BOB HERBERT: The Howls of a Fading Species (nytimes.com)
There is every reason to hope that we've improved as a society to the point where the racial craziness of the Gingriches and Limbaughs will finally have a tough time finding any sort of foothold.
Bill Gibron: The Pixar Paradox (popmatters.com)
How do they do it? How do they maintain such a level of consistency while others flip and flop around between commercial hits/misses and critical dismissal? For many in the animation field, Pixar's unrealistic winning streak - 10 films, 10 classics or near classics (including the recently released gem, Up) - makes for a lot of scratched studio heads.
Noam Friedlander: Diane Kruger interview (telegraph.co.uk)
Diane Kruger is a feet on the ground kind of girl, but she's not averse to the odd gamble. And the biggest - giving up modelling to train as an actress - is paying off very, very handsomely with appearances in 'Anything For Her' and 'Inglourious Basterds.'
Ben Hoyle: Legendary dame Danny La Rue dies of cancer at 81 (timesonline.co.uk)
Almost 7ft tall in his stilettos and feathered headdress, the devout Irish Catholic with a reassuringly blokey delivery and spellbinding stage presence turned cross-dressing from a subversive cabaret turn into mainstream family entertainment.
Nicholas Parsons: Danny La Rue, charmer in a frock, remembered by Nicholas Parsons (timesonline.co.uk)
I first met Danny La Rue in the Sixties when he was running his nightclub in Hanover Square. Ronnie Corbett was his brilliant foil and Barry Cryer was doing much of the writing, but everybody went for Danny. He'd created the most amazing atmosphere and all the good, the great and the famous flocked to the place.
Mike Harvey: O'Brien's hairy start on 'Tonight Show' (timesonline.co.uk)
This was how Conan O'Brien started his reign on NBC's The Tonight Show: "I think I've timed this move perfectly. I'm on a last-place network, I moved to a state that's bankrupt and The Tonight Show is sponsored by General Motors."
RICHARD ROEPER: Drag Me to Hell (3 stars)
This is the most disgusting, the scariest and perhaps the funniest movie I've seen this year. At times I hated it for pushing my buttons so relentlessly and with such obvious touches, but I can't deny it: I found it entertaining as hell.
Roger Ebert: DEPARTURES (PG-13; 4 stars)
"Death is for the living and not for the dead so much." That observation from the mourner of a dead dog in Errol Morris' "Gates of Heaven" strikes me as simple but profound. It is the insight inspiring "Departures," the lovely Japanese movie that won this year's Oscar for best foreign film.
Let's See Tiger Do This! (stracka.com)
A great clip of Fred Astaire dancing and playing golf at the same time. It takes great balance to achieve this and also the firm planting of the left foot prior to the start of the downswing.
A.) Yes! I love(d) ______ and never miss(ed) an episode. If'n ya don't like that, Go Suck an Egg, ya snobby Nova luvin' elitist, you...
B.) No! They're the ultimate examples of the "vast intellectual wasteland" that TV programming has become (other than, My Mother the Car, that is) and those that do are First Class Rubes and should be shamed accordingly...
C.) I invoke my rights under the 5th Amendment (hand me the TV Guide, would ya?)
Okay, Okay... There're shades of gray to be considered here, I'll admit... Feel free to eelishly slither betwixt the choices, if'n ya must, to make a reply yer com-FORT-able with... Jeesh! You'd think I was asking about Supreme Court nominees, or sumpthin'...
Frank Cady began acting in 1947. In 1950 he had an uncredited speaking role in the classic film noir drama D.O.A. (as Sam the bartender in Banning, California) and another uncredited role in George Pál's 1951 film When Worlds Collide (as the assistant who pushes the wheelchair belonging to John Hoyt's character). Cady had a prominent role in Billy Wilder's film Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival). He had a small non-speaking role, seen mostly in long shot, in one of Alfred Hitchcock's most prestigious films, Rear Window. He can also be seen in the 1950 film Father of the Bride requesting a martini from Spencer Tracy during the engagement party.
In the 1950s Cady played Doc Williams in Ozzie and Harriet along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and is the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, from 1968 to 1969.
