Oil companies realize they are liquid
transportation companies and start to move fresh water to needy places on the
planet.
Major engineering companies respond
to rising seas and create canals that take the excess water into barren
lowlands inside the continents where it is needed.
The national military forces of the
planet merge to form natural security teams and restore their respective parts
of the earth's forests, plant life, watersheds, wildlife and the biosphere
above all that.
That schools recognize that content
is already available on line and change their courses to life skills, learning
based pursuits, and a new partnership with nature.
That Universities build upon the
science of conscious evolution, a visionary mindset, and life force living
intelligence and then structure their experience based curricula to that
end.
That government decentralizes into
bioregions and organizes military units, school kids, fire departments and
others to generate food foraging forests in all available sites for complete
global food security.
That neighborhoods take on a wide
variety of energy producing solutions to become fully independent but not
totally separate from the power grid.
That web-based democracies attend to
their regionally based constituents and use the global web intelligence system
to optimize local living.
That railheads, airports, and
warehouses converge to be able to launch global air rescue missions that
deliver major emergency living villages to all peoples globally within hours
of a disaster.
That the global public achieves a
clear unifying identity and the pre-emptive political power to defang the
nuclear arsenal and its fear based factions while offering alternative product
lines for the military industrial complex.
That we accept the notion that life
is more likely to exist in the galaxy than not and prepare for the real
benefits of new connections.
That we embrace a new level of
profound simplicity and reintroduce creativity as a replacement for things and
mindless entertainment.
P R O T O F U T U R E S L A
B
We seldom speak of holistic
futures. The best of the past and the best of the imaginable future can be
dynamically integrated for our new world and woven together for a grand new
lifestyle with sustainable land development. The protofutures lab in Hawi is a
social architecture research lab that refines the best of perma-culture, natural
living, and essensual ancient practices into that working blend of magic that
promises sustained exotic living in the heart of nature. "To hold the land in
righteousness" the Hawaii motto, is a higher purpose that drives many of the new
social inventions being modeled and studies here.
At Artesia, in North Kohala,
Hawaii, a globally recognized futurist and social architect, Jim Channon, has begun the
blending of many forms of global human.
On the other hand, there are the...
Anybody who text messages while
driving, unless the message being texted is, "Hey, what's happening?
I'm in my car now, just about to crash. Please say goodbye to my family. And
if I cause someone's death beside my own, would you sincerely apologize for
me..."
ABC News anchor Charles Gibson,
for introducing a propaganda piece - "A bit of a surprise today. Two long and
persistent critics of the Bush administrations handling of the war today wrote
a column in the New York Times saying that after a recent eight-day visit to
Iraq they find significant changes taking place" - when in reality Michael
O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollock originally supported the war even before it began
(Pollack's 2002 book was titled The Threatening Storm: The Case for
Invading Iraq). The next day, Dick Cheney perpetuated that party lie on
Larry King Taped without being challenged. Cheney also insisted that Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden were secretly married in Massachusetts, then
adopted a Chinese baby.
The Southern Baptist Convention and Focus
on the Family, for writing this joint letter to the American
Psychological Association for considering a public denunciation of any attempt
by therapists to change sexual orientation: "We believe that psychologists
should assist clients to develop lives that they value, even if that means
they decline to identify as homosexual." They were also concerned that such an
APA policy could lead to so-called heterosexuals undergoing conversion therapy
in order to return to their gay roots.
The Israeli government, for
offering an increase of a mere $20 increase in its monthly $487 stipend for
Holocaust survivors to compensate for years of neglecting its 240,000 citizens
who suffered through the Nazi concentration camps. Ironically, survivor groups
charge that they are now treated better in Germany than in Israel.
Retired Lt. General Philip
Kensinger, for lying about when he became aware that former football
star Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan was actually caused by friendly fire,
a cover-up allowing the U.S. to portray him as a hero. Kensinger confessed
that he had been brainwashed as an adolescent when he saw the Paddy Chayefsky
movie, The Americanization of Emily.
