Mark Morford:What to wear to the Apocalypse (sfgate.com)
This much we know for sure: The End Times are going to look extremely cool. Have you noticed? Have you seen the previews, the TV shows, the films, the sneak peeks, the fine cinematography? Apparently the end of the...
Froma Harrop: Dems Should Stay Cool About Midterms (creators.com)
The midterm elections this November have spawned midyear panic, largely by Democrats. With their majorities in the Senate and House, Democrats have the most to lose. And historically, the president's party sheds congressional seats at this point in the electoral cycle.
Sean O'Hagan: "Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I had no idea how scared I was of dying'" (guardian.co.uk)
Since debuting aged 13 with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, on a pop single called 'Lemon Incest', the French-British actress and singer has courted controversy. Last year she starred as a demonic mother in Lars von Trier's controversial film 'Antichrist.' As her third album is released, made with US songwriter Beck, she talks to Sean O'Hagan about her recent brain surgery and her enduring feelings for her late father.
Joe Weider: Staying Fit as a Vegan (creators.com)
Tip of the Week: Cardio exercise is great for burning fat, of course, but it doesn't do much in the way of building or strengthening muscle. What many people don't realize, though, is that progressive resistance training not only keeps your muscles strong and toned, but also helps burn fat, in two distinct ways.
The 'What ever happened to... Where are they now?' Edition
Every now and again, an article appears about what a former 'Celebrity', e.g. an actor/actress, politician, author, musician or sports star, is now doing in their present state of obscurity and where they're doing it.
Is there a former 'Celebrity' that you'd be interested in knowing where they are and what they're doing?
Nikko, the name of the head winged monkey, is the name of the Japanese town which houses the shrine featuring the famous Hear No Evil/See No Evil/Speak No Evil monkeys.
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Marian the teacher was first, and correct, with:
Nikko
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
Nikko...
Alan J answered:
Nikko
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Nikko
DanD responded:
They were all from the same Bush clan weren't they?
Maynard's brother, Ed, answered:
Umm, wasn't it Hannity or Cheney or something like that?
Sally said:
I believe that, "Nikko" was the head winged monkey in the movie, "The Wizard Of Oz." I remember this, because my daughter's nickname is, "Nikki." When the Wizard was shown on TV, a classmate told her that she had the same name as the monkey, except the "girl's version." She of course became upset by this alleged, "fact," but we quickly assured her that, "Nikki" was the "Oriental" version of Nicole (and she too is Asian). How ignorant was that, I ask you?? In recalling this, I feel like Harry Reid misspeaking... But, it was a different era back then, and Asians were then called, "Orientals," something to which she quickly put to an end as soon as she hit college and got her that school learnin' - known nowadays as, "Asian Studies..."
MAM wrote:
In the movie The Wizarad Of Oz, the name of the head winged-monkey was Nikko.
Nikko
Charlie responded:
Nikko
And, Joe S replied:
That's easy, Bosley. No, no it's Rico. No, wait, it's Nikko. Yeah, Nikko, that's the ticket.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Denzel Washington, heart surgeon Dr. O. Wayne Isom, and the Low Anthem.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Andrews and Vampire Weekend.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Community', followed by a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock', then a FRESH'Leno' (Justin Long and Owen Benjamin).
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Rob Lowe, Jane Krakowski, and Hilary Hahn.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Renner.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/8/09) are Donald Glover, Ellery Hollingsworth, and Pete Yorn.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Evangeline Lilly and Katharine McPhee.
The CW offers a RERUN'Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Fringe'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Original Sin'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force', and another 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force'.
AMC offers the movie 'Predator', followed by the movie 'The Fugitive'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 15 Whyman
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 21 Pady
[2:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 12
[3:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 23
[4:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 13
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 J Willy's
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Perfect Private Parts - Perfect Private Parts
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Perfect Private Parts - Perfect Private Parts
[1:00 AM] Perfect Private Parts - Perfect Private Parts
[3:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 10 Jimmy Carr, Serena Williams, Robbie Williams
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 6
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', still another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Jeff Dunham Show', 'Important Things With Demetri Martin', 'Tosh.0', and 'Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Tom Brokaw.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Kathleen Sebelius.
