BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 25 March, 2012

Sunday

25 March, 2012

(Updated Daily)

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Recommended Reading

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Emily Bazelon: What if Trayvon Martin Was the One Acting in Self-Defense? (Slate)
There are plenty of reasons to believe his killer isn't telling the truth.


Jed Lewison: Mitt Romney is right to be rattled about being labeled Mr. Etch-A-Sketch (Daily kos)
Romney expects people to take him at his word, but his word constantly changes. It's as if Mitt Romney believes that nothing he says actually has any meaning except for the very last thing he said. He seems to believe that he can simply erase anything that he's said in the past whenever it becomes politically inconvenient-just like an Etch-A-Sketch. So when Mitt Romney's own campaign compared him to an Etch-A-Sketch, it was as damning as it was indelible. Mr. Etch-A-Sketch isn't a label that Mitt Romney is going to be able to erase-and he's right to be rattled about it.


Froma Harrop: Sky Not Falling With Japanese Birthrates (Creators Syndicate)
There's one complaint visitors to Tokyo rarely make, and that is "not enough people." With a population of 36 million, the Tokyo metropolitan area stuffs an average 6,800 people in each square mile. By contrast, the New York metro area, with 19 million residents, has a density of 2,800 people per square mile.


David Weir: Ruth Ann Nordin Shares Her Secrets to Success (Smashwords)
Everyone's experience will be different. Sales rise and fall. Publishing new books help to get out of the dips, but not all books sell the same. Some books sell better than others, and there's no way to tell which will sell well. All you can do is write the best book you can, put an attractive cover and title on it, write the best description you can, and put it out there. Most of all, have fun writing because in the end, that's really at the heart of what we're doing: writing books that mean something to us.


Miriam Krule: The Hunger Names (Slate)
The names can be roughly divided into two groups: Characters from the poor, depleted districts are named after plants or other earthy items; those from the regal capital have a Roman influence.


Kenneth Turan: "Review: 'The Hunger Games' a winning story of sacrifice and survival" (LA Times)
'The Hunger Games' needed the right Katniss to survive, and Jennifer Lawrence thrives in the role.


Katie Roiphe: Is 'The Hunger Games' Publicity Too Hunger Games-ish? (Slate)
Ooh, I love my new forged metal heels!


Tori Bosche: Climate Change in 'The Hunger Games' (Slate)
How dystopian young-adult fiction is tackling the social consequences of global warming.


Rick Schwartz: 'The Hunger Games' Bombs! (Not Really)
The studio executive looked at me and said, "we love this project. We had marketing, international and distribution weigh in and ran all the numbers -- we're projecting a roughly $40m profit." $40m! As he rambled on about quadrants and demographics, I started daydreaming about how hard it would be to get Kate Upton on a private jet to Anguilla to discuss the situation in Iran -- or anything else she wanted to talk about, like swimsuits or hair. The executive finished his monologue with this gem: "So we're passing."


Jonathan Jones: how I learned to look - and listen (Guardian)
The age of the art critic as an unassailable voice of authority is long gone. Jonathan Jones recalls his rude awakening to the force of digital debate, and the era of readers biting back.



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Trivia Question of the Day


What film did the British Daily Telegraph newspaper recently describe as "a vision of the hollowness of American capitalism and its effect on the family - like Death of a Salesman with spaghetti and a criminal empire"?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Abe Vigoda portrayed 'Detective Fish' on Barney Miller. What was Fish's first name?


   Phil (Philip K. Fish)                                                      Source




Barney Miller is a situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

The series takes place almost entirely within the confines of the Detectives' Squad Room (and Captain Barney Miller's adjoining office) of New York City's fictional 12th Precinct, located in Greenwich Village.

Sgt. Philip K. Fish (Abe Vigoda): The senior detective on the 12th Detective Squad. A crotchety, world-weary, and nearing-retirement Jewish-American cop, who always seems to be suffering through some physical ailment, but whose years of experience "on the Job" makes him a very good detective and mentor to other members of his squad.        Source







Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Philip K. Fish



mj said:
   Detecive Fish
  Went by the first name Phil. After eating the has brownies given to Wojo he remarked "The first time I've felt good in 20 years, and it's illegal." Or something to that effect.




