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We have so much to talk about. Judy Miller out of jail and Scooter "who had
nothing to do with it" Libby is her source. What does this mean for Joe
Wilson, Valerie Plame and US?
Tom DeLay is INDICTED for violating Texas campaign laws and is no longer
Majority Leader (ugh Roy Blunt, allegedly thanks to GOP bigotry).
And speaking of bigots, how does that paragon of Right Wing Ethics Bill
Bennett grab ya? Taken out of context, he claims. How sad, how bad.
And local--the monorail looks dead on departure--how will you vote? Is 912
still your idea of an initiative to vote down? The mayoral budget and
scandal. All that and more.
We start a new segment--You tell me the story--what hit you the hardest or
made you laugh the hardest this week. And suggestions for 9 to 12 noon, let
me know what you think.
L'Shana Tovah, A Sweet New Year, to those celebrating the debut of 5766.
Jan Frel: Coming Out Strong (AlterNet)
In the wake of DeLay's indictment, David Dreier -- one of the three Republicans who moved up in the power chain -- will likely face greater scrutiny from GOP allies for his closeted sexuality.
GREG BLUESTEIN: In New Book, Woman Held Hostage by Man Accused in Courtroom Rampage Says She Gave Him Some of Her Drugs (Associated Press)
ATLANTA Sep 27, 2005 - Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith in God, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal. ... In her book, "Unlikely Angel," released Tuesday, the 27-year-old Smith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, so she dug into her illegal stash of crystal meth instead.
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro: Not So Intelligent Design (irascibleprofessor.com)
The human appendix is prone to infection from trapped fecal matter; and, if infected it can rupture causing a life threatening case of peritonitis. The question, of course, is why would an "intelligent designer" provide humans with a digestive tract that includes an organ that has no useful function in the digestion of food and which can threaten life?
Freeman J. Dyson: Wise Man (nybooks.com)
Richard P. Feynman "was particularly concerned that teachers using the manuals might penalize children who came up with original ways of solving problems. This actually happened many years later when Michelle was in high school and was penalized for going off the beaten track to solve an algebra problem. When Feynman went to the school to complain, the teacher accused him of knowing nothing about math. After that, Michelle stayed home to study algebra with her father, and only went to school to take exams."
September 30 - The Hobbits set out with Aragorn and Bill the Pony from Bree, headed for Rivendell. Aragorn takes them through the wilderness rather than along the road. He is making first for Weathertop.
Gandalf arrives at Crickhollow and finds that Frodo is not there. That evening, he arrives in Bree and learns that Frodo left with Aragorn. He casts a spell of surpassing excellence upon Butterbur's beer.
Jodie Foster has the tightest jaw in Hollywood! In the opening scene of "Flightplan" we get a closeup on her face that sets the tone for this whole movie….it's like a "Spoiler Alert" !!!!! Something bad's about to happen…….she is clenching her jaw like a vise! Well I didn't buy it at all.
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster - "Taxi Driver" - "Panic Room" - "Freaky Friday" - "Foxes" - "The Silence of the Lambs") has just lost her husband in a bizarre accident. She and her daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) are about to board a plane in Berlin with her husbands body in a casket…headed to New York. It just so happens that Kyle is an engineer who has had a hand in designing the very plane she's getting on with her child…..Kyle seems overly protective and spooked by any and every incident that separates her, even for an instance, from her 6 year old girl….hint hint. So Julia is scared and hides under Kyles coat as they pre-board this huge transatlantic double decker jet!.
After de-icing and other delays, the plane takes off. Kyle falls asleep with her daughter next to her and about 3 hours later she wakes to find Julia missing……at 40,000 feet!
"Where's my daughter…..search the plane…..I need to talk to the captain…..we have to land….now"….Kyle's jaw is getting tighter. After a search of the passenger areas with no luck, Captain Rich (Sean Bean - "Winter Flight" - "The Big Empty" - "The Island" - "National Treasure") comes out of the locked cabin to calm Kyle down. Out of nowhere, a sleepy eyed flight Marshall named Carson (Peter Sarsgaard - "Jarhead" - "Freak City" - "Dead Man Walking") is called in to take "control" of Kyle who is really freaking out!
