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Book rekindles Snooki-Christie feud Former “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi doesn’t have happy memories of meeting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. In a book published last week, Snooki recalls that Christie’s expression was “full of hate” after she introduced herself in 2013 when both were on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Their tense encounter was caught on video and recounted in Snooki’s “Strong is the
New Sexy,” in a passage titled “The Governor of New Jersey Tried to Eat Me.” She writes that Christie, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, outweighed her by “a thousand pounds.” The two have feuded for years. Christie has disparaged the reality TV show as bad for the state’s image. Snooki has called him a bully. Associated Press
Wednesday’s highlights on TV include: Be afraid. Be very afraid. From the twisted minds that brought you “Paranormal Activity” comes “Hellevator.” It’s a game show that challenges contestants to ride a haunted elevator and complete terrifying tasks before time runs out on them. 8 p.m., GSN “Modern Family”: Tonight, the cast is mistaken for the cast of CBS’ copycat “Life in Pieces.” Just kidding. 9 p.m., ABC “They Took Our Child: We Got Her Back”: Be honest — if you’d had her back, they wouldn’t have been able to take her. 10 p.m., Lifetime Movie Network From Herald news services
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toDay in history Today is Wednesday, October 21, the 294th day of 2015. There are 71 days left in the year. Today’s highlight: On October 21, 1892, schoolchildren across the U.S. observed Columbus Day (according to the Gregorian calendar) by reciting, for the first time, the original version of “The Pledge of Allegiance,” written by Francis Bellamy for The Youth’s Companion. The pledge, which has been revised several times, originally went, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” On this date: In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” was christened in Boston’s harbor. In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar;
Stephen Colbert’s nerd flag flies high By Andrea Peterson
Hobbit movies. And when Jon Stewart left the “Daily Show,” Colbert’s tearful goodbye had a “Lord of the Rings” theme. From Dungeons & Dragons to comic books, other nerdy topics also got plenty of nods on the “Report.” In fact, Colbert also made a cameo in Spider-Man comics and the comedian’s alter ego Tek Jansen got his comic book series. Since taking over “The Late Show” from David Letterman in September, Colbert has continued proudly beating the nerd drum: Beyond his Zelda-themed musical extravaganza, the comedian has hosted a cavalcade of high-profile tech industry guests, including Apple’s Tim Cook, Uber’s Travis Kalanick and (potential supervillain) Elon Musk.
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On Oct. 13, Stephen Colbert squeezed an entire orchestra onto his set. But it wasn’t just any orchestra — it was Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a musical ensemble that performs music from the classic Nintendo video game series. The concert was a celebration of self-aware geekiness — an ode to the triumph of the nerd in mass American culture. But the same could be said for Colbert’s entire incarnation of “The Late Show.” Colbert is unabashed geek. His mastery of J.R.R. Tolkien lore was a staple of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report.” The comedian even made a cameo in one of the
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culture: Comic book characters dominate the box office and carry prime time television shows; everyone and their mom plays video games; and, of course, late night talk shows are catering to people who identify as part of the nerd uprising. But Colbert himself knows things weren’t always this way. “I was a nerd when nerd was nerd. Okay? Alright? There was no reward. No one catered to us. We weren’t a demographic. We were a punching bag and a punch line,” he told Time in an August interview. “There was a movie called ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ because the nerds needed revenge because of all of the things that were happening to them. That’s a cultural artifact that people need to understand,” he said.
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The geekiness of that tech roster seems to reflect not only Colbert’s own interests, but also how aware the public has become of the amount of control that major tech companies have over our everyday lives. In many ways, the leaders of today’s major tech companies are the modern equivalents of Rockefellers or Fords. That power has garnered public interest that borders on obsession: Tim Cook can cause an explosion of activity when he makes a surprise visit to an Apple Store. Nearly every idea that comes from Elon Musk gets treated with almost instant credibility, even if it’s a proposal to shoot people around via gigantic vacuum tubes. Nerdiness has also become mainstream pop
Nelson, however, was killed. In 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1959, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York. In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York. In 1967, the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat was sunk by Egyptian missile boats near Port Said; 47 Israeli crew members were lost. In 1985, former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White — who’d served five years in prison for killing Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights advocate — was found dead in a garage, a suicide. Associated Press
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