Paul Krugman: Bigger Than Bush (nytimes.com)
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision.
MICHAEL KINSLEY: Eight Years Later (time.com)
"We will reopen Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House." --THE 2000 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. But they never did. eight years later, the barricades remain.
Donna Schaper: Recession Proofing New Year's Resolutions (huffingtonpost.com)
The lightness was exhilarating. It became more exhilarating as we climbed out and stumbled across hiking boots, backpacks, sticks, lunches and more, littering the trail all the way up. People clearly could carry a lot more in than they could carry out. People had more than they needed.
All-action heroine (guardian.co.uk)
A ballerina, a beauty queen, an all-action film star and a Bond girl -- Ryan Gilbey meets the marvellous Ms Michelle Yeoh.
Long time back, in what seems like a couple of lifetimes ago, I worked at Pat Denevan's
Mission Soaring Center, when it was still on Mission, in the old school house.
Mt. Tam and Ft. Funston were highly regarded flying sites.
Marian the Teacher, still in Philly, was first, and correct, with:
hang gliding?
Charlie answered:
Terrible. I had the Nike thing gathered on the list of things they had in common for yesterday's question, but forgot to include it. Today, I will note:
Mount Tamalpais and Fort Funston are popular hang-gliding locations. Those people are nuts, but why should they listen to me?
Hope I'm not missing something.
Guess Sally goofed too. She'll probably get this one though.
Joe S said:
Both are premier hang-gliding spots. I had the answer to yesterday's question, but I was too late. It took me hours and hours to figure it out. I was actually in bed sleeping when the answer came to me. I got up and logged on about 4:00 am, but today's page had just come up. I think I'm obsessed.
Sally answered:
I have been up since dawn, thinking I could get online before the little darlings awoke but, alas, No Bartcop entertainment for Friday was up then. Woe was me. It is bad enough that my daughter's computer has teeny, tiny print - which I can hardly see - but now that I have assisted in the building of Time's Square, Central Park, and the George Washington Bridge - in LEGO'S - my fingers can hardly work anymore for the day. So, I'll have to concede that the Professor has probably won, sob, sob, sob (as in "crying" not the other SOB you understand...) (Luv ya Professor.)
Because I couldn't see to research the answer de jour, I called my son (who lives in SF) and he says that both places are sites for hand gliding. Hey, it's worth a shot...
Till the morrow, when I should return home, exhausted, but having had a fun few days,
Adam in NoHo almost got it:
Besides being parks in the SF area that were formerly Nike sites, what do Mount
Tamalpais and Fort Funston have in common?
Well...they touch. Excellent ocean views? Buttons. Glitter. Starfish!
Excellent hiking; paragliding.
Reading about these two places, they seem to have even less in common the the
three sites in the previous question.
MAM replied:
Answer: Both are excellent sites for hang gliding enthusiasts.
Hang gliding at Fort Funston
Hang gliding at Mount Tamalpais
And, Kappy in Philly wrote:
Hangliding spots for those that don't know any better?
Milk - In Limited Theaters Now - WIDE Release on December 12th
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
Prizes:
4 prizes in all - 3 first-prizes:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Hat
o T-shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
And, 1 grand prize:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Sweatshirt (made from recycled materials)
o Script Book
o Hat
o T-Shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
I finally got to see the movie, "Milk" yesterday - but it wasn't easy, let me tell you. We had to try 3 movie theaters before we were able to get in to see a late afternoon show - and even that one was full, as in every seat filled, even the ones up front! I went with my son-in-law, and he commented that, "Up here (the Bronx), it's a given that Christmas will bring out the apartment dwellers - but not so on New Year's Day, because most people are home watching football!"
But, what a great movie! I loved the whole cast, especially Sean Penn, who was the best, hands down. The way that actual 1970's footage is interwoven into the film is fantastic; you really get the feel of the Castro back then. There were many good camera angles which brought interest too.
I also appreciated that the script/director didn't go for the sensationalism of the perceived gay, "lifestyle" and concentrated on Milk's political activism AWA the role that other gay's played in finally getting him elected to the Board of Supervisors.
I would say that the worse part of the film (for me) is having to see the actual face/footage of that hypocritical southern belle, Anita Bryant, spouting her "religious" views on any and all gay people worldwide! I did enjoy the several, "Boo's" coming from the audience when her face appeared on-screen though...
In case you didn't know, thanks to Anita, back then, she succeeded in removing a Dade County ordinance that prohibited people from being fired from jobs based on their sexual identity. Her work aided a ban on gay people adopting in the state of Florida, a ban that stands to this day. Then she went on to try rewriting discrimination into the legislation of California communities and other American towns, helping to make it so that foster children who have been with a family from birth until they are 14, can never be adopted by the only parents they have ever known.
Back on point, though, all in all it was an excellent (but sad) movie, and Sean Penn, looking very "un-studly in the, "Milk" role" should be bringing home an Oscar for sure. I would love to hear from some of your other reader's about their reviews/reactions to the film, and if they enjoyed it as much as did I.
