Henry Rollins: Occupy America (LA Weekly)
Is the Occupy protest being taken seriously? Oh yes. The main indicator is how hard and often Fox News pundits and others on television and radio are going after the protesters. Glenn Beck is cross-eyed, with paranoid Method-acting rants. He predicts that he and his ilk will be taken into the streets and done great harm. Doubtful, but his wacky speak may still play to his ever-dwindling demographic, who are definitely to be avoided.
Roger Ebert's Journal: Why are We Cruel?
I was watching a movie this week, a very good one, that will open Friday here in Chicago. As sometimes happens, it led me into a realm of thinking that was not directly connected to it--or perhaps it was.
A Reader of Andrew Sullivan: The Untold Story Of The Actual Obama Record (The Daily Beast)
[Obama] saved the economy from ruin (until the Tea Party took over Congress) with a stimulus that was as large as possible given the political realities, presided over a stock market that fairly quickly recouped many of its losses, presided over almost consecutive monthly increases in private sector job growth (unfortunately balanced by monthly decreases in public sector jobs which I attribute to the GOP further starving government), enacted the only meaningful healthcare reform ever in our history, passed financial reform (no matter what the Left says, he did this), …
Andrew Tobias: QADDAFI
"Mr. Obama's carefully calibrated response infuriated critics on the right and left," reports the 'New York Times,' "who blamed him either for ceding American leadership in a foreign conflict or for blundering into another Arab land without an exit strategy. But with Colonel Qaddafi joining the lengthening list of tyrants and terrorists dispatched during the Obama presidency, even critics conceded a success for Mr. Obama's approach to war - one that relies on collective, rather than unilateral, action; on surgical strikes rather than massive troop deployments."
Mark Shields: Rising Cain (Creators Syndicate)
But when someone, after languishing for several months at low single digits in the polls, more than quintuples his support to become leader of the pack, there has to be a reason beyond simple "novelty."
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Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
ame as the Pep$i $tate
Building where the crazy man preaches. Willard.
Charlie said:
Jerkface
Maybe that's too polite.
Actually, it's Willard.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Willard Mitt Romney..No wonder he goes by the name Mitt
Marian repliled:
Willard
Alan J took the day off.
Adam answered:
I guess Harold Camping was wrong. Again.
What a shocker...
Mitten's real name is Willard.
I think it was Bill Maher said that this country being lead, in part, by people called 'Scooter' Libby and 'Mitt' Romney, is part of the problem.
Sally took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs, CA took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Willard Mitt Romney ~ Romney was named after hotel magnate J. Willard Marriott, his father's best friend, and his father's cousin Milton "Mitt" Romney, 1925-1929 quarterback for the Chicago Bears. I am sorry, but whenever I hear the name Willard, I think of:
Tonight the first night of Monster Bash here in Butler.
Kevin in NJ responded:
Mittens real first name is Willard, like the Ratmaster from the early '70's movie.
Then the rats tuned on him and ate him. Very Cool
Michigan-born superstar Madonna's older brother Anthony Ciccone, 55, is homeless and living under a bridge in Traverse City.
In a story in the Michigan Messenger detailing how the northern Michigan city is a magnet for the homeless, Ciccone is quoted as saying he lost his job at his father's Suttons Bay winery more than a year ago, and had been living on the street ever since...
Ciccone said he benefited from the generous nightly meal programs and shelters at Traverse City churches, and collected bottles and cans for money, although he suffered frostbite in the northern city's harsh winters
A sad situation... Ol' Tony must of burned some bridges... Substance abuse the most likely reason... Still sad... The Traverse City area is quite progressive, though, and I'm glad he's getting some support. But, his situation won't change until he does something about what has put him that spot. I had to. Yes, I'm a 'recovering' person and nothing changed for me (including being homeless years ago) until I faced the issue and sought help. Hopefully, he will too...
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Pan Am'.
The CW here fills the night with local news.
Faux has LIVE'World Series Baseball - Game 4', then pads the left coast with local crap and old reruns.
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'.
