Alyssa Rosenberg: Judy Blume Is Still Standing Up For Kids (Slate)
Rookie Magazine caught up with Blume to talk about the movie, and interviewer Jamia Wilson and Blume worked their way around to a subject that Blume's made a priority in recent years: not just speaking to teenagers' experiences in her novels, but standing up for their rights to read books that challenge them, even if the content makes adults around them uncomfortable.
Jim Pagells: "Gateway Episodes: South Park" (Slate)
"Douche and Turd" doesn't just send up fatuous celebrity activism and PETA, both fairly easy targets. It critiques the very idea than an individual vote can decide an election. Parker and Stone are more than happy to direct their ire at basic tenets of American democracy-one of the many things that makes their show great.
Robert T. Gonzalez: "Sound advice for smart humans: 'Be ignorant, be silent, be thick'" (io9)
So remember, ignorance is not your enemy, only complacency with ignorance is to be resisted. Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life's hard classes. Remember to keep forming hypotheses and gathering data. Keep your conclusions light and your curiosity ferocious. Keep groping in the darkness with ravenous desire.
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.
On November 5, 1956, The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. The variety program was the first of its kind hosted by an African-American, which created controversy at the time. Beginning as a 15-minute pops show on Monday night, the program was expanded to a half hour in July 1957. Despite the efforts of NBC, as well as many of Cole's industry colleagues-many of whom, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Frankie Laine, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, and backing vocal group The Cheerleaders worked for industry scale (or even for no pay) in order to help the show save money-The Nat King Cole Show was ultimately done in by lack of a national sponsorship. Companies such as Rheingold Beer assumed regional sponsorship of the show, but a national sponsor never appeared.
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Adam was first, and correct, with:
Nat King Cole- not much of a stretch, really..
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Nat King Cole
Alan J took the day off.
Charlie wrote:
Nat King Cole
Sally said:
Nat 'King' Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles. Nat King Cole became the first African-American performer to host a variety TV series in 1956. The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC-TV, and as expected, the racial climate of the time made the show controversial - even though he hosted the 'cream of the crop' guests who performed on that show.
At the time of his show, I was a senior in high school, attending an all girl boarding school. Girls from all over the world were my classmates, and we even had two sisters from Africa. They were amazed and thrilled to be able to watch his show weekly - they especially loved his song, "Mona Lisa," as I recall. Personally, I became fascinated watching the show because Nat was so dark, that at times, I could not really 'see' his face on the black & white TV. That being said, we all liked him, Nat was very personable and had a teriffic singing voice.
Sadly, he could not get sponsors and the show folded after the first season. Nobody was surprised back then, when Black people had a rougher row to hoe in this country...
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Me, again Yesterday...
mj responded:
The singer of one of the few Christmas songs I can stand
Nat "King" Cole.
Marian responded:
Nat King Cole
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali replied:
Nat King Cole.
A grand talent. Also cool!! So good that he couldn't be kept off of TV, even by Jim Crow!
MAM wrote:
Nat King Cole (1919 - 1965)
BttbBob answered:
Nat King Cole, Unforgettable - YouTube
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(45) I really, really like this guy and his programs...
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kevin James, Shaun White, and Darius Rucker.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Maria Bello and Scott Adsit.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Winner Is', followed by a FRESH'The Winner Is', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Helen Mirren, Ben Schwartz, and the Olms.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Salma Hayek Pinault, Charlie Day, April Bloomfield, and Chrisette Michele.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/9/13) are Gavin Newsom, Phil Hansen, and Purity Ring.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Motive', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jeff Bridges, Jeff Lewis, and Capital Cities.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Grease', followed by the movie 'Signs', then a FRESH'Showville'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 17 NEW
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 18 NEW
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 22 - Imaginary Friend
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Capri
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Flamangos
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 17
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 18
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[9:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 13 - Ep 13 - Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Nick Frost, Jake Bugg NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 13 - Ep 14 - Season 13 Compilation NEW
[11:00PM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 13 - Ep 13 - Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Nick Frost, Jake Bugg
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 13 - Ep 14 - Season 13 Compilation
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', still another 'Chappelle's Show', yet another 'Chappelle's Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Zack & Miri Make A Porno'.
