Andrew Tobias: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION (andrewtobias.com) - (Oct. 10)
The New York Times has begun charging for on-line access to its superb columnists, but it doesn't charge much - nothing, if you subscribe to the print edition - and maybe the New York Times is worth supporting with a few bucks now and then, just as NPR and McDonald's are (don't tell me you've never tossed a few coins into McDonald's' coffer). I just now caught up with Frank Rich's column from October 2. In part: . . . It's not just Mr. DeLay, aka the Hammer, who is on life support, but a Washington establishment whose infatuation with power and money has contaminated nearly every limb of government and turned off a public that by two to one finds the country on the wrong track.
Dave Zirin: Pat Tillman, Our Hero (thenation.com)
"I don't believe it," seethed Ann Coulter. Her contempt was directed at a September 25 San Francisco Chronicle story reporting that former NFL star and Army Ranger war hero Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan last year, believed the US war on Iraq was "f***ing illegal" and counted Noam Chomsky among his favorite authors.
Roger Ebert: The Dead (1987) (A Great Movie)
John Huston was dying when he directed "The Dead." Tethered to an oxygen tank, hunched in a wheelchair, weak with emphysema and heart disease, he was a perfectionist attentive to the slightest nuance of the filming. James Joyce's story, for that matter is all nuance until the final pages. It leads by subtle signs to a great outpouring of grief and love, but until then, as Huston observed, "The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port."
Why Not to Send a Comedian Hate Mail (villagevoice.com)
I don't know why people write strangers to tell them they suck (unless they are unattractive or have an accent.) I hate lots of stuff, but mostly, I just avoid it. As do you. Because we're not crazy-other than OCD, depression, alcoholism, crippling neuroticism, and a spirit-crushing emotional unavailability. But we don't seek out ways to be mean to people.
In this photo of a poster provided by Unicef on Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005, the cartoon Smurfs and their village are seen being bombed by airplanes. The recent advertising campaign by Unicef, both in print and on television, is intended to teach schoolchildren about the horrors of war.
Ran by Toys R Us. There was only 1 other customer in the store, which helped explain the empty parking lot.
Dave Letterman had footage from today's latest photo op in Louisiana where we saw Pickles husband has never used a hammer or driven a nail before.
Local news keeps calling Ahnold's photo ops 'town meetings' even though they are by invitation only. Maybe it's the Austrian definition.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Still Standing', followed by a FRESH'Yes, Dear', then a FRESH'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Howard Dean and BRMC.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Joe Mantegna and Dr. Sue Johanson.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'E-Ring', followed by a FRESH'The Apprentice: Martha', then a FRESH'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kevin Bacon, Kristen Bell, and Trisha Yearwood.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Charlize Theron, Steve Harvey, and Tariq "King Flex" Nasheed.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Eric Balfour and Fruit Bats.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'George Lopez', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Freddie', then a FRESH'Lost', followed by a FRESH'Invasion'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mickey Rourke, Danica Patrick, and 3 Doors Down.
The WB offers a FRESH'One Tree Hill', followed by a FRESH'Related'.
Faux has LIVE'MLB Baseball Playoffs', and fills the night on the left coast with RERUNs of 'Simpsons' and 'Malcolm'.
UPN has a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', followed by a FRESH'Inked', another 'Inked', then a FRESH'Criss Angel: Mind Freak', and another 'Criss Angel: Mind Freak'.
AMC offers the movie 'Delta Force 2', followed by the movie 'Mad Max', then the movie 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Intermission;
[2:40pm] 'My Family' - Serpent's Tooth;
[3:20pm] 'My Family' - Pain in the Class;
[4pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Jack in the Box;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 10;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Kings Norton;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show';
[9pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 13;
[10pm] 'Teen Angels' - Ellis Family;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Intermission;
[11:40pm] 'Worst Week of My Life';
[12:20am] 'Worst Week of My Life';
[1am] 'Changing Rooms';
[2am] 'Teen Angels' - Ellis Family;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Mike Britt), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jeremy Hotz), 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Drawn Together'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart is Dr. Irwin Redlener.
