Mark Morford: How to Have Your Big Gay Moment (SF Gate)
You don't get many of them, really, in your lifetime. Two or three? Maybe a half dozen, if you're lucky? I suppose it largely depends on the era you get to live in, its energy and pulse, its surfeit or shortage of joie de vivre. Also, who you get as president. And if he or she has any real, you know, balls.
"End This Depression Now!" by Paul Krugman: Review by Robin Harding (Financial Times)
Krugman has picked a good time to unleash a thoroughly persuasive polemic against premature fiscal austerity in the wake of a deep recession. He does so in a remarkably easy style for a Nobel prize-winning economist, making his case with the help of the confidence fairy, the Fed Borg, bond vigilantes and pop culture references from John Ford to Calvin and Hobbes.
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The infamous "Bluesmobile" is a 1974 Dodge Monaco. The vehicles used in the film were used police cars purchased from the California Highway Patrol (mocked up to look like Mt. Prospect, Illinois patrol cars), and featured the "cop tires, cop suspension and cop motor - a 440 cubic-inch plant" mentioned by Elwood in the film. A total of 12 Bluesmobiles were used in the movie, including one that was built just so it could fall apart.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
1974 Dodge Monaco Sedan
Adam answered:
The movie Bluesmobile was a 1974 Dodge Monaco Sedan painted black & white to resemble a recycled former police car.
Charlie wrote:
1974 Dodge Monaco sedan
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan
Sally said:
My SIL has a step brother who was one of the producers of the Movie, "Blue's Brothers." I have seen the film about 20 times now... He has a ton of memorabilia from the movie, and a whole room devoted to it as well... I COULD call them tonight and inquire (and he'd love that I bet) but I'm going to rely on Joe's source here: The Bluesmobile was a 1974 Dodge Monaco Sedan. Yeah, that sounds right...
I still miss John Belushi, and still Love Dan Aykroyd!
PS: Went to see a good movie yesterday: "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful." I is about a group of seniors who (for various reasons) find themselves living in India! You will really get the flavor of the country, and people. I highly recommend it for all!
Marian answered:
1974 Dodge Monaco
Ted responded:
1974 Dodge Monaco sedan, or as Elwood said "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas"
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan that was prominently featured in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers. In the film, it is described as a used Mount Prospect, Illinois, police car that replaced a Cadillac, which Elwood Blues traded for a microphone. The Bluesmobile was equipped with the "440 Magnum" squad car package that was offered by Dodge for the Monaco.
Some dialogue from the Blues Brothers:
[Jake and Elwood are arguing about the new Bluesmobile]
Jake: What is this?
Elwood: What?
Jake: This car. This stupid car. Where's the Cadillac? [tries to use the car's lighter, but it does not work; he throws it out the window] The Caddy, where's the Caddy?
Elwood: The what?
Jake: The Cadillac we used to have! The Bluesmobile!
Elwood: I traded it.
Jake: You traded the Bluesmobile for this?!
Elwood: No... for a microphone.
Jake: A microphone? Okay, I can see that. But what the hell is this?
Elwood: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect police car. They were practically giving them away.
Jake: Well thank you, pal. The day I get out of prison, my own brother comes to pick me up in a police car.
Elwood: You don't like it?
Jake: No, I don't like it.
[Elwood jumps the car over the bridge]
Jake: [impressed] Car's got a lot of pickup.
Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
[Jake lights his cigarette using his lighter]
Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.
PS One of the greatest movie soundtracks ever is from "The Blues Brothers 2000". Everybody is on it!!!!
MAM wrote:
A 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan equipped with the "440 Magnum" squad car package. Its license plate was an Illinois plate reading, "BDR 529", a tribute to the Black Diamond Riders of Toronto, Canada at 529 Jarvis Street.
Joe S said:
"It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
From one of the greatest movies ever made, if not the greatest, it was a 1974 Dodge Monaco. "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
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after a burst of gunfire from the Mystery Woman, Jake climbs to his feet, covered in mud from the tunnel floor
Jake: It's good to see you, sweetheart.
Mystery Woman: You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother.
Jake falls to his knees
Jake: Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault.
Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.
Jake: No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
Elwood covers his head in anticipation of more gunfire, Jake removes his sunglasses to make a wordless appeal, and the Mystery Woman visibly softens
Mystery Woman: Oh, Jake... Jake, honey...
