Paul Krugman: Attacking Success (New York Times)
OK, this is rich. Or actually, it's anti-rich. Or anti-rich liberal. Or something. Anyway, Jonathan Chait informs us that the right-wing blogosphere is all-aTwitter over the fact that Matthew Yglesias just bought a nice condo. Apparently this is hypocritical because you can't be a liberal and own private property, or something.
Tom Rosshirt: Traditional Marriage (Creators Syndicate)
Twelve years ago, two gay friends of mine had just taken their seats on a plane in Texas to bring home their newly adopted baby girl, when a man wearing a cowboy hat, boots and a shiny belt buckle came walking down the aisle. He stopped beside the two dads and their daughter and signaled that he was in the window seat beside them.
Henry Rollins: The Steubenville Rape Case Is a Failure (LA Weekly)
Some might say that the two teenagers going to the youth facility are as much victims as the young women who was assaulted. I do not agree. The two are offenders. What they did was obviously wrong. That being said, we cannot end the discussion at that point and expect things to change.
Jobs confidential: 15 people reveal the truth about their work (Guardian)
Ever wondered what it's really like to be a vicar or a dominatrix? Or what a brain surgeon or a bikini waxer think about their job? Here, 15 people with very different careers reveal - anonymously - the trade secrets of their working day.
Tom Shales: Leno, late night & me (Chicago Sun-Times)
Jay Leno and I go way back. One of my fondest memories is of Jay chasing me around the parking lot of the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. I always tell people that I thought of the Bel-Air, which I could still afford in those days (long long ago), as more a sanitarium than a hotel. You know how in L.A. your waiter has probably written a screenplay or two? At the Bel-Air, one of the parking attendants had actually starred in an ABC network series several years earlier! He played a wolf-boy.
The Art of Blough
Blouh, a street artist in Belgium, uses stencils to bring science fiction heroes and villains to his neighborhood.
A timeless classic of show business, "Slowly I Turned" is the most common name associated with a popular vaudeville sketch. It is also referred to as, variously, "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns and clowning aficionados, and "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello. By what name do the fans of I Love Lucy know this routine?
"Slowly I Turned" is the most common name associated with a popular vaudeville sketch that has also been performed in cinema and on television. Comedians Harry Steppe , Joey Faye , and Samuel Goldman each laid claim to this timeless classic of show business, also referred to as, variously, "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns and clowning aficionados, "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello, "Pokomoko", "Bagel Street", and "Martha" by the fans of I Love Lucy.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Martha
Charlie wrote:
Regulars might guess.
Martha
Adam answered:
Martha. I should have known.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
"Martha"
Sally said:
"Slowly I Turned" is the most common name associated with a popular vaudeville sketch. It is also referred to as, variously, "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns and clowning aficionados, and "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello - and "Martha" by the fans of I Love Lucy.
You know what? I did Love Ricky and Lucy.
When their impending divorce was announced, I found it incredulous. One of the very first disillusions in my life. - but not the last by far...
PS: Well, I was spared the pre-dawn shoveling today, but the sky is dark and the snow is on it's way. Snow should be down by MAM right now, and on it's way up to Jersey, but taking it's sweet-assed time doing so, I must say.
Marian replied:
"Martha"
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali answered:
The "Slowly I Turn" routine appears in episode 19 "The Ballet" of season 1 of I Love Lucy, with the trigger word there being "Martha". Don't ever say Niagara Falls to me, please!!! Oh No!!!!
And, Joe S responded:
Yes, I'm detecting a definite "Martha" conspiracy here. Something tells me the answer is Martha connected........... I knew it!
