"There's nothing sexist about ogling Poldark": Lucy Mangan explains why it's OK to openly admire (Stylist)
It's been a busy few weeks for the nation's oestrogen suppliers. First there were the Orlando Bloom pictures for the laydeez to evaluate. Then the Olympic gymnasts and assorted other sportsmen, all apparently hewn from the living rock, were beamed into our living rooms day and night. And now Poldark, along with his abs and fine scything action, is back on our screens […]. All this objectifying is proving exhausting. I don't know how men manage.
Debuting on September 12, 1966, this sitcom followed the adventures of four young men who lived in a two-story beach house at 1334 North Beechwood Blvd. in Malibu, California. What is the name of this TV series?
This sitcom about an aspiring, but only sporadically employed, actress from Brewster NY who moves to New York City to make it big, debuted September 8, 1966. What is the name of this TV series?
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from September 8, 1966 to March 19, 1971, with a total of 136 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring but only sporadically employed actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts.
At the end of the 1969-1970 season, That Girl was still doing moderately well in the ratings; however, after four years, Thomas had grown tired of the series and wanted to move on. ABC convinced her to do one more year. In the beginning of the fifth season, Don and Ann became engaged, although they never actually married. The decision to leave the couple engaged at the end of the run was largely the idea of Thomas herself. She did not want to send a message to young women that marriage was the ultimate goal for them and she was worried that it would have defeated the somewhat feminist message of the show.
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mj was first and correct with:
Marlo's empire
Started with That Girl.
Alan J wrote:
That Girl.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
That Girl
Deborah replied:
Is it "That Girl"? I barely remember it, but that's what came to mind.
I wish 3-day weekends were the norm. I like having time for more fun stuff, once the chores are out of the way.
Kevin in Washington, DC said:
That sitcom was "That Girl", starring Marlo Thomas. It was considered bold that she lived alone in her own apartment, neither still living with Daddy, nor yet married to her beau, Donald. It was the cutest-feminist-bold sitcom until "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" came along.
DJ Useo wrote:
My brain whirred for about 10 minutes, & then I remembered the answer is "That Girl".
I firmly believe that show had everything going for it in every way, except scripting.
Very much like the current "New Odd Couple". I could easily write that show better.
Ann & Tom replied:
"That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie.
Joe S answered:
Not gonna look this up, cuz I'm pretty sure it's "That Girl." I may be wrong, but I don't think so. (That's a quote from my hero Adrian Monk.)
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Zoo', then another FRESH'Zoo'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Harry Connick Jr., Ava DuVernay, and Grouplove.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Zach Woods, Robert Winston, and Edgar Ramirez.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Better Late Than Never'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Clint Eastwood, Molly Shannon, and Mike Posner.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Steven Tyler, Ali Larter, and Nate Morton.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Natasha Lyonne, Wild Nothing, and Derek Cianfrance.
ABC opens the night with FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise', followed by a FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise: After Paradise', then a FRESH'Mistresses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Andy Sambreg, Dave Salmoni, and Desiigner.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'MADtv'.
Faux has a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then a RERUN'Lucifer'.
MY has 'TMZ (Not So) Live', followed by 'Hollywood Today (Not So) Live'.
A&E has 'Married At First Sight', another 'Married At First Sight', followed by a FRESH'Married At First Sight', then a FRESH'Born This Way'.
AMC offers the movie 'Back To The Future', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future Part II', then a FRESH'Halt & Catch Fire'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Unnatural Selection
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-A Matter of Honor
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-The Measure of a Man
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-The Naked Now
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Code of Honor
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Last Outpost
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Brothers
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 4-Suddenly Human
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 5-Remember Me
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6-Legacy
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Reunion
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Future Imperfect
[8:00PM] FIRST BLOOD (1982)
[10:00PM] FIRST BLOOD (1982)
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Brothers
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 4-Suddenly Human
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 5-Remember Me
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6-Legacy
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Reunion
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Future Imperfect (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Rob Lowe (with special attention paid to Ann Coulter)'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Jeff Ross.
