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Thanks to the rise of the social media site Twitter, celebrity users and your every day folk like you and me are closer than ever. But so are the nasty, catty tweets from the Average Joe to whatever celebrity they're mad at now. Jimmy Kimmel decided that celebrities should confront these mean (and often strange) tweets in his ongoing segment 'Celebrities Read Mean Tweets.'

Actually it's a WHALE of a True Tale from the Gab Man, Peter Franklin-the Gabby Cabby. Pete will be joining me tomorrow (Saturday) morning around 9:30 for our 1st broadcast of the new year. I haven't called Pete lately, it seems like (1) I upset him or (2) he upsets me whenever we talk...

It's almost time to "ring out the old" & "ring in the new". Sometimes I think that I've had some problems in my 51 year career...how about New Years Eve back in 1992 for one of the world's premiere bands. Talk about the ups & downs in the swinging, swirling world of show business...on Ne...

Have you ever noticed that when a TV show goes into a commercial the volume on your set goes up?

Most children today have grown up watching the classic Christmas special 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' that was filmed using stop-motion animation. As the winter holiday season fast approaches and you settle down to watch 'Rudolph' on television, check out these ten cool facts that you didn't know about one of themost famous Christmas specials of all time.

One of the Discovery Channel's longest and dirtiest series will apply for its last job this season.

That's what I used to call them. I was a big time wrestling fan back in the 70's & early 80's & besides seeing some great matches back in the Pittsburgh area, I got to meet some of these "living legends". I had the good fortune to spend an entire day with the late Captain Lou Albano, who I found out wasn't really a "Captain" at all...

No, not me(!), I'm the Puffman. He's Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Franz Douskey & he's my special guest this afternoon (Tuesday) on the Puffman Show. Douskey, who's no doofas. has put together the book "Sinatra & Me-The Very Good Years" based on dozens of hours of interviews over the span of 8 years with Tony Consiglio...

"Celebrity Stew" is the book that I'll be giving away this afternoon (Friday) at 4:35 on Puffman Musical Trivia & the 1st caller in with the correct answer to my musical trivia question will receive this entertaining read by Leo Pearlstein. Pearlstein, the "Dean of Public Relations" was my special guest LAST Friday afternoon...

I'll be BACK at the Marias Heritage Center this evening (Tuesday) to read "Montana History". I love the book that we're currently enjoying...it's "My Home's In Montana" by Fort Benton native Kareen Bratt. This saga begins around the time of the United States entering into World War 2 & it's a beautiful presentation of growing up on a Montana wheat ranch in Choteau County. S

Puffman here inviting you to join me this afternoon (Monday) on "Puffman Musical Trivia" at 4:30. Today I'm giving away "Christmas in Tinseltown-Celebrity Recipes & Hollywood Memories from 6 Feet Under the Mistletoe". It's from Frantic Frank Decaro & it's a presentation of "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook". No dou...

Puffman here inviting you to join me this afternoon (Monday) at 4:30 on Puffman Musical Trivia. I'm giving away a copy of "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook" & as the title implies, these people are all dead but the book is a "Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage & Screen. Frank ...