Lucy Mangan: "We must stand together for our reproductive rights" (Stylist)
The president of the United States just addressed a rally of pro-lifers for the first time (though I prefer the term 'forced- birthers' as being a little clearer about what the effects of their beliefs are). His team is busily assembling all the legislative parts needed to overturn Roe v Wade and outlaw legal abortion. And, as we know, when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold. We must stand together. I plan to start a Forcible Vasectomies for All campaign, but until then I will do my bit to make every child a wanted child by continuing contraceptive use and signing up as a Friend of BPAS [which provides abortion services]. The membership donation is a small price to pay when you consider the potential cost.
One of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art features dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby and Nan Wood Graham. What is the title of this painting set in Eldon, Iowa?
This popular American novelist and short-story writer was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore in Jamestown, North Dakota. By what name is he more famously known?
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.
L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".
Louis Dearborn LaMoore was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908, the seventh child of Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore and Emily Dearborn LaMoore. He was of French ancestry through his father and Irish through his mother. Dr. LaMoore was a large-animal veterinarian, local politician and farm-equipment broker who had arrived in Dakota Territory in 1882.
After a series of bank failures devastated the economy of the upper Midwest, Dr. LaMoore and Emily took to the road. Removing Louis and his adopted brother John from school, they headed south in the winter of 1923. Over the next seven or eight years, they skinned cattle in west Texas, baled hay in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico, worked in the mines of Arizona, California and Nevada, and in the sawmills and lumber camps of the Pacific Northwest. It was in colorful places like these that Louis met a wide variety of people, upon whom he later modeled the characters in his novels, many of them actual Old West personalities who had survived into the nineteen-twenties and -thirties.
Making his way as a mine assessment worker, professional boxer and merchant seaman, Louis traveled the country and the world, sometimes with his family, sometimes not. He visited all of the western states plus England, Japan, China, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, Arabia, Egypt, and Panama, finally moving with his parents to Choctaw, Oklahoma in the early 1930s. There, he changed his name to Louis L'Amour and settled down to try to make something of himself as a writer.
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One of my post-college roommates was the daughter of a midwest ball bearing magnate. When her dad was young and starting out as a traveling salesman, he was sent to northern Mexico.
He didn't speak Spanish, but claimed he taught himself the language by reading Louis L'Amour novels in Spanish that he'd read in English.
His accent was pretty bad, but he could express himself quite well.
Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Louis L'Amour.
Randall wrote:
Louis L'Amour
Dave said:
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988). I remember one of my grandfathers read and re-read a number of well worn paperbacks by that author, although I've never read one. The son of a veterinary, L'Amour grew up in cattle country, but never seems to have worked as a ranch hand. After early work in mining, professional boxing, and as a merchant seaman L'Amour settled in Oklahoma by the early '30s and started his writing career. Its estimated that over 200 million Louis L'Amour books have been sold.
Photos: Some of L'Amour's novels and short stories have been adapted to feature films and TV movies. "Conagher" was pretty much what you'd expect, but the film "Shalako" had strange casting with a French actress and a Scottish cowboy lead. The credit also featured a German and an Englishman. A German/British production, it was filmed in Britain and Spain. Sort of a spaghetti western, I tried to watch it once but it was terrible.
zorch wrote:
Louis L'Amour, the writer of westerns.
Alan J answered:
Louis L'Amour.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Louis L'Amour
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Louis L'Amour
Dave in Tucson said:
Answer is Louis L'amour?
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
I had to check it to get the spelling correct,, but it is Louis L'Amour.
Daniel in The City answered:
Louis L'Amour
DJ Useo replied:
Seems to me the answer is Louis L'Amour. His name derives from the old language meaning "lamb-eater". ;)
Deborah responded:
I'm late and not even going to look it up: Louie L'Amour (sp), whose western novels I binge-read while languishing in the Gage County jail in Beatrice, NE, in July-August 1973 for possession of marijuana. I wasn't familiar with that author at the time, and the books were readily available, so I read them. Inhaled them, almost. My cell-mate was a woman arrested for check-kiting for the 3rd time, and she fancied really crappy tv, so I read and read. Louie's books kept me sane those 30 days. I'm indebted to him for that.
Hey, wasn't that just TMI, and a trip down memory lane. Thanks, Marty!
