Jim Hightower: Bankers keep running with illegal foreclosures
… state officials say that robo-signing is, once again, "an epidemic," all across the country. It's a federal crime to do this, yet no bank or banker has even been charged. Until we put a CEO in jail, the banking barons will never learn their lesson.
Lenore Skenazy: "FBI: Fear-Building, Inc." (Creators Syndicate)
But by offering this app to America, the FBI is reinforcing the idea that children are in constant danger. It feels as if the FBI has raced to fill a need that doesn't exist while fueling a fear that's already out of control. Maybe even at FBI headquarters.
Susan Estrich: The New You (Creators Syndicate)
Jane Fonda had her eyes done. Granny - an 83-year-old property manager from Santa Ana, Calif. - is making national news for her "boob job." And not to leave out the men reading this, it has been reported that tough guy Lakers star Kobe Bryant was seen recently having a mani-pedi - a manicure and pedicure.
Roger Ebert's Journal: It moves! It speaks! It smells!
This week we'll be treated to a big advertising campaign for "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D." I have not seen the film, but I have experienced the process.
Yes, the Scratch-n-Sniff card is back, this time advertised as Aromascope. We have come a long way since Odorama and Smell-O-Vision. Well, maybe not that long a way.
Karen Zarker: PopMatters' 20 Questions
Jon Polito's mug is so familiar that he almost feels… familiar, like the merchant at the corner store, the beat cop in your 'hood, or the local mobster. Yeah that's it, the local mobster.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Michael D in Port Saint Lucie, FL was first, and correct, with:
Marty, the google says Babs has this honor and I will go with that.
Jim from CA, retired to ID,
Barbra Streisand
Charlie responded:
Hmm, I bought albums in each of those decades, but never one of Barbra Streisand's. I always felt she was guilty of vocal overkill. I do have great respect for her accomplishments, however.
Alan J wrote:
Barbra Streisand
Marian replied:
Barbra Streisand
Adam answered:
Bob Dylan? Google says female artist so I guessed Barbra Steisand- Iwas right!
Sally was first, and correct, with:
I think that Barbra Streisand is the one you are looking for, the only artist to achieve Billboard #1 albums in five decades, the '60's, '70's, '80's, ' 90's, and 2000's.
I love Barbra, musically and politically!
PS: Looks like the Professor Charlie and I agree on Nicholson and Miss Thang, Ann Coulter!
PPS: "Oh JoeS, hate to disturb your 'long winter's nap,' but it's SUMMER!" "Get yer butt back here!!"
MAM wrote:
Barbra Streisand
PS Am putting my long overdue August support for the E-Page in PayPal tonight. Hope others remember to do so also!
And, Joe S is taking some time off to re-set his sleepy-time clock.
Some damn fool abandoned this sweet little kitty down at the shore nn Wednesday.
She's now living in our pantry, but will eventually be adopted out.
Until then, we need a name.
She's smart, playful, and quite a little ball of fire, fleas and fluff.
Toeay's Reader Responses
Sally said:
From the looks of that picture, I'd say: "Whomee?"
PS: Enjoy your new kitty...
Michelle in AZ wrote:
Spitfire
Yesterday's Reader Responses
RICHARD mc D said: Sofie Sounds about right.
BadtotheboneBob replied:
Awwww... I love little kitties... then they grow and become cats, but that's cool. It's kinda like our own kids, ya know. I look proudly upon my grown up, successful daughter of 27, but often wistfully think back to when she was small... then she drops off 'Maddie Muffin' for me to play with and I get to do it all again! Being a 'grampa' is the best job in the world...
Anyway, my choice for this little ball of fur is... 'Tuffy'... for no other reason than it was the first thing that came to mind.
Linda >^..^< suggested:
Has to be Sweetheart!
DanD wrote:
"She's smart, playful, and quite a little ball of fire, fleas and fluff."
A significant number of Americans believe that memory is more powerful, objective and reliable than it actually is, a new survey finds. Some memory myths are so pervasive that up to 83 percent of people believe them.
The survey, published online today (Aug. 3) in the journal PLoS ONE, queried a nationally representative sample of 1,500 Americans about a variety of common beliefs about memory. The survey found that almost two-thirds of Americans believe that memory works like a video camera, accurately recording events for later review.
