M Is FOR MASHUP - May 4th, 2011
Mashup Pics
By DJ Useo
Mix Of The Week
Dannahan's '2 HRS of ELECTRO/HOUSE/DANCE MUSIC: Sichael McOtt Vol.4' is self-described as '2 hours. 2 turntables. Live, Raw & Uncut. 'If that interests you, go
here for a listen -
( soundcloud.com/dannahan/sichael-mcott-vol-4 )
Mashup Tip : A mashup or blend is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track...etc.
Latest Useo Thing
LARGE FILE OF NORMAL USEO MASHUPS - For your ease & pleasure, I present this LARGE selection of DJ Useo normal mashups from over the past 5 or so years. Many are unavailable currently otherwise. I didn't include any of
the many bizarre ones I posted. Drop me a line if you want the playlist for this 465.62 MB file.
I hope you can spare the bandwidth!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/04/large-file-of-useo-normal-mashups.html )
Podgornio,The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Popeye's 3 nephews will become major mashup artists in the next 12 months after discovering the joys of Ableton.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
George W. Bush: "I Truly Am Not That Concerned About Him" [Osama bin Laden] (YouTube)
John Dickerson: Mission Accomplished (Slate)
How Obama's focused, hands-on pursuit of Osama Bin Laden paid off.
Claim: Krugman is top prognosticator; Cal Thomas is the worst (poynter.org)
The top prognosticators - led by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman - scored above five points and were labeled "Good," while those scoring between zero and five were "Bad." Anyone scoring less than zero (which was possible because prognosticators lost points for inaccurate predictions) were put into "The Ugly" category. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas came up short and scored the lowest of the 26.
Roger Ebert: I finally won the New Yorker cartoon caption competition (Guardian)
Film critic Roger Ebert recounts a proud moment - beating the editorial censors and seeing his joke in print.
Meghan Daum: "Royal wedding: Her Royal Blandness" (Los Angeles Times)
Her devotion to William makes Kate Middleton stand apart as her own woman.
Could Kickstarter Be Evil? (The Stranger)
Paul Constant and Jen Graves Debate Art, Money, and the Internet.
Martin Filler: My Lunch with Andy (nybooks.com)
… twenty-four years after Andy Warhol's death, the long-obsolete memorial statue has been given new life with The Andy Monument, a dazzling, lifelike, ten-foot-tall effigy by Rob Pruitt, lately unveiled in front of 860 Broadway …
David Medsker: A Chat with Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco singer (bullz-eye.com)
"The whole time we were a four-piece [band], there was this thing gnawing at my conscience. "You have these ideas you should show people," and for whatever reason held them back. I can't hold back; I have to bring all the ideas."
JILLIAN EUGENIOS: Catching up with Animal Prufrock (Curve)
At 24 I was first diagnosed with bipolar I and have been hospitalized against my will several times. Being tortured, locked in isolation, injected with horrifying "medications" which were more like chemical lobotomies; the mental health system in this country is an abomination. My dream is to open an alternative center for dealing with "altered states" using more natural, holistic and grounded approaches.
Trish Bendix: An interview with Maja Ivarsson (After Ellen)
The bisexual frontwoman of The Sounds talks about their fourth album, 'Something to Die For,' and her status as a style icon.
George Varga: B.B. King's Blues Power Still Surging (Creators Syndicate)
For the past five decades, savvy music fans around the world have hailed the iconic B.B. King as one of the greatest blues artists ever. But to get a true measure of this 14-time Grammy Award-winner, who is now embarked on his latest world concert tour, we asked some of his fellow musicians to weigh in.
Ray Davies: 'I'm easy to love… but impossible to live with' (Guardian)
Long revered as one of England's finest songwriters, Ray Davies remains shy, insecure and steadfastly old-fashioned, finds Rachel Cooke.
David Bruce has 41 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $41 you can buy 10,250 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
Michael Dare
Alternative theories
Alternative theories of Osama bin Laden's
death
by Michael Dare
Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush switched faces a decade ago and this was
Obama's clever way of disposing of Bush's body so bin Laden can live a glorious
life in Texas opening libraries dedicated to his most despised
adversary.
