'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
re: Men With Tits
Maybe this is art projecting life, as more and more men ARE getting breasts from eating meat (hormones). I'm old - back when, men did not get breasts, even overweight men. Now look at men: even 30ish men have breasts.
When men had on t-shirts you could see the nipple but not a bulge. Now a days you see a bulge and the nipple.
Look around.
Barbara N
No Landmines, No Nukes, No War, EVER
Thanks, Barbara - I think you may be on to something. Made me think of Kramer [Michael Richards] & George Costanza's dad [Jerry Stiller], on 'Seinfeld', and the 'mansierre' episode.
No. 1 Pick to Lead Oxford
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton has emerged as the overwhelming favorite among Oxford undergraduates to succeed the late Roy Jenkins as chancellor of the university.
The former president attracted 48 percent of the votes in a poll being published in Cherwell, the university's undergraduate newspaper. Clinton, a former Rhodes scholar whose daughter
Chelsea is a graduate student at Oxford, attracted almost three times the support of his nearest rival, politician Shirley Williams, who polled 16 percent. Chris Patten, the former governor
of Hong Kong, headed the rest of the field at 11 percent. Michael Heseltine, the former Conservative deputy prime minister, got 6 percent.
But Cherwell's, survey sent to 1,000 undergraduates via e-mail, is not quite the green light for a Clinton candidacy that it might first appear. Undergraduates are not eligible to vote
for chancellor, although they can help out with canvassing, flier-posting and handing out manifestos to tourists.
Clinton's spokeswoman says he won't run.
Bill Clinton
from Alex
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Reader Suggestion
from Marianne
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The Santa Anas are blowing, the humidity has nearly disappeared, and allergies are having a field day.
Today, the kid came home from school & proceeded to explain why there's no such thing as 'Greenhouse Effect' - his teacher says so. Tried to reason with the kid & said to
take it with a grain of salt - after all, this is the teacher that thinks there are alligators in the sewers of New York.
Having an interesting conversation with Yahoo. If this site disappears (they promised it wouldn't), it will be back in a day or 2. The Yahoo woman said 'trust me'. Had to bite my tongue not to say that in these parts 'trust me' translates to 'fuck you.'
Tonight, Friday, CBS opens the evening with a fresh 'Presidio Med', then a fresh 'Hack', and a fresh 'Queens Supreme'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Joan Rivers and Kathleen Edwards.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Susan Sarandon, Anthony Anderson, and Slobberbone.
NBC starts the night with a fresh 'Mr. Sterling', then 'Dateline', followed by a fresh 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Robin Williams, Selma Blair, and 30 Seconds to Mars.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Ryan Seacrest and Sean Paul.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Dermot Mulroney, Mike Birbiglia, and Sugarcult.
ABC has a RERUN 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then a fresh 'Whose Line', followed by a RERUN 'Drew Carey', and wraps the evening with '20/20'.
The WB opens with a fresh 'What I Like About You', then a RERUN 'Sabrina', followed by a fresh 'Reba', then a fresh 'Greetings From Tucson'.
Faux has a fresh 'Fastlane', and a fresh 'John Doe'.
UPN has the movie 'Species'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'!
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Attended NYC Fund-Raiser
Bill Clinton
Janeane Garofalo was the host — and Bill Clinton was the guest of honor — at a fund-raiser for Seeds of Peace, a New York-based organization that's brought thousands of young people from 22 warring lands to
a Maine camp to learn peace-brokering.
Garofalo described Clinton's arrival at a private VIP reception at the Hammerstein Ballroom Tuesday night "like The Beatles deplaning — it was hysteria."
About 1,300 guests paid $175 to $500 each also to hear the Barenaked Ladies, a pop band that received MTV's first Seeds of Peace award.
"We can never find redemption in another person's destruction," the former president told his audience.
"No one ever gets even," said Clinton, noting that "people in power will have to embrace the common wisdom of Seeds of Peace. This is not useless idealism."
Bill Clinton
Seeds of Peace Web site
Publishing Memoirs in '04
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks is writing his memoirs. He thinks you should read them.
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know," Brooks said in a statement Wednesday from HarperEntertainment, an imprint of
HarperCollins that will publish the book next year.
