zEN mAN (observing Wayne "blood on his hands" LaPierre....who receives $1 million a year to visciously and violently promote the domestic terror group N.R.A. to put an AK47 in the hands of every US citizen....fear mongering and lying are his favorite tactics....he is the American Osama Bin Laden...and I pray he burns in hell....I own a gun...I hunt...I can defend myself...none of us need this luciferian lobbyist to tell us what to do....this Pig is responsible for the death of every single victim of mass murderers that purchase legal automatic weapons....I dare any reader of BCE or any blogger to defend this Prick)
Jack Dunphy: Aurora's Anonymous Hero (PJ Media)
And through it all, one police dispatcher helped guide the massive response that would see hundreds of police and rescue personnel rush to the scene. I've been a cop in a big city for more than 30 years. I've seen a lot of things but never anything quite like this. From what I've seen it looks as though the Aurora Police Department acquitted itself well in handling this most challenging situation. In due season the tales of heroism among the officers will emerge, but when the accolades are bestowed there will be no one more deserving than that one voice on the radio. She could not have handled it better. May we soon know her name, may she get the praise and thanks she very much deserves.
Hannah Rosen: In the Aurora Theater the Men Protected the Women. What Does that Mean? (Slate)
In the movies the Dark Knight does not always save his lady, but in the Aurora theater the story unfolded differently. The male instinct to rescue and protect kicked in the way it does in less complicated superhero tales. At least three of the 12 victims of the shooting died because they were physically protecting the women they came to the movie with.
David Bruce: Wise Up! People with Handicaps (Athens News)
Stand-up comedian Geri Jewell had cerebral palsy. Once she opened for fellow comedian Lotus Weinstock and performed so well that she got a two-minute standing ovation. Ms. Weinstock then walked out onto the stage, turned in Ms. Jewell's direction, and said, "What a gimmick!"
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Changed his name to Chad Everett because, he said, he got tired of explaining his real name, "Raymon-no-D, Cramton-no-P".
Once butted heads with Lily Tomlin when both appeared as guests on "The Dick Cavett Show" (1968). Tomlin walked off the set after Everett referred to his wife as "his property.".
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Chad Everett
Charlie wrote:
Chad Everett
BttbBob responded:
That man in your obits not named Sherman Hemsley...
Adam answered:
Chad Everett- he was pretty back in the day.
Marian replied:
Chad Everett
Sally said:
That hot doctor/actor, Chad Everett was born Raymon Lee Cramton in South Bend, Ind. He was a real dream-boat!
Hot stuff!
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Chad Everett, star of 1970s TV drama 'Medical Center,' dies at 75
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Raymon Lee Cramton, aka Chad Everett, "Medical Center" star has died. He was 75. The actor died in his Los Angeles home Tuesday after a year-and-a-half-long battle with lung cancer. His wife, actress Shelby Grant preceded him recently. I even remember him from "Surfside 6".
MAM wrote:
Chad Everett (June 11, 1936 - July 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared in over 40 films and television series but was probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976.
PS Happy 11th Anniversary. I have been reading the E-Page for almost that long. Remember when trivia started in Oct. of 2007. Have answered almost all of them. Best page on the web!
Gene replied:
Ralph Cramden
And, Joe S answered:
He was an American actor who appeared in over 40 films and television series but was probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976
Never really cared for the guy.
I mean, c'mon. Really?
Way back when, 'Medical Center' used the campus at Cal State Northridge for exterior shots, so for a few weeks most semesters, Chad Everett and James Daly
were familiar faces. Everett avoided all contact with the students and demanded a private, secluded trailor, while Jim Daly made himself at home in the green room of the theater department,
where he hung out with the students, told great stories, and listened to a lot of dreams. Wonderfully cool guy.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'3'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Joel McHale, Andrew Norelli, and will.i.am.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Emile Hirsch and Ariel Tweto.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'Saving Hope', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Colin Farrell, Dwyane Wade, and MoZella.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bill Cosby, Fred Willard, and No Doubt.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/8/12) are Freddie Roach, Danny Brown, and Ed Sheeran.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jessica Biel, Adam Richman, and Rick Ross.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'The LA Complex'.
