Susan Estrich: See You at Thanksgiving (Creators Syndicate)
And so another class of high school graduates left home this fall, or said goodbye to their friends who left. Thanksgiving is the first time everyone sees each other after having gone their separate ways for three months. Ask any adult who left home for college, and they'll probably be able to remember their first holiday back.
Jim Hightower: I SPY ON YOU, AND VICE VERSA
Every time some dimwitted bozo tries to pull off a screwy terrorist act against us, the kneejerk reaction of our authorities is to "secure" our liberties by putting more restrictions on your and my liberties.
Clarence Page: Can we give peace a chance? (Chicago Tribune)
Refudiate," a word Sarah Palin created by conflating "refute" and "repudiate" in a tweet, has entered the New Oxford American Dictionary. It could also serve as her party's new congressional battle cry.
In praise of the daily walk (The Guardian)
A brisk half hour walk a day will keep you healthy - and sane - say researchers. Eight people reveal what walking means to them.
Emma Brockes: Nadine Gordimer on dividing fact from fiction (The Guardian)
"Look," she says now, "the process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer."
"Full Dark, No Stars" By STEPHEN KING: Reviewed by James Parker
How many distinct personalities are contained, floatingly, within the authorial nimbus that we currently know as "Stephen King"? A deeper Kingologist than I might be able to put a number on it, but I can tell you that four of them at least are on display in the story collection 'Full Dark, No Stars.'
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."
In case you haven't noticed (haha), the 'Holiday Season' onslaught has begun. (Actually, it did the day after Halloween, but no matter). The economic hopes and dreams of countless retailers, wholesalers, grocers, catalog companies, Internet discounters, hotels, motels, airlines, bus lines, restaurants, bars, credit card loan-sharks and the Salvation Army are depending on YOU for their very survival... Or, so they say... In addition, as always, elbowing their way in like a bunch of 'Red-haired Step-Children" demanding attention are those, too, who push the whole 'Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men... Reason for the Season' agenda despite the overwhelming evidence that those sentiments might actually happen for only, like, two seconds... If'n we're lucky... So.. Looking at 'The Big Picture'...
What is your overall attitude regarding the upcoming festivities?
A.) Joy to the World! It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
B.) Is it over yet?
C.) Sigh... It is, what it is... I'll make it through... somehow... I think...
Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991-92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a transplanted New York doctor and the townspeople of fictional Cicely, Alaska" and its stories of "people of different backgrounds and experiences" clashing but who ultimately "strive to accept their differences and co-exist."
Although the town of Cicely is widely thought to be patterned after the real town of Talkeetna, Alaska, the main street of Cicely and the filming location was actually that of Roslyn, Washington. Northern Exposure II (The main production facility) was located in Redmond, Washington in what is now the headquarters of Genie Industries. It's behind a business park.
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Marian was first, and correct with:
Cicely
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
Easy one... Cicely... Great show... and Maggie was hot, hot, hot...
Alan J answered:
Cicely
Charlie replied:
Cicely, which was actually Roslyn, Washington (Population 1017 as of 2000).
Sally said:
Northern Exposure is set in the fictitious town of, "Cicely," but was actually film in Roslyn, WA.
"Cicely was founded, but nameless (and lawless) until two women, Cicely and Roslyn, came to town to form a utopian society." The town is named after Cicely, due to her selfless death to protect Roslyn. In a flashback, the role of "Cicely" is played by Janine Turner.
Home of the Free, and Land of the Brave...
(Yeah, sure. Fictitious, as it is in the lower 48 AWA the spectacular Hawaiian Isles...)
PS: BTW, the chemistry between Janine Turner and Rob Morrow was about as hot as you could get back in 1990s TV!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Cicely, Alaska
~ Tony in Philly answered:
Cicely
Adam replied:
Cicely- Founded by two lesbians, one named Cicely.
'I will now do an interpretive dance to the Earth Goddess Gaia...'
Vic in AK said:
I HAVE to Jump on this one...the FAKE town is Cicily , kinda based on Talkeetna and being Alaskan yourself Marty you know how much we loved to pick apart that show...from calling snowmachines "Snowmobiles" to that syphilitic looking moose at the beginning , even though everyone despised the show up here it was the most popular in it's time slot.
