Tom Danehy: It's time for Lent, so Tom wants to do some confessing (Tucson Weekly)
I convinced both of my children that I could take sickness out of them and put it inside of me, and since I was so much bigger than they were, it wouldn't affect me nearly as much. I would put my hand near their faces, do a drawing-out motion, and then turn my hand around and pop it into me.
Robert Evans: 5 Great Ideas That America Should Steal from Other Countries (Cracked)
America gets a lot of things right: interstate highways, tap water, fried chicken and waffles ... the list goes on and on. But we're a young country, and we'd be smart to turn our eyes to the older and wiser members of the global community every now and then and take their advice. Not on, like, health care or welfare or anything. But maybe with stuff like ...
Rare Historical Photos in Color (LiveLeak)
A collection of some really nice photos from the past "come to life". I've had this idea for quite some time now, but just couldn't find the ones I really wanted. Most of the photos I took from Life magazine, Library of Congress, Shorpy and National Geographic.
Eddie Deezen: Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor (Neatorama)
It was 1963, and Hollywood's reigning "king of comedy" was preparing to make another crowd-pleasing movie. Jerry Lewis was the movies' most popular comedian at this time, and the rumor was that he had never, to date, had a box-office flop.
Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec, known as Carla Tortelli, is a waitress on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Rhea Perlman. Outwardly, at least, Carla is a mean-spirited woman who expresses disdain for many (perhaps even most) people. She had four children with her then-husband Nick when the series started and eight children with three different men when it ended.
Carla is "feisty", "worldly-wise", and highly superstitious. When the show premiered in 1982, she has four children to support, fathered by her ex-husband Nick Tortelli (Dan Hedaya): Anthony (Timothy Williams), Serafina (Leah Remini), Gino (Josh Lozoff), and Anne Marie (Risa Littman).
Over time, she gives birth to four more children: Lucinda (Sabrina Wiener) fathered by Nick, Ludlow, nicknamed Lud (Jarrett Lennon), by Frasier's mentor Dr. Bennett Ludlow (James Karen), and twins Elvis (Danny Kramer) and Jesse (Thomas Tulak) by Eddie Lebec (Jay Thomas).
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
8
Charlie said:
The answer, I think, is eight.
The only further comment to add is that yes, that is way too many.
Lois The Chaste Of Oregon wrote:
Holy Moley, Carla squeezed out EIGHT hell spawn!?! I know it
was fiction, but still, did she ever figure out what caused
that? That reminds me of something my neighbor back in La
Puente told me regarding the birth of their fifth child: The
doctor asked why they had so many children. The mother
answered, "There must be something in the air". "Yeah"
answered the Doctor. "Your feet".
P.S. to Dale: Man, that's a lotta butts!
P.S.S. to Charlie: "Cosmos" too elementary? Sir, Dr. Sagan
designed "Cosmos" to re-ignite the sense of wonder and
curiosity we are all born with, but is beaten out of the
general population by the everyday stresses of survival, and
present ideas that some of us might not have been fortunate
enough to have encountered before. Apparently not everyone
was lucky enough to have had the educational advantages you
enjoyed. Could we perhaps judge it by the yardstick that
measures "the good of the many", and not the expectations of
the superior?
mj replied:
think the final tally
was 6.
Adam answered:
7 (!!!)
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
She had four children with her then-husband Nick when the series started and eight children with three different men when it ended.
Sally said:
By the end of the TV series Cheers, Carla had 8 children.
Carla Tortelli with various children...
I really liked Carla. In fact, that whole cast was fantastic, and had wonderful chemistry!
PS: It's frigging 10° outside today, with high winds.This time last year, I was planting my spinach and lettuce already! I don't mind the cold, but the combination of both is causing a lot of damage here. And, the dirty snow mounds have turned to ice, and still cover the landscape. Bah humbug...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec had eight kids. She also had a great mouth:
Carla: Nick, what the hell do you want?
Nick: Hey, is that the kind of hello I deserve?
&Carla: No, bend over and I'll give it to you.
Nick: I need a simple favor.
Carla: Unless it's setting your eyebrows on fire, forget it.
DJ Useo, responded:
Congrats on completely stumping me.
Just as a guess, I'll say 4.
Alan J answered:
Eight
MAM wrote:
8 ~ Carla Tortelli had four children with her then-husband Nick when the series started and eight children with three different men when it ended.
Anthony Tortelli
Serafina Tortelli
Gino Tortelli
Anne Marie Tortelli
Lucinda Tortelli
Bennett Ludlow, Jr.
