Froma Harrop: Is West Virginia a Cult? (Creators Syndicate)
After decades of suffering environmental torture at the hands of polluting industries, West Virginians might regard a chemical spill that poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 residents - and is still scaring folks after the dangers have presumably passed - as a last straw. But there never seems to be a last straw for them.
Froma Harrop: Marriage Matters, in France and in Texas (Creators Syndicate)
There is a difference between being married and not being married. That difference has come into sharp focus in the romantic life of French President Francois Hollande, a sort of Socialist Sun King around whom women revolve. All of his female companions are reputedly strong, but none seems strong enough to tell him to scram.
Ted Rall: End the Death Penalty. Allow Vigilantism
To the State of Ohio, Dennis McGuire was a human guinea pig - the first inmate executed using an experimental mix of poisons cobbled together because the manufacturers of pharmaceuticals used in older, proven cocktails refuse to continue supplying them for anti-medical purposes. For 25 agonizing minutes, McGuire thrashed against his restraints, choked and gasped for air before finally succumbing to death.
Henry Rollins: The West Berlin - Cold Darkness (LA Weekly)
Do you ever get the feeling, while living out your time in the Los Angeles area during January, where temperatures spike into the 80s and UPS personnel wear shorts, that you have struck a kind of Faustian bargain with the god of weather karma?
Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 - November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West.
After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced him to flee with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, and Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout in November 1908.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Butch Cassidy
Charlie wrote:
It's either Butch Cassidy or Paul Newman,but I suppose we're looking for Cassidy.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Butch Cassidy
Adam answered:
Butch Cassidy
Lois The Kid Of Oregon replied:
That there is the so called "Butch" Cassidy of movie fame
who adopted the name Butch to compensate for being born in
Beaver Utah; a man who made his living as an entrepreneur in
the field of previously owned cattle and founded the popular
"Hole-in-the-wall" time share concept in Wyoming, which no
doubt served as an inspiration to Dick "Dick" Cheney. Butch
also looked much more like Mat Damon than Paul Newman.
Sally said:
Robert Leroy Parker is better known as Butch Cassidy, who rode into the sunset with the infamous Sundance Kid...
As I choose to remember the alleged outlaws. Sigh...
PS: In the mid 1970's, coat-tailing on the popular Movie, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a reporter for the, "Rocky Mountain News" (Denver, CO tabloid-sized newspaper) sent a reporter out to find the remains of Cassidy and the Kid. No remains were found, and the reporter interviewed many people and relatives who knew the pair. Cassidy's sister (a lady of 'fine character') insisted that Butch returned home after his alleged death, and lived many years thereafter.
I wonder...
Marian responded:
Butch Cassidy
Dale o' diamond springs, norcaliful, replied:
Why that was Butch Cassidy! Butch, Sundance and Etta Place. Those other guys were better looking. So was Katherine Ross.
DJ Useo answered:
Doh! I haven't the slightest idea what the answer is. My guess is Colonel Kudzu. Lol.
I think he was the backup manager for Elvis Presley, and Jeff Beck thought he was the world's greatest guitarist.
He once sang "Happy Birthday" with the Lennon Sisters.
BttbBob replied:
This here partner of ol' "Sundance"... What a fine film. Saw it at the 'Star-light Drive-in Theater", summer o' '70, with my 'steady', Melody (she who later 'Dear John'd' me in basic training, some might recall)... A fine night, too. Put the top down on my '65 Impala SS convertible. No skeeters, hoo ha, so we didn't have to burn one of those nasty green spiral thingies one could buy at the concession stand to ward off the beasts (yes, skeeters, here, are beasts... But, then again, they are everywhere)
Anybody remember these? Anyway, another fine memory from my high school days. Gee... it just occurred to me... things sure have changed since then, eh?
Har!
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'Declaration' Moment - Paul Newman was one o' the finest actors, dagnabbit, that ever was, I'm here to tell ya... Fact
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'What Inquiring Minds Want To Know' Moment - The REAL reason why ol' Bob Redford didn't get an "Oscar" nomination this year. Curiouser and curiouser...
MAM wrote:
Butch Cassidy ~ (1866 - 1908 An American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang, the most successful train-robbing gang in history. He fled first toArgentina and then to Bolivia, where he was probally killed in a shootout.
Fort Worth, Texas, 1900
And, Joe S said:
Oh heck that's easy, Paul Newman. Paul Newman and Robert Redford started calling themselves Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and went to robbing trains. The law cracked down on them, as it frowns on train robbing, and chased them off to Bolivia or something. They escaped the law there by faking their own deaths, and sneaked back into the US because the borders are so porous. They went to California and took up new lives as successful movie stars and made more money than they ever did robbing trains. It wasn't as hazardous as train robbing either.
