Tim Lewis: "Matt Damon: man of the people" (Guardian)
Nobody does the everyman better than Matt Damon. His common touch has made him one of the world's most bankable stars. He tells Tim Lewis about offending Barack Obama, his love for Ben Affleck and marrying outside the Hollywood elite.
Terry Savage: Social Security Early Payout Will Cost You Later (Creators Syndicate)
Baby boomers are facing a decision that could add - or subtract - a small fortune from their retirement income over their lifetimes. It's the decision about when and how to take their Social Security benefits. And depending on your circumstances, the wrong decision could cost a married couple more than half a million dollars in future benefits.
Charlyn Fargo: A Heathful Eating Plan (Creators Syndicate)
"Your diet is one of the most important factors under your control," says Academy President Ethan Bergman, a registered dietitian. "A healthful eating plan can lower your risk for developing cancer. And if you have been diagnosed, eating well can positively support treatment and help you live well after treatment."
Michael Lee Lunsford: Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines
Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm. NOT the point of this: some moral code I'm trying to push on you.
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick since 1982.
Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony since its inception in 1986 and filled the same role for the 1996 Olympic Games closing ceremonies from Atlanta, Georgia. .
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Paul Shaffer
Charlie wrote:
Paul Shaffer.
Sally said:
Paul Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria since its inception in 1986.
And, here he is!
I remember him a way back to his SNL days...
Oh God, the sun is shining, the temp is warm - no excuse not to be out in the yard, working away. The first week is always the hardest. (Pause for pity here...)
Adam answered:
Paul Schaffer.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Paul Shaffer
Dale of Springy Diamond Springs, Norcali replied:
Paul Shaffer, didn't have to even look that up! A great Canadian for being a Canadian! But seriously, a musician's musician!!!
Marian, running late, answered:
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Why, and it's Paul Shaffer, to be sure... What a guy! The greatest rock star who never was, but coulda been, I'm thinkin'... He's from Thunder Bay, Ontario, dontcha know, which is at the top of Lake Superior and a place I've always wanted to visit. Dave's lucky to have him, and that's a fact!
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And, Joe S answered:
I know that one, Paul Shaffer. I watch Letterman a lot. You learn these things when you watch Letterman a lot.
Had a great Birthday Beach Party again this year. It stopped raining when I got to the beach about 1:45pm and the rain stayed away until about 6:00. All the snow came to the North of us and it warmed right up to about 42° but the wind picked up quite a bit.. It was a really good day.
CBS fills the night with the final night of LIVE'March Madness - The Big Dance', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old '2 Broke Girls', and an old 'Big Bang Theory'.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/17/13) are Jeremy Renner and Jack Hanna.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Max Greenfield and Debbie Reynolds.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Revolution'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anthony Jeselnik, and Vintage Trouble.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Keith Richards, Edie Falco, "Celebrity Apprentice" castoff Dennis Rodman, and Ghostface Killah.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Hannah Simone, Kurt Braunohler, and Local Natives.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Rachel McAdams, Kelly Oxford, and Kid Rock.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', 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'Bates Motel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', then the movie 'Swordfish'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 8 - Ep 6 - Jack Black, Justin Bieber, John Waters, Miranda Hart
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 8 - Ep 7 - Barry Manilow, Katherine Jenkins, Ann Widdecombe, Sean Lock, KT Tunstall
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Utopia
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The Sound Of Drums
[12:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 6 - A Remedy to Cure All Ills
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Glass House
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 1
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 5
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 6
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 3
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 1
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'LA Shrinks'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', yet another 'Futurama', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is David Stockman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Bill Clinton.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Shrek Forever After', then the movie 'Shrek Forever After', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[6:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[7:00AM] Beyond the Gates
[9:30AM] Miracle at St. Anna
[1:00PM] Curse of the Golden Flower
[3:30PM] Beyond the Gates
[6:00PM] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[8:00PM] Transporter 3
[10:15PM] Transporter 3
[12:30AM] Angel Heart
[3:00AM] Angel Heart
[5:30AM] Out There (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Mortified Sessions-Back to the Future's Lea Thompson & The Breakfast Club's Anthony Michael Hall
[6:30AM] Blind Date
[8:00AM] Dopamine
[9:30AM] Phantom of the Paradise
[11:15AM] Blind Date
[12:45PM] Dopamine
[2:15PM] Phantom of the Paradise
[4:00PM] Blind Date
[5:30PM] Big Fan
[7:00PM] Reversal of Fortune
[9:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 3
[10:00PM] Barton Fink
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Breakage
[1:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 5
[2:00AM] Taxi Driver
[4:00AM] The Edge of Heaven (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: Rise Of The Cobra', followed by a FRESH'Being Human', then a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Adam Sandler and Molly Shannon.
