Connie Schultz: Debate Commission Is No Match for These Girls (Creators Syndicate)
Do we really, in 2012, want girls and young women to see all-male moderators questioning all-male contenders for president of the United States? Speaking of those male candidates, they keep talking about how important women are in this election. How hard is it for them to step up and insist that just one of those millions of women moderate a debate? Surely, they don't want us to think they're rolling their eyes and saying, "Puh-leaze, let's talk about something that matters."
J. Bryan Lowder: "Why Gore Vidal's 'Some Jews & The Gays'" Is Still Relevant (Slate)
When a great writer passes away, I like to mark the occasion by spending a moment with one of his or her texts-it's a way of remembering that powerful words have the ability to transcend mortality, and, less romantically, a quiet means of mourning the fact that no new ones are forthcoming.
Troy Patterson: Gore Vidal Was Less a Novelist Than Our Greatest Literary Figure (Slate)
Was outsidership essential to his art and his aura? Prophesying the decline of empire from an aristocratic distance, firing shots at establishment intellectual fashions from a magisterial perch, he was an ideal critic, and the pieces collected in United States-including a breakdown of best-seller lists, a takedown of Susan Sontag, and a sparkling tribute to Dawn Powell-belong on every reviewer's list of texts to gaze into for inspiration.
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College Bowl was a format of college-level quizbowl run and operated by College Bowl Company, Incorporated. College Bowl first aired on US radio stations in 1953, and aired on US television from 1959 to 1970.
Though a pilot was shot in the spring of 1955, the game did not move to television until 1959. As G.E. College Bowl with General Electric as the primary sponsor, the show ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963, and moved back to NBC from 1963 to 1970. Allen Ludden was the original host, but left to do Password full-time in 1962. Robert Earle was moderator for the rest of the run.
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BttbBob was first, and correct, with:
Betty White's main squeeze from 1963 until his death in 1981...
Allen Ludden...
Better known, of course, for...
What a crew there, eh? Betty, Jack and Tony...
Marian wrote:
Allen Ludden
Alan J replied:
Allen Ludden
Charlie responded:
Allen Packard Ellsworth (Allen Ludden)
Sally said:
Allen Ludden was the original host of TV's G.E. College Bowl.
I remember this show from the RADIO, back when people valued brains over sports. Great show!
Cat Bowl ;)
Adam answered:
Betty White's main squeeze, Allen Ludden.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Allen Ludden was the original host, but left to do Password full-time in 1962
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Allen Ludden (best known for hosting "Password") as host.
And, Joe S answered:
Though a pilot was shot in the spring of 1955, the game did not move to television until 1959. As G.E. College Bowl with General Electric as the primary sponsor, the show ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963, and moved back to NBC from 1963 to 1970. Allen Ludden was the original host, but left to do Password full-time in 1962. Robert Earle was moderator for the rest of the run.
I remember watching this and I've only known Allen Ludden as the host. I joined the Air Force in 1962 and never watched the show after that.
I'm really excited! Sunday our granddaughters will be here. Can't wait. Ain't they cute?
Yosemite's Lost Valley Will Be Subject of Vote - ABC News I hiked down into and camped out in the Tuolumne River gorge 4 or so miles below the Hetch-Hetchy dam when I was 18-ish. It was stunningly beautiful; quiet and full of wildlife. We had the whole meadow to ourselves, sharing only with deer and black bears.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'3', then a RERUN of drama, followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'Olympics'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Secret Millionaire', then a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition', followed by another FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'GoodFellas, followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad' (Fifty-One), then a FRESH'Small Town Security', followed by 'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - SEASON 2-Ep 5 - Sandgate
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 4-Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Shallow Seas
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Seasonal Forests
[10:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 2-Ep 1 - Maybe L.A. Was a Big Mistake
[11:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 2-Ep 2 - I Think I Found a Loop Hole
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17-Episode 3
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17-Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17-Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17-Episode 6
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 8
[5:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[8:00PM] KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
[11:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[2:00AM] KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 8 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all old 'Real Housewives Of NJ' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'Semi-Pro', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'The Hurt Locker', followed by the movie 'Hancock'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Picked Off'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] A Map of the World
[8:45AM] Wetherby
[11:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[11:30AM] Bunk
[12:00PM] Onion News Network-Enter the FactZone
[12:30PM] Onion News Network-Snowlocaust
[1:00PM] Onion News Network-Man-Horse Marriage
[1:30PM] Calendar Girls
[3:45PM] A Map of the World
[6:30PM] Sunshine
[8:45PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[11:30PM] Bunk
[12:00AM] Idiocracy
[1:45AM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[4:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:15AM] Black Christmas (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - South Africa (Episode 2, Season 1)
[6:30A] Hotel Gramercy Park
[7:45A] One Week
[9:25A] Life In Flight
[10:45A] Hotel Gramercy Park
[12:00P] Domino
[2:15P] The Wednesdays
[2:30P] Love Lust & The Undead
[3:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[3:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[4:00P] PUSH GIRLS - You Don't Get It (Episode 3, Season 1)
[4:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Hope It's Not Too Late (Episode 4, Season 1)
[5:00P] PUSH GIRLS - How'd I Get Here? (Episode 5, Season 1)
[5:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Fired Up (Episode 6, Season 1)
[6:00P] PUSH GIRLS - How You Get Through (Episode 7, Season 1)
[6:30P] PUSH GIRLS - In the Fast Lane (Episode 8, Season 1)
[8:00P] Next Floor
[8:15P] Blood and Wine
[10:00P] The Beach
[12:00A] Wristcutters: A Love Story
[1:30A] Blood and Wine
[3:15A] The Beach
[5:15A] La Maison En Petits Cubes
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Cyprus (Episode 4, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade Runner', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element'.
