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Also when she fills in for Mike Webb on December 22nd, 23rd, and 26th.
And on Boulder's Progressive Talk AM760.net on Dec 27th and 28th, from 5am to 9am PST.
What a week. Iraq and Bush lies; Iraq and the election; NSA and spying on
us (but Bush claims he didn't break the law, whew, I feel better).
The House gangs up with John McCain and Senate and Bush LOSES on torture,
imagine our relief. And Bushie claims DeLay is innocent, hummmmm, does
anyone believe ANYTHING he says? Watch his Sunday Oval speech and discuss.
Sunday, Professors Michelle LaFrance and her
fiance Jim Fitzmorris join us to talk about New Orleans and the real truth
on the bayou.
Local topics include the viaduct v. tunnel (thanks David Della!) and the new
home for chronic alcoholics on Eastlake.
Plus a holiday topic or two. Pedro is learning to play "dog hockey" and
thriving in the cold.
Devanie Angel: They're tracking you (newsreview.com)
Big business thinks Radio Frequency Identification tags are great, but privacy-rights advocates fear the tiny chips will invite corporations and the government into our personal lives
Holiday Princess: A Princess Diaries Book by Meg Cabot (Review by Lynn Bronikowski, rockymountainnews.com)
Plot in a nutshell: Through the voice of her celebrated character, Her Royal Highness Princess Mia, the author of the best-selling Princess Diaries novels presents a whimsical contemporary teen how-to on celebrating the holidays that's as yummy as the season's first sip of Starbucks eggnog latte. Whether celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Wiccans' Yule, New Year's Day, Chinese New Year or traditions around the world, Her Royal Highness dishes up etiquette and worldly advice to princesses everywhere with a priggish and amusing air.
Roger Ebert: Ellie Parker (3 stars)
This is the movie they should show in college acting classes, instead of tapes of "Inside the Actors' Studio." It is about auditioning for an idiotic Southern Gothic soap opera and then changing your makeup and accent in the car on your way to audition as a hooker in a soft-core sex film. About trying to impress a group of "producers" who are so stoned they don't have a sober brain cell to pass from hand to hand around the room. About suspecting that the only thing worse than not getting the job would be to get it.
Roger Ebert: Junebug (4 stars)
"Junebug" is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt wit
Bruce Campbell: America the Fat (bruce-campbell.com)
Never be confused by advertising. Advertising's sole purpose is to sell you something that you don't really and truly NEED. The ADVERTISERS need you to buy their product - that's the only need going on here. Try and go without some phony Brand-name product for a week and see if you miss it. Nine out of ten times, your life will be just fine without Spam, Jolt Cola, or Fruity Pebbles.
Purple Gene's review of the Miami Funk/Disco rappin' Dirty Old Man known as "Blowfly" (Clarence Reid) live at the "Down-Low" nightclub in Berkeley:
I was told by some old dudes that came to see Blowfly that he is one lewd and lascivious leering and lecherous pornographic novelty act. I had just spent the morning watching Howard Stern exit the terrestrial radio format with his cadre of pimps and crack whores, midgets and strippers, stutterers and marathon farters on their way to Satellite Radio Freedom! I wondered why Blowfly wasn't back in New York singing "Dick the Hoes" to the tune of "Deck the Halls" with Stern's Whack Pack ?
My son, D.J. Smokey said "You gotta see this guy dad…he's really disgusting!" So I went over to the club and started drinking Tequila…….
Blowfly was born in Georgia on Valentine's Day 60 years ago as Clarence Reid. His grandmother coined his name at age 7 when she heard him putting nasty words to top forty hit songs……she said…"Boy…you are nastier than a Blowfly". In the 60's he moved to Miami and recorded a reputable straight up Funk album under the Clarence Reid name. But by the early 70's , he started wearing outrageous capes and masks with white leggings and singing perverted parodies of current hits…"What a difference a Lay makes" got him in trouble. His influences were Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx and Dolomite!
Blowfly, just like "2 Live Crew" got banned in record stores and started his own label "Weird World" and just kept peddling is porn parodies.
Tonight, live at the Down-Low night club, the sexagenarian singer of sick smut, His Nastiness…..Blowfly…..
The paltry crowd of old school perverts and bums sprinkled with a number of curious white chicks who came to dance to Funk gave a spirited applause….wearing a silver cape and gold mask with silly looking leggings, Blowfly launched into "The First Time ever you Sucked my Dick"……followed by "If Eatin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be Right" …and then "Can I Come in your Mouth ?"……about now almost every female had exited the club feeling sick…..the filthy fools left were then treated with "Whole Lotta Fuckin' Goin' On" and "Diggin' Boogers" and finally "Blowfly's ABC's"
We got into the Christmas spirit with "Santa Claus is Comin' " and "Jingle Bell Cock" I couldn't take anymore of this sick mother fucker so I left!
Purple Gene gives Blowfly 1 crawl back into a creepy hole with that cape on cheer out of 10 for being the nastiest novelty act ever!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case', then a FRESH made-for-TV movie 'The Christmas Blessing'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Tom Brokaw Reports: To War & Back', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH'Wonderful World of Disney: Once Upon A Mattress', followed by a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', then a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB fills the night with the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz'.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN'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 an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Intervention', 'CSI: Miami', then the movie 'Lake Placid'.
