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Re: Weds Programming
Marty:
For Wednesday, please don't forget LOST...the next three shows are much anticipated by LOST viewers, with the 2-hour season finale ending May 25.
LOST fans have long awaited these final three episodes! I can hardly wait!
*sano
Not to worry, *sano!
We haven't missed an episode - yet.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
By Joshua M. Green: The Unbelievable and the Believer (Beliefnet.com)
Remembering Dachau's living hell, and the American Christian who brought Nazi war criminals to justice.
Paul Krugman: The Final Insult
Click on "Columns," then on "The Final Insult"
Hell hath no fury like a scammer foiled
The card shark caught marking the deck, the auto dealer caught resetting a used car's odometer, is rarely contrite. On the contrary, they're usually angry, and they lash out at their intended marks, crying hypocrisy.
M.L. LYKE: Vet becomes crusader for victims of soldier rape (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER)
The Army vet listens and lets fly. She has zero tolerance for tales of soldier rape. "In the military, they'll tell you, 'Lady, you can't get compensation for having sex,' " said Susan Avila-Smith, the Puget Sound area's outspoken advocate for sexually assaulted veterans.
Angela Rito: 'Nickel and Dimed' author recounts harrowing time as a low-paid worker (The Athens NEWS)
Barbara Ehrenreich mocked the American credit system and its ability to take advantage of the poor. "Credit-card dealers are like the equivalent of crack dealers," she said.
Meghan Crosby: The 'voice of Bart' entertains crowd at Ohio University, her former school (The Athens NEWS)
The voice of the boy who millions across the world either love or love to hate is not the voice of a boy at all. Nancy Cartwright is Bart Simpson.
David Bruce: Wise Up: Good Deeds (The Athens News)
Artist Vincent van Gogh performed many good deeds. At least once, he went without his sole luxury, tobacco for his pipe, because he had used his money to buy food for a hungry stray dog.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and very windy.
Saw a commercial for the DVD release of 'Racing Stripes' (view trailer), and it's tagline was "now with a heartwarming new ending".
WTF?
The original ending was so awful they had to tweak it for home release? Yowee!
West Virginia To Honor
Don Knotts
Don Knotts will get the first star on what could become West Virginia's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 80-year-old Knotts, a Morgantown native, is best known for his role as the bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on television's "The Andy Griffith Show" and as would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company." He'll be the voice of Turkey Mayor in the upcoming animated movie "Chicken Little."
Knotts will be honored by his hometown Aug. 12-15 with a parade, a film festival and a local beer to be brewed and named in his honor.
Don Knotts
Begins Sierra Leone Goodwill Trip
Angelina Jolie
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie began a goodwill trip Monday to Sierra Leone to meet survivors of this battered West African nation's devastating war and urge authorities to make public the recommendations of a special commission set up to reconcile the nation.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2001, flew to Freetown late Monday, agency spokeswoman Rachel Goldstein-Rodriguez said.
Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up after a brutal 10-year-war ended in 2002, has collected thousands of written statements documenting atrocities and held public hearings in a bid to offer victims a shot at catharsis by recounting their tales.
The visit will be Jolie's second. She first toured Sierra Leone in 2001.
Angelina Jolie
Wins Cybersquatting Case
Morgan Freeman
American actor Morgan Freeman, winner of this year's best supporting actor Oscar for his performance in "Million Dollar Baby," won a cybersquatting case in a ruling by an international arbitrator on Tuesday.
Freeman was found to have common law rights to the contested Internet domain name, which had been registered by a Saint Kitts and Nevis-based web site operator.
The operator, identified as Mighty LLC, misused the celebrity's trademark to lure surfers to its web site in "bad faith," independent arbitrator Peter Nitter said in a ruling.
The ruling was announced by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency which promotes protection of trademarks and patents, and whose arbitration center resolves disputes over domain names.
Morgan Freeman
Street To Be Renamed
O'Jays
Canton (Ohio) City Council voted to rename part of a street after Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The O'Jays, despite protests from residents.
Eight council members voted for the change, with two abstaining and one voting against naming the street after the singing group that got its start in this northeast Ohio city.
The O'Jays, whose songs include "Back Stabbers," "Love Train" and "For the Love of Money," were inducted this year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
O'Jays
Toasts Grey Goose
Sundance Channel
Robert Redford's Sundance Channel has partnered with Grey Goose Vodka to produce a six-part series called "Iconoclasts," which will start airing on the cable outlet beginning in November,
Each episode will bring together two innovators from different fields, including film and television, architecture and design, fashion, food, music and sports. One will act as a guide into the world of the other to explore each individual's creative process, inspirations and passions. The producers said they have not yet cast any "Iconoclasts."
The series is the first project for Grey Goose Entertainment, the new production arm of Bacardi's Grey Goose Vodka, which hopes to extend its high-end vodka brand by creating entertainment that appeals to its consumer base.
Sundance Channel
Signs Deal With Nickelodeon
Andre 3000
Andre 3000 says kids' movies need to be edgier - and he plans to make it happen through a new deal with Nickelodeon and MTV.
