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• Jerry Lewis is retiring as the Labor Day telethon host and the telethon itself is changing with the times.  Back in the day, when most of America only had a limited amount of channels to choose from, that format probably made a lot of sense, but now with all the channels, the Internet, streaming movies, and DVD’s – there’s no way it can compete.
• Your first look at Ed Harris as John McCain for the book turned HBO movie Game Change.
• Seth MacFarlane is rebooting the Flintstones.
• Barry’s blog no longer has all text in bold.
• Major League Baseball will have inter-league baseball this weekend.  For you non-sports fans, unlike other sports where teams will play every team in both leagues each season (except for football since the season isn’t long enough, but nothing keeps teams from playing others from opposing leagues), baseball for the longest time only had American League teams play against each other while National League teams play each other, with the best of each playing the other in the World Series.  That meant an American League team like the Rangers would never play a National League team like the Dodgers unless they met in the World Series, but thanks to a few weeks of inter-league play, fans get to experience teams they normally wouldn’t get to see.  All of that to say, the Chicago Cubs will play the Boston Red Sox since they last time they met in the World Series, back in 1918.  Just think of everything that has occurred since those two last played each other.
• Those Russian police cadets are eye catching.  Boston.com, pic 19
• I have zero desire to ever go on a cruise because I have too much respect (fear) of the ocean and don’t like the idea of being stuck on one vessel no matter how large.  A friend and his wife recently went on a Baltic or European cruise and the ship lost power.  To entertain themselves, they started to send their friends updates via their cell phones.  I’ve cut and pasted their emails after the jump if you are interested, and names have been changed to protect the innocent  What I found interesting was thanks to modern technology, that is GPS, they could actually tell where they were at in the world.

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