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Also when she fills in for Mike Webb December 22, 23, and 26.
And on Boulder's Progressive Talk AM760.net on Dec 27th and 28th, from 5am to 9am PST.
What a week. Iraq and Bush lies; Iraq and the election; NSA and spying on
us (but Bush claims he didn't break the law, whew, I feel better).
The House gangs up with John McCain and Senate and Bush LOSES on torture,
imagine our relief. And Bushie claims DeLay is innocent, hummmmm, does
anyone believe ANYTHING he says? Watch his Sunday Oval speech and discuss.
Dennis Yedwab of Media Matters for our monthly political
roundup on Saturday night. On Sunday, Professors Michelle LaFrance and her
fiance Jim Fitzmorris join us to talk about New Orleans and the real truth
on the bayou.
Local topics include the viaduct v. tunnel (thanks David Della!) and the new
home for chronic alcoholics on Eastlake.
Plus a holiday topic or two. Pedro is learning to play "dog hockey" and
thriving in the cold.
Froma Harrop: Economy not all that sunny (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
One statistic Bush forgot to share with the workers was the personal savings rate. In September, it fell to an extraordinary minus-1.5 percent. That means Americans were spending more money than they had coming in. Where did they get the bucks? By borrowing off the equity in their houses. Homeowners have thus obtained $160 billion in cash this year.
Kristen Hayes: Jewish leader blasts anti-gay religious groups (Associated Press)
The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism blasted conservative religious activists in a speech ..., calling them "zealots" who claim a "monopoly on God" while promoting anti-gay policies akin to Adolf Hitler's.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said "religious right" leaders believe "unless you attend my church, accept my god and study my sacred text, you cannot be a moral person." "What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God?" he said during the movement's national assembly in Houston, which ran through Sunday.
Will Durst: The First Green President (AlterNet.org)
Dubya ... is a man who only cares about green -- and whether or not you have any. In this country, if you're rich, you'll get taken care of. If you're not, you won't. It's pretty much as simple as that.
Ali Greggs: Hear Me Roar (jacksonfreepress.com)
The other day I was reading a news brief about Heidi Fleiss opening the first all-male brothel in Nevada. It has all the other cathouse owners in the state, the owners of the regular brothels, in high dungeon. They complain she is drawing attention to the sex trade in Nevada. They've obviously been trying to hide the fact that they operate whorehouses from the religious population and don't want her sashaying in and "causing problems." I have two things to say to this: 1) You aren't hiding anything under that hot pink canopy and neon light, and 2) It's about damn time.
Roger Ebert: The Producers (3 stars)
If I had fun, most other viewers are likely to have more fun, because they won't have my baggage. I've painted myself into a corner. I cannot do better than to end with my favorite Mel Brooks story. Mel and I were in an elevator in New York at the time of the original film, and a lady got on, looked at him, and said "Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar!" Brooks replied: "Madame, my film rises below vulgarity."
STEVE VINEBERG: Richard Pryor 1940-2005
Once, in northern California in the early '80s, I saw Richard Pryor perform live and I'll never forget it. Most of the concert was a compilation of his greatest hits (he even took requests), but at one point he impersonated a junkie nodding off, and the moment was staggering. Pryor captured the doper's blissed-out state with such obvious precision, slowing his performance rhythms way down and melting his sibilants so they sounded eerily sexy and androgynous, that he laid bare the seductive secret that three decades of cautionary addict movies had staunchly denied: people shoot up because it feels like heaven. Some of the audience became so agitated that they shouted at him, "You stop that! You stop that now!"
The kid was home sick with his cold, and judging by my raging headache, I think I'm next.
No new flags.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night by rolling out 'Frosty The Snowman', followed by 'Frosty Returns', then 'Robbie The Reindeer In Hooves Of Fire', followed by 'Robbie The Reindeer In Legend Of The Lost Tribe', then '48 Hours'.
NBC pisses away the night with a RERUN'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Jack Black hosting, music by Neil Young.