It was all a cover-up to move the living bin Laden to his own
private island in Bahrain.
The island is shaped like:
a) a matzo
ball
b) a kidney dialysis machine
c) the twin towers
d) the Mandelbrot
set
They've been saving the dead body of bin Laden in a freezer waiting
for an appropriate day to dump it overboard. They chose the anniversary of
Dubya's "Mission Accomplished" speech because:
a) He said to.
b)
There was no kidney dialysis machine in Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad
compound because:
a) that wasn't Osama bin Laden, you fools. Why on earth
do you believe everything you hear from such accomplished liars?
b) It was
all pre-scripted. When Satan first approached Obama about letting him be
president, he told Obama he could say whatever he wanted during the campaign as
long as he did Satan's bidding while in office. Obama threw in a kicker. He
wouldn't do it unless Satan let him get bin Laden as sort of an October surprise
to guarantee his re-election. Satan said okay as long as Obama enforced a small
clause in Dubya's contract, keeping Gitmo open in order to justify it's
existence when so called "information" from tortured detainees would point to
Abbottabad, and preventing a small clause in bin Laden's contract that expires
10 years after 9/11 from becoming operational .
The real plan all along
was to:
a) befuddle the fuck out of everyone
b) as Bush said, "Arab
women will feel the black sperm of my vengeance." (Thank you Roger Ebert.)
c)
Skinjobs, man, they're all skinjobs. They don't have to invade us, they're
already here.
d) issue in a new world order based upon the rural south around
1850. The new slaves, 99% of the actual population, live underground and mutate
into eloi while those above ground, the ruling 1%, suffer endless days of lazy
pleasure, not knowing they're being groomed to be eaten by the poor starving
eloi/proletariat they thought they'd been exploiting when, in fact, it was the
eloi that were exploiting them.
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Comment
RE: Rick Santorum
"Pella, Ia. - Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum told reporters in Iowa this morning that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't serve as a deterrent to other enemies because they don't fear President Barack Obama."
Rick knows this firsthand how? President Obama did what bush and cheney could not do in 8 years. Why is that? Feeding the conspiratorial furnace, one could say the republican hierarchy were involved with bin laden.
IF that were to be true, santorum and others should be tried as a traitors. CIA and NSA are now going over computer records of bin laden that go way back. If you see a republican sweating, it's not because of the temperature. Clearing brush on the landing strips in Paraguay, maybe that would be a clue, that it's going to bust wide open.
Uncle Sky
Thanks, Uncle Sky!
Reader Comment
Little Ricky, Again
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Hot and dry.
'The Book of Mormon' Leads Nominations
Tony Awards
"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, earning the profane musical one nod short of the record for most nominations and putting it in the driver's seat when the awards are handed out next month.
An unlikely hit about two Mormon missionaries who find more than they bargained for in Africa, the musical was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of Comedy Central's irreverent "South Park," and Robert Lopez, co-creator of the equally irreverent Tony Award-winning musical "Avenue Q." All got nominations.
"The Book of Mormon" has been a critical and box-office darling even without big-name stars and has tapped into a decidedly un-Broadway vein with songs about AIDS and one man's loud lament about having maggots in his scrotum.
The second-highest nominations went to "The Scottsboro Boys," a searing tale of 1930s injustice framed as a minstrel show. Though it closed abruptly after playing just 49 performances and 29 previews, it received 12 nominations, including best musical, best book of a musical, best original score as well as a leading actor and two featured actor nods. It marked the final collaboration of songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb.
"Mormon" and "Scottsboro" face competition from "Catch Me If You Can" and "Sister Act" for best musical. The plays that were nominated include the heartwarming human-puppet hybrid "War Horse," David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," Jez Butterworth's "Jerusalem" and Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Motherf---- With the Hat."
Tony Awards
Named CBS Evening News Anchor
Scott Pelley
"60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley has been named the new anchor of "CBS Evening News," succeeding Katie Couric whose solo stint at the news anchor desk made television history, CBS said on Tuesday.
