Roger Ebert's Journal: Much Ado about the N-Thing
I should have used the actual N-Word. Then I wouldn't be in the middle of what Huffington Post calls "an N-Word" controversy. By N-Word, I mean, literally, "N-Word," that sly usage that goes along with "F-Word" when we want to say a word without saying it.
Charlyn Fargo: Healthy Eating Equals a Long Life (Creators Syndicate)
Now we have proof: If you want to live longer, choose your food carefully. The leading causes of death have shifted from infectious diseases to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. And these illnesses may be affected by diet.
Charlyn Fargo: An Argument for Strength Training (Creators Syndicate)
One of my favorite books is "Strong Women Stay Young" by Miriam Nelson. It might just be the title - I want to stay young and strong. New information backs up the importance of strength training as we turn a year older in 2011.
Chuck Norris: Resolving Your Resolutions (Creators Syndicate)
I'm a believer in new beginnings. That is why I'm an advocate of New Year's resolutions. But I'm not an advocate of seeking change only in one day. In fact, I believe the reason many people fail to carry out resolutions is that they bottle up their plans and passions to improve in that single day.
Lucy Mangan: Of nice and men (Guardian)
Last week, Mary and her dog got the shock of their lives - some men can be trusted. Hard to comprehend, I know, but true nonetheless.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
I read somewhere this past week that some manner of 'seer' has predicted that Michelle Obama will become pregnant this year. O-o-o-kay... Not sure how the Obamas feel about that, but I think it might give the White House a much needed PR boost... Anyway...
Marian was first, and correct, with:
Christmas Snow
mj wrote:
One usually needs to go to "What's your porn star/stripper name? web sites to come up with something like
Christmas Snow. And, re yesterday's answer, the Army had nothing on the tennis world. Throught the 1970s, Yvonne Goolagong, the Aussie tennis player of aboriginal descent, was reffered to, on the court as Mrs. Cauley.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Christmas Snow.
Alan J answered:
Christmas Snow
BttbB replied:
Her full name was Christmas Noelle Snow... and she jingled her bells quite nicely, I thought...
Adam responded:
According to the IMDB- Chrissy's full name is "Christmas Noelle Snow"
Charlie replied:
Christmas
VB in Akron responded:
On Three's Company, Chrissy's given name was Christmas Snow.
Sally said:
As I recall, "Chrissy's" real name was Christmas Snow. That show was SO bad...
PS: Read on the Huffington Post blog:
"Hey Sarah - How's that reloady - targety thing workin' out for ya?"
MAM wrote:
Christmas Noelle Snow
Suzanne Sommers as Chrissy
And, Joe S answered:
Christmas Snow.
I really hope people's eyes will be opened about the dangers of the tea baggers, but I'm not holding my breath. Already the MSM is saying both sides are guilty of violent rhetoric, trying to spread the blame. I've seen no evidence of Progressive, Liberal death threats.
A new addition to the Leipzig Zoo has yet to be seen by the public, but that hasn't stopped her from becoming a star. Heidi, a young cross-eyed opossum, is shaping up to be the most popular furry critter in Germany since Knut the celebrity polar bear...
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bill Cosby, a Top Ten List presented by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, and the Black Keys.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Roseanne Barr and Joe Theismann.
NBC begins the night with a (FRESH'Chuck', followed by a RERUN'The Cape'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Seacrest, Steven Tyler, Dan Adhoot, and Diane Birch.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Winona Ryder, Regina King, and Okkervil River.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/19/10) are Mark Hoppus, Yak Films, and Fitz & the Tantrums.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Cameron Diaz, Scott Foley, and the Wombats.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a RERUN'Gossip Girl'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Lie To Me'.
MY recycles an old 'Law & Order: CI', followed by another 'Law & Order: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', then a FRESH'Hoarders'.
