Today's Tune: "Who Are You?" By Black Sabbath

Happy Birthday Tom Baker! Today, January 20, 2010, is English stage, film and television actor Tom Baker's 76th birthday.

Baker is most remembered for his 7 year (1974 - 1981) run as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor, in the classic BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. More recently, he worked on both the BBC Radio (2001 - 2003?) and BBC Television (2003 - 2006) as the narrator on the naughty comedy sketch series, Little Britain (and Little Britain USA in 2008). He has also authored two books, 'Who On Earth Is Tom Baker?' (1997) and 'The Boy Who Kicked Pigs' (1999).

I wish I had been able to find the time to do a more detailed separate post on Tom for his birthday, but sadly that wasn't the case. Some time in the future then. While you anxiously await that blog entry, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Tom Baker. However, I suggest you head over to Tom's official web site. There, you will find an almost limitless amount of information on Mr. Baker. His full and accurate biography, excerpts from his books, video clips and photos, and the lists of all his movie and television appearances. He even does a monthly news letter (or blog).

When I think of Tom Baker, my thoughts are drawn to the time he spent as Doctor Who. So, for the 'Today's Tune', I picked the song "Who Are You?" by England's heavy metal pioneers, Black Sabbath. It was first released on the 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' album in December of 1973. The album tour began in January of 1974, the same year Tom Baker began his tour as the Doctor.

Black Sabbath - "Who Are You?" (1973)

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: January 17 - 19, 2010

Last Update - January 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM EST

A few more days crossed off the January 2010 calender. The following is the 'Reading And Viewing List' for January 17 through January 19, 2010.


January 19, 2010

CSN videos from after Capitals home win over Red Wings

Lisa Hillary speaks to winning goaltender Jose Theodore.
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Bruce Boudreau post game press conference.
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Caps 3, Red Wings 2
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

...This time last month, Jose Theodore was sitting on the bench pondering his future. Tonight, he was standing tall between the pipes, putting together one of the finest goaltending performances this building has seen all season...

Postgame video: Leonsis hugs Theodore
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

After the Caps' 3-2 win against Detroit tonight, owner Ted Leonsis entered the locker room and made a beeline for Jose Theodore. Here's a video of Leonsis congratulating the veteran goalie on a 44-save performance:...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: Also includes Matt Bradley interview video.

Nevermore? Mystery Visitor Misses Poe's Birthday
By Andrea Fujii at WJZ.com

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - A mysterious guest never showed for Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. For the first time in 61 years, the cloak-shrouded visitor to Poe's grave didn't come...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: Includes video, links and videos to related reports.

Cody Eakin: "I gotta keep pushing my game"
By Stephen Pepper at Japers' Rink

On the heels of this morning's prospect post, we have a prospect interview, with the Washington Capitals' third round (#85) selection in last summer's draft, center (and occasional winger) Cody Eakin...

Jeff Beck To Release 'Emotion & Commotion', First Studio Album In Seven Years, April 13
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

RollingStone.com is reporting that two months after Jeff Beck performs at Madison Square Garden along with Eric Clapton, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist will release...

January Prospects Update: Goalies and Defensemen
Posted by David M. Getz at Japers' Rink

Back in November we took a look at how the Capitals' prospects had started their respective seasons (defensemen and goalie post here and forwards post here), and with the season a little more than halfway done and potential trades being discussed more and more every day, we thought...

Ronnie Wood: Ready For Solo Action
By mdome at Classic Rock

It would appear that Ronnie Wood intends to go on the road for a series of solo gigs...

Iommi Pens Autobiography
By mdome at Classic Rock

Guitarist Tony Iommi is writing his memoirs.

The Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell legend is to title the book Iron Man. It’s due to be published later in the year...

Maiden’s Charity Auction
By mdome at Classic Rock

Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood is aiming to raise over £150,000 for the charities Childline and Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy via a...

Team Camaraderie at an All-Time High for Capitals
By Justin Creech at CapCentre.net

Washington, DC—The Washington Capitals have become one of the most exciting teams to watch in the NHL the last several season’s for several reasons. They have the game’s best player in two-time reigning league MVP Alex Ovechkin...

D-Town in DC
Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...Washington seeks to run the table on a three-game homestand when the Detroit Red Wings make their lone visit of the season to Verizon Center on Tuesday night.

The Caps took down Toronto on Friday and flattened the Flyers on Sunday in the first two games of the homestand. Washington is 16-3-3 on District ice this season and it has won four straight and nine of its last 10 at home in 2009-10...

January 18, 2010

Paul McCartney Turned Down For Slot In Them Crooked Vultures
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Sir Paul McCartney wanted a place in Dave Grohl's supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, but was turned down in favor of...

