BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 14 May, 2010

Friday

14 May, 2010

(Updated Daily)

[1022 days in a row]

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Frank Luntz Tries to Turn Gulf Oil Spill Into Oil-ade


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Garrison Keillor: A Farewell to a Gentle Swede (Tribune Media Services)
Mr. Ray Nilsson died in an upstairs bedroom in my house early Monday morning around 2:35 a.m., which was nothing he or I contemplated back when I married his daughter, but life takes us down some mighty interesting roads.


Tom Danehy: Tom's eight (mostly tongue-in-cheek) reasons to vote against the [Arizona] sales-tax increase (tucsonweekly.com)
Eight reasons why you should vote against Proposition 100 next Tuesday, May 18: ...


Denis Leary: I Feel Good (huffingtonpost.com)
I am of Irish descent. We have two traditional drugs: alcohol and religion. Both of which produce the same eventual side effects: dropping to your knees and feeling guilty.


"Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life" by Warren Allmon and Robert Ross and Patricia Kelley: A review by Kim Sterelny
Stephen Jay Gould was an immensely charismatic, insightful and influential, but ultimately ambiguous, figure in American academic life.


20 Questions: Cory Doctorow (popmatters.com)
The award-winning author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow, really "Š likes the way that video games became a natural way to tell a story about complex and important economic ideas, both traditional quantitative economics and neuroeconomics."


Nathaniel Rich: Mythologist of Our Age (slate.com)
Why Ray Bradbury's stories have seeped into the culture.


Madonna is my guru (guardian.co.uk)
Author Wendy Shanker has been obsessed with the pop icon since childhood, and even - briefly - became her assistant. Here she explains how Madonna transformed her life.


Joanna Newsom: 'Is it time for a glass of wine?' (guardian.co.uk)
She models for Armani, enjoys a game of baseball and likes to stay out drinking cocktails. Jude Rogers meets Joanna Newsom, the outspoken singer making harp-playing coo.


Peter Hook: 'I'm going to celebrate Ian Curtis. No one else will' (guardian.co.uk)
Thirty years after the death of Ian Curtis, Peter Hook brings his Joy Division pal to life, writes Luke Bainbridge.


Tom Horgen: Joel McHale dishes on chicken tetrazzini, Ryan Seacrest and more (Star Tribune)
Amid the deluge of soul-sucking reality shows flooding television these days, comedian Joel McHale is a voice of reason, skewering Orange County housewives and Jersey Shore juiceheads on E!'s "The Soup."


Sean O'Hagan: "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'" (guardian.co.uk)
Since she first made a name for herself at 16, Samantha Morton has been renowned for the intensity and intelligence of her work. She talks to Sean O'Hagan about her latest project - The Messenger, a drama about the Iraq war - and The Unloved, based on her own deprived childhood in Nottingham,


Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds (guardian.co.uk)
As his Robin Hood opens the Cannes film festival, Ridley Scott talks to John Patterson about showdowns with Russell Crowe, his favourite men in tights - and why Churchill was a geezer.


David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing an Autobiographical Essay" (Lulu.com)
Free download at http://stores.lulu.com/bruceb. This free pdf download describes a composition assignment that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University. Feel free to make as many copies as you want to for educational purposes. Feel free to distribute this little pamphlet as a pdf file. Other teachers are welcome to download and read this pdf file and decide whether this assignment will work in their classes.


The Sounds - Seven Days a Week (youtube.com)


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The Weekly Poll

New Question

The 'Sympathy for the Devil' Edition...



Glen Beck(-elzebub) - or perhaps some unearthly entity clothed in Glenn Beck's skin - on Faux and Fiends, discussing the Miranda Rights of alleged Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad said… "He is a citizen of the United States, so I say we uphold the laws and the Constitution on citizens… If you are a citizen, you obey the law and follow the Constitution. He has all the rights under the Constitution… We don't shred the Constitution when it is popular. We do the right thing"...

You weren't expecting that, were you? I don't think anybody was...

Quote Unquote: Glenn Beck on Faisal Shahzad's Rights | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central and Huff Post

Sooooooo....

Who among you has the courage to stand with Beck(-elzebub) and for the record state that you agree with him on this issue?

(haha! This too delicious!)

