Here are the rest of the responses to the 'scariest' movie question. They were more political in nature and didn't fit in with yesterday's responses (not that it's a bad thing, mind ya)...
Sally P wrote, "my official reply to your poll, "The scariest movie you've ever seen" is: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.
While I have always been, "political," this movie really frightened me as to the state of this country. In the movie, Moore illustrates his argument about how this failed businessman (GWB) with deep connections to the royal House of Saud (Saudi Arabia) AWA the Bin Laden's (same) got elected under fraudulent circumstances, then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend this nation, only to later cynically manipulate the attack on 9/11 to serve his wealthy backers' corrupt ambitions. Through facts, footage and interviews, Moore illustrates his contention of how Bush and his cronies have gotten America into worse trouble (and on the path to financial destitution) than before 9/11.
KitchenRat had this take on... Martin Scorscese's The Last Temptation of Christ... "scared the shit out of everybody. (notice that capitalization of Christ? [there's another one] that's how pernicious the fairy tale has become. i didn't cap it, my computer did.) church leaders around the world condemned this movie and railed against it daily in the press before it was released. few, if any, who denounced the film had bothered to see it first. what they perceived as an attack on the established order of spirituality, that is, we preach, you pay became a dire emergency in their eyes. as a result, what is scorscese's best work and one of the finest films of all time was denied an audience. now that's a scary movie."
And finally, Joe had this to say about the whole issue... "Ok, I don't have to think about this one bit. I don't watch scary movies any more, not since I was about 10 years old, that would have been about 1954. The last scary movie I saw was about space invaders that looked like a giant bald eyes with gooky stuff on 'em. I just don't see the point of scary movies, I have enough stress in my life without adding to it artificially. Do I need No Country for Old Men? No, I have mortgage payments, car payments, roof repairs, property taxes, George Bush, John McCain, stuff like that to contend with. In a world with Dick Cheney (before he dicks you) do we need scary movies? I think not.
Well, that's it then! Thanks to all responders! I hope the 'funniest' question does as well!
zEN mAN (observing a growing phenomena in the Great Northwest where the Java Junkies are being served at drive-up coffee stands by ex Hooter girls...the tips are good but there's always gonna be problems.....like bikini clad drive-up male streakers...)
"It's All in the Game" is a song that was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to fit a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Gates Dawes, who would later become the Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is thus the only #1 pop single in history to have been cowritten by a U.S. Vice President.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Charles Gates Dawes
~ Tony In Philly replied:
A: Charles Gates Dawes
Charlie nailed it with:
I'll skip commenting on the worthiness of some Nobel Peace Prize winners (nothing against Gore though). The answer to the question at hand is
A: Charles Gates Dawes
Who won the peace prize in 1925 for a plan dealing with post World War I reparations against Germany. Reparations tend, of course, to be imposed by winners over losers, regardless of actual responsibility, and in this case, arguably contributed to the rise of Hitler. Dawes also wrote the melody to "All in the Game" long before words were put to it, which may be the greater accomplishment.
joe b responded:
It has to be Al Gore.
Marian the Teacher answered:
Al Gore
Sally said:
Since I have sufficiently recovered from yesterday's Antique Fair, with 2 rambunctious g/kids in tow, perhaps I can redeem myself today.
I would say that VP Charles Gates Dawes (A) not only won a Nobel Prize (He shared the 1925 Nobel Prize for Peace with Sir Austen Chamberlain) but also CO-wrote a hit song. Dawes was a pianist and composer, and his 1912 composition "Melody in A Major," became a well-known piano and violin piece, which was played at many official functions as his signature tune. It was transformed into a pop song, "It's All In The Game," in 1951. (Carl Sigman added the lyrics.) The song was recorded by Tommy Edwards, and was number one on top of the Hit Parade (remembered by old folks like me) in 1958. The song has been recorded by several other top stars through the years as well.
Okay, I remember reading about this guy in school and he was a hoot. Dawes' Vice Presidency was one of the most disastrous on record to date. Right after his election he sent an insulting letter to President Calvin Coolidge informing him that he would not be attending cabinet meetings. After insulting the President, he then proceeded to publicly insult the entire US Senate. The inauguration of the Vice President was held in the Senate Chamber in those days, and the VP would give an inaugural address before everyone headed on to the outside platform where the President would take the oath. Dawes made a fiery, half-hour address denouncing the rules of the Senate, the seniority system and many other things that Senators held dear. Anyone interested in politics should read up on this financial genius, who happened to also be a detestable blowhard...
