Paul Krugman: Trouble With Trade (nytimes.com)
For the sake of the world as a whole, I hope that we respond to the trouble with trade not by shutting trade down, but by doing things like strengthening the social safety net. But those who are worried about trade have a point, and deserve some respect.
Laura Ehrlich: AMERICA'S GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE (jimhightower.com)
What happened to the good ol' American notion of the common good - the idea that we're all in this together, trying to build a strong, unified society by fairly sharing the economic gains that all of us help produce?
Roger Ebert: The Whole Shootin' Match (4 stars)
Eagle Pennell died a "hopeless drunk," according to a memorial article in the Austin Chronicle by his friend Louis Black. His other friends would have sadly agreed with that. He was 49 at his death, in 2002. Twenty-three years earlier, in 1979, he wrote and directed a film named "The Whole Shootin' Match" that you may never have heard of, but which had a decisive influence on American independent film.
Roger Ebert: City Lights (4 stars)
If only one of Charles Chaplin's films could be preserved, "City Lights'' (1931) would come the closest to representing all the different notes of his genius. It contains the slapstick, the pathos, the pantomime, the effortless physical coordination, the melodrama, the bawdiness, the grace, and, of course, the Little Tramp--the character said, at one time, to be the most famous image on earth.
Michael Barrett: Review of "Route 66: Season 1, Vol. 1" (popmatters.com)
Today, any character who got into so many brawls would be sentenced to counseling; in 1960, it was part of the he-man's landscape, and the fights were important signifiers in any show about two guys living together in close friendship.
Patricia Eliot Tobias: Michael Kidd, choreographer, is dead (iht.com)
Michael Kidd, the award-winning choreographer of exuberant dance numbers for Broadway shows like "Finian's Rainbow" and "Guys and Dolls" and Hollywood musicals including "The Band Wagon" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles.
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A: Ronald McDonald
B: Tony the Tiger
C: Barney the Dinosaur
D: Bozo the Clown
E: Sheriff John
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Dave was first, and correct with:
Great having the challenges of doing some minor research as I sure didn't
know this one without looking it up (hope that doesn't disqualify me)...
D. Bozo the Clown
(Along with Goofy Sleepy Grumpy and Pluto)
Leo was second, and nailed it with:
Pinto Colvig was the original Bozo the Clown. He also provided the voice of Disney's Goofy.
Alan J answered:
Bozo the Clown. He was also the voice for Disney's Goofy.
Purple Gene observed:
Believe it or not, Ronald McDonald was once played by none other than Willard Scott.
Tony the Tiger was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft.
Barney the Dinosaur (purple) was suited by Carey Stinson but voiced by Dean Wendt.
Sheriff John was played by John Rovick
soooooooooooooooooo that leaves Bozo the Clown, a character created in 1946 by Alan W. Livingston.
Bozo the Clown was played by Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (He also voiced Goofy)
vb was right, too:
Pinto Colvig was the original Bozo the Clown.
He was also the original voice of Goofy for Walt Disney.
And, Sally responded:
"D" Pinto Colvig was the voice of Bozo the Clown on a 1946 record album! I remember it well...
Summary: It is the long hot summer of 1935 at the Tallis's sprawling mansion in the British Hamptons….little 13 year old Briony is writing her first story. Her big sister, Cecilia, is dallying and doting over Robbie, the handsome son of the housekeeper. Jealous Briony tells a monstrous lie about his sisters lover that will affect all 3 for the rest of their lives.
Robbie is sent to prison but is allowed to leave if he joins the British war effort (unbelievable recreation of "Dunkirk").
Cecilia moves to London and becomes a nurse to the soldiers in the war.
Briony becomes a famous writer and lives with the lie all her life….. until the very end.
Rating: Purple Gene gives "Atonement" 8 ˝ tormented and twisted tears out of 10 for being so tragic. I didn't like the ending at all with Vanessa Redgrave as the aging Briony. Seamus McGarvey should get an Academy Award nomination for his cinematography. Kiera was quite amazing
CBS fills the night with FRESH'NFL Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN with John C. Reilly hosting, music by My Chemical Romance.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Samantha Who?', followed by another RERUN'Samantha Who?', then still another RERUN'Samantha Who?', followed by yet another RERUN'Samantha Who?', then a RERUN'Women's Murder Club'.
The CW pisses away an hour with an infomercial, followed by a couple of old 'Family Guy''s.
Faux has the tradtional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Big'.
A&E has the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Goodfellas'.
AMC offers the movie 'Firefox', followed by the movie 'Broken Trail'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Riveria;
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Walnut Tree;
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[4:30 PM] The Long Good Friday;
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Rise Of The Cybermen;
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Age Of Steel;
[8:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 7 Greeks Bearing Gifts;
[9:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 8 They Keep Killing Suzie;
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Miriam Margolyes, Ashley Jensen and Mika;
[11:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 7 Greeks Bearing Gifts;
[12:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 8 They Keep Killing Suzie;
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Miriam Margolyes, Ashley Jensen and Mika;
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Age Of Steel;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 1 Loughborough;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 2 Disney;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 24 Newark 10;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Peterborough 35;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 11;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 12;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', followed by the movie 'Beetlejuice', then the movie 'Eddie Murphy Raw'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Money Talks', 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly', and 'Comedy Central Roast Of Flavor Flav'.
