Andrew Tobias: A VIEW FROM BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Last month I excerpted this "from the 82nd Airborne via the New York Times" - As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable . . . - and suggested it was "well worth" reading the whole thing. "(Surely we owe the authors that much.)" Well, two of the seven authors were killed Monday.
Mark Morford: Iraq, deep in your bones (sfgate.com)
Perhaps you saw that money, those enormous, ridiculous piles of American cash, the photos floating around of American soldiers guarding giant, shrink-wrapped pallets of U.S. currency known as "cashpaks," each reportedly containing about $1.6 million in stacks of $100 bills, all airlifted by the ton straight from the Federal Reserve and set down in the Iraqi sun like rotting fruit ....
JOHN McWHORTER: Conveying Emphasis (nysun.com)
Walking the streets of New York, nothing cheers me up like signs written under the impression that quotation marks convey emphasis. One of my favorites is a cleaners that advertises its "FREE PICK UP AND DELIVERY" as if there's something hypothetical about the service.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 8', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Shark'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Football Night In America', then pads the left coast with local crap.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by the movie 'Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'7th Heaven', then a RERUN'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux fills the night with the LIVE'59th Primetime Emmy Awards', unless you live on the left coast - then it's pre-taped, edited, and puked back for this time zone. Boo. Hiss.
MY has has the movie 'Rockula', followed by the movie 'Life Or Something Like It'.
A&E has 'The Two Coreys', another 'The Two Coreys', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', 'The Two Coreys', and still another 'The Two Coreys'.
AMC offers the movie 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', followed by the movie 'Rear Window', then the movie 'Dial M For Murder'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episode 2;
[1:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 9 The Seventh Division;
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[3:00 PM MI-5 - Ep 6 Without Incident;
[4:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 7 Clean Skin;
[5:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 8 Strike Force;
[6:00 PM] Wild at Heart - Episode 2;
[7:00 PM] Wild at Heart - Episode 3;
[8:00 PM] Layer Cake;
[10:00 PM] The Rolling Stones: The Truth And Lies;
[11:00 PM] Layer Cake - Layer Cake;
[1:00 AM] The Rolling Stones: The Truth And Lies;
[2:00 AM] Wild at Heart - Episode 3;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 7 St. Leonards-On-Sea;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 8 Hull;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Westpoint 12;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 6 Ardingly 17;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Ollier;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Inglis;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Coming To America', 'South Park', and 'The Comedy Central Roast' (Flavor Flav).
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', 'How The Earth Was Made', and 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[06:05 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[07:00 AM] Far from Heaven;
[08:50 AM] The Great Silence;
[10:40 AM] George Washington;
[12:15 PM] Bend It Like Beckham;
[02:10 PM] The Great Silence;
[04:00 PM] George Washington;
[05:35 PM] Bend It Like Beckham;
[07:35 PM] Tadpole;
[09:00 PM] Havoc;
[10:30 PM] Action Indies: Extraordinary Location Scouts;
[11:00 PM] The Business #207: Field Trip to Hollywood;
[11:30 PM] Minor Accomplishments #207: Straight Up Your Heart;
[12:00 AM] Pumpkin;
[02:00 AM] The Business #207: Field Trip to Hollywood;
[02:30 AM] Minor Accomplishments #207: Straight Up Your Heart;
[03:00 AM] Havoc;
[04:30 AM] The Trouble with Men and Women;
[05:50 AM] Media Lab Results. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'King Of The Lost World', followed by the movie 'Grizzly Rage'.
Sundance -
[04:00 AM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life;
[06:00 AM] The Mighty Celt;
[07:00 AM] Bowery Dish;
[08:00 AM] Kardia;
[10:00 AM] Frankie Starlight;
[12:00 PM] Zoot Suit;
[01:00 PM] Mardi Gras: Made in China;
[03:00 PM] Fuel;
[03:00 PM] Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11;
[04:00 PM] Texas Gold;
[05:00 PM] Fuel;
[05:00 PM] Zoot Suit;
[07:00 PM] Kardia;
[09:00 PM] John Mayer, Norah Jones & Richard Ashcroft;
[10:00 PM] Calvaire;
[11:00 PM] Aruba;
[12:00 AM] J.S.A. - Joint Security Area;
[02:00 AM] Episode 4;
[03:00 AM] Episode 3: Rituals;
[03:00 AM] Unfolding Florence;
[05:00 AM] Keep Not Silent. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Kathy Griffin, right, and Bill Maher pose together at the 5th annual HBO Luxury Lounge in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007. The lounge is being held in honor of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Actor Peter Fonda is auctioning off some of his memorabilia from "Easy Rider," including the American flag taken from the back of the jacket he wore throughout the film.
Fonda, who was producer, co-writer and co-star of the groundbreaking 1969 movie, "just decided it was time to share some of his treasures with collectors and fans," said Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.
The flag has an estimated value of $50,000. Other items up for auction Oct. 6 will include a Department of Defense pin that adorned the jacket, Fonda's gold record for the film's soundtrack album and his collection of six movie posters, including those for "Easy Rider" and "Ulee's Gold."
U.S. chat show host Ellen DeGeneres asked ABC/Disney bosses to let her show a segment from her old programme, which featured a guest appearance from actress Mariska Hargitay - and was told the footage was off limits.
