The 33 Things That Make Us Crazy (wired.com)
Let's be clear: Sarah Silverman does not suck. Quite the contrary: From her early work on The Larry Sanders Show to her current TV series on Comedy Central, she is eye-meltingly funny. Her shtick demonstrates that she's a keen observer of all that sucks around us.
Alonso Duralde: Memories of Heath (advocate.com)
On the cusp of Brokeback mania, former Advocate editor Alonso Duralde spoke frankly with Heath Ledger for the magazine's January 17, 2006 cover story. Below is the interview in its entirety, along with Duralde's remembrances of the promising and conflicted actor.
In 1969, television viewers were shocked to see Dick Sargent. Why?
A. For five years on Bewitched, the role of the Darrin Stephens had
been played by Dick York. With no fanfare or explanation in the
show, Darrin was suddenly played by Dick Sargent. Many have never
recovered from the shock.Source
Chipshot was first, and correct, with:
Quite simply, it was because the last episode of "Bewitched" they watched had a different "Dick" in the role of Samantha's husband.
For the first four or five seasons, Sam's hubby, Darrin, was played by Dick York, who quit the series because of severe back pain, but allegedly it was more likely a chronic case of RLS (Rush Limbaugh Syndrome), which is simply known as addiction to pain killers.
Truth be known, many viewers didn't even catch on, because the two Dicks looked pretty similar.
mj was second, and right, too, with:
He replaced Dick York as Darrin Stevens, Eliziabeth Montgomery's (Samantha's) husband on Bewitched. I don't think such a major, recognizable character had been recast.
DanD reasoned:
Well, mostly because it appeared that everybody's favorite Bewitching
wife had tired of hubby No. 1 and took on a fresher alternate.
Anyway, tell Vic to finish eating all that French cheese in his mouth
before composing ... I couldn't understand a thing his keyboard mumbled!
kitchenrat responded:
Because he was gay and his real name was dick cox?
Tony In Philly replied:
Because he replaced Dick York as Darrin Stevens on "Bewitched".
Vic answered:
Could it be because Sargeant seemed to "magically" replace Dick York as Samantha's Bubbly Hubbly Darrin (or Darwood as Mom in Law Endora called him) on Bewitched??? I remember seeing one episode with York as Durfwood where he gets split into two versions of himself, one a romantic stay at home sexaholic the other as a getcher ass out there and workaholic. And the very next season the same episode was refilmed and reaired but with Sargent as the dual role.
I was actually a "My Mother the Car" Fan and only reluctantly would watch anything else...but being only around 8yo at the time my control of the remote (Get Up ,Walk Over,Turn to one of the other 3 channels available) was limited at best
SALLY SAID WHAT???? Na-uh! She D'in go THERE!!! LOL
Bruce.S said:
Because Elizabeth Montgomery's (Samatha Stevens's) husband, (Darrein), previously played by Dick York was now Dick Sargent with no explanation in the series "Bewitched". [It was more fun when Sarah Chalke replaced Lecey Goranson in the role of daughter 'Becky' on "Rosanne"}
Alan J was right, as usual, and succinct, as usual:
Dick Sargent took Dick York's Place on Bewitched
José-Ariel got it:
Was it because he replaced Dick York on "Bewitched"?
joe replied:
My guess is two things, no.1 he was a big liberal and all for the little guy that's all I know about that and two he had a very bad back plus other medical problems.
Marian the Teacher also was right responding:
They expected to see Dick York on Bewitched as Samantha's husband.
BadtotheboneBob answered:
Because he unexpectedly replaced Dick York as Darrin Stephens on the wildly popular TV program, 'Bewitched'. I remember it well because I liked him better in the part.
Sally got it, too:
The question dejour was, "Why, in 1969, were television viewers shocked to see Dick Sargent?" And, I actually think I know the answer.
Circa 1963, Dick York was cast as, "Samantha's" husband, "Darrin" in the TV show, "Bewitched."
Then, in 1969, York developed an addiction to painkillers, and the producers were forced to replace him in the cast. Enter, Dick Sargent, who replaced York in the hubby's role. Same character, no mention of any change - like the soap opera's, just pop in a new face and it's "business as usual!"
