M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN from December 9th, 2009
If DJ's Looked Like Their Names
By DJ Useo
For a change of pace in this week's column, let's pretend the DJ's who make the mashups look like their names. Included are the three mashups posted by each DJ.
01 - DJ Spider ( www.djspider.com/ )
a. Too Close to Christmas (Blue vs. Christina Aguilera)
b. I Got a Feeling My Sex is on Fire (Black Eyed Peas vs. Kings of Leon)
c. Free Lola (Shapeshifter vs. Agnes)
02 - Colatron ( www.colatron.com/ )
a. The Science of Telephony (Mike Lennon vs Blondie vs Ella Fitzgerald)
b. Sleeping In Space (Morcheeba vs David Bowie vs John Foxx)
c. God In The Mirror (Michael Jackson vs Eric Clapton)
03 - World Famous Audio Hacker ( www.audiohacker.com/ )
a. Chemical Brothers-Setting Sun (Hacker's Hardcore Dub)
b. Say It Right (The Joker) (Nelly Furtado vs JJ Jones)
c. DO Ya Want Sexyback? (Rod Stewart vs Justin Timberlake)
04 - ToTom ( www.boototom.info/ )
a. Like An Ace Of Spades (Madonna vs Motorhead)
b. Sergeant Pepper à Rio (Beatles vs Sacha Distel)
c. Lucid Dreams (Pink Floyd vs Franz Ferdinand)
05 - DJ Le CLown ( djleclown.free.fr/index.html )
a. Billy Bootie Lazer (Michael Jackson vs Major Lazer)
b. Rocknrolla (Black Strobe vs The Prodigy vs Public Enemy)
c. Fire Can't Go Wrong (South Central vs Arthur Brown)
06 - DJ BC ( www.djbc.net/ )
a. Bossa Confusion (New Order vs Elis Regina)
b. David Bowie-Suffragette City (dj BC's Sufferin' Remix)
c. (Here Comes The) Champ In Black (The Mohawks vs Ini Kamoze vs AC/DC)
07 - The Homogenic Chaos ( thehomogenicchaos.blogspot.com/ )
a. Standing In The Ambulance Of Fire (Simian Mobile Disco vs Kings Of Leon vs The Gossip vs Chemical Brothers vs Santogold)
b. One More Time On The Dub Harlem Van (Ladyhawk vs Bimbo Jones vs Beats International vs. Bloc Party)
c. Boy! You Know The Love On My Mind (Freemasons vs Alanis Morrisette vs Beyonce vs David Guetta vs Everlast)
08 - Chocomang ( chocomang.org/mashup/index_en.htm )
a. Bizkit Bop (Limp Bizkit vs Ramones)
b. Last Night A Starlight Saved My Life (Muse vs Indeep)
c. Jamaica Undone (Greyhound vs Korn)
There you go. Summat to look at, summat to listen to, & nawt to read. Well, very little.
CONTEST TIME - Part 2 Contest OverTake some cartoon characters and pit them all in the same frame.
It's as simple as that.
Send your entries to me useo8@yahoo.com or Marty here at BARTCOP E.
I'll post all entries here and best entry wins a hand-drawn pic of their choice drawn by me.
This contest will ran all December with winner announced December 30th, 2009.
Here's an entry from Ittiga2435.
& here's an entry with cats from Sambough.
Here's an example of what I might draw for you if you win. This is a pick I drew by request for a new site called
WHALE SNAIL ( awhaleisasnailintheocean.tumblr.com/ )
Remember to enter. If you wish to NOT enter, please send money or possessions worth over $200, & do not pass go.
So, you see, it's much easier to merely enter.
Mashup Tip : Always check the mashup wrapper for allergy information. Some tracks are processed with nuts.
DJ Useo's Podcast
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jim Hightower: HEALTH CARE, GUNS, AND CONGRESS CRITTERS
Isn't it nice to know that whenever America faces a big issue, Americans can always count on Congress to be there. For themselves, that is.
Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich (Wall Street Journal)
The president was too polite to mention it during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, but here's a quick summary of the problem: The U.S. is broke. The hole is too big to plug with cost cutting or economic growth alone. Rich people have money. No one else does. Rich people have enough clout to block higher taxes on themselves, and they will.
Paul Krugman: The Kitchen Test (New York Times)
Tyler Cowen argues that technological change since the early 1960s hasn't been as transformative for ordinary peoples' lives as the change that went before. I agree.
