Late Night Listing
Friday
On PBS, Charlie Rose has Bobby Knight and Spike Lee.
On HBO, Dennis Miller has Adam Corolla.
On CBS, Dave has Andy Dick and comdian Mike Britt.
Craig Kilborn follows with Dwight Yoakam, Shannyn Sossamon
and Nils Lofgren.
On NBC, Leno has Andy Richter, Ozzy Osbourne and family, and Cypress Hill with Roni Size.
Conan has Harland Williams and the Candy Butchers.
Carson Daly is also scheduled this Friday night (!), with
Elton John.
On ABC, Bill Maher is a rerun with Christopher Titus, Cristina Saralequi, Katherine LaNasa and Jack Burkman.
And, Larry King has Joan Rivers.
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Too late came I to thee, O thou Beauty both so ancient and so fresh.
Yea, too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me,
and I out of myself, where I made search for thee.
--St. Augustine
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Last Night
Contrary to the best laid plans, the young master did not attend school today. Once again, the afternoon matinee was 'The Iron Giant' and
'A Bug's Life'. Quoting Jerry Stiller as the father of George Costanza, SERENITY, NOW! SERENITY, NOW!.
Saw some of 'PrimeTime Thursday', and really appreciated the stories of what plastic surgeons can accomplish.
Robin Williams was on 'Dave', and he had some great material. Liked the comment about the Bank of the Bahama Triangle, and the 'Gilligan's down, Lassie. Oh,
Mr. Cheney is meeting with the Enron people? Gonna have to put you down, girl' routine.
Who's going to JulieFest?
Tonight, Friday, it's a fresh on CBS with the series premiere of 'AFP: American
Fighter Pilot', 'First Monday' and '48 Hours'.
NBC is also all fresh with 'Providence', 'Dateline', and 'Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit'.
Once again, ABC displays their contempt for the little audience they have left with 2 hours of 'Funniest Videos'/'Funniest
Commercials', one of which is a rerun, not that it matters. '20/20' is fresh, with Barbara Walters tales
of life in an abayeh.
The WB has reruns of 'Sabrina', 'Raising Dad', 'Reba', and then a fresh episode of 'Maybe It's Me'.
Faux is all reruns, 'That 70's Show', 'King Of The Hill', and 'Dark Angel'.
Don't know about UPN...tonight, locally it's 'Preseason Baseball', with the Cleveland Indians at the LA Doggers.
TCM has 'Rosemary's Baby'.
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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton has been running into old foes lately at some of Manhattan's finest restaurants. Yesterday during lunch at Michelle's Kitchen,
he traded pleasantries with top aide turned harsh critic George Stephanopoulos, now an ABC correspondent with whom Clinton hadn't spoken for
five years. A few weeks ago during dinner at Gabriel's, the former president shook hands withworld-class Clinton-hater Lucianne Goldberg,
impresario of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
We hear that Stephanopoulos -- who wrote in his memoirs that Clinton "humiliated himself, dishonored his presidency, and deserved to be
punished" -- was lunching with journalists Michael Wolff and James Atlas as Clinton dined with Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Diane Sawyer,
Ann Richards and our fellow gossip Liz Smith. Stephanopoulos decided to break the ice. We hear that Clinton -- who is said to believe his
former aide was disloyal -- rose slightly out of his chair as Stephanopoulos said, "Great to see you." Clinton responded in kind. "The president
was glad to see him and he greeted him warmly," Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne told us.
Not so with Goldberg.
For the rest, Bill Clinton
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Performing At Urban Aid 2
Alicia Keys
It's hard to remember now, but about this time a year ago very few people had heard of Alicia Keys. What a difference a hit album makes.
Even Keys herself was surprised about her meteoric rise to fame. She told reporters that she's amazed at how quickly her debut album, "Songs in A Minor," found a broad audience.
The album went multiplatinum and won her five Grammy awards last month, including song of the year for "Fallin'." Keys also picked up three Soul Train Music Awards last week.
The musician plans to use her newfound success to help causes she believes in. She said she's looking forward to next month's Urban Aid 2 benefit, which was put together by rap mogul Russell Simmons.
Urban Aid 2 is set for April 9 in New York.
