zEN mAN (observing a riot in Oakland after a young man was shot in cold blood by a B.A.R.T. (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop...(not the same BartCop!) This was a very sad event and it has pissed off the whole community....a criminal cop is still at large
I DONT CONDONE THIS KIND OF FUCKIN' SHIT.......BUT I REALLY UNDERSTAND IT!)
"The Story of the Yardbirds" [DVD]: A Review by Christel Loar (popmatters.com)
"The Story of the Yardbirds" gathers archival concerts, television performances and interviews new and old from members and associates of "The Most Blueswailing" British band of the '60s. Covering the years of the British blues explosion, 1963-1968, this documentary follows the Yardbirds through a short, but monumentally influential career. It features guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, as well as Chris Dreja (guitar and bass), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass), Jim McCarty (drums). Front man Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica and percussion) passed away in 1976.
Garrison Keillor: The perils and joys of self-esteem (chicagotribune.com)
When you look at the audience numbers for TV and then add up the incarcerated felons, Alzheimer's patients and confirmed barflies in America, it dawns on you who is watching TV these days-people unable to lead normal productive lives-and yet they give out awards for this stuff. TV is wallpaper nowadays and those talking heads might as well be talking to the smoked trout in Murray's Deli, but we allow them their delusions.
I'm gonna take a break for a week or two to catch up from the holidays and focus on some personal affairs (mainly relocation closer to my immediate family).
I'll be back soon, I assure you!... Meanwhile, don't let the bastards get ya down!
The movie "Casablanca" was filmed entirely in the studio, except for the sequence showing Major Strasser's arrival. Which California airport was used?
A Burbank
B Long Beach
C Ontario
D Santa Monica
E Van Nuys
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The entire picture was shot in the studio, except for the sequence showing Major Strasser's arrival, which was filmed at
Van Nuys Airport.
The background of the final scene, which shows a Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior airplane with personnel walking around it, was staged using midget extras and a proportionate cardboard plane. Fog was used to mask the model's unconvincing appearance. Nevertheless, the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida purchased a Lockheed 12A for its Great Movie Ride attraction, and initially claimed that it was the actual plane used in the film
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
E Van Nuys
~ Tony In Philly answered:
E: Van Nuys (I flew in to CA at that airport once!)
Charlie replied:
"...I can't explain why Casablanca succeeded. First, there wasn't a word of truth in the picture. There were no Germans in Casablanca, certainly not in uniform, no letters of transit, there was nothing. And it was slapped together."
- Julius Epstein, co-author of the "Casablanca" screenplay, in Casablanca: Behind the Scenes by Harlan Lebo
I haven't watched that film for a very long time. I remember when I saw it for maybe the second time, I convinced myself that it was just another Word War II propaganda movie, but not too many people agreed with me. I'll have another look sometime maybe. Anyway, the answer is
E Van Nuys
I will grant that it has to be regarded as a classic, with considerable historic significance, but it isn't on my personal list of greatest films, for whatever that's worth (not much). Just choosing from Bogart movies, I could think of a few better ones.
Just getting my two cents worth in.
Adam in NoHo replied:
E Van Nuys
Jim from Ca said:
Van Nuys.....
-pgw responded:
Van Nuys Airport.
Sally answered:
In the 1942 classic "CASABLANCA", there is an early scene where French Captain Renault (Claude Rains) meets Major Strasser's plane, when the Nazi officer first arrives at the Casablanca airport. Strasser is there to capture Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), and after Strasser gets off the plane and is welcomed by Renault, he pressures Renault to arrest Ugarte (Peter Lorre).
This airport runway scene was actually shot on the east side of the Van Nuys Airport. (E)
(At the end of the film. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) shoots Strasser at the same Casablanca airport, as Laszlo and his wife (Ingrid Bergman) escape aboard a plane.)
PS: Shout out to Vic in 28o below zero Alaska - long time no hear Vicstor? Fingers frozen? What's up, up there?
PURPLE GENE said:
BECAUSE OF THE WAR...THE AIRPORT SCENES FOR CASABLANCA WERE FILMED IN THE STUDIO...WITH CARDBOARD CUT-OUT AIRPLANES......
