Dogbites News
Air Date: Oct. 24, 2009

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys released an email through the group's official mailing list, updating fans on his battle with cancer. "I'm feeling healthy, strong and hopeful that I've beaten this thing, but of course time will tell," Yauch said in the statement. Yauch revealed back in July that he had been battling cancer of the preaortic gland and lymph node.

Police in Florida say a mother, father and 15-year-old son died after being electrocuted while putting up a ham radio antenna in their Palm Bay home. Authorities say the family was attempting to raise the antenna when they lost control of the pole and it hit an overhead power line. The impact sent 13,000 volts of electricity through the pole the three were holding. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The father and son were taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Game 6 Angels @ Yankees pm Saturday
Sunday Night Arizona @ Giants / Jets @ Raiders 4pm

Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" and recorded hits including the Italian ballad "Volare" died on the 14th. He was 82.

Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91

Soupy Sales, whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died Thursday. He was 83. He moved to New York in 1964 and debuted "The Soupy Sales Show," with co-star puppets White Fang (the meanest dog in the United States) and Black Tooth (the nicest dog in the United States). By the time his Big Apple run ended two years later, Sales had appeared on 5,370 live television programs - the most in the medium's history, he boasted. He had a pair of albums that hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1965; "Do the Mouse" sold 250,000 copies in New York alone. Soupy Sales joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.

A 100-song Elvis Presley box set is coming in December.

Garth Brooks announces that he's coming out of retirement.

Director Roman Polanski is working on his film The Ghost from his jail cell.

A-ha is breaking up after performing together for 25 years.

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan ended a show this week by saying "Thank you very much, Chile!" Unfortunately, they were in Peru.

Fans around the world still hoping to catch a glimpse of U2 on their 360° Tour can take to the Internet on Sunday, when the band will broadcast their concert from Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium on YouTube. Fans will be able to see replays of the concert on both YouTube and the band's website. The sold-out concert, which will pack more than 96,000 fans into the venue, is set to begin at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

The Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession on Thursday, and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence.

BON JOVI JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR WORLD TOUR:
MAY 26/27 NEW MEADOWLANDS STADIUM on sale @ 10am Halloween

Phish / December 2 - 4 @ Madison Square Garden; New York, NY on sale yesterday

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes @ B.B. Kings tonight (10.24) in NYC

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