BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 21 April, 2018

Saturday

21 April, 2018

(Updated Daily)

[442 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Paul Krugman: The Great Snake Oil Slump (NY Times)
True, tax cuts probably had less to do with past G.O.P. successes than many party activists seem to imagine. Other factors were often much more important. But those other factors also aren't what they used to be. I mean, claims to be the defenders of family values have lost their punch partly because the public has become far more socially tolerant - Americans now support same-sex marriage by a two-to-one majority! - and partly because the current resident of the White House may be the worst family man in America. Flag-waving claims to be more patriotic than Democrats worked well for Reagan and Bush, but are much more problematic for a G.O.P. that looks more and more like the party of Putin.


Nick Hanauer: That $4,000 raise Donald Trump and Paul Ryan promised you was a trickle-down lie (USA Today)
Here's the reality: If Trump wanted to give you a raise, he wouldn't rely on trickle-down lies to do it. A mere $2 increase in the minimum wage would give millions of hardworking Americans a$4,000 raise. A modest updating of our overtime regulations would give a $4,000 raise to tens of millions more. And of course, if Trump really wanted to put $4,000 in Americans' pockets, he could have instead given those trillions of dollars in tax cuts directly to people like you, instead of giving them to your boss.


Molly Haskell: "The Awful Truth: Divorce, McCarey Style" (Criterion)
As a director, McCarey would become a master of improvisation, and his scripts read like his early CV-they are full of holes and hard to pin down, chaotic and spontaneous, quicksilver and intuitive. Frank Capra and Ernst Lubitsch, to whom he was compared, had more sustained careers-Capra more good films, Lubitsch more great ones. But at his best, McCarey was better than Capra and equal to Lubitsch.


Rebecca Nicholson: It was panned on release - so why are we hopelessly devoted to Grease 40 years later? (The Guardian)
An endorsement of rape culture or a rejection of slut-shaming: the debate over the film continues, four decades on. How did it become arguably the most beloved movie musical of all time?


Ryan Menezes: 5 Ways To Keep Your Superhero Movie From Being Terrible (Cracked)
Thanks to Marvel/Disney's seemingly impenetrable formula for box office success, we now get more good superhero films than bad ones, a reality that seemed impossible in 2005. But while this has led to way fewer Elektra-style disasters, there are still studios that haven't quite figured out what makes these movies work. As a free service, we're providing this handy guide.


Jocelyn McClurg: Is your favorite novel on this PBS list of 100 popular books? Get ready to vote (USA Today)
What's your favorite novel? Is it on the list below?


Aging (NutritionFacts.org)
A six-year study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found three behaviors exerted enormous impact on mortality: not currently smoking, consuming a healthier diet, and moderately exercising at least 21 minutes a day. People with one of the three behaviors had a 40 percent lower risk of dying within that six-year period. Those with two out of three more than halved their chances of dying, and those with all three reduced their chances of dying in that time by 82 percent.



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Presenting

Michael Egan




#drmivhaelegan






The Tragedy of King Richard II Part One: Ascribed to William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One): Michael Egan



Editorial and Political Cartoons



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Trivia Question of the Day


Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, he was born Ioseb Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia. By what name is he better known?


                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


The gymnasium (Greek: gymnasion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós meaning ____?____


       "Naked"                                                      Source


The gymnasium (Greek: gymnasion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games. It was also a place for socializing and engaging in intellectual pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós meaning "naked".

Athletes competed nude, a practice which was said to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body, and to be a tribute to the gods. Gymnasia and palestrae (wrestling schools) were under the protection and patronage of Heracles, Hermes and, in Athens, Theseus.        Source







Mark. was first, and correct, with:
   Naked.



Randall wrote:
   naked





Alan J answered:
   Naked.



mj said:
   It meant everyone could afford an outfit
  It derives from the fact that everyone exercised while naked.




zorch replied:
   Naked. In the gymnasium you went naked.



Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
   The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós meaning "naked".



Dave wrote:
   Naked. The early Olympic athletes competed in the nude, and apparently trained without clothing as well. The nude competitions supposedly encouraged aesthetic appreciation of the male body and honored the gods.





Deborah said:
   Nudity? Really? Huh. The learning never stops.



