The Presence of Brian Wilson Will be Missed

News came down on Saturday and it was not very good: an MRI right elbow Brian Wilson revealed structural damage to the starter of the season in jeopardy.

San Francisco Giants will close one or two other opinions, but if they move to their second surgery Tommy John - he was the one playing in college for LSU - it is not surprising. Wilson said that he would often throw as hard as he can, until his arm falls off, well, it seems, this time finally arrived.

This is a huge loss for the Giants, of course. ESPN Steve Berthiaume points indicates that Wilson has recorded 164 saves since becoming a full time team closer in 2008, two more than Mariano Rivera. He was the leader of the team in the 2010 title of World Series, intense presence, which appear in the ninth inning to record a 48-key MLB games this season. Wilson has been used successfully in the spotlight in October to become one of the most recognizable baseball (that marks the beard, of course). His antics provided the perfect fodder for the Big League Stew on more than one occasion, when he was put to the ESPYs to stop, angering the enemy with Taco Bell advertising or blow innocent water coolers.

(A few favorites while we are at: Wilson, dressed as a sea captain, a new air slogans, paying tribute to his late father with a record gift of the Air Force, raging with YouTube Star, Keenan Cahill and complaints about his drawing distracting orange shoes. )

The flow of pleasure comes to an end, however, if the worst fears were confirmed. The same goes from San Francisco to show off body without any problems. Wilson is only 30 and still a lot of time to return, but the history of pitchers return from Tommy John surgery second is less than encouraging. I know some people do not enjoy watching Brian Wilson on the field and outside it, as some of us, but it's still sad to see the entertainment during the baseball off its path.

UPDATE 1-At least Five Tornadoes in Oklahoma, That The Book of The U.S. Plains

Rescue and clean-up efforts were underway across the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornados tore through the region, killing at least five people in Oklahoma, leaving thousands without power in Kansas and damaging up to 90 percent of the homes and buildings in one small Iowa town.

Storms skipped across what is often called "Tornado Alley" in the U.S. Central and Southern Plains, but the high winds and dozens of tornados mostly struck rural areas, sparing the region from even worse damage.

The stormy weekend isn't over yet for the Midwest - there is a moderate risk of more "significant" tornadoes later Sunday afternoon from southeast Minnesota through a large part of Wisconsin and northeast Iowa, according to National Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Greg Dial.

Damaging thunderstorms are also predicted from Minnesota south to Texas into Sunday night, according to AccuWeather.com.

Earlier Sunday, a twister struck the northwest Oklahoma city of Woodward, where storm sirens failed to sound after lightning apparently disabled its warning system, Mayor Roscoe Hill said.

A total of 29 people were treated at Woodward Regional Hospital, chief executive officer Dave Wallace said. Of these, five were in critical condition and moved to other hospitals.

Two children died at a mobile home park in Woodward, a town of 12,000 people, while two adults were killed in a small community just outside the city limits, Hill said. Details of the fifth death were not immediately known, said Keli Cain, spokeswoman for Oklahoma Emergency Management.

"This thing took us by surprise," Hill said. "It's kind of overwhelming."

Woodward city manager Alan Riffel told CNN that all the missing people had been accounted for, and that 89 homes and 13 businesses had been destroyed.

A tornado that struck Woodward in April 1947 still ranks as the deadliest in Oklahoma history, with 116 people killed, according to the National Weather Service.

In tiny Thurman, Iowa, population 250, an estimated 75 to 90 percent of the town's buildings and homes were damaged or destroyed by the storm, Freemont County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Crecelius said. Only minor injuries were reported.

98 TORNADOES

The National Storm Prediction Center had an unofficial count of 98 tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma, starting Saturday morning and going until early Sunday.

In Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency as officials assessed storm damage.

No deaths or serious injuries were reported in Kansas, but about 11,000 people were reported without power, most of them around Wichita, Sharon Watson, a spokesperson for the state's National Guard and emergency services, said in a news release.

The storm damaged a hangar at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and destroyed several homes around the area, authorities said.

