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(Car 54, Where Are You) was William Faulkner's favorite TV show.
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(Car 54, Where Are You was) William Faulkner's favorite TV show. He reportedly would visit a friend's house on Saturday nights to watch it.
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(William Faulkner) His favorite TV show was "Car 54, Where Are You?" (1961). Though he despised television, he reportedly would visit a friend's house on Saturday nights to watch the cop comedy.
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For the black-and-white location shots, the patrol cars were painted red so as not to confuse the local populace.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Car 54, Where Are You?
Sally said:
Author William Faulkner's favorite TV show was, "Car 54, Where Are You?"
Well, at least it was set in NYC...
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Marian responded:
Car 54, Where Are You?
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
William Faulkner liked "Car 54 Where are You". Being around 11 or 12 at the time, I liked it to!
Here's a great quote from a letter written in 1949:
"It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago, and like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died."
William Faulkner The future Herman Munster Fred Gwynne and Joe E. Ross.
P.S. Guess what I did yesterday? Went fishing up at Ice House with a friend! Weird!!! Do it every year when the reservoirs aren't frozen!
MAM wrote:
"Car 54, Where Are You?" 1961 - 1963 ~ Though Faulkner despised television, he reportedly would visit a friend's house on Saturday nights to watch the cop comedy. Joe E. Ross as Officer Gunther Toody and Fred Gwynne as Officer Francis Muldoon.
And, Joe S answered:
Car 54, Where Are You? Really? This is a joke right? I could not stand that show and I think I was 16 or 17 when it started. At that age everything should be funny. It just goes to show you, there's no accounting for taste.
I can't stay, I'm watching King Arthur on AMC.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', some local crap and maybe an old 'Numb3rs'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Escape Routes', followed by a FRESH'The Firm', then a RERUN'L&O; SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Daniel Radcliffe, music by Lana del Rey.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20'20', then another very special '20/20'.
The CW offers an old 'The Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'America's Most Wanted: World's Most Wanted'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Parking Wars', then another FRESH'Parking Wars', followed by a FRESH'Last Chance Driving School', then another FRESH'Last Chance Driving School'.
AMC offers the movie 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', followed by the movie 'Legends Of The Fall'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole NEW
[7:05AM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains NEW
[8:10AM] PLANET EARTH-Fresh Water NEW
[9:15AM] PLANET EARTH-Caves NEW
[10:20AM] PLANET EARTH-Deserts NEW
[11:25AM] PLANET EARTH-Ice Worlds NEW
[12:30PM] PLANET EARTH-Great Plains NEW
[1:35PM] PLANET EARTH-Jungles NEW
[2:40PM] PLANET EARTH-Shallow Seas NEW
[3:45PM] PLANET EARTH-Seasonal Forests NEW
[4:50PM] PLANET EARTH-Ocean DeepNEW
[5:55PM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains
[8:05PM] PLANET EARTH-Fresh Water
[9:10PM] PLANET EARTH-Caves
[10:15PM] PLANET EARTH-Deserts
[11:20PM] PLANET EARTH-Ice Worlds
[12:25AM] PLANET EARTH-Great Plains
[1:30AM] PLANET EARTH-Jungles
[2:35AM] PLANET EARTH-Shallow Seas
[3:40AM] PLANET EARTH-Seasonal Forests
[4:45AM] PLANET EARTH-Ocean Deep (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom', then the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', and 'Patton Oswalt: Finest Hour'.
