Paul Krugman: Despicable Me (New York Times)
Funny: Angry Bear finds some of the usual suspects explaining How to Debate Paul Krugman, and the answer appears to be this: invent a straw man who bears no resemblance at all to the economist/columnist of the same name, and ridicule that imaginary person.
Paul Krugman: Friends of Fraud (New York Times)
… as always, you should follow the money. Historically, the financial sector has given a lot of money to both parties, with only a modest Republican lean. In the last election, however, it went all in for Republicans, giving them more than twice as much as it gave to Democrats (and favoring Mitt Romney over the president almost three to one). All this money wasn't enough to buy an election - but it was, arguably, enough to buy a major political party.
Ted Rall: Against Philanthropy
As Hurricane Victims Freeze, Billionaire Mayor Gives Away $1 Billion to Wealthy Med School.
Henry Rollins: Here Comes a Regular (LA Weekly)
I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. As I plod away on my elliptical machine, I listen to music coming through two speakers, at high volume, that are aimed right at my face. I hope that this will wake me up. I cannot overstate to you how much of a morning person I am not. My incentive is that if I get to work early, I can get it all done early and be back in my own world.
Interview by Elizabeth Day: "Ricky Gervais: 'I've left behind the veil of irony'" (Guardian)
There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough. There's a strange arrogance. Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.
Roger Ebert: "Review of 'Rust and Bone'" (4 stars)
Ali is presented with a challenge he can't train for. He takes responsibility for his young son Sam. At the seaquarium, Stéphanie is majestically ordering a killer whale to rise up a few feet in front of her while sunburned tourists applaud and drink their colas. A whale bites off both her legs.
Richard Roeper: "Review of 'Warm Bodies'" (3 ½ stars)
I kinda love this movie. "Warm Bodies" is a well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic.
The Wiz is a 1978 musical adventure film produced by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was adapted from the 1975 Broadway musical of the same name. The film follows the adventures of Dorothy, a shy Harlem, New York schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to the Land of Oz, which resembles a fantasy version of New York City. Befriended by a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Cowardly Lion, she travels through the land to seek an audience with the mysterious "Wiz", who they say has the power to take her home.
Produced by Rob Cohen and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Wiz stars Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, and Richard Pryor. The film's story was reworked from William F. Brown's Broadway libretto by Joel Schumacher, and Quincy Jones supervised the adaptation of Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross's songs for film. A handful of new songs, written by Jones and the songwriting team of Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, were added for the film version. Upon its original theatrical release, The Wiz was a critical and commercial failure, and marked the end of the resurgence of African-American films that began with the blaxploitation movement of the 1970s.[
Michael Jackson, a former Motown star who by the start of development on The Wiz in 1977, had left Motown for Epic Records with his brothers The Jacksons, was cast as the Scarecrow. Jackson was dedicated to the role, and watched videotapes of gazelles, cheetahs and panthers in order to learn graceful movements for his part. Ted Ross and Mabel King were brought in to reprise their respective roles from the stage musical, while Nipsey Russell was cast as the Tin Man. Lena Horne, mother-in-law to Sidney Lumet during the time of production, was cast as Glinda the Good Witch, and comedian Richard Pryor portrayed The Wiz.
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Richard Pryor.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Richard Pryor - going on vacation to Hawaii...back in a week or so...good
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I knew this - Richard Pryor.
I saw it once and thought it amusing, but of course it bombed.
Here is Pryor with Diana Ross in "Lady Sings the Blues."
Sally said:
In the movie "The Wiz," Richard Pryor portrayed the Wiz. The greatest drawback in the casting was Richard Pryor as "The Wiz," was his lack of singing talent, resulting in the elimination of one of the best musical sequences from the stage musical (So You Wanted to Meet the Wizard).