I am SO Bad... totheboneBob



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Wake-up Call


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HAIKU HEADLINES


 

DOWN IN THE BAYOU

YA GOTTA GET A GATOR

GOOD GAWD....A BIG'UN!


zEN mAN
(observing trappers in the Brickyard Bayou (near Gulfport Miss.) pulling out a 12 foot long ...800 pound greater alligator than ever seen before...I like the handy use of Duct Tape (would be good for 3M advertising!)

zEN mAN archives


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Trivia Question of the Day


What was the first television series to command more than $1 million a minute for advertising?


                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


What percent of deep-sea marine life are estimated to produce bioluminescence in one form or another?



      90%                                                      Source


Ninety percent of deep-sea marine life are estimated to produce bioluminescence in one form or another. Most marine light-emission belongs in the blue and green light spectrum, the wavelengths that can transmit through the seawater most easily. However, certain loose-jawed fish emit red and infrared light and the genus Tomopteris emits yellow bioluminescence.
Non-marine bioluminescence is less widely distributed, but a larger variety in colours is seen. The two best-known forms of land bioluminescence are fireflies and glow worms. Other insects, insect larvae, annelids, arachnids and even species of fungi have been noted to possess bioluminescent abilities.          Source






Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   90 percent



mj answered:
   By deep see, I'm guessing you mean abyssal
  I think just about all of them do (100%). What else have they got to do?




Marian the Teacher responded:
   90%



bebo commented:
   WTF is bioluminescence?



Sally said:
   Ninety percent of deep-sea marine life is estimated to produce bioluminescence (production of light by living organisms) in one form or another.

  Deep sea Jellyfish, bioluminescencing for your enjoyment!
  PS: Sunny day, hoping to get some serious planting down this afternoon!!




Charlie replied:
   90%. Of course for understandable reasons, research in the deep oceans is still somewhat limited. Doesn't keep us from poking holes in the sea floor now and then though.




MAM   wrote:
   90 % of deep-sea marine life are estimated to produce bioluminescence

  in one form or another. (Not something I would know off the top of my head, but with Wikipeda's help . . . )




And, Joe S (Goldenrod. Who'da thunk it?) answered:
   I was going to say 100% but I know from NatGeo that's wrong. The answer is 90%.
  Bioluminescent creatures



  





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Sick Days


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ

Daily Kos: Robin Hood vs. The Tea Baggers : Russell Crowe Gets It




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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN!

ROBOT ROCK!

IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT RACISM!

I'M COMING DOWN WITH A BAD NEWS BURNOUT. MUSIC BREAK!

THE POSTER BOY FOR THE HONKY SHIT PILE!

RIGHT WING CREEPS WILL STOP AT NOTHING!

THE BABE PRESIDENT!

THE UNIVERSITY OF COPS!

DISPOSABILITY!

BACK AND FORTH!

I LOVE LA! BOYCOTT ARIZONA!

HOOTERS ON WALL STREET!

THE ALABAMA JESUS-OFF! YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOU SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT!

THE CORN HOLE REPORT!

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A BERKELEY,THANK GOD!

ANTI-GROOVY DOESN'T WORK AND IT'S EXPENSIVE!

100 YEARS OF GRADUATION DAY!

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and warmer.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a FRESH 'Medium', then a FRESH 'Miami Medical'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Mike Myers and Tom Dreesen.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Amanda Seyfried and Isabel Allende.


NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Friday Night Lights', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Donald Trump and the Jonas Brothers.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon is a screening of "Stones in Exile".
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson 'The Scab' Daly are Ellie Kemper, Jimmy Chin, and Kate Nash.


ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Wife Swap', followed by 'Primetime: What Would You Do?', then '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 5/3/10) are Dr. Mehmet Oz, Leslie Bibb, and Two Door Cinema Club.


The CW offers a FRESH 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'America's Next Top Model'.


Faux has a RERUN 'House', followed by a FRESH 'Kitchen Nightmares'.


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


A&E has all 'Criminal Minds' all night.


AMC offers the movie 'Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World', followed by the movie 'Unforgiven', then the movie 'Tigerland'.


BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]   Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 18
 [1:00 PM]   Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 6
 [2:00 PM]   How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 7
 [2:30 PM]   How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
 [3:00 PM]   Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
 [4:00 PM]   Colin and Justin's Home Heist - Episode 20
 [5:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
 [6:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
 [7:00 PM]   BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 9 Final Mission
 [9:00 PM]   Gavin & Stacey - Episode 1
 [9:40 PM]   Not Going Out - 1 - Pregnant
 [10:20 PM]   Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 15 Jake Gyllenhaal, The Drums
 [11:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 9 Final Mission
 [12:00 AM]   Gavin & Stacey - Episode 1
 [12:40 AM]   Not Going Out - 1 - Pregnant
 [1:20 AM]   Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 15 Jake Gyllenhaal, The Drums
 [2:00 AM]   The Inbetweeners - Episode 1
 [2:30 AM]   The Inbetweeners - Episode 2
 [3:00 AM]   Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 15 Jake Gyllenhaal, The Drums
 [4:00 AM]   How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 7
 [4:30 AM]   How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
 [5:00 AM]   How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 8
 [5:30 AM]   How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
 [6:00 AM]   Cash in the Attic - Ep 18 Pimms    (ALL TIMES EST)


Bravo has the movie 'The Whole Nine Yards', followed by the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', then the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', again.


Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Andrew Kennedy), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Mitch Fatel), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Steve Bryne), 'Larry The Cable GuyL Morning Constitutions'.


FX has the movie 'Deja Vu', followed by the movie 'The Marine'.


HBO offers a FRESH Bill Maher - Top-of-show interview with Sebastian Junger, journalist and author of War;
Mid-show: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Car Alarm);
Panel - Cory Booker ­ (Mayor of Newark); John Avlon ­ (Author of Wingnuts); and SE Cupp ­ (Author of Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media¹s Attack On Christianity)


History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', followed by a FRESH 'Gangland'.


IFC  -   
 [6:45 AM]   The Young Americans
 [8:35 AM]   Heaven
 [10:15 AM]   Little Fish
 [12:15 PM]   Renaissance
 [2:05 PM]   The Young Americans
 [3:50 PM]   DIY
 [4:00 PM]   Heaven
 [5:45 PM]   Blue Car
 [7:15 PM]   Drugstore Cowboy
 [9:00 PM]   Havoc
 [10:30 PM]   Ideal
 [11:00 PM]   Food Party
 [11:15 PM]   Food Party
 [11:30 PM]   Arrested Development
 [12:00 AM]   High Tension
 [1:30 AM]   Food Party
 [1:45 AM]   Food Party
 [2:00 AM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [2:30 AM]   The Henry Rollins Show
 [3:00 AM]   Drugstore Cowboy
 [4:45 AM]   Renaissance    (ALL TIMES EST)


Sundance  -   
 [7:35 AM]   The Matador - Sundance Film
 [9:00 AM]   Gay Muslims
 [10:00 AM]   Nothing But a Man
 [11:40 AM]   Guard Dog
 [11:45 AM]   It's a Free World
 [1:30 PM]   The Matador - Sundance Film
 [2:55 PM]   Guard Dog
 [3:00 PM]   Nothing But a Man
 [4:40 PM]   It's a Free World
 [6:25 PM]   Day Night Day Night
 [8:00 PM]   LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Michael Buble, Temper Trap, Little Boots (Episode 12, Season 3)
 [9:00 PM]   Chandon Pictures - 207
 [9:30 PM]   Chandon Pictures - 208
 [10:00 PM]   Pleasure Of Being Robbed
 [11:15 PM]   At Night
 [12:00 AM]   A Dirty Shame
 [1:30 AM]   LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Michael Buble, Temper Trap, Little Boots (Episode 12, Season 3)
 [2:30 AM]   Pleasure Of Being Robbed
 [3:45 AM]   A Dirty Shame
 [5:15 AM]   Day Night Day Night    (ALL TIMES EST)


SyFy has 'Eureka', 'Stargate Universe', another 'Stargate Universe', and 'Merlin'.