"Slowly I Turned" is the most common name associated with a popular vaudeville sketch that has also been performed in cinema and on television. Comedians Harry Steppe , Joey Faye, and Samuel Goldman each laid claim to this timeless classic of show business, also referred to as, variously, "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns and clowning aficionados, "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello, "Pokomoko", "Bagel Street", and "Martha" by the fans of I Love Lucy.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Golden Boy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Brian Williams and Pegi Young.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Sarah Chalke and Lawrence Block.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Go On', then a FRESH'The New Normal', followed by a FRESH'Smash'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Keith Urban, Paula Deen, and Django Django.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ice-T, Chris Hardwick, and Little Green Cars.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Kate Mara, Ben Hoffman, and A Silent Film.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Splash', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then a FRESH'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jeremy Piven, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Kid Cudi.
The CW offers the chestnut 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'New Girl', then a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Christine', 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', and still another 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 12 - The Pegasus
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 13 - Homeward
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 14 - Sub Rosa
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 17 - Masks
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 18 - Eye of the Beholder
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 19 - Genesis
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 24 - Preemptive Strike
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 25 - All Good Things..., Part 1
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 26 - All Good Things..., Part 2
[11:00PM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 13 - End Of Days
[12:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
[1:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Sleeper
[2:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 3 - To The Last Man
[3:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Meat
[4:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Adam
[5:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Reset (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', 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'Jeselnik Offensive'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Michael Moss.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dr. Eric Topol.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by a FRESH'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 'Vikings'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Chapter 27
[7:45AM] Strangers in Good Company
[10:00AM] Swimming With Sharks
[12:00PM] Chapter 27
[1:45PM] Strangers in Good Company
[4:00PM] Out There-Enter Destiny
[4:30PM] Lolita
[8:00PM] The Truman Show
[10:15PM] Bachelor Party
[12:30AM] The Truman Show
[2:45AM] Teeth
[4:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Action-One Easy Piece
[5:30AM] Action-The Last Ride of the Elephant Princess (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Pilot
[7:15AM] May the Best Man Win
[8:30AM] The Time That Remains
[10:30AM] Paris, je t'aime
[12:30PM] May the Best Man Win
[1:45PM] The Time That Remains
[3:45PM] The Unsinkable Henry Morgan
[4:15PM] Paris, je t'aime
[6:15PM] Waking Life
[8:00PM] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
[10:00PM] Henry & June
[12:30AM] Macho
[1:55AM] Bitch
[2:00AM] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
[4:00AM] Garage Days (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Robot Combat League'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Vanessa Hudgens, Jerry Trainor, and Emily Heller.
Actress Tilda Swinton performs the art of sleeping in her one-person piece called "The Maybe," in New York's Museum of Modern Art, Monday, March 25, 2013. In "The Maybe," first performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995, Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs.
Photo by Richard Drew
Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant.
Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, traveled to the Nzulo camp near Goma on Monday along with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
The International Rescue Committee says it's provided care to more than 2,500 women and girls who have been raped or abused over the last year alone. The IRC is handing out kits with flashlights and whistles, as well as cleaning products so that women can avoid bathing at creeks where the risk of assault is higher.
Sexual violence is frequently used as a weapon of war by rebel groups that operate in eastern Congo, as well as by Congolese soldiers.
Minnie wears a dress by Lanvin fashion house and designed by Alber Elbaz, at the Eurodisney Parc, in Marne la Vallee, east of Paris, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Forever-young Minnie Mouse has decided it's time to grow up and move on from her old red and white polka dots, with the new dress designed by Lanvin with a more mature royal blue frock, unveiled in Disneyland Paris, Saturday evening, to be worn at all special Paris celebrations and events from now on.
Photo by Thibault Camus
Just in time for Easter - when Christians worldwide will celebrate the resurrection of their savior Jesus Christ - the National Geographic Channel has announced that it is producing a film devoted to his death.
National Geographic Channel said Monday that it's teaming with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions to adapt the upcoming novel "Killing Jesus: A History."
The book, by Fox News Channel personality Bill O'Reilly and writing partner Martin Dugard, will be published September 24. The film version will air globally on National Geographic Channels next year.
Billed as a "factual drama," the film and book will tell the story of Jesus "as a beloved and controversial young revolutionary brutally killed by Roman soldiers and recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable and the changes that his life brought upon the world for the centuries to follow."
