Marc Dion: A Sacrifice on the Altar of Manhood (Creators Syndicate)
There are, of course, women who are as abjectly bound to sports as any man, more than there were when I was a boy. I suspect that increased career opportunities, financial responsibilities and the pressures of single parenthood have driven more women to the big game and away from their own lives.
Roger Ebert's Journal: Leading with My Chin
I suggested a false beard which I would wear suspended from hooks over my ears, like a kid playing Abe Lincoln in the school play. "It's not like I think I'm fooling anyone," I said.
Jim Hightower: DUMPING ON TEXAS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Thank you, California. And you, too, Florida, Maine, Missouri, and the 32 other states that intend to send a very special gift to Texas - namely, their radioactive waste. Now there's a gift that truly keeps on giving!
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"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 popular music song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times - each time in a different decade: Little Eva in 1962 (U.S. #1); Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 (U.S. #1); and Kylie Minogue in 1988 (U.S. #3).
"The Loco-Motion" is also one of only nine songs to reach US #1 by two different artists.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
3
Alan J wrote:
Three
BttbB replied:
Not a favorite of mine, but a classic nonetheless... Let me guess before I look it up... 3?... Now, then, let's see... Hmmm... Well! Whadda ya know? I was right! Little Eva in '62, Grand Funk Railroad (from my birth place, Flint, MI) in '74 and Kylie Minogue (Who?) in '88... I did feel rather prescient when I awoke this morning... (Aside to Sally 'Antoinette'... "Guillotine! Guillotine!")
Adam answered:
I'll guess twice- once in the 60's when it was first recorded, and the 2nd time when Kylie Minogue(?) covered it in the 80s.
I don't really know.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The song is notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times - each
time in a different decade: for Little Eva during 1962 (U.S. #1); for
Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 (U.S. #1); and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 (U.S.
#3).
Sally said:
The song, "The Loco-Motion," is notable for appearing the American Top 5 three times - each time in a different decade.
Don't care about the others, "Little Eva's" rendition is the only one for me!
PS: Temps going down to 0 tonight, and that's fine, but MORE SNOW coming in on Tuesday/Wednesday! My g/daughter is in a SPEAKING role in a play next WE, and my son is driving up from NC for the event! The show is about the Ugly Duckling, and will be her theater debut. She is counting on her uncle being there - with flowers for her, never mind the frigid weather!
MAM wrote:
Three times - each time in a different decade:
PS The picture posted by Charlie for 1/22 trivia is of
the dance 'The Horse Trot' rather then 'The Turkey Trot'.
Charlie answered:
I could never stand Grand Funk Railroad, and I've never heard the Kylie version, but Little Eva was great.
Three. Another triumph for Goffin-King.
And, Joe S responded:
Three.
Little Eva, best and original version
Grand Funk Railroad, best dressed version God I miss the 70s (I think)
Kylie Minogue, really sux version
I'm not going to rag on anything today. Nothin'. EXCEPT THE CHICAGO BEARS! Packers to the Super Bowl! Hey! Who lost the NFC Championship today? Da Bears. Steelers fans? Enjoy it while you can.
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'.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/6/11) are Seth Rogen, Beau Garrett, and the Walkmen.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Valerie Bertinelli and Pau Gasol.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Chuck', followed by a FRESH'The Cape', then a FRESH'Harry's Law'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dana Carvey, Maggie Q, and Lizz Wright.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/4/11) are Kevin Spacey, DJ Pauly D, and Local Natives.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/28/10) are Elisabeth Moss, Kim-Maree Penn, and Menomena.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Cory Monteith, Joan Rivers, and the Script.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a FRESH'Gossip Girl'.
Faux has a FRESH'House', followed by a FRESH'Lie To Me'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'Intervention', another 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', then a FRESH'Heavy'.
AMC offers the movie 'Sleeping With The Enemy', followed by the movie 'The Brave One', then the movie 'The Brave One', again.
