This past week, the White House announced they were going to promulgate a "mandatory, and yes you will be graded" Ethics 101. Godalmighty. That's a class that was taught to us teenagers by Ms. Taliaferro in our eight grade class, the crux of the biscuit was, people need to play fair during their time in public office or private industry, or private lives for that matter.
Why should the administration do it now? The Bunnypants' organization has done so pitifully wrong on every issue, they need to start back to remedial understanding of what is right and what is wrong. They have woefully flunked this agenda. They need to go back to kindergarten Sunday School for chrissakes.
An administration should not lie to the Republic they represent in order to avenge their father's failure. It should not play out a sick version of Oedipus Rex with young men and women's lives. It should not play with human lives due to negligence neither, nor flat out lies.
Who is going to teach this Ethics 101? Scooter Libby is disqualified due to his recent indictment to the United States Vs. Libby. Our Vice President is way too close to Scooter Boy, it would be somewhat of a conflict of interest. We all know the President can't teach it because of his inability to spell ethics. He keeps spelling "ethos", which is really not the same (you must give him partial credit, he's only one vowel off). Karl Rove is disqualified due to his pudgy face and arrogance, which does not bode well with the people they serve. Furthermore, he is closely associated with this CIA leak/cover up, and he may be indicted as Scooter wises up and doesn't become the sole fall guy for the whole fucking mess.
Harriet Miers' name has been tossed around for being the ethics teacher, but what if a bully like Cheney disagreed that it was NOT unethical to give out all these no-bid contracts to his former company Halliburton, which also got a sweet contract cleaning up after the Katrina tragedy. Cheney might say "fuck you" to Ms. Miers like he did awhile back to those reporters who were shouting questions he didn't like regarding Iraq. Would Harriet have the authority to send him to the principal's office? And who gets to be the principal?
Condoleeza Rice was a former professor, so she has the resume for sure, but did she not lie directly to the United States saying they had irrefutable evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction? Back in the day ( a phrase them youngsters are using for us geezers), like,about a year ago, Condi was defending Big Poppa Dick and his relationship with Halliburton. She's too intelligent NOT to know something BE FUNKY 'round that Oval Office, so she can't teach the course.
With the exception of a few hummers in the Oval Office chair, Bill Clinton would be an ideal teacher for this group who are enrolled. He had an excellent economy, a surplus of money that Bunnypants blew in a couple of years, excellent foreign relations, he damn near got the Israel-Palestinian issue resolved,he saved a marriage that was teetering, he raised a nice lady named Chelsea, he loves his dog named Buddy, he does unto others as you would like them to do unto you, I mean, that man could teach the course if he'd keep his fucking paws off the student assistants.
Read the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Bang. There. You have what ethics should be. Then one must face reality and fuck with your opponents and do unto others BEFORE they fuck you in your ass and make every fucking piece of your existence a living hell every day and keep them on the run. Some dude (Joe Wilson) wrote a report saying no yellow cake was purchased from Niger by Iraq? Huh? Then let's out his covert spy wife (Valerie) and make his life miserable, goddammit!!Do it NOW!!!! Poor Scooter having to do Poppa Dick's dirty work. What a pitiful bunch of morons.
They're back: Diebold voting systems again seeks California certification: The public is invited to this important public hearing in Sacramento on November 21, 2005.
After an unusually long hiatus the Voting System Panel* (VSP) will brave its first voting system hearing since June 19th. This last hearing was a remarkable event with over 200 citizens voicing their opinions about Diebold--and with the exception of a couple of county clerks--opinions were unanimously negative for this company who has become the Enron of voting system manufacturers.
All Californians will make history with their actions or inactions. If voting integrity in California is important to you, please make your voice heard.
"Saddamsa was prepared for Bushna's attack, for he knew from the beginning that He was to be the supreme cause of his death. He immediately unsheathed his sword and prepared to answer the challenge of Bushna with sword and shield, for he truly had no weapons of mass destruction, nor much of an army. As Saddamsa wielded his sword up and down, hither and thither, Lord Bushna, the supreme powerful Lord, caught hold of him with great force. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the shelter of the complete creation and from whose lotus navel the whole creation is manifested, immediately knocked the crown from the head of Saddamsa and grabbed his long hair in His hand. He then dragged Saddamsa from his seat to the wrestling dais and threw him down. Then Bushna straddled his chest and began to strike him over and over again. Simply from the strokes of His fist, Saddamsa lost his vital force."
