Roger Ebert: The O'Reilly Procedure
Bill O'Reilly has been brought low by the same process that afflicted Jerry Springer. Once respected journalists, they sold their souls for higher ratings, and follow their siren song. Springer is honest about it: "I'm going to Hell for what I do, and I know it," he's likes to say. O'Reilly insists he is dealing only with the truth.
The recent domestic terrorist murders of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas, Army recruiter Pvt William Long in Little Rock, Arkansas and security guard Stephan Johns at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. occurred in jurisdictions that have the capital punishment. Prosecutors of these crimes will, no doubt, consider asking for it due to obvious premeditation of the perpetrators.
Legally, the old TV series Trapper John, MD is considered a spin-off of ?
A The comic book M*A*S*H
B The original movie M*A*S*H
C The original book M*A*S*H
D The original TV series M*A*S*H
E The TV series AfterM*A*S*HSource
Legally, the show is considered a spin-off of the original motion picture , MASH , rather than the M*A*S*H television series. This is due to a court case in which the producers of the television series sought royalty payments on the grounds that Trapper John, M.D. was a spin-off of their series. The court found, however, that the series was a spin-off of the original movie - itself an adaptation of H. Richard Hornberger 's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (published under the nom de plume , Richard Hooker). As a result, the series producers did not receive any royalties from Trapper John, M.D.
Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Whether or not Pernell Roberts more closely resembles Elliott Gould or Wayne Rogers, the answer is
B The original movie M*A*S*H
Though apparently Rogers was offered the Roberts role.
Alan J answered:
B The Original Movie M*A*S*H
Adam in NoHo responded:
I always supposed it was the series MASH, but by the time it want off the air, Trapper John was long gone (and wasn't in AfterMASH).
Strictly speaking, Trapper John MD must be a direct spin-off of:
C- the book.
OK, after checking with IMDB- it's a spin-off of the Altman Movie.
Sally said nothing.
MAM said:
Legally, the old TV series Trapper John, MD, is considered a spin-off of the original movie, MASH, an adaptation of H. Richard Hornberger's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. As a result, the series producers did not receive any royalties from Trapper John, M.D. Loved M*A*S*H and enjoyed Trapper John, MD.
Cast of Trapper John, MD (1979-1986) with
Dr. John McIntyre,
played by Pernell Roberts, on the far right
And, Joe S wrote:
A court ruled that the series was not a spin-off from the television show "M*A*S*H" (1972); rather, that it was a spin-off from the film MASH (1970).
Another TV show that held absolutely no interest for me.
Saturday (today?) I'll be going to the 32nd annual Spirit of the Woods Music Festival. I've only missed two of them. I missed the first one, and I missed 1994 because my father died two weeks earlier and we always went together. I just didn't feel up to it that year. My father and I didn't get along too well but festival day was always special. We always had a very good time and never argued or got upset with one another on that one day. All our problems dissolved for one day and we both looked forward to it.
I know you wont publish this but it's how I feel...
I Just read an article mentioning the Neo-Nazi Girl band
Prussian Blue...Now, I felt bad when I was kinda turned on by the budding Olsen Twins and secretly (shamefully) wondered how it would be to seduce them...I Know, Me and 10 million other guys are creeps for this.
But the girls from Prussian....I just wanna fill in the intentionally left blank blank Them!!!!
Somehow I feel I should apologize to Sarah Palin for this one
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Without A Trace', followed by a FRESH'Harper's Island', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Kings', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Alec Baldwin hosting, music by Jonas Brothers.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wipeout', followed by a RERUN'Castle', then a FRESH'Eli Stone'.
The CW has an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old 'Sex In The City', followed by another old 'Sex In The City'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Dodgers visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard 2', followed by the movie 'The Whole Nine Yards', then the movie 'Road House'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Secret Garden
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Top Gear Winter Olympics Special - Top Gear Winter Olympics Special
[6:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 6 Reset
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 8 A Day in the Death
[8:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 6 The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Tom Jones, Alan Carr
[11:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Tom Jones, Alan Carr
[2:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Tom Jones, Alan Carr
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 12
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 13
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Excell (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by the movie 'Along Came Polly'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Trading Places', followed by the movie 'Beerfest', followed by the movie 'Jackass 2.5'.
FX has the movie 'xXx', followed by the movie 'Rocky Balboa'.
History has 'Band Of Brothers', 'Secret Access: Air Force One', 'The Presidents', and 'Andrew Jackson'.
