'People are definitely sceptical' (guardian.co.uk)
When the government announced last Thursday that it had foiled a massive terror plot, broadcasters and newspapers were barraged with a wave of sceptical views from listeners and readers. Nearly a week on, are people still so distrustful? Patrick Barkham takes to the streets to find out.
Molly Ivins: Stunned, Scared and Silent
Lieberman's unhappy fall in electoral battle touched off a volcano of drivel in the media. Some of it should be written off as the incurable Establishment tendency to defend its own. People who have known Joe Lieberman for 18 years are naturally predisposed in his favor -- always happens. On the other ha[n]d, what a bunch of codswallop from people who should know better. They're behaving as though no one had a right to challenge Lieberman, whereas given his record, I can't think of anyone who deserved challenge more.
zEN mAN (talk about "Karma Chameleon" and "Do you Really Wanna Hurt Me"...pop icon Boy George (George Alan O'Dowd) relegated to celebrity garbage man for falsifying a burglary report in New York City)
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 7', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Whoopi Goldberg, sock puppeteer Jack Fisett, and Fatboy Slim.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jane Kaczmarek, Esai Morales, and Larke Miller.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then the SEASON FINALE'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Windfall'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 7/10/06) are Kate Hudson, Kevin Smith, Soul Asylum.
On a RERUNConan (from 2/28/06) are Bruce Willis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Dropkick Murphys.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 6/28/06) are Dave Navarrro and the Duke Spirit.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by another RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then 'Primetime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (fom 8/3/06) are Will Ferrell, Bobby Cannavale, and Under the Influence of Giants.
The WB offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with old 'Simpsons' and 'Malcolm's.
UPN has a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a RERUN'Love, Inc.', then a RERUN'Eve', followed by a RERUN'Cuts'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', and another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Enemy Below', followed by the movie 'The Last Samurai', then the movie 'Red Corner'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] As Time Goes By - Episode 1;
[2:40 pm] Are You Being Served - Shedding The Load;
[3:20 pm] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 3;
[4:00 pm] The Avengers - The Correct Way to Kill;
[5:00 pm] Footballers Wives - Episode 1;
[6:00 pm] BBC World News;
[6:30 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 13;
[7:00 pm] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 30;
[8:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[8:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[9:00 pm] Murder City - Ep 1 Critical Path;
[10:30 pm] Crimefighters - Ep 1 Sex, Drugs and the Boys in Blue;
[11:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[11:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[12:00 am] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 31;
[12:20 am] The Office - Episode 2;
[1:00 am] Murder City - Ep 1 Critical Path;
[2:30 am] Crimefighters - Ep 1 Sex, Drugs and the Boys in Blue;
[3:00 am] Murder in Suburbia - Episode 4;
[4:00 am] Night Detective, The - Episode 4;
[5:00 am] Murphy's Law - Episode 4;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', and 'Eagles Farewell I Tour'.
Comedy Central has 'Reel City', 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Mind Of Mencia', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Matt Dillon.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Neil Young.
History has 'Disaster Tech', 'Grounded On 9/11', 'The Miracle Of Stairway 8', and a FRESH'American Eats'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Charming Billy;
[07:30 AM] Media Lab Shorts Uploaded;
[08:00 AM] Passion In The Desert;
[09:45 AM] One Day In September;
[11:30 AM] At The IFC Center #16;
[12:00 PM] IFC Short Film Collection II: August;
[02:00 PM] Passion In The Desert;
[03:45 PM] August Media Lab Results;
[04:00 PM] One Day In September;
[05:45 PM] The Last Days Of Chez Nous;
[06:45 PM] Bullets Over Broadway;
[09:30 PM] But I'm a Cheerleader;
[11:00 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #20;
[11:30 PM] Samurai 7 Episode #20: The Execution;
[12:00 AM] Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed;
[01:35 AM] Underground;
[02:00 AM] The Henry Rollins Show #20;
[02:30 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #20: The Execution;
[03:00 AM] Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed;
[04:35 AM] But I'm a Cheerleader. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Want To Be A Superhero?', another 'Want To Be A Superhero', yet another 'Want To Be A Superhero?', 'Scare', and 'Ghost Hunters'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Mardi Gras: Made in China;
[07:15 AM] Reconstruction;
[08:45 AM] Bound For Glory;
[11:15 AM] Monster Road;
[12:35 PM] 200 Motels;
[02:15 PM] Janis;
[04:00 PM] Dopamine;
[05:30 PM] Reconstruction;
[07:00 PM] Monsterthursday;
[08:45 PM] A Game With Stones;
[09:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 1;
[09:30 PM] Bedouin Sand;
[10:00 PM] The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess;
[11:45 PM] The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years;
[01:20 AM] The PSA Project;
[02:00 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 1;
[02:30 AM] Things To Do Before You're 30;
[04:15 AM] Peace One Day;
[05:45 AM] Janis. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Haitian singer Wyclef Jean shakes water off his head during his performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles August 15, 2006.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Five minutes into the interview and Linda Ronstadt is screaming into the phone, "George Bush stinks!"
OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but she brings it up.
"He's an idiot," Ronstadt says, adding, "he's enormously incompetent on both the domestic and international scenes."
She continues to support the Democrats. She drives a hybrid car. She left Tucson, Arizona, where she was raised, and moved with her two adopted kids to San Francisco, where the political climate is more "moderate."
"George Bush is intellectually incurious, which is a nice way of saying it. He is not well educated, not well travelled. He'd never even been outside of the country. Can you imagine? His father was president, vice-president and head of the CIA, and it had never occurred to him to travel outside of the United States. So people like Jackson Browne or Bruce Springsteen, who travel the world, are very knowledgeable people and support other cultures, they're not entitled to make a political statement more than George Bush?"
