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Erin Hart on
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(Nov. 23rd and 24th) when she fills in for Jay Marvin from 6am - 10am MST (8am - noon EST / 7am - 11am CST / 5am - 9am PST).
Let's talk about new discoveries of worthy charities--this year one of mine is
Uplift International. We will talk to the founder and the vice-president on
Friday. So call from wherever you are digesting or shopping.
All that and some movie and entertainment surprises. Enjoy your family,
your food and the hope for change in America and around the world.
Casino Royale" is the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond characters...and he wasn't even a double agent...yet! He had to prove himself and if the opening sequence which supposedly took place in the jungles of Uganda prove anything, it's that Daniel Craig as the new James can really climb up I-beams, hang from cranes, crash through walls, miss being shot by Uzi's, snap necks, break legs all while chasing the amazing Sebastian Foucan (he did all his own stunning stunts)...
It all comes down to a card game for the 125 million dollars...Bond must win the game to keep the money out of the hands of the terrorists...and they're playing "Texas Hold-em" with huge chips (in the 1967 "Casino Royale" with Peter Sellers and David Niven, they played Baccarat). This movie had very few gadgets and no futuristic vehicles or weapons...but it had great action.
I didn't quite buy into the romance between Bond and Lynd...I think it was because of Ms. Green's eye make-up!
Purple Gene gives "Casino Royale" 9 Walther PPK hand guns with silencers out of 10 for being a great shoot 'em up but not quite a perfect James Bond Movie!
Eva Gaele Green was born in Paris, France on July 5th, 1980. She has a non-identical twin sister. She studied acting for 3 years at St. Paul's Drama School...Went to Weber-Douglas Academy in London and studied at Tisch School of Arts at New York University.
Bernardo Bertolucci was looking for a female lead in the movie "The Dreamers" (2003) and cast Eva...the fact that she performed scenes that had full frontal nudity is the primary reason that she got so much attention from male audiences and therefore male directors.
It is small wonder that she was chosen for the New Bond Girl (see photo) I think Eva Green is the worst Bond Girl yet...they cut out her nude scenes in the new movie.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a FRESH'Close To Home', then a FRESH'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Helen Hunt, DJ Shadow and Q-Tip, and a Top Ten List presented by Dr. Phil McGraw.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Alec Baldwin and Barry Manilow.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'The Family Man'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kristin Davis and Ralphie May.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Hugh Jackman and Alyson Hannigan.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Adrianne Palicki, and Fat Joe.
ABC opens the night with the movie 'Shrek 2', followed by the unwatchable '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/3/06) are Val Kilmer, Bowling for Soup.
The CW fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Bruce Almighty'.
MY has 'Desire', followed by 'Fashion House'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio', the MOST IMPORTANT program on over-the-air-TV.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'The Last Samurai', then the movie 'Ronin'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] The Avengers - The Living Dead;
[3:00 pm] The Avengers - The Correct Way to Kill;
[4:00 pm] The Avengers - Death's Door;
[5:00 pm] The Avengers - Dead Man's Treasure;
[6:00 pm] Doctor Who - Ep 1 Rose;
[7:00 pm] Calendar Girls;
[9:00 pm] My Family - Glad Tidings We Bring (80);
[10:20 pm] My Family - Ep 13 Going Dental;
[11:00 pm] Saxondale - Episode 7;
[11:40 pm] I'm Alan Partridge - Episode 1;
[12:20 am] Kumars at No. 42 - Ep 6 David Hasselhoff;
[1:00 am] My Family - Glad Tidings We Bring - Part 1;
[1:40 am] My Family - Glad Tidings We Bring - Part 2;
[2:20 am] My Family - Ep 13 Going Dental;
[3:00 am] Fawlty Towers - A Touch of Class;
[3:40 am] Fawlty Towers - The Builders;
[4:20 am] Fawlty Towers - The Wedding;
[5:00 am] Spaced - Episode 1;
[5:30 am] Spaced - Episode 2;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', followed by the movie 'The Cider House Rules', then the movie 'The Cider House Rules', again.
Comedy Central has 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Shootout!', 'The Lost Evidence', and 'Dogfights'.
