BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 6 August, 2010

Friday

6 August, 2010

(Updated Daily)

[1108 days in a row]


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Brett Favre Still Wavering On Decision to Play Hamlet


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

David Bruce: Wise Up! Actors (athensnews.com)
Jack Webb, star of "Dragnet," took steps not to be overwhelmed by success. To remind himself to be humble, he kept a photograph of his Hollywood Walk of Fame star - on which a dog had left a stinky memento.


Tom Danehy: Tom heads downtown for an evening of varied theater (tucsonweekly.com)
The point guard next year for the high school team I coach is named Kya. She gets really good grades, and she can dribble with her left hand, so the talking to plants and other hippie stuff she does are just pleasant eccentricities on her part.


Roger Ebert's Journal: Hell, no, I 80% wouldn't pay for Twitter!
A survey by the Annenberg School for Communications polled some 1,900 subjects and asked them if they would be willing to pay for Twitter. The percent who said they would was 0.00%. I'm not sure that number requires two places after the decimal, but that's what the report said.


Susan Estrich: Does He Get It? (creators.com)
The conventional wisdom these days is that the best shot for Democrats heading into the November elections in marginal districts is for the president to raise money and lower his profile. Just send checks. Events after 7 p.m. Closed to the press. This is not an election Democrats want to "nationalize." Better to keep it local. Better to run as your own man or woman, not as the president's best friend.


Susan Estrich: In America, Blame the Babies (creators.com)
In Dobbs' world, hundreds of thousands of immigrant mothers, heavy with child, were navigating rivers and deserts, outwitting U.S. agents and dodging gun-wielding vigilantes so they could heave themselves upon America's shores and head for the nearest emergency room. Just in the nick of time, they'd deliver babies who would take their first breaths as Americans - and later make their parents citizens, too.


Ted Rall: APPALLINGLY HEROIC
You may recall that the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is the same outfit that loaded $24 billion in $100 bills onto shrinkwrapped pallets and loaded the cash onto C-130 transport planes bound for Iraq--guarded by enlisted men who earn $20,000 a year. Not one of those Benjamins has ever heard from since. Which, given that the money was supposed to be paid to corrupt tribal sheikhs, is just as well.


Matt Miller: A spending goal too small for aging America (washingtonpost.com)
I don't want to overreact. I'd hate to prematurely diss President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform , which held its fourth public meeting Wednesday. But the commission's Democratic co-chair, Erskine Bowles, may have already blown it.


Bill Press: Why Can't Obama Get Anything Done? (Tribune Media Services)
Still, when you examine the record, whether you agree with everything he's done or not, you must conclude that Obama inherited the worst problems and has already taken bolder actions than any president since FDR. The facts speak for themselves.


Meghan Daum: On Silver Lake's 'Walking Man' (latimes.com)
Perhaps it's the idea that you could be an oddball and a respected professional at the same time that caused so many people to feel an affinity for him when he was alive and a sense of loss when he died.


TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER: Welcome to the Recovery (nytimes.com)
THE devastation wrought by the great recession is still all too real for millions of Americans who lost their jobs, businesses and homes. The scars of the crisis are fresh, and every new economic report brings another wave of anxiety. That uncertainty is understandable, but a review of recent data on the American economy shows that we are on a path back to growth.


Vic Stenger: The New Spirituality (huffingtonpost.com)
… you need not be a quantum physicist or an engineer to convince yourself that we cannot control reality just by thinking we can. We can see that with our own two eyes. It simply doesn't work. No one has ever become beautiful or rich just by visualizing it.


TARA PARKER-POPE: Summer Must-Read for Kids? Any Book (nytimes.com)
A report says that for some children, the reading skills lost over the summer represent about two months' worth of schooling.


Dorian Lynskey: Is Justin Bieber really old enough for a biography? (guardian.co.uk)
The teen sensation is set to publish his first memoir and be the subject of a biopic. Is it really the right time?


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Update

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Wake-up Call


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Trivia Question of the Day


Which Looney Tunes cartoon character 'died' the most?

                                  



Send your answer to Marty








Trivia Question from Yesterday


What musical instrument was creataed to be both the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, as well as the most adaptive of the brass?



      Saxophone                                                      Source



The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax in 1841. He wanted to create an instrument that would both be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds and the most adaptive of the brass, which would fill the then vacant middle ground between the two sections. He patented the sax in 1846 in two groups of seven instruments each.          Source





mj was first, and correct, with:
   The choice of the 42nd pres
  The saxophone.




