One of my favorite things about the new year rolling around is the many best of the previous year collections that appear. Allow me now to present you some of the best! I admit these all suit my tastes, but I've played them all a lot already, and I'm confident you'll find them highly pleasing. ( And they don't cost a cent! )
01-"BEST OF BOOTIE 2013" as compiled by A PLUS D is available in three different versions, a-Unmixed version-full individual tracks, b-Continuous Mix Version, and c-Continuous Mix Version, Divided into 22 tracks. Now a that's class act! But wait, it doesn't end there! You also get, for FREE, a 10-track bonus disc. Imagine being at a fantastic live club mashup concert with the best blends available. That's this collection! The selection of tracks and producers is totally satisfying.
( bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2013/ )
02-"BEST OF BOOTIE RIO 2013" is just what you think! An affiliated offshoot of the BOOTIE franchise, but located in marvelous RIO! The collection is 21 "melhores mashups do ano produzidos por brasileiros". As per the USA version, it contains superb mixes from many of the top bootleggers south of the border. There's also a 2nd disc with wonderful producers gringos who reprocess Brazilian music. If you need a break from the full-on Brazilian style of disc one, you may find yourself easily enjoying the gringo disc 2. Me, I was into both! They come in mixed, unmixed, and mixed single tracks, too. The tracks will have you seeking out more by the contributors. These guys rule!
( bootierio.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/best-of-bootie-rio-2013/ )
04-DRA'man "Best of 2013" comes to you as single tracks to stream, or download. Believe me, they are all finest kind mixes that you'll enjoy for many years. ( "Hey, Marty, check out this mashup! It's from 2013!" ) DRA'man can mix from any source with always consistant results. Have a gander at the pairings he's mixed with this 30-track assortment! It rarely gets better than this.
( soundcloud.com/draman/sets/draman-best-of-2013 )
Jason R. Goldman: More Reasons To Stop Watching Animal Planet (io9)
You already knew that Animal Planet had a way of distorting reality. They present documentaries about the existence of mermaids and Bigfoot and only barely acknowledge that it's all nonsense. But now evidence is mounting that some of the shows they air actually harm animals.
The ruby slippers are worn by Dorothy (played by Judy Garland) in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz. What color were the shoes in L. Frank Baum's original novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
Sir Alec Guinness, CH CBE (2 April 1914 - 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. However, he was probably best known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). He is also well known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Is the only person to receive a best acting nomination in any of the Star Wars movies.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Alec Guinness was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original film.
Lois Of Oregon said:
AHA! I know this one...Sir Alec Guinness! It's a drag he
didn't get an oscar for the role of OB1.
Alan J wrote:
Alec Guinness
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Alec Guinness
Adam answered:
Alec Guiness.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC responded:
Sir Alec Guinness was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his
role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars.
Sally said:
I believe that Sir Alec Guinness is the only person to receive a best acting nomination in any of the Star Wars movies.
The great Obi Wan Kenobi!
What more is there to say?
PS: I know this because my son is a Star Wars fanatic! As about age 2, while being pushed in a shopping cart through a Target store, he spied a display of Star War figures. He grabbed one and would not let go - even though he had never seen anything Star Wars before. Soon, we had all of the figures, a set of SW sheets, underwear, and some stuffed wookies. Even now, in his late 30's, he has some of his treasures on display in his store in Winston-Salem NC! He says you would be surprised at how many people stop in just to see and talk about them.
Ah, men and their toys...
Marian replied:
Alec Guinness
Dale of Diamond Springy, Norcali, replied:
That would be Sir Alec Guiness as Obi Wan Kenobi. That's it!
DJ Useo, answered:
Now, I know my Star Wars trivia pretty well, but you got me here.
I does not know.
Prob'ly something to do with Guiness. That's what the guys at
the comic shop always say as a joke.
MAM wrote:
Sir Alec Guinness ~ For his role as the legendary Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars in 1977.
BttbBob , from the midst of his Mom's birthday festivities, responded:
all wrapped up with out-of-state visiting siblings come fer Nan's b/d... BBT
And, Joe S said:
Who could it be but Sir Alec Guinness, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Sally -
I don't believe that only boys need toys.