Faux has a FRESH'Take Me Out', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then another RERUN'New Girl'.
MY recycles an old 'Without A Trace', followed by another old 'Without A Trace'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Cajun Justice', followed by another FRESH'Cajun Justice'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Open Range', then the movie 'Open Range', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 8-Ep 5 - David Haye, Bette Midler, Stephen Fry
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 11-Ep 4 - Jessie J, Simon Amstell, Julie Walters, Didier Drogba
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 4 (2008)-Ep 5 - The Poison Sky
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 4 (2008)-Ep 6 - The Doctor's Daughter
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Bonapartes
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 4-Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 2-Ep 1 - Lanterna
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 1U-Ep 2 - Lela's
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 (2007)-Ep 13 - Last of the Time Lords
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - SEASON 3-Ep 17 - Maelstrom
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4-Ep 16 - Galaxy's Child
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 12-Episode 6
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 3-Episode 7
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17 (60)-Episode 3
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 10-Episode 2
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 7
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 17 (60)-Episode 3
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 10-Episode 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 7
[3:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - SEASON 1-Ep 2 - Tree Harvester
[4:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Abrams Tank
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker', followed by the FRESH'Kathy Griffin: Seaman 1st Class'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Bob Saget'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart are Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Amb. Peter Westmacott.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', yet another '2½ Men', 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then a FRESH'Wilfred', followed by a FRESH'Louie', then a FRESH'BrandX With Russell Brand'.
History has 3 hours of old 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Great Lake Warriors'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] The Changeling
[8:30AM] Kingdom of the Spiders
[10:30AM] Diminished Capacity
[12:30PM] The Changeling
[2:45PM] Kingdom of the Spiders
[4:45PM] The Three Stooges-Grips, Grunts and Groans
[5:10PM] The Three Stooges-Higher Than a Kite
[5:35PM] The Three Stooges-Hokus Pokus
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Stock Car Races
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Funeral
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cheerleader
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Rollerskates
[8:00PM] Open Water
[9:45PM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[11:45PM] Open Water
[1:30AM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[3:30AM] Blindness (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Love Lust & the Bikini
[7:00A] Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
[8:30A] The History Boys
[10:30A] Lemon Tree
[12:20P] The Trenches
[12:30P] Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
[2:00P] The History Boys
[4:05P] Lemon Tree
[6:00P] Love Lust & Heels
[7:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - The Zit (Episode 5, Season 1)
[8:00P] PUSH GIRLS - In the Fast Lane (Episode 8, Season 1)
[9:00P] Love Crime
[10:50P] The Trenches
[11:00P] Bunny and the Bull
[12:45A] Coffin Rock
[2:20A] Cortex
[4:05A] Black Heaven (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings', followed by the movie 'The Silence Of The Lambs'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ben Stiller, Olivia Munn, and Flo Rida.
Soccer player David Beckham and boxing legend Muhammad Ali (L) pose for a photograph during the Beyond Sport Summit in London July 24, 2012. Picture taken July 24, 2012.
Photo by John Marsh
Rock artists including Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, and Faith No More have decided to challenge the Kremlin over its detention of an all-female Russian punk rock band.
Five members of the band called Pussy Riot were detained in February after they performed an anti-Putin song, jumping up and down at the altar of Moscow's Christ the Savior Church. The group, clad in their trademark colored baklavas and spandex outfits, sang about a divine intervention that would remove President Vladimir Putin from power.
Three members of the group have been held in jail without a trial ever since. Officials recently announced their pre-trial detention has been extended until 2013. They face charges of "hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred," which could result in up to seven years in prison.
In a statement on his website today, the singer Sting waded into the controversy, joining withAmnesty International in calling for release of the punk rockers.
During a concert in Moscow last weekend, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Franz Ferdinand took up the group's cause from the stage.
Comedy Central's late-night duo is sticking around for at least a few more years.