Alan J answered:
   Saxophone



Marian the recently retired teacher replied:
   saxophone



Sally said:
   Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone (also referred to as the sax) which is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument which is a member of the woodwind family and, which was created to be both the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, as well as the most adaptive of the brass. He also developed the 'saxtromba' in 1845, though this survived only briefly.

  Here's Al with horn...




Charlie responded:
   The saxophone.




MAM   wrote:
   Saxophone, created by Adolphe Sax in 1841.

  The Original Saxophone




And, Joe S   answered:
   Don't have to look this one up. The answer is the saxophone, which I always want to spell "saxaphone." Anyway did I mention, at an earlier date, that my father played saxophone (soprano saxophone to be exact) under the direction of John Philips Sousa? I believe I did.
  This is a boyhood picture of my dad not playing the saxophone, but he really did play the sax, I just don't have any pictures of it.

  So some may believe the sax was invented to, you know - whatever, but I think it was invented to play Rock and Roll! Here is a perfect example of my dad not playing the saxophone on a classic Rock and Roll song.



  



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Anise Swallowtail Butterfly
Day 31




 
One chrysalis, two views - 17 days old.




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Sick Days


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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This is a hoax - Source

Reader Comment

Japanese Fad

Hey Marty,
 
I received this in an email from a friend, and decided to was too good (or bad) not to share:
 
Japanese skirts, all the rage...


What you see are not see-thru skirts.  They are actually prints on the skirts to make it look as if the panties are visible.  They are the current rage in Japan!  
 
 

     


  
I forward this as a public service, so you won't have a heart attack when the rage reaches here.

Sally P :)



Thanks, Sally
NOTE: This is debunked over at Snopes, and it's been floating around since 2003.
Thanks to Jeff in Tokyo. ~marty 08/08/10

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

HIRE A DANCING CAT!

GOD, GUNS AND GOOBERS!

SICK FUX COMIX!

ANDTHE WINGNUTS WENT CRAZY!

BIGOTRY HAS SUFFERED A GRIEVOUS BLOW!

THE NEXT THING THE REPUGS WANT IS TO GO BACK TO OWNING SLAVES. WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES!

IT'S TIME TO PROSECUTE THE POODLE!

IT'S A START!

ALL GODS SHOULD HAVE EQUAL SUCK. IT'S AMERICA FOR CHRIST SAKE!

NOW WE KNOW WHY HE'S CALLED 'WILDMON!'

IT COULD BE WORSE!

TO FUCK OFF OR NOT TO FUCK OFF. THAT IS THE QUESTION!

BREITBUTT'S SOCKPUPPET.

WEAK TEA!

RADIOACTIVE BOARS. PIGBOY MISSES THE CUT!

BABY HITLER CAN'T GET A BIRTHDAY CAKE!

FURTHER PROOF THAT HOMO SAPIENS ARE TRULY DISGUSTING CREATURES!

DICK CHENEY'S BIRTHDAY CAKE!

HOMO SAPIENS CONTINUE BEING DISGUSTING!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and cooler than seasonal.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a '48 Hours', followed by a RERUN 'Medium', then a FRESH 'Flashpoint'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 2/8/10) are Drew Brees and Sandra Bullock.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Mark Wahlberg and Jacinda Barrett.


NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Friday Night Lights', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Emma Thompson, comics from "Chelsea Lately", and Taio Cruz.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi, and dancers from "Step Up 3D".
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/11/10) are Jared Harris, B.J. Penn, and Los Campesinos!


ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Wife Swap', followed by 'Primetime: What Would You Do?', and '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 7/28/10) are Zac Efron, Lisa Ling, and Rhymefest.


The CW offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Supernatural'.


Faux has a RERUN 'Bones', followed by another RERUN 'Bones'.


MY fills the night with a FRESH 'WWE Friday Steroid SmackDown!'.


A&E has 'The First 48', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.


AMC offers the movie 'Out For Justice', followed by the movie 'Charlie Wilson's War', then the movie 'Blood Work'.


