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Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel’s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Immortalized in the Washington’s Smithsonian Institution as “America’s Legendary Daredevil,” Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.
Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the ’80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the “Evel Knievel Days” festival.
“They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives,” Knievel said. “People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner.”
His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.
Knievel’s death is no great shock given how poor his health had been. For that matter, if anyone had told him 40 years ago he’d make it to 69 he’d have laughed. Still, I grew up watching his exploits on “Wide World of Sports” and elsewhere and it’s a sad passing.
In the era of three television networks, and before pay-per-view sporting events, things like Knievel stunts or championship boxing bouts were watched by the lion’s share of the country. Now, with the exception of the Super Bowl, there’s nothing like that. Even major sporting events, like the World Series or NBA Championship, are niche events when there are 200 channels to choose from. Even such phenomena as “American Idol” are still watched by a far smaller share of the population than watched Knievel’s jumps.
We’ll quite simply never see his like again. May he rest in peace.
The plastic surgeon who operated on hip-hop star Kanye West’s mother the day before she died abruptly walked off the set of CNN’s “Larry King Live” Tuesday, saying he was honoring a request from her family.
“I want to thank you for this opportunity,” Dr. Jan Adams told King. “Basically, I had come here to talk about things in the press that aren’t accurate about me.
“But I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for the West family. They asked me not to go on. And I’ve said from the very beginning, I don’t have a side in this,” Adams said
Allow me to translate that for you. Kanye West’s lawyer told Dr. Adams, go on Larry King and you’ll regret it. OR, maybe… just maybe Dr. Adams has been smart enough to seek legal advice, which would clearly be… keep your mouth shut — you are only hurting yourself.
What others said:
Bossip says, “Ok, then why the hell did he go on the show if they asked him not to? This FUBU doctor needs to sit his ass down for real.”
The Superficial says, “I’m not a legal expert (I just know how to falsify documents that allow me to hunt man, the most dangerous animal of them all), but I’m pretty sure going on a national talk show to discuss a topic then walking off kind of makes you look guilty.”
An L.A. County Superior Court judge has issued a warrant for Dr. Adam’s arrest, because he didn’t show up for a hearing today.
Lori Ufondu sued Dr. Adams and won a judgment in excess of $100,000, after he left a sponge in her following surgery. Ufondu’s lawyer told TMZ Dr. Adams hasn’t paid.
Today, Dr. Adams was ordered to appear at 8:30 AM in San Pedro, Calif., for a “judgement debtor” examination hearing, in order to establish where he had assets. The doctor was a no show, and the judge issued a $30,000 civil warrant.
Unrelated to Donda West’s death?
What’s in question here, is why this doctor was even allowed to perform any surgeries. It appears that Dr. Adams has has three DUI’s and multiple malpractice cases filed against him.
As if that isn’t shocking enough, it’s also been discovered that Dr. Adams is not even Board Certified!
Now comes the final blow…
Dr. Adams has been showcased on four separate media outlets, Oprah, E!, NBC, and Discovery Health.
We want to know why they put doctors on talking about plastic surgery who are not board certified in the field. In particular, we wanted to know why Oprah, NBC and Discovery Health showcased Dr. Jan Adams, who operated on Kanye West’s mom the day before she died. The Dr. has 3 DUI’s, multiple malpractice cases, and on and on. The director of the Medical Board of California is now going after his license.
We also wanted to know why E! is using doctors who are not board certified for “Dr. 90210″ — in particular, Dr. Robert Rey and Dr. David Matlock.
Asked for a comment in the past three days now — Oprah, E!, NBC, and Discovery Health are not returning calls.
Maybe they should be charging this man for murder?
Donda West, the mother and onetime manager of rapper Kanye West, died Saturday in Los Angeles.
Her publicist, Patricia Green, told BBC News she passed away “as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure,” but gave no more details. West’s spokesman said the family “asks for privacy during this time of grief.”
West, 58, a retired professor and former chairwoman of the Chicago State University English department, was a tireless supporter of her son as he both earned success and stirred up controversy.
“Kanye likes to think as a hobby and speak his own mind. He was always like that,” Donda West told InStyle earlier this year. “He came out of the womb looking like he had that attitude.”
After all that bitching and moaning that Kanye West did about not winning at the MTV Awards in Europe, and not winning at the VMA’s, and not performing on the VMA mainstage, it turns out he didn’t want those awards after all. Last night at BET’s Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta, Kanye West won “Best Hip-Hop Video”, and then he tried to give it away!
After accepting the award for his video “Stronger”, he tried to give it to UGK and OutKast, competing in the same category with “International Players”. He said they were more deserving. OutKast’s Big Boi declined the award.
What the hell, Kanye? Make up your damn mind. Do you want awards or not? Or was it just that at the VMA’s you lost to Justin Timberlake?
Source: “Kanye: No YOU Take the Award!” [TMZ]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
After going on and on and on about being shafted at the VMAs and then appearing drunk on the Wendy Williams Experience exclaiming that he’s the number one human being, it appears Kanye West has a sense of humor about the whole thing. Or at least he’s pretending he does for the pub.
Here’s Kanye on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”, appearing as himself in a 106 & Park sketch in which he makes fun of himself after losing the Kid’s Choice Awards, the Nobel Prize, and hosting duties at SNL. He may be an arrogant crybaby, but it appears that at least he’s aware of that fact.
Source: “Kanye: ‘Give a Short Black Man a Chance!’” [TMZ]
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“I want to thank you for this opportunity,” Dr. Jan Adams told King. “Basically, I had come here to talk about things in the press that aren’t accurate about me.
An L.A. County Superior Court judge has issued a warrant for Dr. Adam’s arrest, because he didn’t show up for a hearing today.
