Eric Alterman: The death and life of the American newspaper (newyorker.com)
It is a point of ironic injustice, perhaps, that when a reader surfs the Web in search of political news he frequently ends up at a site that is merely aggregating journalistic work that originated in a newspaper, but that fact is not likely to save any newspaper jobs or increase papers' stock valuation.
Jim Hightower: AMERICA'S ONGOING REBELLION (jimhightower.com)
Finally, after three years of litigation, city officials have backed away from their unconstitutional position and settled the case. In this important victory for free speech, the city will pay $500,000 in legal costs that the groups incurred, and officials will no longer set an arbitrary limit on protest numbers, nor deny access to the Great Lawn on political grounds.
Camilla Mortensen: "Rodeo Royals: Yoncalla's Cowgirl Queens" (eugeneweekly.com)
Picture a tiara-wearing beauty queen greeting a screaming crowd. She's smiling and waving without a hair out of place. Now put that queen on the back of a horse galloping full tilt, replace her high heels with a pair of cowgirl boots and stick that tiara on top of a cowgirl hat, and you're starting to get an idea of what a rodeo queen looks like.
Kim Morgan: Richard Widmark: 1914-2008 (huffingtonpost.com)
And just after my tenth (eleventh?) viewing of one of my favorite film noir, that daylight ménage à trois (or rather, ménage à trois by way of intimidation, which only makes the picture all the more fascinating and kinky) -- Road House -- just when I was really wrapping my head around my obsession with both the movie and that hot blonde laughing lunatic of menace and twisted sex appeal, he ups and leaves me.
Dr. David Lipschitz: Prevention is Preferable to Diabetes, Complications (creators.com/)
The message is clear: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Exercise, eat right, avoid obesity, and diabetes can be prevented. ... Paying attention to all aspects of health - including diet, exercise, treating high blood pressure, preventing heart disease and lowering cholesterol, in combination with approaches to adjusting blood sugar toward the normal range - is required to assure that diabetics have a longer, better and more productive life.
_____?_____ was offered the role of
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), but tuned it down, telling the producers he believed the script was "too liberal", and feared the film would be controversial.
A: Charles Bronson
B: Clark Gable
C: Charlton Heston
D: Mickey Rooney
E: James Stewart
Other than Miss Scott (Tracy Reed), there are no female characters in the film.
mj was first, but wrong, writing:
Been a while since I've seen it
But I don't recall any major speaking parts for a woman. I'll go with A, and put the DVD I got for spousal unit in the player and check later.
Alan J was second, but correct, with a succinct:
One
Marian the Teacher responded:
One
DanD replied:
While riding that bomb down, I'm sure Slim Pickens could feel the heat.
For a film that potentially provided a 10 females to one male ratio for
bomb-shelter survivors, it showed only two females ... a secretary, and a
"Playboy" centerfold picture. As it turns out, the same female played
both parts. So the answer is (B) one.
Sally, in my younger, more tender years while sitting before the
irradiating idiot box, I was raised on the mid-day re-runs of
Knuckle-head humor, and one just can't get too much short-termer than
what was provided by the "Menage a' Stooges Crew." It all became new
again, however, when I discovered MLC's (and sometimes Shemp) own more
subversive double entendres so obviously hidden in plain sight (it's a
"coming-of-age" thing) when you pass your twelfth (or so) birthday.
Even so and according to where an urban childhood was shed, the peaking
floridation levels occasionally just didn't let you get there.
The inevitable result was perpetual short-term memory.
bebo answered:
I think the answer is B: one.
Sally said:
You asked: "How many female characters are there in the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)?"
Would you believe, I just don't know! I never saw that movie, nor had any interest in doing so. See, now I'm sorry for that social lack of judgment. Who'd have known that viewing that flick would have come in handy some 44 years later? Apparently, not me.
Anyway, it's a beautiful day here, and I'm awaiting an overnight visit from my grandkids at any minute. We are going to play that all-time favorite game entitled, "Let's see who can rake up gamma's yard the best..." Add a few coins and some Gummy Bears to the mix, throw in a pizza later on, and a good time will be had by all...
