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I read your piece about the town in TX being renamed "Dish" and then a bit below that article another article about the death of Ralph Edwards.
I wondered, by chance, did you know that a town in NM was renamed, "Truth or Consequences" after Edward's show of the same name (circa 1950)?
How do I know this, you may ask? I will tell you. I remember it well - that little town got a lot of free publicity on the nightly radio news and newspapers of my day - we all loved Ralph Edwards...
Those were the days my friend...
Your faithful reader,
Sally P
Thanks, Sally!
I tend to chop up the obits pretty good some nights - it's a bandwidth-thing.
Was sorely tempted to keep the 'Truth or Consequences, NM' reference - I've visited there a couple of times, but pragmatism won out.
I remember the TV version of Truth or Consequences, hosted by
Bob Barker, and the 'Beulah the Buzzer' running gag.
What I didn't realize is that there were 3 hosts over the span of
Truth or Consequences -
the late
Ralph Edwards, the already mentioned
Bob Barker, and
Jack Bailey.
Jack Bailey also hosted
Queen for a Day, where women with hard lives compared tales & the most pathetic
got a cape, crown, scepter & bouquet of roses. She was 'Queen for a Day'.
Years later I met someone whose mother had been a contestant on the show. She lost.
Sorry, George, I'm In the Majority ...from Michael Moore
Dear Mr. Bush: I would like to extend my hand and invite you to join us, the mainstream American majority. We, the people -- that's the majority of the people -- share these majority opinions: 1. Going to war was a mistake -- a big mistake.
The American Majority
CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, November 11-13, 2005
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq?"
63% Disapprove | 35% Approve
Flavia Monteiro Colgan: A Media Monster Is Eating the Dems (AlterNet.org)
CNN President Jonathan Klein explained that Democrats have a hard time getting booked because they don't get "angry" enough to excite the viewers. He told Charlie Rose that liberals "don't get too worked up about anything. And they're pretty morally relativistic. And so, you know, they allow for a lot of that stuff."
Christopher Hayes: An interview with Chicago labor lawyer, Tom Geoghegan (inthesetimes.com)
There's a line in the Symposium, where Aristophanes says, "What is the tragedy of the human condition? We're in two sexes instead of one." The tragedy of the American condition is that we're two nations, one of which is still trying to participate in the political process, holding on to these old civic values, and the rest, not quite the majority, but soon to become the majority, saying, "We're not capable of doing what you do."
Benjamin Greenberg: With friends like FEMA, who needs Jim Crow? (inthesetimes.com)
Evacuees will be considerably more vulnerable as targets in the upcoming high-stakes elections. "If the Republican Party had long lists of people to challenge at the polls in 2004, what kind of action will we see around many thousands of absentee ballots in 2005 and 2006?" says Browne.
Listen and/or call in to the Erin Hart Show on 710KIRO.com tonight - I'll probably show up a bit past 10pm (pst).
Added a new flag - Tunisia.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case', then a FRESH made-for-TV movie 'Snow Wonder'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH made-for-TV movie 'The Poseidon Adventure'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover; Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives' (runs 2 minutes long), followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy' (starts 2 minutes after the top of the hour).
The WB offers a RERUN'Reba', followed by another RERUN'Reba', then a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'War At Home', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
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 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'A League Of Their Own', followed by the movie 'A League Of Their Own', again.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Royal Jewels';
[3pm] 'Diana's Legacy';
[5pm] 'Royal Jewels';
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Derby 34;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Wespoint 14;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[9pm] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 1 Gibson Family;
[10pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 5;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[12am] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 1 Gibson Family;
[1am] 'Mile High' - Episode 5;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[3am] 'Manchild' - Episode 4;
[3:40am] 'Manchild' - Episode 5;
[4:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 5;
[5:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 6;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Richard Gere), 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and more 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
CARTOON NETWORK has a FRESH'Boondocks'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'Billy Madison'.
History has 'Meteors: Fire In The Sky', 'Little Ice Age: Big Chill', and 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Kill!(1968);
[8AM] The Red Violin (1998);
[10:15AM] IFC November Short Film Collection I (2005);
[12:15PM] Shadow Magic (2000);
[2:15PM] Short: The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002);
[2:30PM] The Red Violin (1998);
[4:45PM] IFC in Theaters(2005);
[5PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[5:30PM] IFC November Short Film Showcase (2005);
[6PM] Shadow Magic (2000);
[8PM] Swingers (1996);
[9:45PM] Short Cuts (1993);
[1AM] Swingers (1996);
[2:45AM] Edward II (1992);
[4:30AM] Charming Billy (1999). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'John Carpenter's Vampires: Los Muertos', followed by the movie 'Out For Blood'.
Sundance -
[7am] Satin Rouge;
[8:45am] The Swell Life;
[9:15am] Bollywood/Hollywood;
[11am] Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War;
[12pm] Minnie and Moskowitz;
[2pm] Iconoclasts: Jackson on Russell;
[3pm] Slings & Arrows: Episode 3 - Madness in Great Ones;
[4pm] Play With Me;
[4:15pm] Eat;
[4:30pm] A Letter to True;
[6pm] Iconoclasts: Jackson on Russell;
[7pm] The Swell Life;
[7:30pm] Melvin Goes to Dinner;
[9pm] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: London Calling;
[9:30pm] Á Tout de Suite;
[11:05pm] See The Sea;
[12am] The Funeral;
[1:45am] Before the Rain;
[3:45am] The Funeral;
[5:30am] Minnie and Moskowitz. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Charlize Theron arrives for the Spike TV 'Video Game Awards 2005,' Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, in Los Angeles. Theron won an award for best performance by a human female for her role in the video game Aeon Flux (Majesco Entertainment).
