BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 24 November, 2012

Saturday

24 November, 2012

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Recommended Reading

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Trivia Question of the Day


Jonas Grumby was the captain of what vessel?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


In Heidelberg, the title of this movie is "Vom Winde verweht". Last night on channel 46 it was called "Lo que el viento se llevó". What is this movie's title in English?


   "Gone With The Wind"                                                      Source


"Gone With The Wind" | "Vom Winde verweht" | "Lo que el viento se llevó"        Source









Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Gone With The Wind



Charlie wrote:
   My late mother, who saw it when it was released, thought it was greatly overrated. I never saw it until it was televised in the 70s, but then I agreed.
  Gone with the Wind.




Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
   Gone with the Wind



Adam answered:
   Using the piecemeal power of Google Translate, I'm going to guess 'Gone With The Wind'. That, or something involving a winch.



Sandra in Bangor responded:
   gone with the wind



Dave, Cincinnati replied:
   That's "Gone With The Wind".



Marian answered:
   Gone with the Wind



Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
   Vom Winde verweht (Originaltitel Gone with the Wind) ist ein US-amerikanisches Melodram aus dem Jahre 1939, das als Klassiker der Filmgeschichte gilt. Die Geschichte basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Margaret Mitchell, der 1936 veröffentlicht wurde und sich schon bald zu einem der erfolgreichsten Romane der amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte entwickelte.




Sally said:
   I fell while raking leaves today, and hit the cement - luckily, I turned my face, so the side got the cement - and it ain't pretty.
  OTOH, my hip went back into place, and for that, I am most grateful!
  Oh, and the answer for today's quiz is: "Gone With The Wind."

  Can't think of that movie WO thinking of Carol and Harvey!
  PS: I am now taking my body to bed, bet I'll be sore tomorrow though...




BttbBob     responded:
  
  Um... Gone With The Wind? I cheated, I saw Margaret Mitchell's name at the top. No, that's a lie. I remember enough of my high school German to know the answer straight away without the photo... Really...
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  I also remember the German words to 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone?'. Our teacher, Frau Schmidt, experienced wartime Germany and the aftermath as a teen. She taught us the song and we sang it frequently...
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  Black Thurs-Friday Reflection (in German) - Genug! Hör auf mit diesem Unsinn! (That is a very dramatic phrase, I'm tellin' ya... look it up...)




MAM   wrote:
   'Gone With the Wind' ~ I was about 9 or 10 when this movie made it to the theaters in our neighborhood. I had a Scarlet O'Hara doll that I had gotten for Christmas. My parents talked a lot about the book and the movie. I very much wanted to go see it, but was not allowed as my Father said, "There is bad language in it." I avidly read the book when I was about 13, and finally saw the film for the first time when it came around again when I was 21. The 'bad language'??? Oh, Rhett Butler says: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" How times have changed!




And, Joe S     answered:
   Gone With The Wind.
  Gone With the Wind in 30 Seconds With Bunnies
  I ate WAY too much.



  


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Galapagos Tortoise Species Can Be Revived, Scientists Say



Grand Old Planet - NYTimes.com



Daily Kos: OK, so you want to leave the Union? Then please answer me this ...(w/ Poll)



Daily Kos: Epic and Sweeping Ecocide



20/20 | Investigative Journalism, Medical Mysteries, News Magazine - ABC News
     polygamy; FLDS



Thanks, Michelle!


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


"ONCE AND FOR ALL" UNTIL THE NEXT TIME

"I AM STILL ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU."

THE "POISON FOOD" LOBBY WINS ANOTHER ROUND

A FAT PASTY FACED WHITE WING REPUG GETS A SMACKDOWN!

"THE HUCKSTER" OR "FIFTY SHADES OF KHAKI" OR BOTH!

"IG" OR "NOBEL?" YOU MAKE THE CALL. FOR THOSE OF US THAT LOVE SCIENCE!

THE "NEWLY-FRUGAL GUY" FIGHTS THE EVIL "SPENDOCRATS."

THE REPUGS HAVE NO "FUCKING" SHAME!

THE REPUGS HAVE NO "FUCKING" SHAME! PART TWO

IT'S NOT A MIRACLE, IT'S SCIENCE. CONGRATULATIONS ANDREA AND ANTHONY

THE REPUG VULTURES KEEP CIRCLING THE CORPSE

HEY BOEHNER HEAD! BRONCO BAMA HAS A MANDATE! GET A LIFE MORAN!

HEY BOEHNER HEAD! BRONCO BAMA HAS A MANDATE! GET A LIFE MORAN! - BONUS CLICK

LOVE CONQUERS ALL!

