Froma Harrop: Democrats the Party of 'Normal Americans' (creators.com)
DAVENPORT, Iowa - Democrats have emerged as champions of horse sense and competent governance. And they're on the offensive, accusing Republicans of downright weirdness in their fiscal recklessness and seeming obsession with the interests of the richest few. ... While Bush was the target, he made his own contribution to the discussion from Washington. After nearly seven years of spending like there's no tomorrow, he finally decided to draw the line: He vowed to veto the expansion of government health coverage for children of the working poor.
Jim Hightower: VERICHIP IMPLANTS, TUMORS, AND CASH (jimhightower.com)
VeriChip envisions a market of at least 45 million Americans sporting their very own RFID codes. But - oops - one bit of info the corporation never mentioned to customers or federal regulators is that several studies have found that these implants have induced malignant tumors in lab mice and rats. As one eminent cancer expert said after reviewing these studies, "There's no way in the world that I would have one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family members."
Froma Harrop: Why Suits Are Suitable (creators.com)
Are you following the fall fashions? For women, it's suits, suits, suits. Fashion writers talk about a "chic revival" and a look that's "polished," "clean," tailored. The color this season is gray, coordinated with brown, black, navy, burgundy and hunter green. How sensible, how easy, how temporary.
Roger Ebert: It's NOT because it's on TV, dummy
In the lobby in a Loop high-rise, there is a dandy new wide-screen flat-panel TV set. Whenever I see it, the picture looks squashed. That is because it comes in a ratio of about 4:3, like almost all TV, and has been stretched to fill the wide screen. No doubt the proprietors of this set figure that since they paid for that real estate, they want to use it.
Coastal Eddy brought in a lovely, deep marine layer. Sun finally broke through around 4pm.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night by dumping a RERUN of Friday night's 'Moonlight', followed by dumping a RERUN of Tuesday night's 'Cane', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night by dumping a RERUN of Monday night's 'Heroes', followed by dumpng a RERUN of Wednesday night's 'Bionic Woman', then dumps a RERUN of Tuesday night's 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
SEASON PREMIERE of 'SNL' with noted comic LeBron James hosting, music by Kanye West.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and an old '24'.
The CW here has a RERUN of 'KTLA Presents Planet LA...yesterday, today and the next 60 years'.
Faux has 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
SEASON PREMIERE of 'MAD TV' with Perez Hilton.
MY has a RERUN'IFL Battlebround'.
A&E has 'Sell This House!', another 'Sell This House!', 'Flip This House', another 'Flip This House', and the movie 'Erin Brockovich'.
AMC offers the movie 'Midway', followed by the movie 'The Great Raid', then the movie 'Midway', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riveria;
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7;
[2:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 2 Day One;
[3:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 3 Ghost Machine;
[4:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 7;
[5:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 8;
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7;
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace;
[8:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 3 Ghost Machine;
[9:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 4 Cyberwoman;
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Barbara Windsor and Robert Webb;
[11:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 3 Ghost Machine;
[12:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 4 Cyberwoman;
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Barbara Windsor and Robert Webb;
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 3 Cumbria;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 4 Maidenhead;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 20 Kedleston 17;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 30 Ardingly 65;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Smith;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Nutty Professor', followed by the movie 'The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps', then the movie 'The Nutty Professor', again.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', followed by the movie 'Office Space', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Elektra', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
History has 'Band Of Brothers', 'Mega Disasters', another 'Mega Disasters', and still another 'Mega Disasters'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] The Field;
