Roger Ebert: "Death Panels." A most excellent term
"Death panels" is such an excellent term. You know exactly what it means, and therefore you know you're against them. Debate over. This term more than anything else seems to have unified the opposition to the Obama health care proposals. It fuels the anger that has essentially shut down "town hall" meetings intended for the discussion of the issues.
Clare Teal on big bands (timesonline.co.uk)
The jazz singer on her love of big bands, a hair-raising bus ride in Bulgaria, and a 'wild' night with one beer and a Kvit-Kvat.
GAIL COLLINS: To Be Old and in Woodstock (nytimes.com)
Forty years ago this weekend, I was at the Woodstock concert, and now I am getting alarmed about all the retrospectives. They're beginning to make me feel like Frank Buckles, the 108-year-old last surviving veteran of World War I. Although I will never come up with a line as good as Frank's secret to a long life. ("When you start to die, don't.")
A-ha: 'We were very reluctant pop stars' (guardian.co.uk)
They were pin-up boys for millions of girls in the 80s, but these days A-ha are more likely to be glumly discussing philosophy than chasing stardom, finds Decca Aitkenhead.
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House.
The show was set minutes from the beach in Santa Monica, California, and was filmed using three main sets: the trio's apartment, their landlord's apartment and the neighborhood pub, The Regal Beagle.
Source
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Regal Beagle
Marian the Teacher wrote:
The Regal Beagle
Charlie answered:
Regal Beagle
Sally said:
The name of the neighborhood pub frequented by Jack, Janet & Chrissy on Three's Company was, "The Regal Beagle."
PS: JoeB, would you believe that HomeDepot was sold out of "Liquid Fence!" (Must be a bloody deer epidemic around the mid Atlantic area!) I did get some, "DeerAway," which the 19-year-old kid, with the pimply face, assured me, "is good too..." I never get to places like HomeDepot (Bergen County, NJ does not allow box stores) but was going upstate NY for the day - hence my treat in going to the HD store! I had forgotten a lot about such shopping - it's so different here than in Denver... I will let you know about my "DeerAway..."
PPS: JoeS, thanks for reminding us how great a job does MS Marty - every freaking day! I don't know of any other site that does the same!
~ Tony In Philly replied:
The Regal Beagle
And, MAM replied:
The Regal Beagle is the name of the neighborhood pub frequented by Jack, Janet & Chrissy on 'Three's Company.'
Many people buy a dog as a status symbol and so go for a certain breed to mirror their own lifestyle. Still more have a particular attachment to the specific look and behavior of pure breeds. However, for personality, joie de vivre, unadulterated love and many other positive traits, nothing can beat a good old fashioned mutt.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 11', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Renee Zellweger and Gary Mule Deer.
On a RERUNCraig (from 6/26/09) are Lisa Kudrow, James Frey, and Chairlift.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN"30 Rock', followed by a RERUN'Parks & Recreation', then a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
On a RERUNConan (from 7/21/09) are Jonah Hill, Cheryl Hines, and Dan Naturman.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 6/26/09) are Cameron Diaz, Universal Records Database, and Grizzly Bear.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/14/09) are Joe Torre, Kelly Monaco, and Operation Aloha.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Private Practice'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/7/09) are Quentin Tarantino, Rachel Nichols, and Doug Benson.
The CW offers a RERUN'Supernatural', followed by another RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has LIVE'NFL Preseason Football' (Eagles visit the Colts), then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Nuns On The Run'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lonesome Dove', followed by the movie 'Lonesome Dove', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 13
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Riviera
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 4
[9:00 PM] Skins - Ep 3 Thomas
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Skins - Ep 3 Thomas
[1:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Skins - Ep 3 Thomas
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Frank Skinner, Karen Allen
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 13
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef Masters', 'Top Chef', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', and 'Chris Rock: Never Scared'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Betsy McCaughey.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Chris Matthews.