Sidenote time...getting cold(5ŗF last night) but not much snow. We are hunkered down ,being creative. We have started a comic strip/book that coincides with my TeeVee show (getting season-3 going now) it shows how Chester Woof was lured down to Moose Pass by the scent of prey so overpowering it had him in a trance and when he caught up to his prey and jumped her...she turns things around and hog-ties and captures our hero...but somehow he dont care
Here's a "rough" sample showing us and our cats
Yes, I had a TV show in the 80s. All my personal videotapes were stolen
years ago so I had no way to prove it when I drunkenly claimed to non-believers
that I once had a TV show, but now there's proof. Overview, produced by Michael
Nesmith, has been posted to YouTube! That's Taylor Negron at the top and me in
the mullet at 2:35.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Anne Hathaway hosting, music by Florence & The Machine.
ABC fills the night with FRESH'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 'Broken Trail', followed by the movie 'Open House'.
BBC -
[7:00 AM] Doctor Who - 7 - Amy's Choice
[8:00 AM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[9:00 AM] Blame It On Rio - Blame It On Rio
[11:00 AM] Animals: Inside the Womb - Animals: Inside the Womb
[12:00 PM] Britain's Biggest Beasts - Britain's Biggest Beasts
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Momma Cherri's
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's
[3:00 PM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 7 Alesha
[4:00 PM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 8 Samaritan
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[6:00 PM] Top Gear: Best of - Episode 7
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Daniel Radcliffe, Colin Farrell, Rihanna, Rhod Gilbert
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 The Next Phase
[12:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 25 The Inner Light
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Daniel Radcliffe, Colin Farrell, Rihanna, Rhod Gilbert
[2:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 The Next Phase
[3:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 25 The Inner Light
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Daniel Radcliffe, Colin Farrell, Rihanna, Rhod Gilbert
[5:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Ricky Gervais, Thandie Newton
[6:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Mickey Rourke, Jessica Biel (ALL TIMES EST)
IFC -
[6:00AM] Love's Labour's Lost
[7:40AM] Beyond the Sea
[9:45AM] The Three Stooges
[10:05AM] The Three Stooges
[10:30AM] The Three Stooges
[10:55AM] The Three Stooges
[11:20AM] The Three Stooges
[11:45AM] The Three Stooges
[12:10PM] The Three Stooges
[12:35PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[1:10PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[1:45PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[2:20PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[2:55PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[3:30PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[4:05PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[4:40PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[5:15PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[5:45PM] Benny & Joon
[7:30PM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[8:00PM] Oscar and Lucinda
[10:15PM] Kalifornia
[12:15AM] 8 Million Ways to Die
[2:15AM] Benny & Joon
[4:00AM] Kalifornia (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:00 AM] Diary Of A Chambermaid
[8:40 AM] Full Grown Men
[10:00 AM] In Short: 111
[11:00 AM] Love Comes Lately
[12:25 PM] Manon On The Asphalt
[12:40 PM] No One Knows About Persian Cats
[2:30 PM] The Art of Speed: Jeff Koons at 180 MPH
[3:00 PM] Diary Of A Chambermaid
[4:45 PM] Full Grown Men
[6:10 PM] No One Knows About Persian Cats
[8:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Summer Is Ours (Episode 1, Season 1)
[9:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Lenny Kravitz + Lee Daniels (Episode 2, Season 5)
[10:00 PM] A Little Trip To Heaven
[11:30 PM] Kool: Dancing In My Mind
[12:00 AM] Shadows in the Palace
[2:00 AM] ICONOCLASTS - Lenny Kravitz + Lee Daniels (Episode 2, Season 5)
[3:00 AM] Mary and Max
[4:40 AM] A Little Trip To Heaven (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Impact', followed by the movie 'Impact', again.