TCM:
 [6:30 AM]      Rachel And The Stranger (1948)
 [8:00 AM]      Duel In The Sun (1946)
 [10:30 AM]      Gaslight (1944)
 [12:30 PM]      Thunder Rock (1942)
 [2:30 PM]      North By Northwest (1959)
 [5:00 PM]      Lolita (1962)
 [8:00 PM]      Red, Hot And Blue (1949)
 [9:30 PM]      It Should Happen To You (1954)
 [11:00 PM]      Chatterbox (1936)
 [12:15 AM]      What Price Hollywood? (1932)
 [2:00 AM]      Putney Swope (1969)
 [3:30 AM]      Greaser's Palace (1972)
 [5:30 AM]      Short Film: Match Your Mood (1968)
 [5:45 AM]      Short Film: The Corvair In Action (1960)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Saturday  -  06/14/10

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Little Men (1940)
 [7:30 AM]      Anne Of Green Gables (1934)
 [9:00 AM]      Horse Feathers (1932)
 [10:30 AM]      Smugglers' Cove (1948)
 [12:00 PM]      The Swimmer (1968)
 [2:00 PM]      International Velvet (1978)
 [4:15 PM]      The Big Heat (1953)
 [6:00 PM]      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
 [8:00 PM]      The Blue Dahlia (1946)
 [10:00 PM]      Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
 [12:00 AM]      Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960)
 [2:00 AM]      What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
 [3:30 AM]      Brother Orchid (1940)
 [5:00 AM]      The Blue Gardenia (1953)     (ALL TIMES EST)






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Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo show 'My Life on the D-List,' arrives at 'An Evening with NBC Universal' at Cable Show 2010 in Los Angeles, Wednesday,May 12, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Makes Comedy Cameo

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger and longtime Rolling Stones keyboard player Chuck Leavell wowed eagle-eyed rock fans on late-night TV in America on Tuesday when they made unannounced cameos on comedian Jimmy Fallon's Late Night show.

Leavell joined musical guest Keith Urban for a rendition of the Stones' Tumbling Dice - as part of Fallon's Rolling Stones week - and then frontman Jagger showed up in a comedy skit.

The rock legend popped up in an electrical closet in the latest installment of Fallon's Late - a spoof of TV drama Lost. He explained he had to shout, "Yeah, all right, c'mon, we can do this" into four microphones every six seconds "otherwise the world is gonna end".

Fallon's Friday episode will feature the premiere of the Stones' in Exile documentary.

Mick Jagger

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Special Message To Obama

New York Review of Books

US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes.

The statement, published as a paid advertisement, accuses Obama, who was elected in 2008 with the enthusiastic support of US liberals, of continuing Bush's controversial approach to human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in domestic security.

"In some respects this is worse than Bush," the statement says. "First, because Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of 'terrorism,' merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly."

Among the signatories are linguist Noam Chomsky, "L.A. Confidential" actor James Cromwell, actor Mark Ruffalo and prominent Bush-era anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan. By midday Thursday there were 1,804 signatures.

They also lambast Obama for having refused "to prosecute any members of the Bush regime who are responsible for war crimes, including some who admitted to waterboarding and other forms of torture, thereby making their actions acceptable for him."

New York Review of Books

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U.S. actor Michael Douglas waves from the balcony of a hotel, from where he was conducting an interview with a broadcaster to promote the film 'Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps', at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Photo by Matt Sayles

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Spend A Day With Bill

Help Hillary

Former US president Bill Clinton is raffling off a day with himself in New York to help his wife Hillary pay off a still hefty debt from her 2008 White House bid.

Anyone who fills in an online form or donates money by Monday on what used to be Hillary Clinton's campaign website -- hillarycampaign08.com -- will have their name put into a hat to win a day out with Bill in New York.

The donations will go to pay down what Bill Clinton described in an email sent out earlier this week as "a few vestiges of debt" still hanging over his wife's campaign.

A listing on the Federal Election Commission's website shows that Hillary Clinton's campaign is still carrying a debt of 771,000 dollars, owed to market research and consulting firm Penn, Schoen and Berland for "consulting polling/mail expenses."

Help Hillary

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Grants Degrees to WWII Internees

Cal State

More than 70 Japanese-Americans whose college careers at California State University campuses were derailed when they were sent to World War II internment camps are getting their diplomas.

Six CSU campuses are awarding honorary degrees over the next three weeks to former students who were unable to complete their studies.

Some of the aging alumni plan to attend the special commencement ceremonies. Those who are deceased or unable to travel will be represented by their families.

Both the Cal State system and the University of California last year decided to belatedly honor the estimated 950 students who were forced to leave college in 1942 for internment camps throughout the West.

