William Christopher Passed Away!

The year 2016 ends with the passing of William Christopher. He was best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the 1970s hit comedy series M.A.S.H.

Even on New Year's Eve, a major entertainer passed away. We just learned that William Christopher the legendary actor who played Father Mulcahy on the hit series M.A.S.H. passed away of lung cancer.

He was 84, and died in Pasadena according to his family.

Born in Illinois in 1932, William got his start as a stage actor in the 1950s before taking on the roles in television and film. He held a variety of shows during his life. Shows like The Patty Duke Show, the Andy Griffith Show, The Men from Shiloh and Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. were notable.

He even had a role on Hogan's Heroes.

But William's best role was playing the calming Father Mulcahy. He took the role after the actor who originally played the part wasn't available. He would become a mainstay throughout the 11 seasons of M.A.S.H. 

He even reprised his role in the spin-off After M.A.S.H. 

William was an advocate for autism. He has a son named Ned that was autistic. He spend a portion of his time devoting to the National Autistic Society and recording PSAs. 

To end the year with the death of an iconic actor. We will miss you.

Royal Too!

Royal couple goes for the second.

The United Kingdom's most popular couple is going for a second bundle.

Prince William and Princess Kate are going for the second round. According to the junk food media, the couple announced that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting her second child and being treated for severe morning sickness, royal officials said Monday.

The couple's Clarence House office said they and their families were "delighted" with the baby news.

The former Kate Middleton was being treated at Kensington Palace for severe morning sickness, Clarence House said.

She was hospitalized for the same condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, during her first pregnancy with Prince George, who was born in July 2013.

The illness means the 32-year-old duchess may need extra hydration, medication and nutrients.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "delighted by the happy news that they're expecting another baby."

The new baby will become fourth in line to the throne, pushing Prince Harry to fifth. Toddler Prince George is third and likely to become Britain's monarch one day.

The Associated Press also adds that Britain had changed its laws before George's birth so that the couple's first born would be in line for the throne regardless of its sex. Before the change, a girl would have lost her place in line if a boy was born later.

William and Kate have often expressed an interest in having a larger family.

Britain's Press Association reported that Kate's pregnancy hasn't passed the 12-week stage, which is when she became ill in her first pregnancy.

Royal officials said it wasn't clear if the duchess will be able to carry out planned official engagements, including a trip to Malta on Sept. 20 and 21 that would mark her first overseas solo trip.

Decisions on events would be made on a "case-by-case" basis, officials said.

Craig Ferguson: I Quit!

Craig Ferguson is out leaving the Late Late Show.

CBS announced that Stephen Colbert will host Late Show this year. David Letterman is retiring and the executives felt that Colbert was the most suitable choice.

Well news came overnight that the Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson is calling it quits.

The Associated Press report that the Scottish comedian and entertainer hosted since the Late Late 2005.

Ferguson told his studio audience during Monday's taping that he will step down at the end of the year.

Ferguson's show airs after Letterman's, at 12:35 a.m. on weekdays.

The move was no surprise after CBS announced that Stephen Colbert will replace Letterman next year. There was a time that Ferguson, whose show won a Peabody Award in 2009, was considered a strong contender for that job.

But "The Late Late Show" has faded in the ratings, particularly with the arrival of Seth Meyers in February as competition in the same time slot.

"CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are consciously uncoupling," Ferguson said. "But we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much."

He told the audience it was his decision to leave, adding, "CBS has been fine with me."

CBS Entertainment Chairwoman Nina Tassler said Ferguson "infused the broadcast with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television."

He already has a new job lined up, as host of "Celebrity Name Game," a syndicated game show set to debut later this year.

But he joked about his plans with the audience.

David Letterman and Craig Ferguson are bouncing from CBS late nights.

After his stint ends, "I'll go and do something else. Probably, I'm thinking, carpentry. But I haven't made my mind up yet. ... I feel like doing this show for 10 years, that's enough," he said.

Guest LL Cool J told Ferguson that "I hate to see you go."

