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The Dugout: Oakland Athletics Spring Training 2010
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsThe AL West continues to prove itself a bizarre and uninhabitable place as the Dugout's 2010 Spring Training event skips Oakland completely and heads straight into Hollywood. Billy Beane and the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, or How I Learned to Stop Working Out and Love the Balm" are being made into a major motion picture starring one-eighth of Brangelina and a bunch of comedians trying to wear business suits and win Golden Globes. It's a great example of how Hollywood prettiest up the hero and turns the supporting characters into Tolkeinesque two-dimensional sniveling ...
Wyclef Jean Defends Yele Haiti Foundation's Finances
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyHaitian-American singer Wyclef Jean held a press conference in New York on Monday to defend against accusations that he has profited from his charity Yele Haiti. Since the massive earthquake that struck Haiti last Tuesday, Jean has called on the public to text "YELE" to 501501 to donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund, which has raised over $2 million in just days, according to the Associated Press. "Yele's books are open and transparent. We have been given a clean bill of health by an external auditor every year since we started," Jean told reporters.He denied all accusations that he ...
Tiger Woods Considering $3 Million Haiti Donation
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 14) – Scandal-plagued golfer Tiger Woods may be on the verge of making an enormous donation – $3 million – to help relief efforts in Haiti. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons told the New York Daily News, "Tiger Woods is working on sending a mobile hospital with 50 EMTs to go set up a triage." According to the Daily News, Simmons approached Woods about joining forces with Yele, Wyclef Jean's Haitian relief organization. Simmons told the paper that Woods seemed "excited" about making a contribution. Karim Sahib, AFP/Getty Images Tiger Woods is said to be considering ...
Clooney Hosts MTV Telethon for Haiti; Brad, Angelina, Wyclef Donate to Relief Efforts
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGeorge Clooney will host a telethon to raise money for rescue and relief efforts for Haiti after the devastating 7.0 earthquake Tuesday. The telethon – which will air 8-10 p.m. Eastern time Jan. 22 on all MTV channels, ABC, NBC, HBO and CNN – will include celebrity appeals from both U.S. coasts. At a party Wednesday night, singer Sting and his wife Trude Styler agreed to be on the program, at Clooney's request. Many Hollywood celebrities, including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have announced large financial donations to relief causes for Haiti. In press releases, tweets, ...
Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, the Place to Be for D.C.'s Power Players and Hollywood Celebrities
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyIn the year since celebrity chef and restaurateur Michael Mina opened Bourbon Steak, the restaurant has become one of the see-and-be-seen places in Washington, D.C. Bourbon Steak is always packed with those who want to see celebrities in town, glad-hand high-ranking officials and be written about by reporters. Located on the lobby floor of the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown, Bourbon Steak has been on a parallel course with President Obama's making Washington cool and hip and young. Chatting with me recently after the lunch rush, Mina recalls his shock one day during Obama's inauguration ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
'Moneyball' Cast Coming Together
By Matt Snyder - AOL NewsMichael Lewis' book about Billy Beane's strategy in making a small-market team successful in Major League Baseball, "Moneyball," is going to be made into a feature-length movie. Shooting isn't set to begin until June, but many of the key players are being put in place. Brad Pitt is going to play Oakland A's general manager Beane (the two are pictured side-by-side here) and Steven Soderbergh will be the director. Now, according to variety.com, Demetri Martin has been added to the fray, and he'll play Paul DePodesta, currently employed by the Padres, but formerly the Dodgers general manager and ...
Brad Pitt's Next Movie Will Be ... Moneyball?
By Matt Watson - AOL NewsFor my money, Michael Lewis' Moneyball is one of the best sports books ever written. In fact, it's one of my all-time favorites regardless of genre. It's captured the whole "scouts vs. stats" phenomenon perfectly, flummoxing hard-core traditionalists (many of whom mistakenly still believe Billy Beane wrote the book). But as much as I love the book, I'm a little shocked at the decision to turn it into a movie:Steve Zaillian has signed on to adapt Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," and David Frankel is attached to direct. Project is being ...
Hillarack Oblinton, Meet Brangelina
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt, while Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie, an interesting bit of symmetry: BOSTON - This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie. Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates - Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain. With the Democratic Primary race beginning to ...
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