LAURIE GOODSTEIN: Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock (nytimes.com)
He said he first became alarmed while visiting another megachurch's worship service on a Fourth of July years ago. The service finished with the chorus singing "God Bless America" and a video of fighter jets flying over a hill silhouetted with crosses. "I thought to myself, 'What just happened? Fighter jets mixed up with the cross?' " he said in an interview.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Shock and Awe (The New York Times)
For Americans who care deeply about Israel, one of the truly nightmarish things about the war in Lebanon has been watching Israel repeat the same mistakes the United States made in Iraq. It's as if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been possessed by the deranged spirit of Donald Rumsfeld.
Julian Baggini: Is boring bad? (guardian.co.uk)
Teaching is the least boring graduate profession, according to a survey by the Training and Development Agency for Schools. Clearly the TDA thinks this is a good thing, since its job is to help schools with recruitment and retention. But how important is it to avoid tedium?
David Bruce: Wise Up! Good Deeds (athensnews.com)
When Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a boycott of the segregationist Montgomery, Ala. bus company, black-owned taxi companies let passengers ride for only 10 cents, so that the people who could usually afford only to ride the bus could afford to take a taxi instead.
Announcing the launch of TAKE BACK THE CAPITOL, an
open source political video project and clip contest
dedicated to overturning Republican control of
Congress in the November, 2006 election.
Anyone can submit a short video clip (a sound bite, a
slogan, a gesture, a dance step, etc.) in response to
the question "Why must we overturn Republican control
of Congress?". The best clips will win cash prizes and
be compiled into a fast-paced music video by producer
and editor Sim Sadler, which will be offered for viral
distribution via e-mail/cell phone/iTunes ahead of the
election.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Rock Star: Supernova', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 6/15/06) are Sandra Bullock and Widespread Panic.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Dr. Drew Pinsky, Carnie Wilson, and Tally Hall.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dr. Phil McGraw, Aaron Eckhart, and Jessica Kirson.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are John C. Reilly, Ashanti, and Jackie Greene.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Nikki Reed and Bubba Sparxxx featuring Mr. Collipark.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'George Lopez', followed by another RERUN'George Lopez', then a RERUN'Lost', followed by 'Primetime'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Cheryl Hines, Shaun White, Russell Peters, and Michael Bolton.
The WB offers a RERUN'Blue Collar TV', followed by another RERUN'Blue Collar TV', then a RERUN'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
UPN has a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'All Of Us', then a RERUN'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Inked', another 'Inked', 'Criss Angel', and another 'Criss Angel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fargo', followed by the movie 'Hard To Kill', then a FRESH'Hustle', followed by the movie 'Hard To Kill', again.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 9;
[2:40 pm] 'Are You Being Served' - Oh What a Tangled Web;
[3:20 pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;
[4:00 pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 9;
[4:40 pm] 'My Family' - Ep 11 Canary Cage;
[5:20 pm] ' My Family' - Ep 12 May The Best Man Win;
[6:00 pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 12;
[7:00 pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[8:00 pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 9;
[8:30 pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 4;
[9:00 pm] 'Shipwrecked' - Episode 2;
[11:00 pm] 'Coupling' - Split;
[11:40 pm] 'Coupling' - Faithless;
[12:20 am] 'Brilliant!' - Episode 6;
[1:00 am] 'Shipwrecked' - Episode 2;
[3:00 am] 'Waking The Dead' - Episode 3;
[5:00 am] 'Bodies' - Episode 2;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', still another 'Project Runway', then a FRESH'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Dog Makes Man'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Chris Paine.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Linda Hirshman.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Juana La Loca (Mad Love);
[08:00 AM] Widows' Peak;
[09:45 AM] You See Me Laughin';
[11:15 AM] Passion In The Desert;
[12:35 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #2;
[01:00 PM] IFC Short Film Showcase: August;
[02:00 PM] In the Mood for Love;
[03:15 PM] You See Me Laughin';
[03:45 PM] Media Lab Shorts Uploaded;
[05:45 PM] Passion In The Desert;
[07:20 PM] The Daytrippers;
[09:00 PM] Birthday Girl;
[10:35 PM] The Dreamers;
[01:05 AM] Birthday Girl;
[02:40 AM] The Dreamers;
[04:40 AM] An Affair Of Love. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Crocodile 2: Death Roll', followed by the movie 'Tall Sting'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Powder;
[08:00 AM] Sugar Town;
[09:45 AM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 1 - A Glimmer in the Eye;
[10:15 AM] A Month by the Lake;
[12:00 PM] Bound For Glory;
[02:30 PM] I'm Going Home (Je Rentre a la Maison);
[04:00 PM] Reconstruction;
[05:30 PM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 1 - A Glimmer in the Eye;
[06:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 6;
[06:30 PM] A Month by the Lake;
[08:15 PM] My Life So Far;
[10:00 PM] Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt;
[11:45 PM] Afterschool Delight;
[12:00 AM] House of Boateng: Episode 6;
[12:30 AM] Overnight;
[02:00 AM] City of Men - Season 2: Episode 4: The Ordinaries;
[02:30 AM] New Jersey Drive;
[04:15 AM] Office Killer;
[05:45 AM] My Life So Far. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Author Stephen King laughs during a press conference Tuesday, Aug 1, 2006, in New York. King and fellow authors J.K. Rowling and John Irving are appearing together on August 1 and 2 to read from their books as a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders and The Haven Foundation.