IFC -
[8:00 AM] Samurai 2
[9:45 AM] A Slipping-Down Life
[11:45 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[12:45 PM] Far From Heaven
[2:35 PM] The Legend of 1900
[4:50 PM] IFC News Special
[5:05 PM] A Slipping-Down Life
[7:00 PM] Z Rock
[7:30 PM] The IT Crowd
[8:00 PM] Birth
[9:45 PM] The Cooler
[11:30 PM] Guinevere
[1:15 AM] Birth
[3:00 AM] The Cooler
[4:50 AM] IFC News Special
[5:05 AM] Z Rock
[5:35 AM] The IT Crowd (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Ultraviolet', followed by the movie 'Equilibrium'.
Sundance -
[05:50 AM] Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
[06:00 AM] Kippur
[08:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Sean Penn + Jon Krakauer
[10:00 AM] Primary
[11:00 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Create
[11:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 2
[12:00 PM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 3
[01:00 PM] A Few Days In September
[03:00 PM] Ten Canoes
[04:40 PM] The Danish Poet
[05:00 PM] Kardia
[06:30 PM] Duck Season
[08:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Amos Lee, Randy Crawford & David Gilmour
[09:00 PM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 3
[10:00 PM] The Yacoubian Building
[12:45 AM] Tropical Malady
[02:45 AM] Laid Off
[03:00 AM] Queen Margot
[05:20 AM] Site Specific: Seville
[05:35 AM] Aloha, New York (ALL TIMES EDT)
Musicians Graham Nash left, Stephen Stills and David Crosby, right, attend the 40th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Photo by Peter Kramer
A German army officer who helped Jews during World War Two and was featured in the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist" was posthumously honored by Israel at a ceremony in Berlin on Friday.
The story of how Captain Wilhelm Hosenfeld saved the life of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman received worldwide attention through Roman Polanski's 2002 film, which won three Academy Awards and many other prizes worldwide.
Hosenfeld is one of the few German World War Two soldiers to receive the title "Righteous among the Nations," an honor given by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial to people who helped Jews avoid death in the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million.
Yad Vashem announced in February that Hosenfeld would receive the honor, which has been given to over 22,000 people. The sons of both Hosenfeld and Szpilman attended the ceremony in Berlin.
Actors Dick Van Dyke (R) of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" poses with his son Barry Van Dyke (L) along with his TV son, actor Larry Mathews, as they arrive for "A Father's Day Salute to TV Dads" hosted by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, California, June 18, 2009.
Photo by Fred Prouser
A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result - a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.
A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song.
Thomas-Rasset's second trial actually turned out worse for her. When a different federal jury heard her case in 2007, it hit Thomas-Rasset with a $222,000 judgment.
The new trial was ordered after the judge in the case decided he had erred in giving jury instructions.
A badly damaged Frank Lloyd Wright landmark has been put up for sale by a foundation that is having trouble raising money and sees private ownership as the best way to save it.
The 1924 Ennis House sits on a hilltop north of downtown. It was severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Then, in 2005, torrential rains caused a retaining wall to buckle, making matters worse.
The nonprofit Ennis House Foundation has spent $6.5 million repairing it so far but now believes that the building would be best preserved as an owner-occupied home.
It is asking $15 million and estimates the buyer would have to spend up to $7 million more to finish the restoration.
The Grand Ole Opry remains steeped in a tradition of sound, but the 83-year-old country music program will offer captions for the hearing impaired for the first time Saturday.
About 450 people participating at the Hearing Loss Association of America convention in Nashville this week will attend one of the Opry's evening shows and will be able to follow along with captions on large projection screens.
Vice president and general manager of the Opry, Pete Fisher, said the show is somewhat of an experiment and captions may be used again in the future.
Nancy Macklin, director of events for the association, said the group asked the Opry about the captioning since many convention attendees wanted to see a show. Macklin said captioning at entertainment venues, including sports stadiums, is growing.
Singer Andy Williams, right, and wife Marcia Karyo attends the 40th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.
The ruling Friday by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment likely will force pot shops with 10 or more employees to post warnings. Final guidelines are expected by the time warning requirements take effect in a year.
The listing only applies to marijuana smoke, not the plant itself.
Spokesman Sam Delson says the state agency found marijuana smoke contains 33 of the same harmful chemicals as tobacco smoke.
Actor Billy Gray, who played the son on the series "Father Knows Best," arrives at "A Father's Day Salute to TV Dads" hosted by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, California, June 18, 2009.
Photo by Fred Prouser
When the FBI investigated the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," the case touched the highest levels of the FBI, even its second-in-command W. Mark Felt, the shadowy Watergate informant whose "Deep Throat" alias was taken from the movie's title.
