The Impeachment of George W. Bush (thenation.com)
Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so.
Emily Witt: The Few, The Proud ... Four days at a South Carolina boot camp (miaminewtimes.com)
Shortly after 9:00 p.m. November 29, a busload of 25 recruits arrives for the first time at the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina. Before the vehicle enters the two-lane causeway, a military policeman stops it, ascends the narrow steps, and orders the passengers to look at the floor.
Corina Zappia: Pretty Hate Machines: The sick, sublime joy of celeb-bashing blogs (villagevoice.com)
Go Fug Yourself versus People magazine; Perez Hilton versus Star; Manolo the Blogger versus Lucky: There's little debate which are more entertaining. Go Fug Yourself and similarly-minded blogs best mainstream magazines with their own brand of celeb-skewering snarkiness, and with a boldness that can only come when one works unfettered by the shackles that encumber larger publications.
Harold Goldberg: The Game Drunk Journalists Love, Electroplankton (villagevoice.com)
In "Part One: Life," Emily Dickinson wrote, "The Brain-is wider than the Sky-/For-put them side by side-/The one the other will contain/With ease-and You-beside-." That must be how media artist Toshio Iwai thought when he created the ingenious and expansive ELECTRO- PLANKTON for Nintendo.
SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, will air as part of SCI FI Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The series, from head writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies, ran originally in the United Kingdom last year and was one of the network's biggest hits ever. An update of the classic Doctor Who show, the series continues in the U.K. with an upcoming second season that will star David Tennant as the Doctor. Source
Purple Gene's pre-review of the soon to be released directly to DVD martial arts extravaganza….."Zen Man" the movie.
Directed by Sang H. Kim:
I had hoped that I would be able to see the story of the immortal modern day Haiku King, zEn mAN……a tale about the Berkeley Bard known all over the Land as the "17 Syllable Samurai"…. Keeping his culture connected with epithets of 5-7-5….a window to the Whole World …..with a Picture and a Poem!!!! But NOOOOOOOOOOO …what we get is another Crummy Korean Kick boxer turned film maker farce…with quotes……..
"Behind his silence there is pain"
"Beneath his ambition there is darkness"
"Beyond revenge there is honor"
This is the story…
"A peace seeking Zen Master is drawn into a web of revenge by the son of his former student. As elements of his past come back to haunt him, the Zen Master faces a choice: Kill or be killed. While the young man finally gets his wish, he discovers that we don't know what we have until we destroy it!"
"An effort to attain nothing is the secret to attain everything !"
"Doing nothing…achieving much…..becoming all !"
"In perfect stillness is perfect action !"
"Zen Man" is directed by and stars Sang H. Kim as the Zen Master (Zen Man). After traveling the world teaching martial arts, Mr. Kim went to film school and started making documentaries…..He made "The Real Royal Trip" for the Spanish Government….He made "100 Years of Tradition" for the Connecticut State Police…..then somebody gave him money to make this lame, never ever gonna see a theater, bad filming, bad editing, bad acting, really bad action and lots of pseudo Zen quotes……Where is Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee….even Steven Seagal ??????
Purple Gene gives "Zen Man" the movie (DVD) 1 semi-cute martial arts chick groupie out of 10 for being a bad investment without any sex at all.
CBS fills the night on the East Coast with the LIVE'NFL Football', where the Patriots visit the Broncos.
The night begins early on the left coast with the LIVE'NFL Football', where the Patriots still visit the Broncos, followed by some local filler crap.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Crossing Jordan', followed by a RERUN'Medium', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Scarlett Johansson hosting, music by Death Cab For Cutie.
The late, late 'SNL' is supposed to be from 9 January, 1999, with Bill Paxton hosting, music by Beck.
ABC fills the night with FRESH'Figure Skating'.
The WB here fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', with the Somics visiting the Clippers.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case Files', another 'Cold Case Files', and 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Goldfinger', followed by the movie 'From Russia With Love', then a FRESH'Hustle'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 6 Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show- Episode 48;
[4pm] 'Faking It - Faking It' Changed My Life Part 2;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Birmingham;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[6pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 3;
[8:30pm] 'Creature Comforts' - Episode 6;
[9pm] 'Rebus' - Black and Blue;
[11pm] 'Rebus' - The Hanging Garden;
[1am] 'Rebus' - Dead Souls;
[3am] 'Rebus' - Mortal Causes;
[5am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 3;
[5:30am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Vanilla Sky', followed by the movie 'Vanilla Sky', again.
Comedy Central has the movie '48 HRs', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', then the movie 'Billy Madison'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Presidents', another 'The Presidents', and 'Conspiracy? Jack Ruby'.
