Mark Morford: "World's. Dumbest. Enemies." (SF Gate)
It's all so… confusing. So frustrating. How are we supposed to handle this? Who are we supposed to hate upon? The idiot Tsarnaev brothers don't fit our beloved terrorist stereotypes, do not play the role we wanted them to play. Damn them!
Froma Harrop: The Bombers and Who Gets In (Creators Syndicate)
The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers got the boys right. They were unable to settle into American life, Ruslan Tsarni told reporters from his home in Maryland, "and thereby just hating everyone who did." He called the two brothers "losers." I prefer the term "weaklings."
Noah Smith: KrugTron the Invincible (Noahpinion)
Each week a Robeast will show up, bellowing predictions of inflation and/or soaring interest rates. And each week, Paul Krugman...I mean, KrugTron, Defender of the Blogoverse, will strike down the monster with a successful prediction of...low inflation and continued low interest rates. Goldbugs, "Austrians", New Classical economists, and harrumphing conservatives of all stripes have eagerly gone head-to-head with KrugTron in the prediction wars, and have been summarily cloven in twain.
Lucy Mangan: The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Guardian)
I have three copies of this book on my shelf, a necessary prophylactic against the kind of choking panic I felt more than two decades ago when I tried to buy this most magnificent of books at our local WH Smith and first heard the dread words: "Sorry, out of print." Years later - or at least what felt like years to a grieving nine-year-old - it was republished and I took out a parental loan to buy it and a brace of back-up copies, just in case.
Aisha Harris: The Forgotten Genius of Moms Mabley (Slate)
In her directorial debut, I Got Somethin' to Tell You, part of this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Whoopi Goldberg tries to correct this, profiling the beloved comedienne who made a name for herself in an old house dress, floppy hat, and no teeth.
Richard "Dick" Milhous Dastardly is a fictional character and antagonist who appeared in various animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Dastardly's most famous appearances are as a main character in the series Wacky Races (his initial appearance) and its spin-off, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. He is essentially a caricature of the English actor Terry-Thomas, and of Professor Fate, a comic villain played by Jack Lemmon in the film The Great Race.
Dastardly was aided in his schemes by his sidekick, a scruffy anthropomorphic dog named Muttley who had a distinctive wheezy laugh, heard most often when Dastardly's schemes failed. Despite Dastardly and Muttley's attempts, the "double-dealing do-badders", as the opening narration of Wacky Races describes them, failed to win a single race. Dastardly's plans were always foiled either by his or Muttley's incompetence, the actions of another racer, or sheer bad luck, resulting in Dastardly crossing the finish line last, if at all.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Dick Dastardly
David W said:
Could if be Dick Dastardly? But oh how I remember Muttley's laugh
Charlie wrote:
Dick Dastardly
Adam answered:
Dick Dastardly.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Dick Dastardly
Marian replied:
Dick Dastardly
Sally said:
Richard "Dick" Milhous Dastardly was aided in his schemes by his sidekick, a scruffy anthropomorphic dog named Muttley.
Dastardly and dog here...
PS: Here is the Dastardly Banana
Hahahahahaha!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, Earth, answered:
Dick Dastardly of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. I vaguely remember seeing it when I came to on Saturday mornings once in a while in the late sixties!!!
MAM wrote:
Richard "Dick" Milhous Dastardly
Dastardly and Muttley
BttbBob replied:
Oh, it was that Snidely Whiplash wannabe "Dick Dastardly". No way did he measure up to Ol' Snidely's nefarious villainy. No way. I mean look at that stupid hat... and those red gloves? C'mon... Really? Seriously?
Sure, and he was a ne'er-do-well and scoundrel to be certain, but that dorkmeister wasn't worthy enough to hold Ol' Snidely's cloak and top hat is what I'm sayin'! Matter o' fact, Ol' Snidely shoulda gave the bounder a good thrashing with his cane for no more reason than the weak, 'rip-off' moustache!
No class... absolutely no class... Jeesh...
