Bloggers Upstage the Mainstream Press Yet Again
When Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney posted on his magazine's new blog that George W. Bush's last State of the Union speech was analogous to Bill Clinton's 1995 address because, like Bush, "Clinton was in free fall. His approval ratings were mired in the 30s," it took only moments for an anonymous commenter to correct him. (Clinton's approval rating at the time was actually 47 percent.) At which point popular blogger Atrios notified his readers, who "descended on the Time blog like locusts-andtabulated several more boneheaded errors" ...
Colombia: Gay couples may share assets
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's top court ruled that gay couples in long-term relationships should have the same rights to shared assets as heterosexual couples.
University challenge (guardian.co.uk)
With the sex industry now targeting students, more and more young women are taking a stand against lads' mags and lap-dancing clubs. Rachel Bell reports.
Danny Schechter Dissects America's Credit Card Culture -- A BuzzFlash Interview
Prices are going up across the spectrum. Interest charges are going up. Adjustable rate mortgages are going up. All of this is squeezing the American consumer and your working people in this country tremendously. And our politicians are not speaking to it.
Michelle Pauli: Penguin plans 'wiki-novel' (guardian.co.uk)
Can creative writers put their egos to one side and work successfully as a team? That's the question Penguin and De Montfort University are exploring with a new literary experiment - a collaborative wiki-novel.
zEN mAN (seeing a stunning sunset and remembering Master Po in the TV series "Kung Fu" (1972) saying to the young Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine...."Patience, Grasshopper")
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Forest Whitaker hosting, music by Keith Urban.
ABC rolls out the chestnut 'A Charlie Brown Valentine', followed by the chestnut 'Winnie The Pooh, A Valentine For You', then the movie 'Bringing Down The House'.
The CW offers 'American Idol Rewind', followed by 'The Shield'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH with Kate Walsh.
MY has a FRESH'Wicked Wicked Games', followed by a FRESH'Watch Over Me'.
A&E has 'Sell This House!', another 'Sell This House!', 'Flip This House', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', followed by the movie 'A Bronx Tale', then the movie 'Taxi Driver'.
BBC -
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 The Doctor Dances;
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[3:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4;
[4:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8;
[5:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 9;
[6:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10;
[7:00 PM] A Waste of Shame - A Waste of Shame;
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 The Doctor Dances;
[10:00 PM] The Avengers - Ep. 5 Whoever Shot Poor George;
[11:00 PM] Hex - Episode 4;
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 The Doctor Dances;
[1:00 AM] The Avengers - Ep. 5 Whoever Shot Poor George;
[2:00 AM] Hex - Episode 4;
[3:00 AM] 3 Non-Blondes - Episode 1;
[3:40 AM] 3 Non-Blondes - Episode 2;
[4:20 AM] 3 Non-Blondes - Episode 3;
[5:00 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 5 Fire Drill;
[5:30 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 6 Valentine's Day;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Design', followed by the movie 'Twins', then the movie 'The Terminator'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', still another 'Scrubs', yet another 'Scrubs', followed by the movie 'Office Space', then the movie 'Jackass: The Movie'.
FX has the movie 'Joy Ride', followed by the movie 'The Punisher'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'USS Constellation: Battling For Freedom', and 'True Caribbean Pirates'.
IFC -
[07:05 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: February;
[08:00 AM] Samurai Spy;
[09:40 AM] Unhook the Stars;
[11:30 AM] Trust;
[01:20 PM] Ed Wood;
[03:30 PM] Trust;
[05:20 PM] Unhook the Stars;
[07:10 PM] In America;
[09:00 PM] The Magdalene Sisters;
[11:10 PM] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits;
[12:45 AM] Breaking the Waves;
[03:30 AM] The Magdalene Sisters;
[05:30 AM] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Gargoyles: Wings Of Darkness', followed by the movie 'Pumkinhead: Blood Feud'.