BBC  -   
 [11:00 AM]   You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
 [12:00 PM]   You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
 [1:00 PM]   You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
 [2:00 PM]   You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
 [3:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
 [4:00 PM]   The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Minnie Driver, Ruth Jones, Katie Melua
 [5:00 PM]   Doctor Who - Ep 12 Bad Wolf
 [6:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 4
 [7:00 PM]   BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 17 The Sins of the Father
 [9:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 7
 [10:00 PM]   My Big Breasts and Me
 [11:00 PM]   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 17 The Sins of the Father
 [12:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 7
 [1:00 AM]   My Big Breasts and Me
 [2:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 7
 [3:00 AM]   My Big Breasts and Me
 [4:00 AM]   Peep Show - Episode 5
 [4:30 AM]   Peep Show - Episode 6
 [5:00 AM]   Peep Show - Episode 1
 [5:30 AM]   Peep Show - Episode 2
 [6:00 AM]   Cash in the Attic - Ep 7 Born Free    (ALL TIMES EST)


Bravo has 'Top Chef', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', and still another 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.


Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Joe DeRosa), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Kurt Metzger), 'Dane Cook: Rough Around The edges', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Myq Kaplan), and another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Greer Barnes).


FX has the movie 'American History X', followed by the movie 'Jarhead'.


History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', still another 'Modern Marvels', yet another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH 'Gangland'.


IFC  -   
 [6:30 AM]   Strangers in Good Company
 [8:15 AM]   Manhattan
 [10:00 AM]   House of D
 [11:45 AM]   Mr. Hulot's Holiday
 [1:15 PM]   Strangers in Good Company
 [3:00 PM]   Manhattan
 [4:45 PM]   House of D
 [6:30 PM]   Benny & Joon
 [8:15 PM]   Spanking the Monkey
 [10:00 PM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [10:30 PM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [11:00 PM]   Freaks and Geeks
 [11:45 PM]   Food Party
 [12:00 AM]   The Devil's Rejects
 [2:00 AM]   Ideal
 [2:30 AM]   Speed Grapher
 [3:00 AM]   Spanking the Monkey
 [4:45 AM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [5:15 AM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [5:45 AM]   Freaks and Geeks     (ALL TIMES EST)


Sundance  -   
 [6:05 AM]   Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...& Insects
 [7:00 AM]   Saving Jazz
 [8:00 AM]   Comedy Of Power
 [9:50 AM]   Everlasting Moments
 [12:05 PM]   Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...& Insects
 [1:00 PM]   Saving Jazz
 [2:05 PM]   Comedy Of Power
 [4:00 PM]   Everlasting Moments
 [6:15 PM]   One Last Thing
 [8:00 PM]   LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Michael Buble, Temper Trap, Little Boots (Episode 12, Season 3)
 [9:00 PM]   SHAMELESS (Episode 12, Season 6)
 [10:00 PM]   Milwaukee, Minnesota
 [11:45 PM]   Next Floor
 [12:00 AM]   Monster
 [1:50 AM]   LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Michael Buble, Temper Trap, Little Boots (Episode 12, Season 3)
 [2:50 AM]   Milwaukee, Minnesota
 [4:30 AM]   One Last Thing     (ALL TIMES EST)


SyFy has 'Haven', 'Eureka', followed by a FRESH 'Eureka', then a FRESH 'Haven'.



TCM spends 24 hours with Ingrid Bergman.
 [6:00 AM]   Saratoga Trunk (1945)
 [8:15 AM]   Stromboli (1950)
 [10:00 AM]   The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
 [12:15 PM]   A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
 [2:00 PM]   Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)
 [4:00 PM]   Spellbound (1945)
 [6:00 PM]   Europa '51 (1952)
 [8:00 PM]   Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
 [9:30 PM]   Casablanca (1942)
 [11:30 PM]   Notorious (1946)
 [1:30 AM]   Autumn Sonata (1978)
 [3:30 AM]   Gaslight (1944)
    (ALL TIMES EST)


Saturday  -  08/07/10

TCM spends 24 hours with Errol Flynn.
 [6:00 AM]   Virginia City (1940)
 [8:15 AM]   San Antonio (1945)
 [10:15 AM]   Uncertain Glory (1944)
 [12:00 PM]   Objective, Burma! (1945)
 [2:30 PM]   The Prince And The Pauper (1937)
 [4:45 PM]   The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
 [6:15 PM]   The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 [8:00 PM]   The Sea Hawk (1940)
 [10:15 PM]   Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
 [12:15 AM]   Gentleman Jim (1942)
 [2:15 AM]   Edge Of Darkness (1943)
 [4:30 AM]   Green Light (1937)
    (ALL TIMES EST)






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Actor Kevin Bacon, left, and actress Kyra Sedgwick pose together at The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Performers Peer Group cocktail receptioncelebrating the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.
Photo by Matt Sayles

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Abandons Net Neutrality Compromise

FCC

Federal regulators are abandoning efforts to negotiate a compromise on so-called "network neutrality" rules intended to ensure that phone and cable TV companies cannot discriminate against Internet traffic traveling over their broadband lines.

