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Clint Eastwood's Prized Possessions Hitting L.A. Estate Sale
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Attention, Clint Eastwood fans … you now have the chance to own cinematic history, courtesy of an L.A. estate sale featuring some of the movie star’s iconic memorabilia.
Riki and Niki Buchanan of Diamond Estate Services tell TMZ … some of Clint’s OG treasures from his former home in L.A.’s Beverly Glen neighborhood will be going up for sale — including original cowboy boots and belt buckles from his western films.
That’s not all … there are also framed movie set photos, vintage movie posters, director’s chairs, a massive vinyl collection and even his original gym equipment and arcade games.
Translation: it’s a true Hollywood jackpot.
Clint clearly amassed quite the collection during his 20 years in that home — it was his first in L.A. after he’d snagged his first big TV role in “Rawhide.”
In 1983, he sold the home to his close friend and Eastwood Films producer, Fritz Manes for $250K. Fritz lived there until he died in 2011, and his wife remained in the home until she died a few months ago — hence, the estate sale.
The couple kept the place exactly as Clint had it, leaving all his memorabilia and furnishings untouched.
Now, the Manes estate has enlisted Diamond Estates to host a one-of-a-kind sale. As for pricing, all items are currently undergoing appraisal.
If you’re in the L.A. area, the in-person, 3-day sale begins today!
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'Wait Wait' for June 29, 2024: With Not My Job guest Christian Mcbride
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Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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This week’s show was recorded at the Mann Center in Philly with host Peter Sagal, judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Christian McBride and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Peter Grosz. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
Who’s Bill This Time
Presidential Hoarse Race; A Change for The Change; A New Way to Be Bored on Board
Panel Questions
Stuck In Space
Bluff The Listener
Our panelists tell three stories of unique lawsuits, only one of which is true.
Not My Job: We quiz Jazz bass legend Christian McBride on Bass Pro Shops
Jazz bassist Christian McBride plays our game called “Bass Pro? Meet Bass Pro!” Three questions about Bass Pro Shops.
Panel Questions
Running for Love; The Greater Outdoors
Limericks
Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Taylor Swift Side Effects; Furry Caddies; An Adorably Repugnant Pup
Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn’t fit anywhere else
Predictions
Our panelists predict, after rawdogging flights, what will be the next weird thing people will do on planes.
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Taylor Swift Continues to Show Her Love To Travis Kelce While Onstage
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Taylor Swift is head over heals in love with Travis Kelce – and she continues to show it while performing onstage.
The pop star’s latest shout out to her boyfriend came Friday as she cranked out her famous tune, “Midnight Rain,” at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
Check out the brief video … Taylor was singing and pointing at the sold-out crowd before striking Travis’ famous pose mimicking an archer when he plays tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.
This was the second time in recent memory Taylor did Travis’ move onstage in front of a live audience – and it seemed to go over well.
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The first time she did it was at her concert last weekend at Wembley Stadium in London. Taylor imitated the archer pose while belting out her hit, “So High School.”
Meanwhile, Taylor and Travis are in a very serious relationship. The couple started dating last summer, going public in September — and their romance has been going strong ever since.
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A robot gets a face of living ‘skin’ that allows it to smile
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An image released by University of Tokyo researchers shows a robot smiling, with the help of mechanical actuators beneath a flexible layer of living skin.
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If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?
The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and human-like ligaments to give robots a more natural smile, according to Tokyo University researchers who unveiled their work this week.
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“In this study, we managed to replicate human appearance to some extent by creating a face with the same surface material and structure as humans,” professor Shoji Takeuchi, the team leader, said in a news release. In the process, he added, “we identified new challenges, such as the necessity for surface wrinkles and a thicker epidermis to achieve a more humanlike appearance.”
The approach promises to make robots more lifelike — and in the future, the researchers say, similar techniques could also be used on humans, in the cosmetics and plastic surgery industries. Their findings were published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
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A new method of binding living skin tissue to a robotic skeleton will allow more humanlike expressions and better range of motion, according to researchers from the University of Tokyo.
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To overlay and connect the lab-produced skin on a robotic skeleton, a layer of collagen gel containing cultured human dermal fibroblasts (a type of connective tissue cell) binds to an innovative system of tiny V-shaped perforations in the surface, letting the skin move with the underlying structure without tearing or peeling. The work of muscles — creating a smile, and other motions — is done by actuators.
Takeuchi’s Biohybrid Systems Laboratory has previously engineered skin that can heal, created small robots with biological muscle tissue, and 3D printed lab-grown meat. He says the latest work on living skin has a string of potential next steps.
“Self-healing is a big deal — some chemical-based materials can be made to heal themselves, but they require triggers such as heat, pressure or other signals, and they also do not proliferate like cells,” he said. “Biological skin repairs minor lacerations as ours does, and nerves and other skin organs can be added for use in sensing and so on.”
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It’s critical for robots to have the ability to heal and self-repair, the researchers said in their study, because even small scratches could develop into serious impairments.
Biomimetic robots could also become even more realistic with thicker skin, Takeuchi said, adding that future projects could look to add sensors, pores and even sweat glands and fat. The team’s paper says their work could also bring insights into how humans’ wrinkles are formed. And by incorporating more sophisticated actuators and eventually, cultured muscle tissue, their approach could help robots in the future move in fluid, humanlike ways.
For now, the robot can’t feel its face, putting it in a category pioneered by Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd. Not long ago, many of us smiled when technology managed to put the singer’s words about his face into the mouth of a U.S. president.
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