FX has the movie 'Armageddon', followed by a FRESH'UFC On FX', then the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:30AM] The New World
[9:35AM] The Three Stooges-Flat Foot Stooges
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Fright Night
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-From Nurse to Worse
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Gem of a Jam
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-The Ghost Talks
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-G.I. Wanna Home
[12:00PM] The Horror of Party Beach
[1:45PM] The Curse of the Living Corpse
[3:45PM] Black Sheep
[5:45PM] Less Than Zero
[8:00PM] From Hell
[10:30PM] The Boondock Saints
[12:45AM] The Boondock Saints
[3:00AM] From Hell
[5:30AM] Action=Love Sucks (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] The Missing Person
[7:45A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally
[8:15A] The History Boys
[10:15A] Peter and Vandy
[11:35A] The Missing Person
[1:15P] The History Boys
[3:15P] Peter and Vandy
[4:35P] Pen Pusher
[4:45P] The Missing Person
[6:25P] Bootmen
[10:15P] Eloise's Lover
[12:00A] Student Services
[4:05A] Eloise's Lover
[5:45A] This Way Up (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Outlander', followed by the movie 'Alien Tornado'.
Country singer Willie Nelson looks at his statue during the unveiling of an eight-foot statue of himself, Friday, April 20, 2012 in Austin, Texas. The privately-funded monument near the new Moody Theater shows Nelson in a relaxed, standing pose and holding his guitar to the side, as if in conversation.
Photo by Jay Janner
Want to meet George Clooney? President Obama? How about both of them at once - over dinner?
Two lucky Obama boosters will get their chance on May 10, thanks to some creative party planning by the president's re-election team.
Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager Julianna Smoot announced a contest via email on Thursday that grants the winner and a guest access to a posh Hollywood fundraiser for the president.
Here's the kicker: The swanky dinner will be held at Clooney's L.A. home. It'll cost competitors all of $3 each to enter the contest - though they're free to pay more, of course. That's $39,997 less than other guests will be ponying up for the privilege of breaking bread at Chez Clooney with the likes of Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who reportedly figure among the 150 hungry, left-leaning luminaries slated to attend.
"George Clooney is doing his part to help re-elect the President, but he knows that it's grassroots supporters like you who will decide this election," said the donation page under the heading, "Obama, Clooney & You."
Messages written by Dick Clark's fans will be part of the confetti that's showered on Times Square next New Year's Eve.
People can share their memories of Clark on square-inch pieces of confetti at the Times Square Visitor Center & Museum. The messages will be displayed at the center's Confetti Wishing Wall until New Year's Eve.
Tributes also can be submitted online. Visitors to the center can leave flowers and mementoes beneath a photo montage of Clark's life.
The Times Square Alliance says Clark "was instrumental in making New Year's Eve at the Crossroads of the World what it is today."
Disney movie studio boss Rich Ross is stepping down, a month after the family entertainment giant booked a huge loss on the mega-budget sci-fi movie "John Carter."
Ross, 50, had taken the job just two and a half years ago with a mission to cut costs and develop new hits. He had brought "High School Musical" and "Hannah Montana" to TV audiences as the former head of Disney Channels Worldwide.
But the studio's losses continued under Ross despite major restructuring efforts.
A month ago, Disney booked a $200 million loss on "John Carter," a special-effects-laden movie based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series. The movie starring Taylor Kitsch had an estimated budget of $250 million, matching what 20th Century Fox spent on "Avatar."
"John Carter" made only $269 million at box offices worldwide while "Avatar" took in $2.8 billion. After splits with theater owners and marketing expenses, Disney said "John Carter" would cause a studio-wide loss of $80 million to $120 million in the quarter through March.
Three of the stars of "America's Next Top Model" have been dropped from the long-running TV show, after falling ratings.
Photographer Nigel Barker, runway coach J. Alexander and photo-shoot director Jay Manuel, won't be returning when the 18th cycle of the show airs later in 2012, executive producer and former supermodel Tyra Banks said on Friday.
There was no information about who would replace them.
"America's Next Top Model," which airs on the CW channel, has lost more than half of its 2005 audience, and is currently watched by less than two million people.
Phil Spector is spending his time in the Big House these days - but it's his other house on the outside that he's worried about.
The former super-producer - who's currently serving 19 years to life for the 2003 murder of actress/hostess Lana Clarkson - filed suit against the city of Alhambra on Thursday, claiming that the city's construction work is threatening and devaluing his Alhambra, Calif. home.
