Roger Ebert: A slow boat to anywhere
I came across a statistic the other day that claimed only about ten percent of Americans have traveled outside their country. There is no reason for this. The recession is not an explanation; the survey was taken back when Bear, Sterns was still paying its rent. This is the richest and least-traveled of "developed" nations, and I have a feeling many Americans thank heaven every day that they have never had occasion to leave it.
Jupiter Rising: 20 Questions (popmatters.com)
The LA electropop duo Jupiter Rising may not be re-inventing the wheel with their club-friendly pop, but as Evan Sawdey noted back in 2007 "who needs to be revolutionary when you're having so much fun?" The duo's (Spencer Nezey and Jessica Payo) new record, The Quiet Hype came out March 17th and the recently sat down for PopMatters' 20 Questions.
Robert Wilonsky: Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacy (dallasobserver.com)
Quincy Jones does not go to funerals-hasn't for a long, long time. He turns 76 on March 14, and at his age, there's no time for backward-glancing, not when every day is "like starting all over again." He does not stand still, certainly not by a graveside-not when "I've almost died several times myself," he says, referring to the cerebral aneurysm in 1974 that forced him to quit playing the trumpet.
Tom Beer: Talking with 'Blueberry Girl' author Neil Gaiman (Newsday)
So far, 2009 has been kind to Neil Gaiman. The English-born author, who lives outside Minneapolis, already had a cult following for his comic series, "The Sandman," and fantasy novels such as "American Gods."
John Anderson: After a career lull, Julia Roberts hopes she can still rule at the box office (Newsday)
The word layoff has an entirely different meaning for a Hollywood movie star than, say, a fired GM worker, but both involve career idleness, apprehension and questions: Is Julia Roberts' new movie, "Duplicity," a thriller or a comedy? More intriguingly, can it restore the woman who was or perhaps is the queen of the screen to the luster she once enjoyed as the $20 million-a-picture heavyweight box-office champion and mistress of all she surveys?
zEN mAN (observing a family whose dog ate a "pile" of cash...they waited for the dog to dump a 2nd time before the found the stinking money...and washed it off)
The New York Times, in an article Sunday, Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits - NYTimes.com , reports that the Obama Administration is open to the idea of taxing certain employer provided health benefits as a way to help finance health care for the uninsured. Would you support such an approach?
mj was first, but wrong, with:
If I remember correctly
That would be E, 4. Matt, Doc, Miss Kitty, and the bartender.
Alan J, second, was right, with:
C 2
joe b answered:
I'm pretty sure it was two, Miss Kitty and the Doc.
That was one of my favorite shows.
Jim from CA replied:
I think Marshall Dillon and Doc Adams stayed all 20 seasons so the answer is 2..
Charlie wrote:
B 1
Marian the Teacher answered:
2
Sally said:
It's a tricky question today. From what I can see, James Arness as Matt Dillon, and Milburn Stone as Doc Adams, were on the show for the entire run. But, Stone missed seven episodes in 1971 due to illness and was temporarily replaced - but the character was referred to all the while... How does that count here, Hummmmm?
Howie, the hotel clerk - played by Howard Culver, was there for the whole time as well. Since he was not a principle player, does he count in the equation?
IAC, the answer is 2 or three - Marty's call :)
MAM wrote:
C 2
James Arness as Matt Dillon and Milburn Stone as Doc Galen Adams
And, Joe S noted:
I'm pretty sure the answer is 3, Matt, Kitty and Doc, James Arness, Amada Blake and Milburn Stone. I can't think of a fourth.
No, no. Wait, wait!! The answer is two (2), I remember now. Miss Kitty didn't come back for the final year. This counts doesn't it?
Originally, the answer was:
James Arness and Milburn Stone are the only two regulars to stay with the show for its entire 20-year, 633-episode duration on CBS.
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But, as Sally correctly pointed out, Milburn Stone (Doc) may have been mentioned in every episode, but he didn't appear in all of them.
The bartender, while present in (most? all?) episodes, didn't have the billing, and in Hollywood, billing is everything.
So, gonna put this one on hold and dig some more. Sigh.
Volunteers welcome. : )
03/23/09 - Thanks to Marianne, the correct answer is 1, just James Arness.
To answer you can of worms question about Howie Uzzel played by Howard Culver in his role as the hotel clerk. He did play this role for the entire run of Gunsmoke. But according to imbd, he only appeared in 46 episodes.
Sam Noonan played by Glen Strange in the role of the Long Branch bartender. According to imbd, he appeared in 205 episodes.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 14', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'The Unit'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Kings', then a FRESH'Celebrity Apprentice'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old 'Jericho', followed by the movie 'The Mod Squad'.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Bernie Mac', followed by an old 'Raymond', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather, Part II', followed by the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 9
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 8
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 9
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 10
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 12
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 13
[6:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 14
[6:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 15
[7:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 16
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 17
[8:00 PM] The World Is Not Enough
[10:30 PM] The World Is Not Enough
[1:00 AM] The World Is Not Enough
[3:30 AM] Eddie Izzard: Circle
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 6 Chislett
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Chamberlain
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', followed by the FRESH'Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit O' Revolution'.