Twins Elvis LeBec and Jesse LeBec
I remember that some of her children were in one or two episodes, but darned if I can find them!
And, Joe S said:
Eight is enough. Crazy eight. Eight kinds of fun. Eight Crazy Nights. Kate Carla plus Eight. Original Octomom.
And these are the eight.
Anthony Tortelli
Serafina Tortelli
Gino Tortelli
Anne Marie Tortelli
Lucinda Tortelli
Bennett Ludlow, Jr.
Elvis LeBec
Jesse LeBec
But you know, that's not a lot. My paternal grandmother had 12.
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 Bill O'Reilly, Nick Griffin, and the Dough Rollers.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Amy Smart and Denise Mina.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Grimm', then a FRESH'Hannibal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are James Franco, Andy Cohen, and Jake Bugg.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Christian Slater, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Andy Daly.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/13/14) are Nick Cunningham & Dallas Robinson, St. Lucia, and Madi Diaz.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'The Neighbors', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Lil Wayne, Willie Nelson, and Los Lonely Boys.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Colin & Brad: Two Man Group'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Kid Cudi, Jason Brown, and Tiffani Theissen.
Faux has a FRESH'Rake', 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 'Machete', followed by the movie 'Speed', then 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Doctor's Daughter
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 7 - The Unicorn and The Wasp
[10:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 5
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 25 - All Good Things... (Part 1)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 26 - All Good Things... (Part 2)
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Fish and Anchor
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Revisited: Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: NEMESIS
[11:30PM] STAR TREK: NEMESIS
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Coyote Ugly', followed by the movie 'Coyote Ugly'.
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 'Thor'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Slap Shot 3: The Junior League
[8:15AM] Beverly Hills Ninja
[10:15AM] The Cable Guy
[12:15PM] Johnson Family Vacation
[2:15PM] Beverly Hills Ninja
[4:15PM] The Cable Guy
[6:15PM] Bulletproof
[8:00PM] The Big Lebowski
[10:30PM] Up in Smoke
[12:15AM] Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie
[2:00AM] The Big Lebowski
[4:30AM] Portlandia-Ecoterrorists
[5:00AM] Portlandia-Celery
[5:30AM] Portlandia-Catnap (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[6:30AM] An Education
[8:45AM] The First Time
[10:45AM] Dragonslayer
[1:15PM] Waiting for Guffman
[3:00PM] Brothers
[5:15PM] Manhunter
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Shadow
[9:00PM] Drop Zone
[11:15PM] Drop Zone
[1:30AM] In the Line of Fire
[4:15AM] Alone With Her (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Helix', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroids SmackDown!', then a FRESH'Helix'.
Director of the movie Rob Thomas (L) poses with cast members (2nd L-R) Jason Dohring, Kristen Bell, Ryan Hansen, Amanda Noret, Enrico Colantoni and Jerry O'Connell at the premiere of "Veronica Mars" at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California March 12, 2014. The film opens on March 14.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
On the heels of renewing The Big Bang Theory for three more seasons, CBS on Thursday picked up another 18 shows for the 2014-15 TV season.
Getting the nod on the drama side are NCIS (for Season 12), NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, Criminal Minds, CSI, Elementary, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods and The Good Wife.
CBS' newly renewed comedies, meanwhile, are 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, Mom, The Millers and Two and a Half Men (which will be going into its 12th season)
Additionally, CBS greenlit new cycles of The Amazing Race, Undercover Boss, 60 Minutes and 48 Hours. TVLine's hand-crafted Renewal Scorecard is updated.
Actress Tilda Swinton, left, and director Jim Jarmusch, attend a screening of "Only Lovers Left Alive" hosted by the Cinema Society and W Magazine on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Andy Kropa
A Toronto doctor called to Washington this week to provide a U.S. subcommittee with insight into alternative forms of health care ended up sparring with a Republican Senator has he painted Canada's public system as a death sentence.
And it's fair to say she held her own.
Dr. Danielle Martin, the vice-president of medical affairs at Toronto's Women's College Hospital, was forced to dodge snide remarks and respond with some of her own as anti-Obamacare Sen. Richard Burr (R-Lined Pockets) insinuated that Canadians forced to wait for surgery were more prone to death than Americans without health insurance.
"On average, how many Canadian patients on a waiting list die each year? Do you know?" Burr asked Martin during a committee session on Tuesday.
"I don't, sir. But I know there are 45,000 in America who die while waiting because they don't have insurance at all," Martin answered.