The late, late 'SNL' is supposed to be from 6 December, 1997, with Nathan Lane hosting, music by Metallica.
ABC starts the night early & fills it with the movie 'The Sound Of Music'.
The WB offers an old 'Friends', followed by an old 'Raymond', then panders with 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH with Neil Patrick Harris.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and another 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Delta Force', followed by the movie 'Death Wish', then the movie 'Death Wish II'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 5;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 4 Competition Time;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 47;
[4pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Birmingham;
[4:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[5pm] 'Ny-Lon' - Episode 6;
[6pm] 'Ny-Lon' - Episode 7;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 6;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 5;
[9pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 1;
[10:30pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 2;
[12am] 'The Vice' - Episode 3;
[1:30am] 'The Vice' - Episode 4;
[5am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 3 Passion of St. Tibulus;
[5:30am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 4 Competition Time;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and 'Cirque du Soleil: Alegria'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Corky Romano', 'Comedy Central's Last Laugh '05', and the movie 'Scary Movie 2'.
History has 'Shootout!', 'UFOs: Britain's Roswell', 'UFOs: Brazil's Roswell', and 'Weird Weapons'.
IFC -
[6AM] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002);
[8:10AM] The Shogun's Samurai (1978);
[10:20AM] Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001);
[2:15PM] The Shogun's Samurai (1978);
[4:30PM] At The IFC Center #8 (2005);
[7PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Blues She is My Friend" (2005);
[7:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "2001-1: Space & Stuff" (2005);
[7:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #9 (2005);
[8PM] IFC in Theaters(2005);
[8:15PM] Albino Alligator (1996);
[10PM] Raising Arizona (1987);
[11:45PM] The Invisible Circus (2001);
[1:30AM] Albino Alligator (1996);
[3:15AM] Raising Arizona (1987);
[5:30AM] The Festival #6 (Finale) (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Jeepers Creepers', followed by the movie 'Shallow Ground'.
Sundance -
[12am] Diary of a Porn Virgin;
[1am] Read My Lips;
[3am] The Funeral;
[4:45am] Hairspray;
[7am] Monster Road;
[8:20am] Autumn Tale;
[10:15am] To Be and To Have;
[12pm] Hairspray;
[1:40pm] Salaryman 6;
[2pm] Autumn Tale;
[4pm] The Staircase: Chapter 4. A prosecution;
[4:45pm] The Staircase: Chapter 5. A weak case;
[5:45pm] Aftershock;
[6:15pm] Black Soul (Ame Noire);
[6:30pm] TransGeneration: Episode 4;
[7pm] TransGeneration: Episode 5;
[7:30pm] The Housekeeper;
[9pm] Iconoclasts: Batali on Stipe;
[10pm] The Funeral;
[11:45pm] Black Soul (Ame Noire). (ALL TIMES EST)
Howard Stern, right, and Jeff 'The Drunk' Curro appear before Stern's fans and the media at New York's Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square after Stern gave his last show for Infinity Broadcast, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. On Jan. 9, Stern makes his move to Sirius satellite radio.
Photo by Stuart Ramson
Thousands of people rallied on Friday to applaud "shock jock" Howard Stern, who after years of raging against government regulations on obscenity, broadcast his last show on public airwaves before heading to unregulated satellite radio.
"We broke every rule known to radio and mankind and I'm proud of that," Stern bellowed to supporters from an outdoor stage erected in a closed-off midtown Manhattan street.
"We beat then at their own game, we figured out how to do it," he said. "Change the rules, break the chains, the last of a dying breed."
From the stage, Stern mentioned the clenched-fist logo of his new channels and pulled no punches.
"I wanna ram that fist right up (radio station owner) Clear Channel Broadcasting, I wanna ram that fist up the religious right. ... For all those radio stations that fired me: F-em! You fired me? We fired YOU!" Stern crowed.
Folk singer Arlo Guthrie rolled into town on "the train they call the City of New Orleans," set to perform a pair of shows to benefit musicians left without instruments and gigs after their city was battered by Hurricane Katrina.
