M Is FOR MASHUP - March 17th, 2010
March Mashup Album Variety
By DJ Useo
Howdy agin, folks. I am taking time away from listening to & making mashups to tell you about some fine new full mashup albums. Even in the most nornal mashups, you usually get more than one style of music with a mashup. Most often there's some dance music, some pop music, or some hip hop, but lately I notice the variety craze has hit big. For instance, [MMM]MadMixMustang ( www.madmixmustang.nl ) has a new track with Johnny Cash vs Deep Purple, DMF ( dangermashups.wordpress.com/ ) have a new one with Santana vs Lady Gaga.
DJ Zebra ( www.djzebra.com ) has one with the Who vs an African band actually called Zebra. So, today I going to tell you about some new full mashup albums that really deliver when it comes to fresh sounds. The Reborn Identity ( www.rebornidentity.com/ ) has a finestkind new collection out called 'The Reborn Identity - Britpop Rebooted' a 12-track mashup album, including 10 all-new tracks. The Reborn Identity offers us the following brief commentary - "Every once in a while I like to set myself a challenge to stretch my creative skills. Back in January 2009 I set myself the task of putting together a mashup album featuring classic tracks and bands from the Britpop era. It's not been an easy task by any means, and has involved some creative work in getting usable instrumental and vocal elements together. It's taken a lot longer than originally planned too, thanks to a hundred other things getting in the way. The wait is finally over now though, so without further ado, allow me to introduce Britpop Rebooted." I've heard this album a few times now & it just gets more enjoyable everytime. The collection goes thru all the greats so that you get Supergrass vs David Bowie, Pulp vs Fleetwood Mac, & Radiohead vs Snow Patrol, among many other excellent tracks. You'll enjoy it lots! It's available as one file or individual tracks.Grab yours here - ( s225705621.websitehome.co.uk/2010/03/02/britpop-rebooted-12-track-mashup-album/ ).
Next is an incredibly-rich Bollywood mashup collection from DJ MashUP ( djmashupxdv.blogspot.com/ ) called 'The Dj MashUP Collection - an album of Bollywood Ballads and Masala Melodies' ( djmashupxdv.blogspot.com/2010/02/moment-youve-all-been-waiting-for-dj.html ). You may be daunted at the prospect of a 3-disc album, but once you dip into the richness, you'll be glad for the length. As I went through each track I was pleased & amazed at the consistency of quality. I really shouldn't have been since I'd experienced lots of great DJ MashUP mixes before, but I was thinking it would be really hard to produce such a quantity of Bollywood boots & still keep them all strong.I was wrong! This record uses the top Bollywood artists like Dilrubaon Ke Jalwe, Chor Bazari, Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai & Marjaani combined with western greats like Rihanna, Britney, Michael Jackson & Fergie to give you a mashup collection like none I've ever heard before.
I say go for the full international experience & go DJ MashUP! ( djmashupxdv.blogspot.com/ ).
Now we reach the weird mashups! The stuff that makes you go 'huh?'. That's right, it's my new record '
Frikkenfrack 2: DJ Useo's Strangest Boots' (
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/03/frikkenfrack-2dj-useos-strangest-boots.html ). I've had this one in the can for some time waiting for the best moment to release it. Since that time never came I just threw it out there now. I used to make & post a lot of tremendously weird mashups but over time I fell into the mainstream routine (actually I got a lot of pressure to make the change.lol). I quit posting my weird mashups, instead only playing them in my weekly radio show of off-kilter bootlegs '
The Qradips Show w/ DJ Useo' (
qradip.blogspot.com/ ). After a while I noticed there was a fine batch of them just crying for release, so I compiled a batch of them as this new record. There's popular released faves, & unreleased wackiness a'plenty lurking on this release. You go from tracks like 'Oolite Clam' (Elvis Presley vs Ozric Tentacles vs The Trashmen), to 'Flying Swedish Chef' (Muppets vs Beatles) to 'Spam Roam' (B-52's vs Monty Python's Flying Circus) & all are satisfying, but ODD!!