AMC offers the movie 'Born On The Fourth Of July', followed by the movie 'Above the Law', then the movie 'Born On The Fourth Of July', again.
BBC -
[12pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 1;
[1:30pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 2;
[3pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 3;
[4:30pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 4;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Wetherby 19;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - France 14;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 6;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 14;
[9pm] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 3 Parkinson Family;
[10pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 9;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 14;
[12am] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 3 Parkinson Family;
[1am] 'Mile High' - Episode 9;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 14;
[5am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 5 And God Created Woman;
[5:30am] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 6 Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo fills the night with old 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'George Lopez: Why You Crying?', 'South Park', 'Showbiz Show With David Spade', and 'George Lopez: Why You Crying?', again.
History has 'Dogfights: The Greatest Air Battles', 'Brothers In Arms: The Untold Story Of The 502: D-Day', and 'Brothers In Arms: The Untold Story Of The 502: The Road to Carentan'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Shogun's Samurai (1978);
[8:15AM] The Invisible Circus (2001);
[10AM] Clockwatchers (1997);
[2PM] The Invisible Circus (2001);
[3:45PM] Raising Arizona (1987);
[5:30PM] At The IFC Center #8 (2005);
[8PM] The Full Monty (1997);
[9:45PM] Death and The Maiden (1994);
[11:45PM] The Full Monty (1997);
[1:30AM] Goya In Bordeaux (1999);
[3:30AM] Death and The Maiden (1994). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Forsaken', followed by the movie 'Dracula 3000'.
Sundance -
[12am] Overnight;
[2am] Black Robe;
[3:45am] Torture: The Dirty Business;
[5am] Greendale;
[6:30am] Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave;
[7am] I'm Going Home (Je Rentre a la Maison);
[8:30am] The Battle Of Algiers;
[10:30am] Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris;
[12pm] Greendale;
[1:30pm] Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers;
[2pm] Iconoclasts: Batali on Stipe;
[3pm] Who Is Bernard Tapie?;
[4pm] Minnie and Moskowitz;
[6pm] Iconoclasts: Batali on Stipe;
[7pm] I'm Going Home (Je Rentre a la Maison);
[8:30pm] Kath & Kim: Mango Espradrille;
[9pm] TransGeneration: Episode 4;
[9:30pm] TransGeneration: Episode 5;
[10pm] Minnie and Moskowitz:
[12AM] Overnight:
[2AM] Black Robe:
[3:45AM] Torture: The Dirty Business:
[5AM] Greendale . (ALL TIMES EST)
Muhammad Ali is being honored with a prestigious German peace prize for his work with in the civil rights movement and for the United Nations.
Ali, 63, is being awarded the Otto Hahn peace medal for his "lifelong engagement in the American civil rights movement and the global cultural emancipation of blacks, as well as his work as a U.N. Goodwill ambassador," the organization said.
At a news conference Friday, the former heavyweight boxing champ, who has Parkinson's disease, was helped on stage and sat next to his wife, Lonnie Ali, who said he was honored to be singled out as the first sportsman to receive the award.
In this photo provided by CNN, actress Carol Burnett, right, tugs her ear, a signal she used when she was on camera, to say hello to her late grandmother, as she is interviewed by talk show host Larry King during the CNN program 'Larry King Live' on Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 at the CNN studios in Los Angeles.
Photo by Rose M. Prouser
"Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock plans a documentary on conservative US politicians' treatment of science, Hollywood press reported.
Spurlock has purchased the film rights to adapt a book, "The Republican War on Science," according to the entertainment industry newspaper Daily Variety.
The book by Chris Mooney argues that Republican stances on stem-cell research, global climate change and sex education, among other topics, show a conservative bias on environment, health and security issues.
ABC News will appeal a ruling by a British employment panel that found the network unfairly dismissed a London-based freelancer because he refused an assignment to Iraq.
Richard Gizbert, a longtime war correspondent, claimed he had been sacked because he refused an assignment to Iraq. The 48-year-old Canadian had covered wars in Bosnia, Somalia and Chechnya for ABC News beginning in the early 1990s. But he didn't want to after he had children.
Last year, the network declined to renew his contract. ABC News said it made the decision for strictly financial reasons and not for his refusal. But the panel disagreed, saying that ABC News' testimony during the case was inconsistent. Gizbert is seeking $4 million in damages.
British police hunted for three men on Saturday who stole a huge bronze Henry Moore sculpture worth up to 3 million pounds ($5.30 million) and a spokesman said they feared the piece would be destroyed for scrap.
Police said the 3.5 meter long (11 ft 5.8 in) sculpture, "A Reclining Figure," was stolen from the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire, north of London, on Thursday night by three men who drove it away.
"This is a very valuable statue and we are working closely with the Henry Moore Foundation to ensure its safe return," Detective Sergeant Graeme Smith said, adding that the Foundation was offering "a substantial reward."