It's been an unusually busy period of personnel changes in the late-night television arena. Jimmy Fallon took over the "Tonight" show on NBC from Jay Leno in February and was an instant sensation, ascending to the top of the ratings against Letterman and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel. Letterman announced that he would be leaving CBS after more than three decades in late-night TV.

Chelsea Handler also has said she will be leaving her late-night show on E!

CBS said it plans to continue "The Late Late Show" and will be searching for another host. There's another opening at Comedy Central, which is looking to replace "The Colbert Report" when it ends at the end of the year.

Hannity Goes Berserk On Jon Stewart!

That Guy Who Helped Obama Win is tired of being mocked by comedian. So now he's launched a feud against Comedy Central's host Jon Stewart.

That Guy Who Helped Obama Win is a certified asshole. The conservative agitator is so obsessed with taking down President Barack Obama it actually backfires.

I've explained it too many times that he's nothing more than a well paid agitator who relishes in division and hate.

Do you know that picking a fight with Jon Stewart will result in a bitter defeat?

It's not Jon Stewart's fault that he caught this punk ass conservative agitator lying to his audience yet again.

He's just telling the damn truth about that stupid right wing militia rancher. That rancher refuses to follow federal law and respect property. He making a mountain out of a mole hill. He's being a total asshole.

He and those who support him are WHITE EXTREMIST!

That annoying conservative agitator is stringing the possibility of a domestic terrorist attack.

Mediaite reports that That Guy Who Helped Obama Win went after Jon Stewart Tuesday night for mocking him over his support of Cliven Bundy and hypocrisy therewith. That annoying conservative agitator mused that Stewart is “kind of obsessed” with him, and called the late night comic the “chief apologist for the Obama administration.”

Obviously Jon Stewart catches the hypocrisy that comes out of that asshole's mouth.

The annoying conservative agitator insisted his main problem is with government overreach in Nevada, turning the tables on Stewart to wonder where he stands on Bundy, wildly speculating what Stewart’s true feelings on the situation could be. And beyond that, that conservative agitator rehashed his old foes.

“Did Jon Stewart ask Barack Obama about his friendship [with] this unapologetic domestic terrorist Bill Ayers [and Jeremiah Wright]?” says That Guy Who Helped Obama Win.

The annoying conservative agitator called Stewart a “comedic hack” and randomly brought up the inclusion of Cat Stevens (who supported a fatwa on Salman Rushdie) at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear hosted by Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

National Review‘s Kevin Williamson called Stewart a “half-bright late night television comedian” with a “vulgar and extensive audience,” telling the conservative agitator, “I’m sort of embarrassed with the country and myself that we have to sit here and talk about Jon Stewart.”

No, No, No, Judge Joe Brown!

Washed up isn't the only thing keeping Judge Joe down.

Shelby County lockup got the former TV judge for acting a fool while trial was in session.

In March 2014, Brown was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee and charged with five counts of contempt of court and getting "verbally abusive" during a child support case. He was sentenced to five days in jail, but was later released on his own recognizance.

In an interview with ABC News, Brown said that his arrest Monday, which he claimed never should have happened, has "reenergized" him, especially in his run for Shelby County D.A.

"I always used to be a hot shot about protecting people's rights," he said. "I was not happy to have my liberty detained even for 30 seconds. That's precious. It's not about the conditions of incarceration, it's about the loss of liberty."

Brown, 67, explained that the situation was "weird" because initially, he was just at the juvenile court to see how it was operating, as he's done with other courts in the area. However, when a woman approached him and asked him to take a look at her child support case, he said he felt obliged, due to a pledge he'd made to "protect womanhood and promote manhood."

"Then I almost felt nauseated looking at it," he said, adding that he believed the case never should have gone forward. "When I insisted that the woman's charges be dismissed. He started talking about, I'm not an attorney so-and-so. ... I said, 'You know it's wrong. ... You're better than this.'"


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Actors Reflect On James Avery's Death!

Actor James Avery passed away. He played Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Shredder on the 1987 Mirage's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series.

It turns out the first day was a surprise for most in the entertainment community.

Actor James Avery, who played Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has passed away yesterday marking the first celebrity death of 2014.