Next year's Academy Awards ceremony - the highlight of the annual movie awards season - will be held on March 2, a week later than normal, so as not to clash with the Winter Olympics in Russia in February, organizers said on Monday.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced a February 22 date for the 2015 Oscar ceremony and said both awards shows will be televised live as usual by ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The Winter Olympics are to be held in Sochi, Russia, from February 7-23, forcing several of Hollywood's big awards shows to shift their traditional dates to avoid a clash with blanket TV coverage of the games.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, one of the key ceremonies ahead of the Oscars, has already announced that its 2014 ceremony will move back from the end of January to January 18.
The Golden Globes ceremony, Hollywood's second biggest awards show, has for the past 10 years taken place in Beverly Hills in mid-January but organizers have yet to announce a date for the 2014 show.
Penitents, locally known as "Morions", wear masks and Roman centurion costumes as they take part in a procession commemorating the passion of Christ during Holy Week at Mogpog town in Marinduque, central Philippines, March 25, 2013.
Photo by Erik De Castro
Raise your wine glasses in celebration, "Cougar Town" fans; your favorite show will be back for another season.
TBS has renewed the Courteney Cox series for a fifth season, after taking the show over from ABC when it was canceled.
The upcoming fifth season will be the show's second on TBS. The fourth season of the show, which also stars Christa Miller, Busy Philips, Dan Byrd, Ian Gomez, Josh Hopkins and Brian Van Holt, will air its finale on April 9.
In its fourth season, which launched January 8, "Cougar Town" has averaged 2.8 million total viewers, with 1.7 million of them in the 18-49 demographic most important to advertisers in Live + 7 delivery, which takes into account DVR viewings that take place in the 7 days after a telecast. The series has been TBS's best rated original primetime program in the demo.
Actor James Cromwell has pleaded no contest to disrupting a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting last month while protesting cat experiments at the school.
The 73-year-old Cromwell and another activist, 27-year-old Jeremy Beckham, were charged with disorderly conduct following the meeting on the UW-Madison campus Feb. 7.
Both men held large signs showing a cat with metal implanted in its head at a campus lab while shouting about the treatment of cats.
Cromwell's attorney, Marcus Jens Berghahn, entered no contest pleas on both men's behalf Monday. A court commissioner ordered each to pay $263 in forfeitures and costs.
A vendor waits for devotees to buy portraits of the Hindu god Krishna and goddess Radha during holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh March 25, 2013. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
Photo by Vivek Prakash
A man accused of breaking into "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston's car late last year and stealing a script for the popular television show set in New Mexico has been arrested, authorities said Monday.
Bernalillo County Sheriff's officials said Xavier Macafee, 29, was being held on suspicion of burglary.
Deputy Aaron Williamson, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, said none of the stolen items have been recovered but detectives were investigating the case.
He said other items reported taken from Cranston's car were an iPad, a shoulder bag and "miscellaneous personal items."
Cranston's car was broken into Dec. 20 while it was parked at Sandia Peak, authorities said.
Sirius XM has struck a deal to carry a new channel produced by Glenn Beck's media company 'theBlaze', featuring conservative talk shows and news programming that begins airing on Monday.
The new channel is the latest effort by Beck, a former Fox News talk show host, to expand his media company which has its roots on the Internet. The channel, dubbed "theBlaze Radio Network", will be available to Sirius XM's nearly 24 million subscribers.
Beck, 49, is known for his conservative leanings and making inflammatory remarks. He has a strong following on radio and signed a $100 million radio deal with Premiere Networks last June.
The Sirius XM channel will carry Beck's show as well as talk shows by other conservative personalities such as Jay Severin and Doc Thompson. The company will provide hourly news updates on Sirius XM's conservative news network, which is a separate channel. Financial terms of the agreement with Sirius XM were not disclosed.
Women wearing traditional mantilla dresses smoke outside a church before taking part in the Brotherhood procession of "Los Estudiantes" (The Students) at the start of Holy Week in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 24, 2013.