Jimmy Carter: 'This isn't the real America' (smirkingchimp.com)
Of even greater concern is that the U.S. has repudiated the Geneva accords and espoused the use of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, and secretly through proxy regimes elsewhere with the so-called extraordinary rendition program. It is embarrassing to see the president and vice president insisting that the CIA should be free to perpetrate "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment" on people in U.S. custody.
Exercise and Nutrition: The Real Fountains of Youth
HealthDay News -- Healthy aging? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. But for older Americans it means exercising and eating right -- plus a whole lot more, doctors say.
Richard Roeper: Ho ho whoa: Careful what you call holiday cheer (suntimes.com)
... Wal-Mart employees will continue to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." The Catholic League's president said this policy is "dumb," but the proper word for it would be "smart." Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make. The same goes for every other entity that uses the holidays for commercial purposes.
Felice Prager: Borderline Stupidity
Commentator Felice Prager takes on the Morgan Quitno rankings of state education programs, and shows that Vermont may not be the "smartest state" and Arizona the "dumbest state" after all.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Music
Comedian Joe E. Lewis' signature song was "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long," which meant he had to sing it at almost every performance. One day, he came out on stage wearing earmuffs and told the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen. Tonight I'm going to sing 'Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long,' but I'm wearing these earmuffs because I'll be g-dd-mned if I'm going to listen to it again."
Thought you might like to mention the program on Discovery/Times channel called "Off To War." It is a series that follows the 239th Engineering Brigade from Clarksville, Arkansas. They are a national guard unit that got mobilized and sent to Iraq for 18 months and follows several of the members of the unit and their families throughout the tour in Iraq.
This Saturday at 10pm Eastern is the episode where they leave Iraq and go to Kuwait and then home. The unit lost 30 members during the tour and several wounded. It is heartbreaking. Most of them are Democrats in the guard unit, but some of their wives are Republicans. Weird. They show old episodes prior to the current one each week and often run all of them in sequence during other days.
Tonight, at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, another kind of echo was heard….all the way across the Bay……from the Rolling Stones horn section……Specifically, their Sax player, Tim Ries has created the "Rolling Stones Project" which is recordings of Rolling Stones songs with a Jazz bent. The actual recording sessions were done with some incredible jazz instrumentalists as well as Charlie Watts on Drums, Keith Richards on Guitar, Ron Woods on guitar and vocalists including Norah Jones and Sheryl Crow. Tonight we had the tantalizing possibility that the Stones themselves might drop by on their OFF night and sit in with Tim Ries and the boys……
After some Sake and Sushi, my wife Sharon, myself, two Davids and Arthur, all piled into the cozy nightclub hoping for some great Jazz and maybe a celebrity sit-in on stage!
At about 10:15, Tim Ries and company ambled out onto the stage and introduced themselves……on the big Hammond B3 organ (playing Bass and all keyboards) Mr. Larry Goldings ("Johnny Bow-Tie Barstow)………on a Gibson ES335 electric guitar Mr. Adam Levy (Norah Jones guitar player)……on Drum - shades of Gene Krupa - Mr. Adam Niebaum…….on Slide Trombone Mr. Michael Davis (has played with Sting, Sinatra, Bennett, Dylan) currently touring with the Rolling Stones….and Tim Ries, saxophonist extraordinaire and currently touring with the Rolling Stones….I spoke to him before the gig and he told me an incredible story………….
In between autographing CDs, Tim told me about how in the fall of 1999 he was playing music at the White House….of course he got to chatting with President Bill Clinton (who is an accomplished Sax player) about reeds and mouth pieces…when Tim's cell phone started ringing right then….what an embarrassing dilemma…."should I pick up???? " Excuse me Bill I have to take this !" Well he did take the call and it just happened to be the Rolling Stones asking him to join them on their "No Security" tour playing tenor Sax…….. So Tim said that he had to tell Bill Clinton who it was that called and the rest of the night the president kept ribbing Mr. Ries…"Rolling Stones Saxophone Player" !!!!
After a 10 minute warm-up tune, the band played "Waiting on a Friend" ..stretching out the original song into a mellow blend of muted slide trombone, dreamy B3 lines, hand job subtlety on the drums and a hypnotic crescendo of horns, almost Dixielandish at the finish.
Then they brought out Bernard Fowler, silver wristed golden throated vocalist, to sing "Honky Tonk Woman"…."I met a gin-soaked bar room queen in Memphis, she tried to take me upstairs for a ride……" almost bluesy delivery over a jazzy pulse…with horns answering on the chorus…very cool (with a little bit of "Satisfaction" thrown in)!!!