U.S. singer Katy Perry join girls playing with a jump rope during a visit to a primary school that has been rebuilt by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), after it was destroyed by a cyclone in Ampihaonana, in this April 5, 2013 handout photo. Perry visited Madagascar in support of UNICEF's programmes that focus on improving the welfare of children in aspects such as education, health and sanitation.
Photo by Kate Holt
Captain Kirk's "Star Trek" phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said.
The phaser, created at the request of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show, had been estimated to sell for about $50,000, but achieved more than four times that including commission.
Other extraterrestrial highlights at the two-day Hollywood Legends sale of hundreds of costumes, memorabilia, props and other items included the "alien survey buggy" seen aboard the Nostromo in the 1979 movie "Alien," which sold for $10,625, and a complete costume worn by Anubis, played by Carlos Lauchu, in the 1994 movie "Stargate," which sold for $16,250, more than three times the estimate.
Old Hollywood was represented as well. Claudette Colbert's "Cleopatra" cape from the lavish 1934 Cecil B. DeMille film sold for $5,625, while a Munchkins flowerpot hat from 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" made $15,000.
Items connected to film siren Marilyn Monroe continued to draw interest some 50 years after her death: a nightshirt fetched $15,000, a bra from "Some Like It Hot" sold for $28,125 and a one of her cocktail dresses soared to $25,000, more than four times the estimate. Monroe's Capo di Monte cups and saucers sold for $17,500.
Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan arrives with his wife actress Aishwarya Rai for the inaugural Times of India Film Awards in Vancouver, British Columbia April 6, 2013.
Photo by Jimmy Jeong
The project will be a physical structure built on the Mount Saint Vincent University campus in Halifax. Its organizers call it "the only one of its kind in Canada" and say its "home will be Canada's leading university primarily focused on the advancement of women."
Additionally, a description of the project on the Mount Saint Vincent University website explains that financial donors will have the opportunity to honor a woman of their choice by having their names included on a panel used in construction of the project's site.
So, why is its first major advertisement showcasing men? The Chronicle Herald, which broke the news of the billboard-a photo of it taken by Herald photographer Ryan Taplin has been making the rounds on social media sites like Twitter-explained that it "features Paul Kent, the president and chief executive officer of the Greater Halifax Partnership, former provincial Liberal leader Danny Graham and Rob Batherson, the senior vice-president of public affairs at Colour, an advertising and communications company. Each of the men has donated to the university."
Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City's not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and porn, Starbucks had yet to arrive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone?
A project designed to promote an art exhibit has turned 5,000 Manhattan pay phones into time machines that take callers back to 1993, a pivotal year in the city's art, culture and politics.
Pick up a receiver on the rarely used phones that still dot the New York streetscape, punch 1-855-FOR-1993 and you will hear a notable resident recounting what life was like on that block 20 years ago.
"We liked, creatively, the idea of using a sort of slightly broken, disused system as the canvas of this project," said Scott Chinn of Droga5, the ad agency behind the campaign for an exhibit titled "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star."
An eclectic mix of artists, writers, food and fashion stars, and others has been recruited to reminisce, including chef Mario Batali, actor Chazz Palminteri, porn performer Robin Byrd and former Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who threw a no-hitter in 1993.
A visitor takes a picture of a painting titled "Vladimir Vladimirovich II", depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin, by Russian artist Mikhail Gavrichkov at an exhibition created by the "Sorcery artists" art sect at the Erarta museum of contemporary art in St. Petersburg April 7, 2013.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
The cowboy now has a home on the range in Arizona.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R-Fine Corinthian Leather) on Friday signed legislation creating an annual "National Day of the Cowboy" to honor the Western state's "unique cowboy culture" and recognize its proper place in history.
The cowboys will be honored every fourth Saturday in July. It will not be a paid legal holiday.
