"Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)" (rebelliouspixels.com)
In this remixed narrative Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's an example of transformative storytelling serving as a visual critique of Edward's character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy's eyes some of the more patriarchal gender roles and sexist Hollywood tropes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways.
When Buffy Met Edward (doublex.com)
Hey ladies-are you weirded out by the strange sexual power dynamics in Twilight? So is Buffy the vampire slayer, and she's got something to say about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes.
roger ebert's journal: It's sweltering hot out
A new movie is titled "The 500 Days of Summer." That's what it looked like on the last day of school, time reaching forward beyond all imagining. There was a heightened awareness in the room as the second hand crept toward our moment of freedom.
Ed Pilkington: What's driving Steve Jobs? (guardian.co.uk)
Over the weekend it transpired that the boss of Apple has had a liver transplant. Cue sharp intake of breath among geeks everywhere. At last a reason for his weight loss and the mystery break from work. But now he's coming back. Will he ever give up?
zEN mAN (observing another sexually repressed Republican white male (Ensign last week) telling his trusted constituents that instead hiking in the woods he was poking in Argentina....wow....I wonder what Sean Hannity will have to say?)
A Antiques Roadshow
B Lidia's Italy
C Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
D Nova
E Sesame Street
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Mister Rogers is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania>, public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc (named Small World Enterprises prior to 1971). It is the second longest running series on PBS, after Sesame Street. The series could be seen in reruns on most PBS stations until September 1, 2008, when it was removed by PBS from their daily syndicated schedule along with Reading Rainbow, Boohbah, and Teletubbies. A number of stations have chosen to continue airing it independently of the PBS feed.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
C Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Charlie replied:
I'll go with
C Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Though note that while the Wikipedia article on the show says it's the second longest, the article on Fred Rogers says it's the longest..
Sally said:
I believe, from the choices offered, that, "Officially," "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" (C) is the second longest running series on PBS, after Sesame Street. I question this however, since, Fred Rogers died several years ago, what we see are reruns...
When planting some flowers at a local nursing home (for really elderly folks) recently, hear-tell that the residents line up for Fred's show every time it's aired... Hey MAM, see what we have waiting for us, hahaha :)
PS: Well, I see that like-minded souls met once again on B2BB's Poll! I really liked this one! And, I about split my gut laughing at, "Mad Cat, JD's" reply - how funny was that??
MAM answered:
C Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is the second longest running series on PBS, after Sesame Street. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood began airing February 19, 1968 in Pittsburgh on NET (National Educational Television). It premiered on PBS, February 15, 1971. Sesame Street premiered November 10, 1969 on NET, and on PBS in 1970. This was a hard one for me to sort out, having lived in Pittsburgh when Mr. Roders first started programs on TV with the old Josey Carey program, it seemed as if he had always been on. I had to do a bit of checking on the dates. I was working on my MA at Pitt in Child Development during the early 70's and Mr. Rodgers was a frequent visitor to our classes.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Intro
And, Joe S ("How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us." ~ Fred Rogers) wrote:
Won't you be my, won't you be my, won't you be my neighbor? C Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Actually in a search of the Internets several second longest running series on PBS showed up but of them, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is the only one listed.
Purple Gene's review of the new Pixar 3D animated masterpiece "UP".
Directed by Pete Doctor and Bob Peterson
"UP" is 3D for kids and Adults
I went to Oakland's Grand Lake Theater the other day to see the new Pixar 3D Animated movie "UP"…..the seats were filled with enthusiastic kids and consenting adults….all with their crazy looking 3D glasses on……what a scene. There was an animated short preceding the main event that got the crowd going…..objects shot out into the seats…explosions splattered everywhere…it felt like the screen wasn't flat…rather it felt like we were in the screen…it was such a joy to hear kids and adults squealing with delight.
What a wonderful Story
This movie opens up with the childhood friendship of Carl and Ellie…..a nervous little be-speckled nerd meets a cute courageous girl who has a club…she lets Carl join…..Carl finds out that Ellie has a scrapbook and wants to go away some day to a "Lost World" she has heard about through a famous Wilderness Explorer Charles Muntz. We sweep quickly through their teen years….their marriage and a wonderful life together…. buying a house and fixing it up……dreaming about going on that expedition together…..and growing old.