Till the morrow
Charlie nailed it with:
B: one
General Turgidson's "secretary," Miss Scott, played by Tracy Reed.
Steve answered:
One, seen at the beginning.
Rob replied:
One girl who is also the centerfold on the mag that colonel Kong is
reading in the pilots seat!
Bucky Turgedson's girl (and it sounds like she's top among a few brass
as she answers the phone)
A Day Late -
Re: First male to appear on Playboy magazine's cover.
MAM wrote:
Who was first male to appear on the cover of Playboy Magazine (April 1964)?
D. Peter Sellers!
recently i surfed the "something really funny" website and had 3 episodes of virus download attempts.----------really nasty stuff too.
some of the items on the site looked familliar as some of the stuff i've seen on your site
maybe it is the source of your problems?
just a fyi i hate this virus crap
great site by the way
gary
Thanks, Gary!
Coincidentally, came across this today:
A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit over a million Web pages, including many well-known sites.
"The number and importance of the sites has increased," wrote Danchev in a Friday blog posting where he reported that trusted Web sites such as USAToday.com, Target.com and Walmart.com have been hit with the attack.
The criminals behind this have not actually hacked into servers, but they are taking advantage of Web programming errors to inject malicious code into search results pages created by the Web sites' internal search engines.
Here's how an attack would work: the attacker searches for popular keywords, such as "Paris Hilton," on the Web site's internal search engine. But instead of conducting a normal search, the bad guy tacks an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) command to the end of his search. This command that opens up an invisible iFrame window in the victim's browser that then redirects it to a malicious Web site, which then tries to install fake antispyware or a version of the Zlob Trojan Horse malware on the victim's PC.
In order to boost their Google rankings, Web sites often save a copy of these search results and submit them to Google. When a victim searches Google for the keyword, these cached search results then pop up, with the malicious code now inside them.
"Malicious parties are actively poisoning these sites search query caching feature to position the keywords among the top ten search results, thereby infecting anyone coming across them," said Danchev, in an instant-message interview.
He believes that over 1 million Web pages have been infected using this technique.
Another police action outside the house - it's still going on (as of 11pm).
The corner is blocked with a couple of motorcycles and there are several cruisers down the middle of the street. Of course, a police copter is droning in tight circles overhead, its spotlight skipping across the front yards.
Heard one of the motorcycle officers tell a pedestrian that there was an armed suspect on the loose and to leave the area.
He then yelled at one of my neighbors, telling him to get back inside his house, lock the door, and stay there.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 9', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a recycled 'Dexter'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Countdown With Keith Olbermann', followed by 'Dateline', then a RERUN'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Oprah's Big Fake Reality Show', then a FRESH'Here Comes The Newlyweds'.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a FRESH'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Unhitched'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by another old 'Raymond', then the movie 'Solaris'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather, Part II', followed by 'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special;
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 The Family Of Blood;
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 Blink;
[3:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special;
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1;
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2;
[7:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 3 Who Guards the Guards?;
[8:00 PM] A Shot in the Dark;
[10:00 PM] Dumped - Episode 4;
[11:00 PM] A Shot in the Dark;
[1:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 4;
[2:00 AM] A Shot in the Dark;
[4:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 4;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', yet another 'Futurama', and the movie 'Legally Blonde'.
FX has the movie 'XXX: State Of The Union', followed by the movie 'The Italian Job', then 'Dirt'.
