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Ryan Jenkins Not Arrested

2009-08-22T05:34:00.000-07:00

by TMZ Staff

Buena Park Detective Lieutenant Steve Holiday tells TMZ that the U.S. Marshal's office informed his department the man arrested tonight at a Toronto airport was not Ryan Jenkins.

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Seabiscuit The Champion Racehorse

2009-08-21T05:08:00.000-07:00

Seabiscuit was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression. Seabiscuit became the subject of a 1949 film, The Story of Seabiscuit, a 2001 book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, and a 2003 film, Seabiscuit, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Stars includes Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Gary Stevens, Chris McCarron

Dancing With The Stars 2009 Lineup

2009-08-17T13:58:00.000-07:00

The Dancing with the Stars 2009 lineup has been announced. The 16 contestants were announced today on "Good Morning America".

The 16 contestants on the 2009 show will be:

Aaron Carter (pop star)

Ashley Hamilton (actor, son of George Hamilton)

Chuck Liddell (UFC)

Debi Mazar (actress)

Donny Osmond (singer)

Joanna Krupa (model, actress)

Kathy Ireland (supermodel)

Kelly Osbourne (singer, reality star)

Louie Vito (snowboarder)

Mark Dacascos (Iron Chef America)

Mya (R&B singer)

Macy Gray (R&B singer)

Melissa Joan Hart (actress)

Michael Irvin (football player)

Natalie Coughlin (swimmer)

Tom DeLay (Congressman)

Elvis Presley "Blue Hawaii"

2009-08-16T12:01:00.000-07:00

On August 16, 1977, music fans around the world mourned the loss of Elvis Presley. Elvis was found dead in his bathroom at Graceland at the age of 42. Heart failure was given as the official cause of death, but two lab reports detected that there were fourteen drugs in Elvis' system. On the day of the funeral, hundreds of thousands of fans congregated outside the gates of Graceland to pay their final respects. There were many rumors and scandals in Presley’s later life and untimely death, but island music fans will always remember him as the star who introduced Hawaii to the world.

Elvis Presley’s connection to the Hawaii islands began with his 1961 film “Blue Hawaii". The film was known as romance, exotic dances, paradise and exciting music. “Blue Hawaii” earned Presley a Grammy nomination in 1962 and made beautiful Hawaii known to a widespread of audience.

Plot: Chadwick Gates (Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His mother wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, but Chad is doesn't want to, so Chad goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.

Much of the film was shot on location at the Coco Palms Resort on the East shore of Kauai. The resort has been abandoned since Hurricane Iniki in 1992, but is now in the stage of redevelopment.

The scenes at Chad's beach house were shot at Hanauma Bay, a volcanic crater that is open to the sea, near the bedroom community of Hawaii-Kai, a few miles away from Waikiki.

Presley made two other films in Hawaii. “Girls! Girls! Girls” in 1962. “Paradise Hawaiian Style” was Presley last Hawaii-based motion picture which was released in June of 1966.

In 1973, Elvis Presley had a concert television special “Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii". The concert was broadcast live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, The Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries. The program made Presley’s status as “the King of Rock & Roll” and introduced the beauty of the Hawaiian Islands to the entire world.

Lance Armstrong adds the 2009 leadville 100 mountain bike race to his list of wins

2009-08-15T14:36:00.000-07:00

By David Sims

Not only did he win the race, he set a new record finishing the last few miles of the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 on a flat rear tire. The second place winner, Dave Wiens, was approximately a half hour behind Lance. I will have more accurate details after the final webcast tonight at 6:30 mountain time.

The morning started threatening rain and making all participants and race coordinators very nervous but the weather decided to cooperate with broken clouds and a breeze. This race begins at 6:30 a.m. with a 12 hour cutoff. 1400 racers representing 47 states and 9 foreign countries were on the starting line bright and early ready to roll. The oldest rider as I understand it is a 74 year old man who has had double knee replacements. This man makes cry babies out of almost everyone. There were several teams on tandem bikes, almost unimaginable on a 100 mile race, much less in a mountain bike race.

The small town of Leadville, 2 hours southwest of Denver, almost due east of Aspen, hosted an estimated over 20,000 spectators for the race today. Dave Wiens, last year’s winner and the local favorite, draws almost as big a crowd as Lance because he is local and he has won this race every year from 2002 to 2008. And the man will be 45 years old in a couple weeks. During his post finish interview someone asked him how it felt to be that far behind the winner. Dave, as cool and calm as he usually seems on film commented, “He’s Lance Armstrong. He’s just off the Tour. Last year he was just off the couch.”

Popular mountain bike racer Tinker Juarez was unfortunately taken out of the race early by a mechanical failure , his seat post clamp broke, near the Pipeline Aid Station. But Tinker will be back and when asked what he would do differently next year replied simply, “I’ll have a seat clamp in my pocket…”
Third place and beyond will be posted tonight as soon as they are available.

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