Jay Walljasper: The Real Thing Is Getting So Hard to Find (Ode. Posted on AlterNet.org)
Victoria Beckham, also known to the world as Posh of the Spice Girls, was giving a performance for fans in Birmingham, England, and accidentally dropped the microphone. Her voice, however, continued ringing out of the speakers as if by magic. But it wasn't magic; Posh was lip-synching to a pre-recorded track.
Poor Elijah (Peter Berger): The Thirteenth Annual Emperor Awards (irascibleprofessor.com)
As September looms ever closer, it's helpful to draw inspiration from the education giants who've set the pace in the preceding year. That's why Poor Elijah presents his annual Emperor Awards. They commemorate the monarch who didn't know enough to know he was posing in his underwear.
Simply the best (guardian.co.uk)
It's not easy to change the world but in June we asked you to nominate women who are doing just that. We received an avalanche of replies. Here, Lucy Clouting profiles the most inspiring, creative, dynamic women in Britain.
Dana Goldstein: Five Minutes With: Lee Daniels (campusprogress.org)
Lee Daniels' films challenge boundaries: that between black and white, sex and violence, tragedy and love. As the producer of "Monster's Ball," Daniels brought to the big screen a story of racism, the death penalty, and romance in the rural South. Halle Berry became the first African-American woman ever to win a best actress Oscar for her starring role in the film.
zEN mAN (observing a clever solution to putting a railing around an ancient Wisteria trunk....at the time I heard someone say "It would be easier if the trunk wasn't there)
But here's the deal the "Baywatch" - "Night Rider" Icon that's been getting kicked out of soccer stadiums and booted off planes for being drunk and obnoxious and who is publicly splitting up with his estranged wife Pamela Bach and walks around with his arm in a cast from a glass cut tendon....has got a new music video out ...."Jump in my Car" a remake of the old 70's Aussie smash done by the "Ted Mulry Gang"
He's was busy in 2003 ....he was a guest host on "Australian Idol II: Motown" as well as "Celebrity, Naked Ambition". In 2005 he was in "Boy George's Queerest TV Moments" and you can watch him tonight in "America's Got Talent".....and we can look forward to "Kickin' It: Old School"...but that's not all...and I kid you not...You can head over to Australia and see live onstage "David Hasselhoff: the Musical"
I fuckin' love the HOFF
Purple Gene gives Hass's new video 4 stupid spinning car wheels out of 10 for being really bad but not near as campy and entertaining as "Hooked on a Feeling"!
CBS begins the night with the FRESH'JC Penney Jam - The Concert For America's Kids', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 7', then a FRESH'Rock Star: Supernova'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Chris Elliott, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Razorlight.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Fred Willard, Rachel Blanchard, and Stephen J. Cannell.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Fear Factor', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 5/26/06) are Dana Carvey, 8-year-old dental expert Nicholas Hearon, and T.I.
On a RERUNConan (from 3/3/06) are Alec Baldwin, Fred Goss, and the Derek Trucks Band.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 6/15/06) are Joey Lauren Adams and Matt Costa.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by another RERUN'Jim', then another RERUN'Jim', followed by yet another RERUN'Jim', then 'Primetime'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Hillary Duff, Ultimate Fighting Champion Chuck Lidell, and Anti-Flag.
The WB offers a RERUN'Gilmore Girls', followed by another RERUN'Gilmore Girls'.
Faux has a RERUN'House', followed by a RERUN of last night's 'Vanished'.
UPN here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Red Sox visiting the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim California Angels'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'The New Skinheads', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'King Of Cars', and another 'King Of Cars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Twins', followed by the movie 'Cocoon', then the movie 'Cocoon: The Return'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] As Time Goes By - Episode 4;
[2:40 pm] Are You Being Served - Dear Sexy Knickers;
[3:20 pm] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 6;
[4:00 pm] The Avengers - The Superlative Seven;
[5:00 pm] Footballers Wives - Episode 4;
[6:00 pm] BBC World News;
[6:30 pm] Cash in the Attic - Mitchell;
[7:00 pm] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 33;
[8:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 3;
[8:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 11;
[9:00 pm] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares;
[10:00 pm] Love Soup - Ep 4 They Do Not Move;
[11:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[11:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[12:00 am] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 34;
[1:00 am] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares;
[2:00 am] Love Soup - Ep 4 They Do Not Move;
[3:00 am] Mile High - Episode 2;
[4:00 am] Teachers - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] Cold Feet - Episode 2;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Work Out', another 'Work Out', then a FRESH'Work Out', and a FRESH'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has 'Reno 911!', another 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Reno 911!'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is William Cohen.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Paul Krugman.
