BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 21 December, 2007

Friday

21 December, 2007

(Updated Daily)

[146 days in a row]

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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TIME Magazine's 2007 Person of the Year: It's PU!


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Recommended Reading

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Bruce is vacationing.


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Baron Dave's Ultra-Duper Trivia Question Of The Day

One of these things is not like the others

   A:    Richard Nixon
   B:    Calvin Coolidge
   C:    John Tyler
   D:    Herbert Hoover
   E:    Thomas Jefferson


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Answers for Baron Dave's Ultra-Duper Trivia for 12/17/07

In a few WWII-era animated cartoons, Popeye The Sailor Man served in the Navy, and other cartoons have him in the Coast Guard or other branches of service. But the original Segar comic strip predates the war. For which branch of service was the comic strip Popeye a sailor man?

   A:    The US Navy
   B:    The British Navy
   C:    The Merchant Marines
   D:    The Coast Guard
  E:    He was never in the military


Answer: E.
The comic strip Popeye created by Segar was never in the armed forces. Virtually all branches of the service claimed him at one time or another.




mj was first, writing:
  For some reason C sticks in my mind my second would be E



DanD was second:
  Before Pearl Harbor, the most popular sentiment in America regarding England, France, and Russia's war with Germany was to just let the Europeans slug it out among themselves. This is because of the animosity that post-WWI produced, especially among the severely government-fucked-over veteran-class. Indeed, Hitler -- you know, Time's prewar, man of the year during the late 30s -- was not even really reviled that much, especially among the Old South's racist brigade.
  With the sinking of the Lusitania being the second, Pearl Harbor was the third national event (with the first being the Maine incident in Cuba) employed by a president to drag the nation into a foreign war of conquest (Some people who still consider Texas a home-bred foreign state will claim that Fort Sumpter should be defined as the first incident).
  It seems to me that (C) the first representations of Popeye showed him as a Merchant (or non-military) Marine (or sailor).




bebo answered:
  hi--- I think the correct answer is E. I don't remember Popeye being in the military.



joe b wrote:
  It has to be "A" or the Coast Guard, but I`m going with "A".



Dave in Tucson
  Before WWII Popeye was never in any military. And the pre-WWII Popeye cartoons were the best ever!



BadtotheboneBob nailed it:
  The answer is E. He was never associated with any military group. However, the Merchant Marine answer is possible as they are not a uniformed military service, but civilians sailing in American flagged merchant ships often under contract to the government, most notably during WWII. It wasn't until the 80s that Ronnie Raygun signed a law making those veterans eligible for VA benefits. It was a damn good thing as over 8,000 died when their cargo ships were sunk and many more were disabled. Those civilian ships were often given defensive arms manned by regular navy crews (Naval Armed Guard). Merchant Mariners are tested and licensed by the Coast Guard.



Buzzcook said:
  Popeye was just a sailor no military at all till WWII











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Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with the FRESH '9th Annual A Home For The Holidays', followed by a RERUN 'Moonlight', then a RERUN 'NUMB3RS'.
On a STRIKE-related RERUN Dave (from 12/17/02) are Drew Barrymore and Rod Stewart.
On a STRIKE-related RERUN Craig (from 12/22/05) are Tea Leoni, Amy Tan, Brian McKnight, and RZA.

NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Singing Bee', followed by a RERUN 'Singing Bee', then a 2-hour 'Dateline'.
On a STRIKE-related RERUN Leno (from 12/22/06) are Dustin Hoffman, Abigail Breslin, and African Children's Choir.
On a STRIKE-related RERUN Conan (from 9/7/07) are Jeff Garlin and Hot Hot Heat.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/11/07) are Joshua Malina and Pittsburgh Slim.

ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Duel', followed by a RERUN 'Women's Murder Club', then '20/20'.
On a STRIKE-related RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 10/18/07) are Angie Harmon, David Koechner, and Talib Kweli.

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

Faux has a RERUN 'Don't Forget The Lyrics!', followed by a FRESH 'The Next Great American Band'.

MY fills the night with the movie 'White Christmas'.

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 'Blazing Saddles', followed by the movie 'Open Range', then the movie 'Alien Resurrection'.

BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars;
 [1:00 PM]    Cash in the Attic - Episode 14;
 [2:00 PM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 8 Newark 7;
 [2:30 PM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Detling 24;
 [3:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
 [3:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2;
 [4:00 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 15;
 [4:30 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 16;
 [5:00 PM]    My Family - Ep. 14 Ding Dong Merrily;
 [5:30 PM]    Coupling - Episode 4;
 [6:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera;
 [7:00 PM]    BBC World News America;
 [8:00 PM]    Coupling - Ep. 6 Gotcha;
 [8:40 PM]    Coupling - Ep. 7 Dressed;
 [9:20 PM]    The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 1;
 [10:00 PM]    BBC World News America;
 [11:00 PM]    Coupling - Ep. 6 Gotcha;
 [11:40 PM]    Coupling - Ep. 7 Dressed;
 [12:20 AM]    The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 1;
 [1:00 AM]    Coupling - Ep. 1 Flushed;
 [1:40 AM]    The World Stands Up - Episode 20;
 [2:00 AM]    The Weakest Link - Episode 19;
 [3:00 AM]    Changing Rooms - Ep. 7 Woodford Green;
 [3:30 AM]    Changing Rooms - Ep.15 Leicester;
 [4:00 AM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 11 Derby 34;
 [4:30 AM]    Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Wespoint 14;
 [5:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 36 Wheatley;
 [5:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 37 Fanning;
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has the movie 'Shall We Dance?', followed by the movie 'Notting Hill', then the movie 'Notting Hill', again.

Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', and 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing'.

FX has 'Garfield: The Movie ', followed by the movie 'Home Alone', 'That 70s Show', and another 'That 70s Show'.

History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Shockwave', and 'Human Weapon'.

IFC  -   
 [07:50 AM]   ...So Goes the Nation;
 [09:25 AM]   Media Lab Results;
 [09:35 AM]   The Million Dollar Hotel;
 [11:45 AM]   Elephant;
 [01:15 PM]   ...So Goes the Nation;
 [02:50 PM]   IFC News Special;
 [03:00 PM]   The Million Dollar Hotel;
 [05:10 PM]   Elephant;
 [06:40 PM]   Pumpkin;
 [08:45 PM]   Human Nature;
 [10:30 PM]   Framed on IFC #2;
 [11:00 PM]   The Henry Rollins Show #315: Christopher Walken/Shane Macgowan;
 [11:30 PM]   Samurai 7 Episode #26: The Era's End;
 [12:00 AM]   Nightwatch;
 [01:45 AM]   The Henry Rollins Show #315: Christopher Walken/Shane Macgowan;
 [02:20 AM]   IFC News Special;
 [02:30 AM]   Framed on IFC #2;
 [03:00 AM]   Nightwatch;
 [04:45 AM]   Pumpkin.    (ALL TIMES EST)

SciFi has the movie 'Cabin Fever', followed by the movie 'Saw'.

Sundance  -   
 [06:00 AM]   Fahrenheit 451;
 [08:15 AM]   Agnes Browne;
 [10:00 AM]   Episode 2;
 [10:35 AM]   Somba Ke: The Money Place;
 [11:45 AM]   Episode 2;
 [12:15 PM]   The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico;
 [02:00 PM]   Fahrenheit 451;
 [04:00 PM]   Agnes Browne;
 [05:35 PM]   Milo 55160;
 [06:00 PM]   Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra;
 [07:00 PM]   Persona;
 [08:30 PM]   Cries and Whispers;
 [10:00 PM]   Smiles of a Summer Night;
 [12:00 AM]   Death Becomes Her;
 [02:00 AM]   Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons, Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot;
 [03:00 AM]   Thursday;
 [04:30 AM]   Kill Your Idols.    (ALL TIMES EST)

TCM:
 [6:30 AM]      Boys' Night Out (1962);
 [8:30 AM]      The Knack...And How To Get It (1965);
 [10:00 AM]      The Pumpkin Eater (1964);
 [12:00 PM]      Night Must Fall (1964);
 [2:00 PM]      Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961);
 [3:45 PM]      Look Back in Anger (1958);
 [5:45 PM]      This Sporting Life (1963);
 [8:00 PM]      Dark Victory (1939);
 [10:15 PM]      Love Story (1970);
 [12:00 AM]      No Sad Songs For Me (1950);
 [2:00 AM]      Haxan (1922)    SILENT ;
 [4:00 AM]      The Seventh Victim (1943);
 [5:30 AM]      MGM Parade Show #34 (1955).    (ALL TIMES EST)


