BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 19 October, 2013

Saturday

19 October, 2013

(Updated Daily)

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Miss Cellania: College Women + Drinking = Rape? (Neatorama)
Treating our daughters as potential victims is only a short-term solution. Making nonconsensual sex as recognizable and shameful as say, burglary, and raising our sons as if they are going to date our daughters is the longterm solution.


Malala's Drone Strike Warnings Ignored by US Media (YouTube)
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for its coverage of 16 year old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai, highlighting her heroism promoting education against the Taliban, but omitting her important message to Obama about ending US drone strikes in her home country.


Paul Krugman: Extortionist Fellow-Travelers (New York Times)
In other words, Fix the Debt isn't just ineffectual in its pursuit of a Grand Bargain, it's an actively malign force in our politics, in effect acting as an ally of the extortionists.


William Saletan: You'll Pay for This, GOP (Slate)
"There are no winners here," President Obama declared at the White House this morning. Then, with an elegant air of nonpartisanship, Obama began to fashion the shutdown into a political weapon. Here's how he's going to deploy it.


David Wiegel: Let's Laugh at the People Who Told Obama to Give in to Republicans (Slate)
I'm no fan of "winners and losers" breakdowns of complicated fights, because I think they're simplistic, and I hate getting heavy Internet traffic for my articles. But it would be irresponsible to move on from Shutdown 2013 without remembering how badly the GOP underestimated Barack Obama. The White House said all year that the president would refuse to negotiate on the debt limit. The president himself said this whenever asked. Republicans didn't buy it.


Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (Guardian)
I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons - a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth - how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going to be, 15 years from now? And they found they could predict it very easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based on asking what percentage of 10 and 11-year-olds couldn't read. And certainly couldn't read for pleasure.


John Harris: Morrissey's Autobiography is nearly a triumph, but ends up mired in moaning (Guardian)
Review: Morrissey is brilliant when he's writing about pop music, but far too many pages are given over to court cases and feuds.


Interview by Theresa Malone: "Judy Chicago's best photograph: woman and smoke" (Guardian)
'It was a different time. Artists could just go out into the desert and set off flares without a permit.'



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Trivia Question of the Day


What cartoon character shares a cottage in a haunted forest with her "aunties", Thelma, Velma and Zelma?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


On what TV series would you find Rusty, Rip & Rinty?


      The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin                                                      Source


The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters.

The character of Rin Tin Tin had appeared in movies and radio serials since 1922. One dog who appeared briefly in the TV series was fourth in the bloodline of the original Rin Tin Tin silent film canine actor. The main screen dog for the TV show was trainer Frank Barnes's Flame, Jr., called JR (pronounced Jay Are) by Barnes. Other dogs appearing as Rin Tin Tin included Barnes's dog Blaze and Lee Duncan's dog, Hey You. Hey You descended from Rin Tin Tin, but was marred in appearance by an injury to an eye received in his youth. Hey You served as a stunt dog in fight scenes.        Source








Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Rin Tin Tin



Lois (I hate my life) Of Oregon said:
   Oh yeah, I know this one! We had several View Master discs of Rin Tin Tin and his amazing adventures. You remember View Master don't ya? You would put the amazing THREE DIMENSIONAL picture disk into the big heavy viewer, hold it up to your eyes, and sit under a lamp while craning your neck and clicking the damn clicky thing hard enough to leave imprints on your finger tip. Oh, the hours of fun! Yeah. Here is a picture of what Rinty did to pay the rent after his show was canceled.




mj wrote:
   That would be that love story
  About a boy and his dog and the all male (totally not gay) group of soldiers who adopt them to live in lovely Fort Apache, Rin Tin Tin. Yo Rinty.




John A. responded:
   The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin.



Charlie replied:
   Easy one.
  Rin Tin Tin




Adam answered:
   Rin Tin Tin.
  At one point the world's biggest movie star.




Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
   The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin



Marian replied:
   Rin Tin Tin



Sally said:
   On the old TV series, "Rin Tin Tin," you would find Rusty, Rip & Rinty.

  Complete with paw print in the middle!
  PS: Thanks to B2BB for the info today on the government shutdown and military pay.
  My cousin's SIL is military, and he and the family are in Germany. My cousin was worried about their pay (with 3 young kids) so I copied your info and sent it to her. Thx!
  PPS: Sorry about the 'shrooms, Marty prolly forgot...