Alicia Keys
Snarky Gossip
Barbra Streisand
No wonder Barbra Streisand didn't show up for Vanity Fair's post-Oscar extravaganza at Morton's in Los Angeles. The diva is annoyed with the magazine
because its April issue reports that Streisand has a "contract rider demanding rose petals be strewn in backstage toilet." On her Web site, Streisand
fumes: "This is absolutely false! This is one of those dreamed-up stories where a journalist figures if it's wacky enough, people will believe it. Such
journalists also assume that if it's silly enough, no one will bother to deny it and it will take on its own truth." After presenting an honorary Oscar
to her "The Way We Were" co-star, Robert Redford, Streisand went to Dani Janssen's ultra-exclusive party instead.
Barbra Streisand
New Recording Deal
David Bowie
David Bowie said Thursday he's signed a record deal to release his first album in three years.
The 55-year-old singer quit Virgin Records last year, refusing to re-negotiate his deal with the label and saying he was tired of
what he called "bumping heads with corporate structure."
Now, he's teamed up with Columbia Records for "Heathen," which is scheduled for release on June 11.
David Bowie
Old Girlfriend
More Minnelli - Gest
An ex-girlfriend of David Gest claims Liza Minnelli's new husband is actually gay. Soap opera veteran Ruth Warrick, 86, says Gest, 48, dated
her for 15 years so he could pretend to be straight. "If Liza was expecting passion with David on their wedding night, believe me, she's still
waiting," the "All My Children" star tells the weekly Globe. "David's been secretly into men, not women, for the entire 25 years I've known him."
Warrick's charge comes just days after Elton John made a gay joke about the eyebrow-plucking, Lalique crystal-collecting Gest. A rep for
Gest insists he is "100 percent heterosexual."
More Minnelli - Gest
Concert At 'Gitmo'
Charlie Daniels
With his trademark fiddle in hand, country singer Charlie Daniels rallied U.S. troops in the first USO concert at the base since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Daniels substituted the words to his hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" on Wednesday night, singing, "The devil went down to Gitmo, he was looking for
some Taliban." Hundreds attending the free concert went wild with applause.
"Charlie is a good symbol of America," said Rich Sann, a firefighter on the base from Corpus Christi, Texas. "He's a true-born American."
There are about 4,700 personnel on Guantanamo.
Charlie Daniels
NFL Says 'Buh-Bye' To Coca-Cola
Hello, Pepsi
Soft drink giant Coca-Cola Co. has lost a key promotional contract with the National Football League to its archrival PepsiCo Inc., beverage industry
sources said on Thursday.
Terms of the deal between the NFL and Pepsi have not yet been disclosed, but sources close to the negotiations put its worth near that of a deal
worked out on Wednesday between the NFL and the Coors Brewing Co.
Coors became the official beer sponsor of the NFL in a deal reportedly worth $300 million.
NFL Says 'Buh-Bye' To Coca-Cola
First Cornet On Display
Louis Armstrong
A time-blackened cornet that Louis Armstrong first learned to play 90 years ago at the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans was shown off Thursday before
going on display at the National Museum of American History.
The museum is publicizing what is planned as its first annual Jazz Appreciation Month in April. It will include performances by the museum's own
18-piece "big band." At a news conference Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., called jazz "the greatest musical gift we have ever given the world."
Armstrong's cornet, a smaller version of the trumpets he became famous for, includes an ornamental clip at eye level so the player can have the benefit
of sheet music when marching. Badly dented, the instrument lacks a mouthpiece and the tubing appears to have been patched with black tape.
It was kept at the New Orleans home after Armstrong was released and was used to teach music there until the 1960s. It has since been seen at the New
Orleans Jazz Museum and the Louisiana State Museum. Now it will have a permanent place among the history museum's 3 million artifacts.
Louis Armstrong
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Hunger Strike Or Spiritual Cleansing
Jim Brown
NFL Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown has been on a water-only fast since being jailed earlier this month to serve six months for vandalizing his wife's car.
"Mr. Brown is choosing to fast. From what he told us, it's not a protest but a spiritual cleaning kind of thing," county Sheriff's Department
spokesman Eric Nishimoto said Thursday. "He said it wasn't in protest of anything.