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (L), his wife U.S. actress Melanie Griffith (R) and their daugther Estela del Carmen pose during a photocall after their arriving to attend the Starlite Charity Gala in Marbella August 4, 2012.
Photo by Jon Nazca
The serious, anarchic and comedy-strewn Edinburgh Fringe has kicked into high gear this weekend with a record number of shows and performers crowding the Scottish capital and giving a welcome boost to the economy as the city's population doubles over the month-long festival season.
The usual Fringe buzz was subdued on the Friday opening, but warm sunshine helped bring out the crowds on Saturday and festival organizers are looking for spin-off visits from the London Olympics to boost attendance here. Organizers of the Edinburgh festivals worked closely with London to take advantage of the Olympics, Paralympics and cultural Olympiad there.
The Fringe, the more sedate International Festival of the arts, the Book Festival and the highly popular Royal Military Tattoo combine to produce the world's biggest annual arts extravaganza founded in 1947 as an antidote to post-war austerity.
The official Fringe program lists a record 2,695 shows, plus more on the "Free Fringe", with an influx of nearly 23,000 performers this year. Festivals in Scotland are worth some 250 million pounds ($389.99 million) to the Scottish economy annually, with the Fringe itself bringing in 140 million pounds to Edinburgh alone.
Singer Shirley Bassey arrives to attend the Red Cross Ball in Monte Carlo August 3, 2012. The Red Cross ball is a traditional and annual charity event in the Principality of Monaco.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
The last major lighthouse built in the United States is showing its age at 50, but the National Park Service is reviewing a management plan to maintain the beacon that still shines 27 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on clear nights.
The black and white Charleston Light rising 140 feet above this affluent beach community on the northeast side of Charleston Harbor was commissioned in 1962.
It's unique among the hundreds of lighthouses in the nation in that its tower is triangular, the better to withstand hurricane winds that periodically pound the coast. And instead of walking up the tower on a spiral staircase, the lantern room can be reached by elevator.
Designed by Jack Graham, who studied under noted American architect Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, the light was the second-brightest in the Western Hemisphere when it was commissioned with 26 million candlepower. That proved much too bright for the locals, and the Coast Guard reduced the light to 1.5 million candlepower.
Also, island residents didn't care for the lighthouse's original red-orange color - like that on Coast Guard helicopters. So tower was painted black and white.
Artist and naturalist Roger Tory Peterson's illustrated Field Guide series helped popularize bird watching the world over and set the standard for the modern nature guide. Next month, bird lovers will have the chance to buy the original paintings, drawings and photographs that were used to illustrate his system of bird identification.
Peterson's estate is offering hundreds of items on Sept. 8 through Guernsey's Auctioneers. The sale will also include Peterson's preliminary studies including a section on Penguins, a family of birds he especially loved.
Peterson, who died in 1996 at the age of 87, spent a lifetime watching, painting and photographing birds in the wild, drawing comparisons to the 19th century ornithologist John James Audubon.
An accomplished painter and photographer who attended the Art Students League in New York, Peterson's first book, "A Field Guide to the Birds," was published in 1934 and has never been out of print. Fifty-two other volumes followed.
Participants of the Canal Parade wearing masks that resembles Queen Elizabeth of England (R), Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles (L) and Prince Harry (back) pose as their boat makes its way through the canals as part of the annual gay pride parade in Amsterdam August 4, 2012. The canal parade is the highlight of Gay Pride Amsterdam, which is held in the capital every year.
Photo by Paul Vreeker
French actress Jeanne Moreau lights up the big screen at the Locarno Film Festival Saturday in a film inspired by a story of friendship between two Estonian women in Paris.
Estonian filmmaker Ilmar Raag based "An Estonian in Paris" on the story of his mother, who came to the French capital in the 1990s to look after a suicidal woman.
Raag explained: "I was studying in Paris at the time and I heard about an elderly Estonian women living there who had made two suicide attempts. Someone needed to be found to look after her and I thought of my mother."
Once in Paris, his mother, Anne, found her freedom and ended up remarrying at the age of 56, "happy like never before", Raag said.
The now 84-year-old Moreau takes on the role of the suicidal Frida, once a "free spirit" herself, while Anne is played by Laine Magi.
