Scott Burns: The Next 100 Years (assetbuilder.com)
George Friedman holds up a recent Fortune magazine, his face a portrait in incredulity. The cover declares that China is buying everything, much as the Japanese were doing nearly two decades ago. The inside story is titled "It's China's World. (We just live in it.)" "If China is so healthy, why is everyone there not investing in China?" he asks.
Roger Ebert: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (PG-13; 1 star)
The characters in this movie should be arrested for loitering with intent to moan. Never have teenagers been in greater need of a jump-start. Granted some of them are more than 100 years old, but still: their charisma is by Madame Tussaud.
Jocelyn Miller: Black Hole Son (nypress.com)
Attention all those who worship at the altar of twiggy, big-eyed, scraggly antiheroes: Tim Burton has come to town. Plus, four other misfit artists who mine their psyches for creepy material.
John Dickerson hosted a roundtable discussion of Eric Holder's decision to prosecute 5 Guantanamo Bay detainees in New York with Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton with National Security Network and Hamilton Peterson with Keep America Safe.
Sally said:
Again, ALF AKA "Gordon Shumway" follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners who were a suburban middle class family in Riverside, California.
MAM answered:
The family with whom Gordon Shumway resided was the Tanner family. The series starrd Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate
Tanner, and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their children, Lynn and Brian Tanner.
ALF and the Tanner Family
Joe S wrote:
Tanner, Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their children, Lynn and Brian Tanner.
Purple Gene's review of a "Swell Season"
at the Paramount Theater in Oakland.
"ONCE" AGAIN….WITH GLEN
It all started a couple years ago when I went to the Shattuck Theater in Berkeley to see this miniscule movie called "Once". Filmed in Dublin, and starring 2 rather unknown musicians….Glen Hansard of the "Frames" and a 17 year old Czech chick named Marketa Irglova….the movie was magical.. and won an Academy Award for best movie song.
Rumor had it that Glen and Marketa fell in love while filming and went out on tour in 2008 performing all the songs they had sung in the movie….and wow were they wonderful!
One year later (and according to the CD sales lady) no longer an Item, Glen and Marketa are appearing tonight at the Paramount Theater in Oakland California.
AND THE "FRAMES"
This isn't being billed as the doting duet of a year ago, but rather Glen and Marketa with Glen's old band The "Frames" (drums, bass, guitars and violin). There is one thing that became clear from the very first song…..Glen Hansard is the front man …and what a powerhouse personality he is…unlike his character in the movie and unlike his persona in last years "Once" tour….Glen is the focal point of all that happens….
Of course, after 5 minutes of a screaming stomping rhythmic roar from the crowd for an encore……out they came for the One Song we all came for…
"Falling Slowing"
The band played on for a few more songs….. but I was spent!
I went out to the lobby where I could hear the ambient sounds of the finale…. I ended up talking TO the CD saleslady who is a close friend of Glen and Marketa's…..she told me about how Marketa's father invited the "Frames" to his residence in 2002 for a BBQ and backyard concert …that's when Marketa met Glen….. she was 13!
They actually started writing together in 2006 and were cast by Director John Carney (The Frames Bass player) for the lead parts in "Once" !
I'll tell you that what developed from all of that was pure musical magic and tonight at the Paramount it seemed to have come full circle!
Purple Gene gives the "Swell Season" concert at the Paramount 10 resounding, resilient and resonating roars from a rapt crowd out of 10 for being something you want to hear…..more than "ONCE" !
As an American physician who is Muslim, I feel a profound sense of anger and betrayal. Anger that the alleged perpetrator of the heinous Fort Hood massacre was a Muslim. Anger that someone born and raised in this great land could do such a thing. And anger, above all, that a doctor reportedly did it - a man who had taken the solemn oath repeated by all of us upon graduation from medical school... "primum non nocere," a Latin phrase that means "first, do no harm."...
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 15', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Three Rivers'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Monk', and/or an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with the FRESH'2009 American Music Awards'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Hotel Rwanda'.
