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From International Business Times: Did the Michael Stipe Tumblr Video Lead to R.E.M. Split?

The news of R.E.M.’s split on Wednesday came on the heels of lead singer Michael Stipe’s nude Tumblr video scandal that recently made its way online. The ’90s rock band broke up after 31 years together. Sometime on Tuesday, reports surfaced that the R.E.M. frontman had posted a weird video on his Tumblr account, reportedly showing him taking his clothes off and then putting them back on. The musician also reportedly showed his private area to the world.

Then on Wednesday, the band announced the breakup.

“To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band,” the band posted on its Web site. “We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.”

In the more than three decades R.E.M. has been together, they released about 15 albums. Some of their best works include Murmur, Reckoning, Document, and Automatic For the People. The band was formed in Athens, Ga. in 1980.

Their final album “Collapse Into Now” was released in March this year.

There have also been reports that Stipe took to his Tumblr and posted the following statement: “thanks Peter, Mike, Bill, Bertis, and everyone who was ever there, what an adventure – Michael.”

Rolling Stone reported that the band has plans to release a greatest hits collection later this year. That collection would include a handful of new songs recorded after the band finished “Collapse Into Now.”

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From Reuters: Actor Tom Sizemore arrested, held briefly in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Tom Sizemore spent several hours behind bars in Los Angeles on Tuesday for apparently missing a court date last month, police and judicial officials said.

The “Saving Private Ryan” actor, is trying to make a comeback from drug addiction with a role in TV show “Hawaii Five-O”, was arrested by police during a drug-related investigation.

Although no drugs were found, police found Sizemore had an outstanding warrant against him, which officials said was issued when he failed to turn up for a court date in August relating to a 2009 arrest for battery.

Sizemore, 49, has spent years in an out of courts on drug related charges and appeared on TV show “Celebrity Rehab” in 2010 to try and beat his habit.

He is set to appear in the new season of detective series “Hawaii 5-O” as the internal affairs chief of Hawaii’s police department.

Sizemore was released on $26,000 bail early on Tuesday morning, police said. He told celebrity website TMZ that the arrest warrant was a mistake caused by a clerical error over community service hours imposed in the 2009 case.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Radio For Patriots by Patriots Show log For Tuesday September 20, 2011

Doug Dannger weighed in on the demise of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The self-described “gay man and gay journalist” said there’s gonna be a lot of gay soldiers looking to “make someone pay” on the battlefield for all the discrimination they’ve dealt with….

“I gotta be better than that ‘gender, Bono” says Steve Bosell

Steve Bosell has been trying to learn to dance to impress his wife and daughter after they asked him if he could dance as well as Chaz Bono. Steve felt humiliated when they said “a ‘gender danced better than me.” Steve was playing a recording of “The Hustle” and getting winded going through the steps. That’s when Margaret Grey called and started singing the song (“‘The Hustle’ has words Phil”) but then her voice “got stuck” an octave higher than normal…