BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 25 March, 2009

Wednesday

25 March, 2009

(Updated Daily)

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M Is FOR MASHUP - March 25th, 2009

The World's Most Beautiful Mashups

By DJ Useo




I've heard many a type of mashup in my years in the field,from hip hop to rock to glitch, & although many were quite lovely, I'd sensed the need for a compilation of tracks so lovely, they'd elicit deep emotional response. I checked around & soon found mixers with the skill to do such a type of track, but the project stalled due to the demands of style. Many people could do a fantastically great track, but not quite make the mark of a 'beautiful mashup'. When I found the ones able to manage it, though, I decided to stick with just those bootleggers, & expand the quota of tracks each would contribute. Well, it worked like a dream, & with Alpha1999, Qubic, Sfreeman & DJ Newlight by my side we set to work filling up an entire disc.












Well, it went better than I expected & the project swelled to 2 files & 1 1/2 hours of incredible tracks. You can hear for yourself by going to groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2009/03/beautiful-bootsthe-beautiful-mashup.html I was overwhelmed with the response from listeners when the radio premiere of the comp occurred at www.sound-unsound.com this last monday. DJ Petrushka gave an incredible performance as host for the show, & the listeners gave incredibly positive feedback on every track. In fact, so many attended the show, it set a new record for station attendance. A rewarding feeling that. Like someone handing you money every few minutes! lol












With contributors like Qubic & Sfreeman, it was certain to be a hit, & the tunes fulfill the promise of their reputations. The album begins with Qubic's 'L'E?ternel Enfant Roi' (Noir Desir vs YELLo), a track of exsquisite beauty made much more so by the advanced arrangement & mixing of it's creator. More soul-melting music appears in the form of Alpha1999's 'In Crockett's Mekanik Tonight' (Phil Collins vs Jan Hammer vs Bass Mekanik), a track recently premiered, but not released in the RAMDOM THOUGHTS mashup/bootleg podcast mentioned in last week's column here. Sfreeman is widely acknowledged as the master of the 'FIDGET' bootleg, yet he exhibits the control of a master with his divine tracks, such as 'Walk This Blacker Than Planetaria Land' (4Hero vs EZ-Rollers vs Gil Scott Heron) & 'Another Day In AA With XXX' (Peaches vs Dragonette).












Alpha1999 has recently retired from bootlegging for the most part yet generously gave so many excellent tracks I had to use them all! DJ Newlight is an old hand at dj-ing (but not an old man, lol) yet new to the mashup scene, but he still dropped some incredible tones with his 'Ocean Drums Sunrise' (Jerry Ropero & Michael Simon Feat. Kathy Brown vs DJ Sledge Hammer & Chris Da House) & 'Take Me To The House Above' (LMC vs U2 vs Jürgen Dee Vs Axel S). Thanks much, all of you for caring about my little project. Also, thanks to the fantastic artists we cut up & sampled. All-Stars like Queen, Billy Idol, Prince & Abba, along with the latest crop like Hybrid, DHT & Prisma. You all retain full rights to your work, we only ask that you allow us to demonstrate our mixing ability with a small-release free compilation.












Feel free to download, listen & hopefully tell your friends. Our only reward is a modest 'thanks' from you, the intended audience. Although, I wouldn't say 'no' to tips (!) LMAO.























Mix Of The Week - DJ R-Ron Hubbard, he of www.blentwell.com (& more), fame, has a new mix featured in Blentcast #11. N-Ron Hubbard is 23 tracks of dancefloor friendly beats, mashups, booming Baile funk and more N-Ron bizness. Get yours here
www.blentwell.com/blentcast/blentcast11.html or go the whole hog route & sign up for the podcast series. Blentwell! Have you been there yet?



















Mashup Tip : Play your mashups for gerbils before posting, they are great at spotting a winner.












DJ Useo's Podcast





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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Sara Mosle: The Educational Experiment We Really Need (slate.com)
What the Knowledge Is Power Program has yet to prove.


Scott Burns: Is Your Employer Match Being Wasted? (assetbuilder.com)
Imagine you lost as much money in your 401(k) plan as you've lost in the last year -- only it happened slowly. You'd still be unhappy, right? Well, that is happening to millions of workers. Fortunately, you can do something about it.


