Froma Harrop: Domestic Misfits and Foreign Terrorists (Creators Syndicate)
When trying to make sense of terrorists, we examine their "causes." In the cases of Muslim terrorists, we search their religious views and political indoctrination. But when looking at other Americans who commit outrages not overtly tied to some creed, we tend to focus on their inner turmoil rather than their big-picture resentments.
The lusts of Leonardo da Vinci (Guardian)
He was almost certainly gay, but Leonardo da Vinci's most powerful portraits were of women. As a new exhibition opens, Jonathan Jones looks at sex and intimacy in the painter's work.
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(Eugene) O'Neill, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1936), returned to many of the issues that surface in "Exorcism" in his heavily autobiographical play "Long Day's Journey into Night," published posthumously in 1956 and considered to be his masterpiece.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Strictly speaking. I think the answer is one (1) - Eugene O'Neill in 1936. T. S. Eliot, winner in 1948, was also a playwright, but the award cited his poetry, for which he was better known, and though he was born inn the US, he became a British subject in 1927. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to be so awarded (1930), wrote a couple of plays, but was best known as a novelist. William Faulkner (1949), Ernest Hemingway (1954), and Toni Morrison (1993) also each have a play or two in their respective oeuvres.
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Adam answered:
My guess is two- I think I'm right.
The World was supposed to end today in Rapture. I don't know, the sky is still blue.
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Dale Of Diamond Springs, CA replied:
Toni Morrison(1993) - Well-known author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and
several other amazing books.
Eugene O'Neill (1936) - Wove the agony of his profoundly
dysfunctional
MAM wrote:
Just one ~ Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953), author of "Long Day's Journey into Night," and "Ah,Wilderness!", in 1936. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy."
Eugene O'Neill circa 1936
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'How To Be A Gentleman', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC bills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Alec Baldwin hosting, music by Radiohead.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futuama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux has LIVE'World Series Baseball - Game 3', then pads the left coast with local crap and old reruns.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday', followed by the movie 'From Dusk Till Dawn', then the movie 'From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money'.
BBC -
6:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 5
7:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Peter's
9:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
10:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 5
11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 5 Duane Barry
12:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 6 Ascension
1:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 7 3
2:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 2 - Driven
3:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 13 Deja Q
5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 14 A Matter of Perspective
6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 15 Yesterday's Enterprise
7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 18 - Downloaded
8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 19 - Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1
9:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Rob Lowe, Alex Kingston, Aloe Blacc
11:00 PM] Free Agents - Episode 5
11:30 PM] Free Agents - Episode 6
12:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Rob Lowe, Alex Kingston, Aloe Blacc
2:00 AM] Free Agents - Episode 5
2:30 AM] Free Agents - Episode 6
3:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Rob Lowe, Alex Kingston, Aloe Blacc
5:00 AM] Free Agents - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', and another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Drillbit Taylor', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', then the movie 'Extract'.
FX has the movie 'Final Destination 3', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Supercop
[8:00AM] Pride
[10:15AM] The Three Stooges - Income-Tax Sappy
[10:40AM] The Three Stooges - Knutzy Knights
[11:05AM] The Three Stooges - Loose Loot
[11:30AM] The Three Stooges - Musty Musketeers
[11:55AM] The Three Stooges - Pals and Gals
[12:20PM] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Backfire
[12:45PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:00PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[3:15PM] Supercop
[5:15PM] The Delta Force
[8:00PM] The Descent
[10:00PM] The Descent
[12:00AM] Unearthed
[2:00AM] No Man's Land: Rise of the Reeker
[4:30AM] Unearthed (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] UNLEASHED BY GARO: I Kind of Feel Naked (Episode 6, Season 1)
[8:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - From A to Joe Zee (Episode 9, Season 1)
[9:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Radenroro: Bad is Better than Boring (Episode 1, Season 1)
[10:00 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[10:30 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[11:00 AM] Dopamine
[12:30 PM] Amreeka
[2:15 PM] The Man Who Became King
[3:40 PM] Dopamine
[5:10 PM] Amreeka
[6:55 PM] Full Grown Men
[8:20 PM] The Clearing
[10:00 PM] Brokedown Palace
[11:50 PM] The Lady and the Reaper
[12:00 AM] INDIE SEX: Extremes
[1:30 AM] The Exterminating Angels
[3:15 AM] Full Grown Men
[4:35 AM] Dopamine
[6:00 AM] QUIRKY: Love You, Love Your Product (Episode 2, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Jeepers Creepers II', followed by the movie 'Halloween'.
