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Added: July 4, 2009
Description: CNN's Anderson Cooper vs. Sarah Palin's Spokeswomen [ Meg Stapleton ] On Sarah Palin's Decision To Quit As Governor Of Alaska - 07/03/09
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XRot6ydGM
Saturday, July 4, 2009
To Anderson basketball "is Greek to me"
...Togas not withstanding!
CNN's Anderson Cooper vs. Sarah Palin's Spokeswomen
From: NewsPoliticsNews
Added: July 4, 2009
Description: CNN's Anderson Cooper vs. Sarah Palin's Spokeswomen [ Meg Stapleton ] On Sarah Palin's Decision To Quit As Governor Of Alaska - 07/03/09
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XRot6ydGM
From: NewsPoliticsNews
Added: July 4, 2009
Description: CNN's Anderson Cooper vs. Sarah Palin's Spokeswomen [ Meg Stapleton ] On Sarah Palin's Decision To Quit As Governor Of Alaska - 07/03/09
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XRot6ydGM
Happy Gay Pride 2009
...Belated!
I can't believe I forgot to wish Anderson and you all a Very, Very, Happy and Gay -- Gay Pride Weekend, Week, Life! I guess I was having too much of a good time myself celebrating with Alan and our gay-bandanas-wearing doggies. It was quite a Gay Saturday last week. I hope you enjoyed yourselves too.
I can't believe I forgot to wish Anderson and you all a Very, Very, Happy and Gay -- Gay Pride Weekend, Week, Life! I guess I was having too much of a good time myself celebrating with Alan and our gay-bandanas-wearing doggies. It was quite a Gay Saturday last week. I hope you enjoyed yourselves too.
Happy Birthday USA!
You look a little bit battered but you're improving fast. At 224 you looked Radiant! The turn of the Millennium did wonders for you. Sorry about the following eight years. They were hard, no? Sad, sad, sad. It all started in a little, crumby town in Texas and ended up all the way in a big mess in Iraq, Huh? But things are looking up. You are in better hands now and the healing has already started. We'll celebrate with you as much as we can to show you our appreciation for all you've done for us in spite of disasters and calamities, man-made and otherwise. You are strong, America, and we are strong with you.
Thank you for opening your arms and your heart to all of us, especially to people who, like me, were mistakenly born someplace else and had to find our way to you lands through car, or bus or boat, or rackety plane; and worst of all, through bureaucrats and politicians who'd rather see us dead than productive and inventive and happy by your side.
Thank you AMERICA for being here: bright and shinny and battered, but HERE!
that I rise on your (and our) behalf.
1-10/10 Andy and Kelly
A big thanks to Dr Xexio for taking the time to record this program and then transfer it to video and upload it to YouTube for all of us to enjoy. As to what happened to the 7th segment is something the good Dr only knows. Enjoy!
(01/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3SaDBlN2Q
(02/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyPWggvzDf4
(03/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKo1IC8H6jM
(04/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3nN2PvElU
(05/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKBtOpKCuI
(06/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dRbP41h-g
(07/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
Embedding disabled by request
Why?
Ne se pourquoi pas? C'est un mystère macabre!!!
Try the direct link below:
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDrpMtVjIr0
(08/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0n9oNYj00
(09/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04s6hA2BHDY
(10/10) 06/30/09 Anderson Cooper on LIve With Regis & Kelly
From: DrXexio
Added: July 02, 2009
Description: LIve With Regis & Kelly 06/30/09 part-10/10
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XzyAX04Xc
I hope you have better luck than me watching these videos. I saw them all in YouTube, I copied their links for the blog; but I cannot see them, only a plain white box where the video images are supposed to be. Do you see the videos? I hope so, if not, I added each video link to its respective YouTube web page. Good luck!
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3SaDBlN2Q
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyPWggvzDf4
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKo1IC8H6jM
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3nN2PvElU
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKBtOpKCuI
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dRbP41h-g
Ne se pourquoi pas? C'est un mystère macabre!!!
Try the direct link below:
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDrpMtVjIr0
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0n9oNYj00
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04s6hA2BHDY
From: DrXexio
Added: July 02, 2009
Description: LIve With Regis & Kelly 06/30/09 part-10/10
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XzyAX04Xc
I hope you have better luck than me watching these videos. I saw them all in YouTube, I copied their links for the blog; but I cannot see them, only a plain white box where the video images are supposed to be. Do you see the videos? I hope so, if not, I added each video link to its respective YouTube web page. Good luck!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Prez Rob
This is not an Anderson Cooper report, it's a report by Rob Marciano -- the weather hunky guy from CNN; What's he doing reporting about animatronics from Disneyland, you ask? The weather must be good all around I guess and he had to earn his salary. I don't know for sure. But after Anderson, he'd be the best looking correspondent in a polo shirt! You can tell there is a big chest hiding behind that clothing...
