A trio of shows coming up as Erin fills in for the vacationing Jay Marvin,
morning host on Boulder's Progressive Talk, AM 760, Friday, June 30th,
as well as Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, the 4th, from 6am - 10am (MDT).
Celebrate what's left of our nation after the Bush administration by taking
our country back.
Grace Hood: Confronting torture: Survivors honor day of remembrance (boulderweekly.com)
Simbo is one of the estimated 400 political asylum seekers who arrive in Colorado every year due to torture and war trauma. Torture may be an abstract concept and a fleeting thought for most Americans, but for Simbo and his family, it's real. During the course of the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone, Simbo and members of his immediate family were kidnapped, raped, enslaved and disfigured.
MATTHEW WOODLEY: Plotte twists (montrealmirror.com)
With a new printing of her edgiest work, celebrated comic artist Julie Doucet reflects on her sordid comic past and why she's trying to leave it all behind.
Donald McRae: A new heart, a new era (guardian.co.uk)
Forty years ago this week a team of American surgeons was on the brink of performing the first human heart transplant. But it was a South African doctor with only sketchy research behind him who finally made medical history. How Christiaan Barnard stole the race from his rivals.
Imagine being a very young girl living in a culture that arranges your marriage to some old man when your seven and when you turn nine he dies….and you, still merely a child, become a widow…and because of the religious beliefs of that culture, you are banished for the rest of your life to live in shame in an ashram in the ghetto and beg for food with other unfortunate females…you are branded "unclean" and shunned…your parents dis-own you and….it gets worse!
Little Chuyia (Sarala) has just become a widow in 1939 India at the ripe old age of nine. She gets delivered to a Widows Ashram by her father and she actually thinks her mom will return for her…there are 14 god forsaken females living in this prison and the head mistress is a huge woman named Madhumati (Manorama). She lays around all day giving orders and smoking Ganja which she gets from her Eunuch friend Gulabi (Raghuvir Yaduv) who also acts as the ashrams pimp…you see all the women here have had their heads shaved out of humility and shame except Kalyani (Lisa Ray) ..she, with her long black tresses gets sent out to have sex with the local male gentry…..in return for money to help all these women survive.
Well, Kalyani and Chuyia become friends and one day Kalyani accidentally spills water off the balcony on to the head of a handsome young man walking by….it is Narayan (John Abraham) the be speckled law school graduate who is severely smitten with her beauty….so much so that, through a note given to Chuyia, he arranges to meet her….outside the ashram…..
The backdrop to all this drama is the fact that Mahatma Gandhi is on the march and attempting to boot the British rule and free the Indian people from their disastrous Caste system…..and back at the Widow's Ashram, there is a woman named Shakutala (Seema Biswas) who is basically the conscience of the Women trapped inside and she finds out from her teacher that a new law has been passed in India that allows widows to re-marry.
She is not thinking about herself, but about Kalyani.
Shakutala steals the key and allows Kalyani to escape to her new beloved…..
Imagine that Narayan has proposed to Kalyani and they are on the little boat being paddled across the lake to meet his parents………….
SPOILER ALERT
Imagine the unthinkable when Kalyani finds out who Narayan's father is……someone she has known in the past…..she tells Narayan to turn the boat around…..She runs through the streets in the rain alone….She ends up shaving her head and giving herself up to the Ganges. There is a funeral and just when you think things couldn't get any worse……Chuyia gets sent off to Narayan's father by a desperate Madhumati …for money. When Shakutala finds out she picks up Chuyia and carries her into town because she hears that Gandhi will be at the train station….after hearing the small saint speak…."God is not the Truth….the Truth is God"…she chases after the train with Chuyia in her arms screaming for Gandhi to save this child and out of the car of the train reaches a pair of compassionate arms …it is Narayan who is now a disciple of Gandhi……..as the train sped away, Shakutala's face is transformed….and I got the feeling that "the Truth is God" and not the other way around!!!!
Purple Gene give "Water" 10 poignant and thought provoking drops of rain out of 10 for really, really filling my eyes with tears of sadness for the plight of humanity!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Unit', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Anne Hathaway, Jim Gaffigan, and Dashboard Confessional.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Henry Winkler, and Judy Greer.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Fear Factor', followed by a FRESH'Last Comic Standing', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Pat Riley, Connie Chung, and Guster.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Bonnie Raitt.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Regis Philbin and David Ford.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by another RERUN'Jim', then still another RERUN'Jim', followed by yet another RERUN'Jim', then a RERUN'Boston Legal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Tommy Lee, 98-year-old high school student Josephine Belasco, Greg Fitzsimmons, and the Fixx.
