For Halloween, all 70 episodes of the original series have been gathered in “The Munsters: Complete Series,” a box set from Universal that features extras like an unbroadcast 15-minute pilot, a colorized first-season episode titled “Family Portrait,” documentaries about the series and its stars, the theatrical feature “Munster, Go Home!” and a misbegotten 1981 TV reunion picture called “The Munsters’ Revenge” whose only redeeming feature is the sight of the hulking Gwynne and his costar Al Lewis in waitress drag.
The discs reveal how hilarious — and how fragile an endeavor — the original series was. Filmed in the same glorious black and white of the classic 1930s Universal horror films from which the series creators, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher (both veterans of “Leave It to Beaver”), borrowed so freely, the show still scares up belly laughs.
Conceived as a middle-class counterpart to the upper-crust bohemianism of “The Addams Family,” the other sitcom about a macabre clan to appear in the ghoul-crazy fall of 1964, “The Munsters” found its funniest moments by putting its lovable monsters in the most mundane situations. The most memorable episodes take place in a Chinese laundry, a beauty salon, a shipyard, a drag strip and a country club. Occasionally, there were forays into the more rarefied worlds of high fashion (the uproarious “Lily Munster, Girl Model” episode), children’s television (“Zombo”) and the rodeo (“Bronco Bustin’ Munster”). But the biggest laughs came from putting the so-called First Family of Fright in a setting as unremarkable as a hotel room and watching the inverted reactions. “No dust — and at these prices, too!” Lily complains in “Far Out Munsters.”
“The Addams Family,” based on Charles Addams’s exquisitely twisted New Yorker cartoons, may have boasted more sophisticated humor, but “The Munsters” was, in its own cornball way, much funnier. The writers filled episodes with borscht-belt shtick — Grandpa may have looked like a vampire, but he was really an old vaudevillian at heart — and threw in jokes about television long before such self-reflexive humor was commonplace. Forced to discipline his son in one episode, for instance, Herman complains to Lily that Donna Reed always handles these matters on her show.
None of this silliness would work without the cast of immensely talented comic actors with which “The Munsters” was blessed. The show reunited Gwynne and Lewis, who had earlier established themselves as bankable comic performers in “Car 54, Where Are You?,” as Herman and Grandpa Munster, dead ringers for the Frankenstein monster and Dracula. The series also deserves credit for bringing the glamorous Yvonne De Carlo to television, casting this costar of films like “The Ten Commandments” and “Criss Cross” as the Vampira-esque hausfrau Lily Munster, her B-movie beauty intact under the fright makeup and long black fall.
These veteran performers were joined by Butch Patrick, a likable child actor, as the werewolf-in-knee-britches Eddie Munster, and by the pert Pat Priest, who after 13 episodes replaced the more patrician Beverly Owen as Marilyn Munster, Lily’s niece. (Marilyn’s drop-dead-gorgeous looks were perceived as unfortunate by her relatives.) Other actors who stepped into Herman’s boots, Lily’s shroud and Grandpa’s cape — including, over the years, Edward Herrmann, Ann Magnuson and Robert Morse — were pale green in comparison. This box set proves that in black and white.
>>>With Phil Boyce moving on with his career, how does the future look for the SNO show?<<<
There's no way of knowing for sure. Those kinds of decisions are up to whoever takes Phil's place and that has not been decided.
Most radio decisions come down to dollars and cents... especially today. If SNO is making enough money for Citadel (the radio company that owns WABC), chances are good that it will remain. If the new program director or the company come to think they can make more money with different programming then it won't.
From what I know, the station has done well with advertisers. If that remains true, I expect it will stay.
A woman and her 3-year-old son allegedly assaulted a Tennessee policeman at a gas station on Wednesday.
Police say the Memphis officer stopped a white Cadillac with two adults and a child inside for speeding.
When he asked the driver, Terrence Braden, to step out of the car, Braden allegedly wrestled him to the ground.
The woman reportedly grabbed a gun and some drugs out of the car and ran away with her son, only to return a short time later and assault the officer.
The toddler also joined in on the attack, allegedly kicking the officer several times.
The mother of the boy, who was not identified, was arrested at the scene. Charges against her are pending.
The driver is wanted on multiple charges, including assault against a police officer and possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. He remains on the loose.
The child was released into the custody of relatives.