Carlson sent down, Ovechkin named first star
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

Today's practice was optional and several players, including Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin and Tomas Fleischmann, exercised that option. Still, there was plenty going on...

Kenneth Branagh Offers 'Thor' Update: One Week Into Filming And 'So Far, So Good'
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

With all this talk about the "Spider-Man" reboot and "Green Lantern" casting, it's easy to forget that another big comic book movie, Kenneth Branagh's "Thor," just kicked off production.

We caught up with Branagh at the Golden Globe Awards red carpet to get an update on how the live-action adventures of Marvel's god of thunder are going thus far...

Scenes from a Practice
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

It's a holiday here in the States (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and the Caps held a practice before a near-SRO crowd at Kettler this morning. All seemed to be in good spirits -- what happens on the day after a win one supposes. Here are some images...

Dynamic Branding
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

This weekend, the Caps played two hockey games – wins on Friday and Sunday over the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Philadelphia Flyers. The events were duly reported in the Washington Post and in local television and radio outlets...

What’s In A Name: The Origins Of 10 Band Titles
By mdome at Classic Rock

Inspired by the thought that Iranian band Ahoora – a recent Track Of The Day – might have gotten their name from the character played by Nichelle Nichols in the original Star Trek series...

Uriah Heep Confirm First U.S. Live Dates Since 2002
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

British hard rock legends Uriah Heep have confirmed their first North American live dates since 2002...

January 17, 2010

Caps 5 - Flyers 3; A Two Point Afternoon At Verizon Center
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

This afternoon's Caps-Flyers regular season finale at Verizon Center was an exciting game to watch for sure. The Caps played a full sixty minutes of hockey and it's a good thing...

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 5, Flyers 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...April in January – From the opening face-off, today’s Caps-Flyers tilt had the feel of a playoff contest. The pace was quick, the intensity was high and the fans were engaged. Washington was better at going to the net and making things happen, and it prevailed 5-3 in an exciting contest...

A Defense Pair’s Conflict of Colors
By pucksandbooks, and posted by The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

The best-laid plans . . .

At the start of this week I had ahead of me the prospect of one of the more appealing visits to Hershey, Pennsylvania, I believed I’d ever make. It was the return home to Hershey weekend for American hockey hero John Carlson. But as Joe Murphy’s law would have it, the Capitals on Friday recalled Carlson, and so as my Jeep was making its way North...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: Includes video interview of Karl Alzner.

Don't Look Now ....
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

Don't Look Now .... But Guess Who Has The Best Record In the NHL East Through The Last 10 Games...

Backstrom: I will be a specialist on team Russia
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Slava Malamud of Sport-Express interviews Nicklas Backstrom (Jan. 15, 2009):

Nicklas Backstrom and Alexander Ovechkin share a whole lot of history, as they say in America. It started at NHL draft of 2006, when the owner of Washington Capitals Ted Leonsis, the jolly PR genius, brought to this event his new megastar. Ovechkin was given the responsibility to...

Hockey makes for some of the most interesting stories
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...and sometimes, they even happen in Pittsburgh. Well, Vancouver, but...oh, you get the point (courtesy of Shelly Anderson at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)...

The Scene for Saturday Night Rivalry Hockey in Hershey
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

I got red carpet treatment at Giant Center Saturday night for the Hershey Bears’ in-state showdown with Wilkes Barre-Scranton. The Bears placed me in the television broadcast booth and seated me next to the team’s communications associate, Jess Mikula. Jess keeps track of...

Caps Face Flyers for Final Time in '09-10
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...Washington started a three-game homestand in style on Friday night, putting a 6-1 pasting on the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Sunday afternoon the Philadelphia Flyers hit town to close out the regular season series between...

Today's Tune: "Last Horizon" By Brian May

Brian May at Brixton Academy in Brixton, S. London, England March 28, 2005.

New Horizons, an unmanned NASA robotic spacecraft, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA on January 19, 2006. The mission of the probe is mainly to study the dwarf planet Pluto and it's three moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra.

The New Horizons craft, last mission in NASA's New Frontiers mission category, was built primarily by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD. Final testing before sending it to Cape Canaveral was completed at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD.

New Horizons was launched directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory. The probe was rocketed away from Earth at a relative velocity of about 10.10 miles per second (16.26 km / second), which equals about 36,373 miles per hour (58,536 km / hour), after its last engine was shut down. That means it left at the fastest speed ever recorded for a man-made object. Still, it won't reach Pluto, which is situated in this side of the Kuiper Belt, until July of 2015.

Cover of December 1993 "Last Horizon" Live single.

