The
goal of Project Pterosaur is to mount an expedition to locate and
bring back to the United States living specimens of pterosaurs or
their fertile eggs, which will be displayed in a Pterosaur Rookery
that will be the center piece of the planned Fellowship Creation
Science Museum and Research Institute (FCSMRI). Furthermore, the
rookery facility will establish a breeding colony of pterosaurs in
order to produce specimens that could then be put on display by other
regional institutions or church groups.
By doing all this, we
hope to accomplish three goals:
1. Support
Creation Theory by showing the incorrectness of the philosophy of
Evolutionism.
2. Educate the population about Creation
Science.
3. Create excitement about Creation and the
Bible in the public.
I (Dr. Paley) am the founder
and Chief Officer of the project. I will also be leading the
expedition and acting as Science Liaison to the public. Funding is
being provided by Fellowship University, the Fairlight Institute, and
donations from wealthy Christian businessmen who wish to remain
anonymous at this time.
The whole site is
extensive and well-thought out.
The case for Project Pterosaur being a
hoax
I mean c'mon. Are these
people really that dumb?
Information on Dr. Paley and the university is scarce.
Something this extensive and this well funded (they claim the project
is 75% funded) should really have popped up in other places. Not
everything happens on the net, but the site is net savvy and it seems
unlikely that a real organization has such a small virtual
footprint.
They make a big deal
about shutting down the Landover Baptist website,
an extensive spoof of ultra-Christians in its own
right.
I mean c'mon. Are these people
really that dumb?
The case for Project Pterosaur being
real
Fanatics who don't live
in the world G_d created can take their fanatacism to extremes.
Misplaced faith might make you fly airplanes into buildings or
present, in all seriousness, the Creation
Museum.
Former Governor Mike Huckabee is
continuing his run for president even knowing that he has no
mathematical chance to win the GOP nomination. "I
still believe in miracles." Huckabee has raised millions for his
campaign, and those same people could be talked into kicking in a few
bucks for this project.
If it were a hoax, it
would be funnier.
Final Verdict
None.
It looks too
real to dismiss without further evidence, but a good hoax only works
if it is within the realm of possibility. I'm hoping it's a hoax,
but I fear it's real. These are strange times. If it isn't real,
there are people out there who believe it could be. Yes, these
people are that dumb.
On the other hand, it would be
really neat if they actually found some pterosaurs. It wouldn't
prove creationism, but live dinosaurs would make a great exhibit.
So... Godspeed, Dr. Paley!
Marscon next week
Marscon is next weekend,
with a full-blown Dementia Music track and many musicians will have
new CDs out. I may not have a column next week, but I should have
music reviews for a few weeks after that.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to
play on the air.
--////
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of
Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental
characteristic of Western science." -- Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li
Judi & Marian the Teacher tied with 6 correct picks out of 9. Well done!
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mcdonald's Oscar Pool Entry: (3 of 9)
Best Picture - Michael Clayton
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - No End in Sight
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ducks's Oscar Pool Entry: (3 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor - Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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pat's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - No vote
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Ted's Oscar Pool Entry: (3 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Jason Reitman for Juno
Best Actor - George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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tONY iN pHILLY's Oscar Pool Entry: (5 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Persepolis
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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melissa bishop's Oscar Pool Entry: (5 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Buzz Cook's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Laura Linney in The Savages
Best Supporting Actor - Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Mykiel Orion's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Persepolis
Best Foreign Language Film - 12 -- Russia
Best Documentary Feature - Taxi to the Dark Side
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Marianne's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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That MadCat JD's Oscar Pool Entry: (5 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: -Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Beaufort -- Israel
Best Documentary Feature - No End in Sight
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Jeff Taylor's Oscar Pool Entry: (1 of 9)
Best Picture - Michael Clayton
Best Director - Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Best Actor - Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Katyn -- Poland
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Ned's Oscar Pool Entry: (1 of 9)
Best Picture: Juno
Best Director: Jason Reitman for Juno
Best Actor: Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress: Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film: Katyn -- Poland
Best Documentary Feature: Sicko
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gary's Oscar Pool Entry: (3 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress - Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - 12 -- Russia
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Billy Smith's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
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Fud's Oscar Pool Entry: (3 of 9)
Best Picture - There Will Be Blood
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - No vote
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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sport's Oscar Pool Entry: (2 of 9)
Best Picture - Atonement
Best Director - Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Best Actor - George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Laura Linney in The Savages
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress - Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Katyn -- Poland
Best Documentary Feature - Taxi to the Dark Side
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judi's Oscar Pool Entry: (6 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Carlo Iturbi's Oscar Pool Entry: (5 of 9)
Best Picture - Michael Clayton
Best Director -Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Taxi to the Dark Side
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Gman's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - 12 -- Russia
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Tracy Postert, PhD's Oscar Pool Entry: (4 of 9)
Best Picture - Juno
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Persepolis
Best Foreign Language Film - 12 -- Russia
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Joe Showalter's Oscar Pool Entry: (2 of 9)
Best Picture - There Will Be Blood
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men'
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Walt's Oscar Pool Entry: (5 of 9)
Best Picture - Juno
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Taxi to the Dark Side
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Marian the Teacher's Oscar Pool Entry: (6 of 9)
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - No End in Sight
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Marty's picks: (4 of 9)
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Director: Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Julie Christie - Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature: Sicko
Susan Estrich: What's in a Word? (creators.com)
Not much, in my experience, if you're a presidential candidate. The speechwriter gives the candidate the speech for the next stop on the flight. He marks it up, or not, and out come the words, like magic. Original means he's never said it before. Usually he has, albeit in a different way. Original doesn't mean he wrote it, but that he's the first one to say it.