The pleasure doesn't end there, though, as I remastered the no-longer-available
first 'Frikkenfrack' album (
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/03/frikkenfrack-dj-useos-strangest-boots.html ) & re-posted it too. On that collection you go from 'Zombie Bingo' (White Zombie vs Merle Haggard) to 'Nobodies Mountain King' (Marilyn Manson vs Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra) to 'Little Neutrino Bridge' (Fergie vs Klaatu) & all around the place with stunning variety. Hmm, maybe I should start posting the weirdies again?
A quick note here to tell you that all the USEO mashup collections are now available in
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ ).
Ah, the joys of bootleg music! I never would've thought I'd get so much pleasure from such exclusive music. I mean, many mashups range in downloads from 100-1000, & that's very exclusive listening!
Sample these records for yourself, & please feel free to send along comments to me here. I'll post your words & you'll enjoy that, eh?
Since bootleggers can't sell their work,your comments are the currency we get paid in.
One last note is I have word of a Flamenco mashup album coming soon. You can see the variety of mashups continues to expand!
Mix Of The Week
s007ii's 'FEELAbleton Guest Mix 5, friskyRadio Style' is one splendid mix of House & assorted techno styles. This baby is live event mayhem on the friskyRadio airwaves. s007ii sez it's 'Dark, driving big room tech beats, modulated on maximum overdrive. My fifth FEELAbleton Guest Mix on Shamanah's friskyRadio show.'
You'll be glad to hear it
here -
djmix.net/download.php?d=59de01
Mashup Tip - be sure & have at least 2 people nagging you over your shoulder as you mix.
Newest Useo Mashup
'Poker Break' (Lady Gaga vs The Raveonettes) takes Lady G's 'Poker Face' vocals & plants them amid a LOUD bed of The Raveonettes 'Break Up Girls'. I've really had a thrill ride of response so far to this one, ranging from 'it's the best ever' to 'it's horrible'. lmao. Personally, I tried to tweak it to see if complaints were justified, but I think it's best this way. See for yourself here, & be sure & tell me what you think -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/03/poker-break-lady-gaga-vs-raveonettes.html )
DJ Useo's Podcast
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
roger ebert's journal: Jesus was a Nazi. So's your preacher (suntimes.com)
Pretty near everything Glenn Beck says strikes me as absurd, but he scored a perfect 10 when he warned his viewers against the dangers of Christianity. You already know all about it. Well, maybe not, because the usual defenders of Christianity, like James Dobson and Pat Robertson, were very quiet on the topic. Not even a peep from Pat about this man who showed every sign of having hired the best lawyers to draft his pact with Satan.
SAM DILLON: Obama Calls for Major Change in Education Law (nytimes.com)
The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of resident George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing.
PETER S. GOODMAN: "THE NEW POOR: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt" (nytimes.com)
One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools.
"Cheever: A Life: (Vintage) by Blake Bailey: A review by Jonathan Dee
Nineteen sixty-eight wasn't the most wretched year in the life of John Cheever, but it was close. On poor terms with his three children, bitterly angry with his wife for daring to initiate a career outside the home, and having recently had the last of his teeth removed, he spent his mornings struggling weakly to postpone his first drink of the day.
Sara Mosle: Facing Up to Our Ignorance (slate.com)
Diane Ravitch shares a timely lesson: We don't (yet) know how to save schools.
Chris Rose: Remembering Barry Hannah (bestofneworleans.com)
This week's homage is paid to a man whom I assume touched more lives in New Orleans than just my own. He was Barry Hannah, a hard-drinking, savage wit possessed of a sorcerer's command of the English language, a writer of crystal daggers and diviner of the secrets of love.
George Varga: Arturo Sandoval can Freely Trumpet his Affinity for Jazz (creators.com)
Anyone who thinks Cuban-born trumpet great Arturo Sandoval's dramatic life story is worthy of being made into a movie is absolutely correct - and a decade too late.
Glenn Gamboa: Mama mia! ABBA enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Newsday)
No one was more surprised about ABBA being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than the band's co-founder Benny Andersson.
My-Thuan Tran: Peter Graves dies at 83; star of TV's 'Mission: Impossible' (latimes.com)
Peter Graves, the rugged actor who starred in the hit TV series "Mission: Impossible" and whose career took a comic turn in the disaster spoof "Airplane!" has died. He was 83.
Germaine Greer: I've braved earthquakes and bullets in my hunt for fabulous fabrics (guardian.co.uk)
The V&A's 'art quilts' will never match the beauty of my treasured textiles.
