Jordan Rau: New ID System May Block Voters (latimes.com)
McPherson's office said that even after the election, counties have 28 days to check provisional ballots and fix flawed registrations. ... Elaine Ginnold, Alameda County's acting registrar of voters, said she doubts her county will be able to ratify all rejected registrations submitted near the deadline. "These are errors that are not the fault of the voters and not related to voters' eligibility," said Wendy Weiser, a deputy director at the Brennan Center. "They should not prevent voters from being able to cast votes that count."
Joel Stein: 500,000 people, and no one called me?. (latimes.com)
I would have marched because our country needs immigrants. Sure, my great-grandparents were useless, Yiddish-speaking peasants, but my grandfather started a vending business that my father built up, employing hundreds of people, one of whom was Al Roker. Sure, our nation could survive without vending machines, but how would we fare without Al Roker? At best, a little less happy and a lot more inappropriately dressed for the weather.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NCAA College Basketball Semifinal', and the left coast gets a couple of hours of local filler crap to round out the evening.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', then a RERUN'Conviction'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Scarlett Johansson hosting, music by Death Cab For Cutie.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 23 November, 1985, with Pee-wee Herman hosting, music by Queen Ida.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'The Ring', followed by a RERUN'The Evidence'.
The WB offers an old 'Friends', followed by an old 'Raymond', then panders with 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
KOCE, PBS for behind the Orange Curtain offers 'Great Performances - Color Me Barbra', followed by 'Great Performances - My Name Is Barbra'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case Files', and 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Inspector Gadget', followed by the movie 'Twins', then the movie 'The Jerk'.
BBC -
[1pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[1:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[2:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[3pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[3:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[4:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[5pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[5:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[6:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[7pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[7:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[8:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[9pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[9:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[10:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus';
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 20;
[12am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 21;
[1am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 22;
[3am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 24;
[4am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 25;
[5am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Blow Out', followed by the movie 'The Firm', then the movie 'The Firm', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'She's All That', followed by the movie 'The Wedding Singer'.
History has 'Atlantic Wall', followed by the movie 'Windtalkers'.
IFC -
[6AM] Amerikan Passport (1999);
[8AM] Blind Swordsman #13: Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966);
[9:35AM] Three Tales (2002);
[10:45AM] Only the Strong Survive (2002);
[12:30PM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[2PM] Blind Swordsman #13: Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966);
[3:35PM] Only the Strong Survive (2002);
[5:15PM] Short: Blue City (1996);
[5:30PM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[7PM] Film School #6 (2004);
[7:30PM] Dinner For Five #26 (2004);
[8:15PM] Office Space;
[11PM] The Quiet American (2002);
[3AM] Buffalo '66 (1998);
[5AM] Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2004). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Manticore', followed by the movie 'SS Doomtrooper'.
ShowTime offers 'Liza With A 'Z''.
Sundance -
[6AM] Safe Men;
[7:30AM] The Projectionist;
[7:45AM] A Month by the Lake;
[9:30AM] In Short: In Short: Adam Elliot;
[10:15AM] Super Size Me;
[12PM] Sign 'o' the Times;
[1:30PM] Gerry;
[3:15PM] Dopamine;
[4:45PM] Super Size Me;
[6:30PM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[8:15PM] The Projectionist;
[8:30PM] Safe Men;
[10PM] It's All Gone Pete Tong;
[11:30PM] The Naked Man;
[1:15AM] Dirty Filthy Love;
[3AM] Dopamine;
[4:30AM] It's All Gone Pete Tong. (ALL TIMES EST)
Lily Tomlin, center, lets out a big laugh, as Dolly Parton, left, and Jane Fonda, right, reminisce about their work together on the film 'Nine to Five' during an event celebrating the launch of the 'Nine to Five: Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical Bigot Edition' DVD, Thursday, March 30, 2006, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
Photo by Rene Macura
Howard Stern is angry more fans haven't followed him to satellite radio. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 52-year-old shock jock lashes out at those of his fan base who haven't made the transition to Sirius Satellite Radio.
"I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, `I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million,'" Stern says in the magazine, on newsstands Monday.
"It's insulting to me that everyone hasn't come with me. I take it personally," he says.
"I want to say to my audience ... `You haven't come with me yet? How dare you? We're up to wild, crazy stuff, the show has never sounded better. You cheap bastard!'"
A play about an American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip has opened in London - 3,000 miles from its previously planned off-Broadway home.
"My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a one-woman show starring Megan Dodds, began a six-week run this week at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End.
First produced last year at London's subsidized Royal Court Theatre, the play had been due to open this month at New York Theatre Workshop, one of the city's leading off-Broadway spaces. But the production was suspended indefinitely in February.
