Andrew Tobias: Fundraising Stories
Long-time readers know that if today's Republican leaders were like Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, or Dwight Eisenhower - or even Richard Nixon, sans the demons and the conspiracy to subvert an election - I might still vote "Democrat" most of the time, but I sure wouldn't have spent the last 15 years of my life as a fundraiser.
Bim Adewunmi: Why do women love Guardians of the Galaxy? (Guardian)
Female viewers are flocking to US cinemas to see the newest release from the Marvel stable, with women making up almost half of the audience. Why? It offers something often missing in superhero movies.
Eddie Deezen: The Inside Stories of Six I Love Lucy Episodes (Neatorama)
August 6 is the 103rd birthday of the great Lucille Ball (Lucy was born in Jamestown, New York on August 6, 1911). Who doesn't love Lucy? A brilliantly talented comedienne, we followed and laughed at Lucy's crazy adventures through 179 episodes of her classic TV show I Love Lucy.
Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.
Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time. The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go (1952), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: "This Is the Beat Generation" In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
On the road again
Jack Kerouac, who, I think, would approve of Willie Nelson, coined the
phrase.
Alan J wrote:
Jack Kerouac
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York
Deborah replied:
Straight from the Wiki (because I'm too young to remember):
sp;Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York. The name arose in a conversation with writer John Clellon Holmes.
I'm with Damp Dale: 16+ yrs. in NorCal and I've never seen so much cool, muggy, looks-like-rain-but-won't-fall-from-the-sky weather. It's more like July in South Jersey than August in NorCal.
Charlie responded:
Jack Kerouac, whose drinking killed him before he got all that old.
Adam answered:
Jack Kerouac.
Marian said:
Jack Kerouac
Dale in Funky Diamond Springs, Norcali, responded:
Jack Kerouac…."On the Road"…..with Neil Cassady…..They loved Broads…So do I!
"I Live in a Redneck County"
Proof uno…My lady and I went to see "I Got You" last Saturday Night in Placerville, CA. This is a terrific movie that I highly recommend. The singing and dancing in the flick got us moving our feet and bodies in our seat. We saw it in an almost empty theater. There were just five other women inhabiting the showplace. But us seven had a real honkiefest gyrating to the rhythms as the credits rolled.
Lois, Beat To My Socks, In Oregon replied:
Ha! Didn't have to look this one up as I once tried to read
"On The Road", hoping to gain insight into the buddhist
experience and instead got a book to the face from falling
asleep while reading in bed. No enlightenment, just more
evidence of the pervasive atavism that descended on this
country after the Great War! Aimless young people crippled
by self-absorption and angst. FEH.
P.S. @ Dale...you're right, dude! It DOES NOT rain in
California in August (left L.A. in '94) but (adjusting the
foil hat) I'm purty sure they CAN make it rain these
days...the skies up here were THICKLY coated with a weird
WHITE smog-like haze which made for some stunning sunrises
and sunsets the last couple of days.
DJ Useo answered:
Jack Kerouac. He seems like someone I would've enjoyed hanging out with.
I even think he'd like me bringing my bongos.
I think of my peer group as "the dubstep generation." Lol.
MAM wrote:
Jack Kerouac 1922 - 1969 ~ Introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York. Kerouac appropriated the image and altered the meaning to include the connotations "upbeat", "beatific", and the musical association of being "on the beat".
Randall replied:
(guessing)
Alan Ginsberg
he wrote "Howl"
he was a beatnik
the beatniks were prelude to
the hippies
And, Joe S said:
One of my first heroes after the age 15, Jack Kerouac.
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CBS opens the night with FRESH'NFL Preseason Football', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/15/14) are Jason Segel, Liv Tyler, and Trampled by Turtles.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Breckin Meyer and Morena Baccarin.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH'Welcome To Sweden', then a FRESH'Working The Engles', followed by a FRESH'Last Comic Standing'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Will Arnett and T.I.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Michael Fassbender, Allison Tolman, and Joshua Ferris.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/22/14) are Giovanni Ribisi, Tinariwen, and Gillian Robespierre.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Quest', followed by a FRESH'Rookie Blue', then a FRESH'NY Med'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mickey Rourke, Jordana Brewster, and Banks.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'The Originals'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 3/10/14) are Nia Long, Cocoa Brown, Zulay Henao, Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Sevyn Streeter.