After an original number called "Slipping Away", the band launched into "You Can't Always get What You Want" by taking the opening verse line "I saw her today at the reception"….and using that tune to riff on and swirl around…great grinding guitar solo (like Al Franken's book…"the Truth - with Humor") and a climactic ending of howling horns…."I know it's not Generic Jazz….but I like it"!!!!!
After a standing and stomping ovation, the band came back to encore with "Wild Horses" (on Tim's album they have Norah Jones singing)…what a beautiful and haunting version with Bernard bleeding all over the stage with emotion….OVER..
I heard somebody whisper while walking out…"Where the fuck was Mick"…and another say quietly.."That didn't look at all like Charlie Watts on the drums" ……I myself figuring that the whole project was an advertising ploy by elitist jazz musicians to entice Stone's Fans to buy CDs and tickets was really wrong…because I just came to see Tim and his mates…
Purple Gene gives Tim Ries's "Rolling Stone Project" at Yoshi's Jazz Club 8 rousing resilient bamboo saxophone reeds out of 10 for being way, way more than a Rolling Stone's Jazz Jukebox by actually taking their songs and juking them joyfully into another GENRE!!!!
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Guatemala', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Howard Stern and Pharrell Williams.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are TV producer Josh Schwartz and Amos Lee.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Joey', followed by a FRESH'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'The Apprentice: The Donald (not the Scooter)', followed by a FRESH'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jerry Seinfeld, Shelley Berman, and Carrie Underwood.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Joaquin Phoenix, Sarah Silverman, and Trey Anastasio.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Xzibit and Kristin Cavalleri.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Alias', followed by a FRESH'Night Stalker', then 'Primetime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel are Dane Cook, William Baldwin, and strongman Mighty Gonzalez
The WB offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Everwood'.
Faux has a FRESH'The O.C.', followed by a FRESH'Reunion'.
UPN has a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'Love, Inc.', then a FRESH'Eve', followed by a FRESH'Cuts'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', another 'Cold Case Files', and 'Harry Potter'.
AMC offers the movie 'Teh Blues Brothers', followed by the movie 'Tommy Boy', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Animal House'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Grandstand;
[2:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[3:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 5;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 5;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Mansfield;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[9pm] 'Riders';
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Grandstand;
[11:40pm] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 3;
[12:20am] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 4;
[1am] 'Riders';
[3am] 'The Prisoner' - Ep. 10 Hammer Into Anvil;
[4am] 'The Prisoner' - Ep. 11 It's Your Funeral;
[5am] 'The Prisoner' - Ep. 12 A Change of Mind;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Poker Showdown'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Premium Blend', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Showbiz Show With David Spade'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Richard Clarke.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Tim Robbins.
Scheduled on a FRESHAdam Carolla are Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman.
History has 'History's Mysteries', 'Alaska: Big America', and 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Dogtown (1997);
[7:45AM] Short: The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002);
[8AM] Naked In New York (1993);
[9:45AM] IFC in Theaters(2005);
[10AM] Lulu on the Bridge (1998);
[12PM] The Last Waltz (1978);
[2PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[2:30PM] Radio Bikini (1987);
[3:30PM] Dinner Rush (2000);
[5:15PM] Running With The Bulls (2003);
[6PM] The Festival #6 (Finale) (2005);
[6:30PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[7PM] Joe Gould's Secret (2000);
[9PM] High Art (1998);
[11PM] The Cat's Meow (2001);
[1AM] Trigger Happy (2001);
[3AM] The Cat's Meow (2001);
[5AM] The Festival #6 (Finale) (2005);
[5:30AM] The Festival #1 (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Threshold', followed by the movie 'Locusts: The 8th Plague'.
Sundance -
[7:05am] Yank Tanks;
[8:15am] Earth;
[10am] Gotham Fish Tales;
[11:15am] Pi;
[12:45pm] Amargosa;
[2:20pm] Julie Walking Home;
[4:15pm] Institute Benjamenta;
[6pm] TransGeneration: Episode 6;
[6:30pm] TransGeneration: Episode 7;
[7pm] Mr. Reliable;
[9pm] Slings & Arrows: Episode 3 - Madness in Great Ones;
[10pm] Iconoclasts: Jackson on Russell;
[11pm] Seeing Other People;
[12:30am] Clara et Moi;
[2am] See The Sea;
[3am] A Summer Dress;
[3:30am] Pi;
[5am] Mr. Reliable. (ALL TIMES EST)
Authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti, right, and Garrison Keillor, left, talk before the National Book Awards ceremony in New York, Monday, Nov. 16, 2005. Ferlinghetti was to be presented the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community by Keillor.
