Roger Ebert: 'Indiana Jones' in universe of its own (3 1/2 stars)
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Say it aloud. The very title causes the pulse to quicken, if you, like me, are a lover of pulp fiction. What I want is goofy action--lots of it. I want man-eating ants, swordfights between two people balanced on the backs of speeding jeeps, subterranean caverns of gold, vicious femme fatales, plunges down three waterfalls in a row, and the explanation for flying saucers. And throw in lots of monkeys.
ROGER EBERT: Hanging out with Wilder and Pryor (from December 23, 1976)
"What happened was, I was reading about Buster Keaton," Gene Wilder said. "About how he did all his own stunts. Like the time he had to stand in exactly the right place for the two-ton building to fall on him and he was right where the window was. So then we were making 'Silver Streak' and there we were doing our own stunts."
Who signed off his radio and TV shows with "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."?
A: Jack Benny
B: Milton Berle
C: George Burns
D: Jimmy Durante
E: Red Skelton
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Durante's radio show was bracketed with two trademarks: "Inka Dinka Doo" as his opening theme, and the invariable signoff that became another familiar national catchphrase: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Durante never revealed the meaning, preferring instead to keep the mystery alive.
One theory is that the phrase refers to the owner of a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina, where Jimmy and his troupe stopped once to eat. He was so taken by the food, the service, and the chitchat that Jimmy told the owner that he would make her famous. Not knowing her name he instead referred to her as "Mrs. Calabash".
Another theory is that it was his personal salute to his late first wife, Jeanne Olsen, whom he married on June 19. They stayed married until her death on Valentine's Day in 1943. "Calabash" may have been a typical Durante mangle of Calabasas, the southern California locale where the couple made their home for the last years of her life.
Jimmy Durante - Wikipedia
Johnny Carson as Karnak the Magnificient:
Answer: Inka Dinka Do
Question: What do you look for when you're tracking an Inka Dinka?
mj was first, and right, with:
Funny men all
D, Jimmy, who also walked away from the camera on a darkened stage lit only by spotlights that gave the appearance of stepping stones.
McDonald responded:
Jimmy Duranrte?
Alan J answered:
Jimmy Durante
Jim from CA replied:
That would be Jimmy Durante.
Wanda said:
answer is D.
Charlie responded:
Knew that
D: Jimmy Durante
And, Marian the Teacher replied:
Jimmy Durante
jim d answered:
durante
bebo responded:
D: jimmy durante, but I don't know what it means.
Tab wrote:
If you're over 30 you should know this automatically.
It was Jimmy Durante.
Sally said:
Jimmy Durante (D) signed off his radio and TV shows with "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."
Born in New Your (where else?) in 1893, he became part of a comedy music team called "Clayton, Jackson and Durante."
The sensations of New York, Broadway columnist Damon Runyon often said,
"I doubt if a greater combination ever lived."
While I never got to see the famous trio, I did see Jimmy Durante perform in about every early TV variety show there was, and on occasion, hosting (filling in) for TV greats such as Milton Berle, and Sid Caesar. Though not an attractive man at all, people just loved him, including me! :)
We had a fine, warm sunny day for a soccer game - but boy, am I tired tonight - and I have the precious g/kids staying overnight to boot! We are all going to sleep very early tonight, let me tell you!
Mike in Des Moines replied:
D. The Schnozolla, Jimmy Durante. Hachachacha!
And, That MadCat JD answered:
THAT WOULD BE JIMMY "THE SCHNOZ" DURANTE.
Thanks to Sally and That MadCat JD for the pictures of Jimmy Durante.
Thanks for the piece on Sam Baker. He's been "the story" for the past few years in the songwriter community (even up here in Minnesota, where a promoter named Bruce Boldt has been (justifiably) singing his praises since '05 when he appeared at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Oklahoma). It's nice to see him get some large-time recognition.
