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May 07

Charles Ramsey: Women’s Rescuer Becomes Unlikely Hero, Online Sensation

By Elaine Aradillas 05/07/2013 at 06:15 PM EDT Meet Charles Ramsey: Cleveland dishwasher, unlikely hero, sudden internet sensation.Ramsey is the man seen in the WEWS-TV video colorfully recounting how he helped save the three Ohio women escape from captivity after they’d been missing for more than a decade.The video has gone viral, his sound bites lauded online as classics:• “Bro, I knew something was wrong when a pretty little white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here.”• “I heard screaming. I was eating my McDonald’s Read More

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May 05

Valerie Harper ‘Feeling Good’ at Kentucky Derby

By Alison Schwartz 05/05/2013 at 02:00 PM EDT Valerie Harper Stephen Lovekin/WireImage Hats off to Valerie Harper, who celebrated the Kentucky Derby weekend in high spirits (and style!).Months after the Rhoda Morgenstern actress, 73, revealed to PEOPLE that she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she stepped out at the Barnstable Brown Gala, saying, “I’m feeling good.”Attending the Louisville pre-derby party with husband Tony Cacciotti, she added to PEOPLE, “And I gained 7 lbs. – my doctors like that.” Harper did, however, pass on one of the horse race’s staples: mint julep cocktails Read More

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Mar 13

Ed Asner, 83, Hospitalized with Exhaustion After Troubles Onstage

By Mike Fleeman 03/13/2013 at 01:20 PM EDT Mary Tyler Moore show star Ed Asner is recovering in the hospital after cutting short a one-man show in Indiana when he struggled to deliver his lines and appeared to be confused.The 83-year-old actor was taken by ambulance to a Chicago-area hospital for exhaustion and was “resting comfortably” on Wednesday, his publicist Charles Sherman tells the Associated Press.After conducting an acting workshop on Tuesday, Asner took the stage 45 minutes late at the Marquette Pavilion in Gary, Ind., to portray Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the sold-out show FDR.He struggled with his lines and appeared frustrated but was still conscious as he left the stage, apologizing to the audience and promising to return, the Post-Tribune reports.Asner’s health problems arose soon after his Mary Tyler Moore costar Valerie Harper, 73, revealed to PEOPLE she has terminal brain cancer. Read More

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