Ellie Leaves Carl
One day, an aging Ellie gets very sick and sadly passes away…but she leaves her scrapbook with Carl…..with the expedition part still a bunch of empty pages…..Poor Carl now lives alone in his cute little house that is slowly being surrounded by high rises. He will have to sell and be moved to a retirement home…..One day there is a knock on his door and a diminutive wilderness explorer named Russell asks Carl if he can help him get his final merit badge by aiding an old person…..Carl says no and slams the door……
Carl has a Plan
Just as the Developers are about to force Carl to vacate his house and go to the old folks home…the cab is waiting….the bulldozer is running…Carl runs back in to grab his suitcase…..he locks the door…and suddenly 20,000 balloons carry the house off the foundation, into the sky, through the city …and on the way to that great "Lost World". But as he is moving south in the wind, he hears a noise on the porch….he opens the door to find Russell clinging to the rail….pppplease let me in…..Carl now has a partner in his final adventure.
The "Lost World"
After a long journey, the house hanging on balloons, comes through some ominous clouds and lands on a precipice…..and in the far off landscape Carl and Russell see a beautiful waterfall pouring over the steep cliffs that Ellie visualized a long time ago when she and Carl were kids…she ever had a crayon drawing in her scrapbook…..could this be the same place the famous explorer Charles Muntz told the scientific world that an extinct bird still lived? What an adventure lies ahead for Carl and Russell…..the rest of the story is an exciting and suspenseful delight…in 3D !!!
Purple Gene gives "UP" 10 oversaturated deeply colorful fantastic pixilated Pixar stars out of 10 for being an amazing and amusing animated movie adventure.
Postscript
"UP" is an Oakland movie…..Not only does "UP" show Fenton's Oakland Ice cream Parlor and Oakland "Roxie" revival movie theater in the movie…the model for the balloon born house is based upon a craftsman style Oakland residence. Delroy Lindo is the voice of "Beta" the dog and he lives in the Oakland Hills…..and finally, Pixar studios is in Emeryville…which is merely a fiefdom of greater Oakland.
We took the Blue Line to the Red Line to the Gold Line to Chinatown for lunch.
Running late, so if a picture or 2 is missing, will finish uploading around lunchtime.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Johnny Depp and Megan Fox.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Larry David and Wolfgang Puck.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'30 Rock', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then another RERUN'The Office', followed by another RERUN'30 Rock', then a FRESH'The Listener'.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Bruno and Cirque du Soleil Zumanity.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tiger Woods, Evan Rachel Wood, and Dinosaur Jr.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Zachary Levi, Joel David Moore, Ken Block, and Bat For Lashes.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Samantha Who?', followed by another RERUN'Samantha Who?', then a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a RERUN'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Shia LaBeouf, June Diane Raphael, and Eric Hutchinson.
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 'King Rikki'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Crime 360', then another FRESH'Crime 360'.
AMC offers the movie 'Clear And Present Danger', followed by the movie 'The Game'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 7
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Curry Lounge
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 6
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Josh Hartnett, Mel C and Rufus Wainright
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', still 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''Demitri Martin, Person', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', and 'Important Things With Demetri Martin'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Cameron Diaz.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jim Fouratt.
FX has the movie 'Cradle 2 The Grave', followed by the movie 'Rocky Balboa'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Gangland', and another 'Gangland'.
IFC -
[7:45 AM] Trans
[9:05 AM] The Honeymoon Killers
[11:00 AM] The Glass Shield
[1:00 PM] Trans
[2:25 PM] This Is Me
[2:35 PM] The Honeymoon Killers
[4:30 PM] The Glass Shield
[6:30 PM] Pi
[8:00 PM] The Devil's Rejects
[9:55 PM] This Is Me
[10:00 PM] The Beast Within
[11:45 PM] Madman
[1:15 AM] The Devil's Rejects
[3:05 AM] The Beast Within
[4:45 AM] Spaghetti West
[5:45 AM] Three Times (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Living Daylights', followed by the movie 'The World Is Not Enough', then the movie 'The World Is Not Enough', again.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 2
[06:30 AM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 4
[07:00 AM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[07:35 AM] Wondrous Oblivion
[09:25 AM] Nothing But a Man
[11:00 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 2
[11:30 AM] The Education of Ms. Groves: Episode 2
[12:00 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 4
[12:30 PM] On the Road in America: Episode 11 - Middle East, Part 2
[01:00 PM] Face (2004)
[02:30 PM] The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
[04:15 PM] Aloha, New York
[04:45 PM] Wondrous Oblivion
[06:30 PM] La Moustache
[08:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Alicia Keys + Ruby Dee
[09:00 PM] Spectacle: Elton John
[10:00 PM] Wristcutters: A Love Story
[11:30 PM] Gretchen
[01:15 AM] Lemon Sky
[03:00 AM] The Bubble
[05:00 AM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[05:35 AM] Aloha, New York (ALL TIMES EDT)
The Academy Awards will have 10 best-picture nominees instead of the usual five starting next year, improving the odds for films such as "The Dark Knight," a fan and critic favorite that was snubbed last time.
