Marc Dion: Street Fighting Man (Creators Syndicate)
There's more guts in one tired woman pushing union ideas at a Wal-Mart in Georgia than in 2,000,000 gun owners who howl about watering the tree of liberty with blood. You got a $500 assault weapon, and you think you got guts. You got a pen, a union card and a boss who thinks you're a chimp, and you got real guts.
Scott Burns: "Required Minimum Distributions: Not Such a Bad Thing After All" (AssetBuilder)
The other reason is that required minimum distributions also happen to be a remarkably simple, effective, and convenient way to manage your income in retirement. They escalate your withdrawal rate, year by year, and may actually be more efficient tools for using that money than the safe withdrawal rate plans that have been discussed in this column for years.
Terry Savage: Appointment Service Can Get Family, Friend to Doctor Quickly (Creators Syndicate)
Q: This isn't strictly a financial question - but unless I get an answer, it might cost our family a lot of money. We have health insurance from work, but my husband won't go to a doctor for a checkup. He's overweight, and I'm worried that he will have a heart attack or something. He says he will go, but then he procrastinates. Any ideas?
Murad Osmann
"Murad Osmann, a Russian video producer, would follow his girlfriend anywhere. As they travel the world, Nataly Zakharova leads him by the hand on grand adventures."--Neatorama
Dementia 13 (UK title: The Haunted and the Hunted) is a 1963 horror-thriller released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell, Patrick Magee, and Luana Anders. The film was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman. Although Coppola had been involved in at least two nudie films previously, Dementia 13 served as his first mainstream, "legitimate" directorial effort.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Francis Ford Coppala
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The film was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Charlie responded:
Francis Ford Coppola, in 1963.
Sally said:
According to the Internets, Dementia 13 is a 1963 Francis Ford Coppola/Roger Corman slasher film. I would not know myself as I detest horror films...
Exactly!!
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Happy Spring!
Adam answered:
Francis Ford Coppola.
Dementia 13 is good, but typically disjointed for a horror movie.
Alan J responded:
Francis Ford Coppola
Dale of Diamond Springs , working on Sunday, replied:
The movie freak in me knows that Dementia 13 was Francis Ford Coppola's directorial debut, a Roger Corman classic!!! I even remember a "sanity test" was handed out at the theaters. I passed it!!
BttbBob said:
Harry Zimm from "Get Shorty"? (Har!)... No, actually, it's Nicolas Cage's Uncle Frank... This just came to me: Ol' Nick coulda done a pretty fair job of being 'Chili Palmer', dontcha think?
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"It's about time!" Moment - Richard Burton finally gets a 'Star' on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. A travesty that it took so long, I'm thinkin'...
Another is that he never won an 'Oscar'... IMO, his acting in "Equus" was brilliant and while he won a 'Golden Globe' - Best Actor for it, he did not in the Academy Awards. Richard Dreyfuss did for "The Goodbye Girl"...
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Happy Birthday today to:
Bassist Chris Squire (64) of the 70's progressive rock group 'Yes' [Yes - Roundabout - YouTube] ; [Yes - Your Move (Single Version) - YouTube]
(both on my Ipod nano)
Singer/songwriter Bobby Womack (68) [THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT 'CHA (Original Full-Length Album Version) - Bobby Womack - YouTube] (sing it, Bobby, sing it!)
Producer/musician Emilio Estefan (59) of 'Miami Sound Machine' [MSM - Conga - YouTube]
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Bruce link comment - The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list | Books | The Observer - To this list I'd have to add "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosi?ski. (author, also, of "Being There" and "Steps". He appeared in the film, "Reds" as Warren Beatty's 'John Reed' Soviet nemesis, Grigory Zinoviev ) The book was recommended to me by a high school 'Humanities' teacher and it profoundly affected me. The teacher knew that I had planned to enlist in the army upon graduation as an infantry paratrooper. Instead, I obtained a 'contract' with the recruiter (which the army honored) to become a medic as a direct result of reading the book with its horrific depictions of WWII in Poland.
While I still felt compelled to become a 17 year old soldier (I turned 18 in boot camp), I am gratified to this day that I wore the 'Caduceus' of a medic rather than the 'Crossed Rifles' of an infantryman... and later a Coast Guard SAR boat Coxswain 'Lifesaver'...
