zEN mAN (observing her Ladiness Ms. Gaga considering purchasing Michael Jackson's abandoned fantasy park..."NeverLand"...possibly for her little friends and Michaels 3 kids.....L.G. has in the past invested her time and money in many deserving causes.....this is just "Fantasyland" what would Peter Pan think?)
George Dvorsky: This is what China's record-level air pollution looks like from space (io9)
Residents have been told to stay inside, and the Chinese government ordered factories to scale back on their emissions. Hospitals have been busy, experiencing a 20 to 30 percent increase in patients complaining of respiratory issues. NASA recently released a hi-res photo showing the scale of the pollution as seen from space.
Now THIS is Hate Mail (Neatorama)
Got hate mail? No? Come on - everyone LOVES hate mail, especially if they come in such artful form as these hate mail as drawn by London-based artist Mr. Bingo.
Amanda Hess: The Vibrator of the Future Is Already Here (Slate)
A few hours after the panel convened, Ethan Imboden took the stage to deliver the conference's keynote address. Imboden, the founder and creative director of vibrator manufacturer Jimmyjane, has spent the last decade selling versions of this "futuristic" sex toy.
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. The cast includes Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Charles Grodin. It was produced by William Castle.
Farrow plays a pregnant woman who fears that her husband may have made a pact with their eccentric neighbors, believing he may have promised them the child to be used as a human sacrifice in their occult rituals in exchange for success in his acting career.
...(S)eeing the disturbing appearance of her baby's eyes and demanding to know what had caused the deformity, Rosemary is then told that Guy is not the baby's father. The revelation that the baby, named Adrian, is actually the spawn of Satan. This horrifies Rosemary, who spits in Guy's face when he approaches her. Roman urges Rosemary to become a mother to her son, and tells her she does not have to join the coven if she does not want to. The film ends with her adjusting her son's blankets and gently rocking his cradle with a small smile on her face.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Adrian
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Andy or Jenny
Charlie replied:
Adrian
Adam answered:
Adrian.
Marian responded:
Adrian
Sally said:
As I recall, the name of Rosemary's baby was Adrian which was an anagram . That was a scary movie, and I don't like scary movies, so I may be wrong.
Is this the kid?
Yes, yes it is...
PS: Shout out to B2BB! Come back soon!!
DDDDDale of Still Shimmering Springs, CA responded:
Adrian is the name of Satan's spawn!!!! One of my favourite terror films! Groovy cast!!!
BttbBob is on a medical LOA TFN.
MAM wrote:
Adrian
And, Joe S answered:
How did I skip yesterday's quiz? I knew the answer, I knew it, and then I just plain forgot to play. I must be getting old, or maybe I was distracted by all the Gun Nut reaction to the President's new proposals to keep us safer from the Gun Nuts. Or maybe it was Michigan's nerdy Governor's State of the State Address. That was VERY distracting, no really, bullshit is distracting. That statement can be applied to the Gun Nuts as well.
Okay, back to the subject at hand. The answer is Adrian. Carla and I saw the movie in 1968, scared the hell out of us. We had kids anyway.
Found these fruits in a neigbor's yard.
They don't know what it is, other than some sort of citrus.
The cold weather caused the tree to drop most of it's fruit.
I think it may be some kind of citron, but I really don't know.
The fruits are round, about 2½" long, 2" wide, and about 7" in circumference.
Anybody recognize it?
Skeeve (Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ~ Karl Marx) said:
Try this link for your mystery fruit. Looks the same to me.
Citrus ID: Fact Sheet: 1449
Close, but the mystery fruit has a sort of 'nubbin' on the top.
And, Ken wrote again: It sure looks like this photo of a Kaffir lime.
Yowee! That sure looks like it!
So I used Skeeve's link and started at the
Citrus ID: Home, sorted by pictures,
and 31 pages later, the mystery fruit has a name!
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kevin Bacon, Brian Kiley, and the Amazing.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Carrie Fisher and Steven Yeun.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', followed by another RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Chris Tucker, Bob Costas, and Big Boi.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jessica Chastain, Josh Gad, Alan Zwiebel, and the Joy Formidable.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 10/29/12) are Chris Elliott, "The Goon", and the Jezabels.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Malibu Country', then a (R) 'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel it's "Jimmy Kimmel Live: This Week" - clips from the past four shows.
