I started compiling this list of lists (before Marty's appearance on Erin
Hart, honest) because I was amused that they started coming out weeks ago, with
much of the secular year to go. Since then, many more Top Whatever Lists have
come out. I've added many over the weeks and could spend the next month tracking
additional commentary, but won't. This list of lists is inherently
incomplete.
All these links worked as of 12/31/06, though some had intro screens and some
lead to further links.
A list of lists covering 2006
News and information lists:
Top 25
Censored News Stories of 2007 from Project Censored. Printed in Disinfotainment Today, this is
the list that got me started. Presumably, they mean a list to talk about in
2007 of stories censored in 2006. I'd hate to do all these things over again.
See also Top
10 Censored Stories of 2006 from 2005 and note how few of them are being
covered yet. Further lists predicting 2006 in "Predictions from last year"
section below.
Top
10 Censored News Stories of 2005-2006 from Project Censored published on
Metroactive.com, a more pure listing of neglected stories with references but
not links.
Hayek
Tops Best Nude Scenes of 2006 claims zap2it.com. Interestingly enough,
I've seen precisely none of these films. Ah well, let's hope Netflix
has 'em...
Top Words of 2006 from The
Global Language Monitor. An interesting compilation of their take on Top
Words, Top Catchphrase, Top Name, Top Politically Incorrect Words (though they
don't seem to understand what that means), Top YouthSpeak Words, Top Chinglish
Words and other lists as they add or change the blog. Not definitive but worth
a look.
Annual 2006
Psychic Predictions from Elizabeth Baron. She's wrong a lot, but I give
her props for leaving her predictions on the net. Most psychics have taken
their predictions down.
Predictions
for 2006 from the readers of Paranormal Phenomena at about.com. More wrong
than any other list. This is why I shy away from bloggers blogging. And these
are Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Democrats still in control as Johnson recovers (advocate.com)
South Dakota Democratic senator Tim Johnson won't be present as the new Congress convenes next week, but he is continuing to improve after undergoing emergency surgery to repair a brain hemorrhage.
Adele M. Stan: YOU'RE VOTING FOR WHO? (prospect.org)
Jerry Ford never apologized for his wife -- not when she said that premarital sex might lower the divorce rate, not when she said stay-at-home moms should be compensated for their work, not when she compared the use of marijuana by my generation to her own cohorts' love of beer. Best of all, the first lady said she trusted her daughter, Susan -- the same age as me -- to make good decisions for herself in matters concerning sex. And the president never contradicted her -- at least not publicly.
Rolling Over In My Grave: Guest post by Herbert Block (digbysblog.blogspot.com)
It is not my intent to startle you by returning from the dead (actually, I'm still dead), but after watching the collective memory lapse of the American media, I am compelled to present excerpts from my book, Herblock Special Report, which was first published in 1974.
Sarah Warn: The AfterEllen.com 2006 Visibility Awards (afterellen.com)
The AfterEllen.com Visibility Awards recognize those people, TV shows, movies, and musicians that have most positively or negatively influenced lesbian and bisexual visibility in American entertainment during the year. In addition to the usual categories, in our third year of the awards we've expanded the categories to includes ones like Best Out Actress on TV, Best Reality Show Contestant, Worst Lesbian Movie Moment, and more.
Jeff Vice: 'Veronica Mars,' 'Pulse' star stays away from bimbo roles
Kristen Bell has a bit of advice to other aspiring young actresses: Don't act stupid. And Bell should know. The actress, who just turned 26 in July, is currently reaping the benefits of playing smart female characters -- on television's "Veronica Mars" and in the new horror film "Pulse." "Smart is the new sexy, haven't you heard? And apparently that makes me very sexy," Bell said with a laugh.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'The Class', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Christine', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 9/26/06) are Billy Bob Thornton, 10-year-old lizard whisperer Lily Capehart, and Sean Lennon.
On a RERUNCraig (from 12/4/06) are Betty White, Twiggy, Sam Moore and Travis Tritt.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'Heroes', followed by another RERUN'Heroes', then still another RERUN'Heroes'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 11/3/06) are Russell Crowe, Rachael Ray, and Kellie Pickler.
