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For example, “The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr. Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.” Some of it was just bizarre: “When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.” People didn’t know what to make of it. Was it satire or someone’s real list of random life advice? It was mostly unclear because it seems that men get this kind of specific advice all the time. A popular version of this was put out a few years ago by the Twitter sensation @gselevator, an account that purports to report what’s overheard in the elevators at Goldman Sachs. The list, which is called “The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man,” was a viral hit and included pieces of advice such as “Tip more than you should” and “If you are wittier than you are handsome, avoid loud clubs” — the antithesis of the sort of advice doled out to women. Advice for women, on the other hand, is often vague (“lean in!”) or too obvious (“try hard”). When Michelle Obama advised college girls last week to focus on their studies and not on boys, there were probably at least some eye-rolls in the room. What girl hasn’t heard that her education should come first? With women outnumbering men in college by nearly 20 percent, that message has been received. Maybe women are less open to hearing life advice than men are. A woman’s magazine that printed the message “if you are wittier than you are pretty, avoid loud clubs” would get some serious pushback for implying that any woman, anywhere, could be unattractive. The message of “be yourself” is pushed to women much harder than to men and many take “be yourself” to mean you’re perfect as you are. Well . . . you’re not. Here are five tips to being a better, happier woman. 1) Work at being interesting. Limit how much filler conversation you have. Women love to share, which is fine, but so much of the sharing that women do is banal, unfunny rundowns of their day. We’ve all been stuck behind the annoying woman on line at Duane Reade, we’ve all waited too long on the platform for the train. No one needs to hear your version of an everyday annoyance. Not everything needs to be verbalized. Talk less, say more. 2) Don’t settle. Most of the advice that women get in women’s magazines is about men. How to land one, how to keep one, what to do with him once he’s yours. There’s a lot of fearmongering about finding the “right one” in time. Sure, it might be nice to get married at 25 to your college sweetheart, who is clearly “the one.” And for some people, that will lead to a long, happy marriage. But don’t settle for someone because it’s easy. Settling leads to bitterness for everyone involved. This is your only life (probably) — don’t spend it with someone “good enough.” 3) If you’re over 18, the “just rolled out of bed” look is no longer adorable. It wasn’t even that cute when you were younger. Take some pride in your appearance, dress properly for the occasion. Some of your jeans should be sans holes. 4) Don’t take everything so personally. Not everything is about you. Actually, almost nothing is about you. People don’t think of you nearly as much as you imagine. Live your life; don’t get wrapped up in petty grievances. 5) Be yourself. I know, I mocked being “yourself” above. But like what you like and don’t like what you don’t like. Have your own opinions and be able to defend them as needed. Women aren’t all the same. There isn’t actually a sisterhood of women who all behave and think in the same way — and thank goodness for that. Don’t try to fit in. One more thing: Don’t listen to Brian Lombardi. Your modern man doesn’t have to know your shoe size lest he commit the felony of a straight man trying to buy his woman shoes. Buy your own shoes. And, oh yeah: It’s OK if your man drinks Mountain Dew. 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Attorney Rod Thompson, who is African-American, made the comments to The Santa Fe New Mexican after a status hearing before Magistrate Judge Donita Sena. Thompson’s client, Christian Englander, who is white, is facing charges of disturbing the peace and battery after the fruit-throwing incident in March. Englander had acknowledged throwing a peel from a banana he had eaten earlier because he took offense to jokes Chappelle, who is African-American, made about his companion, according to police. The friend reportedly was drawing in a sketchbook during the show when Chappelle noticed and asked the man his name, which he gave as “Johnny Appleseed.” Chappelle then made jokes about the moniker, and police say that’s why Englander got upset. At the time, Chappelle’s agent declined to comment on the situation. Prosecutors haven’t found any other witnesses to the incident or other people who have filed complaints about it, Thompson said. It’s incumbent upon the state to interview Chappelle, even if by telephone, for the case, he said. Christian Englander is accused of tossing a banana peel at Dave Chappelle during a standup show in Santa Fe.Photo: AP/Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center “This should really be dismissed, especially if the complaining witness does not follow-up on the charges,” Thompson said. “Racism affects everyone, but it doesn’t help when you cry wolf,” he said. “And this is a ‘cry wolf’ situation.'” If Englander is tried and found guilty, Thompson said his client maintains the right to file for a new trial in district court. Englander, a self-described eccentric who works as a disc jockey and a performance artist, was at his attorney’s side. He was dressed in a conservative blue jacket set off by multi-colored house shoes and a bright tie. His hair was dyed yellow and orange. Englander said there has been a “character disintegration” campaign against him since the incident. Englander maintains the act was social satire and said he is not a racist. Several days after the Chappelle incident, Englander was accused of throwing a banana peel at another black man, Jay Willis, in Santa Fe following a fight between the two at a downtown bar. No charges have been filed in that second incident, Santa Fe police said Monday. 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Charb was killed in the January 2015 terror attack on the satirical French weekly. Photo: AP Photo MORE FROM: Rich Lowry Rich Lowry The sad, shocking truth about the Republican establishment Oregon 'patriots' aim at government oppression ... hit bird-lovers Dumping America's mental-health woes on the cops Good riddance to 2015 --- the year of hysteria Washington Irving's Christmas gift to America If there is any group of people on the planet who should feel solidarity with the slain editors of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, it is writers. Appropriately enough, the writers group PEN America is giving its annual Freedom of Expression Courage Award to the French publication now synonymous with martyrdom to free speech. Yet the award has become controversial, attacked by a group of writers who presume to lecture murder victims on not provoking their murderers. These dissenters are an unabashed fifth column undermining PEN America’s devotion to free expression so as to carve out a safe space for Islam from the barbed speech inherent to a free society. They oppose the killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists — thanks, guys — but otherwise agree with the jihadis that the publication was out-of-bounds. “A hideous crime was committed,” novelist Peter Carey generously concedes, “but was it a freedom-of-speech issue for PEN America to be self-righteous about?” This is like saying, to use the example of another PEN awardee, the jailed Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, “Sure, it’s a terrible miscarriage of justice for Ismayilova to be behind bars, but should we really get all huffy about it?” Obviously, if you are going to have an organization committed to fighting for free speech, you should be “self-righteous,” to use Carey’s phrase, about violations of free speech, especially when journalists are gunned down for things they draw and write. The root of the objection to honoring Charlie Hebdo is that the magazine’s staff was massacred by the wrong kind of terrorists for attacking the wrong religion. If the publication’s equal-opportunity offenders had been assaulted by right-wing extremists for their savage mockery of anti-immigrant politicians, or opponents of gay marriage or Catholicism, surely the dissenting writers would be all for recognizing Charlie Hebdo. As short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg argued in a long letter to the executive director of PEN, satirizing Catholicism is fine because it “has represented centuries of authoritarian repressiveness and the abuse of power.” Islam in modern Europe, in contrast, “has represented a few decades of powerlessness and disenfranchisement.” This is a version of Garry Trudeau’s argument that Charlie Hebdo was “punching downward” against the defenseless, when satire should punch up against the powerful. This is a bizarre notion of power. The weapon of choice of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonists was the pen; the weapon of choice of their assailants was the firearm. Charlie Hebdo was indeed punching up against violent forces who had succeeded in cowing the less courageous. Radical Islam compels fear and forces self-censorship in a way no other religion has done in the West in a very long time. So what if Charlie Hebdo was courageous, Eisenberg asks. Its journalists wasted their courage on “a parochial, irrelevant, misconceived, misdirected, relatively trivial and more or less obsolete campaign against clericalism.” What they did was like jumping from a roof, or having sex with a wild boar. These acts, though, are utterly pointless. Charlie Hebdo had a clear, specific rationale — refusing to submit to rules of expression set out by illiberal fanatics. If Charlie Hebdo’s “campaign” were truly so obsolete, all of its journalists would be alive today to hear the morally obtuse scolding from Deborah Eisenberg and her compatriots. Eisenberg has it easy. No one will ever try to kill her over “The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor,” “Revenge of the Dinosaurs” or any of her other stories. She gets to compare Charlie Hebdo to Der Stürmer from a nice perch at the School of Arts at Columbia University, where the most courage anyone will ever have to demonstrate is reading fiction without the appropriate trigger warnings. The martyred editor of Charlie Hebdo, Stephane Charbonnier, famously said, “I prefer to die standing than live on my knees.” The PEN dissenters believe he belonged on his knees. 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Dear John: I just want to point out one thing: Share buybacks aren’t an accounting trick. They are announced and can clearly be seen on the cash-flow statement. From an investor’s standpoint — taxes not being an issue — one shouldn’t care if the dividend is increased or a buyback is used to return capital to shareholders. Cash is cash. However, using futures to manipulate markets is pure evil. This causes major distortions and much long-term harm. In no way should the Federal Reserve be propping up markets. In the end, the blowback is brutal, as it should be. Propping up markets is a short-term solution for long-term problems. B.S. Dear B.S.: You are referring to a recent column I wrote about the stock market being “rigged” and stock buybacks being part of the manipulations. OK, I get your point. But my point was this: Because of the way earnings per share are calculated (earnings divided by the number of shares outstanding), profits can be made to look better by reducing the number of shares in the public’s hands. Reduce the denominator of the equation and the product — earnings per share — looks bigger. And this is being done with company cash, so it’s no big deal. More important, the people spending this company cash — corporate executives — are benefiting because they undoubtedly own stocks. (Yes, other shareholders benefit as well.) As you probably know, there has been a massive amount of share buybacks in recent years. IBM has been the king of such buybacks. Yes, companies could raise cash dividends instead of buying back their own stock. But that does nothing to make profits look stronger, which is what Wall Street monitors. Or they could use their cash for neither buybacks nor dividend increases and instead spend it to expand their business. That’s what healthy companies do in a healthy economy. In an economy like this — which is weak but has a strong stock market — companies play tricks to justify the share price that is being helped by the overall rigged market. Everything we’ve mentioned here is legal. It’s not, however, a legitimate way to run a business or an economy. Dear John: You recently wrote about the accounting the Federal Reserve does on quantitative easing and how it gives its profits to the US Treasury. There’s one little point to clarify on the Fed’s accounting, which I’ve studied. Unlike private-sector businesses, the Fed doesn’t mark its portfolio to market, which is why it might be tempted to just hang on to the QE portfolio, as you noted. However, should the Fed take market value losses selling its portfolio, it doesn’t book the losses. It books them as a deferred asset. I know some venture-capital companies that wish they could do that! With the deferred asset, the Fed can’t be making contributions to the Treasury, but those are entirely phony anyway. The Fed is simply paying back to the Treasury the interest that originally is paid by the Treasury. Wonderful! Doug Dear Doug: Thanks for the lesson on the Fed’s shell game. As you know, the problem is that eventually, someone comes along and breaks up the game. In this case, foreign investors will eventually stop believing the US government financial numbers and will refuse to lend us money. Whether that happens anytime in our lifetime — or tomorrow — is anyone’s guess. (Recently I wrote a satire on the right of college athletes to be paid. I favor it. This is in response to that.) Dear John: It is against core American values and ethics to deny individuals the right to be paid for the value of their work. In fact, most Americans believe it is right to allow people to prosper for performance and achievement, so I find it strange that some feel it is OK to single out college athletes to be denied this right. Think of it this way: Which other group of full-scholarship or self-pay students are restricted from earning pay for the value of their work? If a English major learns writing skills then writes a best-selling book, he or she can earn whatever the market will pay … no caps or university restrictions. Same for most every other major. So why do some people want to single out the one group of students who actually bring significant money to the school to be denied rights afforded to everyone else? The “paying college athletes will ruin the game” claim is nonsense. Where is the data to support this? High-end college athletes en route to professional careers weeks after the last college game of the year are all but paid to play that season. For example, was the Jan. 12 college football national championship game ruined because Marcus Mariota was certain to walk off the field a multimillionaire and every pass completion almost guaranteed him more personal income in coming months? Still, if paying athletes will ruin the game for some fans, it is pretty arrogant and selfish to deny every athlete’s rights to pay just because select fans feel the game will be ruined for them. The moral high ground here is to allow college athletes to prosper for staying in school while numerous third parties make billions of dollars on the value of that students work. Shawn Fojtik, founder of FanAngel.com Dear Mr. Fojtik: I couldn’t have said it better. 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After The Post exposed her with a front-page story headlined “Village Idiots,” Christina Freundlich said she was “deeply sorry for my careless and distasteful post.” “It was inconsiderate to those hurt in the crash and to the city of New York,” she said in an email to The Des Moines Register. “What happened last week in the East Village is not to be taken lightly and I regret my course of action.” Freundlich, who worked on both of President Obama’s White House campaigns and served as communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party, was among several people who used the disaster as a photo backdrop. The displays stirred outrage online, with commenters calling them “disgusting beyond words.” Near the site, a neighbor taped a sign to a door. “THIS IS A TRAGEDY, NOT A TOURIST ATTRACTION,” it read. Visitor Jeanie Slade, who posted a pic of herself and a pal at the site with the hashtag “#beingtourists,” said Saturday that it was “satire . . . to point out how many people post selfies in inappropriate times.” Slade deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts but stuck by her claim Sunday. “I’m so sorry for any miscommunication and my satire was in poor taste,” she said. 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Amid the backdrop of the devastation wrought by the explosion, fire and collapse of three buildings that injured 25 people, seven smiling women used a selfie stick late Friday to snap a cheery photo of themselves. “Disgusting beyond words,” wrote a commenter on the local-news blog EV Grieve, which reposted the snap. “Take a look at these people. Remember their faces,” wrote Diane DiDonato of Brooklyn on Facebook. “They don’t deserve those smiles. People are dying behind them.” Others called it “disaster porn.” “It’s heartless,”said Maurice Herz, 83, of the East Village. “THIS IS A TRAGEDY. NOT A TOURIST ATTRACTION,” one frustrated neighbor wrote on a sign taped to a front door on nearby Seventh Street. “SHOW SOME RESPECT,” the sign demanded. Other selfie-snappers included Christina Freundlich, whose LinkedIn profile lists her as a communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party. She posted a grinning photo of herself at the scene giving the peace sign. “Too soon,” one follower chided. Residents near the blast site posted messages to the selfie-snappers.Photo: Demetrius E. Loadholt Freundlich couldn’t be reached for comment Saturday. East Villager Pablo Fernandez wore a green “Elf” shirt and red and white leggings as he posed for photos near a barricade before his bachelor party. Photo: Demetrius E. Loadholt“I’m totally ridiculous, but I’m not normally like this,” Fernandez said. His pals shot a video of him dancing near the site. “This is so we could send the pictures to our friends in Spain and say, ‘Look what we did,’ ” said a chum who declined to give his name. Jeanie Slade’s disaster-site selfie showed her and a pal flashing open-mouthed grins and the hashtags “#beingtourists and “#weresocreepy.” Asked about the selfie by The Post, Jeanie called it “satire.” “My heart goes out to the people of New York, and this satire post was in poor taste,” she insisted. “My intention was to point out how many people post selfies in inappropriate times and it backfired.” Meanwhile, the grim work continued at the site Saturday, as 60 firefighters extinguished the remaining flames amid the search for survivors. Mayor Bill de Blasio visited an East Village firehouse to thank firefighters. He met with hero firefighter Michael Shepherd, who was off duty but joined the search for people trapped. Mayor Bill de Blasio meets with firefighters, including New York City Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, at the site of the building explosion in the East Village.Photo: AP “Your dad is a real hero,” the mayor said to his son, Michael Patrick, 10. “He’s my hero,” Shepherd told the mayor of his son. The FDNY said it would take a week to go through the ruins, with first responders working around the clock while dogs sniff the debris. “It’s going to be slow and arduous to dig out, search through the rubble,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. Two people — Nicholas Figueroa, 23, of Harlem, and Moises Locon, 27, of Elmhurst, Queens — were still missing Saturday. Figueroa had been on a date with Theresa Galarza, 22, at the ground-floor Sushi Park restaurant and was last seen going to get the check. The blast sent her flying across the street. Locon had worked as a busboy at Sushi Park. Photo: Helayne Seidman ; FacebookRed Cross workers comforted his distraught brother, Zacharias, at the scene on Saturday. Meanwhile, Con Ed said that on Aug. 6, a meter reader discovered that the gas line in the sushi restaurant at 121 Second Ave. — which seven months later erupted in a fireball — had been tampered with. Spokesman Allan Drury said the resulting leaks caused the utility to determine the situation was “hazardous’’ — so it cut off all gas to the building for some 10 days. Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese, Natalie Musumeci and Aaron Feis Explosion Photo: Helayne Seidman IMG_6893.JPG Photo: Marcelo Bernardes Explosion Photo: Helayne Seidman Explosion Photo: Helayne Seidman fire Photo: Reuters IMAG0694.jpg Photo: Bill Farrington 032615collapse12CR Photo: Chad Rachman Building Explosion In Manhattan's East Village Photo: Getty Images Building Explosion In Manhattan's East Village Photo: Getty Images Fire and Explosion in Manhattan Photo: UPI Building Collapse Manhattan Photo: AP Major fire in the East Village, New York City Photo: Splash News Building Collapse Manhattan Photo: AP Major fire in the East Village, New York City Photo: Splash News New York City Fire Department firefighters and police stand by as firefighters fight a fire at a residential apartment building in New York City Photo: Reuters US-BLAST-FIRE-NEWYORK Photo: AFP/Getty Images Fire and Explosion in Manhattan Photo: UPI APTOPIX Building Collapse Manhattan Photo: AP Building Collapse Manhattan A firefighter sprays water onto the site of the East Village explosion Friday morning, March 27. Photo: AP New York City Fire Department and Police stand by as firefighters fight a fire near where a residential apartment building collapsed and was engulfed in flames in New York City's East Village neighborhood Photo: Reuters Fire and Explosion in Manhattan Photo: UPI Fire and Explosion in Manhattan Photo: UPI Major fire in the East Village, New York City Photo: Splash News Building Explosion In Manhattan's East Village BESTPIX - Building Explosion In Manhattan's East Village Photo: Getty Images 032615collapse5CR Photo: Chad Rachman 032715FireInManhattan_gnm006.jpg The aftermath of the seven-alarm fire. Photo: G.N. Miller 032615collapse3CR Photo: Chad Rachman INF - Mayor De Blasio Speaks at Site of East Village Explosion in NYC Building Explosion In East Village Firefighters continue to douse the ruins of the East Village building explosion. Photo: ZumaWire 032715FireInManhattan-gnm004.jpg Photo: G.N. 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Back to Reading * News * Metro * Page Six * Sports * Business * Opinion * Entertainment * Fashion * Living * Media * Tech * Real Estate * Sub Menu 1 + Photos + Video + Covers + Columnists + Horoscopes * Sub Menu 2 + Classifieds + Subscribe * Sign in In The News: hillary clinton iran lamar odom 2016 presidential election new york mets Sections Search ____________________ (search) Sign in / Register New York Post Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * News Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire By Michael Blaustein * View author archive * email the author * Get author RSS feed Name(required) ____________________ Email(required) ____________________ Comment(required) ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Submit » February 24, 2015 | 5:07pm Modal Trigger ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire Jan Rankowski, who posted online as a character called Jace Connors, claims that his threats against female game developer Brianna Wu were all part of an elaborate joke. Photo: YouTube Gamergate, the online movement started last year as a protest against supposed corruption in video game journalism, but which quickly descended into a series of increasingly misogynistic threats against female game developers and journalists, has lost one of its biggest villains. Outspoken online personality “Jace Connors,” who threatened to kill a female game developer in January, now claims to be an innocent jokester after he was outed as Jan Rankowski, a 20-year-old from Maine who is part of a rogue comedy group specializing in over-the-top stunts that straddle the line between comedy and trolling, according to Buzzfeed. And those death threats he made against the female game developer? They were all part of a big satirical joke, according to Rankowski. Posing as Connors, Rankowski made headlines when he posted a terrifying video on YouTube in which he apparently crashed his mother’s Prius while he was on his way to confront Brianna Wu, a female game developer and Gamergate target. Warning: Graphic language IFRAME: http://www.youtube.com/embed/jYPC-YMdJFI?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide= 2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent The disturbing video wasn’t Rankowski’s first threat against Wu. In December, Rankowski’s “character” Connors, who claimed to be both an ex-Marine and Navy SEAL, sent Wu a video of a man holding a knife and threatening to stab her “Assassin’s Creed”-style, according to Jezebel. Recently, however, Rankowski’s cohorts in Gamergate figured out his true identify and turned the tables on the supposed comedian by starting an online harassment campaign against him. “They realized I was making fun of them with those videos,” Rankowski told Buzzfeed. “I started it as a joke, but it’s become far too real and I wish I could take it all back.” “People have been calling my old high school, calling my work,” Rankowski said, explaining a change of heart about Wu. “Some kid stood outside my window throwing pebbles. And someone knocked on my door — it’s a closed apartment, you shouldn’t be able to get in. And then there was no one there.” “I didn’t take this situation seriously, but I see what it means now to be in the other person’s shoes. What [Brianna Wu’s] life must feel like.” Rankowski’s about-face is ironic, given that his threats against Wu became the nadir in a series of online threats against female game developers. Gamergate’s first target was an indie game developer named Zoe Quinn who was falsely accused of having sex with a reporter in exchange for positive press coverage. It didn’t matter that the accusation was posted by a disgruntled ex-boyfriend; Gamergate was so outraged by Quinn’s alleged corruption that they posted her personal information online, including her home address. She was eventually forced to flee after a series of threats against her, according to the Guardian. Next, Gamergate targeted feminist video game and pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was forced to cancel a talk at Utah State University after a Gamergate supporter threatened her in an email with “the deadliest school shooting in American history.” Wu became a target after she made a seemingly innocuous joke about the group on Twitter. A fan made a meme of 6 of my Tweets. #Gamergate spent day filling it with 36 pages of garbage http://t.co/tjzQxePXH0 pic.twitter.com/aailgFlNM9 — Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) October 9, 2014 Almost immediately afterward, a torrent of online abuse was directed at Wu, with one Twitter user saying, “I’ve got a K-Bar [knife] and I’m coming to your house so I can shove it up your ugly feminist c–t,” according to online gaming site Kotaku. Rankowski took it to another level with his crashed-Prius video. Wu, of course, doesn’t think the video “joke” was even remotely funny. “This has had an extreme level of emotional stress for me, my husband, and my team,” Wu told The Verge. “My initial reaction with this was this is someone who is mentally ill,” Wu continued. “Now I find out it’s just a game for this person, that’s worse.” Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * Filed under crime , cyber bullying , video games Share this article: Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * Read Next Massachusetts man ships snow from his yard cross country Read Next Massachusetts man ships snow from his yard cross country Most Popular This Week 1 Suspects claim teen was having sex with father before alleged gang rape Suspects claim teen was having sex with father before alleged gang rape 2 The brutal secrets behind 'The Biggest Loser' The brutal secrets behind 'The Biggest Loser' 3 Nursing home boss bought winning Powerball ticket for worker Nursing home boss bought winning Powerball ticket for worker 4 Your penis pics are bush league Your penis pics are bush league 5 Dad was so drunk, he couldn't report daughter's gang rape Dad was so drunk, he couldn't report daughter's gang rape 6 Here's what Sean Penn agreed to do to party with El Chapo Here's what Sean Penn agreed to do to party with El Chapo Share Selection Trending Now in News 74,065 ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big 28,232 ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire Awkward, pandering spectacle of Hillary Clinton trying to ‘be real’ 25,246 ‘It was all a joke’: Gamergate villain says online threats were satire Don't be fooled by Bernie Sanders -- he's a diehard communist Now On Donald Trump’s brother Robert emerges SEE ALL Now On How To Live Stream The NFL Playoffs 2016 For Free SEE ALL Now On 2:49 Martin O’Malley Is The Coolest 2016 Presidential Candidate SEE ALL Video [wp_cloverfield.jpg?quality=100&strip=all&w=260&h=174� 38;crop=1] :43 J.J. 