America is very upset with the latest WikiLeaks updates. Hilary Clinton gets task to solve the matter of WikiLeaks and stop them to publish more leaks. Lets see will she be successful in her task or.......................
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Hillary Clinton gets task to solve the matter of WikiLeaks
Twitter Scoops WikiLeaks’ Newest “Cablegate” Leak; WikiLeaks Website Down
Twitter Scoops WikiLeaks’ Newest “Cablegate” Leak; WikiLeaks Website Down
Gawker is reporting that Twitter users have obtained and spread details of WikiLeaks’ latest leak online before its scheduled release later today — and the details are at times juicy, but contain “no earth-shattering revelations.”
Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.
According to tweets from German-speaking Twitter users who snagged an embargoed copy of this week’s Der Spiegel (cover above), the cache of over 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables may be a bit of a let-down. At least from the German point of view there are no earth-shattering revelations, just a lot of candid talk about world leaders. Angela Merkel is praised as “teflon,” though she “avoids risk and is rarely creative,” and German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle is repeatedly bashed. There is talk of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s “wild parties,” (duh) and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likened to Hitler. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is called an “emperor with no clothes.” The cables also show Obama has “no emotional relationship with Europe,” focusing instead on Asian countries, according to Der Spiegel.
The full tranche of cables is apparently scheduled to be released by Wikileaks this afternoon at around 4:30 pm EST in concert with The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel. But this morning, a sharp-eyed Twitter user spotted a copy of Der Spiegel at a a rest area on the Germany-Switzerland border. “Der Spiegel too early in the Badische Bahnhof Basel!” wrote Freelancer_09. “We’ll see what it says…… :)” He and another user, sa7yr, have been tweeting excerpts for a few hours now.
Shortly after the leak, however, WikiLeaks tweeted that their website appears to be under attack and has crashed — just a few hours before the new leak was scheduled to go public. Although they appear to be scrambling to get the site back in order, they seem relatively unfazed, since the cables will still be published in major media outlets later this afternoon.
'WikiLeaks shows U.S. dismissed Israel's warnings about Iran bomb'
'WikiLeaks shows U.S. dismissed Israel's warnings about Iran bomb'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2009 claims that Iran was months away from achieving military nuclear capability were dismissed by the Americans, according to a German weekly, quoting classified U.S. documents set to be released by the WikiLeaks website on Sunday. Tension has been building around the world ahead of the massive leak of a reported 250,000 diplomatic cables by the whistle-blowing website, which have media sources around the world speculating as to the content and potential gravity of the information.
According to Der Spiegel, which is running excerpts of the WikiLeaks expose in its Monday edition, a State Department official states in a classified cable that Netanyahu informed the United States of Iran's nuclear advancement in November 2009, but that the prime minister's estimate was likely unfounded and intended to pressure Washington into action against the Islamic Republic
The Monday edition of the German weekly has already gone on sale in Basel, Switzerland, apparently by accident.
The classified communiques are expected to reveal the inner workings of American and international diplomacy, and are likely to cause major embarrassment to the United States. American embassies in more than a dozen nations have informed their host countries that their secret cables could be revealed.
In one cable dated June 2009 quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a U.S. diplomat says Barak told visiting officials that a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities was viable until the end of 2010, saying that after :any military solution would result in unacceptable collateral damage"
"He also expressed concern that should Iran develop nuclear capabilities, other rogue states and/or terrorist groups would not be far behind," the U.S. diplomat said.
The cable also quoted Barak as describing the Iranian leadership "chess, not backgammon players," with the U.S. diplomat quoting the defense minister saying would "attempt to avoid any hook to hang accusations on, and look to Pakistan and North Korea as models to emulate in terms of acquiring nuclear weapons while defying the international community."
Another cable, from later 2009, the U.S.-Israel Joint Political Military Group, Mossad representatives said Iran was using repeated attempts to resolve the nuclear issue through diplomacy to "play for time" and evade sanctions, "while pursuing its strategic objective to obtain a military nuclear capability."
"From Mossad's perspective, there is no reason to believe Iran will do anything but use negotiations to stall for time so that by 2010-2011, Iran will have the technological capability to build a nuclear weapon -- essentially reducing the question of weaponizing to a political decision," the cable said.
Monday, December 21, 2009
pogo
pogo
Monopoly Slots Pocket Pogo Game
:
survivor season 20
survivor season 20
Survivor season 20 is being called Heroes vs. Villains. Calling 
Survivor season 20 Heroes vs. Villains should lead Survivor fans to believe that it is definitely going to be an interesting cast. While the Survivor season 20 cast has not been officially released, there are already a ton of rumors out there about who might make it on to that cast. A Heroes vs. Villains season sounds like a good vs. bad interpretation, and could lead to some really great challenges.
By deciding to have the 20th season of Survivor be something special like this, CBS and the Survivor producers have made a really smart decision. Not only will this bring back some of the biggest fan favorites from over the years, but now it will present some very interesting wrinkles that could draw in more viewers. Those additional viewers should really help to increase the ratings for Survivor season 20, and now fans can sit back and guess about who will make the Survivor season 20 cast.
It was already announced that Survivor season one winner Richard Hatch won't be back because he couldn't get out of his probation (he went to jail for tax evasion) and that rules him out from season 20. It has also been rumored that Russell will return from Survivor Samoa to once again compete for the million dollars, but none of these rumors should really be believed until we get the official release from CBS telling us who will star in the Survivor season 20 Heroes vs. Villains.
The 20th season of Survivor was filmed back-to-back with Survivor Samoa in order to save some money on the production end of things, so it is probably ready to be shown already. They also filmed Survivor season 20 in Samoa, so it will be interesting if they use some of the same locations, or if they have a completely different set for some of the all-time greats from Survivor.
So as we head towards Survivor season 20: Heroes vs. Villains; who are some of the contestants that fans would like to see competing in the 20th season of the show? Do you want some of the really evil players? Was there a really nice guy you want to see back for another chance to win? Please feel free to leave your comments and thoughts about Survivor season 20.
