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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
‘the boundaries were crossed’
TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Love & Other Drugs” — A pharmaceutical salesman, Jake Gyllenhaal, begins a tempestuous romance with a free-spirited Parkinson’s patient, Anne Hathaway./7 on Cinemax n SPORTS College basketball — Florida takes its shot at the SEC’s top cat, No. 1-ranked Kentucky, tonight at Rupp Arena./6 on ESPN n PRIMETIME “Ringer” — When Juliet’s mother, Catherine, visits, she wreaks havoc on Bridget and Andrew’s Jake Gyllenhaal relationship; Bridget thinks she’s discovered the key to learning more about her sister./8 on CW
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com
MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Miguel Ferrer, actor, 57; Robert Smigel, comedy writer, 52; James Spader, actor, 52; Garth Brooks, country singer, 50; Eddie Izzard, actor-comedian, 50; Chris Rock, actor-comedian, 47; Essence Atkins, actress, 40; Ashton Kutcher, actor, 34; Tina Majorino, actress, 27.
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Travis arrested on public drunk charge Country singer Randy Travis has apologized after being arrested on a charge of public intoxication outside a North Texas church. Denton County sheriff’s spokesman Tom Reedy said police in the town of Sanger arrested Travis early Monday after spotting a vehicle parked in front of a church and finding an open bottle of wine and Travis smelling of alcohol. Reedy said Travis, whose hits include “Forever Randy Travis and Ever, Amen,” was taken to the Denton County jail about 1:30 a.m. and released six hours later. The singer, who lives in the small town of Tioga near Sanger, apologized in a statement to The Associated Press “for what resulted following an evening of celebrating the Super Bowl.”
Chris Brown to perform at Grammys Chris Brown will perform at this year’s Grammy Awards, the event where his career almost ended three years ago. Brown assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy party in 2009 and is serving five years of probation for the felony attack. A source told The Associated Press on Monday that Brown will hit the stage at Sunday’s show, which will be broadcast on CBS at 7 p.m. Chris Brown After his attack on Rihanna, Brown’s reputation plummeted. But he has since bounced back, releasing multiple mixtapes and the multi-hit album, “F.A.M.E. (Forgiving All My Enemies).” It’s nominated for three Grammys.
Britain marks Dickens’ 200th birthday Prince Charles led ceremonies today to mark the 200th birthday of novelist Charles Dickens — a writer as popular today as he was during his lifetime. The heir to the British throne laid a wreath on the writer’s grave in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner, in front of an audience containing dozens of Dickens’ descendants. Actor Ralph Fiennes read from “Bleak House,” and there were prayers for the poor and marginalized, for writers and for journalists. More events are being held in Portsmouth, southern England, where Dickens was born the son of a navy pay clerk on Feb. 7, 1812. When he died in 1870, at 58, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.
Super Bowl draws 111.3M viewers For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots on Sunday night. That narrowly beat the 111 million who watched Green Bay’s win over Pittsburgh last year. NBC was blessed by a competitive game between two teams that played in one of the Super Bowl’s most memorable contests four years ago, with one of them representing the largest media market in the country. The game wasn’t over until Tom Brady’s last-second heave into the end zone dropped onto the turf. That play itself had the biggest audience of any play in the game, according to the digital video recorder maker Tivo. Nielsen said 117.7 million people were watching during the last half hour of the game. The last two Super Bowls, along with the 2010 game between New Orleans and Indianapolis and the finale of “M-A-S-H” in 1983, are the only programs to exceed 100 million viewers in U.S. television history.
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Man drunk when he picked up drunk son A central Pennsylvania father was drunk when he drove to a police station to pick up his even drunker son who had been arrested for drunken driving after he was found passed out in his car, police said. City police have charged David Peterson Sr., 44, and David Peterson Jr., 24, with drunken driving and other violations for incidents that occurred early Jan. 20. The elder Peterson faces a preliminary hearing Feb. 22 and his son on Feb. 15. Police said the father’s blood-alcohol content was 1 1/2 times the state’s legal limit when he drove to the police station, while his son’s was slightly more than double the legal limit.
