BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 20 March, 2010

Saturday

20 March, 2010

(Updated Daily)


[967 days in a row]

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Census Forms To Be Modeled After 'NCAA-Style Brackets'


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Mark Morford: Open wide and never stop gasping (sfgate.com)
I am completely in love with endless jaw-dropping forehead-slapping heart-stopping bursts of insatiable, inexhaustible, completely unknowable mystery


Dan Savage: (662) 862-3104
CONFIDENTIAL TO SAVAGE LOVERS: I need to ask you to do something. Not for me, but for a teenage lesbian in a small town. Constance McMillen is a senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. When she asked if she could attend prom with her girlfriend, she was told no.


Paul Krugman: Why We Reform (nytimes.com)
A South Carolina case in which a teenager with H.I.V. had his insurance policy revoked is a reminder of why we need health care reform now, imperfect as it is.


Froma Harrop: Jihad Jane: Terror by Reason of Insanity (creators.com)
Consider the case of "Jihad Jane." Divorced twice (first marriage at 16), Colleen LaRose was arrested for drunkenness in Texas. She ended up living with a boyfriend in a Philadelphia suburb and taking care of his elderly father. Let's say that LaRose was not one of life's winners under conventional definitions.


Connie Schultz: Please, Enough With the Partisan Chain E-mail (creators.com)
For five years, Joyce and John Good silently tolerated angry partisan e-mails forwarded by family and friends. They even ignored the steady vitriol flowing from the husband and wife they'd known for 40 years


Susan Estrich: The Last Lap (creators.com)
It was 30 years ago that we first put national health insurance in the Democratic Party platform. I was working for Ted Kennedy then. We had lost the nomination to Jimmy Carter, but both sides were still fighting. Whatever we were for, President Carter and his team were against. And we were very much for health care.


Michael E. Ross: Review of "Last Words" by George Carlin with Tony Hendra (popmatters.com)
Writing the book that caps your 50 years in the entertainment business, a book you know will probably serve as your valedictory address, can be a very liberating experience.


Janice Turner: We need to talk about Lionel Shriver (timesonline.co.uk)
Tough, funny, angry, the award-winning writer talks about life, death, being a batty old lady and having seriously eccentric eating habits.


"Hocus Bogus: (Margellos World Republic of Letters): by Emile Aja: A review by M. A. Orthofer
'Pseudo,' finally available in English as 'Hocus Bogus,' is one of the oddest works of (semi-)fiction of recent times. A documentary novel (of sorts), it came about because of the circumstances its author Romain Gary got himself into.


Jeanette Winterson: I wanted to use myself as fiction and fact (timesonline.co.uk)
Twenty-five years after publishing 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,' the author looks back at her startling debut.


Evan Sawdey: "20 Questions: Patrick & Eugene" (popmatters.com)
Eugene Bezoids of aptly named British pop duo Patrick & Eugene answers PopMatters' 20 Questions, discussing how good he'd look in an ellipsis, why setting Patrick's hair on fire may or may not be part of a magic trick, and his unabashed love for ... cider.


Rafer Guzmán: "Jett set: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning play pioneering female rockers in 'The Runaways'" (Newsday)
Here's a challenge: Make a list of successful all-female rock bands, starting with The Runaways, the short-lived teen group from the 1970s. After the Go-Go's, the Bangles and The Donnas, your list will probably be nearing its end.


Stephen Armstrong: Hanks on the mother of all wars (timesonline.co.uk)
Co-creator Tom Hanks talks about 'The Pacific,' an epic, unflinching portrait of America's bitter war with Japan.


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The Left Assails Dems for 'Demon Pass'


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Wake-up Call


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(observing the new Mike Tyson reality show on Animal Planet: the pugilist and his pigeons...not unlike Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Forest Whitaker in "Ghost Dog")

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Trivia Question of the Day


What was Bullwinkle's alma mater?


                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


What is Yakko, Wakko and Dot's last name?


      Warner                                                      Source


Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, also known as "The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister)" or just simply "The Warners", are the three title cartoon characters featured on the animated series Animaniacs.            Source





Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, with:
   Warner



mj responded:
   Those Animaniacs
  With their pay for play contracts were the Warner triplets.




