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Inside R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at age 59. Page 4

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Virtual addiction MMO video games take players to another world, but sometimes too far Pages 14-15

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On The Cover MMORPGs like World of Warcraft are immensely popular — and extremely addicting.

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This week’s movie releases: The Book of Eli, The Lovely Bones, The Spy Next Door coming next week Country signer and former JSU student Jamey Johnson is nominated for 2 Grammy awards.

Golden Globes George Clooney and his film Up In the Air could be big winners at Sunday’s night’s awards.

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Music Fans of the late Jimi Hendrix will get an album of 12 previously unreleased recordings in March.

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Movies What made The Lovely Bones doesn’t translate on the big screen.

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TV Paula is gone, but it sure seems like the same old American Idol.

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Best Sellers From Oxford Books-A-Million (Overall store ranking)

FICTION 1. (1) Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99) 2. (4) The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam, $24.95) 3. (2) I, Alex Cross by James Patterson (Little,Brown, $27.99) 4. (3) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $29.95) 5. (6) FORD COUNTY by John Grisham (Doubleday, $24) NONFICTION 1. (1) HAVE A LITTLE FAITH by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $23.99) 2. (2) ARGUING WITH IDIOTS by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Steve Burquiere and Dan Andros (Threshold, $29.99) 3. Dr. Colbert’s I Can Do This Diet by Don Colbert (Siloam Press, $24.99 4. (3) GOING ROGUE by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins, $28.99) 5. (NA) MAYO CLINIC DIET by Mayo Clinic (Good Books, $25.99)

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The last Stephen King book I’ll ever read UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King; Scribner Book Company, 2009; 1,074 pages; $35 Reviewed by Brett Buckner For a month I lugged around the 1,074-page monstrosity that was Stephen King’s latest novel, Under the Dome. And with the turning of each page, I desperately hoped that the next sentence, this character’s plight or that plot development would make the entire exercise worthwhile.

But page after page all I found was yet another disappointment. As I stated in an earlier Bookpage column, if Under the Dome didn’t live up to what had become my own ever-deflated expectations, I would never read another Stephen King novel again.

Mission accomplished.

I went into this novel wanting to not only like it, but hoping it would reinvigorate my love for an author who hasn’t written a good book in well over a decade.

But it never took shape, and thus I’m giving up on King.

Spelled out, it sounds like an interesting idea — even if it was also a lot like what happened in The Simpson’s Movie.

Under the Dome is the story of Ches-

ter’s Mill, Maine, which one day literally wakes up to discover that it’s been cut off from the rest of the world thanks to an impenetrable force field.

In less than 10 days, chaos breaks out, anarchy reigns, violence and madness are rampant. Sounds like vintage King ... sounds like The Stand — King’s magnum opus — only in miniature. But it falls far short of that masterpiece simply because of the scope itself.

Under the Dome is honestly about 300-400 words too long. According to the author’s note, the book was written Nov. 22, 2007-March 14, 2009. If that sounds ridiculously rushed, it is.

King claims to have first attempted Under the Dome back in 1976, but ran away from it “with my tail tucked between my legs.”

Having read every word, I can honestly say that it should have remained “lost.”

Not every idea deserves a manuscript.

The cast of characters alone is dizzying and the plight of this tiny Maine town is firmly realized, but the subtext is so obvious as to be mildly insulting.

The Dome represents America’s own increased isolation from the world, while Jim Ronnie, First Selectman and ultimate bad guy, could easily be a stand-in for George W. Bush with his evangelical tone and tunnel vision, always swearing to do “what’s best for the town,” while the town he’s sworn to protect burns down around him.

Even the dialogue, which seems intentionally stolen from the B-movies King loved growing up, stops sounding kitschy and quickly becomes grating after about 500 pages.

Under the Dome simply isn’t worth the effort. And that’s what kept running through my mind disappointing chapter after disappointing chapter — I could have read three books by now ... three good books.

So it is with great sorrow that I say Under the Dome will be the last Stephen King book I’ll ever read. And this time, I mean it.

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Contradictory life makes for brilliant novel Bell paints Devil’s Dream By Madison Smartt Bell; Pantheon a surprisingly Books, 2009; 335 pages; $26.95 suitable por-

Reviewed by Lance Hicks The fractured concept of writing a historical novel, especially a biographical one, is often plagued by two major pitfalls. Either an abundance of facts weighs down the storyline with an overdose of dull reality, or an absence of truth leaves the plot without a much-needed bridle for an imprudently freehanded author.

However, in the case of Madison Smartt Bell’s Devil’s Dream, the life of the man in question is a subject of such ambiguity that a delicate balance of fact and fiction is well within reach.

trait of the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a renegade Confederate general whose life story is almost as marred with contradictions as his body was with bullet wounds and saber scars.

Readers see Forrest during his time on the warpath through Henri, a Haitian wanderer. Henri serves two major purposes in the novel: putting a fair amount of aesthetic distance between Forrest and the reader (and thus a healthy dose of curiosity) and adding

a sobering element of the supernatural into the mix.

Bell depicts Forrest’s days as a slavetrader and family man with a direct approach, following the man’s conflicting thoughts and decisions as he struggles with the slow demise of the Old South and his ongoing tug-ofwar to keep his humanity intact in an era marked by one of mankind’s cruelest practices.

These intimate sections of the novel beautifully oppose the wartime scenes in which Forrest is poised, god-like, in the saddle while committing deeds of heroism that downright push the boundaries of Southwestern humor to their

very limit.

At times, Bell’s momentum as a storyteller suffers at the hands of some unnecessary historical name-dropping and a painfully broad scope of narrative during the campaign sequences.

This only widens the frame of Bell’s portrait, though. Fortunately, he saves all of the eye-catching colors for Forrest (still fighting in the foreground) by keeping the focus on the personal exchanges between the general and his devoted brothers in combat.

Because of such inventive devices as this, Devil’s Dream stands alone as a brilliant example of how to execute a great biographical novel.

Lance Hicks is an English major at Jacksonville State University.

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BRIEFLY ENTERTAINING Memphis punk artist Jay Reatard dies MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Frenetic Memphis punk rocker Jay Reatard has died. He was 29.

Memphis police said in a news release Reatard — whose given name was Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. — was found dead in his bed early Wednesday. Police were investigating the death and hadn’t released a possible cause.

The Web site for his label, Matador Records, says Lindsey earned the attention of a Memphis independent record label after he began recording songs in his home at age 15.

He also gained a reputation for raucous, fast-paced live performances with bands the Reatards and the Lost Sounds, before recording and performing under the solo moniker Jay Reatard. Matador says a typical Reatard set could include 18 songs played in 25 minutes.

Positive reviews of his most recent release, “Watch Me Fall,” were helping him earn a wider audience.

Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art & Science closes doors FRESNO, Calif. — Thursday, two days after the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art & Science closed its doors to the public for the last time, the atmosphere inside resembled a wake.

In one hall, an exhibition on “The Art of Dr. Seuss” was being entombed in packing crates. Alongside the museum’s lobby, the gift shop’s shelves had been nearly stripped bare. Upstairs, at the nexus of the museum’s fifth-floor offices, a lone employee sifted through the contents of a filing cabinet. Not a single ringing phone or casual scrap of conversation could be heard in the virtually empty halls.

“It definitely is like a death, I mean the mourning process and just the whole feeling here,” said Dana Thorpe, executive director of the 25-year-old museum, one of the largest arts institutions in California’s Central Valley. The museum appears to be the latest cultural victim of the current economic downturn. It joins a growing list of about 20 U.S. museums of various types and sizes that have folded in the last year, including the Las Vegas Museum of Art and the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Fla., said Dewey Blanton, a spokesman for the American Assn. of Museums in Washington, D.C. Additionally, dozens of other museums have been forced to trim budgets, cancel or postpone exhibitions and/or layoff staff.

— From wire reports

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Teddy Pendergrass, right, performs at the Good Neighbor Community Outreach Celebration in 2000 in Philadelphia. Pendergrass died Wednesday at age 59.

R&B singer Pendergrass dies at 59

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY Associated Press

NEW YORK — R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, who was one of the most electric and successful figures in music until a car crash 28 years ago left him in a wheelchair, has died of colon cancer.

He was 59.

Pendergrass died Wednesday in suburban Philadelphia, where he had been hospitalized for months.

The singer’s son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had “a difficult recovery.”

Before the crash, Pendergrass established a new era of R&B with an explosive, raw voice that symbolized masculinity, passion and the joys and sorrow of romance in songs such as “Close the Door,” “It Don’t Hurt Now,” “Love T.K.O.” and other hits that have since become classics.

He was an international superstar and sex symbol. His career was at its apex — and still climbing.

Friend and longtime collaborator Kenny Gamble, of the renowned production duo Gamble & Huff, teamed

with Pendergrass on his biggest hits and recalled how the singer was even working on a movie.

“He had about 10 platinum albums in a row, so he was a very, very successful recording artist and as a performing artist,” Gamble said Thursday. “He had a tremendous career ahead of him, and the accident sort of got in the way of many of those plans.”

Pendergrass, who was born in Philadelphia in 1950, suffered a spinal cord injury in a 1982 car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down — still able to sing but without his signature power.

The image of the strong, virile lover was replaced with one that drew sympathy.

But instead of becoming bitter or depressed, Pendergrass created a new identity — that as a role model, Gamble said.

“He never showed me that he was angry at all about his accident,” Gamble said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “In fact, he was very courageous.”

Pendergrass left a remarkable imprint on the music world as he ushered in a

new era in R&B with his fiery, sensual and forceful brand of soul and his ladies’ man image, burnished by his strikingly handsome looks.

Gamble said Pendergrass was one of a kind as an artist and boasted a powerful voice and “a great magnetism.”

“He was a great baritone singer, and he had a real smooth sound, but he had a real rough sound, too, when he wanted to exert power in his voice,” Gamble said.

But it wasn’t Pendergrass’ voice that got him his break in the music business — it was his drum playing abilities.

He met Harold Melvin, who was looking for replacement members for his group, the Blue Notes, and signed on to be the drummer. Later, he became the lead singer of the group, which became known as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.

The band started working with Gamble and Leon Huff and had signature hits in the early 1970s with “Wake Up Everybody” and “If You Don’t Know Me

by Now.” “The females,” Gamble said, “loved Teddy Pendergrass. The females were very attracted to him and his music.”

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Hendrix fans have new experience in store

By Geoff Boucher Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — With the exception of James Dean, who made only three films, there might be no pop-culture icon who has done more with less than the late Jimi Hendrix. The ultimate guitar hero released just three studio albums before his death in 1970, but new generations of music fans keep plugging into his amplified legacy.

The volume of Hendrix’s music is about to get turned up.

Monday, the Hendrix estate and Sony Music Entertainment was to announce the March 9 release of a “new” Hendrix album, Valleys of Neptune, which will feature a dozen unreleased recordings.

The late star’s sister, Janie Hendrix, calls the material a “major revelation” about her brother’s musical directions at the time of his death, but the project and Sony’s intense interest in it also reveal plenty about the modern music marketplace — namely that proven stars of the past, even the dead ones, are growing more important to an industry facing an uncertain future.

At last week’s massive 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony chairman and chief executive Howard Stringer opened his company’s presentation by talking about Sony’s Legacy Recordings and its licensing agreement with Experience Hendrix, the Seattle-based company that acts as steward of the estate.

That partnership was first announced last summer, but this marks the real rollout of Sony’s venture into the Hendrix vault. The company also will re-release familiar Hendrix albums bundled with new DVD documentaries, take the star into the online sector aggressively and look for synergy opportunities with the biennial Hendrix allstar tribute tour that begins its national run March 4 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

“It’s an auspicious start in fulfilling a shared vision for the Jimi Hendrix catalog going forward,” Legacy general manager Adam Block said.

Perhaps, but it also offers insight into the mindset at the major record labels. There was a major scramble among Sony’s rivals to land the Hendrix deal for the simple reason that icons of the past are viewed as a particularly good investment at a time when CD sales of new music are in continued decline and up-and-coming acts represent limited upside amid the shifting profit realities of the digital-download era.

In other words, the rewind button looks like a safer bet these days.

Warner Music Group has undertaken a major Frank Sinatra revival that is both archival — with the release of vintage recordings — and entrepreneurial with new ventures in advertising, film and perhaps a Las Vegas casino.

Michael Jackson was the best-selling artist of last year (8.2 million albums sold in the U.S. alone), and the Beatles came in third (3.3 million); country crossover singer Taylor Swift finished between the two with music that was actually recorded in this century.

The Fab Four also hit the video game market with their Rock Band game, the latest of their seemingly seasonal encores as a pop-culture force.

And now, Hendrix is warming up as a 21st century enterprise.

Pat Boone not ready to retire yet

By Peter Larsen The Orange County Register

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Jimi Hendrix is shown in this undated performance photo.

Born in Seattle in 1942, Johnny Allen Hendrix would take on a persona that matched his trippy guitar feedback.

His persona made him seem somehow both earthy and otherworldly, a combination that made him a touchstone figure for a tie-dyed generation.

When he set his guitar on fire on stage in 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival he truly ignited his career. The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded signature 1960s tracks such as “Purple Haze” and “Foxey Lady,” but their frontman’s fashion influence and guitar innovations made him greater than the sum of those hits.

Hendrix died in London after a night of barbiturate use in September 1970. He was 27 and had no will. His estate, which is now valued somewhere north of $80 million, was caught up in legal battles for years; initially, control went to his father, Al Hendrix, but over the next decade he ceded it to others with results that left Hendrix devotees grumbling.

Eventually, Al Hendrix wrested control back, leading to the 1995 creation of Experience Hendrix, but his 2002 death led to more court conflicts. Janie, the half-sister of Jimi, emerged as the victor when the dust settled in 2008.

She says that now, finally, the obstacles have been cleared and Valleys of Neptune is part of a major cache of material that will be tapped.

“There are things that were acquired through the years, both music and film footage and home recordings, or things that were left behind by the old administration not taking care of things,” she said.

Janie Hendrix added that Neptune has some familiar songs — die-hard fans might have heard some of these tracks on various bootleg recordings that have turned up over the years — but these versions are startling.

“It sounds,” she said, “like Jimi could have recorded them yesterday.”

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Let’s make this clear right up front: Pat Boone, the ’50s teen idol turned all-around entertainer and entrepreneur, doesn’t have to work another day in his life.

At 75, Boone could spend his days on the golf course if he wanted — there’s one just across the yard, in fact, from the home he and wife Shirley bought in the Coto de Caza community in Orange County, Calif., a few years back.

But while his offices in West Hollywood look like a museum to all things Pat — with gold records and movie posters and memorabilia covering the walls — Boone says he’s not done yet.

“My wife and I are talking right now how to slow down,” he says with the smile that made him the wholesome hit of the pop charts and teen magazines of the late ’50s. “But here I am creating a new theater in Myrtle Beach (S.C.) and a PBS special and a radio format.

“I can spell ’n-o’ I just can’t say it,” Boone says. “I’ve always said yes to every good idea I’ve seen.”

Which explains why he’s busy putting together a special that will run on PBS stations in March, busy preparing to open and book a musical theater on the South Carolina coast, busy with the Gold Label record company, busy with his latest book, and a host of other projects.

“I can see the potential,” he says of the ideas he takes on as projects. “And if I’m working with somebody, I want to see them succeed, too.”

Pat Boone says he would love nothing more than a chance to be one of the celebrity mentors on American Idol.

“It would be fun if American Idol said, ’Here’s a guy who sold 45 million records,’ although I don’t know if it will happen. Because I think over the years, the younger people in the entertainment industry, because of my other activities ...”

