Tom Danehy: This week, Tom talks inventions (Tucson Weekly)
Amazingly, in an American court of law, RCA's legal tactic was to claim that it was impossible for a 15-year-old boy to come up with one of the most brilliant scientific breakthroughs of all time. However, thanks to the introduction into evidence of the sketches that his high school teacher had kept, Farnsworth actually (technically) prevailed over RCA in court. In fact the court ruled that Farnsworth was "the undisputed inventor of television."
Zoe Williams: Now we can't eat protein. What can we eat? (Guardian)
This week a new report said that a diet high in animal protein could increase our chances of dying from cancer or diabetes fourfold. So if protein has joined sugar, fat and carbohydrate in being bad for us, what's left for dinner?
William Lawrence Francis "Bill" Cullen (February 18, 1920 - July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career lasted over thirty years. He was best known for television game shows, having hosted multiple series (including Place the Face, the original The Price Is Right, the syndicated The $25,000 Pyramid, and Blockbusters) and served as a panelist on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth.
The Game Show Congress, a nonprofit association that seeks to promote the game show industry, annually presents the Bill Cullen Career Achievement Award to performers who have had distinguished careers in the genre. The first award in 2004 was given posthumously to Cullen himself; his widow Ann accepted it on his behalf.
Cullen contracted poliomyelitis in the early 1930s. The long-term sequelae of that illness, combined with injuries sustained in a serious motor vehicle accident in 1937 requiring a 9-month hospitalization, left him with significant and lifelong ambulatory limitations.
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(Cullen) holds the record for hosting more game shows than any host in history at 24.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Bill Cullen
Charlie wrote:
The dubious honor belongs to Bill Cullen.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Bill Cullen
Alan J took the day off.
Adam answered:
Regis Philbin. I think it's telling I could not name a single show he's hosted apart fron Regis & Kathy Lee.
Sally said:
I was going to say the Bob Barker holds the record for hosting the most (US) network TV game shows - but I don't think he hosted that many game shows. So, I'll try Regis Philbin. In fact, I really don't know as I don't watch game shows...
It's all BS to me...
PS: The morning care kids have had half days this week. I have had them mornings and afternoons, and we are all having cabin fever, because the ice-crusted snow is still covering a lot of the ground. Tomorrow we will walk about 8 blocks and go to a small restaurant for lunch. I'm verclamped at the thoughts of getting out of the house; the kids can't wait to get in that left-over snow! It should be a win-win afternoon...
Dale in Diamond Springs, RainyNorcali, replied:
Bill Cullen. The dude was really smooth! Italian game show host Sara Varone. Vanna and January Jones from Mad Men. WTF, I'm just Driftin and Driftin today!
Lois Failed In Oregon responded:
Google let me down. Is it Geoff Edwards? Bob Eubanks? Wink
Martindale? Is there cheese somehow involved? I am stumped.
I must hide my shame. Here are some random images.
DJ Useo, replied:
I only had to puzzle over this question for a few minutes to come to the conclusion that
the answer HAS to be Regis Philbin.
He's okay as a host, but I'm not a fan or anything. That Millionaire show he did was fun.
MAM wrote:
I don't know! And had limited time to look! My favorite granddaughter celebrtated her 18th birthday today. Plan to be back to normal tomorro!
Sarah Morgan . . . 18 today!
And, Joe S answered:
Just a guess, got no time for research doing my project, but I would guess Bill Cullen. That guy used to be everywhere. Gotta go, gotta blaze.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Lenny Marcus and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Aaron Paul and Andi Osho.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Grimm', then a FRESH'Hannibal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Stephen Colbert, Keri Russell, and Broken Bells.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kenan Thompson, Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski, and Sarah Lewis.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/19/13) are Doug Benson, No, and Justine Marino.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'The Neighbors', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 2/26/14) are Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Ford, and Sky Ferreira.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Star-Crossed'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Mark Burnett, Roma Downey, Diogo Morgado, Jeff Perry, David Banner, and Animal.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Enlisted', then a FRESH'Raising Hope'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Titanic', followed by the movie 'Friday Night Lights', and 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Family Of Blood
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Utopia
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Revisited: La Parra de Burriana
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[9:00PM] STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
[11:30PM] STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Booby Trap
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', then the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', again.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Key & Peele', another 'Key & Peele', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the movie 'How To Train Your Dragon', then the movie 'How To Train Your Dragon', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Eraser
[8:45AM] The Informant!