Pepsico, for selling its
Aquafina bottled water with a drawing of mountains over the nameplate to imply
that the source of the water was mountain springs, although it is actually tap
water. Henceforth their bottles will be labeled P.W.S. for "public water
source" or, if you prefer, "piss without sodium."
Capitalism, for causing profits
to trump compassion - Johnson & Johnson cuts 4,800 jobs and shares rise;
Unilever cuts 20,000 jobs and shares rise - while addicts to the system
continue to snort the bottom line.
Rupert Murdoch, for
demonstrating so blatantly how money buys power. Be on the lookout for the new
Wall Street Enquirer, featuring a cover story on the economic repercussions of
Hillary Clinton's cleavage accompanied by a life-sized photo.
Republican Senator James Inhofe,
for calling global warming a hoax.
Anti-asshole of the week: Jeff
Berkin, deputy director of the FBI's Security Division, for replacing
its hypocritical 13-year drug policy disqualifying applicants from becoming
agents if they had used marijuana more than 15 times. He explained that it
created problems for those who, when asked in polygraph exams, couldn't
remember how many times they had smoked pot.
Paul Krassner is the author of One Hand
Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, and publisher of the
Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster, both available at paulkrassner.com.
Foam of the
Week
Don't Make Me Get Obnoxious
on Your Ass
It's 1976, long before
music videos or The History Channel, you're the president of 20th
Century Fox, and someone's pitching you a movie. "Let's take all the WWII
footage Fox already owns," says the slick producer, "then reedit it to
cover versions of Beatle songs, an action packed extravaganza in stereophonic
sound. A film for, get this, hippies who are history buffs." You sit back in
your leather chair and light up a stogie as visions of B52 bombers set to
Magical Mystery Tour, outtakes from Tora Tora Tora set to
Here Comes the Sun King, and Japanese troops on the
march set to Tina Turner singing Come Together pop through your
head. The bottom line, it's all post-production and too cheap to pass
up. All This and World War II bombed royally but YouTube's got
the
preview.
A Fair(y) Use Tale explains copyright law
and fair use with edits right out of dozens of Disney animated features.
According to the site, "Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this
humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the
words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms."
Originally at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society but also full of interesting comments at YouTube.
It came to me, out of the blue, a repressed memory
from my video critic days, Zbigniew Rybczynski, a Polish filmmaker who made some
of the most innovative short films I'd ever seen. Looked 'em up and couldn't
find any of them online until I stumbled upon the lovely technique of
misspelling someone's name, and you gotta figure that's gonna happen to a guy
named Zbigniew Rybczynski. It seems all you have to do is add an extra "i" to
Zbigniew in Google and voila, Zbig"i"niew Rybczynski's Tango, one of
the most mind-boggling, brilliantly conceived and miraculously edited pieces of
cinematic tomfoolery that's ever won an Oscar for Best Animated Short (1983). Oh
yes, it's mandatory
viewing, and if I ever hear that you haven't seen it,
I'll turn really obnoxious and taunt you
forever.
"Made me change my mind about the
nature of the universe, which I now realize is magic driven."
- Stephen Hawking -
"Reminded me of my own childhood and my
intense personal struggle with having mystic powers."
- Dick Cheney -
Answers to Previous Stupid Questions
What should the warning label say on
medical marijuana?
WARNING: THIS DRUG,WHEN INGESTED, MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT
YOUR POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CAUSE UNDUE HAPPINESS THAT IRREPARABLY DAMAGES
GUILT REQUIRED FOR ETERNAL SALVATION! DO NOT USE UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES!
- Jed Closson
in order to obtain full benefit of the contents of
this baggie, carbon monoxide must be consumed. carbon monoxide is an odorless,
colorless gas that has been proven to be hazardous to one's health. in order
to lessen the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, after consumption of this
product, the consumer should not venture outdoors. - Dwight
Burke
WARNING: Medical marijuana use may cause voting
democratic, slurrrring worrrds, dyslexia, drwsisnes, xtreem hungreenis, a
reeel coool feeeeeling of well beeeeeing, world peace, and, like, a laid back
perspective about all things cancer. "My hair's falling out? That's cool, man.
