Image via WENN Warren Moon Accused Of Sexual Assault By Ex-Employee Add another name to the ever-growing list of high-profile men who have been outed, accused and sued for sexual misconduct. According to a report in the Seattle Times , a former employee of NFL legend Warren Moon alleges that he forced her to sleep in his bed on business trips while wearing a thong. That’s not even the worst of it. Wendy Haskell also charges Moon with grabbing her forcibly by the crotch in addition to taking off her bikini bottoms after slipping drugs into her drink. Yeah. Moon hasn’t commented on the accusations, but he is taking a leave of absence from his gig as a Seattle Seahawks radio analyst.
AP Photo/Mike McCarn The joys of being black…. Kam Chancellor Mistaken For Robber At Gym Super Bowl champ and four-time Pro Bowler Kam Chancellor was disgusted this week when he went to a gym with hopes of purchasing it, and had the cops called on him. The Seattle Times reports: Redmond police on Wednesday night confirmed that Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor was involved in an incident that led to a 911 call at the Redmond Athletic Club. The incident first came to light when Chancellor tweeted Wednesday night that two women had reported him to police because he was checking out the gym, which closed for business Monday. He said he was interested in buying it. Becky Range, the public information officer for the Redmond Police Department, described the incident as a misunderstanding. Range confirmed that a 911 call from the club was made to Redmond police at 4:25 p., Range said Chancellor was among five adults who, according to the club employee, were outside, banging on the door and looking in the window. “The employees thought the five individuals were trying to gain entry into the facility,’’ Range said. Range said the employees “felt unsettled’’ and called the police. The club had lost its lease and closed Monday. Range said Redmond police officers arrived as Chancellor and four other individuals were leaving. “It was a positive interaction,’’ Range said. “They (the officers) said, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ and that’s when the group said they were just here to check out the facility. They were really easy to talk to, and they said our officers were really nice and they left without incident and no police report was filed.’’ Chancellor has run fitness boot camps for women in past off-season. Kam is rightfully perturbed by the incident and added some more heated tweets to his account. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Hit the flip to see them…
Splash News Seahawks Suspend Derrick Coleman After Hit-And-Run Charges Why would he leave the scene of an accident??! Via USA Today : Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman has been suspended indefinitely after he was arrested for hit-and-run Wednesday evening. Coleman was initially denied bail and remained in a Seattle-area jail Thursday morning. According to King County jail records, he is facing a felony charge of hit-and-run and vehicular assault. He was booked shortly after 1 a.m. PT. The Seattle Times reported Thursday that police in Bellevue, Wash., said Coleman walked away from a crash in which the driver of another car appeared to suffer a broken collarbone. Coleman, one of the Seahawks’ better special teams players, is legally deaf. He became famous when he was featured in a commercial for Duracell batteries in January 2014. The Seahawks’ quick decision to suspend Coleman is a notable difference from how punishment is typically handled for players arrested during the season, with teams typically deferring to the NFL to handle discipline pending the outcome of the legal process. A suspension is the least of this guy’s troubles.
A school shooting at a high school in Marysville, Washington, about 35 miles from Seattle, has reportedly taken place today, but appears to have ended. The shooter is reportedly dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police sources told the Seattle Times, in the incident at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Washington School Shooting Local news stations are reporting that several people have been injured, but police, who responded to calls of shots being fired, have not confirmed. A nurse at Providence Regional Hospital told a CBS News affiliate that three patients were brought in with gunshot wounds and a fourth is expected. One reportedly sustained a gunshot wound to the head. The school is in lockdown, according to KIRO 7 TV. Three students and a teacher reported gunshots , according to the TV station. The gunman reportedly stood on a table in the cafeteria and opened fire. A large police response to the reported shooting was dispatched immediately, while Marysville School District released the following statement: “The Marysville Pilchuck High School is currently in lock down due to an emergency situation. Police and emergency services have responded.” “The Marysville School District lock down procedures will remain in effect at Marysville Pilchuck until further notice from law enforcement.” “We will continue to forward communication in cooperation with law enforcement.” Story developing …
Gunman Opens Fire At Washington State High School via Fox News DEVELOPING: Police responded Friday to a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Wash. Local television stations reported that two people were being airlifted to a hospital. Details of the shooting were not immediately clear, but students could be seen exiting the school with their arms raised. The shooting was first reported at 10:45 a.m. The Seattle Times reported that police are searching the school with guns drawn
Most critics think the comedy about cancer proves anything can be funny. By Eric Ditzian Anna Kendrick and Joseph Gordon Levitt in “50/50” Photo: Summit Entertainment When Will Reiser first found out he had cancer, he and his comedy-writer buddies (including Seth Rogen and “Pineapple Express” scribe Evan Goldberg) would jokingly wonder if Reiser’s disease would bring them all a Make-a-Wish opportunity to hang with Led Zeppelin. That rock-and-roll dream never came true, but Reiser’s battle with, and eventual remission from, cancer did gift them all with one thing: “50/50,” a comedy (out now) that is drawing rave reviews from critics and is being discussed as a possible contender come awards season. Though not all reviewers have found it easy to find yuks in a deadly serious topic, far more point to the film as an example that nothing is out of bounds when it comes to art and comedy; handled deftly, anything can lead to laughter and learning. The Story “Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a nice guy with a