Paul Krugman: L-ish Economic Prospects (nytimes.com)
The prospect for the economy isn't V-shaped, it's L-ish: rather than springing back, we'll have a prolonged period of at best slowly improving performance.
Andrew Tobias: And THAT Man's a DOCTOR! (andrewtobias.com)
Despite having by far the most expensive health care system in the world - double the per capita cost of the next closest nation - "The United States no longer boasts anywhere near the world's longest life expectancy," reports this month's HARVARD Magazine.
TOM DANEHY: Good riddance, Brandon Jennings; have fun in Europe! (tucsonweekly.com)
For those of you who are blissfully unaware--content to pass your time pondering gasoline prices and home foreclosures--Jennings is this week's Greatest Basketball Player Ever, and he was going to stoop to showcase his game at the University of Arizona during the upcoming season before moving on to the NBA the following year.
Jack Donaldson: Alone With Angelina (huffingtonpost.com)
For most of my years I have counted seeing a movie alone among the most depressing things a person could do -- an explicit sign that, at least socially, life had not worked out.
Baron Dave ("Sir, I'm afraid you've gone made with power."
"Of course I have. Did you ever try going mad without power?"
-- EPA Worker to EPA head Russ Cargill, The Simpson's Movie) was first, and correct, with
Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938. Stalin followed the year
after. The US was in the middle of The Great Depression and our
leaders weren't always driving world history.
Steve B replied:
I believe it was 1938.
Charlie answered:
E: 1938
To be fair, it wasn't an endorsement of Hitler, as the
related story makes clear. When they named W as "Person of the Year" for 2000 though, I said to someone that the award should be renamed "Thing of the Year," or maybe "Ogre of the Year."
Alan J responded:
1938
Sally said:
In 1938 (E) Adolph Hitler was Time magazine's Man of the Year, although the magazine actually came out in January of '39. Oh, and GW Bush held the same esteemed honor circa 2004 - no comment necessary there.
The radio has just told listener's that we are under an, "Extreme Heat Advisory" for my area. Gee, I wonder how I survived all of these years before such "Advisories?" I think I just went outside and felt how freaking hot it was, saw the flowers and kids wilting, and exchanged comments about the heat with the neighbors - how have I survived all of this time?
PS: I see that Laura Linney (and other cast members) has received an Emmy nomination for her role in, "John Adams." The "Outstanding Miniseries," has likewise received the coveted nod. I can't wait to view it, and will pretty soon.
I did catch Laura Linney in, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" just prior to its closing, and after my birthday party disaster... Unfortunately, Britain's Ben Daniels had been replaced the night of my tickets (by the understudy) and the show became tedious after almost three hours... On the plus side, the theater was great, Laura was fetching, and the company was quite enjoyable - guess, "All's well that ends well" as "they" say :)
Joe S ("If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
~ Karl Rove Adolph Hitler) answered:
E: 1938
Dave in Tucson replied:
I'm guessing Adolph Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938 after the Anschluss, when the English Tory PM Chamberlain proclaimed "Peace in our time" after handing over part of Czechoslovakia over to the Third Reich.
Vic in AK responded:
E: 1938
And, that MadCAT, JD responded:
DAMN! I ACTUALLY KNOW THAT ONE. 1938, THE YEAR I WAS BORN.
Then in 1965 there was another "Genghis Khan" with Omar Sharif starring as the Mongol leader.
And finally, way back in 1956, John Wayne put on the fu manchu for the starring role of Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror"
A bloody Love Story
The latest version of the story of Genghis Khan starts out in the Steppes of Mongolia and a 10 year old Temudjin (later to be Genghis Khan) is traveling with his father to a nearby village to pick a wife……before the line up occurs, a 9 year old girl flirts with Temudjin and says pick me for your wife….he likes her spirit and when all the girls stand ready for choosing, Temudjin picks Borte for his future wife……he tells her he'll come back in 5 years when she's old enough…..he promises he'll come back.
It is here that Temudjin's bad luck begins…..his father is killed by an enemy leader and Temudjin is kidnapped and made a slave and placed in a wooden plank locked around his neck…..somehow he makes a deal with the priest and runs off and breaks the "stocks" from his neck.
Then he takes another journey and fall into a frozen lake and is saved by a kid named Taichar from another clan…they become brothers…..Taichar wants to someday be the Khan of all Mongols with Temudjin as his 2nd…..but even at this early age, Temudjin says…no it is I who will be Khan….
