Henry Rollins: My Trips to Russia (LA Weekly)
Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.
Kathy Benjamin: 4 Reasons We Were Right Not to Boycott the Olympics (Cracked)
The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, are on their way to becoming the most corrupt of all time. And considering how corrupt the games usually are, that's like winning an Olympic gold medal in ... Olympic corruption. Then there are the infamous anti-gay laws Russia recently enacted, leading many people to call for boycotting the games altogether. And while it was a tempting idea, it would have been the wrong decision. Here's why.
They have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Score and are the best-selling band in history, with sales of over 600 million records worldwide. What is the name of this group?
"Everybody Loves Somebody" is a song written in 1947 by Sam Coslow, Irving Taylor and Ken Lane. By 1964, the song had already been recorded by several artists (including Frank Sinatra), but without much success.
Although still a major recording artist, Martin had not had a Top 40 hit since 1958. And with the British Invasion ruling the U.S. charts, few had hopes that a middle aged Italian crooner would sway many teenagers. And yet, defying the odds, Everybody Loves Somebody shot straight up to the top of both the Billboard Hot 100 and the "Easy Listening" chart, the latter for eight weeks. It ultimately replaced "That's Amore" as Martin's signature song, and he sang it as the theme of his weekly television variety show from 1965 until 1974. The song has become so identified with Dean Martin, that later cover versions are invariably compared to his hit take on the tune.
Martin resented rock n' roll, and his attitude created conflict at home with his 14-year-old son Dean Paul Martin, who like many teenagers in the Western world, worshipped The Beatles. He told his son, "I'm gonna' knock your pallies off the charts," and in August 15, 1964 he did just that: Everybody Loves Somebody knocked the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" off the number one slot on Billboard.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody"
Alan J said:
Everybody Loves Somebody by Dean Martin
Charlie wrote:
It was Dean Martin's version of "Everbody Loves Somebody."
Martin didn't like the Beatles (or the Stones, or most any rock act), very much.
I'll express my feelings with my picture choice.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Everybody Loves Somebody
Adam answered:
Everybody Loves Somebody.
Rollin' Lois Of Oregon replied:
Just as Dick Cheney had John Lennon shot to impress Ronald
Reagan, and John Hinckley shot at Ronald Reagan to impress
Jodie Foster, Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody
Sometime" knocked the Beatles off the Number One Spot just
as Dean predicted it would, to impress his son the ill-fated
Dino Jr.! The Great Circle Of Life Rolls On.
Sally said:
On August 15, 1964, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes" sung by Dean Martin, knocked the Beatles, "A Hard Day's Night" off the number one slot on Billboard.
Guess he 'took it with him'
of sorts...
DJ Useo answered:
As a serving member of the Beatles Remixers Group I'm very familiar with Beatles trivia, so I can quickly state that the answer is Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody".
It's a pretty good version of that song by Dean, so I can understand it selling well. However, I have little confidence in ratings systems, so I ponder whether it really sold that many.
Dale of Stillrainy Springs of Diamonds, Norcali, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
"Everybody Loves Somebody" sung by Dean Martin.
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Dean Martin, Everybody Loves Somebody. It only stayed number one for a week. Did you watch the Beatles Tribute Sunday night? OLD GUYS RULE!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then a FRESH'Intelligence'.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/14/14) are Kevin Hart, Mo Rocca, and the Orwells.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Chen and Bubba Watson.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a RERUN'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (it's not live).
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Julia Roberts, Joel Kinnaman, and Eric Church.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Gabrielle Union, Richard Roundtree, Lisa Vidal, Margaret Avery, Richard Brooks, Michael Rapaport, and Rico Love.
Faux has a FRESH'Almost Human', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Bad Ink', then another FRESH'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'Batman Begnis', followed by the movie 'Batman Begins', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 2
[9:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL- Season 19 - Part 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL-Season 19 - Part 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 5
[7:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 6
[8:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 21 - Episode 1 NEW
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 5
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 21 - Episode 1
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 6
[1:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 4
[2:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 21 - Episode 1
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 3 (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 Ty Burrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Patrick Kennedy.
FX has the movie 'Green Lantern', followed by the movie 'Thor', then the movie 'Thor', again.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and 'Appalachian Outlaws'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Vanishing Point
[8:15AM] DeepStar Six
[10:30AM] The Cable Guy
[12:30PM] The Informant!
[2:45PM] The Cable Guy
[5:00PM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[8:00PM] The Silence of the Lambs
[10:45PM] A Clockwork Orange
[1:45AM] The Silence of the Lambs
[4:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[6:30AM] Law & Order-Blue Bamboo
[7:30AM] The Tree of Life
[10:30AM] The Namesake
[1:00PM] The Pelican Brief
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Family Values
[5:00PM] Law & Order-White Rabbit
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Competence
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Precious
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Virtue
[9:00PM] The Long Good Friday
[11:30PM] Mona Lisa
[1:45AM] Garden State
[4:00AM] A Dangerous Method (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Dawn Of The Dead', followed by a FRESH'Bitten', then a FRESH'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Martin Scorsese and Rock Candy Funk Party.