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• Not all interviewers are as prepared as they think they are. James Marshall, who wrote and illustrated a series of children's books about two characters named George and Martha, once was interviewed by a woman on a radio show in Chicago. Before the interview, he asked her, "Do you need any information about myself?" She replied, "No. I've done my homework." Unfortunately, her first question to him on the air was, "What's it like writing about the First Family?" Mr. Marshall replied, "Well, it's not that George and Martha." She then asked, "Who are they, then?" Mr. Marshall replied, "Well … they're hippos." As you may expect, the interviewer was completely unprepared to interview him, and Mr. Marshall had to take over the interview.
• Lynne Taylor Corbett was present at a press conference when fellow choreographer Alvin Ailey was asked, "Do you prefer to be called black or negro?" He replied, "I prefer to be called Alvin Ailey, choreographer."
Mishaps
• When she was a student nurse, Ethel Gillette went to a hospital for her first clinical. She took care of a patient, and all went well until the patient said, "I want my robe, please." Three robes were hanging in the closet, but the patient said, "No, dear - I want the blue one I had on before my bath. It's my favorite because it's the last gift my niece gave me. She was killed in an automobile accident a year ago." Ms. Gillette thought, and she realized that she had gathered the blue robe along with the bed sheets and she had put everything down a laundry chute. She also knew that the bleach used at the hospital would ruin the robe. She said, "Would you excuse me, please?" Then she went to her instructor and asked to take a break. Just by looking at her, her instructor knew that something was wrong, and she asked, "Gillette, what did you do?" Ms. Gillette explained the situation, and her instructor said, "All right - run. Find the nearest stairway and run down to the basement." It took her a while to find the laundry room, and it was filled with soiled linen, but she realized that it would be impossible to replace the blue robe because of its sentimental value. She kept opening up bags of soiled linen, and each time she opened up five bags of soiled linen, she thought to herself, Just five more, and I'll quit. The 35th bag of soiled linen held the blue robe. She took it back to the patient's room and laundered it by hand and hung it over a towel rack to dry. She writes, "I went back in [the patient's room], explained what had happened and we both had a good laugh; hers from amusement, mine from relief."
• Late one afternoon movie critic Roger Ebert walked across London's Hyde Park from Kensington Gardens to Hyde Park Corner. Unfortunately, the gates of Hyde Park are locked at dusk as he discovered when he found himself locked inside the park that rainy winter evening. He climbed up a muddy hill, falling twice and getting himself muddy, and he reached a tree that he climbed in an attempt to get to the top of the iron fence. He climbed from the tree to the top of the fence, but the jump down was too unsafe for him to attempt without help. Fortunately, an American boy, who was with friends, saw him: "Hey, look, it's Roger Ebert! No way! Is that really you?" Mr. Ebert assured the boy that in fact he was Roger Ebert, and he admits that in the situation he was in, "If I had been the Queen, I would have answered to Roger Ebert." The American boy replied, "Far out, dude! What are you doing up there?" Mr. Ebert answered truthfully, "Trying to get down." The American boy and his friends helped him down, and Mr. Ebert gave them his autograph, then he returned to his hotel and enjoyed a fire and a hot bath.
One of the 'toons you ran yesterday has me questioning my memory--Reagan did the War on Poverty? I thought that was LBJ. And Nixon did the War on Drugs? I thought that was Nancita--Just Say No. Agree that Predator is leading a War on Intelligence--both little "i" intelligence and "I" Intelligence as in our Intelligence Community Agencies.
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Wow - what kind of 'Rudy-Insurance' does Clint Eastwood have?
He not only crossed party lines and endorsed Bloomie, but also dared to criticize Lumpy - yet there's been no nasty tweets.
Not a peep.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'All Rise', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Tyra Banks, Rahm Emanuel, and Hailee Steinfeld.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Christina Hendricks, Logan Lerman, and Yola.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice' (runs 2 min. long), followed by a FRESH'Little Big Shots'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon is BTS.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jake Tapper, Jacqueline Novak, Caroline Rose, and Michel'Le Baptiste.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Lana Condor and Sofia Carson.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Gwyneth Paltrow and Rep. Adam Schiff.
The CW offers a FRESH'All American', followed by a FRESH'Black Lightning'.