BUT....MAJOR STRASSER ARRIVAL SCENEWAS FILMED AT THE VAN NUYS AIRPORT (NEAR LA)
THE ANSWER IS E......VAN NUYS
MAM replied:
Answer . . . E Van Nuys
French Captain Renault (Claude Rains) meets Major Strasser's (Conrad Veidt) plane, when the Nazi officer first arrives at the Casablanca Airport. Strasser is there to capture Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Filmed July 10, 1942 at Metropolitan Airport, now known as Van Nuys Airport. The plane used in the film was a Travel-Air light transport plane manufactured in the late 1920's.
Marian the Teacher responded:
Van Nuys
That MadCat, JD wrote:
I'M MAKING A CALCULATED GUESS. BURBANK. THAT WAS THE FIRST ANSWER THAT RAN
THROUGH MY TIRED, SHRIVELED BRAIN CELLS.
And, Joe S weighed in with:
The scene depicting "Major Strasser's" arrival in Casablanca was filmed at Metropolitan Airport in Van Nuys, now known as
E Van Nuys
Due to the fact that Bad to the Bone Bob has taken some time off I'd like to pose a question or two. Don't send the answers to anyone, especially Marty, she has enough to do. No, this is just something to think about. Form your own opinions, maybe tell your friends.
Watching those TV commercials for Viagra and Cialis and the rest of Big Pharma's answer to "ED", I want to know where are all the fat, wheezy, red-faced, sickly, fat, old, geezers? All you see are healthy, robust, buffed-out guys none of them over 50. Do you really believe they're the type that need a boost to get up? And what's with those damned bath tubs?
Just askin'.
At the neighborhood station, gas has gone up 27 cents since Christmas. Local news attributes it to 'a refinery in Bakersfield that went bankrupt'. WTF?
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a FRESH'Flashpoint', then a FRESH'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kiefer Sutherland and Wendy Liebman.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is Paula Poundstone.
NBC starts the night with the SERIES PREMIERE'Howie Do It', followed by a FRESH'Lipstick Jungle', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Daniel Craig, Taraji P. Henson, and Eagles of Death Metal.
On a RERUNConan (from 9/10/08) are Curtis Jackson, Kaitlin Olson, and Gym Class Heroes.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/12/08) are Kevin Nealon and Yelle.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then another unwatchable '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Michael Imperioli, Jason Mesnick, and Zac Brown Band.
The CW offers a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'The Game', then a RERUN'13--Fear Is Real'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Bruce Almighty'.
MY fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night Steroid SmackDown!'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'Bill Moyers Journal', and a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio'.
AMC offers the movie 'Caddyshack', followed by the movie 'The Package', then the movie 'Damien -- Omen II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 3
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Secret Garden
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 5
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 4 Moore Place
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 9 The Ant, An Introduction
[8:40 PM] Little Britain - Episode 2
[9:20 PM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 2
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 9 The Ant, An Introduction
[11:40 PM] Little Britain - Episode 2
[12:20 AM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 2
[1:00 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 9 The Ant, An Introduction
[1:40 AM] Little Britain - Episode 2
[2:20 AM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 2
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 2 Cassie
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 13
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 14
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 25 Smith
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Doyle
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Ultimate Super Heroes, Villains And Vixens' (Super Vixens), 'Ultimate Super Heroes, Villains And Vixens' (Super Villains), and the movie 'Hannibal'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', b>'Mind Of Mencia', another 'Mind Of Mencia', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Kurt Metzger), and another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Doug Benson).
FX has the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown', followed by the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown', again, 'That 70s Show', and another 'That 70s Show'.
History has 'Modern Marvels'< 'Last Days On Earth', and 'Black Blizzard'.
IFC -
[6:45 AM] The Hard Word
[8:35 AM] Step Into Liquid
[10:10 AM] Shattered Glass
[11:45 AM] The Hard Word
[1:30 PM] Step Into Liquid
[3:05 PM] Shattered Glass
[4:45 PM] The Hard Word
[6:30 PM] Last Night at the Alamo
[8:00 PM] Sisters
[9:35 PM] IFC in Theaters
[9:45 PM] Fulltime Killer
[11:30 PM] Hell Girl
[12:00 AM] Foxy Brown
[1:35 AM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[3:00 AM] Gummo
[4:30 AM] Sisters (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Stargate Atlantis', another 'Stargate Atlantis', followed by a FRESH'Stargate Atlantis', then a FRESH'Sanctuary'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Eve & the Fire Horse
[06:45 AM] Be Quiet
[07:15 AM] Requiem for Billy the Kid
[08:45 AM] Lights in the Dusk
[10:00 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Fashion
[10:30 AM] The Sierra Club Chronicles: Episode 4
[11:00 AM] Be Quiet
[11:30 AM] In Between Days
[01:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
[02:00 PM] Music Rising
[02:45 PM] Colma: The Musical
[04:30 PM] The Hawk is Dying
[06:30 PM] Looking for Leonard
[08:00 PM] Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 2
[09:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Hoosiers, The Black Keys & Manu Chao
[10:00 PM] Friends With Money
[11:40 PM] Recycle
[12:00 AM] The Man of the Year
[02:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Hoosiers, The Black Keys & Manu Chao
[03:00 AM] Somersault
[04:45 AM] Zoo (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Robin Williams celebrates backstage with his award for Favorite Scene-Stealing Guest Star for his role on "Law and Order: SVU" at the 35th annual People's Choice awards in Los Angeles January 7, 2009.