THE GRAND OLD PLANET






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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and warm.



Tonight, Saturday:

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



NBC fills the night with the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Joseph Gordon Levitt, music by Mumford & Sons.



ABC fills the night with LIVE 'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.



The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.



Faux fills the night with LIVE 'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.



MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.



A&E has all 'Storage Wars' all night.



AMC offers the movie 'Big Jake', followed by the movie 'Appaloosa', then the movie 'Appaloosa', again.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]   TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 7
 [7:00AM]   TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 8
 [8:00AM]   TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 9
 [9:00AM]   TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 10
 [10:00AM]   TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
 [11:30AM]   RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Harlem Barber/Test Pilot
 [12:30PM]   TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
 [2:00PM]   TOP GEAR: 50 YEARS OF BOND CARS
 [3:30PM]   TOP GEAR APOCALYPSE
 [5:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 13 - Homeward
 [6:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 14 - Sub Rosa
 [7:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks NEW
 [8:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self NEW
 [9:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 17 - Masks NEW
 [10:00PM]   V FOR VENDETTA
 [1:00AM]   THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
 [2:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 1 - The Impossible Astronaut
 [3:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Day of the Moon
 [4:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
 [5:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife    (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has the movie 'Bee Movie', followed by the movie 'Bee Movie', again.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Office Space', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', and 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.



FX has the movie 'Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Christmas With The Kranks'.



History has 'The White Men Who Built America', 'Mankind: The Story Of All Of Us', another 'Mankind: The Story Of All Of Us''Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Layer Cake
 [8:15AM]    Bunk
 [8:45AM]    Bunk
 [9:15AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [9:30AM]    The Three Stooges-Three Pests in a Mess
 [9:55AM]    The Three Stooges-Three Smart Saps
 [10:20AM]    The Three Stooges-What's the Matador?
 [10:45AM]    The Three Stooges-Who Done It?
 [11:10AM]    The Three Stooges-Woman Haters
 [11:35AM]    The Three Stooges-You Natzy Spy!
 [12:00PM]    Bunk
 [12:30PM]    Bunk
 [1:00PM]    Slow Burn
 [3:00PM]    Layer Cake
 [5:15PM]    Bad Boys
 [8:00PM]    The Spirit
 [10:15PM]    Sin City
 [12:45AM]    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
 [3:00AM]    The Spirit
 [5:15AM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
 [5:45AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00A]    MY SO-CALLED LIFE - On the Wagon (Episode 14, Season 1)
 [7:00A]    MY SO-CALLED LIFE - So-Called Angels (Episode 15, Season 1)
 [8:00A]    MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Resolutions (Episode 16, Season 1)
 [9:00A]    Out of Time
 [11:00A]    One Week
 [12:45P]    MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Argentina (Episode 8, Season 1)
 [1:15P]    Runaway (animated)
 [1:30P]    Sorry, Thanks
 [3:15P]    Gigantic
 [5:00P]    Out of Time
 [7:00P]    THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Cougar Town's Busy Philipps (Episode 1, Season 2)
 [7:30P]    ICONOCLASTS - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar + Chuck D (Episode 6, Season 6)
 [8:00P]    Little Children
 [10:15P]    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 [12:00A]    Sleeping Beauty
 [1:45A]    The Crucible
 [4:00A]    Shadows in the Palace    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God', followed by the movie 'Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile & Darkness'.



TCM spends the night with director William Wyler
 [6:00 AM]      Tough Guy (1936)
 [7:30 AM]      On Borrowed Time (1939)
 [9:15 AM]      The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
 [10:45 AM]      Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
 [1:15 PM]      The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 [3:15 PM]      There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
 [5:30 PM]      Gypsy (1962)
 [8:00 PM]      Jezebel (1938)
 [10:00 PM]      Ben-Hur (1959)
 [2:00 AM]      Mrs. Miniver (1942)
 [4:30 AM]      Funny Girl (1968)
    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sunday   -  11/25/11

TCM:
 [7:15 AM]      The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
 [8:30 AM]      Top Hat (1935)
 [10:15 AM]      The Winning Team (1952)
 [12:00 PM]      The Women (1939)
 [2:30 PM]      Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 [4:30 PM]      The Mortal Storm (1940)
 [6:15 PM]      The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
 [8:00 PM]      The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973)
 [10:00 PM]      Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger (1977)
 [12:00 AM]      Feu Mathias Pascal (1925)    [AKA: 'The Living Dead Man']    SILENT 
 [3:00 AM]      L' Atalante (1934)
 [4:45 AM]      The Train (1965)     (ALL TIMES EST)




