Deanna Zandt: Talking the Talk (AlterNet.org)
The author of a new book on pop language describes how media-driven popular culture is not only changing the way we speak, but maybe even the way we think.
David Podvin: FEEL THE BURN, GIRLYMAN (makethemaccountable.com)
In the aftermath of the California special election the headlines read, "SCHWARZENEGGER ROUTED", a most welcome bulletin that for inspirational value ranks a close second to "COULTER DROWNS IN SEWAGE TREATMENT MISHAP". Yet the most relevant factor is not that He Who Gropes has just been groped. It is the way in which he has been groped that serves as a template for liberal success.
Molly Ivins: Some kind of manly (workingforchange.com)
I can't get over this feeling of unreality, that I am actually sitting here writing about our country having a gulag of secret prisons in which it tortures people. I have loved America all my life, even though I have often disagreed with the government. But this seems to me so preposterous, so monstrous. My mind is a little bent and my heart is a little broken this morning.
Chris Barsanti: Bohemia Revisited (inthesetimes.com)
Mainstream commodification of alternative culture hardly seems noteworthy these days. While it may be infuriating to see corporations routinely boost their profits by mining rebellion from the fringe and repackaging it for the middlebrow, how are you going to stop TimeWarner, short of taking over its Manhattan offices and hauling the suits off in tumbrels?
Dan Savage: STRAIGHT RIGHTS UPDATE (villagevoice.com)( Scroll down. The letters at the top are Adult in content)
A vaccine for two common strains of HPV, the virus that causes genital warts, is currently moving through the federal approval process. HPV can also cause cervical cancer in women, and these cancers kill 4,000 American women annually. Who could possibly be against a vaccine that has proven 100 percent effective in clinical tests and will save thousands of women's lives every year? Those "culture of life" assfucks, that's who.
Purple Gene's review of Bill O'Reilly's and Pat Robertson's imminent Arrests:
O'Reilly and Robertson Arrest Warrant's Issued :
Pair linked to Terrorist support group!
November 11th, 2005…….The U.S. Justice Department, along with the Department of Homeland Security, has issued standing warrants for FOX news talk show host Bill O'Reilly and "Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" Televangelist Pat Robertson…..Both were charged with "Aiding and abetting" the Enemy in time of War as well as making statements that encouraged Terrorists to attack and kill American citizens and destroy occupied buildings and monuments on and off American soil. Both suspects will be held without bail or legal representation at the Guantanimo Bay prison facility….indefinitely.
These two high profile personalities have been under suspicion since the 9/11 attacks on New York.
Pat Robertson, along with Jerry Falwell, in a televised interview on September 13, 2001, agreed that the ACLU, Abortionists, Feminists and Gays were partially responsible for the Al Quida attack on the Twin Towers that resulted in thousands of innocent American lives being lost. Robertson, most recently, had blamed Hurricane Katrina on American citizens and actually had set up a secret fund with FEMA called "Operation Blessing" to funnel money to support his own "Anti-American" activities. On August 24th of this year, Robertson issued a statement calling for the Murder of the democratically elected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. The last straw came for Robertson after the People of Dover, Pennsylvania, voted out the "Phony Science" Creationist School Board Cabal that had forced the illegal religious doctrine on the taxpayers and students….He warned the citizens of Dover of "an impending Disaster" because they had voted "God" out of their City !!!!!!!
Bill O'Reilly, who is the purveyor of partisan punditry on the FOX "No Spin Zone", had been merely lying and prevaricating repeatedly on his program about current news…but his demeanor snapped just after he called movie maker Michael Moore and Author and comedian Al Franken "Joseph Goebbels" like Nazi's on July 29, 2004. Immediately after that, O'Reilly was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit by one of his FOX aides, Andrea Macklis…..she claimed (and had tapes) that he performed "Forced" phone sex with her including lewd and lurid talk of "Vibrators, three-somes, masturbation, loss of virginity, and some sensational sexual fantasies". O'Reilly bought his way out of this difficulty but snapped…..On November 8th, 2005 O'Reilly called for a Terrorist attack on San Francisco's Coit Tower , a famous landmark…..he said "..if al Qaida comes in here and blows you up (San Francisco), we're not going to do anything about it!".....transcripts were later found documenting that O'Reilly was also plotting to encourage Terrorists to blow up the Louvre, in France and the whole island of Aruba !!!!!!