Once again, as a young man, he is captured by his fathers old enemy……the dreaded wooden yoke is locked on him but somehow he manages to escape (after bashing the guards face in) and gets the contraption broken off…..
Finally he can go back to the village where his promised wife lives. He talks to her father and finds out that she is given to another because it has been so long….but true love wins and she decides to run off with Temudjin……forever..
Brutally Beautiful
Many more life and death adventures occur for Temudjin and his wife and 2 kids until his family is captured by the arch enemy. Temudjin calls on his blood brother Taichar to help him recapture them…..Taichar says "a Mongol does not go to war over a woman…take one of mine "! But Temudjin insists passionately and they go up against their greatest enemy to free the family.
But Temudjin is captured and sold into slavery in town and ends up rotting in a prison for years….until…………
The rest of the story is the great and bloody battles for the control of all Mongolia between Temudjin and Taichar and their hordes of loyal men….the battle scenes are brutally beautiful with rainbow arcs of blood spurting and huge sabers passing all the way through upper torsos…..lightening and thunder flashing across the great Gobi desert…
And the rest is history..
Purple Gene gives "Mongol" 9 perfectly choreographed rhythmic bow and arrow showers out of 10 for being absolutely stunningly filmed…. but just a knifes length shy of perfection (Oscar nominated for best foreign film)
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Unit', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by another RERUN'My Name Is Earl', then a RERUN'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, of course, with Christopher Walken hosting, music by Panic At The Disco.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Freaky Friday', followed by a RERUN'Eli Stone'.
The CW offers a couple old 'Friends', followed by a couple of 'Sex & The City's.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Bounce'.
A&E has the movie 'Wyatt Earp', followed by the movie 'Open Range'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Birdcage', followed by the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', then the movie 'Two Weeks Notice'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro
[3:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 10
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 Love & Monsters
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 11 Fear Her
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Walkabout
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 Treasure of the Nation
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 John Malkovich, Alan Davies and Sharleen S
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Walkabout
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 Treasure of the Nation
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 John Malkovich, Alan Davies and Sharleen S
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Walkabout
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 Treasure of the Nation
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 John Malkovich, Alan Davies and Sharleen S
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Fry
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', followed by the movie 'Brokeback Mountain'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Malibu's Most Wanted', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', then 'Reality Bites Back', and 'Gong Show With Dave Attell'.
FX has the movie 'Grandma's Boy', followed by the movie 'S.W.A.T.'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Tougher In Alaska', another 'Tougher In Alaska', and still another 'Tougher In Alaska'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] Waiting for Guffman
[08:00 AM] Sword of Doom
[10:05 AM] Gerry
[11:50 AM] Bee Season
[01:45 PM] The Safety of Objects
[03:50 PM] IFC In Theaters
[04:00 PM] Gerry
[05:45 PM] Bee Season
[07:35 PM] Trans
[09:00 PM] State of Grace
[11:20 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[11:30 PM] Confidence
[01:15 AM] Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
[03:15 AM] State of Grace
[05:35 AM] Confidence (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Saw', followed by the movie 'Saw II'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[08:00 AM] Djangomania!
[09:00 AM] Robert Redford on Paul Newman
[09:45 AM] The Sea Inside
[12:00 PM] The Flower of My Secret (1995)
[02:00 PM] Episode 7 - Los Angeles, Part 2
[02:30 PM] (Episode 3)
[03:00 PM] Part 6
[04:00 PM] Djangomania!
[05:00 PM] Pangea Day
[06:00 PM] Sheryl Crow, Hard-Fi & Diana Krall
[07:00 PM] Ellie Parker
[09:00 PM] Episode 5
[09:30 PM] Episode 1
[10:00 PM] Secrets & Lies
[12:20 AM] Topsy-Turvy
[03:05 AM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[04:50 AM] The World (ALL TIMES EST)
Creator and executive producer Marc Cherry, left, and actress Marcia Cross, from the show 'Desperate Housewives,' attend the ABC panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Thursday, July 17, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles
A measure seeking to commemorate resident Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.
The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.
New Orleans jazz trumpeter Lionel Ferbos shows a music sheet after posing for a photograph in front of his home that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina Thursday, July 17, 2008 in New Orleans. Ferbos is the oldest actively working jazz musician in New Orleans. He performs with his band at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe in the French Quarter on Saturdays.
