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tomorrow, Memorial Day, 5am - 9am (PDT) [6am - 10 am MDT].
Skip Dreps of the NW Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America talks about the state of veteran's rights. The scoop on Nicholson and Principi, headed for elective office? Says who?
5.3 million vets are losing their disability insurance and another 26.5 lost their identities--what to do about all this!
Then we will explore the ethics of Enron, how the bad guys FINALLY may get some comeuppance anyway. What is the fallout from this huge scandal--and does it pay to be loyal to corporations anymore?
And Rabbi Daniel Weiner joins us to talk about the morality of business and the gay rights issues facing Colorado voters this fall.
Are Bush and Blair REALLY taking responsibility or is that all a lot of hooey. And the year so far in scandal, sigh.
Plus your barbeque tips for the long hot summer ahead. We already know who we want to boil in oil. . .
ROGER EBERT: Cannes #7: A real movie
High praise, but higher still came from Ken Turan: "I stayed right until the end." This statement has to be put in context. Turan's long-standing policy at all film festivals is to see the beginnings of as many films as possible, perhaps eight or ten a day. "I want to get an overview of the whole festival," he explains. He'll see the complete film in Los Angeles when it opens. All the publicists know "it doesn't mean anything bad when Kenny leaves after 30 minutes."
WELL, I WAITED A WEEK UNTIL THE CREEPY CHRISTIANS DECIDED TO GO FIGHT THE WAR ON MEMORIAL DAY OR WHATEVER DIVERSION WILL MAKE THEM FOAM. SO TODAY I WENT AND SAW The Da Vinci Code AND IT AINT THAT BAD. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT THE FILM TRIES TO MIRROR THE BOOK AND IN THE PROCESS BECOMES A DOCUMENTARY RATHER THAN ACTION PACKED MYSTERY.
I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF Amelie WERE BETTER FILM MAKING THAN THIS WHOLE FILM. NEVERTHELESS IT'S OVER TWO HOUR RUNNING TIME KEPT ME WATCHING. I A BIG FAN OF DAN BROWN WHOSE WRITING IS BOTH COMPELLING AND EXCITING, SO I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT THE FILM IS SO FLAT BECAUSE THE BOOK IS AN OVER THE TOP GOOD READ. IF YOU LIKE THE BOOK YOU WILL LIKE THE FILM BUT LIKE ME I THINK YOU WILL WONDER WHY THE VISUALS DIDN'T MATCH YOUR OWN IMAGINATION.
NOW THERE'S TALK ABOUT DOING ANOTHER OF HIS STORIES, Angels & Demons THAT WILL HAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOING DIARRHEA OF THE MOUTH AND CONSTIPATION OF BRAIN TIRADES BECAUSE THIS ONE TAKES PLACE IN THE VATICAN. YOU KNOW, DEAD POPE, DEAD PRIESTS AND TWO BREASTS.
ARE THESE STORIES ANTI-CATHOLIC? NO! THEY'RE ANTI ASSHOLES IN DRESSES THAT WANT TO TELL US THE MESSAGE OF JESUS. WELL, THE MESSAGE OF JESUS IS SIMPLE: SERMON ON THE MOUNT: BEATITUDES GET WITH THE PROGRAM YOU CROSS DRESSING JERKS. GO SEE THE FILM JUST TO PISS THESE BASTARDS OFF.
Purple Gene's review of the new chip off the old Chez Panisse block neighborhood pizza oven par excellence restaurant Pizzaiolo in the Temescal District of Oakland:
I've been to New York once….and I had to try the Pizza there…I was so tired of people from the Big Apple coming to the West Coast and bragging about the food back home…particularly the Pizza…..well I tried some thin crust when I was back there…olive oil and tomato sauce….Mozzarella and parmesan cheese…wood fired brick ovens and I liked it a lot…..Tonight I experienced Fuck You New York style thin crust wood fired oven pizza…in Oakland's Temescal District along Telegraph Ave.
