HARRY LEWIS: Quasi-monopolies and wary governments curb Web freedoms (chronicle.com:80)
Uri Geller, a performer who claims to be able to bend spoons by mental exertion, used the DMCA to demand that YouTube remove a video in which the debunker James Randi exposed Geller's trickery. Recently the Church of Scientology issued 4,000 takedown notices over a period of 12 hours demanding the removal of videos critical of the church, even some lacking any footage on which it holds a copyright. The Web site Chilling Effects documents such abuses, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation helps fight them.
Rafer Guzmán: Subject of music biopic 'Notorious' was B.I.G.-ger than life (Newsday)
Soul music has "Ray," the Oscar-winning film about the legendary Ray Charles, and country music has "Walk the Line," about Johnny Cash. Punk rock got the biopic treatment in "Sid and Nancy." Even the minor subgenre of post-punk spurred "Control," about the cult figure Ian Curtis. Yet hip-hop, one of the most influential and far-reaching musical idioms in the world, has been overlooked - until now.
zEN mAN (observing the ironic twist of fate for Debbie Boone...the Christian (notice her hanging jesus cross in the photo) goody two shoes born again daughter of Pat Boone...finding that the writer of her hit song "You Light Up My Life"...one Joseph Brooks was using his hit making reputation (I wrote "You Light up my Life" for Debbie Boone) to lure young women into phony auditions only to drug and rape them)
Sick Days is the comic diary of Alan Truitt. Alan is a customer service rep at Hamish Industries, the world's 103rd largest manufacturer of quality windows and doors.
Alan is a mostly fictional character, working for a largely fictional company. But all of the corporate angst, drama and absurdity is 100% real.
I'm gonna take a break for a week or two to catch up from the holidays and focus on some personal affairs (mainly relocation closer to my immediate family).
I'll be back soon, I assure you!... Meanwhile, don't let the bastards get ya down!
In Greek mythology, the Muses are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music, and dance.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
There were
Nine, C, muses.
Alan J answered:
C 9
Charlie replied:
There were (are)
C 9
muses,
though I seem to have lost mine.
The daughters of Zeus, they were (are):
Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.
Clio, the muse of history.
Erato, the muse of love poetry.
Euterpe, the muse of music.
Melpomene, the muse of tragedy.
Polyhymnia, the muse of sacred poetry.
Terpsichore, the muse of dance.
Thalia, the muse of comedy.
Urania, the muse of astronomy.
Sally said:
Can you believe, I wrote out the answer to yesterday's quiz, and I guess I became distracted and never mailed it! Gads!
As for today (Note to Joe S - I knew this one by heart, aren't you impressed? Smile!) According to Greek mythology, there are 9 (C) Muses. They are: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania. These immortal beings are the daughters of Mnemosyne, who were fathered by Zeus.
PS: Shout out to Charlie (the Professor), MAM (our sage), Vic in Alaska (the Vicstor), B2BB, and all the other, "cold" readers: BUNDLE UP!! It's cold here in Jersey tonight, but nothing like you all are reporting!! Hang tough guys...
Marian the Teacher responded:
9
Adam in NoHo replied:
I guessed 6, but it tunrs out to be a-3 (and later, 4).
MAM responded:
C 9 Muses
The Muses were 9 daughters of Zeus (the King of the gods) and Mnemosyne (goddess of memory), each of whom presided over a
different art or science. Their names and attributes are:
Clio - history
Urania - astronomy
Melpomene - tragedy
Thalia - comedy
Kalliope - epic poetry Calliope
Erato - erotic poetry
Euterpe - lyric poetry
Terpsichore - choral song and dance
Polymnia - religious hymns
Archaeological Museum of Cos, Cos, Greece
Portraits of the nine Muses with identifying
attributes: Calliope with scroll, Euterpe with flute, Thaleia with comic mask, Melpomene tragic mask, Terpsikhore lyre, Erato lyre,
Kleio writing block, Urania globe, and Polymnia without attributes.
Still cold, 13 degrees, still snowing. Blue Jay bangs on the house to tell me to hurry up with that brid seed in the mornings. Cat back by the fireplace.
