~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
You do great work!
Reader Contribution
Favourite Osbourne Quote
Fun Site
Asticles
"Crack Heads!" - Prime Minister warns United Nations:
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Couple of nights ago, put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'
C'mon....send your thoughts, your impressions, your views, your favorite quotes...
Scroll down for lots of addys to pick from (or 'from which to pick', for the truly anal retentive).
And - Scroll down to see who is getting a star on the 'Hollywood Walk of Fame' next Friday!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The kid & I made it the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific without any further Long Beach Grand Prix interruptions. Wonder why
there was a new octopus? Anyway, a good time was had by all.
Did anyone see the 'piece of work' that was the Katie Couric interview of Tony Blair? Between the editing that made Katie the
STAR (she had much more screen time, and many more reactions to Blair's comments than the other way around), and her being painted up like an upscale
trollop (much more Sydney Biddles Barrow than Heidi Fleiss), that it quickly descended into an exercise in flattering the wrong person's ego, and
more appropriate for spreading in the garden than viewing for information.
Saw some of 'Leap of Faith' tonight. Instead of empathizing with the protagonist, I found myself praying some day she actually would have to work for a living.
What demographic are they going for on this one? Yuck.
Saw some of Bill Maher, and George Wallace was wonderful (as usual), but, the stereotypical anorexic blonde repug-babe really rankled me. She really thinks we have
the best health care in the world. Maybe in her world, but that has not been my experience.
Tonight, Friday it's a fresh night on CBS with 'AFP: American Fighter Pilot', 'First Monday',
and '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave is Bob Newhart and comedian Demetri Martin.
Scheduled on fresh Craiggers is Andy Dick.
It's fresh on NBC, too, with 'Providence', 'Dateline' and 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay is Christina Applegate, Eddie Izzard (!) and Goo Goo Dolls.
Conan should be fresh, but I don't know who's on (yet).
Once again displaying incredible disdain for what's left of their audience, ABC pisses away 2 hours on so-called
'Funniest Videos/Commercials'. One is a rerun, not that it matters much. Then, it's '20/20' with Barbara
Walters and her new overly pedantic, walrus-like co-anchor who pretty much creeps me out.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are George Lopez & Bill Press.
The WB splits the night. The fresh shows are the earlier ones, 'Sabrina' and 'Raising Dad'. The
later 2, 'Reba' and 'Maybe It's Me' are reruns.
Faux starts the night with 2 reruns, 'That 70's Show' and 'That 80's Show'. 'Dark Angel' is fresh.
UPN is pre-empted here for baseball. The Colorado Rockies are visiting Rupert's Dodgers. I hate not having a home-team.
AMC celebrates Journeys & Voyages. 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth', a wonderful Technicolor cheese-fest with James Mason &
Pat Boone, and a bitchin' goose named Gertrude. Then, it's 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea', an early (1961) Irwin Allen 'disaster' movie with
Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Eden & Michael Ansara (they were married at the time), Frankie Avalon and Peter Lorre! Way past quesadillas - we're talking fondue!
VH1 is airing 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' at 10:30pm (est).
There is a rerun of 'The Osbournes' on MTV at 11pm (est).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Friday, April 12, Hollywood Walk Of Fame
Ozzy
So, I was looking at Ozzy links and came across this at Ozzy.com.
OZZY TO RECEIVE STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME NEXT FRIDAY, INVITES FANS TO ATTEND
Next Friday, April 12, Ozzy will receive his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in front of the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, 6780 Hollywood Boulevard at the corner of
Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Av. The ceremony will take place at 11:30am and Ozzy extends the invitation to all his fans to come down and share in the moment. Ozzy, the
family, and other luminaries will be there to drink in the occasion, so if you're in SoCal you can't dare miss this!
Had just been to the Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce 'Walk Of Fame' Site 2 days ago, and there had been nothing Ozzy related.
LOL, it's there now!
