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K-Stew gets Grimm; Charlize is a mommy; No gifts for Clint!

According to USA Today, The Cheetos brand snacks Cee-Lo Green Products celebrated its 38th birthday this week putting the "internet artist" (What is this exactly?) Baalman to create a 3-by-4 foot portrait of the hip-hopster full of Cheetos. The artist built the three snacks Chee-Zee, crunchy Cheetos, Flaming Hot, natural and Cheetos. Check it out www.facebook.com / Cheetos.

Clint Eastwood turns 82

Clint Eastwood, who turned 82 on Thursday, was ready for his big day. "Clint does not do holidays or gifts," his wife, E! reality star Dina Eastwood, tells E! News. "So, if you do not give him a gift he gives you a big kiss and say," Thank you so much, that does not give me a gift. "? Clint's daughter Francesca chime in" fans sent him a gift, what is not. "

Harry Morgan dies at 96; star of TV's 'MASH'

"Emmy" Award winning actor Harry Morgan, who still plays with good bark Colonel T. Sherman Potter in the series "MASH" and hard nose LAPD, Bill Gannon in the television series "Seine", died Wednesday. He was 96.

Morgan died at his home in Brentwood, after a battle with pneumonia, his daughter, Beth Morgan, told The Associated Press.

Morgan for eight years in terms of "MASH," the first seven decades of his acting career began when he was 60 and had already appeared on stage on Broadway in dozens of TV series and more than 50 films.

Three years after his debut, he joined the show in 1975 as commander of the 4077th Army field surgical hospital Orthodox, who patched up wounded during the Korean War.

When two 1/2-hour final "MASH" was released in 1983, 77% of people who watch television are listening, making the show the most watched in history.

Shortly before the last episode aired, Morgan on "Times", "will never be another" MASH. There is nothing in the way of doing your best work on that, absolutely nothing. "

Although a lawyer, Morgan fell into acting and stayed. Son of a car mechanic, he was born to Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, April 10, 1915. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, played football high school, despite its small size and is a member of staff of the school debate champion.

Morgan attended the University of Chicago, but left in 1930 to sell office equipment in Washington, DC, as a salesman during the Great Depression, has free time, so he joined a theater group. Make the scene hotel had success in "The Front Page" and "Petrified Forest."

He retired as office equipment, to appear in summer stock. In the fall of 1937, he moved to New York City, and appeared in several Broadway productions, using the name of Harry Bratsburg.

"In my ignorance, I thought," Hey, this business works is a great life! "I do not know! Things were rough from now. If I had to struggle in the beginning as most of the players ... I've never said, but there is so successful at first, I was stuck with a player for life "Morgan 1983 book" "MASH": Exclusive, Inside Story of TV's most popular "

In 1941, he and his wife, actress Eileen headed for Hollywood, and Morgan hit a rocky patch is a kind of - it did not work for five months.

After appearing in a one-act play in Santa Barbara "," Hello Out There ", he was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox and Henry Morgan, immediately made six films, starting with the" shores of Tripoli. "

Morgan went on to appear in films such as "High Noon" (1953), "Glenn Miller Story" (1954), "Inherit the Wind" (1960), "Support Local Sheriff!" (1969) and his personal favorite, 1943 "Ox-Bow Incident."

One of his early television credits are "married in December, in which he played Pete Porter, ironic humor, a henpecked neighbor who joked about his wife, Gladys ever seen. At that time, Morgan began using Harry as his first name to avoid confusion with the TV comic Henry Morgan.

After December 7 years married, "Morgan appears on Cara Williams in the early 1960s impact" Pete and Gladys. "His television career continued with a series of anthology" Richard Boone Show "and" Kentucky Jones ", where Morgan played ranch handyman who works for the main character, played by Dennis Weaver.

For "MASH" Morgan is best known for his role as Officer Bill Gannon in "Dragnet" show that appeared in the 1940's on the radio. In 1967, Ben Alexander replaces Morgan as a partner of Jack Webb Sgt. Joe Friday show that lionized the LAPD. "He stayed for four seasons fixtures.

The shooting schedule intensive two-day contested Morgan, and Webb's insistence, they speak in a monotone flat, so they do not seem to be emotionally involved with other characters. (Morgan later had a small role in the 1987 Dan Aykroyd, parody "purse" and Tom Hanks provided the voice for Gannon, 1995 episode of "The Simpsons".)

In the work of Morgan in early 1970 on creating web, the courtroom drama "DA" and appeared with Richard Boone in "Hec Ramsey", western part of the "Mystery Movie of the NBC Sunday" series.

The role of Colonel Potter "MASH" came to fiction surgical unit needs a new commander in McLean Stevenson left the show in 1975. This is not the first appearance of the program Morgan - the role of a general crazy in the show earned him a nomination for "Emmy" in the same year he joined the series.

The anti-war comedy based on the film starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and 1970, made its debut in 1972. Television series with Alan Alda, has already won the "Emmy" for comedy series and has long been declared a "hit" by the Times.

Even so, Morgan was nervous to replace Lt. Col. Henry Blake Stevenson, is "one of the boys." Colonel Morgan Potter is much spit and polish, there is still a sentimental side, which is evident in his paintings to Oil and interactions with the other base game outside of Seoul in the middle of the Korean War.

He received eight Emmy nominations and won the role again in 1980, the year he was appointed to direct an episode of "MASH."

Morgan co-starred in the sitcom spin "AfterMASH", which is in a veterans hospital in the United States and aired from 1983 to 1984.

Then he appeared in nearly 20 television productions, including several episodes of "3rd Rock From The Sun" in the late 1990s.