Faux has a FRESH'9-1-1: Lone Star', followed by a FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
MY here RERUNs'Kobe Bryant Memorial Service'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then another FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'GoodFellas', 'Just Call Saul', followed by a FRESH'Just Call Saul', and another 'Just Call Saul'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In Purgatory's Shadow, Part 1
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - By Inferno's Light, Part 2
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Doctor Bashir, I Presume
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - A Simple Investigation
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Business as Usual
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Ties of Blood and Water
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Ferengi Love Songs (Aka Of Love and Profit)
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Soldiers of the Empire
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Children of Time
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blaze of Glory
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Empok Nor
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In the Cards
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - A Call to Arms
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - A Time to Stand
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Sons and Daughters
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rocks and Shoals
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Favor the Bold, Part 1
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Sacrifice of Angels, Part 2
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Ferengi Love Songs (Aka Of Love and Profit)
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Soldiers of the Empire
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Children of Time
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blaze of Glory
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Empok Nor
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In the Cards (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', another 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', then a FRESH'Spy Games', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Terminator Genisys', followed by the movie 'Ride Along 2'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then another FRESH'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
[8:00A] Mission: Impossible II
[11:00A] American Sniper
[2:00P] That '70s Show
[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] That '70s Show
[4:00A] The Purge (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[6:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Along Came a Spider
[3:00pm] Gravity
[5:00pm] Mission: Impossible II
[8:00pm] Mission: Impossible III
[11:00pm] Mission: Impossible III
[2:00am] Mission: Impossible II
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider', followed by the movie 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life'.
Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has reportedly left his entire US$60 million fortune to charity.
Kirk was laid to rest on February 7 at the Westwood Memorial in Los Angeles, two days after he died at his home. He was 103.
A total of US$50 million will be distributed through the Douglas Foundation, which was founded by Kirk and his wife, Anne.
According to the Mirror, some of the beneficiaries include St Lawrence University, the Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, the Kirk Douglas Theatre and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Less than a week after telling fans to "not expect anything" regarding future concerts, Neil Young has announced plans to take Crazy Horse on a tour across America. There are no dates yet, but the tour will hit vintage arenas and bypass newer ones completely.
"Many of the old places were used to play are gone now," Young wrote on the Neil Young Archives Sunday, "replaced by new coliseums we have to book [a] year in advance and we don't want to anyway. That's not the way we like to play… so we have decided to play the old arenas - not the new sports facilities put up by corporations for their sports teams. Largely soulless, these new buildings cost a fortune to play in."
"We wanted to play in a couple of months because we feel like it," he continued. "To us it's not a regular job. We don't like the new rules."
"If you are looking for us on our Crazy Horse Barn Tour," he concludes, "we will hopefully be in one of the existing arenas. Hope to see you there. News coming pretty soon!"
A 42-year-old Zamboni driver who served as a practice goalie was unexpectedly called into action Saturday night when his team's starter and back-up goalie were injured during game play. David Ayres had given up his NHL dream when he had a kidney transplant 15 years ago, but now, he was getting his shot.
He was more than up to the task, stopping eight of 10 shots and helping the Hurricanes to a 6-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Ironically, Ayres had spent eight years for that team's minor league affiliate in the AHL and been a practice goalie for the as well.
Ayres was watching the game with his wife when the starting Hurricanes goalies, James Reimer, was injured. Then backup Petr Mrazek was hurt. That sent Ayres into the game as the emergency backup goalie.
His efforts won him the title of first star of the game, and he is now the oldest goaltender in NHL history to win his regular-season debut.
When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo's Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly three decades old.
Prins says she first realized she wanted to be a woman at a Carnival party at age 11, when, like the other boys, she was allowed to dress like a girl as part of the burlesque festivities. Now, in the final minutes of Saturday, she became the first transgender woman to lead the drum section of a top samba school in either of the renowned Carnival parades put in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Prins, 40, was hand-picked to be "godmother" of the Colorado do Brás samba school's drum section, an iconic role fought over by dozens of models and TV celebrities. Her duty was to dance infectiously for 65 minutes in front of the drummers, using her legs to drive their rhythm while judges assessed the school's parade.
As godmother of the drum section, Prins teamed up with a drum queen who has a similar role, and together they worked to dazzle fans in the Sambadrome bleachers with their beauty and sex appeal. Prins said she was counting on her penetrating brown eyes, long blond hair, strong legs, open smile and imposing breasts to help win points from the judges.
The United States once vowed to liberate Afghan women from the draconian repression of the Taliban but a planned deal between the U.S. and the insurgents offers no protections for the country's women, who fear their hard-won rights could be lost.
