zEN mAN (observing the remarkable similarity between two Hollywood actors and their Trophy Wives (TW's) the trouble is, one pair might become the Prsident and First Lady.....what do they have in common???? check out Fred's almost first Trophy wife....Lorrie Morgan)
Beth Quinn: A practice run at turning into a Fox opinionator (recordonline.com)
When it was announced last week that Rupert Murdoch will acquire this newspaper along with the Wall Street Journal, I heard from a dozen readers who worry that the Record will go conservative. They fear our liberal columnists (me!) will be stifled or fired.
PAUL KRUGMAN: A Test for Democrats (The New York Times)
It's been a good Democrats, bad Democrats kind of week. The bill expanding children's health insurance that just passed in the House makes you want to stand up and cheer. Reports that Senator Charles Schumer opposes plans to close the hedge fund tax loophole make you want to sit down and cry.
Killer instinct (guardian.co.uk)
Paul Greengrass used to make political TV dramas. Now he's directing The Bourne Ultimatum - this summer's biggest action movie. He talks to John Patterson about Matt Damon, paranoia and how he found the formula for the perfect modern thriller.
Monte Williams: By the Power of Softcore (popmatters.com)
When Porky's was released in 1982, I knew nothing of the film's notoriety, nor its considerable cultural impact on the repressive Reagan era. I just knew that Dad wouldn't let me watch it, and that apparently some guy stuck his penis into a hole in the wall at some point. Or hell, maybe that was Dad; I was only five, and my memories from that time period are a bit hazy and jumbled.
CBS begins the night with the SERIES PREMIERE'Power Of 10', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 8', then a RERUN'NCIS'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/16/07) are Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonah Hill, and Michele Lauziere.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Ben Stein, Megyn Price, and Rodney Laney.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Singing Bee', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Cuba Gooding Jr., Zac Efron, and John McLaughlin.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Glenn Close, Michael Cera, and Modest Mouse.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Emma Stone and Avril Lavigne.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Just For Laughs', followed by a FRESH'Just For Laughs', then a FRESH'Primetime: Crime', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'I-Caught'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Fred Savage, and Eldar.
The CW offers a RERUN'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Geek'.
Faux has a FRESH'On The Lot', followed by a RERUN'House'.
MY fills the night with movie 'The Perez Family'.
A&E has 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', yet another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', followed by a FRESH'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Criss Angel', and another 'Criss Angel'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Daily Cooks! - Episode 20;
[12:30 PM] Rick Stein's Food Heroes - Episode 11;
[1:00 PM] Great British Menu - Episode 6;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 10;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[4:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - TBA;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 19;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 1;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 2 Pain In The Class;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep. 3 Droit De Seigneur Ben;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8;
[8:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 3 Spiders;
[9:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 4 Blood and Money;
[10:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 1 The Man With Two Legs;
[10:40 PM] The World Stands Up - Episode 7;
[11:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 3 Spiders;
[12:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 4 Blood and Money;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 1 The Man With Two Legs;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 7;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 11;
[3:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 47;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.16 Germany;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Wespoint 14;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Wetherby 5;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 15 Johnson;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 16 McCann;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Singing Bee', another 'Singing Bee', 'Top Chef', 'Flipping Out', and another 'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show''South Park', and 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Andy Samberg.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Ian Bogost.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by a FRESH'Damages'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe', and 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[07:05 AM] The Henry Rollins Show #316: Russell Simmons/The Good, the Bad and The Queen;
[07:35 AM] Bright Young Things;
[09:30 AM] This So-Called Disaster;
[11:05 AM] Quitting;
[01:00 PM] Bright Young Things;
[02:50 PM] Media Lab Results;
[03:00 PM] This So-Called Disaster;
[04:30 PM] Quitting;
[06:30 PM] The Dancer Upstairs;
[08:45 PM] IFC News Special;
[09:00 PM] The Final Cut;
[10:40 PM] The Princess and the Warrior;
[01:00 AM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[02:45 AM] The Final Cut;
[04:25 AM] The Princess and the Warrior. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Tru Calling', another 'Tru Calling', followed by a FRESH'Eureka', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] It's All Gone Pete Tong;
[06:00 AM] Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man;
[07:00 AM] It's All About Love;
[09:00 AM] The Lady in Question is Charles Busch;
[11:00 AM] Music Rising;
[11:00 AM] Biloxi Blues;
[01:00 PM] Gettin' Square;
[03:00 PM] It's All About Love;
[05:00 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[06:00 PM] Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews;
[07:00 PM] Biloxi Blues;
[09:00 PM] Episode 4;
[09:00 PM] Blue Vinyl;
[11:00 PM] Ek Velt: At the End of the World;
[11:00 PM] Episode 4;
[12:00 AM] Half Nelson;
[02:00 AM] Six Shooter;
[02:00 AM] Episode 3: Fatal Attraction;
[03:00 AM] Episode 5;
[04:00 AM] Thursday;
[05:00 AM] The Lady in Question is Charles Busch. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer (2nd R) and husband David E. Kelley (L) pose with their children, son John (L) and daughter Claudia after Pfeiffer's star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during ceremonies in Hollywood, California, August 6, 2007. Pfeiffer adopted daughter Claudia before her marriage to writer David E. Kelley.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Sean Penn has experienced backlash for talking openly about his political beliefs, but sees such discussion as more respectable than promoting movies.