His publicist and CNN confirmed that he passed away. An outpouring of sympathy came from Hollywood including his former co-star Alfonso Ribeiro, who tweeted, "I'm deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away. He was a second father to me. I will miss him greatly."

Avery had recently undergone open heart surgery and reportedly died from complications from the operation.

A classically trained actor and poet, Avery grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., where he was raised by a single mother. He served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and first appeared onscreen as a dancer in an uncredited role in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers."

Avery also voiced characters for many animated series, most notably for 1987's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as The Shredder. He also did voice acting for 1990s "Iron Man" character War Machine.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their wealthy Bel-Air mansion, where his lifestyle often clashes with that of his relatives. The 148 episodes were broadcast over six seasons.

He was survived by his wife Barbara in 1988. He had no children of his own, but was a stepfather to his wife's son, Kevin Waters.

It's disputed about his age. According to TMZ, he was 65. But to Wikipedia, he was 68.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of James Avery.

Ballin'!

LaBron and Savannah James. The NBA star married his longtime girlfriend this weekend.

LaBron James and Dr. Dre.

Miami Heat's LaBron James is officially a married man. He married his longtime sweetheart Savannah Brinson. The two have children together.

The Miami Heat power forward has went forth to put "ring on it" and invited his friends and family to the coastal California to celebrate a weekend of love. James married Brinson at the Grand Del Mar Hotel in San Diego on September 14, 2013.

James was engaged to Brinson since 2001, proposing to her at a party to celebrate New Year’s Eve and his birthday. James, 28, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, 27, at a party on New Year's Eve 2011, and later admitted on Oprah's Next Chapter that he was nervous. "It felt like a finals game."

Entertainers Jay-Z and Beyonce were in attendance of this weeding event.

Fellow teammate Dwayne Wade and actress Gabrielle Union were there.

NBA players Chris Paul and Carmello Anthony were there.

And the junk food media is awww and ooh over how lovely the couple are.

They currently reside in Coconut Grove, a Miami suburb, where James bought a three-story mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay for $9 million.


People magazine reports that the couple sent out Save the Date notes in March for the three-day celebration, which the New York Post reports was masterminded by wedding planner Preston Bailey, who also planned the Lord of the Rings-themed $9 million nuptials of Silicon Valley mogul Sean Parker.

Guests were welcomed to the celebration with a barbecue on Friday evening before the afternoon wedding on Saturday, and the festivities are expected to wind up with a farewell brunch on Sunday, according to reports.

Brinson, who has two sons with James – LeBron Jr., 8, and Bryce, 5 – told Harper's Bazaar in 2010 that she's dreamed of being a bride since the age of 6 and that when she married James, "I want it to be forever."

"A person like myself always needs a great sidekick and a person you can rely on no matter the circumstances. And she's that," James added. "She's got my back and I love her for that."

Jay-Z and Kanye West were promoting a XXL Magazine and they've asked LaBron James to join them.

You know I got to give love to LaBron and Savannah James. We here at Journal de la Reyna wish the couple well.

Hopefully we don't see any reality television programs sharing their lives?

LeBron Raymone James (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984), nicknamed "King James", is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) and weighing in at 250 lb (113 kg), he has played the small forward and power forward positions. James has won two NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, two NBA Finals MVP Awards, two Olympic gold medals, an NBA scoring title, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, nine All-NBA teams, and five All-Defensive teams, and is the Cleveland Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer.

James played high school basketball at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, where he was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar.

The "Blacks" Made Me Write A Book!

Bethany Storro Lies Down Black! Wakes Up Disfigured!

THIS BITCH LIED ABOUT BEING ATTACKED BY A BLACK WOMAN THROWING ACID ON HER FACE. NOW THIS WOMAN RETURNS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT BY WRITING A BOOK!

Bethany Storro the woman who fooled the nation with a racial hoax is coming back into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The young woman came to the spotlight for a tragic incident. In 2010, Storro put a powerful drain cleaner chemical on her face. The chemical burned a portion of her face.

She filed a police report stated that a Black woman came up to her and threw acid on her face without explanation.

