How MoDo lost her mojo (guardian.co.uk)
Maureen Dowd, one of America's most respected journalists, has been accused of plagiarism. Can it really be true? Hadley Freeman reports.
Garrison Keillor: State of corruption reigns in Britain too
I come to London to pick up a tube of Euthymol toothpaste and devour a cup of Mr. Whippy lemon ice and terrific theater. Saw a beautiful and moving performance by puppets -- life-size horses in "War Horse" at the National Theatre.
'Changellujah!' (guardian.co.uk)
Reverend Billy started out as a spoof American preacher. Now he does real weddings and funerals. Brian Logan meets him as he hits Britain.
She said,"...Remember that you are blessed. Remember that in exchange for those blessings, you must give something back. You must reach back and pull someone up. You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future."
Do you volunteer your time and/or donate from your resources to help those less fortunate than yourself?
This person's east coast-located grave marker is in Chinese, her first language.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973) also known as Sai Zhen Zhu, was a prolific American sinologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." With no irony, she has been described in China as a Chinese writer.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting; 1857-1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker, a Southern Presbyterian missionary. The family was sent to Zhenjiang, China in 1892 when Pearl was 3 months old. She was raised in China and was tutored by a Confucian scholar named Mr. Kung She was taught English as a second language by her mother and tutor.
Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm in Perkasie, PA. She designed her own tombstone, which does not record her name in English; instead, the grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker.
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Who provided the singing voice for Lou Diamond Phillips in the movie 'La Bamba'?
David Hidalgo
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The band playing the traditional folk version of "La Bamba" at the club in Tijuana is, in reality, the band Los Lobos, who performed all of the Ritchie Valens music for the film. The guitar player, David Hidalgo, who provided the singing voice of for Lou Diamond Phillips.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
1) Best I can find is
Pearl S. Buck
2)
David Hidalgo of Los Lobos.
Alan J answered:
1.Anna May Wong
2. David Hidalgo
Marian the Teacher responded:
Pearl Buck and David Hidalgo
Sally said:
"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked." Pearl S. Buck
1) Question one MUST refer to Pearl S. Buck, author, humanitarian, and one of my own personal heroine's, who was NOT of Asian heritage genetically, but was very much so in her heart. She died in Vermont, and was interred in Pennsylvania (hence, "east coast located grave marker"). In fact, she designed her own tombstone, inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker (her maiden name).
I have read so many of her works, my first was read when I was only 11 years old! It was, "The Good Earth." (This work introduced me to the mysterious word, "concubine" which my mother translated to me as, "good friend") I remember that day like it was yesterday...
I read, "The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat Sen," in college, and my most favorite was: "Dragon Seed." I have always related to her work, and even went on to adopt a child of Asian descent myself - perhaps a seed planted in my mind years before. Who knows...
AND
2) The movie, "La Bamba" was about the life (and death) of Ritchie Valens, and the singing voice you hear in that movie, is that of David Hidalgo from the fabulous band, "Los Lobos."
"Arriba, y arriba" (Higher and higher...)
PS: Joe S, I about rolled on the floor laughing when I saw the photo of your kitty! How about lending me the little guy to bag one of my thieving varmint squirrels who are trying to sabotage my garden?? Yeah, that would be what a competitive friend would do? :)
Okay Marty,
Contestants want to know: Is "Charlie" AKA "The Professor" REALLY related to you?
He must be because according to your score count, he has surpassed the best of us already...
Charlie A-119 | L-20
You are messing with our minds, huh?
I hope you are smiling, because I think it's hilarious myself!
MAM replied:
This person's east coast-located grave marker is in Chinese, her first language.
This one has me completely stumped! If it were the west coast, it would be Anna May Wong, whose stone is marked with her Chinese name. But I don't have a clue as to the east coast grave marker in Chinese!
Who provided the singing voice for Lou Diamond Phillips in the movie 'La Bamba'?
David Hidalgo, guitarist for Mexican-American rock band Los Lobos.