FX has the movie 'Are We There Yet?', followed by the movie 'Are We Done Yet?', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', another 'Gangland', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:50 AM] A Decade Under the Influence
[7:45 AM] Antwone Fisher
[9:50 AM] Quiet Cool
[11:15 AM] Raising Arizona
[1:00 PM] Dust to Glory
[2:45 PM] Antwone Fisher
[4:45 PM] Quiet Cool
[6:15 PM] Mad Dog Morgan
[8:00 PM] Bullet
[9:45 PM] Making of Inglourious Basterds
[10:00 PM] Shopping
[11:45 PM] Wide Sargasso Sea
[1:30 AM] Bullet
[3:15 AM] Shopping
[5:00 AM] Making of Inglourious Basterds
[5:15 AM] Dust to Glory (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2', followed by the movie 'Rise Of The Gargoyles'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] La Moustache
[07:30 AM] Live-In Maid
[09:00 AM] Bombon: El Perro
[10:35 AM] Bittersweet Place
[12:05 PM] At Night
[12:45 PM] La Moustache
[02:15 PM] Bombon: El Perro
[03:50 PM] Guard Dog
[04:00 PM] Bittersweet Place
[05:30 PM] The Yacoubian Building
[08:15 PM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[10:00 PM] Chop Suey
[11:45 PM] Fierce People
[01:45 AM] Hannah Takes The Stairs
[03:15 AM] Chop Suey
[05:00 AM] The Yacoubian Building (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actor James Spader, who stars in the new movie 'Shorts,' appears on the NBC 'Today' television program in New York Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.
Photo by Richard Drew
The United Nations on Wednesday premiered a film narrated by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters on the plight of Palestinians living in the shadow of Israel's controversial separation barrier tribute to the Warsaw ghetto.
The 15-minute film entitled "Walled Horizons" was made in honour of the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) opinion that the barrier's meandering route through the occupied West Bank is illegal.
The film opens with a wide shot of Waters, the songwriter behind Pink Floyd's hit 1979 album "The Wall," walking along a towering concrete segment of the barrier beneath the painted silhouette of a giant lying on its back.
"The reason for walls is always fear, whether the personal walls that we build around ourselves or walls like this that frightened governments build around themselves," Waters says.
Annie Lennox has slammed the 'uselessness' of politicians and told Sky Rupert News she is "deeply cynical" of them.
The singer who is a passionate activist and campaigner is urging people to take a more active role in politics and world affairs.
"When you feel like you are overwhelmed by the uselessness of politicians, don't just sit on the couch and complain - get on board, get involved."
Lennox attended the Edinburgh Festival of Politics this week where she declared Western governments were failing to do enough to deal with what she called the "devastating "impact of HIV and AIDS in Africa.
German leader Angela Merkel and businesswomen dominate Forbes magazine's new list of powerful women, while First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't break the top 30.
Merkel headed the list, published Wednesday, for the fourth year running, with the magazine highlighting her role as leader of the huge German economy and her likely re-election in September.
In second place came Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which insures US banks.
Third was Indra Nooyi, chief executive at PepsiCo, then Cynthia Carroll, the chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, and Ho Ching, chief executive at Singapore's government investment company Temasek Holdings.
Singer James Taylor plans to donate his $500,000 in earnings from a five-day music festival at Tanglewood next week to the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Taylor's association with the orchestra dates back more than 15 years. His wife, Kim, is a former public relations director and current trustee for the Orchestra.
Taylor tells The Boston Globe that he decided to donate his earnings because he and his wife are concerned about diminishing support for classical music. The newspaper reports that the couple also donated more than $700,000 between 2005 and 2008 to the orchestra, which makes its summer home at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts during the summer.
A New York art gallery has sold an Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson, but won't reveal the purchase price or the buyer.
The Vered Gallery in East Hampton sold the 30-by-26-inch painting showing a smiling Jackson in a red jacket from his 1980s "Thriller" days to a buyer who requested anonymity.
The auction, which closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, was conducted online, by phone and at the gallery. The seller is a private collector.
Gallery co-owner Janet Lehr would not disclose the final bid price, but did say it was more than a million dollars.
Police said Wednesday they want to question a reality television contestant about the death of a former swimsuit model found dead in a trash bin after a stormy relationship with the man.
Police say Ryan Jenkins may be heading to his native Canada after reporting the model, 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore, missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Jenkins, 32, appeared on the reality TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire."
Lisa Lepore says her daughter Fiore married Jenkins in Las Vegas in March but had the marriage annulled in May. However, she says Jenkins convinced her daughter to take him back.
Fiore's nude body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin on Saturday. Officials say she may have been strangled.