The FBI documents newly released to The Associated Press reveal the bureau's sprawling and ultimately vain attempt to stop the spread of a movie some saw as the victory of a cultural and sexual revolution and others saw as simply decadent.
Agents seized copies of the movie, had negatives analyzed in labs and interviewed everyone from actors and producers to messengers who delivered reels to theaters.
The papers are among 498 pages from the FBI file on Gerard Damiano, who directed the movie and died in October. Released this month following a Freedom of Information Act request by the AP, they are just a glimpse into Damiano's roughly 4,800-page file. More than 1,000 additional pages were withheld under FOIA exemptions and because they duplicated other material; the balance of the file has not yet been reviewed and released.
The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago.
The impeachment of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas sets up a trial in the Senate. Kent is the first federal judge impeached in 20 years.
The House approved four articles of impeachment against Kent accusing him of sexually assaulting two female employees and lying to judicial investigators and Justice Department officials. All four articles passed unanimously.
Kent, 59, entered a federal prison in Massachusetts on Monday to serve a 33-month sentence. He pleaded guilty last month to lying to judicial investigators about sexual assaults of two female employees.
Kent is refusing to resign until next year so he can continue to draw his $174,000 a year salary. If he is convicted of the impeachment charges in the Senate, he will be forced off the bench.
Singers Tom Jones, left, and Jon Bon Jovi attend the 40th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Police say a major fire has erupted at the landmark Georgia Theatre in Athens that has been a venue for Georgia bands including REM., Widespread Panic and the B-52s.
Witnesses say the fire began around 7 a.m. and was a major blaze. They said the converted movie theater would likely suffer major damage.
In 2008, national touring acts such as the North Mississippi All-Stars, Galactic, Robert Earl Keen, Sister Hazel and Ghostface Killah played at the Georgia Theatre.
Documents show actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a $500,000 settlement with a hospital that sickened his newborn twins with an overdose of blood thinner.
A petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in May shows the settlement will be divided evenly between the twins, Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has also agreed to provide free medical care for any issues arising from the Heparin overdose in November 2007.
A hospital spokeswoman says she did not have any information beyond what's in the public record.
The inventor of the "Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed," which brought weary travelers 15 minutes of "tingling relaxation and ease" for a quarter in hotel rooms across America during its heyday as a pop culture icon in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 92. John Joseph Houghtaling died Wednesday at his home in Fort Pierce, his son Paul Houghtaling said Friday in a telephone interview.
Tinkering in the basement of his New Jersey home, Houghtaling invented the "Magic Fingers" machine in 1958.
The device was mounted onto beds, and a quarter bought 15 minutes of "tingling relaxation and ease," according to its label.
"Put in a quarter, turn out the light, Magic Fingers makes ya feel all right," Jimmy Buffett sang in "This Hotel Room."
Kitschy and titillating, Magic Fingers remained a staple of American pop culture even after the device began disappearing from motels. The vibrations triggered a beer explosion in the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," and FBI agents Mulder and Scully relaxed to the pulsations in an episode of "The X Files."
In a 1963 New York Times profile, Houghtaling said he was selling beds with a built-in vibrating mechanism when he realized during a repair job it would be much cheaper to create something that would attach to the outside of an existing bed.
He moved the company to Miami in 1968 and remained its president until he retired in the 1980s, when the rights to the device were sold. The current owners still sell the machines for home use. After he retired, Houghtaling continued to invent and sell coin-operated machines, such as scales and pulse-checking devices.
Houghtaling was born Nov. 14, 1916, in Kansas City, Mo. He liked to say he barely made it out of high school, his son said, and he never went to college. He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and flew 20 combat missions. He is survived by his four sons and a daughter.
This photo provided by the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago shows three trumpeter swan cygnets that hatched last week as they follow closely behind their mother, Thursday, June 18, 2009.. These youngsters have a significant future ahead - they are slated to be released into the wild this fall as part of the trumpeter swan reintroduction and recovery program. To date, Lincoln Park Zoo has released 34 swans into the wild - all of them the offspring of this same adult pair of swans. Trumpeter swans were hunted to near extinction by the turn of the twentieth century. Lincoln Park Zoo has been actively involved in their recovery efforts for the past decade. Trumpeter swans are the largest American waterfowl. Once they have paired with a mate the swans remain together for life. They begin breeding after only three or four years of age. Their offspring, known as cygnets, will stay with their parents for up to four months before venturing off on their own. The sexes of the zoo's cygnets have not yet been identified, and they have not been named.
Photo by Greg Neise
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