AMC offers the movie 'Resident Evil', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', and another The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
5:30 AM] Free Agents - Episode 6
6:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
7:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
8:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
9:00 AM] Jungle: Canopy - Jungle: Canopy
10:00 AM] Hidden Highlands - Hidden Highlands
11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 10
12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
3:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 1
4:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 2
5:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 3
6:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
7:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 5
8:00 PM] The Exorcist
10:30 PM] The Exorcist
1:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 10
5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', still another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Employee Of The Month', followed by the movie 'Extract', 'Tosh.0', and 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', then themovie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
History has 'IRT Deadliest Roads', 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'IRT Deadliest Roads'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Hunt for Red October
[9:00AM] Game of Death
[11:15AM] Freaks and Geeks - Kim Kelly Is My Friend
[12:15PM] Freaks and Geeks - Tests and Breasts
[1:15PM] Freaks and Geeks - I'm With the Band
[2:15PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:30PM] Good Guys Wear Black
[4:30PM] The Hunt for Red October
[7:30PM] Zodiac
[11:00PM] Onion News Network - Fantasy Brainwall
[11:30PM] Onion News Network - Fantasy Brainwall
[12:00AM] Zodiac
[3:30AM] Captivity
[5:15AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Undeclared - Eric Visits (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] QUIRKY: Love You, Love Your Product (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[8:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Santa Fe (Episode 1, Season 1)
[9:00 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Cities (Season 1)
[9:30 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Wear (Season 1)
[10:00 AM] Rio Breaks
[11:30 AM] UNLEASHED BY GARO: Can I Pull You a Little Tighter? (Episode 1, Season 1)
[12:30 PM] Love Lust & Sex Symbols
[1:30 PM] Love Lust & The Social Network
[2:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[3:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[3:30 PM] Join Us
[5:10 PM] Kassim the Dream
[6:40 PM] The Dead Girl
[8:15 PM] Tenderness
[10:00 PM] In America
[11:55 PM] Bitch
[12:00 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[12:30 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[1:00 AM] UNLEASHED BY GARO: Can I Pull You a Little Tighter? (Episode 1, Season 1)
[2:00 AM] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Why Jordan Can't Read (Episode 7, Season 1)
[3:00 AM] Love Lust & The Social Network
[4:00 AM] In America
[5:55 AM] Oktapodi
[6:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Santa Fe (Episode 1, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'End Of Days', followed by the movie 'The Haunting In Connecticut'.
Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, exits the Symphony Space on the Upper West Side to march with nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests for a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs while ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice.
Photo by John Minchillo
Filmmaker Tim Burton has designed a floating freak show of a balloon for this year's family-friendly Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
With pointed teeth and jagged stitching across his face, B. is the Frankenstein of balloons.
A Burton-created backstory distributed by Macy's says the balloon boy was "stitched together from rejects of old birthday party balloons." The parties were thrown for children at a London hospital. But B. wasn't allowed to join in the fun. Instead he watched the French short film "The Red Balloon" repeatedly.
B.'s only dream was to fly and make a child happy - just like in that movie.
U.S singer Harry Belafonte speaks at a press conference at Viennale, the Vienna international film festival, in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.
Photo by Ronald Zak
The dress Marilyn Monroe wore in "River of No Return" has sold to a private buyer for $504,000.
Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien's Auctions, said Saturday that the dress was sold at an auction in China. Monroe wore the green velour dress while she sang "I'm Gonna File My Claim" in the 1954 Western in which she portrayed Kay Washington, a gambler's wife.
Among other items that have been sold at the auction were the bustier that Madonna wore during her "Who's That Girl" tour in 1987. It has sold for $72,000.
The famous white dress Monroe wore in "The Seven Year Itch" was sold for $4.6 million at an auction this summer.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor returned home from a hospital on Friday after recovering from two stomach surgeries and suffering a bout of pneumonia.
The 94 year-old actress, who has suffered numerous health issues in recent years, was "happy and smiling," her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters on Friday.
"She's alert and she looks good," said von Anhalt, adding that Gabor was in much better health after nearly two weeks at the UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles,
Von Anhalt said he plans to celebrate with his wife at home this weekend.
Actress Jeri Ryan arrives at the 7th annual GLSEN Respect Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is a national organization that works to ensure safe schools for all students.
Photo by Matt Sayles
A Kentucky theater says Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized with pneumonia.
The country singer was scheduled to perform Saturday at the Performing Arts Center in Ashland, Kentucky, but the center issued a release saying she is in the hospital and will be unable to do the concert. The center says the show will be rescheduled.