CHRIS JUSTICE: Trout Fishing in America (popmatters.com)
Richard Brautigan's minimalist prose wove hallucinations into social commentary, pastoral meditations into cultural satire, and journalistic reports about mundane existence into nihilistic, punkish sirens.
J. Hoberman: The best of DIY culture is celebrated in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind (villagevoice.com)
Like his previous feature "The Science of Sleep," Michel Gondry's gently outlandish Be Kind Rewind is a fantasy about fantasy-a fragile, somewhat precious celebration of DIY filmmaking and cult-film consumption that, given its gaps in logic, spectators are more or less obliged to mentally assemble on their own.
Dana Stevens: MICHEL GONDRY'S BE KIND REWIND (slate.com)
The single best reason to watch Be Kind Rewind is for the ingenious sight gags during the moviemaking montages that make up the movie's middle section. To re-create the climax of Rush Hour, in which Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan dangle high above a city street, Mike and Jerry hang from a jungle gym a few feet above a child's game board representing a town.
In 1957, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, stumped the panel on I've Got A Secret. For his efforts, he received $80 and whatelse?
A: A brand new Magnavox TV
B: A brand new Philco TV
C: A carton of Winston cigarettes
D: A new Oldsmobile
E: Lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni
Funnel-capped shape-shifting boy, Tom Terrific (a cartoon mainstay on Captain Kangaroo), had a sidekick. What was the sidekick's name?
A: Crabby Appleton
B: Augie Doggie
C: Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog
D: Pampered Pamela Penelope Primm
E: Hank the Wonder Horse
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Steve was first, and correct with:
It was Mighty Manfred the WONDERRRR DOOOOGG! Great cartoon. I have a 16mm print of The Missing Mail Mystery.
mj was second, and correct, observing:
Tom Terrific was the greatest hero ever
Terrific was the right name for him, because he was so clever.
He coulc be what he wanted to be. If you wanted to see, a you just follwed him.
He could be a plane up high, a diesel train roaring by, a bumble bee, a tree...
And the answer is C. Mighty Manfred the wonder Dog.
His nemesis, Crabby Appleton, was rotten to the core and did a bad deed every day, sometimes three or four.
I think that cartoon was one of the inspirations for Liquid TV's Stick Figure Theater
S. Bennett answered:
Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog
Tom Terrific could effect changes in his persona depending on the circumstances. He grew up, changed his name to Mitt Romney, and of course we all know about Mighty Manfred being tied to the roof of the car.
Alan J replied:
Mighty Manfred the Wonder dog
DanD
I remember that I used to watch CK when I was (a whole hell of a lot)
younger, but none of those names except Augie Doggie seem familiar.
Perhaps I'm just having another Ronnie Raygun moment ... even so I'll
choose "B" as my "A."
BGRDDAD
Mighty Manfred The Wonder Dog .... and good for you for listing his entire name!
Marian the Teacher answered:
C. Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog
Joe S ("It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle."
~ Bob Keeshan (Capt. Kangaroo)) replied:
I really don't know the answer to this question. I remember Tom Terrific but that's about all. I'm guessing Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, just through a process of elimination. I know it's not A or B, and I'm not familiar with D or E, so it has to be C and Mighty Manfred sounds verrry familiar.
ducks
today's tom terrific answer from me is Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog.
pure guess.
Sally said:
Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog (C) was Tom Terrific the sidekick's on Captain Kangaroo.
