Michele Hanson: More teachers please? (guardian.co.uk)
I thought we were desperate for more teachers. So
did my friend Toad. He gave up his fabulously
well-paid but gruelling job in the film industry
and determined to teach instead.
Joe Queenan: Rise of the bubble people (guardian.co.uk)
Ji Lee has devised something called the Bubble
Project - an online site
(www.Thebubbleproject.com
) where ordinary people
with no previous experience as dissidents can
download bubbles, and then paste them up on
posters or billboards they encounter in real life.
Malinda Lo: Review of Ellen Season Four (afterellen.com)
In the first scene of the first episode of the
fourth season of Ellen, which is being released
on DVD today, the character of Ellen Morgan
(Ellen DeGeneres) goes into her bathroom to brush
her teeth. She's singing the West Side Story song
"I Feel Pretty" as she readies her toothbrush: "I
feel pretty, oh so pretty/I feel pretty and witty
and -" But just as she's about to reach the word
"gay," she discovers there is no water coming
from the sink faucet and instead says
disappointedly, "hey"
Michael Jensen: Interview With Sir Ian McKellen (afterelton.com)
Few actors can boast successful careers spanning
five years, much less five decades. And even
fewer can claim success playing everything from
long dead monarchs (Richard III in Richard III)
to superheroes (Magneto in the X-Men series) to
fantasy figures (Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy) to a gay man in a concentration camp
(Uncle Freddie in Bent). And only one can claim
to have done all that as an openly gay man. That
man is Sir Ian McKellen, arguably the most famous
gay actor in the world.
"Power to the People….power to the people right on"
"Instant Karma's gonna get ya…it's gonna knock you off your feet"
"Imagine all the people sharing all the world"
"Peace in your mind….Peace in the world"
"The war is over…if you want"
"All ya need is love, love….love is all ya need"
God I fucking miss John Lennon!!!!!!
I went to see this new sort of anti war…music… documentary at the California theater in Berkeley….."The U.S. vs. John Lennon" (and Yoko, too) brought to us by the same studio behind "Farenheit 9/11" (Lions Gate). I expected to be sad and angry about what was happening with Lennon back during the Nixon reign….but I waxed more than nostalgic….
The clips of Nixon and G. Gordon Liddy and Geraldo really fanned the old/new flames…Bush has torn a few new pages from the old play book….and we thought Nixon was BAD!
We hear Gore Vidal speak… "John Lennon was a sworn enemy of those who control the United States, which I always say was admirable. Lennon came to represent life….while Mr. Nixon…and Mr. Bush…represent death!"
There was really nothing new here except that….. where is a modern day singer/songwriter/peace activist????? Why do we have to keep going back to Neil Young, Bob Dylan and John Lennon to find the simple words to help us understand the insane situation we are in in Iraq…and right here in the U.S.A. ???????
Of course we knew that John Lennon's activities were being monitored…his phone was being tapped and the I.N.S. had initiated deportation proceedings…But John kept speaking out…
"Apathy isn't it…….There is still hope"!!!!!!
Purple Gene give "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" 7 passionate and purposeful Peace Signs out of 10 for putting an inspiring slant on some great old footage (and great music)!
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'The Unit', then a FRESH'Smith'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Andy Dick, Keith Olbermann, and Brazilian Girls.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Maura Tierney and David Cross.
NBC starts the night with the SERIES PREMIERE'Friday Night Lights', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Helen Mirren, B.J. Novak, and Jet.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Martin Scorsese, Harland Williams, and The Decemberists.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Kerry Washington and Jimmy Carr.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Help Me Help You', then a FRESH'Boston Legal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dax Shepard, Jordana Brewster, and the Killers.
The CW offers a FRESH'Gilmore Girls', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Veronica Mars'.
Faux has LIVE'MLB Baseball', and pads the left coast with old episodes of 'Malcolm' and 'Simpsons'.
MY has a FRESH'Desire', followed by a FRESH'Fashion House'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Inked', and another 'Inked'.
AMC offers the movie 'Romancing The Stone', followed by the movie 'Private Benjamin', then the movie 'Down And Out In Beverly Hills'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] As Time Goes By - Episode 2;
[2:40 pm] Are You Being Served - It Pays To Advertise;
[3:20 pm] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 2;
[4:00 pm] The Avengers - Noon-Doomsday;
[5:00 pm] Footballers Wives - Episode 7;
[6:00 pm] BBC World News;
[6:30 pm] Everything Must Go - Episode 2;
[7:00 pm] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 7;
[8:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[8:30 pm] Masterchef Goes Large - Episode 2;
[9:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1;
[9:30 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[10:00 pm] The Street - Ep 1 No. 5 Bold Street - The Accident;
[11:00 pm] My Husband Is Gay;
[12:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[12:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[1:00 am] The Street - Ep 1 No. 5 Bold Street - The Accident;
[2:00 am] My Husband Is Gay;
[3:00 am] Mile High - Episode 1;
[4:00 am] Mile High - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] Mile High - Episode 3;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing', another 'Million Dollar Listing', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing', and 'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has 'Reel Comedy', 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is dennis miller.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Andy Stern.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Wrath Of God', 'Mega Disasters', and 'Mega Movers'.
