Garrison Keillor: Advice for the happy couple
A golden November day under a blue sky and an air of sweet amiability at the polls and at the end of the day, we elected the right guy, no doubt about it. Yes, we can and we did. A nation spread its wings and achieved altitude.
TOM DANEHY: Obama's newest adviser? None other than Tom Danehy (tucsonweekly.com)
Dear Mr. President-Elect: I'm writing this on Halloween, with Election Day still four days off, but I'm fairly certain that you're going to ride that anti-Republican sentiment into the White House. (Of course, there is always the chance that I could be wrong, and if I am, I'll have John McCain hold up my column and get a "Dewey Defeats Truman" photo out of it.)
Colin Covert: Director brings some of his own industry experiences to 'What Just Happened?' (Star Tribune)
Veteran filmmaker Barry Levinson (who gave us "Good Morning Vietnam" and "Rain Man" as well as the sci-fi botch "Sphere" and the Ben Stiller-Jack Black comedy you never heart of, "Envy") could write a book about the vagaries of Hollywood. Instead, he has filmed another droll movieland memoir, producer Art Linson's "What Just Happened?"
What was the third state to ratify the United States Constitution?
A Delaware
B Massachusetts
C New Jersey
D New York
E Pennsylvania
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New Jersey was the third state to ratify the United States Constitution, which was overwhelmingly popular in New Jersey, as it prevented New York and Pennsylvania from charging and keeping tariffs on goods imported from Europe. In November 20, 1789, the state became the first in the newly-formed Union to ratify the Bill of Rights.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
What a state we're in
A and E were 1 and 2. I think D was too disorganized (as they are today). I'll guess C.
Charlie responded:
On December 18, 1787, it was
C New Jersey
And maybe said document will go back into effect come January...
Alan J answered:
C New Jersey
Jim from CA replied:
New Jersey...
~ Tony In Philly said:
C: New Jersey (the Garden State)
Sally said:
"In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce," James Madison
New Jersey (C) was the third state to ratify the United States Constitution.
PS: Hey Adam from NoHo, Exactly how far North of Houston Street are you anyway - Canada? Not an Obama maniac down there? Unbelievable... (Love ya, though...)
Marian the Teacher replied:
New Jersey
Thanks to Charlie for the picture.
Note to Sally: 'NoHo' is LA-speak for 'North Hollywood' and 'WeHo' is West Hollywood.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Knight Rider', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then a RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with James Franco hosting, music by Kings of Leon.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Boston Legal'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Stylista', followed by 'The 5th Quarter'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Simply Irresistible'.
A&E has the movie 'Tombstone', followed by the movie 'Open Range'.
AMC offers the movie 'Magnum Force', followed by the movie 'The Enforcer', then the movie 'Sudden Impact'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 2 Glass House
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[3:00 PM] Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
[4:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 12 & 13
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
[10:30 PM] The Graham Norton Show - The Doctor Who Special
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 13 Last of the Time Lords
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
[1:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show - The Doctor Who Special
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 13 Last of the Time Lords
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
[4:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show - The Doctor Who Specia
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Innes
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 22 Crawley
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and the movie 'Be Cool'.
Comedy Central has 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy', 'Kevin James: Sweat The Small Stuff', 'Ralphie May: Girth Of A Nation', and the movie 'Tommy Boy'.
FX has the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by the movie 'The Omen'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'God Vs. Satan', and 'Decoding The Past'.
IFC -
[6:30 AM] Born Into Brothels
[8:00 AM] Sanshiro Sugata II
[9:30 AM] Henry Rollins Uncut: New Orleans
[10:30 AM] Picnic at Hanging Rock
[12:25 PM] United We Stand
[12:35 PM] Trans
[2:00 PM] IFC News Special
[2:15 PM] Radiohead: In Rainbows
[3:15 PM] The Slaughter Rule
[5:15 PM] Picnic at Hanging Rock
[7:05 PM] IFC in Theaters
[7:15 PM] The Bridge
[9:00 PM] When Will I Be Loved
[10:30 PM] The Cooler
[12:15 AM] Trapped in the Closet
[1:45 AM] When Will I Be Loved
[3:15 AM] The Cooler
[5:00 AM] Picnic at Hanging Rock (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Ice Spiders', followed by the movie 'Yeti'.
