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Marc Dion: Are You Upside Down in Your Home? (Creators Syndicate)
Some people say we are living in a recession. I don't think we are. I think this is an across-the-board "push back." America can't always be the most powerful, richest country in the world. No country has ever been the most powerful and richest country FOREVER. Argue the reasons all you like, but history won't allow anyone to stay on top forever. That's not arguable.
Matt Miller: Treason on Schools (Washington Post)
… matching the math achievement of students in Estonia or Slovenia-or Slovakia or Iceland-or Norway, Sweden and Denmark-not to mention Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France and Belgium-would represent an achievement that has eluded [Rick] Perry after a decade in the saddle.
Roger Ebert: Review of "The Match Factory Girl" (1990; A Great Movie)
This poor girl. I wanted to reach out my arms and hug her. That was during the first half of "The Match Factory Girl." Then my sympathy began to wane. By the end of the film, I think it's safe to say Iris gives as good as she gets.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" (3 stars)
How could Solomon Rabinovich have guessed, while he was going bankrupt in the stock market, that fame would come to him from the fiction he wrote in a dying language for little newspapers? When two of his plays opened on the same night in New York and closed after the critics hated them, would he have thought that his work would inspire one of the greatest hits in the history of the musical theater?
Ten myths about grunge, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain (Guardian)
Kurt Cobain loved Abba, wasn't from Seattle and didn't invent grunge. Everett True, the man who pushed the singer's wheelchair on stage for his last UK show, sets the record straight.
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Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 - January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor Although he played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar, and as Dathan in The Ten Commandments.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Edward G. Robinson....been watching the hurricane for family losses...devistating.
DanD wrote:
Not to be confused with Emmanuel Goldstein, Emanuel Goldenberg was
actually E.G. Robinson. This actor's most famously portrayed
character seems to have been "tough-guy," Italian-American criminals.
You know, when I was just a young boy growing up in the last capital
of the Confederacy, I would commonly hear about how European Jewry had
suffered so much from the "racial" discriminations of the numerically
much more populated Gentile Europeans (I started hanging out with a
bunch of college thespians). Even so, I kept discovering with quite
regularity that many -- if not the majority -- of America's most
popular movie-stars who regularly portrayed themselves as grassroot
Gentiles had descended-from or actually were first generation,
immigrant Euro-Jews.
This circumstance led me to regularly ponder exactly, as a people who
could hide themselves in plain sight among a much larger, non-kosher
population by merely acting non-kosher, how could such cultural
chameleons ever suffer from what was popularly defined as "racial"
discrimination? Now this was prevalently happening for me during
America's apocryphal era of primary school desegregation (in
Shreveport Louisiana, beginning in 1970).
Then, I also learned that even just pondering such oxymoronic
prospects were also considered racist, but most perversely in an
"anti-Semitic" fashion. Ultimately, I came to realize that
definitions frequently become not what an object or circumstance
actually is, but instead, are simply a condition or event that an
influential majority (or VERY insistent minority) claim it to be.
It's alot like the oxymoronic nomenclature "undocumented immigrant."
Anyone wanting to immigrate to America (or most anywhere else) must
first receive formal permission from their prospective new homeland
before they can ever officially be recognized as immigrants. Until
those prospective permanent residents may actually possess a
green-card, they are (at best) just wannabe immigrants, or permitted
MIGRANTS. Even so, America supposedly has an "immigration" problem.
By portraying the circumstance as such, people who are functionally
(just alien tresspassers and) not immigrants are actually being
treated as such.
The question remains, how is a paradigm defined, and who qualifies its
description?
Alan J said:
Edward G. Robinson
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Edward G. Robinson
Charlie responded:
Edward G. Robinson
Adam answered:
Big Brother...no...Edward G. Robinson.
