Bush Made Permanent (nytimes.com)
A look at what John McCain says about taxes shows the same irresponsibility that, in 2000, foreshadowed the character of the Bush administration.
SUSAN ESTRICH: "Wanted: Just a Little More Padding" (creators.com)
"I'm a lawyer with a lot of insurance," I joked with the technician, who asked me why I was back again so soon after my last visit to the basement where all the MRI machines are. Of course, that wasn't the real reason, or at least not the only one. Being a lawyer with a lot of insurance means you actually get the tests you need. The problem is that plenty of people who need them don't get them.
TIM RUTTEN: Diamond lanes for the rich (Los Angeles Times)
The late Michael Harrington, who examined the roots of American inequality more closely than anyone before or since, loved nothing better than to end the day with a few beers and a good argument. On one such occasion, he raised his glass, looked at the reporter across the table and said, "The great thing about beer is that it's one of the few good things in life that the rich do not begrudge the poor."
Doug Tischler: Opera's Lesbian Divas (afterellen.com)
Patricia Racette and Beth Clayton talk about their careers and relationship. ... In Act II, during a scene where Violetta faints at Flora's home, Racette recalled an "illegal kiss": "I was on the floor with Beth and, per the staging, she comes in and scoops me up. But she leaned over and just plants one on me! I had to turn my entire body into her because I couldn't stop laughing when I was supposed to be passed out!"
Roger Ebert: ORDET (1955) (A Great Movie)
For the ordinary filmgoer, and I include myself, "Ordet" is a difficult film to enter. But once you're inside, it is impossible to escape. Lean, quiet, deeply serious, populated with odd religious obsessives, it takes place in winter in Denmark in 1925, in a rural district that has a cold austere beauty.
Roger Ebert: "Overlooked DVD: 'Fast, Cheap & Out of Control'" (4 stars)
Errol Morris' magical film "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control" is about four people who are playing the game more strangely than the rest of us. They have the same goal: to control the world in a way that makes them happy. There is a lion tamer, a man who designs robots, a gardener who trims shrubs so they look like animals and a man who is an expert on the private life of the naked mole rat.
Who replaced Paul Lynde as the center square on Hollywood Squares?
A: Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver)
B: Ernest Borgnine
C: Rose Marie
D: Agnes Moorehead
E: Wayland Flowers & Madame
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mj was first, and correct, with:
It was a big seat to fill
E, the only duo up there.
Alan J guessed:
Rose Marie???
Charlie answered:
That was
E: Wayland Flowers & Madame
Peter Marshall: Madame, is it true that people who smoke get rear-ended more often?
(Wayland &) Madame: Hi sailor, got a light?
Marian the Teacher answered:
Wayland Flowers and his puppet Madame.
Sally answered:
I believe that Wayland Flowers & Madame (E) replaced Paul Lynde as the center square on Hollywood Squares.
In fact, the show went downhill after Lynde left, he made the show for me. Oh, those double entendres!
Peter Marshall: True or false...research indicates that Columbus liked to wear bloomers and long stockings.
Paul Lynde: It's not easy to sign a crew up for six months...
Peter Marshall: According to the French Chef, Julia Child, how much is a pinch?
Paul Lynde: Just enough to turn her on...
He had a million of 'em too.
Did you know that there is an excellent book about Paul?
Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story
Authors Steve Wilson and Joe Florenski
It's published by Advocate Books (contains a good deal of theatre-related information and anecdote).
More info here: Click here: Amazon.com: Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story: Steve Wilson,Joe Florenski
PS When I flew down to Rio circa 2003/4 I caught a rerun of the Brazilian version of the show entitled: "Jogo da Velha." It was hosted by Fausto Silva on weekend mornings. No joke here...
PPS Why shouldn't Diamonds be kept w UR family jewels? Paul -They're cold.
- Day Late -
Re: Paul Lynde
MAG ("I have always imagined that paradise will be
a kind of library" Jorge Luis Borges) wrote:
That's an easy one, Uncle Arthur.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Shark', then a RERUN'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Robert Downey Jr. and Alicia Keys.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kathy Griffin, Emily Deschanel, and Morrissey.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by 'SNL - Best of Alec Baldwin', then a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dr. Phil McGraw, the Lopez family, and Natasha Bedingfield.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jeff Garlin, Dax Shepard, and the Kills.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Chelsea Handler and Serj Tankian.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Jim', followed by a RERUN'Jim', then a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Women's Murder Club'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Vanessa Williams, the seventh eliminated celebrity from "Dancing with the Stars", and Cinematic Orchestra.