[11:00AM] Beverly Hills Ninja
[1:00PM] Eraser
[3:30PM] The Informant!
[5:45PM] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
[8:00PM] GoodFellas
[11:00PM] The Aviator
[2:30AM] Deliverance
[4:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Foundling
[5:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[5:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Law & Order-Barter
[7:00AM] Tiny Furniture
[9:15AM] Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
[11:00AM] Lantana
[1:30PM] Carnage
[3:15PM] Dragonslayer
[5:45PM] The Order
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Matrimony
[9:00PM] Rising Sun
[11:45PM] Rising Sun
[2:30AM] The Minus Man
[5:00AM] The Red Road-The Wolf and the Dog (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Helix', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Helix'.
Singer Janelle Monáe, left, listens as singer Patti LaBelle, sings in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 6, 2014, during a workshop for students as part of the "In Performance at the White House" series, celebrating female artists as the "foremothers" of American music, hosted by first lady Michelle Obama.
Photo by Jacquelyn Martin
Jimmy Fallon is still a new face on The Tonight Show, but NBC is clearly feeling good enough about his ratings to issue new rules for guests of the show that could dissuade some of them from appearing. According to TMZ, NBC is requiring that guests who wish to appear on Fallon's show do not appear on any similar talk shows - late night or early morning - with CBS or ABC. This doesn't include other NBC shows of course, such as Today Show and Dateline, but TMZ reports that there have already been some issues with guests The Tonight Show was looking to get on the show.
While some might argue that the move was premature, seeing as Fallon's time on the show has been somewhat short so far, it's undeniable that his ratings are impressive. According to the Los Angeles Times, The Tonight Show drew 10.4 million viewers in the first week it ran - the largest audience for The Tonight Show since back in May of 1992 when Johnny Carson hosted it. Not too shabby. Of course, the first week is bound to draw in a curious audience - the show's newness is at least a portion of what people are interested in. Yet the second week proved highly successful as well, according to the Los Angeles Times, with 5.5 million total viewers, still managing to beat Jay Leno's average of 4 million viewers. That also (easily) beats ABC's Jimmy Kimmel and CBS's David Letterman, with viewing averages that have been under 3 million a night.
So what's Fallon's secret? Could it be that he faced off against Annette Bening in an epic game of flip-cup? The dance duos with both Mrs. Obama and Will Smith certainly can't have hurt. Unfortunately for Fallon's replacement over at Late Night with new host Seth Meyers, things aren't going quite as well.
Harry Belafonte, second from left, playfully sticks out his tongue after receiving an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee College of Music President Roger H. Brown, right, at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Thursday, March 6, 2014.
Photo by Michael Dwyer
The 40th anniversary of groundbreaking Canadian sketch show "SCTV" is coming up in 2016, but the general prospect of a cast reunion doesn't seem that meaningful to Martin Short - only because the members of the troupe never drifted apart in the first place.
"I think what makes 'SCTV' different than, I don't know, let's say the original cast of 'Saturday Night Live' or something, the 'SCTV' cast were close friends going into that show before we started," Short said in a recent telephone interview.
"So Andrea Martin and I met in '72 in 'Godspell,' Eugene Levy is my best friend, Dave Thomas is one of my best friends, Catherine (O'Hara) is one of my best - we are all close friends. We've all been at each other's weddings and births of children so there's been a long, long, long connection and everyone socializes whenever they see each other, whenever they can.
