The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros (nybooks.com)
Judy Woodruff: You write in your new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets,[1] that "we are in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression." Was this crisis avoidable?
Jim Hightower: MIDDLE-CLASS ANGUISH (jimhightower.com)
The latest poll reveals that 81 percent of the American people believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. Gosh, why in the world would so many of us think such a thing?
Sanford Pinsker: Smart (or Not so Smart) People (irascibleprofessor.com)
Until we retired, my wife was a high school teacher (and a damn good one, I might add) while I taught literature classes at a small private college. I mention this because for many years we have had an ongoing discussion about why it is that she can tick off dozens of films about inspirational high school teachers while I am hard-pressed to come up with a single college professor, with the notable exception of ...
GILES SLADE: Butterflies Are Free, But Not Comedians (huffingtonpost.com)
Despite his false arrest, prolonged incarceration and technical 'innocence', Tony won't be released until 2010 or until he accepts 'treatments' he doesn't want. Meanwhile his young wife, Leah, lives frugally nearby supporting their three year old daughter as best she can, hoping for a miracle.
A Sweet-Toothed Queen's New Royal Edict: Let Them Eat Cake, on Toe Shoes
Ballet companies of America, take note: it is possible to create new story ballets and not just retool the existing war horses. And it can be done without byzantine sets, two-intermission marathons or huge casts. (nytimes.com)
Stephen Dalton: Céline Dion (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)
However bland her relentlessly middle-of-the-road records may be, Dion has clearly learnt a few tricks about razzle-dazzle from Vegas. Unexpectedly, I find myself a Céline Dion fan. I hereby tender my resignation as a music critic.
mj was first, but wrong, with:
I miss Ted Geisel
B. No wonder kids hated piano lessons
Baron Dave ("Dr. Dolittle! Dr. Dolittle! Please report to your patient, the
kangaroo. Your marsupial is getting cold."
-- "General Mathpital", Square One TV) nailed it, writing:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T is Dr. Seuss' only feature movie; he wrote
the screenplay and song lyrics. He's not credited with designing the
sets but they sure look like he had a hand in it. Not a great movie,
but just misses. However, that wasn't the question. Seuss and
Capra, like Seuss and Bob Clampett/Chuck Jones, teamed up to make
WWII propaganda, including Your Job In Germany.
Alan J responded:
Your Job In Germany
PURPLE GENE replied:
FRANK CAPRA DIRECTED A PROPAGANDIST DOCUMENTARY IN 1945 CALLED "YOUR JOB IN GERMANY"....THE SCRIPT WAS BY TED GEISEL (DR, SEUSS).....THIS WAS NO "CAT IN THE HAT" CUTE AND CUDDLY STORY BUT RATHER AN UNDERHANDED ATTEMPT TO VILLIFY THE GERMANS.....
THE ANSWER IS E......."YOUR JOB IN GERMANY.
PS....MARTY.....ARE YOUR WRITING ALL THE TRIVIA QUESTIONS? THEY ARE REALLY QUITE ENJOYABLE !
Charlie answered:
Just doing their patriotic duty, it was
E: Your Job In Germany
It would take a pretty long essay to dissect this properly. This might be a good starting point.
Pam in GA said:
A. Augie Doggie
John in HI answered:
500 Fingers of Dr. T
Marian the Teacher said:
Your Job in Germany
MAM responded:
E. . . .Your Job in Germany , (1945) the greatest and most horrific propaganda film ever made in this country, was shown to the soldiers who would occupy Germany after WW II. It strove to impress upon them that the German people were inherently evil and could not be trusted. Especially not the children! Horrifying film footage was used: mass hangings in Russia, emaciated survivors of concentration camps, mass graves, towns reduced to rubble, American soldiers being put into body bags. It is twenty minutes of viciousness hidden under the cloak of education, directed by Captain Frank Capra, written by Lt. Colonel Theodore Geisel, and narrated by Dana Andrews.
A clip can be seen on the YouTubes
Sally said:
As you can see, I am running a bit late tonight. This being so, I will take a guess here.
I believe the answer is: "Your Job In Germany" (E) was the film directed by Frank Capra & written by Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel).