John I from Hawai'i says,
   "Rin Tin Tin."



Dale of Diamond Springs, Norfalcali, answered:
   Yoooo - Rinty! Lee Aaker as Rusty, James Brown as Rip Masters. When I was a mere youth this was one of my favorite shows.
  Oh, Happy Birthday Chuck Berry---We are all Chuck's Children!!! Keith, Neil & Chuck





DJ Useo responded:
   There's certainly a lot'ta stuff I don't know about at all, but you done stumped me well today!
  My silly guess is it's the real names of these three guys-




MAM   wrote:
   'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin', an ABC television series, ran from October 1954 to May 1959.




BttbBob   said:
   I wasn't sure (and the first guess I made was so wrong I'm too embarrassed to tell you) when I had to resort to looking it up. I was more embarrassed when I discovered the answer is "The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin" which I remember avidly watching as a tad. My family even had a German Shepard (a "Leader Dog" school wash-out) that we named "Rinny"...
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  "Aw-w-w-w" Moment - "Rinny" was a spayed full grown adult female who had never had puppies. I was five years old and a neighbor foisted off on me a barely weaned kitten that I gleefully brought home (the beginnings of my 'cat-thing') and "The Old Nan" (not so old then - 25) was in a state of high dudgeon over said kitten's appearance. "Rinny", though, was delighted and 'adopted' said kitten (who I named "Puffy") as her own. Poor "Puffy" (the ersatz puppy) had to endure being frequently licked and nuzzled by this enormous canine. "Puffy" grew into a fine cat and became fast friends with "Rinny". "The Old Nan" still speaks of how pissed-off she was at that neighbor, though. She had to feed "Puffy" with an eye-dropper and milk for about a week until it would eat solid food.
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  "Aw-w-w-w" Moment #2 - I told "Maddie Muffin" that story and as she loves to pretend to be animals (one never knows which avatar she will chose - a pony, puppy, bear cub etc), she occasionally will appear as "Puffy", my kitten...
  That makes me smile. Her other avatars don't have names, only "Puffy" does.
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  "I knew it" Moment - The Tigers are down to the Bosox 3-2 and go back to Fenway Park in "Beantown" having to win the final two there. A tough job, but it can be done. The Tigers starting pitchers have been spectacular, as all the national 'Talking Heads' agree, but their big hitters and bull-pen have been very inconsistent. They do have their best two pitchers starting tonight and Sunday, but they gotta hit the damn'd ball, dagnabbit! Go Tigers!
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  Happy Birthday this day to:

Dawn Wells
  (75) I always answered the question, "Ginger or Mary Ann?" with "Both"...

Martina Navratilova
  (57) One powerful woman... Fact...

Pam Dawber
  (62) From Mork to Mark... Love the hair...

Wynton Marsalis
  (52) A master...   1983 Grammy Performance and Acceptance Speech - Wynton Marsalis - YouTube

Chuck Berry
  (87 - Can ya believe it?)   Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode [HQ] - YouTube   |   Chuck Berry - Maybellene 1955 - YouTube

  Born this day:

Inger Stevens
  (1934-1970) What a beauty... such a "Farmer's Daughter"... Hoo-boy...

George C. Scott
  (1927-1999) He WAS "Ol' Blood and Guts" in this film... and gave quite a speech at the beginning of it, I'm tellin' ya... (The enlisted man's club at Fort Knox is called "The Patton Club". I tipped a few there in the summer of '71 during the later part of Basic Training when granted post privileges)

Melina Mercuri
  (1920-1994) "Never on Sunday" for her...

Peter Boyle
  (1935-2006) "It's Alive!"...

  October 18 Birthdays - Celebrities Born October 18 | Famous Birthdays




And, Joe S     answered:
   Rin Tin Tin. I watched the show when we got home from school, it came on once a week. My sister Judy watched "The Edge of Night" every day before the "after school shows." I thought it was dumb. Judy thought Rin Tin Tin was dumb. We were both right.
  Here they are Rip, Rinty and Rusty.

  What was I thinking? Of course. Peter Max, everybody knows that. I think my phone is smarter than me.