I picked up my son's baby's mama (Lisa) and we biked over to the restaurant early so we could wander around the neighborhood….we checked out Blue Haired Bake Sale Betty's Bakery shop on the corner…and then wandered into a cool antique shop called "Porchlight" with old signs and desks and a great big red wheel barrow. Then we sat outside and waited for the place to open…there was a little girl playing in some old cardboard boxes..and old lady trying get in front of the line and then Charlie Hallowell, the owner and a former cook at Chez Panisse, with his son popped by….his Ex wife Hanna is the daughter of my good friends Dave and Margaret…..well Charlie has turned what used to be the old "G & G" Hardware store into the most happening café in the East Bay….
Lisa and I started with a glass each of Savignon Blanc and she tried the salad of Bintji potatoes, beets and fennel with tonnato and I had the Asparagas soup with crème fraiche….ummmm yum yum yummy…especially with some fresh cut bread and butter…I had a bottle of Robert Sinsky Reserve Merlot Cab/Franc opened to air…as people kept pouring in and still folks outside waiting…we tasted the red wine…slight hint of blackberries with a tweak of coffee and licorice and a bouquet and finish from heaven…pour!
Lisa ordered the homemade sausage, kale and red onion pizza pie..with a dusting of chile peppers while I asked for the Margherita with prosciutto di parma…..here they come delicate thin crust with hand curled crusted edge….oh my god …they have hit the jackpot…no need to fly to New York anymore for pizza,,,it's here and it's goooooood!
We split a fresh Rhubarb pie with vanilla gelato and cappuccinos and talked to Charlie a bit (with his young daughter hanging off his neck…..what a perfect finish to a fabulous dinner!
Purple Gene gives Pizzaiolo ("Charlie's Place" to me) 9 perfect pizza pie pans out of 10…all that was missing was a little extra cheese and I'll ask for that next time…then it will be a 10 !!!!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then the movie 'We Were Soldiers'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Crossing Jordan'.
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'RERUN'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a RERUN'reba', followed by another RERUN'reba', then a RERUN'Charmed', followed by another RERUN'Charmed'.
Faux on the East Coast has LIVE'Indy 500', then fills prrimetime on the left coast with has an old 'Cops', followed by an old 'Mariied With Children', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then an old 'Married With Children', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by another old 'Alias'.
A&E has 'Sell This House', another 'Sell This House', 'Flip This House', another 'Flip This House', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'First Blood', followed by the movie 'Halls Of Montezuma', then the movie 'The Great Escape'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Ramsay's Boiling Point' - Episode 5;
[2:30pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 1;
[3pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 2;
[3:30pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 3;
[4pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 4;
[4:30pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 5;
[5pm] 'Beyond Boiling Point' - Episode 6;
[5:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Carmarthen;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Derby 6;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Ardingly 18;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 6;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic';
[10pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[11pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 9;
[12am] 'Dress To Kill';
[3am] 'What Not To Wear';
[4am] 'My Hero' - A Sporting Chance;
[4:40am] 'My Hero' - Living Dead;
[5:20am] 'My Hero' - Taking the Credity;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio', and yet another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Bad Santa', followed by the movie 'Super Troopers'.
IFC -
[6AM] Mediterraneo;
[7:30AM] Samurai 7 Episode #9: The Bandits;
[8AM] Spring Forward;
[10AM] Johnny Stecchino;
[11:45AM] SXSW: Behind the Badge;
[12:15PM] Trust;
[2:15PM] Spring Forward;
[4:15PM] Johnny Stecchino;
[6PM] Trust;
[8PM] Your Friends & Neighbors;
[9:45PM] Below;
[11:35PM] The Loss Of Sexual Innocence;
[1:25AM] Your Friends & Neighbors;
[3:15AM] Below;
[5:15AM] Running With The Bulls. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'Locusts: The 8th Plague', followed by the movie 'Mansquito'.