BttbBob wrote:
   Philip... Sgt Philip K. Fish... Memo to E! fans: I just wanted y'all to know that I was extremely gratified to see in yesterday's link Top 10 Weirdest Instruments Featured In Popular Rock Songs | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net that AC/DC's use of bagpipes was included for their anthem 'It's a long way to the top (if you want to rock and roll)'. Pure Hard Rock bliss for me, occasionally, when I get into that head shakin', air-guitar playin', mood. My windows do rattle then, I'm tellin' ya (so my neighbors tell me). Sony's 100 watts x 6 home theater can do that, ya know...



Charlie responded:
   Phil




Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
   Sgt. Philip K. Fish (Abe Vigoda)



Adam answered:
   Phil, Phil Fish.



Sally said:
   I believe you are looking for Sgt Philip K Fish, portrayed by Abe Vigoda on that wonderful old-time TV series, "Barney Miller!"

  Here he is, "The Fish!"
  PS: Would to hear more about the Vincent Price Museum AWA the Fisher Museum. Have wanted to see the Vincent Price, but haven't gotten to it - yet! I am wondering if it's worth the trip?? (I would be visiting a friend in SF, so it wouldn't be for that alone.)




Marian replied:
   Philip



MAM   wrote:
   Phil/Phillip ~ Detective Sergeant Philip K. Fish




And, Joe S     answered:
   Sgt. Philip K. Fish.

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Anderson Breen: A Review Of James Hormel's Fit To Serve



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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Selected Readings

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WHITE WING REPUGS WANT TO MAKE MISOGYNY THE LAW OF THE LAND!

POETIC JUSTICE!

'FUR HAG' IS FLOUR BOMBED!

'FUR HAG' IS FLOUR BOMBED!

THE "GEEZER" NATIONAL ANTHEM

DON'T "SLOP" THE PIG!

"FECAL FROTH" GOES NUCLEAR!

"WE'LL MEET AGAIN..."

"WE'LL MEET AGAIN..." - BONUS CLICK

WE'LL MEET AGAIN..." PART TWO. SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

CONSERVATIVES ARE THE "ANTI CHRIST!"

CONSERVATIVES ARE THE "ANTI CHRIST!" - BONUS CLICK

SAVE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES! PROTECT THE "PRO CHOICE" REPUBLICAN!

DOG DAY AFTERNOON!

THE GHETTO WITHIN ALL OF US!

ORDINARY PEOPLE CONFRONT THE UGLY SIDE OF CONSERVATISM. WELL WORTH A LOOK!

THE SUNDAY FUNNIES

"WE'LL MEET AGAIN..." PART THREE. JOHNNY'S MESSAGE TO ALL CONSERVATIVES






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and breezy.


Running way late so no trip report today. : (



Tonight, Sunday:

CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Amazing Race', then a FRESH 'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH 'CSI: The 2nd One'.



NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Harry's Law', then a FRESH 'T-Rump's Effrontery & Fluffery'.



ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH 'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH 'GCB'.



The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.



Faux has a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH 'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH 'American Dad'.



MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.



A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH 'Breakout Kings'.



AMC offers the movie 'Ray', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE 'Mad Men', then another FRESH 'Mad Men'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]   TOP GEAR-Episode 5
 [7:00AM]   TOP GEAR-Episode 6
 [8:00AM]   TOP GEAR-Episode 1
 [9:00AM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
 [10:00AM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavillion
 [11:00AM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 - Classic American
 [12:00PM]   ANIMALS: EXTREME LIVES
 [1:00PM]   HAMMERHEAD
 [2:00PM]   THEGREATEST WILDLIFE SHOW ON EARTH
 [3:00PM]   CROCODILE: SMILING PREDATOR
 [4:00PM]   AMAZON: SUPER RIVER
 [5:00PM]   THE SHINING
 [8:00PM]   THE EXORCIST
 [10:30PM]   HANNIBAL
 [1:00AM]   THE EXORCIST
 [3:30AM]   TOP GEAR-Episode 6
 [5:00AM]   BEING HUMAN-Episode 5     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH 'Shahs Of Sunset'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers', followed by the movie 'The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard', then the movie 'Jackass 2.5'.



