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TV’s toothsome sweetheart, Mary Tyler Moore, has a benign meningioma that she has to have removed from the lining of her brain. Oh, Rob, that sounds awful.
Moore, 73, a tireless advocate for Juvenile Diabetes, is expected to make a full recovery.
She can turn the world on with her smile.
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That stunning creature is Elizabeth Taylor lookalike Marlon Braccia, paying her respects to the fallen goddess at 6336 Hollywood Blvd. near Vine, where a steady stream of visitors have created a makeshift shrine. I talked to Marlon, who told me that she played Elizabeth Taylor in 1998′s “Gods and Monsters,” photo below.
Marlon is known to yoga aficionados as Yogi Marlon, and she recently wrote an equally gorgeous cookbook called, “The Enlightened Cook: Protein Entrees,” which you can buy right here.
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“I’m wearing red to show my support!”
Now in its 22nd year, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2010 is “Universal Access and Human Rights.” World AIDS Day is important for reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.3 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2009 some 2.6 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 1.8 million people died from AIDS.
via Avert.org
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When an octogenarian sex expert tells you that the internets are bad for keepin’ it real, perhaps we should prick up our ears, or prick up something.
In an interview with AP to discuss her upcoming documentary project on minority groups in Israel, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 82, cautioned that social networking and other online tools are replacing real intimacy. Real intimacy? Memba that?
“It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together,” said the tiny sex doc. “I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem … I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.” Like, awesome, I know, right?
Dr. Ruth added that it was all part of a trend of “more openness but less intimacy.”
Text me.
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in bad form, health, legends, little known facts, stuff I like, the internets
Zsa Zsa, 93, has left the building… she has refused further medical treatment after undergoing several operations in the past weeks, and has returned to her Bel-Air home (once owned by Elvis — who died August 16, 1977).
Lindsay Lohan, 47, meanwhile, is still being held in rehab at the same medical center, where she has been ostensibly cured of what ails her after just two weeks, and reports today say Dina Lohan is taking her home to Long Island.
Only one is going to a better place.
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Brad Jones gets a checkup from a curious doctor before signing for Liverpool FC, whatever that is.
This has been Chexy’s Sports Roundup, This is Not a Grab from an Xtube Vid edition.
Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty
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Oscar winner Patricia Neal left the earth last night, following an eight decade visit.
Goodbye, and thanks for inspiring others to carry on, no matter what.
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Your Chexy has a migraine. Please enjoy the archives today.
My imaginary daughter Amy is looking after me.
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in health, my imaginary daughter amy, my nerves, torture
Oh here’s some TV deliciousness. Airport brawlette Nikki Blonsky is starring in “Huge” for ABC Family (who are these families watching this shizz?).
ABC’s site describes the show with their usual hyperbolic candor: “Funny, heartbreaking and provocative, Huge follows the lives of seven teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp, as they look beneath the surface to discover their true selves and the truth about each other.” Sounds perfectly scintillating.
And here’s a pic from one hilarious episode when Nikki (as “Willamina”) uses a washing machine as a bidet.
Cue the laugh track.
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
