Froma Harrop: Whom Can You Trust on Climate Change? (creators.com)
When President Obama attends the United Nations meeting on climate in Copenhagen, you can be sure that the deniers of global warming will go on a romp. They'll dredge up weather forecasters, scientists hungry for attention and various grudge-holders to argue that the Earth's temperature isn't rising, or that if it is, humankind plays no part in the process.
Susan Estrich: Checkouts and Markups (creators.com)
It's that time of the year again. Time to feel like a fool. I started early this year, at Bed Bath and Beyond. Mind you, I love the store - two shiny new floors of beautiful things that you don't have to try on. I'm a goner for candles and diffusers, not to mention cordless vacuum cleaners. And they even have beauty products and potato chips in the checkout line. It should be bliss.
DAVID BROOKS: The Other Education (nytimes.com)
While our scholastic education is formal and supervised, our emotional education, the one we glean on our own from artists and musicians, is more important to our long-term happiness.
Publisher Harper Collins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. Its print run already has been increased from 1.5 million copies to 2.5 million... In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" started at 200,000... The Wingnuts are going bonkers!
Do you consider Sarah Palin a legitimate political threat or merely a ditzy cultural doofus and a rabble-rousing, egotistical, power-broker wannabe?
zEN mAN (observing a confusing set of events at the Woods residence in Florida late the other night....Tiger was hastily leaving his estate at 2:30 AM and crashed into a fire hydrant...his wife claims to have grabbed a wood driver golf club and smashed in the back window to free Tiger....sounds fishy....more to come)
Dominick George "Don" Pardo (born February 22, 1918) is an American radio and television announcer. He is noted for his long association with NBC, and in particular with Saturday Night Live, for which he has been the announcer for all but one of its seasons, and continues today as the program's announcer, several years after his official retirement from NBC.
He also provided narration for the songs "The Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Punky's Whips" (a business dispute between Zappa and his then record company led to "Punky's Whips" being removed from the 1978 album, but the song was reinstated on the 1993 CD.)
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Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, with:
Don Pardo
Charlie wrote:
Don Pardo
Alan J answered:
Don Pardo
Sally said:
I must decline to answer the, "Trivia Question Dejour" because of all the musicians (and I use the term loosely here) Zappa probably holds the title for squandering any talent he may have had by writing the crap of you question today. Furthermore, I think he should have been arrested for child abuse for objectifying his four children with names such as: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan, and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen - names guaranteed to subject the children to ridicule in exchange for his own hatred of society! My God, who can ever forget that when the discordant musicians moved in, Rock 'n Roll almost died!
TTfor an 'everything is sore in my body' day,
PS: I guess I should explain for extreme dislike to Zappa here. In the late 1690s, he lived in NYC and did a show with guest performers and audience participation. Word soon got out that one of his, "favorite" bits was having some US Marines from the audience onto the stage, where they proceeded to dismember a big baby doll, having been told by Zappa to pretend that it was a 'gook' baby. Needless-to-say we who were vehement anti Vietnam warists, heard about that and have hated him and everything about him ever since!!
PPS: I'm sure it was Don Pardo from SNL who aided and abetted him in the recording in question today...
PURPLE GENE responded:
DON PARDO Date: 11/29/2009 8:05:54 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
THE NARRATOR ON FRANK ZAPPA'S "PUNKY'S WHIP" AND " THE ILLINOIS ENEMA BANDIT" WAS NONE OTHER THAN :
DON PARDO....FAMOUS TV ANNOUNCER
DON DID THE ORIGINAL "PRICE IS RIGHT".......WAS THE ANNOUNCER FOR "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" AND EVEN APPEARED ON WEIRD AL'S SONG "I LOST AT JEOPARDY"
I MET FRANK ZAPPA ALONG WITH TIM BUCKLEY AND JIM MORRISON AT A RIB JOINT IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1968......WHAT A GUY! HE DIDN'T DRINK OR DO DRUGS (UNLIKE JIM MORRISON) AND WAS WICKEDLY FUNNY!
Steve B replied:
Don Pardo.
Zappadan is coming soon.