Actor Jeff Bridges poses for a portrait during the press junket for the feature film 'TRON: Legacy' in Los Angeles on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
MSNBC says it's suspending morning host Joe Scarborough for two days without pay for making political contributions to four Republican candidates. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said Friday that Scarborough's eight donations for $500 apiece violate NBC News policy. He says Scarborough will return to the "Morning Joe" anchor desk Wednesday.
In a statement, Scarborough apologized to the network. But he added that because the contributions were for local Florida races, he had not understood the NBC News policy applied.
Scarborough is a former Republican congressman from Florida.
His suspension comes on the heels of a two-day suspension of fellow MSNBC host Keith Olbermann last week, also for making political contributions.
Actress and best-selling author Danica McKellar, center, shares a moment with high school students Kareese Martin, left, and Aimee Rodriguez at DeVry University's HerWorld event in New York, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. McKellar is hosting National HerWorld month in an effort to empower young women across the country to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Actress Jennifer Garner is coming home to West Virginia to help Save the Children open six sites in the state.
The charity says Garner and Mason County superintendent Suzanne Dickens are going to participate in a press conference Friday in Ashton.
Garner, who's married to actor Ben Affleck, grew up in Charleston.
Save the Children offers early education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs for children. The charity says its programs reached more than 70,000 kids in the country this year.
Scientists who have exhumed the remains of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe say tests aimed at solving the mystery of his sudden death will take until next year.
An international team opened his tomb this week in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn near Prague's Old Town Square, where Brahe has been buried since his death in 1601, and took samples of his remains.
Jens Vellev, a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark, said the scientists will not only be able to reconstruct what Brahe looked like but got enough material to trace details about his life years before his death.
He said an eight-centimeter (3.15 inches) long piece of mustache should make it possible for them to see "what kind of medicine he took in the last three months of his life" while from samples of bones they can go as far as back as 15 years before his death.
From left, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Sen. John Kerry, Catherine Crier and United Nations Foundation Founder and Chairman Ted Turner attend the United NationsFoundation Annual Leadership Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
A century ago, all of Russia mourned Leo Tolstoy's death at a backwater train station. But today the novelist and pacifist, who abhorred any form of government, is more respected in the West than his home country.
The centennial of Tolstoy's death, 100 years ago Saturday, seems to be passing virtually unnoticed in Russia.
No specials in state channels' primetime schedules. No retrospectives in Russia's main state museums. Facing the moral dilemmas posed by Russia's most famous son would simply be "inconvenient".
"He is just as inconvenient today as a century ago...to mark the date you have to think of Russia's past 100 years, which nobody wants to do," said Pavel Basinsky, author of "Flight From Heaven", a recent book on the circumstances of the writer's run in the dark of the night from his estate in Yasnaya Polyana.
Fleeing from his home and wife of 48 years with just 50 rubles in his pocket, 82-year Tolstoy rushed from one monastery to another before catching a cold on a train and dying at a small train station in Astapovo, Lipetsk region.
A federal judge ordered actor Wesley Snipes to surrender to authorities Friday so he can begin serving a three-year prison sentence for tax-related crimes.
U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges in Ocala, Fla., rejected a request from the actor's attorneys to review Snipes' sentence and grant a new trial. Snipes has been free on bond for more than two years while appealing.
"The defendant Snipes had a fair trial; he has had a full, fair and thorough review of his conviction and sentence. ... The time has come for the judgment to be enforced," the judge wrote in his 16-page decision.
The 48-year-old star of the "Blade" trilogy and Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns. He was acquitted of two more serious felony charges.
In this image released by Fuse, Janelle Monae, left, appears on a new episode of 'Lay It Down' hosted by Cee Lo Green, right, airing Nov. 17, 2010, at 11pm ET on Fuse.
Photo by Casey Rodgers
The former spokesman for the Los Angeles County Superior Court claims false rumors that he leaked information to a celebrity news website were used as pretext for his firing.
Allan Parachini was fired Monday after eight years of handling the media covering high-profile cases including those involving Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
Parachini, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, told the newspaper he met with court Executive Officer John A. Clarke on Oct. 25 and was told administrators had lost confidence in him because of a perception that he had leaked privileged materials to TMZ.
