Paul Krugman: Hurrah for Health Reform (New York Times)
It's said that you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies. If the same principle applies to legislation, the Affordable Care Act - which was signed into law two years ago, but for the most part has yet to take effect - sits in a place of high honor.
Jessica Hiscche: Be still my heart!
Today the Society of Design in PA (my home state) invited me to speak. In doing so, they created the most touching awesome thing I've ever seen and I spent the last hour and a half crying at my desk just amazed that 35 people would go out of their way to make me feel so loved and appreciated. On twenty-seven actual registered license plates, which individuals in the club now use on their cars, they invited me to visit.
Movie Trivia: The Silence of the Lambs (Neatorama)
Despite the fact that most people will forever link Anthony Hopkins with Dr. Lecter, Hopkins is only in the movie for 16 minutes. It's the shortest lead role to ever win an Oscar.
Hugh Grant: 'I love getting into a taxi and saying House of Lords instead of Soho - again' (Guardian)
In his latest role, he's taken on the tabloids - 'a vicious and vindictive industry'. But soon Hugh Grant will be back on familiar ground, giving voice to a big, barrel-chested pirate. In a rare interview, he tells Decca Aitkenhead about standing up for what is right, fatherhood and the genius of Aardman.
Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along (Guardian)
He cheated at school, rewrites the classics and admits to being jealous of his friends' success. Peter Carey tells Emma Brockes why he likes breaking the rules.
Mark Hyman, MD: Time for an Oil Change (Huffington Post)
It's time to change the way you think about fat. For 30 years well-meaning diet gurus have preached that eating fat makes you fat. I'm here to tell you that fat, in and of itself, is not what is making you fat. Instead, it's eating too much of the wrong kinds of fat.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
This playful gesture became one of Hitchcock's signatures and fans would make sport of trying to spot his cameos. As a recurring theme, he would carry a musical instrument - especially memorable was the double bass case that he wrestles onto the train at the beginning of Strangers on a Train. He admitted in extended interviews with Francois Truffaut that he preferred to make his appearance early in the film to prevent audiences being distracted, and indeed the majority of his appearances occur within the first half-hour of his films.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
39 out of 52
Charlie wrote:
Wikipedia says 39, though the AMC site only lists 37.
BttbBob responded:
Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette - YouTube
Good Evening...
The answer is that Sir Alfred made 39 cameos in his 52 surviving movies...
But... Why only 39? Why not in all of them? Why did he do them it at all?
Why certain films and not others? I'll tell you why... Wait... No... I think I'll keep that to myself... and let, you, the reader decide why!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
He made cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 surviving major films
Sally said:
Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 surviving major films. Antenna TV is running an hour of his old TV shows in the very early mornings (like 1 AM), which are still good!
Look closely, is Wowser in there?? MAM??
PS: "Dancing With The Stars" tonight!! Woo Hoo, my fav show... :)
Adam answered:
Either 37, or all of them.
Marian responded:
40
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Alfred Hitchcock made a total of 37 self-referential cameos in his films over a 50 year period (from 1927-1976), if one counts his narration at the start of The Wrong Man (1956). AMC
One of my favourite filmmakers of the 20th century. I lived in Bodega Bay during the summer of 1969 as a deck hand on a fishing boat. The house on Bodega Point was still there and I kept my eyes open for any black winged terrors. Instead, all that happened was Seagulls shitting at or upon me! Damn Birds!
Lifeboat with William Bendix Rear Window Foreign Correspondent
Justice Department, FBI to probe Florida teen's death - CNN.com
It is with unbelievable disgust that I view the Trayvon Martin murder story. This young man is the Emmitt Till for our times, and I greatly fear that the racial issues that I hoped we had fought to a standstill in the sixties have reared their ugliest heads again for our grandkids to re-fight.
This asshole Zimmerman was a loose cannon, self-appointed "watchman", enabled/empowered by Florida's "Stand Your Ground" NRA endorsed laws; state sanctioned murder, pure and simple.