All this was ignored by the FCC because they were still investigating the Janet Jackson exposed breast incident…..and Howard Stern's farting on the air!
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said that the two suspects will be afforded all the usual humiliation, deprivation and demeaning interrogation techniques used on other detainees at Guantanimo Bay…….
Purple Gene has interviewed and observed both men and contends that they are Psychotic and severely deranged at this point and should remain isolated!!!!!
Noticed 5-Deferment Dick 'Go Fuck Yourself' Cheney was at Arlington presenting the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
How Bush-World. A war profiteer & chickenhawk honoring those who didn't have 'better things to do.' < /sarcasm>
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'The Most Outrageous Live TV Moments 2', followed by a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', then another 'My Name Is Earl', followed by still another 'My Name Is Earl', then one last 'My Name Is Earl'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Jason Lee hosting, music by Foo Fighters.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 21 April, 1990, with Alec Baldwin hosting, music by The B-52's.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the movie 'Old School'.
The WB panders with 'Blind Date', 'Girls Behaving Badly', and 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MAD TV is FRESH with Pam Anderson.
UPN has a RERUN'Alias', followed by a RERUN'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and another 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Berets', followed by the movie 'Heartbreak Ridge', then the movie 'The Sand Pebbles'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 10 Flight Into Terror;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 42;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Choir Girl to Rock Chick;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 3;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Hayley;
[6pm] 'Ny-Lon' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 2;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[9pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century;
[9:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
[10:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Spanish Inquisition;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[11:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Live From the Grillomat;
[12:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Spam;
[1am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Royle Episode 13;
[1:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Money Programme;
[2:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[5am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 3;
[5:30am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', followed by the movie 'GoldenEye', then the movie 'Golden Eye', again.
Comedy Central has 'Comedians', 'Premium Blend', followed by the movie 'She's All That', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Engineering Disasters 17', 'The Crusades: Crescent & The Cross' (part 1 of 2), and 'The Crusades: Crescent & The Cross' (part 2 of 2).
IFC -
[6AM] Afraid of the Dark (1991);
[7:45AM] Short: Debutante (1998);
[8AM] Three Outlaw Samurai (1964);
[9:45AM] IFC in Theaters(2005);
[10AM] Clockwatchers (1997);
[11:45AM] The Grass Harp (1995);
[1:45PM] Three Outlaw Samurai (1964);
[3:25PM] Clockwatchers (1997);
[5PM] The Grass Harp (1995);
[7PM] Greg the Bunny: "Daddyhood" (2005);
[7:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Addiction" (2005);
[7:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[8PM] High Art (1998);
[10PM] Swingers (1996);
[11:45PM] The Last Waltz (1978);
[2AM] Swingers (1996);
[3:45AM] The Last Waltz (1978);
[5:45AM] Short: The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Deadly Swarm', followed by the movie 'Locusts: The 8th Plague'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] Bollywood/Hollywood;
[8:15AM] Yank Tanks;
[9:25AM] Slings & Arrows: Episode 2 - Geoffrey's Return;
[10:15AM] Broken Column;
[11:05AM] Tyler Brule: My Life;
[12PM] Career Girls;
[1:30PM] Yank Tanks;
[2:40PM] Satin Rouge;
[4:15PM] Heroes;
[6:15PM] Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself);
[8PM] TransGeneration: Episode 8;
[9PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Home;
[9:30PM] The Heart of Me;
[11:05PM] Tyler Brule: My Life;
[12AM] Caravaggio;
[1:35AM] See The Sea;
[2:30AM] Satin Rouge;
[4:05AM] Career Girls;
[5:40AM] Heroes. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Shirley MacLaine (L) hugs Dame Elizabeth Taylor at the 2005 BAFTA/LA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Cunard Britannia Awards' in Beverly Hills November 10, 2005. Taylor was this year's recipient of the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Most people know him as the Minister for Silly Walks on "Monty Python" or as Q in James Bond films. But John Cleese will also go down in history for another reason: lemurs.
Researchers from the University of Zurich have named a newly discovered species of lemur - one of the most primitive and endangered primates in the world - after the British comedian in honor of his work with the animal.
The avahi cleesei, which weights less than two pounds and eats leaves, was discovered in Western Madagascar in 1990 by a team led by anthropologist Urs Thalmann and his colleague Thomas Geissman of Zurich University.
