Mark Morford: Real women cause earthquakes (sfgate.com)
Behold! A fresh danger prowls the land, a grand and treacherous question disguised as a quandary wrapped in a predicament slathered in body oil and leather cuffs and Cosabella thongs. Behold! The question rageths...
Froma Harrop: Bad Service Dressed as Good Service (creators.com)
More service is not necessarily good service. And bad service dressed as good service is even worse. Here are examples: Restaurants. A waiter breaks into a lively conversation to ask, "How is the meal?" Being courteous people, we feel obliged to respond that everything is fine, only to have the robot-server walk away in our mid-sentence. So one gesture of fake concern leaves us both interrupted and disrespected.
Susan Estrich: What's Wrong With Arizona? (creators.com)
Over the weekend, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony joined in on the attack against the new law passed by the Arizona legislature to expand police powers to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. The law basically makes it a crime to be an undocumented alien. If that doesn't sound like an inherently controversial proposition, believe me, it will by the time it gets to court.
20 Questions: Steve Almond (popmatters.com)
Steve Almond, whose latest book, 'Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life' talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about high ideals for literature - and how sexy William Shatner is.
John Horn: In 'Girlfriend,' Matthew Sweet's lyrics tell the story (Los Angeles Times)
It looks like an innocent radio sing-a-long. In the new musical "Girlfriend," two adolescents are belting out a pop-rock tune that's on the radio. Flirting like high school seniors headed to the prom, the couple grows more spirited as the music turns louder, ultimately starting to wrestle playfully as they drive along.
Jordan Levin: Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny expands his repertoire (McClatchy Newspapers)
Before he became an internationally lauded jazz musician, before he learned to play the guitar, Pat Metheny fell in love with the player piano in his grandparents' basement in Manitowoc, Wis. At 9 years old, the multi-Grammy-winning jazz composer was fascinated by the clumping, old-fashioned wooden invention that he'd play on family visits.
I have to take a short 'medical leave of absence' and hopefully I will be back with a new question next Tuesday (04/27). It's nothing serious, mind ya, just annoying and inconvenient. Not to worry!
zEN mAN (observing fminist athiest scientist Jen McCreight testing the purported "Titty Tremors" and "Boob Quakes" that Iran's Grand Ayatollah says causes earthquakes)
Emergency! is a former American television series, combining the medical drama and action-adventure genres, that was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webb's company) and distributed by Universal Studios. It debuted on January 15, 1972, on NBC and ran until September 3, 1977. It was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert Cinader, both of whom were also responsible for the police drama Adam-12. The show focused on paramedics
John Gage and Roy DeSoto (played by
Randolph Mantooth and
Kevin Tighe) of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Station 51 (actually Station 127 in Carson, California), and the hospital emergency room staff (played by
Robert Fuller,
Julie London and
Bobby Troup) with whom the paramedics worked to save lives. It was also the first show to feature paramedics who help rescue victimized or hurt patients. Emergency! and Adam-12 were similar in that they featured dedicated civil servants handling two or three varied and unrelated incidents during a typical shift; however, Emergency!, with its larger cast and sixty-minute running time compared to the half-hour allotted for Adam-12, typically allowed for more plot and character development.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Emergency!
MAM wrote:
TV series focused on paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto.
My stepsister was one of the doctors that was instramental in getting EMS started in the Pittbsburgh area. It was among the first.
PS Glad you got the page up . . . it was a good one. Ah the joys of working with a computer and the internet. But most impressive was the 1000 days.
Joe S (unsuccessful entrepreneur) said:
Emergency! I can't say I ever watched this show. I looked it up and read
quite a bit about it and nothing was familiar. It was on from 1972 to
1979 so it must have had some viewers. Most of the early 70s I was
working construction on the second shift and doing a lot of drinking early
on. The later part of the 70s I was busy losing all the money I made
working construction on a tropical fish store and manufacturing aquariums.
These guys look like a couple of doofus don't they?
Actually I really sucked at business and fell into deep depression. I
probably would have gone back to drinking except I had no money and not
enough time to make my own. I didn't have much time to watch TV either,
but I did watch M*A*S*H.
Marian the teacher responded:
Emergency!!!!!
Gary wrote:
That would be "Emergency", and if memory serves me that show was followed by "S.W.A.T."
take care and I love your page.
Alan J
Emergency!
mj replied:
That would be a real
Emergency. Wasn't it a spinoff of Adam 12?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Thursday's answer - Emergency
Sally said:
The TV series that focused on paramedics John Gage and Roy DeSoto, was entitled, "Emergency."
