Jimmy Dean Dead at 81

Jimmy Dean, country music legend, television host and sausage mogul/spokesman, has died at his home in Virginia.He was 81. Donna Meade Dean, his wife, reports that he’d had some health problems but had been functioning well.

A Texan by birth, Dean wrote the #1 Billboard hit “Big Bad John,” guest hosted “The Tonight Show,” and had his own ABC variety series, “The Jimmy Dean Show,” for three years in the mid-1960s. He also became a staple of the talk and game show circuits and did acting work in movies like Diamonds Are Forever and TV series like “Daniel Boone.”

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Memorial Day Player 2010 : Let us pray

Perhaps you remember the days when a "priest, a minister and a rabbi" would be invited to civic events and each would be invited to pray in his own faith's fashion and vocabulary. That's seldom the case now when it's more likely that only one clergy-person is invited and asked to offer a prayer.

Here's the prayer I will use on Memorial Day at one of Concord's several town observances of the holiday. Because people of many faiths will be present, I have written the prayer to be as inclusive as possible. On the same day my parish will celebrate Mass in our cemetery praying (in our Catholic voice and ritual) for those who are buried there and for all who have gone before us.

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Networks follow the script for fall, give Fridays extra attention

The major networks are stocking up on scripted series: 24 of the 26 new series due this fall are sitcoms and dramas and, all told, 68 are scheduled on the five major networks, up from 61 last fall, when NBC tried Jay Leno five nights a week.

The usual assortment of new shows didn't vary much when networks unveiled their lineups to advertisers this week. Only one extra hour of comedy (on Fox), despite a big push to develop more; plenty of cop, spy and lawyer shows, though fewer risky, heavily serialized dramas.

But networks made a big push to shore up the 10 p.m. ET/PT hour, home to nine of the new series. Three will air head-to-head on Wednesdays, including Law & Order: Los Angeles, which has no completed script or cast. (source)

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Mike Zimmer, Bengals coach wife died

NFL Cincinnati Bengals coach Mike Zimmer coached today against the Ravens after the sudden death of his wife on Thursday.

Vicki Zimmer, 50 died at home Thursday. Details about her death have yet to be revealed, but funeral arrangements are being made. Mike Zimmer has two sons and a daughter.

Vicki Zimmer was born in Layton, Utah. Mike coached at Weber State University in Utah in 1981 and that is how they met, and they were married for 27 years. To see a photo of Vikcy and Mike Zimmer,

Sources: Bengals coach wife died, Bengals Coach Wife Died (Video)

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