Mark Morford: Did Obama just sucker punch liberals on Keystone XL? (SF Gate)
Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly. Maybe there's more to this than meets the jaundiced media eye. There usually is. And it's usually highly unpleasant. Nevertheless: Behold, this wonderful/terrible collusion of news coming from the House of Obama! Can you make sense of it all? Good luck…
Mark Morford: Religion will be the death of us all (SF Gate)
To be clear: [E.O.] Wilson is not suggesting we're headed for fiery apocalypse. Rather, he shows how we are systematically, methodically wiping out our own habitat, destroying the razor-thin biosphere that holds it all together, casually decimating all the delicate, complex ecosystems that both created us and keeps us alive. "Death by a thousand cuts," he says. What's worse: We can't seem to stop.
Caitlin Donovan: 6 Insulting Movie Adaptations of Strong Female Characters (Cracked)
Movies have always had problems representing women as actual complex human beings. Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has noted that a disturbing number of female characters in modern stories fail to pass The Sexy Lamp Test. It's a test that asks, "Can a woman in this story be replaced with a sexy lamp, or is she more than just an attractive prop there for the men to fight over?"
Wolverine Publicity (TV Tropes)
I stopped reading X-Men about the same time they started putting Wolverine on the cover of comics in which he didn't actually, technically, appear. - Lore Sjöberg, The Book of Ratings, "Marvel Supervillains (Part I)"
Richard Deacon (May 14, 1921 - August 8, 1984), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American television and motion picture actor.
His best-known roles are milksop Mel Cooley on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963).
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Richard Deacon was the bald, bespectacled character actor most famous for playing television producer Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) from 1961 to 1966. In the first season of that show he also continued to appear on the series he was already appearing on, Leave It to Beaver (1957), playing Lumpy Rutherford's father Fred.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Richard Deacon
Charlie wrote:
Richard Deacon
Lotus Of Obregon said:
Hey, that would be Richard Deacon, and here is a rare photo
of him playing both roles at the same time! Also, Bonus
Picture of Stephen Fry.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Richard Deacon
Deborah replied:
That would be the actor, Richard Deacon (which I had to look up because I had no ideaI). In the 1997 movie "Leave it to Beaver" the actor Alan Rachins played Lumpy's father.
I didn't mean to miss posting up yesterday's Trivia answer; just got too busy with professional obligations to get back to your page. Sorry, Marty. *hangs head*
Meanwhile, H3!
Sally said:
Thought you might like to add a new TV station, this is my new fav (other than
COZI when they run "Murder She Wrote.")
Escape
Thanks, Sally!
While looking for Escape
locally (it's on channel 46.3 in LA), found another channel,
Get TV (it's on channel 46.2 in LA).
Both have been added.
MAM wrote:
Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford and Mel Cooley.
Marian replied:
Mel Cooley
Dave in Tucson answered:
That would be Richard Deacon.
Hmmmm, Lumpy Deacon. Is that what you would call someone in the Catholic hierachy finally getting busted for pedophilia?
DJ Useo responded:
Richard Deacon, & I always enjoyed his appearances.
I also remember him from The Jack Benny Program, & the Danny Thomas Show.
In this picture of the Dick Van Dyke Show cast doing the dance "the Twizzle", you can see Mel's wife in a striped shirt. :)
( I don't think Richard Deacon ever married )
Pokey Dale of Diamond Springs Norcali said:
Richard Deacon was "the Lump's" dad. Forget Mel Cooley, he was the father of Clarence. One of my early life mentors was Eddie Haskell. Too bad he turned out to be a chump cop. Wowie Zowie, "the Lump" kicked the bucket on Apr 13, 2013.
Well, I survived my first ream job ever, (believe it or not!) Guess what? They said I was experiencing too much pain (I don't remember, I was in La La land) so they pulled out and I get to go back and experience the fucking wonderful process again. A lot of you are laughing but I really think I'm going to give birth to a real asshole baby!
Joe S wrote:
I don't know, Richard Deacon? I looked up the Google and that's what I came up with, so you know what I always say. " Trust the Google." I don't know about all those relationships in the question but I remember the Beav's friend Lumpy.
