'Best of TBH Politoons'
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Paul
Thanks, Paul!
Jeez, it worked last night when I tried it - will do some poking.
Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & warmer.
Did the CostCo/Farmer's Market loop. The kid & I ate most of the strawberries on the way home, though.
One of my old pals from high school is visiting Long Beach next weekend for a magnet convention, so we'll probably 'do' the brunch on the Queen Mary. Woo Hoo!
This weekend is the Long Beach Grand Prix, and as has become tradition, Gary & some of the guys park their cars here & bike to the race.
Tonight, Friday, CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Survivor: All Stars', followed by a RERUN 'JAG', then a
RERUN 'Cold Case'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Phil Mickelson, Kathryn Morris, and Patti Smith.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Marlee Matlin, Sofia Milos, and Toby Lightman.
NBC starts the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline' (where the fellating of the Donald continues), followed by a FRESH 'Third Watch'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Billy Bob Thornton, winner of "The Apprentice", and Grant Lee-Phillips.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are David Duchovny and Jim Gaffigan.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Elisha Cuthbert, Jason Bateman, Rocco DiSpirito, Twista, and No Use For A Name.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH 'The Big House', then a
FRESH 'Hope & Faith', followed by a FRESH 'Married To The Kellys', then '20/20/'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Daryl Hannah and Jet.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then a FRESH 'Grounded For Life', followed by a FRESH
'The Help'.
Faux here has baseball with the Yankees visiting the Red Sox, and fills prime time with RERUNs of 'The Simpsons', 'King Of The Hill', 'King Of Queens', and another 'Simpsons'.
UPN has the movie 'Blade'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for the BEST show on over-the-air-TV, 'NOW With Bill Moyers (& David Brancaccio)'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by the movie 'The Good Son', then 'The Jackson Case'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fighting Seabees', followed by the movie 'Von Ryan's Express', then the movie 'Ghost Story'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Chamberlain;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Rowsley;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Liverpool;
[8pm] 'Shallow Grave';
[10pm] 'Take Me' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'Shallow Grave';
[1am] 'Take Me' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Rowsley;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Liverpool;
[3am] 'Shallow Grave';
[5am] 'Take Me' - Episode 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', followed by the movie 'Junior', then the movie 'Twins'.
Comedy Central has '100 Stand-Ups', '100 Stand-Ups', '100 Stand-Ups', and 'Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Snipers', 'Band Of Brothers', and 'Barbarians'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II';
[8AM] 'Girl Under The Waves' (2001);
[10AM] 'The Last Party' (1993);
[12PM] 'Polish Wedding' (1998);
[2PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I';
[4PM] 'The Last Party' (1993);
[6PM] 'Polish Wedding' (1998);
[8PM] 'Timecode' (2000);
[9:45PM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[10PM] 'Dinner For Five 27' (2003);
[10:30PM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon Episode 2' (2003);
[11PM] 'Illtown' (1999);
[1AM] 'Dinner For Five 27' (2003);
[1:30AM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon Episode 2' (2003);
[2AM] 'Five Senses' (1999);
[4AM] 'Time Code'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', 'Andromeda', 'Stargate SG-1', and another 'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[5:30AM] 'Detective Fiction' (Feature);
[7:15AM] 'Stiltwalkers' (les Echassiers) (Short);
[7:30AM] 'Shorts Program 116' (Short);
[8:30AM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[10AM] '7th Street' (Documentary);
[11:20AM] 'Margarita Happy Hour' (Feature);
[1PM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary);
[2:40PM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill' (Short);
[3PM] 'Shorts Program 116' (Short);
[4PM] 'Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story' (Documentary);
[5PM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[6:30PM] 'Ed's Next Move' (Feature);
[8PM] 'The Sea' (World Cinema);
[9:50PM] 'Margarita Happy Hour' (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'Tanner '88: Reality Check' (Short);
[12AM] 'Cure' (World Cinema);
[2AM] 'Roger Dodger' (Feature);
[3:45AM] 'The Monkey's Mask' (World Cinema);
[5:15AM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM pays tribute all day to the always interesting
Peter Ustinov, who would have celebrated his 83rd birthday today.