He trails off, but it’s clear where that sentence is headed: Boone’s strong Christian beliefs and views on political issues such as gay rights, especially in his weekly opinion columns, aren’t exactly mainstream Hollywood material.

Even so, from a purely historical point of view, Boone makes a good case as the original Idol, who for three straight weeks in 1953 won the Ted Mack Amateur Hour — a talent show where viewers picked the winners — and by doing so landed a recording contract and a stream of hit singles throughout the last half of the ’50s.

“I recorded starting in 1955, and in the first 11 months of my career — before Elvis’s first (hit) single, ’Heartbreak Hotel’ — I had six million-selling singles,” Boone says, not mentioning, though it’s well known, that Presley opened for him before his own stardom exploded.

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Kanye West’s ambitions may be winding down Kanye West Storytellers The conceit of Storytellers will be a nightmare for most: a live album in which Kanye West talks enough to distend just nine songs over an hour. Given his only previously sanctioned live track, an ill-advised bonus cut that nearly brought down the occasionally brilliant 808s & Heartbreak altogether, and his mouthy track record — not to mention the dearth of worthwhile live rap albums — this one looked like a compelling train wreck at best. “I’m sorry VH1 for that,” West improvises as a “human being just trying to improve under the microscope” at the end of “Flashing Lights.” And we believe him.

What we won’t believe is that we paid for the audio equivalent of his “I’m-a let you finish” speech.

Right, we’re really here for the music, but Jay-Z’s wonderful MTV Unplugged enjoyed two advantages over Storytellers: a) Jay-Z’s programmed beats left space for reinterpretation, whereas West’s albums are already fleshed out with live orchestration aplenty; and b) Jay stuck to rap while Kanye uses the occasion to

indulge his AutoTune fascination, with no new songs or particularly interesting vocal contributions.

Should we be grateful he hits the notes alone, as he couldn’t back when he premiered “Love Lockdown” on Saturday Night Live? “Touch the Sky,” the only thing here from either of his first two albums, is indeed recast as a darker, rockier tour de force overflowing with ’80s guitar-shredding, and the opening salvo of “See You in My Nightmares / Robocop” presents the two most compelling tunes from 808s in furious spotlight rather than the somewhat obscure treatment they received in the back half of that polarizing record.

But nothing here eclipses or even particularly disembowels its original, meaning that Kanye’s ambitions may be winding down — even if his mouth isn’t.

—Dan Weiss, MCT

Latest from OK GO is geeky, cheery OK GO Of the Blue Colour of the Sky Following up 2005’s Oh No, the L.A. quartet OK Go has returned with an untidy album of jumpy rhythms, humid synths, funk guitar and falsetto.

The blown-out production was helmed by David Fridmann, who’s done similar work for MGMT and the Flaming Lips.

There’s a lot to digest, from the taut “Before the Earth Was Round” and TV on the Radio-ish “Needing/Getting” to the sweet “All Is Not Lost” and the acoustic anomaly “Last Leaf.” Lead single “WTF?” is suitably catchy, though “This Too Shall

Pass” is stronger still.

Front man Damian Kulash acknowledges Prince as a longtime influence, which comes out most on “Skyscrapers” and “White Knuckles.”

A lengthy outing at 13 songs and 51 minutes, it’s ultimately geeky, cheery, and all too affable.

—Doug Wallen, MCT

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No sophomore slump for Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Contra Enough already with the whinging about whether the Columbia University grads in Vampire Weekend have committed crimes of inauthenticity by dallying in Afro-pop from a privileged Upper West Side perch. Instead, kudos to Ezra Koenig and his Ralph Laurensporting crew — particularly keyboard player/producer Rostam Batmanglij — for expanding on their 2008 self-titled debut’s most agreeable mix of New Wave perkiness and King Sunny Ade juju without sacrificing an iota of instantly accessible catchiness.

On Contra’s 10 clean, concise songs, Koenig sticks to his playfully worldly lyrical guns while adding depth to his songwriting. In “Horchata,” he rhymes the titular Mexican agua fresca drink with “Aranciata” and “balaclava,” and he gets

his modernart jollies in a “Richard Serra skatepark” on “White Sky.” But there’s also the wistful heartbreak of “Taxi Cab” and contemplative tranquillity of the closing “I Think UR A Contra,” as well as such deft musical touches as the Auto-Tune-plus-strings effects on “California English,” ska-flavored escapism of “Holiday,” and M.I.A. sample in the world-beat collage “Diplomat’s Son.” Sorry, naysayers, there’s no sophomore slump in store.

—Dan DeLuca, MCT

Sad songs, sweet melodies from Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston Rain On The City Freedy Johnston blames the eightyear hiatus since his last album of new songs on IRS woes and a relationship that soured. While there’s only one jab at the taxman on Rain On The City, there are plenty of sad songs above love gone wrong, death and even a found penny — but mostly love gone wrong.

These are cautionary tales. “Don’t Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl” is one title.

“You’ll curse the day that you ever were loved,” Johnston warns elsewhere.

The descriptions of heartache resonate more deeply because, as usual, Johnston pairs his lyrics with melodies of uncommon beauty. They’re fetching even on the uptempo tunes, such as “Lonely Girl,” which rocks as hard as anything Johnston has written. He does Buddy Holly proud on the bouncy

but biting “It’s Gonna Come Back To You,” and makes like early Steve Earle on “Livin’ Too Close To The Rio Grande.”

More delicate are the melodies snaking through Johnston’s slower songs, such as the wrenching “What You Cannot See, You Cannot Fight.” Hum along to the tracks of his tears.

CHECK THIS OUT: The lovely, concise “Central Station” is hushed as a prayer — appropriate for a song about the death of the singer’s father.

— Steven Wine, Associated Press

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Director and producer Peter Jackson works with Saoirse Ronan on the set of ‘The Lovely Bones.’

‘Lovely Bones’ trades soul for spectacle the lovely bones HH1/2 Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images and some language Running time: 2:15 STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Stanley, Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Rose McIver, Michael Imperioli

By DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press

Odd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed to come down to Earth a bit more in The Lovely Bones, his adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-seller about a murdered girl looking back on her life from beyond.

The visionary filmmaker behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy still is in fantasyland, still in the grip of Middleearth, and the film suffers for it as Jackson crafts lovely but ineffectual dreamscapes of the afterlife that eviscerate much of the human side of the story.

It’s certainly a smaller, more intimate tale than his Lord of the Rings trilogy and his King Kong remake. Yet the hope among fans of Jackson’s early work was that The Lovely Bones would hark back to his 1994 drama Heavenly Creatures, which put Kate Winslet on the road to stardom.

Working on a grander Hollywood scale, Jackson loses the spark of Sebold’s story — a young girl’s lament over a life never lived, a family’s bottomless grief over a child and sister lost — amid his expensive pretty pictures.

Like the book, the film merges first-person and omniscient narration as Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan, an Academy Award nominee for 2007’s Atonement) chronicles her journey from sensitive 14-year-old schoolgirl to shattered soul stuck in a nether zone between earth and heaven.

Sweet and somewhat shy, Susie is just developing a

passion for photography and on the verge of her first kiss when a creepy neighbor (Stanley Tucci) with a serial-killer past lures her into his secret lair and murders her.

For her family — including parents (Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz), grandmother (Susan Sarandon) and younger sister (Rose McIver) — Susie has simply vanished, her body hidden away by her killer.

Years pass, and Susie watches the family crumble, her mom running off to work on a farm, her dad obsessed with finding his daughter’s murderer, to the exasperation of the cop (Michael Imperioli) handling the case.

Through death, Susie gains a razor-sharp focus on what’s truly important, all those glorious little snapshot moments that, for the living, can become lost and forgotten in the cacophony of everyday life.

Jackson’s focus is fuzzier, the film flitting disjointedly from the Salmons’ lingering sorrow to Susie’s limbo, a realm that alternates between her anger and melancholy over what she’s left behind and her wonder over what’s yet to come in her larger existence.

Earth and limbo don’t really seem as though they’re part of the same movie. The vibrant, sometimes ominous fantasyland where Susie dwells disconnects her from the life on which she reflects, puts her at a distance from the people she loves and misses.

We’re supposed to think she can’t let go, when much of the time, it feels as though she’s already gone.

The images often are striking — ships inside giant bottles shattering on the rocks of a forlorn shore, candycolored landscapes where Susie romps as she begins to sense the freedom of passing into the cosmos.

But the spectacle Jackson creates is showmanship, not storytelling, distracting from the mortal drama of regret and heartache he’s trying to tell.

LOS ANGELES — Peter Parker can catch all sorts of villains in his webs, but the one thing Spider-Man couldn’t bring to Sony Pictures was a workable script — and budget — for the $2.5-billion franchise’s fourth installment, derailing one of the most lucrative movie series in Hollywood history.

Less than a week after the studio said it was postponing production on the fourth web-slinger movie over story problems, Sony on Monday pulled the plug on the project as it was being conceived with director Sam Raimi after he told the studio he wasn’t comfortable moving forward with the sequel, originally scheduled for release in May 2011.

Star Tobey Maguire, who has played the arachnid superhero in the previous three Spider-Man films, is also bowing out, as is his on-screen love interest, Kirsten Dunst. The studio said it would hire a new star and director and re-boot the movie as a story about Parker’s early life as a “teenager grappling with contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.” Because Sony is essentially starting from scratch, the studio has pushed the picture’s release to 2012.

The resulting film is expected to be far less costly than the production Raimi had envisioned for his version. Sony wanted to make the picture for about $230 million, which the director thought was not enough given his ambitions.

“Spider-Man will always be an important franchise for Sony Pictures and a fresh start like this is a responsibility that we all take very seriously,” Sony Chairman Michael Lynton said in a prepared statement. “We have always believed that story comes first and story guides the direction of these films.”

The studio declined to elaborate on the decision. But several people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter said Sony hopes to find a new director and actors quickly, with filming expected to begin before the end of the year.

Screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) has been hired to write the script, and Spider-Man veterans Marvel Studios, Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin will return as producers, the studio said.

The postponement of such a lucrative franchise leaves Sony with a huge hole in its 2011 schedule, especially in the summer, when the studios release their big, expensive — and often highly profitable — event movies. The first three Spider-Man films grossed nearly $2.5 billion in their worldwide theatrical releases and generated hundreds of millions of dollars more in DVD, TV and merchandising sales.

Despite the studio’s corporate parent’s massive size, the Spider-Man films have had a material impact on Sony Corp.’s bottom line. In the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2004, for instance, Sony said that initial returns from Spider-Man 2 were one of the main factors in the studio’s quarterly swing from an operating loss to a profit.

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By JAKE COYLE Associated Press

In the future, according to The Book of Eli, we’ll all dress like we’re in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written.

Most everyone wears goggles and leather in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of The Book of Eli. A meteorite and a subsequent war 30 years earlier has scorched the Earth and the population.

The landscape (shot in New Mexico) is much like an old Western: bandits (albeit cannibalizing bandits) lurk the desert roads, while rough crowds take refuge in hardscrabble towns. At the downtown saloon, water, not whiskey, is “the good stuff.”

Across this charred land strides our Christian cowboy, Eli (Denzel Washington), a mysterious, solitary man who carries the last remaining

Bible in his backpack. He also carries a gleaming silver knife and a shotgun, both of which he’s expert with.

Like a prophet, he has heard God’s voice in his head and he walks West with divine determination. He says to himself: “Stay on the path.”

After “the flash” of the cataclysm that rocked the Earth, many blamed the troubles on religion. All the books were burned, making the few that remain precious cargo indeed.

Those born after this event (and this might not seem so futuristic) don’t have any knowledge of books — what they mean or how to read them. The elders are the exception, those who lived “before.” Among them is Carnegie (Gary Oldman), a villainous man who presides over the town Eli wanders into.

He sends his minions out in search of a Bible, though all they can do is return with The Da Vinci Code — which apparently even meteorites can’t destroy. An intellectual (we first meet him reading a biography of Mussolini), Carnegie believes the Bible’s power will make him a great leader: “It’s a weapon,” he says.

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Scorecard for Golden Globes

Who will win, and who should win, at Sunday’s awards

By Rafer Guzman Newsday

Matt Damon against Daniel Day-Lewis. Sandra Bullock versus a trove of newcomers. And Meryl Streep battles herself.

Sunday’s 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony promises some fierce competition, though the show’s first solo host in 14 years, Ricky Gervais, will probably keep the mood light. And while the Globes are often viewed as predictors of the Academy Awards, this year may be a little different for the all-important best picture Oscar, which is being expanded to 10 nominees, up from the usual five.

Here’s your scorecard:

Best Motion Picture/ Drama Avatar; The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds; Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire; Up in the Air SHOULD WIN: Avatar. It’s technology over substance, but the movie’s sheer scope and ambition are undeniable.

WILL WIN: Up in the Air, which leads the pack with six nominations and a timely recession theme.

Actress/Drama Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria; Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side; Helen Mirren, The Last Station; Carey Mulligan, An Education; Gabourey Sidibe, Precious SHOULD WIN: Carey Mulligan, irresistible as a young girl seduced by an older man.

WILL WIN: Mulligan. But Bullock could steal it.

Actor/Drama Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart; George Clooney, Up in the Air; Colin Firth, A Single Man; Morgan Freeman, Invictus; Tobey Maguire, Brothers SHOULD WIN: Firth, playing a suicidal gay man in 1962, delivered the most moving performance of any actor this year.

WILL WIN: The glamorous Mr. Clooney is the shoo-in. But Bridges, utterly convincing as a

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Anna Kendrick, left, and George Clooney each received acting nominations for the film ‘Up in the Air.’ washed-up country singer, has an outside chance.

Best Motion Picture/ Musical or Comedy (500) Days of Summer; The Hangover; It’s Complicated; Julie & Julia; Nine SHOULD WIN: Julie & Julia, mostly for Streep’s delightfully dotty incarnation of celebrity chef Julia Child.

WILL WIN: Julie & Julia.

take it for Julie & Julia.

Actor/Musical or Comedy Matt Damon, The Informant!; Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine; Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer; Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man SHOULD WIN: Although The Informant! was a middling movie, Damon was terrific as a slippery schlub.

WILL WIN: Day-Lewis. He wasn’t very good as a womanizing Italian, but Globe voters clearly liked Nine — it earned five nominations.

Man SHOULD WIN: Mo’Nique, a comedian who transformed herself into an abusive monster.

WILL WIN: Mo’Nique. She has lately softened her supposed stance against award campaigning.

Actor/Supporting Matt Damon, Invictus; Woody Harrelson, The Messenger; Christopher Plummer, The Last Station; Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones; Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds SHOULD WIN: Waltz. Playing WWII’s happiest Nazi, this Austrian unknown stole Quentin Tarantino’s entire movie.

WILL WIN: Waltz, hands down.

balls; Coraline; Fantastic Mr. Fox; The Princess and the Frog; Up SHOULD WIN: Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wes Anderson used stopmotion to create another of his unique, visually witty worlds.

WILL WIN: Fantastic Mr. Fox, even though Pixar (Up) has taken this award every year since its introduction.

Director

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker; James Cameron, Avatar; Clint Eastwood, Invictus; Jason Reitman, Up in the Air; Quentin Sandra Bullock, The Proposal; Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds Marion Cotillard, Nine; Julia RobSHOULD WIN: Bigelow, erts, Duplicity; Meryl Streep, It’s whose explosive style made The Complicated; Meryl Streep, Julie Actress/Supporting Hurt Locker the most bruising war & Julia film of the decade.

Penelope Cruz, Nine; Vera SHOULD WIN: Streep for Julie WILL WIN: Though she won’t Farmiga, Up in the Air; Anna Ken& Julia.