We will also make sure to update Survivor fans as soon as the cast list is released for the Heroes vs. Villains season of Survivor.
feckless definition
feckless definition
The final winner of Survivor Samoa was chosen on Sunday night. Natalie White a 26 year old pharmaceutical saleswoman, won the sole survivor crown along with a million dollar prize.
In a season that saw 2 contestants go home for medical reasons, it was one which had the contestants face very difficult conditions.
But what has got the Internet buzzing today was the word used to describe Mick, and there has been a lot of interest in the word and it’s meaning.
According to the Websters dictionary feckless means weak and ineffective.
It was also said that Natalie rode on Russell’s coat tails, and that Russell also played an unethical game, leading to a lot of tension in the finale.
But after the final votes were counted Natalie was the one that outwitted and outlasted the rest. Which is probably a good thing since she had left her job to come onto the show.
She explained the reason saying, “It was about having no regrets, and you have to take a big risk to get a big return.”
Although Russell was not at all happy about not winning he said, “I feel like I played the best strategic game in history. And I’m not the only one that thinks that. I can guarantee you millions of people probably think the same thing.” He griped about winner Natalie saying, “Her best move was to jump on my back.”
Although he didn’t leave empty handed he did win the Sprint’s Player of the game chosen by the viewers and walked away with $100,000.
Watch the full videos of Feckless Definition at the URL below, just copy and paste the URL below to your address bar now:
to be posted...
Join Christian Singles during Christmas Special - 10% OFF & 1 Month FREE!
Visit the link now: doiop.com/ChristianSingles
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
tropical storm danny
tropical storm danny
That tropical disturbance in the Atlantic north of
Puerto Rico has strengthened to tropical storm force and earned the name Danny. Forecasters say it will likely become a hurricane by this weekend, brush the Carolina coast and be off the Delmarva peninsula by Saturday morning.
Here's AccuWeather.com's take on the new storm.
The fourth named storm of the season was packing top sustained winds of 45 mph, with some slow strengthening expected in the next few days. At 73 mph it would become a Category 1 hurricane, the second of the season.
At 11 a.m. Wednesday the storm's center was reported to be 775 miles south southeast of Cape Hatteras, moving toward the west northwest at 18 mph. The National Hurricane Center's forecast track map takes the storm to a position just off the Outer Banks by early Saturday, where it is expected to be at hurricane strength.
Here's the Ocean City forecast, calling for wet and breezy weather for the weekend.
Here is the current advisory on Danny. The 11 a.m. Weds. forecast map is above. And here is the view from orbit.
That tropical disturbance in the Atlantic north of
Puerto Rico has strengthened to tropical storm force and earned the name Danny. Forecasters say it will likely become a hurricane by this weekend, brush the Carolina coast and be off the Delmarva peninsula by Saturday morning.Here's AccuWeather.com's take on the new storm.
The fourth named storm of the season was packing top sustained winds of 45 mph, with some slow strengthening expected in the next few days. At 73 mph it would become a Category 1 hurricane, the second of the season.
At 11 a.m. Wednesday the storm's center was reported to be 775 miles south southeast of Cape Hatteras, moving toward the west northwest at 18 mph. The National Hurricane Center's forecast track map takes the storm to a position just off the Outer Banks by early Saturday, where it is expected to be at hurricane strength.
Here's the Ocean City forecast, calling for wet and breezy weather for the weekend.
Here is the current advisory on Danny. The 11 a.m. Weds. forecast map is above. And here is the view from orbit.
chappaquiddick
chappaquiddick
Chappaquiddick Incident History-The
“Chappaquiddick incident” refers to circumstances surrounding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick, a small island connected via ferry to the town of Edgartown on the adjoining larger island of Martha’s Vineyard.
The party was a reunion for a group of six women, including Kopechne, known as the “boiler-room girls”,who had served in his brother Robert’s 1968 presidential campaign. Also present were Joseph Gargan (Ted Kennedy’s cousin), Paul Markham (a school friend of Gargan’s who would become United States Attorney for Massachusetts under the patronage of the Kennedys), Charles Tretter (an attorney), Raymond La Rosa and John Crimmins (Ted Kennedy’s part-time driver). Kennedy was also competing in the Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta, a sailing competition which was taking place over several days.
Kopechne’s dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts under water in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
After the body was found, Kennedy gave a statement to police saying that on the previous night he had taken a wrong turn and accidentally driven his car off a bridge into the water. He pled guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, and received a suspended sentence.
The incident became a national scandal, and may have affected the Senator’s decision not to run for President in 1972.
Chappaquiddick Incident History-The
“Chappaquiddick incident” refers to circumstances surrounding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick, a small island connected via ferry to the town of Edgartown on the adjoining larger island of Martha’s Vineyard.
The party was a reunion for a group of six women, including Kopechne, known as the “boiler-room girls”,who had served in his brother Robert’s 1968 presidential campaign. Also present were Joseph Gargan (Ted Kennedy’s cousin), Paul Markham (a school friend of Gargan’s who would become United States Attorney for Massachusetts under the patronage of the Kennedys), Charles Tretter (an attorney), Raymond La Rosa and John Crimmins (Ted Kennedy’s part-time driver). Kennedy was also competing in the Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta, a sailing competition which was taking place over several days.
Kopechne’s dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts under water in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
After the body was found, Kennedy gave a statement to police saying that on the previous night he had taken a wrong turn and accidentally driven his car off a bridge into the water. He pled guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, and received a suspended sentence.
The incident became a national scandal, and may have affected the Senator’s decision not to run for President in 1972.
mike barnicle
mike barnicle
Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts[1]) is an American newspaper writer and has been a newspaper columnist for more than 30 years for The Boston Globe (1974–1998), the New York Daily News (1999–2005) and the Boston Herald (2004–present). He has also written for Esquire, George, ESPN Magazine, and most recently Newsweek.com and The Huffington Post.
Barnicle also provides commentary on MSNBC and is guest host of Morning Joe, where he has been under contract for the last 10 years, and frequently is seen on NBC's Today Show with news/feature segments. He has been a regular contributor to the country's longest-running, award-winning local television news magazine, "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS's NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, ESPN and HBO sports programming.
He has won local and national awards for both his print and broadcast work over the last three decades, including from the Associated Press, United Press International, National Headliners and duPont-Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Colby College.
