Good day folks!  I hope you all are having a lovely Memorial Day weekend full of barbecue and family fun.  Let’s look into the headlines from this weekend and see what happened in the news!

Hollywood lost yet another star this Saturday when legend Dennis Hopper passed away at 74 years old after a long battle with prostate cancer.  Hopper’s first role came at 19 years old when he played opposite James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause, but found himself unable to find work after because of his difficult nature.  His big break back into pictures was with Easy Rider with (then unknown) Jack Nicholson.  Hopper also had a long acting life on television, most recently appearing as a villain on the (now ended) 24.

Family Guy is pandering for an Emmy…

again.  Last year’s Emmy mailer featured the Stewie character dressed up as Barack Obama saying, “Vote for Change!”  This year features Peter on a poster similar to that of the Academy Award nominated picture Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.  The poster shows Peter walking and dressed in the same manner as the main character, but with the caption “Vote for us or you’re racist.” Family Guy is notorious for being over the top and rightly so- last year the series was nominated for best comedy series and I suspect they’re hoping for a repeat.

Even if you’re not a fan of scary movies, you’ve probably heard of the Amityville Horror.  A family of six were murdered in their sleep at the location and the Lutz family supposedly experienced some horrifying disturbances in the house before moving out.  The Lutz family’s story has lead to several major motion pictures that have terrified children (and adults) since their release. Last week, the house itself went up for sale leaving fans everywhere wishing they had more pocket money.  PETA has now approached the owner and agent of the house, wishing to rent it for a time to show an exhibition of  “the real-life horrors inflicted on animals at factory farms and slaughterhouses.”  The show would feature instruments used in the slaughter of animals for their goods and ever child would receive a “crazed and knife-wielding Ronald McDonald doll.”  The owner of the house has been unavailable for comment apparently.

After Gary Coleman’s recent demise, the folks over at Avenue Q decided to keep his spirit alive by keeping the satirical character named and modeled after him in the show.  There was serious consideration on whether the character should be removed, but the consensus was that the character was too important to the show and it would be missed too much.  The character identifies itself as a former child actor who “made a lot of money that got stolen by my folks,” and is now the superintendent of the complex where the puppets live.  A tearful speech was given by the actress who plays Coleman on Broadway after the show Friday, saying “I just want to say that for me, it has never sucked to be Gary Coleman.”

That’s all for this weekend folks!  Tune in next Monday to see what happened the first weekend of June!