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Robert Altman’s salute to Garrison Keillor’s great radio program is gentle and whimsical, simple and profound. As the story opens, the program is going off the air and its theater has been sold, but “G.K.” refuses to treat the last show as different from any other. With Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep as the survivors of a family quartet, Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as singing cowboy comedians, Kevin Kline as the security man Guy Noir, Virginia Madsen as a mysterious stranger, and many members of the program’s own staff and musicians playing themselves. Just plain fun from beginning to end.

Fortran IV writes “Registration is open until June 15 for the 2006 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship, to be held Saturday, June 17, 2006—it’s 25 or so mind-bending pencil-and-paper puzzles that you have 2-1/2 very short hours to solve. The USPC is a qualifying test to choose 2 members for the U.S. team at the 2006 World Puzzle Championship to be held in Borovets, Bulgaria in October. For a mild taste of the puzzles try the 2006 Practice Test (as has been noted here in the past, if you can’t get the Practice Test open you should probably give the real thing a pass!) For more of a workout the real tests for 2005 and 2004 are still available.”

Friday

· Friday night music: Josh Ritter at the El Rey, The English Beat at Hollywood Park, Film School and Silversun Pickups are at the Echo, and Tommy Keene is at Spaceland.

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The Miz screamed at viewers as host of Smackdown, running down the key matches on the show. Michael Cole then introduced the show again. He noted that they were two nights removed from a wild, crazy, and unpredictable Head to Head special on USA Network. He wondered what might happen tonight that might affect ECW One Night Stand on Sunday…

Residents of soccer crazy Rio de Janeiro are “taxing” motorists to raise funds to decorate their streets in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag for the World Cup.

Canes GM Jim Rutherford suffered a painful kidney stone attack shortly after the team charter took off from Raleigh for Edmonton on Thursday.

We knew there was a reason the African savannah wildlife-modified manger scene in our front yard was shimmering extra-luminously. In yet another World! Exclusive!, TMZ.com is reporting that the…

Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the theme for ABC’s ‘Monday Night Football’ since 1989, will continue the tradition next season on ESPN when the football institution moves to the cable network, show officials said Friday.

A Defamer operative sent in this report, and accompanying photographic evidence, of CBS’ valiant attempt at thinking outside of the “full-page ad in Variety” box for their CSI Emmy consideration…

A Defamer operative sent in this report, and accompanying photographic evidence, of CBS’ valiant attempt at thinking outside of the “full-page ad in Variety” box for their CSI Emmy consideration…

equex256 writes “Early Wednesday morning, a meteorite streaked across the sky in northern Norway, near Finland and Russia. A witness (Article in Norwegian) went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing large boulders that had fallen out of the mountainside, along with many broken trees. Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper, that he would compare the explosive force of the impact with the Hiroshima bomb. This meteorite is suspected to be much larger than the 90-kilo (198-pound) meteorite which hit Alta in 1904, previously recognized as the largest to hit Norway. From the article: ‘Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.’”

E! Online - Sawyer may not be getting any help from the Others, but
another unknown, island-dwelling group of 12 are doing their best to
maintain his safety.