Faux has a FRESH'Brothers', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'That 70s Show', followed by another old 'That 70s Show', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Road Warrior', followed by the movie 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome', and 'The Prisoner'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Mary Queen of Shops - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6
[6:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
[6:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8
[7:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10
[8:00 PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[10:30 PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[1:00 AM] James May On the Moon - James May On the Moon
[2:00 AM] Being Neil Armstrong - Being Neil Armstrong
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 10
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'GoodFellas', 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', followed by the FRESH'Bill Engvall: Aged and Confused', then 'Bill Engvall: Aged And Confused', again.
FX has the movie 'Mr & Mrs Smith', followed by the movie 'The Departed'.
History has 'Home For The Holidays: The History Of Thanksgiving', 'Pawn Wars', another 'Pawn Wars', followed by the FRESH'Cowboys & Outlaws: The Real Wyatt Earp', then the FRESH'Cowboys & Outlaws: The Real McCoy'.
IFC -
[6:35 AM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[8:15 AM] The Quiet American
[10:00 AM] Singh Is Kinng
[12:20 PM] I Am David
[2:00 PM] IFC News Special
[2:30 PM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[4:15 PM] The Quiet American
[6:00 PM] Assassination Tango
[8:00 PM] Crash
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] Seven
[1:15 AM] Crash
[3:10 AM] Assassination Tango
[5:05 AM] Arrested Development
[5:30 AM] Arrested Development (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lightning Strikes', followed by the movie 'Fire From Below'. .
Sundance -
[02:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[04:15 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[10:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[05:55 AM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 107
[06:25 AM] Avenue Montaigne
[08:15 AM] Colma: The Musical
[10:00 AM] E2: Design I - 102
[10:30 AM] Carbon Cops: Episode 2
[11:00 AM] Ice People
[12:20 PM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[01:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters
[02:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
[03:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[05:20 PM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[06:00 PM] Spectacle: Elton John
[07:00 PM] Spectacle: Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel
[08:00 PM] Spectacle: Bill Clinton
[09:00 PM] Spectacle: James Taylor
[10:00 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[12:15 AM] Bright Future
[01:50 AM] Maestro
[02:00 AM] The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
[04:15 AM] Together (ALL TIMES EST)
Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek and her husband, entrepreneur Francois-Henri Pinault, attend a news conference for a new campaign of charity organisation ELA in Rennes, western France, November 21, 2009.
Photo by Stephane Mahe
Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.
The Grammy Award-winning singer has asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to scrap a proposed roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.
"With one voice we are insisting that our government stop managing these beautiful and important animals to extinction," Crow said in a statement released by the Cloud Foundation, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based horse advocacy group.
Crow, who has adopted a mustang, campaigned for Obama last year. She opposes Salazar's plan to move thousands of wild horses to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them.
A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.
The full report by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice won't be completed until the end of next year. But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
The question has been raised repeatedly within and outside the church because the overwhelming majority of known victims were boys. As part of the church's response to the crisis, the Vatican ordered a review of all U.S. seminaries that, among other issues, looked for any "evidence of homosexuality" in the schools.
The bishops had commissioned the $2 million study as part of widespread reforms they enacted at the height of the abuse crisis. The scandal erupted in 2002 with the case of one predator priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, then spread to every U.S. diocese and beyond.
As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics are coming out of the closet, fueling a sharp rise in the number of clubs like the 10-year-old group at Iowa State.
Campus affiliates of the Secular Student Alliance, a sort of Godless Campus Crusade for Christ, have multiplied from 80 in 2007 to 100 in 2008 and 174 this fall, providing the atheist movement new training grounds for future leaders. In another sign of growing acceptance, at least three universities, including Harvard, now have humanist chaplains meeting the needs of the not-so-spiritual.
With the growth has come soul-searching - or the atheist equivalent - about what secular campus groups should look like. It's part of a broader self-examination in the atheist movement triggered by the rise of the so-called "new atheists," best-selling authors who denigrate religion and blame it for the world's ills.
Should student atheist groups go it alone or build bridges with Christian groups? Organize political protests or quiet discussion groups? Adopt the militant posture of the new atheists? Or wave and smile?