While I'm not a real fan of dolls, much less man-dolls, had to make an exception for this one. He stands watch over my tattered Chatty Cathy.
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Either the local rapscallions are smoking dope in the alley behind the garage, or there is a skunk under the house.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Peter Dinklage, Hari Kondabolu, and Sage the Gemini.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Scarlett Johansson and Maz Jobrani.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'L&O SVU', followed by another RERUN'L&O: SVU', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bill Cosby, Joby Ogwyn, and Nathan West.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Tim Olyphant, Cristin Milioti, and Bleachers.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Gareth Evans, Arthur Beatrice, and "Finding Vivian Maier".
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Middle', followed by a FRESH'Suburgatory', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Mixology', then a FRESH'Nashville'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Pena.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Arrow', followed by a RERUN'The 100'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Russell Simmons, Monique, Black Ice, and DJ Hollywood.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'American Idol'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Duck Dynasty'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blood Diamond', followed by the movie 'Jaws'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Vampires in Venice
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 7 - Amy's Choice
[10:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 13
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 15 - Yesterday's Enterprise
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 16 - The Offspring
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Revisited: Moore Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 4 - La Riviera
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 6
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 1
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 2
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 2
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[4:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Instinct
[5:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Variation Under Nature (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', 'Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Workaholics', then a FRESH'Broad City'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jude Law.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Errol Morris.
FX has the movie 'Real Steel', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2', then a FRESH'The Americans'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] The Fog
[8:15AM] Enter the Dragon
[10:30AM] DeepStar Six
[12:45PM] The Fog
[2:45PM] Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[5:45PM] Company of Heroes
[8:00PM] The Perfect Storm
[10:45PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[1:15AM] The Perfect Storm
[4:00AM] Crank: High Voltage (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[6:30AM] Barton Fink
[9:00AM] CSNY: Deja Vu
[11:00AM] In the Line of Fire
[1:45PM] Legal Eagles
[4:15PM] Catch a Fire
[6:30PM] Drop Zone
[8:45PM] Hard Eight
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Sweeps
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Merger
[1:00AM] Sexy Beast
[3:00AM] The Ides of March
[5:15AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Bikini
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Men In Black', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Rosario Dawson and Hannibal Buress.
Cast member and producer Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2nd L) poses with fellow cast members at the Los Angeles premiere of the third season of HBO series "Veep" in Hollywood, California, March 24, 2014. Seen are (from L) Reid Scott, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Matt Walsh, Timothy Simons, Gary Cole, Sufe Bradshaw, Isiah Whitlock and Kevin Dunn.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Actor Jim Nabors says this year's Indianapolis 500 will be the last time he performs "Back Home Again in Indiana" live to a global audience of race fans.
The 83-year-old Nabors says his health limits his travels from his home in Hawaii, so he'll be "retiring" from singing the ode at the Indianapolis 500 after the May 25 race.
Nabors' rendition of the song has become a traditional part of the pre-race events since he first performed it in 1972.
The actor best known as television's Gomer Pyle has performed the song live at the race every year since 1987 with the exception of 2007 and 2012. This year will be his 35th performance.
In this picture taken Monday, March 24, 2014, former prisoners of war of the Nazi Stalag Luft III, Andrew Weisman, left, and Charles Clarke, right, are pictured during observances of the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape of Allied airmen from the camp near Zagan, Poland. Weisman and Clarke, both British, were prisoners at the camp after the escape that took place on the night of March 24, 1944, when a group of 76 prisoners emerged from a tunnel they had made in order to flee. Only three airmen made it home. Fifty others were executed when caught, and 23 were sent to other camps, but survived the war. The 1963 Hollywood movie "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen, tells the story.
Photo by Jan Mazur
Hispanic moviegoers played a huge part in the record 2013 U.S. box office, according to figures released Tuesday by the MPAA.
