zEN mAN (observing the world famous Swedish big box furniture store (and restaurant) ...being busted for horsemeat found in their popular frozen meatballs...the store with funny names like "sickan"..."rationell" and "socker" joins Burger King , Nestles and Tosca in the horse meat scandal)
Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America (SF Weekly)
I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. Now and then, I would see a group of these young, uniformed wolverines at a monument or museum, being hustled around by an adult, and I knew that it would never be for me. I reckoned it was a gateway to humiliation and steady beatings. I had no idea what they were about, but their organized zeal intimidated me.
Roger Ebert: What was my Aunt Martha trying to ask me?
After she had the heart attack out in Michigan on Thanksgiving 1988, I stood by her bedside in the recovery room and she tried so hard to tell me something, but it just didn't work. I loved her so much. Did she know how much? I never told her. There are always questions you wish you'd asked after it's too late to get an answer. Sometimes years can pass before you realize they're questions.
Cary O'Dell: Not So Simple: The Faulty Logic of Turning Off Your TV (PopMatters)
"Don't like it, don't watch it," is a very convenient and flippant answer. But it's also a hollow one. It's sort of like saying, "Well, if you don't like murder, don't commit one." What "don't like it, don't watch it" is really asking is for any of us (all of us) to do is to turn a blind eye to something we find offensive, unethical or wrong.
Ana Samways: Feb 25: Image change (New Zealand Herald)
"I'm part of the Big Brother programme and my little brother Carlo and I were out for a walk along Ponsonby Rd when he saw some firefighters sitting in the fire truck. We stood there for a minute in case the fire truck was about to race off and the men on duty were nice enough to roll up the door and invite Carlo in to sit in the fire truck and tell us a bit about the station. Carlo was really stoked with it and even got a little goodie bag which he was excited to take home and rip into. It was an extremely nice thing to do."
The comment "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot" made Lady Bird Johnson cry. Who said it?
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 - December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable due to other commitments. She also voiced Yzma on Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and its television spinoff, The Emperor's New School, earning five Emmy Awards in the process, the last shortly before her death.
In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."
Her remarks reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt's career. The public reaction to Kitt's statements was extreme, both pro and con. Publicly ostracized in the US, she devoted her energies to performances in Europe and Asia.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Eartha Kitt
Charlie said:
Eartha Kitt
Adam answered:
Eartha Kitt.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Eartha Kitt
Marian responded:
Eartha Kitt. I see that none of us got the Best Supporting Actor correct. I'm glad that I was wrong about Best Director. The better man won.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Eartha Kitt made Lady Turd cry. One sexy, brutally honest, and dynamic lady!!!
Sally said:
I believe it was EARTHA KITT who made the comment, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot" and made Lady Bird Johnson cry.
Yep, I was right - here it is in black and white.
(The photo, not the people of course!)
PS: Have to be sure to set my VCR for Leno Letterman tonight...
Okay, Seth, on with the show...
rob c answered:
Eartha Kitt , at a white house function responding to Ladybird. Didn't help her career much.
MAM wrote:
Eartha Kitt
BttbBob replied:
Eartha Kitt... and I think that her statement to Lady Bird, using the directly personal "you", was crass, inappropriate to the venue and unfair. Now, had she said it to LBJ, that would've been an entirely different matter. Had she said, "Your husband...", yeah, well maybe. But, no, Eartha put that terrible onus all on Lady Bird right then and there like it was all her fault and she had to answer for it. I'll say it again, it was unfair...
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Using Eartha's logic, Michelle Obama should be held accountable, by anyone at any time, that Gitmo is still active and the US is using drones to kill anyone 'we' think are 'Bad Guys' (remember - it's done in your name) in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and now it appears Mali is next... Right? Yeah, sure... Like that's gonna happen.
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Go ahead - call me a heretic... at this point in my life I could give a rat's ass.
Nothing gets my dander up more than blaming someone for others' egregious decisions and behavior... Yeah, yeah, so Lady Bird was part of
'The Establishment'. So the fuck what... Who's 'The Establishment' now?
