Jordan Levin: Meet the new Kings of rock 'n' roll (McClatchy Newspapers)
Being in a rock band on the road is almost a continuation of childhood for the three Followill brothers in Kings of Leon. As boys they often slept in the car as their Pentecostal preacher father took his family from town to town.
Roger Moore: "Michael Caine: child, rogue and codger all" (The Orlando Sentinel)
Just because he plays "a geezer" in his new film, a cranky old performer on his last legs, don't read any autobiography into Michael Caine's star turn in "Is Anybody There?" "When you're an actor and you do a movie about being old and dying, you think, 'This applies to other people, not me!'" Caine chortles. "It's got NOTHING to do with me. 'Me, getting old? To hell with that!'"
The 'First 100 Days - Pluses and Minuses' Edition...
Well, Poll-fans, President Obama, aka 'The Man', has reached the first 100 days of his administration. We might as well jump on the wagon with everyone who is evaluating his work and make an assessment of our own...
What are the Pluses and the Minuses of The Man's First Hundred days?
Friday, 1 May, we started 2 book-giveaway contests, courtesy Hachette Books.
There will be 2 trivia questions every day - one will feature Asian heritage, and the other will focus on Latino book month.
The contests will run concurrently for at least 2 3 weeks, but may go longer.
There will be at least 2 winners, (1 per set of questions), per week.
At the conclusion of the giveaway, a prize will be awarded for tenacity.
You may only win once per giveaway.
Each winner will receive the whole set of five books for that giveaway.
Rules and/or format may be altered if necessary - I'm not psychic.
In his youth, who felt the need to protect his family's samurai tradition and attempted seppuku (ritual suicide), stabbing himself in the abdomen more than 30 times?
A Sessue Hayakawa
B Toshiro Mifune
C Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
D Jack Soo
E George Takei
Who was the first Hispanic actor to appear on the front cover of Life magazine?
A Leo Carrillo
B Jose Ferrer
C Fernando Lamas
D Ricardo Montalbán
E Ramón Novarro
A Toshiro Mifune
B Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
C Matsuo Takahashi
D Jack Soo
E Miyoshi Umeki
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Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (June 28, 1932 - November 24, 2005) was a Japanese-American actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show Happy Days and Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.
It was only after working his way up to head of a computer operations department, Morita, by now a husband and father, and also seriously overweight, decided he had taken the wrong path in life. He quit and became a standup comedian. Often billed as "the Hip Nip" in his stand-up act, he became a member of the Los Angeles improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings.
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Which actor's father rode with Pancho Villa?
A Leo Carrillo
B Fernando Lamas
C Ricardo Montalbán
D Anthony Quinn
E Gilbert Roland
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Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca in Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution. His mother, Manuela "Nellie" Oaxaca, was of Aztec ancestry. His father, Francisco Quinn, of half Irish ancestry, was born in Mexico. Frank Quinn rode with Pancho Villa, but later moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Should have looked at Hayakawa more closely. Already behind, and nobody's going to miss today's.
#1) Who was billed as the "Hip Nip"?
B Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
#2) Which actor's father rode with Pancho Villa?
D Anthony Quinn
Alan J answered:
B Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
D Anthony Quinn
Marian the Teacher answered:
Pat Morita and Anthony Quinn
Sally said:
1) Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (B) was billed as the "Hip Nip."
AND
2) Anthony Quinn's (D) Irish-Mexican father rode with Pancho Villa.
PS: Oh boy, new contestants this time around - how fun!! While I do recognize most of the names as casual contestants, I see some new folks too - I just KNOW you have lots of shy lurkers on the Trivia page... And, I hope they stay!
PPS: Vic from Alaska, you have NOT, "failed" Alaska, you are just moving on to greener pastures, little buddy!
MAM replied:
B Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, best known to me as Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid'. (We share the same birth-date and year.) Tribute to Morita on You Tube
Which actor's father rode with Pancho Villa?
D Anthony Quinn, whose father , Francisco Quinn, of half Irish ancestry, was born in Mexico. I liked Quinn best in "The Guns of Navarone" as Andreas Stavros, a Colonel in the defeated Greek army. A tribute to Quinn on YouTube
And, Joe S wrote:
B Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
D Anthony Quinn
For those keeping score:
Alan J A-2 | L-2
Charlie A-1 | L-2
DC Madman A-1 | L-1
Jim from CA A-0 | L-0
Joe S A-2 | L-2
Sally A-2 | L-2
MAM A-2 | L-2
Marian the Teacher A-2 | L-2
Sandra in Maine A-0 | L-0
Tom B A-0 | L-0
The winning horse in the Kentucky Derby "Mine That Bird" is owned by the son of Former Veco (as in Ted Steven's corruption Veco) Boss Bill Allen , the farm also housed a race horse formerly owned by Stevens.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 14', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'The Unit'.
NBC opens the night with 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 2-hour 'Celebrity Apprentice'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Be Cool'.
