Admit it. You cannot get enough of Robert Tilton. God knows you couldn’t in 1991. After PrimeTime Live torpedoed the ministry of televangelist Robert Tilton in 1991, he filed a libel lawsuit against Capital Cities/ABC, PrimeTime Live, Diane Sawyer, producer Robbie Gordon and Trinity Foundation leader Ole Anthony. Tilton lost…
ABC trounced Robert Tilton in his lawsuit against the network. That was years ago. Doesn’t mean we can’t relive it. Paige Capossela, a spokeswoman for ABC News, sent us a lengthy response to Glenna Whitley’s August 3, 2006, cover story “The Cult of Ole”–an in-depth look at Ole Anthony and…
For the next God knows how long, Terrell Owens will be healing his hammy in a hyperbaric chamber. How weird, creepy and unsportsmanlike of him. Getcha popcorn ready. And, while you’re at it, keep the Pepto-Bismol handy. As the Dallas Cowboys are already starting to figure out, Terrell Owens comes…
The Los Angeles Times this morning has a story that’s actually old news to most Dallas Morning News subscribers: Dallas’ Only Daily is among two major newspapers in the country to include with its Sunday editions IMedia International Inc.-created CD-ROMs full of “movie previews, music samples, video games, comics, celebrity…
This comic book is among thousands of rare Golden Age titles Heritage is auctioning off starting Friday afternoon. At the end of June, we had a story here about the latest batch of comic books to be auctioned off by Heritage Auction Galleries: the Davis Crippen collection, which consists of…
Do you wanna have coffee with Mitch Albom? How about with his books? Yeah, not so much. Barnes & Noble Booksellers is a book store that sells Starbucks coffee. Starbucks is a coffee shop that, beginning next month, will sell books. Why not? It already sells CDs (including Starbucks-only product…
Heidi Klum takes a bite out of The Real Deal and realizes he tastes a little past the expiration date. I can’t remember the exact moment I became an Evander Holyfield fan. Maybe it was when a young Snoop Dogg claimed that he was “realer than real deal Holyfield.” Maybe…
If you wanna look this cool–and you know you do, because this is how cool people really look–slide into Dallas’ first Segway dealership when it opens across from SMU this weekend. You know, guys, I was just thinking. We haven’t had an exorbitant rise in gas prices in at least…
Edie Brickell–and the New Bohemians, as well as husband Paul Simon–will perform in Fair Park August 26 at a benefit for one of Brickell’s childhood friends. On October 28, 2005, Robert Meadows–who KXAS-Channel 5 referred to in January as a “42-year-old struggling actor”–was robbed and beaten by three people in…
Admit it, when you first saw this magazine cover you wondered to yourself, “Does T.D. Jakes get enough sausage?” Apparently, the answer is no. Bishop T.D. Jakes went home–to Charleston, West Virginia–this weekend to be feted during a multi-culti throwdown called, appropriately, Multifest. Thousands turned out to cheer the man…
This could be something. Or nothing. Or something really interesting. Went to Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California, last week. Saw owner Jerry Jones the first couple days. Interviewed him at length the third day. Saw him a couple other days. Then I came home and flipped on Saturday’s…
We’ve mentioned a few times that Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., is having some issues–if you consider being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and receiving a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issues. Well, on Wednesday ACS will have is…
Benny Barnes was no Dallas Cowboys spare. He played 11 years with the team–from 1972 through the 1982 season, for a total of 139 games–as a defensive back, and he was the subject of a controversial call involving a Terry Bradshaw pass to Lynn Swann in Super Bowl XIII in…
At the beginning of the year, The National Journal’s blog, The Hotline, asked the question: “Ever Heard of the Legacy?” It sounded like a terribly general query, but it was a very specific reference to a gathering that took place in Washington, D.C., in late January, during which “140 of…
If so, former Dallasites the Secret Machines perform at Chicago’s Lollapalooza around 5:30 p.m. CST today, and you’re just a few clicks away from watching their performance for free with the help of your office’s high-speed Internet connection. Hope you’re using Windows–Macs won’t be able to access the protected Windows…
Over at the self-proclaimed “libertarian-leaning” blog Hammer of Truth–which, again, was my nickname in kindergarten–local contributor Michelle Shinghal complains that Aaron Russo’s documentary America: Freedom to Fascism has been “pulled from Dallas Angelika.” No doubt, The Man didn’t want you to see what this self-proclaimed “startling examination [that] exposes the…
Mark Babineck’s piece in the Houston Chronicle, in which he writes about the U.S. Census Bureau’s report released yesterday detailing how “non-Hispanic whites appear to be pouring” out of Dallas County, has been popular amongst the local blogs today; already it’s been on FrontBurner and DallasBlog, and, well, since Dallas’…
Fort Worth-based FUNimation is handling Afro Samurai, which, oddly, was my nickname in Hebrew school. The 2006 Asian Film Festival of Dallas kicks off at noon today with screenings at the Magnolia Theater in the West Village; the fest runs through next Thursday and, like I said in the paper…
Fans of Dallas’ the pAper chAse (or anyone who’s read our coverage of the band’s latest album) might not find too much new info in this interview in yesterday’s edition of national indie music Web site PopMatters, but the extra info about the album’s creepy cover art, discovered by lead…
New SMU basketball coach Matt Doherty may be better than Jimmy Tubbs. But so much for the part about him being cleaner. Just four months into his new gig on the Hilltop, Doherty’s program has been slapped on the wrist for an NCAA rules violation. Seems one of Doherty’s assistant…
Six years ago I wrote a piece about Jim Marrs, the good ol’ boy who sees conspiracies in a box of Froot Loops. You know the name: Marrs is a former Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer who wrote the 1989 best-seller Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, a collection of theories…
Five local radio stations–four on the FM side of the dial, one from the AM–are being sold after their parent company went and lost $168 million in a single quarter. Yesterday, Santa Monica, California-based Spanish-language broadcasting giant (though now, not so much) Entravision Communications Corporation announced that it was gonna…