Noreen Malone: The Case Against Economic Disaster Porn (The National Review)
These indelible pictures present an un-nuanced and static vision of Detroit. They might serve to "raise awareness" of the Rust Belt's blight, but raising awareness is only useful if it provokes a next step, a move toward trying to fix a problem. By presenting Detroit, and other hurting cities like it, as places beyond repair, they in fact quash any such instinct.
Scott Burns: Home Brew Portfolios Rule! (assetbuilder.com)
The mutual fund industry keeps telling us that constant attention and skilled management is the key to our financial future. Pay here now.
It's a comforting mantra. Too bad it isn't true.
Pia Catton: Creating a Body of a Ballerina (Wall Street Journal)
Mary Helen Bowers is the person responsible for training Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan.' For the rest of us, Ms. Bowers has created Ballet Beautiful, a workout that can be taken privately in person or online.
Spirit of the underground: dance (Guardian)
Of all the countercultural acitivities we tried to document, dance was the hardest to track down. Word-of-mouth promotion and invite-only guest lists are the order of the day, finds John O'Mahony.
Spirit of the underground: Film (Guardian)
There may still be a film underground, but thanks to websites like YouTube, it's plain for all to see, writes Peter Bradshaw.
Elizabeth Day: "Keira Knightley: 'I didn't feel I deserved my success'" (Guardian)
The star of 'Never Let Me Go' on being chippy, playing a bad girl and making Carey Mulligan cry.
George Varga: Smashing Pumpkins Frontman Corgan No Longer Lashes Out At Every Opportunity -- But He's Still Got Some Things To Say (Creators Syndicate)
A perpetual provocateur, Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan is one of alternative-rock's most outspoken musicians. But after nearly 20 years creating near-constant controversy with his opinions, he no longer feels duty-bound to speak out.
Adam Gold: "Jack White's Third Man Records tells the world: Your Music City is not dead" (Nashville Scene)
The House that Jack Built.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Good Deeds (The Athens News)
On Sept. 5, 1987, Alex Cumba, 23, of Manhattan, suffered a seizure and fell onto the tracks of a New York City subway train. Three men - Melvin Shadd, 26, Edwin Ortiz, 30, and Jeff Kuhn, 44 - jumped in after him and tried to raise him back to the platform, but he was too heavy. With a train coming, Mr. Shadd scrambled back to the platform, while Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Kuhn pushed Mr. Cumba into the recess formed by the platform overhanging the track and then jumped in with him as the train came roaring into the station. Except for a slight cut that Mr. Cumba received when he fell, no one was injured. Mr. Cumba said about his rescuers, "I sure as hell thank them."
David Bruce has 40 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $40 you can buy 10,000 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
first hand account
Cairo
(submission of first hand account from Cairo by an American, yours to publish)
I noticed the small throngs of young people at 6 October bridge at dusk on December 26, 2010, as I inched across the Nile after my solo jaunt to the fabled Egyptian museum. Nobody was paying any attention to them or to Egypt as the media was fixated on the protests in Tunisia. The ocean of stalled traffic and noxious fumes seemed as vast as the Sahara and contrasted sharply to the dreamy nether world of ancient emperors Akhenaton and Ramses, and the glorious history of Egyptians long past. “25 million people in Cairo,” the taxi driver blurted out. In the coming days I marvelled that motorists didn’t jump out of their cars and shoot each other in road rage. Cairo is an utterly unliveable city. In all my travels I had never seen such anarchy, congestion, lack of planning and maladroit city government, and this before the insurrection.
I felt smothered by the dust and over the coming weeks the breathless financial asphyxiation of every Egyptian I encountered reminded me of a drowning man. I imbibed the grandeur of the Pyramids of Giza and visited Memphis before I resolved to flee the Hades of Cairo and head to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, before returning once again to Cairo after a stint in Sharm el-Sheik and my risible expulsion back to Egypt after a ludicrous six-hour interrogation by Israeli border guards filled with astringent paranoia . Indeed, all the Egyptians address me in Arabic as my African-American heritage spawns illusions that I am their Native Son and likely source of sympathy along with badly needed cash. The dearth of economic opportunity warps personalities and makes human beings disingenuous and sleazy. I remarked, and Egyptians I met concurred, that the only thing keeping a lid on the situation in Cairo is Islam, which is omnipresent and reaches the lower depths of the subconscious of everybody here. It’s the anti-freeze that keeps boiling hot water from boiling. The same can be said of the country as a whole. Dour catechism puts a brake on Egyptians’ instincts and urges to lash out...until now. For all the feckless hand-wringing and shibboleths rolling of the tongues of half-bright talkingheads about the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic influence, it is Islam that greases the wheels of the untenable status-quo they yearn for I also suspect that Egyptian males feel stifled in this very conservative and sexually repressed society. Women outside of the tourist industry remain covered in head scarves and dwell in the shadows. In Egypt, a man without a job might as well be a eunuch because he ain’t gettin’ any. In the 1930s psychologist Wilhelm Reich explored the link between sexual denial in German culture and the rise of Fascism. Today in Egypt involuntary asceticism fans the flames of revolution and if the revolution is denied, Islamic extremism will find fertile ground.
