Andrew Tobias: PARDON (andrewtobias.com)
Here's the thing: if you're gonna be the fall guy, you gotta actually take the fall. I'm sure Scooter Libby is a nice man who worked hard for his client and - many suspect - has loyally protected higher ups in the White House. You can see why they wouldn't want him to serve time for serving them. But if the game is that, as President, you can do something really bad, get someone to take the fall, and then commute that someone's sentence, you can basically just do anything with impunity.
Will Durst: - It's His Government
I got your checks and balances right here. Well, right there, under Dick Cheney's foot, holding hands with individual liberties, writhing in their death throes.
Roger Ebert: Answer Man
There's something so quirky and personal about Tarantino's style that even when he's ripping off an old movie, you say "That's a Tarantino shot!" As I tirelessly repeat, it's not what the film is about, but how it's about it.
Roger Ebert: "Joel Siegel: In Memory"
Joel Siegel, the "Good Morning, America" film critic, was a brave man, and a hell of a nice guy. Diagnosed with colon cancer in 1997, two weeks before he learned he was about to become a father, he was given a 60 percent chance of living long enough to see his child. But he fought those odds for a decade, and once told me, "I've gone up one side of the bell curve and down the other side, and am now advancing into enemy territory."
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 8', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour '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 an old 'Reba', followed by another old 'Reba', then a RERUN'7th Heaven', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'The War At Home', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has the movie 'Waiting To Exhale', followed by the movie 'What Lies Below'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', and 'Harry Potter: The Hidden Secrets'.
AMC offers the movie 'Bounce', followed by the movie 'There's Something About Mary', then the movie 'There's Something About Mary', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[1:00 PM] The Gil Mayo Mysteries - Episode 1;
[2:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 Kim Cattrall and Elijah Wood;
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's;
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riveria;
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate;
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 The Taxman Cometh;
[8:00 PM] Essex Boys - Essex Boys;
[10:00 PM] Being the Sexiest - Being The Sexiest;
[11:00 PM] Essex Boys - Essex Boys;
[1:00 AM] Being the Sexiest - Being The Sexiest;
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 The Taxman Cometh;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 1 Doncaster;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 2 Northumberland;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Newmarket;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 18 Ardingly;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 26 Rabbitts;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 27 Mitchell;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Coming To America', followed by 'Larry The Cable Guy': Morning Constitutions', followed by a FRESH'Mind Of Mencia', then the SERIES PREMIERE'American Body Shop'.
FX has the movie 'The Hot Chick', followed by the movie 'Are We There Yet?', then the movie 'White Chicks'.
IFC -
[06:55 AM] IFC News Special;
[07:05 AM] The Legend of 1900;
[09:20 AM] In America;
[11:15 AM] Hilary and Jackie;
[01:20 PM] Media Lab Results;
[01:30 PM] The Legend of 1900;
[03:40 PM] In America;
[05:30 PM] The Eye;
[07:10 PM] Broken Lizard's Club Dread;
[09:00 PM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[10:35 PM] Habit;
[12:30 AM] The Boost;
[02:15 AM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[03:50 AM] Habit;
[05:50 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Casper', followed by the movie 'Bruce Almighty'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid;
[06:00 AM] Blog Wars;
[08:00 AM] The Announcement;
[08:00 AM] Inside Out;
[09:00 AM] The Moon;
[09:00 AM] Obsession;
[10:00 AM] My Boyfriend;
[10:00 AM] Another Announcement;
[11:00 AM] The Shower;
[11:00 AM] Hideous Truth;
[12:00 PM] Hail, Hail Rock 'N' Roll;
[02:00 PM] In Short: Israel 1;
[03:00 PM] Work;
[03:00 PM] Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox;
[05:00 PM] Work;
[05:00 PM] Kadosh;
[07:00 PM] Face (2002);
[09:00 PM] Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons, Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot;
[10:00 PM] Close Your Eyes;
[11:00 PM] X2000;
[12:00 AM] Unborn But Forgotten;
[01:00 AM] Sabbath Entertainment;
[02:00 AM] Episode 1;
[03:00 AM] At Play In the Fields of the Lord. (ALL TIMES EDT)
A backup singer dances while U.S. singer Macy Gray performs during the Live Earth concert at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 7, 2007. Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and his global partners are staging the Live Earth concerts held on seven continents simultaneously to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Photo by Bruno Domingos
Nearly half of the US public wants resident George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday.
The survey by the American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46 percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney.
The study by the private New Hampshire-based ARG canvassed 1,100 Americans by telephone July 3-5 and had an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points. The findings are available on ARG's Internet site.
English anthropologist Jane Goodall waves as she takes the stage during the Live Earth New York concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey, July 7, 2007. Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and global partners are staging the Live Earth concerts held on seven continents simultaneously to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Photo by Mike Segar
Major League Baseball has limited ESPN's access to Tuesday night's All-Star Game after the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players' selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed telecast on TBS.
Baseball executives told ESPN that it must pare its broadcast efforts from AT&T Park in San Francisco, where the All-Star Game will take place Tuesday (July 10). Most of the network's coverage will originate from ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Conn., rather than having "Baseball Tonight" and a portion of "SportsCenter" originate from California, as planned.
ESPN doesn't have the rights to carry the All-Star Game -- those are Fox Sports' -- and doesn't have the rights to carry an All-Star selection show. Those went to TBS as part of the new rights deal with Turner Broadcasting. ESPN had previously produced the selection show.
Sources said MLB was angered after ESPN's "SportsCenter" on Sunday reported the National League rosters using an Associated Press story and the entire NL and American League rosters a few minutes after they were unveiled on TBS. No media outlet was allowed to disclose the names until after the Turner show. Fans pick the starting players through a weeks-long voting process.