The lemur's long legs are the only physical attribute it shares with Cleese, Thalmann told New Scientist magazine. "Woolly lemurs can't really walk - but they do enjoy silly jumps," he said.
U.S. director Martin Scorsese (R) reacts after receiving an award for his lifetime career from French actress Catherine Deneuve during the opening ceremony of the 5th Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech November 11, 2005.
Photo by Andrea Comas
Kurt Vonnegut is 83 today. He's been on my mind lately in part because this week I'm teaching Galapagos in class, which is one of his most unfairly underappreciated novels, and which I've really been enjoying rereading.
We'll celebrate's Vonnegut's birthday the Backwards City way:
In a move that will likely spell the end of a TV show that critics love but never drew big audiences, the Fox network said on Friday it pulled offbeat comedy "Arrested Development" from its schedule for the rest of the month.
Fox plans to air reruns of its popular new jailhouse drama "Prison Break" in place of "Arrested Development" through the end of November "sweeps," when networks go all-out to boost their ratings for the sake of local TV stations' ad sales.
In addition, Fox, a unit of News Corp. Ltd., said it had cut back its production order for "Arrested Development" to 13 episodes from 22 episodes for the season.
The Camden family is passing into TV history, with the WB network announcing Friday that "7th Heaven" will end after 10 seasons.
"7th Heaven" was quietly the most popular show in the WB's history, even as the relentlessly hip network trained its spotlight elsewhere. Nineteen of the 20 most-watched shows in the WB's history were "7th Heaven" episodes.
No one gave a reason for the cancellation, but production costs tend to increase as shows get older and salaries rise. Contracts for most of the people involved in "7th Heaven" reportedly run out at the end of the season.
This season, "7th Heaven" stands as the WB's most popular series after "Gilmore Girls." Its average of 5.1 million viewers a week is only slightly down from last season's 5.3 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan answers questions for the news media before speaking at the University of Massachusetts student union ballroom Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 in Amherst, Mass. Sheehan was part of a program entitled 'Eyes Open Wide for Veterans Day,' on the campus. Speakers included three families from Massachusetts who have sons in the military or who have lost a family member in the Iraq war and through suicide following release from serving in Iraq.
Photo by Nancy Palmieri
Brand name novelist Danielle Steel has reached agreement with New Line Home Entertainment for film rights to at least 30 of her books, including such best sellers as "Safe Harbour," "Ransom" and "Second Chance."
The films are expected to be exclusively for television and home video.
Steel, 58, has published more than 60 books and her latest, "Toxic Bachelors," just came out. She has another book due in February and has a line of perfume coming out next fall.
Italy welcomed home on Friday three disputed art works from Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum in the latest chapter of a saga that put the spotlight on the international trade in stolen art.
The return of the treasures was even more significant because it came just days before the resumption of a trial in Rome of one of the Getty's former curators on charges she conspired with dealers trafficking in looted antiquities.
Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione thanked the Getty for returning the archaeological treasures but said he would not be satisfied until another 39 disputed works acquired by curator Marion True came home.
A four-centimeter-long finger bone sarira relic in a case, believed to be that of the Buddha by Buddhists is displayed at the Chogye temple in Seoul November 11, 2005. The finger bone sarira relic, which is called one of the nine wonders of the world by UNESCO, will be displayed in South Korea until December 20.
Photo by You Sung-Ho
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey were among those nominated Thursday for the 32nd annual People's Choice Awards.
Internet research firm Knowledge Networks called on pop culture fans to help determine the nominees. The public can help choose the winners online at www.pcavote.com. The show will broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium on Jan. 10.
The nominees were:
Female movie star: Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman.
Male movie star: Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp, Samuel L. Jackson.
Leading lady: Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Renee Zellwegger.
Leading man: Jamie Foxx, Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler.
Female action star: Jennifer Garner, Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Male action star: Matthew McConaughey, Brad Pitt, The Rock.
On-screen match-up: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith;" Chris Rock and Adam Sandler in "The Longest Yard;" Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in "Wedding Crashers."
Female performer: Kelly Clarkson, Faith Hill, Gwen Stefani.
Male performer: Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Usher.
Group: Black Eyed Peas, Destiny's Child, Green Day.
New TV comedy: "Everybody Hates Chris," "How I Met Your Mother," "My Name is Earl."
New TV drama: "Commander in Chief," "Criminal Minds," "Prison Break."
