September 15, 2010
Harold Gould, the well-liked and respected character actor who was Valerie Harper's Father on the CBS TV series "Rhoda", has died. He passed away last Saturday due to prostate cancer, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times and a family member. Mr. Gould was 86 and died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Woodland Hills, California. During his long career, he played Kid Twist in the 1973 film "The Sting", and also appeared in Harper, Love and Death, Freaky Friday, and Patch Adams. On television, he had a role as Betty White's boyfriend in "Golden Girls" as well as being on Soap, Perry Mason, and most recently Nip/Tuck. 
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Celebrities
September 13, 2010
If you have a sweet tooth and want to be a part of history, you may want to head for Yerevan, Armenia, next month. That's when the world's largest chocolate bar will be broken up and handed out to candy aficionados in the capital's main square. The oversized item was made by the Grand Candy factory of all natural ingredients, including a 70 percent cocoa content. The bar is 224 inches long, 110 inches wide, and 10 inches thick. It weighs 9,702 pounds and was certified as the world's large... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Food
September 13, 2010
At last night's MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga won eight Moonman awards, including Video of the Year, but she failed to set a new record. In fact, all she did was tie a record set twenty four years ago by the Norwegian group A-ha when they got eight awards in 1986 for "Take On Me", a quirky mix of live action and animation which was cutting edge at the time. The next year, 1987, Peter Gabriel set the new, still unmatched record of nine MTV VMAs for his live and stop-motion turn with "Sle... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Music
September 13, 2010
Grim news from New Orleans as of 9:10 AM Pacific Time today. A team of researchers from the University of Georgia says they found a coating of oil on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, at least two inches thick and as far as 80 miles away from the plugged Deep Horizons well. The latest sample was taken early this morning (Sept. 13) and was covering a number of dead animals such as shrimp and deep sea worms. Samantha Joye, leader of the research team, says the oil is fresh and is probably fro... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : World News
September 10, 2010
Tomorrow is September 11, the ninth anniversary of the so-called "attacks" on America, and extremists on both sides of the issue are aiming their slings and arrows at the wrong target. Muslim extremists are mad at the American people, and American extremists are singling out Muslims as hate mongers. As we here at Chief Jack Radio have been saying since the original 9/11, there is only one entity responsible for all this: the United States government and George Bush. Bush has many friends i... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : World News
September 10, 2010
A gas line ruptured in San Bruno, California, near San Francisco's international airport yesterday at 6:24 PM, causing a cataclysmic explosion that sent a huge fireball over 1,000 feet in the sky, triggering engulfing flames that consumed an entire neighborhood. The explosion created a huge crater, reported as being over 50 feet wide and some twenty feet deep, and the ensuing inferno destroyed dozens of buildings, including at least 38 homes. As of the morning of September 10, the flams wer... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Disasters
September 10, 2010
A study just completed by The Neilsen Co. showed a surprising trend. It seems that nearly fifty percent of people have a negative view of 3D television, and that view was worse in people who actually attended test showings of the medium. Test subjects who took part in a 30 minute 3D TV test cited a number of concerns. In a world where no one concentrates on what they're watching on TV because they're too busy talking on their smartphones while updating their Facebook status at the same tim... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Technology
September 8, 2010
If you're a James Bond fan, you'll soon have the chance to own the biggest piece of the secret agent's memorabilia. RX Auctions is auctioning off the Aston Martin DB5 that Sean Connery drove in the 1964 hit film "Goldfinger" during Automobiles of London event on October 27. Auction organizers say it could bring at least $5 million, which would be the highest amount ever paid for a piece used in a movie. Everything in the car is functional, including the retractable machine guns, rotating l... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Entertainment
September 8, 2010
John Moore is an avid gamer, and he plays several XBox Live games, but he ran into a snag when he wanted to enter an online tournament. In his info, he listed his home town as Fort Gay, West Virginia. The rules enforcer for XBox live thought he was making a joke or a racial slur, so they asked him to put down his town's real name. When Moore refused to change it, his account was suspended pending review, even though he implored XBox to look it up and even provided its zip code. "Google it ... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Technology
September 8, 2010
You probably never noticed it, but an asteroid slipped by the Earth between us and the moon's orbit at about 3:51 AM PT on September 8, and a second asteroid will be making a flyby later on, at around 3 PM Pacific Time. The first and larger space rock, named 2010 RX 30, is about 33 to 65 feet wide and slid by at a distance of 154,000 miles away. The second one, 2010 RF 12, is estimated at between 20 and 46 feet in diameter and will pass at about 49,000 miles from Earth, which in cosmic term... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Science
Chief Jack has hosted The Mohawk Radio Show since August 1969. He is a champion for the cause of Indie artists, and many Indies have had great success since having their music played on the station. He is a Mohawk chief who played with a Canadian band for about 10 years. He publishes articles under the name Jacques Boulerice for Yahoo! Voices and is working on a new movie script.