Photo by Bill Haber
Paul McCartney told Quebec nationalists on Thursday "to smoke the pipes of peace" over their opposition to his free concert celebrating the city's 400th anniversary.
Several artists and politicians have questioned McCartney's participation in the weekend birthday celebrations of French-speaking Quebec City because of his British roots.
But McCartney said he was unmoved by their claim his presence evokes painful memories of Britain's conquest of New France, which included Quebec, in 1760.
The open-air concert is his only scheduled appearance in North America this year. Organizers are expecting a crowd of around 200,000.
Because of his own injuries, Ben Vereen seems like a natural to highlight a fundraiser for an institute that researches brain damage, but it took an introduction from the woman who walks his dog to make it happen.
Vereen was in Little Rock on Friday to visit hospital patients and raise money for a $32 million center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The Psychiatric Research Institute, opening in December, is one of a few centers that offer outpatient and inpatient care, research and education in one setting.
A car crash June 9, 1992, damaged an artery in Vereen's brain. He suffered a stroke the same day and that night was hit by a sport utility vehicle and thrown 130 feet while walking along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Now he dedicates much of what he does to others. He said he wants those suffering from brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and mental illness to know he's with them in their battle to take back their lives.
Recording artist Gloria Trevi of Mexico performs at the annual Premios Juventud Latin Music awards in Coral Gables, Florida July 17, 2008.
Photo by Hans Deryk
A controversial auction of soul singer James Brown's personal belongings fell short of expectations on Thursday, with more than 300 lots on offer taking in just over $850,000 at Christie's.
The auction, which followed months of legal wrangling over Brown's estate involving several children, ex-wives and girlfriends and others, won 11th-hour clearance from a South Carolina judge on Monday, perhaps depressing the total, which had been forecast at between $1 million and $2 million.
Brown's trademark capes often worn during his raucous performances were among two of the sale's top three lots, with David Letterman band director Paul Shaffer successfully bidding up to $35,000, including commission, for a blue satin, rhinestone and sequin-embellished cape embroidered with "Thy Name is Godfather of Soul."
Brown's trademark capes often worn during his raucous performances were among two of the sale's top three lots, with David Letterman band director Paul Shaffer successfully bidding on Brown's medical bracelet, estimated at $200 to $300, up to $32,500 including commission.
British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, accepted libel damages and an apology on Friday from a news agency that reported he had refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.
The artist, who changed his name after becoming a Muslim in the late 1970s, will donate the "substantial" payout to Small Kindness, a U.N.-linked charity he chairs.
Adam Tudor, the singer's attorney, told London's High Court that the story behind the legal action was published by World Entertainment News Network and was used on Contactmusic.com, a website said to have 2.2 million page views a month.
The article appeared in March last year and suggested that the singer was "so sexist and bigoted that he refused at an awards ceremony to speak to or even acknowledge any women who were not wearing a veil," Tudor said.
Singer and songwriter Paul Simon sued a Japanese clockmaker for $5 million for copyright infringement on Friday for claiming the company used one of his songs as a composition on their clocks.
Simon's lawyers accused clock company Rhythm Watch Co Ltd, and its U.S. subsidiary Rhythm USA Inc of using Simon's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on 40,000 of its clocks in the last three years without his permission.
The lawsuit called the song "one of the best known songs throughout the world in popular music" and cited Rhythm's "Grand Nostalgia Clock" as one that plays Simon's song without permission as well as other popular songs including "My Way."
A license fee for using the song would have cost more than $1 million and the lawsuit estimated Rhythm had profited more than $5 million from the sale of clocks that use the song.
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler has been arrested in Hollywood for alleged drug possession.
Los Angeles police spokesman Richard French says the 43-year-old Adler was arrested around 4 a.m. Friday by officers called to a home where a man reportedly was creating a disturbance and refusing to leave.
Adler was booked for investigation of possessing narcotics, being under the influence and for an outstanding warrant.
Adler has a long history of drug use. He performed on the early Guns N' Roses albums but was later fired.