Cal State

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Pick Ups, Renewals

Fox Rupert

Fox made its first wave of pilot pickups Wednesday, ordering five projects to series for next season and renewing modestly rated shows "Lie to Me" and "Human Target."

The network has greenlighted the police drama "RideAlong" and Texas-set drama "Midland" (now likely called "Lone Star"), as well as the comedies "Traffic Light," "Keep Hope Alive" and "Wilde Kingdom."

"RideAlong," set in Chicago, follows a rogue cowboy cop and the city's first female police chief as they try to clean up the streets. "Midland" is a dramatic soap about a con man in the oil industry.

Fox Rupert

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Ming-Na, a cast member in the SyFy show 'Stargate Universe,' arrives at 'An Evening with NBC Universal' at Cable Show 2010 in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May12, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Comic Strip Ending After 85 Years

"Little Orphan Annie"

The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years.

Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the "Annie" strip on June 13.

The company said in a news release it is taking Annie into the Internet age by pursuing new audiences for her in digital media.

The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" made its newspaper debut on August 5, 1924, first written and illustrated by creator Harold Gray. The strip later was renamed simply "Annie." The spunky orphan was adopted by Daddy Warbucks and later joined by her lovable dog Sandy.

"Little Orphan Annie"

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NBC Refusing To Confirm Reports

'Law & Order'

Will the criminal justice system be alive on "Law & Order" next fall? It's down to the wire whether the venerable cop drama will be nabbing more bad guys in a history-making run.

With the official announcement of NBC's 2010-11 schedule due Sunday, the network on Thursday still wasn't handing down a verdict on the show.

NBC refused to confirm multiple reports that the show was being cancelled after 20 seasons on the air, one year short of an all-time record.

Meanwhile, a person close to the production said talks are still going on. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because that person was not authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations.

'Law & Order'

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Vidiot Speak

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New Space Plan 'Poorly Advised'

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, blasted NASA's new plans for future space exploration Wednesday, adding that President Barack Obama was poorly advised when he canceled the space agency's previous course for U.S. human spaceflight earlier this year.

Armstrong, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission in July 1969, criticized what he billed as an air of secrecy that preceded Obama's February announcement which cancelled NASA's Constellation program aiming for the moon. That plan, he told a Senate subcommittee, was a surprise to many among NASA, academia and the military.

"A plan that was invisible to so many was likely contrived by a very small group in secret who persuaded the President that this was a unique opportunity to put his stamp on a new and innovative program," Armstrong, 79, said in a statement to a Senate subcommittee reviewing NASA's new space plan. "I believe the President was poorly advised."

The United States is risking losing its role as a leader in space exploration with its new plan, Armstrong said, adding that he was concerned with the looming gap in American human spaceflight.

Neil Armstrong

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Actors Dirty Martini, left, Mimi Le Meaux, second from left, Julie Atlas Muz, third from left, Kitten on the Keys, fourth from left, director Mathieu Amalric,third from right, actors Evie Lovelle, second from right, Roky Roulette, right, and unidentified guests, arrive for the screening of 'Tournee', at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Photo by Joel Ryan

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Music Biz Wins Big

LimeWire

The music industry has landed a major punch in its fight against LimeWire, one of the oldest file-sharing networks on the Internet.

In a 59-page decision issued Tuesday in New York, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood has ruled on summary judgment that the peer-to-peer company is guilty of inducing copyright infringement, committed copyright infringement and practiced unfair competition.

The judge leaned heavily on one of the plaintiff's expert witnesses, Dr. Richard Waterman of the Wharton School, who testified that a random sample of 1800 files turned up copyright infringement in 93% of them, including 43.6 percent of copyrighted files owned by the plaintiff record labels. Based on the results, Dr. Waterman concluded that "98.8 percent of the files requested for download through LimeWire are copyright protected or highly likely copyright protected, and thus not authorized for free distribution."

The ruling is a huge victory for the content industry in its ongoing battle over web piracy. The judge dismissed LimeWire's contention that these stats weren't reliable and accepted evidence that the service was not only aware of the copyright abuse but actively tried to attract infringing users.