This got play on the news networks and stirred up the bee's nest! Inside the White supremacist and conservative bubble, many were pissed that a White woman was attacked by Black thugs.

According to The Huffington Post, Storro told the police that a Black woman who waving around acid told her: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?" and then the woman threw the acid on her severely burning Storro's face and upper body.

Storro's hospitalization and recovery touched millions around the world, inspiring them with her story of resilience and determination to overcome her injuries. Facebook fan pages and groups with names like "Pray for Bethany Storro" sprouted overnight, soliciting thousands of dollars in donations. An appearance on "Oprah" was scheduled.

The story didn't match up to what she told the police. When the FBI got involved and determined that the incident wasn't credible, she confessed that she made the whole thing up!

She claimed that in order to scorn a boyfriend, she would make up this story about her being attacked by another woman over her looks. She got donations from people across the nation to aid in helping her.

The chemical she put on her damaged 60% of her face and it left her permanently scarred.

Writing a book to explain how she blamed Black people for her tragic scarring. Bethany Storro managed to become one the nation's latest racial hoaxers after she faked an attack on a Black woman.

According to The Columbian, Storro was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.  She had to wear a clear compression mask 12 to 15 hours a day to help heal her skin. While being interviewed by the newspaper, Storro said her doctor has told her that it could take as long as two years, but her red skin should return to her normal color.

She said she will have scars, but once her skin has healed she will be able to wear makeup.

Storro said she described her attacker as black because she figured that police wouldn’t be able to find anyone who matched that description.

She said she's also thankful her attorney worked out a deal with Prosecutor Tony Golik to spare her from spending time in jail or having a felony record.

She’s grateful for her pastor at Calvary Community Church, her family and close friends who have supported her these past seven months.

“I have awesome friends who have kept in touch with me, to make sure I’m OK,” she said.

She said that when she’s been in public, strangers have approached her but none with any unkind words.

Now that the controversy died down, she decided to make a little mula by writing a book about how her life spun out control. Bethany Storro is writing a book about the incident and how it changed her life.

The Daily Mail caught up with her last year and just recently reported that Facing The Truth is due out this year. The book will explain how her "mental illness" and need for attention led her to putting drain cleaner on her face. She explains how the legal justice system and international scorn had made here realize that "rock bottom" came and now she's ready to move on.

At age 30, Bethany Storro is now facing reality.

Many still figured that writing a book about her hoax is callous and she should have faded away like others who managed to fool the nation with racial tension.

Being a young white woman with mental issues managed to help her obtain nearly $30,000 in charity.

She had to return the money.

Storro wrote this book with co-writer Mona Kruger, a writer and burn survivor based in Portland, Oregon.



My commentary from two years ago about the woman.

Fontella Bass Passes Away!

Fontella Bass passes away. Her famous single Rescue Me hit the charts in 1960s.

You may of heard of the famous song, Rescue Me and wondered who sung that one?

Well today, you'll get an opportunity to know who the singer was! Today she passed away at the age of 72.

Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago, her daughter, Neuka Mitchell, said. Bass had also suffered a series of strokes over the past seven years.

"She was an outgoing person," Mitchell said of her mother. "She had a very big personality. Any room she entered she just lit the room up, whether she was on stage or just going out to eat."

Bass was born into a family with deep musical roots. Her mother was gospel singer Martha Bass, one of the Clara Ward Singers. Her younger brother, David Peaston, had a string of R&B hits in the 1980s and 1990s. Peaston died in February at age 54.

Bass began performing at a young age, singing in her church's choir at age 6. She was surrounded by music, often traveling on national tours with her mother and her gospel group.

Her interest turned from gospel to R&B when she was a teenager and she began her professional career at the Showboat Club in north St. Louis at age 17. She eventually auditioned for Chess Records and landed a recording contract, first as a duet artist. Her duet with Bobby McClure, "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," reached No. 5 on the R&B charts and No. 33 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1965.

She co-wrote and later that year recorded "Rescue Me," reaching No. 1 on the R&B charts and No. 4 on the Billboard pop singles chart. Bass's powerful voice bore a striking resemblance to that of Aretha Franklin, who is often misidentified as the singer of that chart-topping hit.

