Farrah Fawcett Passes Away

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of an iconic legend. Farah Fawcett has passed away today after a fight with cancer. Doctors efforts to stop the disease failed and progressed through her body until the bitter end. She died in the ICU ward at St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica, CA this morning. She always had the greatest smile and will be remembered as the most famous of Charlie's Angels. She will be terribly missed.

Is California Broke

So it was announced today that California will have to pay out debts in IOUs come the new fiscal year starting in July. What a blow to the state that you would think is the richest, or one of the richest in the entire country. To sink to this level... what went wrong. Well we all know that Enron put California into so much debt from the energy fixing. That, coupled with the recession, housing crash, unemployment at a high... the country is ready to bust. And yet there are so many movie stars, producers, directors, executives, CEOs, and multi million dollar companies unable to support this problem.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next week as the fiscal year in California rolls over. Will the state ask the federal government for a bailout? Everyone else is, why can't they. It's not like we don't love our TV shows and movies. The summer TV hiatus might increase the unemployment rate as staff are let go... and maybe even cancelled shows.

Only time will tell.

Chubby People Live Longer - Thank You Japan

A report has been provided from Japan stating that Chubby people live longer than skinny people, by up to 5 years. Experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.

People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.

"We found skinny people run the highest risk," said Shinichi Kuriyama an associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people.

"We had expected thin people would show the shortest life expectancy but didn't expect the difference to be this large," he told AFP by telephone.

The study was conducted by a health ministry team led by Tohoku University professor Ichiro Tsuji and covered 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 79 over 12 years in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi.

Well score one for the guys visiting the buffet, like I did last night for Fathers Day!