A voice that has been in 5,000 movie trailers and thousands of T.V. commercials is silent. Don LaFontaine died Monday, known for his catch phrase “In a world where…” Over the past several years, his name and face became known in a Geico and a New York Lottery commercial spot.

He is survived by his wife Nita Whitaker and three daughters.

Sources are saying that Aaron Sorkin will be writing a movie about Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Variety is reporting. Though not yet approved by Zuckerberg or Facebook, the story will be about of how Facebook was started. They story will take place during the time when Zuckerberg was in Harvard in 2004 and created Facebook as a school project; including the story of how Facebook is in legal trouble with ConnectU.Sorkin has written screenplays for “The West Wing.”If approved, Columbia pictures will film the production.

According to the Associated Press, George Carlin died of heart failure in Santa Monica, California at 5:55pm PST. He went to the hospital because he was complaining of chest pain. He was 71 years old.

Today, we lost a well-known  journalist who want people to know what’s happening in politics, Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press; has died at the age 58. Russert suffered a major heart attack while preparing his show at the NBC News Bureau in Washington D.C. Russert had just came back early from his family’s vacation to Italy so he can do this Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press.

The New York Times report that at 3:39pm, former NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Brokaw announced to NBC News viewers that his colleague has died.

 “Our beloved colleague,” a grave Mr. Brokaw called him, one of the premier journalists of our time. He said this was one of the most important years in his life, with his deep engagement in the network’s political coverage, and that he “worked to the point of exhaustion.” Mr. Brokaw said Mr. Russert was a true child of Buffalo and always stayed in touch with his blue collar roots and “the ethos of that community.”

He said Mr. Russert had just moved his father, who is in his late 80s, from one facility to another in Buffalo. He said he loved his family, his Catholic faith, his country, politics, the Buffalo Bills, the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals.

“This news division will not be the same without his strong, clear voice,” Mr. Brokaw said.

Russert, the longest running moderator for Meet the Press, has been with the show since 1991. Since then, he has formed of what is today known as Sunday morning government affairs program

As his death happens days before Fathers Day, he had written two books about his father and became a best-seller. In 1995, the National Father’s Day Committee named him “Father of the Year,” and Parents magazine honored him as “Dream Dad” in 1998, and in 2001 the National Fatherhood Initiative also recognized him as Father of the Year.

NBC News has planned to air a tribute to Russert on “Dateline NBC” on Friday at 10 p.m. ET.

Kelsey Grammer, television and movie actor, is relaxing in an Hawaii with his wife after he suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend.    “Grammer experienced symptoms Saturday morning after paddle boarding with his wife Camille at their Hawaiian home,” according to a statement from Stan Rosenfield, the actor’s representative.

Since this week, WNBC-TV and WCBS-TV in New York experienced shake-ups this week with their news anchors.First off, WCBS-TV removed Jim Rosenfield from his anchoring role last Thursday. Replacing Rosenfield is Don Dahler to the noon and 6pm slots.Next is a huge shakeup at WNBC with their anchors, not only the evening newscasts were affected but also the morning newscast “Today in New York.” Rob Morrison, who has been in the weekday morning newscast since 2004, left the station over the weekend; no comments of why he left the morning newscast. This comes up after weeks that WNBC announced that it will have 24 hour news on its digital subchannel 4.4.  According to the Daily News, Michael Gargiulo, who was the 5pm co-anchor, will replace Morrison. (Update: Gargiulo mentioned on air that Morrison is on vacation.)On the evening newscasts, you can now see Chuck Scarborugh and Sue Simmons three times a night; an effort to help organize the new news channel and boost ratings. Replacing Gargiulo is David Ushery, who anchored the 6pm newscast with Lynda Baquero who became a street reporter this week,  will anchor with Sue Simmons, known for her f-bomb on a live teaser on May 12, during the half-hour 5pm newscast. At 6pm, Simmons will anchor with Scarborough, who have been anchoring the 11pm newscast on WNBC for the past 28 years. At 7pm, Scarborough will continue to anchor solo for the “New York Nightly News” newscast. And at 11pm, you will be able to catch “Chuck and Sue.”

 Updated: May 13, 2008 at 4:10pm.

At 10:27pm Monday evening during a live teaser for the 11PM news on WNBC NY Channel 4, news anchor Sue Simmons slipped “a word that many people find offensive.” This happend on the same day as an old video of Bill O’Reilly, from the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, turned up on the Internet showing O’Reilly angry during a recording of the “Inside Edition.”

After the incident occured, I wrote my reaction of what I thought happened.

“As an observer of WNBC News 4 New York for the past many years, I noticed something different about the teaser that was aired. After my observation of watching the clip online several times, it seems like it is not Simmon’s fault; it feels and looks like they were unaware that they are live. One hint during the teaser, Chuck Scarborough, the co-anchor of Simmons for the past 28 years, was not looking at the camera; something that Scarborough will never do during a live teaser. If in that case, the director in the studio did not tell Simmons and Scarborough that they are live; the audio and video was perfectly done just like the other live teasers at 10:30pm. But it is what Simmons said that outraged the audience. My prediction is that there was a similar situation just like in the O’Reilly video posted on Monday that might have been going on in Studio 6B; an argument between the anchor and the director. On the 11 o’clock newscast, she apologized to the audience.”

During the mid-day on Tuesday, the Daily News is reporting that she slipped on the word “heck” that caused her to say the F-word while teasing the first story when the video switched to a cruise-ship story.

It is expected that Simmons will not be on the air tomorrow during the 5 o’clock and 11 o’clock newscast if the situation is not resolved.

In my views, Simmons seems like she won’t be fired; Simmons and Scarborough is the anchor team that represents New York news. Simmons joined WNBC back in 1980 with Scarborough.

Because videos and links contains strong language, links were not posted.

Left image: snapshot of the May 12 live teaser, Right image: Sue Simmons in February 2007.

Mariah Carey is married!!!

Mariah Carey and fiance of two days, Nick Cannon got hitched on Wednesday, Latina magazine is reporting. 

The vows are said to have taken place on a small island and the ceremony was “very impulsive”, according to an unnamed source. 

And here’s the real kicker. 90’s one hit wonder DaBrat was one of few who attended the wedding. 

Updates to come!

 Crash Actress Sandra Bullock is unhurt after a head-on collision with an SUV. The driver of the SUV was intoxicated and her blood alcohol content was .20, twice the legal limit. The driver, 64 year old Gatchell has no previous record. 

Police Lt. Jerry Cook said that Bullock and Husband were being driven on Friday around 9:50 when the accident occurred. 

Bullock is said to be “grateful” and was initially worried about the driver that hit their car. 

After a March 25^th arrest, the Bonjovi guitarist Richie Sambora has been charged with two counts of second misdemeanor while driving. Yep, that’s right it’s a DUI! 

The 48 year old was pulled over after his car was allegedly swerving all over the place while straddling two lanes, now that’s talent! After further examination of Sambora,  the Laguna Beach police cited that his blood alcohol level was twice over the legal limit.  The guitarist was driving with two passengers under the age of eighteen and an adult woman.

Sambora is not scheduled to attend his arraignment that takes place on May 7^th.