Truck Paintings (just4smile.com )
Here are 8 pictures of European trucks whose trailers are decorated to look like the sides are missing and the products they are hauling are painted on the sides and back.
Patrick Barkham: Nazis, needlework and my dad (Guardian)
Not many men belong to a stitching group, but Tony Casdagli picked up his enthusiasm for the craft from his father, who kept himself sane by fashioning subversive messages as a PoW.
Paul Krugman: Setting Their Hair on Fire (New York Times)
I was favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs plan, which is significantly bolder and better than I expected. It's not nearly as bold as the plan I'd want in an ideal world. But if it actually became law, it would probably make a significant dent in unemployment. Of course, it isn't likely to become law, thanks to G.O.P. opposition.
Paul Krugman: The Profession and the Crisis (Eastern Economic Journal)
What we really need is a change in the destructive social dynamics that brought us to this point. And I wish I knew how to do that. But my problem is obvious: I'm an economist, and it seems that we need some kind of sociologist to solve our profession's problems.
Andrew Tobias: Two Types of Idealists
My own view is that the TRUE idealist is the one who does what he or she has to to advance his or her ideals (perhaps call him or her the "practical idealist") whereas the TRAGIC idealist is tremendously well motivated but, by refusing to make the hard choices and accept the distasteful compromises, may actually set his or her cause back horribly. That's what Nader did. By ignoring all his friends and advisors - who begged him to tell voters in Texas and Massachusetts to vote for him but swing state voters to vote for Gore - he dealt the world an (unintentional!) blow of truly disastrous proportions. If that's idealism, I want no part of it.
Richard Curtis: Why Mike Scott is My Idol (Guardian)
For almost 30 years, screenwriter Richard Curtis has worshipped Mike Scott of the Waterboys. He has read out his lyrics at funerals, he plays 'This Is The Sea' to feel restored - and he cries every time he hears 'The Whole of The Moon.'
Jason Zingale: "Interview with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Co-writers and stars of 'Paul'" (Bullz-eye)
"We had more fun just messing around in the writing room then we ever thought we could on set, and "Paul" was just one that we decided, 'Let's finish this.' Plus, it was a bigger project - our heart was in it more than the last things. The things we didn't finish we weren't entirely into, and 'Paul' was definitely something that was a labor of love for us and became that on set as well." -- Simon Pegg
Catherine Shoard: "John Hurt: 'I'd be a rubbish spy'" (Guardian)
John Hurt makes a convincingly cerebral spook in the new film of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.' But in real life, if he were in charge of MI6, we'd be in trouble. He's too gregarious, too eager and far too puckish.
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India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was on her way to an interview for a documentary for Irish television, when two of her bodyguards opened fire and riddled her with bullets. Who was waiting at her residence to interview her?
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE (16 April 1921 - 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was, for much of his career, a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits, as well as a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement.
He was also unintentionally a part witness to the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was on her way to be interviewed by him for a documentary for Irish television, at her residence, when two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, opened fire and riddled her with bullets.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Peter Ustinov
Charlie wrote:
Peter Ustinov
BttbB replied:
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE...
English actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, TV presenter, raconteur and diplomat.... Winner of two Oscars (four nominations), three Emmys (five nominations), a Golden Globe (three nominations), a BAFTA (four nominations) and, of all things, a Grammy in 1960 for 'Best Recording for Children'. (Oh, and two Tony nominations along the way)... He was a 'Goodwill Ambassador' for UNICEF and President of the 'World Federalist Movement' from 1991 until his death in 2004... There's no wonder why he was Knighted by Elizabeth II,Dei Gratia Regina...
Adam answered:
Peter Ustinov
Sally said:
On October 31, 1984, Peter Ustinov was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was assassinated on her way to the meeting.
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, 16 April 1921 - 28 March 2004), was an English actor, writer and dramatist.
PS: On September 10th, 2001, my daughter and son-in-law stayed up to watch a Bronco football game on TV. The game ran on, and on, and they didn't get to sleep until late that night. At that time, they were the parents of my grandson, aged a year and a half, and Nikki was pregnant with my granddaughter.
The morning of September 11th, Kenny was late getting off to work and arrived at the train station just in time to see his train pulling away. He had to sit at the station for 23 minutes to await the next train into the city, and it also caused him to miss his connecting subway down to his office at the World Trade Center.
Frustrated, and late, Kenny was even more annoyed when his train zipped past his stop at the WTC and he had to get off at the next stop - just in time to look up and see the second plane hit the second tower of the towers. Chunks of cement were falling around him - larger than he was. He continued on, wondering about his co-workers who worked on the 12th and 20th floors of the second tower, but he was not allowed to pass into the area. He seldom talks about the day, but he often says he had no idea what was happening all around him on that day. He had no cell reception, and for all he knew the world was at war.
So, Kenny did what made sense to him on the day, he turned and walked from the Battery to the Bronx, finally catching a bus to where they lived at that time. He arrived home late in the afternoon, and found Nikki frantic, she had not been able to reach him all day. He was in absolute shock.
