zEN mAN (observing models Sara Underwood and Emily Ratajkowski in the new Carl's Jr. "Memphis BBQ...pulled pork" spot - shouldn't this kind of advertisement just beg for a food fight...(watch the video))
Connie Schultz: Mitt Romney's Betrayal (Creators Syndicate)
Here is Romney's mother, Lenore, in a 1962 video interview, describing her husband's early hardships, long before he ran for governor of Michigan. BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski posted the video Sept. 7, before Romney's fundraising comments went public: "You know, we've only owned our home for the last four years. He was a refugee from Mexico. He was on relief, welfare relief, for the first years of his life. But this great country gave him opportunities." There are two kinds of people from the working class: those who never forget the people they come from and those who betray them. Mitt Romney leaves little doubt where he stands.
Roger Ebert: We'll Have to Get Used to This Idea
The first time I met vegetarians I assumed they were risking their lives in some cockamamie cult. The first vegetarian I got to know well was Anna Thomas, author of the classic cookbook 'The Vegetarian Epicure.' Her husband Greg Nava had been out collecting wild mushrooms for our dinner. "Wild mushrooms! We'll all die! You eat yours first!"
KRISTEN PHILIPKOSKI: You Are All Getting Cancer!
The good news is that another study also presented at the AICR meeting found that even if you have a job that requires you to sit all day, one to two minute breaks involving light exercise can reduce levels of cancer-linked molecules in your body.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee that was the mascot for NBC's Today Show from 1953 to 1957.
The show debuted in 1952, with amiable host Dave Garroway. The show was in trouble initially; the addition of J. Fred Muggs boosted ratings and helped win advertisers. Muggs, dressed like a baby in diapers, first appeared on the show on January 28, 1953, and became a regular feature on February 3, 1953.
As of January 23, 2004, the fifty-two-year-old Muggs and his "live-in girlfriend" Phoebe B. Beebe (who also made appearances on the Garroway show) are still alive in Citrus Park, Florida.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
J. Fred Muggs
Charlie wrote:
J. Fred Muggs
Adam answered:
J Fred Muggs, the NBC monkey.
Marian responded:
J. Fred Muggs
Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
She is the girlfriend of J. Fred Muggs. One of my early idols!!
Bonzo and the Asswipe J. Fred, Dave & Phoebe Mugg's Artwork
Sally, as promised, took the day off.
BttbBob responded:
Sorry, my agent (yeah, again with the agent thing) says that my contract does not allow me to monkey around - fool around, yes - monkey around, no...
MAM wrote:
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) a chimpanzee that was the mascot for NBC's Today Show from 1953 to 1957.
J. Fred Muggs, Dave Garroway, and Phoebe B. Beebe
And, Joe S answered:
I find it so amazing that everyone got yesterday's trivia question wrong but me. Wow!
The answer for today is J. Fred Muggs.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Person Of Interest', then a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'64th Primetime Emmy Awards'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then another RERUN'Family Guy'.
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'.
AMC offers
[7:00PM] 'Into the West' (Hell on Wheels) FRESH
[9:00PM] 'Hell on Wheels' (The White Spirit) FRESH
[10:00PM] 'Hell on Wheels' (The White Spirit)
[11:00PM] 'Breaking Bad' (Hazard Pay) FRESH (ALL TIMES EDT)
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Seascape
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Granary
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH
[10:00AM] THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME PREDATORS
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Hot Potato Cafe
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Capri
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Arsenic and Old Cake NEW
[11:00PM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket
[12:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Arsenic and Old Cake
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 5
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 6
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', still another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
FX has the movie 'Rush Hour 2', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', still another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:00AM] Bunk
[7:30AM] Deep Water
[9:30AM] Antwone Fisher
[12:00PM] Arrested Development -Motherboy XXX
[12:30PM] Arrested Development -Immaculate Election
[1:00PM] Arrested Development -The Sword of Destiny
[1:30PM] Arrested Development -Meet the Veals
[2:00PM] Arrested Development -Spring Breakout
[2:30PM] Arrested Development -Righteous Brothers
[3:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:15PM] Antwone Fisher
[5:45PM] Layer Cake
[8:00PM] The Prestige
[10:45PM] Training Day
[1:15AM] Training Day
[3:45AM] Wrecked
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Life In Flight
[7:25A] On The Line
[8:00A] Love Lust & Bad Girls
[9:00A] Love Lust & Power Couples
[10:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Unruly Heir (Episode 1, Season 3)
[11:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Prajje (Episode 2, Season 3)
[12:00P] Colin Fitz Lives!
