Actor Dick Van Dyke says he was once rescued at sea by porpoises after falling asleep on his surf board.
Van Dyke claimed that when he woke up, he could not see the shore.
Van Dyke, 84, told CBS talk show host Craig Ferguson that the porpoises pushed him back to shore.
By Rhonda Cook and Kristi E. Swartz
Rapper Gucci Mane was ordered released from Fulton County Jail Wednesday after prosecutors announced they would not pursue the pending multiple traffic charges or the obstruction allegation.
It was announced during a first appearance court hearing Wednesday morning the case was being dropped “for want of prosecution.” The judge told Mane, whose real name is Radric Davis, that the charges could be refiled. Read the full story
By Rodney Ho
If you want to live in Ryan Seacrest’s Hollywood Hills home, it’s for sale for a mere $14.95 million.
He purchased the home from Kevin Costner for $11.5 million in 2006. I have no idea what improvements he put into it, but the story says it has been remodeled under Seacrest’s watch. It’s a 10,000-square-feet Mediterranean-style home with six bedrooms and 6.5 baths plus a guest home. It sits on an acre and has a great view of the city. It has a tennis court, a pool and a wine cellar.
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By GEORGE MATHIS
Medal of Honor, the franchise that made World War II seem fresh in its 1999 debut, feels stale as it tries to portray modern-day combat in Afghanistan.
Clichés fly as fast as bullets: A suit-wearing general makes unreasonable demands via satellite, soldiers routinely defy orders because it’s the humane thing to do and top brass cares more about helicopters than men in the field. It makes for tired fiction and creates a false history for those drafted into Electronic Arts’ virtual army.
The single-player campaign is competent but suffers from poorly explained objectives. Players, in alternating missions, fill the boots of a “Tier One” operative who works with a covert four-man team behind enemy lines and an Army Ranger who brings along a whole squad for more traditional firefights.
Missions are at their best when the four-man team is tasked with the impossible, such as holding a crumbling position against hundreds of ant-like Taliban pouring into a valley.
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For the first time in years, you can play a video game as Michael Jordan with NBA 2K11. (Courtesy IGN)
By GEORGE MATHIS
NBA legends Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and even Atlanta’s Human Highlight film, Dominique Wilkins, return to hoops glory in NBA 2K11, the only major basketball video game title available before Christmas.
Jordan, who retired way back in 2003, graces the cover and the game now features a “Challenge” mode that lets players assume control of the former Chicago Bull star and try to match his garish career stats (30 points a game, 6 NBA titles). Complete all 10 challenges and a rookie Jordan enters the modern-day NBA.
Atlanta fans will enjoy reliving the past too. Taking the reins of the Hawks in the 1987-88 season and avenging the painful Eastern Conference Semifinals loss to the Boston Celtics never gets old.
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Phaedra poses with her husband, Apollo (Photo courtesy of Bravotv.com)
by Rodney Ho
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” – Spanish proverb
It may be a new season with two new cast members but some formulas never change. Kim Zolciak spreads gossip. NeNe Leakes hears gossip. NeNe gets angry. Shake.
The twist: Dwight Eubanks is the source of the rumors. He supposedly loaned $10,000 to NeNe’s husband Gregg. NeNe only finds out about it through Kim. She confronts Gregg. He says it was only a few hundred dollars. Read the full story
By Melissa Ruggieri
Talk about a banner week.
Not only did the Zac Brown Band’s second major-label offering, “You Get What You Give,” debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Country Albums charts, but the band is also represented in triplicate on both charts with “The Foundation” and the live “Pass the Jar” joining the new release. Read the full story
By RODNEY HO
It’s been nearly a year since we watched Sheree Whitfield pull Kim Zolciak’s weave, Nene Leakes and Kim battle over an alleged choking incident and Kim sing her way onto the dance charts with “Tardy for the Party.” Ahh… the memories!
But the women many people love to hate are back for a third season of “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” starting October 4 on Bravo. Lisa Wu Hartwell is no longer a regular cast member and will be reduced to cameo appearances.
Two newbies are coming aboard: model Cynthia Bailey and lawyer Phaedra Parks. For folks who complain the show lacks housewives, the married Hartwell is replaced by Parks, who is also married. Cynthia recently got married. Sheree and Kim are not married and there are no signs either are going to be stepping down the aisle anytime soon.
Jetpacks allow players to fly in Halo: Reach. (Courtesy Microsoft)
By GEORGE MATHIS
Suicide missions should be memorable. Halo: Reach, an epic first-person shooter that tells the tale of a group of human supersoldiers doomed to die along with an entire planet, is so good it will be remembered — and played — for years.
Halo fans know how this story, a prequel to earlier games, ends. But that’s OK. The single-player campaign tells a compelling story, and the wealth of multi-player options and game modes will keep players reaching for the Xbox 360 controller.
The campaign has humble beginnings — a new recruit joins a group of veterans as a swarm of aliens, known as the Covenant, overwhelm the planet Reach. The action quickly heats up and the anonymous rookie, known as Noble 6, is soon wielding an Energy Sword, Needle Rifle and other familiar weapons alongside his fellow Spartan space marines.
This version of Halo looks better than ever. The eye candy is apparent in the wide-open vistas that set the stage for combat. There’s more than one way to approach the enemy, and more than one way for the enemy to assault the player. The less-linear, more-chaotic firefights ramp up the difficulty.
Chicago defenseman Brian Campbell floors Philadelphia forward Daniel Briere in NHL 11.
By GEORGE MATHIS
Tweaks to checking, passing and face-offs make Electronic Arts’ NHL 11 more realistic than its predecessors, but also make it a lower scoring, less exciting game for casual fans.
One of the great pleasures in games past has been hip-crushing checks that can hospitalize enemy skaters. An all-new physics system now determines how opponents crumple, and while there is greater variation in how they painfully hit the ice, it’s more difficult to time season-ending blows.
Crisp passes now require the player to keep a button depressed for a millisecond before releasing it. Not doing so generates a weak pass that is easily picked off by a defender. Arcade-style passes to the front of the net for an easy score are a thing of the past in NHL 11.
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