"Semper Paratus"
MAM wrote:
Francis Ford Coppola
And, Joe S answered:
Francis Ford Coppola, I guess Dementia 13 was mainstream by someone's definition.
Coppola's first full feature film was a nudie picture called Tonight For Sure, which came out in 1962 when he was just 22 years old. According to Variety, this movie has more nudity in it than most of the other adult-only pictures coming out in that period. Meanwhile, they describe the storyline as completely "ridiculous." The movie takes place in a Hollywood burlesque house and features "two definitive dirty old men who fashion themselves as moral crusaders." Essentially, the film is a commentary against Puritan censorship of so-called indecent behavior. And naturally, the movie is loaded with strippers.
On a happier note: Happy Birthday Miriam Makeba!
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/12/13) are Bruce Willis, Kate Upton, and Little Big Town.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Katheryn Winnick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Deception'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 2/8/13) are Seth MacFarlane, Jenna Elfman, and Norah Jones.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/30/13) are Jude Law, Mike Tyson, Joshua Topolsky, Bad Religion, and Michael Bolton.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/31/13) are Dominic Monaghan, C.O.G., and Regina Spektor.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ben Hoffman, and Sean Rowe.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a FRESH'90210'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Gangsters: America's Most Evil', another 'Gangsters: America's Most Evil', still another 'Gangsters: America's Most Evil', and 'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Marked For Death', followed by the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
BBC -
[2:00AM] GATTACA
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Dominica
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 2 - Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Of Monsters and Men
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Flesh and Stone
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Vampires in Venice
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 4 - La Riviera
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Handlebar, Casa Roma, The Black Pearl
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 4
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5 NEW
[10:20PM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 3 - Episode 6 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[1:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 3 - Episode 6
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'LA Shrinks'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Nathan For You', 'The Ben Show With Ben Hoffman', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and still another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Paul Rudd.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Kirk Bloodsworth.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Ghost Rider'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[12:00AM] The Omen
[2:30AM] Exorcismus
[4:45AM] Out There-A Chris by Any Other Name
[5:15AM] Portlandia-Blackout
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits
[7:15AM] About a Boy
[9:30AM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[11:15AM] Emma
[2:00PM] About a Boy
[4:15PM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Funeral
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cheerleader
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Rollerskates
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-The Bots and the Bees
[8:00PM] Suicide Kings
[10:15PM] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
[12:45AM] Suicide Kings
[3:00AM] Five Fingers
[4:45AM] Portlandia-Blackout
[5:15AM] Out There-A Chris by Any Other Name
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Paris Je T'aime
[8:00A] Man in the Chair
[10:00A] Angel of Mine
[11:45A] Paris Je T'aime
[1:45P] The Spine
[2:00P] Man in the Chair
[4:00P] The Unsinkable Henry Morgan
[7:45P] Wild at Heart
[10:00] PTHE STAIRCASE: LAST CHANCE - Reopening the Case
[1:00A] THE STAIRCASE: LAST CHANCE - Reopening the Case
[2:00A] Wild at Heart
[4:15A] Under Still Waters (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Continuum', another 'Continuum', 'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jane Lynch, Justin Chon, and Sarah Darling.
Actress Jessica Alba attends the Fall-Winter 2013/2014 women's ready-to-wear Kenzo fashion show during Paris fashion week March 3, 2013.
Photo by Charles Platiau
If there were any doubts about the lingering force of fabled rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix more than four decades after his death, his latest single should put them to rest.
The single "Somewhere" went to No.1 on the Billboard Hot Singles sales in February. That bodes well for the latest posthumous album plucked from the Hendrix musical vaults, which producers say has stood up well to the test of time.
"People, Hell and Angels," to be released on CD this Tuesday, is billed as a collection of twelve previously unreleased studio performances by Hendrix, although some of the songs have emerged in other versions since his death at age 27 in 1970 from an accidental drug overdose.
The tracks on "People, Hell and Angels," were planned as a follow-up to the influential guitarist's chart-topping 1968 album "Electric Ladyland."
A boy touches the arm of Maria Jose Cristerna, a Mexican tattoo artist and former lawyer known as "Mujer Vampiro" (or Vampire Woman), during the "Expo Tatuaje" international, a tattoo expo, in Monterrey March 2, 2013.
