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  • 2051 space oddity: TV station aims at an alien audience

    10/03/2006 6:53:47 PM PDT · by annie laurie · 6 replies · 374+ views
    The Irish Times ^ | Sep 30, 06 | Derek Scally
    Eurotrash goes intergalactic tonight when two naked television presenters host the first programme conceived for aliens and broadcast to a star located in the Big Dipper, 45 light years away. Despite the English language title, the programme, Cosmic Connexion, as conceived by the channel Arte, assumes the aliens will have a working knowledge of German and French - the station's two working languages. The TV show has been conceived as an idiot's guide to humankind, or close encounters of the nude kind. The hosts will explain how the human body is created - thus justifying their own nakedness - and...
  • Jazz Giant Artie Shaw Dies at Age 94

    12/30/2004 2:05:46 PM PST · by Captain Peter Blood · 42 replies · 1,521+ views
    YAHOO NEWS/REUTERS ^ | 12-30-2004 | Reuters
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for his recording of "Begin the Beguine" and one of the giants of the swing era of jazz, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said. A self-declared perfectionist, Shaw put down the clarinet in 1954 and never played it again, saying he could not reach the level of artistry he desired. He had been ill for several years, Curtis said.