LimeWire

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Directors Urge Swiss

Cannes

Some of the leading directors at this year's Cannes film festival have signed a petition urging Swiss authorities to reject a U.S. request to extradite Roman Polanski over a decades-old sex charge.

The petition, signed by France's Jean-Luc Godard, Mathieu Amalric and Xavier Beauvois among others, said that the United States' extradition request was "based upon a lie", a similar argument to that made in court recently by Polanski's lawyers.

The filmmakers are all part of the official selection at this year's Cannes film festival, which runs from May 12-23.

The petition, on the website of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, said: "They hereby appeal to the Swiss authorities, entreating them not to believe the word of Governor $chwarzenegger and the prosecutors of the state of California."

Cannes

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Movie Site For Sale

`Field of Dreams'

The owners of the Iowa farm where the "Field of Dreams" movie was filmed have put the place up for sale.

Don and Becky Lansing say they love the land, which has been in Don Lansing's family for more than a century, but they think it's time to give it up.

The movie, released in 1989 with Kevin Costner as its star, was based on the book "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella. The site has been a popular tourist destination ever since, with the family maintaining the baseball diamond built by Universal Studios.

The Lansings haven't listed a price for the baseball diamond, two-bedroom house, six outbuildings and 78 hectares.

`Field of Dreams'

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Bill Simpson, collections manager of fossil vertebrates at Chicago's Field Museum, dusts the tail section of the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue on display at museum Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Chicago. The skeleton was being cleaned in anticipation of her 10th anniversary at the museum.
Photo by Kiichiro Sato

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Belongings For Sale

Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend is unloading 250 personal belongings from her estate at a Las Vegas auction.

The items Larry Birkhead is auctioning include outfits worn by the late model, paintings and a collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia.

Birkhead says it cost more than $100,000 to store Smith's things for three years so it makes sense to get rid of some. Proceeds will go to charity and a trust fund for the daughter Birkhead had with Smith, Dannielynn Birkhead.

Julien's Auctions will run the sale June 26 at Planet Hollywood.

Anna Nicole Smith

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Art Exhibit Puts Face On

US-Japanese Internment Camps

Pendants, pins and ornamental objects made by Japanese-Americans in US World War II internment camps and on display in Washington highlight "gaman," a Japanese word that signifies suffering with dignity.

The exhibit which opened earlier this year at the Renwick Gallery and runs through January 30 includes more than 120 objects, most of which are on loan from former detainees or their families.

After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, an estimated 120,000 ethnic Japanese on the West Coast, more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were ordered to move to 10 inland internment camps, where they remained for the duration of World War II.

At first, the internees made objects as a way to furnish their living quarters. More creative pursuits soon followed as a way to fill the days and to foster a spirit of cooperation. Each camp became known for decorative arts that were made from local materials found around the camp.

US-Japanese Internment Camps

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Cases Triple in 10 Years

Peanut Allergy

More than 3 million Americans now have some kind of nut allergy, with cases of peanut allergy in children more than tripling between 1997 and 2008, according to a report released this week.

"These results show that there is an alarming increase in peanut allergies, consistent with a general, although less dramatic, rise in food allergies among children in studies reported by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]," said lead researcher Dr. Scott Sicherer, professor of pediatrics at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "The data underscore the need for more study of these dangerous allergies."

Sicherer and colleagues surveyed 5,300 households, representing 13,534 individuals in 2008, and compared the numbers with those from the same survey conducted in 1997 and 2002.

Peanut Allergy

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Model Reiko Aoyama displays a Triumph bra with a theme on the growing popularity of farming in Japan during an unveiling in Tokyo on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Called 'Grow-Your-Own-Rice Bra,' the new underwear transforms into a pot that can grow rice. It was created and introduced by the lingerie manufacturer Triumph International Japan Ltd.
Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi

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Leaves Fortune To Butler

Ruth Ford

Hollywood actress Ruth Ford has left her entire £5.6m fortune to her Nepalese butler - cutting her family out of any inheritance.

Mrs Ford, who died last year at 98, owned two homes in New York's Dakota Building and they now belong to Indra Tamang, who was raised in a mud house in rural Nepal. He has spent the past three decades working as a loyal servant for the Ford family.

In her will, the actress, model and wife of film star Zachary Scott left her estate, which included the two flats and her valuable collection of Russian surrealist art, to Mr Tamang.

