Again it's that time of week to turn away from convention & hear what the bootleggers are playing. Luckily for you they're listening to 3 wonderful collections by three of the best mixers posting. Ayup! The Good news is it's DJ Schmolli, Hahnstudios, & Norwegian Recycling doing the honours this time, & there's no bad news! With tunes of a new kind, they'll tickle your aural receptors till you cry "Uncle!". Not satisfied with the conventional, our independant trio applies their talents in new paths for 2008.
First up is Norwegian Recycling's "Donkey Business", which surprises by mashing hot vocals with gaming soundtrack instrumentals. Employing daring & melody he's crafted a full album paying homage to David Wise, the composer of Donkey Kong Country series on the SNES. Yes, that's correct. All these tracks have music from Donkey Kong, but don't be alarmed. They succeed in fine fashion at being highly appealing with the hip hop/R & B flair imbedded in each cut. Norwegian Recycling baked extra drumloops, basslines, effects, samples and synths into every song, so you feel extreme benefit. Click yourself over to
norwegianrecyclingg.blogspot.com & bask in the booty.
Are you ready to dance? You will be at the first beats of Hahnstudios's "Mixes for the Masses". Over a full disc of separate tracks each a marvelous display of continuous mixing. "Die Da" (Beachparty mix) leads off with 9 minutes of music that yells "SUMMER!" It quickly leads into the 16-minute affair called "Walking On Mixed Tracks". Title aside, you'll be dancing excitedly to it, & all the rest of "Mixes For The Masses". There's also "Hahnstudios Halloween Mix" to give you a scary thrill that has more than enough beats to satisfy any dancefloor monster. After a few more excellent tracks, you'll come upon the closer "Hahnstudios Goes Dancing" & you will be too for over 20 additional mminutes. Get your party started at
mixes-for-the-masses.blogspot.com/ the best way---with Hahnstudios.
DJ SCHMOLLI presents: "Falco re:loaded" (Album) is gon'na please you even if you never heard of Falco, Schmolli or mashups! It has 13 lucky selections pairing the famous Austrian Pop singer Falco to such chart faves as AC/DC, Afrika Bambaataa, Amerie, Ashanti, Beyonce, Bob Marley, & many others. "Papa Was Thunderstrucked On The Run", "Mash Me Amadeus", & "Whenever Crazy Romans Get Into The Groove" are only the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the bootleg satisfaction DJ Schmolli has invented here.
falcoreloaded.blogspot.com is the site to visit. The record has done phenomenally well & even spawned a video at
youtube.com/watch?v=UMnY7CJBfWA Thanks, DJ S.
If you have any bandwidth left, my INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA is perfect for late night playing & can be found
here -
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com A full album of Useo mashups all within the psychedelic style. Not a word said agin it. lol
Mix Of The Week - DJ Leekee describes it best when he says his "Dance Yearmix 2007, 80 tracks in 80 minutes" is "a catalogue of the more popular tunes from the last year in dance music. Its purely commercial and doesn't pretend to be anything else. A touch of House, Electro and beyond! " Well said, DJ Leekee & incredibly well-mixed. Don't think twice, obtain yours at
www.globaldjnetwork.com It's so worth registering for.
Mashup Tip: Always loop reggae samples to the left hand side.
If anyone asks, culture matters (latimes.com)
What do 17-year-olds know? Not a whole lot, according to a study released last week by Common Core, a nonpartisan research group. Responding to what it sees as an overemphasis on reading and math at the expense of a liberal arts education, ...
Nicholson Baker: The Charms of Wikipedia (nybooks.com)
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies-and it's free, and it's fast.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Good Deeds (athensnews.com)
In the early 1960s, poet Allen Ginsberg and his sometimes lover Peter Orlovsky took a trip to India. There they found a man who was almost dead from starvation and around whom flies were buzzing. His eyes were yellow with pus, and his wounds were festering. They took care of the man and paid for his medical care, and the man became healthy again. Mr. Ginsberg and Mr. Orlovsky also did this for some other starving people.
During WWII, who served as Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee?
