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Star of Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Easy rider and Starz TV version of Crash was rushed to the hospital today. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the 73 year-old wearing an oxygen mask while brought into the E.R. Although his publicist says Hopper is only experiencing a flu-like stomach condition. Hopper was in New York promoting his role as a music mogul on the Starz Crash TV show, but apparently canceled most of his scheduled stops including tonight’s appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Get better Hopper!

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The younger brother of Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald hasn’t been blessed with the same degree of football skills.

But, by all appearances, Marcus Fitzgerald (who is on the preseason roster of the UFL’s California Redwoods) didn’t make up for the relative lack of physical prowess by acquiring an abundance of smarts.

Larry Fitzgerald has consistently shown that he knows what to say and what not to say when the public is paying attention.  In one afternoon of frustration, however, Marcus has thrown a wrench into that carefully constructed image.

Last night, we pointed out that Marcus posted a stream of messages on his Twitter page during and after Sunday’s Cardinals-Jaguars game.  The tweets expressed frustration regarding the fact that not enough of the 24 completions on 26 attempts from quarterback Kurt Warner were going to Larry.

Some of the posts clearly indicated that Larry himself expressed frustration — both via a halftime text message and a post-game phone call.

Never mind the fact that, you know, the Cardinals won the game by 14 points.

According to Dan Bickley of the Arizona Republic, Larry’s in-game demeanor suggested that he was indeed frustrated.  After the game, however, Larry claimed that he was simply exhausted (apparently from not catching all those passes).

So Marcus didn’t delete the tweets from his page.  Instead, he has posted half-hearted (hoof hearted) apologies, explaining at times that he was kidding and at other times that he “was just frustrated” for his brother.

But that’s the point.  Marcus was frustrated, and Marcus mentioned during his frustration that Larry was frustrated, too.  If it was all a joke, we’re still searching for the punch line.  (We now understand how many of you feel when reading our stuff.)

With the poo impacting the propeller, Marcus has deleted since last night the problematic tweets, along with others that undermine significantly the notion that Marcus was only kidding.  (To find them, go to Tweleted.com and enter “Marcusfitz1.”)

Here’s a couple of deleted entries that were gone by the time we found the ones we mentioned last night.

“Ok another drive & kurt doesnt throw 2 larry.  YOU OLD ASS MAN, THROW HIM THE DAMN BALL.”

“Bout time kurt!  I almost had to come to jacksonville & strangle his ass lmao.”

Assuming that Marcus and Larry communicate on a fairly regular basis, it’s not a stretch to conclude that the attitude Marcus is projecting toward Warner reflects the tone and content of some of the things Larry has said privately.

So, yeah, there’s an apparent problem here.  And it’ll be interesting to see what Larry Fitzgerald and Kurt Warner do to deal with it moving forward.

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Film director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police Saturday on a warrant issued 31 years ago, when he fled the United States after being convicted of unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer.

Authorities stopped 76-year-old Polanski when he arrived at the Zurich airport en route to the Zurich Film Festival where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award, according to a New York Times report. Authorities detained the director and are preparing to extradite him to the U.S.

Polanski was charged in 1978 of luring Geimer into Jack Nicholson’s home, plying her with drugs, and then having sex with her. She has since publicly forgiven him.

Polanski tried last year to get the case dismissed based on “a pattern of misconduct and improper communications” among Los Angeles officials, but the court denied his request, saying he would have to return to the U.S. before his case could be reviewed.

The U.S. Department of Justice has not yet commented on the case, but in an accidentally leaked internal memo, an Associated Press reporter theorized that Swiss officials ordered Polanksi’s arrest after all these years because “they’re under intense pressure over UBS and want to throw the U.S. a bone.”
Source: Examiner

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