The Praetorian Guard
Dapper soon to be ex-president for life Hosni Mubarak is actually an Air Force general old enough to have gotten his wings on propeller aircraft in the wake of World War II, but artful cosmetic surgery makes him appear to be in his 50s. He is larger than life in a dark suite and sunglasses leading troops in to battle on government murals, MiGs overhead. To his left are images and reliefs of pharaohs firing arrows from bigas. As a warrior and a survivor he should know that winners leave the scene on a high note. Why he wants to hang on to power at his age, I don’t know, but his intransigence has given me the opportunity to watch all kinds of military hardware I haven’t seen since I was a kid at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. I feel like bird watcher: Here comes a column of desert tan M-19 armored personnel carriers strutting their stuff. A relic of the Korean War,the M-47 tank , does duty at the Kasr bridge. M-48s and a Soviet T-62 joined the melee yesterday. Even a mighty M-1 Abrams, the current main battle tank of the United States was on hand, and while at first the mobs were intimidated and ducked for cover, the soldiers held their fire. Nor did they fire warning shots. The NCOs and enlisted men are ambivalent and the crowds regained their nerve. The youth beseech the soldiers to join them. What will pharaoh do now? I am reminded of the iconic photo of a protestor putting long stemmed flowers into the barrels of National Guard rifles at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in the 60s. This afternoon F-16s, gifts from my country, screamed at 1000 feet. What is the point? Will the Egyptian Air Force drop bombs on Cairo the way Mayor Goode’s police department used helicopters to bomb and burn sixty blocks of Philly back in 1985?
What is to be Done?
What this revolution needs now is leadership, personality and a programme beyond ending the reign of Pharaoh Mubarak. Its easy to unite people around a negative because the myriad possible outcomes are not in contention now, but will come into relief after the euphoria of his flight to that toxic waste dump for deposed despots, Saudi Arabia. The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 must establish a democratic, intellectual and labor leadership and plan for economic and political overhaul of the country in consultation with the Egyptian business community. A new constitution and bill of rights must be passed and foreign investment has to increase on a massive scale or unemployment and poverty will fester under the new democratic government. The Egyptian economy has to produce 600,000 new jobs a year just to keep up with population growth. No matter how earnest the new leadership, eighty million people can not live off of tourism, carpets and Suez Canal fees. Egypt is 96% desert; its competitive advantage is to be a solar energy superpower that exports cheap electricity to Europe. Egyptians learn to speak multiple foreign languages with ease and the country has great potential as a call-centre powerhouse. This is only the beginning.
The Revolution Will be Televised
The Revolution will be captured on cell phones and uploaded to the BBC. The Revolution will be on line, on Youtube and on your mind. The Revolution will be brought to you in real time by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The Revolution will not be parsed by Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room or explained by former Secretary of State Madelyn Halfbright. The Revolution will be recycled over and over on the 24 hour news cycle. The Revolution update you on Twitter and like you back on Facebook. The Revolution will be decried by pundits who are highly qualified fools. The Revolution will be misconstrued by Sunday morning talking-heads and condemned by bombastic demagogues on Fox News. The Revolution will speak through Hugo Chavez. The Revolution will foil the plans of pathological K Street interest groups that long ago hijacked my country’s foreign policy. The Revolution will lead you to ask why the U.S. government allows a certain client state to detain Americans for six months without charge and force them to sign confessions in a language they don’t understand. The Revolution will expose the hypocrisy of power brokers who say violence is not the answer while escalating violence in Afghanistan. The Revolution will ask why your government spies on you, concocts phony terrorist plots and touches your junk at the airport. The Revolution will leave the Marseille and the 1812 Overture ringing in your ears and Public Enemy on your iPod. The Revolution will set you free, brother. Long Live the Revolution in Cairo and beyond.
