Steel Pulse Does Doheny Days
Sacks On Smack
Bitches Door
Holy Sh!t. Tony Scott Gone.
Director Tony Scott Commits Suicide – Jumps Off L.A. Bridge
BREAKING NEWS
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Osburn said a suicide note was found in Scott’s Toyota Prius, which was parked on one of the eastbound lanes of the bridge.
Scott directed such films as “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop II,” “Enemy of the State,” and “The Taking of Pelham 123.”
Shots of Come Hither
The Pussy Heard ’round The World
Pussy riot trial: ‘We are representatives of our generation’
As three members of the Russian punk band await a verdict, we examine how they managed to find themselves in the dock
By Miriam Elder in Moscow
They have targeted some of Moscow’s most well-secured sites with their flash concerts – the metro, a jail, Red Square – but it was a 40-second performance inside Russia‘s official church that proved a step too far for a system increasingly intolerant of dissent.
“We are representatives of our generation,” Maria Alyokhina told the court in an opening statement that reads like a manifesto, as Pussy Riot went on trial on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. “It is important for me to understand whether the church is growing along with society or whether it remains a conservative institution. In the search for an answer, I did not expect a repressive and inquisition-like reaction.”
Pussy Riot formed as an anonymous feminist punk collective in October 2010, in the weeks after Putin’s declaration that he would return to the presidency after four years as prime minister. He had stepped down because the constitution did not allow more than two consecutive terms as president. His formal return, although expected, sent a wave of anger through segments of Russian society. Some began to refer to him as Tsar; others used the word “authoritarian”.
The women of Pussy Riot, students and graduates of some of Moscow’s most prestigious schools, were among that number.
“A lot of us couldn’t sleep after this announcement,” a member of the band, who identified herself as Tyurya, told the Guardian during a rare interview early this year. “We felt such anger because of this rudeness, this arrogance towards citizens. So we decided, damn it, we need to do something.”
LORE: I live the life of a general at war.
An extraterrestrial interview with ‘Rise of Nine’ author Pittacus Lore — EXCLUSIVE
by Stephan Lee
When Lorien elder Pittacus Lore called me earlier this week, I had a hard time understanding him at first. Of course it was due to the voice-changer he was using to hide his identity, as he is in the midst of a high-stakes, intergalactic battle against the Mogadorians. At great personal risk, Lore spoke to EW about his new book Rise of Nine (Aug. 21) in the Lorien Legacies series. He also shared his thoughts on the I Am Number Four movie and what Loriens like to read and watch. Also read on for news of Lore’s possible book signing appearances in the future.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Your books have been widely read since I Am Number Four. Are you loving the author’s life?
PITTACUS LORE: I don’t live an author’s life. I live the life of a general at war. While I have been writing the books during moments of peace, my full-time job is hunting and killing Mogadorians. That being said, I appreciate all the support we have gotten from readers around the world.
Have you enjoyed interacting with earthling readers?
Yes I have. I interact with them online every day and occasionally I show up at events though none of them know I am actually Pittacus Lore. Readers of Earth have been great to me and to the other Loriens here on Earth.
What can we expect from Rise of Nine?
Rise of Nine starts more or less where the Power of Six ends. Number 4 and Number 6 are trying to find the other Lorien on Earth. They are both wounded and have both fought massive battles. They are trying to find their brothers and sisters so that they can end the reign of terror brought on by the Mogadorians.
iSoda? (or, The Geekiest Dumb Thief Ever)
from The San Jose Mercury News
Steve Jobs home burglary suspect accused of stealing wallet, driver’s license, special computers with house key
By Mike Rosenberg and Jason Green / Staff writers / © Copyright 2012, Bay Area News Group
PALO ALTO — Detectives say Kariem McFarlin told them he was desperate for easy cash when he saw the Palo Alto home being renovated, hopped over the fence, found a spare key and went inside. No lights, no alarm, no one home. Then he discovered what hallowed ground he was on: the home of the iconic late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.
Alone and with free rein of a house belonging to one of the richest and most secretive families on the planet, McFarlin made off with some of the legendary gadgets Jobs helped create, police said in a report released Tuesday, one month after a break-in just now being publicized. He grabbed iPhones, iPads, Macs and iPods, then found Jobs’ wallet — with a single dollar inside — and, perhaps most shockingly of all, took his driver’s license.
