Bennet Kelley: 'Conservative books for dummies: Becoming a conservative author in eight easy steps' (huffingtonpost.com)
You too can become a best-selling author of conservative books in eight easy steps -- really. This is made possible by conservative publishers applying the lessons of Henry Ford's assembly-line production to the publishing industry by following a proven formula to churn out book after book, each guaranteed early best-seller status through bulk sales to conservative groups.
Roger Ebert: A Prairie Home Companion (PG-13; 4 Stars)
What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound. Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" is faithful to the spirit of the radio program, a spirit both robust and fragile, and yet achieves something more than simply reproducing a performance of the show. It is nothing less than an elegy, a memorial to memories of times gone by, to dreams that died but left the dreamers dreaming, to appreciating what you've had instead of insisting on more.
ROGER EBERT: Cars (3 Stars)
I wouldn't have thought that even in animation a 1951 Hudson Hornet could look simultaneously like itself and like Paul Newman, but you will witness that feat, and others, in "Cars." This is the new animated feature by John Lasseter ("Toy Story," "A Bug's Life"); it tells a bright and cheery story, and then has a little something profound lurking around the edges. In this case, it's a sense of loss.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the LIVE'Tony Awards' (tape-delayed & edited on the left coast).
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then the 3rd RERUN (in 4 days) of 'Windfall'.
ABC begins the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'.
The WB offers a RERUN'reba', followed by another RERUN'reba', then a RERUN'Charmed', followed by another RERUN'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'War At Home', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has has 'Sell This House!, another 'Sell This House!', 'Flip This House', 'Road Warriors: The Biker Brotherhood', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'M*A*S*H', followed by the movie 'M*A*S*H', again, then the movie 'The Enemy Below'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] 'Prince William and Harry';
[3:00 pm] 'Queen and Country' - Ep 1 Servant of the People;
[4:00 pm] 'Queen and Country' - Ep 2 Private Passions;
[5:00 pm] 'Queen and Country' - Ep 3 Enduring Loyalties;
[6:00 pm] 'Queen and Country' - Ep 4 My Government & I;
[7:00 pm] 'HM The Queen A Remarkable Life';
[10:00 pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 2;
[1:00 am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 2;
[2:00 am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 6;
[3:00 am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[3:40 am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 2;
[4:20 am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[5:00 am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 1 Hell;
[5:30 am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 2 Think Fast, Father;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Tom Hanks), and yet another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has has 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', 'JeffDunham: Arguing With Myself', then the movie 'Joe Dirt'.
History has has 'The Revolution', 'Hell: The Devil's Domain', and 'The Revolution'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Blue Car;
[7:30 AM] Va Savoir;
[10:05 AM] Hoop Dreams;
[1:00 PM] Circle of Friends;
[2:45 PM] Va Savoir;
[5:30 PM] At The IFC Center #14;
[6:00 PM] Samurai 7 Episode #10: "The Journey";
[6:30 PM] Samurai 7 Episode #11: "The Village";
[7:15 PM] Circle of Friends;
[9:00 PM Confessions of a Dangerous Mind;
[11:00 PM]] The Hard Word;
[1:00 AM] She's Gotta Have It;
[2:30 AM] June Media Lab Results;
[3:00 AM] The Hard Word;
[4:45 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: June;
[5:45 AM] IFC In Theaters. (ALL TIMES EDT)
MTV has the pre-taped & edited, but FRESH, '2006 MTV Movie Awards'.
SciFi has has the movie 'Arabian Nights', followed by the movie 'Arabian Nights', again.