I feel incredibly sick over this story..
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Unforgettable'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jennifer Lawrence, Gail Collins, and the Shins.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kathy Bates and Brad Goreski.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Fashion Star'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Rep. Ron Paul, Frank Caliendo, and the Wanted.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jon Hamm, Rachael Harris, Marcus Foster, and Melanie Fiona.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Kimbra, Tennis, Gary Clark Jr., and Kendrick Lamar.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Cougar Town', then a FRESH'The River',followed by a RERUN'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kristen Bell, Ice Cube, and KISS.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a FRESH'Ringer'.
Faux has a FRESH'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'I Hate My Teenage Daughter', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'Breaking In'.
MY recycles an old 'Cold Case', followed by another old 'Cold Case'.
A&E has 3 hours of 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then another FRESH'Storage Wars Texas'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 10 Sante La Brea
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 11 Cafe 36
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 12 Casa Roma
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 The Secret Garden
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 Lela's
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 3 Sebastian's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 4 Finn McCool's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 6 Seascape
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 8 Peter's
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 9 The Olde Stone Mill
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 10 Dillons
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavillion
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 - Classic AmericanNEW
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 9 The Olde Stone Mill
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavillion
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 - Classic American
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 8 Peter's
[2:00AM] TORCHWOOD-Ep 5 Small Worlds
[3:00AM] TORCHWOOD-Ep 6 Countrycide
[4:00AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 10 Fallen Angel
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[5:30AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Tabatha Takes Over'.
Comedy Central has '30 Rock', another '30 Rock', 'Key & Peele', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Key & Peele'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 3/14/12) is Rachel Weisz.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 3/5/12) is Audra McDonald.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', 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', then a FRESH'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The White Countess
[8:45AM] The Clearing
[10:45AM] FF: A Look at the American Secrets
[10:50AM] Nosebleed
[11:00AM] A Prairie Home Companion
[1:15PM] The White Countess
[4:00PM] The Clearing
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal Quits
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-The Grandparents
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Traffic Ticket
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Surgery
[8:00PM] Sin City
[10:30PM] FF: A Look at the American Secrets
[10:35PM] The Descent
[12:35AM] Sin City
[3:05AM] The Descent
[5:05AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David-The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop
[5:40AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EDT)
[6:00A] Everlasting Moments
[8:15A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Cheryl Hines & Margaret Cho
[8:45A] This Way Up
[9:00A] Full Grown Men
[10:25A] Mary and Max
[12:00P] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers (Episode 14, Season 1)
[1:00P] Everlasting Moments
[3:15P] Love Lust & Comfort Food
[4:15P] Ten for Grandpa
[4:35P] Mary and Max
[6:10P] When a Man Comes Home
[7:45P] The Last Deadly Mission
[10:00P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Sex Video (Nashville)
[10:30P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - He Sucks Me In
[11:00P] Blue Velvet
[1:05A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Sex Video (Nashville)
[1:35A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - He Sucks Me In
[2:05A] The Last Mistress
[4:00A] When a Man Comes Home
[5:35A] Right Foot, Left Foot (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has all 'Ghost Hunters International' all night.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Schirripa, and Sharon Van Etten.
Actor Sean Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.
Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. The event will be held in Chicago next month and is expected to draw such luminaries as Poland's Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama.
Penn arrived shortly after Haiti's quake and established an aid organization now known as J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The group has provided schools, medical care and housing to thousands of people displaced by the quake.
From L-R: Actors Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kiefer Sutherland and David Mazouz arrive with creator Tim Kring at the Fox TV premiere of 'Touch' at the Museum of Natural History in New York March 18, 2012. Touch will premiere in more than 100 countries in the week of March 19.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma and famed soprano Renee Fleming have performed with a choir of Chicago high school students to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Citizen Musician initiative.
Ma and Fleming performed a piece by Rachmaninoff on Monday in the rotunda of the State of Illinois building and Gov. Pat Quinn attended. The afternoon performance also was sponsored by Lyric Opera of Chicago.
