Recently, the FBI became part of the Bush administration's War on Porn, and the Bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for their fledgling obscenity squad. Ten agents were selected. What follows is my interview with one of them, who of course prefers to remain anonymous. Q. Why do you think that this undertaking was described in a memo to all 56 FBI field offices as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller? A. I think they figure that pornography is an easy target. It's what Congress asked for, and funded. Nobody wants to come out for porn. They're all sucking up to the religious right. Plus they're control freaks themselves. And this operation misdirects attention away from the results of their own insidiousness and incompetence. To tell you the truth, the guys I had worked with, they all thought it was just a big joke. This was in an FBI field office where there are really important projects - involving national security, high-technology crimes and public corruption - but I was feeling burnt out. I needed something less stressful. So I applied for the Hard-On Hunters, which is how my old buddies refer to it. They still razz the hell out of me. One guy says, "Hey, I thought there was supposed to be a war on terror going on." Then another guy says, "Yeah, and I thought it was supposed to be urgent that we develop better resources for espionage." And the first guy says, "I guess we must have been wrong." Q. So what exactly is it that you do in your new mission? A. We have to gather evidence against the manufacturers and purveyors of pornography. And it's not even the kind that exploits children - I mean, I'm totally against kiddy porn - but this is about the kind of material that's marketed to consenting adults. I never liked pornography myself - they used to show it at a college fraternity - but when I first joined the FBI, I swore to uphold the Constitution, not to trample on the Bill of Rights. In fact, the communiqué we got from the Justice Department even admitted that federal obscenity prosecutions encounter many legal issues, including claims of First Amendment rights, so applicants had to be prepared for the kind of material that tends to be most effective with local juries, because it's been shown that the best odds of conviction are in pornography cases that involve bestiality, urination, defecation, sadism and masochism. But it's a living. Q. How have you gone about doing your job? A. I started out with bestiality fetishes as my specialty. In the course of my research, I checked out Web sites with beautiful women fondling and fucking and sucking horses, snakes, cows, dogs, monkeys, sheep, donkeys, goats, pigs, and occasionally necking with a giraffe or humping a camel. Unlike regular commercial movies that are shown in theaters, online pornography doesn't include any disclaimers, such as "No animals were harmed during the making of this film." There are no overseers from the American Humane Society. Nor are there any complaints from People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Q. So tell me, did you get aroused? A. Actually, yes, I did, but I was aroused only by the women, not by any of the animals. Later on, though, when I was investigating a whole variety of kinky sites - from female ejaculators who are squirtaholics to tobacco addicts who smoke before, during and after sex - and then I found one that was devoted entirely to women who wear eyeglasses and the men who love to come on them, that is, on the glasses, while they're being worn, and somehow that really turns me on. I've become obsessed with it. I'm seeing a psychiatrist twice a week now. She practices hypnotic age regression, and she took me all the way back to when I was being breast-fed, and my mother wore glasses, and that became associated with sensuality. And now that I understand the cause of my fixation, I can begin to wean myself from it. Q. What's next for you, then? A. Well, I've learned that digitized pornography on cell phones is a huge business overseas, and it's coming to America. Cingular Wireless, the country's largest cell phone service, has quietly launched filtering devices and password-enable blockers that will help thwart underage consumers from buying adult content. But what we're more concerned about is a new trend where adult film stars make groaning and moaning noises for cell phone ring tones. It feels like the whole world is getting completely out of control - our control.
Paul Krassner is the author of One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, published by Seven Stories Press; he publishes The Disneyland Memorial Orgy at www.paulkrassner.com.
Every so often, I forget my age on the Friday when I come in to the comic shop, look at what is sitting in my "pull box" and become that 12 year old who had just discovered super-hero comics. Last week was one of those weeks as the third volume of the Complete Neal Adams Batman was finally in.
In the 60's (long before I was reading comics) most comic book companies were suffering from falling sales, and decided that they needed to change hat they were doing. DC got lucky with the Batman TV show, since Batman was a failing character at the time, and DC had brought in a new editorial team and creative crew to try and get the character to sell again, but just as they started their work, the TV show hit. They were just hitting their stride, having gotten rid of a lot of the sillier elements of Batman (time travel, Bat-Mite, Bat Hound and the like) and the character and raising sales so that the two Batman books were no longer in danger of being canceled.
The show was campy and goofy, and a LOT of comic book fans claim to hate the show, saying it made Batman into a goof. The dirty little little secret most comics fans don't like to face is that the Batman comic was just as goofy, if not worse, up until 1964/5, and some of the comics from the 50's and early 60's were adapted for the show.
