Tom Danehy: Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for some Tucson trivia! (Tucson Weekly)
Former President Bill Clinton warns that the Republicans are going to try to use voter-ID scare tactics and political skullduggery in future elections. He sees these moves as, at the very least, the first step in a slippery slope toward curtailing voter turnout among minorities and lower-income Americans (who generally tend to vote Democratic).
"Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein" by Julie Salamon: A review by Adam Kirsch
Wendy Wasserstein may not belong in the ranks of the greatest American Jewish writers, but like Neil Simon before her, she helped to popularize the Jewish family romance by making it a subject for heartfelt and accessible comedy. And whether the characters in her plays are explicitly Jewish, as in 'The Sisters Rosensweig,' or atmospherically so, like the heroine of 'The Heidi Chronicles,' Wasserstein left no doubt that it was her personal experience she was dramatizing.
Robert Fulford: Farmer's Almanac more 'weed-dating' than game-changing (National Post)
A pillar of continuity, 'The Old Farmer's Almanac' has already lasted an eon and doesn't see why it shouldn't continue for eternity. It may be thinner than it once was but so is 'The New Yorker.' Certainly it doesn't indulge in the whiny defeatism that imagines print being drowned in an ocean of digital chatter.
Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse (Guardian)
Melancholia won her an award at Cannes - and plunged her into controversy. The actor talks to Xan Brooks about Von Trier's Nazi moment, her battle with depression - and Charlotte Gainsbourg's breasts.
Roger Ebert: Review of "50/50" (3 ½ stars; R)
Young people should not get sick and die. Most of us do eventually, but how sad it is to learn in your 20s that you have a dangerous cancer and your chances of survival are 50/50. How crueler still if the news is delivered by a doctor who seems almost deliberately sadistic. Start with those odds. They may indeed be accurate, but would it kill the son of a bitch to make them 60/40?
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983. It is named after William Shakespeare, the English renaissance dramatist and poet.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Like many other great (and not so great) figures, Shakespeare has an asteroid named for him.
Alan J said:
An Asteroid Belt
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt
asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983.
Adam answered:
2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983.
Marian responded:
small main belt asteroid
Sally said:
2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward Bowell in 1983. It is named after William Shakespeare, the English renaissance dramatist and poet.
It has a diameter of 2985
It has a diameter of 2985 - get it??
PS: Wowser, is this you??
Hmmmm - I can attest that this picture, taken
Sunday, 25 September, 2011, is of the ever-fabulous Wowzer. ~marty
Dale of Diamond Springs, CA replied:
2985 Shakespeare (1983 TV1) Discovered 1983-Oct-12 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff (AM) (688)
Discovered at the Anderson Mesa station, which is operated by the Lowell Observatory
It's 2.3 AU from Earth and 2.727 AU from the Sun and orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
1 AU = 149,597,870.691 kilometers
Definition: An Astronomical Unit is approximately the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is a derived constant and used to indicate distances within the solar system. Its formal definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular orbit a massless body would revolve about the sun in 2*(pi)/k days (i.e., 365.2568983.... days), where k is defined as the Gaussian constant exactly equal to 0.01720209895. Since an AU is based on radius of a circular orbit, one AU is actually slightly less than the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles).
It was interesting to find a new measuring unit now that the future of the universe is uncertain and according to scientists (really smart people)in Cern might have shown that a neutron can travel faster than the speed of light. Here comes Warp Drive; unless the Republicans, Christers and Corporations get their way and destroy the planet via GLOBAL WARMING.
Just a belch
MAM wrote:
2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983.
And, Joe S answered:
Well, I'll be dipped. I thought for sure it was a street address of someone famous, like William Shatner. 2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983. It is named after William Shakespeare, the English renaissance dramatist and poet.
You might not have known this
Your name is traveling aboard the Dawn spacecraft
on its mission to the Asteroid Belt.
In the mail:
Subject: Reply to Sally
-->Hi Marty
Would you please let Sally know that The Sierra Nevada mountains are just 20 miles away. They seem to look pretty white after snow last night. The city of South lake Tahoe is at 6237ft and it snows from the Oregon border down to Mammoth mountain. I live at 2000ft right now and sometimes we get a couple of inches of snow a few times a year.