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For starters my 49ers showed an ineptitude at stopping the Baltimores in the first half. Too many errors!!! Though disappointed , it still was an exciting game to watch! This just wasn't their year! Congrats to Joe, even though you missed by a point. Wait til next year!!!! The other good news is that the Giants camp opens up for pitchers on 2/12 and the A's on 2/9.
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... one of the funniest guys that ever was.
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The Late Great Richard Pryor.
Speaking of Late Greats, thank you Miss Rosa.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Vegas'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Eric Stonestreet, Pauley Perrette, Jimmy Cliff, and Elvis tribute artist Brandon Bennett.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is David Boreanaz.
NBC starts the night with the FRESH'Betty White's 2 Annual 90th Birthday Special', followed by a FRESH'Smash', then another FRESH'Smash'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Josh Duhamel, Kathryn Bigelow, and Lianne La Havas.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Justin Bieber, Naomi Campbell, Local Natives, and Jim James.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are David O. Russell, Twenty One Pilots, and Tift Merritt.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Taste', followed by a FRESH'The Bachelor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Bradley Cooper, Kate Mara, and Emeli Sande.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Emily Owens, MD'.
Faux has a FRESH'Raising Hope', followed by another FRESH'Raising Hope', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Report'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then another FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', followed by a FRESH'Southie Rules', then another FRESH'Southie Rules'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fugitive', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] A BEAR'S STORY
[8:30AM] A HIPPO'S STORY
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 18 - Damian Lewis, Dominic West, Gerard Depardieu, Olly Murs
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Partners in Crime
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 4 - Ep 21 - Daybreak, Part 1
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Jack's Waterfront
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 5 - Food on a Budget
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 6 - More Food on a Budget
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Jack's Waterfront
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[8:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 2
[9:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 3 NEW
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion NEW
[11:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 2
[12:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 3
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Jack's Waterfront
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[5:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'The Burn With Jeff Ross', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Burn With Jeff Ross'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Ray Kelly.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Julie Andrews.
FX has the movie 'Knight & Day', followed by a FRESH'The Ultimate Fighter', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', and 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Portlandia-Mixologist
[6:30AM] Slow Burn
[8:30AM] Less Than Zero
[10:45AM] The Good, the Bad, the Weird
[1:45PM] Slow Burn
[3:45PM] Less Than Zero
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Standee
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Pearl Harbor
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Kitty's Back
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Christmas Gift
[8:00PM] Fight Club
[11:00PM] Punisher: War Zone
[1:15AM] Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
[3:15AM] Strangeland
[5:00AM] Undeclared-So You Have a Boyfriend
[5:30AM] Undeclared-Eric Visits (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers (Episode 14, Season 1)
[7:00A] Joy Division
[8:45A] The Boss Of It All
[10:30A] A Film With Me in It
[12:00P] Joy Division
[1:45P] The Boss Of It All
[3:30P] Rescue Dawn
[6:00P] Happy-Go-Lucky
[8:00P] Away From Her
[10:00P] Little Children
[12:15A] Room in Rome
[2:15A] Accomplices
[4:00A] Happy-Go-Lucky (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Total Blackout', and another 'Total Blackout'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jennifer Lawrence, Nick Kroll, and Randy Houser.
From left, actor Billy Crystal, actor Robert De Niro, Grace Hightower, and director David O. Russell pose together at De Niro's hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre) in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
After another obscenity incident involving CBS and a Super Bowl broadcast, the Federal Communications Commission is under pressure to fine the TV network.
A watchdog group says it wants the FCC to act after CBS aired audio of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco using the F-word and another player using a curse word. Both incidents happened right after the Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday's Super Bowl.
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the right of the FCC to fine over-the-air broadcasters if they aired profane words. It also said the FCC had to make its rules clearer to broadcasters. But the FCC hasn't faced a high-profile profanity case until now since the Supreme Court ruling.
The Parents Television Council (R-Panty-Sniffers) wants the FCC to act and set a precedent by fining CBS after Flacco's choice of words.
