I just read on your page about Don Sherwood. He is sleaze. On of his many affairs was with
(name deleted) from 'burg, She taught school in Sherwood's home town.
Hoping he loses.
Willow
Thanks, Willow!
Jeez, doesn't serial philanderer Sherwood ever pick on anyone close to his own age?
Ick.
Air America on Ad Blacklist? (fair.org)
An internal memo from ABC Radio Networks to its affiliates reveals scores of powerful sponsors have a standing order that their commercials never be placed on syndicated Air America programming that airs on ABC affiliates.
STOP ABUSING OUR MARINES! (wonkette.com)
We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world - tied with our fascist homies in Croatia and the islanders of the Kingdom of Tonga! - but do we have to make is so damned obvious?
Andy Stern: Changing How America Works (AlterNet.org)
Something's wrong when only the rich are getting richer, and average folks are feeling the squeeze. The answer isn't more education, or simply electing better leaders. We need widespread change.
Once upon a time (www.guardian.co.uk)
From Madonna to Kylie, from Ricky Gervais to Paul McCartney, A-list actors, comics and singers are reinventing themselves as children's authors. Most make a terrible job of it - so why do the books keep coming and the tills keep ringing? Ed Pilkington investigates.
I could have gone to the theater today to see "Borat" or "Babel" or "Flicka" or even "Flushed Away"……..but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Like Woody Allen's Alvy Singer in "Annie Hall" (1977), I ended up standing in line to see a Holocaust movie! Actually a local version involving a crazy commie Pentecostal Christian Preacher, 913 brothers and sisters from right here in the San Francisco bay area and cyanide laced kool-aid!
It was important to me because I knew 2 people that ended up dead down in Guyana at Jonestown….there's a Cemetery here in Oakland that has 260 bodies buried there from the massacre…and I have property up near Ukiah and Redwood Valley where Jim Jones first started his experimental Christian, rainbow colored commune. I didn't want to forget the incredible faith and fervor that fomented this disaster and how this charismatic man could ultimately control the lives and deaths of so many wonderful and trusting souls.
The movie traces Jim Jones early childhood in Indiana where he started his first inter-racial Pentecostal church…but folks down there didn't take to blacks in white churches so Jim packed the bus and moved to California…Northern California that is…..where he started attracting hundreds of disaffected families and folks looking for a new way to live together and worship…..Jim started buying Greyhound buses and having new members sell their houses and give him the money…..and he'd take care of them…..both physically and spiritually…..the now more than 1000 strong moved down to San Francisco to a brick building that became the "Peoples Temple"…..and before Cecil William's Glide memorial Methodist Church became the hot place to be on Sunday, Jim Jones' church was rockin' and reelin'…and faith healin'…and Jim Jones became a formidable power broker in the area….sending bus loads of his faithful to various political protests…..behind the scenes it was the same old story…
In the 60's and 70's, Northern California was inundated with deviant charlatans masquerading as religious saviors….Bagwan Shree Rajneesh, Da Free John, and Sathya Sai Baba were all accused of bilking the boys and boffing the babes….it turns out that Jim Jones was boffing everybody (a new male member of the Peoples Temple describes his first meeting with Jones and was asked "would you like me to fuck you in the ass? I'll do it if that's what you want!) All the times Jim was preaching and enforcing hard work and hard praying while he was secretly taking all the money and building his "Garden of Eden" in Guyana……
In 1976, an in depth expose was written about the behind the scenes shenanigans of Jim Jones. When Jim heard about it , he gathered his 1000 strong flock and said…"we're moving… to our new home…"heaven on Earth" in South America….he loaded everyone on planes and they all went down there to escape the "evil recriminations of the American government…
Family members of folks who had moved to the compound in Guyana started contacting politicians and the local authorities saying that their loved ones were being held in Guyana against their wills…could somebody please go down and check it out….Local congressman Leo Ryan decided to investigate.
Meanwhile "Heaven on Earth" was turning into "Holy Hell" as Jim Jones was becoming more and more paranoid and drugged (probably Methamphetamines like the reverend Ted Haggard) and marching out Gestapo like tactics upon the faithful….in truth, they were all trapped and the reverend Jim Jones had a "Final Solution"!!!!!
The way this story played out with congressman Ryan and 3 others in his entourage being shot, the terrible chaos the night before the end and the unbelievable recordings of Jim Jones calmly, with everyone at gunpoint, forcing his 900 plus congregation to ingest the fateful cyanide koolaid concoction that he had prepared for them ....to go to a better place…..It brought everything back to me….how astonished I was at the time that so many people would believe in one man and not see the tell tale signs of his madness.
