Andrew Tobias: Rigged?
Paul Begala yesterday tweeted: "@HillaryClinton has won 56.5% of the vote, but received just 54.2% of pledged delegates. If the system's rigged, it's rigged against her."
Henry Rollins: I Went From a Sunn O))) Concert to RuPaul's DragCon (LA Weekly)
As I walked toward the man who checks your ticket, a woman from security looked at me and said, "There are earplugs at the bar. You're going to need them." I got there just in time to get a glimpse of the robed and hooded members of the band onstage as they emerged and vanished in the thick smoke, which, besides the brain-liquefying volume and low end, is their trademark.
John Cheese: 5 90s Bands That Get Way More Crap Than They Deserve (Cracked)
Nostalgia for the 1990s is a double-edged sword, especially when it comes to music. On one side, it's awesome to look back at awesome songs and talk about how awesome they were. On the other, LOL, UR OLD! UR TAST N MUZIK SUCKD, IDIUT! … I think if we're going to dabble in this nostalgia, then we should at least honor the history and give proper respect to musicians like ...
Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 - 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
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Lois Of The Depressing Truth was first and correct with:
Pierre Boulle, a man who saw much horror of life, wrote both. I cannot make light of this.
mj wrote:
The same author
Pierre Boulle penned them both.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC said:
Both are novels written by Pierre Boulle.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Pierre Boulle wrote both books.
Randall replied:
Pierre Boulle
They were both written by Pierre Boulle
Adam answered:
Pierre Boulle- the writer who wrote these novels.
Alan J said:
Both written by Pierre Boulle.
Marian responded:
Pierre Boulle the author of both
Deborah replied:
So those two books were written by the same author, Pierre Boulle. I've not read either one.
FYI, I'll be AWOL for the next 7 days or so - we're flying to VA to ride our bikes with good friends in the Shenandoah National Park. Eager to ride in new areas. See you on the flip side. Stay co
zorch answered:
They were both written by Pierre Boulle.
MAM wrote:
Both were written by Pierre Boulle, French novelist: "The Bridge over the River Kwai" (1952) and "Planet of the Apes" (1963).
Joe S said:
Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 - 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
I had no idea, I had to Google it, I mean do research to discover the answer. That's all I got to say about that.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali took the day off.
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right Primetime Special', followed by a FRESH'The Gawd-Awful Odd Couple', then another FRESH'The Gawd-Awful Odd Couple', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Emilia Clarke, Shiri Appleby, and Cynthia Erivo.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are John Leguizamo, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Frightened Rabbit.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Blindspot'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jennifer Lawrence, George Lopez, and Tom Odell.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Bryson Tiller, and Tim Alexander.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Alexandra Shipp, the Coathangers, and Ben Robson.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'The Bachelorette'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Johnny Depp and Pink.
The CW offers a FRESH'Reign', followed by a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then another FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux has a FRESH'Gotham', followed by a FRESH'Houdini & Doyle'.
MY has 'TMZ (Not So) Live', followed by 'Hollywood Today (Not So) Live'.
AMC offers the movie 'Open Range', followed by a FRESH'TURN: Washington's Spies'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Sahara
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Future
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Kalahari
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 10-Park's Edge
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 2-Pantaleone's
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 17-Birthright (Part 2)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 18-Starship Mine
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 19-Lessons
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 5
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 6
[8:00PM] MAD MAX (1979)
[10:00PM] MAD MAX (1979)
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: PATAGONIA SPECIAL - SEASON 22 - EPISODE 1-Part 1
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR: PATAGONIA SPECIAL - SEASON 22 - EPISODE 2-Part 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Southern Charm', another 'Southern Charm', followed by a FRESH'Southern Charm', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', and 3 hours of old 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Rose Byrne.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is Jennifer Bartels.
Scheduled on a FRESH@Midnight are Rhys Darby, Jessica Lowe, and Ginger Gonzaga.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', then the movie 'Iron Man 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Even as I.O.U.
[6:25AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Fuelin' Around
[6:50AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Fiddlers Three
[7:15AM] THE BLUES BROTHERS
[10:15AM] DEATH AT A FUNERAL
[12:15PM] BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA
[2:00PM] HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I
[4:00PM] HALF BAKED
[6:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-It's All Over Now
[6:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-On With the Show
[7:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Down the Road Apiece
[7:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin')
[8:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Who's Been Sleeping Here
[8:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Gimme Shelter
[9:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-2120 So. Michigan Avenue
[9:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-2000 Light Years From Home
[10:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Take It or Leave It
[10:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Short & Curlies
[11:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-It's All Over Now
[11:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-On With the Show
[11:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-On With the Show
[3:30PM] HALLOWEEN (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Parks and Recreation
[6:30AM] Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter-Comedy Actors
[7:30AM] Snake Eyes
[9:45AM] Born on the Fourth of July
[1:00PM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[4:00PM] Platoon
[6:30PM] Patriot Games
[9:00PM] U.S. Marshals
[12:00AM] Three Kings
[2:30AM] Platoon
[5:00AM] Behind the Story With the Paley Center-Mad Men (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', followed by a FRESH'12 Monkeys', then a FRESH'Hunters'.