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Happy Birthday this day to:
Carol Burnett (70) [
Carol Burnett Show- Went With the Wind, Part 1 - YouTube
| Carol Burnett Show- Went With the Wind, Part 2 - YouTube (GWTW parody with Dinah Shore as Melody Hamilton) ]
Bobby Rydell (70) [
Bobby Rydell Live 1960 - Volare - YouTube ]
Born this day:
John James Audubon (1785-1851) Exquisite painter of birds. I love 'em...
Marcus Aurelius (121-180) "The Philosopher King" Portrayed by Richard Harris in the film, "Gladiator"
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'To Whom it may concern' Moment - Twinkies (the real thing) are returning in July. So reports MSNBC. I can't remember the last time I ate one, and I don't care, but to those of you that do... rejoice, I suppose.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'Vegas', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jon Hamm, Ricky Jay, and the So So Glos.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Robin Wright and Andy Dick.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Fashion Star', followed by a FRESH'Grimm', then 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman, and Avril Lavigne.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Amy Poehler, Michael Angarano, and Iron & Wine.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Tracy Spiridakos, Neil Shubin, and ZZ Ward.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Happy Endings', followed by another FRESH'Happy Endings', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 4/11/13) are Tom Cruise, Ke$ha, and Paramore.
The CW offers a FRESH'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Oh Sit'.
Faux has a FRESH'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a FRESH'Touch'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Driving Miss Daisy', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 9 - Ep 12 - Ewan McGregor, Chris O'Dowd, Example
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 9 - Ep 13 - Season 9 Compilation
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 7 - Amy's Choice
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 8 - The Hungry Earth
[12:00PM] MERLIN - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Beauty and the Beast (Part 2)
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Secret Garden
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Fish and Anchor
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Final Mission
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 10 - The Loss
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Data's Day
[9:00PM] THE EXORCIST
[11:30PM] THE EXORCIST
[2:00AM] APOCALYPTO
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Data's Day (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlana', followed by the movie 'Death At A Funeral'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', and 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters'.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by the movie 'The Fighter'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[7:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30AM] Bachelor Party
[9:45AM] The Core
[12:30PM] 1941
[3:00PM] Bachelor Party
[5:15PM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[7:00PM] Portlandia-Cool Wedding
[7:30PM] Portlandia-Grover
[8:00PM] Portlandia-The Temp
[8:30PM] Portlandia-No-Fo-O-Fo-Bridge
[9:00PM] Portlandia-Mixologist
[9:30PM] Portlandia-Missionaries
[10:00PM] Portlandia-Off the Grid
[10:30PM] Portlandia-Take Back MTV
[11:00PM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[11:30PM] Portlandia-Soft Opening
[12:00AM] Poltergeist
[2:30AM] Portlandia-Alexandra
[3:00AM] Portlandia-Nina's Birthday
[3:30AM] Portlandia-Farm
[4:00AM] Portlandia-One Moore Episode
[4:30AM] Portlandia-Aimee
[5:00AM] Portlandia-Cops Redesign
[5:30AM] Portlandia-Brunch Village (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Disengagement
[8:00AM] Inventing the Abbotts
[10:00AM] Ghost World
[12:00PM] Disengagement
[2:00PM] Inventing the Abbotts
[4:00PM] Ghost World
[6:00PM] The War of the Roses
[8:00PM] The Natural
[10:15PM] The Professional
[12:00AM] The Center of the World
[1:45AM] The War of the Roses
[3:45AM] The Professional
[5:30AM] Man Shops Globe-South Africa (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'V For Vendetta', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', and 'Defiance'.
Stan Lee gestures as he poses at the premiere of "Iron Man 3" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California April 24, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 3.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Neil Diamond is donating this week's sales from "Sweet Caroline" after the tune became a source of comfort following the explosions at the Boston Marathon.
Sales from Diamond's song are up by 597 percent, Nielsen SoundScan said Wednesday. Diamond's representative said the singer will donate the recent sales to marathon bombing victims.