Linda Bukowski, widow of writer Charles Bukowski, arrives as a guest at the Los Angeles premiere of the film 'Factotum' in Los Angeles August 15, 2006. The film, based on a novel by the late Charles Bukowski, stars Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor and opens August 18 in the U.S.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Thousands will descend on Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend for what promises to be the world's largest gathering of fans of Star Trek, the seminal science fiction television series that spawned films, video games, novels, and a singular cult following.
Devotees of the utopian universe created by Gene Roddenberry, known affectionately as "trekkies," will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the series considered to be a landmark of US television.
Other than the James Bond franchise, Star Trek has been Hollywood's most durable product, with film grosses of one billion dollars and a total of 726 television episodes.
Shatner and Nimoy, both 75, will be on hand to sign autographs at the convention which will feature four days of Trek seminars and fan meetings.
Cheech Marin and Lucy Lawless will be among the contestants trying to prove they can carry a tune on Fox's "Celebrity Duets."
The weekly singing competition, which debuts Aug. 29 (8 p.m. EDT), will match eight competitors of where-are-they-now? celebrity with a different professional singer/duet partner each week, Fox announced Tuesday.
Rounding out the roster of celeb-singers are Alfonso Ribeiro, Jai Rodriguez, Hal Sparks, Lea Thompson, 2004 Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Carly Patterson and wrestling champion Chris Jericho.
Wayne Brady will host the show, with producer David Foster serving as a judge.
Producer and former Hollywood studio executive Sid Ganis has been named to a second term as president of the group that hands out the Academy Awards.
The board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences re-elected Ganis to another one-year term Tuesday.
Past academy President Robert Rehme was re-elected as vice president, while two Oscar-winning actors were picked for top board posts, Tom Hanks as treasurer and Kathy Bates as secretary.
ABC newswoman Elizabeth Vargas and her husband, singer Marc Cohn, are parents again, of another boy. Vargas and the baby, named Samuel Wyatt, are "doing incredible," said ABC representative Alyssa Apple, in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Vargas and Cohn's other son is 3-year-old Zachary. Cohn has two children from a previous marriage.
In May, Vargas, 43, stepped down as the co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" to take maternity leave. Charles Gibson became the sole anchor, replacing Vargas and Bob Woodruff, who was injured in Iraq earlier in the year.
Troy Lee Gentry, half of the country music duo Montgomery Gentry, has been charged with killing a tame bear and then making it look as if it was a hunting trophy, authorities said on Wednesday.
According to an indictment unsealed this week, in October 2004 Gentry paid $4,650 to shoot the "trophy-caliber" bear named "Cubby" at the Minnesota Wildlife Connection in northern Minnesota, which advertises itself as a place where animals can be photographed in the wild.
After using a bow and arrow to kill the animal inside its pen, Gentry and the owner of the preserve tagged the bear and registered it with the state as if it had been killed in the wild. A videotape was edited to make it appear that Gentry had hunted down the bear.
Actor Harry Dean Stanton arrives as a guest at the Los Angeles premiere of the film 'Factotum' in Los Angeles August 15, 2006. The film stars Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor and opens on August 18 in the U.S.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Teddy bears, roses and love notes covered Elvis Presley's grave Wednesday, left by the thousands of fans who flocked to his former residence, Graceland, on the 29th anniversary of his death.
A weeklong lineup of fan-club meetings, concerts and memorials was capped with a graveside procession, called the "candlelight vigil," that began at 9 p.m. CDT Tuesday and ran through the night.
Many of the several thousand fans taking part in the vigil left small offerings at Presley's grave in a garden beside Graceland. He died at Graceland on Aug. 16, 1977.
Bablu, a one-month-old jungle cat sits on the hands of a veterinary doctor at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Bablu is being raised at the zoo after it was rejected by its mother.
Photo by Anupam Nath
The Nobel Foundation said on Wednesday it would not revoke the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Günter Grass after the German author confessed to serving in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi troops.
Grass, who won the prize in 1999, said in a newspaper interview last week that he had been called up to the Waffen-SS at 17, an admission which has seen the Nobel laureate come under attack from writers, critics, historians and politicians.
Some have called for him to be stripped of the prize.
"A prize has never been taken back. Once somebody has accepted a prize it is impossible to withdraw it," said Jonna Petterson, spokeswoman at the Nobel Foundation, the body which finances the Nobel prizes.
Socialite and recording artist Paris Hilton (L) arrives at Club Suite with producer Scott Storch to celebrate the release of her self-titled debut album in Miami Beach, Florida August 15, 2006.
Photo by Jason Arnold
Residents are wondering if an animal found dead over the weekend may be the mysterious creature that has mauled dogs, frightened residents and been the subject of local legend for half a generation.
The animal was found near power lines along Route 4 on Saturday, apparently struck by a car while chasing a cat. The carcass was photographed and inspected by several people who live in the area, but nobody is sure exactly what it is.
For the past 15 years, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night. The animal has been blamed for attacking and killing a Doberman pinscher and a Rottweiler the past couple of years.
After reviewing photos of the carcass, Portland author and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman said he was bothered by the animal's ears and snout. It reminded him of a case years ago in northern Maine in which an animal shot by a hunter could not be identified. In the end, wildlife officials got a DNA analysis that showed the animal was a rare wolf-dog hybrid, he said.
A veterinary doctor feeds Bulu, a three-month-old leopard at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Bulu is being raised at the zoo after it was rejected by its mother.
Photo by Anupam Nath
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