Marc Dion: Abortion Makes Sense (Creators Syndicate)
If I find a litter of kittens in my garden shed, I can take them to the animal shelter. I cannot beat the kittens to death with a tire iron. That's illegal.
Connie Schultz: Oh, Look! Another Guilt Trip for Working Moms (Creators Syndicate)
Bright and early, I march to the second-floor closet and vow that this is the day I will cull the boxes of family memories piled to the ceiling. I yank the door open and sigh with disgust: What a mess. I pull out a box, sit on the bed and push up my sleeves. A half-hour later, I'm up to my elbows in my kids' childhoods. Resolve evaporated. Tears guaranteed by noon.
Daphnee Dennis: An X-Rated Trip Down Memory Lane (Slate)
"The porn business is my alma mater." That's how Barbara Nitke introduces her book American Ecstasy, a photographic record of the so-called "Golden Age of porn," with pictures she took while working as a photographer on adult movie sets in New York during the 1980s.
Lucy Mangan: "The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright" (Guardian)
Cooped up in their family brownstone in New York … on a rainy weekend, the children form The Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club and for the next month pool their allowances to allow each of them in turn to take him or herself off into New York to do whatever suits the club member best, for $1.60 or less.
Charlyn Fargo: Feeling Full (Creators Syndicate)
Start your meal with soup, salad or a fruit. Those foods are low in energy density, a factor that Barbara Rolls at Pennsylvania State University has shown to increase satiety. Researchers have also found that starting a meal with high calorie foods can increase the total number of calories you eat. So, your soup should be broth based instead of cream, and your salad dressing should be light.
What comedian once summed up his life in two sentences: "I was born in Trenton, N. J. in 1919 to a Hungarian couple. I've been smoking cigars ever since."?
Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 - January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many iconic and diverse shows have been influenced by Kovacs, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson.
After attending funerals for Hollywood friends, Kovacs had expressed his wishes to Adams that any funeral services for him be kept simple. In keeping with her husband's request, Adams made arrangements for Presbyterian services held at the Beverly Hills Community Presbyterian Church. The active pallbearers were Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Billy Wilder, Mervyn Leroy, and Joe Mikolas. Among those in attendance were George Burns, Groucho Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Kirk Douglas, Jack Benny, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Buster Keaton, and Milton Berle. While there was no typical Hollywood-type eulogy, the church's pastor paid tribute to Kovacs, adding that he once summed up his life in two sentences: "I was born in Trenton, N. J. in 1919 to a Hungarian couple. I've been smoking cigars ever since."
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962)
rockland said:
Ernie Kovacs.
mj wrote:
That would be television pioneer
And brains behind the Nairobi Trio, Ernie Kovacs.
Alan J replied:
Ernie Kovacs
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Ernie Kovacs
Adam answered:
Ernie Kovacks- television comedy pioneer.
Sally said:
Ernie Kovacs once summed up his life in two sentences: "I was born in Trenton, N J in 1919 to a Hungarian couple. I've been smoking cigars ever since."
I vaguely remember Kovacs and wife Edie Adams doing this Ape sketch on the, "Ed Sullivan Show." It was sort of funny, but they peaked before my time.
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My granddaughter (left) at a school Interfaith sharing. The kids had to each display an artifact, something that had meaning culturally and personally to their family. Jessie brought in a tefillin (used while praying) because Her father used it for his bar mitzvah, her brother recently used it for his bar mitzvah, and Jessie will use it for her bat mitzvah next year. The Muslim girl next to her brought in a cloth that married women wear, which had been passed down through the generations of women in her family.
Sharing, what a great idea!
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Well, I'll tell ya, the first person that came to mind was George Burns (the cigar thing, ya know), however upon reflection, Ol' Georgie didn't quite fit the zany madcap nature of the Magyars I've known (and loved). I was at a loss, I truly was. So, Bing-bam-boom, it turns out to be that comedic genius Ernie Kovacs ...
See?... a zany madcap Magyar as ever was, I'm tellin' ya...