Scheduled on a FRESH@Midnight are Kyle Kinane, Tiffany Haddish, and Ron Funches.
FX has the movie 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', followed by a FRESH'Atlanta'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Milwaukee Blacksmith', then another FRESH'Milwaukee Blacksmith'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] MISERY
[8:30AM] TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D
[10:30AM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[1:15PM] CARRIE
[3:30PM] HALLOWEEN
[6:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-That Disco Episode
[6:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Fez Gets the Girl
[7:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Radio Daze
[7:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-That '70s Musical
[8:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-It's a Wonderful Life
[8:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Eric's Depression
[9:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Pinciotti vs. Forman
[9:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Hyde Gets the Girl
[10:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Bye-Bye Basement
[10:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-The Relapse
[11:00PM] THAT '70S SHOW-That Disco Episode
[11:30PM] THAT '70S SHOW-Fez Gets the Girl
[12:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Radio Daze
[12:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-That '70s Musical
[1:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-It's a Wonderful Life
[1:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Eric's Depression
[2:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Pinciotti vs. Forman
[2:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Hyde Gets the Girl
[3:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Bye-Bye Basement
[3:30AM] CARRIE
[5:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-Jack Black (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[7:00AM] The Birds
[10:00AM] Misery
[12:30PM] Psycho
[3:00PM] Apollo 13
[6:00PM] Erin Brockovich
[9:00PM] Pretty Woman
[11:30PM] Pretty Woman
[2:00AM] Vertigo
[5:00AM] Absolute Power (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'I, Frankenstein', followed by the movie 'Darkness Falls'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/24/16) are Samantha Bee, Eugene & Dan Levy, and Nothing But Thieves.
Actress Renee Zellweger poses for photographs with fans upon arrival at the World premiere of the film 'Bridget Jones's Baby' in London, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
Photo by Joel Ryan
The United Nations human rights chief on Monday accused U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of spreading "humiliating racial and religious prejudice" and warned of a rise of populist politics that could turn violent.
In comments at a security and justice conference, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he was addressing Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and other "populists, demagogues and political fantasists."
Naming Trump, Nigel Farage in Britain and Marine Le Pen in France, among others, he accused them of using "fear" tactics similar to those of Islamic State, also known as Daesh.
"Make no mistake, I certainly do not equate the actions of nationalist demagogues with those of Daesh," he said. "But in its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and oversimplification, the propaganda of Daesh uses tactics similar to those of the populists."
"History has perhaps taught Mr. Wilders and his ilk how effectively xenophobia and bigotry can be weaponized," he said. "The atmosphere will become thick with hate; at this point it can descend rapidly into colossal violence," he warned.
Kyrgyz woman stand at a swing as they attend with their families the second World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, 270km from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Sept. 5, 2016. Teams from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan are competing among others in ethnic sport games during the cultural event that runs from Sept. 3 to 8. The mission of the games is to promote the revival and preservation of the historical heritage of the nomadic peoples of the world civilization.
Photo by Igor Kavalenko
The recent discovery of the tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent, considered the greatest Ottoman ruler, has raised hopes of a tourism boom in one of Hungary's most impoverished areas.
Experts confirmed in July that excavations begun two years ago in the struggling town of Szigetvar, close to the Croatian border, had revealed the tomb of the 16th-century ruler.
Suleiman died aged 71 on September 7, 1566, during an epic battle with the mainly Croatian defenders of Szigetvar castle that depleted his forces hoping to quickly advance on Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire.
On Wednesday, senior government officials from Hungary, Croatia and Turkey will join thousands of visitors to Szigetvar to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the siege.
"This town is dying, young people are leaving or have already left for Germany or London, but Suleiman can bring in jobs, income, and tourists," said Norbert Pap, head of the team of researchers whose excavations uncovered the tomb.
Europe's Rosetta space probe has located its lost Philae lander, wedged in a "dark crack" on a comet, the European Space Agency said Monday.
