BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 24 December, 2013

Tuesday

24 December, 2013

(Updated Daily)

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Ruth Walker: My bizarre experience becoming a 'naturalized' American citizen (Guardian)
I was excited to become a US citizen. That quickly dissipated during the ceremony, which felt like a middle school graduation.


Victoria Coren Mitchell: Christmas in the clink? But I'm no cocaine fiend (Guardian)
I'm just a square girl with an inhaler who tried cocaine once, so I hope the Mail doesn't make the police come knocking.


John Patterson: Spike Jonze on Jackass, Scarlett Johansson's erotic voice and techno love (Guardian)
The director's offbeat love story Her - about a man who falls in love with his computer operating system - is tipped for Oscar triumph. As he prepares his final cut, he talks exclusively about its stars, the past and the future.


Xan Brooks: "Bruce Dern: black and white and all colour in Alexander Payne's Nebraska" (Guardian)
The veteran actor may not be sure where Bristol is, but he does recall racing a shepherd through the Lake District and being Alfred Hitchcock's 'golden calf.'


Caroline Sullivan: "Mary J Blige: 'Whitney Houston's funeral freaked me out'" (Guardian)
The queen of hip-hop soul on giving up alcohol, getting fit and cutting out the drama in her life.


Dorian Lynskey: "Lee Hazlewood: the wayward guru of cowboy psychedelia" (Guardian)
Best known for reviving Nancy Sinatra's career with These Boots Are Made for Walkin', Lee Hazlewood was a highly unorthodox record producer. An epic box set collects his forgotten songs.


J. Wisniewski: 5 Amazing Pieces of Good News Nobody Is Reporting (Cracked)
So we know it's hard to see it in the daily wash of awful headlines and celebrity scandals, but it's undeniable: We're slowly getting this "civilization" thing figured out.


This Year's Biggest Discoveries in Science (National Geographic)
From the edge of the solar wind to ancient human DNA, science made big strides in 2013.


Peanuts Christmas Dance in NYC (YouTube)
What happens when you bring the iconic dance scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas to life? We surprised New Yorkers with a flash mob of nostalgia to find out.


David Bruce: Wise Up! Christmas (Athens News)
An employee at a Kmart in Plainfield Township, Michigan, called Roberta Carter with good news: A Good Samaritan had paid $59.60 of her $60 layaway. Ms. Carter, who has eight children, said, "My kids will have clothes for Christmas."



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Trivia Question of the Day


What American poet, essayist and journalist is often called the "Father of free verse"?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Who was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism?


      Roger Ebert                                                      Source


Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, journalist and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally-televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously-named At the Movies programs. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase "Two Thumbs Up," used when both hosts gave the same film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, with Richard Roeper.        Source







Marian was first, and correct, with:
   Roger Ebert



Charlie said:
   Roger Ebert


  H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
      
Perhaps, after all, the chief burden that lies upon Major Spingarn's theory is to be found in its label. The word ``creative'' is a bit too flamboyant; it says what he wants to say, but it probably says a good deal more. In this emergency, I propose getting rid of the misleading label by pasting another over it. That is, I propose the substitution of ``catalytic'' for ``creative,'' despite the fact that ``catalytic'' is an unfamiliar word, and suggests the dog-Latin of the seminaries. I borrow it from chemistry, and its meaning is really quite simple. A catalyzer, in chemistry, is a substance that helps two other substances to react. For example, consider the case of ordinary cane sugar and water. Dissolve the sugar in water and nothing happens. But add a few drops of acid and the sugar changes to glucose and fructose. Meanwhile, the acid itself is absolutely unchanged. All it does is to stir up the reaction between the water and the sugar. The process is called catalysis. The acid is a catalyzer.
      Well, this is almost exactly the function of a genuine critic of the arts. It is his business to provoke the reaction between the work of art and the spectator. The spectator, untutored, stands unmoved; he sees the work of art, but it fails to make any intelligible impression on him; if he were spontaneously sensitive to it, there would be no need for criticism. But now comes the critic with his catalysis. He makes the work of art live for the spectator; he makes the spectator live for the work of art. Out of the process comes understanding, appreciation, intelligent enjoyment --- and that is precisely what the artist tried to produce.