Early picture of Butch and Sundance fighting their way out of a train station. This is not as glamorous as it looks. It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but believe me, gunfights can kill you.
Dear old dad has talked about a movie,
The Savage Innocents (1960) (with
Anthony Quinn and
Peter O'Toole's screen debut;
directed by Nicholas Ray) for years, so
thought I'd see if I could find a copy for him for Christmas.
Amazon said they had 1 copy, so I jumped on it.
When it finally arrived, all the print was in Korean. The front of case said it was directed by "Nicholas Bay".
Yikes.
Then, in tiny letters on the back was the disclaimer that the movie was in English, but with Korean subtitles.
A little weird, but no harm, no foul.
Sent it to him and he was delighted.
So, a few weeks back he asked if I could find another movie. He didn't know the title (just like the
Savage Innocents, but,
Anthony Quinn didn't play a lot of
Eskimos) - just that it had
Jack Lemmon and
Walter Matthau, and there were gangsters, and
they were in the woods.
Turns out the movie is
Buddy Buddy (1981), so once again I visited Amazon.com
Found a copy, ordered it, and when it arrived, all the print was in Spanish.
Since the only other movie I ever ordered from them came in a Korean wrapper, I figured this one would be in English, with Spanish subtitles, so I sent it to dear old dad for his birthday.
Well, turns out his copy of Buddy Buddy is dubbed in Spanish, and there are no English subtitles.
WTF?
Had no reason to suspect either film would be in anything other than English.
Kinda flinchy about ordering any more movies from Amazon.com.
Kudzu was introduced to the South as a way of stopping soil erosion. Yeah, it stops soil erosion and devours everything in its way.
When we lived in L. A. (Lower Alabama) for a few years, there was kudzu coming out of the woods behind our house. In the summer, you could SEE the stuff grow. My mother and the neighbors periodically burned it back to the edge of the woods only to have it grow out again, but burning was all that kept it at bay.
The only "useful" thing I've ever heard done with it, researchers at Auburn University managed to make a tea from its leaves, but who the heck wants to drink kudzu tea?!
Linda >^..^< We're all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Mike & Molly', followed by a FRESH'Mom', then a FRESH'Intelligence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Louis C.K., B.J. Ganem, and Arctic Monkeys.
On a RERUNCraig (from 12/13/13) are Michael Sheen and the Lone Bellow.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night', followed by another FRESH'Hollywood Game Night', then a FRESH'Blacklist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dana Carvey, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and A Great Big World.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Johnny Knoxville and Barry Gibb.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are We Cause Scenes, Capital Cities, and Kan Wakan.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Chris O'Donnell and Paul George.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Dana White, Gabby Douglas, Imani Hakim, Sydney Mikayla, and Ty Dolla $ign.
Faux has a RERUN'The Following', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', yet another 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Bad Ink', then another FRESH'Bad Ink', followed by a FRESH'Don't Trust Andrew Mayne', then another FRESH'Don't Trust Andrew Mayne'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Greeks Bearing Gifts
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Masterpiece Society
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Conundrum
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Power Play
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Revisited: The Fenwick Arms
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL - Season 19 - Part 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL - Season 19 - Part 2
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 6
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL-Season 19 - Part 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL-Season 19 - Part 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 6
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', and 'Real Housewives Of BH'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jeff Garlin.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Nate Silver.
FX has the movie 'Baby Mama', followed by the movie 'Friends With Benefits', then a FRESH'Archer', followed by a FRESH'Chozen'.
History has 'Swamp People', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dark Floors
[7:45AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[8:15AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Rise of the Empire
[8:45AM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[11:45AM] Blade Runner
[2:15PM] Dark Floors
[4:00PM] Exorcismus
[6:15PM] The Blair Witch Project
[8:00PM] Snakes on a Plane
[10:15PM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
[12:15AM] Snakes on a Plane
[2:30AM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
[4:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[5:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Rise of the Empire
[5:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Dumb Public (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Hurt Locker
[9:00AM] The Freshman
[11:15AM] Oscar and Lucinda
[2:00PM] The Full Monty
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Jurisdiction
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Virus
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Securitate
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Manhood
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Benevolence
[9:00PM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[11:30PM] Waiting for Guffman
[1:15AM] All Good Things
[3:30AM] From Hell (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pitch Black', followed by a FRESH'Lost Girl', then a FRESH'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Bitten'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Bill Hader, Breckin Meyer, and the Strypes.