Thanks
Dale of Diamond Springs
You're welcome Dale.
Long time ago, I lived in Diamond Springs - it's just outside of Placerville (formerly known at Hangtown).
Whenever anyone questioned the winter weather in that area I'd ask if they'd ever heard of Donner Summit, and the party for whom it was named. ~marty
I'd forgotten how much fun it is to have a cranky computer. < /sarcasm>
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'A Gifted Man', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bryan Cranston, Jeff Altman, and Garland Jeffreys.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jason Schwartzman and Eliza Coupe.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Up All Night', followed by a RERUN'Whitney', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are David Arquette, Darrell & Brandon Sheets, and Puddle of Mudd.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Paul Giamatti, Alison Brie, Judas Priest, and Joe Jonas.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Mike White, Seven Grand Whiskey Society, and Biffy Clyro.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'Suburgatory', then a RERUN'Charlie's Angels', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/28/11) are Mark Wahlberg and Seth McFarlane.
The CW offers a FRESH'Nikita', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a FRESH'Fringe'.
MY has an oold 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Road House', followed by the movie 'Billy Madison', then the movie 'Bulletproof'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Dawn French, Rod Stewart, Michael Palin
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 12
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Clubway 41
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Secret Garden
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - 5 - Flesh and Stone
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 13
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Jack's Waterfront
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 4 Silicon Avatar
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - Vampires in Venice
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[9:00 PM] The Exorcist
[11:30 PM] The Exorcist
[2:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 1 - Cohabitants
[3:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 22 Born Again
[4:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 23 Roland
[5:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 1 - Cohabitants (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by the movie 'The School Of Rock', then the movie 'The School Of Rock', again.
Comedy Central has '30 Rock', another '30 Rock', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat -- I'm Fluffy', 'Workaholics', 'South Park', 'Tosh.0', and 'Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution'.
FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen'.
HBO offers a FRESHBill Maher - guests include:
Top-of-show is Rich Trumka.
Mid-show is P.J. O'Rourke.
Panel: Jonathan Franzen, Alan Grayson, and Nicolle Wallace.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Restoration', another 'American Restoration', still another 'American Restoration', and yet another 'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Memphis
[6:30AM] Young Broke and Beautifu - lBoston
[7:00AM] Young Broke and Beautifu - Detroit
[7:30AM] United We Stand
[7:45AM] The Hunt for Red October
[10:45AM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[12:45PM] Pride
[3:00PM] The Hunt for Red October
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Lois' Birthday
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the MiddleDinner Out
[7:00PM] Unearthed
[9:00PM] Hostel
[11:00PM] Onion News Network - Asteroid Heads to Earth
[11:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Casino
[12:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle - Convention
[12:30AM] Arrested Development - The Ocean Walker
[1:00AM] Arrested Development - Prison Break-In
[1:30AM] Onion News Network - Asteroid Heads to Earth
[2:00AM] Onion News Network - Asteroid Heads to Earth
[2:30AM] Hostel
[4:30AM] Bollywood Hero
[5:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
In this Oct. 5, 2011 photo, from left, retired news man Dan Rather, Nick Clooney and actor George Clooney pose at the after party for the premiere of George Clooney's political film, "The Ides of March," in New York. George Clooney stars and directs the film opening nationwide on Friday.
Photo by Dave Allocca
With hours to go before a noon Friday deadline to decide whether they'll accept dramatic pay cuts, the "Simpsons" voice actors are still talking among themselves about how to respond.
The actors have been asked to decide whether they will accept cuts from their present $440,000 per episode, each, down to $250,000 per episode, the amount the studio wants to pay them if the show continues past its current, twenty-third season. The actors offered last week to accept cuts to $300,000 per episode, in exchange for back-end payments they don't currently receive, but 20th Century Fox TV rejected the offer.
If the actors don't agree to accept pay cuts by noon Friday, the studio could decide to stop making new episodes of the show after its current season.
But the studio has already extended two past dates it set to resolve the salary issues, which could leave open the possibility that it will do so again, said the person familiar with the actors' positions. The person said the studio hasn't budged from offering the actors' $250,000 with no back end.
French actress Isabelle Huppert poses at the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. The biggest film festival in Asia showcases more than 300 films from 70 and runs from October 6-14.