And, Joe S answered:
They are the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnis, Urania and Thalia.
A picture of my favorite Greeks.
My daughter-in-law (the famous Sia Kyriakakos) and my grandchildren.
HOMER -- Jean Keene, the 85-year-old "Eagle Lady" whose feeding program draws hundreds of bald eagles and scores of nature photographers to the Homer Spit each winter, died Tuesday evening in her Spit home.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Eleventh Hour'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kyra Sedgwick and Gwen Ifill.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Wanda Sykes and Glasvegas.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'My Name Is Earl', followed by a FRESH'Kath & Kim', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock', then a FRESH'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kevin James, Emma Roberts, and Mute Math.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Bob Costas, Fred Armisen, and Robert Schimmel.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Derek Luke and Puddle of Mudd.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Ugly Betty', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dustin Hoffman, jet pack pilot Eric Scott, and Crooked X.
The CW offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Kitchen Nightmares'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Connors' War'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then another FRESH'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The Beast'.
AMC offers the movie 'Wild Bill', followed by the movie 'Blazing Saddles', then the movie 'Quigley Down Under'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 8
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 9
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 2
[9:00 PM] Sugar Mummies - Sugar Mummies
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 2
[12:00 AM] Sugar Mummies - Sugar Mummies
[1:00 AM] Dragons' Den - Episode 2
[2:00 AM] Sugar Mummies - Sugar Mummies
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Jennifer Saunders, Cyndi Lauper
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Fry
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', still another 'Top Chef', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Ralphie May: Prime Cut'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Bethany McLean.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report are David Gregory and Shepard Fairey.
FX has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'The Grudge 2', then the movie 'The Grudge 2', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler', and 'Gangland'.
IFC -
[7:00 AM] No Such Thing
[8:45 AM] Melinda and Melinda
[10:30 AM] American Heart
[12:30 PM] 2009 Spirit Awards Nomination Special
[1:00 PM] No Such Thing
[2:45 PM] Melinda and Melinda
[4:30 PM] American Heart
[6:30 PM] Duane Hopwood
[8:00 PM] Employee of the Month
[9:45 PM] Edmond
[11:15 PM] The Grey Zone
[1:05 AM] Employee of the Month
[2:50 AM] IFC in Theaters
[3:00 AM] Edmond
[4:25 AM] American Heart (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Alien Agent', followed by the movie 'Pitch Black'.
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] Travellers & Magicians
[07:00 AM] Colma: The Musical
[09:00 AM] Dopamine
[10:30 AM] Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
[12:00 PM] Jump Tomorrow
[01:45 PM] Ushpizin
[03:30 PM] Colma: The Musical
[05:15 PM] Comrades in Dreams
[07:00 PM] The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Tony Hawk + Jon Favreau
[10:00 PM] No End in Sight
[11:45 PM] I Want to Be a Pilot
[12:00 AM] Spectacle: Rufus Wainright
[01:00 AM] Godless in America
[02:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Tony Hawk + Jon Favreau
[03:00 AM] Stoned
[04:45 AM] Citizen Black (ALL TIMES EST)
Shirley Manson, a cast member in the television series 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,' arrives at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Guitarist Jeff Beck, heavy metal band Metallica and vocalists Little Anthony & the Imperials are headed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the music organization announced on Wednesday.
Singer, songwriter and musician Bobby Womack, hip hop's Run-D.M.C. and country music's Wanda Jackson, along with musicians Spooner Oldham, D.J. Fontana and Bill Black, rounded out the list of 2009 inductees.
The induction ceremony is scheduled for April 4 in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Hall of Fame and Museum are located. The show marks the first time since 1997 that it will be staged in Cleveland after several years in New York.
Craig Ferguson (L) and executive producer Peter Lassally answer questions during the CBS and Showtime panel for 'The Late Show with Craig Ferguson' at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Los Angeles January 14, 2009.
Photo by Phil McCarten
The pop artist best known for his LOVE word sculpture has created a similar public art installation that spells HOPE - in celebration of Barack Obama's message of hope.
