Garrison Keillor: A new appreciation of life
I was in Santa Monica for a day last week, sampling baked figs at the farmers' market on the Third Street promenade, a sweet sunny day that makes an old Midwesterner like me a little nervous. We fear seduction. Some days in California are so tender and delicious that a person could abandon all commitments and wind up living in blissful stupor in some cult devoted to the worship of the sky.
Garrison Keillor: Worst of times
We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. In Philly, a woman earns $10.30 an hour to care for a man brought down by cystic fibrosis.
Roger Ebert: "ANITA O'DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER (NO MPAA RATING; 3 1/2 stars)
Anita O'Day. In the 1940s and '50s, her name was routinely linked with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. If she is not as famous today, it isn't for a lack of talent. Perhaps it's that she spent most of her time singing and too much of it using heroin, and could not be bothered to focus on fame. She was good. I came home from this film and started downloading tracks into my iPod.
Roger Ebert: AFTER HOURS (R; 4 stars; an overlooked DVD)
Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" is a comedy, according to the strict definition of that word: It ends hapily, and there are indications along the way that we're not supposed to take it seriously. It is, however, the tensest comedy I can remember, building its nightmare situation step by insidious step until our laughter is hollow, or defensive.
Charlie was first, and correct, with:
E Martha Washington
in 1902.
The 8-cent Martha Washington stamp was primarily used to pay the eight-cent registry fee for both domestic and foreign mail. A single 8-cent stamp could also pay the two times foreign five-cents-per-ounce plus three-cents-per-additional-ounce letter rate initiated October 1, 1907.
Dear Sally,
I'm more the mad scientist type than the Gilligan's Island fellow.
Sally said:
Let's see, who will it be?
The Civil War heroine, Barbara Fritchie? Or, Carry Nation - best known for the cause of temperance (anti-alcohol) and stamping out the demon rum (which she did, until speak-easy's were making more money than the government...). How about beloved First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, or flag-maker Betsy Ross? Nah, it was none other than the first First Lady, Martha Washington (E) commemorated by a stamp in 1902.
Marian the Teacher answered:
Martha Washington
joe b replied:
I'm going to say Betsy Ross.
Buzzcook responded:
None of the above. or F. Queen Isabelle of Spain
"In 1893, the first American stamp featuring a woman was introduced. Part of a series commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the new world, the stamp pictured Columbus soliciting funds for his voyage from Queen Isabella of Spain. The first American woman commemorated by a stamp was none other than the first First Lady -- Martha Washington. This stamp was introduced in 1902".
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That is if we can trust yahoo.
Alan J replied:
E: Martha Washington
MAM explains it well with:
The first woman featured on a stamp was none other than the first First Lady -- Martha Washington. This stamp was introduced in 1902.
However, the first woman, perhaps not featured, was Queen Isabella of Spain in part of a series commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the new world, the stamp pictured Columbus soliciting funds for his voyage from Queen Isabella of Spain, issued in 1893. In fact all 5 in this commemorative set have a woman on them.
starts the night with '60 Mintues', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 13', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'The Unit'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, an old 'Monk', and maybe a 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a 'Extreme Makeover; Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers a FRESH'In Harm's Way', followed by a FRESH'Valentine', then a FRESH'Easy Money'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and some old 'Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by an old 'House', and another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Pearl Harbor', followed by a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] Eleventh Hour - Episode 1
[2:30 PM] Eleventh Hour - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] Eleventh Hour - Episode 3
[5:30 PM] Eleventh Hour - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 10
[8:00 PM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[9:00 PM] Skins - Ep 9 Finale
[10:00 PM] Skins - Ep 1 Maxxie and Tony
[11:00 PM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[12:00 AM] Skins - Ep 9 Finale
[1:00 AM] Skins - Ep 1 Maxxie and Tony
[2:00 AM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 9 Finale
[4:00 AM] Skins - Ep 1 Maxxie and Tony
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 33 Hamilton
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 34 Porter
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Cedric The Entertainer: Taking You Higher', followed by the movie 'Barbershop', 'South Park', and 'Sarah Silverman'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by the movie 'Batman Begins'.