My daughter wrote a school essay about "Dr Seuss" BEFORE the Internet days. We learned that in the 1940s (before his children's book-writing career) he was in the US Army making hateful "Gung Ho" propaganda and army training films which were, in fact, despicable caricatures of the German and Japanese people and their cultures. While her teachers were not thrilled with her opinions, she did get an "A" because of her writing skills... (No, I dot NOT write it for her, nor even edit it, as I learned early on, this kid had a mind of her own!) (Okay, I did want to toss out a few words and add some punctuation - but I di 'unt)
BTW, later on, when she was the class "Valor Victorian," she used the Suess book, "Oh The Places You Will Go" in her Graduation Address, and received a standing ovation. (Her theme was how we can all change and grow even into our adulthood.)
PS Note to mj: "Guess you had a pretty dear Cinco de Mayo kiddo, Chinaco Anejo (750 ml) is priced around $60.00! Isn't that the stuff that Bart always writes about on his blog?? Hahaha. Anyhoo, hope it was fun, :)
Chris A answered:
That would be E: Your Job In Germany starring Adolf Hitler as Himself (1945).
That's the headlines today…but almost 20 years ago, James Woods and Robert Downey Jr. were in a movie together….it was called "True Believer"……a frenetic biopic about the 60's civil rights lawyer Tony Serra.
A Korean women with no money wanders into Dodd's office and says her son is on death row for a crime he didn't commit…..Baron convinces Dodd to take the case….because there is such a thing as truth….and justice…..
Woods, with his phony pony tail in place…..his dope smoking curtailed for the trial….puts on quite a show….if you watch his new TV series called "Shark", "True Believer" was a warm up for his present role as Sebastian Shark ! And Downey Jr. as a rich, be-speckled fortunate son was also warming up for his smash hit role as a suave billionaire in "Iron Man".
In real life, Tony Serra defended an unjustly charged Korean man, Chol Soo Lee (he also defended Huey Newton…the Black Panther) and in the movie the twists and turns that end up involving the Police Department and Chief Prosecutor mirror the actual 60's events.
The soundtrack suffered from a generic 80's synthesizer background drum machine Miami Vice-ish background with a few classic 60's hits thrown in (Bob Dylan - Jimi Hendrix - Lou Reed)
Purple Gene gives "True Believer" 8 dope smoke rings and gavel hits out of 10 for being far out and factual.
Marine layer never burned off - overcast and cool all day.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Micronesia', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Paris Hilton, Steve Wyrick, and Panic at the Disco.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Emily Deschanel and Melvin Lardy of "Ax Men".
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'My Name Is Earl', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Scrubs', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by the SEASON FINALE'30 Rock', then a FRESH'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jenna Fischer, Robert Schimmel, and Trace Adkins.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Emile Hirsch, Terrell Owens, and Craig Baldo.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are James Denton and the Heavy.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Ugly Betty', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Lost'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Ashton Kutcher, Isabella Rossellini, and Gavin Degraw.
The CW offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by a FRESH'Don't Forget The Lyrics!'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'I Witness'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and 'Crime 360'.
AMC offers the movie 'Striking Distance', followed by the movie 'Planet Of The Apes', then the movie 'King Kong'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 16
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 17
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Clubway 41
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 14 McIntyre
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 7 Harrogate 43
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Ardingly 52
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 12
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 13
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 18
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.15 Leicester
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.16 Germany
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 7 Harrogate 43
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Ardingly 52
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', still another 'Top Chef', and 'Step It Up & Dance'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Lil' Bush'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is David Perlmutter.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Arianna Huffington.
FX has the movie 'Dude, Where's My Car?', followed by the movie 'Just Married', then the movie 'Just Married', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', 'Ax Men', and 'Tougher In Alaska'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] George Washington
[07:50 AM] The Honeymoon Killers
[09:40 AM] Hurricane Streets
[11:10 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections
[11:35 AM] George Washington
[01:10 PM] The Honeymoon Killers
[03:05 PM] IFC In Theaters
[03:15 PM] Hurricane Streets
[04:50 PM] George Washington
[06:30 PM] Once in the Life
[08:30 PM] Basilisk #18
[09:00 PM] The Thin Red Line
[12:00 AM] Ripley's Game
[02:00 AM] Indie Sex: Taboos
[03:00 AM] Swingers
[04:45 AM] The Thin Red Line (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Resident Evil', followed by the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse'.
