Eddie Deezen: The Strange Life of Benny Hill
While the Three Stooges will almost always leave me hysterical with laughter, I know of others who view their antics stone-faced. Other will scream with joy at Jonathan Winters or Sid Caesar and neither has ever made me even snicker. With that in mind, I have always considered Benny Hill to be the most underrated comedian of all time.
Emily Yost: All Pinked Out (Slate)
Thank you for standing against this pink ribbon oppression. Both my grandmother and mother had breast cancer, and I, too, have no interest in buying pink ribbon yogurt, or participating in walks for the purpose of handing a big chunk of cash to overpaid executives.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Fathers (Athens News)
Frank Sinatra loved his kids. Sometimes, he took daughter Tina out to eat. She was surprised that so many people stared at her in restaurants. Frank was embarrassed as he said to her, "They're not staring at you, Pigeon. They're staring at me." Frank's love for Tina worked out well for television comedian Soupy Sales, who was happy to get a telephone call one day from a major, major star: "I'm Frank Sinatra. My kid wants me to do your show."
Beginning operations in 1946 as one of the USA's pioneer commercial television networks, it is now considered the 'Forgotten Network'. What was it's name?
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his one well-known novel; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award. He also wrote and directed the sequel, The Exorcist III: Legion.
In 1959, Blatty ghost-wrote "Dear Abby's" (Abigail van Buren's) bestselling book "Dear Teenager," for which she was praised for her "matronly wit and wisdom" and for which she was named "Mother of the Year," twin honors that the author "to this day" has professed he still isn't sure "how to feel about."
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Wiliam Peter Blatty
Charlie said:
William Peter Blatty, best known for The Exorcist. I found neither the book nor the film scary, since I just don't believe in any of that stuff. I never read Dear Teen-Ager though, so I can't say it wouldn't frighten the bejeezus out of me.
Fear and Lois in Las Oregon wrote:
Wait a minute. GHOSTWRITTEN!?! Do you mean to imply Dear
Abby was a FRAUD!?! Damn. What is there left to believe in?
OK, if Abby didn't write all her own stuff, then I'll take a
wild guess and say she was ghost written by...Hunter S.
Thompson! And if she wasn't, well, she should have been.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
William Peter Blatty
Adam answered:
William peter Blatty, author of 'The Exorcist'.
Marian replied:
William Peter Blatty
Sally said:
William Peter Blatty ghost-wrote, "Dear Abby's" best selling book, "Dear Teenager."
She lived to be 91, and was such a Jewish Mother, you couldn't help but like her...
PS: @Professor Charlie, sorry about the Buckeye weed leaves, but I spent 33 years in Colorado...
Damn, Ohio is a lot bigger than I thought it was - please let it be Cleveland, Professor??
@Dale of Diamond Springs, N/Cal: No, I was not a Diana Dors with bullet breasts, but rather a weekend Janis Joplin. During the week I could be found as a college student/working on Wall Street, living for the weekends, when I was in town... I had forgotten that awful Dors Look... LOL!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norfalcali, answered:
This one I didn't know and really laughed when I found out that William Peter Blatty, author of "The Exorcist" ghosted "Dear Teenager". Of course I can't resist gratuitous Linda Blair. Much better looking in the 1st picture!
MAM wrote:
William Peter Blatty ~ The novel 'The Exorcist',
written in 1971, is his best known novel.
And, Joe S
Well first of all let me say I can't believe I forgot to answer yesterday's quiz. I looked up the answer and everything. I just didn't follow through and was actually surprised when my answer didn't appear on the page. I guess I got so involved with my new smart phone that answering the quiz just slipped my mind. So far the smart phone is proving to be smarter than me, or maybe it's just a smart-ass phone. Yeah, that's it. A smart-ass phone, it's not me.
So anyway today's answer is William Peter Blatty, and I'm sorry to say I've never read any of his books. Of course I'll never read stuff like "The Exorcist" because I don't read really scary stuff. Life is scary enough with out reading about someone else's nightmares.
Well, back to the smart phone. I took a nice close up picture of the Coast Guard station and I can't get the phone to download or email the pictures. Stupid phone.
Marine layer never lifted, so no sun for poor old Rev. Jim, the iguana, today.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 9/24/13) is Cher.
On a RERUNCraig (from 9/27/13) are Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Phil Palisoul.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Grimm', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Dracula'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Wanda Sykes, Richard Engel, and Scotty McCreery.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Javier Bardem and Pearl Jam.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/7/13) are Kal Penn, Shane Carruth, and the Neighborhood.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'The Neighbors', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/17/13) are Kerry Washington, "Science Bob" Pflugfelder, and Sleigh Bells.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by the FRESH'The iHeartRADIO Album Release Party With Katy Perry'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Andrew "Dice" Clay, Wayne Brady, Amber Riley & Derek Hough.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then another RERUN'Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Cujo', followed by the movie 'The Exorcist', and 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[6:30AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 9 - The Satan Pit
[9:00AM] MERLIN - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Sweet Dreams
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Devil's Due
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 15 - First Contact
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Revisited: Down City, Classic American, Davide
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 22 - Suspicions
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 23 - Rightful Heir
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 24 - Second Chances
[9:00PM] QUARANTINE
[11:00PM] QUARANTINE
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 21 - Frame of Mind
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 22 - Suspicions
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 23 - Rightful Heir
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 24 - Second Chances
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 21 - Frame of Mind (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'I Dream Of NeNe: The Wedding', followed by a FRESH'Styled To Rock', then the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Key & Peele', and another 'Key & Peele'.