Spinal Tap are joined by Metallica on stage at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London, July 7, 2007. Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and his global partners are staging the Live Earth concerts held on seven continents simultaneously to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Photo by Stephen Hird
Everything oldies is new again. WCBS-FM, the nation's No. 1 oldies station for more than three decades until a 2005 switch, is ready to shift from its current "Jack" format and re-embrace the classic sounds of its past, according to online reports.
CBS Radio, owner of the station, declined to comment on the much rumored change.
Oldies fans were outraged when WCBS - which began as an oldies station in 1972 - abandoned that music without warning for the jukebox-style "Jack" format June 3, 2005. Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" faded out and the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right" announced the drastic changeover.
At the time of the switch, WCBS was eighth in the New York Arbitron ratings. The most recent numbers released, for the January-March period, showed the Jacked-up version of the station sitting in 16th place. The station's revenues had also dropped.
The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
Jordan's Petra was the seventh winner. Peru's Machu Picchu, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid also made the cut.
The seven beat out 14 other nominated landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, Easter Island in the Pacific, the Statue of Liberty, the Acropolis, Russia's Kremlin and Australia's Sydney Opera House.
Brazil's singer Xuxa, right, performs during the Live Earth concert at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, July 7, 2007. A last-minute bid to shut down South America's Live Earth concert failed when a judge ruled against a prosecutor who argued that safety can't be guaranteed for an audience of 700,000 on Copacabana beach, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
Photo by Silvia Izquierdo
If metal fans were pleased to get tickets to this year's free Ozzfest in the first place, Sharon Osbourne and the tour's other organizers are hatching plans to make them even happier once they get in the door.
Osbourne, the wife and manager of tour namesake Ozzy Osbourne, told Billboard.com that about 3,000 tickets for each of the 24 shows -- which begin Thursday in Auburn, Wash. -- have been held back in order to provide upgraded seating for fans. Those will include reserved pavilion locations and even some seats that are actually on the stage, she said.
"On the day of the show you can get to different booths, enter a lottery and get upgraded," Osbourne said. "We'll be upgrading throughout the day, 3,000 people. That's a lot of people to upgrade."
Osbourne added that the upgrades will be handled in a manner that places a premium on arriving early for the show, although this year's Ozzfest will begin at noon, rather than the 10 a.m. or earlier, as in previous years. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m.
Fred Thompson (R-Insider) gained an image as a tough-minded investigative counsel for the Senate Watergate committee. Yet President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not too bright, ally, according to White House tapes.
Thompson, now preparing a bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, won fame in 1973 for asking a committee witness the bombshell question that revealed Nixon had installed hidden listening devices and taping equipment in the Oval Office.
Those tapes show Thompson played a behind-the-scenes role that was very different from his public image three decades ago. He comes across as a partisan willing to cooperate with the Nixon White House's effort to discredit the committee's star witness.
It was Thompson who tipped off the White House that the Senate committee knew about the tapes. They eventually cinched Nixon's downfall in the scandal resulting from the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington and the subsequent White House cover-up.
A member of the audience holds a globe of the world with a toy dove attached to it during Brazilian singer Xuxa Menegel's performance at the Live Earth concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 7, 2007. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and his global partners are staging the Live Earth concerts held on seven continents simultaneously to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Photo by Bruno Domingos
No longer breaking stories in high heels and skimpy outfits, Lauren Jones has signed off from the KYTX-TV "Eye of East Texas" news team and returned to modeling swimsuits.
Rival stations in Tyler weren't entertained by the monthlong ratings stunt by Jones, the star behind the upcoming Fox reality show "Anchorwoman" and a former hostess for World Wrestling Entertainment.
She spent June traipsing around the east Texas city in tight tops and a miniskirt, hunting down scoops for the CBS affiliate. Her on-air reports, which included toeing through penguin droppings at the zoo in stiletto heels, are intended to get laughs when "Anchorwoman" premieres Aug. 21.
Baby giant anteater Alexandro clings to the back of his mother Chakira at an enclosure at Dormund zoo July 6, 2007. Alexandro was born at the zoo on July 3.
A top Panamanian prosecutor said tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol since July 2006 and that 293 more deaths are under investigation.
Previously Panamanian authorities had confirmed only 51 deaths from the medicine.
A chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid, diethylene glycol was used in cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment made in a Panama government laboratory.
Investigations revealed the chemical was made by a Chinese company that fraudulently passed it off as 99.5 percent pure glycerin, a sweetener commonly used in drugs, to a Spanish company. That company sold it to Panama's Medicom SA, which sold it to a government laboratory.
Belarussian sportsmen perform during a celebration marking Independence Day in Minsk, July 3, 2007. President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday Belarus would disregard its economic rows with Russia and work closer with Moscow to counter U.S. plans to erect an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe. Belarus marks Independence Day on July 3, the day Soviet troops freed Minsk from Nazi forces in 1944.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
Ireland's top bookmaker, Paddy Power PLC, paid out more than $13,500 on Friday to people who bet that Al Gore would be arrested. Trouble was, the company neglected to specify which one.
The former U.S. vice president and global-warming activist was rated as a 14-to-1 outsider in a list of American celebrities likely to be arrested next. On Wednesday - the day after the betting went live on Paddy Power's Web site - Gore's 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was arrested and charged with illegally possessing marijuana and prescription drugs.
Paddy Power said it was paying out winnings to about 50 people, because it had failed to identify which Gore it meant. "We got a good stoning," the Dublin-based company said in a statement.
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