You know you’re excited! Can’t wait!
Magic Mike movie teaser released
Book: YOU HAVE NO IDEA by Vanessa Williams and Helen Williams
Make sure you catch Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen on NIGHTLINE tonight as they talk about their new book “You Have No Idea.”
YOU HAVE NO IDEA is the highly anticipated first book from award winning singer and actress Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen.
Vanessa and Helen discuss it all: from becoming the first black Miss America in 1983 and the controversy that followed, to her debut and success on Broadway, and her resurgence in recent years on network television in Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Vanessa has proven she has serious staying power, and as readers will learn, that survivor mentality and resilience is inherited from her mother, Helen.
No stone is left unturned. Filled with personal family photos and mementos, YOU HAVE NO IDEA is an empowering celebration of the love between a mother and daughter and the lives, thus far, of two women who have consistently defied the odds to achieve success—no matter how uncertain their paths might have been.
As readers of The Randy Report know, Vanessa and I went to college together and we’ve been good friends ever since. With all the fantastic success she’s experienced in every medium you can imagine, she has remained the same down to earth, comfortable friend to me and all of us who know her. She’s really wonderful, and so is her mother Helen, who I met during the first year Vanessa and I were at Syracuse University. Helen loves to tell it like it is. Both are great fun.
I really encourage everyone to read the new book. It’s sure to entertain and touch you. The book is available today – April 17th – everywhere!
Check it out on Amazon. I got mine!
Senate GOP blocks “Buffett Rule” debate
A proposal to implement the Buffett Rule was blocked in the Senate on Monday, but proponents of the millionaire tax vowed to keep the issue alive in the months ahead.
Republicans, as expected, garnered enough support to reject Democrats’ attempt to bring up the proposal for debate. The Democrats fell nine votes short with 51 votes to debate the bill and 45 against. Sixty votes are needed in the Senate to open debate.
A CNN/ORC poll conducted over the weekend found that 72% of Americans support the idea of setting a minimum tax rate for people who make more than $1 million a year. Of those, 90% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 53% of Republicans back such a millionaire tax.
Vacuuming the dog
Cute one minute video: vacuuming Corbin the Corgi.
My dogs run for the hills when they hear a vacuum cleaner.
(via AmericaBlog)
Vanessa Williams & Charles Mesure – last table read of “Desperate Housewives”
Felicity Huffman just tweeted this pic of Charles Mesure and Vanessa Williams at the table read of the final episode of “Desperate Housewives.”
It’s been a good season this year. I’ve enjoyed the show muchly – especially the first few years and the last two with Vanessa.
Looking forward to seeing how they tie it all up.
Gallup daily tracking poll: Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%
Gallup has begun it’s presidential general election daily tracking poll for 2012.
At this point, at the start of the general election (now that Santorum has suspended his campaign Mitt Romney is the sure-to-be GOP candidate) Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%. Both candidates show 90% support from their respective parties.
From Gallup: “History shows that the candidates’ positioning in the spring of an election year is not necessarily good at forecasting the election outcomes. For example, in an April 20-22, 1992, Gallup poll, incumbent President George H.W. Bush was ahead with 41% of the vote, compared with 26% for Bill Clinton and 25% for Ross Perot. And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%, with John Anderson receiving 18% support. Both Bush and Carter, of course, ultimately lost their re-election bids.”
UPDATE: President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Romney in a new CNN/ORC International poll, thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans.
According to the poll, 52% of registered voters say if the presidential election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 43% saying they would cast a ballot for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is making his second bid for the White House.
George Zimmerman’s lawyer requests new judge
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George Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, filed papers Monday to request a new judge in Trayvon Martin case.
The current judge assigned to the case, Jessica Reckseidler, revealed she may have a conflict of interest. Her husband is a partner at the firm of well-known local lawyer Mark NeJame.
NeJame has been hired by CNN to provide analysis on the case.
Zimmerman, meanwhile, is expected to be back in court on Friday to learn if he’ll be allowed out on bond before his trial.
(source)
Marriage News Watch: April 16, 2012
Bernadette Peters & Lea Michele in upcoming “Dorothy In Oz”
Check out this interview video with Lea Michele, Megan Hilty and Bernadette Peters talking about their character work for the DOROTHY OF OZ animated film.
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Fox News calls out Mitt Romney for “accounting trick” regarding women’s unemployment statement
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday called out presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for using an “accounting trick” to assert that women had lost 92.3 percent of the jobs during President Barack Obama’s first term.
“The number of jobs — this is an amazing statistic — the percentage of jobs lost by women in the president’s three years — three and a half years — 92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women!” Romney had said while surrounded by a group of women in Hartford, Connecticut last week.
“You know, 858,000 women have lost their jobs since President Obama took office,” Mitt Romney’s Senior Advisor Gillespie declared. “Ninety-two percent of the job losses in this recession or this recovery — slow stifled recovery — have fallen on women.”
“Wait,” Wallace interrupted. “You know that it is true that more women have lost jobs and it’s true that more women are without jobs now, but it is not true that 90 percent — they did under Obama, but many, many more men — because they are in the job sectors that people lose jobs first — lost jobs under President Bush.”
“So, it’s a little bit of an accounting trick,” Wallace added. “And all of the independent fact finders have said it’s misleading.”