Police said he also snatched $60,000 worth of Tiffany & Co. jewelry and Cristal Champagne, and even took a soda-maker and kitchen blender.
Horshack Gone
Ron Palillo Dies at 63; Played Horshack on TV
ABC, via Photofest
By PAUL VITELLO
Ron Palillo, who portrayed the goofy high school underachiever Arnold Horshack in the hit 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter” with such definitive oddballness that he had trouble for years afterward finding work as an actor, died on Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 63.
“I know him, love what he does, not right for the part,” Mr. Palillo said in a 1997 newspaper interview, repeating what he said was the mantra of every casting director he met after his years on “Kotter,” which was on ABC from 1975 to 1979. “Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.”
Welcome Back, Kotter” starred Gabe Kaplan as a high school teacher returning to his alma mater in Brooklyn to take over an unruly class of remedial students known collectively as the Sweathogs (because their top-floor classroom was always hot). The Sweathogs were Vinnie Barbarino (played by John Travolta), Freddie Washington (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes) and Horshack, to whom Mr. Palillo imparted two trademarks: a braying laugh that sounded like a DisposAll with a utensil caught in it, and a wild waving of his hand to answer Mr. Kotter (usually wrongly) while grunting: “Ooh, ooh, Mista Kahta! Mista Kahta!”
Helen Gurley Brown Gone
Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies
By Ray A. Smith
Getty Images
Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of fashion magazine Cosmopolitan whose frank, modern attitudes about women and sex brought her fans and simultaneously made her a lightning rod, died Monday after a brief hospitalization in New York, according to a press release issued by Hearst Corporation. She was 90.
With her landmark 1962 bestseller “Sex and the Single Girl” and her stewardship of “Cosmopolitan,” from 1965 to 1997, she opened up conversations about sexuality at a time when female empowerment was a growing topic of discussion and debate. The magazine offered style tips as well as sex tips that were far from coy.
The magazine wasn’t shy about showing skin. One of its most famous photo spreads featured a nude Burt Reynolds with his privates strategically covered.
JFrey
Odd Couple Alert: James Frey Weighs In On His Weird JWoww Pairing
In last Thursday’s Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen, and the kooky Bravo powers that be put together a bizarre guest duo that seemed straight out of a strange, humorous trip. Yes, we’re talking about A Million Little Pieces author James Frey (NB: We loved the book despite the controversy) andJersey Shore starlet JWoww.
What ensued was definite food for thought — Frey seemed a bit shy (though he dished on Oprah’s smell — “awesomeness”), and Jenni not at all (surprise, surprise, she even knew who he was!). Plus, there was the unexpected-but-cool revelation that Frey is, as Cohen so subtly puts it, “a sex symbol.” Duly intrigued, we hit up Mr. Frey for more elevated dirt on Jenni Farley, reality TV in general, and, of course, Andy Cohen. Read what happens (sorry, we had to) in our exclusive interview below.
Are you a reality TV fan? If so, what shows are your guilty pleasures?
“Real Housewives of New York, Miss Advised, Million Dollar Listing. I love The Bachelor and Bachelor Pad. Still watch Survivor.”
What’s your take on Andy Cohen and Bravo and the whole movement to turn reality stars and housewives into full-fledged phenomenons?
“He’s an incredibly smart dude. He was a visionary in seeing the future of reality TV and basically creating it. Bravo makes the best shows, creates the most hype, has the best brand. That is in large part because of Andy. I have a huge amount of respect for him.”
What did you think when you were asked to be on the show?
“I laughed and said, ‘What time should I be there?'”
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke
with thanks to David W. and Kat S.
The Hokey Pokey By Jeff Brechlin O proud left foot, that ventures quick within |
Marvin Hamlisch Gone
Marvin Hamlisch, Composed ‘The Way We Were,’ Dies at 68
Composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, best known for the torch song “The Way We Were,” died Monday. He was 68 years old.
In a career that spanned over four decades, Hamlisch won virtually every major award: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden Globes.
Hamlisch composed more than forty motion picture scores, including his Oscar-winning score and song for “The Way We Were,” and his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s ragtime music for “The Sting,” for which he received a third Oscar.
