Post-Gazette: Harold Camping, the radio mogul who warned that all Christians would be swept up into heaven in 1994, has set a new date: Saturday. Those left behind will have five months to suffer before the world is destroyed on October 21.
"The Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong," he wrote on www.familyradio.com, which opens to a countdown ticker.
He has spread the word via the 66 stations in his Family Radio Network. Although his idiosyncratic teachings have no support from evangelical Bible scholars or churches, some of his listeners have reportedly quit jobs and given their life savings to help him warn others.
Radar Online: One of Hollywood’s sexiest stars, Megan Fox, turns 25 on Monday, May 16, 2011. See the sexy bombshell celebrating her birthday showing off her birthday suit in the skimpiest of bikinis!
Though Megan has nothing slated for release in 2011, next year she will be back on the bigscreen alongside Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph in "Friends with Kids" and is also attached to star in an upcoming Judd Apatow movie.
Bleacher Report: Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb requested that his agent release a statement Thursday to rebut the race-fueled insults legendary prizefighter Bernard Hopkins made about him earlier this week.
Hopkins (51-5-2-1, 32 KOs) was in Philadelphia training for his May 21 rematch with The Ring, WBC and IBO light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal when he nonsensically implied McNabb wasn’t black enough to be a champion.
"Forget this," Hopkins said, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, and pointed to his own skin. "He's got a suntan. That's all."
Agent Fletcher Smith deemed Hopkins’ comments “dangerous and irresponsible” in a letter sent to The Associated Press.
"It perpetuates a maliciously inaccurate stereotype that insinuates those African-Americans who have access to a wider variety of resources are somehow culturally different than their brethren," Smith said.
My Fox Chicago: Rahm Emanuel will go from mayor-elect to Chicago’s 46th Mayor when he is inaugurated Monday morning, May 16, 11:15 a.m. at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
Among those expected to attend Emanuel's inauguration was Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, as well as several members of the president’s cabinet, some ambassadors and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, the brother of soon-to-be citizen Richard M. Daley. Senators Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin will also be on stage, as will Gov. Pat Quinn.
Independent: Kate Bush Director's Cut (Fish People) was greeted with reactions ranging between disappointment, bafflement and ridicule, before anyone had heard a note.
On paper, it's true, the prospects didn't look promising. Six years since Aerial, itself her first release after a 13-year break, the "new" Kate Bush album consists merely of rerecordings of tracks from 1993's The Red Shoes and 1989's The Sensual World – with which, for whatever reasons, she was unhappy.
Taken on its own merits, however, there's plenty to enjoy, as Bush sings new vocals over remixed and re-edited backing tracks in a deeper, more weathered voice. See Director's Cut as an alternative rather than an outright replacement. At the very least, see it as Kate warming up her lungs for a renewed burst of activity (maybe even, she has hinted, a return to live performance). And if you don't like the remakes? As Bush herself puts it, "The old ones are still there."
