Alex's Entertainment Report
Alex
Reader Query
HBO, Chris Rock & The Sopranos
After renting the tapes of the first two years of
the Sopranos and
getting hooked; I added HBO last Fall with the idea
that I could watch
new episodes of the Sopranos. All I'm getting are
re-runs, will they
ever have some new programs this Spring?
The good news was that I found Chris Rock EVERY
NIGHT WEEKDAYS. Since
I hadn't viewed any of his old programs, I enjoyed
them very much. The
bad news is that as of January 2002, he only appears
only on Wednesday
evenings and these shows are repeats. What happend
to his programs?
Will there be new shows on the horizon?
Regards,
~~ Doc
"In a democracy, the power lies in the manipulation
of public opinion; who controls information and
education prevails."
''Rack Jite''
Doc-
Chris Rock isn't doing any more weekly shows for HBO....just the occasional
'Special'.
Sadly, 'The Sopranos' won't have anything fresh until spring (or longer)...
there will be such a gap between seasons that they aren't qualified for the Emmy's
this year!
This Friday night, though, Dennis Miller starts his new season. Last year was more
than a disappointment. I don't expect much better this year, unless he's heavily invested
in Enron. His contract is for 26 new shows. The guest tonight is Ron Insana.
More From 'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Response
Re: 'Indefinite' & Britney
Whoever mailed you was either lying through their teeth, or not too bright. As a
writer, I keep Webster's Thesaurus on my desk at all time. Here is the
real entry for "indefinite:
"indefinite. a. unsure, unsettled, loose; see UNCERTAIN, VAGUE 2."
Michael P.
''When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.''
Thanks, Michael.
Reader Response
Belated Playmate Pan
Sent this to my list of frends. Didn't see boo about
it on BartcopE - Bartcop said he changed the channel.
For what it's worth....
Did anybody else happen to watch the playboy playmate
Fear Factor last night? That had to be the most
pornograpphic thing i've seen this side of actual
porno. The images are burned indelibly into my brain.
I know!
I have this great idea for a freaky kinky bondage
jackoff scene.
Plexi box about 16" square.
Suspend fresh srawbwrries on legnths of fishing line
in a ring from the ceiling of the box.
After final liberal application of lipstick the
Playmate sticks her head up into the bottom of the
box.
Now EAT, GIRL, EAT!
she can't use her hands so she has to push the berries
up against the plexi with her mouth.
It's a contest so she has to eat them as fast as
possible.
Cheeks bulging w/ half chewed berries,
Salivating uncontrollably on the tartness.
Unnecessary closeup right here.
Yeah, that's real good, baby.
My that was a big one she had to open her mouth all
the way for that one, poor thing.
Sitting down yet?
OK now it's FEAR FACTOR and we're gonna take something
nasty and make it gross.
I know!
We'll put a pound of flies in the box along with the
berries.
And now i'm the host of Fear Factor, Joe Rogan:
"I just know she ate at least a couple of flies with
that one..."
That's all he could talk about.
Does anybody remember why "The Gong Show" got
shitcanned?
=====
...and it's hard to read the writing through the flames.
~~ Craig B
Craig--
Sorry...I started to watch the 'Fear Factor' with the 'Playboy Bunnies', but, also
found it difficult to take.
So far as 'The Gong Show'....well, currently, George Clooney is making his directorial debut
with Chuck Barris' autobiography. It's filming in Canada, and Drew Barrymore is in the cast.
In the book, Chuck Barris claimed to be a CIA operative.
Yes, I have a copy of the book...what can I say, one of my old pals dated Chuck back in the 70's. She had
only kind things to say about him.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started the night with 'Friends'. Stuck around for 'Will & Grace' & 'Just Shoot Me'.
Also watched 'PrimeTime Thursday', but don't remember much about it now.
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with a rerun 'JAG', and then a fresh 'First
Monday' and '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the Olympics. Starting next Monday, Leno will be starting half-an-hour later (12:35 est/pst),
and go on for 90 minutes. Pickles is guesting Monday.
ABC once again shows its contempt for its audience and fills with so-called 'Funniest Videos' and a
regurgitation of last weekends clunker, 'Patch Adams'.
The WB regurgitates 'Sabrina Goes To Rome'.
Faux has the recently cancelled 'The Chamber' listed, followed by a fresh 'Dark
Angel'.
UPN has the movie 'Space Jam'.