Actor Christoph Waltz (R) poses as he arrives with producer Harvey Weinstein for a screening of the film "Inglourious Basterds" in New York August 18, 2009.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children born in 2006.
Last year, the CDC said U.S. life expectancy had inched above 78 years. But the CDC recently changed how it calculates life expectancy, which caused a small shrink in estimates to below 78.
The United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span. Japan has the longest life expectancy - 83 years for children born in 2007, according to the World Health Organization.
The nation's infant mortality rate rose slightly in 2007, to 6.77 infant deaths per 1,000 births, but the rise was not statistically significant. It has been at about the same level for several years.
Three women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have been charged with fraudulently collecting U.S. housing aid after television star Oprah Winfrey helped them buy new homes, the government said on Wednesday.
The victims of the deadly 2005 storm obtained rental assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after having purchased new, fully furnished homes that were partly financed by Winfrey's charity, Oprah's Angel Network, according to U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson.
A spokeswoman for the Oprah's Angel Network, Angela DePaul, said the group was disappointed to learn of the grand jury indictments released Wednesday.
One of the women charged, Kiesha Murphy, received more than $17,000 (10,300 pounds) in legitimate disaster aid from FEMA, but continued to draw federal funds even after moving into a charity-financed home in July 2006, Johnson's office said.
Britain's film board banned the sale of a Japanese horror DVD, saying Wednesday its violence is so extreme that it could cause psychological harm to audiences.
The film "Grotesque" devoted most of its running time to the sexual assault and torture of its two main characters, the British Board of Film Classification said.
The board has refused to classify the film, meaning it cannot be legally sold or supplied anywhere in Britain.
The board said the movie's nonstop scenes of torture - including amputation, eye-gouging, castration and evisceration - make it impossible to edit the film in a way which would make it acceptable for British viewers.
Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday.
The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.
The data used in the study came from various surveys including 16,656 men and women participating in the 2002 through 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health.
Don Hewitt, the CBS newsman who invented "60 Minutes" and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86.
Hewitt joined CBS News in television's infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
He made his mark in the late 1960s when CBS agreed to try his idea of a one-hour broadcast that mixed hard news and feature stories. The television newsmagazine was born on Sept. 24, 1968, when the "60 Minutes" stopwatch began ticking.
"60 Minutes" won 73 Emmys, 13 DuPont/Columbia University Awards and nine Peabody Awards during Hewitt's stewardship, which ended in 2004.
A Sunday evening fixture, "60 Minutes" was television's top-rated show four times, most recently in 1992-93. While no longer a regular in the top 10 in Hewitt's later years, it was still TV's most popular newsmagazine.
Among his other jobs, Hewitt directed the first network television newscast on May 3, 1948. He originated the use of cue cards for news readers, now done by electronic machines. He was the first to "superimpose" words on the TV screen for a news show.
Before the 1960 presidential debate, Hewitt asked John F. Kennedy if he wanted makeup. Tanned and fit, Kennedy said no. Richard Nixon followed his lead. Big mistake.
Donald Shepard Hewitt was born in New York on Dec. 14, 1922, and grew up in the suburb of New Rochelle. He dropped out of New York University to become a copy boy at the New York Herald Tribune. He joined the Merchant Marines during World War II and worked as a correspondent posted to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's London headquarters.
Hewitt was the subject of an unflattering portrait in the 1999 movie "The Insider," which depicted him caving to pressure from CBS lawyers and not airing a whistleblowing report about the tobacco industry. The full report eventually aired.
Although bitter at the former "60 Minutes" producer who became a hero of "The Insider" for fighting to air the story, Hewitt later said he wasn't proud of his actions.
Hewitt had four children. Survivors include his wife of 30 years, Marilyn.
In this photo provided by Busch Gardens, Bea, a three-year-old giraffe, and Wilma, an ostrich, share a moment Aug. 1, 2009 at Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida's 65-acre Serengeti Plain. Just as they do on Africa's plains, the animals usually hang out with their own species. But recently, zoo keepers at Busch Gardens noticed the unlikely pair that just can't seem to get enough of one another.
Photo by Matt Marriott
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Make yourself home, take your shoes off...
Go ahead, scratch it if it itches.
The idea is to have fun.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better,
amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican musicians?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
This is your place.
replied:
