The Crisis and How to Deal with It (nybooks.com)
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30. The participants were former senator Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, and Robin Wells, with Jeff Madrick as moderator.
Ted Rall: BAIL OUT YOUR OWN DAMN SELF
If millions of Americans were to pay their taxes, mortgages and debt payments into escrow (to show that we're not deadbeats), it wouldn't take long before we got some action from Obama and his gang of bank-loving technocrats.
MATT MAZUR: "Abnormally Addicted to Sin: Tori Amos Talks with PopMatters"
Tori Amos talks about collaborating with rock Gods and Goddesses, how bootlegs could potentially cause divorce, and why a gal sometimes just needs a good wig to add an extra element of surprise to both her marriage and her live show.
Unhappy birthday? (guardian.co.uk)
Morrissey once railed against dinosaur rock'n'roll stars - now he is one. Len Brown sheds some light.
Roger Ebert: Sex, truth & call girls
In the late months of 2008, while the economic storm was gathering, Steven Soderbergh made a film about buying and selling. "The Girlfriend Experience" follows a high-priced escort named Chelsea as she interacts with clients, many of them regulars, all of them wealthy. It stars Sasha Grey, 21, who in real life has made more than 150 porn films.
James Christopher: Inglourious Basterds at the Cannes Film Festival (timesonline.co.uk)
Quentin Tarantino has turned the Festival Palais in Cannes into his very own Cinema Paradiso, daringly celebrating cinema's ability to rewrite one of the most painful chapters in history. The title of his Second World War fantasy is inspired by Enzo Castellari's little-watched 1978 film, 'Inglorious Bastards.'
Richard Roper: Review of "Baby on Board" (Dud)
Surely [the actors] must have spent their nights pleading with their agents to get them better roles, weeping into their pillows about this disaster, drowning themselves in the comfort food/drink/person of their choice -- or watching TV and coming across any number of movies that are infinitely better than this one.
zEN mAN (observing the opposition to Iran's president Ahmadinajad have resorted to using "Facebook" but got blocked by the powers to be...what next ...."Twitter???")
She said,"...Remember that you are blessed. Remember that in exchange for those blessings, you must give something back. You must reach back and pull someone up. You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future."
Do you volunteer your time and/or donate from your resources to help those less fortunate than yourself?
Sheila Kuehl, the first woman in California history to be named speaker pro tempore of the assembly, had an earlier career. On which TV series was she a regular?
A Gidget
B Here Come The Brides
C The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
D Mister Peepers
E Our Miss Brooks
On the original 'Mickey Mouse Club', each day had a theme. What was Wednesday's?
A Anything Can Happen
B Circus
C Fun with Music
D Guest Star
E Talent Round-up
Source
Each day of the week had a special show theme, which was reflected in the various segments. The themes were:
Monday - Fun with Music
Tuesday - Guest Star
Wednesday - Anything Can Happen
Thursday - Circus
Friday - Talent Round-up
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Congratulations to Sally. I suspected after I blew the very first question that she wasn't going to give me a chance, and I knew I wouldn't get anywhere with the '119.'
Yeah, I watched the show as a kid. I don't remember all the details very well, but Wednesday was
A Anything Can Happen day.
And I developed a childhood crush on guess who?
Alan J answered:
A Anything Can Happen
Adam in NoHo responded:
Gods, I remember watching this in B&W reruns. I remember the circus theme because the mousketeer playing the bearded lady would mime cutting her looong beard with a pair of tongs. My little brain never understood what she was doing, or why.
I'm going to say B- circus, 'cause it's the only theme I remember (if only for that little bit of cognitive dissonance).
Marian the Teacher responded:
Anything Can Happen
Jim from CA replied:
A. Anything Can Happen Day
Gary G answered:
...Anything Can Happen Day
Sally said:
I was sixteen years old and a junior in high school when the, "Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on TV. Of course, ordinarily at that age, I wouldn't have been caught dead watching such a "baby" show. OTOH, at that time I was attending an all-girl, parochial boarding school, where some of the other inmates (students) were 8th graders, and they begged the nuns to watch that show after school. After several provisions were listed, and attended to, we were allowed to see the show on most days. As I recall, Wednesday was, "Anything Can Happen" (A) day.
