Read 'em and weep (guardian.co.uk/)
Prequels, sequels, junior sequels, semi-official junior prequels to penultimate graphic sequels ... Joe Queenan unravels the baffling, tangled world of the movie novelisation.
Stephen Armstrong: "Brüno: ich bin ein superstar" (timesonline.co.uk)
From fighting Paris Hilton for freebies to getting too close with Eminem, Austria's fashion führer, Brüno, will do anything for attention. He's even starring in his own movie. Meet the new queen of the catwalk.
I apologize for the delay. It's been due to a family crisis. I have seven replies so far, so let's carry it over until Monday with results and a new question on Tuesday. Thanks fer yer understanding...
zEN mAN (observing Sarah Palin's Daughter's "Baby Daddy", Levi Johnston, weighing in on the soon to be "EX" governor of Alaska's motives for stepping down prematurely...."MONEY")
Marian the sleep-deprived Teacher was first, and correct, with:
Theo, and I AM Still jet lagged When will it all end?
mj answered:
It's all greek to me
Theo.
Charlie responded:
I never watched the show, but somehow I know the name is Theo.
Jim from CA replied:
Theo
Alan J answered:
Theo
joe b responded:
They called him Theo, that's all
I can remember.
Sally said
Lt. Kojak's full name was Theodorus Kapsalis Kojak.
Dick replied:
Theo
MAM noted:
Lt. Kojak's first name was Theo. According to Telly Savalas's nephew, Nicholas Savalas, Kajak's full name was 'Theodorus Kapsalis Kojak'. Loved this program . . . "Who loves ya, baby?"
Telly Savalas as 'Kojak'
Steve answered:
Theo.
Who loves ya' baby.
And, Joe S ("We're all born bald, baby."
~ Telly Savalas) wrote:
It was Theo.
Who loves ya baby? I was a fairly regular Kojak watcher.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 11', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Great American Road Trip', followed by a FRESH'Merlin', then the movie 'Meteor'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Just For Laughs', then a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', then a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW recycles a 'Valentine', followed by the movie 'Hoosiers'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', ,then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then another RERUN'Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by an old 'House', then another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Parking Wars', another 'Parking Wars', 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Hammertime', then another FRESH'Hammertime'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Rookie', followed by the movie 'The Bone Collector', then the movie 'The Game'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 11
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[2:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[4:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 4
[6:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 5
[8:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 6
[10:00 PM] Addicted to Surrogacy - Addicted to Surrogacy
[11:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] Addicted to Surrogacy - Addicted to Surrogacy
[2:00 AM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] Addicted to Surrogacy - Addicted to Surrogacy
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criiminal Intent', 'Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut A Bitch', and another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector', followed by the movie 'RENO 911!: Miami'.
FX has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Wild Hogs'
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Expedition: Africa'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] IFC Shorts
[6:40 AM] Separate Lies
[8:15 AM] Dallas 362
[10:00 AM] Ghajini
[1:45 PM] The Final Cut
[3:30 PM] Cherry 2000
[5:15 PM] At the End of the Sentence
[5:30 PM] Dallas 362
[7:15 PM] Garden State
[9:00 PM] A Fish Called Wanda
[11:00 PM] Z Rock
[11:30 PM] Ideal
[12:00 AM] The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
[1:45 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:00 AM] Z Rock
[2:30 AM] Ideal
[3:00 AM] A Fish Called Wanda
[5:00 AM] Garden State (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stephen King's Desperation', followed by the movie 'The Skeleton Key'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[07:55 AM] Binta and the Great Idea
[08:30 AM] On the Road with Judas
[10:05 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 4
[10:35 AM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 6
[11:05 AM] Everything's Cool
[12:35 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Wynton Marsalis + John Besh
[01:35 PM] Opening Night
[04:00 PM] Lemon Sky
[05:40 PM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[07:30 PM] Marvelous
[09:00 PM] Spectacle: Bill Clinton
[10:00 PM] Ran (1985)
[12:45 AM] Lady Vengeance
[02:45 AM] Hotel Very Welcome
[04:15 AM] Lost in Beijing (ALL TIMES EDT)
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell attends the "Tribute to Island Records" show at the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival July 10, 2009.
Photo by Denis Balibouse
Robert Plant received a royal honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on Friday, putting the former Led Zeppelin front man one notch above his old band mate Jimmy Page.
But, Plant joked he and Page would not be fighting over rank, even though Plant's new Commander of the British Empire is a higher honor than Page's Order of the British Empire.
"If we can remember each other's phone number at this time in life it's a miracle," he joked. "We're still good friends, we both enjoy a rather dark sense of humor that comes, I think, from being from rather the wrong side of the tracks for all those wild years."
Plant opted not to take part in a Led Zeppelin reunion tour last year, choosing instead to concentrate on his collaboration with American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss.
Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, gestures as he and his wife actress Ashley Judd walk down pit lane after winning the pole position for the IRL Toronto Indy auto race in Toronto on Saturday July 11, 2009.