"There's baggage attached to coming out publicly on stuff, but there's baggage - in my view, more damaging baggage - to goin' and (appearing) ... on Jay Leno's show, philosophizing about `Uncle Buck' or whatever you're hawkin'," the Oscar-winning actor tells Esquire magazine in its September issue, on newsstands Wednesday.
Penn, 46, has bitterly criticized resident Bush, toured Iraq to observe the war there and helped rescue workers with door-to-door searches for survivors after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans.
"The exemption they make for actors - because you occupy the position they only dreamed about as a child, you can't be an American too," he says. "You don't get both, because that's just too much."
French impressionist Claude Monet's 'Cliffs near Dieppe', completed in 1897, was one of four paintings stolen by thieves from Nice's Cheret Museum August 5, 2007. Masked thieves marched into Nice's Cheret Museum, forced staff to lie on the ground and took four paintings by impressionists Monet and Sisley, and Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder.
U.S. actress Mia Farrow has offered her freedom in exchange for that of a respected Darfur rebel figure, virtually imprisoned for more than 13 months, in a letter to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) Humanitarian Coordinator Suleiman Jamous has been confined to a U.N. hospital in Kordofan, neighboring Darfur, since the United Nations moved him there without permission last year.
"Before his seizure, Mr. Jamous played a crucial role in bringing the SLA to the negotiating table and in seeking reconciliation between its divided rival factions," Farrow said in the letter dated August 5.
"I am therefore offering to take Mr. Jamous's place, to exchange my freedom for his in the knowledge of his importance to the civilians of Darfur and in the conviction that he will apply his energies toward creating the just and lasting peace that the Sudanese people deserve and hope for."
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has confirmed that he did snort his father's ashes, as he told NME.com earlier this year.
Richards, who last weekend claimed he would live to the age of 150, revealed that although he did snort his father, he did not mix his ashes with cocaine, as his previous NME.com quote implied.
"The cocaine bit was rubbish," he said. "I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with.
"I pulled the lid off [my father's urn] and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table," Richards continued. "I'm going, 'I can't use the brush and dustpan for this.
R&B singer Usher married his pregnant girlfriend in a small, private ceremony in his lawyer's office on Friday, just six days after canceling a lavish, star-studded wedding, according to reports on Monday.
The couple were to have been married on July 28 at a glitzy ceremony on Long Island, New York, but the wedding was canceled that day with no reason given.
Us Weekly magazine's Web site reported that Usher, 28, whose full name is Usher Raymond, and stylist Tameka Foster exchanged vows on Friday in his lawyer's office in their home state of Georgia.
The marriage came after speculation that the couple had called the wedding off because of arguments involving everything from the wedding plans to the fact that Usher's mother and former manager, Jonetta Patton, didn't approve of Foster.
A girl releases sea turtles back to the wild in Cardenas, Nicaragua, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. Animal rights activists and Zoo officials freed 143 birds, tortoises and monkeys confiscated by authorities from street vendors in Managua.