In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said a private collector had bought a container at auction containing two fingers and a tooth. The collector contacted Florence cultural officials and the parts and the container were found to match descriptions of the Galileo relics in historical documents. Galileo, who died in 1642, was branded a heretic by the Vatican for saying the Earth revolved around the Sun. In the early 1990s, Pope John Paul II rehabilitated him.
Critics are divided, Twi-hards are excited, but the Vatican is reportedly condemning "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," claiming the vampire and werewolf-filled movie is "deviant."
"This theme of vampires in 'Twilight' combines a mixture of excesses that, as ever is aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element," Monsignor Franco Perazzolo, the Vatican's culture council leader, said in a statement on Thursday, according to Britain's Daily Mail .
Monsignor Perazzolo reportedly said the latest installment in the "Twilight" franchise is delivering the wrong message to audiences.
"This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such should be of concern," he continued.
A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday.
Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a U.S. extradition request. He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, and he was arrested in September in Switzerland on a U.S. warrant.
The director's French lawyer, Herve Temime, told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published on Friday that Polanski would not return voluntarily to the United States. But Los Angeles attorneys Douglas Dalton, Bart Dalton and Chad Hummel said in a statement that Temime's comments were not authorized by Polanski.
The statement said only the three Los Angeles lawyers, along with Dr. Lorenz Erni in Switzerland and Polanski himself "are authorized to speak on his behalf" about the case.
Musician Alberto De La Rosa (L) and Ivan Lopez (C) of the music group Tlen Huicani of Mexico perform during the third International Harp Festival in Asuncion, November 20, 2009. Musicians from France, Japan, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Spain.
Photo by Jorge Adorno
Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their comments about Memphis center Hamed Haddadi.
Lawler and Smith made their off-the-cuff comments about the Iranian-born center during Wednesday night's telecast from Memphis. The on-air banter offended a viewer who e-mailed Fox to complain.
The duo did not work Friday's night telecast against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center. Michael Eaves and Don MacLean, who regularly serve as halftime and postgame analysts on the Clippers telecasts, substituted for Lawler and Smith at courtside.
Lawler, 71, is in his 31st season doing Clippers games, and Smith is in his 12th. Lawler has surpassed 2,400 regular season and playoff Clippers broadcasts in his career, according to the team's Web site.
Wesley Snipes' attorneys asked a federal appeals court Friday to review an "unreasonable" three-year prison sentence for the film star, who was convicted a year ago on federal tax charges.
Attorneys for the star of the "Blade" trilogy and other films also argued the actor should have been granted a hearing to decide whether his trial should have been in New York instead of Florida.
Prosecutors countered that Snipes, 47, had plenty of time to appeal to move the case to New York in a timely manner before he was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns. Besides, they contended, housing records showed he lived in Florida as well as New York.
Snipes was sentenced in April 2008 in what was considered a key victory for prosecutors who aggressively pursued the maximum penalty to deter others from trying to obstruct the IRS. They say he made at least $13.8 million for the years in question and owed $2.7 million in back taxes that he refused to pay.
Singaporean violinist Min Lee performs with a Brahms Stradivarius violin during a fund raising concert at the Arts House in Singapore November 21, 2009. The violin was made by Antonio Stradivarius and is 289 years old. It is estimated to be worth $12.6 million (9.07 million USD). Lee was performing to raise funds for children aged five to 12 who cannot afford musical education.
Photo by Matthew Lee
A Nashville judge has dismissed assault and harassment charges against country music singer John Rich.
Rich and other witnesses testified Friday before Judge John Aaron Holt that he did not punch aspiring singer Jared Ashley at a private nightclub in March 2008.
Ashley, a former contestant on the cable TV music show "Nashville Star," claimed Rich later threatened him in a voice mail message.
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a statement Saturday that the hackers had entered the server and stolen data at its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change. The university said police are investigating the theft of the information, but could not confirm if all the materials posted online are genuine.
More than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists is included in about 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sites following the security breach last week.
The furor over the leaked data comes weeks before the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, when 192 nations will seek to reach a binding treaty to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases worldwide. Many officials - including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - regard the prospects of a pact being sealed at the meeting as bleak.
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