Sundance -
[7:05AM] Theo & Thea (and the 7 Dwarfs);
[9AM] The Yes Men;
[10:25AM] A Good Man in Africa;
[12PM] Hairspray;
[1:35PM] El Inmortal;
[3PM] Kath & Kim: Wedding;
[3:30PM] Very Annie Mary;
[5:15PM] The Border;
[7:05PM] In the Edges: the Grizzly Man Session;
[8PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 3: Rarer Monsters;
[9PM] Monkey Dust: Episode 6;
[9:30PM] Kath & Kim: Wedding;
[10PM] Very Annie Mary;
[11:45PM] Afterschool Delight;
[12AM] Audition;
[2AM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 3: Rarer Monsters;
[3AM] Monkey Dust: Episode 6;
[3:30AM] Raggedy Man;
[5:05AM] Hairspray. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Cheech Marin, center, poses with his family as he arrives for the premiere of the Disney/Pixar animated film 'Cars' at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Friday, May 26, 2006. Posing with Marin is his wife, Patti Heid, right, his daughter Jasmine, bottom left, others are unidentified.
Photo by Terry Renna
A party for author Toni Morrison drew personalities including former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where she taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.
During the Friday ceremony at the Time Warner Center, which was planned before her announcement but at times felt like a retirement party, Morrison was honored and praised for her literary contributions.
"You can be laughing or crying, mad or happy, full of pride or covered in shame," Clinton, who Morrison once called America's "first black president," told the crowd about Morrison's works, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported in Saturday's editions.
Morrison, an Ohio native who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford, began writing in 1970. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Some of her other works, including "Jazz," "Song of Solomon," and "The Bluest Eye" have won her worldwide acclaim.
A volunteer helps placing memorial crosses on the Santa Monica beach next to the Santa Monica Pier, in Santa Monica, Calif., during the Memorial Day weekend Saturday May 27, 2006. Veterans for Peace, Los Angeles Chapter, organized a commemoration honoring the troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan installing 2,758 Memorial Crosses, Stars of David, and Muslim Crescents.
Photo by Stefano Paltera
Myanmar's military junta imposed another year of house arrest on opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday despite stiff international pressure for her release, a government source said.
As her previous six-month term of detention expired, the former Burma's ruling generals quashed hopes the 60-year-old would be freed by stepping up security outside her Yangon home. Armed police and barricades prevented any traffic from passing.
The source, who asked not to be identified, said a military official had visited Suu Kyi on Friday to discuss conditions the junta wanted to attach to her release -- in all probability restrictions on her freedom of movement, the source said.
The FBI searched the home of a paparazzi agency's co-owner to determine whether someone tried to hack into the computers of the gossip magazine Us Weekly, it was reported Friday.
FBI agents on Tuesday seized at least one computer while searching Jill Ishkanian's home in the Topanga Canyon area, her spokesman, Glenn Feldman, told the Los Angeles Times.
Ishkanian, 41, is a former West Coast editor of Us Weekly. She left the magazine to form Sunset Photo and News with two other investors.
In what was arguably the most anticipated delivery in the world, Angelina Jolie gave birth to Brad Pitt's daughter Saturday in Africa, Pitt's publicist announced.
"The night of May 27, 2006 in Namibia, Africa, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. No further information is being given," publicist Cindy Guagenti said in a statement.
Italian fashion designers Stefano Gabbana (L) and Domenico Dolce (R) pose with Italian television host Simona Ventura at the Dolce & Gabbana party during the 59th Cannes Film Festival in France May 26, 2006.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Driving Public Art Project From Alaska To Argentina
Pablo Helguera
It began as the dream of 19th century utopians across the Americas: could their young republics achieve a form of cultural integration?
Their faded vision has long fascinated Mexican artist Pablo Helguera, who is revisiting those Pan-American musings to structure a wildly ambitious idea of his own.
With a roving public art project packed in a van, Helguera set out recently to drive from Alaska to Argentina, stopping to host events in more than 20 countries. Dozens of cultural organizations across the hemisphere have helped develop a series of discussions, performances and screenings - all offering alternative perspectives on the Americas.