That doesn't mean nine years of non-productive inactivity for the spacecraft. It passed the half way point in late December of 2009. Before that, New Horizons passed the orbit of the planet Mars and then tested it's tracking capabilities on a small asteroid (132524 APL) successfully, while flying directly through the asteroid belt within our solar system. It's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took photographs of Jupiter and Pluto in September of 2006. While New Horizons temporarily regained some speed, with a gravity assist from our largest planet in early 2007, it also collected and confirmed data on Jupiter, it's inner moons and Galilean moons. The probe flew by Saturn in June of 2008.

New Horizons will pass by the planets Uranus and Neptune, before greeting Pluto and it's moons. After that, there are hopes of studying a few more objects in the Kuiper Belt, before leaving the solar system.

With New Horizons in mind, I picked the solo instrumental track "Last Horizon" by English musician and astrophysicist Brian May (Queen, Queen + Paul Rogers) for the 'Today's Tune'. The original studio recording was included on the album 'Back To The Light', which was released in the UK on September 28, 1992 and North America February 2, 1993. The first live recording to be released, came out as a single in December of 1993. This video shows the March 28, 2005 Brixton Academy performance in Brixton, South London, England, included on the 'Return Of The Champions' DVD (2005), by Queen + Paul Rogers.

Brian May - "Last Horizon"
Queen + Paul Rogers' 'Return Of The Champions' DVD (2005)

The Latest Updates On Singer Ronnie James Dio

Ronnie James Dio inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on January 17, 2007.

In case you missed them, I just wanted to share with you the latest updates posted by singer Ronnie James Dio (Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell) and his wife Wendy on his web site.

It was reported in late November of 2009 that Ronnie had been diagnosed with stomach cancer, after having taken ill earlier that month. Fans were advised to send get well cards and letters to the fan club. Wendy then wrote about the beginning of his treatment in last update I posted here. Here we go now, with one from Ronnie just before Christmas, and the last one from Wendy came this past Wednesday.


Holiday message from Ronnie
12/21/2009 at 1:46:54 PM

Happy holidays everyone,

I'd like to take the time to thank everyone for the most wonderful gifts I have ever received. The list includes your good wishes, your prayers, your support, your tears and laughter, your anger and rejoicing, and most of all the unwavering love you've bestowed upon me. I guess I've always felt that we were one person and that you've allowed me to be our spokesman, but until this time of my greatest peril the truth was perhaps slightly hidden. It is hidden no more. Together we' shall face the foe and live on to climb higher mountains and explore greater magic. Together we cannot fail. Please accept my never ending love and dedication to you all. So it is written, and so it shall be.

MAGIC,
FROM RONNIE JAMES DIO


An Update on Ronnie from Wendy
01/13/2010 at 6:57:50 PM

After a few hiccups between Christmas and New Year’s, such as a blood clot, a trip to the emergency room, and a three day stay at the hospital, we had a quiet holiday spent with family and close friends. Ronnie and I just returned from Houston, where Ronnie had his third chemo treatment, and all seems to be going well. Ronnie and Simon Wright went to see Avatar, which he thought was amazing! He has also been writing more chapters for his book.

While at M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre on his second trip, he met a DIO fan named Carmen who has been having treatment every other day for a year, and is eagerly awaiting a bone marrow transplant. Ronnie and Carmen have become fast friends. Carmen is a very positive happy person whose existence, like Ronnie’s, depends heavily on music and sports. On the third trip, we also met his mom and sister, whose total support is so important to all cancer patients. They have become part of our family as well.

The support we get from all of our friends and fans is such a blessing to Ronnie and I.

Ronnie, Geezer [Butler], Tony [Iommi] and Vinny [Appice] will be doing some interviews in the upcoming weeks to be included in the new 30th anniversary Heaven and Hell DVD due out sometime this year.

We would like to thank Simon Wright, who has been such a help with everything and a good, good friend, of course our doctor at MD Anderson, Dr. Ajani, and especially our family doctor, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, without whose quick diagnosis and help with all the nurses and hospitals, we would be lost. His care and compassion is unwavering.

Thanks again to all of Ronnie’s friends and fans, and --- by the way ---- Ronnie has not lost any hair yet!

------ Wendy Dio

January 2010 Concerts In Maryland And Washington, DC

Here is a current list of some of the music concerts and comedy performances scheduled to take place during the rest of January 2010, at venues in Maryland and Washington, DC.

By the way, even though you haven't missed very much, sorry I'm so late with this reminder list. I've been pretty busy lately. About the biggest show that's already passed was comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood at The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD last night. There's just not that much going on around here, right now.

Jeff Dunham - January 21st at Verizon Center in Washington, DC

Kathy Griffin - January 22nd and 23rd at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC

Cheech And Chong - January 23rd at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD

Cheap Trick - January 23rd at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD
Dan, Jr.: Glad these guys are going to make it to the area after all.
I didn't want to see Def Leppard again anyway.