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Mexican actress Salma Hayek kisses her trophy for Film International during Bambi 2012 media awards ceremony in Duesseldorf November 22, 2012.
Photo by Ina Fassbinder

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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evolution of the mobile phone by docomo | designboom

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Where The $ Goes

Black Friday

Black Friday: It's a day in which most American citizens put aside politics in pursuit of shopping bargains. But in Washington we can sort almost anything in the US in terms of partisan proclivity, and temples of commerce are no exception. Want to know whether the big box store where you're waiting in line leans Democratic or Republican? The folks at the invaluable Center for Responsive Politics have compiled a handy guide based on campaign contributions.

Toys R Us, for instance, seems a solidly blue store. Self-identified employees of the store gave $39,000 to political candidates in the 2012 election cycle, and $36,000 of that went to Democrats. All that $36,000 went to one candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) of Minnesota. (That's kind of odd, isn't it? The retailer's corporate headquarters are in New Jersey.) Other than that, Mitt Romney got $1,750 from Toys R Us workers. President Obama got zilch, according to CRP's Open Secrets blog.

Macy's employees, on the other hand, were big Obama fans. They donated $28,870 to the president's reelection campaign, as opposed to $16,390 to GOP nominee Mr. Romney. This Democratic lean was counterbalanced to a certain extent by the store's corporate political action committee, however. (Toys R Us doesn't appear to have a central PAC.) Macy's PAC gave $12,000 to Republicans, and $4,000 to Democrats.

Then there's Wal-Mart. Sam Walton's empire has a major presence in politics compared with its big box brethren. Its employees and PAC gave $2.7 million to candidates in the 2012 cycle.

In fact, Wal-Mart has spent more than $12 million on lobbyists in the past two years. It has its own Washington office, with 15 employees, and pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in retainers to such top outside lobby firms as Patton Boggs and the Podesta Group.

Black Friday

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Princess Izzi, a manager at Cyberdog, presents a T-shirt from their Pussy Riot line, at their shop at Camden market in London November 19, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Winning

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Andrew Heymsfield on hole-punch clouds made by jets | Earth | EarthSky

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Aids Dominican Orphanage

Marc Anthony

Singer Marc Anthony is coming to the aid of an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

A foundation run by Anthony with music and sports producer Henry Cardenas plans to build a new residence hall, classrooms and a baseball field for the Children of Christ orphanage in the eastern city of La Romana. Anthony attended the groundbreaking ceremony Friday with his model girlfriend Shannon de Lima.

Children of Christ Foundation Director Sonia Hane said Anthony visited the orphanage previously and decided to help. His Maestro Cares Foundation raised $200,000 for the expansion on land donated by a sugar company. The orphanage was founded in 1996 for children who were abused or abandoned or whose parents were unable to care for them.

Marc Anthony

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Rejected Audition Tape At Auction

Beatles

The Beatles audition tape rejected by a record label executive in arguably the biggest blunder in pop history has resurfaced and will go on sale at a London auction next week.

Ted Owen of The Fame Bureau, an auction house specializing in pop memorabilia, said the 10-song tape was recorded on New Year's Day, 1962, at label Decca's studios in north London.

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Best - who would later be replaced on drums by Ringo Starr - performed up to 15 songs at the session, 10 of which appear on the tape to be sold on November 27.

The band members had been driven from Liverpool to London the night before, and, despite getting lost on the way managed to get to the studios in time for the infamous session paid for by their manager Brian Epstein.

Decca's senior A&R (artists and repertoire) representative Dick Rowe, who later became known as "the man who turned down the Beatles", decided against signing them in favor of Brian Poole & The Tremeloes who also auditioned that day.

"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein," he is widely quoted as saying.

Beatles

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Street performer Robert Burck, also known as The Naked Cowboy, performs in Times Square for Black Friday shoppers in New York, November 23, 2012. The Naked Cowboy said he was offering a Black Friday special, "Two butt slaps for the price of one!"
Photo by Carlo Allegri

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11 Creative Suffixes That Inspire New Words - Mental Floss

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Elvis & Madonna

London Auction

A watch which was one of Elvis Presley's last Christmas presents and a corset worn by Madonna on her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour will be featured at a London auction.

The watch, estimated to sell for 6,000 pounds ($9,500) or more, is a diamond-set Rolex given to Presley by his longtime manager, Tom Parker. It is engraved, "Elvis merry Christmas your pal Col. Tom Parker." It was the last Christmas for Presley, who died the following year.