Dick Sargent was also gay, but I believe that the, "audience" was unaware of that fact at that time.
And, Joe S ("If you want to go Far....Go Together....If you want to go Fast....Go Alone") was also right:
He replaced Dick York(?) that witch's husband on Bewitched. I think. I'm pretty sure.
I salute here the remarkable young lady, Kirsten Haglund, from the great state of Michigan for her charm, talent and maturity beyond her years that enabled her to become Miss America 2008 as the youngest contestant in the tourney .
Miss America 'wows' TV show audience . Gadzooks, we needed that. Michigan is in a tough spot right now and anything positive is a good thing. It looks like we won't even have delegates to the Democratic Convention. Talk about being disenfranchised! By Democrats!
Anyway, as a father of two smart, talented twenty-something daughters, I say to Kirsten, You Go, Girl!... So there it is...
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Unit', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bill Cosby, Lake Bell, and the Matt Savage Trio.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Raquel Welch and San Diego Charger Antonio Gates.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Biggest Loser', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Leno is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
Conan is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/17/08) are Carrie Ann Inaba and Say Anything.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Just For Laughs', followed by another RERUN'Just For Laughs', then a RERUN'Jim', followed by a FRESH'Carpoolers', then a RERUN'Boston Legal'.
Jimmy Kimmel is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
The CW offers a RERUN'Reaper', followed by a FRESH'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'House'.
MY has a recycled 'Street Patrol', followed by another recycled 'Street Patrol', then a recycled 'Jail', followed by another recycled 'Jail'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', 'Parking Wars', and another 'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Matrix', followed by the movie 'U.S. Marshals', then the movie 'Black Dog'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Newark 61;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Ardingly 67;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep 13 Going Dental;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Episode 3;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Momma Cherri's;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride;
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episode 1;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride;
[1:00 AM] Doctor Who - Episode 1;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 7;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 6;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 9 Mottingham;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 10 Tolworth;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Newark 61;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Ardingly 67;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Morris;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 24 Pender;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives', another 'Real Housewives', still another 'Real Housewives', and 'The Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Kevin James'.
Jon Stewart is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
Colbert Report is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
FX has the movie 'The Italian Job', followed by the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', and a FRESH'Nip/Tuck'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe', another 'The Universe', and 'Mega Disasters'.
IFC -
[06:45 AM] Bus 174;
[08:50 AM] The Flower of Evil;
[10:35 AM] The Agronomist;
[12:15 PM] Bus 174;
[02:15 PM] The Flower of Evil;
[04:00 PM] The Agronomist;
[05:40 PM] The Dancer Upstairs;
[08:00 PM] Minor Accomplishments #205: Yoga Brain;
[08:30 PM] The Business #205: Full Moon and Half Nuts;
[09:00 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[09:05 PM] The Anniversary Party;
[11:05 PM] The Claim;
[01:15 AM] Dark Blue World;
[03:15 AM] The Anniversary Party;
[05:15 AM] The Dancer Upstairs. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Day After', followed by 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] 5 x 2;
[06:15 AM] Crapshoot: The Gamble With Our Wastes;
[07:15 AM] Travellers & Magicians;
[09:00 AM] Episode 6;
[09:30 AM] Episode 6: It's Time To Be Mad As Hell;
[10:00 AM] The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez;
[11:30 AM] Summer of the Serpent;
[12:00 PM] In Between Days;
[01:30 PM] Raving;
[02:00 PM] The Puffy Chair;
[03:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[04:00 PM] The Galindez File;
[06:00 PM] Jamiroquai, Damien Rice & The Goo-Goo Dolls;
[07:00 PM] The Hawk is Dying;
[09:00 PM] In the Pit;
[10:20 PM] Oedipus;
[10:30 PM] Sleeping Dogs Lie;
[12:15 AM] Four Sheets to the Wind;
[02:00 AM] In the Pit;
[03:20 AM] Oedipus;
[03:30 AM] Stryker;
[05:15 AM] Harvie Krumpet. (ALL TIMES EST)
(L-R) Actor Harry Anderson of television's "Night Court" and "Dave's World"; country music star Willie Nelson; actor, author, filmmaker Turk Pipkin; and actor Owen Wilson pose at a fundraising dinner in support of the Nobelity Project non-profit group in Austin, Texas January 27, 2008. The group works with Nobel laureates and other leaders on global problems.