Jake embraces the Mystery Woman and they kiss
One day about 10 or 12 years ago our son Mason showed up at the door and he brought lunch. We were surprised to see him because he lived in Traverse City at the time and spent most of his time working in the UP. He installed information systems from phones to Internet at the that time. So, we said, Mason you brought lunch. Good. What brings you to Manistee? He says, Blues Brothers is on HBO, can we watch it? So we ate lunch and watched it. We raised those kids right.
mechadave replied:
Marty, that was a 1974 Plymouth Fury with the police package. 440 magnum engine, heavy duty brakes, suspension and a push bar on the front bumper. Perfect transportation for Bluesmen who are on a mission from God.
And, tclarke observed:
The "Bluesmobile" also had spats.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Rules Of Engagement', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Conan O'Brien, Regina Spektor, and John Mayer.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Craig visits Glasgow & Edinburgh with Mila Kunis, and the Imagineers.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Community', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock', then another FRESH'Community', followed by still another FRESH'Community', then a FRESH'Awake'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Hugh Laurie and Robert Griffin III.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Arsenio Hall, Maggie Q, and Paul Weller.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Peter Berg, "Ballplayer: Pelotero", and Young the Giant.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Missing', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Matthew Morrison, Beth Ostrosky Stern, and Delta Spirit.
The CW offers a FRESH'Perez Hilton: All Access', followed by a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'Touch'.
MY recycles an old 'Without A Trace', followed by another old 'Without A Trace'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Death Wish 4: The Crackdown', then the movie 'Death Wish V: The Face Of Death'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW-Ep 13 - Season 9 Compilation
[9:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 19 - Asian-style Salmon
[9:30AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 20 - Killer Jerk Chicken
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO-10 - Vincent and The Doctor
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 5 Sandgate
[1:00PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 21 - Rib Eye Stir Fry NEW
[1:30PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 22 - Thai Green Curry NEW
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 6 Hannah & Mason's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 10 - Zeke's
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO-11 - The Lodger
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 2 - Valley of Darkness
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 15 Yesterday's Enterprise
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 1
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 6
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 9
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 4
[11:30PM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE-Demolition
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 9
[1:30AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 4
[3:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE-Demolition
[4:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE-Striker
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Around The World In 80 Plates', 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', another 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', still another 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', followed by a FRESH'Kathy'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', and yet another 'Futurama'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 5/9/12) is Dr. John R. Hall.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 5/8/12) is Michelle Alexander.
FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', yet another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'What Happens In Vegas'.
History has 'MonsterQuest', 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Young Broke and Beautiful-Memphis
[6:30AM] Darkon
[8:30AM] The Dead
[10:15AM] Invincible
[1:00PM] Darkon
[3:00PM] The Dead
[4:45PM] The Three Stooges-Tassels in the Air
[5:10PM] The Three Stooges-They Stooge to Conga
[5:35PM] The Three Stooges-Three Dumb Clucks
[6:00PM] Arrested Development-Prison Break-In
[6:30PM] Arrested Development-Making a Stand
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Burning Man
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Health Insurance
[8:00PM] Pitch Black
[10:15PM] Pitch Black
[12:30AM] Blindness
[3:00AM] Blindness
[5:30AM] Young Broke and Beautiful-Memphis (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Dopamine
[7:30A] Everlasting Moments
[9:45A] Life In Flight
[11:10A] Dopamine
[12:40P] Everlasting Moments
[3:00P] The Real Place
[3:10P] Life In Flight
[4:30P] Dopamine
[6:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Pressure (Episode 13, Season 1)
[7:00P] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Girlfriends and Boyfriends (Episode 8, Season 1)
[8:00P] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 4
[8:30P] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 5
[9:00P] Red White & Blue
[10:45P] Next Floor
[11:00P] Shadow
[12:20A] Three Blind Mice
[2:00A] Love Lust & Bad Girls
[3:00A] A World Without Thieves
[5:00A] Love Lust & Breakfast (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Planet Terror', followed by the movie 'Death Proof'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Wanda Sykes, Brooklyn Decker, and Rufus Wainwright.
Uggie, the dog from the film "The Artist", kisses actress Betty White as she arrives for her Friars Club Roast in New York May 16, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced Wednesday he has decided against running for Congress in Washington state, where activists had urged him to launch a campaign. In a statement, Kucinich signaled the end of his 16-year congressional career.
