BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 2 April, 2011

Saturday

2 April, 2011

(Updated Daily)

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Eric Cantor Explains How a Shill Becomes a Whore


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Rachel Maddow: Video
"One way to increase investor wealth is to bring back child labor. Another forward-looking Republican initiative."-Andrew Tobias


Fred Reed: Joe Bageant Moves On
Joe could fool you. He talked slow and Southern, lacked pretensions, and you could talk to him for weeks without realizing how very damned smart he was.? One day we dropped in and he said he had just found that he had cancer. It went fast. He died Saturday.


Roger Ebert's Journal: A quintessence of dust
An idle comment caught my eye: "After all, no one saw the Big Bang." Somewhere else I read, "The universe has no opinion." Then I read that the next Hubble telescope will be able to peer six times as far into space and time as the one now in orbit.


Paul Krugman: The Mellon Doctrine (New York Times)
Two weeks ago, Republican staff at the Congressional Joint Economic Committee released a report, "Spend Less, Owe Less, Grow the Economy," that argued that slashing government spending and employment in the face of a deeply depressed economy would actually create jobs. In part, they invoked the aid of the confidence fairy...


Froma Harrop: Foggy Thinking in the Sunshine State (Creators Syndicate)
You'd think that a state knocked cold by the real-estate meltdown would invest in a future not based on housing bubbles. And that if the feds dangled a bag of money to help it address a serious economic drag - a gridlocked highway system that turns off tourists, retirees and business travelers - you'd think the state would grab it.


Deborah Orr: Don't knock the U-turn - it's what this [British] government does best (Guardian)
The [British] government's proposals are so often so patently misguided that I can't help thinking 'You fools! That's never going to happen.'


Jim Hightower: DEALING WITH JOBLESSNESS BY CAUSING MORE OF IT
It took him some 80 years, but he has now made what looks to be a full comeback to power. He is Herbert Hoover.


Bill Press: Another Muslim Country, Another War (Tribune Media Services)
We are at war. Again. Against a third Muslim country. On top of Afghanistan and Iraq, it's now Libya. And the question every American must ask is: "Is this a war I can support?"


Mark Yost: Bob Uecker Is Still on the Active Roster (Wall Street Journal)
No one's more amazed than this 76-year-old former player, the beloved radio announcer of the Milwaukee Brewers, that he's hung around baseball this long.


Ellen Tarlin: Eating Healthfully, Because You're Worth It? (Slate)
Six weeks ago I set out to improve my eating. Instead of focusing on weight loss and calories, I decided to zero in on health and habits and why it's so hard to change them, even though most of us know the basics of eating right.


Stephen Miller: Screen Star Showed Independent Streak (Wall Street Journal)
Farley Granger, who died Sunday at age 85, was an actor who played many roles on and off screen. He was a mid-century idol who played a thrill-killing preppie with weak nerves. He flouted Hollywood convention by dating stars of either sex. And he quit movie acting for the stage just as his film career blossomed.


Paul Constant: I Have Gazed Into the Depths of Zack Snyder's Soul (The Stranger)
... he packs the soundtrack with atrocious covers of great songs, without even realizing that that is the truest part of the whole Sucker Punch experience; it's a bad cover of a bad cover of a bad cover of a bad cover, to the point where the original text is reduced to meaninglessness.



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Trivia Question of the Day


How many marches did John Philip Sousa write?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


These are the opening lyrics to what well-known piece of music?

          Let martial note in triumph float
          And liberty extend its mighty hand


   'Stars And Stripes Forever'                                                      Source



Sousa wrote lyrics to the piece, although they are not as familiar as the music itself.

Sousa's lyrics
          Let martial note in triumph float
          And liberty extend its mighty hand
          A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,
          The banner of the Western land.
          The emblem of the brave and true
          Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
          The red and white and starry blue
          Is freedom's shield and hope.

          Other nations may deem their flags the best
          And cheer them with fervid elation
          But the flag of the North and South and West
          Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation.
       for the rest of the lyrics






Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   The Star and Stripes Forever



Adam wrote:
   John Philip Sousa's 'Stars and Stripes Forever'. Who knew it even had words...?



Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
   Stars and Stripes Forever



Sally said:
   "Let martial note in triumph float,
  And liberty extend its mighty hand..."
  "The Stars and Stripes Forever!" (Lyrics by John Philip Sousa)
  PS: How this brings back memories! Memories of taking my children several blocks away from our home, on a hot evening in July, to hear the (now defunct) "Denver Symphony Orchestra" giving a free Pop Concert at Sloan Lake, in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The concert would begin around 7 PM, and we would picnic before hand, then settling back on our blanket to enjoy the music. Soon, it became dusk, and then dark outside. Everyone waited in rapt anticipation for the last offering of the night: "The Stars And Stripes Forever," and the fireworks that accompanied that magnificent piece! Most folks had brought little flags with them, and the kids begin to wave them and dance around - oh, to bring back one of those special nights again...

