PAUL CONSTANT: Ten Pounds of Crazy in a Five-Pound Bag (thestranger.com)
Books tend to attract freaks. Sometimes, as with the young woman on the bus so smothered by a copy of The Idiot that she doesn't notice a fistfight breaking out directly in front of her, these freaks can be charming.
The TV series Lost in Space (1965 - 1968) took place in the future. What year was it?
A: 1987
B: 1997
C: 2007
D: 2107
E: 2177
The series takes place in the future of 1997 (specifically the Jupiter II, en route for Alpha Centauri, blasted off on October 16th 1997); the film based on the series,
Lost in Space (1998), began production in 1997.
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mj was first, guessing wrongly:
based on the irrational optimism of the era
C 2007
They should have spaced Dr. Smith early on.
Steve was second, and correct, observing:
The show took place in 1997.
On the Anniversary of their launch (as seen in the first episode),
we watched the first episode. Dr. Smith's panic and scream during the launch is priceless.
Just a point of note about the Robinson's parenting... Would you let your 12 year old hang out with Dr. Smith?
"Son go play with that effeminate man who tried to kill us."
Alan J answered:
1997
Chuck B replied:
The Lost in Space series was set in the far distant B. 1997.....It was way out there...Danger, Danger.....
~ Tony In Philly responded:
B: 1997
Sally said:
The fictional TV series, "Lost in Space" took place in (B) 1997, then thought to be in the future. At that time, the fictitious "Earth" was suffering from massive overpopulation and had just about depleted it's natural resources - thus our fictional family was forced to flee the planet. Were it to be shown on TV today, it would be cast on terra firma, and the show would aired as a, "Reality" show...
PS I've just returned from the huge, "Garden Show" in Philly. While the show was outstanding, I never found any Polish food! We did discover a neat, "China Town," only a few blocks from the show, but, living about 12 miles from the heart on New York City, "Chinese Food" is almost everyday fare for me... Aside from that, the trip was wonderful! Did miss my daily trivia though...
Marian the Teacher answered:
1997
And, Joe S ("Danger! Danger!!"
~ The Robot) replied:
Way in the future, 1997.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Micronesia', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/15/08) are Denzel Washington and Don Rickles.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Wanda Sykes, Saffron Burrows, and Grizzly Bear.
NBC begins the night with an hourlong RERUN'The Office', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Apprentice', then a FRESH'Lipstick Jungle'.
On a RERUNLeno (R-Enabler) (from 2/22/08) are Colin Farrell, Bill O'Reilly (R-Delusional Propagandist), and Herbie Hancock.
On a RERUNConan (from 1/30/08) are Jeff Corwin, Colin Hanks, and Matt Nathanson.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/13/08) are Christine Lakin andJoshua Radin & Ingrid Michaelson.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN of last week's 'Lost', followed by a FRESH'Lost', then a FRESH'Eli Stone'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Woody Harrelson, Ax Men, and Simple Plan.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Reaper'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', and 'Crime 360'.
AMC offers the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', followed by the movie 'Sniper', then 'Breaking Bad', followed by the movie 'Iron Eagle'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 33 Carmarthen 29;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 34 Wetherby 21;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 9;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 10;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 12 Ben Wants to be a Millionaire;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 2 My Dinner in Hell;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary;
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 6 Weston Super Mare;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 7 Chertsey;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 33 Carmarthen 29;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 34 Wetherby 21;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 8 Anthony;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Hawkridge;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Make Me A Supermodel', 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and 'Make Me A Supermodel'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Lil' Bush'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Sen. Tom Daschle.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is John Legend.
FX has the movie 'The Butterfly Effect', followed by the movie 'House Of Wax', then the movie 'House Of Wax', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'World's Strongest', 'Gangland', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[06:55 AM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[07:05 AM] The Field;
[09:05 AM] Proof;
[10:40 AM] Pumpkin;
[12:45 PM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[01:15 PM] The Field;
[03:10 PM] IFC News Special;
[03:25 PM] Proof;
[05:00 PM] Pumpkin;
[07:05 PM] Chan Is Missing;
[08:30 PM] Basilisk #9;
[09:00 PM] Boogie Nights;
[11:45 PM] Human Nature;
[01:30 AM] Being John Malkovich;
[03:30 AM] Chan Is Missing;
[04:55 AM] IFC News Special;
[05:05 AM] Human Nature. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact', followed by the movie 'Stargate'.
