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George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.

Sylvester Stalone is attached to star in "Rambo IV," the first film about the one-man killing machine since 1988.

ABC has given the green light to a comedy pilot to be executive produced by Elton John. I'm not making this stuff up.

Belgium's history of linguistic bickering between Flemings and Walloons entered a new phase this week when police arrested a Flemish woman for calling her Walloon husband lazy. That's right. Go to jail ho. hahahahahahaha

A man who twice missed while trying to shoot a friend's cow only to accidentally shoot a passer-by in the leg was fined Wednesday for what an Australian court described as a freak accident. Imagine what nicknames he'll go by from now on. Trigger. Shotgun. Buckshot.

When Emily the cat went missing a month ago, her owners looked for their wandering pet where she had ended up before — the local animal shelter. This week they learned Emily sailed to France.

A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted.

Police say something bad was bound to happen when a butcher knife, the movie "Halloween" and a group of drinking men came together at a Rogers motel room.

A man who led police on a high-speed chase after a bank robbery in May says he was driven to commit the robbery because he missed his mommy.

Sweden's prison service may allow babies to live in prison with their fathers, putting men on an equal footing with women in prison parenting. Does anyone see this as a bad idea?

.....and Music (did you know my good friend Pete Townsend has a blog??? Okay so I wish he was a friend of mine. His music is a friend of mine anyway.)

1936, country singer Hank Snow records for the first time ... the songs are "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy"...

1958, Tommy Edwards' "It's All in the Game" is the Billboard No. 1 hit ... the melody was written in 1912 by Charles Gates Dawes who later became a U.S. vice president...

1964, "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbinson turns gold ... it is his ninth and last Top Ten single ... The Supremes release "Come See About Me" ... The Dave Clark Five appear on The Ed Sullivan Show during which the tic-ridden host refers to them as "nice, neat boys" in contrast to the Rolling Stones, with whom Sullivan had had run-ins...

1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler scores a #1 hit with "The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sadler had been a medic in the Special Forces celebrated in the song ... he later worked as an actor, ran a Nashville bar, wrote a guide to the music biz, then wrote dozens of military adventure novels ... Sadler also was a soldier of fortune hiring himself out as a mercenary and was arrested in 1978 and 1981 in two separate incidents involving shootings ... in 1984 he settled in Guatemala City where he often gave locals medical care and established a trust fund for Vietnamese orphans ... he died of brain injuries in 1988 after being shot in the head while riding in a Guatemalan cab ... there are three versions of how he came to be shot: He was the target of robbery; he was assassinated; he accidentally shot himself while showing off his .380 Beretta ... Sadler finally dies in the V.A. hospital in Murfeesboro, Tennessee...

1967, hippiedom makes its way to the formal stage when Hair premieres off Broadway at The Public Theater in the East Village ... the musical production features a scene in which the entire company appears nude ... Hair will soon make the big time with 1,742 performances on Broadway ... the original cast makes an album of the score that produces three hit singles all penned by Jerome Ragni and James Rado: "Aquarius," "Let the Sun Shine In," and "Good Morning Starshine"...

1970, Jim Morrison is sentenced to eight months of hard labor for exposing his privates in Miami ... Morrison will never actually serve the time ... he is freed on bail pending appeal, skips to Paris, and dies in his bathtub of asthma-induced heart failure the following July ... Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas (the hot one) marries actor Dennis Hopper ... they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn't last a week ... "Cracklin Rosie" by schlock hook-meister Neil Diamond gets the gold...

1971, 24-year-old Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident near Macon, Georgia...

1972, Philly soul singer Billy Paul gets on the soul charts with "Me and Mrs. Jones" ... the song will hold the top position for three weeks and will become a soul classic...

1973, the Who's Quadrophenia--a grand-scale rock opera about a young British Mod with multiple personality disorder--goes gold...

1975, wearing a sequined Dodgers uniform, rock pomp giant Elton John takes the stage for a second SRO night at Dodger Stadium ... Bruce Springsteen appears simultaneously on the covers of both Time and Newsweek, causing great embarrassment to both publications ... Joan Baez signs on as a member of Dylan's The Rolling Thunder Revue...

1978, Boston's Rat Club hosts the first U.S. concert by the Police...

1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding during a recording session ... fortunately, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100%...

1983, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon becomes the longest-listed album ever on the Billboard chart--491 continuous weeks...

1984, Linda Ronstadt debuts her operatic singing voice with La Boheme in New York...

1986, The Beastie Boys release their album License To Ill which will become the first rap album to reach number one on the album chart....

1994, Madonna feels the papal wrath when Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees as a protest against Madonna's first concert there ... the churches keep their doors open all night as an alternative place to hang...

1995, Yolanda Saldivar, the former president of Selena's fan club, is convicted of murdering the Tejano star that previous March ... the jury hands out a life sentence ... the same week, Gloria Estefan shows she ain't no Madonna when she performs for Pope John Paul II ... she is the only pop act asked to play the pope's gala celebration observing his 50 years in the priesthood...

1998, having trouble completing the lyrics to his tune, "What's Really Happening," David Bowie turns to his fans for help, hosting a contest to finish the piece ... the winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant, who will be allowed to sit in on the recording session...

2004, shockjock Howard Stern calls in to a talk show on San Francisco radio station KGO ... the station is interviewing FCC Chairman Michael Powell whose agency had previously issued big fines against Stern and the stations carrying his broadcast for indecent on-air remarks ... Stern accuses Powell--among other things--of getting his government gig by virtue of his father Colin Powell's heft as U.S. Secretary of State...