FX has the movie 'There's Something About Mary', followed by the movie 'The Simpsons Movie', then a FRESH'Archer', followed by another FRESH'Archer'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Modern Marvels', 'Ax Men', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] The Final Cut
[7:45 AM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[10:30 AM] The Young Americans
[12:15 PM] The Final Cut
[1:50 PM] A Fistful of Dynamite
[4:30 PM] The Young Americans
[6:15 PM] Good Guys Wear Black
[8:00 PM] Kill Bill: Vol. 1
[10:00 PM] Kill Bill: Vol. 2
[12:20 AM] Mad Max
[2:00 AM] The IT Crowd
[2:30 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[3:00 AM] Hero
[4:50 AM] Good Guys Wear Black (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] Choking Man
[06:45 AM] The Cruise
[08:05 AM] Spider (2008)
[08:15 AM] Bob Le Flambeur
[10:00 AM] Army Of Shadows
[12:30 PM] The Cruise
[01:50 PM] Spider (2008)
[02:00 PM] Bob Le Flambeur
[03:45 PM] Soft
[04:00 PM] Army Of Shadows
[06:25 PM] Marvelous
[08:00 PM] On the Road with Judas
[09:35 PM] Pol Pot's Birthday
[09:45 PM] Pal/secam
[10:00 PM] The Squid And The Whale
[11:30 PM] Easy
[01:15 AM] On the Road with Judas
[02:50 AM] Pen Pusher
[03:00 AM] The Squid And The Whale
[04:30 AM] Easy (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedians Richard 'Cheech' Marin and Tommy Chong, arrive at the Marijuana Policy Projects 15th annual gala, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Washington.
Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta
Annie Ross summoned the spirits of departed jazz legends in a performance of her song "Music Is Forever," providing an emotional highlight at the annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony.
The 79-year-old Ross, among the early practitioners of "vocalese" on songs like her "Twisted" - in which original lyrics were set to what had only been known before as an instrumental jazz solo - was among eight 2010 Jazz Masters honored at a Tuesday night concert presented by the National Endowment for the Arts and its new chairman, Rocco Landesman, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater.
This year's other Jazz Masters included pianist-composers Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton and Muhal Richard Abrams, a co-founder of the avant-garde Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians; West Coast arranger Bill Holman; reed instrument player Yusef Lateef; record producer George Avakian; and Bobby Hutcherson, who modernized the sound of the vibraphone as a voice in hard bop and free jazz.
Guitarist Jimmy Page holds a United Nations Pathways to Peace Global Peace Music Award during a press conference in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Page will play at the Show of Peace Concert that will be held in April 2010 in front of China's National Stadium, also known as 'the Bird's Nest,' in Beijing.
Photo by Alexander F. Yuan
For the fourth year running, the ABC television network leads nominees for media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
The network earned eight nominations Wednesday for the 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards, with "Brothers & Sisters," "Grey's Anatomy," "Private Practice" and newcomer "Modern Family" among its contenders.
The GLAAD Media Awards honor the fair, accurate and inclusive representation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives in the media. This year's awards - with 152 nominees in 32 categories - will be split into four ceremonies, held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in March, April and June.
GLAAD also announced that actress Cynthia Nixon will be honored with the Vito Russo Award, which is named after a founding member of GLAAD and is presented to a gay media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the gay community. The "Sex and the City" star will accept the special award at a ceremony in New York.
Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp was honored Wednesday with a life-size statue in Serbia.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star had a statue in his image unveiled to him by renowned Serbian director Emir Kusturica during an annual film festival - called Kustendorf - held in a mountain village in southwestern Serbia.
Depp met with Serbian President Boris Tadic upon his arrival on Tuesday. He was then flown by helicopter to the mountaintop village constructed by Kusturica for one of his movies.
A musical about Barack Obama's "Yes we can" election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.
Even John McCain and Sarah Palin are given stage time, with actors portraying the losing Republican candidates and belting out songs on their behalf.
In all, 30 singers, actors and dancers are to perform in the musical "Hope - the Obama Musical Story" when it opens at the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt in a bilingual mix of English and German. The audience may recognize that many songs quote from the politicians' stump speeches during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.
The venue for the premiere seems appropriate since the optimism of Obamania remains largely intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America's first black president. One campaign highlight was a July 2008 speech to some 200,000 people in the heart of Berlin about the world, the U.S. and its place in it.
Simon and Garfunkel have been added to the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
The singing-songwriting duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will join the previously announced Jazz Fest lineup that includes Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, The Neville Brothers, Lionel Richie, the Allman Brothers Band and Anita Baker.
The festival is scheduled for the weekends of April 23-25 and April 29-May 2 at the Fair Grounds Race Course. Simon and Garfunkel will be on stage on April 24.
While Simon has performed at Jazz Fest before, this will be the duo's first time together. Festival organizers say it is also their only planned U.S. appearance for the year.
