Katherine Harris is set to win the Republican primary to run against (lose
to) Bill Nelson (D-FL) beacause no one else would enter the race. She has
some very minor opposition that no one has heard of. Predictions are that
she will bring out even the fringe Democrats who hardly vote just so they
can vote against her. This should drag down the other republicans running.
Lost in the moral maze? (independent.co.uk)
When does human life really begin? And how should it end? From stem-cell research to advances in medicine, the merciless march of technology creates a succession of moral dilemmas that earlier generations didn't have to face. How should we respond? Mary Warnock, Britain's leading philosopher, shows you the way.
The KO blow from RKO (guardian.co.uk)
Philip French salutes the second part of Simon Callow's majestic life of Orson Welles, which charts the director's loathing for Hollywood after the release of Citizen Kane
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Keith Barry: Extraordinary', followed by a FRESH'Close To Home', then a FRESH'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Edie Falco, Pete Correale, and Van Hunt.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mark Harmon, Jacinda Barrett, and Rock Kills Kid.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Las Vegas', then a FRESH'Convviction'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Tom Hanks, Emmy Rossum, and Hoobastank.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Sen. Barack Obama and Wilco.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Famke Janssen, Jared Leto, Jo Koy, and 30 Seconds to Mars.
ABC pisses away the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by '20/20', then another '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dominic Monaghan, J.J. Abrams, and Taking Back Sunday.
The WB fills the night with the movie 'How To Deal'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio', the MOST IMPORTANT program on over-the-air-TV.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Decoding The Past', 'Bible Code II: Apocalypse', and 'Biography' (Ron Howard).
AMC offers the movie 'Slap Shot 2: Breaking The Ice', followed by the movie 'Home Alone 3', then the movie 'Carrie'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 7;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served' - Camping In;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;
[4pm] 'My Hero' - Mayor of Northholt;
[4:40pm] 'My Family' - Ep 9 While You Weren't Sleeping;
[5:20pm] 'My Family' - Ep 10 Dentist To The Stars;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Brown;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 17;
[8pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 2;
[8:30pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Porter;
[9pm] 'The Thick Of It' - Episode 1;
[9:40pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Graham Norton;
[10:20pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Death;
[11:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[12:20am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
[1am] 'The Thick Of It' - Episode 1;
[1:40am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Graham Norton;
[2:20am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'The Young Ones' - Bambi;
[3:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Cash;
[4:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[5am] 'This Life' - Let's Get It On;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', then the movie 'Jurassic Park', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Out Cold', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', followed by a FRESH'Stand Up Nation With Gred Giraldo'.
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher -
scheduled guests include John Legend, national security expert Richard Clarke, and Cornel West. Plus, via satellite, Madeleine Albright, and TV talking head John Gibson.
History has 'Egypt Pyramids', 'Warrior Empire: The Mughals', and 'High Hitler'.
IFC -
[6AM] Murder By Numbers;
[7AM] IFC In Theaters;
[7:20AM] Muriel's Wedding;
[9:10AM] The Widow of St. Pierre;
[11AM] Spring Forward;
[1PM] Widows' Peak;
[2:45PM] Muriel's Wedding;
[4:35PM] The Widow of St. Pierre;
[6:30PM] At The IFC Center #13;
[7:05PM] Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss;
[8:45PM] City Of God;
[11PM] Bound;
[12:55AM] City Of God;
[3:05AM] Bound;
[5AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: May. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'John Doe', 'Stargate SG-1', followed by a FRESH'Doctor Who', and 'Stargate Atlantis'.
Sundance -
[7:15AM] Embedded;
[9AM] The Talent Given Us;
[10:45AM] The Moscow Skyscraper;
[12:15PM] Springtime in a Small Town;
[2:15PM] A Brief Peace;
[3:15PM] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
[5:15PM] The Magic of Fellini;
[6:15PM] The Perfect Human;
[6:30PM] Kath & Kim: Money;
[7PM] The Talent Given Us;
[8:40PM] American Fame Part Two: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis;
[9PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 6: Birnam Wood;
[10PM] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
[12AM] Hairspray;
[1:35AM] Puberty Blues;
[3:05AM] L'eau Froide;
[4:35AM] Adultre, Mode D' Emploi. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Cast members of the 1972 film 'The Poseidon Adventure' Red Buttons, left, and Pamela Sue Martin pose after they arrived to the premiere of the new film 'Poseidon' Wednesday, May 10, 2006, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Rock band Pearl Jam is focusing on politics and charity in its 2006 summer tour, railing against the Iraq war and promising a dollar to a local charity from every ticket sold.