"It is something he has done in the past outside of our custody. He's done it in tandem with his personal physician. It's a personal choice of his. He knows his
limits. He is drinking fluids. He has purchased snacks, energy bars, through the commissary."
Brown, 66, was ordered to jail after he refused to undergo court-ordered counseling and community service. He was jailed March 13 and, because he refused meals,
the sheriff began what the department calls a medical protocol.
Jim Brown
There's No Business Like Cannabizness?
'Coffee Shop College'
Entrepreneurs and cannabis connoisseurs this week smoked, cut and rolled hashish and marijuana at a five-day "Cannabizness" workshop teaching participants
how to run Dutch-style coffee shops abroad.
Students at the "Coffee shop College" run by a cannabis cafe owner in the sedate city of Haarlem said they hoped to be able to ply the trade in licensed
shops in their own countries as pressure to relax laws prohibiting the drug grows across Europe.
The course aims to give its participants experience working in Haarlem's coffee shops serving hashish and marijuana, testing and grading the wares. It also
provides information on the unique Dutch experience regulating 900 licensed coffee shops.
Seated on plastic chairs in rows of desks in the back-room of the "Willie Wortels" coffee shop -- festooned with tiny lights and covered in cartoon rabbit
murals -- some participants smoked cannabis, filling the air with the aroma of sweet smoke.
After testing and selling cannabis, learning how to roll joints with a machine and hearing about cultivation methods from Morocco to Afghanistan, the participants are to round off the
course with a field trip to some of Amsterdam's 200 coffee shops on Friday.
'Coffee Shop College'
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He's Repeating Himself!
''Trifecta,'' Again!
Remarks by the President at Saxby Chambliss for Senate Dinner - Atlanta, GA
March 27, 2001
Paragraph #21 - ''I'll never forget one time in Chicago when a reporter said, would you ever deficit spend? And I said, well, only -- only
if we were at war, only if there were a national emergency, or only if there is a recession. Never did I believe we'd get the trifecta.
(Laughter.) But we're dealing with it.
And
Paragraph #38 - ''And the task is more than one person, or more than one terrorist organization. There are some nightmare scenarios that we must
confront if we want to secure the peace and defend our freedoms. One such scenario is the fact that a terrorist organization could join up with some of
the world's worst leaders, who harbor some of the world's worst weapons. I referred to some of those world's worst leaders as an axis of evil. I
meant exactly what I said.
The ''Trifecta'' Statement, Used Again!
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In Memory
Randy Castillo
Randy Castillo, the drummer who replaced Tommy Lee in Motley Crue, has died.
Castillo died of cancer Tuesday night in Los Angeles, according to the band's management. He was 49.
The heavy metal outfit's drummer had been battling the disease for some time and it was in remission. But Castillo suffered a relapse.
Castillo forged a career handling the sticks for other hard rock acts, including a stint with Ozzy Osbourne's band and another with Lita Ford.
He joined Motley Crue in 1999 when Lee left to form Methods of Mayhem.
The retooled Crue, featuring singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and bassist Nikki Sixx, released the 11-song "New Tattoo" in July 2000.
Castillo "always had a smile and positive things to say about everything and everybody," Sixx says on the band's Web site. "He was a
great caring person and a very spiritual soul."
Sixx adds that the band members will miss him and will "jam together again someday soon."
Randy Castillo
On Hollywood Boulevard
Too Many Flowers
In Memory
Billy Wilder
Oscar-winning filmmaker Billy Wilder, the Austrian-born cynic whose gifts for writing and directing led to such classics as "Sunset Boulevard," "Some Like it Hot" and "Double Indemnity,"
has died, a family friend said Thursday. He was 95.
Wilder died Wednesday night at his home, said George Schlatter, a producer and longtime friend. Schlatter said Wilder's health had been failing in recent months.
Schlatter said he believed his friend of 40 years had been suffering from pneumonia.
As co-writer, director and producer of the 1960 film "The Apartment," Wilder collected three Oscars, the only person to do so for one film. Among his other classics: "Sunset Boulevard,"
"Double Indemnity," "Stalag 17," "The Lost Weekend," "The Seven Year Itch," "Some Like It Hot" and "Witness for the Prosecution."