The book will be an "anecdotal memoir" focused on Brooks' five decades in show business. His many credits include writing for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," teaming with Carl Reiner
for "The 2,000 Year Old Man" comedy records and making films such as "The Producers" and "Blazing Saddles."
Brooks, 76, has won virtually every show business award, including the Grammy, the Emmy, the Oscar and the Tony, for the Broadway musical of "The Producers."
Mel Brooks
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Would 'Not Fade Away'
Stones Fan
From the Truth-Is-Stranger-Than-Fiction File, get this: A woman shows up at the FleetCenter for the Stones show Sunday night. She's carrying a Baggie. Turns out that in the Baggie is not
what you usually bring to a Stones concert in a Baggie. It's the remains of her late hubby. A HUGE Stones fan.
Seems her dearly departed bought the tickets for the show, then shed this mortal coil. So his grieving widow brought him to the concert to fulfill his dying wish - to see Mick & Co.
one last time. And just so it wouldn't be all his Love In Vain she wanted her hubby to have a really good seat.
``She went up to the runway stage and asked one of the security guards if she could dump her husband's ashes there,'' said FleetCenter spokesguy Jim Delaney. ``The security
staff told her that that probably wouldn't be the most appropriate thing to do.''
``About 10 minutes later, there she was tossing the ashes onto the runway,'' Delaney said.
Well, the staff didn't know what to do. Should they vacuum up the late, lamented Stones fan? Sweep him back into a Baggie? Or just let him, er, live out his dying wish?
Well, before the debate concluded, Mick, Keith, Ron, Charlie et. al. jumped onstage and the discussion became moot. Because Mick was Dancing With Mr. D-parted!
Delaney said the Stones weren't aware Mick was dancing on his biggest fan's grave until after the show.
Anyway, Delaney said no one got the woman's name but she didn't seem the least bit unhinged.
``She knew what she wanted,'' he said, ``She wanted him to have the best seat in the house.''
Stones Fan
Visitors look at a 3000-year-old mummified body of a child found along the Silk Road in China's far western region of Xinjiang at an exhibition in Beijing January 16, 2003. The exhibition featuring relics from Xinjiang aims to improve the understanding of the culture and history of Xinjiang.
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Funding Documentary
HBO
HBO has stepped up to provide the majority of financing for the Imagine Entertainment-produced documentary on "Deep Throat," the 1972 porn classic that helped fuel a sexual revolution.
It's the first time the network has funded a documentary meant for theatrical distribution.
Imagine co-chairman Brian Grazer had several offers, but HBO has already worked with the filmmakers Grazer hired, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato: They most recently directed the
Monica Lewinsky documentary "Monica in Black and White."
Grazer, producer of last year's best picture Oscar-winner "A Beautiful Mind," "certainly didn't need to be doing a documentary, but we were so impressed by his passion," HBO
executive veep of original programming Sheila Nevins said.
HBO
Man With An Opinion
John Le Carre
Best-selling British spy novelist John Le Carre believes that the U.S. has "gone mad." In an op-ed piece in the Times of London, Le Carre claims: "America has entered one of its
periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember . . . worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than
the Vietnam war." The author of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" rants, "Without [Osama] bin Laden, the Bush junta would still be trying to explain such tricky matters as how
it came to be elected in the first place; Enron; its shameless favoring of the already-too-rich [and] a reckless disregard for the world's poor." He continues: "How Bush and his
junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks in history . . . But the American public is
not merely being misled. It is being browbeaten and kept in a state of ignorance and fear. The carefully orchestrated neurosis should carry Bush and his fellow conspirators nicely into the next election."
John Le Carre
Want to read it for yourself? - 'The United States of America Has Gone Mad' - by John le Carré
Ocean's Eleven Sequel
'Ocean's Twelve'
Following the blockbuster success of their 2001 Las Vegas heist caper Ocean's Eleven, director Steven Soderbergh and star George Clooney are planning to reunite the gang for another job, according to Daily Variety.
The two pals and producing partners have been given the green light from Warner Bros to develop Ocean's Twelve with an eye toward bringing back many of the high-caliber stars that pilfered in the original,
including Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac and Don Cheadle, along with new cast members.
Based on the 1960 Rat Pack romp, Ocean's Eleven figured to be a one-off flick, not a franchise. Funny how a $183 million domestic gross can change minds.