The announcement Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission ends weeks of FCC-brokered talks to try to reach an agreement on the thorny issue among a handful of big phone, cable and Internet companies. And it comes as two big companies that have been taking part in those talks - Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. - attempt to hammer out their own separate proposal for how broadband providers should treat Internet traffic.

Network neutrality - or open Internet rules - are a centerpiece of the Obama administration's technology policy, but the issue has divided the technology and telecommunications industries.

Many big Internet companies and public interest groups say the rules are needed to prevent phone and cable operators from slowing or blocking Internet phone calls, online video and other Web services that compete with their core businesses. They also worry that without net neutrality protections, broadband providers could start charging extra for priority access over their lines - creating a two-tiered Internet that delivers better connections to online companies that can pay more. Google and online calling service Skype have led the push for strong net neutrality rules.

FCC

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Files To Run For Haiti's Presidency

Wyclef Jean

Singer Wyclef Jean submitted the paperwork Thursday to run for president of Haiti, formally thrusting himself into what is expected to be a highly competitive race and ending years of speculation about his political ambitions.

Several hundred supporters of the hip hop artist-turned-politician cheered as he arrived by motorcade in a dark suit and tie at an electoral office in this capital city still largely in ruins from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Jean, who was born in Haiti but raised in Brooklyn, stood on top of an SUV and bowed to the crowd.

"It's a moment in time and in history," Jean, who was accompanied by his wife and daughter, told The Associated Press as he went to hand in his candidacy papers, 10 minutes before the office closed. "It's very emotional."

If Jean's candidacy is approved, he will face several candidates who lack his international fame but have more political clout. Among the most formidable is ousted ex-Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis, who secured the backing of President Rene Preval's powerful Unity party this week. Preval is barred from running by the constitution.

Wyclef Jean

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Actors Fred Willard, left, and Bryan Cranston pose together at The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Performers Peer Group cocktail reception celebratingthe 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.
Photo by Matt Sayles

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Anthem Rewritten For Young Iranians

Pink Floyd

The song replaces the teacher reference with "Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone!" It's performed by a Toronto-based rock band fronted by two Iranian brothers called Blurred Vision. It's been seen by more than 160,000 viewers on YouTube.

Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters gave Blurred Vision permission to use the song. Proceeds will go to Amnesty International.

The Blurred Vision version of the song expresses discord between young people and the government of Iran, where it's illegal to play rock music.

Waters will begin his tour of "The Wall" in Toronto on Sept. 15. "Another Brick in the Wall" is from that classic 1979 album.

Pink Floyd

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YouTube Project

'Life in a Day'

YouTube's "Life in a Day" project has logged 80,000 video submissions as it moves closer to the finished product: a documentary film.

Director Kevin Macdonald said Thursday the 4,600 hours of footage will soon be distilled to 100 hours. A final, feature-length film will premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival and on the YouTube website.

By last weekend's deadline, user contributions had been received from 197 countries in 45 languages.

The submissions will be available for viewing when the gallery goes live next month on YouTube's "Life in a Day" channel.

'Life in a Day'

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Leaving 'Entertainment Tonight' Next Year

Mary Hart

Longtime "Entertainment Tonight" host Mary Hart is leaving the show after her upcoming 30th season.

Hart said Thursday that it's time for a change, but she'll be leaving with mixed sentiments. It's not clear when her last day will be, but a television season traditionally ends in May.

The former English teacher from Sioux Falls, S.D., joined "Entertainment Tonight" in 1982, working most prominently with John Tesh. She's kept the job as the entertainment news industry grew around her. "ET" is the original entertainment newsmagazine and still leads in the ratings.

No replacement has been named. One potential candidate is Lara Spencer, who anchors "ET's" sister broadcast, "The Insider."

