Drama
Series - Mad Men • AMC
Lead Actor - Michael C. Hall, Dexter • Showtime
Lead Actress - Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife • CBS
Supporting Actor - Michael Emerson, Lost • ABC
Supporting Actress - Sharon Gless, Burn Notice • USA
Comedy
Series - 30 Rock • NBC
Lead Actor - Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock • NBC
Lead Actress - Tina Fey, 30 Rock • NBC
Supporting Actor - Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family • ABC
Supporting Actress - Jane Lynch, Glee • FOX
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific • HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - Temple Grandin • HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Claire Danes, Temple Grandin • HBO
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - David Strathairn, Temple Grandin • HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List • Bravo
Reality-Competition Program - The Amazing Race • CBS
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race • CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - Saturday Night Live • NBC
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The 25th Anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Concert • HBO
Adam in NoHo:
Drama
Series - Mad Men • AMC
Lead Actor - Michael C. Hall, Dexter- SHO
Lead Actress - Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife • CBS
Supporting Actor - Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad • AMC
Supporting Actress - Sharon Gless, Burn Notice • USA
Comedy
Series - Modern Family • ABC
Lead Actor - Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory • CBS
Lead Actress - Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie • Showtime
Supporting Actor - Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family • ABC
Supporting Actress - Jane Lynch, Glee • FOX
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific • HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - Temple Grandin • HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Claire Danes, Temple Grandin • HBO
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - John Goodman, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution • ABC
Reality-Competition Program - The Amazing Race • CBS
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Jeff Probst, Survivor • CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS
Joe S. (from Manistee-by-the-lake):
Ok BttbB, all these selections are correct. They may not agree with the official results but that's because the people who pick the winners usually don't know what they're doing. That's my story and I'm stickin to it. I'll let you know where to send my money.
Drama
Series - True Blood - HBO
Lead Actor - Hugh Laurie, House - Fox
Lead Actress - Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer - Fox
Supporting Actor - Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age - TNT
Supporting Actress - Sharon Gless, Burn Notice - USA
Comedy
Series - 30 Rock - NBC
Lead Actor - Jim Parsons, The Big Band Theory - CBS
Lead Actress - Tina Fey, 30 Rock - NBC
Supporting Actor - Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men - CBS
Supporting Actress - Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live - NBC
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - Return to Cranford - PBS
Actor - Jeff Bridges, A Dog Year - HBO
Actress - Dame Judi Dench, Return to Cranford - PBS
Supporting Actor - John Goodman, You Don't know Jack - HBO
Supporting Actress - Susan Sarandon, You Don't know Jack - HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - ABC
Reality Competition Program - Top Chef - Bravo
Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program - Jeff Probst, Survivor - CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - Comedy Central
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert - HBO
Sandra "Downeast':
Drama
Series - True Blood - HBO
Lead Actor - Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights - NBC
Lead Actress - Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - NBC
Supporting Actor - John Slattery, Mad Men - AMC
Supporting Actress - Christina Hendricks, Mad Men - AMC
Comedy
Series - Nurse Jackie, Showtime
Lead Actor - Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory - CBS
Lead Actress - Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie - Showtime
Supporting Actor - Chris Colfer, Glee - FOX
Supporting Actress - Jane Lynch, Glee - FOX
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - Temple Grandin - HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Jeff Bridges, A Dog Year - HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Claire Danes, Temple Grandin - HBO
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - David Strathairn, Temple Grandin - HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack - HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - ABC
Reality-Competition Program - Top Chef - Bravo
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Jeff Probst, Survivor - CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Colbert Report - Comedy Central
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me - HBO
brimicbed:
Drama
Series - Dexter - Showtime
Lead Actor - Michael C. Hall, Dexter • Showtime
Lead Actress - Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife • CBS
Supporting Actor - Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad • AMC
Supporting Actress - Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men • AMC
Comedy
Series - Modern Family • ABC
Lead Actor - Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory • CBS
Lead Actress - Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie • Showtime
Supporting Actor - Ty Burrell, Modern Family • ABC
Supporting Actress - Jane Lynch, Glee • FOX
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific • HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe • Lifetime
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - John Goodman, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution • ABC
Reality-Competition Program - The Amazing Race • CBS
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Jeff Probst, Survivor • CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien • NBC
