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Football: 'I wouldn't listen to these people in the pub, and yet they're on television constantly' Cats boss launches attack on lazy punditry The television studio is a comfortable place for many ex-players but Roy Keane has declared he would rather have his teeth pulled out. Chief sports writer Luke Edwards reports.(Sport)

Article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) Article date: November 08, 2008

Byline: Luke Edwards

THERE is nothing worse in the age of 24 hour television news coverage than silence - unless you are Roy Keane.

Sunderland's manager has become so vexed by the avalanche of criticism from ex-players, excitable pundits and so-called experts he is constantly reaching for the mute button.

With more airtime than ever to fill, on more channels then ever before, quantity, as far as Keane is concerned, has certainly come at the expense of quality.

Having seen his team lose successive games at Stoke and Chelsea, Keane was in the mood to go on the ...

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Edwards' ER Check Funds African Hospital

Posted Nov 4, 08 12:36 PM CST in Arts & Living,  Gossip 

Edwards' ER Check Funds African Hospital
Source: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow

(Newser) – In lieu of a paycheck for his return to ER as the deceased Dr. Mark Greene, with scenes shot in flashbacks, Anthony Edwards asked Warner Bros. to donate $125,000 to help build a 250-bed hospital in Africa, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Steven Spielberg matched that money, and ER's executive producer kicked in $50,000.

He also agreed to return to ER as a big thank-you to the audience that fell in love with Dr. Greene. "People would watch Greene and could think, 'You know what? My life will never be that bad,' " Edwards said, reflecting on Dr. Greene's popularity. "He always had problems, whether it was with dating or women or the relationship with his daughter or work and bosses and ultimately dying. He really just had so many kinds of struggles that I think people all related to in a way."

More about:  television • Africa • celebrity humanitarianism • ER • Anthony Edwards

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 'Dr. Greene' to Return to ER 

Edwards will reprise role as dead character in flashbacks

Associated Press Associated Press Sep 5, 08 11:20 AM CDT
(AP) - Dr. Mark Greene is coming back to ER , but he's not coming back from the dead. Anthony Edwards will reprise the role of Greene, who died of a brain tumor at the end of the 2002 season, in flashback scenes in the Nov. 13 episode, NBC says. Other County General alumni will also make cameos during the show's 15th and final season, but there's no word yet on the show's most famous alum, George "Dr. Doug Ross" Clooney. More »

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