History has 'Earthmovers', 'The Egyptian Book Of The Dead', and 'Strange Empires'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] The Matchmaker;
[07:45 AM] Widows' Peak;
[09:30 AM] At The IFC Center #16;
[10:00 AM] IFC Short Film Collection II: August;
[12:00 PM] Bend It Like Beckham;
[02:00 PM] Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle;
[04:15 PM] Shadowlands;
[06:30 PM] At The IFC Center #16;
[07:15 PM] The Matchmaker;
[09:00 PM] The Dreamlife Of Angels;
[11:00 PM] Max;
[01:00 AM] The Dreamlife Of Angels;
[03:00 AM] Max;
[05:00 AM] At The IFC Center #16;
[05:30 AM] Rocked With Gina Gershon #5. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Dead Like Me', another 'Dead Like Me', followed by a FRESH'Eureka', then a FRESH'ECW'.
Sundance -
[06:30 AM] I'm Going Home (Je Rentre a la Maison);
[08:00 AM] Powder;
[10:00 AM] Another Road Home (Director's Cut);
[11:30 AM] The White Balloon;
[01:00 PM] Howards End;
[03:25 PM] Seven Times Lucky;
[04:50 PM] The Parole Officer;
[06:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Obsession;
[07:00 PM] In Short: The Workplace;
[07:30 PM] Dopamine;
[09:00 PM] City of Men - Season 2: Episode 2: Two Tickets to Brasilia;
[09:45 PM] When the Day Breaks;
[10:00 PM] Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train;
[11:30 PM] With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America;
[01:15 AM] The Gift;
[02:30 AM] City of Men - Season 2: Episode 2: Two Tickets to Brasilia;
[03:15 AM] When the Day Breaks;
[03:30 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 1;
[04:00 AM] Primo Amore;
[05:45 AM] The White Balloon. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actor Joe Montegna throws out the first pitch before the start of a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Photo by Jeff Roberson
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has contributed a foreword and Norman Mailer a blurb to "It Takes a Nation," a first-person history of Hurricane Katrina compiled by the liberal activist organization MoveOn.org.
Published by Earth Aware Editions, based in San Rafael, Calif., "It Takes a Nation" includes letters, photographs and conversations featuring 29 MoveOn "host families" and the displaced hurricane victims who stayed with them.
A first printing of 20,000 will be released Aug. 29, Katrina's one-year anniversary. Profits from the $24.95 book will be donated to the New Orleans division of ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
Director Salvador Litvak poses with a matzo ball during a promotional event for the DVD release of his Jewish-themed film 'When Do We Eat' at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles August 21, 2006. Publicists for the event say the matzo ball, weighing 26 pounds and 18 inches across, is the world largest.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Chris Cuomo will be working the early shift as news anchor of "Good Morning America" starting next month.
Cuomo, who is also an anchor of ABC News' "Primetime," will begin his dawn duties Sept. 5, joining anchors Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts at the "GMA" studio in Times Square, ABC announced Monday.
Along with delivering "news block" reports throughout the weekday broadcast, Cuomo will serve as principal substitute anchor, the network said. He also will contribute news reports and travel to cover breaking news.
Cuomo, 36, will remain at "Primetime," where he became co-anchor in April 2004, and also continue as ABC News' senior legal correspondent.
Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites "Tom and Jerry," "The Flinstones" and "Scooby-Doo," to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking.
The review was triggered by a complaint to British media regulator Ofcom by one viewer who took offence to two episodes of "Tom and Jerry" shown on the Boomerang channel, part of Turner Broadcasting which itself belongs to Time Warner Inc.
"We are going through the entire catalog," Yinka Akindele, spokeswoman for Turner in Europe said on Monday.
"This is a voluntary step we've taken in light of the changing times," she said, adding that the painstaking review had been prompted by the Ofcom complaint.
Diana Ross will perform, and Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Chris Evert and Venus Williams will participate in next week's opening night ceremony at the U.S. Open.
The focus will be the renaming of the U.S. Tennis Association National Tennis Center in honor of former player and pioneer Billie Jean King.
Ross is expected to perform one of her classics as a tribute to King and "God Bless America." She'll be joined by members of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts Concert Choir.