Actress Rebecca Romijn and twin daughters, Dolly, right, and Charlie meet Minnie Mouse outside the "Disney Junior Live on Stage!" show during a visit to Disney California Adventure park in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011.
Photo by Scott Brinegar
Folk music and '60s protest legend Pete Seeger has joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people to Columbus Circle.
The 92-year-old Seeger occasionally sang "We Shall Overcome," a song he popularized generations ago as about a thousand people walked peacefully Friday and police watched from the sidelines before they arrived at Columbus Circle. Composer David Amran and bluesman Guy Davis were also in the crowd.
At the end of the march, Seeger, Amram and musician Arlo Guthrie led the group in the protest anthem.
Tao (tow) Rodriguez Seeger said his activist grandfather was "all fired up" about the late-night march after their scheduled performance with other musicians earlier at Symphony Space.
Protesters demonstrate at Fox Studios during the annual News Corp. stockholder meeting in Los Angeles, California October 21, 2011. News Corp is bracing itself for a dramatic showdown with shareholders and new revelations of surveillance tactics by some of its UK journalists at its annual meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. Major U.S., British and Australian pension funds will be joined by street protesters and tenacious British member of parliament Tom Watson in keeping up the pressure in calls for the removal of founder Rupert Murdoch and his sons from the board.
Photo by David McNew
NPR will no longer distribute the member station-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.
Instead, North Carolina-based classical music station WDAV, which produces the show, said it will distribute the nationally syndicated program on its own beginning Nov. 11. The station said it plans to keep Lisa Simeone as host and has said her involvement in a political protest does not affect her job as a music program host.
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said the network disagrees with the station on the role of program hosts but respects its position.
"Our view is it's a potential conflict of interest for any journalist or any individual who plays a public role on behalf of NPR to take an active part in a political movement or advocacy campaign," she told The Associated Press. "Doing so has the potential to compromise our reputation as an organization that strives to be impartial and unbiased."
Rehm said any host with NPR attached to their title is a public figure representing the network as a whole. But she said "reasonable people can have different views about this." She said the negotiations with WDAV were civil and amicable.
This photo provided by Keene State College shows a letter sent to Doris "Granny D" Haddock from musician Pete Seeger. The college is putting together a collection of letters, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and influence of campaign finance reform activist Haddock, who died last year at age 100.
For one weekend a year, the ghosts and survivors of Jack Benny, Benny Goodman, Goodman Ace and hundreds of other legends of the old days of radio hold court at a hotel across the road from Newark Airport.
The annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention has been meeting for 36 years. But when it signs off Saturday night, it will be for the last time. The reason is simple, says Jay Hickerson, a musician who has been running the show from the beginning: the march of time.
The gathering, humble as it is, used to be able to call on a constellation of stars from the early days of radio.
Now it's down to former child stars in their 80s and 90s. Arthur Anderson, 88, who acted as a teenager with Orson Welles, is an honored guest. Grandsons of 1930s song and dance star Eddie Cantor and Brace Beemer, the voice of the Lone Ranger for most of its run on radio, are on the program.
Collecting old-time radio shows and trivia has never been a young person's game. But most of the convention-goers are too young to have firsthand recollections of the shows they're buying, recreating and discussing on panels.
NBC Sports has agreed to move from New York City to Stamford to take advantage of tax breaks, adding to a growing film and TV presence in the southwestern Connecticut city, a state official said Friday.
The agreement, which could bring hundreds of jobs, would be part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's signature economic development program, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Malloy and Democratic leaders of the legislature hope to announce a deal next week.
Chris McCloskey, a spokesman for NBC Sports, and a spokeswoman for Malloy declined to comment.
Stamford made a strong play during the 1980s and '90s for financial services companies that do business in New York City, just 35 miles away. More recently, it has branched out into entertainment, luring production companies with lower taxes and more space than producers can find in New York.