Mary Hart

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Singer and actor Snoop Dogg arrives at the premiere of "Takers" in Los Angeles, California, August 4, 2010.
Photo by Gus Ruelas

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New Audio Book

Kama Sutra

Too shy to read the Kama Sutra on the train during rush hour? Just take out your headphones.

The ancient sex guide dating back 1,600 years has been published as an audio book for the first time in its long history in what its British-based publisher described as a "perfect meeting of ancient history and modernity."

"Now there's no need to feel embarrassed by reading a copy of this wonderful and important book in public -- simply download it on to your mp3 player and liven up your commute to work," said Simon Petherick, managing director of Beautiful Books.

"Some may also consider using the audio book as a step-by-step manual for improving bedroom techniques, without the need to stop and start with constant reference to a book." The Kama Sutra, narrated by a British actress, is based on ancient Indian philosophies and was first translated into English in the 19th century. It contains advice on relationships and one of its chapters describes 64 types of sexual acts.

Kama Sutra

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Vidiot Speak

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Tells Court Of "Dirty Pebbles"

Naomi Campbell

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, testifying reluctantly at a war crimes trial, said on Thursday she was given "dirty looking pebbles" but did not know if they were blood diamonds from former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor.

Complaining that having to appear at the court in The Hague was an "inconvenience," Campbell said two unidentified men came to her bedroom after she attended a charity dinner with Taylor and then-South African President Nelson Mandela in 1997.

"I'm used to seeing diamonds shiny and in a box ... If someone had not said they were diamonds, I would not have known they were diamonds," she said.

Under defense questioning, she stressed she did not know personally whether the stones came from Taylor. She said she had handed them to the manager of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, Jeremy Ratcliffe, on boarding a luxury train the following day and asked him "to do something good with them."

The fund's donor relations manager has denied it ever received diamonds from Campbell, chief defense lawyer Courtenay Griffiths said.

Naomi Campbell

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Graphic novel creator Bryan Lee O'Malley arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' at the Winter Garden Theatrein Toronto Thursday, August 5, 2010.
Photo by Darren Calabrese

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Director Sues CBS, BBC

Louie Psihoyos

Louie Psihoyos, who won an Oscar this year for directing the dolphin-rights documentary "The Cove," is suing CBS and BBC alleging unauthorized use of a photograph he took in 1994 for National Geographic.

The photo depicts a vast bank of active television screens surrounding a person seated in a dark cavernous space.

According to a complaint filed in New York District Court on Monday, Psihoyos says the photograph took him more than a month and $100,000 (62,953 pounds) to create. He says it has been licensed "thousands of times" to Microsoft, IBM, Lucent, Sony, Time magazine, text books, pamphlets and Apple. The latter company apparently agreed to licence the image after being sued by Psihoyos over an iPhone app.

Psihoyos is seeking unspecified monetary damages.

Louie Psihoyos

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Conductor Cancels British Concerts

Mikhail Pletnev

Acclaimed Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev on Thursday cancelled his appearance at two concerts in Britain following a rape accusation made against him in Thailand last month.

Pletnev was to conduct a concert by the Russian National Orchestra (RNO) in Edinburgh on Friday and another in August for the BBC Proms, a renowned classical music festival that runs over two months in Britain each summer.

The artistic director of the RNO was arrested in Thailand in July and charged with raping a teenage boy. Pletnev denies the charges.

A Thai court allowed Pletnev to travel overseas after he posted extra bail, but he is required to report back to the court every 12 days, starting from July 18.

Mikhail Pletnev

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"NOT The 'Whiteman's Bitch'"

Ieshuh Griffin

A federal court has rejected a lawsuit filed by an independent candidate for the state Assembly in Wisconsin who wants to use a racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa said in the order filed Wednesday that Ieshuh Griffin's lawsuit must be dismissed because it was a habeas corpus action and those require the person bringing it to be in custody.

Randa did not rule the merits of the lawsuit. Griffin is fighting a decision by the state Government Accountability Board barring her from using the phrase "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch'" to describe herself on the ballot.

State law allows independent candidates to have five words describing themselves placed after their names on the ballot as long as it's not pejorative, profane, discriminatory or includes an obscene word or phrase.

Ieshuh Griffin

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Eric Draper, left, White House photographer under former resident George W. Bush, and presidential photographer David Hume Kennerly, subjects of the PBSspecial 'The President's Photographer,' participate in a panel discussion on the show at the PBS Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Eating Champ Out Of Hot Water

Takeru Kobayashi

Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi is out of hot water following his arrest over a Fourth of July frank fracas.