The network announced Wednesday that Jon Stewart has extended his contract to host "The Daily Show" through the middle of 2015. Stephen Colbert also signed an extension that takes him through the end of 2014 as host of "The Colbert Report."
Last week, each show was nominated for four Emmy Awards.
Colbert has hosted "The Colbert Report" since 2005. Stewart has presided at "The Daily Show" since 1999. Both are also producers and writers of their shows.
Sally Ride was the first U.S. woman in space and a role model for women everywhere. But one group had to wait until her death this week to claim her as a member - the gay community.
In a statement prepared before her death on Monday of pancreatic cancer, Ride, 61, acknowledged publicly for the first time that she had a longstanding relationship with a woman, Tam O'Shaughnessy, who was her partner in business, science writing and life.
The astronaut's website, Sally Ride Science, listed O'Shaughnessy, Ride's partner for nearly 30 years, as a survivor.
"Most people did not know that Sally had a wonderfully loving relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy for 27 years," Ride's sister wrote in a tribute that was posted on MSNBC.com.
Ride was married to fellow astronaut Steve Hawley from 1982 to 1987. In a statement after her death, Hawley said Ride was a very private person who found herself a public persona.
Singer Jimmy Buffett waves to fans on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday, July, 24, 2012, after announcing that he is teaming up with Resorts Casino Hotel to bring one of his Margarativille casino-entertainment complexes to Atlantic City. The project will be built as an addition to the Resorts Casino Hotel.
Photo by Mel Evans
There's a rumor afoot that Peter Jackson and New Line are considering turning the upcoming The Hobbit films, originally planned as two installments, into a trilogy. Yeah, because apparently there's an extra store of information about The Hobbitthat J.R.R. Tolkien wrote later in his career that Jackson has put into the films, so there might be enough material to make a trilogy out of the story. Which, no. That simply cannot be.
One novel, into three huge movies? There's no way one novel could sustain that. Well, OK, the Bible could, but that's like a million pages and was written by hundreds of people and whatever. But very few other books could sustain being split into two movies, let alone three. The Hobbit should stop at two. We understand that decision. That way Jackson and crew can be a little more relaxed and really settle into the story. But dividing it up any further seems excessive. And come on, let's be honest here. This has nothing to do with narrative integrity anyway. If they do indeed extend the damn thing, it's solely a cash-grab, like the Twilight series stretching a rather thin third book into two films.
The strategy did, yes, work for the Harry Potter films, but only because the final book in the series was jam-packed with exposition and action. The separation point felt logical and both films were expansive and full. But that doesn't mean it has to happen every time! Though, try telling that to a movie studio that wants just one more crack at making another billion dollars. And that's exactly what another division of The Hobbit would be, something cynical and completely un-magical that's feeding solely a bottom line. Peter Jackson's Middle Earth franchise is deeply respected, and I'd hope that New Line would eventually see the obvious error in making it all about the money. They could hem and haw all they wanted about how the story required it, but it doesn't. And everyone would know that.
NBC said Wednesday that it has topped the $1 billion mark in advertising sales for the Olympic Games beginning this week in London.
That tops the $850 million in ad sales for the Beijing games in 2008 and is the biggest advertising haul ever for an Olympics, NBC said. Advertisers have plenty of options, since NBC Universal is showing some 5,535 hours of the Olympics on NBC, Telemundo, cable affiliates like MSNBC, CNBC and the NBC Sports Group, and online.
The $60 million in digital ad sales triples what the network earned four years ago, said Seth Winter, executive vice president of sales for the NBC Sports Group.
The cost of advertising time per minute on NBC's prime-time broadcast has increased by less than 10 percent, Winter said. That telecast is where NBC gets its most money and biggest audience.
NBC is still holding back time for advertisers to join once the London games start, Winter said.
Katharina Wagner (L), great-granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner and co-director of the Bayreuth music festival, and her half-sister and co-director Eva Wagner-Pasquier pose as they arrive for the opening of the Bayreuth Festival.