A complete review of all of Barnicle's thousands of Globe columns revealed an alleged fabrication in a column from three years earlier, dated October 8, 1995. The column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents, but from a nurse.
Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts[1]) is an American newspaper writer and has been a newspaper columnist for more than 30 years for The Boston Globe (1974–1998), the New York Daily News (1999–2005) and the Boston Herald (2004–present). He has also written for Esquire, George, ESPN Magazine, and most recently Newsweek.com and The Huffington Post.
Barnicle also provides commentary on MSNBC and is guest host of Morning Joe, where he has been under contract for the last 10 years, and frequently is seen on NBC's Today Show with news/feature segments. He has been a regular contributor to the country's longest-running, award-winning local television news magazine, "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS's NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, ESPN and HBO sports programming.
He has won local and national awards for both his print and broadcast work over the last three decades, including from the Associated Press, United Press International, National Headliners and duPont-Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Colby College.
A complete review of all of Barnicle's thousands of Globe columns revealed an alleged fabrication in a column from three years earlier, dated October 8, 1995. The column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents, but from a nurse.
mary jo kopechne
mary jo kopechne
Every person’s life is like a kaleidoscope. Some 
pick up another’s life, hold it to the light and all the glass chips fall this way or that. And the person sighting through the cylinder puts it down and turns away, saying they’ve seen it all, when in fact, they’ve only seen one facet, one pattern in another’s life. Thus some remember only one thing or two about the life of another long lived.
But there are other ways to see most of a life in depth, that is, to keep turning the kaleidoscope, letting the glass shards open and reveal, shade and hide, depending on the turn of the scope. Adding up all the patterns, keeping the sum of the brilliant and the dark turns: that’s a view in depth of the life of another.
I’d just lay out a few turns of the kaleidoscope of Ted Kennedy’s life here, a lost story:
Some of the glass shards part, and we see in paradoxically jeweled light that Ted Kennedy was born to a brutally ambitious father, Joe Kennedy, and his mother Rose, was a good Catholic girl, demure and subservient to her wealthy, bellowing husband.
Joe Kennedy true to his obsessive nature, kept his wife pregnant for most of sixteen years, she giving birth, not including miscarriages, to nine children in that time. Ted was the youngest born in 1932.
Ted would be eventually groomed and glossed, and also pressed to follow his father’s example… the ill and clearcut way the older Kennedy conducted himself politically and personally: teaching his male children that Kennedys’ get what they want when they want it how they want it for no other reason that they want it… and it is alright to use most any means to get it.
Another father, with different values, might have pressed an entire set of young Kennedy male offspring, to grow far more seated in heart and soul and clearcut ethics, far sooner.
As a young man, Ted, sent to the top school, Harvard, got kicked out for cheating. He was readmitted, but though some might say he cheated because of laziness, it may also be that his lack of studying and rousting about was his finger flapping in the face of his immensely overbearing father… yet Ted may have tried to fake the grade still fearing his old man.
Ted had reason to fear his father. Being the youngest child in the family, Ted was close to his sisters, and was doted on by Rosemary who was 14 years old when he was born. They laughed together and delighted in each other, and yet when Rosemary began displaying too wild a behavior by her father’s lights… showing interest in sex and sensuality… being too wild for her father’s hyper hypocritical tastes– he himself rumored to have many affairs–
Ted at age 9 witnessed his father dispose of his sister Rosemary as though she were a block of cordwood.
Joe Kennedy secretly arranged that his daughter Rosemary, age 22, to be forced bodily from their home, and incarcerated in a mental institution where Joe signed papers that were not his to sign, as his daughter was of legal age…
the papers the pater familias of the Kennedy clan signed were to ok a surgeon to slice into his daughter Rosemary’s brain through her eyelids, performing a lobotomy. This selfsame so-called “surgeon” would later be hounded from the medical profession for his butchery of human beings. But the good doctor at that time (1941), met Joe Kennedy’s needs.
Afterward, Rosemary no longer had sexual being. She also could not speak and could not hold her urine or her bowels for the rest of her life. She suddenly had the IQ of a child under seven. She had previously been, by all accounts, a bright, normal, willful, beautiful young woman, not retarded, not mentally ill. But to cover his egregious sin, Joe Kennedy spread the rumor over and over that Rosemary had always been ‘retarded.’
Women were a dime a dozen in his world, and Rosemary was shut away in diapers and babbling and out of sight, out of mind.
Joe Kennedy allowed no one to defy him without using all power at his disposal to destroy individuals. He was a bully and a boor. What he couldn’t get through power, he took by underhanded force… and then tried to cover his tracks, buying silence, or eliminating talkers.
To Joe, women were seen as Catholic scapulars, or as servants, or as good time girls. He carried and taught to his sons the old madonna/ whore split. A whore was to be used. A madonna was to be perpetually impregnated within marriage.
But a daughter, a woman, threatening his carefully built image, that was another story. For Joe, is was within his purview as a male to utterly harm a girl and leave her as good as dead.
Thus Joe Kennedy set hideous, puerile and murderous examples for his boys. And I believe, imprinted them, as well as intimidated and horrified them, when they were young… and yet evilly offered them riches and position as they became older… if they would just cover for and remain loyal to their corrupt father. He would be their Boston Machiavelli.
Thus he burnished and protected the family image at all costs. Except, in all his slit-eyed plans, all his prancing and smokers and under the table deals, all his pretense and vulgar displays of wealth and power, he never set in place examples of heart for others… Joe’s hope for his boys centered on eliciting in them and from them, chips off the old block, that is, greed and lust for power.
In time, as we witnessed, one of Joe’s sons, Ted, at age 37 would drive off the Dike Bridge late one night. A young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28, one of several “Boiler Room Girls” (girls who worked on Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign the year before) who’d held a party that night, was in Ted’s car. Ted Kennedy made it to shore. Miss Kopechne did not. Ted Kennedy did not report the accident until the next day.
Some say he had a concussion and wasn’t thinking clearly. Others say he was drunk and out of his mind. Others say the unthinkable: that he did not value a human life. That he tried to cover up.