Artist Robert Indiana's HOPE is set to be unveiled Thursday at a Manhattan art gallery.
Indiana's publicist says the artist raised more than us$1 million for the Obama campaign by creating HOPE prints, posters, T-shirts and other memorabilia. No decision has yet been made on where the sculpture will be permanently displayed.
The almost two-metre stainless steel sculpture was shown privately during the Democratic National Convention in Denver last August.
Forget all those inaugural concerts. The most pressing musical issue in the nation's capital is whether a stone-face senator from Oklahoma will hit the high notes in "Rocket Man" to pay off a college football bet.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is slated to serenade Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida with his very own rendition of Elton John's 1970s classic Wednesday afternoon.
Coburn owes Nelson because the Florida Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14 in last week's BCS title game. Nelson chose "Rocket Man" because he is a former astronaut who flew on the space shuttle Columbia in the 1980s.
If Oklahoma had won, Nelson would have had to sing the title song from the musical "Oklahoma!" It also happens to be the official state song.
U.S. singer Tina Turner arrives on a hydraulic platform for the start of her European Tour 2009 in Cologne January 14, 2009. The 69-year-old eight-time Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Turner made her long-awaited return to European arenas with a new stage show on Wednesday at the Cologne Arena.
Photo by Wolfgang Rattay
Hollywood's sprawling retirement community in suburban Los Angeles will close its on-campus hospital by year's end and lay off a third of its staff to avoid bankruptcy in a few years.
The Motion Picture & Television Fund said Wednesday it is phasing out an acute-care hospital and long-term care facility at its Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills to cut operating losses. In 2006, the MPTF closed a critical-care unit at the hospital, also over money issues.
In announcing its hospital phase-out, the Hollywood-supported organization said it would expand community-based services by establishing a network of "community care teams" to coordinate and expand home-based and other medical and social services to entertainment industry retirees.
Some 209 job cuts will accompany the hospital and long-term care phase-outs. The roughly 100 patients residing in the long-term facility will be relocated over the next several months to area nursing homes, but the moves will not affect some 185 residents of MPTF's independent and assisted-living facilities on the retirement campus.
Wildlife officials said a monkey known to throw feces when mad is on the loose in Tampa Bay. Authorities have been trying to capture the primate since Tuesday afternoon, but it managed to evade a bucket truck and tranquilizer dart.
Gary Morse with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the adult male is thought to have escaped from an unlicensed source. It was last seen in Clearwater.
From left to right, Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne, cast members in the show 'Osbournes: Reloaded,' arrive at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The daughter of comic book author Albert Uderzo has accused her father of selling out his most famous creation, the pint-sized Gallic warrior Asterix, by ceding control of the series to his publisher.
France's biggest publisher Hachette Livre took a 60 percent stake in the Asterix books' parent company, Editions Albert-Rene, on Tuesday, days after 81-year-old Uderzo confirmed the series would continue after his death.
The remaining 40 percent stake in the bestselling series remains with Uderzo's daughter, Sylvie Uderzo, who attacked her father's decision in an article written for Thursday's edition of the French daily Le Monde.
The daughter accused her elderly father's entourage of advisers of pushing him into a "180 degree turn" and making him "deny the values with which he brought me up: independence, brotherhood, friendship and resistance."
Uderzo senior has overseen the Asterix books on his own since 1977, when the moustachioed hero's co-creator Rene Goscinny died. Goscinny's daughter Anne has given her consent to the Hachette deal.
The chance to be the caretaker of a tiny tropical island in Australia has sparked so much interest around the world that a rush of applications crashed the website advertising the post.
The job, which offers a salary of $105,000 to spend six months on the Great Barrier Reef island of Hamilton, has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of prospective candidates.
An official from the state of Queensland, which is offering the position, said the job was created as an antidote to the global economic slump and was being advertised in 18 countries including the United States and China.
Local media said technicians had to restore the website (www.islandreefjob.com) after it could not cope with the volume of interest and crashed for several hours. Some sections are still not up and running.
Three New Jersey siblings whose names have Nazi connotations have been placed in the custody of the state, police said. The children, ranging in age from 3 to under 1, were removed from their home Friday. They drew attention last month when a supermarket bakery refused to put the name of the oldest - Adolf Hitler Campbell - on a birthday cake.