Photo by Esteban Felix
Thelonious Monk, whose North Carolina roots were evident in his music and his accent long after he moved to New York, will be the focus of an 18-event tribute at Duke University.
"Following Monk" opens in Durham on Sept. 15 with the Kronos Quartet performing music commissioned by the festival, including three world premiere arrangements of "Round Midnight." The tribute ends Oct. 28 with a solo piano performance by Barry Harris, who lived in the same apartment with Monk during his final years. The jazz genius died at age 64 in 1982.
In between, the Following Monk Institute will offer guided tours of Monk's birthplace in Rocky Mount, and the plantation in Newton Grove where his ancestors were slaves and where his relatives still live.
A lawyer for Chris Rock said Monday that a court-ordered DNA test proved Rock is not the father of a 13-year-old boy whose mother tried to sue the comedian for support earlier this year.
Rock's attorney, John Mayoue of Atlanta, said a Bulloch County judge sent results of the paternity test to lawyers on both sides of the case.
Rock and his wife, Malaak, said in a statement Monday they were happy to put the case to rest. They accused Bowyer of telling "multiple lies" to sell her story to tabloids.
"We also express our deepest prayers for the welfare of Ms. Bowyer's son who has continually been embarrassed and exposed in the media by his mother," Rock's statement said.
A Purple Heart medal is shown mowed into a lawn in Thomas Bull Memorial Park on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007, in Hamptonburgh, N.Y. The replica medal, created by Roger Baker, occupies an area of 850,000 square feet and measures more than 1,000 feet long.
Photo by Daniel Morel
A literary mystery appeared to be solved this year when a long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's novel "The Good Earth" surfaced in a sale tied to a former secretary's family.
The auction house involved called the FBI, and U.S. officials proudly gave the typed manuscript to Buck's heirs, her seven adopted children. But at least two foundations with links to the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner, who died in 1973, now hope to share in the discovery.
And a legal brawl could be on tap after one of them - a board of mostly elderly women that runs Buck's birthplace in West Virginia - stepped forward in recent days to lay claim to the valuable papers.
The board charges that Buck left all of her manuscripts to the birthplace in a 1970 legal document.
Pedro Martinez lifts bricks of marmol marble as he competes in the 13th Moorish Games of Aben Humeya in Purchena, southeast Spain late August 5, 2007. The games is a competition of medieval sports and exotic dancing.
Photo by Francisco Bonilla
NBC has renewed its summer reality competition series "America's Got Talent" and "Last Comic Standing."
"Talent" will return for a third season next summer, while "Comic" will be back for its sixth.
The news follows a recent announcement by Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, that another summer reality series, "The Singing Bee," would be given a spot on the schedule in the fall, starting September 25. It originally had been targeted to return later in the season.
Petr Kuchar jumps on his motorcycle during a freestyle motocross show at the Hip Hop Jam Open Air Festival in Mimon August 4, 2007.
Photo by David W Cerny
A group of music publishing companies said Monday it is joining a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s video-sharing site YouTube.
The National Music Publishers' Association said it was joining the lawsuit out of concern that many songwriters weren't receiving proper compensation when their music appeared on YouTube videos.
The lawsuit also includes as plaintiffs The Football Association Premier League and Viacom Inc., a media company that owns MTV, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.
The plaintiffs say YouTube is breaking the law by hosting video clips that they hold the copyrights to. However, YouTube says it's complying with the law by immediately taking down any clips found to be violating copyrights after receiving notification.
Lee Hazlewood, a singer and songwriter best known for writing and producing "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" for Nancy Sinatra, has died. He was 78.
Hazlewood was most famous for his work with the daughter of Frank Sinatra, including writing and producing such hits as "Sugartown" and "Some Velvet Morning." He also produced "Something Stupid," a duet Nancy recorded with her father in 1967.
He also produced for Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons, and performed on a number of solo albums and with Nancy Sinatra in three "Nancy & Lee" albums.
Hazlewood was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2005 and released his final album, "Cake or Death" in 2006.
He was survived by his third wife, Jeane, his son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
Two Spider monkeys are seen after being released back to the wild in Cardenas, Nicaragua, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. Animal rights activists and Zoo officials freed 143 birds, tortoises and monkeys confiscated by authorities from street vendors in Managua.
Photo by Esteban Felix
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