In August, Lynn canceled shows because of knee surgery. Before that, the 76-year-old returned to live performances with a show at the Grand Ole Opry after being forced to cancel shows in Ohio and Connecticut because she was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
Fox paid $425 million to win the rights to broadcast the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup in the United States, and Telemundo paid $600 million for Spanish-language U.S. rights, an individual with knowledge of the bidding tells TheWrap.
That's a staggering $1 billion-plus for World Cup rights in which Univision lost $100 million in the last go-round.
Fox Sports Chairman David Hill & Co. beat out ESPN in the bidding war.
In 2005 ESPN bought the rights for the 2010 Cup in South Africa and the 2014 event in Brazil. ESPN bid $400 million, the person said.
In this photo provided by Hard Rock Cafe, Steven Van Zandt, left, interviews actor Steve Buscemi during the 500th episode of Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at a live show at Hard Rock Cafe in New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
A defunct satellite is hurtling toward the atmosphere and pieces of it are expected crash to the Earth on Sunday, according to the German Aerospace Center.
Pieces of the ROSAT scientific research satellite are expected to hit sometime Sunday morning European time, or between about 0000 and 0500 GMT (8 p.m. EDT Saturday or 1 a.m. EDT Sunday), the agency said late Saturday.
Most parts of the minivan-sized satellite will burn up during re-entry into the atmosphere but up to 30 fragments weighing 1.87 tons (1.7 metric tons) could crash into Earth at speeds up to 280 mph (450 kph).
The satellite orbits every 90 minutes and it could hit almost anywhere along its path - a vast swath between 53-degrees north and 53-degrees south that comprises much of the planet outside the poles, including parts of North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Director Steven Spielberg (R) and an unidentified official look at actor Jamie Bell (L) imitating a figure of Tintin, painted on a Thalys high-speed train, in Brussels October 22, 2011. Spielberg and cast members attended the world premiere of his movie "The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn" in Brussels on Saturday.
Photo by Yves Herman
Hungary's State Opera says German conductor Cristoph von Dohnanyi has canceled a pair of appearances to protest the appointment of a theater director linked to far-right groups.
Dohnanyi said in a letter released Friday by the Hungarian State Opera that he does not want to "appear in a city whose mayor entrusted the direction of a theater to two known, extreme right-wing anti-Semites."
Mayor Istvan Tarlos' recent appointment of Gyorgy Dorner was widely criticized by Jewish organizations, as well as a large group of directors of other Budapest theaters.
Dorner has named Istvan Csurka, a playwright and former lawmaker known for anti-Semitic speeches and articles, as his deputy.
The Opera said it was considering suing Dohnanyi for compensation.
Protester Paul Wernke, from Cincinnati, holds his sign during an Occupy Cincinnati protest, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in Cincinnati. Police on Friday moved from ticketing to arresting Occupy Cincinnati protesters who have refused to stop camping out at a downtown park.
Photo by David Kohl
If your search for television jobs is looking bleak, it may not be your industry's fault.
The problem might be your state's economy.
A record number of TV pilots were made last year, thanks to an increasing number of cable stations getting into original programing. This has been a windfall year for cable and network ad spending. But the money isn't necessarily trickling down to rank-and-file actors, writers and other professionals in Los Angeles, the heart of the industry.
Just as television has splintered from three major networks into hundreds of stations, shows and jobs are branching out to more and more cities.
A record-setting 169 pilots were shot last year, according to Film L.A. The increase was fueled by a cable boom: For the first time, more than half the pilots were for cable networks.
A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement holds up a placard showing (L-R) State Street Corp Chief Executive Officer Ronald Logue, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and Bank of New York CEO Robert P. Kelly before a protest against police brutality at Zuccotti park in New York October 22, 2011.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
Rupert Boneham won over TV viewers during 2004's "Survivor: All-Stars" - earning a nifty $1 million as the overwhelming choice for fan favorite on the reality show. Now the bushy-bearded Boneham is hoping Indiana voters will find him just as charming.
Boneham, 47, announced Saturday that he's seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for Indiana governor, saying he wants to take on the state's political establishment because he feels voters deserve better.
At a news conference in Indianapolis, Boneham said he's the best candidate to replace Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, who has reached his term limit and can't run next year, because he's "not beholden to any special interests."
In prepared statements circulated later by his campaign, Boneham said he wants to run as the Libertarian candidate because he thinks Indiana voters deserve an alternative to "the dysfunctional state of our current government."
