Robert Pattinson and Andrew Garfield (which we'll get to in seconds, promise) weren't the only buzzed about stars at HBO's Golden Globes after-party.
All eyes were on Leighton Meester, gorgeous in a Burberry gown and her Country Strong costar Garret Hedlund.
The two presented at the Golden Globes yesterday and were inseparable all night.
So what went down?
The two attended the party together and were side by side practically the entire evening.
"They were making googly eyes at each other all night, it was adorable," dishes a source at the bash.
"They were hanging out by the bar laughing and talking very close for a long time," continues the fellow partygoer. "He had his hand on her back and she was just looking up at him, smiling ear-to-ear as he was leaning down and whispering something to her."
"At one point they turned around and snuck a kiss," adds our source. "But as the night went on they didn't exactly hide their affection for each other. They were all over each other! They seemed really happy."
We would so love if these two were together! They're both equally gorgeous (and super cool, for what it's worth) but as a duo they would be young Hollywood's new power couple.
Garret also talked with Pattinson for a bit.
Wonder if they were sharing stories on Hedlund's On the Road costar and Rob's lady love Kristen Stewart?
One good thing about a possible Meester-Hedlund hookup: if Garrett was snatched up it would ease Twi-hards hearts when he and Kristen start doing lots of promos for their new flick.
You know tabloids are going to concoct some dumb Garrett/Kristen faux-scandal.
We've reached out to Leighton's rep for comment on her possible new beau but have yet to hear back.
Do you approve of the maybe new couple? Sound off below!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Ryan Seacrest & Julianne Hough's Golden Globes Date Night
Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough finally did it last night—walked a red carpet together, that is.
Our E! News anchor buddy and the Burlesque beauty walked arm-in-arm as they made their way into the Weinstein Company and Relativity Media party at Trader Vic's.
Michael Yo and I caught up with them during E! Online's (two-hour!) livestream of the party arrivals. Asked if it was, indeed, their first carpet together, Seacrest said...
"With the exception of the one we bought the other day that we put in our house," he said, quickly adding, "Did I say ours? Just kidding—it's mine."
Hough said she "felt like a woman" in her Marchesa gown. When Seacrest asked her what she felt like before, she cracked, "A little girl, which you love." D'oh!
Inside the party (presented by Marie Claire magazine), Seacrest and Hough canoodled in a corner. Ryan Gosling danced to Cee Lo's "F--k You" as he said hello to Michelle Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Love and Other Drugs Globes-nominee joked that he had prepared an acceptance speech. "I spent months and months and months on it," he told me. "I spent months before the movie was even made working on it." And yes, Jakey wants to work with Anne Hathaway again. "I hope so soon," he said.
Later, Gosling was so excited to see Colin Firth, he walked across a table to get to him. And speaking of getting on top of a table, one very intoxicated-looking woman was dancing on her table when she fell and spilled her glass of champagne all over Marc Anthony.
Sofia Vergara and boyfriend Nick Loeb talked Valentine's Day. "I want flowers and chocolates," the Modern Family beauty said.
Ryan Phillipe was quite possibly the most low-key celeb of the evening. He not only declined doing interviews on the carpet (boo!), but he also spent much of the night by himself.
Paris Hilton hit the photo booth with our very own Brett Malec and Fox News' Deidre Behar. Where was the hotel heiress' boyfriend, Cy Waits? We're told he called it an early night.
Nicole Kidman was one of the first to arrive and hightailed it to her table to nibble on some fruit while Scarlett Johansson was just a few feet away chatting with Matt Damon.
No word if Damon ran into his ex, Minnie Driver, who looked fierce in a zippered body hugging black leather minidress. Thomas Jane sucked on a fat cigar all night, telling me and Yo that he'd love for Halle Berry to guest on Hung and wouldn't mind Betty White, too.
Gosling was one of the last to leave at about 12:30 as were Kate Bosworth (no Alexander Skarsgård in sight) and Golden Globe winner Claire Danes.
Helena Bonham Carter predicted that host Ricky Gervais would be "murdered" today for the jabs he took at celebs during his hosting duties, but also said he'll be back next year. "We're all grateful actually because it's essentially a real snooze fest," the King's Speech star said. "He keeps everyone awake."
Our E! News anchor buddy and the Burlesque beauty walked arm-in-arm as they made their way into the Weinstein Company and Relativity Media party at Trader Vic's.
Michael Yo and I caught up with them during E! Online's (two-hour!) livestream of the party arrivals. Asked if it was, indeed, their first carpet together, Seacrest said...
"With the exception of the one we bought the other day that we put in our house," he said, quickly adding, "Did I say ours? Just kidding—it's mine."
Hough said she "felt like a woman" in her Marchesa gown. When Seacrest asked her what she felt like before, she cracked, "A little girl, which you love." D'oh!
Inside the party (presented by Marie Claire magazine), Seacrest and Hough canoodled in a corner. Ryan Gosling danced to Cee Lo's "F--k You" as he said hello to Michelle Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Love and Other Drugs Globes-nominee joked that he had prepared an acceptance speech. "I spent months and months and months on it," he told me. "I spent months before the movie was even made working on it." And yes, Jakey wants to work with Anne Hathaway again. "I hope so soon," he said.
Later, Gosling was so excited to see Colin Firth, he walked across a table to get to him. And speaking of getting on top of a table, one very intoxicated-looking woman was dancing on her table when she fell and spilled her glass of champagne all over Marc Anthony.
Sofia Vergara and boyfriend Nick Loeb talked Valentine's Day. "I want flowers and chocolates," the Modern Family beauty said.
Ryan Phillipe was quite possibly the most low-key celeb of the evening. He not only declined doing interviews on the carpet (boo!), but he also spent much of the night by himself.
Paris Hilton hit the photo booth with our very own Brett Malec and Fox News' Deidre Behar. Where was the hotel heiress' boyfriend, Cy Waits? We're told he called it an early night.
Nicole Kidman was one of the first to arrive and hightailed it to her table to nibble on some fruit while Scarlett Johansson was just a few feet away chatting with Matt Damon.
No word if Damon ran into his ex, Minnie Driver, who looked fierce in a zippered body hugging black leather minidress. Thomas Jane sucked on a fat cigar all night, telling me and Yo that he'd love for Halle Berry to guest on Hung and wouldn't mind Betty White, too.
Gosling was one of the last to leave at about 12:30 as were Kate Bosworth (no Alexander Skarsgård in sight) and Golden Globe winner Claire Danes.
Helena Bonham Carter predicted that host Ricky Gervais would be "murdered" today for the jabs he took at celebs during his hosting duties, but also said he'll be back next year. "We're all grateful actually because it's essentially a real snooze fest," the King's Speech star said. "He keeps everyone awake."
Olazabal Favorite to Land Ryder Cup Captaincy
Jose Maria Olazabal is widely expected to be appointed Europe's captain for the 2012 Ryder Cup team Tuesday.
The 44-year-old Spaniard, who played in seven Ryder Cups and was vice-captain for the past two matches, is the favorite to succeed Colin Montgomerie as captain when the European Tour's tournament committee meets in Abu Dhabi.
"If I'm chosen, I'd have no hesitation taking the captaincy," Olazabal told The Times of London newspaper Monday.
Europe reclaimed the Ryder Cup from the United States by winning 14½-13½ at Celtic Manor, Wales, in October. The two teams will meet in September 2012 in Medinah, near Chicago.
"Playing in Chicago will make things quite difficult," Olazabal said. "The crowds there are very loud. We will be playing on foreign soil and they (the U.S.) will prepare the course to their benefit."
Davis Love III is set to be picked as the next captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, two officials involved in the selection process said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the official announcement was not due until Thursday.
Love was a vice captain in October.
Olazabal, a two-time Masters champion, is the unanimous choice among Europe's leading players despite concerns about his health. Olazabal has struggled with chronic back problems in recent years, limiting his appearances on tour to just three events in 2010.
An essential requirement of the European Tour is that a captain plays a full tournament schedule in the year of a Ryder Cup to stay close to potential members of the team.
Along with being one of Europe's most popular players over the years, Olazabal has also been one of the team's most successful.
Olazabal has an impressive Ryder Cup record, winning 18 and halving five of his 31 matches. He has been on the winning side three times, in 1987, 1997 and 2006. He was also a member of the team that retained the trophy in 1989 with a 14-14 draw against the U.S. at The Belfry.
Olazabal was Nick Faldo's vice-captain when the Americans won in Valhalla in 2008. He was a late addition to Montgomerie's staff last year.
Montgomerie, who announced after the win at Celtic Manor that he would be stepping down as captain, said at the time that Olazabal would be "everybody's choice" to take over.
George O'Grady, chief executive of the European Tour, said in November that "just about every player on the tour ... would love to see him as the captain."
The 44-year-old Spaniard, who played in seven Ryder Cups and was vice-captain for the past two matches, is the favorite to succeed Colin Montgomerie as captain when the European Tour's tournament committee meets in Abu Dhabi.
"If I'm chosen, I'd have no hesitation taking the captaincy," Olazabal told The Times of London newspaper Monday.
Europe reclaimed the Ryder Cup from the United States by winning 14½-13½ at Celtic Manor, Wales, in October. The two teams will meet in September 2012 in Medinah, near Chicago.
"Playing in Chicago will make things quite difficult," Olazabal said. "The crowds there are very loud. We will be playing on foreign soil and they (the U.S.) will prepare the course to their benefit."
Davis Love III is set to be picked as the next captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, two officials involved in the selection process said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the official announcement was not due until Thursday.
Love was a vice captain in October.
Olazabal, a two-time Masters champion, is the unanimous choice among Europe's leading players despite concerns about his health. Olazabal has struggled with chronic back problems in recent years, limiting his appearances on tour to just three events in 2010.
An essential requirement of the European Tour is that a captain plays a full tournament schedule in the year of a Ryder Cup to stay close to potential members of the team.
Along with being one of Europe's most popular players over the years, Olazabal has also been one of the team's most successful.
Olazabal has an impressive Ryder Cup record, winning 18 and halving five of his 31 matches. He has been on the winning side three times, in 1987, 1997 and 2006. He was also a member of the team that retained the trophy in 1989 with a 14-14 draw against the U.S. at The Belfry.
Olazabal was Nick Faldo's vice-captain when the Americans won in Valhalla in 2008. He was a late addition to Montgomerie's staff last year.
Montgomerie, who announced after the win at Celtic Manor that he would be stepping down as captain, said at the time that Olazabal would be "everybody's choice" to take over.
George O'Grady, chief executive of the European Tour, said in November that "just about every player on the tour ... would love to see him as the captain."
No. 13 Missouri Whips Kansas State
Pay no attention to the glove Phil Pressey wears on his shooting hand to protect a broken ring finger. The Missouri freshman guard certainly doesn't.
Pressey was 3 for 5 from 3-point range and had 13 points in No. 13 Missouri's 75-59 whipping of Kansas State on Monday night. He's 7-for-9 on 3-pointers the last two games and had a big all-around game, too, with four steals and three assists in 24 minutes off the bench.
"He was like a little gnat out there, even to the point where one guy pushed over," coach Mike Anderson said. "For a guy that's been out for almost three weeks to play the way he's played the last two games, he's got a chance to be a special player."
Pressey, son of former NBA player Paul Pressey, had a strong followup after scoring a career-best 16 points in an overtime loss at Texas A&M on Saturday. He puts up shots with confidence.
"I don't hope it goes in, I expect it to go in," Pressey said. "So if I miss one I keep shooting, and if make it, it's the same thing."
Marcus Denmon scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half and the Tigers (16-3, 2-2 Big 12) forced Kansas State into a season-worst 24 turnovers.
Missouri led by 15 at the half and surged again after the Wildcats cut the gap to three with just over nine minutes to go. Kansas State was outscored 17-4 in the last 7:15.
"You can't dig yourself such a big hole," Kansas State coach Frank Martin said. "We were pathetic defensively in the first half. We weren't much better on offense."
Jacob Pullen had 16 points and Jordan Henriquez-Roberts added 14 for Kansas State (13-6, 1-3), which has dropped three of four. The Wildcats were held scoreless for nearly five minutes in the second half while Missouri put the game away with a 12-0 run that featured a spectacular one-handed alley-oop dunk by Laurence Bowers, and led 70-55 with 3:50 to go.
"The mark of a really good team is being able to finish games in the waning moments," guard Kim English said. "We're not playing against the team anymore, it's the clock."
Missouri made strides before tip-off, surprisingly jumping two places in the poll despite the Texas A&M loss while Kansas State, the preseason Big 12 favorite, fell out of the Top 25. The Tigers have won four straight at home against Kansas State, avoiding falling into the hole that the Wildcats fell into.
"That's tough, 1-3 is tough," English said. "In the Big 12 you've got to take care of your home turf and go steal some on the road."
Kansas State scored the first seven points of the second half to cut the deficit to eight, and twice shaved it to three points, the last time at 58-55 with 8:10 to play. The Wildcats didn't score again until Henriquez-Roberts had a dunk and three-point play with 3:21 to go, leaving them 12 down.
Martin blamed it on sloppy play.
"Lackadaisical travels, forced plays trying to go one-on-one, lazy passes, lazy cuts," Martin said. "You're going to turn it over a couple of times against Missouri, it's what they do, but we had bad turnovers.
Missouri shot 50 percent and hit five 3-pointers in a dominant first half for a 43-28 lead, the first double-digit deficit at the midway point for Kansas State. Curtis Kelly was whistled for his second and third fouls in a hectic final minute and the Wildcats were also whistled for a 10-second call.
The Tigers held their own inside without Ricardo Ratliffe, limited to six minutes by two fouls, getting 10 points off the bench from Pressey. Justin Safford contributed his first 3-pointer since Dec. 11.
Kansas State had three blocks in the first three minutes, but its biggest lead was only 4-0. Previously, the school's largest halftime deficit was eight points in a loss to Duke on Nov. 23 in Kansas City.
Pressey was 3 for 5 from 3-point range and had 13 points in No. 13 Missouri's 75-59 whipping of Kansas State on Monday night. He's 7-for-9 on 3-pointers the last two games and had a big all-around game, too, with four steals and three assists in 24 minutes off the bench.
"He was like a little gnat out there, even to the point where one guy pushed over," coach Mike Anderson said. "For a guy that's been out for almost three weeks to play the way he's played the last two games, he's got a chance to be a special player."
Pressey, son of former NBA player Paul Pressey, had a strong followup after scoring a career-best 16 points in an overtime loss at Texas A&M on Saturday. He puts up shots with confidence.
"I don't hope it goes in, I expect it to go in," Pressey said. "So if I miss one I keep shooting, and if make it, it's the same thing."
Marcus Denmon scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half and the Tigers (16-3, 2-2 Big 12) forced Kansas State into a season-worst 24 turnovers.
Missouri led by 15 at the half and surged again after the Wildcats cut the gap to three with just over nine minutes to go. Kansas State was outscored 17-4 in the last 7:15.
"You can't dig yourself such a big hole," Kansas State coach Frank Martin said. "We were pathetic defensively in the first half. We weren't much better on offense."
Jacob Pullen had 16 points and Jordan Henriquez-Roberts added 14 for Kansas State (13-6, 1-3), which has dropped three of four. The Wildcats were held scoreless for nearly five minutes in the second half while Missouri put the game away with a 12-0 run that featured a spectacular one-handed alley-oop dunk by Laurence Bowers, and led 70-55 with 3:50 to go.
"The mark of a really good team is being able to finish games in the waning moments," guard Kim English said. "We're not playing against the team anymore, it's the clock."
Missouri made strides before tip-off, surprisingly jumping two places in the poll despite the Texas A&M loss while Kansas State, the preseason Big 12 favorite, fell out of the Top 25. The Tigers have won four straight at home against Kansas State, avoiding falling into the hole that the Wildcats fell into.