The Marshall Tucker Band - January 24th Sold Out at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

*All details are subject to change!

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: January 14 - 16, 2010

Last Update - January 17, 2009 at 2:17 AM EST

The month of January is half way over with. Here are your links for the last few days.


January 16, 2010

On-Air Fun with John Walton
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

It was an in-state rivalry Saturday night between the Bears and Mini Penguins at Giant Center that didn’t amount to much of battle — the Bears blasted Wilkes Barre-Scranton 7-2. In the middle of his broadcast Bears’ radio play-by-play voice John Walton...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: Post includes mp3 audio.

Yeah, yeah... we know
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Plus-minus is the Devil's spawn of statistics. Still...

Knuble and TSN: Ovechkin is the best player in the world
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

...TSN commentators also got into it last night, they've asked Pierre McGuire if he thought that Ovechkin was the best hockey player in the World right now and McGuire said, "I think he is". How things have changed! Not a single mentioning of Crosby! And that was Canadian National TV. By the way, they said Ovechkin was fully aware that he was on National [Canadian] TV...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: This post includes 3 videos.

Random Photo by CNN
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

CNN - The Case News Network that is. Steve Case clicked this photo last night at the Caps game of me and Pat Sajak as I opened a carton of my books as provided to me as a surprise by our publisher...

Ground Control to Major Tom
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

The Capstronaut landed in the owner’s box last night with his glowing multimedia fan blowing full speed inside his suit to keep cool...

Beatles’ recruited For Yellow Submarine Remake
By mdome at Classic Rock

The new 3D version of the animated Beatles movie Yellow Submarine is taking shape- for better or for worse.

Director Robert Zemeckis has recruited the following actors to voice the Beatles’ characters: Cary Elwes (George Harrison), Dean Lennox Kelly (John Lennon), Peter Serafinowicz (Paul McCartney) and Adam Campbell (Ringo Starr)...

Caps Beat Maple Leafs 6-1
By Cheryl Nichols at CAPITALS NEWS NETWORK

Washington, DC -- The Washington Capitals hosted the Toronto Maple Leafs in front of a Red Rockin' Caps crowd. The weather may have felt like winter, however, it was fall in DC tonight -- The Maple Leafs fell. Caps dominated entire game and won 6-1...

EXCLUSIVE: James Cameron Not Interested In 'Spider-Man' Reboot, Considers It 'Sloppy Seconds'
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

You can cross one name off the list of potential "Spider-Man" directors, because James Cameron isn't interested.

Speaking with MTV News at the Critics Choice Awards red carpet, the "Avatar" director denied rumors that...

Happy Birthday Sade! You sexy thing!
*Link to YouTube videos from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes

Sade has a New album due out in February 2010.

January 15, 2010

CSN: Toronto Maple Leafs at Washington Capitals Game Highlights

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Quick-Starting Capitals Blow Away Leafs
By Ted Starkey at CapCentre.net

With a chance to finally play an extended stretch of their schedule at home, the Capitals opened up a three-game homestand by blowing out the Maple Leafs, thanks to a five-point night by Alexander Ovechkin and a pair of goals by Mike Knuble...


CSN's Al Koken speaks with John Carlson between periods during Toronto Maple Leafs vs Washington Capitals game

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He's not paid $124 million to use his knuckles
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

In the midst of all this Kovalchuk contract talk and the amazing, unprecedented, awe-inducing spectacle of Sidney Crosby hitting the 30-goal plateau, there is a lingering story gliding beneath the radar...

Bibliomania 2009: Non-fiction
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

Here's part one of a review of some of the most memorable non-fiction I read last year. Another group of books deserved their own entry, so stay tuned...

January 2010: Update on the Local Media Revolution
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Even by the perennially sour standards of the Bullets/Wizards, the hoops news here at week’s end is numbing. The city’s star hoopster, a gangster, will be sentenced in D.C. Superior Court today on a felony firearms charge. The star may go to prison, for five years. At least Gilbert Arenas is alive...

Morning roundup: Goalies, Leafs and a Capstronaut
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

In case you missed it yesterday, Gene Wang chatted with Bruce Boudreau about injured goaltender Semyon Varlamov, whom the coach said is "getting better" every day after...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: This post includes links to
3 podcasts - Bruce Boudreau on 106.7 The Fan, George McPhee on ESPN 980's The Sports Fix and Brooks Laich on Puck Tracks at Puck Daddy.

January 14, 2010

Stecks Speaks
By OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) at On Frozen Blog

It was a solid turnout this evening for David Steckel’s appearance in Caps on the Fly. The lobby and bar of the Hilton Garden Inn (14th & H NW) was chock full of Washington Capitals supporters, and many Steckel partisans...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: This post includes nice pictures and video.