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS
dtwicked:
Drama
Series - Mad Men - AMC
Lead Actor - Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad - AMC
Lead Actress - Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife - CBS
Supporting Actor - John Slattery, Mad Men - AMC
Supporting Actress - Rose Byrne, Damages - FX
Comedy
Series - Modern Family - ABC
Lead Actor - Tony Shalhoub, Monk - USA
Lead Actress - Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie - Showtime
Supporting Actor - Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family - ABC
Supporting Actress - Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live - NBC
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific - HBO
Made for TV Movie - The Special Relationship - HBO
Actor - Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack - HBO
Actress - Dame Judith Dench, Return To Cranford - PBS
Supporting Actor - Patrick Stewart, Hamlet - PBS
Supporting Actress - Kathy Bates, Alice - SyFy
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Antiques Roadshow - PBS
Reality Competition - The Amazing Race - CBS
Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program - Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race - CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien - NBC
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The Kennedy Center Honors - CBS
Vic in AK:
Drama
Drama Series - Mad Men • AMC
Lead Actor, Drama - Matthew Fox, Lost • ABC
Lead Actress, Drama - Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife • CBS
Supporting Actor, Drama - Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad • AMC
Supporting Actress, Drama - Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife • CBS
Comedy
Comedy Series - Nurse Jackie • Showtime
Lead Actor, Comedy - Tony Shalhoub, Monk • USA
Lead Actress, Comedy - Lea Michele, Glee • FOX
Supporting Actor, Comedy - Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family • ABC
Supporting Actress, Comedy - Holland Taylor, Two And A Half Men • CBS
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific • HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - Moonshot • HISTORY
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Michael Sheen, The Special Relationship • HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Claire Danes, Temple Grandin • HBO
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Michael Gambon, Emma (Masterpiece) • PBS
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin • HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Undercover Boss • CBS
Reality-Competition Program - American Idol • FOX
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Heidi Klum, Project Runway • Lifetime
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Colbert Report • Comedy Central
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS
marty:
Drama
Drama Series - Lost • ABC
Lead Actor, Drama - Michael C. Hall, Dexter • Showtime
Lead Actress, Drama - Glenn Close, Damages • FX Networks
Supporting Actor, Drama - Terry O'Quinn, Lost • ABC
Supporting Actress, Drama - Christine Baranski, The Good Wife • CBS
Comedy
Comedy Series - Modern Family • ABC
Lead Actor, Comedy - Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory • CBS
Lead Actress, Comedy - Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie • Showtime
Supporting Actor, Comedy - Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family • ABC
Supporting Actress, Comedy - Jane Lynch, Glee • FOX
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries - The Pacific • HBO
Made-for-TV Movie - You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe • Lifetime
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie - John Goodman, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Brenda Vaccaro, You Don't Know Jack • HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution • ABC
Reality-Competition Program - The Amazing Race • CBS
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program - Jeff Probst, Survivor • CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series - Conan O'Brien • NBC
Variety, Music or Comedy Special - Hope For Haiti Now • Tenth Planet Productions and MTV
Results!!
The winner, in a resounding landslide of monumental proportions, is....
Adam in NoHo!
.... with 15 correct entries (Hoo ha!) out of the possible 21... That's nearly 71.5%, dontcha know!... and 6 better than the 3 contestants tied for 2nd place (you know who you are!). I am, like, so impressed! (Really... I am). So, Adam, let me know where you'd like me to mail
The Prize (again, a $50 Visa gift card) and that will be that...
Thanks to all contestants (and better luck next time!) As always, Yer the Best!
Chris Lee: Jay-Z still rides his cash cow (Los Angeles Times)
All hail returning royalty. For the third time in the last four years, Jay-Z has been anointed hip-hop's "Cash King" by Forbes; he is rap's highest-earning star with a bullet, according to the magazine's annual ranking.
George Varga: Bill Maher is a Hit With His Sharp Comedic Commentary (creators.com)
Barring any ill-timed victories, Bill Maher has already achieved his goal for posterity. "I'd like to be remembered as the loser of the most Emmy Awards, ever!" said the veteran comedian, who earned 22 Emmy nominations between 1995 and last year but has yet to win one.
Roland Laird: 'The Boondocks': Carrying On the Tradition of Subversive Black Comedy (popmatters.com)
Earlier this summer when one of my friends defiantly proclaimed that she doesn't like The Boondocks cartoon because it's too "minstrel-like", I almost told her how Spike Lee-ish her statement was. Instead, I held my tongue, took a deep breath, and said that although The Boondocks (as well as much of American ensemble comedy) may indeed have a structural indebtedness to minstrelsy, it follows in the tradition of the best subversive comedy.
zEN mAN (observing the new age Eve...asking the devil if he still has an apple for her to bite.....this one section of the bible has forever villified women as agents of satan)
Americans eat about 90,000,000 pounds (41,000 t) of marshmallows per year.