The CW offers a FRESH'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'Fringe', followed by the SERIES FINALE'Fringe'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', 'Storage Wars', and another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jerry Maguire', followed by the movie 'There's Something About Mary'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-The Big Freeze
[8:30AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-Footsteps in the Snow
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 7 - Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Jimmy Carr, Coldplay
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Daleks In Manhattan
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 4 - Ep 11 - The Hub
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 5 - Food on a Budget
[12:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 6 - More Food on a Budget
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 19 - Genesis
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
[9:00PM] HANNIBAL
[11:30PM] JACK THE RIPPER: PRIME SUSPECT
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 19 - Genesis
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Mr. Deeds', followed by the movie 'Meet The Parents'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Get Him To The Greek'.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by the movie 'Hancock'.
HBO offers a FRESHBill Maher
The Interview: Bob Kerrey | Mid-Show Interview: Rula Jebreal | The Panel: Martin Short, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, and Steve LaTourette.
History has 'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents', another 'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents', followed by a FRESH'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whisker Wars-The Philly Frontier
[6:30AM] Portlandia-Aimee
[7:00AM] Portlandia-Mayor Is Missing
[7:30AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[9:30AM] Delirious
[11:45AM] Lonesome Jim
[1:45PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[3:45PM] Delirious
[6:00PM] Idiocracy
[7:45PM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?
[10:00PM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[10:30PM] Portlandia-Farm
[11:00PM] The Descent
[1:00AM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[1:30AM] Portlandia-Farm
[2:00AM] May
[4:00AM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[4:30AM] Portlandia-Farm
[5:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Beers and Weirs (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00A] ICONOCLASTS - Seth MacFarlane + Norah Jones (Episode 3, Season 6)
[7:30A] ICONOCLASTS - Lena Dunham + Judd Apatow (Episode 2, Season 6)
[8:00A] Disengagement
[10:00A] Full Grown Men
[11:30A] Hoosiers
[1:30P] Disengagement
[3:30P] Full Grown Men
[5:00P] Hoosiers
[8:00P] Buffalo 66
[10:00P] Barton Fink
[12:00A] Buffalo 66
[2:00A] Barton Fink
[4:00A] I'll Come Running (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Continuum', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH'Merlin'.
Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon chat aboard a bus on the way to visit fracking sites in Pennsylvania Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. They are touring natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania and visiting with residents who say they've been harmed by the controversial extraction process known as fracking.
Photo by Richard Drew
The outdoor spring music festival spans seven days over two weekends in such genres like jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun and zydeco. In all, hundreds of acts will perform on about a dozen stages on April 26-28 and May 2-5.
Other national acts include Earth Wind & Fire, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Jill Scott, Widespread Panic and B.B. King.
Most of the lineup is from Louisiana and includes festival favorites Irma Thomas, jazz singer-pianist Allen Toussaint and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews.
Robert Redford, founder and president of the Sundance Institute, smiles during the opening news conference of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Karl Rove enlivened Fox News Channel's election coverage last year by questioning the network's declaration that Barack Obama had been re-elected. It hasn't affected Fox's desire to keep him on the air.
The network announced Thursday that it had signed Rove to a new contract as a contributor. The deal runs through the 2016 election.
Rove was once President George W. Bush's political right-hand man and the force behind a powerful political action committee that sought to oust Obama. He caused a stir with his election night doubts, which led anchor Megyn Kelly to interview Fox's own election experts on the air to defend their call.
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes says Rove's detailed knowledge of politics, fundraising and strategy make him an important player in Fox's coverage.
A collection of works by the late children's author Maurice Sendak is coming to a New York City auction.
Swann Auction Galleries says many of the works at the Jan. 24 sale are signed.
Among the highlights is a first edition of "Where the Wild Things Are." The inscription includes a drawing. The work has a pre-sale estimate of $7,000 to $15,000.
The seller is the late Reed Orenstein, a longtime Sendak collector and bookseller.
In this Jan. 11, 2013 photo, Mainland Chinese tourists pose in front of a bronze statue of the Hong Kong martial art actor Bruce Lee on the Avenue of Stars, the city's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hong Kong. He's arguably Hong Kong's most famous movie star but the city has done little to commemorate Bruce Lee, who shot to global stardom with films like "Enter the Dragon" but died in 1973 at age 32 of swelling of the brain.
Photo by Kin Cheung
With three box office hits earning $1.17 billion at the U.S. box office over the past three years, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are Hollywood's highest-grossing romantic film couple.
The stars of the "Twilight" vampire films easily surpassed all other film twosomes in the Forbes list that looked at the top 10 grossing romantic films of the last three years.