Alan J replied:
   Warner



Baron Dave ("We don't paint floors because they're beneath us." --  Animaniacs) wrote:
   Ah, the Warner Brothers, and their sister Dot. Animaniacs may be my favorite cartoon show of all time (as opposed to favorite animated show, which would be The Simpsons). As it happens, I'm flixing the series now. The second disk contains "Bumbie's Mum" and "King Yakko", two of the high points of the post-"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" universe.
  PS: Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, is the fictionalized version of International Falls, Minnesota. International Falls and Embarrass vie for who is the coldest city in the nation.




Sally said:
   Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, AKA, the "Animaniacs!'
  PS: No time for chit chat today, it's 72o and sunny outside. Three loads of laundry on the clothes line and now the rake is a calling me. I figured I be too tired to be online after all of this, hahaha!




Charlie replied:
   Warner




Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
   Warner



MAM   replied:
   Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner. Wakko is with the red cap.




Tom Loud )O( Yer Friendly Neighborhood Folksinger (""The usual Republican contribution is to make the progressive solution more unworkable than it had to be."   Gerard Peirce) answered:
   Yakko and Wakko are the Warner Brothers. Dot is the Warner Sister. Ficitious, even for cartoon carachters, they represented an arch-type of familliar character. From early Disney to Tex Avery T&A (Goonight Nurse!) Not the mention hosting Pinky and the Brain. Please note that I did look any of this up.



And, Joe S (The Son-of-a-bitch from the Union Hall) responded:
   Warner. Never heard of 'em.



  


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

"I'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE."

MR. STUPID GETS A BRAIN CELL! THE GREENSPUN COMEDY SHOW!

HERE'S HOPING!

VICTORY AT LAST?

THE TOE SUCKER FORECAST!

GOD DOES FORGIVE YOU BUT I DON'T, GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU BUT I WON'T, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOD AND ME!

WHERE'S THE DEMOCRACY?

SCOUTS HONOR!

REPUGS SUCK!

I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. NOT!!!

WELL, REALLY FUCKING DUH YOU REPUG ASSHOLES!

HAND JOB IS RIPPING OFF THE TROOPS! CONSERVATIVES SUCK!

WINGNUTS GONE WILD!

HEY,TONY HAWK MEET TONY OWL!

WHAT?





THE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE TEXAS BOARD OF EDUCATION!


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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Finally cooling off to more seasonal temperatures.



Tonight, Saturday:

CBS fills the night with even more LIVE 'NCAA Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.


NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Biggest Loser', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Sigourney Weaver hosting, music by the Ting Tings.


ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'FlashForward', followed by a RERUN 'Murder He Wrote Castle'.


The CW fills the night with the movie 'Wes Craven Presents: They'.


Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'Wanda Sykes' is FRESH.


MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.


A&E has all 'CSI: The 2nd One' all night.


AMC offers the movie 'Goodfellas', followed by the movie 'Traffic', then the movie 'Traffic', again.


BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 3 Moore Place
 [1:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
 [2:00 PM]   Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
 [2:45 PM]   Six Nations Rugby Championship - England at France
 [4:45 PM]   Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Ramsay Special - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Ramsay Special
 [5:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [6:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 7
 [7:00 PM]   Doctor Who - Ep 10 Blink
 [8:00 PM]   Survivors - Episode 5
 [9:00 PM]   Survivors - Episode 6
 [10:00 PM]   The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Rob Brydon, Harry Connick Jr., Katherine Jenkins
 [11:00 PM]   Survivors - Episode 5
 [12:00 AM]   Survivors - Episode 6
 [1:00 AM]   The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Rob Brydon, Harry Connick Jr., Katherine Jenkins
 [2:00 AM]   Survivors - Episode 5
 [3:00 AM]   Survivors - Episode 6
 [4:00 AM]   The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Rob Brydon, Harry Connick Jr., Katherine Jenkins
 [5:00 AM]   Cash in the Attic - Episode 7
 [6:00 AM]   Cash in the Attic - Ep 9 McDonald     (ALL TIMES EST)


Bravo has all 'House' all night.


Comedy Central has the movie 'Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls', 'Jim Gaffigan: King Baby', 'Bill Engvall: Aged And Confused' and 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity'.


FX has the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', followed by the movie 'The Simpsons Movie', then the movie 'Grandma's Boy'.


History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Jesse James' Hidden Treasure', and 'Crime Wave: 18 Months Of Mayhem'.


IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]    Private Fears in Public Places
 [8:05 AM]    The Station Agent
 [9:35 AM]    In America
 [11:30 AM]    Private Fears in Public Places
 [1:35 PM]    The Station Agent
 [3:05 PM]    In America
 [4:55 PM]    Private Fears in Public Places
 [7:00 PM]    Wrong Door
 [7:30 PM]    Arrested Development
 [8:00 PM]    Kurt Cobain About a Son
 [9:45 PM]    From the Basement
 [10:00 PM]    IFC News: SXSW 2010
 [10:05 PM]    Dinner With the Band
 [10:30 PM]    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
 [12:15 AM]    The Changeling
 [2:05 AM]    The Sweet Hereafter
 [4:00 AM]    Kurt Cobain About a Son
 [5:45 AM]    Neil Young: Heart of Gold    (ALL TIMES EST)


Sundance  -   
 [05:15 AM]    Highwaymen
 [06:45 AM]    Pal/secam
 [07:00 AM]    Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
 [08:30 AM]    Eraserhead
 [10:00 AM]    In Short 111
 [11:00 AM]    Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Bruce Springsteen - Part 2
 [12:00 PM]    Live From Abbey Road - 304
 [01:00 PM]    Jellyfish
 [02:25 PM]    Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
 [04:00 PM]    Eraserhead
 [05:30 PM]    The Mozart of Pickpockets
 [06:05 PM]    Jellyfish
 [07:30 PM]    Neal Cassady
 [09:00 PM]    Iconoclasts - Season 4: Cameron Diaz + Cameron Sinclair
 [10:00 PM]    The Man Who Fell To Earth
 [12:20 AM]    One Missed Call 2
 [02:15 AM]    Neal Cassady
 [03:45 AM]    The Man Who Fell To Earth     (ALL TIMES EST)


SyFy has the movie 'Aliens', followed by the movie 'Screamers: The Hunting'.


TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Destination Tokyo (1943)
 [8:30 AM]      Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
 [10:30 AM]      Bowery Bombshell (1946)
 [12:00 PM]      The Outlaw (1943)
 [2:00 PM]      Stalag 17 (1953)
 [4:15 PM]      12 Angry Men (1957)
 [6:00 PM]      Spellbound (1945)
 [8:00 PM]      Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
 [12:00 AM]      The Ruling Class (1972)
 [2:45 AM]      Lord Jim (1965)
 [5:30 AM]      Short Film: Now Playing April (2010)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Sunday  -  03/21/10

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Girl Of The Golden West (1938)
 [8:30 AM]      Ma And Pa Kettle (1949)
 [10:00 AM]      Midnight (1939)
 [12:00 PM]      The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
 [2:00 PM]      Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
 [4:15 PM]      For Pete's Sake (1974)
 [6:00 PM]      Born Yesterday (1950)
 [8:00 PM]      The Outrage (1964)
 [10:00 PM]      The Magnificent Seven (1960)
 [12:15 AM]      Our Hospitality (1923)    SILENT 
 [2:00 AM]      Mafioso (1962)
 [4:00 AM]      Some Like It Hot (1959)     (ALL TIMES EST)






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Brad Burmeister, left, and Michael Dubois move a figure of the late Fred Rogers, host of the PBS children's television program 'Mister Rogers Neighborhood', at the Heinz History Center before it is placed on exhibit at the museum in Pittsburgh, Friday, March 19, 2010. Rogers, who died in 2003, was a Pittsburgh area native. Now, Rogers' friends want to honor his legacy with a national day of volunteering on his birthday.
Photo by Keith Srakocic

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Photos: Expo '70 ::: Pink Tentacle

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Fuming At Retired US General

Dutch

The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

Dutch officials, from the Cabinet to the military, were outraged by retired Gen. John Sheehan's remarks at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Sheehan claimed that Dutch military leaders had called the presence of gay soldiers in the army "part of the problem" that allowed Serb forces to overrun the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia in July 1995 and kill some 8,000 Muslim men.

The Netherlands has a long history of accepting homosexuality, and gays have long been welcome in the country's armed forces - which also allow labor unions.

Dutch

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mental_floss Blog » Work Attire Over the Last 10 Decades

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Ellen Presents Check

Constance McMillen

A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Constance McMillen was speechless Friday when the talk show host pulled out an oversized check from the Web site Tonic.Com, a digital media company.