Katha Pollitt: Is It Morally Wrong Not to Send Thousands Each Year to the Developing World? (The Nation. Posted on Alternet.org)
Controversial ethicist Peter Singer says that the destitution abroad compells us to share our wealth, even in an economic crisis.


Walter Tunis: Dexter Romweber is duo-ing what he does best (McClatchy Newspapers)
The first thing you notice is the source material. Actually, that's a lie. Before anything, there are the variations of the two-member-band sound Dexter Romweber has been pioneering for the past two decades. But once they settle into your skull, you are alerted to the inspirations he digs into and the generations he unleashes them upon.


Chris Riemenschneider: Kids' music is the newest rock frontier (Star Tribune)
He once landed a major record deal at the South by Southwest Music Conference, but Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy returned to the music industry's biggest bash last week with a new goal: To get the attention of 6-year-olds instead of the six-digit deals of old.


Steve Horowitz: Review of Jorma Kaukonen's "River of Time" (popmatters.com)
Nobody does the acoustic blues better these days than the founder of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen. His warm, laidback approach soothes the troubled mind, so fittingly he covers the old blues chestnut, "Trouble in Mind". He coos the lyrics while his fingers deftly pick out the notes like a schoolchild plucking berries from a briar patch. When he sings, "But I won't be blue always", you believe him and can imagine the sun shining down on him.


David Wild: Leave that Smashing Pumpkin Alone, Bitches: In Defense of Billy Corgan (huffingtonpost.com)
If you're only going to have one original member of Smashing Pumpkins left, at least we've got the right man for the job.


"The Aeneid" by Vergil: A review by Garry Wills (powells.com)
Just two years ago, Robert Fagles, shortly before his death, set the bar very high for translating Vergil's Aeneid. Yet already the scholar-poet Sarah Ruden has soared over the bar. She does this despite submission to a trying discipline. She decides to translate one-line-per-one-line, and she uses the iambic pentameter.


Neal Justin: McKellen's 'King Lear' comes to the most convenient theater in the world: your living room (Star Tribune)
Catching Ian McKellen's tour-de-force performance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis required connections, a small fortune or lots of luck. Now all you need is a TV set.


Interview with Zac EFRON By GUS VAN SANT (interviewmagazine.com)
EFRON: I just bought this place. It's not big or anything, but it's a pretty unique space. It's very modern, very clean, very simple. It's got concrete floors so I can't screw it up. I can skateboard inside the house . . . You know, all the essentials are there. I just don't want to buy nice furniture and then f**k it all up.


J.M. Suarez: Review of "Twilight" (popmatters.com)
While Meyers' books tend toward formulaic characterizations, Hardwicke takes the material and successfully transforms it into a subtle, layered atmospheric film.


Scott Mendelson: In Defense of Nicolas Cage (huffingtonpost.com)
As seems to happen whenever Nicolas Cage releases a commercial movie such as "Knowing," the critics and pundits are bitterly asking just what happened to this once brilliant, artistically inclined thespian and why oh why has be sold out? Guess what folks. Nicolas Cage is still Nicolas Cage and he's always been the same quirky, half-insane goofball who would eventually name his son Kal El (yeah, I love Batman, but I didn't name my daughter Selina, Pamela, or Talia). The difference is one of expectations and selective memory.


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Sick Days


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The Weekly Poll

Results Delayed

The 'Shared Sacrifice' Edition

The New York Times, in an article Sunday, Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits - NYTimes.com , reports that the Obama Administration is open to the idea of taxing certain employer provided health benefits as a way to help finance health care for the uninsured. Would you support such an approach?





Send your response, and a (short) reason why, to


BadToTheBoneBob


( BCEpoll 'at' aol.com )






Stuff happened - the results will be delayed another day.



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Bracket of Evil


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Trivia Question Of The Day

Mae West appeared on only 2 TV shows - one was 'Red Skelton'. What was the other?

   A    Gunsmoke
   B    Marcus Welby, MD
   C    Mister Ed
   D    The Partridge Family
   E    Shindig!



Send your answer to Marty





Trivia Question from Yesterday

Which Gilligan's Island' regular had a Top 40 hit in 1958?