PS: After his stint as VP, Dawes went on to be an Ambassador to the UK - bet they really enjoyed that unlovable bloviator over there...
socdan responded:
I cheated. Its Dawes. Of the Revolutionary War Daweses. It's all in the wonderful game... (Bless his heart, but could Al Gore actually write a song that wasn't a policy tome on some aspect of carbon credits?)
Mike in Des Moines answered:
That would be A. Charles Gates Dawes, a brigadier general in WWI and Silent Cal's VP. He took office when my Dad was two days old, and had a mansion we visited (a museum now) when we lived in Evanston, IL.
Ronald Reagan! Who here even believes he was president, much less vice?
And, Joe S ("Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
~ Charles G. Dawes) replied:
A: Charles Gates Dawes co-wrote "It's All In the Game" and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
Thanks to Charlie for the picture.
Coming Eventually! - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD!
Before I get into 73 year old Woody Allen's new "Chick Flick", a little history…….I always looked at Mr. Allen as a harmless nerdy pervert……when I saw "Annie Hall" (1977) it seemed that he was acting his age with a naïve young woman (Diane Keaton)….then he made he made "Manhattan" (1979) and there he is in bed with 17 a year old girl (Mariel Hemingway) eating popcorn, intellectualizing and….ogling. In 1992, good old Woody admitted to having a relationship with his partner's 22 year old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn….he was more than ogling. A few years later he made the film "Mighty Aphrodite" with the buxom 20-something Mira Sorvino…..now, his fascination with the pouty lipped 20-something Scarlett Johansson has come to a head in the new movie "Vicky, Christina, Barcelona" I am convinced that that Woody is a full blown perv…….and no longer a great movie director.
"Summer Lovers" was a better movie
Back in 1982, a "B" grade soft pornish lotsa nudity movie came out starring a young Daryl Hannah….called "Summer Lovers".check out the plot…….
Young American guy and girl go to Europe for the Summer, hook up with artist type local and have steamy straight sex, 3 way sex and oh…the lesbian love scene…..at the end of summer the 2 come back home.
So Here's "Vicky, Christiana, Barcelona in a nutshell
Standard Issue passionate Spanish Painter Juan (Javier Bardem) proposes a 3 way with 2 American girls freshly landed in Barcelona…Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Christina (Scarlett Johansson)…..clueless and artistic Christina agrees and reluctant and engaged Vicky goes along…they board Juans' little 3 seater airplane and fly up the coast…..Juan tries to fuck Christina but she gets food poisoning…so he fucks Vicky….she loves it (makes her question her upcoming wedding) …..oops I forgot…he nails Christina later….But there's another woman….. the hot tempered, passionate and suicidal standard issue ex-wife of Juan….Maria (Penélope Cruz) she returns after a stint in the psych ward….Oh shit there goes my 3 way theory…it's now a 4 way and Juan gets to bang 'em all. Lest we not forget…a lesbian love scene in the dark room.
All the while…Woody watches
I think Woody Allen should do a remake of "Lolita"….he would love it…would we? "Vicky, Christina, Barcelona," for me, as a film, fails on all levels…a tawdry and tedious script, an incredibly clichéd plot line, over the top or under ability acting, non existent directing…and hardly any good shots of Gaudi and Barcelona…..what's goin on here??????
Purple Gene gives "Vicky, Christina, Barcelona" 5 warped weird Woodies out of 10 for being banal and boring…sorry Mr. Allen!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 10', then 'Dem Con', unless you're on the left coast, where the night will begin early with 'Dem Con', and then the 10pm slot is filled with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bryan Clay, Don Cheadle, and Little Anthony and the Imperials.
On a RERUNCraig (from 6/26/08) are James McAvoy and Bengt Washburn.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by another FRESH'America's Got Talent', then 'Dem Con'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Norm MacDonald, Nastia Liukin, and B.B. King.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Vin Diesel, Dave Attell, and the Virgins.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 6/17/08) are Kathy Griffin and Gavin DeGraw.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wipeout ', followed by a FRESH'Wanna Bet', then 'Dem Con', unless you're on the left coast, where the night will begin early with 'Dem Con', and then fills the 10pm slot with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Rickles, a contestant from "Dancing with the Stars", and The Game.
The CW a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Reaper'.
Faux a RERUN'House', followed by another RERUN'House'.