CBS begins the night with the FRESH'Game Show In My Head', followed by another FRESH'Game Show In My Head', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC has LIVE'NFL Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Paul Rudd hosting, music by Beyonce.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Sleepless In Seattle'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MADtv' is a
MY fills the night with the movie 'Wing Commander'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Thunderheart', followed by the movie 'First Blood', then the movie 'First Blood', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 2 Glass House
[4:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 10
[5:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 11
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 11
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 Silence in the Library
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Brendan Fraser, Alesha Dixon
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 Silence in the Library
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Brendan Fraser, Alesha Dixon
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 Silence in the Library
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Brendan Fraser, Alesha Dixon
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Vita
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 14 Jenkinson
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'The Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'Good Will Hunting'.
Comedy Central has 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot And Fluffy', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', followed by the movie 'Waiting'.
FX has the movie 'The Sentinel', followed by the movie 'S.W.A.T.'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Seven Deadly Sins' (Greed), followed by a FRESH'Seven Deadly Sins' (Anger), and 'Journey To 10,000 BC'.
IFC -
[7:00 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[8:00 AM] The 47 Ronin, Part I
[10:00 AM] The Cat's Meow
[12:00 PM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[2:05 PM] 4 cylinder 400
[2:30 PM] The Castle
[4:00 PM] The Cat's Meow
[6:00 PM] Lantana
[8:00 PM] Fargo
[9:45 PM] Edmond
[11:15 PM] Cube
[12:50 AM] IFC News Special
[1:00 AM] Fargo
[2:45 AM] Edmond
[4:15 AM] Cube
[5:55 AM] Lantana (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Cyclops', followed by the movie 'Serenity'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Man Push Cart
[06:45 AM] Colma: The Musical
[08:30 AM] Little Terrorist
[09:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Archbishop Desmond Tutu + Sir Richard Branson
[10:00 AM] Cuba: An African Odyssey
[12:00 PM] It's a Free World
[01:45 PM] Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling
[02:45 PM] Dopamine
[04:15 PM] Eve & the Fire Horse
[06:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Sheryl Crow, Hard-Fi & Diana Krall
[07:00 PM] Look Both Ways
[09:00 PM] The Staircase: Chapter 5. A weak case
[10:00 PM] Jump Tomorrow
[12:00 AM] Heading South
[02:00 AM] Spectacle: Tony Bennett
[03:00 AM] Wishing Stairs
[04:45 AM] Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (ALL TIMES EST)
Singers Marc Anthony (L) and Jennifer Lopez (C) pose with Barack Obama representative Nick Razod at the inauguration ceremony of Luis Fortuno as Puerto Rico's ninth governor in the North wing of the Capitol Building in San Juan January 2, 2009.
Photo by Ana Martinez
Scientists have criticized Mariah Carey's mathematics skills, after she appropriated Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula for an album title.
The singer called her recent album E=MC2, but rather than reference the famous equation, she declared the tile stood for "emancipation equals Mariah Carey times two".
Mathematician Dr. David Leslie told BBC News that he was upset that the singer had had "misread the algebra."
"The 'two' in the equation means C squared, not MC multiplied by two," he explained. "The correct reading of the equation is E=MCC, so perhaps Mariah's re-interpretation should have been 'emancipation equals Mariah Carey Carey'?"
In this photo released by the New York Stock Exchange Euronext singer/actress Liza Minnelli joins others on the podium for the closing bell at the Exchange, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average started 2009 off with a 258.30 point gain, or 2.94 percent, to 9,034.69, finishing the week up 6.1 percent.
Photo by Ray Girard
Actor Will Smith, star of "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds", was voted the top money-making movie star of 2008, dethroning Johnny Depp in an annual poll released on Friday of movie theater owners and film buyers.
Smith, 40, is only the second African-American actor to win the Quigley poll in its 76 year history. Sidney Poitier was placed first in 1968 after the success of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "In the Heat of the Night."
Three newcomers on the 2008 list -- "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr, "Batman" star Christian Bale, and Shia LaBeouf, the 22 year-old actor in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" -- came in second, third and fourth places respectively.
Anne Hathaway, who made her name in "The Princess Diaries" and is now a Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominee for her role in "Rachel Getting Married", was named a star of tomorrow. along with Chris Pine, who appeared in "Bottle Shock" and will play Captain Kirk in 2009's "Star Trek" movie.
Cambodian monks have persuaded authorities to ban the country's first rock opera, which features actors dressed as clergy who break into song and dance, saying it insults Buddhism.
In a letter sent to the ministry of cults and religion, as well as to the media, the Supreme Sangha Council of Buddhist Monks also demanded an apology from the show's director, writer and actors.
"Where Elephants Weep", a modern take on a traditional Cambodian love story that merges pop and rock music with more traditional and historical Cambodian tunes, played in Phnom Penh from late November through early December.