We may not know which one it was, or which two, or all four– or more. What we do know is that the ill trajectory for harming an innocent was laid down in spades in Ted’s young life by an exemplar father who was supposed to instill life-sparing and life-endorsing in his boys …instead of a careless regard for life… especially the lives of women, be they wives, mistresses, girlfriends, daughters, women one found attractive. For some observors and historians, the life’s end of Marilyn Monroe rings a similar bell.
Are the sins of the father the sins of the sons? I dont think we know for sure. It seems that sometimes hell is on earth for some— and I think of Ted Kennedy’s ‘cant face myself in the mirror’ for a long time after Miss Kopechne’s death… but also the prior hellacious loss of Rosemary… and the loss of a dear older brother in war… and also the harrowing of Ted’s soul after his two brothers were murdered. The lessons, the opportunities to become human and humane at last, came one after the other, relentlessly.
… and even more so of how ancient Ted Kennedy suddenly became on the small boat, his face collapsed into itself, his shoulders gone all ‘old man’… as he grimly sailed out to recover John-John’s body and the bodies of two others of the young from the tragic small plane crash in the ocean at niight… his nephew John, son of Jackie and JFK, who so promised in good looks and youth, in vitality and smarts… to maybe bring back the Kennedy political sheen… now the last charismatic male Kennedy of that generation was dead too. Also, literally, dead in the water. Like Mary Jo.
We who are religious are taught that all will be judged not with fury but with fairness when they die. Whatever was not learned on earth, some say, will be learned in heaven, or in a stopping and resting place on the way there. It’s said too that one receives credit for learning on earth from one’s abject suffering, no matter what crassness or separation from the God of Life and Love, preceded it.
So may it be for Ted Kennedy, having now left this world at age 77. So may rest continue for Mary Jo Kopechne who would be, had she lived, 68 years old this day.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
heather podesta
heather podesta
is the striking DC lobbyist who has made a name for herself as one of the toughest sharks in Washington waters. Sometimes with and sometimes against husband and fellow lobbyist Tony Podesta, Heather is having the summer of her life, according to a Washington Post profile.The article paints Heather as the ultimate insider, constantly trading in the currencies of power, influence and good old cash. Heather Podesta is high-profile for a lobbyist and earlier this year, she and her husband donated Shepard Fairey's "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama to the National Portrait Gallery. She's also donated more than $48,000 so far this year to various political candidates and groups, and her life consists of nearly non-stop fundraisers.
But Heather Podesta is enjoying the heavy workload, with the intersection of health care, economic reform, and environmental reform creating a perfect storm for Washington lobbyists."This is a very good time to be a Democratic lobbyist ... it's incredibly exciting to be able to engage with Democrats and really see things happen," Podesta told the Post. "It's always a good time to be Heather Podesta."
When President Obama began vilifying lobbyists during his campaign, Heather took offense and commissioned a Gothic-style scarlet L, which she wore as a mark of pride. She says the L soon became a hot item and she gave away more than 100 of them.
Time blogger Karen Tumulty has already pointed out that it's risky for lobbyists to flaunt their influence in huge feature stories, and ponders what the fallout might be for Podesta. "Commonsense rule #1 for influence peddlers: Don't flaunt it," Tumulty writes.
is the striking DC lobbyist who has made a name for herself as one of the toughest sharks in Washington waters. Sometimes with and sometimes against husband and fellow lobbyist Tony Podesta, Heather is having the summer of her life, according to a Washington Post profile.The article paints Heather as the ultimate insider, constantly trading in the currencies of power, influence and good old cash. Heather Podesta is high-profile for a lobbyist and earlier this year, she and her husband donated Shepard Fairey's "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama to the National Portrait Gallery. She's also donated more than $48,000 so far this year to various political candidates and groups, and her life consists of nearly non-stop fundraisers.
But Heather Podesta is enjoying the heavy workload, with the intersection of health care, economic reform, and environmental reform creating a perfect storm for Washington lobbyists."This is a very good time to be a Democratic lobbyist ... it's incredibly exciting to be able to engage with Democrats and really see things happen," Podesta told the Post. "It's always a good time to be Heather Podesta."
When President Obama began vilifying lobbyists during his campaign, Heather took offense and commissioned a Gothic-style scarlet L, which she wore as a mark of pride. She says the L soon became a hot item and she gave away more than 100 of them.
Time blogger Karen Tumulty has already pointed out that it's risky for lobbyists to flaunt their influence in huge feature stories, and ponders what the fallout might be for Podesta. "Commonsense rule #1 for influence peddlers: Don't flaunt it," Tumulty writes.
clio axelrod
clio axelrod
At least 13 people in one location, about 350 feet south of Thunder Hole, were hit by the unusually large wave, according to park officials.
Kailey Walko, 16, of Belfast
Anthony Allen, 17, of Belmont
Greg Clark, 14, of Belfast Sandra Kuhatch-Axlerod, 51, of New York, N.Y. (later transferred to EMMC)
Nancy N. Smith, 55, of Richland, Miss. (later transferred to EMMC)
Marget Phillips, 55, of Richland, Miss.
Ellen W. Yenawine, 62, of New London, N.H.
Gardner D. Yenawine, 70, of New London, N.H.
John Brinker, 59, of Baltimore
Mary Brinker, 67, of Baltimore
At least 13 people in one location, about 350 feet south of Thunder Hole, were hit by the unusually large wave, according to park officials.
Seven people reportedly were pulled into the surf by the large wave that struck park visitors just before noon Sunday. Four of those individuals were able to make it back to shore on their own, while the other three, including the girl who died, were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. 
Among the injured identified by park officials Monday was 12-year-old Simone Pelletier of Belfast, who was one of the three rescued from the surf by the Coast Guard. The other two included the girl who died, Clio Axlerod, and her father, Peter Axelrod, 55, who was taken Sunday afternoon by a LifeFlight of Maine helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
The following Waldo County individuals injured by the wave were transported by ambulance or personal vehicle to Mount Desert Island Hospital:
The remaining individuals transported to MDI Hospital included:
According to park officials, ranger Richard Rechholtz transported a father and son to MDI Hospital after they were hit by a wave 20 minutes before the large wave hit near Thunder Hole. They were identified as Mark Picking, 51, of Indianwells, Calif., and his son, Luke Picking, 16. The son was treated and released, while the father was admitted for a severe dislocated right shoulder and broken collarbone.