"Sweet Caroline" sold 19,000 tracks this week. It sold 2,800 tracks the previous week and 1.75 million tracks to date.
The crowd-pleasing song is a staple of Boston Red Sox games. It makes no specific mention of Boston or the Red Sox, but the team started playing it regularly at Fenway Park more than a decade ago and fans took to it.
Actress Sally Field poses as she arrives at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and Field introduced her 1979 film "Norma Rae" and her 1989 film "Steel Magnolias."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Don DeLillo has won the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Widely acknowledged as a master chronicler of American dread and secrecy, DeLillo was praised in a statement by the library Thursday for his narratives "into the sociopolitical and moral life" of the United States. DeLillo's novels include "Underworld," ''Libra" and "White Noise."
The 76-year-old DeLillo will be presented with the award in September during the library's annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
A 16th-century Amati violoncello displayed in the National Music Museum has long been nicknamed "The King," but the ghost of a legendary rock 'n' roller has arrived in South Dakota to reclaim his regal moniker.
A slightly smashed acoustic guitar played by Elvis Presley on his final tour in 1977 now greets visitors in front of the museum's main galleries. The Martin D-35 was tossed aside by "The King" during a St. Petersburg, Fla., concert after suffering a broken strap and string, said Robert Johnson, a Memphis-based guitarist who donated the item.
Johnson, who played with singer Isaac Hayes and the band John Entwistle's Ox in the 1970s, donated the Elvis guitar and four other celebrity items to the National Music Museum, which is tucked away in an old Carnegie library building on the University of South Dakota campus. The museum's trustees also purchased Johnson's 1967 Gibson Explorer Korina wood guitar, formerly owned by Entwistle, who's best known as a member of The Who.
Johnson, a longtime collector, also donated a Chet Atkins hollow body guitar given to country pianist Floyd Cramer and later played by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley, a 1966 custom Grammar guitar made for Johnny Cash, a 1961 Kay Value Leader guitar signed by blues legend Muddy Waters and one of Bob Dylan's Hohner Marine Band harmonicas.
Cast member Don Cheadle arrives at the premiere of "Iron Man 3" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California April 24, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 3.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood into deleting movie content Beijing finds objectionable.
It's even getting American studios to sanction alternative versions of films specially tailored for Chinese audiences, like "Iron Man 3," which debuts in theatres around the world later this week. The Chinese version features local heartthrob Fan Bingbing - absent from the version showing abroad - and lengthy clips of Chinese scenery that local audiences love.
There's no secret to what's driving Hollywood's China policy, which has burst on the scene with meteor-like intensity in the past year. Already the second-biggest box office in the world, China seems set to surpass the U.S./Canada market by 2020 at the latest. And with traditional movie funding sources drying up, Hollywood studios increasingly see Beijing as a bankrolling destination of choice, with Chinese counterparts ponying up on glitzy co-productions, including "Iron Man 3" and next year's "Transformers 4," as well as films without a direct China connection.
Published reports have pinpointed at least a half dozen recent films where Hollywood has given in on demands from Chinese censors to alter content for political or other reasons, ranging from the James Bond feature "Skyfall" - where unflattering references to the sex trade in the Chinese territory of Macau supposedly landed on the cutting room floor - to "World War Z," starring Brad Pitt, in which the Chinese origin of a plague of apocalyptic zombies was said to have been excised.
And that doesn't take into account ostensible instances of self-censoring, like last year's remake of the 1984 film "Red Dawn," where producers changed the nationality of bloodthirsty soldiers invading the United States from Chinese to North Korean, apparently to cater to their perception of Chinese political sensitivities.
Actress Shirley MacLaine poses with the Target dog as she arrives at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and MacLaine introduced her 1989 film "Steel Magnolias" and her 1983 film "Terms of Endearment."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Greece has pulled two ancient statues of nude males from an Olympic exhibition in Doha after Qatari authorities insisted on veiling them.
A Culture Ministry official says exhibition organizers wanted to avoid scandalizing female visitors.
