One of the 33 trapped miners in Chile has done a lot of thinking during the more than three weeks he's spent underground. Certainly such a traumatic experience could inspire someone to re-evaluate their life. For Esteban Rojas, that means he's announced that he wants to re-marry his wife. He's been together with Jessica Yanez for 25 years and has three children and two grandchildren, but the couple only had a civil wedding ceremony, rather than a traditional church ceremony. That will change when-- and if -- Rojas is rescued from the mine. Rojas wrote in a letter to Yanez, "Please keep praying that we get out of this alive. And when I do get out, we will buy a dress and get married."
SOURCE: CNN
DANCING WITH THE STARS CAST ANNOUNCED
The new cast of Dancing With the Stars was announced last night.
The celebs who'll compete for the mirror-ball trophy starting September 20th are:
David Hasselhoff Jersey Shore's Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
NFL star Kurt Warner
Singer Michael Bolton
Unwed teen mom Bristol Palin Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey Brady Bunch star Florence Henderson Hills star Audrina Patridge
Former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox
Singer Brandy
Comedian Margaret Cho
Actor Kyle Massey
ROLLING STONES: Inspire Special Edition of Monopoly
The venerable board game Monopoly has introduced a special edition based on The Rolling Stones. Instead of playing with the traditional thimble or shoe, the band's lips logo and a posse of wild horses will move along the board. Some addresses have been replaced by album names. Instead of houses and hotels, there are gold and platinum records. No more water works or electric company -- drums and guitars take their place. And the train stations have been renamed for some of the Stones' most famous tours.
AEROSMITH: Putting a Positive Spin on It
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry writes on Twitter that he's "sad" to see the Aerosmith tour winding down. But he's putting a positive spin on it, saying he'll use the down time to "write new music."
Aerosmith were hoping to pick up where they left off last year on a new album, but that will likely stay on the backburner if Steven Tyler is in fact one of the judges on the new season of American Idol.
Aerosmith perform in Auburn Hills, Michigan tonight.
Bulldog Couch Potato
So you think your dog is pretty cool, huh? He can do some neat tricks. Maybe he can fetch your slippers on a cold night. But there's no way he's cooler than this English bulldog.
EMMYS: Modern Family & Mad Men Win
Modern Family and Mad Men were the big winners at last night's 62nd Annual Emmy Awards...
HOST HIGHLIGHTS
Host Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, the cast of Glee, and a parade of nominees opened the event with a Gleek-tastic performance of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run," complete with Randy Jackson on bass. That began a night of song with Jimmy taking his acoustic guitar into the audience. Last year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, thanked Emmy producers for selecting the second consecutive gay host with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon ended the evening in a white tuxedo (to match his long lost "father" Tom Selleck) and popped a bottle of champagne to announce that the after-party was at Betty White's house.
WINNING SHOWS
Mad Men nabbed Best Drama. "It was completely unexpected. The quality of the nominees this year was phenomenal," said star Jon Hamm.
Modern Family was the night's comedy winner, beating Glee, which entered as the night's leader, with 19 nominations.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart won its eighth consecutive Emmy for best variety, music or comedy series. That meant a loss for Team Conan.
Top Chef won best reality series, ending the seven-year winning streak of The Amazing Race.
Lost was completely shut out. Emmy heavyweight 30 Rock lost in its major categories.
ACTRESS WINS
After four years of losing, Kyra Sedgwick nabbed an Emmy for The Closer, beating frontrunner Julianna Margulies of The Good Wife.
Edie Falco was an unlikely comedy winner for the dark humor on Nurse Jackie, and gave a shout-out to her 94-year-old grandmother from the stage. She's got three Emmys for The Sopranos, but said beating 30 Rock star Tina Fey in the comedy category was "ridiculous."
Glee's Jane Lynch picked up her first Emmy, and thanked her new wife Laura Embry from the stage.
ACTOR WINS
Jim Parsons was the comedy winner for The Big Bang Theory, ending 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin's two-year winning streak.
