Willa Paskin: What's So Bad About Likable Women? (Slate)
We have arrived at an odd moment where I feel compelled to speak out in defense of the totally omnipresent, cultural dominant, not-in-any way endangered or helpless, probably forever hegemonic fictional being known as the likable heroine.
Out of their minds: the actors' guide to playing King Lear (Guardian)
Ian McKellen dreaded it, Albert Finney dodged it. As Simon Russell Beale prepares to play Lear in Sam Mendes's eagerly awaited production, Laura Barnett talks to five actors who risked their sanity (and their knees) to wear the crown.
Sarah Lamb: blood on the bars (Guardian)
For some ballerinas, being laid up with a serious foot injury can end a career. But not Sarah Lamb. Judith Mackrell talks misogyny, politics and heavy-lifting with the Boston-born powerhouse.
What Makes Citizen Kane So Special? (Neatorama)
When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, the New York Times film critic called it "far and away the most exciting motion picture in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood."?
David Bruce: Wise Up! Authors (Athens News)
Young people's author Orson Scott Card, writer of "Ender's Game," and his wife name their children after their favorite authors. Michael Geoffrey is named after Geoffrey Chaucer. Emily Janice is named after Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson. Charles Benjamin is named after Charles Dickens. Zina Margaret is named after Margaret Mitchell. And Erin Louisa is named after Louisa May Alcott. By the way, when Orson was a child, he learned to read phonetically, and therefore he pronounced "knew" as "canoe." That is the day that he learned about silent letters.
Betty Marion White (born January 17, 1922) is an American actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author and television personality. In 2013, the Guinness World Records awarded White with having the longest television career for a female entertainer. To contemporary audiences, White is best known for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star Rue McClanahan in 2010, she is the only surviving Golden Girl. She currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland for which she has won two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also hosted NBCs practical-joke show Betty White's Off Their Rockers which resulted in two Emmy nominations.
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Lois Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
That would have to be Betty White, who played the raunchy
"Happy Home Maker" that was always trying to get into Mr.
Grant's pants. She was also on a couple other shows, and she
still has the best dimples in the business. A lovely lady
and a role model for girls of all ages.
Charlie said:
Betty White.
Apparently the Guinness recognition was to distract from this earlier distinction:
One wonders what her status is in relation to Warren Beatty...
Alan J wrote:
Betty White
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Betty white
Adam answered:
I should think so- Betty White.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC replied:
I'm not gonna look it up; has to be Betty White. She has an amazing resume,
starting with a morning show in LA almost as soon as they invented TV, in
like 1947.
Marian repliwd:
Betty White
Sally said:
In 2013, Guinness World Records recognized Betty White as having the longest television career for a female entertainer.
Love her!!!
PS: No morning care kids this morning because their beloved dog died last night.
Remembering the fish who passed away shortly after school started, I am not looking forward to tomorrow, mourning...
PPS: @B2BB, thanks for the, Sophie Tucker Sings "A Yiddishe Mamma." - YouTube
I love Sophie, and have warm memories of attending the Yiddish Theater in lower NYC in my childhood, with my grandma. About every other act included some rendition of, "My Yiddish Mamma" and I love the one by Sophie the best!!
PPPS: @Lois, loved your carrot joke, and will try it on the kids in the morning - to (try to) make them smile...
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MAM wrote:
Betty White
2013 1975
1955 Very Young!
DJ Useo responded:
Just for a second I thought Carol Burnette, but then the obvious answer hit me! Betty White!! Of Course. I think she's very funny.
BttbBob replied:
I figured it was Betty when I looked it up... Everybody's favorite 'Senior Citizen'. Well, 'cept me... Okay, I'm not a fan of hers. There it is, I said it. Don't ask me why, cuz I really don't know why. I'm just not. Mebee it's from some long repressed childhood memory of a "mean ol' lady" that resembles and/or talks like her. Ya know, an 'evil twin' or doppelgänger...
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However, I will give her the benefit of the doubt cuz "Elmo" seemingly likes her...
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Wait! Mebee "Elmo" is gettin' ready to go a-chompin' on Betty's neck! Mebee "Elmo" isn't a fan, either! Well, well, well... They kept THAT outta the news, now, didn't they?