[1:30P] How to Be
[3:00P] Life In Flight
[4:20P] The Real Place
[4:30P] Nomad
[6:30P] The Squid And The Whale
[8:00P] 24 Hour Party People
[10:00P] State and Main
[11:50P] I'll Come Running
[1:45A] 24 Hour Party People
[3:45A] State and Main
[5:35A] Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Thir13en Ghosts', followed by the movie 'The Mist'.
Comedian Kathy Griffin introduces Swedish House Mafia during the 2012 iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada September 21, 2012.
Photo by Steve Marcus
As a comic actor, Phil Hartman was versatile and unselfish, so adept at shining in whatever supporting role he was given that his fellow "Saturday Night Live" cast members nicknamed him "the Glue." He held the show together.
Hartman was rarely front and centre, but that doesn't mean the Canadian-born comedian - who died in 1998 - didn't appreciate the odd accolade and he certainly would have enjoyed being inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, says his brother.
"I think he would have really appreciated it," said Paul Hartmann, whose brother dropped the extra "N" when he entered show business. "He loved getting his Emmy (for writing on 'SNL'). He always would play it down - 'No no, not into it.' He was stretching it a bit there.
He'll be the only posthumous honouree amongst a group that also includes Winnipeg guitar wizard Randy Bachman, Vancouver-based chanteuse Sarah McLachlan, Hamilton-raised CFL great Russ Jackson and Toronto ballerina Sonia Rodriguez. Past honourees who have claimed stars since the Walk of Fame was founded in 1998 include Gordon Lightfoot, Celine Dion and Wayne Gretzky.
The Walk of Fame only inducts one Canadian posthumously, and Phil was passed over during the first year of the campaign. And the second. (Beloved author Mordecai Richler took the prize last year, while magician Doug Henning was honoured the year before).
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who portrayed Lt. Uhura on the 1960s televesion series "Star Trek," speaks after the Space Shuttle Endeavour lands aboard a NASA Boeing 747, at the conclusion of its last flight at Los Angeles International Airport Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. In a few weeks Endeavour will be towed through city streets to its new home at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by Reed Saxon
To prepare for the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas this weekend, Grammy-winning country star Brad Paisley is doing some research.
The two-day festival at the MGM Grand, which opens Friday, features an A-List lineup of stars including Taylor Swift, Aerosmith, Rihanna, Usher, Bon Jovi, Lil Wayne, Green Day, Swedish House Mafia, No Doubt, Pitbull, deadmau5, Miranda Lambert, Enrique Iglesias, Linkin Park, Jason Aldean, P!nk and Mary J. Blige. As fate would have it, Paisley and Harris are in back-to-back performing blocks Saturday night.
The second-annual event will be aired through the iHeartRadio digital music platform and broadcast on Clear Channel radio stations. Fans can watch it live on Yahoo! and Xbox.
Host Ryan Seacrest believes the sheer volume and caliber of the lineup sets the event apart from other festivals. He said the spark for the most unexpected collaborations can happen at events like this one.
Next week, a key player in the passage of Proposition 8 - a man who has decried the "contraceptive mentality" of modern life - will become the leader of the Catholic Church here in the city that thrust same-sex marriage onto the national stage, the birthplace of the Summer of Love.
Supporters view Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone, the 56-year-old son of a commercial fisherman, as a charming and brilliant defender of the faith. He is fluent in Spanish and Italian, has been known to sing vintage TV theme songs in Latin and is a deep believer in a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
And though he strives to deliver Catholicism's absolutes in as nuanced a fashion as possible, Cordileone said, people need to understand that "the church is not going to change its teaching. ... The solution isn't to say, 'Well, I'm just going to disagree and continue being a Catholic.' That's not how we arrive at holiness."
