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Tom Cruise Presents Steven Spielberg With Giant Brass Dildo
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
William Greider: Clinton Economists: A Storm Is Coming (The Nation. Posted on Alternet.org)
Economists from the Clinton era were once the biggest cheerleaders for free trade and pro-business policies -- but now economic uncertainties have them singing a different cheer.
John Nichols: 'GOP's got a problem with voting rights' (The Nation; Posted on smirkingchimp.com)
How will African-American voters respond to the House GOP's assault on what Conyers refers to as "the crown jewel of our civil rights laws"? Perhaps they will react as did Georgia Representative David Scott, one of the most moderate members of the current House, who said of his Republican colleagues: "Their goal has been one thing and one thing only: to kill the Voting Rights Act."
THOMAS H. BENTON: To succeed as a Ph.D. in English (chronicle.com)
"If you had the chance, would you do it all over again and be an English professor?"
Hollywood physics (physicsweb.org)
From the 1902 production Voyage to the Moon to the recent What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?, physics has appeared in numerous feature films. Sidney Perkowitz examines the accuracy of physics in the movies and asks how realistically physicists are portrayed on screen.
Stephen Metcalf : Friends Aren't What They Used To Be (slate.com)
The new ethos of intimacy.
Kathleen Reardon: 'Female Advantage' at College: Just Another Fake Gender Crisis (HuffingtonPost.com. Posted on Alternet.org)
Young women's drive to do well in college should be considered a healthy move for girls -- not a so-called 'boy crisis.'
David Plotz: Blogging the Bible (slate.com)
So, how should Bible-loving gay-rights supporters rebut Leviticus 18:22? A stronger argument, perhaps, is to point out all the other things the Bible is equally clear about: The death penalty for gay sex, yes-but also the death penalty for cursing your parents, the death penalty for violating Sabbath, exile for sex with a menstruating woman, etc. Š Turn the Bible-quoting back on the social conservatives: Why do they fixate on the abhorrent gay sex and not the abhorrent menstrual sex, or parent cursing, or Sabbath-violating?
Ghetto warrior (guardian.co.uk)
Her take-no-prisoners approach has revolutionised French feminism- - and made her many dangerous enemies. Rose George asks Fadela Amara what fuels her rage.
Hadley Freeman: Why do all celebrities look the same? (guardian.co.uk)
Are you really so old that you can't tell your celebrities apart? Or are all celebrities actually beginning to look alike?
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still hot, but not as humid.
No new flags.
Government Sanctioned Lying
Women
Women who consult with pregnancy resource centers often get misleading information about the health risks associated with having an abortion, according to a report issued Monday by Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee.
Congressional aides, posing as pregnant 17-year-olds, called 25 pregnancy centers that have received some federal funding over the past five years.
The aides were routinely told of increased risk for cancer, infertility and stress disorders, said the report, which was prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Waxman said that Americans are divided on the issue of abortion, but no one should support misleading teenagers about basic medical facts.
Women
Breaks French Color Barrier
Harry Roselmack
A black journalist is due to host the most watched evening news in France on Monday, a first in a country that has been rocked by violent protests in some of its poorest and most ethnically mixed neighborhoods.
Non-white television journalists are common in Britain and the United States but France's ethnic minorities are less visible in news media, particularly on the two flagship news shows broadcast daily at 8 p.m. and watched by millions.
Harry Roselmack, 33, will fill in for presenter and national celebrity Patrick Poivre d'Arvor for the summer in a move that has been making headlines in France for weeks.
Harry Roselmack
Man With An Opinion
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake insists that nobody will ever see him taking drugs or getting drunk - because he gets high in the privacy of his own home, away from the public eye.
The pop hunk isn't as clean-living as his image portrays and boasts about enjoying a party lifestyle behind closed doors.
Timberlake tells today's edition of Observer Music Monthly, "I don't show up drunk to functions. The drugs I do have been in my own private time.
"I get plastered, I've done my fair share of drugs and I've been caught with my pants down. I just make sure there are no cameras around. I try to live my life in a well-rounded manner.
Justin Timberlake
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'
Nona Gaye
Nona Gaye, daughter of soul singer Marvin Gaye, has joined NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as a no-nonsense assistant district attorney.
She replaces Courtney B. Vance, who played ADA Ron Carver since the NBC series' launch in 2001. He is the first original cast member to depart the crime drama, which stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Noth and Kathryn Erbe.