Bob Dylan said…"don't follow leaders….watch your parking meters!"
Purple Gene gives "Jonestown: the Life and Death of Peoples Temple" 9 real tears of regret out of 10 for a movie that was hard to watch but had to be told from the point of view of close family members that either survived themselves or lost love ones to this monster.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Kidnapped', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is 'The Best Of Darrell Hammond'.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 21 October, 2000, with Dana Carvey hosting, music by The Wallflowers.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and an old Oprah.
The CW here fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', with the Suns visiting the Clippers.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has a FRESH'Desire', followed by a FRESH'Fashion House'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', another 'Cold Case Files', still another 'Cold Case Files', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'For A Few Dollars More', followed by the movie 'Pale Rider', then the movie 'High Plains Drifter'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 13;
[3:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 15;
[4:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10;
[5:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7;
[6:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8;
[7:00 pm] Sharpe's Challenge;
[9:00 pm] Cracker A New Terror;
[11:00 pm] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2;
[12:00 am] Cracker A New Terror;
[2:00 am] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2;
[3:00 am] Peep Show - Episode 1;
[3:30 am] Peep Show - Episode 2;
[4:00 am] Peep Show - Episode 3;
[4:30 am] Peep Show - Episode 4;
[5:00 am] Peep Show - Episode 5;
[5:30 am] Peep Show - Episode 6;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Braveheart', followed by the movie 'Braveheart', again.
Comedy Central has 'Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad', followed by the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', and 'Jeff Foxworthy: Committed'.
HBO offers the FRESH'Roseanne Barr: Blonde And Bitchin''.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History', and 'The New Skinheads'.
IFC -
[07:00 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: November;
[08:00 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #9: The Bandits;
[08:25 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #10: The Journey;
[08:50 AM] Passion in the Desert;
[10:25 AM] The Sleeping Dictionary;
[12:20 PM] Me Myself and I;
[02:10 PM] Passion in the Desert;
[03:45 PM] The Sleeping Dictionary;
[05:40 PM] Me Myself and I;
[07:30 PM] But I'm a Cheerleader;
[09:00 PM] The Dreamers;
[10:55 PM] The Cooler;
[12:40 AM] The Loss of Sexual Innocence;
[02:30 AM] The Dreamers;
[04:25 AM] The Cooler. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Intermedio', followed by the movie 'Legion Of The Dead'.
Sundance -
[06:10 AM] Fela Kuti - Music is the Weapon;
[07:05 AM] Rosetta;
[08:40 AM] Salvador Allende;
[10:20 AM] The Talent Given Us;
[12:00 PM] Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia;
[02:00 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters;
[02:45 PM] The Most Beautiful Man in the World;
[03:00 PM] The Nominees: Episode 3;
[03:30 PM] A Life Without Pain;
[04:45 PM] Seamless;
[06:15 PM] The Talent Given Us;
[08:00 PM] Dirty Filthy Love;
[09:35 PM] Lurch;
[10:00 PM] Ellie Parker;
[11:45 PM] The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years;
[01:30 AM] American Me;
[03:45 AM] Mobutu, King of Zaire. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor/director Clint Eastwood, left, talks with Sidney Poitier at the 2006 British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles Cunard Britannia Awards, Thursday night, Nov. 2, 2006, in Los Angeles. Poitier received the Cunard Britannia Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Film and Eastwood received the Sanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Political junkies needing a break from election-return suspense Tuesday will find a perfect diversion in a TV biography of Paul Conrad, the famed cartoonist who's thrown punches with his pencil for 50 years.
"Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire," airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" series (check local listings for time) shows the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner with his combative liberal spirit intact.
Conrad, 82, who's taken on U.S. presidents from Harry S Truman to George W. Bush with his powerful, visually aggressive style, is the leading cartoonist of his time and possibly the best ever, observers and colleagues say in the film.
Two Hollywood unions are fighting a turf battle over "America's Next Top Model," the CW reality show that has become a flashpoint of labor strife.
A dozen so-called storytellers on the top-rated show walked off their jobs in July to demand representation by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Show producers refused, insisting on a protracted National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) organizing process. That's where the Intl. Assn. of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) comes in.
The IATSE already represents several "Top Model" editors, and in an NLRB hearing held October 25-26, the union contested the WGA's petition for a representation election. The union argued that the kind of work done by the striking employees already is covered under the IATSE's "Top Model" contract.
