In this edition of the Movie Beat, Ralph reviews Me and Orson Wells, The Princess and the Frog, Old Dogs, The Road, and Ninja Assassin.

Ralph’s Pick of the Week:

"Haight! Go see this." - Ralph Garman

Amy Winehouse dopo le tette, i denti e il lato B, ora vuole un naso nuovo

Dopo il ritocco al seno, la soul-diva britannica Amy Winehouse pensa a rifarsi il naso. La cantante, che ha sorpreso tutti i suoi fan passando dalla seconda alla quarta, sembra proprio caduta nella rete delle operazioni di chirurgia estetica, scrive il tabloid Daily Mirror.  Secondo il solito ‘insider’: “Da quando si è rifatta il seno, è ossessionata dalla chirurgia estetica. Dopo il lato B e i denti, vuole un naso più piccolo, che sia più adeguato al suo viso magro. Odia il fatto che il suo naso sia così grosso e non le piace neanche la forma”.  E non è tutto. Sembra che la trasgressiva Amy abbia in mente anche di rivedere il suo posteriore e forse le labbra: “Vuole che tutto sia in armonia con il nuovo seno”, ha spiegato la fonte.

‘New Moon’, è sempre giallo sulla love story Pattinson – Stewart

Il re dei talkshow David Letterman ha dedicato al bellissimo Robert Pattinson-Edward Cullen un’intera puntata del suo programma, mentre la timida e algida Kristen Stewart-Bella Swann si è cimentata al ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’.  Resta ancora un giallo, comunque, la presunta relazione amorosa fra i due, declamata ormai da mesi dai tabloid e mai smentita con sufficiente convinzione dagli attori. Lo stesso Letterman ha provato a fare chiarezza sulla vicenda con l’ospite Pattinson, mostrandogli l’ultima sexy-copertina di ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ che lo ritrae insieme alla collega Kristen. “Uscite insieme, giusto?” ha chiesto il presentatore del ‘Late Show’. “Sono stato così criptico proprio per evitare la questione durante l’intero…” ha iniziato a dire Rob il vampiro, che sembrava realmente intenzionato a svelare il mistero quando Letterman l’ha interrotto dicendogli che poteva evitare di rispondere.  Lutto per il mondo del gossip. Per il resto, Pattinson – raggiante in completo nero e camicia celeste – si è dilungato sulle sue vicissitudini con le fan adoranti raccontando di un recente episodio in Spagna, dove una ragazza si è appostata fuori dall’appartamento in cui l’attore alloggiava durante le riprese del film ‘Little Ashes’ per tre intere settimane. Un giorno Pattinson si sentiva particolarmente solo e le ha chiesto di uscire. Lei allora l’ha portato a cena nel ristorante dei genitori. “Mi sono lamentato di tutta la mia vita per due ore circa, lei mi ha presentato il conto e poi non si è più fatta vedere” ha raccontato l’attore ridendo.  

Nessun elemento di novità sulla lovestory con Kristen è emerso durante lo spettacolo di Jimmy Fallon, che si è limitato a corteggiare l’attrice – in abito sottoveste nero e capelli raccolti – per l’intera durata dell’intervista. La stessa Kristen, ospite nel programma tv mattutino di Martha Stewart era già stata portata sull’argomento, invano. Stewart riferiva di aver sognato che usciva con Robert e di avere pensato che era un ragazzo molto alla mano. Kristen si è limitata a commentare con un sorriso: “Avrei dovuto unirmi a voi”.

Moira Orfei e le banane indigeste

Moira Orfei ha fatto indigestione di banane!!! Per seguire una nuova dieta ha pranzato ingurgitandosene sei una dopo l’altra. L’effetto è stato devastante e la signora del circo ha trascorso un brutto quarto d’ora in ospedale…Povera Moira, restando sempre con gli animali, ha cominciato… a mangiare come loro…!

