Paul Krugman: The Euro Trap (nytimes.com)
When Greece, Portugal and Spain joined the euro zone, they put themselves in a policy straitjacket. Now they face a debt crisis. There is a lesson here.
Froma Harrop: Is the Sunbelt Ready for Urbanity? (creators.com)
Houston faces a crossroads, or to be more precise, a five-level stack interchange. Is it going to nurture compact walkable neighborhoods? Or is it going to do what it has always done - stand back and watch developers build anything anywhere?
"Anthill: A Novel" by Edward O. Wilson: A review by Donna Seaman
Imagine what it would be like to read Anthill without knowing that the author, Edward O. Wilson, is an eminent, innovative, often controversial Harvard biologist who has written more than 20 groundbreaking nonfiction books and won two Pulitzer Prizes.
SUSAN SARANDON: Interview with Carey MULLIGAN (interviewmagazine.com)
Since her star-making performance in director Lone Scherfig's An Education last fall, Carey Mulligan's meteoric rise has itself become a cinematic affair-a quick-cutting whirlwind of awards shows, paparazzi, short hair, and self-effacing British charm.
...aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist - but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact... He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on...
Don't talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking - Times Online
Despite that, should we seek out new life and new civilizations? (Thanks, Gene)
A.) Sure! ... Yoo Hoo! Here we are! Stop by for dinner! (haha).
B.) No way! ... Move along now, ALF, nothing to see here (especially cats).
zEN mAN (observing the Ukraine Parliament showing the world how to get the business of state done (US congress should take heed...this is how things will soon be done there in Washington! Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid covered with egg yolks...hahaha))
Charlie replied:
It was...
Gomer Pyle!
err.. .Jim Nabors.
Sally wrote:
As I recall, Jim Nabors was the guest on the first episode of every season of The Carol Burnett Show.
God, I loved that show - it was funny every week, and the cast were so well meshed... They didn't call it the "Golden Age" of TV for nothing...
MAM wrote:
The guest on the first episode of every season of The Carol Burnett Show was Jim Nabors.
MB responded:
Baba Looey
And, Joe S said:
Jim Nabors. I didn't know that. I watched a lot of Carol Burnett and loved the show, but I never picked up on Nabors. Carla knew it though.
I couldn't resist posting this one.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
The quote above, from Dwight D. Eisenhower, and now adopted by Roger Waters to embody the spirit of Pink Floyd's famous album The Wall will appear this weekend across various locations in New York and Los Angeles as vivid graphic projections, wheat pastings and chalk drawings. We invite you to check out the locations below and spread the word of Roger's message. This is a call to arms to a new generation of fans, to not sit idly by and believe what is being told to them, but to constantly question, and find the answers they seek by breaking down walls.
This quote below, taken from a recent interview with famed British journalist David Frost, explains the message behind Water's selection of the Eisenhower quote:
"I was reading an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Bob Herbert and came across this quote. It made me think, we need to hang onto words of these wise people from our past. I'm far more focused on trying to sort out where the walls that we face now lie. Whether there are media walls, there are certainly economic walls, and there are walls that are more subtle and insidious than the war between North and South, the war between rich and poor. We are the first generation to have had a real chance to get to some of the truth at what's going on and in consequence possibly be able to sort out what to do about it and for successive generations to have a better chance than we to sort out the truth from the lies, the wheat from the chaff."
The photo below, taken April 29th in New York City's Union Square, illustrates the projections in practice:
Schedule of Events:
New York - projection and wheat pastings
Saturday, May 1 - 9pm-2am EST
Stuyvesant St. & 3rd Ave.
Los Angeles - projection and wheat pastings
Saturday, May 1 - 9pm-2am PST
912 S. Broadway
It isn't often that a building stuns - literally. However, this is the
case with the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
Traditional Islamic architecture meets the twenty first century to
spectacular effect.
We have a great new show coming up THIS SUNDAY at Oil Can Harry's in Studio City. We'll have Dani K and Katrice as well as myself from the Queen Mary cast plus comedians, Illusion, and Burlesque. It's an early show starting at 8:30.
