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6 Nov, 2003

Joins TNA

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Punk begins appearing for TNA Wrestling on their weekly pay-per-view events. He appears as part of the faction “The Gathering”.

I got into NWA:TNA through an old friend from Minnesota, Mortimer Plumtree. After my concussion and head fracture I was in Philly traveling with my good friends Josh Prohibition and M-Dog 20. Ace called me and told me to come home; we were going to be on the PPV. We got there and saw on the booking sheet we were going to be a tag team that was going over and getting into the battle royal. Like lots of times in this business, dont count your chickens till they hatched.

9 Jul, 2003

Part of Bijani team

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Carson is one of the surgeons on the team that attempts the first separation of conjoined twins joined at the skull. Neither twin survives.

 The women certainly understood the risks and were determined to proceed. I felt compelled to get involved to help give them their best chance at survival and separation, and I have no regrets over my decision. No act is a failure if you learn from it.

12 Jun, 2003

Gregory Peck dies age 87

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Peck dies age 87 while asleep at his home in Los Angeles. The cause of his death is pneumonia. Family spokesperson:

He had just been getting older and more fragile. He wasn’t really ill. He just sort of ran his course and died of old age.

2003

Graham, Livingston dating

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Graham and Livingston start dating. Livingston:

We met at a party in Cambridge Massachusetts randomly. It’s kind of a funny story. I actually went, he was co-hosting the party with a friend of his, I was with a guy I was taking a class at Harvard Extension School with. I wasn’t gonna go, it was a Saturday night and I didn’t have a friend to go with me so I wasn’t gonna go but I went anyway. I arrived on the doorstep, and I said “ Oh, I’m Jessica, I’m friends with Murat and I’m here for the party” and he said “Murat? Didn’t you hear? He moved to Arkansas last week to join the Wes Clark campaign. He’s not here tonight.” So, I said, “Oh my God, I’m not gonna know anyone.” I did not know one person at this party and I went in and had a great time and met, you know Paul, and Trevor, our other co-founder and just hit it off. And then Paul and I started dating and I started meeting more people who are involved in start-ups.

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Tarantino releases Kill Bill: Volume 1. This martial-arts-driven film tells the story of The Bride, played by Uma Thurman, as she seeks revenge on the group of assassins that buried her alive after her bridal party. The film stars David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Vivica A. Fox, and Lucy Liu.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. It’s that kind of movie.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Official Trailer - Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu Action Movie HD

25 Dec, 2002

Catch Me If You Can

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Spielberg directs the true story about a likable young con man, and the FBI agent who attempts to track him down. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the con man, and Tom Hanks plays the agent.

I committed to directing Catch Me If You Can not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. And I’m a big fan of scams.

Catch Me If You Can Trailer

11 Nov, 2002

Lopez, Affleck engaged

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Jennifer Lopez RingLopez and Affleck are engaged. Lopez tells Diane Sawyer in an interview that Affleck proposed in a very traditional way, with a Harry Winson six-carat pink diamond on a platinum band.

I am such a kind of artist in that way, you know, just such a flutter bug in that way. Where it’s just like, you know, the idea of love and fairy tales and romance and all that.

4 Sep, 2002

Iraq op-ed

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Webb’s op-ed piece entitled Heading for Trouble: Do We Really Want to Occupy Iraq for the Next 30 Years? runs in The Washington Post.

The issue before us is not simply whether the United States should end the regime of Saddam Hussein, but whether we as a nation are prepared to physically occupy territory in the Middle East for the next 30 to 50 years. Those who are pushing for a unilateral war in Iraq know full well that there is no exit strategy if we invade and stay…In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets.

17 Jul, 2002

Thornton, Jolie divorce

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Jolie files for divorce, stating in her petition that the couple has been separated since June 3, and requesting full custody of the couple’s adopted son Maddox. Jolie says:

It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it’s not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It’s clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. We’re not divorced yet. We’re going through a difficult time. I’m not sure what will happen.

4 Jul, 2002

Roberts, Moder marry

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JR DMRoberts exchanges vows with her cameraman boyfriend Moder during a midnight ceremony at her ranch outside Taos.  The bride wears pale pink cotton halter dress embroidered with pearls, antique beads and hand painted with flowers.

I hope that there are people who agree that I have done some good, kind things in my life, but to really, ultimately, stand fully in a moment of realizing that I was born to love and to be the wife of this man.

24 Jun, 2002

Lopez, Judd divorce

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Lopez and Judd divorce after nine months of marriage. There were rumors that Lopez starting dating Ben Affleck during the course of her marriage to Judd. Source:

Their splitting up does not involve any other person, period. It’s never been an issue. Jennifer is very monogamous.

21 Jun, 2002

Minority Report

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Spielberg directs a science fiction film thriller starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton. The film is set in a futuristic world were special psychics called “precogs” inform police about crimes before they are ever committed.

I went to Scott Frank for the screenplay. He wrote Get Shorty and Out of Sight. I gave him the original short story by Philip K. Dick and he said he didn’t know anything about science fiction. I said, ‘Let me worry about the sci fi element. Just write a terrific detective yarn’.

Minority Report Trailer

20 Jun, 2002

Sy’rai Iman Smith is born

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Brandy and Smith welcome their first child Sy’rai Iman Smith on Father’s Day. Brandy decided to air her pregnancy and birth on MTV’s Diary Presents: Brandy — Special Delivery. Publicist:

A daughter, named Sy’rai, was born to the former teen star and her producer-husband Robert Smith.

6 Mar, 2002

Mother dies

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oscar-pistorius-motherSheila Pistorius passes away. Pistorius says that sport is the only thing that helps him get through the experience. His aunt:

Sheila valued each of her children for their individual talents and was proud of them. Strict, loving, spontaneous and always game for fun, she was also a devout Christian who brought her children up to observe the Christian way of life, something she tried to demonstrate in her own relationships. She was open about Oscar’s disability and shared her experience in bringing Oscar up in order to encourage other parents of disabled children. Oscar has continued her legacy of helping others.

21 Feb, 2002

Prince Michael Jackson II born

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aPrince Michael Jackson II, whose nickname is Blanket, is born San Diego, CA.  He is the third child born to Jackson and he has two older half siblings, Prince and Paris. His mother’s identity is unknown and he is the result of artificial insemination.