Animated Feature win for best picture, Bigelow will WILL WIN: Her only real com- drick, Up in the Air; Mo’Nique, petition is herself, but Streep will Precious; Julianne Moore, A Single Cloudy With a Chance of Meat- take this one.

Actress/Musical or Comedy

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artist spotlight: doug clark

Courtesy of Doug Clark and Jacksonville State University

One of 17 images from Photographs by Doug Clark.

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Jimmy Wilson acting as Barack Obama is seen in a rehearsal of the musical ‘Hope-the Obama Musical Story in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Wednesday. The musical premieres on Sunday in Frankfurt.

Yes they can: Obama musical set to open in Germany

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER

intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America’s BERLIN — A musical about first black president. One campaign Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” elechighlight was a July 2008 speech to tion campaign premieres in Gersome 200,000 people in the heart of many this weekend, including love Berlin about the world, the U.S. and songs by the president to his wife its place in it. On Wednesday, the Michelle and duets with Hillary Hope performers were still working Clinton. at their kicks on a small rehearsal Even John McCain and Sarah stage in an industrial zone of the Palin are given stage time, with southwestern city of Karlsruhe. actors portraying the losing Repub“We are rehearsing every day for lican candidates and belting out 12 hours now,” Jimmie Wilson, who songs on their behalf. plays Obama, said in a telephone In all, 30 singers, actors and interview on Wednesday. “After the dancers are to perform in the musi- opening, we have to see what the cal Hope — the Obama Musical feedback is like and then we’ll go on Story when it opens at the Jahrhun- tour.” derthalle concert hall in Frankfurt The American once acted in in a bilingual mix of English and Michael Jackson musical Sisterella.

German. The audience may recogThe organizers of Hope said that nize that many songs quote from the tickets are only available for the politicians’ stump speeches during opening night in Frankfurt and that the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. further performances there and in The venue for the premiere other German cities were still being seems appropriate since the optiplanned. mism of Obamania remains largely “I had the idea (for the musical) Associated Press

during the presidential campaign. ... It was fascinating and the mood at the time fired my imagination,” American writer Randall Hitchins said in a news release provided by the organizers. “All the people were hoping for a change for a better life and there was such a great, collective emotion.”

While Hitchins initially only wanted to compose one song with the title “Yes, we can” — in reference to Obama’s campaign slogan — he soon realized that the theme had the potential for more. He teamed up with producer Roberto Emmanuele, a German-Italian, and together they created the musical, which combines different musical styles, from pop, soul and gospel to hip hop and rock.

Set in Obama’s hometown of Chicago and viewed through the eyes of a group of people who share an apartment, the musical tries to show how Obama’s campaign gave people at the time hope for change and belief in a better future.

Artist: Doug Clark is an assistant professor of photography and digital imaging at Jacksonville State University, where he has been for five years.

Medium of choice: Photography and digital imaging.

Exhibit: Photographs by Doug Clark; open to the public at JSU’s Hammond Hall on Jan. 12; will run through Wednesday, Jan. 27, with a reception on Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Hammond Hall.

WHAT TO EXPECT: The exhibit features 17 largescale photographs of images that Clark describes as “portraits of nature.” Clark said the images in his 1:1 Series are gathered from near his home in Jacksonville.

IN THE ARTIST’S WORDS: “By taking photographs, I am choosing what I want to see and what I want the viewer to consider.”

For more information: Contact the JSU Art Department at 256-782-8257.

— Kevin Jeffers

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CONCERTS

Paul Curvin and the Stumpgrinders When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Golden Saw Music Hall, Williams Community, Jacksonville How much: Free Contact: 256-435-4696 The Flat Busted Band When: 8:30 p.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. 431, Anniston How much: $4 Contact: 256-238-8047

Steakhouse, 1503 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston (Old Alabama Show Palace) How much: Free Contact: 256-835-7735 DJ Rockin’ Roger When: 9 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-832-5000 Stone Free When: 9:30 p.m.

What: Southern, Classic Rock Where: Heroes, 8896 McClellan Blvd. (Old Sports Nut), Jacksonville How much: $4 Contact: 256-405-4365 DJ Vito Libido When: 11 p.m.

Where: Brother’s Bar, 206 Pelham Road S., Jacksonville How much: $3 for 21 and up, $5 for under 21 Contact: 256-435-6090

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The Prowlerz The Prowlerz When: 9 p.m.

What: Easy listening, southern rock Where: Coyote Mike’s, 2810 Alabama 202, Anniston How much: $4 Contact: 256-237-2227 DJ JD When: 9 p.m.

Where: Bama Cowboy Saloon and

CONCERTS

Just Country with Curt Schull and Ray Vaughn When: 6 p.m.

What: Country Where: Rabbittown Cafe and Fiddlers Hall, 900 Rabbittown Road, Piedmont How much: $5 donation for the band Contact: 256-435-8008 (weekends) or 256435-3987 (Monday-Friday evenings)

Contact: 256-835-7735

The Flat Busted Band The Flat Busted Band When: 8:30 p.m.

Where: VFW Post 924, 100 U.S. 431, Anniston How much: $4, women free Contact: 256-238-8047 The Prowlerz When: 9 p.m.

What: Easy listening, southern rock Where: Coyote Mike’s, 2810 Alabama 202, Anniston How much: $4 Contact: 256-237-2227

DJ Rockin’ Roger When: 9 p.m.

Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-832-5000

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CONCERTS

Dance Party with Scuba Steve When: 11 p.m.

Where: Brother’s Bar, 206 Pelham Road S., Jacksonville How much: $3, women free Contact: 256-435-6090

Hold Cell When: 11 p.m.

Where: Brother’s Bar, 206 Pelham Road S., Jacksonville How much: $3 for 21 and up, $5 for under 21 Contact: 256-435-6090

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The Southern Nites Band When: 9 p.m.

Where: Bama Cowboy Saloon and Steakhouse, 1503 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston (Old Alabama Show Palace) How much: $3, women free

Chuck and Greg When: 8 p.m.

Where: Damn Yankees, 919 Noble St., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-236-7000

McPherson Struts When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Heroes, 8896 McClellan Blvd. (Old Sports Nut), Jacksonville How much: $4 Contact: 256-405-4365

Jeremy Coomes When: 9:30 p.m.

Where: Heroes, 8896 McClellan Blvd.

(Old Sports Nut), Jacksonville How much: Free Contact: 256-405-4365

thursDAY

CONCERTS

exhibits Smalls What: Featuring works on paper 8-by10 inches and smaller, including prints, photo transfers, paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, mixed media works and digital prints When: Through Sunday. Gallery is open

Fridays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and by appointment Where: Studio9, 9 Public Square E (next to Crow Drugs), Jacksonville How much: Free to attend, items priced as marked Contact: 256-239-3012

Photographs by Doug Clark What: 1:1 Photographs by Doug Clark features 17 large-scale color photographs of images that Clark describes as “portraits of nature.”

When: Through Jan. 17 during the business hours of 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., with an

opening reception on Tuesday, Jan. 19 from 7-9p.m.

Where: Jacksonville State University, Hammond Hall, 700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville How much: Free to the public Contact: 256-782-8257

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Conan O’Brien made his debut as host of ‘The Tonight Show’ on June 1. Only seven months later, he might be on his way out, after refusing to accept a timeslot change to acommodate Jay Leno.

Conan’s conundrum: NBC puts ‘Tonight’ host in predicament

By Joe Flint

who have seen their bottom lines hit by a weak economy and audiLos Angeles Times ence fragmentation.

LOS ANGELES — In the grand While Fox could put Conan at scheme of things, figuring out 10:30 p.m., which would mean whether to stay in a job that pays there would be three late-night north of $15 million a year or fightshows going head to head. That’s ing for some sort of buyout that a recipe for disaster. On top of all would also be in the millions — if this, assuming Fox sells its affiliates not multimillions — is something on the idea, it’s not like he’d go on of a luxury problem. But those are the air in two weeks. Assuming he basically the options facing NBC’s could wrestle out of his NBC deal, Conan O’Brien, who is being told the earliest he could hit Fox is in the The Tonight Show is going to move fall, and that is probably incredibly from 10:35 p.m. to 11:05 p.m. to wishful thinking. O’Brien could easmake room for Jay Leno’s return to ily end up sitting on the sidelines for late night. at least a year, which is an eternity For all the talk out of Fox that it in TV time. loves O’Brien and would be willTalks between O’Brien and NBC ing to chat with him, the odds of are ongoing, with the two sides something really happening seem debating whether the network is long. Even if Fox has some sort of voiding his contract by moving the tacit agreement to explore getting show. Unfortunately for O’Brien, back into late night, actually getduring negotiations for his original ting the time slots from its stations deal to host The Tonight Show his will be no small task. Fox’s affiliates management apparently forgot show reruns in the 10 p.m. time slot, to get it in writing that the show’s which is ideally where Fox would time slot would always start at 10:35 want to put O’Brien. Those reruns p.m. That little detail may be key in make a lot of money for the stations, keeping NBC from having to shell

out any sort of penalty or to release O’Brien from his contract.

Whether not having a timeperiod-specific clause would stand up legally, should it come to that, may be another story. After all, The Tonight Show has aired at the same time for some 50 years, which sure sounds like precedent, but we’re not lawyers here.

If Leno’s old Tonight Show deal also included a time-period clause is not known, some say it did, others say no. David Letterman’s deal when he went to CBS did have such a clause, said a person with knowledge of that contract. O’Brien’s lawyer Leigh Brecheen did not return calls seeking comment, and WME Entertainment, O’Brien’s agency, also declined comment.

O’Brien has a powerhouse team at WME. But in this case, short of WME boss Ari Emanuel persuading his brother — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel — to get the Justice Department to block Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal unless O’Brien keeps his job, Conan may be out of luck.

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Lost: A man f inally admits it Once I left 30 in the rearview, apathy won the steelcage deathmatch with my affection for pop culture.

That’s not to say I’m not cool. Even prep sports Bran writer Nick Strickland Birdsong once said Sports Editor I’m one of the coolest cats here at Mothership Consolidated. One might argue that’s like saying I’m the skinniest guy at Weight Watchers — and point out I control Bird’s employment, too — but I digress.

I default to boot-cut jeans and a button-up over some ridiculous Ed Hardy ensemble.

Terrestrial radio is alien to the speakers of my truck — instead I crave the classic tunes of Willie or Dylan or the newer sounds of a 20-minute Phish jam or a Robert Earl Keen tale.

And when it comes time to unwind, I’ve given up crowds, instead choosing low-key conversation.

With respect to the latter, it’s a metaphor for my viewing habits, as well — SportsCenter withstanding, of course.

Shows like American Idol, Friends and Lost were always, well, lost on me.

Then came Tivo, and now Netflix.

The first brought me into the casual conversation of must-see TV, but not all the way into the inner circle.

Over the past few years, my circle of friends would venture into deep, spirited conversations about Lost.

It’s kind of like a nonfunny Gilligan’s Island written by Hunter S. Thompson. And that’s all I really know right now, midway through the second season.

... and now i’m found Sports editor Bran Strickland is on a crusade to catch up with Lost before the finalseason premiere on Feb. 2. Follow his progress — but don’t give spoilers — on Twitter, @Bran_Strickland.

And I knew nothing before, except it was about a bunch of folks who were apparently lost.

Heck, I even camped under my Anniston crew’s flag of the DHARMA Initiative at Bonnaroo, but sat with a look on my face akin to a monkey trying to do a math problem. “That ship has sailed,” they’d say.

“Don’t even try to start watching it now. You’d never understand what’s going on.”

Enter through stage right: Netflix and its instant streams.

The most recent lazy Sunday, I clicked on Season One, just to see what the all the fuss was about.

At that moment — or the moment I saw a polar bear on a tropical island — the science of addiction became real. I’ve already watched over 40 episodes in five days.

I’ve thrown my life into ink before. Numerous Dayin-the-life stories, a sixweek couch-to-5K series a few years back.

Now, for a marathon back on the couch. Before the final season debuts on Feb. 2, I will be caught up. I will have something to add to the conversation.

That is, if my brain isn’t fried by then. After all, it’s 103 episodes in 16 days.

If I’m not back next week, send out a search party.

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cpittman@annistonstar.com

n alarm clock sounds, announcing the beginning of a new day. It’s quickly met with an unhappy fist. The clock flies off the dresser and into a pyramid of Sunkist cans, the sound of which wakes a zombie that’s already 15 minutes late for class.

But instead of stumbling toward the shower or throwing on some wrinkled jeans and a baseball cap, he slumps in front of his computer — the bluish glow from his monitor is all the sunshine he needs.

For University of North Carolina physics major Matthew Grames, it’s just another day wasted in the digital land of Azeroth.

Grames is one of more than 2.5 million Americans who spends his time playing World of Warcraft, a video game — the massively popular, massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), to be more specific.

Since the mid-1990s, the MMORPG genre has become one of the most lucrative, and addicting, in the video-gaming industry.

In these games, the player creates his or her own digital persona to be a character in the game, dubbed an avatar.

The character then becomes part of an expansive online universe, which is home to thousands of other sword-wielding warriors or magic-casting mages. These players must work together to proceed through the game, along the way fighting fierce foes, exploring lush landscapes and embarking on dangerous quests — all of them digital.

Of World of Warcraft, by far the most successful game in this genre, Grames admits the amount of time it consumes, saying it requires much more attention than casual games “that kids or adults might play after a long day at school or work.”

Associated Press/Blizzard Entertainment/File

World of Warcraft is far and away the most successful of the lucrative — yet sometimes highly addicting — MMORPG video game genre.

“You are rewarded with the effort you put in, so many people play all the time to be the best,” Grames said.

He has played video games all his life, but it was when he started playing MMORPGs that he became truly addicted to the hobby.

“These games just have a special way of pulling you in,” he said. “They can have you under their control within just a few hours of beginning.”

A social cycle An Entertainment Software Association survey in 2005 found that 70 percent to 90 percent of American youths play video games, 9 percent of whom play MMORPGs. Blizzard Entertainment, creator of World of Warcraft

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(known more commonly as WoW) reports staggering subscription figures of more than ten million gamers worldwide, with the user paying at least $14.99 a month for service.

As Grames played more and more of the games, taking up more and more of his time, he noticed he had less time for school, and his grades suffered for it.

“I got extremely into Final Fantasy XI, and I honestly skipped almost every class other than midterms and finals that entire semester,” he said. “My GPA went down and I didn’t get the solid foundation of information for several classes that were of higher level that I had to take the following semester.”

Many of the games require enormous amounts of time and resources in order to get

Jan. 15-21, 2010

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online role-playing games mimic real life, often in dangerous ways

anywhere in the game, and they also require teamwork with other online players to participate.

For many players, it’s this social aspect that makes MMORPGs so much fun to play. And so addicting, sometimes deadly so. Lee Seung Seop, a repairman from South Korea, died after playing Starcraft for 50 consecutive hours in an Internet café on Aug. 3, 2005. It was concluded that he died of heart failure, induced by exhaustion and dehydration. Seop is one of several who have role-played their way to the grave.

According to the Washington Post Foreign Service, ten South Koreans, mostly teenagers, died in 2005 alone from game-addiction problems. The American Medical Association does not have a specific category for video game addiction, but psychologists have placed it with activities such as compulsive gambling.

JSU Psychology Department head Dr. Steven Dworkin calls the addiction an impulse control disorder.

“Impulsivity is engaging in behavior that has immediate, small consequences,” he said.

For example, if you were to get a small amount of money and buy a cheap stereo system immediately instead of saving until you can afford to buy a nicer, more expensive one.

In the same way, devoting six hours to a quest in a video game, while proving worthwhile by completing the quest, could be better spent working toward more beneficial ends.

But Dworkin also points out that addiction is not necessarily a dangerous thing, using the example of soft drinks.