While most readers are thinking, "Oh, I remember him on Captain Kangaroo - along with Mr Green Jeans, Mr Moose, Miss Frog,
Mr. Whispers, the Dancing Bear, the Banana Man, Baby Duck Weems, and our first glimpse of an African-American (on a kiddy show) as "Mr. Baxter" - I am recalling a living room full of kids, plates of PBJ "sammies," with "washable" plastic cups of "Kool-Aid" - and all the playful pushing, and shoving that only little boys could do... (Least I forget, all the "shhhh's" coming from the little girls.) Somehow, my house was always the local, "hangout" for the neighborhood kids, friends on my own children, AWA the stragglers - back in the 1970s, and early 80s. Indeed, those were the good old days for me. Golly, I think this was even pre Sesame Street time in CO.
'Nuff of that reminiscing!
And, Mike in Des Moines answered:
C. Mighty Manfred the WONDER DOG!
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'Welcome To The Captain', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Old Christine', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Will Ferrell and Michael McDonald.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jennifer Beals, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Little Big Town.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad', then a FRESH'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Eric Bana, Catherine O'Hara, and Tift Merritt.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Will Arnett, Flavor Flav, and Super Furry Animals.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Melora Hardin and Lupe Fiasco.
ABC fills the night with the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'A Raisin In The Sun'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Anne Heche and the Helio Sequences.
The CW offers a RERUN'Gossip Girl', followed by a FRESH'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux has a FRESH'Moment Of Truth', followed by a FRESH'Sarah Connor'.
MY has 'Celebrity Expose', followed by a FRESH'Paradise Ho-Tell'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Intervention', another 'Intervention', 'Paranormal', and another 'Paranormal'.
AMC offers the movie 'The In-Laws', followed by the movie 'Hope Floats', then the movie 'Father Of The Bride, Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Walnut Tree;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 15;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Shepton Mallet 9;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Wetherby 20;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 4 Trust Never Sleeps;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 6 9 1/2 Months;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1;
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1;
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1;
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.4 Winchester;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.5 Painswick;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Shepton Mallet 9;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Wetherby 20;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Inglis;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Kitching;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and still another 'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', 'Scrubs', and another 'Scrubs'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 2/14/08) is Lee Siegel.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 2/14/08) are John Feinstein and Leonard Nimoy.
FX has the movie 'The Trasporter 2', followed by the movie 'The Rundown', then the movie 'Undisputed II; Last Man Standing'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'World's Biggest Machines', 'Cities Of The Underworld', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] Tom Dowd and the Language of Music;
[07:50 AM] ...So Goes the Nation;
[09:25 AM] Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle;
[11:35 AM] Tom Dowd and the Language of Music;
[01:15 PM] ...So Goes the Nation;
[02:50 PM] IFC News Special;
[03:00 PM] Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle;
[05:10 PM] Tom Dowd and the Language of Music;
[06:45 PM] The Deep End;
[08:30 PM] Framed on IFC #3;
[09:00 PM] Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day;
[10:30 PM] The Sleeping Dictionary;
[12:30 AM] Framed on IFC #3;
[01:00 AM] Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day;
[02:30 AM] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me;
[04:50 AM] ...So Goes the Nation. (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedian Jon Stewart, host of the 80th Academy Awards telecast, is shown holding an actual Oscar statue in this undated publicity photograph. This will mark Stewart's second stint as an Oscar host. The Academy Awards will be presented in Hollywood February 24, 2008.
Photo by Bob D'Amico
She just became an honorary cultural ambassador for Barbados, and now Rihanna is advocating for another cause: a New York City leukemia patient in urgent need of a bone marrow donor.
The 20-year-old singer is working with DKMS, an international donor network based in Tubingen, Germany, to try to find a donor for Lisa Gershowitz Flynn, People magazine reported on its Web site Saturday.
"When I heard about Lisa's plight, my heart broke," Rihanna told the magazine. "I said, `I need to get the word out about Lisa right away.'"
Flynn is a 41-year-old mother of two young children. She was diagnosed in November with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Doctors have told her she has four to six weeks to find a suitable donor, according to People.
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner accept the Oscar for best documentary feature for "Taxi to the Dark Side" during the 80th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 24, 2008.
Photo by Gary Hershorn
Gary Busey lived up to his reputation by strangely crashing Ryan Seacrest's interviews on the Academy Awards red carpet.
While Seacrest was interviewing Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney on the live E! pre-show broadcast, Busey repeatedly interrupted.
After Busey warmly greeted Linney, Seacrest introduced him to Garner, whom he promptly gave a bear hug. Garner was clearly annoyed, and was left wondering why "this man" had just grabbed her. Linney tried to usher them both out of the interview as Garner curtly replied to Seacrest's final questions.
When an E! co-host asked Seacrest what had happened, Seacrest was dumbfounded and acknowledged he had never met Busey before.
Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray.
Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players. Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida last week estimated about 300,000 people own the Microsoft video player, sold as a separate $130 add-on for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft was one of HD DVD's main backers, along with Intel Corp. and Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp., and its support for the format was seen as a big win for Toshiba's format.