Camilla critica Beyoncè

Il nuovo video ad alto tasso erotico di Beyoncè con Lady Gaga, in reggiseno e pistole? Fa rizzare quasi i capelli a Camilla Parker Bowles, duchessa di Cornovaglia, nonché moglie del principe del Galles Carlo, che lo definisce un “red gansgster che glorifica il sesso e la violenza”, modello comportamentale da cui la scuola inglese dovrebbe cercare di allontanare i ragazzi.
Da che pulpito arriva la predica! Lei che è diventata famosa prima per essere stata l’amante del Principe Carlo, nonostante questi fosse sposato con la bella e sfortunata Lady Diana. Poi per essersi riuscita ad imporre a corte, sposando il suo amato, nonostante l’opposizione di sua Maestà la Regina Elisabetta. Ammettiamolo, non era proprio il caso di far polemiche per un video e di prendersela così…

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Segment originally aired on August 10, 2009

When he was 15, R. Dwayne Betts was an eleventh-grader at Suitland High School in Maryland; he was taking honors English and AP U.S. history. When he was 16, he began serving a nine-year term in prison. Today, he’s a graduate of the University of Maryland-College Park, a published poet pursuing an MFA at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, a husband, a father, and a national voice on juvenile justice issues. A few months ago he told the Baltimore Sun that he lives “with two worlds in my head.” He talks to Sheilah about inhabiting those two worlds, and about his newly-published memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison.

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This segment originally aired on September 11, 2009.

Stephen Dunn has written 16 books of poetry, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland, and he joins Tom Hall from the studios of WFWM to read some of his poems and talk about finding his way to poetry.

“If A Clown,” a recent Dunn poem from The New Yorker

On today’s show: Twilight’s Ashley Greene calls in to talk about New Moon’s big opening, Movie Beat and Kevin & Bean Whistle the Hits for KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas tickets.

Also, Petros Papadakis previews USC vs. UCLA,  we call the Butterball Turkey Hotline, Adam Carolla’s “This Week in Rage” and more.

Next Week on Kevin & Bean:

Miss Double D-cember contestants, The Bravery, Victoria Secret Model Miranda Kerr and The Miss Double D-Cember Pageant live from the Slidebar in Fullerton.

Starting right after Loveline tonight and all Thanksgiving weekend long it’s a Roq of the 90s weekend.  We’ll be playing all your favorite 90s songs.  Here’s some of our favorite 90s videos to get this thing started…

and…

enjoy!

On tomorrow’s Kevin & Bean show: We have The Twilight Saga: New Moon’s Ashley Greene, the annual call to the Butterball Turkey Hotline, Ashley Greene, Movie Beat and……
 

Ashley Greene.

Did I mention that Ashley Greene is on the show? Because she is.

On today’s show: We announced the finalist for the Miss Double D-Cember Pageant, Comedian Jim Gaffigan called in to talk about his stand up comedy and we talked to storm chaser Sean Casey.

We also looked at videos on the Internet Roundup, listened to calls on the Afro Line and Psycho Mike spoke to Spencer Pratt at his book signing. Listeners also called in with their office pranks and Kevin & Bean did another Scientific Survey.

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Story originally aired June 24, 2009

If you work in medicine, or spend a lot of time in hospitals, or just have a soft spot for the TV show House M.D., you probably know what MRSA is. If you don’t, MRSA is what they call a “superbug”–a kind of bacteria that’s extremely resistant to antibiotics. You usually find superbugs in hospitals, but that’s not the only place the dwell. You can also find superbugs on big farms. Industrialized agriculture uses antibiotics in the everyday feed of chickens, pigs, and cows, and that use means that superbugs are developing and growing on farms around the country. Nathan talks to Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a professor in the Environmental Health Sciences department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about this phenomenon and the risks it poses.

Then we call Richard Lobb, spokesperson for the National Chicken Council, to get the other side of the story.

Johns Hopkins Magazine article on Silbergeld’s research

Paper on antimicrobials in chicken feed co-authored by Dr. Silbergeld

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Story originally aired April 16, 2008

Jack Greer of University of Maryland’s Sea Grant College walks us through the history of oyster harvesting, from booming business at the turn of the last century to devastation in the 80’s.

Dr. Greer is the Assistant Director of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland Sea Grant College.  He also writes about science and policy for the college.

“Killer from Across the Sea”, a recent article by Dr. Greer on the invasive species MSX

“A Brief History of Oyster Population Surveys,” from Maryland’s DNR

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Rafael Alvarez has chronicled the characters of Baltimore for nearly three decades as a reporter and fiction writer. He also wrote for The Wire, and his latest book is an encyclopedia of all things Wire.  It’s called The Wire: Truth Be Told, out now from the Scottish publisher Canongate. Tom Hall talks to Rafael Alvarez about the book.

Rafael Alvarez will read from The Wire: Truth Be Told Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Enrico’s in Highlandtown. Enrico’s is at the corner of E. Pratt and Haven streets.

