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Thanks!!!
My thanks too to Chris, Jen, and Marianne. You're all wonderful! (You too, Marty.)
That's exactly the clip that I saw, and it's great to be able to share it with others now. It's also nice to be able to check out the other clips for the giggle factor.
Y'all always come through for me. Thanks!
Linda >^..^<
You're welcome!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Richard Roeper: Cards boil choice down: The dog or the dummy (suntimes.com)
On the cover, Bush in full flight gear, with the caption, "Happy Birthday from the President, Commander-in-Chief, and Leader of the Free World."
Inside: "And you thought getting older was the only thing we had to worry about."
The ideas interview: Richard Reeves (guardian.co.uk)
What we should be teaching kids are the arts of life: how to form good, sustainable relationships; how to find interests outside work; how to find work that's not merely financially rewarding but which also meets their human needs. What we're doing instead is vocationalising education, making it a training camp for the labour market.
James Howard Kunstler: Pricey Gas? That's Reality (TomPaine.com. Posted on Alternet.org)
We simply cannot face the fact that time has run out -- that our lease is expiring -- for a society dependent on cars.
Joel Waldfogel: Roach College, U.S.A. (slate.com)
What Ph.D. students really have to fear.
Amanda Schaffer: Stopping Suicide 101 (slate.com)
The dilemma of college students who threaten to kill themselves.
ROGER EBERT: Cannes #10: Guessing games
CANNES, France -- All rumors about the prizes at Cannes are essentially worthless. Why don't I know this?
JOHN HARKNESS: It's in the Cannes (nowtoronto.com)
The A-list stars are working their butts off at the industry's biggest convention. Onscreen, Almodóvar's latest impresses, but Linklater is too serious.
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-05-25/movie_onlocation.php
LEONARD PITTS JR.: Dixie Chicks - a profile in courage (chron.com)
They could have just shut up. That's what's interesting. The thing had been said, the controversy had flared and faded, bygones were becoming bygones. They could have moved on, left well enough alone. Instead, they declare themselves "not ready to make nice ... not ready to back down ... still mad as hell."
Good lives: The people making a difference (guardian.co.uk)
Katie Fewings: Ethical weddings. It all started because of an Oscar Wilde story about a prince who was getting married and wanted nothing but the best for his wedding. So he had his clothes stitched out of gold, and the finest jewels and the best food all prepared for the wedding, but the night before he was due to marry he has a dream that he saw the people who are preparing all these things, and working all through the night with their fingers bleeding where the needle has pricked them.
Ethical Weddings
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, with a nice breeze.
The kid's school was on the local tv news.
Seems some students (ages 11 - 14) swiped about a dozen computers from a storeroom last week, and tried to sell them.
Most were recovered & returned to the school today.
No new flags.
Dismisses Alzheimer's Reports
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor on Tuesday dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for early Alzheimer's disease or was gravely ill.
The Academy Award-winning actress, who uses a wheelchair because of back problems, was asked about the reports during an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live."
"Oh come on, do I look like I'm dying?" the 74-year-old actress asked King in a rare television interview. "Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?"
Taylor said tabloids report such things "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else."
Elizabeth Taylor
Debut Delayed
Al-Jazeera International
The debut of the Al-Jazeera International news network, expected by the end of May, has been delayed and probably won't take place until September at the earliest.
Doubts about the network's content have nothing to do with the delay, Lindsey Oliver, AJI's commercial director, said Tuesday.
The technical aspects of connecting a network that will operate out of four broadcast centers - in Doha, Qatar; London, Washington, and Kuala Lumpur - have proven to be more difficult and time-consuming than expected, Oliver said.
The planned offshoot of the influential Qatar-based Arabic network is to broadcast in English and is being viewed as a competitor to CNN and the BBC. It has signed such personalities as David Frost and Dave Marash.
Al-Jazeera International
UFO Video
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd has a new video on the market, but the ex-conehead and one-time ghost-buster says he's not the star. The UFOs are.
"My recommendation is to skip through me and get to the film footage, the digital images," he said on Tuesday, talking about the 90-minute "Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs" from Union Station Media.
The DVD, which went on sale Tuesday, is a conversation between Aykroyd and UFO expert David Sereda interspersed with footage of unexplained objects in flight and comments from experts like former astronaut Gordon Cooper. There are no jokes.
Dan Aykroyd
White House Screening
'United 93'
Resident George W. Bush invited relatives of some of the 40 passengers and crew members who are portrayed in the current film United 93 to join him for a screening at the White House Tuesday night.
Bush and his wife Laura planned to watch the film about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the family theatre. The docudrama focuses on the tragic occurrence aboard United Flight 93, the plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania after passengers fought back against their hijackers.