The Redmond-based software maker said the decision to stop selling HD DVD players won't have a material impact on its video game business.
Dartmouth College archivist Peter Carini holds a recording disk of poet Robert Frost in Hanover, N.H., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. Sixty years after he sat down with Dartmouth College students for an off-the-record lecture, poet Robert Frost's words will be published for the first time. A transcript of a lecture - one of nine Frost gave at the college for its 'Great Issues' series - will be published later this month in a literary journal, and while it may not rise to the level of a recently-discovered manuscript, Frost lovers and scholars may learn a thing or two.
Photo by Toby Talbot
Ann Curry bungee-jumps off a bridge in England on live television, screaming in exhilaration and fear. Chris Cuomo kisses the pavement after leaping off a casino roof while tethered to safety cables. And Meredith Vieira really did go jump in a lake. In Vermont. In February.
What's going on here? Since when did a willingness to perform death-defying acts join glib interviewing skills and an ability to appear empathetic on demand as requirements for a job in morning television?
Cuomo, ABC's "Good Morning America" newsman, looked like he'd rather have been anywhere else as he waited to jump off the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City last week. Afghanistan in the winter? Sure. Anything!
Taking on a dare, getting out of your comfort zone. Morning show producers figure it makes great television, like during the recent series where "Today" personalities tried extreme sports. Vieira zorbed - that is, rolled down a hill within an inflatable ball. Lauer kite-boarded. Al Roker hang-glided.
A busboy looking to clean up has settled a lawsuit against Lindsay Lohan over a 2005 car crash.
"It's been resolved," said Robert G. Klein, the attorney for busboy Raymundo Ortega, who settled for an undisclosed amount on Wednesday.
Lohan's Mercedes-Benz collided with Ortega's van as he was making a turn in October 2005. Though the California Highway Patrol concluded that Ortega caused the crash by making an illegal U-turn, he sued Lohan seeking at least $200,000 in damages.
Music Director Lorin Maazel conducts the New York Philharmonic during a performance at the National Grand Theater in Beijing on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008. North Korea was tearing down anti-American propaganda as part of unprecedented accommodations for the New York Philharmonic's two-day visit to Pyongyang, the ensemble's president said Sunday on the eve of its departure for the communist nation.
Photo by David Guttenfelder
Ireland's rich musical tradition has acquired an unlikely ambassador for the 2008 Eurovision song contest: glove puppet Dustin the Turkey, renowned for his burps and thick Dublin accent.
The choice of Dustin's song "Irelande Douze Pointe" (Ireland 12 points) played to mixed reviews on Saturday, with applause and boos from the audience.
Dustin vowed to put Ireland, which has a record seven Eurovision wins, back on the map after several disappointing years and finishing last place in Helsinki in 2007.
"Shake your feathers and pop your beak/ Shake it to the West and to the East," Dustin sings as he makes fun of Riverdance, a hugely successful Irish dance show.
With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose.
The canopied plastic tables at the Miami MetroZoo became exhibits of their own as passers-by hoisted children and snapped pictures of the snakes, scorpions and turtles being handed over in laundry baskets, food storage containers and pillow cases.
Of the more than 150 pets handed over on "Exotic Pet Amnesty Day" by people who could no longer care for the beasts, all but six found new homes.
Among the more bizarre submissions were a rhino iguana, a spotted African serval cat and a coatmundi - a racoon-looking mammal found in South America.
An image depicting Osama Bin Laden and guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" is seen at the back of a passenger bus in the outskirts of La Paz, February 21, 2008. The words read "No, contenders".
Photo by David Mercado
The political thriller "Vantage Point" secured the top spot at the weekend box office, earning an estimated $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The previous No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox's "Jumper," dropped to second with $12.7 million, raising its domestic total to $56.2 million in two weeks. Paramount's family fantasy "The Spiderwick Chronicles" was a close third with $12.6 million. Disney's dance saga "Step Up 2 The Streets" and Warner Bros.' romantic comedy "Fool's Gold" rounded out the top five.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
British wartime secret service agent Pearl Cornioley, who helped the French resistance movement, died on Sunday at a hospital in the French Loire Valley, a family friend said. She was 93.
A fluent French speaker who spent her childhood in Paris, Cornioley worked at the British embassy in Paris at the start of World War II.
She returned to England and joined the Special Operations Executive as a secret agent.
At the age of 29, she was parachuted into central France in 1943 and there helped resistance groups.
In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, a capybara eats a banana leaf, from a box decorated for the Lunar New Year, to kick off the San Francisco Zoo's Lunar New Year celebration-the Year of the Rat, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008 in San Francisco. The capybara, the world's largest rodent, can be found near water from Panama to Northeast Argentina.
Photo by George Nikitin
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