  A    Jim Backus
   B    Bob Denver
   C    Alan Hale (Jr.)
   D    Tina Louise
   E    Russell Johnson                   Source A   and     Source B


Jim Backus reached the US Top 40 Pop charts for a couple of weeks in 1958 with his novelty recording, 'Delicious!' on Jubilee Records featuring instrumental backing from Appleknocker And His Group.
Top 40 Hits - 1950-1989






Alan J was first, but wrong, with:
   D Tina Louise



Charlie nailed it with:
   The song was called "Delicious," and it was by, once again

  A Jim Backus




Sally said:
   I once heard, "Tina Louise" talking about her stint as "Marilynesque" movie star, "Ginger Grant" on, "Gilligan's Island." She made it very clear that she despised the role and that she made no secret of it on the set - that's when I decided I liked her! She also noted that she made her Broadway debut in 1956 as Daisy Mae in "Li'l Abner..." Oh well...
  Anyhoo, I also remember that she was a singer (of sorts) and made a few album's back then - so I will guess that today's trivia answer is D. Detesting the TV show, "Gilligan's Island," as I do, I could be wrong...

  It's Time for Tina
  PS: I see B2BB is having, "Technical problems" with his Poll replies today - gee, I hope his computer hasn't caught whatever my computer has - like some sort of, "Mouse flu?" Come on, B2BB, we can't wait!




Marian the Teacher replied:
   Jim Backus



MAM     wrote:
   A Jim Backus in 1958 scored his only Top 40 hit "Delicious" (The Laughing Song), with a 45 rpm single.
  YouTube:




And, Joe S notef:
   Jim Backus once released a novelty song called "Delicious". It entered the US Top 40 for short time in 1958. The basis of the song is Jim and an uncredited woman drinking wine, getting more drunk and giddier as they go on. Rumor has it the woman was Phyllis Diller.





  


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

ALL IS WELL IN CANDY LAND!

IT'S ALL THE BABES FAULT!

GO AWAY DICKHEAD!

A MAN WITH A CAMERA!

DUMB JOCKS!

THIS DIDN'T WORK!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAD BIRDS!

CONSERVATIVES ARE THE SAME ALL OVER THE WORLD. INCREDIBLY CREEPY!

BUENO!

THE PEOPLE WHO WILL KILL AMERICA!

SPEAKING METAPHORICALLY OF COURSE, WILL SOMEBODY RAM A 2X4 DOWN THE THROAT OF THIS DUMB BITCH?

DOG AND PONY SHOW. MUST BE A REPUG!

WILLIE GET HIS AWARD!

DUH!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Nice and sunny.




Tonight, Wednesday:

CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Brazil', followed by a FRESH 'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH 'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Christina Applegate, Jim Gaffigan, and Jesse Harris with Norah Jones.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Jerry O'Connell, Patrick Pedraja and Tucker Albrizzi, and Ra Ra Riot.

NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Chopping Block', followed by a FRESH 'Life', then a FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Halle Berry, Frank Caliendo, and Prince.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Mike Myers, Anna Kournikova, and All American Rejects.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson 'The Scab' Daly are Joe LoTruglio and Chris Cornell.

ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'Scrubs', followed by a FRESH 'Better Off Ted', then a FRESH 'Lost', followed by a FRESH 'Life On Mars'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are John Stamos, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and Blue October.

The CW offers a FRESH 'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN '90210'.

Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol'.

MY has a FRESH 'World's Funniest Moments', followed bya FRESH 'Shaken Not Stirred'.

A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', followed by a FRESH 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', then a FRESH 'The Exterminators'.

AMC offers the movie 'Star Trek: Nemesis', followed by the movie 'First Blood', then the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.

BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
 [12:30 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
 [1:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 1
 [1:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
 [2:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
 [3:00 PM]    Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 5
 [4:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 2
 [4:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
 [5:00 PM]    Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
 [6:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
 [7:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
 [9:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
 [10:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [11:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
 [12:00 AM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
 [1:00 AM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
 [2:00 AM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
 [3:00 AM]    The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Glenn Close, Alan Carr and Amy Macdonald
 [4:00 AM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
 [4:30 AM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
 [5:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters
 [5:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Fry
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH 'Make Me A Supermodel'.

Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's old 'Jon Stewart', last night's old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH 'South Park', then a FRESH 'Important Things With Demetri Martin'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart (from 3/17/09) is Ian McShane.
On a RERUN Colbert Report (from 3/19/09) is John McCardell.

FX has the movie 'The Marine', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', then a FRESH 'Damages'.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', followed by a FRESH 'MonsterQuest', then a FRESH 'UFO Hunters'.

IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   The F Word
 [7:30 AM]   Double Happiness
 [9:00 AM]   House of D
 [10:45 AM]   Raging Bull
 [1:00 PM]   The Fighting Cholitas
 [1:30 PM]   The F Word
 [3:00 PM]   Double Happiness
 [4:30 PM]   House of D
 [6:15 PM]   The Prime Gig
 [8:00 PM]   Black Caesar
 [9:35 PM]   Brotherhood of Death
 [11:00 PM]   Spaghetti West
 [12:00 AM]   The Player
 [2:05 AM]   Black Caesar
 [3:45 AM]   Brotherhood of Death
 [5:05 AM]   Spaghetti West     (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH 'Ghost Hunters', and another 'Ghost Hunters'.

Sundance  -   
 [06:00 AM]   TransGeneration: Episode 8
 [07:00 AM]   Heavy Metal Jr.
 [09:15 AM]   Lemon Sky
 [11:00 AM]   Terminal City: Episode 8
 [12:00 PM]   It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 5
 [12:30 PM]   Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Create
 [01:00 PM]   Gilaneh
 [04:15 PM]   Lemon Sky
 [06:00 PM]   Gilaneh
 [07:30 PM]   Shameless - 408
 [09:00 PM]   Spectacle: James Taylor
 [10:00 PM]   My Best Friend
 [11:35 PM]   Heavy Metal Jr.
 [12:00 AM]   Approaching Union Square
 [01:20 AM]   The Boss Of It All
 [03:00 AM]   My Best Friend
 [04:35 AM]   Shameless - 408    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Pygmalion (1938)
 [7:45 AM]      49th Parallel (1941)
 [10:00 AM]      In Which We Serve (1942)
 [12:00 PM]      This Happy Breed (1944)
 [2:00 PM]      Great Expectations (1946)
 [4:00 PM]      Madeleine (1950)
 [6:00 PM]      The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
 [7:30 PM]      "Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence" Sydney Pollack (2008)
 [8:00 PM]      Santa Fe Trail (1940)  [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] 
 [10:00 PM]      The Bad Man (1941)  [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] 
 [11:15 PM]      Hellcats Of The Navy (1957)  [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] 
 [12:45 AM]      Desperate Journey (1942)  [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] 
 [2:45 AM]      Prisoner Of War (1954)  [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] 
 [4:15 AM]      The Great Escape (1963)     (ALL TIMES EDT)


Thursday  -  03/26/09

TCM:
 [7:15 AM]      Delinquent Daughters (1944)
 [8:30 AM]      Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
 [10:00 AM]      No Greater Glory (1934)
 [12:00 PM]      Room at the Top (1959)
 [2:00 PM]      I'm All Right Jack (1960)
 [4:00 PM]      Alfie (1966)
 [6:00 PM]      The Late George Apley (1947)
 [8:00 PM]      The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
 [10:00 PM]      Things To Come (1936)
 [12:00 AM]      Knight Without Armour (1937)
 [2:00 AM]      The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
 [4:00 AM]      Anna Karenina (1947)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



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French-born performer and political activist Manu Chao gestures during a press conference at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Photo by Ricardo Arduengo

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US Journalists Interrogated

Current TV

Two American journalists seized by North Korean border guards are facing "intense interrogation" in Pyongyang for alleged espionage after illegally crossing into the country from China, a report said Tuesday.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists working for former Vice President Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV, were at a guesthouse in Pyongyang's outskirts run by North Korean military intelligence, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said, citing an unidentified South Korean intelligence official.

The report provided first word of the women's whereabouts since they disappeared March 17 during a trip to the border near North Korea's far northwest. A colleague detained on the Chinese side left China on Tuesday.

South Korea's main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, and the Unification Ministry said they could not confirm the details, reportedly obtained using "human intelligence" - sources on the ground.

