Barack Obama yesterday announced a radical drive aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, as the focus of his European visit switched from financial to geopolitical security. "In Prague, I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said yesterday... "The spread of nuclear weapons or the theft of nuclear material could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet," he warned, adding that suspected rogue nuclear states, such as North Korea or Iran, may only be persuaded to abandon their quests if the big nuclear powers set an example...
Barack Obama's New Offensive Against Nuclear Weapons | CommonDreams.org
How successful do you think Obama will be in this endeavor?
A. Total nuclear disarmament and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (Hoo Ha!)...
B. Significant arms reduction by the current nuclear powers, rigorous enforcement of the non-proliferation treaty re: Iran and North Korea etal and the Doomsday Clock rolls back a couple of hours (whew!)...
C. Are you kidding? Humanity is gonna, sooner or later, blow itself to smithereens, dagnabbit!
Froma Harrop: Centrist Dems: Dogged If They Do, Dogged If They Don't (creators.com)
There's trouble around the Democratic campfire. The party has the White House and solid congressional majorities. But what it doesn't have is everyone on the same page, strumming the same chords, singing the same tune. Liberals who kept the fires burning during the long Republican reign now fear that moderate Blue Dog Democrats will thwart their much-delayed dreams.
Susan Estrich: Police Work (creators.com)
Why is crime down in Los Angeles? Violent crime is down by about 5 percent from last year at this time, which was down from the year before. Unemployment is at 12 percent. If you follow the theories of most fancy criminologists, larger social forces, like the economy and demographics, determine crime rates.
Neal Broverman: Bagging It Up for the Pope (advocate.com)
The pope's gonna be pissed. The International Women's Health Coalition is selling condoms challenging the pontiff's recent declaration that they "increase the problem" of AIDS. According to the feminist blog Akimbo, the condoms -- adorned with a picture of Pope Benedict XVI and a message above his image declaring, "I said no!" -- the rubbers are selling like hot cakes in France.
Sarah Seltzer: U.S. Writers Get Canon to Call Their Own (womensenews.org)
Three decades ago, Elaine Showalter's authoritative history of British female writers, "A Literature of Their Own," ushered in an era of feminist literary criticism. Now Showalter, a former professor at Princeton who divides her time between Washington, D.C., and London, has produced a new history of American female authors.
Jeremy Kinser: The Original Gossip Gal (advocate.com)
In her heyday, Rona Barrett got in bed with Cher, reported on the antics of Patty Duke, and even got Burt Reynolds to address those gay rumors. Now, Barrett looks back on her career with Advocate.com.
Dale Hrabi: And on a Lighter Note (advocate.com)
You may have heard his collaborations with Björk or Morrissey, but it's with his new full-length album, "The Crying Light," that Antony Hegarty finally comes into his own.
A Hope Lange
B Janet Leigh
C Julie Newmar
D Debbie Reynolds
E Lee Remick
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Won the 1948 Miss Burbank contest and was offered a screen test by Warner Bros. the day after her win. She initially entered the contest because everyone who entered received a silk scarf, blouse and free lunch.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
D Debbie Reynolds
~ Tony In Philly replied:
D - Debbie Reynolds
Charlie answered:
The one, the only
D Debbie Reynolds
…but the moment we got inside we lost control. The tension had been too great. Debbie Reynolds was yukking across the stage in a silver Afro wig … to the tune of "Sergeant Pepper," from the golden trumpet of Harry James.
"Jesus creeping shit!" said my attorney. "We've wandered into a time capsule!"
Heavy hands grabbed our shoulders. I jammed the hash pipe back into my pocket just in time. We were dragged across the lobby and held against the front door by goons until our car was fetched up. "OK, get lost," said the wine-tux-man. "We're giving you a break. If Debbie has friends like you guys, she's in worse trouble than I thought."
~ Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, pages 44-45
Jim from CA responded:
Debbie Reynilds
Sally, in a dark and gloomy N Jersey, said:
If I remember correctly, from my movie magazines days, Debbie Reynolds (D) was Miss Burbank 1948.
