Health Care Stories for America (barackobama.com)
These stories - told by hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans who have watched their premiums rise faster than wages, and spiraling costs shackle American businesses - put a personal touch on the health care crisis.
Susan Estrich: The Confused American (creators.com)
I always love it when politicians start talking about "the American people" believing this or that, as if we all do and they know it. Years ago, we nicknamed my friend Francie's mother "The Nation" because she was so fond of speaking for it. Truth is, Americans do agree on a lot of fundamentals. But because we do, nobody asks about those. "The American people" generally means that at least 40 percent of the people disagree with you.
Froma Harrop: Helping Borrowers Save Themselves (creators.com)
An 11th Commandment could read: Thou shalt not cheat the meek. Morality is reason alone for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to shield the little guys from the lending barracudas - as well as from their own bad decisions (some of them, anyway).
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Murphy Brown's (C) many secretaries in one episode, a way back when... As an avid, "Boston Legal" fan, I love Candice Bergen, and of course, adored little, "John, John..."
PS: FOX TV (jumping on the old dollar bandwagon) is doing a rerun of, "American Idol" tonight featuring the contestants performing music from the "Michael Jackson song Book." The only contestant I want to see is, Adam Lambert, who will sing, "Black of White." He is fantastic!
MAM replied:
John Kennedy, Jr. appeared on 'Murphy Brown'. He appeared as one of Murphy Brown's many secretaries in 'Altered States', Sept 18, 1995. He gave her a copy of his magazine, George, with a mock-up of Murphy Brown on the cover and a year subscription as a wedding present.
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While looking for a picture of JFK, Jr and Candice Bergen together, this came up. So I figured, "What the hell, looks good to me."
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist', and '48 Hours'.
On a RERUNDave (from 4/2/09) are Michael J. Fox and the Fray.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/23/09) are Teri Hatcher and Martina McBride.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by another FRESH'America's Got Talent', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUNConan (from 6/4/09) are Gwyneth Paltrow, Joel McHale, and John Mayer Trio.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 4/22/09) are Seth Meyers, Michelle Trachtenberg, and BMX rider Mike Spinner.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/3/09) is Charles Hamilton.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Superstars', followed by a FRESH'Better Off Ted', then 'Primetime: Family Secrets'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/16/09) are Ty Pennington, David Sedaris, and the Jonas Brothers.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a FRESH'Hitched Or Ditched'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Legally Blonde'.
MY has 'Street Patrol', another 'Street Patrol', 'Jail', and another 'Jail'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'The Cleaner'.
AMC offers the movie 'Caddyshack', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters', then the movie 'Ghostbusters 2'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 2
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[4:00 PM] The Hotel Inspector - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 Glasshouse
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 9
[9:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 10
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 9
[12:00 AM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 10
[1:00 AM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 9
[2:00 AM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 10
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Elle Macpherson, Frankie Boyle and KT Tunstall
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 2
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef Masters', 'NY Prep', followed by a FRESH'NY Prep', and another 'NY Prep'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Mike Kim.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Kevin Mattson.
FX has the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', followed by a FRESH'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Life After People', another 'Life After People', and still another 'Life After People'.
IFC -
[6:15 AM] Danny Deckchair
[8:05 AM] Bright Young Things
[10:00 AM] Mistress
[12:00 PM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[1:00 PM] Danny Deckchair
[2:45 PM] Bright Young Things
[4:35 PM] Mistress
[6:30 PM] The Nugget
[8:15 PM] Roger Dodger
[10:00 PM] Z Rock
[10:30 PM] Ideal
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:15 PM] Food Party
[11:30 PM] Wrong Door
[12:00 AM] Crash
[1:50 AM] This Is Me
[2:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:15 AM] Food Party
[2:30 AM] Wrong Door
[3:00 AM] Z Rock
[3:30 AM] Ideal
[4:00 AM] Crash
[5:50 AM] This Is Me (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Scare Tactics', another 'Scare Tactics', still another 'Scare Tactics', yet another 'Scare Tactics', one more 'Scare Tactics', still another 'Scare Tactics', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Kids
[06:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 3
[07:00 AM] Nose, Iranian Style
[07:55 AM] The Dead
[09:20 AM] In Memory Of My Father
[11:00 AM] TransGeneration: Episode 6
[11:30 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 5
[12:00 PM] Spectacle: Bill Clinton
[01:00 PM] Duck Season
[02:30 PM] The Dead
[04:00 PM] In Memory Of My Father
[05:45 PM] Blood, Sweat + Gears
[07:20 PM] Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
[07:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 2
[08:00 PM] On the Road in America: Episode 12 - Indiana/Wisconsin
[08:30 PM] TransGeneration: Episode 6
[09:00 PM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 3
[09:30 PM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Greening of Southie
[11:15 PM] The Thing About My Folks
[01:00 AM] Lake of Fire
[03:35 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 3
[04:05 AM] Is Your House Killing You?: Episode 5
[04:35 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Greening of Southie
[05:50 AM] Even Pigeons Go To Heaven (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Ruby Dee and director Spike Lee attend a special 20th anniversary screening of 'Do the Right Thing', in New York, on Monday, June 29, 2009.
Photo by Peter Kramer
A new version of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" featuring Jon Bon Jovi dueting in Farsi with exiled Iranian singer Andy Madadian, is making the rounds as an online video.
The track's co-producer, Don Was, says the video is meant to send "a musical message of worldwide solidarity" to the Iranian people in the aftermath of the country's recent disputed election.
Was tells Billboard.com that the session, which took place last Wednesday in Los Angeles, was spurred by a conversation he had with Madadian about "whether there was something we could do just to send out a little message of solidarity, remembering the '60s, believing music can change things."
