Roger Ebert: Trib bankruptcy a Zell of a deal
The Sun-Times and the Tribune have been rivals since time immemorial. But as the Tribune files for Chapter 11, this is no time to gloat. It is a time to point fingers, and mine is pointed at Sam Zell. The Tribune is in crisis because it cannot pay the interest on his debt.
Roger Ebert: Perform a concert in words
That cup of coffee in the Union cemented one of my oldest friendships. Bill Nack was sports editor of The Daily Illini the year I was editor.
ROBERT D. McFADDEN: Bettie Page, Queen of Pinups, Dies at 85 (nytimes.com)
Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men's magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious '60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 85.
DR. DAVID LIPSCHITZ: Rising Triglyceride Levels Increase Heart Attack Risk (creators.com)
If an elevated triglyceride level is identified, the initial step should be to screen for and treat diabetes and attempt to lower triglyceride levels by avoiding alcohol and implementing healthy lifestyle habits, including diet and exercise. If the aim is weight loss, total caloric intake should be reduced and, most importantly, intake of sugars and starch must be restricted. Consuming 10 or more grams of Omega-3 fatty acids, either from a capsule, fish oil or diet, can lower triglyceride levels by as much as 40 percent.
Gus Van Sant once worked as an assistant to which director?
A Hal Ashby
B Roger Corman
C Blake Edwards
D Vincente Minnelli
E Alan J. Pakula
Source
Sally was first, and correct, with:
I glad to see that we are back on track again! Okay, for today (Saturday): Gus Van Sant once worked as an assistant to (B) Roger Corman.
Kappy, in chilly Philly replied:
B, Roger Corman......and this is not from wikepedia....wikepedia, wtf? you're killin' me with yesterday's question....hold on, in a few minutes the site will say there are only 10 hills.
Joe S ("For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
~ Gus Van Sant) wrote:
B Roger Corman
Charlie responded:
I'll go with
B Roger Corman
Who once said
"All my films have been concerned simply with man as a social animal."
In any case, Corman's oeuvre is pretty impressive.
MAM said:
Answer is
B Roger Corman
Marian the Teacher answered:
Roger Corman
Milk - In Limited Theaters Now - WIDE Release on December 12th
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
Prizes:
4 prizes in all - 3 first-prizes:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Hat
o T-shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
And, 1 grand prize:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Sweatshirt (made from recycled materials)
o Script Book
o Hat
o T-Shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
Started out a sunny day, but dark clouds blew in by late afternoon.
My niece & her SO dropped by so we all went to the neighborhood Christmas parade.
There were horses and bands and a wonderful contingent of lowriders who put on an amazing show, bouncing and hopping down Daisy Avenue.
And, of course, Santa on a fire truck bringing up the rear.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Survivor: Gabon'.
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 'Dateilne'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos' followed by the movie 'The Santa Claus 2', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The CW offers an recycled 'Jericho', followed by the movie 'Spaceballs'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by another RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Simpsons'< followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has a recycled 'Bernie Mac', followed by a recycled 'Raymond', then a recycled 'House', followed by another recycled 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Wild Bunch', followed by the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', then the movie 'The Wild Bunch', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[2:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 4 & 5
[8:00 PM] My Big Breasts and Me - My Big Breasts And Me
[9:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 10
[10:00 PM] Skins - Ep 18 Cassie
[11:00 PM] My Big Breasts and Me
[12:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 10
[1:00 AM] Skins - Ep 18 Cassie
[2:00 AM] My Big Breasts and Me
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 10
[4:00 AM] Skins - Ep 18 Cassie
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 27 Mitchell
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 28 Pigott
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Just Friends', followed by the movie 'The Wedding Singer'.
FX has the movie 'Just My Luck', followed by the movie 'John Tucker Must Die'.
History has 'Gangland: Aryan Brotherhood', 'Hillbilly: The Real Story', and 'Extreme Marksmen'.