The show, which will enter its sixth season in the fall, marks the first foray into television for Gaye, whose feature credits include "Crash," "Ali" and "XXX: State of the Union."
Nona Gaye
Splitsville
Electra - Navarro
Former "Baywatch" babe Carmen Electra and her rocker husband Dave Navarro, who once starred in MTV television show "Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen + Dave," have separated, the couple's publicist said on Monday.
"They are amicably separating," said publicist Brit Reece.
He declined to provide further details of the break up.
Electra - Navarro
Joins Carlyle Group
Norman Pearlstine
The Carlyle Group on Monday said Norman Pearlstine, veteran journalist and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc. has joined the private equity firm to advise on media investments.
Pearlstine was selected editor-in-chief of Time Inc., a subsidiary of media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., in 1994. Pearlstine stepped down last year but remained a senior adviser. Pearlstine was 63 years old at the time of the announcement last October of him stepping down.
Pearlstine had also managed the business side of Time Inc. International, as well as the company's online and television operations from 1996 through 1998. Prior to Time, Pearlstine spent 23 years at Dow Jones & Co., including nine years as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Norman Pearlstine
Strip Club Assault Charge Dropped
Eminem
A man who accused Grammy-winning rapper Eminem of assaulting him at a Detroit strip club has dropped the charges, police said on Monday.
The man told Detroit police last week the 33 year-old rapper had punched him in the bathroom of the club in the small hours of the morning on Thursday.
"He said that the suspect had struck him several times," said Detroit Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens Bell, who added that police did not know why the charges had been dropped.
Eminem
Reach Agreement
AP & Fox
The Associated Press and Fox have reached an agreement regarding coverage of the network's news conferences at the Television Critics Association press tour.
Fox had asked journalists to accept handout photos of the news conferences from photographers it had hired. The news cooperative had refused to send print reporters under those conditions, saying that Fox's decision interfered with its ability to fully report the event and also set a bad precedent.
Photographers now will be permitted to cover the first 10 minutes of news conferences at the event in Pasadena, Calif., where networks bring their stars to meet with reporters. As in the past, no photographers will be permitted in sessions where Fox executives address the media.
Fox spokesman Joe Earley said he regretted the matter had become public.
AP & Fox
Separation Explodes In Scandal
Christie Brinkley
The recent separation of Christie Brinkley and her fourth husband, Peter Cook, exploded in scandal Monday when a 19-year-old former employee of Cook's claimed he seduced her with lavish gifts while married to Brinkley.
Brinkley, the 52-year-old supermodel, last week announced through her publicist Elliot Mintz that she and Cook had separated. They married in 1996 and have a daughter.
On Monday, 19-year-old Diana Bianchi emerged in press reports as a central figure in the separation.
Her attorney Joseph Tacopina said Cook hired Bianchi, an aspiring singer, as an assistant in May 2005 after meeting her at a local toy store where she worked. Bianchi quit Cook's firm within a few months because, Tacopina said, she felt uncomfortable.
Christie Brinkley
Giant Nests Perplex Experts
Yellow Jackets
To the bafflement of insect experts, gigantic yellow jacket nests have started turning up in old barns, unoccupied houses, cars and underground cavities across the southern two-thirds of Alabama.
Auburn University entomologists, who say they've never seen the nests so large, have been fielding calls about the huge nests from property owners from Dothan up to Sylacauga and over into west-central Alabama's Black Belt.
Entomologist Dr. Charles Ray at the Alabama Cooperative Extension System in Auburn said he's aware of about 16 of what he described as "super-sized" nests in south Alabama.
In previous years, a yellow jacket nest was no larger than a basketball, Ray said. It would contain about 3,000 workers and one queen. These gigantic nests may have as many as 100,000 workers and multiple queens.
Yellow Jackets
Promotional Eggs
CBS
CBS is enlisting eggs in its scramble to attract viewers. The CBS logo and slogans promoting the TV network and its series will appear along with coded expiration dates on eggs sold by grocers - just another promotional measure in the competitive world of television.
More than 35 million eggs will be marked with phrases such as "CSI: Crack the Case on CBS" and "The Class, New Grade-A CBS Comedy" as part of a deal between the CBS Marketing Group and EggFusion, an egg-coding company.
The campaign will begin in September, when the fall TV season begins, CBS said Saturday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
CBS
Upset Over Loud Music
Australians
It could be magic for some, but the use of loud Barry Manilow music to drive away late-night revelers from a suburban Sydney park is getting on the nerves of nearby residents.