Saturday  -  12/22/07

TCM features films written and/or directed by Ruth Gordon's second husband, Garson Kanin.
 [6:00 AM]      Anthony Adverse (1936);
 [8:30 AM]      Bush Christmas (1947);
 [10:00 AM]      Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939);
 [11:15 AM]      Five Little Peppers at Home (1940);
 [12:30 PM]      The Law And Jake Wade (1958);
 [2:00 PM]      To Have And Have Not (1944);
 [3:45 PM]      The Night Of The Hunter (1955);
 [5:30 PM]      The Hustler (1961);
 [8:00 PM]      Born Yesterday (1950);
 [10:00 PM]      Pat And Mike (1952);
 [11:45 PM]      Bachelor Mother (1939);
 [1:15 AM]      Next Time I Marry (1938);
 [2:30 AM]      A Man to Remember (1938);
 [4:00 AM]      Where It's At (1969).
    (ALL TIMES EST)



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U.S. comedian Lewis Black, center, performs on stage for U.S soldiers at a U.S base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007. Some 500 American soldiers watched an all-star USO cast perform under a steady snowstorm at a U.S. base in Kabul late Thursday. The stop was part of a six-day, 14-show tour that saw the entertainers begin their day with a performance in Iraq.
Photo by Rafiq Maqbool
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Returning To Air

Stewart & Colbert

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.

In a joint statement, Stewart and Colbert said: "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."

A spokesman for Comedy Central said neither the network, Stewart nor Colbert would have any further comment. A call to the Writers Guild of America was not immediately returned late Thursday.

Stewart & Colbert

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AP Celebrity of the Year

Stephen Colbert

While most TV characters remain boxed inside the frames of our sets, Stephen Colbert has routinely injected his on-screen persona into everything from the presidential race to ice cream.

Colbert failed to get onto the primary ballot in his home state of South Carolina, dooming his hopes for the White House. And his show went 0-for-4 at the Emmy Awards, including an especially painful loss to Barry Manilow.

But Colbert did win one honor: He was voted AP Celebrity of the Year by newspaper editors and broadcast producers who said Colbert had the biggest impact on pop culture in 2007.

He finished just a nudge above J.K. Rowling, who authored the final book in her enormously popular "Harry Potter" series. Finishing third was Al Gore, whose year included an Oscar, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and the global concert Live Earth.

Stephen Colbert

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U.S. comedian Robin Williams performs on stage for U.S soldiers at a U.S base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007. Some 500 American soldiers watched an all-star USO cast perform under a steady snowstorm at a U.S. base in Kabul late Thursday. The stop was part of a six-day, 14-show tour that saw the entertainers begin their day with a performance in Iraq.
Photo by Rafiq Maqbool
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Meeting With Writers

Worldwide Pants

Leaders of striking television writers plan to meet Friday with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could make the "Late Show" the only late-night TV program on the air with a writing staff.

The union's announcement last week that it would negotiate separately with production companies was seen as an indication that writers would work out something with Worldwide Pants, the Letterman-owned company that produces his show and Craig Ferguson's CBS talker.

It hasn't worked out that way, a sign that some in the Writer's Guild may be having second thoughts. Meanwhile, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel have all said they would resume their programs on Jan. 2 without their writing staffs.

Letterman is also aiming for a Jan. 2 return.

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Celebrates Tearing Down Of Borders

Europe

Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Portugal without showing a passport.

"The free movement of people is one of the main rights of human beings," European Commission president Jose Manuel Barrosso said as he hailed the addition of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia to 15 other states already in the Schengen Treaty zone.

Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico sawed down the frontier barrier at the Berg-Petrzalka crossing point between their countries to start three days of commemorations for the landmark change.

The Hungarian and Austrian interior ministers, Albert Takacs and Guenther Platter, dismantled the barriers at the Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland-Fertorakos crossing point, where in 1989 the two countries' foreign ministers cut the fence that symbolized the Iron Curtain.

Europe

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Break Away From US

Lakota Indians

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.

Lakota Indians

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Man With Opinions

Jack Nicholson

At 70, without a thing left to prove, Jack Nicholson is sharpening his political edges. Not that he'll be showing up at any presidential campaign rallies.

"I, by choice, am not an activist at this point," Nicholson said. "I think Sean Penn is the greatest living American in a certain way, because he's a man of action. ... I feel by being a neutralist in this area, in my actual field of endeavor I can be more effective."

He calls former British Prime Minister Blair a "rock star ... he's wonderful" and says he supports Hillary Clinton in the presidential race ("I'm a friend of the family"). Nicholson acknowledges being "a lifelong Irish Democrat. What more can I say? I voted for what's his name, (1988 presidential candidate Michael) Dukakis. This was the real test for a Democrat."