Alan J wrote:
   Ada Louise Huxtable



Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
   Roger Ebert



Adam answered:
   Pauline Kael probably should have, but Roger Ebert did.



Tiny Lois Of Oregon took the day off.
  



DJ Useo responded:
  
  I dunno what his name is, but I can count numerous occasions when I had him sitting behind me at a theater bitching his fool head off! Lol!




Sally said:
   Roger Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

  I remember the, "Thumbs up..."
  PS: Can you believe that it was 71° here in northern Jersey yesterday? But, boy was it humid! I had my windows open a bit, and was really feeling it. Raining today, but tomorrow is our, "Elf" party, that should bring some cheer to the old homestead, huh?
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  Anybody else think this was a publicity stunt, to boost the "Dynasty" crap that they are selling, and/or to get them out of their contract at A&E in order to get on a better station? These people have to be the lowest intellectual denomination of humanity on earth - IMHO of course. Another reason I remain cable- free!!




Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali - too warm for Winter replied:
   In 1975 Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times, was awarded a Pulitzer "for his film criticism during 1974". I miss him. I miss Gene Siskel. I love film and good criticism. I'm surprised that Pauline Kael never received a Pulitzer!




MAM   wrote:
   Roger Ebert ~ 1975, Robert Altman's "Nashville."




BttbBob   answered:
   Roger Ebert, I've learned...
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  (Short) Happy Birthdays this day to:


  (50) ... and they did. Jim Harbaugh may have played QB in the NFL, coached Stanford back into prominence (Go Spartans! - that's for the Rose Bowl on the New Year's Day against "The Cardinal") and has done the same to the San Francisco 49'ers currently, but he'll always be a "Michigan Wolverine" to me... maybe that's why he's so dagnab arrogant... or maybe it's cuz he's from Palo Alto...

Wesley Clark
  (69) General Wesley Clark USA (ret.) - I supported the idea of his Democratic candidacy for President in 2008 before he endorsed Hillary Clinton. He coulda been the "Democratic Ike"... West Point valedictorian and Rhodes Scholar...
  Ol' Wes is a pretty smart guy.

  Born this day:

Capt. Arthur 'Roy' Brown
  (1893-1944) Captain Arthur "Roy" Brown, Canadian WWI RAF ace who shot down "The Red Baron"...

Von Richthofen
  (Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen - that's the "Blue Max" hanging around his neck)... No, Snoopy didn't do it...

  December 24 Birthdays - Celebrities Born December 24 | Famous Birthdays




And, Joe S     responded:
   I didn't know there was a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Was or is? I mix that up all the time, but you know what I mean. My first thought was it has to be my mother-in-law, but I'm sure she never received a prize. When Carla and I first started dating I was know as that Dirty Little Spic, but things have changed over the last 48 years or so. She and I get along fine now. And she never was a film critic.
  So anyway, after extensive research I have discovered the first award went to Roger Ebert, and well deserved in my humble opinion.
  I like Gene Siskel too



  


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


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Daily Kos: Is Catholic University Going Koch?



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BBC - Culture - Caravaggio's Nativity: Hunting a stolen masterpiece




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BadtotheboneBob

Chestnuts

Yes, We Grow Chestnuts here...

Chestnuts become a growing crop in Michigan | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Chestnuts still roast on open fires, but Michigan farmers are now using the traditional holiday favorite in many other ways - making treats like hummus, soup and gluten-free beer.

With a combination of nature, entrepreneurial farming and some help from Michigan State University (the nation's first 'Land Grant' university and a world leader in agricultural/animal husbandry research... a.k.a. "Moo U"#008080 by the snobby Ann Arbor/U of M elitists), Michigan has become a national leader in growing chestnuts and is harvesting more than 100,000 pounds a year.

It's a comeback of sorts for the nuts after the trees that grow them were nearly wiped out by a fungus that destroyed billions of chestnut trees across the country by the 1950s. "If I had a million pounds of chestnuts, I could sell them tomorrow," said Roger Blackwell, president of the Chestnut Growers, a cooperative of 29 growers across the state...