Doubling the field for Hollywood's top prize will make room for more worthy films and potentially give a jolt to the Oscar TV ratings, Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said Wednesday.
The change takes effect with the 82nd Oscar show March 7.
The academy board of governors decided there were more than five films last year that deserved best-picture consideration, Ganis said.
"Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander told a crowd in Jerusalem Wednesday that the search for an Israeli-Palestinian solution and the "show about nothing" that launched him to fame have one thing in common - neither seemed destined to succeed.
But just as the show managed to bounce back with comedy, Alexander said, a solution might be found for Mideast troubles if people write and laugh with one another.
Alexander, 49, is a creator of "Imagine: 2018," a project that asked Israeli and Palestinian high school students to write stories about what the world might look like 10 years down the road if an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement was signed in 2008.
The project is sponsored by One Voice, a nonprofit organization that works to forge connections between Israeli and Palestinian moderates.
"People here get painted throughout the world with a very wide brush," he said. "To most of the world, to most people I know, Israelis are two things: victims or occupiers. Palestinians are two things: victims or terrorists. ... But when you sit down and you talk to people on both sides, everyone's humanity and the similarity we all share comes out."
U.S musician Lenny Kravitz holds a cake to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut album, Let Love Rule, as he poses for pictures at a west London hotel in advance of the British leg of his 53 date European tour, Wednesday, June 24, 2009.Kravitz starts the tour with a gig in Newcastle tonight
Photo by Joel Ryan
Country legend Willie Nelson has been honoured at a film festival in Hawaii.
The singer/songwriter accepted the Maverick Award from the Maui Film Festival on Friday.
Nelson's new film about solutions to global problems, One Piece at a Time, had its world premiere at the event.
In naming Nelson as the recipient of the honour, festival officials stated, "He has the courage of his convictions, a willingness to speak his mind and the backbone to withstand the heat from those who take issue with his vigorous expression of our collective constitutional right to the freedom of artistic and political expression."
A collection of 130 letters and short notes written by the late German actress Marlene Dietrich sold Wednesday for $4,200, an auction house said.
After leaving Germany in the 1930s, Dietrich defied Adolf Hitler's call to return home during World War II. She became a U.S. citizen and performed for American troops, living abroad in California and Paris until her death in 1992, at the age of 90.
The letters were written to Swedish costume designer Max Goldstein in Dietrich's large, spiderlike handwriting and span over four decades. Goldstein, was born in Berlin in 1925 and died in 2008 in Paris.
The collection was sold to a private telephone bidder, and Deserno would not give any details about the purchaser's nationality or his or her plans for the items.
Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias literature prize on Wednesday in recognition of the social commitment in his work.
Describing him as one of the greatest authors in world literature, prize organizers said Kadare "represents the pinnacle of Albanian literature and, without forgetting his roots, has crossed frontiers to rise up as a universal voice against totalitarianism."
The 2009 award announced Wednesday is one of eight Asturias prizes bestowed each year in areas such as the arts, the sciences, international co-operation and communication.
The Asturias awards include a 50,000 euro cash stipend and a sculpture by artist Joan Miro. The prizes are named after Spain's Crown Prince Felipe, whose formal title is prince of Asturias, a region of northern Spain.
Actress Mary Tyler Moore waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Type 1 Diabetes Research.
Photo by Susan Walsh
Actress Daryl Hannah and NASA scientist James Hansen were among 31 people arrested Tuesday as they protested mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia.
State Police Sgt. Michael Baylous said all were released after being cited for impeding traffic and obstructing an officer after they blocked a road near a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary's coal processing plant.
Another woman, who was among a crowd of mining industry supporters, was charged with misdemeanour battery, Baylous said.
Mountaintop mining involves blasting away ridgetops to expose coal seams. While mine operators typically are required to return the mountain to its approximate original shape, excess material is used to fill valleys, burying streams.
Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, poses with his discovery, the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton, part of the 'Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia' exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York, Wednesday June 24, 2009.
Photo by Richard Drew
Perez Hilton struck back Wednesday with a civil lawsuit filed against the Black Eyed Peas manager accused of hitting him outside a Toronto nightclub.
The celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sued the Peas' road manager in Los Angeles for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.
The suit states Hilton is seeking to protect his rights to free speech and claims Polo Molina attacked him because he made critical comments about the Black Eyed Peas' new album. Molina was arrested in Toronto early Monday after he allegedly punched Hilton following a heated argument between the blogger and Black Eyed Peas leader will.i.am.
The lawsuit claims Fergie again approached him at an afterparty for the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday night and that his argument with will.i.am happened at another party. The lawsuit claims the blogger was trying to leave that party when Molina punched him at least three times.
Abdul Samad has given up growing poppies. The farmer from Gulmir, from a village in Pashtun Zarghon district of Herat province, has found monetary and spiritual benefits in switching to saffron.
Samad grew the illegal crop for five years until a new government program helped him make the switch to saffron, the world's most expensive spice.
"I make more money than I used to," he said. "With poppy, I got between US$400 and $600 for each jerib of land. Now I make more than US$5,000." A jerib is approximately half an acre.
Saffron is prized for its taste and color, and is used in food and dyes. People in Herat use it to brew tea when they can afford it. Even locally, a small five-gram knot of the substance costs close to US$25, a bit pricey for villagers making no more than $200 per month.
A woman has cancelled her church wedding just weeks before her big day after discovering her fiancé is a porn star.
Haylie Hocking, 27, from Bristol, was set for her dream wedding and lavish country house reception but a friend spotted her other half, personal trainer Jason Brake, 30, in a porn movie.
The couple met in 2008 at the garage where she worked and Miss Hocking described him as romantic and a "passionate lover".
Mr Brake, who had often gone away for weekends saying he was holding training sessions with clients, admitted he had been making a living from porn but said it was "only acting" and that he would have given up his career if she'd asked.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 15-21. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
1. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 4.78 million homes, 6.47 million viewers.
2. "Royal Pains" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), USA, 4.52 million homes, 6.50 million viewers.
3. "Burn Notice" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), USA, 4.11 million homes, 5.78 million viewers.
4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 4.04 million homes, 6.09 million viewers.
5. Sprint Cup Racing/Sonoma (Sunday, 5 p.m.), TNT, 3.91 million homes, 5.79 million viewers.
6. "NASCAR Post Race Show" (Sunday, 8:36 p.m.), TNT, 3.79 million homes, 5.60 million viewers.
7. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.73 million homes, 5.07 million viewers.
8. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.69 million homes, 5.72 million viewers.
9. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.62 million homes, 4.85 million viewers.
10. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.56 million homes, 4.91 million viewers.
11. "NCIS" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.48 million homes, 4.42 million viewers.
12. "NCIS" (Friday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.30 million homes, 4.23 million viewers.
13. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 8 p.m.), USA, 2.98 million homes, 4.56 million viewers.
14. "Hawthorne" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.90 million homes, 3.83 million viewers.
15. "iCarly" (Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.87 million homes, 4.17 million viewers.
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57.
She was the only doctor among 41 staff at the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in winter 1999 when she discovered a lump in her breast. At first, she didn't tell anyone, but the burden became too much to bear.
Rescue was out of the question. Because of the extreme weather conditions, the station is closed to the outside world for the winter. She had no choice but to treat the disease herself, with help from colleagues she trained to care for her and U.S.-based doctors she stayed in touch with via satellite e-mail.
She treated herself with anti-cancer drugs delivered during a gripping mid-July 1999 airdrop by a U.S. Air Force plane in blackout, freezing conditions.
In a headline-grabbing rescue, she was lifted by the Air National Guard that October, one of the earliest flights ever into the station when it became warm enough - 58 degrees below zero - to make the risky flight.
After multiple surgeries in the U.S., including a mastectomy, the cancer went into remission.
Nielsen FitzGerald never lost her adventurous spirit and even returned to desolate Antarctica several more times.
Nielsen FitzGerald spent the last decade speaking around the world about the cancer and how it changed her life, and she worked as a roving ER doctor in hospitals all over the Northeast.
Besides her husband, the Youngstown, Ohio-area native and graduate of the University of Toledo medical school is survived by parents Lorine and Phil Cahill, brothers Scott Cahill and Eric Cahill and three children from a previous marriage, Julia, Ben and Alex.
An Amazon Milk Frog sits on a flower in an exhibit in the Rain Forest section of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, June 22, 2009.
Photo byAmy Sancetta
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