The proposed U.S.-Taliban deal, which the Trump administration said Friday will be signed on Feb. 29 after a partial truce goes into effect, would set out a timeline for the withdrawal of American troops in exchange for the Taliban renouncing terrorism and entering into peace talks with the Afghan government. But the agreement provides no guarantees for preserving women's rights or civil liberties now enshrined in the country's constitution, which the insurgents do not recognize.
The Trump administration, anxious to pull U.S. troops out of America's longest war, is treating the issue as an internal matter to be hammered out among the Afghans in future peace talks, which are supposed to start once the U.S.-Taliban deal is signed.
The United States would "support whatever consensus the Afghans are able to reach about their future political and governing arrangements," Molly Phee, the U.S. deputy special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, said on Tuesday at an event at a Washington think tank.
The family of Harry Dunn has called on the UK government to block the extradition of Julian Assange until the US agrees to hand over Anne Sacoolas.
Radd Seiger, spokesman for the teenager's father Tim Dunn and mother Charlotte Charles, issued the demand ahead of a week-long hearing to decide the fate of the WikiLeaks founder.
He accused the US of "an extraordinary display of hypocrisy" by refusing to extradite Ms Sacoolas, the diplomat's wife accused of causing the death of 19-year-old Mr Dunn in a car accident.
"Harry Dunn's family understand and respect the importance of extradition procedures between nations and the huge public interest that attaches to extradition," said Mr Seiger. "No one is above the law and no one must be allowed to evade justice if they manage to flee a country, whether diplomat or not.
"That said, in refusing the UK's perfectly lawful request to extradite Anne Sacoolas, and not even following the legal and judicial process the US/UK Treaty calls for, the US has launched the single greatest attack on the so called special relationship between the countries in modern memory."
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline begins in West Virginia and is planned to cross some of the most mountainous scenery in central Virginia before completing its 600-mile path in North Carolina.
Work in Virginia has been halted for more than a year as the builders contend with a host of setbacks handed down by federal courts. None is more crucial than the question of whether the U.S. Forest Service has authority to grant the pipeline right of way under the Appalachian Trail in the George Washington National Forest.
Judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit threw out a Forest Service permit in December 2018, saying federal law prohibits any agency from allowing a pipeline on "lands in the National Park System." That includes the trail, the judges said.
The pipeline's builders, led by Dominion Energy, appealed to the high court, saying the ruling could create an impenetrable wall along the trail's course from Georgia to Maine.
The Trump administration has weighed in on behalf of the project, with Solicitor General Noel Francisco arguing that while the National Park Service administers the trail, the land beneath it is controlled by the Forest Service.
US President Donald Trump (R-Amoral) makes his first official visit to India on Monday and work has been going on around the clock to spruce things up -- to the annoyance of some locals as well as monkeys.
The photo opportunity highlights of the 36-hour trip include a rally of 100,000 people at the world's largest cricket stadium and watching the sunset with First Lady Melania at the Taj Mahal.
A long wall has been hastily built, along the route in Ahmedabad in western India to the new Sardar Patel Stadium in order, locals believe, to hide a slum, although officials deny it.
Sardar Sarania, a resident of the slum, is disgusted at what he sees as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempt to conceal reality.
"We're made invisible. So the gutter we live in, he (Trump) won't see us. That's why they're building this."
"Sonic: The Hedgehog" zoomed to the top of the box office with a take of $26.3 million in its second weekend while audiences ignored critics and heeded "The Call of the Wild" as the Harrison Ford CGI dog flick finished a close second with $24.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was a strong weekend for both films, with each outperforming expectations and overcoming early doubts about design problems.
In a very distant third with $7 million was "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey" in its third week.
The weekend's other wide release, "Brahms: The Boy II" starring Katie Holmes, was fourth with just $5.9 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
1. "Sonic the Hedgehog," 26.3 million, ($38.3 million international).
2. "The Call of the Wild," $24.8 million, (15.4 million international).
3. "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey," $7 million, (10 million international).
4. "Brahms: The Boy II," $5.9 million, ($2.2 million international).
5. "Bad Boys for Life," $5.86 million, ($8.1 million international).
6. "1917," $4.4 million, ($9.4 million international).
7. "Blumhouse's Fantasy Island," $4.2 million, ($3.9 million international).
8. "Parasite," $3.1 million, ($8.9 million international).
9. "Jumanji: The Next Level," $3 million, ($1.3 million international).
10. "The Photograph," $2.8 million.
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