David Sirota: Clinton's Contrition (creators.com)
In 1992, I was in 10th grade. Hence, I didn't care about much more than the girls I could never get, the Philadelphia 76ers' playoff chances and the shortcomings of my own unimpressive basketball career (in that order) - and I certainly didn't care about politics. So when my teacher assigned me to represent a Southerner I'd never heard of in a mock presidential debate, I was, um, not psyched.
CATHERINE RAMPELL: Want a Higher G.P.A.? Go to a Private College (nytimes.com)
The authors suggest that these laxer grading standards may help explain why private school students are over-represented in top medical, business and law schools and certain Ph.D. programs: Admissions officers are fooled by private school students' especially inflated grades.
Kim Painter: "Your Health: Too much sitting puts the body on idle" (USA TODAY)
For decades, scientists have studied exercise. But until recently, they paid little attention to the opposite end of the activity spectrum: the many hours modern humans spend sitting, barely moving at all. But now the early results are in, and the science of sitting is producing sobering headlines. The bottom line, if you will: Sitting kills.
Kenneth Turan: Film Critic's Choice: '8 1/2' (Los Angeles Times)
Is it possible? Can "8 1/2" be close to 50 years old? The calendar may say yes, but to see this classic of personal cinema one more time is to be in the presence of a kind of picture-making that defiantly remains forever young.
I have to take a short 'medical leave of absence' and hopefully I will be back with a new question Tuesday (04/27). It's nothing serious, mind ya, just annoying and inconvenient. Not to worry!
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), as she becomes housemother (and later, dietitian as well) to seven girls at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious all-girls boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Whot chu talkin' 'bout?
That would be Diffrent Strokes. Charlotte Rae played the housekeeper.
Alan J answered:
Diff'rent Strokes
Adam wrote:
Diff'rent Strokes.
Mrs Garret was the Drummond's housekeeper before taking that job upstate at the girl's school.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
"Diff'rent Strokes"
Charlie replied:
Diff'rent Strokes
Marian the teacher answered:
Diff'rent Stokes
Sally said:
The old sitcom The Facts of Life was a spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes - both were so meh...
PS:
My beautiful Iris - I have the whole south side of the house bordered with them...
MAM wrote:
The Facts of Life was a spin-off of "Diff'rent Strokes".
And, Joe S replied:
Different Strokes...
and from the Facts of Life - Tootie all growed up.
The old proverb is true. In a cat's eye, everything belongs to cats.
That includes, well, everything - including your sink. What has a
certain use for us may be interpreted as useful in an altogether
different way by our feline friends. So it is with that useful
household item, the sink. Cats love them - but for very different
reasons to us. Prepared to be bemused and amused at the same time.
The words are related - we need no better excuse. So, because they can
so can we - welcome to the world of cats in sinks.
Used for millennia to scare birds away from crops, the scarecrow is
finding times as tough as we are and many have lost their jobs over the
last year. However, the scarecommunity is now undergoing something of
a twenty first century renaissance, if not remodelling. Here we expose
the alternative careers that many modern scarecrows are adopting to
make ends meet. Are they still up for the job or has the scare gone out
of them? Judge for yourself.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then the FRESH made-for-tv-movie 'When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Minute To Win It', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Apprentice'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Mystic Pizza'.
Faux has a FRESH'Til Death', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'That 70s Show', followed by another old 'That 70s Show', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Gene Simmons', then a FRESH'Kirstie Alley's Big Life', and another 'Kirstie Alley's Big Life'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gangs Of New York', followed by the movie 'The Hunted', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special
[12:20 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide - Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[5:00 PM] Amazon: Super River (stunt)
[5:58 PM] Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom (stunt)
[6:54 PM] Elephants of Samburu (stunt)
[8:00 PM] James May At the Edge of Space
[8:30 PM] Star Trek Generations
[11:00 PM] James May At the Edge of Space
[11:30 PM] Star Trek Generations
[2:00 AM] James May At the Edge of Space
[2:30 AM] Star Trek Generations
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'Balls Of Fury'.
FX has the movie 'Armageddon', followed by the movie 'Untraceable'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'America The Story Of Us'.
