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What’s On Tonight: ‘30 Rock’ Ushers Sweeps

When John McCain first announced his running mate, the first celebrity I thought of was Megan Mullally.

Odd then that the first guest star for the return of Tiny Fey’s “30 Rock” (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) would be Mullally, in glasses and upswept hair.

They might as well be the Palin sisters in the episode that was shot before everyone learned the name of the Alaskan governor.

Anyway, she’s there playing an evaluator from an adoption agency, examining the workplace of Fey’s Liz Lemon, where things are crazy as ever

Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy is back from his top secret Washington job, but has to start at the bottom. And there is a spat over payment from Tracy’s quite successful video game.As tightly written as anything on TV, the much lauded, Emmy-heavy “30 Rock” pairs with “The Office” (NBC, 9 p.m.) for the strongest hour of network comedy.

“Opening Doors, Opening Minds” (CPTV, 9 p.m.) is the first of three specials focusing on mental health. It focuses on three young people chosen to represent the 20 percent of American children affected by diagnosable mental illness each year. The point is that recovery from mental illness is possible.

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It will be followed at 9:30 p.m. by a town meeting session first broadcast in June with Pat Rehmer, Deputy Commissioner from the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Ezra Griffith, Professor of Psychiatry of Yale University school for Medicine answering questions regarding mental health issues.

Lil Wayne wins again as the Hip Hop Awards 2008 (BET, 8 p.m.) gets rerun.

The underrated pop culture clip show “Infomania,” as good as “The Soup” or “Best Week Ever” in my book and approaching “The Daily Show” in quality presents its “Infomania Election Special” (Current, 10 p.m.) running down the political year, just five days now before the election.

Just as Daniel Baldwin was suspect as a mentor who talked too much about his own recovery in the first season, the new season of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” (VH1, 10 p.m.) has Gary Busey, who keeps repeating that story about snorting coke off the back of his dog. Dr. Drew Pinskey may be the first person, though, to correctly diagnose the problems from Busey’s long-ago motorcycle accident. Nothing may help the returning Jeff Conaway, though.

People aren’t just leaving week by week on the final season of “ER” (NBC, 10 p.m.) but tonight a former cast member Shane West, playing double amputee Dr. Ray Barnett stops back for a visit.

Devil’s Night brings some holiday-related programming, if you count an episode of “Supernatural” (The CW, 9 p.m.) called “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Dean Winchester.”Movies along these lines may or may not include “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” (ABC Family, 9 p.m.) which comes after the first “Scooby-Doo” (ABC Family, 7 p.m.); “Twitches Too” (Disney, 8 p.m.), “Constantine” (AMC, 8 p.m.), “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child” (IFC, 9 p.m.), “Jeepers Creepers” (AMC, 10:30 p.m.), and possibly “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (MyNetwork TV, 8 p.m.).

It’s a night of horror anthologies on Turner Classic Movies beginning with “Dead of Night” (8 p.m.), “Torture Garden” (10 p.m.), “Twice Told Tales” (11:45 p.m.), “Kwaidan” (2 a.m.) and “Spirits of the Dead” (4:45 a.m.).

The merge on “Survivor: Cabon - Earth’s Last Eden” (CBS, 8 p.m.) can’t come quick enough for Fang, one of the worst performing teams in the history of the show. But it probably won’t come tonight.

November sweeps have come two days before the month itself. So not only are there no network reruns tonight, there is the occasional guest star, if that’s how you can describe Ralph Macchio on “Ugly Betty” (ABC, 8 p.m.).

“Hole in the Wall” has fallen into the pool. The reality show based on a Japanese show been yanked from the schedule and replaced by a second helping of “Kitchen Nightmares” (Fox, 8 and 9 p.m).

Daytime TalkRegis and Kelly: Tina Fey. The View: Jeremy Piven, Cloris Leachman. Bonnie Hunt: Corbin Bleu, Kellie Pickler. Ellen DeGeneres: Zac Efron.

Late TalkDavid Letterman: Ashley Olsen, Paul Rudd, John Legend. Jay Leno: Christina Applegate, Frank Caliendo, Fall Out Boy. Conan O’Brien: Jada Pinkett-Smith, Rachel Maddow, Pink. Jimmy Kimmel

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Ewing Jr. is the final cut.

We all sensed it was coming, but the news was made official today. From ESPN:

Ewing’s contract was only partially guaranteed for the league minimum of $430,000, although Walsh said money was not a factor in the Knicks’ decision to cut him.

“In the immediate future, shooting could be a problem for this team,” Walsh said.

D’Antoni had said that the fact that Ewing’s father is a Knicks legend could not be ignored, but it wouldn’t factor into the decision. Patrick Ewing is a Hall of Fame center and the Knicks’ all-time leader in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots and steals.

“I think he’s a lot better than what I thought he was, and I think he has a chance to make the NBA,” D’Antoni was quoted as saying in Monday’s New York Times, before Ewing’s release was announced. “I think he’s got work to do. Would he help us on the floor this year? I don’t know.”