Adam answered:
   Naked.
  The Nakedorium? I was born much too late...




Daniel in The City replied:
   Naked



Billy in Cypress responded:
   birthday suit, bare,naked,nude,stripped,unclad, without clothes, as the gods intended, free as a bird, disrobed, au naturel, in the raw, in the all together, in the buff, unadorned, undressed, etc, etc, etc



Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
   Naked



Gene took the day off.
  

Gary E.K. took the day off.
  

Jon L took the day off.
  

David of Moon Valley took the day off.
  

Dave in Tucson took the day off.
  

Harry M. took the day off.
  

John I from Hawai`i took the day off.
  

Joe S     took the day off.
  

Kevin K. of Washington, DC took the day off.
  

DJ Useo took the day off.
  

Ed K took the day off.
  

Paul of Seattle took the day off.
  

Stephen F took the day off.
  

Brian S took the day off.
  

George M. took the day off.
  

Leo in Boise took the day off.
  

Calvin took the day off.
  

Michelle in AZ took the day off.
  

Mac Mac took the day off.
  

Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
  

Brian S. took the day off.
  

kennb took the day off.
  

Sandra in Maine took the day off.
  

BttbBob   has returned to semi-retired status.
  
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  April 21 Birthdays - Celebrities Born April 21 | Famous Birthdays




Sally has retired.
  



MAM     In memory.



  





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Middle Class Political Economist




Now a Blogger-Columnist at US News and World Reports "Economic Intelligence"


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis - and points the way out | News | The Guardian



After Benghazi, Hannity encouraged attacks on US embassies until USMC had to stop it.



Trump's Lost Weekend in Moscow, made wet by GOP leak of Comey memo



Why More Than A Million Teachers Can't Use Social Security : NPR Ed : NPR



The Comey Memos Get the Most Amazing Response From Vladimir Putin



Donald Trump Once Used His Alter Ego To Lie His Way On To The Forbes 400 List



Trump Complains That Justice Neil Gorsuch Lacks Sufficient Conservative Backbone (WHAT?)



Treasury Flagged Michael Cohen's Account For Suspicious Activities, Avenatti Says It's Smoking Gun



Wayne Barrett: Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, peas in a pod - NY Daily News



Coincidence theory of Trump and Russia: A conspiracy of dunces



BREAKING: McCabe gets ready to sue the Trump Administration



Farm bill is 'sick joke,' attacking health, nutrition and the environment



Opinion | Boehner Benefits From Weed. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It. - The New York Times



'Imploding': Financial troubles. Lawsuits. Trailer park brawls. Has the alt-right peaked? - The Washington Post



Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy? - The Washington Post



It's becoming clear Trump won't run in 2020 - The Washington Post



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Bonus Links

Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp


The Resistance Is Infiltrating Trump Country - Teacher Strikes, Unions and More - Rolling Stone



The Big Banks Already Made $2.3 Billion Off Trump's Tax Cuts | NY Magazine



Everything We Learned From the James Comey Memos | NY Magazine



Republicans Believe Comey Used Pee Tape to Trap Trump | NY Magazine



Reporter: Trump lied to me for spot on Forbes 400 | TheHill



Uncovered Tape Shows Trump Lying to Get Onto Forbes 400 List - The Daily Beast



Chuck Todd lashes out at Fox, defends wife in radio interview | TheHill



Lock them up! GOP goes full banana-republic with demands to jail Comey, McCabe and Clinton - Salon.com



Four Things the Comey Memos Reveal - The Atlantic



James Comey memos: Trump worried about Mike Flynn before firing him - Vox



Donald Trump falsely says James Comey memos disprove collusion, obstruction | PolitiFact



Trump allies worry Cohen will flip - POLITICO



McConnell aims to reshape courts in case Senate flips - POLITICO



Michael Cohen's Raskolnikovian Nightmare Just Got Even Worse | Vanity Fair



Lobbyist whose wife rented to Pruitt steps down | TheHill



Lobbyist whose wife rented to Pruitt will leave firm - POLITICO



CIA declassifies memo on nominee's handling of interrogation tapes | TheHill



CIA: Haspel 'acted appropriately' in destruction of torture tapes - POLITICO



Netflix doc Mercury 13 tells the story of women who should have gone to space but couldn't - The Verge



Rudy Giuliani is Trump's new lawyer. His job? End Mueller's Russia probe. - Vox





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Reader Comment

Current Events


Twitter on Predator's new lawyer

Sometimes I like twitter:

Twitter Users Taunt Rudy Giuliani Over New Role On Trump Legal Team | HuffPost



Linda   >^..^<
     We are all only temporarily able bodied.