This image by Art Spiegelman, suppled by the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2006, is an excerpt from his 'In the Shadows of No Towers.' It is part of the museum's new exhibit, 'Looking back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Collection.' The exhibit examines the physical history of the land where the World Trade Center stood as well as how artists responded in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Photo courtesy Art Spiegelman
Brooke Burke, host of the CBS reality series "Rock Star: Supernova," and actor David Charvet are getting married and expecting a child together, her representative, Nancy Iannios, told The Associated Press on Monday.
Charvet proposed to Burke on Saturday, Iannios said. The couple, both 34, began dating last fall, she said.
Burke split last year from husband Garth Fisher, a plastic surgeon who has appeared on ABC's "Extreme Makeover." They have two daughters, Neriah, 6, and Sierra, 4.
The minister of a church that dismissed a female Sunday School teacher after adopting what it called a literal interpretation of the Bible says a woman can perform any job - outside of the church.
The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.
The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."
The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city's day-to-day operations is a woman.
A devotee offers milk to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva inside a temple in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri, August 21, 2006.
Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri
Entercom Communications Corp., the nation's fourth-largest radio broadcaster, said Monday that it is buying 16 radio stations in five states for $292 million in cash.
The company is buying stations in Austin, Texas; Cincinnati; Memphis, Tenn.; and Rochester, N.Y., from CBS Corp., as well as one in Boston from Radio One Inc., a Lanham, Md.-based broadcaster to African-American and urban markets.
The acquisition gives Bala Cynwyd-based Entercom an entry into the Austin and Cincinnati markets for the first time and adds to the company's presence in Memphis, Rochester and Boston.
The stations to be purchased are KKMJ-FM, KAMX-FM, KXBT-FM and KJCE-AM in Austin; WUBE-FM, WKRQ-FM, WGRR-FM and WAQZ-FM in Cincinnati; WMC-FM, WMFS-FM, WMC-AM in Memphis; WRMM-FM, WCMF-FM, WPXY-FM, WZNE-FM in Rochester; and WILD-FM in Boston.
More than 750 MINIs head south on Highway 1 in Carmel, CA en-route to Santa Barbara CA Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 during the first leg of a 15-day, 19-state cross-country road trip dubbed MINI Takes the States. Over 3,000 MINIS will participate in at least one leg of the trip, which began in Monterey, CA Aug. 21 and will end in Lakeville CONN. Sept. 4, 2006 at the Lime Rock Vintage Festival.
Photo by Jim Sulley
The British Library has bought a valuable archive from the family of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that portrays the clan's affectionate, if slightly bemused, view of its "presiding genius."
In the nearly two centuries since Coleridge's death, the papers have been kept by family members in the village of Ottery St. Mary in Devon, southwest England, where the creator of "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was born.
Highlights include a previously unknown manuscript of two of Coleridge's poems, written in his own hand, and many reminiscences of the poet in the letters and diaries of other family members. There are also letters from eminent Victorians who were friends of the Coleridges, including the poet Matthew Arnold, Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the leading cleric Cardinal John Newman and architect Augustus Pugin.
The library secured the archive after the family decided to sell Chantry House, bought by Coleridge's brother, James, in 1796, and its contents.
An artisan smokes as he takes a break from his work at a workshop in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri August 21, 2006. The idols of Hindu deity Lord Ganesha are being prepared for the 'Ganesh Chaturthi' (the Ganesh festival), a popular ten-day religious festival in India.
Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri
Tom Crippen knew he faced a daunting task after the death of his father, an inveterate pack rat who never threw anything out. It wasn't just the stockpiles of old opera programs, paper clips, Christmas cards, baseball caps, paperbacks or souvenir coffee mugs.
Mainly, it was the awesome collection of 11,000 comics that had colonized the family garage and basement.
"The shelves were just piled high with comics," said Mr. Crippen, a freelance editor living in Montreal. "I knew they were worth money, but I thought, $50,000, maybe $100,000."
Mr. Crippen was wrong. After painstakingly dusting off and cataloguing the comics - a process that took four months - he called in the experts to the family home outside New York.
The cache of vintage comics, many of them rare and in immaculate condition, were evaluated at $2.5-million (U.S.).
Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
His photo, taken for The Associated Press on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954 and known officially as the Marine Corps War Memorial, commemorates the Marines who died taking the Pacific island in World War II.
The St. Louis Zoo's newest baby female elephant, stays close to its mother Ellie, left, and another adult female from the herd Monday, Aug. 21, 2006, in St. Louis. The baby, which has yet to be named, will make it's first appearance to the general public Friday.
Photo by Tom Gannam
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