When the outspoken anti-war lawmaker discovered over a year ago that redistricting would pit him against fellow Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Kucinich began openly eyeing a Washington state U.S. House bid, saying voters there were asking him to relocate.
But after losing to Kaptur in his home state primary in March, Kucinich now confirms that he will not pursue a congressional bid there or anywhere else.
In his statement Wednesday, Kucinich emphasized the "encouragement" he received in Washington state, but locally there was also much vocal criticism of his flirtation with a possible run.
Jane Fonda (L) Alec Baldwin (C) and Hilaria Thomas (R) arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Moonrise Kingdom", by director Wes Anderson, in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2012.
Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD) late last month in Washington. But after consulting with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, Kimmel decided several were too over-the-top to make the cut.
"I had some jokes about Rick Santorum," Kimmel told Howard Stern in an interview on Sirius radio. "I said something like-well, I didn't say it, but, 'Newt Gingrich's campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.' People went, 'Uh-oh.' I ran it by people who go to this thing."
"There's a guy named Jake Tapper at ABC News," Kimmel said. "I ran jokes by him. He's been there a lot of times," the comedian said, referring to the annual event.
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East - but no women.
Not, at least, among the 22 films competing for the coveted Palme D'Or, an absence that has drawn criticism from feminists - and a defense from the festival's artistic director. Thierry Fremaux argues it's not his fault that filmmaking remains primarily "a male sport."
Last year, four female directors made the main competition lineup, including Britain's Lynne Ramsay and Australia's Julie Leigh. The festival's critics say this year's choice suggests that was a blip, rather than a trend.
The French feminist group La Barbe took the festival to task for excluding women with a petition published in Le Monde and The Guardian newspapers.
The letter, whose signatories included filmmaker Virginie Despentes and writer Nancy Huston, said sarcastically that the lineup "sends a powerful message ... Above all, never let the girls think they can one day have the presumptuousness to make movies or to climb those famous Festival Palace steps, except when attached to the arm of a Prince Charming."
Actor Bill Murray plays with a camera during a photo call for Moonrise Kingdom at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 16, 2012.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Dominant CBS shuffled its schedule for the fall on Wednesday, giving Ashton Kutcher and Simon Baker new nights and adding four new series.
"Two and a Half Men," where Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen as star this season, is moving from Monday to Thursday. It will be paired with "The Big Bang Theory" in what CBS scheduling chief Kelly Kahl said should be a "super comedy block."
"The Mentalist," where Baker plays a brainy crime-solver, shifts from Thursday to Sundays.
The changes amount to shuffling chairs on a smooth-sailing cruise ship for CBS, which will win the ratings race again this season, this time by the largest margin between a first and second place network in 23 years.
A judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a recently enacted law's provision that authorizes indefinite military detention for those deemed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Taliban or "associated forces."
District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan ruled in favor of a group of civilian activists and journalists who said they feared being detained under a section of the law, which was signed by President Barack Obama in December 2011.
"In the face of what could be indeterminate military detention, due process requires more," the judge said.
She added that it was in the public interest to reconsider the law so that "ordinary citizens are able to understand the scope of conduct that could subject them to indefinite military detention."
By issuing a preliminary injunction, the judge prevents the U.S. government from enforcing section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act's "Homeland Battlefield" provisions.
T.V. hosts (L-R) Hoda Kotb, Larry King, Kathie Lee Gifford and Dick Cavett pose as they attend the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York May 16, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
John Lennon's killer has been transferred to another maximum-security state prison in western New York after spending more than 30 years in Attica Correctional Facility.
The Buffalo News reports that 57-year-old Mark David Chapman was transferred Tuesday from Attica to the nearby Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, 20 miles east of Buffalo.
A spokesman for the state prison system says the agency doesn't disclose why inmates are transferred to a new facility.
Chapman was denied parole for the sixth time in September 2010. He's eligible again for parole in August.
Nick Stahl, the actor who played John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," has been reported missing by his estranged wife.
According to gossip site TMZ reported, Stahl's wife Roseann Murphy told the Los Angeles Police Department that she hasn't heard from Stahl since May 9th, and he had been spending time in Los Angeles' dicey Skid Row area.
The "Carnivale" actor, 32, was rumored to be dabbling in drugs, according to custody paperwork his wife filed in February, reports the gossip site. The couple have one child together.