great job at a Seattle NPR station, a promising relationship with up-and-coming artist Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard), a best-friend-since-high-school named Kyle (Seth Rogen) to hang with — and, as he learns to his horror in a doctor’s office, cancer. … Also woven deftly into the mixture is Anna Kendrick as a young (very young) therapist assigned to work with Adam; [Anjelica] Huston as the kind of mother who explains ‘I want you to know that I smothered him because I love him’ to anyone who will listen. … It’s not a perfect movie, but it doesn’t matter. ’50/50′ takes on a bold subject and makes us laugh and cry. I thought I didn’t want to see a cancer comedy; I was wrong.” — Moira McDonald, The Seattle Times The Laughs “Scenes where the pals trash a piece of once-important memorabilia in a backyard rampage and the after-effects of pot-laden cookies scored at the chemotherapy clinic show loopily grinning Gordon-Levitt at his best. Kudos to [director Jonathan] Levine for not letting Rogen’s very funny comedic bits overshadow the proceedings. The actor dials it down ever so slightly and isn’t afraid to be the butt of jokes — watch for Gordon-Levitt’s spot-on Rogen impersonation. The suggestion a bald head and a cancer diagnosis could be the ultimate pickup leverage leads Adam and Kyle into funny territory. But the hilarity turns with the exploration of deeper relationships as Adam finds new friends among the genial stoners of all ages at the chemo clinic.” — Linda Barnard, Toronto Star The Writing “[Reiser] draws on his personal battle with a rare form of that disease. His success rate in the delicate balance between comedy and the profound devastation of such an illness is much greater than 50/50, but the film is not without its tonal lapses. … Reiser has written his characters with an indelible sweetness and vulnerability, which allows the cast to deliver performances with some depth. So a situation such as Kyle insisting that Adam and he should cruise girls at a bar looking for sympathy lays — Cruisin’ with the Big C as it were — comes off as quite funny as does Adam’s first chemo session where he ingests weed-laced sweets created by a fellow patient’s wife and floats out of the hospital afterwards.” — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter The Dissenters “In the pantheon of tastelessness designed to make you laugh at diarrhea, menstruation, masturbation, yeast infections, fellatio and worse, you can now add a stupid horror called ’50/50.’ Artificial, irresponsible, filthy and forgettable, it knocks itself cross-eyed trying to make you roar with laughter at chemotherapy, with the nauseating Seth Rogen milking most of the yuks. But a stoner comedy about cancer? I don’t think so.” — Rex Reed, The New York Observer The Final Word “The reason ’50/50′ works is it’s not trying to force us into any particular emotion. It fits in the emerging category of sad-man comedies such as ‘Up in the Air’ and ‘Crazy, Stupid Love,’ telling its downbeat tale with tenderness, sincerity and warmth. ’50/50′ isn’t a cancer buddy comedy or a male weepie but a message movie. The message is that you can tackle pretty much any subject matter and tell a story any way you want to onscreen as long as it’s absorbing.” — Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune Check out everything we’ve got on “50/50.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
Posted onDecember 18, 2010byBenny Hollywood|Comments Off on AP, Seattle Times Blame GOP for Downing DREAM Act; In Truth, Five Democrats’ Votes Scuttled Cloture
Today liberal Senate Democrats failed to garner the 60-vote threshold to end debate on and move to a final passage vote for the DREAM Act. In covering the story, the news wire credited Republican opposition for “doom[ing]” the legislation, but the math doesn't work out when you look at the breakdown of the votes on the motion to end debate — also known as invoking cloture. [h/t reader Kevin Davis] read more
Georgian racer was killed while training for upcoming Olympics events. By Josh Wigler Paramedics attend to Nodar Kumaritashvili after his fatal accident in Vancouver on Friday Photo: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died after an accident at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, according to multiple reports. He was 21 years old. While practicing on the Olympic luge track, Kumaritashvili was ejected from his sled at a speed of roughly 80 miles per hour and, according to the Seattle Times, “flew completely off the track at a high rate of speed. He immediately smashed off of metal poles adjacent to the track.” According to Agence France Presse, Kumaritashvili was placed on a stretcher and taken away on an ambulance immediately following the accident. He died shortly thereafter. “It is a tragedy for his family and the team,” said Thomas Bach, vice president of the International Olympics Committee. “It casts a shadow over the opening ceremony.” Kumaritashvili’s death comes shortly after another recent accident on the Olympic luge track. Days ago, 2002 and 2006 gold medalist Armin Zoeggler of Italy also suffered a crash on the course but survived the incident without serious injury. The back-to-back accidents have raised some serious safety concerns amongst competitors, officiators and others. “Our first thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the athlete,” IOC president Jacques Rogge stated in a press conference attended by The Vancouver Sun . The whole Olympic Family is struck by this tragedy, which clearly casts a shadow over these Games.” “This is a terrible accident,” added Josef Fendt, president of the International Luge Federation. “This is the gravest thing that can happen in sport, and our thoughts and those of the ‘luge family’, are naturally with those touched by this event.”
When the Huffington Post Investigative Fund was announced last March, Arianna Huffington modestly described its mission as ” to save investigative journalism .” Ten months later, it’s safe to say the fund’s chief accomplishment is providing free scoops to the Huffington Post. (And burnishing Huffington’s reputation and monstrous ego, but that goes without saying.) The fund is supposed act as a sort of disembodied newspaper i-team, with experienced reporters and editors bankrolled by tax-exempt donations from the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy doing the time-consuming and expensive investigative work that strapped newspapers are increasingly abandoning. It is axiomatic that investigative reporting is the most precious casualty of the demise of print journalism, and the fund has been heralded as one of many “new models” of funding real journalism in an increasingly blog-eat-blog world