Faux has a FRESH'Sit Down & Shut Up', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'That 70s Show', followed by an old 'Raymond', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has the movie 'True Lies', followed by the movie 'Independence Day'.
AMC offers the movie 'Caddyshack', followed by the movie 'Happy Gilmore', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 15
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show Andrew Lloyd Webber Special
[3:30 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 5
[6:30 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 6
[8:00 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 7
[9:30 PM] Beatles Biggest Secrets - Beatles Biggest Secrets
[11:00 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 7
[12:30 AM] Beatles Biggest Secrets - Beatles Biggest Secrets
[2:00 AM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 7
[3:30 AM] Beatles Biggest Secrets - Beatles Biggest Secrets
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 16 Farr
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 17 Holmes
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 18 Peltier (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Beerfest', followed by the movie 'Let's Go To Prison'.
FX has the movie 'Last Summer In The Hamptons', followed by the movie 'Bullet', then the movie 'The Cooler'.
History has 'Gangland', followed by a (F) 'Art Of War', and 'Life After People'.
IFC -
[7:00 AM] A Decade Under the Influence
[8:00 AM] Yotsuya Kaidan
[9:30 AM] Yotsuya Kaidan, Part II
[10:45 AM] The Sea Inside
[12:55 PM] A Decade Under the Influence
[1:50 PM] The Cat's Meow
[3:45 PM] The Sea Inside
[5:45 PM] Last Summer in the Hamptons
[7:35 PM] Bullet
[9:15 PM] The Cooler
[11:00 PM] The IFC Media Project
[11:30 PM] Man Bites Dog
[1:05 AM] Bullet
[2:45 AM] The Cooler
[4:30 AM] Man Bites Dog (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stephen King's Desperation', followed by 'Fireball'.
Sundance -
[05:05 AM] Forty Shades of Blue
[07:00 AM] Eileen Gray: Invitation to a Voyage
[08:00 AM] Eco Trip: Episode 2
[08:30 AM] Carbon Cops: Episode 2
[09:00 AM] Addicted To Plastic
[10:35 AM] Fridays at the Farm
[11:00 AM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 1
[12:00 PM] Spectacle: Renee Fleming
[01:00 PM] It's a Free World
[02:45 PM] Only Human
[04:15 PM] Keane
[05:50 PM] Fridays at the Farm
[06:15 PM] Jump Tomorrow
[08:00 PM] Sin City Law: Gladys' Choice, Part One
[09:00 PM] Shameless - 406
[10:00 PM] It's a Free World
[11:40 PM] ...et Alors, Charlotte
[12:00 AM] 6ixtynin9
[01:55 AM] Nathalie (2003)
[03:45 AM] The Limbo Room
[05:05 AM] Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...& Insects (ALL TIMES EDT)
From right, actress Jennifer Connelly, TV Personality Jimmy Fallon and Run/Walk Founder Lilly Tartikoff attend the 12th annual Revlon Run/Walk benefiting breast and ovarian cancer programs, in New York, on Saturday, May 2, 2009.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition.
As Bennett shook hands with students and posed for photographs, some of the $100,000 worth of instruments were laid out on a table at KIPP Believe College Prep, a public charter school established after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city in 2005. The school is one of five KIPP charter schools serving roughly 1,000 of the city's students since Katrina.
The donation effort was set in motion by a jazz fan from New York who won a "Big Give" contest hosted by Oprah Winfrey's magazine. The winner, Barry Jaffin, wanted to use his $5,000 in winnings to put instruments in New Orleans schools.
Bennett and a host of charitable groups such as Music Rising and the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation got on board with the cause.
Wayne Kramer of The MC5, left, and Iggy Pop perform together during the Road Recovery benefit concert Friday, May 1, 2009 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
New evidence suggests an "isolated community" escaped annihilation and lived on a rocky, desert plateau in North America.
Until now, palaeontologists widely believed the creatures were wiped out 65 million years ago when an asteroid collided with Earth.
But now experts say a "pocket" of dinosaurs survived and roamed a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado.
Carbon dating of newly-discovered bones in the San Juan Basin proves that these lived for another half-a-million years.
The discovery, published this week in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, has been hailed as one of the most important breakthroughs in palaeontology this century.
When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site, and a historical map of Tokyo put up in 2006 hadn't caused any problems.
But Google failed to judge how its offering would be received, as it has often done in Japan. The company is now facing inquiries from the Justice Ministry and angry accusations of prejudice because its maps detailed the locations of former low-caste communities.
The maps date back to the country's feudal era, when shoguns ruled and a strict caste system was in place. At the bottom of the hierarchy were a class called the "burakumin," ethnically identical to other Japanese but forced to live in isolation because they did jobs associated with death, such as working with leather, butchering animals and digging graves.
Castes have long since been abolished, and the old buraku villages have largely faded away or been swallowed by Japan's sprawling metropolises. Today, rights groups say the descendants of burakumin make up about 3 million of the country's 127 million people.