Pelley, 53, will take over the anchor chair on the nation's No. 3 rated network news show on June 6 but also will continue reporting for "60 Minutes," CBS said.
He replaces Couric, whose contract is up in June and who recently announced she would leave the job.
Pelley, the network's former chief White House correspondent, has worked for CBS for more than two decades, during which he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the genocide in Darfur. He won awards for coverage of issues as diverse as discarded toxic technology and child slavery in India.
Scott Pelley
Gaza Concert
Daniel Barenboim
Classical musician Daniel Barenboim, a supporter of Palestinian rights, broke new ground on Tuesday when he traveled to the Gaza Strip to conduct a concert.
Musicians from some of Europe's top orchestras entered the coastal enclave from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing amid tight security, to form the "Orchestra for Gaza" and play Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the Symphony No. 40.
Barenboim's appearance with the orchestra, players of the Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and La Scala of Milan, was a first in recent memory in Gaza where traditional Arabic music is more common.
The event was organised by the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that cares for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Daniel Barenboim
Illinois Broadcasting Honor
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey is now a member of the Illinois Broadcasters Association's Hall of Fame.
Film critic Roger Ebert was among those who honored the talk show queen Tuesday at a downtown Chicago hotel. Association president and CEO Dennis Lyle calls Winfrey "the epitome of broadcasting excellence." Ebert already is a member, along with late partner Gene Siskel.
Winfrey came to Chicago in 1984 when she started hosting "A.M. Chicago" on WLS-TV. That show eventually became "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which will end this month after 25 years.
Other famous inductees include Paul Harvey, Hugh Downs and Charles Gibson.
Oprah
Kronos Quartet, Patti Smith Awarded
Polar Music Prize
American string quartet Kronos Quartet and rocker Patti Smith have won the 2011 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee announced Tuesday.
The musicians will be invited to Stockholm later this year to accept the prize of 1 million kronor ($166,000).
The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's most prestigious music award and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.
Last year's Polar Music Prize was shared by Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork.
Polar Music Prize
Winners Announced
Webby Awards
As a mock interview show host, Zach Galifianakis is accruing awards at the rate of a "60 Minutes" correspondent.
Galifianakis led the 15th annual Webby Awards on Tuesday with four awards for his Web series "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis." He won best Web personality/host, best comedy short and best online variety show. He won the latter in both the voter-chosen "People's Voice" category and the proper Webby Award category.
The Webbys, which celebrate Internet achievement, are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group of 750 Web experts as well as other Internet professionals.
The app sensation "Angry Birds" was chosen for best game, for both the Webby and the People's Voice award. The New Yorker's website won the Webby for best magazine site and for best copy/writing. PBS's iPad app was picked for best entertainment for a tablet. Conan O'Brien's TeamCoco.com won the Webby for best celebrity or fan website.
Webby Awards
`Beardpocalypse'
Conan
Will Ferrell culminated a weeks-long lead-up to Monday's episode of "Conan" by shaving the late-night host's beard. A giddy and determined Ferrell guest-starred on the program, promoted as the "Beardpocalypse."
While guzzling Barbicide, Ferrell trimmed Conan O'Brien with clippers, which he named "Excalibeard." He had promised O'Brien that the razor "sleeps for no one."
Ferrell did a haphazard job of it, but the shave was finished off-camera. It was the first time O'Brien gave up the beard he grew after NBC jettisoned him from the "Tonight Show."
Seeing O'Brien's fresh-faced mug again, Ferrell turned remorseful, saying he had made a "terrible mistake."
Conan
Rips "Celebrity Rehab"
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler has been in and out of rehab countless times, but don't expect him to appear on "Celebrity Rehab," the reality TV show about the addiction battles of the vaguely rich and famous.
In his new book, "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?," Tyler rips both the VH1 show and its host, addiction-medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky, who formerly worked at one of the hospitals where he sought treatment.