The pair then led a sing-a-long of "America the Beautiful," along with musicians from orchestra. The group's Citizen Musician program aims to spread the orchestra's music in the community.
Ma and Fleming also visited classes at Chicago's Lake View High School earlier in the day.
At speeds even he could barely imagine, Albert Einstein's private papers and innermost thoughts will soon be available online, from a rare scribble of "E=mc2" in his own hand, to political pipe-dreams and secret love letters to his mistress.
Fifty-seven years after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's death, the Israeli university which he helped found opened Internet access on Monday to some of the 80,000 documents Einstein bequeathed to it in his will.
It will go on adding more at www.alberteinstein.info and in time, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says, it is committed to digitizing its entire Einstein archive.
Among items likely to attract popular attention is a very rare manuscript example of the formula the author of the theory of relativity proposed in 1905, E=mc2, where energy, E, equals mass times c - the speed of light in a vacuum - squared.
Once published, a cache of two dozen love letters to the woman who would become his second wife - but written while he was still married to his first - may also attract the curious.
Italy's Mark Di Giuseppe, a one man band who goes by the name of "The Straniero", performs during the International Festival of Arts (FIA) in San Jose March 19, 2012. Twenty-seven countries are taking part in the international festival which runs until March 25.
Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate
Harry Potter fans should now find it a bit easier to find platform 9 3/4. King's Cross Station, the London train terminal made famous by J.K. Rowling's series on the boy wizard, has undergone a 550 million pound ($875 million) makeover.
The station is the setting of the fictional platform 9 3/4, where Potter and his friends went through a wall to find the train to Hogwarts, their school.
But the 45 million real-life commuters who struggle through the cluttered station every year often found the experience something short of magical.
On Monday a spectacular new glass-and-steel entrance opened to the public in a bid to cut the crowding.
As part of the station's renovation, there is now a photo-op version of platform 9 3/4 - right next to platform 9.
A judge declared a mistrial Monday in Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination trial after the jury deadlocked, leaving an unresolved finale to a two-week trial that focused on the behind-the-scenes intrigue and personalities of TV's "Desperate Housewives."
Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White excused the panel after it deadlocked 8-4 in favor of Sheridan's claim.
Sheridan strolled out of the courthouse moments after the decision without speaking to reporters. Her attorney Mark Baute said he would re-try the case.
The jury first reported problems in deliberations on Thursday then resumed discussions until Monday.
People prepare a hot air balloon near the Pyramids of Teotihuacan during the international hot air balloon festival outside Mexico City March 17, 2012.
Photo by Henry Romero
Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos and his law partner have settled a lawsuit for $2.5 million against the owner of a defunct charter jet company that secretly recorded the men and Michael Jackson as they flew from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara for the pop star to turn himself in on child molestation charges.
The amount awarded to Geragos and partner Pat Harris will be difficult to collect because defendant Jeffrey Borer is insolvent, his attorney Lloyd Hirschbaum said. The agreement was reached Friday, the last court day before a re-trial in the case was scheduled to begin to determine how much Geragos and Harris were owed.
Borer attempted to sell the video, which contains no audio, of the flight to media outlets after Jackson's surrender. Geragos, Harris and their attorney Brian Kabateck have argued that the lawyers had an expectation of privacy on the private jet that flew them and Jackson from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in November 2003. The video, which has never been released, also violated the attorney-client privilege, the said.
An appeals court in 2010 threw out a judge's $20 million award to the attorneys and instead offered them $750,000.
Geragos, Harris and Jackson filed the invasion-of-privacy suit against Borer and XtraJet in November 2003. Jackson dropped out as a plaintiff in April 2005.
Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, is not off the hook after a U.S. radio show retracted a program critical of working conditions at one of its Chinese factories.
The Hong-Kong based China Labor Bulletin said Foxconn still employed harsh working conditions, while a fund manager with shares in Foxconn's parent said investors were watching how the company treats workers.