$5 gen adm.
$10 reserved seating.
For reservations call 818-760-9749
M/F 3:30 to 7:30 pm.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Parenthood', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Zach Galifianakis hosting, music by Vampire Weekend.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Meet The Fockers', followed by a RERUN'Murder He Wrote Castle'.
Jimmy Kimmel
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Father Of The Bride, Part II'.
Faux has LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe some 'Cops'.
'Wanda Sykes' is a RERUN.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and another 'Criminal Minds'
AMC offers the movie 'Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World', followed by the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', then the movie 'Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World'
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 12
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 13
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 3 Moore Place
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 1 Evolution
[7:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 The Ensigns of Command
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Lee Mack, Usher
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Lee Mack, Usher
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Lee Mack, Usher
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 23 Paling
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 10 Collins (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Beerfest', followed by 'Ron White: Behavioral Problems', and 'Dave Attell: Captain Miserable'.
FX has the ovie 'X2: X-Men United', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', then the movie "xXx: State Of The Union'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ancient Aliens', and 'Star Trek: Beyond The Final Frontier'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Annie Hall
[8:00 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[9:00 AM] Double Happiness
[10:35 AM] Hannah and Her Sisters
[12:25 PM] Annie Hall
[2:00 PM] Double Happiness
[3:30 PM] Hannah and Her Sisters
[5:25 PM] Annie Hall
[7:00 PM] Dinner With the Band
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] The Big Empty
[9:45 PM] Boondock Saints
[11:45 PM] Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
[1:35 AM] The Big Empty
[3:15 AM] Boondock Saints
[5:15 AM] Hannah and Her Sisters (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] A Christmas Tale
[8:30 AM] Lagerfeld Confidential
[10:00 AM] In Short 111
[11:00 AM] Chandon Pictures - Not a Pyramid (Episode 3, Season 2)
[11:30 AM] Chandon Pictures - The Man with the Dancing Fi (Episode 4, Season 2)
[12:00 PM] LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - The Killers, Florence and the Machine, Chairlift (Episode 10, Season 3)
[1:00 PM] Caramel
[2:45 PM] A Christmas Tale
[5:20 PM] The Metamorphosis
[5:30 PM] Soft
[5:45 PM] Lagerfeld Confidential
[7:15 PM] Blame It On Fidel!
[9:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Robert Redford on Paul Newman (Episode 4, Season 1)
[10:00 PM] A Few Days In September
[12:00 AM] A Dirty Carnival
[2:25 AM] The 27 Club
[4:00 AM] A Few Days In September
[6:00 AM] A Vision of Blindness (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'War Wolves', followed by the movie 'Skinwalkers'.
Singer and activist Linda Ronstadt, center, who is an Arizona resident, attends news conference where it was announced that The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, with the support of several other activist groups, had filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction preventing authorities from enforcing the new Arizona immigration law at the Arizona Capitol Thursday, April 29, 2010, in Phoenix.
Photo by Ross D. Franklin
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane has compared a tough new immigration law in Arizona to those of Nazi Germany.
MacFarlane, whose irreverent animated TV comedies have themselves provoked controversy, said the Arizona law was more shocking than anything he had done on television.
"It's too much. It's kind of a slap in the face, it's not the way to handle it...Nobody but the Nazis ever asked anybody for their papers," MacFarlane told Reuters Television in an interview on Thursday.
"Walking down the street, a cop can come up to you and say 'May I see your papers?' -- I think they should be required to ask that question in German if the law sticks around," he added.
"Family Guy" is 150 episodes old this weekend, but Seth MacFarlane is still up for something new.
"The plot is Brian and Stewie are stuck in a vault in the Archie-Meathead, `All in the Family' tradition," MacFarlane, writer and executive producer of the show, said of Sunday's episode.