A: Ward Bond
B: Walter Brennan
C: Henry Fonda
D: Ronald Reagan
E: John Wayne
Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee; later, Fonda was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade (O-2) in Air Combat Intelligence. For his service in the Central Pacific, he won the Bronze Star.
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A: Ward Bond - an ardent but anti-intellectual patriot, he was perhaps the most vehement proponent, among the Hollywood community, of blacklisting in the witch hunts of the 1950s, and he served as a most unforgiving president of the ultra-right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.
B: Walter Brennan - always fiscally and ideologically conservative, he became politically active in later life when he saw many of the things he held dear being eroded by the counterculture movement. He supported George Wallace's presidential campaign in 1968 and in 1972 supported extreme right-wing Republican Representative John Schmitz (father of Mary Kay Letourneau), as the incumbent President Richard Nixon was viewed as too progressive
During the 1960s, he was convinced that the anti-war and civil rights movements were being run by overseas communists - and said as much in interviews. He told reporters that he believed the civil rights movement, in particular, and the riots in places like Watts and Newark, and demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, were the result of perfectly content "Negroes" being stirred up by a handful of trouble-makers with an anti-American agenda. Those on the set of his last series, "The Guns of Will Sonnett" (1967) - in which he played the surprisingly complex role of an ex-army scout trying to undo the damage caused by his being a mostly absentee father - said that he cackled with delight upon learning of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968.
D: Ronald Reagan - a committed anti-communist, Reagan not only fought more-militantly activist movie industry unions that he and others felt had been infiltrated by communists, but had to deal with the investigation into Hollywood's politics launched by the House Un-Amercan Activities Committee in 1947, an inquisition that lasted through the 1950s. The House Un-American Activities Committee investigations of Hollywood (which led to the jailing of the "Hollywood Ten" in the late '40s) sowed the seeds of the McCarthyism that racked Hollywood and America in the 1950s.
E: John Wayne - as a member of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, Wayne gave himself the role of super-personnel chief - ostensibly acting on behalf of political virtue, in "reviewing" the hiring of writers, actors and technicians with known or suspected left-wing sympathies.
Frank Capra recalled that he was approached during the casting of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Ward Bond, who wanted to check with Wayne about the suitability of actress Anne Revere, then being considered for the part of George Bailey's mother. Capra said he immediately blew up at such a notion, especially since Wayne's 4F status had allowed him to remain in Hollywood "getting rich" during World War II. The director then telephoned Wayne and told him to go to hell, recalling, "I didn't care. I didn't give a shit who was a Communist or who wasn't." Some years later Wayne said of the director, "I'd like to take that little Dago son of a bitch and tear him into a million pieces and throw him into the ocean and watch him float back to Sicily where he belongs.".
Wayne did not serve during World War II, unlike many of his peers including William Holden, James Stewart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda. This has long been controversial, especially in light of his right-wing political views and his unwavering support for the Vietnam War, and has led to accusations that he was a draft dodger. Wayne was 34 years old when the United States entered World War II, and requested a deferment as a married father of four children. It is notable that numerous other married celebrities with children, like the 37-year-old activist liberal Democrat Henry Fonda, did serve with distinction throughout the conflict.
Vic in Alaska was first, and correct, with:
Hanoi Jane's dad Hank
mj was second, and correct, writing:
Gonna guess C
For life imitating art.
Alan J answered:
Henry Fonda. Reagan and Wayne were too "busy."
Bill K replied:
That would be Jane's dad, Henry Fonda
~ Tony In Philly responded:
Google says "Henry Fonda"
BTW - Whatever Happened to Bridget Fonda?
S. Bennett said:
Well let's see.
Ward Bond as he was an epileptic and was unfit for military service.
Walter Brennan served in WWI and was wounded.
Ronald Raygun did serve during WWII. Making training films. He was excluded from being a real soldier due to his near sightedness. Must have been real good making those films about real soldiers as he went from private to Captain over the course of the war.