Storm chaser Brandon Redmond, a meteorologist with the Severe Weather Alert Team, said the twister passed over his vehicle and lifted it 2 feet (60 cm) off the ground in an industrial area south of Wichita, the state's second-largest metropolitan area after the Kansas City metro area.

"The tornado literally formed over our vehicle," he told Reuters. "I've never been that scared in my life. ... We had power flashes all around us and debris circulating all around the vehicle, sheet metal, parts of a roof, plywood."

Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Tim Norton said the tornado missed downtown Wichita and heavily populated neighborhoods and passed through areas to the south and east where there are manufacturing businesses and mobile home parks.

"With the storms we saw coming our way, it could have been much worse," Norton said. "We lucked out."

The damage included a Spirit Aerosystems production facility that manufactures fuselages for Boeing's 7-series airplanes. A Spirit spokesman said the facility was shut down on Sunday after a tornado damaged the roof and knocked out power, but the company hoped to have the plant running again soon.

"We do believe that the majority of the operational capabilities and facilities are intact," spokesman Ken Evans said.

A Boeing spokesman said the company had been in touch with Spirit to assess the situation.

The U.S. tornado season started early this year, with twisters already blamed for 62 deaths in 2012 in the Midwest and South, raising concerns that this year would be a repeat of 2011, the deadliest tornado year in nearly a century.

Some 550 people died in tornadoes last year, including 316 killed in an April outbreak in five Southern states, and 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, the following month.

Nats Pay Tribute to Jackie Robinson Day

The Nationals took part in a league-wide celebration of Jackie Robinson Day by honoring the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. Before the game, the Nationals had a trivia show with fans about Robinson.

The team also recognized the Jackie Robinson Scholars program prior to the series finale against the Reds.

Robinson was the first player to break baseball's color barrier and bring the Negro Leagues' electrifying style of play to the big leagues in 1947. He quickly became one of the game's top draws, most daring baserunner and a symbol of hope to millions of Americans. The Brooklyn Dodgers won six pennants in Robinson's 10 seasons, and he was named National League Most Valuable Player in 1949. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

Because the league-wide tribute officially took place Sunday, the anniversary of Robinson's barrier-breaking debut, all Nationals players wore Robinson's No. 42.

Nationals right-hander Edwin Jackson is one person who appreciates what Robinson did for him.

"He is the reason we are able to play today," Jackson said. "Without him, who knows where we would be in the game, how long it would have taken to open up doors for African Americans to play baseball. To endure the things he endured, all the death threats, everybody hated him, he still continued to play. It says a lot."

Former Nat Harris likes what he sees in DC

Reds infielder/outfielder Willie Harris is not surprised the Nationals are off to a great start. Entering Sunday's action, Washington was 7-2 and in first place in the National League East.

Harris said it helps that the Nationals have added a leader in the clubhouse in Mark DeRosa, and an experienced bench.

"They have the role players on the bench. Those guys are solid doing it -- DeRosa, [Xavier] Nady, [Roger] Bernadina if you need somebody to steal a base. They have a great team. They designed it well. It's going to be exciting to see those guys. I just wish them the best. Hopefully, they will continue to play well."

Harris also credits manager Davey Johnson for the good camaraderie in the Nationals' clubhouse.

"He has been in the game for a long time. He can look at a player and tell if they are in the game or spaced out somewhere," Harris said. "He has an edge over some managers. He and [Reds manager] Dusty Baker are pretty much the same managers. They are both icons. Davey knows what he is doing over there. He just a great guy to talk to, and great guy to be around. Those guys love playing for him. You can see it."

Harris knows the Nationals well. He played for the Nationals from 2008-10 and was considered one of the better bench players they've had in recent years.

Storen looking forward to rejoining 'pen

Entering Sunday's action, the Nationals' bullpen had a 1.98 ERA with two saves. The bullpen will be even better once closer Drew Storen returns from his right elbow injury.

After getting a bone chip removed from his right elbow this past week, Storen is not expected back until right before the All-Star break.

"It's going to be a lot of fun," Storen said about his return. "The tough part is that it's not easy being patient and seeing those guys have so much fun. But it's good being around it and seeing how much fun they are having. It's definitely a lot of fun to watch."