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Photo: Getty Images/WireImage MORE FROM: Phil Mushnick Phil Mushnick How NBC turned a significant camera shot into more nonsense Hypocrite Boomer Esiason only has scruples on weekend It's a shame when our sports stars get caught up in stain of change Why announcers blindly cheering vicious hits buy football's lies In the TV world, everything is going well until, suddenly, it isn't Just when we figured that all the new-age, analytical, genuine gibberish belonged to sports, NBC News breaks new ground by explaining, rationalizing and soft-spinning Brian (“Incoming!”) Williams’ wartime, under-fire heroics as a “conflated” story. The military has a different term: stolen valor. But some news folks can’t be expected to remember everything, like whether they were shot down in a helicopter. That is easily conflated. Hmmm, was that in Iraq or at Great Adventure? Whatever, we’re not yet past the NFL’s de-flate issue and here comes NBC’s con-flate hoo-hah. But, hey, if conflated stories are lies told on the air in order to inflate the teller’s importance, Mike Francesa’s made a career of it! By the way, it was brought to my attention that Friday’s column did not include even one Francesa note, thus I’m already covered on this one — with more, a bit later. But first, breaking news: Ray Lewis’ next TV gig will be as host of “Unsolved Mysteries.” Funny, in a not-so funny, Joe Pesci way, how ESPN provides both shelter and nourishment to sports’ most reliably satire-proof absurdities. Thursday was a hoot. First, ESPN made “tsk-tsk” over the arrest of Ravens’ 26-year-old defensive tackle and University of Alabama scholarship student-athlete Terrence Cody — 15 counts of animal abuse, two for aggravated assault. Terrence CodyPhoto: AP Shucks, why didn’t ESPN take advantage of its in-house expert on such issues, former Giants linebacker and University of Arizona man Antonio Pierce? At nearly 30 in 2008, he pleaded guilty to animal neglect after his two pit bulls went unattended while he prepared to play in the Super Bowl. Of course, that didn’t prevent ESPN from having Pierce advise first-time Super Bowlers on how to conduct themselves before the big game. Then, Thursday, ESPN noted the arrest of Packers defensive tackle Letroy Guion, 27-year-old Florida State man, arrested for alleged possession of a 9 mm pistol, nearly a pound of weed and $190,000 in cash. But before the NFLPA could put a smiley face on Guion’s “in-quotes” “statement” of — “I’m disappointed for letting down my family, teammates and our loyal fans” — the police report described Guion as uncooperative and combative. There, too, ESPN could have called upon staffers for their expert takes, including the aforementioned Pierce, who, after dropping Plaxico (“What Was That?”) Burress at a hospital, fled with Burress’s illegal gun then went missing for two days as investigators sought to question him. Also Thursday, ESPN got into the self-imposed, tactical retreat sanctions on Jim Boeheim’s Syracuse University student-athletes basketball team. In a graphic, ESPN asked if this could harm Boeheim’s “legacy.” Hmmm. Legacy for what? And again, ESPN, for years the we-pay-you! sanctuary for sanctioned and otherwise caught-cheating and/or lying college coaches — those nabbed “conflating” — had a pile of similarly disgraced but unashamed staffers, current and past, from whom to choose to expertly discuss such a matter. Syracuse coach Jim BoeheimPhoto: AP If Boeheim were fired today, he would be an ESPN hire tomorrow, day after at the latest. Finally, Thursday, ESPN brought in ex-PGAer Bill Kratzert, identified as “ESPN PGA Analyst.” But he was misidentified. All he spoke about — and forever — was Tiger Woods. That’s ESPN, ladies and gentlemen! Where, after careful consideration, no better ideas stand a chance. Read ‘Right 88’ Now to Francesa (and thanks for your patience). Reader Rich Meyerson asks if we think this is a coincidence: This week Sitting Bull claimed vivid recall of what he expertly termed “Red Right 88.” That was the decisive, needless Brian Sipe pass intercepted late in the 1981 Raiders-Browns playoff game — a play known (mostly in Cleveland and Oakland) as “Red Right 88,” and written as “Red Right 88” in that day’s Post, seen right in front of Francesa? Coincidence? What do you think, Rich? Then there was “Let’s Be Honest’s” claim that he went 4-1 in Super Bowl “proposition bets” — such as over/unders on sacks. Given that YouTube, unlike WFAN, doesn’t lose tapes, he actually went 2-2. And, as reader Raider Dave reminds, add that to the fact that he predicted Seattle, 23-20, thus Seattle and the under — boing! — his 4-1 day actually was 2-4. Still, not bad — for him. __________________________________________________________________ Speaking of conflation and WFAN, Brian Williams was one of those big shots who eagerly went on Don Imus’ show for all the mutual affection and self and cross-promotion it was worth. And after Imus was sacked for baldly bigoted content, Williams was another of those big shots who pretended to not know that Imus’ show was loaded with excessively bigoted content Network keeps hot air blowing Weather forecast: A hot air front carrying high winds and blustery conditions warning remains in effect as ESPN has renewed Stephen A. Smith’s contract. Stephen A. SmithPhoto: WireImage __________________________________________________________________ Everything’s a con. Now Falcons owner Arthur Blank admits that taped crowd noise was pumped into home games. Next thing ya know we’ll find out CBS piped in bird chirping during the Masters. What’s that? __________________________________________________________________ So, if Budweiser’s aim-for-the-heart puppy dog ads annually are voted the Super Bowl’s most popular, why do companies spend a fortune producing Supe commercials aimed at the crotch? __________________________________________________________________ We should all receive as many look-away passes as Shaquille O’Neal. Despite publicly mocking the sound of spoken Chinese and publicly mocking the facial appearance of a disease-disfigured young man, he stars in yet another new commercial. __________________________________________________________________ Think those professional “experts” who firmly state such things as, “Seattle wins if Marshawn Lynch rushes for 100 yards or more” will stop now that Lynch did and Seattle didn’t? Neither do I. __________________________________________________________________ Not that most could afford to attend the Super Bowl, but the next time not-for-profit commissioner Roger Goodell pledges allegiance to “the fans,” a bag of popcorn went for eight bucks, a soda went for nine — $12 in the plastic “Souvenir Cup.” __________________________________________________________________ Seems everyone agrees that MLB has to pick up the pace. But most suggestions, though right-headed, don’t address the monster: formulaic managers combining to use eight, nine, 10 pitchers in 4-2 games. They manage “by the latest book” — even if there is no book and never was. __________________________________________________________________ NCAA Student-Athletics: Clemson-Florida State, Wednesday on FOX Sports 1, tipped just after 9 p.m. What is this, ESPN “Sunday Night Baseball?” Anyway, in exchange for TV money, the arena was half-empty. __________________________________________________________________ From reader James Nollet: Q: Which players are now tied for the highest career passer rating in NFL postseason history? A: Julian Edelman (the Patriots receiver who heaved a Jan. 10 touchdown pass to Danny Amendola vs. the Ravens), and Jon Ryan (the Seahawks punter who lofted a TD a week later against the Packers) — who both have a perfect 158.3 rating. 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Photo: AP MORE ON: awards season 2015 Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris panned for lame jokes Stars celebrate the Oscars at the Vanity Fair party The 10 craziest, most memorable moments from the 2015 Oscars Oscars showed no edge awarding 'Birdman' Best Picture Lots of big brass orbs were on display at last night’s Golden Globes, but Tina Fey and Amy Poehler showed the world that they have no cojones. Caught up in a triple crisis, Hollywood had an opportunity to be as daring, socially on-point and irreverent as it constantly assures us it is. Instead of putting the world to rights, though, the show detonated with all the force of someone popping open a nice can of Fresca. One of Hollywood’s half-dozen major studios was crippled by hackers and forced to bury its big Christmas release because of terrorism from (perhaps) North Korea. A double Golden Globe winner and beloved actor stands credibly accused of being a serial rapist. And just four days ago earlier, more than a dozen people died in an attack on comedy. How did the Golden Globes respond to this cavalcade of dire news? Hosts Fey and Poehler, instead of mercilessly satirizing North Korea, instead mocked one of the targets embarrassed in the Sony leak (Scott Rudin, who fairly inarguably was revealed to have termed his colleagues spoiled brats). Then they sashayed directly up to Kim Jong Un, looked him straight in the eye and…said, “We got your back, bro.” Fey and Poehler trashed the same thing the sawed-off dictator didn’t like, Seth Rogen’s “The Interview.” If they were on “At the Movies” with the stumpy dictator, the film would have gotten three thumbs down. Poehler said North Korea’s threat forced us all to “pretend we wanted to see it.” Then, Fey quoted North Korean criticism of “The Interview” — the NoKos denounced it as “absolutely intolerable” and “a wanton act of terror” — as a setup for saying, “That’s not even the worst review it got.” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler lacked bite hosting the Golden Globes.Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/AP Where did their jokes come from — the People’s Revolutionary Humor Committee of Pyongyang? They were the Manchurian hosts. About the massacre of their fellow satirists in Paris, Fey and Poehler said nothing at all. People who, broadly speaking, are in the exact same line of work as Fey and Poehler were gunned down at the office for being “edgy” and “provocative” and “pushing the envelope” and all the other things American comedy writers fancy themselves while they’re wheeling out another Chris Christie fat joke. Tiny and Amy were so shocked, outraged and appalled by the latest Islamofascist atrocity that they … cracked jokes about how it took them three hours to get dolled up. And about Cosby, who now appears likely to have enjoyed a decades-long career as a drugger and rapist? They essayed their “black accents” and mocked Cos’ emphatic plosives. “I put the pills in the people!” Fey shouted. If you’re going to make comedy out of a series of hideous crimes, it had better be a million miles away from making light of what seems to have happened. If you’re going to bring this up, be fearless and harsh. Billy Bob Thornton summed up the evening perfectly when he opined, “You can say anything in the world and get in trouble. I know this for a fact. So I’m just going to say thank you.” Points for honesty, Billy Bob. Just wave a white flag next time. Even the one guy who has dared to offend Globes stars in the past, Ricky Gervais, joked about how he wasn’t going to do it again, then…didn’t do it again. George Clooney, who famously praised Hollywood’s alleged social-justice crusades when he won his “Syriana” Oscar in 2006, last night delivered only a milky reference to the weekend rallies in Paris, not the Islamist terror that inspired them. “We will not walk in fear. We will not do it,” Clooney said. “So…je suis Charlie.” Brutal, George. Give ’em hell. How brave is a man who can’t even mention the thing he’s afraid of? I don’t remember your failing to mention the CIA and oil companies in “Syriana.” Never failing to volunteer for the front lines after the war is won, instead the room celebrated the transgender show “Transparent,” and star Jeffrey Tambor announced it was brave to be gay or transgender. Only to a point. When was the last time someone walked into a gay bar and gunned down a dozen people while crying, “Heteros forever”? Actually, if that were to happen, the perpetrators would be shouting “Allahu akbar.” And then, Hollywood would grit its teeth, clench its collective fists and do a really harsh, relentless satire — on Mormons, or Catholics, or maybe Wall Street. Hey, Goldman Sachs inspires a lot of story angles, too, and besides, they probably won’t phrase their artistic differences in the form of an assassination squad. 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Photo: AP FOLLOW THE STORY * Man wearing fake explosive vest shot dead at Paris police station * Charlie Hebdo marks attack anniversary with scathing special edition * Charlie Hebdo editor: Censorship must not win * Charlie Hebdo: 'They have guns. F--- them, we have champagne!' * Charlie Hebdo cartoonist doesn't want you to pray for Paris * ‘Largest ever’ rally in Paris as millions gather SEE ALL 134 STORIES PARIS — Masses of people joined with world leaders to fill Paris streets Sunday in a rally for unity that officials said was the largest demonstration in French history. Hundreds of thousands more marched in cities around the country and the world to repudiate a three-day terror spree around the French capital that killed 17 people and left the three gunmen dead. Their arms linked, more than 40 world leaders headed the somber procession — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — setting aside their differences for a demonstration that French President Francois Hollande said turned the city into “the capital of the world.” Millions of people streamed through the streets behind them and across France to mourn the victims of deadly attacks on a satirical newspaper, a kosher supermarket and police officers — violence that tore deep into the nation’s sense of wellbeing in a way some compared to Sept. 11 in the United States. “Our entire country will rise up toward something better,” Hollande said. Details of the attacks continued to emerge, with new video showing one of the gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. That gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, was also linked to a new shooting, two days after he and the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed in nearly simultaneous police raids. The attacks tested France’s proud commitment to its liberties — liberties that authorities may now curtail to ensure greater security. Marchers recognized this as a watershed moment. French President Francois Hollande is surrounded by head of states including (left to right) European Commission President European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi as they attend the solidarity march. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (from left), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.Photo: Getty Images “It’s a different world today,” said Michel Thiebault, 70. Illustrating his point, crowds cheered police vans as they wove through the crowds Sunday — a rare sight at the many demonstrations that Parisians have staged throughout their rebellious history, when protesters and police are often at odds. Many shed the aloof attitude Parisians are famous for, helping strangers with directions, cheering and crying together. Sad and angry but fiercely defending their freedom of expression, the marchers mourned the dead and brandished pens and flags from around the world. Giant rallies were held throughout France and major cities around the world, including London, Madrid and New York — all attacked by al Qaeda-linked extremists — as well as Cairo, Sydney, Stockholm, Tokyo and elsewhere. In Paris, the Interior Ministry said, “The size of this unprecedented demonstration makes it impossible to provide a specific count,” noting that the crowds were too big to fit on the official march route and spread out into other streets. Later, the ministry said 3.7 million marched throughout France, including between roughly 1.2 million and 1.6 million in Paris, but said a precise account is impossible given the enormity of the turnout. REUTERS PICTURE HIGHLIGHT Millions of people took part in the demonstration. 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Photo: Getty Images Advertisement Up Next French intelligence stopped surveilling terrorist cell last year French intelligence stopped surveilling terrorist cell last year :0 The terrorist cell responsible for the carnage in France reportedly... 19 View Slideshow Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * Advertisement 'Largest ever' rally in Paris as millions gather January 11, 2015 French news media estimated up to 3 million people took part in the Paris march — more than the numbers who took to Paris streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in World War II. “I hope that at the end of the day, everyone is united. Everyone — Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists,” said marcher Zakaria Moumni. “We are humans first of all, and nobody deserves to be murdered like that. Nobody.” On Paris’ Republic Square, deafening applause rang out as the world leaders walked past, amid tight security and an atmosphere of togetherness amid adversity. Families of the victims, holding each other for support, marched in the front along with the leaders and with journalists working for the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. Several wept openly. “I Am Charlie,” read legions of posters and banners. Many waved editorial cartoons, the French tricolor and other national flags. The leaders marched down Voltaire Boulevard — named after the Enlightenment-era figure who symbolizes France’s attachment to freedom of expression. One marcher bore a banner with Voltaire’s famed pledge: “I do not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it.” A banner reading “Freedom” hangs near the Place de la Republique during the mass unity rally in Paris.Photo: Getty Images A man sits atop the monument on Place de la Nation with an ‘I Am Charlie’ sign and a pencil.Photo: EPA The French president joined Netanyahu in a visit to a synagogue Sunday night as French authorities sought to reassure the Jewish population — Europe’s largest — that it is safe to stay in France. Seven thousand of France’s half-million Jews emigrated to Israel last year amid concerns for their safety and the economy. As night fell on the unusually unified city, some lit candles. “It’s important to be here for freedom for tolerance and for all the victims. It’s sad we had to get to this point for people to react against intolerance, racism and fascism,” said Caroline Van Ruymbeke, 32. At an international conference in India, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the world stood with the people of France “not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom.” The three days of terror began Wednesday when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including two police officers. Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen said it directed the attack to avenge the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the weekly’s satire. Charlie Hebdo assailed Christianity, Judaism as well as officialdom of all stripes with its brand of sometimes crude satire. Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Mahmoud Abbas walk during the rally in Paris.Photo: Getty Images On Thursday, police said Coulibaly killed a policewoman and the next day he seized hostages at a kosher store in Paris while the Kouachi brothers were in a standoff with police at a printing plant near Charles de Gaulle Airport. It all ended at dusk Friday with raids that left all three gunmen dead. Four hostages at the market were also killed. Five people held in connection with the attacks were freed late Saturday, leaving no one in custody, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. Coulibaly’s widow, last seen near the Turkish-Syrian border, is still being sought. France remains on high alert while investigators determine whether the attackers were part of a larger extremist network. More than 5,500 police and soldiers were deployed Sunday across France, guarding marches, synagogues, mosques, schools and other sites. “The terrorists want two things: They want to scare us and they want to divide us,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told TV channel iTele. “We must do the opposite: We must stand up and we must stay united.” Filed under charlie hebdo massacre , paris , terrorism Share this article: Share this: * Facebook * Twitter * Google * WhatsApp * Email * Copy * Read Next French intelligence stopped surveilling terrorist cell las... Read Next French intelligence stopped surveilling terrorist cell las... 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The hashtag plumes of ‥JeSuisCharlie (“I am Charlie”) are endearing. The expressions of condemnation from Muslim leaders are commendable, as are the assurances of solidarity and support from Western governments. But, as a practical matter, they don’t change a thing: The jihadists won this week. Even if the atrocity in Paris served to imbue the civilized world — Muslim and non-Muslim alike — with a newfound resolve to battle radical Islam (it almost certainly won’t), this still stands as a victory for the bad guys. In any war, the goal is to put your enemy in a position where he has no good options. The murderous attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo does exactly that. Consider the response from the Western media with regard to the Mohammed cartoons. As a conservative, I don’t like gratuitous mockery of religion, any religion. That’s not to say I think all blasphemies are equally offensive. For instance, I think most satire of Christianity is particularly cowardly and lame precisely because Christians are such a safe target. Also, after centuries of tolerance for satire of Christianity, opportunities for cleverness or originality are few and far between. Mockery of Islam, meanwhile, whether in good taste or not, is dangerous and therefore also courageous even when stupid. In a world where Muslim extremists weren’t killing people for such things, I’d be against publishing such material (not as matter of law, but editorial judgment). But we don’t live in that world. And the slaughter in Paris only makes that more of a reality. Whereas last week, running satirical pictures of Mohammed largely made sense only as a matter of opinion journalism, it is now a requirement of news reporting — because those images are central to the story. Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, and his colleagues were murdered because they ran those pictures. It’s understandable that news outlets wouldn’t want to invite similar attacks by printing or broadcasting those images. But by refusing to do so, they send a message: “We’re afraid of you.” That’s an unequivocal win for the terrorists. But when outlets do run the images, the radicals get to say, “See, look at their disrespect for Islam and the prophet. There can be no compromise with these infidels.” That’s a win for the terrorists, too. Attempts to find a middle way fall short. The New York Daily News tried to have it both ways, running a photo of Charbonnier while pixelating the issue of Charlie Hebdo he was holding so that readers couldn’t make out the satirical image of Mohammed. This “compromise” was worse than refusing to run the cartoon at all because it removed all doubt that the editors are afraid and that such attacks pay off. This isn’t simply a meaty topic for a journalism school seminar, it’s symbolic of the bind that we are in. Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. Vladimir Lenin understood this when he followed a strategy of “the worse, the better.” No one benefits more from blanket anti-Muslim sentiment more than jihadists, because such attitudes push moderate Muslims into their arms. But that doesn’t justify the use of weasel words from Western politicians such as Barack Obama, John Kerry and Howard Dean, who insist that Islamist terrorists aren’t Islamic, that we are merely at war with unspecified “extremists.” Well-intentioned as such statements may be, they are lies. Moreover, they are the kind of lies that breed suspicion: suspicion that our leaders don’t understand the nature of the threat, and suspicion that they are afraid of speaking the truth. These lies also invite others to believe the opposite is true, or to at least test the proposition. That in turn radicalizes yet more Muslims. It is right and good to say we are not at war with Islam, but it is dishonest to claim that there are no Muslims waging war against us. Falling back on sanitized euphemisms is the rhetorical equivalent of pixelating Mohammed; it fools no one, save fools. A free society can’t allow freedom to be held hostage to murderers. And that is why I favor running those images of Mohammed even if some of them offend me. Moderation, tolerance and respect are essential to a free society, but we are in a moment where moderation, tolerance and respect are too easily confused for appeasement. And that is why the jihadists are winning. They are forcing us into only bad options. The center is not holding. 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Photo: ZUMAPRESS.com FOLLOW THE STORY * Man wearing fake explosive vest shot dead at Paris police station * Charlie Hebdo marks attack anniversary with scathing special edition * Charlie Hebdo editor: Censorship must not win * Charlie Hebdo: 'They have guns. F--- them, we have champagne!' * Charlie Hebdo cartoonist doesn't want you to pray for Paris * Slain Charlie Hebdo editor: ‘I prefer to die standing’ SEE ALL 134 STORIES Charlie Hebdo’s wisecracking cartoonists knew the dangers of taking on radical Islam, but they refused to let death threats stop them from speaking out for what they believed in. The French satirical paper — where 12 people were slaughtered by Muslim terrorists Wednesday — never stopped mocking the hate and hypocrisy of Islamic fanaticism, even after their Paris offices were firebombed in 2011. Just this week they sent a mocking tweet to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ran a front-page story about a new novel called “Submission” that imagined France under a Muslim president. Editor Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier also ran a cartoon taunting jihadis. Titled “Still No Attacks in France,” it had a caricature of a Muslim fighter saying, “Just wait — we have until the end of January to present our New Year’s wishes.” Charbonnier was aware that such satire put the publication in the radicals’ cross hairs — and he said he didn’t care. “I am not afraid of retaliation,” he told French reporters in 2012. “I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. It perhaps sounds a bit pompous, but I prefer to die standing than living on my knees.” Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, 47, known as “Charb,” was the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo and one of its top cartoonists.Photo: Reuters He did just that. The 47-year-old Charbonnier was among the eight Charlie Hebdo staffers shot dead by terrorists in their Paris office, along with four others, including two policemen. Charbonnier said he believed satirists had a duty to take on any subject — Charlie Hebdo had run more than one cover tweaking the pope — and that included Islam. Bernard Verlhac, who drew under the name Tignous, was born in Paris in 1957. He was a member of a group of artists called Cartoonists of Peace and also belonged to the Press Judiciare, an association of French journalists covering the courts.Photo: EPA “If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying,” he said. The magazine was so bold that they continued to mock Islamists just a week after a firebomb was thrown at their offices in 2011 in retaliation for a cover showing the Prophet Muhammad. The cover that week showed a male Charlie Hebdo cartoonist passionately kissing a bearded Muslim man in front of the charred aftermath of the bombing, The Guardian reported. The headline, in French, read: “Love Is Stronger Than Hate.” Charlie Hebdo debuted in 1970 after another publication, called Hara-Kiri, was banned for mocking the death of former French President Charles de Gaulle, Time reported. Many of the banned paper’s staff joined the new satirical paper, which was named “Charlie Weekly” after the “Peanuts” character Charlie Brown. The paper never sold many copies but gained notoriety by skewering everyone from right-wing politicians to the Virgin Mary, publishing a cartoon of her last month with her legs spread, giving birth to the baby Jesus. Jean Cabut, 76, known as Cabu, established himself as one of France’s best-known cartoonists over a career that spanned 50 years. He served in the French military during the Algerian war for independence in the late 1950s, and later drew cartoons for several publications.Photo: Getty Images The paper shut down after it ran out of money in 1981 but reopened in 1992. The controversy over the publication’s treatment of Islam first erupted in 2006, when the paper reprinted the infamous caricatures of Muhammad by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, which had led to deadly riots across the Muslim world. Georges Wolinski, 80, was another of Charlie Hebdo’s veteran cartoonists. His works had appeared in Hara-Kiri, Paris Match and numerous other publications. He was born in Tunisia and moved to France as a schoolboy. He was awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration, in 2005.Photo: ZumaWire The reprints led to a jump in sales on the newsstand but drew fierce criticism from many Muslim groups and politicians who condemned them as overly provocative and insensitive to France’s Muslim population, the largest in Western Europe. Then-French President Jacques Chirac criticized the paper as irresponsible. “Anything that can hurt the convictions of someone else, in particular religious convictions, should be avoided,” he said. “Freedom of expression should be exercised in a spirit of responsibility.” The paper responded by thumbing its nose at its critics, publishing a letter, signed by intellectuals including “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, who had been the subject of death threats himself. “We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all,” it read in part. Two French Muslim associations, the Great Mosque of Paris and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, later filed suit against the paper for reprinting the Danish cartoons, Time reported. But a French court tossed the case, arguing that the decision to publish the images did not incite religious hatred. In 2012, Charlie Hebdo again printed cartoons of Muhammad while new violent protests raged across the Middle East. Bernard Maris, 68, gained prominence as both an economist and a journalist. He wrote a weekly column in Charlie Hebdo called “Uncle Bernard,” was a regular commentator for the France Inter radio network, and taught economics at a branch of the University of Paris.Photo: Getty Images At the time, they even drew flak from the White House, which criticized their “judgment,” according to the Daily Mail. “We are aware that a French magazine published cartoons featuring a figure resembling the Prophet Muhammad, and obviously we have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this,” then-press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. A year later, riot police had to protect the building after the paper printed a cartoon depicting the Prophet as a naked baby. Other images that enraged radical Islamists showed Muhammad being pushed in a wheelchair — by an Orthodox Jew, The Guardian said. The French government begged the editors not to publish the image and shut down embassies, cultural centers and schools in about 20 countries because it feared revenge attacks — but the paper published it anyway. In an interview in 2013, Charbonnier revealed he had been under police protection after one of the cartoon issues was published. His police bodyguard was among those killed Wednesday. 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Photo: Ray Mickshaw/FOX. Rob Lowe’s smartest career move occurred the day he stopped taking himself seriously. His comedic breakthrough role as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon with a permanent squint in the HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra” made it impossible to think he was the same actor who — a dozen years earlier — was a politically earnest Aaron Sorkin mouthpiece as Deputy Chief of Staff Sam Seaborn on “The West Wing.” “Comedy looks easy,” says Lowe who has developed his flair for self-mockery on “Parks and Recreation” and more recently, those hilarious DirectTV commercials. “And that’s what’s great about it. But it’s surprisingly complex.” Fortunately, you can’t see any of the effort in his new series, “The Grinder,” premiering Tuesday night. Lowe reaches new heights of sublime silliness as Dean Sanderson Jr., a self-absorbed actor at loose ends who confounds his family back in Boise by deciding he should join the family law firm … because he once played a lawyer on TV. “As an actor you pick up a lot of stuff, collect skills and this obviously puts you in a position to do the job,” says executive producer Jarrad Paul in elaborating on the premise. IFRAME: http://www.youtube.com/embed/9mybEO-Hb0Y?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide= 2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Part of the comedy comes from the contrast between Dean and his younger brother, Stewart (Fred Savage) — an actual lawyer — as they argue cases in a courtroom. Guess which one the jury likes better? “Stewart feels like the only sane person left on Earth,” says Savage. “Dean, because he doesn’t know what law is, thinks it’s what you see in the movies. Big speeches, evidence discovered in the nick of time. Stewart’s a good lawyer. Practices actual law. Not law as written by Hollywood.” Lowe was developing projects for other networks when the “Grinder” script found its way into his hands. “It was a beautiful, smart, hilarious mix of brotherhood stories, family stories, and fatherhood stories that everyone can relate to and just brilliant satire about today’s fame industry and the television industry,” Lowe says. To that effect, the producers will find ways to bring Dean’s TV past into the plot. In an episode scheduled for Thanksgiving, Timothy Olyphant (“Justified”) will play a frenemy from Dean’s past. Other guest stars include Christina Applegate, Jason Alexander and Natalie Morales (“Parks and Recreation”) as a love interest for Dean — a Boise woman completely unimpressed by his celebrity. “She’s one of the only people in the world who doesn’t respond to Dean’s charms, which intrigues him all the more,” says executive producer Andrew Mogel. Both “Grinder” stars have had their fair share of fame — and, in Lowe’s case, infamy — and the show adroitly mines the actors’ back stories. After his childhood success with “The Wonder Years,” Savage went to Stanford University and began a successful career as a TV director. Getting back into the acting groove has tested Savage’s mettle. “I’m not 100 percent settled yet,” he says. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t an adjustment.” As for Lowe, his life has been an open book for so long (in fact, he’s written two), the part fits him like a satin glove. “Dean is someone who seems to have it all, but what he really wants is to have a life. It’s a theme I’m well versed in,” he says. “I’ve searched for a life outside the business. 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Photo: Universal MOVIE REVIEW The Green Inferno Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (extreme graphic violence, torture, cannibalism, nudity, sexuality, drug use, profanity) Finish your popcorn early if you’re going to “The Green Inferno,” and save the bucket to barf in. Horror director Eli Roth (“Hostel”) sends a group of idealistic college students to darkest Peru to protest developers who are threatening to bulldoze their way through a rain forest. Photo: UniversalInstead, Roth bulldozes his way through a bloody satire of such stock campus figures as the bearded revolutionary (Ariel Levy) who entices an easily outraged freshperson (Lorenza Izzo) to join his publicity stunt. When their plane crashes in the jungle, the guy who walks into the propeller is among the lucky ones. A tribe of savages — oops, indigenous people who happen to have savage habits — kidnaps the survivors. One fellow gets butchered like a Holstein and finds bits of himself being savored like canapes while he’s still kicking. In other words: Oh, that Eli. Lacking much of a redeeming purpose, “The Green Inferno” leaves you awed at the scale of Roth’s depraved imagination, if not particularly charmed by his meat-cleaver techniques. 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Stewart stepped down from the role after 16 years. XXX TREVOR NOAH PORTAIT_TP0029.JPG D ENT USA NY South African comedian Trevor Noah is all smiles in his offices at the 'The Daily Show With Trevor Noah' in New York.(Photo: Todd Plitt, USA TODAY) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE NEW YORK — South African comedian Trevor Noah is the latest (and last, for a while) new player in TV’s game of late-night musical chairs. At 31, he’s also youngest, and promises to adapt Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for a new generation while trying to preserve its outsize cultural relevance. Noah becomes the show’s third host Monday (11 p.m. ET/PT), seven weeks after Jon Stewart packed it up after a 16-year run. Kevin Hart is his first guest, followed later in the week by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and singer Ryan Adams, a sign of the show’s continued interest in a blend of politics and entertainment. Longtime fans needn’t fret, Noah says in an interview. While he plans some format tweaks, the biggest change will come in “the way we look at stories, or even how I present the stories to the audience.” [635787801086759331-XXX-TREVOR-NOAH-DS-20-079-02-DCB-72004346.JPG] USA TODAY Noah plans a more social 'Daily Show' That prism will reflect the hosts' vastly different backgrounds: Noah grew up as a poor, mixed-race kid during apartheid, when his parents’ marriage was illegal, and he had no real connection to American politics. Stewart, 52, was raised Jewish in an upper-middle-class New Jersey suburb. And while Stewart was vocal about subjects including the Middle East (“Mess O’Potamia,” as he called it), “I will have to find my running passion: What becomes the thing that really connects with me on the show,” Noah says. Unlike Stewart, who was easily riled up by hyperactive cable-news outlets, Noah will start out focusing more on people making news than those delivering it. “I’m less likely to skewer CNN or Fox and more to skewer (Kentucky court clerk) Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee,” he says. Other changes: The stand-up comedian may experiment with, um, standing. He’ll also make more frequent use of the show’s diverse team of fake-news correspondents, bolstered by three newcomers,. “We have this ensemble of different voices that, in my mind, represents America in different ways, which is a new thing to play with,” and as peers — he served briefly as one of them — “it’s not my job to say everything, which is really cool.” But he's taking a measured approach. "I wouldn’t want to rush in and dismantle and destroy the show just because people are going, ‘You’d better make it different!’ Let’s start with what works and let’s evolve over time. Jon Stewart made an amazing show, he created something fantastic. 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A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 3 Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Comic satire elects a teen girl as 'Prez' [writer_entertainment-Truitt_Brian.png] Brian Truitt, USA TODAY 2:05 p.m. EDT June 15, 2015 Prez cover Teenager Beth Ross is elected president due to a loophole in the Electoral College process in "Prez."(Photo: DC Comics) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE While Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and more candidates enter the 2016 election seemingly every day, at least we know a teenage girl named Beth Ross is winning the presidency in 2036. Debuting Wednesday from DC Comics, the futuristic comic-book satire Prez smartly skewers politics, culture and technology but also introduces a cool heroine who'd be the right woman for the job no matter what year she entered the White House. "I wanted somebody who would come into office without the same baggage that politicians (have), owing people favors and having played the game and knowing what to say to get elected," says series writer Mark Russell, who penned a modern and irreverent retelling of the Bible with God Is Disappointed in You. With shades of Idiocracy, Russell and artist Ben Caldwell imagine a USA where Americans can vote for president using Twitter and candidates will do anything to get elected, even going on weirdo YouTube shows. Thanks to a viral video filmed by her fast-foot co-workers, 19-year-old Beth goes from corndog-slinging Oregon fry cook to social-media sensation and on to the Oval Office due to a loophole in the Electoral College voting process. Blunt and honest, she doesn't initially want to be president — her ailing father also needs her care and attention. But one of the things that convinces Beth to embrace being POTUS is there are massive crises at work that, if not dealt with, could cause a major extinction-level event on the planet. And other politicians are too busy trying to get elected or reelected to bother with such things. "She comes into office assuming that she's an accident of history," Russell says. "She's going to be gone in four years, therefore she can do what needs to actually be dine as opposed to build alliances and keep everyone happy." [635687890325037040-OMEGAM-Cv1-1-25-var.jpg] USA TODAY 'Omega Men' a bit of risky space business In terms of being a leader of the free world, Russell figures Beth is progressive yet pragmatic. She's going to think outside the box and not always use conventional political solutions for problems. For example, other presidents staff their Cabinet with other politicians, yet because Beth doesn't actually know any of these people, her Cabinet is filled with actual experts — her science advisor is a character modeled on real-life guru Neil deGrasse Tyson. DC Comics' original Prez series in the 1970s "is, to be fair, beyond obscure" so Russell admits he's been given carte blanche to be creative as possible with his series. "I'm not playing with the family jewels. They can let me go in the sandbox and I'm not going to hurt anything." The writer's also bringing in some characters from that old comic. Preston Rickard, the teenage president in the original Prez, is Beth's vice president in the new book. Also returning is Boss Smiley, CEO of the world's largest retail corporation and the intellectual and de facto leader of the evil Build-a-Burger Group — the villainous cadre is a play on the Bilderberg Group, a secret elite society thought to run the world from behind the scenes by conspiracy theorists. In the future of Prez, a Corporate Personhood amendment has been passed where companies do not have to reveal the identities of their chief officers, so the CEOs of various corporations have glowing logo masks to obscure their faces. When the Build-a-Burger group meets in their fast-food franchise headquarters, Pharmaduke has a dog with a syringe, Grizzly Tobacco has a bear and Boss Smiley wears a smiley face as they make powerful folks such as Senator Thorn do their bidding. Debates and other real-life political elements get Debates and other real-life political elements get satirized in the futuristic world of "Prez." (Photo: DC Comics) The first arc of three issues focuses on the absurdity of the election process, but Russell wants to use modern parables as well to make his points: One story coming up, which looks at the creative economy and the difficult of living outside the corporate system, involves an environmental activist, a journalist and Boss Smiley's giant-sized gerbil cage. But Russell sends up smaller-scale aspects, too. In the first issue during a debate about food stamp reform, Thorn takes on a presidential candidate and espouses the virtues of "taco drones" to deliver calorie-ridden, nutritionally questionable culinary goodness to the starving in order pander to the enchilada-loving constituency. "The big Achilles heel of every politician is they want to be loved, they want to be popular, and it comes at the direct expense of their ability to lead," Russell explains. "They become manipulated — you have to market something to the people and make it popular, and then the politician, even if they have their own misgivings about it, has to go along for political survival." [635675110076039739-MMFR-Nux-Immortan-Joe.jpg] USA TODAY Miller expands 'Mad Max' mythos in comics It would seem that no one would want to be popular more than a teenage girl, but Beth is intelligent and doesn't want to be an ingénue led along like a puppet. "She's naïve in the sense that she doesn't know how politics work but that really is a source of strength for her," Russell says. "She very much has her own ideas about what's wrong with the country. She just does not know how broken the American political system is, and that's really what her education is in office." Russell sees satire as "quality control," and we the people are always looking for ways our society is going wrong. "Prez is an attempt to identity those and also to come up with solutions for them," says the writer, who feels the comic has more of an indie vibe than the traditional superhero-filled "capes and spandex" DC fare. "That's really what appeals to me, the idea that I can be honest and sort of edgy and satirical, and know that some kid in Iowa is going to be able to get my comic at a Walmart." 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WordPress.com USA TODAY Life * facebook * twitter * google plus * email POWERED BY [search.png] ____________________ * facebook * twitter * Terms of Service * Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights Powered by WordPress.com VIP * Celebrities * Fashion * Movies * Music * TV * Red Carpet Menu Entertain This! Menu * Celebrities * Fashion * Movies * Music * TV * Red Carpet * facebook * twitter [search.png] ____________________ Entertain This! Menu * Tom Hanks * • Colin Hanks * • Chet Hanks * • Straight Outta Compton * • Maroon 5 * • Snoop Dogg * • Jimmy Kimmel * • Ice Cube * • Tupac * • Pink Floyd * • Warner Bros. * • Hermione * • Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice * • Friends * • Ellen DeGeneres * • Frozen TV How Netflix's 'BoJack Horseman' masterfully handles the Bill Cosby scandal By Maeve McDermott July 20, 2015 6:14 pm Follow @maeve_mcdermott 4.1k shares SHARE TWEET SMS SEND EMAIL Netflix (Netflix) Thinking of making Netflix’s BoJack Horseman your next binge-watch? The animated show is a lot of things: a lewd cartoon about a washed-up Hollywood star, who’s also a horse. A comedy voiced by a handful of your favorite stars (Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris and Alison Brie, among others). A stinging satire with arguably the best repertoire of pop culture references on TV today. A startlingly bleak tale of fame and relationships that lures you in with its silly animal puns, then sucker-punches you with its devastating honesty. The story of a narcissistic, womanizing, alcoholic anti-hero — think a washed-up Hollywood Don Draper with twice the self-loathing. And hooves. And in one critical episode from BoJack Horseman‘s second season, which premiered this weekend on Netflix, the show is a prescient cultural satire. BoJack‘s second season transcends its animated-shows-for-adults counterparts (the bro-y comedy of Archer, the trippy animated farces on Adult Swim, Seth MacFarlane’s button-pushing potty humor) by nailing the basics: imaginative, three-dimensional characters, impossibly timely references, devastating emotional resolutions. The show is at its strongest in its sixth episode, “Hank After Dark,” where the show’s main female character goes on a futile quest to expose the truth about a beloved late-night host in Hollywood who’s been accused of sexual assault by a number of his former secretaries. Sound familiar? The subject matter of “Hank After Dark” gets an assist from the new round of Bill Cosby revelations, the newest of which surfaced on the New York Times the day after the episode hit Netflix. The show’s fictionalized TV host isn’t specifically identified as Cosby, though his father-figure reputation and love of kooky prints suggest a connection. But, as the episode makes clear, it could be referencing any number of stars — it’s just Cosby’s name in the headlines this month, the latest in the parade of revered Hollywood figure to walk away from sexual assault allegations, their reputations untarnished, leaving the whistleblowers and victims behind in the wreckage. In a show where cartoon humans and animals drink, fight and copulate around a fictionalized Hollywood as equals, BoJack often uses its animal characters to add another level of absurd clarity. The character accused of harassment? The friendly, grandfatherly host is, naturally, a hippo. (Named Hank Huxtable — sorry, Hank Hippopopolis.) Hank Hippopolis, the revered star of 'Hank After Dark.' (Netflix) Hank Hippopopolis, the revered star of ‘Hank After Dark.’ (Netflix) No spoilers here, but as you may have guessed, things don’t end well for the woman who fought to bring Hank to justice. The episode nails the far-too-familiar sequence of events we’ve seen unfold on cable news shows, on Facebook and Twitter, and in conversations with confused family members whenever a beloved Hollywood figure is accused of something sinister. In the process, the woman is silenced by her critics, abandoned by her friends and intimidated by more powerful forces. And then she gives up. There’s plenty of other standout moments in Bojack‘s new season — its second-to-last episode is particularly devastating. But if you’re looking for a compelling-enough reason to start watching an animated comedy about a horse instead of the other critically-acclaimed series sitting in your watchlist, it’s “Hank After Dark.” Stream BoJack Horseman on Netflix here. 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The 70-year-old filmmaker filmed his first scenes ever in America for his new film Maps to the Stars (opening nationwide Feb. 27), a satirical drama about a show-business family and its hunt for celebrity starring John Cusack, Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson. So for a movie about the movies, of course Cronenberg went to Los Angeles. "That's the heart of darkness so it's fantastic. But of course it wasn't darkness because it was tremendous fun," Cronenberg says in an exclusive featurette from the film featuring a conversation between the director and screenwriter Bruce Wagner. Wagner, whose novel Dead Stars was based on his Stars script, has known the filmmaker for a while, but admits that "I'd felt like I'd won the lottery" collaborating with Cronenberg. And it was Wagner's dialogue that drew in Cronenberg, adds the director: "The stuff that makes it work is the human relationships on a very naturalistic evil — the exaggeration of satire." 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Grief in Lille People hold placards with the front pages of several editions of 'Charlie Hebdo' in rally on Jan.7, in Lille, France.(Photo: DENIS CHARLET/ AFP/Getty Images) CONNECTTWEET 3 LINKEDIN 16 COMMENTEMAILMORE The sound of gunfire in the newsroom of a Paris satirical weekly echoed around the world of satire on Wednesday, but those who make their living at mockery vowed to press on. Possibly because of the time difference, it was the European satire press that responded first to the attack on Charlie Hebdo — in which 12 people were killed — with vows not to let the murder of journalists and cartoonists chill their free-press right to make fun. But soon, as the news spread, American satirists, journalists, humorists and comedians were joining in the condemnations and clarion calls for freedom. [635562373899562792-AP-APTOPIX-France-Newspaper-Attack.jpg] USA TODAY Manhunt continues for two French terror suspects "Humor is the canary in the coal mine of free speech," said Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, where some of the most admired humor in America is published regularly. “Silence is not where the answers to an incident like this lie.” @tnyCloseRead on the #CharlieHebdo attack: http://t.co/jsnOMVmnRZ — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 7, 2015 "We all have to stand up today, whether we are humorists or not, whether we agree with Charlie Hebdo or not, and say, we are all Charlie Hebdo, it's the only position to take," says Mankoff. On Twitter, New Yorker fans recirculated a 2012 cartoon from a blog post from Mankoff. "Please enjoy this culturally, ethnically, religiously, and politically correct cartoon responsibly. Thank you," read the cartoon's caption — above an empty box. This cartoon by Robert Mankoff from The New Yorker Sept 2012. #CharlieHebdopic.twitter.com/pyQfnV42Su — John O'Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) January 7, 2015 Comedian Lizz Winstead, a co-creator of one of America's premier satirical programs, The Daily Show, tweeted her shock. This story in France hits very close to home. I will honor #Hebdo by continuing to use humor use expose extremists wherever they are. — Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) January 7, 2015 One of America's most prominent satirists, Garry Trudeau, declined to comment, but that didn't stop his admirers on Twitter. If anyone harms Garry Trudeau I'm gonna go ballistic. — Saint Scott (@fscott24) January 7, 2015 If the terrorists thought they could shut down or shut up a newspaper because of its cartoons, they were wrong, says Mark Fiore, an American self-syndicated political cartoonist and animator based in San Francisco. "It's only going to cause more cartooning to be directed their way," Fiore said, noting that the attack shows "the strength of cartooning" in political persuasion. Fiore said Charlie Hebdo's aggressive stance on religious extremism shows that "free speech has to be pretty black and white if we want it to survive. We can't hedge." Before he'd heard the news on Wednesday, he said, he'd been planning to pen an animation about the scandal surrounding Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise's 2002 speech to white supremacists, whom Fiore called "Christian right-wing crazies." "That's going to be put on hold because of Islamic crazies," he said. Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee and president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, called it the "worst journalism tragedy in my lifetime." "The national revulsion in the cartooning community is overwhelming," he said. "The only way we're going to be able to fight a terrorist war on free expression is to have more free expression." At the Chicago Tribune, editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis predicted nothing would change as far as America's cartooning community is concerned. Most American editorial cartoonists don't do "provocative things just to be provocative, it's provocative with a point," he said. Still, the news from Paris is disquieting, especially since the rhetoric and rancor in America has grown more heated in recent years, he said, pointing to the death threats he's gotten over the years. He talks about this in a column tomorrow in the Trib. "Three of my four grandparents were from France. I am French, I am a cartoonist and I am afraid," he wrote. "Yet, as I mentioned, this fear is not new. For anyone who attempts to speak truth to power or dares to confront the current paradigm, there are those who will take a violent umbrage....So we take a deep breath and plunge forward. Knowing the dangers but confident in the knowledge that what we do is important and worth the risk." In Europe, where there is no general, codified First Amendment, there were condemnations and ringing endorsements of the right to mock nonetheless. There will be a vigil in Trafalgar Square tonight in solidarity with #CharlieHebdohttp://t.co/K7ZHV9C27Fpic.twitter.com/lq0IKyHSIE — The Independent (@Independent) January 7, 2015 "Satire is a human right," declared Tim Wolff, editor-in-chief of Germany's most popular satirical publication, Titanic, according to an interview in DW, a German publication. Satire becomes "even more relevant" after attack like this, he added. "Of course, on the personal level, we are scared when we hear about such violence," he said. "However, as a satirist, we are beholden to the principle that every human being has the right to be parodied. This should not stop just because of some idiots who go around shooting." Satirists in Britain, where satiric publications and commentary are a tradition and pointed mockery is widely admired, also railed at the attack. "I am appalled and shocked by this horrific attack — a murderous attack on free speech in the heart of Europe," said Private Eye editor Ian Hislop said in a statement. "(The victims) paid a very high price for exercising their comic liberty.Very little seems funny today." Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, a U.K.-based online magazine, called the attack "barbaric" and bemoaned "a dark day for Europe." "All of us should feel assaulted by this massacre, for it is designed to chill us and make us cower, to make us censor ourselves or else suffer the consequences," he wrote. He condemned "the modern trend" to extinguish commentary, art or literature that offends small groups of people. "The best, most civilized response to this barbaric act is to promise that we will defend freedom of speech every time it is threatened, stop kowtowing to the offended, and stand up to every mob, campaign group, thug and gunman that think they have the right to silence others," O'Neill declared. Salman Rushdie, the British novelist once under a death-threat fatwa, also issued a statement defending satire. "I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity," he said. WikiLeaks' Julian Assange tweeted his support: Assange: The world must now avenge Charlie Hebdo by swiftly republishing all their cartoons. Censorship attacks are a losing move. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 7, 2015 Flemming Rose, the editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, threatened after it published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, said in an interview published on the Daily Beast that the attack in Paris "sent a shiver down my spine." He said Europe over the last 10 years has been confronted repeatedly with violence in response to something published or said or filmed. "Here at Jyllands-Posten we live in fear," Rose said. "There have been numerous episodes that deal with how the handling of Islam and violence. But Charlie has insisted on their right to make satire, and now they've paid the highest price for that." Contributing: Greg Toppo French crowd rallies in Toulouse on Jan. 7, to show French crowd rallies in Toulouse on Jan. 7, to show solidarity for the victims of the attack by unknown gunmen on the offices of the satirical weekly, 'Charlie Hebdo.' 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Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Bob Saget returning to Broadway, as a pastor, in 'Hand to God' [Gardner_Elysa.png] Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY 12:02 p.m. EDT October 6, 2015 635797292204329743-Bob-Saget-Color-3---Photo-Credit-Natalie-Brasington Bob Saget will step into the cast of Broadway's 'Hand to God' this November.(Photo: Natalie Brasington) 5 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE Before reprising his role as a loving TV dad on Netflix's upcoming Fuller House, Bob Saget will play another sort of paternal figure on Broadway. It was announced Tuesday that Saget - who made his Broadway debut in 2006, in the musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone -- will step into the role on Pastor Greg in the critically acclaimed Broadway satire Hand To God. The actor/comedian will replace current cast member Marc Kudisch (who has an upcoming gig in Chicago) starting Nov. 3. [gty_4755573361.jpg?fit=440%2C330] ENTERTAIN THIS! Why Bob Saget won't convince the Olsens to join 'Fuller House' "I've been wanting so much to come back to Broadway, especially if the material was just too good to resist," Saget said in a statement. "After seeing Hand to God with my daughters, I knew immediately that I'd pounce at the opportunity to be a part of it if I could. Didn't see it coming but beyond delighted. So looking forward to getting onstage with this miraculous cast in this incredibly funny and poignant play." Hand to God will wrap its run at the Booth Theatre Jan. 3, after which the Tony Award-nominated play will transfer to London's West End, where it's set to begin performances at the Vaudeville Theatre on Feb. 5. 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"We're just going to go at the telenovela, which will be fun." He's talking to NBC's Spanish-language sibling, Telemundo, about using "snippets" of its novelas as the "show within the show." NBC isn't the only network mining novelas for humor: CW's Jane the Virgin adopts the style of the format while sending it up, and ABC had a hit with Ugly Betty in 2006. 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More than 3.7 million people gathered in France on Sunday, while all across social media, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has been used to show solidarity and support. The tragedy has sparked a discussion about the role of satire and free speech — a discussion that has included the editorial meetings of many student satirical publications across the country “It was a bit of a shock,” says Sachin Medhekar, the editor-in-chief of UCLA’s Satyr Magazine. “We all write comedy, we satirize things, but it was a shock seeing those words responded to with such violence.” Cover of the 'The Satyr Magazine'. (Courtesy Sachin Medhekar) Cover of the ‘The Satyr Magazine’. (Courtesy Sachin Medhekar) Shortly after the attack, Satyr published a response on its website in the form of an apology letter that lead readers to an error page. Medhekar says they wanted to give the initial impression that the violence had the power to stifle free speech — and then powerfully reveal that it would have the opposite impact. “We won’t apologize for what we’ve done and hopefully other satirical publications won’t either,” Medhekar says. Medhekar helped revive Satyr in 2012 because he believes so strongly in the power satire can have both on and off college campuses. Related: Student journalists respond to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack “Comedy is often a lot more digestible to people than the news and I think you really are able to drive home the absurdity or inherent problems of a certain system.” Medhekar says. Cynthia Counts, a first amendment attorney and Emory Law School professor agrees that satire is a vital form of free speech on college campuses. “These satirical publications provide students a forum for the free expression of their ideas and opinions and encourage students to openly confront and deal with the challenges of their time,” Counts says. Sierra Katow, a writer for the Harvard Lampoon, agrees that satirical publications are needed for democracy. In response to the attack, the Lampoon tweeted a cartoon demonstrating it’s belief that a picture is worth a thousand words. Our hearts go out to the families of those lost in the Charlie Hebdo attack. #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/WgX3p5UKiF — Harvard Lampoon (@harvardlampoon) January 8, 2015 “We felt that our style was very similar to theirs [Charlie Hebdo] and we wanted to show solidarity with them,” Katow says. Editor-in Chief of the Emory Spoke, Martin Sigalow, has seen satire trigger important conversations on Emory’s campus about issues that students are too afraid to bring up themselves. “It’s important social criticism because when we criticize the administration in their own words about uncomfortable topics its harder for defenders of unjust policies to mobilize responses,” Sigalow says. The Spoke has faced censorship issues, fighting with Emory’s administration to ensure the freedom of speech on campus. Related: Voices: Taking a stand for freedom of speech, religious tolerance During Sigalow’s freshman year, the administration removed one of the magazine’s posters and inflicted sanctions on its editor-in-chief. The satirical “wanted” poster called for the student body president to be brought in dead or alive — a move the administration believed demonstrated a willingness to inflict bodily harm on another student. While the conflict was eventually resolved, Sigalow still fears this type of censorship. “This was an obvious, flagrant attempt to violate our right to free speech on campus,” Sigalow says. Satyr had a run-in with the UCLA administration when Medhekar and his classmates first reestablished the magazine. The student media department wouldn’t provide funding because the previous comedy magazine had been too offensive. Satyr’s founding members had to build the magazine independently, which he now views as a blessing in disguise. “It was tough at first. But we really are allowed to govern ourselves and choose what we want to publish and not worry about what the administration thinks so it works out,” Medhekar says. Sigalow is a firm believer in the free market of ideas and he believes there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed. The Spoke aims to challenge those in power instead of kicking people who are already down. “If we’re making fun of someone that’s substantially inferior or powerless, then we know we have crossed the line and should back track,” Sigalow says. Counts believes this sort of thinking can be dangerous. “It’s a slippery slope when you start saying ‘what is OK in a cartoon?’ It [satire] is challenging thinking and ideas and that’s what the whole point of the first amendment is,” Counts says. While the attackers might have hoped to incite fear and challenge the first amendment, it appears the tragedy will have quite the contrary effect on these satirical publications. “Any real change that we make is letting the terrorist win. We will continue treading the line, we will not be deterred by the act of these terrorists,” Sigalow says. The attack has opened Katow’s eyes to the power of her words. “This certainly demonstrates the power of satire and I’ll keep that in mind more so than before,” says Katow. “I’ll put more effort and more energy into trying to understand the weight of what I’m putting out there.” Rachel Rosenbaum is a student at Emory University and is a spring 2015 Collegiate Correspondent. 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A postmodern fable from Salman Rushdie Kevin Nance , Special for USA TODAY 2 p.m. EDT September 27, 2015 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (Random House) in General fiction In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the 'strangenesses' begins and the worlds of humans and jinn collide Buy Now * Buy Now * Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Google Play * iBooks * Indiebound * Kobo * Zola USA TODAY BEST-SELLING BOOKS # 73 this week # - last week 1 weeks listed # 73 best week Debuted: September 17 2015 USA TODAY Rating As great novelists enter the latter stages of their careers, they can become their own worst enemies, in the sense that each new book is inevitably judged against its predecessors. The slim late volumes of Toni Morrison feel taunted by the weightier, meatier Song of Solomon and Beloved, while Philip Roth’s last few books seem to flutter in the slipstream of The Ghost Writer and American Pastoral. This phenomenon comes to mind in relation to Salman Rushdie’s pleasurably fanciful and, in the context of his body of work, relatively slight new novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. This postmodern fable, in which a roughly contemporary New York becomes a battleground between warring factions of the jinn (amoral, incorrigibly randy magical beings of Arab and Islamic myth), is to Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses what Billy Budd is to Moby-Dick, what The Secret Agent is to Heart of Darkness. But second-tier Rushdie is still very good stuff. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights — the number is equivalent to 1,001, which ought to ring a certain bell — riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death. (It’s a subject that the author, who spent many years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for his assassination in 1989, knows something about.) The story begins with a real-life philosopher of 12th-century Arab Spain, Ibn Rushd (better known in the West as Averroes), who in this telling becomes the unwitting consort of Dunia, a princess of the jinn who has slipped through the veil that separates her fairy-tale world from ours in the guise of a comely young woman. Their prolific union produces a line of half-human, half-jinn offspring — the “Rushdi,” as the author can’t help calling them — whose descendants, centuries later, form the nucleus of an army marshalled by Dunia in a war between herself and a quartet of dark jinn bent on subduing humanity. Author Salman Rushdie Author Salman Rushdie (Photo: Beowulf Sheehan) This army, mustered after the veil is torn open and a series of “strangenesses” begin to manifest, is a delightful bunch. There’s Mr. Geronimo, a gardener whose feet suddenly insist on remaining a half-inch off the ground, and Jimmy Kapoor, a comic-book artist, one of whose fearsome creations appears to come to life. (“Vow,” he cries when Dunia appears to reveal his ancestry. “It isn’t bad enough being a brown dude in America, you’re telling me I’m half ...goblin as well.”) There’s a female philosopher with a prodigious gift for picking up languages, an infant who can identify corruption at City Hall, and others with odd powers that, as the war of the worlds unfolds, come in handy. That war, as always in Rushdie’s work, is both physical and ideological. The jinn, who are as divided about the nature of reality as humans are, mirror our squabbles pitting religion against reason, miracles against science, natives against immigrants, heterosexuals against homosexuals. That they do so in the context of a cosmic apocalypse is a wicked bit of satire that perhaps only this Indian-born, British-raised, American-transplanted author, so conversant in the language of disaspora, would have attempted. It can’t be said that the characters here possess the roundness and emotional power achieved by those in another recent neo-fable, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant. Unlike that great book, which is both an impressive intellectual construct and a crackling good story, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is first and foremost an argument conducted by marionettes manipulated by the barely concealed hands of a master marionettist. Even so, you hang on their every word. 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Noah will fill Jon Stewart's position as the third host of the show.(Photo: Todd Plitt, USA TODAY) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE NEW YORK — Trevor Noah is tackling his new job without an inspirational guiding light. “I love a piece of what everyone does,” he says when asked about his late-night influences. “I love the playful nature of John Oliver, I love the joy of Jimmy Fallon, I enjoy the laid-back nature, ironically, of Jon Stewart,” whom he replaces Monday as Comedy Central’s Daily Show host (11 p.m. ET/PT). “I love the brilliance and smarts of Stephen Colbert.” “For good and for bad, I never had a Letterman that I grew up with. We didn’t have late-night TV that way. I remember for a brief period we had Sinbad.” Sure, he’s a stand-up comedian like some of his counterparts, but at 31 he’s both younger and considerably farther from the typical late-night mold. “I come from a very poor background of extreme poverty; I lived in a home of domestic abuse,” he says of his upbringing in Soweto, South Africa, during apartheid, the son of a black mother and white father, a Swiss national. “The world you come from, or the things you experience, always help you to relate to the experiences of others,” he says, just as Colbert’s touching interview with Vice President Biden this month, about his late son Beau, was informed by the deaths of Colbert's father and two brothers in a 1974 plane crash. “You could not have had that had the two of them not shared loss,” Noah says, which “gives you the ability to ask and talk to people about things the way you would like to be asked and talked to.” Trevor Noah in one of his earlier 'Daily Show' appearances Trevor Noah in one of his earlier 'Daily Show' appearances (Photo: Comedy Central) Though he’s largely unknown in this country, Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless says Noah is a fitting replacement for the news satire. He was endorsed by Stewart, and rose to the top based on his qualifications for the job description: A funny, smart workaholic with a broad range of interests. “It’s the hardest job on TV, and that list gets very small, very quickly,” Ganeless says. “And the more time we spent with him in the process, the more it became clear he had a unique eye into the world” as a Millennial who can connect with the network’s audience. [635787805838784386-1-Trevor-Noah.jpg] USA TODAY Trevor Noah prepares for his 'Daily' dose His challenge is to keep them engaged even if they’re not policy wonks. Though politics remains “one of the core elements of the show,” Noah says, “we’re trying to find a way to comedically disseminate that information to people, because policy is horribly boring. How do you bridge that gap between boring information and making people understand why it matters to them? I’m very cognizant of people who may watch the show and go, 'Hey, I’m not a political guy.' Don’t watch the show because you’re into politics, watch the show because you’re into laughing.” Noah plans to usher Daily firmly into the social-media age. To date, that h mostly has involved sharing clips of each episode online. But a new team will produce original material for various platforms all week long. “For Jon, it wasn’t his world, and understandably so, (but) it’s very much a part of our lives. We’re more likely to take part in what’s happening in the discourse. The Daily Show will react to what is happening in more spheres than just cable news.” (In what she calls a radical departure, Ganeless promises the show will respond to breaking news in the moment, on Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and elsewhere, the same way fans get their other news.) That instant judging has bitten him before: Noah’s years-old tweets of what some considered offensive jokes resurfaced shortly after his hiring, sparking an online outcry. [ap-tv-daily-show-noah.jpg?fit=440%2C330] ENTERTAIN THIS! Trevor Noah says his controversial old Twitter jokes were 'stupid' He says such outrage is impossible to ignore. “We live in an age for better and worse where everyone’s opinion is heard, and that is a good thing, but it is also a very bad thing. People can give you their opinions on politics and government and what’s happening in the world, but it also means people can tell you you look ugly in your Instagram picture.” But “for every crazy person on the corner shouting and screaming, there’s 100 people walking by with headphones on going, 'This is none of my business.' You have to look at the bigger picture. Sometimes it’s just noise.” He has little time for a personal life —“Right now, I’m dating my work; I don’t think I’d be a good boyfriend” — and says preparing for a job he couldn’t have dreamed of is “a petrifying experience. People go, ‘Oh, you don’t seem nervous at all.’ I go, ‘No, no, do not get it twisted; I am nervous.’ But it’s the same way I get nervous every time before I get on stage; you never lose that. It’s a nervous excitement, that’s what it is; it’s like skydiving. You feel what you’re about to do. You know what you need to do. 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A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 3 Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs On the Verge: Halsey Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY 7:50 a.m. EDT September 20, 2015 Halsey Halsey's debut album, "Badlands," entered the "Billboard" album chart at No. 2 behind The Weeknd.(Photo: Courtesy of Astralwerks/Capitol Music Group) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE This week in On the Verge, USA TODAY's spotlight on breakthrough artists, Brian Mansfield talks to singer/songwriter Halsey. Not Norman Rockwell's Americana. With its depiction of youth culture "high on legal marijuana, raised on Biggie and Nirvana," 20-year-old singer/songwriter Halsey's New Americana is being hailed as a generational anthem. The single, now No. 24 on USA TODAY's Alternative airplay chart, might actually be more akin to Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part II), which meant one thing in the context of an album and something else entirely when hordes of teenage kids sang it seriously. Either way's fine with Halsey: "If the song speaks to you, that's incredible, but if you think the song is a topical cop-out, good, you're supposed to — it's a satire." Badlands starts treating her good. New Americana appears on Halsey's debut album, Badlands, which she describes as a concept work about "a dystopian, post-apocalyptic society." Released in August, it sold 97,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and entered the Billboard albums chart at No. 2. "Numbers start coming in and sales start coming in, and it doesn't really mean anything to me," she says. "All I really care about is that I did the best that I could with what I had and what was given to me. At the same time, it's absolutely riveting to hear how we've done." The name game. Born Ashley Frangipane in New Jersey, Halsey took her stage name from an anagram for her given name. "My friends, my family call me Ashley; a lot of other people call me Halsey," she says. "I answer to both of them. Neither one offends me." She began writing songs at age 17 and signed with Astralwerks at 19. This March, she was the most-tweeted-about act at Austin's South by Southwest. The Halsey army. Between Twitter and Instgram, Halsey has more than 1.5 million followers. More important, she maintains an online dialogue with them. "I think they've gotten to know me so well that they believe what I'm singing," she says. "That's more important than them relating to it." Identity crisis. Halsey identifies as biracial, bisexual and bipolar, which some clickbait-minded reporters have shortened to "tri-bi." "It's frustrating to see someone turn my identity into a hashtag," she says. "Leading up to my album release, I found that more people wanted to talk about my race and my sexuality than wanted to talk about my album." Decisions, decisions. Halsey turns 21 Sept. 29, the day before a headlining tour begins at the San Diego House of Blues. "I may have to decide if I'm going to go out and drink and play my first show hung over or if I'm going to sacrifice that for the sake of my tour," says the singer, who'll also open for The Weeknd starting in November. "I'm also going to be in Las Vegas — talk about temptation." 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A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 8 Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Emmys: Best jokes from Andy Samberg, others Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY 12:33 a.m. EDT September 21, 2015 GTY 489358298 E ACE ENT CEL TEL USA CA Host Andy Samberg attends the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on Sept. 20, 2015 in Los Angeles.(Photo: Frazer Harrison, Getty Images) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 8 COMMENTEMAILMORE The funniest zingers from Sunday's Emmy Awards, hosted by Andy Samberg: "I have to say, I'm so honored to join the proud ranks of past Emmy hosts. Incredible legendary people like Robert Blake and Bill Cosby? Oh no, I gotta get out of here. But seriously, between Bill Cosby, Jared Fogle and Robert Durst stealing that sandwich, not a good year for dudes who love hoagies." — Samberg, at the start of his Emmys monologue. "Instead of being played off by the orchestra, you're going to have to deal with the mean nun from Game of Thrones." "Shame! Shame! Shame!" — Samberg, joined by Jane Lynch as a nun from Cersei's (Lena Headey) walk-of-shame Thrones episode. "Paula Deen is on this season of Dancing with the Stars. But I gotta say — if I wanted to see an intolerant lady dance, I would've gone to one of Kim Davis' four weddings. It's weird that she came out of jail to Eye of the Tiger, considering how many men have boned to that song." — Samberg, on the Kentucky clerk of court who went to jail for opposing gay marriage. [screen-shot-2015-09-20-at-9-21-34-pm.png?fit=440%2C330] ENTERTAIN THIS! Watch Andy Samberg's opening Emmys skit about how we've reached peak TV "We said goodbye to Mad Men and Parks and Recreation . We also said goodbye to True Detective, even though it's still on the air." — Samberg, on the HBO drama's poorly received second season. "My friend, Jon Hamm, is nominated for Mad Men for the last time. But don't worry, after the success of Better Call Saul, I'm sure Jon will be nominated for the Mad Men prequel, Dick Whitman: Horny Hobo." — Samberg, on Hamm's Emmys losing streak for leading actor in a drama. "And let's not forget what tonight is really about: Celebrating hilarious women and letting the Internet weigh in on who looks the worst." — Amy Schumer, presenting the supporting actress in comedy award with Amy Poehler. "Here's my impression of the last season of Girls." — Samberg, parodying the HBO comedy's butt-motorboating scene, but with a giant Emmy statuette. [635783732575813477-AFP-544319088.jpg] USA TODAY Winners: Who took home an Emmy award "To quote our political satire, Veep: 'What a great honor it must be for you to honor me tonight.' Oh no, Donald Trump said that, I'm sorry." Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accepting her fourth consecutive award for leading actress in a comedy for Veep. "I have to admit, I haven't seen Olive Kitteridge — I've only seen half of Kitteridge." — Samberg, jesting about the multi-Emmy-winning miniseries. "Every show will go off the air eventually, with the exception of Jeopardy and I'll tell you why. The sun could burn out, humanity could flee to another galaxy, time as we know it could cease to exist, but Alex Trebek will still be there scolding librarians from Ames, Iowa, to answer in the form of a question and passively aggressively insulting their hobbies." — John Oliver, presenting the award for directing for a limited series/movie. "She's a nice lady who's good at playing piano." — Samberg, introducing Lady Gaga. "Happy birthday, George, and thanks for telling me during the commercial that Jon Snow is alive." — Samberg, wishing a happy birthday to Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin. [635783703185087200-GTY-489358376-76092310.JPG] USA TODAY Review: Samberg keeps Emmys moving nicely "She plays a gynecologist on TV and he considers himself an amateur one." — Samberg, introducing presenters Mindy Kaling and Zachary Levi. "Thanks to the girl who gave me this sort of smoky eye. I really love it." — Schumer, accepting the award for outstanding variety sketch series for Inside Amy Schumer. "A serial killer with a mean streak. An FBI agent to the stars. A Philadelphia cop just 20 seconds away from retirement. A baby who made a wish to be an alcoholic president. And a very tiny scientist. These are just some of the characters that I made up backstage." — Tina Fey, presenting the award for leading actor in a drama series. "I was pulling for Chandler." — Samberg, after Jon Hamm's acting win for Mad Men, beating out Bloodline's Kyle Chandler. "Only recently I've started to feel like myself again, which means a whole lot of young women are going to be pregnant at the after-party." — Tracy Morgan, presenting the award for best drama series. 2015 EMMY AWARDSDid Netflix or 'Thrones' have the better party bus? | 01:16 Stars from Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and from HBO's "Game of Thrones" tell USA TODAY what went on in their party bus on the way to the Emmys. 1 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmys stars distracted by live feed of football game on carpet | 00:41 This year's Emmys were on FOX just after an NFL game. The NFL booth played a live feed of the game for stars on the red carpet, and some stopped to check up on the game. 2 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmys stars weigh on on saddest TV goodbye | 00:55 USA TODAY asks TV stars at the Emmys which show it was hardest to say goodbye to this year. 3 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSThe fashions of the Emmys | 01:38 Is it out of fashion to asks TV actresses who they're wearing? Stars on the Emmys red carpet weigh in and show off some of their attire. 4 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDS'Transparent' cast on Caitlin Jenner's show | 01:01 Jeffrey Tambor says it's great that reality shows and scripted dramas can both contribute to the conversation about civil rights for members of the trans community. 