Many people can say they have a caffeine habit, not admitting any addiction.

But caffeine is still listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Addictive Behaviors.

Video games, however, are not listed in the manual.

“A behavior becomes an addiction when it interferes with a person’s life,” Dworkin said.

“And they continue to do it even though they know it has negative side effects.”

get his life back on track. He proceeded to get a new apartment and a job at a local pizza parlor.

But he used his wages to buy a new computer, and his addiction began all over again. He eventually quit his new job to play the game all Real danger day long.

For many MMORPG players, the toughest After several bad in-game events, Shawn’s villain they will face is not at the end of any depression had reached a whole new level. On level or quest — it’s the game itself. But, like Thanksgiving Day, 2001, Shawn shot himself in their online friends who help in these digital front of his computer. His mother discovered quests, there is an increasing amount of realthe body later that afternoon. Everquest was on life help devoted to helping cure this addiction. the screen.

On-Line Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), “I couldn’t talk to anyone for months,” she founded by Liz Woolley, is a growing Web site said. “Finally, I spoke to a reporter and that led dedicated to helping gamers overcome their to more and more interviews. I researched the addiction. The site offers many different recov- topic all over and decided to use my informaery methods aimed at helping anyone suffering tion to help out others. I was not going to let my from game addiction. son die in vain.”

The message board acts as a 24-hour meetAccording to Wooley’s research, 98 percent ing place for gamers in need. Woolley said of people who cannot quit the games have this is the most important aspect of the site, ADD or ADHD. She also found that relapse because it “can help people at all times of the numbers are very high. day through the board.”

“It’s harder to get off of the games compared Woolley knows all too well about the poten- to drugs and alcohol,” she said. “The games tial dangers of video games. Her son, Shawn, change you as a person, and there is not much began his obsession with Everquest, one of the that can be done once that happens.” first MMORPGs to hit the market, at the age of She also discovered that psychologists are 20. hired by gaming companies to make their Shawn casually played games for years, so products more addictive. Millions of dollars are his mother figured this game would be like any spent to design the software so the player will other. Eventually, Shawn’s addiction was so continue to come back to the game. bad he quit his job and was evicted from his “It’s not even a game, it’s a virtual world,” apartment, forced to move back home with his she said. “It’s created to mimic every part of mother. He later began to visit a therapist, but it real life so the player doesn’t have to leave it.” only made things worse.

Game manufacturers have received much “The therapist told me to ‘just be glad that criticism for the way that MMORPGs are crehe is not addicted to drugs and alcohol,’” Wool- ated, but little has been done to change things. ley said. “Shawn thought that he was OK at Dr. Dworkin does not see this as exclusive to this point and that I was taking things too seri- video games, and that basically the companies ously.” bear no responsibility in someone becoming Woolley managed to get her son to live at addicted to their products. a support group home, which helped Shawn “Society has to make decisions for them-

selves,” he said. “Manufacturers are going to use what sells, and most of that is going to play off addictive behavior.”’

He also said that self-control is the key to overcoming an addiction, because you can set limits for yourself.

That’s a tough sell to Woolley.

“I consider those people no better than drug pushers,” she said. “They do whatever it takes to get their money.”

Beyond the game For all the benefits that MMORPGs bring a gamer, most notably an expansion of one’s friend base, the risks weigh much more heavily.

Grames suggests staying away from the people that might attract you back into the virtual world.

“They are just too much of an influence to hop back on and play again,” he said.

That realization is how he went from classskipping slacker to a college graduate with a 3.07 GPA in physics. He is also in a serious relationship and has just been offered a promotion at his job.

But, as evidence from the deaths of Shawn Woolley and the numerous ones in South Korea, it’s just not that easy for everyone.

Grames is one of the fortunate ones.

Still, even with his life seemingly in line, he said he will always play video games, whether they be MMORPGs or not, he said he wasn’t sure.

The mountains of Sunkist are long gone, but the love for Warcraft remains. He’s just found his balance.

“The new expansion pack to the game will have me playing more than ever,” he said. “My stay in Azeroth is far from over.”

Chris Pittman works in the online office and writes a video game column for The Star. He can be reached at 235-256-3538.

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BY CHRIS PITTMAN

A

cpittman@annistonstar.com

n alarm clock sounds, announcing the beginning of a new day. It’s quickly met with an unhappy fist. The clock flies off the dresser and into a pyramid of Sunkist cans, the sound of which wakes a zombie that’s already 15 minutes late for class.

But instead of stumbling toward the shower or throwing on some wrinkled jeans and a baseball cap, he slumps in front of his computer — the bluish glow from his monitor is all the sunshine he needs.

For University of North Carolina physics major Matthew Grames, it’s just another day wasted in the digital land of Azeroth.

Grames is one of more than 2.5 million Americans who spends his time playing World of Warcraft, a video game — the massively popular, massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), to be more specific.

Since the mid-1990s, the MMORPG genre has become one of the most lucrative, and addicting, in the video-gaming industry.

In these games, the player creates his or her own digital persona to be a character in the game, dubbed an avatar.

The character then becomes part of an expansive online universe, which is home to thousands of other sword-wielding warriors or magic-casting mages. These players must work together to proceed through the game, along the way fighting fierce foes, exploring lush landscapes and embarking on dangerous quests — all of them digital.

Of World of Warcraft, by far the most successful game in this genre, Grames admits the amount of time it consumes, saying it requires much more attention than casual games “that kids or adults might play after a long day at school or work.”

Associated Press/Blizzard Entertainment/File

World of Warcraft is far and away the most successful of the lucrative — yet sometimes highly addicting — MMORPG video game genre.

“You are rewarded with the effort you put in, so many people play all the time to be the best,” Grames said.

He has played video games all his life, but it was when he started playing MMORPGs that he became truly addicted to the hobby.

“These games just have a special way of pulling you in,” he said. “They can have you under their control within just a few hours of beginning.”

A social cycle An Entertainment Software Association survey in 2005 found that 70 percent to 90 percent of American youths play video games, 9 percent of whom play MMORPGs. Blizzard Entertainment, creator of World of Warcraft

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(known more commonly as WoW) reports staggering subscription figures of more than ten million gamers worldwide, with the user paying at least $14.99 a month for service.

As Grames played more and more of the games, taking up more and more of his time, he noticed he had less time for school, and his grades suffered for it.

“I got extremely into Final Fantasy XI, and I honestly skipped almost every class other than midterms and finals that entire semester,” he said. “My GPA went down and I didn’t get the solid foundation of information for several classes that were of higher level that I had to take the following semester.”

Many of the games require enormous amounts of time and resources in order to get

Jan. 15-21, 2010

15

online role-playing games mimic real life, often in dangerous ways

anywhere in the game, and they also require teamwork with other online players to participate.

For many players, it’s this social aspect that makes MMORPGs so much fun to play. And so addicting, sometimes deadly so. Lee Seung Seop, a repairman from South Korea, died after playing Starcraft for 50 consecutive hours in an Internet café on Aug. 3, 2005. It was concluded that he died of heart failure, induced by exhaustion and dehydration. Seop is one of several who have role-played their way to the grave.

According to the Washington Post Foreign Service, ten South Koreans, mostly teenagers, died in 2005 alone from game-addiction problems. The American Medical Association does not have a specific category for video game addiction, but psychologists have placed it with activities such as compulsive gambling.

JSU Psychology Department head Dr. Steven Dworkin calls the addiction an impulse control disorder.

“Impulsivity is engaging in behavior that has immediate, small consequences,” he said.

For example, if you were to get a small amount of money and buy a cheap stereo system immediately instead of saving until you can afford to buy a nicer, more expensive one.

In the same way, devoting six hours to a quest in a video game, while proving worthwhile by completing the quest, could be better spent working toward more beneficial ends.

But Dworkin also points out that addiction is not necessarily a dangerous thing, using the example of soft drinks.

Many people can say they have a caffeine habit, not admitting any addiction.

But caffeine is still listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Addictive Behaviors.

Video games, however, are not listed in the manual.

“A behavior becomes an addiction when it interferes with a person’s life,” Dworkin said.

“And they continue to do it even though they know it has negative side effects.”

get his life back on track. He proceeded to get a new apartment and a job at a local pizza parlor.

But he used his wages to buy a new computer, and his addiction began all over again. He eventually quit his new job to play the game all Real danger day long.

For many MMORPG players, the toughest After several bad in-game events, Shawn’s villain they will face is not at the end of any depression had reached a whole new level. On level or quest — it’s the game itself. But, like Thanksgiving Day, 2001, Shawn shot himself in their online friends who help in these digital front of his computer. His mother discovered quests, there is an increasing amount of realthe body later that afternoon. Everquest was on life help devoted to helping cure this addiction. the screen.

On-Line Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), “I couldn’t talk to anyone for months,” she founded by Liz Woolley, is a growing Web site said. “Finally, I spoke to a reporter and that led dedicated to helping gamers overcome their to more and more interviews. I researched the addiction. The site offers many different recov- topic all over and decided to use my informaery methods aimed at helping anyone suffering tion to help out others. I was not going to let my from game addiction. son die in vain.”

The message board acts as a 24-hour meetAccording to Wooley’s research, 98 percent ing place for gamers in need. Woolley said of people who cannot quit the games have this is the most important aspect of the site, ADD or ADHD. She also found that relapse because it “can help people at all times of the numbers are very high. day through the board.”

“It’s harder to get off of the games compared Woolley knows all too well about the poten- to drugs and alcohol,” she said. “The games tial dangers of video games. Her son, Shawn, change you as a person, and there is not much began his obsession with Everquest, one of the that can be done once that happens.” first MMORPGs to hit the market, at the age of She also discovered that psychologists are 20. hired by gaming companies to make their Shawn casually played games for years, so products more addictive. Millions of dollars are his mother figured this game would be like any spent to design the software so the player will other. Eventually, Shawn’s addiction was so continue to come back to the game. bad he quit his job and was evicted from his “It’s not even a game, it’s a virtual world,” apartment, forced to move back home with his she said. “It’s created to mimic every part of mother. He later began to visit a therapist, but it real life so the player doesn’t have to leave it.” only made things worse.

Game manufacturers have received much “The therapist told me to ‘just be glad that criticism for the way that MMORPGs are crehe is not addicted to drugs and alcohol,’” Wool- ated, but little has been done to change things. ley said. “Shawn thought that he was OK at Dr. Dworkin does not see this as exclusive to this point and that I was taking things too seri- video games, and that basically the companies ously.” bear no responsibility in someone becoming Woolley managed to get her son to live at addicted to their products. a support group home, which helped Shawn “Society has to make decisions for them-

selves,” he said. “Manufacturers are going to use what sells, and most of that is going to play off addictive behavior.”’

He also said that self-control is the key to overcoming an addiction, because you can set limits for yourself.

That’s a tough sell to Woolley.

“I consider those people no better than drug pushers,” she said. “They do whatever it takes to get their money.”

Beyond the game For all the benefits that MMORPGs bring a gamer, most notably an expansion of one’s friend base, the risks weigh much more heavily.

Grames suggests staying away from the people that might attract you back into the virtual world.

“They are just too much of an influence to hop back on and play again,” he said.

That realization is how he went from classskipping slacker to a college graduate with a 3.07 GPA in physics. He is also in a serious relationship and has just been offered a promotion at his job.

But, as evidence from the deaths of Shawn Woolley and the numerous ones in South Korea, it’s just not that easy for everyone.

Grames is one of the fortunate ones.

Still, even with his life seemingly in line, he said he will always play video games, whether they be MMORPGs or not, he said he wasn’t sure.

The mountains of Sunkist are long gone, but the love for Warcraft remains. He’s just found his balance.

“The new expansion pack to the game will have me playing more than ever,” he said. “My stay in Azeroth is far from over.”

Chris Pittman works in the online office and writes a video game column for The Star. He can be reached at 235-256-3538.

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High School Reunion TVLND Sanford and Son Å ››› “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007) George Clooney, Brad Pitt. Premiere. Danny Ocean and his gang seek to right a wrong. Å ›› “The Game Plan” (2007) Madison Pettis Å USA NCIS “Iced” ’ Å Critics Choice Pre Show 15th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Honors in cinematic achievements. (N) ’ 15th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ’ VH1 ››› “Home Alone” (1990) Macaulay Culkin. ’ CABLE NEWS On Assignment: Iraq Options Action (N) Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire Swoosh! Inside Nike Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Capital News Today CSPAN Tonight From Washington Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 Close-Up on C-SPAN The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å

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●Fox NFL Pregame Animal Atl. Animal Atl. Pets.TV Paid Prog. American Idol Rewind Seinfeld NFL Football: NFC Divisional Playoff -- Cardinals at Saints Test Mexico/Bay Lidia’s Italy Everyday Simply SewingQuilting MarthaLove of Garden Woodsmith Hometime This Old Ask This Lawrence Kitchen less Å Food Å Ming Å Nancy Arts Sewing Quilting Smart ’ Shop Å Å House ’ Old House Welk Show Willa’s Wild Jane & the ●Action Sports From Snowbasin, Utah. ’ (Live) Å ●Bull Riding PBR Tour. From Sacra- Figure Skating News NBC News New Smile Life Dragon mento, Calif. (Taped) ’ Å ●College Basketball Kentucky at Auburn. (Live) Chaotic Paid Prog. Basketball ●College Basketball Alabama at Arkansas. (Live) Accrd/Jim Raymond Two Men Vets Issue Coosa Robin H. Auto Ranger Atkinson Rick Rick Auto Show Auto In Touch-Dr Gaither Gaither The Cross Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Recession Paid Pro- Relieve Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Shark Tank ’ Å Paid Pro- World News at gram gram gram gram gram Profits gram Joint Pain gram gram gram News 6PM Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Paid Pro- Crimson High School Basketball ●College Basketball Illinois at Michigan State. (Live) Å CBS 42 CBS Evening The Insider gram gram gram gram Tide News at 5 News (N) ’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. ›› “Batman Returns” (1992, Action) Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito. ’ “A Trace of Danger” (2010) ’ L WPXH Skin Market Market Market Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Wimzies Animal Deadliest Catch ’ Legend of the Seeker ››› “Bounce” (2000) Gwyneth Paltrow.

Lopez Lopez Half & Half ¥ WABM Market CABLE ENTERTAINMENT News NASCAR Local Programming News Local Prog Ent. Ton. ^ TV-2 Local Programming Flip This House Å Flip This House Å ››› “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006) Premiere.

Dog Dog Bounty Dog Dog Bounty CSI: Miami A&E Sell House Sell House Flip This House Å › “Blood on the Arrow” ››› “Support Your Local Sheriff!” (1969, West- ››› “Support Your Local Gunfighter” (1971, Western) James ›› “Escape From L.A.” (1996, Action) Kurt Rus- ›› “Volcano” (1997) Tommy Lee Jones. EarthAMC (1964) Å ern) James Garner, Joan Hackett. Premiere.

Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam. Premiere. sell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi. Å quakes and lava ravage Los Angeles.

