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Anderson Cooper and Muscular Friend Shack up in LUXURY HOTEL SUITE in India!

Yeah... I wanna take my Gay Boyfriend for Spicey Indian Curry! ( wink)

Anderson Cooper has been consoling himself over falling ratings by living it up in Jaipur, India, at one of the world's most opulent hotels.

The CNN star was spotted Tuesday with his muscular friend, Benjamin Maisani, an owner of East Village bar Eastern Bloc, at the Rambagh Palace, named the best hotel in the world by Conde Nast Traveler.

Cooper's $3,200-a-night room features a four-poster mahogany bed and views of the gardens of the former Maharaja palace. Our source said, "Anderson's room has a large round bathtub. On the first night it was filled with bubbles and sprinkled with red rose petals." CNN declined to comment.

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The new 24 Trailer 2010!!! Can't wait

Everyone knows I LOVE me some Jack Bauer....and here's the teaser trailer fopr the next season..

Accidental Text message leads to shooting in CVS parking lot! Stupid REDNECKS..

Question:  What happens when one idiot sends a text message to the wrong number, and the stranger who gets it also happens to be a complete idiot?  Well, most of the time the answer is "nothing."  But sometimes, unfathomable stupidity ensues.  Listen to this . . .

Early Tuesday morning, 22-year-old Scott Elder and 24-year-old Brian Matison of Savannah, Georgia, got into an argument after one of them dialed the wrong number and accidentally sent the other one a text message. 

Now, if faced with that situation, most rational people would just let the other person know that they had the wrong number and that would be it.  But not these boneheads.  Instead, they started exchanging rude texts and phone calls with one another. 

Things got so out of hand that eventually Scott and Brian agreed to meet up at a nearby CVS parking lot so they could settle their dispute like REAL MEN.  But when Brian showed up, Scott pulled out a gun and shot him.

Brian was rushed to the hospital where he's in serious condition.  And Scott was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.  If he's convicted, he could get up to 20 years in prison. 

According to a police spokesman, quote, "They allowed a text message conversation to escalate to physical violence.  It was just one of those senseless things."

SAVANNAH Morning NEWS

Happy Birthdays and On this Day in history

  Harry Hamlin - 58  ("Dancing with the Stars" loser that your parents would know best as Michael Kuzak on "L.A. Law". (--He's married to LISA RINNA, and has probably felt those luscious lips of hers in all his most naughty areas.  That makes him more of a hero to me than when he slew Medusa or defeated the Kraken in "Clash of the Titans".) 

Matthew Morrison (31)

Ivanka Trump - 28  (Donald Trump's daughter.)

Nia Long - 39  (Sherry in "Big Momma's House 1 & 2" and Nina Mosley in "Love Jones".  Whitey would know her best as Will's girlfriend Lisa on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air".)

SNOW!!! - 41  (Greatest Honky Canadian rapper EVER.  Remember "Informer"???)

Gavin Rossdale - 44  (Gets to nail Gwen Stefani ANYTIME HE WANTS TO.)

 Henry Winkler - 64  (He'll always be Arthur Fonzarelli On "Happy Days".  His greatest role since The Fonz?  Family lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn on "Arrested Development".  Or maybe Coach Klein in "The Waterboy".  Visualize and ATTACK.)   (???) 

Kevin Pollak - 52  (One of those truly amazing under-the-radar actors.  "A Few Good Men", "Grumpy Old Men", "The Usual Suspects", "The Whole Nine Yards", "The Wedding Planner" AND "Juwanna Mann".) 

T. Graham Brown - 55  (Country singer.  Biggest hit:  1988's "Darlene".)

Otis Williams - 68  (Co-founder of The Temptations.)

Grace Slick - 70  (Jefferson Airplane . . . and Starship.)

DICK GAUTIER!!! - 78  (HYMIE THE ROBOT on "Get Smart"!!!)

ON THIS DAY........

1894 - THE DEVIL HIMSELF . . . Daniel M. Cooper . . . PATENTED THE TIME CLOCK . . . and ever since then, wage-slaves everywhere have been forced to punch timecards to start their workdays for The Man.

1938 - ORSON WELLES made his infamous "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast.  Millions of listeners thought New Jersey was actually being invaded by aliens.  One Pittsburgh woman was found with a bottle of poison saying she'd rather die that way.