This movie turns into "Airport 1975" meets "Fear of Flying" meets "Red Eye" meets "The Missing" (Cate Blanchett would have been better for the part of Kyle) meets "Tora Tora Tora" !!!!!! What a preposterous and ponderous plot…..we got phony Arabs, felonious flight attendants, faulty floor plans and a freaky mom who just happens to know more about the plane than the captain does!
This "Flight Flick" fell apart into a B- bad caricature…..Jodie Foster was just tooooo uptight and, without giving it away, the ending is patently predictable!!!!
Purple Gene gives "Flightplan" 4 dangling oxygen masks out of 10 for barely taking anybody's breath away !
Got a few notes wondering where the Friday page was. Seems I somehow uploaded the files to the wrong server. My bad.
My cousin who was named Loretta at birth, but became a nun & is now referred to as 'Sister Giggles' in the family, celebrated her golden jubilee last week.
She's a Sister of St. Joseph, and when I was a kid she wore a habit with a big wimple that went down over her eyebrows.
For some reason back then I was convinced nuns were bald, so Sister Giggles took off the headgear in private at a family reunion and set me right.
Sure thought that was cool.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by another RERUN'My Name Is Earl', then a RERUN'E-Ring', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is the SEASON PREMIERE with Steve Carell hosting, music by Kanye West.
The late, late 'SNL', is from 30 September, 1995, with Mariel Hemingway hosting, music by Blues Traveler.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Invasion', followed by a RERUN'Commander In Chief'.
The WB panders with 'Blind Date', followed by 'Girls Behaving Badly', then 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH.
UPN here has baseball with the Doggers visiting in Sandy Eggo.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blue Hawaii', followed by the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', then the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', again.
Bravo fills the night with the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather', again.
Comedy Central has the movie '40 Days And 40 Nights', followed by the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie', then 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly'.
History has 'King's Highway: El Camino Real', 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre', and 'Roman Vice'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Chi Girl' (1999);
[7:30AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[8AM] 'The Shogun's Samurai' (1978);
[10:15AM] 'Kicked In The Head' (1997);
[11:50AM] 'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997);
[1:50PM] 'The Shogun's Samurai' (1978);
[4PM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[4:30PM] Short: 'Life Lesson' (2003);
[5PM] 'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997);
[7PM] 'The Festival #6' (Finale) (2005);
[7:30PM] 'The Festival #1' (2005);
[8PM] 'Pollock' (2000);
[10:15PM] 'Bully' (2001);
[12:15AM] 'Pollock' (2000);
[2:30AM] 'All Over The Guy' (2001);
[4:15AM] 'The Festival #6' (Finale) (2005);
[4:45AM] 'The Festival #1' (2005);
[5:15AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[5:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Frankenfish', followed by the movie 'Chupacabra: Dark Seas'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'In This World';
[7:30AM] 'The Man on the Train';
[9AM] 'Slings & Arrows': Episode 2 - Geoffrey's Return;
[10AM] 'Hamburger America';
[11AM] 'Claude Chabrol L'Artisan';
[12PM] 'Cheech & Chong's Next Movie';
[1:35PM] 'At Five in the Afternoon';
[3:20PM] 'Evenhand' Joseph Pierson;
[5PM] 'House of Fools';
[7PM] 'Hamburger America';
[8PM] 'TransGeneration': Episode 2;
[8:30PM] 'Speed for Thespians';
[9PM] 'Where The Buffalo Roam';
[10:45PM] 'Bamboleho';
[11PM] 'Tarnation';
[12:35AM] 'DemonLover';
[2:35AM] 'Mad Dog and Glory';
[4:15AM] 'Speed for Thespians';
[4:45AM] 'Where The Buffalo Roam'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Sharon Stone speaks on stage about the world HIV/AIDS crisis at the Macy's Passport 05 fashion show in Santa Monica, California September 29, 2005. Stone hosted an auction of trips and services to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research before the fashion show. Picture taken September 29, 2005.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Oscar winner Charlize Theron's career came full circle Thursday when she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame only blocks from where she was first "discovered."