Dogs 101 Traits. Å Cats 101 ’ Å Animal Cops Phoenix Animal Cops Phoenix Animals Animals Weird Weird Lost Lost The Haunted ’ Å Pet ANPL It’s Me or the Dog ’ You Eat Gordon-F Word Ramsay’s Kitchen Kitchen Nightmares Top Gear Å Top Gear Å Dr. Who BBC The Hotel Inspector ’ How Clean How Clean You Are What You Eat You Eat Sunday Best Å Sunday Best Å Sunday Best Å Sunday Best Å The Game The Game Chris Chris ›› “Blue Hill Avenue” (2001) Allen Payne. Å BET Sunday Best Å Shatner Shatner Legends Legends Ripley-Believe Ripley-Believe Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History Å The Unexplained Å The Unexplained Å Unexplained Mysteries Mysteries BIO Next Top Model Next Top Model Next Top Model Next Top Model Next Top Model Next Top Model Next Top Model House “Mob Rules” ’ House ’ BRAVO Next Top Model Top 20 Countdown Host Lance Smith. ’ Insider The Singing Bee ’ CMT Music Awards 2009 ’ Cribs ’ The Singing Bee ’ The Sing CMTV CMT Music ’ › “Screwed” (2000) Norm Macdonald. Å Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ ›› “Men at Work” (1990) Emilio Estevez. ›› “Stripes” (1981) Bill Murray, Harold Ramis. Å Caparulo COMEDY Police 3 Howe & Howe Tech ’ Mega-Excavators Å Mega Engineering ’ Mega Engineering ’ Impossible City Å The Ice Hotel ’ Å Area 51 Military base.

Ghost Lab ’ Å Ghost Lab DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å Imag.

Handy Phineas Phineas “Cow Belles” (2006, Comedy) Alyson Phineas Hannah Hannah Hannah Hannah Phineas Phineas Phineas Phineas Phineas Phineas “The InDISN Movers Manny ’ and Ferb and Ferb Michalka. ’ ‘NR’ Å and Ferb Montana Montana Montana Montana and Ferb and Ferb and Ferb and Ferb and Ferb and Ferb credibles” The Soup Daily 10 Bank of Hollywood Girls Extra Girls Giuliana Giuliana Born Different E! Investigates Kendra: Baby Kardas Kardas ›› “Office Space” (1999) E! ●College Basketball Syracuse at West Virginia. ●Who’s Number 1? ●SportsCenter Å NFL Countdwn College Basketball High School Basketball ESPN ●College GameDay ●College Basketball Dayton at Xavier. (Live) ●College Basketball Missouri at Oklahoma. (Live) College Basketball Georgia at Mississippi State. ●College Basketball Wichita State at Creighton.

Basketball ESPN2 ●SportsCenter Å 8 Rules 8 Rules › “What a Girl Wants” (2003) Amanda Bynes. Å “Another Cinderella Story” (2008) Å ›› “Bring It On” (2000) Kirsten Dunst. Å “Bring It On: In It to Win It” (2007) FAM 8 Rules Home Paula Cooking Ingred. Fix Giada Contessa Worst Cooks Chopped Dinner: Impossible Iron Chef America Challenge Flay FOOD 30-Minutes Chef ●College Basketball California at Washington.

Women’s College Basketball Top 50 Update My Words College Basketball FOXSS ShipShape Outdoors Game 365 Basketball NFL ›› “Money Talks” ›› “Hollywood Homicide” (2003, Action) Harrison Ford. ›› “Snakes on a Plane” (2006) Samuel L. Jackson. ›› “Spider-Man 3” (2007, Action) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst.

Benchwrm FX ››› “Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte” (1965) Bette Davis. ››› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) ›› “The Lost World” (1960) Michael Rennie.

“William Shakespeare” FXM ››› “13 Rue Madeleine” (1946) Fam. Feud Newlywed Catch 21 Hidden Unstapled Deal or No Deal Å Deal or No Deal Å Fam Feud Fam Feud Newlywed Catch 21 Unstapled Hidden 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal No GSN Chain Animal Ad- Animal Ad- “You’ve Got a Friend” (2007, Drama) John Schnei- “Expecting a Miracle” (2009) Jason Priestley. A “The Wishing Well” (2010, Drama) Jordan Ladd, “Ladies of the House” (2008) Pam Grier. Three “A Cooler HALL ventures ventures der, Bitty Schram, Dylan McLaughlin. Å stranded couple find solace in a Mexican town.

Jason London, Ernest Borgnine. Å women work together to remodel a house. Å Climate” ›› “City of Ember” (2008) ‘PG’ › “Max Payne” (2008) Mark Wahlberg. ‘PG-13’ ›› “The Soloist” (2009) Jamie Foxx. ‘PG-13’ ›› “Mr. Woodcock” (2007) Å HBO ››› “The Abyss” (1989) Ed Harris. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Hammer Over Head Carter Can To Sell Curb Block Outdoor Outside Design Design Colour D. Design Color Design Interns Å To Sell To Sell For Rent H&G Sweat Modern Marvels “Milk” Modern Marvels The Modern Marvels “The Modern Marvels The Modern Marvels “Corn” Modern Marvels Modern Marvels “The Modern Marvels “The Modern Marvels The his- Modern HIST Å beverage coffee. Å Supermarket” Å agri-tech behind nuts. Å “Cheese” Cheese.

Turkey” Å Pig” Å tory of cold cuts.

Marvels “Abducted” (2007, Drama) Sarah Wynter. Å ›› “A Perfect Murder” (1998, Mystery) Å “Live Once, Die Twice” (2006) Kellie Martin.

Trapped LIFE Paid Prog. Paid Prog. “Double Cross” (2006) Yancy Butler. Å › “Deception” (2008) Hugh Jackman. ‘R’ Å ›› “The In-Laws” (2003) ‘PG-13’ ››› “Training Day” (2001) ’ ‘R’ Å ›› “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” (2008) MAX SpiderMan ›› “Joe Somebody” (2001) ‘PG’ Unsolved History Å Battlefields Battleplan ’ Å Mission Demolition ’ Mission Demolition ’ Special Ops Mission Deadliest MILIT Myths of Pearl Harbor Myths of Pearl Harbor World at War ’ Taking the Stage (N) Taking Teen Cribs The Real World Å Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey MTV Cribs MTV Cribs MTV Cribs Teen Mom ’ Å Made ’ MTV Taking the Stage Å Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Explorer NGEO Locked Up Abroad Barnyard Mighty B Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ iCarly ’ The Fairly OddParents Penguins Penguins Fanboy Fanboy Sponge Sponge Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ NICK Penguins Fanboy Against the Elements Against the Elements Against the Elements Against the Elements Against the Elements Against the Elements Carnivorous Ants Å Feast of Predators ’ Mammals SCIENCE Alien Planet ’ Å Inside the NFL Å › “Disaster Movie” (2008) ‘PG-13’ ›› “The World Is Not Enough” (1999) ‘PG-13’ ››› “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007) ‘PG-13’ “Lions for Lambs” ‘R’ SHOW › “Superhero Movie” (2008) Drake Bell. Å Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Gilmore Girls ’ Å Gilmore Girls ’ Å Being Erica ’ Being Erica “Leo” ’ Young SOAP One Tree Hill ’ Å On Edge Drag Boat German Touring Cars British Touring Car Late Model Dirt Series Super Cup Super Cup NASCAR 2010 Live From Daytona “Fan Fest” Off Road Racing Off Road SPEED Low Life Garage Xtreme Horse.

Trucks! (N) ●MuscleCar CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scene CSI SPIKE “Ong-Bak: Thai” ●College Basketball Arizona at Oregon. (Live) Tech Phenoms Women’s College Basketball My Words College Basketball Golf Am. 3 Wide SPSO Golf Am. ACC “Reign of the Gargoyles” (2007) Joe Penny.

“The Dunwich Horror” (2009) Jeffrey Combs. › “Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead” (2008) Å “Thor: Hammer of the Gods” (2009) Å Ghost SYFY › “Darklight” (2004) Bugtime Auto B. Hopkins God Rocks Friends Ishine Goliath Kids Club McGee Stories Aqua Kids Storykeepr News ››› “Heidi” (1968, Drama) Maximilian Schell.

Memories TBN Wonder › “Bring It On Again” (2004) Bree Turner ›› “The Mexican” (2001) Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts. Å Raymond Raymond Raymond Jim King King The Office Seinfeld TBS “Laws of Attraction” ›› “Billy the Kid” (1941, Western) Robert Taylor, ››› “Last Train From Gun Hill” (1959, Western) ››› “Man of the West” (1958, Western) Gary ›› “Rio Grande” (1939, Western) Charles Starrett, ›› “Big Jake” (1971, Western) John TCM Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter. Å Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn. Å Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb. Å Ann Doran, Bob Nolan. Å Wayne, Richard Boone. Å Property Ladder Å Home Made Simple ’ What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ Dress Dress Untold Stories Emergency Level One Emergency Level One Emergncy TLC Property Ladder Å Leverage “The Miracle The Closer “Cherry ›› “Deliver Us From Eva” (2003, Romance-Com- ›› “The Honeymooners” (2005, Comedy) Cedric ›› “Pride” (2007, Drama) Terrence Howard, ›› “I Think I Love My Wife” (2007) TNT Job” Å Bomb” Å edy) LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union. Å the Entertainer, Mike Epps. Å Bernie Mac, Kevin Phillips. Å Chris Rock. Å Hero Wheels Wheels Ben 10 Ben 10 Batman Batman Johnny T Johnny T Tn-Titans Tn-Titans Tn-Titans Tn-Titans “Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix” “Batman Beyond” TOON Hero ››› “Cliffhanger” (1993, Action) Sylvester Stallone.

High School Reunion Married... Married... Married... Married... Married... Married... Married... Married... Married... Married...

TVLND Extreme-Home White Collar “Threads” White Collar Å White Collar Å White Collar Å White Collar “All In” White Collar Å ›› “The Pacifier” (2005) Vin Diesel. Å ›› “The Game Plan” USA Collar 15th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ’ Tough Love ’ For the Love of Ray J Let’s Talk Fantasia Celebrity VH1 Top 20 Countdown ’ Let’s Talk ›› “The Karate Kid” (1984, Action) Ralph Macchio. ’ CABLE NEWS CNBC Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Auto Show Newsroom Newsroom Your Money Newsroom Newsroom Newsroom Newsroom Situation Room Newsroom CNN Newsroom C-SPAN Weekend President Commun. Courts CSPAN C-SPAN Weekend Book TV Book TV Book TV Book TV Book TV Book TV Book TV Encore Booknotes Book TV CSPAN2 Book TV Business Forbes Cashin’ In America’s News HQ Journal Watch Glenn Beck America’s News HQ America’s News HQ Report FNC Bulls Wrong Body Wrong Body The Vanishing Inv: Murdered Chasing the Devil Investigate MSNBC MSNBC News Live (N) MSNBC News Live (N) Muscle Women

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Cops (N) ’ (PA) Å Classic Gospel The Speer Family sings “After While.” ’Å Mercy “I Saw This Pig and I Thought of You” Veronica helps a patient cope. ’ Å One Tree Hill Haley and Nathan get ready to move.

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America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back (N) Keeping Up AppearAs Time Goes By Alistair ances: Memoirs proposes to Judith. Å Law & Order “Skate or Die” Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate three murders. ’ Å Gossip Girl “Enough About Eve” ’ Å

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FOX6 News at 9:00 PM FOX6 News at 9:30 PM Are You Being Served? Last of the Summer Wine Closed-circuit TV. ’ “The Black Widow” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Anchor” Three children die. ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Rick & Bubba Å Rick & Bubba Å Grey’s Anatomy “Blink” Addison returns to help Mark’s Private Practice “Another Second Chance” Cooper Castle “The Fifth Bullet” An art dealer is shot in his daughter. ’ Å and Violet have a disagreement. ’ Å gallery. ’ Å ●NFL Football AFC Divisional Playoff -- Baltimore Ravens at Indianapolis Colts. Head coach John Harbaugh and the Ravens travel to Indianapolis to take on the AFC South champion Colts. From Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Live) Å ››› “Space Cowboys” (2000, Adventure) Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones. NASA reunites four aging flyboys for an urgent mission. ’ “The Secret of Hidden Lake” (2006, Suspense) Rena Sofer.

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NBC 13 News at 10:00pm (N) Å The Andy Griffith Show A Night at The Grill ABC 33/40 News at 10PM (N) Inside Sports ’

The Wanda Sykes Show The Vicar of Dibley “Animals” ’ Å Saturday Night Live (N) ’Å The Andy Griffith Show Atkinson Homes Grey’s Anatomy “Thanks for the Memories” Å CSI: Miami “Cyber-lebrity” ’Å Aerosmith, Bowie, Live!

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A Trace of Danger ’ Time Life Music Å Half & Half ’ Å Everybody Hates Chris ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment Tonight Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Hot Topics CSI: Miami Horatio learns about Julia’s instability.

CSI: Miami “Head Case” ’ Å CSI: Miami “And They’re Offed” ’ Å CSI: Miami “Wrecking Crew” ’ Å A&E CSI: Miami ’ Å ›› “Volcano” (1997) › “Catwoman” (2004, Action) Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone. A shy artist acquires feline strength ›› “Pitch Black” (2000, Science Fiction) Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser. Vicious creatures stalk the AMC Tommy Lee Jones. and agility. Å survivors of a spaceship crash. Å Underdog to Wonderdog “Amazing Chase” ’ Pit Boss Shorty rescues an abandoned pit bull. ’ Underdog to Wonderdog “Dog Phobia” ’ Å ANPL Pet Psychic Encounters It’s Me or the Dog “Great Dane Devotion” (N) Å Demons Luke must rescue children from a demon.

Demons Galvin disappears during a mission. (N) The Graham Norton Show (N) Å Demons Luke must rescue children from a demon.

BBC Doctor Who Å “A Day in the Life” (2009) Sticky Fingaz. A gangster gets caught in a war between crime families. Å The Game ’ Å BET ››› “Menace II Society” (1993, Drama) Tyrin Turner. The saga of a ghetto teen in East L.A. Å Unexplained Mysteries Haunted History “San Francisco” Å Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Celebrity Ghost Stories Joan Rivers. Å Psychic Investigators Psychic Investigators BIO House “Role Model” ’ Å House “Babies & Bathwater” ’ Å House “Kids” ’ Å House A young man has blood clots and strokes.

BRAVO House “Heavy” ’ Å The Singing Bee ’ ›› “Police Academy” (1984, Comedy) Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Michael Winslow. ’ ›› “Police Academy” (1984) Steve Guttenberg.

CMTV The Singing Bee ’ Ralphie May: Austin-Tatious Comic performs. Å Dave Chappelle: Killin’ Them Softly ’ Å Dane Cook: Rough Around the Edges Å Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted? Å COMEDY John Caparulo Ghost Lab The team travels to Tombstone, Ariz. ’ Ghost Lab “If Walls Could Talk” ’ Å Meteorite Men A treasure hunt for meteorites. Å Ghost Lab The team travels to Tombstone, Ariz. ’ DISC Ghost Lab ’ Å ››› “The Incredibles” (2004, Adventure) Voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter. “Up, Up and Away” (2000, Comedy) Michael J. Pagan, Robert Townsend. Super- Hannah Montana Oliver’s Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN Animated. A former superhero gets back into action. ’ ‘PG’ Å heroes’ ordinary son pretends to have secret powers. ’ Å love life. ’ Å “Report Card” ’ “Parrot Island” Å ›› Office Space (1999) ›› “Miami Vice” (2006, Crime Drama) Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx. Detectives Crockett and Tubbs take on drug lords in Florida.

The Girls Next Door The Soup Chelsea Lately E! ●College GameDay (Live) Å ●Women’s College Basketball Notre Dame at Connecticut. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●SportsCenter Å ●College Basketball Prairie View A&M at Jackson State. (Live) ●NBA Special NBA 10 The Inside ESPN2 ●College Basketball Morgan State at South Carolina State. (Live) “Bring It On: All or Nothing” (2006, Comedy) Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles-Smith, Rihanna. Å ›› “Bring It On” (2000) Kirsten Dunst. High-school cheerleaders vie for a coveted national title. Å FAM Bring It On Chopped “When Chefs Collide” Chopped “Judge Knows Best” Iron Chef America “Morimoto vs. Marino” FOOD Throwdown-Bobby Flay Chopped “Oh My Goshi, Umeboshi” ●College Basketball LSU at Florida. (Live) ●Women’s College Gymnastics Alabama at Auburn. Boxing Kassim Ouma vs. Vanes Martirosyan. (Live) FOXSS College Basketball › “The Benchwarmers” (2006, Comedy) David Spade, Rob Schneider. › “Grandma’s Boy” (2006) Doris Roberts. A man must live with his grandmother and her two friends.