(But!) ...Dennis Fulbright - a professor of plants, soils and microbial sciences at Michigan State - was researching chestnut trees and isolated a natural advantage that Michigan could exploit. The fungus that kills the trees was itself susceptible to a virus that occurs naturally in Michigan (the virus works on scorpions, tarantulas and Gila Monsters, too - no, that's a lie... they just plain ol' don't like our winter - thankfully) ...Scientists helped by finding a hybrid tree that combines European and Japanese varieties. They produce larger nuts and a larger crop... Fulbright said Michigan's fruit belt on the west side of the state, where apples and cherry thrive, is perfect for chestnuts (Hoo ha! Tons o' cherries, apples... and blueberries, too! - Right, JoeS?) ...additional uses have fueled the industry's growth. Unlike other nuts, chestnuts are full of water - rather than oil - which means they can be dried out and ground up like grain to make flour. Their natural sweetness makes them ideal for pastries...


BadtotheboneBob
Go MSU 'Spartans'! Beat the Stanford Cardinal! (Rose Bowl - Jan. 1st)


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU DIE

NEW WAVE. OLD BOARD

"ONE! LAST! TIME!'

"RESPECT ALL SENTIENT BEINGS."

TEXASS STUPID!

POOR HARRIED WHITE MAN!

"ACTIVIST JUDGES"

WHEN THE HORROR IS REAL NOBODY PAYS ATTENTION

Who Didn't Kill JFK?






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and summery.



Tonight, Tuesday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'NCIS', followed by a RERUN 'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN 'Person Of Interest'.
Dave is pre-empted.
Craig is pre-empted.



NBC fills the night with the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
Leno is pre-empted.
Jimmy Fallon is pre-empted.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted.



ABC opens the night with the chestnut 'Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas', followed by the movie 'Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 12/5/13) are Jason Schwartzman, Guillermo Diaz, and Jake Owen.



The CW fills the night with the movie 'The 12 Dogs Of Christmas'.
On a RERUN Arsenio Hall (from 11/15/13) are Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, Melissa De Sousa, and Nick Cannon.



Faux has a RERUN 'Dads', followed by a RERUN 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a RERUN 'New Girl', followed by a RERUN 'The Mindy Project'.



MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.



A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH 'Storage Wars Texass', then another FRESH 'Storage Wars Texass', followed by a FRESH 'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH 'Shipping Wars'.



AMC offers the movie 'Rio Bravo', followed by the movie 'Cahill: US Marshal'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [6:30AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:30AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
 [9:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife
 [10:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 5 - The Rebel Flesh
 [11:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 6 - The Almost People
 [12:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
 [1:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler
 [2:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
 [3:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
 [4:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 11 - The God Complex
 [5:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Closing Time
 [6:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 13 - The Wedding of River Song
 [7:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
 [8:20PM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
 [9:40PM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE SNOWMEN
 [11:00PM]    DOCTOR WHO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
 [12:20AM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
 [1:40AM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE SNOWMEN
 [3:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks
 [4:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 [5:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', then the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'.



Comedy Central has 'Bill Cosby: I'm Far From Finished', followed by the movie 'Trading Places'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.



FX has the movie 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa', followed by the movie 'Kung Fu Panda', then the movie 'Kung Fu Panda 2'.



