Guantanamo: Sex torture claims (news24.com)
Dubai - Startling new allegations have emerged of the sexual humiliation, beating and torture of a Bahraini detainee by United States interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, the Bahraini newspaper Gulf Daily News reported on Thursday. Juma Mohammed al-Dossary claims he was stripped naked, then humiliated by a female interrogator, who squatted nude over him and smeared him with her menstrual blood, the paper said. He alleges that on a later occasion he was forced to watch a naked man and woman having sex and was then offered sex with the woman if he co-operated during questioning.
ROGER EBERT: Capote (4 Stars)
On Nov. 15, 1959, Truman Capote noticed a news item about four members of a Kansas farm family who were shotgunned to death. He telephoned William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, wondering if Shawn would be interested in an article about the murders. Later in his life, Capote said that if he had known what would happen as a result of this impulse, he would not have stopped in Holcomb, Kan., but would have kept right on going "like a bat out of hell."
ROGER EBERT: Good Night, and Good Luck (4 Stars)
"Good Night, and Good Luck" is a movie about a group of professional newsmen who with surgical precision remove a cancer from the body politic. They believe in the fundamental American freedoms, and in Sen. Joseph McCarthy they see a man who would destroy those freedoms in the name of defending them. Because McCarthy is a liar and a bully, surrounded by yes-men, recklessly calling his opponents traitors, he commands great power for a time. He destroys others with lies, and then is himself destroyed by the truth.
Zings (tallahassee.com)
We may not be able to care for our poor and sick, but we're great on caring for our millionaires!
I have it on reliable sources that the actor/director, George Clooney, is a Communist sympathizer…as was his singer aunt, Rosemary Clooney! These very same sources have named almost all of Hollywood as dangerously "Left" leaning co-conspirators in the concerted effort to undermine the present administrations "War on Terror" …..furthermore, any citizen that watches any movie, reads any book or newspaper or speaks to known left wing liberal individuals will come under scrutiny through the "Patriot Act"………
I was floored at how eerily allegorical to the present day USA George Clooney's new movie "Good Night and Good Luck" IS !!!! The only trouble…. we have no Edward R. Murrow around. Oh sure, we have all the Joe McCarthy's and the Roy Cohn's …targeting liberal thinking people as "heathens and homosexuals"….Dobson, Buchanan, Delay, Frist, Rove, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Bush himself could all be morphed into one diabolical visage similar to Joe McCarthy ……but we have no Edward R. Murrow around! We have a plethora of pitiful pundits espousing right wing, goose stepping stupidity…..O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter and all the other FOX Fools…but we have no Edward R. Murrow around !
It was 1953, at the height of the "Red Scare" being perpetrated by the Junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy during the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Hearings. Day after day, people were dragged in front these finger pointing self righteous, self important demi-gods to be "Exposed" as conspirators attempting to over throw the US government. I actually remember one Fred Schwartz and his "Christian Anti-Communist Crusade" holding huge prayer gatherings and also pointing fingers…
At this time, Columbia Broadcasting Company (CBS) had a little show on Tuesday nights called "See it Now" hosted by Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn - "Iceman" (1984) - "Heat Wave" (1990) - "Limbo" (1999)). Through the cigarette haze and the scotch on the rocks, Mr. Murrow decides he's seen enough of this Bully …McCarthy (played by actual footage of Senator McCarthy) and with the help of his producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney - "ER" (1984) - "Grizzly II: The Predator" (1987) - "Return to Horror High" (1987) - "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" (1988)) and his Boss William Paley (Frank Langella - "Dracula" (1979) - "Sphinx" (1981) - "Moses" (1996)) he prepares an editorial attack in attempt to expose this pathological liar!!!
Effectively filmed in grainy black and white, I found myself letting out contained whoops of pleasure as Murrow systematically dissects this monster of a man, McCarthy, with dogged intelligence and consistent facts…..There are many parallels to the present in this plain portrayal of a person of ethics and honesty……it almost seemed that the movie was too abbreviated in its dramatic dénouement! I wanted MORE…instead, as in reality, we get the inevitable demise through a Senate investigation of McCarthy rather than a real DUEL at dawn between the two men. It still left me wondering where a new Edward R. Murrow will come from??????
Purple Gene gives "Good Night and Good Luck" 10 cigarettes, with out filters, out of 10 for showing the 50's the way they were…smoke and all!
The big-ass raccoon family raided the cat food in the garage last night.
If a mess is the sign of a good time, it must've been their Prom.
And my car is now a rolling cat food vault.
Should be visiting Erin's show on 710KIRO.com a little after 10pm (pdt) tonight.
We've had visitors from:
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case', then the movie 'Enough'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'West Wing', then a FRESH'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Reba', followed by another RERUN'Reba', then a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has LIVE'World Series Baseball', followed on the left coast by RERUNs of 'Simpsons' and 'Malcolm'.
