Oct 13, 2009 -
Lexington
Of debt and deadbeats
Oct 8th 2009
From The Economist print edition
A new culture war is brewing over capitalism
SEVENTEEN Uncle Sams were seen begging on the streets of Washington, DC, this week. They were a sad sight, with their slightly bedraggled red, white and blue hats and their cardboard signs with the hand-scrawled plea: “I want YOU to give me $12 trillion.” It was a publicity stunt, of course, staged by DefeatTheDebt.com, a fiscally hawkish pressure group. But it captured something important about the national mood.
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Sep 14, 2009 -
Barack Obama Jumps the Shark
By Stuart Schwartz
Barack Obama has jumped the shark.
This past week was when the forty-fourth president of the United States tugged on his leather jacket, strapped on his water skis, roared off behind a motorboat and fearlessly jumped over a live shark
The term "jump the shark" comes from a late seventies Happy Days episode when the series, desperately trying to stop its ratings slide, had the character Fonzie, in his trademark leather jacket, water ski over a shark during a visit to Hollywood. Since then, a show or movie series that tries increasingly more desperate moves as its audience disappears is said to have "jumped the shark."
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Apr 25, 2009 -
`Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies at 86
By LYNN ELBER – 50 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday. She was 86.
Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said.
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Aug 18, 2009 -
Why Obama's Ratings Are Sinking
Americans will put up with a lot. But not with someone who imperils their future..
By ARTHUR C.
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May 27, 2008 -
Hairspray
Stars:
# John Travolta
# Michelle Pfeiffer
# Christopher Walken
# Amanda Bynes
# James Marsden
# Queen Latifah
# Brittany Snow
# Zac Efron
# Elijah Kelley
# Allison Janney
# Nikki Blonsky
# Taylor Parks
# Jayne Eastwood
# Paul Dooley
# Jerry Stiller
Director: Adam Shankman
My Top 5 Quotes: (when Penny speaks)
Motormouth Maybelle: [watching Edna walk in] If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb.
Wilbur Turnblad: [to a sobbing Edna, who thinks he's been cheating on her] Honey, it took me five years to realize you were flirting!
[softly]
Wilbur Turnblad: How could I?
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Dec 21, 2008 -
Bleeding Heart Tightwads
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: December 20, 2008
This holiday season is a time to examine who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but I’m unhappy with my findings. The problem is this: We liberals are personally stingy.
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Jan 28, 2009 -
Obama's White House: Big posts, overlapping tasks
By CHARLES BABINGTON – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is building a White House staff so loaded with big names and overlapping duties that it could collapse into chaos unless managed with a juggler's skill.
It's an administration that seems "addicted to czars," says one longtime observer of government organization.
Obama has installed a White House health czar who doubles as secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Aug 25, 2008 -
Hi, I hope everyone is having a good start to the week. :) Okay, today is part 3, Obama Wants You, from The Audacity of Socialism by Investor's Business Daily. As usual you can read Part 3 below, or you can choose to listen or read Part 3 from the direct link: http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302396723240343 Also, here is the link to all 12 Parts if you want to read ahead: http://www.ibdeditorial.com/series8.aspx
Source:
Obama Wants You
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: Barack Obama calls it "Universal Voluntary Public Service."
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May 24, 2008 -
The Ex (2007) Amelia Kowalski
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) Granny
The Omen (2006) Mrs Baylock
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)
Third Watch (4 episodes: 2000-2003) *TV Mona Mitchell
The Secret Life of Zoey (2002) Marcia Carter
Purpose (2002) Anna Simmons
Julie Lydecker (2002) *TV
A Girl Thing (2001) *TV Betty McCarthy
Forget Me Never (1999) *TV Diane McGowin
Coming Soon (1999) Judy Hodsell
Miracle at Midnight (1998) *TV Doris Koster
Redux Riding Hood (1997) (voice) Doris/Mrs Wolf
Angela Mooney (1996) Angela Mooney
Reckless (1995) Rachel
Miami Rhapsody (1995) Nina Marcus
Widows' Peak (1994) Miss Katherine O'Hare/Clancy
Husbands and Wives (1992) Judy Roth
Shadows and Fog (1992) Irmy
"Long Ago and Far Away" Narrator (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
Alice (1990) Alice Tate
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Halley Reed
New York Stories (1989) Lisa
Another Woman (1988) Hope
September (1987) Lane
Radio Days (1987) Sally White
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Hannah
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Cecilia
Supergirl (1984) Alura
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Tina Vitale
The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice) Unicorn/Amalthea
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) Ariel
Sarah (1982) *TV Narrator
Hurricane (1979) Charlotte Bruckner
Death on the Nile (1978) Jacqueline De Bellefort
Avalanche (1978) Caroline Brace
A Wedding (1978) Elizabeth 'Buffy' Brenner
Full Circle (1977) Julia Lofting
Peter Pan (1976) *TV Peter Pan
The Great Gatsby (1974) Daisy Buchanan
Docteur Popaul (1972) Christine Dupont
Follow Me! (The Public Eye) (1972) Belinda
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971) *TV Brooke Collier
Blind Terror (1971) Sarah
John and Mary (1969) Mary
Secret Ceremony (1968) Cenci
Rosemary's Baby (1968) Rosemary Woodhouse
A Dandy in Aspic (1968) Caroline
Johnny Belinda (1967) *TV Belinda MacDonald
Guns at Batasi (1964) Karen Eriksson
"Peyton Place" Allison Mackenzie (2 episodes, 1964)
John Paul Jones (1959)
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Sep 23, 2007 -
John Wayne - Marion Morrison
Cary Grant - Archie Leach
Lauren Bacall - Betty Joan Perske
Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Kathleen Ruston
Fred Astaire - Frederick Austerlitz
Richard Burton - Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.
Marilyn Monroe - Norma Jean Mortenson
Bob Hope - Leslie Townes Hope
Gretta Garbo - Greta Gustafsson
Doris Day - Doris Von Kappellof
Julie Andrews - Julia Elizabeth Wells
Anne Bancroft - Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Albert Brooks - Albert Einstein
Joan Crawford - Lucille LeSueur
Bing Crosby - Harry Lillis Crosby
Cary Grant - Archibald Alexander Leach
Jean Harlow - Harlean Carpentier
Rita Hayworth - Margarita Cansino
Billie Holiday - Eleanora Fagan
Rock Hudson - Roy Scherer
Veronica Lake - Constance Ockleman
Stan Laurel - Arthur Stanley Jefferson
Janet Leigh - Jeanette Helen Morrison
Sophia Loren - Sophia Scicoloni
Jayne Mansfield - Jayne Palmer
Dean Martin - Dino Crocetti
Shelley Winters - Shirley Schrift
Raquel Welch - Raquel Tejada
Omar Sharif - Michael Shalhoub
Ginger Rogers - Virginia Katherine McMath
Mickey Rooney - Joe Yule, Jr.
Maureen O’Hara - Maureen Fitzsimons
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