"That's tough, 1-3 is tough," English said. "In the Big 12 you've got to take care of your home turf and go steal some on the road."
Kansas State scored the first seven points of the second half to cut the deficit to eight, and twice shaved it to three points, the last time at 58-55 with 8:10 to play. The Wildcats didn't score again until Henriquez-Roberts had a dunk and three-point play with 3:21 to go, leaving them 12 down.
Martin blamed it on sloppy play.
"Lackadaisical travels, forced plays trying to go one-on-one, lazy passes, lazy cuts," Martin said. "You're going to turn it over a couple of times against Missouri, it's what they do, but we had bad turnovers.
Missouri shot 50 percent and hit five 3-pointers in a dominant first half for a 43-28 lead, the first double-digit deficit at the midway point for Kansas State. Curtis Kelly was whistled for his second and third fouls in a hectic final minute and the Wildcats were also whistled for a 10-second call.
The Tigers held their own inside without Ricardo Ratliffe, limited to six minutes by two fouls, getting 10 points off the bench from Pressey. Justin Safford contributed his first 3-pointer since Dec. 11.
Kansas State had three blocks in the first three minutes, but its biggest lead was only 4-0. Previously, the school's largest halftime deficit was eight points in a loss to Duke on Nov. 23 in Kansas City.
Walker Saves No. 8 UConn in Win Vs. No. 7 Villanova
Alex Oriakhi has been telling Kemba Walker since the preseason that he is the best player in the country. After Walker's latest effort, there will be a lot more believers.
Walker went by his man and drove through the lane for a 10-foot floater with 2.5 seconds left that gave No. 8 Connecticut a 61-59 victory over No. 7 Villanova on Monday.
The winning shot capped Walker's worst shooting performance of the season (6 of 18), but he still finished with 24 points, just off his 25.6 average that is second in the nation.
"I want the ball in my hands being the leader of this team," Walker said. "I wanted Shabazz (Napier) to run down some time so we would get the last shot. I got it and I knew another guy was going to come and I tried to go before he came, get by my man and get the shot off."
He made it sound a lot easier than it was.
"They ran two guys at him, so Kemba did what Kemba does," Huskies coach Jim Calhoun said. "He split the two, and got to where he wanted to be. That's an amazing play."
Villanova, and all 10,167 people in Gampel Pavilion, knew who was going to get the ball for the last play. It didn't matter.
"We wanted to double him but he's so fast we couldn't catch him," Villanova coach Jay Wright said.
"He's fast but he's really fast with the ball and he stops on a dime to get space for those shots."
Corey Fisher, who led Villanova (16-2, 4-1 Big East) with 28 points, tied the game at 59 with two free throws with 22 seconds left.
After a timeout, the Huskies (15-2, 4-2) ran down the clock before Walker started his winning drive inside halfcourt. Fisher's long shot from around halfcourt was off at the buzzer.
Does Walker agree with Oriakhi about him being the best player in the country?
"I'm good for my team. That's it," he said. "All I want to do is win."
This was the sixth time Villanova and Connecticut played while both were in the top 10 and the Huskies have won four of them.
Oriakhi had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Connecticut, while Jeremy Lamb added 14 points and eight rebounds.
Mouphtaou Yarou had eight points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, who played without forward Dominic Cheek, who injured his left knee in the last game against Maryland and did not make the trip to Connecticut.
Fisher finished 10 of 22 from the field while the Wildcats were 22 of 60 (36.7 percent).
The Huskies shot 35.7 percent (20 of 56), including 5 of 16 from 3-point range.
Fisher scored Villanova's final 11 points of the game. His reverse, scoop layup with 1:45 left tied the game at 54. Walker hit a 3 with Corey Stokes right in his face to make it a three-point game with 1:10 to go.
After a Villanova miss, Walker made two free throws with 45 seconds to go. Fisher brought Villanova within 59-57 with 35 seconds left with a 3-pointer. And after Walker missed two free throws, Fisher tied it for the last time with two foul shots with 22 seconds to go.
Stokes, Villanova's leading scorer at 16.5 points per game, was 0 for 6 from the field and finished with three points.
"They are a very good defensive team," Wright said of the Huskies. "They did a great job on Stokes so we had to spread them out and get Corey Fisher to make some plays and he did a great job. Thank God for him."
Calhoun felt the same way about Walker.
"It was one of those games somebody was going to win and as I said to the kids in the huddle, 'It might as well be us,"' Calhoun said. "Kemba made sure that we did win the game."
Walker and Fisher are both from the Bronx, N.Y., and remain friendly competitors.
"He's like an older brother. We grew up together," Walker said of Fisher. "Going head to head and giving full effort is fun."
As exciting as the final minutes were, the first half was tough to watch.
Two stats bear that out: Villanova opened the game 3 of 20 from the field. The Huskies closed the half by missing 19 of 22 field goals. Villanova led 22-21 at halftime.
"We couldn't score on each other. It was a typical old-school bloodbath," Wright said. "The first half was horrible. We were just banging each other and getting into foul trouble."
Calhoun referred to the old days about the opening 20 minutes.
"It was a hard-fought, almost a little more old-fashioned Big East game where both teams really went after each other," he said.
Walker went by his man and drove through the lane for a 10-foot floater with 2.5 seconds left that gave No. 8 Connecticut a 61-59 victory over No. 7 Villanova on Monday.
The winning shot capped Walker's worst shooting performance of the season (6 of 18), but he still finished with 24 points, just off his 25.6 average that is second in the nation.
"I want the ball in my hands being the leader of this team," Walker said. "I wanted Shabazz (Napier) to run down some time so we would get the last shot. I got it and I knew another guy was going to come and I tried to go before he came, get by my man and get the shot off."
He made it sound a lot easier than it was.
"They ran two guys at him, so Kemba did what Kemba does," Huskies coach Jim Calhoun said. "He split the two, and got to where he wanted to be. That's an amazing play."
Villanova, and all 10,167 people in Gampel Pavilion, knew who was going to get the ball for the last play. It didn't matter.
"We wanted to double him but he's so fast we couldn't catch him," Villanova coach Jay Wright said.
"He's fast but he's really fast with the ball and he stops on a dime to get space for those shots."
Corey Fisher, who led Villanova (16-2, 4-1 Big East) with 28 points, tied the game at 59 with two free throws with 22 seconds left.
After a timeout, the Huskies (15-2, 4-2) ran down the clock before Walker started his winning drive inside halfcourt. Fisher's long shot from around halfcourt was off at the buzzer.
Does Walker agree with Oriakhi about him being the best player in the country?
"I'm good for my team. That's it," he said. "All I want to do is win."
This was the sixth time Villanova and Connecticut played while both were in the top 10 and the Huskies have won four of them.
Oriakhi had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Connecticut, while Jeremy Lamb added 14 points and eight rebounds.
Mouphtaou Yarou had eight points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, who played without forward Dominic Cheek, who injured his left knee in the last game against Maryland and did not make the trip to Connecticut.
Fisher finished 10 of 22 from the field while the Wildcats were 22 of 60 (36.7 percent).
The Huskies shot 35.7 percent (20 of 56), including 5 of 16 from 3-point range.
Fisher scored Villanova's final 11 points of the game. His reverse, scoop layup with 1:45 left tied the game at 54. Walker hit a 3 with Corey Stokes right in his face to make it a three-point game with 1:10 to go.
After a Villanova miss, Walker made two free throws with 45 seconds to go. Fisher brought Villanova within 59-57 with 35 seconds left with a 3-pointer. And after Walker missed two free throws, Fisher tied it for the last time with two foul shots with 22 seconds to go.
Stokes, Villanova's leading scorer at 16.5 points per game, was 0 for 6 from the field and finished with three points.
"They are a very good defensive team," Wright said of the Huskies. "They did a great job on Stokes so we had to spread them out and get Corey Fisher to make some plays and he did a great job. Thank God for him."
Calhoun felt the same way about Walker.
"It was one of those games somebody was going to win and as I said to the kids in the huddle, 'It might as well be us,"' Calhoun said. "Kemba made sure that we did win the game."
Walker and Fisher are both from the Bronx, N.Y., and remain friendly competitors.
"He's like an older brother. We grew up together," Walker said of Fisher. "Going head to head and giving full effort is fun."
As exciting as the final minutes were, the first half was tough to watch.
Two stats bear that out: Villanova opened the game 3 of 20 from the field. The Huskies closed the half by missing 19 of 22 field goals. Villanova led 22-21 at halftime.
"We couldn't score on each other. It was a typical old-school bloodbath," Wright said. "The first half was horrible. We were just banging each other and getting into foul trouble."
Calhoun referred to the old days about the opening 20 minutes.
"It was a hard-fought, almost a little more old-fashioned Big East game where both teams really went after each other," he said.
Say What? Jabbering Jets Keep Talking and Winning
Call them whatever bleepin' names you want — and plenty already have. Rex Ryan's bunch of blabbermouths isn't shutting up anytime soon.
They insult the other team's quarterback, needle the opposing coach and never stop yapping.
Not the way it's normally done in the NFL. Not in any sport, really.
Only with these jabbering New York Jets, it's working. Cover your ears because they're talking all the way back to the AFC championship game.
"We've got guys who are confident," defensive back Dwight Lowery said Monday, "and we all show that confidence in different ways."
They take their cue from Ryan. He's made bold predictions from the moment he took over two years ago, coaching a franchise that had lacked an identity ever since Broadway Joe made the biggest boast of all 42 years ago.
Sometimes, Ryan and his guys have been a bit profane. But if that offends other people, well, then too bad.
Besides, a win Sunday in Pittsburgh and the Jets reach the Super Bowl for the first time since that famous 1969 win over the Baltimore Colts.
No wonder Joe Namath loves what he's seeing — and hearing.
"THATS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT!!!" Namath tweeted after Santonio Holmes' tremendous TD catch Sunday against New England.
Next up, the green-and-white sequel in this made-for-TV season.
"Everybody's true to their colors here," defensive lineman Sione Pouha said. "This is Rex's style, and as everyone can see, we love it."
Just ask the Patriots, who've seen and heard enough of the Jets to last an entire offseason. After New York's wild on-field celebration in Foxborough — complete with Braylon Edwards' backflip — following a 28-21 win, Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch called the Jets "classless."
"Just take the loss like a man," cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "Just take it like a man, and move on."
So far, the Jets have backed up their tough talk.
First, Peyton Manning and Indianapolis.
Then, Tom Brady and the Patriots.
All on the road.
Standing in their way to the Super Bowl are Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers.
"I think we know the formula that it takes to win," Ryan said. "Now, we just have to go out and do it, albeit in an incredibly tough environment."
No, Ryan's confidence hasn't wavered one bit. Not with a trip to the Super Bowl at stake.
"I just talk the way it is," he said. "If you can't get motivated to win an AFC championship game, I don't know what else you need."
When Ryan first took over, he was hailed by many as a breath of fresh air in a league filled with tightlipped coaches who play things close to the vest.
"New York is very diverse and I think your team should reflect where you are," Lowery said. "That might have something to do with it. It might be that this is just the right coach for this organization and this area."
Anything goes with Ryan, whether it's self-deprecating humor about his weight or talking about how his team will meet the President Barack Obama someday soon.
The Jets' locker room is filled mostly with players who speak openly about themselves or their opponents — not worried about consequences or perceptions.
"I totally disagree with people saying we're trash talking," Pouha said. "We're confident talkers more than we are talking trash."
But there have been few teams in professional sports that have been successful on the field while being so loose off it.
Sure, there were the Super Bowl Shufflin' Bears of 1985, a team whose defensive coordinator was Ryan's father, Buddy. There were also the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, the renegade Raiders of the 1970s, the 1986 New York Mets, the NBA's Bad Boy Pistons, and the stormy and scandalous Miami Hurricanes of the '80s.
These Jets under Ryan are the closest to a team people love to hate as we've seen in a while.
"Part of it is maybe because when you see a team that wins Super Bowls, or has a lot of repeated success, people try to duplicate that," Lowery said. "So, when the Patriots were winning a lot in the 2000s, it was like, that's what you needed to do to win. So, now, you have a lot of teams trying to adopt that style and it may not fit their style. Rex got a head job and just came in and this is how he wants to run the ship."
And, who knows? It could be the start of a louder, new trend in the NFL.
"Hopefully, because I feel like this is a better environment to be in and play football because there's a lot of stress that goes into this job," Lowery said. "You want to be able to have some kind of outlet, and one outlet to have is being yourself. You don't have to walk around with your arms at your side and stand straight and wear a suit everywhere.
"It's still a kid's game."
With big-boy dreams.
"Obviously, we set a goal to go to the show, and everybody has the same goal in August and the majority of people don't say it," Pouha said. "A lot of teams have great players and don't say it. Well, we say it."
And, people in other sports are taking notice. In fact, Phoenix Suns coach Alvin Gentry imitated Ryan — who said the Jets-Patriots game was between him and Bill Belichick — before the team's 129-121 win over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
"It's personal," a joking Gentry said, referring to his former boss, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni. "It's me and Mike, OK? It just comes down to me and Mike, that's it. It doesn't have anything to do with the players, anything. It's me and Mike. I've got to be a better coach than Mike today, OK?"
Talk about the ultimate form of flattery.
"Rex has said something like, 'There's always going to be people who like what you do, and others who don't like you, whether you're a football player, an astronaut, a doctor or just some guy on the street,'" Lowery said. "He's told us that people are not going to like us, and there are people that love us and others who are in between. So, you've just got to be yourself."
They insult the other team's quarterback, needle the opposing coach and never stop yapping.
Not the way it's normally done in the NFL. Not in any sport, really.
Only with these jabbering New York Jets, it's working. Cover your ears because they're talking all the way back to the AFC championship game.
"We've got guys who are confident," defensive back Dwight Lowery said Monday, "and we all show that confidence in different ways."
They take their cue from Ryan. He's made bold predictions from the moment he took over two years ago, coaching a franchise that had lacked an identity ever since Broadway Joe made the biggest boast of all 42 years ago.
Sometimes, Ryan and his guys have been a bit profane. But if that offends other people, well, then too bad.
Besides, a win Sunday in Pittsburgh and the Jets reach the Super Bowl for the first time since that famous 1969 win over the Baltimore Colts.
No wonder Joe Namath loves what he's seeing — and hearing.
"THATS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT!!!" Namath tweeted after Santonio Holmes' tremendous TD catch Sunday against New England.
Next up, the green-and-white sequel in this made-for-TV season.
"Everybody's true to their colors here," defensive lineman Sione Pouha said. "This is Rex's style, and as everyone can see, we love it."
Just ask the Patriots, who've seen and heard enough of the Jets to last an entire offseason. After New York's wild on-field celebration in Foxborough — complete with Braylon Edwards' backflip — following a 28-21 win, Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch called the Jets "classless."
"Just take the loss like a man," cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "Just take it like a man, and move on."
So far, the Jets have backed up their tough talk.
First, Peyton Manning and Indianapolis.
Then, Tom Brady and the Patriots.
All on the road.
Standing in their way to the Super Bowl are Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers.
"I think we know the formula that it takes to win," Ryan said. "Now, we just have to go out and do it, albeit in an incredibly tough environment."
No, Ryan's confidence hasn't wavered one bit. Not with a trip to the Super Bowl at stake.
"I just talk the way it is," he said. "If you can't get motivated to win an AFC championship game, I don't know what else you need."
When Ryan first took over, he was hailed by many as a breath of fresh air in a league filled with tightlipped coaches who play things close to the vest.
"New York is very diverse and I think your team should reflect where you are," Lowery said. "That might have something to do with it. It might be that this is just the right coach for this organization and this area."
Anything goes with Ryan, whether it's self-deprecating humor about his weight or talking about how his team will meet the President Barack Obama someday soon.
