Paul Krugman: Income And Life Expectancy (Blog)
… since 1977, the life expectancy of male workers retiring at age 65 has risen 6 years in the top half of the income distribution, but only 1.3 years in the bottom half.
Froma Harrop: Cheese Subsidies are Full of Holes (Creators Syndicate)
How interesting that one arm of the Agriculture Department is promoting sales of cheese as another urges the public to eat less of it for health reasons. Your tax dollars at work fighting other tax dollars.
Matt Miller: Sorry, Alan and Erskine -- it's not nearly enough (Washington Post)
I'm torn between cheering some of the "tough choices" (by Washington standards) that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have usefully put on the table -- and running from the room screaming at how phony and inadequate so many of the steps they've laid out are, despite first-day commentary hailing them as "bold."
GAIL COLLINS: What Everything Means (New York Times)
I can't stop thinking about the elections. Last weekend I saw "127 Hours," and all I could think about was that this was a metaphor for the lame-duck session of Congress.
BOB HERBERT: The Impossible Dream (The New York Times)
One of the most frustrating tendencies of mainstream leaders in the United States is their willingness, year after debilitating year, to embrace policies that have no hope of succeeding.
Roger Ebert: LITTLE VOICE (3 stars; An Overlooked DVD)
"Little Voice" is unthinkable without the special and unexpected talent of its star. She is Jane Horrocks, from TV's "Absolutely Fabulous" and the Mike Leigh movie "Life Is Sweet," and nothing I've seen her do prepared me in any way for the revelation that she is a singer.
20 Questions: Autumn Reeser (Popmatters)
On the small screen alone, Autumn Reeser is also known as 'Taylor Townsend' in the final two seasons of 'The OC'; as Jr. agent Lizzie Grant in 'Entourage', and as 'Katie', in 'No Ordinary Family', and here at PopMatters 20 Questions she's known as, well, the charming Autumn Reeser.
Roger Ebert: MORNING GLORY (PG-13; 3 ½ stars)
"Morning Glory" is a funny entertainment to begin with, and then Rachel McAdams transforms it. And Harrison Ford transforms himself. She plays as lovable a lead as anyone since Amy Adams in "Junebug," and he bestirs himself from his frequent morosity and creates with gusto a TV newsman who is described as a great man, but the third worst person of all time. Diane Keaton is pitch-perfect a Colleen Peck, a morning TV host who can, and must, smile through everything.
Roger Ebert: Review of "SUPERMAN" (PG; 1978; A Great Movie)
The first time we see Superman in his red, blue and yellow uniform is nearly an hour into "Superman." Perhaps the filmmakers agreed with Spielberg's famous statement that "Jaws" would work better the longer he kept the shark off the screen.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
The new year will begin with a new Speaker of the House (No doubt, 'Tan-boy' Boehner, R-Orange). Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing Speaker, has announced her intention of running for Minority Leader of House... Some Democratic Representatives think this is not such a good idea. Rep. Albio Sires (D-NY) said, "We need some new direction, and I think the best way is for her to move on."... Others support Pelosi, "I am confident that under her leadership we will never abandon our principles," said Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to seek minority leader post
~ Tony in Philly was first, and correct, with:
SNL's inaugural sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
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George Carlin's Seven Words You Can't Say
Charlie wrote:
Jeez, I don't think I watched the first show, though I became a regular viewer a few weeks into it.
SNL's inaugural sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
Guess that show, hosted by George Carlin, also had Janis Ian as a musical guest, always good to go back to some of these things.
George Carlin on religion From the Smothers: Janis Ian (Society's Child
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I think those brain cells are long dead
So I'm guessing it was one of the "Cheeburger, Cheeburger, Cheeburger" bits. Can't remember if it was cheeps or fries (but not both) or which soft drink was available (Coke. No, Coke; Pepsi). I could really go for a cheeburger, cheeps, and Coke right about now.
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From www.snltranscripts.jt.org:
Summary: SNL's inaugural sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
The thing about SNL is that it has always been uneven and never as funny as you remember. That 'previous cast'? just as unfunny as the 'current cast'.