Lou Diamond Phillips David Hidalgo
And, Joe S wrote:
In case you wonder how I escaped certain death from the Kitty Killer.
1 -
Anna May Wong
2 - David Hidalgo of Los Lobos.
For those keeping score:
Alan J A-20 | L-21
Charlie A-20 | L-21
DC Madman A-1 | L-1
Gary G A-0 | L-1
Jim from CA A-2 | L-2
Joe S A-20 | L-21
José-Ariel A-3 | L-3
MAM A-20 | L-21
Maria in Chicago A-13 | L-13
Marian the Teacher A-18 | L-18
Sally A-21 | L-21
Tom B A-1 | L-1
We have a winner!
Friday, 1 May, we started 2 book-giveaway contests, courtesy Hachette Books.
The contest is (finally) over!
Sally is the only reader with a perfect score so she receives both sets of books.
Alan, Charlie, Joe S, & Marianne only missed one question, so they get first dibs on which set of books they'd prefer.
Marian the Teacher, Maria in Chicago, and José-Ariel will also receive books.
Nice maine layer in the morning and a sunny afternoon.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a RERUN'Flashpoint', then a RERUN'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Ricky Gervais and Green Day.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mark Ruffalo, Mindy Kaling, and the Decemberists.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Howie Do It', followed by another RERUN'Howie Do It', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Brian Williams, Jesse James, and Tori Amos.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Keith Olbermann, Sig Hansen, and Chrisette Michele.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are The Wayans Brothers, Forrest Griffin, and Glasvegas.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap', followed by a RERUN'Supernanny', then another unwatchable '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Hank Azaria, Anton Yelchin, and Eminem.
The CW offers a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then another RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by another RERUN'The Game'.
Faux has a FRESH'Don't Forget The Lyrics!'.
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 'Constantine', followed by the movie 'Outbreak'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 7
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 3
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Campania
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 2 Cassie
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 3
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 5
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 16 Ransom (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Make Me A Supermodel', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by the movie 'Blue Crush'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Christopher Titus: Love Is Evol', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Robert Kelly), and another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Tom Rhodes).
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher - scheduled guests
include Muhammad Yunus, Simon Johnson, Jon Meacham, and M.I.A,
FX has the movie 'xXx: State Of The Union', followed by the movie 'xXx: State Of The Union', and 'That 70s Show'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by the movie 'The Unfogiven'.
IFC -
[6:45 AM] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
[8:30 AM] The Quiet American
[10:15 AM] Pizza
[11:45 AM] The Sea Inside
[2:00 PM] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
[3:45 PM] The Quiet American
[5:35 PM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[7:25 PM] Frida
[9:30 PM] A Love Song for Bobby Long
[11:30 PM] The IT Crowd
[12:00 AM] Awakening of the Beast
[1:35 AM] Frida
[3:45 AM] A Love Song for Bobby Long
[5:50 AM] The Sea Inside (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Total Recall', followed by the movie 'The Descent'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] On the Road in America: Episode 6 - Los Angeles, Part 1
[06:30 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6
[07:00 AM] Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
[08:45 AM] At Night
[09:30 AM] Swimmers
[11:00 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 2
[11:30 AM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 4
[12:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
[01:00 PM] Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
[02:30 PM] Manda Bala
[04:00 PM] Gimme Green
[04:35 PM] Swimmers
[06:05 PM] The King of Ping Pong
[08:00 PM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 4
[09:00 PM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 4
[09:30 PM] Pulling - Season 2: Episode 4
[10:00 PM] Die Mommie Die!
[11:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6
[12:00 AM] Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
[01:45 AM] Spectacle: Diana Krall & Elton John
[02:45 AM] Cinderella
[04:30 AM] Engine 371
[04:45 AM] Manda Bala (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress and AmfAR Global Fundraising Chairman Sharon Stone (L) leads an auction during the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2009 event in Antibes during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2009.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann says he'll stop talking about Rush Limbaugh (R-Drug-Addled-Draft-Dodger) for 30 days - provided Limbaugh doesn't talk about Limbaugh for the same period.