IFC -
[07:00 AM] The Young Girls of Rochefort;
[09:10 AM] The Tao of Steve;
[10:40 AM] Va Savoir;
[01:15 PM] Girls Town;
[02:50 PM] Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema;
[04:15 PM] The Young Girls of Rochefort;
[06:25 PM] Va Savoir;
[09:00 PM] The Rules of the Game;
[10:50 PM] L'Avventura;
[01:15 AM] The 400 Blows;
[02:55 AM] The Rules of the Game;
[04:45 AM] L'Avventura. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Dead Like Me', another 'Dead Like Me', followed by a FRESH'Eureka', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[06:15 AM] The Yes Men;
[07:45 AM] In Short: Jan Svankmajer;
[08:35 AM] Greendale;
[10:00 AM] Molly and Mobarak;
[11:30 AM] Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out;
[12:00 PM] The Heart of Me;
[01:45 PM] Bollywood/Hollywood;
[03:30 PM] Sign 'o' the Times;
[05:00 PM] The Yes Men;
[06:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Inside Out;
[07:00 PM] A Fond Kiss;
[08:45 PM] Stronger;
[09:00 PM] The Nominees: Episode 5;
[09:30 PM] City of Men - Season 2: Episode 3: It's Gotta Be Now;
[10:00 PM] The Heart of Me;
[11:45 PM] Being Bad;
[12:00 AM] Monkey Dust: Season 2: Episode 2;
[12:30 AM] Sunday;
[02:00 AM] The Nominees: Episode 5;
[02:30 AM] City of Men - Season 2: Episode 3: It's Gotta Be Now;
[03:00 AM] Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out;
[03:30 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 7;
[04:00 AM] Face (1997). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bavarian dressed Marion Hoffmann smiles as she visits the 173rd Oktoberfest, the biggest beer festival in the world, in Munich, October 2, 2006. Germans, in party mood after the World Cup and cheered by a pickup in the economy, have 18 days to consume millions of litres of beer and hundreds of thousands of sausages as the festival has been extended to include October 3 public holiday.
Photo by Alexandra Beier
More than 25,000 people rocked to John Mellencamp's "Little Pink Houses," sung along with Dave Matthews' "Crash into Me" and raised more than $1.5 million for farming at this weekend's Farm Aid concert.
Farm Aid campaign director Mark Smith said the tickets raised $1.1 million for the charity, which helps farmers in crisis and aids organizations that support farming.
Two big checks - $250,000 from Silk Soy Milk and $153,000 from a donation drive led by Chevrolet - were presented during the concert.
Other donations, merchandise sales and concession totals could take a few more days to tally.
U.S. actor David Hasselhoff poses for the media before the signing copies of his latest single 'Jump In My Car' at a music store in London, Monday, Oct. 2, 2006.
Photo by Sang Tan
Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello was arrested during a protest for hotel worker rights last week in Los Angeles.
According to Morello's social activism Web site Axis of Justice, he was one of about 400 protesters arrested during a march last Thursday to raise awareness for immigrant hotel workers' rights.
He was charged with unlawful assembly for refusing to move from the main entry road into Los Angeles International Airport.
Morello, 42, spent the evening in lockup and was released Friday morning. "Bail was high," he said each arrestee had to pay $5,000. But, he added, "spirits were higher. We had a rousing civil rights-era-like hootenanny on 'the inside.' "
Eric Clapton is playing "Cocaine" in concert again. The recovering drug addict and alcoholic, who founded the Crossroads Centre addiction recovery center on the Caribbean island of Antigua, stopped performing the song written by J.J. Cale when he first got sober.
"I thought that it might be giving the wrong message to people who were in the same boat as me," Clapton recently told The Associated Press.
"But further investigation proved ... the song, if anything, if it's not even ambivalent, it's an anti-drug song. And so I thought that might be a better way to do it, to approach it from a more positive point of view. And carry on performing it as not a pro-drug song, but just as a reality check about what it does."