Parachini said in the report published Friday that he was not provided with specifics but Clarke said he talked too frequently with TMZ's founder, Harvey Levin.
The real reason, Parachini claimed, was that court administrators wanted him to stonewall requests from the Times and the Bay Area News Group for what Parachini considered to be public information.
A judge has ruled that an Iraq war veteran can sue the makers of the Academy Award-winning film "The Hurt Locker" in California, not New Jersey.
U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh's ruling published Friday also denies the defendants' motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was brought last spring by Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver, an Army bomb disposal expert. Sarver claims the film's lead character is based on him and that he was given no credit or compensation.
Screenwriter Mark Boal wrote about Sarver in an article published in Playboy magazine in 2005. Boal has said the film was a work of fiction.
Cher (L) poses with her mom Georgia Holt during Cher's hand and footprint ceremony in the forecourt of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood,California November 18, 2010.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
The Defense Department is aware that Internet traffic was rerouted briefly through China earlier this year, a Pentagon spokesman said on Friday, referring to what a congressionally appointed panel has described as a hijack.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission charged in its annual report on Wednesday that state-owned China Telecom advertised erroneous network routes that instructed "massive volumes" of U.S. and other foreign Internet traffic to go through Chinese servers during an 18-minute stretch on April 8.
Marine Colonel David Lapan, a Defense Department spokesman, told reporters, "We're aware that on the 8th of April ... Internet traffic was rerouted through China."
He added at one point that he did not know if "we've determined whether that particular incident ... was done with some malicious intent or not."
Moments later, he said there was no evidence that anything malicious had occurred, a position he repeated when pressed about the discrepancy in his remarks.
A suspended Roman Catholic priest once accused of stalking late night TV personality Conan O'Brien has now been charged with harassing a Boston TV journalist.
Cohasset police say the Rev. David Ajemian was arrested on Thursday for violating a restraining order that required him to stay away Anthony Everett, co-host of "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV.
Police said Ajemian made several calls to the station in violation of a "harassment prevention" order taken out by Everett last week.
Ajemian pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in 2008 after being accused of stalking O'Brien.
Photo released by CERN on Thursday, Nov 18, 2010 shows an image taken by the ALPHA annihilation detector showing untrapped antihydrogen atoms annihilatingon the inner surface of the ALPHA trap. The events are concentrated at the electrode radius of about 22.3 mm. Scientists at the world's biggest physics lab said they have achieved a breakthrough in the hunt for antimatter. An international team of physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva say they created an entire atom made of antimatter and then for the first time managed to hold onto it.
The top producer of ABC's "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour is quitting.
Ian Cameron says the weekend work has been tough on his family and he wants more regular hours. Cameron is married to Susan Rice, the nation's ambassador to the United Nations, and he's leaving ABC News altogether after 13 years in Washington.
"This Week" has struggled in the ratings since Amanpour took over this summer as an unconventional choice for the Washington insiders show. ABC News President David Westin said Friday that Cameron had done an "outstanding" job in leading "This Week," first with George Stephanopoulos and now with Amanpour.
James Goldston, the New York-based executive producer of "Nightline," will take over responsibility for "This Week," as well.
The Portuguese hosts of Friday's NATO summit hoped to use the event to promote clean-energy and electric cars, but all eyes were on US President Barack Obama's diesel-guzzling "Beast" instead.
As is usual when he travels, Obama's eight-tonne armoured behemoth of a limousine was flown out to Lisbon before the US leader's arrival, and it ferried him from the airport tarmac to his first meetings of the weekend.
Doubtless he didn't intend the Beast's roar to drown out his hosts' green message, but a US presidential motorcade and its attendant escort of Secret Service SUVs do attract attention, even at the most elite gatherings.
Earlier, Prime Minister Jose Socrates and his fellow Portuguese, the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, had arrived at the summit in quiet, zero-emission electric cars.
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden head nursery keeper Dawn Strasser holds on to one of the zoo's two new eight-week-old cougar cubs, named Joseph andTecumseh, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 at the zoo.
Photo by Ernest Coleman
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