It was a response to Limbaugh's challenge that the left-leaning cable channel not talk about him for a month, since "MSNBC is hoping to build its ratings on my back," the radio talk show host said.
Their feud is one of two media tiffs that have broken out in the past few days, this one slightly less odd than Glenn Beck arguing with Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg of "The View" over seats on an Amtrak train to Washington.
Olbermann recently offered to donate money to charity if Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity undergoes waterboarding (the two men are on opposite sides of the torture debate, along with most every other issue). Olbermann also makes Fox's Bill O'Reilly a frequent target.
Green Day has the most popular CD in the country, but you won't be able to find it at your local Wal-Mart.
The band says the giant superstore chain refused to stock its latest CD, "21st Century Breakdown," because Wal-Mart wanted the album edited for language and content, and they refused.
"Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a recent interview.
While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem's latest, they offer customers the "clean" version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable. But in Armstrong's view, "There's nothing dirty about our record."
"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there," he said. "We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."
Michael Moore's documentary about the economic crisis will hit theaters on Oct. 2.
The film is not yet titled. Moore earlier planned to make it more broadly about America as an empire. Instead, the documentary explores the causes of the global economic meltdown. Moore has called it "the biggest swindle in American history."
The division between rich and poor is old territory for Moore, who broke through 20 years ago with "Roger & Me" - about General Motors closing a plant in his hometown of Flint.
British actress and Gurkha activist Joanna Lumley talks to the media after attending a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in central London May 21, 2009.
Photo by Stephen Hird
A Nepalese "Super Sherpa" conquered Mount Everest for a breathtaking 19th time on Thursday, breaking his own previous world record, officials said.
Apa Sherpa, 49, reached the summit of the world's highest peak early in the morning, Jitendra Giri, of the Nepalese mountaineering department, told AFP.
Apa unfurled a banner that read "Stop Climate Change, Let the Himalayas Live!," after reaching the summit.
Apa, who bagged his first Everest summit in 1990, climbed the mountain this spring season in an effort to raise global awareness about climate change and its impact on the Himalayas.
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza infertility specialist, is a familiar figure to Israelis - a Palestinian who crossed the lines of enmity years ago to work in Israeli hospitals and become a frequent guest on Israeli TV and radio.
But the interview he did on Jan. 16, as Israeli forces waged war on Gaza's Hamas rulers, was horrifyingly different: Israeli tank shells had just killed three of his daughters, and he was phoning an Israeli journalist-friend, live on the air, to plead for help in evacuating the wounded, including another daughter and a niece.
Four months later, far from voicing bitterness over his loss, Abuelaish is trying to turn his tragedy into hope, raising money for a scholarship fund for Gaza girls and an Israeli hospital, and preaching reconciliation.
Abuelaish, a widower, and his children, ages 6 to 21, spent the war in their apartment on the second floor of the five-story family building he shares with his brothers and their families in the town of Jebaliya, close to the border with Israel.
American director Terry Gilliam, right, and his wife Maggie Weston, left, arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 62nd Cannes International film festival, in Antibes, southern France, Thursday, May 21, 2009.
Photo by Matt Sayles
While Gov. Rick Perry is criticizing Washington bailouts, state lawmakers are planning to use $11 million in federal stimulus money to help rebuild the badly burned Texas Governor's Mansion.
Approximately $10 million in state tax money will also be spent on a renovation, which is expected to cost about $20 million, officials said Thursday. A House-Senate committee agreed on the expenditures late Wednesday night.
The mansion was burned in an arson fire last summer.
The state is paying some $9,900-a-month in rent while the Governor's Mansion undergoes renovations, records show.
A Cairo court sentenced to death on Thursday an Egyptian tycoon and an ex-cop hitman for the murder last year of the businessman's former lover, Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.
The judge ordered Hisham Talaat Mustafa and retired policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari hanged for respectively ordering and carrying out the brutal slaying of the singer in a luxury Dubai apartment in July.
Mustafa, a stalwart of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, was found guilty of paying Sukkari two million dollars to cut the throat of Tamim, 30, at the Dubai flat she bought months before the murder.
