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Yankee Pitcher Killed in NY Plane Crash
Wednesday, October 11 2006
Today I bring you unfortunate news of a Yankee pitcher - Cory Lidle was killed after his small plane crashed into an Upper East Side residential building. At least one other person is reported dead.
While it’s still unclear if Cory Lidle was piloting the plane (a student pilot was also reportedly aboard), Lidle is the second Yankee to die in a small plane crash. On August 2, 1979, Yankee catcher Thurmon Munson was flying his plane when it crashed at an Ohio airport. According his official web site, Munson was “practicing takeoffs and landings in his new twin engine Cessna Citation jet at the Akron-Canton airport. Something went wrong causing the jet to clip a tree and fall short of the runway on a landing attempt."
Eerily, last month the New York Times ran a story about Lidle and his love of flying. The Times also has a picture of Lidle and his plane. The story is located here.
Citing "police sources," CNN is reporting that a multi-engine small plane crashed into a 50-story residential building at 72nd and York (update: the address is 524 E. 72nd St.) Some of the fuel has spilled onto the ground, notes CNN.
CNN also notes that NORAD, which patrols the sky, was not tracking this aircraft.
Curbed (and CNN) are reporting that the building is the Belair building . MSNBC has a photo of the crash here
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How to waste $139 Million in 1 second
Tuesday, October 24 2006
If you had Billions of dollars and no where to spend it what would you do? Well Steve Wynn decided to purchase a $100 million Picasso and poke a hole in it!
Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion-dollar canvas an elbow.
Wynn had just finalized a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.
Director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, who witnessed and related the incident in her blog on the Huffington Post Web site (www.huffingtonpost.com), said Wynn had raised his hand to show the group something about Picasso's 1932 portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.
"At that moment, his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas. There was a terrible noise," Ephron wrote, noting that Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision.
"Smack in the middle ... was a black hole the size of a silver dollar. 'Oh sh*t,' he said. 'Look what I've done. Thank goodness it was me."'
Wynn's office Tuesday confirmed the story, an account of which also appeared in this week's The New Yorker. Both accounts said Wynn had decided to release the buyer from the sale agreement and to repair and keep the painting himself.
Wynn, a millionaire casino developer and art collector, developed The Mirage and Bellagio resorts in Las Vegas in the 1990s, which spearheaded a profusion of luxury hotels and casinos on the once-seedy Las Vegas Strip.
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LOST - preparation ritual
Thursday, November 2 2006
For all you allegiant LOST troubled fans (and I am proudly one of them) this one is for you.
Click here to learn the latest techniques in preparing yourself for each new episode of LOST.