Daniel Bruno Sanz
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and windy.
Breitbart Tactics
Planned Parenthood
An anti-abortion group Tuesday released undercover video taken in its latest attempt to discredit Planned Parenthood - footage of operatives posing as a pimp and a prostitute seeking health services at a New Jersey clinic.
The group releasing the video, Live Action, said it depicted a clinic employee offering to help cover up a sex ring so that its prostitutes could receive health services. Planned Parenthood said it had promptly notified law enforcement authorities after the visit, but it also said it was investigating whether the clinic employee in the video may have violated some of the organization's policies.
Planned Parenthood had proactively revealed the broad outlines of the new undercover operation last week, reporting that at least 12 of its clinics across the country had been visited by men claiming to be sex-traffickers.
In detailing the series of clinic visits, Planned Parenthood spokesman Stuart Schear last week assailed the undercover tactics.
"Falsely claiming sex trafficking to health professionals to advance a political agenda is an astoundingly cynical form of political activity," he said.
Planned Parenthood
Veterans Sign On For TNT Remake
"Dallas"
TNT has lured three original "Dallas" stars to join the cast of its similarly titled pilot, which is an update of the classic series.
Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray have joined the cast of the new project, which focuses on the Ewing offspring -- J.R. Ewing's (Hagman) son, John Ross, and the adopted son of Bobby (Duffy) and Pam Ewing, Christopher -- as they clash over the future of the family dynasty. Gray played J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen, in the original series, which ran from 1978-91.
Also signing on for roles are Josh Henderson ("Desperate Housewives"), who will play John, and Jordana Brewster ("Fast & Furious") as Elena, who is involved in a love triangle with Christopher and John.
"Dallas"
Citigroup Takes Over Record Label
EMI
Citigroup Inc. has taken over debt-strapped EMI Group Ltd., closing a disastrous purchase of the music label by Guy Hands, founder of British private equity firm Terra Firma.
The foreclosure by Citigroup, EMI's main lender, brings the label of British acts such as The Beatles and Pink Floyd under American control until a new buyer can be found.
The takeover had been long expected, but came suddenly more than a month before Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. officially defaulted on roughly 3.4 billion pounds ($5.48 billion) of borrowings it took on to buy the label in 2007.
When restructuring talks between Citigroup and Hands became unproductive - and while they remain at loggerheads in a lawsuit - Citigroup pulled the trigger and seized control Tuesday in a move that was approved by EMI's direct managers within five hours, said Roger Faxon, chief executive of EMI.
EMI
Baby News
Sadie Grace LeNoble
Christina Applegate is a mom.
Publicist Ame Van Iden says in a brief news release Tuesday that Sadie Grace LeNoble was born Jan. 27 in Los Angeles and the actress and daughter are doing great. There are no other details.
The 39-year-old "Married ... With Children" and "Samantha Who?" star and 41-year-old Dutch musician Martyn LeNoble became engaged last Valentine's Day. Her pregnancy was announced in July.
Sadie Grace LeNoble
Hospital News
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress has been taken back to a Los Angeles hospital because she started spitting up blood and mucous.
John Blanchette says just before 10 a.m. Tuesday, doctors told Gabor's husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, that she was bleeding internally and he should call an ambulance.
Gabor was released from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center a week after doctors amputated most of her right leg on Jan. 14.
Blanchette says the 93-year-old actress didn't recognize her doctor or her husband on Sunday.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Move To Dismiss Vet's Lawsuit
'Hurt Locker'
The makers of "The Hurt Locker" are asking a federal judge to take part in a belated Oscar screening of sorts - to watch a DVD of the film and then dismiss an Iraq war veteran's claims it is based on him.
The makers of the Academy Award-winning movie asked the judge on Tuesday to dismiss Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver's lawsuit, saying the film is a fictional work. The filings, accompanied by the DVD, contend many of Sarver's claims of similarity are contradicted by watching the movie.
The filings by attorneys for producer Nicolas Chartier and several film companies also maintain "The Hurt Locker" does not violate Sarver's likeness rights because he is not portrayed or named in the film. Summit Entertainment, which acquired the film's rights and released it in June 2009, is supporting the motion.