Avatar Damages FX › “Satisfaction” (1988, Musical) Justine Bateman. Girls-plus-guy teen rock band hits beach town. Å › “Satisfaction” (1988, Musical) Justine Bateman. Girls-plus-guy teen rock band hits beach town. Å FXM William Shakespeare Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å The Newlywed Game Carnie Wilson Catch 21 Å Hidden Agenda Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å ›› “A Cooler Climate” (1999, Drama) Sally Field, Judy Davis, Winston Rekert. A “Safe Harbor” (2009, Drama) Treat Williams, Nancy Travis, Charlie McDermott. A man and his wife care for “Thicker Than Water” (2005) Melissa Gilbert. A HALL housekeeper and her employer share an unlikely friendship. Å some juvenile delinquents. Å woman sets out to find her late father’s former wife. ›› “Yes Man” (2008, Comedy) Jim Carrey. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å ›› “Pride and Glory” (2008, Crime Drama) Edward Norton. A detective probes a fatal drug bust involving his brother. ’ ‘R’ Å HBO ›› Mr. Woodcock Å Divine Design Å Sarah’s House ’ Å Outdoor Room Curb Appeal: The Block Design Interns ’ Å House Hunters Å House Hunters H&G House Hunters Å Modern Marvels “The MonsterQuest “Monster Sharks” Great white sharks. Å MonsterQuest “Abominable Snowman” Searching for the Himalayan Abominable Snowman. Å HIST Butcher” Butchers. Å › “Karla” (2006) Laura Prepon. Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla, rape, torture and murder. Å Project Runway “Back to New York” Å LIFE ›› “Trapped” (2002, Crime Drama) Charlize Theron, Courtney Love. Å ››› “I Love You, Man” (2009) Paul Rudd. A man’s new friendship threatens his upcoming wedding.

MAX ››› “Spider-Man” (2002, Action) Tobey Maguire. A bite from a mutant spider gives a teen unusual powers. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Modern Sniper What it takes to be a Marine sniper.

Combat Zone Outnumbered U.S. Marines fight. ’ Special Ops Mission Pirates capture a gunship. ’ Modern Sniper What it takes to be a Marine sniper.

MILIT Deadliest Aircraft The Real World ’ Å Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey Shore Pauly has a stalker. ’ Å Jersey Shore: Spoof’d Silent Library ’ MTV Made “Show Choir” ’ The Whale That Ate Jaws Egypt Unwrapped “Mystery of the Screaming Man” Egypt Unwrapped “The Real Cleopatra” The Whale That Ate Jaws NGEO Explorer iCarly “iSpeed Date” ’ True Jackson, VP (N) ’ The Troop (N) ’ Å iCarly ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK iCarly ’ Å Sci Fi Science “Episode 1” ’ Å 101 More Things Removed From the Human Body SCIENCE Man-Made Mammals ’ 101 More Things Removed From the Human Body Humanology “Human Face Transplant” ’ Å › “Disaster Movie” (2008, Comedy) Matt Lanter. iTV. ‘PG-13’ › “Superhero Movie” (2008, Comedy) Drake Bell. iTV. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å ›› “Beer League” (2006) Artie Lange. ‘R’ Å SHOW ›› Lions for Lambs The Young and the Restless Tuesday The Young and the Restless Wednesday The Young and the Restless Thursday The Young and the Restless Friday SOAP Young-Restless ●Bullrun ●Bullrun ●Bullrun Bullrun SPEED Off Road Racing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “High and Low” ’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ’ Å (DVS) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Got Murder?” ’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ’ Å (DVS) SPIKE CSI: Crime Scn ●NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Carolina Hurricanes. From the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. (Subject to Blackout) (Live) ●Thrashers Live! (Live) NHL Hockey: Thrashers at Hurricanes SPSO Raceline “House of Bones” (2010, Horror) Charisma Carpenter, Corin Nemec. Premiere.

“Open Graves” (2009, Horror) Eliza Dushku. Å SYFY “Ghost Town” (2009, Horror) Jessica Rose, Randy Wayne, Gil Gerard.

In Touch With Dr. Charles Stanley Å Hour of Power Å Billy Graham Classic Crusades Drive Thru History Å Travel the Road Å TBN Precious Mem. Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å ›› “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Regina King. ›› “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” TBS Seinfeld “The Note” ’ ›› “Big Jake” (1971) ››› “Battleground” (1949, War) Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban. An account of World War II’s ››› “Miracle in the Rain” (1956, Romance) Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle. Premiere. Two lonely TCM John Wayne. Å Battle of the Bulge. Å (DVS) people build a lasting love during World War II. One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family One Big Happy Family TLC Emergency Level One ›› “I Think I Love My ›› “Daddy’s Little Girls” (2007, Romance) Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett Jr. A poor mechanic ›› “Last Holiday” (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu, LL Cool J. A terminally ill woman lives it TNT Wife” (2007) Chris Rock. and an attorney share an unexpected romance. Å up on vacation. Å “Green Lantern: First Flight” (2009) Voices of Christopher Meloni. Premiere.

Hot Wheels King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å The PJs ’ Å Stroker and Hoop TOON Batman Beyond Roseanne ’ Å TVLND Married... With Children Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ High School Reunion Cliques resume their rivalries. Roseanne ’ Å ››› “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007) George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon. Danny Ocean and his gang seek to right a wrong. Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Courtship” ’ Å USA ›› “The Game Plan” (2007) Madison Pettis Å Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair ’ Secrets of Aspen ’ VH1 Celebrity Rehab, Drew ›› “The Karate Kid” (1984, Action) Ralph Macchio. A Japanese handyman teaches a teenager to defend himself. ’ CABLE NEWS The Suze Orman Show “Your Money 2010” (N) Til Debt Do Us Part ’ Til Debt Do Us Part ’ American Greed “Party’s Over: Tyco’s Kozlowski” CNBC The Detroit Auto Show American Greed “Party’s Over: Tyco’s Kozlowski” Campbell Brown Larry King Live Newsroom Campbell Brown CNN Newsroom American Perspectives American Perspectives CSPAN America & the Courts Book TV Book TV Book TV: After Words Book TV CSPAN2 Book TV Huckabee Glenn Beck Geraldo at Large ’ Å Journal Editorial Report Fox News Watch FNC FOX Report Lockup “Louisiana” Lockup “New Mexico” Lockup “Miami-Dade” Miami’s prison system.

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T “History-World” ›› “Mr. Mom” (1983) Michael Keaton. Å ›› “K-9” (1989, Comedy) James Belushi, Mel Harris. Å ›› “K-911” (1999, Comedy) James Belushi. Å ›› “Alien Resurrection” (1997) Å › “The Skulls” (2000) Joshua Jackson. Å ›› “Firewall” (2006) Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany. Å ››› “The Matrix” (1999) Keanu Reeves. Å AMC W ›› “K-9” (1989, Comedy) James Belushi, Mel Harris. Å TH ›› “Sabrina” (1995) Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond. Å ›››› “Rain Man” (1988) Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise. Å ›› “The Bone Collector” (1999) Denzel Washington. Å ›› “Behind Enemy Lines” (2001) Owen Wilson.

F “St. Valentine’s” ››› “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” (2005) Å › “End of Days” (1999) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne. Å “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” Å “Halloween 5: Revenge ...”

Cash in the Attic Cash in the Attic Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Ramsay’s Kitchen Ramsay’s Kitchen News BBC How Clean How Clean Cash in the Attic Chris Movie Varied Programs Jamie F. The Game The Game Chris Chris 106 & Park Varied Programs BET Jamie F. Jamie F. The Game The Game Chris Varied Programs Notorious City Confidential Biography Biography Varied Programs Notorious City BIO Matchmaker Varied Programs Matchmaker Real Housewives OC Varied Programs BRAVO Varied Programs Varied Programs Trading Spouses Trading Spouses Varied Programs CMTV CMT Music Varied Programs MADtv Daily Show Colbert Movie Varied Programs Presents Presents Presents Presents Scrubs Scrubs Daily Show COMEDY Movie Cash Cab Varied Programs Cash Cab Cash Cab Cash Cab Cash Cab Varied DISC Varied Chugging My Friends Einsteins Movie Varied Programs Wizards Wizards Wizards Wizards Phineas Suite/Deck Wizards DISN Jungle Varied Programs E! News Daily 10 Movie Varied Programs E! News E! ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●NFL Live Burning ●SportsCenter Lines Baseball Around Interrupt Basketball ESPN ●SportsCenter ●ESPN First Take ●1st and 10 ●Tennis Best of Basketball ESPN2 ●ESPN First Take What I What I My Wife My Wife Sabrina Sabrina Full House Full House Grounded Grounded Gilmore Girls Fresh Pr. Fresh Pr. Varied FAM 700 Club-Programming Gilmore Girls Entertain Quick Fix Cooking Italian 30-Minutes Contessa Lee Boy Grill Guy’s, Bite Tyler’s Ult. Cooking Italian Contessa Home Cooking 30-Minutes Challenge FOOD Emeril Live Varied FOXSS Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Movie Varied Programs Bernie Bernie Malcolm Malcolm Bernie Varied ’70s Show Varied Programs FX M ›› “The Forbidden Street” (1949) ›› “Beloved Infidel” (1959) Gregory Peck. ›› “How to Steal a Million” (1966) Audrey Hepburn. Å › “Bye Bye, Love” (1995) Matthew Modine. Å ››› “Romancing the Stone” Å T › “The Bible” (1966) ››› “Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison” (1957) Å ››› “Leave Her to Heaven” (1945) Å ›› “A Letter to Three Wives” Å ›› “The Stone Boy” (1984) Robert Duvall. Å ››› “Cocoon” (1985) ›› “Do Not Disturb” (1965) Doris Day. Å ››› “A Perfect Couple” (1979) Paul Dooley. ›› “Cocoon: The Return” (1988) Don Ameche. ›› “Project X” (1987, Drama) Å FXM W ›› “Apartment for Peggy” (1948, Comedy) Å TH ››› “Blood and Sand” (1941) Tyrone Power. ››› “Rio Conchos” (1964) Stuart Whitman.

“Moving Violations” (1985) John Murray. Å ››› “Home Alone” (1990) Macaulay Culkin. ››› “The Princess Bride” (1987) F Nob Hill ›› “Somewhere in the Night” (1946) Å ›› “Thieves’ Highway” (1949) Richard Conte. ››› “Don’t Bother to Knock” Å ›› “The Pleasure Seekers” (1964) Ann-Margret. ››› “Flaming Star” (1960) Å MatchGam Fam Feud Hollywood Jeopardy! Pyramid Chain Lingo Lingo Fam Feud Fam Feud Deal No Varied Newlywed Catch 21 Deal No GSN Fam Feud Pyramid Catch 21 Wheel Golden Little House on Prairie Little House on Prairie 7th Heaven 7th Heaven Fun Vi Fun Vi Fun Vi Fun Vi M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Fun Vi HALL Golden House House House Varied To Sell Varied Dime Challenge Challenge Color Varied Programs House H&G Varied Programs M King The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Å Pawn Pawn Pawn Pawn 1968 With Tom Brokaw Å King The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Å Pawn Pawn Pawn T Titanic’s Final Moments: Missing Pieces Å Modern Marvels Å How the Earth Nature’s Fury: Killer Hurricane Titanic’s Final Moments: Missing Pieces Å Modern Marvels Å Earth Modern Marvels Å Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed Å White House: Behind Lost Worlds Cold War. Air Force One Marvels HIST W White House: Behind Lost Worlds Cold War. Air Force One TH Hooked: Illegal Drugs Hooked: Illegal Drugs Modern Marvels Å Modern Marvels Å Hippies The counterculture. Å Hooked: Illegal Drugs Hooked: Illegal Drugs Modern Marvels Å Marvels F Sharp Shooters Å Modern Marvels Å Gangland Å Dogfights “Kamikazes” Å Sharp Shooters Å Modern Marvels Å Gangland Frasier Will/Grace Will-Grace Wife Swap Wife Swap Wife Swap Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Grey’s Anatomy Anatomy LIFE Frasier MILIT Varied Programs True Life True Life Varied Programs Teen Cribs Varied Programs MTV Degrassi Degrassi Buffy Vampire Dog Whisperer Dog Whisperer Varied Programs Whisperer NGEO Varied Programs Dora Ni Hao Sponge Sponge Barnyard iCarly iCarly BrainSurge Sponge Sponge iCarly Jackson Varied NICK Go Diego Go Diego Max, Ruby Max, Ruby Fresh Beat Dora Million 2 1 Technomn Bone Detectives PopSci Future 10 Ways Varied Programs SCIENCE Prototype This!

Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 The O.C. The O.C. One Tree Hill One Tree Hill Beverly Hills, 90210 Days of our Lives Young SOAP Days of our Lives ●Monster Jam ●Unique Whips Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Truck U Chop Cut On Edge Barr-Jack SPEED Varied Programs CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn Varied SPIKE CSI: Crime Scn Varied Programs SPSO ●College Flash Classics ●NHL Hockey Stargate Atlantis Stargate Varied Programs SYFY Varied Programs Your Day Copeland Varied Programs Behind Varied Robison Marilyn H. The 700 Club Hagee Rod P. Praise the Lord Varied TBN Rod P. Just Shoot Home Imp. Home Imp. Jim Yes, Dear Yes, Dear Raymond Raymond Payne Jim Raymond King King Friends Friends The Office Seinfeld TBS Fresh Pr. Payne M Cabin Sky ›› “Bright Road” ›››› “Sounder” (1972) Cicely Tyson. Å ››› “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961) Sidney Poitier. Å ››› “Blackboard Jungle” (1955) Glenn Ford. ››› “To Sir, With Love” (1967) T ›› “Jeanne Eagels” (1957) ›› “A Time to Sing” (1968) ›› “Hold On!” (1966) ›› “Spinout” (1966) Elvis Presley. Å ›› “Girl Happy” (1965) Å ›› “Ride the Wild Surf” (1964) Private Screenings ››› “John Loves Mary” (1949) Ronald Reagan. ››› “The Fountainhead” (1949) Gary Cooper. ›› “Washington Story” (1952) Å ››› “The Subject Was Roses” TCM W ›› “The Big Hangover” (1950) TH ›› “It’s Tough to Be Famous” ›› “Two Seconds” (1932, Drama) ›› “Captured” (1933) › “No Other Woman” ›› “Little Big Shot” (1935, Drama) ›› “Absolute Quiet” ›››› “The Charge of the Light Brigade” Å F Royal Wed ›››› “Father of the Bride” (1950) Å (DVS) ››› “The Catered Affair” (1956) ›› “The Bride Wore Red” (1937, Drama) Å ››› “Member of the Wedding” (1952) Å “How to Save a Marriage” Varied Dress Dress What Not Varied Baby Story Baby Story Baby Story Birth Day 17 Kids 17 Kids Little Little What Not Varied Dress Dress Varied TLC Sweep ER Las Vegas Las Vegas Cold Case Cold Case Law & Order Law-Order Varied Law & Order Bones TNT Supernatural Varied Casper George Scooby Krypto Tom Jerry Varied Hero Pokemon Garfield Garfield Codename Codename Flapjack Varied Chowder Chowder Johnny T TOON Movie Sanford Hogan Hogan Gunsmoke Bonanza Varied Bonanza Varied Bonanza Varied Griffith Griffith All-Family All-Family Sanford TVLND Hillbillies All-Family Sanford Law Varied NCIS Varied NCIS USA Varied Programs Varied Programs VH1 Jump Start CABLE NEWS Power Lunch Varied Programs Street Signs Closing Bell Closing Bell-Bartiromo Fast Mny Varied Mad Money Report CNBC Squawk on the Street The Call Newsroom Newsroom Newsroom The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer CNN CNN Newsroom The Live Desk Studio/Shepard Smith Your World Glenn Beck Special Report FOX Rep’t FNC America’s Newsroom Happening Now MSNBC News Live MSNBC News Live Andrea Mitchell MSNBC News Live MSNBC News Live Dylan Ratigan Hardball The Ed Show Hardball MSNBC MSNBC News Live

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Wheel of Fortune “Wheel The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love Jake takes one woman bungee jumping. (N) ’ Å Castle “Sucker Punch” Investigating an Irish mobster’s ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU Watchers Club” death. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) How I Met Your Mother Accidentally on Purpose Two and a Half Men “Yay, The Big Bang Theory CSI: Miami “Die by the Sword” A bizarre case baffles CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å “Jenkins” (N) ’ Å “The Rock” (N) ’ Å No Polyps!” (N) ’ “The Bozeman Reaction” the CSIs. (N) ’ Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Shadow Boxer” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Jones” A serial killer resumes. ’ Criminal Minds “Ashes and Dust” ’ Å Criminal Minds “Minimal Loss” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Undaunted Mettle” Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Gemini” ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter?

CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Intervention “Angelina” Å Intervention “Vinnie” Crack addict. (N) Å Hoarders A widow’s life crumbles. (N) Å Paranormal State Å Paranormal State Å A&E Intervention “Janet” ›› “Daylight” (1996) ››› “Superman Returns” (2006, Adventure) Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden. The Man of Steel faces an old enemy. Å ›› “Daylight” (1996) AMC Sylvester Stallone.

Sylvester Stallone.

Pit Boss Shorty rescues an abandoned pit bull. ’ The Haunted Friends take up ghost hunting. Å Pit Boss Shorty rescues an abandoned pit bull. ’ ANPL Untamed and Uncut ’ L.A. Taskforce (Series Premiere) (N) ’ ●Top Gear The guys attempt to drive the length of Vietnam in just eight days.

F Word Meets Top Gear BBC World News America Å Top Gear Å BBC World News The Mo’Nique Show Å BET To Be Announced Haunted History Å Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å BRAVO Real Housewives OC Are You Smarter?

Are You Smarter?

The Singing Bee ’ The Singing Bee ’ The Singing Bee ’ CMTV Extreme-Home RENO 911! Å RENO 911! Å Futurama ’ Å Futurama Robots in love. The Goode Family Å South Park Å Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY RENO 911! Å MythBusters The team tackles two myths. ’ Å MythBusters Trio of duct tape myths. ’ Å Motor City Motors “Festevil” Ford Festiva. (N) Å MythBusters The team tackles two myths. ’ Å DISC MythBusters ’ Å Hannah Montana “He “Princess Protection Program” (2009, Comedy) Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Phineas and Ferb Can- Phineas and Ferb “It’s Hannah Montana Rico Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN Could Be the One” Tom Verica. A princess stays with a covert agent and his daughter. dace gets a movie part.

About Time!” pulls a prank. Å Cody gets stuck in time.

The Daily 10 (N) Kardashian Keeping Up With the Kardashians Kardashian Fashion Police Critiques of celebrity fashions. (N) Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Texas at Kansas State. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Syracuse at Notre Dame. (Live) ●Tennis Australian Open, First Round. From Melbourne, Australia. (Live) Å ESPN2 ●Women’s College Basketball Connecticut at Duke. (Live) The Secret Life of the American Teenager (N) Make It or Break It Payson visits a back specialist.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager Å The 700 Club Å FAM Secret-Teen Good Eats Cupcakes.

Good Eats Pound cake. Unwrapped (N) Unwrapped Honey.

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Diner, Drive-In Good Eats Molasses.

Unwrapped FOOD Challenge ●The Final Score (Live) ●The Final Score (Taped) Best Damn 50 After Party Jay Glazer FOXSS World Poker Tour: Sea ●College Basketball California at Washington.

The Simpsons Movie ›› “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007, Science Fiction) Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans. ›› “Daredevil” (2003) Ben Affleck. A blind attorney fights crime at night.

FX ››› “Wall Street” (1987) Michael Douglas. A ruthless corporate raider instructs a young stockbroker. ››› “Romancing the Stone” (1984, Adventure) Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito. Å FXM Romancing the Stone Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Hidden Agenda Å Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å Improv-Ice From Anaheim, Touched by an Angel A minor-league baseball player Touched by an Angel A man becomes emotionally Touched by an Angel “Manhunt” Gloria learns a les- The Golden Girls Dorothy The Golden Girls ’ (Part HALL Calif. ’ Å realizes his major-league dreams. ’ Å distraught after his grandmother’s death. ’ Å son in love when Tess is reunited with a friend. dethrones Blanche.

1 of 2) Å Edge of Darkness: First ›› “The Bucket List” (2007) Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å HBO ››› Shrek (2001) ‘PG’ ›› “The Express” (2008) Dennis Quaid. Born poor, Ernie Davis becomes a star football player. ‘PG’ Property Virgins Å Property Virgins Å House Hunters Å My First Place Å House Hunters Å For Rent ’ Å Real Estate Intervention My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å Pawn Stars Å Pawn Stars WWII ship Pawn Stars Lincoln assas- American Pickers “Big Bear” (Series Premiere) Hunt- Pawn Stars “Chum Goes Pawn Stars “Wheels” (N) American Pickers “Big Bear” Hunting for hidden colHIST spyglass; pink Harley. sination ephemera. ing for hidden collectibles. (N) Å AWOL” (N) Å Å lectibles. Å ›› “The Break-Up” (2006) Vince Vaughn. A couple end their relationship, but neither is willing to move.

Will & Grace ’ Å Will & Grace ’ Å LIFE ›› “Management” (2008) Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn. Å ››› “I Love You, Man” (2009, Comedy) Paul Rudd. ’ ‘R’ Å Alien Sex Files MAX The Fifth Element (1997) ›› “Boomerang” (1992) Eddie Murphy. A sexist marketing executive gets his comeuppance. ‘R’ Å Unsolved History “Plots to Kill Lincoln” ’ Å Decisions That Shook the World ’ Å Conspiracy Test “The MLK Jr. Assassination” ’ Unsolved History “Plots to Kill Lincoln” ’ Å MILIT Unsolved History Å The Real World ’ Å True Life “I’m Addicted to Video Games” (N) ’ The Buried Life ’ Å My Life as Liz ’ Å My Life as Liz (N) Å The Buried Life ’ Å MTV Teen Mom ’ Å Border Wars A house run by smugglers is raided.

Border Wars “Dead of Night” Cartel foot soldiers.

On Board Marine One Presidential helicopter.

Border Wars A house run by smugglers is raided.

NGEO Dog Whisperer Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny “Shopaholic” NICK Fanboy and Chum Chum iCarly “iSaved Your Life” Big Time Rush ’ Å Mummy Autopsy “Lost Queen?/A Mummy Island” KV63 Revisited ’ Å How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ Mummy Autopsy “Lost Queen?/A Mummy Island” SCIENCE Dino Mummy Nurse Jackie (iTV) Å United States of Tara ’ Secret Diary Secret Diary › “Gigantic” (2008) Paul Dano. iTV. ‘R’ SHOW ››› “The Preacher’s Wife” (1996) Denzel Washington. iTV. ’ ‘PG’ All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●NASCAR Race Hub SuperCars Exposed Barrett-Jackson 2009: The Auctions (N) Barrett-Jackson 2009: The Auctions Car Crazy SPEED ●NASCAR Race Hub (N) SuperCars Exposed ›› “Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones” (2002) Ewan McGregor. Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice protect the former queen. ’ SPIKE ›› “Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace” (1999) Liam Neeson. ●Thrashers Live! (Live) Darrin Horn Show NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Florida Panthers.

SPSO ●NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Florida Panthers. From the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. (Subject to Blackout) (Live) Ghost Whisperer “Pater Familias” ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Firestarter” ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Big Chills” ’ Å Monster “Proof” (N) Monster (N) SYFY Ghost Whisperer Å Behind the Scenes Å Mark Chironna Å Jentezen Franklin Å Jesse Duplantis Å Praise the Lord Å TBN Best of Praise Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight Actor Mark Valley. (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ››› “To Sir, With Love” ›››› “A Hatful of Rain” (1957, Drama) Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa. Premiere. A drug ››› “Baby Doll” (1956, Drama) Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach. A man spends the day with the childTCM (1967) Å addict hides his habit from his wife and family. bride of his rival.

Cake Boss ’ Å BBQ Pitmasters Nearly 500 teams compete. Å Little People, Big World Little People, Big World TLC Little People, Big World Little People, Big World Little People, Big World Cake Boss (N) ’ Å ●NBA Basketball Orlando Magic at Los Angeles Lakers. From Staples Center in NBA Basketball: Suns at ●NBA Basketball Dallas Mavericks at Boston Celtics. From TD Garden in Boston. (Live) Å TNT Grizzlies Los Angeles. (Live) Å ›› “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over” (2003, Adventure) Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega.

King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy “Holy Crap” TOON Spy Kids 2: Isl Roseanne ’ Å TVLND The Brady Bunch Movie The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Married... With Children Married... With Children Roseanne ’ Å ●WWE Monday Night Raw ’ (Live) Å Tom Brokaw Presents: American Character White Collar Vicious counterfeiter. Å USA NCIS “Bait” ’ Å For the Love of Ray J Ray’s difficult elimination. ’ For the Love of Ray J ’ Fantasia for Real ’ Let’s Talk About Pep ’ For the Love of Ray J ’ VH1 Frank the Entertainer CABLE NEWS Biography on CNBC Businessman Ray Kroc.

Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire The Oprah Effect Biography on CNBC Businessman Ray Kroc.

CNBC MacHEADS Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. The Communicators Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Obama’s America: 2010 and Beyond Progress in the United States.

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L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å Are You Smarter Are You Smarter Deal or No Deal (N) ’ Deal or No Deal ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter?

CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Paranormal State (N) Paranormal Cops “Casa Madrid” Å Paranormal State Å A&E Criminal Minds “In Heat” Criminal Minds A girl is abducted in broad daylight. Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (N) Å ›› “Alien Resurrection” ››› “The Matrix” (1999, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss. A computer hacker learns his world is a computer simulation. Å ››› “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) Arnold AMC (1997) Å Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton. Å Weird, True & Freaky ’ Weird, True & Freaky ’ Wild Recon “Bounty Hunter” (N) ’ Maneaters “Bears” (N) ’ Wild Recon “Bounty Hunter” ’ ANPL Raw Nature ’ Å Last Restaurant Standing Å Last Restaurant Standing (N) BBC World News America Å Last Restaurant Standing Å BBC World News Monica: Still Standing Monica: Still Standing The Mo’Nique Show Å BET ›› “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” (2005) Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris. A woman starts over after her husband leaves her. Å City Confidential Å Biography “Steve Martin” Truth Behind the Sitcom Scandals Å Shatner’s Raw Nerve (N) Shatner’s Raw Nerve Biography “Kevin James” Å BIO The Millionaire Matchmaker “Kevin/Anthony” Å The Millionaire Matchmaker (Season Premiere) (N) The Millionaire Matchmaker ’ Å BRAVO Millionaire Matchmaker The Millionaire Matchmaker “Farrah/Kevin” Å ›› “Police Academy” (1984, Comedy) Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Michael Winslow. ’ ›› “Police Academy” (1984, Comedy) Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Michael Winslow. ’ CMTV Are You Smarter?

Scrubs ’ Å Scrubs “My Absence” South Park Å South Park “Kenny Dies” South Park “Asspen” South Park Å Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY The Colbert Report Å Dirty Jobs Mike visits a cricket farm. ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Chicken Busters” Chickens and chicks.

Howe & Howe Tech Two hi-speed tanks. (N) Å Dirty Jobs Mike visits a cricket farm. ’ Å DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å Hannah Montana “Don’t › “Catch That Kid” (2004, Adventure) Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot. Phineas and Ferb An au- Phineas and Ferb The Hannah Montana “Don’t Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN Go Breaking My Tooth” Three adventurous children plot to rob a bank. ’ ‘PG’ Å tomatic carwash. ’ boys invent a transporter. Go Breaking My Tooth” “Wizard for a Day” “Roomies” The Daily 10 (N) ›› “Office Space” (1999) Ron Livingston. A white-collar worker rebels against corporate drudgery.

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No sequels or spin-offs for ‘Lost’

By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press

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Keifer Sutherland and Elisha Cuthbert are shown in a scene from the action series ‘24.’

Keifer Sutherland defends the politics of ‘24’

By Roger Catlin The Hartford Courant

PASADENA, Calif. — Another season of 24 is upon us, and once more Keifer Sutherland is fielding questions about its politics, which he thinks has been right down the middle.

“We had the first African-American on television playing a president. We indicted a conservative president for criminal behavior,” Sutherland told the TV critics press tour. “Jack Bauer, to me, has always been the most apolitical character, very much like the Secret Service. You don’t protect a president because of your political beliefs. That’s your job, and you serve that president, regardless,” he says.

“One of the things that I was always so unbelievably proud of our show is that you could have it being discussed by former President Bill Clinton and Rush Limbaugh at the same time, both using it and citing it to justify their points of view,” Sutherland says. “That, to me, was incredibly balanced.”

And so, he says, “it was balanced from the very beginning. And I believe it is still balanced today.”

But there was one exception, he said.

There was a dialog in season seven between Bauer and the by-the-book FBI agent about one of the shows most controversial strains: torture.

“I thought that was an unbelievably clever and brave thing to do. And I would have to say that’s the

only time we consciously addressed a specific political issue in the context of the show,” Sutherland says.

“Whenever you describe politics as informing the drama of something, it’s, by definition, propaganda or uninteresting,” says producer Howard Gordon.

And though the drama reflects the world’s political powder keg, sometimes it’s not too specific about the countries, such as the Middle Eastern country that is of immediate interest this season. Through the first four episodes, though negotiations go on with its president at the United Nations, it’s scarcely named.

“When you begin to name countries other than, of course, the United States or China or Russia, you start getting into some very tricky territory. And by definition, you’re going to say things that you don’t necessarily want to say because this is, after all, a fantasy adventure show. And so really simply, not even out of political correctness, but out of sensitivity to the real world, which is so much more complex, we just would rather not step into that thicket.”

Sometimes, Sutherland says his Bauer persona precedes him in the complex world, though sometimes it surprises him.

“I’ve always been shocked that people that actually I’m flying with say, ’Oh, I feel safer on the plane,”’ he said. “I’m thinking: ’You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.”’

24 returns with a two-hour premiere Sunday.

PASADENA, Calif. — When ABC’s drama Lost ends in May, it will definitively end — don’t look for any sequels or spin-offs.

The show’s producers said Tuesday they’ve known the final image of the mythologically dense series about Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 since the first season, although Carlton Cuse said the last episode hasn’t been written yet. It will air sometime in May. Cuse and Damon Lindelof were giving away few secrets to the show’s rabid fans at a news conference Tuesday, even refraining to show video clips. They said the show’s sixth and final season will hearken back to its first, and most popular, season in 2004.

The producers were initially sweating about their twohour season opener, scheduled for Feb. 2, when they heard President Barack Obama had been considering that night for his State of the Union address. It promises to be a challenging episode; actress Emilie de Ravin said she had to read the script three times before it made any sense.

“Get ready to scratch your heads, America,” Lindelof said.