5 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSJohn Stamos on playing a grandfather | 00:33 John Stamos shrugs off suggestions that he looks too young to play a grandfather. 6 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSJohn Slattery on success of 'Spotlight' at Toronto Film Festival | 00:41 "Mad Men" star John Slattery discusses his role in the film "Spotlight" which received enormous praise at the Toronto Film Festival. 7 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSMatt Walsh says Julia Louis Dreyfus' character is terrible politician | 00:17 "Veep" star Matt Walsh says Julia Louis Dreyfus' character, President Selena Meyer is terrible a politician. 8 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDS'Veep' cast likes to party | 00:27 "Veep" star Timothy Simons says that despite being low-key on set, at the Emmys the show's cast takes over parties. 9 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSJohn Oliver on Trump's ratings | 00:54 "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver says he hopes Trump's fame will fade. 10 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSUpcoming Han Solo film directors willing to pre-cast Chris Pratt | 00:58 Directors of the still untitled young Han Solo film, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, talk about casting Chris Pratt as a young Han Solo. 11 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDS'Thrones' Brienne of Tarth happy that women are getting better roles | 00:42 "Game of Thrones" star Gwendoline Christie says some of the roles she's been getting demonstrate that Hollywood is writing more roles for strong female characters. 12 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSAfter 'Bessie,' Mo'Nique lists other women she would like to play | 01:08 Mo'Nique lists some other women she'd like to portray to bring unknown histories to light. 13 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSPatrick Fabian on how 'Saul' became successful spinoff | 01:14 "Better Call Saul" star Patrick Fabian talks about what it was like working in the shadow of "Breaking Bad." 14 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSWhat's next for Sansa Stark? | 00:54 "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner talks about what's ahead for her character, Sansa Stark. 15 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSMaksim Chmerkovoskly says he won't return to 'Dancing with the Stars' | 00:23 "Dancing with the Stars" competitor Maksim Chmerkovoskly explains why he does not plan to return to the show. 16 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSJulian Fellowes lays out some ideas for 'Downton' spinoffs | 00:45 "Dowton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes discusses a few ideas for spinoff with some of his show's characters. 17 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDS'Thrones' cast weighs in on Jon Snow's future | 01:13 Members of the "Game of Thrones" discuss whether Jon Snow will be returning to the show. 18 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSModern Family kids on growing up on camera | 01:11 "Modern Family's" Rico Rodriguez and Nolan Gould discuss what it was like to grow up on camera. 19 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSAndy Samberg rolls out Emmy's red carpet | 01:32 The 67th Emmy's host Andy Samberg and Emmy's executives roll out the red carpet in front of the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. 20 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSHow USA TODAY photographers shoot the Emmys | 03:21 USA TODAY photographers Robert Hanashiro and Dan MacMedan talk about how they approach shooting an awards show like the Emmys. 21 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Best Actor, Drama | 01:02 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for best actor in a drama series at this year's Emmy's and who should win. USA TODAY 22 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Best Actress, Comedy | 01:29 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for best actress in a comedy series at this year's Emmy's and who should win. USA TODAY 23 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Best Actress, Drama | 00:54 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for best actress in a drama series at this year's Emmy's and who should win. USA TODAY 24 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Best Actor, Comedy | 01:17 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for best actor in a comedy series at this year's Emmy's and who should win. USA TODAY 25 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Outstanding Comedy | 01:00 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for outstanding comedy at this year's Emmy's and who should win. 26 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy's Category Breakdown: Outstanding Drama | 01:17 USA TODAY takes a look at the Emmy nominees competing for outstanding drama at this year's Emmy's and who should win. 27 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSActors who have won Emmy Award hat-tricks | 01:09 Certain shows win year after year at the Emmys, but there's another exclusive club for actors who have won Emmys for their work in not just one show year after year, but three! Buzz60 28 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSRegina King Excited Over Her Emmy Nod | 01:52 Star of 'American Crime,' Regina King shares her happiness at being nominated for an Emmy as best supporting actress in a limited series, and explains why it's a special moment to her as a woman of color. (Sept. 11) AP 29 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSFamous people with weird Emmy nominations | 01:07 The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards have the usual suspects like 'Modern Family' nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. But Sean Dowling (@seandowlingtv) has a list of famous people with weird Emmy nominations you might not have expected. Buzz60 30 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSEmmy Newbies Invited to the Party | 02:17 Anthony Anderson, Niecy Nash and Rachel Brosnahan reveal their excitement about getting their first Emmy nomination. (Aug. 25) AP 31 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSTina Fey Celebrates 'Unbreakable' Emmy Noms | 02:00 Tina Fey and the cast of her quirky Netflix comedy, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," celebrate their seven Emmy nominations. (Aug. 20) AP 32 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSUzo Aduba celebrates second Emmy nod | 01:58 Actress Uzo Aduba said she's "happy and grateful" to have nabbed a second Emmy nomination for playing Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren in the Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black." (Aug. 18) AP 33 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSThere might not be an Emmy losers party this year | 03:22 There are more ways than ever to watch the shows nominated for the 67th Primetime Emmys. Does that mean we'll see new faces winning this year? Video provided by Newsy Newslook 34 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSActors Toast Diversity at Pre-Emmys Bash | 01:17 An array of TV talent celebrates diversity on the small screen, at a Beverly Hills cocktail party ahead of the 67th Emmy Awards. (Aug. 28) AP 35 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDSWhat the Emmys got right | 01:20 USA TODAY's Robert Bianco details what the Emmys got right in their nominations. Robert Bianco, Collin Brennan, USA TODAY 36 of 37 2015 EMMY AWARDS2015 Emmy nominations: Biggest snubs | 01:34 USA TODAY television critic Robert Bianco questions what Emmy voters were thinking this year. Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY 37 of 37 Last VideoNext Video * Did Netflix or 'Thrones' have the better party bus? 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A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 10 Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs 'Daily Show' set headed for Newseum [writer_autos_tech-Yu_Roger.png] Roger Yu, USA TODAY 10:22 a.m. EDT August 6, 2015 USA TODAY's Robert Bianco previews the television lineup for Thursday, August 5, with Jon Stewart's final 'Daily Show' USA TODAY AP TV-STEWART-OBAMA MEETING A FILE ENT USA NY In July, Obama joked he'd issue an executive order to keep Jon Stewart on the air.(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 10 COMMENTEMAILMORE The current set of "The Daily Show" will be donated to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. after its popular host, Jon Stewart, airs his last show on Aug. 6. "We are thrilled to accept the donation of these artifacts to the Newseum collection," said Cathy Trost, Newseum's senior vice president of exhibits and programs, in a statement. "They are part of America's cultural and media history, telling an important story about how political satire and news as humor made 'The Daily Show' a trusted news source for a generation." Stewart began hosting the faux-news show on Comedy Channel in 1999 and helped transformed it into a hypocrisy-puncturing program that analyzes and ridicules politicians, journalists and other public figures. In February, he announced his plans to leave the show to pursue other opportunities. The Newseum, located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is a museum of news and journalism, whose exhibits include pieces of the Berlin Wall and the front pages of newspapers worldwide. JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Jon Stewart's enemies get to rip him on last episode of 'The Daily Show' | 01:08 Producers of 'The Daily Show' are reportedly taping a segment for Jon Stewart's last show in which his enemies rip him to shreds. Mara Montalbano (@maramontalbano) has the story. Buzz60 1 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Jon Stewart, 'Daily Show' gave these stars big breaks | 01:47 Jon Stewart isn't the only one who made it big on 'The Daily Show.' These stars were regulars long before they became household names. VPC 2 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Comedy Central bids farewell to Jon Stewart with 'Daily Show' month of Zen | 01:05 Comedy Central has come up with a fitting send off for long-time host of "The Daily Show"; by streaming every episode of his show for 42 days as "Your Month of Zen" Buzz60 3 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Critic's Corner: Saying good-bye to Jon Stewart | 01:12 USA TODAY's Robert Bianco previews the television lineup for Thursday, August 5, with Jon Stewart's final 'Daily Show' USA TODAY 4 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"5 of Jon Stewart's must-watch moments from "The Daily Show" | 01:10 Wrapping up a 16-year stint as the host of "The Daily Show" with an unmatchable approach to political satire, there are too many captivating Jon Stewart moments to count. Krystin Goodwin (@krystingoodwin) highlights five notable memories. Buzz60 5 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Jon Stewart skips jokes, gets serious about Charleston | 01:37 Jon Stewart's latest 'Daily Show' appearance was a somber one — in the wake of the tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof is accused of killing six women and three men Wednesday, Stewart decided to forego his usual jokes completely. USA TODAY 6 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Stars Dish on 'The Daily Show,' Jon Stewart | 01:20 Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina and Kevin Bacon bid farewell to Jon Stewart during his final week hosting "The Daily Show." (Aug. 4) AP 7 of 8 JON STEWART BIDS FAREWELL TO "THE DAILY SHOW"Obama Tells Jon Stewart Lessons He's Learned | 00:59 President Barack Obama and comedian Jon Stewart shared a moment of senioritis on Tuesday as both approach a common phenomenon: the light at the end of the tunnel. 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Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about FacebookEmailTwitterGoogle+LinkedInPinterest Secondhand Souls In San Francisco the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing and a motley crew of heroes investigate; sequel to "A Dirty Job" Loading… Post to Facebook ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Secondhand Souls ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ In San Francisco the souls of the dead are mysteriously dis ____________________________________________________________ Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1EtTEk {# IFRAME: http://api.recaptcha.net/noscript?k=6Lf7fuESAAAAAJ3_KMIDbkQySsEE0vMkLXU kq4eY #} CancelSend Sent! A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 5 Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Christopher Moore back with zany 'Souls' Don Oldenburg , Special for USA TODAY 2:02 p.m. EDT August 30, 2015 Secondhand Souls Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore (William Morrow) in General fiction Buy Now * Buy Now * Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Google Play * iBooks * Indiebound * Kobo * Zola USA TODAY BEST-SELLING BOOKS # 39 this week # - last week 1 weeks listed # 39 best week Debuted: September 03 2015 USA TODAY Rating Deep into Christopher Moore’s fantastically bizarre new novel, Secondhand Souls, Audrey, one of the main characters, explains to a hospital nurse why she must stand vigil by the body of a murdered comrade. She confides that she’s a Buddhist nun working undercover for the San Francisco cops. “I would watch that show,” says the skeptical nurse. “I wouldn’t believe it, but I would watch it.” The nurse’s deadpan reply is one of the novel’s countless great lines. It also sums up how you go about reading this wickedly entertaining tale of kinda-ordinary, anti-hero weirdoes fending off Evil Incarnate from the underworld as the Golden Gate City teeters on the brink of the apocalypse. Know up front that suspension of disbelief is the height requirement for this rollicking ride. The sequel to A Dirty Job, Moore’s 2006 madcap mythic apocalyptic novel, Secondhand Souls is populated with some of the same unforgettably wacky characters. Having rescued San Francisco from the Dark Forces by sacrificing his life, sweet, clueless, “beta male” Charlie Asher is back. His girlfriend Audrey (see above) uses a Buddhist p'howa consciousness transfer to project his soul into a living, talking, knee-high, crocodile-headed “meat puppet” she stitched together from road kill and cold cuts. She’s done it before, creating a whole herd of looney Squirrel People. Like Charlie, other good-guy Death Merchants are supposed to be following “Great Big Book of Death” directives, culling souls from the newly dead and storing them for safe keeping until needed. But nasty Celtic war goddesses, The Morrigan, are wiping out the Death Merchants. Still standing, among a few others, are retired SFPD homicide detective Alphonse Rivera, a procedural asset in this adventure, and 7-foot-tall, 275-pound record-store owner Minty Fresh, who exudes courageous cool. Author Christopher Moore, and friends. Author Christopher Moore, and friends. (Photo: Charlee Moore) That’s barely a dent in this zany cast, though. A likeable screeching Banshee packing a Taser appears often. The “deeply creepy” Lily is brilliant on the suicide crisis center phones. And 7-year-old Sophie, Charlie’s cute daughter, is precociously smart and jarringly foul-mouthed. Sophie also happens to be the Luminatus —or Big Death — empowered to kill by uttering a single word. She’s the primary obstacle preventing Evil Darkness from overtaking the universe. Early in the story, Minty Fresh asks incredulously, “And the only thing keeping the Forces of Darkness at bay has been demoted to, what, a first grader?” “Second,” said Charlie. “But she’s in the advanced reading group.” While character-driven and super fueled by witty, understated dialogue, the plot is brimming in this absurdist view of hip San Fran taking on End Time. This novel has lots of moving parts, not the least of which is the subplot of the unsettled ghosts on the Golden Gate Bridge. That gets so good it could’ve been a compelling stand-alone novel, but ghost-whisperer, bridge-painter Mike Sullivan, and his ethereal soulmate Concepción, are crucial to the outcome. The author of 14 other novels, Moore has emerged with a cult-like following by writing offbeat narratives saturated with heart and humor. If you close your eyes and read him, for all the colorful characters, verbal mischief and crazy wisdom you might think it’s Tom Robbins; or for the dark satire and intelligent mirth, Kurt Vonnegut. But Moore has brings his own game and creates a novel that pulses with its own glowing soul start to finish, if you can imagine. And you can’t, until you read it. 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Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Fox's 'Scream Queens' cuts up sorority life [writer_tv-Keveney_Bill.png] Bill Keveney, USA TODAY 2:44 p.m. EDT August 6, 2015 Emma Roberts Scream Queens Emma Roberts plays sorority leader Chanel Oberlin on Fox's 'Scream Queens.'(Photo: Steve Dietl, Fox) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – There's blood and violence in Fox's Scream Queens, but co-creator Ryan Murphy sees it as being much different from his FX series, American Horror Story. "Scream Queens is a much more satirical, cartoonish quality (to the violence) than American Horror Story does, which is much more sexualized and darker at times," he told writers during a Fox panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Thursday. Murphy, also a creator of Glee, said he found it interesting that he and fellow executive producers Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk received more network questions about language and sexuality than for violence in Queens (Sept. 22), a comedy-horror mix. MORE: TV season preview "Language and the girls having an empowering sense of their sexuality ... get the most attention and the most pushback," he said. "Violence is cool" to the same network standards officials. Queens focuses on a college sorority with a murder mystery in its past and a campus with a killer clad in devil clothing in its present. [635744570879682516-empire-lawsuit-080615-2.jpg] USA TODAY Will 'Empire's' Cookie have company? When the writers were asked about the harsh and sometimes offensive comments made by sorority leader Chanel (Emma Roberts), Jamie Lee Curtis, the iconic Halloween star who plays a college dean who forces the exclusive sorority to open its doors to all, pointed to the show's satirical focus. "It is a social satire and actually we say what people think. We live in a bubble where (people are) all trying to behave and look a certain way. This flays imagined behaviors of human beings," she said. "Everyone is wearing a mask and this show peels off that mask each week." The characters "can say anything as long as they stay true to their screwed-up moral code," Falchuk said. [635744609127386152-D-HOR-PRISON-TV-STRIKE-18089291.JPG] USA TODAY Fox going back to 'Prison' [635744605196158492-Boreanaz-Deschanel-Bones.jpg] USA TODAY Fox's 'Bones,' 'Sleepy Hollow' plan crossover As far as the show's perspective on sororities – and fraternities, which also are featured – "It's hard to look at them now and not (see them) as a little bit antiquated," he said. Skyler Samuels, a real-life sorority member who plays Queens sorority newcomer Grace, said some recent news stories have featured fraternity and sorority "boys and girls not making the best choices" but that the characters can bond and also display a "good brotherhood and sisterhood." 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According to Sandler, TheRidiculous Six doesn't mock Native American culture, and while he did not get a chance to talk to the actors who walked off set, Sandler claimed he talked to other Native Americans on set to clear the air. [635654045792966644-GTY-461145936-69845766.JPG] USA TODAY Native-American actors walk off Sandler set "I talked to some of the actors on the set who were there and let them know that the intention of the movie is 100% to just make a funny movie," Sandler said. "It's really about American Indians being good to my character and about their family and just being good people. There's no mocking of American Indians at all in the movie." "Hopefully when people see it — whoever was offended on set and walked out, I hope they realize that, and that's it," he said. "It was kinda taken out of context." According to Indian Country Today, the Native American actors walked off the Ridiculous Six set to protest potential offenses in the script, including women named Beaver's Breath and No Bra, a scene where an Apache woman urinates while smoking a peace pipe and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee. [1412182319004--MWC-GALLERY-13.JPG] USA TODAY Adam Sandler to make four movies for Netflix "The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of -- but in on -- the joke," said Netflix in a statement after the actors' April walkout. 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It's one of the great jokes history has played on the modern world More Watch Fighters Literally Go Medieval on Each Other in This New Documentary Why We Shouldn’t Refer to ISIS as ‘Medieval’ History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Why would any serious medievalist turn his/her attention to this most spurious object, the medieval chastity belt, and examine its alleged reality and dissemination all over the world? Most people, both within the academia and outside, tend to chuckle when they hear about this chastity belt because they don’t know much about it and yet have a certain understanding from the modern media, and because it allows them to think and speak about the female sexual body in a seemingly legitimate fashion. Basically, the chastity belt, so the story goes, served a crusader knight to protect his wife from unwanted, or at least illegitimate, sexual contacts during his absence. More specifically, the husband placed such a belt on his wife’s body out of fear from wooers who could abuse the opportunity and sleep with her while he was fighting for God in distant lands. Jokes and humorous accounts about medieval sexuality intimately combine to attract many people who otherwise would have no interest in the Middle Ages. We also laugh about the chastity belt because it symbolizes in a complex manner the husband’s impotence, or his fear of competitors, and particularly universal worries by men that they might not be able to control their wives’ sexuality. Little wonder that modern feminists have regularly railed against this ‘monstrous’ strategy of repression allegedly employed by husbands in the Middle Ages, but very few cultural historians have ever closely examined the sources where we discover references to the chastity belt. Laughter, however, has regularly revealed much larger issues at stake, and there is hardly any really ‘harmless’ joke, especially when the topic of sexuality is at play. Humor and comedy are huge and complex topics closely associated with epistemology, anthropology, sociology, medicine, and even philosophy. The topic of the chastity belt hence proves to be important not so much as to whether it existed or not, but rather as to the phenomenon itself that people talked about it in the first place. It is critically important to understand why someone is telling a joke, what purpose s/he might pursue with it, and what the ultimate intent might be; we also must comprehend why the situation, object, or people we are laughing about would be so risible. To approach the medieval chastity belt as a theme hence requires that we investigate, first, whether such an object actually existed in the past, irrespective of the vast number of specimens that still can be found in so-called medieval torture museums all over the world. Second, we are called upon to examine closely the discourse on the chastity belt at least since the seventeenth century, which subsequently entered into a quasi-scholarly debate that has been rather tantalizing over the decades because in this particular case most principles of critical arguments have been commonly disregarded or undermined. We could also add a third component which makes the discussion of the chastity belt so important and revealing. Much of what we assume to know about the Middle Ages, or any other phase in cultural history, proves to be handed down to us through epistemological filters that regularly threaten to transform the reality behind it and convey to us, hence, mostly mythical concepts that need to be analyzed meticulously before we can claim any real comprehension. One powerful example would be the modern assumption that people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat. Nothing would be further from the truth, but even an overwhelming amount of evidence stating the very opposite does little to solve the issue, since popular opinions are highly influential particularly because they are not well founded and disregard most historical details. The chastity belt, as I have observed in my book The Medieval Chastity Belt (2007), was first mentioned by a German engineer/artist, Conrad Kyeser, in 1405, in his treatise on siege machines and similar objects. While he was very serious about those gadgets, he then offered a number of hilarious examples of contraptions that were the products of pure imagination, such as the chastity belt. Since he identified it as having originated in Florence, there might have been earlier references to this ominous object serving to control a woman’s sexuality. But it is a joke, nothing else, as the context and the monstrosity of the metal cage indicate. This joke obviously appealed to a number of satirical writers and artists in the following centuries, who fully understood the great value of the chastity belt for their own purposes to entertain their audiences. Indeed, the literary examples that I could uncover consistently belong to the genre of satire, while the chastity belt never appears in serious texts or art works. No author of sermon literature, of penitentiary texts, or didactic and legal writers has ever mentioned the chastity belt probably because already the basic idea behind it defies the basic needs of the human (female) body. At the same time, consistently those writers/artists who mentioned the chastity belt only reflected on and played with men’s dread of female power, especially with regard to sexuality. All this would have been marginally interesting regarding anecdotal aspects of the late Middle Ages, but the theme of the chastity belt subsequently gained major significance in the nineteenth century when many authors of scholarly and less scholarly works began to harp on the chastity belt as a monstrous instrument used by medieval husbands to subjugate their wives. This was also the time when ever more popular medieval torture museums were established all over Europe, mostly supplied by modern (!) objects produced in England at that time. Indeed, it also became fashionable to write about the chastity belt as a convenient topic in order to meet prurient interests during the repressive Victorian age. Since the twentieth century the interest in the chastity belt has waned, though it continues to serve ominously warning modern women of men’s horrible actions against their wives. But until the publication of my book in 2007, most lay authors and also many scholars simply assumed that the chastity belt had been in existence in the Middle Ages and was commonly used by knights departing for a crusade or other military operations. Most of those concerned with the history of sexuality have fallen into the trap of this mythical object from the past, which was a hoax already in the fifteenth century, and became the biggest hoax of historical museums since the nineteenth century. The treatment of the medieval chastity belt thus proves to be an ideal case study of how our knowledge of the Middle Ages has been determined and shaped by modern-day interests and (mis)conceptions. Albrecht Classen is the author of The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (The New Middle Ages), which was published in 2007. Sign up for [1x1.trans.gif] [history-logo-black.png] and more view example ____________________ Submit Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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The popular satirical news show ends this week With “The Daily Show” ending this week, the show’s set will be donated to the Newseum — a museum dedicated to journalism — in Washington, D.C. “We are thrilled to accept the donation of these artifacts to the Newseum collection,” said Cathy Trost, who is the Newseum’s senior vice president of exhibits and programs, in a statement. “They are part of America’s cultural and media history, telling an important story about how political satire and news as humor made ‘The Daily Show’ a trusted news source for a generation.” Stewart’s first episode of the show aired in 1999. In February, he announced he’d be retiring from the wildly popular satirical news show. For more on the show, read Fortune’s look at some of the most memorable business moments. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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But in 1969, when model-turned-author Jeanne Rejaunier was promoting her new novel, The Beauty Trap, the advice was a little more gender-specific. In a LIFE photo essay called “What it takes to be a lady author anymore,” Rejaunier posed for shots that demonstrated how a woman should promote her literary work. A successful lady author, the captions suggested, must “swim a little,” “exercise in a bikini” and be “photographed in bed.” The essay attributed the success of her book, a novel based on the dark side of the modeling world, to Rejaunier’s beauty rather than her literary talents: “Just possibly because she smiles so prettily on the book jacket (the back and the front of the book) The Beauty Trap is now in its fourth printing.” It’s difficult to know, in retrospect, whether the captions might be tinged with a hint of satire, or whether Rejaunier’s participation was entirely voluntary or urged by eager publicists. Whatever the intent, the effect was to suggest that a few sultry glamor shots would go further than any serious engagement with the substance of the book. Whether or not Rejaunier enjoyed fulfilling the role of a “lady author” as LIFE proscribed it—a former model, she was at least used to posing for photos—there were certainly forces beyond her control influencing the marketing strategy for her novel. “There is a difference of opinion about whether or not Jeanne put herself inside The Beauty Trap as a character,” read the article. “The publisher is responsible for putting her outside it.” Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk. 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Entertainment MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Entertainment Television Janeane Garofalo on Wet Hot American Summer’s Cult Status and Quitting the Internet * Nolan Feeney @NolanFeeney July 30, 2015 SHARE Janeane Garofalo in Wet Hot American Summer First Day of Camp Saeed Adyani—Netflix Janeane Garofalo returns to Camp Firewood in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. The actress and comedian talks with TIME about the Netflix prequel series More The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years AgoTracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele StarSteve Harvey Asks Miss Colombia to Forgive Him for Historic Flub Janeane Garofalo doesn’t know when she’ll watch all of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the eight-episode prequel to the 2001 cult film she starred in, which begins streaming on Netflix this Friday. That’s because she doesn’t use the Internet anymore, so she can’t just fire up the series on a laptop. She doesn’t have an email address or an iPhone either. In fact, to schedule our interview, she gives me a call to ask what my schedule looks like so she can be available on her preferred landline—a far cry from the typical, celebrity interviews that come together over days of emailing with publicists haggling over time slots. Streaming services and smartphone technology aren’t the only things that have changed since Wet Hot American Summer premiered 14 years ago, but the former Air America host and one-time Saturday Night Live cast member is unfazed by all of it. The film’s intense cult following? Garofalo already predicted that back when she was making the movie. The A-list rise of her co-stars Bradley Cooper and Amy Poehler? Well deserved, she says, but hardly surprising. And what about the political correctness debate happening in comedy right now? Nothing she hasn’t heard before as a veteran stand-up comedian. Garofalo spoke with TIME about capturing the magic of the original Wet Hot American Summer, her views on Donald Trump and why Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion has a big gay following. TIME: Will you binge-watch the entire series when it comes out on Netflix? Janeane Garofalo: We don’t have it yet! I’ll be in Jackson, Mississippi, working on something. Unless the hotel has Netflix. Do you have a laptop? I don’t use a computer, nor do I have a smartphone. I know you don’t believe that. Many people can’t believe it. People will believe in a deity, extraterrestrial ghosts, but this one thing they can’t believe. I’m a bit of a neo-luddite. Isn’t that the cool thing to do now? You’re ahead of the game. It’s not noble. The downside is it definitely affects ticket sales for stand-up comedy because social media platforms are vital to a lot of comics on the road. But I’m absolutely willing to sacrifice seats because there are so many negative things. What happened with Air America with so many right-wing trolls and death threats, it emotionally affected me. That stuff doesn’t roll right off me the way it does for some people, and there’s such a culture of cruelty with it that I just couldn’t handle it. Now there are so many upsides to it—I understand that it’s the great democratic medium. But I also like to get books and magazines and the paper, and I like to watch MSNBC and BBC News. I like it the old-fashioned way. My boyfriend uses a computer, and if I absolutely need to he can pass along information to me. That’s good! You’re probably better off this way. I don’t miss much. I never know what people are talking about with viral videos. When somebody asks, “Did you see so-and-so’s face, have they had work done?” I don’t know what they’re referring to, and I’m happy to not be a part of pop culture nonsense. I don’t mean that in an arrogant way—I just don’t have an interest in knowing “Did they have work done?” or “Did you see that slutty video of the cat doing the thing?” I was just talking with Hannibal Buress about animated GIFS and how people discover new comedy through platforms like Tumblr. It’s really important! There are so many comics whose work is built upon the new technology. They can sell out good-sized spaces purely through that, and I understand that. But then you could go down a rabbit hole and waste so much time look at stuff, which I think lots of people do at work. They pretend to look busy. Also, people just never get off the phone. You will never be invited anywhere again if people can’t email you, which can be an upside if you never wanted to go to brunch in the first place. Yeah, that sounds like it has its perks. Sometimes I’ll hear about stuff if I run into somebody, but it’s as if people no longer can pick up a phone. I can text, but also I’m really happy not to attend your kid’s fifth birthday party in Park Slope—no offense to anyone and their kid’s birthday parties. But enough about that nonsense. So when did you realize Wet Hot American Summer had become a cult classic? Here’s the thing: I predicted it was going be a cult classic when we were making it, and I couldn’t believe it when no one saw it at the time. I was just like, Wow, we had such a great time making it! At Sundance there was a bidding war over a movie called Super Troopers by [comedy group] Broken Lizard, which eclipsed us. People thought, “Oh, this is the same type of thing. The State [an MTV sketch show that featured many Wet Hot actors] people have put out a movie, and here’s Broken Lizard—let’s go with Broken Lizard.” Then years went by, and I started noticing that much younger people at the street level and at stand-up shows would come up to me quoting lines from it. It just built and built and built from there. I started noticing that around seven years ago. Is that the role people approach you about the most? I personally associate you most with Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. That actually is a biggie. And that happened late—much later, with younger people and especially in the LGBT community. I don’t want to make a sweeping generalization, but it seems that the number of people who are gay who have mentioned it far outnumbers the hetero community. Does that sound okay to say that? Totally. That movie was always on TV when I was growing up, but I see it: the fantasy of wowing everybody at your reunion after feeling like an outsider for so long probably resonates with a lot of young queer people. Right, and there’s a camp quality to the comedy of it. That was another one I thought was going to be much bigger when it was released and then has grown. You could say that with a lot of movies, now that people can see things multiple times. When I was growing up, you saw the movie the one time when it was in the theater. Now you can see things 850 million times anytime you want, and new generations are seeing them. That’s really nice. I’m always happy when people like certain things that I like. Would this prequel series not have been made if it weren’t for the opportunities of streaming outlets like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon? Presumably! I’m assuming that’s the case because with new avenues there needs to be content on these avenues. More importantly, it wouldn’t have happened if the popularity of the movie itself hadn’t grown. I don’t think Netflix would be like, “Let’s show this thing that was not seen by that many people!” But they had the unbelievable good fortune of Elizabeth Banks, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd becoming enormously successful. What’s that like for you, watching Bradley Cooper become the Bradley Cooper we know today? Or seeing Paul Rudd become a Marvel superhero? Well, I thought Paul Rudd was really famous, to tell you the truth, because I was familiar with Paul Rudd in lots of stuff prior to that. We had done a movie called 200 Cigarettes before, but also from Clueless, so I was under the impression that Paul Rudd was already a huge star. Then he became even huger! But the careers that Elizabeth and Bradley and Amy have, like, .55 percent of the SAG-AFTRA union gets to enjoy. And to have that many in one movie! I think it’s thrilling. It couldn’t have happened to nicer and more deserving people. Bradley is a fantastic guy and an extremely talented guy and works really hard, as does Amy. Their work ethics are ridiculous. Streaming outlets have gotten praise for showing the kinds of characters and stories viewers wouldn’t otherwise see on TV. As someone who’s talked about the limited opportunities available for an actress at your age, are you starting to feel the impact of that? I hope. With new avenues of course there are going to come new roles. The thing is, though, you’ve got to be lucky enough to have access to even those. There’s still this insatiable hunger for using “names.” There’s still a little bit of the double standard, female-versus-male: “We would prefer the women were younger and better looking.” Men have more latitude. I would say it’s still harder for people of color and people in the LGBTQ community. I think that’s a real tough one to break. Have you seen Amy Schumer’s “Last F-ckable Day” sketch with Tina Fey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and— Yes, yes, and Patty Arquette? You know what’s so funny about that? I feel the same way idol-wise. When I saw them sitting at the table, I was like, “Oh my God!” Patricia Arquette has been one of my idols for years. She’s younger than me. Not only is she adorable, she’s such an interesting, emotional, intuitive actor. When Amy walked through the woods and saw those three there I was like, “Oh, I feel the same way!” To come upon that in the woods, I would have the same wonder and delight that Amy Schumer did. But to me the Amy Schumer thing that I think was amazing was the Twelve Angry Men remake. It’s so good, so well done and so funny. You’ve said that you were drunk 90 percent of the time while filming the first movie and that there was a lot of bed-hopping among the cast. What was the vibe like this time around? I know you quit drinking a while ago. It was the opposite of that! First of all, everybody’s much older. Almost everybody else—I don’t—had children. They lived in L.A. while we were shooting, whereas last time we were in Pennsylvania and stayed at the site in the camp the entire time. So you had a bunch of younger people who were not with child and still drinking heavily and having the time of their lives. This time, even though it was very fun, you had people who were sober, commuting to work, with families and not bed-hopping. Now, whatever the younger cast was doing I have no idea. They are a bit too young to probably be partaking in anything, and their parents were there. This was very professional. Very enjoyable, but completely different. How did you capture the spirit of making the original then? Well, we all know each other, and we all enjoy working with each other. So that was totally fine. I was there the whole time because my part is sprinkled throughout and I don’t need to fly back and forth. I don’t have a family here [in New York], so I’m like, “Just put me at a hotel, and I’m fine!” Every once in a while some of the other New York people would be there, and we would go to Gelson’s. That was our big night: we’d go to Gelson’s, or sometimes people would sit outside and watch me smoke cigarettes in the parking lot, and that was great. I love that kind of stuff when you’re at the same hotel at night, but it was just as enjoyable during the day being at Calamigos Ranch. And it was great meeting the new cast that came: Jon Hamm I had met before, but Weird Al Yankovic, Kristen Wiig, Josh Charles—all those people brought in a new fun thing. It was just constantly enjoyable. And Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman were great and funny, so I felt like it was different but no less enjoyable. I was also not drunk and hungover a lot of the time—actually, I was so happy, I didn’t get hungover that bad back then. When I got older, that’s when it got me. Does making something for Netflix feel any different on set? To me it felt like the same thing. It’s still shooting. The difference is [writers] Michael [Showalter] and David [Wain] have directed a million things since their first thing, the original movie. You had them trying to make a movie when they had not done that before, and now they’ve directed a whole bunch of things, so there was an ease to that this time. They also had a machine behind them and an infrastructure that did not exist for them last time, so it was probably much less stressful for them. And it didn’t rain every single day like it did last time. Oh really? Yeah, I think it rained 20 days out of the 22 day shoot of Wet Hot. It was just a mud bath. It wouldn’t rain all day every day but it would rain at some point every single day. As you know in California with the drought, that was not the case. As someone who is known for her politics as well as her comedy, do you think that the 2016 election is going to supply comedians with good material? I think [for] all comedians who discuss politics and culture in that way, there’s always something to discuss. The problem is when it becomes too tragic, when certain right-wing nonsense is actually culturally criminal: the anti-immigrant stuff, the Donald Trump nonsense. Yes, we can laugh at Donald Trump, but it is just absurd. First of all, you can’t parody it. You cannot parody Donald Trump. Or Michele Bachmann, or the nonsense a lot of the Tea Partiers say, or Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. Or any of Fox News—their deliberate misinformation campaign and their pandering to the base by being racist, anti-immigrant, misogynistic. None of that stuff is funny to me. It hurts me, and it should be something everyone is concerned about. When prideful ignorance and homophobia and misogyny and xenophobia become accepted politic rhetoric, that’s not funny to me. The Huffington Post recently announced that it’s putting Donald Trump coverage in the entertainment section instead of the politics section. I can’t speak for everybody, but I find some of these things just tragic and painful to absorb and not helpful to us as a society. Those that are ignorant, racist, misogynistic, homophobic—it empowers them when they have figureheads to rally around, when the mainstream media treats it like it’s actually news. People like Donald Trump should be either ignored, or put purely in entertainment and satire coverage, as opposed to legitimate news coverage. That’s my opinion. Because it really does prevent us as a society from evolving and becoming more enlightened when these things are just put out there like it’s a side or an issue. It’s painful to me, and hard for me to laugh at it. What do you think about the political correctness debate that’s been happening in comedy right now? Oh, that’s always going on. That’s not new. Actually I call political correctness “manners.” If someone wishes to be referred to as African-American or Latina or transgender or whatever it is, that is respectful. That’s not the “P.C. Police” or “fascist.” That’s called manners. It’s called emotional intelligence. And also, if something is funny, it’s funny. And if a smart person, an enlightened person is doing comedy which has elements that point out racism, misogyny, all that stuff—that’s fine. If it’s a dumb-ass doing it, where you don’t see the ridiculousness of it or the irony of it, there’s no value to it. I don’t know if I’m articulating this correctly. I get what you’re saying—punching up, doing it with a purpose. Yeah, yeah. It’s not wrong to respect people’s wishes to not be marginalized, mocked, stereotyped as we move on and on into the new millennium. 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Entertainment MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Entertainment Television Review: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Delivers Rock of the Aged * James Poniewozik @poniewozik July 14, 2015 SHARE Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - "Don't Wanna Die Anonymous" -- Ep 101 (Airs Thursday, July 16, 10:00 pm e/p) -- Pictured: (l-r) John Corbett as Flash, Denis Leary as Johnny Rock, John Ales as Rehab. CR. Patrick Harbron/FX FX Denis Leary's sendup of a classic-rock has-been suffers from a datedness of its own. More Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNLWatch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David BowieThe Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago When Denis Leary hit it big in the early ‘90s, he was as much rock star as comedian. He ranted about videos and R.E.M. in a leather jacket on his MTV interstitial clips; he took the stage with a guitarist and a pack of smokes, belting out his single “A**hole” in his standup special No Cure for Cancer. So it makes sense that in his FX comedy Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (premieres July 16), he plays a rock star who hit big in the early ‘90s. But the effect is less comeback tour than dad-band performance. Here, the acerbic Rescue Me star plays Johnny Rock, once lead singer of The Heathens, who were legendary for about five minutes on the New York City music scene in the early Nirvana era and broke up the day their breakout album was released after he cuckolded his guitarist Flash (John Corbett). Now he’s a has-been, snorting anything powdered and seriously considering a job with a Jon Bon Jovi tribute band. His luck changes, sort of, when a young woman he hits on at a bar turns out to be Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies), the daughter he didn’t know he had. She’s come to town with the idea, and the cash, to reunite the band—but with herself as lead singer and Johnny as her mentor. But that means luring back Flash–now a well-paid sideman for Lady Gaga–and it means Johnny checking his still-arena-sized ego. The self-destructive egotist is a riff Leary can play with his guitar behind his neck. In The Job and especially Rescue Me, the mashup of comedy and pathos was erratic, but when it worked it was raw and bracing in a way more self-serious antihero series couldn’t achieve. But the old-man-meets-millennial comedy that Sex&Drugs sets up feels cranky and creaky. Gigi, you see, wants Johnny to teach her the ways of authentic rock: “I’m not shooting fireworks out of my tits. I want to sing real songs with real musicians.” Sex&Drugs can be laceratingly funny about Johnny as aging rocker in denial (he’s still huge in Belgium!), but it shares his grumpy attitude that authenticity died with Kurt Cobain, his Manichean view (and Gigi’s) that music is a battle of real vs. phony, analog vs. digital, Joe Perry vs. Katy Perry. And if it’s not male vs. female, the women—like Johnny’s girlfriend Ava (Elaine Hendrix)—sing backup, unless, like Gigi, they prove their balls. (“Dad,” she says when Johnny writes a sensitive ballad, “that song sounded like something that Sting would write if he was living inside Sarah McLachlan’s vagina.”) Johnny’s dinosaur act may be intentional; but the show’s references and rockumentary clichés are just fossilized. Besides Sting, there are jabs at David Bowie and Radiohead, making this the edgiest rock satire of 1993. There is a set piece about rock bands’ over-the-top greenroom requests (“Twelve filet mignons in a box, like meat donuts”), not to mention an actual “Did I just say that out loud?” joke. In a show that has so much to say about authenticity, the details simply feel off. The Heathens were meant to have been edgy in the early ’90s–in an opening mockumentary, The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli describes them as “If The Who f*cked The Clash and they had four kids”–but sound like a bar band. (Leary wrote much of the series’ original music.) And while the snide, lizardy Johnny comes effortlessly to Leary, Corbett, a comfy jean-jacket of an actor, is unconvincing as a difficult rock god. (It doesn’t help that the character names–“Johnny Rock,” “Flash,” the drummer “Bam Bam,” played by Louie’s Robert Kelly–sound like something from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.) For all that, the return to more straight-ahead comedy feels liberating to Leary, and at times the show hits on a real, productive conflict. In the third episode, Johnny watches Gigi nails a new song that he wrote, and he’s both moved and unsettled to see that his music may be better through her than through him. For a minute, Johnny the father overtakes Johnny the rocker–but when he gets a chance to steal the spotlight back, he takes it. There’s potential here for a sharp sitcom about a man who’s kept aging but stopped growing. But too often Sex&Drugs shares Johnny’s arrested development, at the expense of both relevance and comedy. In one of his School of Rock sessions with Gigi, Johnny holds forth on how Keith Richards wrote “Satisfaction” while high, and he sees himself as the same kind of grizzled rock lion. But the refrain Sex&Drugs keeps singing is: “Hey! You! Get off of my lawn.” Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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Entertainment MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Entertainment Television Review: Ballers Throws a Flag on the Playboys * James Poniewozik @poniewozik June 19, 2015 SHARE HBO The HBO football dramedy sometimes overcomes its ESPN-Entourage tendencies. But nuclear comedy The Brink is just a bomb. More Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNLWatch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David BowieThe Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago When HBO announced Ballers, I expected–well, look at the title. Even before the Entourage movie landed in theaters, the last thing HBO needed creatively was another big swinging swing at dudes in a glamor career–here, pro football–the hot chicks who pose and grind around them, and how generally awesome it is to be awesome. That the show was set in flesh-friendly, booty-popping Miami rather than, say, Green Bay, seemed a statement of intent. And yeah, often times Ballers (premieres June 21) delivers exactly that show. Take the third episode, in which former Dolphin linebacker turned financial manager Spence (action star / living marble statue Dwayne Johnson) throws a party on his boss’ yacht to lure in current players as clients. There are players (of both kinds), cosmetically enhanced babes in and quickly out of bikinis, expensive liquor and more expensive mishaps. In the second episode, a player treats himself to a flaming orange McLaren, the precise douchemobile, down to the color, owned by billionaire boor Russ Hanneman in Silicon Valley. In these moments, Ballers looks like the love child created if Entourage hooked up with First and Ten and each assumed the other was using protection. But just when you think you have Ballers pegged, it reveals that there are warning lights on the expensive dashboard, sharks circling in the hot tub. The tipoff is Spence’s job: his firm wants him to “monetize his relationships,” i.e., signing up hot players to manage the money gushers that will dry up while they are still young. (As happened to Spence: we soon learn that, while he’s putting on a shiny front to drum up business, he’s near-broke.) It’s a timely focus: a recent National Bureau of Economic Research study found nearly 16% of players went bankrupt within 12 years of retirement–which retirement, of course, could come from an injury on any play. That’s not the only current NFL woe here. Spence, like many former players, is showing possible signs of concussive syndrome; he’s in denial, but chomps painkillers like corn nuts and keeps having PTSD-like flashbacks to a brutal hit he delivered against an unfortunate quarterback. The league’s domestic-abuse troubles haven’t arisen yet–HBO sent out the first four episodes–but off-field violence has. The history of portraying the dark side of the NFL on TV is not a proud one, if you recall the quashing of ESPN’s Playmakers under pressure from the league. Ballers is hardly that dark, but, HBO says, the network is making the series without the league’s involvement or consent. Like Starz’s impressive Survivor’s Remorse–also about athletes, largely African American and many who grew up with little–Ballers is a swaggery comedy that nonetheless has plenty of drama. (The series was created by Stephen Levinson of Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, but producers include Peter Berg, who explored the highs and lows of football in Friday Night Lights–and has a recurring role as a coach here.) Johnson is the show’s MVP–he’s suave and charming as hell as Spence, a trained predator on the field rechanneling his energies into savvy sweet talk. (Given The Rock’s recent ubiquity in Furious Seven and San Andreas, this is a little like HBO’s lucky timing with Matthew McConaughey last year.) The ensemble around him represents the cycle of pro life: Vernon (Donovan Carter), a red-hot rookie getting bled by his hangers-on; Ricky (John David Washington), a troubled receiver looking for another chance in Miami; and retired Charles (Omar Miller), scrambling to find a day job. (As Spence’s coworker, Rob Corddry has a comic-relief role that’s not as strictly comic as you might guess.) Ballers is hardly a must-watch yet, and the early episodes rely on a lot of familiar problems-of-fame stories. But it has potential, and its timing just might be right. Ballers shares some of Entourage‘s wish-fulfillment, it’s-all-good ethos. But Ballers is also constantly aware that it could go all bad on any given Sunday. HBO In TV as in sports, you have your Cinderella franchises that turn scrappy unknowns into winners. And then you have the teams that sign an who’s-who of famous names and have nothing to show for it. That’s HBO’s insipid geopolitical comedy The Brink (also premieres June 21), which enlists Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Aasif Mandvi, Pablo Schreiber and supporting players including Carla Gugino and John Larroquette in a doomed suicide mission to spoof America’s entanglements in Pakistan. I’d say “satirize” instead of “spoof,” but even bad satires have something to say. The Brink, built around a doomsday crisis involving a ruthless Pakistani general, the country’s nuclear arsenal, a drugged-out fighter pilot and various venal American diplomats and politicians, has no point of view beyond, “Damn, people are crazy”: it’s the geocomedy equivalent of a shruggie symbol with dick and barf jokes. You can build a political-comedy engine fueled on nothing more than cynicism–Veep pulls it off every season–but you need prime material, not broad, caricatured, warmed-over Dr. Strangelove with more full-frontal. Maybe the show’s mad-mad-world-war style is meant to be a throwback, down to the title-credits art, which features a finger on a Cold War-vintage button. But The Brink is far more likely to trigger a hasty finger on your TV remote. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Ideas MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Ideas Books Who Killed Carrie Bradshaw? * Daniel D’Addario @DPD_ June 11, 2015 SHARE Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and writer Candace Bushnell attend the opening night celebration of the New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on November 25, 2008 in New York City. Michael Loccisano—Getty Images Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and writer Candace Bushnell attend the opening night celebration of the New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on November 25, 2008 in New York City. 'Sex and the City' creator Candace Bushnell's new novel shows what happens when writers regret their own creations More A Visit to the King Home on the Night Martin Luther King Jr. DiedHow the Super Bowl Got Its NameYour Favorite New Star Wars Character Is Getting a Comic Book Pity poor Sarah Jessica Parker. Without doing anything but winning over America, she’s ended up caught in a tussle between the novelist Candace Bushnell and her legacy. After all, Bushnell has, since the late 1990s, been most famous for something Parker did: Turning Carrie Bradshaw into a romantic heroine. Sex and the City, Bushnell’s 1994-96 New York Observer column and 1997 book about a clique of neurotic, messy abusers of substances and one another, centered around one Carrie Bradshaw, the worst of the lot. It was a scathing satire of fin de siècle life in the world’s most important, and most self-important, city, and Bradshaw’s pathologies, though understandable, were far from cute. The HBO adaptation began, too, as a pretty biting satire, but Parker’s winsome portrayal ended up turning Bradshaw into the sort of heroine that can inhabit the center of a profitable movie franchise and become something of a Zeitgeist unto herself. Carrie Bradshaw as played by Parker was last seen in 2010, with the release of Sex and the City 2, a fairytale-like romp in the Middle East. That film grossed some $288 million worldwide, but had become unrecognizable, a cobbled-together Frankenstein in Louboutins. Though Big and Carrie stayed together, the enterprise had undergone a divorce from reality. Bushnell tried to regain control of her own creation in the past couple years with two young-adult novels about Carrie Bradshaw growing up in the 1980s. Even after writing a book about entirely different characters, Bushnell still seems preoccupied; her new book Killing Monica reads like a fairly unhappy comment about life in the shadow of one’s own creation. While Bushnell has said that Killing Monica is entirely a work of fiction, it’s hard to believe that none of her real-life frustrations made it into the story of aspiring literary novelist Pandy Wallis, whose career is sidetracked by the popularity of actress SondraBeth Schnowzer playing Pandy’s “Monica” character. Schnowzer, a relative unknown who rises to stardom on the back of Monica while Pandy’s contributions are forgotten by opinion-makers, is drawn with plenty of fang but little finesse. She’s Pandy’s fair-weather friend—a creature of Hollywood so slim she refers to herself as a “racehorse,” a drama queen who so overidentifies with the Monica character that she steals it away from Pandy. Killing Monica is pugnacious from the early moment SondraBeth enters. What subtle differences from Parker exist in the book—SondraBeth is a newcomer, not a former child star, and she’s an object of tabloid fascination, unlike the reticent real-life star—they’re not enough to preclude the uncomfortable sense of walking into a family feud. But whatever one thinks of the parallels between Schnowzer and Parker, this fight isn’t really about them. The real tension, unfortunate at best, comes from framing a character seemingly styled after Parker as the delusional thief of a writer’s intellectual property, rather than as an actress doing her job. After all, despite Bushnell’s apparent frustration at changing times and the rise of social media (called here “Instalife”), seasons change. So do cities. And so does any work of fiction as time goes by. A TV series as caustic as the original Sex and the City columns would never have survived. And it’s no accident that the tone of the HBO series significantly softened after Sept. 11, 2001; irony may not have been dead, just then, but it wasn’t culturally prevalent. Bushnell’s attempt, in Killing Monica, to litigate through fiction what happened to her creation only proves that the changes the show’s cast and contributors wrought may have been for the best, in terms of giving depth and longevity to Bushnell’s project and earning it a loyal TV and movie audience. On that note, there’s good news: If you’re a Sex and the City fan, the book is intensely readable. Bushnell actually is something of a forgotten relic in the show’s origin story, and her depiction of an artist feeling both cut off from and constrained by her own creation is often compelling. But while Pandy plots outlandish schemes to free herself from Monica’s oppressive omnipresence, Bushnell’s path out could have been (and could still be) far simpler. “You want people to think you’re literary?” another character asks Pandy at one point. “Then be literary.” If the one story left for Bushnell to tell is dealing with the fallout from her first book, then the opportunity to write herself a new reputation is a chance she should have recognized. Tap to read full story TIME Ideas hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary and expertise on the most compelling events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions. To submit a piece, email ideas@time.com. 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Sports MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNL Watch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David Bowie The Decade That Made David Bowie a Superstar All Content Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star TIME Sports Soccer Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner Has No Idea That an Onion Article About FIFA Is a Spoof * David Stout @david_m_stout June 1, 2015 SHARE Jack Warner Shirley Bahadur — AP FIFA executive Jack Warner gestures during a news conference held shortly after his arrival at the airport in Port-of-Spain, in his native Trinidad and Tobago on June 2, 2011. The joke appears to be on him Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, who is on bail on bribery charges, wasn’t laughing as he cited a work of satire published in the Onion on Sunday. In a video posted on his official Facebook page (it was subsequently taken down but appears to have been reposted by YouTube user rpmackey here), Warner blasted an ongoing U.S. Justice Department investigation into his alleged malfeasance at FIFA and brandished a printout of an article published in the Onion to bolster his position. The article, entitled “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup in United States,” was published hours after U.S. authorities commenced a sweeping corruption probe into soccer’s international governing body on Wednesday that indicted several of the association’s top officials, including Warner, who is from Trinidad and Tobago. The mocking suggestion of the article is that FIFA would be willing to organize a “summer World Cup” simply to appease U.S. authorities. However, the satirical point was lost on Warner. He asks why the U.S. would be willing to host such an event “if FIFA is so bad.” Warner is currently facing extradition to the U.S. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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History MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME History Music When Bob Dylan Took a Stand Against Censorship * Jennifer Latson @JennieLatson May 12, 2015 SHARE Bob Dylan On The Ed Sullivan Show CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images Bob Dylan during rehearsals for the Ed Sullivan Show on May 12, 1963 May 12, 1963: Bob Dylan walks off the Ed Sullivan Show Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Bob Johnston. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Bob Johnston. More See Historic Photos of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash in Nashville 6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All Performing on The Ed Sullivan Show might have helped launch the careers of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, but Bob Dylan took a different approach to fame: courting celebrity by not performing. Dylan was slated to appear on the massively popular variety show on this day, May 12, in 1963 — a year before the Beatles. At the time, he was little known by mainstream audiences, although TIME had referred to him a year earlier as “a promising young hobo.” “He dresses in sheepskin and a black corduroy Huck Finn cap, which covers only a small part of his long, tumbling hair,” TIME’s 1962 story attests. “[H]e delivers his songs in a studied nasal that has just the right clothespin-on-the-nose honesty to appeal to those who most deeply care.” On Ed Sullivan, Dylan planned to put a spin on his clothespin-on-the-nose honesty with “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” a satirical song written from the perspective of a John Birch Society member who is so terrified of communist infiltration that he looks for Reds everywhere, including in his chimney, toilet and glove box. Sullivan himself apparently had no problem with the song when Dylan auditioned it, but a CBS executive who heard it during dress rehearsal found it too controversial. Dylan was told he’d have to sing a different song or change the lyrics, which included, “Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy/ Lincoln, Jefferson, and that Roosevelt guy/ To my knowledge there’s just one man/ That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.” (Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party.) Dylan refused to change the song or pick another, and walked out instead. It wasn’t the first time a musical act had been censored on Sullivan’s show. The Rolling Stones were told to change “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together” — and obliged. The Doors were told to change a line from “Light My Fire” from “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better.” Jim Morrison agreed to make the switch, but sang the original live, and the band was banned from the show. The trouble didn’t end for Dylan when he left the Ed Sullivan set, however. CBS also owned his record label, Columbia Records, and when executives there heard that the song’s lyrics might be grounds for libel, they pulled it from his second album, according to Rolling Stone. Even though he never got to play the song, Dylan still got some press from the non-appearance. He clearly occupied the moral high ground in the New York Times’ dispatch about the dustup, headlined “Satire on Birch Society Barred from Ed Sullivan’s TV Show.” And, per Rolling Stone, he bounced back from the crushing disappointment when someone told him, “Man, you got a lot of free publicity. A real underdog.” Read TIME’s 1962 cover story about folk music, here in the archives: Sibyl with Guitar Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Ideas MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNL Watch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David Bowie The Decade That Made David Bowie a Superstar All Content Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star TIME Ideas Religion Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Jihad Comes to Texas * Ayaan Hirsi Ali @ayaan May 5, 2015 SHARE Two Gunmen Killed Outside Mohammed Cartoon Contest Event In Texas Ben Torres—Getty Images FBI investigators work a crime scene outside of the Curtis Culwell Center on May 04, 2015 in Garland, TX. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation and the author of Infidel, Nomad, and the new book Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation. The right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion More Episcopal Church Suspended from Anglican Communion Over Same-Sex MarriageRubio Boasts Endorsement of Controversial TheologianHow to Overcome Constant FOMO Just before 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, two men got out of their vehicle and began firing. They hit one man, a security officer, in the ankle. A Garland police officer returned fire with his handgun and killed the two men. I repeat: This happened in Garland, Texas. It did not happen in Paris. It did not happen in Peshawar. It happened in the heart of Texas, in the town that inspired the cartoon series King of the Hill. At this early stage, much remains unclear. One of the shooters, Elton Simpson, has been identified as a convert to Islam who lived in Phoenix. The other, Nadir Hamid Soofi, lived in the same apartment complex and attended the same mosque. The obvious inference is that the two gunmen intended to attack the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” that was being held that evening under the auspices of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. It’s possible that the target was not the event but one of the speakers, Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has called for a ban of the Qur’an. It’s important to congratulate the police and the security officers at the event. The policeman who took out the two would-be jihadists deserves a medal. Simpson and Soofie were armed with assault rifles and were wearing body armor. At a time when American police forces are being publicly pilloried for alleged misuses of force, this was exemplary. It’s likely that America just avoided its very own Charlie Hebdo massacre. The thwarted attack in Texas comes at a time when several prominent authors have criticized the writers’ organization PEN for honoring Charlie Hebdo’s commitment to freedom of expression. The French satirical magazine had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, an unforgivable insult in the eyes of the Kouachi brothers, who burst into its offices and shot eight of its staff, as well as four other people, including one police officer, in January. Last month, the American PEN center announced it would award its annual Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo. In response, a group of writers—including award-winning novelists Peter Carey, Joyce Carol Oates, and Michael Ondaatje—signed a letter to PEN protesting the award. The signatories said that it could “be seen as being intended to cause further humiliation and suffering” to a section of the French population that is “already marginalized, embattled, and victimized.” This was their argument against Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of Muhammad: Power and prestige are elements that must be recognized in considering almost any form of discourse, including satire. The inequities between the person holding the pen and the subject fixed on paper by that pen cannot, and must not, be ignored. In other words, free speech needs to be qualified. No doubt those who endorsed the letter would make a similar argument about the Garland Muhammad art exhibit. And no doubt if the attackers had achieved the massacre they intended, we would hear the same words: “Yes, we believe in free speech, but…” These writers have lost track of an important distinction. In the decades-old controversy over depicting the Prophet Muhammad, we must remember the difference between what constitutes the imagination and what is real. Adam Gopnik explains: The imagination sees and draws and describes many things—pornographic, erotic, satiric, and blasphemous—that are uncomfortable or ugly. But they are not actually happening. The imagination is a place where hypotheses and conditionals rule, and where part of the fun, and most of the point, lies in saying the unsayable in order to test the truths of what’s most often said. In other words, a distinction must be made between acts of the imagination such as cartoons, movies, books, and acts of violence such as mass shootings. The group that organized the Muhammad cartoon event, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is using acts of imagination. In response, two men sought to use violence to try and silence them. There is no “but” in the First Amendment. I am no cartoonist. But I do believe the Prophet Muhammad must be exposed to the same scrutiny applied to any religious figure—whether it be Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Buddha, or Joseph Smith. Applying scrutiny to the Prophet Muhammad is not an act of “hurting” Muslims or causing them “humiliation.” Instead, it can actually lead Islam to a better place—one where the imagination of every writer, artist, and citizen can run free, without fear of violent retribution. You may not agree with me about that. As it happens, I disagree with some of the things Wilders says, and I’m not entirely comfortable with everything that comes out of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. But in a free society, such disagreements can never justify acts of violence. Nor can they justify acts of censorship. Voltaire had it right. “I disapprove of what you say,” he is said to have written to the philosopher Claude Helvétius, “but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This week is the right moment to remind ourselves that the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion. Tap to read full story TIME Ideas hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary and expertise on the most compelling events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions. To submit a piece, email ideas@time.com. 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Entertainment MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Entertainment Television Review: Inside Amy Schumer Makes the Personal Parodic * James Poniewozik @poniewozik April 21, 2015 SHARE Comedy Central Amber Rose and Schumer on the season premiere. Schumer's sketch show is a war comedy, and she's the battlefield. More Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNLWatch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David BowieThe Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago I could tell you exactly how funny the season 3 premiere of Inside Amy Schumer is (Tues., April 21), but then I’d have to kill it. Explanations are deadly to comedy, not to mention giving away punchlines. And while Schumer’s already released the opening sketch–“Milk Milk Lemonade,” a parody of booty videos guest starring Amber Rose–the episode’s other highlights depend so much on surprise, twists and casting that if I told you–well, then you’d have to kill me. I will say, though, that the episode’s title is “Last F—able Day,” a play on the idea that every woman in Hollywood has an expiration date, the moment directors fear “your vagina is going to turn into a hermit crab.” (See also Tina Fey’s rule, in Bossypants, that “the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f— her anymore.”) That kind of awareness–knowing how women are judged, rejecting it, enabling it, toying with it–is the nugget of nuclear fuel that powers Schumer’s feminist sketch machine. At its best–and the first three episodes of the season among the show’s best–Amy Schumer’s comedy is often intensely about herself. Not in the sense that it’s autobiographical or introspective: it’s about her person, her body, how the world sees it, how she sees it, who feels they have the right to it. Schumer jokes about being on the cusp between the kind of women pop culture objectifies and the kind it rejects; see the season 2 sketch where she played two opposing tennis players, one hot and girly (and fawned over by the announcers), one lumbering and athletic (and vilified by them). Finding comedy in the mirror isn’t unique to her or even to women comics–Louis CK bases plenty of comedy on his appearance–but the way Schumer does it, not with Phyllis Diller-style self-deprecation but playing in the gray zones of social judgment, is fruitfully uncomfortable. That sensibility is still there in season three, but it’s honed, assertive and blisteringly satirical, as in a birth-control ad where the boilerplate “Ask your doctor if birth control is right for you” morphs into demands that you also ask your boss, your boss’ priest, and random strangers. Inside Amy Schumer is really a war comedy; this battle is going on inside women, and it’s about who has the right to control them. Some sketches seem to revisit territory from the first two seasons, like one about a woman enthusiastically going to a strip club with her male coworkers, a sort-of reprise of last season’s “Chick Who Can Hang” sketch. But others take the same themes into an entirely new dimension, like the audacious third episode, “Twleve Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer.” In the full-episode sketch, a parody of the Henry Fonda jury movie, a dozen men (including Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti and Vincent Kartheiser) are sequestered to judge Schumer physically. At first it’s like a remake of last season’s “You Would Bang Her?”–but it pushes the conceit into absurdity into a faux-melodrama about the male gaze arguing against itself. (“Am I the only one thinking with my dick here!” one furious juror demands.) It’s a satire of how women are assessed, and of how men are socialized to assess them, and of how pop culture presses a standardized, and thus boring, idea of sexiness on everyone. At the same time, it’s both a pitch-perfect satire of Sidney Lumet-style social-issues movies and an effective piece of social issues comedy. Schumer barely appears in the half-hour-long sketch. And yet her presence, her sensibility, is everywhere here. Like all of Inside Amy Schumer at its best, it’s hot because it’s funny. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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Correction appended, March 31 For anyone who wants to attain the vaunted title of “being well-read,” it’s more about breadth than depth. (As for feeling well-read, read the postscript.) To “feel” well-read in literature, it’s all about the categories, not the books themselves. Read a few books in a few different genres, time periods, points of views. I’ve thrown in a few controversial books, just so you know what all of the fuss is about. Sign up for THE BRIEF and more view example ____________________ Submit Here’s how you can feel like a regular literati!: Western Classics (Ancient & Modern): to give you a good foundation for the who’s who of Western literature. * The Odyssey (Homer): epic of a dude who just can’t get home without a little help from the gods. (Extra credit if you read the Iliad, too!) * A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens): the quintessential story of the French Revolution, love, and longing. * Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen): the story that started the “hate at first sight turning into love” trope. * Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy): Very long. Very melodramatic. Very Russian. Very classic! Dystopia: the stuff of our worst fears and nightmares. * Nineteen-Eighty-Four (George Orwell): the book that introduced “doublethink” into our lexicon. * Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): another classic dystopia. Gammas, Deltas, oh my! * The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood): a feminist spin on the genre. Science Fiction & Fantasy: we can’t overlook the geeky cousin of the classics, can we? * The Lord of the Rings series (J.R.R. Tolkien): this guy made the epic (also called high) fantasy genre. Be warned, it’s a bit of a dry read. * The Foundation series (Issac Asimov): some of the pioneering stories in science fiction, natch! * Neuromancer (William Gibson): here’s something a bit more modern. Plus, you just can’t beat “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel” as a snappy first line. Great American Novels: these zeitgeist works practically defined a time period of U.S. history. * The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): you can’t think of the Jazz Age without thinking of “old sport.” * Bonfire of Vanities (Tom Wolfe): the terrible movie nonwithstanding, this book captured the self-indulgence of the 80s NYC crowd. * The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck): I dare you to get into a conversation about the Great Depression without thinking of this book. I dare you. Literary Heavy Hitters: books that make people go “Whoa, dude!” when you say that you’ve read them. * Ulysses (James Joyce): stream-of-consciousness writing plus an unhealthy sexual obsession with an orphan with a limp equal literary greatness. True story. * Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace): fractals, man! Fractals! * Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon): lots of stuff happens that a lot of people pretend to understand. Popular Fiction: those guilty indulgences that everyone has read (but won’t necessarily admit to it). Warning: this is U.S.-centric, feel free to indulge in your country’s guilty pleasures. * A Song of Ice and Fire series (George R. R. Martin): hey, there’s a popular HBO miniseries about it! * The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins): better than Twilight. * Fifty Shades of Grey (E.L. James): be torn between hilarity and despair in this BDSM spin-off of a Twilight fan fiction. Who knows, maybe this’ll spice up the bedroom. Immigrant Experience (U.S./U.K.): ah, the magical experience of being thrust into a new culture. * Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri): say hello to our recent Indian arrivals! (For our tea-drinking cousins across the pond, try Monica Ali’sBrick Lane.) * Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan): the book that inspired a movie and furor in the Asian American community about stereotypes and Tan’s possible self-loathing. (For a less controversial read, try Ha Jin’s Waiting–and yes, there’s a lot of longing and waiting there.) * How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez): how four sisters start to forget their Spanish and their native homeland of the Dominican Republic. Non-Western Classics (Ancient): if Westerners get theirs, so should the rest of the world. * Ramayana (India): this is THE Hindu epic. Full stop. * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (China): a bit of Chinese history, highly romanticized and dramatized. Kind of like “A World Turns.” Non-Western Classics (Modern): the stuff that you should read to feel worldly and well-read. (More applicable if you’re from the U.S. or Western Europe.) * One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez): this novel single-handedly legitimatized Latin American literature in modern times. Too bad you don’t know who he’s talking about half of the time. * To Live (Yu Hua): getting banned in China just adds to its street cred. * Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe): the sad tale of colonialism in Africa. Definitely merits a frowny-face. Satire: throw in a little giggle into your reading list. * Cat’s Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut): some say Slaughterhouse-Five is his best, I say this one. Also: Bokononism! * Catch-22 (Joseph Heller): come and see what the catch-22 is. I promise you, it’s gorgeously ironic. * The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams): you kill two birds with two stones here: sci-fi and satire. Whee! This is where I reach the end of my endurance. I haven’t even gotten into the non-fiction stuff, but alas … I must eat. With this list, you’ll feel like you can dominate the Trivial Pursuit literature section! Life is good. Postscript: since this question is more about sentiment than reality … I hate to break it to you, but if you’re truly a well-read person, you will never feel well-read. They’re always on the lookout for their next book—that category that they’re missing—to add to their impressive list. It’s a Sisyphean goal, really. If you feel well-read, you’re probably not. This question originally appeared on Quora: What books should one read to feel well-read? More from Quora: * What’s the difference between good writing and great writing? * Why is reading so important? * What novels have the best opening lines or opening paragraphs? Read next: 15 Life-Changing Books You Can Read in a Day Listen to the most important stories of the day. 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Entertainment MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star News Anchor Apologizes for Joke About Alan Rickman’s Death Chirlane McCray: New York Values Are Foreign to Ted Cruz REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs TIME Entertainment Television Parks and Recreation Watch: Find Your Team and Get to Work * James Poniewozik @poniewozik Feb. 24, 2015 SHARE Parks and Recreation - Season 7 Colleen Hayes/NBC This finale, like the whole series, was about making the world better one small gesture at a time. Spoilers for the series finale of Parks and Recreation follow: “When we worked here together, we fought, scratched and clawed to make people’s lives a tiny bit better. That’s what public service is about: small, incremental change every day. Teddy Roosevelt once said, ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.’ And I would add that what makes work worth doing is getting to do it with people that you love.” The most prominent feature of Parks and Recreation’s finale was the flash-forwards, extending the characters’ lives as far ahead as 2048. But there was another recurring visual, smaller but at least as important. Before each character’s flash-forward begins, Leslie Knope touches them–a hug, a hand clasp, a warm pat on the shoulder. Parks began as a much sharper-edged, satirical comedy, closer to the spinoff of The Office it was kinda-sorta conceived as. It ended as something much warmer, more expansive and optimistic–and, toward the end, became a kind of loopy near-future science fiction. But it was always, above all, about that hand. Leslie Knope–not unlike her icon and returning Parks guest Joe Biden–was a toucher. Both in work and friendship, she believed in reaching out, prodding, getting in people’s space. In the show’s beginning, that seemed to mark her as delusional: a small-town civil servant who believed that by being proactive and positive she could actually change the world. But as the series went on, it showed that Leslie was crazy enough to be right. She could be a quixotic politician and an exhausting friend–approaching both roles with bursting binders of research–and she didn’t win every battle she picked. But she also showed, one Harvest Festival and Pawnee Common at a time, that if you reached out to people and assumed the best of them, you really could leave them better than you found them. “One Last Ride,” the series finale (co-written by Amy Poehler and co-creator Michael Schur), was about the sum total of all the gestures and connections Leslie made over the course of the series, and how they rippled out into the future. If, as I wrote last week, Parks’ final season was really a single finale told over thirteen episodes, then “Ride” was its coda, the final few minutes of Six Feet Under expanded into an hour. There were tradeoffs to treating the final season as an extended finale. It allowed the last episodes to give extended sendoffs to our favorite characters and the expansive world of Pawnee without feeling rushed. But it also meant that, once the Pawnee National Park arc was resolved, there was no significant central conflict driving the story. (Not coincidentally, I think, the episode that ended that arc, “Leslie and Ron,” was the best of the season and one of the best Parks has ever done.) In its place came a lot of ever-afters and mostly happy endings; to use a comparison nerd Ben would appreciate, it was like The Return of the King, with a whole lot of postscript and goodbyes after the fall of Sauron. Even by the standards of sitcom endings, this one was more sweet than bittersweet–at times, it hit the Sweetums a bit hard–with the characters not just finding happiness in the future but succeeding wildly in ways that were appropriate to them. Like Dorothy’s companions in The Wizard of Oz, they get the gifts that suit them: fame for Tom, coolness (despite parenthood) for April and Andy, contentment (and 51% of the Lagavulin Distillery) for Ron, and so on. The one Parkster who dies, Garry, does so on his 100th birthday, after living an essentially perfect life. (Sidebar: are we all assuming that, by the time Ben and Leslie visit Gerry’s graveside in 2048, she’s now President? Or is he, since the Secret Service agent seems to be addressing both of them? Nice touch–assuming it was intended this way–to toss in the reveal offhandedly, in such a way that you could conclude either Ben or Leslie could be POTUS. One assumes, like Bill and Hillary, they’ll each take a shot at it in some order.) It’s interesting, though, that while Parks gives its characters happy endings, they don’t inhabit a perfect world. Like the 2017 of the rest of the final season, “One Last Ride” is set in a kind of comedy dystopia: there are eight corporations left, the country has run out of beef, and schools don’t teach math. MORE Read What Amy Poehler Had to Say About the First Episode of Parks and Recreation That’s typical of Parks: it’s combines a sense of satire about the larger world with unashamed positivity about the smaller individuals in it. What makes the endings happy here is the characters’ mutual support for one another. Ben steps aside for Leslie to run for governor, as she had earlier backed his run for Congress. Tom comes up with the idea for his self-help empire by seeing each of his coworkers as a different personality model for success. April helps Donna help her husband finance his school’s fancy math-learnin’. Maybe the sweetest, and cry-makingest, of all these is Ron coming to Leslie as she did to him years ago, asking for direction in his life, and her helping him find it, in the least objectionable sector of the federal government, the National Parks System. (Ron, after all, once said crying is acceptable two places: funerals and the Grand Canyon. With this scene, I would add a third.) It’s friendship, of course, but there’s another concept that the finale hits repeatedly: the team. When April is wavering over having kids, Leslie says that it would be a way for the couple to expand their great team. And it’s how Gov. Leslie Knope describes public service to the students at Indiana University: “Now, go find your team and get to work.” It’s an interesting choice of terms. On the one hand, who doesn’t love teams? On the other hand, the whole concept of team spirit–in politics, on the Internet, in the culture at large–can be divisive: blind loyalty, us vs. them, Team This and Team That. The final gift that Leslie Knope gives us here is to reimagine that team mentality in a healthy way. In her eyes, it’s not about defensively finding a gang of people to circle the wagons with out of suspicion of the rest of the world. It’s about finding your matches, your soulmates, your Galentines. It’s not about an idea of loyalty that means you deny flaws in yourself and your friends; its about making a pact to make each other better, even if it sometimes means getting in each other’s business. It’s about–to use another term that’s become politicized–community. And speaking of teams: I haven’t gone through the transcripts of every episode, but I’m pretty sure this finale was the first time we learned, via Leslie being approached by the DNC, that Leslie Knope is a Democrat. (In a 2012 Huffington Post interview, Schur said that “we have never said the words ‘Republican’ or ‘Democrat’ on the show and we never will.”) It’s not as if Leslie’s general philosophy has ever been hidden, anyway. But the spirit of Parks, captured in its beautiful final minutes, has been to express a political idea in personal, nonpolemical terms. Like Leslie, the show believes that people have an obligation to help other people; unlike Ron, it believes that government is one, imperfect means of doing that. It believes, to return to that image that the finale returned to over and over again, in extending a hand. But not to push, or to drag someone else along. It believes in seeing the best in other people, helping them become their best selves, so that they in turn will be able to do that for someone else. (Just as April, in the foundation job she got indirectly through Leslie, was eventually able to help Donna.) That’s what the future is, for Leslie Knope and for this finale: a chain through which one person touches another who touches another who touches another. You may, as the Parks gang discovered over and over with the citizens of Pawnee, never get thanked. But it makes the world a tiny bit better, and it makes you a tiny bit better. In the end, what Parks and Recreation thinks about friendship is what it thinks about public service. It’s not a handout. It’s a hand up. Now for a final hail of bullets: * Another nice thing about the final days of Parks and Recreation is how, though Leslie and Ben had triplets, it avoided falling into the sitcom trap of focusing on how Kids Change Everything. All that said, I was happy that we got to meet Burt Snakehole Ludgate Karate Dracula Macklin Demon Jack-o-Lantern Dwyer, and glad that April and Andy wrestled with the decision to become parents in the most April and Andy way: “Yes, I would love all the awesome stuff my body would go through…” * Don’t ask me why, but Craig and Typhoon’s flash-forward to their vacation on a transparent airplane reminded me of Six Feet Under‘s Rico collapsing on the futuristic cruise ship in his own flash forward. It’s amazing the things your brain stores in a life of TV-watching. * “Gameplay magazine called it ‘punishingly intricate’!” * I’m still trying to work out the timeline on that possible Ben-Leslie Presidential succession timeline. Maybe she ran in 2036 and 2040 (her “new unknown challenge” after leaving as governor in 2035), and he ran in 2044? Am I overthinking this? I’m overthinking this. * I know that the episode could only flash so far forward but I do hope that Gerry’s passing meant that Brandi Maxxxx got her shot at the mayor’s office at long last. * I have so much respect for Ronald Ulysses Swanson that I will even forgive him his casual swipe at my Michigan Wolverines. But just barely. * OK, allow me one tiny quibble: I had always thought that, given how important the Pit was to the first season and to getting so many of these characters together, that the finale might have built toward some kind of closing storyline involving Pawnee Common. Fixing the slide, I guess, sort of paralleled that first project, but did anyone else miss it? * Speaking of which: if I were a better organized person, I’d have been keeping a list this last season of which Pawnee personages and landmarks the show managed shout-outs to. Is there anything you noticed the final season leaving out? * “Don’t get emotional, Von, you’re embarrassing yourself.” You and me both, Von. You and me both. Read next: Twitter Gave Parks and Recreation a Very Sweet Send-Off Sign up for THE BRIEF and more view example ____________________ Submit Listen to the most important stories of the day. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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Ideas MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Watch Star Wars Villain Kylo Ren Go ‘Undercover Boss’ on SNL Watch Saturday Night Live’s Touching Tribute to David Bowie The Decade That Made David Bowie a Superstar All Content Celine Dion’s Brother Dies Just Days After Her Husband David Bowie Honored With His Own Lightning Bolt-Shaped Constellation Wonder Woman Movie Will Be Set During World War I, Co-Star Says David Bowie Dressed for the Future All Content The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Co-Star in Do Nothing Bitches Movie Tracy Morgan Making New FX Comedy With Key & Peele Star TIME Ideas Media Yes, It’s Time for Both Brian Williams and Jon Stewart to Move On * Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie Feb. 12, 2015 SHARE The news business has fundamentally changed since both anchors started. + READ ARTICLE More We Finally Know How Many People Watch Netflix ShowsWhy GoPro’s Stock Is TumblingThis NBC Exec Says Netflix Isn’t a Threat It’s weird that Jon Stewart announced he was stepping away from The Daily Show the same day that NBC announced its six-month suspension of Brian Williams from NBC Nightly News. Stewart has long described himself and his show as trafficking in “fake news,” whereas Williams is being punished for faking news about himself (over and over again). One is leaving the small screen on a “career high note,” as The New York Times puts it, while the other is slowly fading away to that great Green Room in the sky. Does anyone really think Brian Williams will be back when his suspension ends? Does anyone really care? In a real way, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, which he’s been hosting since 1999, helped kill off “real news” shows such as NBC Nightly News by making them superfluous. Who needs to watch someone simply read the news when you can watch someone deliver the same information, plus a satire of the medium itself? Especially for people under 50, who have no memories of Papa Cronkite and who remember supposedly legendary anchors such as Dan Rather only for bizarre episodes (“Kenneth, What is the Frequency?”) and outright fabrications, The Daily Show was a one-stop show for news and commentary on the news. In an age of multi-tasking, that’s a godsend. Especially in its early years, The Daily Show didn’t just riff on the news and poke fun and roll eyes at the endless spew of stupid and self-serving statements made by celebrities, politicians, and other hucksters. With the help of talented producers, writers, and “correspondents” including Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Nancy Walls, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show mimicked perfectly every aspect of network and cable news-gathering. The show was replete with ridiculous camera shots designed to reinforce audience sympathies, godawful banter between host and reporters, even more godawful questioning of people during news segments, and manic graphics that hyped every minor threat as the next great catastrophe facing the planet. And they actually produced stories that were being followed by everyone else in the business. By highlighting how the news is stitched together, The Daily Show helped instill a form of media literacy that is hugely important in a media-saturated age (The Onion provides a similar service for print journalism.) It’s not surprising that in an age of declining audiences for all forms of TV news, The Daily Show reached and held younger viewers, with 18-29 year olds making up 40% of its audience. By deconstructing the news-delivery process, Stewart and company made it new. A decade ago, when polling data showed that as many young Americans got their news from The Daily Show as from programs like NBC Nightly News, the establishment even copped to be “depressed” by the news. Sadly, broadcast and cable news has done little to rejuvenate its form, determined instead to spend millions of dollars a year on hosts such as Williams, whose honesty and news sense are as sleepy and tired as their program’s elderly audiences. But somewhere along Jon Stewart’s and The Daily Show’s ascent to legitimacy, awards, and influence, it’s meta-script got more than a little tired. If it once shone a harsh light on how television news skewed its presentations to frighten audiences or pander to power, it eventually succumbed to the same tendencies, especially the sin of self-importance. In a widely celebrated 2004 smackdown of the Punch-and-Judy antics of most cable news debate shows, Stewart accused CNN Crossfire hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala of “partisan hackery…what you do is not honest.” After the hosts pushed back, Stewart bemoaned in a very mean, very funny rant that something was wrong when “news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity.” But Stewart started taking himself too seriously, as if his celebrity meant he did in fact have the sort of social responsibility he specifically abjured on Crossfire. His 2010 “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” co-hosted by Stephen Colbert, unironically featured the former Cat Stevens singing “Peace Train” (as the Islamic convert Yusuf Islam, Stevens seemingly endorsed calls for the murder of Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses). Worse, it ended in a maudlin plea for peace and tolerance. In a particularly ridiculous moment from last year, Stewart apologized for saying on CNN (of all places) that he hadn’t voted in the midterm elections. He was “being flip,” he told his own audience later. “It sent a message that I didn’t think voting was important or that I didn’t think it was a big issue. And I do, and I did vote.” Please, when a fake newsman starts thinking his every utterance is being taken seriously and needs to be defended or amended, something has gone very wrong. Stewart has said that The Daily Show “doesn’t deserve an even slightly restless host.” He’s right about that. The show he leaves behind will need to reinvent itself more fundamentally than it might seem at first blush. We all process news very differently now than we did when he first took over hosting duties at The Daily Show. That’s in some large part due to Stewart, which he should take as an incredible compliment and his successor should take as an incredible challenge. The director of last year’s well-received drama, Rosewater, Stewart’s creative future is still ahead of him. For Brian Williams, a frequent guest on The Daily Show, things aren’t so bright. Even as his entire genre of news was sinking like the Titanic, he decided to go ahead and plunge into oblivion all on his own. In an age of rapidly decentralizing and proliferating media, the one role that needn’t be filled is a newsreader whose every utterance will rightly be questioned. 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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The organization’s leaders say they will monitor social-networking sites on the day of love and forcibly marry any couples expressing the emotion publicly, the Times of India reports. “Display of love in the entire Valentine’s week is equivalent to not following Indian traditions. Anyone found displaying love on Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp will be caught hold of,” said the group’s national president Chandra Prakash Kaushik, adding that eight social-media teams are already in place in the capital New Delhi. The group had announced earlier this week that it would also have people on the ground making sure couples exchanging flowers, gifts or public displays of affection tie the knot immediately. That’s only for Hindus, however — interfaith couples will reportedly be made to undergo a “purification” ceremony. Online, Kaushik said, Mahasabha volunteers would message offending couples and ask for their phone numbers and addresses so they can start planning the nuptials. “If they refuse to share their numbers, we will contact their parents — especially those who are active online — and ask them to get them married if they really love each other,” he said. The New Delhi police have plans to tackle the moral police, however, and inspector general Alok Sharma told the Times that any attempts to force couples to marry would be met with legal action. Twitter, of course, had a field day. I think the #HinduMahasabha is run by a bunch of beaus who've been deceived by commitment-phobic people. :-P — Karan Deshmukh (@iKaranDeshmukh) February 4, 2015 If you're caught with boyfriend/girlfriend on V-day, you'll be married off. If you're with spouse, forcefully divorced? #hindumahasabha — Accidental Writer (@accidentlwriter) February 4, 2015 Indian satire website Faking News took it one step further with an article entitled “Gay couples excited after Hindu Mahasabha announces weddings on Valentine’s Day,” pointing out that homosexuality remains illegal in the country. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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Australians have long been acquainted with the 93-year-old royal, who is notorious for uttering headline-worthy gaffes. During a trip to the Lucky Country in 2002, the Duke of Edinburgh, as he is officially titled, asked an Aboriginal man: “Do you still throw spears at each other?” Nevertheless, Abbott praised Prince Philip’s “long life of service” during a flag-raising ceremony in the Australian capital, Canberra, on Monday morning. “This honor recognizes the contribution of the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia throughout the Queen’s 62-year reign,” read a statement released by Abbott’s office. “For three quarters of a century, Prince Philip has served the Crown, and the wider Commonwealth.” Following the announcement, Australians took to social media to slam the decision to give the nation’s top honor to the Prince rather than an Australian. Arise, Sir Prince Philip! Honestly, you couldn’t make this stuff up! Well played, Tones. Keeping political satire alive and well. — Rohan Connolly (@rohan_connolly) January 25, 2015 Giving a Knighthood to Prince Philip is like giving a Beyoncé CD to Jay-Z. Surely he could just pick one up at home. — Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) January 25, 2015 I’m sure this will mean so much to Prince Philip. According to Google he already has 25 other honors with the word “knight” in the title. — Scott Ellis (@blahblahellis) January 25, 2015 Abbott attempted to defend the decision during an Australia Day function in Canberra. “Social media is kind of like electronic graffiti and I think that in the media, you make a big mistake to pay too much attention to social media,” he told reporters, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Paris Terror Attack MY ACCOUNT SIGN IN SIGN OUT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE MORE (BUTTON) U.S. Edition * U.S. Edition * Europe, Middle East and Africa Edition * Asia Edition * South Pacific Edition Paris Terror Attack Obama Says U.S. Will Stand With France Against ISIS More Paris Terror Attack Coverage What to Know About the Deadly ISIS vs. al-Qaeda Rivalry More Paris Terror Attack Coverage This Is Life Under a Terror Lockdown in Brussels More Paris Terror Attack Coverage The Cost of the Paris Attacks More Paris Terror Attack Coverage These 5 Facts Explain the Dire Economic Costs of the Paris Attacks More Paris Terror Attack Coverage A Dysfunctional Lebanon Fears That ISIS Will Strike Again More Paris Terror Attack Coverage Syrian Rebel Groups Fear Paris Attacks Will Take the Heat Off Assad More Paris Terror Attack Coverage What to Know About the Alleged Mastermind of the Paris Terrorist Attacks More Paris Terror Attack Coverage Key Republicans Call for Suspending Syrian Refugee Resettlements More Paris Terror Attack Coverage Read the CIA Director’s Thoughts on the Paris Attacks More Paris Terror Attack Coverage TIME Ideas foreign affairs Three Reasons France Became a Target for Jihad * John R. Bowen Jan. 8, 2015 SHARE Global Reaction To The Terrorist Attack On French Newspaper Charlie Hebdo Carsten Koall—Getty Images Papers with 'I am Charlie' displayed are left near candles at a vigil in front of the French Embassy following the terrorist attack in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015 in Berlin. John R. Bowen is a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. The country has long and tangled history with the Muslim world and organized religion More Why the World Doesn’t Have to Fear JapanXi Jinping’s Landmark First State Visit to the U.S. Won’t Fix Fundamental Policy DisputesDonald Trump Stumbles on Foreign Policy Knowledge in New Interview Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or other jihadis in Iraq and Syria, and now the murderous attack by two men of Algerian descent on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Why, and where will this latest attack lead? There are three points to keep in mind as we watch the investigations play out. First, France has been more closely engaged with the Muslim world longer than any other Western country. Since 1830, when it conquered Algeria, it has seen much of Muslim Africa as its own backyard. And after World War I, France took control of Syria and Lebanon as well. Many French settled in North Africa, and after World War II, many North Africans came to France to work in new factories, most settling in poor areas in Paris, Lyon, and the industrialized north. In the post-industrial era, factories were shut down but the settlers stayed. And it is their children and grandchildren who in 2005 exploded in rage over their exclusion from French society. The 1995 movie La Haine showed this rage before the fact—and also made clear that these explosions had nothing to with religion. France left Algeria only at the end of a long and bloody war, from 1954 to 1962, which continues to reverberate throughout the country, especially in the south, where Algerians who fought on both sides of the war settled in Provence and kept the conflict alive. Here is where the far-right National Front was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a paratrooper nourishing anger against De Gaulle’s “abandonment” of French Algeria. His daughter Marine now leads the party. But unlike other European colonial powers, the French never really left their former colonies, continuing to intervene economically and militarily to defend France’s national interests in Africa and the Near East. Now this means battling al Qaeda and ISIS in Mali, Iraq, and, perhaps in the future, Syria. So when disaffected young men and women tune in to jihadi web sites, they find French-speaking Muslims telling them of the sins their government is committing against their “brothers and sisters” in Iraq and Syria. Resentment at French racism, at the series of largely symbolic measures taken against Muslims, such as the 2010 ban on wearing face-veils in public, add to this anger, and lead some towards fighting. Second, the French Republic has nourished a sense of combat with the Church—which for some means with religion of any sort. If in the 19th century, the Church retained its hold on young minds through its monopoly of primary schools, by the end of that century the state had built a secular and free system of schools. Thereafter, the Dreyfus affair pitted an openly anti-Semitic Catholic establishment against pro-Republican intellectuals, Vichy gave powers to anti-Jewish French officials, and after the war schools continued to be the focal point, a microcosm, of the battle between religious and secularist camps. Modern France thus produced a strong tradition, especially in Paris, of opposition to organized religion, and satire of its pretensions. Charlie Hebdo succeeded a long line of satirical magazines that ridiculed religion, and Charlie took down all with pretensions: Christians, Muslims, Michael Jackson—everyone. Third, the attack risks to add fuel to the rise of the Far Right in France and throughout Europe. The National Front is already spinning the attack as showing up the basic incompatibility of Islam and the values of France. Even as its leader, Marine Le Pen, the much smoother political heir to her father, Jean-Marie, maintains a moderate line, officially stating that France was united for freedom of expression, she added that “the time for hypocrisy was over,” and that not confusing Islam with terrorism not ought to lead us to deny the obvious. Some of her lieutenants went further, attacking Islam directly, and the immediate commentators to Le Monde’s on-line coverage overwhelmingly took this line: anti-religion and anti-Islam. France will not change its decades-old foreign policy, nor are rights and practices of satire likely to fade away. But the main impact may be to use the attacks as an excuse to blame Islam and immigration for broad anxieties about where things are going in Europe today. Such a confusion can only strengthen the far right. John R. Bowen is a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Can Islam be French, Blaming Islam, and the forthcoming Shari’a in Britain. Tap to read full story TIME Ideas hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary and expertise on the most compelling events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions. To submit a piece, email ideas@time.com. 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. 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Gunmen killed at least 12 people in the paper’s offices before fleeing the scene in France’s deadliest terrorist attack in recent memory. “Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms,” Rushie wrote. “This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.” In 1988, some conservative Muslims accused Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satantic Verses, of blasphemy and insulting Islam. Rushdie received death threats and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa for his death the following year. “‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion,’” Rushdie wrote. “Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.” Read more: The Provocative History of the French Weekly Newspaper Charlie Hebdo Tap to read full story 0 0 Read Next Your browser is out of date. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com * Home * U.S. * Politics * World * Business * Tech * Health * Science * Entertainment * Newsfeed * Living * Ideas * Parents * Sports * History * The TIME Vault * Magazine * Subscribe * Give a Gift * TIME Shop * Newsletters * Customer Service * Site Map * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights * Terms of Use * Advertising * Ad Choices Ad Choices © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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