We particularly liked, Annette Funicello (who went on - in a two-piece bathing suit) to the famous, "Beach Party Bingo" movie fame; Bobby Burgess (surely you remember the grown up Bobby dancing his heart out on the, "Lawrence Welk Show?"); and Don Grady, who went on as one of the "My Three Sons," in the renown sitcom of the same name.
Who of us (former students) could ever forget the face of the nun (who had apparently drawn the short straw) carefully watching that black and white TV show, for any sign of that which would corrupt our pure little minds? She had nothing to fear though, the "Mickey Mouse Club," was pure as new-fallen snow back in those days - prior to Annette going wild that is...
PS: Thanks for the shout-out MAM, I am just tickled pink! And, thank you for the Killer Kat connections, Joe S - you are the man!!
Willow answered:
Anything Can Happen - Wednesdays
MAM replied:
On the original 'Mickey Mouse Club', each day had a theme. Wednesday's was
A Anything Can Happen. "Today is a day that is filled with surprises; nobody knows what's gonna happen!"
And, Joe S ("When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
~ Annette Funicello) wrote:
A Anything Can Happen
I have always liked
Steven Soderbergh movies…his filming technique, conversational style and gritty realism…….I have also always like
Sasha Grey's hard core porn movies….her enthusiasm, athleticism and fine Ass!!
When I heard that she was starring in Steven soderbergh's new movie: "
The Girlfriend Experience" (G.F.E.)…I just ran out at once…..expecting a colossal collaboration….
It was a colossal calamity!
Fucking Men
Needless to say, Chelsea (Sasha Grey) is a high priced hooker in New York City. She lives with a chiseled gym rat named Chris. While she is busy boffing business men, he is busy buffing business men. We find out that Chelsea keeps a diary and a profile of all her clients (for her book she hopes to publish)….the odd inclusion into the plot is that this story takes place just before the 08 presidential election and stock market crash…..All anybody talks about is money and politics…..there is little action, vapid conversation and no M.S.OG…..B.B.B.J…..D.A.T.Y…..P.S.E…..or …..T.T.G. !
Spoiler alert !!!!
The End is Creepy
.
The end of "G.F.E." is really creepy and crass……after jumping back and forth with the plot and things not going great for Chelsea's career (she gets stood up by a rich paramour) we find her back naked in a depressing basement with a fat hairy guy who likes to hug and dry hump….wow so deep!
Purple Gene gives "The Girlfriend Experience" 5 phony fellatios out of 10 for being limp, lustless and ultimately lost !
BTW Sasha Grey has starred in over 175 hard core movies in less than 3 years, she has her own production company and is barely 21 years old!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Million Dollar Password', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'The Unit'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN made-for-TV-movie 'The Last Templar', part 1 of 2.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'Diamonds', part 1 of 2.
The CW offers an old 'Jericho', followed by the movie 'Love Is All There Is'.
Faux has LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with some old 'Simpsons'.
MY the movie 'xXx', followed by an old 'House', and another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Batman Begins', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 4
[1:00 PM] The F Word Meets Top Gear
[1:20 PM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[3:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] Top Gear Winter Olympics Special
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[8:00 PM] A Fish Called Wanda - A Fish Called Wanda
[10:00 PM] Brothers and Sisters in Love
[11:00 PM] A Fish Called Wanda
[1:00 AM] Brothers and Sisters in Love
[2:00 AM] A Fish Called Wanda
[4:00 AM] Brothers and Sisters in Love - Brothers and Sisters in Love
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite', followed by the movie 'Idiocracy'.
FX has the movie 'There's Something About Mary', followed by the movie 'Night At The Museum'.
