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Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent flyer: Diddy. Sean "Diddy" Combs complained around the "excessively high" damage of flatulency and pleaded for free oil from his "Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters" in a YouTube video posted Wednesday. The hip-hop mogul aforesaid he is flying on commercial airlines instead of in private jets, which Combs said had previously cost him $200,000 and up for a round-trip 'tween New York and Los Angeles.
An Aniston homecoming
Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV web where she became a breakout star on "Friends." She's filming a guest appearance on "30 Rock," her publicist said Friday. There were no inside information on the role Aniston will dally � herself or a fictitious character � or the episode's planned air date.
Marking a milestone
"I'll just have a little cake with my children and we'll probably watch some cartoons." So said Michael Jackson Thursday on ABCs "Good Morning America" about his plans to lionize his fiftieth birthday Friday. Think Jackson's career is over? The 13-time Grammy winner, world Health Organization has sold more than 750 gazillion albums, aforesaid, "I think the charles Herbert Best is even to derive, in my true modest opinion."
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Church is a winner
Pastor Bertrand Crabbe of the True North Community Church in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., aforesaid one of his congregants donated a winning lottery ticket worth $3 meg to his church. Crabbe said the donor, world Health Organization asked to remain anon., donated the "Ba Da Bling" knock off ticket immediately after realizing he had won. A state Lottery official aforementioned Wednesday that the independent Christian church building will have slightly more than $100,000 a year through 2028. The amount could be higher if withheld taxes are refunded because of the church's not-for-profit status.
Passages
Tad Mosel, 86, television system screenwriter and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic event "All the Way Home," died Sunday at a hospice in Concord, N.H.
Hazel Warp, 93, who was Vivien Leigh's stunt twofold in "Gone With the Wind," died Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, Mont. She also appeared in "Wuthering Heights," "Ben-Hur" and "National Velvet," among other films.
Wilson Hurley, 84, a illustrious American landscape painter, died Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. He had been diagnosed last year with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Today in History
1861: Union Gen. John Fremont instituted warlike law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (Fremont's parliamentary law was countermanded days later by President Lincoln).
1963: The "Hot Line" communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.
1967: The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black-market justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983: Guion Bluford Jr. became the low black American astronaut to travel in space as he deuced off alongside the Challenger.
1997: Americans received word of the railway car crash in Paris that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. (Because of the time difference, it was Aug. 31 where the go down occurred.)
Today's Birthdays
Actress Peggy Lipton, 61. Comedian Lewis Black, 60. Actor David Paymer, 54. Actor Michael Chiklis, 45. Actress Michael Michele, 42. Actress Cameron Diaz, 36. TV personality Lisa Ling, 35. Tennis player Andy Roddick, 26. Rock musician Ryan Ross, 22. Actor Cameron Finley, 21.
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