Besides, I don't doubt Anderson will be (if he already didn't do it) reporting about this amazing new attraction at Disneyland.
Disney adds robotic Obama to attraction
updated 41 minutes ago
AMAZING!
Besides, I don't doubt Anderson will be (if he already didn't do it) reporting about this amazing new attraction at Disneyland.
Disney adds robotic Obama to attraction
updated 41 minutes ago
I'm Not In Love
This is one of my videos. I downloaded it to YouTube about 6 months ago. It is one of my favorites: the framed pictures of Anderson, the wonderful music by "10cc," the lyrics: "I'm not in love / So don't forget / It's just a silly face I'm going through..." And, who is supposing to be singing those words, you, the listener, or Anderson... to you!?
Just something to keep you busy thinking for today...
This is the picture that I keep on the wall, you know, it hides a nasty stain that's lying there...
Finished Wall
Sorry, file opens very slowly, it's a big wall!
Not Pink Floyd's wall, not the Western Wall, almost as long as but not the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall and the Walls of Jericho already fell, so they are not. Let's see, what other walls there are? Hmm...? Shameless Anderson Cooper Adoration Wall (SACAW)... Hmm... I like that, the SACAW Wall. How about you?
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Full Anderson
The Full Package: Anderson Cooper
Contrary to popular belief, we queers aren't attracted just to gym bods and pretty faces. We're looking for it all -- intelligence, charm, heart, style, talent, accessibility ... and that unexplainable sumthin' sumthin' called the "X-factor" that makes our hearts go thump.
From the worlds of entertainment, art, sports, business, politics and other realms we've plucked the very few people who fit these criteria, and we present them to you through our weekly series "The Full Package."
Cuckoo for CoopMore magnetic than George Stephanopoulos. Better bred than Chris Cuomo. Nattier than Matt Lauer. Able to report as passionately from war-torn Rwanda and Katrina-ravaged New Orleans as effortlessly as he can chew the fat on comforting morning fluff like ABC's "Regis and Kelly" or command a crowd at the Times Square New Year's Eve bash. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the youthful silver fox who translates into network gold! It's Anderson Cooper -- the intrepid, intelligent and unassumingly sexy CNN anchor we can't get enough of.
We gays have claimed him as our own (whether he really is "one of us" or not). But why do we love him so much? Is it that he's a scion of one of the wealthiest families in American history yet comes across with the sharp yet boyish everyman appeal of a Jimmy Stewart? Is it that -- in 007/Indiana Jones fashion -- he looks as good in muddy khakis out in the jungle as he does in a tailored Ralph Lauren suit and perfectly knotted tie at a celebrity function? Is it that, at such an uncertain and pivotal time, when we're confronted with the confusions of Barack, Bush, Iraq, Hillary, McCain, he's made American politics and global issues accessible to us in a way that's by turns easygoing and charmingly earnest, but always insightful? Is it that he's shown his vulnerability by being candid about the tragedies in his personal life, or that he gives us a glimpse of his cocky side when he riffs with Kelly Ripa about his Manhattan social life? Or do we just love him for his trim build, his angular cheekbones and his blue eyes, made even more striking by his full, handsome and prematurely white head of hair?
The answer is: We like him for all of the above.
Who doesn't know that Anderson is a Vanderbilt or that he's Gloria Vanderbilt's son? I'm a big fan: I watch him a lot, and what's great is that he's never seemed to make a big deal about it. If anything, he jokes that his mom used to make blue jeans.
-- Steve Stiles, New York
He's a rich boy, but he never seemed to rely too much on the old man's money -- "the old man" being his great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a shipping and railroad magnate whose wealth was legendary. By the time Anderson was born, the Vanderbilt fortune had waned a bit, but we doubt this slight downturn forced Anderson to worry about how he was going to pay for his Yale education. His mother is author and designer-jeans queen Gloria Vanderbilt; his late father, Wyatt Emory Cooper, was a writer and editor. The long line of hard workers from which Anderson comes makes him all the more appealing, as Jerold Shea of Boston says. "His parents weren't just socialites who sat back in their swanky Fifth Avenue home and drank gin and tonics all day; they were working rich, and they used their talents, and Anderson has followed in their footsteps. That's just one of the things I find so attractive about him."
Sam Yuen of Stockton, Calif., finds that Anderson's pedigree is balanced by his work ethic: "Sure, he was born into privilege and seems so cosmopolitan," Yuen says, "but his experiences traveling the world makes him human. He's like a guy I wouldn't be intimidated about bringing home to meet my parents."
Out on the edgesWho cares whether he's cute. I don't care whether the correspondent I'm watching is cute. Bob Woodruff is cuter. I love Bob, too ... but there was this unexplainable humanity and accessibility about the reportage that Anderson Cooper brought to the disasters in New Orleans and places like Sri Lanka that made the coverage watchable.
-- Nathan Weiss, Allentown, Pa..
Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and New Orleans: These are just a few of the worn-torn or disaster-stricken locations that Anderson has decided to report from -- and chronicle in his book, "Dispatches from the Edge" -- with an openness, sensitivity and fierceness that, as fan Nathan Weiss says, "makes your head more than spin. It makes you think and consider what's out there."
He goes on: "Not many of us were born with a silver spoon in his mouth, as Anderson was, but even fewer of us would choose to face the horrors he has for the sake of exposing them to us."
A broken-winged bird that can flyIt's like a lot of people in the [gay and lesbian community] love the image of the broken-winged bird. We see that person who's experienced loss as a romantic figure. But most of us have been through tragedy, in some sense. What draws me to Anderson, especially, and what I find so courageous is that he seems constantly to be exploring his grief and fighting through it.
-- Steve Milanes, San Antonio, Texas
His father died on an operating table when he was just 11. His brother Carter committed suicide at age 23 by jumping out of the balcony of their mother's penthouse apartment in Manhattan, in an apparent psychotic state. Knowing this, when we watch Anderson engaging Katrina survivors or revealing to us the scars of war, we see something deeper than the pretty face and the stylish trench garb of polo shirts and khakis: We find a person who's gone through pain himself -- and not just aloofly reporting the tragedy of others.
Please pass me the saltThere's nothing more sexy than a youngish guy with a full head of white hair. But he's not like Brad Pitt, whose sexiness is in your face. There's something different about Anderson when it comes to his attractiveness -- it's like he's unaware, or he doesn't really care about it.
-- Garren Weller, San Francisco
He's my fashion hero. He looks good in everything I've seen him wear. He looks great even in the desert, where he probably hasn't had a shower in days.
-- Bo Cohen, Tampa, Fla.
He's been a TV darling since he was 3 years old, when he appeared on the "Tonight Show" with his famous mom, and has been honing his camera-friendliness ever since, as a former model for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. But only nature could give him that sculpted bone structure and those dreamy blue eyes, not to mention the famous white hair, always superbly cut. He knows how to expertly knot a tie; he knows how a suit should fit his frame -- if fellow white-haired hunk Tim Gunn should find himself in need of a vacation, the "Project Runway" people know whom to call.
by Robert Ordona
Bubbles
CNN Tracks Down Bubbles, Michael Jackson's Pet ChimpFirst Posted: 07-02-09 -- 12:39 AM | Updated: 07-02-09 -- 12:59 AM
On Wednesday night, CNN's Anderson Cooper introduced another of the network's hard-hitting reports in the wake of Michael Jackson's death: An exclusive visit with Bubbles, Jackson's infamous pet chimpanzee.As Cooper notes:
"Jackson parted ways with Bubbles once the chimp got too big and too hard to control. Bubbles was then kept by an animal trainer until 2005 when he was sent to an animal sanctuary in Florida. That's where we caught up with him. Bubbles is now 26 years old."
Among the details gleaned from the report: Jackson never visited Bubbles at the sanctuary, the chimpanzee likes cucumbers and bananas ("of course") and enjoys making faces.
Watch the report:
Wall 4 of 4
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
MJ Didn't Talk About Death
July 1, 2009
Jackson: ‘Don’t ever talk about your dying’
Posted: 02:28 PM ET
This is the longest I’ve gone without blogging for some time. But sometimes you just have to let life play itself out without comment. Like so many people, I have been in a wash of images and feelings about Michael Jackson. I knew him as well as one could know him during the time before he did “The Wiz” and up through “Thriller.” I couldn’t pretend to understand him. There were so many complicated signals. Did he want me to be his ‘older women’ friend. He gravitated to older women. For solace? Succor? A beard? Did he want me to teach him the ropes? I never could quite figure it out. But I remember one day he was visiting me at my ranch north of Santa Barbara. It was the first time he had been in that region but he must have liked it because later he bought his ranch in that same area. Anyway, as we walked around the ranch which was perched right at the edge of the mountain overlooking Goleta, I pointed to a spot where I told him I wanted to be buried. Michael had a melt down right then and there when he heard this. He shrieked and bent over and said “no, no, no!” “ What’s the matter,” I asked. “Don’t ever talk about your dying,” he answered. “Don’t ever think about it.” I think about death all the time. I rehearse my death. I think that’s a healthy thing to do. Death, after all, is what gives life meaning the way noise gives meaning to silence. Ooooh, I thought to myself, Michael will have a hard time of it as he ages. He will spend all his energy trying to flee what is inevitable. And now it’s happened. I like the fact that it was quick. Massive heart attacks that you don’t recover from are quick. You don’t know what hit you. That’s probably the kindest death for Michael. It’s hard to imagine him being happy as he aged. One more demon to try and evade. I like to think he’s happy now, free of his demons. Free and floating and knowing how his art continues to be revered and celebrated by all of us all over the world. It will continue.
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