BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 11 November, 2011

Friday

11 November, 2011

(Updated Daily)

[45 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Republican Wisdom (YouTube)
"One hopes it's unfair to post this clip, because, one hopes, she is - in her ignorance and certitude - representative of almost no one. And yet, sadly, that is just not the case. Thanks to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck (whom she credits), among others, she is one of millions. It's a short clip, as gripping as a train wreck. And a tribute to what Karl Rove, Roger Ailes, et al, have managed to do polarize the country and steer so many of its citizens so far off-course." - Andrew Tobias


Tom Danehy: "Idea: Use this column as a drinking game during the GOP presidential debates!" (Tucson Weekly)
At the most recent count, there are 18 more Republican presidential debates to be held.


Malcolm Gladwell: The Tweaker (New Yorker)
The real genius of Steve Jobs.


Sanford Pinsker: We Get Emails (irascibleprofessor.com )
I launched my teaching career in an age that didn't know a whit about electronic mail (yes, I can hear some readers snorting, that long ago), and all things considered, that was probably a better time -- at least for teachers. Students were always anxious, including those who showed up at office hours to tell me sadder stories than once paraded across the stage in moth-eaten tragedies: not only my dog devoured my homework but also my folks have planned a skiing trip to Aspen and we leave at a time when classes are still scheduled. Hard to tell who's worse, Fido or trip-planning mom.


thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay and what they say about their movies
1. Tiny People On the Beach, Giant Heads in the Clouds
These movies are always sappy dramas. Do not allow you to be mislead by the trailer or calibre of the people involved into thinking otherwise. The protagonist/his little brother/father and/or love interest is very likely to end up dead. You probably should keep your tissues handy because you'll cry tears of sorrow, tears of joy, tears because you just wasted 13 dollars on this movie. This sort of poster is inevitably used for anything that involves Nicholas Sparks.


Bob Westal: A Chat with Mickey Rourke, Co-star of "Immortals" (Bullz-eye)
I've learned my lesson about pissing those people off, so I'm not going to name the names. But yeah, there's quite a few movies that I regret passing up for stupid reasons back in the day. And sure, there's a whole bunch that I'm glad I didn't do."


Bill Wyman: "'Blue Velvet,' 25 Years Later" (Slate)
An almost unrelieved carnival of perversion, corruption, mayhem, and spectacle.


Randall Roberts: "Book review: 'Rock and Roll Always Forgets'" (LA Times)
Longtime pop music critic Chuck Eddy offers previous writings and fresh insights in his curmudgeonly yet entertaining style.



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."


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Trivia Question of the Day


What are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


On "Lost In Space," Penny had a pet Bloop. What did she name it?


   Debbie                                                      Source



Penny Robinson: (Angela Cartwright) An 11-year-old, she loves animals and classical music. She acquires a chimpanzee-like alien pet that made one sound, "Bloop". While it is sometimes remembered by that name, Penny had named the creature Debbie.        Source







Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Debbie



Charlie said:
   Debbie




Adam wrote:
   Penny had named the creature Debbie.



BttbB responded:
   Debbie...




Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
   Debbie



Marian answered:
   Debbie



Sally said:
   "Harvey" the Rabbit, Jeeze, I even saw the play, "Harvey," on Broadway - back in the day...
  As for today's question, on "Lost In Space," Penny had a pet Bloop named Debbie.

  Sure looks like a monkey to me...
  PS: JoeS, Carla is lovely!




Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
   Debbie the Bloop (a dressed up chimp) makes her debut in Season #1 Episode 3 "Island in the Sky". Dr. Zachary Smith: (Jonathan Harris) was the Nincompoop of the show.




MAM   wrote:
   Debbie In real life, Debbie was actually a chimpanzee made to look like an alien "Bloop" by using chenille bump ears.

  Penny, Debbie, and Dr. Zachary Smith
  Took Wowser to the vet today. He is not overly fond of the cat carrier. 'Wowed' loud and clear.