BET honoree singer Aretha Franklin performs onstage during the BET Honors 2014 at Warner Theatre in Washington February 8, 2014.
Photo by Jose Luis Magana
"Captain Phillips," "American Hustle" and "Frozen" took top honors among narrative features as the American Cinema Editors handed out the ACE Eddie Awards Friday evening.
"Captain Phillips" and its editor Christopher Rouse took kudos for dramatic feature, "American Hustle" editors Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten took the award for comedy or musical feature, and "Frozen's" Jeff Draheim took home the Eddie for animated feature.
It's the second major honor for "Captain Phillips" in a week, as the picture won the WGA's adapted screenplay prize last Saturday.
The documentary feature prize went to Douglas Blush, Kevin Klauber & Jason Zeldes for "20 Feet From Stardom."
On the TV side, the Eddies continued the run of awards for the finale of "The Office," "Breaking Bad" and "Behind the Candelabra."
Vince Gilligan's acclaimed crime drama brought the commercial-TV hourlong series honor to Skip MacDonald for the episode "Felina." David Rogers & Claire Scanlon won for the "Office" finale in the half-hour category and "Behind the Candelabra's" Mary Ann Bernard (AKA Steven Soderbergh) won in minis/made-fors. Soderbergh, who used his mother's name as a pseudonym, sent a message that his mother had died that morning and dedicated the award to her.
Actor George Clooney arrives at the press conference for the film The Monuments Men during the International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014.
Photo by Axel Schmidt
A large piece of stage backdrop autographed by the Beatles during their first live U.S. concert 50 years ago is headed to auction, where it could draw $800,000 to $1 million.
Face caricatures accompany the signatures that the Fab Four penned between sets of their historic Ed Sullivan appearance on Feb. 9, 1964, which they opened with "All My Loving" in front of 700 screeching audience fans and 73 million television viewers.
The current owner of the 4-foot-by-2-foot plastic wall section is Andy Geller, a longtime Beatles collector and television and film voice-over artist. It is being sold in New York City on April 26 through the Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions.
Believed to be the largest Beatles autograph, a stagehand is responsible for getting the band members to sign the back of the wall section known as a hardwall traveler, which is rolled back and forth to reveal the next act.
"It was a spur of the moment thing," 81-year-old Jerry Gort said in a telephone interview from his Calabasas, Calif., home. "They came down from stage right from their dressing rooms, I gave them a marker and asked them to sign the wall."
George Clooney said the U.K. should return Greek art treasures in its possession, during a press conference for his film "The Monuments Men" at the Berlin Film Festival Saturday.
Asked by a Greek journalist whether Greece should claim its historic monuments back from Britain, he said: "I think you have a very good case to make about your artifacts. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing if they were returned.
"I think that is a good idea. I think that would be a very fair and very nice thing. Yeah, I think it is the right thing to do."
The possession by British museums of Greek artifacts - such as the Elgin Marbles, which were taken from the Acropolis in Athens - has long been a bone of contention between the two countries. The question fitted nicely with the theme of Clooney's film, which follows the attempt by a squad of art experts to return stolen works of art to their rightful owners in post-war Germany.
Spanish actor Javier Bardem (L) poses with his mother Pilar Bardem, as she carries a sticker against the layoffs in Coca Cola plants in Spain, on the red carpet before the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Awards ceremony in Madrid February 9, 2014.
Photo by Javier Barbancho
Stronger winds which have cooled the surface of the Pacific Ocean could explain what is likely to be a temporary slowdown in the pace of global warming this century, researchers said.
Last year, scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the pace of temperature rise at the Earth's surface had slowed over the past 15 years, even though greenhouse gas emissions, widely blamed for causing climate change, have risen steadily.
Past research has linked the slowdown in the pace of warming to factors such as a build-up of sun-dimming air pollution in the atmosphere or a decline in the sun's output. Others suggest the deep oceans may be absorbing more heat.
A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sunday said stronger Pacific trade winds - a pattern of easterly winds spanning the tropics - over the past two decades had made ocean circulation at the Equator speed up, moving heat deeper into the ocean and bringing cooler water to the surface. The winds have also helped drive cooling in other ocean regions.
The fashion house Valentino has apologized for touting in an email blast to journalists that one of their pricey bags was carried by Amy Adams as she stepped from a car at the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Much was made of the promotional email sent Friday, complete with two photos of Adams outside the Thursday wake. Valentino said in a statement that quickly followed that the company didn't realize the photos were snapped at the sad gathering of loved ones for Hoffman, who was found dead Feb. 2 of an apparent heroin overdose in his apartment.