Photo by Eloy Alonso
The SS United States is sending out what may be its final distress call.
The 990-foot-long ship could be sold for scrap within two months unless the grassroots preservation group that's working to secure a home and purpose for it can raise $500,000 immediately, the group told The Associated Press. Talks are under way with developers and investors about the ship's long-term future, but without the emergency funding, its caretakers fear they will run out of money before a deal is inked.
The historic ocean liner carried princes and presidents across the Atlantic in the 1950s and 1960s but has spent decades patiently awaiting a savior at its berth on the Philadelphia waterfront.
"We've made progress on the fundraising side and the redevelopment side," said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy and granddaughter of the ship's Philadelphia-born designer, William Francis Gibbs. "Our immediate goal is to buy some time."
The group has raised $1 million through fundraisers and a website, where contributors can sponsor a piece of the ship for $1 per square foot, but has received no public funding. What is desperately and immediately needed, they said, are donors with deep pockets and high profiles.
The Video Music Awards are taking a road trip to Brooklyn.
MTV's showcase awards show is traditionally held in Los Angeles or Manhattan.
This year the show will be held Aug. 25 at the new Barclays Center, home of the New York Nets and the recent Rolling Stones and 12-12-12 concerts.
MTV will celebrate 30 years of the VMAs this year. From Kanye West and Taylor Swift to the Madonna-Britney Spears-Christina Aguilera kiss, the show has become known more for its pop culture moments than the winners of its signature moonman trophies.
A model presents a creation for Hempel Award 21st China International Young Fashion Designers Contest, at China Fashion Week in Beijing, March 25, 2013.
Photo by Jason Lee
Love, loss, breakups, makeups, murder, mayhem, backstabbing, social climbing. Forget about a lifetime, that's just an afternoon on "The Young and the Restless."
The CBS show, daytime's top-rated soap since December 1988, hits the big 4-0 on Tuesday.
No one from its debut on March 26, 1973 - when it was just 30 minutes long - remains with the show, but Jeanne Cooper arrived six months later and is the longest-tenured cast member in her role as grand dame Katherine Chancellor.
"God knows it's claimed a big part of my life," the 84-year-old actress said, citing good writing and likable characters as reasons for the show's continued success in an era of dwindling daytime audiences, network budget-cutting and the cancellation of other soaps.
Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from a large collection of Hollywood images will be sold during a two-day auction in New York next month, Guernsey's auction house said on Monday.
The Movie Star News Collection, which photographer Irving Klaw started in 1939 after striking a deal with film studios, includes nearly three million posters, negatives and photos of stars. They include Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Charlie Chaplin and Audrey Hepburn, among others.
Some 1,900 lots of photos and film memorabilia will go under the hammer on April 6 and 7. Pre-sale estimates range from $60 to $100 for some of the pictures to as much as $10,000 for a pair of high-heel shoes worn by model Betty Page, known as the "Queen of Pin-Ups."
The collection includes original Movie Star News signs and pictures from movie sets of "The Wizard of Oz," "King Kong" and "The Godfather" as well as 600 photographs of Monroe.
It is being sold by Stuart Scheinman, a co-owner of the Las Vegas-based Entertainment Collectibles, who bought the collection last year from Ira Kramer, Klaw's nephew.
Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards has died at a hospice at age 68.
Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House, Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirmed Monday.
As leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation, Richards was involved in writing and producing many Jackson 5 hits, the Universal Music release said. Those songs included the Jackson 5's first three No. 1 hits - "I Want You Back," ''ABC," and "The Love You Save."
He also co-wrote "Love Child" for Diana Ross & The Supremes, as well Ross' solo "I'm Still Waiting."
Other recording artists for whom Richards produced or wrote songs include Bobby Darin, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas.
He is survived by his wife, Joan Lussier, a brother and two nephews.
The moon is seen through the OVO wooden installation by Belgian Odeaubois and ACT lighting design as it is illuminated during a show in Astana March 24, 2013.
Photo by Shamil Zhumatov
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