Garrison Keillor: Coffee with a geriatric grumbler (chicagotribune.com)
A gorgeous fall here on the upper Mississippi, but among the old grumblers I drink cheap coffee with, the mood these days is dark, due to low interest rates and the advance of the glaciers, which is why I, sunny optimist that I am, seek out the company of the young and ebullient and drink $4 coffee, but sometimes you get stuck next to some old guy in a plaid shirt who gives you an earful about Wall Street bonuses and how the game is rigged in favor of the custom-tailored suits, and you must be polite and listen.
Moira Macdonald; Earhart movie shows that the pioneer pilot still soars in the American imagination (The Seattle Times)
Nearly a century ago at a fair in Toronto, a young nurse's aide watched an exhibition of stunt flying, as a pilot began diving at the crowd. "I remember the mingled fear and pleasure which surged over me as I watched that small plane at the top of its earthward swoop," she would write, years later. "I did not understand it at the time, but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by."
Robert W. Butler: Stumble through British history with "Black Adder' (McClatchy Newspapers)
Long before he became the infantile Mr. Bean, Brit funnyman Rowan Atkinson made TV history as Edmund Blackadder, a singularly self-serving and century-jumping member of the English aristocracy who pops up at key moments in his country's long history to observe, muck about and generally screw things up.
mj was first, and correct, with:
Subject: Simple, direct, and easy to remember
Horse was kind of eponymous, being Horse.
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
Dudley merely called his mount 'Horse'... By the way, the object of Dudley's affection, Nell Fenwick, liked Horse more than she did Dudley...
Baron Dave (I think, therefore I am. - Descartes | I pull, therefore I am. - Dehorse-- Bob Daverin) responded:
I'm up early and happen to know this one offhand: Dudley Do-right has been to the Canadian desert on a horse with no name. He (presumably, since Nell and he had A Thing) was never called anything else but Horse. Maybe he was won in a game of HORSE. It's possible his RCMP training was as a heroin sniffer. Most likely, Dudley just forgot to name him. Whatever.
Charlie replied:
The horse was named Horse, of all things.
Alan J answered:
Horse
~ Tony In Philly responded:
Horse!
Marian the Teacher answered:
Horse
Sally said:
The name of Dudley Do-Right's horse - was "Horse!" How creative...
PS: I had a Mother Fox and baby fox in my yard the other day!! (Remember, I live 12 miles across the Hudson River from the heart of NYC.) I had been noticing that my squirrel population seemed much thinner this year - and that's a good thing. I though about feeding that Fox, but decided it is better to keep it hungry fer critters... I hope they like Chipmice too!!
(Sorry MAM - you know I love you, but NJ squirrels are scary.)
Jeff replied:
His horse was named…Horse.
MAM wrote:
Dudley Do-Right's horse was named 'Horse'!
'Horse' and Dudley Do-Right
Actress Faye Dunaway really was scouting locations a few months ago when she had a private party at the Book-Cadillac Hotel's champagne bar. The "Chinatown" star will be emoting as volatile Greek opera star Maria Callas in scenes for the movie "Master Class" filming in Grand Circus Park in downtown Detroit...
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'3 Rivers', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Mercy', followed by a RERUN'Trauma', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Megan Fox hosting, music by U2.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', still another 'Crimminal Mind', and 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
AMC offers the movie 'Aliens', followed by the movie 'Alien 3', then the movie 'Alien Resurrection'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 9
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Seascape
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 9 Random Shoes
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 Do You Love Me?
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 7 Too Hot to Handle
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Jo Brand, Jackie Collins
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 Do You Love Me?
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 7 Too Hot to Handle
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Jo Brand, Jackie Collins
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 Do You Love Me?
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 7 Too Hot to Handle
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Jo Brand, Jackie Collins
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 17 Muntas (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and the movie 'GoodFellas'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Accepted', followed by the movie 'American Pie'.
FX has the movie 'Snakes On A Plane', followed by the movie 'Van Helsing'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'God Vs. Satan', and 'Seven Wonders Of The World'.