IFC -
[6:45 AM] The Final Cut
[8:25 AM] Howl's Moving Castle
[10:25 AM] Rabbit-Proof Fence
[12:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:00 PM] The Final Cut
[4:35 PM] Trans
[6:00 PM] A Love Song for Bobby Long
[8:05 PM] The Crying Game
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] American Psycho
[12:45 AM] The Crying Game
[2:45 AM] A Love Song for Bobby Long
[4:50 AM] Tyger
[5:00 AM] Howl's Moving Castle (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:10 AM] In Memory Of My Father
[7:55 AM] Nights Of Cabiria
[10:00 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist - 201
[10:30 AM] Cities On Speed - 101
[11:30 AM] Encounters At The End Of The World
[1:15 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Mario Batali on Michael Stipe (Season 1, Episode 2)
[2:15 PM] Army Of Shadows
[4:45 PM] Pol Pot's Birthday
[5:00 PM] BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR - Pop Star On Ice (Episode 1, Season 1)
[6:30 PM] BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR - Here's Johnny! (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00 PM] BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR - Putting The Johnny In Johnny (Episode 3, Season 3)
[7:30 PM] BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR - Back In The U.S.S.R. (Episode 4, Season 1)
[8:00 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 5
[8:30 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 6
[9:00 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 7
[9:30 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 8
[10:00 PM] The Toe Tactic
[11:30 PM] Savage Grace
[1:15 AM] The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
[3:55 AM] The Toe Tactic
[5:25 AM] Savage Grace (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has fills the night with the movie 'Stephen King's The Langoliers'.
In this photo released by Starpix, actress Brooke Shields, left, joins Edie Falco, and her son, Anderson Falco, at the 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Ageof the Pharaohs' exhibit in New York, Friday, April 23, 2010.
Photo by Marion Curtis
US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are the world's two most popular leaders, according to a poll conducted in six countries and released on Friday.
Obama won 77 percent backing, one percentage point higher than in November, in the poll conducted by Harris Interactive for France24 and Radio France-Internationale.
The Tibetan spiritual leader was at second place at 75 percent, followed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at 62 percent.
The survey was carried out on the Internet between March 31 and April 12 and covered 6,135 adults aged between 16 and 64 in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States.
Nobody could say people walk all over Mel Brooks. Until now.
The comedian, actor and producer who gave the world "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers" got a star Friday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Brooks received the 2,406th star during a ceremony in front of the Egyptian Theatre. His son, Max, and friend, Carl Reiner, attended.
Brooks, who's 83, has won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
Dr. John kisses Burnadette Crawford, mother of Davell Crawford, whom he had just performed on stage with, at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Saturday, April 24, 2010. Burnadette's father wrote the song 'Iko' that was popularized by Dr. John.
Photo by Gerald Herbert
This Canadian small town has been obsessed about all things "Star Trek" for as long as anyone here can remember, but denizens always felt something -- or someone -- was missing. Until Friday.
Leonard Nimoy, who will forever be Mr. Spock from the 1960s TV series, finally fulfilled the dreams of the farming community that shares the name of the character's home planet by paying a visit.
"I have been a Vulcan for 44 years -- I figured it was time I came home," the 79-year-old actor said to wild cheers at a ceremony at the center of the town.
Vulcan, a community of 2,000 people about 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Calgary, has for years identified with the legendary sci-fi TV show. It has become a tourist draw, especially for hard-core Trekkies.
A former Maine schoolteacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission - to create a Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7, the date master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe died.
Amateur poet Walter Skold of Freeport is launching his new endeavor Friday, beginning another 22-state tour of the graves of fallen bards. He's enlisted 13 state poets laureate to help drum up support.
His "Dead Poets Grand Tour 2010" kicks off on what's believed to be the anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth in 1564 with a poetry reading at Portland's Eastern Cemetery, the burial place of British and American sea captains cited in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "My Lost Youth."
As in last year's tour, Skold will drive a boxy cargo van, dubbed the Poemobile, to graveyards. But this year, the 49-year-old Skold will be accompanied by a couple from Georgia who will film the journey for a documentary they hope to make.
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs of James Cameron's "Avatar" flew off store shelves Thursday, the movie's first day in stores, despite being available in just the 2D format.
An early industry estimate set overall disc sales comfortably north of 4 million units, putting it well on track to become the year's top-selling release to date.
Blu-ray sales -- at 1.5 million copies -- well outpaced first-day sales of previous high-definition top dog "The Dark Knight."
Retailers sold out of 60% of their Blu-ray inventory on average, said a spokesman for distributor 20th Century Fox. He declined to specify unit shipments. Mass merchants moved out roughly 50% of their "Avatar" DVDs, the spokesman added.
Mel Brooks does an impression of Adolf Hitler at dedication ceremonies for Brooks' new Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Friday, April23, 2010.
Photo by Reed Saxon
History is teaming with the BBC to launch a U.S. version of the automotive series "Top Gear" in the fall. The network has made a 10-episode commitment to "Gear," which showcases car customization, stunts, reviews and auto-centric celebrity interviews.