IFC -
[6:30 AM] Elephant
[8:00 AM] Jules et Jim
[9:50 AM] Tyger
[10:00 AM] May Fools
[11:50 AM] The IFC Media Project
[12:20 PM] Four Simple Rules
[12:35 PM] Town & Country
[2:30 PM] Kansas City
[4:30 PM] The IFC Media Project
[5:00 PM] Mistress
[7:00 PM] Beyond the Sea
[9:00 PM] Chicago
[11:00 PM] Shopping
[12:45 AM] The Pianist
[3:20 AM] IFC in Theaters
[3:30 AM] Chicago
[5:25 AM] Beyond the Sea (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Raging Sharks', followed by the movie 'Sharks In America'.
Sundance -
[04:45 AM] Cookie's Fortune
[06:45 AM] Flower & Garnet
[08:30 AM] Soar
[09:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Rascal Flatts, Kate Nash & Herbie Hancock
[10:00 AM] The Staircase: Chapter 2. Secrets and lies
[11:00 AM] The Drug Years: Feed Your Head
[12:00 PM] Reach the Rock
[02:00 PM] Spectacle: Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel
[03:00 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Gadgets
[03:35 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Contested Streets
[04:35 PM] The Sierra Club Chronicles: Episode 5
[05:05 PM] Old Joy
[06:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 5
[07:00 PM] It's All About Love
[09:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 3
[09:30 PM] Pulling: Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Adaptation
[12:00 AM] Spider Forest
[02:00 AM] In Short: Festival 10
[03:00 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3
[03:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 7
[04:00 AM] Twentyfourseven
[05:45 AM] Reach the Rock | (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Antonio Banderas sits with his wife Melanie Griffith as they watch the Los Angeles Lakers play the Sacramento Kings in an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Country radio, long the most popular radio format, is no longer on top.
Among 2,064 U.S. stations, the news/talk format now leads country, which airs on 2,024 stations -- down 30 from a year ago.
News/talk has gained 40 stations since November 2007, according to M Street, a company that tracks such statistics. The format has gained 250 stations in the past five years and 450 in the past decade.
Country has lost more than 350 stations since 1998. But it's still on top among current-driven music formats. Contemporary Christian is second with 945 outlets, followed by Spanish (922), adult contemporary, or AC (671) and top 40 (497).
From left, actress Sigourney Weaver, writer/producer Gary Ross, actor Kevin Kline and actor Matthew Broderick attend a special screening of the new animated film 'The Tale of Despereaux' on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Saturday it was canceling a December 18 meeting in response to a request by Democratic lawmakers that it pay more attention to a smooth transition to digital television early next year.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Henry Waxman of California wrote FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R-Corporate Lapdog) on Friday asking him to hold off on other FCC business to focus on the mandatory switch to digital television signals due in February.
In a statement, FCC spokesman Robert Kenny said that "in light of the letter, it does not appear that there is consensus to move forward and the agenda meeting has been canceled."
Next week's meeting had been scheduled to consider a plan for auctioning a slice of the airwaves for free Internet and proposed rules to handle disputes between cable companies and content providers -- both potentially controversial matters.
A place that rarely preserves its past is now trying to preserve its pasties.
Make that pasties and crystal bras, feathered head pieces, fans and thongs - anything that documents the existence of an increasingly rare bird: the showgirl.
"We were the original Las Vegas," says Lou Anne Harrison Chessik, the former showgirl behind a new exhibit that memorializes the garb and glamour of her withering art. "It's important to me that we understand this history."
There are just two large-scale showgirl revues left on the Las Vegas Strip, so very different from the 1960s when every respectable casino housed its own flock of beauties in boas. Their bloodlines may trace back to the French cancan girls of the 19th century, but it took the one-upmanship of Las Vegas to make them icons. Now, they're fading from the stage, and Chessik and others are part of a still young movement to make sure they're not forgotten.
Australian actress Nicole Kidman blows a didgeridoo beside German TV host Thomas Gottschalk (C) as Australian actor Hugh Jackman balances on one leg during the German television show "Wetten dass...?" (Bet it...?) in Stuttgart December 13, 2008.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
It only took a 100 years or so, but the world is finally getting a piece of Mark Twain's mind on the subject of free expression and whether it's safer for your words to be expressed after you're dead.
"We have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we do not insult them, we do not revile them, as knowing they cannot now defend themselves. If they should speak, what revelations there would be!" Twain observed in "The Privilege of the Grave," an essay written in 1905, and long unpublished, that will appear in the issue of The New Yorker that comes out Monday.