The officer, whose uniform was ripped and police radio taken off his belt, suffered only minor bruises and scrapes.
(CNN) -- Two bones and and a driver's license with Steve Fossett's name have been found near the site where Fossett's plane crashed in eastern California, authorities said Thursday.
The bones appear to be human, and DNA testing will determine whether they belong to the adventurer, Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said at a news conference.
But Anderson said he believes "our coroner's investigation is over and the Fossett family will finally have closure."
"We talked to the family and advised them that we possibly, most likely, found the remains of J. Stephen Fossett," Anderson said.
Searchers found "two large bones," the driver's license, a pair of shoes and a $100 bill on Wednesday, Anderson said. The discovery site was a little more than a half-mile from where Fossett's plane wreckage was found on October 1 in a remote area of the Sierra Nevadas at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
The site of Wednesday's discovery also is about a quarter-mile from where a hiker reported finding aviation identification cards with Fossett's name and $1,000 in cash in late September, Anderson said.
Fossett was last seen on the morning of September 3, 2007, when he took off from the Flying-M Ranch outside Minden, Nevada. He was scouting locations for an attempt to break the land speed record in a rocket-propelled car.
Animal chew marks were found on the driver's license and the shoes, Anderson said. He said the marks indicate that "animals possibly [moved] the body."
Previous DNA tests on what were believed to be bone fragments at and near the crash site showed that the fragments weren't human remains, Anderson said.
Before this week's discovery, Anderson said, officials could not be certain that Fossett was dead.
"We could not categorically state that Steve Fossett perished in that crash because the only conclusive evidence our department had were those two aviation identification cards and $1,000 in cash," the sheriff said in a written statement.
Beautiful women like Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie can thank their fathers for their good looks, according to a study from the University of St. Andrews in England.
The study found that while attractive dads pass on their good looks to daughters, the sons aren’t quite so lucky, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Professors David Perrett and Elisabeth Cornwell, of University of St. Andrews, said a mother’s beauty makes no difference to her adult sons.
For the study, which is published in the journal Animal Behavior, Perrett and Cornwell studied students’ family photo albums and collected more than 100 photos of females and 100 photos of males and their parents over the years.
The photos were judged separately for attractiveness and femininity or masculinity.
Perrett said it has previously been suggested that a woman could increase her reproductive success by choosing a "sexy" mate, but his study contradicts that theory.
"We checked to see if male and female facial traits are inherited,” he said. “For the male line, we find that facial masculinity conforms to the rule 'like father, like son.’ Masculine dads have masculine sons. But we did not find any evidence that facial attractiveness is passed from father to son.”
An Israeli archaeologist digging at a hilltop south of Jerusalem believes a ceramic shard found in the ruins of an ancient town bears the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered, a find that could provide an important glimpse into the culture and language of the Holy Land at the time of the Bible.
The five lines of faded characters written 3,000 years ago, and the ruins of the fortified settlement where they were found, are indications that a powerful Israelite kingdom existed at the time of the Old Testament's King David, says Yossi Garfinkel, the Hebrew University archaeologist in charge of the new dig at Hirbet Qeiyafa.
Other scholars are hesitant to embrace Garfinkel's interpretation of the finds, made public on Thursday.
The discoveries are already being wielded in a vigorous and ongoing argument over whether the Bible's account of events and geography is meant to be taken literally.
Hirbet Qeiyafa sits near the modern Israeli city of Beit Shemesh in the Judean foothills, an area that was once the frontier between the hill-dwelling Israelites and their enemies, the coastal Philistines.
The site overlooks the Elah Valley, said to be the scene of the slingshot showdown between David and the Philistine giant Goliath, and lies near the ruins of Goliath's hometown in the Philistine metropolis of Gath.
A teenage volunteer found the curved pottery shard, 6 inches by 6 inches (15 centimeters by 15 centimeters), in July near the stairs and stone washtub of an excavated home.
It was later discovered to bear five lines of characters known as proto-Canaanite, a precursor of the Hebrew alphabet.
Carbon-14 analysis of burnt olive pits found in the same layer of the site dated them to between 1,000 and 975 B.C., the same time as the Biblical golden age of David's rule in Jerusalem.
Scholars have identified other, smaller Hebrew fragments from the 10th century B.C., but the script, which Garfinkel suggests might be part of a letter, predates the next significant Hebrew inscription by between 100 and 200 years.