PS: My mother had race horses back in the day, and we had great fun naming them. "Marty Down" would make a great racing name, huh? (JOKING!)
Adam in NoHo answered:
Emergency!
From Jack Webb who had a hand in creating Dragnet, early procedurals that were more interested in things that are done (usually police work) than the characters that do them.
joe b said:
I think it was a TV show called Emergency, and Martin Milner
was behind it.
And Dan wrote:
That was Emergency. My wife lived in Canoga Park when she was a child. There was a scene where the fire trucks drove past her house on Sherman Way.
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mj writes:
And regarding the beer thing
I was always amused by RR's advertisement of its sparkling golden color and that it was brewed from the water of the mountain streams running into the Rolling Rock River (which just happened to be down the watershed from Richard King Mellon's Rolling Rock Stable).
For a couple of years the All American Rathskeller (an infamous State College, PA, dive) had a case race, during which they tried to sell 1000 cases of RR ponies in a single day. I did my part in the first one. They actually made it into the Guiness Book of records before those in charge of the tome stopped reporting alcohol related records.
I'm still amazed that some places consider Rocks to be premium beer. We used to get the ponies for $0.25 a piece. If four of us would drop in for lunch, we'd buy a case (there was a $1.00 deposit on the bottle opener).
Thanks, mj!
Way back when I was leaving AK, my mom flew up from PA to help with the drive, and she brought along a case of RR for a guy I was working with.
Claiming my dealer's premium, I set aside a 6-pack, and put it in the used 3/4 ton pick-up truck recently purchased from Cal Worthington in Anchorage, well, because driving the Al-Can, you just never know.
One afternoon we stopped for gas at a little place in the Yukon that also had a small cafe, which turned out to be decorated with beer bottles and cans from around the world. Much to our delight, they had no Rolling Rock.
The proprietor of the establishment ended up with the 6-pack, but we got a free meal, a free tank of gas, and a 6-pack of LaBatt's Blue Label in exchange.
And all involved felt like they came out ahead.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN"CSI: The 3rd One', followed by '48 Hours', and another '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Biggest Loser', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Gabourie Sidibe hosting, music by MGMT.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Norbit', followed by a RERUN'Murder He Wrote Castle'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Father Of The Bride'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'Wanda Sykes' is FRESH.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Outlaw Josey Wales', followed by the movie 'Gangs Of New York'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 10
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 11
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 13
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 Glasshouse
[5:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special
[5:20 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide - Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Toni Collette, Billie Piper, Scouting for Girls
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Toni Collette, Billie Piper, Scouting for Girls
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Toni Collette, Billie Piper, Scouting for Girls
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 11 Vandervell
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 5 Osman (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Accepted', 'Kevin James: Sweat The Small Stuff', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', and 'Ralphie May: Austin-Tatious'.
FX has the movie 'Transporter 2', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'How The States Got Their Shapes', and 'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[7:15 AM] Proof
[8:50 AM] Dummy
[10:30 AM] Hope Springs
[12:05 PM] Made
[1:45 PM] Proof
[3:20 PM] SxSW 2010 Wrap-Up Special
[3:45 PM] Dummy
[5:25 PM] Hope Springs
[7:00 PM] Wrong Door
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] The Notorious Bettie Page
[9:35 PM] City of Ghosts
[11:35 PM] Total Eclipse
[1:30 AM] The Notorious Bettie Page
[3:05 AM] City of Ghosts
[5:05 AM] Rabbit-Proof Fence (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:35 AM] Comedy Of Power
[8:25 AM] My Best Friend
[11:00 AM] Chandon Pictures - 201
[11:30 AM] Chandon Pictures - 202
[12:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - 309
[1:00 PM] Chandon Pictures - Episode 1
[1:30 PM] Chandon Pictures - Episode 2
[2:00 PM] Chandon Pictures - 103
[2:30 PM] Chandon Pictures - 104
[3:00 PM] Chandon Pictures - 105
[3:30 PM] Chandon Pictures - 106
[4:00 PM] Chandon Pictures - 107
[4:30 PM] Chandon Pictures - 108
[5:00 PM] Comedy Of Power
[6:55 PM] The Substitute
[7:15 PM] In Memory Of My Father
[9:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Mario Batali on Michael Stipe (Season 1, Episode 2)
[10:00 PM] The Duchess Of Langleais
[12:20 AM] Dorm
[2:15 AM] Broken Noses
[3:35 AM] Pen Pusher
[3:45 AM] The Duchess Of Langleais (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Final Destination 2', followed by the movie 'The Mothman Prophecies'.