Arizona, which last year celebrated its 100th anniversary, becomes the fourth state in the nation to observe such a day, joining New Mexico, Wyoming and California.
Police say former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested after a report that she attacked someone at an Orange County home.
Newport Beach police Lt. Evan Sailor says the alleged victim put Jameson under citizen's arrest until police arrived at the home on the upscale Balboa Peninsula on Saturday night.
The 38-year-old Jameson, born Jenna Marie Massoli, was given a court date to face a misdemeanor battery charge and released on her own recognizance.
In May, Jameson was arrested for drunken driving after hitting a light pole in Westminster. She pleaded guilty in August was sentenced to three years' informal probation.
A participant with her face caked in coloured powder pokes her tongue out at a friend while dancing during the Holi Festival of Colours organised by the Maltese Indian community in Qormi, outside Valletta, April 7, 2013. The Holi festival, marking the passing of winter to spring, was delayed a week to avoid clashing with Easter on the Catholic island, according to organisers.
Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi
Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
While show creators and networks make money from this group's viewing habits through deals with online video providers and from advertising on their own websites and apps, broadcasters only get paid when they relay such programming in traditional ways. Unless broadcasters can adapt to modern platforms, their revenue from Zero TV viewers will be zero.
Spain has raised the minimum age for marriage to 16 from what had been one of the lowest in the world at 14 as part of a wider reform to improve health and safety for children and adolescents.
The reform, announced by Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato on Friday, also raises the age for consensual sex from what was the lowest in Europe at 13. The new age will be decided by Parliament.
The ceremonial mace, a decorated staff made from metal and wood, is held up by the Scottish pipe band leader as he directs the grand parade during the opening ceremony of the 36th Bundanoon Highland Gathering held in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales April 6, 2013. The annual Scottish festival, held in the country town of Bundanoon located 120 km (75 miles) southwest of Sydney, showcases Scottish bands and a variety of highland games including the heavy caber toss, fergie stones, hay toss, brigaball, shot putt, and the kilted dash.
Photo by David Gray
The fate of a major European ecosystem depends on populations of a tiny, mouse-like creature: the vole.
Herbivorous voles play a critical role in the food chain. They are prey for many predators and important consumers of vegetation. Historically, voles have had three- to five-year boom-and-bust population cycles. However, over the past half-century, these cycles have been much less pronounced, a new study finds. The widespread flattening of vole populations may be due to climate change, and it could have detrimental effects on species that rely on these little creatures.
Voles are close to the bottom of the food chain, and the fate of these animals tends to have a ripple effect on the rest of the ecosystem, said ecologist Xavier Lambin of the University of Aberdeen in the U.K., and senior author of the study published today (April 4) in the journal Science.
In a typical boom year, a grassy area the size of a football field could be home to more than 500 voles. In a bust year, however, that number might dwindle to just a handful. This fluctuation in the populations of these little creatures acts as a kind of pacemaker for the ecosystem that depends on them.
The shrinking of population booms will have a profound effect on vole predators, such as owls, kestrels, weasels and foxes, Lambin said.
The demonic horror remake "Evil Dead" debuted at No. 1 with $26 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In a tight fight for second-place were two holdovers, the animated comedy "The Croods" and the action flick "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," both with an estimated $21.1 million. Final numbers Monday will sort out which movie comes out ahead.
Steven Spielberg's 3-D debut of his dinosaur blockbuster "Jurassic Park" came in fourth with $18.2 million. That's on top of the $357.1 million domestic haul for "Jurassic Park" in its initial run in 1993.
Domestic receipts totaled $134 million, up 8.5 percent from the first weekend of April a year ago, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com. That uptick comes after three-straight weekends of declining revenue and a quiet first quarter in which domestic business has totaled $2.47 billion, down 11.4 percent from the same point in 2012.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Evil Dead," $26 million ($4.5 million international).
2 (tie). "The Croods," $21.1 million ($34.1 million international).
2 (tie). "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," $21.1 million ($40.2 million international).
4. "Jurassic Park" in 3-D," $18.2 million ($3 million international).
5. "Olympus Has Fallen," $10.04 million.
6. "Tyler Perry's Temptation," $10 million.
7. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $8.2 million ($13.6 million international).
8. "The Host," $5.2 million.
9. "The Call," $3.5 million.
10. "Admission," $2.1 million.
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