History's best-known Hebrew texts, the Dead Sea scrolls, were penned on parchment beginning 850 years later.
The shard is now kept in a university safe while philologists translate it, a task expected to take months.
But several words have already been tentatively identified, including ones meaning "judge," "slave" and "king."
The Israelites were not the only ones using proto-Canaanite characters, and other scholars suggest it is difficult — perhaps impossible — to conclude the text is Hebrew and not a related tongue spoken in the area at the time.
Garfinkel bases his identification on a three-letter verb from the inscription meaning "to do," a word he said existed only in Hebrew.
"That leads us to believe that this is Hebrew, and that this is the oldest Hebrew inscription that has been found," he said.
Other prominent Biblical archaeologists warned against jumping to conclusions.
Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was "very important," as it is the longest proto-Canaanite text ever found. But he suggested that calling the text Hebrew might be going too far.
"It's proto-Canaanite," he said. "The differentiation between the scripts, and between the languages themselves in that period, remains unclear."
Some scholars and archeologists argue that the Bible's account of David's time inflates his importance and that of his kingdom, and is essentially myth, perhaps rooted in a shred of fact.
But if Garfinkel's claim is borne out, it would bolster the case for the Bible's accuracy by indicating the Israelites could record events as they happened, transmitting the history that was later written down in the Old Testament several hundred years later.
It also would mean that the settlement — a fortified town with a 30-foot-wide (10-meter-wide) monumental gate, a central fortress and a wall running 770 yards (700 meters) in circumference — was probably inhabited by Israelites.
The finds have not yet established who the residents were, says Aren Maier, a Bar Ilan University archaeologist who is digging at nearby Gath.
It will become more clear if, for example, evidence of the local diet is found, he said: Excavations have shown that Philistines ate dogs and pigs, while Israelites did not.
The nature of the ceramic shards found at the site suggest residents might have been neither Israelites nor Philistines but members of a third, forgotten people, he said.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CNN) -- The head of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was fired Tuesday after museum officials discovered he had been arrested twice for shoplifting items from a mall, including $40 worth of DVDs.
Director Rick Beard, 61, was formally fired Tuesday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich, said Dave Blanchette, spokesman for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Beard made nearly $250,000 a year as director of the museum and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, which raises money to support the library.
He was charged in August with trying to steal $40 worth of DVDs from a Target store. He has pleaded not guilty.
Beard also was charged with misdemeanor theft last year after being caught allegedly trying to steal $300 worth of neckties at a shopping mall. He received six months of supervision in that case.
Blanchette said museum officials didn't know of any problems when Beard was hired two years ago.
"He passed the vetting procedure with flying colors," Blanchette said. "He was a great candidate at that time."
Jan Grimes, director of the Historic Preservation Agency, will run the Lincoln museum and library temporarily. Robert Coomer, a former director of Historic Preservation, will replace Beard at the foundation.
The best bargain at the Salvation Army thrift store in Kailua-Kona was a Richard Simmons videotape.
But Mikela Mercier, 11, decided to pass up the chance to buy the tape for a few coins after she found a surprise inside: $1,000 in $100 bills.
Mikela says that when she discovered the money while browsing through the used tapes, she immediately looked for her mom who was inside the dressing room and told her they needed to turn it in.
Store manager Jimmy Thennes put out a news release on the discovery, praising Mikela for her honesty.
Her mother, Jodi Mercier, says she is very proud of her daughter who she says knew it belonged to the Salvation Army so the agency can help more people in need.
Secret Service agents stood guard on Tuesday on the South Lawn of the White House as President Bush exited his limousine after an unarmed Baltimore man jumped the White House fence. The man, 23, was taken into custody, and officials are investigating.
BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- Hollywood glitz may pay Dana Delany's bills, but her "most life-affirming role" was a lot less glamorous.
In 1996, the Emmy Award winner and "Desperate Housewives" actress played a patient dying of scleroderma in the ABC TV movie, "For Hope."
The film was based on the true story of actor/comedian Bob Saget's sister, Gay, who died of the chronic, degenerative disease.
"When you're playing someone who's dying, all you want is life," Delany recalled. "It really educated a lot of people about the disease, including me."
The role led Delany to join the movement to find a cure for the illness. Today, with scleroderma patient Luke Evnin helping to lead the efforts, Delany said that people are increasingly aware of the disease and working toward a cure.
