BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 9 May, 2008

Friday

9 May, 2008

(Updated Daily)

[286 days in a row]

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Voter ID Law in Indiana Prevents Jesus From Voting


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

P.J. O'Rourke: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities (latimes.com)
Commencement advice you're unlikely to hear elsewhere.


Billy Manes: If Obesity is a Choice, It's Not One the Poor Get to Make (Orlando Weekly)
A recent study put grocery prices to the test. Among the 370 foods sampled, it found that energy-dense junk food cost an average of $1.76 per 1,000 calories, while nutritious, unprocessed foods came in at a whopping $18.16 per 1,000 calories.


Annabelle Gurwitch: Empty Wallet? Not to Worry -- Poor Is the New Rich! (The Nation)
As waves of poverty wash over the once-affluent, it's nice to know that you can share the pain.


Jim Hightower: REPRESSIONS R US (jimhightower.com)
Trade shows can be fun. There are shows for boats, gardening, beer, and just about every other line of products, allowing attendees to look and learn, shop and sample. Imagine the excitement then, when a major trade show recently opened in China, showing off a cornucopia of consumer goods to eager buyers. Only, these were not your ordinary shoppers. They were Chinese police officials, noted for their authoritarian crack-downs on people striving for democratic freedoms there - and this trade show presented a vast array of the latest tools of repression made by manufactures from the U.S. and elsewhere.


Mark Morford: 10 ways to blow your tax rebate (SF Gate)
Gas, video games, meditation, booze. What, you were planning on paying bills? As if


EVAN DAVIES: Robyn repositioned (nowtoronto.com)
Before the interview even starts, a publicist jumps on the line. Robyn's been doing phoners all day from London ahead of her first full North American tour, and things are running behind schedule. People on this side of the pond are finally catching on to the reinvented Swedish future-pop darling; her latest album, Robyn (Konichiwa), is getting a proper release here after much hype and blog love from the likes of Perez Hilton and hipster music sites like Pitchforkmedia.


Rob Harvilla: The Gospel According to Dolly Parton (villagevoice.com)
"People ask me, 'Dolly, why don't you run for president?' And I say, 'Don't you think we've had enough boobs in the White House?' "


Lee Zimmerman: From Boca to Big Time (browardpalmbeach.com)
Starbucks subsidiary has big plans brewing for Hilary McRae


Keeping up with Indiana Jones (film.guardian.co.uk)
He was voted the world's sexiest man and is the only actor to have banked $100m for every decade on screen. Now, as he dusts down Indiana Jones for his fourth adventure, Harrison Ford tells Chrissy Iley about car crashes, kids and Calista Flockhart.


Charles Taylor: The "Duke" and Democracy: On John Wayne (dissentmagazine.org)
ONE OF THE great joys of the movies is their ability to convince us that we know the people on screen. Even the varied performances of the most versatile stars are often not strong enough to prevail against the overarching image we've formed of them. When Joan Didion met John Wayne on the set of the 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder, she wrote of having the sense that his face was more familiar to her than her husband's.


Roya Nikkhah: TV historian Neil Oliver wants to resurrect the 'manly man' by telling tales of old-fashioned heroism (telegraph.co.uk)
Shackleton's heroic but ill-fated expedition is one of the stories retold in Oliver's new book, Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys, which revives historic acts of bravery from the Battle of Thermopylae to the Penlee lifeboat rescue mission - tales that Oliver hopes will remind boys that "becoming a man was once about comradeship and standing by your friends whatever the circumstances" and that "sometimes it was more important to die a hero's death than live a coward's life".


The baron of bibliomania (books.guardian.co.uk)
A love of books is mostly a good thing, except when it leads to the ruin of your home and family, writes David McKie.


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Hillary's Last Desperate Plea to Superdelegates: 'I'm Winning the UNPOPULAR Vote'


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Trivia Question Of The Day

In the movie Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), what planet do Bud & Lou visit?

   A:    Jupiter
   B:    Mars
   C:    Saturn
   D:    Uranus
   E:    Venus


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Trivia Question from Yesterday

On Gilligan's Island, what was the Professor's profession?

