BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 25 February, 2005
Friday
25 February, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Susan J. Douglas: Debtor Nation (In These Times)
The financial institutions that issue credit cards are major Washington lobbyists and, thus, virtually unregulated.
Mark Crispin Miller Examines Mainstream Media's Blind Eye Towards the Gannongate Sex Scandal: A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
Clinton's sex life was fair game....
Jim Wallis Talks About "God's Politics" (his Latest Best Seller) and Values...by Which Wallis Doesn't Mean Hate, Greed, and War Mongering: A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
...religion has to be disciplined by democracy.
Charles Karel Bouley II: The gay agenda revealed! (The Advocate)
We know there's an antigay agenda: They want us gone, period.
Richard Manning: Where the Working Poor Eat (AlterNet)
Increasingly, the new clients at small-town food banks are not the beggars from beneath the bridge, but neighbors or colleagues.
David Pogue
Welcome to the Web's richest resource about your host: New York Times columnist, "Missing Manual" publisher, and Emmy-award winning CBS News correspondent David Pogue.
Metroland: The Sex Issue
Romanceopedia.com
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AGELESS GRANITE ROCK
SURROUNDED BY DECAYED FERNS
THERE'S BEAUTY IN DEATH
Zen Man
(in the mountains)
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Reader Suggestion
Re: Gillo Pontecorvo
Marty,
Heads up on Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' (1965) on Sundance, 26 Feb at 10:15 PM PST, and his 'Kapò' (1959) on TCM, 27 Feb at 5 PM PST.
For those who haven't seen Pontecorvo's Burn!, with Marlon Brando (1969), it frequently is on the rotation at the Action channel (532 on DTV).
The Battle of Algiers is usually described as 'astonishing,' and it could hardly be more timely.
It could hardly be more timely again in three months, or again every three months for awhile. What with the takeover of the US by the Ghost of Idi Amin, this is a film we should probably all burn a candle for.
While we're forced to endure the would-be 'Revealed Lord of All German Feces,' we might as well sip film art like the Zen strawberry in extremis.
Paul in LA
Thanks, Paul!
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Yank Tanks'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "Yank Tanks" (2002) Directed by David Schendel:
I used to own a classic 1955 Chevy Sedan that I chopped and molded and put in blue and white tuck-n-roll upholstery and vibrasonic stereo sound and a 327 cubic inch engine with two 4 barrel carburetors and traction-masters and slicks and a 5 speed close-ratio transmission with a 456 rear end - painted it metallic blue….and I raced it and rode it all over California….I knew it then ….and I know it now….this was my fundamental inalienable right…this was perfection….this was FREEDOM.
It was raining hard here in California today and I decided to scan my in-house cable movie schedule…..Sundance Channel had a Flick on called "Yank Tanks"….what a dumb ass title…well I did a little research and decided to pour a glass of cold Chardonnay, cut some Brie and baguette and commit to 70 minutes of "Classic Cars in Cuba"……."Yank Tanks"….
A little history is helpful….That "Commie" Castro took over Cuba in 1961 and the revolution caused the trade embargo with the US. Well before this happened Havana happened to be one of the Hippest watering holes in the world….in 1958 Havana had more Cadillacs per Capita than any city in the whole world! It also had Studebaker "Hawks", Hudson "Hornets", Buick "Electras", Ford "Fairlane 500s" and a 55 Chevy or two! When Castro took over, that 40 year embargo began and is still in effect. This meant that over 150,000 classic American cars were stranded down there…..but what could have been a huge graveyard has become the "Largest Auto Museum in the World"!
"Yank Tanks" is a beautiful film about how the creative and inventive people of Cuba resurrected hundreds of forgotten dinosaurs of chrome and steel. Imagine going to the dumps and scrounging scraps of metal and glass and upholstery and recreating, by hand, the amazing mass produced autos of the 40s and the 50s. There is a man named Eugenio who only makes chrome grills. Jose who works on carburetors. Chino who is a painter. Ito does nothing but repair and produce asbestos brakes! On and on…specialized mechanics, fabricators and painters reconstructing antiques into functional art pieces…just thrilling for me to see a really sexy red 55 chevy with a beautiful girl with long hair hanging out the window while flying down the open road……but it's all for show !!!!!!!
The average Cuban makes $10 per month….a gallon of gas costs $4….Do the math…most of these gorgeous relics don't go too far……but then…you can have a lot of fun in a parked car….nevertheless…that's the only thing missing in the equation…These people have found something we have lost in America….the joy of creation…of doing things with your own hands from virtually nothing…and the beauty of these magnificent machines……But They still can't get in their cars and drive anywhere they want…….