'United 93'
Baby News
Johnny Backus
It's a boy for Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and her actor-husband, Chris Backus. Sorvino gave birth to the couple's second child, Johnny, on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, Calif. The infant weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces.
"The baby is healthy and happy, and mother and the rest of the family are very, very excited," Sorvino's representative, Ed Choi, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Sorvino, 38, and Backus, 24, have an 18-month-old daughter, Mattea Angel. The couple were married in 2004.
Johnny Backus
CNN & Cartoon Network Sue Over DVR Plan
Cablevision
Time Warner Inc. networks CNN and Cartoon Network have sued Cablevision Systems Corp. in an attempt to block the cable operator's plans to roll out a network-based digital video recorder service.
The suit, which was filed last Friday, came just two days after four Hollywood studios and three major television networks filed a copyright suit seeking to prevent the new technology service launch.
Cablevision said when it announced plans to launch the service that the service would do away with the need for personal DVR boxes such as made by the likes of TiVo Inc. or Cisco Systems Inc. Scientific Atlanta.
But the networks say that because the proposed service allows subscribers to store television programs on the cable operator's own computer servers, it would be breaking copyright agreements by effectively re-transmitting the programs.
Cablevision
June 15th Appeal
Gary Glitter
A Vietnam court has rescheduled an appeal hearing of disgraced British "glam rocker" Gary Glitter over his three-year sentence for molesting children to June 15, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Le Thanh Kinh said by telephone that his client would be moved from a detention center in the resort town of Vung Tau the same day for a one-day hearing of his appeal at the Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City.
Glitter, who turned 62 on May 8, has been imprisoned in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau since last November.
Gary Glitter
Very Early Release
Michelle Rodriguez
Actress Michelle Rodriguez was released from jail early, after serving less than a day of a 60-day jail sentence, authorities said Tuesday.
Rodriguez was sentenced for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released Thursday from a Los Angeles County jail due to overcrowding, authorities said.
The former star of ABC's "Lost" still must serve 30 days of community service and remain on probation until June 2009, a spokeswoman for the city attorney's office said.
The 27-year-old actress served five days in jail in Hawaii last month after pleading guilty to drunken driving. The Dec. 1 arrest in Honolulu violated the three-year probation term she was given in Los Angeles County in 2004 after pleading no contest to charges of hit-and-run, driving on a suspended license and drunken driving.
Michelle Rodriguez
Leaving 'Law & Order'
Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina is turning in his "Law & Order" badge. Farina has decided to leave his role as New York police Detective Joe Fontana after two seasons on the NBC drama to pursue other offers and projects being developed by his production company, his spokeswoman, Lori De Waal, said Tuesday.
Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of "Law & Order," said in a statement that he respected Farina's decision and looked forward to working with him again.
Farina's departure isn't the only change for "Law & Order," which has a long history of cast turnover. Assistant district attorney Alexandra Borgia, played by Annie Parisse, was killed in the season finale as she investigated a murder case.
Dennis Farina
Protecting World's Seeds
Global Seed Vault
A frozen "Noah's Ark" to safeguard the world's crop seeds from cataclysms will be built on a remote Arctic island off Norway, the Norwegian government said on Tuesday.
Construction of the Global Seed Vault, in a mountainside on the island of Svalbard 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, would start in June with completion due in September 2007.
The doomsday vault would be built near Longyaerbyen, Svalbard's main village, with space for three million seed varieties. It would store seeds including rice, wheat, and barley as well as fruits and vegetables.
Norway has long talked of building the Arctic seed vault without previously taking action. For about 15 years some varieties of seed have been stored in a disused Svalbard mine under a plan to see if they can germinate after 100 years.
Global Seed Vault
Discovered In Rome
Ancient Skeleton
Archaeologists said Tuesday they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in an ancient necropolis in the heart of Rome.
The well-preserved skeleton appears to be that of a woman aged about 30, said Anna De Santis, one of the archaeologists who took part in the excavations under the Caesar's Forum, part of the sprawling complex of the Imperial Forums in central Rome.
It was the first skeleton to be found in the 3,000-year-old necropolis, she said. Early this year, a funerary urn that contained human ashes, as well as bone fragments that appeared to be from a sheep, were found in one of the necropolis' tombs.
Ancient Skeleton
GOP Flip-Flopper
Kansas
The former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party jumped ship in a big way Tuesday, switching his affiliation to Democrat amid speculation that he would become Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' running mate.
Johnson County Elections Commissioner Brian Newby confirmed that Mark Parkinson, the state GOP chairman from 1999 to 2003, came to the office and switched his party affiliation shortly before noon.
Parkinson's name has been widely circulated as Sebelius' choice for a running mate as the Democratic governor seeks a second term. Current Lt. Gov. John Moore - another former Republican - is retiring when his term expires in early 2007.
Kansas
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