I had a friend named Lumpy. Not a friend really, more of an acquaintance and a Union Brother. He was a raging alcoholic, just couldn't quit. He took antabuse to control his drinking and drank anyway. That would get him really sick. I was the Community Service officer and the Chief Steward so he came to me for help. I tried to set him up with help and he tried too, but he wouldn't stop drinking. His wife died from alcohol poisoning and a short time later he drank himself to death as well. It ain't all fun and games out there people.
Why is it when some celebrity like a Beach Boy, or someone, has a substance abuse problem they garner all sorts of sympathy. "Oh, poor man. So talented and so troubled. Let's overlook his alcoholism and drug abuse because he's so talented." But if it's just Ward Worker on the shop floor, he's just a fuckin drunk who can't control himself.
Randall replied:
Sorry for the last couple of days – my email has its head up its ass again...
I live out here on the great plains and my innernet is basically two tin cans and a string...
anyway... today’s answer is (hope you get this)
RICHARD DEACON
I had to look it up, though...
I knew what Alan Brady’s brother-in-law looked like
and I remembered his name was Mel Cooley,
but I had totally forgotten the actor’s name.
And I totally didn’t remember that he was
ever on Leave it to Beaver. .
For a rather plain-looking, bald guy,
Richard Deacon was pretty damned successful in life, I’d say
May I toss my opinion of vaccines into the pot? Things have
changed a lot since Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
with no interest in personal profit. When asked who owned
the patent to it, Salk said, "There is no patent. Could you
patent the sun?"
Today things are run by people who would gladly patent
EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE SUN, profit is their motivation,
and "people" are designated as "consumers", so you can't
blame anyone for being a little suspicious of our modern
pharmaceutical/snake oil industry. Why, look at what they're
selling in the "supplements". Soylent Green here we come.
I say follow George Carlin's advice: let your children play
in raw sewage to build up their immune systems, and let's
just take our chances. A little suffering builds character.
Would FDR had been such a great man if he had NOT suffered
polio?
Seven billion is too many anyway. The Earth can't take much
more, and soon we'll all be screwed, with or without
prescription plans.
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CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'Mom', then a FRESH'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'The McCarthys', then a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Martin Short and Bettye Lavette.
Scheduled on a FRESHLate, Late Show, with this week's middle-aged white guy guest host, John Mayer, is Bob Weir.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Blacklist', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Allegiance'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Will Smith, Rosamund Pike, and Jack White.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are David Duchovny, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, and Brooks Wheelan.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Iliza Shlesinger, King Tuff, and Jonny Weston.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'Scandal', then a FRESH'How To Get Away With Murder'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Magic Johnson, Scott Foley, and Magic!
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Reign'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Backstrom'.
MY recycles an old 'The Mentalist', followed by another old 'The Mentalist'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Nightwatch'.
AMC offers the movie 'Casino Royale', followed by the movie 'Young Guns', then the movie 'Young Guns II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC World News
[7:00AM] BBC World News
[8:00AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[9:00AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[10:00AM] Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
[11:00AM] Doctor Who - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[12:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[1:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Ms. Jean's Southern Cuisine
[2:00PM] MasterChef UK: The Professionals - Season 5 - Episode 21
[2:40PM] MasterChef UK: The Professionals - Season 5 - Episode 22
[4:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[5:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[6:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Barefoot Bob's
[7:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[8:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Le Deck
[9:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 6 - Ep 3 - La Granada Divino NEW
[10:00PM] Million Dollar Critic - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Toronto NEW
[11:00PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Le Deck
[12:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 6 - Ep 3 - La Granada Divino
[1:00AM] Million Dollar Critic - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Toronto
[2:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Chiarella's
[3:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[4:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[5:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Barefoot Bob's (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'The Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Broad City', 'Workaholics', another 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', and still another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Bob Odenkirk.
Scheduled on a FRESH@Midnight are Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, and Mike Phirman.
FX has the movie 'Taken 2', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then a FRESH'Archer', and another 'Archer'.
IFC -
http://www.ifc.com/schedule#day/2015/02/05
[6:00AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-SKEWERED!