IFC -
[07:20 AM] Dinner for Five #40;
[08:05 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: November;
[09:00 AM] The Daytrippers;
[10:30 AM] The Hudsucker Proxy;
[12:25 PM] Trust;
[02:15 PM] IFC News Special: The F Word/So Goes the Nation;
[02:25 PM] The Daytrippers;
[03:55 PM] The Hudsucker Proxy;
[05:50 PM] Trust;
[07:40 PM] Bend It Like Beckham;
[09:35 PM] The Dreamers;
[11:30 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #8;
[12:00 AM] Brown's Requiem;
[01:45 AM] Short Cuts;
[04:55 AM] The Dreamers. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Path Of Destruction', followed by the movie 'The Day After'.
Sundance -
[06:10 AM] The Prince of Pennsylvania;
[07:45 AM] Dallas 362;
[09:20 AM] Plunkett & Macleane;
[11:05 AM] Pack Strap Swallow;
[12:30 PM] Coney Island Baby;
[02:15 PM] The Prince of Pennsylvania;
[04:00 PM] Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia;
[06:00 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 5: Paul Simon + Lorne Michaels;
[06:45 PM] Hock Hiap Leong;
[07:00 PM] Dallas 362;
[08:45 PM] Screwback;
[09:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 3: Mango Espradrille;
[09:30 PM] The Hill: Episode 6: It's Time To Be Mad As Hell;
[10:00 PM] Plunkett & Macleane;
[11:45 PM] Small Town Secrets;
[12:00 AM] Nowhere;
[01:30 AM] The Other Side of the Bed;
[03:30 AM] Debbie Does Dallas: Uncovered;
[04:30 AM] Red Diaper Baby. (ALL TIMES EST)
Ralphie Parker and Brian Jones know what it's like to want something. For Ralphie, the object of desire was an official Red Ryder, carbine-action, 200-shot, range model air rifle. (Go ahead, say it, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid.")
For Jones, the gotta-have-it item was Ralphie's house - the one in "A Christmas Story," the quirky film that's found a niche alongside holiday classics like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street."
Jones has restored the three-story, wood-frame house to its appearance in the movie and will open it for tours beginning Saturday. His hope is that it will become a tourist stop alongside the city's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other destinations.
A visitor looks at Andy Warhol's screenprint 'Mick Jagger' (1975) from the series titled 'Love You Live', on Thursday, Nov.23, 2006 at Vienna's Albertina museum. Under the title 'Andy Warhol: Popstars. Drawings and Collages' the Albertina museum shows some sixty works on paper, about half of which are on view for the first time, deriving directly from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art in New York.The exhibition will open Friday, Nov. 24, 2006 and will last till Feb.18, 2007.
Photo by Ronald Zak
A $7,500 fur coat donated by pop diva Mariah Carey and intended for Mongolia's poor has disappeared, a leading animal rights group said on Thursday.
Carey donated the fur coat to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) which told Reuters it had since been lost on its way to Mongolia, where it was to be given to nomads to help them keep warm in the winter.
In Mongolia, PETA hires impoverished women to cut donated fur coats into narrow strips. The strips are then handed over to nomad families who use them to make the inner linings of their traditional winter coats.
An attorney representing the family of Nicole Brown Simpson accused eBay on Thursday of not moving quickly enough to yank auctions of "If I Did It," O.J. Simpson's hypothetical story of how he would have killed his ex-wife.
The book had been scheduled for release Nov. 30 following a two-part Simpson interview on Fox, but News Corp., owner of Fox Broadcasting and publisher HarperCollins, canceled the project after an outcry condemning it as revolting and exploitive.
Responding to concerns from HarperCollins, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said Thursday that the online auction house has been removing offers to sell purported copies of the book from the site. In one case, bids had topped $1 million.
"Once HarperCollins reports to us, we take the auctions down," Durzy said. "We appreciate the concern of the Brown family, but this is a procedure that has to be followed."
Heidi Klum and Seal are parents once again. Klum gave birth Wednesday to Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, who weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces, according to Seal's Web site, which did not say where the baby was born.
The couple, who were married last May, have a 1-year-old son, Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel.
Klum also has a daughter, Leni, from a previous relationship with Formula One manager Flavio Briatore.
Uma Blasini from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, takes part in the bathing suit segment of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2007 beauty pagent at the Puerto Rico's Convention Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico November 22, 2006. Uma Blasini was crowned as the new Miss Puerto Rico Universe.
Photo by Ana Martinez
Authorities closed a big Manhattan nightclub a half-hour before it was to host a party with hundreds of people celebrating hip hop titan Jay-Z's new album Wednesday night, a club manager and a witness said.