Hamlisch’s musical scores, though intricately conceived, never drew attention to themselves. They served to compliment the on-screen action, not overwhelm it — enhancing each gesture, each glance, each moment of drama. That subtle approach allowed him to be something of a musical chameleon, easily gliding from searing dramas to off-beat comedies and making him a close collaborator to a diverse group of directors such as Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh and Alan J. Pakula.
THE RISE OF NINE – Book Trailer
Karl Taro Greenfield’s TRIBURBIA
Karl Taro Greenfeld’s novel ‘Triburbia’ tells how artistic Tribeca fell prey to wealthy Wall Street types
Story centers on a group of fathers who meet for coffee, and some of them seem to resemble real Tribeca denizens
BY SHERRYL CONNELLY / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BRYAN SMITH/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The new novel “Triburbia” maps an intersection in time in Tribeca. It’s 2008, and the creative types who’d claimed the nabe from actual artists watch as the hedge fund millionaires invade. In a shaky economy, the holdouts from an earlier era have only their cultural pretensions to protect them.
“The bankers and lawyers here now don’t even pretend to care about theater and literature,” says author Karl Taro Greenfeld, who lives at Warren St. and West Broadway. “The people they’re replacing at least fancied themselves as being part of the creative class.”
Greenfeld’s story centers on a group of fathers who form a coffee klatsch that meets mornings at Socrates, the now-shuttered Greek diner on Hudson St. The cast includes a sound engineer with his own business, a sculptor supported by his wife, a one-hit playwright, a film producer seemingly always between projects, a best-selling memoirist exposed as a fraud and, oh, a gangster.
It’s hardly an affectionate portrait of the neighbors, though it is funny. Does Greenfeld expect any blowback from, say, the actual coffee klatsch of fathers he meets with many mornings? Or chef David Bouley or memoirist James Frey, both of whom are figures in the neighborhood?
“No, no,” he says hastily.
“These aren’t their stories. Though Frey does live in Tribeca.”
The Guardian Tracks Down Lore
Oprah’s Smell of Awesomeness
Robot Food
I’m Sick of Robot Food
3:00 PM AUGUST 1, 2012 by Jason Kessler
(Credit: Erik S. Peterson)
HEY! Have you seen the mashed potato dispenser from that 7-11 in Singapore ??? OH. MY. GOSH. It’s incredible! It’s innovative! It’s… disgusting. Seriously. Mashed potatoes from what’s essentially a modified espresso machine? To borrow a colorful Valley Girl phrase from the 80s, “gag me with a spoon.” Actually, gag me with anything–as long as it’s not 7-11’s mashed potatoes. Are we so desperate for food that’s convenient that we’re willing to ignore the fact that mashed potatoes should not dribble out of a nozzle? Apparently so.
Gore Vidal Gone
Remembering Gore Vidal
Jon Wiener on August 1, 2012 – 1:36 AM ET
Gore Vidal. (AP Photo/file)
Victor Navasky tells one of the most revealing stories about Gore Vidal, who died July 31 in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1986, Gore wrote an essay for the magazine’s 120th anniversary issue. Shortly after it was published, Victor was invited to lunch by the publisher of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione, at his East Side townhouse, famous for its $200 million art collection. “We had barely consumed the amuse gueules when Bob asked me how much it cost to get Gore Vidal to write his essay,” Victor recalled. “When I told him we had paid each contributor to that issue $25 and Gore got the same $25 that everyone else got, he almost choked on his Chateau Margaux and told me he had offered Vidal $50,000 to write an article forPenthouse and Vidal declined.”
Gore, who had accepted Victor’s invitation to join the magazine in 1981 as a contributing editor, published forty-one articles in The Nation at those rates. Some of his most memorable quotes appeared in The Nation: “We are the United States of Amnesia,” he wrote in 2004. “We learn nothing because we remember nothing.” In that same essay he called the US a place where “the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.”
Koons on Colbert and Art as Transponder
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A low end so corrosive that it could only be the sound of pop eating itself…
The 30 Greatest Dubstep Songs of All Time
5. Skrillex – “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” (2010)
At 92 million YouTube plays and counting, dubstep’s Godzilla stomp doesn’t get any bigger than this yowling chainsaw rocker from former emocore-scene kid Sonny Moore turned EDM “it” boy Skrillex. Sampling a silly YouTube clip for the tune’s trademark “Oh my gosh!” ejaculation, he pushed dubstep viral, combining candy-colored carnival synths with a low end so corrosive that it could only be the sound of pop eating itself. P.S.