History's "Gear" will be hosted by comedian and "Rescue Me" co-star Adam Ferrara, stunt driver Tanner Foust and racing analyst Rutledge Wood.
"Gear" fits the History brand even better than one might expect. The first program to air on what then was called the History Channel was "Automobiles: Corvette." Car-related content has performed well on the channel; History had several auto-related pilots in the works when it got "Gear."
The British version premiered in 1977, and was relaunched in 2002 as a studio-based format. It is BBC 2's most-watched program, and the brand has spun off a magazine and road tour. NBC came close to doing a U.S. version in 2008.
It's going to be a hard day's night in jail for a Beatles impersonator after police arrested him on an old warrant outside an appearance on a San Diego morning news show.
Carlsbad police Lt. Marc Reno says Theodore "Ted" Felicetti was arrested Friday on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a drunken driving charge in December, 2008. Felicetti plays Paul McCartney in the Beatles tribute band "Help!".
Investigators received tips that Felicetti played in the band, then learned on the group's Facebook page that they would be appearing on the morning news show.
Station's news director Rich Goldner says two officers let Felicetti finish the performance of "I Am the Walrus," then arrested him outside the studio.
An Oregon jury's decision to award a man $18.5 million in punitive damages in his case against the Boy Scouts of America will likely be the first of many financial hits the Scouts will take as it prepares to defend itself against a series of sex abuse lawsuits.
The jury on Friday ordered the Scouts to make the payment to Kerry Lewis, the victim of sex abuse by a former assistant Scoutmaster in Portland in the early 1980s.
The case was the first of six filed against the Boy Scouts in the same court in Oregon, with at least one other separate case pending. If mediation fails to settle the other cases, they also could go to trial.
They also noted the Boy Scouts had never apologized to Lewis, who said Friday at a news conference that the verdict shows that "big corporations can't be above the law."
Actress Ann Rutherford, left, and actress Anne Jeffreys arrives at the premiere of the newly restored feature film 'A Star Is Born' in Los Angeles on Thursday,April 22, 2010.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Tens of thousands of people marched through Madrid and other Spanish cities Saturday in a boisterous show of support for a judge indicted on charges of abusing his authority by investigating atrocities committed during the civil war and the early years of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
In the Spanish capital, demonstrators waved posters mocking Franco as a vampire and flags of the prewar government he ousted as they snaked through the city center. The protesters included members of Spain's showbiz world, such as Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodovar.
Judge Baltasar Garzon - best known abroad for going after former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden - has been indicted on grounds he knowingly overstepped his jurisdiction by investigating tens of thousands of executions and disappearances of civilians during the war and in the early Franco years.
Garzon reluctantly dropped the probe months later in a dispute over jurisdiction. His was the first official probe of a dark chapter of Spain's past, one that Spanish conservatives say he has no business resurrecting.
French singer Charles Aznavour, centre, born Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian, rekindles a flame with unidentified officials at the Tomb of the Unknown soldierunder the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks Saturday April. 24, 2010.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
Sony said on Thursday it would delay the release of "Green Hornet" to January 14 from December 22 so that it can give the Seth Rogen vehicle a 3D makeover.
The move to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend marks the most recent of four dates penciled in for the comics-based actioner's domestic debut.
To allow the "Hornet" move, Sony will shift comics-inspired vampire actioner "Priest" from a January 14 launch to March 4. "Priest" long has been tagged as a 3D production.
Sony said director Michel Gondry planned from the start of production for the possibility of "Hornet" being released in 3D, though his work to date didn't include any 3D cameras.
U.S. actor David Hasselhoff poses with a dog named ' Snoopy' for photographers during a visit on Gut Aiderbichl in Henndorf, Austrian province of Salzburg,on Saturday, April. 24, 2010. Gut Aiderbichl is a home for rescued animals.
Photo by Kerstin Joensson
Buzz Lightyear, Nemo and The Incredibles are coming to Canada as the Disney-owned Pixar Animation announced Tuesday the launch of a Vancouver studio.
While no financial details were released, Pixar Canada?s initial plan is to produce 20 to 25 minutes of short films annually to be distributed worldwide on the Disney Channel, the Internet and theme parks, among other outlets.
Pixar Canada general manager Amir Nasrabadi said the company's goal was to employ 75 people by 2012. The studio is currently operating out of a 5,000-square-foot office in downtown Vancouver and is in negotiations to move up to a 20,000 to 25,000 square foot space in future.
Pixar, which was purchased in 2006 by the Walt Disney Company for a reported 7.4 billion dollars (US), has won 24 Academy Awards over the years for such blockbusters as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Cars, among others.
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