History has 'Gangland', 'Black Blizzard', and 'Last Days On Earth'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] The Final Cut
[8:00 AM] Cleo From 5 to 7
[9:35 AM] Vagabond
[11:30 AM] Maria Full of Grace
[1:15 PM] The Safety of Objects
[3:20 PM] IFC in Theaters
[3:30 PM] Manderlay
[5:55 PM] IFC News Uncut 2008
[6:00 PM] Maria Full of Grace
[7:45 PM] Last Days
[9:30 PM] Jeepers Creepers
[11:00 PM] Z Rock
[11:30 PM] Z Rock
[12:00 AM] Black Caesar
[1:40 AM] IFC Shorts
[2:00 AM] Z Rock
[2:30 AM] Z Rock
[3:00 AM] Jeepers Creepers
[4:35 AM] Last Days (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Mulberry Street', followed by the movie 'Swamp Devil'.
Sundance -
[04:45 AM] Jump Tomorrow
[06:30 AM] Hammer & Tickle
[08:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Sheryl Crow, Hard-Fi & Diana Krall
[09:00 AM] Terminal City: Episode 2
[10:00 AM] The Drug Years: Break on Through
[11:00 AM] Small Faces
[01:00 PM] Blog Wars
[02:00 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Water
[02:35 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Crude Impact
[04:20 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Animals
[05:00 PM] Buried in the Backyard
[05:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 2
[06:00 PM] Lemon Sky
[08:00 PM] Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, The (Episode 6)
[08:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6
[09:00 PM] Everything's Gone Green
[10:35 PM] Heavy Metal Jr.
[11:00 PM] The Maid
[12:30 AM] My Summer of Love
[02:00 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6
[02:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 6
[03:00 AM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[05:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Weather Report (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Cynthia Nixon, right, and actress Kristin Davis pose on the press line at the Yoplait Save Lids to Save Lives Concert in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Angelina Jolie isn't giving away who she's backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.
The actress and activist tells the German edition of Vanity Fair that the Democratic contender for president comes down on the same side of several issues that she does.
"Obama fights for international justice, he wants to militarily intervene in cases of genocide, and close Guantanamo Bay. These are the things that could move me to vote for him, not his roots."
Jolie's father, Jon Voight, has campaigned for Republican candidate John McCain.
Judy Collins performs at Joe's Pub's 10th Anniversary Gala and tribute to her at the Public Theater, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 in New York.
Photo by /Henny Ray Abrams
Lt. Col. John Mulzac stood on the asphalt at Moton Field - the same grounds where he trained decades ago to become one of the country's first black military pilots - and wept.
Mulzac and hundreds of his fellow Tuskegee Airmen and their representatives reunited Friday where their World War II service eventually led to desegregation in the U.S. armed forces. The field was named a National Historic Site.
An interpretive center was also opened in a hangar at the site. In a surprise announcement, Gov. Bob Riley unveiled a huge green and white sign designating part of I-85 as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway."
Thousands of people from across the country attended the opening ceremony Friday afternoon, which launched a weekend of festivities celebrating the fruition of a dream turned reality.
Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"I used to take the bus from here to Burbank to go to work," he recalled. "When the bus was late, I would walk up and down and throw my cigarettes down. Now I have the honor of having this done to my star."
Guests at the ceremony included Robbins' longtime partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as relatively diminutive actor Jack Black, who said he has known the tall, lanky Robbins for 25 years.
Born in West Covina, Calif., and raised in New York City, Robbins came from a family of entertainers. His father, Gil Robbins, played with the folk group The Highwaymen in the 1960s.
Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it.
But his wife persuaded him to give the role of conniving oil baron and cattle rancher J.R. Ewing a shot, saying they could "renegotiate" and that the job might pay off.
It did, eventually earning Hagman a reported $100,000 or more per episode. And now fans from across the world are paying as much as $1,000 apiece to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the debut of what became one of the most popular prime-time soap operas in TV history.
"People are crazy," Hagman said Thursday. "I guess it's a TV show people identify with."
Conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall stands in front of the chimpanzee enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo October 11, 2008. Goodall, who travels much of the year working as an advocate for environmental conservation, is presenting a series of public lectures in Australia to promote wildlife protection.
Photo by Tim Wimborne
Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces.