UPN has a RERUN'Alias' followed by a RERUN'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'The First 48', 'Family Plots', another 'Family Plots', and a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Friday The 13th', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th', again, then the movie 'Friday The 13th - Final' (can't figure out the abbreviation - sorry).
BBC -
[2pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[3pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[5pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[6pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 6;
[9pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 14;
[9:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Sue Young;
[10pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[11pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 14;
[1am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[2am] 'Mile High' - Mile High;
[3am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[3:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Rosie O'Donnell), 'Kathy Griffin Is...Not Nicole Kidman', and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', followed by the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again'.
History has 'Secret Superpower Aircraft', another 'Secret Superpower Aircraft', still another 'Secret Superpower Aircraft', and 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[6AM] The 47 Ronin: Part II (1941);
[8AM] Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990);
[10:15AM] The Chateau (2001);
[12PM] IFC October Short Film Collection I (2005);
[2PM] Trust (1990);
[4PM] The Chateau (2001);
[5:45PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[6PM] Run Lola Run (1998);
[7:30PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[8PM] Bend It Like Beckham (2002);
[10PM] Before Night Falls (2000);
[12:30AM] Bend It Like Beckham (2002);
[2:30AM] Fresh (1994);
[4:30AM] A Bay of Blood (1971). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Arachnid', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park'.
Sundance -
[6:45AM] The Projectionist;
[7AM] Noi albinoi;
[8:30AM] No Problem;
[9AM] The Al Franken Show: (10/21/05);
[10AM] Grass;
[11:30AM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Money;
[12PM] Assassination Tango;
[2PM] El Cielito;
[3:35PM] Cry Funny Happy;
[5:15PM] Village of Idiots;
[5:30PM] Mott Music;
[6PM] Dolls;
[8PM] Slings & Arrows: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan;
[9PM] Miranda;
[10:35PM] The Hidden;
[12:15AM] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me;
[2:30AM] Slings & Arrows: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan ;
[3:30AM] Breasts;
[4:20AM] The Hidden. (ALL TIMES EDT)
In this photo released by Warner Bros. Television on October 21, 2005, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (L) interviews singer Barbra Streisand (R) as four fans look on at a home in Malibu for a segment taped on October 12, 2005. The segment will air on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' on October 24, 2005.
Photo by Scott Garfield
A school board member wants to rename a performing arts magnet school after August Wilson, the Pittsburgh-born Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning playwright who died earlier this month.
Pittsburgh Public Schools Board member Alex Matthews wants to rename the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
But some say renaming a public school is a bad idea because Wilson deserves a bigger honor - and because Wilson had a bad experience in the city's schools.
Wilson dropped out of Pittsburgh public schools at age 15 after a teacher accused him of plagiarizing a paper on Napoleon. He finished his own education at a city library and went on to write his famous 10-play cycle based on the life of blacks in America, nine of them set in the city's predominantly black Hill District.
Actor Al Pacino and his daughter Julie arrive at the 20th annual American Cinematheque Award gala honoring Pacino in Beverly Hills October 21, 2005. Pacino is this year's award recipient for his significant contribution to the art of the moving picture. The benefit event will broadcast on AMC on January 22, 2006.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Aretha Franklin threw a party Friday for dozens of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, sharing soul food and memories of New Orleans with refugees at a hotel in suburban Detroit.
About 40 people from the Gulf Coast are making their home at a hotel in Southfield. Franklin, who lives in nearby Bloomfield Hills, said she wanted to do her part to help by hosting the event.
"It's the right thing to do," said Franklin, who was planning another dinner at the hotel for Saturday night. "Hopefully some of the other performers in town will follow suit."
Twenty-year-old Rafal Blechacz has become the first Pole in 30 years to win the Chopin International Piano Competition, one of the world's most prestigious contests of its kind, organizers said on Saturday.
A total of 80 aspiring young pianists from 18 different countries entered this year's competition, named after 19th-century composer Fryderyk Chopin, Poland's greatest musical genius.
"He so outclassed the remaining finalists that no second prize could actually be awarded," jury member Professor Piotr Paleczny said of Blechacz, who won $25,000 and a gold medal presented by Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Two third prizes were awarded to South Korean brothers Dong Hyek Lim and Dong Min Lim. Japanese pianists Takashi Yamamoto and Shohei Sekimoto shared fourth place, and the sixth prize went to Ka Ling Colleen Lee from Hong Kong.
Seems even kids like Moby. The electronic music artist and Connecticut native was in Stamford last week to showcase illustrated prints and clothing from his "Little Idiot" line.
More than 150 people showed up at the 583 Art Factory to see doodles of cats and dogs, as well as robots and other zany, nonsensical characters.