In the suit, filed by Spector and his wife Rachelle in Los Angeles Superior Court, the couple claims that their home "has been destabilized and damaged by deep-seated landsliding caused by road cuts constructed, maintained , operated, owned or controlled by the City of Alhambra and its various departments."
The Spectors are seeking compensation for property damage, loss of use and value of the property and the cost of stabilizing the property. They're also seeking costs for temporary housing, storage and other damages.
Director/ producers Spike Lee (L), Martin Scorsese (C) and Brett Ratner pose as they arrive for the 2012 Tisch School Of The Art Gala in New York CIty, New York April 19, 2012. REUTERS/Lee Celano
Rocker and wildlife hunter Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger) has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.
Nugent made the admission in signing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that was filed Friday in U.S. District Court.
The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island days after wounding a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.
According to the agreement, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, the six-day hunt was filmed for his Outdoor Channel television show, "Spirit of the Wild." In the hunt, Nugent used a number of bear-baiting sites on U.S. Forest Service property, according to the agreement.
Nugent, identified in the agreement as Theodore A. Nugent, agreed to pay a $10,000 fine, according to the agreement, which says he also agreed with a two-year probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or Forest Service properties for one year. He also agreed to create a public service announcement that would be broadcast on his show every second week for one year, the document states.
South African President Jacob Zuma marries his fiancee Bongi Ngema (R) at a traditional ceremony known as "Umgcagco" at his home in Nkandla, in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province, in this handout picture supplied by the Government Communication and Information Service, April 20, 2012.
Photo by Elmond Jiyane
A heinous 1992 priest-abuse complaint "fell through the cracks" at the Philadelphia archdiocese, leaving the accused pastor to continue leading a suburban parish for three more years, according to testimony Thursday in a clergy-abuse trial.
Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy at the Roman Catholic archdiocese, is charged with child endangerment and conspiracy in his handling of sex-abuse complaints about priests.
Prosecutors read some of Lynn's 2002 grand jury testimony aloud to jurors to bolster claims that he and others kept predators in ministry to protect the church from scandal and costly lawsuits.
A seminarian in 1992 told Lynn and Lynn's boss, the late Monsignor James Malloy, that he had been raped throughout high school by Rev. Stanley Gana. The seminarian, who testified in person this week, gave Lynn and Malloy the names and parish of two other potential victims.
In his 2002 testimony, Lynn acknowledged the archdiocese never tried to contact the potential victims or to ask Gana's colleagues if they had seen anything untoward at the rectory. Lynn testified that therapists had advised the church not to contact potential victims to avoid re-victimizing them if they had "moved on."
Gana remained pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows in Bridgeport until 1995, when a second accuser came forward. He was then sent to a church-run treatment centre. He was deemed an alcoholic, not a pedophile - even though the accusers said he rarely drank.
Children play on a new interactive artwork by Jeremy Deller as it is launched as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts at Glasgow Green on April 20, 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland. Deller's Sacrilege is a full scale inflatable replica of Stonehenge, one of the UK's most recognisable heritage sites. The festival is showcasing more than 130 artists across 50 of Glasgow's permanent and temporary exhibition venues, with the 18 day programme featuring a series of newly commissioned works, several of which involve other disciplines, including dance, film, music, performance and theatre.
Photo by Jeff J Mitchell
A prominent U.S. Catholic nuns' group said on Thursday it was "stunned" that the Vatican reprimanded it for spending too much time on poverty and social justice concerns and not enough on abortion and gay marriage.
In a stinging report on Wednesday, the Vatican said the Leadership Conference of Women Religious had been "silent on the right to life" and had failed to make the "Biblical view of family life and human sexuality" a central plank in its agenda.
It also reprimanded American nuns for expressing positions on political issues that differed, at times, from views held by American bishops. Public disagreement with the bishops - "who are the church's authentic teachers of faith and morals" - is unacceptable, the report said.