Tyler recounted that he was at the Los Angeles-area hospital, Las Encinas in 2008, at the same time as Steven Adler, the former drummer for Guns 'N Roses. Adler, who was kicked out of the band in 1990 because his antics were too wild even by the standards of his hedonistic colleagues, was told to fake his drug stupor for the "Celebrity Rehab" cameras, Tyler alleged.
"They wanted him to act out his own messed-up state when he entered rehab. It was ghoulish and unreal. They gave him 30 grand for the episode, he snorted it all, crashed his car, and he ended up in jail detox," Tyler wrote.
"It didn't seem to me all that ethical using actual f---ed-up people like Steven Adler in a reality show, but who am I to say? Not to mention getting trashed celebrities to mime their own self-destructive nosedives which they then sensationalize on a melo-f-ing-dramatic reality show, which so traumatizes them they end up in worse shape than ever -- from the drugs they bought with the money from the show."
Steven Tyler
Infomercial Host Pleads Guilty
Donald Barrett
A Massachusetts man known for his infomercials touting the purported health benefits of coral calcium and Supreme Greens has pleaded guilty to tax and consumer fraud charges.
Federal prosecutors say Donald Barrett of Plymouth pleaded guilty on Monday to failing to report $573,000 in income from one of the products he sold on television and for marketing a product touted as preventing cancer and arthritis without approval of the Food and Drug Administration.
The 36-year-old Barrett faces up to three years in prison at sentencing scheduled for July 27. The Salem News reports that he is only expected to receive a year under terms of a plea agreement.
Donald Barrett
Disney Sues Over Free Starz Offer
Dish Network
Walt Disney Co filed a copyright suit against satellite television operator Dish Network Corp for distributing popular movies including Disney's "Toy Story 3" and "Alice in Wonderland" on a free tier for Dish subscribers.
Disney distributes many of its top movies on cable and satellite providers through an agreement with Liberty Media Corp's Starz channel, a premium network similar to Time Warner Inc's HBO or CBS Corp's Showtime.
The giant media company and theme park operator says it only granted Starz permission to air the movies with the understanding that Starz would be on a premium tier with distributors.
Disney claims in the suit that in February Dish began providing millions of subscribers free access to Starz through to January 2012 in violation of its agreements with both Disney and Starz. It said it wrote to Dish in March to cease and desist its Starz giveaway but Dish refused to do so.
Dish Network
Judge Clears 'Housewives' Lawsuit For Trial
Nicollette Sheridan
A jury should decide whether Nicollette Sheridan's character was unfairly written out of the hit show "Desperate Housewives," a judge ruled Tuesday.
With the actress looking on, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White tossed a couple of Sheridan's claims but said there was enough of a dispute about what led to her ouster for the case to go to trial next month.
Sheridan sued ABC and "Housewives" creator and executive producer Marc Cherry in April 2010, claiming he struck her during a fight in September 2008 and subjected her to sexual and other harassment.
After listening to several minutes of arguments about disputed facts in the case, White said, "It's clear to the court that this is something that needs to go to a jury."
Nicollette Sheridan
Arrested At Marie Callender's
Andy Dick
Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested in Southern California for being drunk and disorderly in a restaurant.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says the 45-year-old comic actor was arrested Monday night at Marie Callender's after reports that he was causing a disturbance in the bar.
A sheriff's statement says Dick appeared to be drunk and was unable to care for his own safety. He was booked for public intoxication and released.
Dick has a history of arrests. In 2008, he pleaded guilty and received probation after being found drunk outside a Riverside County restaurant. Last year, he was charged with sexual abuse after allegations that he groped a bouncer and a patron at a West Virginia bar.
Andy Dick
Miami Heat Star Sues To Keep Ex Off
"Basketball Wives"
Miami Heat basketball forward Chris Bosh has filed a lawsuit to prevent the mother of his child from appearing on the next season of VH1's reality show "Basketball Wives."
Bosh, who filed the suit on Monday in California federal court, accused his former girlfriend, Allison Mathis, and the show's producer, Shed Media U.S. Inc, of commercially exploiting his trademark and identity without permission.
The show, which stars former girlfriends and wives of players in the National Basketball Association, gives the women a "worldwide platform" to use the names and likenesses of famous players for their own financial gain, the lawsuit said.