History has 'UFO Hunters', 'MonsterQuest', another 'MonsterQuest', and still another 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Tsotsi
[8:00 AM] The Bad Sleep Well
[10:35 AM] High and Low
[1:00 PM] Tsotsi
[2:35 PM] I Am David
[4:15 PM] I Went Down
[6:05 PM] The Proposition
[8:05 PM] Spider
[8:20 PM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[11:00 PM] The IFC Media Project
[11:30 PM] A Decade Under the Influence
[12:25 AM] B. Monkey
[2:00 AM] The IFC Media Project
[2:30 AM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[5:10 AM] A Decade Under the Influence (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie '10.5: Apocalypse, Part 2', followed by the movie 'Polar Storm'.
Sundance -
[08:00 AM] Episode 5
[08:30 AM] Episode 5
[09:00 AM] How To Cook Your Life
[10:40 AM] Site Specific: Seville
[11:00 AM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 4
[12:00 PM] Spectacle: Diana Krall & Elton John
[01:00 PM] The Hawk is Dying
[02:50 PM] Chalk
[04:15 PM] The Man Who Fell To Earth
[06:35 PM] Garage
[08:00 PM] Flying: Confessions...: Part 2
[09:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: John Mayer, Norah Jones & Richard Ashcroft
[10:00 PM] Gridlock'd
[11:40 PM] Site Specific: Seville
[12:00 AM] Nowhere to Hide
[01:45 AM] Engine 371
[02:00 AM] Lynch
[03:25 AM] Sonny (ALL TIMES EDT)
American legendary musician Stevie Wonder performs beside his daughter Aisha Morris during his concert at the 8th Mawazine festival in Rabat, Morocco, Saturday, May 23, 2009,
Photo by Abdeljalil Bounhar
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be given benefits similar to those that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, U.S. officials said Saturday.
In a notice to be sent soon to State Department employees, Clinton says regulations that denied same-sex couples and their families the same rights and privileges that straight diplomats enjoyed are "unfair and must end," as they harm U.S. diplomacy.
Among the benefits that will now be granted gay diplomats: the right of domestic partners to hold diplomatic passports, government-paid travel for their partners and families to and from foreign posts, and the use of U.S. medical facilities abroad.
In addition, gay diplomats' families will now be eligible for U.S. government emergency evacuations and training courses at the Foreign Service Institute, the message says.
Members of the public hold aloft a giant ball of newspapers as it is rolled through the streets in London May 23, 2009. The sculpture by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto recreated his seminal action "Walking Sculpture", which was first performed on the streets of Turin in Italy in 1966.
Photo by Kieran Doherty
The search for new homes for two impoverished child stars from the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire" has intensified, as one child fell sick days after city authorities demolished the shanty where she lived, family members said.
Nine-year-old Rubina Ali came down with a fever Friday and spent a few hours in a local hospital, they said.
Rubina's block was razed Wednesday to make way for a planned pedestrian overpass at a commuter train station in Mumbai. Last week, co-star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail's home was demolished, part of a pre-monsoon slum clearance drive.
After the runaway success of their film, "Slumdog" director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson set up the Jai Ho trust to ensure the children receive proper homes, a decent education and a nest egg when they finish high school. They have also donated $747,500 to a charity to help slum children in Mumbai.
The filmmakers have agreed to raise the amount of money they will spend on new apartments for each family from $30,000 to $50,000, a Jai Ho trustee and Rubina's father, Rafiq Qureshi, both told The Associated Press on Saturday.
A north London house belonging to Sir Paul McCartney has been removed from Google Street View.
The ex-Beatle's security team is said to have requested that the web giant remove the St John's Wood townhouse from the site.
A statement from the website, which shows photographs of roads, said: "Since the launch of Street View in the UK millions of people have used it and the vast majority are very happy to have their house included.
"But we recognise that some people, like Sir Paul, don't want images of their house to appear on Street View and, by simply clicking on a button on the site, they can have them removed."
A model presents a creation by Maltese fashion designer Caroline Hili during the Malta National Fashion Awards at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre in Ta' Qali, outside Valletta, May 23, 2009.
Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi
Orchestras for children and teenagers inspired by Venezuela's trendsetting network of youth orchestras have been springing up from Sao Paulo to Scotland as international interest explodes, the program's founder said Friday.