FX has the movie 'Green Lantern', followed by the movie 'Green Lantern', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Birthday Boys-Paychecks!
[6:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rainn Wilson Wears a Short Sleeved Plaid Shirt & Colorful Sneakers
[7:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:15AM] Slumdog Millionaire
[10:00AM] Wrecked
[12:00PM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[3:00PM] Slumdog Millionaire
[5:45PM] Starsky & Hutch
[8:00PM] American Pie
[10:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Pee-wee Herman Wears a Halloween Costume
[10:30PM] The Birthday Boys-Goofy Roofers
[11:00PM] American Pie
[1:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Pee-wee Herman Wears a Halloween Costume
[1:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Goofy Roofers
[2:00AM] The Matador
[4:00AM] ATM (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Dream School-Jeff Corwin, Soledad O'Brien, David Arquette & Doriana Sanchez
[7:00AM] Moulin Rouge
[9:45AM] Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
[10:00AM] The French Connection
[12:15PM] Driving Miss Daisy
[2:30PM] Moulin Rouge
[5:15PM] Fantastic Mr. Fox
[7:00PM] The Negotiator
[10:00PM] Brokeback Mountain
[1:00AM] Swimming Pool
[3:15AM] Y Tu Mama Tambien
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Haven'.
Musician Ringo Starr poses during a photocall after he and his All-Starr Band performed and answered questions from the media regarding their upcoming tour of South America at a rehearsal hall in Hollywood October 23, 2013. The tour kicks off in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 29. Band members Mark Rivera (L) and Richard Page (R) are pictured with Starr.
Photo by Fred Prouser
After being accused of "sucking blood" from the poor, Bangladesh's only Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus faces a new state-backed hate campaign seeking to paint him as un-Islamic and a spreader of homosexuality.
Following years of attempts to discredit his legacy as a pioneer of micro-finance -- since copied the world over as a development tool -- the hounding has turned more personal and dangerous.
The perceived crime of the 73-year-old was to sign a joint statement along with three other Nobel laureates in April 2012 criticising the prosecution of gay people in Uganda.
Little remarked at the time, it has since been seized on by the Islamic Foundation, a government religious body, and amplified through tens of thousands of imams on its payrolls.
The harassment has echoes of another movement against feminist writer and religious critic Taslima Nasreen who was forced to flee the country after being denounced like Yunus.
Actress June Lockhart presents the Emmy Engineering Award onstage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, at Loews Hollywood Hotel, in Hollywood, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
One in three Americans get news through Facebook, according to a study from the Pew Research Center released on Thursday.
Almost 80 percent of those surveyed happen upon news when they are checking up on friends or sharing photos. Heavy news consumers did not describe Facebook as an important source of news, the study found.
The survey is the first part of a series of studies that the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are conducting to examine social media and news consumption.
The study said that about two-thirds of all U.S. adults use Facebook. The world's largest social media site displays a stream where people and publishers can share news. Only 4 percent of Facebook news consumers said the platform is the most important way they obtain their news.
Social media is playing an increasingly important role in how people find news. The trend is especially pronounced among young people who prefer to get news through platforms like Twitter or Facebook rather than traditional forms of print or broadcast television.
The Norwegian town of Rjukan will be a lot less gloomy this winter, thanks to a system of giant mirrors installed on a nearby mountain that reflects sunlight onto the town below.
Here's how it works, according to the project's website: The three gigantic mirrors, which are computer controlled, will follow the path of the sunlight as it moves across the horizon. The mirrors will adjust their aim, reflecting the much-needed sunlight onto the town square.
Rjukan, which is roughly 90 miles west of Oslo, is located in a valley and is deprived of direct sunlight for much of the year. The mirror project, which officially opens on Oct. 31, will give residents a 6,500-square-foot ray of light .
This isn't the first time the town came up with the idea. Roughly 100 years ago, the town's founder, Sam Eyde, proposed the idea of a sun mirror. However, his idea, perhaps too complicated for the time, was never realized. Instead, town officials installed a gondola to take sun-hungry residents up to sunshine in the winter months.
The light reflected by the mirrors will lose some of its power in the translation, but not much. According to the project's official site, "the reflected light will have between 80 and 100% of the effect compared to the light that is captured by the mirrors."
