JOE KLEIN: Why Barack Obama Is Winning (time.com)
Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities.
Larry David: Waiting for Nov. 4th (huffingtonpost.com)
This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it's worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there's still a potential cure. With this, there's no cure. The result is final. Like death.
Andrew Tobias: WHO GOT THE WEALTH WE SPREAD AROUND (andrewtobias.com)
This pie chart shows how the $863 billion of household income growth from 2002 to 2006 was spread around. Three-quarters of it went to the top 1%. And Bush/McCain/Palin think that wasn't enough - that those good folks needed tax cuts on their additional income, even if it meant going further into National Debt to provide them.
TOM DANEHY: A ballot proposition by any other name would smell as stinky (tucsonweekly.com)
Near the end of the film Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life," we see a movie executive named Arthur Charles Herbert Runcie MacAdam Jarrett. He's been sentenced to death for his gratuitous use of female nudity in his films, and his manner of execution is to be chased to death (on film) by topless women wearing brightly colored hard hats. Most people remember the movie for the vomit scene in the restaurant, but I do so enjoy that dry British sense of irony.
Will Harris: A Chat with Hank Williams III (bullz-eye.com)
"That guy from Hootie and the Blowfish made a country record, and they said, 'Well, that's a little too country-but if you do it this way and take that out and listen to what we have to say, we'll guarantee you it will go number one.' Sure enough, he does that and look what happens: he's got a number one country song within a week. So that just goes to show you: it's all rigged."
mj was first, and correct, with:
Not even in a Genie's dream
D, "Master" Tony Nelson
Alan J responded:
D Anthony 'Tony' Nelson
Jim from CA replied:
The answer is D....
Charlie answered:
This was so apparently easy I had to double check. There was no
D Anthony 'Tony' Nelson
on Welcome Back, Kotter. The answer presumably refers to the astronaut played by Larry Hagman on I Dream of Jeannie, though Tony Nelson is a common enough name. This presents a dilemma as to which show to send a picture for, so
jjw wrote:
Anthony "Tony" Nelson...I Dream of Jeannie, I think.
Marian the Teacher answered:
Tony Nelson is from I Dream of Jeannie
Adam in NoHo responded:
D- Anthony 'Tony' Nelson was a Major in the Air Force and the Astronaut
who found a Genii in a bottle in "I Dream of Jeannie"
Who knows, he could have been a screw-up in high school...
~ Tony In Philly replied:
D: Anthony "Tony" Nelson
He was Jeanie's guy
Vic in AK said:
Dont EVEN have to look this one up tis D: that Antney dude. I had the official Welcome back Kotter lunchbox and seeing as I was 15 and in high-school I got my ass kicked because of it and have their(Sweathogs) faces imprinted in my mind as I watched the lunchbox come down on my head time after time....kidding, I'm from a family of 9 and there were 3 or 4 of us in High-school at any given time and no one messed with one Tracy without messing with us all. We were the 'Cool' kids!
I just dropped off this week's episode of my show where I Lampoon Sarah as a ghost named Sarah "Scary" Pale-one, see if this gets my ass kicked off the air up here.
ducks answered:
Actually, I'm sort of embarrassed to know this….
Anthony "tony" nelson.
Sally said:
Okay, all is forgiven, and we will let you slide for Wednesday's faux pas - which I am surprised does not happen more often considering your hectic schedule :)
While I never watched, "Welcome Back Kotter" when the series originally ran, I sure loved the reruns!
"James Buchanan High School," in the
Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, was the school from which I wished I had graduated instead of an, "All girl," Catholic boarding school - let me tell you. And the, "Sweathogs," were definitely my kind of guys (although a girl was later added to the cast in the role of Angie Globagoski).
Let's see, there was drop-dead gorgeous, Vinnie Barbarino, lovable idiot Arnold Horshack, Juan Epstein, the Jewish Puerto Rican, and wise-guy Freddie, "Boom-Boom" Washington.
So, I would guess that (D) Anthony 'Tony' Nelson is your answer dejour.
-pgw responded:
The Answer is 'D'.
Mike R wrote simply:
"D"
socdan answered:
Anthony (Antonin) Nelson was not a star on the show.
