Paul Krugman: Free to Lose (nytimes.com)
With long-term unemployment at its highest levels since the 1930s and on the rise, the U.S. should consider policies that address job growth directly.
Will Harris: A Chat with Tom Sturridge, Co-star of "Pirate Radio" (bullz-eye.com)
I knew Talulah (Riley) before, and I got cast before her, so I was always kind of nudging Richard, kind of, like, going, "Who's gonna be my girlfriend?" And once she was cast, there was a bit of, 'Oh, f**k. It's like my f**king sister's playing my girlfriend!'
Michael Ordoña: Bill Nighy pretty much lived this role (latimes.com)
The new film, says Nighy, is really about "decency and friendship. Richard Curtis is a believer. When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get. Richard likes to try to make a searingly honest movie that tells you how good things can be.
Roger Ebert: PIRATE RADIO (R; 3 stars)
Before we get to the movie, let's assume you're near a computer that has iTunes. Go to "radio," look under "alternative rock," and go down to Radio Caroline. I'll tell you why in a moment. Don't turn it up so loud that it drowns out my review.
Will Harris: A Chat with Michael Ironside, Co-star of "Hardwired" (bullz-eye.com)
"One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to me and said, 'Are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!'"
The 'Wild' western (latimes.com)
Though some critics hated it when it was released in 1969, Sam Peckinpah's seminal western "The Wild Bunch" is today considered one of the most influential, poetic -- and yes, violent -- sagebrush sagas ever made.
Washington (CNN) -- A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress.
Currently, there are no term limits for federal lawmakers, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and several of his colleagues are advocating that service in the Senate be limited to 12 years, while lawmakers would only be allowed to serve six years in the House
GOP senators push for term limits - CNN.com
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Another grey and rainy day here in Jersey! Sigh...
Okay, Toto (The Wizard of Oz) was played by a female black Cairn Terrier whose real name was Terry.
PS: Dang, Vic (in Alaska) yer cat really is ugly... (Luv ya Vixtor, hahaha!)
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'Terry', a female black Cairn Terrier, was the name of the dog that played 'Toto' in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of OZ". I was 7 years old at the time and can still remember the excitment of going to see the film. My mother read the book to me and I still have the copy that was hers when she was a little girl. It is somewhat tattered and well read, by me, children and grandchildren and even greatgrandchildren. By the time I was 10 I had read every OZ book that I could get my hands on. I love the illustrations by W.W. Denslow.
Toto. Dorothy, and friends
Considered highly experimental at the time, December 2009 sees the one hundredth anniversary of the opening to the public of the Manhattan Bridge. Although it has survived a century the design, construction and maintenance has been no walk in the park thanks to something called deflection theory.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Mercy', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with January Jones hosting, music by Black Eyed Peas.
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 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'Wanda Sykes' is FRESH.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome', followed by the movie 'The Matrix'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 14
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 2 Glass House
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 12 Captain Jack Harkness
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Dangerous Deal
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Bad Blood
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 David Tennant, Johnny Vegas
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Dangerous Deal
[12:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 10 Jimmy Carr, Serena Williams, Robbie Williams
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[2:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 10 Jimmy Carr, Serena Williams, Robbie Williams
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Brendan Fraser, Alesha Dixon
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 19
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 20
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'GoodFellas'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj', followed by the movie 'American Pie'.
FX has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe: Beyond The Big Bang', and 'Siberian Apocalypse'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Slaughter Rule
[8:00 AM] Samurai Gold Seekers
[9:30 AM] Last Days
[11:15 AM] The Prince of Pennsylvania
[12:50 PM] The Slaughter Rule
[2:50 PM] A Decade Under the Influence
[3:45 PM] Last Days
[5:25 PM] The Prince of Pennsylvania
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] The Crossing Guard
[10:00 PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[11:00 PM] The Ninth Gate
[1:15 AM] The Prophecy
[3:00 AM] The Crossing Guard
[4:55 AM] Closely Watched Trains (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Mega Fault', followed by the movie 'Ice Twisters'.
Sundance -
[05:05 AM] Good Morning Heartache
[06:40 AM] Lemon Sky
[08:25 AM] You're Gonna Miss Me
[11:00 AM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 106
[11:30 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Rascal Flatts, Kate Nash & Herbie Hancock
[12:30 PM] Approaching Union Square
[02:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[04:15 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[06:30 PM] Approaching Union Square
[08:00 PM] Life For A Child
[08:30 PM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 106
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 5: Paul Simon + Lorne Michaels
[10:00 PM] Savage Grace
[11:45 PM] The Danish Poet
[12:00 AM] Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoi
[01:45 AM] Hotel Very Welcome
[03:15 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 6: Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou
[04:15 AM] Savage Grace
[05:55 AM] The Saddest Music In The World (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Jason Alexander arrives at the office of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's ranking Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alexander is a member of OneVoice.
Photo by Alex Brandon
The International Documentary Association on Thursday unveiled nominees for its widely-watched awards, putting its spotlight on non-fiction films that might also compete for Oscars early next year.
The key category of distinguished documentary achievement finds five nominees ranging from a film about four people competing in a television talent show in Afghanistan, "Afghan Star" to the story of a pair of faded rockers hoping for one last grasp at stardom, "Anvil! The Story of Anvil."
The three other nominees are "Food, Inc." about the U.S. food industry, "Diary of a Times Square Thief," which tells of a search for the writer of a diary that was sold on Ebay, and "Mugabe and the White African," the story of a white African farmer who defies the government of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on December 4.
American singer, songwriter and music producer George Clinton performs with the funk, soul and rock music collective Parliament-Funkadelic on stage at the Avo Session in Basel, Switzerland, Thursday evening, Nov. 12, 2009.