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
British-born actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, best known for his Oscar-winning role as the evil Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs," will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globe Awards in January.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands out the awards, said on Wednesday that Hopkins would be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at its January 16 Golden Globe ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Born in Wales, he was given a knighthood in 1993 but he now lives in the Los Angeles area and took U.S. citizenship in 2000.
Stevie Wonder will be honored at the December 10 Grammy Jam in Los Angeles, a charity event that will also feature performances by India.Arie, Eric Benet, Herbie Hancock, and Aaron Neville, among others.
The Orpheum Theater bill will also boast contributions from Heather Headley, Slash, Chris Brown, Angie Stone, Tamia, George Benson, former Stone Temple Pilots principals Dean and Robert DeLeo, George Duke, Josh Groban, Raphael Saadiq, Hootie & the Blowfish and Ray Parker Jr.
All proceeds will benefit the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Arts and Music Education Initiative.
Sen. Barak Obama, D-Ill., greets Harry Bellefonte prior to the start of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005. Stephen Bradberry, lead organizer of the New Orleans Chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was the recipient of this year's award.
Photo by Gerald Herbert
In his zeal to force conservative views onto the public airwaves, the former head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting interfered with PBS programming decisions and may have required the corporation's new president to pass "political tests," an internal investigation revealed.
Kenneth Tomlinson, a Republican, also sought to withhold funding from PBS unless the taxpayer-supported network "balanced their programming" with more conservative voices, according to the report released Tuesday by CPB inspector general Kenneth Konz.
According to Konz's report, there is evidence that suggests that "political tests" or qualifications were used as a major factor in the hiring of new CPB president Patricia Harrison, also in violation of federal rules.
Tomlinson is under investigation by the CPB inspector general for paying outside groups, some with GOP ties, to decide if programming like "Now With Bill Moyers" has a liberal or anti-White House slant. Many of the contracts were approved without board consent. Tomlinson also pushed PBS to develop the "Journal Editorial Report," hosted by conservative Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot.
TV personality Regis Philbin, who hosted ABC's annual New Year's Eve special in place of an ailing Dick Clark last year, will ring in 2006 as anchor of a rival telecast on the Fox network.
The Fox deal, announced on Wednesday, sets up a New Year's Eve battle between Philbin of the syndicated morning show "Live with Regis and Kelly" and Clark, the "American Bandstand" veteran who is returning to co-host the 34th edition of his "New Year's Rockin' Eve" with Ryan Seacrest.
Both shows will broadcast live from Times Square in Manhattan.
More than two months after Hurricane Katrina, all 21-year-old trumpeter Terrell Batiste has is a temporary home, a donated horn and a chance to eke out a living by playing New Orleans music in other parts of America.
On Wednesday, the Jazz Foundation of America is holding an auction to help Batiste and hundreds of other hurricane-displaced musicians with food, clothes, housing and jobs.
Among those playing at the fund-raiser will be 95-year-old tenor saxophonist Max Lucas, who once performed with Louis Armstrong, and 91-year-old alto saxophonist Fred Staton, who played with Art Blakey, Count Basie and Billy Strayhorn.
On the auction block are more than 50 jazz treasures including Miles Davis' boa constrictor snakeskin jacket and the Boesendorfer grand piano from Manhattan's Blue Note club. Auction items also include guitar lessons from Bucky Pizzarelli, sax tutoring from Joe Lovano, and a 1961 New York Times photo that shows Armstrong playing for his wife in front of the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Roberta Flack is offering a vocal coaching session, and Billy Taylor a jazz piano lesson.
Actor Alec Baldwin catches his cellphone as it is tossed back to him by a photographer as he arrives at the 5th Annual Adopt-A-Minefield Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, November 15, 2005.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
After 84 years of crowning beauties on the Boardwalk, the Miss America pageant is moving to the Las Vegas Strip, organizers announced Wednesday.
The Aladdin hotel-casino will host the pageant, scheduled to air Jan. 21 on cable channel Country Music Television, organizers told The Associated Press.
Organizers would not discuss terms of the deal, which was completed this week, but said it was for one year only.
Matthew McConaughey has been named the "sexiest man alive" by People magazine. The actor is pictured on the cover of People's annual issue, on newsstands Friday.
McConaughey is the 20th "sexiest man" for People, who first bequeathed the honor to Mel Gibson in 1985. The magazine credited McConaughey's "heaping helping of Texas's finest Southern charm" for the choice.
Actor Dennis Quaid poses with a commemorative plaque he received during ceremonies unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood November 16, 2005. Quaid stars in the upcoming family comedy film 'Yours, Mine and Ours.'