DeGeneres says she admires McMillen for challenging Itawamba County School District rules that would prevent her from escorting her girlfriend to the prom. The school district canceled the April 2 prom after McMillen's request.

A hearing is scheduled Monday in federal court in Aberdeen on American Civil Liberties Union efforts to force the district to hold the prom.

Constance McMillen

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Edie Falco and Peter Facinelli attend the Nurse Jackie RX Games in support of the new season of Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie' in New York, Thursday, March 18, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes

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Marieaunet: Antique Typewriters

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Kicks Off Cable-Broadcaster Review

FCC

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched a review into how broadcasters and cable companies negotiate retransmission deals following a recent spat between Walt Disney Co's ABC Network and Cablevision Systems Corp.

ABC pulled its signal from New York's Cablevision on the night of the Oscars earlier this month in a dispute that highlighted growing tension over how much TV distributors should pay for the right to carry the free-to-air broadcast signals of ABC, CBS Corp, News Corp's Fox and NBC, controlled by General Electric Co.

In a release Friday seeking public comment, the FCC said more than a dozen entities including companies and public interest groups are proposing reforms to rules and finding a proper dispute resolution mechanism.

The deadline for submitting public comments is April 18.

FCC

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Retrospace

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Patti Smith

Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honor of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, poet, political activist and painter.

Smith, 63, will be presented with the Founders Award during performing rights group ASCAP´s annual pop music awards dinner honoring the composers and publishers of the most-performed songs of 2009.

Smith steadfastly denies categorization and especially disdains the sobriquet "Godmother of Punk," but is nonetheless considered a key figure of the New York punk scene in the 1970s, perennially eulogized by rockers including R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe.

The daughter of a blue-collar New Jersey couple drew upon such influences as William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman and William Burroughs to supply the oft-romanticized revolution with a defiant vocabulary epitomized by the lyric "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."

Patti Smith

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Shocked At Destruction Of Old Hong Kong

Nancy Kwan

Actress Nancy Kwan said Friday she was shocked at the wholesale destruction of the colonial Hong Kong that formed the charming backdrop to her classic 1960 film "The World of Suzie Wong".

The former screen siren said her hometown used to be a "laid-back sea port" with Chinese junks plying its famed Victoria Harbour -- a rare sight these days in the bustling financial hub of seven million people.

Kwan, 70, visits the former British colony every few years, but said she still cannot believe its metamorphosis.

"I can't believe it -- every time I come back it's like going to a new city.... I loved the old colonial buildings in Hong Kong, but now they've torn them down. It's terrible."

Nancy Kwan

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Champions Award honoree Garry Marshall and his wife Barbara pose together as they arrive at the 18th Annual 'A Night at Sardi's' fundraiser benefitting the Alzheimer's Association, Thursday, March 18, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Google Earth for Educators: 50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom

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German Magazine Admits Fake Interviews

Neon

German celebrity gossip magazine Neon admitted Friday it had published five made-up interviews since 2004 with stars such as Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Snoop Doggy Dog.

In a message published on its Internet site, Neon said it "apologised to its readers and the artists concerned" for the fictitious articles and stressed it had fired the journalist responsible.

The scandal came to light in January when Beyonce's management team queried an interview published in the magazine by freelance reporter Ingo Mocek.

When the Neon team confronted Mocek, "he was not able to verify certain statements, particularly the statements regarding a marriage contract of Ms. Knowles," the magazine statement said.

Neon

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Vidiot Speak

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Pundits Attack 11-Year-Old

Compassionate Conservatives

Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy's account of his mother's death as a "sob story" exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a "kiddie shield" to defend their health care legislation.

Marcelas Owens , whose mother got sick, lost her job, lost her health insurance and died, said Thursday he's taking the attacks from Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin in stride.

"My mother always taught me they can have their own opinion but that doesn't mean they are right," Owens, who lives in Seattle , said in an interview.

Owens' grandmother, Gina, who watched her daughter die, isn't quite so generous.

"These are adults, and he is an 11-year-old boy who lost his mother," Gina Owens said. "They should be ashamed."

Compassionate Conservatives

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Film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer, recipient of the ShoWest Lifetime Achievement Award, poses before the awards ceremony at the Paris Las Vegas during ShoWest, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, in Las Vegas, Nevada March 18, 2010.
Photo by Steve Marcus

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10 Safes Capable of Protecting the Worlds Riches

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Irish Letter

Pope

Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here - a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.