Sundance -
[07:00 AM] Number 17;
[08:30 AM] IN SHORT: The Workplace;
[09:00 AM] Coney Island Baby;
[10:45 AM] August in the Empire State;
[12:00 PM] Continental Divide;
[01:45 PM] American Fame Part One: Drowning River Phoenix;
[02:00 PM] Ladette to Lady: Season 2: Episode 1;
[03:00 PM] Open City;
[04:45 PM] Mercy;
[05:00 PM] Coney Island Baby;
[06:35 PM] I Am Trying to Break Your Heart;
[08:15 PM] Bomb the System;
[10:00 PM] Imagining Argentina;
[12:00 AM] City of Men - Season 3: Episode 3: Take it Like a Man;
[12:30 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 3;
[01:00 AM] The Choirboys;
[03:00 AM] Primo Amore;
[04:45 AM] Continental Divide. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Chris Rock and his wife, Malaak Compton-Rock, arrive for the premiere of the comedy 'Norbit', starring Eddie Murphy, in Los Angeles February 8, 2007.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Film from ABC's hit show "Lost" was ruined when airport security screeners accidentally X-rayed film canister containers.
The loss will not affect the broadcast schedule for the popular show filmed in Hawaii, co-executive producer Jean Higgins told The Honolulu Advertiser newspaper.
The incident occurred when the film canisters, sent as cargo, were mistakenly mixed with passenger luggage and sent through an X-ray machine at Honolulu International Airport.
Brother and sister Amy (2nd L) and Ben Stiller (2nd R) pose for pictures at a ceremony where their parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2007.
Photo by Phil McCarten
Cult British graffiti artist Banksy secured his place among the country's art elite on Wednesday when one of his works fetched a record 102,000 pounds ($201,100) at a Sotheby's auction.
"Bombing Middle England," a canvas of three old ladies bowling bombs, sparked a bidding frenzy at the sale in west London, pushing the price way past its top estimate of 50,000 pounds ($98,560).
The artist -- whose provocative stencils and desire to remain anonymous have attracted a cult following that only recently exploded into the mainstream -- smashed his own auction record of 62,400 pounds, set last October.
Merle Haggard is burnishing his rebel image with talk of setting up an alternative energy business in his oil-rich hometown.
The 69-year-old country music legend said he's considering buying a second home near his native Oildale and founding a "sensible" green energy project to help the United States kick its fossil-fuel habit, the Bakersfield Californian reported.
The project with local resident and actor Charlie Napier could also feature a museum and live music venue.
Haggard hasn't lived in the Oildale area in 30 years, but Kern County officials recently voted to rename a portion a road as Merle Haggard Drive. Haggard held a concert Wednesday in Bakersfield to help pay for the change.
The head of the Cartoon Network resigned Friday following a marketing stunt that caused a terrorism scare in Boston and led police to shut down bridges and send in the bomb squad.
The announcement of Jim Samples' resignation came in an internal memo to Cartoon Network staff members.
He said he regretted what had happened and felt "compelled to step down, effective immediately, in recognition of the gravity of the situation that occurred under my watch."
U.S. actress Daryl Hannah waves as she arrives for a press conference at a hotel in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. Hannah will be the honorary guest of the Budapest Opera Ball on Saturday.
Photo by Tamas Kovacs
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood has said he opposed the United States' decision to go to war in Iraq but said he admired the "tenacity" of resident George W. Bush.
In an interview with Fox News, Eastwood, who has been nominated for a best director Oscar at this month's Academy Awards for World War Two movie "Letters from Iwo Jima", said he was against the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The United States' goal of trying to impose democracy on Iraq was flawed, the 76-year-old said.
"I wasn't for going in there," Eastwood said. "Only because democracy isn't something that you get overnight. I don't think America got democracy overnight. It's something we had to fight for and believe in."
Gus Van Sant, who was arrested on drunken driving charges in December, has agreed to an alcohol diversion program, his attorney said Friday.
Van Sant had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, more than double Oregon's limit of 0.08 percent, when he was arrested Dec. 21 on a main downtown street, police reports said
The diversion program also avoids suspension of a driver's license, and there is no requirement to serve jail time or perform community service work.