Pearl Jam has long been known as a band to speak its mind, and the newest offering from the Seattle-based group is politically charged, with many references to the war and to U.S. social issues such as unemployment and immigration reform.
"It's not just a giant rail against (U.S. resident) Bush," bass player Jeff Ament said in an interview. "(Singer Eddie Vedder) has created characters we can all relate to. I feel like I'm still getting to know them six months later."
The tour opens in Toronto this week with two sold-out shows promoting the band's new album, called simply "Pearl Jam."
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed the Bush administration's defense of the Iraq war, arguing that messages such as "Plan for Victory" can't hide the "2,400 flag-draped coffins that have arrived at the Dover Air Force Base."
In a speech to EMILY's List, the Illinois senator used biting criticism in assailing the president and his handling of the war. Obama spoke in support of former Army Maj. Tammy Duckworth, a helicopter co-pilot who lost both her legs in combat in Iraq and is trying to win an open House seat.
"This idea," Obama said, "that somehow if you say the words 'plan for victory' and 'stay the course' over and over and over and over again and you put these subliminal messages behind you that say 'victory' and 'victory' and 'victory,' that somehow people are not going to notice the 2,400 flag-draped coffins that have arrived at the Dover Air Force Base."
Nancy Sinatra, second from left, poses for a photo with from left, her sister Tina Sinatra, her mother, Nancy, and her daughter AJ Lambert, during a ceremony Thursday, May 11, 2006, honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Along with her rebel hit 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin,' the daughter of Frank Sinatra gained fame for her miniskirts, blonde bouffant, vampy style and string of chart-topping tunes, including 'Sugar Town' and the James Bond title track 'You Only Live Twice.'
Photo by Nick Ut
A freelance TV producer who plagiarized passages from "The West Wing" has been let go by NBC Universal Sports, the network said Thursday.
A short feature broadcast on NBC before the Kentucky Derby on Saturday praised a horse trainer who led three children to safety after a plane crash. The script said that trainer Michael Matz "ran into the fire to save the lives of three children." The narrator paused dramatically and said, "ran into the fire."
The pause and last line echoed one delivered by Martin Sheen, who plays the President on "The West Wing," in a scene about fire survivors in the opening episode of the NBC series' fourth season. The script was written by series creator Aaron Sorkin.
Dave Chappelle is still explaining to his wife why he left his Comedy Central show and walked away from a $50 million contract.
"My wife is still a little salty with me," Chappelle joked on NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" on Wednesday night. "She's not mad at me, but don't think you can walk away from $50 million and your wife is just going to be cool with it."
On "Late Night," he also joked about his quick exodus to Africa, where he stayed after leaving "Chappelle's Show."
"When you go to Africa, especially your first time, you have this overwhelming feeling like you're home," he said. "I had a feeling of `man, this feels like home.'
"I think I felt that way because there was a McDonald's in the airport."
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was discharged from a hospital in New Zealand on Thursday following surgery to relieve pressure in his head following a fall, his publicist said.
Fran Curtis said in a brief statement that Richards would remain an outpatient at The Ascot Hospital in Auckland and would return for checkups.
Richards suffered the injury on April 27 in Fiji. News reports have variously claimed that he fell out of a palm tree or from a jet ski. It was unclear how long Richards would remain an outpatient and Curtis could not immediately be reached for comment.
Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman comments on the delivery of 169,574 voter signatures to the Secretary of State's office in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 11, 2006. Friedman needs only 45,540 valid signatures to get on the November ballot.
Photo by Jack Plunkett
Cable channel Bravo announced Wednesday a raft of new programming that will populate a 52-week schedule of originals on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The Tuesday slate, rolling out early next month, will be built around such reality-based shows as "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County." But it will be increased to include such shows as "Workout," about a woman who runs a trainers-only gym in Hollywood, and "Tabloid Wars," a previously announced show that follows New York Daily News reporters in their quest to cover the news and battle fellow tabloid the New York Post.
Wednesdays, which have been a hit with "Project Runway" and "Top Chef," will be growing with other creative competitions like "War of the Wives," about two experts who will spend 48 hours teaching their spouses as much as they can and then watching the spouses competing against each other. Other shows in development include "Heads Up," a competition for hairstylists; "The Inn Crowd," six one-hour episodes that follows teams vying to win their own bed and breakfast; and "Top Decorator," a "Project Runway"-type show that focuses on the world of interior decorating.
Also returning are " Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" and "Celebrity Poker Showdown." Griffin's new adventures include a trip to Iraq, where she entertained the troops with stand-up comedy. "Celebrity Poker Showdown" lands in New Orleans, with the proceeds going to Hurricane Katrina relief.