(Photo from the film, Operation Mad Ball (1957) - IMDb Kovacs' first major screen role and his buddy Jack Lemmon's first top billing. Screenplay by Blake Edwards. The film setting is an army hospital in Germany, post-WWII. Kovacs portrayed an army Medical Service Corps Captain. MSC officers are administrators, not medical professionals)
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Jack Lemmon was the person who identified Kovacs' body in the morgue after the car accident that killed Ernie. Kovacs' wife, the beautiful and talented Edie Adams, was too distraught to do so. Active pallbearers at Kovacs' funeral included Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Billy Wilder. Among those in attendance were Groucho Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Kirk Douglas, Jack Benny, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Buster Keaton, Milton Berle and...
George Burns. The question quote was recited in the tribute by the pastor...
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It was thought that Kovacs may have lost control of the car he was driving (a Corvair station wagon of all things) while trying to light a cigar during a fast turn...
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MAM wrote:
Ernie Kovacs
Born: January 23, 1919
Died: January 13, 1962
His pallbearers included Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Wilder and Dean Martin and the eulogy consisted of two sentences: "I was born in Trenton, N.J. in 1919 to a Hungarian couple. I've been smoking cigars ever since."
Marian replied:
Ernie Kovaks
And, Joe S answered:
Ernie Kovacs, my all-time favorite comedian ever. There's nothing more to be said, he was a genius. I guess there was one more thing to be said.
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Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Neil Patrick Harris, Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan, and Frank Turner.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Steven Tyler and Olga Kurylenko.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Revolution'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Vince Vaughn, Kenny Smith, and Scotty McCreery.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Nathan Lane, Zoe Kravitz, an Tomahawk.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Brit Marling, David Goyer, and Maximum Hedrum.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelorette', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Mistresses'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 5/23/13) are Mark Ruffalo, Scrabble Champions, and Reggie Watts.
The CW offers a FRESH'Oh Sit!', followed by a RERUN'The Carrie Diaries'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'The Goodwin Games', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Liar, Liar', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's European Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Fear Her
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Army of Ghosts
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 19 - Captain's Holiday
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 20 - Tin Man
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 5 - J Willy's
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 8 - La Gondola
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 1
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 2
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[10:00PM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 1 - Episode 3 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[1:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 1 - Episode 3
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives of OC', then a FRESH'Newlyweds: The First Year'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Key & Peele', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and still another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart are Maxim Pozdorovkin & Mike Lerner.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Rep. John Dingell.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Knight & Day'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Cherish
[8:45AM] The Spirit
[11:00AM] Bride & Prejudice
[1:30PM] District 9
[3:45PM] The Spirit
[6:00PM] Team America: World Police
[8:00PM] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[10:00PM] Teeth
[12:00AM] Maron-A Real Woman
[12:30AM] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[2:30AM] Maron-Dominatrix
[3:00AM] Maron-A Real Woman
[3:30AM] Teeth (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Smooching and Mooching
[7:00AM] The Killing Fields
[9:30AM] Man Shops Globe
[10:00AM] Lipsett Diaries
[10:15AM] Gallipoli
[12:15PM] Big Fan
[1:45PM] The Killing Fields
[4:15PM] Gallipoli
[6:15PM] Antwone Fisher
[8:15PM] Big
[10:00PM] Push Girls-Strange Love & Betrayed
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-One Minute
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-I See You
[1:00AM] Push Girls-Strange Love & Betrayed
[2:00AM] Le Divorce
[4:15AM] Tiny Furniture (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact', 'Defiance', followed by a FRESH'Defiance', then a FRESH'Warehouse 13'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ellen Page, Craig Robinson, and Myq Kaplan.
Three veteran storm chasers were among the 10 people killed Friday night when a violent tornado barreled into the Oklahoma City metro area.
Jim Samaras told The Associated Press on Sunday that his brother Tim Samaras, 54, of Bennett, Colo., was killed. Tim Samaras' son, 24-year-old Paul Samaras, also of Bennett; and another chaser, Carl Young, also died.