Purple Gene gives "Yanks Tanks" 10 Hudson hood ornaments out of 10 for honoring the noble beasts of the old American highway!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
A sunny, dry day.
There is some sort of police action in my neighborhood tonight.
Helicopters buzzed us for over 2 hours, but that's stopped for now, and the street out front has barricades across it.
There's a fire truck & an ambulance parked in the middle of the street, and it's very, very quiet.
Wonder what's up.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Joan Of Arcadia', followed by a FRESH 'JAG', then a FRESH 'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Ricky Gervais and Rachael Ray.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig is Nuttin' But Stringz.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Third Watch', then a FRESH 'Medical Investigation'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Oliver, and Good Charlotte.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are John Travolta and Shannon Elizabeth.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Alan Cumming, Molly Sims, Kevin Brennan, and the Music.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Diane Sawyer, Gavin Rossdale, and Xzibit.
The WB offers a FRESH 'What I Like About You', followed by a RERUN 'Reba', then a FRESH 'Reba', followed by a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Bernie Mac', followed by a RERUN 'Bernie Mac', then a FRESH 'Jonny Zero'.
UPN has a FRESH 'Enterprise', followed by a RERUN 'The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliott'.
Check local PBS listings for the BEST show on over-the-air-TV, 'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Dave Thomas of Wendy's), another 'Biography' (Glen Bell of Taco Bell), and yet another 'Biography' ('Col.' Harland Sanders of KFC).
AMC offers the movie 'The Quiet Man', followed by the movie 'Easy Rider', then the movie 'The Omen'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 5;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Shoulder to Shoulder;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 10;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Angel's Eye;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Banham;
[7pm] 'Rockface' - Episode 8;
[8pm] 'The Avengers' - The Superlative Seven;
[9pm] 'The Saint' - The Double Take;
[10pm] 'The Persuaders' - Five Miles to Midnight;
[11pm] 'The Avengers' - The Superlative Seven;
[12am] 'The Saint' - The Double Take;
[1am] 'The Persuaders' - Five Miles to Midnight;
[2am] 'Rockface' - Episode 8;
[3am] 'The Avengers' - The Superlative Seven;
[4am] 'The Saint' - The Double Take;
[5am] 'The Persuaders' - Five Miles to Midnight;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye - Girl', followed by the movie 'Shakespeare In Love', then the movie 'Shakespeare In Love', again.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Corey Kahaney), still another 'Comedy Central Presents', yet another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Retta), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Tess), and yes, one more 'Comedy Central Presents' (Vanessa Hollingshead).
HBO has a FRESH Real Time with Bill Maher - scheduled guests are Jose Canseco, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Tim Robbins, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Tucker Carlson, at 11 pm (est).
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Last Days Of WWII', 'Mail Call', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' (2001);
[7:45AM] 'At The Angelika #93' (2005);
[8:15AM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[10AM] 'The Quiet Room' (1996);
[11:45AM] 'Independent Spirit Awards Nomination Show' (2005);
[12:15PM] 'Waking Life' (2000);
[2PM] 'Clockwatchers' (1997);
[3:45PM] Short: 'Blink Of Paradise' (2000);
[4PM] 'The Quiet Room' (1996);
[5:45PM] 'At The Angelika #93' (2005);
[6:15PM] 'Waking Life' (2000);
[8PM] 'Independent Spirit Awards Nomination Show' (2005);
[8:30PM] 'Dogtown And Z-Boys' (2001);
[10PM] 'Dinner For Five #15' (2002);
[10:30PM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #208' (2004) SEASON FINALE;
[11PM] 'Suspiria' (1977);
[1AM] 'Dinner For Five #15' (2002);
[1:30AM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #208' (2004);
[2AM] 'Suspiria' (1977);
[4AM] 'Dogtown And Z-Boys' (2001). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Andromeda', followed by a FRESH 'Stargate SG-1', then a FRESH 'Stargate Atlantis', followed by a FRESH 'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'City of Dreams' (Documentary);
[7AM] 'Time Out' (Feature);
[9:15AM] 'Investigation of a Flame' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'In Satmar Custody' (Documentary);
[11:15AM] 'Marathon' (World Cinema);
[12:30PM] 'Year of the Bull' (Documentary);
[2PM] 'Shorts Program 116' (Short);
[3PM] 'Searching for Paradise' (Feature);
[4:30PM] 'Who Is Bernard Tapie?' (Documentary);
[5:30PM] 'Time Out' (Feature);
[7:45PM] 'Mother of an Attitude' (Short);
[8PM] 'The Tasty Bust Reunion' (Documentary);
[9PM] 'Margaret Cho's Revolution' (Documentary);
[10:30PM] 'Seeing Other People' (Feature);
[12AM] 'The Eye' (Feature);
[1:40AM] 'Year of the Bull' (Documentary);
[3:05AM] 'Searching for Paradise' (Feature);
[4:35AM] 'Tyler Brule: My Life' (Documentary);
[5:30AM] 'Shorts Program 116' (Short). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming' (1966);
[8:15am] 'Funny Girl' (1968);
[11am] 'Anne Of The Thousand Days' (1969);
[1:30pm] 'Airport' (1970);
[4pm] 'Sounder' (1972);
[6pm] 'The Goodbye Girl' (1977);
[8pm] 'The Sting' (1973);
[10:30pm] 'Rocky' (1976);
[1am] 'Midnight Cowboy' (1969);
[3am] 'Mrs. Miniver' (1942);
[5:30am] 'Dead Poets Society' (1989).