And, Joe S (the retiree), responded:
Anthony 'Tony' Nelson, who the hell is Anthony 'Tony' Nelson? The answer is D.
Kotter Montage at the You Tubes
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace', then '48 Hours'..
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'America's Toughest Jobs', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then a RERUN'SNL Weekend Update Thursday', followed by another RERUN'SNL Weekend Update Thursday', and still another RERUN'SNL Weekend Update Thursday'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Jon Hamm hosting, music by Coldplay.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Boston Legal'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Cinderella Man'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'World Series Baseball - Game 3', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Dracula 2000'.
A&E has the movie 'Overboard', followed by the movie 'My Cousin Vinny', then 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween 4: The Curse of Michael Myers', followed by the movie 'Constantine'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Riviera
[3:00 PM] Skins - Ep 11 Sketch
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 The Family Of Blood
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 Blink
[8:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 11
[9:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 12
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 3
[11:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 11
[12:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 12
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 3
[2:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 11
[3:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 12
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 18 Springthorpe
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 19 Lovell
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters II', then 'Even Scaier Movie Moments' (part 1).
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie', followed by 'Scary Movie 4'.
FX has the movie 'V For Vendetta', followed by the movie 'Hellboy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', another 'MonsterQuest', and still another 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] IFC News Uncut 2008
[6:30 AM] Waiting for Guffman
[8:00 AM] Kiru
[9:30 AM] Raging Bull
[11:45 AM] Waiting for Guffman
[1:15 PM] The Battle of Shaker Heights
[2:35 PM] Raging Bull
[4:45 PM] Waiting for Guffman
[6:15 PM] The Battle of Shaker Heights
[7:35 PM] Nowhere
[9:00 PM] Employee of the Month
[10:45 PM] C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
[12:20 AM] IFC in Theaters
[12:30 AM] Once Upon a Crime
[2:15 AM] Employee of the Month
[4:00 AM] C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
[5:35 AM] The Battle of Shaker Heights (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Ghost Voyage', followed by the movie 'The Ferryman'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] The Calcium Kid
[06:00 AM] Lemon Sky
[08:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
[09:00 AM] Blog Wars
[10:05 AM] The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
[11:00 AM] Sabah
[12:30 PM] Hotel Infinity
[01:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 8
[01:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 4
[02:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 2: Episode 2: Fallow Time
[02:45 PM] The Making of Good Dick
[03:00 PM] Everything's Gone Green
[04:45 PM] Hotel Infinity
[05:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Matchbox Twenty, The Script & Def Leppard
[06:00 PM] Wassup Rockers
[08:00 PM] The Hill: Episode 4: What Should Democrats Be Saying?
[08:30 PM] Office Tigers: (Episode 4)
[09:00 PM] Kippur
[11:05 PM] Kadosh
[01:00 AM] Yom Yom
[03:00 AM] Gone
[04:30 AM] Everything's Gone Green (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedian Whoopi Goldberg appears during 'A Night for Vets: An MTV Concert for the BRAVE' at the Nokia Theater Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
Shirley Manson from rock band Garbage has been crowned Scotland's most stylish female as fashion industry leaders gathered for the country's annual style awards.
Well-known names from the music, film and art worlds joined top designers at the Scottish Style Awards in Glasgow.
Other winners included Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri for most stylish musician and writer/director Richard Jobson for most fashionable male.
The ceremony was hosted by DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in the West End.
Matt Damon is honored that the most recent celebrity of the presidential campaign - "Joe the Plumber" - dropped his name in an interview.
"That was a surprise. I hadn't heard that Joe the Plumber dropped my name," Damon said. "I'm honored to be in the little passion play, to be an extra."
The plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, became an overnight media sensation after he was referred to constantly in the final presidential debate. When the press arrived at his Ohio home, Wurzelbacher, a Republican, said he hoped he wouldn't make a fool of himself with all the attention, "I don't have a lot of pull. It's not like I'm Matt Damon."
Damon - a hardcore Democrat who has spent as much time campaigning for Barack Obama recently than he has acting - was in San Francisco promoting a charity, OneXOne (pronounced One-by-One).
Canadian author Margaret Atwood acknowledges the applause after receiving the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters from Spain's Crown Prince Felipe during a ceremony at Campoamor theatre in Oviedo, northern Spain, October 24, 2008.