Drummer Gregg Bissonette (L) and musician Todd Rundgren members of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band pose during a media event promoting the band's upcoming tour of South America, at a rehearsal hall in Hollywood October 23,2013. The tour kicks off in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 29.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Seattle is known for it's gray skies and rainy weather, but experts say the dense fog and temperatures in the 40s or 50s that have blanketed the city over the past several days is out of the ordinary.
Cliff Mass, a University of Washington Meteorologist writes on his blog, "I have forecast here for many decades and I can not remember a situation that is even close."
The cause, according to Mass, is an odd combination of long-lasting high pressure, drought, and dense low clouds. In short, the high pressure on either side of the city is trapping colder air in the middle, close to the ground. The result? Fog, and lots of it.
The current foggy streak is standing at seven days. According to Seattle's KomoNews.com that puts the current stretch in a seven-way tie for the fifth longest run in the city. The No. 1 spot goes to a 13-day streak from December of 1985. But according to local reports the current weather pattern could make a run at the record with the sun not in the forecast at least for the next several days.
Ironically the only thing that will wipe out the dreary conditions is a low pressure system; in other words a storm.
A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 in worker's compensation for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the 2011 incident, the university said on Wednesday.
Then-campus police Lieutenant John Pike came to symbolize law enforcement aggression against anti-Wall Street protests at the time when video footage widely aired on TV and the Internet showed him casually dousing demonstrators in the face with a can of pepper spray as they sat on the ground.
Pike was suspended from his job at UC Davis and ultimately left the force in July 2012, but university officials did not disclose the circumstances of his departure.
A scathing 190-page report on the incident found that university officials and UC Davis police used poor judgment and excessive force in the confrontation. And the incident was widely mocked in satirical messages posted on the Internet in which still photos of Pike wielding his pepper spray were inserted into famed works or art or pop culture images.
In June of this year, Pike himself filed a worker's compensation claim with UC Davis over the incident, saying he suffered unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage, though the document did not explain how he claimed to have been harmed, records show.
Singer Lady Gaga arrives at Berghain nightclub to promote her latest album 'Artpop' in Berlin October 24, 2013. The album will be released in Germany on November 8.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has contacted organizers of a campaign to end the ban on women driving and told them they will be punished if they go on defying the male-only road rules, some of the campaign leaders said on Thursday.
The women organizing the campaign have been posting online footage of themselves driving in Saudi cities, and have called on Saudi women with foreign driving licenses to get behind the wheel on Saturday.
The campaigners hope to take advantage of the ambiguous nature of the kingdom's ban on women driving, which is not explicitly enshrined in either the kingdom's Islamic sharia law or its traffic code.
On Wednesday the Interior Ministry issued a statement reiterating that it was illegal for women to drive, but the authorities now appear to be stepping up their efforts to quash the campaign by individually contacting women involved.
Belgian physicist Francois Englert (L), U.S. professor Peter Higgs (C) and Rolf-Dieter Heuer, general director of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) joint their hands after a news conference in Oviedo October 24, 2013. Englert, Higgs and CERN will receive the 2013 Principe de Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in a traditional ceremony on October 25, 2013.
Photo by Eloy Alonso
An archaeological site in the midst of Peru's bustling capital has yielded yet another pre-Incan prize, an undisturbed Wari tomb containing two corpses wrapped in ceremonial fabric, archeologists said on Thursday.
The tomb, estimated to be more than 1,000 years old, was found at the Pucllana archaeological site in Lima. It contained the bodies of an adult and an infant, along with nearly 10 intact artifacts.
The adult was likely a master weaver, said Isabel Flores, an archaeologist at Pucllana. The infant, she added, was probably killed and buried in the tomb as an offering in the adult's honor.
The Wari civilization was active in an area that now contains Lima from approximately 600 to 1000 AD, some 500 years before the Inca empire emerged. Seventy Wari tombs have been unearthed at the Pucllana site, which is nestled in a residential neighborhood in central Lima.
John Stamos attends the premiere of "Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
A Viking parliamentary site that dates to the 11th century has been found beneath a parking lot in Scotland.
The site, located in the town of Dingwall, Scotland, was dubbed a "Thing" site, referring to its name in antiquity. Like other Thing sites, this one was likely a place where ancient Norsemen gathered to settle legal disputes, uphold laws and make key political decisions.
Historians had long wondered whether Dingwall was a site of a Viking parliamentary gathering known as the Thing because the word Dingwall probably originated from the word thingvellir, which means "the field of the assembly."
Such Thing sites are scattered from Iceland to Norway to the Shetland Islands, and Norsemen traveled from far and wide to get to the seasonal gatherings, often to settle disputes that would otherwise end in bloodshed. But Things were held mostly at open-air fields, and people only stayed temporarily, leaving relatively few archaeological traces of their presence.
U.S. street artist Logan Hicks poses in front of his art work during a performance outside the Drouot auction house in Paris October 24, 2013. The finished art work will be auctioned in the Spring of 2014.
Photo by Jacky Naegelen
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