Photo by Frank Gunn
Fans of television's long-running "Soul Train" will now have the chance to purchase DVDs of the pioneering dance show.
Soul Train Holdings has partnered with Direct Holdings Americas Inc., granting the latter the domestic home video and worldwide clip licensing rights to the "Soul Train" library.
During its 35-year run, "Soul Train" evolved into a mainstream cultural institution that played host to such R&B and pop icons as Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Prince, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce. All told, the "Soul Train" library houses more than 1,100 hours of archival footage. The show's last new episodes aired in 2006.
Direct Holdings' Time Life brand will produce and distribute DVDs of vintage "Soul Train" episodes and launch a comprehensive marketing campaign to license show clips worldwide.
More than one hundred years after "Anne of Green Gables" became a bestseller, the spirited red-haired orphan's story will get its final chapter.
Penguin Canada will publish a complete version of the ninth book in the Anne Series, "The Blythes are Quoted", this fall.
A previous edition of the book was published in 1974 but the new volume will include 100 more pages of prose, poetry and dialogue.
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery finished the book shortly before she died in 1942 and this will be the first time it will be available as she intended it to be published.
Actor Danny DeVito and his wife Rhea Perlman attend the Tales of the Cocktail while promoting their lemon liquor 'Limoncello,'' in New Orleans, Friday., July 10, 2009.
Photo by Cheryl Gerber
Chinese developers are commemorating the late Michael Jackson by building a scaled-down replica of his Neverland Ranch on an island off Shanghai, a state-run newspaper said on Friday.
Investors in the project, which will cost about 100 million yuan ($15 million) to build, hope it will open on Chongming island ahead of next year's Expo in Shanghai, the China Daily newspaper reported.
While they are not as popular as the Taiwanese and Hong Kong stars who dominate the music scene in China, Western artists are making inroads in the local market, thanks to young fans.
The Shanghai version will have "Chinese characteristics to have it blend in with the local environment," the paper added, without elaborating.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday the strain of E. coli found in a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant does not match the strain that has been linked to a 30-state outbreak, and they aren't sure how the dough was contaminated.
The FDA and the federal Centers for Disease Control have been investigating whether the cookie dough was the source of the E. coli outbreak which has sickened at least 69 people in about 30 states.
On June 29, the FDA confirmed evidence of E. coli O157:H7 in a retained production sample of 16.5 oz. Nestle Toll House refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough bar. But on Thursday, FDA spokesman Mike Herndon said tests on the dough, which came from an unopened package, show the strains of E. coli don't match the E. coli strain linked to the outbreak.
That could mean the dough may have been contaminated with multiple strains. But neither the FDA nor Nestle has discovered a probable source.
Comedian and radio personality Artie Lange has been charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant and careless driving after a minor traffic accident in central New Jersey.
Toms River police say Lange's 2009 Nissan struck the rear of another vehicle around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Police say no one was injured and both vehicles had only minor damage.
Police say the responding officers' observations led to the 41-year-old Lange, of Roseland, being charged. He was taken to police headquarters for processing.
He was issued summonses and released pending a municipal court appearance on July 16. A police spokesman did not know if Lange had retained a lawyer.
A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying marine scientists and outpacing eradication efforts.
In May, scientists for the first time found the invasive seaweed called Undaria pinnatifida clinging to docks at a yacht harbor in San Francisco Bay, fouling boat hulls and pier pilings.
"I was walking in San Francisco Marina, and that's when I saw the kelp attached to a boat," said Chela Zabin, a biologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, Calif.
Before Zabin's discovery, ocean scientists believed the northward spread of the invasive kelp had been stopped at Monterey Bay. But last year, federal funding used to buy equipment for volunteer divers dried up, reducing the number of people working on eradication.
In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, Sri Lankan fishermen, also known locally as stick fishermen, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor as they fish in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka.
Photo by Gurinder Osan
The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle - its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from "Dune" or those vicious creatures from the movie "Tremors."
The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. There have been only a handful of sightings.
But scientists hope to change that this summer with researchers scouring the Palouse region in hopes of finding more of the giant earthworms. Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect the worm as an endangered species, even though little research has been done on it.
The worm may be elusive, but there's no doubt it exists, said Jodi Johnson-Maynard, a University of Idaho professor who is leading the search for the worm. To prove it, she pulled out a glass tube containing the preserved remains of a fat, milky-white worm. One of Johnson-Maynard's graduate students found this specimen in 2005, and it is the only confirmed example of the species.
Ready to give your soul for a loan in these difficult economic times? In Latvia, where the crisis has raged more than in the rest of the European Union, you can.
Such a deal is being offered by the Kontora loan company, whose public face is Viktor Mirosiichenko, 34.
Clients have to sign a contract, with the words "Agreement" in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, "that is, my immortal soul."
Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt collectors to get its money back if people refused to repay, and promised no physical violence. Signatories only have to give their first name and do not show any documents.
A snow leopard is pretended to the media at Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin, July 10, 2009. The male cub named Altai, was born on April 24.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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