Symptoms for scleroderma, Greek for "hard skin," can include skin thickening or tightness. It has no known cause and in most serious cases, it can be life-threatening. Scleroderma can cause abnormal growth of connective tissue and potentially harm blood vessels and internal organs.
More than 300,000 people suffer from scleroderma-related diseases, according to the National Institutes of Health. The disease disproportionately affects women of child-bearing age, but anyone can contract it, including children.
"So many people are disfigured," Delany said. "They don't want to go out in public and they don't want to talk about it."
In 1999, Delany joined the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a nonprofit corporation in San Francisco, California. When its founder, Delany's friend Sharon Monsky, died from the disease in 2002, Delany was introduced to Evnin, the new foundation chairman. The two became instant friends.
Evnin -- a successful venture capitalist with a doctorate in microbiology -- was a "perfect storm" for the foundation and for scleroderma research, Delany said.
"It was almost a miracle, really," she said. "Here was this handsome family man who didn't look sick at all, but his experience made him the perfect person to be running the board, on many levels. He understands the science. He understands the money that needs to be involved [and] how to invest it. He understands how to talk to the researchers."
Diagnosed with scleroderma in 1998, Evnin, 45, considers himself lucky.
"I have a lot of hidden symptoms, but [they] are stable and I won't die from scleroderma. I'm on the fortunate end of the spectrum," said Evnin. "Scleroderma is being misdiagnosed all across the country and a misdiagnosis can be fatal."
A newlywed killed by police after he stepped outside his home to confront suspected burglars was shot in a case of mistaken identity, police said.
Julian Alexander died after being shot twice in the chest by a police officer who was chasing four burglary suspects early Tuesday morning.
Police Chief John Welter said the officer ran into Alexander, mistook him for one of the four juvenile suspects and shot him.
"The last thing we ever want to do, No. 1, (is) take somebody's life," he said. "And we certainly don't want to take the life of someone who is mistakenly believed to be involved in some criminal activity."
"He was a good kid, trying to protect his house," said Alexander's mother-in-law Michelle Mooney. "And the police, instead of asking questions, they just shot first. Somebody has to be held responsible for this."
Welter would not release the officer's name, but said he was a 10-year veteran of the department. The officer was placed on paid leave pending an investigation.
"It's mistaken identity, but that doesn't bring my son back," said Alexander's father Jerry.
He said Alexander got married last weekend and his 19-year-old wife is expecting a baby in December.
Alexander's wife said she heard the gunshots and tried to go into the yard, but the officer told her to stay inside. From the window they saw Alexander handcuffed and bleeding in the front yard.
Paramedics treated him at the scene and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The four burglary suspects were detained and interviewed, but no arrests were made.
It was just a weekly television show of the 1970's. It was a pioneer of its broadcasting time. No concept of this kind was ever made into an actual show. Need I remind you all that the special effects of that day (especially for t.v.) Were nothing compared to today. Recall that the original Star Trek series had just been canceled not long before this series first pilot. So, think of the special effects in the original Star Trek, and you get an idea of what the studio had to work with at that time. This series really opened the door for the T.V. executives to see the value in every sci-fi show that you can enjoy on T.V. from the Incredible Hulk to todays episodes of Smallville. All made possible when the success of the Six Million Dollar Man was realized. Of course it is not going to be as good as the book!! No kidding Sherlock (to the previous comment above.) Books and imagination are always better, even at the level of movies. Why expect so much from a little T.V. series when high budget movies can't rival books either. Most of you people don't know how to understand things for what it was intended. The SMDM was intended to entertain the child viewers of the time period 1973! It did a magnificent job, and now you take your 2007 adult (I use this term in its broadest sense) mind and tear it apart. No sci-fi show was able to successfully exist back then on T.V. Even Star Trek was canceled, and a short run; one season series called The Immortal. People just were not watching that kind of programing back then. The Wonderful World of Walt Disney, Little House Prairie, The Waltons, Happy Days these were what people were used to at that time. The SMDM was a mile stone that led us into modern day sci-fi shows. The original pilot named after the book Cyborg was not full of gimmicky sound effects it was very down to earth and well done even by todays standards. It dealt as much with the human condition as it did with the technology. In fact, at times (especially in the pilot and first episodes of the first season) it seemed that the special effects were only a vehicle to showing that what makes a man is "more than the sum of his parts". In the pilot there was no jumping or exaggerated powers. There was not even an Oscar Goldman. Instead there was a very hard nosed manipulative G-man called Spenser played by Darren McGavin. The rest of the series was only a way to keep the Cyborg concept going.