Photo by Ahn Young-
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent decades.
Characterized by powerful imagery, Transtromer's poems are often built around his own experiences and infused with his love of music and nature. His later poems are darker, probing existential questions of life, death and disease.
Transtromer is considered a master of metaphor, weaving powerful images into his poems without much embellishment. The award citation noted that his collections "are characterized by economy."
A psychologist and avid amateur pianist, Transtromer, 80, suffered a stroke in 1990 that left him half-paralyzed and largely unable to speak, but he continued to write, publishing "The Sorrow Gondola" in 1996 and the "The Great Enigma." He has since retired from writing.
NBC has canceled the Hank Azaria comedy "Free Agents," an individual familiar with the series confirms to TheWrap.
The series, which debuted this season, had been struggling in the ratings. Last Wednesday, the series slipped 23 percent from its second-week numbers, posting just a mere 1.0/3 and 3.1 million total viewers. The last episode, airing on Wednesday, failed to improve on those numbers, running flat with last week.
Seeing the writing on the wall, series star Azaria mounted a Twitter campaign to save the series Tuesday, writing to the show's fans, ""Okay, it's do or die time for my show Free Agents -- we need eyeballs tonight at 8:30 on NBC!! Watch tonight or we may go away."
The cancellation of the series compounds Azaria's employment woes. As reported on Wednesday, voice talent for "The Simpsons" -- for which the actor provides several voices -- were asked to take a major pay cut on the series. An executive told TheWrap that Fox is only interested in running one more season of the long-running animated series -- and that's only if the voice talent agrees to the cut.
In this Oct. 5, 2011 image released by iHeartRadio, Daryl Hall performs songs from his new solo album "Laughing Down Crying," at the P.C. Richard & Son Theater, presented by 106.7 Lite FM, in New York.
Photo by Jeremy Harris
Chances are pretty good that Snoop Dogg is firing up a celebratory hit on his, uh, water pipe right now.
The "Doggystyle" rapper has sold a comedy project to NBC, which he will produce and star in, the network confirmed to TheWrap.
The as-yet-untitled project is described as a "multi-camera family comedy," with Don Reo -- whose credits include "Two and a Half Men," "Everybody Hates Chris," and "'Til Death" -- executive-producing and writing.
The series is being produced by Warner Bros. Television.
More than 60 people have filed court papers alleging their phones were hacked by the News of the World, a lawyer said Thursday, amid preparations for a group lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct tabloid.
The claimants include movie stars, politicians and parents of two child victims of horrific violent crimes.
Lawyer Tamsin Allen, who represents some of the plaintiffs, said 63 claims have been filed against the newspaper's publisher.
A test case by a handful of lead claimants - including Hollywood star Jude Law, former soccer star Paul Gascoigne and Sheila Henry, whose son died in the 2005 London transit bombings - will begin at the High Court in January.
The lead claimants have been chosen to represent the types of people allegedly targeted by the tabloid's scoop-hungry journalists - politicians, athletes, celebrities and ordinary citizens thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight.
A protestor holds up a sign during a rally outside Houston's City Hall, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, in Houston. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Dallas, Houston and Austin on Thursday as cities around Texas joined the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations demanding an end to corruption in politics and business.
Photo by Pat Sullivan
Are you ready for some football? Hank Williams Jr. isn't anymore.
The country singer and ESPN each took credit for the decision Thursday morning to ax his classic intro to "Monday Night Football."
The network had pulled the song from the game earlier this week after Williams made an analogy to Adolf Hitler while discussing President Barack Obama on Fox News on Monday morning.
"After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision," Williams said in a statement to The Associated Press. "By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run."
David Cassidy refuses to come on, and get happy, until he's paid what he feels he's owed.
The former "Partridge Family" heartthrob filed suit against Screen Gems, CRT Holdings, Sony Pictures Television and Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming that he's been bilked out of a small fortune stemming from his '70 hit "The Partridge Family."
According to the suit -- which alleges fraud, breach of contract, negligent representation and other charges -- the show, which ran from 1970 to 1974, generated almost $500 million in merchandise revenues from products including board games, magazines, posters, toy guitars and lunch boxes.