  A:    High School Science Teacher
   B:    NASA Scientist
   C:    Quantum Mechanic
   D:    TV Kid Show Host
   E:    University Professor                 Source

In the backstory, the Professor had taken the three-hour tour to relax before he began writing a book, "Fun with Ferns."
Gilligan's Island






Vic in AK was first, and right, with:
   Even tho he done had A ...B.A. from USC; a B.S. from UCLA; an M.A. from SMU; and a Ph.D. from TCU. He just taught High School.
  I fear he liked young tail ala Sting "Don't stand so close to me" , could explain why he never hit on any of the gals on the island (Too Old for professor Nabokov!)...well it's ONE possible explanation.




Alan J responded:
   High School Science Teacher



Charlie answered:
   Pretty smart anyway, he was a
  A: High School Science Teacher




Marian the Teacher replied:
   High School Science teacher



John in HI responded:
   high school teacher



Sally said:
   On Gilligan's Island, the Professor's "real" profession was that of (A) High School Science Teacher.
  Although I detested, "Gilligan's Island," the man who played, "the Professor," Russell Johnson, was pretty interesting. If anyone would like to see his overwhelming OTHER appearances on TV, check out this informational site: Click here: Russell Johnson




And, DanD wrote:
   I really don't know but while I initially thought that "E" was the answer, in reality, the "Professor" was called the professor only because he was probably the only character designed for this air-head show to have ever even just flipped through a science book. "A" is the search-engine answer.


  


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

500 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A COPY OF "MY PET GOAT"?

ULTIMATE SPORTSMANSHIP!

FLUSH THE TOILET JETHRO!

STOP THE MADNESS!

TALK ABOUT A LOSER. McBUSH CHANNELS THE CHIMP!

MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY!

BYE, BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE...!

BACK TO THE FUTURE!

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT!

WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

CRAZY MAMA!

THE WORLDS WORST MUSICIAN!

GREAT TITS COPE WELL!

GREAT TITS COPE WELL! PART TWO

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I FEEL FINE!

DRIVING WHILE DEAD!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Marine layer burned off around 3-ish.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a FRESH 'Moonlight', then a FRESH 'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Barbara Walters, Cobie Smulders, and Penn & Teller.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Rachel Griffiths and Christopher Gorham.

NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by another RERUN 'Most Outrageous Moments', and a 2-hour 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Harrison Ford, William Moseley, and Carly Simon.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Seth Meyers, Sophia Bush, and Tokio Hotel.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/10/08) are Leelee Sobieski and Ben Harper.

ABC opens the night with 'TV's All Time Funniest', followed by another unwatchable '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Kelsey Grammer, Alex Trebek, and Ludo.

The CW fills the night with a FRESH 'WWE Friday Night Steroid SmackDown!'.

Faux fills the night with the movie 'Man Of The House'.

MY fills the night with the movie 'Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit'

PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH 'Bill Moyers Journal', and a FRESH 'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio'.

A&E has all 'CSI: The 2nd One' all night.

AMC offers the movie 'King Kong', followed by the movie 'Troy'.

BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 18
 [12:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
 [1:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
 [2:00 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep 16 Ransom
 [3:00 PM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51
 [3:30 PM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48
 [4:00 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 14
 [4:30 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
 [5:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
 [5:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
 [6:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's
 [7:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]    Coupling - Episode 2 - Night Lines
 [8:40 PM]    Coupling - Episode 3 - Bed Time
 [9:20 PM]    That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 2
 [10:00 PM]    Newsnight
 [11:00 PM]    Coupling - Episode 2 - Night Lines
 [11:40 PM]    Coupling - Episode 3 - Bed Time
 [12:20 AM]    That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 2
 [1:00 AM]    Coupling - Episode 2 - Night Lines
 [1:40 AM]    Coupling - Episode 3 - Bed Time
 [2:20 AM]    That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 2
 [3:00 AM]    Changing Rooms - Ep. 17 Essex
 [3:30 AM]    Changing Rooms - Ep. 18 Birmingham
 [4:00 AM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51
 [4:30 AM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48
 [5:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Episode 9
 [5:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Episode 1
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News     (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', and the movie 'Clear & Present Danger'.

Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Comedy Central Presents', and another 'Comedy Central Presents'.

FX has the movie 'Home Alone', followed by the movie 'Home Alone', again, then the movie 'The New Guy'.

History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Shockwave', and 'Mega Disasters'.