Faux has a RERUN'Sleepy Hollow', followed by a FRESH'Gang Related'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', and another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Core', followed by the movie 'Jaws'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Cyberwoman
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 19 - Lessons
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 20 - The Chase
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Revisited: La Parra de Burriana
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Handlebar
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 10 - Mill Street Bistro, Part 1
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 11 - Mill Street Bistro, Part 2
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Oceana
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Oceana (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Don't Be Tardy', another 'Don't Be Tardy', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy', then a FRESH'Extreme Guide To Parentlng', followed by another FRESH'Extreme Guide To Parenting'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Tracy Droz Tragos.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Brian Chesky.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'The Sitter', then a FRESHMarried', followed by a FRESH'You're The Worst'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawnography', then another FRESH'Pawnography'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW
[6:15AM] THE THREE STOOGES-ANTS IN THE PANTRY
[6:40AM] THE THREE STOOGES-BACK FROM THE FRONT
[7:05AM] THE THREE STOOGES-BRIDELESS GROOM
[7:30AM] BATMAN-THE PENGUIN GOES STRAIGHT
[8:00AM] BATMAN-NOT YET, HE AIN'T
[8:30AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-REESE JOINS THE ARMY
[9:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-REESE COMES HOME
[9:30AM] MARON-DESERT ROAD TRIP
[10:00AM] THE MARINE 3: HOMEFRONT
[12:00PM] HAPPY, TEXAS
[2:15PM] MARS ATTACKS!
[4:30PM] BATMAN-GREEN ICE
[5:00PM] BATMAN-DEEP FREEZE
[5:30PM] BATMAN-THE IMPRACTICAL JOKER
[6:00PM] BATMAN-THE JOKER'S PROVOKERS
[6:30PM] HALF BAKED
[8:15PM] HALF BAKED
[10:00PM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-THE FADEAWAY
[10:30PM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-PATTON OSWALT WEARS A BLACK BLAZER AND DRESS SHOES
[11:00PM] MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR
[1:00AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-THE FADEAWAY
[1:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-CRAIG ROBINSON WEARS A BORDEAUX BUTTON DOWN AND DARK JEANS
[2:00AM] MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR
[4:00AM] KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST
[5:45AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Love Lust-Heels
[6:15AM] Loredana, Esq.-Potheads and Knuckleheads
[7:15AM] Risky Business
[9:30AM] Lonesome Jim
[11:30AM] Hard Eight
[1:45PM] The Outsiders
[3:45PM] The Player
[6:30PM] The Beach
[9:00PM] Rectify-The Great Destroyer
[10:00PM] The Honorable Woman-The Unfaithful Husband
[11:15PM] Iconoclasts-Ron Howard & Steve Nash
[12:00AM] Rectify-The Great Destroyer
[1:00AM] The Honorable Woman-The Unfaithful Husband
[2:15AM] The Beach
[4:45AM] Loredana, Esq.-Never Lie to Your Lawyer
[5:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Make-up (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Eragon', followed by a FRESH'Defiance', then a FRESH'Dominion', and 'Spartacus: Blood & Sand'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Megan Fox and Todd Glass.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy attends a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Japan marked the 69th anniversary Wednesday of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
For almost 50 years, George Takei has been a pioneering voice in culture, co-starring in the original "Star Trek" television series and becoming known to a new generation of fans as an online social commentator and humorist.
But Takei took on a more serious and somber tone this week, revisiting the city of Hiroshima to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the devastating atomic bomb attack that killed more than 100,000 people.
Takei was in Hiroshima to tape a new episode of his ongoing web series "Takei's Take" on AARP's YouTube Channel. But he also used the experience to open up about his firsthand experience of living in a Japanese American internment camp in 1942.
Takei was just 5 years old when along with his younger brother, sister and their parents, was placed inside an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas. Later, they were moved to a second camp in Tule Lake, California. Although he and the other prisoners were largely cut off from the outside world, word began to spread through the camp shortly after the atomic bombs had landed in Japan. One of those attacks led to the death of Takei's aunt and his 5-year-old cousin.