Review Revue: Three Stooges a cabin in the woods, The Castle

This weekend at the multiplex, we’ve got two Howards and a Fine (the Farrelly Brothers’ update of “The Three Stooges”), a spooky rural dwelling (“The Cabin in the Woods,” written by cult-favorite Joss Whedon), and an outer space prison riot (“Lockout,” starring Guy Pearce). Find out what the critics have to say.

“The Three Stooges”

If anyone could update the Three Stooges’ brand of violently stoopid slapstick for the 21st century, it would be the Farrelly Brothers. And while critics say they’re helped immeasurably by the uncanny performances by Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Will Sasso as Larry, Moe, and Curly, “The Three Stooges” is ultimately a not-bad comedy with some decent gags and a little too much filler. In their attempts to save the financially-strapped orphanage where they were raised, the Stooges get mixed up in a murder plot and find themselves involved in a reality show. “The Three Stooges” is currently at 47 percent on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer; check out some of the reviews here:

Rotten: “While a good part of the picture reached my submerged Stooges person and made him laugh, too much of it just didn’t connect at all.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Rotten: “The problem is that you feel the Farrellys’ attention to detail may have gotten in the way of the larger mission — to create a workable movie around the central performances.” — Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News

Fresh: “Don’t be a numbskull and write off Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s remake of ‘The Three Stooges’ before seeing it. This is a more than reasonable facsimile of the comedy act that launched 1,000 emergency room visits.” — Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times

Fresh: “It’s a concept that shouldn’t work at all. But — who’da thunk it? — it’s better than a hammer to the head.” — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

“The Cabin in the Woods”

Plenty of filmmakers have attempted to wring laughs out of horror clichés, but critics say few have pulled off that tricky balance with as much energy and aplomb as writer Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard have in “The Cabin in the Woods,” a twisty, gory, funny, and thoroughly original horror hybrid. As the title implies, the movie tells the tale of a group of teens who abscond to a rural retreat, where scary things happen; to say any more would ruin the surprise. “The Cabin in the Woods” is Certified Fresh at 91 percent on the Tomatometer; read what the critics have to say here:

Fresh: “A dazzling blend of scary movie clichés and self-referential callouts subverted by a mind-warping twist that the writers roll out slowly from the beginning rather than saving for a conventional 11th-hour gotcha!” — Maitland McDonagh, Film Journal International

Fresh: “‘Cabin’ goes beyond the parody of the ‘Scream’ franchise into darker, richer territory.” — Mary F. Pols, Time Magazine

Fresh: “Whedon and Goddard aren’t just having a fun little go at tired horror movie conventions — they’re trying to nuke the entire genre.” — Jen Yamato,Movieline

Rotten: “‘Cabin’ is so bent on switcherooing the heck out of us that it ends up resembling a TV soap.” — Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press

“Lockout”

“Lockout”‘s premise — “Escape from New York” in space – sounds pretty promising. Unfortunately, critics say while the movie has a few dumb thrills and a hard-boiled performance from Guy Pearce, it’s also silly and wildly illogical. Pearce stars as a disgraced government agent who’s tasked with rescuing the president’s daughter from an outer space prison that’s engulfed by rioting. “Lockout” is currently at at 34 percent on the Tomatometer; read what the critics have to say here:

Rotten: “Movies like this are supposed to be ridiculous on some level. It’s part of the fun. But, dang.” — Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

Rotten: “At a certain point, the pic’s unpretentious B-movie style, like its generic and uninformative title, seems to indicate a simple lack of ambition.” — Justin Chang, Variety

Rotten: “Too serious to be a parody and too stupid to be a viable action pic, ‘Lockout’ floats like space junk in the final frontier.” — Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Fresh: “‘Lockout’ isn’t high art, but it’s ridiculous fun.” — James Rocchi, Boxoffice Magazine

Even The Three Stooges to The Second Violins

Diminish the Three Stooges, if you want, you directed. Reject their films with a wave of fatigue your Gauloise smoldering. But give them this: Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp inhabited world completely on their own, a place where surreal cream pies can fly, and blows to the head was never drawn blood.

