DAVID EINHORN: Easy Money, Hard Truths (nytimes.com)
Are you worried that we are passing our debt on to future generations? Well, you need not worry. ... Our generation - not our grandchildren's - will have to deal with the consequences.
Gerrick D. Kennedy: Brandy discusses label politics and why she 'wants to win' (latimes.com)
It's only after performing a small set of hits in front of a packed house at West Hollywood's Key Club does Brandy appear nervous. Standing in front of the crowd, R&B singer Tank, who played host for the headlining gig, proclaims Brandy as the "best female R&B singer in the game."
Geoff Boucher: Leonard Nimoy riffs on William Shatner, George Lucas and ... Jimi Hendrix? (latimes.com)
Early on, I knew we were going to have a good ride when the Starfleet icon sent the audience into delirious laughter with his overwrought impression of William Shatner delivering the eulogy for Spock at the end of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was most human." Absolutely priceless.
John Swansburg: The Nuanced Villains of the Original Karate Kid (slate.com)
Defeated by Daniel's perfectly executed crane technique in the movie's final moments, Johnny insists on delivering the All-Valley Karate Tournament trophy to the new champion himself. "You're alright, Larusso," says the chastened bully. "Good match."
ROGER EBERT: "Tony Curtis: '38 years... Gone like that.'" (from May 14, 1985)
Cannes, France - "How's the Cannes Film Festival? I'll tell you one thing, pal. It's a whole lot better than a kick in the ass. I got my ticket paid for, I'm staying in a first-class hotel, I'm wearing expensive boa-constrictor cowboy boots, and I'm not drinking and I'm not taking drugs. How could life be better?"
Combat! is an American television program that aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. (The exclamation point in "Combat!" was a stylized bayonet.)
Created by Robert Pirosh, Combat! ran for five seasons, of which the first four are in black and white, with a move to color for the final season. The show covered the lives of a squad of American soldiers in France during World War II. Although the series ran five seasons, King Company never fought its way out of France.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
I think most of the action
Took place in France.
Alan J answered:
France
mechadave wrote:
COMBAT was set in Occupied France in 1944 after June 6, although historically the fighting in France as mostly over by September 14. The German army was decisively defeated at Falaise in early August, and they retreated in disorder through France. The Germans fell back to their West Wall fortifications along the border, and American forces fought in Holland, Luxembourg, and Germany itself until VE day (11 months after D-Day).
Marian the Teacher responded:
France
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
France
Charlie answered:
France, after D-Day.
Sally said:
The old TV series, "Combat!" was set in France. It covered the lives of a squad of American soldiers in France during WWII (the BIG one as Archie Bunker would later say...) Although the series ran five seasons, "King Company" never fought its way out of France... What more can I say.
Being a child growing up in the 1940s, I heard nothing more than about this war. And, like other American's, I too cheered our troops. I became less enthusiastic by the time the, "Korean" conflict came around in the 50s, and was TOTALLY anti war by Viet Nam! 56K US troops were killed in that 'Conflict,' and how many more people who lived in that part of the world died - thanks to the military! I lost SO many friends and relatives of friends - it was my WWII - a time when EVERY BLOCK had a star (indicating a military loss in the family - as an approximate 292,000 American soldier's lives were lost during WWII) in their window...
Just about then, I started looking at war in a lot different way, and didn't buy into the government propaganda any longer...
PS: Yo, DannyD! Good to read your feisty posts again!!
MAM wrote:
France. The show covered the lives of a squad of American soldiers, King Company, in France during World War II. Beginning with the D-Day landing and covering the push through France, culminating with the liberation of Paris. We were regular watchers of this program.
Steven B responded:
I'm running from memory here, but I do believe Combat was about the zany adventures of a US Army squad in France.
Vic Morrow played Sgt. Saunders (the real star was Morrow's Thompson SMG) and Rick Jason played the squad's butter bar.
"Checkmate King Two this is White Rook."
And, Joe S replied:
France during World War II.