  


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Hungry Owl Project: Pest control on the wing - SFGate



House Stenographer Speaks Out On Religious Rant: 'The Holy Spirit Has Been Waking Me Up'



Gravity: A Triumph for Women, Science, and 3D Cinema | Govindini Murty



Abusers' Personality Profiles Are A Lot Like The Republicans



Top 10 crime movies | Film | theguardian.com



Daily Kos: Texas Has Found A Way To Deny Women The Vote. Voter Suppression?



Daily Kos: Cumulus turns 'Savage' to fill the 'Million-a-Week' Void



Daily Kos: Isn't a Limp Dick God's Will Too?



Daily Kos: Shutdown losers include Catholic bishops



Are Dolphins Reaching a Breaking Point? (Op-Ed) - Yahoo News



The Sad Reality of Puppy Mills | Pets - Yahoo Shine



Ex-NFL Players Show Abnormal Brain Activity, Study Finds




Thanks, Michelle!


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


THE REPUBLICANS ARE SCHIZOID!

THE G.O.P.'S SUICIDE CAUCUS

'SIREN OF THE LAMBS'

"I WON; YOU LOST. DEAL WITH IT."

"BANANA REPUBLICANS"






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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny and on the toasty side.



Tonight, Saturday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN '2 Broke Girls', then a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', followed by '48 Hours'.



NBC fills the night with LIVE 'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is FRESH, hosted by Edward Norton, music by Janelle Monae.



ABC fills the night with LIVE 'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Castle'.



The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.



Faux has a RERUN 'Dads', followed by a RERUN 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a RERUN 'New Girl', followed by a RERUN 'The Mindy Project'.



MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.



A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', 'Bad Ink', another 'Bad Ink', still another 'Bad Ink', and yet another 'Bad Ink'.



AMC offers the movie 'Tremors 4: The Legend Begins', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th', then the movie 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 1
 [7:00AM]    TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 2
 [8:00AM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Seascape
 [9:00AM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Handlebar, Casa Roma, The Black Pearl
 [10:00AM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 11
 [11:00AM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 12
 [12:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 1
 [1:00PM]    TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 1
 [2:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 3
 [3:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 4
 [4:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 5
 [5:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
 [6:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn
 [7:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines
 [8:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
 [9:00PM]    TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Middle Men NEW
 [10:00PM]    THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Ep 1 - Harrison Ford, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jack Whitehall, James Blunt NEW
 [11:00PM]    ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Variations Under Domestication
 [12:00AM]    TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Middle Men
 [1:00AM]    THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Ep 1 - Harrison Ford, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jack Whitehall, James Blunt
 [2:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
 [3:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn
 [4:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines
 [5:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Role Models', 'Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff', and 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny'.



FX has the movie 'The Proposal', followed by the movie 'Just Go With It', then the movie 'Something Borrowed'.



History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Nazi Gospels'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    The Birthday Boys-Paychecks!
 [6:30AM]    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
 [9:30AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [10:00AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [10:30AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [11:00AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [11:30AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [12:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Poker
 [12:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Reese's Job
 [1:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Lois' Makeover
 [1:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Company Picnic
 [2:00PM]    The Unholy
 [4:15PM]    George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
 [6:15PM]    The Blair Witch Project
 [8:00PM]    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 [10:00PM]    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
 [12:00AM]    Splice
 [2:15AM]    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 [4:15AM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rainn Wilson Wears a Short Sleeved Plaid Shirt & Colorful Sneakers
 [4:45AM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
 [5:15AM]    The Birthday Boys-Paychecks!
 [5:45AM]    Whitest Kids U'Know    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Empire of the Sun
 [9:15AM]    Diner
 [11:45AM]    Dream School-Jeff Corwin, Soledad O'Brien, David Arquette & Doriana Sanchez
 [12:45PM]    Pride
 [3:00PM]    Diner
 [5:30PM]    Great Expectations
 [8:00PM]    Pan's Labyrinth
 [10:30PM]    The French Connection
 [12:45AM]    Oldboy
 [3:15AM]    Pan's Labyrinth
 [5:45AM]    Land of the Heads    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Scarecrow', followed by the movie 'Grave Halloween'.