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Baron Dave ("If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had." -- I. F. Stone) was first, and correct, with:
Well, now that Wednesday's page is finally up, I can weigh in. I'm doing all this from memory, so please don't cite any of this as fact just yet. However, iirc:
The Monday 8pm slot was going to be filled by... Star Trek. Fans (and Lucille Ball) had saved the series from being cancelled after the second season, and it was headed toward an earlier, kid-friendly, time slot, replacing the action adventure of Man From UNCLE.
But over the summer, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was a surprise hit, so NBC moved the new show into the coveted time slot and let Star Trek languish. Producer Gene Roddenbury quit over the broken promise.
Such is television.
And also from memory: Right wing Hollywood elite Kelsey Grammer won Emmys on three different shows for playing Frasier Crane: Cheers, Wings and Frasier. It's the "At the same time" that throws me, as Cheers and Frasier didn't overlap.
Frank Cady? (Mr Drucker on Petticoat Junction & Green Acres and... Beverly Hillbillies?). Henry Winkler? (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Joanie Loves Chaci or Mork and Mindy?) Jim Nabors? Oh well. I guess I'll stick with one: Frank Cady. If there are others, you'll let us know.
Charlie responded:
Though The Beverly Hillbillies was the only one of the shows I watched regularly, the nonagenarian Frank Cady (b. 1915) was also on Petticoat Junction and Green Acres in those same years, and that makes him the only actor
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who can lay claim to the honor.
Cady liked to make fun of his baldness (something I don't suffer from, as I indicated a couple of days ago), but he will get the last laugh if he outlives me (which is still possible). I only bring this up because researching this question led me here.
I'll leave it at that
Marian the Teacher said:
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MAM said:
A 1 actor played a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time. Frank Cady (born September 8, 1915) an American actor
best known for his recurring and popular role as storekeeper, Sam Drucker, in three US television series during the 1960s: Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Frank Cady as Sam Drucker
Sally replied:
I could not bring your page up via AOL today! I finally had to consult a mutual friend who instructed me on bringing up your page through my Internet Explorer. He is very patient. I sure hope it gets to you :)
Okay, I think only 1 actor (Frank Cady) has played a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time. I could be wrong, this Explorer thing has me verclamped...
And, Joe S wrote:
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Sam Drucker, played by Frank Cady, appeared in Green Acres, Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Had an unseasonal rainstorm with thunder and lightning just after the kid got home from school.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'Old Christine', then a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Elvis Costello and a Top Ten List presented by Neil Patrick Harris.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Elizabeth Perkins, Mark Burnett, and Bernie Williams.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'I'm A "Celebrity" - Get Me Out Of Here', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'The Listener', then another FRESH'The Listener'.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Gwyneth Paltrow, Joel McHale, and John Mayer Trio.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jessica Biel, Rachel Dratch, Jason Sudeikis, and Doves.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Jesse James and Dwayne Perkins.
ABC starts the night on the East Coast with LIVE'NBA Basketball Finals', followed by a FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel'.
The left coast starts the night early with the basketball game, followed by some local crap, then Jimmy Kimmel', and some more local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Thomas Haden Church, Ed Helms, and 311.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance?'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Original Sin'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Crime 360'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard 2', followed by the movie 'Catwoman', then the movie 'Road House'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 15
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Dillons
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[9:00 PM] Should I Smoke Dope? - Should I Smoke Dope?
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Should I Smoke Dope? - Should I Smoke Dope?
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Should I Smoke Dope? - Should I Smoke Dope?
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Sarah Beeny and Dawn French
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 15
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'The Fashion Show', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'The Fashion Show'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Tosh.0', then the same episode of 'Tosh.0', again.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Will Ferrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dag Soderberg.
FX has the movie 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend', followed by the movie 'Night At The Museum', then the movie 'Night At The Museum', again.