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
SNL's inaugural sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
SNL Transcripts: George Carlin: 10/11/75
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The very first sketch, on the first SNL show in 1975, featured John Belushi with Michael O`Donoghue in "Wolverines." The sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
The show was hosted by George Carlin with guest comics, Andy Kaufman, "The Muppets," and even (now senator) Al Franken. Also, featured musical guests, Billy Preston and Janis Ian. I am a real SNL junkie!
Not a classic, "handsome" man, but there was something about his persona that was magnificent! What a loss...
PS: My bucket list includes writing a sketch for that show... Of course, they have become so PC over the past few years, may not be as much fun as it appears anymore. I heard an interview with some of the SNL writers of late, and they said they write for U-Tube 'hits' now, rather than TV ratings. Go figure???
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"Wolverines" In the skit, a professor tutors a European immigrant on how to speak English. As the two sat together in a small room, the professor began with an unusual language exercise about wolverines. Professor.....Michael O'Donoghue
European Immigrant.....John Belushi
Stage Manager.....Chevy Chase
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Summary: SNL's inaugural sketch features a teacher (Michael O'Donaghue) tutoring English to an immigrant student (John Belushi). Eager to learn, the immigrant mimics his teacher down to the finest detail. Chevy Chase appears as a stagehand at the end.
I wanted to link to YouTube so everyone could watch the very first sketch but unfortunately all I could find is some kid doing the sketch and playing both the teacher and the student. Playing both parts extremely poorly, I might add. The video's been up for about 4 months and has had like 55 hits. Look it up if you want to see it, I'm not placing the link. Enjoy
the Blues Brothers from the greatest movie ever made, except for Smoke Signals. And Flash Gordon.
Thank you Marty for publishing the photos of my warrior relatives. I didn't send them all, but they know who they are.
"For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another's life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity."
--Sitting Bull
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Outlaw', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: LA', then a RERUN'Law & Order: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Scarlett Johansson hosting, music by Arcade Fire.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Oprah'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'American Dad', followed by another old 'American Dad'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Maverick', followed by the movie 'Troy'.
BBC -
[9:00 AM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 4 & 5
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - Vampires in Venice
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - 7 - Amy's Choice
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 8 & 9
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - 10 - Vincent and The Doctor
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - 11 - The Lodger
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 12 & 13
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - 3 - Johnny Knoxville, Joan Rivers, Pet Shop Boys
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Imaginary Friend
[12:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 3 - Johnny Knoxville, Joan Rivers, Pet Shop Boys
[2:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 6 Paradise
[3:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 7 Alesha
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 3 - Johnny Knoxville, Joan Rivers, Pet Shop Boys
[5:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 Eddie Izzard, Harry Shearer
[6:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Jennifer Saunders, Cyndi Lauper (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', 'Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black', 'Ron White: Behavioral Problems', and 'Sam Kinison: Back From Hell', then 'Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet'.
FX has the movie 'Baby Mama', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Black Blizzard', and 'I Am Alive: Surviving The Andes Plane Crash'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Trojan Eddie
[7:50AM] The Namesake
[10:00AM] Choose Me
[11:50AM] The Three Stooges
[12:15PM] The Three Stooges
[12:40PM] The Three Stooges
[1:05PM] The Three Stooges
[1:30PM] The Three Stooges
[1:55PM] The Three Stooges
[2:15PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[2:50PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[3:25PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[4:00PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[4:35PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[5:10PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[5:45PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[6:20PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[6:55PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[7:30PM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[8:00PM] Sling Blade
[10:15PM] Office Space
[11:45PM] The Big Empty
[1:20AM] At the End of the Sentence
[1:30AM] Sling Blade
[3:45AM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[4:15AM] Office Space
[5:45AM] At the End of the Sentence (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:55 AM] Blind Date
[8:20 AM] Arranged
[10:00 AM] In Short: 116
[11:00 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[1:00 PM] Blind Date
[2:25 PM] Arranged
[4:05 PM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[6:05 PM] Blind Date
[7:30 PM] Love Comes Lately
[9:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Jane Goodall + Charlize Theron (Episode 1, Season 5)
[10:00 PM] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait...
[12:05 AM] Tazza: The High Rollers
[2:30 AM] ICONOCLASTS - Jane Goodall + Charlize Theron (Episode 1, Season 5)
[3:30 AM] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait...