Very zen. Very Buddhist monkish. The chemo's doing wacky things to me? Who
care's man? Any munchies in the fridge? You know how hard it is to put food on
your families. Don't misunderestimate me, either."
- Kurt Ackerman
Make some tea, bake some cookies shape an enema
(it's a little yucky) chew a head, suck a leaf give your lungs a little
relief sure, get high, it's only natural but when you reach a point
that's satural breath some air instead of smoke no use dying for another
toke.
- Waldo
Warning: Do not abuse this product, don't punch, hit
it, or smoke it without the approved apparatus http://www.smokingwithstyle.com/applepipe.htm. Failure to do so will result in burned fingers and wet
roaches.
- Spitfyre
Satan Doesn't Want You To Know
He's just winging it.
Don't Take My Word For
It
"Humanity has
advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and
immature."
- Tom
Robbins -
"Have no fear
of perfection. You'll never reach it."
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith -
"Until belligerent, uninformed posturing starts being treated with the
contempt it deserves, men who know nothing of the cost of war will keep sending
other people's children to graves at Arlington."
- Paul Krugman -
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the
necessities."
- Frank Lloyd Wright -
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it."
- Stephen Leacock -
"Across the world, a dangerous
rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend,
Iran's president has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote,
'Israel must be wiped off the map.' Contrary to popular belief, this statement
was never made...
"Before we get to the infamous remark, it's important to note
that the "quote" in question was itself a quote they are the words of the late
Ayatollah Khomenei, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted
Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to
Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited
(or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint
already in place well before he ever took office.
"So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact
words in Farsi: 'Imam ghoft een rezhim-e
ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.'
"That passage will mean nothing
to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word
'regime.' pronounced just like the English word with an extra 'eh' sound at the
end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass,
but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant distinction, as one cannot
wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even refer to Israel by name, he
instead uses the specific phrase 'rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods' (regime occupying
Jerusalem)."
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it
on?"
- Henry David Thoreau -
"Anybody who's telling you something's very very bad or very wrong is
probably trying to sell you a solution that they get money for."
- Jim Channon -
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy
something."
- Jackie Mason -
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the
world."
- George Bernard Shaw: John Bull's Other Island -
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit
that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the
best."
- Will Rogers: Illiterate Digest -
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either
case, the thought is staggering."
Disinfotainment Today is
struggling between being an actual newspaper that pays attention to the outside
world and simply describing the bizarre details of its personal life which are
dubiously worthy of tabloid fiction. Torn between the admittedly impossible task
of adequately describing the outside world and the innate desire to simply dwell
in the egotistical world of memoir, Disinfotainment Today acknowledges that it
knows where its been much more than where its going, and will strive to improve
upon both.
Jim Hightower: PUSHING FOR SHARED PROSPERITY (jimhightower.com)
One of the most oxymoronic and obnoxious phrases in America today is this: "The working poor." We live in the richest nation in the history of the world, and it's morally abominable that anyone who works in this country is poor. Our economy is deliberately skewed by public policy. As a result, the vast portion of America's wealth, which is generated by all of us, flows to the few at the top, shortchanging the middle class and leaving millions of hard working Americans - many working two or three jobs - in poverty.
Annalee Newitz: Kids Safer Online Than Ever Before
Experts estimate that 75 to 90 percent of pornography winds up in the hands of children due to novel technologies and high-speed distribution networks. If you're ready to blame the internet, you're wrong.