The WB offers a RERUN'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH'Pepper Dennis'.
Faux has a RERUN'House', followed by another RERUN'House'.
UPN has a RERUN'America's Next Super Model', followed by a RERUN'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Gangsta Girls', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'King Of Cars', and another 'King Of Cars'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Princess Bride', followed by the movie 'The Last Samurai', then the movie 'The Man In The Iron Mask'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 1;
[2:40 pm] 'Are You Being Served' - Shedding The Load;
[3:20 pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[4:00 pm] 'My Hero' - The Older Man;
[4:40 pm] 'My Family' - Ep 9 While You Weren't Sleeping;
[5:20 pm] 'My Family' - Ep 10 Dentist To The Stars;
[6:00 pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30 pm] 'Cash in the Attic - Chislett;
[7:00 pm] 'The Benny Hill Show'' - Episode 48;
[8:00 pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 14;
[8:30 pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 6;
[9:00 pm] 'Best Man' - Episode 2;
[10:30 pm] 'Unsolved' - Episode 3;
[11:00 pm] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 1;
[11:40 pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Door Handle;
[12:20 am] 'Coupling' - The Girl with Two Breasts;
[1:00 am] 'Best Man' - Episode 2;
[2:30 am] 'Unsolved' - Episode 3;
[3:00 am] 'Brand New You' - Episode 1;
[4:00 am] 'Brand New You' - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] 'Brand New You' - Episode 3;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Kathy Griffin: D-List', followed by a FRESH'Kathy Griffin: D-List', and a FRESH'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Drive Me Crazy', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', 'Dog Bites Man', and 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Helen Thomas.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Chris Matthews.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Decoding The Past', 'Mega Disasters', and 'Mega Movers'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Mighty Peking Man;
[7:30 AM] Life Tastes Good;
[9:00 AM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[11:00 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #12: "The Truth";
[11:30 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #13: "The Attack";
[12:00 PM] IFC Short Film Collection I: June;
[2:00 PM] Life Tastes Good;
[3:30 PM] June Media Lab Results;
[4:00 PM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[5:45 PM] Get Bruce!;
[7:00 PM] At The IFC Center #14;
[7:30 PM] Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!;
[9:00 PM] The Quiet American;
[10:45 PM] IFC In Theaters;
[11:00 PM] Fulltime Killer;
[12:45 AM] Short: The Debt;
[1:00 AM] The Quiet American;
[2:45 AM] IFC In Theaters;
[3:00 AM] Fulltime Killer;
[4:45 AM] Baadasssss Cinema;
[5:45 AM] Short: The Debt. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Ice Cream Man', followed by the movie 'Glass Trap', and a FRESH'ECW'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Mr. Reliable;
[08:00 AM] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band;
[10:00 AM] Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties;
[11:15 AM] La Pagaille;
[01:00 PM] Kicked in the Head;
[02:30 PM] McVicar;
[04:30 PM] Comfort and Joy;
[06:15 PM] Ryan;
[06:30 PM] Safe Men;
[08:00 PM] Bomb the System;
[09:35 PM] Wasp;
[10:00 PM] The Living End;
[11:30 PM] Nowhere;
[01:00 AM] Mysterious Skin;
[03:00 AM] Mother/Country;
[03:30 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 1;
[04:00 AM] L'eau Froide;
[05:35 AM] Little Otik. (ALL TIMES EDT)
In this photo released by 20th Century Fox, radio personality Howard Stern and girlfriend Beth Ostrosky arrive at the Hamptons' screening of 'The Devil Wears Prada,' Saturday, June 24, 2006 in Southampton, NY.
Photo by Paul Hawthorne
Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," has written a rare published item - a letter for Oprah Winfrey's magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town.
The 80-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner quit giving interviews about 40 years ago and, other than a 1983 review of an Alabama history book, has published nothing of significance in some four decades. That makes her article for O, The Oprah Magazine, something of a literary coup for the television talk show celebrity.
In a letter for the magazine's July "special summer reading issue," Lee tells of becoming a reader before first grade: She was read to by her older sisters and brother, a story a day by her mother, newspaper articles by her father. "Then, of course, it was Uncle Wiggly at bedtime."
"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books," she writes.
Actors, Tempestt Bledsoe, left, and Darryl M. Bell, right, take their seat as the arrive for the Celebration of Black Music Month in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 26, 2006 in Washington. Bledsoe starred in the Cosby Show and Bell in the A Different World television shows.
Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Upper West Side brownstone where Humphrey Bogart grew up has long ago been turned into public housing. But the block, like Paris, will always be his.
Scores of fans stood in the drizzle this weekend as the city unveiled a plaque renaming the short stretch in front of 245 W. 103rd St. as Humphrey Bogart Place.
"Bogie would have never believed it," said Lauren Bacall, who was married to the Oscar-winning actor from 1945 until his death in 1957. She said the day was an emotional one, and her time with Bogart too short.
A former wartime fortress which is now a self-proclaimed independent state has been left devastated after a fierce blaze tore through the structure.
The so-called Principality of Sealand, seven miles off the coast of Felixstowe and Harwich, was evacuated at lunchtime yesterday after a generator caught fire.
Thames Coastguard, Harwich RNLI lifeboat, Felixstowe Coastguard rescue teams, firefighting tug Brightwell, the RAF rescue helicopter from Wattisham and 15 Suffolk based firefighters from the National Maritime Incident Response Group (MIRG) were all called into action to tackle the blaze.
The Van Gogh Museum said it bought 55 letters written by Vincent van Gogh that give important information about the 19th century painter's world view and development of his artistic thought.
The letters were written by van Gogh to fellow artist Anthon van Rappard from 1881-1885, when van Gogh was undergoing major transformations in his conception of art and his skill as an artist.
The Amsterdam museum did not say how much it paid for the letters, but Marsha Malinowski, a manuscript expert at Sotheby's auction house, put their value in the millions.
The letters were sold to the museum by an American collector who had kept them stored for decades in a sealed microwaveable container.
Actor Danny DeVito, center, speaks with guests at the 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' season premiere after-party at The Cabana Club in Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, June 25, 2006.
Photo by Matt Sayles
"Medium" star Patricia Arquette married her actor paramour, Thomas Jane, in Venice, Italy, a publicist for the show said Monday.
Arquette, 38, and Jane wed Sunday "surrounded by family and friends," publicist Jennifer Solari said.
Engaged since 2002, the two have a daughter, 3-year-old Harlow. Arquette, formerly married to Nicolas Cage, also has a 17-year-old son, Enzo, from her relationship with musician Paul Rossi.
"Wyatt Earp" star Hugh O'Brian, 81, has married for the first time in what the couple described as "a wedding to die for." The weekend ceremony was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
"This is my first, and most definitely, my last trip down the aisle," O'Brian said in a statement announcing his marriage Sunday afternoon to his girlfriend of 18 years, teacher Virginia Barber, 54.
The Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, officiated, and the couple was serenaded by close friend Debbie Reynolds. Dubbed "A Wedding to Die For," the ceremony concluded with a cocktail reception.
Boy George won't be going to jail. But the former Culture Club singer got a scolding from a judge Monday for not complying with the terms of his sentence on a drug charge.
Under his plea deal, O'Dowd was to enter a drug program in England and do five days of community service in Manhattan. He was also supposed to pay a $1,000 fine and a $160 surcharge, and avoid arrest for any reason during the next six months.
But O'Dowd, 45, didn't do the community service, and earlier this month, Ferrara demanded that the singer show up in court or face arrest.
The judge gave O'Dowd until Aug. 28 to complete the community service.
Ace Crawford walks along the arm section of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski's carving of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse in a granite mountain Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ziolkowski's widow, Ruth, who turns 80 on Monday, continues her late husband's work begun in 1948 with the commitment of seven of their 10 children and several grandchildren who have dedicated their lives to fulfilling his dream of carving a mountain to honor all American Indians.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
A Charlie Chaplin hat-and-cane set sold for nearly $140,000 at auction on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for Bonhams & Butterfields.
The $139,250 bid broke a record for the most ever paid for a Chaplin hat-and-cane set, of which there are several, said Bonhams spokeswoman Janelle Grigsby.
The bowler hat was stamped with manufacturer's details inside the hatband; the cane was 32 inches long and made of bamboo, according to a statement from the auction house.
Life did not imitate art on Sunday when this town where Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born and first heard the ghost stories that would inform the "magical realism" of his novels, rejected a proposal to change its name to honor him.
Fewer than the required 7,400 voters showed up for a referendum, which had been pushed by the local government to rename the community as Aracataca-Macondo.
Despite a publicity campaign to whip up support, Mayor Pedro Sanchez did not have the political magic needed for the name change, which he said would have brought tourism to this down-at-the-heel town of 53,000 in Colombia's northern banana-growing country.