The Jets' locker room is filled mostly with players who speak openly about themselves or their opponents — not worried about consequences or perceptions.
"I totally disagree with people saying we're trash talking," Pouha said. "We're confident talkers more than we are talking trash."
But there have been few teams in professional sports that have been successful on the field while being so loose off it.
Sure, there were the Super Bowl Shufflin' Bears of 1985, a team whose defensive coordinator was Ryan's father, Buddy. There were also the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, the renegade Raiders of the 1970s, the 1986 New York Mets, the NBA's Bad Boy Pistons, and the stormy and scandalous Miami Hurricanes of the '80s.
These Jets under Ryan are the closest to a team people love to hate as we've seen in a while.
"Part of it is maybe because when you see a team that wins Super Bowls, or has a lot of repeated success, people try to duplicate that," Lowery said. "So, when the Patriots were winning a lot in the 2000s, it was like, that's what you needed to do to win. So, now, you have a lot of teams trying to adopt that style and it may not fit their style. Rex got a head job and just came in and this is how he wants to run the ship."
And, who knows? It could be the start of a louder, new trend in the NFL.
"Hopefully, because I feel like this is a better environment to be in and play football because there's a lot of stress that goes into this job," Lowery said. "You want to be able to have some kind of outlet, and one outlet to have is being yourself. You don't have to walk around with your arms at your side and stand straight and wear a suit everywhere.
"It's still a kid's game."
With big-boy dreams.
"Obviously, we set a goal to go to the show, and everybody has the same goal in August and the majority of people don't say it," Pouha said. "A lot of teams have great players and don't say it. Well, we say it."
And, people in other sports are taking notice. In fact, Phoenix Suns coach Alvin Gentry imitated Ryan — who said the Jets-Patriots game was between him and Bill Belichick — before the team's 129-121 win over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
"It's personal," a joking Gentry said, referring to his former boss, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni. "It's me and Mike, OK? It just comes down to me and Mike, that's it. It doesn't have anything to do with the players, anything. It's me and Mike. I've got to be a better coach than Mike today, OK?"
Talk about the ultimate form of flattery.
"Rex has said something like, 'There's always going to be people who like what you do, and others who don't like you, whether you're a football player, an astronaut, a doctor or just some guy on the street,'" Lowery said. "He's told us that people are not going to like us, and there are people that love us and others who are in between. So, you've just got to be yourself."
Blake Griffin Is Best Player Ever, According To Clippers Broadcast - Video
You have to give those who follow the Clippers one thing: they're so used to terrible players that everybody looks better by association. There's only so many nice things you can say about Eric Piatowski, Michael Olowokandi, Stanley Roberts and Darius Miles, you know?
So in that spirit, here's a video of the Clippers broadcast team trying to describe the one player who is actually worth gushing over. All you need to bake your very own Blake Griffin is a little Larry Bird, a splash of Kobe Bryant, a tablespoon of Dennis Rodman, a cup of LeBron James, a sprinkling of Dominique Wilkins and some Dwight Howard to top it all off. Put it all together, and poof! You get Blake Griffin. Sounds easy enough, right?
Tune in next week, when Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith explain why DeAndre Jordan is actually a combination of Moses Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Russell (he's left-handed too!).
So in that spirit, here's a video of the Clippers broadcast team trying to describe the one player who is actually worth gushing over. All you need to bake your very own Blake Griffin is a little Larry Bird, a splash of Kobe Bryant, a tablespoon of Dennis Rodman, a cup of LeBron James, a sprinkling of Dominique Wilkins and some Dwight Howard to top it all off. Put it all together, and poof! You get Blake Griffin. Sounds easy enough, right?
Tune in next week, when Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith explain why DeAndre Jordan is actually a combination of Moses Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Russell (he's left-handed too!).
Jets-Patriots Beats Cowboys-Panthers In '97 As Most Watched NFL Divisional Playoff Game
What happens when you combine one of the NFL's most popular teams and the largest market in the country?
Record-breaking TV ratings.
The New York Jets upset defeat of the New England Patriots netted 43.5 million viewers according to an NFL spokesman. That puts them as the most watched divisional playoff game in NFL history.
They pass the Dallas Cowboys and Carolina Panthers 1997 divisional playoff game who previously held the record with 42.7 million viewers.
Now in third place is Joe Montana's Chiefs against Warren Moon's Oilers in 1994 (which is also the last time the Chiefs won a playoff game).
The Jets will now travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers, who have a wide-ranging fanbase. If anyone's going to continue breaking ratings records, it'll be the Jets.
Record-breaking TV ratings.
The New York Jets upset defeat of the New England Patriots netted 43.5 million viewers according to an NFL spokesman. That puts them as the most watched divisional playoff game in NFL history.
They pass the Dallas Cowboys and Carolina Panthers 1997 divisional playoff game who previously held the record with 42.7 million viewers.
Now in third place is Joe Montana's Chiefs against Warren Moon's Oilers in 1994 (which is also the last time the Chiefs won a playoff game).
The Jets will now travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers, who have a wide-ranging fanbase. If anyone's going to continue breaking ratings records, it'll be the Jets.
Permanent Mark Season 1 Episode 3 Bangkok
Preview of 'Permanent Mark':
Permanent Mark returns to Bangkok, Thailand to find his dying Monk friend in time to get one last sacred tattoo. But time is running out for PM to get this rare tattoo painfully speared into his...
Airing Details: 11:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: SPIKE TV Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Bangkok
Permanent Mark returns to Bangkok, Thailand to find his dying Monk friend in time to get one last sacred tattoo. But time is running out for PM to get this rare tattoo painfully speared into his...
Airing Details: 11:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: SPIKE TV Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Bangkok
Pau, Kobe Each Net 21, Lakers Drop Thunder
Pau Gasol scored 21 points, Kobe Bryant had 21 and also missed three last-minute free throws, and the Los Angeles Lakers held off the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-94 Monday night for their eighth win in nine games.
Lamar Odom had 16 points and Derek Fisher scored a season-high 15 for the Lakers in the clubs' first meeting since the Los Angeles sent home the eighth-seeded Thunder from the first round of last season's playoffs in a highly competitive six-game series.
Russell Westbrook had 32 points and 12 assists, and he led a late run aided by those three straight misses by Bryant. But Westbrook missed two free throws of his own with 21.4 seconds left before airballing a 3-point attempt.
NBA scoring-leader Kevin Durant had 24 points on 8-of-24 shooting for the Thunder, whose four-game winning streak ended. The Thunder were undone by 2-for-22 shooting from the 3-point line, including a 1-for-8 effort by Durant, who missed 14 of his last 18 shots overall.
One day after the Lakers wilted in the fourth quarter of a streak-snapping loss to the Clippers, Los Angeles hit more big shots down the stretch than Oklahoma City, which had won 13 of 18 and had the previous three days off.
Although Oklahoma City's outstanding season makes another first-round playoff series highly unlikely, the teams easily could meet for bigger stakes. They have the makings of a lively rivalry, with Bryant and Durant trading artistic baskets while the Lakers' half-court offense clashes intriguingly with the Thunder's up-tempo attack.
Los Angeles scored 14 straight points in the third quarter and took a 76-61 lead by grinding the game into a half-court contest, but the Thunder rediscovered their transition game and made a 14-2 rally late in the period to pull within 81-75 heading to the fourth.
Gasol scored back-to-back baskets to put the Lakers up 98-88 with 3:47 to play.
The Lakers are near the close of a brutal stretch with 15 games in 25 days, but the week only gets tougher with visits to Dallas on Wednesday and Denver on Friday before their first consecutive days off since immediately after Christmas.
Durant came out firing against the Lakers, scoring 14 of the Thunder's 28 points in the first quarter. Los Angeles stayed in it early with low-post baskets from Bynum and Gasol, who combined for 14 first-quarter points.
Westbrook had 18 points in the first half, but the Lakers led 58-55 with four scorers in double figures.
Notes
Before the game, Lakers coach Phil Jackson confirmed Ron Artest's technical foul and ejection from Sunday's loss to the Clippers have been rescinded by the NBA. Artest won't be fined $4,000. Artest didn't appear to do anything wrong in the late-game scuffle featuring Odom, Baron Davis and Blake Griffin, whose technical and ejection also were rescinded, according to the Clippers. ... The clubs meet two more times this season. ... Fans near courtside included Denzel Washington, Glenn Frey and director Peter Berg.
Lamar Odom had 16 points and Derek Fisher scored a season-high 15 for the Lakers in the clubs' first meeting since the Los Angeles sent home the eighth-seeded Thunder from the first round of last season's playoffs in a highly competitive six-game series.
Russell Westbrook had 32 points and 12 assists, and he led a late run aided by those three straight misses by Bryant. But Westbrook missed two free throws of his own with 21.4 seconds left before airballing a 3-point attempt.
NBA scoring-leader Kevin Durant had 24 points on 8-of-24 shooting for the Thunder, whose four-game winning streak ended. The Thunder were undone by 2-for-22 shooting from the 3-point line, including a 1-for-8 effort by Durant, who missed 14 of his last 18 shots overall.
One day after the Lakers wilted in the fourth quarter of a streak-snapping loss to the Clippers, Los Angeles hit more big shots down the stretch than Oklahoma City, which had won 13 of 18 and had the previous three days off.
Although Oklahoma City's outstanding season makes another first-round playoff series highly unlikely, the teams easily could meet for bigger stakes. They have the makings of a lively rivalry, with Bryant and Durant trading artistic baskets while the Lakers' half-court offense clashes intriguingly with the Thunder's up-tempo attack.
Los Angeles scored 14 straight points in the third quarter and took a 76-61 lead by grinding the game into a half-court contest, but the Thunder rediscovered their transition game and made a 14-2 rally late in the period to pull within 81-75 heading to the fourth.
Gasol scored back-to-back baskets to put the Lakers up 98-88 with 3:47 to play.
The Lakers are near the close of a brutal stretch with 15 games in 25 days, but the week only gets tougher with visits to Dallas on Wednesday and Denver on Friday before their first consecutive days off since immediately after Christmas.
Durant came out firing against the Lakers, scoring 14 of the Thunder's 28 points in the first quarter. Los Angeles stayed in it early with low-post baskets from Bynum and Gasol, who combined for 14 first-quarter points.
Westbrook had 18 points in the first half, but the Lakers led 58-55 with four scorers in double figures.
Notes
Before the game, Lakers coach Phil Jackson confirmed Ron Artest's technical foul and ejection from Sunday's loss to the Clippers have been rescinded by the NBA. Artest won't be fined $4,000. Artest didn't appear to do anything wrong in the late-game scuffle featuring Odom, Baron Davis and Blake Griffin, whose technical and ejection also were rescinded, according to the Clippers. ... The clubs meet two more times this season. ... Fans near courtside included Denzel Washington, Glenn Frey and director Peter Berg.
Onion SportsDome Season 1 Episode 2
Preview of 'Onion SportsDome':
Tom Brady suffers a horrific injury at the hands of Coach Belichick, and the Wish Zone team makes a little girl's wish come true. No need to look elsewhere for sports, the Dome is your Home.
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: COMEDY Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: EPISODE: 2
Tom Brady suffers a horrific injury at the hands of Coach Belichick, and the Wish Zone team makes a little girl's wish come true. No need to look elsewhere for sports, the Dome is your Home.
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: COMEDY Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: EPISODE: 2
Let's Stay Together Season 1 Episode 2 On to the Next One
Preview of 'Let's Stay Together':
Stacy and Charles are exhausted from trying to outdo each other in the bedroom; Jamal objects to Tasha's plan to put pink of their son for a photo shoot.
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BET Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: On to the Next One
Stacy and Charles are exhausted from trying to outdo each other in the bedroom; Jamal objects to Tasha's plan to put pink of their son for a photo shoot.
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BET Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: On to the Next One
White Collar Season 2 Episode 10 Burke's Seven
TV Show: White Collar
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: USA Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 10
Episode Name: Burke's Seven
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: USA Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 10
Episode Name: Burke's Seven
Tosh.0 Season 3 Episode 2 Brian Atene
Preview of 'Tosh.0':
Daniel gives Brian Atene a web redemption for an audition tape for Full Metal Jacket.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: COMEDY Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: Brian Atene
Daniel gives Brian Atene a web redemption for an audition tape for Full Metal Jacket.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: COMEDY Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: Brian Atene
Teen Mom Season 3 Episode 2 So Much to Lose
Preview of 'Teen Mom':
One of Leah's twins have questionable health; Chelsea starts hanging out with her ex-boyfriend; Kailyn starts dating; Jenelle tries to move home.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: MTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: So Much to Lose
One of Leah's twins have questionable health; Chelsea starts hanging out with her ex-boyfriend; Kailyn starts dating; Jenelle tries to move home.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: MTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: So Much to Lose
Southland Season 3 Episode 3 Discretion
Preview of 'Southland':
Ben seeks revenge when his mother's rapist is released from prison; Lydia and Josie clash over a chainsaw; Sammy deals with his wife's betrayal.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TNT Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 3
Episode Name: Discretion
Ben seeks revenge when his mother's rapist is released from prison; Lydia and Josie clash over a chainsaw; Sammy deals with his wife's betrayal.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TNT Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 3
Episode Name: Discretion
Parenthood Season 2 Episode 13 Opening Night
Preview of 'Parenthood':
Kristina, Adam and Sarah put their parenting skills to the test, while Crosby deals with Jabbar's bout of stage fright.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NBC Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Opening Night
Kristina, Adam and Sarah put their parenting skills to the test, while Crosby deals with Jabbar's bout of stage fright.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NBC Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Opening Night
Medieval Fight Book National Geographic Special
Preview of 'Medieval Fight Book':
Violent, secretive, and packed full of knowledge, Medieval Fight Book uncovers the real story of Europe in the Middle Ages. Using accurate historical recreations, amazing CGI and leading historians we reveal the surprising detail that proves medieval society was far more sophisticated and peculiar than we realize. Hidden in a dusty library, this obscure and strange manuscript has the power to unlock lost secrets from a medieval world. Contained within the beautifully illustrated 150 paper folios is unique imagery of bloody but highly sophisticated combat, weird futuristic designs and inventions, ingenious engineering and judicial duels. Hans Talhoffers 1459 fightbook is one of the medieval worlds most mysterious manuscripts, challenging the legends and myths that surrounded this often misunderstood period of our history.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name:
Violent, secretive, and packed full of knowledge, Medieval Fight Book uncovers the real story of Europe in the Middle Ages. Using accurate historical recreations, amazing CGI and leading historians we reveal the surprising detail that proves medieval society was far more sophisticated and peculiar than we realize. Hidden in a dusty library, this obscure and strange manuscript has the power to unlock lost secrets from a medieval world. Contained within the beautifully illustrated 150 paper folios is unique imagery of bloody but highly sophisticated combat, weird futuristic designs and inventions, ingenious engineering and judicial duels. Hans Talhoffers 1459 fightbook is one of the medieval worlds most mysterious manuscripts, challenging the legends and myths that surrounded this often misunderstood period of our history.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name:
Lights Out Season 1 Episode 2 Cakewalk
Preview of 'Lights Out':
When Lights is threatened with criminal charges, he's forced to make a special delivery that could have unexpected consequences.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FX Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Cakewalk
When Lights is threatened with criminal charges, he's forced to make a special delivery that could have unexpected consequences.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FX Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Cakewalk
Hardcore Pawn Season 2 Episode 5
Preview of 'Hardcore Pawn':
An alligator shows up at the shop; a man brings in a bullet proof vest; tempers flare when Ashley mishandles a motorcycle pawn.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRUTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 5
Episode Name: EPISODE: 5
An alligator shows up at the shop; a man brings in a bullet proof vest; tempers flare when Ashley mishandles a motorcycle pawn.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRUTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 5
Episode Name: EPISODE: 5
NYC Landlord Wants Money from Lennon Suit Auction
A New York City landlord has sued the gallery that auctioned the suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album, trying to get at the proceeds to satisfy a rent debt.