The Stooges continued their violent safer world for decades, starting with the short comedy house in the 1930s and continuing into the era of television. But they gradually slip Stoogeland as hollow Atlantis, dummy - that is, until he lifted the Farrelly Brothers film, a tribute to this week's "Three Stooges".

But what about all that threatening a cup sitting on a sizzling waffle? And all the girls, who fell to Larry sassy hair, as if it were drawn? And all the others living in this crazy house in black and white, delivery and collection in a quick, go home and return in the morning to do it again? Sometimes the best features did not go further: "Hey you, Come back!" Or: "Why should I be."

In other words: What are the puppets of The Stooges?

Play ladies and thugs, judges and juries, police and nurses, and merchants, and mad scientists, people unfamiliar Columbia Pictures were worth less than their control Shakespearean canon of their ability to spit take. I would like to hear your update Agincourt, King Henry. Indeed. But for this scene, when Moe hits you over the head with a wrench, you cross your eyes, fix his knees and collapsed on the frame.

These character actors struggled for decades, cheap shorts two coils, which lasted from 15 to 18 minutes. And as these charges were in the service of home theater to the main function of these players were in the service of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Shemp Howard, who intervened to help his younger brothers, when illness forced Curly retired in 1946.

(Yes, we know about the later years, Joe Besser, send letters to perturbations in the journal Cahiers du Cinema, Paris, France).

No matter how thick Vernon Dent, for example, it was clear from the outset as a credible actor in silent film comedy, Mack Sennett studio. Here he is now making comics "slow burn" in dozens of films short Stooges: "Guest laughing" in "Three Little sew and sew" (1939), "Balbo Magician" in the "Boy Loco well" (1942), King Arthur in the "domino Round Table "(1948).

Regardless of the sculpture by Christine McIntyre was a classic beauty and voice. Here she is now putting to use her musical talents by singing "Voices of Spring" in the "Micro-phonies" (1945). In 1950 she appeared in only six Stooges two winders, none of them will never be mentioned next to "Citizen Kane": "Hugs and cups." "Dopey Dicks", "Three ham on rye.".

McIntyre, in Nogales, Arizona, probably did not come to Los Angeles in hopes of one day appear in the "Three Pests in a mess" (1945). But, according to David J. Hogan, author of "Three Stooges FAQ: All about Left Eye-stinging face slaps, hollow head of geniuses" (Applause, 2011), she and the other henchmen in the Stooges were lucky that the film, given the complex and competitive, which was a golden Age of Hollywood.

"There was only enough room for the players of the characters in Hollywood at some point," Hogan said. "And it was also a stigma, if you have worked in both winders. It was a wonderful caste system."

He said that many of these actors, supporting actors cruets, and worked in two other comedies of the drums, which are mostly forgotten today. (When was the last time someone mentioned the Columbia shorts Vera Vague, or Andy Clyde?) But in the universe Stoogian limited, at least, those selected to live, but with pie on their faces.

This was made possible thanks in large part, to the passionate fans of almost all male members of which are cataloged and deconstruction seeks any time Stooge film. Mr. Hogan, for example, an analysis of each 190 shorts Stooges - with the "Woman Haters" (1934) to "Sappy Bull Fighters" (1959) - with scientific precision worthy of Truffaut.

Therefore, those who may forget to remember. Here, in the tiny Brouwer, a gangster reliable and Bud Jamison, a detective and reliable Symon Boniface, matron of a perfect society, and Connie Cézan, go to the gold digger with a silver dollar eyes.

Here, Emil Sitka, a tall, talented actor who was so omnipresent in Stoogeland it is sometimes called the "fourth Stooge". His greatest pride of the time, "Brideless Bride" (1947), was angry when he played the magistrate, who says over and over again, "Keep your hands and doves" - even after being crowned in the organs of a bird cage is required.

His tombstone, incidentally, includes a "hands in anticipation, you're in love." Input

And finally, here's Joe Palma. In 1955, Shemp Howard died, and the Stooges have a contract with Columbia for a few short films. Decision: The processing of some short movie with a few new scenes that showed Moe, Larry - and Joe Palma, as Shemp dressed but appear only in the back or side.

We can say that the work of Palma, say, "Boom in the Harem" (1956), is a tribute to all those who work the secondary inhabit a strange world, which was Stoogeland. This is because it is not easy to play Shemp. It was a Shemp.

Cory Booker Told to Risk Their lives in a Dramatic Rescue Fire Near Newark

At 9:30 p.m., the call came — a fire at 433 Hawthorne Ave.

At 9:35, when Newark firefighters arrived, they saw Mayor Cory Booker. He was doubled over, struggling to breathe. Rescue workers immediately treated him with oxygen.

But by 10:15, Booker, his right hand singed by second-degree burns, was tweeting that he had just saved his next door neighbor, Zina Hodge, from a kitchen fire and was on his way to University Hospital.

Though firefighters doused the flames in short order Thursday night, Booker, who also suffered smoke inhalation, fanned a conflagration of media attention today, elevating his social media cachet from the Oprah-dubbed "rockstar mayor" to somewhere between Chuck Norris and Superman.

Booker gave a handful of interviews Thursday night, then appeared on on "CBS This Morning" today. After that, he summoned dozens of reporters back to Hawthorne Avenue for a press conference in front of the charred house.

Booker’s act of heroism was the latest in a series of well-publicized feats the 42-year-old two-term mayor has performed — some of them verified, some more legendary.

There was the time he chased down a bank robber, the mysterious tale of "T-bone," the street thug whom Booker counseled to a better life and the well-tweeted story of the mayor personally clearing driveways for Newark residents after the 2010 blizzard.

But according to police officers, firefighters, witnesses and the family he saved, Booker’s brush with death was more than just shoveling snow.

Booker said that as he arrived home from a television interview Thursday night, he noticed a member of his security detail leading two women out of the house next to his South Ward apartment. The officer, Alex Rodriguez, told the mayor there was a fire in the second-floor kitchen.

Booker and two other officers helped the women out, then went inside the burning building where they found a man trying to douse a kitchen fire. The man was rushed downstairs, but Booker said Jacqueline Williams, one of the women who was already out, told him her daughter was still upstairs.

Instantly, Booker tried to run back in. But Rodriguez, charged with protecting the mayor, forbade it. He was quickly overruled.

"It wasn’t easy," Rodriguez said. "I was trying to hold his belt, but he gave me an order."

Fighting through flames and thick smoke, Booker tried to locate the 47-year-old Hodge.

"When I got through the kitchen and was searching for her and looked back an saw the kitchen in flames it was really a frightening experience for me," Booker, his hand still bandaged, told a throng of media outside the house this morning. "I didn’t think we were going to get out of there."

Booker said he fell to the floor, gasping for breath.

"Just as I was looking down, finding somewhere to breathe, I heard her," he said.

Then the mayor lifted the woman from her bed and carried her to safety.

"Every time I breathed in, I just a felt a blackness," he said. "We were just fighting for our lives."

Fire Director Fateen Ziyad said embers falling from the ceiling burned Hodge’s back and Booker’s hand.

The two-story home was boarded up today but did not appear to have sustained significant exterior damage. Ziyad said the cause of the fire was still under investigation but appeared to be the result of unattended cooking.

After the press conference, Williams arrived at the house.

"She’ll be well," Williams, 65, said of her daughter. "I’m very grateful."

Hodge remained in serious condition tonight at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, though her injuries are not considered life-threatening, Booker and other officials said.

Patrick McCoy, Hodge’s cousin, said his family has always been close with their high-profile neighbor.

"The mayor had a very good relationship with the family for all the years that he’s lived there," McCoy said.

He said his uncle was the man upstairs when the fire broke out and verified the ferocity of the blaze.

"He said the flames were just so high that he couldn’t go in," said McCoy, who owns Gino’s Pizzeria in Irvington. "For the mayor to risk his own life and go in there, that was heartfelt."

The Terror Felt Newark Mayor Cory Booker in The Heroic Rescue of a Fire

There was a time when Cory Booker, "thought we were not going to do."