Jon Stewart John Oliver is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Just Go With It', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then another FRESH'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Wilfred', and another 'Wilfred'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Stop-Loss
[8:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:45AM] About a Boy
[11:00AM] Suicide Kings
[1:15PM] Stop-Loss
[3:45PM] Team America: World Police
[5:45PM] Brown Sugar
[8:00PM] Risky Business
[10:15PM] Porky's
[12:30AM] Risky Business
[2:45AM] Repo! The Genetic Opera
[4:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt
[5:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Always There
[7:00AM] Funny Farm
[8:45AM] Thumbsucker
[10:30AM] Transamerica
[12:30PM] Man Shops Globe-Sweden
[1:00PM] Funny Farm
[2:45PM] Thumbsucker
[4:30PM] Transamerica
[6:30PM] Big Trouble in Little China
[8:15PM] Money Train
[10:00PM] King of New York
[12:00AM] King of New York
[2:00AM] Big Trouble in Little China
[3:45AM] Money Train
[5:30AM] Man Shops Globe-Scotland (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Super Shark', followed by the movie 'Sharknado'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are John Malkovich, Derek Waters, and Skillet.
U.S. President Barack Obama awards the 2012 National Medal of Arts to musician Herb Alpert during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington July 10, 2013.
Photo by Kevin Lamarque
When the series finale of "Breaking Bad" airs, there are going to be a lot of dead bodies hanging around. And not just on the screen.
The last episode of the hit AMC meth drama will be screened at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, Calif., in September, series star Aaron Paul revealed on Wednesday.
"'Breaking Bad' final episode to air inside The Hollywood Forever Cemetery September 29th!!" Paul tweeted. "Who's coming with me? Tickets go on sale soon."
The series launches its final eight episodes starting August 11.
U.S. President Barack Obama congratulates musician Allen Toussaint as he awards him the 2012 National Medal of Arts during a ceremony at the White House in Washington July 10, 2013.
Photo by Kevin Lamarque
Farewell, Ziva! NCIS' longtime cast member Cote de Pablo is making her exit from the series after eight years.
Though Cote will not come back as a main player when the series returns September 24, the star will appear in enough episodes to tie up loose ends.
"We look forward to working with her and the producers on appropriate closure in this chapter of Ziva's story."
Said Cote in a written statement to Deadline, "I've had 8 great years with NCIS and Ziva David. I have huge respect and affection for Mark, Gary, Michael, David, Rocky, Pauley, Brian, Sean, all of the team and CBS. I look forward to finishing Ziva's story."
A manuscript of Irish author Samuel Beckett's first novel, "Murphy", sold at auction in London on Wednesday for nearly one million pounds ($1.5 million), meeting pre-auction estimates, according to auction house Sotheby's.
The University of Reading was the successful of two bidders vying for the manuscript that contains handwritten notes and substantially differs from the finished novel published in 1938.
The university paid 962,500 pounds for the manuscript by the Irish-born Nobel laureate. It was estimated to sell for between 800,000 to 1.2 million pounds.
Spread out across six notebooks, the manuscript contains multiple revisions, doodles, and sketches of fellow Irish writer James Joyce and British comic actor Charlie Chaplin, both influences on Beckett's work.
Katey Sagal, Kurt Sutter and Charlie Hunnam seen at the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures 'PACIFIC RIM', on Tuesday, July, 9, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
It's a mainstay on Broadway and now "The Lion King" has proved it's a king on the road, too.
Disney Theatrical Productions said Wednesday that the show's total touring box office gross in North America has reached $1 billion. Producers estimate that more than 15 million theatregoers in over 70 cities across North America have seen the show since 2002.
Says Jack Eldon, a vice-president at Disney Theatrical Productions: "We remain overwhelmed by the enduring response to the show and are enormously thankful to our patrons - new and returning - for their continued enthusiasm and support."