IFC -
[6AM] Ash Wednesday (2002);
[7:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[8AM] Blind Swordsman 2: Return Of Zatoichi (1962);
[9:15AM] At The IFC Center #9 (2005);
[9:45AM] The Lady And The Duke (2001);
[12PM] Dinner Rush (2000);
[2PM] Blind Swordsman 2: Return Of Zatoichi (1962);
[3:15PM] At The IFC Center #9 (2005);
[3:45PM] Slasher (2004);
[5:15PM] Dinner Rush (2000);
[7PM] Greg the Bunny: "Dead Puppet Storage" (2005);
[7:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "Blah!";
[7:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[8PM] Clay Pigeons (1998);
[9:45PM] Antwone Fisher (2002);
[12AM] Lantana (2001);
[2:15AM] Antwone Fisher (2002);
[4:15AM] Clay Pigeons(1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Species', followed by the movie 'H.G. Wells' War Of The World's'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] Jesus Christ Superstar;
[8:15AM] Safe Men;
[9:45AM] In the Edges - the Grizzly Sessions;
[10:40AM] Pieces of April;
[12PM] Dopamine;
[1:30PM] In Short: Festival 3;
[2PM] I Am Cuba;
[4:30PM] I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth;
[6PM] In His Own Words: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina;
[6:30PM] Brighton Beach Memoirs;
[8:30PM] Dopamine;
[10PM] Intimacy;
[12AM] Female Perversions;
[2AM] Safe Men;
[3:30AM] Female Perversions;
[5:30AM] Brighton Beach Memoirs. (ALL TIMES EST)
Congresswomen Barbara Lee, D-California, left, Maxine Waters, D-California, center, and Robert W. Ney, R-Ohio, Chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development meeting in New Orleans Friday afternoon Jan. 13, 2006. Congressman Ney brought the subcommittee to New Orleans to discussing the housing problems caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by Bill Haber
Country singer Tim McGraw says he wants to run for office someday in his adopted home state of Tennessee - perhaps for governor or U.S. senator - and he's getting encouragement from a fellow Democrat, former President Clinton.
"I think he's got it," Clinton says of McGraw in an Esquire magazine story that hits newsstands Monday. "The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending."
Born in Delhi, La., he grew up as Tim Smith. But at age 12, he learned his father was baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who had had a brief affair with his mother.
His mom and stepfather divorced when he was in the fourth grade, leaving her to raise him and his two sisters.
"She worked two or three jobs at a time," McGraw told The Associated Press in 2004. "I can remember being 11, 12, 13 years old and getting up at 12 o'clock at night and my mom sitting at the kitchen table with the bills spread out everywhere and not even knowing I was there with her head down crying. And then the next day the VCR being gone. It's stuff you grow up with, but you learn a lot from that."
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt brought a rare dose of Hollywood glamour to this beleaguered Caribbean nation during a visit Friday.
The couple flew to Haiti from the neighboring Dominican Republic, where Jolie is filming the movie "The Good Shepherd," directed by Robert De Niro.
Jolie, 30, and Pitt, 42, visited a school supported by Yele Haiti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean, where they watched children dance and recite poetry.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus arrives for the opening of 'Ashes and Snow,' by Gregory Colbert, at the Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006.
Photo by Branimir Kvartuc
Aaron Neville, whose home was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, will perform the national anthem at next month's Super Bowl.
Pianist Dr. John will join Neville for the anthem. Neville also performed the anthem at the 1990 Super Bowl in New Orleans.
In addition, John Legend and Joss Stone will join Motown legend Stevie Wonder in performing Wonder's hits as part of the Super Bowl pre-game show at Detroit's Ford Field.
Author Amy Tan, who wrote "The Joy Luck Club" and other best-selling books, has been named literary editor of West, the Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine.
West magazine will replace the weekly Los Angeles Times Magazine beginning Feb. 5. The title marks a return to what the publication used in the mid-1960s and early 1970s.
NBC News anchors and correspondents have voted to sever ties with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, completing a campaign that got under way last fall, sources on both sides said Thursday.
The nationwide unit of 59 employees voted 24-14 to decertify AFTRA as their collective bargaining representative. Seventeen members did not vote, and the National Labor Relations Board, which supervised the election, voided three ballots and said one was being challenged.
While these anchors and correspondents were protected by the union contract, most had separate employment agreements that paid them well-above scale.
After months of rumors about a pregnancy, Gwyneth Paltrow has confirmed she's expecting her second child with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.
In an interview following a screening of her movie "Proof" late Thursday, the 33-year-old actress was introduced as a pregnant woman, according to the syndicated entertainment television show "The Insider."
Moderator Lou Diamond Phillips asked Paltrow, "How far along are you?"
"Far enough along to feel very cumbersome," she answered.
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-bending drug LSD, waves to the audience during the opening of the symposium 'LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug' at the Congress Centre in Basel, Switzerland, January 13, 2006. Hofmann, who celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday, was working in a laboratory in the late 1930s when he stumbled upon the substance lysergic acid diethylamine or LSD, the drug which later fuelled a generation of poets, painters and party-goers.