Early on, looked like more rain, but nothing came of it.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Mintues', followed by a RERUN Cold Case', then another RERUN'Cold Case', folllowed by a RERUN'Shark'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has LIVE'NASCAR Racing', then pads the left coast with old 'Simpsons' and 'King Of The Hill'.
MY has an old 'King Of Queens', an old 'Raymond', then the movie 'Mona Lisa Smile'.
AMC offers the movie 'Braddock: Missing In Action III', followed by the movie 'M*A*S*H, then the movie 'The Great Escape'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 8 & 9
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 11 Utopia
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 12 & 13
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Sister Hood
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 The Booby and The Beast
[8:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[10:00 PM] The Rolling Stones: Truth And Lies
[11:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[1:00 AM] The Rolling Stones: Truth And Lies
[2:00 AM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[4:00 AM] The Rolling Stones: Truth And Lies
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 22 Brown
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Farrier
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Wayne's World', followed by the movie 'Super Troopers', then the movie 'Beer League'.
FX has the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by the movie 'Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines'.
History has 'MonsterQuest', 'Indiana Jones & The Ultimate Quest', and 'Ax Men.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Requiem
[07:30 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
[08:00 AM] Ikiru
[10:30 AM] Umberto D.
[12:05 PM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections
[12:30 PM] The Golden Bowl
[02:45 PM] I Am David
[04:25 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[04:30 PM] The Pianist
[07:05 PM] Au Revoir Les Enfants
[09:00 PM] The Thin Red Line
[12:00 AM] No Man's Land
[01:45 AM] Ride With the Devil
[04:15 AM] The Thin Red Line (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Ritual'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Mr. Reliable
[08:00 AM] Part 5
[09:00 AM] Part 6
[10:00 AM] Episode 2
[11:00 AM] Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters
[12:00 PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[02:00 PM] Episode 5: All Blessed Secrets
[03:00 PM] Grow
[03:35 PM] Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
[04:45 PM] Episode 1
[05:35 PM] The Puffy Chair
[07:00 PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[09:00 PM] Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Episode 3
[11:00 PM] Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Natural City
[02:00 AM] Little Peace of Mine
[03:00 AM] Episode 3
[03:30 AM] Episode 1
[04:00 AM] The Devil Came from Akasava
[05:30 AM] Play It As It Lays (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Robert Redford participates in a forum at Brown University, Saturday, May 24, 2008, in Providence, R.I. Redford will receive an honorary degree from Brown University, Sunday, May 25, 2008.
Photo by Stew Milne
Oscar-winner Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.
The star of "Tootsie" and "Blue Sky" was applauded by students Friday at the small liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War. She said the graduates have "a heavy burden" to chart a new path for the country.
"We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list," Lange said.
Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit of peace."
Actor Patrick Swazye watches the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs play in the first half in Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference basketball finals, Friday, May 23, 2008 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Michael J. Fox, the Canadian-born actor who has used his success in film and television to advocate for Parkinson's disease patients, received an honorary degree Thursday from the University of British Columbia.
He said he's been fortunate to take on many roles in life - actor, husband, father and Parkinson's advocate.
"In every aspect, I have been blessed with the opportunity to work for real impact on the world and in the lives of those around me, and to be a partner in the critical search for answers," he said.
"I wish you no greater satisfaction in life than to feel the same way today as you graduate and for many years to come."
Ferrari's Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen paid 200,000 euros (159 thousand pounds) for a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette owned by Hollywood actress Sharon Stone at a Monaco Grand Prix charity auction, organisers said.
The car, stored in Los Angeles and said to have just four miles on the clock, was one of the top lots at a glittering Amber Fashion show in aid of the Elton John Aids Foundation on Friday night.
Indian drinks and aviation billionaire Vijay Mallya, co-owner of the Force India Formula One team, paid 226,000 euros for a concert piano used by Elton John to write his "Songs from the West Coast" album in 2001.
The auction, at Monaco's Meridien Beach Plaza hotel, raised almost 1 million euros.