Despite representing roughly 17 percent of the U.S. population, Hispanics bought up 25 percent of the movie tickets sold in the U.S. last year. They also continued the trend of oversampling as frequent moviegoers - those who go to the movies more than once a month - relative to their proportion of the population, and the total number of frequent Hispanic moviegoers (11.6 million) continues to grow.
Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Chris Dodd detailed the strong Hispanic representation in his state of the industry report delivered Tuesday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
Despite purchasing fewer tickets in 2013 compared to 2012, Hispanics remained more likely than any other ethnic group to go to movies, according to the report. African-Americans and "others" purchased more tickets in 2013 than in 2012.
Richard Phillips, whose real-life ordeal as a hostage of Somali pirates was the subject of the movie "Captain Phillips," has been selected to address graduates at Massachusetts Maritime Academy's commencement.
Phillips, a 1979 graduate of the college, will also receive an honorary degree at the June 21 ceremony.
He was captain of the commercial cargo vessel Maersk Alabama when it was captured by four pirates in the Indian Ocean in April 2009. He was held in a lifeboat for five days before Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates and freed him. A fourth was captured.
School president Rear Adm. Richard Gurnon also invited actor Tom Hanks - who portrayed Phillips in the movie - to the graduation. But he cannot make it because of scheduling conflicts.
"We thought it would be cool to have both of them," Gurnon told the Cape Cod Times. "Tom Hanks has two movies back-to-back, so there was no physical way he could make it here."
Nancy and Ann Wilson of the classic rock band Heart perform in concert at the American Music Theater on Monday, March 24, 2014, in Lancaster, Pa.
Photo by Owen Sweeney
Before his mother became the model for Blanche DuBois of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his sister the inspiration for Laura Wingfield of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams drew upon a college girlfriend - if only in name - to tell a story of desire, drunkenness and regret.
"Crazy Night" is a work of short fiction unseen by the general public until this month's release in the spring issue of The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. The story is narrated by a college freshman who confides about his romance with a senior, Anna Jean. Williams, while attending the University of Missouri at Columbia, briefly dated fellow student Anna Jean O'Donnell and wrote poetry about her.
"It ('Crazy Night') seems to have been written when Williams was rather young, probably around the 1930s," said Strand managing editor Andrew Gulli, who has previously unearthed works by Mark Twain, Joseph Heller and Robert Louis Stevenson.
"The funny thing is that Williams in his notebooks and memoirs went into a lot of detail about his love affairs but with Anna Jean he made only a passing mention. Could this be the missing piece of the puzzle?"
A judge has sentenced 1970s teen heartthrob David Cassidy to three months in rehab and five years of probation in a drunken driving case.
Cassidy's attorney, Steven Graff Levine, entered an open plea to a Los Angeles judge Monday, admitting that he was driving under the influence when he was arrested in January after making an illegal turn.
Levine says Cassidy has been in rehab and will remain for longer than his sentence requires. He says Cassidy is committed to his sobriety and wants to break the cycle that got him arrested for drunken driving twice in less than six months. A DUI case in New York was reduced from a felony to misdemeanour earlier this month.
US actor David Hasselhoff poses for photographers during the presentation of a Motor Racing Festival in Madrid, Spain. Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
Photo by Abraham Caro Marin
Entertainer Flavor Flav must return to his native New York at least one more time to answer charges stemming from his arrest as he raced to his mother's funeral.
Police say the rapper and reality TV star was speeding and driving without a license, a felony, on Jan. 9 on the Meadowbrook Parkway on Long Island.
Flav, whose real name is William Drayton, told reporters as he entered a Nassau County courtroom on Tuesday that he hoped to resolve the case. Drayton, who lives in Las Vegas, grumbled that flights from there to New York were becoming expensive.
Drayton also faces felony assault and other charges in Las Vegas after allegedly threatening his longtime girlfriend's teenage son.
A visitor to the Capitol walks through an inflatable colon displayed in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 24, 2014. Pharmaceutical maker Sanofi sponsored the display of the "Strollin' Colon," which shows what a healthy colon looks like, how polyps develop and how they can turn cancerous. The American Cancer Society, which had an information table at the display, urges screening tests to detect colorectal cancer.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
Donald Schultz, the former host of a popular Animal Planet TV show featuring some of the world's most deadly creatures, was sentenced in a California federal court on Tuesday to community service and $9,000 in fines for selling two endangered lizards online.