Source
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
90,000,000 pounds
~ Tony in Philly responded:
90 Million Pounds!!! Holy crap!
Sally said:
Boy, did I misread yesterday's trivia question! Duh...
Therefore, today, I fact-checked the reply - which still could be wrong, but if it is, I can't use, "I didn't understand" as my excuse, hahaha!
Okay, that being said, and according to my painstaking research (laying it on a bit here) Americans eat about 90 million pounds of marshmallows a year.
PS: My participation in the Trivia Dejour will be limited this week because I am caring for the precious gks. Their school starts after Labor Day, and we have made the pact to lay off the electronics and to do some fun stuff together... I will try to get in as I can (after bedtime perhaps) but I know my Trivia cohorts will keep it going!
Marian the retired teacher answered:
90,000,000 pounds
Charlie replied:
I can't remember the last time I ate even one, but it's 90,000,000 pounds, even without my help.
MAM wrote:
Americans eat about 90,000,000 pounds (41000 t) of marshmallows per year.
And, Joe S answered.
90,000,000 pounds. Holy confection Batman! That's a lot of moon pies!
RC and Moon Pie! That's gooooood eatin'.
PS I can't believe I missed yesterday's quiz, what was I thinking! Maybe it was Emmy-mania. No, I didn't watch the Emmys. I guess I spent all night pokin' around YouTube finding old songs and trying to recapture my squandered youth.
There are some things which require a great deal of patience and others
that simply go beyond that. This is just one - an enormous rendering
of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings - made entirely out of
matchsticks. This is not a hobby, this is a magnificent obsession.
Anthony Gormley's latest mammoth sculpture, Exposure which is to be
unveiled formally in September, has opinion divided. Nothing
particularly new there, you might say. Yet Exposure, weighing in at
sixty tonnes, twenty six meters (85 feet) in height and poised rather
delicately in a crouching position is causing something of a ruckus in
the Netherlands, where it has been assembled.
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 Michael Douglas and Merle Haggard.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Don Johnson and Laura Lippman.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Minute To Win It', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kim Kardashian, Rep. Barney Frank, and Norah Jones.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Drew Barrymore, Snoop Dogg, and Black Mountain.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/13/10) are Diablo Cody, "Troll 2: Best Worst Movie", and Surfer Blood.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Shaq Vs.', then 'Primetime Crime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/2/10) are Shaquille O'Neal, Ali Fedotowsky & Roberto Martinez, and Basil Marceaux.
The CW offers a RERUN'Plain Jane', followed by a RERUN'Life Unexpected'.
Faux has a RERUN'Glee', followed by another RERUN'Glee'.
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'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'Unbreakable', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 8
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 9
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 10
[2:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate
[4:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Robert Downey Jr., Ed Byrne, Will Young
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 1 Smith and Jones
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 8 Future Imperfect
[9:00 PM] Bridget Jones's Diary
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 8 Future Imperfect
[12:00 AM] Bridget Jones's Diary
[2:00 AM] Super Skinny Me
[3:00 AM] Super Botox Me
[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 EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out', then a FRESH'Rachel Zoe Project'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', followed by a (F) 'Big Lake', then another (F) 'Big Lake', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 8/25/10) is Drew Barrymore.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 8/26/10) is Richard Engel.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', followed by the movie 'S.W.A.T', then the SEASON FINALE'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Jefferson', 'Black Blizzard', and 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:30AM] Separate Lies
[8:00AM] Private Fears in Public Places
[10:05AM] The New World
[12:30PM] The Old Woman's Step
[12:45PM] Separate Lies
[2:15PM] Private Fears in Public Places
[4:20PM] The New World
[6:45PM] Chapter 27
[8:15PM] Desperately Seeking Susan
[10:00PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[10:30PM] The IT Crowd
[11:00PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30PM] Wilfred (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:50 AM] Intacto
[8:40 AM] Arranged
[10:15 AM] Bulletproof Salesman
[11:30 AM] Kassim the Dream
[1:00 PM] Intacto
[2:50 PM] A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake
[3:40 PM] Arranged
[5:15 PM] Bulletproof Salesman
[6:30 PM] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[6:45 PM] Stolen Land
[8:00 PM] I Love Your Work
[10:00 PM] The Guitar
[11:40 PM] Involuntary
[1:25 AM] I Love Your Work
[3:25 AM] The Guitar
[5:05 AM] Involuntary (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Eureka', 'Warehouse 13', followed by a FRESH'Warehouse 13', then a FRESH'WWE NXT'.