Photo by Eloy Alonso
Playwright-screenwriter Alan Bennett is donating his literary archive to Oxford University's Bodleian Library.
The gift includes drafts and manuscripts of plays such as "The Lady in the Van" and "The History Boys" as well as letters and more than 30 years of unpublished diaries.
Much of the material is handwritten. Bennett, 74, said he does not use a computer.
Bennett studied history at Oxford before founding the comic troupe Beyond the Fringe with Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. He has written for film, television and the stage. Several of his witty, poignant plays have been turned into movies, including "The History Boys" and "The Madness of King George," which gained him an Academy Award nomination.
Guns N' Roses fans thirsting for the band's first album of new material in 17 years will have a sweet, fizzy treat to savor as they listen.
Dr Pepper is making good on a promise to provide every person in America a can of the soft drink if "Chinese Democracy" were to arrive in 2008, and has revealed details of the plan.
Interested fans are being asked to visit DrPepper.com on November 23, the day "Chinese Democracy" is released in the U.S. exclusively via Best Buy. After registering online, fans will receive a coupon redeemable for a 20-ounce Dr Pepper wherever the drink is sold.
The twist: The coupon is available for only 24 hours and will expire on February 28.
The Onion News Network, an offshoot of the satirical newspaper the Onion, will be available to online viewers across the U.K., Europe and Asia following an exclusive deal Wednesday with digital distributor MyVideoRights.com.
The service is kicking off with the run-up to the November 4 election, with the deal partly fueled by what the partners call "the unprecedented interest that the U.K. and Europe have shown in the U.S. presidential election to date."
The Onion News Network, launched in March 2007, produces footage of current events, both real and imagined, and broadcasts 24/7. It parodies news networks such as CNN and ABC, with much of its humor stemming from interviews and news footage of current events.
Scottish actor Alan Cumming arrives on the red carpet to attend the amfAR Foundation for AIDS Research dinner and auction during the Rome Film Festival October 24, 2008.
Photo by Max Rossi
Homeless man Anthony Silva has claimed a $4,000 reward after finding the waxwork head of Sir Paul McCartney in a bin at Reading, England train station.
The rendition of the former Beatles man's head was left on a train last Thursday (October 16) by Joby Carter, who had been transporting it to be auctioned.
Silva told the Daily Star that when he found the head in the bin he initially thought it was a Halloween mask--but after realizing what he had found claimed the $4,000 reward from Carter.
Carter, meanwhile, said he hoped to make his $4,000 back and then some more when the head is auctioned. "I'll be gutted if it only goes for peanuts now," he said. "With the interest we've had I'm confident it may go for more than $20,000."
The brother of GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said Friday he'll withdraw from campaign activities after calling 911 to complain about traffic. He also apologized for making the call.
Joe McCain, who lives in Alexandria, Va., told Washington radio station WTOP he was returning from a campaign event in Philadelphia around 2 a.m. on Oct. 18 when he got stuck in traffic on Interstate 495 at the Wilson Bridge. His account of the timing differed from the police, who said the call was made at 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 21.
Frustrated because of the traffic, he called 911 to find out what was going on. The operator asked him to "state your emergency."
"Well, it's not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?" Joe McCain said.
The operator asked him if he was calling 911 to complain about traffic. McCain then uttered an expletivebarked "fuck you" and hung up the phone.
Neile McQueen Toffel, the first wife of the late actor Steve McQueen, poses with a framed July 12, 1963 Life magazine cover featuring her and McQueen during a Bonham & Butterfields "Classic California" auction preview in Los Angeles October 24, 2008. Toffel has put up many of McQueen's personal effects from his movie career up for auction, which takes place in Los Angeles October 25.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Three years ago, the man known as Internment Serial Number 669 stopped eating.
Ahmed Zaid Zuhair, a compact 43-year-old with 10 children in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 without charges and decided to join a mass hunger strike in protest. The U.S. military was determined not to let him succeed.
Since then, according to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press, guards have struggled with him repeatedly, at least once using pepper spray, shackles and brute force to drag him to a restraint chair for his twice-daily dose of a liquid nutrition mix force-fed through his nose.