Thanks, Linda!



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from Marc Perkel

Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer

So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.

Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.

I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.

The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.

So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?

I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.

Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect

Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


"I WANT TO KILL! KILL! KILL!

"AGENTS OF INTOLERANCE."






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music




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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Back to sunny and seasonal.



Tonight, Saturday:

CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Ransom', followed by a RERUN 'NCIS', then '48 Hours'.



NBC fills the night with LIVE '2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Sam Rockwell hosting, music by Halsey.



ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'American Idol', followed by '20/20'.



The CW here fills the night with LIVE 'MLB Baseball'.



Faux fills the night with LIVE 'Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series', then pads the left coast with local crap.



MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by an old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.



A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH 'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH 'Live PD'.



AMC offers the movie 'Tombstone', followed by the movie 'Escape Plan'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-From Pole To Pole
 [7:00AM]    PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
 [8:00AM]    PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Fresh Water
 [9:00AM]    PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS 2018 - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-Round 12
 [10:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Pilot
 [11:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Deep Throat
 [12:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Squeeze
 [1:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Conduit
 [2:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Jersey Devil
 [3:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Shadows
 [4:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Ghost in the Machine
 [5:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Ice
 [6:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-Space
 [7:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 10-Fallen Angel
 [8:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Pilot
 [9:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Deep Throat
 [10:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Squeeze
 [11:00PM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Conduit
 [12:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Jersey Devil
 [1:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Shadows
 [2:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Ghost in the Machine
 [3:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Ice
 [4:00AM]    THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-Space
 [5:00AM]    PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Fresh Water     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Bravo has the movie 'The School Of Rock', followed by the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection', then the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'.



FX has the movie 'Fast & Furious 6', followed by the movie 'Deadpool', and 'Legion'.



History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH 'Pawn Stars: Pumped Up', and 'Forged In Fire: Knife Or Death'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    THE THREE STOOGES-Self-Made Maids
 [6:25AM]    THE THREE STOOGES-Slap-Happy Sleuths
 [6:50AM]    THE THREE STOOGES-A Snitch in Time
 [7:15AM]    THE THREE STOOGES-Grips, Grunts and Groans
 [7:45AM]    ALEXANDER
 [12:00PM]    THE LEGEND OF HERCULES
 [2:00PM]    CONAN THE BARBARIAN
 [4:30PM]    THE TOWN
 [7:30PM]    SCARFACE
 [11:15PM]    THE TOWN
 [2:15AM]    SCARFACE     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sundance  -   
 [6:25am]    the andy griffith show
 [7:00am]    the andy griffith show
 [7:30am]    the andy griffith show
 [8:00am]    the andy griffith show
 [8:30am]    the andy griffith show
 [9:00am]    the andy griffith show
 [9:30am]    the queen
 [11:30am]    witness
 [2:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [2:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [3:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [3:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [4:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [4:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [5:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [5:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [6:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [6:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [7:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [7:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [8:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [8:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [9:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [9:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [10:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [10:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [11:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [11:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [12:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [12:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [1:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [1:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [2:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [2:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [3:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [3:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [4:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [4:30am]    the killer inside me    (ALL TIMES EDT)



SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Extinction', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Smilin' Through (1941)
 [8:00 AM]      MGM Cartoons: Bear and the Bean (1947)
 [8:00 AM]      Red River Robin Hood (1943)
 [8:00 AM]      Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round #1 (1948)
 [8:00 AM]      Let's Ask Nostradamus (1953)
 [9:30 AM]      Red Barry: Midnight Tragedy (1938)
 [10:00 AM]      Popeye: Sock-A-Bye, Baby (1934)
 [10:00 AM]      Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
 [11:30 AM]      Okay for Sound (1946)
 [12:00 PM]      The Bank Dick (1940)
 [1:30 PM]      The Young Philadelphians (1959)
 [4:00 PM]      4 For Texas (1963)
 [6:15 PM]      The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1974)
 [8:00 PM]      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
 [10:00 PM]      Ocean's Eleven (1960)
 [12:15 AM]      Cry Danger (1951)
 [2:00 AM]      Mrs. Soffel (1984)
 [4:00 AM]      Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sunday   -  04/22/18