And certainly not John Wayne as he was the biggest phony baloney, yellow belly chicken hawk make believe hero ever. Marion was the founder of the "Let others fight while we wave little flags" movement that now is so popular among the GOP.
So the only one left is Henry Fonda. Served as Quartermaster and later as an Air Intell Officer. So in summary, Fonda, Brennan and Bond good. Reagan and Wayne suck ass.
bebo guessed:
it's got to be A: ward bond.
BadtotheboneBob nailed it with:
C: Henry Fonda... and the only reason I know this without looking it up is cuz, as a career Coastguardsman, I became aware of the USS Satterlee's history during my service. She was named for the Coast Guard officer that commanded the cutter Tampa that was torpedoed and sunk with all hands in WWI (September 1918) near England by one of those damn'd Hun U-boats. It was the single greatest loss of life suffered by US naval forces in WWI (115 crew, 16 passengers). The Satterlee was also famous for her action during D-Day when she carried the 200 Army Rangers that scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc right to the beach (well shown in the movie, 'The Longest Day') to destroy German guns only to find them gone. She then stood off the beach and provided close naval gunfire support for the Rangers and other landed troops as best she could during that horrific day when over 2,500 GIs died on the beaches and another 2,600 paratroopers did so too inland (my great-uncle Hal, all of 20 years old, a private with the 502nd Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, one of them ... (sigh)... The Satterlee also was an escort for FDR to the Yalta Conference... I think Hank Fonda was proud of his service and did a damn'd fine job acting as Admiral Chester Nimitz in the movies, 'In Harms Way' and 'Midway'...
Marian the Teacher answered:
Henry Fonda
And, Joe S ("I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
-- Henry Fonda) answered:
I choose C: Henry Fonda. I'm sure I read or heard he was in the Navy. Reagan? Wayne? Navy? Only in the movies and in their own imaginations. I don't know about Bond, it's Fonda.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/10/08) are Howard Stern and Ayo.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Dennis Hopper, Yunjin Kim, and Nicole Atkins
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 2/14/08) are Russell Crowe, Larry the Cable Guy, and Willie Nelson.
On a RERUNConan (from 1/17/08) are Chazz Palminteri, Erin Burnett, and Louis XIV.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Adam Sevani and Louis XIV.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Anne Heche, Joel McHale, and Coheed & Cambria.
The CW offers a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Moment Of Truth'.
MY has 'Whacked Out Videos', another 'Whacked Out Videos', and 'Secrets Of Psychics Revealed'.
AMC offers the movie 'Death Wish 4: The Crackdown', followed by the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', then the movie 'Death Wish V: The Face Of Death'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Riviera;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 31 Newark 38;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 32 Ardingly 25;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 11 The Last Supper;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 1 The Man With Two Legs;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Dancing with the Stars - Episode 8;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Dancing with the Stars - Episode 8;
[1:00 AM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 8;
[2:00 AM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 1;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.4 Southampton;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 5 Whitstable;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 31 Newark 38;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 32 Ardingly 25;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 6 Chislett;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Chamberlain;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Reno 911!'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Martin Fletcher.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Gregory Rodriguez.
