Garrison Keillor: Uplifting gift, from 1 heart to another
The driest May in Minnesota since the Dust Bowl. Venerable GM slides into bankruptcy, and you shudder for the old Pontiac dealers and the retirees in Michigan. In the middle of the night, an Airbus drops out of the air into the Atlantic Ocean, and the veteran traveler shudders to think of it.
Diane Evans: Book Expo exposes problems with publishing industry (DelMio.com)
The declining state of traditional book publishing could be read very clearly at the recent Book Expo 2009 tradeshow in New York. If anything, the show exposed how an elite industry is having trouble coming to terms with an information-based culture, full of self-publishers with digital devices that know no barriers to entry.
20 QUESTIONS: Dave Wakeling (popmatters.com )
Dave Wakeling, founding member, lead vocalist and songwriter for the legendary ska band, the English Beat, is recording and touring extensively these days. Catch up with Wakeling here on 20 Questions.
A.) Yes! I love(d) ______ and never miss(ed) an episode. If'n ya don't like that, Go Suck an Egg, ya snobby Nova luvin' elitist, you...
B.) No! They're the ultimate examples of the "vast intellectual wasteland" that TV programming has become (other than, My Mother the Car, that is) and those that do are First Class Rubes and should be shamed accordingly...
C.) I invoke my rights under the 5th Amendment (hand me the TV Guide, would ya?)
Okay, Okay... There're shades of gray to be considered here, I'll admit... Feel free to eelishly slither betwixt the choices, if'n ya must, to make a reply yer com-FORT-able with... Jeesh! You'd think I was asking about Supreme Court nominees, or sumpthin'...
Herbert Khaury (April 12 1932 - November 30 1996) better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Tiny Tim
Colby in Frostproof, FL answered:
Herbert Khaury was of course the late great Tiny Tim.
Charlie responded:
It was the talented, but very weird, Tiny Tim.
Yes, I saw him on Laugh-In, and watched the wedding on Carson. I never bought any of his albums though.
PURPLE GENE wrote:
HERBERT KHAURY WAS THE LONG HAIRED UKULELE PLAYING, "TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIPS" SINGING, MISS VICKY MARRYING 60S AND 70S ICON....
TINY TIM
Marian the Teacher said:
Tiny Tim
Jim, the recently retired, replied:
Tiny Tim
Sally replied:
OMG, doesn't EVERYONE (my age) know that Herbert Khaury took America by storm, circa 1962, under his stage name, "Tiny Tim!"
Here, on one hand, was the youth of the country engaged in some serious Rock 'n Rolling, when this absolute geek - dirty stringy hair, high falsetto voice, playing his UKULELE - emerged on the scene (on the old Johnny Carson Show as I recall). Then, even more unbelievably, he made a recording of the old song, "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" which really captivated the yokels in the country, let me tell you. And, seemingly just to top himself off, he "married" some country bumpkin, "Miss Vicky" right there on the Carson show - and America went wild! (They finally divorced, but first had a kid who they named some absurd name - which natch, some of our neighbors found enchanting. This was before Hippy dippy names of course.)
Prior to this, "Tiny Tim" trailer trash attraction, I though the country to be, "uncultured," at best - after Herbert rose to stardom that opinion was confirmed in my youthful superiority.
Now, in my golden years, I just smile in remembrance and think fondly on those good old days - right before all Hell broke loose with protests, rioting, and assassinations. Yeah, the Uke seems quite harmless nowadays, you know?
RIP Herby, guess you were okay, just doing your thing after all...
jjw (AKA Willow) responded:
Tiny Tim
MAM said:
Herbert Khaury's stage name was "Tiny Tim". I'll never forget him on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In; Tiny Tim entered, blowing kisses, and sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" to Dick Martin.
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WordArts, Inc. is pleased to announced that nominations are now open for the innaugual Ham-Sized Fist Award for heroic fantasy and sword-and-sorcery short fiction. The award will recognize the best heroic fantasy or sword-and-sorcery short story published in 2009. WordArts is a 501(c)(3) literary non-profit with tax-deductible contribution status, dedicated to recognizing great fiction. This year, WordArts donated $200 to the storySouth Million Writers Award for short fiction published online.
There are actually two parts to the Ham-Sized Fist Award - one for the author of the winning story and one for the publication that publishes the winning story.
Currently, the award stands at $300 for both the author and the publication. We're taking donations to sponsor the contest. I would like to get it up to $500 for each award, more if possible.