IFC -
[6AM] IFC October Short Film Collection I (2005);
[8AM] Beijing Bicycle (2001);
[10AM] The Festival #1 (2005);
[10:30AM] The Festival #2 (2005);
[11AM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[11:30AM] Short: Life Lesson (2003);
[12PM] Trust (1990);
[2PM] Secret Ballot (2001);
[4PM] IFC October Short Film Showcase (2005);
[5PM] The Quiet Room (1996);
[6:45PM] Secret Ballot (2001);
[8:45PM] Ready To Wear (1994);
[11:05PM] Unhook The Stars (1996);
[1:05AM] Ready To Wear (1994);
[3:30AM] Unhook The Stars (1996);
[5:30AM] The Festival #1 (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not!', 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', then a FRESH'Tripping The Rift', and another 'Tripping The Rift'.
Sundance -
[6:35AM] Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill;
[7AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/16/05);
[8AM] Sex in a Cold Climate;
[9AM] At Five in the Afternoon;
[10:45AM] The Critical Path;
[11AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/16/05);
[12PM] Evenhand;
[1:35PM] The Flower of Evil;
[3:30PM] Sex in a Cold Climate;
[4:30PM] Welcome To The Dollhouse;
[6PM] Slings & Arrows: Episode 4 - Outrageous Fortune;
[7PM] Evenhand;
[8:35PM] Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill;
[9PM] Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator;
[10:30PM] Speed for Thespians;
[11PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Planet of the Men & Women;
[11:30PM] The Al Franken Show: (09/19/05);
[12:30AM] Noi albinoi;
[2AM] Aftershock;
[2:30AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/19/05);
[3:30AM] Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator;
[5AM] Dirty Work. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Elton John gives a thank you speech after receiving the Ella Award during the 14th Annual Society of Singers Awards, Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Rene Macura
J.K. Rowling, Jon Stewart and Stephen King were among the winners Tuesday night of the first annual Quills Awards, people's choice book prizes better known so far to the industry than to the public.
Other winners included Sue Monk Kidd's "The Mermaid Chair" for general fiction and David McCullough's "1776" for history/current events/politics.
The Quills include 19 categories, ranging from history and general fiction to sports, cooking and business. In monthlong voting that ended Sept. 19, fans picked their favorites by visiting the Quills Web site, quillsvote.com, and filling out e-ballots.
The winners were revealed at a black-tie ceremony hosted by NBC news anchor Brian Williams and featuring Stewart, Kim Cattrall and Robert Klein. Martha Stewart had been also been expected, but canceled at the last minute, citing a scheduling conflict, Quills officials said. An edited version of the ceremony will air Oct. 22. Fourteen NBC stations have committed to televising it.
Actress Stockard Channing pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge stemming from an incident last year on the Hollywood Freeway.
Channing, 61, who won an Emmy for her role as the first lady on NBC's "The West Wing," was ordered to pay a $390 fine and take part in an alcohol education program after pleading no contest Thursday, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney's office. She was also placed on 36 months of probation, Mateljan said.
The actress was arrested Dec. 14 after allegedly trying to drive around a roadblock set up so a tow truck could removed a disabled tractor-trailer.
Former President Clinton speaks via satellite to panelists: Fox Television chairman Roger Ailes; Rock the Vote president Jehmu Green; and CNN political analyst Paul Begala, seated below screen from left, at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, during a discussion marking the 10th anniversary of the launching of 'George,' the magazine created by the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
Photo by Elise Amendola
"Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the Fox medical drama "House."
The episode is slated to air in December, the network said Friday.
Nixon will play a "sharp-witted patient who suffers from a mysterious seizure and goes toe-to-toe" with Dr. Gregory House ( Hugh Laurie), while he and his team try to discover the source of her ailment.
Antwan "Big Boi" Patton has another prize to add to his collection of awards - and this one is from his hometown.
Patton, one-half of the multiplatinum duo OutKast, received the Fine Arts Award from the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation on Saturday for his achievement in the arts.
The foundation is dedicated to researching and preserving black history and culture in Savannah, Georgia's oldest city.
George Lopez and his wife, Ann, who donated a kidney to the actor-comedian earlier this year, have been named honorary chairmen for the National Kidney Foundation.
Lopez, star of the ABC comedy "George Lopez," has a genetic condition that caused his kidneys to deteriorate. He had transplant surgery in April.
The couple will be honorary chairmen of the foundation's Kidney Walk Program, a series of nearly 100 walks held every year in cities across the country.