A painting of the lead actors in the hit television series "The Sopranos" in the pose of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino painted by Federico Castelluccio is seen in this undated handout photo released July 18, 2008. Actors James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, who played Tony and Carmela Soprano in the HBO series that ran from 1999 to 2007, stare at each other in profile just as the Duke and Duchess of Urbino do in Piero della Francesca's 15th Century original which has sold for $175,000. It was painted by Sopranos supporting actor Federico Castelluccio, who played the Italian hit man Furio Giunta who fell in love with Carmela, the mob boss' wife.
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.
More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.
While it is common here to find some penguins - both dead and alive - swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, Pimenta said there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.
Every year, Brazil airlifts dozens of penguins back to Antarctica or Patagonia.
Barbie and Bratz dolls are sisters, a jury has decided in a major victory to Mattel Inc., the world's largest toymaker, in its copyright infringement lawsuit against rival MGA Entertainment Inc.
The federal jury decided Thursday that the designer of MGA's Bratz characters conceived the idea for the dolls while working for Mattel - a ruling that could mean millions of dollars for the Barbie maker when the jury considers possible damages during a separate proceeding.
Mattel filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Riverside against MGA, which began marketing the hugely popular Bratz line of sassy urban dolls in 2001. Mattel has claimed it owned the rights to the Bratz line because its creator, Carter Bryant, came up with the concept while working for El Segundo-based Mattel.
Analysts estimate Bratz has made MGA more than $500 million a year.
A handout image from the Ardberg museum near Stockholm shows a lithograph by Andy Warhol titled "Superman". Thieves broke into the museum overnight and stole five works, including "Superman", the manager said on July 18, 2008.
Amsterdam's Artis zoo says a baby red panda adopted by a zookeeper's cat after being rejected by its mother has died.
The zoo says an autopsy on the tiny panda found its windpipe filled with milk, indicating it choked to death. The zoo had hoped the panda would be able to suckle from the cat for three months before moving onto a diet of bamboo and fruit.
The tabby cat came to the cub's rescue July 1 after it was spurned by its mother. A second cub died shortly after the cubs' birth on June 30.
Fire investigators said a fire that destroyed a Mendota Heights home last week was caused by a flowerpot. Fire Chief John Maczko said a flowerpot on the home's deck spontaneously combusted.
While rare, spontaneous combustion can happen to pots with the right mixture of soil, moisture and heat.
Investigators said the soil was in a plastic pot that had become hot after several days of high temperatures and humidity. It ignited July 8, and wind helped the fire grow and spread to the deck and then to the house.
Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90.
Stafford's records of "I'll Walk Alone," "I'll Be Seeing You," "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" and other sentimental songs struck the hearts of servicemen far from home in both World War II and the Korean War. They awarded her the title of "GI Jo."
In 1939, she was working with a group of male singers called the Pied Pipers. The group was invited to join the Tommy Dorsey band, a big attraction in the swing era. Soon the Pied Pipers were singing in major hotels and ballrooms and on radio.
The Pied Pipers signed with the fledgling Capitol Records, but Stafford left the group to join Johnny Mercer, one of the Capitol founders. Mercer guided her new career with hits such as "Candy," "Serenade of the Bells" and "That's for Me." In demand for personal appearances, she accepted a date at New York's Club Martinique. A shy person, she never played a nightclub again.
At Capitol, Stafford, who had been married to Pied Piper John Huddleston from 1941 to 1943, became reacquainted with Paul Weston, who had been an arranger for Dorsey. They married in 1952, and he acted as her arranger and conductor for the rest of her career. They had two children, Tim and Amy, and four grandchildren.
She recorded more than 800 songs during a versatile career that included ballads, folk, Scottish, country and novelty. She even tried comedy. She and Weston recorded an album of numbers on which she sang painfully off-key and he played miserable piano. They were billed as Jonathan and Darlene, but their identity was soon discovered. A second album won them a Grammy in 1960 for best comedy album.
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Coalinga, Calif., where her Tennessee father had come to work in the oil fields. When a new field was discovered in Long Beach, he moved his wife and four daughters south. Young Jo studied classical music for more than three years and was cast in a high school production of "Robert." But the 1933 Long Beach earthquake destroyed the school, and she joined her two older sisters singing pop songs on radio as the Stafford Sisters.
The newest lion cub on display at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden looks out as other cubs play, Thursday, July 17, 2008, in Columbia, S.C. The newest cub, a male, was born June 13th from another lion named 'Lindsay' who had to have surgery for a ruptured uterus after giving birth.
Photo by Mary Ann Chastain
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