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Happy Birthday this day to:
This soon-to-be a 'Fallen Woman' is (72)... What a great film...
Little Big Man (1970) - IMDb Poor "Mrs. Pendrake"...
Gotta run... Guests...
And, Joe S answered:
Betty White, everybody knows that.
Yes, but did you know that I spent one summer of my youth in Pirate Camp?
No, really?
Yes, I'll tell you about it tomorrow.
I used to enjoy shopping there but since I developed mobility problems I seldom go. However, I went during the affected time so I was monitoring my credit card account for any signs of problems. There were none.
But then, like an idiot I believed the liars when they made a big to do and said that there were problems for those who had shopped in the stores but that shopping online with them was totally safe. Let me just say again, LIARS! And I've yet to hear the president, while making his feeble apologies, acknowledge the online problem. LIAR!
I bought 3 gift cards from their online site. Less than 24 hours later there were 3 fraudulent charges on my card. So two days before I was leaving town for Christmas, I had to cancel the card and have a new one sent to me at my host's residence. It has caused several problems and many hours to switch over autopay arrangements.
I think Target goes on my "never ever shop there in person or online again list."
Linda >^..^< We're all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Michael Strahan and Jennifer Nettles.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Aaron Eckhart and Rhea Perlman.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Matt Damon, Larry the Cable Guy, and Chris Isaak.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon is Bruce Springsteen.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Kellan Lutz, STARFUCKER, and Run River North.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a FRESH'The Goldbergs', then a FRESH'Trophy Wife', followed by a FRESH'Killer Women'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Matt LeBlanc, Lupita Nyong'o, and the Fray.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Originals', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Toni, Evelyn, Tamar, Towanda, Traci & Trina Braxton, Yvonne Strahovski, and Neal Brennan.
Faux has a FRESH'Dads', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Four Brothers', followed by the movie 'Judge Dredd', then the movie 'Batman'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Vampires in Venice
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 9 - The Gathering
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 15 - First Contact
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 16 - Galaxy's Child
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Revisited: Bonapartes
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 3 - Mike & Nellie's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Man of the People
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Relics
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Schisms
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 6 - True Q
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Rascals
[11:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 8
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 6 - True Q
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Rascals
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Gridlock
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Daleks In Manhattan
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Evolution Of The Daleks
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 6 - The Lazarus Experiment (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Shahs Of Sunset', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', then a FRESH'100 Days Of Summer'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Kroll Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Tim Gunn.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Deborah Solomon.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Counting Cars', then another FRESH'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'American Restoration', then another FRESH'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Santa Suit
[6:30AM] DeepStar Six
[8:45AM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[11:45AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Foundling
[12:15PM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[12:45PM] DeepStar Six
[3:00PM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[6:00PM] Anaconda
[8:00PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[10:15PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[12:30AM] A Nightmare on Elm Street
[2:30AM] A Nightmare on Elm Street
[4:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Foundling
[5:00AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[5:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[6:30AM] Bella
[8:30AM] Everything Is Illuminated
[10:45AM] Mortified Nation
[12:30PM] Transamerica
[2:45PM] Confidence
[4:45PM] A Time to Kill
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Trust
[9:00PM] All Good Things
[11:15PM] Eden Lake
[1:15AM] The Loss of Sexual Innocence
[3:30AM] All Good Things
[5:45AM] This Way Up (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', and 'Helix'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Joel McHale and Lauren Ash.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is seen at the FOX Winter TCA Press Tour party, on Monday, January 13, 2014 at the Langham Huntington, in Pasadena, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
The "rumors" may be true: Vocalist and keyboardist Christine McVie has reclaimed her position in Fleetwood Mac, following a 16-year absence. On Saturday, drummer Mick Fleetwood reportedly told the audience at Uncle Willie K's BBQ Blues Fest in Maui, "This is the worst kept secret there is, but Christine McVie will be rejoining Fleetwood Mac." According to Fleetwood Mac News, he made the announcement after Willie and Fleetwood played an acoustic rendition of McVie's Rumours track "Songbird." The band has yet to release the news formally.