"Now there is hardly one of us but would dearly like to reveal these secrets of ours; we know we cannot do it in life, then why not do it from the grave, and have the satisfaction of it?"
The essay is part of the Mark Twain archive at the University of California-Berkeley.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction is getting a heavy dose of reality.
Roger Avary, who cowrote the 1994 neonoir classic with Quentin Tarentino, was charged with gross vehicular manslaughter on Friday for a deadly car accident in Ojai, Calif., in January
Prosecutors claim Avary, 43, was driving drunk the night of Jan. 13 when he lost control of his car and slammed into a telephone pole. A passenger Andreas Zini, 34, was killed in the crash. Avary's wife, Gretchen, suffered serious injuries when she was ejected from the vehicle.
Avary, who cowrote 2007's Beowolf starring Angelina Jolie, also faces two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated. A pretrial hearing is set for Feb. 20.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, left, sits with actor Lucas Haas as they watch the Los Angeles Lakers play the Sacramento Kings in an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Widows of war veterans have been wrongfully denied up to millions of dollars in government benefits over the past 12 years due to computer glitches that often resulted in money being seized from the elderly survivors' bank accounts.
The Veterans Affairs Department said Saturday it wasn't fully aware of the problem. It pledged to work quickly to give back the pension and disability checks - ranging from $100 to more than $2,500 - that hundreds of thousands of widows should have received during the month of their spouse's death.
Congress passed a law in 1996 giving veterans' spouses the right to keep their partners' final month of benefits. It instructed the VA to make changes as needed to comply with the law, which took effect for spouses of veterans who died after Dec. 31, 1996.
But the VA never updated its automated computer systems, which send out checks and notification letters. As a result, widows were either denied the final month of payment or asked to send the checks back. In many cases, if the checks were already deposited or spent, the U.S. Treasury moved to seize the money directly from the widow's account.
Huge swarms of stinging jellyfish and similar slimy animals are ruining beaches in Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, Australia and elsewhere, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
The report says 150 million people are exposed to jellyfish globally every year, with 500,000 people stung in the Chesapeake Bay, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast, alone.
Another 200,000 are stung every year in Florida, and 10,000 are stung in Australia by the deadly Portuguese man-of-war, according to the report, a broad review of jellyfish research.
The report, available on the Internet at nsf.gov/news/special_reports/jellyfish/index.jsp, says the Black Sea's fishing and tourism industries have lost $350 million because of a proliferation of comb jelly fish.
Cherries are covered in ice after an ice storm, in East Greenbush, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. An ice storm knocked out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses in New England and upstate New York Friday.
Photo by Mike Groll
An Italian adventurer who spent 10 months rowing more than 9,500 nautical miles (18,000 kilometers) across the Pacific has been rescued a mere 65 nautical miles short of his goal - Australia - after rough weather sapped him of his final shreds of energy.
Alex Bellini, who began his voyage off Peru in February, contacted his wife Friday to say he was too exhausted to row his 25-foot (7.5 meter) boat any further, despite being nearly in sight of the eastern Australian town of Laurieton.
Bellini's wife contacted authorities, and an Australian tug boat towed the 30-year-old to shore. They reached Newcastle, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Sydney, Saturday morning.
Although looking weary and thin and sporting a bushy beard, Bellini grinned and appeared in high spirits as he was reunited with his tearful wife, Francesca.
A 16-month cat fight in an Oregon court has come to an end. A pair of Portland neighbors resorted to attorneys to sort out their dispute over a 4-year-old Siamese cat named Merlin. Donella and Charles Whitacre had claimed their neighbors, RoseMarie Opp and Lawrence Hudetz, "kidnapped" Merlin.
But Opp and Hudetz said they kept the cat because they believed he had been neglected.
Police concluded that it was a civil matter, so it ended up in court with attorneys on both sides.
But with a trial pending this week, the lawyers reached a settlement that sent Merlin back to the Whitacres.
Mother, Geogie carries her joey, Kirrhi, the newest member of the Los Angeles Zoo's Koala family, Friday Dec. 12, 2008 in Los Angeles. Kirrhi, who was born April 3, 20008, spent six months developing in the mother's pouch, before emerging at Los Angeles Zoo.
Photo by Nick Ut
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