Conan O'Brien told the attendees at Variety's TV Summit that he now realizes that he had a unique perspective on the changing face of latenight talk shows.
"I was standing on a fault line," he said in his keynote conversation with Cynthia Littleton, Variety editor-in-chief, television. On one side was "traditional, old-time viewers"; on the other, "niche, social media driven, very vocal."
O'Brien admits he wasn't aware of Twitter at the time, but that all changed when the younger demographic "rose up in my defense," he said. "I was crippled by my old world view of checking overnight ratings."
During the blackout when he wasn't allowed to communicate with the press , he was allowed to use social media - "I sent out one tweet and sold out the comedy tour," he recalled. "I didn't even know what the show was, and we sold out venues across America. To this day, it's one of the most fun things I've ever done."
That crash course in social media revolutionized his perspective - and what would become his latenight show on TBS. "I now live in a world where some of my most ardent fans don't own televisions," he said. "At first I was upset by that, and then I realized I had this freedom to reach them in new ways."
British singer Marianne Faithfull has told an interviewer her former boyfriend accidentally killed iconic rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors 43 years ago.
Morrison was found dead aged 27 in July 1971 in the bathroom of his Paris apartment, and no autopsy was performed on his body.
Faithfull told Mojo magazine that her then-boyfriend Jean de Breteuil, known as the heroin dealer to the stars, had accidentally killed Morrison by giving him drugs that were too strong.
The couple had travelled to Paris, and on their arrival de Breteuil said he had to visit Morrison's apartment. Faithfull stayed behind at their hotel.
"And he went to see Jim Morrison and killed him. I mean I'm sure it was an accident. Poor bastard. The smack (heroin) was too strong? Yeah. And he died... everybody connected to the death of this poor guy is dead now. Except me."
A butter sculpture of actor Kevin Costner by artist Sarah Pratt is seen in a display window during final preparations for opening day of the Iowa State Fair, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa. The Field of Dreams movie, celebrating it's 25th anniversary this year, was filmed in Iowa. The fair opens Thursday and runs through Aug. 17th.
Photo by Charlie Neibergall
The piano-playing hitmaker was once regarded by advertisers as one of music's "untouchables" - artists like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty and R.E.M. who shun the idea of aligning one of their popular tunes with an ad for a new kind of soup, sneaker or SUV. Now the artist sometimes known as "The Piano Man" has allowed his songs to be used in ads for The Gap ("Just The Way You Are," sung by his daughter, Alexa); Merrill Lynch's Bank of America ("My Life"); and New York State tourism ("New York State of Mind").
"An artist with the status of Billy Joel is iconic, and can help elevate a brand," said Paul Greco, director of music at JWT, the large ad agency owned by WPP Group of Britain.
The crowd of top rock and pop artists adverse to use of their work in commercials has thinned in recent years, as anyone who has heard The Who, The Clash, The Band and even Bob Dylan singing on behalf of everything from Jaguar to Diet Coke to Chobani yogurt can attest. With radio formats narrower and sales of traditional recording formats winnowed, commercial appearances represent a lucrative revenue stream at a time when others may slow to a trickle. Joel's interest in such stuff only spotlights how eager advertisers are to latch on to the world's most popular singles even when there is so much music already available to them.
That thinking seems to have changed. In 2012, Joel struck an agreement with Universal Music Publishing and its Rondor Music unit, with the idea that his songs "were just hanging around with nothing to do," he said in a statement. "I took good care of them, but now it's time for them to go out and take care of me for a change." Over the last 18 months, said Claire Mercuri, a spokeswoman for the singer, Rondor has secured approximately 127 different uses in the U.S. alone for Joel's songs. In the past, Joel did not have an outside party seeking opportunities.
Thrash metal band Megadeth and hip hop star CeeLo Green joined a growing list of entertainers Tuesday whose scheduled concerts in Israel have been canceled amid the Gaza crisis.
Los Angeles-based Megadeth was due to play in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, but on its website the group said it wasn't able to secure a guarantee that it could make it.
Organizers, meanwhile, scrubbed what would have been rapper Green's first-ever concert in Israel, on August 19 in Jerusalem, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Chart-toppers Lana Del Rey and Lady Gaga remain scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on August 20 and September 13 respectively.