Photo by Daniel Becerril
Before going any further let's contemplate how ridiculous Esteves and Powell's statements would sound if they were top executives in just about any other industry. Can you imagine Tim Cook, for instance, saying that he hasn't found that people want completely accurate mapping information and that the data provided by the original iOS Maps is good enough? Or if after Siri had been released, Google CEO Larry Page had said that there's no evidence that consumers want voice-enabled personal assistants and that his company wouldn't devote any resources into creating a competitive offering of its own? Or if the CEO of Samsung declared that his company wouldn't be spending additional resources to improve display technology because consumers right now seem pretty happy with how the Galaxy S III looks?
In my neighborhood, I have Comcast, Verizon DSL and… well, that's it. If I want a reasonably fast home broadband connection, then I'm pretty much stuck with Comcast. And from everything I've read, most Time Warner Cable customers out there are similarly stuck with Time Warner because the cable companies have created regional fiefdoms where they don't compete with one another and can get away with telling the world that they don't plan to invest in fiber anytime soon.
A boycott by Seattle teachers of a widely used standardized test has attracted national attention and given new momentum to a growing protest movement that seeks to limit standardized testing in U.S. public schools.
The revolt by Seattle public school teachers, joining educators and students elsewhere, comes at a time of bitter political wrangling over how best to reinvigorate a $525 billion public school system that leaves American children lagging their counterparts in countries like Finland and South Korea.
Standardized tests have played an ever-more prominent role in public schools over the past decade.
Yearly testing in reading and math for elementary school students required by former resident George W. Bush's 2002 landmark testing law, known as "No Child Left Behind," exposed stark achievement gaps in many schools, mainly along racial and economic lines, and spurred interventions to help struggling kids.
Ethnic minority delegates wearing traditional costumes walk towards the Great Hall of the People, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing, March 3, 2013.
Photo by Carlos Barria
A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus' genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday's announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor.
Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things."
Some commentators are now suggesting that Walesa, the leading figure in Poland's successful democracy struggle against communism, has irreparably harmed his legacy.
Walesa said in a television interview on Friday that he believes gays have no right to sit on the front benches in Parliament and, if represented at all, should sit in the back, "and even behind a wall."
"They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking (what they want) from the majority," he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion of gay rights. "I don't agree to this and I will never agree to it."
Members of a coal-miners' choir sing at a solidarity festival for carmaker Opel in Bochum March 3, 2013. The restructuring of General Motors Co's Opel unit's German operations is expected to extend job guarantees by another two years to 2016 for all four German plants, which together employ around 20,000 workers. At the start of 2017 at the latest, however, assembly lines at the Bochum car plant will cease running and only some components and warehousing jobs will remain under the deal. The placard reads, 'First the coal mine dies, after it the city. We stay in Bochum.'
Photo by Ina Fassbender
A 911 dispatcher pleaded with a nurse at a Bakersfield, Calif., senior living death facility to save the life of an elderly woman by giving her CPR, but the nurse said policy did not allow her to, according to a newly released audiotape of the call.
The incident unfolded on Tuesday when 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless collapsed at Glenwood Gardens, a senior living death facility in Bakersfield.
In the seven-minute, 16-second recording, the nurse told the dispatcher it was against the facility's policy for employees to perform CPR on residents.
With every passing second, Bayless' chances of survival were diminishing. The dispatcher's tone turned desperate.
After several minutes, an ambulance arrived and took Bayless to Mercy Southwest Hospital, where she died.
An entertainer performs a traditional Maasai jumping dance for the crowd prior to the arrival of Kenyan Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta, at his campaign's final rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday March 2, 2013. Kenya's top two presidential candidates - Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga - held their final rallies Saturday before large and raucous crowds ahead of Monday's vote, which is the first nationwide election since Kenya's December 2007 vote descended into tribe-on-tribe violence that killed more than 1,000 people.
Photo by Ben Curtis
A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad's turret is bringing together people from across the country with distant but powerful ties to those who died aboard.
The ceremony Friday at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington will include Monitor kin who believe the two sailors - whose remains were discovered in 2002 - are their ancestors, despite DNA testing that has failed to make a conclusive link. But the families stress that the interment pays homage to all 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down, and nearly 100 people from Maine to California are expected to attend.
Two weeks ago, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the two would probably be the last Navy personnel from the Civil War to be buried at Arlington. He'll speak at the interment. "It's important we honor these brave men and all they represent as we reflect upon the significant role Monitor and her crew had in setting the course of our modern Navy," he said.