A design hangs on the back of a tent housing the so-called "Star Books Occupation Library" setup by Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters directly outside a branch of the Starbucks coffee chain as they continue their demonstration outside St Paul's Cathedral, near the London Stock Exchange in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. The cathedral said late Wednesday it may be time for the Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters gathered outside the iconic church to leave. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the London landmark over the weekend as part of the global Occupy Wall Street protests. Many have since hunkered down outside the cathedral, pitching tents and setting up a makeshift kitchen, toilets and an information center.
Photo by Matt Dunham
An early portrait of a freed slave has been sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the 1819 painting by Charles Willson Peale was sold by the Philadelphia History Museum. The portrait went on public view Friday.
The painting of Yarrow Mamout is one of the earliest formal portraits of a black man. Peale painted the portrait of the elderly Muslim and former slave in Washington, D.C.
The Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent is selling off some paintings and artifacts to pay for a $5.9 million expansion. The price was not disclosed.
A defiant Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) stood his ground at News Corp's annual meeting on Friday, fending off angry shareholders who slammed the media company's poor corporate governance in the wake of a phone hacking scandal and called for him to give up the chairman role.
British member of parliament Tom Watson led the charge against the media mogul, saying journalists at the defunct News of the World hacked computers as well as phone voice mails.
Watson said News Corp could face new investigations in the UK by the country's Serious Organised Crime Agency, caused by the actions of at least three private investigators employed by News International, News Corp's UK newspaper publishing unit.
Murdoch was feisty in defending his company. At times, he pounded his fist on the podium, but he was generally good natured, at times smiling and laughing as he interrupted speakers.
At one point, he jokingly defended News Corp's democratic voting process by pointing out that its Fox News channel featured Watson earlier in the day. "We're fair and balanced," he said using Fox News' well known tagline.
Margie Levinthal holds a sign during a march from City Hall to the Wharton School of Business at Pennsylvania University Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 in Philadelphia. The demonstration at City Hall is one of many being held across the country in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York.
Photo by Alex Brandon
A Dutch court Friday rejected a suit brought by one of the Netherlands' best-known gangsters seeking to block the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken.
Willem Holleeder, dubbed "The Nose" in the Dutch media, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in kidnapping Heineken and his chauffeur and holding them captive in soundproof cells in an Amsterdam warehouse for three weeks until his family paid a $36 million ransom.
Though all four kidnappers were eventually caught, about 20 percent of the money was never recovered.
Holleeder's lawyers claimed the movie "The Heineken Kidnapping," starring Rutger Hauer as the victim, would damage Holleeder's image by making him appear more sadistic than he really is.
A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, made popular by the graphic novel "V for Vendetta", looks at a puppet head representation of Rupert Murdoch, worn by Brent Olson (R), as protesters demonstrate at Fox Studios during the annual News Corp. stockholder meeting in Los Angeles, California October 21, 2011. News Corp is bracing itself for a dramatic showdown with shareholders and new revelations of surveillance tactics by some of its UK journalists at its annual meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. Major U.S., British and Australian pension funds will be joined by street protesters and tenacious British member of parliament Tom Watson in keeping up the pressure in calls for the removal of founder Rupert Murdoch and his sons from the board.
Photo by David McNew
An evangelical broadcaster whose end-of-the-world prophecy earlier this year stirred a global media frenzy has vanished from the public eye and airwaves ahead of his recalibrated doomsday date, set for Friday.
Days after the apocalypse he originally predicted for May 21 conspicuously failed to materialize, Harold Camping emerged from a brief seclusion to say he had merely miscalculated by five months, and he pronounced a new Judgment Day, October 21.
The following month, the now 90-year-old former civil engineer was said by his California-based Christian radio network to have suffered a stroke that left him hospitalized.
He has largely dropped out of sight since then, and his daily radio program, "Open Forum," broadcast on more than 60 U.S. stations, has been canceled.
Members of Occupy Cincinnati protest while police watch and city workers clean Piatt Park in the background, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, in Cincinnati. At least 22 protesters were arrested by police early Friday morning. The group had occupied the park for close to two weeks in support of Occupy Wall Street.