[6:30am] 'Ziegfeld Follies' (1946);
[8:30am] 'Immortal Battalion' (1944) [AKA: 'The Way Ahead'];
[10:15am] 'Beau Brummell' (1954);
[12:15pm] 'Topkapi' (1964);
[2:15pm] 'Lady L' (1965);
[4:15pm] 'The Comedians' (1967);
[7pm] Hollywood Without Make-Up' (1966);
[8pm] 'The Pink Panther' (1964);
[10pm] 'Wait Until Dark' (1967);
[12:00 am] 'Bachelor In Paradise' (1961);
[2am] 'Le Petit Soldat' (1963);
[3:30am] 'The Day Of The Jackal' (1973). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Andrew Galvan, the first American Indian curator of Mission Dolores, looks over a statue of Father Junipero Serra, in the cemetary of the historic church in San Francisco, Feb. 17, 2004.
Photo by Eric Risberg
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Moose & Squirrel
Back On Air in Chicago & Los Angeles
Air America Radio
A New York judge ordered the owner of two radio stations on Thursday to put the 2-week-old, liberal radio network known as Air America back on the air.
MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting Inc, which owns radio stations in Chicago and Los Angeles, pulled the plug on Air America on Wednesday. MultiCultural's owner, Arthur Liu, told the Chicago Tribune the radio network "bounced a check" and was in default.
Air America, which leases radio stations in 16 cities, filed a complaint in New York State Supreme Court demanding it be restored to the air and compensated.
Judge Marilyn Diamond issued a temporary restraining order on the condition that Air America post a $156,000 bond. The judge will hold a hearing on the dispute on Monday.
Air America Radio
'The O.C.' Debuting New Single
Beastie Boys
Fans of Fox's primetime series The O.C. will be among the first to hear the Beastie Boys' new single, "Ch-Check It Out." The song will be featured prominently on the April 28 episode of the show, in which the boys of the O.C. go to Las Vegas for an impromptu bachelor party and the ladies cook up their own trouble with a bachelorette party back home. "Ch-Check It Out" is the first single off the Beastie Boys' To The 5 Boroughs, their first album in six years. "Ch-Check It Out" will debut on radio on the 28 as well, according to Fox.
Though none of the songs previously featured on The O.C. were as high profile as the new Beastie Boys single, the show has regularly integrated new music into its storylines. The O.C.'s theme song, "California," is by Phantom Planet, and the Southern California band Rooney was prominently featured in an episode.
Beastie Boys
Members of the Radio City Rockettes wear Boston Red Sox shirts as they make their famous leg kicks Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at The Wang Theatre in Boston to promote their Christmas Spectacular show at the Wang from Dec. 2 to the 31st of 2004.
Photo by Josh Reynolds
Named To Film Board
Eastwood & DeVito
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turned to his former on-screen twin Danny DeVito and actor Clint Eastwood on Thursday to help drum up more film business for the Golden State.
Schwarzenegger named the two actor/directors to the California Film Commission, a 26-member group that encourages movie makers to produce their work in the state.
The former "Terminator" star also named actor Bill Duke, who appeared in Schwarzenegger's 1987 "Predator," Tom Werner, producer of television programs such as "The Cosby Show," and Lili Zanuck, producer of "Driving Miss Daisy."
The Democrat DeVito teamed up with Republican Schwarzenegger in the 1988 comedy "Twins" and "Junior" in 1995. At the news conference inside the capitol, Schwarzenegger told a news conference that Eastwood was his idol who inspired the then bodybuilding champion to get into acting in the 1970s.
Eastwood & DeVito
Topples McCartney in Rich List
Clive Calder
A reclusive record executive dubbed "the Howard Hughes of the music business" has toppled Paul McCartney to become Britain's wealthiest music millionaire in the latest list of the rich and famous.
Clive Calder, the mastermind behind such stars as Britney Spears and 'NSync, rocketed to number one in the Sunday Times music industry list after selling his independent Zomba label to German media giant Bertelsmann AG.
"He is the Howard Hughes of the music industry," said the list's author Philip Beresford who put Calder top with an estimated worth of 1.23 billion pounds ($2.28 billion).
Clive Calder
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Remain Closed
Hemingway House
Ernest Hemingway's last home is the only one of his three that isn't open to the public - and it might never be if this resort town continues its opposition to making it more accessible.
Residents are fresh off their second victory in keeping the property's owner, The Nature Conservancy, from giving tours of the two-story house overlooking the Big Wood River.