After the TV show had run its course and sales on Batman started to drop off again, the editorial team brought in a new group of writers and artists, one of whom was Neal Adams. Adams had started in newspaper strips and had made a name for himself on Ben Casey, putting it in more papers than any other "non-humor" strip at the time. He moved in to comics, doing work on lesser characters at both DC and Marvel and was well known for his stints on Deadman, The Spectre, The X-Men and Green Lantern. He was well regarded by fans for bringing a dynamic realism to the super-hero genre and produced an entire generation of artists who slavishly aped his style, but failed to capture the energy and style he was able to bring to his work. Still, none of the books he worked on sold well, and he was thought of as an artists that only the fans liked, and comic still sold to casual readers back in the 60's and 70's.
However, when he moved on to Batman, both his popularity and the sales of Batman exploded.
DC has published two volumes of his work, but the third volume features his later work on the character, as well as two comics he did that were distributed with record albums that turned the stories into "radio dramas". Adams's art is dynamic and even thought the work in the book is over 30 years old, it looks more exciting and modern than most comic art is now. The stories are also outstanding, and many of the stories in this volume were used for ideas in "Batman Begins", but have a complexity and drama that comics just weren't used to back in the early 70's.
Each of the books is a $50 hardcover, but unlike most of the Big Expensive Hardcovers comic book companies come out with, this isn't just for hard-core collectors. Batman comes off as a fascinating character in these stories, and Adams's art is some of the best ever to be in a comic book, and the new printing techniques and coloring show off the rich attention to detail and design sense that Adams has. Adams's work in comics has been rare since he left Batman, having gone to the more lucrative world of advertising and movie poster illustration, but he still thinks about comics and has said he has at least one more Batman story in him.
These are stories you will read more than once and are more than worth the hefty price tag. Batman by Neal Adams gets a perfect 5 out of 5.
(I don't even TRY to be objective because I think Neal Adams is one of the top five artists in comics ever.)
EDMUND L. ANDREWS: As Profits Soar, Companies Pay U.S. Less for Gas Rights (nytimes.com)
From 1998 to 2001, a dozen major companies, while admitting no wrongdoing, paid a total of $438 million to settle charges that they had fraudulently understated their sale prices for oil. Since then, the government has tightened its rules for oil payments. But with natural gas, the Bush administration recently loosened the rules and eased its audits intended to uncover cheating.
Jim Hightower: Vanquishing the American Dream (Hightower Lowdown. Posted on Alternet.org)
Late last year, just before the holidays, General Motors (whose president once famously declared that what's good for GM is good for America) announced that it was closing 12 of its U.S. plants, eliminating 30,000 hourly jobs and whacking a billion dollars a year out of the health-care benefits it owes to its blue-collar workers and retirees. Two weeks later, GM announced that it was going to triple the number of cars it makes in low-wage India.
Jonathan Rauch: Why Republicans Can't Cut Spending: The GOP switch from government-shrinking to machine-building has backfired (reason.com)
Meanwhile, another budget bill is slated to cut taxes by $70 billion over the same five-year period. The net effect of the two bills (known as reconciliation bills) would be to increase the deficit by $30 billion. "The fact that the overall effect of reconciliation taken together was to enlarge rather than reduce the deficit undermines the credibility of anyone claiming that this was a deficit-reduction package," says Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal-watchdog group.
LARRY DOYLE: LET'S TALK ABOUT MY NEW MOVIE (newyorker.com)
Some members of the media have pointed out that our story contains eerie parallels to the current situation, and that's their job, I guess-to scare away potential moviegoers, at least when they're not pawing through my garbage, their tiny red eyes caught in the glare of my security lights, their pointy yellow teeth flecked with coffee grounds and dripping rancid goo, possibly separated butter. But I digress.
Ed Welch: NBC Drops 'Book Of Daniel' (365Gay.com)
But NBC insists it was ratings and not pressure from conservative Christians that sank the show. "The Book of Daniel" lost about a quarter of its viewers over its few weeks on the air. Nevertheless, the AFA declared victory. "This shows the average American that he doesn't have to simply sit back and take the trash being offered on TV, but he can get involved and fight back with his pocketbook," said AFA Chair Donald E. Wildmon in a statement Tuesday. "We want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates." The AFA has a long history of boycotts and threats against companies that are perceived as gay friendly.