Hoffman, 46, co-starred with Adams in "The Master" and both his wake, and funeral the next day, were attended by numerous celebrities, Adams included.
"We sincerely regret releasing a photo to the media ... of Amy Adams with a Valentino Bag. We were not aware the photograph was taken while she was attending the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was an innocent mistake and we apologize to Ms. Adams who was not aware, or a part of, our PR efforts," said the regretful statement signed by Mona Swanson, vice-president of communications for Valentino USA.
Bruce Dern enjoys an ice cream Sunday with Diane Lane at the Hennessy Privilege VIP post-party at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival after he received the Modern Master Award at the Arlington Theatre on Saturday, February 8, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California
Photo by Todd Williamson
AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong reversed his decision to cut employee retirement benefits and apologized for remarks linking two women at the company with "distressed babies" to its rising health care costs that set off a fire storm of criticism.
In a town hall meeting last week where Armstrong sought to clarify why the company cut its employee retirement plan, he singled out two unnamed women who had babies with health problems and the impact of President Obama's health care reforms for adding millions of dollars to AOL's bill.
The mother of one of one of those babies, the wife of an AOL employee, came forward to address the insensitive comments in an article on Sunday for Slate.com.
"I have no expertise in health care costs, but I have a 3-inch thick folder of hospital bills that range from a few dollars and cents to the high six figures. So even though it's unlikely that AOL directly paid out those sums, I don't take issue with Armstrong's number," Deanna Fei wrote.
"I take issue with how he reduced my daughter to a "distressed baby" who cost the company too much money. How he blamed the saving of her life for his decision to scale back employee benefits," she continued.
"How he exposed the most searing experience of our lives, one that my husband and I still struggle to discuss with anyone but each other, for no other purpose than an absurd justification for corporate cost-cutting," Fei wrote.
From left, actors Ty Burrell, Max Charles and director Rob Minkoff attend a screening of "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" hosted by DreamWorks Animation with 20th Century Fox, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 in New York.
Photo by Andy Kropa
With 17 of their 25 children still living at home, breakfast is a military operation for the Dargers.
As organized chaos unfolds at the family home in the Utah countryside outside Salt Lake City, the parents come to help out. Alina is the first, followed by her "sister wives" Vicki and Valerie, and finally their husband Joe.
The Dargers are members of a polygamous marriage, a lifestyle they say is endorsed by their fundamentalist Mormon beliefs.
Joe married cousins Alina and Vicki in 1990. Ten years later, Vicki's twin sister Valerie joined them, after her first plural marriage broke down. She brought five children with her from that relationship.
The family has lived openly for several years now, even publishing a 2011 book entitled "Love Times Three".
Actor Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers, with a paper bag over his head that says 'I am not famous anymore', on the red carpet for the film Nymphomaniac at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.
Photo by Axel Schmidt
A new study suggests that exposure to some pesticides can increase the risk of Parkinson's disease by up to six times in certain people.
While past research has shown a clear link between pesticide exposure -- particularly the chemicals paraquat, maneb, ziram and benomyl -- and the disease, this study identifies 11 more types of pesticides that could also have the effect.
It also confirms previous research that people with the gene variant ALDH2 are more susceptible to Parkinson's when exposed to pesticides.
The study, published in the journal Neurology, compared 360 people with Parkinson's with 816 people without it. All the participants were from three California farming communities that used pesticides.
The researchers found that even low levels of exposure to the 11 different pesticides made people with the gene variant ALDH2 up to six times more likely to develop the disease -- suggesting that the variant made them particularly susceptible to the illness.
Director Lars von Trier poses as he attends a photocall to promote the movie "Nymphomaniac Volume I" during the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 9, 2014.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
"The Lego Movie" clicked with moviegoers, assembling an exceptional $69.1 million debut at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates.
The better-than-expected result made the Warner Bros. collaboration with the Danish toy company easily the biggest hit of the year so far. A sequel is already in development for the 3-D animated film, digitally drawn to mimic a world composed entirely of Lego bricks.
The film marks the biggest animation hit for Warner Bros., a studio that despite popular live-action franchises has struggled to develop animated hits on par with other studios.
George Clooney's World War II caper "The Monuments Men" opened in second place with $22.7 million. Reviews have been weak for the based-on-a-true-story tale about the mission to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Lego Movie," $69.1 million ($18.1 million international).
2. "The Monuments Men," $22.7 million.
3. "Ride Along," $9.4 million.
4. "Frozen," $6.9 million ($24 million international).
5. "That Awkward Moment," $5.5 million ($1.1 million international).
6. "Lone Survivor," $5.3 million ($1 million international).
7. "Vampire Academy," $4.1 million.
8. "The Nut Job," $3.8 million.
9. "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," $3.6 million ($5.3 million international).
10. "Labor Day," $3.2 million.
Boys run near sand sculptures of Olive Ridley turtles made by Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik, next to a dead turtle at the beach in Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha February 9, 2014.
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