BBC -
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Frank Skinner, Karen Allen
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Jack's Waterfront
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 Midnight
[11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 15 Lazarus
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Black Pearl
[3:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 2 Sleeper
[4:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 15 Lazarus
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 11 Turn Left
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 19 The Nth Degree
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[12:00 AM Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 AM Top Gear - Episode 3
[2:00 AM Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 AM Top Gear - Episode 3
[4:00 AM Top Gear - Episode 2
[5:00 AM BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Tabatha's Salon Takeover'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', '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 Anand Giridharadas.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Charlie Rose.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Heroic Trio
[7:45 AM] The Protector
[9:30 AM] Breaker! Breaker!
[11:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:45 AM] Portlandia
[12:15 PM] The Heroic Trio
[2:00 PM] The Protector
[3:45 PM] Breaker! Breaker!
[5:45 PM] Twelve and Holding
[7:45 PM] Roger Dodger
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:30 PM] Bamboozled
[2:30 AM] Sherrybaby
[4:30 AM] Onion News Network
[5:00 AM] Arrested Development
[5:30 AM] The Larry Sanders Show (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:20 AM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[7:00 AM] Paris
[9:15 AM] Sorry, Thanks
[10:55 AM] Liberty Kid
[12:30 PM] Paris
[2:45 PM] Sorry, Thanks
[4:25 PM] Liberty Kid
[6:00 PM] A Few Days In September
[8:00 PM] A Little Trip To Heaven
[9:40 PM] The Wednesdays
[10:00 PM] Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
[12:05 AM] Oktapodi
[12:10 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[12:40 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[1:10 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[1:40 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[2:10 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[2:40 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[3:10 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet
[3:40 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Til Death Do Us Part
[4:10 AM] Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest', 'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Being Human', then the movie 'Saw IV'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Larry King, Shaun White, and Iron & Wine.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Hart, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals.
Director Kevin Smith faces off with protestors from Westboro Baptist Church as he arrives at the premiere of his movie 'Red State' during the 2011 SundanceFilm Festival in Park City, Utah on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
"The King's Speech" claimed the crown for best film at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Saturday, knocking off Golden Globes best drama winner and presumed Oscar front-runner "The Social Network."
The film also beat out nominees "127 Hours," "Black Swan," "Inception," "The Fighter," "The Kids Are All Right," "The Town," "Toy Story 3," and "True Grit."
In other PGA categories, Pixar's "Toy Story 3" won for best animated feature and the chronicle of modern education "Waiting for Superman" took top documentary honors.
On the television side, AMC's "Mad Men" won for best drama series for the third straight year, and ABC's "Modern Family" won best comedy, beating out previous two-time winner "30 Rock."
HBO's "The Pacific" won for best TV movie or miniseries, and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" won for top live entertainment or reality show.
Sir Elton John is "fed up" with being a treated like a "second-class citizen" in the U.S.
That's why the 63-year-old gay singer said he took a stand last week during a performance at a private Beverly Hills fundraiser for the ongoing legal challenge to California's gay marriage ban. The outspoken British piano man, who became a parent to a baby boy on Christmas Day with partner David Furnish, added that "as I get older, I get more angry about it."
"In this country, we need more dialogue," he said during an interview Friday. "We don't need any more stone throwing. We don't need any more vitriol. We need people to say, 'OK. I'm straight. You're gay. Let's get along. I'm Republican. You're Democratic. Let's work together.' I'm sick and tired of people being hateful to each other in this country."
John disappointed some gay rights activists after California's Proposition 8 banning gay marriage passed in 2008 when he said he had no desire to get married and was satisfied with his civil partnership in England. He sang a different tune Wednesday when he praised the effort to overturn Proposition 8 and promised to do everything he could to support it, even though he is British.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its striking musicians have returned to the bargaining table.
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report that talks resumed Sunday and that the musicians had submitted another proposal on Saturday.
The strike began Oct. 4 and has forced the nationally recognized symphony to cancel all of its performances. Musicians have been putting on independent concerts. Symphony officials claim the organization finished last year with an $8.8 million deficit, and politicians have unsuccessfully stepped in to try to end the stalemate.
The orchestra and its musicians held their first negotiating session since November on Thursday, but a second day of talks didn't go off as scheduled and each side blamed the other on Saturday.
In this photo taken Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, Danny Glover, prodcer of the documentary 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,' poses for a portrait in theFender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Victoria Will
Rapper and reality TV star Flavor Flav is bringing the flavor of chicken to Iowa.