Warners has reportedly tapped screenwriter George Nolfi to redraft his screenplay Honor Among Thieves to serve as the basis for the sequel. The studio originally purchased the script two years ago as a potential
directing vehicle for John Woo, but the project languished in development hell.
If all goes according to schedule, cameras should start rolling on Ocean's Twelve in March 2004 in time for a holiday release later that year.
Ocean's Twelve
From ~~ Alex
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Angry at Portrayal in JFK Jr. Film
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is demanding that the TBS Superstation not rebroadcast "America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story" until scenes are deleted that the rock star says defame him.
The movie, which premiered on the cable station Sunday, shows Kennedy rescuing Daryl Hannah after Browne allegedly beat her up. The actress is the former girlfriend of both Browne, 54,
and Kennedy, who died in a plane crash in 1999 at 38.
"Mr. Browne has never assaulted Daryl Hannah," the singer-songwriter's publicist, Michael Jensen, said Wednesday. "Ms. Hannah never filed a police report claiming such an assault and
Mr. Browne was never arrested for or charged with such an assault."
Browne's attorney, Lawrence Iser, demanded Tuesday that TBS halt future broadcasts of the movie until "false and defamatory" scenes are removed.
Jackson Browne
From Tim H
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Target Track Gets Grammy Nomination
Stevie Wonder
Executives at Target Corp. thought they were nailing a few firsts when they hired Stevie Wonder to record "The Christmas Song" for the retailer's seasonal TV ads. But the notion that a Grammy
nomination would come out of it was the furthest thing from their corporate minds.
Minneapolis-based Target was keen on promoting the fact that it had become the first company to license the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" classic penned by Robert Wells and Mel Torme. It
also turns out it's the first time a recording financed for a commercial has been nominated for a Grammy.
The recording is competing in the pop collaboration with vocals category, where it will go up against Christina Aguilera and Redman, Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, Natalie Cole and Diana Krall, and Sheryl Crow and Don Henley.
Target's commercial featuring Wonder and India.Arie aired from mid-November up to Christmas, making television the one medium where the song was heard.
Motown, which also handles Wonder, submitted all of its eligible tracks to the Grammy nominating committees en masse; there was no special push for the track.
Researchers at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences said no other song recorded for a commercial has ever been nominated for a Grammy. Of course, many songs come to prominence
once placed in a commercial, such as this year's nominee "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas.
One other crazy caveat: once Target sells all its copies, no more with "The Christmas Song" will be printed. Should it take home the trophy Feb. 23, it could be the only recording among
the winners that is already out of print -- another first in Grammy lore.
Stevie Wonder
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Headlining NBA Concert
Aguilera, Timberlake
"Mickey Mouse Club" alumni Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake will reunite next month for a televised charity concert in Atlanta, the National Basketball Assn. said on Wednesday.
The NBA All-Star Read To Achieve Celebration, taking place at the Georgia World Congress Center on Feb. 8, also features hip-hop elder statesman LL Cool J and teen R&B group B2K.
The hour-long noon (EST) show will screen that day on 12 networks -- ABC, TNT, Nickelodeon, Nick GAS, BET, Disney Channel, Telemundo, NBA TV, AOL Broadband, RealOne Superpass, NBA.com's Inside Ticket and Canada's MuchMusic.
The event is part of the four-day NBA All-Star 2003, which culminates on Feb. 9 with the 52nd annual All-Star game at Philips Arena in Atlanta. Read To Achieve, launched in 2001, promotes literacy.
Aguilera, Timberlake
Workers transport a mock-up of a mandarin orange symbolising good fortune as they decorate for the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Goat outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong January 16, 2003. Retailers in the territory promote seasonal celebrations in a bid to boost
sales, as retail sales continue to fall as a crisis of confidence among local consumers.
Photo by Bobby Yip
Georgia Judge Issued Warrant
Bobby Brown
A Georgia judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of entertainer Bobby Brown, saying the rhythm and blues singer's performance this week at a televised awards show violated his bond.
DeKalb County State Court Judge Wayne M. Purdom issued the warrant after Brown's live performance Monday at the American Music Awards program in Los Angeles, his secretary said on Thursday.
Brown, the 33-year-old husband of pop diva Whitney Houston, faced trial on 1996 misdemeanor charges in DeKalb County that included driving under the influence of alcohol. He had been ordered not to leave
Georgia and to report to DeKalb authorities each week until his trial under terms of bond set in November.