Park officials said that an MDI Hospital emergency room spokesman confirmed in addition to the above listed individuals, one 54-year-old female was admitted to the hospital with non-critical injuries after she was driven there in a private vehicle.
"There were additional reports of more people being swept into the ocean and being recovered and additional injuries from being knocked over by waves," said Acadia National Park Ranger Stuart West in a press release Monday afternoon.
"Not all incidents were reported to the park, and the ones that were reported were resolved before rangers arrived to assist the people and take a report."
West said that a total of 16 people were confirmed in the final injury count admitted to MDI Hospital.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
ashleigh kenny
ashleigh kenny
Ashleigh Kenny poses with Congressman Jack Kingston and the RIP the US Constitution t- shirt that is causing such angst in progressively liberal circles. Like those inhabited by Oliver Willis.
As you can see the front of the t-shirt reads "RIP The US Constitution" while the back of it has a quote from Ronald Reagan:
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem"
Now it's certainly true that national health care (which is the cause of t
he current anxiety which led to the shirt being made) is not in fact a constitutional matter. It isn't mentioned there as something which the Federal Government can do nor is it mentioned as something it cannot. Given the powers that it has taken to itself over the decades it's certainly not something that the Supreme Court (which is the final arbiter of such matters) is going to say is unconstitutional.
The quote from Reagan though, well, you certainly can argue either way on that: the health care system is at least 50% run by government so it would be fair to say that government has caused at least 50% of the problems with it.
However, the t-shirt is not purely and solely about national health care. As Ashleigh Kenny explains it hereself:
Perhaps one’s perception of the shirt depends on his or her perception of our Constitution. Personally, I believe it is a fundamental document that was written to insure that the government never became greater than the people. When I look at today’s society, the government’s control seems to increasingly outweigh the people’s. I cannot help but feel that the Constitution has been theoretically buried. This design isn’t meant to point fingers, it’s meant to stir an awareness of what we are losing. It’s about the power of the government increasing, while the power of the people decreases.
Very difficult indeed to say that she's wrong there, whichever side of the political aisle you lean towards.
wilson county fair
wilson county fair
The 30th Wilson County Fair opened up to great weather and a lot of visitors on Friday. Inspectors were at the fair early to make sure everything was safe from the rides to the food.
The 30th Wilson County Fair opened up to great weather and a lot of visitors on Friday. Inspectors were at the fair early to make sure everything was safe from the rides to the food.
The Tennessee Department of Health inspectors checked each vendor and gave random checks throughout the fair.
A rides inspector on site will check each one of the rides everyday before the fair opens.
The Wilson County fair saw some of their highest attendance numbers last year with more than 466,000 people attending. They said they expect even more this year.ryan jenkins arrested
ryan jenkins arrested
Reports claimed that Ryan Jenkins was arrested at a Toronto airport last night. We now know that police boarded an airplane and arrested a man they believed to be Ryan Jenkins. The man was taken into police custody and has been released, according to TMZ.
Ryan Jenkins is still on the run and is believed to be somewhere in Canada.
Canada will not extradite a person charged in a death penalty case. In order for Canada to extradite Ryan Jenkins, he would have to be charged with a non-capital crime. We are fairly certain that there are many members of the pu
blic who would be happy to smuggle Jenkins back into the US so he can face the death penalty.
According to TMZ , Ryan Jenkins may be headed to a small island off of Honduras called Roatan. Jenkins father, Dan, has connections to the island. Dan Jenkins just so happens to own a private jet.
Jasmine Fiore identified by her breast implants
Ryan Jenkins is accused of strangling Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins allegedly removed all of her teeth and fingers after he murdered her. Police were able to identify Jasmine Fiore because of the serial numbers on her breast implants.
A $25,000 reward is being offered bu the US Marshals service for any information regarding the whereabouts of Ryan Jenkins.
Reports claimed that Ryan Jenkins was arrested at a Toronto airport last night. We now know that police boarded an airplane and arrested a man they believed to be Ryan Jenkins. The man was taken into police custody and has been released, according to TMZ.
Ryan Jenkins is still on the run and is believed to be somewhere in Canada.
Canada will not extradite a person charged in a death penalty case. In order for Canada to extradite Ryan Jenkins, he would have to be charged with a non-capital crime. We are fairly certain that there are many members of the pu
blic who would be happy to smuggle Jenkins back into the US so he can face the death penalty.According to TMZ , Ryan Jenkins may be headed to a small island off of Honduras called Roatan. Jenkins father, Dan, has connections to the island. Dan Jenkins just so happens to own a private jet.
Jasmine Fiore identified by her breast implants
Ryan Jenkins is accused of strangling Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins allegedly removed all of her teeth and fingers after he murdered her. Police were able to identify Jasmine Fiore because of the serial numbers on her breast implants.
A $25,000 reward is being offered bu the US Marshals service for any information regarding the whereabouts of Ryan Jenkins.
marriott hawaii
marriott hawaii
The Marriott Hawaii is celebrating their 50th Anniversary with a great contest called “Tweet Yourself to Hawaii” which uses social media to give away vacations on Hawaii.
The contest website is marriotthawaiitweets.com. The contest is predicted to gain interest and popularity via social media sites such as twitter, facebook, blogs etc. Join in and maybe you can win a trip to Hawaii!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
richard hatch arrested
richard hatch arrested
Survivor winner Richard Hatch was re-arrested Tuesday by authorities only hours after he appeared on NBC's Today Show.
Hatch was taken into custody at his sister's home in Newport, Rhode Island where he is under house arrest for tax evasion.
Roy Lyons, Public Information Officer of the Barnstable Cou
nty Sheriff's Office in Bourne, Mass., told RadarOnline.com on Wednesday that Hatch was taken back into custody because he violated terms of his house arrest by doing the interview.
But Wednesday on Today, Hatch's sister Kristin said that Hatch had received permission to do the interview, and Matt Lauer raised the question if possibly Hatch was re-arrested not for doing the interview, but for what he said during it.