Flav's Fried Chicken opens Monday in Clinton, Iowa. Flav has been there preparing for the launch and told the Clinton Herald he'll visit often for promotions and even work the fryer.
Flav says it's the first in a chain that stemmed from the 99 cent wings he served at Mama Cimino in Las Vegas. His business partner is the brother of that restaurant's owner.
Flavor Flav, whose real name William Drayton Jr., founded hip-hop group Public Enemy in the '80s. He found fame anew in 2004 on the third season of VH1's "The Surreal Life." He also starred in the network's "Flavor of Love."
Wrestler "Sycho Sid" Eudy is free on bail after being arrested in Memphis on a marijuana possession charge.
Police say they pulled the 50-year-old Eudy over Friday for not wearing a seatbelt. WMC-TV in Memphis reports an officer saw a bag containing 18 grams of marijuana on an arm rest in the car. Eudy also faces charges of driving without a license. He was released on $1,000 bond.
Eudy, of Marion, Ark., was known as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling, and as Sid Justice and Sycho Sid in the World Wrestling Federation.
A message left Sunday for Memphis police was not immediately returned. A call to a listing for Sidney Eudy in Marion, Ark., was not answered.
Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the Producers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California January 22, 2011.
Photo by Jason Redmond
A new poll sponsored by the pro-Kremlin party is asking Russians to vote on whether it's time to bury Vladimir Lenin.
The embalmed body of the man who founded the Soviet Union still lies on public display in a Red Square mausoleum almost 20 years after the communist state collapsed.
The contentious issue is raised almost every year around the anniversary of his death on Jan. 21, 1924.
It is not clear whether the government intends to abide by the outcome of the United Russia party's poll, but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that the fate of Lenin's body will in the end be decided by the Russian people.
CBGB, the birthplace of punk rock, is gone. No longer can visitors to Coney Island plunk down a few coins to play the unsettling attraction called "Shoot the Freak." And seedy, edgy, anything-might-happen Times Square? These days, it's all but childproof.
It continues: That diner on the corner for decades - closed. The beer garden down the street - now a Starbucks. The block once home to clusters of independent businesses - thriving as a big-box store.
And last month, another piece of the old New York slipped away with the demise of the city's Off-Track Betting parlors. It's enough to make old-school New Yorkers bristle.
Around countless corners, the weird, unexpected, edgy, grimy New York - the town that so many looked to for so long as a relief from cookie-cutter America - has evolved into something else entirely: tamed, prepackaged, even predictable.
Actress Suzy Amis (L-R), producer James Cameron and producer Paula Wagner arrive at the Producers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills,California January 22, 2011.
Photo by Jason Redmond
The brightest bulb in most homes for more than a century is fading toward darkness this year as California turns out the light on the century-old incandescent.
Beginning Jan. 1, the state began phasing out certain energy-sucking bulbs, federal standards the rest of the country will enact next year.
Manufacturers will no longer make the traditional 100-watt bulb and stores will eventually sell out of current supplies. Consumers will have to choose from more efficient bulbs that use no more than 72 watts, including halogen incandescents, compact fluorescents and light-emitting diode, or LED, bulbs.
The change is part of the federal Energy Independence and Security Act that George Bush signed in 2007, to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. California was allowed to adopt the national standard one year earlier.
The act requires new bulbs to use 25 to 30 percent less energy beginning in 2012 nationally - starting with the 100-watt bulb. By 2014, other incandescent bulbs, including the 75-, 60- and 40-watt, will also be phased out across the country.
Singer and honoree Barry Gibb, wife Linda Ann Gray (R) and daughter Alexandra Gibb (L) arrive at the 2011 G'Day USA Los Angeles Black Tie Gala in LosAngeles, California, January 22, 2011.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Say, isn't that the president with a gun in his hand? Actually, no, but it sure looks like it.
Austrian authorities are searching for a bank robber who uses an unusual disguise: He wears a Barack Obama mask during his holdups.
Police say the man, nicknamed the "Obama Robber" by local media, is wanted for six heists since 2008. The most recent took place Thursday in the hamlet of Handenberg, where the Obama-resembling suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of money after threatening bank employees with a gun.
Police official Markus Mitloehner said Friday that the man is thought to be a local since he speaks the regional dialect - with nary a trace of Obama's more professorial accent.