Clapton also said he missed playing "Cocaine," with its signature guitar riff, "just purely from a musical point of view."
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) agreed on Monday to convene a conference late next year to complete negotiations on a new international broadcasting treaty, ending eight years of wrangling.
The WIPO general assembly, the United Nations agency's top decision-making body, called the so-called diplomatic conference for November 19-December 7, the agency said in a statement.
The conference will aim to update the 1961 Rome Convention on the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, which predates much of modern television technology.
A folk dancer performs during the annual Dussehra celebration in Mysore, about 148 km (92 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Bangalore October 2, 2006. The festival of Dussehra is celebrated to mark the victory of good over evil.
Photo by Jagadeesh Nv
Victoria Sellers, daughter of the late actor Peter Sellers, was arrested in Hollywood on immigration violations and will be deported to Britain, U.S. authorities said.
Sellers was being held in an Orange County detention centre after immigration agents arrested her Monday at an apartment, according to Jim Hayes, a field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She was taken into custody without incident.
He said she would be removed to Britain as soon as possible, but declined to say when.
Sellers, 41, was a U.S. permanent resident until April 2002, when an immigration judge ordered her removed from the country for a past criminal conviction, and had been living in the country illegally ever since with a warrant for her arrest, Hayes said.
Being Bobby Brown ain't easy these days. A family judge ordered the singer arrested if he steps foot in Massachusetts after Brown failed to show for a hearing Monday over delinquent child support payments.
Brown's attorney said it's a "very difficult time" for Brown, 37, whose tumultuous marriage to Whitney Houston is coming to an end. She filed for a legal separation earlier this month.
"Whether or not he's going through a divorce doesn't negate the fact that he still owes child support relative to his two children that he had prior to his marriage," said Norfolk Probate and Family Court Judge Paula Carey.
Kim Ward, of Stoughton, the mother of two of Brown's children, says Brown owes two months' support, or $11,000.
A model of the project of U.S. architect Franck Gehry is displayed during a presentation to announce the birth of the 'Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation', Monday Oct. 2, 2006 in Paris. The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, in line with the 15-year committment of the french luxury-goods Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) to promote culture, heritage and contemporary creation will be sited in the Jardin D'acclimatation in Paris and will be designed by Franck Gehry, the architect of projects including the famous Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao and the DZ bank Building in Berlin.
Photo by Francois Mori
George Michael was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana after police found him slumped over the steering wheel of his car in London, authorities said Monday.
Michael was arrested after police responded to complaints that a car was blocking an intersection in North London at 3:22 a.m. Sunday. He received a caution for possession of cannabis and was released on bail on a charge of being unfit to drive. He has a November court date.
Police had earlier warned Michael for possession of cannabis in February.
Two Danish artists travelling the world's hotspots from Baghdad to Serbia to poke fun at conflict slapped stickers with ironic messages across the Sri Lankan capital on Monday -- but the joke was lost on residents.
"Potentially prosperous society -- Of course you kill each other!" reads the caption of one sticker, depicting a gun with a flower dropping out of the barrel.
"We just want people to use their common sense and stop violence. That's our aim," said artist and copywriter Jan Egesborg as he pasted his conceptual art to a wall opposite a sandbag army bunker in downtown Colombo just hours after stepping off a flight from Copenhagen.
Egesborg and his art group Surrend aim to head to Kabul in Afghanistan next, and plan to stage an exhibition of their work in Copenhagen in 2008.
Fu Zupei, 57, from Zhejiang province, threads a snake through his nose during a stunt performance in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province October 2, 2006. China is celebrating a week-long National Day holiday, which started on Sunday, a time when millions of Chinese travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends.
The German government said on Monday a law penalizing people for displaying Nazi symbols might need to be changed after a court fined a man for selling anti-Nazi T-shirts and badges bearing swastikas.
The Nazi emblem appeared on the items in a circle with a large red line through it.
But a state court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart ruled on Friday it still violated German law because it risked making the hooked cross acceptable again.
It fined the 32-year-old distributor 3,600 euros ($4,560) in a decision widely condemned by German politicians over the weekend. The man's lawyer has said he plans to appeal.
Veteran Dobro musician Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh," has died at 79, his family said on Monday.
A member of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor, Graves played with the Earl Scruggs Revue in the 1970s and contributed to albums by Kris Kristofferson, John Hiatt and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
He died on Saturday at his Nashville home and had been in ill health in recent years, his family said.
The Dobro, a guitar with a resonator which gives it mechanical amplification, was showcased to bluegrass fans during the Scruggs shows. The instrument was developed by the Dopyera brothers, Slovakian immigrants, in the 1920s.
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