John Harlow: Bullock on having her moment (timesonline.co.uk)
She's tough, funny, grounded and Sandra Bullock is now Hollywood's most wanted actress. We speak to the Tinseltown queen.
David Bruce: Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court": A Discussion Guide (lulu.com)
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The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'DNA Database Blues' Edition
"President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting... The nation's chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, "It's the right thing to do" to "tighten the grip around folks" who commit crime..."
Wired.com
Do you support mandatory DNA collection upon arrest?
A.) Yes
B.) No
C.) Depends on the crime
Send your response to
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Correection
Rep Massa
Marty,
Saw this on yer page:
(observing FORMER Repug Rep Eric Massa having former suborrdinates on US Navy ship describe being groped, tickled and made to kiss his belly button....what a NUT)
Is this you or zenman? While I believe in dropping everything on the cons, Massa is a dem. Saw in one article online he was being "probed by the house ethics committee, he resigned." I would have paid money to see that meeting!
Yours in tickilish nitpickery,
BSmasher
"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble."
Sam Spade
Thanks, B!
The archived version has been corrected.
BadtotheboneBob
Wal-Mart
Supporters of marijuana law reform are rallying behind 29-year-old Joe Casais, a cancer sufferer and registered medical marijuana user who was fired from his job at Wal-Mart in Battle Creek. Casais, who had worked at the store for five years and in 2008 was named Associate of the Year, tested positive for marijuana during a worker's compensation screening after he sprained his knee on the job... He suffers from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor...
Wal-Mart's firing of employee for using medical marijuana incites boycott | - MLive.com
Reader Comment
One problem here
MY FAVORITE MORAN SIGN
ISN'T IT SUPPOSED TO BE "MORON??"
Sally
No, it's spelled correctly (and somewhat of a long-running joke).
It references this spelling-challenged protester - Moran #1.
The day before yesterday there was a link to
Morans With Signs.
Coincidence?
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Early morning wake-up with a 4.4 earthquake at 4:04am. Yikes.
Our heat wave continues.
Pitching Health Care On
Fox Rupert NewsObama
President Barack Obama is venturing into enemy territory to drum up last-minute support for health care reform ahead of a crucial vote in the House of Representatives.
Obama will appear on Fox Rupert News Channel (R-Propaganda) on Wednesday for a one-hour interview at 6 p.m. EDT with Special Report's Bret Baier, the cable network said Tuesday.
The interview will be analyzed afterwards by a panel that includes Steve Hayes, A.B. Stoddard, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer.
Obama
"The Game of Death"
French TV
Game show contestants turn torturers in a new psychological experiment for French television, zapping a man with electricity until he cries for mercy -- then zapping him again until he seems to drop dead.
"The Game of Death" has all the trappings of a traditional television quiz show, with a roaring crowd and a glamorous and well-known hostess urging the players on under gaudy studio lights.
But the contestants did not know they were taking part in an experiment to find out whether television could push them to outrageous lengths, and which has prompted comparisons with the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
"We were amazed to find that 81 percent of the participants obeyed" the sadistic orders of the television presenter, said Christophe Nick, the maker of the documentary for the state-owned France 2 channel which airs Wednesday.
"They are not equipped to disobey," he added. "They don't want to do it, they try to convince the authority figure that they should stop, but they don't manage to."
French TV
RedState.com Editor Hired
CNN
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, will join CNN as a political contributor, the news network said Tuesday.
Erickson will appear weeknights on "John King, USA," which launches on Monday, and on other programs across the network.
CNN
Prime-Time Numbers Improve Without Leno
NBC
Two weeks into non-Jay Leno programming, NBC's audience for the final hour of prime-time TV has increased by 45 percent.
While NBC doesn't necessarily have any hits in that hour, the instant response by viewers indicates they are more comfortable with the traditional mix of drama, news and reality rather than a late-night show moved into prime time.
The failed experiment of Conan O'Brien taking over the "Tonight" show and Leno moving into prime time ended just before the Olympics. Leno was averaging 5.15 million viewers in his new slot, the Nielsen Co. said. Through two weeks of other programming, the network is averaging 7.44 million at 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. Central. Local affiliates expressed anger that Leno's low ratings hurt their late local news.
