Tonight's guests are Tia Torres on The Daily Show and Bill Cosby on The Colbert Report.
Tia Torres is the owner of Villalobos Rescue Center which is featured on the Animal Planet reality show Pit Bulls and Parolees
Pit Bulls & Parolees depicts the day-to-day operations at Villalobos, including rescues of abused, neglected, and abandoned dogs, and the Center's efforts to adopt out dogs to new owners. The Villalobos Rescue Center (VRC) founder, Tia Maria Torres, agreed to be on the show to help pay part of the Villalobos' then $25,000 per month bills. Since moving the entire rescue group, including all the dogs, parolees who wanted to go, and her family to New Orleans, the expenses have tripled. They are now $80,000 per month. The show's main focus is the interaction between Tia, her dogs, and the parolees who work for her, during daily care and training duties, and pit bull rescue missions. The center "works ceaselessly to give pit bulls another chance in life. Each and every dog taken in gets spayed or neutered and is given any medical treatment necessary. We work patiently to reacclimatize fearful dogs to the loving care of a human, so that they may eventually be adopted ... After determining temperaments and compatibility factors, we begin that long search for the perfect home." Tia states in the show "My mission is to rescue, my hope is that one day I won't have to."
I have never seen it since I usually don't watch reality shows although this one seems to be better than most.
Bill Cosby is a comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. (Like I needed to tell you that!) He is the subject of the recently released book by Mark Whitaker, Cosby: His Life and Times.
In Stand-Up and Sitcoms, Nonchalantly Blazing a Path Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography
Mark Whitaker’s biography of Bill Cosby is, like its subject, old school. It’s square, competent, gentle, G-rated, dignified and, in the end, a bit distant.
Yet if “Cosby: His Life and Times” isn’t the sort of cultural biography that pokes you awake with memorable sentences or original thinking, there’s pleasure in the confident way the author consumes and excretes the details of Mr. Cosby’s life, moving through the grid of his complicated existence as if he were Pac-Man consuming data pellets.
I'm sure they will be discussing comedy as well as his
loaning of his art Collection to the Smithsonian
After amassing a private collection of African-American Art over four decades, Bill Cosby and his wife Camille plan to showcase their holdings for the first time in an exhibition planned at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art announced Monday that the entire Cosby collection will go on view in November in a unique exhibit juxtaposing African-American art with African art.
The collection, which will be loaned to the museum, includes works by such leading African-American artists as Beauford Delaney, Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage and Henry Ossawa Tanner. The Cosby collection of more than 300 African-American paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings has never been loaned or seen publicly, except for one work of art.
"It's so important to show art by African-American artists in this exhibition," Cosby said in a written statement. "To me, it's a way for people to see what exists and to give voice to many of these artists who were silenced for so long, some of whom will speak no more."
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Th 9/25: Steven Johnson
THE COLBERT REPORT
Th 9/25: Walter Mischel