Paul Krugman: The Big Squander (nytimes.com)
By not extracting concessions from bankers during the rescue of A.I.G., policy makers undermined their own credibility and put the broader economy at risk.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Off the Chart (nytimes.com)
Ten months ago Barack Obama's economic advisers projected two scenarios for unemployment. Now reality has produced numbers of its own.
"Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict" by Irene Vilar: A review by Cheryl Strayed
I'll say it now: Irene Vilar had 15 abortions in 15 years. That's the blunt opening one-liner that fails to tell the whole story of this beautiful and brave book. Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict is a memoir less about 15 abortions than it is the story of a young woman who never got enough love.
John Dickerson hosted a roundtable discussion of Eric Holder's decision to prosecute 5 Guantanamo Bay detainees in New York with Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton with National Security Network and Hamilton Peterson with Keep America Safe.
Mary Hartman's parents were George & Martha Shumway.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Louise Lasser
Played Mary Hartman (nee Shumway).
Alan J answered:
Shumway
~ Tony in Philly answered:
Shumway
Charlie replied:
Shumway, which was the last name of Mary's mother Martha and sister Cathy on the show. Presumably, Mary was unrelated to ALF, but then, one can't be too sure.
Marian the Teacher
Shumway
Sally said:
As I recall, Mary Hartman - Mary Hartman's maiden name was Shumway. The show started right before my son was born (January 1976) and that show was the high point of my day, after caring for two kids, one of whom would not sleep for anything.
Who could forget Mary hitting the car full of nuns - their bodies sprawled on the ground and someone in the cast telling her, "You can't win in court after hitting nuns - especially a car full of 'em." I swear I wet my pants after viewing that episode!! Loved that show too.
PS: My trivia dejour: (Star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), Louise Lasser's only marriage was to Woody Allen from 1966 to 1969. She starred in several of his early films, and is now 70 years of age - my, how time fly's...
MAM said:
Since Mary Hartman's mother's name was Martha Shumway, I am going with Shumway as her maiden name.
Dody Goodman as Martha Shumway, Mary Hartmans's addled mother
And, Joe S replied:
And that was Shumway, but I don't believe she was related to Gordon.
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by '48 Hours', then another '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Mercy' followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Joseph Gordon Leavitt hosting, music by Dave Matthews Band.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Twelve Angry Men'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'Alien', followed by the movie 'Aliens'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 13 End Of Days
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Bad Blood
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Dawn French, Rod Stewart, Michael Palin
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Bad Blood
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Dawn French, Rod Stewart, Michael Palin
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Bad Blood
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Dawn French, Rod Stewart, Michael Palin
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 3 Playhouse (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of OC', followed by the movie 'Brokeback Mountain'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector', 'Bill Engvall: 15° Off Cool', 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed', and 'Ron White: Behavioral Problems'.
FX has the movie 'Pathfinder', followed by the movie 'Troy'.
History has 'WWII in HD', 'The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After', and 'How The Earth Was Made'.
IFC -
[6:30 AM] The Year of the Yao
[8:00 AM] The Sword of Doom
[10:05 AM] Hero
[11:50 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:05 PM] Roadside Prophets
[1:45 PM] The Year of the Yao
[3:20 PM] IFC News Special: Monty Python
[3:30 PM] Hero
[5:15 PM] Roadside Prophets
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] Havoc
[9:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[10:00 PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[11:00 PM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[12:35 AM] The Changeling
[2:30 AM] Havoc
[4:00 AM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[5:35 AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Total Recall', followed by the movie 'In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale'.
Sundance -
[02:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[04:15 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[06:40 AM] French Film
[08:15 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Wetlands Preserved
[11:00 AM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 107
[11:30 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
[12:30 PM] Drop Back Ten
[01:45 PM] Congorama
[03:40 PM] The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
[05:15 PM] Drop Back Ten
[06:35 PM] Avenue Montaigne
[08:30 PM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 107
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 6: Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou
[10:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[12:15 AM] Punishment Park
[01:45 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters
[02:45 AM] In Memory Of My Father
[04:25 AM] Punishment Park
[05:55 AM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 107 (ALL TIMES EST)
Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall performs on piano and John Clayton on bass, in Universal Hall in Macedonia's capital Skopje, on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
Photo by Boris Grdanoski
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said Friday.
"The 7,136,222 voting children have elected Graca Machel and Nelson Mandela as their first Decade Child Heroes," the World's Children Prize for the Rights of the Child foundation, based in Sweden, said in a statement.
The laureates were announced on the the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Children at 53,000 schools in 101 countries voted for their favorite children's right advocate out of 13 candidates.
Flautist James Galway performs Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 in Boston. Galway, who performed in celebration of his 70th birthday, was conducted along with the orchestra by Principle Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink, who performed in celebration of his 80th birthday.
Photo by Steven Senne)
Many years ago, on a beautiful summer night, Willow & I saw James Galway at the Hollywood Bowl.
A stark-raving mad (retired) railroad engineer with a disdain for clothing may also have been involved.
Audrey Hepburn once declared her look was "attainable" and an upcoming auction of some of the fashionable film star's wardrobe will make that possible.