History has 'Ancient Discoveries', 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Gangland' then another 'Gangland'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] The F Word
[7:30 AM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon
[9:15 AM] The Prime Gig
[11:00 AM] Dinner Rush
[12:45 PM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon
[2:30 PM] The Prime Gig
[4:15 PM] Dinner Rush
[6:00 PM] Ripley's Game
[8:00 PM] Eaten Alive
[9:35 PM] Jeepers Creepers
[11:15 PM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
[12:45 AM] Eaten Alive
[2:20 AM] Spider
[2:30 AM] Jeepers Creepers
[4:05 AM] Ripley's Game (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stargate: Ark Of Truth', followed by 'Stargate: Continuum'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Episode 7
[06:30 AM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 1
[07:00 AM] Kippur
[09:00 AM] Congorama
[10:50 AM] Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
[11:00 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 5
[11:30 AM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 7
[12:00 PM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 6
[12:30 PM] On the Road in America: Episode 8 - Big Sur, Part 1
[01:00 PM] Dans Paris
[02:35 PM] Blind Flight
[04:15 PM] Kippur
[06:15 PM] In Short: 107
[06:15 PM] In Short: GREEN PORNO SEASON 2
[06:30 PM] Kardia
[08:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 6: Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou
[09:00 PM] Flying: Confessions...: Part 4
[10:00 PM] Intacto
[11:50 PM] Laid Off
[12:00 AM] The Dead
[01:30 AM] Nights Of Cabiria
[03:30 AM] The Situation
[05:20 AM] The Mozart of Pickpockets (ALL TIMES EDT)
Stan Lee, comic book writer for Marvel Comics, waves as he greets someone in the crowd while signing autographs for visitors at the Activision booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles, June 3, 2009. The convention runs June 2-4.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Eminem says he knew full well what he was about to face at the MTV Movie Awards - including Sacha Baron Cohen's bare butt.
Enimem told the Web site RapRadar.com that the much-talked about stunt was all rehearsed, right down to Eminem's mock disgust. Says the rapper: "I'm thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it."
Eminem says when he left the show, he went back to his hotel and laughed for three hours, including as he watched the playback.
The rapper calls himself a "big fan" of Baron Cohen, who he said approached him about the gag while he was in Europe.
Joseph Ripa Jr.,left, sits with wife Esther Ripa and daughter Kelly Ripa, right, co-host of the 'Live With Regis and Kelly' talk show, as they listen to speakers at a ceremony as Joseph Ripa Jr. is sworn in as Camden County Clerk Wednesday, June 3, 2009, in Blackwood, N.J.
Photo by Mel Evans
Angelina Jolie grabbed the No. 1 spot from talk show queen Oprah Winfrey on Forbes Magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list, which ranks the rich and famous based on media exposure and career earnings over the past year.
Jolie, a reigning tabloid fixture, earned $27 million, bumping her up from third place on last year's list, Forbes said, adding that she wields more power due to high-profile turns in hit films such as "Wanted" and "Kung Fu Panda."
At No. 2, Winfrey is still the highest earner - $275 million.
Madonna came in third, trailed by Beyonce, Tiger Woods, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Spielberg.
Australia's soldiers fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan are up in arms, over Dutch food.
A special team of Australian military cooks had been rushed to Afghanistan to produce "Aussie food" after scores of soldiers complained about the Dutch-run mess at Tirin Kot military base, in southern Uruzgan province, parliament was told Wednesday.
"I think the issue is that it's not Aussie food, it's European food. It's true that people have been quite strong in their views about the European food," Australia's military commander Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston told lawmakers at a special defence budget hearing.
Houston said the Dutch-prepared food was generally nutritious, but was not as fresh as Australians were generally accustomed to in their diets.
Venezuelan orchestra conductor Gustavo Dudamel (C) gives a violin to Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman (R) during a rehearsal at Teresa Carreno theater in Caracas June 3, 2009.
Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Fans can get an early look at "TRON," "Toy Story 3" and Tim Burton's take on "Alice in Wonderland" this fall at Disney's first fan expo.
The four-day "D23 Expo" will be held Sept. 10-13 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.
The event will feature sneak peeks of new Disney films, celebrity appearances, props from past Disney shows, an eight-room "Disney Dream Home" and various products.
Cher has sued Universal Music Group, claiming that the label's creative accounting has shortchanged her and the heirs of her late ex-husband, Sonny Bono, to the tune of $5 million.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims an audit of UMG's accounting to the singer-actress from 2000 to 2003 showed that UMG executives "engaged in wrongful tactics" designed to hide revenue from two hit compilation albums.
The five-count, 22-page complaint claims breach of two recording contracts Cher had with UMG predecessors, one with MCA division Kapp Records in 1972 and a 1987 deal with the David Geffen Company. Cher claims that those deals entitled her -- and, in the case of the 1972 deal, Bono -- to receive up to 50 percent of net royalties received by UMG.
