May 10th is the 131st day of the year .. There are 235 days remaining in 2008
-- On this date in 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
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- On this date in 1967, Rolling Stones rockers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were arrested for drugs and sent to jail
-- On this date in 1986, Heather Locklear and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee got married.
-- On this date in 1994, John Wayne Gacy was executed for the murder of 33 young men and boys
-- On this date in 1995, Terry Nichols was charged in helping with the Oklahoma City bombing
-- On this date in 2002, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds
-- On this date in 2003, The New York Times announced that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had ''committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud''
-- On this date in 2006, Britney Spears announced she was pregnant again
-- On this date in 2007, Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced he was leaving his father's company, Dale Earnhardt Inc.
Saturday's Birthday Cake
SNL star Kenan Thompson (30)
rapper young MC (41)
Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic (43)
Linda Evangelista (43)
Bono (48)
Gary Owens (69)
sportscaster Pat Summerall (78)
Homer Simpson (53)
Weekend Movies
Speed Racer (Rated PG)
Show Recap:Born to race cars, Speed Racer is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. Speed teams with his one-time rival,Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the cross-country rally known as The Crucible. Starring: Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Christina Ricci, and Matthew Fox.
What Happens in Vegas (Rated PG-13)
Show Recap: Two people discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery in Vegas. They decided to divorce when one of them wins a jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The pair tries to undermine each other and get their hands on the money. Starring: Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.
Also in theaters: The Fall and Surfwise.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!
Mommie Dearest
- Cell phones are this year’s hot electronics seller while many plastic surgeons report a jump in Botox gift certificate sales
- over 1.2 billion calls will be placed on Sunday
- The average American will send out 2.6 cards
- 27% of Americans will purchase Mother's Day gifts for their mother-in-laws.
- KFC says Mother's Day is their biggest day of the year. On Sunday, KFC will sell over 10,000,000 pieces of chicken resulting in close to $18,000,000 in sales
- FedEx Express says today will be one of their busiest days of the year as they will make nearly 25 times more domestic flower deliveries than on any other day during the year.
TV Mom
Harris recently asked Americans what TV mom they would have loved to grow up with. June Cleaver of Leave it to Beaver, topped the list followed by Claire Huxtable from The Cosby Show, Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch, Marion “Mrs. C” Cunningham of Happy Days and Donna Stone of The Donna Reed Show. Harriet Nelson of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy, Roseanne Connor of Roseanne, Lorelei Gilmore of Gilmore Girls and Marge Simpson of The Simpsons round out the list.