zEN mAN (observing newly installed Archbishop of San Francisco Sergio Cordileone..getting busted in San Diego for drunk driving...(he used to be the Bishop of the Oakland archdiocese). This man is nothing more than the papal hatchetman given the task to lay down the antigay antiwoman hardline from Rome.....I heard him interviewed on Sunday morning on KGO radio.....what an atavistic, unapologetic and sinister son of a bitch....I hope he gets the book thrown at him by a gay feminist anti-catholic judge....but it won't happen...he'll get off...although it is a sobering thought hoping he does do jailtime in San Francisco...(I can hear it now..."bend over padre...") ...by the way....this prick priest had a lot to do with writing Prop H8)
Bryan Cranston, right, and Anna Gunn pose together at the Variety and Women in Film Pre-Emmy Event at Scarpetta on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Photo by Matt Sayles
It is a taboo for Israeli leaders to give even the slightest hint of favoritism in politics in the United States, Israel's closest ally. So some Israelis are squirming over a perception that their prime minister is siding with Republican Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race, in the belief he will take a harder line on archenemy Iran if elected.
With President Barack Obama holding a narrow lead in opinion polls, Benjamin Netanyahu's perceived strategy looks risky to Israelis who fear their alliance with the U.S. could be in trouble if the incumbent wins.
Israeli leaders have relied on broad bipartisan support in the U.S. for decades, but Netanyahu has had a rocky relationship with Obama, underscored by public differences over Iran. These agreements, coupled with his longstanding friendship with Romney, have created a perception that Netanyahu backs the Republicans.
"Whether or not it is true that he is actively taking sides . I don't know," said Alon Pinkas, Israel's former consul-general in New York. "But the pattern of behavior clearly suggests this perception is founded in reality."
Chick fil-A has "made no … concessions" regarding its support of groups that oppose gay marriage,company CEO Dan Cathy said in a statement that was posted online by Mike Huckabee, denying a statement by a Chicago alderman that the company said it would reevaluate its policies in the face of a move by city officials to bar Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant there.
Chicago Alderman Proco Joe Moreno told ABC News that he had received a letter from Chick-fil-A's senior director of real estate saying the company had decided to re-evaluate the multimillion-dollar donations it gives to anti-gay marriage activists and other groups with "political agendas."
"The WinShape Foundations is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping, and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas," the letter said.
Previously the company's WinShape Foundation gave money to groups like the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund - donations that rekindled a firestorm among pro-gay groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Family Research Council as a "hate group," as displayed on the group's "hate map."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, left, and Martha Plimpton pose together at the Variety and Women in Film Pre-Emmy Event at Scarpetta on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Photo by Matt Sayles
A wave of negative ads, an ethics complaint and relentless personal attacks have turned the race for Joe Lieberman's Senate seat in Connecticut from a layup for Democratic nominee Chris Murphy into a neck-and-neck battle against his Republican opponent, former WWE CEO Linda McMahon (R-It Rhymes With Bunt).
The two are in a statistical dead heat while nearly 30 percent of the electorate remains undecided, according to the latest UConn/Hartford Courant poll. Significantly, more Democrats than Republicans are declaring themselves undecided at this point.
This is not only a welcome turnaround for McMahon-whose first unsuccessful bid for the seat in 2010 cost her $50 million of her own fortune-but also a fortuitous boost for the GOP at large. Murphy, a three-term congressman representing the state's 5th District, is in serious danger of losing what had been up until now a safe state for the Democrats in the national battle for Congress.
Since the state primaries, in which she ponied up $22 million from her own pocket, McMahon has leveled her sights at Murphy, most notably criticizing him for receiving a below-market mortgage in the summer of 2008, after his home was foreclosed upon the year before. Though Murphy has denied any wrongdoing, McMahon has unleashed a slew of TV ads casting suspicion on the mortgage and, last week, filed an ethics complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
In this Thursday, Sept. 18, 2012 photo, Tony Dow, actor, director and artist, poses with some of his works at his home and studio in the Topanga area of Los Angeles. When it comes time to sitting down in a studio and carving out bronze and wooden sculptures inspired by the nature all around him, Wally isn't leaving it up to the Beav these days. Dow, who famously played the Beaver's older brother Wally on the classic 1950s-60s sitcom "Leave it To Beaver," is carving out a name for himself in the art world these days, as an abstract artist.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Looking for that must-have ornament for a cavernous living room or backyard lawn? Perk up, Sotheby's is putting a complete Mammoth skeleton up for sale in Paris.
The auction house plans the Oct. 2 sale as part of a collection of fossils, skeletons, meteors and minerals - and even a dinosaur egg and woolly rhinoceros skeleton - from the Kashiwagi museum inJapan.