A couple wearing masks embrace after erecting tents in Finsbury Square in central London October 22, 2011. London's landmark St Paul's Cathedral closed its doors on Friday because of hazards posed by hundreds of protesters encamped in front of it in a demonstration inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Photo by Toby Melville
He introduced wartime Britain to the percussive rhythm of the rumba, so capturing the nation's imagination that its young princess chose his songs for her public dancing debut.
Bandleader Edmundo Ros, 100, died peacefully in his sleep, his family said Saturday.
Born in Trinidad to a Venezuelan mother and a Scottish father, Ros's musical career began in the Venezuelan army but took off after he moved to London in 1937. His five-piece Rumba Band was a runaway hit, playing for high society and international royalty.
His music was so popular that then-Princess Elizabeth had her first public dance to the sound of Ros' band in the 1940s. As queen, she would award him the Order of the British Empire for his services to entertainment.
Ros was a prolific artist, making more than 800 recordings over the course of his career. His 1949 number, "The Wedding Samba," sold 3 million copies.
His band was a fixture at Regent Street's Coconut Grove club, which he bought in 1951 and which counted Britain's Princess Margaret, Monaco's Prince Rainier and Sweden's Prince Bertil among its regulars, according to the musician's website.
The club's demanding standards - ladies wearing broad-brimmed hats or trousers were denied admittance - kept the clientele exclusive through the 1950s, but the relaxation of Britain's gambling laws in the 1960s began to hit his takings.
Ros sold the club and later retired to the Spanish resort city of Alicante, where he died on Friday night, according to a family statement.
His son, Douglas Ros said a private funeral ceremony would take place in Spain.
The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.
Jerzy Bielecki, a German-speaking Polish inmate at the same Nazi death camp, lived to age 90 and died peacefully in his sleep Thursday at his home in Nowy Targ in southern Poland, his daughter, Alicja Januchowski said Saturday.
Januchowski, a New Yorker, spoke to The Associated Press from Nowy Targ, where she had been with her ailing father.
The Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem awarded Bielecki the Righteous Among the Nations title in 1985 for saving the girlfriend, Cyla Cybulska. It all happened in July 1944, when the 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position in Auschwitz to orchestrate a daring escape for both of them.
Bielecki was 19 when the Germans seized him on the false suspicion he was a resistance fighter, and brought him to Auschwitz in April 1940 in the first transport of inmates, all Poles. He was given number 243.
Cybulska, her parents, two brothers and a younger sister were rounded up in January 1943 in the Lomza ghetto in northern Poland and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents and sister were immediately killed in the gas chambers, but she and her brothers were sent to work.
By September, 22-year-old Cybulska was the only one left alive, with inmate number 29558 tattooed on her left forearm.
They met and their love blossomed, making Bielecki determined to find a way to escape.
From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse, Bielecki secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Then dressed as SS officer, he pretended he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation. He led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.
The fear of being gunned down himself reverberated through his first steps of freedom.
For more than a week they hid in the fields during the day and marched during the night, until they reached the house of Bielecki's uncle. There, they were separated, as the family wanted Bielecki back home in Krakow, and Cybulska was sent to hide with a farm family.
They failed to meet back up after the war.
Bielecki stayed in Poland and settled in Nowy Targ, where he raised a family and worked as the director of a school for bus and car mechanics. Cybulska married a Jewish man, David Zacharowitz, with whom she went to Sweden and then to New York.
Sheer chance allowed them to meet again. While talking with her Polish cleaning woman in 1982, Cybulska related her Auschwitz escape story.
T
he woman, stunned, said she had heard Bielecki tell the same story on Polish TV. She then helped Cybulska find Bielecki in Poland.
In the summer of 1983, they met at the Krakow airport. He brought 39 red roses, one for each year they had spent apart.
Cybulska died in New York in 2002.
Bielecki is survived by his wife, two daughters, four grandchildren and a great-grandson. A Catholic funeral Mass and burial are to be held in Nowy Targ on Monday.
A protester displays political paintings of European politicians at a camp outside of St. Paul's Catherdral in central London October 22, 2011. London's landmark St Paul's Cathedral closed its doors on Friday because of hazards posed by hundreds of protesters encamped in front of it in a demonstration inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Photo by Toby Melville
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