And, Joe S     answered:
   Penny acquired a chimpanzee-like alien pet that made one sound, "Bloop". While it is sometimes remembered by that name, she named it Debbie. I feel so deprived. I've never seen even one episode of lost in Space, but....I don't want to.
  It's Veterans Day



  



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Middle Class Political Economist

Mississippi's Eminent Domain Reform Initiative Passes with 73%




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Reader Suggestions

Michelle in AZ


For Bank Of America, Debit Fees Extend To Unemployment Benefits



George Heymont: Totem -- An Artistic Triumph for Cirque du Soleil



Living up to Leonardo: The terrifying task of restoring a da Vinci - CNN.com



Daily Kos: Edmund Fitzgerald RIP



A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl



Thanks, Michelle!


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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 Review

Popcorn Time



They're not actually debating. They all agree with each other. This is prime time pandering. Romney continues to finish better than second while somehow not exactly "winning". Herman Cain's failure to show any development in the breadth and depth of his ideas is making it increasingly clear that he's little more than a genial bullshitter. Huntsman again had several opportunities to really stand out by articulating an intellectually credible moderate position, but he lacks killer instinct. He can't rhetorically close the deal even when he's won the point. Rick Santorum worries about Google. Perry's senior moment seemed like "Accidenetal Seppuku".


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


FEEL THE WARM!

GO EAT A CORNDOG RICK!

"PRINCESS NANCY" AND THE PIZZA PERV

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM AL GORE

THE DITTOCAM

"I'M SORRY, SO SORRY..." ARE THE REPUGS KISSING PORKY GOODBYE?

THE REAL NATIONAL MOTTO: "MONEY TALKS."

CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE!

INTERROGATION

WWJD?

.THE "JACK BOOTED THUGS" ATTACK MY HOME TOWN!

THE TEA PARTY LOVES CRAZY MORE THAN THEY HATE BLACKS!

THIS SUBWAY IS FOR THE BIRDS



THE CLOWN CAR IS GOING OFF THE CLIFF






Visit JD's new site - Kitty Litter Music



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Overcast and gray - rain on the way.



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 FRESH Dave are Steve Martin and Felicity Jones.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Drew Carey, Linda Cunningham, and Louie Anderson as the voice of Geoff.



NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Chuck', followed by a FRESH 'Grimm', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Kermit the Frog, Ricki Lake, and Nicole Scherzinger.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Adam Sandler, Beyonce, and Johnny Gill.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson 'The Scab' Daly are Diablo Cody, Danfung Dennis, and Thievery Corporation.



ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 11/7/11) are Taylor Lautner, Herman Cain, and Junip.



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 old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.



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



AMC offers the movie 'Apocalypse Now Redux', followed by 'The Walking Dead'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]   BBC World News
 [7:00AM]   BBC World News
 [8:00AM]   The Graham Norton Show - 11 - Matt LeBlanc, Donald Sutherland, Mary Portas
 [9:00AM]   The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 Usher, Miley Cyrus
 [10:00AM]   Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
 [11:00AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Hannah & Mason's
 [12:00PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Series 1Ep. 4 Moore Place
 [1:00PM]   Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
 [2:00PM]   Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 10
 [3:00PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Trobiano's
 [4:00PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
 [5:00PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 The Ensigns of Command
 [6:00PM]   Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005)
 [7:00PM]   Top Gear - Episode 2
 [8:00PM]   Top Gear - Episode 4
 [9:00PM]   V for Vendetta
 [12:00AM]   Torchwood - Ep 2 Sleeper
 [1:00AM]   Torchwood - Ep 3 To The Last Man
 [2:00AM]   V for Vendetta
 [5:00AM]   PrimevalEpisode 5     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has fills the night with the movie 'The Patriot'.



Comedy Central has '30 Rock', another '30 Rock', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'South Park', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', and 'Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution'.



FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', still another 'How I Met Your Mother', yet another 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the movie 'Surrogates'.



HBO offers the SEASON FINALE Bill Maher - guests include:
Top-of-show is Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA).
Mid-show is Common.
Panel: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Chris Matthews, and Andrew Sullivan.



