Reality TV

Phil Baroni (13-11) returns to the UFC on Saturday night after an absence of almost six years, putting his experience and hell-of-leather style against Amir Sadollah (2-1) at UFC 106. The 33-year-old Baroni made his UFC debut at UFC 30 in February 2001 and won three of his first four fights in the Octagon, including a highlight-reel knockout of Dave Menne at UFC 39 that showcased almost cartoon-like hand speed. He lost his next four — against Matt Lindland (who had beaten him previously), Evan Tanner (twice) and Pete Sell — before exiting the organization after UFC 51 in February 2005.

Before I took it for granted   -Phil Baroni

 

Howard tells the Atlanta Journal Constitution in an e-mail Friday that the exhumation of Ashley "A.J." Jewell's body would be for a second autopsy to confirm he was killed by a rare sickle cell trait. Jewell is the former fiance of Kandi Burruss, a cast member on the reality television show. He died Oct. 2 after a fight with Frederick Richardson in a strip club parking lot.  

Did Shah Rukh Khan stammer in his last life? Or was Salman Khan as macho in his previous birth? Viewers are wondering if a new reality show based on past life regression therapy will answer questions about their favourite stars even as it as created quite a buzz.

I think reality television is losing track. It needs limits of normality   -Samir Parikh

 

A mutual friend got Ortiz and White together the week of UFC 100 in July. "Time cures pain," Ortiz said. "It started to get better and better and better and better and then we started talking. It took me a lot to suck it up. I had to suck up a little bit of pride to talk to Dana. And I think Dana had to suck up a lot of pride to talk to me, too. We're two pitbulls, man. You put two pitbulls in a room who are males and they're going to scrap, and that's just the way it is. "He knows what he ...  

A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse." David Allen Tyner, 28, of Locust Grove, is accused of shooting, stabbing and then burning the bodies of Brooke Phillips, Milagrous Barrera, Jennifer Ermey, 25, and Mark Barrientos, 32, at a southwest Oklahoma City home. Because Phillips and Barrera, both 22, were pregnant, two more murder counts were filed.  

The half-hour series will centre on the men and women who work security at Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, the largest shopping mall in the US. A total of 12 episodes have been ordered by the network. TLC aired a one-hour special of the same name earlier this year.  

She dreamed a dream, and now it appears to be coming true. Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle...whose trials and tribulations were international tabloid fodder last season...is back for a second act. She's releasing a brand new album of covers...including the Les Miz tune that put her on the map...and a somber rendition of Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones.  

The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn , has gotten the boot for a new beau. Who's the lucky guy? Former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis .  

Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her: "Wise Latina Woman."

Many, many, many more Americans can name the Seven Dwarfs than they can the people on the Supreme Court   -Bob Thompson