Jonathan Last: Woohoo! Satire seeing a revival (The Philadelphia Inquirer; Posted on popmatters.com)
On the weekend of July 27-29, "The Simpsons Movie" grossed $74 million, the fifth-largest opening weekend of 2007. It was also the most surprising hit of the year. Industry analysts had expected more in the range of $40 million. (Disclosure: My other employer, the Weekly Standard, is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox, where "The Simpsons" airs.) Why the big surprise?
No bondage (guardian.co.uk)
Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and the Slits were among punk's most radical figures but have been overlooked by rock historians. As a new book finally celebrates their influence, Leonie Cooper speaks to some of the movement's forgotten heroes.
zEN mAN (observing the man who would be president at 6 AM this morning at the home of a gentleman in oakland who is bedridden....Obama rolled up his sleeves and did the dirty work....like a true "man of the people")
This coming November 10th will be the 32nd anniversary of the sinking of
the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. Everyone in our generation remembers
Gordon Lightfoot's ballad about it, I'm sure...
Pardon me if I get emotional about this, but I was mariner on the upper
lakes for 7 years with Coast Guard and the thought that there might have been
arms around the ring when it first went into the water leaves a lump in my
throat...
On the 5th anniversary in 1980 I was a new deck seaman on the Coast Guard
cutter Bramble, Port Huron, Michigan. On that cold dark night I went all the way
up to the flying bridge where our big brass ship's bell was at the base of the
mast and slowly and loudly tolled the bell for the crew starting at
the the time she reportedly went down. I rang the damn bell for
them AND for me because I knew that I might have to face the Witch of
November myself soon...
Yer the best and I welcome you back by saying I REALLY missed you! Can't
wait for the rest of your trip report...
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 8', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUNDave (from 6/25/07) are Bruce Willis, Tony Parker, and diving dogs.
On a RERUNCraig (from 8/3/07) are Pamela Anderson & magician Hans Klok, Avi Liberman, and Nellie McKay.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock', then a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'Scrubs', then a RERUN'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are David Duchovny, Tiki Barber, and Nick Thune.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Cuba Gooding Jr., Jackie Hoffman, and Bruce Parry.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Tom Lennon and Eastern Conference Champions.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Ugly Betty', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Paul Rudd, Michael Cera, and Public Enemy.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has LIVE'Preseason NFL Football', then pads the left coast with old episodes of 'Malcolm' and 'Simpsons'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Spartan'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Kansas City SWAT'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Dirty Dozen', followed by the movie 'High Plains Drifter', then a FRESH'Mad Men', followed by the same episode of 'Man Men', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Daily Cooks! - Episode 22;
[12:30 PM] Rick Stein's Food Heroes - Episode 13;
[1:00 PM] Great British Menu - Episode 8;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 12;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[4:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - TBA;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 6 Death Takes a Policy;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep. 7 The Awkward Phase;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3;
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Episode 5;
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[10:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[10:40 PM] World Stands Up, The - Episode 9;
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Episode 5;
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 9;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 13;
[3:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 49;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 20 Fulham;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Peterborough 37;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 19 Shepton 20;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 19 Lovell;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 20 Burrows;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', 'Welcome To Parker', and another 'Welcome To Parker'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Mind Of Mencia', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Tal Ben-Shahar.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Judd Apatow.