The CW offers a FRESH'Beauty & The Geek', followed by a FRESH'Reaper'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY has 'Street Patrol', another 'Street Patrol', 'Jail', and another 'Jail'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', 'Gene Simmons', and another 'Gene Simmons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Spy Hard', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid', then the movie 'Karate Kid Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 22 Shepton Mallet 10
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 13
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 14
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[9:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 13
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[12:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 13
[1:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 12
[2:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 13
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.1 Liverpool
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.2 New Malden
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 22 Shepton Mallet 10
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 40 Boyle
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 41 Mayhew
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Steve Byrne's Happy Hour'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Newt Gingrich.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Anne Lamott.
FX has the movie 'Man On Fire', followed by the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', then 'The Riches'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe', another 'The Universe', and 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] Grand Theft Parsons
[08:05 AM] Strange Invaders
[09:45 AM] The Importance of Being Earnest
[11:25 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[12:30 PM] Waiting for Guffman
[02:00 PM] Grand Theft Parsons
[03:35 PM] Strange Invaders
[05:15 PM] The Importance of Being Earnest
[07:00 PM] The Winter Guest
[09:00 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[11:45 PM] The Legend of 1900
[02:00 AM] The Children of Paradise (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Stargate Atlantis', another 'Stargate Atlantis', still another 'Stargate Atlantis', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] L'Eclisse
[07:10 AM] It's All About Love
[09:00 AM] Episode 5
[09:30 AM] Eat
[10:00 AM] Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
[12:00 PM] Household Saints
[02:15 PM] Bodies, Rest & Motion
[04:00 PM] The Milagro Beanfield War
[06:00 PM] The Kooks, Wynton Marsalis & Muse
[07:00 PM] Cookie's Fortune
[09:00 PM] Food
[09:40 PM] All In This Tea
[10:55 PM] Episode 5
[11:30 PM] Raving
[12:00 AM] Inside Deep Throat
[01:40 AM] Eramos Pocos
[02:00 AM] The Milagro Beanfield War
[04:00 AM] Episode 3
[05:00 AM] Bodies, Rest & Motion (ALL TIMES EST)
A giant inflatable pig scrawled with the words 'Don't Be Led To The Slaughter' floats over the crowd during the third and final day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Sunday, April 27, 2008.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Aaron Brown, the former CNN anchor who found cable TV an awkward fit, is joining PBS' "Wide Angle" series and ending his on-air absence of more than two years.
Anchoring "Wide Angle," a weekly public affairs series with a global focus, offers the chance "to work in an environment where people just think about making good TV and good journalism," Brown said.
Brown, 59, who left CNN in November 2005 during a shake-up that gave his time slot to rising star Anderson Cooper, said he was contractually barred from working in TV until last June. He's been teaching at Arizona State University as its first Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism.
US actress Susan Sarandon, left, and actor John Goodman pose on the red carpet during the European premiere of the movie 'Speed Racer' in Berlin, on Monday, April 28, 2008.
Photo by Miguel Villagran
Australian television comics who breached security at a global summit by posing as part of a Canadian motorcade carrying an Osama bin Laden look-alike Monday had all charges against them dropped.
The team from The Chaser's War on Everything show came within metres of US resident George W. Bush's hotel in September after their fake three-car convoy was waved through security checkpoints.
They were stopped only after one of the comedians from the show emerged from a car dressed as fugitive alleged terror mastermind bin Laden.
The prank made international headlines during the unprecedented security lockdown in Sydney for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and proved a ratings winner for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
An exhibit of James Brown memorabilia is being organized at South Carolina State University.
Interim university President Leonard McIntyre told The (Charleston) Post and Courier that he secured the rights to show the items, which include clothing, shoes, awards, furniture and sheet music, through a contact he has with the late singer's estate.
The exhibit, which is expected to be ready by the middle of the summer, will be at the university's IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium.
The Warner Bros. Television Group will relaunch its defunct WB network as an online video site offering original programming and reruns of shows such as "Friends" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," aimed at a new generation of viewers.
TheWB.com targets 16-to-34-year-old viewers with new shows developed by writer and producer Josh Schwartz, known for "Gossip Girl" "The O.C.," and "Terminator 4" director McG.
The CW network, which once streamed full episodes of the show on the Internet, decided recently to pull it off the Internet in a bid to boost TV viewership for the series.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt poses on the press line at Hollywood Life Magazine's 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 27, 2008.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
U.S. newspaper circulation fell 3.6 percent in the latest set of figures released by an industry group on Monday, reflecting a migration of readers to the Internet and publishers' efforts to streamline their businesses.
