about the bad blood between Williams and Burkett.
Here’s what the website reports Burkett saying about the situation:
BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.
Here’s what Salon has Williams saying:
WILLIAMS: Only one person is allowed to accept the award. I was the director, and she was removed from the project nearly a year ago, but she was able to still qualify as a producer on the project, and be an official nominee. But she was very angry — she actually removed herself from the project - because she wanted more creative control.
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Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian wear dresses, but that doesn’t mean they look like ladies.
“Project Runway” fashion guru Tim Gunn thinks the sisters look a lot on the trampy side.
He once again slammed the reality stars’ skintight, skank ‘style.’
(AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
“While it may have some sexiness to it, I find that it’s largely vulgar. I find it has a cheapness and a tawdriness,” Gunn said Thursday, March 4, on Joy Behar ‘s CNN Headline News show. “Now I am going to have to worry about the Kardashian sisters attacking me with Naomi Campbell.”
(AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
This isn’t the first time Gunn has slammed the K sisters and their digs. He particularly does not like the line the trio created for bebe and released last month.
“I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty snob, but it bothers me,” he said in an interview with Wonderwall.
In a Twitter interview with the website posted today, Friday, March 5, Khloe Kardashian let Gunn’s smack talk roll off her back.
@WonderwallMSN:What would you say to people like Tim Gunn who have questioned your fashion designer creds?
@KhloeKardashian: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and everyone has a different sense of style. I love criticism! It makes us all better.
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Internet Explorer Six will not slip quietly into the night.
Nope.
More than a hundred computer geeks and fans are expected to attend a funeral for the outdated browser 7 p.m. today, Thursday, March 4, in Denver.
Aten Design announced the death of Internet Explorer 6 on the tongue-in-cheek website ie6funeral.com. It features an obit of sorts:
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.
IE6 isn’t dead exactly, but as CNN explains, its becoming obsolete and running out of friends. Younger, faster, cuter browser are replacing it in the hearts and minds of the computing public.
Google Docs and Google Sites stop supporting the still widely used browser Monday and YouTube will do the same March 13, CNN says.
The ‘funeral’ will include a “casket, a body, and from all appearances, mourners a-plenty,” an Aten representative told tomshardware.com.
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The American team wasn’t the only thing setting records for victories at the recently completed Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
The condom also scored gold, according to Canada’s CBC.
The news agency reported that Canadian health officials handed out more than 100,000 condoms to the game’s 7,000 athletes just halfway through the Olympics - that’s more than 14 condoms each.
Responding to the dangerously diminished supply, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS came to the rescue, kicking in at least 8,500 condoms.
Official suspect this is the first time an Olympics games has suffered a shortage of free condoms since they were first distributed at the Barcelona games in 1992 Games, the CBC reported.
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Proving that politicians are always funnier after they leave office, former President George Bush cracked on his own reputation while talking about his book to be released this November, Politico reports.
“This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one,” Bush said Friday, Feb. 26, at a Bush Cheney Alumni Association at a Washington hotel.
Look to the left, look to the right… George Bush apparent didn’t mind when those guys yapped. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Bush, the 43rd president, said he is trying to stay out of the public eye.
“I have no desire to see myself on television. I don’t want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do,” he said according to Politico. “I’m trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn’t like it when a certain former president — and it wasn’t 41 or 42 — made my life miserable.”
Bush’s joke was apparently about Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.
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Dr. Creep is a good and kind soul. I wish him the best. My friends and I will be at the show.