Sundance -
[05:30 AM] Mademoiselle and the Doctor;
[07:00 AM] Seven-Per-Cent Solution;
[09:00 AM] Episode 5: A Mirror Up to Nature;
[10:00 AM] A Summer in the Cage;
[11:30 AM] The Hi-Lo Country;
[01:30 PM] Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon;
[03:00 PM] Kadosh;
[05:00 PM] Seven-Per-Cent Solution;
[07:00 PM] Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa & Beyond;
[08:00 PM] Stars by Helmut Newton;
[09:00 PM] Episode 1;
[10:00 PM] Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone;
[11:00 PM] John Mayer, Norah Jones & Richard Ashcroft;
[12:00 AM] Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa & Beyond;
[01:00 AM] Stars by Helmut Newton t;
[02:00 AM] Episode 1;
[03:00 AM] Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour;
[04:00 AM] Episode 2;
[05:00 AM] In Short: Festival 8;
[05:30 AM] A Curtain Raiser. (ALL TIMES EST)
This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was eight years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod. A staff member at the society discovered the photograph in a large photography collection recently donated to the society. When Sullivan arrived at the Keller household to teach Helen, she gave her a doll as a present. Although Keller had many dolls throughout her childhood, this is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls.
Photo Courtesy of the Thaxter P. Spencer Collection, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society
A senior Democratic senator on Wednesday introduced a resolution aimed at overturning a decision by regulators that loosened media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities.
The "resolution of disapproval" was introduced by U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a critic of media consolidation who has complained that the Federal Communications Commission did not do enough to get public comment before it approved the new rules in December.
At issue is a new rule, narrowly approved by FCC commissioners on December 18, that eased a 32-year-old ban on ownership of a newspaper and broadcast outlet in a single market and granted exemptions to six specific combinations that had been pending before the agency.
Critics say the easing the ownership rule would lead to more consolidation in the industry, eliminate independent voices and degrade local news coverage.
Cyndi Lauper will take her "True Colors" tour back on the road this summer.
Lauper, whose tour last year promoted gay rights, will open the second go-round in Boston on May 31 alongside fellow headliners Rosie O'Donnell and the B-52s, it was announced Wednesday.
Carson Kressley ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") will host the 24-city event, which winds down in Morrison, Colo., on July 5.
Guest artists such as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Regina Spektor, the Indigo Girls and Wanda Sykes will perform at various cities throughout the tour.
Actress Ally Sheedy,right, and daughter Rebecca Lansbury arrive at a special screening of We TV's 'High School Confidential', a four year look at the lives of 12 teen girls, from freshmen year to graduation, at The Times Center, Wednesday, March. 5, 2008, in New York.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative.
A report in The Denver Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine's Web site, boingboing.net and others.
Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says officials decided to block access to potentially racy sites when the airport made its wireless internet service free in November.
Cannon says the airport would rather deal with infrequent complaints about access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography.
The video for Gnarls Barkley's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still not quite ready to air on MTV.
That's because of its strobe effects, which caused the clip to fail the Harding Test -- guidelines established to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures.
However, the video is available on various online outlets, and Gnarls Barkley member Danger Mouse was hopeful the situation could be resolved shortly.
"Run" centers around the fictional public access TV show "City Vibin"' and is set in the early '90s. Timberlake appears as the host of the program, on which Danger Mouse and fellow Gnarls Barkley principal Cee-Lo then perform the track.
Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock and Garry Shandling are included on a list of potential witnesses in the federal wiretapping trial of a Hollywood private eye.
Also on the list, released by prosecutors Wednesday, are Brad Grey, chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures, and Ron Meyer, president and chief executive officer of Universal Studios.
Jury selection is under way in the trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants.
In this image provided by Pinachotheque de Paris museum,a self portrait of American-born artist Man Ray is shown. The photo, part of 'The Workshop of Man Ray,' on display at the Pinachotheque de Paris museum through June 1, draws on the artist's meticulously kept archives to bring together an eyebrow-raising potpourri of some of Ray's best- and least-known work.
Humorist Garrison Keillor put his historic St. Paul home up for sale, a few weeks after a dispute with his neighbor over her building plans ended up in court.
The host of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" is asking $1.65 million for the seven-bedroom, five-bath home, according to its listing on Realtor.com.
Real estate agent Mary Hardy told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the dispute isn't why Keillor is selling the house. She said he wanted a house with an airy, first-floor studio where he can work, and to that end he's made an offer for a nearby house with 4,000 square feet more space and a larger lot on a bluff.
The state of New York fined the personal corporation of Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken $25,000 for not carrying workers' compensation insurance for almost three years.
The New York Workers' Compensation Board levied the fine against Alan Franken Inc. in August 2006 for failure to carry the insurance from June 2002 to March 2005.
Brian Keegan, a board spokesman, said a number of notices were sent to the address the New York agency had listed for Franken, but the television personality and political commentator didn't become aware of the fine until Tuesday, said his campaign spokesman, Andy Barr.