FX has the movie 'Behind Enemy Lines', followed by the movie 'Men Of Honor', then the movie 'Men Of Honor', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', and 'UFO Hunters'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[06:45 AM] Brother's Keeper;
[08:35 AM] Three Times;
[10:55 AM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon;
[12:35 PM] Brother's Keeper;
[02:25 PM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[02:50 PM] Three Times;
[05:15 PM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon;
[06:55 PM] The Delicate Art of the Rifle;
[08:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #204;
[09:00 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues;
[10:45 PM] Elephant;
[12:15 AM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues;
[02:00 AM] Elephant;
[03:30 AM] The Delicate Art of the Rifle;
[05:10 AM] The Assassination of Richard Nixon. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', still another 'Ghost Hunters', and 'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Muhammad Ali, the Greatest;
[07:00 AM] Up At the Villa;
[09:00 AM] Samuel Jackson on Bill Russell;
[10:00 AM] Gelato: an endless passion;
[11:00 AM] Transylvania;
[01:00 PM] Look Both Ways;
[03:00 PM] The Hi-Lo Country;
[05:00 PM] Avenue Montaigne;
[07:00 PM] Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye;
[08:15 PM] William Eggleston in the Real World;
[10:00 PM] Wassup Rockers;
[12:00 AM] Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye;
[01:15 AM] William Eggleston in the Real World;
[03:00 AM] Kike Like Me;
[04:00 AM] Episode 2;
[05:30 AM] Mademoiselle and the Doctor. (ALL TIMES EST)
The family of Jackie Robinson, left to right, Ayo Robinson, Meta Robinson, Jesse Simms, Sharon Robinson, David Robinson, Rachel Robinson, and Susan Thomas, attends the Jackie Robinson Foundation annual awards dinner, Monday, March 3, 2008, in New York. The event raises funds for the Jackie Robinson Foundation which provides college scholarships and mentoring to academically distinguished minority students.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
The film "Away from Her" was the big winner on Monday night at Canada's Genie Awards, winning seven statuettes, including best picture, best actor, best actress and best director for first-time filmmaker Sarah Polley.
Polley, 29, a longtime darling in the Canadian acting scene, also took home a Genie statuette for best adapted screenplay and won the Claude Jutra Award, recognizing outstanding achievement by a first-time feature film director.
Gordon Pinsent took home the best actor award for his role as a man trying to cope with the institutionalization of his wife due to Alzheimer's disease in "Away From Me."
Pinsent's on-screen partner, Julie Christie, won for best actress, and Kristen Thomson won for best supporting actress.
Director David Cronenberg's dark Russian mob film, "Eastern Promises," also took home seven awards, including best supporting actor for Armin Mueller-Stahl and best original screenplay for Steve Knight.
Sales of a bracelet will go towards a U.N. fund to combat violence against women under a plan announced on Tuesday by the United Nations, the Avon cosmetics company and movie star Reese Witherspoon.
Avon Products Inc., the world's biggest direct seller of cosmetics, has pledged to match the first $500,000 in sales of the bracelet to benefit the fund aimed at ending a problem activists say affects one woman in three worldwide.
Joanne Sandler, head of the U.N. women's agency UNIFEM, said the public-private partnership -- a model favored by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- would bring "badly needed resources" to the U.N. Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.
The bracelets will cost $3 and be sold by Avon's network of 5.4 million sales representatives around the world, primarily women who run home-based businesses.
Actor Alan Alda, left, host of the television science program 'Scientific American Frontiers,' speaks Tuesday, March 4, 2008 as he takes part in a public discussion at Microsoft Corp.'s annual TechFest, in Redmond, Wash. TechFest is intended to demonstrate experimental and upcoming technology from Microsoft researchers.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday opened an inquiry into a local television station in Alabama that blacked out a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes."
The FCC issued a "notice of inquiry" to WHNT, a CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, in connection with an outage that cut off a segment of the February 24 broadcast of "60 Minutes," an FCC spokeswoman said.
WHNT, which has blamed the black-out on equipment failure, has 30 days to respond with an explanation of what happened in the incident.
WHNT was sold along with eight other stations by The New York Times Co last year to the private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners.
Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of resident Bush and Vice President Dick 'Go Fuck Yourself' Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere - if they're not impeached first.
In Brattleboro, the vote was 2,012-1,795. In Marlboro, which held a town meeting on the issue, it was 43-25 with three abstentions.
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an "altered state of awareness," Shanon hypothesized.
Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having "partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts."
The network has snapped up cable rerun rights to the comedy series, which is now in its third season on the CW. It will begin airing the reruns in fall 2009, the same time the show launches in broadcast syndication.
It is one of the few off-network comedies coming down the pike for cable networks looking to flesh out their schedules, and the network is believed to have paid between $300,000-$350,000 per episode, a respectable sum given its modest ratings. Some cable channels have even begun to develop their own sitcoms to address the dearth of comedies on the broadcast networks.