Guthrie has been performing for two weeks at stops along the train's route with other musicians. He started in Illinois, stopped in Memphis and is ending with a pair of shows in New Orleans. After a Saturday show with Willie Nelson at Tipitina's sold out, he added a Friday show.
Guthrie, who made the late Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans" a hit in 1972, has said the idea for the tour came while watching television coverage of the hurricane's aftermath, and seeing that Amtrak resumed its service to the devastated city.
German movie director Wim Wenders smiles while speaking about his book 'Don't come knocking' and his movie with the same title, at the Movie Museum of Potsdam, Germany, on Friday evening, Dec. 16, 2005.
Photo by Sven Kaestner
"Stuff Happens," David Hare's Iraq-war drama, will finally get a New York production, a run at off-Broadway's Public Theater. Preview performances begin March 21.
No casting was announced, but the play will be directed by Daniel Sullivan, who has worked on such Broadway productions as last season's revival of "Julius Caesar," starring Denzel Washington; "Proof," and Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig." An opening date has not been set.
Its cast of characters includes resident Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, aides such as then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and a supporting cast of diplomats, weapons inspectors and ordinary people making a case for and against the conflict.
A New Jersey lawmaker is hoping to get mileage from Bruce Springsteen's classic album "Born to Run."
State Sen. Raymond Lesniak is driving a proposal introduced Thursday to create specialty "Born to Run" license tags for Garden State drivers. Proceeds would go to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, a Springsteen-supported charity.
To become law, the bill must be approved by both houses of the Legislature by Jan. 9, the last day of the session, and be signed by the governor. The tags would cost $50, plus a $10 annual contribution.
Commentator Robert Novak, who hasn't been seen on CNN since swearing and storming off the set in August, will leave the network after 25 years and join Fox News Channel as a contributor next month.
Novak, 74, said Friday he probably would have left CNN anyway when his contract expired this month even if it hadn't been for the incident.
The suspension actually served to eliminate a delicate problem for CNN, which had received some criticism for keeping the political columnist on the air with his involvement in the CIA leak case.
Echoing their song "You Never Give Me Your Money," The Beatles have sued record company EMI Group, claiming that they are owed 30 million pounds ($53.1 million) in royalties after negotiations broke down.
Apple, the company owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison, said on Friday that an audit determined that EMI had not been fulfilling the terms of its contract.
Lawsuits were filed on Thursday against EMI in London and against its Capitol Records subsidiary in New York after the parties failed to reach a deal.
Independent candidate for Texas governor Kinky Friedman campaigns in Austin, Texas, on December 15, 2005 at a sidewalk rally near the University of Texas in Austin. Friedman filed his declaration of intent to run as an independent candidate for the governors office with the Texas secretary of state on December 8. Friedman is trying to get on the ballot to face-off against Republican incumbent governor Rick Perry or Republican state comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. Photo taken December 15, 2005.
Photo by Donald Winslow
Singer Lou Rawls is being treated for lung cancer, and his estranged wife said he also has brain cancer and suggested his condition is dire.
"Don't count me out, brother," Rawls said Thursday night from his room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "There's been many people who have been diagnosed with this kind of thing, and they're still jumpin' and pumpin'."
Rawls, in the interview with the Arizona Republic, said he has received alternative and traditional medical treatments for lung cancer. He said he quit his regular smoking habit 35 years ago.
The lung cancer was diagnosed a year ago and the brain cancer in May, his estranged wife, Nina, said during a marriage annulment hearing Thursday in Arizona.
"Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher has accepted libel damages from a tabloid that claimed she regularly had sex with men in a van outside her home, her lawyer told a court Friday.
The Daily Sport, which published the story in July and repeated it in August, agreed to pay "very substantial damages" and her legal costs, to print a front-page apology and promised not to repeat the allegations, attorney Simon Smith said.
The amount of damages was not disclosed.
David Hirst, representing the Daily Sport, said the newspaper accepted that the articles were entirely false.