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David Carradine was found dead in the closet of a luxury hotel room in Thailand where he was filming a new movie…..there is rumors swirling around that not only was the curtain cord wrapped around his neck, but it was also wrapped around his testicles. Initially, the police thought suicide, but friends and family don't buy that……was David murdered ?
For me, David Carradine's career began with his role as "Big" Bill Shelly in the movie "Boxcar Bertha" (1972)…this was not only Martin Scorsese's directorial debut, but it starred Barbara Hershey who David had a long LSD laced love affair with…Ms. Hershey changed her name to Barbara "Seagull" the had a child they named "Free"…the end of the movie had "Big" Bill being hung by the bad guys.
Now, yesterday in Thailand, David Carradine was truly hung….either by himself or others….and I will remember David Carradine with the words he spoke as Kwai Chang Caine in "Kung Fu: the Legend Continues" (1993)…He says to his detective son Peter…."Change is not only desirable, it is necessary."…to which Peter asks the origin of the quote…"Confucius ????" whereupon Caine coyly quips…."no…Frank Zappa!"
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a RERUN'Flashpoint', then a RERUN'Numb3rs'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Paris Hilton, Calvin Borel, and Steven Wright.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Seann William Scott and Henry Cho.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Howie Do It', followed by another RERUN'Howie Do It', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ryan Seacrest, Patton Oswalt, and Chickenfoot.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bradley Cooper, Denise Richards, and Mandy Moore.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/8/09) are Matthew McConaughey, Kaley Cuoco, and Ida Maria.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap', followed by a RERUN'Samantha Who?', then another RERUN'Samantha Who?', followed by another unwatchable '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 4/28/09) are Michael J. Fox, Chuck Wicks, Julianne Hough, and Asher Roth.
The CW offers a RERUN'Privileged', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'The Game'.
Faux has a FRESH'Don't Forget The Lyrics!', followed by a RERUN'Mental'.
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 'Road House', followed by the movie 'U.S. Marshals'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 16
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[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 2 Piccolo Teatro
[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 2
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America - Episode 6
[11:00 PM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 2
[1:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] Don't Tell the Bride - Episode 2
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 4 Chris
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 16
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 7
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Serendipity', followed by the movie 'The Nutty Professor'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Tosh.0', 'RENO 911!', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Juston McKinney), and another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Ron White).
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher - scheduled guests
include
writer/author Paula Froelich, journalist Matt Miller, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Plus, former State Department official Richard Haass and comedian D.L. Hughley.
FX has the movie 'Daddy Day Care', followed by the movie 'White Chicks'.
History has 'Ancient Discoveries', 'High Impact: M-16', followed by a FRESH'Patton 360', and 'Expedition To Africa'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] I Like Killing Flies
[7:30 AM] A Slipping-Down Life
[9:30 AM] The Ballad of Jack and Rose
[11:30 AM] The IFC Media Project
[12:00 PM] I Like Killing Flies
[1:20 PM] A Slipping-Down Life
[3:15 PM] The Ballad of Jack and Rose
[5:15 PM] Before Sunrise
[7:00 PM] Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema
[8:30 PM] Nowhere
[9:55 PM] I Just Want to Be Somebody
[10:05 PM] Sugar
[11:30 PM] The IT Crowd
[12:00 AM] Madman
[1:30 AM] Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema
[3:00 AM] Nowhere
[4:30 AM] Sugar
[5:50 AM] Touch Base (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Star Trek: TNG', another 'Star Trek: TNG', 'Moonlight', and 'Primeval'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] On the Road in America: Episode 8 - Big Sur, Part 1
[06:30 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 5
[07:00 AM] Eve & the Fire Horse
[08:35 AM] The Legacy
[09:50 AM] The Danish Poet
[10:05 AM] Nose, Iranian Style
[11:00 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 5
[11:30 AM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 6
[12:00 PM] La Moustache
[01:25 PM] A Few Days In September
[03:15 PM] Eve & the Fire Horse
[04:50 PM] Harvie Krumpet
[05:15 PM] The Legacy
[06:35 PM] Face (2004)
[08:00 PM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 1
[09:00 PM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 6
[09:30 PM] Pulling - Season 2: Episode 6
[10:00 PM] Duck Season
[11:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet
[12:00 AM] Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
[01:30 AM] Spectacle: Elton John
[02:30 AM] Who Are You Polly Maggoo?