Bryan Cranston took home his third consecutive Emmy for playing a meth-making chemistry teacher in Breaking Bad. Cranston said, "During the time it took me to walk up here, I venture there were 200 text messages to the other nominees saying, `You were robbed.' I cannot argue with that."
Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family took home the supporting-actor win, beating Glee's Chris Colfer. "All I wanted to be was a clown in the circus when I was a kid growing up," said Stonestreet.
Al Pacino won for playing assisted-suicide-advocate Jack Kevorkian in HBO's miniseries You Don't Know Jack. Kevorkian was in the audience and stood for applause.
George Clooney, who took part in some of the show's parody pieces, picked up the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.
ON THE RED CARPET
Glee drove the Gleeks wild. Matthew Morrison's date was his mentor from high school, and Matthew was nearly brought to tears by a live video chat with a packed house at his old high-school auditorium. Lea Michele celebrated her 24th birthday yesterday, and talked up the scene she recently shot with guest star Britney Spears. Jane Lynch (aka "Sue Sylvester") told us Chris Colfer's character is going to get a boyfriend named "Chord Overstreet."
Modern Family star Sofia Vergara said she'd make good on her promise to run naked down Hollywood Boulevard if the show wins. Co-star Julie Bowen said she'd also streak.
Betty White said the Emmy she got for her guest spot on 30 Rock really belongs to Tina Fey. Joel McHale told us about Betty's upcoming guest spot on NBC's Community -- Betty plays a psychopath who drinks her own urine.
Kate Gosselin showed off a super-slim body, which she attributed to running, and debuted her new long hairdo. She also said she's single.
Tina Feyteased the live 30 Rock episode we'll see in October. The cast will shoot one live version for the East Coast, and a second three hours later for the West Coast.
Kim Kardashian and Rose Byrne (TV's Damages) showed up in nearly identical white gowns.
ROCK BAND: 5 Decades of Rock
When Rock Band Three hits stores on October 26th, fans will get more than just the chance to play a keyboard for the first time -- they'll get songs from the past five decades. The song list starts in the early '60s and goes through last year. The tracks include:
Dire Straits - "Walk of Life"
INXS - "Need You Tonight"
The Police - "Don't Stand So Close to Me"
Bob Marley - "Get Up, Stand Up"
Doobie Brothers - "China Grove"
Elton John - "Saturday Night"s Alright for Fighting"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like an Eagle"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "I Need to Know"
War - "Low Rider"
Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London"
Yes - "Roundabout"
Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations (Live)"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
The Doors - "Break on Through (To the Other Side)"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Crosstown Traffic"
The Who - "I Can See for Miles"
U2 & MACCA: For and Against NASA
Last year's correspondence between U2 and NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station has been turned into a video. NASA administrator Bill Gerstenmaier says, "By combining their world tour with the space station's out-of-this-world mission, more people -- and different people than our normal target audiences -- learned about the International Space Station and the important work we are doing in orbit." You can check out the video at U2.com.
Paul McCartney, who also spoke to astronauts during his show in 2005, is taking a stance against NASA's animal testing. In a letter to administrator Charles Bolden, Macca writes, "I believe NASA has the ingenuity to investigate the health effects of space travel without confining and experimenting on animals. It would be terribly disappointing if...we began to regress in our treatment of the animals with whom we share this planet."
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SLEEP DEPRIVED: Things Insomniacs Learn
There's nothing fun about insomnia. Not being able to sleep is frustrating, exhausting and depressing. But there are some valuable things to be learned from being up all night.
If you've spent many nights awake, here are 7 things you've probably learned ...
7. Re-runs are only entertaining for about an hour or so.
6. The people you live with really hate being woken up at 3 a.m. by the TV or your constant pacing around the house.
5. Girls Gone Wild infomercials can be found on just about every channel.
4. There are lots of sleep experts online offering tips on how you can fall asleep.
3. How many cups of coffee or energy drinks you can drink an hour before work without your heart exploding.
2. If you're out for a drive, the only other people on the road at 4 a.m. are truckers and cops.
1. Having a drink thinking that it might help you sleep, could actually backfire and lead you to have more than one drink.
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