Come on !! Take it for what it was and enjoy it. Don't hold it to todays standards. People and television have changed so much since then.
If one ignores some of the scientific ludicrousness, it held up well as sheer entertainment, even with Sasquatch, the dog, etc. But to attain real quality, science fiction needs to retain a certain amount of plausibility: for example, a future in which men could fly to the moon by flapping their arms due to new laws of physics would be an obvious cheat, and fans of science fiction wouldn't put up with it. Similarly, as some of the earlier contributors here have noted, SMDM is rife with technological conundrum, to which I'd like to add a few more. Even if Steve's bionic legs made it possible for him to run at 60mph, his face and the rest of his (human) body would not have been aerodynamic enough to withstand the slipstream. At minimum, his mouth and face would have appeared distorted from the powerful slipstream, and his (human) eye couldn't have withstood the wind pressure, either. Try riding a motorcycle on the freeway without a mask or helmet, or even sticking hour head out of a car window while on the freeway, and this discrepancy immediately becomes obvious. Next: how come when we see Steve take off his shirt, there are absolutely no seams or signs of the bionics? Shouldn't there be at least a slight color mismatch between the arm and shoulder? And what about when he gets wet? Does that risk rust or a seize-up? It's a good thing this was back in the seventies, because today the airport security would drive the poor guy to ripping out his legs and arm just to get to the gate.
If I go back with my mind to the time I first watched this show, I can say it never jumped, even if I had a problem from 4th season on: it looked too much different from the first seasons. Anyway, I loved SMDM, I knew it had a lack of realism and physics knowledge, but this was not the point, in my opinion. As someone else pointed out, this show was basically fantasy, it showed us another universe, so you don't have to watch it being too much critic. Thinking this way, you can still appreciate some drama. In fact, from the first time I watched it, my favorite episodes were the ones in which Steve is more introspective. Ok, I know this concept could have been developed much, much more and better, but it was appreciable anyway, after all. I liked Steve's human side, I loved the episodes containing those lines that underlined his interior conflicts for being bionic, that is, different from any other man, if you want. The main part of the show weren't the bionic effects, for me: they were just functional to the plot of that particular episode or to entertain children, why not... but beyond this, there was some more. So, I didn't mind if a tear fell from the bionic eye in the bionic woman episode: that was a moving episode, Steve found his love, Jaime, a human being just like him, and then lost her, being thrown back to his solitude. Season 2 is my favorite, the greater part of it gives us an introspective and sensitive Steve, despite his exterior "strength" and his "powers". So, back to our shark, I think SMDM jumped it when it turned into a pure super-hero show, and it just happened between 3rd and 4th seasons.
One less lawsuit for Lindsay Lohan to worry about.
Her former bodyguard has settled a lawsuit he filed against her for back wages. David Kim alleged Lohan owed him more than $55,000 for doing fun things like coordinating the starlet's security efforts, and driving her and her posse to events.
He claimed he was never paid, and actually lost about $10,000 in wages for mileage, tipping valets and hiring extra security.
Up for review today is the Oceanus OCW-S1000 "Manta," an analog powerhouse of a dress watch with a formidable inner geek. Like all new Oceanus models, it's solar-powered, radio-set and very well made indeed. This one is the thinnest and lightest in the lineup at 10.2mm thick and 85g, made from titanium with a sapphire crystal. It's a very dressy watch with some interesting tradeoffs. Here are some specs to get us started:
5-band radio receiver (2 in Japan, USA, UK, and Germany)
Automatic reception six times per day
Solar powered, with 2-year power reserve
Accurate within 20 seconds per month without radio
40.2mm wide, 10.2 thick, 85g
Water resistant to 50m (150ft)
Stopwatch
World time in 27 cities and 29 time zones
24-hour dial
Powered by the Casio 4766 module,(PDF, 993KB)
Titanium case and bracelet
Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Unobtrusive tachymeter on the bezel, etched into the metal.
Interestingly, it doesn't have an alarm or countdown timer. This really seems to be a "just what you need" sort of watch for business and travel, and personally I find watch alarms are rarely loud enough to wake me when worn, especially if you're jetlagged. I usually use the alarm on my cell phone, so the lack of one here doesn't bother me at all.