FX has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Cast Away'.
History has 'Warriors', 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', and still another 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] A Slipping-Down Life
[8:00 AM] The Firemen's Ball
[9:15 AM] Loves of a Blonde
[10:45 AM] IFC Shorts
[11:15 AM] Dallas 362
[1:00 PM] Happy Here and Now
[2:35 PM] The Endless Summer II
[4:30 PM] Dallas 362
[6:15 PM] Wassup Rockers
[8:00 PM] Confidence
[8:00 PM] Confidence
[9:45 PM] B. Monkey
[11:20 PM] IFC in Theaters
[11:30 PM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon
[1:15 AM] Confidence
[1:15 AM] Confidence
[3:00 AM] B. Monkey
[4:35 AM] IFC in Theaters
[4:45 AM] The Endless Summer II (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Beowulf', followed by the movie 'Spring Break Shark Attack'.
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] The Drug Years: Teenage Wasteland
[06:10 AM] My Life Without Me
[08:00 AM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 4
[08:30 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Furnish
[09:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Genesis
[10:30 AM] Binta and the Great Idea
[11:00 AM] The Drug Years: Teenage Wasteland
[12:00 PM] Spectacle: Bill Clinton
[01:00 PM] Opening Night
[03:30 PM] Marvelous
[05:00 PM] Binta and the Great Idea
[05:30 PM] A Woman Under the Influence
[08:00 PM] Sin City Law: Episode 3
[09:00 PM] Shameless - 408
[10:30 PM] Little Odessa
[12:15 AM] Spider Forest
[02:15 AM] The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part Two - Vaux to the Sea
[04:25 AM] Marvelous (ALL TIMES EDT)
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal gestures as he attends the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, Friday, March 20, 2009.
Photo by Ricardo Arduengo
Leonard Nimoy, the veteran actor who played the beloved character Mr. Spock, was critical this week of a decision by Paramount Pictures not to award the premiere of the new "Star Trek" movie to the tiny town of Vulcan, Alta.
Nimoy said the community that shares a name with Spock's birth planet deserved to take part in the festivities.
Now Vulcan is being awarded a sneak peak of the new film on May 6 - two days before the film is released to world audiences.
"The movie can't open in Vulcan. It does come down to logistics. It's just not technically feasible for it to happen," said Dayna Dickens, the town's tourism co-ordinator.
"But Paramount is putting together a special pre-screening of the event for Vulcan residents. It's going to be airing at a movie theatre in Calgary, they're providing transportation and refreshments, memorabilia for the winning Vulcans and it sounds like they are going to look at bringing in a surprise guest."
People climb up the Pyramid of the Sun located in the ruins of the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, 60km (37 miles) north of Mexico City, March 21, 2009. Hundreds of Mexicans and tourists gather at Teotihuacan every year to welcome Spring at the Pyramid of the Sun.
Photo by Henry Romero
Richard Gere may be adopting a new cause: the preservation of the Galapagos Islands.
Galapagos National Park spokeswoman Vanessa Garcia says that during a visit to the Ecuadorean islands, he offered to speak out publicly for their conservation.
The Galapagos are home to unique animal and plant species and were a living laboratory for Charles Darwin. But conservationists say they are threatened by development and tourism.
The 59-year-old star of "Pretty Woman" and "Chicago" is touring the archipelago with his wife and son. Ecuadorean TV shows Gere meeting Lonesome George, believed to be the last living member of the Geochelone abigdoni tortoise species.
A group of D-Day veterans are to travel to the 65th commemoration of the Normandy landings courtesy of Rod Stewart. The Maggie May singer offered £7,500 to help 15 former WWII servicemen travel to France for the June 6 ceremony, after hearing of their financial difficulties. Skip related content
Rod - whose grandfather was decorated in WWI - said: "These men sacrificed everything and we owe them this.
"I'd like to meet them and talk to them as I'd be fascinated to hear about how they landed on the beaches."
As the rocker's donation was revealed, the French media was reporting President Obama is widely expected to attend an anniversary celebration at Omaha, the code name given the beach where the US army landed in France.
A coffee shop in a Detroit suburb has started a 10-day continuous live musical tribute to the American auto industry.
The 240-hour "Assembly Line" show at AJ's Music Cafe in Ferndale kicked off Friday with Motown star-turned-Detroit City Councilwoman Martha Reeves singing the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Owner A.J. O'Neil told The Detroit News he organized the show to pay tribute to American workers, products and automobiles amid the turmoil in the auto industry.
AJ's previously drew attention for a 50-hour "Danny Boy" marathon it held last year and an offer by its owner to give a free cup of coffee to customers who pledge to buy American cars.