Music producer Snuff Garrett is also a plaintiff. He claims he is entitled to a 50 percent pro rata share of royalties from some of the recordings based on a producer's deal with MCA Records.
The new smoothie ice pop, modeled on James Bond 007 character actor Daniel Craig, in this photo made available Wednesday June 3, 2009. Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies, are producing the limited edition 'license to chill' based on the sculpted torso of the James Bond actor, after more than 1,000 woman voted the 'Quantum Of Solace' star as the celebrity that they would most like to lick. The fruit ice treat is based on 41-year-old Craig in the scene where he emerges from the sea in the Bond movie Casino Royale.
Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie is already getting the same sort of buzz and legal backlash that came with his last hit. This time, though, a woman is alleging injuries far beyond just a bruised ego or reputation.
Richelle Olson sued the 37-year-old actor-comedian and NBC Universal on May 22, claiming an incident at a charity bingo tournament that was filmed for the upcoming "Bruno" left her disabled.
Olson claims she was severely injured after struggling with Baron Cohen and his film crew at the event in Palmdale, Calif., two years ago. The lawsuit states she now needs a wheelchair or cane to move around.
Olson's lawsuit contends Baron Cohen has 30 sham companies that help him pull off his ruses and that is how the comedian and his camera crew gained entry into the Desert Valley Charities' bingo tournament in May 2007.
A former "Nashville Star" contestant who filed assault and harassment charges against country star John Rich is now suing the singer.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Circuit Court, Jared Ashley cites the assault and harassment allegations and contends that Rich and Rich's attorney defamed him by falsely telling the media that Ashley demanded $2.9 million to drop the charges.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Rich turned himself in to Nashville police last week to face assault and harassment charges and was released on $3,000 bond.
A man dressed as Waldo on behalf of Capcom walks the floor with a woman as they promote the mobile video game "Where's Waldo?" during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles, June 3, 2009. The convention runs June 2-4.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
The government's inadvertent and red-faced Internet posting of a 266-page list of U.S. nuclear sites provided a one-step guide for anyone wanting details about such sensitive information. Obama administration officials said Wednesday the document contained no classified material about nuclear weapons. They contended the locations and other details already were available from public sources.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said "a snafu" led to the online posting. "A little embarrassing," he acknowledged.
The document, stamped "highly confidential safeguards sensitive," made it onto the Government Printing Office's Web site - and why that happened was not immediately clear. A newsletter that focuses on government secrecy quickly picked up on it. The printing office removed the document when informed "about the potential sensitive nature" of the list, the agency said.
Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people.
The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 years ago, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The find "supports the proposal made in the past that pottery making by foragers began in south China," according to the researchers, led by Elisabetta Boaretto of Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Pottery was one of the first human-made materials and tracing its origins and development opens a window on the development of culture, said Tracey Lu, an anthropologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who was not part of Boaretto's team.
Grammy-winning blues singer Koko Taylor, the "Queen of the Blues" who belted out her signature hit, "Wang Dang Doodle," at hundreds of concerts, died on Wednesday, her record label said.
Taylor, 80, died in a Chicago hospital following intestinal surgery, a statement from Alligator Records said.
Born on a farm near Memphis, Tennessee, in 1928, and nicknamed Koko because of her taste for chocolate, she and her five brothers and sisters often accompanied themselves on homemade instruments.
Taylor came to Chicago with future husband Robert "Pops" Taylor in 1952 with nothing but "thirty-five cents and a box of Ritz Crackers," she once said.
At first, she cleaned houses while soaking up Chicago's rich blues scene, and then sat in with area blues bands. Discovered by impresario and blues artist Willie Dixon in 1962, Taylor signed with the famed Chess Records label that recorded "Wang Dang Doodle," written by Dixon.
She traveled from Chicago's club circuit to concert halls around the world, performing with blues legends Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King and Buddy Guy. After Chess Records went out of business, she began recording in the mid-1970s for Alligator Records in Chicago.
Her near-constant touring schedule came to a halt in 2003 when she suffered a heart attack and fell into a four-week-long coma. She resumed performing the following year and performed for the last time May 7 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards.
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