Surrounded by family and friends from her native South Africa, Theron recounted how at 18 an agent found her in line at a bank on Hollywood Boulevard. Her mother, in attendance, had pushed the tall, beautiful star to move to Los Angeles to pursue film acting.
Initially a model, and then a ballerina, the 30-year-old danced for New York's Joffrey Ballet before rising through the ranks of Hollywood.
The nickname 'Little Bastard', given to the Porsche 550 Spyder of U.S. actor James Dean, is displayed on a replica vehicle near the intersection of Highways 46 and 41 near Cholame, California September 30, 2005. Fans of the actor came to the site to pay respects on the 50th anniversary of Dean's death. Dean was killed when 'Little Bastard' collided with a car driven by a student at the intersection.
Photo by Robert Galbraith
U.S. TV viewership climbed again last season to a record household average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research reported on Thursday, challenging perceptions that Americans are watching less than they once did.
The all-time high viewing level posted for the 2004-05 television season, which ended earlier this month, was up nearly 3 percent from the previous year and 12.5 percent from a decade ago, the TV ratings service said.
Moreover, Nielsen said the average individual watched four hours and 32 minutes of TV last season, the highest level in 15 years. The figures include in-home viewing levels for broadcast, cable and satellite TV during all parts of the day.
Nielsen's study supports the idea that while the TV viewership pie is being cut up into ever smaller pieces, the overall size of the pie is growing.
It looks like Jay Leno's celebrity-autographed motorcycle has raised nearly a half-million dollars for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Bidding for the bike closed on the eBay auction Web site at 5 p.m. Thursday, and Leno announced during the taping of Thursday's "Tonight Show" that the winning bid was $505,100. Ninety-five percent of the winning bid will be donated to the American Red Cross for Katrina relief efforts.
A two-hour special edition of CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" that has been running late weeknights will continue for the time being.
"NewsNight: State of Emergency" features longtime CNN anchor Brown as well as CNN anchor and correspondent Anderson Cooper reporting from the Gulf Coast. It runs from 10 p.m.-midnight weeknights, replacing the formerly one-hour "NewsNight" and the 11 p.m. repeat of "Lou Dobbs Tonight."
"The two-hour show with Aaron and Anderson has been working well, and we are continuing it for the time being," a CNN executive said.
A figurine by outsider artist Linda St. John is part of her '900 Skinny Girls' which is part of a new multi-artist 'mega-exhibition,' titled 'Race, Class, Gender (do not equal) Character' at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, is shown Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005. St. John's work, which reminisces about her poverty-stricken upbringing in southern Illinois with figurines made out of pipe cleaners and discarded cloth and plastic; and the rest of the exhibit opens starting Saturday,Oct.1 .
Photo by Don Wright
Rep. Mary Bono (R-Scientology) and her husband, businessman Glenn Baxley, plan to divorce, her office said Thursday.
The couple have "mutually agreed to separate and intend to file for divorce. As this is a time of great sadness for them both, Congresswoman Bono asks that the public and the media respect their privacy," a statement from her office said.
Bono, the widow of pop star-turned-politician Sonny Bono, married Baxley in November 2001. The Western-wear designer and former minor league baseball player moved from his home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Palm Springs, where Bono lives with her two children.
O.J. Simpson plans to sign autographs and pose for pictures at a Halloween-themed comic book convention in a rare public appearance coinciding with the 10th anniversary of his acquittal on murder charges, a promoter of the event said on Friday.
Simpson agreed to show up at the NecroComicon show in Los Angeles for three days, starting on Friday night, as a favor to an unspecified friend who was paid in advance to arrange for the weekend appearance, according to the promoter, Tom Riccio.
On Sunday, Simpson will be joined at the event by his old friend and former football teammate Al Cowlings, who famously drove his buddy around Los Angeles in a white Ford Bronco during the televised slow-speed police pursuit that ended with Simpson's arrest at his home on murder charges.