History has 3 hours of 'American Restoration', followed by a FRESH 'Hairy Bikers', and another 'Hairy Bikers'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]   Flawless
 [8:30AM]   Onion News Network-Exposed, Brooke Alvarez
 [9:00AM]   Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
 [9:30AM]   Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
 [11:15AM]   The Namesake
 [1:45PM]   Flawless
 [4:15PM]   Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
 [6:00PM]   Malcolm in the Middle-Forbidden Girlfriend
 [6:30PM]   Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Holds His Tongue
 [7:00PM]   Layer Cake
 [9:15PM]   Crank
 [11:00PM]   Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
 [11:30PM]   Malcolm in the Middle-Boys at the Ranch
 [12:00AM]   Malcolm in the Middle-Grandma Sues
 [12:30AM]   Arrested Development-Bringing Up Buster
 [1:00AM]   Arrested Development-Key Decisions
 [1:30AM]   Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
 [2:00AM]   Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
 [2:30AM]   Spanking the Monkey
 [4:45AM]   Arrested Development-Bringing Up Buster
 [5:15AM]   Arrested Development-Key Decisions
 [5:45AM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]   Nick Nolte: No Exit
 [7:15AM]   Blood, Sweat & Gears
 [8:50AM]   Eclipse
 [9:00AM]   The End Of The Line
 [10:30AM]   On The Line
 [11:05AM]   Nick Nolte: No Exit
 [12:20PM]   Blood, Sweat & Gears
 [2:00PM]   LUDO BITES AMERICA: Denver (Episode 4, Season 1)
 [3:00PM]   QUIRKY: I Crush It (Episode 4, Season 1)
 [4:00PM]   QUIRKY: Hell Yes (Episode 5, Season 1)
 [5:00PM]   GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
 [5:30PM]   GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
 [6:00PM]   Love Lust & The Paranormal
 [8:00PM]   UNLEASHED BY GARO: A Little Bit of Pain (Episode 4, Season 1)
 [9:00PM]   GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
 [9:30PM]   GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
 [10:00PM]   Mammoth
 [12:10AM]   May the Best Man Win
 [2:45AM]   Mammoth    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Jeepers Creepers II', followed by a FRESH 'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH 'Sanctuary'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Buck Privates (1941)
 [7:30 AM]      The Navy Comes Through (1942)
 [9:00 AM]      God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
 [10:30 AM]      The Fighting 69th (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      Never So Few (1959)
 [2:15 PM]      A Walk in the Sun (1946)
 [4:15 PM]      To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
 [5:45 PM]      Darby's Rangers (1958)
 [8:00 PM]      Up Periscope (1959)
 [10:00 PM]      The Americanization of Emily (1964)
 [12:00 AM]      Marlowe (1969)
 [2:00 AM]      The Iron Rose (1973)
 [3:30 AM]      Carnival of Souls (1962)
 [5:00 AM]      There's a Message in Every Bottle (1968)
 [5:30 AM]      Destination Earth (1956)     (ALL TIMES EST)



SAturday  -  11/12/11

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
 [7:30 AM]      Caged (1950)
 [9:30 AM]      City Streets (1931)
 [11:00 AM]      Zorro's Fighting Legion: Unmasked (1939)
 [11:30 AM]      TRADER HOUND (1931)
 [12:00 PM]      Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968)
 [1:45 PM]      Toward The Unknown (1956)
 [3:45 PM]      The Thing From Another World (1951)
 [5:15 PM]      55 Days At Peking (1963)
 [8:00 PM]      The Bank Dick (1940)
 [9:30 PM]      Trouble In Paradise (1932)
 [11:00 PM]      The Producers (1968)
 [12:45 AM]      Angels Over Broadway (1940)
 [2:15 AM]      Hot Millions (1968)
 [4:15 AM]      Slither (1973)     (ALL TIMES EST)




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Comedian Kathy Griffin attends the New York Comedy Festival's Stand Up For Heroes benefit in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011.
Photo by Charles Sykes

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Vidiot Speak

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Hosting The Oscars

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal is doing it again.