[04:10 AM] La Moustache
[05:35 AM] Duck Season (ALL TIMES EDT)
The family of late musician Frank Zappa, wife Gail, left, son Dweezil center,and daughter Diva, right, seen, by the Frank Zappa statue, in the background, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, June 4, 2009. In 1995, a quirky band of Lithuanians managed to erect a bronze bust of eccentric rocker Frank Zappa in downtown Vilnius, the capital of the former Soviet republic.
Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis
Two American journalists headed to trial Thursday before North Korea's highest court on charges they crossed into the country illegally and engaged in "hostile acts" - allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's California-based Current TV, were arrested March 17 near the North Korean border while on a reporting trip to China.
North Korea's official news agency said the trial would begin by mid-afternoon, but hours later, there was no word on the status of the proceedings. A State Department spokesman said American officials had seen no independent confirmation that the case was under way.
North Korea has said no observers will be allowed to watch.
Director and producer Roger Corman, famous for his numerous "B" movies, poses at the premiere of director Francis Ford Coppola's new film "Tetro" in Los Angeles June 3, 2009.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Aretha Franklin, Wyclef Jean and Queen Latifah are among those due to perform at New York's first Mandela Day concert, it has been announced.
Madison Square Garden is due to stage the event on July 18 - Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday.
Other invited guests include Dave Stewart, Cyndi Lauper and France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Tim Massey, international director of 46664 - Mr Mandela's HIV/Aids charity named after his prison number - said: "Mandela Day is about creating a movement for positive change and establishing one day to reflect upon, celebrate and make manifest the values that guide Nelson Mandela.
Jay Leno's final "Tonight" show drew nearly 12 million viewers but fell well short of his most-watched night or Johnny Carson's farewell.
It proved to be Leno's seventh-highest-rated "Tonight" telecast, with 11.9 million viewers. The highest rated: Leno's 1993 show marking the finale of the sitcom "Cheers," watched by more than 22 million.
Leno's 1992 debut on "Tonight," when he replaced Carson, drew 16.1 million viewers. Carson wrapped up his three decades on the late-night show with an audience of 41 million.
But Leno's final "Tonight" show audience was more than double his current season average of 5.2 million viewers.
The Recording Academy, which puts on the Grammy Awards, has decided to eliminate the category for best polka album.
"I don't like to see it happen," legendary bandleader and three-time Grammy winner Walter Ostanek said Thursday from his home in St. Catharines, Ont.
In a statement, the academy said polka was scrapped to "ensure the awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape." Grammy organizers also split a folk category in two and combined two Latin categories into one.
There will be 109 awards handed out at next year's Grammys instead of 110. The ceremony takes place Jan. 31, 2010 in Los Angeles.
Clark Gable's 1938 Packard convertible is among those with celebrity connections that will be sold Sunday at the annual Greenwich Concours d'Elegance auction. Its estimated value is US$175,000 to $225,000.
A 1928 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 Ascot Tourer driven by Robert Redford in the 1974 movie of "The Great Gatsby," to symbolize the roaring 1920s, is expected to fetch $150,000 to $175,000.
A 1939 Cadillac limousine featured in the 2006 Robert Deniro film, "The Good Shepherd," is also for sale. Greer Garson used the car earlier, so the rear compartment was appointed in red silk to match the starlet's favourite colour.
The auction, expected to generate US$5 million to $6 million in sales, will feature more than 80 collector cars spanning 77 years from one of the earliest Fords to a 1980s Aston Martin. President Woodrow Wilson's Rolls Royce Silver Ghost is for sale.
The federal government has severed the Internet connection of a company accused of helping criminals serve up a "witches' brew" of nasty content online, from computer viruses to child pornography.
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it has ordered the shutdown of a company called Pricewert LLC, described in a complaint filed in San Jose, Calif., federal court as an Oregon-based shell company run by "overseas criminals", operating out of Belize and running many its illegal operations out of servers in Silicon Valley.
Pricewert, which operated the "Triple Fiber Network" or "3FN," wasn't the type of Internet service that average consumers would see or sign up for. Instead, the service was advertised "in the darkest corners of the Internet" and was targeted at criminals who want to put malicious Web sites online, but need the servers and bandwidth to do it, according to the complaint.
