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Reader Comment
Yellow Submarine
I modestly suggest that we should all revisit Yellow Submarine in the
context of current events. The 'Blue Meanies' eliminate color and music and
Pepperland is joyless. (Though I guess here in America, it's the 'Red
Meanies.")
Doug
in Tallahassee~
Thanks, Doug!
OTOH, only 4 states remain 'Red'. Guess it's a learning curve thing.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Kristen Lombardi: Grandmothers of Invention (villagevoice.com)
Older is bitter-when it comes to the war in Iraq. A peek inside the granny-power movement.
PAUL KRUGMAN: The Great Revulsion (The New York Times)
"I have a vision - maybe just a hope - of a great revulsion: a moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country."
Cenk Uygur: How Karl Rove Is Going to Destroy the Republican Party (huffingtonpost.com)
The upside for the Republican Party is that Karl Rove has had an excellent short term political strategy over the last six years. The downside is that it is a terrible long term strategy. I hope they enjoyed their "permanent majority" while it lasted.
Will Durst: Regime Change Starts At Home (AlterNet.org)
Even Karl Rove's role has diminished -- I imagine he needs more personal time to file the scuff marks off his cloven hooves.
RENÉE Downing: There's hope (tucsonweekly.com)
Democrats are finally showing more sense than Republicans.
Stephen Pizzo: 'Forrest Gump's evil twin' (News For Real; Posted on smirkingchimp.com)
Here it is: The President of the United States is a moron.
Dan Oko: Bonding With Lazenby (slate.com)
Was an Australian underwear model the best Bond ever?
Malcolm Barber: The Knights Templar (slate.com)
Who were they? And why do we care?
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Long Live Bl*wj*b Nation (villagevoice.com)
Proud c*cks*ckers share why they love going down
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast til supper-time, then some sun, followed by a rainy night.
No new flags.
Album Heads To Internet First
Neil Young
Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of resident Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group's Reprise Records.
The album will first become commercially available as a digital download beginning May 2, "and we plan to get it into retail stores as soon after that as we can get them manufactured," Bentley said.
Much of the album conveys a sense of outrage, vowing repeatedly in the title track "to never kill again," mocking Bush's conduct of the Iraq war in "Shock and Awe" and calling for his removal from office in a provocative song titled "Let's Impeach the President."
Neil Young
Si, Se Puede
Latino Pop Stars
Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton Ivy Queen and Tito El Bambino and other Latino artists are recording a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
The recording, dubbed "Nuestro Himno" or "Our Anthem," is set to "rhythmic Latin musical arrangement" but respects the song's traditional structure, UBO said. The song will be primarily in Spanish with a few words sung in English.
The song is on the album "Somos Americanos," which will be sold for $10, with a portion going to Washington-based National Capital Immigration Coalition, UBO said.
Others participating in the Spanish version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" include Voz a Voz, Frank Reyes and Kalimba. UBO said it had also approached other artists, including Daddy Yankee and Don Omar, about taking part in the project.
Latino Pop Stars
Statue Unveiled in Oklahoma
James Garner
James Garner returned to his hometown Friday for the unveiling of a heroic-size bronze statue that depicts the 77-year-old actor as a young Maverick.
Garner told the hundreds of Oklahomans who attended the unveiling that he remained loyal to his home state despite having lived for more than a half-century in California.
Garner, who will serve as the grand marshal in Norman's 89er Day parade Saturday, attended the unveiling with his wife and two daughters.
James Garner
Suffers Minor Leg Injury
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday.
The accident happened Friday on the set of "Blood Diamond," Ken Sunshine said in a statement. He provided no details.
As a precaution, he was flown to the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic in neighboring South Africa for X-rays, the Johannesburg-based newspaper The Citizen reported. He was accompanied by a medic and bodyguards, the paper said.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Back In Rehab?
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston has apparently entered rehab for a second time.
It has now been claimed that Whitney, whose pop career has fallen apart in recent years, is currently receiving treatment for her apparent addictions.
Tina Brown, sister of Whitney's husband Bobby, said he had no idea where his wife was initially, before reports of her admittance to rehab emerged.
"It took a few days to find out from Whitney's family that they had talked her into rehab. All Bobby told me is that she is in treatment, in a secluded place."
Whitney Houston
Danish Supermodel Arrested After Flight Fracas
May Andersen
Former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model May Andersen was arrested after allegedly becoming unruly and striking a flight attendant on a plane from the Netherlands to Miami, police said.
Andersen, 23, from Denmark continued being loud and violent after officers met Martinair Flight 643 on the ground Thursday, Miami-Dade Airport Police said.
She was examined for alcohol and substance abuse at Jackson Memorial Hospital and later transported to the Miami-Dade County Jail.
She has a hold for immigration, which means no bail has been set. She cannot be released until immigration lifts it, said Janelle Hall, a corrections spokeswoman.