Pop singer Bjork, of Iceland, performs at her solo concert in Shanghai Sunday, March 2, 2008. Icelandic singer Bjork has ignited criticism from Chinese fans after she declared 'Tibet! Tibet!' to end a passionate performance of her song 'Declare Independence' during a concert in China. The outburst, at the finale of Bjork's Sunday night concert in Shanghai, made audience members uneasy, by publicly touching on Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule, and set off complaints online.
Rolling Stones guitarist and rock-and-roll bad boy Keith Richards is to become the new public face of Louis Vuitton, the French luxury fashion house said on Tuesday.
For his first ever ad campaign, the 64-year-old Richards -- who has a rocky history of drug use -- is seen cradling his guitar on a hotel-room bed, the lights part obscured by skull-print black drapes.
"Some journeys cannot be put into words. New York. 3 am. Blues in C," runs the slogal of the ad, shot by US photographer Annie Leibovitz and due to appear in the magazine press next month.
Richards plans to donate the fee for the ad to the Climate Project, launched by Nobel-winning former US vice-president Al Gore and backed by Louis Vuitton.
The final epilogue to the tumultuous writers strike has been written, but Hollywood is bracing for a possible a sequel to the costly walkout -- this one starring film and television actors.
While the TV industry has rushed to bring derailed shows back on the air since screenwriters returned to work three weeks ago, the threat of renewed labor unrest by actors in the months ahead has put movie studios in a tenuous situation.
Filmmakers are reluctant to launch any production that cannot be completed before the expiration of the Screen Actors Guild's major film and TV contract on June 30 -- a date being treated as the union's de facto strike deadline.
Assuming a typical 60-day movie shoot, plus extra time for days off, possible overruns and re-shoots that might be necessary, that means few if any big-studio movies will start filming after the end of this month, industry experts say.
U.S. actor Edward James Olmos attends a news conference in Madrid's Casa de America March 4 , 2008. Olmos is in Madrid to attend the screening of some of his films along with director Robert M. Young from March 3 to March 7.
Photo by Juan Medina
"Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed memoir about a mixed-raced girl growing up in a gang-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles, is a fabrication and the 19,000 distributed copies of the book will be recalled, its publisher said on Tuesday.
Author Margaret B. Jones, is actually Margaret Seltzer, a white woman who grew up in Sherman Oaks in Southern California and attended a private Episcopal school, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
In a tearful telephone interview with the newspaper, Seltzer admitted she never ran drugs for a gang and never lived with a foster family as she had claimed in the book.
The creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync has agreed to plead guilty to charges he laundered money and made false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.
Lou Pearlman will appear in court Thursday, according to a 47-page plea agreement released Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors accuse Pearlman of lying to investors to raise millions of dollars for fake companies. They say the total loss to investors is estimated at more than $300 million.
The plea deal says Pearlman will help investigators develop cases and testify against others who helped in his schemes.
Bai Ling says she made an "innocent mistake" when she allegedly took a pack of batteries and two tabloid magazines at Los Angeles International Airport without paying for them.
In a message posted on her blog hours after she was charged with petty theft on Monday, the Chinese actress said she's "relieved" that prosecutors decided not to pursue a more serious misdemeanor count against her.
The actress faces a $250 fine for allegedly shoplifting $16.22 worth of items, including two Star magazines, said city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan.
Actor Jon Provost, who played Timmy from the TV show 'Lassie', signs copies of his book Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, in Los Angeles. Provost made his movie debut when he was 2 1/2, playing Jane Wyman's son in 'So Big,' then went on to play the son of Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in 'The Country Girl.' His breakout finally came at age 7. He was cast as Timmy in the beloved TV series 'Lassie,' propelling him to international stardom.
Photo by Ric Francis
A controversial young Nepali girl worshipped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a Kumari, or "living goddess", has given up her divine position following a request from her family, an official said on Sunday.
The 11-year-old Sajani Shakya was revered for nine years as the Kumari of the ancient temple-town of Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, in a centuries-old tradition.
"She is no more a Kumari," said Dipak Pandey, a senior official of the state-run Trust Corporation that oversees the cultural affairs in the deeply religious nation.