Ozzy Osbourne
April 12, 2002, 11:30 am
6780 Hollywood Blvd.
Woo-hoo! Think there may be a short road trip in my future next Friday!
Thursday In San Francisco
Hillary & Gray
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., claps as she joins California Gov. Gray Davis, left, to help kick off a ``Women for Davis'' campaign in San
Francisco, Thursday, April 4, 2002. Davis is running for reelection.
Photo by Dave Kennedy
Baby News
Damian Charles
British actress Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to a baby boy Thursday, her spokesman said.
The 36-year-old former face of cosmetics firm Estee Lauder has named her son, who was born at mid-day, Damian Charles. The spokesman added that
mother and baby were "happy and healthy."
Steve Bing, who has questioned whether he is the father of the baby, has become involved in a bitter war of words with Hurley over the child.
Damian Charles Hurley
Damian?
Likes Her Cleavage
Joely Fisher
Hollywood daughter Joely Fisher doesn't mind the snarky reviews of her new CBS sitcom, "Baby Bob," because she believes "people want plain,
simple, clean family fun," and the show turns out to be a ratings magnet.
What does bother the new mom (herself the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens) are the mean cracks about her "giant breasts," as one
newspaper put it, and the adjective "well-fed" that appeared in a profile.
"I mean, it's nice that they're talking. I do have great cleavage," Fisher says. "But I'm a nursing mother, so I wonder what's going to happen
when I'm done!" Perhaps she should check in with equally buxom new mom Uma Thurman.
Joely Fisher
Leaving Early Morning News
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel, morning TV stalwart for 17 years at two networks, plans to step down from the anchor chair at CBS' struggling "Early Show" to pursue other interests,
the television network said on Thursday.
Neither Gumbel nor CBS, owned by Viacom Inc., has decided on the date of his final show, but it would mark the end of a 17-year run as the host of a morning news program,
15 of them as host of NBC's "Today Show."
Gumbel, 53, was recently engaged to marry former Goldman Sachs analyst Hilary Quinlan.
Gumbel will remain the host of the HBO series "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" since 1995. HBO is controlled by AOL Time Warner Inc.
Bryant Gumbel
AMERICAN CRUSADE 2001+ TRADING CARDS
Rumsfeld
World affairs today can sure be confusing!
President Bush tried his bestest to simplify the picture as Good vs. Evil, but it's still a jumble! Who knew all those crazy Dorkistan countries even existed?! Now The Infinite Jest rides to the rescue with a set of educational trading cards.
Fun to collect! Fun to trade! Fun to drain a box of inkjet cartridges!
AMERICAN CRUSADE 2001+ TRADING CARDS
To Visit The White House?
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne 'invited to White House'
Wildman rocker Ozzy Osbourne has reportedly been invited to dinner at the White House by US president George W Bush, according to reports.
It follows the hugely successful launch of a new reality TV show following the UK singer and his family.
The Osbournes has become music channel MTV's biggest ever hit in the US, with more than three million viewers and President Bush is said to be a huge fan.
Osbourne said he was stunned to be invited, according to the Express newspaper.
He said:
For the whole article, Ozzy Osbourne
For the more, 'The Osbournes'
The Rest Of The Story
Megadeth
Megadeth, the band whose 19-year career helped define the heavy metal genre, is disbanding due to serious injuries to founder Dave Mustaine's left arm
and hand that have left him unable to play the guitar.
Bassist David Ellefson, guitarist Al Pitrelli and drummer Jimmy DeGrasso have decided not to continue without Mustaine, who formed Megadeth in 1983
after he was fired from Metallica.
Mustaine, 40, hurt his arm and hand in early January, suffering severe nerve damage. In a statement released Wednesday, Mustaine did not
specify how the injury occurred, and his publicist, Chip Adams, said he did not know.
The statement said Mustaine's injury was diagnosed as a compressed radial nerve.