Until Monday, Brown had reported to the court each week, the judge's secretary said.
"As far as the court is concerned, he is now a fugitive," Purdom's secretary said. "We understand from his attorney that (Brown) is going to surrender himself tomorrow."
Bobby Brown
House Shopping in South Florida
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is house shopping in south Florida, and recently toured a 17,000-square-foot mansion on the market for $45 million, his real estate broker said Wednesday.
The reclusive pop star decided against the luxury beachfront dwelling, said broker James Meiskin, of New York. He said he expects Jackson will decide whether to buy a home in the area in the next few months.
Real estate agent Nadine House, who represents the mansion's owners, said she initially didn't believe Meiskin when he told her who wanted to see the house late last month.
House said she knew it would be a tough sale — Jackson was more interested in relaxing on a couch and watching a TV show about the Academy Awards.
Jackson also seemed fascinated with the seagulls flying over the 4.6-acre grounds, House said.
"He was calling the birds, running around in the yard after them," she said. "He would then laugh and say, 'I'm sorry.'"
Michael Jackson
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Love Life Stirs Speculation
Britney Spears
For those keeping score on Britney Spears' love life, she's either back with Justin Timberlake or she's dating Fred Durst.
News reports and the Limp Bizkit front man's postings on his band's Web site have fed the rumor mill about the 21-year-old pop star's recent romances.
Ex-boyfriend Timberlake, 21, said he was "definitely single" during a taping of the "Wayne Brady Show" Monday. But he was reunited with Spears Monday night at the American Music Awards, and the New York Post reported the two were seen kissing later that night.
Meanwhile, Durst's comments on limpbizkit.com address the 32-year-old rocker's rumored romance with Spears.
In a Jan. 9 posting Durst wrote, "I really like her and that's about all I should say. She's a sweet amazing girl and I'm happy to know her right now."
Two days later, Durst added another posting.
"Anybody out there who has a serious problem with my feelings for Britney should just chill and worry about your own feelings for a minute. You can't help what happens in life because everything happens for a reason,"
Durst wrote. "I am a good judge of character and so is she. It just happens to be a person that I would have thought could make me feel this way. And believe that I have never felt this way, so there. If you think I'm going soft then you go ahead and think it."
Britney Spears
California Zookeepers Perplexed
Penguins
A few penguins swimming leisurely at the San Francisco Zoo is nothing new. But dozens of them doing laps in unison for hours has zookeepers perplexed.
It all started in November when six newcomer Magellannic penguins, formerly of Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, were brought in.
Since then the penguin pool at the San Francisco Zoo has been a daily frenzy of circle swimming by all of the 52 birds at once.
The penguins start swimming in circles early in the day and rarely stop until they stagger out of the pool at dusk.
Some penguin experts point to the highly social animals as being open to new ideas fostered by newcomers in to the zoo's so-called Penguin Island.
Penguins
Man Sentenced for Wrecking Car
Missy Elliott
A man who wrecked a $300,000 sports car owned by Grammy-winning hip-hop star Missy Elliott was sentenced to three years in jail for the late-night spin.
Johnson, 34, was convicted Oct. 9 of driving the Lamborghini Diablo away from the garage where it was stored.
The plum-colored Italian sports car was being shipped from California to Elliott's home in Virginia Beach. It was parked for safety inside a building in suburban Richmond until the last leg of its
trip when Johnson took it for a drive on Oct. 9, 2001.
Three miles from the garage, Johnson lost control of the 550-horsepower, low-slung vehicle. It crashed into a traffic sign, a tree and a couple of curbs.
Missy Elliott
Jamaican Police Seek Former Boxing Champ
Trevor Berbick
Jamaican police are searching for former world heavyweight boxing champion Trevor Berbick on house breaking and larceny charges, police said on Thursday.
Berbick, 48, is accused of stealing household articles from a home in the northeastern town of Port Antonio. He arrived in Jamaica last month after being deported from the United States, where he had several run-ins
with the law and served a prison sentence.
Police said they searched Berbick's house and found television sets, stereo systems and other items reported stolen by a Port Antonio resident.