Not to mention the fact that the cast is missing at least one crucial member.
"It'd be like a Beatles reunion with just Ringo and Paul - it's not a Beatles reunion. It's Ringo and Paul."
Gilda's LaughFest organizers in the past three years have overseen record-setting attempts for donning false moustaches, wearing chicken beaks and tossing rubber chickens.
The fourth annual festival of laughter kicks off Thursday with an effort to set a new world record for the most people wearing sunglasses at night. Participants are to be given official bright yellow LaughFest sunglasses.
Guinness World Records says the current mark was set in July 2012 by 1,642 people at Chicago's Wrigley Field.
Gilda's LaughFest will run through March 16. It honours the memory of comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989.
Members of the band Queen guitarist Brian May (R) and drummer Roger Taylor (L) pose for photographers with singer Adam Lambert at a news conference to announce a North American tour in New York, March 6, 2014. Billed as "Queen + Adam Lambert" the 19 date tour will launch in Chicago on June 19 and wrap up in Washington D.C. on July 20.
Photo by Mike Segar
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker, who has been with the network for 30 years and based in Los Angeles since 1992, is moving East to join the cast of "60 Minutes."
CBS said Thursday that Whitaker will begin on the Sunday night show this fall. He will be the first full-time black correspondent on "60 Minutes" since the death of Ed Bradley in 2006, although Byron Pitts was a regular contributor before joining ABC News in 2013.
Whitaker, 62, has reported for most of CBS' newscasts and contributed profiles on the likes of Barbra Streisand, Norman Lear and Mike Tyson to "Sunday Morning." He was also based in Tokyo and Atlanta after joining CBS in 1984. He was CBS' lead reporter on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2008 and George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.
The network said Whitaker's hiring had nothing to do with the show being shorthanded with Lara Logan's absence.
The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday urged her brothers to search their consciences and reconsider their plan to sell the civil rights icon's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.
King's estate is run by his two sons, Martin Luther King III and Dexter King. The estate's lawyers filed court papers Jan. 31 asking a judge to order their sister, the Rev. Bernice King, to surrender the items. A lawyer for the estate said at a court hearing last month that the estate has been in conversations with entities that want to buy or lease them.
Bernice has repeatedly said she opposes any such deal.
"I implore you to consider the magnitude of this moment in history and how you want your individual legacies to be defined," Bernice said at a news conference at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, addressing her brothers who weren't present.
Singer songwriter Bill Withers (L) and singer Edward Holland (R) pose with musician Ray Parker Jr. as he is honored with the 2,519th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California March 6, 2014.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Egypt detained and deported Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and peace activist Mairead Maguire on Wednesday and held up others who had been planning to go to neighbouring Gaza, the activists and officials said.
Maguire had intended to join a delegation of women activists going to the blockaded Palestinian enclave on Thursday.
The group could embarrass the military-installed government, which is at odds with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers, yet does not want to be seen as party to a siege of Palestinians, blockaded by Israel.
On Tuesday, airport police had already detained and deported American anti-war activist Medea Benjamin, also part of the delegation, who told AFP police broke her arm.
Maguire, born in 1944, won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize with Betty Williams for founding a peace group to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland.
French singer Mireille Mathieu (R) hugs her mother Marcelle after a news conference in Riga March 6, 2014. Mathieu cancelled her show in Ukraine due to the crisis and arrived to Latvia before her show in Riga on Saturday, to take part in Francophonie days events, organizers informed media.
Photo by Ints Kalnins
Paramount's big-budget Bible epic "Noah" starring Russell Crowe won't be seen in the Middle East.
Censors in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have told the studio that they will not allow its release in their countries because "it contradicts the teachings of Islam," a source with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap Thursday.
Film officials in Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait are expected to ban the film as well.
Egypt's Sunni Muslim institute Al-Azhar issued a statement on "Noah" Thursday.