AMC has the ever-campy 'Empire Of The Ants', with Joan Collins, written by H.G. Wells.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Mike Meyers Auditioned
Keith Moon
The Who's Roger Daltry has auditioned American funny man Mike Meyers to play Keith Moon in a warts-and-all movie
tribute to the band's drummer, Britain's Sun tabloid reported on Friday.
Daltry, 57, told the Sun: "Mike is a genius. I can really see him as Keith. I went to some of the filming of his new
Austin Powers film and it's hysterical. He's amazing when you meet him, so clever."
Moon, famous for drunken antics that included driving a Rolls-Royce into his swimming pool, wrote the book on how
to be a "rock 'n' roll lunatic," Daltry told the tabloid.
"It must have been hell to actually be Keith Moon. How do you have a day off? There aren't any days off and I think he
started to live the thing he created," Daltry said.
Britain's own Robbie Williams has also been considered for the part because, with his own battles with drink
and drugs, he reminds Daltry of Moon.
"There's a lot of Moon that I see in him, a lot of demons. But hopefully he's got to grips with them," Daltry said.
Mike Meyers Or Robbie Williams?
I thought Mike Myers was Canadian? Comments?
Time For A New Producer AND A New Chyron Operator?
MSNBC
Red-faced staffers at MSNBC were still apologizing yesterday for a major spelling goof that appeared on-air Tuesday.
During an interview with Republican consultant Niger Innis, who is African-American, a producer, in creating an
on-screen graphic, wrote "Nigger Innis."
Horrified employees at the NBC-owned cable network caught the gaffe only after it appeared on-screen.
Innis appeared to take the mistake in stride.
"Oh, God, I thought you guys thought I was a rapper or something," Innis told Jarrett. "Media bias continues — just
kidding. It's not the first time it's happened, but hopefully it's the last."
The image of Innis with the misspelled name also appeared on the Web site Newsblues.com yesterday, prompting
MSNBC to issue another apology.
Niger Innis
Congressional Correspondents' Dinner
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sen. Hillary Clinton admitted at Tuesday's annual congressional correspondents' dinner that she almost turned down New York
Times scribe Adam Clymer when he invited her to do some standup.
"I said, 'You know, Adam, I don't do funny," Hillary recalled.
And he said, 'Yeah, but just the sight of you trying will certainly amuse a lot of us.'"
Tuesday morning, she said, she almost canceled, thinking she might ape ex-Enron CEO Ken Lay, who blew off a congressional
hearing.
"I was so stunned that Mr. Lay woke up on Monday and decided that the Congress might be out to get him..." Clinton joked. "If
that had been my understanding, for eight years I wouldn't have gone anywhere."
Clinton also joked about President Bush, who was at the dinner, and his penchant for giving nicknames — like calling Lay "Kenny
Boy" or Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) "Foleyman."
"Apparently, I don't have one yet — or at least not one that's mentioned in public," she added. The News' Timothy Burger
reports that Clinton also ragged on the Bush administration for its inability to locate White House records
concerning Enron's financial condition.
"They can't find them anywhere," she said before alluding to her law firm's billing records that mysteriously reappeared.
"I was just going to helpfully suggest they try the upstairs library."
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
They Want ''To Teach A Lesson''
Faux In The Crosshairs? (LOL)
A coalition of Christian and conservative groups wants to teach the Fox television network and producers of the high
school drama "Boston Public" a lesson in decency.
Fifteen groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission this week seeking an investigation of Fox for
its "outrageous flouting" of broadcast decency standards, particularly in the critically acclaimed show.
Groups signing the letter include Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, Morality in Media, the Christian
Coalition, Citizens for Community Values, the American Association of Christian Schools and Concerned Women for America.
They Want ''To Teach A Lesson''
Contract In Negotiations
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien, the talk show host is close to renewing his contract for NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" in a deal
that would roughly double O'Brien's salary to between $7.5 million and $8.5 million a year, according to a
source familiar with the negotiations.
The deal will likely be signed within the next two weeks, the source said.
The late night host, whose show airs weeknights at 12:35 a.m. (0535 GMT) after "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," was previously
rumored to have received overtures from the rival Fox network.
However, no serious talks ever came from those moves, and NBC still has a month left on its exclusive negotiating window,
according to the trade publication Daily Variety.
Conan O'Brien
Maybe Just Looking For Info?
Using Bill Clinton's Name?