Barry Manilow, left, and Suzanne Somers, right, pose for photographers on the red carpet before the 14th Annual Society of Singers Awards honoring Sir Elton John on Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Rene Macura
TV Guide released its first issue in a full-color, larger format Tuesday, part of an overall revamp aimed at trying to keep the 52-year-old magazine relevant in an age of on-screen television guides.
The new issue features Ty Pennington of "Extreme Home Makeover: Home Edition" on its cover, as well as a new makeup that emphasizes stories, columns and gossip about TV shows over TV listings.
As part of the makeover, TV Guide's publisher, Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., is also slashing the circulation it guarantees advertisers by nearly two-thirds, from 9 million to 3.2 million.
The magazine will maintain its weekly publication schedule, but its cover price will drop to $1.99 from $2.49 for the famliar digest-size format. Until the end of the year, though, the price wil be reduced to 99 cents.
ESPN's pregame show before Penn State's upset of Ohio State last Saturday night drew a record audience, and the game itself was the second-most watched of any regular season matchup on the cable network.
The Nittany Lions' 17-10 victory averaged 4,435,000 households and a 4.9 rating. Only the Florida State-Miami game on Oct. 8, 1994 drew a bigger audience.
Union members and nurses protest Governor Arnold $chwarzenegger as he was holding a town hall meeting to discuss his reform agenda in Oakland, California, October 10, 2005. A Californian physician has launched an effort to gather a million signatures to force a recall vote on Gov. $chwarzenegger, who came to office two years ago following an unprecedented recall.
Photo by Kimberly White
A Nepali lady gets her palm 'traditionally tattooed' at Bhadrakali temple on the seventh day of the Dasain festival in Kathmandu, Nepal October 11, 2005. Nepalis are celebrating the Hindu festival of Dasain, depicting the victory of good over evil. Many offices, business and education centres are closed for ten days during the festival.
Photo by Gopal Chitrakar
Anchorage residents could see a cloud of steam over the weekend from a volcano 900 miles away -- one of three Alaska volcanoes showing signs of unrest.
The three volcanoes, including two located on remote Aleutian islands distant from any population centers, are setting off frequent tremors and minor bursts of ash or steam, seismologists said on Tuesday.
Cleveland Volcano, 900 miles southwest of Anchorage, had a small eruption on Friday, said the Alaska Volcano Observatory, which monitors Alaska's more than 40 active volcanoes.
Its ash plume rose to a height of nearly 15,000 feet (4.6 km) above sea level, observatory scientists said.
A boat makes tries to make its way through a section of the Amazon River suffering from lower water levels near Uricurituba, in northern Brazil, on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Four Brazilian cities in the Amazon have been declared disaster areas as a continuing drought has dried up rivers and cut off thousands of families from access to food and medicine, authorities said Monday, Oct 10, 2005.
Photo by Euzivaldo Queiroz
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Oct. 3-9. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 28.8 million viewers.
2. (2) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 26.1 million viewers.
3. (4) "Lost," ABC, 22.4 million viewers.
4. (3) "Without a Trace," CBS, 21.2 million viewers.
5. (5) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 18.7 million viewers.
6. (6) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 18.1 million viewers.
7. (10) "Survivor: Guatemala," CBS, 17.9 million viewers.
8. (7) "Commander in Chief," ABC, 16.9 million viewers.
8. (11) "NCIS," CBS, 16.9 million viewers.
10. (8) "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," NBC, 16.2 million viewers.
11. (12) "Cold Case," CBS, 15.9 million viewers.
12. (9) "NFL Monday Night Football: Green Bay at Carolina," ABC, 15.6 million viewers.
13. (16) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.," ABC, 15.3 million viewers.
14. (X) "Fox NFL Sunday Post Game," Fox, 14.9 million viewers.
15. (15) "CSI: NY," CBS, 14.6 million viewers.
16. (13) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.2 million viewers.
17. (14) "ER," NBC, 14.2 million viewers.
18. (26) "Las Vegas," NBC, 13.6 million viewers.
19. (24) "My Name is Earl," NBC, 13.2 million viewers.
20. (21) "Crossing Jordan," NBC, 12.9 million viewers.
20. (20) "Medium," NBC, 12.9 million viewers.
20. (29) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 12.9 million viewers.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld laugh as he listens to a question from a service member during a town hall meeting Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2005, at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.
Photo by Chris O'Meara
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