History has all'American Pickers' all night.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Pilot
 [6:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Red Dress
 [7:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Home Alone 4
 [7:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Shame
 [8:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Babysits
 [8:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Sleepover
 [9:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Francis Escapes
 [9:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Krelboyne Picnic
 [10:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Lois vs. Evil
 [10:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Stock Car Races
 [11:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Funeral
 [11:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Cheerleader
 [12:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Rollerskates
 [12:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-The Bots and the Bees
 [1:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Smunday
 [1:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Water Park
 [2:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Traffic Jam
 [2:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Halloween Approximately
 [3:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Lois' Birthday
 [3:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Dinner Out
 [4:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Casino
 [4:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Christmas
 [5:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Christmas Trees
 [5:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Christmas Gift
 [6:00PM]    Johnson Family Vacation
 [8:00PM]    National Lampoon's Vacation
 [10:15PM]    National Lampoon's European Vacation
 [12:15AM]    Vegas Vacation
 [2:15AM]    Johnson Family Vacation
 [4:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Vegas
 [5:00AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Houseboat
 [5:30AM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Water Park    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Foul Play
 [8:30AM]    Peggy Sue Got Married
 [10:45AM]    A Good Year
 [1:15PM]    Lost in Translation
 [3:30PM]    Brick
 [5:45PM]    The Wackness
 [8:00PM]    Sixteen Candles
 [10:00PM]    Jesus Christ Superstar
 [12:15AM]    Awakenings
 [2:45AM]    Sixteen Candles
 [4:45AM]    This Way Up
 [5:00AM]    Love Lust-Love Lust & Chocolate    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Batman Begins', followed by the movie 'The Prestige'.



TBS:
Conan is pre-empted.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
 [7:30 AM]      Susan Slept Here (1954)
 [9:15 AM]      Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
 [11:15 AM]      The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
 [1:15 PM]      A Christmas Carol (1938)
 [2:30 PM]      The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
 [4:15 PM]      Holiday Affair (1949)
 [6:00 PM]      It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
 [8:00 PM]      Christmas In Connecticut (1945)
 [10:00 PM]      Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
 [11:45 PM]      I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
 [1:15 AM]      The Bishop's Wife (1947)
 [3:15 AM]      Holiday (1938)
 [5:00 AM]      Star in the Night (1945)
 [5:30 AM]      The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Wednesday   -  12/25/13

TCM spends the night with Fred Astaire
 [7:30 AM]      The Big Fisherman (1959)
 [10:30 AM]      Ben-Hur (1959)
 [2:30 PM]      The Robe (1953)
 [5:00 PM]      King of Kings (1961)
 [8:00 PM]      Top Hat (1935)
 [10:00 PM]      Swing Time (1936)
 [12:00 AM]      Shall We Dance (1937)
 [2:00 AM]      Carefree (1938)
 [3:30 AM]      The Barkleys Of Broadway (1949)

 [5:30 AM]      MGM Parade Show #15 (1955)     (ALL TIMES EST)



TNT FRESH 'Boston's Finest', followed by a FRESH 'Marshal Law: Texass'.




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RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV


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Royal Pardon

Alan Turing

Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code, was granted a rare royal pardon on Tuesday for a criminal conviction for homosexuality that led to his suicide.

Turing's electromechanical machine, a forerunner of modern computers, unraveled the code used by German U-boats in the Atlantic. His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime codebreaking centre, was credited with shortening the war.

However, he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated with injections of female hormones after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. Homosexual sex was illegal in Britain until 1967.

Turing killed himself in 1954, aged 41, with cyanide.

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking and 10 other eminent scientists had campaigned for years for "one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era" to be pardoned.

One of those scientists, Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said, "The persecution of this great British scientist over his sexuality was tragic and I'm delighted that we can now focus solely on celebrating his legacy."

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Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova gestures as she walks out of prison in Krasnoyarsk, December 23, 2013. Tolokonnikova was freed from prison on Monday under an amnesty that allowed for her early release from a two-year sentence for a protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin

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Released From Prison

Pussy Riot

The last two imprisoned members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot walked free Monday, criticizing the amnesty measure that released them as a publicity stunt, with one calling for a boycott of the Winter Olympics to protest Russia's human rights record.

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were granted amnesty last week in a move largely viewed as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights record before the Sochi Games in February.

Tolokonnikova walked out of a prison in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Monday, smiling to reporters and flashing a V sign.

Alekhina, who was released earlier on Monday from a prison outside Nizhny Novgorod, said she would have stayed behind bars to serve her term if she had been allowed.

"If I had a chance to turn it down, I would have done it, no doubt about that," she told Dozhd TV. "This is not an amnesty. This is a hoax and a PR move."