Either Bill Clinton is breaking into the movie business, or someone is trying to pull off a hoax. The other day, the
Chiat Day ad agency got three calls from someone who said he was from Clinton's office. The caller said Clinton was
working on a movie project and might be interested in casting the woman in the agency's Martell cognac ad. The ads
just broke on billboards and kiosks in minority neighborhoods, such as Harlem, where Clinton has his office. But
his rep, Julia Payne, says the report is "absolutely false. Mr. Clinton is not writing a screenplay, and no one
from his office would have made a call like that." The woman in question is Italian beauty Gretha Cavazzoni, star
of MTV Europe's "House of Style" as well as several sexy ad campaigns. Her rep at the Marilyn agency says, "She'd
love to be considered for Clinton's project - if she can bring her boyfriend to the casting." In fact, Cavazzoni
has already made her big-screen debut in a popular Italian film.
Using Bill Clinton's Name?
More Film Awards?
The Stony Awards
While movie fans wait with bated breath for the Academy Award nominations, potheads can exhale a sigh a relief -- the
Stony Award nominations for counterculture and marijuana-friendly films are out.
High Times magazine on Thursday unveiled nominees for the third annual awards. The top contenders for Best Picture
are "Blow," "How High," "The Anniversary Party," "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," "Brooklyn Babylon" and "The Wash"
with four nominations each.
The winners will be announced on March 3 at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in New York.
The magazine also introduced the new categories of Best Foreign Movie, Best Original Song from a Movie and Best Psychedelic
Scene. They join Best Movie, Best Stoner Movie, Pot Scene of the Year, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Documentary and Best Soundtrack.
The Stoner of the Year pits previous winner Jason Mewes in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," against rapper Snoop Dogg
in "The Wash," Marlon Wayans in "Scary Movie 2" and Owen Wilson in "Zoolander."
The Stony Awards
Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theaticals Woman of the Year
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker (C) waves to the crowd with Krishnan Unnikrishnan (L), Vice President of the cast, and
Greg Padgett (R), President of Theatricals, as Parker is honored as Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theaticals Woman
of the Year with a parade through Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts February 7, 2002.
Photo by Brian Snyder
Britney Spears Super Bowl Ads
TiVo Says
Those Britney Spears Super Bowl ads turned out to be the most-often replayed part of the Cinderella football game.
It didn't matter that this year's contest was one of the closest games in Super Bowl history - decided on the last
play of the game - says TiVo, the leading maker of digital video recorders.
The company monitored the viewing choices of 10,000 of its 280,000 subscribers, it said yesterday, and found that
most people wanted to see the Britney ads for Pepsi.
It was the first ad - showing the pop singer spoofing on the style of Pepsi ads dating back to the '50s - that was the most popular.
In all, the soft-drink company paid about $8 million to air the four ads during the Super Bowl - and a reported
$4 million more to produce them.
When the ads were tested, the '80s segment scored poorly with audiences and has been banished to cable.
Because TiVo is also hooked to the phone lines, it is possble for the company to anonymously monitor subscribers' viewing habits.
TiVo Says
Pigboy hates TiVo - that's enough recommendation for me!
Writers Guild of America
Jumping The Gun?
The Writers Guild of America is always eager to tubthump its members -- but this week the eagerness got a little out of hand.
Though the union is scheduled to unveil 2001 screenplay nominees Thursday at 8:30 a.m., the 10 contenders were posted on its
Web site at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night.
The list was not immediately apparent to those who logged onto the http://www.wga.org site, but it was easily found by anyone
who knew how to navigate the site.
Web site http://www.Oscarwatch.com posted the list Wednesday evening, with the disclaimer that it might be a dummy roster.
(A few years ago, Web site ain't-it-cool-news posted Oscar nominees ahead of the announcement, touting them as the real thing,
though it was later discovered to be a practice list from an ABC employee who did not have access to the real info.)
Writers Guild of America
Lip-Synching Superstar?
Britney Spears
We were shocked - shocked - to hear that Britney Spears lip-synchs many of her songs at concerts. Tomorrow's "Inside
Edition" reports that while Britney is bumping and grinding onstage, her microphone isn't even on much of the time.
Another lip-synching superstar is Janet Jackson, who, like Britney, often looks like she's leading an aerobics class
instead of singing during her heavily-choreographed shows. Reps for the sometimes singers were tight-lipped
about the "Inside Edition" allegations.
Britney Spears
San Francisco International Film Festival
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty will receive the Akira Kurosawa Award for lifetime achievement in film directing at the 45th annual
San Francisco Intl. Film Festival, which runs April 18-May 2.
The nod, named for the late Japanese auteur who was its first recipient in 1986, will be presented to Beatty April 25
during the festival's awards night at the Argent Hotel. Other previous recipients include Clint Eastwood, Joseph L.