Director Tim Burton, nominated for best animated feature film for "Frankenweenie" arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California February 4, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The producers of the Academy Awards have good news for those watching at home: They're trying to cut out the boring parts.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron say they watched 40 years of past ceremonies to finds ways to keep the show moving at a brisk pace. They say they are looking to nip and tuck unnecessary moments that can turn the show into a marathon.
At an annual lunch honoring Oscar nominees, Zadan and Meron said they identified time-consuming segments that might run only 15 or 30 seconds but which collectively can bog down the show. In some years, the Oscars have run to a ponderous four hours or more.
"You start adding up those 30 seconds, and you have an accumulation of time that you can use for entertainment. So that's what we're doing. We're learning a lot about the things that we don't need in the show," Zadan said. "The main goal is to honor the nominees and the winners. And then beside that, there's a lot of pregnant pauses that you get in the show. ... We've scooped out a lot of those pauses and created more time for performance and entertainment."
Zadan and Meron said they have moments planned that should appeal to all ages and interests, including performances by Adele, Norah Jones and Barbra Streisand and a tribute to the James Bond franchise.
Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.
University of Leicester researchers say it is "beyond reasonable doubt" that a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
Osteologist Jo Appleby said Monday that a study of the bones provides "a highly convincing case for identification of Richard III."
And DNA from the skeleton matches a sample taken from a distant living relative.
The last English monarch to die in battle, Richard was depicted in a play by William Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies - including those of his two princely nephews, murdered in the Tower of London - on his way to the throne.
Sally Field, nominated for best supporting actress for her role in "Lincoln", poses at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California February 4, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Porn star Ron Jeremy's agent says the prolific actor will likely stay at a Los Angeles hospital a while to recover from an aneurysm near his heart.
Agent Mike Esterman says Jeremy isn't allowed to receive visitors or deliveries following a procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week. Esterman says he doesn't expect the 59-year-old to leave the hospital "for some time."
Jeremy had a heavy feeling in his chest and drove himself to the hospital last Wednesday.
One of the best-known names in the porn industry, Jeremy has said he has appeared in more than 2,000 adult films. While officially retired, he still shows up in films and public events, and appeared in the reality TV series "The Surreal Life."
During his interview with Leno, Maher joked he would donate $5 million to the charity of Trump's choice if the "Celebrity Apprentice" host could prove he's not the "spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan"-mocking Trump's much-publicized announcement in October that he would donate $5 million to charity if President Barack Obama would release his college and passport records. Through his lawyer, Trump fired off a copy of his birth certificate to Maher along with a letter demanding the money.
"He promised me $5 million for charity if I provided certain information," Trump said on "Fox & Friends" on Monday. "Well, I provided the information, he didn't pay. So today I sue Bill Maher for $5 million for charity."
"I don't think he was joking," Trump added. "He said it with venom. That was venom. That wasn't a joke. In fact he was nervous when he said it. It was a pathetic delivery, but he said, 'I will give' and I said I will accept, so let's see what happens."
The artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet said he knows who ordered an acid attack that left him with severe burns to his eyes and face but won't say, voicing hope that investigators will soon name the perpetrator.
Sergei Filin checked out of a Moscow hospital Monday and headed to Germany for further rehabilitation.
Filin, 42, wore shades and a bandage on his head, and skin on his face was red and swollen from burns. But he spoke energetically and seemed to be in a good mood as he walked out of the hospital accompanied by his wife.
Filin told reporters Monday as he was leaving the hospital that he's still seeing as if through a mist as his eye treatment is continuing, and added that he will have to undergo further eye surgery in Germany.
"I don't care about my face, my hair, my looks," he said in the television interview. "I'm ready to be completely bald, look like a Frankenstein. It will have no impact on my heart, on my soul. All my inner self, all my energy is focused on recovering eyesight."
Joe Pesci has settled a lawsuit filed against a company planning a biopic on the Gotti crime family.