A guitar given to Elvis Presley by his father in 1969 went under the hammer for $334,000 in New York during an auction that also saw a Michael Jackson vest fetch $256,000.
Vernon Presley is said to have changed the finish of the Gibson Dove acoustic guitar to ebony after his son earned his black belt in karate.
It beat auction house Julien's estimate of $200,000 to $300,000 for Saturday's sale.
Another highlight of the auction was a red neoprene vinyl jacket created by Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush for Michael Jackson to wear during the 1996-1997 HIStory world tour.
It scored more than four times the auctioneers' estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.
Director Xavier Dolan (R), Grand Prix award winner for his film "Juste la fin du monde" (It's Only the End of the World), is congratulated by jury member actor Donald Sutherland during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016.
Photo by Yves Herman
Two Swiss pilots have brought their campaign for renewable energy and innovation to the hometown of the brothers that recorded the first powered flight.
André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 - a plane powered only by the sunlight gathered by the 17,000 solar cells that bedeck its wings - Saturday night in Dayton, Ohio, the home of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The symbolism was not lost on Mr. Borschberg and Mr. Piccard, even after a nearly 17-hour flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"The Wright brothers inspired Solar Impulse from the beginning of our adventure," Borschberg and Piccard wrote on their blog. "While there are always people who try to disprove the feasibility of what you are trying to do, people who have learned from the Wright brothers have learnt to push forward."
The pair acknowledge that the Solar Impulse 2, with its unheated and unpressurized cabin and room for just two, might not have immediate applications for commercial aviation. But it could lend insight into improving technologies on the ground, as well as emphasize the importance of renewable energy to the aviation industry, the fastest-growing source of manmade greenhouse gas emissions.
That means mushroom hunters are checking maps outlining last year's many Northwest wildfires before heading into forests this month searching for the easily identifiable and woodsy-tasting morels.
"It's going to be a good season for finding morel mushrooms, there's no doubt about that," said Brian Harris, spokesman for the Payette National Forest in Idaho.
The spongey-looking delicacies have defied commercial cultivation and can retail for $20 a pound.
Nearly a million acres of U.S. Forest Service land burned last year in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, the National Interagency Fire Center said. Maps of specific wildfire perimeters are available online at the Forest Service's InciWeb.
A Geneva auction house raked in more than $4 million Sunday for a collection of "grand crus" from Burgundy's renowned Domaine de la Romanee-Conti wine estate.
The 1,407 bottles that went under the hammer beat expectations and sold for a total of 4.2 million Swiss francs ($4.3 million, 3.8 million euros), with a single three-litre jeroboam of 1999 Romanee-Conti snatched up for 60,000 Swiss francs by an anonymous buyer.
Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, which takes its name from its most famous vineyard, is widely considered to be one of the world's finest wine producers.
Stored in perfect conditions for the past 15 years at the heavily-guarded Geneva Freeports customs-free zone, the bottles belong to a single investor who has asked to remain anonymous.
In one case, a writer claimed a mini Ice Age would befall Earth in 15 years. In another, an op-ed touted global warming as saving countless people from freezing to death.
A new project called Climate Feedback, run by a French scientist living in California, took these and other stories to task, and in the past year has critiqued climate change stories in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Telegraph, Forbes magazine, the Wall Street Journal and more.
Interested readers can visit the website ClimateFeedback.org to see what climate scientists thought of the original article.
The site uses web annotation software to enable line-by-line critiques from more than 100 volunteer scientists, pointing out what they see as errors, falsehoods and misrepresentations.
Founder Emmanuel Vincent, 31, said the project is about communication, not activism.
Director Ken Loach, Palme d'Or award winner for his film "I, Daniel Blake", reacts during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Elijah Wood is speaking out on the dangers of child abuse hidden within Hollywood. The Telegraph reported that in an interview with the Sunday Times, the Lord of the Rings star expressed that abuse within the industry still exists and is kept under wraps by those with power in Hollywood.
"There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind," said Wood. The actor, who currently stars alongside Nicolas Cage in The Trust, compared child abuse in Hollywood to the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal in the U.K. where the late entertainment host sexually abused boys and girls without being charged.