IFC  -   
 [07:45 AM]   Let Him Have It
 [09:45 AM]   Mad Dog Morgan
 [11:30 AM]   Bowling For Columbine
 [01:35 PM]   IFC In Theaters
 [01:45 PM]   Let Him Have It
 [03:45 PM]   Mad Dog Morgan
 [05:30 PM]   Bowling For Columbine
 [07:35 PM]   November
 [09:00 PM]   Damage
 [11:00 PM]   Speed Grapher #10
 [11:30 PM]   Witchblade #19
 [12:00 AM]   Buddy Boy
 [01:55 AM]   IFC News: 2008, Uncut
 [02:00 AM]   Speed Grapher #10
 [02:30 AM]   Witchblade #19
 [03:00 AM]   Buddy Boy
 [04:50 AM]   IFC News Special: 2008 Elections
 [05:15 AM]   Seed     (ALL TIMES EST)

SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', 'Sarah Jane Adventures', another 'Sarah Jane Adventures', 'Doctor Who', and 'Battlestar Galactica'.

Sundance  -   
 [05:00 AM]   Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
 [06:30 AM]   Imagine...The Beatles in Love
 [07:30 AM]   The Legacy
 [09:00 AM]   Episode 3
 [09:30 AM]   Episode 3: Putting In My Two Cents
 [10:00 AM]   Fashion
 [10:35 AM]   Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
 [12:15 PM]   Episode 6
 [01:00 PM]   Heavy Metal Jr.
 [01:30 PM]   Episode 7
 [02:00 PM]   Who Are You Polly Maggoo?
 [04:00 PM]   Twentyfourseven
 [06:00 PM]   Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone
 [07:00 PM]   Reach the Rock
 [09:00 PM]   Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
 [10:00 PM]   On The Edge
 [11:30 PM]   Summer of the Serpent
 [12:00 AM]   Ma Mere
 [02:00 AM]   Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
 [03:00 AM]   Episode 2
 [03:30 AM]   Episode 3
 [04:00 AM]   Dead Man's Shoes
 [05:40 AM]   Reach the Rock     (ALL TIMES EST)

TCM starts the day featuring Paul Newman.
 [6:00 AM]      Sweet Bird Of Youth (1962)
 [8:15 AM]      Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 [10:15 AM]      Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
 [12:15 PM]      Torn Curtain (1966)
 [2:30 PM]      The Rack (1956)
 [4:15 PM]      Until They Sail (1957)
 [6:00 PM]      Lady L (1965)

 [8:00 PM]      Five (1951)
 [9:45 PM]      The World, The Flesh, And The Devil (1959)
 [11:30 PM]      On the Beach (1959)
 [2:00 AM]      Reefer Madness (1936)
 [3:15 AM]      Marihuana (1936)
 [4:30 AM]      Cocaine Fiends (1935)    (ALL TIMES EST)


Saturday  -  05/10/08

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Shall We Dance (1937)
 [8:00 AM]      Swing Time (1936)
 [10:00 AM]      The Saint In London (1939)
 [11:15 AM]      The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
 [12:30 PM]      Five Came Back (1939)
 [2:00 PM]      Samson and Delilah (1949)
 [4:15 PM]      The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 [6:00 PM]      Trapeze (1956)
 [8:00 PM]      Now, Voyager (1942)
 [10:15 PM]      Since You Went Away (1944)
 [1:15 AM]      Johnny Belinda (1948)
 [3:00 AM]      Sergeant York (1941)
 [5:30 AM]      Festival of Shorts #23 (1999)    (ALL TIMES EST)



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Singer James Taylor and his wife Kim Smedvig attend the Candie's Foundation annual 'Event to Prevent' benefit for the prevention of teenage pregnancy, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, in New York.
Photo by Louis Lanzano
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Ponders Political Career

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin, who has played all kinds of heroes and villains on stage and screen, says he may be ready to take on a new role -- that of real-life politician.

Baldwin told "60 Minutes" television news program in a segment to be aired on Sunday that he is thinking about pursuing his longtime dream of becoming an elected official, CBS said on Thursday.

The New York resident is known for political activism. In 2006 he told The New York Times that if he were a public official, he might like to be governor of his home state.

Baldwin told "60 Minutes" he would be ready to face the public and the press, in part because of the scrutiny that accompanied his divorce and custody battle with actress Kim Basinger.