Madonna's corset by Jean-Paul Gaultier is of green silk with conical cups and beaded fringe, embroidered with candy stripes of opalescent sequins and peppermint bugle beads.

Christie's estimates that the corset will sell for at least 10,000 pounds.

London Auction

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Wake-up Call


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Inmate Tension

Pussy Riot

Jailed Pussy Riot punk protester Maria Alyokhina has been moved to a single-person cell for her own protection because of tension with other prisoners, her lawyer and Russia's federal penitentiary service said on Friday.

Alyokhina, 24, is serving a two-year sentence for a raucous protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral. Activists said her trial, and that of two band mates, was part of a crackdown on dissent.

"There was a conflict" between Alyokhina and other inmates and "she was tansferred to a individual cell," her lawyer Irina Khrunova said by telephone. She said it was not yet clear what caused the conflict.

"Some tensions arose in relationships and, apparently to prevent this situation from escalating, she decided to submit a request to the prison leadership and they moved her to a one-person cell," a federal prison service spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman dismissed Russian media reports Alyokhina argued with inmates over religion at the Ural Mountains prison about 1,150 km (715 miles) northeast of Moscow. Pussy Riot's protest offended many members of Russia's Orthodox Church.

Pussy Riot

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Volunteers of America Santas ring their bells as the cross a street in Fifth Ave. during their 110th annual Sidewalk Santa Parade, in New York, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. The donations they raise are used for a holiday food voucher program for needy residents.
Photo by Richard Drew

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Married For 20 Years By Accident - Neatorama

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Sues Talent Agency

Oksana Baiul

Olympic gold medalist Oksana Baiul is suing a talent agency claiming it mismanaged money she earned after her gold medal-winning figure skating performance in 1994.

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claims she signed contracts with the William Morris Agency shortly after her victory but only recently discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars had gone uncollected or were improperly spent.

The lawsuit claims the Ukrainian-born skater signed the agreements without being able to read, write or understand English. She claims the agency failed to properly explain agreements to her and misrepresented the amounts she is owed.

Baiul now lives in Pennsylvania and is seeking more than $1 million, although the exact amount owed would be determined by jurors.

Oksana Baiul

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Coming of Age in Cartography: Evolution of the World Map | Amusing Planet

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Disses Bathtub Boy

Chambliss

Senator Saxby Chambliss this week became the latest Republican lawmaker to loosen his ties to Grover Norquist, the anti-tax lobbyist famous for getting elected officials to sign a "taxpayer protection pledge."

The rebellion, albeit a modest one, comes as Republicans prepare to negotiate with Democrats and President Barack Obama on a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff - some $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to start jolting the economy at the beginning of 2013.

"I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ on Thursday. "If we do it his way, then we'll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that."

A vast majority of elected Republicans have signed the pledge Norquist created in 1986, which commits them to voting against tax increases, and it became a type of litmus test among U.S. conservatives.

"Grover Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. His plan says you continue to add to the debt. I just have a fundamental disagreement with him about that," Chambliss said.

Chambliss

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A Sotheby's employee poses for a photograph with an Imperial silver-gilt and cloisonne enamel icon of Christ Pantocrator which has an estimated value of '180,000 ($287,000) to '250,000 ($398,000) at Sotheby's in London, Nov. 23, 2012.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth

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Is Photography Dead? The History of Photography (Infographic) ~ Photography News

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Secret Message May Never Be Deciphered

Carrier Pigeon

Before military forces had secure cell phones and satellite communications, they used carrier pigeons. The highly trained birds delivered sensitive information from one location to another during World War II. Often, the birds found the intended recipient. But not always.

A dead pigeon was recently discovered inside a chimney in Surrey, England. There for roughly 70 years, the bird had a curious canister attached to its leg. Inside was a coded message that has stumped the experts.

The code features a series of 27 groups of five letters. According to Reuters, nobody from Britain's Government Communications Headquarters has been able to decipher it. The message was sent by a Sgt. W. Scott to someone or something identified as "Xo2."

The bird was discovered by a homeowner doing renovations earlier this month. In an interview with Reuters, David Martin remarked that bits of birds kept falling from the chimney. Eventually, Martin saw the red canister and speculated that it might contain a secret message. And it seems as if the message will always be secret.

Carrier pigeons played a vital role in wars due to their incredible homing skills. All told, U.K. forces used about 250,000 of the birds during World War II.

Carrier Pigeon

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Breathtaking Murmurations of Starlings | Bored Panda

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69 Years Later...

Postcard

A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.

The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., to sisters Pauline and Theresa Leisenring in Elmira.