Nicholson was last politically active during George McGovern's 1972 campaign against Richard Nixon, and he points to his beliefs at that time in explaining why he left that realm of the public eye.

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Actress Candice Bergen and husband Marshall Rose attends 'The Great Debaters' film premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
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The National Ballet of Canada

'The Nutcracker'

Author Margaret Atwood and Barenaked Ladies lead singer Steven Page will don clown-like costumes on Saturday for their roles as "cannon dolls" in "The Nutcracker."

The National Ballet of Canada's holiday classic will be broadcast live, in high-definition, from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts to 70 Cineplex movie theatres from B.C. to Quebec.

The cannon dolls appear halfway through the first act, right before the big battle scene, and shoot a fake cannon into the audience.

'The Nutcracker'

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Switzerland Home To Become Museum

Charlie Chaplin

Screen legend Charlie Chaplin's Swiss retreat is set to become a museum dedicated to his life, with the signing of a deal to purchase the house Thursday, one of the agreement's backers said.

The house, overlooking Lake Leman, was Chaplin's home for the final 25 years of his life, and will now house a permanent exhibition, a 200-seat cinema, a shop and a restaurant.

Under the sales agreement, the house is to be sold for 35 million Swiss francs (21 million euros, 30 million dollars) by the Foundation for the Charlie Chaplin Museum to investors from Luxembourg, enabling the residence to be turned into a tourist attraction, promoter Philippe Meylan told AFP.

Charlie Chaplin

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Police Made Him Late

R. Kelly

R. Kelly avoided arrest Thursday by showing up in court, but the judge presiding over his child pornography case said he'll consider revoking the singer's bond despite his excuse: that police made him late.

Judge Vincent Gaughan said he was "very disappointed" that Kelly, in the midst of a concert tour, failed to show up for a scheduled Wednesday appearance.

Kelly attorney Ed Genson explained his client was tardy because police who pulled over his bus in Utah discovered the log book didn't document enough rest for the driver and ordered it stopped for eight hours.

Gaughan admonished the R&B superstar in court anyway, saying he'll decide Friday whether he should revoke Kelly's bond. The Cook County judge also was to set a trial date Friday.

R. Kelly

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Shadow dancing : Dancers of the Ballet Bejart Lausanne perform on stage during the rehearsal of Maurice Bejart's final creation entitled "Around the World in 80 Minutes".
Photo by Fabrice Coffrini
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Thieves Steal Painting In Brazil

Picasso

Thieves broke into the Sao Paulo Museum of Art and made off with paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari in a brazen heist Thursday morning that lasted just three minutes as recorded by security cameras.

They stole Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch," which he painted in 1904 during his Blue Period and is among the most valuable pieces in the museum's collection, said museum spokesman Eduardo Cosomano.

They also took "O Lavrador de Cafe" by Portinari, a major Brazilian artist.

"O Lavrador de Cafe," which depicts a coffee picker, was painted in 1939 and is one of the most renowned works by one of Brazil's most famous painters. Portinari (1903-1962) was an influential practitioner of the "neo-realism" style. His most famous works outside Brazil are the "War and Peace" panels at the United Nations building in New York.

Picasso

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Original Trans-Am On eBay

KITT

An original KITT - the talking car that helped David Hasselhoff escape bad guys on the '80s TV series "Knight Rider" - is up for sale on eBay.

The black 1984 Pontiac Trans Am is being sold to satisfy the debts of a slain real estate developer, whose killing last year is unsolved. Boats, cars and other items owned by car aficionado Andrew Kissel already have been sold after creditors claimed he owed $30 million.

Another original KITT was put up for sale by a California auto dealer in April. The 1982 Trans Am was fully restored and had documentation as one of the four "camera cars" used for close-ups and scenes where Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight, was behind the wheel.

That car sold in July for about $100,000, down from the asking price of $149,995, said dealer Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors in Dublin, Calif., in a telephone interview Thursday. He declined to identify the buyer.

KITT

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Policy Violations Found In Arrest

Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson

A sheriff's supervisor considered withholding details about Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson's anti-Semitic rant from an arrest report but was eventually overrruled by a captain, a department watchdog said Thursday.

Gibson was arrested July 28, 2006, for misdemeanor drunken driving on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The actor-director's remarks, detailed in a report leaked to celebrity Web site TMZ.com, provoked outrage and he later apologized.