Stahl took over the John Connor role from Edward Furlong, whose own career was sidetracked by drug addiction after 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
The world's biodiversity is down 30 percent since the 1970s, according to a new report, with tropical species taking the biggest hit. And if humanity continues as it has been, the picture could get bleaker.
Humanity is outstripping the Earth's resources by 50 percent - essentially using the resources of one and a half Earths every year, according to the 2012 Living Planet Report, produced by conservation agency the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Colby Loucks, the director of conservation sciences at WWF, compared humanity to bad houseguests.
"We're emptying the fridge, we're not really taking care of the lawn, we're not weeding the flower beds and we're certainly not taking out the garbage," Loucks said.
Some people actually may have "gaydar," a widely used slang term for the ability to assess quickly another person's sexual orientation, a new study suggests.
Researchers asked 129 college students to look at 96 photos of young men and women and to identify them as either gay or straight. The participants were 65 percent accurate in identifying gay and straight women and 57 percent accurate in identifying gay and straight men.
Faces in photos were free of glasses or jewelry, as well as scars, facial hair and non-earlobe piercings.
When the faces were viewed upside down, the participants' accuracy slipped to 61 percent in identifying gay/straight women and 53 percent in identifying gay/straight men.
Authorities in Southern California are investigating what appears to be the spontaneous combustion of rocks scooped from a San Clemente Beach that left a woman with third-degree burns.
Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone tells City News Service the woman's children collected the rocks Saturday and she tucked them into her pocket.
Stone says at some point the rocks caught fire, burning the woman's right thigh and knee.
Her husband also suffered second-degree burns to his hand trying to put out the flames.
Frank Knight was a professional logger but earned his true legacy spending decades protecting New England's tallest elm tree. But as all things must, the 217-year-old tree nicknamed "Herbie" eventually succumbed to Dutch elm disease. And over the weekend, 103-year-old Knight died as well.
But as a final tribute to this unique relationship between man and nature, Knight will be buried in a special casket carved from the 110-foot-tall tree that first sprouted in 1793.
Back in 1956, Knight became the unofficial "tree warden" in Yarmouth, located about 10 miles north of Portland, Maine. At the time, Dutch elm disease was wreaking havoc on the local elm tree population. Even after Herbie became infected, Knight had local workers selectively prune the tree's diseased limbs. Over the years, the tree reportedly survived 14 cases of Dutch elm disease thanks to Knight and the workers.
But in January 2010, the 110-foot-tall tree, whose canopy could reportedly be seen for miles, finally collapsed. "His time has come," Knight told The Associated Press at the time. "And mine is about due, too."
"Frank cared for Herbie for 52 years, and now Herbie will care for Frank forever," his son, Dick Knight, told the Boston Herald.
Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation's capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75.
Brown died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. Hospital spokesman Gary Stephenson confirmed Brown had died after a hospital stay that began April 18.
Thanks to Brown and his deep, gravelly voice, go-go music was uniquely identified with Washington. That's where he continued to play the city's club circuit to a loyal audience late in life.
In 2007 Brown told The Associated Press that go-go was influenced by sounds and fast beats he heard early in life, growing up in North Carolina and Virginia, combined with his experience later, playing with a Latin band.
Go-go was heavy on percussion with drummers as lead players, accented by guitar riffs, keyboards and horns. Sometimes they would play for two or three hours without stopping. In between tunes, Brown would keep the thunk of percussion going and talk to the crowd.
Brown's hit "Bustin' Loose" with his group, the Soul Searchers, helped define go-go's sound. It spent several weeks atop the R&B chart in 1979. Rapper Nelly later sampled Brown's "Bustin' Loose" in 2002 for his massive hit "Hot in Herre," which won Nelly a Grammy.
In 2007, rapper Eve sampled Brown's song, "Blow Your Whistle," in her hit single "Tambourine."
Spike Lee, a fan of Brown's, used go-go for his movie "School Daze."
When he was younger, Brown spent some time in jail. While behind bars, he traded five cartons of cigarettes for his first guitar. After he was freed in 1962, Brown played with several bands and then formed the Soul Searchers. To comply with terms of his parole, they couldn't play where alcohol was served, so they went to churches, recreation halls and youth centers.
Brown's daughter, Cherita Whiting, said he had died from complications with pneumonia and was gone too soon.
In 2005, he was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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