Sundance -
[07:00 AM] Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story;
[08:30 AM] Commandments;
[10:00 AM] The Origins of AIDS;
[11:35 AM] Underdog;
[12:00 PM] Mr. Reliable;
[02:00 PM] Original Child Bomb;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim: Gay;
[03:30 PM] King of the Hill;
[05:15 PM] Sea Horses;
[05:45 PM] Le Confessional;
[07:30 PM] Underdog;
[08:00 PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 5: Steeped in Blood;
[09:00 PM] Food;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim: Gay;
[10:00 PM] An Awfully Big Adventure;
[12:00 AM] Ju-On;
[01:35 AM] Ryan;
[02:00 AM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 5: Steeped in Blood;
[03:00 AM] Adultre, Mode D' Emploi;
[04:35 AM] Puberty Blues. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Singer Joan Baez looks up as farm leader Rufina Juarezas takes over a vigil in a tree from activist Julia 'Butterfly' Hill, who descends after a 19-day stay and 26-day fast Saturday, June 10, 2006, at a 14-acre urban farm in south Los Angeles. Hundreds of farmers could face evictions after The Trust for Public Land, given the chance to buy 10 acres of the site, came up $10 million short in its bid when its option expired. Recently, the Annenberg Foundation offered to purchase the plot.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Famous tree-sitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down to earth Saturday at an urban garden that is under threat of development. Hill ended 19 days aloft in a walnut tree and also broke a 26-day water-only fast.
Her place was taken by Rufina Juarez, a farm representative.
Hill, who gained fame by living for more than two years in a California redwood, said she remained at the garden until replacements were trained to allow "the community to shine its own brilliance."
Red Skelton always wanted a theater of his own. His career spanned six decades and four genres - vaudeville, radio, movies and television - but the rubber-faced comic never owned one of the buildings he often called "palaces."
Nine years after his death, hundreds of clowns paraded through his southwestern Indiana hometown Saturday to celebrate Skelton's legacy and the theater that finally bears his name: Vincennes University's Red Skelton Performing Arts Center.
The weekend-long celebration in Vincennes, about 50 miles north of Evansville, Ind., kicked off a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign to build a Red Skelton museum that organizers hope to fill with the actor's scripts, costumes, songs, writings, paintings and props.
"His legacy is a clown of all times," said comedian Tom Smothers, who played the buffoon foil to his brother Dick as part of The Smothers Brothers, who headlined Saturday's gala honoring Skelton.
Lothian Skelton, widow of Red Skelton, watches a parade of clowns to honor her late husband in Vincennes, Ind., Saturday, June 10, 2006. Hundreds of clowns took to the streets of Skelton's hometown Saturday, celebrating his legacy and a newly constructed theater bearing his name.
Photo by Darron Cummings
President John F. Kennedy's personal archives will go online under an ambitious government project that will make it the first full presidential collection to be made accessible to Web surfers around the globe.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston said on Friday that it planned to turn millions of documents, photos and audio recordings of the slain leader into a digital library that can be accessed over the Web.
It will take more than a decade to complete the project.
The song "Dirty Water" blares at Fenway Park after every Red Sox victory and has become part of the winning soundtrack of baseball-crazy Massachusetts. The band that wrote the 1966 hit says it is used in Budweiser commercials, and the rock 'n' rollers are none too happy.
The Standells filed a federal lawsuit last week claiming that Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. used "Dirty Water" without permission in commercials to try to tap into the song's connection to the team.
The Los Angeles-based Standells had their first taste of fame with "Dirty Water," which hit No. 11 on Billboard's Top 40 chart. The song is an ode to Boston and its once infamously polluted waterways.
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" ranks as the most controversial film of all time, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Coming in second is Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange." Kubrick's 1971 futuristic film is famous for a violent scene during which "Singin' in the Rain" is played. Reports of copycat crimes led to the movie's withdrawal from distribution in Britain.
Oliver Stone has the unique distinction of landing twice on the list: 1991's "JFK," ranked at No. 5, and 1994's "Natural Born Killers," at No. 8.
Comedic legend Jerry Lewis holds a glass in his mouth during the Friars Club celebrity roast in his honor Friday, June 9, 2006 in New York City. Lewis has been 'roasted' previously in 1971, 1986 and also in 1955 with then-partner Dean Martin.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Aspiring to give classical music collectors the same technological edge that today's pop music fans now enjoy, Fortuna Classical Music has introduced the Maestro -- billed as the first digital music player designed specifically for the genre.