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The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again - YouTube
Randall responded:
ummmm... Abbie Hoffman?
And, Joe S said:
Eartha Kitt. I was in love with Eartha Kitt, talented, beautiful, sexy, intelligent, what's not to love. Did I mention she could sing? Oh! And THE GREATEST CATWOMAN EVER!
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Golden Boy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Joan Rivers, Daytona 500 winner Jimmy Johnson, and Kendrick Lamar.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Sharon Osbourne and Matthew Lillard.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', followed by another FRESH'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then a FRESH'Go On', followed by a FRESH'The New Normal', then a FRESH'Smash'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Colin Farrell, Joey King, and Boz Scaggs.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Donald Trump, Rebecca Hall, Jon Glaser, and Tyler the Creator.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Eli Roth, Alexander Spit, and Family of the Year.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'The Taste', then a FRESH'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Terrence Howard, the cast of "Duck Dynasty", and Morrissey.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Cult'.
Faux has a FRESH'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'New Girl', then a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still anotherh 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then a FRESH'Storage Wars', 'Storage Wars', and another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Signs', followed by the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', then the movie 'Constantine'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-The Race to Breed
[8:30AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-The Door Closes
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 11 - Will.I.Am, Greg Davies, Miriam Margolyes, Adam Lambert
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS
[11:00AM] PRIMEVAL - Season 5 - Episode 4
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 13 - Ultimate Slow Cooking
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 14 - Slow Cooked Favourites
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[9:00PM] BEAR GRYLLS' WILD ADVENTURES-Ep 1 - Miranda Hart NEW
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Army Ants NEW
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[12:00AM] BEAR GRYLLS' WILD ADVENTURES-Ep 1 - Miranda Hart
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Army Ants
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'The Jeselnik Offensive', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jeselnik Offensive'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart are Lori Silverbush & Kristi Jacobson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dr. Michio Kaku.
FX has the movie 'Machete', followed by a FRESH'The Ultimate Fighter', followed by a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear, then a FRESH'Casanova Killers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[8:00AM] Diva
[10:30AM] Bad Boys
[1:15PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[3:15PM] Batman & Robin
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Pilot
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Red Dress
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Home Alone 4
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Shame
[8:00PM] Batman Forever
[10:45PM] Batman Returns
[1:30AM] Batman Forever
[4:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:30AM] Action -Dead Man Floating
[5:00AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David -Please Don't Kill Me
[5:35AM] The Three Stooges -Termites of 1938 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Other People's Mothers (Episode 10, Season 1)
[7:00A] Control
[9:15A] The Kid With a Bike
[10:45A] The Art of the Steal
[12:30P] Toots
[2:00P] Control
[4:15P] The Kid With a Bike
[5:45P] The Crucible
[8:00P] Mommie Dearest
[10:15P] The War of the Roses
[12:15A] Public Sex
[2:15A] When Will I Be Loved
[3:45A] The Wig
[5:45A] Spit Gold Under an Empire (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Ultimate Soldier Challenge'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Kevin Nealon and Nicholas Hoult.
Composer and musician Quincy Jones arrives at the 2013 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California, February 24, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
The TV series "Duck Dynasty" is coming between Morrissey and Jimmy Kimmel.
The singer and animal rights activist says he canceled his appearance Tuesday on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" because "Duck Dynasty" cast members will be on the talk show.
Morrissey says he can't perform on a show with what he called people who "amount to animal serial killers."
A&E's "Duck Dynasty" reality show follows a Louisiana family with a business selling duck calls and decoys.
Pamela Anderson salutes legend of art and fashion Mario Testino with cocktails by Porton at the Peruvian native's exhibition at Prism on Saturday February 23, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
The former Canadian ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis said Monday it was good to hear Ben Affleck thankCanada after Affleck's film "Argo" won the Oscar for best picture.
"Argo" came under criticism from some Canadians, including former ambassador Ken Taylor, who said he felt slighted by the movie because it makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics. Taylor says it minimizes Canada's role in the Americans' rescue.
Taylor criticized Affleck on Friday and said he hoped Affleck would acknowledge Canada's role. Affleck briefly thanked Canada in his acceptance speech Sunday.