PS: Here is a totally unrelated picture of Micky Dolenz, Greg Sullivan, Peter Tork and myself, perfroming aqt The SuperMega fest, in Framingham, MA, on Nov 21st.
MAM answered:
Dominick George "Don" Pardo narrated the Frank Zappa songs "The Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Punky's Whips". He is an announcer noted for his long association with NBC, and in particular with Saturday Night Live.
'Don' Pardo
And, Joe S wrote:
DoooOOOOn PaARRdo. I can't make it look like it sounds on TV.
Don Pardo's 90th birthday
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Accidentally On Porpoise', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 10/29/09) are Tom Hanks, Weezer, and a Top 10 list presented by Chad Ochocinco.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Michael Sheen and Lance Burton.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Heroes', followed by a FRESH'Trauma', then a FRESH'Leno' (Bill Maher and Adam Carolla).
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are William Shatner, AnnaLynne McCord, and a performance by the cast of "Mary Poppins."
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 10/27/09) are Artie Lange, Olivia Munn, and David Chang.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 10/8/09) are Joss Stone and Bat For Lashes.
ABC starts the night rolling out the chestnut 'Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas', followed by 'Shrek The Halls', then a FRESH'Find My Family', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/20/09) are Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Death Cab for Cutie.
The CW offers a FRESH'One tree Hill', followed by a FRESH'Gossip Girl'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Lie To Me'.
MY recycles an old 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by another old 'Law & Order: Criiminal Intent'.
A&E has 'Intervention', another 'Intervention'< followed by a FRESH'Intervention', then a FRESH'Hoarders'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Secret Of My Success', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 19 Gray
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 12 Anderson
[2:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 18
[4:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 5
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Curry Lounge
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[3:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 4 Graham Norton, Armstrong & Miller, Verne Troyer, Shakira
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 18
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing', another 'Million Dollar Listing', still another 'Million Dollar Listing', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing'.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Dunham Show', followed by the movie 'Beerfest', 'Futurama', and another 'Futurama'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Maziar Bahari.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Cevin Soling.
FX has the movie 'Wild Hogs', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
History has 6 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', and another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[7:15 AM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[9:45 AM] Hero
[11:30 AM] Assassination Tango
[1:25 PM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[4:05 PM] Hero
[5:45 PM] My Life as a Dog
[7:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[8:00 PM] Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
[9:35 PM] The Proposition
[11:25 PM] Dinner With the Band
[12:00 AM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[1:35 AM] Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
[3:15 AM] The Proposition
[5:05 AM] My Life as a Dog (ALL TIMES EST)
Czech pop star Karel Gott stands in front of one of his paintings during the opening of an exhibition of his paintings in Stary Plzenec, 90 kilometers (some 56 miles) south west of Prague, on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009.
Photo by Petr Eret
Much of the prime-time audience lost to NBC when Jay Leno moved into prime-time has gone not to its rivals but the digital video recorder.
Rival network executives seemed almost giddy at the possibilities last spring after NBC announced Leno would do a comedy show five nights a week at 10 p.m. There will be more viewers available "for people who put on great dramas," said Leslie Moonves, CBS chief executive, "and that's what we do."
It hasn't quite worked out that way.
NBC's audience at that hour is down sharply, as many predicted. CBS is up 6 percent over last season, primarily because it moved the hit series "The Mentalist" into that slot; on three of the five nights, its audience is down. ABC is also down slightly at that hour, and it wasn't exactly overwhelmed with hits last year, either.
With one-third of American TV households now equipped with DVRs like TiVo, the 10 p.m. hour is emerging as a popular time for people to catch up on what they missed earlier in the evening, or earlier in the week.
Renown Iron Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon shows off a copy of his first book, 'Michael Symon's Live To Cook', at a book signing at the Barnes & Noble store in Woodmere, Ohio on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009.
Photo by Amy Sancetta
A television executive says the couple that crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner is offering to talk to broadcast networks about it for a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not publicly discuss bookings, told The Associated Press that representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi contacted networks to urge them to "get their bids in" for an interview. The executive says the Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range.
Network news divisions say they don't pay for interviews. They have, for eagerly-sought interviews in the past, offered to pay for access to exclusive material like pictures or videos from their subjects.