[5:35 AM] Love Comes Lately (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Land That Time Forgot', followed by the movie 'The Lost Future'.
Martha Plimpton, left, and Parker Posey arrive to the opening night performance of 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' on Broadway in New York, Thursday, Nov. 11,2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is leading an online poll by Time magazine for its 2010 "Person of the Year."
Fox television talk show host Glenn Beck was next with 20,245 votes.
In third place with 18,500 votes, were Comedy Central comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who attracted more than 200,000 people to the US capital last month for their "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear."
Pop sensation Lady Gaga was next, with 18,090 votes, followed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with 13,371 votes.
Others receiving votes in the Time poll were US President Barack Obama, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, NBA star Lebron James, "The Unemployed American" and "The Chilean Miners."
John Waters arrives to the opening night performance of 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' on Broadway in New York, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Kanye West has backed out of a scheduled performance on NBC's "Today" show after getting upset with how his interview with host Matt Lauer this week was handled.
West's record company confirmed the cancellation to "Today" on Friday after the rapper said on his Twitter account that he wouldn't perform. He was scheduled to appear Nov. 26, part of a promotion drive for his new disc, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," which is being released next week.
During the interview, which was taped Tuesday and aired Thursday, West appeared thrown when "Today" aired a video clip of an embarrassing moment - when he grabbed a microphone from Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards and said Beyonce should have won an award instead of Swift.
West tweeted this week that he felt "set up" by the interview and that Lauer tried to force his answers. His cancellation notice was accompanied by mixed messages.
The creator of the widely syndicated comic "Garfield" has apologized for a strip that ran on Veterans Day that some critics saw as making fun of the holiday honoring those who served in the U.S. military.
Thursday's strip showed a spider warning the comic's featured cat, the lazy and overweight Garfield, that if the feline "squishes" him, an annual day of remembrance will be held in his honor.
Garfield, who frequently crushes spiders in the series, apparently is undeterred and the strip closes with a classroom of spiders being asked why they celebrate "National Stupid Day."
The cartoon drew such Internet comments as "Surely this isn't in the best of taste for Armistice Day/Veterans Day'' and that Garfield creator Jim Davis "is way off the mark with this cartoon. Shame on him."
Although some others said they doubted creator had such intentions or that they didn't read the strip the way the critics did, Davis issued a statement apologizing.
It said the cartoon had been written almost a year previously and that Davis, who had a brother who served in Vietnam and a son who served in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine, had not known when it was going to appear.
Cast member Barbara Hershey arrives for a screening of the film "Black Swan" at the closing night gala of AFI Fest 2010 in Hollywood, CaliforniaNovember 11, 2010.
Photo by Danny Moloshok (
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized on Friday for the fourth time in five months after doctors diagnosed a blood clot in her leg that threatened her heart, a spokesman said.
Gabor, 93, has been in and out of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles since she fell and broke her hip in July, and was so sick that in August that she asked to have the last rites read.
Her spokesman, John Blanchette, said she complained of pain and swelling in her leg in the morning. A doctor was called to her home and determined she had a blood clot that could move to her heart.
"He was afraid she was in jeopardy of heart attack," Blanchette said. Paramedics were called, and she was again taken to the hospital where she remained on Friday.
The head of the Australian distributor of "Girls Gone Wild" is accused in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Southern California.
Ryan Bowman of Zeal Entertainment was being held Friday on $2 million bail after being booked for felony vehicular manslaughter.
Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say Bowman's Bentley struck and killed 21-year-old Lauren Ann Freeman as she crossed a street Wednesday night in West Hollywood.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says she was thrown about 60 feet and the Bentley was found abandoned about a mile away.
Alan Cumming arrives to the opening night performance of 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' on Broadway in New York, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
A woman accused of slashing Leonardo DiCaprio's face with glass during a party five years ago has pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon.
Aretha Wilson entered the plea as part of a plea deal Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. She is expected to be sentenced to two years in prison on Nov. 22.
Wilson went to Canada after the attack and returned to Los Angeles to face the charge earlier this year. The 40-year-old had pleaded not guilty and was slated to begin trial on Friday.
She faced up to seven years in state prison if convicted.