TBS:
On a RERUNLopez Tonight (from 8/2/10) are Jim Parsons, Tricia Helfer, and Street Sweeper Social Club.
Italian composer Ennio Morricone attends the Polar Music Prize news conference, at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.
Photo by Fredrik Sandberg
Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will head the international jury at the 61st Berlin Film Festival from February 10-20, organisers said on Monday.
"It's fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the president of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," said festival director Dieter Kosslick. "She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema."
Rossellini, 58, the daughter of "Casablanca" star Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, first won fame for her roles in ex-partner David Lynch's films "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Wild at Heart" (1990).
In recent years she has become a regular at the Berlin film festival, known as the Berlinale, presenting there in 2008 her directorial debut "Green Porno" about the sexual behaviour of animals including earthworms and snails.
Musician Cyndi Lauper arrives at the Entertainment Tonight after-party for the 62nd annual Primetime Emmys Awards in Los Angeles, California August 29,2010.
Photo by Jason Redmond
The mother of "The Brady Bunch," a former NFL quarterback, one of the self-proclaimed "guidos" from "Jersey Shore" and the daughter of Sarah Palin (R-Quitter) are among the celebrities who will cha-cha-cha on the 11th season of "Dancing with the Stars."
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke, hosts of the ABC ballroom competition, announced the cast Monday.
"The Brady Bunch" matriarch Florence Henderson, retired Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, "Jersey Shore" co-star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Bristol Palin are among the 12 celebrities who will be paired with professional dance partners and train before their prime-time premiere Sept. 20.
Also competing for the mirrorball trophy will be: "When a Man Loves a Woman" singer Michael Bolton, comedian-actress Margaret Cho, former Los Angeles Lakers forward Rick Fox, "Dirty Dancing" actress Jennifer Grey, "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff, Disney Channel star Kyle Massey, singer-actress Brandy Norwood and "The Hills" co-star Audrina Patridge.
David Levin represents entrepreneurs, investors and developers in his legal practice. As an aside, he's a Burning Man barrister - offering free legal advice to those who run afoul of the law at the annual counterculture festival on the Nevada desert.
The Palo Alto, Calif., attorney maintains law enforcement has become so heavy-handed at the eclectic art and music gathering that he was compelled to form a legal defense team known as Lawyers for Burners to help participants who were cited or arrested.
He and other Burning Man fans accuse overzealous officers of destroying the quality of an otherwise peaceful celebration of radical self-expression to be held Monday through Sept. 6. Some 50,000 people are expected to gawk at offbeat artwork, wear bizarre costumes or nothing at all and torch the event's 40-foot signature effigy on the Black Rock Desert, about 110 miles north of Reno
Among other issues, Levin said, female undercover agents in costume have asked male Burners for drugs, drug-sniffing dogs and their handlers have roamed camps, and armed officers have "snooped" on revelers at dances. Last year, almost 300 Burners were cited or arrested by federal officers
"It's a police state out there," Levin said. "There's very little criminal activity at the event, but they cite and arrest people in order to justify their existence."
Charles Aznavour, 86-year-old star of French song, next year plans to return to the Paris stage that launched his career 55 years ago, hinting, but not for the first time, it may be his last goodbye.
"I'm coming back to the Olympia theatre. We'll close the circle at the Olympia because I'll be 87, almost 88. At some point I'll have to stop," he said on Europe 1 radio Monday.
After announcing his retirement in 1999, then again in 2000, and crooning through a farewell foreign tour in 2006, Aznavour went on tour again in 2007.
Aznavour, who was born to Armenian parents and was last year appointed ambassador to Switzerland for Armenia, told the radio that this time he planned to interpret nine new songs among 23 he recently penned.
Alan Cumming arrives at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles to attend the Entertainment Tonight Emmy after-party, Sunday, August 29th 2010.
Photo by Spencer Weiner
Water sprayed by firefighters has damaged a painting by Renaissance master Titian at a Venice basilica, local authorities said Monday.
"I saw water dripping from the painting for an hour" after the fire at an adjacent construction site was put out late on Sunday, the head of Venice's museum agency Vittorio Sgarbi told AFP, adding that he rushed to the scene after seeing the fire while dining at a nearby restaurant.