Schultz had pleaded guilty last year to trying to sell the desert monitor lizards to an undercover federal agent who answered a 2010 online ad seeking about $3,000 for the reptiles, according to officials at U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
The former host of Animal Planet's "Wild Recon" was charged with one count of violating the Endangered Species Act, a federal law that protects and recovers imperiled species and ecosystems.
According to federal prosecutors, Schultz met with an undercover agent posing as a prospective buyer at his home in Los Angeles where he agreed to ship the reptiles to another buyer in Buffalo, New York.
Under a plea deal, Schultz agreed to pay a $6,000 fine, $3,000 in restitution and 200 hours of community service, prosecutors said.
People visit the art exhibition 'A Dream I Dreamed' by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai, March 25, 2014. Kusama was born in Nagano, Japan in 1929, today she is acknowledged as one of the most important living artist of Japan. The exhibition will be open until March 30, 2014.
Photo by Carlos Barria
The head of the U.N. weather agency said Monday that recent extreme weather patterns are "consistent" with human-induced climate change, citing key events that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Pacific region last year.
Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said his agency's annual assessment of the global climate shows how dramatically people and lands everywhere felt the impacts of extreme weather such as droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones.
The U.N. agency called 2013 the sixth-warmest year on record. Thirteen of the 14 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century.
Australia, meanwhile, had its hottest year on record and parts of central Asia and central Africa also notched record highs.
Protesters stand behind a cut-out figure of silent movie actor Charlie Chaplin during a protest outside the Palacio de la Musica cinema situated in the Gran Via boulevard of Madrid, Spain Tuesday March 25, 2014. The cinema, built in 1926, has been sold and is just one of many cinemas and theatres that have closed down in the Gran Via and other areas of the city, only to be sold off for use as commercial businesses such as shopping centers. Banner reads' In defence of our culture' and the speech bubble reads ' Save out cinemas'
Photo by Paul White
The United States will send 1,150 Marines to Australia in April, bolstering the roughly 200-member force already in Darwin, officers said Monday.
The reinforcements are part of a planned deployment of up to 2,500 US Marines in Australia by 2016-2017, as Washington pursues a strategic "rebalance" to the Asia-Pacific.
Most of the Marines will come from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton in California and are "expected to arrive in Australia in early April," the Marine Corps said in a statement.
The force will include four CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters and about 100 personnel to operate and maintain the aircraft, it said.
Los Angeles Opera music director and conductor James Conlon (L) introduces French musician Thomas Bloch, with his glass armonica, during the press conference at Los Angeles Music Center, on the on March 7, 2014
Photo by Joe Klamar
Wearing only a strategically carved cluster of leaves, the chiseled male figure towering over two female forms in the 1922 marble sculpture "The Triumph of Civic Virtue" now watches over a lonely cemetery in Brooklyn.
The same statue, once representing victory over vice and corruption, was a long-time fixture on a pedestal outside Queens Borough Hall. Two years ago, it was decried as sexist and offensive by an angry public and exiled to Greenwood Cemetery.
Now civic groups are demanding a similar fate for an 1892 bronze statue in New York's Central Park of medical pioneer James Marion Sims, long revered as the father of modern gynecology, but more recently found to have experimented on female slaves.
Changing U.S. attitudes and values involving race, gender, and other issues are prompting demands to tear down decades-old statues of heroes now seen as villains by Americans who say history is not written in stone.
Twenty-first century America's rejection of once common behavior, from slavery to mistreatment of women, children and laborers, has sparked outrage over monuments in parks, statehouses and other public spaces across the country.
In this photo made available Tuesday, March 25, 2014, a female ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) carries her cubs through their enclosure at the zoo in Eberswalde, eastern Germany, Monday, March 24, 2014.
Photo by Patrick Pleul
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