Unusually cold weather turned the plummeting 620 foot Multnomah Falls into a frozen icicle Friday, Dec. 16, 2005, in the Columbia River Gorge, east of Portland, Ore.
Photo by Rick Bowmer
Ben Folds, Joe Jackson, Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, Neil Sedaka, the Eels and former Destiny's Child vocalist Michelle Williams have signed on for a February 1 concert in tribute to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell.
The event will be held at New York's Carnegie Hall. Proceeds will benefit Music for Youth, which fosters innovative music education programs and scholarships for young people.
Samuel L. Jackson will be honored by the I Have A Dream Foundation for his commitment to education, both on film and in real life.
Director George Lucas will present Jackson with the Dream Keeper Award at the foundation's eighth annual Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, it was announced Thursday.
The Los Angeles chapter of the I Have a Dream Foundation, which is issuing the award, was established in 1987. On of the 69 such projects operating in the United States, it provides mentoring, tutoring and cultural programs for students in urban areas with high dropout rates.
A painting by Lucien Freud entitled 'Man in a String Chair' is seen on display at Christie's auctioneers in central London December 16, 2005. The portrait of gambling magnate Victor Chandler, painted by British artist Freud in 1988-89, is expected to fetch between 3-4 million pounds ($5.3-7.1 million) when it is sold in London in February 2006.
Photo by Toby Melville
The 18-inch doll, dubbed "The New York Years" John Lennon, will utter "authentic" phrases used by Lennon, according to the Web site.
A picture of the figurine, patterned after the former peace activist, appears on the association's Web site next to a bloody figurine and a picture from slasher flick "The Devil's Rejects," a movie about serial killers.
A British employment tribunal ruled Friday that ABC News unfairly dismissed a reporter last year because he refused to work in Iraq, a decision that could have repercussions for other news organizations covering dangerous stories.
The tribunal upheld a complaint by Richard Gizbert, who claimed ABC ended his freelance contract last year because he would not cover the war in Iraq, where foreigners, including journalists, have been targeted for kidnapping and murder.
The American network said all assignments to war zones and other dangerous areas are voluntary and argued it didn't renew Gizbert's contract for budgetary reasons. It said it would appeal the ruling.
The court rejected ABC's contention that its decision not to renew Gizbert's contract was not linked to his refusal to cover wars, but because he was inessential and its news division was making severe cutbacks.
John Spencer, who played a tough and dedicated politico on "The West Wing" who survived a serious illness to run for vice president, died of a heart attack Friday. He was 58.
Spencer, who also starred on "L.A. Law" as attorney Tommy Mullaney, received an Emmy Award for his performance on "The West Wing" in 2002 and was nominated four other times for the series.
Spencer grew up in Paterson, N.J., the son of blue-collar parents. With his enrollment at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan at age 16, he was sharing classes with the likes of Liza Minnelli and budding violinist Pinchas Zukerman.
As a teenager, he landed a recurring role on "The Patty Duke Show" as the boyfriend of English twin Cathy. Stage and film work followed. Then his big break: playing Harrison Ford's detective sidekick in the 1990 courtroom thriller "Presumed Innocent." That role led to his hiring for the final four years of "L.A. Law."
After attending the Manhattan performing arts school, Spencer studied at Fairleigh Dickenson University. He then began working on stage in New York and in regional theaters, in plays including David Mamet's "Lakeboat" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie."
His made his feature film debut with a small role in "War Games," which was followed by roles in "Sea of Love" and "Black Rain." Spencer said his work in "Presumed Innocent" represented a "watershed role."
Monarch butterflies gather on a tree branch at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve on Wednesday Dec. 14, 2005 in Sierra Chincua, Mexico . Rangers with assault rifles over their shoulders and body armor strapped to their chests protect the winter nesting grounds of millions of orange and black winged butterflies from armed gangs of illegal loggers in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The monarchs are not listed as endangered, but scientists say the deforestation could threaten their existence.
Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills
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