ERIC SPITZNAGEL: "MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America's Latest Sex Fantasy" (Business Insider)
Author Virginia Wade's fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest. There, in the shadow of Oregon's highest mountain, they are kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a mysterious woodland creature. "What the hell is that thing?" asks one protagonist.
Bruce Weber: Russell Johnson, Professor on 'Gilligan's Island,' Dies at 89 (New York Times)
Russell Johnson, an actor who made a living by often playing villains in westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naďve island castaways, on the hit sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died on Thursday at his home in Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 89.
C. Coville: 5 Movies That Sent the Opposite of Their Intended Message (Cracked)
It's not uncommon for movies and television to slip teachable moments into our entertainment. The Godzilla movies taught us all about the dangers of nuclear weapons and testing. Avatar taught us not to trust Australians. But what happens when these messages fail and end up communicating the exact opposite of what the creators intended? For example ...
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".
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mj was first, and correct, with:
He was badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junkyard dog
That would be Leroy Brown. At least until Jim made him look like a
jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone.
Alan J answered:
Leroy Brown
Maurice said:
Leroy Brown
Disillusioned Lois Of Oregon wrote:
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. He was badder than old King Kong.
Meaner than a junk yard dog. Yet he got his ass totally
kicked at the end of the song. What is there left to believe
in?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Charlie replied:
Bad, bad, Leroy Brown.
kEN said:
LEROY BROWN...IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME JUST ASK ANY JUNKYARD DOG!
Adam answered:
Leroy Brown
Kevin K. in Washington, DC wrote:
Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown!
Deborah in Folsom responded:
Why that would be Leroy Brown.
Happy Weekend!
Dale of Drymondy Springs, Norcali, replied:
Jim Croce, Sinatra, Toni Tennille and a bull named Leroy Brown. Interesting lewdster, that bull!
Sally said:
According to Jim Croce, "Big, bad Leroy Brown" was the baddest man in the whole damn town!
See, here it is in writing!
PS: I got quite the laughs from some of today's replies! thanks to Lois, Joe, and BBB in particular!
PPS: B2BB, you forgot a very important Birthday today:
Today, my granddaughter, Jessie Bear, turns 12 years old!!
MAM wrote:
Bad Bad Leroy Brown ~ The song is about a man from the South Side of Chicago who, due to his size and attitude, has a
reputation as the "baddest man in the whole damn town." One day, in a bar, he makes a pass at a pretty, married woman, whose jealous husband proceeds to beat Leroy brutally in the ensuing fight.
BttbBob responded:
Oh, gee... Whatever-could-the-answer-be? (he said sardonically - my agent double-dog dared me to do that...)...
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So, Ol' Jim sang that Ol' Leroy (Brown) was, "the baddest man in the whole damn town", eh? (Snork!) Yeah, sure thing... But, did Ol' Jim sing that Ol' Leroy was like
George Thorogood - Bad to the bone , 1982 , Album Version, (HD) , HQ Audio . - YouTube? No... He-did-not... Therefore, the essential element of being the "baddest' was not in evidence. QED
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eah, what I said! ... Dagnabbit!
~~~~~
Happy Birthday this day to:
(58) "Lt. Dunbar" ... He danced with wolves.
Lenny's partner is (44)...
Born this day:
(1904-1986) What direction do you think he was running? North by Northwest?
(1913-1987) ... and he did, too.
(1892-1957) In his personal life he was known as "Babe". Bet ya didn't know that...
Marian, evacuated to a hotel, thanks to the big-ass fire, replied:
Leroy Brown
And, Joe S answered:
Oh man. What a coincidence, Carla and I were just singing that song in the car yesterday. More as a tribute to me than for any other reason. That's an easy one to answer, it's......HEY! WAIT A MINUTE!! Lois! Lois! You think I look like PETER PAN?! That picture of me was a picture of budding fierce pirate, not no Peter Pan. Fierce. Pirate. Fierce Melungeon Pirate.
Anyway, back to the answer, it's this cat.
All kidding aside, we were all diminished by the loss of Jim Croce.