But they still face prejudice, based almost entirely on where they live or their ancestors lived. Moving is little help, because employers or parents of potential spouses can hire agencies to check for buraku ancestry through Japan's elaborate family records, which can span back over a hundred years.
It's not just a U2 song anymore. Officials said some thieves turned a western Pennsylvania township into a place "Where the Streets Have No Name." Winfield Township supervisor Glenn Nagle revealed at a meeting Thursday that every one of the township's road signs was stolen in a 48-hour period beginning April 6. The township has since spent about $4,000 replacing the aluminum signs, which cost about $100 each.
Nagle assumes the thefts were some kind of prank because the value of the signs as scrap metal is negligible.
State police in Butler are investigating. Winfield is about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh.
President Barack Obama's barber Zariff is presented with a basketball autographed by www.justformen.com spokesman Walt 'Clyde' Frazier. Clyde sent along an autographed ball for the President, too. Maybe Obama will appoint Clyde Secretary Of Roundball? In Chicago,IL on Saturday, May 2, 2009.
Photo by David Banks
NBC has renewed the cop drama "Southland," picking up 13 episodes of the series.
The Los Angeles-set show, which stars Ben McKenzie, was a late addition to NBC's midseason slate. It got off to a strong start in "ER"'s Thursday 10 p.m. slot. The ratings have since slipped, but the network brass has been high on "Southland" for its broad appeal, creative potential and producer John Wells' ("ER") solid track record as a showrunner.
NBC will present its fall schedule to advertisers Monday in New York.
The U.S. Forest Service is closing thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.
Bats have been dying at alarming rates from what scientists call "white-nose syndrome," so-named because it appears as a white powder on the face and wings of hibernating bats.
The problem was first spotted in New York and within two years has spread to caves in West Virginia and Virginia. There's no evidence the fungus is harmful to people.
Researchers believe the fungus is spread from bat to bat, but they have not ruled out the possibility that humans tromping from cave to cave might help to transmit it on their shoes and equipment, said Dennis Krusac, a biologist with the service's Southern region.
Newly crowned Mister Switzerland 2009 Andre Reithebuch smiles on the stage during the Mister Switzerland 2009 pageant in Lugano May 2, 2009.
Photo by Alessandro Garofalo
Canadian actors and independent producers unveiled a new multiyear labor deal Thursday to send Hollywood a signal of industry stability.
"(The major studios) don't have to worry. They will be welcome to come to Canada," said Stephen Waddell, chief negotiator and national executive director of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA).
The Independent Production Agreement, which covers a three-year period that kicks off December 31, is between ACTRA and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA), which represents independent producers, and its Quebec counterpart, l'Association des producteurs de films et de television du Quebec.
The new IPA differs little from the current deal beyond giving performers a 2 percent rate increase in each of the three years as well as offering a rate increase for new-media residuals.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II received more than 500,000 euros in European agricultural subsidies in 2008, according to figures released Thursday by the department of rural affairs (Defra).
The monarch -- who is Britain's 214th richest person with 270 million pounds according to the Sunday Times Rich List -- received 473,583.31 pounds (about 700,000 dollars, 530,000 euros) for her farm at Sandringham.
Her eldest son, Prince Charles, received 95,222.56 pounds for his Duchy of Cornwall, and 86,262.98 for the Duchy's farm -- a total of 181,485.54 pounds.
Food giants Nestle and Tate & Lyle received 1,018,459.69 pounds and 965,796.78 pounds respectively.
In this image provided by the Brandywine River Museum, a pen and ink drawing from the 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' by artist Edward Gorey is shown. The exhibition 'Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey' at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa., is scheduled to run through May 17, 2009.
Watching TV might not make you happy, but for some viewers it beats being alone.
Four new studies by the University at Buffalo and Miami University of Ohio found that watching TV can drive away feelings of loneliness and rejection. The studies are reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and suggest that watching TV provides viewers with the illusion that their social needs are being met.
"The research provides evidence for the 'social surrogacy hypothesis,' which holds that humans can use technologies, like television, to provide the experience of belonging when no real belongingness has been experienced," said one of the study's authors, Shira Gabriel. "We also argue that other commonplace technologies such as movies, music or interactive video games, as well as television, can fulfill this need."
The first study found that subjects felt less lonely when viewing their favorite TV shows. Study 2 found that subjects whose "belongingness needs were aroused" wrote longer essays about their favored TV programs. The third study found that thinking about favored TV programs buffered subjects against drops in self-esteem, increases in negative mood and feelings of rejection. And Study 4 found that subjects verbally expressed fewer feelings of loneliness after writing essays about their preferred TV programs.
Researchers concluded that a viewer's fictional bond with TV characters can help ease their need to connect with others. The study authors noted, however, that "it remains an open question whether social surrogacy suppresses belongingness needs or actually fulfills them." They acknowledge that "the kind of social surrogacy provoked by these programs can be a poor substitution for 'real' human-to-human experience."
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