Meanwhile, CNN confirmed that the Salahis had canceled an appearance they had scheduled for "Larry King Live" on Monday.
When a Los Angeles hairstylist accepted a collect call from a customer, she had no idea it would run more than $45. And no idea that's just what collect calls from pay phones cost in the mobile age.
Barbara James gladly accepted the call from 84-year-old client Pat Devine, who said she was running late and called from a pay phone because her cell phone had died.
James' bill from Network Communications International showed about $37 for the quick call, about $5 in regulatory fees and taxes, and about $3 for a "billing cost recovery fee."
Federal Communications Commission spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball says collect calls are largely unregulated since most major companies left the business.
French fashion legend Pierre Cardin was briefly hospitalised Sunday after being taken ill in a Paris airport departure lounge, his office said.
The 87-year-old was about to board a plane for Greece -- where he is putting on a show -- when he suffered a minor "vasovagal episode," it said, referring to a condition marked by a slow pulse and a fall in blood pressure
He was taken by ambulance to the American Hospital in the Paris suburbs where he was examined and quickly discharged.
Cardin, who set up his couture house in 1949, was last year ranked 71st on a list of France's wealthiest people released by Challenges magazine, with an estimated wealth of 500 million euros.
By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice.
Those are the results of a poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine and issued Sunday. The radio host was picked by 26 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians - former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin - were the choice of 10 percent each.
Asked to choose from among seven presidents, Americans tapped John F. Kennedy as the one they'd like to see added to Mount Rushmore. Kennedy polled 29 percent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 percent.
Half of Americans chose laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as a ceremony in which they'd most like to participate. That swamped the other choices: lighting the Olympic torch, tossing the coin to open a Super Bowl, starting the race at the Indianapolis 500, ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange and throwing out the first pitch at the World Series.
Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.
His three-story stucco and wood home on the edge of Gstaad has its own garden. He'll be allowed to host parties. A local official has said he may move to protect the film director from the press.
The biggest drawback for Polanski will be that he will be unable to leave the 1,800-square-meter (19,000-square-foot) property without losing $4.5 million in bail.
"He will have no prison regime," said Justice Ministry spokesman Falco Galli. "He is completely free to determine his daily schedule. It's also up to him to get in food and other supplies."
A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good."
Mary Jo Coady first noticed the image Sunday when she walked into her daughter's room.
The brownish residue on the bottom of the iron looks like the face of a man with long hair.
The 44-year-old Coady was raised Catholic. She and her two college-age daughters agree that the image looks like Jesus and is proof that "he's listening." Coady tells The Eagle-Tribune she hopes her story will inspire others during the holidays. She says she plans to keep the iron in a closet and buy a new one.
Movie flops aren't just about losing money. Yes, big budgets that go bust are one consideration. But flops are also about lofty expectations dashed and high profiles brought low. They trigger embarrassing catcalls from the peanut gallery and a general whoever-thought-that-was-a-good-idea-in-the-first-place bewilderment.
Any judgments of flopitude are necessarily subjective, but here are 10 movies from the past decade that made those few moviegoers who saw them cringe. Disagree? Talk among yourselves.
Vampires and werewolves continued to howl at the box office with a $42.5 million weekend for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."
"The Blind Side" had a great second weekend with $40.1 million coming in at No. 2 just behind "New Moon." Released by Warner Bros., the inspirational story of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher stars Sandra Bullock as a woman whose wealthy family takes in the homeless teen and enrolls him in private school.
The two movies propelled Hollywood to record revenues over the five-day Thanksgiving period. Wednesday-to-Sunday receipts came in at an estimated $275 million, according to Hollywood.com box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," $42.5 million.
2. "The Blind Side," $40.1 million.
3. "2012," $18 million.
4. "Old Dogs," $16.8 million.
5. "Disney's A Christmas Carol," $16 million.
6. "Ninja Assassin," $13.1 million.
7. "Planet 51," $10.2 million.
8. "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' By Sapphire," $7.1 million.
9. "Fantastic Mr. Fox," $7 million.
10. "The Men Who Stare at Goats," $1.5 million.
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