In fact, study researchers said, scientific data suggests that even confident eyewitnesses to an event are wrong about what happened 30 percent of the time.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Same Name', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Minute To Win It', then a FRESH'The Marriage Ref', followed by a RERUN'The Marriage Ref'.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH'i.am FIRST: Sceince In Rock & Roll', followed by the FRESH'CMA Music Festival: Country's Night To Rock'.
The CW has an old 'Friends', followed by the movie 'Home Of The Brave'.
Faux a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burger', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then the FRESH'In The Flow With Affion Crockett'.
MY an old 'How I Met Your Mother', another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', still another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades'.
AMC offers the movie 'Constantine', followed by the movie 'Bulletproof', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[5:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 3
[6:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[7:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[8:20 AM] James May Drinks to Britain - Episode 5
[9:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 9
[10:00 AM] Crocodile: Smiling Predator - Crocodile: Smiling Predator
[11:00 AM] Where Do Monkeys Come From? - Where Do Monkeys Come From?
[12:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's Shark Bait - Gordon Ramsay's Shark Bait
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Hannah & Mason's
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Jack's Waterfront
[7:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Sabatiello's
[8:00 PM] Entrapment
[10:30 PM] Entrapment
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 9
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 10
[5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 11 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie 2', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', followed by the movie 'Final Destination', then the movie 'Final Destination 3'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:05AM] United We Stand
[6:15AM] Daddy and Them
[8:30AM] Bookies
[10:30AM] Walkabout
[12:45PM] Freaks and Geeks - Pilot
[1:45PM] Freaks and Geeks - Beers and Weirs
[2:45PM] Freaks and Geeks - Tricks and Treats
[3:45PM] Pan's Labyrinth
[6:15PM] The Invisible Circus
[8:15PM] Basic Instinct
[11:00PM] Whisker WarsThe Beard Circuit
[11:30PM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Trashicorn; Bury Me Naturally
[12:00AM] Freaks and Geeks
[1:00AM] Basic Instinct
[3:45AM] My Own Private Idaho
[6:00AM] Arrested Developmentn - Beef Consomme (ALL TIMES EST)
Here's an interesting snapshot of where we're at as a nation: On Thursday night, more people tuned in to watch Pauly D, Vinny and their pumpkin-hued cohorts run amok in Italy than tuned in to watch the potential next leader of the free world make his case for election.
The second season of "Jersey Shore" Season 4 drew 7.4 million total viewers -- more than nearly every network offering on Thursday, and a far sight more than the Republican candidates' debate on Fox, which took in just over 5 million total viewers.
"Shore" also garnered a 7.1 rating in the 12-34 demographic, which means that the show now holds the top 15 cable slots in that demo for this year, barring sports broadcasts.
The fourth season of "Jersey Shore" premiered last week, scoring 8.8 million total viewers --- the most-watched season premiere in MTV's 30-year history.
The largest gathering of poets in North America has crowned a team from Denver as the new champion of its annual poetry slam competition.
Denver's Slam Nuba was named the winner Saturday night after a four-team final bout at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston.
This week, Boston and nearby Cambridge hosted the annual National Poetry Slam!, which attracted more than 300 poets from around the country. Poetry Slam is a combination of spoken word and performance art.
During the competition, poets from each team performed their work before a live audience, and judges gave the performers points from one to 10.
A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa's former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
The range of musical styles in "Mandela Trilogy" reflects South Africa's mix of cultures, the production's writer and director Michael Williams said in an interview before a dress rehearsal on Friday.
After preliminary runs in the eastern coastal city of Durban and the heartland town of Bloemfontein, the Cape Town Opera's production comes to South Africa's economic and entertainment hub Saturday.
The sweeping action of "Trilogy" moves from Mandela's boyhood village in southeastern South Africa to the Johannesburg townships where he became a political leader and then to the prisons where he spent 27 years. Mandela is shown cheating on his wife, making political missteps and struggling with the burden of holding others' lives in his hands.
"Mandela Trilogy" ends triumphantly, with Mandela's 1990 release and stirring speech to a crowd in Cape Town.
British-American actress Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of the late actor and director Charlie Chaplin, and her husband Chile's film director Patricio Castillo leave the stage at the XV Latin American Cinema Festival's closing ceremony in Lima, Peru, Saturday Aug. 13, 2011. Peru's film director Francisco Lombardi is pictured behind Castillo.