Photo by Roni Gendler
No need for any more honorary citizenships for talk show host Craig Ferguson. He's going to be the real deal.
The "Late Late Show" host announced Monday that he got a perfect score on his citizenship test, taken Friday in Los Angeles. The Scottish-born Ferguson will officially be sworn in a few weeks from now.
And in the true American spirit, was already joking that President Bush's final State of the Union address "was like a farewell, special edition of 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?'"
English rock band Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page smiles as he poses for photographers during a press conference to promote the new Zeppelin release 'Mothership' in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. Page says that after burning up the stage in London last month with a one-night reunion concert he is ready to take the legendary band out on a world tour. But, he said, it's not going to happen anytime soon - the singer has other plans.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
The environmental group WWF on Monday called on supermarket chains around the world to take bluefin tuna off their shelves, saying overfishing, driven by the craze for sushi, threatened to wipe out the species.
Praising several retail chains that have taken the lead in refusing to sell bluefin, WWF said it was time for "retailers around the world to emulate their courageous decision... until this fish is out of danger."
Last November, European Union (EU) fisheries ministers agreed to restrict the fishing of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean under a 15-year plan to revive dwindling stocks.
The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second.
Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama's race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts.
Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision.
The world's biggest music companies, including Warner Music Group Corp and Sony BMG, denied that they have agreed to license songs for a free download service that was launched by Qtrax on Monday.
But by Monday, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner had publicly denied that they had agreed to back the new Qtrax service.
A source close to Universal Music, the largest of the group, said it also had not signed a deal for the new Qtrax service and is still in discussions.
And a source close to EMI Group said that while its song publishing unit has an agreement with Qtrax, its recorded music arm, EMI Music, does not.
Edie Falco and James Gandolfini hold their awards for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for their work in 'The Sopranos' at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
North Korea's main symphony orchestra will play in Britain in September in the communist country's largest-ever musical performances abroad, a U.S. government-funded radio station reported.
The State Symphony Orchestra of the reclusive communist regime will perform three times in London and Middlesbrough and British Broadcasting Corp. television will broadcast each concert live, Radio Free Asia reported on its Web site. It cited a British businessman who said he arranged the tour.
The North Korean orchestra will include 120 musicians and 30 support personnel, the report posted last week said. The concerts will be North Korea's largest musical performances in a foreign country, the report said.
John McCain heads into Tuesday's Florida primary facing resistance from not only his fellow candidates, but also from the leaders of conservative talk radio, who some suggest have put their reputations on the line, as well.
Drug-addled talk radio pioneer Rush Limbaugh said that if McCain or Mike Huckabee are nominated, "it's going to destroy the Republican Party." Mark Levin calls the senator "John McLame." On Monday, Laura Ingraham said she was "concerned about the mental stability of the McCain campaign" and had cuckoo-clock sound effects accompany his words.
"Sen. McCain is a great American, a lousy senator and a terrible Republican," Hugh Hewitt told The Associated Press. "He has a legislative record that is not conservative. In fact, it is anti-conservative."
Radio host Michael Medved said that the big loser in South Carolina was talk radio, "a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight."
Peter Gabriel of Britain, former member of rock band Genesis, poses during a photo call at the 42nd MIDEM (International Record Music Publishing and Video Music Market) in Cannes, southeastern France January 28, 2008.
Photo by Gilbert Tourte
The defense in the tax fraud and conspiracy trial of Wesley Snipes rested Monday.
Snipes, Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas P. Rosile were named in an eight-count indictment. Snipes and the co-defendants allegedly stopped filing his federal tax returns in 2000, demanded some $11 million in refunds on taxes previously paid and tried to settle other U.S. Treasury debts with fake checks.