Kumaris traditionally retire when they reach the age menstruation.
Anthony Pellicano spent decades building his reputation in Hollywood as a crafty, bare-knuckled private eye who worked for a long roster of A-list clients that included Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson.
Prosecutors estimate that Pellicano, retired Los Angeles police Sgt. Mark Arneson and former telephone company employee Rayford Earl Turner collected nearly $2 million from what they say was a racketeering scheme.
Prosecutors have said those targeted included Sylvester Stallone and comedians Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon.
It was unclear if any of them would testify, since prosecutors won't file a list of possible witnesses until the trial begins. Stallone told the AP last month that he would be willing to testify, even though he had not yet been subpoenaed.
The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.
The body of the Capuchin friar, who was said to have had the stigmata -- the wounds of Christ's crucifixion -- on his hands and feet -- is to be conserved and put in a part-glass coffin for at least several months from April 24.
A Church statement said the body was in "fair condition", particularly the hands, which Archbishop Domenico D'Ambrosio, who witnessed the exhumation in the southern Italian town where Pio died, said "looked like they had just undergone a manicure".
A spokesman for the monastery at San Giovanni Rotondo said he believed morticians would be able to conserve the face of the bearded monk well enough for it to be recognisable.
Bridal designs : Indian brides display their hands decorated with henna in traditional bridal patterns prior to the start of a multi religious mass marriage in Bavla, some 35 Kms from Ahmedabad.
Photo by Sam Panthaky
Barack Obama has sent a letter saluting his supporters in a Japanese town that shares his name, delighting residents who are rooting for the US Senator to win his party's presidential nomination.
The mayor of the western town of Obama last year sent a package to the presidential hopeful that included a set of local lacquer chopsticks, voicing hope he would take interest in the region.
After a long wait, the town's mayor on Monday received a letter from Obama expressing his appreciation for the town's "support and encouragement" and the "thoughtful gifts".
Obama wrote the letter in English but signed it in Japanese, "Your friend".
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Feb. 25-March 2. 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, 28.59 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 27.55 million viewers.
3. (X) "American Idol" (Thursday)," Fox, 26.23 million viewers.
4. (9) "Oprah's Big Give," ABC, 15.68 million viewers.
5. (15) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 15.42 million viewers.
6. (17) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 14.87 million viewers.
7. (74) "Don't Forget the Lyrics," Fox, 14.4 million viewers.
8. (11) "Lost," ABC, 12.89 million viewers.
9. (X) Movie: "A Raisin in the Sun," ABC, 12.69 million viewers.
10. (17) "Survivor: Micronesia," CBS, 12.53 million viewers.
11. (17) "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.34 million viewers.
12. (20) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 12.2 million viewers.
13. (X) "Back to You" (Tuesday), Fox, 12.15 million viewers.
14. (X) "Back to You" (Wednesday), Fox, 11.68 million viewers.
15. (8) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.55 million viewers.
16. (26) "Law & Order," NBC, 11.44 million viewers.
17. (14) "NCIS," CBS, 11.08 million viewers.
18. (21) "Without a Trace," CBS, 10.45 million viewers.
19. (41) "Here Come The Newlyweds," ABC, 10.09 million viewers.
20. (50) "Price Is Right Primetime," CBS, 9.49 million viewers.
Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.
Born Ernest Gary Gygax, he grew up in Chicago and moved to Lake Geneva at the age of 8. Gygax's father, a Swiss immigrant who played violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, read fantasy books to his only son and hooked him on the genre, his wife Gail said.
Gygax dropped out of high school but took anthropology classes at the University of Chicago for a while, she said. He was working as an insurance underwriter in the 1960s, when he began playing war-themed board games.
But Gygax wanted to create a game that involved more fantasy. To free up time to work on that, he left the insurance business and became a shoe repairman, she said.
Gygax also was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
A newborn harp seal pup with its distinctive white coat on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence March 3, 2008. The annual Gulf of St. Lawrence seal hunt is tentatively set to begin later this month.
Photo by Paul Darrow
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