By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Moments before he took the stage in Denver to touch 84,000 people Thursday night, I stood just a few feet away, camera rolling, to capture Sen. Barack Obama, as he touched two dozen voters, picked at random to meet him, in a rare and personal way.
He’s an active listener, engaging, bantering, even comforting with one woman who was so overcome with emotion, she burst into tears.
“Why are you crying?” he asked, hugging her, telling her everything was going to be okay. Read the rest of this entry »
Video Shows Nick Ticketed 2 Weeks before The Crash, Doing 82 mph in 45 Mile Zone.
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
“Look at those two assholes not getting anywhere fast,” said one witness, who told police Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick, behind the wheel of a yellow Toyota Supra, and a pal driving his mother’s Dodge Viper were “racing between lights” on the streets of Clearwater, Florida August 26, 2007. Weaving, tires smoking. Then Nick Bollea loses control and hits the 25 foot palm tree.
Shocking, little known details about the party boys that day, and their street racing before the crash. Never came out in court because Bollea plead no contest to reckless driving; no criminal trial necessary. But attorneys for the victim’s family lay it all out in a civil suit that charges Nick’s parents with negligence. They’ve denied any wrongdoing. Read on–and weep.
To find answers Hulk Hogan didn’t have for a Larry King Live the other night, we cued up the video, and dug up the exhaustive Nick Bollea Clearwater Police investigation into the tragic crash that’s put the hot-rodding Baby Hulkster behind bars for eight months, and left his friend, ex-Marine John Graziano, 23, hospitalized with permanent brain damage. Read the rest of this entry »
ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition Builds Disabled Marine House Fit for a Hero
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Like so many Marines, Staff Sgt. Daniel Gilyeat re-upped after a first Iraq tour ended in 2004. Caught in an emotional crossfire, he was fighting to save a crumbling marriage, but also felt he could “make a difference” fighting alongside his Marines.
It’s a tug-of-war that makes it tough for many warriors to leave the battlefield for home, even if they have to be carried off, like Gilyeat, who now ranks among almost 30,000 soldiers injured in a five-year war that has claimed the lives of almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers.
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