Despite its title, the show does not feature any current wives of NBA players, the suit said.
"Basketball Wives"
Going To Trial
Ringling Heirs
The late multimillionaire owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, Irvin Feld, left a renowned business stunningly at odds with a bitter family legacy. He built an empire of wholesome entertainment meant to bring families together, yet his own two children are so estranged they couldn't even mourn with one another in peace.
The often sad family history behind "the greatest show on Earth" is being aired in court at a trial that starts May 9 before U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Karen Feld filed a $110 million suit against her younger brother, Kenneth, for assault when they came together in the Jewish rite of sitting shiva for their dead aunt.
The suit filed by 63-year-old Karen Feld says her 62-year-old brother long wanted to harm her and control her life because he feared she would reveal facts about their father and family that could tarnish the image of the family business. Irvin Feld created Feld Entertainment, which Kenneth Feld now runs and bills as the world's largest source of live family entertainment, including the circus, Disney on Ice, drag racing and monster truck shows.
Kenneth Feld has gone to great lengths to protect the family's privacy; he even hired a prominent former top CIA covert operative to run a secret 8-year operation to spy on and divert an author who wanted to write a family history. The author's revelations included Irvin Feld's homosexuality, his wife's suicide and his children's long-running feud.
Ringling Heirs
Film Co. Seeks Protection
"Ace Ventura"
The Bermuda-based company that holds the rights to the films "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Last of the Mohicans" asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday to recognize it as insolvent, citing $74 million in debt.
Inverness Distribution Ltd, formerly Morgan Creek International Ltd, filed a petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, seeking recognition of its ongoing insolvency proceeding in Bermuda.
Filed under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the petition would officially recognize the company's foreign bankruptcy and protect it from parties looking to seize its assets in the U.S.
Producer James G. Robinson, Inverness' only shareholder, produced "Ace Ventura," "Last of the Mohicans," "Young Guns" and "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."
"Ace Ventura"
Rental Firm Spies On Users
Aaron's Inc.
A major furniture rental chain has software on its computers that lets it track the keystrokes, screenshots and even webcam images of customers while they use the devices at home, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Wyoming couple who said they learned about the PC Rental Agent "device and/or software" inside the computer they rented last year when an Aaron's Inc. store manager in Casper came to their home on Dec. 22.
The manager tried to repossess the computer because he mistakenly believed the couple hadn't finished paying for it, the couple said. Brian Byrd, 26, said the manager showed him a picture of Byrd using the computer - taken by the computer's webcam. The image was shot with the help of spying software, which the lawsuit contends is made by North East, Pa.-based Designerware LLC and is installed on all Aaron's rental computers.
The lawsuit says the store manager told the Byrds "that he was not supposed to disclose that Aaron's had the photograph." Byrd said he believes the store manager "was just trying to throw his weight around and get an easy repossession."
PC Rental Agent includes components soldered into the computer's motherboard or otherwise physically attached to the PC's electronics, the lawsuit said. It therefore cannot be uninstalled and can only be deactivated using a wand, the suit said.
Aaron's Inc.
Falls For First Time In 20 Years
TV Ownership
The number of households in the United States that own television sets is estimated to have declined for the first time in 20 years, according to forecast figures from the Nielsen Co that were released on Tuesday.
The switch from analog to digital broadcast in 2009, the economic downturn and the trend among consumers to watch TV programs across other platforms, including computers and tablet devices, were given as reasons for the shift.
Still, it was estimated that in 2012, some 96.7 percent of U.S. households will own televisions, down from 98.9 percent in 2011.
Nielsen, a division of Nielsen Holdings, based their preliminary estimates on the 2010 U.S. census data, which showed an increase in the number of households and trends of TV ownership of the past several years. Adjusted estimates will be provided in August 2011.
TV Ownership
New Report Confirms Melt Accelerating
Arctic
Arctic ice is melting faster than expected and could raise the average global sea level by as much as five feet this century, an authoritative new report suggests.
