Terry Savage: How Bank Accounts of the Future Will Cost You (creators.com)
Once upon a time, the banks wanted your business so badly they actually gave you a free toaster as an incentive to make a deposit. That's a time few remember - a tale told by elders to amuse the younger generation. It's one thing to stop giving incentives; it's quite another to start charging you for the privilege of depositing your money. Yet that's just what's around the corner - the end of free checking, free cashier's checks and the pittance of interest you might be getting if you leave a balance in your checking account.
"Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England" by Anthony Julius: A review by Adam Kirsch
Of all the qualities that Anthony Julius displays in 'Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England' -- intellectual force, extensive erudition, a lucid prose style -- the most admirable is surely his moral fortitude. For to write this encyclopedic study, which covers almost a thousand years of English history, Julius had to expose himself to an endless series of hateful lies about his own people.
CARYN ROUSSEAU: "Roger Ebert Not Eating, But Still Cooking: Famed Film Critic Pens Cookbook" (huffingtonpost.com)
Cancer may have robbed Roger Ebert of the ability to eat, but it won't stop him from dishing out cooking advice. Four years after cancer surgery left the famed film critic unable to speak or eat, Ebert is publishing a cookbook dedicated to rice cookers, a kitchen appliance he lovingly calls "The Pot" and champions as an answer for those strapped for cash, time and counter space.
What was Stanley Kubrick's last black and white film?
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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mj was first, and correct, with:
I'm going with
Dr. Strangelove.
And you can mention to B2TBB that Tyler had nothing on James Doohan (Scotty of ST:TOS). He became a father a couple of months shy of his 80th birthday.
Alan J replied:
Dr. Strangelove
Marian the Teacher wrote:
Dr. Strangelove
Sally said:
Happy July 4th to Marty and all the BCE readers!!
It's so freaking hot here today (and forecast to be all next week) that I am going to guess,
"Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb" ( 1964) was his last film in B&W.
PS: Mmmmmm, PBJ with olives - I like cream cheese with my olives JoeS - I'm just saying... :)
Charlie answered:
Dr. Strangelove (Easy to guess, but I double-checked)
Purity Of Essence
MAM wrote:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
And, Joe S ("If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
~ Stanley Kubrick) responded:
Dr. Strangeglove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying etc., etc.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'I Get That A Lot', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by the FRESH'The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by the FRESH'Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Special', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
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'Scoundrels', followed by a RERUN'The Gates'.
The CW fills the night with the movie Agent Cody Banks'.
Faux has a FRESH'Sons Of Tucson', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland Show', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'McLintock!', followed by the movie 'The Cowboys'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 19 The Nth Degree
[1:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 20 Qpid
[2:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 21 The Drumhead
[3:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Half a Life
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 The Host
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 The Mind's Eye
[6:00 PM] Serpent
[7:00 PM] Hammerhead
[8:00 PM] GoldenEye
[10:30 PM] James May's Toy Stories - Ep 1 Lego
[11:30 PM] GoldenEye
[2:00 AM] GoldenEye
[4:30 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Lewis Black: Back On Broadway', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat...I'm Fluffy', 'Sinbad: Where U Been', and 'Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 3', followed by the movie '21'.
History has 'America The Story Of Us', 'Top Shot', another "Top Shot', and still another .'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[7:15 AM] Solaris
[9:00 AM] Sorry, Haters
[10:35 AM] Trans
[12:00 PM] Dinner With the Band
[12:30 PM] Dinner With the Band
[1:00 PM] Dinner With the Band
[1:30 PM] Dinner With the Band
[1:55 PM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[2:50 PM] Trans
[4:15 PM] The Young Americans
[6:00 PM] Southern Comfort
[7:55 PM] Lord of War
[10:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[10:30 PM] Food Party
[10:45 PM] Food Party
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:00 AM] Southern Comfort
[1:50 AM] At the End of the Sentence
[2:00 AM] Lord of War
[4:05 AM] The Young Americans
[5:55 AM] Sorry, Haters (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:30 AM] The Talent Given Us
[8:15 AM] Caramel
[10:00 AM] THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST - Lazy Make-up Artist/Lazy Exterminator (Season 2, Episode 3)
[10:30 AM] Flow: For The Love Of Water
[12:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra (Episode 3, Season 3)
[1:00 PM] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Thailand (Episode 1, Season 2)
[1:30 PM] The Talent Given Us
[3:15 PM] Caramel
[4:50 PM] Flow: For The Love Of Water
[6:15 PM] Gretchen
[8:00 PM] A Prairie Home Companion
[9:50 PM] Guide Dog
[10:00 PM] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of
[11:30 PM] Eraserhead
[12:05 AM] A Dirty Shame
[3:00 AM] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of
[5:10 AM] A Prairie Home Companion (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has all 'The Greatest American Hero' all night.