When the "MASH" was completed in 1983, he said the "Times": "the sadness will fade after a while the glass is so damn full, it can not be really sad that you do not need In addition, we obtained all. much more than what we will do something that will last a long, long time. "

With his first wife, Eileen, Morgan had four son. She died in 1985 after 45 years of marriage. Son of Daniel, died in 1989.

Survivors include his second wife, Barbara, his son Christopher, Charles and Paul ", eight grandchildren and seven grandchildren.

Kurt Busch's insolence continues to wreck a potentially great career

Speculation began to turn Wednesday, when it was learned that Kurt Busch flew to Las Vegas for the week Champion holidays not on a private jet, but on a business plan for the Charlotte airport. And "ramp up Thursday, when many wondered why Busch still current director of public relations had accompanied the driver of the National Motorsports Press Association / Myers Brothers Awards Dinner. It reached its peak on Sunday morning when all the signs began to point to a gap between Busch and Penske Racing, his team the past six years.

Monday morning finally came to the resolution. Both Busch and Penske called a "mutual agreement" a very clever euphemism Busch that allowed you to save a little face, but let's be honest here - a few more years on his contract and is currently available on zero rpm elite Sprint circuit Cup, It sounds like a career move any driver would do so voluntarily. While all sides say the right thing at the right time, anyone can connect the dots and see the fuller picture, that of an organization and / or sponsor a car that has probably had enough to put in place with a driver whose insolence to pass eclipsed even his immense talent on the track.

Although Busch said a few days ago that he was not worried about his job security, although he visited an offshore oil operated by Shell sponsors of the car last month, but began working with a sport psychologist to try to stop his anger terrible, it was all too much. The constant barrage of negativity on the radio during the events, the underestimation of his team and team leader, spoiling for fights with members of a body of media that were more than kind to him, in the circumstances, the obscene gesture and pulled always due to Dr. Jerry Punch Homestead - it was dripping water, as on a rock. Busch has never, ever heard a "little of humanity in some situations, it would have done wonders, never realized there was a difference between competitiveness and anger.

It's always been his worst enemy that way since his days with Roush Racing where things have grown cold despite winning the Busch Series championship in 2004 and showing the potential to earn much more. The problem is that the guy obviously has talent and immense, but it goes its own way. He won at least one race every year since his second season in 2002, qualified for the Chase six of the last eight years has been exceptional in the Penske cars had their problems at once. All that is buried, although in an avalanche of negative comments and personality conflicts. Here is a driver that has consistently advocated for wins and titles of two of the leading organizations in NASCAR, and ultimately could not make it work in both places.

What do you say? For all the hardships Kyle's little brother, the younger Busch has a game and a vulnerability to him - the attributes that enable it to overcome its occasional pitfalls, but if Kurt seems to be missing. No wonder that in his statement Monday, Busch made a point of saying she needs to "work on things I can do a better driver and a better person." Of course, there are many Kurt Busch in the world of professional sports, children who show equally virulent, contemptuous and are extremely arrogant and belittling, and get away with it because they are so good at what they do. In NASCAR, however, a driver is also the sponsor on the car hood and the owner of the list entry. Its cause is greater than he. There is a limit to the bad behavior, and Busch found twice.

This time, however, the destination can not be much softer. When Busch with Roush split after the 2005 season, he was released from his contract a year ago to take over the No. 2 Penske Dodge that was vacated by the removal of Rusty Wallace. He left a good situation for better, for he would never be the boy in the Roush over - not with Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle it - and was to join a tour of iconic Penske would have all the efforts of the field ( and possibly Dodge manufacturer) behind it. There was no question that Busch would continue to fight to win races and championships. There was absolutely no doubt that it will continue to build on what was quickly becoming a career of exceptional guide.

Now? Well, let's just say that it is not strange if you ask Busch will never win another race, as the bridges burned in the garage, the lack of sponsorship available, and the plethora of drivers looking for walks. From the perspective of the team is a buyer's market, and Penske has several good candidates - would not be the class of David Ragan look amazing in a white shirt Oxford Penske - to choose at a reduced price. Meanwhile, Busch is venturing into an environment where the best tour is available ... Front Row Motorsports? A racing car Furniture Row potential second? Whatever happens to the remains of Red Bull? For him to land in something almost as good as leaving behind a few pieces of the puzzle must be moved, and quickly, and there is no guarantee that this happens. It is too good for someone not to take a chance on him, but when your options seem limited to say the least.

It's a way hard to be a lesson to be thrown into the wilderness like that, but if the reasons are understandable Busch. The Penske team has always tried to offer the best face on everything - Radio Kurt helped lift the team improves, the former head of the team of Steve Addington skin was thick enough to take the foreign must realize that the whole team shared "common goal of improvement. In a way, these things can be true. But this does not justify everything. Addington and his engineers would not have to stand there and be abused almost every week, even when their cars proved good enough to win the race. Roger Penske would not have come on the radio again and again to try to refocus his driver. The lack of professionalism Busch should not be as white as competitiveness. But he was, and now we see the final result.

Watching Kurt Busch wheel race car can be a wonderful thing. On the track, at least, is to overcome the reputation that used to be too aggressive, and has evolved into one of the most reliable on the track in preparation - as evidenced by the way has invited his former teammate Ryan Newman the title of the Daytona 500 in 2008. Now, with his Penske days suddenly behind and in front of an uncertain future, Busch needs to demonstrate that the same type of growth on a personal level. And "enough talent that could one day be enshrined in the Hall of Fame NASCAR. First, however, needs to stop destroying his career.