"My doctors tell me it will take about a year to make as complete a recovery as I can, and even then, we don't know how complete that is
going to be," he said. "I am working hard with a great team of doctors and physical therapists daily, and God willing, someday I hope to play guitar again."
"My immediate goals now are to do what I can to make something good come out of this terrible situation," he said.
Megadeth
Megadeth Web site
Impersonator On the Loose
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart's impersonator is back. The lookalike, who has been fraudulently accepting free meals and drinks - and the attentions of groupies - since
1997, came solo into Hurley's on West 48th Street on Tuesday night and had the whole bar fooled. "Rod" - who is shorter than the real rocker and doesn't
have his distinctive accent from the northeast of England - generously signed autographs and sang along to "Maggie May" and some of "his" other hits.
To top it off, he picked up the prettiest of the three women at the bar and left with her.
Rod Stewart
Opening The Cannes Film Festival
Woody Allen
American actor/director Woody Allen will open the Cannes film festival on May 15 with his comedy "Hollywood Ending," marking the first time the
veteran star has attended the festival, organizers said Thursday.
The film stars Allen, Tea Leoni, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, George Hamilton and Treat Williams and is scheduled to open first in the United States
in early May. It will be shown out of competition.
"The French were my first supporters and have always showed huge generosity toward me," Allen was quoted as saying in a statement.
"Over the last few years, they have invited me so many times that I now want to offer them something in return: I will therefore come personally to
present my film 'Hollywood Ending,' which I think will be perfect for the event."
Woody Allen
Naked On Broadway
Jennifer Tilly
This is full-frontal time on Broadway.
Last season, in "The Women," Jennifer Tilly emerged naked from a bubble bath eight times a week. Kathleen Turner drops her towel onstage again
tonight when "The Graduate" opens, and soon "The Elephant Man" audiences will get a peep show, too.
But Tilly says the 48-year-old Turner was her get-nude inspiration.
"Hey if she can do it [first in London], I was sure I could pull it off, too" — so to speak — the 43-year-old actress told us at the premiere
of Peter Bogdanovich's movie "The Cat's Meow," in which she plays gossip columnist Louella Parsons.
Lots of "Sopranos" stars — Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Drea de Matteo, Michael Imperioli — also turned out for the opening of Bogdanovich's
first film in nine years. The" Last Picture Show" director plays a psychiatrist in the HBO series.
Jennifer Tilly
'The Last Waltz' Re-Released
'The Band'
Members of the rock group "The Band" are shown left to right, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm on stage Nov. 25,
1976 at The Last Waltz concert in San Francisco. The film capturing the Band's 1976 farewell concert is being rereleased in a limited theatrical run beginning
Friday, April 5, 2002, in San Francisco.
New CD, New Technology, New Problem
Celine Dion
Celine Dion's new album is causing some computer problems.
The case and the disc of "A New Day Has Come" carries warnings not to play it on a PC or a MAC because it is embedded with copy protection technology.
This is to stop people from uploading sings onto the internet.
If you play, the computer will likely crash, but some fans say that they've had other problems. The Hollywood Reporter reports that fans in Germany are
complaining that their computers won't eject the disc using normal methods. Others also complain that the CD may be affecting their hardware.
A Sony spokeswoman denies the CD will corrupt computers, although it will cause it to crash. She says it won't eject properly as a result of the crash.
Celine Dion
Special Awards From Songwriters Hall of Fame
Wonder & Brooks
Garth Brooks and Stevie Wonder will receive special awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the induction and awards ceremony on June 13.
Wonder will receive a lifetime achievement award. Brooks will be honored with the Hitmaker Award. The event will be held at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.
This year's inductees include Barry Manilow, Michael Jackson, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Randy Newman and Sting.
Wonder & Brooks
The Next 'Survivor'
Thailand
The makers of hit U.S. reality television show "Survivor" want to use an island in southern Thailand for the next series, Thai officials said
on Thursday, despite an expected outcry over the environmental impact.