Physicians for Human Rights, the World Medical Association and the United Nations, among others, have condemned the use of restraint chairs and other tactics. In a 2006 protest, Physicians for Human Rights said "the infliction of pain and suffering to discourage a hunger strike violates U.S. law and basic principles of human rights."
The Defense Department has said it is U.S. military policy to keep hunger-striking prisoners alive by appropriate clinical means and in a humane manner. And while the U.S. considers the detainees "enemy combatants" for whom the Geneva Conventions do not apply, it says it treats them in a humane manner that in some ways exceeds international standards.
It's the end of the road for CBS and Showtime's forays into mixed martial arts, at least for now.
ProElite, which produces the EliteXC mixed martial arts competitions, will be going out of business. That means that a planned November 8 Showtime event as well as an unscheduled primetime Saturday program on CBS won't happen.
Showtime, which owns 20% of EliteXC, and CBS, which aired three cards in primetime -- most recently October 4 -- were told that there would be no more bouts.
EliteXC looked to compete in a business sense with the UFC, the leader in mixed martial arts. It received a big boost from the commitment from Showtime and CBS, the first time mixed-martial arts had ever been on primetime broadcast network TV.
A supermarket soup tin painted by graffiti artist Banksy topped the bill at an urban art sale that looked to have been hit by the credit crunch.
The street painter's oil canvas, entitled Tesco Value Tomato Soup, was sold at auction for £117,600 - smashing its £80,000 estimate.
It was the most expensive item at the Bonhams sale in London, and while other Banksy pieces were also sold, nearly a third of the auction's items failed to find a buyer. A total of 74 of the 122 lots were sold.
Turf War, featuring a moody-looking Winston Churchill with a green mohawk haircut, fetched £60,000 which was well down on the £80,000 the auction house had been hoping for.
A giant replica of artist Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama Hope poster is shown on the property of artists Hilary Ross and her husband Jim Lennox in rural Shickshinny, Pa., Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. The replica, created by the couple and 13 others, took 60 hours to complete.
Photo by Jimmy May
Most of the dozen speakers at David Foster Wallace's memorial service brought a bottle of water to the lectern, as if inside were some branded tonic that would ease reliving the loss of a beloved author and friend.
It was the largest literary farewell since Norman Mailer's last spring, but this was no revel for a white-haired, irascible legend. It was a sober tribute to a sweet, troubled, middle-aged genius (known to wear a Mickey Mouse T-shirt) who took his own life at an age, 46, when his greatest work should only have started.
Wallace, who suffered from depression for much of his life, hung himself last month at his home in Claremont, Calif. He was known for such expansive, conflicted, ironic and deeply emotional works as the 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster."
His death stunned, and still stuns, the book world in a way that Kurt Cobain's death traumatized the music community in the 1990s.
Viacom's MTV Networks Germany unit is shutting down a local version of Comedy Central just two years after its launch. Comedy Central Germany will be folded together with kids channel NICK, starting next year.
Hit Nickelodeon shows including "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" will be shown during the day, with more mature programing including "Futurama" and "Dharma and Greg" as well as Comedy Central's own "The Daily Show" and "South Park" filling up the evening slots.
Comedy Central has been struggling in Germany since its much-ballyhooed debut in 2006. Instead of branding itself as cutting edge, the German channel aired reruns of decidedly mainstream sitcoms like "The Golden Girls."
The channel also killed the jokes, in the opinion of many local TV critics, by dubbing such cult shows "Seinfeld" as "The Sarah Silverman Program" into German.
Still looking youthful and sprightly, the Smurfs have reached the grand old age of 50.
They first appeared in comic book form in October 1958, on the pages of a cult comic strip magazine known as Spirou, and eventually got their own cartoon 20 years later.
The cartoon is published in over 30 different languages and generates an income of around £2.6 billion a year.
Hendrik Coysman, head of Smurf Rights Holdings, has said girl power is about come come crashing into their little world.
A woman displays a lottery ticket with a photograph of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in Medellin October 23, 2008. Obama might be betting he can win November's election, but he could really hit the jackpot in Colombia. A Colombian lottery seller has printed Obama's image on tickets, hoping to snag attention while celebrating Afro-Colombians with a nod to the Democrat's African heritage.
Photo by Albeiro Lopera
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