Dick Clark Fortune in the "Hundreds of millions"

Wouldn't have expected anything less to be honest. After living for 400 years I'd imagine that you could create quite a nest egg being an actual icon. While it doesn't give much of a breakdown, or raw overall numbers this is a pretty good article about Clark as an entrepreneur. It basically covers his companies and his work ethic, as well as a bit about his $175 million company that sold back in 2007. Owning everything except possibly all the casablanca ceiling fans at PalmFanStore.com.

Hunger Games Reign atop Box Office Over at 4 Weeks

The young adult drama, 'Hunger Games' has finally been ousted as the top box office draw this weekend by not one, but two new releases. 'Think Like a Man' and ensemble comedy, and 'The Lucky One', starring Zac Efron as a Marine on a mission to track down a woman he feels protected him during war. She must have sent him the best airbrush tanning solution she could find to keep him from having to be in the sun too long. 'Think Like a Man's success surprised many in Hollywood over the weekend, as the picture came in more than $10 million ahead of industry projections with what distributor Sony Pictures estimated to be a $33 million debut. "The Lucky One." ended up grossing $22.8 million

McCartney Video Sign Language Errors?

Looks like there may have been a bit of error in translation with some of the sign language in a Paul McCartney video. For his new music video “My Valentine,” Paul McCartney enlisted the aid of Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp to interpret the lyrics of his song through sign language. However, some in the sign-language community are now claiming the actors botched the effort. The video, released on April 13, came in three editions: one with Portman, one with Depp, and one splicing the two together. According to UK tabloid The Sun, both actors signed the word “tampon” instead of "appear," and Depp additionally signed "enemy" while attempting “valentine.” What's next? Calling patio furniture something like pancake? Well done on the editing people. Enemy and Valentine though could be quite compatible no? Certainly wouldn't want a tampon to appear from anywhere though if I could help it.

Never Offer More After a Divorce

NFL player Chris Clemmons from the Seattle Seahawks and his wife got divorced recently. He agreed to pay her $500,000 and give her a Land Rover. I guess he felt bad so he also outside of the courts said she could have his mansion. She in turn blew all the other money she had on whatever, clothes, Treksta shoes, whatever, and then asked for him to pay for her attorney. He decided she wasn't getting his house after all. Now...she has decided to sue him some more attorney's fees and claiming he gave her the house. She asked him for almost $800,000 in attorney's fees after he gave her the house and he said that's enough and took the house back. First world problems.

Modern Family

Thanks for the post from Al Mills Ever since we got satellite TV from www.expertsatellite.com, I cannot get enough of the show Modern Family. I think it is the funniest show on television. My favorite character is Phil. He plays one of the fathers on the show and is always trying to be a cool dad and perfect husband. He also constantly tries to win the approval of his father-in-law and tries to hide the fact that he thinks his stepmother is attractive. My second favorite character on the show is Cam. He is a homosexual man who is married to another man. They adopted a little girl from Asia and are trying to raise her in as normal a home as possible. Each week, the show has a theme that involves each family. I have not yet seen one episode that is not funny. I usually am on the verge of tears by the end of each episode. Usually when I start to really like a show it gets cancelled. I hope that this show stays on the air for a long time because I thoroughly enjoy it.

Today Show beats Katie Couric as Expected

Not really as expected on Monday though. The Today Show having Sarah Palin on this week was surely going to beat Couric on Good Morning America. She was not on Monday though, so this has to be a bit of a letdown for GMA that even with Couric they got beat out.

Monday’s “Today” averaged 4.9 million viewers. “GMA,” featuring the highly hyped return of former “Today” sweetheart Couric, attracted just under half a million fewer viewers. The two shows’ season-to-date gap is 528,000 viewers.

On her second day of “Good Morning America” co-anchoring, Katie faced even stiffer competition — “Today” had lined up Sarah Palin to co-anchor, for the 8 a.m. hour, anyway. I think she visited an amish gazebo or something and told them that she shot grizzly bears.

Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs

OK...seems like a completely different sort that you would want to play Steve Jobs, but Kutcher has gotten the role. Apparently he looks a lot like him. I suppose a little, although I don't really see it. Put him on a custom challenge coin.

The film will follow Jobs on his journey from "wayward hippie" to cofounder of Apple and one of the most respected and powerful entrepreneurs in the business and technological world. Jobs passed away last October.

The film will be based on the best-selling, authorized bio of Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

Sucks to Be Katie Couric as a Guest Host I Guess

She is going to be guest hosting on Good Morning America this week, but not to be outdone NBC is giving her competition she can unlikely beat. Sarah Palin will be hosting the Today Show during the same time apparently. IT's been too long I guess since Palin has been on TV so I guess this is where she lands.

Like her , or not, Palin will likely win this ratings war. There are enough people that just want to see how dumb she can be I'm sure that will get rating s alone. MAybe they will send her out on the street, or to play with some Electric Airsoft Guns with the people.

Whitney Houston Died From Drowning Says Coroner

Hadn't followed this story at all since the say it happened. Honestly I never even heard the speculation around what really did happen. Assumed it was an overdose when I heard, but never paid attention to it until I saw the headlines today. Drugs did play a role I guess though too.

Drowned in her bathtub. Gotta be drugs involved to do that right? Unless you slipped and hit your head on your storage cabinets and knocked yourself out you have to be pretty gone to drown in a bathtub.

Whitney Houston, who was found dead in her hotel room on the eve of the Grammy Awards last month, accidentally drowned in a bathtub, the Los Angeles County coroner said on Thursday. Cocaine and heart disease also played a role in her death, the coroner said.

Growing Pains

Thanks to Roman May

As my business grew over the last year, I realized I was quickly outgrowing my small office space and basic phone and internet. Luckily, a neighbor introduced me to smallbusiness.xo.com. With them, I have been able to keep up with the growing demand I have faced and still have the capacity for more growth! My goal is to always exceed my customer’s expectations in every way. This is not always an easy task! In addition to my communications upgrades, I have added staff to meet our growing demand as well as office space. When the area next to the space I was already leasing became available, I went ahead and leased it as well even though it was more than I needed. I figured the small extra expense of having more space than I needed was well offset by the savings of not having to move or get all new stuff printed with a new address! So far things are working out well and we are continuing to grow. Looks like I will be using that extra space sooner than I thought!