"Finally, he mentioned Canada," Taylor said. "Under the circumstances, I think that was fine. It certainly acknowledged Canada. I think certainly the movie was about CIA agent Tony Mendez. I think that President Carter's remarks put everything in proportion."
Carter appeared on television last week and said, "90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian," but the film "gives almost full credit to the American CIA."
Sunday's Oscar ceremony scored the biggest TV audience in three years, and edgy new host Seth MacFarlane helped boost interest from young men, despite getting a mauling from TV critics.
Nielsen ratings data on Monday showed that 40.3 million Americans watched the Academy Awards ceremony on ABC television, up three percent from 2012. ABC said it was the largest Oscar audience in three years.
Boosted by a bumper box office crop of movies and intrigue over MacFarlane's debut as Oscar host, the show grew 11 percent in the 18-49 year-old audience most coveted by advertisers, and by 34 percent in 18-34 year-old men compared to 2012.
ABC, a unit of Walt Disney, also reported growth to its online and social media platforms, saying that its Oscar.com website had attracted 15.8 million visitors since the Academy Award nominations were announced in early January - a 28 percent increase over 2012.
Singer Psy (C) performs during the inauguration of South Korea's President Park Geun-hye (not pictured) at the parliament in Seoul February 25, 2013. Park became the first female president of South Korea on Monday. She is the daughter of former military dictator Park Chung-hee who took power in a military coup in 1961 and ruled the country for 18 years.
Photo by Kim Hong-Ji
Emmy-winning actress Christina Applegate quietly married rock musician Martyn 'Dutch' LeNoble at a wedding in Los Angeles, a representative of the "Anchorman" star said on Monday.
Applegate, 41, and LeNoble, 43, exchanged vows on Sunday while the entertainment world was trained on the Academy Awards, the film industry's biggest night.
The couple was "surrounded by family in a private ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," Applegate's spokeswoman said in a statement.
The couple, who have been together since 2008, engaged in 2010 and have a 2-year-old daughter, Sadie.
Singer Janet Jackson said on Monday that she married her Qatari businessman boyfriend last year, quashing media reports of upcoming nuptials.
Jackson, 46, the younger sister of the late singer Michael Jackson, was engaged to billionaire Wissam Al Mana, 37, last year but kept the news under wraps.
"The rumors regarding an extravagant wedding are simply not true. Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony," Jackson and Al Mana said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight.
"Our wedding gifts to one another were contributions to our respective favorite children's charities."
The Onion, a source for online and printed satire that routinely skewers celebrities, apologized on Monday for a what it called a crude and offensive tweet directed at nine-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis.
The Internet was abuzz with commentary after The Onion on Sunday night referred to the young Best Actress nominee using a four-letter term seen as perhaps the most offensive word in American English.
Steve Hannah, The Onion's chief executive, found the tweet devoid of humor.
"On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars," Hannah said in a statement. "It was crude and offensive - not to mention inconsistent with The Onion's commitment to parody and satire, however biting."
The Onion removed the tweet within an hour of its publication, instituted stricter new procedures for Twitter and took steps to discipline the people responsible, Hannah added.
Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch poses in front of a film poster before the premiere of the film "3,096 Days" in a cinema in Vienna February 25, 2013. A new film based on the story of Kampusch shows her being repeatedly raped by captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
One day after "Zero Dark Thirty" failed to win major awards at the Oscars, a congressional aide said on Monday the Senate Intelligence Committee has closed its inquiry into the filmmakers' contacts with the Central Intelligence Agency.
The intelligence committee gathered more information from the CIA, film director Kathryn Bigelow, and screenwriter Mark Boal and will not take further action, according to the aide, who requested anonymity.
Sony Pictures Entertainment, which produced the film, had no immediate comment. But attacks by Washington politicians may have damaged its prospects at the Academy Awards. "Zero Dark Thirty" was nominated for a best picture award, which it did not win. Also, in what industry watchers considered a snub, Bigelow did not receive a best director nomination.