In a move reminiscent of U.S. efforts to drive former Panama strongman Manuel Noriega from the Vatican Embassy where he took refuge in 1989, the local council in Rockdale, in Sydney's southern suburbs, started a six-month trial of high-volume hits by Manilow and Doris Day to chase away car enthusiasts who were gathering on weekend nights at Cook Park Reserve.
"Barry's our secret weapon," Rockdale Deputy Mayor Bill Saravinovski told The Daily Telegraph newspaper, four weeks after the start of the effort. "It seems to be working."
But some people living near the park are less than enthralled. They say the barrage of "Copacabana," "Could It Be Magic" and "Que Sera Sera," blasting from 9 p.m. to midnight every Friday, Saturday and Sunday is driving them crazy.
Australians
Republican Family Values
Josiah Spaulding III
A member of a prominent white family was acquitted Monday of civil rights violations in an attack on two black girls at a downtown subway station but found guilty of assault.
Josiah Spaulding III, whose grandfather founded Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and headed the state Republican Party, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Spaulding, 26, was among a group of nine people who argued with three black teenagers inside the subway station.
Prosecutors had described Spaulding as a "skinhead" and said they found Nazi paraphernalia and white supremacist literature in a locker he rented.
Josiah Spaulding III
In Memory
Dorothy Clark Blackmun
Dorothy Clark Blackmun, whose late husband wrote the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, died Thursday. She was 95.
Her husband, Harry Blackmun, served on the high court from 1970-94 and authored the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling.
The decision prompted death threats, and in 1985 a gunman fired a bullet into the Blackmuns' suburban Arlington, Va. apartment. They were home at the time but not injured.
President Nixon elevated Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court in 1970. When he retired at age 85 he was the court's most liberal member. He died in 1999 from complications following a hip replacement surgery.
Dorothy Clark Blackmun
In Memory
Carrie Nye
Carrie Nye, an actress who was married to television host Dick Cavett and was a regular presence on the stages of the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival, died Friday. She was 69.
She made her Broadway debut in 1960 in "A Second String," an adaptation of a novel by Colette, and went on to earn a Tony nomination five years later by playing a society lady in the Broadway musical "Half a Sixpence."
Nye appeared in numerous other Broadway productions, including "A Very Rich Woman" by Ruth Gordon," and a 1980 revival of "The Man Who Came to Dinner." She also performed off-Broadway in Michael Cacoyannis' production of "The Trojan Women" in 1963 and Tom Stoppard's "Real Inspector Hound" in 1972.
But Nye spent much of her career at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in northern Massachusetts, appearing in 24 of its productions over 31 years.
Carrie Nye
In Memory
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88.
After starting out in comic books Spillane wrote his first Mike Hammer novel, "I, the Jury," in 1946. Twelve more followed, with sales topping 100 million. Notable titles included "The Killing Man," "The Girl Hunters" and "One Lonely Night."
Many of these books were made into movies, including the classic film noir "Kiss Me, Deadly" and "The Girl Hunters," in which Spillane himself starred. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" and in made-for-TV movies. In the 1980s, Spillane appeared in a string of Miller Lite beer commercials.
Spillane was born Frank Morrison Spillane on March 9, 1918, in the New York borough of Brooklyn. He grew up in Elizabeth, N.J., and attended Fort Hayes State College in Kansas where he was a standout swimmer before beginning his career writing for magazines.
The writer, who became a Jehovah's Witness in 1951 and helped build the group's Kingdom Hall in Murrells Inlet, spent his time boating and fishing when he wasn't writing. In the 1950s, he also worked as a circus performer, allowing himself to be shot out of a cannon and appearing in the circus film "Ring of Fear."
Married three times, Spillane was the father of four children.
Mickey Spillane
In Memory
Sam Myers
Musician Sam Myers, best-known as a blues singer and harmonica player, died Monday of throat cancer at home, according to his sister, Eula Jones. He was 70.
He was diagnosed with cancer in February 2005, and had been unable to perform with his band, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, since December 2004.
He was a drummer with blues great Elmore James from 1952 to 1963 and had performed with countless others.
In 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, "Sleeping In The Ground," a song that has been performed by Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and others.
From the early 1960s until 1986, Myers worked in Mississippi clubs. In 1986, he met Funderburgh and joined The Rockets. Their last album was 2003's "Which Way is Texas?"
Sam Myers
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