AMC offers the movie 'Money Train', followed by the movie 'Exit Wounds'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 Duncan Bannatyne, Joan Rivers
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Dovecote
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 1 Partners in Crime
[11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 6 Shadows
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 12 Casa Roma
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[3:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 6 Countrycide
[4:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 6 Shadows
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 2 The Fires of Pompeii
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 9 Final Mission
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Family Guy), followed by a FRESH'Inside The Actors Studio' (Jim Carrey', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Tabatha's Salon Takeover'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Balls Of Fury', followed by 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', still another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and yet another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Denis Leary.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Fen Montaigne.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Le Divorce
[8:30 AM] Wild Man Blues
[10:45 AM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[12:45 PM] Bend It Like Beckham
[3:15 PM] Le Divorce
[5:45 PM] Calendar Girls
[8:00 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:35 PM] The Ladykillers
[1:50 AM] Flannel Pajamas
[4:35 AM] Arrested Development
[5:05 AM] Arrested Development
[5:35 AM] Nosebleed
[5:45 AM] The Grid (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[7:45 AM] White Lightnin'
[9:20 AM] Flame & Citron
[11:40 AM] Sorry, Thanks
[1:20 PM] White Lightnin'
[2:50 PM] Flame & Citron
[5:10 PM] Sorry, Thanks
[6:50 PM] Oss 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
[8:25 PM] The Darjeeling Limited
[10:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[10:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[11:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet (Episode 7, Season 1)
[11:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Til Death Do Us Part (Episode 8, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 10, Season 1)
[12:35 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 11, Season 1)
[1:05 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Shines Under Stress (Episode 12, Season 1)
[1:35 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Does Another Classic Leno (Episode 13, Season 1)
[2:05 AM] The Darjeeling Limited
[3:40 AM] Oss 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
[5:15 AM] Sorry, Thanks (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Star Trek: Nemesis', followed by the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Adam Sandler, Donald Glover, and Guster.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Lauren Graham, Will Sasso, and Plain White T's
Actress Helen Mirren, right, and her husband, director Taylor Hackford arrive at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in PalmSprings, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
How do you get a long-suffering but little-known slice of Africa on the White House agenda and onto American TV screens? George Clooney knows how.
Humble, self-effacing and dressed for safari, the Hollywood star and former Sexiest Man Alive was in the scruffy, straw-hut capital of Southern Sudan on Saturday to draw attention to the region's weeklong independence referendum.
The vote, which begins Sunday, is likely to create the world's newest nation. Clooney is working to help the region avoid a backslide toward war.
In picking a cause and roughing it in a developing country, Clooney is hardly alone. Celebrities are shining their star power on the poor, the war-weary and the disaster-prone more than ever.
U.S. actress Rachel McAdams, U.S. actor Harrison Ford and U.S. director Roger Michell arrive for the German Premiere of the movie 'Morning Glory ' in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011.
Photo by Gero Breloer
Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.
Previous work had already suggested a role for dopamine, a substance brain cells release to communicate with each other. But the new work, which scanned people's brains as they listened to music, shows it happening directly.
While dopamine normally helps us feel the pleasure of eating or having sex, it also helps produce euphoria from illegal drugs. It's active in particular circuits of the brain.
The tie to dopamine helps explain why music is so widely popular across cultures, Robert Zatorre and Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal write in an article posted online Sunday by the journal Nature Neuroscience.
It was a rare, early Hollywood television appearance for future rock music renegade Frank Zappa. Lean and hungry and unknown, the 22-year-old composer appeared on "The Steve Allen Show" in 1963.
He wore a pressed suit and thin tie, and short, well-greased hair - standard for those pre-Beatles, pre-psychedelic days. But Zappa was there to perform sounds on a bicycle with drumsticks and a bow (the bike belonged to his sister Candy).
Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore - Dec. 21, 2010, would have been his 70th birthday - but his self-image and musical output from 1963 until his death in 1993 were soaked in the lore of Southern California, where he grew up.
A list of local place names that appear in the satirical songs of his avant-garde-meets-novelty-rock group, the Mothers of Invention, would be long.
Burbank, Downey, El Monte, Fullerton, Glendale, Hawthorne, Irwindale, Lomita, Newhall, Pacoima, Palmdale, Rolling Hills, Shadow Hills - he loved, hated and sang about all of them. In retrospect, it seems that Zappa and the Mothers played in other cities during their heyday in the late 1960s only because they had to.
Actor Javier Bardem holds his International Star award with presenter, actress Natalie Portman at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival AwardsGala in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
PBS is looking at ways to make its 1973 documentary "An American Family" publicly available again to coincide with an upcoming HBO film that shows how television cameras changed the life of the Loud family.
The HBO film, set to air in April, stars Tim Robbins and Diane Lane as Bill and Pat Loud. The Santa Barbara, Calif. couple invited filmmakers to document their lives for a 12-hour series, and the HBO production promises a behind-the-scenes look at how cameras tore the family asunder.
The original documentary is increasingly looked upon as ground-breaking, probably television's first reality series. PBS prefers to look upon how the series inspired observational documentaries, but it's also possible to draw a line from "An American Family" on traditionally staid PBS to MTV's "Jersey Shore."