When the Hollywood blockbuster "The Beach" was filmed on a Thai island in 1999, environmental groups accused the producers of causing extensive
damage and disrupting the region's ecological system.
Undeterred by the controversy, American broadcaster CBS has asked the Thai government if it can film the fifth "Survivor" in Thailand's Tarutao Islands National Park.
The Next 'Survivor'
2 Heads Are Better Than One
Ladder Snake
An unidentified person holds a two-headed snake in this Feb. 18, 2002 file photo, after it was found by a farmer in Pinoso, southeastern Spain.
Biologists hope to determine if the 25-centimeter (10 inches) reptile, called a ladder snake, has separate digestive tracts and whether one head
dominates the other or the two rule in coalition.
Piracy Lawsuit Filed
Technicolor Inc
A recording industry trade group said on Thursday it has sued Technicolor Inc., one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of music and video
programming, for allegedly producing pirated CDs of major artists.
In its complaint, the Recording Industry Association of America alleged that Technicolor's plant in Camarillo has knowingly copied and distributed
pirated CDs from artists such as N-Sync, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, Will Smith, Amber, Lauryn Hill, Marc Anthony and Julio Iglesias.
"The physical evidence connecting the Technicolor plant to these CDs is crystal clear, so our case is strong," said Matt Oppenheim, the RIAA's senior
vice president, business and legal affairs.
The RIAA is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry, including major labels like AOL Time Warner Inc's Warner Music Group,
Vivendi Universal's Universal Music, Sony Corp's Sony Music, EMI Group Plc's and Bertelsmann AG BMG.
Technicolor Inc
Suge's Former Associate Shot & Killed
Alton McDonald
A man believed to be a former associate of rap music executive Marion "Suge" Knight was shot and killed at a suburban Los Angeles gas station, police said.
Alton McDonald, 37, was pumping gas at a station Wednesday afternoon in the city of Compton south of Los Angeles when a pickup truck pulled up and shot him
several times in the torso, Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy David Cervantes said. McDonald died a short time later at St. Francis Medical Center.
A man who was with McDonald in the car fled the scene, Cervantes said. The car McDonald was driving at the time of the shooting was registered to a former
Compton police officer who reportedly serves as head of security for Knight's record company, Tha Row.
Knight, who founded Tha Row Records which was formerly known as Death Row Records, visited McDonald at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, according to media reports.
McDonald was in Las Vegas with Knight and rap star Tupac Shakur in 1996 when Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting near the Strip, the Los Angeles Times reported,
citing court records. Knight was wounded in that shooting.
Hours before Shakur was killed the three men were involved in a scuffle in a hotel lobby, the Times reported. Knight was jailed following the incident after a judge
found that he had violated his probation on a previous assault conviction.
Alton McDonald
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In Memory
John U. Monro
John U. Monro, who gave up one of academia's most prominent jobs to teach at an impoverished black college in Alabama, died Friday from complications of pneumonia. He was 89.
After nine years as dean of Harvard College, Monro left in 1967 for a low-paying administrative and teaching job at unaccredited Miles College on the outskirts of Birmingham.
There, the white educator fashioned a core curriculum in English and social studies that survives to this day. He told friends and reporters that he was learning more from his students than they could ever learn from him.
Born in North Andover, Mass, Monro won a scholarship to Harvard and as an undergraduate became an editor of the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.
Upset with what he saw as the paper's conservatism, he founded a competing paper that ultimately folded.
After graduation, Monro worked for Harvard writing press releases before serving in the Navy during World War II and earning a Bronze Star.
He returned to Harvard to serve as an adviser to veterans seeking educational benefits. In the early 1950s, he reformed the college's financial aid program and was named dean in 1958.
His relationship with Miles College began in 1962, when he met the college's president, Lucius Pitts, at a gathering of black educators. Before leaving Harvard, Monro taught at Miles for three summers without pay.
John U. Monro
BartCop TV!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