Sundance -
[05:30 AM] Touch the Sound
[07:30 AM] Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
[09:00 AM] Episode 2: Vex Not His Ghost
[10:00 AM] Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
[12:00 PM] Tony Takitani
[01:30 PM] A Good Woman
[03:15 PM] The Grace Lee Project
[04:30 PM] Safe
[06:30 PM] Shadowlands
[09:00 PM] Episode 10
[10:00 PM] Kasabian, Josh Groban & The Good The Bad and The Queen
[11:00 PM] Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour
[12:00 AM] Episode 10
[01:00 AM] Episode 2: Vex Not His Ghost
[02:00 AM] Episode 10
[03:00 AM] Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone
[04:00 AM] Episode 6
[05:00 AM] Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris (ALL TIMES EST)
Barbra Streisand is seen on stage during the ASCAP Film and Television music awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.
The FBI sent a national security letter, or NSL, to the Internet Archive in November and included a gag order barring site founder Brewster Kahle from talking to anyone other than his lawyers about the request. Kahle, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to challenge the subpoena, arguing that the NSL program is unconstitutional, and the FBI withdrew the NSL on April 22.
The settlement between the FBI and the Internet Archive allowed Kahle to break the gag order, a standard part of an NSL request. The Internet Archive's challenge of the NSL is only the third case that the ACLU is aware of in which an NSL has been challenged in court, said Melissa Goodman an attorney for the civil liberties group's National Security Project.
Although the settlement keeps parts of the FBI request secret, Kahle applauded the lawsuit and settlement, saying it will show other businesses how to challenge NSLs. The FBI issued nearly 200,000 NSLs between 2003 and 2006, according to a U.S. Department of Justice inspector general's report.
Frank Zappa, who sang about "Plastic People," has been cast in bronze. Again.
In 1995, a quirky bunch of Lithuanian artists and intellectuals managed to erect a bust of the eccentric rocker in downtown Vilnius, the capital of the former Soviet republic.
Now, they've given a replica to Zappa's hometown.
Saulius Paukstys, longtime president of a Zappa fan club, pitched the Zappa bust Wednesday to Baltimore's public art commission, and the commissioners, clearly charmed by his dogged efforts, voted unanimously to accept the gift. They'll figure out later where exactly to place it.
U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick spins a limited edition soccer ball he designed, during a news conference in Vienna May 7, 2008. Tunick will create a new installation in Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadium on May 11, and has invited people to pose naked for different photographs.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
Jack Bruce of Cream, Eric Burdon and the Animals, and the Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie will lead the lineup of the third installment of Hippiefest.
The traveling festival kicks off July 11 at Dodge Theatre in Phoenix and wraps August 10 at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre in Pompano Beach, Fla.
Other acts appearing on various dates are Janis Ian, Badfinger featuring Joey Molland, Jonathan Edwards, Melanie and former Hollies member Terry Sylvester. Further information about the lineup is available via hippiefest.net.
The 22-date tour visits primarily theaters, amphitheaters and casinos. Ticket prices range from $25 to $75.
Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Sundance Channel, a cable network founded by Robert Redford, for $496 million, the New York-area cable TV company announced Wednesday.
The Sundance Channel will become part of Cablevision's Rainbow Media programming division but will continue on as a distinct network. Rainbow also includes the independent movie channel IFC, AMC and WE tv.
The network was founded in 1996 by the actor-director Redford as an outgrowth of his Sundance Institute, an independent film organization which runs an annual film festival near Park City, Utah.
Redford owned a 6 percent stake in the channel, while General Electric Co.'s NBC unit had 57 percent and CBS Corp. owned 37 percent.
Pop diva Mariah Carey has broken her silence over her sudden marriage to Nick Cannon, confirming she tied the knot with the rapper-actor last week, People magazine reported Wednesday.
News of Carey's nuptials last week following a whirlwind two-month romance was shrouded in mystery after representatives for the couple did not comment.
However, in excerpts of an exclusive interview published on People's website, Carey confirmed she had wed for a second time on April 30.
Gail Renard holds up the original handwritten lyrics for John Lennon's hit song "Give Peace a Chance" at Christie's Auction house in New York May 7, 2008. Lennon's handwritten lyrics will go under the hammer at an auction in July and are expected to fetch 200-300,000 pounds ($400-600,000), Christie's said. The lyrics are being sold by comedy writer and presenter Renard, who was 16 when Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "Bed-In" at a hotel in Montreal in 1969.
Photo by Brendan McDermid
A new stamp honoring Frank Sinatra goes on sale next week.
First-day-of-sale ceremonies for the 42-cent stamp will be held Tuesday at three locations familiar to the famed singer and actor. The price of a first-class stamp goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday.
