CHOOSING SIDES: Barrett Baber of Fayetteville had all four celebrity mentors on NBC's singing competition, The Voice, recruiting him. He performed The Jeff Healey Band's hit, "Angel Eyes." He chose to join the team of Blake Shelton, who compared the Marion native's performance to that of country star Garth Brooks.
OZARKS CLASHING: A new show is geared toward fans of Discovery Channel's Clash of the Ozarks, a reality show set in Hardy that aired in 2014 but wasn't renewed. Some of its characters appear on a new locally produced show, What's in the Pot? With Crowbar Russell and the Arkansas Outlaws.
The cooking and hunting show, which premiered at 7:30 a.m. last Sunday on NBC Region 8 station in Jonesboro, is set to feature cast members of the defunct show such as "Flatlander" Mark Gordon and "The Baroness," Renee Clay-Circle.
The second episode, airing today, features Clay-Circle cooking dove pops.
"Bow season starts this Saturday, so I'll try to get footage killing a deer and that will be the next episode I do with them," she tells Paper Trails.
The 30-minute show is filmed, produced and directed by Russell's wife, LaTisha. Local sponsors buy commercial time.
THEY'RE BACK: Duggar family members will once again appear on shows on TV's TLC. The cable channel carried Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, for seven years before canceling it in July after eldest son Josh admitted to molesting five underage girls, including sisters Jill and Jessa, when he was a teen. Josh now is in a rehabilitation center after confessing to adultery and a pornography addiction.
TLC will air at least two specials following Jessa Duggar Seewald, 22, who's expecting her first child, and Jill Duggar Dillard, 24, who recently became a midwife and moved with her husband and baby to Central America on a mission trip.
The first special will air before the end of the year, the network told The Associated Press.
BETWEEN THE LINES: The October issue of Smithsonian.com features an excerpt from Hemingway in Love, a new memoir by one of the writer's closest friends, A.E. Hotchner, who details Hemingway's love triangle involving his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and his second one, Pauline Pfeiffer of Piggott, where the couple once lived. When Hemingway was trying to choose between his wife and mistress, his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to persuade him to stay with his first wife.
"You need the shining qualities of Hadley," Hemingway says Fitzgerald advised. "Neither Pauline or her money can provide that."
Hotchner writes that before Hemingway could choose, his first wife divorced him. The book also says Hemingway was unhappy in Arkansas.
"I wrote early every morning in Piggott before the suffocating heat took over," he said. "The days and nights were as bleak as a stretch of Sahara Desert."
Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or lhaymes@arkansasonline.com
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