TCM features 5 films by Tod Browning tonight.
 [6:00 AM]      The Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)
 [7:15 AM]      Underwater! (1955)
 [9:00 AM]      Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
 [10:30 AM]      The Devil's Own (1966)    [AKA: 'The Witches']
 [12:15 PM]      The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
 [2:00 PM]      Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 [4:00 PM]      The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
 [6:15 PM]      Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb(1964)
 [8:00 PM]      Freaks (1932)
 [9:15 PM]      Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
 [10:30 PM]      The Devil Doll (1936)
 [12:00 AM]      Miracles For Sale (1939)
 [1:15 AM]      London After Midnight (1927)     SILENT 

 [2:15 AM]      Incubus (1965)
 [3:45 AM]      The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
 [5:15 AM]      Good Table Manners (1956)
 [5:15 AM]      Rosie (1960)
 [5:15 AM]      To Your Health (1956)    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sunday   -  10/20/13

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Stork Club (1945)
 [8:00 AM]      The Singing Nun (1966)
 [10:00 AM]      'Til We Meet Again (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      Knute Rockne All American (1940)
 [2:00 PM]      Jailhouse Rock (1957)
 [4:00 PM]      Wuthering Heights (1939)
 [6:00 PM]      Come September (1961)
 [8:00 PM]      Lover Come Back (1961)
 [10:00 PM]      Send Me No Flowers (1964)
 [12:00 AM]      Haxan (1922)     [AKA: 'Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages']    SILENT 
 [2:00 AM]      Kwaidan (1965)
 [4:45 AM]      MGM Parade Show #23 (1955)
 [5:15 AM]      SOME OF THE BEST - 1949 (1949)    (ALL TIMES EST)




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U.S. director Quentin Tarantino gestures after receiving the Prix Lumiere award during a ceremony at the 5th Festival Lumiere in Lyon, October 18, 2013.
Photo by Robert Pratta

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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The Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed by budget cuts, not fire

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2 Down

NBC

NBC says it's cancelling two freshman shows, "Ironside" and "Welcome to the Family."

"Ironside," starring Blair Underwood in an updated version of the Raymond Burr police drama, will air its final episode on Wednesday. Burr's "Ironside" aired from 1967-75, but low ratings will keep the new series to a total of four episodes.

"Welcome to the Family," a Thursday night comedy about a young couple's unplanned pregnancy, won't have a chance to say goodbye. Its last airing was this week.

Replacing "Ironside" on Wednesday nights in November and December will be a mix of shows including episodes of "Dateline" and "Saturday Night Live" holiday-themed specials, NBC said.

"Parks and Recreation" episodes and specials will fill in for the departed "Welcome to the Family," the network said Friday.

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Actor Joel Grey, left, singer Tony Bennett, second from left, Susan Crow and Gay Talese, right, pose for photographers during the fifth annual Norman Mailer Center benefit gala at the New York Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini

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Six Seriously Spooky Cemetery Stories | Mental Floss

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Violin To Auction

Titanic

It's a poignant scene familiar to anyone who has watched "Titanic" - as the doomed ship slides into the icy waters, musicians perform one last time for the passengers, playing with stoic resolve until the final hour.

None of the musicians survived in the 1912 disaster in the North Atlantic, but a violin believed to be the one played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley will now go on auction.

The violin, with Hartley's name on it, is believed to have been found at sea with the musician's body more than a week after the Titanic sank.

The auction house, which specializes in Titanic memorabilia, expects the violin to fetch more than 200,000 pounds (US$323,300) when it goes on sale in southern England's Wiltshire on Saturday.

Hartley and his seven fellow band members were among the 1,517 people aboard the Titanic who died after it hit an iceberg. According to some accounts, the band played the hymn "Nearer, My God, To Thee" to keep spirits up as the passengers boarded lifeboats in the early hours of April 15, 1912.

Titanic

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Sets New Milestone On Broadway

'The Lion King'

"The Lion King" has more reason to roar - it's on pace to end the week as the first Broadway show to earn $1 billion.

According to The Broadway League, the show ended last week with a 16-year gross of $999,267,836, and it regularly pulls in between $1 million and $2 million a week over eight performances at the Minskoff Theatre.

The show, featuring the music of Elton John and Tim Rice, including the Academy Award-winning "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," brought the 1994 animated Disney movie to life onstage in 1997. Director and designer Julie Taymor created the memorable costumes, puppetry and scenic design.