MY'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 'The Usual Suspects', followed by the movie 'Apollo 13'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 14
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 4 Singleton
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Wetherby 20
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 15 Wetherby 19
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 15
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 16
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 8 Naked
[8:40 PM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 1
[9:20 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 8 Naked
[11:40 PM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 1
[12:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 8 Naked
[1:40 AM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 1
[2:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 - Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Wetherby 20
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 15 Wetherby 19
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Smith
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell', 'Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It', 'Million Dollar Listing', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's old 'Jon Stewart', last night's old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart - DNC coverage begins.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Bob Barr.
FX has the movie 'The Butterfly Effect', followed by the movie 'Constantine', followed by a FRESH mini-episode 'Rescue Me', then the movie 'Constantine', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe', 'Ice Road Truckers'FRESH'Evolve'.
IFC -
[6:15 AM] The Golden Bowl
[8:30 AM] Requiem
[10:00 AM] The New World
[12:35 PM] Casa de los Babys
[2:15 PM] The Golden Bowl
[4:30 PM] The New World
[7:05 PM] Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
[12:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:00 AM] Bowling for Columbine
[3:05 AM] Requiem
[4:35 AM] The Prime Gig (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Eureka', another 'Eureka', followed by a FRESH'Eureka', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Funny Ha Ha
[06:35 AM] Autism Everyday
[07:30 AM] Swimmers
[09:00 AM] Episode 6
[09:30 AM] Kids
[10:00 AM] Heaven Come Down
[11:35 AM] Ushpizin
[01:15 PM] Flower & Garnet
[03:00 PM] Bittersweet Place
[04:30 PM] The Page Turner
[06:00 PM] The Subways, Gnarls Barkley & Herbie Hancock w/ Sonya Kitchell
[07:00 PM] La Vie Promise
[08:30 PM] Six Shooter
[09:00 PM] Episode 5
[09:35 PM] Everything's Cool
[11:10 PM] Recycle
[11:45 PM] High Art
[01:30 AM] Lost Highway
[04:00 AM] Episode 6
[05:00 AM] Red Doors (ALL TIMES EST)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Monday to victims of a 1944 Nazi massacre that was long forgotten by the history books, overshadowed by another event the same day: the liberation of Paris.
On Aug. 25, 1944, as the Allies liberated the French capital from the Nazis, retreating German troops massacred 124 of the 500 townspeople in the village of Maille in the Loire Valley, 160 miles to the southwest. Sarkozy said that by visiting the site he hoped to "repair an injustice."
"By ignoring the tragedy in Maille for so long, by remaining indifferent to the pain of the survivors, by letting the memory of the victims be erased, France committed a moral mistake," Sarkozy said.
The massacre in Maille was the second worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France. The Germans killed 642 men, women and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Actress Ellen Burstyn speaks to the media during a brunch to promote his film, 'Gospel Hill,' in Denver Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.
Photo by Michael Owen Baker
Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton and Lance Bass will hit the floor on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
They are among 13 celebrities slated to compete on the new season of the top-rated dance contest, premiering Sept. 22.
The other contestants are Cloris Leachman, Kim Kardashian, Ted McGinley, Brooke Burke, NFL champ Warren Sapp and two Olympic athletes: Misty May-Treanor, who won her second gold medal for beach volleyball at this year's summer games in Beijing, and Maurice Greene, who won two gold medals in track at the 2000 games in Sydney.
Rounding out the cast are chef Rocco DiSpirito, Cody Linley of "Hannah Montana" and comedian Jeffrey Ross.
Classical pianist Van Cliburn will perform next month during the 2008 Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia honoring former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Texas native, now 74, was only 23 when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the height of the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev, who was premier at the time, gave permission to the Soviet judges to award the prize to an American.
The National Constitution Center's 2008 Liberty Medal will be awarded to Gorbachev for his role in ending the Cold War. The ceremony will be held Sept. 18 at the center.
Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in Israel. He has drawn fire in Israel for championing Palestinian rights and performing the works of Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner. He drew criticism in January after he accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship in recognition of his work to promote musical education for young Palestinians.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
Top-rated television talent show "American Idol" has added songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi as a fourth judge, joining Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, the Fox network said on Monday.
DioGuardi has written and produced songs for many music stars including pop stars Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera as well as past "Idol" winners Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, and she has received several awards in recent years.
Although "Idol" has featured a three-member judging panel since its inception, the program was originally intended to have four members, said executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
A sheriff's deputy pulled a gun on members of Diddy's entourage during a routine traffic stop over the weekend, but the situation was quickly resolved and a spokesman for the entertainer said the deputy was professional and respectful.