FX has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Black Hawk Down', then the movie 'Black Hawk Down', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Boneyard', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[07:15 AM] Beyond Rangoon;
[09:05 AM] Seven And a Match;
[10:50 AM] The Big Kahuna;
[12:30 PM] Media Lab Results;
[12:40 PM] Beyond Rangoon;
[02:25 PM] Seven And a Match;
[04:10 PM] The Big Kahuna;
[05:45 PM] Beyond Rangoon;
[07:30 PM] Marci X;
[09:00 PM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?;
[10:50 PM] Antwone Fisher;
[01:00 AM] I Am David;
[02:35 AM] Media Lab Results;
[02:45 AM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?;
[04:35 AM] Antwone Fisher. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?', another 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?', and 'Mind Control With Derren Brown'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Yanks;
[07:00 AM] Trudell;
[09:00 AM] Going All the Way;
[10:00 AM] Big Storm: The Lynndie England Story;
[11:00 AM] Mutual Appreciation;
[01:00 PM] Photographing Fairies;
[03:00 PM] Going All the Way;
[05:00 PM] Clean;
[07:00 PM] Mutual Appreciation;
[09:00 PM] Episode 4;
[09:00 PM] Episode 2;
[10:00 PM] Jamiroquai, Damien Rice & The Goo-Goo Dolls;
[11:00 PM] Episode 6;
[12:00 AM] Episode 4;
[12:00 AM] Blue Vinyl;
[02:00 AM] Ek Velt: At the End of the World;
[02:00 AM] Episode 4;
[03:00 AM] Delta of Venus;
[04:00 AM] Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project. (ALL TIMES EDT)
British pop singer Lily Allen has no idea why her U.S. working visa was revoked, but she hopes she will be granted a new one for her planned September tour, her record company EMI Music said on Wednesday.
Allen was detained at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday for five hours after she arrived from Australia. She was searched, but not strip searched as reported, Murray Chalmers, spokesman for EMI Music in London, said in a statement.
"The authorities decided to revoke her American O-1 work visa. She has no idea why she was singled out for such treatment," Chalmers said. "We are sure we have enough time to sort the situation before her next visit in September."
A report on the BBC Web site said Allen, 22, had been detained by U.S. authorities in connection with her arrest in June following an incident outside a London nightclub in March. She received a warning from police but was not charged with any crime.
The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale. The asking price: $8 million.
Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, three-day Woodstock music festival that helped ignite a generation.
Up for sale is the 2,000-square-foot house that belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, along with a larger farmhouse, a barn and 103 bucolic acres about 80 miles north of New York City.
The nearby alfalfa field where the concert was held isn't included in the sale. It's owned by cable magnate Alan Gerry, who turned it into the 4,800-seat Bethel Woods Center last summer.
Magic mushrooms are seen at the Procare farm in Hazerswoude, central Netherlands, Friday Aug. 3, 2007. Procare is the Netherlands' largest grower of hallucinatory mushrooms, supplying more than half the market, a legal business in The Netherlands as long as they are sold fresh. It's high season for tourists, but for many the emphasis is on the word high. Thousands come specifically to smoke marijuana without fear of getting into trouble with the police. A relatively small number are interested in taking a 'trip' within a trip, using psychedelic mushrooms.
Photo by Peter Dejong
Rock legend Bob Dylan will open the first-ever museum exhibition of his paintings in a city in the former east Germany, the Chemnitz Art Collections museum said Wednesday.
The three-month show called "The Drawn Blank Series" will begin October 28 and feature more than 200 paintings based on drawings and sketches Dylan published in a book titled "Drawn Blank" in 1994.
The new paintings will hang among works by European masters including Picasso, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, Anja Richter of the museum said.
Are U.S. television networks gay enough? Not yet, but ABC is getting close, according to a gay-rights group.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has given the Walt Disney Co.-owned network the highest marks of any of the five major broadcast networks in the group's first-ever report rating depictions of gay, lesbian and transgender characters and issues on prime-time TV.
No network was rated as excellent. But ABC received a grade of "good" with 171 hours of gay-inclusive TV last season, accounting for 15 percent of its prime-time programming.
The fledgling, youth-oriented CW network, formed from the merger of the now-defunct WB and UPN networks, scored the second-highest marks from GLAAD, rated as "fair" with 12 percent of its programming hours found to be gay-inclusive.
Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown, who gave birth to Eddie Murphy's daughter in April, married her boyfriend, Steven Belafonte, in June, according to Clark County marriage records.
Belafonte is a movie producer whose recent credits include "Sisters" and "Thank You for Smoking." Brown was known as Scary Spice when she performed with the Spice Girls, whom she'll join for the band's reunion tour in December and January.