A one-hour recap special, an attempt to get uninitiated or casual viewers as familiar with the story as they can, will precede the opener.

In its lifetime, “Lost” proved that it’s possible for a television series to challenge its viewers and pull off production values that rival feature films, said Stephen McPherson, ABC entertainment president.

“It will arguably be one of the most influential shows of the decade, if not of all time,” McPherson said.

One secret producers did reveal: actress Cynthia Watros, who played the character Libby before being killed off in the second season, will return this year.

“Finally, all of your questions (about Libby) will be answered,” Cuse said.

“No, they will not,” Lindelof said.

That’s something fans should prepare themselves for overall: not all of the questions raised during the series will be answered. “That would be too pedantic,” Cuse said.

They’re hoping that final show is something that will be talked about afterward in much the same way as the diner scene that ended “The Sopranos.”

“I don’t think it would be `Lost’ if there wasn’t any arguing and active debate among the viewers about whether or not it was a good ending,” Lindelof said. “My mom will say it’s a good ending, even though she doesn’t understand the show.”

“Lost” has gone through so many inexplicable twists and turns, and flash-forwards to the future, that one writer wondered whether fans had already seen the ending in a previous episode. Cuse said no.

Actors said filming the series has been an emotional journey.

“I’m going to cry like a baby when this series ends,” actress Evangeline Lilly said.

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It sure seems like the same old ‘Idol’

By Ann Powers Los Angeles Times

It always happens. The striver who intrigues me the most on any given audition episode of American Idol just sneaks in, earning a few minutes of screen time, probably at the end of a long two hours. On Tuesday’s season premiere, set in Boston, it was a nattily dressed fellow named Antoine who squeaked by Simon Cowell’s rejection, hit one amazing note and then, despite a bit of heft, did the splits in the air.

Yell king? Former choirboy? Redirected hopeful from So You Think You Can Dance? We may never know. Antoine represents the long shots of these first Idol weeks, the hopefuls who earn a golden ticket but weren’t singled out for anything

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Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson ponder a question at a news conference during taping auditions of the show in San Francisco on Sept. 28, 2005. else by the show’s producers. Their stories aren’t heartwarming enough; they don’t emanate what Simon pointedly calls “it.”

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Amadeo Diricco took on what I’ve called the “Manwich” role: A 28year-old Bostonian who’s eaten a lot of his mama’s pasta, he shouted out a couple of verses of Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man” and blasted his way into Hollywood. Diricco’s interpretation of roots music as a rough man’s game recalls Southern belters from previous seasons; Michael Sarver, meet your successor.

It’s hard to say whether his ability to take the blues to the Jersey Shore will have a novelty appeal that will make it past Hollywood.

Then there was Maddy Curtis, the almost disturbingly self-possessed 16year-old with three Down syndrome brothers and enough baby-bohemian smarts to pick Leonard Cohen’s overused yet still effective “Hallelujah.” I notice that her mom’s blog, mommylife.net (Catholic “mother of 12 lives to write about it!”), has been put on hold, and Maddy’s YouTube videos have been removed.

I smell success! Yet she might fall apart the way Brooke White did during

Season 7. Innocence is an attractive but dangerous trait in a would-be champion.

Tyler Grady’s charming audition reminded me that no indie kid has made it far in Idol-land. It was nice to see a young guy minus hair gel, and then to hear him bust out some Marvin Gaye. Of course, the specter of Jason Castro lingers over any young Idol with that hazy gleam in his eye. We’ll see if Grady’s mellow cool can withstand the pressures of future weeks.

Beyond these standouts, Boston offered predictable fare. Justin Williams, who rubbed shoulders with winner Kris Allen during last year’s Hollywood Week, was inspirational (he’s a cancer survivor) and gifted and bland. Katie Stevens and Leah Laurenti had ingenue appeal but not much else. Luke Shaffer and Benjamin Bright, both promising, were smooshed together in a duet that marginalized both.

Of course, there were the horrific auditions, the ones that encourage us to laugh as Simon and his compadres crush hapless dreamers. Those never appeal to me. The night’s saddest failure, however, was guest judge Victoria Beckham, who actually made plenty of appealing comments and bonded beautifully with fellow judge Kara DioGuardi but whose gaunt appearance was so off-putting it might have cost her the slot DeGeneres eventually won.

If chunky Amadeo got through and Posh ultimately didn’t, perhaps that means Idol is sending a genuinely new message to star-struck America: Healthy is the new hot!

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General Hospital Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless SPEED ●Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction From Westworld Scottsdale, Ariz. (Live) UFC Unleashed ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die (N) ’ MANswers (N) ’ Å Blue Mountain State ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ SPIKE ●UFC Unleashed ’ ●Hawks Live! Postgame ●College Basketball College of Charleston at UT-Chattanooga.

SPSO ●NBA Basketball Sacramento Kings at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (Subject to Blackout) Ghost Hunters “Salem Witch” ’ Å Ghost Hunters International “Quarantine” (N) Å Ghost Hunters The team travels to New Jersey. ’ Ghost Hunters International “Quarantine” ’ Å SYFY Ghost Hunters ’ Å Behind the Scenes Å Grant Jeffrey Å Secrets of Bible Jack Van Impe Presents Praise the Lord Å TBN Billy Graham Classic House of Payne House of Payne Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Lopez Tonight Tyrese Gibson; Betty White. (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ››› “The Subject Was ›› “The North Star” (1943, War) Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston. Premiere. Russian nationals ››› “Mission to Moscow” (1943, Historical Drama) Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka. Story of TCM Roses” (1968) Å defend their city from invading Nazis.

Joseph Davies, former ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Å Hoarders: Buried Alive ’ Å Toddlers & Tiaras “Little Miss Glitz” (N) ’ Å TV Murders: Jasmine Fiore and Anne Pressly Å TLC Natalee Holloway: Lost TV Murders: Jasmine Fiore and Anne Pressly Å Bones A stabbing death is Bones Booth notices similarities between a case and a Bones “The Boneless Bride in the River” A woman’s Leverage “The Bottle Job” A high-tech version of a CSI: NY “Blink” Taylor and Flack track a serial killer. ’ TNT investigated. ’ Å murder in Brennan’s latest book. ’ Å boneless body is found in a river. ’ Å classic con. (N) Å Å What Would Happen?

Destroy Build Destroy Star Wars: Clone Wars Super Hero Squad Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Married... With Children Married... With Children High School Reunion “Win Lose or Draw” (N) Å High School Reunion “Win Lose or Draw” Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å NCIS “Split Decision” ’ Å NCIS “Sea Dog” ’ Å NCIS “Sub Rosa” ’ Å › “License to Wed” (2007) Robin Williams. Å USA NCIS “Jeopardy” Å For the Love of Ray J ’ Let’s Talk About Pep ’ Behind the Music T.I. ’ VH1 ››› “Drumline” (2002, Comedy-Drama) Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana. Rivalry between two drummers threatens a college band. ’ CABLE NEWS Biography on CNBC Entrepreneur Sam Walton.

The NEW Age of Wal-Mart Biography on CNBC “The Rockefellers” (N) Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å

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The King of Queens ’ My Name Is Earl Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO Two and a Half Men ’ The Rub Cardinal Corner Word Alive Cheers ’ Å TV24 Local News TV24 Local News Rick & Bubba Å Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS A Night at The Grill Wheel of Fortune “Wheel The Deep End “Pilot” (Series Premiere) Dylan is given Grey’s Anatomy “I Like You So Much Better When Private Practice “Best Laid Plans” Maya’s shocking an- ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU Watchers Club” a pro-bono custody case. (N) ’ Å You’re Naked” Derek confronts Richard. (N) Å nouncement. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) The Big Bang Theory ’ The Big Bang Theory CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Long Ball” Golfer is The Mentalist “Bleeding Heart” A mayor’s aide is mur- CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å Å Sheldon and Penny fight. murdered at a tournament. (N) ’ Å (DVS) dered. (N) ’ Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Miss Fortune” ’ Å NCIS “Blackwater” ’ Å NCIS “Doppelganger” A petty officer is murdered.

Criminal Minds “Memoriam” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å ››› “Soul Food” (1997) Vanessa L. Williams. Sisters deal with family and romantic crises. ’ The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter?

CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight The First 48 “Coma; Disappeared” Å The First 48 Dismembered body parts are found.

Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive A&E The First 48 Å ›› “Behind Enemy ››› “Philadelphia” (1993, Drama) Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards. Fired by his firm, lawyer with AIDS fights back. Å ››› “Philadelphia” (1993, Drama) Tom Hanks. Fired AMC Lines” (2001, Action) by his firm, lawyer with AIDS fights back. Å Piranhas ’ Å Amazon Abyss ’ ANPL A Lion Called Christian Amazon Abyss A voyage up the Amazon River reveals new species. ’ Married to the Eiffel Tower Å To Be Announced BBC World News America Å Married to the Eiffel Tower Å BBC World News Monica: Still Standing ›› “Sprung” (1997) Tisha Campbell. Friends conspire to break up two others’ budding romance.

The Mo’Nique Show Å BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live Monica: Still Standing Caddyshack Biography “Bill Murray” Actor Bill Murray. Å Biography “Rodney Dangerfield” Rodney Dangerfield. (N) Å Biography “Billy Crystal” Billy Crystal. Å BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County (N) The Real Housewives of Orange County BRAVO Real Housewives OC Are You Smarter?

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“Alex Does Good” “Bermuda Triangle” The Daily 10 (N) ››› “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman. A Baltimore newswoman falls for a Seattle widower.

Holly’s World Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●Tennis Australian Open, Third Round. From Melbourne, Australia. (Live) Å ESPN2 ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ›› “Major Payne” (1995, Comedy) Damon Wayans. A gung-ho Marine commands young recruits. Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM That ’70s Show ’ Å Iron Chef America “NIC vs. Yang” Iron Chef America “Cora vs. Guarnaschelli” Ace of Cakes (N) Ace of Cakes Å Good Eats Unwrapped Bacon.

FOOD Challenge ●College Basketball Washington State at USC. (Live) Replay Best Damn 50 FOXSS ●Women’s College Basketball Tennessee at Georgia. (Live) ››› “Superbad” (2007) Jonah Hill, Michael Cera. Premiere. Co-dependent teens hope to score booze and babes at a party.

Archer “Diversity Hire” Archer “Training Day” Archer “Mole Hunt” Archer “Diversity Hire” FX ››› “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) Robin Williams, Sally Field. An estranged dad poses as a nanny to be with his children. Å ››› “Home Alone” (1990, Comedy) Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci. Å FXM The Princess Bride Å Carnie Wilson Hidden Agenda Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Carnie Wilson Hidden Agenda Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å America’s Funniest Touched by an Angel “A Winter Carol” A town loses of Touched by an Angel An idealist is about to give up Touched by an Angel Monica is reunited with a friend The Golden Girls Dorothy’s The Golden Girls “On HALL Home Videos ’ Å an important member of the community. ’ hope of TV bringing people together. ’ Å who’s battling a brain tumor. ’ Å beau makes a pass.

Golden Girls” ’ Å ›› “Watchmen” (2009, Action) Billy Crudup. A masked vigilante probes the murder of a fellow superhero. ’ ‘R’ Å The Book of Eli Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Å HBO ››› I Am Legend ’ My First Place (N) Å My First Place Å House Hunters Intern’l House Hunters Intern’l House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters Intern’l House Hunters H&G House Hunters Å Modern Marvels “Snack Modern Marvels “Eggs” The journey of an egg. (N) Å Food Tech “Cheeseburger & Fries” Burgers and fries. Pawn Stars “Wheels” Å Pawn Stars “Chum Goes Food Tech “Cheeseburger & Fries” Burgers and fries.

HIST Food Tech 2” Å (N) Å AWOL” Å Å Grey’s Anatomy Doctors’ pressures. ’ Å Project Runway “Back to New York” Å Project Runway “The Fashion Farm” (N) Å Models of the Runway Project Runway Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å ››› “Sex and the City” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall. ’ ‘R’ Å MAX ›› The Jerk (1979) ‘R’ ›› “Over Her Dead Body” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Inside America’s Military Academies ’ Å Inside America’s Military Academies ’ Å Inside America’s Military Academies Seniors. Å Inside America’s Military Academies ’ Å MILIT Combat Zone ’ Å Jersey Shore ’ Å Jersey Shore Pauly has a stalker. ’ Å Jersey Shore (Season Finale) (N) ’ Å Jersey Shore “Reunion” The cast reminisces. (N) MTV Jersey Shore ’ Å Car Czar A long neglected ’69 Chevy Z28 Camaro.

Blow Down “Rocket Tower” Rocket launch tower.

Naked Science “Birth of the Oceans” Car Czar A long neglected ’69 Chevy Z28 Camaro.

NGEO Dog Whisperer Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK Fanboy and Chum Chum Malcolm in the Middle Factory Made ’ Factory Made ’ Å Build It Bigger “Peru Dam & Tunnel” ’ Å Heavy Metal Task Force ’ Å Factory Made ’ Factory Made ’ Å SCIENCE Assembly Req. › “Bangkok Dangerous” (2008, Action) Nicolas Cage. iTV. ’ ‘R’ Å Extraordinary Measures SHOW ››› “Into the Wild” (2007, Adventure) Emile Hirsch. iTV. Christopher McCandless makes an ill-fated trek to Alaska. ’ ‘R’ All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless SPEED ●Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction From Westworld, Scottsdale, Ariz. (Live) ●TNA iMPACT! Superstars battle it out for supremacy and championship gold inside the six-sided ring. (N) World’s Most Dangerous Police Chases ’ Å SPIKE UFC’s Ultimate Fight Night ’ Å ●Thrashers Live! (Live) ●ACC All-Access Future Phenoms NHL Hockey: Hurricanes at Thrashers SPSO ●NHL Hockey Carolina Hurricanes at Atlanta Thrashers. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (Live) Star Trek: The Next Generation “Descent” Å ››› “Star Trek: First Contact” (1996) Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes. Half-robot Borg tries to sabotage a rocket flight.

Stargate: Ark SYFY Star Trek: Generation Behind the Scenes Å Dr. David Jeremiah Å Winning With Wisdom This Is Your Day Å Praise the Lord Å TBN The Cross Å “Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling” (2009, Comedy) Oliver James, Kristopher Turner, Rik Young.

Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ›››› “The Charge of ››› “Point Blank” (1967, Crime Drama) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn. Left-for-dead crook ››› “Escape From Alcatraz” (1979, Suspense) Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Jack Thibeau. Rock-isTCM the Light Brigade” seeks revenge. land prison inmates plan a 1962 escape.

American Chopper “Scheider Electric Bike” Å American Chopper Custom built choppers. (N) ’ BBQ Pitmasters Competition in Dover, Del. (N) ’ American Chopper Custom built choppers. ’ Å TLC BBQ Pitmasters ’ Å ●NBA Pregame (Live) Å ●NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Cleveland Cavaliers. From Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Live) Å ●NBA Basketball Los Angeles Clippers at Denver Nuggets. From the Pepsi Center TNT in Denver. (Live) Å Johnny Test ’ Å Chowder (N) Misadv. of Flapjack Super Hero Squad Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Married... With Children Married... With Children Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å Burn Notice Barry enlists Michael’s help. Å Burn Notice A man from Fiona’s past. Å Burn Notice “A Dark Road” (N) Å White Collar “Hard Sell” Å USA Burn Notice Å Secrets of Aspen ’ Secrets of Aspen ’ Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew ’ Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew ’ Tough Love A glimpse of a single future. ’ VH1 Reality Mom CABLE NEWS Biography on CNBC Robert Maxwell.

Scam: Bernie Madoff’s Crime & Punishment Biography on CNBC Hotel magnate J.W. Marriott.

Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN CNN Tonight (N) Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å

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