The 63-year-old comedian and veteran Oscar host said Thursday on Twitter that he is hosting the Feb. 26, 2012, Academy Awards "so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions."

This will be the ninth Oscar stint for Crystal, one of the most popular Oscar hosts of recent years. His last time was in 2004. Only Bob Hope hosted more Oscar shows, with 19 ceremonies between 1940 and 1978.

The naming of Crystal follows a groundswell of sentiment for his return after he led a tribute to Hope on the 2011 Oscar show for which he received a standing ovation. Crystal said later he was moved by the warm reception and that "it might be fun" to host the show again.

Comedian Eddie Murphy had been chosen to host the 2012 show, but pulled out Wednesday following the departure on Tuesday of producer and friend Brett Ratner, who left amid criticism of his use of a pejorative term for gay men at a screening of the director's action comedy "Tower Heist," which stars Murphy and Ben Stiller.

Billy Crystal

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U.S. singer Lady Gaga performs after she received the Pop International Bambi award during the 63rd Bambi media awards ceremony in Wiesbaden, November 10, 2011. Every year, the German media company 'Hubert Burda Media', honors celebrities from the world of entertainment, literature, sports and politics with the Bambi awards.
Photo by Wolfgang Rattay

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"America's Got Talent" Replacement?

Howard Stern

"America's Got Talent" could be getting just a tad bit edgier.

Radio shock jock Howard Stern is in negotiations with NBC to replace outgoing judge Piers Morgan on the performance show, an individual with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to TheWrap.

Stern, who's already making a hefty sum for his Sirius XM Radio show, will pick up another big chunk of change if he decides to join Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne on the panel -- the talks are currently hovering around a $15 million annual sum.

Morgan announced Wednesday that he's leaving the popular reality show, tweeting that he'll be focusing on his CNN show, "Piers Morgan Tonight," which he began hosting in January.

Howard Stern

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Current TV Sets Date

'"Young Turks With Cenk Uygur"

Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur will launch his new Current TV show December 5 at 7 p.m. ET, the network announced Thursday.

The nightly show, titled "The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur," will air ahead of Keith Olbermann's "Countdown," with an encore running at 10 p.m. ET.

Uygur will be joined by numerous contributors to his web series of the same name, including Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, Jesus Godoy, Wes Clark, Jr., Michael Shure and Brian Unger.

Uygur left MSNBC amid disputes over his contract and his timeslot, after the cable outlet attempted to oust him from its 6 p.m. ET "MSNBC Live" time period. Uygur also claimed that MSNBC tried to tone down his opinions, an allegation the cable outlet denied.

'"Young Turks With Cenk Uygur"

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Wake-up Call


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Renewed For 8th Season

"Weeds"

Nancy Botwin will be back to sling dope for another year.

Showtime has renewed the pot comedy "Weeds" for an eighth season, the network announced Thursday.

The 13-episode season will go into production sometime next year.

The Jenji Kohan-produced series, which stars Mary-Louise Parker as mother/pot dealer Botwin, aired its seventh-season finale in September.

"Weeds"

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James Cromwell arrives at the AFI gala screening of "The Artist" at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, in Los Angeles. "The Artist" was released in US theaters on Oct. 14, 2011.
Photo by Katy Winn

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Renewed For Second Season

"Anderson"

Anderson Cooper's syndicated daytime talk-show, "Anderson," has been renewed for a second season by Fox Television Stations, distributor Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced.

In addition to the stations that had carried the show's first season, "Anderson" has been acquired by Fox Television Stations in New York, Minneapolis and Tampa.

Though it hasn't performed spectacularly, "Anderson" has improved after a soft start. The show had a lackluster 1.1 household rating for its September 12 premiere and averaged a 1.4 in its first month.

Warner Domestic TV Distribution president Ken Werner said that he feels that the show is "well on the way to creating a valuable news lead-in."

"Anderson"

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Senate Defeats Effort To Block

Net Neutrality

New U.S. Internet traffic rules cleared a hurdle on Thursday, surviving an attempt by the Senate to block them from taking effect later in the month.

