Hal Boedeker: "Emmys: 'Family Guy,' 'Flight of the Conchords' up for top comedy" (The Orlando Sentinel)
At 61, the Emmys have struck a surprisingly hip pose. Nominators threw a lot of love at Fox's "Family Guy" and HBO's "Flight of the Conchords," two cutting-edge comedies. Both will compete for top comedy series with HBO's "Entourage," CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," NBC' "Office," Showtime's "Weeds" and NBC's "30 Rock."
Kate Clinton: A Fine Bromance (huffingtonpost.com)
Maybe I should just try to "get ueber it" but I am not comfortable with the masochistic 'Jack Ass' meets 'Candid Camera,' you've been punk'd genre that is post-race, post-gay and post-p.c.
mj was first, but wrong, with:
But something in the railroad field percolates up from the depths.
Alan J answered:
A sailor
Charlie responded:
He was a sailor, though I have my doubts about this version of the story.
Sally said
I think that Ben was a sailor before heading out west. I remember him talking about Italy in one show, and referred to the sailing several times on the subsequent shows. I could be wrong though...
PS: I went to a local church last night to play bridge with many members of the garden club (and others). Well, wouldn't you just know, shortly after we arrived the lights went out due to a passing storm. I tell you, without missing a beat, some church staffers brought out candles for each table, which were lit, and the games went on! They opened the outside doors, and a soft breeze filled the hall, it was rather lovely, I must say. (We don't need no sticking electronics for our generation, hahaha)
PPS: JoeS: I figure you are feeling a lot better, with your more pointed complaining... Okay, low blow for an ailing guy. Get well my friend!
Jim from CA replied:
You got me with the Ben Cartwright brothers question. Ben was a seaman, a ship chandler, and was a major in the army.
Marian the Teacher responded:
sailor
MAM noted:
Ben Cartwright had been a seaman (I believe First Mate) before he moved west. He actually married the daughter of the Captain of the vessel that he had sailed on . . . Elizabeth Stoddard, who was Adams mother.
And, Joe S said:
Ol' Ben was a sailor. I happened on that rerun on channel 56 a couple weeks ago. I didn't watch it, I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. Ol' Ben looked like a doofus in his little blue sailor suit. I assume it was blue, the program was in black and white.
Ben fell out of favor with his girl-friends father, who was his captain, because Ben was tapped to take over his captain's ship because the captain was judged incompetent. Or something like that. So Ben was forbidden contact with his future first wife, and of course that was unacceptable because Adam needed to be born so that Bonanza could go forward in the future. It's all very complicated.
Ben's first wife was Elizabeth. They got back together, had Adam, then she died.
Here is a possible link for you - this time about radio telescopes (tying in with the 40th anniversary of man on the moon I guess!). Thanks, as ever, for taking a look!
Take a whistle stop tour of some of the most spectacular radio telescopes in the world and find out about what actually goes on there. On almost all of the continents these giants command the landscape as they survey the skies.
CBS starts the night by dumping '60 Minutes', for a tribute to Uncle Walter, 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 FRESH'Great American Road Trip', followed by a FRESH'Merlin', then part 2 (of 2) of the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'Meteor'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW recycles an old 'Valentine', followed by the movie 'The Thomas Crowne Affair'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'Bernie Mac', followed by an old 'Raymond', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Summertime', then another FRESH'Summertime'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fight Club', followed by the movie 'True Lies', then the movie 'True Lies', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 12
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 & 10 The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 11 Utopia
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 12 & 13
[8:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 7
[10:00 PM] The Making of Me: John Barrowman
[11:00 PM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 7
[1:00 AM] The Making of Me: John Barrowman
[2:00 AM] How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? - Episode 7
[4:00 AM] The Making of Me: John Barrowman
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent''Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'Scary Movie 3', followed by 'Scary Movie 4'.
FX has the movie 'Wild Hogs', followed by the movie 'The Italian Job'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[8:15 AM] Confidence
[8:15 AM] Confidence
[10:00 AM] The Blue Umbrella
[11:35 AM] Kill the Poor
[1:05 PM] Shattered Glass
[2:45 PM] At the End of the Sentence
[3:00 PM] Confidence
[3:00 PM] Confidence
[4:45 PM] Kill the Poor
[6:15 PM] Maria Full of Grace
[7:55 PM] Naked in New York
[9:30 PM] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
[11:00 PM] Z Rock
[11:30 PM] Ideal
[12:00 AM] The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
[2:00 AM] Z Rock
[2:30 AM] Ideal
[3:00 AM] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
[4:30 AM] Naked in New York (ALL TIMES EDT)
SighFi has the movie 'Pirates Of Teh Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest', followed by the movie 'Hellhounds'.
Sundance -
[04:15 AM] Starting Out in the Evening
[06:15 AM] Engine 371
[06:25 AM] The Puffy Chair
[07:50 AM] The Angelmakers
[08:30 AM] Man Push Cart
[10:00 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 5
[10:30 AM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 7
[11:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Strait Through the Ice
[12:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd
[01:00 PM] Avenue Montaigne
[02:45 PM] The Man Who Became King
[04:00 PM] The Puffy Chair
[05:30 PM] Man Push Cart
[07:00 PM] The Killing of John Lennon
[09:00 PM] Spectacle: James Taylor
[10:00 PM] Kippur
[12:00 AM] The Ghost of Mae Nek
[01:45 AM] Savage Grace
[03:30 AM] Sex and Lucia
[05:40 AM] The Angelmakers (ALL TIMES EDT)
Lil Kim, left, and Cyndi Lauper arrive for the Nelson Mandela Day Concert at Radio City Music Hall, Saturday, July 18, 2009, in New York.
