A fed-up Texas man has turned the tables on a collections agency.
Advanced Call Center Technologies, usually in the business of collecting money for its clients, now finds itself $1.5 million in debt to Allen Jones. A Dallas County court awarded him the hefty judgment after a jury found the agency barraged Jones with harassing and racially charged phone calls.
ACT debt collectors confessed to logging eight expletive-filled calls to Jones, of Lewisville, Texas, in August 2007, many peppered with the "n-word." Jones, 26, saved the vulgar voice mails as evidence.
"This is your motherf------ wake-up call you little lazy a-- b----," a collector said in one early-morning message obtained by Dallas/Fort Worth's WFAA-TV. "Get your motherf------ n----r ass up and go pick some motherf------ cotton fields."
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Kelly Clarkson & Chris Daughtry cover Tracey Chapman's 'Fast Car'
Now those of you who truly know me know that I LOVE Tracey Chapman and Fast Car is one of my all time favorite songs.
Now I can add this duet version of it to my all time fav's
Gary Coleman Was DIVORCED at the time of his death?!
Gary Coleman’s former lawyer claims the actor was divorced from Shannon Price at the time of his death on May 28, People reports. Randy Kester claims the pair’s marriage ended on Aug. 12, 2008, which raises questions about Price’s legal right to take Coleman off life support. “We’re definitely concerned about this and we’re looking into what exactly happened here,” Janet Frank, a spokesperson for the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center — the hospital in which Coleman passed away — told People. “Shannon certainly portrayed herself as his wife to our staff and doctors. We assumed she was telling the truth. We can’t comment on specific details in Mr. Coleman’s case, but in general, any patient on life support is thoroughly evaluated medically before life support is ended.”
Kester claims it is possible that Coleman gave Shannon permission in writing at the hospital to make medical decisions for him. As for Coleman’s family, the actor’s mother told People, “It’s too early for us to comment on this. Of course we’re concerned, but we need to find out more information.” Price could not be reached for comment.
'Golden Girls' - Rue McClanahan - dead at 76
Rue McClanahan, best known for playing a sex-obsessed Southerner of a certain age in the 1985-92 sitcom The Golden Girls, died early this morning after suffering a massive stroke. She was 76. McClanahan had a minor stroke last November after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
Born Eddi-Rue McClanahan in Healdtown, Okla., the actress spent much of her early career in live theater. Her performance as Betty in the 1969 Off Broadway show The Golden Fleece caught the attention of All in the Family creator Norman Lear, who cast her in a guest role on the CBS comedy as one half of a swinger couple. This led to the actress’ first big TV gig as Vivian, the flustered neighbor of Bea Arthur’s Maude on Lear’s spin-off of All in the Family. Maude ran from 1972-78 and drew attention for its boundary-pushing story lines dealing with topics like abortion and plastic surgery.
But McClanahan truly became part of TV history when she landed the role of Blanche Devereaux on NBC’s The Golden Girls, cast alongside Arthur, Betty White, and Estelle Getty. The series became a huge hit for the network and garnered Emmys for all of the women, including one for McClanahan in 1987 (she was nominated four times over the run of the series). When Arthur left the show in 1992, McClanahan and the remaining castmates moved to a new series called The Golden Palace, which lasted one season.
McClanahan was married five times; she had been with her last husband, Morrow Wilson, since 1997. After The Golden Girls left the air, she returned to the stage in the Broadway hit Wicked in 2005 and had guest roles on series like Law & Order and Murphy Brown as well as the films Starship Troopers and The Fighting Temptations. But nothing will ever top her role on Girls. McClanahan told EW in 2005, “I knew that I was doing something revolutionary in its quality, but I had no idea of the effect that it was going to have.”
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