Actress Melanie Griffith, left, and her mother, Tippi Hedren, arrive together at a tribute for actress June Allyson in North Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. Allyson died on July 8, 2006.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Rap star Kanye West was named Best Hip Hop artist, but still came off as a sore loser at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
West apparently was so disappointed at not winning for Best Video that he crashed the stage Thursday in Copenhagen when the award was being presented to Justice and Simian for "We Are Your Friends."
In a tirade riddled with expletives, West said he should have won the prize for his video "Touch The Sky," because it "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons."
"If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility," West said.
Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary.
"(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.
The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships."
It's beginning to look as if more than 60,000 cable television subscribers in 12 states will lose a local television station because of a dispute between Mediacom Communications Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Sinclair has insisted that Mediacom pay $1 million more than the cable provider is willing to pay to carry its television stations.
Sinclair said it plans to pull 22 stations in 12 states from Mediacom systems at midnight Nov. 30 if it's not paid what it wants.
Chef Ming Tsai of Blue Ginger in Wellesley, MA, and host of the 'Simply Ming' cooking show on Public Television, conducts a cooking with cranberries demonstration in conjunction with Ocean Spray's 'Big Apple Bog' event on Friday, Nov. 3, 2006 in Rockefeller Center. The event celebrates the beauty of the cranberry harvest with 2,000 pounds of fresh cranberries and third and fourth generation Ocean Spray growers sharing the taste, health and heritage of the cranberry with the public.
Elton John has launched a furious attack on his record label, who he claims have made no attempt to promote his new album The Captain And The Kid.
The pop legend used the words "f--k Universal" from the stage at his show in New York on Wednesday evening for their perceived lack of support.
He told the crowd at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum: "Nobody would know the album has been out since September. My record label isn't doing anything to help. F--k Universal. Please drop me. I'm 58 and I don't care anymore."
Auction house Christie's U.K. on Friday announced the appointment of Queen Elizabeth II's nephew as its new chairman.
Viscount Linley, son of the monarch's late sister Princess Margaret and the photographer Lord Snowdon, will assume his role on Dec. 1, Christie's said.
Linley joined the Christie's board as a non-executive member in February 2005 and runs his own furniture-making business.
The battle for the House and Senate is proving a windfall for local TV stations, with the number of political ad spots up 31 percent compared with 2002, according to a report issued Thursday.
Nielsen Monitor-Plus said there were 942,900 campaign ads on local TV between August 1-October 15. Strong activity was reported in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Providence, R.I., among other places where the campaigns are particularly contested. The midterm elections will be held next Tuesday.
Florida Republican Charlie Crist, seeking to replace retiring Gov. Jeb Bush, bought the most ads of any gubernatorial candidate -- 21,214 local TV units between August 1-October 15; Michigan Republican Dick DeVos was next with 20,093, followed by Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Spitzer, who each bought more than 11,000 spots. The Senate candidate with the most spots during the period was Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, fighting Harold Ford Jr., who placed 12,007 ads.
Actress Debbie Reynolds arrives at a tribute for actress June Allyson in North Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. Allyson passed away on July 8, 2006.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson was honored by a Latino business organization Thursday for his upcoming film "Apocalypto."
Enthusiastic applause greeted the Oscar-winning actor and director as he walked onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to receive the Latino Business Association's Chairman's Visionary Award.
The Griffith Observatory, home for stargazers and a famous backdrop for such stars as James Dean and Arnold $chwarzenegger, reopened on Friday after a four-year, $93 million makeover.
Known by many as the setting for key scenes in such movies as the 1955 Dean classic "Rebel Without A Cause" and Arnold $chwarzenegger's 1984 film "The Terminator," the observatory and planetarium atop the Hollywood Hills has been a Los Angeles fixture for more than 70 years.
The renovation, the first in the observatory's history, has doubled the size of the facilities, although most of the extra space is underground so as not to change the familiar skyline.
When "Saturday Night Live" performer Maya Rudolph and her family moved into their new apartment, nobody warned, "Don't let the bedbugs bite."
A $450,000 lawsuit says that immediately after Rudolph, movie director Paul Anderson and their baby moved into the third-floor condominium loft apartment they were renting in SoHo last month, something began chewing on them at night.
"The plaintiffs were bitten over portions of their bodies by bedbugs," the court papers say. "Apparently unbeknown to plaintiffs, the premises were infested with bedbugs."