Weekday paid circulation at many of the top 25 U.S. papers fell, though some papers, including Gannett Co Inc's USA Today and News Corp's Wall Street Journal, reported gains of less than 1 percent.
Weekday circulation at The New York Times fell 3.85 percent while Tribune Co's Los Angeles Times reported a drop of 5.13 percent.
The New York Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, reported a drop of 3.07 percent, while the New York Daily News, owned by tabloid rival Mortimer Zuckerman, posted a 2.09 percent drop. The Daily News reported circulation of 703,137, slightly ahead of the Post at 702,488.
Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, who has a history of drug-related problems, was sentenced to eight days in jail for driving under the influence of drugs a second time.
Weiland, 40, was arrested in November last year after his car crashed on a Los Angeles freeway. He was arrested after refusing to take a sobriety test and was charged last month.
He pleaded no contest to the charge on Monday and, due to his previous conviction for a similar offense in 2004, was sentenced to eight days in prison, put on four-year probation and ordered to spend 18 months in rehab.
Singer Diana Ross, right, and daughter Rhonda Ross Kendrick attend a Cinema Society screening of 'Iron Man' at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, Monday, April 28, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported.
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but told the newspaper it was not sexual.
Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready, the newspaper reported.
The revelation could undermine Clemens' reputation, which is central to the defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against former personal trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee contends Clemens used performance-enhancing substances during his major league career.
The father of TV comic Cheri Oteri was stabbed to death and a country songwriter has been arrested, police said Monday.
Richard William Fagan, 61, had been charged with criminal homicide in the Saturday night death of his roommate, 69-year-old Gaetano Thomas Oteri, police said.
Police said Fagan had been arrested Saturday night on a charge of driving under the influence, and shortly after he posted bail on Sunday a friend of the roommates told police their door was locked, the house appeared to be in disarray and Oteri wasn't answering the door.
Fagan is listed as co-writer on hits by singer John Michael Montgomery, including "Sold (the Grundy County Auction Incident)," "Be My Baby Tonight," and "I Miss You a Little." Fagan told police his songs have been recorded by several country artists.
The alledged prostitute linked to the sex scandal that forced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign last month is suing "Girls Gone Wild" adult video founder Joe Francis for more than $10 million for the illegal use of her name and image.
In the lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in Miami, Ashley Alexandra Dupre contends that she was 17 and not old enough to sign a legally binding contract when she appeared partially nude in video footage filmed in 2003 by members of Francis' Mantra Films production company in Miami Beach.
On a spring break vacation at the time, Dupre was also drunk when told to sign a video "release" form, according to the complaint, which seeks damages in excess of $10 million from Francis and his co-defendants.
Mexican sailors stand on the masts of the ARM Cuauhtemoc naval school ship upon their arrival to the Havana Bay, in Havana, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Cuauhtemoc naval school ship is in Cuba as part of its training voyage that began in Acapulco at the beginning of the month and will end in the same place in November after it finishes its transatlantic voyage. The Cuauhtemoc has been in Cuba two times before, in 1985 and 1994.
Photo by Ramon Espinosa
Two parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide.
Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, but the father considered the illness "a test of faith" and the mother never considered taking the girl to the doctor because she thought her daughter was under a "spiritual attack," the criminal complaint said.
An autopsy determined that Madeline died from undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin in her body. Court records said she likely had some symptoms of the disease for months.
Dale Neumann, 46, a former police officer, has said he has friends who are doctors and started CPR "as soon as the breath of life left" his daughter's body.
Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to accompany her queen into the afterlife, experts said on Friday.
The bones indicated that a broken collarbone on the younger woman had been healing for several weeks -- meaning the break was not part of a ritual execution as suspected since the 22-metre (72 ft) long Oseberg ship was found in 1904.
"We have no reason to think violence was the cause of death," Per Holck, professor of anatomy at Oslo University, told Reuters after studying the two women who died in 834 aged about 80 and 50.
The discovery of the ornate Oseberg oak longboat in south Norway, with a curling prow and the bodies of two women, was one of the archaeological sensations of the early 20th century.
A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the "destructive" cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys.
In the latest salvo in a more than decade-old government campaign against Barbie, Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi said in an official letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the doll and other Western toys are a "danger" that need to be stopped.
While importing the toys is not necessarily illegal, it is discouraged by a government that seeks to protect Iranians from what it calls the negative effects of Western culture.
Mondex, a 5-year-old Chihuahua, poses as he walks the aisle dressed as a scuba diver during a dog show at a mall in suburban Manila on Sunday April 27, 2008. Mondex bagged first place during the fashion show category.
Photo by Aaron Favila
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