Photo by Karel Navarro
Stockholm Film Festival organizers say French actress Isabelle Huppert will be honored with its 2011 lifetime achievement award for a career in movie and television spanning almost four decades.
Huppert, 53-years old, made her screen debut in 1972 and has appeared in more than 90 productions, including "The Lacemaker," ''Madame Bovary" and "Heaven's Gate."
She received the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her 2001 role in "The Piano Teacher."
The festival's jury on Friday described her as "one of the most diverse and intrepid film personalities ever."
The Los Angeles County sheriff's department says The Game incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system.
Capt. Mike Parker tells the Los Angeles Times that the rapper tweeted the number of the Compton station Friday and told his 580,000 followers that if they wanted an internship with him, they should call the number.
Sheriff's Lt. Suzan Young says "the phones started ringing like crazy" around 5:20 p.m. Parker says phone lines were jammed for more than two hours.
The rapper later posted that his account was hacked but also tweeted that it was "an accident."
The Game could face criminal charges. Parker says investigators are planning to forward a criminal complaint to the district attorney's office.
A Whirling Sufi dancer performs on a stage in Tahrir square in Cairo August 12, 2011. More than 42 political parties and youth coalitions gathered in the square, the focal point of the uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak, to break their fast after activists called for a million-man protest to demand a civilian state.
Photo by Asmaa Waguih
Hollywood producer Jon Peters' former personal assistant testified on Friday that he crawled into bed with her uninvited at an Australian hotel.
Shelly Morita's testimony came in a Los Angeles Superior Court trial of her $1 million sexual harassment lawsuit against the 66 year-old producer of such films as "Superman Returns" and "Batman".
Peters, who spent time working as a hair stylist in the 1970s, is thought to be one of the inspirations for actor Warren Beatty's womanizing hairdresser in the 1975 film "Shampoo." He was not in court on Friday.
Morita, 44, said that when she and Peters were staying in separate hotel rooms in Australia during the making of "Superman Returns" in 2005, she was startled to find her boss lying next to her in the middle of the night.
She also told the court that later on the trip, Peters urged her to share a joint of marijuana with him.
Bret Michaels has entered some choppy legal waters.
The Poison frontman and "Rock of Love" star filed suit against Shoreline Tours on Monday, alleging that the cruise-ship company participated in "a fraudulent scheme" intended to get Michaels to drastically drop his agreed-upon fee for two performances on one of its cruises.
According to the suit, Michaels' was approached by promoter Willie Donwell to perform a two concerts on a "Super Cruise" this fall, with Donwell handling the promotion, as well as the collection of Michaels' fee.
However, the suit alleges, Donwell was "essentially a shill" for Shoreline in a "bait and switch" maneuver in order to get Michaels to cut his fee.
Michaels and Donwell, the suit says, initially agreed to a $750,000 fee for the two performances, to be paid through Donwell in installments. However, according to the suit, Donwell never had any intention of paying Michaels' fee, and shortly dropped out of the deal, citing health woes, after shifting promotion powers to Shoreline.
Walt Disney Studios' much-anticipated big-screen adaptation of "The Lone Ranger" starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer has been shut down, according to a source close to the production.
Those involved in the project are figuring out their next steps, and it's possible filming could resume, said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the discussions and requested anonymity.
The development was first reported in Deadline Hollywood, an entertainment industry news website. It cited difficulties with reducing the movie's estimated $250 million cost to $200 million.
Jerry Bruckheimer was set to produce the film with a script by Justin Haythe. Hammer was expected to play the title character, and Depp was set to be the Lone Ranger's partner, Tonto.
Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.
Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to cellular towers in four stations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile devices to coordinate a demonstration on train platforms.
The tactic drew comparisons to those used by the former president of Egypt to squelch protests demanding an end to his authoritarian rule. Authorities there cut Internet and cellphone services in the country for days earlier this year.
BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. They said in a statement that it's illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains, and that it has set aside special areas for demonstrations.
Female African lion Annie growls during a walk with her three 2-month-old cubs, inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 11, 2011. Annie began to walk with her three cubs outside the closed cage in which they had been born June 12, according to zoo employees.
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