Saturday - 02/26
TCM:
[7:45am] 'Fiddler on the Roof' (1971);
[11am] 'Sense and Sensibility' (1995);
[1:30pm] 'Moonstruck' (1987);
[3:15pm] 'Field of Dreams' (1989);
[5:15pm] 'The Color Purple' (1985);
[8pm] 'Out of Africa' (1985);
[11pm] 'Rain Man' (1988);
[1:30am] 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979);
[3:30am] 'Cimarron' (1931). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Actor Al Pacino walks onto the stage of the Kodak Theatre during rehearsals for Sunday's 77th Academy Awards, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2004, in Los Angeles, Calif. Pacino will be a presenter during the Oscar ceremony.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
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Documentary To Hit U.S
Eddie Izzard
Indie distributor ThinkFilm has acquired all North American rights to a documentary about Emmy-winning comedian Eddie Izzard.
The untitled film, which has been in production for about three years, will combine performance footage, interviews with friends, family and fans, and extensive material documenting the life, both onstage and off, of the comedian.
Izzard is known for his one-man shows, and his 1998 performance, "Dress to Kill", which aired on HBO, earned him Emmys for both writing and performing in the comedy special category.
Eddie Izzard
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Actress Rhea Perlman (R) and her sister, writer and producer Heide Perlman, arrive as guests for the premiere of Showtime's new comedy series 'Fat Actress' in Los Angeles February 23, 2005. 'Fat Actress' will debut on March 7, 2005.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Propaganda & The Pentagon
Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret
Where were the British and Canadian troops in Saving Private Ryan? They may have been present in history, but that didn't wash too well with Hollywood ... or the Pentagon.
It's the scripts that pay a high price when Hollywood goes into battle. Brian Courtis looks at one of the movie world's murkier truths.
His report, a page-by-page study of scripts submitted by the studios to the Pentagon, reveals an intriguing pattern of censorship and propaganda. For Hollywood, acceptance of this system means the difference between "full co-operation" and no co-operation. For the military, it involves maintaining an idealised image of the forces, their behaviour, their view of the world, the superiority of their form of patriotism, and for that matter, their reasons for going to war.
All a producer needs do for assistance, it seems, is submit five copies of his script to the Pentagon for approval, make whatever script changes the Pentagon suggests, film the script exactly as approved by the Pentagon and preview the finished product for Pentagon officials before it's shown to its broader audience. And, according to Robb, as he puts the boot firmly into Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Goldberg (Stripes), John Woo and other producers and directors, many do this gladly. It is, he insists, Hollywood's dirtiest little secret.
For more, Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret
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Wants to Pay Journalists, Too
Homeland Security
Add the Department of Homeland Security to the list of federal agencies seeking to pay or employ journalists. Unlike the Department of Education or the Department of Health and Human Services, the DHS is not paying journalists to shill for its programs to a general readership, but, still, journalism ethicists worry about the new program.
Last week, the department placed an advertisement on Journalismjobs.com, an employment Web site, requesting reporters to participate in TOPOFF 3, a Congress-directed, simulated terrorist-attack exercise. The DHS sought to hire journalists at "competitive" rates to write and report on events only for exercise participants, The Hill newspaper reported.
In this case, the DHS says real journalists are essential to the exercise by better explaining how the media would cover and respond to a potential terrorist attack. Journalists are expected to start around March 14, according to Ogilvy Public Relations, the firm hired to employ journalists. For their work, which will take three to four weeks, they will receive "competitive pay rates," according to the posting.
Homeland Security
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New Chief Exec of Air America Radio
Danny Goldberg
Danny Goldberg, a longtime music industry executive, took over as chief executive of Air America Radio on Thursday in the latest sign that the liberal talk radio network is gaining its footing after a rocky start.
Goldberg, whose New York-based record label Artemis represents artists including Steve Earle and the late Warren Zevon, took over from acting CEO Doug Kreeger, who stepped aside in December but remains an advisor and board member for the company.