Forbes compiled the list by looking at the top-grossing romantic films in the United States in the past three years as classified by Box Office Mojo. They added the totals for each couple's U.S. box office.
Channing Tatum, who was voted People magazine's sexiest man alive in 2012, and "The Vow" co-star Rachel McAdams came in second, with the film earning $125 million domestically, as well as $71 million overseas.
Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler captured the No. 3 spot with "Just Go With It," which earned $103 million at the U.S. box office and double that amount after international sales were included.
The FBI and the American Civil Liberties Union seem to have very different interpretations of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
As surfaced by the website Arstechnica, the FBI recently complied with a request from the civil rights organization-sort of.
The ACLU had filed the FOIA request back in July. (It had first heard of the memos when they were mentioned publicly by an FBI official during a panel discussion at the University of San Francisco earlier in the year.) The request asked for two memos that outline how the FBI interprets the Supreme Court decision blocking law enforcement from using GPS to track a suspect's car without a warrant.
One memo apparently outlines GPS tracking on things other than cars, and the other how the FBI interprets the Supreme Court case on other forms of tech besides GPS. The documents can be seen here and here in PDF format, along with the ACLU's original FOIA request.
Writing on the ACLU website, staff attorney Catherine Crump noted, "The Justice Department's unfortunate decision leaves Americans with no clear understanding of when we will be subjected to tracking-possibly for months at a time-or whether the government will first get a warrant."
Crump added that "this is yet another example of secret surveillance policies-like the Justice Department's secret opinions about the Patriot Act's Section 215-that simply should not exist in a democratic society. Privacy law needs to keep up with technology, but how can that happen if the government won't even tell us what its policies are?
Saudi Harley-Davidson bikers and camel riders perform at the opening ceremony of the Tabouk cultural festival in the desert, 1500 km (932 miles) from Riyadh January 17, 2013.
Photo by Mohamed Alhwaity
A federal judge holding a hearing on a lawsuit by the stars of the reality show "Sister Wives" heard arguments Thursday on whether Utah can prohibit plural marriage, but issued no immediate ruling.
Kody Brown and his four wives claim the law is unconstitutional. The family fled Utah for Las Vegas last year under the threat of prosecution. They did not attend the hearing in Salt Lake City, leaving arguments to a constitutional law professor.
"The Browns wanted to show people that a plural family is not a monstrosity," said Jonathan Turley of The George Washington University. "They don't commit collateral problems."
Turley said the Browns' only sin was opening their family to the TLC hit series, which drew the attention of Utah authorities.
Some of the adult film industry's top executives warned Thursday that a new Los Angeles County law requiring porn actors to wear condoms while shooting sex scenes could have a "dangerous" impact on all entertainment companies, including mainstream film productions.
In a panel focusing on the state of the industry at the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, leaders from companies including Wicked Pictures, Adam & Eve and Hustler suggested that if the government could assert control over how how they shoot their movies, it could intervene in other Hollywood projects, as well.
"My concern is about a domino affect (sic) and that this could be implemented elsewhere, that they aren't going to stop," Christian Mann, general manager of Evil Angel Productions, said. "It's very dangerous. It's a regulation that hugely impacts how we can make movies, and even mainstream should be concerned. That kind of regulatory scheme could have an impact on everybody."
Their comments came after Vivid Entertainment and a group of top porn actors filed a lawsuit last week challenging the law, known as Measure B, arguing it infringed upon the industry's First Amendment right to film movies the way it chooses.
The Lehi City Council has renamed Morning Glory Road after a technology company planning to relocate to the street raised concerns about the name's sexual connotation.
Council members in the city about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City voted unanimously last month to change the name to Morning Vista Road.
Minutes from the meeting show that Xactware Solutions Inc., which provides software for the insurance industry, asked for the name change so that the road would fit with its "international corporate image."
"Morning glory" is the name of a flower and part of the title of a popular 1990s song from British rock band Oasis. But the term is sometimes used to describe male arousal.
Councilman Johnny Revill, who moved to approve the resolution at the Dec. 11 meeting, told the Salt Lake Tribune that he didn't know about the term's slang meaning previously but was happy to appease Xactware officials.
Seized by the Nazis in 1938 from a Jewish man on the orders of Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, then held behind the Iron Curtain in Communist East Berlin, thousands of rare posters are finally back in the hands of collector Hans Sachs' family.
After a seven-year battle for their return from a German museum where they ended up after the fall of the Berlin Wall, almost entirely tucked away in storage, Sachs' heir told The Associated Press he hopes auctioning off the majority of the posters will mean they will finally be on display for those who love them like his father did, after he failed to find a museum willing to take the whole collection on.