Only the warhorse "Law & Order," with 5.21 million viewers Monday, was in the neighborhood of Leno numbers.
NBC
Britain's Poet Laureate Pens Ode To Beckham
Carol Ann Duffy
Britain's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem about injured England footballer David Beckham, she revealed Tuesday.
Duffy's poem is entitled "Achilles" and compares Beckham to the classical hero from Greek mythology who gave his name to the Achilles tendon which he has ruptured, ruling him out of the World Cup in South Africa in June and July.
It closes with the lines: "And it was sport, not war, his charmed foot on the ball/But then his heel, his heel, his heel..."
Explaining her decision to write the poem, she said that the lives of celebrities like Beckham "are stories the rest of us follow."
Carol Ann Duffy
New Project
Larry Charles
Fledgling premium cable network Epix said Tuesday it has picked up a Silicon Valley satire from Larry Charles, the "Seinfeld" veteran who went on to direct the "Borat" and "Bruno" movies.
The project centers on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed. It will be written by Dan Lyons, the creator of the "Fake Steve Jobs" blog.
"We are attempting to do nothing less than a modern 'Citizen Kane,'" said Charles, who will oversee development and direct the pilot. "A scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen."
Larry Charles
ShoWest Big Ten Award
Pixar
The makers of "Up," "WALL-E" and other Academy Award-winning cartoons have taken home a new prize.
Disney-owned Pixar Animation received the ShoWest Big Ten Award on Tuesday in honor of the company's perfect track record - 10 films, 10 blockbuster hits, including "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles."
John Lasseter, Pixar's creative mastermind and director of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2," accepted the award just before screening the franchise's sequel, "Toy Story 3," for the audience at ShoWest, an annual convention of theater owners.
"Toy Story 3" opens in theaters June 18.
Pixar
"Lost" Play To Be Published
Shakespeare
The discounted claims of an 18th century author to have re-shaped the words of Shakespeare into a play are finally being taken seriously by a respected publisher of the Bard's works nearly 300 years on.
"Double Falsehood," a play written by Lewis Theobald and first performed in 1727, was based substantially on another work co-written by William Shakespeare more than a century earlier, a leading academic said on Tuesday.
Adding weight to the claim of Professor Brean Hammond of Nottingham University is the fact that the respected Arden Shakespeare publishers will release it in print on March 22.
Its appearance, and the attribution to Shakespeare, is likely to trigger another round of scholarly debate over what the English-speaking world's most famous and influential playwright wrote and what was falsely attributed to him.
Shakespeare
FoxRupert To Maximize Profits"Avatar"
Twentieth Century Fox on Tuesday set Earth Day, April 22, for the DVD and Blu-ray release of "Avatar". But fans will have to wait until November for another disc with all the usual extras, and even longer for a 3-D version.
The April release will be in 2-D and is thought to be one of the first major movies put out in home video format without any of the special features that are normally included, such as deleted scenes, trailers and behind-the-scenes footage.
The studio plans another home video release in November of the "Ultimate Edition" of "Avatar," and that will include extra features, said sources at Fox, a division of News Corp.
A third version, in 3-D, will likely come out next year, they said. By then, more consumers are expected to have 3-D televisions in their homes.
"Avatar"
Exploring Dora?
'Kids on Demand'
A cable TV spokeswoman says preview clips for adult programming appeared on two channels dedicated for kids in North Carolina because of an "equipment failure."
Time Warner Cable Inc. spokeswoman Melissa Buscher said the problem lasted about two hours Tuesday morning in areas around Raleigh, and several parents called to report it.
Buscher said it happened on two "Kids on Demand" channels that were showing viewers a list of children's programming such as Dora the Explorer. The titles listed didn't match up with the preview videos in the right-hand corner of the screen, which showed a preview of adult programming instead of kids programming.
Buscher said the company regrets the glitch and has fixed the problem so it won't happen again.
'Kids on Demand'
Surprised At Number Of Abuse Cases
Bavarian Bishop
The Roman Catholic bishops in Pope Benedict XVI's native Bavaria sought Tuesday to deal with a sexual abuse scandal whose ever-widening scope has left church leaders baffled.
"I would not have expected such a multitude of cases," Bavarian Bishop Ludwig Schick, who is hosting his colleagues' meeting at Vierzehnheiligen, told Bayerischer Rundfunk Radio.