FX has the movie 'Zombieland', followed by the movie 'Twilight' .



History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH 'Ax Men', then a FRESH 'Full Metal Jousting'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]   Assassination
 [8:00AM]   Marie-Antoinette
 [10:30AM]   Action-Pilot
 [11:00AM]   Action-Re-enter the Dragon
 [11:30AM]   Action-Blood Money
 [12:00PM]   Action-Blowhard
 [12:30PM]   Invincible
 [3:15PM]   Marie-Antoinette
 [5:45PM]   The Last Legion
 [8:00PM]   Alien
 [10:30PM]   Alien 3
 [1:00AM]   Alien
 [3:30AM]   Alien 3    (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00A]   Fermat's Room
 [7:45A]   THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - NYPD's Rick Schroder (Episode 7, Season 1)
 [8:15A]   THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Ed Burns & Paul Feig
 [8:45A]   The History Boys
 [10:45A]   Love Lust & Makeup
 [11:45A]   Eclipse
 [12:00P]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1)
 [1:00P]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Weekend (Episode 18, Season 1)
 [2:00P]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Pressure (Episode 13, Season 1)
 [3:00P]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Episode 19, Season 1)
 [4:00P]   Love Lust & Sex Symbols
 [5:00P]   Fermat's Room
 [6:35P]   Why Not?
 [6:45P]   Colin Fitz Lives!
 [8:15P]   A Home at the End of the World
 [10:00P]   Defiance
 [12:25A]   Night and Day
 [3:00A]   A Home at the End of the World
 [4:45A]   Of Time And The City     (ALL TIMES EDT)



SyFy has the movie 'Outlander', followed by the movie 'Pandorum'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      That Certain Woman (1937)
 [8:00 AM]      Pretty Baby (1950)
 [10:00 AM]      Never Too Late (1965)
 [12:00 PM]      Key Largo (1948)
 [2:00 PM]      I Was A Male War Bride (1949)
 [4:00 PM]      Going My Way (1944)
 [6:15 PM]      Niagara (1952)
 [8:00 PM]      Night and the City (1950)
 [10:00 PM]      Brute Force (1947)
 [12:00 AM]      La Roue (1922)     SILENT 
 [4:30 AM]      Closely Watched Trains (1967)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Monday   -  03/26/12

TCM:
 [6:15 AM]      The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
 [8:15 AM]      The Star (1952)
 [10:00 AM]      So Big (1953)
 [11:45 AM]      Arrow in the Dust (1954)
 [1:15 PM]      Suddenly (1954)
 [2:45 PM]      Zero Hour! (1957)
 [4:15 PM]      Terror In A Texas Town (1958)
 [5:45 PM]      Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
 [7:30 PM]      MGM Parade Show #2 (1955)
 [8:00 PM]      Kes (1970)
 [10:00 PM]      Darling (1965)
 [12:15 AM]      The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
 [2:30 AM]      The Knack...And How To Get It (1965)
 [4:00 AM]      Petulia (1968)     (ALL TIMES EDT)




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Actresses Megan Hilty, left, and Bernadette Peters attend the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, March 24, 2012 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini

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Vidiot Speak

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10 Spectacular Radio Telescopes around the World ~ Kuriositas

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Fetch $503K At Auction

Movie Posters

A collection of rare movie theater posters found in a northeastern Pennsylvania attic has fetched a total of $503,000 at auction.

The sale of 33 posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood ended Friday at Heritage Auctions in Texas.

The auction house said a rare 1931 poster for the movie "Dracula" topped the list with a selling price of $143,400. It sold to an anonymous overseas buyer.

A surprise of the auction was the $101,575 price paid for the rare poster of the 1931 movie "Cimarron," the first Western to win the Best Picture Academy Award.