TV comedy: "Everybody Loves Raymond," "That '70s Show," "The Simpsons."
TV drama: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Desperate Housewives," "Law & Order: SVU."
Reality show competition: "American Idol," "Fear Factor," "Survivor."
Reality show other: "Extreme Makeover," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Supernanny."
Late-night talk show host: Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien.
Daytime talk show host: Ellen DeGeneres, Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa, Oprah Winfrey.
Female TV star: Jennifer Garner, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Male TV star: Ray Romano, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland.
Funny female star: Drew Barrymore, Ellen DeGeneres, Queen Latifah.
Funny male star: Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Will Smith.
A painter from Bay Cal commercial painting walks on the steel beam of one of the letters of the Hollywood Sign as he begins repairs on the famous landmark Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, in Los Angeles. Like almost every other star in town, the Hollywood sign is getting a makeover. They'll coat the 45-foot-high (14-meter) letters with 300 gallons (1,135 liters) of a specially formulated paint in 'Hollywood White,' said David Codde, president of Bay Cal, which is donating the makeover work together with Red Diamond Coatings.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Sean Connery will receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, its highest honor for a career in film, the institute announced Thursday.
The award will be presented to the Scottish actor June 8 in Los Angeles.
Mariana Flores views a display of Marilyn Monroe in a famous subway air vent movie scene as she tours 'Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit' aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., on the show's opening day Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. The exhibit features what the sponsor describes as the world's largest private collection of Marilyn Monroe artifacts ever assembled. Objects from the collection of Robert Otto, president and CEO of Marilyn Monroe exhibits, are features, including clothes, lingerie, evening gowns and dresses, perfume, a doll collection, more than 400 magazine covers and more than 40 bottles of rare Marilyn-monikered wines. The exhibit runs through Feb. 18.
Photo by Nick Ut
Johnny Depp says he was appalled by the vilifying of his ex-girlfriend Kate Moss after pictures of her allegedly snorting cocaine were published in Britain.
"The first thing that went through my mind was I was concerned for her, hoping that she was OK and that she and her baby were OK," said Depp, 42, who dated the supermodel for four years until 1998.
"No. 2 was just being appalled and shocked at the kind of vicious attacks," Depp said in an interview Friday with a British morning TV show.
A hand touchs the bell recovered from the sunken ore freighter Edmund Fitzegrald at the 30th anniversary memorial Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, in Whitefish Point, Mich. The event is in honor of the 29 mariners who lost their lives in the sinking of the ship in a vicious Lake Superior storm in 1975. Relatives of the crewmen and survivors of other shipwrecks are among those invited to ring the Fitzgerald bell during the ceremony. Divers recovered the bell in 1995.
Photo by John L. Russell
A rare 1,400-pound meteorite was discovered seven feet underground by a collector in an area long known for producing prized space rocks.
Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., found the huge meteorite two weeks ago in Kiowa County's Brenham Township in southern Kansas.
The meteorite is classified as an oriented pallasite, a type noted for a conical shape with crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy. Only two larger ones of that type are known to have been found: a 3,100-pounder in Australia and a 1,500-pounder in Argentina.
Meteorites change shape as they enter the Earth's atmosphere. An oriented meteorite, which is rare, maintains a stable flight rather than tumbling.
Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born filmmaker and producer of the "Halloween" horror movie franchise, died Friday from wounds sustained in the triple hotel bombings in Jordan. He was 75. His daughter, Rima Akkad Monla, 34, also was killed.
Akkad, who lived in Los Angeles, was in Jordan with his daughter to attend a wedding. He died in the Jordanian hospital where he was being treated.
Born in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in July 1930, the eldest of eight siblings, Akkad gained fame as a director and producer in the Arab world and West. After finishing his secondary studies in Syria, he left for America in 1950 to study film making, according to his sister.
Akkad also produced and directed "The Message" (1976), a film about Islam's prophet, Mohammed, and "Lion of the Desert" (1981), which tells the story of a Muslim rebel who fought against the Italy's World War II conquest of Libya. Both starred Anthony Quinn.
With the death of his daughter, Rima, Akkad is survived by three sons, Tarek, Malek and Zeido.
An unidentified mother and daughter visit the Arlington West Iraq war memorial on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, on the seashore in Santa Monica, Calif. Veterans for Peace Los Angeles set up more than 2,000 white crosses and candles to remember the American soldiers and victims killed in Iraq conflict.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
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