Mankiewicz and Robert Bresson.
Warren Beatty
Tuesday At Radio City Music Hall
Barry Manilow
It was late in the Barry Manilow concert at Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, and the audience clearly belonged to the showman.
By the time he reached, "When will our eyes meet?/ When will I touch you again?," the pent-up passions exploded, and the
women in the house burst into squeals, shrieks and moans of lust.
Even Manilow was taken aback. At first, he looked dumbly at the house, and then smiled his crooked grin and said with a
slight Jimmy Durante inflection, "I still got it."
Had people left the house at intermission, it would have been understandable - but they would have missed one of
the great comebacks in concert history.
While "Copacabana (at the Copa)" was the concert's musical highlight, the show's other great moment came when Manilow
announced that he was donating that concert's proceeds to President Bill Clinton's scholarship fund to benefit
children of the World Trade Center attacks.
With an Elvis-like drawl, Barry's favorite saxman thanked Manilow for the $100,00 check and vowed the fund would have
a 21-year lifetime, since so many of those widowed on Sept. 11 were pregnant.
Barry Manilow
'Teenage Cancer Trust' In London
Pete Townsend
Rock giants Oasis have ditched their bad boy image to kick off a cancer charity concert run, which will be reignited
with the special appearance of The Who on Thursday evening.
Known for hard drinking and stronger language, the once feuding Gallagher brothers opened a fundraiser for the Teenage
Cancer Trust at London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday.
Rock legends The Who play on Thursday night making a return after a similar fundraiser last November.
But 40 years in the business has taken its toll on the band's no-nonsense guitarist and recovering alcoholic Pete
Townshend who has said the Broadway success of his hit play "Tommy" went to his head.
"Eight years without a drink now. In the last 20 years I've only drunk for one year, which was in 1993," the 56-year-old
star told the Sun on Thursday.
"I had 'Tommy' on Broadway and it went to my head. It doesn't matter how much money I had, I still ended up coming out of
a club, seeing a builder's skip and thinking 'What a lovely place to spend the night'."
'Teenage Cancer Trust' In London
TV's Warmest Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine?
Oprah & Dr. Phil
Oprah and Dr. Phil - TV's warmest good cop/bad cop routine since Mary and Rhoda - has made Phillip McGraw into
one of the entertainment industry's hottest commodities.
Winfrey's ratings go up every Tuesday when Dr. Phil's delivers blunt, tough-love advice to audience members and
morphs "change your life TV" into "get a life TV."
Like Rhoda, he's getting his own show.
Critics, however, complain that his cut-to-the chase style is "McTherapy" for people facing complicated issues.
Hired by Winfrey to handle her celebrated defense against the Texas cattleman, he became one of her most trusted
advisors when he skipped the brown nosing and told her why she was about to lose the case for herself.
McGraw is used to micromanaging and anticipating every possible angle the high stakes drama of multi-million dollar
lawsuits, a skill he transfers to his assignment as Oprah's Reality Sheriff.
Oprah & Dr. Phil
At The Bulls - Laker Game
Jack & Adam
Actor Adam Sandler, right, sits with fellow actor Jack Nicholson during a Los Angeles Lakers game against the Chicago
Bulls, Wednesday night, Feb. 6, 2002, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Tuesday Night's Numbers
'Frasier' Ruled
Viewers took NBC's "Frasier" up on its proposal Tuesday night, as the veteran comedy pulled in almost 19 million
viewers and lifted the network to victory on the night among most key demographics.
"Frasier," in an episode that saw Niles propose to Daphne, ruled the 9 p.m. half-hour and ranked as the top show of
the night in adults 18-49 (8.3 rating/20 share), adults 25-54 (9.3/20), adults 18-34 (7.7/20) as well as total
viewers (18.99 million). Its 18-49 rating was just a tick off its season high.
NBC won the night in 18-49 (5.4/13), as "Scrubs" (6.1/14) and "Dateline" (4.7/12) also won their slots. A repeat
"Will & Grace" at 8 (4.2/11) helped boost the network earlier in the night. Fox, second in 18-49 (5.1/12) and
first in 18-34 (5.3/14), got a lift from a second first-run episode of "That '70s Show" at 8:30 (10.84 million,
6.0/15 in adults 18-49), which won in most demos. That helped boost "24" (9.25 million, 4.5/10 in adults 18-49)
to its largest overall audience since its preem in November.