President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate blocked a Republican-backed resolution to disapprove of the Federal Communications Commission's rules on "net neutrality." The vote was 52-46 against the resolution.

Adopted by a divided FCC last December, the rules forbid broadband providers from blocking legal content while leaving flexibility for providers to manage their networks.

The rules still face a court challenge. Lawsuits by Verizon Communications Inc and others have been consolidated before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Net Neutrality


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Thousands of people swing their hand lanterns during the ecumenical Martini festival (Day of Martin) in honour of the Catholic St. Martin and of Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, at the Mariendom place (Cathedral of Mary place) in this long time exposure in Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011.
Photo by Jens Meyer

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Blames Underlings

Rupert, Jr.

He didn't see. He wasn't told. He didn't know.

Called back to Britain's Parliament after former News Corp. employees challenged his credibility, senior executive James Murdoch insisted he'd been kept in the dark about widespread phone hacking at his now-defunct News of the World tabloid, blaming two of his senior lieutenants for failing to warn him of the paper's culture of criminality.

Over more than two-and-a-half hours of questioning, Murdoch stuck to that line.

Speaking quickly and confidently, Murdoch laid the blame at the door of former News of the World Editor Colin Myler and former in-house lawyer Tom Crone, both of whom resigned soon after the scandal broke earlier this year. Over the past few months, the pair have challenged the credibility of their former boss, accusing the 38-year-old News Corp. executive of not telling the truth when he claimed they never told him about the incriminating email back in 2008.

Murdoch made one important concession to their version of events - acknowledging that he'd been briefed on the incriminating email back in 2008 - but insisted that its importance was kept from him.

Rupert, Jr.

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Push Repeal Of DOMA

Democrats

Senate Democrats who back gay marriage have decided now is the time to repeal a federal law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The Democrats may satisfy their gay marriage supporters, but the bill won't get very far.

The repeal could be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, but the next stop - the full Senate - could be a long way off. The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., says she doesn't have the votes for Senate passage, and the bill would have no chance in a House controlled by Republican conservatives.

The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., defended the timing of the panel's likely vote on the Defense of Marriage Act. "It is never the wrong time to right an injustice," he said.

Feinstein's bill has 31 Senate sponsors, all Democrats. Most Republicans fiercely oppose the repeal.

Democrats

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A detour sign marks the one entrance to the Occupy Portland camp in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Mayor Sam Adams says the Occupy Portland movement has lost control of the encampment in two downtown park blocks, and it must end by midnight Saturday. Adams said Lownsdale and Chapman squares, now the site of a tent and blue-tarp city, will be closed as of 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
Photo by Don Ryan

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Accountant Admits Bilking

Tamara Tunie

An accountant admitted Thursday he made "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Tamara Tunie a real-life crime victim by stealing more than $1 million from her, the Kansas City Symphony's music director and other clients.

Joseph Cilibrasi, who was Tunie's business manager for more than a decade and cultivated other clients in the arts, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and other charges. He used some of the stolen cash to finance his own forays into entertainment, including investing in movies and Broadway shows and hiring a screenwriter to pen a script about a historic building, prosecutors say.

Cilibrasi's plea deal calls for 2 1/2 to 7 1/2 years in prison. He is free, pending a Jan. 4 sentencing.

Cilibrasi, 51, told a Manhattan judge he secretly opened a credit card account in Tunie's name - and got his own card on the account by falsely listing himself as her husband - and wrote checks to himself from her accounts without her permission.

Tamara Tunie

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Sony Suspends Production On Film

Roland Emmerich

Sony has put production of "Singularity," Roland Emmerich's big-budget sci-fi film, on hold while the filmmakers revise the script, TheWrap has confirmed.

The producers have brought on Ray Kurzweil -- perhaps the world's foremost expert on the futuristic topic of "singularity" -- to help.

An individual close to the studio told TheWrap that Sony does not expect the delay in entering production will affect the targeted release date of May 2013.

Emmerich and composer Harold Kloser are writing the screenplay. The movie has a budget estimated at $175 million.