David Bruce: Wise Up: Education (athensnews.com)
A young writer named George Zournas greatly admired choreographer Martha Graham, and he took one of her dance classes. Unfortunately, he was wearing new blue swim trunks, and as he began to perspire, the dye from the new blue swim trunks started to stain the newly surfaced dance floor. Ms. Graham told him, "I forbid you to perspire. It's only self-indulgence." Mr. Zournas later told dance critic Walter Terry, "I did stop. I was too scared of her to disobey.
SEVEN McDONALD: Fairy Lust (laweekly.com)
"It was so embarrassing. I heard girls reading poems at Beyond Baroque and saying, 'This is for Viggo.'" Snowlake met a filmmaker who broke up with her boyfriend on the slim chance that should she ever meet Mortensen she would be available. She also met a trust-fund beauty who purchased a mustang just so she could hire Mortensen's horse trainer.
I was taken aback a few weeks ago when it was reported here that the NBC show 'Medium' was so good and popular that it had been picked up for syndication on Lifetime network or some such crap.
How can that be? That show sucks so effin' loud.
Sitting here now I'm watching my local NBC news and they run one of those fluffer commercials for how cool everyone thinks 'Medium' is and it prompted me to check the user comments on IMDB.
User comments have become one of my favorite indicators. That's why when I checked for 'Medium' I could tell by the four pages of steaming corporate spurious reviews that the fix was in.
Lots of crap about how cool it is for them to show the inner dynamics and stress between the married couple blah blah blah...
Each show I've seen has lots of scenes where the couple are just waking up and falling asleep. Yeah I suppose it's cute for some but to me it's all delivering mush-brained lines in a groggy croak - crap acting as a result of crap writing.
Had a good laugh last week where Leno had the one of the child actors from the show. She bugged the crap out of me (most kids do) but she did say something about not being able to bear even looking at it. I couldn't agree more.
Craig
Thanks, Craig!
Maybe it's called 'Medium' because it's not well done.
The hot water won't turn off in the bathtub - the plumber was called last week & was supposed to show up between 8am & 10am today.
He called around noon to say he was running late. Ran so late he never showed up.
As we were eating supper, he called & said he'd be here either tomorrow or, more likely, Thursday.
The refrigerator shares the wall that houses the bathtub pipes, so had the fridge pulled out, and then danced around it all day.
Guess we'll be dancing for a couple more days.
No new flags.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Still Standing', followed by a FRESH'Yes, Dear', then a FRESH'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Mischa Barton, Jeff Altman, and Wicked Wisdom.
On a RERUNCraig (from 1/10/06) are Dr. Phil McGraw, weather correspondent Dave Price, and Sebastian Maniscalco.
NBC opens the night with the FRESH'Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable', followed by a FRESH'Biggest Loser: Special Edition', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kate Beckinsale, Kinky Friedman, and Nickel Creek.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are James Carville and Yellowcard.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Jordana Brewster and Ying Yang Twins.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH'Freddie', then a FRESH'Lost', followed by a FRESH'Invasion'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel is Mike Epps.
The WB offers a FRESH'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Geek'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Bones'.
UPN has a FRESH'South Beach', followed by a FRESH'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Inked', followed by a FRESH'Inked', 'Criss Angel', and another 'Criss Angel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Death Hunt', followed by the movie 'Goldfinger', then the movie 'Thunderball'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Nude Man;
[2:40pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 1;
[3:20pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 2;
[4pm] 'At Home with the Braithwaites' - Episode 6;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 9;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 18;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 50;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[9pm] 'Little Angels' - Episode 4;
[9:40pm] 'A Week of Dressing' Dangerously - Episode 4;
[10:20pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Nude Man;
[11:40pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - Communication Problems;
[12:20am] 'Fawlty Towers' - Waldorf Salad;
[1am] 'Little Angels' - Episode 4;
[1:40am] 'A Week of Dressing Dangerously' - Episode 4;
[2:20am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 4;
[3am] 'Trust' - Episode 4;
[4am] 'Trust' - Episode 5;
[5am] 'Trust' - Episode 6;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', then a FRESH'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Anthony Hopkins.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Norah Vincent.
