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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — The head of Office Depot Inc.’s international division was fired, effective Monday, for having an “improper relationship” with a co-worker, the company said.



Office Depot said the fired executive was Charlie Brown. It did not identify the other employee or describe that person’s job title or fate.

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— After years of having his ball stolen, Charlie Brown took another’s. Clearly his time at the House of Blue Leaves did nothing.

“It was Valentine’s Day 2004, and I had just broken up with my girlfriend, so I was pretty angry. Somebody came on the mike and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, September 10, 2001.” And the spotlight comes up and “The Candy Man” starts playing, and I come out naked in tap shoes and blackface, dancing horribly. Then all of a sudden, the lights turn red, and [the German industrial band] Rammstein comes on, and I look at the audience and I go, “Tomorrow, a terrible tragedy will happen that will kill thousands of people. America will become a cage of fear. What are you going to do when fascism takes over?” And I started goose-stepping around the stage. Then, after about a minute of that, “The Candy Man” comes back on, and I finish up the tap dance. And I received a standing ovation.”
— You know you want context.

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On Saturday night, September 17, 2011 between approximately 9:40 PM and 10:20 PM the following events took place on North 7th Street off the corner of Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.



A lawless drug nightmare erupted on my street after Saturday night’s OSA concert featuring the band called Widespread Panic.



At about 9:40 PM the noise from the concert in the East River State Park had finally ended. So I was about to try to get some video editing work done on my computer when my attention was drawn to loud popping sounds, sounds of gas rushing and the roar of large crowd outside on the street. When I looked out my front window I was horrified to see a huge mob collecting. A group of nitrous oxide balloon sellers had assembled next to a dumpster across the street. Hundreds of people, if not more, were gathering up and down the block buying balloons filled with the gas and inhaling them. Concert-goers already drunk from the East River State Park were becoming even more highly intoxicated from the nitrous oxide. They were wandering around like zombies holding fists full of balloons.



There was not ONE SINGLE COP to be seen anywhere. I called 911 and explained what was taking place. The 911 operator was having difficulty understand the situation so I gave him the location and pleaded, ‘Just send the police now. We need help here!’, and hung up. Afraid for my safety while filming on my stoop, I used my heel to keep the door open behind me just in case I had to escape. In one of the last clips you can see a couple of men coming toward me in a menacing way.

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New York Film Festival By The Numbers: Day -14

Year Mud and Soldiers  was released: 1939

# of minutes in Mud and Soldiers: 120

# of years Nikkatsu has been in business: 100

# of Years Festival Has Been Going On: 49

# of Nikkatsu Films Screening at the festival: 37

# of films in Main Slate to play: 22

# of slaps to the face in The Woman with Red Hair: 12

# of Nikkatsu Films screened yesterday: 3

# of slaps to the face that missed in The Woman with Red Hair: 2

# of pretentious prick press people who moaned there was no coffee or juice and how his bagel was dry and wore a motherfucking ascot: 1 (the loneliest number)

# of Films In Competition: 0

Buried Lede of 2011

 

TORONTO (Reuters) - For actor Nicolas Cage, making the new thriller movie “Trespass" hit close to home.

Cage, at the Toronto film festival along with director Joel Schumacher promoting the film about a home invasion, said that he has actually lived through the nightmare in real life.

"It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed," he told reporters on Wednesday.

"I know it sounds funny … but it was horrifying."

A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.

AP