I watched this show every chance I could, maybe because I was a member of the US Military at the time.. The dayroom at my barracks always had it on and the 24 hour pinochle games would pause until the program was over.
Wow! I don't remember any of these guys. Oh wait, nevermind.
Marina Bay Sands by anyone's standards deserves a double take. Take
One. OK, you may think, that's three pretty big towers with a great
enormous boat thingy on the top. Take Two. A what on the top? The
three towers are connected by a sky terrace positioned precipitously on
their roofs. A hectare in area (that is ten thousand square meters)
this surprising addition is called Sands SkyPark.
Had a bit of an earthquake - slow-moving rolls here, but a 5.9 at the epicenter. Yikes.
Tonight, Tuesday:
Obama is speechifying - expect (at least) an hour of network programming to be pre-empted.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'The Good Wife'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Katie Couric, Devo, and Larry Graham.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Ice Cube, Stan Lee, and Tig Notaro.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Losing It With Jillian', followed by a RERUN'America's Got Talent', then a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Robert Pattinson, Emma Roberts, and Travie McCoy.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Cedric the Entertainer, Fred Willard, and Broken Social Scene.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/13/10) are Olivia Munn, BTTR Ventures, and La Roux.
ABC opens the night with LIVE'NBA Finals', followed by a FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel', then pads the left coast with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Rickles and Ozzy Osbourne.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Life Unexpected'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY recycles an old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by another old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', then an old 'Deal Or No Deal', followed by another old 'Deal Or No Deal'.
AMC offers the movie 'Dances With Wolves', followed by the movie 'Outbreak'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 2
[2:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 4
[4:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 5
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Runaway Girl
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 5 Disaster
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[10:00 PM] Ashes to Ashes - Episode 6
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 5 Disaster
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[1:00 AM] Ashes to Ashes - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[3:00 AM] Ashes to Ashes - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] BBC World News
[4:30 AM] BBC World News
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List', then a FRESH'Double Exposure'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Tosh.0', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is James Tabor.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dr. Carl Safina.
FX has the movie 'Superbad', followed by the movie 'Grandma's Boy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ancient Aliens', and 'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] Crimes and Misdemeanors
[7:55 AM] Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
[9:35 AM] I Heart Huckabees
[11:30 AM] Crimes and Misdemeanors
[1:15 PM] Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
[3:00 PM] I Heart Huckabees
[4:50 PM] Crimes and Misdemeanors
[6:35 PM] The Nugget
[8:15 PM] Benny & Joon
[10:00 PM] Food Party
[10:15 PM] Food Party
[10:30 PM] Dinner With the Band
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[12:00 AM] The Hamiltons
[1:35 AM] La Perra
[2:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:30 AM] The Henry Rollins Show
[3:00 AM] Food Party
[3:15 AM] Food Party
[3:30 AM] Dinner With the Band
[4:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:30 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[5:05 AM] Benny & Joon (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:45 AM] Rise Up And Shout! - Sundance Film
[8:00 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[10:00 AM] Approaching Union Square
[11:30 AM] Poison Friends
[1:15 PM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[3:15 PM] Approaching Union Square
[4:45 PM] Poison Friends
[6:30 PM] Manda Bala
[8:00 PM] THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST - Season 2, Episode 1 - Lazy Interior Designer/Lazy Campers
[8:30 PM] Addicted To Plastic
[10:00 PM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
[11:15 PM] THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST - Season 2, Episode 1 - Lazy Interior Designer/Lazy Campers
[11:45 PM] Addicted To Plastic
[1:15 AM] All God's Children Can Dance
[2:45 AM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
[4:00 AM] Manda Bala
[5:35 AM] All God's Children Can Dance (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Star Trek: TNG', another 'Star Trek: TNG', still another 'Star Trek: TNG', followed by a FRESH'WWE NXT'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Tim Allen, Padma Lakshmi, Irvin Mayfield, and Jim Florentine.