Mrs Ford barely spoke to her estranged daughter Shelley Scott and both she and the star's two grandchildren were written out of her will.

Mr Tamang, 57, cooked, cleaned and cared for Mrs Ford's brother, writer Charles Henri Ford, until his death and then did the same for her.

Ruth Ford

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Bars Schools From Releasing Scores To Military

Maryland

A first-of-its-kind law bars public high schools in Maryland from automatically sending student scores on a widely used military aptitude test to recruiters, a practice that critics say was giving the armed forces backdoor access to young people without their parents' consent.

School districts around the country have the choice of whether to administer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery exam, and ones that offer it typically pass the scores and students' contact information directly to the military. Topics on the test range from math and reading to knowledge of electronics and automobiles.

The Maryland law, the first in the nation after similar California legislation was vetoed, was signed last month and bars schools from automatically releasing the information to military recruiters. Instead, students, and their parents if they are under 18, will have to decide whether to give the information to the military. The law takes effect in July. One other state, Hawaii, has a similar policy for its schools, but not a law.

Roughly 650,000 U.S. high school students took the exam in the 2008-2009 school year, and the Department of Defense says scores for 92 percent of them were automatically sent to military recruiters. In the fiscal year that ended in September, 7.6 percent of those who enlisted in the military used scores from the test as part of their applications.

Maryland

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Cable Nielsens

Ratings

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of May 3-9. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

    1. NBA Playoffs: Boston vs. Cleveland (Monday, 8:13 p.m.), TNT, 4 million homes, 5.49 million viewers.
    2. NBA Playoffs: Utah vs. L.A. Lakers (Tuesday, 10:44 p.m.), TNT, 3.45 million homes, 4.66 million viewers.
    3. NBA Playoffs: Phoenix vs. San Antonio (Sunday, 8:04 p.m.), TNT, 3.27 million homes, 4.57 million viewers.
    4. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.21 million homes, 4 million viewers.
    5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.16 million homes, 4.58 million viewers.
    6. NBA Playoffs: Phoenix vs. San Antonio (Wednesday, 9:07 p.m.), TNT, 3.09 million homes, 3.99 million viewers.
    7. NBA Playoffs: Phoenix vs. San Antonio (Monday, 10:54 p.m.), TNT, 3.072 million homes, 4.11 million viewers.
    8. NBA Playoffs: Phoenix vs. San Antonio (Friday, 9:43 p.m.), ESPN, 3.071 million homes, 4.26 million viewers.
    9. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.94 million homes, 4.42 million viewers.
   10. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9 million homes, 3.8 million viewers.
   11. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.856 million homes, 4.08 million viewers.
   12. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.854 million homes, 3.66 million viewers.
   13. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 2.802 million homes, 3.67 million viewers.
   13. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.802 million homes, 3.63 million viewers.
   15. NBA Playoffs: Cleveland vs. Boston (Friday, 7 p.m.), ESPN, 2.75 million homes, 3.7 million viewers.

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In Memory

Dave Fisher

Dave Fisher, the lead singer of the Highwaymen, the popular 1960s folk group whose hit song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" soared to the top of the music charts, has died. He was 69.

Fisher was a freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1958 when he and four other fellow students formed the band. United Artists released Fisher's arrangement of the spiritual "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" while they were still in school. It soared to the top of the best-seller chart under the title "Michael," earning the group a gold record.

Other hits followed, including "Cotton Fields" and "The Gypsy Rover," as did appearances on Ed Sullivan's and Johnny Carson's shows.

The group began to frequently play the Gaslight Cafe in New York's Greenwich Village section and came into contact with such greats as Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte Marie.

They disbanded in 1964 but came together again in 1987 for a concert for their 25th college reunion. Since then, they have performed 10-12 concerts a year, said Ken Greengrass, the group's longtime manager. The band last performed together in August in Massachusetts.

Band member Steve Butts, a retired university administrator who was the group's banjo player, said he and the other two surviving members were at Fisher's bedside the day before he died.

Dave Fisher

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This undated photo from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation shows a Leona's little blue butterfly, which lives in the Antelope Desert of northern Klamath County in Oregon. The society and other conservation groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 to list the butterfly as an endangered species.
Photo by Sarina Jepsen

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