Movie mags were a hot commodity in an all-girl parochial boarding school back in the 1950s. Many a night we spent with flashlights in hand, oohing, ahing, and giggling over the glossy pictures of favorite Hollywood Stars (usually women) desperately wanting to imitate their every hairstyle and dress. Alas, we were sentenced to 4-years of baggy plaid uniforms, cotton stockings, oxford type shoes, and dreadful hairdos. Those forbidden magazines were our oasis AWA a glimpse of the outside world - where we were SURE everyone else lead charmed, tinsel-town lives - while we were trapped behind the walls of learning...
PS: A belated Happy Birthday to Joe S! So, you had your scrumptious chocolate Birthday Cake and ate to too, Mr S - and didn't even save any for us, your faithful "Trivia" friends. Sigh - bet it was good too...
MAM wrote:
Answer: D Debbie Reynolds
And, Joe S answered:
D Debbie Reynolds
She was Mary Frances Reynolds back then. When I was in second grade my best friend Allen Smith and I started the Eddie Fisher Fan club. Allen was the president and I was the vice-president and we were the only members. I felt I should be president but, truth-be-told it was Allen's idea to start the club and that made it difficult to argue him out of his position. Out of the blue, as far as we knew, Eddie divorced Debby for that hussy Elizabeth Taylor. Blind-sided! We were crushed, CRUSHED, I mean devastated. We disbanded the club and we would have torn up the club rules, if we had ever gotten around to writing them.
She's still cute, isn't she? Terminal cutes, cute 'til you die.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUNDave (from 3/13/09) are Will Ferrell and Cursive
On a RERUNCraig (from 2/19/09) are Paula Abdul and Carl Edwards
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser 7', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 3/27/09) are Dana Carvey, Billy Mays, and Prince
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/6/09) are Drew Barrymore, Chace Crawford, and Mario Batali
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/5/09) are Robert Francis
ABC opens the night with the chestnut 'It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!', followed by 'Charlie Brown All-Stars', then a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Cupid'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/20/09) are Portia de Rossi, Melissa Rycroft, and Motley Crue
The CW offers offers a FRESH'Reaper', followed by a FRESH'90210'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Fringe'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball' (Oakland visits the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels).
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force', and another 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force'.
AMC offers the movie 'Starsky & Hutch', followed by the movie 'Rudy', then the movie 'Star Trek: Nemesis'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 5
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Curry Lounge
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 11
[9:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 11
[12:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[1:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 11
[2:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 - Martin Sheen and Ed Byrne
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 12
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 41 Mayhew (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit O' Revolution'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jehan Sadat
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Queen Noor.
FX has the movie 'The Departed',followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'How The Earth Was Made', another 'How The Earth Was Made', and 'The Universe'.
IFC -
[6:10 AM] Requiem
[7:40 AM] 'Bama Girl
[9:00 AM] Our Song
[10:45 AM] Australia Plays Broadway
[11:45 AM] Requiem
[1:15 PM] 'Bama Girl
[2:35 PM] Our Song
[4:15 PM] Requiem
[5:50 PM] subUrbia
[8:00 PM] Australia Plays Broadway
[9:00 PM] Baadasssss Cinema
[10:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:15 PM] IFC Music Blast
[10:30 PM] Z Rock
[11:00 PM] Modern Toss
[11:30 PM] IFC Web Blast
[11:45 PM] IFC Film Blast
[12:00 AM] Blue Velvet
[2:05 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:20 AM] The Business
[2:50 AM] Z Rock
[3:20 AM] Modern Toss
[3:50 AM] Witchblade
[4:20 AM] Baadasssss Cinema
[5:20 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Star Trek: Enterprise', another 'Star Trek: Enterprise', 'ECW', and a FRESH'WCG Ultimate Gamer'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 4
[06:30 AM] The Education of Ms. Groves: Episode 4
[07:00 AM] A Curtain Raiser
[07:30 AM] Live-In Maid
[09:00 AM] Poison Friends
[10:40 AM] Tanghi Argentini
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Hoosiers, The Black Keys & Manu Chao
[12:00 PM] Best of Youth: The Best of Youth (Part 2)
[01:45 PM] A Curtain Raiser
[02:15 PM] Sleeping Dogs Lie
[03:50 PM] This Revolution
[05:30 PM] The True History of The Traveling Wilburys
[06:00 PM] The Favor
[08:00 PM] Terminal City: Episode 10
[09:00 PM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 7
[09:30 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Paper or Plastic?