History has 'U.S. Mints', 'Nature Tech', 'Modern Marvels', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Keep The River On Your Right (2000);
[7:45AM] Home Movie (2002);
[9AM] Happy Times (2001);
[11AM] IFC Short Film Collection II: January (2006);
[1PM] The Broken Hearts Club (2000);
[2:45PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[3PM] Slasher (2004);
[4:30PM] Happy Times (2001);
[6:30PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[6:45PM] IFC News Special: Comic-Con Chronicles (2005);
[7:15PM] The Broken Hearts Club (2000);
[9PM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[10:35PM] Before Night Falls (2000);
[1AM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[2:35AM] Before Night Falls (2000);
[5AM] Baad Asssss Cinema (2003). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Out Of The Blue', followed by the movie 'The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Evidence'.
Sundance -
[7AM] Festival Dailies 2006: (1/24/06);
[7:30AM] Gerry;
[9:15AM] Pripyat;
[11AM] Festival Dailies 2006: (1/24/06);
[11:30AM] I Am Cuba;
[2PM] I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth;
[3:30PM] Festival Dailies 2006: (1/24/06);
[4PM] Ford Transit;
[5:15PM] Gerry;
[7PM] Career Girls;
[8:30PM] Kath & Kim: Foxy On the Run;
[9PM] Festival Dailies 2006: (1/25/06);
[9:30PM] Police Beat;
[11PM] Sangam;
[11:30PM] Festival Dailies 2006: (1/25/06);
[12AM] Three Seasons;
[1:45AM] Female Perversions;
[3:40AM] AKA;
[5:30AM] Career Girls. (ALL TIMES EST)
Director Jonathan Demme, center, talks to Neil Young and his wife Pegi as they wait for their film 'Neil Young: Heart of Gold' to begin at the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Monday, Jan. 23, 2006.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's second book about global warming will be published in April with the title "An Inconvenient Truth," his publisher Rodale Books said on Tuesday.
The book is tied to a documentary of the same title about Gore's environmental campaigning which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. It follows up on Gore's successful 1992 book "Earth in The Balance."
Gore served two terms as vice president under President Bill Clinton before losing to Bush in the 2000 election despite winning the popular vote.
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.
"I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling," said Sheehan, who gained notoriety when she camped outside US resident George W. Bush's ranch last year to protest the Iraq war. She said she hoped to meet Chavez later in the week.
Sheehan was among more than 10,000 people from across the Americas who took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital Tuesday in an anti-war protest that launched the six-day Caracas World Social Forum (WSF).
We must stop the Iraq war, we must not let it happen again, said Sheehan, who has been arrested at least twice while demonstrating outside the White House.
American peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, participates in an anti- war march that kicked off the sixth World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006.
Photo by Fernando Llano
Two small, long-struggling television networks - UPN and The WB - will shut down this fall and programming from both will be used to launch a new network aimed mainly at young and minority viewers.
The new network will be called The CW - "C" for CBS Corp. and "W" for Warner Bros. - each of which will own half of the new entity and contribute programs, assets and executives to the venture.
The new network will draw on programming from both UPN, whose shows include "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Veronica Mars," as well as from the slate of The WB, which includes "Supernatural," "Smallville" and "Everwood."
Tribune Co., a Chicago-based media company, will relinquish its 22.5 percent stake in The WB in exchange for a 10-year affiliation deal to carry the new network on 16 of its stations. The rest of The WB was owned by Time Warner Inc., parent of Warner Bros.
Rapper Kanye West, unafraid to speak out over personal slights and more serious charges of political persecution, wears a crown of thorns as he poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone.
The feisty West also posed as Muhammad Ali for the magazine story, in which he complains that his hit "Gold Digger" should have been nominated for a Grammy as best rap song.
West caused a stir during an NBC TV benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims last September when in an impromptu remark he accused resident George W. Bush of racism.
"George Bush doesn't care about black people," West said in reference to delays in providing relief to survivors of the hurricane that hit the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Actress Amber Tamblyn arrives with her father Russ as guests to the screening of the film 'Neil Young:Heart of Gold' Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in stock in a deal that could restore Disney's clout in animation while vaulting Pixar CEO Steve Jobs into a powerful role at the media conglomerate.
Disney's purchase of the maker of the blockbuster films "Toy Story and "Finding Nemo" would make Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. Jobs, who owns more than half of Pixar's shares and also heads Apple Computer Inc., will also join Disney's board.
Disney has co-financed and distributed Pixar's animated films for the past 12 years, splitting the profits. But that deal expires in June after Pixar delivers "Cars" and it had once appeared the companies would not renew it amid friction between Jobs and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
Donald Trump has filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the author and publisher of "TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald," claiming the book knowingly understated the celebrity businessman's wealth.