The Franken team believes it may have been a clerical mistake on the part of the Workers' Compensation Board, but it's also possible the Frankens did not keep the insurance current, Barr said.
Canadian musher Karen Ramstead drives her dog team out of the Finger Lake, Alaska, checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Monday, March 3, 2008.
Photo by Al Grillo
Walt Disney Co plans to make animated films in Japan to cater to Asian tastes, as it moves core production outside the United States for the first time, a business daily reported on Thursday.
Disney would team up with Toei Animation and other Japanese studios to tap talent and computer graphics technology, the Nikkei newspaper said.
A short animated film about a robot had already been made with Toei and was due to be aired in May, with two other projects in the works, the paper said.
US financier Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to Forbes annual billionaire's list, which this year saw Russia, China and India making increasing inroads.
Buffett, the 77-year-old chief of the Berkshire Hathaway holding company, saw his wealth jump from 52 billion dollars last year to 62 billion, pushing Microsoft co-founder Gates into third position after 13 years at the top.
Mexico's telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu grabbed second place with a tidy nest egg of 60 billion dollars, up from 49 billion last year.
In total, this year's list sees 1,125 people around the world making the billionaire's list, up from 946 last year. Their total net worth stands at 4.4 trillion dollars, up from 3.5 trillion dollars in 2007.
Children, with their bodies painted, take part in a Carnival parade in Santo Domingo, Sunday, March. 2, 2008. Carnival is celebrated later than in other places in Santo Domingo to avoid the concurrence with Ash Wednesday, which in the Christian calendar, is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days before Easter, falling on different dates from year to year.
Photo by Ramon Espinosa
Actress Bai Ling, arrested last month on suspicion of shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport, was fined $200 on Wednesday after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace.
The 37-year-old actress, who has appeared in such films as "The Crow" and "Red Corner," was also ordered by a judge to pay several hundred dollars in fees, including court costs, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said.
She was arrested at the airport on February 13 and booked on suspicion of shoplifting after a gift shop employee accused her of stealing two magazines and a pack of batteries worth a total of $16.
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Costner has settled a 2005 lawsuit he brought against a production company for breaking a film contract, legal sources said Wednesday.
Costner, 53, who won Oscars for best film and best director for his 1990 movie "Dances with Wolves" said he had agreed with Ascendant Pictures in 2004 to play the lead role in a film "Taming Ben Taylor."
According to his suit, the company withdrew from contract in 2005 costing Costner some eight million dollars in lost earnings.
The actor's lawyer William Bossen confirmed that a settlement had been reached Monday, just ahead of a scheduled court hearing on Wednesday. The details of the settlement were not released.
Water flows from the number one and two jet tubes at the Glen Canyon Dam Wednesday, March 5, 2008, in Page, Ariz. The Department of Interior is experimenting with high flows of water from the dam to help, in part, to rebuild beaches along the Colorado River that runs through the Grand Canyon.
Photo by Paul Connors
The widow of television's "Crocodile Hunter" lost the first round Wednesday in a legal battle over more than $2.3 million the conservationist's zoo allegedly owes creditors.
Alyssa Treasury Services, a debt-recovery agency, is suing Australia Zoo, the wildlife park that was operated by Steve Irwin and his widow, Terri, for money allegedly owed to trustee partners.
The full details of the suit have yet to be released. But documents presented to the court indicate Singapore-based investment bank HQZ Argentum helped set up the trust, which then ran into trouble with the Australian Tax Office.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Feb. 25-March 2. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
1. "Democratic Presidential Debate" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), MSGOP, 5.52 million homes, 7.77 million viewers.
2. "Debate Coverage" (Tuesday, 10:36 p.m.), MSGOP, 4.92 million homes, 6.73 million viewers.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.43 million homes, 5.15 million viewers.
4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.25 million homes, 4.9 million viewers.
5. "iCarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.08 million homes, 4.52 million viewers.
6. "Project Runway" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Bravo, 3.02 million homes, 3.96 million viewers.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.92 million homes, 3.89 million viewers.
8. "iCarly" (Tuesday, 6 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.75 million homes, 3.8 million viewers.
9. "NCIS" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), USA, 2.73 million homes, 3.88 million viewers.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.709 million homes, 3.5 million viewers.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.702 million homes, 3.9 million viewers.
12. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.67 million homes, 3.65 million viewers.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.61 million homes, 3.41 million viewers.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.59 million homes, 3.54 million viewers.
15. "Back at the Barnyard" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.55 million homes, 3.35 million viewers.
A polar bear seen with her two cubs in the Moscow Zoo, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. The two polar bear cubs were born in last November but it's very seldom they can be seen by visitors as they are closely protected by their mother who keeps them inside the cave.
Photo by Sergei Grits
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