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Employees' Entrance (1933)
 [7:30 AM]      Mr. Skeffington (1945)
 [10:00 AM]      Cry Danger (1951)
 [11:45 AM]      Till The End of Time (1946)
 [1:45 PM]      Up The Down Staircase (1967)
 [4:00 PM]      Latin Lovers (1953)
 [6:00 PM]      The Swan (1956)
 [8:00 PM]      Wonder Man (1945)
 [10:00 PM]      A Song is Born (1948)
 [12:15 AM]      The Merry Widow (1925)     SILENT 
 [2:45 A]      Tampopo (1986)
 [4:45 AM]      The Funeral (1984)     (ALL TIMES EDT)




Antenna TV - Johnny Carson (from Mar. 22, 1974) - Lucille Ball, Dom DeLuise, Charlton Heston, and Ace Trucking Company.

Bounce TV

CHARGE!

Comet TV

Cozi TV

Decades TV Network

Escape

Heroes and Icons

Find Justice - Justice Network

Get TV

Grit - Television With Backbone - Grit

Laff - You Know You Want To. - Laff

Me-TV

MOVIES! TV Network

RTV - The Retro Television Network

the works

This TV





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Students from St. Petersburg High School gather along 5th Avenue N in front of the school to protest gun violence, Friday, April 20, 2018. in St. Petersburg, Fla., before they marched to City Hall.
Photo by Scott Keeler

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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A Reprise for a 19th-Century Language Based on Music - Atlas Obscura

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Another Savage Nickname

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro let loose again with some fierce criticism of President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Pendejo).

The two-time Oscar-winner used Wednesday's press preview of the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York to take aim at Trump - and he bestowed another insulting new nickname on the president. "The country has had a bad year and you, the press, have taken a lot of hits," De Niro told reporters covering the event, per Deadline.

De Niro said America was "being run by a madman who wouldn't recognize the truth if it came inside a bucket of his beloved Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken." He dubbed Trump "our lowlife-in-chief."

De Niro has previously called Trump "a fucking idiot," "a bullshit artist," and " a flat-out blatant racist."

Robert De Niro

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Students gather at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, April 20, 2018, as they taking part in a national school walkout event to protest gun violence.
Photo by Barbara Rodriguez

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The Hellbender: Giant Salamander of the United States | The Ark In Space

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Backs Out Of Israel Award

Natalie Portman

Actress Natalie Portman has pulled out of accepting a prestigious award in Israel because she said her conscience prevented her from doing so, the Genesis Prize Foundation said.

The Jerusalem-born "Black Swan" actress was scheduled to accept the Genesis Prize, a so-called Jewish Nobel, in June, but the Genesis Prize Foundation said in a news release on Thursday that a rep for Portman explained the Oscar winner would not attend because of "recent events in Israel."

The foundation quoted Portman's rep as saying that "recent events in Israel have been extremely distressing" to the actress, and that "she cannot in good conscience move forward with the ceremony."

The prize was established in 2013 to honor those who inspire Jewish values. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Michael Douglas and violinist Itzhak Perlman are among its winners.

Portman's announcement follows Israel's response to demonstrations along the Gaza border this month, killing dozens of Palestinians. Portman, who said she was proud of her Israeli roots and Jewish heritage after hearing in November that she would receive the prize, has been critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Natalie Portman

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Would 'Rather Be The Good Nixon'

Cynthia Nixon

New York gubernatorial challenger Cynthia Nixon took a swipe at incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo during an appearance on "The Late Show? Wednesday.

Host Stephen Colbert jokingly asked the "Sex and the City" star about her campaign slogan, and the jabs began.

"Why 'Cynthia for New York?' Why not 'Nixon for New York?'" asked Colbert.