IFC -
[06:10 AM] The Saddest Music in the World;
[08:00 AM] My Left Foot;
[09:45 AM] Miller's Crossing;
[11:45 AM] The Saddest Music in the World;
[01:35 PM] My Left Foot;
[03:30 PM] Dancing At Lughnasa;
[05:15 PM] Miller's Crossing;
[07:15 PM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon;
[09:00 PM] Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead;
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #208;
[11:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #207;
[12:00 AM] Gowanus, Brooklyn;
[12:30 AM] Separate Lies;
[02:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #208;
[02:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #207;
[03:00 AM] Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead;
[05:00 AM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Hive', followed by the movie 'Eye Of The Beast'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Edvard Munch (Part 1);
[07:00 AM] Edvard Munch (Part 2);
[09:00 AM] Amos Lee, Randy Crawford & David Gilmour;
[10:00 AM] Episode 4;
[11:00 AM] Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen;
[12:00 PM] Seven-Per-Cent Solution;
[02:00 PM] Episode 3: Rarer Monsters;
[03:00 PM] Episode 1;
[03:35 PM] Art from the Arctic;
[04:40 PM] Create;
[05:15 PM] Look Both Ways;
[07:00 PM] Ellie Parker;
[09:00 PM] Episode 5;
[10:00 PM] Madame Sata;
[12:00 AM] Silk;
[02:00 AM] Helmut Newton: My Life;
[03:00 AM] Episode 3;
[03:30 AM] Episode 1;
[04:00 AM] Episode 5;
[05:00 AM] The World. (ALL TIMES EST)
Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer, Pedro Almodovar, second from left, Princess Caroline of Hanover, left, Prince Albert II of Monaco, second from right, and South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock, right, arrive at the 'Rose Ball', in Monaco, Saturday, March 29, 2008.
Photo by Lionel Cironneau
Franco Zeffirelli, who has directed film, theater and opera worldwide, is being honored this weekend for the dozen lavish productions he created for the Metropolitan Opera.
Three are being performed this season, including "La Boheme," which was opening Saturday night on the stage where the Italian made his Met directorial debut in 1964 with a production of Verdi's "Falstaff."
On Monday, stars from Zeffirelli's film and stage productions will attend a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu - who sings in the current "Boheme" - and Jeremy Irons will offer musical and spoken tributes for an audience that will include actors Lynn Redgrave and Eli Wallach, Met General Manager Peter Gelb, tenor Marcello Giordani, baritone Thomas Hampson, sopranos Patricia Racette and Kiri Te Kanawa, cabaret legend Barbara Cook, designer Oscar de la Renta, and Cardinal Edward Egan, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama holds a sword presented to him by a representative of India's Sikh community, after a prayer meeting for those who lost their lives during China's crackdown of protests in Tibet, at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi March 29, 2008.
Photo by Adnan Abidi
Classical musicians are mourning the demise of the country's last radio orchestra, set to disband in November after championing the works of Canadian composers for 70 years and producing award-winning recordings.
Members of the Canadian Music Centre, Canadian League of Composers and Royal Conservatory of Music were among those Friday criticizing a move by the CBC to disband its Vancouver-based orchestra, warning that Canadian talent - and culture - would suffer from the blow.
CBC executives delivered the news Thursday to some 45 members of the orchestra in a closed-door meeting in Vancouver. A hastily assembled rally at the site drew dozens of classical music supporters to denounce the decision as soon as it was announced, said Elisabeth Bihl of the Canadian Music Centre, which promotes the works of Canadian composers.
The CBC wouldn't reveal the orchestra's budget, saying only that it was under $1 million.
50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but if the rapper ever decides to leave the social network, he'll be leaving behind those friends, too. So like a growing number of artists, he's started his own social networking site.
On Thisis50.com, fans can create profiles and friend lists just like on MySpace, but 50 Cent has direct access to the site's users and their e-mail addresses.
More and more acts, from Kylie Minogue to Ludacris to the Pussycat Dolls, are launching their own social networks, which are becoming a sort of next-generation version of artist Web sites.
The social networking component gives fans a reason to hang out on a site and visit more often than they would a standard Web site. And artists can sell advertisements on their sites and offer downloads and merchandise for sale -- options they don't have on MySpace or Facebook. Plus, they own the content and data on how fans use their site, which they don't get on other social networks.