A marriage certificate filed with Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, lists the date of the couple's nuptials as June 6. It does not state exactly where they were married.
Two performance artists of a road show, wearing television screens in front of their heads, entertain people under the arcades of Locarno's Old Town, during the 60th International Locardno Film Festival , Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Locarno, Switzerland.
Photo by Martial Trezzini
Former Roseanne star Sara Gilbert and longtime partner Allison Adler welcomed their second child, daughter Sawyer Gilbert Adler, last Thursday, Variety's Army Archerd reports.
No other details were released about the latest arrival, but Gilbert had confirmed in February that she was expecting. She and Adler's three-year-old son, Levi Hank, was born in October 2004.
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Nia Vardalos have sued one of the producers of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," alleging they are still owed profits from the 2002 sleeper hit.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks unspecified monetary damages and a full accounting of the profits.
Vardalos, who wrote and starred in the film, and producers Hanks, Wilson and Gary Goetzman claim Gold Circle Films owes them their percentage "share of net profits." The lawsuit also names Big Wedding Prods. and Vortex Pictures as defendants.
The lawsuit said the movie cost $5 million to make. It has grossed about $370 million in theatrical sales, according to Box Office Mojo, a tracking firm. According to the plaintiffs, Gold Circle maintains the film's aggregate gross receipts total $287 million.
Two performers from the Eyeball Theatre Company, dressed in orange bodysuits, pose for photographs as they walk down the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh International Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland August 8, 2007.
Photo by David Moir
Lawyers for CNN and Nancy Grace have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the TV host of pushing the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning.
CNN and Grace say the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Melinda Duckett's family would "severely chill" journalists' coverage of missing-persons cases, according to federal court documents filed Friday.
"The law does not permit people to recover money from reporters who ask routine questions while covering ongoing stories of national significance to the public," lawyer Judith Mercier wrote.
Was it wizardry that guided him? Or too much free time? Whatever it was, a determined French 16-year-old accomplished a mystifying feat in translating all 759 pages of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" within days of its July 21 release and posting it online.
The problem: It was illegal, and now the teen has spent a night in jail and faces charges of intellectual property violation.
"He just wanted to get the book online," and did not appear to be seeking commercial gain, Aix Prosecutor Olivier Rothe said Wednesday. The boy apparently compiled the entire translation himself, Rothe said.
German musicians Clemens Knill, Friedrich Hutter, Gerhard Wieser, Gisela Woelk, Birgit Knill, Tobias Rief, Bruno Deschler, Philipp Knill and Juergen Tschoege Magino, all members of the Musikkapelle Roggenzell band from southern Germany, and Bolivian musician Daniel Libovicky, hold a concert of Waltz, Tango, Landler and Dixie music played on trumpets, clarinets, horns, percussion, tuba and flute at the peak of the Acotango volcano that straddles the border between Bolivian and Chile, August 6, 2007. The group and its audience of 14 people (two of whom are seen at left) played for 30 minutes at an altitude that according to their GPS was 6,068 meters (19,908 feet) above sea level, and plan to present this to the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest concert ever played.
Photo by Zacarias Garcia
In television, it's never a good sign when it starts raining in your indoor studio less than 40 minutes before airtime.
That's what happened to "The Early Show" on CBS Wednesday, forcing a mad scramble across Manhattan in a downpour to broadcast the morning news program out of Katie Couric's empty studio.
Intense storms that disrupted New York City's morning rush hour also caused water to back up on the plaza outside CBS' Fifth Avenue street-side studio. Besides flooding the newsroom and studio, the water leaked into a control room packed with electrical equipment one floor below.
More than 40 people rushed onto Fifth Avenue in the rain and hailed cabs. They needed to get to CBS' broadcast studio more than six long blocks west for the show's opening at 7 a.m.
Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.
The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous family of paleontologists, shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory of man's early evolution - that one of those species evolved from the other.
The old theory is that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became human, Homo sapiens. But Leakey's find suggests those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years. She and her research colleagues report the discovery in a paper published in Thursday's journal Nature.