McVie began rehearsing with the band in late 2013 for two shows on the group's European tour. At the time, however, frontwoman Stevie Nicks shrugged off the possibility of a full-scale reunion. "I would say there's no more a chance of that happening than an asteroid hitting the earth," she said. "She is done." Nevertheless, McVie joined the band for a rousing performance of the Rumours cut "Don't Stop" at London's O2 Arena.
Two months later, McVie told The Guardian, "If they were to ask me I would probably be very delighted . . . but it hasn't happened so we'll have to wait and see." And regarding her first appearance with the group after more than a decade away from them, the self-described "music'd out" singer said, "It was amazing, like I'd never left. I climbed back on there again and there they were, the same old faces on stage."
Recently, Nicks told Rolling Stone that if she wants to come back, the door is open. "She started the damn band," she said.
Actress Zoe Saldana (centre, L) and her sister Cicely arrive during a cocktail reception before the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 12, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Walter White's lawyer is returning to Albuquerque.
AMC announced this week that the "Breaking Bad" spinoff, "Better Call Saul," will premiere in November 2014, but no specific date has been released.
The series will follow sleazy attorney Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk, as he defends drug lords, criminals and those allegedly injured in minor traffic accidents.
The network has already created a website for the fiction lawyer, with Saul Goodman's signature videos boasting how he can get anyone out of legal trouble. The website includes "testimonies" from a drug dealer and prostitute who tell potential clients how he got them out of jail.
The website also includes fictional advertisements from "Breaking Bad" businesses like Los Pollos Hermanos, a chicken restaurant used as a front for drug lord Gus Fring, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
The doors to HBO's "The Newsroom" will be closing following the upcoming third and final season.
The critically-acclaimed Aaron Sorkin drama has been renewed for one final season, set to debut in the fall, HBO Programming president Michael Lombardo announced on Monday.
Production will begin on the final season during the spring.
Returning to the halls of the fictitious ACN cable network production team are Emmy winner Jeff Daniels, along with Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel and Olivia Munn.
British actress Helen Mirren poses with former boxer Mike Tyson (R) at the HBO after party, after the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 12, 2014.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Fox's post-Super Bowl party will include Prince making a guest appearance on the comedy "New Girl."
In an episode of the show that will air directly after the big game next month, Zooey Deschanel's character is invited to a mansion party hosted by Prince - a party her friends are determined to crash.
Fox will also air an episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" that night after "New Girl," with the show fresh off its Golden Globe award for best comedy.
The Super Bowl is traditionally the most-watched TV event of the year, so the time slots after it are considered prime real estate.
When Neil Young, perhaps Canada's most famous singer, opens his mouth people tend to listen. That has been the case throughout his illustrious career as well as now, as the 68-year-old positions himself as the face of a battle against Alberta's oilsands.
Young has launched a concert series designed to raise money and draw attention to Alberta oilsands development, which he has famously compared to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped. The "Honour the Treaties" tour launched in Toronto over the weekend and will roll across Western Canada before culminating in Calgary on Sunday.
"I want my grandchildren to grow up, and look up and see a blue sky and have dreams that their grandchildren are going to do great things. I do see that today in Canada. I see a government just completely out of control," Young told reporters in attendance. "Money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map."
Young has intentionally wandered into the touchy territory of celebrity activism, where stars and musicians leverage their fading fame to bring attention to a chosen cause. It is a world where Dennis Rodman can remain somewhat relevant by rallying (albeit incoherently) for peaceful relations with North Korea, or where Pamela Anderson can still make headlines by defending animal rights.
Unlike those two, however, Young's career isn't over. Despite being 68 years old, he still tours. And he possesses the gravitas of decades as Canada's most celebrated musician. Perhaps that moves him more in line with Bono or Sean Penn than Anderson and Rodman, but his role as advocate still threatens to cloud his legacy as an artist.
Ann Druyan, executive producer/writer of "Cosmos", participates in Fox Broadcasting Company's part of the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter 2014 presentations in Pasadena, California, January 13 , 2014.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Suntory Holdings Ltd on Monday said it would buy U.S. spirits company Beam Inc for $13.6 billion cash in a deal that would make the Japanese company the world's third-largest spirits maker.
