BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 30 July, 2013

Tuesday

30 July, 2013

(Updated Daily)

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Ted Rall: Why Does the Military Treat Soldiers Like Children?"
Why Doesn't the Pentagon Let Its Employees Be All They Can Be?


Henry Rollins: Trayvon Martin Did Not Need to Die (LA Weekly)
I think all concerned should stop patronizing fast-food chains. They should stop drinking alcohol and smoking anything. In fact, they should ingest nothing stronger than a cup of coffee and two aspirin. They should leave all the toxic crap for Whitey America to choke on. They should obey the law with annoying exactitude. They should all get picture IDs and register to vote. They should become the healthiest, most civically astute, morally commendable and impossible-to-arrest citizens America has. They should fuck up and destroy the prison-industrial complex.


Oliver Burkeman: "This column will change your life: why do we undervalue what we're good at?" (Guardian)
… Rothbard's Law: "People tend to specialise in what they're worst at." He was thinking of his fellow academics: "[Milton] Friedman is great except on money, so he concentrates on that," he once said.


Ask a grown-up: why can't we put our nuclear waste into a rocket and fire it into the sun? (Guardian)
Minister of state for energy Michael Fallon answers nine-year-old Kit's question.


Daniel Politi: New Zealand to South African Chef: You're Too Fat to Live in This Country (Slate)
New Zealand isn't letting a South African chef renew his visa because he's too fat. Albert Buitenhuis and his wife, Marthie, moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, six years ago and their annual work visas were always renewed with "very little problem," Marthie Buitenhuis tells local newspaper the Press. But this year, immigration officials said Buitenhuis did not have "an acceptable standard of health" and said he could place a strain in the country's health services.


What to do if you win the lottery (and even if you don't) (Vanguard)
Let's start by stating the obvious: You probably didn't win the $500 million Powerball jackpot. In fact, you're probably not going to win any lottery, ever. (Sorry.) But what if you did? Or-much more realistically-what would you do with a bigger-than-expected year-end bonus, tax refund, or inheritance? If you're the beneficiary of a significant financial windfall, you should start by asking yourself three simple questions: …


Handsworth mum sparks cocaine smuggling alert shipping washing powder to Jamaica (Birmingham Mail)
She said: ''How stupid can you be? Hasn't anyone told them you don't smuggle drugs into Jamaica, you smuggle drugs out of Jamaica?"


Spike Lee: Essential List of Films for Filmmakers (Kickstarter)
I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films.


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I'm Not a Smart Man.



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Trivia Question of the Day


Nancy and Ronald Reagan were Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobic. What were they afraid of?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Because this play is said to be cursed, actors avoid saying its name, using the euphemism "The Scottish Play" instead. Outside the theater-world, what is the title of this work?


      Macbeth                                                      Source


Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead). Actors also avoid even quoting the lines from Macbeth before a performance, particularly the Witches' incantations. Outside a theatre and after a performance the play can be spoken of openly.        Source






Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Macbeth



Charlie wrote:
   Macbeth

      If you can look into the seeds of time,
      And say which grain will grow and which will not,
      Speak then to me,
  Act I, Scene III




Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
   Macbeth



Marian replied:
   Macbeth



Adam answered:
   MacBeth



Sally said:
   Because Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth" is said to be cursed, actors avoid saying its name, using the euphemism, "The Scottish Play" instead.

  Stacy Ross and Jud Williford as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in California Shakespeare Theater's new staging of, "Macbeth" Photo: Kevin Berne
  PS: I don't know about anyone else, but I have never cared for anything by William Shakespeare (original dialogue). I find it a mixture of unintelligible speak and pretentious nonsense. I have a friend who, with her husband, travels all around the country to various, "Shakespeare Festivals," and raves about them afterwards...
  I read her posts and think to myself, "Whatever..."




Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
   Shakespeare's Macbeth. Some say that Shakespeare wrote the play to get on King James I's good side. He not only set the play in Scotland, but also incorporated the King's interests in demonology with the incanting Weird Sisters. It's also said that Shakespeare took spells directly from a black magic book and their use is what caused the curse. To avoid the curse, actors refrain from saying the name of the play inside a theatre. Instead, they refer to it as "The Scottish Play, "MacBee", "Mackers", or simply "That Play". When referring to the characters, they become "Mr and Mrs M", or "The Scottish King". If the name is spoken inside the theatre, the actor must leave the building, spin around three times, spit, curse, and knock on the door to be let back in. Another supposed counteraction is to quote lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet.