Dr. Quantum and The Double Slit
Fearless Felix
SKYDIVER FEARLESS FELIX JUMPS FROM 18 MILES UP
BY MARCIA DUNN
AP AEROSPACE WRITER
Skydiver “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner has done it again.
On Wednesday, Baumgartner took another stratospheric leap, this time from an altitude of more than 18 miles – an estimated 96,640 feet, nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. He landed safely near Roswell, N.M. His top speed was an estimated 536 mph, said Brian Utley, an official observer on site.
It’s the second test jump for Baumgartner from such extreme heights and a personal best. He’s aiming for a record-breaking jump from 125,000 feet, or 23 miles, in another month. He hopes to go supersonic then, breaking the speed of sound with just his body.
“It has always been a dream of mine,” Baumgartner said….
Post-It Arcade
Franz West Gone
Franz West, Austrian Sculptor Who Embraced Participation, Play and Design, Dies at 65
By Andrew Russeth – 7/26 10:15am
Franz West, the Austrian artist whose sculptures opened the medium to both bizarre and quotidian forms of participation and pushed it into the realm of design, becoming one of his era’s most influential artists, died in Vienna at the Vienna General Hospital. He was 65, and had been ill for some time.
Entering the art world in Vienna in the mid-1960s, Mr. West quickly moved from the dominant avant-garde mode of the time, performance-heavy Actionism, to a focus on sculpture that was playful and often nonsensical. It was open to play and hands-on manipulation, rather than standing apart as an object of contemplation.
His Passstücke sculptures, or Adaptives, which debuted in the early 1970s, were modestly sized pieces of plaster, often with metal handles that people could hold and swing, their unusual shape and weight distribution causing their operators to move in odd ways. Their break from the violent seriousness of Viennese Actionism was dramatic. As Dan Fox put it in Frieze in 2001.”West’s work can be read as a kind of anti-Aktionism—quiet performance freed from the Sturm und Drang of your Mühls and Nitschs.”
Ooh la la Laurent!
A City Farmer, A Chef & A Host
About the Event
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Number of Dinner Locations: 11
Number of Dinner Guests: 12-25 per location
Dinner Locations: Private homes and meaningful food spaces
Dinner Preferences: Guests choose their top three preferences when purchasing a ticket. Event organizers will do their best to match guests to their top dinner choice.
Tickets: $500 per person
Dinner 1:
City Farmer: Maggie Cheney, EcoStation:NY
Chef: Jeremy Bearman, Rouge Tomate
Host: The home of Amy and Curt Middleton on the Upper West Side
Co-host: James Frey, Author
Ridiculously, irredeemably bad.
Truly Priceless Rauschenberg Valued At $29 Million
Art’s Sale Value? Zero. The Tax Bill? $29 Million.
What is the fair market value of an object that cannot be sold?
The question may sound like a Zen koan, but it is one that lawyers for the heirs of the New York art dealer Ileana Sonnabend and the Internal Revenue Service are set to debate when they meet in Washington next month.
The object under discussion is “Canyon,” a masterwork of 20th-century art created by Robert Rauschenberg that Mrs. Sonnabend’s children inherited when she died in 2007.
Because the work, a sculptural combine, includes a stuffed bald eagle, a bird under federal protection, the heirs would be committing a felony if they ever tried to sell it. So their appraisers have valued the work at zero.
But the Internal Revenue Service takes a different view. It has appraised “Canyon” at $65 million and is demanding that the owners pay $29.2 million in taxes.
Pecan-Wood Smoked Pork Loin Sandwich With Sweet Peaches and Barbecue Sauce
Pecan-Wood Smoked Pork Loin Sandwich With Sweet Peaches and Barbecue Sauce
from Bryan’s Black Mountain Barbecue
For pork:
3 pounds boneless pork loin roast
2 tablespoons Bryan’s Black Mountain, or favorite, spice rub
For peaches:
4 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons spiced rum
2 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
For sandwich:
4 rolls, sliced in half
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup Bryan’s Black Mountain, or favorite, barbecue sauce
To smoke pork, season loin with spice rub. Cook at 225 degrees in a smoker over pecan wood for about 3 hours or until pork reaches an internal temperature of 150 degrees. Remove and allow to rest about 5 minutes before slicing into thin pieces. Cover and keep warm.