We've reviewed several Oceanus models on WatchReport, and they're great watches. This one continues the trend by getting more elegant, thinner and easier to read with bold sword-shaped hands and plenty of lume to see in the dark. The light weight and thin profile go well with dress shirts, and as you can see its very understated on the wrist. The nicely-shaped lugs hug the wrist, and the bracelet has nice visual detail and finish without being too flashy. As you can see in the pictures, there's a dodecagon of darker metal around the bezel, with a flat side at each hour position. It doesn't serve a function, but is a nice bit of subtle visual detail and shows the effort that went into the design.
The side buttons are protected by a central ridge of faceted metal and blend well wth the lines of the watch. The upper-right button has an etched Oceanus logo that's quite attractive.
The case is finished such that it resembles stainless steel more than titanium. The topsides are mostly brushed, with bevels and sides mirror-finished. The combinatons is quite attractive.
On the dial, you can see the 24 hour dial on the left. This shows 24-hour time in timekeeping mode, and likewise if you're displaying the time in another city. The 6 o'clock subdial normally displays seconds, and in stopwatch mode counts fractions of a second. The 2:30 dial indicates the day of the week, daylight savings setting, and elapsed minutes in stopwatch mode. Around the minute ring are printed the names of the cities for world time, as well as indicators used in various modes - radio signal strength and whether or not a signal has been received in the last 24 hours. The date hides at 4:30 on the dial, unnoticed until needed.
The hour and minute hand have generous amounts of luminiscent material, and glow for several hours. Each hour marker has a rectangular dollop was well, making for good nighttime readability. Oceanus broadened the hands compared to the OCWM700TDA-1AV, and they're more readable now.
I found this to be a very enjoyable watch to wear, it has lots of visual detail to enjoy, is quite readable if you're in a hurry, and the weight & size make it extremely comfortable. It pairs well with a leather strap as well, reducing the weight even further for warm weather. The scratch-resistant sapphire crystal is very slightly domed and anti-reflective-coated; very readable.
List price for the OCW-S1000 is $1095, expect to pay a bit less. That's a lot for a quartz watch, but with typical discounts I consider it a good deal. This is a dressy watch with zero maintenance, excellent durability and unmatched low profile.
It turns out there really is a thin line between love and hate, as far as your brain is concerned, that is.
A new study reveals that the brain's "love" and "hate" circuits share identical structures.
Both include regions known as the putamen and insula which are linked to aggression and distress.
"Hate is often considered to be an evil passion that should, in a better world, be tamed, controlled, and eradicated," said Professor Semir Zeki, of University College London, who carried out the brain scan study.
"Yet to the biologist, hate is a passion that is of equal interest to love," he said. "Like love, it is often seemingly irrational and can lead individuals to heroic and evil deeds. "
To find out how two opposite sentiments can lead to the same behavior, Zeki's team scanned 17 male and female volunteers while they looked at pictures of individuals they hated, as well as familiar "neutral" faces.
Researchers found that both love and hate de-activate zones within the cerebral cortex of the brain. The cerebral cortex plays a key role in memory, attention, thought, and consciousness.
Love, however, causes the biggest de-activation in this area of the brain, however, drawing the thin line between love and hate.
"A marked difference in the cortical pattern," said Zeki, "is that, whereas with love large parts of the cerebral cortex associated with judgment and reasoning become de-activated, with hate only a small zone, located in the frontal cortex, becomes de-activated."
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Dow rallied as much as 906 points during Tuesday's session, as investors dove back into stocks near the end of one of the worst months in Wall Street history.
Markets
Last
Change
Dow Jones
9,065.12
889.35 / 10.88%
Nasdaq
1,649.47
143.57 / 9.53%
S&P 500
940.51
91.59 / 10.79%
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 889 points after having risen as much as 906 points earlier in the session. It was the Dow's second-biggest one-day point gain ever, following a 936-point rally two weeks ago. The advance of 10.9% was the sixth-biggest ever.
The Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index gained 91.6 points or 10.8%, its second-biggest one-day point gain ever and its fifth-best one-day percentage gain.
The Nasdaq composite (COMP) rose 143.6 points or 9.5%. On a percentage basis, it was the fourth-best one-day gain ever for the tech-fueled Nasdaq. But on a point basis, it didn't crack the top 10.