MAM   wrote:
   Macbeth




Randall responded:
   Would that be "Macbeth"?



BttbBob   answered:
   "Wild Azz Guess" Moment (© pending) - "Macbeth"... The 'Scottish' thing is a 'dead' give-away...

  Cursed? Now, I'm wonderin' why they would think so...
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  Happy Birthday this day to:

Jaime Pressley
  (35) Karma made this woman seriously crack me up beyond measure...

Lisa Kudrow
  (49) She might have played 'Ditzy' roles, but I've thought she was a fox...

Laurence Fishburne
  (51) A seriously talented actor, and that's a fact...

Edd Byrnes
  (79) The hunk that made his comb famous...

Delta Burke
  (56) A real life 'Beauty Queen' who played one on TV. She was very amusing and entertaining and "Suzanne Sugerbaker" was a perfect name for her...

Paul Anka
  (71) [ Paul Anka - Diana - Live - YouTube ] A fun video! He walks down through the audience from the back as he sings to a very enthusiastic and clapping response. Lots of energy. They loved him...

      Buddy Guy (76) Hoo-ha, B.B. King gots nuthin' on this dude, I'm tellin' ya... I've been listenin' to him for years... Ya want "Da Blues"? Just listen! [ Buddy Guy - Damn Right I Got The Blues - David Letterman 1-16-13 - YouTube ]   |   [ Buddy Guy featuring Jeff Beck - Mustang Sally HQ - YouTube ]   |   [ "Sweet Home Chicago" (Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin & Jimmie Vaughan) - YouTube ]   |   These videos get down, and tha's a fact, Jack!
      Brad Hargreaves (40) Drummer for Frisco's "Third Eye Blind" [ Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (HQ) [Official] - YouTube ]
  According to lead singer Stephan Jenkins, this song was meant as a response to Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" but from a '90's San Francisco perspective. It was controversial and the lyrics "Using Crystal Meth" was bleeped out by many radio stations. A high energy rocking 'Hip-hop' tune...

  Born this day:
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  July 30 Birthdays - Celebrities Born July 30 | Famous Birthdays




And, Joe S     said:
   Poem
      Around the Scottish Play, superstition rings
      Saying Macbeth, disaster brings.

  (Okay, I admit, it's a stretch)



  



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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Daily Kos: GunFAIL XXVIII



Next Generation Science Standards In Kentucky Draw Hostility From Religious Groups



Charlie Rose Will Appear In 'Breaking Bad's' Penultimate Episode



6 Lessons Disney Could Learn From Pakistan's 'Burka Avenger'



Cumulus Dropping Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity: Report



Karl: Glenn Beck's Nazi exhibit | The Salt Lake Tribune




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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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The Anthony Weiner Song

The Agreeables

They say every good action hero needs a theme song (even if he's just getting virtual action); so indie rock SuperHeroes The Agreeables have written one especially for America's favorite mayoral candidate.

The Anthony Weiner Song by The Agreeables. Live from Velvet Jones in Santa Barbara, CA July 27, 2013

Enjoy!

Seth


Thanks, Seth!


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


BYE, BYE PIGBOY! BYE, BYE HAND JOB!

AND THE JESUS FREAK CATHOLICS WENT CRAZY!

"THE FARMER IN THE HELL, THE FARMER IN THE HELL..."

PLAYING DEAD FOR THE DURATION!

THE "FRATPAC" DEFENDS IT'S RIGHT TO MURDER!

PIGBOY'S PIMPS GET BUSTED!

THE "MASTERS" EDUCATE THE "SLAVES."

THE SLOPPY "SECOND"!

AMERICAN GULAG

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Still in the May-Gray/June-Gloom side of things.



Tonight, Tuesday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'NCIS', followed by a RERUN 'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN 'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Bryan Cranston, Amanda Seyfried, and Michael Franti & Spearhead.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Henry Winkler and Valerie Azlynn.



NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH 'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Gad.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Dan Aykroyd, Paula Patton, Brad Paisley, and Booker T. Jones.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/21/13) are Adam DeVine, James Gulliver Hancock, Milo Greene.



ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Extreme Weight Loss', then a RERUN 'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Larry David, Naya Rivera, and Backstreet Boys.



The CW offers a FRESH 'Whose Line Is It Anyway', followed by another FRESH 'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH 'Capture'.



Faux fills the night with a FRESH 'So You Think You Can Dance'.



MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.



A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH 'Storage Wars New York', then another FRESH 'Storage Wars New York', followed by a FRESH 'Shipping Wars', and another 'Shipping Wars'.



AMC offers 'Lonesome Dove', followed by another 'Lonesome Dove'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 17
 [8:40AM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 18
 [10:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 9 - Force of Nature
 [11:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 10 - Inheritance
 [12:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 11 - Parallels
 [1:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
 [2:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
 [3:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
 [4:00PM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 17
 [4:40PM]    MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 18
 [6:00PM]    WILLIAM AT 30
 [7:00PM]    WILLIAM AND KATE: A FAIRYTALE WEDDING
 [8:00PM]    ROYAL BABIES
 [9:00PM]    BORN TO ROYALTY
 [10:30PM]    WILLIAM AND KATE: THE FIRST YEAR
 [11:00PM]    ROYAL BABIES
 [12:00AM]    BORN TO ROYALTY
 [1:30AM]    WILLIAM AND KATE: THE FIRST YEAR
 [2:00AM]    WILLIAM AT 30
 [3:00AM]    WILLIAM AND KATE: A FAIRYTALE WEDDING
 [4:00AM]    BORN TO ROYALTY
 [5:30AM]    WILLIAM AND KATE: THE FIRST YEAR    (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH 'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', then a FRESH 'Property Envy', and another 'Property Envy'.



Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH 'Drunk History', then a FRESH 'The Jeselnik Offensive'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Tim Gunn.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Atul Gawande.



FX has the movie 'Avatar', followed by the movie 'True Grit', then the movie 'True Grit', again.



History has 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH 'Counting Cars', then another FRESH 'Counting Cars', 'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Mystic River
 [9:00AM]    Stop-Loss
 [11:30AM]    Escape From Alcatraz
 [2:00PM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Anna Kendrick Wears a Patterned Blouse & Burgundy Pants
 [2:30PM]    Stop-Loss
 [5:00PM]    Mystic River
 [8:00PM]    Scarface
 [11:45PM]    Scarface
 [3:30AM]    Paradise Road    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Top of the Lake-Episode 7
 [7:00AM]    A Town Called Panic
 [8:15AM]    The Man With Two Brains
 [9:45AM]    Runaway Train
 [11:45AM]    A'mare
 [12:00PM]    Strange Brew
 [1:30PM]    The Dirty Dozen
 [4:15PM]    Money Train
 [6:00PM]    Runaway Train
 [8:00PM]    Schindler's List
 [11:30PM]    A Mighty Heart
 [1:15AM]    Sleeping Beauty
 [3:00AM]    Runaway Train
 [5:00AM]    Top of the Lake-Episode 7    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has all 'Face Off' all night.



TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Neil Patrick Harris, Shailene Woodley, and Dan St. Germain.



TCM spends the night with Paul Henreid
 [6:00 AM]      Anchors Aweigh (1945)
 [8:30 AM]      Rancho Notorious (1952)
 [10:00 AM]      The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      Scaramouche (1952)
 [2:00 PM]      The Pirate (1948)
 [3:45 PM]      Silk Stockings (1957)
 [5:45 PM]      Lust For Life (1956)
 [8:00 PM]      The Conspirators (1944)
 [10:00 PM]      Casablanca (1942)
 [12:00 AM]      Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
 [2:00 AM]      Operation Crossbow (1965)
 [4:00 AM]      Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
    (ALL TIMES EST)