Their brother, George Leisenring, was stationed at Rockford's Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant, an Army post during World War II. Their parents were visiting him when they mailed the postcard home.

Elmira's Star-Gazette newspaper reports the postcard arrived last week at the family's former home, where a different family now lives.

Postcard

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Dark Roasted Blend: Huge Off-Highway Road Trains

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In Memory

Emily Squires

A longtime "Sesame Street" director who also worked on soap operas including "The Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" has died. Emily Squires was 71.

Squires' husband, Len Belzer, said Friday that the cause of death hasn't been determined.

Squires directed the "Sesame Street" children's television series from 1982 to 2007 while also writing for the program.

She directed several "Sesame Street" TV specials as well as other children's programs such as the PBS show "Between the Lions," which promoted reading.

She also was a scriptwriter for soap operas including "The Guiding Light," ''Search for Tomorrow," ''The Secret Storm" and "As the World Turns."

Squires later directed documentaries including "Visions of Perfect Worlds," a conversation with the Dalai Lama.

Emily Squires

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In Memory

Larry Hagman

Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of "Dallas," died on Friday, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was 81.

Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his battle with throat cancer, the newspaper said, quoting a statement from his family. He had suffered from liver cancer and cirrhosis of the liver in the 1990s after decades of drinking.

Hagman's mother was stage and movie star Mary Martin and he became a star himself in 1965 on "I Dream of Jeannie," a popular television sitcom in which he played Major Anthony Nelson, an astronaut who discovers a beautiful genie in a bottle.

"Dallas," which made its premiere on the CBS network in 1978, made Hagman a superstar. The show quickly became one of the network's top-rated programs, built an international following and inspired a spin-off, imitators and a revival in 2012.

In the middle of it all stood Hagman's black-hearted J.R. Ewing - grinning wickedly in a broad cowboy hat and boots, plotting how to cheat his business competitors and cheat on his wife. He was the villain TV viewers loved to despise during the show's 356-episode run from 1978 to 1991.

To conclude its second season, the "Dallas" producers put together one of U.S. television's most memorable episodes in which Ewing was shot by an unseen assailant. That gave fans months to fret over whether J.R. would survive and who had pulled the trigger. In the show's opening the following season, it was revealed that J.R.'s sister-in-law, Kristin, with whom he had been having an affair, was behind the gun.

Hagman said an international publisher offered him $250,000 to reveal who had shot J.R. and he considered giving the wrong information and taking the money, but in the end, "I decided not to be so like J.R. in real life."

An updated "Dallas" series began in June 2012 on the TNT network with Hagman reprising his J.R. role with original cast members Linda Gray, who played J.R.'s long-suffering wife, Sue Ellen, and Patrick Duffy, who was his brother Bobby. The show was to focus on the sons of J.R. and Bobby.

Hagman had a wide eccentric streak. When he first met actress Lauren Bacall, he licked her arm because he had been told she did not like to be touched and he was known for leading parades on the Malibu beach and showing up at a grocery store in a gorilla suit. Above his Malibu home flew a flag with the credo "Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration)" and he lived hard for many years.

In 1967, rock musician David Crosby turned him on to LSD, which Hagman said took away his fear of death, and Jack Nicholson introduced him to marijuana because Nicholson thought he was drinking too much.

Hagman had started drinking as a teenager and said he did not stop until the moment in 1992 when his doctor told him he had cirrhosis of the liver and could die within six months. Hagman wrote that for the past 15 years he had been drinking about four bottles of champagne a day, including while on the "Dallas" set.

Hagman was born on September 21, 1931, in Weatherford, Texas, and his father was a lawyer who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hagman would later come to portray. He was still a boy when his parents divorced and he went to Los Angeles with Martin, who would become a Broadway and Hollywood musical star.

Hagman eventually landed in New York to pursue acting, making his stage debut there in "The Taming of the Shrew." In New York, he married Maj Axelsson in 1954 while they were in a production of "South Pacific. The marriage produced two children, Heidi and Preston.

Hagman served in the Air Force, spending five years in Europe as the director of USO shows, and on his return to New York he took a starring role in the daytime soap "The Edge of Night." His breakthrough came in 1965 when he landed the "I Dream of Jeannie" role opposite Barbara Eden.

In his later years, Hagman became an advocate for organ transplants and an anti-smoking campaigner. He also was devoted to solar energy, telling the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar panel system at his Ojai estate, and made a commercial in which he portrayed a J.R. Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime member of the Peace and Freedom Party, a minor leftist organization in California.

Hagman told the Times that after death he wanted his remains to be "spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little of Larry."

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