On a RERUNConan (from 6/21/06) are Adam Sandler, John Cena, and the Subways.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 11/14/06) are Sue Johanson and Radio 4.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Supernanny', then another RERUN'Supernanny'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/16/06) are Emmitt Smith, Mario Lopez, Greg Kinnear, Marla Sokoloff, and Sherrod Small.
The CW here RECYCLES the '118th Annual Torment Of Roses Parade'.
Faux has LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Simpsons'.
MY has a FRESH'Wicked Wicked Games', followed by a FRESH'Watch Over Me'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', then the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Manhattan Project', followed by the movie 'Blade Runner', then the movie 'Boiling Point'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7;
[3:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8;
[4:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 9;
[5:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10;
[6:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 11;
[7:00 pm] Dead Again;
[9:00 pm] Trust;
[9:00 pm] Trust;
[11:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[11:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[12:00 am] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 14;
[1:00 am] Trust;
[1:00 am] Trust;
[3:00 am] Wire in the Blood - Ep 1 Time to Murder and Create;
[5:00 am] Murder in Suburbia - Episode 4;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', and old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', 'Scrubs', and another 'Scrubs'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 12/18/06) is Gov. Tom Vilsack.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 12/18/06) is Jack Welch.
IFC -
[07:05 AM] Rocked With Gina Gershon #6;
[07:30 AM] You See Me Laughin';
[08:55 AM] Only the Strong Survive;
[10:35 AM] Punk: Attitude;
[12:10 PM] IFC News Special;
[12:20 PM] The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years;
[02:00 PM] You See Me Laughin';
[03:25 PM] Only the Strong Survive;
[05:05 PM] Punk: Attitude;
[06:40 PM] The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years;
[08:20 PM] IFC News Special;
[08:30 PM] Media Lab Shorts Uploaded;
[09:00 PM] Garden State;
[10:50 PM] Girls Town;
[12:25 AM] Short: Confection;
[12:30 AM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2007;
[01:00 AM] Garden State;
[02:50 AM] Girls Town;
[04:25 AM] Punk: Attitude. (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[06:05 AM] The Andromeda Strain;
[08:30 AM] Face;
[10:00 AM] Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan;
[11:45 AM] Anna's Children;
[01:15 PM] Condo Painting;
[02:45 PM] Control Room;
[04:00 PM] Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan;
[06:00 PM] Office Tigers;
[06:30 PM] Office Tigers;
[07:00 PM] Office Tigers;
[07:30 PM] Office Tigers;
[08:00 PM] With No Direction Home;
[08:30 PM] One Punk Under God;
[09:00 PM] Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives Of Florence Broadhurst;
[10:30 PM] Mott Music;
[11:00 PM] Iconoclasts: Isabella Rossellini and Dean Kamen. (ALL TIMES EST)
Orchestra's director Daniel Barenboim leads the Philarmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires during a free New Year's concert at Buenos Aires's Obelisk, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006.
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko
Journalists suffered one of their deadliest years ever in 2006, with Iraq once again proving the most dangerous place in the world for the media to work, two media watchdogs said on Sunday.
Paris-based Reporters without Borders (RSF) said at least 81 reporters and 32 media staff were killed in 2006 as a result of their jobs, saying the death toll was the highest since 1994 when scores of reporters died in the Rwandan genocide.
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) put the 2006 toll at 155 murders, giving no separate breakdown between reporters and their staff.
In its annual report, RSF said at least 871 reporters were arrested in 2006 and at least 1,472 attacks or threats were registered against the media around the world -- a new record.
In this picture released by the Capri Film Festival press office, American actor Forest Whitaker, left, sings with Italian Pop star Zucchero at the 11th 'Capri, Hollywood, International film festival', in the small island of Capri, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006.
Photo by Pietro Coccia
A new television show that debuted over the Christmas holiday season is turning Finnish viewers into soap opera scriptwriters -- through the power of text messaging.
Text messages have appeared on television before but "Sydan kierroksella" (Heart Goes Round) is the first show to let viewers determine the course of the story: the unlikely love affair of teen idol Roope and Juulia, a woman in her 60s.
More than 500 viewers took part in the show through text messages when it was aired for the first time this week.