Braswell Galleries was told before the Jan. 1 sale that a court had determined in 2009 that seller Biond Fury — a psychic and memorabilia collector — owed more than $21,000 in rent for his former Manhattan apartment, according to landlord Mark Arrow's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Manhattan state court. Arrow's lawyers say they told the Norwalk, Connecticut-based gallery not to go through with the sale, and that the gallery should now have to fork over at least $21,463 of the $46,000 paid for the suit.
Arrow had been unable to collect the rent debt from Fury, but the prospects brightened when he learned of the coming auction from a newspaper report last month, said Arrow lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey.
"We're all coming together over John Lennon," he said.
Gallery co-owner Kathy Braswell declined to comment.
A lawyer for Fury didn't return a telephone call this week. No working telephone number could be found for Fury, who in 2008 bought a Durham, North Carolina, mansion that was the site of a notorious 2001 murder, according to a local newspaper report.
Fury has been involved for decades in buying and selling memorabilia, including items related to the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe, according to news reports.
Co-owner George Braswell told The Hour of Norwalk last month that the "Abbey Road" suit's owner was selling it because of economic hardship. The seller had bought it in 1996, sold it in 2005 and repurchased it in 2008, according to a timeline on the Braswell Galleries website.
The white suit was custom-made for Lennon by French designer Ted Lapidus.
Released in 1969, "Abbey Road" was one of the Beatles' most indelible albums, with songs including "Come Together," "Something" and the 16-minute medley that includes "You Never Give Me Your Money."
Braswell Galleries was told before the Jan. 1 sale that a court had determined in 2009 that seller Biond Fury — a psychic and memorabilia collector — owed more than $21,000 in rent for his former Manhattan apartment, according to landlord Mark Arrow's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Manhattan state court. Arrow's lawyers say they told the Norwalk, Connecticut-based gallery not to go through with the sale, and that the gallery should now have to fork over at least $21,463 of the $46,000 paid for the suit.
Arrow had been unable to collect the rent debt from Fury, but the prospects brightened when he learned of the coming auction from a newspaper report last month, said Arrow lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey.
"We're all coming together over John Lennon," he said.
Gallery co-owner Kathy Braswell declined to comment.
A lawyer for Fury didn't return a telephone call this week. No working telephone number could be found for Fury, who in 2008 bought a Durham, North Carolina, mansion that was the site of a notorious 2001 murder, according to a local newspaper report.
Fury has been involved for decades in buying and selling memorabilia, including items related to the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe, according to news reports.
Co-owner George Braswell told The Hour of Norwalk last month that the "Abbey Road" suit's owner was selling it because of economic hardship. The seller had bought it in 1996, sold it in 2005 and repurchased it in 2008, according to a timeline on the Braswell Galleries website.
The white suit was custom-made for Lennon by French designer Ted Lapidus.
Released in 1969, "Abbey Road" was one of the Beatles' most indelible albums, with songs including "Come Together," "Something" and the 16-minute medley that includes "You Never Give Me Your Money."
I Almost Got Away with It Season 2 Episode 13 Got 9th Place
Preview of 'I Almost Got Away with It':
Randall Zandstra shot his ex-wife's boyfriend and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Due to a technicality, the case goes to retrial, butZandstra flees. Before he's apprehended, Zandstra wins big in a Vegas poker tournament.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ID Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Got 9th Place
Randall Zandstra shot his ex-wife's boyfriend and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Due to a technicality, the case goes to retrial, butZandstra flees. Before he's apprehended, Zandstra wins big in a Vegas poker tournament.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ID Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Got 9th Place
The Good Wife Season 2 Episode 11 Two Courts
Preview of 'The Good Wife':
When Will fears his client is not getting a fair trial because the judge is biased toward him, the law firm hires a jury consultant, who claims to predict a case's outcome by reading people's expressions on the next episode of The Good Wife.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 11
Episode Name: Two Courts
When Will fears his client is not getting a fair trial because the judge is biased toward him, the law firm hires a jury consultant, who claims to predict a case's outcome by reading people's expressions on the next episode of The Good Wife.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 11
Episode Name: Two Courts
'Company Men' Takes Haunting Look at Layoffs
Hollywood is a fantasyland, and the films it produces reflect that. "The Company Men" is that rare modern movie that actually takes a look at some of the hard realities of today's economy. Ben Affleck plays a Porsche-driving businessman who's suddenly laid off and must turn to his blue-collar brother (Kevin Costner) for work. Well yeah, so most of the people we know who were laid off didn't have a Porsche in the first place, but the film is earning raves. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers says "this haunting movie hits you hard and right where you live." (Opens Jan. 21.)
"The Way Back" sounds like one of those old-time war films you find on late-night cable and can't stop watching. Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess star as members of a group of prisoners who break out of a Siberian gulag in 1941 and must struggle through a blizzard, over mountains, and across the Gobi Desert to make their way to freedom. ViewLondon calls it "impressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot." Puts our little daily worries in perspective. (Opens Jan. 21.)
TV
Science fiction, crime dramas, local kids' TV and westerns are the focus in PBS' new "Pioneers of Television" episodes. Sci-fi is first up, and that episode will take a look at three beloved shows — the original "Star Trek," "The Twilight Zone" and kitschy "Lost in Space." (Jan. 18, 8 p.m., PBS.)
Although Andy Whitfield had to step out of Starz's Spartacus series while he fights non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the show lives on through a new miniseries, a prequel to "Spartacus: Blood and Sand." The new show, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," stars Aussie actor Dustin Clare as a champion gladiator. Whitfield is expected to make a brief cameo as Spartacus. (Jan. 21, 10 p.m., Starz.)
"Heavy" sounds a little like "The Biggest Loser" meets "Intervention." Each week, the new A&E series looks at two people who are dangerously obese. The show is an hour long, but the episodes cover six months in each person's life. If "Intervention" is any guide, not all will reach their goals. (Jan. 17, 10 p.m., A&E.)
In "An Idiot Abroad," Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force their friend Karl Pilkington (a personality in his own right) to visit the Seven Wonders of the World. A dream for many, but sheer torture for Pilkington, who stumbles across nude beaches, crucifixion and possible cannibals. (Premieres Jan. 22, 10 p.m., Science Channel.)
DVD
"Das Boot" took place inside a submarine, Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" in a small raft after a shipwreck. The critically acclaimed "Lebanon" has its own confined setting: It takes place inside a tank during Israel's 1982 war with Lebanon. Four young soldiers in the tank must confront the realities of war and their own fears. Roger Ebert compares its immersive experience to that of Oscar-winner "The Hurt Locker," writing, "This is what it means to be in the belly of the beast." (Out on DVD Jan. 18.)
"Animal Kingdom" is a highly praised Australian film about a teenage boy caught up in that country's criminal underworld. Guy Pearce plays the detective who tries to save him, and Jacki Weaver earned raves for her role as the boy's creepy criminal grandma. Andrew O'Hehir raved in Salon, "Brilliantly acted and intensely crafted, this movie will alienate some viewers and enthrall others, but it won't soon be forgotten." (Out on DVD Jan. 18.)
"The Way Back" sounds like one of those old-time war films you find on late-night cable and can't stop watching. Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess star as members of a group of prisoners who break out of a Siberian gulag in 1941 and must struggle through a blizzard, over mountains, and across the Gobi Desert to make their way to freedom. ViewLondon calls it "impressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot." Puts our little daily worries in perspective. (Opens Jan. 21.)
TV
Science fiction, crime dramas, local kids' TV and westerns are the focus in PBS' new "Pioneers of Television" episodes. Sci-fi is first up, and that episode will take a look at three beloved shows — the original "Star Trek," "The Twilight Zone" and kitschy "Lost in Space." (Jan. 18, 8 p.m., PBS.)
Although Andy Whitfield had to step out of Starz's Spartacus series while he fights non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the show lives on through a new miniseries, a prequel to "Spartacus: Blood and Sand." The new show, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," stars Aussie actor Dustin Clare as a champion gladiator. Whitfield is expected to make a brief cameo as Spartacus. (Jan. 21, 10 p.m., Starz.)
"Heavy" sounds a little like "The Biggest Loser" meets "Intervention." Each week, the new A&E series looks at two people who are dangerously obese. The show is an hour long, but the episodes cover six months in each person's life. If "Intervention" is any guide, not all will reach their goals. (Jan. 17, 10 p.m., A&E.)
In "An Idiot Abroad," Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force their friend Karl Pilkington (a personality in his own right) to visit the Seven Wonders of the World. A dream for many, but sheer torture for Pilkington, who stumbles across nude beaches, crucifixion and possible cannibals. (Premieres Jan. 22, 10 p.m., Science Channel.)
DVD
"Das Boot" took place inside a submarine, Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" in a small raft after a shipwreck. The critically acclaimed "Lebanon" has its own confined setting: It takes place inside a tank during Israel's 1982 war with Lebanon. Four young soldiers in the tank must confront the realities of war and their own fears. Roger Ebert compares its immersive experience to that of Oscar-winner "The Hurt Locker," writing, "This is what it means to be in the belly of the beast." (Out on DVD Jan. 18.)
"Animal Kingdom" is a highly praised Australian film about a teenage boy caught up in that country's criminal underworld. Guy Pearce plays the detective who tries to save him, and Jacki Weaver earned raves for her role as the boy's creepy criminal grandma. Andrew O'Hehir raved in Salon, "Brilliantly acted and intensely crafted, this movie will alienate some viewers and enthrall others, but it won't soon be forgotten." (Out on DVD Jan. 18.)
Chopped Season 6 Episode 1 Marrowly We Roll Along
Preview of 'Chopped':
Got to get it done! But will the chefs know what to do to marry marrow bones with the other ingredients in the appetizer basket? Then in a challenging entrée round, one chef uses avant-garde cooking techniques to try to prove a point, and everyone wrestles with a very labor-intensive mystery ingredient. And with a frozen ingredient in the dessert basket, the finalists might be headed for a meltdown before this competition is over.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOOD Channel
Episode Details: Season 6 Episode 1
Episode Name: Marrowly We Roll Along
Got to get it done! But will the chefs know what to do to marry marrow bones with the other ingredients in the appetizer basket? Then in a challenging entrée round, one chef uses avant-garde cooking techniques to try to prove a point, and everyone wrestles with a very labor-intensive mystery ingredient. And with a frozen ingredient in the dessert basket, the finalists might be headed for a meltdown before this competition is over.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOOD Channel
Episode Details: Season 6 Episode 1
Episode Name: Marrowly We Roll Along
Glory Daze Season 1 Episode 9 Some Like It Hot Tub
Preview of 'Glory Daze':
Joel and Christie wonder what their friendship with each other actually means. Professor Haines and Brother Jerrod (guest star John Michael Higgins) form an unlikely partnership. And the Omega Sigs throw a Mid-Semester Blowout.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 9
Episode Name: Some Like It Hot Tub
Joel and Christie wonder what their friendship with each other actually means. Professor Haines and Brother Jerrod (guest star John Michael Higgins) form an unlikely partnership. And the Omega Sigs throw a Mid-Semester Blowout.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 9
Episode Name: Some Like It Hot Tub
The Game Season 4 Episode 2 The Confession Episode
Preview of 'The Game':
Melanie comes clean to Derwin about his son; Jason lashes out at the Sabers.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BET Channel
Episode Details: Season 4 Episode 2
Episode Name: The Confession Episode
Melanie comes clean to Derwin about his son; Jason lashes out at the Sabers.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BET Channel
Episode Details: Season 4 Episode 2
Episode Name: The Confession Episode
The Fashion Show Season 2 Episode 9 Elemental Fashion
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BRAVO Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 9
Episode Name: Elemental Fashion
Channel: BRAVO Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 9
Episode Name: Elemental Fashion
Kunis Says Losing 20 Pounds For 'Swan' was Fun
Mila Kunis dropped 20 pounds for her role as a prima ballerina in Black Swan — and she sorta liked it!
"Transforming your body, in a sadistic way, was kind of fun. In a weird way, I enjoyed the result," the newly single starlet told me Friday night at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. "It's amazing what your body can accomplish."
Costar Natalie Portman, who showed her baby bump on the carpet, talked about her dramatic weight loss and gain as well:
After winning the Best Actress award, Nat joked that her fluctuating figure was all director Darren Aronofsky's fault.
"I keep telling Darren, you made me very skinny, and now you're indirectly responsible for making me fat because you introduced me to my love [Black Swan choreographer], Benjamin Millepied, and I am incredibly grateful for that most special of gifts."
Nat and Mila skipped the afterparty, but some stars, including Kyle Richards and E!'s Joan Rivers, were on hand to sip Grey Goose cocktails and enjoy Crumbs cupcakes.
None of which was helping anyone lose 20 pounds.
"Transforming your body, in a sadistic way, was kind of fun. In a weird way, I enjoyed the result," the newly single starlet told me Friday night at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. "It's amazing what your body can accomplish."
Costar Natalie Portman, who showed her baby bump on the carpet, talked about her dramatic weight loss and gain as well:
After winning the Best Actress award, Nat joked that her fluctuating figure was all director Darren Aronofsky's fault.
"I keep telling Darren, you made me very skinny, and now you're indirectly responsible for making me fat because you introduced me to my love [Black Swan choreographer], Benjamin Millepied, and I am incredibly grateful for that most special of gifts."
Nat and Mila skipped the afterparty, but some stars, including Kyle Richards and E!'s Joan Rivers, were on hand to sip Grey Goose cocktails and enjoy Crumbs cupcakes.
None of which was helping anyone lose 20 pounds.
Million Dollar Money Drop Season 1 Episode 11
Preview of 'Million Dollar Money Drop':
After their first date, he asked her to be his girlfriend and after their first week of dating, he proposed! Today they're married and have two beautiful baby girls. This Marine Recon Sergeant, who's served 3 tours of duty fighting on the front lines in Iraq for his country, just found out he will be serving his 4th tour of duty in Afghanistan in the next couple of weeks. David is ready to serve his country and come back home safe and sound to his family.
Lana and Nathan have been dating for a year after meeting at a friend's "game night." It was supposed to be a couples' night, but their friends had other plans...to invite all couples except the two of them! That first night Lana says she saw how much fun Nathan was and fell in love...even if he wasn't very good at playing games! They're both hoping their game play today will be as fun as the first night they met, but with a bigger pay off!
Airing Details: 9:01 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOX Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 11
Episode Name: EPISODE: 11
After their first date, he asked her to be his girlfriend and after their first week of dating, he proposed! Today they're married and have two beautiful baby girls. This Marine Recon Sergeant, who's served 3 tours of duty fighting on the front lines in Iraq for his country, just found out he will be serving his 4th tour of duty in Afghanistan in the next couple of weeks. David is ready to serve his country and come back home safe and sound to his family.
Lana and Nathan have been dating for a year after meeting at a friend's "game night." It was supposed to be a couples' night, but their friends had other plans...to invite all couples except the two of them! That first night Lana says she saw how much fun Nathan was and fell in love...even if he wasn't very good at playing games! They're both hoping their game play today will be as fun as the first night they met, but with a bigger pay off!
Airing Details: 9:01 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOX Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 11
Episode Name: EPISODE: 11
Auction Kings Season 1 Episode 8 Happy Days Pinball / Wall of Shame
Preview of 'Auction Kings':
The Gallery 63 team auctions a vintage slot machine, Happy Days pinball machine, WWII Soviet flag, and Whizzer. Not even Paul can escape Cindy's Wall of Shame for people who don't pay their bills.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 8
Episode Name: Happy Days Pinball / Wall of Shame
The Gallery 63 team auctions a vintage slot machine, Happy Days pinball machine, WWII Soviet flag, and Whizzer. Not even Paul can escape Cindy's Wall of Shame for people who don't pay their bills.