Singer Olivia Newton-John and her husband John Easterling (R) pose as they arrive at the 2011 G'Day USA Los Angeles Black Tie Gala in Los Angeles,California January 22, 2011.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Thousands of art lovers queued in freezing temperatures on Saturday night for a final glimpse of a major retrospective on French Impressionist Claude Monet, after Paris' Grand Palais opened round the clock to cope with demand.
Wrapped in scarves and heavy coats, people queued for more than three hours to see the nearly 200 works by the 19th century master before the historic exhibition, the biggest one on Monet in decades, closes on Monday evening.
Staff from the museum brought hot drinks and slices of cake to keep up their spirits, and a clarinetist serenaded the shivering crowds.
Jean-Paul Cluzel, chairman of the Grand Palais, said the museum had decided to keep its doors open continuously from Friday to cope with the record number of visitors, expected to total nearly 1 million since the exhibition opened in late September.
French singer Charles Aznavour, born Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian, of Armenian origin, is seen after he received the Scopus Awards of the French Friendsof the Hebrew University, Sunday Jan. 23, 2011, at the Champs Elysees theater in Paris.
Photo by Michel Spingler
Audiences weren't afraid of committing to "No Strings Attached," making it the No. 1 movie at the box office in its opening weekend.
The romantic comedy from Paramount Pictures earned an estimated $20.3 million, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
Last week's No. 1 movie, Columbia Pictures' action comedy "The Green Hornet," dropped to second place with $18.1 million. It has now made $63.4 million total. Seth Rogen stars as the title playboy-turned-superhero, based on the 1930s radio show, with Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou as his sidekick, Kato.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "No Strings Attached," $20.3 million.
2. "The Green Hornet," $18.1 million.
3. "The Dilemma," $9.7 million.
4. "The King's Speech," $9.2 million.
5. "True Grit," $8 million.
6. "Black Swan," $6.2 million.
7. "The Fighter," $4.5 million.
8. "Little Fockers," $4.4 million.
9. "Yogi Bear," $4.1 million.
10. "Tron: Legacy," $3.7 million.
Jack LaLanne, a one-time sugar-holic who became a television fitness guru preaching exercise and healthy diet to a generation of American housewives, died on Sunday at age 96, his daughter said.
LaLanne, who became U.S. television fixture in his close-fitting jumpsuit starting in 1959 and came to be regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement, succumbed to pneumonia following a brief illness at his home in Morro Bay, along the California's central coast.
"He was surrounded by his family and passed very peacefully and in no distress ... and with the football game on Sunday, so everything was normal," Yvonne LaLanne, 66, told Reuters.
Well into his 90s, LaLanne exercised for two hours a day. A typical workout would be 90 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of swimming, changing his routine every 30 days.
LaLanne was born Francois Henri LaLanne on September 26, 1914, in San Francisco, the son of French immigrants. He said he grew into a "sugar-holic" who suffered terrible headaches, mood swings and depression.
In desperation when he was 14, LaLanne's mother took him to hear health lecturer Paul Bragg, who urged followers to exercise and eat unprocessed foods.
The young LaLanne swore off white flour, most fat and sugar and began eating more fruits and vegetables. By age 15, he had built a backyard gym of climbing ropes, chin-up bars, sit-up machines and weights.
Soon, LaLanne, who was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, was playing high school football. He added weight-lifting to recover from a football injury and was hooked.
LaLanne opened the nation's first modern health club in Oakland, California, in 1936. It had a gym, juice bar and health food store. Soon there were 100 gyms nationwide.
Without bothering with patents, LaLanne designed his own exercise equipment, which he had built by a blacksmith. In 1951, he started using television to get the first generation of couch potatoes to try jumping jacks, push-ups and sit-ups.
"The Jack LaLanne Show," which went national in 1959, showed housewives how to work out and eat right, becoming a staple of U.S. daytime television during a 34-year run.
He also was known for a series of promotional fitness stunts. At age 45, in 1959, he did 1,000 push-ups and 1,000 chin-ups in 86 minutes. In 1984 a 70-year-old LaLanne had himself shackled and handcuffed and towed 70 boats 1.5 miles in Long Beach Harbor.
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