A lawyer for Trump filed a complaint in New Jersey Superior Court in Camden on Monday accusing Timothy O'Brien, a New York Times business reporter, of damaging the real estate magnate's reputation. Time Warner Book Group and Warner Books Inc., which published the 288-page book in October, are named as co-defendants.
The lawsuit takes issue with O'Brien's use of three unnamed sources who said Trump "was not remotely close to being a billionaire," and put his net worth between $150 million and $250 million. Trump's suit suggests his fortune is closer to $2.7 billion.
Georgetown University students stand and turn their backs on U.S. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales in protest as he speaks about domestic wiretapping in the United States during an appearance at the university's 'Georgetown National Law Forum' in Washington January 24, 2006.
Photo by Evan Sisley
French police who spent two years trying to identify a woman who was murdered by a blow to the head were relieved to discover the reason their efforts were failing: the woman died half a millennium ago.
The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in December 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc'h. A long gash in the skull convinced investigators she was killed with a hatchet or other sharp implement.
Police ploughed through missing persons' files to no avail. A theory that the woman was the wife of a Normandy doctor who disappeared with his family in a famous 1999 case was dismissed after DNA tests.
Eventually radiocarbon dating established that the death had occurred between 1401 and 1453.
Chita Rivera, left, and Dick Van Dyke pose on the stage of Broadway's Schoenfeld Theater Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, in New York as they are reunited on a Broadway stage for the first time in more than 45 years since they co-starred in the musical 'Bye Bye Birdie.' Van Dyke will make special guest appearances in four performances of the musical 'Chita Rivera:The Dancer's Life' from January 24 thru January 26..
Photo by Tina Fineberg
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Jan. 16-22. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
1. Movie: "High School Musical" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 4.97 million homes, 7.73 million viewers.
2. Movie: "High School Musical" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 4.11 million homes, 6.12 million viewers.
3. "Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour 2" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 4.09 million homes, 5.48 million viewers.
4. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.93 million homes, 6.00 million viewers.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.88 million homes, 5.20 million viewers.
6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.86 million homes, 5.24 million viewers.
7. Movie: "High School Musical" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.67 million homes, 4.86 million viewers.
8. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.43 million homes, 4.53 million viewers.
9. "Suite Life of Zack & Cody" (Friday, 7:30 p.m.), Disney, 3.40 million homes, 4.78 million homes.
10. "Suite Life of Zack & Cody" (Friday, 9:50 p.m.), Disney, 3.35 million homes, 4.83 million homes.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.31 million homes, 4.44 million viewers.
12. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.15 million homes, 4.24 million viewers.
13. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.11 million homes, 4.08 million viewers.
14. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.07 million homes, 4.14 million viewers.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.05 million homes, 4.24 million viewers.
Indian folk dancers perform during the National Folk Dance Festival 2006 ahead of the Republic Day in New Delhi January 24, 2006. India will celebrate its 57th Republic Day on Thursday.
Photo by B Mathur
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Jan. 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.
An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "American Idol-Tuesday," Fox, 35.5 million viewers.
2. (X) Fox NFC Championship, Fox, 35.2 million viewers.
3. (2) "American Idol-Wednesday," Fox, 31.7 million viewers.
4. (3) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 27.1 million viewers.
5. (4) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 25.3 million viewers.
6. (X) Fox NFC Championship - "Gun," Fox, 24.6 million viewers.
7. (5) "Without a Trace," CBS, 23.1 million viewers.
8. (8) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 21.0 million viewers.
9. (12) "Lost," ABC, 19.1 million viewers.
10. (7) "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 19.0 million viewers.
11. (X) " Golden Globe Awards," NBC, 18.8 million viewers.
12. (9) "Skating With Celebrities," Fox, 18.7 million viewers.
13. (12) "NCIS," CBS, 17.7 million viewers.
14. (21) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 16.1 million viewers.
15. (16) "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," NBC, 16.1 million viewers.
16. (21) "24," Fox, 15.7 million viewers.
17. (18) "CSI: N.Y.," CBS, 15.5 million viewers.
18. (19) "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.4 million viewers.
19. (X) Fox NFC Championship - Post-game, Fox, 15.3 million viewers.
20. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (Special), CBS, 14.8 million viewers.
A recreational fisherman tends his line near the Sydney Opera House January 25, 2006. The New South Wales Government placed a three-month-long ban on commercial fishing in Sydney Harbour Tuesday after high levels of dioxin have been found in fish and prawns, according to local media. Recreational anglers have been told not to eat their catch and have been encouraged to catch and release.
Photo by Will Burgess
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