Wednesday   -  07/31/13

TCM features the films of director Douglas Sirk all night.
 [6:00 AM]      The Merry Wives Of Reno (1934)
 [7:15 AM]      Reno (1940)
 [8:45 AM]      Peach-O-Reno (1932)
 [10:00 AM]      Vacation in Reno (1946)
 [11:15 AM]      The Women (1939)
 [1:45 PM]      Next Time I Marry (1938)
 [3:00 PM]      Maisie Goes To Reno (1944)
 [4:30 PM]      5 Against the House (1955)
 [6:00 PM]      Born to Kill (1947)
 [8:00 PM]      Magnificent Obsession (1954)
 [10:00 PM]      Imitation Of Life (1959)
 [12:15 AM]      There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
 [2:00 AM]      Written On The Wind (1957)
 [4:00 AM]      Shockproof (1949)

 [5:30 AM]      MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    (ALL TIMES EST)



TNT has a FRESH 'Rizzoli & Isles', followed by a FRESH 'Perception'.



USA has a FRESH 'Covert Affairs', followed by a FRESH 'Suits'.




Antenna TV

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Cozi TV

MOVIES! TV Network

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV





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From left, actors Sarah Michelle Gellar and Robin Williams participate in the "The Crazy Ones" panel at the 2013 CBS Summer TCA Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta

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Fox Targets $1 Billion For Syndication

'The Simpsons'

Twentieth Television, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, plans to market reruns of the Fox network's long-running animated comedy "The Simpsons" and is targeting a package of up to $1 billion, a person with knowledge of the plans said on Monday.

The studio first syndicated the show featuring Bart and Homer Simpson to TV stations in 1998. The new deal would license reruns to stations and cable channels at the same time, the person said.

Entering its 25th season, "The Simpsons" has 530 episodes, a number that will grow when its new license agreement starts. The show's creator Matt Groening would share in the proceeds.

The company's fx cable channel is expected to have first claim to the show. Other potential buyers are Viacom, whose cable properties include Comedy Central and Nick at Nite, and Turner Broadcasting.

'The Simpsons'

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Former President Bill Clinton, left, speaks with Ashton Kutcher and Michael Kutcher at the Starkey Foundation's 2013 "So the World May Hear" Awards Gala, on Sunday, July 28, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The foundation conducts dozens of hearing missions every year in the U.S. and around the world to fit and give away more than 100,000 hearing aids annually.
Photo by Diane Bondareff

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CBS Renews

'Under the Dome'

"Under the Dome," the television science-fiction series based on a Stephen King novel, has been renewed for a second season, U.S. broadcast network CBS said on Monday.

The series, which chronicles the life of a small town that is cut off from the outside world by a giant impenetrable dome, has attracted an average of about 12 million viewers per episode, making it the top scripted series of the summer in the United States.

King, whose novel of the same name was published in 2009, will write the first of 13 episodes for the second season, which will premiere next summer, CBS Corp Chief Executive Leslie Moonves told reporters at a Television Critics Association meeting.

Moonves rejected a suggestion from a reporter that viewers might get frustrated with the continuation of the series that was initially written to wrap up at the end of its summer run.

"Why can't they be under the dome for a long period of time?" he said. "This is television. This is science fiction. They're up on some planet somewhere for many years. 'Under the Dome,' in a lot of ways, is a soap opera."

'Under the Dome'

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Ban Going Global

Russian Vodka

What started out as Dan Savage's pledge against consuming Russian vodka is now a movement that has gay bars all around the world, from Vancouver to London, dumping Russian vodka to show their displeasure with the country's treatment of gay people-even in the face of one of Russia's prominent LGBT activists saying the whole thing is pointless.

When we last we checked in with Savage's plea for gay people to stop drinking Russian vodka to protest the Kremlin's aggressive anti-gay laws, a couple of gay bars in Chicago had joined in the boycott. Since then, more and more bars around the world have joined in: London's world-famous Heaven nightclub, along with several others venues in the British capital, aren't serving Russian booze; a bevy of Vancouver bars have followed suit, as have venues in Sydney, West Hollywood, New York City and San Francisco.

The ban is part of a growing movement to check Russia's increasingly homophobic political milieu. In a sharply-worded editorial over the weekend title "Mr. Putin's War on Gays," The New Times editorial board wrote:

For some time, antigay sentiment has been spreading in Russia's conservative society, encouraged by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. But Mr. Putin and his government have taken that to a new level by legitimizing the hatemongering in legislation.