IFC -
[7:15 AM] Running With the Bulls
[8:00 AM] Samurai 3
[9:45 AM] Bee Season
[11:35 AM] Millions
[1:15 PM] IFC Shorts
[1:45 PM] American Splendor
[3:30 PM] Bee Season
[5:15 PM] Millions
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] Shadow of the Vampire
[9:35 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[10:00 PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[11:00 PM] A Fish Called Wanda
[12:55 AM] Family Day Out
[1:00 AM] C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
[2:30 AM] Shadow of the Vampire
[4:05 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:20 AM] A Fish Called Wanda (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Splinter', followed by the movie 'Ghost Town'.
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] Driving Lessons
[07:00 AM] Right at Your Door
[08:45 AM] Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell
[11:00 AM] Man Shops Globe - 103
[11:30 AM] Brick City: Episode 4
[12:30 PM] Shot in Bombay
[02:15 PM] Trivial
[03:55 PM] Driving Lessons
[05:35 PM] Right at Your Door
[07:15 PM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[08:30 PM] Man Shops Globe - 103
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
[10:00 PM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[12:00 AM] Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death
[01:50 AM] Laid Off
[02:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
[03:00 AM] The Witnesses
[05:00 AM] Right at Your Door (ALL TIMES EDT)
Director Quentin Taratino poses with actor Kirk Douglas following receipt of the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
Photo by Michael A. Mariant
The founder of a revolutionary music education program in Venezuela will receive the $50,000 Glenn Gould prize next week for his inspirational work with children.
Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, who created the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Child Orchestras of Venezuela ("El Sistema"), will be honoured Wednesday in Toronto.
He receives an international lifetime achievement award that is handed out every three years in memory of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
The presentation will include appearances by U.S. singer Linda Ronstadt, Senator Tommy Banks and Canadian singer-songwriter Murray McLauchlan.
Actress Meryl Streep, left, with her husband sculptor Don Gummer, arrive on the red carpet for the final day of the 4th edition of the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Among the movies screened out of competition were 'Julie & Julia,' with Meryl Streep, and Joel and Ethan Coen's 'A Serious Man.'
Photo by Andrew Medichini
Sandra Oh had a homecoming of sorts Friday, being honoured at the National Theatre School of Canada where she honed her acting skills nearly 20 years ago.
The star of "Grey's Anatomy" was one of two recipients of the Gascon-Thomas Award given annually to people who have contributed to the growth of theatre in Canada.
Oh, who graduated from the school in 1993, hesitated for several seconds when asked what it felt like to be an inspiration to young students.
The other recipient of the award was Paul Buissonneau, who founded his own theatre company Le Theatre de Quat'Sous in 1956.
A lucky swap and some eager building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame and sent three would-be tycoons to the poor house at the Monopoly World Championship in Las Vegas.
Bjorn Halvard Knappskog, who graduated this year from the Oslo Private Gymnasium school, captured the title on Thursday when the battleship token of 25-year-old Geoff Christopher of New Zealand landed consecutively on Pacific Avenue and North Carolina Avenue, and he couldn't afford the combined $1,600 rent.
Knappskog won $20,580 in real money for the title - the total amount in the bank of a standard Monopoly game. The other finalists won nothing beyond the trip that brought each of the 41 competitors to the Caesars Palace hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip to represent their home countries as national champions.
After taking out 24-year-old Russian Oleg Korostelev, Knappskog bankrupted American champion Rick Marinaccio, a 26-year-old corporate lawyer from Buffalo, N.Y., who was trying to become the first U.S. player to win the board game championship since 1974.
Grammy Award-winner Gloria Gaynor is seen during a sound check at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Gaynor is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her hit 'I Will Survive' with a special performance and Q & A session at the Grammy Museum Sound Stage.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Christie's auction house will offer up a portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol in New York on Nov. 10.
The auction house told The Associated Press on Friday that the 30-by-26-inch portrait should fetch an estimated $500,000 to $700,000. It's one of a small group of Warhol silk-screened images of Jackson created in 1984.
Deputy chairman Brett Gorvy says the seller is an anonymous private collector in New York who bought it from the Andy Warhol Foundation in the 1990s.
A New York art gallery sold a similar Warhol portrait of Jackson in August to an anonymous buyer. The gallery would not disclose the price, but said it was more than a million dollars.
Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wants to save the seals from the annual hunt on Canada's East Coast.
The Canadian-born actress has joined other celebrities who are taking part in a new ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Anderson, who was in town to launch her animal-friendly clothing line at Fashion Week, visited the Ontario provincial legislature on Friday to introduce the new ads.