The report also says three Los Angeles County sheriff's employees violated policy in Gibson's arrest.

The employees - two sergeants and a jailer - have since been disciplined for the minor procedural violations, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. One received a one-day suspension; the other two received a written reprimand.

Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson

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Erik 'The Lizardman' Sprague poses for a portrait at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square Odditorium Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007 in New York. 'The Lizardman' and Ripley.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
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Sci-Fi Shows Snuffed

USA Network

After months of speculation, USA has officially canceled veteran sci-fi dramas "The Dead Zone" and "The 4400."

Although things didn't look good for the two series because they are older and expensive to make, during the past several months the cable network looked for ways to bring them back. But it ultimately opted to end their run.

"Dead Zone," along with "Monk," put USA on the original programming map when they launched in summer 2002.

USA Network

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NBC Delays

'Celebrity Apprentice'

NBC is taking the premiere of "Celebrity Apprentice" out of the cross hairs of the last original episode of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" . . . or so it seems.

NBC said Wednesday that it will push the launch of "Apprentice" to January 10 from January 3, expanding "Deal or No Deal" to two hours January 3.

But ABC said late Wednesday it would move the premiere of "Cashmere" to January 6 from January 3, where it will air after the last original episode of "Desperate Housewives."

There is speculation that ABC also is mulling moving the original "Grey's" from January 3, the night of the Iowa caucuses, possibly to January 10, where it again might go against the premiere of "Apprentice."

'Celebrity Apprentice'

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Truck Driver Pleads Guilty

Francisco de Goya

A New Jersey lorry driver pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing the Francisco de Goya painting "Children with a Cart" while it was in transit and then later attempting to claim a $50,000 reward.

Steven Lee Olson, 54, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court to conspiring to steal an object of cultural heritage, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark said. His accomplice, restaurant worker Roman Szurko, 27, pleaded guilty to the same charge on Monday.

The men broke into a truck that was carrying the 1778 Spanish artist's painting from the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, prosecutors said. They later turned in the painting to claim the reward.

Francisco de Goya

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Cars pass under a street lit with Christmas lights in Madrid, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007. Some 80 streets and squares are lit up in the Spanish capital for the Christmas holidays.
Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza
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Exiled Muslim Writer

Taslima Nasreen

An exiled Bangladeshi Muslim woman writer whose presence in India sparked riots said on Thursday that New Delhi was forcing her to live under virtual house arrest, and appealed for more freedom.

Award-winning writer Taslima Nasreen, who criticizes the use of religion as an oppressive force, has lived in the east India city of Kolkata since 2003.

She was rushed from her home and moved from city to city last month when radical Islamist protests against her led to riots, and the army had to be called in.

Several of her books have been banned in India and Bangladesh. The European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 1994.

"I haven't done anything wrong. I wrote for human rights, women's rights and secular humanism and I am not a criminal," she said. "Why should I be punished in this way, why shouldn't I be able to meet my friends and relatives?"

Taslima Nasreen

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Frescoes On Display In Rome

Pompeii

Scenes of Roman life, myths and decorations buried nearly two millennia ago by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius go on display for the first time in years in an exhibit opening Thursday in Rome.

The show at the National Roman Museum brings together more than 100 artworks that adorned private and public buildings in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns near Naples that were destroyed by the eruption in AD 79.

Many of the works have not been seen for as much as a decade while they sat in storage at the Archeological Museum in Naples, which has been undergoing years-long renovations, officials said.

Pompeii

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Apple Rumour Site Shutting Down

ThinkSecret

Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the iPod have reached a settlement that calls for the site to shut down.

Apple and the site, ThinkSecret.com, settled the suit, which Apple filed in January 2005, and no sources were revealed, Apple and ThinkSecret said in statements.

College student Nick Ciarelli, ThinkSecret's publisher, said he plans to move on. He started the site at 13.

ThinkSecret

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Su lin, the Valley Zoo's six-month-old red panda cub, explores the snow on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The panda cubs were born in Edmonton but are native to the temperate boreal forest of the Himalayas.
Photo by Ian Jackson

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Twisted Barbie

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Woodstock Preservation Alliance

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War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler

The War Prayer - Mark Twain

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Who served?

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Bill Clinton - Chris Wallace/Faux News - 09/23/06 - Transcript


Stephen Colbert - White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Transcript


100 Most Banned Books


Photos from D.C. - Nancy Maynard

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Church of Reality - click here for more information

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Disinfotainment Today - Click Here!

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