[6:30AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-ALL YOUR FAVORITES ARE BACK
[7:00AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-GOING ALL THE WAY
[7:30AM] BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
[9:30AM] CRY-BABY
[11:30AM] SKINWALKERS
[1:30PM] BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
[3:30PM] CRY-BABY
[5:30PM] CLERKS II
[7:45PM] BURN AFTER READING
[10:00PM] PORTLANDIA-4TH OF JULY
[10:30PM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-ROAD WARRIORS
[11:00PM] FLETCH LIVES
[1:00AM] PORTLANDIA-4TH OF JULY
[1:30AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-ROAD WARRIORS
[2:00AM] BURN AFTER READING
[4:15AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ANDY SAMBERG WEARS A PLAID SHIRT AND GLASSES
[4:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-AZIZ ANSARI
[5:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ANNA KENDRICK WEARS A PATTERNED BLOUSE & BURGUNDY PANTS
[5:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-DAVID CROSS WEARS A RED POLO SHIRT AND BROWN SHOES WITH RED LACES (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Approval Matrix-Golden Age of TV
[6:45AM] The War of the Roses
[9:15AM] The River Wild
[11:30AM] The Next Three Days
[2:15PM] Donnie Brasco
[5:00PM] The Happening
[7:00PM] The Natural
[10:00PM] Babylon-Episode 5
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Charm City
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Sideshow
[1:00AM] Babylon-Episode 5
[2:00AM] Cool Hand Luke
[4:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Street Eats
[5:00AM] Dream School-Jeff Corwin, Soledad O'Brien, David Arquette & Doriana Sanchez (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Z Nation', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Wizard Wars'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jeff Bridges, Lily Collins, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.
Recording artist Ric Ocasek, left, honoree Nile Rodgers and musician Nathan East attend the Recording Academy Producers and Engineers Wing 8th Annual Grammy Week Event at The Village Recording Studios on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Rob Latour
NBC News' Brian Williams was not, as he has previously claimed, aboard a U.S. Air Force helicopter that was hit by two rockets and grounded during the 2003 Iraq invasion.
In what was surely a moment of vindication for those who were actually aboard the grounded aircraft, the Nightly News anchor admitted Wednesday that the harrowing story he and NBC had been perpetuating since 2003 was false.
"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams told the military publication Stars and Stripes, Wednesday. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."
The confession came after Williams reiterated his skewed version of events during a tribute to retired Command Sgt. Major Tim Terpak, who'd provided security for the same grounded helicopters Williams claimed to have been aboard, at a New York Rangers game last week.
The members of the international jury of the upcoming 65th Berlinale International Film Festival pose for photos in Berlin February 4, 2015. The festival runs from February 5 until 15 in the German capital. The members are (L-R): U.S. screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky, U.S. producer Martha De Laurentiis, U.S. writer and creator Matthew Weiner, German actor Daniel Bruehl, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho and French actress Audrey Tautou.
Photo by Hannibal Hanschke
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal's Kingdom Holding has reduced its 6.6% holding in NewsCorp to approximately 1%, selling $188 million worth of class B shares. The Prince, a longtime backer and ally of Rupert Murdoch, has maintained his 6.6% stake in 21st Century Fox, worth approximately $1.7 billion at current market prices. Al-Waleed is the second largest shareholder in Fox.
"The reduction of KHC's holding in NewsCorp has been decided in the context of a general portfolio review," said Prince Al-Waleed in a statement. "We remain firm believers in NewsCorp's competent management, led by CEO Robert Thomson, and are fully supportive of Rupert Murdoch and his family. Our investment in Twenty-First Century Fox, constitutes a solid foundation for our long standing relationship that we expect will endure."
21st Century Fox also maintains a 19% stake in the Prince's own media group Rotana, which he owns separately outside of Kingdom Holding.
He has had a turbulent week with the shuttering of his much-vaunted Al Arab TV channel after only one day on air. The channel officially blamed "technical reasons" for the outage although many commentators in the region believe it was shuttered following political pressure for the royal families in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The autobiography of "Little House on the Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder has become a surprise publishing hit in America, with buyers rushing to snap up the candid account of pioneer life.
First published in November by the tiny South Dakota Historical Society Press, "Pioneer Girl" depicts an unglossed view of the 19th century Midwest, a marked departure from the bucolic imagery of the "Little House" series.
The book "is Laura Ingalls' very first draft before it was edited and romanticized," the press's director Nancy Tystad Koupal told AFP.
Whereas the series of 11 volumes paints a fairly innocent picture of pioneer times, Wilder's autobiography bears witness to a less glossy reality.