Caps Open Homestand vs. Toronto
By Ted Starkey at CapCentre.net

After playing just 20 of their first 46 games at Verizon Center, Washington gets a chance to get comfortable at home in the next few weeks, playing seven of their next nine at home, kicking off with a three-game homestand that begins Friday when the Leafs come to town to close out the season series...

Joe Johnston Says 'Captain America' Will Be 'Something Different'
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

With the predominance of “Spider-Man 4” and “Thor” news over the last few weeks, “The First Avenger: Captain America” has been relatively quiet by comparison. However, as “Captain America” gears up to begin filming in June, director Joe Johnston has indicated that the film may take Cap in unexpected directions...

A TWO-point night: Caps 5 - Panthers 4 (OT/Gimmick)
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticater

Well, they certainly don’t lack for excitement.

The Capitals sleepwalked through 46 minutes of a 60-minute hockey game, looking rather disinterested as the Florida Panthers built a 4-1 lead...

Today's Tune: "Stone Cold Crazy" By Queen

While working on my previous post, where I wished Irish actor and humanitarian James Nesbitt a happy birthday, a very cool song popped into my head. Two of my favorite television performances by Nesbitt are the five year comedy series Cold Feet (1997 Pilot, 1998 - 2003) and the deliciously frightening horror drama miniseries 'Jekyll' (2007). Loving both so much drove me to picking a track for our 'Today's Tune' that kind of combines the two, somewhat in it's title, and very much in it's content. For your musical pleasure today, I've chosen "Stone Cold Crazy" (1974) by Queen.

Queen - "Stone Cold Crazy" Music Video
(Album Audio plus Live Footage)

Happy 45th Birthday James Nesbitt

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of Ireland's greatest actors. At 45 years old, James Nesbitt has a surprisingly long list of successful efforts in his body of work. He has created many memorable performances in high quality productions of comedy, drama, etc. via stage, television and film. Nesbitt has also been invovled with some very valuable charitable work.


Here's the Wikipedia introduction to James Nesbitt (Full article link):

James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is an actor from Northern Ireland. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in Broughshane and Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991).

Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (ITV, 1998–2003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned ['Waking Ned Devine' in North America] (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law (BBC One, 2003–2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy—a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA). In 2004, he starred in the fact-based drama Wall of Silence as the father of a murdered boy, a role that gained him another IFTA nomination. In 2007, he starred in the dual role of Tom Jackman and Mr Hyde in Steven Moffat's Jekyll, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2008. Nesbitt has since appeared in several more dramatic roles; he starred alongside Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), was one of three lead actors in the television miniseries Occupation (2009), and is due to star in his first horror film Outcast (2010).

Nesbitt is married to former actress Sonia Forbes-Adam, with whom he has two daughters, and he is a patron of numerous charities.


I wanted to include some video of my favorite television and film work by James Nesbitt. It's sometimes frustrating trying to find good clips of the bits you'd think would definitely be available, but just aren't there. I just could not find a single one of the BBC America previews or trailer clips for the Jekyll TV miniseries, even though they were shown thousands of times before and during the airing of the Stephen Moffatt masterpiece. BBC Worldwide's YouTube channel has 12 clips available, but they aren't quite as good as the ones originally shown on US television. Very little of Cold Feet was available as well, and it ran for five series.

Cold Feet - End of Pilot Episode (1997 TV)
Adam (James Nesbitt) serenades Rachel (Helen Baxendale)
and Jenny (Fay_Ripley) has surprise for Pete (John Thompson).



Cold Feet - Clip from Episode 1 of Series 1 (1998 TV)
Pete plays golf with Karen's (Hermione Norris) husband
David (Robert Bathurst), while Jenny goes into labor.



Cold Feet - Clip from Episode 1 of Series 1 (1998 TV)
Adam helps Jenny, while Pete races to the hospital.



Cold Feet - Ending Episode 1 of Season 1 (1998 TV)
Pete arrives, baby is born and eveyone visits baby at home.



Cold Feet - Clip from Episode 3 (Next to last) of Series 5 (2003 TV)
Adam buys a house at auction, and Rachel has an accident.

Watch Cold Feet Pilot, Episode 1 of Season 1
and Episode 3 (Next to last episode) in Season 5.



Jekyll - Clip from Episode One (2007) a.k.a. "He's Coming"

Watch all 12 Jekyll Clips from BBC Worldwide.



James Nesbitt, Liam Neeseon - 'Five Minutes Of Heaven' (2009 Film)

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: January 13, 2010

Last Update - January 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM EST

The following is the 'Reading And Viewing List' for January 13, 2009.