Author Armistead Maupin, center, glances down at the Assembly Resolution he received for his contributions to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendercommunity, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 14, 2010. The California Legislative LGBT caucus honored 10 individuals for their work in the LGBT community as part LGBT Pride Month Celebrations. Maupin was recognized for his books and articles portraying LGBT people in a positive light. Also seen are LGBT Legislative Caucus members, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, left, state Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
A former Kitchener, Ont., disc jockey will auction his original recording of a 1966 Beatles news conference in Toronto - even though the only other original audiotape failed to sell at auction.
Larry Roberts, who asked John Lennon about his controversial remarks about Jesus at the King Edward Hotel between the Fab Four's two Maple Leaf Gardens shows, still plans to sell his tape through Heritage Auction Galleries in October.
Roberts was surprised the rival reel-to-reel tape recorded by former freelance photographer Paul Hourigan on Aug. 17, 1966, was valued as high as US$25,000.
Bidders couldn't come together with Bonham & Butterfields in Los Angeles on the minimum price Hourigan wanted in Sunday's auction.
Roger Ebert, left, alongside wife Chaz Hammelsmith, is presented the 'Person of the Year' Award by Jimmy Fallon at the 14th Annual Webby Awards in NewYork, Monday, June 14, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
The Canadian creator of "Saturday Night Live" is being honoured with an International Emmy Award.
Lorne Michaels will receive the International Emmy Directorate Award at the 38th annual International Emmy Awards gala on Nov. 22 in New York City.
The organizers of the award say they're honouring Michaels for founding "SNL," which "reinvented comedy on television and launched a generation of major film and TV stars."
Michaels is also executive producer of "30 Rock" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
Hollywood veteran Jane Fonda cried tears of happiness as she watched her beloved daughter, producer Vanessa Vadim, wed in France over the weekend.
The Oscar winner was the guest of honour at the "lovely, spiritual" ceremony between the 41-year-old moviemaker and her partner, Paul Van Waggoner, in St. Tropez.
In a touching post on her blog, accompanied by several personal photographs, Fonda writes, "We had three days of wonderful fun, food, friends, ex-husbands, families of ex-husbands, former wives of ex-husbands, perfect weather, time to cruise the port and back streets of St Tropez.
Vanessa is Fonda's daughter with her late first husband Roger Vadim. They wed in 1965 before splitting in 1973. Vadim died in 2000.
From left, actors Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves attend the TV Land screening of 'Hot in Cleveland' in New York, Monday,June 14, 2010.
Photo by Peter Kramer
The CBS morning show co-host gave birth Sunday evening in New York to her second child, Michael Tobin Rodriguez Jr. He weighed in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce.
Rodriguez already has a 5-year-old daughter. Her husband, Michael Rodriguez, is a marketing executive at the Telemundo television network.
Famed comic book writer Nail Gaiman testified Monday that he sees no difference between Dark Ages Spawn and Medieval Spawn, a character he co-created nearly two decades ago.
The battle over Spawn, as well as two scantily clad female angel characters, was being waged not in the pages of a comic book but in a Wisconsin federal court.
Gaiman filed a motion in March arguing that Canadian Todd McFarlane, a former Spider-Man artist and Spawn creator, owes him money for characters that Gaiman argues were derived from ones he created in the 1990s for McFarlane's famous Spawn series.
A jury found in 2002 that Gaiman was due money for being a co-copyright holder for Medieval Spawn and Angela as well as one named Cogliostro, a one-time Spawn ally.
Even though Spawn isn't as popular as Spider-Man or Batman, the court case exemplifies the tension among comic artists and writers as they vie for rights to even minor characters that could turn massively profitable later.
Actress Leslie Uggams arrives at the Apollo Theater for the Spring 2010 Benefit Concert and Awards Ceremony, Monday, June 14, 2010, in New York. Queenof soul Aretha Franklin and king of pop Michael Jackson will be honored and inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame.
Photo by Louis Lanzano
News Rupert Corp. is placing bets on two ideas that it hopes will shore up sagging business models for media companies: electronic reading devices and charging readers for access to websites.
Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate said Monday that it has acquired Skiff LLC, a company started by magazine and newspaper publisher Hearst Corp. to create a technology platform for e-readers. News Corp. also is making an investment in Journalism Online LLC, which is developing technology to help publishers collect payments from readers for online material.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Both fledgling ventures are seeking ways to support journalism at a time when publishers are struggling to find ways to be as profitable online as they once were in print.
Federal regulators on Monday allowed a new online exchange to proceed to trade future box-office receipts for movies.
A divided Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved by the mandated deadline the proposed futures contracts for the new Trend Exchange. That means the movie futures trading can proceed. The vote was 3-2.
Major Hollywood studios strongly oppose the idea. They say rival studios could sabotage films by betting against them.
The first proposed contract for the Trend Exchange is for the Aug. 20 release of "Takers" featuring Matt Dillon.
Comedian Billy Crystal attends the premiere of "Project Natal for XBox 360" in Los Angeles June 13, 2010. "Project Natal" was laterchristened by Microsoft Corp during the event as "Kinect", its new motion-sensing game system.
Photo by Phil McCarten
A man who stalked Ryan Seacrest was sentenced Monday to two years in state prison and ordered to stay away from the host of "American Idol" for 10 years.
Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr., 26, received the maximum sentence after previously pleading no contest to stalking. Uzomah did not speak during the sentencing hearing.
Superior Court Judge John S. Fisher rejected a defense request to sentence Uzomah to probation.
The judge also issued a restraining order requiring Uzomah to stay 500 yards away from Seacrest and his workplace for 10 years.
Syfy's "Ghost Hunters," the flagship series in the cable channel's most popular franchise, will return for a seventh season next year.
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson will resume their roles as the leaders of TAPS (the Atlantic Paranormal Society), which investigates reports of paranormal activity. Syfy ordered 25 episodes.
Since debuting in 2004, "Ghost Hunters" has launched two spinoffs, "Ghost Hunters Academy" and "Ghost Hunters International," and inspired countless imitators on rival networks. The show has become Syfy's longest-running original series.
The first half of Season 6 averaged 2.6 million viewers, making Syfy the top-rated cable network in the "Hunters" time slot.
The installation 'Animal Farm' (1994) by atist Tim Rollins and K.O.S., represented by the gallery Eva Presenhuber (Zurich, Switzerland), is shown at theexhibition 'Art Unlimited' in the context of the international art show 'Art 41 Basel', in Basel, Switzerland, Monday, June 14, 2010. The Art Unlimited sector at Art 41 Basel shows large-scales and multimedia works from June 15 through June 20, 2010.
PHoto by Patrick Straub
Comedian Louie Anderson will end his more than four-year run at the Excalibur in Las Vegas in August.
Anderson's last "Larger Than Life" performance at the Excalibur will be Aug. 1, a Sunday.
The comedian started performing at the hotel and casino on Feb. 14, 2006.
While performing "Larger Than Life," Anderson and comedian Kyle Cease started Stand-Up Boot camp to mentor aspiring comics. Anderson plans to continue working on the boot camp and other soon-to-be-announced projects.
A sculpted stone head by artist Amedeo Modigliani sold at Christie's in Paris on Monday for US$52.8 million, breaking the record for a work by the Italian artist, the auction house said.
It was also the highest-priced work sold at an auction in France, Christie's said. An anonymous buyer bid for the piece by telephone.
The piece, sculpted between 1910 and 1912, depicts an elongated head with almond-shaped eyes and flowing hair, and it is reminiscent of the artist's paintings.
Modigliani, who lived from 1884 to 1920, originally focused on sculpture but switched to painting in part because of health problems.
A flamingo chick is about to be fed by one of its parents at the San Diego Zoo, California, June 11, 2010. Both mother and father flamingos take part in rearing their young, from warming the eggs in the mud nest, to feeding the chicks. This chick is one of four flamingo babies, between the ages of three and 10 days old, currently at the San Diego Zoo. The San Diego Zoo is home to more than 100 flamingos.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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