Photo by Louis Lanzano
Nelson Mandela's fans celebrated the anti-apartheid icon's 91st birthday Saturday by emulating him with good deeds, reading to the blind, distributing blankets to the homeless or refurbishing homes for AIDS orphans.
Mandela had called on people to spend time doing good Saturday, the first Mandela Day, which his charity foundations hope will be an annual event.
Mandela Day organizers encouraged people around the world to devote at least a minute for each of the 67 years Mandela campaigned against apartheid to community service.
Elton John, left, and Billy Joel bow to the crowd at the beginning of their concert at Foxborough Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Saturday, July 18, 2009.
Photo by Michael Dwyer
Saudi Arabia's only film festival has been canceled, dealing a blow to reformist hopes of an easing of clerical control over culture that had been raised by the low-key return of cinemas in December.
In a country where movie theatres had been banned for almost three decades, the Jeddah Film Festival presents aspiring Saudi film makers and actors with a rare opportunity to mingle with more experienced peers from other countries.
"Late last night, the governorate of Jeddah notified us of the festival's cancellation, after it received instructions from official parties. We were not told why," Mamdouh Salem, one of the festival's organizers, said Saturday.
Many religious conservatives in the kingdom believe films from more liberal Arab countries such as Egypt could violate religious taboos. Some also view cinema and acting, as a form of dissembling, as inconsistent with Islam.
Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device Kindle were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George Orwell works they had purchased, including "1984" and "Animal Farm," had been removed from their Kindle and their money refunded.
It was conspiracy time on the Internet. Big Brother's revenge? Pressure from the publisher? No, says an Amazon spokesman - the deletion of pirated copies that had been posted to the Kindle store.
"These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third party who did not have the rights to the books," spokesman Drew Herdener said Friday.
Herdener's explanation differed from what Kindle users were told by Amazon's customer service, which made no reference to piracy, but implied that the removal was the publisher's choice.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to Bollywood actor Aamir Khan during a television programme on education in Mumbai July 18, 2009.
Photo by Arko Datta
The Palestinian Authority said Saturday it will allow Al Jazeera television to resume operations in its territory after banning the news channel from broadcasting earlier this week.
The Palestinian Authority had Wednesday banned the Qatar-based Arabic news channel and threatened legal action over allegations it broadcast against President Mahmoud Abbas.
Salam Fayyad, prime minister in Abbas's government in the occupied West Bank, said in a statement: "I have decided to revoke the suspension of the work of the bureau of Al Jazeera."
Fayyad added the Palestinian Authority would pursue legal action against the broadcaster "for its continuous incitement against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority."
A judge Friday barred Mexican TV program producer Televisa from making its shows available in the U.S. over the Internet because of an exclusive distribution deal it has with the country's top Spanish-language broadcaster, Univision.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez said the online shows would violate a 25-year contract that gives Univision Communications Inc. the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to shows made by Grupo Televisa SA through 2017.
Univision applauded the ruling and said it was exploring its legal options to show content in the U.S. online.
"Univision does not have the right to transmit Televisa content over the Internet, and Televisa would vigorously oppose any such frivolous claim by Univision that it does," Televisa said in a statement.
In the years after evangelist Tony Alamo took the 14-year-old girl as a bride, she said, she caught glimpses of her father on the surveillance cameras that fed into the minister's office.
As her father walked by outside, monitors provided views from every angle. But even though only a few walls and doors separated them, leaving Alamo's home without permission was unthinkable.
Alamo was a prophet, she'd been taught. He was "God's chosen one." And she was scared.
The woman, who left Alamo's compound in Arkansas three years ago, was one of many witnesses whose testimony offered a rare glimpse inside the evangelist's secretive ministry. They said Alamo made the decisions: who got married, what children were taught in school, who got clothes, who was allowed to eat. He also chose which of his followers to "marry," witnesses said - including one girl who was 8 years old.
A Florida doctor is accused of keeping a bullet as a trophy after removing it from a fugitive who had been shot by a U.S. Marshal - even though he told investigators he couldn't get the slug out, authorities said Friday.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Dr. David Ciesla, head of trauma at Tampa General Hospital, operated on Thomas McCoy on April 21. McCoy - who was accused in a DeFuniak Springs killing - was shot twice during his arrest.
Ciesla removed one of the bullets and hid it in his glove, apparently to keep as a souvenir or trophy, FDLE Special Agent Supervisor Bob Ura said. Two officers were waiting nearby to take the bullets as evidence, but Ciesla told them neither could be removed, Ura said.
Ura said Ciesla has no connection with McCoy or the investigating agencies. Ciesla handed over the bullet when another surgeon later reported the incident to authorities.
A female zebra calf stands next to her mother at Erfurt zoo, central Germany, on Friday, July 17, 2009. The chapman zebra was born on July 8, 2009.
Photo by Jens Meyer
A man said it's a tough way to learn a lesson but he's a lot wiser. Someone made off with Mark Neary's driver's license and other items from his unlocked car early Wednesday, and left a message behind. Neary said he found a note telling him he had "amazing taste" in music.
The note said the thief had taken credit cards and his driver's license and advised him to "lock your car in the future."
Neary said it could have been worse. The keys were in the ignition and the thief could have driven off with his car.
The price of the Connecticut mega-mansion owned by rapper 50 Cent has dropped again - to $10.9 million.
The 50,000-square-foot mansion is in the Hartford metropolitan area suburb Farmington. It was previously owned by boxer Mike Tyson.
The New York City rapper bought it for $4.1 million. He said it had "a 'Miami Vice' feel" and spent $6 million on renovations and repairs.
The home was for sale for nearly two years before being pulled off the market in May. The initial $18.5 million price dropped to $14.5 million late last year.
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