Photo by Phil McCarten
President-elect Barack Obama backs a move to delay a mandatory switch to digital television signals on fears viewers are unprepared and as the government has run out of coupons to help pay for converter boxes.
"The February 17 cutoff date for analog signals should be reconsidered and extended," John Podesta, co-chairman of the Obama-Biden transition team, said in a letter to key lawmakers on Thursday.
The government said earlier this week it had run out of $40 discount coupons for consumers to help pay for converter boxes needed to keep their sets from going blank, leading a major consumer group to call for a delay of the analog switch-off.
"With coupons unavailable, support and education insufficient and the most vulnerable Americans exposed, I urge you to consider a change to the legislatively mandated cut-off date," Podesta wrote.
CJ Wallace, son of slain rapper Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace arrives with his mother, Faith Evans, for the premiere of the film "Notorious" in New York January 7, 2009.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
ABC News is reducing its full-time presence in Iraq, and will rely more on the BBC for day-to-day reports from inside the country.
The network will continue to have a Baghdad bureau, though there will be no full-time correspondent and fewer employees than there have been since the war began in 2003. Its move comes at a time when the broadcast networks face slimmer budgets and an intensifying war in Afghanistan.
The deal includes some financial support for the BBC's coverage, but it wasn't clear how much. The BBC announced the change to its employees Wednesday afternoon.
ABC News has had a long-term content sharing plan with the BBC, the only U.S. network to do so. The partnership has grown from 1994, when it began having BBC correspondents file stories for the network. The partnership goes both ways, with the BBC providing reports from the Congo last year while ABC helped the BBC with coverage of the presidential election.
Norway's national broadcaster has pulled a series of 212 podcasts each featuring a different song by the Beatles. The podcasts would have essentially constituted giving away the entire Beatles catalog for free.
Although the band's music has not been licensed for the Internet, NRK said on Tuesday that its 2007 radio series "Our Daily Beatles" would be made available as a free podcast. Each installment features the story behind a Beatles track; a version without music ran as a podcast in 2007.
The broadcaster planned to make all 212 episodes available by the end of the month, but 14 episodes were briefly made available to download. It then emerged that NRK's rights agreement with music-label trade group IFPI allows only podcasts from shows broadcast in the previous four weeks.
"The Beatles comes under our agreement with IFPI, which says that we only can put up shows for download that were aired the latest four weeks, and where the music is less than 70 percent of the show's length," said the statement. "'Our Daily Beatles' aired in 2007, so we have to pull the podcast. If it was aired today, we could have podcasted the next four weeks within the agreement. We could have done it, but choose not to."
There are not many who can claim the right to drive sheep over London Bridge and carry a naked sword in public in the capital. But David Suchet can now count himself among the elite band permitted to do so after being given the freedom of the City of London on Wednesday.
The honour, which dates back to the 13th century, was bestowed on the Poirot star at a ceremony in the Guildhall. During the presentation David had to promise to lead an honourable life and warn the mayor of any impending danger.
"Being a Londoner, born in Paddington, I'm just so proud. And it makes me feel I really belong."
During the special day, shared with his wife of more than 30 years, Sheila, the star also revealed he will be stepping into his most famous character's patent leather shoes again in March. He says he hopes to play Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot through to the last book.
Members of Elvis' original TCB band, from left, Paul Lime, drums, Glen D Hardin, piano, James Burton, guitar, Jerry Scheff, bass, pose for photographers in Vienna, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. The original Elvis TCB Band plays live on stage in Austria in January 2009.
Photo by Lilli Strauss
Hollywood couple Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa are celebrating after welcoming a new baby.