The Maestro can store up to 3,600 CDs in the system, which users may then classify and organize by such standard classical definitions as composer, conductor, performer, ensemble, instrument, period, work and act.
Included in the $5,000 price tag: Fortuna will load up to 1,000 CDs and the entire booklet of each, not just the cover art, provided by the customer. Each additional CD will cost $3.
Alternatively, customers can opt for a device preloaded with 5,000 tracks from Naxos' Cornerstone Collection in lieu of the CD-scanning service. Those who want the 5,000-track collection and the 1,000-CD scanning service can do so for an extra $3,000.
A federal judge set a retrial date for the Notorious B.I.G. wrongful death lawsuit against the city after reversing her position that the attorney for the slain rapper's family had misled the court.
Thursday's ruling came weeks after the judge had said she was "absolutely deceived" by plaintiffs' attorney Perry Sanders when he claimed he received an 11th-hour tip that the city withheld documents that could bolster his contention that rogue police officers were involved in the killing.
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ordered both sides to continue the information-sharing process in preparation for the retrial set to begin October 16.
Paris Hilton had a fender-bender accident when her Range Rover backed into a car in a parking garage after a shopping trip, her publicist said Friday.
Hilton backed into a parked Honda Civic on Thursday. A videotape on the TMZ.com Web site showed Hilton getting into the car, saying goodbye to someone and backing up. The sound of a crash followed.
The Range Rover stopped briefly then continued on toward the exit of the parking structure.
Reggae star Cham's hot new tune "Ghetto Story" explicitly describes the poverty raging through Jamaica, and has been banned in its homeland.
"Ghetto Story" isn't Cham's first song to draw the government's ire. Both of his earlier tracks, "Desperate Measure" and "Ghetto Play," were banned, as was Bounty Killer's "Anytime," which Cham wrote with longtime producer buddy Dave Kelly.
"The government wrote me," Cham says regarding "Ghetto Play." "I was saying to give me the country to run for a day. And they said, 'We need to stop the bashing of the government.' That's not bashing, it's just showing up the government. There's no free speech there. They say you have free speech, but it's not free speech."
The USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' is seen off Castle Island in Boston following a 21-gun salute, Saturday, June 10, 2006, during Boston Navy Week activities. The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. The Friendship, of Salem, Mass., at back left, is a recreation of a East India merchant trading vessel that sailed from Salem to China in the late 1800's.
Photo by Lisa Poole
A British archaeologist on Friday rejected claims that a hill in central Bosnia is a man-made structure that many local residents insist is a pyramid.
Professor Anthony Harding, who is president of the European Association of Archaeologists, visited Visocica hill and said the formation was natural.
The pyramid theory was launched by an amateur researcher last year but it has been disputed by a number of local and international experts, who claim that at no time in Bosnia's history did the region have a civilization able to build monumental structures. They say the hill is simply a strange natural formation.
An unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan peers from beneath a hooded mask at a Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday, June 10, 2006 at the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. About 30 people, some in white robes and others in the military-style clothing and swastika armbands of the National Socialist Movement of America, stood next to a farmhouse on the battlefield.
Photo by Matt Houston
A black bear picked the wrong yard for a jaunt, running into a territorial tabby who ran the furry beast up a tree - twice.
Jack, a 15-pound orange and white cat, keeps a close vigil on his property, often chasing small animals, but his owners and neighbors say his latest escapade was surprising.
Neighbor Suzanne Giovanetti first spotted Jack's accomplishment after her husband saw a bear climb a tree on the edge of their northern New Jersey property on Sunday. Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat.
An okapi walks through a forest in Ituri Reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in this undated handout picture. Delighted conservationists said on June 9, 2006 that they had 'rediscovered' the rare giraffe-like creature in DRC's Virunga National Park which has defied the odds of survival in a region battered by savage conflict.
Photo by Peter J. Stephenson
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