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The Winch Line World Danny's view of what's going on in the world. George Clooney will direct and star in a new movie for Universal called "The Leatherheads." This football story has taken 10 years to get on a movie screen... Bob Barker of the "Price is Right" has been on the TV screen for over 50 years. 35 of them, emceering the most popular game show on television... In 1972, when he started out, the game shows he completed with were. Password, Concentration, Sale of the Century and Hollywood Squares... Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie have gifted one million dollars each to Doctors Without Borders and Global Action for Children to benefit those parts of the world that have been most abandoned ... There are 900,000 restaurant locations in America serving 70 billion meals and snacks daily. This industry employs 12.2 million people making it our nation's largest employer outside of our government. 1000 People in Johanesburg, South Africa, watched as 73 surfers aged 7 to 67 rode the same wave for five seconds to break a Guiness Book World record ... Emmy winning TV personality Racheal Ray's new daytime network show is a huge success. Audiences are responding to her warmth and boundless energy ... Looks like there will be a major contract battle between the Writers Guild of America and the movie producers in next years contract negotiations ... Magicians Penn & Teller, Lance Burton & Davis Copperfield are gaining a wider audience with more and more screen and tv performances ... In a recent survey, Harry Houdini was named the #1 illusionist of all time ... There are 900,000 restaurant locations in America serving 70 billion meals and snacks daily. This industry employs 12.2 million people making it our nation's largest employer outside of our government... Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are numbers 1 & 2 in Forbes 17th annual list of richest people ... Walmart started in 1962 with a store in Arkansas. Now there are 4300 locations worldwide serving 100 million customers weekly. The Walton Family Foundation still owns 37% of the stock. The Walton Foundation donated 300 million dollars to the University of Arkansas, the largest gift ever to a U.S. public university ... The USA now has a population of 284.8 million people, but there are only 22 billionaires... Football fans, if you wanna read a great book before it hits the movie theatres next year, get yourself a copy of Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side."... Here are America's top ten celebrities. Tom Cruise, The Rolling Stones, Oprah Winfrey, U2, Tiger Woods, Steven Spielberg, Howard Stern, 50 Cent, the cast of the Sopranos and Dan Brown, the fellow who wroter the DiVinci Code which sold 61 million copies world wide ... Did you know 97% of women close their eyes during a kiss, but only 37% of men do. The late actor Anthony Quinn Once said "Most husbands kiss with their eyes open because they want to make sure their wives aren't around to catch them." |
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