Sotheby's said in a statement Thursday that the skeleton of Mammuthus primigenius, from Siberia, dates to the Middle Paleolithic period when Neanderthals roamed the earth. The house estimates it will go for more than €185,000 ($240,000).
The Mammoth skeleton, which has been arranged in a bit of an upward-facing pose, measures 3.5 meters (11 1/2 feet) in height - just slightly taller than it is long.
U.S. actress Sharon Stone poses before the charity dinner for The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)'s during Milan's Fashion Week September 22, 2012.
Photo by Paolo Bona
Berlin is unveiling a new Cold War exhibition at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing - a step toward setting up a permanent museum about the standoff between East and West.
The "Black Box Cold War" exhibition uses posters, newspapers, videos and other artifacts to narrate the conflict from Germany's post-World War II division to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It opens Friday and is expected to remain for at least two years. Supporters hope to complete a larger, permanent museum at the site in 2015 or 2016.
Mayor Klaus Wowereit says the checkpoint - where U.S. and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961 - "is the only place worldwide where both superpowers directly faced each other with weapons and the danger of a hot war was palpable."
Green Day lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong grabs a camera during the 2012 iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada September 21, 2012.
Photo by Steve Marcus
A search for diamonds in Canada's far north turned up a rare fossil - a chunk of a redwood sealed in volcanic rock more than 50 million years ago.
A study of the well-preserved specimen, which also contains a sliver of amber, shows that the now-icy region where it was found had a swampier past.
The wood was found a few years ago in a kimberlite pipe, named the Panda pipe, over 1,000 feet (315 meters) below Earth's surface at the Ekati diamond mine, just south of the Arctic Circle in Canada's Northwest Territories, the researchers say. A kimberlite pipe, a type of volcanic pipe, forms when kimberlite magma pushes through deep fractures in the Earth's crust to create a vertical tubelike structure that's wider at the top like a carrot. Kimberlites have the deepest origins of all magmas on Earth and when they cool, they leave behind rocks dense in crystals, sometimes holding diamonds.
The researchers, who report their findings in a Sept. 19 paper in the journal PLoS ONE, say the site of the Panda pipe was covered with a forest of Metasequoia , similar to today's dawn redwoods, during the early Eocene. The kimberlite eruption that occurred there about 53.3 million years ago opened a hole in the Earth's surface, sucking in some of those redwoods. Lead author of the study Alex Wolfe of the University of Alberta explained that open space along the side of this hole allowed the trees to tumble far inside. "Then it cooled, and the wood was locked in the volcanic rock," Wolfe told LiveScience in an email.
Edwin P. Wilson, a former CIA operative who was branded a traitor and convicted of shipping arms to Libya but whose conviction was overturned after he spent two decades in prison, has died. He was 84.
Wilson set up front companies abroad for the CIA and posed as a rich American businessman was convicted in 1983 for shipping 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Libya. At trial, he said he did it to ingratiate himself with the Libyan government at the CIA's request.
A federal judge threw out that conviction in 2003, saying the government failed to correct information about Wilson's service to the CIA that it admitted internally was false.
Wilson had been sentenced to 52 years in prison for selling arms and explosives to Libya in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and for other crimes.
He spent more than 20 years in prison, mostly in solitary confinement, until he was released in 2004. He then moved to Edmonds, Wash., north of Seattle, to live with his brother.
Wilson was born May 3, 1928, to a farming family in Nampa, Idaho. He worked as a merchant seaman, and earned a psychology degree from the University of Portland in 1953. He joined the Marines and fought in the last days of the Korean War, according to his death notice. He went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1955 after being discharged from the Marines.
After leaving the CIA in 1971, he made millions in the arms trade and bought a sprawling farm in a tony part of Northern Virginia, where he entertained generals, CIA officials and congressmen, according to a 2004 Washington Post article.
"I had a couple of villas that were very, very nice," he told the Washington Post at the time. "I had Pakistani houseboys and I had Libyans working for me, typing up proposals in Arabic."
A combination picture shows the cleavage of Oktoberfest visitors wearing the traditional Bavarian Dirndl dress in Munich September 22, 2012. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital over the next two weeks for the 179th Oktoberfest, which starts today and runs until October 7.
Photo by Michael Dalder
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