Overall, the show has made $5 billion across 21 global productions including shows in Japan, Australia, South Africa, Singapore and Brazil. This summer, Disney announced the show's total touring box-office gross in North America alone had reached $1 billion.

'The Lion King'

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Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly arrives at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural Gala in Beverly Hills, California October 17, 2013.
Photo by Fred Prouser

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The Century Old Color Photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky ~ Kuriositas

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Centuries-Old Manuscript

Richard III

The recent discovery of the skeleton of King Richard III has the citizens of the city of York, where the king spent much of his life, celebrating the storied ruler - and feuding with the city of Leicester, where Richard III was buried and will be reinterred.

Now, a nearly 600-year-old manuscript on display at the Yorkshire Museum reveals York's attitudes toward the medieval king while he was still alive. This is the first time the manuscript has been on display for the public, according to The Northern Echo.

"I advyse you, as honourably as your wisdomes can imagyne, to ressayve hym and the quene at their commyng, dispose you to do as well pageants with soch good speches as can goodly, thys short warnyng considered, be devised," read instructions from the King's secretary contained in the York House Books manuscript. The orders came in August 1483, as Richard III and his lords travelled to York.

The secretary went on to suggest that residents hang banners and tapestries along the streets, before adding that he was sure the residents of York already had it covered.

According to the House Books and other documents highlighted by the Richard III: Rumour and Reality Festival, which is ongoing until June 2014, the king was indeed met with great fanfare. Upon his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the city grieved.

Richard III

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Wake-up Call


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Sues Hometown Museum

Harper Lee

"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee is suing a museum in her hometown of Monroeville to stop it from selling souvenirs with her name and the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Mobile, says the Monroe County Heritage Museum has traded on Lee's fame without her approval and without compensating her. It seeks an unspecified amount in damages.

Museum attorney Matt Goforth says the non-profit museum honours Lee's legacy and that she had never sought money from the museum in its 25 years of existence.

The suit comes after Lee sought a federal trademark for the title of her book when it's used on clothing. The museum opposed her application, saying its souvenir sales are vital to its continued operation.

Harper Lee

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Singers Darlene Love and Brian WIlson perform at the "Right To Rock Benefit" at Cipriani Wall Street, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 in New York.
Photo by Greg Allen

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Behind The Voice Actors

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Another Russian Prison

Pussy Riot

Russian prison officials say a jailed member of the punk rock protest band Pussy Riot will be transferred to another penal colony after spending nine days on a hunger strike.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who along with two other band members was convicted of hooliganism for a provocative performance in Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral in 2012, went on a hunger strike in September to protest conditions in the prison where she is serving her two-year sentence. She was hospitalized nine days later when her health deteriorated.

The Federal Penitentiary Service said in a statement Friday it will meet Tolokonnikova's demand and move her to another prison "for her personal safety."

Last month Tolokonnikova said prison officials have made threats against her for speaking out against the poor working conditions.

Pussy Riot

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Actors Kevin Spacey, left, and Charlize Theron attend the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural Gala on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Chris Pizzello

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Dark Roasted Blend: "Music For... What?" Weird Album Covers

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Colorado River Project

Christo

Installation artist Christo (KRIS'-toh) has said opposition to his planned "Over the River" project on the Arkansas River in Colorado is part of the art, and he welcomes debate over what is appropriate for his displays.

Christo is fighting to string about 6 miles of fabric over sections on a 42-mile stretch of the river. The team hopes to start construction next year and open the exhibit in 2015 for two weeks before dismantling it.

An opposition group, Rags Over the Arkansas River, has filed a lawsuit in federal court, saying the project will be too disruptive to wildlife, traffic, fishing and river rafting businesses.

The 78-year-old artist, who spoke with The Denver Post on Thursday, spent 26 years fighting to erect 7,503 fabric gates in New York City's Central Park in 2005, and for 32 years before wrapping 178 trees in a Swiss park in 1998. His 1991 "The Umbrellas" project that unfurled 3,100 umbrellas in Japan and California had to wade through several state and federal lawsuits.

Christo has completed 22 of his projects, including wrapping Berlin's Reichstag, draping Australian coastline and surrounding 11 Biscayne Bay islands in pink, shimmering fabric - all at his own cost. He has weathered 37 rejections for his projects over 50 years.