The ceremony is scheduled on the 151st anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, which took place on March 8 and 9, 1862. On the second day, the Brooklyn-made Monitor fought the CSS Virginia in the first battle between two ironclads. The Monitor was the Union's answer to the Confederate Virginia, built on the carcass of the U.S. Navy frigate USS Merrimack. The battle of the ironclads ended in a draw.
The Monitor sank about nine months later in rough seas southeast of Cape Hatteras while under tow by the USS Rhode Island. Dubbed a "cheese box on a raft," the Monitor was not designed for rough water. Sixteen of the Monitor's 62 crew members died. The crew of the Rhode Island was able to rescue about 50 people. Most of the dead were lost at sea. The wreck was discovered in 1973.
Revellers are covered in coloured cornflour powder as they take part in the Holi One festival in Cape Town, March 2, 2013. The event is inspired by the Hindu Holi spring festival of colour which originated in India. Picture taken March 2, 2013.
Photo by Mark Wessels
Ancient Romans are known for eating well, with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits, vegetables, cakes - and, of course, wine. But the 98 percent of Romans who were non-elite and whose feasts weren't preserved in art may have been stuck eating birdseed.
Common people in ancient Rome ate millet, a grain looked down upon by the wealthy as fit only for livestock, according to a new study published in the March issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. And consumption of millet may have been linked to overall social status, with relatively poorer suburbanites eating more of the grain than did wealthier city dwellers.
Ancient texts have plenty to say about lavish Roman feasts. The wealthy could afford exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as shellfish and snails. A formal feast involved multiple dishes, eaten from a reclined position, and could last for hours.
But ancient Roman writers have less to say about the poor, other than directions for landowners on the appropriate amount to feed slaves, who made up about 30 percent of the city's population. Killgrove wanted to know more about lower-class individuals and what they ate.
Muslim brides smile as they wait for the start of their rituals during a mass marriage ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 3, 2013. A total of 162 Muslim couples from the across the Gujarat state took wedding vows on Sunday during the mass wedding ceremony organised by a Muslim voluntary organisation, organisers said.
Photo by Amit Dave
It wasn't exactly a mighty victory, but "Jack the Giant Slayer" won the weekend at the box office.
The Warner Bros. 3-D action extravaganza, based on the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, made just $28 million to debut at No. 1, according to Sunday studio estimates. It had a reported budget of just under $200 million.
Among other new releases, the college romp "21 & Over" from Relativity Media made only $9 million this weekend to open in third place. And the horror sequel "The Last Exorcism Part II" from CBS Films debuted in fourth place with just over $8 million.
Domestically, this is the sixth weekend in a row that movie ticket sales are down, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. He pointed out that many of the action pictures aimed at men this year - including "Snitch," ''The Last Stand," ''Bullet to the Head" and "Parker" - have been disappointments at the box office.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday:
1. "Jack the Giant Slayer," $28 million. ($13.7 million international.)
2. "Identity Thief," $9.7 million.
3. "21 & Over," $9 million.
4. "The Last Exorcism Part II," $8 million.
5. "Snitch," $7.7 million.
6. "Escape From Planet Earth," $6.7 million.
7. "Safe Haven," $6.3 million.
8. "Silver Linings Playbook," $5.9 million.
9. "A Good Day to Die Hard," $4.5 million. ($18.3 million international.)
10. "Dark Skies," $3.6 million.
Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a collaborator with Smokey Robinson, has died. He was 73.
Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls says Rogers died Sunday morning at his home.
Rogers had been ill for several years. He lived in the Detroit suburb of Southfield.
Rogers formed the group in 1956 with cousin Claudette Rogers, Pete Moore, Ronnie White and Robinson. Their hits included "I Second That Emotion" and "The Tears of a Clown." Rogers and The Miracles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
He shared songwriting credits with Robinson on The Temptations' "The Way You Do the Things You Do," The Contours' "First I Look at the Purse" and The Miracles' "Going to a Go-Go."
A bird is perched on barbed wire that surrounds the Jilava prison near Bucharest February 28, 2013. A visit to the prison, part of a conference on drug abuse in prisons and its relation to the rise of HIV-AIDS, was organized to meet inmates who are part of a project in which they receive therapeutic help to overcome their problems with narcotics. The conference is organized by the Council of Europe and Romania's National Anti-drug Agency.
Photo by Bogdan Cristel
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