And I was following to whole event from Denver where I lived at that time. I couldn't even get a land-line call through till late in the day. Needless-to-say, it was an ordeal for all of us.
I came out in January of 2002 for Jessie's birth, and decided that I was moving here - I don't ever want to be that far away from my family in an emergency again!
Now, every year, Kenny gets an invite to attend the 'reading of the names,' and to his Temple for a service for members who died on 9/11 - and our world stops for that day. The local media has a ball, preying on the emotions of the loved ones, and competing for ratings. We are sick of it, we don't want to be forced to remember such a terrible day - we get enough of that everyday in various ways. How much money was spent on this ostentatious show of what? Grief? Power? False show of Patriotism?
I say, enough already! Our country is in an economic disaster, the money should be divided in the restoration of the nation - not in a competition for suffering... It has become a monument to those who committed the crime, not to those who died there that day, and to the first responders who are still dying. I say, we should have left it just as it was on September 12th - that would have REALLY shown the world what can happen if we do not shore up our borders, and mend world relations, and soon!
Do we feel for all who were lost? Of course we do, but is all the hoopla really the way to pay tribute to them and their families? I, for one, don't think so. Many, many people have suffered pain and loss since that day - is their pain less because their pain was not spotlighted?
Harsh as it may sound, I say, put it to rest and go forward, it's the only way to go...and I think the dead would agree!
Alan J responded:
Peter Ustinov
Dale S replied:
Indira Gandhi was on her way to be interviewed by Peter Ustinov, the portly British thespian!
CBS fills the night with LIVE'2011 US Open Tennis', then pads the left coast with local crap, old reruns and maybe an old '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Who Do You Think You Are?', followed by a RERUN'L&O: CI', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Tina Fey, music by Ellie Goulding.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers the infomercial 'Beat The Rap', 'American Dad', and another 'American Dad'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', 'American Dad', and 'The Cleveland Show'.
MY here had LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Yankees visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', followed by the movie 'Flight 93', then the (F) 'Portraits From Ground Zero'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hondo', followed by the movie 'True Grit'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Sabatiello's
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 - Mojito's
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[10:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 10
[11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 13 Beyond the Sea
[12:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 14 Gender Bender
[1:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 15 Lazarus
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 The Next Phase
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 25 The Inner Light
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 26 Time's Arrow - Part 1
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 8 - Final Cut
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 9 - Flight of the Phoenix
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[10:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[11:00 PM] Outnumbered - Episode 6
[11:30 PM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 6
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[1:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[2:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 6
[2:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[4:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[5:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 6
[5:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Shallow Hal', followed by the movie 'Just Friends', then the movie 'Employee Of The Month'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men Origins Wolverine', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', and still another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Targeting Bin Laden', 'Modern Marvels', followed by the FRESH'Voices From Inside The Towers', and 'The Lost Kennedy Home Movies'.
IFC -
[1:15AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Cats & Dogs
[1AM - 2AM] Paid Programming
[2:00AM] Whisker Wars - Reindeer Games
[2:30AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Memphis
[3:00AM] Sin City
[5:30AM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[6:00AM] The Uninvited
[8:15AM] The Heroic Trio
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges - Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges - Don't Throw That Knife
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges - Dopey Dicks
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges - Dunked in the Deep
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges - Flagpole Jitters
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges - For Crimin' Out Loud
[12:30PM] The Three Stooges - Gents in a Jam
[12:55PM] The Three Stooges - Guns a-Poppin'
[1:20PM] The Three Stooges - Gypped in the Penthouse
[1:45PM] United We Stand
[2:00PM] The Uninvited
[4:15PM] The Heroic Trio
[6:00PM] The Skeptic
[8:00PM] Valhalla Rising
[10:00PM] Valhalla Rising
[12:00AM] The Delta Force
[2:45AM] Slayground
[4:45AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Memphis
[5:15AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Detroit
[5AM - 6AM] Paid Programming (ALL TIMES EST)
Standing In the front row, Bebe Neuwirth, right, Brian Stokes Mitchell, second from right, Amra-Faye Wright, third right, Ben Vereen, left, and Joel Grey, second from left, raise their arms as they and other Broadway performers practice their rendition of "New York, New York" before performing it during an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Friday Sept. 9, 2011 in New York's Duffy Square.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
Musicians are likely to win longer copyright protection of their work in Europe next week, helping artists and record labels as music revenues decline, and bringing Europe closer into line with the United States.
Artists including Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard have led a years-long campaign to extend music copyright in Europe, as they faced the expiry of the 50-year copyright protection term in their own lifetime.
A European Union official who asked not to be named said on Friday: "Although some countries are opposed, it seems likely an extension of copyright protection to 70 from 50 years will be agreed."
Ministers from EU countries are due to vote on the issue in Brussels on Monday.
Italian director Marco Bellocchio (R) kisses director Bernardo Bertolucci as he receives a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the 68th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 9, 2011.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
The Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC for another year despite an ongoing bitter dispute between its organizers and longtime producers.
NBC announced Friday that it would air the Jan. 15 show, ending any uncertainty caused by the delay last week of a trial aimed at settling the broadcast rights dispute.