From left, French actress Marion Cotillard, Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and Italian actress Sophia Loren attend a photo call to present their movie 'Nine', in Rome, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010.
Photo by Alessandra Tarantino
A new study estimates NBC local stations would have lost some $22 million in three months if the network hadn't acted to move Jay Leno out of prime time.
Research firm Harmelin Media says local affiliates saw their late news audience drop by an average of 25 percent in November compared with the previous year in a key advertising demo.
It's an illustration of why those stations put pressure on NBC to end Leno's 10 p.m. show each weeknight. They trace their news ratings decline to Leno's poor ratings leading into their programming.
The study analyzes ad prices to suggest that three more months of Leno would have cost the 210 stations a collective $22 million. The ratings declines were particularly steep in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Rob Zombie will make his television directorial debut on an upcoming episode of "CSI: Miami."
CBS says the rocker and filmmaker will bring the Miami crime-solving team to Los Angeles in a story that involves secret tape recordings and evidence tampering.
Production began Wednesday on the episode slated to air March 1.
A federal appeals court in New York has revived a lawsuit that accuses major record labels controlling 80 percent of U.S. digital music sales of scheming to charge high prices.
The lawsuit brought by music purchasers had been tossed out by a lower court judge.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Wednesday that the lawsuit can proceed. It said there are enough facts to consider the claims.
The New York legal action combined lawsuits brought across the country. They accused record companies of conspiring to charge at least 70 cents a song on the Internet, even though their costs were much lower than in record stores.
In this publicity image released by ABC, Jimmy Kimmel is dressed as host Jay Leno, right, and Chevy Chase is dressed as late night host Conan O'brien during 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mitch Haddad
A suspended Ohio police chief has been spared jail time for his part in snooping on the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.
Under terms of his Wednesday sentence, Chad Dojack of Bridgeport in eastern Ohio must complete 50 days of house arrest, three years' probation and 100 hours of community service. He had pleaded no contest to dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor.
Dojack and Barry Carpenter, now ex-chief of nearby Martins Ferry, were accused of scheming to take things from the surrogate mother's Martins Ferry home last year to sell to celebrity photographers.
A woman suspected of being the mastermind behind a series of break-ins at the homes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan has been charged with felony burglary and receiving stolen property.
Rachel Lee, 19, was charged Wednesday. She joins five other young men and women charged with burglaries at the homes of celebrities including Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Ashley Tisdale, Megan Fox and Audrina Patridge.
She is charged with the burglaries at the Hollywood Hills homes of Hilton, Lohan and Patridge. She was arrested in October in Las Vegas, where she lives. Los Angeles County prosecutors initially declined to press charges against her, instead asking police for more investigation.
Lee and Nicholas Prugo, who faces seven counts of first-degree burglary, have been accused by authorities of spearheading the burglaries. Prugo told police that Lee often suggested celebrities whose homes they should target and he would search the Internet for more information, according to a search warrant obtained in Nevada.
In this image taken from video and released by Worldwide Pants Inc., actor Kiefer Sutherland, left, is shown with host David Letterman as he makes good on a weekend football bet by wearing a dress to the set of 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in New York.
Princess Caroline of Monaco gave a spirited defence of her husband to a packed German courtroom on Monday against charges he drunkenly beat up a hotel manager on a Kenyan resort island in 2000.
Testifying for over two hours and addressed as "madame" by the judge, the 52-year-old said that her aristocratic husband Prince Ernst August of Hanover had merely given Josef Brunlehner two "slaps" with the back of his hand.
Wearing tortoiseshell glasses, a light brown camel hair coat with black trousers and a black jumper, she said she did not want to "justify" what happened, but that the blows in question were not hard.
Entering via a side entrance with bodyguards, she also denied that the prince, a distant relation of Britain's queen, was drunk, and said that he had not been wearing a ring, which Brunlehner claims caused him serious injury.
US automaker General Motors said their agreement with Tiger Woods that allowed the embattled golf star to have use of its cars for free has ended.
Woods' endorsement deal with GM's Buick brand ended in 2008. However, an arrangement remained in place that allowed him to keep several GM vehicles on loan.
A company spokesman said that arrangement ended on December 31.
Sports equipment giant Nike, which pays Woods an estimated 40 million dollars a year, has issued unqualified support for Woods, and electronic game manufacturer Electronic Arts is going ahead with plans to roll out an online game featuring Woods.