Hemingway, a Nobel laureate, bought the house in 1959 and made it his permanent residence for two years, until he committed suicide at age 61. His homes in Key West, Fla., and Cuba are open to the public as is his birthplace in Oak Park, Ill. There's also a museum in Piggott, Ark., in the home of his onetime in-laws, where Hemingway often stayed during his second marriage.
The conservancy first proposed the tours at the Ketchum home in 1996 but was so roundly criticized that it dropped the idea almost immediately. The plan was revived last fall by the Idaho Hemingway House Foundation, which now manages the home for the conservancy.
Led by board vice chair Mariel Hemingway, the author's actress granddaughter, the foundation also wanted to restore the home, develop a scholarly library, conduct workshops and create a writer- or artist-in-residence program.
Hemingway House
www.hemingwayhouse.org
Kenneth Topping, left, is Jason, and Erica Dankmeyer, plays the part of Princess, during the dress rehearsal of the Martha Graham Dance ompany production of 'Cave of the Heart,' at City Center in New York, Wednesday, April, 14, 2004.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
HIV Infection Strikes
Porn Industry
California's multi-billion-dollar adult porn industry ground to a virtual halt on Thursday after a popular actor tested positive for the virus that causes AIDs..
Industry advocates immediately called for a 60-day moratorium on filming so that others could be tested.
Actor Darren James tested positive for HIV on Wednesday in screening conducted routinely on the industry's 1,200 regular actors by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) Foundation, the foundation's Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell said.
James, the first porn actor to test positive for the virus since 1999, had a "stellar record" of tests -- negative every three weeks for the past seven years, she said.
Porn Industry
Purdue & The Voxel
3-D Search Engine
The mind-boggling speed and reach of Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They are powered by words alone.
What a humdrum existence. The world is so much brighter and more varied, full of objects and patterns that defy searchable descriptions.
In hopes of wrapping their arms around more of that stuff, computing researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features.
All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects.
So how can computer programs look for objects? The breakthrough is the voxel.
For a lot more, 3-D Search Engine
Found in NYC Alleyway
Violin
An 18th-century Italian-made violin reported missing earlier this week was found in an alleyway near the Manhattan bar where its owner had left it, police said.
Odin Rathnam, the first-chair violinist for the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, had been in New York for a meeting and left the violin, along with a borrowed viola, at Yogi's bar on the Upper West Side.
The violin, valued at about $95,000, was made by Bartolomeo Calvaros of Bergamo, Italy, between 1750 and 1755; the viola belonged to a friend.
Violin
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Worker Charged With Looting
JFK Jr.
A warehouse worker has been charged with looting personal items that belonged to John F. Kennedy Jr., including a Father's Day card from 1963.
Patrick Gallagher, 50, of Queens, pleaded innocent Tuesday to grand larceny and possession of stolen property. He was released on $5,000 bail.
Authorities accused Gallagher of stealing nearly three dozen items that had been stored in a Sotheby's warehouse in upper Manhattan since Kennedy's death in 1999. The defendant sold the belongings for $5,000 to pay a debt to a bookie, prosecutors said.
JFK Jr.
Two tourists walk through fields full with blossoming tulips, hyacinths and daffodils near the western Dutch village of Vogelenzang, Netherlands, Thursday April 15, 2004.
Photo by Peter Dejong
Ordered to Stand Trial
Courtney Love
A judge Thursday ordered rocker Courtney Love to stand trial on felony drug charges after hearing testimony alleging that she gave police officers a baggie full of pills.
Superior Court Judge Elden Fox ordered Love to appear for arraignment April 30.
Prosecutor Jeffrey Stodel said outside court that Love is eligible for a drug-diversion program. The maximum possible sentence for the felonies is more than 3 1/2 years in prison.
Love's lawyer, Michael Rosenstein, told reporters his client had prescriptions for the drugs. "The district attorney is turning this into a circus and a witch hunt," he said.
Courtney Love
Top Specimen Stinks
N.Y. Orchid Show
Among the tens of thousands of orchids on display, the most precious is ugly and stinky. The bulbophyllum phalaenopsis, with its 5-foot drooping leaves and blossoms reeking like rotten flesh, is featured at the 24th annual New York International Orchid Show that opened Wednesday at Rockefeller Plaza.
"It's worth maybe $10,000, but you'll never want to smell another orchid again," American Orchid Society judge Bill Overton said with a laugh. "As they pass by, some people look at their shoes to see what they stepped in."