"The retraction has somewhat cleared Foxconn's name, but not all the way. The press and stock investors will continue to watch how Foxconn treats its workers going forward," said Simon Liu, fund manager and deputy investment officer at Polaris Financial Group's fund unit in Taipei. The unit owns share's in Foxconn's parent company, Hon Hai Precision.
The radio program "This American Life" last week retracted the episode, saying it had contained "numerous fabrications".
Foxconn said on Monday it had no plans to take legal action although the program had hurt its reputation.
Animals rights activists protest during a demonstration calling for the abolition of bullfights in Valencia March 18, 2012. Placards read, "They killed me this Fallas festival".
Photo by Heino Kalis
Oprah Winfrey's struggling television network, OWN, said Monday it is laying off one-fifth of its workers and restructuring its operations in New York and Los Angeles.
The decision to let 30 employees go is a "tough" one, but the economics of a start-up cable network didn't fit with OWN's cost structure, Winfrey said in a statement.
The responsibilities of the laid-off workers will be distributed among people with the network and its venture partners, Discovery Communications and Winfrey's Harpo Studios, according to OWN.
The cable channel, which launched Jan. 1, 2011, endured a freshman year of executive turnover and missteps that proved OWN lacked a solid foundation on which to build. This was despite a Discovery Communications investment of a reported $250 million and counting.
From the start, OWN failed to improve on, or in some instances even match, the modest ratings and small audience earned by the low-profile Discovery Health channel it replaced.
A lawyer for Kevin Costner told the South Dakota Supreme Court on Monday that the actor did not breach a contract with an artist when he placed commissioned sculptures of bison and American Indians at a different site than originally was agreed upon.
The Hollywood superstar, who filmed much of his Academy Award-winning movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota, paid Peggy Detmers $300,000 to make 17 bronze sculptures for a resort called The Dunbar he planned in the state's Black Hills. The resort never was built and the sculptures are instead at his Tatanka attraction near Deadwood.
Detmers said she spent more than six years creating the artwork and gave Costner a price break because she anticipated selling smaller sculptures at the resort.
Detmers claims that because The Dunbar was not built and the sculptures were not "agreeably displayed elsewhere," as the contract stipulates, that the sculptures should be sold and she should be entitled to 50 percent of the proceeds.
A cache of American Indian artifacts seized during raids on a Custer-themed museum in southeast Montana includes items allegedly stolen from members of the Crow Tribe.
The allegation was detailed in court documents filed by the government in part to explain why it still has the artifacts three years after federal agents dropped their criminal probe of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen.
Federal officials investigated museum director Christopher Kortlander for four years for alleged artifact fraud. No charges were filed and the case was dropped in 2009. But the fight over 22 artifacts seized in raids on Kortlander's museum and businesses in 2005 and 2008 grinds on.
The court documents identified the stolen items as a feathered war bonnet belonging to Larson Medicine Horse, a Crow member and former Big Horn County sheriff, and three medicine bundles belonging to Daniel Old Elk, the Crow Sun Chief.
Medicine Horse declined to speculate on who might have stolen the item. Kortlander ran for sheriff against Medicine Horse in 2002 and lost.
"John Carter" is now officially a flop of galactic proportions.
The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it expects to book a loss of $200 million on the movie in the quarter through March. That's among Hollywood's biggest money-losers ever.
Directed by Pixar's Andrew Stanton, the 3-D effects-laden movie about a Civil War veteran transplanted to Mars was already headed to the "Red Ink Planet," according to Cowen & Co. analyst Doug Creutz. Yet he expected a write-down of about half that size.
Disney said "John Carter" has brought in about $184 million in ticket sales worldwide so far. But ticket sales are split roughly in half with theater owners. The movie's production budget is estimated to be about $250 million with about $100 million more spent on marketing.
Pamir, a 5-year-old Tien Shan White Clawed Bear, plays with a tyre swing in its open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 19, 2012. The bear spent the winter awake without its usual hibernation, according to zoo employees.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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