One of Richard Avedon's most defining photographs is of a willowy model adorned in a Dior evening gown, a silk sash cascading down her slender leg, striking a dramatic pose against a row of circus elephants.
It is signature Avedon. Dramatic but playful, an image shot on a hot summer day in 1955 at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris.
An exhibition-size print of the famous picture, "Dovima with elephants," will be sold this fall in Paris, together with more than 60 other photographs, Christie's auction house said Friday. It is estimated to sell for $500,000 to $700,000 (euro 400,000 to 600,000). The total Avedon collection is expected to bring $3.7 million to $6 million (euro 3 million to 5 million).
New York-based Avedon Foundation, the largest repository of Avedon works, is for the first time selling photographs from its archive to establish an endowment to promote the work and legacy of the master fashion photographer and portraitist of such famous people as Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and Malcolm X.
Actress Barbara Eden arrives Friday, July 2, 2010 at The Greenbrier for the gala opening of the Casino Club in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The 100,000sq. ft Casino Club was recently completed below the historic resort.
Photo by Jeff Gentner
Songwriter and singer Carole King has put her 128-acre central Idaho ranch back on the market with a reduced asking price of $16 million.
The Robinson Bar Ranch compound near Stanley includes a 7,300-square-foot lodge, a private residence, a caretaker's home, a professional recording studio, guest cabins and horse barns.
King put the ranch up for sale in 2006 for $19 million. A listing agent says the ranch was taken off the market because of problems with a bridge on a U.S. Forest Service road that has since been repaired.
King retains a condominium in the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum, where she is scheduled to perform with James Taylor on July 12 as part of their "Troubadour Reunion" tour.
Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily reported on Saturday.
Tyson, who was world heavyweight champion from 1986 to 1990, arrived on Friday in Medina with the Canadian Dawa Association for the umrah, or minor pilgrimage, the newspaper Okaz said.
From Medina he will travel on to Mecca and also plans to visit other Saudi cities, it reported.
Tyson, 44, converted to Islam while serving a 10-year prison sentence, later commuted to three years, for raping a US beauty queen in 1991.
Clark County officials say their records show Tonya Harding has married again.
Deputy Auditor Karen Updike told The Columbian newspaper that she issued a marriage license to the 39-year-old Harding and 42-year-old Joseph Jens Price on June 23. She says she remembers the disgraced former Olympian as "a very talented skater."
The auditor's office said it received the signed license back on Tuesday that showed the wedding had taken place.
The paper also says that Pastor Lloyd Ward of the Community Church of God officiated at the wedding. A message left late Friday night for him was not immediately returned.
"The Cove," an Oscar-winning film about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village, opened Saturday around Japan after protests by angry nationalists pressured theaters to cancel earlier showings.
Some of the six small cinemas sold out their initial shows and others were mostly empty. Another 18 are due to begin screening the film at later dates.
At Image Forum, an art theater in Tokyo, about 30 protesters waved Japanese flags and blasted slogans against the film. Police stopped shoving matches between the protesters and a handful of supporters of the showing.
Viewers were undeterred, and the first two showings at the theater were sold out.
In this photo provided by Greenbrier Resort, from left, singer Jessica Simpson, actress Jennifer Garner and actress Brooke Shields attend the gala openingof The Greenbrier Casino Club on Friday, July 2, 2010 in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention.