Workers have erected scaffolding to inspect the damaged "David and Goliath" along with two other Titians that look down from the ceiling of Santa Maria della Salute's vestry.
"This is Titian's most important ceiling," Sgarbi said, explaining that with the three paintings brought the master into direct competition with his contemporary Michelangelo for the first time.
Mel Gibson may be suffering one of the worst media scandals of his career, but a new poll shows it is having a relatively small impact on the movie star's box office appeal.
In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday. more than three quarters of Americans said they would not be affected by audiotapes of phone calls, widely reported to be Gibson ranting at his estranged ex-girlfriend, when deciding whether to see one of the Oscar winner's films.
Asked if they were less likely to buy a ticket for a Gibson movie after hearing the tapes posted on the Internet, 76 percent of Americans -- including 80 percent of men and 72 percent of women -- picked , "No, no effect," in the poll by magazine Vanity Fair and television news program 60 Minutes.
In a separate poll question, Republican Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate whose rift with the former fiancee of her teenage daughter, Bristol, also has attracted recent U.S. tabloid coverage, was deemed an ineffective future president by 59 percent of Americans.
Six in ten Americans -- including 75 percent of Democrats, 40 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of Independents -- said Palin would not make an effective President, while only 26 percent overall believed she would have the ability to fulfill the role, according to the Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll.
In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, Mort Walker, the artist and author of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, speaks about his decades of work and experiences at his studio in Stamford, Conn. Beetle Bailey will have a 60th anniversary on Labor Day.
Photo by Craig Ruttle
Organizers of a Los Angeles rave that ended with the death of a 15-year-old girl are suing the city for canceling a concert it organized with electronic music artist Tiesto.
Insomniac Inc. filed the breach-of-contract lawsuit Friday against the city for canceling an October concert at the Convention Center.
The lawsuit seeks a court order allowing the concert to go on.
The city attorney's office said Monday it is reviewing the lawsuit and would not comment.
Hollywood is finishing its summer with record revenue but the lowest actual movie attendance in five years.
Domestic receipts from the first weekend in May through the upcoming Labor Day weekend should come in at about $4.35 billion, $100 million more than the record set last year, according to Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Attendance is down because of a steep rise in ticket prices, heavily due to a surge in 3-D screenings, which cost a few dollars more than regular movie admissions.
Through Labor Day, the actual number of tickets sold during the summer season is expected to come in at 552 million, the lowest since 563.2 million tickets were sold in summer 2005, Dergarabedian estimated.
A dancer performs to the music of Mercan Dede at a concert titled "Secret Tribe" during the Jordan Festival at the Amman Citadel, an ancientRoman landmark, in Amman August 30, 2010.
Photo by Muhammad Hamed
A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney on Monday after climbing a 57-story building and into the arms of waiting police.
Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, was taken into police custody when he reached the top of the 57-story Lumiere Building in central Sydney on Monday morning.
Robert, 48, took 20 minutes to scale the 151 meter (495 feet) tall building using just his bare hands and without safety equipment, cheered on by a crowd of about 100 onlookers.
Robert has been arrested many times in various countries as authorities rarely give permission for his dangerous climbs.
The owner of an RV dealership sued by Taylor Lautner over a customized vehicle challenged the "Twilight" star Monday to use his muscles instead of his lawyers to resolve the case.
Brent McMahon, who owns McMahon's RV in Irvine, Calif., offered to compete in a push-up contest to settle the breach of contract lawsuit that Lautner filed Aug. 23 claiming the dealership failed to deliver a $300,000 RV on time for use as a dressing room on the set of the actor's latest film.
McMahon and his attorney denied wrongdoing and said they will vigorously defend the case in court if Lautner, 18, doesn't accept the challenge.
The dealership said Lautner's camp had sought a $40,000 settlement to resolve the case, leading to the unorthodox proposal by McMahon. The 47-year-old businessman said if he won the contest, he would donate the settlement money to Children's Hospital of Orange County.
The sun sets behind a parched tree in Mato Grosso, midwestern Brazil, August 28, 2010. Dry weather, drought and heat has been causing fires across thecountry and put about 70 percent of the country at risk of fires.
Photo by Ricardo Moraes
An emerald so large it's being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm.