A judge in Brooklyn court said Thursday that the case will be purged from Kobayashi's record if he stays out of trouble for six months. A relieved and jovial Kobayashi said afterward that he would.

"I've been up all night, nervous about the outcome," he said through an interpreter. "So now, I'm thinking about what I want to eat. ... Steak."

Kobayashi had been charged with obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest, trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Takeru Kobayashi

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Going After Katy Perry's "California Gurl"

Beach Boys Label

The Beach Boys record label is going after Katy Perry for using the lyrics to their classic song, "California Girls," on her new summer anthem, "California Gurls."

Beach Boys members Mike Love and Brian Wilson co-wrote "California Girls," which reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1965.

The New York Post reported that the veteran pop group's label, Rondor Records, was threatening to file a lawsuit against Perry's Capitol Records.

However, a spokesperson for the label confirmed to Billboard.com that "there is no lawsuit against the writers or publishers of 'California Gurls.' We have established diminutive claim. It is up to the six writers and various publishers of 'California Gurls' to decide whether they honor the claim or not."

Beach Boys Label

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Where U.S. Broadcast Networks Seek Diversity

Canada

The latest front in the four major U.S. networks' push for more racial and ethnic diversity in primetime: Canada.

NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox were in Toronto this week for a two-day open casting call for actors from visible minorities to appear mostly as day players on network series produced in Canada.

The networks will next travel in September to Vancouver, the shooting home for series like "Fringe," "V" and "Smallville," to find actors from the East Indian, African-American, First Nation, Asian and Latino communities for local shoots.

The four networks will share their lists of minority talent uncovered in Canada, including headshots and video introductions, as they jointly push for a more multicolor primetime TV screen.

Canada

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Moscow's Kremlin, with its palaces and churches seen through the smog covering Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko

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Clarksdale, Mississippi To Celebrate

Ike Turner

Rock icon Ike Turner is about to get recognition in his Mississippi hometown nearly three years after his death.

This weekend in Clarksdale, officials and music fans will gather to unveil two markers honoring Turner and his musical legacy. The unveilings coincide with the 23rd annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival, dedicated this year to "Rocket 88," the 1951 Turner tune often cited as the first rock 'n' roll song.

Blues trail research director Jim O'Neal says Turner is one of the most important figures in American music, though his legacy is often overshadowed by the turbulent years of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in the 60s and 70s.

A crowd of 25,000 is expected at the festival that starts Friday and features performances by dozens of acts.

Ike Turner

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Laurel Highlands' Glass Lined Tanks

City Brewing Co.

A brewery is being blamed for a Pennsylvania town's bad case of beer breath.

City Brewing Co. has temporarily halted production at its plant in Latrobe after residents complained of a foul odor coming from the municipal sewage plant. Officials suspect sugary drinks now being produced at the brewery are causing wastewater treatment problems.

Municipal authority manager Tom Gray says the stench started about two weeks ago. The Department of Environmental Protection received complaints, prompting it to send an inspector out before the brewery shut down Tuesday.

The Latrobe plant used to brew Rolling Rock beer. Now, Iron City beer is among the beverages it produces.

City Brewing Co.

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Adds 21 Places To World Heritage List

UNESCO

he Bikini Atoll and a silver trade route in Mexico were among 21 new places added to the list of World Heritage sites at the annual meeting of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, which concluded Aug. 2 in Brazil.

The additions bring to 911 the total number of sites on the list, which include natural attractions like the Grand Canyon as well as manmade and cultural sites like the Acropolis.

The committee also designated four sites as endangered, including Everglades National Park in Florida. The Everglades, home to 20 endangered species, was previously on the list from 1993 to 2007 because large amounts of water were being diverted to cities. UNESCO said in a statement the park was added again for the same reason.

Other places newly added to the endangered list were the Atsinanana rain forests of Madagascar, where illegal logging and poaching are a threat to rare lemurs; the Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery in Georgia, and the tombs of Buganda Kings in Uganda. The Galapagos Islands in Ecuador were removed from the endangered list.

UNESCO

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An Amur leopard stands on a log at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Amur leopards are larger with lighter fur and bigger spotsthan leopards living in Africa and the rest of Asia. Amur leopards are critically endangered with no more than 35 living in the wild and 200 in zoos around the world.
Photo by Don Ryan

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