A man climbs a structure in the shape of a pair of jeans outside a store in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan province, June 25, 2006. The structure is about 8 meters (26 feet) high, China Daily reported. Picture taken June 25, 2006.
About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of his wife and daughter, buried for more than a century in England, were interred in the family plot at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery alongside the author.
Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, died in New Hampshire in 1864. His wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, moved to England with their three children and died there six years later. She and their daughter Una were buried at Kensal Green cemetery in London.
Hawthorne's daughter, Rose, returned to the United States and started a Roman Catholic order dedicated to caring for cancer patients. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, based in Hawthorne, N.Y., had paid to maintain the Hawthorne graves in England.
But when cemetery officials told the nuns the grave site needed costly repairs, the order arranged to have remains reburied in Concord, instead.
Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement examined the 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage after his private plane landed at the airport around 2 p.m. from the Dominican Republic, said Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
ICE officials found a prescription bottle labeled as Viagra, a drug that treats erectile dysfunction, in his luggage, Miller said.
Combination photograph shows back of U.S. $20 bill showing The White House with the 140-yr old Elm tree and workers at the White House clearing the fallen tree, which was knocked down by heavy winds in a storm in the Washington area overnight, June 26 2006.
Photo by Larry Downing
A pair of whooping cranes has hatched two chicks in central Wisconsin, marking the first young of the species to be hatched in the wild in the eastern United States in more than 100 years.
That makes about two dozen young cranes - including the first three conceived in the wild - that will be added this year in the effort to establish a second migratory flock of the endangered birds in North America.
Operation Migration, the group coordinating the project, posted photos on its Web site showing two brown chicks being tended by their adult parents among thick grass of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge.
Lyle Stuart, a champion of free speech who published a book on how to make bombs and an anti-Semitic tract revered by right-wing militants, died of a heart attack at the age of 83, his daughter said on Monday.
A maverick in the publishing world who was embroiled in a series of high-profile libel suits in his career, Stuart was at work at his publishing house Barricade Books up until his death on Saturday of a heart attack in New Jersey.
"The reason he published some of the unpopular books was he felt that you don't want people to read just what they agree with," his daughter Sandy Stuart told Reuters. "You have to see what the other side says so you have ammunition against them."
As a reporter in the 1950s, Stuart found that his stories were at times being censored so he started a magazine called Expose, collecting stories cast aside by newspapers and magazines worried about offending advertisers.
A 1953 expose of the country's leading columnist of the 1930s and 1940s, Walter Winchell, brought Stuart fame and lawsuits aimed at silencing him. Stuart once was a ghost writer for Winchell but split with him when Winchell rejected one of his stories about poor treatment of black Americans in the American South.
In 1956 he started the Lyle Stuart Inc. publishing house, which also reveled in controversy. He sold it in 1989 for $12.5 million and started Barricade Books in 1990.
Sandy Stuart said there would be no memorial service because her father was a "devout atheist."
"If we did a memorial service or anything that had any connotation of religion he'd come back and kill us," she said.
Turkish-born record producer Arif Mardin, who helped shape hit recordings by the Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson and Bette Midler among many others, has died at age 74, associates said.
The winner of 11 Grammys, including producer of the year, he spent nearly 30 years at Atlantic Records before founding his own label at EMI, Manhattan Records, where he signed Norah Jones for her debut album.
Mardin, a jazz fan and friend of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and arranger Quincy Jones, was encouraged by them to get formal musical training and he did by attending Boston's Berklee College of Music.
Among the hit records he produced were "Groovin" by the Young Rascals, "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins and "Jive Talkin" by the Bee Gees.
He also produced several Aretha Franklin albums including "Lady Soul," "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" and the gospel album "Amazing Grace."
It may have been a dog's life, but Moose, the Jack Russell terrier of Frasier fame, wasn't one to complain.
Kelsey Grammer's canine sidekick, known as Eddie on the long-running show, died Thursday at the ripe old age of 16 and a half, his trainer, Mathilde Halberg told People magazine.
Other career highlights included landing a starring role in the film My Dog Skip, as an older version of Skip (who was played by his son, Enzo), gracing the covers of Life, TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, and penning his autobiography, My Life As a Dog, with a little help from TV writer Brian Hargrove (Wanda At Large, Titus).
A camel rests in Tengeri Desert, on the outskirts of Zhongwei, China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ,June 23, 2006. China, which is plagued by sandstorms every spring, has embarked on a campaign to plant billions of trees and says it is slowing the rate of desertification, but leading environmentalists said problem was far from under control. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)
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