The Senator's retort to that comment should give all Canadians something to think about. Burr said all uninsured Americans have access to healthcare through something "called the emergency room." Which is apparently a new phenomenon that hasn't made it up to Canada just yet? Perhaps we should invest in this witchcraft.
Would Parmesan by any other name be as tasty atop your pasta? A ripening trade battle might put that to the test.
As part of trade talks, the European Union wants to ban the use of European names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the United States.
The argument is that the American-made cheeses are shadows of the original European varieties and cut into sales and identity of the European cheeses. The Europeans say Parmesan should only come from Parma, Italy, not those familiar green cylinders that American companies sell. Feta should only be from Greece, even though feta isn't a place. The EU argues it "is so closely connected to Greece as to be identified as an inherently Greek product."
U.S. dairy producers, cheesemakers and food companies are all fighting the idea, which they say would hurt the $4 billion domestic cheese industry and endlessly confuse consumers.
Actress Gillian Anderson attends the premiere of "Nymphomaniac: Volume I" at The Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, March 13, 2014 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Native Americans along the Pacific Coast and aboriginal Siberians may have both originated from populations living on the land bridge now submerged under the Bering Strait, a new language analysis suggests.
The language analysis, detailed today (March 12) in the journal PLOS ONE, is consistent with the notion that ancestors to modern-day Native Americans were stuck in the region of the Bering Strait before making their way into North America.
Exactly how Native Americans first entered North America has been hotly debated. In one theory, people crossed the Bering Strait and rapidly colonized North America about 15,000 years ago.
But another theory, called the Beringia standstill hypothesis, proposes that people lived in and around the Bering land bridge between 18,000 and 28,000 years ago, when glaciers covered much of North America and the region wasn't submerged under water.
Is "Duck Dynasty" just a big advertisement for the Almighty? At least one of the stars seems to think so.
Sadie Robertson, the teenage daughter of Duck Commander boss Willie Robertson, tells Fox411 that her clan decided to do the A&E reality series in order to spread the word of the lord.
"When we began 'Duck Dynasty,' we weren't starting it for fame," Robertson said. "We started it to get the message of God out there."
"We could have easily done a reality show like everyone else," Robertson noted. "But it's our faith that catches people's eyes because sadly, it's not something we're used to seeing [on TV] these days."
Actor Billy Crystal and his wife Janice attend the NBA basketball game between the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
A California board once again approved parole Wednesday for former Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis, but before he's released he'll have to get past Gov. Jerry Brown - who chose to keep him in prison under the same circumstances just last year.
Davis, 71, made his 28th appearance before a Department of Corrections Board of Parole Hearings at the California Men's Colony near San Luis Obispo.
He has been in prison for nearly 43 years, sentenced with Manson and others for the 1969 murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea. He long maintained that he was a bystander in the killings, but in recent years he has acknowledged his shared responsibility.
Davis was granted parole by the same board in 2012, but Brown rejected it last March, saying he was convinced Davis still hadn't revealed all he knew about the Manson Family.
Actress Uma Thurman attends the premiere of "Nymphomaniac: Volume I" at The Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, March 13, 2014 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
A rural Nevada sheriff is defending the practice of stopping suspected drug traffickers on U.S. Interstate 80 and confiscating tens of thousands of dollars even if no criminal charges are filed.
Reports that two men had filed lawsuits in federal court against the county stirred concerns among Humboldt County residents that deputies are making illegal searches and seizures along I-80 in the high desert near Winnemucca about 165 miles east of Reno.
Humboldt County Sheriff Ed Kilgore said he can't discuss case details, but he wants to assure residents the stops are legal and not intended to shake down unsuspecting visitors. He said that civil forfeitures are legal if an arresting officer suspects the individual obtained - or intends to use - the money illegally.
The federal plaintiffs from California and Colorado tell strikingly similar stories about their stops near Winnemucca in September and December. No drugs were found or arrests made, but both say they were told they'd be released with their vehicles only if they forfeited their cash in violation of their constitutional rights.
One gave up a briefcase filled with $50,000 cash, and the other handed over $13,800 and a handgun, their lawsuits contend.
Dancers Vladimir Shishov (L) and Olga Esina perform during a dress rehearsal of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the State Opera in Vienna March 13, 2014. The ballet will premiere on March 16 and runs till April 26.
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader
The United Nations has received pleas to help free several Saudi Arabian princesses allegedly being held against their will in a royal compound, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Allegations submitted to the U.N. human rights office claim that several daughters of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia have been held for the past 13 years in the royal compound in Jeddah.