Kathy Griffin wins the Best Comedy Album award for "Calm Down Girl" at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Michael Buble has won his fourth best traditional pop vocal album Grammy.
Buble was one of the early winners Sunday at the Grammy Awards. Herb Alpert's "Steppin' Out" was named best pop instrumental album, Ziggy Marley won reggae album and Steven Colbert won spoken word album.
Cyndi Lauper announced some of the early awards during the pre-telecast ceremony, jokingly giving acceptance speeches for the artists who were not present. The red carpet opened with a crush of people ahead of the show, as most of the nominees in the less mainstream categories vying for camera time before the big stars flooded in.
Major awards were going to be announced later in the pre-show and Macklemore believes Kendrick Lamar deserves the best rap album Grammy, but if he and his producer take home the award, he feels it is justified.
Alfonso Cuaron was awarded the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for "Gravity" on Saturday night, giving the lost-in-space saga an edge on the journey to the Academy Awards.
In the recent bustle of Hollywood honors, "Gravity," David O. Russell's con caper "American Hustle" and Steve McQueen's historical epic "12 Years a Slave" had been competing in the tightest three-way Oscar race in years.
But Cuaron's film now has the upper hand for the best-picture and director Academy Awards, and with 10 Oscar nominations, is likely to gain the most statuettes on Hollywood's biggest night March 2. "American Hustle" also has 10 nominations, but in tougher, more competitive races than "Gravity's" mainly craft nods.
In the 65-year history of the DGA awards, the winner has failed to also take home the best director Oscar just seven times. Ben Affleck, who presented Cuaron with his guild award, won the same accolade last year for "Argo" but was denied a best director nomination at the Oscars. However, like many DGA winners, "Argo" went on to win the best-picture prize at the Oscars.
Rising income inequality in the United States and South Africa threatens to tear their societies apart, rocker Bruce Springsteen said on Sunday before his first performance in Africa for almost three decades.
Riding high on the global charts with his latest album "High Hopes", the musician stayed true to his New Jersey working class roots and socially conscious lyrics when answering media questions.
"There is a tremendous problem with income inequality in the States right now and it's been increasing and increasing," Springsteen said a few hours before his opening night performance in South Africa's tourist capital Cape Town.
"Initially it tears society apart and I don't think society can make good when economic differences and economic inequalities are so widespread. It is a real problem in the United States and a big problem here too," he said.
Yoko Ono and Ringo Starr attend The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Special Merit Awards Ceremony, on Saturday, January, 25, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Cowboys embrace in their underwear, singing in rich tenor and baritone voices in a modern opera adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Brokeback Mountain" opening in Madrid on Tuesday.
The tragic love story of Jack and Ennis, played in the 2005 picture by Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, comes to Madrid's Teatro Real in an English-language production that has drawn comparisons to Wagner.
The Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch as the hesitant Ennis and American tenor Tom Randle as his devoted Jack play out their tale of secret love in homophobic 1960s Wyoming against a photographic backdrop of brooding mountains.
At Madrid's top classical opera house, "Brokeback Mountain" follows a production of another tale of forbidden love, Wagner's epic "Tristan and Isolde".
The billing is no coincidence, said the theatre's Belgian director, Gerard Mortier, who saw parallels between the cowboys and the mythical knight and princess of Richard Wagner's masterpiece.
Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.
As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a seagull and a large black crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window of the Apostolic Palace.
One dove lost some feathers as it broke free from the gull. But the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove.
It was not clear what happened to the doves as they flew off.
Musician Niles Rodgers (L) and actor Ron Jeremy arrive at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Soldiers waded onto a beach, fighter planes flew overhead and jeeps filed along the seaside at Anzio in Italy this weekend as the resort town marks the 70th anniversary of Allied landings during World War II.
Thousands of American, British and Canadian troops lost their lives in and around Anzio in one of the key battles of the war which, after months of trench warfare, led to the liberation of Rome from the Nazis.
The landings began in the early hours of January 22, 1944 -- a day local man Alfredo Rinaldi remembers well.
Rinaldi was a teenager at the time. He had been sent to Rome by the Nazis but returned once the allies landed, and was hired on the spot by the US troops as a translator.
Paul McCartney (L) and Ringo Starr prepare to take a bow after performing together at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
If you bank at HSBC in England, don't plan on making any large cash withdrawals. At least not without a good explanation. Or, maybe even a permission slip.
The policy affects customers attempting withdrawals for amounts as little as £5,000 ($8,253). HSBC says it's all done in the name of customer protection.