Benjamin Millepied, Dance Director of the Paris Opera, delivers his speech during the presentation of the new 2015-2016 season of the Opera National of Paris at the Opera Bastille, in Paris, France, Wednesday Feb. 4, 2015. The Opera National of Paris, mainly produces operas at its modern 2700-seat theatre Opera Bastille which opened in 1989, and ballets and some classical operas at the older 1970-seat Palais Garnier which opened in 1875.
Photo by Francois Mori
CBS has pulled The McCarthys from its schedule sooner than planned, replacing the freshman comedy with Big Bang Theory repeats effectively immediately.
The McCarthys was always scheduled to go on hiatus before exhausting its 15-episode freshman run, following its Feb. 12 broadcast. (Two and a Half Men's hour-long series finale fills the 9:30 time slot on Feb. 19, and from there on CBS' Thursday sitcom slate is to be as follows: new Big Bang, Odd Couple, Big Bang rerun, Mom.)
Sources tell TVLine The McCarthys technically is not yet cancelled and the four unaired episodes could see the light of day, though there is no plan at this time to broadcast them.
Paris Hilton's youngest brother was charged Tuesday with interfering with a flight crew on a trip from London during which authorities say he called other passengers peasants and made children cry with his death threats and profane tirades.
Conrad Hilton, 20, wearing a dark suit and shirt buttoned to the collar, shuffled into U.S. District Court in ankle chains with his hands manacled at his waist. A judge asked if he understood his rights and the charge, which was filed Monday and could carry a prison term of up to 20 years if Hilton is convicted.
Hilton's trouble on British Airways began moments after Flight 269 left the ground July 31. It continued for almost the entire 10 1/2-hour flight, according to a 17-page affidavit by FBI agent David Gates.
"I could get you all fired in five minutes. I know your boss," Hilton said in one of the document's few quotes that didn't include an expletive. "My father will pay this out, he has done it before. Dad paid $300,000 last time."
According to the affidavit, Hilton acknowledged calling other passengers "peasants" and said he had would have killed one flight attendant if another passenger hadn't calmed him down.
Activists with a model of a "Trojan horse" protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels February 4, 2015.
Photo by Yves Herman
Up to 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is threatening wildlife and marine ecosystems, according to a new study.
The finding helps solve the mystery of where the "missing" oil from the spill landed. Its location had eluded both the U.S. government and BP cleanup crews after the April 2010 disaster that caused about 200 million gallons (757 million liters) of crude oil to leak into the Gulf.
"This is going to affect the Gulf for years to come," Jeff Chanton, the study's lead researcher and a professor of chemical oceanography at Florida State University, said in a statement. "Fish will likely ingest contaminants because worms ingest the sediment, and fish eat the worms. It's a conduit for contamination into the food web."
After studying the samples, the researchers made a map of the areas affected by the spill. About 3,243 square miles (8,400 square km) are covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, they found.
The husband in a household featured on reality show "Sister Wives" has legally divorced one of the four women he lives with and married another, a spokesman for the show said on Wednesday.
Kody Brown and the four women he calls his spouses live in Nevada and have 17 children. Their life has been broadcast on the TLC cable channel since 2010. Legally, Brown is married to only one woman, even though he says all four are his wives.
While previously living in Utah, the family legally challenged the state's ban on consenting adults cohabiting in a marriage-like relationship when they are already legally wedded to someone else.
Brown and the women he calls spouses, Meri, Christine, Janelle and Robyn, are part of the Apostolic United Brethren, a Utah-based church that follows a plural marriage doctrine. Last season, the program followed their move from Utah to Las Vegas.
Three women are seen through a giant kaleidoscope as they look inside, as the exhibit is on display to demonstrate the geometric effect of filling space with equal triangles at the "Newton Park" interactive museum of science, during preparations for a performance for school children dedicated to the Russian Day of Science at the Museum Centre in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, February 4, 2015. A group of young engineers, scientists and researchers, who specialize in chemistry, applied mathematics and physics, founded an interactive museum of science to conduct experiments aimed at the popularization of the exact sciences for pupils and their parents.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
A defrocked Arctic priest was sentenced to 19 years in prison for dozens of horrendous sex offences against Inuit children, while his victims received a plea from the sentencing judge.
His crimes, committed between 1978 and 1982, included indecent assault, unlawful confinement, buggery, unlawful sexual intercourse and bestiality.