[10:00 PM] Before the Flood
[11:05 PM] The Yacoubian Building
[01:55 AM] One Missed Call 2
[03:45 AM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 7
[04:15 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Paper or Plastic?
[04:45 AM] Before the Flood
[05:50 AM] Dog (ALL TIMES EDT)
Australian researchers sifting papers belonging to the author of "Schindler's List" discovered a yellowing roll of 801 men saved from the Holocaust by the German industrialist - the very copy the writer used to bring the story to the world's attention, a curator said Monday.
The 13-page document is a copy of one of Oskar Schindler's famed compilations of names that eventually included 1,100 men and women he saved by employing them in his factories in World War II Germany.
"It's the list Tom used when writing `Schindler's Ark' and that really brought Schindler's actions to the attention of the world," said State Library of New South Wales co-curator Olwen Pryke, referring to the book's author, Thomas Keneally.
Keneally wrote the book "Schindler's Ark," also published as "Schindler's List," which was made into the Oscar-winning film by Steven Spielberg in 1993.
Former President Bill Clinton will address the annual amfAR charity gala that raises money for AIDS research during the Cannes film festival on France's southern coast.
The event on May 21, to be hosted by actress Sharon Stone and movie producer Harvey Weinstein, will include the traditional auction where celebrities offer unusual rewards for anyone willing to pay up.
Scottish singer Annie Lennox will perform at the event, to be held for the first time at the exclusive Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, near Cannes.
The foundation's annual "Cinema Against AIDS" galas have been held since 1993 and generated nearly $44 million for research into AIDS and HIV prevention.
Television personality Regis Philbin, waves to the crowd after being introduced at the start of the New Orleans Hornets-Utah Jazz NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Philbin's television show is taping four shows in New Orleans.
Photo by Bill Haber
NBC anchorman Brian Williams has been named this year's recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award.
Williams will be honored by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at a luncheon Nov. 18 in Phoenix.
Each year, the Cronkite School recognizes a notable media figure for excellence in journalism. Past recipients have included Brokaw, Katharine Graham and Ted Turner.
Country music legend Charley Pride reimbursed a Canadian fan gouged 1,200 dollars by a US ticket reseller, as watchdogs probe alleged "scalping" by Ticketmaster and others, media said Monday.
The Grammy Award winner reportedly made a special trip last week to western Canada to repay the fan out of his own pocket and offer her two free tickets to his upcoming show in Edmonton, Alberta.
The original tickets were said to be valued at 133 dollars, but had been inflated by an online ticket reseller based in the United States.
California-based Ticketmaster, the dominant ticket seller for concerts and sporting events in North America, said on Friday it received "a number of subpoenas and demands for sworn information" from US and Canadian authorities.
The former seaside home of British writer Charles Dickens, where he wrote part of the novel "David Copperfield", has gone on sale for two million pounds, an estate agent said Monday.
The cliffside house in Broadstairs, in the southern English county of Kent, was built in 1801 and has six bedrooms, and is on the market for 2.2 million euros, or three million dollars.
It was built as the residence of the fort captain during the Napoleonic Wars and originally named "Fort House", the estate agent said, but this was later changed to "Bleak House" -- the name of one of Dickens' most famous novel.
He is thought to have planned that novel at the house, and is also said to have written parts of "David Copperfield" in its study overlooking the sea.
A pan with a baklava made into the iconic image of U.S. President Barack Obama and dubbed "the Baracklava" sits on a table at Gulluoglu baklava bakery in Istanbul, April 6, 2009. Bakers spent five days and used 40 layers of pastry to make the baklava in honour of Obama's visit to Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday. It sits beside the likeness of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic. Obama reiterated on Monday his support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union despite opposition from member states, but urged the mainly Muslim country to speed up long-stalled reforms.
Photo by Finbarr O'Reilly
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will appear on prime time to thank a disabled Gulf War veteran for his service.
Powell will be shown meeting with former Army combat medic Jeff Cooper and his family as part of an episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" airing in May.