"The idea was to do an episode that features just those two characters in one room, almost like a one-act play. No cutaways, no flashbacks. Just to see if those characters ... are dimensional enough that they can sustain a half-hour with just their personalities," he said in a recent interview.
MacFarlane's 'toon empire includes two other Sunday-night Fox shows: "American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show." This Sunday's episode of "Cleveland" will feature a guest appearance by Kanye West, one of the few celebrities not targeted by MacFarlane and his shows' writers.
Lou Reed (L) and Ulrich Krieger of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio perform during their "A Night of Deep Noise" concert in Palma de MallorcaApril 30, 2010.
Enrique Calvo
Eminem mentions Ben Roethlisberger in his latest song: "Despicable."
The million-selling rapper refers to the Steelers' troubled quarterback in explicit lyrics and with the lines, "I'd rather turn this club into a bar room brawl. Get as rowdy as Roethlisberger in a bathroom stall."
A 20-year-old college student accused Roethlisberger of sexual assault following a March 3 incident in a Milledgeville, Ga., nightclub. Roethlisberger doesn't face charges, but he was suspended for six games by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
While Eminem is releasing a new album called "Recovery," the song referencing Roethlisberger will not be included. The song was posted at a website co-founded by Eminem's manager.
A group of film industry luminaries, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, on Friday called on the Iranian government to release jailed director Jafar Panahi.
In a petition signed by filmmakers and actors such as Robert De Niro and Robert Redford, the group denounced the March arrest of Panahi, whose movies include "The White Balloon" and "The Circle."
Panahi, a maker of gritty films that examine social issues in the Islamic Republic, was a supporter of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in last year's disputed election that saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad retain power.
Other filmmakers signing the document include brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, Jonathan Demme, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone and documentary maker Michael Moore.
Neil Innes, sporting a black beret with a bathtub rubber ducky on the top, is standing on the stage of a 42nd St. blues club thumbing his nose.
The whole audience is making the same gesture and blowing raspberries back at him.
Pythonesque? You bet.
Innes, often called the seventh member of Monty Python's Flying Circus because he wrote songs for the manic comedy group, is on a one-man tour, singing and playing his wry ditties and looking to recruit "Ego Warriors."
He wears a mischievous grin as he leads the audience in a pledge, getting them to repeat in unison: "I swear to defend self-esteem wherever it may be, without ever appearing pompous or idiotic.
"And never to repeat, parrot-fashion, anything I am told by anyone posing as a figure of authority. So help me, Rhonda. Help, help me, Rhonda."
Actor and musician Steve Martin, left, performs with the Steep Canyon Rangers performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Thursday, April 29,2010.
Photo by Cheryl Gerber
"Chuck" fans have a plan to rally support for the NBC series, and this time it doesn't involve sandwiches. With the action-comedy's renewal fate still to be decided, "Chuck" fans on Monday will stage themed flash mobs in at least four cities.
In Chicago, Seattle, San Diego and Philadelphia, "Chuck" fans plan to gather while dressed in the show's Buy More-style clothing (short-sleeve work shirts, name tags and the like). The idea is from fan site chucktv.net , one of those that spearheaded last year's "Finale and a Footlong" campaign that made national headlines when fans bought sandwiches from "Chuck" sponsor Subway.
While last year's effort was about sending a message to NBC that fans will support the show's advertisers, this year it's about trying to market the show to potential viewers.
The NBC series has been "on the bubble" -- walking a fine line between renewal and cancellation -- though indications suggest the network is bullish about a return. "Chuck" has been the most stable part of the network's Monday night lineup in a year during which ratings for companion series "Heroes" have dropped significantly.
The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.
The federal court jury reached its verdict against David Kernell, 22, after four days of deliberation. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to a computer, but was acquitted on a charge of wire fraud.
The jury deadlocked on a charge of identify theft. Prosecutors reserve the right to have a new trial on that charge. The charge of obstructing an investigation carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence and unauthorized access to a computer is a misdemeanor with a maximum one-year sentence.