Christian Brando, held in contempt of court for his behavior during the Robert Blake civil trial, apologized profusely to a judge Friday, saying "I have to watch my mouth." He was fined $1,000.
Superior Court Judge David M. Schacter said that jurors in the civil trial reported to him that Brando mouthed words when he left the stand including "He did it" and an expletive.
"This interfered with the processes of the court," said Schacter. He ordered Brando to either defend himself or apologize.
A bottlenose dolphin baby swims with its mother the day after their public presentation at Barcelona's Zoo May 26, 2006. Two female bottlenose dolphins had babies this spring.
Photo by Albert Gea
Michael Jackson made his first public appearance since being acquitted on child molestation charges, choking up as he thanked Japanese fans at an award ceremony Saturday.
The pop star was to visit orphanages, tour Tokyo and meet with businessmen during his trip to Japan, said Broderick D. Morris, chief executive of Positive Productions Yokohama, an entertainment promotions company.
Jackson arrived Friday night with his three children and will stay through Wednesday on the first leg of a swing through Asia that will include stops in Singapore, Shanghai, China and Hong Kong.
Puppets designed by Spanish artist Joan Miro parade across the Millennium Bridge with their entourage over the river Thames as part of Surrealist Saturday in London May 27, 2006. The puppets are exact replicas of those designed by Miro in 1978, and form part of a satirical play 'Merma Never Dies' being performed at the Tate Modern museum in London.
Photo by Luke MacGregor
A bunch of thieves in Florida may be in for a serious dose of bad karma after they made off with a 270-kilogram (600 pound) Buddha statue from a Japanese restaurant in southeastern Florida.
"I don't think they're going to have good luck," the distraught restaurant owner said. "It can't be good luck to steal the Buddha," Ako Tarallo told AFP.
Tarallo believes it would have taken at least three thieves to carry off the heavy sculpture.
This undated photo provided by the International Bird Rescue Research Center, shows an X-ray taken Sunday, May 21, 2006, of an injured duck with a broken wing. The International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia. Calif., plans to raise funds with an unusual duck X-ray, which they say shows the clear image of what appears to be the face, or head, of an extraterrestrial alien in the bird's stomach. Unfortunately, the duck died quickly and quietly of its injuries.
Photo by Marie Travers
An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.
Gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
This photo provided by the Christian Broadcasting Network shows religious broadcaster Pat Robertson leg pressing what is claimed to be 2,000 pounds at the fitness center at the Founders Inn on Regent University campus in Virginia Beach, Va., Feb. 1, 2003. A CBN spokesman claims the photo is from 2003 even though the date stamp on the photo says 8/1/1994.
Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials needed to build a cloak.
The keys are special manmade materials, unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. These materials are intended to steer light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation around an object, rendering it as invisible as something tucked into a hole in space.
"Is it science fiction? Well, it's theory and that already is not science fiction. It's theoretically possible to do all these Harry Potter things, but what's standing in the way is our engineering capabilities," said John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College London.
Academy Award-winning set designer Henry Bumstead has died at age 91, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
Bumstead, who worked on more than 100 films during a nearly 70-year career, won Oscars for production design for the 1962 drama "To Kill a Mockingbird" and the 1973 comedy "The Sting."
He also was an Oscar nominee for the 1958 thriller "Vertigo" and actor and director Clint Eastwood's 1992 western "Unforgiven."
Bumstead and Eastwood collaborated on 13 films, starting with the John Sturges-directed 1972 western "Joe Kidd."
During work on Eastwood's 2004 Oscar-winning drama "Million Dollar Baby," Bumstead learned he had prostate cancer, reportedly the cause of his death, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A ring-tailed lemur baby clings to its parent at Barcelona's Zoo May 26, 2006. Three female ring-tailed lemurs had babies this spring.
Photo by Albert Gea
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