Paul Krugman: Points of No Return (NY Times)
False doctrines on climate science have become badges of identity for Republicans, and that's more frightening than some of the environmental change underway.
Marina Hyde: Has Katie Price's husband been stripped of his career? (Guardian)
As so often before, please forgive Lost in Showbiz for being pretty much unable to add value to the following tidbit. But every so often something presents itself that is simply unimprovable. This week, that something is a Daily Mail report from the dramatically disintegrating union of Katie Price and her husband, which informs readers that, owing to the revelations, "Kieran Hayler has been suspended from his part-time stripping job."
David Denby: THE HALF-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY OF "DR. STRANGELOVE" (New Yorker)
"Mein Führer, I can walk!" screams Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), the ex-Nazi nuclear scientist, rising from his wheelchair to salute the American President at the climax of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is now a half century old … and it remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever.
Eric Schlosser: ALMOST EVERYTHING IN "DR. STRANGELOVE" WAS TRUE (New Yorker)
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear weapons, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Released on January 29, 1964, the film caused a good deal of controversy. Its plot suggested that a mentally deranged American general could order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, without consulting the President.
Eddie Deezen: The Real Life Soup Nazi (Neatorama)
The "Soup Nazi" was, indeed, based on a real person. A man named Ali ("Al") Yeganeh ran an actual soup kitchen in New York. In real life, Yeganeh was, and is, a nasty, mean, sour, unsympathetic man. Interestingly, in New York City he was sometimes referred to as a "terrorist" but not a "nazi" (he was born in Iraq, not Germany).
Will & Grace is an American television sitcom, based on the relationship between William Truman and Grace Adler, and is set in New York City. It was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons. Will & Grace was, during its original run, the most successful television series with gay principal characters. It remains popular in syndication.
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Bobbi Adler, Grace's mother, is played by Debbie Reynolds. Bobbi is an actress and singer, although her performances are generally with the Schenectady Players and involve gender changing roles, in plays such as "Death of a Salesperson", "The Music Person" and "Queen Lear". She has a constant desire to meddle in the love lives of her daughters, is the creator of the Adler family "Told you so" dance, and can always be relied upon to have a song for every occasion. She has, in the past, shown a perfect willingness for Will and Grace to get married.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Debbie Reynolds, who was young once.
Then there is this
Alan J said:
Blythe Danner
Marian wrote:
Debbie Reynolds
Adam answered:
Debbie Reynolds.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Debbie Reynolds
Deborah replied:
Grace Adler's mother is played by Debbie Reynolds.
TGIF!
Dreamy Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali…On my way to Bodega Bay to get some salty therapy over the weekend, wrote:
Debbie Reynolds portrayed the character "Bobbi Alder" in a show that I am proud to say that I never watched! Just another show trying to get Seinfeld or even Cheers type Thursday "Must See TV" ratings.
Sally said:
Being a big, "Will and Grace" fan, this was easy for me.
On the TV series Will & Grace, Debbie Reynolds played Grace's mother.
Debbie Reynolds really is a national treasure! I've loved her since, "Singing In The Rain."
PS: I am on deer patrol today. I have had a deer with a wounded paw or leg in my back yard a few days ago. She stands with her front leg held up, and limps when she walks. I have called around but there are few services available for wounded deer. Apparently, I have to tie it up to get assistance - WTF?
While the deer don't run away when I come out, I could not nor would not approach them. I am afraid of them and they damn well know it too. But that's another story...
Lois Huddled And Yearning In Oregon responded:
Unlike Joe, I WILL play the trivia game even if I don't want
to, because NO ONE CAN STOP ME! Hahahahah! Anyway. Haven't
watched TV in a LONG time and never saw "Will and Grace",
but according to Google it was a show kind of like "Three's
Company", except there was only one dumb broad in the
apartment, and the homo was for real, oh and it had a star
studded cast of has-beens appearing as various mothers,
including the "real life" mother of the year Debbie
Reynolds, shown here with her "real life" daughter, who
strangely looks like SHE is DEBBIE'S mother (probably
because poor crazy Carrie is aging naturally and Debbie is
mostly meat by-products at this point, much like "Cher") and
there is something definitely wrong with the world. Oh crap.
Can't get the damn thing to load. Well, take my word for it.