[08:00 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #21: The Rescue;
[08:30 AM] Blind Swordsman #13: Zatoichi's Vengeance;
[10:00 AM] Trauma;
[11:40 AM] Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!;
[01:15 PM] IFC News Special: Comic-Con Chronicles;
[01:45 PM] The Field;
[03:40 PM] Action Indies: Extraordinary Location Scouts - Presented by Land Rover;
[04:10 PM] All over Me;
[05:40 PM] Trauma;
[07:15 PM] Dinner Rush;
[09:00 PM] After Hours;
[10:45 PM] The Million Dollar Hotel;
[12:50 AM] Media Lab Results;
[01:00 AM] Trapped in the Closet;
[02:30 AM] IFC News Special: Exclusive Interview with R. Kelly;
[03:00 AM] After Hours;
[04:45 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[05:45 AM] Only the Strong Survive. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Alone In The Dark', followed by the movie 'Species: The Awakening'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Syrian Bride;
[06:00 AM] The Motorcycle Diaries;
[09:00 AM] A Healthy Baby Girl;
[10:00 AM] Murder on a Sunday Morning;
[12:00 PM] Land And Freedom;
[02:00 PM] Summer of the Serpent;
[02:00 PM] Episode 3;
[03:00 PM] In Short: Festival 7;
[03:00 PM] The Motorcycle Diaries;
[06:00 PM] K;
[07:00 PM] Episode 5: The Collection;
[08:00 PM] Stars by Helmut Newton;
[09:00 PM] In Short: Cam Archer;
[10:00 PM] Household Saints;
[12:00 AM] 100 Mile Rule;
[02:00 AM] Love + Hate;
[03:00 AM] Sonny;
[05:00 AM] Murder on a Sunday Morning. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Norman Lear and Hayden Panetierre at Declare Yourself's 'Hollywood Celebrates 18' event at the historic Beverly Hills Post Office on Thursday, September 27, 2007.
Montreal-born singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen joins Madonna among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year.
They are competing against heartland rocker John Mellencamp, the puckish rappers Beastie Boys, rap pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, the original British Invasion combo The Dave Clark Five, surf-rock instrumentalists The Ventures and premier dance acts Donna Summer and Chic.
There are nine nominees and only the five leading vote-getters will be inducted in the annual ceremony March 10, 2008 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Some 500 musicians, industry professionals and journalists vote on the inductions.
Elizabeth Taylor, wearing a coffee-colored, gold-sequined Naeem Khan gown accented with diamond jewelry, put some superstar sparkle into an HIV/AIDS fundraiser.
Taylor, 75 and in a wheelchair, is a founding chairwoman of the annual Macy's Passport event, a charity auction and showcase for food and fashion.
Since 1988, Passport has raised $25 million for HIV/AIDS services, prevention and research. The actress was honored Thursday night with its first Humanitarian Award for AIDS Activism.
"I used to have doors slammed in my face, telephones hung up on me," she said when asked about the differences between her early fundraising efforts and today. "This (is) 100 percent turnaround."
Demonstrators from the group 'Breasts not Bombs' protest topless against President Bush and the war in Iraq front of the White House in Lafayette Park, Washington, Friday, Sept. 28, 2007.
Photo by Charles Dharapak
Alan Ladd Jr., the Academy Award-winning producer and former 20th Century Fox head who green-lighted "Star Wars," was honored Friday with the 2,348th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"He is one of the sweetest and nicest guys and he has saved my life many times. If anybody deserves a star, it's this legendary, incredible, iconic filmmaker," Mel Brooks said.
Born in Los Angeles, Ladd, 69, became an agent in the '60s to clients including Judy Garland and Warren Beatty before going into producing.
Ladd went on to found his own company, which released "The Right Stuff," "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner," among others. He also headed up MGM in the early 1990s.
Rob Reiner has endorsed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"Every one of the Democratic candidates is strong, but Hillary is head and shoulders above the rest," the 60-year-old director said Wednesday.
Reiner, whose films include "When Harry Met Sally," "A Few Good Men" and "Stand By Me," also said he would throw a fundraiser party for Clinton's 60th birthday at his Brentwood estate Oct. 21.
Fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg announced in June that he was backing Clinton.
Artist Tim Patch (L), who calls himself 'Pricasso', shows off his portrait of Olga Braude (R) which he painted with his penis at the Sexpo in Johannesburg, September 28, 2007. Patch has painted portraits of some of the worlds most famous people including George Bush and Queen of England.