Cooper, of Jamesville, N.C. suffers from multiple sclerosis, immune disorders, a collection of symptoms commonly called Gulf War illness and is confined to a wheelchair.
The Cooper family is shown living in a decaying mobile home with bad electrical wiring, a sinking roof, and a rotting wheelchair ramp. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" decides to rebuild their home in just a week.
Chris Brown has pleaded not guilty Monday to threatening and assaulting his girlfriend, fellow music superstar Rihanna.
The 19-year-old R&B singer appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom alongside his lawyer, Mark Geragos.
Brown entered his plea, speaking in a soft voice, while his mother sat in the first row, red-eyed.
Brown left the courthouse with his mother, two bodyguards and an entourage. On his way out, he had to walk through a phalanx of cameras. He was picked up by a car in front of the courthouse.
Coldplay has denied in federal court that it copied parts of Joe Satriani's music for its hit song, "Viva La Vida."
In a response filed in Los Angeles on Monday, attorneys for Coldplay's band members also argued that any similarities between "Viva La Vida" and Satriani's "If I Could Fly" weren't enough to warrant damages.
Satriani's song "lacks originality," Coldplay's response claims, and shouldn't receive copyright protection.
Satriani sued Coldplay in December, claiming the British band used "substantial, original portions" of Satriani's "If I Could Fly," which was released in 2004.
The son of actor Ryan O'Neal and cancer-stricken actress Farrah Fawcett was behind bars on Monday on new drugs charges, Los Angeles authorities confirmed.
Redmond O'Neal, 24, was being held in jail ahead of a hearing on Tuesday after being arrested at the weekend while taking a friend to visit an inmate at a jail in Castaic, northwest of Los Angeles, officials said.
O'Neal, who is already facing drug possession charges relating to an incident in September last year, allegedly admitted carrying drugs during a routine security stop on Sunday, police said.
Authorities did not say what kind of drugs were found.
Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future.
The country star lit into the actor for an article Hawke wrote in the new issue of Rolling Stone about Kris Kristofferson. In it, Hawke refers to a blowup Kristofferson had with an unnamed country star back in 2003 that sounds a lot like Toby Keith.
In the story, Hawke claimed he witnessed the confrontation backstage at Nelson's tribute concert for his 70th birthday at the Beacon Theatre in New York. The article does not name Keith but says it was a country singer who "had a monster hit about bombing America's enemies back into the stone age." In 2002, Keith had the song "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)" that threatened retribution for the 9/11 attacks.
Hawke said the argument began with the "Star" telling Kristofferson: "None of that lefty (expletive) out there tonight, Kris."
Hawke said Kristofferson then angrily confronted and asked him if he had ever served in the military.
Penitents take part in the procession of "San Gonzalo" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 6, 2009. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.
Photo by Rocio Pelaez
First lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons in divorce papers of having extramarital affairs with a former Playboy magazine model and another woman to whom he sent hundreds of text messages last year. The Republican governor has been untruthful about his "infidelity" with the two women, his estranged wife says in a divorce filing which was unsealed Monday by a court order in Washoe County Family Court.
The governor has insisted both women were just friends. He filed for divorce last May, citing "incompatibility" with his wife.
Dawn Gibbons identified one of the women in the documents as Kathy Karrasch, who over several weeks received more than 860 text messages from the governor on his state cell phone.
The documents identified the second woman as Leslie Durant, who once posed in Playboy magazine and is the former wife of ex-Reno Mayor Pete Sferrazza.
The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
Young sea ice in the Arctic often melts in the spring and summer. If it survives for two years, then it becomes the type of thick sea ice that is key. But the past two years were warm, and there's more young, thin ice at the top of the world.
In normal winters, thick sea ice - often about 10 feet thick or more - extends from the northern boundaries of Greenland and Canada almost to Russia. This year, the thick ice cap barely penetrates the bull's-eye of the Arctic Circle.
The amount of thick sea ice hit a record wintertime low of just 378,000 square miles this year, down 43 percent from last year, Meier said. The amount of older sea ice that was lost is larger than the state of Texas.
A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.
Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.
But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."
She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.
Former resident George W. Bush throws out the season opening first pitch with Nolan Ryan looking on before the baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Monday, April 6, 2009.
Photo by Tony Gutierrez
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