A participant with his face smeared in turmeric powder looks on during a procession held in connection with the 'Bonalu' festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Aug 6, 2007. Bonalu is a folk festival of the Telangana region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Part of the music collection stored at the Führerbunker, Hitler's underground shelter during World War II, has been discovered in Moscow, where it lay in the attic of a former Soviet officer for decades. The Nazi leader apparently enjoyed listening to records made by his enemies.
On a mid-May day in 1945 in war-ravaged Berlin. Lev Besymenski, the captain of the military intelligence service of the First Belarusian Front, is given a mission: Together with two other officers, he is to inspect the Reich Chancellery -- stormed just a few days before -- including the underground bunker where Hitler stayed during the war and eventually committed suicide.
Besymenski is an expert, and he also speaks German. He served as an interpreter during the arrest of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus in Stalingrad in 1943 and had only recently, on 1 May, translated the news for Stalin from German General Hans Krebs that Hitler had died. Later he will reveal to the world what the Soviets long treated as something akin to a state secret -- that they found the remains of Hitler's corpse in the garden of the Reich Chancellery.
But on this day, he is standing in the imposing building on Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse. He has meticulously searched the headquarters of the Nazi regime for several hours. Suddenly the Soviet commander responsible for the building asks him what souvenir he would like to take with him.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 30-Aug. 5. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 5.56 million homes, 7.67 million viewers.
2. Auto Racing: Nextel Cup (Sunday, 2 p.m.), ESPN, 4.23 million homes, 6 million viewers.
3. "Saving Grace" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNT, 4.09 million homes, 5.37 million viewers.
4. Movie: "Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.79 million homes, 5.76 million viewers.
5. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.51 million homes, 4.61 million viewers.
6. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 11 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.47 million homes, 4.61 million viewers.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.43 million homes, 4.54 million viewers.
8. Movie: "The Princess Diaries" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.21 million homes, 4.56 million viewers.
9. "Burn Notice" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.19 million homes, 4.4 million viewers.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.18 million homes, 4.4 million viewers.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.17 million homes, 4.13 million viewers.
12. "Hannah Montana" (Saturday, 8:35 p.m.), Disney, 3.16 million homes, 4.74 million viewers.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.15 million homes, 4.01 million viewers.
14. "Monk" (Friday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.11 million homes, 4.3 million viewers.
15. Movie: "High School Musical" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.1 million homes, 4.52 million viewers.
Shavelson worked as a gag writer for Bob Hope's radio show in the 1930s before going on to write or co-write more than 35 movies and direct a dozen.
He was nominated for best screenplay Oscars for "The Seven Little Foys," the 1956 film that starred Hope as legendary vaudevillian Eddie Foy, and for the 1958 romantic comedy "Houseboat." He also directed both films.
He served three terms as president of the Writers Guild of America, West, and was on the writing-program faculty at the University of Southern California.
His autobiography, "How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying, P.S. - You Can't!" was published on April 1, his 90th birthday.
Shavelson is survived by his wife, Ruth; a son, Richard Shavelson; a daughter, Lynne Joiner; and three grandchildren.
Hal Fishman, the longtime news anchor for independent Los Angeles television station KTLA, died at his home Tuesday morning, less than a week after being diagnosed with colon cancer. He was 75.
Fishman, a 47-year news veteran, had anchored KTLA's 10 p.m. newscast since 1975 -- which made him the longest-running anchor in TV history, according to the station -- and also served as the show's managing editor.
He joined KTLA in 1965, the same year as the Watts riots. His coverage of that event helped the station win Emmy and Peabody awards.
Gorilla Kijivu breastfeeds her nine-week-old baby gorilla Tatu at a zoo in Prague August 7, 2007. Kijivu, who stopped to take care of her baby for two days due to stomach problems, is treated with antibiotics and her health is coming back to normal, zoo officials said.
Photo by Petr Josek
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