Sandra in Bangor replied:
debbie reynolds
DJ Useo answered:
I didn't have the foggiest notion as to the correct answer, but I had company here who yelled the answer at me. Lol.
So, I am told it's Debbie Reynolds. I am mortified to confess I don't know anything about her aside from the name.
I did see Will and Grace occasionally. It was pretty funny.
And, Joe S answered:
Grace's middle name is Elizabeth. It is explained that this is because her mother was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor. In real life Debbie Reynolds, who plays Grace's mother, had her husband leave her for Elizabeth Taylor.
See, I didn't know this, even though I'm a really big fan of Debbie Reynolds, because I never watched the show. There are lots of shows we don't watch because, as Carla tells me, we can't watch everything and she's the keeper of the remote.
When I was much younger, my friend Allan Smith and I joined the Eddie Fisher Fan Club. Actually Allan created the Eddie Fisher Fan Club. He was elected President, you know because he started it, and I was elected Vice-president because I was the only other member of the club. We discussed paying dues, because that's what you do when you have a club, but neither of us had any money so that idea was tabled. When the rumors started about Fisher cheating on Debbie, we got so pissed we disbanded the club. It was the right thing to do. After that we would get together and talk about how hot Elizabeth Taylor was, but leaving Debbie was just not right.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Friends With Better Lives', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline Saturday Night Mystery', followed by an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' has their SEASON FINALE, with Andy Samberg hosting, music by St. Vincent.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Spider-Man 2'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has a RERUN'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a RERUN'The Following'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'We Were Soldiers', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Secret Garden
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Olde Stone Mill
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 2
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Turn Left
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 12 - The Stolen Earth
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Journey's End
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow (Part 1)
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow (Part 2)
[9:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est NEW
[10:00PM] IN THE FLESH - Season 2 - Episode 2 NEW
[11:15PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 15 - Episode 6
[12:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est
[1:00AM] IN THE FLESH - Season 2 - Episode 2
[2:15AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 15 - Episode 6
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow (Part 1) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Family Man', followed by the movie 'The Family Man', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Get Him To The Greek', followed by the movie 'Superbad'.
FX has the movie 'The Proposal', followed by the movie 'The Vow'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Happy, Texas
[8:30AM] The Three Stooges-Playing the Ponies
[8:55AM] The Three Stooges-Pop Goes the Easel
[9:20AM] The Three Stooges-Restless Knights
[9:45AM] The Three Stooges-Rockin' Thru the Rockies
[10:10AM] The Three Stooges-Saved by the Belle
[10:35AM] The Three Stooges-The Sitter Downers
[11:00AM] Maron-Marc's New Friend
[11:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Craig Robinson Wears a Bordeaux Button Down and Dark Jeans
[12:00PM] Cry-Baby
[1:45PM] The Perfect Storm
[4:30PM] Cry-Baby
[6:15PM] Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie
[8:00PM] Up in Smoke
[9:45PM] Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
[11:45PM] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[1:45AM] Up in Smoke
[3:30AM] Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Patton Oswalt Wears a Black Blazer and Dress Shoes (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Sons of Anarchy
[6:30AM] Chaplin
[9:30AM] The Apostle
[12:30PM] When Harry Met Sally
[2:30PM] The Writers' Room-The Good Wife
[3:00PM] Traffic
[6:15PM] The Constant Gardener
[9:00PM] Open Your Eyes
[11:30PM] Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
[1:30AM] Carrie
[3:45AM] The Basketball Diaries (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pitch Black', followed by the movie 'The Chronicles Of Riddick'.
Cast member Sarah Silverman and actor Michael Sheen pose at the premiere of "A Million Ways to Die in the West" in Los Angeles, California May 15, 2014. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 30.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Granny, the world's oldest known orca, has been spotted again. At 103-years-old, she is the matriarch of a killer whale community known as the "J-Pod." Granny was seen earlier this week leading the pod in their journey from California to the Strait of Georgia, off Vancouver Island. This is the first time Granny has been seen since March 3. Captain Simon Pidcock, captain of Ocean EcoVentures Whale Watching, said Granny was "looking very healthy," a great sign at her age.