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South African President Jacob Zuma, left, meets South African actress Charlize Theron, right, at his Union Building office in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, 29 July 2013, ahead of their meeting, to discuss the fight against HIV and Aids, and "how collaboration can assist mitigate the pandemic's negative impact on young girls".
Photo by Themba Hadebe

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Baby News

Baby Boy Bell

Evan Rachel Wood is a mom.

Her representative said Monday that she gave birth to a baby boy. The 25-year-old actress married British actor Jamie Bell last year.

The rep adds that "parents and baby are all doing well." No more details were provided.

Wood's credits include "The Wrestler," ''Thirteen" and HBO's "True Blood." She earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her supporting role in "Mildred Pierce."

Bell, 27, is best known for his roles in the films "Billy Elliot," ''Jumper" and "The Adventures of Tintin."

Baby Boy Bell

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Charged With Fraud

'Real Housewives of NJ'

Two stars of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" were indicted Monday on federal fraud charges, accused of exaggerating their income while applying for loans before their TV show debuted in 2009, then hiding their improving fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired.

Teresa Giudice, 41, and her husband Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, 43, of Montville Township, were charged in a 39-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.

The couple submitted fraudulent mortgage and other loan applications from 2001 through 2008, a year before their show debuted on Bravo, making phony claims about their employment status and salaries, the indictment said.

Prosecutors allege the Giudices received about $4.6 million in mortgages, withdrawals from home equity lines of credit and construction loans. In some instances the couple filed fake W-2s and tax returns.

'Real Housewives of NJ'

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This Friday, July 26, 2013 photo taken and released by Peter Jackson, actor Ian Murray McKellen, right, as Gandalf poses with Jackson on the final day of filming of The Hobbit in Wellington, New Zealand. Jackson has wrapped up filming "The Hobbit" trilogy and shared pictures of his last day on the set with his Facebook fans. The New Zealand filmmaker provided a steady stream of updates and photos from the set of the final film, "The Hobbit: There And Back Again," on Friday, July 26. The second film, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," will be released in December, and the finale appears in 2014.
Photo by Peter Jackson

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Not A Political Problem-Yet

Climate Denial

Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas is not, as Politico would have you believe, a "climate skeptic." Nor is Dana Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California. They are climate change deniers - of the sort that a recent poll suggests may be harming the Republican Party with younger voters. For now, though, it doesn't matter. Far from suggesting a problem for the party's energy policies, denialism is trapped in a chicken-egg paradox with calls for additional fossil fuel extraction.

Politico's overly gentle article on climate "skeptics" is predicated on that non-existent political problem: Will the party's opposition to climate change make the party's energy strategy more difficult? Will the arguments of Barton (the Great Flood was climate change) and Rohrabacher (there was bad weather a century ago, too) make the Republican argument on energy a tough sell? Part of the Republican House leadership's plan for the August recess is to bring the party's energy message - more oil drilling, essentially - to congressional districts. Will denial of the scientific reality of climate change make that trickier?

Not with young people. Last week, a survey conducted for an environmental group by two polling firms - a Republican firm and the pollster that did both of Obama's campaigns - discovered that young people are already hostile to that message. The Guardian reported on the results.

The implications were even more harsh for those Republicans who block Obama on climate action and dispute the entire body of science behind climate change. "For voters under 35, denying climate change signals a much broader failure of values and leadership," the polling memo said. Many young voters would write such candidates off completely, with 37% describing climate change deniers as "ignorant", 29% as "out of touch" and 7% simply as "crazy".

The League of Conservation Voters, which commissioned the poll, offers a more full set of data, albeit one that excludes the specific questions asked.

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Profits Über Alles

GOP

Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold "failing" schools accountable. But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade, Bennett's education team frantically overhauled his signature "A-F" school grading system to improve the school's marks.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an "A," despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a "C."

"They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work," Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12 email to then-chief of staff Heather Neal, who is now Gov. Mike Pence's chief lobbyist.