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Invited to Rejoin Santana

Marcus Malone

Marcus Malone, or "Marcus the Magnificent," played drums for Carlos Santana's band in the 60's, adding an African rhythm to what made the band's Latin fusion so special. In 1969, just before the band's explosion of popularity at Woodstock, Malone went to San Quentin Prison, never to rejoin the band. He has had a hard life ever since. Reporter Stanley Roberts found him living on the streets of Oakland, and at first was skeptical of his claim to fame. When Santana saw the report, however, he knew it was legitimate. Santana got in touch with Roberts, and the two found Malone. All that was left was the touching reunion between the two former bandmates. They exchange a hug, with Malone saying, "you don't know how hard I prayed to get to see you."

The video of their reunion now has more than 230,000 views, and commenters are loving it. One wrote, "This is touching. That smile on his face was real. Real from the heart." Some were suspicious, though, about what exactly a reunion is worth. Luckily, Santana is taking his desire to reunite with Malone a step further. He told CNN that he is planning on buying Malone new clothes, and putting him in an apartment to get him off the streets. He's also invited Marcus the Magnificent to join he and the original band again to record music. They have even written a song for him. It will most likely be music to his ears.

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Women bare their chests in a traditional sign of placing a curse, after at least two people were injured by passing Chadian troops, during a protest outside Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the entrance to the airport Monday morning carrying signs protesting Chadian forces and expressing support for French troops and other regional African forces. At least two people were wounded as pickups of Chadian soldiers sped through the gathered crowd firing off several rounds.
Photo by Rebecca Blackwell

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Wedding News

Casteen - Jones

Dot-Marie Jones is married! The actress, who plays Coach Shannon Beiste on "Glee," tied the knot with girlfriend Bridgett Casteen on Saturday, according to People.

The couple, who has been together for three years, exchanged vows in front of friends during a holiday party/surprise wedding at their home in Los Angeles, according to the mag.

Dot-Marie, 49, proposed to Bridgett at Disneyland in October, during the theme park's Gay Days Anaheim celebration.

Bridgett announced the engagement on Twitter at the time, Tweeting, "Thank you @dotmariejones for making me the happiest woman in the world. #engaged"

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Top Entertainer

Netflix

The battle for AP entertainer of the year came down to the Girl on Fire and the Queen of Twerk.

Jennifer Lawrence edged out Miley Cyrus by one vote in The Associated Press' annual survey of its newspaper and broadcast members and subscribers for Entertainer of the Year.

There were 70 ballots submitted by U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to consider who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2013.

Lawrence won 15 votes. Cyrus had 14. Netflix was a close third, earning 13 votes for altering the TV landscape with its on-demand format and hit original series.

But Lawrence - who started the year with an Academy Award for best actress, fueled a box-office franchise as "The Hunger Games" heroine Katniss Everdeen, and wrapped 2013 with a critically acclaimed performance in "American Hustle" that just earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations - charmed fans everywhere with her candid sincerity.

Netflix

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Costumers look at clay "caganers" at the Santa Llucia Christmas market in central Barcelona December 4, 2013. Catalans hide "caganers", or defecators, in Christmas Nativity scenes to let friends hunt for them during Christmas celebrations. The "caganers", which symbolise defecation and fertilization of the earth, are believed to bring prosperity and luck for the coming year.
Photo by Albert Gea

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Ringing The Bells A Fading Tradition

Bethlehem

A Palestinian college student is one of the last keepers of a fading tradition - ringing the bells of Bethlehem.

Twice a week, Khadir Jaraiseh climbs to the roof of the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. He pulls the ropes of four bells in a rooftop tower for a total of 33 times to symbolize the number of years Jesus was believed to have lived.

Jaraiseh rings the bells for prayer services of the Armenian Apostolic Church, one of three denominations that administer the basilica, one of Christianity's holiest shrines. The Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox denominations at the Nativity church - each of which has its own set of bells - have switched to automatic bell-ringing.

But there's something special about the traditional approach, said Jaraiseh, who uses both hands and a floor pedal to pull the ropes.

Jaraiseh rings the bells two days a week and an older colleague covers the remaining five days. During the Christmas season, his task is particularly enjoyable, he said.