The National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, known here simply as "The System," has nurtured a hotbed of young talent since its 1975 launch while providing free instruments and instruction to children from the country's poorest barrios.
New orchestras modeled on the Venezuelan teaching system have been popping up increasingly in other countries across the Americas, including about 10 new orchestras in recent months, founder Jose Antonio Abreu said.
Abreu, a 70-year-old former congressman, started the program in hopes of one day providing all Venezuelan children access to quality music education. Since then, it has grown to include some 150 youth orchestras and 70 children's orchestras - and more than 250,000 students across the nation.
The program's star graduate, 28-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel, debuts in October as musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The brother of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is accusing his famous sibling of trying to force him out of the family's pornography business.
Larry Flynt owns a building in downtown Cincinnati where his brother operates a Hustler retail store.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in Ohio, Jimmy Flynt says his brother wants to evict him in retaliation for refusing to give a loan to Larry Flynt Productions. Larry Flynt contends his brother is behind in rent.
Jimmy Flynt says the eviction notice is also an attempt by Larry Flynt to get leverage in a separate trademark lawsuit in California.
Real estate agents Melinda and Scott Tamkin on Friday sued writer and producer Sarah Goldfinger for defamation and invasion-of-privacy. They are seeking $6 million in damages, alleging the show hurt their real estate business.
The Tamkins represented the owners of a Los Angeles home that Goldfinger wanted to buy in 2005, according to the lawsuit. Goldfinger pulled out when the sale was in escrow, but there was no indication of any animosity at the time.
The "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" show set in Las Vegas featured a real estate agent named Melinda, who dies under mysterious circumstances, and her husband Scott, a mortgage broker who watches pornography, drinks and is suspected of killing his wife, according to the suit.
The characters had the last name Tamkin in an original screenplay and Goldfinger helped cast actors who looked like the Tamkins, according to the lawsuit. The Tamkins claim the characters' last name to Tucker at the last minute, which they is evidence Goldfinger borrowed details from their lives.
That's obvious in a documentary made last year by a British filmmaker at Vandergaw's remote Alaska cabin and featured in the recent Animal Planet series "Stranger Among Bears." The videos show him scratching the belly of one black bear as if it was the family dog, feeding a cookie to a large black bear sitting under a tree, and feeding dog kibble to a cub from his outstretched hand.
Vandergaw has been coexisting with bears this way for the last 20 years, and he wants to be left alone.
That is not likely to happen now that the state is using a beefed-up law to prosecute Vandergaw for feeding bears. Game officials consider feeding bears a danger to humans, especially if others duplicate the behavior.
Nebraska on Friday threw out thousands of votes - online votes for its new license plate - after discovering that a minimalist approach initially won only because a humor Web site had urged people to choose the most boring design.
Department of Motor Vehicles Director Beverly Neth announced Friday that a white, gold and black plate featuring the state bird and state flower - the western meadowlark and goldenrod - is the actual winner of online voting. The new plates go into use in 2011.
The winner announced Tuesday had been a black-and-white plate with the URL of Nebraska's Web site in red. But those results were skewed by a prank instigated by collegehumor.com, which encouraged people to vote for what it deemed to be the most boring design.
After Neth disqualified the humor site's votes, the bird-and-flower design became the winner with 32,858 votes. The black-and-white plate managed to place second among four entries, less than 5,000 votes behind.
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replied:
I have always liked
Steven Soderbergh movies…his filming technique, conversational style and gritty realism…….I have also always like
Sasha Grey's hard core porn movies….her enthusiasm, athleticism and fine Ass!!
Needless to say, Chelsea (Sasha Grey) is a high priced hooker in New York City. She lives with a chiseled gym rat named Chris. While she is busy boffing business men, he is busy buffing business men. We find out that Chelsea keeps a diary and a profile of all her clients (for her book she hopes to publish)….the odd inclusion into the plot is that this story takes place just before the 08 presidential election and stock market crash…..All anybody talks about is money and politics…..there is little action, vapid conversation and no M.S.OG…..B.B.B.J…..D.A.T.Y…..P.S.E…..or …..T.T.G. !