Comedian Mel Brooks (R) poses with son Max Brooks (L) and grandson Henry Brooks during a ceremony where he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Famein Los Angeles April 23, 2010.
Photo by Phil McCarten
Art collectors, environmentalists and celebrities packed the salesroom at Christie's on Thursday, the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, and spent nearly $2 million at the Green Auction benefiting the environment.
A round of golf with former President Bill Clinton, a painting by Damien Hirst, a Girard-Perregaux white gold and diamond watch and 18 other lots drew spirited bidding from anonymous buyers as well as stars such as Salma Hayek and Chevy Chase, who served as emcee.
Proceeds from the live auction, a companion silent online sale and related fund-raising events collectively known as "A Bid to Save the Earth" will be divided among the non-profit environmental groups Natural Resources Defense Council, the Central Park Conservancy, Oceana and Conservation International.
A few items, including a trip to Botswana for six guided by National Geographic's editor in chief, went as high as $150,000, while spirited bidding drove the price for golfing with Clinton to $80,000. Bids totaled just over $1.5 million.
Everyone knows he was born in the USA, but it was Bruce Springsteen's European immigrant roots - and his family's 110-year American dream - that were celebrated on Thursday.
Accompanied by his proud mother and aunts - the women who "provided me with place" and "filled my family and all of my work with great meaning" - the rocker from New Jersey received an Ellis Island Family Heritage Award.
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. presents the award to immigrants or their descendants "who have made a major contribution to the American experience." Also honored were investment banker Peter G. Peterson; Avon Chairman and CEO Andrea Jung, and NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo.
"You can't really know who you are and where you're going unless you know where you came from," Springsteen said.
Actor Leonard Nimoy gives the "Vulcan salute" to the crowd while riding in a parade in the town of Vulcan, Alberta April 23, 2010. Nimoy portrayedthe character "Spock" in the original "Star Trek" television and movie series.
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Jeff Bridges is still collecting awards for his Oscar-winning turn as a booze-soaked country singer in "Crazy Heart."
Bridges, co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal and the film were among the winners of the 14th annual Prism Awards, which recognize actors, movies and TV shows that accurately depict substance abuse and mental health issues.
Other winners included the film "The Soloist" and TV's "Breaking Bad," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Grey's Anatomy."
Winners are chosen by an 80-member committee of entertainment industry professionals and experts from the fields of medicine, mental health and addiction. A full list of winners is available on the Entertainment Industries Council website.
Joni Mitchell is having trouble seeing both sides now when it comes to Bob Dylan. Most music fans consider the twosome among the most influential and seminal artists of the last 50 years, and place Dylan at the absolute pinnacle of the singer/songwriter pantheon. Mitchell does not hold him in such high regard.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times that ran April 22, Mitchell called Dylan a fake. After the reporter, Matt Diehl, commented that both Mitchell and Dylan had altered their given names, Mitchell blasted Dylan with both barrels: "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist and his name and voice are fake," she said. But she wasn't done yet. "Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I."
She further goes on to explain that her name is simply a nickname derived from her given name, Roberta Joan Anderson, combined with her married name, from when she married Chuck Mitchell. Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman.
Mitchell doesn't clarify the plagiarism accusation, but a number of outlets have connected the dots to a New York Times 2006 article that notes the similarities between Dylan's lyrics on "Modern Times" to those of confederate poet Henry Timrod.
In the L.A. Times piece, the only person getting away unscathed is Jimi Hendrix, whom Mitchell calls "the sweetest guy." As far as the rest of us Americans, Mitchell, a Canadian, doesn't seem to have much use for us for the last 30 years. She says her later work "is set against the stupid, destructive way we live on this planet. Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point." Ouch.
Riverdale High is getting its first gay character.
Archie Comics announced Thursday that in an issue out Sept. 1, the long-running comic will introduce its first "openly gay" character, Kevin Keller.
The strapping blond will defeat Jughead in a burger eating contest, win the affection of Veronica and wrestle over how to gently rebuff her flirtations.
Jon Goldwater, co-CEO of Archie Comics, says the introduction of Kevin is "about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive."
American actor Mark Hamill who played Luke Skywalker in the George Lucas Star Wars saga poses with his wife Mary Lou, right, and his daughter Chelsea,left, before the screening of Star Wars V-The Empire Strikes Back, as part of the Jules Verne Festival in Paris, Friday April 23, 2010.