FX has the movie 'Gone In Sixty Seconds', followed by the movie 'Starsky & Hutch', then the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator'.
History has 'Child Warriors', 'Last Stand Of The 300', and 'The True Story Of Hannibal'.
IFC -
[06:05 AM] Looking for Richard;
[08:00 AM] Ronin-Gai;
[10:05 AM] Town & Country;
[12:00 PM] ...So Goes the Nation;
[01:35 PM] Looking for Richard;
[03:30 PM] Town & Country;
[05:20 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #315: Christopher Walken/Shane Macgowan;
[05:50 PM] ...So Goes the Nation;
[07:30 PM] American Pimp;
[09:00 PM] The Cooler;
[10:45 PM] The Boost;
[12:30 AM] The Million Dollar Hotel;
[02:35 AM] The Cooler;
[04:25 AM] The Boost. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi fills the night with 'Dinotopia' (parts 1, 2 & 3).
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] L'Avventura;
[08:30 AM] Love, Ludlow;
[10:00 AM] Touch the Sound;
[12:00 PM] Frankie Starlight;
[02:00 PM] Howard Schultz + Norman Lear;
[03:00 PM] Smiles of a Summer Night;
[04:50 PM] Let's Rock Again;
[06:00 PM] Marnie;
[08:10 PM] Shadow of a Doubt;
[10:00 PM] Rope;
[11:30 PM] Saboteur;
[01:30 AM] Cries and Whispers;
[03:05 AM] Godly Boyish;
[03:35 AM] Topsy-Turvy. (ALL TIMES EST)
Tourists and members of the press photograph Robert Burck, a street performer known as the "Naked Cowboy", in Times Square in New York December 28, 2007. Burk was in Times Square handing out "Finding Dulcinea" web guides to New York City.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
"Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be back with their writers airing joke-filled new hours starting Wednesday, the shows' production company, Worldwide Pants, announced Friday.
An interim agreement between the Letterman-owned company and the Writers Guild of America will allow the full writing staffs for both shows to return to work, even as the Hollywood writers strike continues to shutter much TV and movie production. Both of those CBS late-night shows have been airing reruns since the strike began eight weeks ago.
"I am grateful to the WGA for granting us this agreement," Letterman said. "This is not a solution to the strike, which unfortunately continues to disrupt the lives of thousands. But I hope it will be seen as a step in the right direction."
The deal, which restores the two shows to business as usual, gives them an enormous advantage over their competition.
NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" as well as ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" had already announced they would resume Wednesday without benefit of their writing teams. Similarly, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert" planned to return writer-less on Monday, Jan. 7.
Kylie Minogue, the Australian singer and actress who has battled breast cancer, was honored by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Saturday, with other awards given to sportsmen, entertainers and businessmen.
Sir Ian McKellen, a top Shakespearean actor who gained worldwide fame with film roles such as the wizard Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was made a Companion of Honour under Britain's ancient and complex system of honorary titles.
Other honors for media personalities included a knighthood for veteran British television interviewer Michael Parkinson and lesser awards for sports commentator Desmond Lynam and Ian Anderson, who fronts rock band Jethro Tull.
Actors Leslie Phillips, known for playing the quintessential Englishman during a more than 50-year-long movie career, and Julie Walters, who has appeared in the "Harry Potter" films and "Educating Rita," were both granted awards.
Two postage stamps issued by Britain's Royal Mail depicting different editions of James Bond novels are seen in this composite photograph showing handout images of the stamps received in London on December 28, 2007. The stamps are part of a set of six to mark the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming and will be issued January 8, 2008.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.
"The operation has begun. With these two helicopters goes great hope," Chavez said as the two Russian-made MI-172 helicopters lifted off, bearing Red Cross insignia as well as the Venezuelan flag. "We're going to get those three people in the coming days."
Wearing the red beret and fatigues of his paratrooper days, Chavez was accompanied by American filmmaker Oliver Stone and a group of international observers at the Venezuelan airstrip.
Chavez called the mission "Operation Emmanuel," after the captive child who is believed to be the son of hostage Clara Rojas and a guerrilla fighter.
It was a story CNN's Wolf Blitzer hoped he'd never have to report - an e-mail sent to him through an intermediary by Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto complaining about her security. Conditions of use: only if she were killed.
Bhutto, who was assassinated on Thursday, wrote to Blitzer that if anything happened to her, "I would hold (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf responsible."
Blitzer received the e-mail on Oct. 26 from Mark Siegel, a friend and longtime Washington spokesman for Bhutto. That was eight days after she narrowly escaped another attempt at her life.