  Can you believe that this ordinary lake also hosted, "The 1812 Overture," complete with firing canons, brought up from Fort Carson Military Base - every August - another delight for the kids, big and old alike? Well, it did...
  Precious memories...




Marian answered:
   The Stars and Stripes Forever



Charlie replied:
   The first line is appropriate in the age of the military-industrial complex. The second line must be regarded in Orwellian terms.
  Stars and Stripes Forever




MAM   wrote:
   "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.




BttbB responded:
   Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa, by act of Congress the National March of the USA... A Coast Guard anecdote: While on patrol we'd cruise through harbors and areas, from time to time, that we didn't frequent on a regular basis. We did this to 'Show the Flag' and it wasn't the Stars and Stripes that we meant for all to see. It was this one...

  The Coast Guard Ensign...
Semper Paratus



And, Joe S     responded:
   Stars And Stripes Forever
  The music is ingrained in my brain. I was a drummer in my high school marching band and this was one of the marches we played the most. After 50 years I still have the drum rhythms in my head. Did I ever tell you that my father played under the direction of John Philip Sousa in a mass band? I believe I did.
  I've found the need to display my granddaughters. They make me so proud that sometimes I feel I might burst. This is Maria and Elia, Maria is 5 and she has been accepted to Bryn Mawr school. Maria speaks English and Greek fluently and she is learning Spanish and Mandarin, and doing quite well. Elia is 3 and only speaks English and Greek. But she is only 3. You might think from looking at the picture that they are dressed up for Halloween, but that is not the case. The picture was taken around mid February and that's how they decided to dress for school that morning. They are artists and free spirits.



  


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Reader Suggestions

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Sick Days


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

PLEASE HELP POOR SEAN DUFFY!

REPUBLICAN PENIS HEADS DRIBBLE!

FASCISM IS COMING TO AMERICA!

WHAT ARE THE REPUGS AFRAID OF?

BACHMANN IS AN IDIOT! WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

'KILL TEAM.'

GET OUT OF THIS HELL HOLE NOW!

"THE MOUNTAINTOP."

DO YOU WANT TO SAY HI TO MR. PICKLE?

BUSTING THE KOCH SUCKERS!

THE RIGHT WORD!

WTF?

SETTING THE STANDARD

PAY UP NOW!

THERE'S NO THERE THERE

'A TALE OF WOE' ONE MORE TIME. WELL WORTH A LOOK

EAT SHIT AND DIE WORKER BEES!

CHEESUS CHRIST!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and hot.


Sunday's page may be late or on the light side (then again, it may not) - the kid & I are having a Hollywood adventure today.

There was a play writing contest, sponsored by a theater group in Hollywood, and the kid wrote one of the 5 'winning' plays.

The theater group assigns a pro to help with re-writes, then they cast the works, which will be performed over 2 weekends in May.

Today we meet the directors, and witness the casting process.

In a perfect world, afterwards we'd end up at Musso & Frank's, but we'll make do with just walking by.



Tonight, Saturday:

CBS fills the night with FRESH 'The Final Four: NCAA Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.



NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Harry's Law', followed by a RERUN 'L&O: LA', then a RERUN 'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Elton John hosting, music by Leon Russell.



ABC fills the night with the movie 'Transformers'.



The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'American Dad', followed by another old 'American Dad'.



Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.



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



A&E has all 'The First 48' all night.



AMC offers the movie 'Open Range', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Sante La Brea
 [7:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
 [8:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
 [9:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Walnut Tree
 [10:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Peter's
 [11:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 3 Moore Place
 [12:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Sante La Brea
 [1:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
 [2:00 PM]   The X-Files - Ep 23 Roland
 [3:00 PM]   The X-Files - Ep 24 The Erlenmeyer Flask
 [4:00 PM]   The X-Files - Ep 1 Little Green Men
 [5:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 4 Suddenly Human
 [6:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 5 Legacy
 [7:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 6 Remember Me
 [8:00 PM]   Being Human - Episode 6
 [9:00 PM]   Being Human - Episode 7
 [10:15 PM]   The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Rhod Gilbert, Rihanna
 [11:00 PM]   Being Human - Episode 6
 [12:00 AM]   Being Human - Episode 7
 [1:15 AM]   The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Rhod Gilbert, Rihanna
 [2:00 AM]   The X-Files - Ep 23 Roland
 [3:00 AM]   The X-Files - Ep 24 The Erlenmeyer Flask
 [4:00 AM]   The X-Files - Ep 1 Little Green Men
 [5:00 AM]   Being Human - Episode 7    (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has all 'House' all night.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Good Luck Chuck', followed by the movie 'Employee Of The Month'.