But others whose Israeli gigs have been canceled include Canadian rock icon Neil Young, the 1970s soft rock band America, the enduring 1990s boy band Backstreet Boys, and prog rock combo Kansas.
This aerial view shows Indian farmers replanting paddy saplings at a rice field after monsoon rains on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia.
Photo by Biswaranjan Rout
CNN America is being sued by a pair of plaintiffs who claim that correspondent Arwa Damon bit one of them and threatened both during a drunken altercation at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
In the suit, filed in New York Supreme Court on Monday, Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar claim that in July, Damon was "seriously intoxicated" at the embassy and became "unruly and violent."
At some point, the suit claims Damon bit Lamar, who was working as an EMT and a medic, and threatened both Lamar and Simons, who were attempting to provide medical assistance.
What's more, Damon - also named as a defendant in the suit, along with CNN Productions - has "a history of becoming intoxicated and then abusive" and "a history of and penchant for violence even when sober," the suit claims.
And perhaps worst of all, Damon allegedly pulled a "don't you know who I am," telling the plaintiffs that she was "a major reporter for CNN."
People look at a light show by French artist Daniel Buren entitled "Catch" which is on display until Oct. 12, 2014 at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeastern England, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.
Photo by Owen Humphreys
Air India has been forced to ground one of its planes after crew spotted rats scurrying around the cabin, The Times of India reported on Wednesday.
The plane was on its way from New Delhi to Calcutta when staff became aware of the infestation, the paper said.
No one at the airline was immediately available for comment, but an Air India official speaking on condition of anonymity said rats on planes were a "common phenomenon" worldwide and could "get in anywhere".
"They follow the catering vans into the plane when they smell the food," the official told AFP.
People walk under colorful paper streamers for the Tanabata Star Festival at Asagaya in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. According to legend, deities Orihime (Vega) and her lover Hikoboshi (Altair), separated by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet only once a year this period. People in the country celebrate the festival by writing wishes on strips of paper and hanging them under bamboo trees.
Photo by Eugene Hoshiko
Scientists say a man-made "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is as big as the state of Connecticut.
The zone, which at about 5,000 square miles (13,000 sq km) is the second largest in the world but still smaller than in previous years, is so named because it contains no oxygen, or too little, at the Gulf floor to support bottom-dwelling fish and shrimp.
The primary cause of the annual phenomenon is excess nutrient runoff from farms along the Mississippi River, which empties into the Gulf, said Gene Turner, a researcher at Louisiana State University's Coastal Ecology Institute.
The nutrients feed algae growth, which consumes oxygen when it works its way to the Gulf bottom, he said.
Indian students with peace messages painted on their faces take part in a Hiroshima Day peace rally in Mumbai, India, August 6, 2014. Students and social activists gathered in Mumbai to mark the 69th anniversary of the world's first nuclear bombing in Hiroshima.
Photo by Divyakant Solanki
Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a "normal" climate, scientists said.
Decades of climate change bring risks that people will accept higher temperatures, with more heatwaves, downpours and droughts, as normal and complicate government plans to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gas emissions.
"Because the last three decades have seen such a significant rise in global and regional temperatures, most people under the age of 30 have not lived in a world without global warming," Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told Reuters.
"People have to get used to continuous change in the climate," said Thomas Peterson, principal scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center and president of the WMO Commission for Climatology.
Peterson said historical records of average temperatures, used by everyone from farmers planning crops to companies deciding how much insulation to install in new buildings, were no longer a reliable guide to the future.
Actress Marilyn Burns, perhaps best known as the heroine in the 1974 horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," has died at her Houston-area home. She was 65.
Burns' career included roles in several horror films spanning 40 years, including last year's "Texas Chainsaw 3D." The 3-D version debuted at No. 1 at the box office when it was released, a testament to the continuing popularity of the franchise.
In the 1974 film, her character was the only one among a group of friends to escape the rampage of the chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface.
Burns appeared in another horror film, "Sacrament," that was released this year.
Baby gorilla Diara relaxes next to its mother Kumili at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Diara was born during the night between March 10 and 11, 2014.
Photo by Jens Meyer
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