Nixon told a story of her mother to explain why "Nixon for New York" conjures former President Richard Nixon, and it quickly turned into a dig at Cuomo.

"My mother used to say, she grew up during World War II with a father named Adolf and she lived through the 1970s with a husband named Nixon. So I am aware of the dubious nature of my last name. But I have to say, if given a choice, I would rather be the good Nixon than the bad Cuomo," she said.

Cynthia Nixon

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A student attends a rally outside the White House as part of nationwide walk-outs of classes to mark the 19th anniversary since the Columbine High School mass shooting, at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2018.
Photo by Carlos Barria

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The Greatest Male Star of Classic American Cinema: 44 Portrait Photos of Humphrey Bogart From the 1930s and 1940s ~ vintage everyday

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German Theater

"Mein Kampf"

A theater in southern Germany is proceeding with plans to open a satirical play Friday about Adolf Hitler's youth in which some patrons will be wearing swastika armbands, despite objections and legal complaints.

Though named after Hitler's infamous anti-Semitic manifesto, the play tells a fictional story of how a young Hitler is befriended in Vienna by a Jewish man who takes pity on him for his futile pursuit of a career as an artist and puts him on his political path, as well as helping him with his hairstyle.

Tabori, who was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1914, was known for his avant-garde works that confronted anti-Semitism. He died in 2007. Though Tabori was able to flee the Nazis himself, his father and other family members were killed in the Auschwitz death camp.

His dark farce "Mein Kampf" has been performed many times, and was made into a German-language film a decade ago.

But in a twist introduced by the Konstanz Theater, patrons who agree to wear a swastika armband will be given free admittance, while those who purchase tickets will be asked to wear a Jewish Star of David.

"Mein Kampf"

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Has Lied For Decades

Wealth

President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked) repeatedly lied for decades about his net worth to attain a higher spot on the famed Forbes 400 list and brand himself as New York's wealthiest real estate developer, according to a reporter he encountered in 1982 for the magazine's first such list.

Journalist Jonathan Greenberg described how Trump originally claimed that year to be worth $900 million when he was contacted for Forbes's inaugural wealth list, the reporter wrote in a story published Friday by The Washington Post .

Trump reportedly cited a supposed 80 percent stake in the Trump Organization's real estate empire, consisting of an apparent 23,000 apartments across Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. He also said he had vast control of the property, not his father, Fred Trump.

Donald Trump claimed each of the apartments was worth $40,000, but when Greenberg questioned Trump's valuation, the budding real estate titan replied, "OK, then $20,000 each."

However, when that list was being compiled, Trump actually had no stake in his father's company and was worth less than $5 million, according to the report. And Fred Trump did not relinquish ownership of his company until his death in 1999.

Wealth

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Youths take part in a National School Walkout anti-gun march in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, April 20, 2018.
Photo by Brendan McDermid

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The Jingle Trucks of Pakistan | Amusing Planet

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But He Did

Moscow

The newly released memos by FBI Director James Comey reveal that President-for-now Trump (R-Corrupt) repeatedly pushed back hard on claims that he once consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, claiming that he didn't even spend a night in the Russian capital during his 2013 trip there.

At a Jan. 27, 2017, private dinner with the president, Comey wrote, Trump was adamant that the claim about hookers in Moscow, made in a dossier compiled by a former British spy Christopher Steele, was a "complete fabrication." He told Comey he had checked with associates and was reminded "that he didn't stay overnight in Russia" on the trip, during which he presided over the Miss Universe contest. After flying into Moscow in the morning, he "departed for New York that same night," Trump told Comey, according to one of the former FBI chief's memos.

But there is abundant evidence that Trump's account to the FBI director was false: Social media posts, photographs and the account of at least two associates - including Trump's former security chief - indicate that Trump arrived in Moscow on Nov. 8, 2013, spent the night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and didn't leave the city until after the Miss Universe was finished late on the evening of Nov. 9.

Indeed, Trump himself had previously boasted of spending more time in Moscow than he admitted to Comey. "I called it my weekend in Moscow," Trump said during a September 2015 radio interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show."