Sundance -
[05:30 AM] Seven-Per-Cent Solution
[07:25 AM] This Revolution
[09:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Bill Maher + Clive Davis
[10:00 AM] Man Push Cart
[11:30 AM] Little Terrorist
[12:00 PM] Agnes Browne
[01:35 PM] The Saviour
[02:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 2
[02:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 6
[03:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 2: Episode 4: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
[04:00 PM] Avenue Montaigne
[06:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Kills, Sara Bareilles & the Fratellis
[07:00 PM] Approaching Union Square
[08:30 PM] A Curtain Raiser
[09:00 PM] The Hill: Episode 6: It's Time To Be Mad As Hell
[09:30 PM] Office Tigers: (Episode 2)
[10:00 PM] Little Odessa
[12:00 AM] The Yacoubian Building
[02:45 AM] Spider
[04:30 AM] One Take Only (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Steve Buscemi, left, and Singer Elvis Costello arrive for an event celebrating the debut of the Sundance Channel's new show Spectacle: Elvis Costello With at the Edison Ballroom Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
When Les Paul's grandchildren are jamming on the video game "Guitar Hero," it's not lost on him that he made it all possible.
Paul, known as the "Father of the Electric Guitar," will be honored at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's annual American Music Masters series, a weeklong event that starts Monday.
Paul is a rock 'n' roll da Vinci, part artist, part inventor, and at age 93 still performs weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City.
Paul recalled that the first time he heard a guitar on his mother's radio he knew he had to have one. By age 13, he was performing semiprofessionally as a country-music guitarist.
Actor Harvey Fierstein performs during a rehearsal of the musical 'Hairspray' at the Neil Simon Theatre Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 in New York. Fierstein is returning to reprise his Tony Award-winning role as Edna Turnblad beginning Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
Many celebrities grieved the passing of Proposition 8 in California this week. Some - such as Wanda Sykes, Rose McGowen and Lance Bass - attended a Wednesday protest criticizing the state's gay marriage ban. Others - like Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Samantha Ronson and Melissa Etheridge - vented their frustrations online, on TV, and onstage.
Blocks away from the Thursday rally of more than 2,000 gay-rights advocates outside the gates of a Mormon temple, several stars - including James Cromwell, Patricia Clarkson, Anjelica Huston and Sean Penn - said they supported the protesters while walking the red carpet at the BAFTA L.A. Brittania Awards at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
"I think it might be an idea to go out and join them shortly," Penn said. "It was a shameful decision that was made."
Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton - affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president - asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
"I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet," the 80-year-old writer said Friday from her home in Winston-Salem, where she holds a professorship at Wake Forest University. "I was somebody else's poet."
The poet and author of such books as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" said she had a visceral, physical reaction when Obama was declared the winner late Tuesday.
"First I laughed," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Before I could finish laughing, I wept. Then I shook. I mean, I trembled. You know, the old meaning of the word `thrill' has a physical aspect. It's like, `Brrrrr!' My body started shaking."
Love's labour won't be lost when U.S. playwright John Wolfson dies.
Wolfson has pledged his collection of historic Shakespeare works, including a rare First Folio of the bard's plays, to the Globe Theatre in London, so it will remain intact after his death, the theatre said Friday.
Although Wolfson's collection has never been valued, some of the individual texts could be worth one million pounds, the Globe said.
Included in his collection is a folio of 18 of Shakespeare's plays that was published in the early 17th century, shortly after the bard's death.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss poses with his Russian-born wife, Svetlana Erokhin, at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles 17th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeles, California November 6, 2008.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Sen. John McCain will make his first post-election TV appearance on the "Tonight" show next week, NBC said Friday.