Roland Emmerich

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Student activists lock arms as they occupy a grassy area in front of Sproul Hall on the University of California at Berkeley campus Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Student activists attempted to set up an "Occupy Cal" camp on campus despite official warnings that such encampments are not allowed. These activists joined students across California in calling to make banks pay to end cuts to higher education.
Photo by Ben Margot

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Record Set At Auction

"Rhein II"

A 1999 photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky has sold for $4.3 million in New York City, setting a record for any photograph sold at auction.

Titled "Rhein II," the chromogenic color print face-mounted to acrylic glass, had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5 million to $3.5 million.

The previous record for any photography sold at auction was Cindy Sherman's "Untitled," which fetched $3.8 million at Christie's in May.

Gursky's panoramic image of the Rhine is one of an edition of six photographs. Four are in major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London.

"Rhein II"

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Vanishing From The Wild

Western Black Rhino

The Western Black Rhino of Africa has been declared officially extinct, and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are close to meeting the same fate, a leading conservation group said Thursday.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said a recent reassessment of the Western Black Rhino had led it to declare the species extinct, adding that the Northern White Rhino of central Africa is now "possibly extinct" in the wild and the Javan Rhino is "probably extinct" in Vietnam, after poachers killed the last animal there in 2010.

A small but declining population of the Javan Rhino survives on the Indonesian island of Java, it added.

About a quarter of all mammals are at risk of extinction, IUCN said, adding that some species have been brought back from the brink with successful conservation programs.

Western Black Rhino

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A demonstrator of a group "Occupy Rio" wearing a Guy Fawkes mask protests against Rio de Janeiro's governor Sergio Cabral in downtown Rio de Janeiro November 10, 2011. The demonstration, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, seeks to address the corruption in the police and the problems with the health care system under the governance of Cabral. Cabral had originally organized a demonstration to rally against an oil reform amendment approved by the lower house of Congress.
Photo by Sergio Moraes

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2011 Indeuctees

Toy Hall of Fame

Is Linus jumping for joy?

The blanket, an all-purpose plaything and a comfort for generations of thumb-suckers like Charlie Brown's best friend in the "Peanuts" comic strip, landed Thursday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Hot Wheels and the dollhouse.

The three take their places at The Strong, a children's and cultural history museum in upstate New York, alongside 46 other classics ranging from the bicycle, kite and teddy bear to Barbie, Jack-in-the-Box and Mr. Potato Head.

Curators said the blanket was a special addition in the spirit of two earlier inductees, the cardboard box and the stick. They praised its ability to serve either as recreational raw material or an accessory transformed in myriad ways by a child's daydreams.

Toy Hall of Fame

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Cable Nielsens

Ratings

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen for the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

    1. NFL Football: San Diego at Kansas City (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 9.06 million homes, 12.03 million viewers.
    2. "Walking Dead" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), AMC, 4.02 million homes, 6.29 million viewers.
    3. Movie: "John Sandford's Certain Prey" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.91 million homes, 5.12 million viewers.
    4. "NCIS" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.37 million homes, 4.26 million viewers.
    5. Auto Racing: NASCAR Sprint Cup (Sunday, 3 p.m.), 3.36 million homes, 4.72 million viewers.
    6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.19 million homes, 4.6 million viewers.
    7. "Good Luck Charlie" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.05 million homes, 4.55 million viewers.
    8. College Football: Michigan vs. Iowa (Saturday, 12:02 p.m.), ESPN, 3.04 million homes, 3.94 million viewers.
    9. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.01 million homes, 3.92 million viewers.
   10. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.986 million homes, 4.36 million viewers.
   11. "Hell on Wheels" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), AMC, 2.985 million homes, 4.36 million viewers.
   12. "Jessie" (Friday, 9 p.m.), Disney, 2.949 million homes, 4.44 million viewers.
   13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.942 million homes, 3.98 million viewers.
   14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.84 million homes, 4.06 million viewers.
   15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.81 million homes, 4.07 million viewers.

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