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(This story originally ran on November 15, 2001)
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Thursday is Farmer's Market day in this part of Long Beach. Really nice cherries & apricots this week. And, apples & cucumbers with no wax! (Wonder if there's an RDA for carnuba?)
The kid came home from school not feeling very well. Put himself to bed early...hope we don't end up driving the porcelain bus.
The local news was displaying gaudy floral wreathes to be hung on motor vehicles in celebration of the Lakers. Sure hope the Kings win.
CBS starts the night with a rerun 'Funny Flubs & Screw-Ups VII', a rerun 'First Monday', and then '48 Hours'.
On a rerun Dave (from 5/7/02) are Richard Gere, and Reggie Miller.
On a rerun Craiggers the guests are Jay Mohr, Shirley Manson, and Ralphie May.
NBC has the NBA Playoff, and there will only be local programming either before or after. (Depending on your time zone.)
On a rerun Jay the guests are Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne, Lauren Graham, and Res.
On a rerun Conan is ?
ABC airs the '2002 World Stunt Awards' (taped 19 May [see photo below]) and then '20/20'.
On a rerun Bill Maher (from 4/26/02) are (Actor Tom Arnold), (Actress Jennifer Tilly, (Author) Christine Stolba, and (Actor) Billy Dee Williams.
The WB has reruns of 'Sabrina', 'Raising Dad', 'Reba', and 'Maybe It's Me'.
Faux has reruns of 'Dark Angel' and the 'X-Files'.
UPN has the movie 'What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
TCM has Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by Grease (1978), and then
American Graffiti (1973).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Miss Russia Wins
Miss Universe 2002
Crowned the 51st Miss Universe, Russia's raven-haired Oxana Fedorova scored big points for saying the right thing during the pageant's final question — and she didn't even blush.
The 24-year-old law student and university lecturer from St. Petersburg beat 74 contestants Wednesday after answering the final question: "What makes you blush?"
To the roars of a raucous crowd, the 5-foot-11 Russian with green eyes grinned and said, "When I say the wrong things!" Many of the other contestants said they didn't blush.
Fedorova takes home prizes worth about $250,000. She also gets promotional contracts, a scholarship and will earn a salary while spending next year in New York.
Miss Universe 2002
Baby News
Chris Rock
Chris Rock and his wife, Malaak, are expecting a baby girl in July. This is a huge relief to the comedian.
"I think I'd be too hard on a boy — every day, trying to make him a man, getting him ready for white people," Rock, 36, says in the June issue of GQ magazine.
"Girls don't punch each other in the face. Girls are pretty nice to each other, even, like, on a grassroots level."
If he can talk his wife into it, the child — their first — will be named Holiday Rock. He acknowledges that this sounds like the title of a Flintstones movie, "but
everything does with Rock after it. Holiday Rock! It seems like a smiley name to me. How can you get mad at Holiday?"
Chris Rock
The 2-Pauls Tour Wraps Up
Bono & Chris & O'Neill
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Irish rock star Bono on Thursday visited an Ethiopian hospice and orphanage run by missionaries, one of the last stops of their African tour.
Dozens of patients, some with bandaged, quietly lined walkways and alleyways. O'Neill said he was deeply moved and touched.
The hospice treats more than 700 people with infectious diseases, including AIDS, while the orphanage is looking after more than 200 children with mental and physical disabilities.
As many as 3 million Ethiopians are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, giving one of the world's poorest countries the third largest infected population in the world.
Bono, O'Neill and actor Chris Tucker later visited a vocational institute where students learn computer studies, carpentry and auto-mechanics.
The group was due to visit a garment factory, the only Ethiopian company benefiting from the U.S. African Growth and Opportunities Act, later Thursday.
The group is due to leave Africa early Friday.
Bono & Chris & O'Neill
Somebody Likes Him
Bob Costas
The folks at NBC who have been broadcasting NBA games for the past 12 years are upset that NBC Sports honcho Dick Ebersol has allowed Bob Costas to "bigfoot" his way into the
finals, pushing out Ahmad Rashad as host. Costas, who hasn't worked NBA games in years, is said to have pushed to get the job. "Costas has to get his face on TV so he worms
his way back," said one insider. "Ebersol shows no loyalty to the people who've been here." Rashad was asked by NBC to participate in some smaller capacity, but declined.