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research. They traveled the Great Plains in search of bad weather, hoping to warn people ahead of tornadoes and to help meteorologists understand the natural disasters.
Tim Samaras had appeared on the Discovery Channel's "Storm Chasers" show until last year.
Angelina Jolie poses with her partner Brad Pitt as they arrive for the world premiere of his film World War Z in London June 2, 2013.
Photo by Neil Hall
Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.
The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said this past week that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat per serving. Such package labels have never before been approved.
The labels are voluntary, so it will be up to beverage companies to decide whether to use them on their products.
The decision is a temporary, first step while the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, or TTB, continues to consider final rules on alcohol labels. Rules proposed in 2007 would have made labels mandatory, but the agency never made the rules final.
Invisalign, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customized, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell University researchers used a 3-D printer, along with injections of a special collagen gel, to create a human-shaped ear.
Once a science-fiction fantasy, three-dimensional printers are popping up everywhere from the desks of home hobbyists to Air Force drone research centers. The machines, generally the size of a microwave oven and costing $400 to more than $500,000, extrude layer upon layer of plastics or other materials, including metal, to create 3-D objects with moving parts.
On ground, sea or air, when parts break, new ones can be made on the spot, and even the tools to install them can be made, eliminating the need for staging parts in warehouses around the world, said Jeff DeGrange, vice president of Direct Digital Manufacturing at Stratasys Inc., currently the industry leader in a field of about 50 3-D printer companies.
Starting in June, office supply chain Staples plans to be the first major retailer to supply 3-D printers with "the Cube," a plug-in device that uses 16 colors and costs $1,299. And in September the smallest and cheapest 3-D printer on the market - a printing pen priced from $50 - is due to start shipping. Similar to a glue gun, the 3Doodler plugs into the wall and is filled with cylinders of plastic that come out of a 518-degree Fahrenheit tip. Once the plastic leaves the pen it cools and hardens.
From its very beginnings, the imposing marble edifice with the glistening copper dome rising 100 feet above the edge of downtown Los Angeles has been a major Hollywood production.
During the Golden Era, MGM co-founder Louis B. Mayer, along with fellow movie moguls Irving Thalberg, Carl Laemmle and the Warner brothers, helped bankroll the cavernous Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which debuted in 1929 as the cornerstone of the largest Jewish congregation west of Chicago.
The Tinseltown synagogue became known as the "Temple to the Stars" and served as the featured set location for everything from A-list weddings to an episode of "Entourage."
Now, in the grand tradition of long-running Hollywood franchises, LA's oldest synagogue is getting a $150 million reboot - just in time for summer release.
Singer-actress Pia Zadora has been arrested on suspicion of domestic battery and coercion after a disturbance at her Las Vegas home.
The 61-year-old Zadora was booked Saturday into the Clark County Detention Center and released after posting $4,000 bail.
She was arrested about 11 a.m., some six hours after police responded to a disturbance call at her home.
Zadora has been married to her third husband, Las Vegas police detective Michael Jeffries, since 2005. The couple met after Zadora contacted police to report a stalking incident.
In a civil case where the words of Steve Jobs play prominently, the government and Apple Inc. are set to square off over allegations that Apple Inc. conspired with the country's largest book publishers to make consumers pay more for electronic books.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote is scheduled to begin hearing the price-fixing case Monday in federal court in Manhattan.
The trial stems from an antitrust lawsuit brought last year by the Justice Department, which accused Apple of helping hatch the scheme at a meeting with publishers in 2009 as it was preparing to launch the iPad. Its purpose was to force Seattle-based Amazon.com - the marketer of Kindle e-book readers - to raise the $9.99 price it had set for the most popular e-book titles because that was substantially below their hardcover prices, the government says.
The Justice Department accuses the conspirators of agreeing that instead of selling books to retailers and letting them decide what price to charge readers, the publishers would convert the retailers into "agents" who were restricted from lowering the publisher-set retail price. The arrangement guaranteed Apple a 30 percent commission on each e-book it sold.