"You all grew up with Savile - Jesus, it must have been devastating," said Wood. "There is a darkness in the underbelly - if you can imagine it, it's probably happened."
While child actor Corey Feldman (The Goonies, Gremlins) says he is among those in Hollywood that are victims of abuse, Wood said his mother's efforts to restrict him from attending Hollywood parties at a young age helped him from being caught up in the dangerous side of Hollywood.
The Telegraph also reported that Anne Henry - the co-founder of Bizparents, which provides support to child actors - says that her organization is currently supporting 100 abusers and that a "tsunami" of claims were on the way.
Director Francis Ford Coppola and his wife Eleanor Coppola pose for photographers as they arrive for the premiere of Verdi's "La Traviata'' at the Rome Opera House, in Rome, Sunday, May 22, 2016. Oscar-winning film director Sofia Coppola is directing the opera, working alongside fashion designer Valentino who is designing the costumes.
Photo by Andrew Medichini
The most worrying environmental threats facing the world today range from the rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans to the increasing accumulation of toxic chemicals in food crops as a result of drought and high temperatures, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
The U.N. Environment Agency's Frontiers report also highlighted the threat to human health posed by the alarming amount of plastic waste in the oceans, and scientific evidence suggesting that losses and damage from climate change are inevitable, with "profound consequences" for ecosystems, people, assets and economies.
According to the report, the 20th century saw dramatic reductions in ecosystems and biodiversity - and equally dramatic increases in the numbers of people and domestic animals inhabiting the Earth.
This increased the opportunity for viruses, bacteria and other pathogenic agents to pass from wild and domestic animals through the environment to cause diseases in people, the report said.
These diseases - called "zoonotic" or "zoonoses" diseases - include Ebola, bird flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Rift Valley fever, West Nile virus and Zika virus, it said.
Actor Paul Belmondo (L), his wife Luana and their son Victor pose on the red carpet as they arrive at the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier
"Captain America" has found a worthy competitor in a bunch of flightless birds. "The Angry Birds Movie" soared to $39 million in its debut weekend, knocking "Captain America: Civil War" off its first-place perch, while new adult comedies "Neighbors 2" and the "The Nice Guys" struggled to get their footing, according to comScore estimates Sunday.
Rovio Animation spearheaded the production of "The Angry Birds Movie," which cost around $73 million to make, and it opened strong internationally last weekend. The film has already earned $150 million worldwide, according to estimates from Sony, which is distributing the film.
"Neighbors 2" brought in only $21.8 million - less than half of the first film's $49 million opening in 2014. But the film from director Nick Stoller also cost only $35 million to make.
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. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Angry Birds Movie," $39 million ($55.5 million international).
2. "Captain America: Civil War," $33.1 million ($30.7 million international).
3. "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," $21.8 million ($6 million international).
4. "The Nice Guys," $11.3 million.
5. "The Jungle Book," $11 million ($7.4 million international).
6. "Money Monster," $7.1 million ($2.8 million international).
7. "The Darkness," $2.4 million.
8. "Zootopia," $1.7 million ($4.7 million international).
9. "The Huntsman: Winter's War," $1.2 million ($610,000 international).
10. "Mother's Day," $1.1 million ($485,000 international).
Nick Menza, former drummer for the influential metal band Megadeth, died after collapsing on stage during a performance of his progressive jazz trio in Southern California, a family spokesman said Sunday.
Menza's latest band OHM was three songs into a semi-regular set at a Los Angeles-area club Saturday night when the drummer collapsed, J. Marshall Craig told The Associated Press. Friends and audience members rendered aid while paramedics were called.
The 51-year-old died at the club of a suspected massive heart attack, Craig said.
Menza was Megadeth's longest-serving drummer, performing on five records over nine years, including 1990's thrash metal landmark, "Rust In Peace."
After leaving Megadeth in 1998, Menza pursued an interest in jazz and became an accomplished woodworker.
Menza's autobiography, co-written by Craig, will detail the drummer's life in and out of music and is set for a July release.
He is survived by his mother and father, the jazz saxophonist Don Menza, and two sons.
Lotus-shaped illuminated lanterns float during Vesak celebrations on Beira Lake in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 22, 2016. Vesak is a holiday with a majority population of Buddhists. The day marks the birth, enlightenment and demise of Buddha and is celebrated in Sri Lanka with illuminated pandals, lanterns and 'dansals' or free offer of food, drinks and refreshment to the wayfarers. This year, most of these dansals were absent following devastating monsoonal floods and landslides in some areas.
Photo by M. A. Pushpa Kumara
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