FX has the movie 'Tropic Thunder', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.



History has 'Holy Grail IN America', Journey To The Earth's Core', and 'Underwater Universe'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   The Grid
 [6:15 AM]   Twelve and Holding
 [8:15 AM]   Hero
 [10:15 AM]   The Three Stooges
 [10:35 AM]   The Three Stooges
 [10:55 AM]   The Three Stooges
 [11:20 AM]   The Three Stooges
 [11:45 AM]   The Three Stooges
 [12:10 PM]   The Three Stooges
 [12:35 PM]   The Three Stooges
 [1:00 PM]   The Three Stooges
 [1:30 PM]   Heathers
 [3:45 PM]   Hero
 [5:45 PM]   The Hearse
 [8:00 PM]   The Devil's Rejects
 [10:15 PM]   Evil Dead 2
 [12:00 AM]   Gothic
 [2:00 AM]   The Devil's Rejects
 [4:15 AM]   Evil Dead 2
 [6:00 AM]   The Sea Inside    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:35 AM]   L'Auberge Espagnole
 [8:40 AM]   Kavi
 [9:00 AM]   ALL ON THE LINE - Radenroro: Bad is Better than Boring (Episode 1, Season 1)
 [10:00 AM]   Love Lust & Heels
 [11:00 AM]   Love Lust & Makeup
 [12:00 PM]   Oss 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
 [1:40 PM]   Trolls
 [1:50 PM]   When a Man Comes Home
 [3:25 PM]   L'Auberge Espagnole
 [5:30 PM]   Oss 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
 [7:10 PM]   Chalk
 [8:40 PM]   Life In Flight
 [10:00 PM]   Public Sex
 [11:50 PM]   Trolls
 [12:00 AM]   Indie Sex: Extremes
 [1:15 AM]   A Dirty Shame
 [2:45 AM]   Public Sex
 [4:35 AM]   Indie Sex: Extremes
 [5:50 AM]   Life In Flight     (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Meteor', followed by the movie 'Meteor'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Son of a Sailor (1933)
 [7:30 AM]      On Dangerous Ground (1951)
 [9:00 AM]      Frankenstein (1931)
 [10:30 AM]      Looking For Danger (1957)
 [12:00 PM]      Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
 [2:00 PM]      The Steel Helmet (1951)
 [3:30 PM]      On The Beach (1959)
 [6:00 PM]      Big Jake (1971)
 [8:00 PM]      The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
 [10:00 PM]      Billy Liar (1963)
 [12:00 AM]      The Dresser (1983)
 [2:15 AM]      Otley (1968)
 [4:00 AM]      Private Potter (1962)
 [5:30 AM]      Now Playing April (2011) (2011)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Sunday  -  04/03/11

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
 [8:00 AM]      Dondi (1961)
 [10:00 AM]      The More the Merrier (1943)
 [12:00 PM]      Black Narcissus (1947)
 [2:00 PM]      Some Came Running (1958)
 [4:30 PM]      The Defiant Ones (1958)
 [6:15 PM]      I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
 [8:00 PM]      Fragments (2011)
 [10:00 PM]      Unseen Cinema (2006)
 [12:30 AM]      Laila (1929)    SILENT 
 [3:00 AM]      Le Schpountz (1938)     (ALL TIMES EST)







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Actor Johnny Depp, left, poses with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, as she is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, April 1, 2011in Los Angeles.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes

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Baby Hummingbird Nest

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There ARE Atheists In Foxholes

MASH

The cliche notwithstanding, there are atheists in foxholes. In fact, atheists, agnostics, humanists and other assorted skeptics from the Army's Fort Bragg have formed an organization they hope will be a pioneering effort to ensure fair treatment and win recognition for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.

"We exist, we're here, we're normal," said Sgt. Justin Griffith, chief organizer of Military Atheists and Secular Humanists, or MASH. "We're also in foxholes. That's a big one, right there."

For now, the group meets regularly in homes and bars outside of Fort Bragg, one of the biggest military bases in the country. But it is going through the long bureaucratic process to win official recognition from the Army as a distinct "faith" group.

