Golden Globes Cancelled...When Doves Cry...

Golden Globes ceremony canceled
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The televised Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be replaced by a press conference this Sunday, January 13th, as a result of the ongoing writers' strike.

Organizers announced their decision on Monday to avoid a celebrity-less event after the Screen Actors Guild pledged its members would not cross the Writers Guild Of America's picket line.

The 65th annual Golden Globe Awards had been due to take place at the Beverly Hilton hotel in California.

Instead, a news conference will take place to announce the winners of each category.

President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Jorge Camara says, "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favourite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television."

"We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled."
Copyright World Entertainment News Network

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this is a long strike.
Couldn't be my job...negroes will be crossing lines after 2 days!
chewing nails, losing sleep, call them a scab and you'll have scabs after getting knocked and dragged on the ground! :)
...good for the writers!
It's a boring show-anyway (yawnnnn)

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"Dog" KNEW This Would Happen...

hey Pat, look what happened!
You'd think someone :with a criminal past, anti-traditional looks, bad father in the past-would think twice about disparaging others.

A&E Pulls 'Dog' Series From Schedule
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HONOLULU — Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online.

"In evaluating the circumstances of the last few days, A&E has decided to take `Dog The Bounty Hunter' off the network's schedule for the foreseeable future," the network said in a statement Friday. "We hope that Mr. Chapman continues the healing process that he has begun."

A&E officials said the series, one of the network's top-rated programs, has not been canceled.
Chapman, 54, has been under fire and accused of being a racist ever since the private conversation with his son, Tucker Chapman, was posted online Wednesday by The National Enquirer.
Chapman used the N-word repeatedly about his son's black girlfriend.
At least two advertisers have pulled out from the show and civil rights groups have called for its cancellation.
Soon after the clip was posted, Chapman issued an apology and A&E suspended production of the series.

In the conversation, Chapman urges Tucker to break up with his girlfriend. He also expresses concern about the girlfriend trying to tape and go public about the TV star's use of the N-word. He used the slur six times in the first 45 seconds of the five-minute clip.
Chapman has said he was "disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character. However, I should have never used that term." He also said he was ashamed of himself and pledged to make amends.

His attorney, Brook Hart said his client is not a racist and vowed never to use the word again. Hart said Tucker Chapman taped the call and sold it to the Enquirer for "a lot of money."
David Perel, the Enquirer's editor in chief, would not comment on how it obtained the tape.
Civil rights leaders said they were not satisfied with the removal of the show from A&E's schedule. A coalition of groups in Los Angeles sent a letter to network executives Friday demanding a cancellation.

The coalition said the comments were more than racially demeaning and hurtful to black women. "They are a vicious attack on and call to end interracial relations, as well as an incitement to violence," the letter said.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, said the coalition believes Chapman's language was much more damaging than shock jock Don Imus' comments.
Imus was fired by CBS in April over his "nappy-headed hos" remark about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Citadel Broadcasting Corp. Thursday announced Imus' return to radio in December.
If they can essentially say, 'We're firing Imus in the front door and bring him in the back door later on,' they can also do the same with this guy and his show," Hutchinson said. "It seems like to me A&E is keeping their options open."

The TV series follows Chapman and his tattooed crew as they track down bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states. The show also stars some members of Chapman's family, but Tucker Chapman is not regularly featured.

The Honolulu-based bounty hunter first grabbed headlines for apprehending serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003.

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I applaud A&E for making that decision.

Doug Chapman knew what would happen...he knew the show could be yanked, and yet he continued to spew forth hate.

Interesting. He said he was referring to the character not her race...hmmm,

that's not true because he said (on the phone call), if Lyssa (his daughter) brought home a n*gg*er, they 'd all be pissed. No mention of possible conflicts the family and Lyssa's hypothetical n*gg*r boyfriend could POSSIBLY experience that may cause the family to be pissed. He didn't address character flaws etc. So going back to Dog's justifying the phone call with his son Tucker as referring to Tucker girlfriend's character-not her race...what kind of character would Lyssa's hypothetical boyfriend have?????

NONE.

He's a hypothetical n*gg*er boyfriend!

His flaw would be arriving to dinner BLACK, not wearing black, just being black.

I can hear him (Dog) explaining this to his (my pastor is black) pastor Tim Storey.

"Yes, Pastor I said it...but I wasn't talking about you. You don't count!"

Whatev.
If you're prejudice(read ignorant), just keep it real.

Don't be on TV spouting the name of Jesus, praying with criminals and then use ephithet.
I can only imagine with the camera people were thinking.

Family It's Time to Cancel Your Membership to Club M.L.C.

What's In Your Wallet?!

Members of M.L.C.,

I come to you on this blessed day to relinquish my membership card.

Why? Because I choose not to affiliate myself with those who identify themselves as being a member of

the "Misery Loves Company" party.

I cannot keep repenting before God over the same things, time and time again.

I'm tired of being around people WHO ARE ALWAYS NEGATIVE!

I'm tired of being in darkness, when I'm supposed to be a beacon of light.

I have sat around and listened as you talked about others, and I've sat around you all and initiated the talking of other people. I'm sickened by my actions.

So I denounce my affiliation with you...M.L.C.

I do not want to be bitter, and embattled.

I do not want to talk about people as soon as their backs are turned.

I do not want to be known as an instigator, but instead- a motivator.

So I take a step forward. I'm stepping into change, and 'm stepping into my future. A bright, HAPPY, non-judgmental, miserable future. But one full of color, smiles and laughter.

You can have my membership card, M.L.C, for I AM no longer miserable and in need of company of miserable people such as yourselves. No talking around the water cooler, no sneaky giggles no turned up lips.

ENOUGH Already.

I'm getting a life, and I challenge you...ALL OF YOU MLC's to do the same.

GET A FREAKIN' LIFE -then you won't have time to talk about everybody else. Better yet, take care of the hot mess you have going on under your very roof, AND THEN you won't have time to talk about everyone else.

You're on your own.

If any of you feel me, but are scared to step up and make the change. Leave a note a comment (anonymous if you wish, and we'll walk this thang out together) and say "Ivent, I'm tired of being miserable (or sick and tired of being sick and tired..whatever) i'm cancelling my membership." And it's that easy.

Ivent

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