Banking customer Stephen Cotton says he attempted to withdraw approximately $11,000 to repay a loan from his mother but was blocked from doing so.
Cotton says the bank wouldn't even tell him how much he was allowed to withdraw under the new policy, which was not announced to customers when taking affect last November.
Musicians Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath (L-R) pose with their award for Best Metal Performance for "God is Dead?" at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
An ancient European hunter-gatherer man had dark skin and blue eyes, a new genetic analysis has revealed.
The analysis of the man, who lived in modern-day Spain only about 7,000 years ago, shows light-skin genes in Europeans evolved much more recently than previously thought.
The findings, which were detailed today (Jan. 26) in the journal Nature, also hint that light skin evolved not to adjust to the lower-light conditions in Europe compared with Africa, but instead to the new diet that emerged after the agricultural revolution, said study co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogenomics researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.
Many scientists have believed that lighter skin gradually arose in Europeans starting around 40,000 years ago, soon after people left tropical Africa for Europe's higher latitudes. The hunter-gatherer's dark skin pushes this date forward to only 7,000 years ago, suggesting that at least some humans lived considerably longer than thought in Europe before losing the dark pigmentation that evolved under Africa's sun.
Merle Haggard (R) and his wife Theresa and son Ben arrive at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
A Renaissance prayer book that broke the auction record for an illuminated manuscript 15 years ago is on the auction block again in New York City.
The Rothschild Prayerbook is slated to sell at Christie's New York auction house on Wednesday for an estimated $12 million to $18 million. The ornately illustrated Book of Hours was sold to a European collector in 1999 at Christie's London for $13.4 million.
The book was commissioned around 1505 by a member of the imperial court of the Netherlands. It entered the Rothschild family collection in the 19th century.
The 150-page book features full-page colour drawings by leading masters of illumination. It was part of a collection of Nazi-confiscated treasures returned to the Rothschild banking dynasty by the Austrian government in 1999.
Stevie Wonder (front) performs "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The Colorado River took the easy route when it carved the Grand Canyon through Arizona's ruddy sandstones and pastel limestones, a new study claims.
Instead of slicing through thousands of feet of unblemished rock, the Colorado River recycled ancient canyons, at least one of which was 70 million years old, researchers report today (Jan. 26) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"I think the Colorado River found low places and paleocanyons and ancient topographies that led to the Grand Canyon," said Karl Karlstrom, lead study author and a geologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
The new findings, which rely mainly on reinterpretations of other scientists' work, summarize decades of geologic sleuthing. But the study may do little to resolve the heated debate over the age of the Grand Canyon. For the past year, Karlstrom and others have stridently attacked work published Nov. 29, 2012, in the journal Science that suggested the westernmost Grand Canyon was 70 million years old.
But the debate over the Grand Canyon's age has raged for decades, in part because so much of the canyon's history is missing, carried away by the river. The little that's left means many things to many people. The argument also hinges on how one defines the Grand Canyon. Is there a Grand Canyon without the Colorado River running through it?
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell win the Grammy for Best American Roots Song "Love Has Come For You" at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The Kevin Hart comedy "Ride Along" continued to speed through a typically quiet box-office frame, while the monster thriller "I, Frankenstein" couldn't be roused from the dead.
Universal's buddy cop comedy "Ride Along," co-starring Ice Cube, cruised to the top of the box office again, taking in $21.2 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film set a January debut record, with $48.6 million over the three-day holiday weekend.
But "I, Frankenstein" had a sizable budget estimated at $65 million, yet opened with just $8.3 million. Starring a beefed-up Arron Eckhart as Mary Shelley's famous monster in a modern-day setting, the 3-D film wasn't screened for critics and came into the weekend with little buzz. Lakeshore Entertainment financed the film, which was distributed by Lionsgate.
Several Oscar candidates sought to capitalize on their recent best-picture nominations. Expanding by a few hundred theatres were "Dallas Buyers Club" ($2 million, $20.4 million total) "12 Years a Slave," ($2 million, $45.5 million total) "Gravity" ($2 million, $261.2 million total), "Philomena," ($1 million, $25.8 million total) and "Nebraska" ($1.4 million, $11.6 million total). Also adding theatres was "August: Osage County," which earned $5 million, bringing its cumulative haul to $26.5 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Tuesday.
Men dressed in costumes known as "kukeri", participate in the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in the town of Pernik, some 20 km (12 miles) west of Sofia, January 26, 2014. The annual festival features participants from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Photo by Stoyan Nenov
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