Photo by Siggi Bucher
NBC's Nashville affiliate has closed "The Book of Daniel" after the show, whose main character is a pill-popping Episcopal priest with a gay son and a pot-dealing daughter, drew thousands of complaints.
WSMV-TV General Manager Elden Hale Jr. said he decided to pull the show starring Aidan Quinn after NBC rejected the station's request to air it overnight instead of during "family viewing time."
Despite its third-place finish nationally, the show won its time slot last Friday in the Nashville TV market.
WSMV is one of seven NBC affiliates, most of them in the South, that have decided not to air "The Book of Daniel." In three of those markets - Little Rock, Ark., Amarillo, Tex., and Terre Haute, Ind. - non-NBC stations have agreed to air the show. It isn't clear if NBC is shopping it to another Nashville station.
It's not Gun N' Roses but cars and cash that have rocker Axl Rose suing a Beverly Hills auto dealership.
The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims the dealership failed to deliver two luxury cars after receiving $20,000 in deposits and also failed to give the Guns N' Roses frontman any money after selling his Ferrari.
Rose contends that Beverly Hills Classic Cars took his deposits but violated oral agreements to get him a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo and a 2005 Porsche GT3.
Singer Tony Bennett, left, and saxophonist James Moody chat as they gather for a special photo shoot of jazz masters during the annual conference of the International Association of Jazz Education in New York, Friday Jan. 13, 2006. Bennett will be among seven jazz 'living legends' honored at an evening gala as the 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for which Moody is already an inductee.
Photo by Bebeto Matthews
Dave Marash, the veteran "Nightline" correspondent who left the program late last year, has landed at Al-Jazeera International, the new English-language news channel that will be spun off from Al-Jazeera later this spring.
Marash - who will be chief anchor and correspondent based in the 24-hour channel's Washington bureau - said yesterday, "I really don't know the [format] details yet," but that four hours each day would be devoted specifically to news out of Washington. He will also co-anchor a full-hour regular newscast from 7 to 8 p.m.; his co-anchor has yet to be appointed.
A U.S. Geological Survey handout, photographed from the south, shows Augustine volcano's summit on January 12, 2006. Augustine volcano, which erupted twice on Wednesday, erupted again on January 13, 2006 at approximately 8:47 AM AST (17:47 GMT). Pilot reports and satellite imagery confirm an ash cloud with lightning in excess of 30,000 ft above sea level that is moving eastward. Similar short-lived explosive activity is expected to continue over the next several days or weeks, according to the volcano observatory.
Photo by Game McGimsey
For some 15 years, the 1939 International bus dubbed "Furthur" has rusted away in a swamp on the Kesey family's Willamette Valley farm, out of sight if not out of mind, more memory than monument.
That is where Ken Kesey - author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and hero of a generation that vowed to drop out and tune in with the help of LSD - intended it to stay after firing up a new bus in 1990.
But four years after his death, a Hollywood restaurateur has persuaded the family to resurrect the old bus so it can help tell the story of Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and the psychedelic 1960s.
Kesey's widow, Faye, had reservations about restoring the old bus, but did not try to stop it.
"I kind of liked it in the swamp covered with moss and becoming part of the swamp," she said. "But I talked to everybody who had been on it. To a man they all wanted to see it restored.
In this image made available in London by Channel 4 television, Thursday Jan. 12, 2006, independent British Member of Parliament George Galloway imitates a cat, with the aid of actress Rula Lenska, on the reality television show 'Celebrity Big Brother', at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England. Politicians from other parties have called for Galloway, 51, who founded the Respect Party after being expelled from the Labour Party for opposing the Iraq war, to be censured for his appearance on the show.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Jan. 2-8. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
1. "Drake & Josh Movie" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.47 million homes, 5.43 million viewers.
2. "Drake & Josh Movie" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.44 million homes, 5.31 million viewers.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.40 million homes, 4.72 million viewers.
4. "Drake & Josh Movie" (Sunday, 7 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.32 million homes, 4.85 million viewers.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.26 million homes, 4.55 million viewers.
6. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.10 million homes, 4.02 million viewers.
7. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.06 million homes, 4.19 million viewers.
8. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.80 million homes, 3.67 million viewers.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.78 million homes, 3.62 million viewers.
10. "That's So Raven" (Friday, 7:30 p.m.), Disney, 2.70 million homes, 3.63 million viewers.
11. "Law & Order" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.69 million homes, 3.52 million viewers.
12. "The Gauntlet II" (Monday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.68 million homes, 3.42 million viewers.
13. "Drake & Josh" (Wednesday, 6 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.64 million homes, 3.45 million viewers.
14. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.62 million homes, 3.42 million viewers.
15. "Drake & Josh" (Tuesday, 6 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.61 million homes, 3.28 million viewers.
A flock of wild ducks flies in front of Sredna Gora mountain, near the Piasachnik reservoir in southern Bulgaria, January 13, 2006.
Photo by Stoyan Nenov
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