The nearly 65-carat emerald its finders are marketing by the name Carolina Emperor was pulled from a farm once so well known among treasure hunters that the owners charged $3 a day to shovel for small samples of the green stones. After the gem was cut and re-cut, the finished product was about one-fifth the weight of the original find, making it slightly larger than a U.S. quarter and about as heavy as a AA battery.
The emerald compares in size and quality to one surrounded by diamonds in a brooch once owned by Catherine the Great, who was empress in the 18th century, that Christie's auction house in New York sold in April for $1.65 million, said C.R. "Cap" Beesley
"It is the largest cut emerald ever to be found in North America," Beesley said in a telephone interview from Myanmar, an Asian country rich in precious gems.
The heist thriller "Takers" has stolen the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office away from the fright flick "The Last Exorcism."
"Takers" debuted with $20.5 million to grab to grab a narrow win over "The Last Exorcism," which opened in second-place with $20.4 million, according to final studio numbers Monday.
Based on studio estimates a day earlier, "The Last Exorcism" had a thin lead over "Takers." But the movies switched places once final weekend numbers were released.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1. "Takers," Sony Screen Gems, $20,512,304, 2,206 locations, $9,298 average, $20,512,304, one week.
2. "The Last Exorcism," Lionsgate, $20,366,613, 2,874 locations, $7,087 average, $20,366,613, one week.
3. "The Expendables," Lionsgate, $9,527,937, 3,398 locations, $2,804 average, $82,040,183, three weeks.
4. "Eat Pray Love," Sony, $6,815,555, 3,108 locations, $2,193 average, $60,531,326, three weeks.
5. "The Other Guys," Sony, $6,285,712, 3,181 locations, $1,976 average, $99,018,172, four weeks.
6. "Vampires Suck," Fox, $5,221,780, 3,233 locations, $1,615 average, $27,834,256, two weeks.
7. "Inception," Warner Bros., $4,876,356, 2,070 locations, $2,356 average, $270,519,920, seven weeks.
8. "Nanny McPhee Returns," Universal, $4,714,215, 2,798 locations, $1,685 average, $16,991,285, two weeks.
9. "The Switch," Miramax, $4,583,481, 2,017 locations, $2,272 average, $14,831,771, two weeks.
10. "Piranha 3D," Weinstein Co., $4,302,878, 2,491 locations, $1,727 average, $18,266,889, two weeks.
11. "Avatar," Fox, $4,007,750, 812 locations, $4,936 average, $753,773,889, one week.
12. "Lottery Ticket," Warner Bros., $3,854,303, 1,973 locations, $1,954 average, $17,284,641, two weeks.
13. "Despicable Me," Universal, $2,859,680, 1,833 locations, $1,560 average, $30,749,875, eight weeks.
14. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," Universal, $2,505,555, 1,566 locations, $1,600 average, $26,166,945, three weeks.
15. "Salt," Sony, $1,883,890, 1,168 locations, $1,613 average, $113,260,644, six weeks.
16. "Dinner For Schmucks," Paramount, $1,779,540, 1,501 locations, $1,186 average, $69,204,372, five weeks.
17. "Step Up 3D," Disney, $1,227,816, 901 locations, $1,363 average, $39,715,304, four weeks.
18. "Toy Story 3," Disney, $1,010,710, 600 locations, $1,685 average, $405,659,221, 11 weeks.
19. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," Warner Bros., $675,231, 823 locations, $820 average, $41,279,244, five weeks.
20. "The Kids Are All Right," Focus, $522,172, 342 locations, $1,527 average, $19,149,701, eight weeks.
Alain Corneau, the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit "Tous les Matins du Monde," a period drama about 17th-century musicians, has died, his talent agency said. He was 67.
Throughout a career lasting more than 35 years, Corneau directed many legends of French cinema, including Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.
Born on Aug. 7, 1943, Corneau dabbled in music before making his start in cinema as an assistant for Greek-born filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Early on in his career, he made a series of thrillers, including "Choice of Arms," a 1981 gangster flick starring Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu and Yves Montand.
An avid follower of literature, Corneau adapted seven of his 16 films from novels. In 2003 he adapted Amelie Nothomb's "Stupeur et Tremblements" ("Fear and Trembling"), which starred actress Sylvie Testud as a foreigner struggling with strict workplace codes in Japan. She won the Cesar award for best actress.
Corneau's latest movie, "Love Crime," starring Kristin Scott Thomas, opened in France in mid-August.
A female capybara, one of two new to the San Francisco Zoo, walks in its exhibit area at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Capybaras are the largest living rodents in the world.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
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