Bethlehem

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Virus Along U.S. East Coast

Bottlenose Dolphins

More than 1,000 migratory bottlenose dolphins have died from a measles-like virus along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in 2013 and the epidemic shows no sign of abating, a marine biologist said on Monday.

The death toll exceeds the 740 dolphins killed during the last big outbreak of the then-unknown virus in 1987-88.

An estimated 39,206 bottlenose dolphins populated the eastern seaboard, to a depth of 25 feet, from New Jersey to Central Florida in 2010, according to the latest NOAA census.

Scientists are trying to determine why the morbillivirus resurged this year. The dolphins, which migrate south for the winter, have been stranded or found dead on beaches from New York to Florida since June, Fougeres said.

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A woman paints Pope Francis "caganers" in a pottery in Torroella de Montgri, near Girona, December 4, 2013. Catalans hide "caganers", or defecators, in Christmas Nativity scenes to let friends hunt for them during Christmas celebrations. The "caganers", which symbolise defecation and fertilization of the earth, are believed to bring prosperity and luck for the coming year.
Photo by Albert Gea

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Closes After 75 Years

Hollywood Park

Hollywood Park, once America's most famous horse racing showplace with legendary moviemakers and film stars among its patrons, closed Sunday after 75 years with a final slate of 11 races.

Such equine icons as Seabiscuit, Citation, Affirmed, John Henry and Zenyatta competed at the impressive venue in suburban Inglewood, which opened on June 10, 1938.

Film industry legends were among 600 shareholders who founded the track to attract the rich and famous, including Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Al Jolson, Warner brothers studio's Jack Warner, MGM's Sam Goldwyn and noted producers Darryl Zanuck and Mervyn LeRoy.

But as cinematic generations changed, so too did the fortunes of US horse racing, with simulcast betting and more wagers being done through the Internet helping reduce live attendance at tracks.

A real estate development is planned on the site of a track where Cary Grant once strolled with starlets and famed comedians once enjoyed their leisure hours, a place where only nostalgia remains.

Hollywood Park

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Holiday Exhibits

Vegas

Las Vegas has mostly shelved its attempt to rebrand itself as a family-friendly wonderland. But there's one exception: the dreaded holiday season, when visitor numbers crater and room vacancies soar.

In an attempt to lure tourists, Las Vegas casinos are staging increasingly elaborate holiday events.

The Bellagio has again transformed its conservatory into a faux winter wonderland featuring a 42-foot-tall Christmas tree, a life-sized candy house, a walk-through snow globe and topiary polar bears, all a few paces from the gambling floor.

The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace is showing its Christmas cheer with "Elf Aquarists," divers in elf-style wet suits who feed the aquarium's tropical fish during daily shows.

Perhaps the most elaborate of all the exhibits is "Winter in Venice" at the Venetian, which the casino advertises as a public gift in banners strung outside its ersatz Italian facade.


Vegas

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In Memory

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the AK-47, died in his home city of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains, where his gun is still made, a spokesman for the Udmurtia province's president said on state television.

No cause of death was given. Kalashnikov was fitted with a pacemaker at a Moscow hospital in June and had been in hospital in Izhevsk since November 17, state media reported.

A son of Siberian peasants who never finished school, Kalashnikov invented one of the Soviet Union's best-known and most imitated products.

Shortly after fighting in World War Two, he created the AK-47, whose number stands for the year 1947. The "A" is for "avtomat" - automatic rifle - and the "K" for Kalashnikov.

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 - during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution - into a large peasant family in the village of Kurya in the remote Altai region of southern Siberia.

In the West, his invention might have made him a millionaire. In Russia, despite all the Kremlin plaudits and decorations, he was not a rich man and lived in a modest Soviet-era apartment in Izhevsk.

After meeting M-16 designer Eugene Stoner in the 1990s, Kalashnikov said the American was flying his own plane, while he could barely afford the ticket from Izhevsk to Moscow.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Ice encrusted pine cones are seen in Earl Bales Park following an ice storm in Toronto December 23, 2013.
Photo by Gary Hershorn

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