At CBS, "JAG" and "Judging Amy" both won their hours in viewers, while ABC was led by "NYPD Blue," the top-rated
drama of the night in adults 18-49 (5.0/11).
Tuesday Night's Numbers
Lane Bryant Fashion Show
Anna, Carré & Roseanne
Look out, Victoria's Secret — your models may be skinnier, but they couldn't compete with the heaping helping of bawdy
fun backstage at Tuesday's Lane Bryant fashion show at Roseland.
"You know you want me," Anna Nicole Smith teased as she vamped for photographers.
"It's been seven years since I've had sex or fun," the high-spirited voluptuary told us. "Except for that one
guy for three weeks, but then it was all over the papers. I feel so good to be out of my house and out of my bed tonight."
Carré Otis was more moved by the opportunities she's discovered since gaining 30 pounds and becoming a plus-size model.
Roseanne Barr, who said she is in the midst of divorcing her third husband, Ben Thomas, enjoyed the sights backstage.
"I can't be in a relationship, I ruin them all," she said. "I think I'm a lesbian."
But the self-proclaimed domestic goddess, who has never been shy about displaying her ample assets, rejected the "plus-size" label.
"Sixty percent of women are over a size 12," Roseanne said. "There are like only about 10 women under size 12 in the world."
Anna, Carré & Roseanne
Comic Gold Mines?
SNL & Late Night
The network Wednesday greenlit a slate of half-hour pilots dominated by projects with roots in its Gotham-based late-night
schedule. Potential laffers include projects executive produced by "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels, ex-"SNL"
star Adam Sandler, and former "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" head writer Jon Groff.
NBC insiders said the network's entertainment president, Jeff Zucker, felt "SNL" and "Late Night" haven't been
used as the comic gold mines they could be.
"For so long, we've continued to develop a lot of female point-of-view shows," Zucker said. "There was a conscious
effort to go a little more male this time."
Among the new NBC comedy projects confirmed Wednesday:
= Untitled Chevy Chase project: Thesp plays dad to three young daughters in this "My Three Sons" update. Michaels
is an executive producer.
= Jon Groff project: Male-skewing show about a guy who leave his big-city life to become a teacher.
= "Leave Me Alone": MacDonald and Jon Lovitz are set to star as mismatched roommates. Screenwriter Tim Herlihy
(Sandler's "The Wedding Singer," "The Waterboy" and "Happy Gilmore") is the scribe-executive producer; Sandler
is also an executive producer.
= Untitled Tim Doyle project: Former "Ellen" scribe Doyle wrote this half-hour about a man and his young daughter.
Giraldo is set to star in the pilot, which is based on his standup; a few deal points are holding up a final green light.
= "Hidden Hills": A family show (on NBC!) about a married man, his wife, their three kids -- and the suburbs.
Comic Gold Mines?
Gee, how original...a ''little more male''.
What a shame they can't figure out the answer is a ''little more smart''.
NPR, Drums & Pacing
Doug Berman
The connection between the production of public-radio shows and West African drumming is tenuous. This much was quickly
established during a conversation with Doug Berman, executive producer of ''Car Talk'' and ''Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!,''
both of which air on WBUR-FM (90.9).
There are similarities, though: Radio, like drumming, requires a sense of rhythm and the way things flow together - whether
it be the rat-a-tat-tat automotive (and life) advice delivered by Tom and Ray Magliozzi on ''Car Talk'' or the more erudite
news-quizzing wordplay of ''Wait Wait.''
That's the word from Berman, who - in addition to what could be seen as two full-time jobs - practices with local drumming
colleagues every weekend, a vocation that will be made public Saturday during a recital at Wesleyan College in Middletown,
Conn., honoring his teacher, Abraham Adzenyah. For Berman, these two loves run parallel, without much intersection.
There may be some other similarities, however. ''I do think that the best producers and editors are musical people,'' says
Berman, who in the wacky end credits of ''Car Talk'' has been affectionately called ''bongo boy Berman.'' ''There is a
musicality to a good program. It has a pace; it picks up and slows down. Musicians have a good sense of timing and of
pacing, of how long something should go.''
Doug Berman
NYC Mayors Do Ads In CA
The Rudy & Mike Show
Mayor Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani are betting on different horses in California's GOP gubernatorial primary on March 5.
Yesterday, Bloomberg gave his support to Richard Riordan, the former mayor of Los Angeles, who like Bloomberg is a
wealthy businessman-turned-politician. Giuliani has endorsed Bill Simon, an old friend who is the son of former
Treasury Secretary William Simon.