May Andersen
Divorce Gets Nasty
Richards - Sheen
A judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday requiring Charlie Sheen to stay away from his estranged wife, Denise Richards.
Sheen was ordered to stay at least 300 feet from Richards, her home, her car and their two young daughters except during supervised visits with the children, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The judge granted Sheen one-day-per-week visits with 2-year-old Sam and 10-month-old Lola and scheduled another hearing for May 12.
Richards - Sheen
Name Has Many Meanings
'Suri'
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may have gotten more than they bargained for naming their daughter Suri when she was born on Tuesday, according to language expert Paul JJ Payack, head of the Global Language Monitor, a group that studies word use.
Payack said he found at least five meanings for Suri, including the name of a Nubian tribe on the Sudanese-Ethopian border. The tribe is known for the ceremonial clay plate inserted into the lower lip of Suri girls after their lower teeth have been extracted.
Suri also refers to the sun in Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-European language in which the word's meaning sometimes is translated as "lord" or "ruler."
In Persian, it means rose, though not necessarily a red rose, as Cruise and Holmes said through their spokesman when the birth was announced.
'Suri'
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibit
'Protocols'
A century-old anti-Semitic tract, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," has resurfaced in places as disparate as Japan and the Middle East, according to a museum exhibit opening on Friday.
Repeatedly exposed as a fraud, the "Protocols" was first published in 1905 in czarist Russia to foment anti-Jewish violence, and has been an effective propaganda tool since then, said Daniel Greene, a curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Each time the "Protocols" has come to prominence in the past, journalists and scholars managed to quickly debunk it as clumsy plagiarism based on an obscure 1864 anti-Napoleonic rant by Maurice Joly called "Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu."
Nevertheless, the work has ridden waves of popularity starting after the 1917 Russian Revolution and continuing during the rise of Nazism in Germany. Widely translated, the "Protocols" is a mainstream text in the Arab and Islamic world.
'Protocols'
In Memory
Amanda Duff Dunne
Amanda Duff Dunne, a former actress and widow of a filmmaker whose Malibu house was a social and political gathering spot for the Hollywood elite for many years, has died. She was 92.
As Amanda Duff, she appeared in half a dozen films between 1938 and 1941, including "Just Around the Corner" with Shirley Temple, "Mr. Moto in Danger Island" with Peter Lorre and "The Devil Commands" with Boris Karloff
While working on the Fox studio lot, she met Philip Dunne, a successful screenwriter and director whose credits include "How Green Was My Valley," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," "Pinky" and "The Robe."
They married in 1939 and she quit acting in the early 1940s.
After Word War II, they built a bluff-top house in Malibu. Around the same time, Philip Dunne co-founded the Committee for the First Amendment to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee's probe of alleged Communist activities in Hollywood.
Amanda Duff Dunne was active in local Democratic politics, the League of Women Voters and the Audubon Society.
Amanda Duff Dunne
In Memory
Alida Valli
Alida Valli, one of Italy's most famous movie actresses, who starred in "The Third Man" and "The Paradine Case," has died aged 84.
She rose to fame in Italy in the late 1930s and 1940s with a string of romantic films that endeared her to her war-weary compatriots and earned her the soubriquet "Italy's girlfriend."
Her beauty and understated acting also got her noticed by Hollywood and when World War Two ended she was chosen to star in two of the most famous films of the post-war era.
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 courtroom thriller "The Paradine Case," she starred alongside Gregory Peck, while in the "Third Man" she played the girlfriend to Orson Welles' Harry Lime.
She went on to work with many more of the 20th century's great directors, including Roger Vadim, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Alida Valli
In Memory
Elaine Young
Elaine Young, the real estate agent who bought and sold so many properties to and from the stars that she became a celebrity herself, has died. She was 71.
Glamorous and ebullient, Young lived a life that rivaled those of her star clients, who included Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Stevie Wonder, among others.
She married six times, once to film star Gig Young, who was the father of her daughter. She appeared on television, was profiled in major publications and drove a Rolls-Royce convertible with the license plate "Elaine 7."
Fame and Hollywood's glitzy lifestyle had its dark side, however.
In the 1970s, Young did what many Hollywood stars were doing: She sought to improve her appearance through cosmetic surgery. It was the beginning of a horror story that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
As she told it many times in interviews warning others about the pitfalls of such operations, she was maimed by a doctor who injected loose silicone into her face to accentuate her cheekbones. After a time, the silicone began to migrate, causing eye problems and disfigurement.
She underwent 46 surgeries to try to remove the material and correct the problem. The doctor, meanwhile, committed suicide and Young never received any compensation for the medical disaster.
In the end, the disease that claimed her life began with a cancerous tumor in the part of her face that had endured so many surgeries.
Elaine Young
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