And while the contract that Cassidy re-negotiated in 1971 called for him to receive 15 percent of the net proceeds using his image, name and likeness, along with 7.5 percent of the net proceeds from the exhibition of the show, according to the suit he's been deprived of his due for decades.
Sam Eldaly, 22, a student from Sacramento City College, joins dozens of others in a protest in support of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in New York, held in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. The demonstration is part of a movement that started last month with a handful of protesters outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
The estranged daughter of Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton was sentenced in Florida on Thursday to 20 years in prison for killing a child in her care.
Amanda Brumfield, 32, was convicted in Orlando in May of aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of Olivia Madison Garcia, the 1-year-old daughter of one of Brumfield's close friends.
The child's mother, Heather Murphy, said after the sentencing that she was surprised at how long a prison term Brumfield received, but that it meant little to her.
Brumfield contended at trial that Olivia fell out of her playpen and hit her head in October 2008, but prosecutors argued the child's skull fracture and brain bleeding were no accident.
Griffin O'Neal, son of actor Ryan O'Neal, has pleaded not guilty to drug and firearm possession and driving under the influence stemming from a head-on traffic collision that injured a motorist two months ago.
The San Diego Union-Tribune) says O'Neal faces six felony and misdemeanor charges related to the Aug. 2 accident.
Deputy District Attorney Vanessa DuVall said Thursday that the 46-year-old O'Neal veered into oncoming traffic and hit a car, causing head and back injuries to its driver.
DuVall says blood tests showed O'Neal had ingested amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and Xanax. Crack cocaine and loaded firearms were found in his car.
Indian Hindu devotees carry an idol of goddess Durga before immersing it in the Yamuna River, marking the end of the five day Durga Puja festival in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011.
Photo by Kevin Frayer
Jani Lane, the once energetic blond lead singer and songwriter for heavy metal band Warrant, died from alcohol poisoning, the Los Angeles County coroner said Wednesday.
Lane was found dead in a Los Angeles motel room on August 11. He was 47.
His official cause of death was listed as "acute ethanol intoxication," according to Lt. Larry Dietz of the coroner's office.
Lane, best known for singing lead vocals and writing the Hollywood glam band's hits such as "Cherry Pie" that led them to success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was discovered in a budget motel in suburban Woodland Hills.
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
Current and former officials said that to the best of their knowledge, Awlaki, who the White House said was a key figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, had been the only American put on a government list targeting people for capture or death due to their alleged involvement with militants.
The "Spider Pig" special shaped hot air balloon deflates during the 40th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Gusty conditions prevented the balloons from lifting off Thursday morning. The nine-day fiesta wraps up Sunday.
Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan
A judge has upheld the firing of a central Ohio public school science teacher who was accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and of keeping a Bible on his desk.
Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster said in his two-page ruling Wednesday that he found clear and convincing evidence that the Mount Vernon school board was right in dismissing John Freshwater early this year.
The school board in the community about 40 miles northeast of Columbus first tried to dismiss Freshwater in 2008 after investigators reported that he preached Christian beliefs in class when discussing topics such as evolution and homosexuality, and was insubordinate in failing to remove a Bible from his classroom.
Freshwater appealed to an outside referee, a state hearing officer, utilizing a right of teachers facing firing in Ohio. The hearing officer recommended in January that Freshwater's contract be terminated, and the school board formally fired him within days.
"The Terminator" is back in his native Austria to inaugurate a museum devoted to him.
Arnold $chwarzenegger's private jet landed at Graz airport Thursday.
The museum is located in the renovated house of his birth in the village of Thal. It chronicles his rise from humble beginnings as a muscular young immigrant to the U.S. to Hollywood action hero to, most recently, California's governor.
While also known by his more common nicknames, fans in $chwarzenegger's home province of Styria often call him "The Styrian Oak," in an allusion to that tree's toughness.
Character actor Charles Napier, whose granite jaw and toothy grin earned him tough-guy roles in movies like "Rambo: First Blood Part 2," has died in California at 75.
Longtime friend Dennis Wilson tells the Bakersfield Californian that Napier died Wednesday at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. No other details are being released.
Napier may be best known as the scheming intelligence officer facing Sylvester Stallone in the 1985 "Rambo" sequel.
Great Grey Owls or Lapland Owls sit inside an open air cage at Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk October 6, 2011.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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