Current TV

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A model wears a creation described as 'Chicks with balls' by Norway's Marianne Stabel Thorstensen during the Hempel Award 17th International Young Fashion Designer contest held for the opening ceremony of China Fashion Week in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Phorto by Ng Han Guan

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Memorial Award for Literature

Astrid Lindgren

A Palestinian organization that promotes children's reading on Tuesday was named the winner of the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature by the Swedish Arts Council.

The annual award, named after late Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, is the world's largest children's book award and includes a cash prize of 5 million kronor ($620,000).

The Palestinian Tamer Institute For Community Education received the award for its work to promote reading in the West Bank and Gaza.

The award was established by the Swedish government in 2002 to commemorate Lindgren, whose characters such as Pippi Longstocking and Karlsson on the Roof have captivated generations of children around the world.

Astrid Lindgren

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Hosting TBS Late-Night Talk Show

George Lopez

TBS says George Lopez will start a new talk show in November. It will air Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m., and Lopez promises an outdoor street-party atmosphere.

Lopez starred for six seasons in an ABC sitcom. He's getting into late-night at a time of change, with Conan O'Brien taking over NBC's "Tonight" show in June and Jimmy Fallon now hosting NBC's "Late Night."

Lopez's show, which will be based in Los Angeles, will feature celebrity guests, comedy and music.

George Lopez

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bartcook

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Auctions Font-Row Tickets

The Dead

The Dead are looking to jump-start their charities while aiming a swift kick at ticket scalpers.

Band members announced Tuesday that people who want to sit in the first few rows at their spring tour concerts can bypass scalpers by bidding for tickets the group held back and is now putting up for auction online.

Guitarist Bob Weir says people who bid through charityfolks.com must collect their tickets the day of the show, decreasing the possibility of scalping.

Proceeds will benefit a number of charities the group has supported for years, including its Rex Foundation, which was established by the Grateful Dead in 1983.

The Dead

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A moose calf leaves foot prints in ash from Mount Redoubt Volcano as it walks along a trail Tuesday, March 24, 2009, in Trapper Creek, Alaska. The volcano 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, has been erupting since Sunday night sending ash clouds an estimated 50,000 feet (152,400 meters) into the air where winds carried it to the Susitna Valley including Trappers Creek about 85 miles north of Anchorage.
Photo by Al Grillo

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"Made-To-Order" DVD Service

Warner Bros

Warner Bros on Monday became the first studio to open its film vault to "made-to-order" DVDs, as it sought new revenues in a slumping DVD market by making it possible for fans to buy decades-old films.

Warner Bros, owned by Time Warner Inc, made an initial batch of 150 titles available for purchase online at www.WarnerArchive.com , including 1943 comedy-romance "Mr. Lucky" starring Cary Grant and the 1962 release "All Fall Down" with Warren Beatty and Eva Marie Saint.

Sales are not expected to approach those of new releases on DVD, but the service gives Warner Bros another way to make money from a film archive it already exploits by selling titles for broadcast in the United States and internationally.

Warner Bros. said that each month it will make about 20 films and television programs from its archive available for purchase through this DVD-on-demand program.

Warner Bros

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Vidiot Speak

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Mass Grave

Duffy's Cut

Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th-century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after traveling to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832 but could not find the grave.

Human bones discovered last week near the suburban Philadelphia university may at last reveal their final resting place - and possibly allow researchers to identify the remains and repatriate them.

The woodsy site where the bones were found is known as Duffy's Cut. It is named after Philip Duffy, who hired the immigrants from Donegal, Tyrone and Derry to help build the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad.

Research led history professor William Watson to conclude many of the Irish workers died of cholera, an acute intestinal infection caused by contaminated food or water that typically had a mortality rate of 40 percent to 60 percent.

Watson believes some of the workers may have been murdered because of their illness or ethnicity. There was general prejudice against Irish Catholics, tension between residents and the transient workers, and a great fear of cholera - especially among the affluent classes, Watson said.

Duffy's Cut

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In this handout photo provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture on Monday, March 23, 2009, the torso and raised right arm of a 2,200-year-old statue are seen after it was raised in a fisherman's nets. The ministry said the find, dating to the late 2nd century B.C. was part of an equestrian statue of an armed man wearing a breastplate and carrying a sheathed sword. It was accidentally found last week in the eastern Aegean Sea between the islands of Kos and Kalymnos.