Blitzer agreed to the conditions before receiving the e-mail. He said Friday that he called Siegel shortly after seeing it to see if there was any way he could use it on CNN, but was told firmly it could only be used if she were killed. Siegel couldn't say why she had insisted on those conditions.
A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claims in a lawsuit against Christie's auction house that the prop is a fake.
Ted Moustakis, of Towaco, N.J., said he began to doubt the authenticity of the visor and other items he purchased at an auction of CBS Paramount props in 2006, after he brought it to a convention in August to have it autographed by the actor who played Data, Brent Spiner.
According to the lawsuit, Spiner recognized the visor as the one that had been sold by Christie's and told Moustakis that it wasn't the real deal. The actual visor had been sold by the actor himself some time ago.
Christie's spokesman Rik Pike stood behind the authenticity of the auction and said the disgruntled buyer's case had no merit.
A model presents an outfit made of condoms during a "Dress Up Against AIDS" fashion show in Kuala Lumpur December 28, 2007. More than 30 students from International Beauty & Make-Up Academy took part in the fashion show to present their creativity design outfits made out of condoms.
Photo by Shaiful Rizal
At age 21, Eric Kamau Gravatt was McCoy Tyner's drummer, one of the most coveted jobs a jazz musician could hope to get. After 20 years of working as a prison guard, he's back behind the kit - again as Tyner's drummer.
While not quite a household name, Gravatt has played with Weather Report, Freddie Hubbard, Albert Ayler, Charles Mingus, Paquito D'Rivera, Sonny Fortune, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean - a list that reads like a who's-who of jazz greats.
But Gravatt is quick to acknowledge he's never been good at negotiating pay or handling the cutthroat business side of his profession. He also made mistakes in his youth when he was hotheaded - maybe a bit arrogant - he said during a recent trip to Tokyo with the pianist's quartet.
Gravatt's tale is symbolic of many musicians, who aren't financially rewarded for their outstanding talent. The result: a day job.
The Los Angeles city attorney's office said Friday it will not charge Brandy in a deadly December 2006 freeway crash.
Spokesman Nick Velasquez said there is "insufficient evidence" for a jury to find the 28-year-old actress-singer guilty of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter beyond a reasonable doubt.
The decision runs counter to a recommendation from the California Highway Patrol that Brandy, whose real name is Brandy Norwood, be charged in the Dec. 30, 2006, crash.
A judge has ordered mediation in a lawsuit over two Oscars presented to Mary Pickford and a third given to Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who was married to the actress.
If the mediation ordered Friday fails, a trial will be held next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is suing heirs of Rogers' second wife, Beverly, to prevent the public sale of the statuettes.
The Academy claims that under its bylaws, it gets first chance to buy the Oscars for $10 each.
A painting held by a German baroness rightfully belongs to the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who was forced by Nazi authorities to auction it off, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi ordered Maria-Luise Bissonnette on Thursday to turn over "Girl from the Sabiner Mountains" to representatives of the estate of Max Stern, who died in 1987.
Stern inherited his family's Dusseldorf art gallery in 1934. Three years later, Nazi authorities forced him to auction off its contents because he was a Jew. He fled Germany after the auction and eventually settled in Canada, where he became a prominent art dealer.
Bissonnette's stepfather, Karl Wilharm, a Nazi party member, purchased the painting at the auction. Bissonnette eventually resettled in Rhode Island and inherited the painting from her parents.
Japan's Sanrio Co.'s Hello Kitty products targeted for young men are shown at the company's headquarters in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. The cute cuddly white cat, usually seen on toys and jewelry for young females, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday. The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
State-owned investment company Dubai World said on Friday it bought 5 million shares of MGM Mirage, the world's No. 2 casino company, raising its stake to 6.5 percent.
Dubai World, which is seeking to become a high stakes player on the Las Vegas Strip, paid $424 million, or $84.80 each, for the shares, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The seller was the Lincy Foundation, a charity founded by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, whose Tracinda Corp holds more than 51 percent of MGM Mirage shares.
Dubai World had earlier bought 14.2 million shares from the casino developer as part of a deal announced in August that included Dubai World's acquisition of a 50 percent stake in MGM Mirage's CityCenter project in Las Vegas for about $2.7 billion.
Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.
But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed.
For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into each other with fists, brooms and iron rods while the photographers who had come to take pictures of the annual cleaning ceremony recorded the whole event.
Busch Gardens' newest addition, a male Grevy's zebra, a species listed as endangered by The World Conservation Union, IUCN, stands close to his mother Freiday, Dec. 28, 2007, in Tampa, Fla. The foal was born at Busch Gardens on Thurday, Dec. 27, 2007. Within an hour after it is born, a foal can run with the rest of the herd and can recognize its mother with smell and sight. Each zebra has a unique dark brown and white stripe pattern. like a person's fingerprint. Greby's zebras are found in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Photo by Morgan Stailey
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