Airing Details: 10:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 8
Episode Name: Happy Days Pinball / Wall of Shame
Jane Lynch not Bothered by Sue's Bullying Ways
Jane Lynch's best supporting actress win for her character Sue Sylvester in "Glee" was one that, for the most part, was well received. Lynch's performance of the acerbic cheerleading coach carries every scene she's in, and the character is unlike any other on television. However, Sue Sylvester is at the end of the day, a massive bully. During a time when bullying has become an epidemic, does this bother Lynch in any way?
"I think the reasons that Sue became a bully are explained on the show," she said at the Fox after-party, with her Golden Globe not far from sight. "It's a product of the relationship she had with her mother, which was masterfully played by Carol Burnett."
On working with Burnett, Lynch said "she was an absolute dream," and insisted Sue's bullying was nothing to be worried about in the real world.
"I think the reasons that Sue became a bully are explained on the show," she said at the Fox after-party, with her Golden Globe not far from sight. "It's a product of the relationship she had with her mother, which was masterfully played by Carol Burnett."
On working with Burnett, Lynch said "she was an absolute dream," and insisted Sue's bullying was nothing to be worried about in the real world.
What Not To Wear Season 8 Episode 15 Aleishe
Preview of 'What Not To Wear ':
Aleishe is a pastry chef who has always struggled with feeling beautiful. She now works in one of NYC's finest restaurants, but despite her accomplishments she still suffers from a low self esteem. Can Stacy and Clinton help her see her true beauty?
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TLC Channel
Episode Details: Season 8 Episode 15
Episode Name: Aleishe
Aleishe is a pastry chef who has always struggled with feeling beautiful. She now works in one of NYC's finest restaurants, but despite her accomplishments she still suffers from a low self esteem. Can Stacy and Clinton help her see her true beauty?
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TLC Channel
Episode Details: Season 8 Episode 15
Episode Name: Aleishe
V Season 2 Episode 3 Laid Bare
Preview of 'V':
Erica fights to keep Anna from finding out she's Fifth Column; Anna orders Ryan to find Malik; Lisa notices her body is changing.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ABC Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 3
Episode Name: Laid Bare
Erica fights to keep Anna from finding out she's Fifth Column; Anna orders Ryan to find Malik; Lisa notices her body is changing.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ABC Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 3
Episode Name: Laid Bare
Make Room for Babies on 'Desperate Housewives'
DeAnn Welker writes: Almost everyone was thinking about babies this week, starting with Gaby and her doll, Princess Valerie. When Carlos got the credit card bill showing she'd spent more than $800 at a doll store, he freaked out that she'd spend so much on their kids. She lied that it was something for Bob and Lee, and it made her feel good, which seemed to make it somewhat OK with him. Until Gaby blabbed to Mrs. McCluskey about her doll, and even invited her and her own childhood doll to tea.
Thankfully, Mrs. McCluskey blabbed to Carlos, who tried to talk some sense into Gaby and get her to go to therapy. Instead, they ended up heading to dinner together with a doll strapped in a car seat. When they accidentally ended up in a bad neighborhood (I'm not sure how it could have any higher of a crime rate than Wisteria, though) and got held up for their car, Gaby freaked about losing her "baby." Carlos told her it's not Grace, and Gaby cried in his arms. The thing about Carlos and Gaby is that they can always sell it, whether it's comedy (which loo-loo stuff with her and her doll was) or pain (when she cried in his arms at the end), so the payoff's so much greater than with many of the other ladies on this show.
Bree had her own baby issues this week, when an old girlfriend of Keith's showed up to tell him she'd had his baby (how many times does someone not know they have a baby in real life compared to on TV?). Lucky for Bree, he wasn't home, so she got the news and promised to deliver it. She asked Keith some vague and loaded questions about wanting kids, and then went back to Amber and told her that Keith thinks it would be better if he doesn't meet Charlie. Then Bree paid her off. Hmmm. I wonder if this will come back to bite Bree.
Bob and Lee's baby (who turns out to be more like a 10-year-old, actually) girl was going to arrive soon, and Renee designed the bedroom. When it turned out perfect, Renee got all wistful about dreaming about her own child. Bob and Lee suddenly realized she had a heart, and brought their daughter to meet her first thing. Then Lee asked Renee if she'd be the woman their girl could talk to when she needs one. Renee agreed, and Lee said he'd tell her to head over to "Old Auntie Renee's." Renee: "If she ever calls me 'Old Auntie,' I will kick her." Turns out wanting a kid doesn't mean you can't still be an ice queen.
Oh, and Susan met a Dick (whose name fit him, until she realized he was just angry at spending so many years waiting) during dialysis, and Paul almost killed Beth until the cops showed him the gun that shot him. By the way he was gazing at a picture of himself and Zach at the end of the episode, I think we can guess Paul knew the gun well -- not because it was his wife's, but because it was his son's.
Thankfully, Mrs. McCluskey blabbed to Carlos, who tried to talk some sense into Gaby and get her to go to therapy. Instead, they ended up heading to dinner together with a doll strapped in a car seat. When they accidentally ended up in a bad neighborhood (I'm not sure how it could have any higher of a crime rate than Wisteria, though) and got held up for their car, Gaby freaked about losing her "baby." Carlos told her it's not Grace, and Gaby cried in his arms. The thing about Carlos and Gaby is that they can always sell it, whether it's comedy (which loo-loo stuff with her and her doll was) or pain (when she cried in his arms at the end), so the payoff's so much greater than with many of the other ladies on this show.
Bree had her own baby issues this week, when an old girlfriend of Keith's showed up to tell him she'd had his baby (how many times does someone not know they have a baby in real life compared to on TV?). Lucky for Bree, he wasn't home, so she got the news and promised to deliver it. She asked Keith some vague and loaded questions about wanting kids, and then went back to Amber and told her that Keith thinks it would be better if he doesn't meet Charlie. Then Bree paid her off. Hmmm. I wonder if this will come back to bite Bree.
Bob and Lee's baby (who turns out to be more like a 10-year-old, actually) girl was going to arrive soon, and Renee designed the bedroom. When it turned out perfect, Renee got all wistful about dreaming about her own child. Bob and Lee suddenly realized she had a heart, and brought their daughter to meet her first thing. Then Lee asked Renee if she'd be the woman their girl could talk to when she needs one. Renee agreed, and Lee said he'd tell her to head over to "Old Auntie Renee's." Renee: "If she ever calls me 'Old Auntie,' I will kick her." Turns out wanting a kid doesn't mean you can't still be an ice queen.
Oh, and Susan met a Dick (whose name fit him, until she realized he was just angry at spending so many years waiting) during dialysis, and Paul almost killed Beth until the cops showed him the gun that shot him. By the way he was gazing at a picture of himself and Zach at the end of the episode, I think we can guess Paul knew the gun well -- not because it was his wife's, but because it was his son's.
NCIS: Los Angeles Season 2 Episode 13 Archangel
Preview of 'NCIS: Los Angeles':
The NCIS team sets out to find the individual responsible for stealing a classified Pentagon document before the file's decryption code is cracked by the wrong party on the next episode of NCIS: Los Angeles.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Archangel
The NCIS team sets out to find the individual responsible for stealing a classified Pentagon document before the file's decryption code is cracked by the wrong party on the next episode of NCIS: Los Angeles.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Archangel
Pipe Dream Season 1 Episode 2 From the Outhouse to the Penthouse
Airing Details: 9:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: GOLF Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: From the Outhouse to the Penthouse
Channel: GOLF Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: From the Outhouse to the Penthouse
When Rome Ruled National Geographic Special Ancient Superpower
Preview of 'When Rome Ruled':
This is the story of how a city ruled the world. For 500 years, across 2 million square miles, Rome fought, And reigned and got rich. Today, experts are still trying to understand how. In the ruins of its port. In the mountain of evidence its people left behind and on the furthest borders of its empire. They find the secrets of the Romans success. They see ambition, innovation, and a genius for organisation. Diplomacy, brutality, and insatiable greed, while many remember its decadence and decline, this is the roman miracle: 5 centuries, as the greatest power on earth.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name: Ancient Superpower
This is the story of how a city ruled the world. For 500 years, across 2 million square miles, Rome fought, And reigned and got rich. Today, experts are still trying to understand how. In the ruins of its port. In the mountain of evidence its people left behind and on the furthest borders of its empire. They find the secrets of the Romans success. They see ambition, innovation, and a genius for organisation. Diplomacy, brutality, and insatiable greed, while many remember its decadence and decline, this is the roman miracle: 5 centuries, as the greatest power on earth.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name: Ancient Superpower
Hauritz Excited by Call, but Doherty 'Shafted'
Nathan Hauritz was relieved to learn of his World Cup selection after being left on the outer for the duration of the Ashes. Hauritz is the sole specialist spinner in the 15-man outfit after the selectors overlooked Xavier Doherty, the left-arm orthodox from Tasmania.
"There were still thoughts in the back of my head that it might not happen," Hauritz said at the SCG. That's because it has been an incredibly bumpy summer for Hauritz.
He was Australia's Test spinner in India but was overlooked for the Ashes, despite being the most successful slow bowler since Shane Warne retired in 2007. "It's definitely a great deal of relief to be selected," he said. "Generally it's not good news but the last week it has been good news from the selectors. It's a like a phone call you get from your mother, sometimes it's bad news, sometimes it's good."
Hauritz is now happy in his role as the only specialist, but he will be supported by Steven Smith, David Hussey and possibly Michael Clarke at the tournament starting next month. "Obviously it was disappointing not to be part of that Ashes but it's fantastic to be part of the World Cup squad," he said. "I'm extremely excited."
This time it is Doherty's turn to feel the pain after his card was marked when he went wicket-less in Sunday's ODI win over England. It was his third ODI, with all four of his breakthroughs coming on debut against Sri Lanka. Last month he was dropped after being ineffective in his opening two Ashes Tests.
George Bailey, the Tasmania captain, said Doherty had been Australia's best one-day spinner on the domestic circuit for the past two or three years. "He's obviously performed really well in the few chances he's had with Australia, and then he's just basically shafted," Bailey told AAP.
Bailey pointed the finger at selectors for sending "mixed messages" over how Doherty should be bowling. "Then when he's told he's not in the team, he's given very little direction to come back for us," he said. "And this is not just Xavier, but I think all players that are dropped out of that Australian squad. I think communication from the top to players coming back is pretty ordinary."
"There were still thoughts in the back of my head that it might not happen," Hauritz said at the SCG. That's because it has been an incredibly bumpy summer for Hauritz.
He was Australia's Test spinner in India but was overlooked for the Ashes, despite being the most successful slow bowler since Shane Warne retired in 2007. "It's definitely a great deal of relief to be selected," he said. "Generally it's not good news but the last week it has been good news from the selectors. It's a like a phone call you get from your mother, sometimes it's bad news, sometimes it's good."
Hauritz is now happy in his role as the only specialist, but he will be supported by Steven Smith, David Hussey and possibly Michael Clarke at the tournament starting next month. "Obviously it was disappointing not to be part of that Ashes but it's fantastic to be part of the World Cup squad," he said. "I'm extremely excited."
This time it is Doherty's turn to feel the pain after his card was marked when he went wicket-less in Sunday's ODI win over England. It was his third ODI, with all four of his breakthroughs coming on debut against Sri Lanka. Last month he was dropped after being ineffective in his opening two Ashes Tests.
George Bailey, the Tasmania captain, said Doherty had been Australia's best one-day spinner on the domestic circuit for the past two or three years. "He's obviously performed really well in the few chances he's had with Australia, and then he's just basically shafted," Bailey told AAP.
Bailey pointed the finger at selectors for sending "mixed messages" over how Doherty should be bowling. "Then when he's told he's not in the team, he's given very little direction to come back for us," he said. "And this is not just Xavier, but I think all players that are dropped out of that Australian squad. I think communication from the top to players coming back is pretty ordinary."
Hussey in Doubt But Ponting on Track for World Cup
Ricky Ponting hopes his injured finger will be right for the start of the World Cup next month, but Michael Hussey's future is less clear following a serious hamstring tear. Both players were named in Australia's 15-man squad, but Andrew Hilditch indicated Hussey was in some doubt for the event.
"It's quite a severe hamstring injury," Hilditch said after announcing the outfit in Sydney. "It's obviously something we'll need to assess before the team departs."
Hussey hurt himself during Sunday's one-day win over England at the MCG and is expected to be out for six weeks. Australia's first game of the World Cup is against Zimbabwe on February 21 in Ahmedabad, with the quarter-finals starting a month later.
"He's still deciding the best medical management, it's just happened at a bad time," Hilditch said. "Obviously Mike's a key player of our squad so he's in this squad, but a final decision whether he's going to be fit or not will be made closer to our departure date."
Ponting has no such doubts over his left little finger, which he broke while fielding during the third Ashes Test in Perth. He missed the Sydney match and had surgery, ruling him out of the seven ODIs against England.
"I'm hoping to be right for the start of the World Cup," Ponting said. "My finger's coming along okay, I guess. I haven't been able to do anything for the last couple of weeks post-surgery, but I've got a bit more movement now."
The finger is still in a splint and Ponting said it would be looked at by a doctor once a week. "I'm pretty keen to get a bat back in my hands again and I'm going to be around the team, certainly this week down in Hobart for the second game," he said.
Ponting is 36 and heading to his fifth World Cup, but he said even a fourth consecutive victory would not hide the pain of the Ashes defeat. "I'm not sure if anything would erase what's just happened," he said. "Payback's going to be hard to get after losing the Ashes."
Australia's position in ODIs is much better than in Tests, where they sit fifth, and Ponting remains confident of his side's chances. "We're quite clearly the No.1-ranked one-day team in the world, and I think just little things like the great win that we had the other night shows that this one-day team is certainly on the right track," he said. "We've got a really proud record in the subcontinent and we'll be going there to do everything we can to win another World Cup."
"It's quite a severe hamstring injury," Hilditch said after announcing the outfit in Sydney. "It's obviously something we'll need to assess before the team departs."
Hussey hurt himself during Sunday's one-day win over England at the MCG and is expected to be out for six weeks. Australia's first game of the World Cup is against Zimbabwe on February 21 in Ahmedabad, with the quarter-finals starting a month later.
"He's still deciding the best medical management, it's just happened at a bad time," Hilditch said. "Obviously Mike's a key player of our squad so he's in this squad, but a final decision whether he's going to be fit or not will be made closer to our departure date."
Ponting has no such doubts over his left little finger, which he broke while fielding during the third Ashes Test in Perth. He missed the Sydney match and had surgery, ruling him out of the seven ODIs against England.
"I'm hoping to be right for the start of the World Cup," Ponting said. "My finger's coming along okay, I guess. I haven't been able to do anything for the last couple of weeks post-surgery, but I've got a bit more movement now."
The finger is still in a splint and Ponting said it would be looked at by a doctor once a week. "I'm pretty keen to get a bat back in my hands again and I'm going to be around the team, certainly this week down in Hobart for the second game," he said.
Ponting is 36 and heading to his fifth World Cup, but he said even a fourth consecutive victory would not hide the pain of the Ashes defeat. "I'm not sure if anything would erase what's just happened," he said. "Payback's going to be hard to get after losing the Ashes."
Australia's position in ODIs is much better than in Tests, where they sit fifth, and Ponting remains confident of his side's chances. "We're quite clearly the No.1-ranked one-day team in the world, and I think just little things like the great win that we had the other night shows that this one-day team is certainly on the right track," he said. "We've got a really proud record in the subcontinent and we'll be going there to do everything we can to win another World Cup."