Madadian -- who's lived in the U.S. since the Iranian revolution of 1979 -- and Bon Jovi duet on the song, with both men singing the first verse in Farsi. Sambora plays a guitar solo, with Was on bass, Patrick Leonard on keyboards and Jeff Rothchild on drums.
A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest. David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way, Wash., won the grand prize in San Jose State University's annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this:
"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests."
The contest, a parody of prose, invites entrants to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. It is named after Victorian writer Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford," with the much-quoted, "It was a dark and stormy night ..."
Contest categories include purple prose and vile puns.
A woman who inherited some Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million appraisal from experts on the U.S. television program "Antiques Roadshow," the producers said on Monday.
In a record for the show, four pieces of Chinese carved jade and celadon from the Chien Lung Dynasty (1736-1795), including a large bowl crafted for the Emperor, were given a conservative auction estimate of up to $1.07 million.
A spokeswoman said the appraisal was a record for the U.S. show, which is not affiliated with the BBC original. According to British media, the BBC's version had its first million pound appraisal ($1.655 million) last November -- a scale model of Anthony Gormley's artwork, "The Angel of the North."
The statement said the owner of the jade inherited the collection from her father, who bought the objects in the 1930s and 1940s, while stationed in China as a military liaison.
Some of the biggest names in rock have banded together to form a new supergroup. They call it Chickenfoot, a name they readily admit is "silly."
While the name may not be to everyone's taste, Van Halen veterans Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani rose high in the U.S. charts with their eponymous debut album this month.
Hagar and Anthony used to jam together at Hagar's club in Mexico, and when Smith joined them, they gelled. Smith, who still plays for the Chili Peppers, suggested forming a group, and Satriani was invited as the final piece in the jigsaw.
The four members of Chickenfoot have sold tens of millions of records and played thousands of gigs between them over the years, but the childlike enthusiasm for their latest venture comes from starting all over again.
In this first official photo of twin daughters provided by Robin Layton, actors Matthew Broderick, right, Sarah Jessica Parker, left, and their son James Wilkie Broderick pose with their new daughters Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick, left, and Tabitha Hodge Broderick on Monday, June 29, 2009, in New York. The girls were born Tuesday June 23, 2009.
Photo by Robin Layton
Paramount Pictures says Diane Keaton is "in good health and spirits" after falling and bumping her head on the set of her latest film.
Keaton sustained the injury Monday in New York, where she was filming the comedy "Morning Glory," co-starring Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams.
Paramount publicist Rona Geller issued a statement, saying the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actress was taken to the hospital for precautionary tests. Keaton has "been cleared by doctors to return to work tomorrow."
Zsa Zsa Gabor is back home after spending six days in a hospital being treated for flu-like symptoms.
Her husband, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, said Monday the 92-year-old actress was treated at a hospital and released. He did not provide details on her condition.
Gabor is partially paralyzed from a 2002 car accident and reportedly had a stroke in 2005.
A Paris appeals court fined French filmmaker Luc Besson's movie company EU100,000 ($140,580) on Monday over the death of a cameraman who was hit by a car during a 1999 stunt shoot.
The court also handed stunt director Remy Julienne, 79, a six-month suspended prison sentence.
A lower court had originally acquitted Besson's company, Europacorp, of wrongdoing in the case and given Julienne an 18-month suspended sentence.
The appeals court convicted Europacorp of manslaughter and fined it EU100,000. In addition, the company and Julienne were ordered to jointly pay EU20,000 to each of the cameraman's parents and EU10,000 to each of his two brothers.
A wax statue of U.S. President Barack Obama is presented to the media in front the Eiffel Tower before its installation at the Grevin Museum in Paris June 29, 2009.
Photo by Jacky Naegelen
Madrid's city hall Monday stripped former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco of his title as honorary mayor and adopted son of the capital, 33 years after his death began the transition to democracy.
Councilors of all political colors unanimously voted to remove the titles, as well as medals Madrid conferred on the right-wing general, a spokesman for the council said.
The move is the latest in a effort spearheaded by the Socialist government to remove traces of Franco in street names, statues and other symbols glorifying the dictator who gained power after a three-year civil war which ended in 1939 and ruled until his death in 1975.
The push reverses an unspoken understanding after Franco's death that his supporters would relinquish power on condition that future democrats would not rake up the past.
"Avenue Q" will reach the end of its Broadway road in September.
The musical about the hopeful twentysomething residents of a very particular New York street closes Sept. 13 after a six-year run and 2,534 performances.
"Avenue Q," which features a cast of people and puppets with names such as Kate, Rod, Princeton, Lucy, Christmas Eve and Trekkie Monster, won the 2004 Tony for best musical.
Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis will direct a stage version of "The Nutty Professor," the 1963 film he co-wrote and in which he starred as the nerdy title character.
The show will feature music by Marvin Hamlisch and a book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes. It is expected to land on Broadway during the 2010-2011 season.
The 83-year-old Lewis last appeared on Broadway in 1995 in a revival of "Damn Yankees."
Quiet please -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth is preparing to have her swans counted.
Buckingham Palace has announced that the annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to the 12th century which involves a census of the swan population on the River Thames, will be conducted by the queen's official Swan Marker from July 20-24.
The process involves the Swan Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames for five days with the Swan Warden in traditional skiffs while wearing special scarlet uniforms and counting, weighing and measuring swans and cygnets.
According to custom, Britain's sovereign owns all unmarked, mute swans in open water, but the queen now exercises the right only on stretches of the Thames and its nearby tributaries.
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