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Comedian Soupy Sales Dead At 83

The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon. By Gil Kaufman Soupy Sales in 2001 Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country’s most beloved comedians in the late 1950s.

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Lil Wayne’s Guilty Plea Upsets Rick Ross, Juelz Santana, DJ Drama

‘It hurt us,’ Rick Ross says. By Shaheem Reid Lil Wayne Photo: Sarah A. Friedman/Contour by Getty Images On Thursday morning, Lil Wayne pleaded guilty on a felony gun-possession charge and is expected to be sentenced to a year in prison (although a shorter term of eight-to-10 months on good behavior appears likely)

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Lil Wayne’s Guilty Plea Upsets Rick Ross, Juelz Santana, DJ Drama

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Knows His Own Name

Please enjoy yet another SNL -come-to-life clip from Celebrity Jeopardy. Let's also note that Soledad O'Brien is getting her ass kicked, which means CNN anchors are 0-2. Troubling

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Balloon Boy Hoax? Falcon Heene Busts Parents

Call us crazy, but before reporting our six-year-old was missing (or had up and floated away in a balloon), we might first look around our damn house. That seems like a logical way to make sure the little guy were really on the thing before reporting it and sparking an insane, expensive media frenzy

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Balloon Boy Hoax? Falcon Heene Busts Parents

Six-Year-Old Boy Floats Away in Homemade UFO Balloon

It’s happening in Colorado right now . A boy climbed into an helium balloon that his parents were building, untied the rope, and took off

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Six-Year-Old Boy Floats Away in Homemade UFO Balloon

Arrest Over Facebook ‘Poke’ Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque

When the internet was young and innocent, it was acceptable to ” finger ” college classmates. These days, a simple Facebook “poke” can land you in jail, in Tennessee, and CNN has say “alleged” poking, because, hey, libel. Granted, Shannon Jackson , the accused, was under court order not to communicate with the woman she poked (see attached clip)

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Arrest Over Facebook ‘Poke’ Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque

Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Anti-Paparazzi Bill

California law will fine snappers for taking photos that invade stars’ privacy. By Gil Kaufman California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/ Getty Images California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger knows what it’s like to be blinded by the glare of the paparazzi press. Spurred by his own experience as a movie star, not to mention a series of incidents in Los Angeles in which movie and music stars have been harassed and had their privacy invaded by swarms of tabloid shooters, Schwarzenegger signed a new bill into law on Sunday that will fine paparazzi photogs for taking pictures that invade a celebrity’s right to privacy, according to CNN

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Obama approves 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan

In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported. The additional forces are primarily support forces — such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police — the Post said, bringing the total buildup Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000

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Should Americans banish the burger?

(CNN) — Hamburgers are an American passion. And millions of Americans consume burgers, and other forms of meat, every day without consequences. But ground beef contaminated with E

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Rachel Campos-Duffy: Pro-Choice Obama Not Worthy of Nobel

Everyone’s a critic. When Whoopi Goldberg brought up Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win on Monday’s The View , guest-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, a former reality TV star and current blogger for Anderson Cooper’s AC 360 on CNN, said she was shocked.

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Rachel Campos-Duffy: Pro-Choice Obama Not Worthy of Nobel