Rosetta's camera finally captured images on Friday of the lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, weeks before the probe's own mission ends, the agency said . The pictures showing the lander's body and two of its three legs were taken as Rosetta passed within 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles) of the surface.
After being launched in 2004, Rosetta took 10 years to accelerate and catch up with comet 67P. In November 2014 it released Philae, achieving the first landing of a spacecraft on a comet.
After sending data to Earth for three days its battery ran out and it went into hibernation, only to recharge enough as the comet came closer to the sun to communicate briefly with Rosetta in mid-2015.
ESA plans to crash Rosetta into the comet Sept. 30, because the probe is unlikely to survive lengthy hibernation in orbit as the comet heads away from the sun.
An idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, is loaded onto a supply truck on the first day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Ahmedabad, India, September 5, 2016.
Photo by Amit Dave
A carpenter's skull recovered from Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose, which sank in battle in 1545, can now be viewed in 3D online -- allowing the public to see his bad teeth and a head wound.
The skull is part of a collection of 3D scans of human remains, shoes and tools which people who cannot make it to the ship's museum home can see on www.virtualtudors.org.
The detailed, interactive images are part of a bigger scientific project on the website aimed at researchers working in the field of bone science.
While experts identify historic features of the virtual images hidden to the layman, ordinary users can still zoom in on the carpenter's eyebrow wound and rotate to the image to see his bad teeth.
He would have been on board to carry out repairs which occurred during battle, like the one against an invading French fleet in 1545 during which the Mary Rose sunk off the south coast of England.
A leading international group has taken the giant panda off its endangered list thanks to decades of conservation efforts, but China's government discounted the move on Monday, saying it did not view the status of the country's beloved symbol as any less serious.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a report released Sunday that the panda is now classified as a "vulnerable" instead of "endangered" species, reflecting its growing numbers in the wild in southern China. It said the wild panda population jumped to 1,864 in 2014 from 1,596 in 2004, the result of work by Chinese agencies to enforce poaching bans and expand forest reserves.
The report warned, however, that although better forest protection has helped increase panda numbers, climate change is predicted to eliminate more than 35 percent of its natural bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, potentially leading to another decline.
Still, animal groups hailed the recovery of the bamboo-gobbling, black-and-white bear that has long been a symbol of China and the global conservation movement.
Swimmers run to the water to begin an age category of the Labor Day Pier Swim on the unofficial last day of summer in Oceanside, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2016.
Photo by Charlie Neuman
The pistachio trees at the village in southern Iran are long dead, bleached white by the sun -- the underground water reserves sucked dry by decades of over-farming and waste.
The last farmers left with their families 10 years ago, and the village has the look of an abandoned Martian colony.
The dome-roofed, mud-walled homes are crumbling, once-green fields are now nothing but dirt furrows, and the only sign of life is a couple of drifters camping out in an old storehouse.
Pistachios are Iran's biggest export after crude oil, with 250,000 tonnes of the nut produced last year -- a figure only recently topped by the United States.
In Kerman province in southern Iran, cities have grown rich from pistachios, but time is running out for the industry as unconstrained farming and climate change take a devastating toll.
\The sleek, flapping salmon that fishermen hauled aboard the rolling Salty Lady charter boat near the Golden Gate Bridge were the survivors of the survivors.
After five years of drought, the native Chinook salmon that the men were reeling in this past week were there only because state and federal agencies have stepped in to do much of the salmon-raising that California's overtapped rivers once did. Most of the fish were born at the agencies' hatcheries and carried in trucks for release downstream.
As the men watched and waited for one of their fishing poles to dip sharply, Victor Gonella, president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association, remembered his childhood in the 1950s and 1960s when the salmon population was healthy enough that he could fish most months.
The San Joaquin River has been dry for dozens of miles at a stretch for decades, its water diverted to booming farms and cities.
With the drought bringing one of the driest periods in California's history, federal and state authorities increasingly have had to intervene mechanically to carry out key stretches of the life cycle of salmon, whose numbers were already declining.
A massive wooden replica of 17th century London was torched on the River Thames to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, which paved the way for the building of the modern city.