As part of the deal, Andre, one-half of the multiplatinum duo OutKast, is set to star in a new Nick Movies film, "The Hit," which he will also co-produce. It's about a fifth-grader, seeking a new wife for his father, who discovers his next-door neighbor is Cupid.
The deal also gives MTV Networks the option to produce feature films and TV projects by Andre - and he has a lot of ideas to develop.
Andre 3000
Exits CNBC
Tina Brown
CNBC weekend talk show host Tina Brown -- whose chats with such luminaries as Leslie Moonves, John McCain and George Clooney were a staple of CNBC weekend primetime for two years -- will leave the network at month's end.
Brown asked CNBC chief Mark Hoffman whether she could stop doing the show to focus on a book she's writing for Doubleday on the late Princess Diana. The one-time publishing executive of the New Yorker and Vanity Fair will require several trips from New York, where she lives, to London in the coming months, according to CNBC, and it would interfere with her ability to do the show. The book will be published in 2007, on the 10th anniversary of Diana's death.
"Topic A With Tina Brown" has been on the business news channel on weekend primetime since 2003. Its last show will be May 29. There's no word on what will replace "Topic A," though it could possibly be a repeat of some of CNBC's business news programming.
Tina Brown
Compounding Problems
Mindy McCready
A former boyfriend of country singer Mindy McCready has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly breaking into her home and beating her up.
William McKnight was also charged with aggravated burglary in the incident early Sunday. He was being held Monday in lieu of $130,000 bond.
McCready, who had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time," was treated and released at a hospital following the attack, according to broadcast reports.
Last Friday, McCready, 28, was charged with drunken driving after police stopped her in the upscale suburb of Belle Meade for speeding. Police said the officer smelled alcohol in the vehicle and McCready performed poorly on field sobriety tests. She refused to take a breath test.
McCready was also charged with driving on a suspended license and failure to consent to the breath test, according to police. She was freed on $3,500 bond.
Mindy McCready
Wedding News
Zellweger - Chesney
Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney were married Monday in a small ceremony on the Caribbean island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The ceremony took place in front of close friends and family, Los Angeles-based publicist Nanci Ryder said in a statement. It was the first marriage for both.
Chesney, 37, grew up in east Tennessee and now lives on the island of St. John, while Zellweger, who turned 36 two weeks ago, is from Katy, Texas.
According to Country Weekly magazine, Chesney long ago named Zellweger as his favorite actress and was inspired to write his 1999 hit "You Had Me From Hello" after seeing her in "Jerry Maguire."
Zellweger - Chesney
Found In England
2,000-Year-Old Shoe
Now this is an old shoe. Archaeologists said Tuesday they found a 2,000-year-old shoe hidden in a hollow tree used to construct an ancient well near Wellington in southwest England.
"As far as we know, this is the oldest shoe ever found in the United Kingdom," said Stephen Reed, who led the team from Exeter Archaeology that made the find. "It is reasonably well-preserved, with stitch and lace holes still visible in the leather."
The shoe is being studied in Salisbury, southwest England, and is expected to be displayed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
2,000-Year-Old Shoe
'Liz' Sells For $12.6 Million
Andy Warhol
Contemporary and post-war art sold respectably if not spectacularly at Sotheby's on Tuesday led by "Liz," Andy Warhol's portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor, which fetched $12,616,000.
The vibrant Warhol silkscreen from 1963 was easily the top lot of the auction which took in just over $68 million, or $5 million above the low pre-sale estimate.
Strong prices were also achieved by a group of Roy Lichtenstein works being sold by the estate of slain designer Gianni Versace. Led by "Blue Nude, which soared to $5,280,000, the five works took in some $8.5 million.
Andy Warhol
Won't See Sunset for Months
Barrow, Alaska
When the sun rises Tuesday in the continent's northernmost community, it will stay up for nearly three months. The last sunset of the season occurs at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday. The sun rises again at 2:56 a.m.
"Then it will stay above the horizon until Aug. 2, when the first sunset will take place at 3:09 a.m.," said Gina Sturm of the National Weather Service office in Barrow.
Barrow is about 330 miles above the Arctic Circle. In winter, the sun sets in mid-November and the region is dark until late January.
Barrow, Alaska
Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for May 2-8. Top 20 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. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 26.6 million viewers.
2. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 26.1 million viewers.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 25.4 million viewers.
4. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.4 million viewers.
5. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 20.7 million viewers.
6. "Survivor: Palau," CBS, 20.1 million viewers.
7. "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, million viewers.
8. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 18.9 million viewers.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 17.9 million viewers.
10. "Without a Trace," CBS, 17.9 million viewers.
11. "Lost," ABC, 17.2 million viewers.
12. "House," Fox, 17.1 million viewers.
13. "Law and Order: SVU," NBC, 16.5 million viewers.
14. "E.R.," NBC, 15.7 million viewers.
15. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 15.4 million viewers.
16. "Cold Case," CBS, 14.8 million viewers.
17. "CBS Sunday Movie: Elvis, Part 1," CBS, 13.9 million viewers
18. "Primetime Live Special Edition," ABC, 13.7 million viewers.
19. "NCIS," CBS, 13.5 million viewers.
20. "CSI: NY," CBS, 13.4 million viewers.
Ratings
In Memory
Joe Grant