Greek Deputy Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras, who visited the Muslim country last month for the exhibition opening, objected, saying the works should be displayed as they were or shipped home.
So the statues were returned to Athens last week, the official said on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak on the record.
The statues date to the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. They were among nearly 600 antiquities brought from Greece for the "Olympics - Past and Present" exhibition.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson poses with the Target dog as he arrives at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and Jackson introduced his 1994 film "Pulp Fiction."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Concert promoter Live Nation announced Wednesday that a landmark Los Angeles music venue where Bob Marley, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra performed will close its doors this fall.
The Gibson Amphitheatre's lease is ending in September and the venue will close its doors.
The 6,100-seat space opened as the Universal Amphitheatre in 1972, an outdoor venue at Universal Studios.
The closure makes way for the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter," an attraction that's part of a major theme park and studio expansion by property owner NBCUniversal.
Actress Cher arrives at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and Cher introduced her 1987 film "Moonstruck."
Photo by Fred Prouser
A New York appeals court has ruled artist Richard Prince did not violate copyrights with most of the paintings and collages he based on a photographer's published works.
Photographer Patrick Cariou had sued after discovering Prince created art based on photographs he published in a 2000 book. The pictures were taken during six years he lived with Rastafarians in Jamaica.
Prince altered and incorporated several of the photographs in a series of paintings and collages titled "Canal Zone." The art was exhibited in 2007 and 2008.
The appeals court decided Thursday that 25 artworks made fair use of the photos. It sent five artworks back to the trial-level judge for rulings.
Actor Sidney Poitier poses at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and Poitier introduced his 1967 film "In The Heat of the Night."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Researchers have discovered the world's first voicemail: an audio recording of Alexander Graham Bell made on April 15, 1885 using a mixture of cardboard and wax.
The Smithsonian Magazine has posted the audio recording, in which the inventor of the telephone announces, "In witness whereof-hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell."
Despite its historical significance, the recording was actually made in humble surroundings, inside a former stable used by Bell and his cousin in Washington, DC. Biographer Charlotte Gray explains that Bell was motivated to create the recordings in an attempt to improve upon an earlier audio recording made by Bell's rival, Thomas Edison.
Actor Peter Fonda poses as he arrives with his wife Margaret DeVogelaere at Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies in Hollywood April 24, 2013. The event for fans celebrates classic films and Fonda introduced his 1969 film "Easy Rider."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Bidders looking for a pair of mended underwear worn by a former emperor came away disappointed Thursday from an auction of Austrian imperial memorabilia. But a lock of his hair was on offer, and went under the hammer for nearly 14,000 euros (around $18,000) -more than 20 times its listed worth.
Vienna's prestigious Dorotheum auction house had said Emperor Franz-Josef's linen would be put on the block, suggesting there was a least a chance that one of the parsimonious ruler's patched undergarments would be put on sale.
But the only intimate apparel being sold off Thursday was a pair of silk long johns made for his wife, Elisabeth. She was assassinated in 1898 before ever wearing them, and that appeared to lower their attraction. The garment went for 2,000 euros, 500 euros below its estimated value.
Not so the hair. Bedded in a worn purple velvet case, the silvery strands fetched 13,720 euros. Hushed murmurs rippled through the room as the winning bid was announced on behalf of Austrian restaurateur Mario Plachutta, who was said to own of the world's largest collections of items from the imperial Habsburg dynasty.
Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's art work decorates the Louvre museum's iconic glass pyramid, in Paris, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world's leading conceptual artists, covered one panel of the pyramid with a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors Wednesday. It's an artistic gesture aimed to show politicians and society the follies of excess that led to the current financial crisis.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
A partially hatched Griffon Vulture chick is seen inside its egg at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo April 24, 2013. The egg, which was collected in southern Israel, was kept in an incubator until it hatched at the zoo, as part of an initiative to raise the number of endangered bird species in the region. A pair of "foster parent" vultures will shortly take over rearing the chick at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv. Ornithologists estimate there are about a hundred such birds left in Israel.
Photo by Baz Ratner
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