California Drought Emergency Declared By Governor Jerry Brown Make no mistake, this is not only a disaster for CA, but for all the western states that depend upon dwindling supplies from the Colorado River. Since CA has first dibs, AZ is facing dire consequences, including those of us here who depend on irrigation/ well drilling to compensate for the shortfall.
AMC offers the movie 'Titanic', followed by the movie 'Get Smart', then the movie 'Failure To Launch'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 08-09 - Episode 2
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 08-09 - Episode 3
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[10:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 2 - Episode 3
[11:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 2 - Episode 4
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 8
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 5 - Remember Me
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Legacy
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect
[9:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 9 NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 13 NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect
[12:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 9
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 13
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 5 - Remember Me
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Legacy
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', then the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', again.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Iron Man'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[8:15AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[8:45AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[9:15AM] The Three Stooges-Playing the Ponies
[9:40AM] The Three Stooges-Pop Goes the Easel
[10:05AM] The Three Stooges-Restless Knights
[10:30AM] The Three Stooges-Rockin' Thru the Rockies
[10:55AM] The Three Stooges-Saved by the Belle
[11:20AM] The Three Stooges-The Sitter Downers
[11:45AM] Hanna
[2:00PM] Johnson Family Vacation
[4:00PM] Bad Ass
[6:00PM] The Warriors
[8:00PM] Up in Smoke
[9:45PM] Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie
[11:30PM] Up in Smoke
[1:15AM] Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie
[3:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[3:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[4:00AM] Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Lipsett Diaries
[6:15AM] A Prairie Home Companion
[8:30AM] The Namesake
[11:00AM] JFK
[3:00PM] Law & Order-The Fertile Fields
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Intolerance
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Silence
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Working Stiff
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Skin Deep
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Conspiracy
[9:00PM] The Full Monty
[11:00PM] Do the Right Thing
[1:30AM] Manhunter
[4:15AM] Two Girls and a Guy (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Extinction', followed by the movie 'Zombieland'.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfuss arrives at the 19th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in Santa Monica, California January 16, 2014.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
The pop-rock trio fun. is launching a campaign to raise money for at-risk LGBT youth in Detroit.
The band said Friday it plans to raise $250,000 to build a community health centre for the Ruth Ellis Center, which provides housing, meals, clothing and medical services for LGBT youth in need.
Funds will be raised through its gay support organization, The Ally Coalition.
Members of fun. are singer Nate Ruess, guitarist Jack Antonoff and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost, who is from Detroit. The group had a breakthrough in 2012, topping the charts with "We Are Young" and "Some Nights." Last year, fun. won Grammys for song of the year and best new artist.
Aaron Paul visits the Quaker Good Energy Lodge at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Over the years, Sundance has been famously friendly to eco-themed docs, providing high-profile premieres for films such as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Cove," as well as political hot potatoes like "Why We Fight" and "8: The Mormon Proposition." Among fests, Sundance is hardly alone in offering a platform to left-leaning docs. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, while Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" is just one of many lefty Tribeca offerings.
By contrast, "2016: Obama's America" co-directors Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan avoided the U.S. fest circuit altogether - and it doesn't seem to have hurt the film in the slightest. "2016" earned more than $33 million, making it the second-highest-grossing political doc after "Fahrenheit 9/11."
For most nonfiction pics, however, the fest circuit is a vital component of a film's life cycle, which is why businessman-turned-documaker Dennis Michael Lynch submitted his "They Come to America" to nearly 30 U.S. festivals, to no avail. He contends the film was rejected on the basis of his conservative stance on immigration, as opposed to the film's quality. Lynch went on to self-distribute and decided not to "waste a dime on festivals" for the sequel.
That doesn't mean conservative or right-leaning docs aren't welcome at top-tier festivals. This year, Sundance will premiere Greg Whiteley's "Mitt," a behind-the-scenes look at Mitt Romney's presidential bid, and last year, Robert Stone's "Pandora's Promise" and R.J. Cutler's "The World According to Dick Cheney" both debuted in Park City.
Named Woman of Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals
Helen Mirren
Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren said that given her love of pudding of all kinds, she's thrilled to be named woman of the year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
"How very saucy of the Hasty Pudding organisation to offer me their award," Mirren said in a statement issued with Friday's announcement of her award. "As someone who adores pudding in all its manifestations ... suet, Christmas, treacle, bread and butter, Yorkshire, plum, figgy, etc., etc., I am so looking forward to the famous Hasty Pudding."
Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe, dating to the late 18th century. Its awards are presented annually to performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to entertainment.
Mirren, 68, won the 2007 best-actress Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen." She has been nominated on three other occasions. She has also appeared in "The Long Good Friday," ''Gosford Park" and "The Madness of King George." She was also named Dame of the British Empire in 2003.
Actress Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson poses in front of picture of her grandmother Elsa Schiaparelli at Christie's auction house in Paris January 17, 2014. The personal collection of Elsa Schiaparelli will be auctioned on January 23, 2014.
Photo by Charles Platiau
When Smokey Robinson & the Miracles had a hit with "Going to a Go-Go" in 1966, much of America had exactly one nightclub come to mind, even if they'd never ventured that far west themselves: the Whisky-a-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip, which gave a name - and a cage! - to a style of nightclub dancing that took off in the mid-'60s.
You can still go to a go-go, even though dancers no longer hover like frugging, fringed parakeets above the stage. The venerable club turns 50 this week, commemorated with performances by some of the landmark acts who played there over the decades, including Johnny Rivers, who opened the place in 1964; John Densmore of the Doors, who became the house band in 1966 before getting unceremoniously fired; and representatives of the punk, new wave, and even hair-metal eras like X, the Motels, the Bangles, and Great White.
In later years, the place would become better known for pogoing and punk-style slamming than anything that would have appealed to Austin Powers. But opening night in January 1964 brought about the invention of go-go dancing (or cage dancing), at least as it quickly came to be popularly recognized in films and on television.
Club owner Elmer Valentine, a former cop who admitted he'd been in bed with the mob in Chicago before coming to L.A. to run nightclubs, had come across a discotheque in France called the Whisky-a-Go-Go while on vacation in 1963, and he decided to make that the name of his new West Hollywood nightspot, which was to favor bands over dancing. He held a contest to enlist a comely female DJ who would spin records between sets, but when the winner's mother refused to let her come the night of the grand opening, Valentine told a cigarette girl to get up in the glass booth instead. And..
US entertainment giant Lucasfilm inaugurated its first overseas production complex on Thursday in Singapore, which will tap Asian talent to support future "Star Wars" movies and other projects.
Founder George Lucas and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attended the opening of the seven-storey building -- called "Sandcrawler" after a large treaded vehicle in the original "Star Wars" movie -- in a high-tech industrial park.
The new building will also house sports broadcaster ESPN Asia-Pacific as well as the Southeast Asian operations of Walt Disney, which acquired Lucasfilm in 2012.
The Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) visual effects team in Singapore in turn contributed to blockbuster franchises like "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Iron Man" and "The Avengers".
A Hindu devotee looks on, his body painted with blue powder, before a pilgrimage to the sacred Batu Caves Temple during Thaipusam festival outside Kuala Lumpur January 17, 2014. Thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of the 29 million Malaysian population, participate in the annual Hindu thanksgiving festival in which devotees subject themselves to painful rituals in a demonstration of faith and penance held in honour of Lord Subramaniam.
Photo by Samsul Said
More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.
Rhino hunting is driven by soaring demand in newly affluent Asian countries such as Vietnam and China, where the animal's horns are prized as a key ingredient in traditional medicine.
Rhino horn has a street value of more than $65,000 a kg in Asia, conservation groups say, making it more valuable than platinum, gold or cocaine.
In 2013, 1,004 of the massive animals were illegally killed in South Africa, compared with 668 the previous year and 448 in 2011.
Most of the killings are taking place in South Africa's flagship Kruger National Park, which lost 606 rhinos last year and 425 in 2012.
A man rides a horse with a child through the flames during the "Luminarias" annual religious celebration on the night before Saint Anthony's, patron of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares, about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Madrid, January 16, 2014. According to tradition that dates back 500 years, people ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of this small village to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires.
Photo by Juan Medina
Norwegian students solved nearly 5 million algebra equations in a week long challenge, using an app aimed at popularizing mathematics among children whose maths skills have been steadily sliding in international rankings.