In this photo released by the I.M. Chait Gallery, a complete 150-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton, top right, joins other fossils prior to an auction of prehistoric relics in New York, Saturday, March 21, 2009. The I.M. Chait Gallery of Beverly Hills, Calif., will offer it and other items such as a 7-foot-tall complete skeleton of a 20,000-year-old juvenile wooly mammoth, and the fossilized skeleton of 20-foot-long marine lizard at a New York auction later that day.
Photo by Josh Chait
The bulk of Nirvana's catalog is set for a high-fidelity do-over this year.
Original Recordings Group (ORG) prepares to release "Nevermind," "In Utero," and "MTV Unplugged" on 180-gram, audiophile-quality vinyl for the first time.
All three records will be released in 2009, with "Nevermind" out first, said Monti Olson, a senior vice president of Universal Music Publishing Group/Interscope Records and founder of ORG, which produces and markets high-quality vinyl records. He will announce the deal at the South by Southwest music conference Saturday (March 21).
Noting that the recordings have been remastered specifically for ORG, Olson added, "To our knowledge this is the first time 'Unplugged" has ever come out on vinyl. They might have done a limited promotional thing, but I doubt it."
Tribune Media Services has filed a lawsuit against Academy-award winning director and actor Warren Beatty to recover motion-picture and television rights to iconic comic-strip character Dick Tracy, according to court documents.
In a Delaware court filing on Thursday, Tribune Media Services, a unit of bankrupt newspaper publisher Tribune Co, said Beatty "wrongly claims" to have exclusive motion picture and television rights to the well-known police detective character.
According to court papers, Beatty bought the motion picture and television rights for Dick Tracy in 1985 and went on to act and direct the 1990 film by the same name. The movie won three academy awards and its cast included Dustin Hoffman, Madonna and Al Pacino.
Tribune Co, however, said Beatty had "made no productive use" of the rights for over a decade, causing them to revert back to Tribune. The company said the economic benefits of the property was worth potentially millions to the company and its creditors.
Both parties have been engaged in a legal battle over the rights since late 2006, according to court documents.
Mike Sparrow arranges his display of silver during the Miniatura International Dolls House Modelling Show in Birmingham, central England March 21, 2009.
Photo by Darren Staples
Months after its debut, "Hillary: The Movie" faces nine of the nation's toughest critics: the Supreme Court.
The justices' review of the slashing documentary financed by longtime critics of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could bring more than just a thumbs up or thumbs down. It may settle the question of whether the government can regulate a politically charged film as a campaign ad.
David Bossie, a former Republican congressional aide who produced the Clinton movie and another describing then-Sen. Barack Obama as an overhyped media darling, said his films are about important moments in American politics.
Federal courts said the ads would violate the McCain-Feingold law, the popular name for 2002 revisions to the nation's campaign finance laws. Judges called "Hillary: The Movie" a 90-minute attack ad, rulings that would require Citizens United to identify the financial backers for the ads if they were to appear on television.
A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.
About 40 protesters sought to urge AIG executives who received a portion of the $165 million in bonuses to do more to help families.
"We think $165 million could be used in a more appropriate way to keep people in their homes, create more jobs and health care," said Emeline Bravo-Blackport, a gardener.
She marveled at AIG executive James Haas' colonial house, which has stunning views of a golf course and the Long Island Sound. The Fairfield house is "another part of the world" from her life in nearby Bridgeport, which flirted with bankruptcy in the 1990s and still struggles with foreclosures and unemployment."
A member of the African circus group "Madre Africa" performs at Victor Jara theatre in the Spanish Canary island of Gran Canaria late March 20, 2009. Picture taken March 20, 2009.
Photo by Borja Suarez
Surprising as it may seem, incest is not always a crime in Europe.
Three European Union nations - France, Spain and Portugal - do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit.
The shocking case of Austrian Josef Fritzl, found guilty this week of holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children, has focused new attention on incest - which is a crime in itself in Austria even if the acts are consensual. But in the Fritzl case it was in connection with rape, homicide and other charges that led to a sentence of life in a secure psychiatric ward.
Laws exempting parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters from prosecution for incestuous acts if they are not forced upon adult family members are decades old in France, Spain and Portugal.
The mystery surrounding the buried location of a time capsule marking Santa Fe's 350th anniversary more than four decades ago has been solved: It was never underground.
The committee planning the city's 400th anniversary celebrations later this year had been searching for the location of the 150-pound steel tube from 1960, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported in Friday editions.
The New Mexican said one of its reporters in 1964 discovered the unfilled tube in a back room of an office machine business, being used "as a shelf for empty plastic bottles and other useless objects."
Mayor Leo Murphy told the paper in the story more than 40 years ago that the project was abandoned because he was too busy trying to pay for bills incurred from the city's 350th anniversary.
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