"There's of course no practical way that I could frame and hang 4,300 posters, so I just didn't see any other alternative than to do what we're doing," Peter Sachs, 75, said by telephone from his home in Las Vegas. "But I don't feel guilty in any way whatsoever - even with them being auctioned I think it's far preferable that they will wind up in the hands of people who truly enjoy them and appreciate them rather than sitting in a museum's storage for another 70 years without seeing the light of day."
The auction at Guernsey's in New York runs Friday through Sunday and features 1,233 of the posters, including one designed by Edvard Munch to advertise an exhibit of his own works in Zurich in 1922, an 1898 poster by Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, and even James Montgomery Flagg's 1917 famous "Uncle Sam" recruiting poster "I Want You For U.S. Army."
Alexei Vasyukov (L) and Mikhail Rukosuev, members of a team from the Russian Ural city of Perm, work on a snow sculpture based on a creation by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo during the 1st International festival of snow and ice sculptures called "The Magical Ice of Siberia" on an embankment of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, January 17, 2013. Ice and snow sculptors representing USA, China, Kazakhstan and 25 Russian cities take part in a five-day-long competition which will start next Monday, according to the festival organizers.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
Dick Wagner had enjoyed a successful life on stage, playing lead guitar for bands like Alice Cooper, Aerosmith and Kiss, when he had a stroke and a heart attack in 2007.
"I woke up from a coma after two weeks with a paralyzed left arm," said Wagner, now 70 and living in Arizona. "My profession as a guitarist, I thought was over."
He and Cooper co-wrote the majority of the band's top-selling songs, including the 1975 hit, "Welcome to My Nightmare."
But Wagner's own personal horror show had just begun. He worked hard at rehabilitation, but new symptoms began to appear: mental fuzziness and an odd gait.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (1) Barbra Streisand; $4,065,743; $263.52.
2. (2) Madonna; $3,822,331; $172.36.
3. (3) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; $1,362,627; $93.95.
4. (4) Justin Bieber; $1,175,746; $74.51.
5. (5) Dave Matthews Band; $967,758; $73.76.
6. (6) Neil Young & Crazy Horse; $889,792; $91.68.
7. (7) The Who; $845,015; $85.86.
8. (8) Rush; $828,920; $82.26.
9. (9) Leonard Cohen; $804,309; $100.16.
10. (10) Red Hot Chili Peppers; $716,382; $60.53.
11. (11) Zac Brown Band; $610,907; $54.05.
12. (12) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $563,606; $51.21.
13. (13) Carrie Underwood; $527,051; $58.48.
14. (14) Bob Dylan; $480,988; $78.11.
15. (15) Eric Church; $310,156; $40.45.
16. (New) Louis C.K.; $258,950; $44.84.
17. (17) Jeff Dunham; $250,250; $58.49.
18. (18) The Moody Blues; $160,360; $68.27.
19. (19) Wiz Khalifa; $154,930; $41.61.
20. (20) Tobymac; $149,421; $27.90.
Pauline Phillips, the woman known to the world as "Dear Abby," died Wednesday at age 94, a rep for Phillips' daughter Jeanne confirmed to ABC News.
Phillips struggled with Alzheimer's disease for years. By the mid-1990s, she was already co-writing her column with her daughter Jeanne and as the illness progressed, she passed on the torch completely. The original Dear Abby officially retired in 2002.
Before she became known to the world as "Dear Abby," Phillips was a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom with a modest attitude.
She found fame in 1956 after reading the advice column that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle, and brazenly letting the editors know she could do better.
"They gave her a bunch of letters, thinking that, that they would never see her again - and she immediately took all of the letters to my dad's nearby office and whipped out answers and had answers back the same day. That knocked them off their feet," her son Eddie Phillips told "Good Morning America" in 2004.
Using the pseudonym "Abigail Van Buren," Phillips went from housewife to America's counselor in a career that spanned more than four decades. She counted celebrities, presidents, royalty and even a pope among her millions of fans. Her column was syndicated in more than 1,200 newspapers, and read by 95 million people a day.
Her twin sister Eppie Lederer became advice columnist Ann Landers. She died in 2002 at age 83.
A white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) pair watches over their new baby as they hang from a tree in JungleWorld at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo in New York, in this handout photo received by Reuters January 16, 2013. This is the first gibbon born at the Bronx Zoo since 2000.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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