Sarver deployed to Iraq in 2004 as an explosive ordnance disposal technician tasked with identifying and disposing unexploded munitions and improvised explosive devices, according to his lawsuit. Screenwriter Mark Boal was embedded with Sarver's company in late 2004 and wrote an article, "The Man in the Bomb Suit," for Playboy that revealed numerous details of Sarver's personal life.
'Hurt Locker'
Signal Jammed In Middle East
Al Jazeera
Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said its signal was being jammed in parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, days after Egypt shut the network's operations in the country and an Egyptian satellite cut its broadcast signal.
"Signals on the Nilesat platform were cut, and frequencies on the Arabsat and Hotbird platforms were disrupted continually forcing millions of viewers across the Arab world to change satellite frequencies throughout the day," Al Jazeera said in a statement, referring to a few of the geostationary satellites broadcasting across the region.
At least one million Egyptians took to the streets on Tuesday in scenes never before seen in the Arab nation's modern history, roaring in unison for President Hosni Mubarak and his new government to quit.
Al Jazeera's coverage of political unrest in Egypt has been widely watched in the region, and the channel said on Tuesday a dozen smaller Arab networks had interrupted their own programmes to carry its signal.
Al Jazeera
Miniseries To Air
`The Kennedys'
"The Kennedys" miniseries has found a home on cable's ReelzChannel. The network announced Tuesday that the multimillion-dollar production will begin its run on April 3.
The ambitious 8-part miniseries, a portrait of the Kennedy family told in a multigenerational manner, was produced by the History Channel. But it was abruptly yanked from the upcoming lineup last month.
That network said the project, which stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John and Jackie Kennedy, did not fit the "History brand."
Showtime subsequently passed on the film.
`The Kennedys'
Lawsuit Indicates New Tour In Works
Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones' next tour has not even been announced yet, but it is playing a key role in a legal battle between the man who has organized their treks for two decades and concert promoter Live Nation.
In November, Michael Cohl was sued for $5.35 million by Live Nation for allegedly breaching the terms of an agreement made at the time he left the company in 2008.
Now Cohl has struck back, saying that it was Live Nation that first breached the very same contract by attempting to "interfere" and "destroy" his opportunity to procure promotional rights to a Stones tour later this year.
The band, which last toured in 2007, has not revealed any plans to hit the road again. If it does tour, it would coincide with its 50th anniversary next year.
Cohl is famous in the entertainment business for his promotional endeavors. He is credited with inventing the modern rock tour, beginning with the Stones' "Steel Wheels" reunion tour in 1989, and has recently gained much attention for producing "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," the most expensive Broadway musical ever.
Rolling Stones
Offensive Slurs
"Top Gear"
Mexico's ambassador in London has written a furious letter to BBC bosses to complain about "offensive and xenophobic" comments made by presenters of the popular TV motoring show "Top Gear."
Ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora was infuriated by "insults" made by presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May during Sunday's episode of the cult show, which has been sold to television channels around the world.
"Why would you want a Mexican car? Because cars reflect national characteristics don't they?," said Hammond as they discussed the Mexican sports car, the Mastretta.
"Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat."
The trio then described Mexican food as "refried sick" before suggesting Mexicans spent all day asleep.
"Top Gear"
MTV Stands By
"Skins"
MTV's hot-button drama "Skins" lost its ninth advertiser Tuesday. But the network said MTV has "not lost any advertising dollars" and maintained that the controversy has actually been good for the show.
"I think it's always good when people are talking about you and people are certainly talking about (Skins)," programing chief David Janollari told the Hollywood Reporter.
"Skins" -- the centerpiece of a new scripted initiative at MTV -- has attracted the ire of watchdog groups for numerous portrayals of teen sex, drinking and drug use. The Parents Television Council has been relentless in targeting the show's advertisers. Proactiv has become the latest to pull out, following the likes of Schick, H&R Block and General Motors.
"Certainly Skins is a bolder step in the scripted direction for us," said Janollari. "You're always going to have haters. And MTV is no stranger to that kind of reaction, most recently with 'Jersey Shore' and going all the way back to 'Jackass.'"
"Skins"
NBC Ccuts Episode Order
"The Cape"
NBC has cut the order for "The Cape" to 13 episodes from 10 after the struggling midseason drama's latest outing drew just 5.3 million viewers.
Starring David Lyons as caped crusader Vince Faraday, the series launched modestly in January with fewer than 9 million viewers tuning in for its two-hour Sunday premiere.
"The Cape"
Santa Monica DUI
Jaime Pressly
Prosecutors in California have charged Jaime Pressly with misdemeanor drunken driving.