That would enable it to meet on base, advertise its gatherings and, members say, serve more effectively as a haven for like-minded soldiers.

MASH

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Roger Waters performs during his 'The Wall Tour 2010/2011' in Milan, Italy, Friday, April 1, 2011.
Photo by Antonio Calanni

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Mumbai Skateboards

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Tea Party Puts Off Crime Writer

Patricia Cornwell

She's a longtime supporter of Republican hopefuls, but best-selling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell says the Tea Party is sending a chill down her spin.

In Paris to promote the French translation of her latest book "Mortuary Port", Cornwell also explained her about-face on capital punishment and her mixed feelings with Barack Obama's turn in the White House.

"I think that the Tea Party is terrifying," the 54-year-old novelist told AFP in an interview, referring to the populist conservative movement that has been rattling the US political landscape.

"It's discriminatory and racist. I don't want our democracy turning into a theocracy."

Politically, she has backed a number of Republicans, plus the odd Democrat, but social conservatives no doubt frown on her relationship with a female neurologist she married after Massachusetts approved gay weddings in 2004.

Patricia Cornwell

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Vidiot Speak

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1st Gay Character

Archie Comics

His debut in "Veronica" No. 202 caused Archie Comics to do a second printing for the first time in its history. Now, the publisher is giving its first openly gay character his own mini-series this summer.

Dan Parent, who is writing and drawing the four-issue series that comes out in June, tells The Associated Press that the character, Kevin Keller, has connected with the comic book publisher's fans.

Parent says there have been gay characters in other comics, but Kevin Keller's role as a friend to Archie, Veronica and the others at Riverdale High is part of the company's push to keep them relevant and contemporary.

Archie Comics

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Helen Mirren, recipient of the CinemaCon Career Achievement Award, poses during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, in Las Vegas, Nevada March 31, 2011.
Photo by Steve Marcus

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UC Berkeley Library History Room

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Online Spoofs

April Fools' Day

The online world got an April Fools' Day makeover as YouTube rolled out 1911 viral videos and the Huffington Post put up a mock pay wall.

Lighthearted pranks are an annual Web tradition on April Fools' Day, with jokey redesigns and parody products.

Comedy video website Funny or Die, which last year became "Bieber or Die," turned into "Friday or Die." The site's home page was taken over by teenage viral video star Rebecca Black, complete with "Behind the Music"-style featurettes on her song "Friday." Escape was futile: Even pressing "back" in one's browser only added Black's lyrics to the address bar.

Google, always one of the most ardent April Fools' Day celebrators, launched "Gmail Motion," which allows users to mime directions to their email. Google also played a trick on typeface fans, claiming that after extensive research, it would on Monday make Comic Sans the default font across all Google products. Search the more beloved "Helvetica" on Google, and results come in the less esteemed Comic Sans.

YouTube remade viral videos like the Annoying Orange and the Keyboard Cat in scratchy black-and-white silent clips, purportedly from 1911. (Keyboard Cat became Flugelhorn Feline.) Hulu took a similar approach, dating their video repository to the Web's dial-up days of 1996.

April Fools' Day

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Prosecutor Facing Drug Charge Quits

Las Vegas

A Las Vegas prosecutor who handled recent drug cases involving Paris Hilton and pop singer Bruno Mars has resigned following his arrest in a crack cocaine case.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger tells The Associated Press he accepted David Schubert's resignation Friday.

The 47-year-old Schubert was arrested March 19 after Las Vegas police reported watching him in a white BMW sedan buy $40 worth of rock cocaine in a neighborhood east of the Las Vegas Strip.

Schubert was a 10-year veteran prosecutor and liaison for the last two years to a federal drug task force.

Las Vegas

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In this March 24, 2011 photo, comic book author and illustrator Robert Crumb is interviewed at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Crumb has an exhibiton display through April 30, 2011 at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators.
Photo by Richard Drew

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THE WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Top 10 Unusual Island Territories

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Pays Snooki More Than Nobel Winner

Rutgers

Big hair scores big bucks in speaking fees at New Jersey's state university. A Nobel prize? Not so much.

Rutgers University on Friday defended spending about $32,000 to bring reality television star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to campus this week, despite several students questioning if it was a wise use of money.

That's $2,000 more than the school is paying Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation on May 15.

Student Hina Rehman, 20, said she found it "disappointing" her tuition money was going to fund the event.

Rutgers

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LEGO Alphabet Spaceships A-Z

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Calif. Event For Book Canceled

Gandhi

An educational organization has canceled an event planned for a Mahatma Gandhi biography that was banned in part of India after reviews hinted the father of the nation's independence had a homosexual relationship.