Sally's electricity took a dive, so she's sitting this one out. : (
MAM wrote:
Edward G. Robinson
And, Joe S answered:
Edward G. Robinson. For some strange reason, and don't ask me why, I knew that. I verified it with the google because I've burnt myself before, but there it was. Why the hell would I know that? That's the burning question.
Word has it, in case you hadn't heard, Sally's doing fine but her power is out. My Baltimore family made it through with no problems.
An old pal was flying kites at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer (check out the humongous cabbages!) Sunday afternoon and saw some seasonal flocks of Sandhill Cranes heading south.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jason Sudeikis, Bettina Luescher, and St. Vincent.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are William Shatner, Eliza Coupe, and Ted Alexandro.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a very special 'Dateline' where an unindicted war criminal is fluffed for corporate profit and propaganda value.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Julie Scardina and animals, David Koechner, and Cake.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Robert Duvall and Emmanuelle Chriqui.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/9/11) are Walton Goggins, Dave MacDowell, and Soundtrack of Our Lives.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelor Pad', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/8/11) are Aziz Ansari, Chris Harrison, and Eric Church.
The CW offers a RERUN'Gossip Girl', followed by a RERUN'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Hoarders', followed by a FRESH'Hoarders', then a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ocean's Twelve', followed by the movie 'The Italian Job', then the movie 'The Italian Job', again.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 19 - Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Stephen Merchant, Jo Brand
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Giuseppi's
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Lazarus Experiment
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 Family
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005)
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 1 New Earth
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[10:20 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6 (80 min)
[11:40 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live', then a FRESH'Most Eligible Dallas'.
Comedy Central has 'Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid', 'Ron White: Behavioral Problem', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', still another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and yet another 'it's Always Sunny In Philly'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 8/15/11) is Ali Velshi.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 8/9/11) is The Cars.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'The Proposal'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whisker Wars - The Beard Circuit
[6:30AM] Beyond the Sea
[9:00AM] Polish Wedding
[11:15AM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[1:15PM] Beyond the Sea
[3:45PM] Polish Wedding
[6:00PM] Freaks and Geeks - The Little Things
[7:00PM] Young Broke and Beautiful - New Orleans
[7:30PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00PM] The Descent
[10:00PM] The Making Of: Transformation
[10:05PM] The Babysitter
[12:05AM] The Descent
[2:05AM] The Babysitter
[4:05AM] Don't Answer the Phone (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] The Metamorphosis
[6:10 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[8:15 AM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[10:00 AM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[11:15 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[1:20 PM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[3:05 PM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[4:20 PM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[6:25 PM] White Lightnin'
[8:00 PM] Love Lust & Street Eats
[9:00 PM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[10:00 PM] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Weekend (Episode 18, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[1:00 AM] Love Lust & Street Eats
[3:55 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[6:00 AM] The Wilde Ones (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Eureka', followed by a FRESH'Eureka', then a FRESH'Warehouse 13', followed by a FRESH'Alphas'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 4/21/11) are Reese Witherspoon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the Head and the Heart.
Syrian-born poet Adonis has become the first Arabic-speaking author to receive one of Germany's most prestigious literary awards, the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt.
The 81-year-old Adonis accepted the award on Sunday in Frankfurt.
Born Ali Ahmad Said in northern Syria, Adonis fled his homeland for political reasons as a young man. He now lives in Paris but still writes in Arabic.
The jury praised Adonis for bringing modern European ideas and critical thinking into current Arab culture by using classic poetic images based in the traditions of Arabic poets.
The Goethe Prize, worth €50,000 ($72,000), is awarded every three years on Goethe's birthday to someone whose works are deemed to reflect the spirit of the German literary giant.
Lady Gaga, right, kisses Britney Spears as she presents her with the Video Vanguard award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday Aug. 28, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Matt Sayles
The threat of Hurricane Irene didn't stop the cast and crew of the musical "Chicago" from celebrating a Broadway milestone Friday night with cake and a very big knife.
At a small backstage party at intermission, the show marked its 6,137th performance - tying "A Chorus Line" for the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history.