Christo

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Singer Paul McCartney waves to fans during an impromptu concert to promote his album "New" at Covent Garden in London October 18, 2013.
Photo by Philip Brown

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10 Incredible GIFs Showing How Aging Changes Our Appearance | Fstoppers

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Law License Suspended

Kansas

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former state Attorney General Phill Kline for violating 11 rules of professional conduct in connection with his prosecution of abortion providers.

In a 154-page report, the seven-member court unanimously found that Kline failed to recognize the line between "overzealous advocacy" and operating within the limits of the law and his professional obligations.

"The violations we have found are significant and numerous, and Kline's inability or refusal to acknowledge or address their significance is particularly troubling in light of his service as the chief prosecuting attorney for this state and its most populous county," the court wrote.

A Republican, Kline was attorney general from 2003 to 2007. He later worked as a district attorney in Johnson County, Kansas, and is now a law professor at Liberty University in Virginia. He did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

An outspoken foe of abortion, Kline had clashed with abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood for years on whether they were abiding by all abortion laws. He prosecuted cases involving Planned Parenthood and George Tiller, a Wichita-based doctor who provided abortions before being murdered in 2009.

Kansas

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Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto seen at Focus Features' Dallas Buyers Club Premiere, on Thursday, Oct., 17, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Matt Sayles

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BP Keeps On Giving

Louisiana

The amount of oil found on Louisiana's coast has surged this year, three years after BP's Macondo spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the state's Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority said.

In the first eight months of this year, some 3.01 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast, up from 119,894 pounds in the same period last year, according to a report posted on the web site of the state's Department of Natural Resources.

The report did not say why there was a more than 20-fold increase in the amount collected this year, or if Tropical Storm Karen washed away sand to expose oil already on beaches when it moved through the Gulf earlier this month. Some of the oil, especially so-called tar balls, apparently washed ashore after Karen hit.

The report said more than 200 miles of Louisiana shoreline still display some degree of oil pollution after the largest offshore crude spill in U.S. history.

Louisiana

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Keynote speaker Stephen Colbert pokes fun at former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, center, and CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, right, as CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, left, looks on during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow

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Badger Cull Saboteurs

Britain

Badgers are shy creatures, their black-and-white coats often darting out of human sight -- but in Britain, a fierce band of protesters has been working through the night to save them from a government-backed cull.

It is 10:00 pm and bitterly cold when a gunshot shatters the silence in this rural corner of Gloucestershire, southwest England.

"Oh no," murmurs Louise, an animal rights activist in her thirties, as she and a gaggle of other protesters race through the darkness towards the crack of the bullet.

It's a scene that has repeated itself every night since the end of August, when a cull of thousands of badgers began in Gloucestershire and the neighbouring region of Somerset.

But in animal-loving Britain, the cull has sparked outrage amongst campaigners who say killing the furry creatures is inhumane and will do little to combat the disease.

Britain

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Mozambican artist Goncalo Mabunda's "The Zuma Throne", made from recycled weapons and metal, is displayed in the "1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair" at Somerset House in London, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. African tribal art has long been treasured by wealthy Western collectors, but increasingly the continent's contemporary art scene is the one making its presence felt at museums, auction houses and art fairs. London now has four galleries focused on African contemporary art, three of them opening in the past three years.
Photo by Matt Dunham

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No Puzzles On Gravestones

Sudoku

A U.K. cemetery has deemed a Sudoku puzzle inscribed on a headstone unfit to rest in peace.

British widow Angela Robinson told the Mirror her late husband Allan was a mathematician and a lover of Sudoku puzzles, and so when he died last year at 66, she had a puzzle and an equation placed above his name on his headstone. However, officials in Chester, Cheshire have told Robinson to remove the items, saying they "lower the standards" at the cemetery, according to the Mirror.

Angela and her son Paul said they were shocked by the letter they received from the parish telling them to have the stone mason alter the headstone.

"In what way is this remotely offensive, of concern or even matters in any way?" Paul told the Mirror.

Sudoku

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A flock of cranes flies past the rising moon in Nauen near Berlin, Germany, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. The cranes rest in the wetlands west of Berlin on their way from breeding places in the north to their wintering grounds in the south.
Photo by Ferdinand Ostrop

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