The case with its mix of wealth, show business and politics has gripped Egypt, where powerful businessmen are rarely seen to face justice.
Scientists are returning next week to La Gloria, a pig-farming village in the Veracruz mountains where Mexico's earliest confirmed case of swine flu was identified. They hope to learn where the epidemic began by taking fresh blood samples from villagers and pigs, and looking for antibodies that could suggest exposure to previous swine flu infections.
More than half of La Gloria's 3,000 residents fell ill with flu symptoms weeks before the new virus was identified. Many found it hard to breathe, burned with fever and ached all over. About 450 of the sickest residents were diagnosed with acute respiratory infections and sent home with antibiotics and masks.
La Gloria's villagers believe they were sickened by the surrounding commercial pig farms, which they accuse of polluting their air and water with pig waste. But the pork industry wants a closer look at pigs raised in the villagers' backyards, which may not have been vaccinated or cared for with swine flu-prevention in mind.
Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc., which jointly owns 72 farms in the area surrounding La Gloria, said it carefully vaccinates its herd, and has found no signs or symptoms of any kind of swine flu in its pigs or its employees anywhere in Mexico.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of May 11-17. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NBA Playoffs: Orlando vs. Boston (Sunday, 8:07 p.m.), TNT, 5.89 million homes, 8.38 million viewers.
2. NBA Playoffs: L.A. Lakers vs. Houston (Thursday, 9:51 p.m.), ESPN, 5.3 million homes, 7.35 million viewers.
3. NBA Playoffs: Orlando vs. Boston (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 3.92 million homes, 5.23 million viewers.
4. NBA Playoffs: Houston vs. L.A. Lakers (Tuesday, 10:45 p.m.), TNT, 3.9 million homes, 5.18 million viewers.
5. NBA Playoffs: Denver vs. Dallas (Monday, 9:53 p.m.), TNT, 3.57 million homes, 4.83 million viewers.
6. NBA Playoffs: Boston vs. Orlando (Thursday, 7 p.m.), ESPN, 3.51 million homes, 4.79 millioin viewers.
7. NBA Playoffs: Denver vs. Dallas (Wednesday, 9:09 p.m.), TNT, 3.5 million homes, 4.57 million viewers.
8. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.38 million homes, 4.94 million viewers.
9. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.09 million homes, 4.41 million viewers.
10. "In Plain Sight" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.05 million homes, 3.94 million viewers.
11. "ICarly: I Date a Bad Boy" (Wednesday, 6 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.99 million homes, 3.89 million viewers.
12. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.97 million homes, 3.78 million viewers.
13. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.954 million homes, 3.86 million viewers.
14. NBA Playoffs: Cleveland vs. Atlanta (Monday, 7 p.m.), TNT, 2.953 million homes, 3.94 million viewers.
15. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.88 million homes, 4.31 million viewers.
The Walt Disney Co. says Allwine died Monday of complications from diabetes, with Russi Taylor, his wife of 20 years and the voice of Minnie Mouse, by his side. He was 62.
A Southern California native, Allwine joined Disney in 1966 when he took a job in the mail room. He went on to work in the sound effects department and began voicing the company's main mouse in 1977.
His falsetto can be heard in 1983's "Mickey's Christmas Carol," 1988's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and at Disney theme parks around the world. He won an Emmy Award in 1986 for his sound editing on the NBC series "Amazing Stories."
Allwine was the third man behind Mickey's voice. The first was Disney himself, then Jimmy MacDonald, who became Allwine's mentor and passed him the reins after voicing the mouse for 30 years.
"He said, 'Just remember kid, you're only filling in for the boss,'" Allwine once recalled. "And that's the way he treated doing Mickey for years and years."
Besides Taylor, Allwine is survived by five children from a previous marriage: Erin, Alison, Peter, Christopher and Joshua.
Triplet Jaguar cubs, seen, at the Tierpark Zoo, in Berlin, Tuesday, May 19, 2009. The three cubs were born on April 16 and named Atiero, Jumanes and Valdivia.
Photo by Gero Breloer
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