By way of comparison, three national tours of "The Phantom of the Opera" have been seen by 31 million people and grossed over $1.5 billion in combined box office sales.
Apple Inc. broke antitrust laws and conspired with publishers to raise electronic book prices significantly in spring 2010, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, citing "compelling evidence" from the words of the late Steve Jobs.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said Apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone to try to eliminate Amazon.com's $9.99 price for the most popular e-books so it "created a mechanism and environment that enabled them to act together in a matter of weeks to eliminate all retail price competition for their e-books."
"Apple seized the moment and brilliantly played its hand," Cote said. She wrote that Apple's deals with publishers caused some e-book prices to rise 50 percent or more virtually overnight.
The Manhattan jurist, who did not determine damages, said the evidence was "overwhelming that Apple knew of the unlawful aims of the conspiracy and joined the conspiracy with the specific intent to help it succeed."
Director Guillermo del Toro and his wife Lorenza pose at the premiere of "Pacific Rim" at Dolby theatre in Hollywood, California July 9, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on July 12.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
French movie producer wanted in his home country on international drug trafficking charges.
The Federal Police office in Rio de Janeiro says in a brief statement that Marc Alain Francois Gouyou Beauchamps was arrested Tuesday on a French extradition request. The statement says Beauchamps had been sought since 2011. It provided no further details.
Beauchamps was a co-producer of Brazil's hit 2002 movie "City of God" and helped make several other films set in Brazil
He was taken to the Ary Franco penitentiary to await the outcome of the extradition request.
Pop star Rihanna is donating $5,000 to a suburban Chicago high school to cover the costs of her brief but tardy visit earlier this year.
Barrington Unit District 220 tells The Daily Herald that the money was sent to offset expenses for security and signs for the musician's March trip to Barrington High School. The rest of the cash will be allocated for students.
The singer traveled to Chicago's northwestern suburbs after the school won her "Shine Bright Like a Diamond" video contest. Their five-minute, student-produced film highlighted the school's volunteer and community service programs.
But fans waited for more than four hours on the first day of the school's spring break after Rihanna showed up late. While they waited, students got free tickets, CDs and signed merchandise.
Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp (R), with wife Diane von Furstenberg, arrives for the first session of annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley, Idaho Resort July 10, 2013.
Photo by Rick Wilking
Unless either "R.I.P.D." or "Turbo" pulls off a major tracking turnaround by July 19, the frame will likely mark the fourth straight week that a $100 million-plus film flops - an unprecedented skid in the Tentpole Age.
This summer will see at least 20 films with budgets over $100 million - six more than last year. With so much popcorn competition, major casualties were a given.
But this run of high-megaton bombs comes at an odd time: Right after record-breaking grosses in May and June that put summer 2013 on pace to be the biggest ever. Since then, it's been an ugly run for would-be blockbusters.
Sony's $150 million "White House Down" started the slide with less than $25 million the weekend of June 28. Disney's $225 million "The Lone Ranger" followed with $29 million over the July 4 weekend. Now, Guillermo del Toro's $180 million giant robot extravaganza "Pacific Rim" is tracking to open at around $30 million this weekend.
A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group "the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians," is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor's job in jeopardy.
The column was written by Angela Thomas, the wife of Bill Thomas, an assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church in Madisonville. Her column was done in response to the Southern Baptist Convention's opposition to a new Boy Scouts of America policy that welcomes gay members.
"Sexuality doesn't come up and isn't relative to typical scouting activities but now, thanks to Southern Baptists, the parents of little innocent scouts everywhere are having to have The Talk," she wrote June 19 in The Madisonville Messenger. She writes a weekly humor column for the community paper, which publishes daily.
In the weeks since, the status of Bill Thomas' job with the church has become unclear. The First Baptist pastor said he had accepted Thomas' resignation, but Thomas' wrote in a letter obtained by the newspaper he had not quit.