The evening was a chance for him to visit his old stomping grounds. He was born in Darien and spent a year living at the Stamford's Loft Artist space.
A model displays one of the world's most magnificent natural pearl at a Christie's preview in Hong Kong Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. The historical pearl from the French Crown Jewels is the fifth largest pearl known to exist, which is estimated US$500,000-800,000. The pearl was given by Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) to his second wife Marie-Louise in 1811, and originally set in a tiara. The pearl will be sale in an auction in Geneva Nov. 16.
Photo by Kin Cheung
Despite a chorus of voices calling for a boycott, Italy's Oscar selection committee picked Cristina Comencini's "La Bestia Nel Cuore" ("Don't Tell") to represent Italy in the race for the best foreign-language Oscar.
"Don't Tell," a competition film at the most recent Venice International Film Festival, replaces Saverio Costanzo's "Private," which was ruled ineligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week because the film's dialogue was not predominantly in Italian.
"Don't Tell" examines the trauma and shame of a woman who is suddenly forced to confront a sordid episode from her childhood.
A judge wants the city attorney's office to show why Tom Sizemore's conviction for beating former girlfriend and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss should not be thrown out, according to the actor's attorneys.
The 44-year-old actor has appealed his conviction, arguing that a photograph of Fleiss with facial bruises may have been fabricated. The photograph was taken in April 2003 by Tara Dabrizzi, a friend of Fleiss, who didn't testify at Sizemore's trial.
Sizemore's attorney, Michael J. Rovell, said they have been unable to find Dabrizzi, who left the U.S. the day after taking the photo. The defense also questioned whether she even exists.
Visitors walk next to an installation of giant Brockhaus encyclopedia at the Frankfurt book fair in Germany October 22, 2005. The world's largest book fair with it's focal theme on Korean literature will be open to public until October 23.
Photo by Alex Grimm
According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze.
More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray Saturday in an experiment sponsored by the Discovery Channel program "MythBusters."
Their attempts to set fire to an 80-year-old fishing boat using their own versions of the device, however, failed to either prove or dispel the myth of the solar death ray.
The MIT team's first attempt with their contraption made of 300 square feet of bronze and glass failed to ignite a fire from 150 feet away. It produced smoldering on the boat's wooden surface but no open flame. A second attempt from about 75 feet away lit only a small fire that burned itself out.
Stars in the sky are seen over a remains of medieval fortress in the town of Novogrudok, 150 km western of Minsk, Belarus, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005.
Photo by Sergei Grits
To singer and environmental activist Carole King, a bill in Congress that aims to create more protected wilderness in Idaho doesn't go far enough in making sure the land is actually safe. So next week, she will head to Washington, D.C., to lobby against the legislation sponsored by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Pave Paradise, Put Up A Parking Lot)..
"Any conservation group that tells you this is a wilderness bill, that's like saying a hand towel is the same as a blanket on a cold night," said the 63-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame grandmother, known for rock classics "So Far Away," "It's Too Late," "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman," and "I Feel the Earth Move."
A Rolex Oyster Deep Sea Special No. 1 watch is displayed by a Christie's staff at a Christie's preview in Hong Kong Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. The watch made in 1958 is the most waterproof watch in the world which went to as deep as 10,915 meters down the Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean, the deepest known point on Earth. The watch is estimated US$64,000-95,000 which will be auctioned in Geneva on Nov. 14.
Photo by Kin Cheung
Sally-Alice Thompson had to laugh when she got a letter from the Marine Corps' commanding general, telling her the military "is in need of your service" and inviting her to find out more by sending in an enclosed card.
"What else could I do? I mean, I'm 82 years old," Thompson said.
Not only that, Thompson is a well-known local peace activist who is a charter member of the Center for Peace & Justice in Albuquerque and belongs to Veterans for Peace and Raging Grannies.
The letter from Brig. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin told Thompson that "now is the time to put your unique language skills to the test as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. Your command of the Arabic language will be invaluable among the elite few."
Cuban-born dance music artist Franky Gee, better-known to his European fans as "Captain Jack," has died of a brain haemorrhage while in Spain, German media reported on Saturday. He was 43.
In a 10-year career that began in 1995, the former U.S. soldier and one-time German stock broker sold more than 7 million albums and singles, earning 19 gold and platinum discs with titles like "Drill Instructor" and "Soldier, Soldier."
Gee was born in Cuba in 1962 as Francisco Gutierrez. His parents emigrated to Miami when he was a child. He later joined the U.S. army, ending up in Germany, where he stayed from 1988 holding a variety of jobs before entering the music business.
Three Wood Storks roost in a dead tree on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, in Estero, Fla. The large wading bird was listed as an Endangered Species in 1984 and can be found in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Photo by Wilfredo Lee
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