"Al-Azhar renews its rejection to the screening of any production that characterizes Allah's prophets and messengers and the companions of the Prophet [Mohammed]. Therefore, Al-Azhar announces the prohibition of the upcoming film about the Allah's messenger Noah - peace be upon him."
Comedian Bill Cosby participates in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of Ben's Chili Bowl, Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Arlington, Va. Ben's, a District of Columbia landmark is expanding across the Potomac. Ben's Chili Bowl opened its first location in Virginia on Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Arlington. Cosby, the restaurant's most famous cheerleader, cut the ribbon and entertained a crowd of several hundred that turned out to get one of Ben's signature chili half-smokes.
Photo by Matt Barakat
The man lauded as "Japan's Beethoven," who has admitted he never wrote his compositions, appeared before cameras for the first time since the scandal surfaced - clean-shaven and minus his trademark sunglasses.
Mamoru Samuragochi, who used to sport long hair, bowed repeatedly at a news conference, and apologized for the troubles he had caused his fans, producers behind his works and others.
He acknowledged he had worked with his collaborator Takashi Niigaki in secret for 18 years. Niigaki recently told a tabloid magazine he was the ghostwriter behind the works, including the "Hiroshima" symphony.
Samuragochi said his hearing had been recovering, but denied he was posturing as deaf, and said he still had hearing problems.
Patrick Warburton, right, and Cathy Warburton attend the LA Premiere of "Mr. Peabody & Sherman", Wednesday, March 5, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Richard Shotwell
An Arkansas judge has admitted that he posted a series of anonymous online comments that critics say are racist, sexist and otherwise inappropriate, including one in which he revealed alleged details of confidential proceedings involving actress Charlize Theron's adoption of her son.
Circuit Judge Mike Maggio acknowledged Wednesday that he posted the comments on a Louisiana State University fan message board, Tiger Droppings, under the pseudonym "geauxjudge." He also ended his campaign for a seat on the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
Maggio, whose term as a 20th Judicial District judge expires at the end of the year, asked for privacy for his family. He didn't immediately respond to an email or phone message left at his office Thursday seeking comment.
Political blogger Matt Campbell first suggested that "geauxjudge" was Maggio in a Monday posting on his website, Blue Hog Report. He included screen grabs of "geauxjudge" postings from the past few years, including some that dropped biographical hints or that many would find racist, sexist or homophobic.
Responding to a story about a woman who was arrested for allegedly having sex with a dog, "geauxjudge" wrote that it was "just a small step" from having "TGGLBS" sex, an apparent reference to transgender, gay, lesbian or bisexual sex.
Female activist members of FEMEN go topless during their anti-Putin, pro-Ukraine demonstration in New York's Times Square, Thursday, March 6, 2014.
Photo by Richard Drew
While the Penguin Foundation's website says it currently has a 'good supply' of the little jumpers, the organisation also uses them in educational programs as well as selling them as a fundraising measure.
A lock hair from French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's (L), the sleeves from the shirt he passed away in, a fragment of the weeping willow tree which shaded his tombstone (2ndR), and his ivory cane (R) are displayed at auction house Osenat in Paris March 6, 2014. This items are part of a box with relics taken from his final days in 1821 on the Atlantic island of Saint Helena. Objects such as Napoleon's ivory cane, a bottle containing earth from his tomb, as well as handkerchiefs and bandages will be sold by auction house Osenat on March 23 in Fontainebleau. The items had been stored in a case in a small Corsican village, and were given to the auction house by a 90-year-old haberdasher, who had inherited it from the Achille Archambault family, Napoleon's horseman, who collected the items from the island after the Emperor's death.
Photo by Charles Platiau
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.
A gray langur (Semnopithecus) baby lies in the arm of mother Sariska in the Zoo in Hannover, northern Germany, Thursday, March 6, 2014. The monkey was born in the zoo Feb. 15, 2014 but its gender is yet unknown.
Photo by Peter Steffen
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