Granny's age was calculated in an unusual way. She cannot be tagged and studied like other, younger and smaller animals. Instead, her age was determined by studying life cycles. The Wire spoke with Michael Harris, Executive Director of the Pacific Whale Watch Association and a filmmaker. Harris explained, "We have been conducting studies since the 1970s, and they came up with a plan based on the reproductive cycle of the female [to determine age]. They first give birth when they are, on average, 14. They become post-reproductive around 40, and their offspring stay with them the whole life, so that's how we calculate it."
Granny's pod is the "most intensively studied population of orcas in the world and has the oldest members." Harris calls the J-Pod "quite a paradox." It's whales are among some of the oldest in the world, but "there are only about 80 members, and they have a big problem with [a lack of] fish out there. Despite all the things [humans] have done, we do have an 85-year-old whale out there and 103-year-old Granny."
The 103-year-old and 85-year-old whales are two of the oldest in the world. Whales in the wild live much longer than those in captivity. In the wild, male orcas tend to live to be between 40 and 50. However, "the oldest orca that ever lived in captivity, and it was a male, he was 29." This is also unusual because, as a rule, female orcas outlive male orcas in the wild.
Actor Jack Nicholson, right, and producer James L. Brooks watch the Los Angeles Clippers play the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first half of Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Rare film footage featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking to his seat at a baseball game helps dispel the myth that he completely hid his disability and shows the courage it took to go about his daily life, experts said Friday.
The clip shows FDR, who was paralyzed from the waist down by polio in 1921, grasping a rail with one hand while being supported on the other side by an assistant. FDR used a wheelchair because he could walk only with braces on his legs and the support of a cane.
Former Major League Baseball player Jimmie DeShong shot the film at the 1937 All-Star game in Washington. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg announced it had acquired the clip from the family of DeShong, a native of the state's capital city.
Filmmaker Ken Burns calls the footage "one of the very best pieces of film that so clearly shows what a brave struggle it was for FDR to move." Burns plans to incorporate it into his upcoming documentary on the Roosevelts, which is slated to air on PBS this fall.
Bestselling author Pat Conroy said Friday he's proud to have a vast collection of his papers and memorabilia kept in his "literary home" of South Carolina, where scholars will be able to study handwritten manuscripts of works like "The Great Santini" for years to come.
Thousands of pages of papers, scrapbooks and more are being archived at the University of South Carolina, in the state that is the setting for most of Conroy's works.
He recalled that when his mother drove the family into the state decades ago to follow his military father's career, "I didn't know that when I crossed into South Carolina, it was my literary home."
Because Conroy does not use a typewriter or computer, the collection includes 10,000 handwritten pages of all his varied drafts, from early work "The Water is Wide," through "The Prince of Tides," ''The Lords of Discipline," and "My Reading Life."
Cast member Charlize Theron and actor Sean Penn pose at the premiere of "A Million Ways to Die in the West" in Los Angeles, California May 15, 2014. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 30.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Displaying 80 people in a human zoo in Oslo's most elegant park, two artists hope their "Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegians' collective amnesia about racism.
Re-enacting a similar display from 1914, Lars Cuznor and Mohamed Ali Fadlabi say Norway, one of the richest nations in the world, with a reputation for tolerance, has only suppressed its intolerance, especially around the time of Saturday's national day.
The Congo Village - which 100 years ago displayed African tribes, attracting 1.4 million visitors over four months - will this time exhibit volunteers taking turns living on show in makeshift huts, resembling a traditional sub-Saharan village.
The government-funded display opened just days before Norway celebrates the 200th anniversary of its constitution on Saturday, a day marked by parades all over the country with most people dressed in traditional costumes and waving flags.
Three lawyers representing Al-Jazeera English journalists on trial in Egypt abruptly quit the case Thursday, accusing the Doha-based network of using the arrest of their staff to tarnish the country's image.
A human rights lawyer criticized the lawyers' decision, calling the courtroom declarations a "bad omen" for the journalists held since December.
Canadian-Egyptian acting bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, Australian correspondent Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed face charges of belonging to and aiding a terrorist group, namely the Muslim Brotherhood. That's the group from which ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails. They also face charges of fabricating footage to undermine Egypt's national security.
The three lawyers represent both Greste and Mohammed. Their decision to quit raised fears among the journalists it would harm their chances in court. They said the lawyers didn't warn them ahead of the hearing of their decision.
Prosecutors also said lawyers for the journalists must pay 1.2 million Egyptian pounds - $170,000 - for copies of the evidence against them, an unusually high amount of money.