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry confrontation between the two agencies in the 1960s, according to newly released FBI records.
Byrd, who died in June 2010 at age 92, had sought the FBI intelligence while suspecting that communists and subversives were guiding the civil rights cause, the records show. Decades before he became history's longest-serving member of Congress, or gained the title "King of Pork" for sending federal funds to West Virginia, the Democrat had stalled and voted against major civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s. He also belonged to the Ku Klux Klan while a young man in the 1940s, and the FBI cited that membership while weighing his requests for classified information, the records show.
"He eventually had a change of heart about a lot of that stuff," said Ray Smock, a former historian for Congress who now oversees Byrd's archives. Smock said Byrd's hardline belief in law and order played a role in his view of the civil rights movement. Byrd also repeatedly called his time with the hate group a serious mistake, Smock noted.
The FBI released more than 750 pages from its files - many of them with words, sentences or entire paragraphs redacted - in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated Press. The records date to the mid-1950s, when Byrd served in the U.S. House. He was elected to the first of his record nine terms in the U.S. Senate in 1958.
The documents that reveal the September 1966 leak also describe how it sparked outrage among top FBI officials and prompted an internal CIA probe that singled out two agency employees as the culprits The episode damaged Byrd's standing with the bureau, though only briefly, the records show. Numerous documents depict him as an outspoken supporter of the FBI and particularly of J. Edgar Hoover, its longtime director, even toward the end of Hoover's tenure as criticism of him mounted.
Devotees hold pieces of wood representing snakes as they take part in a parade commemorating the Neku Jatra-Mataya festival, the festival of lights, in Lalitpur August 4, 2012. Devotees celebrate the Buddhist festival which marks the victory of Sakyamuni Buddha over Mara, by praying for the souls of departed family members and holding parades throughout the city.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
The nearly $2,600 billed to a 17-year-old lifeguard who rescued a drowning boy off the coast of Oregon is being paid by anonymous donors.
John Clark of Vancouver, Wash., a trained lifeguard, jumped through the breakers and heavy swells to reach the boy in the ocean, reported KOIN-TV. Clark then calmed the boy and kept him afloat until watercraft arrived to take them to shore.
Clark and the 12-year-old boy were taken to the hospital, which Clark thought was standard procedure.
But a few weeks later he was billed for the hospital services. The emergency room bill came to $449. The physician's bill was $227. The 15-mile ride in the ambulance was $1,907. The total bill for saving a young man's life was nearly $2,600.
A man dressed in a native Indian costume dances during festivities honouring the capital's patron saint, Saint Domingo of Guzman, in Managua August 4, 2012.
Photo by Oswaldo Rivas
Arnold $chwarzenegger (R-2 Passports) says he was so eager to pursue bodybuilding success that he briefly ended up in an Austrian military jail.
The Austrian-born actor said Friday he was 18 and serving a mandated year with the army when he snuck out of camp for the Junior Mr. Europe contest in Germany.
$chwarzenegger (R-Cadaver Parts) says he won the contest but also earned two or three days in the brig. But he says military officials felt "uncomfortable" and released him.
The 65-year-old $chwarzenegger (R-Philanderer) is the subject of a new ESPN Films documentary, "Arnold's Blueprint," which will debut Sept. 26 on the ESPN website Grantland.com. The film is the first of a series of short documentaries that will be available online.
The founder of The Tennis Channel and The Ski Channel is launching another niche offering, The Surf Channel, in mid-September.
Founder Steve Bellamy said the video-on-demand network should be accessible to 20 million households when it launches through cable, satellite and online distribution partners including Comcast,Cox Communications, DirecTV, Dish Network, Filmon.com and YouTube.
Bellamy started The Tennis Channel in 2003 with access to about 53,000 households. The Ski Channel launched in 2008. He projects both will be available to about 45 million households soon.
Bellamy concedes far fewer people surf than play tennis or ski but said the audience for surfing footage is immense, considering the number of mainstream shops that sell board shorts. "Try to find a ski helmet in a mall," he said.
Members of the group Pantomime Theatre Frederik perform at the Third Festival of Pantomime, Clown and Circus in Milpa Alta near Mexico City August 3, 2012. The event will run until August 25.
Photo by Henry Romero
Rabies has been thought of as virtually 100-percent fatal unless treated immediately, but new research shows that a small number of isolated Peruvians have natural immunity from the animal-transmitted disease.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in 15 people living in the remote Amazonian region in Peru were protected without medical intervention against the virus that kills more than 55,000 people globally every year.
Their trick: Vampire bats exposed the remote Peruvians to enough of the rabies virus to confer resistance, but not enough to kill them.
"Our results open the door to the idea that there may be some type of natural resistance or enhanced immune response in certain communities regularly exposed to the disease," Amy Gilbert, a researcher with the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and co-lead study author, said in a statement. "This means there may be ways to develop effective treatments that can save lives in areas where rabies remains a persistent cause of death."
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