'Flip', a three-month-old silvery gibbon, rests on its mother at Munich's Hellabrunn zoo September 23, 2005. Flip is the first newborn little silvery gibbon in 17 years in Munich's Hellabrunn zoo.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
Two agencies that represented the three co-creators of the TV hit series "Frasier" sued Paramount Pictures on Thursday, claiming they have not been fairly compensated.
The suit was filed on behalf of the Jim Preminger Agency, which represented Peter Casey and David Lee, and the Kaplan Stahler Gumer Braun Agency, whose client was David Angell.
The lawsuit alleges Paramount Pictures, which produced and distributed "Frasier," did not comply with the agreed upon agency package commission that is typically based on a percentage of revenues and profits generated by a series.
The studio has made more than $1.5 billion in gross revenue from "Frasier," the suit claims.
An Andy Warhol retrospective, a 10-hour Philippine film and Woody Allen's "Match Point" are among the highlights of this year's Viennale film festival.
The complete program for the Oct. 14-26 festival, made public Friday, includes screenings of Warhol movies such as "Space" and "The Velvet Underground." Several lectures on Warhol and his work are also included in the program, among them a poetry reading and talk by the artist, author, photographer and actor Gerard Malanga.
Fifteen world premieres are among the 291 films from 48 countries to be featured at the festival, organizers said. Almost half of the films are documentaries, traditionally a focal point of the Viennale, which is being held for the 43rd time.
An advertisement depicting Jesus and the Apostles gambling at the Last Supper in an ad by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power September 30, 2005. Paddy Power on Friday was fending off the wrath of Christians in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland where the billboard posters, adapting Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting of the event to show Jesus with a stack of poker chips, Judas with 30 pieces of silver and other apostles clutching hands of cards, are on display.
Photo by Paddy Power
Poems and declassified documents will scroll across landmark city buildings over the next 10 nights in a public art project by Jenny Holzer, whose provocative use of words as art is in part a response to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
"For the City" began Thursday with selections from international poets projected onto three buildings in Rockefeller Center. White words in block letters rose upward on darkened walls.
Following the Rockefeller Center installation, which runs through Oct. 2, government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act will be projected onto the Bobst Library at New York University Oct. 3 through 5, and poems will illuminate the New York Public Library Oct. 6 through 9.
Many of the declassified documents relate to treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and in Afghanistan, Holzer said Thursday.
A trade group representing the U.S. music industry said on Thursday it filed lawsuits against 757 people it claims used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in copyrighted songs.
The latest round brings the total copyright infringement lawsuits filed against individuals to 14,800 filed by the U.S. music industry.
A fin from a 1959 Cadillac Biarritz is seen during the Concours d'Elegance in Central Park in New York City September 30, 2005. The show, which features one-of-a-kind cars from all over the world, is in New York for the first time and will continue through Sunday.
Photo by Seth Wenig
A lesson learned by centuries of beachcombers has been distilled to a physicist's formula: to make the perfect sandcastle, use eight parts sand to one part water.
The physicists' study, released on Wednesday before publication in the journal Nature Physics, is entitled, rather grandly, "Maximum angle of stability of a wet granular pile."
And while it deals with sandcastles, it could also help determine the stability of retaining walls and the material they hold back, one of its authors said.
The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday.
The works, representing the goddesses Athena and Hera, date to between the second and fourth centuries - during the period of Roman rule in Greece - and originally decorated the Roman theater in the town of Gortyn, archaeologist Anna Micheli from the Italian School of Archaeology told The Associated Press.
"They are in very good condition," she said, adding that the statue of Athena, goddess of wisdom, was complete, while Hera - long-suffering wife of Zeus, the philandering king of gods - was headless.
A woman holds a baby tortoise with two heads in Havana September 27, 2005. The tortoise was found some days ago on a river bank at the city forest. According to scientists of the local aquarium who inspected the animal, it seems to be perfectly healthy.
Photo by Claudia Daut
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