The gun was never pointed at the hip-hop mogul, and deputies were "very respectful" during the stop early Saturday, spokesman Ed Tagliaferri said Monday.
Diddy was traveling on Sunset Boulevard in a seven-car convoy when a deputy pulled over one of the vehicles. Combs was not in the car that was stopped for having an expired registration tag.
No citations were issued because the car was a rental.
Sean Connery stands next to a copy of his new biography 'Being A Scot' during a photocall for its launch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 25, 2008.
Photo by David Moir
Prosecutors say they won't charge Andy Dick with sexual battery stemming from his arrest last month.
The "NewsRadio" actor with a reputation for crude public behavior is still scheduled to face a judge later this week on misdemeanor drug possession and battery charges. But he escaped felony charges after prosecutors reviewed video of the incident, Riverside County District Attorney spokesman Ryan Hightower said.
It was a shock to Misha Defonseca's readers this year when she admitted that the best-selling story of her tortured childhood during the Holocaust was false, but her U.S. publisher saw it as an opportunity to undo a stinging, 7-year-old court judgment.
Jane Daniel says she never would have been ordered to pay Defonseca and her ghost writer $32.4 million over her handling of profits from "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years" had the jury known the book was filled with lies.
Defonseca never lived with wolves to escape the Nazis, never killed a German soldier in self-defense, never walked 3,000 miles across Europe in search of her parents. Contrary to the book's claims, Defonseca admitted in February that she isn't even Jewish.
Daniel's lawyers are asking a judge to overturn the jury's award because Defonseca "perpetrated a hoax" on Daniel, her publishing company, the public, the trial judge and a state appeals court that upheld the verdict. They said Defonseca directly violated a provision in her publishing contract with Daniel in which she affirmed that the content of the book was true.
The Batala Percussion Band play their drums in the street parade at the annual Notting Hill Carnival in central London, August 25, 2008.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
The Walt Disney Co said on Monday it has sold 298 acres of land to Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts for a hotel and golf course to anchor a previously announced luxury development in Florida.
The plans call for a 445-room Four Seasons hotel, an 18-club championship golf course, and Residence Club time shares, as well as custom single and multi-family vacation homes.
The expansion will be located on the northeast border of Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Herdsmen and hunters have long known that cattle and sheep tend to face the same direction when grazing, but had believed they were simply positioning themselves according to prevailing winds or the sun's rays.
Sabine Begall of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and colleagues had a different idea. The researchers studied 8,510 satellite images of cattle and deer herds derived from Google Earth from around the globe, including 308 pastures and plains.
They also looked at deer beds -- impressions left in the snow by resting deer -- from nearly 3,000 deer in more than 225 locations in the Czech Republic.
They found that whether grazing or resting, these animals face either magnetic North or South. And since the direction of the wind and sun varied widely where the images were taken, the researchers believe the Earth's magnetic field to be the polarizing factor.
People try out "Salt Studio" at the Diet and Beauty Fair 2008 in Tokyo August 25, 2008. "Salt Studio" uses hexagon-shaped natural salt tiles on the floor, ceiling, and walls which change colours along with music while the room temperature is set at 41 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit) and humidity at 45 percent. The event runs until August 27.
Photo by Yuriko Nakao
Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player - too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
But Vidro says he didn't quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league's field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.
"He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"
It took seven years, but Charles Ulrich did something many people dream about, but few succeed at: He beat the IRS in a tax dispute.
Not only that, but tax experts say potentially millions of other taxpayers could benefit from his victory.
The accountant from Baxter, Minn., challenged the method the IRS has used for more than 20 years to tax shares and cash distributed by mutual life insurance firms to their policyholders when they reorganize as public companies.
The dispute arose when more than 30 mutual life insurance companies became publicly traded corporations in the late 1990s and earlier this decade, in a process known as "demutualization."
Crane, who played one of the Tarleton twins in the 1939 classic, was 90.
The other Tarleton twin was played by George Reeves, who later gained TV immortality as Superman.
The film opens with Crane's character asking Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh: "What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow."
Her reply to Crane and Reeves contains one of the movie's classic lines: "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream."
Crane also had roles in the 1949 Cisco Kid movie The Gay Amigo, and acted on television during the 1960s. He also hosted a classical music radio show in Los Angeles for 40 years.
Crane was married five times and is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
A computer case made by bods-monds.com to look like a spaceship from the sci-fi TV show Battlestar Galactica, is being used by an unidentified gamer at Nvidia's new Nvision 08 game conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.
Photo by Paul Sakuma
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