In this edition of Kevin & Bean’s Internet Roundup:

A WGN reporter makes a kid cry, Sarah Palin supporters are interviewed at her book signing , Samson Prince is our new favorite person and more….

Tomorrow on the show:

Jim Gaffigan calls in to talk about his upcoming stand-up dates and we unveil the Top 10 contestants for Miss Double D-cember.

We’ll also take your calls on office pranks you did to your co-workers.

This segment originally aired June 10, 2009.

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The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, or BLSA, is getting on in years. Last year was its 50th anniversary. This morning we take a look at what the BLSA has taught us about healthy aging with its current director, Dr. Luigi Ferrucci (who is only a few years older than the study).

This segment originally aired September 9, 2009.

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The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, was a great writer, very opinionated, and not very nice — especially to William Jennings Bryan. September 12 was the 129th anniversary of Mencken’s birth, and on that day the Enoch Pratt Free Library hosted the Mencken Memorial Lecture. Sheilah talked to Michael Kazin, Professor of American Political and Social History at Georgetown University — and Bryan biographer — about his lecture at the Pratt, “Bryan Debates Mencken: The Confrontation We Missed.”

This segment originally aired September 29, 2009.

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Taylor Branch, the Baltimore-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has known Bill Clinton for nearly four decades. In September, he published his highly anticipated chronicle of the Clinton White House, which he wrote after 79 private sessions with the President during his two terms. It’s called The Clinton Tapes:  Wrestling History with the President.  Tom Hall talks to Branch about the wrestling in the conversations, and the struggle to write the book.

On today’s show: We heard Miss Cleo’s Twilight interviews.  Bean’s rental car gets stolen in Maryland (or does it?).  Seth Green talks about his movie Old Dogs, it’s the final day to enter the Miss Double D-cember contest and former Scientologist Marc Headley.

Kevin’s wife Melissa stopped by to talk about their charity Friends & Helpers  Holiday Gift Drive. TMZ’s Harvey Levin gives us the latest Hollywood gossip. Working on the show is getting us in trouble. We spin the “Wheel of Bad Animal Voices” and talk the “pimping chimps” and Ralph’s Showbiz Beat.

Happy Holidays! The season of giving has come upon us again. This is the chance to help those in our community that are survivors of domestic abuse. Many of these survivors are forced to leave their homes without any money or a place to stay, only the clothes that are on their backs. This holiday season we can make sure that these less fortunate souls know they don’t have to do this alone. We can help to put smiles on the faces of women and children who need it most!

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This segment originally aired on July 22, 2009.

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Maryland stands with just one toe in the mountains.  But that’s enough to give it a stake in the debate over Appalachian mountaintop mining. Activists say removing the tops of mountains results in severe environmental degradation; proponents say the process creates jobs and spurs economic development. Only a few mountains in Western Maryland are mined in this manner, but power companies from Baltimore to the panhandle use coal mined this way to generate electricity for Maryland homes and businesses. Last week the Interior Department said it will step up its monitoring of what permits states grant for mountaintop removal. But rules from the Bush administration making it easier to dump mountain debris near streams will stay in place at least until 2011.  Maryland legislators considered but did not pass a ban using mountaintop-mined coal.

We revisit a conversation we had about the pros and cons of mountaintop mining.  We spoke with Austin Hall, a field organizer for the non-proift  Appalachian Voices; who has lobbied against mountaintop mining, and Carol Raulston, senior vice president for communications at the National Mining Association.

This segment originally aired on November 24, 2008.

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If you are a frequent listener to Morning Edition, chances are good that StoryCorps has at least once brought you up short, maybe drawn a few tears. On Friday, StoryCorps is  asking people to devote part of a day to the idea at the heart of StoryCorps—that listening to and learning from the people around us is essential, precious and often overlooked. They’re calling November 27, a “National Day of Listening.” To get ready, we revisit a conversation we had last year with David Isay, the founder of StoryCorps,  and hear a story one woman told her sister at a StoryCorps booth in Baltimore a few years ago.

StoryCorps question generator

Listening is an Act of Love

Isay’s Sound Portraits Productions–”Ghetto Life 101″ is the story he mentions as the inspiration for StoryCorps

This segment originally aired on August 26, 2009.

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MICA prof Ellen Lupton’s new book Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things, is all about the stuff we surround ourselves with, why it’s designed the way it is, and how it could be designed better. We revisit a conversation Tom had with Ellen this past summer.