The Vicksburg Post
Racy ads for movie about infidelity pulled PARIS (AP) — What does it take to shock in the land of the Gallic shrug? Ads that suggest adulterous oral sex, according to complaints about new movie “Les Infideles.” Posters for the film — which show the contented male stars with faceless women in submissive positions — went up Tuesday but were being taken down following a request from France’s self-regulating advertising body. In one poster, actor and comedian Jean Dujardin stands between a pair of upside-down bare female legs, clutching them. In another, the back of a woman’s head is waist high to actor Gilles Lellouche, who is on his cell phone. Her hands stretch up to his chest and a
quotation over his head reads: “It’s going to cut off. I’m going into a tunnel.” “We could see that this campaign didn’t respect (the rules) with the sexually explicit positions, the play on words ... the boundaries were crossed,” said Stephane Martin, the head of the Authority of Professional Regulation of Advertising. Some French newspapers have suggested the ads could even cost Dujardin — nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the silent hit film “The Artist”— the Oscar. They at least appear to have hit a raw nerve in a land with fresh memories of the scandal of last year’s arrest of potential presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn on
charges of attempted rape. JC Decaux, the outdoor advertising company that hung the posters, conceded they weren’t in “good taste” and they would all be down by the end of the day. They have been replaced by a third poster, where the male leads sit and laugh as two sexily clad women walk away. To some, the rumblings might indicate a post-StraussKahn shift in French mores. When the former head of the International Monetary Fund was arrested last year in New York — on charges later dropped — it set off soulsearching in a country known as a beacon for the sexually liberated and for its accep-
tance of extramarital affairs. Had the posters revived questions over whether France’s reputed sexual liberation is a one-way street and largely disenfranchising to women? Not quite, according to Osez le Feminisme, a French feminist organization. Magali Dehaas, a spokeswoman for the group, said that while she hoped the incident would prompt a rethink about sexism in advertising, she feared that the images shocked more for their sexually explicit content than for their depiction of women. She said StraussKahnn’s arrest might have started the wheels turning, but “we have a lot of work to do in that department.”
Madonna to start tour in Israel
Cee Lo Green, left, and Madonna perform during halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The associated press
NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna’s not finished with stadiums. Live Nation Entertainment said the Madonna’s first tour since 2009 will include a Sept. 6 show at Yankee Stadium. On Sunday, she was the Super Bowl halftime performer in Indianapolis. Her world tour will start May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. It will include performances in
Istanbul, Brussels, Helsinki and Zurich. The North American portion of the tour will include Montreal and San Jose. The tour will also visit South American and Australia. Tickets for most of the U.S. shows go on sale Monday. Madonna’s last tour, 20082009’s “Sticky & Sweet,” grossed more than $400 million.
For workers on graveyard shift, daytime is bedtime Dear Abby: I just read the letter from a fellow frustrated night shifter, “Working a 40-Hour Week at Age 73.” I have worked 12-hour shifts for many years to accommodate our family life. It is easier for me to be home in the morning to get the kids to school and be home when they get off the bus in the afternoon. I have the early evening free to get them to their activities, then go to work later. I thoroughly agree that the rest of the world does not understand! I’ve had the strangest requests from people because I’m home during the day. My solution has been to turn off our home phone and sleep with my cell phone on (in case one of the kids gets sick at school or some other dire emergency). This year I made a laminated sign for my front door, asking for peace and quiet. It says, “Please do not ring my doorbell. Night-shift worker sleeping at this time.” — Sleepless in Wisconsin Dear Sleepless: Thanks for your letter. Your fellow nightshifters were in complete agreement with you. My newspaper readers comment: Dear Abby: There’s nothing unusual about “Working’s” problem. I worked the graveyard shift for years at different jobs in different states, and it was exactly the same. In my
DEAR ABBY ABIGAIL
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case it was usually my mother, not my husband, who kept waking me up. Even worse, it wasn’t unusual for bosses to call and wake me. What surprised me was people who think sleep is optional. They seemed to think that they sleep at night because there’s nothing else to do. — Laura in Pollok, Texas Dear Abby: Many people
don’t understand night schedules. Relatives would announce they were coming to visit during my working weekends despite the fact that I’d specifically explained my schedule. My husband would snipe at me in underhanded ways. When I finally confronted him, he admitted that he “subconsciously” felt that someone sleeping during the day was lazy. Working nights is tough. The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study has discovered that night workers get less rest even if they get a good day’s sleep, that we make less melatonin and we die younger. — R.N. in Connecticut Dear Abby: I sympathize
with “Working.” I also work a graveyard shift so I can be home with our newborn and not have to put him in day care eight hours a day. It’s hard for people to understand that even though it’s daytime for them, it’s my night! I found myself running errands, marketing, etc., because I felt guilty being at home all day and “doing nothing.” Please tell “Working” not to let anyone make her feel guilty. Everyone needs sleep — Fellow 3rd shifter in Indianapolis •
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