It tells the story a Cambodian-American man who returns after the demise of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to reconnect with his roots. While he is a monk, he falls into a doomed love affair with a pop singer.
A member of the Polish American string band performs at the city hall judging area during the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009.
Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek
Filmmaker George Butler wants his friends to know he's very much alive, despite a premature obituary on "The Charlie Rose Show" this week.
During Rose's annual New Year's Eve tribute on PBS to notable figures who during the year, he included Butler, whose 1977 film "Pumping Iron" featured a then-unknown bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger. The screen even flashed a Butler tombstone, 1943-2008.
The PBS show had confused him with another George Butler, a longtime jazz record executive who signed Wynton Marsalis, who died April 9.
What's odd about the mistake is that Rose and Butler are old friends through Rose's first wife, meeting shortly after they graduated from college in North Carolina.
America's most famous French bookstore will close its doors this year after 73 years in business, unable to bear a staggering rent increase in New York's Rockefeller Center.
Outside the Librairie de France, hordes of tourists take pictures of the Center, its ice-skating rink and tree, but inside one of the first retail tenants, the shelves are slowly emptied of books.
The reason for closing this venerable institution located at one of America's most cherished retail addresses is a simple, albeit familiar one: the rent, which is due in September, is rising, from 360,000 dollars to a million dollars per year.
Heather Locklear has evaded DUI charges by pleading to a lesser offense.
A court official in Santa Barbara says an attorney for the actress entered a no contest plea to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge in court Friday.
Locklear was given three years of informal probation, will pay a fine and attend a driver's education program, said Lee Carter, Santa Barbara senior deputy district attorney.
Tests revealed no alcohol in Locklear's system following her September arrest, but prosecutors charged her in November with driving under the influence of prescription drugs.
A rare Bugatti motor car, which has been parked in a garage gathering dust for nearly 50 years, is expected to fetch millions of pounds when it is auctioned next month.
The 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante was left in the lock-up in Newcastle, northeast England, by its owner Harold Carr in 1960 with just 26,000 miles on the clock.
The car, one of only 17 of its kind, remained untouched and was known to only a handful of enthusiasts until the surgeon's death in 2007.
Media reports said it could fetch up to six million pounds ($8.7 million) when it is auctioned at Bonhams' Retromobile sale in Paris on February 7, which would make it the most expensive car to go under the hammer.
Picture released by Berlin police on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 shows the lithography 'Nu au rocking chair' by Henri Matisse. Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. More than 30 works - worth an estimated euro180,000 (US$250,000) - were stolen, apparently between Wednesday afternoon and lunchtime Thursday, police spokeswoman Claudia Schweiger said.
The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.
With about six months left in this year's campaign, the Wikimedia Foundation said it has raised $6.2 million. A flood of donations came in after the site's founder, Jimmy Wales, posted an appeal for support in late December.
The foundation said about 50,000 contributors chipped in a total of $2 million in the space of eight days, bringing the total number of donors to more than 125,000.
The money will go toward improving the software Wikipedia runs on as well as upgrading the servers and Internet bandwidth that accommodate the site's traffic. Wikipedia consistently ranks among the 10 most visited Web sites in the world.
He's the king of couch potatoes. A Manhattan man has won his second couch potato contest. Stan Friedman, 47, a research librarian, needed 18 hours, 48 minutes and 17 seconds of sports-watching time to outlast the competition at the second annual ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition.
The participants, sitting in recliners in front of dozens of televisions, weren't allowed to go to sleep or leave their recliners except for restroom breaks once every eight hours.
Friedman, like any good athlete, improved on his time. Last year, he needed 29 hours to win.
British actor Edmund Purdom, star of Hollywood blockbusters "The Egyptian" and "The Prodigal" in the mid-50s, has died aged 82 in Rome where he was a longtime resident.
After settling in Rome in the mid-60s, Purdom played in "sword and sandal" epics and Italian B movies, and then worked for many years as a voice-dubbing actor, mainly from Italian into English.
In a romantic history that included four weddings and three divorces, Purdom was best known for abruptly leaving his first wife Anita Philips and their children to marry Mexican actress Linda Christian, with whom he starred in "Athena" (1954).
John Travolta's teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family's vacation home, police said Friday. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning. He was taken by ambulance to a Freeport hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement from chief police superintendent Basil Rahming.
The teenager had last been seen going into the bathroom on Thursday and had a history of seizures, according to the statement. Police said they are planning an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Another police spokeswoman, Loretta Mackey, said Jett apparently hit his head on the bathtub.
Jett was the oldest child of Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, who also have an 8-year-old daughter. The family arrived on a private plane Tuesday and had been vacationing at their home in the Old Bahama Bay resort community.
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I would say that the worse part of the film (for me) is having to see the actual face/footage of that hypocritical southern belle, Anita Bryant, spouting her "religious" views on any and all gay people worldwide! I did enjoy the several, "Boo's" coming from the audience when her face appeared on-screen though...