The club, a converted church, hosts a variety of parties, concerts and other events. It has a dance floor that holds about 700 people and other spaces that hold several hundred more, according to a director, Carmelo Citron.
Wednesday's shutdown came as patrons were lined up outside, waiting for the 10 p.m. start of a party to celebrate the recent release of the new album, "Kingdom Come," Citron said. He said the artist was not expected at the event.
Citron said the club was ordered to close because of ongoing problems with its certificate of occupancy. He said the trouble centered on a "clerical issue," and managers had tried to resolve it for the past several weeks.
Pakistan's upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws on rape on Thursday, paving the way for President Pervez Musharraf to sign it into law.
The National Assembly, or the lower house, passed the Women's Protection Bill last week, in what was seen as a major test of Musharraf's commitment to his vision of "enlightened moderation" for the predominantly Muslim country.
The change in the law has been fiercely opposed by conservative Islamic parties, which make up the main opposition bloc in parliament. They said it would promote "free sex" in the conservative country.
The main change proposed in the bill takes the crime of rape out of the sphere of the religious laws, known as the Hudood Ordinances, and puts it under the penal code.
Under the Hudood Ordinances, which were introduced by a military ruler in 1979, a rape victim had to produce four male witnesses to prove the crime, or face the possibility of prosecution for adultery.
A Qing Imperial famille rose 'swallows' bowl, expected to fetch HK$60-80 million ($7.7-10.2 million) to set a world auction record for an Imperial Qing dynasty bowl at an upcoming auction, is displayed during a Christie's preview in Hong Kong November 23, 2006.
Photo by Bobby Yip
First he went on national television to apologize for his racial tirade against two black hecklers. Now Michael Richards is taking his contriteness to the next level: he's hired a public relations expert with deep contacts in the black community.
New York publicist Howard Rubenstein took on Richards as a client Wednesday after being contacted by the actor-comedian. He then arranged for Richards to call the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
"Michael apologized profusely. He wants to heal the tremendous wound that he's inflicted on the American public, and on the African-American community," he said.
German traffic police were shocked to see a California Highway Patrol car cruising along the motorway, driven by a man dressed as an authentic American cop, authorities said on Thursday.
But they recovered sufficiently to book the 35-year-old Goettingen resident, whose uniform badge read "T.J. Lazer", for possessing a replica Smith & Wesson revolver without a licence and having out-of-date registration plates.
"He was sitting at the wheel with his elbow on the window like in the best TV crime series," said Osthessen police spokesman Martin Schaefer.
The man told police he had been taking the 30-year-old vehicle to Bavaria to sell it and wanted to impress the buyer.
One of a yet unnamed white lion twin is hand-fed a bottle of milk in a Sydney park Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006. The rare eight-week-old white lion cubs made the trip from their home at Mogo Zoo, 300kms (186 miles) south of Sydney for a tourism promotion.
Photo by Rick Rycroft
The piano on which the late John Lennon composed his famous anti-war song "Imagine" made an odd appearance on Wednesday at the site where U.S. President John F. Kennedy was gunned down, competing for attention with conspiracy buffs on the 43rd anniversary of the assassination.
The plain-looking brown piano has been brought to America for exhibits by pop star George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss. Michael bought it in 2000 at an auction for 1.45 million British pounds, which is today worth $2.78 million (5.3 million pounds).
The piano spent the morning covered in canvas at the so-called "grassy knoll," where many conspiracy theorists are convinced at least one unknown shooter fired the shots that killed Kennedy as his motorcade swept past.
Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87.
O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in Los Angeles where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina.
Once known as the "Jezebel of Jazz" for her reckless, drug-induced lifestyle, O'Day lived to sing and she did so from her teen years until this year when she released "Indestructible!"
O'Day was born in Chicago, Ill. She left home at age 12 and often bragged about being "self-made" and never having a singing lesson.
She began her career in her teens and later recorded hits with Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa. Her highly stylized performance of songs like "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine," "Let Me Off Uptown," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" made her famous the world over.
Her fame came at a price.
She suffered from a 16-year heroin addiction and an even longer alcohol problem. Wild, drug-related behavior and occasional stints in jail on drug charges earned her the nickname "Jezebel of Jazz," a term she hated.
O'Day had no children and no immediate family, Cavolina said.
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