Capitals Complete Comeback With Overtime Win, 5-4
By Dave Nichols at CAPITALS NEWS NETWORK

For the second night in a row, Washington Capitals rookie goalie Michael Neuvirth gave up four goals in 15 shots, all in the first period. And for the second night in a row, coach Bruce Boudreau called on veteran Jose Theodore was called on to relieve the youngster at the start of the second period...

It's Official : Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Joe Bonamassa Form New "Supergroup" Black Country, Album To Ensue
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

"I'm like the one up there representing the Bonham family. that's kind of how I should look at it," Jason Bonham told Spinner backstage at L.A.'s Wiltern, where he would later honor his iconic father, John Bonham, as part of Guitar Center's Drum-Off last weekend...

The Tangled Timeline Of 'Spider-Man 4'
By Larry Carroll at MTV's Splash Page

FROM MTV.COM: Monday's shocking announcement that one of the decade's most successful film franchises has thrown in the towel on a fourth installment hit fans as hard as a Sandman punch to the face. Now, Raimi and Tobey and Kirsten and everyone else are...

The UnWise
By Becca H at Japers' Rink

On radio, I said, "Because it's hockey." Flippant, quick, good for polarizing people either way. In truth, we have neglected a very good hockey team -- perhaps a Stanley-Cup winning hockey team in five months -- in this town. Tomorrow on the Mike Wise Show, it's all Ovie, all the time. Promise.

Okay, for at least an hour.

- Mike Wise...

Midseason (and then some) roundtable
Posted by David M. Getz at Japers' Rink

...DMG: With the season at its midpoint (in terms of games played for the Capitals, any way) and a new year upon us, now's as good a time as any to evaluate where the team stands; what they've done right, where they could stand to improve, and what it's going to take to bring the Cup to Washington...

'Thor' Roundup: Fat Suits And Praise As The Cast Reports From The Set
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

Following the first day of filming on director Kenneth Branagh’s long awaited “Thor” adaptation, several of the cast members are already enthusiastically talking about their experiences on the set...

No discipline for Matt Bradley
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

Matt Bradley won't face any disciplinary action for leaving the bench prior to fighting Steve Downie last night, I'm told by a league spokesman.

In the third period of last night's 7-4 loss in Tampa, Bradley came to Alex Ovechkin's aid after the Capitals' captain squared off to fight Downie...

Caps/Lightning: Fisticuffs at the Forum
By HOCKEY MOM at Musings Of A Hockey Mom

In a game that only be described as fugly, the Tampa Bay Lightning finally got a "W" (their last one coming in November of 2007) against the rival Capitals. HM was a bit under the weather last night, so apologizes for the lack of minute-by-minute coverage of the game, which turned out to be...

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band's 'Blue Again' Live DVD
Set For Release On January 26, 2010
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Grammy-nominated Mick Fleetwood (his first ever nomination outside of Fleetwood Mac) is set to see the release of his Mick Fleetwood Blues Band's "Blue Again," the companion DVD to their 'Best Traditional Blues' category nominated CD...

The state of the blog
By James Mirtle at From The Rink

Bit of a tough post to write.

What's been funny the past few weeks is that, when I talk to people about the work I'm doing covering the Leafs, one of the questions I often get is: "What about the blog?"

Truth is, I don't know – not yet anyway. What I do know is...

Move Your Money
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

Have you heard about the Move Your Money campaign? It's urging Americans to "move their money out of bigger banks and into smaller, community-oriented financial institutions that generally avoided the reckless investments and schemes that helped cause the financial crisis."...

More on the Ovechkin-Downie-Bradley incident
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

Remember that story I wrote the other day about the Caps being more disciplined and how their penalty kill was facing fewer shorthanded situations because of it? Well, it's a good thing I wrote it when I did, because my editors might not have let it get in...

Postgame Notebook: Lightning 7, Capitals 4
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven – Well, maybe the monkey hasn’t gone to heaven, but it is off the collective back of the Tampa Bay Lightning. After dropping 12 straight games to the Capitals, the Lightning defeated the Capitals for the first time in nearly 26 months. The Bolts rode a strong first-period effort to a 7-4 victory over Washington on Tuesday...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: January 11 And 12, 2010

A couple more days have been crossed off the 2010 calender. Here are some of the places you might want to visit on the web, if you haven't already.


January 12, 2010

Ovechkin drops the gloves
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

...Wow, a wild night at Tampa Bay. Steve Downie punched Ovi in a scrap after Ovi hit him, they both got minor penalties and after they both leave penalty boxes, Downie hits Ovi with a stick and challenges him. Ovi drops the gloves, but Matt Bradley comes to the scene, starts...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: This post includes 2 videos.