In the interview, Hatch told Lauer that he believes he was sent to prison because of his sexual preference.
Hatch had been serving a four year sentence for neglecting to pay the taxes on his $1 million Survivor winnings back in 2006. He feels as though he was discriminated against.
"I know, without question, that there are personal issues involved for the prosecutor," Hatch said during the interview.
barney frank town hall
barney frank town hall
Most Congress members conducting town hall meetings this month have chosen a noncombative posture to deal with angry participants who disrupt the proceedings. Not Rep. Barney Frank.
"When you ask me that question, I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask you a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked. "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis," he said, adding such behavior demonstrated the strength of First Amendment guarantees of what he called "contemptible" free speech.
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," Frank said to the woman. "I have no interest in doing it."
Despite the disruptions, the meeting covered many of the issues of the health care debate, with Frank shooting down rumors that a House health care bill would mandate free insurance coverage for illegal immigrants.
He read from the section of the bill that excludes payments for that purpose, and when another questioner referred to a different section guaranteeing nondiscrimination, Frank pointed out that the first section he read superseded that language.
advertisement
Some in the crowd applauded, but others booed and shouted. Frank asked why the detractors shouted for him to answer, and when he did, they shouted more.
"What's the matter with you all?" he said. "I don't know if you get angrier when I answer the questions, or when you don't think I do."
Most Congress members conducting town hall meetings this month have chosen a noncombative posture to deal with angry participants who disrupt the proceedings. Not Rep. Barney Frank.
At a lively two-hour meeting Tuesday night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Frank gave as good as he got in confronting opponents of overhauling the nation's health care system.
The crowded hall had both supporters and detractors, but the opposing side was much louder and more raucous, booing the Massachusetts Democrat from the moment he was introduced and shouting questions and challenges at him throughout.
"You want me to talk about it or do you want to yell?" he asked over and
over when interrupted while trying to answer. Continued shouting brought a sterner rebuke.
"When you ask me that question, I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask you a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked. "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis," he said, adding such behavior demonstrated the strength of First Amendment guarantees of what he called "contemptible" free speech.
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," Frank said to the woman. "I have no interest in doing it."
Despite the disruptions, the meeting covered many of the issues of the health care debate, with Frank shooting down rumors that a House health care bill would mandate free insurance coverage for illegal immigrants.
He read from the section of the bill that excludes payments for that purpose, and when another questioner referred to a different section guaranteeing nondiscrimination, Frank pointed out that the first section he read superseded that language.
advertisement
Some in the crowd applauded, but others booed and shouted. Frank asked why the detractors shouted for him to answer, and when he did, they shouted more.
"What's the matter with you all?" he said. "I don't know if you get angrier when I answer the questions, or when you don't think I do."
michelle obama shorts
michelle obama shorts
Seems some people are actually outraged that First Lady Michelle Obama dared to bare so much leg by wearing shorts on a recent trip to the sweltering Grand Canyon.
OMG. First she wears a sleeveless dress, now this?
But think about this for a minute. What should she have worn to the Grand Canyon? A tweed pantsuit? A ballgown? What do you wear on your summer vacation?
Anyway, it's not like these shorts are hot pants. They are discreet, classic shorts.
Grow up, people. And get real. Michelle obviously has.
And her daughter Malia looks adorable in her khaki shorts too.
Take our poll and then see what other people think of Michelle's vacation style.
Monday, August 17, 2009
infinite quest
infinite quest
In Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (out Friday) -- a simultaneous tribute to and deconstruction of war movies and '40s noir -- a special unit of Jewish-American soldiers is sent behind enemy lines to spread shock and awe among German troops in Nazi-occupied France.
Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds."
Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds."
Think "The Dirty Daven."
"It's a revenge fantasy. That's the big hook that would put me in the theater -- and I'm not even Jewish," director Tarantino told EW earlier this year of his latest, which sends the regiment of cocky malcontents on a quest for Nazi scalps (brain splatter included).
Chief among the players is Brad Pitt, who delved so deeply into the part of Lt. Aldo Raine, leader of the Semitic squad, that he stayed in character on the set virtually all the time, Tarantino said.
B.J. Novak ("The Office"), who plays one of Raine's soldiers, Pfc. Utivich, summed up the experience: "There was one night of filming in Potsdam on this beautiful old street in the middle of winter. Brad Pitt was there in a tuxedo. Quentin Tarantino was framing a shot. And I thought, I still don't know what it's like to make a movie. Because this is the movie version of making a movie. This is what making a movie is like in movies about making movies." See more on EW's Movie Critics blog
Here are more EW Picks for the week of August 16:
"Shorts" (out Friday). The title of Robert Rodriguez's latest film doesn't refer to summer clothes or diminutive tykes, but to a series of intersecting vignettes (featuring Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann and William H. Macy) narrated by an 11-year-old boy (Jimmy Bennett). "You're at the mercy of how he remembers things, out of order and skipping around," writer-director Rodriguez told EW. "It's like 'Pulp Fiction' for kids." But relax, parents. There are no loquacious hitmen -- just a magic rock that drops into a Texas neighborhood after a storm, wreaking havoc when the kids' most inane wishes come true.
Don't Miss
* 'Mad Men' is a Hollywood influence on fashion
* 'Basterds' pro-Nazi short made by a Jewish director
"Post Grad" (out Friday). Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls") plays a determined but naive college grad who ends up back home with her dysfunctional family. Zach Gilford ("Friday Night Lights") plays the long-suffering best friend with a secret crush on her. Call it "When Rory Gilmore Met Matt Saracen." "People still see me as Rory," Bledel says, "and this kind of picks up where 'Gilmore Girls' left off." As for Gilford, he admits that he -- gasp! -- never followed Bledel's show, but sensed a kindred soul: "She's such a dork, and that's why I love her."