A loud cheer went up when Christopher Sieber, who stars as Billy Flynn, toasted the cast with non-alcoholic sparkling wine in the wardrobe room at the Ambassador Theatre.
Bebe Neuwirth, who played Velma Kelly back when the revival began its near-15-year streak, then plunged a large knife into a vanilla sheet cake decorated with a classic "Chicago" image of a sexy murderess.
In March of 2009, when the Annenberg Space for Photography opened in Century City in Los Angeles, the most remarked-upon guest at the gala was David LaChapelle's date, Courtney Love.
I thought of Love during an unveiling of images late last week at the Annenberg -- all taken over the last two decades by Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx -- when he put up a photo of a homeless woman holding a sign reading, "I'm Not A Bad Girl, I Just Made Bad Decisions."
Anyone wondering about the wisdom of the Annenberg's decision to feature the art of Sixx was happily surprised. Not only was his camera work fascinating and its variety a bit dazzling, but the rocker's world view as he answered questions from moderator Kristine McKenna and the audience was quite compelling.
Sixx, 51, said he'd been fascinated by the medium since the late '80s, but his interest didn't truly flower until around the time he got sober in 2001, after a long series of addictions, including a near-death by overdose, chronicled in his book "The Heroin Diaries."
"Sex Bomb" singer Tom Jones was recovering in a Monaco hospital Sunday, saying "severe dehydration" forced him to cancel a concert in the glamorous principality.
The longtime star, famed for his swivel-hipped appeal and soulful voice, apologized to his fans on his website and emphatically denied British press reports that he had suffered a heart scare that forced him to cancel his Monaco concert Saturday night.
"There are NO heart problems, as has been reported in the press," the singer's website stated.
Jones, a 71-year-old Welshman who burst to international fame in 1964 with "It's Not Unusual" and other hits, blamed his illness on a long successful tour "where many of the shows were in locations that were in the throes of high summer heat."
Corporations are people. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
From Mitt Romney this month to John McCain in 2008 and John Kerry four years earlier, presidential candidates are caught telling the truth by accident in every campaign, blurting a phrase that is both factual but politically ill-advised.
Voters say they want authentic, straight-talking candidates. But voters also tend to punish candidates who veer too far off script or who make assertions that, while true, cause people to cringe and question whether these politicians are out of touch with those they seek to represent.
Consider Romney, the early GOP front-runner who recently confronted a heckler in Iowa who was demanding higher taxes on corporations.
"Corporations are people, my friend," the former Massachusetts governor shot back. "Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people."
One of the prosecutors in the Casey Anthony murder trial is writing a book about the case.
Jeff Ashton confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel that he is finishing a book entitled "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony." It is scheduled for release in November. He declined to give details.
Ashton was the co-prosecutor in the trial of Anthony, the young Florida mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The trial garnered national media attention.
Ashton gave an impassioned closing argument, saying that Anthony killed Caylee because the little girl interfered with her social and love life. He was criticized by the judge for laughing during defense attorney Jose Baez's closing argument and apologized.
Typically, Larry Flynt spends most of his time, effort and money getting people out of their clothes. In the case of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, he'll make an exception.
The "Hustler" honcho has extended an offer to "Jersey Shore" star Sorrentino, after clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch stated last week that they'd be willing to pay him to stop wearing their clothing.
In an open statement to the reality-TV guido, Abercrombie claimed that being associated with Sorrentino "is contrary to the aspirational nature of our brand."
Flynt, who has no such concerns, reached out on Tuesday to let Sorrentino know that he can always pick up some booze-and-hair gel money by modeling his Hustler Apparel clothing line.
British author David Cornwell, alias John le Carre, left, talks with the Polish journalist Adam Michnik, right, prior to the 2011 Goethe Medals awards presentation of the Goethe-Institut in the Grand Ducal Palace in Weimar, central Germany, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. David Cornwell, the grande dame of French theatre Ariane Mnouchkine and Adam Michnik were awarded with this medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany which honors foreign personalities who have performed outstanding service for the German language and international cultural relations.