Movie Posters

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This photo provided by RR Auction of Amherst, N.H., shows a letter written by Wallace Hartley, the Titanic's heroic bandleader, who with his band played as the Titanic sunk. The letter is one of many items to be sold in an online auction. RRAuction of New Hampshire will close bidding on the letter and other memorabilia ON April 26.

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NASA - Mapping the Infrared Universe - The Entire WISE Sky

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Disney Image Displayed

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

One of Walt Disney's oldest drawings is seeing the light of day after being locked away for nearly 40 years.

A rough 1928 image of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the wacky predecessor to Mickey Mouse, was brought out of the The Walt Disney Co. archive this week and showcased at an event unveiling "Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two," an upcoming action-adventure game for Nintendo's Wii, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 that allows players to control both Mickey and Oswald.

The mischievous Oswald was co-created by Disney before Mickey, but he was lost in a 1928 contract dispute with Universal Studios. Oswald hopped back to Disney in 2006 when CEO Bob Iger brokered a deal that sent sportscaster Al Michaels to Universal-NBC. Oswald's first appearance since his return came in 2010's "Epic Mickey" as the ruler of a forgotten realm.

"We've always known about the character and loved him and wished that we could do things with him, but he wasn't a character that belonged to us," said Walt Disney Co. archive director Becky Cline. "In 2006, we were over the moon when Bob Iger made (the deal)."

Cline noted that most of the drawings from Disney's early Oswald cartoons were destroyed, likely because there was a lack of storage when his studio moved to a new facility in Burbank, Calif., in 1939. She said the image of Oswald comes from a box of drawings that was found in the 1970s and has been preserved in the Disney archives for the past 40 years.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

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Wake-up Call


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Latest Comic Book

Stan Lee

Stan Lee is barging into the pages of his own comic book as a character based on himself who rubs elbows with superheroes - call it a cameo for the reality TV age.

His new series "Stan Lee's Mighty 7", which hit stores this week, is inspired by reality television and throws into the mix real-life characters - like Lee himself, the creator of such Marvel Comics icons as Spider-Man and The X-Men.

Those creations have made the 89-year-old Lee a legend in the comic industry, but since leaving Marvel and starting his own company POW! Entertainment in 2001 his latest projects have met with more limited success. That does not phase Lee.

"Somehow I think the only thing that could tarnish my legacy would be ... in fact I can't think of anything that could tarnish it, because those things have already been done, and nobody can take them back," Lee told Reuters in a phone interview.

Stan Lee

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Nuns buy Easter eggs at a market in central Vienna March 23, 2012.
Photo by Herwig Prammer

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Make Me Mod! Top 10 'Mad Men' Essentials | Collectors Weekly

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Newly Discovered Piece Performed

Wolfgang Mozart

A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after apparently being left in an attic for centuries.

The lively 84-bar passage - marked "allegro molto," or "very quick" - was played Friday on the composer's piano in a room of his Salzburg home by virtuoso Florian Birsak.

The Mozarteum Salzburg Foundation, which staged the event, said the manuscript was found last summer as part of a 160-page book of handwritten piano music as the musty attic of a house in Tyrol was being cleared from centuries of detritus.

Part of a collection of notes from a village music teacher, the book was dated 1780 - 24 years after Mozart was born - and the manuscript played Friday bore the name "Del Signore Giovane Wolfgango Mozart," Italian for "Mr. Wolfgang Mozart Jr."

Musicologist Hildegard Hermann-Schneider, who traced the composition to Mozart, said the fact that other pieces in the book were known works by Mozart's father, Leopold, strengthened the case that the work was genuine. As well, Leopold Mozart often used "Wolfgango" when labeling works written by his young son, she said. From the style of the composition, Hermann-Schneider attributed it to Mozart at around the age of 11.

Wolfgang Mozart

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Now Based In NYC

James Murdoch

James Murdoch has severed all ties with News Corp's British newspaper business, which is at the centre of multiple investigations over phone and computer hacking and bribery, according to regulatory filings.

Murdoch is under scrutiny for his role in failing to uncover systematic illegal interception of phone calls at the News of the World newspaper, which was shut down last July, and stepped down as chairman of News Corp's UK publishing arm last month.