Onlookers crowded along the river that winds through the British capital to watch as the 120-metre (394-foot) long wooden model was set alight.
Spectators snapped photographs on their smartphones as the flames devoured the replica buildings floating on the water.
The torching of the model of London -- as it stood on September 2, 1666 -- was executed by US "burn artist" David Best and live streamed online.
The Great Fire started in Thomas Farrinor's bakery on Pudding Lane and raged until September 5, destroying 80 percent of the mostly wooden, walled inner city.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Fat Tony" Scalia's funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and Supreme Court officials declined to say where Scalia was being laid to rest.
But few things stay private in the internet age, and Scalia's grave has become public with the help of a website.
Within months of his death in February, the location of Scalia's grave - at Fairfax Memorial Park in Virginia - was recorded on the cemetery website Findagrave.com with precision: Garden of the Crucifixion, Lot 870, Site A. A contributor to the site added photos, too. Recently Wikipedia added the location and a photo to Scalia's page.
The fact that Scalia's family chose Fairfax Memorial Park is not particularly surprising. The family-run cemetery has Catholic roots, and Scalia was a devout Catholic. His son-in-law, Craig Britton Courtney, who died in 2011, is buried there in a plot near Scalia's. And at the time of Scalia's death, it was public that his body was taken to Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home, which is on the grounds of the cemetery, after it was flown from Texas, where he died.
Though Scalia may be the most famous of the some 30,000 people buried in the 128-acre cemetery, he is not the only conservative legal heavyweight. Former D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, was buried at the cemetery in 2012.
Phyllis Schlafly, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group, has died. She was 92.
Schlafly rose to national attention in 1964 with her self-published book, "A Choice Not an Echo," that became a manifesto for the far right. The book, which sold three million copies, chronicled the history of the Republican National Convention and is credited for helping conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona earn the 1964 GOP nomination.
She later helped lead efforts to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment that would have outlawed gender discrimination, galvanizing the party's right. She'd graduated from college while working overnight at a factory during World War II, her newspaper column appeared in dozens of newspapers and she was politically active into her 90s - including attending every convention since her first in 1952. She attended this year's convention as a Donald Trump delegate.
Schlafly endorsed Trump in early March and introduced the then-GOP front-runner at a St. Louis rally.
"Wyatt Earp," on the other hand, was based on a real-life Western hero, and some of its stories were authentic. (The real Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929, is most famous for his participation in the 1881 "Shootout at the O.K. Corral" in Tombstone, Arizona.)
He starred in the 1970s detective series "Search" and appeared in such films as "In Harm's Way" and "Ten Little Indians," and reprised his role as Earp in 1994's "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone," a film that combined new footage with colorized scenes from the original black-and-white TV show.
He also had a small but memorable role as the faro dealer in John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist," and later noted with pride that it gave him the distinction of being the last bad guy killed by Wayne. (Wayne himself is reputed to have met the real Wyatt Earp as a young man in Hollywood in the 1920s.)
Born Hugh Krampe in Rochester, New York., O'Brian was educated in Winnetka, Illinois, leaving school at 17 to join the Marines. He went on to become one of the corps' youngest drill sergeants.
It was his first marriage, but his romances were many and well publicized, especially his fling with Princess Soraya, the ex-wife of the shah of Iran. In 1969 he faced a paternity suit in which he was judged to be the father of the 16-year-old son of a Los Angeles photographer. He was ordered to pay $250 monthly support for the boy, whose name was Hugh Krampe Jr.
"I sure had my share of fun and an awful lot of ladies," he recalled in that 2006 interview.
Leg prostheses on display at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Center in Vientiane, Laos, on Sept. 5, 2016. COPE was created to provide Unexploded ordnance (UXO) survivors with access to orthotic and prosthetic devices. During the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973, US troops dropped more than two million tons of bomb on Laos and estimated one third of the nearly 300 million bomb dropped were failed to detonated. Laos is hosting the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits from 06 to 08 September 6 to8, 2016.
Photo by Mast Irham
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