A self-proclaimed performance artist who attacked a urinal symbolic of the anarchic Dada movement with a hammer had his three-month suspended sentence upheld by a French court on Friday.
Known as "Fountain" and first exhibited by surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp in 1917, the ceramic urinal was slightly cracked by Pierre Pinoncelli's attack in January 2006.
Pinoncelli, who also attacked the urinal in 1993, was put on probation for two years and ordered to pay 14,352 euros (9,694 pounds) to repair the work which was exhibited in Paris's Pompidou Centre.
One of the central figures of the early 20th century Dadaist movement, Duchamp created eight versions of the urinal which was voted the most influential art work of the last century in one survey of art experts.
A lone ski lift gondola is seen through snow and ice covered safety netting at the top of the mountain near the start of the courses used for the World Alpine Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, Thursday Feb. 8, 2007.
Photo by Sergey Ponomarev
The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father.
The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.
"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.
Trees are reflected on a stream in a foggy morning in Cota, near Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. Unusually low temperatures during the nights that caused early morning frosts have damaged regional crops while the high temperatures during the day have caused fires that have destroyed more than 300 hectares of forest in the oustkirts of Bogota.
Photo by William Fernando Martinez
Before Borat fans start giving each other high fives, 20th Century Fox wants to make clear that the boorish Kazakh journalist is not headed back to the big screen just yet.
Hours after News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch told reporters on Thursday that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had signed a deal to make a sequel to his hit movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," a studio spokesman said the idea was merely under consideration.
"We're eager to work with Sacha again, and we've had casual discussions about a sequel, which we'd love to do, but at this point, it remains too preliminary to discuss," said Chris Petrikin, a spokesman for News Corp.-owned 20th Century Fox.
5-year-old Haley Haux takes a seat on a chair carved from ice near the entrance to Shepard Park in Lake George, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. Haux, along with her bother and grandmother, were traveling to Bolton Landing when they saw the ice castle creation and decided to stop. The castle is part of the Lake George Winter Carnival and was created by Earl Covington from Arctic Ice Sculptors in Hillburn, N.Y.
Photo by Erin Reid Coker
Hundreds of hopefuls have stepped forward to claim the throne of England after a worldwide quest by genealogists to find a rightful heir.
After rooting through their family trees, legions of French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish and Canadian would-be royals bid for the monarchy.
More than a quarter of all claims came from the United States after English Heritage, an organisation which seeks to protect Britain's historical environment, placed advertisements in newspapers around the world.
The ads, asking people to supply documentary proof on www.english-heritage.org.uk/hastings, asked "Can you trace your family tree back to 1066? Might your ancestors have claimed the English throne?"
Curator Charles Wylie looks up at a display of more than 600 cardboard models of submarines as he talks about 'All the Submarines of the United States of America' by American born artist Chris Burden that is part of a modern art exhibit at The Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007.
Photo by Donna McWilliam
Blistering sun and river debris, not the Amazon's crocodiles or piranhas, have been the main adversaries of Slovenian Martin Strel so far in his 3,375-mile (5,430-km) swim down the world's greatest river.
Strel, 52, began the swim on February 1 in the Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya, planning to emerge from the river within 70 days on Brazil's Atlantic coast and break his own record for the world's longest swim.
He was prepared for just about any threat the Amazon could throw at him, including its piranhas, snakes, electric eels, crocodiles and even the feared toothpick fish that swims into body orifices, erects a spine and feeds on blood and tissue.
"So far the biggest problem has been the sun. We have not even had two days of rain, all day its just sun. Martin's face is burnt, his lips are burnt. He has blisters, big blisters," Borut Strel said by satellite phone.
Warsaw zoo's latest arrival, a three-day old male giraffe, observes the world as he sits near his mother, Lissy, in Warsaw, Poland on Friday Feb. 9, 2007. Zoo officials haven't yet picked out a name yet for the latest arrival.
Photo by Czarek Sokolowski
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