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It’s a real shame. Mini-Pat was one of the cooler guys on the team, and he brought that perpetual possibility of a Sports Center-worthy dunk. Especially on a team that’s already taken some injury hits to the frontcourt, Ewing may have garnered some playing time. That said, keeping Anthony Roberson instead was more fiscally responsible (or so I hear), and A-Rob has more clear-cut NBA skills (that silky jumper) to offer. The roster is now down to 15, meaning we’re ready to go for Wednesday night. The article goes on to indicate that Duhon and Crawford are the expected backcourt starters.

Anyway, P&T wishes the best of luck to Ewing Jr. There’s more to him than just the name, and I’m sure he’ll reemerge somewhere before long.

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Discuss: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

we feigned it in high school, which made it amazingly unexciting. i tried again a few years later, but solely couldn’t get into it. proverb it on the big screen everywhere ten years ago and at length got what everybody under the sun was manic concerning … but still the fade away didn’t really “connect” with me in any high way. but then a few nights ago, i sat down with my awesome 2-disc exceptional number of stanley kubrick’s 2001: a lapse odyssey, and was blown away as if i’d never even heard of it before. thousands of writers much cleverer than i have devoted a billion words to this very fine film, but after watching it earlier this week, i was struck by how simple the story actually was. i mean, a coating is a work of art, and as such each viewer longing have their own interpretation of the endure, but if we’re talking nearly the oh-so-confusing and deliciously ambiguous nature of the plot, um, here’s what i saw:a. early man is little more than an carnal before a mysterious object appears on their planet and signifies the next action mail: the genesis of tools, which immediately leads to the the universe of weapons, and then we (awesomely) jump-shorten to millions of years later. our beforehand weapon has evolved into our ultimate weapon: a atomic arsenal poised ominously in outer space.b. then we (slowly but very coolly) discover that another mysterious object has been discovered beneath the superficies of the moon. when modern mankind places his pass on on the sponsor “monolith,” a signal between the moon and jupiter is opened. looks like cuffs is officially “ready” for his next step.

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Sarah Palin, Fruit Flies, and the Party of Darkness

Believe it or not, Sarah Palin gave a “policy” speech yesterday in support of (and in support of full government funding of) the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

In her speech, Palin stressed that “the most valuable thing of all is information” and that “[e]arly identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.” However, she also criticized certain “pet projects,” such as fruit-fly research, that are funded through earmarks and that, according to her, are utterly pointless:

Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? … You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

No, she kids us not. In her view, such research is a joke and, needless to say, shouldn’t be funded. It’s all a big waste, government largesse at its worst.

But is she right about the research? No.I’ll let an expert, PZ Myers of Pharyngula, explain — brilliantly, I might add:

I am appalled.

This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this pretentious clod, mocks basic research and the international research community. You damn well better believe that there is research going on in animal models ? what does she expect, that scientists should mutagenize human mothers and chop up baby brains for this work? ? and countries like France and Germany and England and Canada and China and India and others are all respected participants in these efforts.

Yes, scientists work on fruit flies. Some of the most powerful tools in genetics and molecular biology are available in fruit flies, and these are animals that are particularly amenable to experimentation. Molecular genetics has revealed that humans share key molecules, the basic developmental toolkit, with all other animals, thanks to our shared evolutionary heritage (something else the wackaloon from Wasilla denies), and that we can use these other organisms to probe the fundamental mechanisms that underlie core processes in the formation of the nervous system ? precisely the phenomena Palin claims are so important.

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This is where the Republican party has ended up: supporting an ignorant buffoon who believes in the End Times and speaking in tongues while deriding some of the best and most successful strategies for scientific research. In this next election, we’ve got to choose between the 21st century rationalism and Dark Age inanity. It ought to be an easy choice.

What can I add to that? His language is harsh, but Myers is exactly right. The Republican Party has become — and has been for some time — the party of darkness, an anti-Enlightenment party beholden to a base of theocratic Christian fundamentalism, a party that has positioned itself in opposition to science.

However unpopular generally, Sarah Palin has become, to many, the mascot and cheerleader of this movement, a leader of the darkest wing of her party.

In ridiculing the very scientific research that would support her “policy,” she was just being a good Republican.

(Cross-posted from The Reaction.)

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Exclusive: Groovy ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ Featurette

cinematical is pretty stoked to have received this exclusive never-anterior to-seen featurette from the recently-released the nightmare in the future christmas: collector’s edition dvd. i’ll never get tired of watching this flick, and fans out there (i recall there’s tons of you) will completely dig the video below viagra kaufen ohne rezept, which is all round the storyboarding course of action. in fact, i believe it’s actually called the storyboarding process. my favorite part of it is watching how they manufacture this sort of comical work out of the film before they actually dive in to everything else. not only is it fascinating to watch in relation to the nightmare up front christmas, but it’s just a cool teensy-weensy video in general for anyone who, like me, is a fan of the process. so check it out below.additionally, after the breach, we’ve included video of the hand-painted nightmare in the presence of christmas collector’s bust that we’re giving away as part of our fourth annual halloween costume contest. if you were on the fence about entering, something tells me that little nugget of awesomeness may sway your sentence.

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