There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
Moynihan was Nixon's counselor for urban affairs from January 1969 - when Nixon began his presidency - to December 1970. He later served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before New York voters elected him to the Senate.
Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration's Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.
Actress Debbie Reynolds arrives Friday, July 2, 2010 at The Greenbrier for the gala opening of the Casino Club in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The 100,000sq. ft Casino Club was recently completed below the historic resort.
Photo by Jeff Gentner
The father and brother of an actress who starred in the Harry Potter movies have been charged with threatening to kill her.
The 22-year-old Afshan Azad is cast as Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the movie series.
Her father, 54-year-old Abdul Azad and elder brother, 28-year-old Ashraf, are alleged to have threatened her at her home in the northern English city of Manchester on May 21.
Local cosplayers (costumed role playing) pose for photos at Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center in a Paris suburb on Saturday July 3, 2010, as thelargest annual Japan Expo showcasing the country's pop arts and subculture begins for a four-day run. Some 180,000 people are expected to visit the expo, which was first held by Japanese pop culture enthusiasts in France in 2000.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
Fans worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everything from papier-mache to plastic. But a lawbreaker in Colombia gets top prize for most original material: cocaine.
Airports anti-drug chief Col. Jose Piedrahita says that Colombian authorities found the unusual statue during a routine security check by anti-drug agents Friday in a mail warehouse at Bogota's international airport.
The 36-centimeter-high (14-inch-high) statue was inside a box headed for Madrid, Spain. The statue was painted gold with green stripes on the base.
Piedrahita said Saturday that laboratory tests confirmed the cup was made of 11 kilos (24 pounds) of cocaine mixed with acetone or gasoline to make it moldable.
A combination of pictures shows light installations by Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter illuminating the Grossmunster church in Zurich as part of the ZuriFaescht festival July 3, 2010. Held every three years on the first weekend of July, the festival offers air, water and land displays around town.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
A husband and wife took top honors for the second straight year at the annual cherry pit spitting competition in southwestern Michigan.
Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause, of Yuba City, Ariz., spit a pit 51 feet, 3 inches Saturday for his 16th win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Organizers say Krause entered on a motorcycle, dropped to his knees in the spitter's box and ejected the winning pit.
His wife, Marlene, took first place in the women's contest, spitting a pit 34 feet, 6 inches. It was her seventh win.
The Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm, just north of the Indiana border, hosts the event. Orchard owner Herb Teichman launched the competition as a lark 37 years ago, but it now attracts competitors from the U.S. and beyond.
Ilene Woods, the voice of Cinderella in Disney's animated classic, has died. She was 81.
Woods died Thursday of causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in Canoga Park, her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, tells the Los Angeles Times.
Woods was an 18-year-old radio singer in 1948 when she recorded a demo for an upcoming Disney feature. Two days later, Walt Disney himself auditioned her and she went on to voice the title character's speaking and singing parts for 1950's "Cinderella," about a mistreated stepdaughter who finds her Prince Charming.
Woods sang on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows in the 1950s before retiring from show business in the early 1970s.
In addition to her husband of 47 years, she is survived by their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
Veteran Hollywood talent agent Ed Limato, who helped turn actors such as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Kevin Costner into big stars, died on Saturday after being in ill health for some time, according to news reports. He was 73.
In addition to tending his A-list roster, a barefoot Limato also hosted an annual pre-Oscar party that was one of the most desired invites on the awards circuit.
He spent most of his 44-year career at International Creative Management, but also enjoyed a fruitful 10-year tenure at the William Morris Agency in the 1980s. He returned to William Morris in 2007 amid a restructuring shake-up at ICM.
Limato's other clients, whom he famously treated in a paternal manner, included Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Antonio Banderas, Diana Ross, Robert Downey Jr. and Liam Neeson.
14 days old giraffe calf 'Manya', left, inspects the enclose with the family, at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, on Thursday, July 1, 2010.
Photo by Hermann J. Knippertz
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