"No Air", the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, said on Friday. "I could not breathe. Then I thought," If I can not find this woman a few minutes, we both die. ""

Less than 12 hours earlier, Booker rushed into the burning house and the neighbors brought the woman to safety, but only after arguing with the detective assigned to protect him.

"It was just one of those moments in life when you just decide to go to," said the 6-foot-3 former tight end at Stanford University.

A woman reported that, in stable condition Friday with second-degree burns on his neck and back. Booker received minor burns and smoke inhalation and was hospitalized briefly on Thursday night.

Already revered in some circles for his good deeds, Booker, 42, is a rising star in the Democratic Party and is considered a potential candidate for governor or U.S. Senate.

Instead of living in posh areas mayorly, he lives in one of the poorest areas of the city to better communicate with people. In 2010, a blizzard that paralyzed the city, Booker grabbed a shovel and began to work.

He is known to ride along with police on the night patrols to hunt down another flight of a suspect. Award Peabody Sundance Channel series "Brick City" documented their efforts to reduce crime in Newark and to address the financial problems. Profiles were published in Time and Esquire.

And when Conan O'Brien began taking potshots at Newark, Booker turned his back to a joke at the end talk shows at night, has been banned from Newark Liberty International Airport and demand a public apology. Operation "feud" ended when Booker O'Brien appeared on the show.

A scientist with a degree from Yale University, Rhodes, Stanford and Oxford, Booker and social media savvy and an interview with Oprah Winfrey and has attracted donations of $ 100 million school Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Booker past actions should not harm his political aspirations (if someone is accused of working on the fire).

The history of salvation, of course, exploded nationally night.

At one point Friday morning, "Cory Booker" was the most searched term on Google. NPR crowned the "heroes of today." The story also took the life of its own Twitter with a sense of humor, with the social media guys who are trying to outdo each other with makeup # corybookerstories (Example: ". When Chuck Norris has nightmares, Cory Booker, the light turns and with him while he sleeps. ")

At a press conference, Booker framed their experience with fire in religious terms. "I feel a sense of gratitude to God that I am here today," said the mayor, in office since 2006. "I have been notorious to come to Jesus moment in my life."

He said one of the detectives riding with him saw the first fire, and called the dispatcher for about 10 hours, then knocked on the window. Detective, Santos Duran, compared the situation to "a scene from the movie" Backdraft. " "

"It was really intense," said Duran.

The passengers did not know, two-story house was on fire. Koli Whitaker, retired truck driver who was sleeping, said a voice shouted that there was a fire - the voice of the mayor - he was awakened.

Whitaker said that the fire in the kitchen upstairs, and that he and the owner of the building tried to turn it off. But the water seemed to be worse, Whitaker said.

Lamar Hodge, who was at the bottom, said she heard her sister Zina, to call for help from above, behind the kitchen. Detective, Alex Rodriguez, the details of the security of City Hall in June, said he went to the second floor, just behind the Booker.

In addition, they heard cries Hodge Zina. By that time, Rodriguez said, fire up the wall and blow it through the ceiling, and they could not hear what he described as a small explosion.

Booker went to the kitchen. Rodriguez said he stopped him and the two "exchanged words."

"I said." I can not let you, it's my job, I have to watch out for danger, "Rodriguez recalled.

Booker tried to load it into the fire again, the detective said, and he has once again chosen mayor, this time to capture the belt. These two words were once again, Rodriguez said, and Booker, this time the situation noted in no uncertain terms.

"He gave me an order, and I respect," said Rodriguez, "was the order." Let go of me. ""

The smoke in the back room was so thick that he "did not see anything," the mayor said. He said that "scary" because he could not find Hodge, aged 47, in the first place.

Once he finds her, he said, raising his shoulders, "and ran as fast as I could through the kitchen, which was on fire, and Rodriguez, who helped me to take home."

The mayor downplayed the fact that he was a hero.

"I have a neighbor who has done what most of the neighbors will be, which leaps into action," he said, adding that with a nod to Rodriguez: "I think most people will have exactly the same, only difference is that I. was to convince someone to let me go, that he did his job to protect me. "