As recounted in the book "Russian Roulette" by myself and David Corn, Trump flew to Moscow on Nov. 8, 2013, aboard a plane owned by Phil Ruffin, a wealthy Las Vegas casino magnate, after attending a celebration for evangelist Billy Graham's 95th birthday the night before in North Carolina. Trump then attended a lunch that day with Russian businessmen at the Nobu restaurant, a swank eatery co-owned by actor Robert De Niro and Aras Agalarov, a billionaire oligarch who was Trump's partner in the Miss Universe pageant.

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WWII Bomb Defused

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Berlin police evacuated thousands of people from a central area of the German capital Friday and shut down the main train station as a precaution while they defused and removed an unexploded World War II bomb found during recent construction work.

Some 10,000 residents and workers were forced to leave a two-square-kilometer (almost a square mile) area, including the train station, while bomb experts defused the 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) British bomb dropped during the war.

Trains were prevented from stopping at the busy station from 10 a.m., and through traffic was shut down at 11:30 a.m. before experts began their work, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said. Some 300,000 travelers use the station daily.

Bomb disposal experts were able to successfully remove the detonator just after 1 p.m. and destroy it in a small controlled explosion.

The evacuation area, a circle around the construction site north of the train station where the bomb was discovered during digging, also included a hospital, the new offices of Germany's foreign intelligence service, and parts of both the economy and transportation ministries.

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Two rings of chairs encircle the words "NEVER AGAIN" in a silent protest on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting outside Trinity High School in Manchester, N.H., Friday, April 20, 2018. The inner ring chairs have names of the Columbine victims, the outer ring chairs have names of the Parkland High School shooting victims.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano

Yellowstone National Park sits squarely over a giant, active volcano. This requires attention.

Yellowstone has been a national park since 1872, but it was only in the 1960s that scientists realized the scale of the volcano - it's 44 miles across - and not until the 1980s did they grasp that this thing is fully alive and still threatens to erupt catastrophically. Yellowstone is capable of eruptions thousands of times more violent than the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980. The northern Rockies would be buried in multiple feet of ash. Ash would rain on almost everyone in the United States. It'd be a bad day. Thus geologists are eager to understand what, exactly, is happening below all those volcano-fueled hot springs and geysers.

Obviously they'd like to know if and when Yellowstone will blow again, and with what level of explosiveness. A major eruption would be a low-probability, high-consequence event, a proverbial Black Swan, something that could have societal and planetary effects. The problem for scientists is that these big "supervolcano" eruptions rarely happen, and the most important action is out of sight, many miles below the surface, involving chaotic forces, complex chemistry and enigmatic geological features.

One new study has offered insight on Yellowstone's hidden architecture. It modeled the way magma rises from deep in the Earth's interior and creates two large chambers of partially melted rock beneath the surface of the national park.

These two magma chambers are stacked, and separated by a layer (called a "sill," like a window sill) of non-melted rock. The magma rising from the Earth's mantle flows easily and doesn't hold much gas. It cools and solidifies as it collides with relatively cold crust, forming the sill, the top of which is about 6 miles below the surface.

Yellowstone Supervolcano

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First Genetic Adaptation To Diving

'Sea Nomads'

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that people can genetically adapt to deep diving, as shown by the unusually large spleens in indigenous people of Indonesia known as the "Sea Nomads," a study said Thursday.

The spear-fishing Bajau people regularly free-dive to depths of up to 230 feet (70 meters), with only weights and a wooden mask.

They spend up to 60 percent of their work day diving for fish, spearing octopus and gathering crustaceans -- an amount of time rivaled only by sea otters -- and can stay underwater up to 13 minutes at a time, said the report in the journal Cell.

Intrigued by this unusual ability, American researcher Melissa Ilardo, then a post doctoral candidate at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, wondered if they had genetically adapted somehow to be able to spend more time underwater than other people.

She took genetic samples and did ultrasound scans, which showed that Bajau had spleens about 50 percent larger than the Saluan. Spleens are important in diving -- and are also enlarged in some seals -- because they release more oxygen into the blood when the body is under stress, or a person is holding their breath underwater.

'Sea Nomads'

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Photographer Vladimir Ryabkov, from Moscow, snapped these incredible images during a visit in March.
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