Photo by Fred Prouser
A Texas town has changed its name to DISH in exchange for 10 years of free satellite television service.
All 125 residents of the town formerly known as Clark will get basic service and a free digital video recorder satellite TV receiver, a move that has some people joking that the Fort-Worth suburb will become a town of couch potatoes.
Despite the jokes, the switch is incredibly popular, said Mayor Bill Merritt. The city council meeting to vote on the name was packed on Tuesday night and about 12 people -- 10 percent of the town's population -- stood up to support the name change, which passed unanimously.
The best part of the contract, Merritt said, is the free television will be extended to anyone who moves to Dish and any land that is later annexed by the town. The new town signs, designed and paid for by DISH Network, were a bonus.
Tony Bennett poses for photographers before the Adopt-A-Minefield's fifth annual gala, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Rene Macura
Princess Diana's spare wedding dress - a replica made in case the one she wore got damaged - is to be auctioned.
The only difference between the dresses is that the actual one she wore had Queen Mary's lace sewn on to the front, while the replica had a copy of the lace, the auction house said.
The dress is expected to fetch more than $90,000 at the Dec. 7 sale of celebrity memorability at the Proud Gallery Camden, in north London.
A replica of the wedding dress worn by the Duchess of York, which was also a standby, will also be auctioned and was expected to fetch around $10,000. A vest worn by James Dean in the movie "Giant" was predicted to go for around $58,000.
'Albert Hubo,' a robot topped with a head modeled after Albert Einstein, welcomes delegates to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Busan, South Korea, in this Nov. 15, 2005 file photo. The Asia-Pacific summit offers South Korea a chance to showcase its humming economy, high-tech innovations and vibrant democracy. It also highlights the gulf with its poor, isolated neighbor: North Korea.
Photo by David Guttenfelder
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Nov. 7-13. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. NFL Football: Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh (Sunday, 8:28 p.m.), ESPN, 7.23 million homes, 9.82 million viewers.
2. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 4.95 million homes, 7.93 million viewers.
3. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.89 million homes, 5.47 million viewers.
4. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Friday, 7:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.81 million homes, 5.6 million viewers.
5. College Football: Auburn vs Georgia (Saturday, 7:41 p.m.), ESPN, 3.56 million homes, 4.85 million viewers.
6. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.45 million homes, 4.69 million viewers.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Friday, 8:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.44 million homes, 5.41 million viewers.
8. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.43 million homes, 4.73 million viewers.
9. "NFL Prime Time" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), ESPN, 3.38 million homes, 4.49 million viewers.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.37 million homes, 4.57 million viewers.
11. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.27 million homes, 4.44 million viewers.
12. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.24 million homes, 4.52 million viewers.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Friday, 7 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.22 million homes, 4.84 million viewers.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Friday, 6:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.15 million homes, 4.69 million viewers.
15. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.08 million homes, 4.25 million viewers.
Broadcasting pioneer Ralph Edwards, who spotlighted stars and ordinary people as host of the popular 1950s show "This Is Your Life," died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 92.
Edwards, whose career as producer and host included "Truth or Consequences" and "People's Court," died in his sleep in his West Hollywood home, publicist Justin Seremet said.
Edwards first hit it big in radio in 1940 with "Truth or Consequences," a novelty show in which contestants who failed to answer trick questions - the "truth" - had to suffer "the consequences" by performing some elaborate stunt.
"This Is Your Life" also was born on radio and then migrated to television, running on NBC-TV from 1952 to 1961. It featured guests, many of them celebrities, who were lured in on a ruse, then surprised by Edwards announcing, "This is your life!" Relatives and old friends then would be brought on to reminisce about the guest.
Edwards had a hand in other shows, producing or creating "Name That Tune," "Cross Wits," "Superior Court," "It Could Be You," "Place the Face," "About Faces," "Funny Boners," "End of the Rainbow," "Who in the World," "The Woody Woodbury Show" and "Wide Country." In the '80s, Ralph Edwards Productions' show "The People's Court" made a star of retired Judge Joseph A. Wapner.
Edwards' wife, Barbara, died in 1993 after 53 years of marriage. Their children are a son, Gary, who worked with Edwards; and two daughters, Christine and Laurie.
A Black Throat monitor (Varanus Abigularis) sticks its tongue out at the Serpo reptile zoo in Delft, the Netherlands, November 16, 2005. More lizard families than previously believed are venomous, including several species that are popular pets, scientists said on Wednesday.
Photo by Michael Kooren
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