Bass had a few other modest hits but by her own accounts developed a reputation as a troublemaker because she demanded more artistic control, and more money for her songs. She haggled over royalty rights to "Rescue Me" for years before reaching a settlement in the late 1980s, Mitchell said. She sued American Express over the use of "Rescue Me" in a commercial, settling for an undisclosed amount in 1993.

"Rescue Me" has been covered by many top artists, including Linda Ronstadt, Cher, Melissa Manchester and Pat Benatar. Franklin eventually sang a form of it too – as "Deliver Me" in a Pizza Hut TV ad in 1991.

Bass lived briefly in Europe before returning to St. Louis in the early 1970s, where she and husband jazz musician Lester Bowie raised their family. She recorded occasionally, including a 1995 gospel album, "No Ways Tired," that earned a Grammy nomination.

Bass was inducted into the St. Louis Hall of Fame in 2000.

Funeral arrangements for Bass were incomplete. She is survived by four children. Bowie died in 1999.

Neil Armstrong Passes Away!

Neil Armstrong has died after complications from heart surgery. The former astronaut was the first American to walk on the moon.

The first American astronaut to walk on the moon has died. The famed aviator has passed away according to multiple sources. Armstrong along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins have piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the Earth's moon. This pave the gateway for missions to the planet Mars and dwarf planet Pluto.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney issued statements in regards to the death of a legendary hero of flight.

Hailed from the state of Ohio, Neil Armstrong was in the United States Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C variants, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker, and was one of eight elite pilots involved in the paraglider research vehicle program (Paresev). He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California. He became an astronaut in the late 1960s.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, to Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel.

Armstrong is famed for saying the words: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!


USA Today and the Associated press reported that he had undergone heart surgery August. 8, three days after his 82nd birthday. His family said that Armstrong had passed from post-surgery complications.

"We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures,'' the family said in a statement. "Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend."


The lunar landing made him more popular than his hero, aviator Charles Lindberg , but Armstrong shunned the spotlight. After walking on the moon, he lived a mostly private life, buying a farm and teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati  until 1979.

When he appeared in Dayton, Ohio in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.

"Neil Armstrong was a pioneer of flight and that is how he would want to be remembered," says space historian John Logsdon , author of JFK  and the Race to the Moon. "In his mind he flew all kinds of vehicles that set record firsts, and one of them happened to be the first one on the moon."

Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins assisted Neil Armstrong in the Apollo 11 mission.

Armstrong basically saw himself as an aviator first and foremost, part of the long tradition of American pilots going back to the Wright Brothers, Logsdon says.

"For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request,'' his family said in a Saturday statement. "Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

"He will be part of history forever," Logsdon said.

He had died in Columbus, Ohio today.

Cosmo Girl!

                       

Helen Gurley Brown the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan dies at age 90. She was the crowning of a new women's movement.


Brown's bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl was published. In 1965, she became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and reversed the fortunes of the failing magazine. During the decade of the 1960s she was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide them with role-models and a guide in her magazine.

She claimed that women could have it all, "love, sex, and money", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage. Due to her advocacy, glamorous, fashion-focused women were sometimes called "Cosmo Girls". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution.

In 1997, Brown was ousted from her role as the U.S. editor of Cosmopolitan and was replaced by Bonnie Fuller. When she left, Cosmopolitan ranked sixth at the newsstand, and for the 16th straight year, ranked first in bookstores on college campuses.

However, she stayed on at Hearst publishing and remained the international editor for all 59 international editions of Cosmo until her death on August 13, 2012.

In September, 2008, she was named the 13th most powerful American over the age of 80 by Slate magazine.

Gabrielle Union teams up with Bounty to clean up public schools

With actress Gabrielle Union as it's spokeperson Procter & Gamble’s Bounty brand, in partnership with HandsOn Network and the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation has announced the “Make a Clean Difference” program which will unite more than 1000 volunteers to transform the learning environments of 30 public schools in 10 cities across the country.

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