One document filed this week shows that Murdoch has resigned from the board of Times Newspaper Holdings, which was set up to guarantee the independence of the Times of London and the Sunday Times when News Corp acquired the titles in 1981.

Earlier documents show that Murdoch stepped down from the boards of holding companies News Corp Investments and News International Publishers Ltd shortly after resigning as chairman of News International, News Corp's UK publishing arm.

Murdoch was recently appointed deputy chief operating officer of News Corp and is now based in New York, where he is focusing on the media conglomerate's pay-TV businesses.

James Murdoch

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People set up hot air balloons during the last day of the International Hot Air Balloon festival in Sentul, Bogor, west Java March 24, 2012. A total of 21 professional hot air balloon pilots from around the world took part in a three-day parade where locals were also allowed to ride the balloons for $32.70 per ride.
Photo by Supri

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How Climate Change Affects Migrating Birds

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Eyeing Indiana Governor's Race

Rupert Boneham

Former reality TV star Rupert Boneham said he thinks he has a real shot at becoming Indiana's next governor after being nominated as a third-party choice Saturday.

The fan favorite from 2004's "Survivor: All-Stars" was unopposed for the Libertarian Party's nomination, which came during the party's state convention in Indianapolis.

"My aim, honestly, is to win governor," Boneham said in a phone interview afterward. "I really feel I have a strong chance of pulling not just the Libertarian vote, but the independent vote, the undecided vote, and maybe even some votes from Democrats and Republicans."

He will face Republican Mike Pence and Democrat John Gregg in November's gubernatorial election. Current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is limited to two terms and cannot run again.

Rupert Boneham

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Beer Saved The World

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Posthumous Wedding

France

The pregnant girlfriend of a French soldier killed in a dramatic gun rampage will wed her partner posthumously, a family lawyer said Saturday.

Paratrooper Abel Chennouf was shot dead earlier this month at a cash machine in southern France, one of a series of killings blamed on 24-year-old Islamist fanatic Mohamed Merah.

Lawyer Gilbert Collard said that Chennouf's pregnant girlfriend, 21-year-old Caroline Monet, is applying for permission to get married to her late partner at an official ceremony in a few weeks' time.

Such ceremonies are unusual but not unheard of in France, where the law allow posthumous marriages in cases where a fiance dies before the wedding. The law states that such weddings can only be approved by the French president "in grave circumstances."

"I've already had it done twice, for policemen's girlfriends," Collard said in a telephone interview. "It's a really moving ceremony, with an empty chair representing the dead spouse."

France

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An animal rights activist poses as a piece of meat during a protest to promote vegetarianism on "Meat Out Day" in Cali March 20, 2012.
Photo by Jaime Saldarriaga

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The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower: Mosquito Control Scheme That Didn't Work | Amusing Planet

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Hollywood Trade Magazine Up For Sale

Variety

Variety, a trade magazine that has covered Hollywood for more than 100 years, is up for sale.

Its owner, a unit of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, announced the decision Friday in a story on Variety's website.

Reed Business Information Chief Executive Mark Kelsey said in a statement that it makes sense to sell the business, just as Reed has sold its other U.S. print magazines. Reed sold book trade magazine Publisher's Weekly in 2010 and pay TV industry magazine Multichannel News in 2009. It is also selling its Australian business publications.

Variety, which dates back to 1905, is facing stiff competition covering the business of Hollywood from websites such as Deadline and The Wrap, as well as The Hollywood Reporter, its longtime rival that was revamped in 2010 under new ownership.

Variety

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No Man's Land « Now I Know Archives

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Borat Anthem Played By Mistake

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film Borat was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, the BBC reported on Friday.

The team's coach told Kazakh media the organizers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake and had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong.

Footage of Thursday's original ceremony shows gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko listening solemnly to the anthem before smiling. The ceremony was later rerun.

The spoof anthem, from the movie featuring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.

Kazakhstan

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The Aging Of A Rock Star

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A large butterfly clings to the leaf on a tree in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 20, 2012.
Photo by Mark Baker

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