TV
"Mad Men" (10 p.m. Sunday, AMC). How we've missed the slickest show on television, anchored by Don Draper's moody crisis of the soul and Joan's blessed hips. The wait to get back into the '60s advertising world has been a long and fraught one, with rumors that series creator Matthew Weiner and AMC might part ways just as they had hooked a loyal audience, but the dawn of season 3 is finally upon us. In the premiere, Betty's pregnant belly has bloomed, the Brits have invaded the Sterling Cooper office and -- help us all -- Joan is still engaged to her brute of a fiance. Plus, Pete Campbell's worminess remains intact, and poor Salvatore struggles to maintain the image of a happily married man.
"Shaq Vs." (9 p.m. Tuesday, ABC) See LeBron James' new NBA running mate go head-to-head with the world's top athletes -- in their own sports -- in this new reality series. The premiere is scheduled to pit Shaq vs. Super Bowl winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for a football challenge, including a training session at the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility and a 7-on-7 game.
"Project Runway" (10 p.m. Thursday, Lifetime). Even the most stitch-and-bitch-starved addicts should be satisfied by this evening's all-"Runway"-related action. First up at 8 p.m. is "Project Runway: All-Star Challenge," a two-hour special that reunites some of our faves from years past. Then comes the blessed main event: the debut of "Runway's" delayed season 6 on a new network. We'll finally meet the 16 designers aiming for catwalk glory in L.A. under the ... uh, discerning eye of guest judge Lindsay Lohan. Finally, there's the premiere of "Models of the Runway" at 11 p.m., a half-hour spinoff about the show's glamazons. Make it work, Lifetime! Get all the latest TV scoop from EW's Michael Ausiello
Music
Reba McEntire, "Keep On Loving You" (out Tuesday). Reba McEntire leads off her 31st album with "Strange," an addictively sinister kiss-off that the next 12 tracks struggle to match, writes EW's Whitney Pastorek. Though McEntire's voice has aged well, few of these tunes provide it enough of a challenge, and the ones that do often sound like something she's already done better.
Sean Paul, "Infinite Blaze" (out Tuesday). How can a vocalist with an unchanging monotone be this charismatic? Sean Paul's limitless energy carries him through 20 tracks, helping him tap-dance over every flashy dancehall riddim that comes his way.
Third Eye Blind, "Ursa Major" (out Tuesday). Third Eye Blind's fourth album, its first since 2003, shows that frontman Stephan Jenkins' way with a hook has dimmed little since the band's mid-'90s heyday. The clunky lyrics are another thing, like in ska-rocker "Don't Believe a Word," when Jenkins sings "Rap stars brag about shooting each other?/ What ever happened to 'Brother, brother'??"
DVD
"Hannah Montana: The Movie" (out Tuesday). Miley Cyrus' big-screen hit finds our dual-life heroine in need of identity detox, which can happen only if she gets back to her simple country-girl roots by spending a few weeks in her small hometown of Crowley Meadow, Tennessee. In his review of the film, EW's Owen Gleiberman wrote that "Cyrus, as always, is a professional charmer, and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever. But there's an awfully long stretch of country-living innocuousness before destiny beckons."
"Tyson" (out Tuesday). In this stylishly edited confessional, boxer Mike Tyson comes across as both villain and victim, pussycat and pitbull. With his soft lisp, he speaks directly to the camera about his childhood fears, triumphs and errors in judgment. Is the director in his corner? Absolutely. But that doesn't make "Tyson" any less of a knockout.
"The Simpsons: Season 12" (out Tuesday). C'mon, you remember which brilliant season this was! The one where Homer goes on a hunger strike when the Isotopes threaten to leave town, a crayon pulled out of Homer's brain transforms him into a genius, and The Who bring Springfield together after a new area code rips it apart. Plus, the discs serve up tons of commentary and Easter eggs that are actually worth the hunt.
Books
"The Law of Nines," Terry Goodkind (out Tuesday). On his 27th birthday, Alex Rahl, waiting at a crosswalk, notices a truck flying a pirate's flag barrelling straight at him and another pedestrian, an oddly dressed but striking blond woman. He quickly yanks her to safety. Jax, as she's called, turns out to be a human from another planet -- one that's embroiled in civil war. And she's come to find Alex because, unbeknownst to him, he's got powers that can help her. If it takes a while for Alex -- and the reader -- to understand what's going on, says EW's book editor Tina Jordan, it's because the writing is blocky and strained, especially during the high-octane scenes of carnage that occur every few pages.
"Born Round," Frank Bruni (out Tuesday). What should a former bulimic do when offered the position of restaurant critic for The New York Times? Frank Bruni, who has held that hugely influential job for five years, said, "Yes, thank you, yum, you bet." By then, as he chronicles in "Born Round," he had won the worst of the battles against his out-of-control appetites. It's mostly wonderful, but the downside of all this essential good cheer is that "Born Round" feels a little ... thin on crisis! The author was overweight, he stopped vomiting, he slimmed down, and he kept his girth under control even while he was paid to eat: What's the big fat deal? Pass the breadsticks. See more about books on EW's Shelf Life blog
In Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (out Friday) -- a simultaneous tribute to and deconstruction of war movies and '40s noir -- a special unit of Jewish-American soldiers is sent behind enemy lines to spread shock and awe among German troops in Nazi-occupied France.
Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds."
Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds."
Think "The Dirty Daven."
"It's a revenge fantasy. That's the big hook that would put me in the theater -- and I'm not even Jewish," director Tarantino told EW earlier this year of his latest, which sends the regiment of cocky malcontents on a quest for Nazi scalps (brain splatter included).
Chief among the players is Brad Pitt, who delved so deeply into the part of Lt. Aldo Raine, leader of the Semitic squad, that he stayed in character on the set virtually all the time, Tarantino said.
B.J. Novak ("The Office"), who plays one of Raine's soldiers, Pfc. Utivich, summed up the experience: "There was one night of filming in Potsdam on this beautiful old street in the middle of winter. Brad Pitt was there in a tuxedo. Quentin Tarantino was framing a shot. And I thought, I still don't know what it's like to make a movie. Because this is the movie version of making a movie. This is what making a movie is like in movies about making movies." See more on EW's Movie Critics blog
Here are more EW Picks for the week of August 16:
"Shorts" (out Friday). The title of Robert Rodriguez's latest film doesn't refer to summer clothes or diminutive tykes, but to a series of intersecting vignettes (featuring Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann and William H. Macy) narrated by an 11-year-old boy (Jimmy Bennett). "You're at the mercy of how he remembers things, out of order and skipping around," writer-director Rodriguez told EW. "It's like 'Pulp Fiction' for kids." But relax, parents. There are no loquacious hitmen -- just a magic rock that drops into a Texas neighborhood after a storm, wreaking havoc when the kids' most inane wishes come true.