The first ceremony for the performer often known as the "Chairman of the Board" will be hosted by the post office's own chairman of the board of governors, Alan Kessler.
Joining Kessler at the 10 a.m. EDT ceremony at Gotham Hall in New York will be Sinatra's daughter Nancy and son, Frank Sinatra Jr., as well as Rep. Jose E. Serrano, D-N.Y. Serrano has said he learned English by listening to Sinatra records.
Actor Gary Dourdan, best known as a forensics investigator on the hit TV show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," was charged on Wednesday with possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.
The charges stem from the 41-year-actor's April 28 arrest in the desert resort city of Palm Springs, after police found him asleep in the driver's seat of a car shortly before dawn.
Dourdan was charged with one count each of possessing heroin, cocaine and ecstasy. A Riverside County District Attorney's spokeswoman said that if convicted he would likely face probation and be sent to a drug diversion program.
In this image released by the Sundance Channel, Isabella Rossellini's is shown as a spider in the short film series 'Green Porno.'
Photo by Brian Jacson
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won her battle to ban further publication of a long-lens photograph of her son, in a privacy case her legal team called a major development in British law.
The initial claim by Rowling and her husband was thrown out by a London court last year, prompting the couple to appeal.
In a written judgment on Wednesday, a panel of judges upheld the appeal, a ruling which Rowling and husband Neil Murray welcomed.
Anthony Clarke, one of the judges hearing the appeal, said the child of a famous parent should have the same rights as that of "ordinary" parents.
The widow of television's "Crocodile Hunter" reached a confidential settlement Wednesday with creditors who claimed the family's zoo owed them $2.3 million.
Alyssa Treasury Services, a debt recovery agency, had sued Australia Zoo - the wildlife park that was operated by Steve Irwin and his wife, Terri Irwin, in Queensland state - for money allegedly owed to trustee partners.
Victoria state County Court Judge Maree Kennedy dismissed the case Wednesday after a confidential agreement was reached out of court among Alyssa Treasury and Australia Zoo, Terri Irwin, and seven other unrelated companies.
The lawsuit, which had been due to go to trial in October, involved a complex loan deal with an offshore bank that ran into trouble with Australian tax authorities.
Musicians of Germany's Kammersymphoniker Berlin orchestra perform during a rehearsal for the media at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. On Friday, May 9, 2008 the orchestra will perform its first concert in the memorial.
Photo by Markus Schreiber
In a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they're exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons.
The hackers who infiltrated the Epilepsy Foundation's site didn't appear to care about profit. The harmful pages didn't appear to try to push down code that would allow the hacker to gain control of the victims' computers, for instance.
"I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline - they don't realize how cruel it is," said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. "It was an opportunity waiting to happen for some mean-spirited kid."
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Wednesday its quarterly net profit tripled on higher advertising sales at the Fox TV network and Fox News Channel, as well as a big one-time gain from its stock swap with Liberty Media.
The owner of 20th Century Fox and MySpace said its fiscal third-quarter profit rose to $2.7 billion, or 91 cents per share, from $871 million, or 27 cents per share, in the year-ago period. The latest results included a $1.7 billion gain from its swap with Liberty Media.
Revenue rose 16 percent to $8.75 billion, compared to the average Wall Street forecast of $8.6 billion.
A costumed festival participant marches in the Jack In The Green procession in Hastings in southern England May 5, 2008. The traditional annual May Day festival has origins at least as far back as the 17th century, with hundreds of costume-clad dancers and musicians - many dressed in green foliage - marching through the coastal town and symbolically slaying a giant Jack at the finale.
Photo by Toby Melville
A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year.
Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent.
As beekeepers travel with their hives this spring to pollinate crops around the country, it's clear the insects are buckling under the weight of new diseases, pesticide drift and old enemies like the parasitic varroa mite, said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the group.
This is the second year the association has measured colony deaths across the country. This means there aren't enough numbers to show a trend, but clearly bees are dying at unsustainable levels and the situation is not improving, said vanEngelsdorp, also a bee expert with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French Impressionist artist.
"Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil" - a painting of a bridge with two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats float below - was sold at a Christie's sale for $41,481,000, said Rik Pike, a spokesman for the auction house.
The previous record for a Monet painting was $36.5 million for his 1904 "Nympheas," which was sold last year.
A baby Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) plays with a flower on a girl's head in Thailand's Ayutthaya province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok May 5, 2008.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang
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