Bravo has hailed "Taxicab Confessions," the latest HBO series to find a cable home in the syndication market.
The cable channel is acquiring nine episodes of "Taxicab," a racy, unscripted hidden-camera series in which real-life taxi passengers share the skeletons in their closet with the drivers. Bravo is dispatching the episodes in late-night blocks beginning Friday, including a New Year's Eve marathon.
"HBO began airing episodes of the series in 1995. "Taxicab" will be edited for basic-cable consumption, a Bravo spokeswoman said.
Pupils line up to form the numbers '2007' to celebrate the upcoming New Year at a school in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province December 31, 2006.
Photo by Jianan Yu
A woman who once broke into former Beatles guitarist George Harrison's Hawaii home has been found dead in California, the victim of a murder-suicide, a police officer said on Sunday.
Cristin Keleher, 34, made headlines in December 1999 by entering Harrison's Maui estate and then cooking herself a frozen pizza and helping herself to a root beer. After she did her laundry and called her mother, she was found by the security staff and charged with burglary. She had apparently been stalking Harrison for months.
On December 19 of this year police in Truckee near California's popular Lake Tahoe found her body and that of a 48-year-old man in a SUV vehicle, both with gunshot wounds to their heads, according to a coroner's report.
"From the investigation it appears that she was shot first and then he shot himself, so it is a murder-suicide," Nevada County Sheriff's Sgt. Shannan Moon said on Sunday. "It sounds like a closed case."
A wrongful death lawsuit claiming that CNN's Nancy Grace pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning on her show has been moved to federal court.
The lawsuit filed by Melinda Duckett's relatives was moved from state court in Tavares to federal court in Ocala, according to court documents.
Lawyers for Grace and Atlanta-based CNN asked that the case be transferred to federal court, a move allowed when opposing parties in a lawsuit reside or are headquartered in different states. The provision ensures a state court will not be biased in favor of a party from its own state.
People wait in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the fireworks during New Year celebrations early January 1, 2007. Several hundred thousand people gathered in the German capital to celebrate the New Year.
Photo by Hannibal Hanschke
Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals.
At least 1,413 people - referred to as "amateur butchers" by the Turkish media - were treated at hospitals across the country, most suffering cuts to their hands and legs, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Four people were severely injured, crushed under the weight of large animals that fell on top of them, the agency reported. Another person was hurt when a crane used to lift an animal tumbled onto him, the agency said.
A lantern vendor setting up his wares on the street of Beijing, China, on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006. Beijing is enjoying its first heavy snow fall this winter.
Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd. But the barren islet was of major importance to the mysterious Cycladic people, a sophisticated pre-Greek civilization with no written language that flourished 4,500 years ago and produced strikingly modern-looking artwork.
A few miles from the resorts of Mykonos and Santorini, Keros is a repository of art from the seafaring culture whose flat-faced marble statues inspired the work of 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.
Indeed, more than half of all documented Cycladic figurines in museums and collections worldwide were found on Keros. Now, excavations by a Greek-British archaeology team have unearthed a cache of prehistoric statues - all deliberately broken - that they hope will help solve the Keros riddle.
Debutante Ashley Walker Bush, (R) granddaughter of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and niece of U.S. resident George W. Bush, rides an elevator with her mother Sharon (L) and others as they arrive at New York's famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel for the 52nd International Debutante Ball December 29, 2006. Ms. Bush represented the United States at the annual ball where 53 young women from nine countries made their formal debut. More than 2,000 women from 72 countries have been formally presented at the event since 1954.
Photo by Mike Segar
If the media's habit of combining celebrity names didn't cause word watchers enough heartburn in 2006, the past year had plenty of other words and phrases that language purists wish had "gone missing."
The Sault Ste. Marie school in the Upper Peninsula has been compiling the list since 1976 to attract publicity. A total of 16 words or phrases were selected by a university committee from more than 4,500 nominations.
In this photo, released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Nosey, garbed as a hot dog, stands amid other people and their stubby canines for a group photo just prior to the 2nd Annual Dachshund Walk Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006, in Key West, Fla. The event attracted more than 100 dachshunds and their owners for a New Year's Eve stroll down Key West's Duval Street.
Photo by Andy Newman
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