Don't Miss
* 'Mad Men' is a Hollywood influence on fashion
* 'Basterds' pro-Nazi short made by a Jewish director
"Post Grad" (out Friday). Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls") plays a determined but naive college grad who ends up back home with her dysfunctional family. Zach Gilford ("Friday Night Lights") plays the long-suffering best friend with a secret crush on her. Call it "When Rory Gilmore Met Matt Saracen." "People still see me as Rory," Bledel says, "and this kind of picks up where 'Gilmore Girls' left off." As for Gilford, he admits that he -- gasp! -- never followed Bledel's show, but sensed a kindred soul: "She's such a dork, and that's why I love her."
TV
"Mad Men" (10 p.m. Sunday, AMC). How we've missed the slickest show on television, anchored by Don Draper's moody crisis of the soul and Joan's blessed hips. The wait to get back into the '60s advertising world has been a long and fraught one, with rumors that series creator Matthew Weiner and AMC might part ways just as they had hooked a loyal audience, but the dawn of season 3 is finally upon us. In the premiere, Betty's pregnant belly has bloomed, the Brits have invaded the Sterling Cooper office and -- help us all -- Joan is still engaged to her brute of a fiance. Plus, Pete Campbell's worminess remains intact, and poor Salvatore struggles to maintain the image of a happily married man.
"Shaq Vs." (9 p.m. Tuesday, ABC) See LeBron James' new NBA running mate go head-to-head with the world's top athletes -- in their own sports -- in this new reality series. The premiere is scheduled to pit Shaq vs. Super Bowl winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for a football challenge, including a training session at the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility and a 7-on-7 game.
"Project Runway" (10 p.m. Thursday, Lifetime). Even the most stitch-and-bitch-starved addicts should be satisfied by this evening's all-"Runway"-related action. First up at 8 p.m. is "Project Runway: All-Star Challenge," a two-hour special that reunites some of our faves from years past. Then comes the blessed main event: the debut of "Runway's" delayed season 6 on a new network. We'll finally meet the 16 designers aiming for catwalk glory in L.A. under the ... uh, discerning eye of guest judge Lindsay Lohan. Finally, there's the premiere of "Models of the Runway" at 11 p.m., a half-hour spinoff about the show's glamazons. Make it work, Lifetime! Get all the latest TV scoop from EW's Michael Ausiello
Music
Reba McEntire, "Keep On Loving You" (out Tuesday). Reba McEntire leads off her 31st album with "Strange," an addictively sinister kiss-off that the next 12 tracks struggle to match, writes EW's Whitney Pastorek. Though McEntire's voice has aged well, few of these tunes provide it enough of a challenge, and the ones that do often sound like something she's already done better.
Sean Paul, "Infinite Blaze" (out Tuesday). How can a vocalist with an unchanging monotone be this charismatic? Sean Paul's limitless energy carries him through 20 tracks, helping him tap-dance over every flashy dancehall riddim that comes his way.
Third Eye Blind, "Ursa Major" (out Tuesday). Third Eye Blind's fourth album, its first since 2003, shows that frontman Stephan Jenkins' way with a hook has dimmed little since the band's mid-'90s heyday. The clunky lyrics are another thing, like in ska-rocker "Don't Believe a Word," when Jenkins sings "Rap stars brag about shooting each other?/ What ever happened to 'Brother, brother'??"
DVD
"Hannah Montana: The Movie" (out Tuesday). Miley Cyrus' big-screen hit finds our dual-life heroine in need of identity detox, which can happen only if she gets back to her simple country-girl roots by spending a few weeks in her small hometown of Crowley Meadow, Tennessee. In his review of the film, EW's Owen Gleiberman wrote that "Cyrus, as always, is a professional charmer, and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever. But there's an awfully long stretch of country-living innocuousness before destiny beckons."
"Tyson" (out Tuesday). In this stylishly edited confessional, boxer Mike Tyson comes across as both villain and victim, pussycat and pitbull. With his soft lisp, he speaks directly to the camera about his childhood fears, triumphs and errors in judgment. Is the director in his corner? Absolutely. But that doesn't make "Tyson" any less of a knockout.
"The Simpsons: Season 12" (out Tuesday). C'mon, you remember which brilliant season this was! The one where Homer goes on a hunger strike when the Isotopes threaten to leave town, a crayon pulled out of Homer's brain transforms him into a genius, and The Who bring Springfield together after a new area code rips it apart. Plus, the discs serve up tons of commentary and Easter eggs that are actually worth the hunt.
Books
"The Law of Nines," Terry Goodkind (out Tuesday). On his 27th birthday, Alex Rahl, waiting at a crosswalk, notices a truck flying a pirate's flag barrelling straight at him and another pedestrian, an oddly dressed but striking blond woman. He quickly yanks her to safety. Jax, as she's called, turns out to be a human from another planet -- one that's embroiled in civil war. And she's come to find Alex because, unbeknownst to him, he's got powers that can help her. If it takes a while for Alex -- and the reader -- to understand what's going on, says EW's book editor Tina Jordan, it's because the writing is blocky and strained, especially during the high-octane scenes of carnage that occur every few pages.
"Born Round," Frank Bruni (out Tuesday). What should a former bulimic do when offered the position of restaurant critic for The New York Times? Frank Bruni, who has held that hugely influential job for five years, said, "Yes, thank you, yum, you bet." By then, as he chronicles in "Born Round," he had won the worst of the battles against his out-of-control appetites. It's mostly wonderful, but the downside of all this essential good cheer is that "Born Round" feels a little ... thin on crisis! The author was overweight, he stopped vomiting, he slimmed down, and he kept his girth under control even while he was paid to eat: What's the big fat deal? Pass the breadsticks. See more about books on EW's Shelf Life blog
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)