New Zealand Marginally Ahead After Riveting Day
The Basin Reserve Test sparked into life on a third day filled with twists, turns and decisive shifts in momentum, with both sides inadvertently pushing the opponent to swap game-plans several times through the course of play. Pakistan began with unimaginative bowling at unacceptable over-rates, spread-out fields, and sloppy fielding. New Zealand cashed in, with their openers putting up an enterprising 120-run partnership. Just as they began to assume control, Pakistan snapped out of their mediocrity, and their spinners rallied them back into the contest. With their backs to the wall, New Zealand turned to Ross Taylor for the second time in the match, and he responded with a fine hand to leave them slightly ahead, despite an inspired sortie from Umar Gul before stumps.
Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill began the day aggressively and were helped along by Pakistan's seamers who were too inconsistent to trouble them. Abdur Rehman came on soon, and New Zealand were anxious not to get stuck against him. Rehman attacked the rough with a slip, silly point and short leg, with Adnan Akmal imploring him to bowl the 'magic ball'. One boundary from Guptill, a crunched back-foot cover drive, was enough for silly point to be removed. An over later, the magic ball came, stopping and turning sharply from leg stump to take Guptill's edge before landing in the now vacant silly point region. Pakistan had paid for their complete lack of proactivity.
McCullum's eagerness to dominate was counterbalanced by the state of the match and New Zealand's recent batting woes. Rehman tossed them up, inviting the drive over mid-off, with men waiting close in for the edge. McCullum resisted, lunging forward to the flight, and working the odd arm-ball off the backfoot to the leg side. Rehman almost broke through, getting McCullum to prod with hard hands, but Asad Shafiq dropped the chance, again at silly point. McCullum ran down the track to the next ball and clattered a flat six over long-off, before pulling a short ball for four more. Pakistan's best bowler had been negated, with some luck, but he was not done for the day.
Worried by the prodigal opening session, Pakistan came out with a plan in the second. Gul harried Guptill with bounce and movement, clunking his helmet with a bouncer in the first over after the break, and getting him to edge a legcutter in his second, but Adnan spilled the opportunity. Guptill altered his approach, hanging back in the crease, but resisting the impulse to pull.
Rehman eventually found a way past McCullum, luring him to miscue to long-off after beating him in the flight. The run-rate dropped and Pakistan finally found their voice as Guptill got into a tangle against some well-directed bouncers from Wahab Riaz, the biggest culprit in the day's no-ball stakes. Guptill barely survived the spell, venting his impatience against Rehman, slicing an off-drive past a diving Tanvir Ahmed at mid-off, and teeing off down the ground for six. Rehman was not to be denied, though, and he eventually pinned Guptill in front with a skidder, an over after Kane Williamson perished to an ungainly drive against Tanvir.
Jesse Ryder avoided a third successive first-ball duck but was bowled by Mohammad Hafeez off the first ball following a brief rain interruption. New Zealand suddenly found themselves in some strife, at what was effectively 172 for 4. For a brief while, Hafeez transformed into Muttiah Muralitharan, producing a few unplayable deliveries that had New Zealand befuddled and Pakistan worried. Taylor survived one that turned in a mile, and James Franklin wasn't good enough to edge another than turned across him and jumped over his stumps. He didn't last long, nicking Hafeez to Younis Khan at slip before Shafiq dropped another crucial chance, lunging late from short leg as Reece Young poked nervously.
Having taken a close look at Hafeez's unplayable fare, Taylor dug deep to reverse the momentum once again. He negated the spinners with assured feet, late shots and soft hands, frustrating them into drifting onto his legs. When they did, he moved his front pad decisively across to flick and sweep into his favourite scoring areas. His first boundary came after 45 balls of caution, in which time his obduracy tired Rehman into errors. Hafeez also lost his sting, and Taylor asserted himself with a trademark slog-sweep over midwicket. Young held his own with a straight bat and a steady head for the second time in the game, and the 60-run stand turned the tide once again in New Zealand's favour, but the day had some more surprise in store.
Azhar Ali took a blinder close in to end Young's effort before Gul charged in with an 86-overs-old ball and resorted to his most loyal weapon - reverse swing. He struck Taylor in front with an inducker before rearranging a shuffling Daniel Vettori's stumps with a yorker. Brent Arnel came and went first ball, barely seeing a laser beam that pinged his toes. Chris Martin got the wildest applause of the day when he kept out the hat-trick ball, and Tim Southee connected with a couple of swings before becoming Gul's fourth scalp as New Zealand were bowled out. Despite their late flourish, Pakistan are behind in the game, but they will take heart from the fact that seven years back, they successfully chased the exact same score at this very ground.
Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill began the day aggressively and were helped along by Pakistan's seamers who were too inconsistent to trouble them. Abdur Rehman came on soon, and New Zealand were anxious not to get stuck against him. Rehman attacked the rough with a slip, silly point and short leg, with Adnan Akmal imploring him to bowl the 'magic ball'. One boundary from Guptill, a crunched back-foot cover drive, was enough for silly point to be removed. An over later, the magic ball came, stopping and turning sharply from leg stump to take Guptill's edge before landing in the now vacant silly point region. Pakistan had paid for their complete lack of proactivity.
McCullum's eagerness to dominate was counterbalanced by the state of the match and New Zealand's recent batting woes. Rehman tossed them up, inviting the drive over mid-off, with men waiting close in for the edge. McCullum resisted, lunging forward to the flight, and working the odd arm-ball off the backfoot to the leg side. Rehman almost broke through, getting McCullum to prod with hard hands, but Asad Shafiq dropped the chance, again at silly point. McCullum ran down the track to the next ball and clattered a flat six over long-off, before pulling a short ball for four more. Pakistan's best bowler had been negated, with some luck, but he was not done for the day.
Worried by the prodigal opening session, Pakistan came out with a plan in the second. Gul harried Guptill with bounce and movement, clunking his helmet with a bouncer in the first over after the break, and getting him to edge a legcutter in his second, but Adnan spilled the opportunity. Guptill altered his approach, hanging back in the crease, but resisting the impulse to pull.
Rehman eventually found a way past McCullum, luring him to miscue to long-off after beating him in the flight. The run-rate dropped and Pakistan finally found their voice as Guptill got into a tangle against some well-directed bouncers from Wahab Riaz, the biggest culprit in the day's no-ball stakes. Guptill barely survived the spell, venting his impatience against Rehman, slicing an off-drive past a diving Tanvir Ahmed at mid-off, and teeing off down the ground for six. Rehman was not to be denied, though, and he eventually pinned Guptill in front with a skidder, an over after Kane Williamson perished to an ungainly drive against Tanvir.
Jesse Ryder avoided a third successive first-ball duck but was bowled by Mohammad Hafeez off the first ball following a brief rain interruption. New Zealand suddenly found themselves in some strife, at what was effectively 172 for 4. For a brief while, Hafeez transformed into Muttiah Muralitharan, producing a few unplayable deliveries that had New Zealand befuddled and Pakistan worried. Taylor survived one that turned in a mile, and James Franklin wasn't good enough to edge another than turned across him and jumped over his stumps. He didn't last long, nicking Hafeez to Younis Khan at slip before Shafiq dropped another crucial chance, lunging late from short leg as Reece Young poked nervously.
Having taken a close look at Hafeez's unplayable fare, Taylor dug deep to reverse the momentum once again. He negated the spinners with assured feet, late shots and soft hands, frustrating them into drifting onto his legs. When they did, he moved his front pad decisively across to flick and sweep into his favourite scoring areas. His first boundary came after 45 balls of caution, in which time his obduracy tired Rehman into errors. Hafeez also lost his sting, and Taylor asserted himself with a trademark slog-sweep over midwicket. Young held his own with a straight bat and a steady head for the second time in the game, and the 60-run stand turned the tide once again in New Zealand's favour, but the day had some more surprise in store.
Azhar Ali took a blinder close in to end Young's effort before Gul charged in with an 86-overs-old ball and resorted to his most loyal weapon - reverse swing. He struck Taylor in front with an inducker before rearranging a shuffling Daniel Vettori's stumps with a yorker. Brent Arnel came and went first ball, barely seeing a laser beam that pinged his toes. Chris Martin got the wildest applause of the day when he kept out the hat-trick ball, and Tim Southee connected with a couple of swings before becoming Gul's fourth scalp as New Zealand were bowled out. Despite their late flourish, Pakistan are behind in the game, but they will take heart from the fact that seven years back, they successfully chased the exact same score at this very ground.
Lee and Tait Win World Cup Berths
Australia will risk both Brett Lee and Shaun Tait at the World Cup after they were chosen in the 15-man squad for the trophy defence beginning in India next month. Peter Siddle and Xavier Doherty were not included while John Hastings, the Victoria allrounder, was named along with the injured duo of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey.
Hussey picked up a serious hamstring tear in Sunday's ODI win over England, while Ponting is recovering from surgery to his little finger. The pair will not appear in the remainder of the one-day series, with the other 13 members of the World Cup squad selected to finish the seven-match campaign.
Andrew Hilditch, the chairman of selectors, did admit some doubt over Hussey getting to the World Cup. "It is a severe injury and we will make a decision closer to departure date," he said.
Hussey and Ponting do have plenty of time to recover before the tournament reaches the knockout stages, with the quarter finals beginning on March 23. Australia's opening match of the campaign is against Zimbabwe in Ahmedabad on February 21.
While Australia are now mid-table in Tests, they remain the No.1 side in the 50-over game and are aiming for their fourth consecutive World Cup win. Seven players who were part of the unbeaten 2007 success in the West Indies will attempt to achieve more glory.
Lee and Tait are returning from long-term elbow injuries but the selectors have kept faith in their speed, bodies and shock value. Lee, 34, captured two wickets on Sunday in his first ODI since October 2009 as he reached 150kph, while Tait missed the game with a back injury. Mitchell Johnson and Doug Bollinger are the other quicks in the unit, with Hastings and Shane Watson enlisted to provide support.
"Hastings has been selected as he adds variety to our bowling options," Hilditch said. "We feel his bowling is well suited to subcontinent conditions and his all-round skills with bat and ball add to the flexibility of the squad."
Nathan Hauritz is the sole recognised spinner but Steven Smith and David Hussey will also be relied on to deliver regular overs. "Nathan is our preferred spin option and his one-day record in India is excellent," Hilditch said. Hauritz has played seven 50-over games in the country, taking four wickets at 70.75. Hilditch's panel did not pick Hauritz during the entire Ashes campaign but now he expects the offspinner to "be an important part of our bid for this fourth World Cup".
David Hussey's mix of hard-hitting batting and part-time offspin have earned him a trip, despite him playing his first one-day game in more than a year on Sunday. "We feel he will play a crucial role for us in sub-continental conditions," Hilditch said. Tim Paine is the back-up wicketkeeper and will also be a standby batsman.
Australia squad Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Cameron White, Tim Paine (wk), Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.
Hussey picked up a serious hamstring tear in Sunday's ODI win over England, while Ponting is recovering from surgery to his little finger. The pair will not appear in the remainder of the one-day series, with the other 13 members of the World Cup squad selected to finish the seven-match campaign.
Andrew Hilditch, the chairman of selectors, did admit some doubt over Hussey getting to the World Cup. "It is a severe injury and we will make a decision closer to departure date," he said.
Hussey and Ponting do have plenty of time to recover before the tournament reaches the knockout stages, with the quarter finals beginning on March 23. Australia's opening match of the campaign is against Zimbabwe in Ahmedabad on February 21.
While Australia are now mid-table in Tests, they remain the No.1 side in the 50-over game and are aiming for their fourth consecutive World Cup win. Seven players who were part of the unbeaten 2007 success in the West Indies will attempt to achieve more glory.
Lee and Tait are returning from long-term elbow injuries but the selectors have kept faith in their speed, bodies and shock value. Lee, 34, captured two wickets on Sunday in his first ODI since October 2009 as he reached 150kph, while Tait missed the game with a back injury. Mitchell Johnson and Doug Bollinger are the other quicks in the unit, with Hastings and Shane Watson enlisted to provide support.
"Hastings has been selected as he adds variety to our bowling options," Hilditch said. "We feel his bowling is well suited to subcontinent conditions and his all-round skills with bat and ball add to the flexibility of the squad."
Nathan Hauritz is the sole recognised spinner but Steven Smith and David Hussey will also be relied on to deliver regular overs. "Nathan is our preferred spin option and his one-day record in India is excellent," Hilditch said. Hauritz has played seven 50-over games in the country, taking four wickets at 70.75. Hilditch's panel did not pick Hauritz during the entire Ashes campaign but now he expects the offspinner to "be an important part of our bid for this fourth World Cup".
David Hussey's mix of hard-hitting batting and part-time offspin have earned him a trip, despite him playing his first one-day game in more than a year on Sunday. "We feel he will play a crucial role for us in sub-continental conditions," Hilditch said. Tim Paine is the back-up wicketkeeper and will also be a standby batsman.
Australia squad Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Cameron White, Tim Paine (wk), Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.
The Haney Project Season 3 Episode 2 Rush Limbaugh: Hawaii Fore-O!
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: GOLF Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: Rush Limbaugh: Hawaii Fore-O!
Channel: GOLF Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 2
Episode Name: Rush Limbaugh: Hawaii Fore-O!
Frontline Season 29 Episode 6 Are We Safer?
Preview of 'Frontline':
FRONTLINE launches its new monthly magazine program with three reports, led by Are We Safer? In this first story, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Against a backdrop of recent mail bomb threats from Al Qaeda in Yemen and growing concerns about homegrown terrorists, Priest explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies, and data collecting into the lives of ordinary Americans.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: PBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 29 Episode 6
Episode Name: Are We Safer?
FRONTLINE launches its new monthly magazine program with three reports, led by Are We Safer? In this first story, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Against a backdrop of recent mail bomb threats from Al Qaeda in Yemen and growing concerns about homegrown terrorists, Priest explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies, and data collecting into the lives of ordinary Americans.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: PBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 29 Episode 6
Episode Name: Are We Safer?
Dirty Jobs Season 7 Episode 16 Hair Fairy
Preview of 'Dirty Jobs':
Mike climbs high up on Jelm Mountain in Wyoming to help change out an old wooden power pole and replace it with a new metal version. Then he visits the Hair Fairies in his hometown of San Francisco where he learns all about hair lice removal.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 7 Episode 16
Episode Name: Hair Fairy
Mike climbs high up on Jelm Mountain in Wyoming to help change out an old wooden power pole and replace it with a new metal version. Then he visits the Hair Fairies in his hometown of San Francisco where he learns all about hair lice removal.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 7 Episode 16
Episode Name: Hair Fairy
Dangerous Encounters Season 1 Episode 3 Robo-Snake
Preview of 'Dangerous Encounters':
Brady investigates technology such as bomb disposal robots, used by others with dangerous jobs, to see if he can use them in his work to keep him safe when catching deadly snakes.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NAT GEO WILD Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Robo-Snake
Brady investigates technology such as bomb disposal robots, used by others with dangerous jobs, to see if he can use them in his work to keep him safe when catching deadly snakes.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NAT GEO WILD Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Robo-Snake
Cupcake Wars Season 2 Episode 7 Rose Parade
Preview of 'Cupcake Wars':
Four Cupcake Wars champions set out to prove they're the best of the best as they fight to have their delicious displays featured at the coronation of the 2011 Rose Queen, as well as the special grand prize of being featured in the internationally renowned Rose Parade.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOOD Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 7
Episode Name: Rose Parade
Four Cupcake Wars champions set out to prove they're the best of the best as they fight to have their delicious displays featured at the coronation of the 2011 Rose Queen, as well as the special grand prize of being featured in the internationally renowned Rose Parade.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: FOOD Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 7
Episode Name: Rose Parade
Bizarre Foods Season 6 Episode 1 Syria
Preview of 'Bizarre Foods':
Andrew visits Syria to explore some of the oldest civilizations on earth. Syria was a crossroads for trade routes between Asia and Europe. Andrew retraces some of those old routes, searching for experiences and foods that echo back to biblical times.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRAVEL Channel
Episode Details: Season 6 Episode 1
Episode Name: Syria
Andrew visits Syria to explore some of the oldest civilizations on earth. Syria was a crossroads for trade routes between Asia and Europe. Andrew retraces some of those old routes, searching for experiences and foods that echo back to biblical times.
Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRAVEL Channel
Episode Details: Season 6 Episode 1
Episode Name: Syria
No Ordinary Family Season 1 Episode 13 No Ordinary Detention
Preview of 'No Ordinary Family':
Jim's secret is put at risk when the police station is taken hostage; Stephanie and Kelly become suspicious of a human resources vice
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ABC Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 13
Episode Name: No Ordinary Detention
Jim's secret is put at risk when the police station is taken hostage; Stephanie and Kelly become suspicious of a human resources vice
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ABC Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 13
Episode Name: No Ordinary Detention
NCIS Season 8 Episode 12 Recruited
Preview of 'NCIS':
A petty officer's recruitment session at a college fair comes to a fatal end, prompting the NCIS team, accompanied by Dr. Mallard's predecessor, to solve his murder on the next episode of NCIS.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 8 Episode 12
Episode Name: Recruited
A petty officer's recruitment session at a college fair comes to a fatal end, prompting the NCIS team, accompanied by Dr. Mallard's predecessor, to solve his murder on the next episode of NCIS.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: CBS Channel
Episode Details: Season 8 Episode 12
Episode Name: Recruited
Olivia Wilde: 'We Don't Get to Eat' on Golden Globes Day
It ain't easy fitting into couture!
Before Olivia Wilde turned heads in a Marchesa ball gown at the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, the 26-year-old actress reveals she had to seriously watch what she ate.
"I had a banana and then a sandwich," the TRON: Legacy star told UsMagazine.com of her pre-show meal. "We don't get to eat, you know? We don't get to eat until tonight."
Once she took her seat at the annual awards show, Wilde says she was finally able to sneak a few bites -- provided the cameras weren't on her.
"You pick the random breadsticks in the middle of the table and then hope you're not called on stage to present when you have a breadstick in your mouth," she joked with reporters backstage.
So how did the actress -- who tied the knot in 2003 with filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, the son of an Italian prince -- choose her outfit for the star-studded fete?
"I love the dresses for so many reasons," she told Us. "I'm actually really comfortable. I like the way its kind of swept together. It's like a little cocoon."
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Before Olivia Wilde turned heads in a Marchesa ball gown at the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, the 26-year-old actress reveals she had to seriously watch what she ate.
"I had a banana and then a sandwich," the TRON: Legacy star told UsMagazine.com of her pre-show meal. "We don't get to eat, you know? We don't get to eat until tonight."
Once she took her seat at the annual awards show, Wilde says she was finally able to sneak a few bites -- provided the cameras weren't on her.
"You pick the random breadsticks in the middle of the table and then hope you're not called on stage to present when you have a breadstick in your mouth," she joked with reporters backstage.
So how did the actress -- who tied the knot in 2003 with filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, the son of an Italian prince -- choose her outfit for the star-studded fete?
"I love the dresses for so many reasons," she told Us. "I'm actually really comfortable. I like the way its kind of swept together. It's like a little cocoon."
Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly.
When Rome Ruled National Geographic Special Birth of Rome
Preview of 'When Rome Ruled':
Rome was the largest empire, the mightiest military force, the most advanced civilization on earth. But most of all, it was a place: a city. Though only traces remain, and most of its ruins lie buried beneath modern streets. Written here, in stone, is the story of the ancient Romans. Using new finds and new thinking the fragments are being pieced back together. These people took a swamp, and drained it. They perfected concrete the most versatile construction material on earth They quarried thousands of tons marble; They used it all to build the imperial capital; Centuries of innovation, endurance, and ambition. This is the story of the greatest city on earth.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name: Birth of Rome
Rome was the largest empire, the mightiest military force, the most advanced civilization on earth. But most of all, it was a place: a city. Though only traces remain, and most of its ruins lie buried beneath modern streets. Written here, in stone, is the story of the ancient Romans. Using new finds and new thinking the fragments are being pieced back together. These people took a swamp, and drained it. They perfected concrete the most versatile construction material on earth They quarried thousands of tons marble; They used it all to build the imperial capital; Centuries of innovation, endurance, and ambition. This is the story of the greatest city on earth.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NGC Channel
Episode Details: National Geographic Special
Episode Name: Birth of Rome
Life Unexpected Season 2 Episode 13 Affair Remembered
Preview of 'Life Unexpected':
TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE - Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) considers buying a house and planning a future with Emma (guest star Emma Caulfield), not realizing the devastating secret she is hiding about her romantic past with his father. Sensing that Eric (guest star Shaun Sipos) is once again pulling away from their relationship, Lux (Britt Robertson) plans a romantic dinner for the two of them, but is surprised when Baze and Cate (Shiri Appleby) show up at the door. Kerr Smith and Austin Basis also star. Howie Duetch directed the episode written by Liz Tigelaar & Taylor Hamra.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: The CW Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Affair Remembered
TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE - Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) considers buying a house and planning a future with Emma (guest star Emma Caulfield), not realizing the devastating secret she is hiding about her romantic past with his father. Sensing that Eric (guest star Shaun Sipos) is once again pulling away from their relationship, Lux (Britt Robertson) plans a romantic dinner for the two of them, but is surprised when Baze and Cate (Shiri Appleby) show up at the door. Kerr Smith and Austin Basis also star. Howie Duetch directed the episode written by Liz Tigelaar & Taylor Hamra.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: The CW Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 13
Episode Name: Affair Remembered
Life Unexpected Season 2 Episode 12 Teacher Schooled
Preview of 'Life Unexpected':
Baze considers a future with Emma, not realizing she has a secret about her romantic past; Lux plans a romantic dinner when she feels Eric pulling away from their relationship.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: The CW Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 12
Episode Name: Teacher Schooled
Baze considers a future with Emma, not realizing she has a secret about her romantic past; Lux plans a romantic dinner when she feels Eric pulling away from their relationship.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: The CW Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 12
Episode Name: Teacher Schooled
'Twilight' Star Talks Privacy, Money in Vogue
Kristen Stewart is living an atypical life for a 20-year-old.
Ever since she took on the role of Bella Swan in the "Twilight" films, she's crossed over into youth-idol status where emotions run high and she has zero privacy.
The actress says in the February issue of Vogue magazine that she can't go to a shopping mall and that it bothers her she can't be outside often.
Stewart is working on the final two films in the saga and says her wish is for the fans to be happy with the outcome.
Now that "Twilight" has made her a star, Stewart tells the magazine, she's trying to figure out what to do with the money she's made from her work. Stewart says it would be "amazing" to help fund halfway houses for people who need their kind of support.
Ever since she took on the role of Bella Swan in the "Twilight" films, she's crossed over into youth-idol status where emotions run high and she has zero privacy.
The actress says in the February issue of Vogue magazine that she can't go to a shopping mall and that it bothers her she can't be outside often.
Stewart is working on the final two films in the saga and says her wish is for the fans to be happy with the outcome.
Now that "Twilight" has made her a star, Stewart tells the magazine, she's trying to figure out what to do with the money she's made from her work. Stewart says it would be "amazing" to help fund halfway houses for people who need their kind of support.
I, Predator Season 1 Episode 2 Polar Bear Vs. Seal
Preview of 'I, Predator':
For eons, the polar bear has been engaged in the ultimate battle for survival with the evasive ringed seal.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ANIMAL PLANET Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Polar Bear Vs. Seal
For eons, the polar bear has been engaged in the ultimate battle for survival with the evasive ringed seal.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: ANIMAL PLANET Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Polar Bear Vs. Seal
Upset Fans of Lauryn Hill Walks Out During Concert
Lauryn Hill's long-awaited tour run hit another snag this weekend when upset fans walked out of the show last Friday.
Aside from showing up three hours late to the sold-out event, which was scheduled to begin at 9PM, the 35-year-old left her supporters 'confused' and 'underwhelmed' by declaring that she was tired of 'playing the same music night after night.' The former Fugees member performed remixes of some of her classics, while urging crowd participation.
"Nobody could participate because NOBODY knew the music!" a concert-goer told Sandrose.com. "Everybody was looking around like 'WHAT SONG IS THIS???'"
Fans also complained that Hill's band was too loud, thus drowning out her vocals. Fed-up with her antics, some audience members reportedly booed the multiple Grammy winner before leaving the venue early. "They didn't walk out - they stomped out!" emphasized the audience member.
Hill exhibited some of the same behavior during a performance at The Pageant Concert Nightclub in St. Louis on Sunday. Fans, already weary of her growing reputation for being late, waited patiently for her arrival, three hours after doors opened.
Once again announcing that she would be adding a new spin to some of her old music, Hill launched into performances of 'barely recognizable' versions of songs from her critically acclaimed 1998 release, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.' The show reportedly went on well passed 1AM, causing some audience members to leave the concert, while others stayed until the early morning.
Last month, Hill announced that she would partake on a 17-date tour, and has been racking up mostly negative reviews ever since. The singer was blasted by several news outlets for her kick-off performance at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, in which she showed up several hours late and made no apology for her tardiness, announcing that she was "worth the wait."
Unfortunately, this behavior is nothing new for Hill, who has been largely out of the spotlight in recent years, but appears to be making a comeback to the industry after taking time off to raise her five children with partner Rohan Marley. Despite her missteps, Hill continues to sell out venues and is slated to hit the stage at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry, in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
Aside from showing up three hours late to the sold-out event, which was scheduled to begin at 9PM, the 35-year-old left her supporters 'confused' and 'underwhelmed' by declaring that she was tired of 'playing the same music night after night.' The former Fugees member performed remixes of some of her classics, while urging crowd participation.
"Nobody could participate because NOBODY knew the music!" a concert-goer told Sandrose.com. "Everybody was looking around like 'WHAT SONG IS THIS???'"
Fans also complained that Hill's band was too loud, thus drowning out her vocals. Fed-up with her antics, some audience members reportedly booed the multiple Grammy winner before leaving the venue early. "They didn't walk out - they stomped out!" emphasized the audience member.
Hill exhibited some of the same behavior during a performance at The Pageant Concert Nightclub in St. Louis on Sunday. Fans, already weary of her growing reputation for being late, waited patiently for her arrival, three hours after doors opened.
Once again announcing that she would be adding a new spin to some of her old music, Hill launched into performances of 'barely recognizable' versions of songs from her critically acclaimed 1998 release, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.' The show reportedly went on well passed 1AM, causing some audience members to leave the concert, while others stayed until the early morning.
Last month, Hill announced that she would partake on a 17-date tour, and has been racking up mostly negative reviews ever since. The singer was blasted by several news outlets for her kick-off performance at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, in which she showed up several hours late and made no apology for her tardiness, announcing that she was "worth the wait."
Unfortunately, this behavior is nothing new for Hill, who has been largely out of the spotlight in recent years, but appears to be making a comeback to the industry after taking time off to raise her five children with partner Rohan Marley. Despite her missteps, Hill continues to sell out venues and is slated to hit the stage at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry, in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
MTV's 'Skins' Lays It Bare: Teenagers Can Be Very Scary
Imagine 'Gossip Girl' without the money and glamor, 'Degrassi' without the PG rating, 'Risky Business' as a TV series, or 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' for the Facebook era, and you'll have an idea of what to expect from 'Skins,' which debuted last night on MTV.
The show is an adaptation of a very controversial and successful British series with the same name. Set in Baltimore, 'Skins' follows a motley crew of high schoolers, who, on the surface, seem like unlikely friends. In typical form for these kinds of shows, each member of the group is so different -- the crazy dopehead girl, the cheerleading lesbian, the socially awkward geek, the reluctant Muslim -- that usually you'd be hard-pressed to believe such divergent personalities would be able to converse in the same language, let alone pal around. But somehow 'Skins' convinces us that these kids care about each other. Watch a 'Skins' character video of after the jump [warning: sexual tones and strong language]:.
'Skins' is essentially a classic sex romp -- the characters pursue a good time with reckless abandon. They want sex, parties and drugs and they'll climb out windows, make wagers involving public nudity and steal cars to get them. Despite the familiarity of the John Hughesian plot elements, there is a freshness in the re-telling that comes from the lack of explanation about why these kids do what they do.
That's not to say there isn't plenty of backstory. Mental illness, death, and broken homes are all on the slate, but instead of being treated with the usual OMFG drama, these elements are fairly sedately revealed.
They are as inevitable as the weather (which also turns up in this show. It's not always a sunny day, and it's amazing how much of an impression a few snowflakes in the first scene make. You suddenly realize how rarely shows set in the north ever suffer through winter.) If anything, we learn less about the characters from the scenes of their home life than we do from the way they go after pleasure, and this is definitely not an after-school special. It's more like 'Kids.' Imagine watching 'Kids' once a week.
The show is an adaptation of a very controversial and successful British series with the same name. Set in Baltimore, 'Skins' follows a motley crew of high schoolers, who, on the surface, seem like unlikely friends. In typical form for these kinds of shows, each member of the group is so different -- the crazy dopehead girl, the cheerleading lesbian, the socially awkward geek, the reluctant Muslim -- that usually you'd be hard-pressed to believe such divergent personalities would be able to converse in the same language, let alone pal around. But somehow 'Skins' convinces us that these kids care about each other. Watch a 'Skins' character video of after the jump [warning: sexual tones and strong language]:.
'Skins' is essentially a classic sex romp -- the characters pursue a good time with reckless abandon. They want sex, parties and drugs and they'll climb out windows, make wagers involving public nudity and steal cars to get them. Despite the familiarity of the John Hughesian plot elements, there is a freshness in the re-telling that comes from the lack of explanation about why these kids do what they do.
That's not to say there isn't plenty of backstory. Mental illness, death, and broken homes are all on the slate, but instead of being treated with the usual OMFG drama, these elements are fairly sedately revealed.
They are as inevitable as the weather (which also turns up in this show. It's not always a sunny day, and it's amazing how much of an impression a few snowflakes in the first scene make. You suddenly realize how rarely shows set in the north ever suffer through winter.) If anything, we learn less about the characters from the scenes of their home life than we do from the way they go after pleasure, and this is definitely not an after-school special. It's more like 'Kids.' Imagine watching 'Kids' once a week.
Understanding Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream: An Essay By Actor Michael Boatman
It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Jan. 18. It's 1989 and I've just walked onto the set of my first television gig, 'China Beach.' We're on Stage 9 at the Warner Brothers Studios lot, halfway through season two of the critically adored Vietnam series. I'm wearing a heavy black wool turtleneck sweater under my army fatigues; my hair is cut in a flat top, 'jarhead'-style.
I'm hot, I'm black and I'm angry. My friend and co-star Nancy Giles and I are the only African-American people on the set. At times like these it feels like we may be the only black people on the planet. Several of my white co-stars have just stopped whatever they were doing to turn and stare ... at me, respectfully, warily, as if waiting for me to sprout wings or say something meaningful: It's King Day, remember. Boatman's black; he must be feeling something, I feel them thinking. My response is automatic -- "What's everybody looking at?"
My co-stars look at me with compassion and turn away knowingly: "Must be a black thing." I have grown to love these people; our show is a hit and I just bought a house. But right now they're making feel like The Black Guy and it's getting on my nerves. See, it's not actually Martin Luther King Day; we're just about to shoot a very emotional scene in the episode entitled 'Promised Land.' The episode chronicles the reactions of my character, Sam Beckett and the reactions of the other characters at the China Beach medical unit in the immediate aftermath of King's assassination. The script is brilliant, filled with tense scenes and lots of mistrust and racial discord. Relationships are threatened; the status quo is temporarily up for grabs. My character, Beckett, is despondent and bereaved; angry at his white co-workers. They just don't seem to get it. And now, in real life, all my colleagues are looking at me with that awkward expectation, as if through me, they might understand something from the "Black Perspective" about these long-ago events.