DeGeneres, who hit the headlines a decade ago when she 'came out' as a lesbian on the sitcom and in real life, was hoping to use the clip to show Hargitay when the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star made her debut on the Ellen show.
"She was a guest star on my original sitcom and it was a hilarious scene... I wanted to show it today... but Disney will not let me have any clips of my show to show, unless we pay a whole lot of money."
Instead Ellen showed a clip of Hargitay in soap Falcon Crest, acting alongside the late Jane Wyman, who died earlier this week.
Antiwar demonstrators dressed as U.S. resident George W. Bush (R) and Vice President Dick Cheney rally calling for an end to the war in Iraq in Washington, September 15, 2007.
Photo by Joshua Roberts
Will Ferrell is auctioning a cameo spot in his new movie to raise money for a fraternity brother's cancer foundation.
Ferrell came up with the idea to help Craig Pollard's Cancer for College foundation. The two were fraternity brothers at the University of Southern California.
Online bidding will begin Monday and close Sept. 26. Ferrell will announce the winner on Sept. 27, and that person will meet the actor the next day at the 14th annual Cancer for College golf tournament dinner at Temecula Creek Inn.
Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx was immortalized on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" on Friday, becoming the 2,347th celebrity to have a star bearing his name laid on the sidewalk.
Foxx, winner of the best actor Academy Award in 2005 for his portrayal of soul singer Ray Charles in "Ray," paid tribute to his grandmother during a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard.
Foxx also had words of support for troubled singer Britney Spears, whose comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend has been savaged by critics this week.
"I think Britney's gonna be fine," Foxx said. "I think that she was courageous to get up there and do her thing. I wish her well for that."
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site YouTube. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.
Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she was "underwhelmed" by the content on YouTube but set up the course, "Learning from YouTube," to explore the role of the popular site.
She hopes the course will raise serious issues about YouTube, such as the role of "corporate-sponsored democratic media expression."
Actress Anna Paquin arrives at a reception held for nominees of Sunday's 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, in West Hollywood, Calif., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007.
Photo by Chris Pizzello)
Carol Channing's signature dress - a shimmery number she wore in the stage production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" - was recovered Friday night after being stolen from a Hollywood hotel.
A man found an abandoned bag containing the dress at a Hollywood park and turned it over to authorities, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman. The man was not identified.
The dress was in police custody and would be returned to Channing once the investigation was completed, Lee said.
When the sports memorabilia collector called police to report that he had been robbed at gunpoint in a casino hotel room, he knew exactly who to point them toward.
It wasn't because O.J. Simpson was once one of the most recognizable men in America: a former football star who was at the center of the "Trial of the Century" in the slayings of his ex-wife and a friend.
Alfred Beardsley and the other men trying to sell some of Simpson's memorabilia to someone described as a private collector were well-acquainted with the man who barged into the room.
At least one had considered him a close friend. One had been his licensing agent. Another had long profited from Simpson's fame.
Hundreds of protesters spell out the word "TREASON" in reference to U.S. resident George Bush and the war in Iraq in San Francisco, California, September 15, 2007.
Photo by Kimberly White
The year was 1989, and "snitty" started off strong. The word popped up in the Los Angeles Times in January, then appeared in the March and August editions of People magazine.
It was one of hundreds of words being tracked by editors at Merriam-Webster who are always searching for new terms to enter into the Collegiate Dictionary.
But something went wrong. The editors, who were eager to define snitty as "disagreeably agitated," no longer saw the word in national newspapers and magazines. Snitty fizzled. Although it was commonly used in conversation, Merriam-Webster's editors could only find three examples of its use in print. They had no choice but to reject it.
They began noticing it again 2005, first in Entertainment Weekly and then in several newspapers. With about a dozen examples of snitty being published, the term is now a likely shoo-in for next year's Collegiate.
A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra - the birthplace of the Mormon religion - will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.
The rare book was discovered at the bottom of a box of books by workers cleaning out the house, said Mark Witmer, manager of the Hessney Auction Co. in Geneva, N.Y.
Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon religion, said he translated the book from gold plates delivered to him by an angel. The first editions were printed and published by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1830. While there were roughly 5,000 copies printed, only a few hundred still exist.
Hessney's book is in good, unrestored condition with its original binding. However, the gold-leaf lettering has worn off and a blank page in the front is missing.
Hundreds of protesters spell out the word "IMPEACH" in reference to U.S. resident George Bush next to the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, California, September 15, 2007.
Photo by Kimberly White
Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
The European Space Agency said nearly 200 satellite photos this month taken together showed an ice-free passage along northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland, and ice retreating to its lowest level since such images were first taken in 1978.
Leif Toudal Pedersen, of the Danish National Space Center, said that Arctic ice has shrunk to some 1 million square miles. The previous low was 1.5 million square miles, in 2005.
In this aerial photo provided by Gull Meadow Farms, a maze in a cornfield in the likeness of the nation's 38th president, the late Gerald R. Ford, is seen Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, at Gull Meadow Farms near Richland, Mich. A company that specializes in corn maze design drew up the plans for the Ford portrait, which says PRESIDENT FORD across the top and THANKS below.
Photo by Dawn Wendzel
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