Radio and television host Adam Carolla poses at the Marijuana Policy Project benefit at the Playboy Mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles March 30, 2006. Carolla told Reuters that while he was skeptical of pot's alleged health benefits, people should be able to smoke if they want.
George Clooney is known as a prankster, but his plan to undermine a Web site that posts celebrity sightings is no joke, his publicist said Friday.
Clooney has suggested swamping Gawker.com's "Gawker Stalker" feature with false notes about stars' whereabouts, spokesman Stan Rosenfield said.
In an e-mail Rosenfield recently distributed on Clooney's behalf to other high-powered publicists, the actor calls for publicity firms and their clients to join the effort against the site that some have called a threat to celebrities.
"There is a simple way to render these guys useless," Clooney said in the message. "Flood their Web site with bogus sightings. Get your clients to get 10 friends to text in fake sightings of any number of stars.
Film studio 20th Century Fox released a 25-second promotional trailer at showings of its new computer-animated movie "Ice Age: The Meltdown" to announce the first big-screen version of "The Simpsons" would be coming to theaters on July 27, 2007.
The trailer begins with a giant superhero-sized letter "S" while an announcer declares, "Leaping his way onto the silver screen ... the greatest hero in American history!"
The scene cuts to Homer Simpson sitting on his couch in his underwear, saying, "I forgot what I was supposed to say."
The newest building on Market Street may also be the most humble.
Its walls are 1-inch-thick redwood boards. Those walls enclose 140 square
feet of space -- less than one-third the size of a premier room at the
sleek Four Seasons Hotel next door. The steeply pitched shingle roof is
held aloft by a thin skeleton of rafters.
The shack arrived Sunday after a journey that began in 1906, when it was
among the 5,610 constructed for earthquake refugees. Now, tucked inside a
big white tent, the small shack has hit the big time -- but only for a
month.
"It's surreal," says Chris VerPlanck, an architectural historian and one
of the volunteers who spent the past year restoring the shack to its spare
essence. "I love the idea of putting this smack down in the middle of 21st
century San Francisco's sea of consumerism."
Fans of Marlon Brando will be treated to a nearly 60-year-old screen test the actor took for the lead role in "Rebel Without a Cause" that is being included in a new DVD collection.
The screenplay he tested for was shelved, and the "Rebel" title was recycled years later for the 1955 film that made James Dean a star, according to officials from Warner Home Video.
The footage is being released May 2 as part of an eight-disc DVD set featuring film adaptations of the works of playwright Tennessee Williams. The films include "A Streetcar Named Desire," in which Brando starred, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Sweet Bird of Youth."
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale is all smiles after receiving a Life Achievement Award 'Kristian' during the closing ceremony of the Febiofest 2006 international film festival in Prague, on Friday, March 31, 2006.
Photo by Michal Dolezal
The marriage of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his model-turned-entrepreneur wife, Kimora Lee, has come to an end.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press on Friday, Simmons announced the pair had decided to break up after seven years of marriage. Rumors had swirled for the past week that a split was imminent. The couple have two young daughters.
Although the pair have appeared at public events together in recent weeks, the statement said they had been separated for "some time," even though they were still living together.
Actor , Wife File for Divorce
Matt LeBlanc has filed for divorce from his wife, citing irreconcilable differences, but his publicist says the two remain "friends."
The former "Friends" TV star filed papers in Superior Court on Thursday to dissolve his three-year marriage to his wife, Melissa LeBlanc, according to documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight. The couple separated Jan. 1.
They are seeking joint custody of their 2-year-old daughter, Marina. Melissa LeBlanc has two children from a previous marriage.
A Bahamian government board's decision to ban the movie "Brokeback Mountain" has prompted charges of discrimination and censorship in the island chain.
Gay rights groups and others have called on the Plays and Films Control Board to reverse its decision prohibiting theaters from showing the award-winning movie about a troubled love affair between two cowboys.
Theaters in Nassau, the capital, had already begun to advertise the movie Friday when the board announced its ban at the request of the Bahamas Christian Council.
Cast member Evan Ross (L) holds hands with his mother, music recording artist Diana Ross, as he arrives at the premiere of 'ATL' at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood March 30, 2006. The movie tells the story of four teenagers growing up in a working class Atlanta neighborhood and opens in the U.S. tomorrow.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Musician Yanni won't be charged with domestic battery in an alleged dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said Friday.
His girlfriend, Silvia Barthes, 33, told police Yanni grabbed her and shook her, then threw her on a bed and jumped on her, according to a police report.