The problem is ... I don't understand them myself.
And so I'm uncomfortable, and bothered by a single burning question that plagues me long after filming was done for the day: What am I missing here? I mean, I'm an American, right? You guys accept me and realize that I'm just me ... right? But in all honesty, I was relieved when that episode wrapped and we moved on to the next one. The pressure was off. I could go back to being just Michael. Not the Black Actor. But I was still left with that nagging certainty that I was missing something. I didn't understand the power and the import of King's legacy then. I, like many others, was merely the beneficiary of it. He was a hero. I got that. He died for a cause bigger than himself. Check. He was a good man who fought for a dream and never lived to see its fruition. Okay. But why did it seem less like something that directly affected my life and more like ... history?
Twenty-two years later ... I get it. I'm older, more seasoned, and arguably just a little wiser. I understand the world and its joys and its dangers, certainly more than that 23-year-old young actor ever could. More importantly, I'm a husband, and a father. The impact of King's legacy struck home to me sometime soon after the birth of my first child. When I suddenly realized that my life wasn't just about me anymore. King was also a husband, and a father, the spiritual leader of millions of weary, frightened and hopeful human beings. Unlike me at 23, he understood the potential consequences of dreams. He knew what he had to lose by standing up for what he knew was right and he did it anyway. With an adult's full knowledge that he could be murdered, his home and family destroyed, he pressed forward against a stiffening wind of hatred, buoyed by a rising tide of expanding consciousness. Sometimes I wonder if he ever felt as if he had a choice. He could have stepped down, taken his family and faded into anonymity; let another charismatic preacher meet the firestorm he surely sensed building just over the horizon. He could have retired into ministry. He could have written books. (He was a brilliant writer.) He could have moved into academia. King had done more to propel the Civil Rights movement than anyone else. He could have stepped aside and lived the life he so richly deserved.
But he didn't.
His courage humbles me today. I don't know any cause other than the lives and safety of my wife and children that would inspire me to lay down my life. In fact, it's because of them I find King's courage even more daunting: How could he move forward knowing that in doing so, he would probably lose everything? I feel passionately about many issues -- the environment, animal cruelty, man's enduring inhumanity to man -- but how far would I be willing to go to defend my beliefs? When threatened with death, lynching and the possible murder of my family, as Martin Luther King was, how far would I continue before packing it in, pulling up stakes and changing direction? Part of me hopes that, if faced with such choices, I would have his courage. Another part of me knows that my family, my children, are the most important part of my life, and that I could never leave them of my own free will. But King obviously felt the same way about his family ... and he moved forward, inspiring the minds and hearts of the world with visions of a promised land, a better place that, with courage and simple human compassion, awaited every one of us just over the horizon. He gently pointed the way to that better future in the face of certain death, knowing that he would never live to set foot there.
Recently, while watching 'The Lord of the Rings' movies, I was struck by the scenes where the characters encounter those massive, ancient statues; gigantic human figures, carved in marble and dedicated to long dead titans of J.R.R. Tolkien's bygone Middle Earth. Watching those eerie scenes, I wondered, "To whom would we build such monuments today?" I remember the Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, the Vietnam Memorial and all the memorial works in Washington D.C., and I answer the question easily: I would build a mile-high statue to Martin Luther King, Jr., because his accomplishments still resonate today, his legacy unfolding all around us, pointing us toward an unknowable, but hopefully better future.
Like Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson, King's vision of a better America actually helped create a better America; an America filled with problems, yes, but also one filled with promise, with equality -- what America was supposed to be all about. And if anyone out there looks at the state of current events and believes that America's Jim Crow/Post Slavery past was some kind of golden era, my stock answer is that it was only 'Golden' for a select few, and nearly everybody else -- blacks, Native Americans, minorities, women -- got the brass. Yes, there are many dragons still to be slain, and most of them wear the face of corporate hegemony rather than a white hood, but the idea that one courageous man could inspire courage in so many to stand up for our shared humanity even while his own was constantly assaulted and ultimately stolen is, at the core, what makes King's legacy so enduring. He touched a deep place in the communal consciousness. Using non-violence, compassion and his understanding of the true nature of the human spirit, he overcame centuries of institutionalized hatred and elevated the world's conscience.
King was mortal, a man with strengths and weaknesses in equal measure. He loved his wife, and adored his children as much as I love mine. Yet he stood upon the world stage and willingly sacrificed all of it, for the simple, complex hope that his descendants, and yours and mine, might live in that Promised Land to which we all aspire: an America, and a world, where men and women and children are truly created equal. When I was 23 years old, single and immortal, I didn't understand King's greatest legacy. I didn't understand how a man could give up one kind of dream for the hope of a better one he would never live to see. I know better now. As the years year go by and the world gets better and worse, I finally get it. I'm building that statue higher every day. His greatest legacy was the vision he exemplified.
And the courage to believe compassion could change the world.
I'm hot, I'm black and I'm angry. My friend and co-star Nancy Giles and I are the only African-American people on the set. At times like these it feels like we may be the only black people on the planet. Several of my white co-stars have just stopped whatever they were doing to turn and stare ... at me, respectfully, warily, as if waiting for me to sprout wings or say something meaningful: It's King Day, remember. Boatman's black; he must be feeling something, I feel them thinking. My response is automatic -- "What's everybody looking at?"
My co-stars look at me with compassion and turn away knowingly: "Must be a black thing." I have grown to love these people; our show is a hit and I just bought a house. But right now they're making feel like The Black Guy and it's getting on my nerves. See, it's not actually Martin Luther King Day; we're just about to shoot a very emotional scene in the episode entitled 'Promised Land.' The episode chronicles the reactions of my character, Sam Beckett and the reactions of the other characters at the China Beach medical unit in the immediate aftermath of King's assassination. The script is brilliant, filled with tense scenes and lots of mistrust and racial discord. Relationships are threatened; the status quo is temporarily up for grabs. My character, Beckett, is despondent and bereaved; angry at his white co-workers. They just don't seem to get it. And now, in real life, all my colleagues are looking at me with that awkward expectation, as if through me, they might understand something from the "Black Perspective" about these long-ago events.
The problem is ... I don't understand them myself.
And so I'm uncomfortable, and bothered by a single burning question that plagues me long after filming was done for the day: What am I missing here? I mean, I'm an American, right? You guys accept me and realize that I'm just me ... right? But in all honesty, I was relieved when that episode wrapped and we moved on to the next one. The pressure was off. I could go back to being just Michael. Not the Black Actor. But I was still left with that nagging certainty that I was missing something. I didn't understand the power and the import of King's legacy then. I, like many others, was merely the beneficiary of it. He was a hero. I got that. He died for a cause bigger than himself. Check. He was a good man who fought for a dream and never lived to see its fruition. Okay. But why did it seem less like something that directly affected my life and more like ... history?
Twenty-two years later ... I get it. I'm older, more seasoned, and arguably just a little wiser. I understand the world and its joys and its dangers, certainly more than that 23-year-old young actor ever could. More importantly, I'm a husband, and a father. The impact of King's legacy struck home to me sometime soon after the birth of my first child. When I suddenly realized that my life wasn't just about me anymore. King was also a husband, and a father, the spiritual leader of millions of weary, frightened and hopeful human beings. Unlike me at 23, he understood the potential consequences of dreams. He knew what he had to lose by standing up for what he knew was right and he did it anyway. With an adult's full knowledge that he could be murdered, his home and family destroyed, he pressed forward against a stiffening wind of hatred, buoyed by a rising tide of expanding consciousness. Sometimes I wonder if he ever felt as if he had a choice. He could have stepped down, taken his family and faded into anonymity; let another charismatic preacher meet the firestorm he surely sensed building just over the horizon. He could have retired into ministry. He could have written books. (He was a brilliant writer.) He could have moved into academia. King had done more to propel the Civil Rights movement than anyone else. He could have stepped aside and lived the life he so richly deserved.
But he didn't.
His courage humbles me today. I don't know any cause other than the lives and safety of my wife and children that would inspire me to lay down my life. In fact, it's because of them I find King's courage even more daunting: How could he move forward knowing that in doing so, he would probably lose everything? I feel passionately about many issues -- the environment, animal cruelty, man's enduring inhumanity to man -- but how far would I be willing to go to defend my beliefs? When threatened with death, lynching and the possible murder of my family, as Martin Luther King was, how far would I continue before packing it in, pulling up stakes and changing direction? Part of me hopes that, if faced with such choices, I would have his courage. Another part of me knows that my family, my children, are the most important part of my life, and that I could never leave them of my own free will. But King obviously felt the same way about his family ... and he moved forward, inspiring the minds and hearts of the world with visions of a promised land, a better place that, with courage and simple human compassion, awaited every one of us just over the horizon. He gently pointed the way to that better future in the face of certain death, knowing that he would never live to set foot there.
Recently, while watching 'The Lord of the Rings' movies, I was struck by the scenes where the characters encounter those massive, ancient statues; gigantic human figures, carved in marble and dedicated to long dead titans of J.R.R. Tolkien's bygone Middle Earth. Watching those eerie scenes, I wondered, "To whom would we build such monuments today?" I remember the Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, the Vietnam Memorial and all the memorial works in Washington D.C., and I answer the question easily: I would build a mile-high statue to Martin Luther King, Jr., because his accomplishments still resonate today, his legacy unfolding all around us, pointing us toward an unknowable, but hopefully better future.
Like Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson, King's vision of a better America actually helped create a better America; an America filled with problems, yes, but also one filled with promise, with equality -- what America was supposed to be all about. And if anyone out there looks at the state of current events and believes that America's Jim Crow/Post Slavery past was some kind of golden era, my stock answer is that it was only 'Golden' for a select few, and nearly everybody else -- blacks, Native Americans, minorities, women -- got the brass. Yes, there are many dragons still to be slain, and most of them wear the face of corporate hegemony rather than a white hood, but the idea that one courageous man could inspire courage in so many to stand up for our shared humanity even while his own was constantly assaulted and ultimately stolen is, at the core, what makes King's legacy so enduring. He touched a deep place in the communal consciousness. Using non-violence, compassion and his understanding of the true nature of the human spirit, he overcame centuries of institutionalized hatred and elevated the world's conscience.
King was mortal, a man with strengths and weaknesses in equal measure. He loved his wife, and adored his children as much as I love mine. Yet he stood upon the world stage and willingly sacrificed all of it, for the simple, complex hope that his descendants, and yours and mine, might live in that Promised Land to which we all aspire: an America, and a world, where men and women and children are truly created equal. When I was 23 years old, single and immortal, I didn't understand King's greatest legacy. I didn't understand how a man could give up one kind of dream for the hope of a better one he would never live to see. I know better now. As the years year go by and the world gets better and worse, I finally get it. I'm building that statue higher every day. His greatest legacy was the vision he exemplified.
And the courage to believe compassion could change the world.
The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 3
Preview of 'The Biggest Loser':
The unknown trainers are revealed and share their personal stories; two contestants compete for a two-pound advantage at the weigh-in; a water-carrying challenge.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NBC Channel
Episode Details: Season 11 Episode 3
Episode Name: EPISODE: 3
The unknown trainers are revealed and share their personal stories; two contestants compete for a two-pound advantage at the weigh-in; a water-carrying challenge.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: NBC Channel
Episode Details: Season 11 Episode 3
Episode Name: EPISODE: 3
PitchMen Season 2 Episode 3 Bear Market
Preview of 'PitchMen':
Inventors gamble everything on a revolutionary razor. A man creates a snack food safe that puts Sully on a closed set with a hungry Grizzly. And celebrity DJ Kennedy pitches her friend Dr. Drew Pinsky an invention designed to keep prescription drugs safe.
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 3
Episode Name: Bear Market
Inventors gamble everything on a revolutionary razor. A man creates a snack food safe that puts Sully on a closed set with a hungry Grizzly. And celebrity DJ Kennedy pitches her friend Dr. Drew Pinsky an invention designed to keep prescription drugs safe.
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: DISCOVERY Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 3
Episode Name: Bear Market
Forbidden Storage TRUTV Special
Preview of 'Forbidden Storage':
Forbidden Storage is a show featuring public auction storage sales. If you don't pay your bill your possessions are seized and get auctioned off to the highest bidder. You can get a bin worth thousands or a pile of crap. From amazing to forbidden, to stuff you don't want to touch. With big money on the line, it's every man for himself.
Airing Details: 11:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRUTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: TRUTV Special
Forbidden Storage is a show featuring public auction storage sales. If you don't pay your bill your possessions are seized and get auctioned off to the highest bidder. You can get a bin worth thousands or a pile of crap. From amazing to forbidden, to stuff you don't want to touch. With big money on the line, it's every man for himself.
Airing Details: 11:00 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: TRUTV Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: TRUTV Special
Mark Ruffalo Wants Academy Voters to 'Grow A Pair'
Mark Ruffalo is up in arms over last night's Golden Globes, but Ricky Gervais isn't the one to blame.
Even though Ruffalo's movie 'The Kids Are All Right' won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy, Reuters reports that the actor is none too pleased the film's female director Lisa Cholodenko, and all other female directors, were shut out of the Directors Guild feature film nominations.
"I would just like to say to the (motion picture) academy members: why don't you grow a pair and vote for Lisa Cholodenko as well!" Ruffalo said backstage.
Ruffalo's costar Annette Bening, who won a Golden Globe for best performance in a comedy, agreed.
"I thought [Cholodenko] deserved all those nominations as well," she said. "Very often, good directors aren't calling attention to themselves in their filmmaking. Oftentimes, they're less recognized by because of that."
Even though Ruffalo's movie 'The Kids Are All Right' won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy, Reuters reports that the actor is none too pleased the film's female director Lisa Cholodenko, and all other female directors, were shut out of the Directors Guild feature film nominations.
"I would just like to say to the (motion picture) academy members: why don't you grow a pair and vote for Lisa Cholodenko as well!" Ruffalo said backstage.
Ruffalo's costar Annette Bening, who won a Golden Globe for best performance in a comedy, agreed.
"I thought [Cholodenko] deserved all those nominations as well," she said. "Very often, good directors aren't calling attention to themselves in their filmmaking. Oftentimes, they're less recognized by because of that."
The Comics Choice Awards Season 1 Episode 3
Preview of 'The Comics Choice Awards':
In the lead up to The British Comedy Awards Jo Brand talks to Bill Bailey about who she thinks deserves to win an award and reveals her all-time comedy heroes and inspirations.
Airing Details: 11:10 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: Channel 4
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: EPISODE:3
In the lead up to The British Comedy Awards Jo Brand talks to Bill Bailey about who she thinks deserves to win an award and reveals her all-time comedy heroes and inspirations.
Airing Details: 11:10 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: Channel 4
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: EPISODE:3
Coming Of Age Season 3 Episode 1 Kissy Woo!
Preview of 'Coming Of Age':
We're back at Wooten College and things are right where we left off. DK is still doing everything in his power to aggravate Mr De Wilde and Ollie and Jas are still separated, though not for long if Ollie has anything to do with it.
Matt has made a new friend, Robyn Crisp, who he spends all his time with. However, Chloe is in for a shock when she finally meets them. How will she and the rest of the gang take to a new addition to their friendship group?
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BBC THREE Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 1
Episode Name: Kissy Woo!
We're back at Wooten College and things are right where we left off. DK is still doing everything in his power to aggravate Mr De Wilde and Ollie and Jas are still separated, though not for long if Ollie has anything to do with it.
Matt has made a new friend, Robyn Crisp, who he spends all his time with. However, Chloe is in for a shock when she finally meets them. How will she and the rest of the gang take to a new addition to their friendship group?
Airing Details: 10:30 PM on January 18th, 2011 - Tuesday
Channel: BBC THREE Channel
Episode Details: Season 3 Episode 1
Episode Name: Kissy Woo!
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