Rudolph, in her seventh season on the NBC variety show, and Anderson, director of "Boogie Nights," had been told the apartment was "perfect" and was in a "first-class luxury" building, their court papers say.
Paul McCartney takes a bow to a standing ovation at the world premiere performance of his classic work Ecce Cor Meum at the Royal Albert Hall in London November 3, 2006.
Photo by Richard Haughton
For Emily Dickinson, death was never too far from the imagination. The topic fueled her writing, making for some of the most memorable lyrics in American poetry.
Now, death is posing a bit of a puzzle for the caretakers of her homestead.
While making improvements to the grounds of the Emily Dickinson Museum on Halloween, workers unearthed the gravestone of one of the poet's relatives.
But exactly what Gen. Thomas Gilbert's headstone was doing under 18 inches of dirt in Dickinson's front yard has some experts stumped - especially knowing that his remains are buried in a nearby cemetery with a more ornate grave marker.
A radio talk show host was fired Friday after he made a derogatory comment about the weight and sexuality of the Green-Rainbow party candidate running for Massachusetts governor.
WRKO-AM pulled host John DePetro from the air after he made the comments Thursday. It announced Friday that he had been fired.
The host, who calls himself the "Independent Man," said he made the remark because he was exasperated that Ross and independent candidate Christy Mihos were eating up time during a debate earlier in the week that included Republican candidate Kerry Healey and Democrat Deval Patrick.
He said it was then that he told listeners he wished someone would "tell the fat lesbian to shut up."
A detective suspended after testing positive for drugs says his wife served him meatballs spiked with marijuana because she wanted to keep him out of harm's way by forcing him into retirement.
An administrative judge believed him, and recommended this week that Anthony Chiofalo be reinstated.
Chiofalo, a 22-year-veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was suspended without pay last year after a random drug test found marijuana in his system. The officer denied ever using drugs and demanded a hearing.
The detective's lawyers also presented evidence that his wife had passed a lie-detector test, and offered testimony from a toxicologist that the excuse was valid.
Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldren poses with his wife Lois Driggs Cannon as they arrive at the 2006 British Academy of Film and Television Arts / Los Angeles Cunard Britannia Awards, Thursday night, Nov. 2, 2006, in Los Angeles. Driggs Cannon is holding a purse with an image of an astronaut walking on the moon.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Keeping up with Joneses now has a whole new meaning. More than 1,200 people with the surname Jones broke the world record Friday for the biggest get-together of people with the same last name, Guinness World Record officials said.
The gathering more than doubled the size of the previous record-holder - a meeting of 583 people named Norberg in Sweden in 2004.
Jones is the most common surname in Wales and is Britain's second-most common, after Smith.
Friday's event was, appropriately, called "Jones, Jones, Jones," and famous Joneses - including former Bond girl Grace Jones and opera singer Dame Gwyneth Jones - performed for their fellow Joneses.
With the Mark Foley scandal still troubling Republicans, one of the nation's top evangelical leaders is now accused of paying for gay sex. Heading into Tuesday's election, when voters in eight states will decide on gay marriage bans, liberals and some conservatives are saying the party that prides itself on family values has a hypocrisy problem.
Ted Haggard, a staunch foe of gay marriage and occasional participant in White House conference calls, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and head of his Colorado church following allegations he met monthly with a gay prostitute for three years. Haggard denies having sex with the man, but admits receiving a massage and buying methamphetamine.
Five weeks ago, Foley - a vocal advocate for exploited children - resigned from Congress because of sexually tinged messages to male pages. Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa., a married father of three, has been burdened by revelations about his five-year affair with a mistress who says he physically abused her.
US resident George W. Bush presents more of a threat to world peace than the leaders of North Korea and Iran, and only Osama bin Laden is more feared, according to a poll of British voters published in The Guardian.
A majority of voters in Britain, Canada and Mexico, all key American allies, also think that the United States' foreign policy has made the world less safe since 2001, the survey showed.
Three-quarters of Britons said that George W. Bush presented a great or moderate threat to peace in the world, bested only by the Al-Qaeda leader at 87 percent.
In addition, 69 percent of British voters said that US policy had made the world less safe, along with 62 percent of Canadians and 52 percent of Mexicans. About 36 percent of Israelis gave the same response, a plurality.
A black swan swims in front of a paddle boat on the Aasee lake in north-western city of Muenster November 2, 2006. When the black swan arrived at the lake in spring, it became a local attraction, after 'falling in love' with the plastic swan paddle boat available for hiring on the German lake.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
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