A statement released Saturday says Presley gave birth by Caesarean section. She lives in the Los Angeles area and the publicist says the births took place somewhere on the West Coast but won't provide details.
Presley is the daughter of Elvis Presley and is married to music producer Michael Lockwood. She has a 19-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son by a previous marriage.
Two Roman Catholic nuns whose non-violent action against nuclear weapons landed them with prison sentences returned home to Baltimore to learn they had been listed as terrorists, they said Friday.
Sister Ardeth Platte, 72, and Sister Carol Gilbert, 60, came back from two weeks out of town to find letters from the Maryland State Police saying they had been wrongfully listed as suspected terrorists in a federal database in 2005-2006.
"To be labelled a terrorist is really very hard to hear and to accept, when your whole life has been one of loving nonviolence," Platte said.
"If they can label us as terrorists, they can label all kinds of people as terrorists," Gilbert said. "So then people become afraid to speak out against what the established government might be saying -- and that is the demise of democracy."
Actresses Ruta Lee (back L), Leslie Caron (C) and Angie Dickinson (R) attend "An Academy Salute to Leslie Caron" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California October 10, 2008.
Photo by Phil McCarten
The golden gun used by villain Scaramanga in the James Bond movie "The Man With The Golden Gun" has been stolen from its film studio home, British police said Saturday, according to the BBC.
The prop, one of the most iconic weapons in cinema history, was noticed missing from Elstree Studios, north of London, on Friday, Hertfordshire Constabulary said.
Made for the 1974 film about fictional British spy Bond starring Roger Moore in the title role and Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga, the gun is worth an estimated 80,000 pounds (136,000 dollars, 100,000 euros).
"We were called to Elstree Studios in Borehamwood at 1:25 pm after a report of a theft of a prop, which was the golden gun," a Hertfordshire Constabulary spokeswoman said.
One of the jewels in China's cultural crown, the sprawling complex in the heart of the capital already gets tens of thousands of real-life visitors each day.
But now online tourists can also watch the Qing dynasty emperor feast at dinner, train fighting crickets and feed them with blood-fattened mosquitoes, or practise archery with the help of a courtesan.
At the virtual palace, unveiled on Friday, they can also dress up as part of the huge imperial entourage.
A combination photo shows Japanese cosplayers at Tokyo Game Show 2008 in Chiba, east of Tokyo October 11, 2008. The event, with 209 exhibitors taking part, opened to the general public on Saturday.
Photo by Yuriko Nakao
A German village was on Saturday unveiling a monument to the Scottish-born Prussian Field Marshall James Keith, in a rare act of remembrance in a country that has spend decades distancing itself from its military past.
Keith, a rebel exile who once governed Ukraine, Finland and Berlin, died in the battle of Hochkirch on October 14, 1758 fighting for Frederick the Great during the Seven Years War.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the battle and his death, the small village near the Polish border dedicated a memorial stone outside its baroque church to Keith, who remains a relatively obscure figure in his homeland to this day.
The unveiling of the granite monument is an unusual step in Germany, where there have been almost no such honourings of military heroes since the Nazi invasions in World War Two.
The bright psychedelic spotlight faded awhile ago, but these are busy days for Donovan. In Woodstock to promote the DVD "Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan," he also talked enthusiastically about his upcoming double album "Ritual Groove" and a planned tour of North America and Europe. And while folks at the film festival seemed more interested in asking him about the '60s - mostly about his pals in the Beatles - that was OK too.
At a festival question-and-answer session, Donovan told how George Harrison suffered stiff knees while learning the sitar. He even sang an unrecorded verse of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" written by his old Beatle chum. He talked about leaving a private audience with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as the Grateful Dead were walking in and how he first heard the sitar music of Ravi Shankar during a wild night out.
"I got very, very involved in a paisley patterned carpet, I remember," Donovan said to laughter. "It took me a long while to come out of that carpet."
The DVD also solves the minor mystery of who Saffron was and why Donovan was so mad about her. Actually, it's not strictly a who, but a what: the young artist really liked saffron bread. The film does not explicate "electrical banana."
A group of protestors dressed in polar bear costumes join a protest against Republican Party policies before the arrival of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at a fund raiser in Pittsburgh, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.
Photo by Keith Srakocic
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