Photo by Seth Wenig
Penn & Teller will host the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony. The two "defy labels and their genre of magic and offbeat humor will no doubt provide us with one mind-boggling show," Spike Jones Jr., the show's producer, said Tuesday.
The 2006 Creative Arts Emmys ceremony will present trophies in 73 categories, including those for technical achievement and guest actors and actresses in series. The ceremony will be held Aug. 19.
A table being used in the taping of comedy sketch for the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' television show, that includes bagels, cream cheese, and pennies, all placed outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre by employees of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' is shown in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006. Mel Gibson said Tuesday he is not a bigot and he apologized to 'everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words' he used when he was arrested for investigation of drunken driving.
Photo by Matt Sayles
The 95th anniversary of Lucille Ball's birth falls on Sunday, and it won't go uncelebrated.
This weekend in Jamestown, N.Y. -- where Lucy was born and has since been buried and where a major Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz museum now exists -- they'll be having a Lucy birthday blowout, with Lucy-Desi fans expected from all over the globe.
The organizers, led by Ric Wyman, executive director of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, have scheduled three days of events, including such special guests as "Lucy" film editor Dann Cahn, "Lucy" co-writer Bob Schiller, former Desilu contractee Carole Cook and a "Lucy" semi-regular, the amazing 101-year-old actor Charles Lane.
Monty Python, fish and chips and Sherlock Holmes are just some of the 20 new additions to join a list of England's national treasures.
Alongside the Mini, the bowler hat and the Archers, they were drawn up by experts and voted for by 350,000 members of the public as part of the Icons - A Portrait of England collection.
Batman is heading into a sequel, titled "The Dark Knight," and he will face off against the Joker, this time played by Heath Ledger.
Christian Bale, the star of last year's "Batman Begins," will reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Christopher Nolan is returning to the directing chair.
An early 2007 start date is being eyed for the sequel. Before then, Bale and Nolan will be in theaters this fall with the Disney release "The Prestige."
Writer Armistead Maupin, left, and actress Toni Collette, attend the New York premiere of the screen adaptation of Maupin's 'The Night Listener' at the Museum of Modern Art, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, in New York. Collette stars in the movie along with Robin Williams.
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
Breaking the Mel Gibson arrest story was the latest coup for Harvey Levin and his staff of 25 at the fledgling entertainment Web site TMZ.com.
The site, a partnership between Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and Telepictures Productions, was designed to report "entertainment news in real time in an unvarnished way," said Levin, 55, an attorney who has worked as a journalist for 30 years.
Jim Paratore, president of Telepictures Productions, said that breaking the Gibson story gives visitors an idea of the potential of TMZ, which stands for Thirty Mile Zone - a film industry term referring to the immediate area around Los Angeles where filming can occur without added out-of-town labor costs.
The ABC television network said on Tuesday that it has pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Mel Gibson's production company.
The actor, who holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views and whose father is a Holocaust denier, apologized on Saturday and has entered a rehabilitation program to treat alcoholism.
Disney's movie studio arm still plans to release Gibson's self-financed Mayan-language movie "Apocalypto" on December 8, Hollywood's trade papers reported.
Olivia Harrison, widow of the late former Beatle George Harrison, holds a plaque honoring her husband during a news conference Tuesday, Aug 1, 2006, in New York. The news conference was to announce the installation of the plaque on Madison Square Garden's 'Walk of Fame' to commemorate the 35th anniversary of George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh.