"Essentially, it came down to a `he said, she said,'" Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the state attorney in Palm Beach County, said Friday. "The alleged event took place behind closed doors without any independent witnesses or evidence to support the charge."
Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has suffered another blow to his reputation -- this time in the Chinese mega city of Shanghai where authorities reneged on a decision to make him an honorary citizen.
Tyson, 39, landed in Shanghai on Thursday for a three-day visit to promote a new nightclub in which he was also due to receive an honorary citizenship for the city's Luo Dian district, the state-run China Daily newspaper said on Friday.
But the decision was overturned after local government chiefs took a closer look at his past, including his jail term in the 1990s for rape and various assault convictions, according to the paper.
Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress designed by Helen Rose on display next to her flower girl's dress designed by Joseph Hong at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Friday, March 31, 2006. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the royal wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer III of Monaco the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the exhibition Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress, on view from April 1 through May 21, 2006. Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia in 1929.
Photo by Matt Rourke
Castrati were the singing superstars of the 18th Century. But, as a new exhibition illustrates, theirs is a tale with some modern parallels.
They look rather innocent in the museum display case - like a pair of old-fashioned shears. But these "castratori" were the implements used to castrate boys - who were making an irreversible sacrifice for their singing careers.
It might seem more like tears in their eyes than Stars in their Eyes, but this was the uncomfortable route to stardom taken by thousands of poor families who wanted their sons to become rich and famous musical stars.
In 17th and 18th Century Italy, about 4,000 boys were castrated each year, from the age of eight upwards, with the aim of making a fortune as opera singers and soloists with choirs in churches and royal palaces.
For a lot more, pictures & a voice recording - Castrati
A judge has denied a bid by 82-year-old TV mogul Aaron Spelling to keep secret the first deposition given in his legal battle with a nurse who accuses the producer of groping her and offering her money to "act like a hooker."
Siding with nurse Charlene Richards in an opening skirmish of the case, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Highberger ruled on Thursday that a confidentiality agreement she signed with Spelling was not grounds to keep the deposition of her former boyfriend sealed from public view.
The decision was also a victory for the Los Angeles Times, which joined Richards in fighting to unseal the deposition in proceedings that raised questions about the scope of confidentiality pacts many of Hollywood's rich and famous make their employees sign.
Seven months a year, Deano's Tavern cashes in on Indiana's refusal to observe daylight-saving time. Ohio residents whose bars close at 2:30 a.m. can go four miles up the road to Deano's for another hour of drinking before last call.
That advantage will disappear after Sunday, when Indiana begins observing daylight-saving time statewide for the first time in more than 30 years.
The change, approved by lawmakers last year, makes Indiana the 48th state to observe daylight time; Hawaii and most of Arizona are the only holdouts.
A member of staff from the Museum of Scotland stands with a waste plastic basket in Edinburgh, Thursday March 30, 2006. The item is part of the museum's Green Design exhibition, celebrating sustainable design, which runs until June 25.
Photo by David Cheskin
State and county tourism officials hoped to launch a nationwide public relations campaign this week promoting Hawaii's sunny skies, but their plans were postponed for a week because of the rainy weather.
State tourism liaison Marsha Wienert said Tuesday that up to $100,000 will be spent on "a very aggressive" effort to reassure visitors that "Hawaii is the most beautiful place in the world and is open for business."
It has been raining continuously in Hawaii since Feb. 19. Tourism officials are trying to counter newspapers' headlines and TV images of the deadly dam break on Kauai that flooded roads and homes, a shark bite in murky waters off Oahu and a major sewage spill in Waikiki.
A 10-metre (33-feet) humpback has been spotted off the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea and scientists said it was the first appearance of a whale there in nearly three decades.
"I saw it! This is probably the first whale that swam into our bay in 27 years," Krzysztof Skora, the head of the Marine Centre on the coast of Gdansk bay, told Reuters.
Humpback whales, which have black backs, a white belly and very long flippers, rarely appear in the Baltic Sea due to a lack of large fish they usually feed on and the low saltiness of the sea water, he said.
Gregg Allman acknowledges that he doesn't read as much as he should. But when a friend gave him a copy of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," the rocker couldn't put it down.
Allman joins actors, authors, politicians, a Supreme Court justice and a Harvard astrophysicist who responded to Glenna Nowell's queries for her annual "Who Reads What?" list in time for National Library Week, April 2-8.
Their responses ranged from the nice - Rosalynn Carter's favorite is the Bible - to the naughty: dirty joke books favored by writer Piers Anthony.
Nowell, a silver-haired retired librarian, started writing to celebrities in 1988 for her annual list. She searches the Internet for her eclectic collections of names, based on suggestions from friends and people who e-mail her.
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