Kernell's defense attorney maintained the hack amounted to college prank, not a crime. Kernell was a student at the University of Tennessee at the time. Prosecutors argued it was a more serious effort to damage Palin's political campaign.
A judge has dismissed a drug case against Mackenzie Phillips.
Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Phillips successfully completed a drug diversion program and the case was dismissed Friday.
The actress had pleaded guilty to the felony drug possession charge in October 2008 after she was arrested by airport screeners who said she was found with a small amount of narcotics.
In a video posted on the celebrity website TMZ.com, Phillips is seen telling the judge the case "changed my life."
Britain's Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, centre, and actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor , in wheelchair, look at a bust of Taylor's late husband andWelsh actor Richard Burton, right, during a Royal Welsh College gala evening at Buckingham Palace in London, on Thursday April 29, 2010.
Photo by Ben Stansall
A Swedish author is unlikely to win approval through the courts to publish his novel in the United States, because it is substantially similar to J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," an appeals court said Friday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan delivered another blow to Fredrik Colting's bid to prepare a U.S. release of "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye."
Colting's book was released in England, but Salinger sued last year to stop its distribution in the United States. The reclusive author died in January at age 91, still trying to protect his privacy after the release of "The Catcher in the Rye" in 1951 brought him unwanted public attention.
Colting, who writes under the name John David California and lives near Gothenburg, Sweden, has said his book is a commentary and parody of Salinger's novel, a fixture in classrooms for more than a half century.
Joan Collins meets Debbie Reynolds (left) backstage after Debbie's one woman show, Alive and Fabulous, at the Apollo Theatre in London Thursday April 29,2010.
Photo by Ian West
Hundreds of people swarmed Tokyo's Kabukiza, the celebrated home of Japan's traditional kabuki drama, as it closed its doors Friday to be demolished and rebuilt into a high rise tower.
Many were unable to get inside the 60-year-old landmark theatre for sold-out closing ceremonies with all-star dance dramas, including a story about a young woman who is possessed by unrequited love and turns into a serpent.
For decades, the Kabukiza has been the premier venue to see the 400-year-old stylised performing art whose all-male actors perform in extravagant costumes and mask-like facial makeup.
With the building basked in midspring sunshine, people used mobile phones to photograph the old landmark on the edge of the ever-changing upscale Ginza district while artists drew pictures of it.
Musician Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea attend the 4th annual DKMS 'Linked Against Leukemia' gala at Cipriani's 42nd Street on Thursday, April 29, 2010in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
AIDS, smoking and obesity are reversing progress made in helping people live longer around the world, with mortality rates worsening over the past 20 years in 37 countries, researchers reported on Thursday.
They found Icelandic men have the lowest risk of premature death, while Cypriot women do. Some rich countries such as the United States and Britain scored relatively poorly, the survey found.
In the 40 years since 1970, they found, adult mortality risk fell by 34 percent among women and 19 percent in men globally.
But some places had notable reversals in rank, including the former Soviet Union. Russia has fallen from 43rd place for female mortality in 1970 to 121st.
Susan Reed, the cabaret singer whom Life magazine saluted in a l955 cover story as the leading lady of the folk music era, has died. She was 84.
The singer, who regularly performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, died Sunday of natural causes at her nursing home in Greenport, N.Y., publicist Dale Olson said.
She starred on Broadway in the Max Liebman production of "Billy the Kid," and co-starred with her then-husband, James Karen, in regional productions of "Brigadoon" and "Finian's Rainbow."
Her husband of 43 years, Robert Day, said Friday that Provine died from emphysema on April 25 at Silverdale's Hospice of Kitsap County, about 10 miles northwest of Bremerton, Wash. He said there won't be a funeral.
A litter of bobcats that were found during the demolition of an abandoned home in Newberry County rest and play with two kittens that belong to Zoe, left,a domestic house cat that will be nursing the bobcats for the next five weeks, at Carolina Wildlife Care, in Columbia, S.C., Thursday, April 29, 2010.
Photo by Brett Flashnick
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