Students hoped to just beat the previous record of 400,000 equations set by students in Washington state using the Dragonbox app; but that record fell in just three hours, organizers said.
Norwegian students were ranked 30th in the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a big drop from 21st just three years earlier. U.S. students fell to 36th from 31st.
Students in Minnesota will be the next to take the challenge, hoping to solve 250,000 equations in a week.
Breitling Wingwalkers aerobatics and wingwalking team perform with their Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplanes during the Bahrain International Air Show held at the Sakir airbase south of Manama, January 17, 2014.
Photo by Hamad I Mohammed
A team of archaeologists said on Friday they believed they might have found part of the remains of ninth-century monarch King Alfred the Great, one of the best-known and most important figures from early English history.
Tests have shown that a pelvic bone found in a museum box is likely to have been either that of Alfred - the only English king to have the moniker "Great" - or his son King Edward the Elder.
The bone was found among remains dug up at a medieval abbey in Winchester, southwest England, the capital of Alfred's kingdom.
The remains were initially discovered in an excavation some 15 years ago but were not tested at the time, and were stored in a box at Winchester Museum until archaeologists came upon them after a failed bid to find Alfred elsewhere.
Famed for military victories against ferocious Vikings who had invaded much of the north of the country, Alfred was buried at the Anglo-Saxon cathedral in Winchester but his remains and those of other royals were moved in 1100 by monks, ending up at the newly built Hyde Abbey.
A traditional Sicilian chariot with a horse is seen in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican January 17, 2014. Animals, including pigs, chickens, horses, cats and dogs, were at St. Peter's Square to mark the feast of St. Anthony the Abbot, the third-century holy man who is the Catholic Church's patron of animals.
Photo by Stefano Rellandini
Between the mysteriously banging doors, the odd noises coming from the basement, and the persistent feeling that someone is standing behind them, homeowners Gregory and Sandi Leeson are thoroughly creeped out by their 113-year-old Victorian.
So when they put the house in northeastern Pennsylvania up for sale last month, they advertised it as "slightly haunted."
Then things got REALLY weird.
There were calls from ghost hunters. An open house attracted lots of curiosity seekers, but no legitimate buyers. And a former resident came out of the woodwork to tell the couple that when he was a kid, he found a human skull in the basement - the same basement whose door Sandi Leeson once barricaded because she swore she could hear the clicking of a cigarette lighter emanating from the subterranean depths.
Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91.
Onoda was an intelligence officer who came out of hiding, erect but emaciated, in fatigues patched many times over, on Lubang island in the Philippines in March 1974, on his 52nd birthday. He surrendered only when his former commander flew there to reverse his 1945 orders to stay behind and spy on American troops.
Onoda and another World War II holdout, Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, who emerged from the jungle in 1972, received massive heroes' welcomes upon returning home.
Before and during the war, Japanese were taught absolute loyalty to the nation and the emperor. Soldiers in the Imperial Army observed a code that said death was preferable to surrender.
Onoda refused to give up, despite at least four searches during which family members appealed to him over loudspeakers and flights dropped leaflets urging him to surrender.
The son of a teacher, Onoda worked for a Japanese trading firm in Shanghai after finishing high school in 1939. Three years later, he was drafted and trained at a military academy.
In December 1944, he was sent to Lubang, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Manila. Most other Japanese soldiers surrendered when U.S. troops landed on Lubang in February 1945, though hundreds remained missing for years after the war.
As he struggled to feed himself, Onoda's mission became one of survival. He stole rice and bananas from local people down the hill, and shot their cows to make dried beef, triggering occasional skirmishes.
The turning point came on Feb. 20, 1974, when he met a young globe-trotter, Norio Suzuki, who ventured to Lubang in pursuit of Onoda.
Suzuki quietly pitched camp in lonely jungle clearings and waited. "Oi," Onoda eventually called out, and eventually began speaking with him.
Suzuki returned to Japan and contacted the government, which located Onoda's superior - Maj. Yoshimi Taniguchi - and flew him to Lubang to deliver his surrender order in person.
A dog clad against cold runs in front of the Upside Down House at the All-Russia Exhibiton Center in in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Its creators say the interior can cause dizziness.
Photo by Pavel Golovkin
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