Creator Agnes Nixon performs a scene from the soap opera series "All My Children", with cast member Susan Lucci that originally aired 40 years ago, before participating in a panel discussion at the Disney ABC winter 2010 Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California January 12, 2010.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Police said Wednesday that they have found a Monet painting that was stolen 10 years ago from a museum in western Poland.
Officers also have arrested a suspect who confessed to stealing the French Impressionist's work, officials said. The thief cut the painting from its frame and replaced it with a copy painted on cardboard.
Poznan police spokesman Romuald Piecuch said that on Tuesday officers detained a 41-year-old man in the southern city of Olkusz after the painting, "Beach in Pourville," was found in his possession.
Fingerprints and other traces left at the site of the theft helped identify the suspect, but police were not able to located him until recently, Piecuch said. Prosecutors said the man has confessed to having stolen the painting, but gave no further details.
Police in a small northern Arizona town are investigating the deaths of two giraffes from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, and two others likely will have to find new homes.
A couple in Page acquired the giraffes as part of a plan to build a wildlife preserve on city property they leased in 2008 that also would house exotic birds, reptiles and a camel.
The two giraffes died within the past two months, and necropsy results are pending.
A move for the giraffes appears inevitable after a judge ruled in favor of the city last week to have the owners of the preserve fulfill the terms of their lease.
A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter that pays tribute to dairy farm families is displayed at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009. The sculpture depicts a dairy cow, as well as a dairy farmer pouring a glass of milk at the breakfast table with his family. The sculpture, by sculptor Jim Victor, of Conshohocken, Pa., was crafted from butter donated by Land O' Lakes in Carlisle, Pa. The Pennsylvania Farm Show runs Jan. 9-16.
Photo by Carolyn Kaster
An original Rembrandt etching hidden in a bathroom cabinet at a university in Washington is now part of a new exhibit.
The Rev. David O'Connell found the print when he was searching for paper towels shortly after he became president of the Catholic University of America in 1998.
The etching of a bearded old man had been tucked away for years. O'Connell asked the university archivist last year if it could be a real Rembrandt.
Archivist Leslie Knoblauch says an appraiser confirmed its authenticity, and the Rembrandt became the centerpiece of a new exhibit at the university on Monday.
Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.
The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson's Bay Company, then a fur trader and now a department store chain. It has long since become a broader magazine about Canadian history and will change its name to Canada's History with its April issue, editor-in-chief Mark Reid said on Tuesday.
When The Beaver started publication, the name evoked only Canada's thriving fur industry. Ninety years later, the fur trade has diminished and the magazine's name has become slang for female genitals.
Readers complained that Internet filters were blocking emails and newsletters from The Beaver, Reid said. The society also had concerns about attracting readers.
People watch New Zealand's Simon Chisnall's kite, during International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. Over 105 kite flyers from across 34 countries are expected to participate in the festival which will culminate on Jan. 14.
Photo by Ajit Solanki
A giant claw of death is at work and shades of the Holocaust on view at Paris' Grand Palais hall this week in the city's first big art show of the year, a "hand of God" installation by France's Christian Boltanski.
The show opening Wednesday inside the vast dome-topped exhibition hall overlooking the Seine river features a giant mechanical claw hovering above a mountain of old clothes, some 10 metres (yards) high.
In icy cold and to the loud sound of a beating heart, the claw picks a few bits of discarded clothing from the pile that are left to flutter back down.
One of the country's foremost avant-garde artists, Boltanski was born in Paris in 1944 to a mother who was a writer and a doctor father from a Jewish family who lived more than a year hidden under the floorboards.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Jan. 4-10. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.70 million homes, 5.77 million viewers.
2. "NCIS" (Monday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.59 million homes, 4.79 million viewers.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.48 million homes, 5.44 million viewers.
4. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.42 million homes, 4.46 million viewers.
5. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.37 million homes, 4.65 million viewers.
6. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.29 million homes, 4.42 million viewers.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 12:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.17 million homes, 4.50 million viewers.
8. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.16 million homes, 4.05 million viewers.
9. "iCarly" (Saturday, 1 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.12 million homes, 4.29 million viewers.
10. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.11 million homes, 4.28 million viewers.
11. "iCarly" (Saturday, 1:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.098 million homes, 4.31 million viewers.
12. "NCIS" (Thursday, 7 p.m.), USA, 3.097 million homes, 4.09 million viewers.
13. "Secret Life of the American Teenager" (Monday, 8 p.m.), ABC Family, 3.08 million homes, 4.55 million viewers.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 12 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.01 million homes, 4.25 million viewers.
15. "NCIS" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), USA, 2.94 million homes, 3.95 million viewers.
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