In addition to a long career in the music industry, including stints heading up Mercury Records Group, Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records, Goldberg has also been a longtime activist for liberal causes. He is a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union and wrote a book in 2003 called "Dispatches from the Culture Wars: How the Left Lost Teen Spirit."
Danny Goldberg
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A Chinese doctor presents a Red Cross badge to former U.S. president Bill Clinton (R) at the AIDS ward of You'an Hospital in Beijing February 24, 2005. Clinton signed an agreement with the Chinese Health Ministry on Wednesday for the Clinton Foundation to provide about $70,000 worth of drugs to treat some 200 infected Chinese children.
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Up For Oscar Night
Billboards
Along with red carpet arrivals at Sunday night's Oscars, TV viewers worldwide may catch a glimpse of two billboard campaigns that chide Hollywood.
Los Angeles County's public health agency is paying for three mobile billboards demanding that filmmakers keep smoking out of their films. The billboards will be rolling near the Kodak Theatre, site of the 77th Academy Awards.
Besides the rolling anti-smoking message, a conservative group has bought billboard space near the Kodak Theatre that takes a jab at Hollywood's political left.
Billboards
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Blown 7 Drug Tests In Rehab
Tom Sizemore
Actor Tom Sizemore was told on Thursday to either beat his addiction to methamphetamine or die from it.
"There are two ways for you to go," Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. told Sizemore at a hearing. "One is to recover. The other is to die."
Prosecutors said Sizemore, 43, had failed court-imposed drug testing seven times this month alone, despite living in a drug treatment center. In one case, he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis sewn into his boxer shorts and filled with a clean urine sample to fake the results.
Tom Sizemore
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Actress Candice Bergen (R) talks to director Sidney Lumet at a party to celebrate his Honorary Academy Award in New York, February 23, 2005. Lumet, who directed films such as 'Dog Day Afternoon,' 'Network,' and 'The Verdict,' will be recognized with an Honorary Academy Award at the Oscars on Sunday.
Photo by Alex Oliveira
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Gets Ill on Jet
Whitney Houston
Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston got ill on an airliner bound for France and was taken Thursday to a Paris hospital for treatment of apparent food poisoning, her publicist said.
"Whitney Houston was rushed to a hospital in Paris because of severe vomiting. She was sick on the aircraft," said Nancy Seltzer, her Los Angeles publicist. "She is doing well. She has gastroenteritis."
Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the stomach and the intestines. Seltzer didn't know the source of the food poisoning.
Whitney Houston
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A seagull braces from the cold as it stands with only one leg in the snow in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, February 24, 2005. A slow-moving snow storm is expected to dump 3-to-5 inches of snow for the D.C. area today, with a winter storm warning in effect.
Photo by Jason Reed
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Comes of Age
Black 'Street' Literature
After years in the literary underground, "street lit" -- a sort of hip hop black literature that is often self published and sold on U.S. street corners -- may finally hit the big time.
Street lit stories are rough in every sense -- the language, the violence, the explicit descriptions of sex and the determination of the characters to escape desolate inner city neighborhoods.
Religion, obsession with brand names and explicit struggles between right and wrong play a large role in the books, making them a combination of morality tales, Mario Puzo's most violent Mafia novels and chick-lit shopping fiction.
For the rest, Black 'Street' Literature
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A snow sculpture of a bear and walrus performing an Eskimo dance is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, as part of the Fur Rendezvous snow sculpture competition. Each contestant is given a block of snow from which to sculpt their art with the winners going to the National Snow Sculpting Competition. The 17-day festival includes the World Championship Sled Dog races, dog weight pull, fur auction and other events to break up the long Alaska winter.
Photo by Al Grillo
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Size Mattered
Viking Culture
Being hung like a Norse was key to social hierarchy and being considered a real man in 10th-century Icelandic society, according to a new paper, Size Matters: Penile Problems in Sagas of Icelanders, presented to the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, this week.
In the ancient stories, penis size determined a man's status in a society that distinguished able-bodied, virile men from all other people. In rare cases, some women were able to gain this position of social status. Phelpstead points to repeated imagery and metaphors in the stories that referred to a penis as a "borer" and "drill of the hill of the leg."
To complicate matters further, it was as unmanly to have an outsized penis as an undersized one. In the 13th-century Njal's Saga, the warrior Hrutr Herjolfsson is cursed by a jealous queen with an erection too big for intercourse with his bride.
Viking Culture
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Three Indo-Chinese tiger cubs huddle together at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005. The three cubs, two males ond a female, were born at the Zoo on Feb. 13.
Photo by Nati Harnik
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