The Republican presidential candidate is set to join "Tonight" host Jay Leno (R-Enabler) on Tuesday in honor of Veteran's Day, the network announced. McCain is a former Naval officer and prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Picking a talk show over a news show for his first TV interview guarantees McCain a more lighthearted experience after his loss to President-elect Obama.
Comedian Katt Williams has been arrested on weapons charges in midtown Manhattan after police say they pulled him over for driving a car without license plates.
The 35-year-old performer was released on bail Thursday in time to make it for his show at Carnegie Hall. He told the audience that he "just got out of jail."
Police say a handgun was found in Williams' car after he was stopped for the alleged traffic violation.
Williams is best known for his role in the movie "Friday After Next" and for his appearances in rap videos. He also voices "A Pimp Named Slickback" in "The Boondocks" animated television series.
Protesters hold signs in front of the Mormon Church during a 'No on Prop 8' march and rally in Los Angeles to protest the church's monetary support of Prop 8, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Legal experts said it is unclear whether an attempt by gay-rights activists to overturn California's new ban on gay marriage has any chance of success, and whether the 18,000 same-sex marriages performed in California over the past four months are in any danger.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
A "60 Minutes" crew including correspondent Scott Pelley were jumped by a group of Chinese men who were upset that cameras were investigating toxic waste at a recycling plant for computer and other electronic waste, CBS News disclosed Thursday.
While the incident happened in June, the report will appear on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, along with a video of the incident.
It happened when the crew followed a box of computer monitors from Denver to Tacoma, Wash., and then across the Pacific Ocean to Guiyu, China. Guiyu is where the electronic waste is dismantled. The workers, who are paid $8 a day, use chemicals to burn away the plastic to get at other metals and many of them -- lead, mercury, polyvinyl chloride -- are cancer causing.
The crew included Pelley, producer Solly Granastein, associate producer Nicole Young as well as two camera operators and a sound engineer. Batteries also rained down on the crew; Young received a bruise when the men pulled a tripod from her hands.
A judge has awarded nearly $58,000 to a man who claims Prince failed to pay him for editing work and unreturned equipment.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Alarcon issued the judgment on Wednesday after conducting a brief trial last month that included testimony from the video editor, Ian C. Lewis.
The judgment fell well short of the $1 million in exemplary damages that Lewis was seeking. Documents show Alarcon also denied Lewis' claim that Prince and his company broke a $25,000 computer because no receipts were provided.
Prince's attorneys withdrew from the case and he was not represented during the trial.
An ancient grave unearthed in modern-day Israel containing 50 tortoise shells, a human foot and body parts from numerous animals is likely one of the earliest known shaman burial sites, researchers said on Monday.
The 12,000-year-old grave dates back to the Natufian people who were the first society to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Leore Grosman and colleagues said.
The special treatment of the body and use of stones to keep it in a certain position suggests the woman held a unique position in the community, likely some sort of a shaman, the researchers said.
The woman was also interred with some unusual grave goods, including the complete tortoise shells and select body-parts of a wild boar, an eagle, a cow, a leopard, and two martens, as well as a complete human foot.
Energized by a comeback win, conservative activists want to apply the same formula they used to outlaw same-sex marriage in California to prevent other states from recognizing gay unions and President-elect Barack Obama from expanding the rights of gays and lesbians.
Leaders of the successful Proposition 8 campaign say an unusual coalition of evangelical Christians, Mormons and Roman Catholics built a majority at the polls Tuesday by harnessing the organizational muscle of churches to a mainstream message lie about what school children might be taught about gay relationships if the ban failed.
Catholic and evangelical Hispanics and African-American Baptists stood alongside conservative white evangelicals in arguing for traditional marriage. Exit polls showed 70 percent of blacks supported the ban, a far higher percentage than any other race.
Gay-right activists attribute their loss in California in large part to overconfidence among Proposition 8 opponents. Although polls showed the measure far behind in mid-September, the Yes-on-8 campaign was raising far more money than its opponents.
Zookeepers feed Monifa, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, in its enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney November 7, 2008. Monifa was born on October 15 after a difficult breach birth and zookeepers made the decision to intervene and raise the female calf.
Photo by Daniel Munoz
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