Spanish actor and director Antonio Banderas gestures during a photocall at the Seville European Film Festival in Seville November 12, 2010.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo
A judge on Friday sentenced a college student convicted of hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account to a year and a day in a halfway house.
Judge Thomas Phillips of the U.S. District Court in Knoxville refused defense requests to allow David Kernell, who is being treated for depression, to avoid incarceration.
"Mental condition is not enough even when considering his age to justify variance" from federal sentencing guidelines, the judge said.
In September 2008, Kernell, then a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee, correctly guessed answers to security questions protecting Palin's Yahoo email account. He changed her password and posted on the Internet screen shots of personal information he obtained, such as her telephone directory.
Natasha Lyonne, left, and Rosie O'Donnell attend the after-party for the opening night of 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' on Broadway in New York, Thursday,Nov. 11, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Donny and Marie Osmond have settled a lawsuit brought by the producer of their Las Vegas show, who accused the duo of breach of contract, unjust enrichment, fraud, and defamation.
Chip Lightman filed the lawsuit last month in Nevada and included some nasty allegations that the Osmonds were "underhanded, devious, fraudulent and greedy."
The complaint said the Osmonds each are paid a base salary of $1.6 million and 40 percent of the gross box office from their Las Vegas show, but that Donny needed more to support a "lavish lifestyle of exotic cars, luxury hotel suites and private jets."
The matter has been put to rest now, as the parties have settled on undisclosed terms and Lightman has dismissed his complaint.
Sir Richard Branson, at left, and his mother, Eve Branson arrive at Rock the Kasbah presented by Richard Branson and Eve Branson at The Dorothy ChandlerPavilion on Thursday Nov. 11, 2010, in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event benefit Virgin Unite and The Eve Branson Foundation.
Photo by Katy Winn
The European Union said Friday it wants to know if some of its funds were misused last year for an Elton John concert in Italy just as the financial crisis was forcing member nations into austerity.
EU spokesman Ton van Lierop said Friday the EU Commission wants "to know as quickly as possible" why local authorities used money typically earmarked to boost investment projects of poorer EU countries for the British pop star's concert.
John performed before tens of thousands of people in September 2009 in the heart of Naples at the Piedigrotta festival, which is backed by local authorities.
National authorities have a lot of leeway on what spending to approve from such investment funds under (EURO)50 million ($69 million), including cultural projects, but the Commission wants to know why any money was used for such a concert.
Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, arrives to the after-party for the opening night of 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' on Broadway in New York, Thursday,Nov. 11, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Forbes' annual Hollywood's 10 Highest-Earning Women list has one thing missing: female directors.
Directors James Cameron, George Lucas and Michael Bay dominated the men's list, making $210 million with "Avatar," $95 with "Star Wars" and $120 Million with "Transformers."
But Kathryn Bigelow, who won the Best Director Oscar this year for "The Hurt Locker," didn't earn enough to crack the list.
Unsurprisingly, Oprah Winfrey, who launches her OWN network on January 1, topped the list with $315 million. Beyonce, who comes in No. 2, made $87 million, which, as Forbes points out, would have put her No. 9 on the men's list.
A visitor views postcards at the Royal College of Art's "RCA Secret Postcard" exhibition in London November 12, 2010. Over 1,000 artistshave donated work to the academy show this year, including Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Jake Chapman, Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Shonibare, Sir Peter Blake, John Baldessari, fashion designers Manolo Blahnik, Mary Quant and Sir Paul Smith, animator Nick Park, photographer David Bailey, film maker Mike Leigh and designers Ron Arad and James Dyson.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
Overwhelmed with requests for exorcists, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the esoteric rite, the Catholic News Service reported.
The church has signed up 56 bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the church currently has on its books.
"There's this small group of priests who say they get requests from all over the continental U.S.," Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, was quoted as saying.
"Actually, each diocese should have its own" exorcist, he added.
Paprocki did not say why there was increased demand for exorcisms, which he noted were rarely performed.
This undated photo released by Bainbridge Auctioneers shows a Chinese vase which was sold for 43 million pounds ($69.3 million) in London Thursday, Nov.11, 2010. The vase is decorated with a fish motif and is 16 inches high. Auctioneers Bainbridges said the vase is believed to have been acquired by an English family during the 1930s or earlier.
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