German director Wim Wenders photographs arrivals before the screening of his film "The Palermo Shooting" at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 24, 2008.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier
A Kentucky museum dedicated to George Clooney's late aunt just wanted the actor's helmet from the movie "Leatherheads."
Turns out, the museum for singer and actress Rosemary Clooney will get the leather headgear and the rest of the football uniform.
"This will be a nice addition," curator Steve Henry said. "In the future we are hoping to accumulate at least one costume from each of his new movies."
Clooney's uniform will be placed among his aunt's memorabilia. Henry said the new display at the Rosemary Clooney House Museum is scheduled to be unveiled June 7.
The Pentagon's internal watchdog is investigating a government public relations effort that relied on retired military officers to defend the administration's Iraq war policies.
The House this past week passed an amendment to a defense authorization bill calling for reviews by both the inspector general's office and the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm.
The Pentagon suspended the program last month after The New York Times reported that retired officers who acted as military analysts for major news outlets were given plum access to the Pentagon. The analysts, many of whom had undisclosed ties to military contractors, received regular briefings by then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a sponsored trip to the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.
A Defense spokesman, Lt. Col. Brian Maka, said Saturday the inspector general's review will look at whether special access to Pentagon leaders "may have given the contractors a competitive advantage."
Balloonists crowd towards a target in the the center of the field as they try to drop a bean bag as close as possible, during the Hare and Hound balloon race at the Alabama Jubilee Saturday, March 24, 2008 in Priceville, Ala. The balloonists took off from Point Mallard Park in Decatur, Ala. and dropped on the X which was placed in a field in neighboring Priceville.
Photo by Gary Cosby Jr.
Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist competing in 1957 with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 "did not send terrorists to the States," but launched a satellite, "which evoked the admiration of the whole world."
Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."
A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school.
The parents of several black junior high school students have filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming their children are subject to racial slurs and punished more harshly than white students at Monroeville Junior High School.
The lawsuit says black students at the county's only public junior high have been called slurs such as the "N-word," "filthy trash" and "black monkey." Their parents also say classes are segregated, with most black students being kept out of advanced placement and honors courses.
The action, originally filed in August, was revived this week by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. Southern District Court on behalf of nine students. It names the Monroe County Board of Education, Monroeville Junior High principal Lana Wilson, county superintendent Dennis Mixon, and the five-member school board.
The first cars of the year drive over the Gotthard pass and have to drive through walls of snow, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in Switzerland. The Gotthard pass reopened after the winter season about one week later than usual.
Photo by Sigi Tischler
A work by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.5 million (4.7 million pounds) on Saturday, a new auction record for an Asian contemporary artwork, at auctioneer Christie's first evening sale of such art in Hong Kong.
Other records also fell as the auction brought a dash of black-tie glamour to the former British colony's art market, considered the world's third most important auction hub after New York and London.
The highlight of the evening was Zeng Fanzhi's large-scale 2-by-3.6 metre work entitled "Mask Series 1996 No. 6", which sold for almost triple its pre-sale estimate.
Other notable results included Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun's "Gweong-Gweong", sold for HK$54.1 million ($6.85 million), a new auction record for the artist.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned women not to use or purchase Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises Inc. of San Rafael, Calif.
The cream, promoted to nursing mothers to help soothe dry or cracked nipples, contains ingredients that may cause respiratory distress, vomiting and diarrhea in infants, the agency said.
The potentially harmful ingredients in the cream are chlorphenesin and phenoxyethanol.
"FDA is particularly concerned that nursing infants are being unwittingly exposed by their mothers to this product with dangerous side effects," said Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Additionally, these two ingredients may interact with one another to further compound and increase the risk of respiratory depression in nursing infants."
Socotran desert roses, whose obese trunks are adapted to store water, stand on a hillside in Wadi Diksam on Yemen's island of Socotra February 1, 2008.
Photo by Alistair Lyon
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