Former The Cosby Show star Bonet gave birth to son Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha on 15 December - her second child with Stargate Atlantis actor Momoa.
They were already parents to daughter Lola Iolani, and Bonet also has 20-year-old daughter Zoe with rocker Lenny Kravitz.
MSNBC political commentator Chris 'Tweety' Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania.
MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines says Matthews told the staff of his "Hardballs" show Wednesday that he's not going to run for the seat against Republican Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010.
There's been speculation that Matthews would challenge Specter, and there have been published reports that Matthews has privately discussed the possibility.
The 63-year-old Matthews is a Philadelphia native. He ran for a northeast Philadelphia congressional seat in 1974 but lost the Democratic primary.
CEO of DreamWorks Animation Jeffrey "Sparky" Katzenberg puts on a pair of 'out-dated' 3-D glasses while speaking of the advancements in 3-D cinema during a Sony presentation at the International Consumer Electronics Show Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 in Las Vegas.
Photo by Ronda Churchill
A federal judge is expected to rule on Friday whether to move up a January 20 hearing regarding the release of Warner Bros' "Watchmen" film.
The superhero film is at the center of a copyright infringement battle between Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros and News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox.
In court papers on Wednesday, Warner Bros requested that the January 20 hearing be moved up to as early as Monday because "time is critical."
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess last month ruled the film, which reportedly cost Warner Bros more than $120 million to make, infringes on a copyright held by Fox.
An Alabama sheriff who made $212,000 in the last three years by feeding inmates what a judge said were skimpy portions was released from prison Thursday after submitting a plan pledging to feed them better.
Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett profited legally from a Depression-era state law that allows sheriffs to keep any money they can make by feeding inmates for less than what they receive in state funding. Bartlett said he reported the profit as income on his tax returns.
U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon heard testimony Wednesday from Bartlett and several skinny inmates who described being forced to eat meager meals of paper-thin bologna, bloody chicken and cold grits, then paying out-of-pocket to supplement their diets with high-priced snacks from the jail's store.
Attorneys for the Morgan County prisoners filed a motion that effectively would stop Bartlett from making a profit by requiring the sheriff to spend any money earmarked for food to be spent on prisoners' meals. They also want USDA guidelines used in planning menus and sought the firing of the jail's current nutritionist. The judge did not immediately rule.
A combination photo shows two differing approaches to robot design in Asia. (L) Twendy-One, a robot designed to help elderly and disabled people around the house, is put through its paces at Waseda University in Tokyo January 8, 2009. Twendy-one was designed by robotics researchers at Waseda University to have human-sized four-fingered hands cabable of picking up and holding delicate objects without crushing them. (R) Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by a his self-made walking robot near his home in a village on the outskirts of Beijing January 8, 2009. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, using wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites.
Photo by Issei Kato
Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.
After five hours spent lifting the lid of a sarcophagus in a pyramid discovered south of Cairo last year, they found a skull, legs, pelvis, other body parts wrapped in linen, and ancient pottery, the government's antiquities department said.
They also found gold wrappings which would have been put on the fingers of the mummified person. Grave robbers ransacked the burial chamber in ancient times and stole the other objects.
"Although they did not find the name of the queen buried in the pyramid, all the signs indicate that she is Seshestet, the mother of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty," chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics, and said on Wednesday they might use it to help make tiny nanotechnology machines.
They said they had detected and measured a force that comes into play at the molecular level using certain combinations of molecules that repel one another.
The repulsion can be used to hold molecules aloft, in essence levitating them, creating virtually friction-free parts for tiny devices, the researchers said.
Federico Capasso, an applied physicist at Harvard University in Massachusetts, whose study appears in the journal Nature, said he believed that detection of this force opened the possibility of a whole new class of tiny gadgets.
The discovery arose from Capasso's prior work as vice president of physical research at Bell Labs, the research arm of telecoms gear marker Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent.
A frost covered totem pole looks cold sitting outside of the Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 during what is the third longest cold snap in Alaska' history. Temperatures in Anchorage have been in the minus double digits and temperatures and in the interior have dipped to -65 in some areas.
Photo by Al Grillo
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Charlie replied:
In the 1942 classic "CASABLANCA", there is an early scene where French Captain Renault (Claude Rains) meets Major Strasser's plane, when the Nazi officer first arrives at the Casablanca airport. Strasser is there to capture Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), and after Strasser gets off the plane and is welcomed by Renault, he pressures Renault to arrest Ugarte (Peter Lorre).
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