Some 35 dresses, gowns, separates and other items will be sold at a London auction on December 8 at the largest sale of clothing that belonged to the actress, who won an Oscar for her first starring role as a runaway princess in "Roman Holiday,
Among the highlights is a haute couture cloque silk dress by Givenchy, the designer with whom Hepburn was most closely linked, which she wore to promote "Paris when it Sizzles."
A second auction of art and furniture once owned by fashion guru Yves Saint Laurent has raised 8.9 million euros ($13.22 million), up to three times the estimated amount, auctioneers Christie's said on Friday.
The first sale of treasures belonging to Saint Laurent and his companion, Pierre Berge, raised more than 370 million euros in February in one of the biggest auctions Paris has seen.
Christie's had estimated the second sale would rake in between 3 and 4 million euros, with all the proceeds going to an AIDS research charity.
Saint Laurent and Berge built up one of the world's biggest and most important private art collections over some five decades but Berge decided to sell it all after Saint Laurent died last year.
British musician Billy Bragg speaks during a news conference on establishing rules for the digital culture online at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ont., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
Photo by Sean Kilpatrick
An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.
The body parts, along with another finger and a vertebrae, were cut from Galileo's corpse by scientists and historians during a burial ceremony held 95 years after his death in 1642.
The newly-found relics had passed from one collector to another until they went missing in 1905. The remaining finger and the vertebrae have been conserved since 1737 in a mummified state in museums in Florence and Padua.
For 95 years after his death, ecclesiastical authorities refused to allow Galileo to be buried in consecrated ground because his findings were considered contrary to the teachings of the Catholic church.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale Friday for 15,000 euros (22,000 dollars) on online auction website eBay, before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.
"No bid was made during the brief time the advert was visible," eBay said on its website, explaining the removal on the grounds that the company did not authorise sales of human matter.
"It's a disgrace trying to sell my grand-father's brain and blood," said Alessandra Mussolini, the neo-fascist grand-daughter of Il Duce told Sky TG24 television.
She said that the remains of her grand-father, who was hanged by partisans at the end of World War II, were normally kept in a Milan hospital. The television station said the hospital denied the claim.
An Ohio police chief accused of burgling the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick abused his authority and tried to "blame it all on being a joke," a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments of the chief's trial.
Suspended Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter is accused of taking items related to pregnancy and the surrogacy from the home and scheming with the police chief of a neighboring town to sell them to celebrity photographers.
A jury began deliberating the case Friday afternoon.
Carpenter testified earlier in the day that he never discussed selling items from the home to paparazzi. He went into the woman's home after he saw a basement door open while on routine patrol and took a photo of a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and of a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach. He says he showed the photo of the cast to paparazzi and to several other people.
A judge has increased bond to $100,000 for an Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews.
Michael Barrett was in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Friday to face one count of interstate stalking. Barrett's attorney David Willingham says his client has posted bond. Barrett was initially free on a $4,500 bond.
The 48-year-old Barrett is charged with making videos of Andrews through the peephole in her hotel room door, and federal prosecutors say he uploaded to the Internet nude videos of other women also made through peepholes.
Barrett is scheduled to be arraigned in the same courtroom Monday.
Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.
The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sentence statement Friday saying Carter, 46, was found guilty of third-degree attempted assault.
Carter, who was political anchor on NY1 until the station learned of the accusation, had been accused of the more serious charge of third-degree assault. His wife, Marilyn Carter, called 911 last year from their home in Pomona and claimed he hit her. Photos presented at trial showed the 52-year-old woman's swollen lip, cut ear and bruised arm and leg.
His wife acknowledged on the witness stand that she made the 911 call, but said the real assailant was a day laborer whose name she couldn't remember. She said she told police her husband had beat her because she was angry about an argument they'd had about care for their epileptic son.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Nov. 9-15. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh vs. Denver (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 11.35 million homes, 16 million viewers.
2. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.44 million homes, 5.03 million viewers.
3. "SpongeBob Truth or Square" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.4 million homes, 4.65 million viewers.
4. "Suite Life on Deck" (Friday, 8:30 p.m.), Disney, 3.31 million homes, 4.77 million viewers.
5. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.219 million homes, 4.49 million viewers.
6. Movie: "ICarly Movie: Go to Japan" (Wednesday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.214 million homes, 4.47 million viewers
7. "White Collar" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.17 million homes, 4.27 million viewers.
8. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.15 million homes, 4.05 million viewers.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), 3.148 million homes, 4.27 million viewers.
10. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.145 million homes, 4.43 million viewers.
11. "Sportscenter" (Monday, 11:41 p.m.), ESPN, 3.07 million homes, 4.01 million viewers.
12. "ICarly" (Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.06 million homes, 4.07 million viewers.
13. Movie: "ICarly Movie: Shelby Marx" (Wednesday, 7 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.05 million homes, 4.45 million viewers.
14. "Monk" (Friday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.994 million homes, 4.38 million viewers.
14. "The O'Reilly Factor (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.994 million homes, 3.93 million viewers.
In this undated photo released by Spink Shreves Galleries, a 1851 Canadian 12 Pence denomination postage stamp from the collection of Wall Street executive, William H. Gross is shown. The stamp sold for a record $260 thousand in a public auction conducted by Spink Shreves Galleries in New York City, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
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