Including the assumption of Beam's net debt, the deal is valued at $16 billion. It brings together Beam's Jim Beam and Maker's Mark bourbons, Courvoisier cognac and Sauza tequila with Suntory's Yamazaki, Hakushu, Hibiki and Kakubin Japanese whiskies, Bowmore Scotch whisky and Midori liqueur.
Once the acquisition is completed, Suntory will become the third largest whiskey company and the fifth largest malt whiskey company by volume, according to International Wine & Spirit Research.
The deal boosts Suntory's market share in the U.S. to 11 percent from less than 1 percent, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Mark Swartzberg.
Seth MacFarlane, executive producer of "Cosmos", participates in Fox Broadcasting Company's part of the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter 2014 presentations in Pasadena, California, January 13, 2014.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Apple Inc lost a bid on Monday to block an antitrust monitor appointed after a judge's finding that the company conspired to fix e-book prices.
At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied Apple's request to stay an order requiring an external compliance monitor pending the company's appeal.
The judge also said there was "nothing improper" about a declaration filed by a lawyer chosen to serve as monitor, Michael Bromwich, that became the basis of Apple seeking his disqualification.
Cote said she will promptly issue a decision explaining her reasoning. Apple will then have 48 hours to seek an emergency stay from the federal appeals court in New York, she said.
The hearing was the latest to spill out of a growing dustup stemming from Apple's objections to the monitor. Cote appointed Bromwich to that role in October, three months after she found Apple liable for conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.
Equipped with cow bells a so-called Silvesterchlaus (New Years Claus) walks in Urnaesch, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, to offer best wishes for the New Year (following the Julian calendar) to the farmers in this region. After their performance of singing and dancing the Silvesterchlaeuse receive food, hot drinks or money.
Photo by Ennio Leanza
Fox's entertainment chief said Monday he wants to blow up the way television has done business for generations because it often doesn't work.
Kevin Reilly has taken a step in that direction by doing away with pilot season - the frantic period in the spring when broadcast networks make test episodes of dozens of potential new shows to put some on the fall schedule.
Reilly said Fox has about 10 shows in various stages of development already, with episodes being written, and casting and shooting of episodes ready to go. One series well in the works is "Gotham," which will follow Batman as a boy until he first puts on a cape.
Fox's viewership is up 4 per cent this year but it is down among youthful viewers that represent its target audience, according to the Nielsen company.
Traditional ratings are becoming increasingly meaningless, Reilly noted. The audience for "Sleepy Hollow" nearly doubles when time-shifted viewing is taken into account, he said. Fox is also finding that people who stream episodes on sites such as Hulu are often more attentive viewers.
A boy runs in front of an artistically decorated ice-slide before the opening of the 2nd International festival of snow and ice sculpture called "The Magical Ice of the Siberia" on the bank of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, January 13, 2014. More than twenty teams of ice and snow sculptors representing the United States, China, Japan and Russia will take part in a 5-day-long competition which starts on Monday, according to the festival organizers.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
In Patagonia, at the southern end of South America, scientists have discovered 52.2-million-year-old fossils of a giant evergreen tree that now is only found thousands of miles away in Australia and Asia.
Coniferous trees in the genus Agathis, which are sought after for their soft wood, have thick trunks and can grow up to 200 feet (60 meters) tall. Today they live in mountainous rainforests from Sumatra to New Zealand. But the discovery of fossilized Agathis leaves, branches and cones in the rich deposits at Argentina's Laguna del Hunco suggests the tree covered much more ground in prehistoric times.
"These spectacular fossils reveal that Agathis is old and had a huge range that no one knew about - from Australia to South America across Antarctica," Peter Wilf, a professor of geoscience at Penn State, said in a statement.
Wilf added that fossils of the tree had previously been uncovered in Australia and New Zealand, where it still lives today.
The new fossils date back to a time when the landmasses of Australia, Antarctica, South America and Africa were joined in the southern supercontinent Gondwana . Wilf suspects Agathis was spread throughout Australia, Antarctica and South America at the time, but ultimately only survived in Australia and eventually dispersed north to Southeast Asia.
Two body painted models talking while promoting the latest wallpapers at the international furnishings fair at Cologne, Germany, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014.
Photo by Martin Meissner
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