State workers didn't tell police why the children were taken, police Sgt. John Harris said. A family court hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
The other two children, both girls, are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.
A complete tusk believed to belong to a prehistoric mammoth was uncovered on Santa Cruz Island off the Southern California coast, researchers reported Tuesday. If the discovery is confirmed, it would mean the tusked beasts roamed 62,000-acre Santa Cruz Island more widely than previously thought.
A graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, came across the tusk while working in a canyon on the island's remote north shore earlier this month. Nearby were several rib bones and possible thigh bones, said Lotus Vermeer, the Nature Conservancy's Santa Cruz Island project director.
The Nature Conservancy and a leading mammoth expert will excavate the remains next week and use radiocarbon dating to determine their age.
Santa Cruz Island is the largest of eight islands that make up California's Channel Islands. During the Pleistocene epoch, more than 10,000 years ago, the four northern islands - Santa Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Anacapa - formed one big island that scientists call Santarosae.
Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday morning at his home, his family said. He was 88.
Montalban had been a star in Mexican movies when MGM brought him to Hollywood in 1946. He was cast in the leading role opposite Esther Williams in "Fiesta," and starred again with the swimming beauty in "On an Island with You" and "Neptune's Daughter."
But Montalban was best known as the faintly mysterious, white-suited Mr. Roarke, who presided over a tropical island resort where visitors fulfilled their lifelong dreams - usually at the unexpected expense of a difficult life lesson. "I am Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island," he told arriving guests.
Montalban had already coined a cultural catchphrase before the show, which ran from 1978 to 1984. As the celebrity spokesman for mid-1970s models of the Chrysler Cordoba, Montalban unwittingly opened himself up to endless imitation when he described the car's optional seats as being "available in soft, Corinthian leather."
Raul Yzaguirre, longtime president of National Council of La Raza, called Montalban "a hero" and noted the actor's contributions to his community. Montalban helped found the ALMA Awards, which honor and encourage fair portrayals of Latinos in entertainment.
In 1970, Montalban organized fellow Latino actors into an organization called Nosotros ("We"), and he became the first president. Their aim: to improve the image of Spanish-speaking Americans on the screen; to assure that Latin-American actors were not discriminated against; to stimulate Latino actors to study their profession.
Montalban was sometimes said to be the source of Billy Crystal's "you look MAHvelous" character on "Saturday Night Live," though the inspiration was really Argentinian-born actor Fernando Lamas.
In 1944, Montalban married Georgiana Young, actress and model and younger sister of actress Loretta Young. Both Roman Catholics, they remained one of Hollywood's most devoted couples. She died in 2007. They had four children: Laura, Mark, Anita and Victor.
Montalban is survived by daughters Laura and Anita, sons Victor and Mark and six grandchildren.
But he was most famous as the character known only as Number Six in "The Prisoner," a sci-fi tinged 1960s British series in which a former spy is held captive in a small enclave known only as The Village, where a mysterious authority named Number One constantly prevents his escape.
McGoohan came up with the concept and wrote and directed several episodes of the show, which has kept a devoted following in the United States and Europe for four decades.
Born in New York on March 19, 1928, McGoohan was raised in England and Ireland, where his family moved shortly after his birth. He had a busy stage career before moving to television, and won a London Drama Critics Award for playing the title role in the Henrik Ibsen play "Brand."
He married stage actress Joan Drummond in 1951. The oldest of their three daughters, Catherine, is also an actress.
His first foray into TV was in 1964 in the series "Danger Man," a more straightforward spy show that initially lasted just one season but was later brought back for three more when its popularity - and McGoohan's - exploded in reruns.
Later came smaller roles in film and television. McGoohan won Emmys for guest spots on "Columbo" 16 years apart, in 1974 and 1990.
A sundog, or solar halo, appears in the sky above snowy Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Residents face a midday temperature of 3 degrees Fahrenheit and a wind chill of -20 as the Midwest faced an arctic cold wave.
Photo by Nati Harnik
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