More Canal Hockey Footage
By Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion

Here's some more footage from Saturday's "canal" hockey game. You won't see me in this footage because I'm the one behind the camera this time. More details here from John Keeley...

Boudreau on Schultz: 'He's playing the best he's played
in his career'
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

..."Jeff is playing the best he's played in his career in this stretch," he said. "His plus minus ...sometimes it's a stat that you can look at and say it's a real good stat or it doesn't mean much. But every time you look up, he's on [the ice] for two goals for and none against. I think he's a plus 23, in less than 50 games, which is a real good indicator that when he's on the ice, something good is going to happen."...

'Thor' Roundup: New Casting, Screenwriter Discusses 'Adjustments' To Comic History
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

With principle photography on director Kenneth Branagh’s much anticipated “Thor” adaptation finally starting this week, Ashley Miller — one of the screenwriters attached to the project — has stated that the movie version...

Win Tickets to See the Capitals In the Finals!
By Stephen Pepper at Japers' Rink

Japers' Rink and OptionIt are happy to announce that we'll be giving away two lower-level tickets to see the Washington Capitals' first home game of the Stanley Cup Finals. In the event that the Caps do not make the Finals, the winner will receive two ducats for the home opener in 2010-11...

12 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED FULLY REALIZED JIMI HENDRIX STUDIO RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
ON VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE
Press Release posted at JimiHendrix.com

Experience Hendrix L.L.C. & Legacy Recordings Launch Monumental Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project With Collection
Documenting Pivotal Creative Period in 1969
Valleys of Neptune Available Everywhere Tuesday, March 9...

January 11, 2010

EXTREME To Release 'Take Us Alive' DVD/CD
Posted at BLABBERMOUTH.NET

Reunited Massachusetts hard rockers EXTREME are scheduled to release a new DVD/CD entitled "Take Us Alive" in late March/early April. The set is expected to include footage that was shot on August 8, 2009 at the House of Blues in Boston as well as "four bonus videos."...

Ovechkin: Kovalchuk sent me a text
Slava Malamud interview posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Slava Malamud interviewed Ovechkin after he became the Captain (Jan. 11, 2010)

Do you remember when you were last time the captain?

In the juniors, when we lost. I was injured. This was in 2003, I think.

Will the duties of the Captain weigh on you? You'll have to talk to the referees, for example...

10 Things That Happened The Last Time Britain Froze
By mdome at Classic Rock

As the UK is the grip of the worst freeze since 1981, we thought it was time to take a look back at the last time everywhere was white and slippery, and public transport was about as mobile as a comatose snail. Come inside for 10 rock-related things that happened 29 years ago...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: First 10 Days Of 2010

Here's 'Junior's Reading And Viewing List' for items found on the internet during the first ten days of January 2010.


January 10, 2010

Halfway Through The Season and There's Time To Lookahead
To This Year's Playoffs
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

The NHL season is 54% complete. The Eastern Conference Standings look like this:...The Western Conference Standings look like this:...Based on those current standings and recent trends it looks like it will take at least 89 points to make the playoffs in...

Images in the Immediacy of Global Triumph
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

Now this is the way to end a special week for the Washington Capitals and their prospects — party pics of a celebrating John Carlson and his gold medal-winning American teammates up in Saskatoon. The party was...

January 9, 2010

Frozen Fun on the C&O Canal
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

It was a Saturday for shinny under a bright but beautifully cold sun — a week’s worth of freezing temps delivered postcard conditions for free-form hockey on the C&O Canal today, and I had the pleasure of sharing the experience with Off Wing Opinion’s Eric McErlain — his first-ever outdoor skate. If you take a quick peek at a video...

January 8, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: 'Incredible Hulk' Director 'Would Love A Crack
At' Making 'Avengers' Movie
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

"Clash of the Titans" and "Incredible Hulk" director Louis Leterrier has made no secret of the fact that he'd love to be behind the camera when "The Avengers" kicks off production, so when we recently caught up with him...

The Allman Brothers Band Announce Annual New York City Residency Dates For 2010
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

In what has become a rite of passage and annual destination for fans of the Allman Brothers Band, the iconic and revered group will return to New York City in March 2010 for a lengthy residency beginning March 11, with...

Captain Obvious: Why the hairy, gregarious Russian left-winger
is the right man for the job
Guest Post by @KellyinDC at Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies

On Jan. 5, Alex Ovechkin was named the 14th captain of the Washington Capitals. There was very little hoopla from the team about it, simply the “C” added to Ovechkin’s red jersey for the Caps’ home game against the Montreal Canadiens. When he was introduced by the in-game announcer, the crowd roared...