In Bavaria alone, more than 100 former students of Catholic institutions have come forward with claims of physical or sexual abuse.
Some of those cases involve the prestigious Regensburg Domspatzen boys choir once led by the pope's older brother, Rev. Georg Ratzinger.
Bavarian Bishop
HBO Wins Dismissal Of Defamation Suit
Bryant Gumbel
The HBO cable television channel won dismissal of a $5 million defamation lawsuit by a Brooklyn, New York handwriting expert who accused it and "Real Sports" host Bryant Gumbel of tying him to a forgery ring.
Tuesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan federal court rejected claims by Donald Frangipani, who said he had more than 40 years of experience in forensic documents, including authenticating sports autographs and other memorabilia by Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods and others.
In his 2008 lawsuit, Frangipani alleged that HBO violated New York State defamation law over a January 2006 "Real Sports" segment, "Forger's Paradise," in which it portrayed him as an authenticator of choice for a forgery ring broken up by the FBI in 2000.
In his 15-page decision, Daniels said the plaintiff failed to show that the authentication companies violated federal antitrust and racketeering laws by scheming to freeze him out of the market, or that customers refused to use his services because of the companies' actions.
Bryant Gumbel
Autopsy Reports Released in AZ
Sweat Lodge Deaths
Autopsy reports released Tuesday point to heat stroke as the cause of death for two people following an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony last year, and to multi-system organ failure for a third person.
Kirby Brown of Westtown, N.Y.; James Shore of Milwaukee; and Liz Neuman of Prior Lake, Minn., participated in the October sweat lodge ceremony led by motivational speaker James Arthur Ray.
Autopsy reports show the 38-year-old Brown and 40-year-old Shore died of heat stroke, and the 49-year-old Neuman died after several of her organs shut down due to hyperthermia from prolonged sweat lodge exposure.
Ray has pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter in their deaths.
Sweat Lodge Deaths
Sentenced In Douglas Case
Kelly Sott
The girlfriend of actor Michael Douglas' son has been given no new jail time at her sentencing in New York City in a case stemming from Cameron Douglas' drug woes.
Kelly Sott thanked a judge Tuesday in federal court for giving her a "second chance."
She had been behind bars for seven months following her arrest for trying to smuggle heroin to her boyfriend while he was under house arrest.
Sott pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor charges of possessing Douglas' stash.
Kelly Sott
Takes Blame In 'Donationgate'
Zhang Ziyi
Chinese film starlet Zhang Ziyi has taken the blame for an earthquake donation scandal in her first comments on a flap that sparked a firestorm of Internet criticism and questions about her honesty.
Fighting back tears, Zhang told the China Daily in an interview published Tuesday that she failed to follow up with her staff after telling them to transfer money she had promised to victims of China's huge May 2008 earthquake.
"I take the main responsibility for the lapse and causing my staff to mix it up," said the 31-year-old Zhang, the star of films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Memoirs of a Geisha".
"Donationgate," as China's state media dubbed the row, surfaced in January when a popular Chinese website said Zhang had given only 840,000 yuan (124,000 dollars) of a promised one million yuan. The donations were eventually made.
Zhang Ziyi
Must Defend Ex-Headmistress's Suit
Oprah
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a U.S. judge ruled.
The case is now set for trial on March 29 in Philadelphia.
Judge Eduardo Robreno refused to dismiss the suit in a decision Monday, ruling that former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane has enough evidence to pursue her defamation claims against the media mogul. Winfrey made the remarks in 2007 after the complaints surfaced at the $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, near Johannesburg.
Mzamane accused Winfrey of suggesting she was not trustworthy through comments about the need for new leadership and remarks such as "I thought she cared about the girls of South Africa," according to the October 2008 lawsuit.
Oprah
Price Of Polygamy
South Africa
South Africa is spending more than $2 million (1.3 million pounds) a year to support polygamist President Jacob Zuma's wives and children, almost double the budget from a year ago, a minister said on Tuesday.
The 68-year-old Zuma, who currently has three wives, recently admitted to fathering his 20th child out of wedlock with the daughter of a friend, drawing flak for a cavalier attitude to sex in a country with one of the world's biggest HIV/AIDS caseloads.