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Muhammad Ali can still draw a big crowd. The boxing great took center stage in his hometown Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Muhammad Ali Center, a six-story tribute to Ali's storied career and a legacy to his humanitarian ideals of peace and tolerance.
The star-studded event, at a performing arts center next door to the Ali Center, drew a large cast of actors, singers, athletes and even a former president, Bill Clinton - reflecting the champ's star appeal.
In a scene reminescient of the era when Ali was in his prime as a fighter, a couple of peace activists protested the Iraq war.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (R) is seen with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres on the Staten Island Ferry touring the New York waterways, in this undated handout photograph released by Warner Bros. on November 19, 2005. This segment airs on Monday, November 21st as part of Ellen's New York Five Borough Show.
Photo by Albert Ferreira
Rapper Snoop Dogg urged Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger on Saturday to grant clemency to convicted murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams so he can continue his work with young people.
"Stanley Tookie Williams is not just a regular old guy, he's an inspirator," the rapper and former Crips member told a crowd of about 1,000 outside San Quentin State Prison.
Williams, 51, is set to be executed Dec. 13. He was convicted in 1979 of murdering four people during two robberies in Los Angeles. He has exhausted his appeals and has asked $chwarzenegger for clemency.
$chwarzenegger said this past week that he was "dreading" the decision.
Emotionally, opera is "a direct whammy," "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston says as he prepares to co-host the first Opera News magazine awards.
The awards, to be presented Sunday, go to three Americans - mezzo-sopranos Susan Graham and Dolora Zajick, and conductor James Conlon - plus Spanish tenor Placido Domingo and French soprano Regine Crespin.
Waterston saw his first as a high school student in Boston - the Metropolitan Opera performing Richard Strauss's "Rosenkavalier."
He was seduced, and now the 65-year-old actor who plays the intense prosecutor Jack McCoy on TV's "Law & Order" wants to lure others to the art form he loves.
Professional golfer John Daly is joining the legions of Paris Hilton, Ozzy Osbourne and Donald Trump in the world of reality TV.
Daly will star in "The Daly Planet," a 13-part series for The Golf Channel beginning Jan. 18. The weekly Wednesday night episodes will follow Daly's daily life on and off the golf course.
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu flashes V-sign during his detention on remand at Tel Aviv's Magistrate Court, November 19, 2005. Israeli police detained Vanunu on Friday as he tried to pass through a West Bank checkpoint in an apparent violation of restrictions imposed after his release from prison in 2004.
Photo by Ronen Zvulun
In a move that took the country music industry by surprise, ABC Radio Networks will replace longtime "American Country Countdown" host Bob Kingsley with Kix Brooks of musical duo Brooks & Dunn at the beginning of next year.
Kingsley, who has hosted the show since 1978, said the two sides failed to come to terms in a renegotiation.
While Kingsley did not own the show's name, his Weatherford, Texas-based company KCCS Productions produced the show, and had a sales and distribution agreement with ABC. Kingsley and his team plan to continue the show -- with a new name -- either with another syndicator or on their own.
An oil painting by Jackson Pollock and a silkscreen by Andy Warhol were stolen from a museum by thieves who shattered a glass door in the back of the building, officials said.
The Pollock was likely worth about $11.6 million and the Warhol had a value of about $15,000, experts said.
The thieves had disappeared from the Everhart Museum by the time police arrived - four minutes after the alarm sounded at 2:30 a.m. Friday. Surveillance cameras were not working, officials said.
Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch (L) stands next to a man covered with animal blood and intestines during the '122 Action' of his Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries in the entrance of the Viennese Burgtheater November 19, 2005.
Photo by Leonhard Foeger
With its bags packed for Vegas and its bank balances sagging, the Miss America pageant is asking former winners to donate money for the scholarship that goes with the crown.
In an unprecedented step, Miss America Organization CEO Art McMaster appealed to former winners to kick in for the $50,000 scholarship, citing the pageant's new push for fundraising.
In a Nov. 3 letter obtained by The Associated Press, he noted the pageant's loss of network television revenue and said donations were needed to underwrite the Miss America scholarship.
A map believed to be the last of the original plans for the city of Pittsburgh, is shown at auction Saturday Nov. 19, 2005, in Philadelphia, where it sold at auction for $55,000. The map sold at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. auction house was one of three made in 1784 by Col. George Woods under direction of Tench Francis, an agent for the William Penn family. The other two copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1845.
Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek
The longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls is scheduled to go on display in a Cleveland museum next year in its first appearance in the United States.
A traveling exhibition featuring the Temple Scroll, which measures 28 feet, will make its first stop at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in suburban Beachwood, The Plain Dealer newspaper reported Saturday. The ancient manuscript dates back to the time of Christ.
The exhibition, which runs from March through August, also includes other artifacts from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, including the burial box of Caiaphas the High Priest who, according to the New Testament, delivered Christ to the Romans for execution.
England soccer manager Sven Goran Eriksson is helping to raise money for homeless cats in his home country Sweden, a charity said on Friday.
Eriksson is appearing in Stockholm's Cat Home calendar for 2006, along with a number of other famous Swedes, said Margit Vieri, a board member of the charity, which finds owners for around 400 homeless cats a year.
"Svennis", as he is commonly known, appears on the calendar entry for July with a smokey-black cat called Ronja, according to a picture on the website of newspaper Aftonbladet.
Harold Stone, a veteran character actor who worked with everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Jerry Lewis over a 40-year career in television and films, has died. He was 92.
U.S. resident George W. Bush speaks with Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra before the declaration for the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Pusan, South Korea November 19, 2005. Pacific Rim leaders want more progress in talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes, and an eventual deal could boost the region's economy, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said on Saturday.
Photo by Yuriko Nakao
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