The Oscar-winner sued Fiore Films in July 2011 claiming the filmmakers reneged on a deal for a $3 million role in the film and were offering him a lesser part in the project and a lower payday.
Pesci's attorney Jessica Trotter confirmed Monday that a settlement had been reached in the case but said she could not provide any details.
Pesci's lawsuit stated the actor gained 30 pounds in anticipation of playing a childhood friend and enforcer of crime boss John Gotti Sr.
Sentosa Island staff volunteers work on a 100m (328 feet) long sand snake sculpture, entitled Glittering Snake Trail by Singaporean sand sculptor JOOheng Tan, during a media preview of the Sentosa Flowers festival on Singapore's Sentosa Island February 4, 2013. A total of 128 staff volunteers took part to help colour the snake, which forms the Chinese character "Fortune", with colour-dye sand. The flower festival, which will usher in the Lunar Year of the Snake, will be opened to the public on the eve of the new year on February 9.
Photo by Edgar Su
Ricki Lake's return to daytime talk television is no more.
Twentieth Television announced Monday that "The Ricki Lake Show," which premiered in September, will not continue into the 2013-2104 season.
"I am so proud of the shows we completed this season, sparking important conversations about everything from raising children to mental illness to suicide prevention to coming out," Lake said. "I will continue to be an active and passionate voice for subjects that are close to my heart through a variety of platforms - and a return to my documentary filmmaking work with Abby Epstein. I am excited to create meaningful and provocative films similar to our 2007 project, 'The Business of Being Born.'"
Though Lake, who hosted a popular talk show from 1994 to 2003, brought experience as well as familiarity to the new gig, she re-entered the arena at a time that saw considerable competition from new talk shows hosted by the likes of Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper and Jeff Probst. Cooper's show, "Anderson Live," will end its run after its current second season.
Pakistan plans to build a $30 million amusement park and outdoor activity centre on the edge of the northwestern town of Abbottabad, where U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden, an official said on Monday.
The private venture in the foothills of the Himalayas will include a zoo, water sports, a mini-golf course, rock climbing and paragliding, said Jamaluddin Khan, the deputy provincial minister for tourism.
U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011 in a secret raid that humiliated Pakistan's military - which has an academy nearby - and heavily strained ties between strategic allies Washington and Islamabad.
Authorities have demolished the large white villa where bin Laden lived, and senior regional official Khalid Omarzai said he had advised the government to build houses for local officials on the site.
An employee stands near sculptures, one of them depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), at a sculpture and display factory which is manufacturing floats for a parade celebrating the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, near Tel Aviv February 3, 2013. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther, and will be marked on February 24, 2013.
Photo by Nir Elias
Organizers of the annual Moxie Festival have chosen the theme for this year's event, which pays homage to the quirky beverage concocted in the 1870s by a Mainer. Moxie is now the state's official soft drink.
The Moxie Festival Committee says John Hardesty submitted this year's winning theme of "Moxie: A Maine Tradition." Hardesty lives in Texas, but he's a New England native whose grandparents lived in Lisbon and who's attended many of the festivals.
For his winning entry, he received a basket filled with Moxie items from The Kennebec Fruit Company store in Lisbon Falls.
The 31st annual festival is scheduled for July 12-14 in Lisbon.
Kitty Kelley's next book will be short on celebrity gossip and long on gender and politics.
Kelley has a deal with Grand Central Publishing for a book about the record 98 women serving in the current Congress and how they might change Washington. Grand Central, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced Monday that the book is currently untitled and is scheduled for 2016.
Kelley is known for unflattering best sellers about Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra, but she also has a background in politics. In the 1960s, she worked as a press aide for Sen. Eugene McCarthy, the Democrat and Vietnam War opponent from Minnesota.
A cat basks in the sun on a roof next to a tree decorated with red lanterns, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, at Ditan Park (the Temple of Earth) in Beijing February 4, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on February 10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Photo by Jason Lee
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