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Blocking The YouTubes

China

China is not afraid of the Internet, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, even as access to the popular video sharing site YouTube appeared to be blocked.

YouTube has been unavailable for users in China, which filters the Internet for content critical of Communist Party rule, since late on Monday.

"Many people have a false impression that the Chinese government fears the Internet. In fact it is just the opposite," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters.

Qin said China's 300 million Internet users and 100 million blogs showed that "China's internet is open enough, but also needs to be regulated by law in order to prevent the spread of harmful information and for national security."

China

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WLS Radio Host

Blagojevich

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has a new gig - as a radio talk show host.

WLS-AM program director Bob Shomper says Blagojevich will be on the air on the Chicago station Wednesday morning, taking calls from listeners, telling stories and talking with guests.

Shomper says it's a one-time deal in a slot normally filled by hosts who are off this week.

In January, WLS offered Blagojevich his own weekend radio show if he agreed to resign as governor.

Blagojevich

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Auction Squabble

Michael Jackson

When troubled pop king Michael Jackson is involved, even a yard sale can become an epic struggle.

A Hollywood auction house hired by Jackson to sell off the contents of his shuttered Neverland Ranch said it is pressing ahead with plans to put some 2,000 items on the block in April, despite the pop legend's surprise bid this month to halt the sale.

Jackson filed a lawsuit in early March, claiming that he had never given permission for the sale of many "priceless and irreplaceable" items.

Julien estimated that the sale could bring in $10 million to $20 million - money that Jackson could desperately use. He reportedly has been experiencing financial problems for several years, and has not performed a major concert since 2001 - four years before his acquittal on child molestation charges. He recently announced a series of concerts in London that sold out in hours.

Michael Jackson

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An 1848 daguerreotype depicting an estate whose location is believed to be in what is now the Upper West Side of New York is seen at a Sotheby's gallery in New York March 24, 2009. A collection of photographs will go on sale at the auction house on March 30.
Photo by Lucas Jackson

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Fights To Keep Van Gogh

Yale

Yale University is suing to assert its rights to keep a renowned Vincent van Gogh painting and to block a descendant of the original owner from claiming the work.

Yale filed the lawsuit in New Haven against Pierre Konowaloff, who says he is the great-grandson of Ivan Morozov, a Russian industrialist and aristocrat. Morozov owned "The Night Cafe."

Morozov's paintings and other property were nationalized by the Russian government during the Communist revolution.

Yale says it wants to remove any cloud over its ownership of the painting.

Yale

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Pilot Convicted

Prayer Kills

A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.

The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.

A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.

Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to between eight and nine years in jail by the court, in a verdict handed down Monday.

Prayer Kills

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Prime-Time Nielsens

Ratings

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

    1. (1) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.71 million viewers.
    2. (2) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 21.89 million viewers.
    3. (3) "Dancing With The Stars" (Monday), ABC, 21.22 million viewers.
    4. (10) "60 Minutes," CBS, 17.04 million viewers.
    5. (5) "NCIS," CBS, 15.84 million viewers.
    6. (8) "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.49 million viewers.
    7. (9) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.75 million viewers.
    8. (13) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 14.61 million viewers.
    9. (11) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.12 million viewers.
   10. (11) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.74 million viewers.
   11. (14) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.61 million viewers.
   12. (18) "House," Fox, 13.13 million viewers.
   13. (16) "CSI: NY," CBS, 12.79 million viewers.
   14. (5) "Dancing With The Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 12.74 million viewers.
   15. (31) "Amazing Race 14," CBS, 12.42 million viewers.
   16. (19) "Without a Trace," CBS, 11.87 million viewers.
   17. (25) "Rules Of Engagement," CBS, 11.42 million viewers.
   18. (21) "Cold Case," CBS, 11.41 million viewers.
   19. (19) "24," Fox, 11.36 million viewers.
   20. (28) "Castle," ABC, 10.96 million viewers.

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With facecloth on the head, male Baikal Seal Billy performs 'a dip in a hot spring' as he holds a sake bottle in a basin with forefoot at a pool of Hakone-en aquarium in Hakone, west of Tokyo, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. It took some three months for six-year-old Billy to master this performance, a traditional Japanese style of soaking in a hot spring.
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