The study by the international Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, or AMAP, is one of the most comprehensive updates on climate change in the Arctic, and builds on a similar assessment in 2005.
The full report will be delivered to foreign ministers of the eight Arctic nations next week, but an executive summary including the key findings was obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
It says that Arctic temperatures in the past six years were the highest since measurements began in 1880, and that feedback mechanisms believed to accelerate warming in the climate system have now started kicking in.
Its assessment also said the U.N. panel was too conservative in estimating how much sea levels will rise - one of the most closely watched aspects of global warming because of the potentially catastrophic impact on coastal cities and island nations.
Arctic
States Reassess Laws After Fed Warnings
Marijuana
Several states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed growers to regulators could be subjected to prosecution.
The ominous-sounding letters from U.S. attorneys in recent weeks have directly injected the federal government back into a debate that has for years been progressing at the state level. Warnings in Washington state led Gov. Chris Gregoire to veto a proposal that would have created licensed marijuana dispensaries.
Gregoire, the chair of the National Governors Association, now says she wants to work with other states to push for changes to federal marijuana laws to resolve the legal disputes caused by what she described as prosecutors reinterpreting their own policies.
The Department of Justice said two years ago that it would be an inefficient use of funds to target people who are in clear compliance with state law. But U.S. attorneys have said in their recent memos that they would consider civil or criminal penalties for those who run large-scale operations - even if they are acceptable under state law.
Marijuana
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 25-May 1. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 22.38 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 22.32 million.
3. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 19.60 million.
4. "Dancing With the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 18.28 million.
5. "The Mentalist," CBS, 13.53 million.
6. "Dancing With the Stars" (Special - Tuesday), ABC, 13.08 million.
7. "Body of Proof," ABC, 11.86 million.
8. "The Voice," NBC, 11.78 million.
9. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 11.32 million.
10. "Better With You," ABC, 11.23 million.
11. "NCIS," CBS, 11.21 million.
12. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.84 million.
13. "60 Minutes" (7-7:46 p.m. Eastern), CBS, 10.74 million.
14. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.71 million.
15. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 10.67 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 10.29 million.
17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.06 million.
18. "Bones," Fox, 9.70 million.
19. "60 Minutes" (7:46-8 p.m. Eastern), CBS, 9.51 million.
20. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 9.44 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Yvette Vickers
DNA tests might be needed to identify a badly decomposed body found in the home of a former Playboy playmate and B-movie actress who appeared in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," a coroner's official said Tuesday.
The body was discovered last week in pack-rat conditions in the neglected Benedict Canyon home of Yvette Vickers.
It was unrecognizable as a man or woman and listed in records only as a "Doe."
A neighbor found the body in what was initially reported as a mummified state. It appeared to have gone undiscovered for several months to a year, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.
Neighbor Susan Savage told the Los Angeles Times she saw letters and cobwebs in Vickers' mailbox before going into the house and discovering the body upstairs in a room with a small space heater in the "on" position.
The 82-year-old Vickers had appeared in cult movies such as "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" in 1958 and "Attack of the Giant Leeches" in 1959. She was a Playboy magazine playmate in July 1959.
Savage described her neighbor as an elegant woman with flowing blond hair and warm smile.
Born Yvette Vedder on Aug. 26, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo., she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, before discovering acting and leaving school to pursue it.
Her first film role was as a giggling girl in "Sunset Boulevard" in 1950. In 1957, she appeared in the James Cagney-directed, "Short Cut to Hell," but it flopped and she turn to B-movies.
Yvette Vickers
In Memory
Thanassis Vengos
Greece's leaders are paying tribute to Thanassis Vengos, a popular comic actor who died at age 84 following a series of strokes.
President Karolos Papoulias described him as "a wonderful, charismatic person with a rare sense of kindness."
Vengos, once imprisoned for his left-wing sympathies, made his name in slapstick comedies in the 1960s but also earned respect from his peers while working under the country's leading directors. In 1995, he starred in Theo Angelopoulos' "Ulysses Gaze" along with U.S. actor Harvey Keitel.
Thanassis Vengos
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