Photo by Antony Kaminju
Francis Ford Coppola says in an interview broadcast Friday that he lost 15 years of computer data, including writings and family photographs, when robbers raided his Argentine studio.
Speaking with Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias, Coppola appealed to the bandits to return the small computer backup device, which was taken along with computers in the raid Wednesday night.
"They stole our computers; they got all our data, many years of work," said Coppola, who apparently was not in the studio at the time of the robbery.
The director of "The Godfather" said the backup that rested on the floor in his offices at the Zoetrope Argentina studio was just "a little thing ... but the information is (worth) much time."
The Los Angeles city attorney's office says it has filed misdemeanor DUI charges against Kiefer Sutherland.
City attorney spokesman Nick Velasquez said the star of the TV drama "24" was charged Friday with one count each of driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or above.
If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail. He is on probation for a similar 2004 conviction, which could add as much as six months to his sentence.
The 40-year-old actor was pulled over Tuesday after leaving a Fox-sponsored Hollywood party at the trendy Area nightclub.
A visitor admires a mural titled "Wine, women and flowers" by Diego Rivera at Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes September 28, 2007. A retrospective to mark the 50th anniversary of Diego Rivera's death opened to the public Friday at Bellas Artes and will run to November 25.
Photo by Andrew Winning
Uncle Kracker pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor assault charge in an incident last month at a Raleigh nightclub.
A Wake County judge sentenced the singer, whose real name is Matthew Shafer, to 12 months' probation, fined him $1,500 and ordered him to undergo an alcohol assessment.
Assistant District Attorney Adam Moyers said Shafer put his hand up a woman's skirt at the nightclub. The 26-year-old woman slapped Shafer, and he slapped her back, Moyers said.
After a year of nasty allegations, country singer Sara Evans was granted a divorce Friday on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
The two sides agreed on a joint custody plan for their three children and a split of marital assets. Evans also agreed to pay ex-husband Craig Schelske alimony of at least $500,000 over 10 years.
Evans, 36, filed for divorce last October after 13 years of marriage, alleging that Schelske committed adultery, was verbally and emotionally abusive, drank excessively and frequently watched pornography in their home.
Schelske denied all the allegations and responded in court documents that Evans filed for divorce the same day he discovered she was having an extramarital affair.
Schelske, a native of Salem, Ore., ran for Congress as a Republican from Oregon's 5th District in 2002.
One of folk artist Howard Finster's works, featuring various junk items, remains in the closed Paradise Gardens at Pennville, Ga., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Not far away, the place where the bicycle repairman had his vision from God to paint the Gospel opens this weekend as a museum to the man long considered the grandfather of contemporary folk art.
Photo by Gene Blythe
Ryan Adams pitched another fit for a Minneapolis audience, a few years after his last local meltdown.
Throughout a show Thursday night, the 32-year-old singer-guitarist complained about the sound monitors onstage at the State Theatre. At one point, he moved two monitors, his microphone and his guitar pedals.
After 70 minutes he'd had enough. Adams announced "the last song," played it and didn't return for an encore. Many fans stood and booed.
In 2003, Adams gave a famously bad performance at First Avenue, a rambling two-hour show where he griped about the sound system, played several songs twice and lambasted local rock legend Paul Westerberg.
A 157-year-old whisky was sold for more than 29,000 pounds (41,500 euros/59,200 dollars) Friday, setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch.
The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear's auctioneers in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, beating the distillery itself.
The whisky, which was was sold on behalf of a private owner, is the oldest known bottle of Bowmore in existence.
The bottle was presented to William Mutter in 1851 and has remained in the family for generations.
A red panda (Ailurus fulgens), born in July 2007, braves the heavy rain on a tree in his outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. Red pandas originate from the Himalayas, where they live at an elevation betweeen 6.400 and 16.000 feet.
Photo by Uwe Lein
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