the corporation on sundance now.

kubrick on tcm starting now: lolita, 2001, strangelove, paths of glory.

dee snyder on all new cribs now

stream artfilms on ubu

One of those actors whom nobody can identify by name but everybody knows, Vincent Schiavelli met his fate in Scicily yesterday (no, they didn't, the cigarette industry did). Like Charles Durning and John McGiver before him, Vincent Schiavelli was one of those guys who was in virtually every movie of a certain era. From "Ghost" ("I was pushed in front of that subway!") through "Buckaroo Bonzai" ("Nice night.") through "Ridgemont High" ("I just switched to Sanka and I'm having a bad day, so have a heart.") and beyond, not to mention TV roles like "Taxi" ("Lahht-kahhh . . ."), he was one of the essential faces of 80s and 90s pop culture.

iggy pop live (2005) on vh1 classic. replays at midnight.

snl lazy sunday

"sit-down comedy" (original)

larry david on comedy with david steinberg on tv land now

a friends step uncles hedge fund book reviewed.

tivo washington week this week - gets to buz-saw levels at times

good news week

future technology timeline

something about container ships at 8 on discovery channel.

TONIGHT!

Storefront (for art and architecture) Films proudly presents
DIRTY WEEKEND (Mordi e Fuggi/Rapt l'Italienne)
a film by Dino Risi

A film selected by Marko Lulic in conjunction with the current
exhibition Marko Lulic: Modernity in YU

At Anthology Film Archives
Tuesday December 20, 2005
7.30 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
New York, NY

Dirty Weekend is the last of three films Marko Lulic selected to be
shown at Anthology Film Archives this Fall. The November film
Themroc was a stunning success. And Dirty Weekend promises more
absurd, spectacular fun.

The story is about three anarchists Fabrizio, Raul and Silvia who
take an industrialist and his mistress hostage. In exchange for
their hostages they demand a plane and money. While waiting for
their ransom, the anarchists hide out in a villa that belongs to a
retired general. The industrialist reveals himself as a coward, and
is willing to make any compromise to save his life. His mistress
quickly becomes disenchanted by her industrialist lover, and falls
in love with the very charming Fabrizio.

Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Oliver Reed
105 min / color / 1973
A joint French and Italian production

Tickets are $5 for the general public, and free for Anthology and
Storefront members

timbls blog

"Affiliates of terrorist organization Hezbollah cloned the mobiles of senior executives of Canadian operator Rogers Communications....":

"They were cloning the senior executives repeatedly, because everyone was afraid to cut off Ted Rogers' phone," Hopper told Gefen, in an interview that recognised the cleverness of the social engineering trick. "They were using actually a pretty brilliant psychology. Nobody wants to cut off Ted Rogers' phone or any people that are directly under Ted Rogers, so they took their scanners to our building... Nobody wants to shut off Ted. Even if he is calling Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait."

Pretty clever.

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Best Dish 2005 goes to Captain Treats: this hommage to the lower east side starts off the most exciting tasting menu in NYC at wd~50

Best New 2005 goes to Aburiya Kinnosuke: my fav Japanese to date in this small town, yet Ushi Wakamaru rocks the sushi world and i didnt get back in all of 2005

Best 3:00 to 5:00 goes to The Modern: after tasting 20 dishes in the front room only (didnt love my one meal in the main dining room) this place with Tia Pol come in the best of 2005 with the above, p.s. great wine list at The Modern

Cru: cant bless this place enough thank you for doing what you do, been drinking rare treats all year, eating delish food. sadly while not affordable for all, there still is value for us whine geeks

2005: wd~50, Aburiya Kinnosuke, Cru, Tia Pol, The Modern

Skinny

bush on the news hour with jim lerher now and again at 7pm on 13

that big ole grey pack of lies, the nyt

jarvis and auletta together on lopate

High in a Christmas tree..

who is charmin?

exhuming mccarthy

game and quiz show panelist kitty carlilsle hart rip

she always appeared to be of another age (era) to me.

bunnies with cookies and pancakes on their heads and stuff

Scott Lipscomb, Iraq Body Count US spokesperson on the number of Iraqi civilian casualities since the war was launched. "about 30,000." lipscomb believes it was scripted not unscripted as touted based on the framing of the question to coincide with his websites way of compiling numbers. and bush never goes off script, except when he does and it goes very badly. on leonard lopate today. isnt that cheating?