Snoop Dogg has accepted responsibility for using "threatening words or behavior" in a brawl last month at Heathrow airport.
The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, appeared at Heathrow police station and "accepted a caution for a Section Four Public Order Act matter, using threatening words or behavior," police said Thursday.
A caution means a person has accepted responsibility for the offense, and a record will be made. No further action will be taken, police said.
Cast member Kurt Russell (C) arrives accompanied by his son Wyatt (L) and his stepson Oliver Hudson at the premiere of 'Poseidon' at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood May 10, 2006. The movie is a remake of the 1972 classic 'The Poseidon Adventure' and tells the story of a group of people who tries to survive after their luxury ocean liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 12.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Universal Music Group Recordings Inc., the world's largest record company, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a payola case that claimed the company provided vacations, electronics and other bribes to increase radio play for their artists, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Thursday.
The bribes and gifts were used to gain airplay for songs that included records by Nick Lachey, Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, and Lindsay Lohan, Spitzer said.
The California-based company agreed to pay the cash to charity along with $100,000 to cover the cost of the investigation and to adopt reforms, Spitzer said. The company didn't admit guilt, but acknowledged "various employees and independent promoters acting on behalf of the company" engaged in the illegal practice, Spitzer said.
Japan's Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando performs during a preview of his self-produced performance 'Amaterasu' with Japanese 'taiko' drum troupe Kodo members at a Tokyo theater Wednesday, May 10, 2006. Old-style barriers between Japan's art forms come down with a percussive bang in a rare collaboration between 'taiko' drumming and Kabuki theater. 'Amaterasu,' a performance piece that opens in Tokyo later this month, defies convention in this nation's often rigid and hierarchical art world in bringing together Tamasaburo, one of Kabuki's top 'onnagata,' a male actor who specializes in playing women roles, and Kodo, a taiko ensemble that has won international recognition.
Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi
Northern hunters, scientists and people with vivid imaginations have discussed the possibility for years.
But Roger Kuptana, an Inuvialuit guide from Sachs Harbour, North West Territories, was the first to suspect it had actually happened when he proposed that a strange-looking bear shot last month by an American sports hunter might be half polar bear, half grizzly.
Territorial officials seized the creature after noticing its white fur was scattered with brown patches and that it had the long claws and humped back of a grizzly. Now a DNA test has confirmed that it is indeed a hybrid - possibly the first documented in the wild.
Moscow commemorates the 61st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with fireworks, Tuesday, May 9, 2006, in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square. For many in the former Soviet Union, the victory over Nazi Germany stands out as the proudest moment in a troubled past. It was achieved at a tremendous cost, with an estimated 27 million dead and much of the western part of the country devastated.
Photo by Sergey Ponomarev
A new species of monkey identified in Tanzania's highlands last year is an even more remarkable find than thought -- it is a new genus of animal, scientists said on Thursday.
The new monkey, at first called the highland mangabey but now known as kipunji, is more closely related to baboons than to mangabey monkeys, but in fact deserves its own genus and species classification, the researchers reported in the journal Science.
So they have re-named it Rungwecebus kipunji, and it is the first new genus of a living primate from Africa to be identified in 83 years.
In this photo provided by the Volvo Ocean Race, the Brasil passes the State of Liberty as it arrived to take third place in the Volvo Ocean Race leg 6 from Annapolis to New York Tuesday, May 9, 2006.
Photo by Oskar Kihlborg
Relax, Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling now has plenty of paper. The author, a resident of Edinburgh, Scotland, who writes in longhand, is busy writing the seventh and final Potter book. She had complained last month that she was having a hard time finding writing paper. Her readers apparently sympathized.
"Since complaining that I had difficulty finding anything to write on after running out of paper while working in town, I have been deluged with paper. Some of you sent single sheets, others entire pads, one enterprising paper merchant sent a large stack of notebooks embossed boldly with J K ROWLING, which I might not use in public, but which are very lovely all the same.
"Others took a different approach, telling me exactly where you can buy writing paper in Edinburgh; some even enclosed maps. Anyway, I've now got enough paper to write several book sevens, so no excuse there."
A penguin covered with oil waits to be washed by Uruguayan environmentalist Richard Tesore in Piriapolis, near the sea side resort of Punta del Este, May 11, 2006. At least 150 penguins were found on several Uruguayan beaches covered with oil. Tesore has been taking care of 35 of them but 10 of those 35 have died in the last number of days.
Photo by Andres Stapff
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