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a "doctrinal assessment" saying the Holy See was compelled to intervene with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious to correct "serious doctrinal problems."
A collector displays badges dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state and creator of the Soviet Communist Party, during an international antiques exhibition in St. Petersburg April 19, 2012. The badges cost from 20 to 80 roubles ($0.67-$2.70).
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
Friday marks the two-year anniversary of the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast. While the FDA says the local fish are safe to eat, several new reports suggest that local wildlife and the overall environment continue to suffer from damaging effects of what many consider the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
The Associated Press reports that a number of fish in the Gulf are suffering from visible maladies, including, "open sores, parasitic infections, chewed-up-looking fins, gashes," and " "mysterious black streaks" along their bodies.
On Wednesday, BP sealed an out-of-court settlement for $7.8 billion with lawyers representing thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the spill. However, the company released a statement insisting that seafood in the region was safe for human consumption.
While the evidence of continued and extensive environmental damage is "nowhere near conclusive," the damage appears to have extended beyond marine life to the Gulf's deep-water coral, seaweed beds and other species of plants.
An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people all exhale marijuana smoke as the clock hit 4:20pm during the 4/20 event on Norlin Quad at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado April 20, 2010.
Photo by Mark Leffingwell
Chicken is the top-selling meat in the United States. The average American eats 84 pounds a year, more chicken than beef or pork. Sorry red meat, chicken is what's for dinner. And now the USDA is proposing a fundamental change in the way that poultry makes it to the American dinner table.
As early as next week, the government will end debate on a cost-cutting, modernization proposal it hopes to fully implement by the end of the year. A plan that is setting off alarm bells among food science watchdogs because it turns over most of the chicken inspection duties to the companies that produce the birds for sale.
The USDA hopes to save $85 million over three years by laying off 1,000 government inspectors and turning over their duties to company monitors who will staff the poultry processing lines in plants across the country.
The poultry companies expect to save more than $250 million a year because they, in turn will be allowed to speed up the processing lines to a dizzying 175 birds per minute with one USDA inspector at the end of the line. Currently, traditional poultry lines move at a maximum of 90 birds per minute, with up to three USDA inspectors on line.
Whistleblower inspectors opposed to the new USDA rule say the companies cannot be trusted to watch over themselves. They contend that companies routinely pressure their employees not to stop the line or slow it down, making thorough inspection for contaminants, tumors and evidence of disease nearly impossible. "At that speed, it's all a blur," one current inspector tells ABC News.
A Canadian flag with a marijuana leaf is flown during a 4/20 rally to demand the legalization of marijuana on Parliament Hill in Ottawa April 20, 2012. Marijuana enthusiasts across Canada gather by the thousands every year on April 20 for an international celebration-cum-protest for marijuana legalization.
Photo by Patrick Doyle
When people attribute someone's untimely death to a Coke overdose, they're usually not talking about the world's most popular soda.
But experts in New Zealand say Natasha Harris' 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola consumption "probably" contributed to her death. The soda company responded to the alleged connection by noting that even water consumption can be fatal in excessive amounts.
"The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke," Harris' partner Chris Hodgkinson said in a deposition. "She was addicted to Coke."
Hodgkinson testified that Harris drank between 2.1 gallons and 2.6 gallons of Coke every day.
The 30-year-old Harris died of a heart attack in February 2010. According to New Zealand's Fairfax Media, pathologist Dr. Dan Mornin testified on Thursday that Harris likely suffered from hypokalemia (low potassium levels), which he believes was caused by her overall poor nutrition, including the unusually high levels of Coke consumption.
An Eastern Sarus Crane spreads its wings in a cage at Korat Zoo in Nakorn Ratchasrima, northeastern province of Thailand April 19, 2012. Officials said the Eastern Sarus Crane has been extinct from Thai wetlands for more than fifty years, and only 200 of its species remain in captivity in zoos around Thailand.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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