Photo by Al Behrman
Mark Sanford's extramarital affair effectively ended his political career, but the former South Carolina governor will still play a prominent role in the 2012 campaign-on television at least.
Per the New York Times' Jim Rutenberg, Sanford is joining Fox News as a paid on-air political analyst.
Sanford had been a rising star in the Republican Party and was even once considered a frontrunner for the 2012 presidential nomination.
But in June 2009, he was caught up in a very public cheating scandal, after it was discovered that he had misled his staff about going on a hiking trip along the Appalachian Trail when in fact he had flown to Argentina to rendezvous with his mistress.
Sanford and his wife, Jenny, later divorced, but his relationship with Maria Belén Chapur, an Argentine journalist with whom he had cheated, is still going on.
A demonstrator attends a meeting to discuss if their protest camp outside St Paul's Cathedral will be lifted, in central London October 21, 2011. Landmark London church St Paul's will close, a senior cleric said on Friday, because of hazards posed by an Occupy Wall Street-inspired protest encamped in front of the cathedral.
Photo by Andrew Winning
Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida who is widely considered a potential vice presidential candidate in 2012, hit back Thursday at a Washington Post story claiming Rubio has inaccurately portrayed the circumstances under which his Cuban parents came to the United States.
Rubio said in a statement : To suggest my family's story is embellished for political gain is outrageous. The dates I have given regarding my family's history have always been based on my parents' recollections of events that occurred over 55 years ago and which were relayed to me by them more than two decades after they happened. I was not made aware of the exact dates until very recently.
New documents, first publicly revealed earlier this week by "birthers" who are targeting Rubio's eligibility to one day occupy the White House, indicated that Rubio's parents didn't flee Cuba to escape Fidel Castro's regime in 1959 and weren't "exiles" forced off the island, as he has stated, according to the Post. (Click here to see a pdf of the documents from the St. Petersburg Times.)
Rubio's parents were admitted for permanent residence and arrived in the United States in 1956, more than two and a half years before Castro took power.
A protestor dressed as News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdock is seen with protestors in front of Fox Studios in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct 21, 2011. A few dozen people showed up to demonstrate outside Fox Studios where News Corp. is holding its annual shareholders meeting. Murdoch is facing shareholders with small stakes in his company for the first time since a phone-hacking scandal broke in July.
Photo by Nick Ut
New York City authorities said they will shut down a city bus service run by Orthodox Jews if the group doesn't stop making women sit at the back of the bus.
The Private Transportation Corp, which operates the city's public B110 bus under a franchise arrangement, has come under criticism following publicity about its practice of making women give up their seats in the front to promote Hasidic customs of gender separation.
New York City's Department of Transportation spokesman Scott Gastel said the agency's executive director Anne Koenig has asked the company to respond to the allegations and was waiting to hear back.
"Please be advised that a practice of requiring women to ride in the back ... would constitute a direct violation of your franchise agreement and may lead to termination of that agreement," Koenig wrote.
A vendor arranges artificial garlands for sale at his stall ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Jammu October 21, 2011. Flowers are offered to Hindu gods and goddesses on the occasion of Diwali, the annual festival of lights that will be celebrated across the country on October 26.
PHoto by Mukesh Gupta
Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream is too hot to handle for some supermarket chains. While the new limited-edition flavor has brought chuckles from fans of the "Saturday Night Live" skit on which it's based, some supermarket chains aren't laughing and have been giving it a cold shoulder.
The flavor featuring fudge-covered rum balls has been absent from some grocery freezers since it was unveiled. The title was inspired by an innuendo-laced 1998 skit featuring Alec Baldwin as baker Pete Schweddy, who promises, "No one can resist my Schweddy balls."
But apparently some grocery store chains can, and so can supporters and members of the One Million Moms group.
That Mississippi-based moms organization has been putting the heat on retailers to keep Schweddy Balls out of their freezers and encouraging parents to ask the Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's to stop production of the item, saying the name is nothing but locker room humor that's not appropriate for young children.
A newborn zebra stands beside its mother at the zoo in Duisburg October 21, 2011. The zebra baby was born on September 26, 2011 at the zoo.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
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