Security remove a man who ran onto the red carpet during the screening of How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 16, 2014.
Photo by Alastair Grant
A Los Angeles court has vacated Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson's misdemeanour domestic violence battery conviction in a case filed after a highly publicized fight with his ex-girlfriend.
The dismissal was finalized Monday by Superior Court Judge Deborah Brazil, and her order was released Friday.
Gibson pleaded no contest in 2011 to one count of misdemeanour spousal battery of his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. He was sentenced to three years of probation, domestic violence counselling and two days of community service.
The Oscar-winning director completed the terms of his sentence within a year.
Seth MacFarlane arrives at the World Premiere of "A Million Ways To Die In The West" at on Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Westwood, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
A show rabbit breeder in Pennsylvania is suing a French gas exploration company for using low-flying helicopters she said terrorized her prized animals, causing many to die and leaving survivors unable to breed.
Deafening noise from helicopters flying over Susan Knowlden's mountain home in Trout Run, Pennsylvania, in search of shale gas deposits, sent her skittish rabbits into a frenzy, she told Reuters on Thursday.
Knowlden filed a lawsuit this week against CGG, the French oil-and-gas exploration company based in Paris, one of many energy firms involved in oil and gas extraction in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, a heartland of America's fracking boon. The company also uses helicopters that employ seismic equipment to explore for gas deposits.
The helicopters fly "treetop level" overflights despite assurances by CGG that a 1,000-foot no-fly zone would be observed, said Tom Waffenschmidt, Knowlden's lawyer.
As a result, she said, she lost 168 of her prize breeding and show rabbits - more than half her animals, she said.
Heron-hooded dancers perform as they parade down the streets toward Asakusa Shrine in the compound of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Friday, May 16, 2014, prior to the annual Sanja Festival, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo, scheduled on May 16-18.
Photo by Eugene Hoshiko
South Africa suffered its first elephant poaching incident in 10 years this week at the country's largest game reserve, the South African National Parks (SANParks) said on Friday.
An elephant bull was "purposefully shot for its tusks" by four suspected poachers at the Kruger National Park in the eastern Mpumalanga province, SANParks said in a statement.
Elephant poaching has been a problem in the rest of Africa while poaching in South Africa has been largely confined to rhinos, with more than 1,000 rhinos killed for their horns last year.
The demand for ivory and rhino horn in East Asia is thought to be fueling the poaching. Rhino horn can fetch as much as $65,000 a kilogram on the black market, making it more expensive than gold, platinum and cocaine.
Alaska Airlines Capt. David Boshell, right, kisses the 48 lb. Copper River King Salmon he carried out of his plane along with first officer Melissa Van Dyke, left, Friday, May 16, 2014, after a flight from Cordova, Alaska to the Alaska Airlines Cargo facility in Seatac, Wash., near Seattle. The cargo flight carried the first shipment of the year of Copper River salmon, which are highly prized for their oil content and flavor.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
California in November will vote on whether to raise a four-decade-old cap on medical malpractice awards to $1.1 million, from $250,000, officials said on Thursday, likely ensuring a bitter and costly fight between lawyers backing the measure and doctors who oppose it.
Representatives of patients have tried for at least 20 years to persuade the state to raise the limit on pain-and-suffering awards, which was set in the 1970s and is not indexed to inflation. Opponents say a higher cap will raise healthcare costs and choke off access to care.
Consumer advocates successfully collected hundreds of thousands of signatures in support of placing the measure on the ballot, according to the California Secretary of State, which approved Initiative #13-0016 for the ballot.
"Patient safety laws have not been modernized for 38 years and as a result dangerous doctors are not deterred and families victimized by medical negligence cannot get access to justice," said Jamie Court, president of the non-profit Consumer Watchdog, a co-sponsor of the initiative.
Opponents of the measure, including insurance companies and medical groups, have raised more than $33 million in 2014, far outpacing the less than $700,000 raised by proponents, campaign finance records showed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
This May 11, 2014 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows a Black-throated Blue Warbler on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, in the Bronx borough of New York. The Bronx Zoo is showing off its birds - not just the ones it keeps, but the ones just passing through. The zoo is opening early Saturday May 18, so eagle-eyed visitors can look for the scores of wild bird species, like the one shown, that hang out in its 265 acres, especially during the spring migration now underway.
Photo by Steve Zack
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