The event, in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Lelyveld's "Great Soul," was to have been hosted April 13 in Santa Clara, Calif., by the Foundation for Excellence, a nonprofit that provides scholarships for students in India.

"We didn't want to be involved with any controversy because that is not the purpose of our organization - we are not a literary society that encourages debate and discussion on different authors and their books," foundation spokesman Abhu Shukla told The Associated Press on Friday. "So, it is correct that we canceled because of the controversy."

Although not out yet in India, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India" has been banned by a western state there after reviews suggested Gandhi had a homosexual relationship with a German named Hermann Kallenbach. More bans have been proposed in India, where homosexuality was illegal until 2009 and still carries social stigma.

Gandhi

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A visitor views detail of a page of the sixteenth century folio 'Faridun in the Guise of a Dragon Tests His Sons' at Sotheby's in centralLondon April 1, 2011. Estimated to sell at auction for between 2-3million pounds sterling, the piece forms part of the scholarly collection of Islamic and Indian Art assembled by the late Stuart Cary Welch.
Photo by Toby Melville

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Pointing People

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Drummer's Drug Conviction Overturned In NZ

AC/DC

The drummer with rock band AC/DC has had his cannabis conviction quashed by a court in his adopted homeland of New Zealand on the grounds that it would have interfered with his globe-trotting exploits.

Phil Rudd, 56, appeared in Tauranga District Court on Thursday seeking to have his 2010 conviction for possession of 27 grams (0.95 ounces) of marijuana wiped from his record, according to the Bay of Plenty Times.

The Australian native had pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined US$190 plus $101 in court costs in December after failing in his bid for a discharge without conviction.

Judge Alayne Wills said Rudd's offense was at the "lower end of scale," and she discharged him without conviction provided that he paid $1,100 to cover prosecution costs.

AC/DC

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Memidex - free online dictionary/thesaurus and more...

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Finale Pulled In Tokyo

"24"

Broadcast of the final season of "24" has been pulled by Tokyo TV because the plot featuring radiation has been deemed inappropriate in light of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichivnuclear power plant.

"With the many victims of the current disaster in Japan, and ongoing concerns about radiation leaks from the nuclear power station, TV Tokyo has decided not to show the planned final season and show season five instead," a TV Tokyo spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tokyo TV bought the rights to the "24" finale after the first seven seasons were shown on Fuji TV, Japan's biggest net.

"24" began its run in Japan on cable TV and became a big hit, with Kiefer Sutherland appearing in commercials for an energy bar, as Jack Bauer. Viewing figures have dropped off for later seasons.

"24"

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Models present creations by La Perla design group during fashion week in Moscow April 1, 2011.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin

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Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

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Very Special Person

Ryan Kavanaugh

For months last fall, a movie producer's commute by helicopter woke babies, rattled windows and alarmed dogs in a quiet, leafy neighborhood near a landing pad atop a hotel.

Residents finally breathed a sigh of relief when the California Department of Transportation intervened, and Ryan Kavanaugh, chief executive of Relativity Media, stopped using the helipad meant for emergencies, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

All buildings over 75-feet tall in Los Angeles are required to have a rooftop helipad for emergency use. Any other use requires a special permit.

Residents complained to state officials last November about Kavanaugh's use of the helipad for his commute from Malibu to the west side of Los Angeles. A month later, the Sofitel was ordered to end improper helicopter activity.

Kavanaugh, 36, is known as a high-flying Hollywood producer. His company's latest release is the thriller "Limitless." Its other recent films include: "Battle Los Angeles," "The Fighter" and "Little Fockers."

Ryan Kavanaugh

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French Mayor Upset About Statue's Breasts

Neuville-en-Ferrain

The mayor of a town in France has thrown a patriotic female statue out of his town hall because its breasts were too big, his aides said on Friday.

The terracotta bust of Marianne -- the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in a Phrygian cap -- was an original work by a local artist, installed in 2007 at the town hall in Neuville-en-Ferrain, population 10,000.

Mayor Gerard Cordon persuaded councillors to approve 900 euros (1,280 dollars) in this year's budget to buy a replacement, a more conventional bust of Marianne modelled on the statuesque French model Laetitia Casta.

The artist who made the rejected bust, Catherine Lamacque, said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, "to symbolise the generosity of the Republic."

Neuville-en-Ferrain

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World map of National IQ Scores vs Average Penis Size by Country

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Chilean Flamingos wait in their enclosure during a health check at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England, March 31, 2011.
Photo by Phil Noble

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