Berbick, represented Jamaica at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and settled in Canada. He turned professional the following year and won the WBC world heavyweight title in 1986, when he defeated American Pinklon Thomas.
Berbick later lost the title to Mike Tyson. Among Berbick's other victories was one over boxing great Muhammad Ali in 1981.
Trevor Berbick
Renewed Til 2005-2006
'Dr. Phil'
Syndication giant King World has renewed its hit talker "Dr. Phil" through the 2005-06 TV season, with fresh two-year deals on stations covering more than 60% of the country.
"There have been a lot of upgrades, from morning to afternoon, or even 5 to 7 -- that's right, in access time periods," Roger King, CEO of CBS Enterprises and King World Prods.,
told Daily Variety. "It's in primetime in some cases, too." He declined to specify the license fee tally.
'Dr. Phil'
Sets Record with 702 Needles
Piercing King
With speed-metal music on his headphones and a picture of his deceased mother beside him, a 34-year-old Canadian pinned down the world record for body piercing on Wednesday.
Finishing with one in each nipple, Brent Moffatt pushed 702 needles into his body in a little less than eight hours. Most went into his legs and feet.
He had hoped to reach 1,000 piercings but stopped when the pain became too much to bear.
The previous world record-holder had 200 piercings.
Moffatt wore gloves and sterilized forceps to carefully lift his skin and slide a lubricated 18-gauge needle in neat lines into his skin. He said a desire "to be different" led
him to seek the record, after considering it for a couple years.
Moffatt had already stretched his earlobes with holes almost 1-1/2 inches wide, allowing them to dangle thick steel carabineers normally used for rock-climbing. His eyebrows
sport the beginnings of what he hopes will one day be a full Maori mask tattooed on his face.
He prepared for his latest feat by taking antibiotics, getting a good night's sleep and eating a hearty breakfast.
Once done, he left the needles in for more than five minutes. Taking them out, he said, hurt far more than putting them in. He did not expect the holes to scar.
Piercing King
Body Double On 'Haper's Bazaar' Cover?
Kate Winslet
Harper's Bazaar is denying a story in yesterday's Women's Wear Daily that a body double was used for its cover photo of Kate Winslet. Under the headline "Winslet's Head on Harper's Body," the trade paper
reported: "Just days after British GQ confessed to digitally slimming [Winslet] down in its pages, Harper's Bazaar has admitted that its January cover is actually Winslet's head grafted onto fashion director
Mary Alice Stephenson's body. A magazine spokesman says Winslet was originally shot against a white background; when editor Glenda Bailey later decided she wanted a gold background instead, Stephenson stood
in. (Strands of hair on Winslet's neck in the photo likely conceal the traces of the seam.)" But, Scott Currie, the Harper's Bazaar rep who spoke to WWD, backtracked. "I never admitted anything," Currie said. "I
said that Mary Alice stood in to get the lighting right." Stephenson insisted, with a laugh, "I know my body - and that ain't it." A Fairchild spokeswoman said, "We are confident of our sources and we stand by our story."
Kate Winslet
Hopes DNA Clears Her of Murder
Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek
The Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek story has already yielded several books and a TV movie: Blond former police officer and Playboy bunny convicted of killing her husband's ex-wife escapes from prison, is captured in Canada and then set free in deal with prosecutors.
Now Bembenek wants to write an epilogue: exoneration via DNA testing.
Ira Robins, a private investigator who has spent years working with her, said Bembenek believes she has nothing to lose by seeking exoneration.
"She already served her time," Robins said. "There's no downside for Laurie. There's nothing they can do to her."
The producers of the "Dr. Phil" television show agreed to pay for some DNA testing in exchange for her appearance. But while awaiting the taping in November, Bembenek had what her lawyer said was an attack of
claustrophobia and tried to slip out of her Los Angeles hotel room by climbing down a bedsheet rope. She fell from the second story and had to have her foot amputated.
Her case returns to court Friday for a hearing on a request for ballistics tests on two guns. So far, preliminary lab tests showed none of Bembenek's DNA on several items from the murder scene. Her attorney wants more DNA testing.
For the rest, Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek
Gao Gao, an 11-year-old male panda, takes a peek around his new home at the San Diego Zoo after his arrival from China on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003, in San Diego. After 30 days in quarantine at the zoo's hospital, Gao Gao will spend the next six years in San Diego on loan from China.
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