The FTC says the case marks the first time the agency has ordered the shuttering of an Internet provider. The agency has usually focused on taking out harmful Web sites individually. Companies that host malicious Web sites are usually forced offline under pressure from the FBI or computer security researchers, but without a formal government order - which is what makes Thursday's announcement significant.
Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler arrives at the premiere of director Francis Ford Coppola's new film "Tetro" in Los Angeles June 3, 2009. Wexler wears a cap with the logo 12 on 12 off, a non-profit group he helped to organize seeking more humane working conditions for entertainment industry workers.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track.
More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.
"Unless you're Warren Buffett, your family is just one serious illness away from bankruptcy," Harvard's Dr. David Himmelstein, an advocate for a single-payer health insurance program for the United States, said in a statement.
"For middle-class Americans, health insurance offers little protection," he added.
A Chicago Tribune expose in the past few days about how the University of Illinois gives extra consideration to well-connected applicants has set off a storm of protests, prompting the school to change its practices and sending politicians who made use of the rules running for cover.
But the truth is, many universities - public and private alike - give special treatment to some degree to the sons and daughters of big donors, politicians, trustees and others with control over the school's purse strings or other clout, admissions experts say.
Whether formalized or not, "virtually every selective college, public or private, has some kind of list" like the one maintained by the University of Illinois, said Daniel Golden, whose 2006 book "The Price of Admission" exposed admissions practices that favored well-connected applicants.
Golden's reporting focused mostly on elite private universities like Duke, Stanford, Brown and Harvard. But the Illinois story shows how far "the problem goes of colleges essentially trading admissions slots for favors," he said. "Here you have a flagship state institution essentially making a lot of slots available to candidates who aren't as strong as some they reject."
A mysterious fungus attacking America's bats could spread nationwide within years and represents the most serious threat to wildlife in a century, experts warned Congress Thursday.
Displaying pictures of bats speckled with the white fungus that gave the disease its name - white-nose syndrome - experts described to two House subcommittees Thursday the horror of discovering caves where bats had been decimated by the disease.
They also warned that if nothing more is done to stop its spread, the fungus could strike caves and mines with some of the largest and most endangered populations of hibernating bats in the United States.
At stake is the loss of an insect-eating machine. The six species of bats that have so far been stricken by the fungus can eat up to their body weight in insects a night, reducing insects that destroy crops, forests and carry disease such as West Nile Virus.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of May 18-24. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NBA Playoffs: Orlando vs. Cleveland (Tuesday, 8:36 p.m.), TNT, 7.22 million homes, 10.07 million viewers.
2. NBA Playoffs: Orlando vs. Cleveland (Thursday, 8:34 p.m.), TNT, 7.08 million homes, 9.99 million viewers.
3. NBA Playoffs: L.A. Lakers vs. Denver (Monday, 8:56 p.m.), ESPN, 6.67 million homes, 9.73 million viewers.
4. "Jon & Kate Plus 8" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TLC, 6.62 million homes, 9.8 million viewers.
5. NBA Playoffs: L.A. Lakers vs. Denver (Wednesday, 8:56 p.m.), ESPN, 6.35 million homes, 9.23 million viewers.
6. NBA Playoffs: Orlando vs. Cleveland (Saturday, 8:35 p.m.), TNT, 5.99 million homes, 8.36 million viewers.
7. NBA Playoffs: L.A. Lakers vs. Denver (Friday, 8:56 p.m.), ESPN, 5.81 million homes, 8.46 million viewers.
8. "2009 MTV Movie Awards" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), MTV, 3.55 million homes, 5.28 million viewers.
9. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.32 million homes, 4.89 million viewers.
10. "Inside the NBA Playoffs" (Thursday, 11:38 p.m.), TNT, 3.23 million homes, 4.29 million viewers.
11. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.17 million homes, 4.35 million viewers.
12. "Inside the NBA Playoffs" (Tuesday, 11:52 p.m.), TNT, 3.14 million homes, 4.15 million viewers.
13. "NCIS" (Monday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.085 million homes, 4.18 million viewers.
14. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.083 million homes, 3.97 million viewers.
15. "In Plain Sight" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.07 million homes, 4.03 million viewers.
Actor David Carradine, 72, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called "grasshopper" in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and decades later as leader of an assassin squad in "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself.
Carradine was in Bangkok shooting the movie "Stretch," said his manager, Chuck Binder.
Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, "Bound for Glory."
But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.
Carradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."
He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill - Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill.
In "Kill Bill - Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.
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