The 33-year-old "My Name is Earl" co-star was arrested Jan. 5 after Santa Monica police say she was stopped for a traffic violation. She was released after posting $15,000 bail.
Deputy City Attorney Melanie Skehar says Pressly was charged Tuesday morning with driving under the influence and having a blood alcohol content of .20 or higher.
Jaime Pressly
Dogs Slaughtered
Oh, Canada
The 100 dogs were shot dead over two days after an expected post-Olympics boon in dogsledding business at an adventure company didn't pan out. Most died instantly, but others suffered - like the one that ran away with its "face blown off and an eye hanging out."
The gruesome event was described in documents awarding compensation to a worker, who claimed post-traumatic stress disorder for having to shoot the dogs after bookings dropped sharply for a tour operator following the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the slaughter left her sickened and said it is the worst investigation she's ever done. Both the British Columbia SPCA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the slaughter.
"There aren't words to really describe some of the ways these dogs died," she said. "We don't put cows down like that. Slaughterhouses have very strict rules for how supposed culling takes place. This violated every one of them."
Oh, Canada
Seeks Takers For Remains
'Cuckoo's Nest' Hospital
Don Whetsell buried his grandfather last year, finally laying him to rest 60 years after his death.
The final resting place next to his wife was far better than the previous one: on a shelf with the neglected remains of 3,500 others in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."
Whetsell is one of 120 people to claim the remains of loved ones who had been left behind at Oregon's state mental hospital, some of them in corroding copper canisters that had fused together.
Hospital officials are hoping a new online list will help them reunite living relatives with the forgotten patients and prison inmates who died at Oregon State Hospital between 1914 and the 1970s.
The decrepit, 128-year-old Oregon State Hospital was the setting for the 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," starring Jack Nicholson, which drew national attention to the treatment of patients in some psychiatric hospitals. In 2004, a group of lawmakers stumbled upon the remains while touring the state hospital and vowed improve mental health treatment.
'Cuckoo's Nest' Hospital
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Jan. 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 25.33 million.
2. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 22.48 million.
3. Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Lost Valentine," CBS, 14.37 million.
4. Pro Bowl: AFC vs. NFC," Fox, 13.41 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 13.4 million.
6. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.77 million.
7. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 12.1 million.
8, "Bones," Fox, 12.05 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.46 million.
10 "House," Fox, 10.45 million.
11. "Harry's Law," NBC, 10.43 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.19 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.11 million.
14. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.57 million.
15. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 9.39 million.
16. "The Bachelor," ABC, 9.28 million.
17. "Castle," ABC, 9.08 million.
17. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 9.08 million.
19. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 9.03 million.
20. "S--- My Dad Says," CBS, 8.74 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Doc Williams
Doc Williams capitalized on his star radio act with tours of the same regions where the powerful airwaves left his country music footprint.
Riding the success of his Wheeling-based radio show before the start of World War II, Williams carved a following during tours of Maine, Vermont and Canadian provinces - places where some fans still tap in time to songs from his band, the Border Riders.
Williams died Monday at his Wheeling home at age 96.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 as Andrew John Smik, Williams left coal mining as a teen to play in beer gardens and found fame with his wife, Chickie, as one of the most popular acts for WWVA-AM and its show that later became known as Jamboree USA.
After forming the Border Riders, Williams started broadcasting a 2:45 p.m. daily show on WWVA in 1937. He and his wife married two years later and they became the Jamboree's headline act that could be heard on AM radio into Canada, where Williams had a strong following.
Williams' daughter, Barbara Smik, who took over her father's business dealings a few decades ago and wrote a book about him, said she still gets calls from fans in Canada.
In 1949, Doc and Chickie Williams and the band began touring, taking their act to northern Maine and beyond.
Williams' rendition of "The Cat Came Back" sold more than 1 million records on a Toronto record label.
Williams quit school in the 10th grade to help support his family. He worked alongside his father in the coal mines but left to pursue an entertainment career. His grandmother bought him his first professional guitar in 1933 and he started performing at square dances in small Pennsylvania towns.
As the years passed, he had opportunities to go elsewhere, but he considered Wheeling and West Virginia his home, Smik said.
Chickie Williams died in November 2007 at age 88. In 2008 the state renamed a section of road in Wheeling as the "Doc and Chickie Williams Highway; Country Music Royal Couple."
Doc Williams
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