(--Orson Welles ended up with $750,000 in lawsuits filed against him.)

1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of SHOE RATIONING. 

1970 - TITO JACKSON & THE JACKSON 5 had the #1 record on both the Pop AND R&B charts . . . with "I'll Be There".

1970 - JIM MORRISON was sentenced to six months of hard labor and fined $500 for INDECENT EXPOSURE and . . . gasp! . . . PROFANITY at a concert in Miami.

(--Jim's lawyers appealed the sentence, and Morrison died from a massive overdose of the black-tar H before his legal problems could get worked out.)

1974 - At the "RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE" in Kinshasa, Zaire, MUHAMMAD ALI unveiled his "ROPE-A-DOPE" strategy:  He let GEORGE FOREMAN abuse his body for 8 rounds before coming back and knocking out the tired chubby to re-gain the Heavyweight Title.

1976 - CHICAGO started their second week atop the singles charts with the amazing monster jam "If You Leave Me Now".

1981 - "Halloween 2" was released . . . and we learned Michael Myers was stalking the well-chested JAMIE LEE CURTIS because she was his sister.(--Her character faked her death at the end of this movie, and they did four more sequels without her before she returned in 1998's "H20".  Michael finally logged his big kill by finishing her off in 2002's "Halloween:  Resurrection" . . . starring BUSTA RHYMES.)

1983 - The REVEREND JESSE JACKSON announced his plans to become the first black man to mount a full-scale campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.  But first, he mounted some delicious side-action.

1990 - "Law & Order" debuted on NBC. 

1993 - MEAT LOAF'S album "Bat Out Of Hell 2 - Back Into Hell" hit #1 on the charts, thanks to the international smash hit "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)".

1997 - R.E.M. announced that drummer BILL BERRY was leaving the group after 10 albums and 17 years.  He suffered a brain aneurysm in March of 1995 during the band's "Monster" tour in Switzerland, but his departure reportedly wasn't due to that condition.

2000 - STEVE ALLEN, the creator and original host of "The Tonight Show", suffered a coronary after an auto accident and died in Encino, California, at the age of 78.

2002 - COREY FELDMAN married SUSIE SPRAGUE on "The Surreal Life".  They read their own cheesy vows . . . HUGH HEFNER'S girlfriends cried . . . I pumped my fist at the awesomeness. 

Kenley Players impresario JOHN KENLEY dies at 103

Ya did theater good Mr. Kenley..

Ohio's most flamboyant showman has taken his final bow.

Impresario John Kenley, who died Friday at 103 in Cleveland, made Kenley Players popular for three decades by casting Broadway, Hollywood and TV stars in large-venue revivals.

From the 1950s through the early 1980s in Columbus, Dayton, Warren and Akron, Ohio, and other U.S. cities, Kenley produced thousands of plays and musicals with some of the biggest names in show business.

Among the stars who played Kenley's Ohio circuit: Ethel Merman, Mae West, Mickey Rooney, Billy Crystal, Gypsy Rose Lee, Robert Goulet, Betty White, William Shatner, Tommy Tune, Andy Williams, Van Johnson, Jayne Mansfield, Juliet Prowse, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dick and Tommy Smothers, Roberta Peters, Christine Andreas, Florence Henderson. Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, Cathy Rigby and Paul Lynde.

"John was the real thing - a fantastic showman," said Andreas, a veteran Broadway actress.

"He loved the theater and reinvented it for Ohio."

Born John Kremchek on Feb. 20, 1906, near Denver, he was the son of a Slovak saloonkeeper. Kenley made his stage debut at age 4. While a teenager in Cleveland, Kremchek worked in vaudeville and burlesque as a female impersonator, acrobat, dancer and "stooge" (an audience plant).

He claimed his brightest idea was to cast TV stars in stage musicals.

"I did it first. And before television, I got them from radio," he told The Dispatch in the mid-1980s.

"You'd see(the stars) in your home in black-and-white on the Jack Paar or Steve Allen shows, and then Kenley would present them in living color onstage," said Tommy Tune, a protege, who got his start with Kenley in the 1970s.

Kenley also was known for his resourcefulness. He would add songs to old musicals and cast an eight-month-pregnant Barbara Eden as Maria in The Sound of Music. She wore loose costumes.

Rooney, Pia Zadora and Mariette Hartley.

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