The column said Southern Baptists have become "raging Shiite Baptists" after drifting "to the right" for the past four decades.
Dancer Semyon Chudin in the role of Lensky (front) performs during a media preview of the ballet "Onegin" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, July 10, 2013. The ballet by John Cranko in three acts will be premiered on July 12, 2013, according to the official web site.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin
An Alaska glacier is exposing remains from a military air tragedy six decades later.
Relics from an Air Force cargo plane that slammed into a mountain in November 1952, killing all 52 servicemen on board, first emerged last summer on Colony Glacier, about 50 miles east of Anchorage.
That discovery, by Alaska National Guard crews flying training missions out of Anchorage, put into motion a sophisticated recovery program carried out by the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
"As the glacier melts and the glacier moves, more material comes up to the surface," Dr. Gregory Berg, the forensic anthropologist who leads the team of specialists examining the crevasse-ridden ice field, told reporters at a news briefing last week.
Among the personal items collected so far: A tiny fishing kit, a compass, a survival kit, a survival suit, a hockey puck, and a mini-box of Camel cigarettes. Those and other items are being saved for a future memorial, said Doug Beckstead, a historian at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
The arrival of monarch butterflies is a traditional sign of early summer in parts of central Canada, but this year, the orange and black royalty seem to have stood us up. First the bees and now this - what's happening to our insect friends?
Well, in the case of the bees, the jury is still out, but the butterflies - with their well-documented migratory paths - are easier to figure out. The remarkable monarchs migrate more than 4,000 kilometres each year. Those that live east of the Rocky Mountains flying from their warm overwintering sites in central Mexico's oyamel fir trees to regions like southern Ontario, usually arriving at their summer home in late June or early July. Those that live in and west of the Rockies instead migrate between British Columbia and California (and with no dire words about them, supposedly they are doing better than their eastern cousins).
Why bother going through such a long journey? Because their larval food of choice - the milkweed - doesn't grow where they spend the winter, and up here where the milkweed grows, it gets too cold in the winter for the butterflies to survive.
So what's up this year? While we may have a lot of milkweed available up here already, the monarchs haven't been so lucky south of the border, and it's really what goes on in the U.S. Corn Belt that determines their progress.
Monarch Watch reported in May that the size of the overwintering population of the flock was the smallest recorded to date, meaning there were fewer of the insects than usual to make the trek north. Habitat loss, pressure from human activities like pesticide spraying, and changes in the climate are, apparently, all suspects in the decline in population.
Traditional Spanish 'Churros' are cooked in a large vat of frying oil in the Eijalde family run 'Churreria La Manueta' in central Pamplona, July 10, 2013. Churros are a typical Spanish breakfast, consisting of a mixture of water and flour, deep fried in oil and sold fresh every morning during the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona.
Photo by Susana Vera
Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world's oldest known primitive writing, dating back about 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some of the markings etched on broken axes resemble a modern Chinese character.
The inscriptions on artifacts found at a relic site south of Shanghai are about 1,400 years older than the oldest written Chinese language. Chinese scholars are divided over whether the markings are words or something simpler, but they say the finding will shed light on the origins of Chinese language and culture.
The oldest writing in the world is believed to be from Mesopotamia, dating back slightly more than 5,000 years. Chinese characters are believed to have been developed independently.
Inscriptions were found on more than 200 pieces dug out from the Neolithic-era Liangzhu relic site. The pieces are among thousands of fragments of ceramic, stone, jade, wood, ivory and bone excavated from the site between 2003 and 2006, lead archaeologist Xu Xinmin said.
Antique carousel figures are pictured during a media preview of "Fete Paradiso", which organizers are calling the world's first festival of vintage French carnival rides and carousels on Governor's Island in New York Harbor, July 10, 2013. The varied collection of artisan crafted museum-quality rare and antique carnival attractions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries come from the collections of Francis Staub and Regis Masclet and will be available to the public to ride and enjoy on Saturdays and Sundays from July 13 through September 29, 2013.
Photo by Mike Segar
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