The church is only beginning to come to terms with decades of child abuse in its parishes and schools. The scandals first emerged in Canada and Australia in the 1980s, followed by Ireland in the 1990s, the United States this decade and, in recent months, Benedict's German homeland.

Victims' rights activists say that to begin mending the church's battered image, Benedict's message - his first pastoral letter on child abuse in the church - must break his silence on the role of the Catholic hierarchy in shielding pedophile clergy from prosecution.

That includes abuses committed decades ago under the pope's watch, when he was Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger of Munich, as well as the pontiff's role in hushing up the scandals.

As leader of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger was responsible for a 2001 Vatican edict that instructed bishops to report all cases of child abuse to Vatican authorities under strict secrecy; it made no mention of reporting crimes to police.

Pope

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Top 5 Longest Place Names in the World | Pig Jockey

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Fires Back

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million.

Her lawyer said in a court filing made public Friday the agreement at the heart of the suit was "unlawful."

Song writer and music producer Rob Fusari filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan against the Grammy Award-winning performer. He said his protege and former girlfriend, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, ditched him as her career soared.

But Lady Gaga lawyer Charles Ortner wrote in his response that the arrangement was "structured in such a way as to mask its true purpose - to provide to the defendants unlawful compensation for their services as unlicensed employment agents."

Lady Gaga

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Dutch artist Ap Verheggen (C) stands with a group of local youngsters near a pair of metal sculptures which he plans to erect on an iceberg near the town of Uummannaq in western Greenland March 19, 2010. Verheggen arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to raise awareness about climate change, and people will be able to monitor it online as the ice melts.
Photo by Svebor Kranjc

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Edwin Gray's OU machine

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Viacom Vs. YouTube

Dirty Laundry

Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.

The previously confidential information came out as part of the evidence in a copyright lawsuit that Viacom filed against YouTube in 2007 for alleged copyright infringement of "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show" and other shows.

The sensitive documents were unsealed because Viacom and YouTube are both trying to persuade U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton to decide the case without a trial.

Both YouTube and Viacom are getting muddied in the process.

Dirty Laundry

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Ekranoplan 'Lun' Project 903

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Still Getting Screwed

Anna Nicole Smith

A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest stop in the 15-year legal battle over the $1.6 billion estate that oil magnate J. Howard Marshall left after his 1995 death at age 90. Smith had married Marshall the previous year.

The appeals court ruled Friday that a Texas jury's 2001 verdict should be honored because it had heard from all parties during the five-month trial. The jury ruled in favor of Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall.

The appeals court says subsequent federal court decisions that granted Smith various parts of Marshall's fortune should be ignored.

Anna Nicole Smith

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A fan cheers during semi-final Ice Sledge Hockey action between Canada and Japan at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games March 18, 2010.
Photo by Lyle Stafford

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Statsweeper

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Launches Hostile Bid For Lions Gate

Carl Icahn

Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending.

The hostile bid comes a week after Lions Gate rejected Icahn's offer to buy a larger minority stake and rewrote its bylaws to make such a takeover attempt more difficult in the future.

The new offer for all outstanding shares also raised the specter of Canadian government involvement because Icahn, an American, could own the Vancouver-based company and cause friction with the country's cultural policies.

Icahn owns almost 19 percent of Lions Gate, and his new offer for the remainder was unchanged from the $6 per share he offered last month when he sought to increase his stake to just under 30 percent. That bid represented a 15 percent premium over the stock's latest closing price at the time.

Carl Icahn

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Glass Blown Murrine Artwork By Robert Wiener

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Scientists Hide Gold

"Invisibility Cloak"

German scientists have created a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves.

The findings, published in the journal Science on Thursday, could in the future make it possible to make large objects invisible, but for now the researchers said they were not keen to speculate on possible applications.

Transformation optics use a class of materials called metamaterials that guide and control light.

In their study, Tolga Ergin of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and his colleagues used photonic crystals with a structure that looks like piles of wood to make an invisibility device, or cloak.

"Invisibility Cloak"

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Escape into Life | Online Arts Journal

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In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a pygmy marmoset tries to remove an insect from a plastic egg that was suspended from a branch at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, in New York. The suspended egg is a tool used in the zoo's Animal Enrichment Program, which routinely challenges animals to keep them mentally and physically fit. Native to South America, Pygmy marmosets are one of the world's smallest primates.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher

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