The Austrian-born Wilder was also noted as one of Hollywood's best wits. He once remarked of postwar France: "It's a country where you can't tear the toilet paper but the currency crumbles
in your hands." William Holden said Wilder had "a mind full of razor blades."
His films were notable for their clever dialogue and an overlay of cynicism and betrayal. His actors won Oscars for their hard-bitten portrayals: Ray Milland as the unremitting alcoholic
in "The Lost Weekend," Holden as the suspected prison-camp traitor in "Stalag 17," Walter Matthau as an insurance cheater in "The Fortune Cookie."
"Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room," he once mused. "Some people stumble across furniture, others break their legs, but some of us see better in the dark than
others. The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius."
After beginning his film career in Europe, Wilder came to Hollywood knowing 100 words of English. His fortunes turned in 1938 when he first teamed with Charles Brackett, a polished,
erudite member of New York's literary establishment.
Brackett's refinement and Wilder's "vulgar energy" produced such scripts as "Midnight," "Hold Back the Dawn," "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" and the Greta Garbo comedy "Ninotchka." The
collaboration lasted 12 years, then Wilder wrote with the late I.A.L. "Izzy" Diamond for 30 years. Unsure in English - he spoke with an accent after six decades in America -
he always needed a writing partner.
Wilder began directing with "The Major and the Minor," a 1942 comedy with Ginger Rogers and Milland. With "Double Indemnity" and "The Lost Weekend," he became a major director as
well as writer; the latter brought Oscars in both categories.
Brackett, who produced their films, and Wilder ended the partnership with "Sunset Boulevard," which brought Wilder a writing Oscar. From then on, Wilder produced his own films.
After directing Marilyn Monroe in her two best comedies, "The Seven Year Itch" and "Some Like It Hot," Wilder said he would never again direct the chronically tardy star.
"I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and my accountant, and they tell me I am too old and too rich to go through this again," he said.
The Wilder career peaked with "The Apartment," a cynical tale of corporate corruption. Jack Lemmon played an underling who lends his apartment to company executives for trysts
with secretaries. Shirley MacLaine was the romantic victim of a lying boss, Fred MacMurray, in a rare change of type (his other: "Double Indemnity").
Wilder continued filming for 20 years, but except for the 1963 "Irma La Douce," he never duplicated his previous successes. The later films: "One, Two, Three," "Kiss Me, Stupid,"
"The Fortune Cookie," "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," "Avanti!" "The Front Page," "Fedora." His last film was "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 with Lemmon and Matthau.
Despite the failures, Wilder was still working on film projects in his 80s. He never lost his wonderment at the magic of movies.
In his late years, Wilder was laden with honors, including the Motion Picture Academy's Irving Thalberg award for a consistently high level of production and the American
Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, both in 1988.
When the film institute ran a survey to pick the 100 best American movies in 1998, four directed by Wilder made the list; when it picked the 100 funniest American movies in
2000, "Some Like It Hot" was No. 1.
Wilder always looked the same on movie sets: slender, slightly hunched, wearing a sweater with sleeves rolled up, Tyrolean hat and cigar, always with ready wit ("If there's
anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously").
He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906, in the small town of Sucha, 100 miles east of Vienna. The boy haunted theaters that played American films, and admired
early stars like William S. Hart and Tom Mix.
"The guy I really went for was Douglas Fairbanks," Wilder said in later years. "He conquered a screen. And he had such panache in his whole lifestyle."
After short stints at the University of Vienna and working as a journalist, he broke into the movies when he was hired to write a semidocumentary, "People on Sunday," in 1929.
Wilder's screenwriting career flourished until 1933, when Hitler captured power in Germany. Wilder, a Jew, fled to Paris; his mother, grandmother and stepfather died at Auschwitz.
He co-directed a film with Danielle Darrieux, and then left for America after receiving an offer to write scripts for Columbia Pictures at $150 a week.
A first marriage to a California socialite ended in 1947 after nine years; they had a daughter, Victoria. In 1949 Wilder married a former starlet and band
singer, Audrey Young. For many years they lived in a spacious penthouse apartment in Westwood, surrounded by works of Picasso, Miro and other masters. In 1989,
more than 80 items from his collection were sold at auction for more than $30 million.
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