This combination of two images of the Sydney skyline were photographed at 8:20pm on March 28, 2008 (top) and during earth hour at 8:20pm on March 29, 2008. Thousands of lights that illuminate office buildings, public structures and monuments were switched off Saturday evening, darkening the city's iconic skyline for one hour, in an effort to publicise the effects of climate change.
Photo by Tim Wimborne
Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child's family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help.
The poorly kid fell unconscious in Detroit, Michigan in the mid-1980s - and the only physical movement he made was in response to hearing Mr. T's name.
He tells Empire magazine, "Somebody told the doctors I was in town, so they called me down there. I closed the curtains and prayed. Then, as I was walking down the hall, the kid suddenly came out of the coma and hollered out.
Phil Spector made a brief court appearance Friday in which his new lawyer said he could not be ready for the music producer's murder retrial until September at the earliest.
The lawyer also filed a writ asking that a neutral judge be appointed to decide if Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler should be disqualified from Spector's second trial because of alleged bias.
Fidler earlier rejected the bid to remove him, saying he was impartial in the case and that it was too late to file such a motion.
At Friday's court session, Fidler set another hearing for May 22, when a new trial date could be set.
Activists protest with a poster against the alleged violations of human rights in Tibet, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 in Hanover, northern Germany.
Photo by Kai-Uwe Knoth
Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government provided-trailer that gives off formaldehyde fumes you finally win a federal grant.
Then a collector announces that you have to pay back thousands of dollars.
Thousands of Katrina victims may be in the same boat.
A private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant program for Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Now it wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments.
Enter any nightclub in Paris right now, and chances are you'll bump into a group of weird-looking teenagers, seemingly trying to rip their own heads off. If so, don't worry -- you have just entered the world of Tecktonik.
This electro-dance scene was born in 2000 at Paris nightclub Metropolis, and has gradually become an all-encompassing teenage lifestyle, incorporating a highly distinctive dance and dress code (skinny-fit trousers and tight T-shirts, Day-Glo colors and punk-inspired spiky haircuts). It's now ubiquitous in France: on TV, in newspapers and magazines, in discos, even in schools.
EMI France international development director Laurence Muller compares it to hip-hop.
"It involves fashion, visuals, music and dance," he says, "with maybe graphic arts a bit behind."
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, two men dressed as inflatable dolls watch a game during the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournamen in Hong Kong Friday, March 28, 2008.
Photo by Lo Ping Fai
His obsession began two decades ago, when his wife Lori told him about the unidentified young woman wrapped in canvas whose body her father had stumbled on in Georgetown, Ky., in 1968. She had reddish brown hair and a gap-toothed smile. And no one knew her name.
Todd Matthews began searching library records and police reports, not even sure what he was seeking. He scraped together the money to buy a computer. He started scouring message boards on the nascent Internet.
In the process, Matthews discovered something extraordinary. All over the country, people just like him were gingerly tapping into the new technology, creating a movement - a network of amateur sleuths as curious and impassioned as Matthews.
Today the Doe Network has volunteers and chapters in every state. Bank managers and waitresses, factory workers and farmers, computer technicians and grandmothers, all believing that with enough time and effort, modern technology can solve the mysteries of the missing dead.
A cattle farmer in Australia's remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites.
Farmer James Stirton found the odd-shaped ball last year on his 40,000 hectare property, about 800 kilometres (500 miles) west of the northern Queensland state capital of Brisbane.
But Stirton only started inquiring into what the ball of metal really was, and where it had come from, in the past week.
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum said it was not uncommon for people to find spacejunk in remote areas of Australia.
This is a handout photograph from Friday, March 28, 2008, distributed by the Denver Zoo that shows one of the golden lion tamarins twins, top, clinging to the back of its mother, Rosie, at the zoo. The endangered golden lion tamarins were born on Monday, March 10, 2008, and are named Alex and Annie. Golden lion tamarins are native to the coastal forests of Brazil and are classified as endangered since there are only an estimated 1,000 individuals remaining in the wild.
Photo by Dave Parsons
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