Photo by Georgios Kefalas
An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late conservation star Steve Irwin by naming a rare species of snail "crikey steveirwini".
Queensland Museum scientist John Stanisic said khaki colours on the stripy tree snail reminded him of the trademark shirt and shorts worn by Irwin, who died in a freak stingray incident in 2006.
"This is an extremely rare species of snail," Stanisic said Friday, describing it as "a colourful snail, with swirling bands of creamy yellow, orange-brown and chocolate giving the shell an overall khaki appearance".
Stanisic said crikey steveirwini's name and precarious habitat would also draw attention to the effects of climate change.
Actor Richard Gere has returned to his former upstate New York hometown to help his father and other volunteers for Meals on Wheels celebrate an anniversary.
Gere was on hand for Thursday night's event marking the fifth anniversary of the organization's new building in North Syracuse, just outside Syracuse.
Homer Gere still delivers food for Meals on Wheels, something his 60-year-old son called "pretty extraordinary."
Richard Gere graduated from high school in North Syracuse in 1967.
U.S. director and actor Clint Eastwood reacts after he was named as a Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris November 13, 2009.
Photo by Thibault Camus
There's still some life in the "Saw" horror franchise, despite the disappointing performance of the latest installment.
Indie Hollywood studio Lionsgate said on Thursday it was moving ahead with "Saw 7," which will be in 3-D.
"As long as we make money on it we'll keep doing this," Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns said at the Media and Money conference in New York, noting that such franchises tend to have a long shelf life across different platforms.
The franchise, a Halloween staple since 2004, peaked at $87 million with the first sequel and fell to $57 million last year.
Evangelist Tony Alamo used his stature as a self-proclaimed prophet to force underage girls into sham marriages with him, controlling his followers with their fears of eternal suffering.
But the judge who sentenced Alamo on Friday to 175 years in prison for child sexual abuse warned of another kind of justice awaiting the aging evangelist.
"Mr. Alamo, one day you will face a higher and a greater judge than me," U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes told the preacher. "May he have mercy on your soul."
Barnes leveled the maximum sentence against the 75-year-old, who preyed on followers' young daughters and took child "brides" as young as age 8. A jury convicted Alamo in July on a 10-count indictment accusing him of taking the girls across state lines for sex.
Alamo, who has made millions through his ministry, also must pay $250,000 in fines. He will return to court for a Jan. 13 hearing at which Barnes will determine if the five women who testified about their sexual abuse will be paid restitution. Federal prosecutors say an expert believes each one should get $2.7 million for the physical and mental abuse they endured.
"Cigar" by artist Robert Gober is seen during a media preview of the exhibit "Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years" at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles November 12, 2009. Brought back from the brink of financial ruin by a philanthropist's $30 million gift, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles celebrates its turnaround this weekend with the most ambitious exhibition of its own iconic collection.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Jon Gosselin has filed a counter lawsuit against the TLC network, claiming television producers violated Pennsylvania's child labor laws in filming the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and are preventing him from working.
The suit seeking more than $5 million in damages was filed Thursday in Maryland's Montgomery County Circuit Court in response to a network lawsuit alleging Gosselin failed to meet his obligations as an employee.
Gosselin's attorney Mark Jay Heller said the network had the family sign a complicated deal in 2005 without the advice of a lawyer.
Heller said the network also failed to obtain child work permits that would spell out what hours the children would work and how they would be paid. An anonymous complaint to Pennsylvania authorities over a clip that showed TV producers refusing water to one of the children prompted an ongoing investigation, according to Gosselin's court filing.
A German man has been charged with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband over a photo of their daughter gagged and bound to a chair, authorities said.
Edis Kayalar, the man at the center of the probe, was charged in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday, but he was recently deported back to Germany and has not been arrested.
The photo was apparently snapped by the then 7-year-old's nanny as a private joke when she was playing "cops and robbers" with the girl, and it came into the hands of Kayalar, who was the nanny's friend, according to court documents.
This past summer, Kayalar contacted Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber, who did not know about the photo, and sought to use it to get money from them, saying tabloids would pay a lot, the court papers said.
Alicia Silverstone appears in this publicity photo for a campaign promoting vegetarianism by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Photo by Dave Meyers
Playboy Enterprises Inc is in talks with Jim Griffiths, a former entertainment president at the company, and private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, to sell itself for about $300 million, a source familiar with the matter said Friday.
Playboy declined to comment. Golden Gate Capital, which is in joint talks with Griffiths, were not immediately available for comment.
The company is also in separate talks with Iconix Brand Group to sell itself, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Iconix, which owns and licenses clothing brands such as Candies, Joe Boxer, and Rocawear, wants to bring in a publishing partner to buy Playboy magazine while it would keep the licensing part of the company, one of the sources said.
Though you might not be able to run away from your problems, moving to another state could be good for the soul. New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average.
The reasoning is that wealthy states can provide infrastructure and so it's easier for residents to get their needs met. In addition, states with a greater proportion of artists and gays would also be places where residents can freely express themselves.
On average, well-being was highest in the Mountain states and West Coast states, followed by the Eastern Seaboard and then the Midwest and Southern states.
The researchers note that because a state scores high or low doesn't mean you could pluck out a resident and expect that person to be appropriately cheery or depressed. And not every state in the union sits exactly where you might expect on the list.
This undated picture provided by Sotheby's shows pop artist Andy Warhol's painting, '200 One Dollar Bills,' which brought $43.8 million at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 million. The work, one of Warhol's first silk-screen paintings, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday, Nov.11, 2009. The auction house did not reveal the names of the buyer and seller.
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