Photo by Jens Meyer
Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue virus.
More than 50 million people a year get the dengue virus from being bitten by infected mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical areas, including Southeast Asia. It can cause debilitating high fever, severe headaches, and pain in the muscles and joints, and lead to a potentially fatal complication. There's no vaccine or specific treatment.
Some scientists have been trying to fight dengue by limiting mosquito populations. That was the goal in releasing genetically modified mosquitoes last year at sites in Malaysia and the Cayman Islands.
Australian scientists took a different tack, they report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
A week-long vampire convention on a cruise ship that will feature a vampire ball and costume contest is planned for scenic Southeast Alaska next summer.
Holland America's cruise ship Zuiderdam will be the setting for the event scheduled for late June.
KINY (http://bit.ly/24LLCy ) says the ship will make stops in Juneau, Glacier Bay, Skagway and Ketchikan after it departs from Vancouver, B.C.
Vampire scholar John Edgar Browning is scheduled to host a vampire movie festival. Also scheduled to join the cruise is Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of "Dracula" author Bram Stoker and a co-author of a sequel, "Dracula: The Un-Dead."
Performers dance in the street parade at the annual Notting Hill Carnival in central London August 28, 2011. Revellers packed London streets on Sunday for one of Europe's biggest street parties with record numbers of police on duty to make sure there was no repetition of riots that scarred the British capital three weeks ago.
Photo by Luke MacGregor
The weekend's biggest flop, and one that had the highest hopes for success, was the Paul Rudd comedy "Our Idiot Brother," which took in a measly $6.588 million in its opening weekend.
Despite aggressive marketing by The Weinstein Co., the movie was buffetted by hurricane reports, negative reviews and unenthusiastic exit scores in a summer where other R-rated comedies are generally performing well.
Weinstein acknowledged the bummer weekend. "We thought we were going to hit it out of the park, and it's a single," said Erik Lomis, the Weinstein Co.'s president of theatrical and home distribution, told TheWrap. "What we're disappointed most about is just a missed opportunity."
The flop is a black eye for The Weinstein Co., which was shooting for an opening of at least $10 million and had high hopes given the stellar comedy cast of Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer and Zooey Deschanel.
Weinstein bought the movie for a pricey $6 million out of the Sundance festival in tandem with Ron Burkle's YUK Films. The film was significantly recut since its Sundance premiere (critics at the January festival were very mixed on the movie) and aggressively marketed.
"The Help" remained Hollywood's top draw with $14.3 million on a slow late-summer weekend whose business was even more sluggish as many East Coast theaters closed to ride out the storm there.
"The Help" has been the No. 1 film for two-straight weekends. The acclaimed adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel about black Southern maids sharing stories about white employers amid the civil-rights movement raised its domestic total to $96.6 million and should cross the $100 million mark Tuesday.
Zoe Saldana's action tale "Colombiana," released by Sony, opened in second-place with $10.3 million. Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes' horror story "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," a FilmDistrict release, debuted in third with $8.7 million. Paul Rudd's comedy "Our Idiot Brother," distributed by the Weinstein Co., premiered at No. 5 with $6.6 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers also are included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Help," $14.3 million.
2. "Colombiana," $10.3 million.
3. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," $8.7 million.
4. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," $8.65 million ($22.1 million international).
5. "Our Idiot Brother," $6.6 million.
6. "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World," $5.7 million.
7. "The Smurfs," $4.8 million.
8. "Conan the Barbarian," $3.1 million.
9. "Fright Night," $3 million.
10. "Crazy, Stupid, Love," $2.9 million.
A Slovak aerobatic group named Ocovski Bacovia (Shepherds from Ocova Village) performs during the Slovak International Air Fest at the airport in Sliac August 28, 2011.
Photo by Radovan Stoklasa
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