The government has alleged that the scheme cost consumers tens of millions of dollars by adding $2 or $3, sometimes as much as $5, to the price of each e-book. It also argues part of the proof is Jobs' own account of the arrangement.
Members of Queer Utah Aquatic Club dance in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2, 2013. Both Mormons and members of the Boy Scouts marched with members of LGBT community and their supporters as part of the Utah Pride Festival.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
The BBC says Matt Smith is stepping down from the lead role in long-running sci-fi series "Doctor Who," spurring intense speculation about his replacement.
The broadcaster said Sunday that Smith will leave after a November episode to mark the show's 50th anniversary, and a Christmas special.
The titular Doctor is a time-traveling, extra-terrestrial Time Lord who can regenerate into new bodies. Smith is the 11th actor to play the character since the series began in 1963.
The BBC did not announce Smith's replacement, but fans took to the Internet to speculate about casting of the 12th Doctor.
Al Capone was a ruthless Chicago gangster best known for his 1929 "Valentine's Day Massacre" of seven members of rival bootlegger Bugs Moran's gang.
But few know of his tortured demise - not at the hands of mobsters or federal agents - but in the throes of dementia and violent outbursts that marked his final struggle with syphilis.
A file of medical records, a letter from Capone to one of his doctors, an official copy of his death certificate and photographs of him alive and dead are being offered for sale by a New Hampshire auction house.
The collection offers a graphic glimpse into the final years of one of the nation's most notorious gangsters, who died at his Palm Island estate in Miami Beach in 1947 at the age of 48.
People make a "cachiporra" (a traditional whip made of grass) during Corpus Christi day in Zahara de la Sierra, southern Spain June 2, 2013. The village of Zahara de la Sierra celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi (or Body of Christ in Latin) by covering the streets and facades of houses with the branches of trees and grass.
Photo by Jon Nazca
A law that bans smoking in public places has taken effect in Russia, a contentious move in a country with one of the highest smoking rates in the world.
The ban, which came into force Saturday, prohibits smoking in workplaces, schools, universities and on public transportation. More restrictions will be applied a year later.
Authors of the ban have pointed to the hundreds of thousands of Russians who die of smoking-related illnesses every year. The measure has been approved by both houses of parliament and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
Cigarettes are much cheaper in Russia than in the U.S. and Europe, with the price of a pack starting at about $1. About 40 percent of Russians smoke.
With its supercharged muscle cars, "Fast & Furious 6" raced to first place at the box office for the second consecutive weekend.
The Universal Pictures release is expected to add another $34.5 million to its North American ticket sales, keeping it in the No. 1 spot after opening to more than $120 million over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Among the new original offerings was the magic-heist thriller "Now You See Me," which exceeded industry expectations to debut in second place with $28.1 million. The Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment release features an ensemble cast, including Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Woody Harrelson, in a tale of illusionists who rob banks and share the spoils with their audience.
Fox's animated "Epic" and Paramount's "Star Trek: Into Darkness" tied for fourth place with $16.4 million each, while "The Hangover Part III" was fifth with $15.9 million.
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. "Fast & Furious 6," $34.5 million ($75 million international).
2. "Now You See Me," $28.05 million. ($600,000 international).
3. "After Earth," $27 million ($2.6 million international).
4. (tie) "Epic," $16.4 million ($28.5 million international).
4. (tie) "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $16.4 million ($37.6 million international).
5. "The Hangover Part III," $15.9 million ($82.3 million international).
6. "Iron Man 3," $8 million ($9.9 million international).
7. "The Great Gatsby," $6.3 million ($22.6 million international).
8. "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani," $1.6 million ($900,000 international).
9. "Mud," $1.2 million ($350,000 international).
10. "The Croods," $615,000 ($3.7 million international).
An Eastern Bongo is seen at Al Bustan Zoological Centre in Maliha village in Sharjah, May 21, 2013. The Eastern or Mountain Bongo is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with fewer than 50 remaining in the wild.
Photo by Ahmed Jadallah
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