In a written answer to a parliamentary question, Collins Chabane, a minister charged with monitoring government performance, said the state had a 15.5 million rand budget for Zuma's family this year.
Mrs Thobeka Zuma was engaged in community work related to health, Mrs Sizakele Zuma was dealing with agriculture and food security, while Mrs Nompumelelo Zuma was working with orphans and vulnerable children, he said.
South Africa
No Damage Reported
Good Morning, LA
Southern Californians were jolted from their sleep before dawn Tuesday as a small but strongly felt earthquake struck beneath Los Angeles' eastern suburbs.
No damage or injuries were reported, however, and jangled nerves appeared to be the biggest impact of the magnitude-4.4 temblor, which struck at 4:04 a.m.
The quake was centered 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, 12 miles under the city of Pico Rivera.
California has not had a major damaging earthquake since 1994, when the magnitude-6.7 Northridge quake struck greater Los Angeles, killing dozens, injuring thousands and causing $25 billion in damage.
Good Morning, LA
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 22.75 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 20.7 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 19.58 million.
4. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 19.34 million.
5. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 17.61 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.99 million.
7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.32 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 16.02 million.
9. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.25 million.
10. "The Good Wife," CBS, 13.95 million.
11. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 13.51 million.
12. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.29 million.
13. "House," Fox, 12.82 million.
14. "Survivor: Heroes and Villains," CBS, 12.12 million.
15. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 12.01 million.
16. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.98 million.
17. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 11.93 million.
18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 11.07 million.
19. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 10.94 million.
20. "Cold Case," CBS, 10.23 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Charles Moore
The world saw glimpses of the civil rights movement through Charles Moore's eyes: In black-and-white photographs, he captured arresting images of the integration riots at Ole Miss in 1962, the fire hoses in Birmingham in '63, a Ku Klux Klan rally in North Carolina in '65.
The Alabama native recognized the significance of the civil rights movement early on as one of the first photographers to document the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership. Moore is remembered for his striking images of historic and often violent events that required him to get closer to the action than many other photographers would.
Moore died Thursday at age 79, said John Edgley of Edgley Cremation Services in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The photographer seemed to realize that civil rights demonstrators were not the troublemakers that white authorities depicted them as, said Carolyn McKinstry, who lost four girlhood friends when a Ku Klux Klan bomb ripped through Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham more than 46 years ago.
Working for the Montgomery Advertiser at the time, Moore began covering the civil rights movement and was the lone photographer at the scene when King was arrested in Montgomery in 1958. One of his images showed two white police officers hustling away King, whose right arm was wrenched behind his back.
Later, while working on a contract basis for Life magazine, Moore traveled around the South to cover some of the most dramatic events of the civil rights movement.
Moore photographed the riots at the University of Mississippi that coincided with the enrollment of James Meredith as its first black student. In one, white students hold a Confederate battle flag aloft as they jeer.
The next year, in 1963, Moore was in Birmingham when black children and teenagers marched through city streets demanding an end to legalized segregation. They were met by police with snarling dogs and firefighters who pounded them with streams of water from fire hoses.
In 1965, he photographed Alabama state troopers in masks tear-gassing voting rights marchers in Selma. The confrontation, which became known as "Bloody Sunday," received worldwide attention, partly because of Moore's photography.
In 1991, Moore published "Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore," which included his biography and some of his most important photos. Around that time, McKinstry came to know Moore through joint appearances and retrospectives on the civil rights era.
McKinstry said Moore's photos helped Americans understand what was going on in the Deep South in the 1950s and '60s, even if many were slow to recognize the importance of the events.
"It got international attention immediately. In the case of America, it took a lot longer," she said.
Charles Moore
In Memory
He Pingping
The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday.
He Pingping, of China, who was 2 feet, 5.37 inches (74.6 centimeters) tall, had become a recognized figure across the world, often taking part in shows, photo shoots and other events, Guinness World Records said.
He was taken to a hospital March 3 after he fell ill while rehearsing the Italian program "The Record Show," Marco Fernandez de Araoz of Europroduzione said.
After two days, He was transferred to intensive care, where he was found to have a heart condition and high cholesterol, said Fernandez de Araoz. He said the hospital, where he died, has so far given as his cause of death the heart condition.
He Pingping
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