A Cuban woman holds a statue of Saint Lazarus or Babalu Aye in Cuba's Santeria religion, as other pilgrims drag themselves on their knees to the shrine of Saint Lazarus in Rincon, outside of Havana, December 17, 2005. Hundreds of followers of Cuba's Santeria religion celebrate one of their holiest saints while walking for days to obtain relief from dreadful diseases or to fulfill promises for granted wishes.
Photo by Claudia Daut
Elvis Presley's 1956 homecoming, which featured a parade in downtown Tupelo and a concert, will be re-created as part of the eighth Elvis Presley Festival, June 2-4.
In 1956, Presley was honored with a parade down Main Street and proclaimed a favorite son by Gov. J.P. Coleman. The day was capped with a concert where Elvis was greeted by screaming fans during the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show.
Presley was born in Tupelo but moved with his parents in 1948 to Memphis, Tenn., where he began his recording career.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Todd Kevin Wallace, a photographer who allegedly struck a 5-year-old child with his camera while trying to take pictures of Reese Witherspoon and her children at an amusement park.
Wallace had been free on his own recognizance while awaiting trial on six misdemeanor charges stemming from the Sept. 2 incident at Disney's California Adventure.
He allegedly became angry when Witherspoon and her friends declined to be photographed and cursed them. Witherspoon's group was at the amusement park for a birthday party for her 6-year-old daughter.
A snow plough clears the snow from a railway bridge at Pernink near Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) after western parts of the Czech Republic were hit by heavy snowfall, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005.
Photo by Ivan Babej
Record producer Phil Spector, who is facing a murder trial, has dropped a lawsuit that claims he was cheated by his former attorney, Robert Shapiro.
Spector, 65, said he gave Shapiro a $1-million retainer after his February 2003 arrest for investigation of shooting to death B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at Spector's home in suburban Alhambra.
The lawsuit claimed Shapiro did "very little legal work" for Spector and that little amount was "incompetently done." It accused the attorney and his firm of using Spector's "legal plight as an opportunity to unabashedly line their own pockets."
Shapiro's attorney contended that Spector tried to break his contract with Shapiro by trying to get back some of the retainer after switching lawyers.
Workers stand on scaffolds around the monolithic statue of the Jain Sage 'Gomateswara' (Lord Bahubali) ahead of preparations for the Mahamastak Abhisheka ceremony, in one of the most important Jain pilgrimage centres at Shravanabelagola, some 158 km (99 miles) west of the southern Indian city of Bangalore December 16, 2005. The statue at 17 meters (58 feet) high, is said to be the world's largest monolith statue. Every twelve years, thousands of people come to Sharvanabelagola for the Mahamastak Abhisheka, when the statue is bathed with precious stones, milk, yogurt, saffron, and gold coins.
Photo by Jagdeesh NV
The Dog is coming back for more. Duane "Dog" Chapman has signed a $2.6 million contract for a third season of the reality television series "Dog, the Bounty Hunter," a newspaper reports.
The show is A&E's highest-rated series ever.
Chapman will earn $100,000 per half-hour episode aired on the cable channel, believed to be about double what he made for each of the first two seasons, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported Friday.
A Kashmiri Muslim boat man rows his shikara or boat in Dal Lake on a cold and foggy morning in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Dec 17, 2005. With so many victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake in Kashmir living in tent camps, and others with little shelter at all in remote areas, aid agencies fear the harsh winter could cause a second deadly disaster among the quakes survivors.
Photo by Dar Yasin
Fans of Jack Kerouac's 1957 On the Road will soon have the chance to see a portion of the original 36-metre manuscript that inspired a subculture of restless beatniks.
Eleven metres, a little less than one-third of the yellowed scroll, will be available for viewing at the San Francisco Public Library from Jan. 14 to March 19. The exhibit at the Jewett Gallery will also include books and pictures that detail Kerouac's life and the history of the so-called Beat Generation.
On the Road was based on Kerouac's cross-country adventures with his friend Neal Cassady. Kerouac wrote the novel over a 20-day span in 1951 with the aid of coffee and the stimulant Benzedrine. He typed the novel on 3.6-metre-long rolls of tracing paper so he didn't have to pause to load paper in his typewriter.
Jack Anderson, the crusading journalist who tackled powerful figures like J. Edgar Hoover and won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on the Nixon administration, died on Saturday at age 83.
Anderson was hired by Drew Pearson in 1947 to work as a staffer on the column Pearson had founded, the Washington Merry-Go-Round, and later took it over after Pearson's death in 1969. He only gave up the column at age 81 in July 2004, too ill to continue it as Parkinson's disease took its toll.
Anderson also made it onto the former Nixon administration's "enemies list." G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate conspirator, once said that he and other White House operatives discussed at the time how to stop Anderson including through slipping him drugs though no action was taken.
Anderson was born in Long Beach, California, to a Mormon family and grew up in Salt Lake City. He served two years as a missionary before launching his career at a local newspaper and then moving on to the Salt Lake Tribune in 1940.
A Laysan albatross grooms his mate while incubating their egg on Eastern Island one of the three islands of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. The Laysan albatross mate for life, live for about 50 years and have nests which can be found most anywhere on the Midway Atoll.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
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