The Senate committee launched its review of the film, a dramatization of how the U.S. government located and killed Osama bin Laden, after its chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein, expressed outrage over scenes that implied that "enhanced interrogations" of CIA detainees produced an breakthrough that helped lead to the al Qaeda leader.
A sheriff's department spokesman in Northern California says a Dublin police officer stopped and then arrested MC Hammer because the '90s rap star was driving a car with expired registration and refused to get out of the vehicle.
Lt. Herb Walters of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said in a statement issued Monday that Hammer was "very argumentative" with the officer during the traffic stop late Thursday. He says it's unclear who owns the car.
Hammer eventually came out of the car and was arrested for investigation of obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties.
Hammer, who was born Stanley Burrell, has offered a different account, suggesting he was the victim of racial profiling. He tweeted on Saturday that the officer asked him if he were on parole or probation and tried to pull him out through the car window.
Centenarian marathon runner Fauja Singh, 101, center, originally from Beas Pind, in Jalandhar, India but who now lives in London, raises a Hong Kong flag after finishing a 10-kilometer race, which was part of the annual Hong Kong Marathon, in Hong Kong Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Singh will retire from public racing after competing in the marathon.
Photo by Vincent Yu
Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent.
The Czech State Veterinary Administration said that horse meat was found in one-kilogram (2.2 pound) packs of frozen meatballs made in Sweden and shipped to the Czech Republic for sale in Ikea stores there. A total of 760 kilograms (1,675 pounds) of the meatballs were stopped from reaching the shelves.
Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said meatballs from the same batch had gone out to Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland. Magnusson said meatballs from that batch were taken off the shelves in Ikea stores in all those countries. Other shipments of meatballs were not affected, including to the U.S., even though they all come from the same Swedish supplier, Magnusson said.
However, the company's Swedish branch announced on its Facebook page that it won't sell or serve any meatballs at its stores in Sweden out of concern for "potential worries among our customers."
Magnusson said Ikea saw no reason to extend that guidance globally. She said Ikea was conducting its own tests of the affected batch "to validate" the Czech results. She also said that two weeks ago Ikea tested a range of frozen food products, including meatballs, and found no traces of horse meat.
After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys.
Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels "black" or "African-American".
The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said in an interview.
He pointed to months of public feedback and census research that concluded few black Americans still identify with being Negro and many view the term as "offensive and outdated."
The face of the giant King Kong puppet that will be used in the musical of the same name can be seen in this undated handout photo released February 24, 2013 at Melbourne's Regent Theatre. Weighing more than one tonne and standing six metres tall, the musical will have its world premiere on June 15.
Photo by James Morgan
A New York landlord says he's selling the personal possessions of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member because the musician owes him tens of thousands of dollars in back rent for storing the items for more than a decade.
Mike Piazza held a garage sale over the weekend in Kingston to recoup some of the $60,000 to $70,000 he says he's owed by Garth Hudson, who played the organ and horns for The Band, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994.
Piazza tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that Hudson's possessions include boxes of sheet music, records and household items. He says he decided to sell the items after attempts to get Hudson to pay the back rent for the storage failed.
An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moons is over. And No. 1 is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" TV series.
Vulcan snared nearly 200,000 votes among the more than 450,000 cast during the two-week contest, which ended Monday. In second place with nearly 100,000 votes was Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the underworld.
Vulcan was the Roman god of lava and smoke, and the nephew of Pluto. Vulcan was also the home planet of the pointy-eared humanoids in the "Star Trek" shows. Think Mr. Spock.
"174,062 votes and Vulcan came out on top of the voting for the naming of Pluto's moons. Thank you to all who voted!" Shatner said in a tweet once the tally was complete.
Actor Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the reason- and logic-based Spock, had this to say in an email to The Associated Press: "If my people were emotional they would say they are pleased."
In this photo taken Feb. 15, 2013, Monarch butterflies are collected in a net to be tested for the ophroyocystis elektroscirrha parasite that inhibits their flight, at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. The scientist is part of a research project conducted by the World Wildlife Fund of Mexico and the University of Georgia and University of Minnesota.
Photo by Marjorie Miller
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