Photo by Remy de la Mauviniere
Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said Friday.
Joann Mignano confirmed a report on People magazine's website Friday that said the former Poison frontman was rushed to intensive care late Thursday after a severe headache. The report said doctors discovered bleeding at the base of his brain stem.
Mignano said tests are being conducted and that no further information was available.
The 47-year-old reality TV star had an emergency appendectomy last week after complaining of stomach pains. He said on his website that though the surgery "has taken its toll," doctors expected him to make a full recovery.
David Hasselhoff's ex-wife has been sentenced to jail after pleading no contest to a drunken driving charge.
Court records show Pamela Bach entered the plea Thursday in a Los Angeles court and was sentenced to 90 days. She will begin serving the sentence in May.
She received 60 days of jail time because she was on probation for a previous drunken driving case when she was arrested in November. Authorities found she had a blood alcohol level of 0.14, well above the legal limit of 0.08.
Bach was married to Hasselhoff for 16 years until he filed for divorce in 2006. She appeared as a cafe owner in several episodes of Hasselhoff's series, "Baywatch."
Jean-Paul Belmondo arrives at the premiere of the newly restored feature film 'A Star Is Born' in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
There may be some marital tension in the home of Orlando Figes, a celebrated author and Russian scholar embroiled in a scandal involving vicious reviews posted on Amazon's website.
The anonymous reviews attacked books written by Figes' rivals, and last week his wife, law professor Stephanie Palmer, said she was responsible. But now Figes admits he actually wrote the nasty putdowns, which built up his reputation at other authors' expense.
Figes specifically apologized to his wife, his lawyer - who was misled about the source of the reviews - and to the authors he trashed on Amazon, including Rachel Polonsky, Robert Service and Kate Summerscale.
The scandal has transfixed literary London because of the personalities - and venom - involved.
Actress Jane Withers arrives at the premiere of the newly restored feature film 'A Star Is Born' in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
This year's "Idol Gives Back" television special raised almost $45 million for children's, hunger and health charities in the United States and Africa, organizers said on Friday.
Sir Elton John, Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood were among the stars who performed in Wednesday's live special event organized by the producers of top-rated singing contest "American Idol."
Two previous editions of "Idol Gives Back" in 2007 and 2008 raised a total of around $140 million from audience and corporate donations.
The money raised will be shared between the Children's Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, the U.S. Programs of Save the Children and the United Nations Foundation.
Mexican poet Jose Emilio Pacheco (top L) delivers a speech during a ceremony where he received the "Premio Cervantes" Literature Award at theUniversity of Alcala de Henares, near Madrid April 23, 2010. King Juan Carlos awarded Pacheco with Spain's top literary prize, an annual award named after the 16th century Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.
Photo by Fernando Villar
When her best friend turned purple, Miriam Starobin's thoughts turned to yellow - cartoon hero SpongeBob SquarePants.
The denizen of fictional undersea Bikini Bottom was being credited Friday with inspiring a lifesaving rescue during music class at a seaside school earlier this week.
Miriam, a Long Beach Middle School seventh-grader, and her "BFF," Allyson Golden, had just finished rehearsing the "West Side Story" classic, "I Feel Pretty," for an upcoming choral competition when their teacher cracked a joke that had the 12-year-olds erupting in laughter.
"Allyson was chewing gum, which she shouldn't have been," Miriam recalled Friday in a mock tattletale voice during an interview in the principal's office. "We were laughing and then the gum gets lodged in Ally's throat. And she stopped laughing, which was weird because Ally laughs a lot."
That's when Miriam says she recalled an episode of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, where she believes she saw SpongeBob use the Heimlich maneuver to retrieve a clarinet lodged in the throat of another character, Squidward.
"There is now more psychedelic research taking place in the world than at any time in the last 40 years," said Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which funds some of the work. "We're at the end of the beginning of the renaissance."
But doing the research is not easy, Doblin and others say, with government funders still leery and drug companies not interested in the compounds they can't patent. That pretty much leaves private donors.
"There's still a lot of resistance to it," said David Nichols, a Purdue University professor of medicinal chemistry and president of the Heffter Institute, which is supporting the NYU study. "The whole hippie thing in the 60s" and media coverage at the time "has kind of left a bad taste in the mouth of the public at large.
"When you tell people you're treating people with psychedelics, the first thing that comes to mind is Day-Glo art and tie-dyed shirts."
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