The case stems from an email sent to the United Nations and The Sunday Times of London, which published a story saying two daughters of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38 - had appealed for help claiming they and their sisters have been held for 13 years in the royal compound.
The newspaper said that their mother, Alanoud Alfayez, who lives in London and is divorced from the king, also contacted the United Nations seeking help with the case.
An art piece titled "Mil grullas de papel," or "A Thousand Paper Cranes," hangs in the Museo del Objeto del Objeto, MODO, during the inauguration of the traveling exhibit, "The Museum of Broken Relationships," in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The exhibit is a collection of donated objects symbolic of broken relationships. The paper birds were donated by a Mexican student who received them from her ex-boyfriend as a parting gift to wish her luck, two days after they broke up.
Photo by Isaac Garrido
More than five centuries after he went down fighting, medieval monarch Richard III is in the middle of another battle - this time over where in England his newly discovered remains should be re-buried.
The Plantagenet Alliance, which includes Richard's distant descendants, has asked England's High Court to rule on plans to re-bury their ancestor's remains in Leicester, the city where they were found two years ago under a municipal car park.
The alliance says the Ministry of Justice was "unreasonable" to give permission to Leicester to bury him in its cathedral and argues the decision on the final resting place of the last Plantagenet king should have been a matter of public consultation.
Richard III is a controversial figure in English history, seen by some as a monster who murdered his own nephews to take the throne and by others as unfairly maligned by his enemies.
Hindu priests throws coloured powder at the devotees during Holi celebrations at Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 13, 2014. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
Photo by Ahmad Masood
The United States Mint will begin selling special curved coins this month to honor the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with a design representing the inverse images of a ball and mitt, U.S. Mint officials said on Thursday.
The $5, $1 and half-dollar coins, plated with gold, silver and alloy, are in production at the San Francisco U.S. Mint and will be sold online starting on March 27, agency spokesman Michael White said.
Some 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins and 750,000 half-dollar alloy-clad coins will be produced.
They will be the first curved coins - concave on the heads side and convex on the reverse - ever minted by the U.S. Mint, according to a statement on the agency's website.
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.
Abby Singer, a famed production manager whose name became synonymous for the next-to-last shot of the day, died Thursday. He was 96.
The Harlem-born Abner E. Singer was a longtime production manager and assistant director who worked primarily in television from the 1950s through the '90s. He became famous for his efficient habit of preparing a crew of an impending move to the next scene by calling out the second-to-last shot.
Since the late '50s, it's been routine on sets for the penultimate shot of the day to be announced as "the Abby Singer" or "the Abby." (The final shot is nicknamed the "Martini.")
Singer once told the DGA that he suspected his name became shorthand for the second-to-last shot in 1957, while working on the western series "Wagon Train." Before he knew it, "the Abby Singer shot" caught on, he said, "like lightning."
Singer served actively in the guild, which in 1985 honoured him with the Frank Capra Achievement Award, a career achievement tribute for assistant director and production managers.
Singer is survived by his wife, Lotte Singer, two daughters, stepdaughter and three granddaughters.
Legendary voice-over artist Hal Douglas, whose sonorous delivery starred in trailers for thousands of movies and documentaries, has died, his family said Thursday.
Douglas, who was 89, died March 7 at his home in northern Virginia with his wife Ruth and daughter Sarah at his side, the family said in a written statement. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010.
While Douglas could probably walk down any street in the U.S. unrecognized, his voice was unmistakably a star. He was among the top voice-over artists of a generation, creating a career based on a rich baritone speaking voice that ranged from biblically epic to theatrically cheesy.
His work on trailers was eclectic, ranging from the sombre "Philadelphia" to the comedic, including "Meet the Parents."
Douglas riffed on his aural celebrity - and made a rare on-camera appearance - in the trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld documentary "Comedian." In the 2002 film, he takes his place in a recording booth and launches into a trademark trailer opening, "In a world where..." - only to be cut short repeatedly by a director.
The appearance was his first on screen in 40 years, Sarah Douglas said. The campy "In a world ..." phrase was credited to Don LaFontaine, another voice-ever great, she said.
In October, he suffered a stroke, losing most of his ability to speak, Sarah Douglas said.
Despite the cancer diagnosis in 2010, "He had a great four years," she added. She said she wanted others with cancer to know that aspect of his life.
In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Detroit Zoological Society, a newborn aardvark named Kaatie is shown at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. The zoo announced this week that Kaatie weighed less than 4 pounds at birth on Feb. 11 and has since more than quadrupled in size. Mature aardvarks can be 90 to 145 pounds and 5 to 6 feet in length.
Photo by Tom Roy
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