The Rudy & Mike Show
LOL...yep, they're both doing ads in the local market. At the end of the Rudy/Bill Simon spot, the Serial Philanderer
whips off his glasses & says ''Trust Me''. Now, whenever someone says 'trust me', I tend not to. If you've shaken their hand,
count your fingers. Phrases closely related would be 'the check is in the mail', it's only a cold sore', and 'it isn't the money'.
And, former-mayor Rearend - er, I mean Riordan, is having a rough time of it with old video sound bites coming back to haunt him. : )
Mardi Gras Or Fasching Or
Carnivale!
Spanish-born craftsman Armando Valle checks on carnival masks of Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin-Laden, at a costume
factory in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, February 7, 2002. Valle rushed to fill orders for 12,000 of the popular masks
of bin-Laden, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and U.S President George W. Bush ahead of carnival festivities.
Photo by Sergio Moraes
Face Work 'Grew Viewers'?
Greta's Numbers
About 1.62 million viewers tuned in to catch the new face of Greta Van Susteren as she made her Fox News Channel debut Monday at 10 p.m.
By Night 2, "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" had shed nearly half a million cosmetic surgery voyeurs, though her
two-day average still put her about 60 percent ahead of FNC's average in that time period last month. Van Susteren's average
for the two days was 152 percent better than "The Edge With Paula Zahn" the same week last year.
On Monday, Van Susteren scored about 760,000 more viewers than her CNN competitor, "NewsNight With Aaron Brown." By Tuesday,
her lead over Brown had been cut to about 250,000.
Van Susteren might have done an even larger number Monday had she not gone on Bill O'Reilly's show at 8 that night to tell
O'Reilly that the "extraordinary buzz" caused by her face work may "grow viewers" for her show. About 2.4 million people -- no
doubt including even more plastic surgery lookie-loos -- caught her at 8.
Opposite Monday's Van Susteren debut and CNN's Brownless Brown show, Alan Keyes was "Making Sense" to about 290,000 folks
over on MSNBC. By Tuesday he made sense to about 260,000.
Greta's Numbers
More To This?
Olga Korbut
The U.S. Secret Service said on Wednesday it was investigating the discovery of thousands of dollars in counterfeit
money at a home belonging to gymnast Olga Korbut, winner of four Olympic gold medals.
Korbut could not be reached to comment. Her manager, Kay Weatherford, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Korbut
"doesn't have a clue" about the fake money and had not lived in the house for some time.
Police discovered the counterfeit notes when trying to serve a foreclosure notice on the home. According to the sheriff's
report, the home appeared abandoned and heavily damaged.
Korbut was arrested last month on charges that she shoplifted $19 worth of groceries from a store in Norcross, Georgia.
She paid $600 bond and was awaiting a court date, the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department said.
Olga Korbut
Trademark & Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
'Equipped' Oscars
Attorneys for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have filed a trademark and copyright infringement lawsuit
against a company that offers replica Oscar statuettes equipped with male genitalia over the Internet.
Pipedream Products Inc. of Los Angeles sells their own Oscar statuettes with one noticeable difference. They call
their product the "Stud of the Year."
The real golden Oscar is 13 inches tall, weighs 8 1/2 pounds and has no sex organs, according to court documents
filed in federal court.
The academy is seeking an injunction to prevent the company from selling any more statuettes.
'Equipped' Oscars
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In Memory
Earl E. Rowe
Earl E. Rowe, an actor who portrayed the police chief in the 1958 cult science fiction thriller "The Blob," died Feb. 1 of Parkinson's disease. He was 81.
The portrayal of Lt. Dave, a small-town police chief who fought to stop a slithering ball of man-eating goo, was Rowe's most noted role.
The campy film gave Steve McQueen his first starring role, and its title song, "Beware of the Blob," was written by an uncredited Burt Bacharach.
The film was shot in 1957 in the Philadelphia suburbs on a budget of $127,000. The title character was played by a mass of cranberry sauce.
After "The Blob," Rowe went on to appear on stage and in television shows and commercials, including Broadway productions of "Playhouse Lullaby" and "Anniversary Waltz." He had a three-year role on NBC's now-defunct soap "The Doctors" and appeared in the 1980 television movie "Attica."
Rowe attended the Bessie V. Hicks School of Dramatic Arts in Philadelphia. His career was interrupted by World War II, during which he worked in an aircraft factory before joining the Army. He was wounded in Germany.
Earl E. Rowe
'Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me'
Michael Dare - 'The Life and Death of Captain Preemo'
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Watergate v$ Enron!
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