Alec Baldwin

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Actress Morgan Fairchild attends the DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala at Capitale on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
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Hosting 2008 Tony Awards

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg will serve as host of the 2008 Tony Awards June 15 at Radio City Music Hall, the show's executive producers, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, announced Thursday.

"I love Broadway and I'm thrilled to be doing anything for the first time," said Goldberg, who's hosted the Academy Awards four times. "I'm gonna have a blast."

Goldberg, a regular on ABC's "The View," has been on Broadway with her own one-woman show as well as in revivals of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."

Whoopi Goldberg

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Widow Supports Baltimore Bust

Gail Zappa

Frank Zappa's widow is on board with plans for a bust of the eccentric rocker in his hometown of Baltimore.

Gail Zappa tells The Associated Press that she supports the project, which was spearheaded by Zappa fans from Lithuania.

Baltimore's public art commission has accepted the gift of the bronze bust, which will sit atop a stainless steel pole. It's a replica of a bust that went up in 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Zappa writes in an e-mail that the creators of the bust "have gone about this in the right way, with total respect for the composer."

She hopes Baltimore will benefit from commemorating its association with her husband along with other famous artists associated with the city such as Upton Sinclair, Edgar Allan Poe and John Waters.

Gail Zappa

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Object Of Study

'The Daily Show'

A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart - because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism also said it was surprised at how much the Comedy Central late-night program resembles "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hardball" and other cable news shows in content.

"They're not making jokes about Dan Quayle is dumb or Gerald Ford is clumsy," Tom Rosenstiel, the project's director, said. "They're not making jokes that you could get if you live in the country but don't read the news ... . You can't get the jokes if you're not watching the news. The jokes are designed to make you think more about the news."

Politics, government and the Bush administration's policies in Iraq accounted for about half of the show's content, making it quite similar to the focus of serious cable news shows, the study said. About 8 percent of the show's time is spent looking at the behavior of the press.

'The Daily Show'

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Hugh Hefner, center, and Playboy's 2008 Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole, left, of Canada, and Sara Jean Underwood, 2007 Playmate of the Year, pose for photographers during the Playmate of the Year luncheon at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 8, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles
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Renewed For 2nd Season

"Breaking Bad"

AMC has renewed "Breaking Bad" for a second season. The cable network ordered 13 new episodes of the series, which stars Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher who begins cooking up crystal meth to make some extra money after he's diagnosed with cancer.

Wednesday's official renewal of "Breaking Bad," AMC's second original drama series after "Mad Men," follows months of expectation.

The series premiered in January to 1.6 million total viewers and went on to average 1.4 million total viewers per episode, according to Nielsen Media Research. By comparison, "Mad Men," which also has been picked up for a second season, averaged 1.1 million viewers.

"Breaking Bad"

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I'm Pissed
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Indian Court Clears Exiled Painter

Maqbool Fida Husain

An Indian court cleared controversial painter Maqbool Fida Husain Thursday of obscenity charges over his depiction of India as a nude woman.

The painter left India in 2006 after right-wing groups threatened him over his paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses and filed at least half a dozen criminal cases against him. He lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai.

He was charged with obscenity and hurting the feelings of a religious community, both offences for which you can be jailed in India, among other charges.

The 92-year-old painter -- considered India's foremost artist and known for large canvasses that have fetched millions of dollars at auctions -- has often been at the centre of controversy.

Maqbool Fida Husain

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This photo provided by Mathew Imaging shows 'One Day at a Time' actors from left, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli, Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington at a 'TV Moms' tribute at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
Photo by Craig T. Mathew
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Pleads Guilty In BlackBerry Case

Foxy Brown

Less than a month after being released from prison, U.S. rapper Foxy Brown pleaded guilty on Thursday to menacing a woman with her BlackBerry phone and avoided another possible prison sentence.

Brown, 29, whose real name is Inga Marchand, pleaded guilty to menacing a Brooklyn woman, a misdemeanor, in July 2007 while on probation for assaulting two nail salon stylists over a $20 manicure, a court spokesman said.

By pleading guilty, Brown avoided going on trial for assault, a felony charge that carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.

Brown was accused of bruising the eye and chipping the tooth of her longtime neighbor Arlene Raymond when she struck the woman with the handheld communications device.

Foxy Brown

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Lancome Contract Dispute

Uma Thurman

French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.