Photo by Christof Stache
A toy company is suing Lady Gaga for more than $10 million, claiming the pop star improperly backed out of a deal to make a doll in her likeness that would play snippets of her music.
In a suit filed in New York City on Tuesday, MGA Entertainment says it paid a $1 million advance to the company that handles Gaga's merchandizing and spent a mint racing to meet deadlines to ship the dolls this summer.
But the toy maker says the plan was derailed in the spring when the merchandizer, Bravado International, abruptly balked at the part of the deal allowing the dolls to use the singer's music, then tried to delay sales of the doll until next year.
A representative for Lady Gaga called the lawsuit "ill-conceived."
Kody Brown and his four wives just want to live like any other family - free from the threat of being tossed in prison.
But in Utah, just claiming to have more than one wife is a third-degree felony punishable by a sentence of up to five years.
The polygamous family, stars of the TLC show "Sister Wives," has sued Utah and the county they fled from, hoping to persuade a federal judge to overturn the state's bigamy law as unconstitutional.
The case could potentially decriminalize a way of life for tens of thousands of Mormon fundamentalists practicing polygamy, most of whom live in Utah.
The state, meanwhile, has publicly said it won't prosecute consenting adult polygamists unless there are other crimes involved, but insists the law doesn't overreach.
The singer who quit the Bayreuth opera festival when it emerged he once had at least one Nazi-related symbol tattooed on his body remains scheduled to sing a new production of Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Metropolitan Opera next season.
Evgeny Nikitin withdrew from Bayreuth's Richard Wagner Festival after a German television program broadcast Friday showed old footage of the bass-baritone bare-chested playing drums in a rock band, in which a swastika tattoo partly covered by another symbol could be seen.
Met spokesman Peter Clark said Wednesday that Nikitin is scheduled to sing in the production in February as Klingsor, and his status hasn't been reviewed.
Pieces of the infamous flying saucer that starred in Colorado's balloon boy hoax are now available as trading cards.
Michael Fruitman, the balloon's current owner, struck a deal with New York-based sports and entertainment card company Topps to use a segment of the Mylar saucer for individual trading cards.
The cards are included in the recently released 2012 Topps Baseball Allen & Ginter Relics Set, the Loveland Reporter-Herald reported.
Fruitman acquired the balloon from the couple's California attorney, who says the Colorado man paid $2,502 for it in an auction.
An undated handout file photo shows a toy rocket that will be displayed at the "Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.
Photo by Thomas Griesel
Singer-songwriter Patti Smith, whose latest album "Banga" was in part inspired by the life of St Francis, meditated before his tomb in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi on Wednesday and even helped restore a fresco by Giotto.
Smith, sometimes called the "Godmother of Punk," spent several hours at the large basilica and convent complex, which is also the burial place of the saint who for centuries has been an inspiration for pacifists and environmentalists.
"When I think of St Francis I don't think of religion, I don't think of any rules and regulations," she told an interviewer for the basilica's website www.sanfrancescopatronoditalia.it/.
Smith, 65, who is most famous for her 1978 song "Because the Night," meditated before the stone tomb of the saint and then joined the brown-robed monks for a frugal lunch in the refectory.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has unveiled a digitized 3-D image of Simon Bolivar based on remains exhumed two years ago to determine whether the South American independence hero had been murdered.
"Hurray for Bolivar! This is his face," Chavez said in presenting the portrait of over a meter (3.3 feet) high in a ceremony at the presidential palace marking Bolivar's 229th anniversary on Tuesday.
With his dark hair, thick sideburns, pale skin and stone-faced expression, the image reconstituted with computer software is similar to painted portraits during the 19th century hero's time (1783-1830).
Anthropologist Lourdes Perez explained that an axial tomography of Bolivar's skull determined "the true face of the liberator, from a scientific point of view."
Chavez has long hero-worshipped Bolivar, going so far as to rename the country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. His own revolutionary rhetoric is inspired by Bolivar's campaign to throw off the yoke of Spanish colonizers.
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