The ads - showing celebrities wearing white T-shirts with a drawing of a baby seal - also feature singers Sarah McLachlan and Kelly Osborne, actresses Jennie Garth and Jorja Fox, and gossip blogger Perez Hilton, among others.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dancers Joshua Grant, left, and Brock Ahyhoe wearing Swan Lake tutu pose for pictures in the Kings Cross fountain in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. The Trocks, an all-male dance group that perform classical ballet in a light and playful manner, will perform in Australia throughout November 2009.
Photo by Rob Griffith
A court has ordered the French authorities to pay Mohamed Al Fayed 5,000 euros (7,500 dollars) over an inquiry into Princess Diana's fatal car crash, according to a judgment seen by AFP on Friday.
Al Fayed, the billionaire owner of London's upmarket Harrods department store, has long claimed Diana and Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend and Al Fayed's son, were murdered as part of an establishment plot.
He said he was delighted with Friday's ruling, which said delays to an inquiry into the 1997 crash in Paris had amounted to a "denial of justice".
Al Fayed brought a case against the French state in 2007 after a judge dismissed a challenge to the original inquest ruling that the crash had been caused by chauffeur Henri Paul's drunkenness.
A court commissioner on Friday dismissed criminal charges against Kanye West and his road manager stemming from their scuffle with photographers last year.
Misdemeanor charges were filed after West and his manager were arrested on Sept. 11, 2008, after an altercation with two photographers at Los Angeles International Airport. The struggle was recorded and broadcast by celebrity Web site TMZ.
The photographers and the rapper have reached civil settlements over the case, which resulted in a still camera, flash, and a video camera being broken.
West's attorney, Blair Berk, successfully argued the case should be dismissed because of the agreement and that California law allows for certain criminal cases to be settled out of court.
Shi Liliang, 33, a monk from Southern Shaolin Temple, performs a special Chinese martial art stunt, known in Chinese as Shuishangpiao or "running on water", at a reservoir on the outskirts of Quanzhou, Fujian province, October 22, 2009. Shi ran on the surface of a row of 1-centimetre-thick (0.39 inch) plywoods for 18 metres (59 feet), breaking his own record of 15 metres (49 feet) created several days ago, local media reported. Picture taken October 22, 2009.
The United States has asked Switzerland to hand over Roman Polanski to authorities in California, where he could serve up to two years in prison for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss authorities said Friday.
The Justice Ministry said in a statement that Washington filed its formal extradition request late Thursday. The 76-year-old filmmaker has been in Swiss custody since his arrest Sept. 26 as he arrived in Zurich to attend a film festival.
The request has been forwarded to Zurich authorities, who will hold a hearing on an unspecified date to decide whether Polanski should be sent back to Los Angeles. If extradition is approved, Polanski may appeal the decision to Switzerland's top criminal court and, theoretically, to the Federal Supreme Court.
"In the American case, he declared himself guilty of having sexual relations with a minor," spokesman Folco Galli told Europe-1 radio. "According to American law currently in force, the maximum penalty for the crime in question is two years in prison."
Galli later told The Associated Press that the sentence couldn't be longer because Polanski could only be punished for the crime that is the basis of his extradition. He said the U.S. informed the Swiss of the maximum sentence in its filing.
An anchor from a shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was so unstable that divers in North Carolina retrieved it Wednesday rather than waiting until next year.
Divers raised the 4.5-foot, 160-pound grapnel, or anchor, from the wreck in the Atlantic Ocean near Beaufort on Wednesday and will display it Thursday at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort. The anchor originally had four prongs, but now has 1 1/2.
Two divers put straps on the anchor, then small lift bags that they filled with air, said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, the director of the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck project. When the grapnel reached the surface, a crane brought it on the boat.
Queen Anne's Revenge was a French slave ship that measured about 100 feet long with three masts and a crew of 150 to 200. Blackbeard captured the ship, then known as La Concorde, in 1717 and renamed it before it ran aground off Atlantic Beach a year later. The shipwreck, discovered in late 1996, is within sight of Fort Macon State Park.
Visitors watch the light show set up to illuminate the Eiffel Tower for its 120 year anniversary, in Paris, Thursday Oct. 22, 2009.
Photo by Christophe Ena
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