The stars and producers of the HBO film remarked on how difficult it was for them to do research for their jobs because the original series is not readily available on DVD or other formats.
Mark Twain was the kind of man who might tell an off-color joke, then grievously apologize, who wrote stories and essays he knew would offend and kept others private for the same reason.
A century after his death, Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored.
The author and humorist worried enough about what he could say in public to withhold anti-religion essays and to forbid his autobiography from being published until 100 years after his death. The first of three planned volumes of the unexpurgated version, released in 2010 and including harsh words for American business and military actions, became a surprise best-seller that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
But Twain also believed in getting out the truth. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" angered respectable people when it came out and still stirs a fuss 126 years later. Twain's most famous novel has been paired with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in a volume to be published next month by NewSouth Books that replaces the "N-word" - an offensive but often-used expression in the 1880s - with "slave."
"He was profoundly a Victorian gentleman, or tried to be," says Twain biographer Ron Powers. "It mattered to him if his wife approved of what he wrote and he was eager to please the public. But there were categories, like race, before which he was intrepid. In San Francisco before the Civil War, he was run out of town because he was criticizing the police for beating up Chinese people."
Actor Robert Loggia with his wife Audrey O'Brien arrive at the 22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala in Palm Springs, CaliforniaJanuary 8, 2011. Picture taken January 8, 2011.
Photo by Alex Gallardo
The Trans Alaska Pipeline was shut for a second day on Sunday because of a leak, with no indication of when it would reopen, sending oil prices higher on fears that a prolonged closure could restrict U.S. supplies.
The leak was discovered at the start of the pipeline in Prudhoe Bay early Saturday, forcing oil companies to cut production to 5 percent of their average 630,000 barrels per day.
The shutdown of one of the United States' key oil arteries, which carries about 12 percent of the country's production, is the latest setback for 33-year old pipeline, which is becoming more expensive to maintain as it ages and handles less than a third of the oil it did at its peak in the 1980s.
Closures of the pipeline, although short, have provoked criticism of its operators, particularly major owner BP, whose reputation is already at an all-time low after the Gulf of Mexico blow-out last year, causing the largest-ever U.S. oil spill and attracting renewed government scrutiny of the oil production industry.
Director Oliver Stone arrives at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
The Egyptian government official charged with protecting his country's ancient monuments is threatening to take back an iconic obelisk in Central Park unless New York City takes steps to restore it.
The stone obelisk "has been severely weathered over the past century" with no effort made to conserve it, Zahi Hawass, secretary general for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, wrote in a letter this week to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The obelisk, which commemorates King Thutmose III, has stood behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1881. At 71 feet tall, it is known as "Cleopatra's Needle" and is one of a pair. The other is in London.
The obelisk dates back roughly 3,500 years and was given to the United States in the 19th century by an official in Egypt.
The statue of the Black Nazarene makes its way inside Quiapo Church during a procession in Manila January 10, 2011. Nearly 2 million barefoot devotees, mostly in maroon shirts, thronged the streets of Manila on Sunday as a centuries old black statue of Jesus Christ, believed to have healing powers, was paraded through the old city.
Photo by Cheryl Ravelo
British pubgoers could soon ditch their traditional pint in favor of a "schooner," a smaller measure of beer used in Australia, under government changes announced on Tuesday.
At the moment, pubs and restaurants are limited to selling alcoholic drinks in certain measures, but the government wants to introduce a new range in response to changing trade practices and consumer tastes.
Instead of choosing between halves or pints, drinkers would also have the option of a schooner, the equivalent of two-thirds of a pint. Wine glasses would also see a change.
The Daily Mail newspaper said the new pint rule, which also applies to cider and lager, represents one of the most radical changes since the pint was introduced by an Act of Parliament in 1698.
India's dancers perform a rendition on the late Mahatma Gandhi during 1860 anniversary celebrations that marked the arrival of Indians in the country 150years ago at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa on Sunday Jan. 9, 2011.
Photo by Themba Hadebe
"True Grit" seized the reins at the weekend box office with $15 million, taking the No. 1 spot and becoming the first Western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
The Paramount release starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon bumped off Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's comedy "Little Fockers," which was No. 1 for the previous two weekends. Released by Universal, "Little Fockers" slipped to second with $13.8 million, raising its total to $124 million.
Among newcomers, Nicolas Cage's supernatural thriller "Season of the Witch" opened at No. 3 with $10.7 million. Distributed by Relativity Media, the movie stars Cage as a knight in the Middle Ages escorting a suspected witch to her trial.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
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