The victims include 12 boys, 10 girls and one dog. Most were between the ages of eight and 12, although they could have been as young as four and as old as 18.
Dejaeger has already served one five-year sentence on 11 counts of assaulting children in Baker Lake, Nunavut. In 1995, after he had served that sentence, he learned RCMP were about to charge him with the Igloolik offences and fled to his native Belgium.
For 16 years, he lived in homes maintained by the Oblates despite an international warrant for his arrest. Eventually, journalists revealed he was living in Belgium. He was returned to Canada in 2011.
California forecasters are prepping the state's northern cities for a switch from extreme drought to drenching rain and damaging winds starting tomorrow (Feb. 5).
An incoming atmospheric river could deliver at least 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain in coastal and inland mountains, and 5 inches (13 cm) in valley areas, according to the National Weather Service. Atmospheric rivers are narrow currents of warm, moist air that transport huge amounts of water vapor from the tropics toward cooler latitudes. The water is nearly invisible, just concentrated vapor that later condenses into rain and snow. That happens when the current hits land and the air is lifted and cooled over mountains like California's Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada.
The storm arriving Thursday will be one of the most closely watched atmospheric rivers in history, as scientists plan to study the weather pattern from the ocean, in the air and on land.
"This is unprecedented," said Marty Ralph, a meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and a leader of the field campaign. "It's a major effort in our field to understand the processes that provide water in our state."
The radiator cap in a Isotta-Fraschini 8A ss cabriolet 1930 during an exhibition, at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. The Grand Palais is staging an exhibition of vintage cars, to be followed by a sale of historic cars by Bonhams auction house on Thursday.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
A Vermont man who sometimes held his coat together with safety pins and had a long-time habit of foraging for firewood also had a knack for picking stocks - a talent that became public after his death when he bequeathed $6 million to his local library and hospital.
The investments made by Ronald Read, a former gas station employee and janitor who died in June at age 92, "grew substantially" over the years, said his attorney Laurie Rowell.
"He was unbelievably frugal," Rowell said Wednesday. When Read visited her office, "sometimes he parked so far away so he wouldn't have to pay the meter."
The bequest of $4.8 million to the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and $1.2 million to the town's Brooks Memorial Library were the largest each institution has ever received. Read also made a number of smaller bequests.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. Fleetwood Mac; $1,907,262; $131.05.
2. Justin Timberlake; $1,582,776; $120.14.
3. Lady Gaga; $1,329,843; $104.52.
4. Michael Buble; $1,231,913; $105.74.
5. Linkin Park; $1,067,186; $72.94.
6. Usher; $826,967; $88.62.
7. Andre Rieu; $766,853; $109.27.
8. Motley Crue; $764,895; $72.84.
9. Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $733,006; $56.17.
10. Cirque du Soleil - "Dralion"; $670,407; $65.96.
11. Ed Sheeran; $624,588; $44.18.
12. Eric Church; $584,171; $49.57.
13. Bryan Adams; $579,871; $67.29.
14. Bob Dylan; $537,406; $101.47.
15. James Taylor; $522,677; $79.32.
16. John Legend; $462,999; $55.46.
17. The Black Keys; $454,543; $59.26.
18. Slipknot; $393,387; $50.74.
19. Kasabian; $392,092; $56.93.
20. John Fogerty; $317,857; $59.47.
Sanford Socolow, a longtime CBS News executive who was a right-hand man to anchor Walter Cronkite, has died. The Manhattan resident died at 86 at Lenox Hill Hospital because of complications from a long illness.
Socolow was an executive producer at the "CBS Evening News" when Cronkite was anchor. He was also a Washington bureau chief for CBS News and rose to vice-president there, supervising all hard news programming. He produced coverage of moon landings anchored by Cronkite and much of the network's Vietnam War coverage, including Morley Safer's 1965 report that showed U.S. Marines burning a Vietnamese village.
Socolow, known as "Sandy," was a producer at "60 Minutes" when he retired in the mid-1980s.
He died on Saturday, and is survived by two sons and a daughter.
A Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) butterfly sits on a leaf in a greenhouse in the Botanical Gardens, Munich-Nymphenburg, Germany, February 4, 2015. The live butterflies can be viewed in a special exhibition that runs until March 22, 2015.
Photo by Sven Hoppe
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