Photo by Seth Wenig
In the beginning, there was Charles Bronson. He was followed by James Coburn, casually lighting up a cigarette, and Paul Newman behind the wheel of a Nissan.
By the mid-'80s, the floodgates opened and dozens of Hollywood's big-screen stars were selling products on Japan's small screens. America's top entertainment talent was hawking everything from Japanese Scotch to instant noodles, mobile phones and chewing gum.
But not anymore. The American face no longer sells so well in Japan, which has undergone a shift in advertising tactics to embrace its homegrown talents and Asian screen stars who have become more prominent in recent years.
A pilot faced reckless flying and other charges for landing a helicopter on a public street to pick up rocker Tommy Lee and take him to a concert, prosecutors said.
David Keith Martz, 49, landed the helicopter July 7 outside a home in the Hollywood Hills to give the former Motley Crue drummer a 50-mile flight to a Nine Inch Nails concert in Irvine, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the City Attorney's Office.
Martz was charged with one count each of reckless flying, landing an aircraft on a public road and landing an aircraft without a permit, Mateljan said. Martz will be arraigned in Hollywood on Wednesday.
In this photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, the rare and spectacular nacreous cloud (top) is seen high in the stratosphere some 20 kilometers (12 miles) above Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica, on July 25, 2006. The extremely cold temperatures below minus 85 degrees Celsius (minus 121 degrees Fahrenheit) in the rarefied atmosphere show delicate Mother-of-Pearl shell colors produced when the fading light of the Antarctic sunset passed through tiny water-ice crystals blown along on a strong jet of stratospheric air.
Photo by Renae Baker
Vadim Perelman, who faces charges of groping two women and punching another at a South Norwalk nightclub, has sought a special type of probation.
Perelman, who directed the 2003 film "House of Sand and Fog," appeared Monday in state Superior Court seeking accelerated rehabilitation. He would have no criminal record if he successfully completes his probation.
Perelman, 42, of Venice, Calif., faces a third-degree assault charge and two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault, or sexual contact without consent. The incidents allegedly occurred July 22.
Wesley Snipes former talent agency is suing the actor for back commissions on "Blade: Trinity" and other films.
In a suit filed Monday in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, attorneys for the United Talent Agency say Snipes has been paid at least $13 million for his work on the 2004 action sequel and paid commissions to UTA totaling about $717,000.
But UTA claims that Snipes still owes "Blade: Trinity" commissions totaling about $584,000, and it also seeks commissions totaling more than $2 million related to its 10% representation fee on three additional movies.
Spectators stand next to rows of burning candles during a performance titled 'Let's Light up Lausanne!' by Spanish born artist Muma in Lausanne, late July 31, 2006. Some 127,444 candles, one each for the inhabitants of the city, were lit to create a magical meeting point in Lausanne's historic centre.
Photo by Denis Balibouse
For all the envelope-pushing Alice Cooper has done as a shock rocker, he also knows the value of boundaries, especially for children.
Cooper said his Christian, nonprofit Solid Rock Foundation has begun fundraising efforts for a 20,000-square-foot teen activity center to be called The Rock, to be built at Grand Canyon University in West Phoenix.
Officials for Grand Canyon University, a private college with a Christian focus, came to Cooper with the offer to build the youth center on the campus. Cooper has given scholarships to the school for more than five years.
The "Swift Boat" veterans who grabbed national headlines in 2004 when they attacked John Kerry in his failed presidential bid now are turning their sights to Johnstown.
Their target is U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a critic of the Iraq war and a de facto spokesman on the subject for the national Democratic Party.
Armed as a new group - Veterans for the Truth - they're bringing their campaign to "Redeploy John Murtha From Congress" to his backyard.
A rock 'n' roll show by the original drummer for The Beatles landed a club owner a date in court after complaints that the music was too loud.
Pete Best and The Pete Best Band were playing outdoors Sunday night at Loco's Deli & Pub, a nightclub in Athens (GA), a college town famous for launching the careers of bands like REM and The B-52s.
Because Loco's owner Jamie Loftin has been cited for noise before, he is headed to municipal court, where a judge will decide if he should pay more than the usual $144 US fine.
A young lion is examined by a veterinarian at the zoo of Muenster, western Germany August 1, 2006. Three male lion babies were born in the zoo of Muenster on June 12, 2006.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
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