Green Day, Guns N' Roses May Soon Get Rock Hall Of Fame Nods While Others Still Are Snubbed
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

According to Ultimate Guitar, Green Day and Guns N' Roses could become eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame if organizers decide to change its rules.

Currently Hall Of Fame rules state that nominees can only be put forward if...

Great White Fire: Victims To Finally Get Compo
By mdome at Classic Rock

It appears that victims of the fire during a Great White show seven years ago will finally receive compensation.

A judge has now approved a plan which will ensure 300 victims and their families will get compensation from...

January 7, 2010

Foreigner Vocalist Hansen: ‘I’m Not Mick Jones’ Puppet’
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Foreigner vocalist Kelly Hansen has refuted claims that guitarist Mick Jones tells him how to interpret the band’s classic songs such as Cold As Ice and I Want To Know What Love Is.

"I half-read an interview with [original Foreigner vocalist] Lou Gramm where he...

Cheap Trick To Play SXSW 2010
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

AntiMusic is reporting that the one-and-only Cheap Trick will perform at the 2010 SXSW Music Festival, to be held March 12-21 in Austin, Texas. Since the '70s the band has been blending elements of pop, punk and even metal...

January 6, 2010

Documentary About MOTÖRHEAD's LEMMY To Premiere At SXSW
Posted at BLABBERMOUTH.NET

According to RollingStone.com, "Lemmy", a documentary that follows MOTÖRHEAD's frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister on the road and into his home, will premiere at the 2010 South By Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas this March...
*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes has been waiting a long time for this news.

Two Cities, Two Big Events for Caps
By Ted Starkey at CapCentre.net

Washington and Saskatoon are about 2,000 miles apart, but both cities saw big developments for the Capitals organization Tuesday night in a double-barrel of good news for the team - both its present and future...

Five-Point Plan for Setting Goals
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

Most Sunday mornings, unless the weather is terrible, I walk to a supermarket and buy a newspaper. It's about a three mile round trip. Some days, I'll not see a single other pedestrian. But during last Sunday's walk on January 3rd, I noticed...

Trade (Rumor) Winds Blowing Eastward
By David M. Getz at Japers' Rink

Last week we used Spector's roundup of potential Western Conference trade bait as a launching point for a more Capitals-specific discussion on what the team could use going forward, what they should be willing to give up, and which players specifically they might (or should) have their eye on. Today we thought it'd be worth taking a look at the players on Spector's Eastern Conference list...

Ten-Minute Video Scrapbook of Gold Medal Glory
Posted by The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

Role Models for a New Captain
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Yesterday the Washington Capitals named Alex Ovechkin the 14th captain in team history. The honor makes Ovechkin, at 24 years of age, the third-youngest captain in the NHL, older only than...

John Carlson Stabs Canada in the Heart
By Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion

This kid can't get to Washington fast enough. For more, and there's plenty more, see John Keeley and Brian McNally.

And for those of you who might be keeping score, that's a pair of world titles that the U.S. has won in hockey in the past week...

January 4, 2010

The Caps Rap
By Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion

Over the holidays, I got an email from Mike Shwedick asking for some help from OffWing Photo on a video project he was working on. He was kind enough to give me and OWP's Allen Clark an early look at the video, and we came away incredibly impressed. With that, Allen got to work digging through our photo archive...

Comcast Correspondent at a Classic New Year’s Weekend
in Beantown
By the OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

You know how the next best thing to owning a beach house is having a friend who does? Well, we didn’t have tickets to this year’s Winter Classic, but Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary did. Actually, she also worked the system a bit to get an invite to the league’s New Year’s Eve bash as well...

January 3, 2010

10 Reunions Of The Noughties: The Good And The Not So Good
By mdome at Classic Rock

If the Noughties taught us anything, it was that what a band actually mean when they ’split up’ is that, ‘We’ll be back when nostalgia makes you miss us’. So, here are 10 of the reunions that fired– or should that be ‘failed to fire’?! – our imaginations during the last decade...

January 2, 2010

TWO SAD NOTES AT THE BEGINNING OF 2010
By Brian May at BrianMay.com

We mark and mourn the passing, after a long smoking-related illness of Jim Hutton. Jim and Freddie were close for many years, of course, and in modern parlance would have been called civil partners. Jim was a quiet and gentle soul, unimpressed and faintly amused by the machinations of Fame, Rock and Roll, and Queen...

January 1, 2010

Geico Commercial - Verizon Center Caveman
Posted on YouTube by 1080iVids

Christopher Lee Goes Metal
By mdome at Classic Rock

Legendary actor Christopher Lee is to release a symphonic metal concept album.

The man who made his name in such movies as Dracula and Frankenstein will put out the record, Charlemagne, in March, with music...