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The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, one of the most wanted war criminals for the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys, ended a 13-year hunt.
Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.
Name-brand products make regular appearances on television shows, where they are typically written into a drama. But TV News? You bet.
Jay Leno’s last night on the “Tonight” show will be in May 2009, with Conan O’Brien taking over the show a few days later.
Sirtris, a drug company, has two drugs in clinical trials that it hopes will avert degenerative diseases of aging.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 2008, covering July 22, 2008.
Lil Wayne
Coldplay
Soundtrack
G Unit
John Mayer
2008Estelle Getty, American actress (born 1923)[†]
Estelle Gettleman, known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985–1992), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in Empty Nest (1993–1995), The Golden Palace (1992–1993), Blossom (1990–1995), and Nurses (1991–1994). Notable films in which she appeared include Mask (1985), a semibiographical film in which she played the grandmother of Roy L. Dennis, Mannequin (1987), and Stuart Little (1999). She retired from acting in 2001 due to failing health, and died in 2008 from dementia with Lewy bodies.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]