By contrast, most of the 50,000-plus plants offered for show and for sale are the epitome of sheer beauty. Their exotic colors and shapes radiated beneath a translucent tent covering the exhibit, in the sunken space that in winter serves as the Rockefeller Center skating rink.
The exhibit, including orchid books, prints and jewelry, was flown in from around the United States, South America, Asia and Europe; the plants are pure species and artificially created hybrids.
For the rest, N.Y. Orchid Show
American Orchid Society
Basic Cable Networks
Rankings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of March 29-April 4. Each ratings point represents 1,084,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut vs. Tennessee (Tuesday, 8:28 p.m.), ESPN, 3.5, 3.8 million homes.
2. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.3, 3.53 million homes.
3. "Band of Brothers" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), History, 2.9, 3.16 million homes.
4. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 3.08 million homes.
5. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 3.08 million homes.
6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.8, 3.05 million homes.
7. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 3.01 million homes.
8. "Real World XIV" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.8, 2.98 million homes.
9. "Chappelle's Show" (Wednesday, 10:30 p.m.), Comedy Central, 2.7, 2.98 million homes.
10. "Law & Order" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.7, 2.96 million homes.
11. "Law & Order" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNT, 2.7, 2.92 million homes.
12. "South Park" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Comedy Central, 2.5, 2.66 million homes.
13. "NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Post-Game Show" (Tuesday, 10:40 p.m.), ESPN, 2.4, 2.62 million homes.
14. "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Inferno" (Monday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.4, 2.57 million homes.
15. Professional Golf: The Masters (Friday, 4 p.m.), USA, 2.4, 2.57 million homes.
Rankings
In Memory
Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Japanese manga cartoonist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, creator of the "Ironman 28" and "Little Witch Sally" characters, died in a fire at his home.
Yokoyama, 69, was found unconscious in bed with severe burns early Thursday, police said. He died 16 hours later at a hospital near his home.
The fire was suspected to have been caused by a lit cigarette he left at his bedside, police said.
Yokoyama, a Kobe native, made his professional debut in 1955. He was inspired by the late Osamu Tezuka, Japan's best known and most creative "manga" cartoonist known for his "Astro Boy" series.
Ironman 28 was launched in 1956 in a boys' comic magazine, giving birth to the giant-robot genre of animation, or "anime."
Along with Astro Boy, Ironman 28 became one of the first Japanese cartoons to cross the Pacific to the United States in the 1960s before reaching a wider worldwide audience.
A new television animation series of Ironman 28, known as "Gigantor" in the United States, was just released in Japan this month.
Yokoyama had said that Ironman 28 was inspired by the colossal US B-29 bombers which launched war-time raids over Kobe port when he was a boy.
Mitsuteru Yokoyama
In Memory
John Goodell
John Goodell, a documentary filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award for the feature "Always a New Beginning" in 1974, has died. He was 94.
Goodell began his filmmaking career in the 1960s and set up a motion picture studio and soundstage in St. Paul.
His Academy Award nomination was for a film about two doctors working with the Institutes for Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia. Goodell traveled around the world as the doctors sought examples of how children learn.
Although Goodell never graduated from high school, he became an engineer for CBS Laboratories and president of the automation division of U.S. Industries in Maryland. He later became technical director for the entire U.S. Industries company in New York City.
He was a tinkerer who invented an automatic mail handling system, a magnetic pulse-control device, a conditioned reflex teaching machine and a machine that automates packaging of fine candy. In the 1940s, he also developed a device to eliminate needle scratch noise from playing phonograph records.
In the 1950s, Goodell took up the Oriental board game "Go" and became one of the leading U.S. players and organizers of tournaments and "Go" events.
"He taught everybody he met how to play 'Go,'" said a son, Gregory Goodell. "He fell in love with the game."
The game is played with small stones, and Goodell imported 2 tons of "Go" stones from Japan.
In a 1991 interview, Goodell said, "I just became enchanted with the game when I learned that it was simpler to teach than chess, but a far more profound game. It's almost like meditation. When you play 'Go,' the world goes away."
In addition to wife Bernadette and son Gregory, Goodell is survived by children Mary, Tom, Caroline and Dan, as well as nine grandchildren.
John Goodell
A pair of twin baby golden monkeys are cuddled by their mother in Beijing Safari Park April 15, 2004.
Photo by Guang Niu
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