All three were charged tax fraud and conspiracy, while Snipes faced six additional charges of willful failure to file a return from 1999 to 2004. The 45-year-old actor, star of the "Blade" films, faces a potential sentence of 16 years in prison, while Kahn and Rosile could get 10. However, sentences that long are extremely rare in these cases.
"We chose not to call witnesses because there was no need to. The government prosecutors have put on a case that simply does not come close to meeting the standard of its burden of proof," Snipes' attorney Daniel Meachum said in a statement.
A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.
George Greenhalgh, 84, his 83-year-old wife, Olive, and their 46-year-old son, Shaun, pleaded guilty in 2002 to charges of laundering money from the sale of forged artworks.
The son, who authorities said created the fakes, was sentenced to more than four years in jail in November. His mother received a 12-month sentence. Police said the parents handled most of the sales.
The Greenhalghs forged a wide range of objects, including sculptures attributed to Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, paintings purportedly by American artist Thomas Moran, and gold and silver items dated to Roman and Anglo-Saxon times.
The ornate interior, stage and curtain of the Los Angeles Theater, among theaters that have survived more or less intact, on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. The $32 million 'Bringing Back Broadway' plan is set to be unveiled Monday envisions the street as a bustling neighborhood of entertainment venues, small shops and residential units housed within restored buildings, some of them still displaying intricate stonework facades and concealing surprising vestiges of their ornate interiors.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who became a guru to the Beatles, stepped down this month as the head of the organization that brought transcendental meditation to the West, an aide said on Monday.
"His work is done and now he'll be concentrating on the field of silence and dedicating himself more to pure knowledge rather than administrative matters," Benjamin Feldman, finance minister for the Global Country of World Peace, told Reuters.
The reclusive guru with a flowing white beard has periodically reemerged to appeal for funds to promote world peace, building a business empire ranging from real estate dealing to a company selling ayurvedic medicine and cosmetics.
Reported to be 91, the Maharishi is "fairly well," Feldman said and plans to stay in the Netherlands for the time being. Maharaja Nader Raam, a Lebanese doctor who has studied with the Maharishi for 25 years, will take over the organization.
The author of a controversial new biography on celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise has found an unexpected new ally: the niece of Scientology's current leader, David Miscavige.
In an open letter to a senior Scientology official that has been widely posted on the Internet, Jenna Miscavige Hill described how her own family was broken apart by the movement's policies.
Hill's father is Ron Miscavige, the older brother of David Miscavige, the current leader of the Church of Scientology.
"Hell, if Scientology can't keep his family together -- then why on earth should anyone believe the church helps brings families together!" she wrote.
A worker sweeps the floor near a carnival float at the Viradouro samba school's warehouse in Rio de Janeiro January 28, 2008. Viradouroi is one of 12 samba schools that will parade along Rio's internationally famous Sambadrome during carnival, with parades beginning on February 2.
Photo by Sergio Moraes
Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The researchers made the microscopic radios out of carbon nanotubes -- tiny strands of carbon atoms -- and say in theory they could lead to faster devices.
They overcame a series of obstacles that have defeated efforts to make nano-radios, including getting amplification, by making their devices on quartz wafers.
"Our goal is not to make tiny radios per se, but really to develop nanotubes as a higher-performing semiconductor," said John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois.
Lego's colourful bricks that have inspired kids' imaginations worldwide celebrated their 50th anniversary Monday after resisting fierce competition from high-tech computer games that nearly brought the company down a few years ago.
On January 28, 1958, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen submitted a patent for the interlocking and studded plastic brick that can now be found in almost every child's toy box.
The family company Lego, whose name comes from the first two letters of the Danish words "Leg godt" or "play well" in English, was founded before the invention of the famous block, by Ole Kristiansen in 1932.
Seven boxes of Lego are sold every second around the world, and 19 billion components are produced each year -- enough to wrap around the Earth's circumference five times.
Mavrick, a two-month old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, left, is seen with his mother, Chelsea, at his first public appearance at the Dolphin Discovery at Six Flags Discovery Vallejo, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Mavrick was born Nov. 2, 2007 and the public will get their first chance to see him when the park opens March 5, 2008.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
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