The company asked for a ruling against the actress, who it says is demanding $1 million for unauthorized use of her name and face on Canadian billboards and Asian Web sites after her contract expired.

"I'm delighted that the case will go before a jury," Thurman's lawyer, Bertram Fields, said. "They got an enormous benefit throughout the world after the contract was over, and $1 million doesn't begin to do it."

Uma Thurman

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Paraguay's National Symphony Orchestra performs on a downtown street in Asuncion May 8, 2008. The orchestra stopped traffic for an hour in protest over a four-month delay in the payment of their wages. The banner on the right reads "We're musicians and we want to work with dignity and be paid".
Photo by Jorge Adorno
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Provides Clues

Seaweed

Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.

Researchers date the seaweed found at Monte Verde to more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than the well-studied Clovis culture.

And the report comes just a month after other scientists announced they had found coprolites - fossilized human feces - dating to about 14,000 years ago in a cave in Oregon.

Taken together, the finds move back evidence of people in the Americas by a millennium or more, with settlements in northern and southern coastal areas.

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Cable Nielsens

Ratings

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of April 28-May 4. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

    1. NBA Playoffs: Phoenix vs. San Antonio (Tuesday, 9:39 p.m.), TNT, 3.53 million homes, 4.66 million viewers.
    2. Movie: "Chasing Zoey" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.51 million homes, 5.1 million viewers.
    3. "Zoey 101" (Friday, 9 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.45 million homes, 5.04 million viewers.
    4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.32 million homes, 4.85 million viewers.
    5. NBA Playoffs: L.A. Lakers vs. Denver (Monday, 10:58 p.m.), TNT, 3.14 million homes, 3.87 million viewers.
    6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3 million homes, 4.44 million viewers.
    7. "The Hills" (Monday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.98 million homes, 4.03 million viewers.
    8. NBA Playoffs: Atlanta vs. Boston (Wednesday, 8:48 p.m.), TNT, 2.96 million homes, 3.68 million viewers.
    9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.94 million homes, 3.85 million viewers.
   10. NBA Playoffs: San Antonio vs. New Orleans (Saturday, 10:10 p.m.), TNT, 2.9, 3.85 million homes.
   11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.87 million homes, 3.71 million viewers.
   12. "The O'Reilly Factor" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.84 million homes, 3.66 million viewers.
   13. "iCarly" (Monday, 5:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.81 million homes, 3.85 million viewers.
   14. "iCarly" (Monday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8 million homes, 3.89 million viewers.
   15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 12 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.77 million homes, 3.58 million viewers.

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In Memory

Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday.

Arnold died at a care facility near Nashville, said Don Cusic, a professor at Belmont University and author of the biography "Eddy Arnold: I'll Hold You in My Heart." His wife of 66 years, Sally, had died in March, and in the same month, Arnold fell outside his home, injuring his hip.

Folksy yet sophisticated, he became a pioneer of "The Nashville Sound," also called "countrypolitan," a mixture of country and pop styles. His crossover success paved the way for later singers such as Kenny Rogers.

He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. The following year he was the first person to receive the entertainer of the year award from the Country Music Association.

The reference book "Top Country Singles 1944-1993,'" by Joel Whitburn, ranked Arnold the No. 1 country singer in terms of overall success on the Billboard country charts.

Nicknamed "The Tennessee Plowboy," Arnold first gained notice with appearances on the Grand Ole Opry in the early 1940s. He debuted on the charts in 1945 with "Each Minute Seems a Million Years," and began his string of 28 No. 1 country hits with "What Is Life Without Love" in early 1947. His success helped make Nashville an important recording industry hub, according to Sony BMG Nashville, parent of his longtime label, RCA.

Arnold was born May 15, 1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tenn., the son of a sharecropper. He sang on radio stations in Jackson, Tenn., Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis before becoming nationally known.

Early in his career, his manager was Col. Tom Parker, who later became Elvis Presley's manager.

Arnold lived in Brentwood, a Nashville suburb. Survivors include a son, Richard Edward Arnold Jr., and daughter, Jo Ann Pollard, both of Brentwood.

Eddy Arnold

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An Australian platypus swims around in search for food at Taronga zoo in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Scientists have mapped the genetic makeup of the duck-billed platypus - one of nature's strangest-looking animals with the beak of a duck, the fur of a mammal and the venom of a snake.
Photo by Rob Griffith
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