The show's producers for nearly 30 years, dick clark productions, negotiated an extension last year to keep the glitzy awards gala on NBC through 2018. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sued over the deal, claiming the company had no right to enter into the deal. It has said it thinks the show's broadcast rights are undervalued and that another network would pay more to air the show, which attracts Hollywood A-listers.
A trial to resolve who owns the broadcast rights had been scheduled to begin Tuesday, but had to be rescheduled after a judge indicated she could no longer hear the case.
Director Gus Van Sant attends a screening of "Restless" during the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 in Toronto.
Photo by Evan Agostini
The art world shook last February when a report by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) revealed that China had overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world's second largest art market.
The art world shook again weeks later when Artprice, the industry's final word on such matters, announced that upon its review, China topped the United States as the No. 1 market.
What are Chinese investors buying?
Everything from Pablo Picasso's "Femme Lisant (Deux Personnages)," for $21.3 million, to exclusive rights to Elvis Presley's earliest known live recordings, which will hit the auction block October 22, in Hong Kong.
China's disposable income has multiplied 10-fold in the past 20 years, according to the China-based Hurun's list of the rich individuals. The annual study shows 64 percent growth in average wealth over the past two years, 400-500 billionaires (the world's most), and close to a million millionaires -- average age, 39.
Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson, who before his more recent battles to salvage his image has filmed many a battle scene for the big screen, is teaming with often-controversial screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to create a biblical epic.
The Anti-Defamation League quickly raised objections, citing his past history of reported slurs.
The teaming with Eszterhas has the legendary screenwriter preparing the script for Gibson to possibly collaborate on. His return from a lengthy hiatus to participate alongside Gibson, who has an option to direct, is part of the surprise being expressed around own.
For Eszterhas, it's a possible return to the form that made for his meteoric rise as both craftsman and a generator of big-time popcorn hits like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge."
Chris Pratt, from left, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman and director Bennett Miller participate in a news conference for the film 'Moneyball' during the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, in Toronto.
Photo by Evan Agostini
A bit actor who appeared in the first "Austin Powers" movie was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the violent 1990 gang rape of a Southern California woman.
Joseph Son, 40, was found guilty of one felony count of torture Aug. 25 after being linked to the crime through DNA evidence, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney.
In 1997's "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," Son wore a bowler hat and played one of Dr. Evil's henchmen, named Random Task.
Son and co-defendant Santiago Lopez Gaitan, 40, abducted the then-19-year-old victim as she was walking her dog by her apartment on Christmas Eve.
Son and Gaitan drove the woman to Huntington Beach and repeatedly raped and sodomized her in the back of the car at gunpoint. They also pistol-whipped her and threatened to kill her repeatedly, counting the bullets and telling her she was going to die.
Director Ami Canaan Mann, right, and her father and producer Michael Mann arrive at the premiere of the film Texas Killing Fields at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
Photo by Joel Ryan
A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero just days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
Staffers noticed the false tweets at around 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday, contacted Twitter and soon after had the account suspended.
A group calling themselves Script Kiddies mentioned themselves in the tweets and appeared to be responsible.
By about 7 p.m. Eastern, the account was restored and the false tweets removed. NBC is contacting authorities including the New York Police Department and FBI about the incident.
Director and musician Tony Kaye poses during a photocall for his film "Detachment" at the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France, Friday Sept. 9, 2011.
Photo by Michel Spingler
South Carolina's first woman governor called a woman reporter in Charleston a "little girl" over an article detailing at least $127,000 in taxpayer dollars spent by the governor and other state officials on a European economic development trip.
In a syndicated radio talk show interview Thursday, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley (R-Rhymes With Bunt) was asked about last Sunday's article by Renee Dudley in The Post and Courier of Charleston: (http://bit.ly/oMjHxE).
"And all I will tell you is: God bless that little girl at The Post and Courier. I mean her job is to try and create conflict. My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it," Haley said on "The Laura Ingraham Show."
On Friday, Haley redoubled the criticism, but said she regretted the personal remark.
The Living Goddess Kumari is seen in her chariot before being carried in for worship on the first day of the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu September 9, 2011. Named after Lord Indra, the colourful week-long festival begins on Friday, during which the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
A former police officer for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia has admitted to stealing $2.4 million worth of "error" coins and selling them to a coin distributor in California.
U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman in New Jersey said 64-year-old William Gray pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of theft of government property and tax evasion.
Gray, of North Wildwood, N.J., had worked at the U.S. Mint since 1996. In a federal court in Camden, N.J., he admitted taking $1 presidential coins that were missing edge lettering, knowing they would be considered more valuable to coin collectors because they were considered "mint errors." He mailed them from New Jersey.
He was freed on $50,000 bail. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20.
A giant fish-shaped sculpture made of more than 2,500 lanterns is displayed as part of the celebration of the upcoming Mid-Autumn festival in Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival falling on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar will take place on Sept. 12 this year. Chinese people believe that on that day, the moon is the biggest, roundest and brightest, and the term round implies family reunion in Chinese.
Photo by Kin Cheung
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