The emails, which also show Bennett discussed with staff the legality of changing just DeHaan's grade, raise unsettling questions about the validity of a grading system that has broad implications. Indiana uses the A-F grades to determine which schools get taken over by the state and whether students seeking state-funded vouchers to attend private school need to first spend a year in public school. They also help determine how much state funding schools receive.

Bennett, who now is reworking Florida's grading system as that state's education commissioner, reviewed the emails Monday morning and denied that DeHaan's school received special treatment. He said discovering that the charter would receive a low grade raised broader concerns with grades for other "combined" schools - those that included multiple grade levels - across the state.

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From left, executive producer/creator Greg Garcia and actor Beau Bridges participate in CBS's "The Millers" panel at the 2013 CBS Summer TCA Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta

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Broadway Scam

'Rebecca'

In a case prosecutors called "stranger than fiction," a former New York businessman pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding the producers of Broadway production "Rebecca - The Musical" by creating an elaborate scheme involving fake overseas investors.

Mark Hotton, 46, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and agreed to forfeit $500,000 and to pay an additional $500,000 to the victims of his schemes.

The guilty plea included a second scheme in which he sought to defraud a Connecticut-based real estate company.

Hotton faces 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 1 by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan.

'Rebecca'

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Painting Draws $5.6M

Frederic Remington

A Frederic Remington painting depicting U.S. Cavalry soldiers has fetched $5.6 million, and a Norman Rockwell painting featuring a Boy Scout and two American presidents has drawn $4.2 million at auction in Reno, organizers said Sunday.

Mike Overby of the annual Coeur d'Alene Art Auction said Remington's "Cutting Out Pony Herds" and Rockwell's "A Scout is Loyal" were sold to private collectors on Saturday.

Remington's painting features a soldier charging across the plains on horseback with the rest of the Cavalry and a herd of rider-less horses following behind. The painting was done in 1908, a year before he died.

Rockwell's 1940 painting has a patriotic theme with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln standing behind a Boy Scout. Rockwell was known for his work for the Boy Scouts of America, producing covers for its magazine and calendars.

Frederic Remington

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Actor Tony Shalhoub participates in CBS's "We Are Men" panel at the 2013 CBS Summer TCA Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta

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Beer Can House

Houston

A child of the Great Depression, John Milkovisch didn't throw anything away - not even the empty cans of beer he enjoyed each afternoon with his wife.

So, in the early 1970s when aluminum siding on houses was all the rage, he lugged down the cans he had stored in his attic for years, painstakingly cut open and flattened each one and began to wallpaper his home.

Milkovisch passed away in the mid-1980s, but his wife, Mary, still lived there. Her sons would do work from time to time, replacing rusty steel cans with new ones and restoring a hurricane-destroyed beer wall. And when they feared for her safety because of the gawkers, they put up a privacy fence, embedding beer cans in that as well.

Determined to preserve this accidental piece of folk art, local nonprofit Orange Show Center for Visionary Art bought the property about 10 years ago, began a careful restoration of the house and opened it to the public.

Milkovisch began redecorating the home's exterior in earnest in 1968, when he purchased a metal canopy for his backyard so he and his wife could have some shade while drinking their afternoon beers. Fed up with lawn-mowing, he began installing concrete blocks throughout the yard, embedding them with marbles he had collected as a boy.

Houston

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Scientists Find Mystery Coffin

Richard III

A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed an unusual coffin-within-a-coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III, and that they hope to identify the remains within.

The team said it had discovered a fully intact medieval stone coffin during a dig in September but wasn't able to investigate it further at the time. When it was opened this week, the team said, it found a lead coffin within it, one likely to contain a "high status" individual.

Scientists think the lead coffin - which has a hole through which the deceased's feet can be seen - could contain one of the friary's founders, a medieval monk, or the remains of a 14th-century medieval knight, Sir William Moton.

The archaeologists say that tests must be carried out to determine how to open the lead coffin without damaging the remains.

The University of Leicester's Matthew Morris said no one on the team had ever seen a lead coffin within a stone coffin before.

Richard III

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A baby parrot is fed after it was caught and preserved by local hunters. Parrots, are among the most intelligent birds, and the ability of some species to imitate human voices enhances their popularity as pets.
Photo by Caisii Mao

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