Rashad, under contract to NBA Entertainment, will appear next year on ABC, which now has the NBA contract.
Bob Costas
At Least 60 Repeats Of Each Episode!
''The Osbournes''
"The Osbournes" is officially set to return to MTV next fall -- but just how much coin the cable channel will lay out for the monstrously successful reality series remains open to interpretation.
MTV confirmed Wednesday it has ordered 20 new episodes of the show, which has generated whammo Nielsen numbers by chronicling the mundane misadventures of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, wife Sharon and kids Jack and Kelly.
Numerous industry insiders familiar with the talks said MTV will shell out nearly $20 million for the rights to the new bunch of episodes. MTV president Van Tofler disputed that figure, however.
The Osbournes' reps at Endeavor, which brokered the deal, cited a nondisclosure clause in declining to discuss specifics of the pact. However, insiders familiar with the pact insisted MTV's license fee for "The Osbournes" -- which
will be paid to the family rather than a studio -- will end up at $20 million for 20 episodes.
Tofler did confirm the new pact "is not traditional" in structure. Indeed, insiders said the Osbournes now will have full ownership of their series, with MTV a partner in all ancillary revenues, such as DVDs or syndication revenue.
MTV will control foreign distribution of the series.
MTV will have "more than" 60 runs of each half-hour episode of "The Osbournes," Tofler said.
By contrast, broadcast networks usually get between two and four runs of each episode. As a result, whatever amount MTV is paying the Osbournes, the network is still getting a relative bargain for a show that at its peak this spring
was drawing more adults in the key 18-34 demographic than many network shows.
New episodes of "The Osbournes" will begin airing this fall, with several original Osbourne-themed specials slated to premiere during the summer.
MTV has continued filming the family during the past few months, following them to major events such as their recent appearance at the annual White House correspondents' dinner. Summer specials could include highlights of that event
along with footage from Osbourne's Ozzfest festival tour and what the cable channel calls "a very special dinner with the Osbournes."
''The Osbournes''
2002 World Stunt Awards - Airs Tonight
Jennifer Garner
Actress Jennifer Garner is all smiles after she was lowered to the stage by "Spider-Man" before announcing the winner for the best stunt coordination award during
the 2002 World Stunt Awards in Santa Monica, California May 19, 2002. The nominees were selected from films released in 2001, with top honors going to stunt
professionals from "The Fast and the Furious," "Rush Hour 2" and "A Knights Tale."
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Selective Reporting, Again
Chelsea Clinton
Two British tabloids carried photographs Thursday showing Chelsea Clinton being helped from a London nightclub by her boyfriend.
The Sun and the Daily Mail both published several photos suggesting the 22-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had too much to drink at the Embassy Club.
The Daily Mail reported that Chelsea Clinton first tried to leave the club around 3 a.m. with a coat over her head, then lost control as she stumbled and was held up by Klaus and other friends on the way to the car.
Chelsea Clinton
Posed Nude for Playboy
Christina Silvas
A California woman who quit a stripping job so her 5-year-old daughter could return to her Christian school has now posed nude for Playboy's Web site, although disappointed
church officials said the child would not be expelled this time.
Christina Silvas, 24, drew international headlines when her daughter was expelled from kindergarten two weeks ago at Capital Christian School in Sacramento on grounds her
mother's job as a nude dancer violated the church's "Christian Philosophy" agreement.
Since then Silvas, who is now working at a local radio station, has received numerous job offers including one from Playboy, which this week published the photo spread.
Silvas said she flew to Chicago last week to pose for the photos for an undisclosed sum.
If you wish to read the comments of the sanctimonious preacher, Christina Silvas.
'X-Men' Names Nightcrawler
Alan Cumming
While Marvel's wall crawler "Spider-Man" continues to rack up summer grosses for Sony, Fox has added a Nightcrawler to its Marvel franchise "X-Men."
Alan Cumming has signed to join the X-Men mutant superhero roster, playing a shadowy blue-tinted superhero with a tail whose great gift is the ability to teleport from
one location to another. At the same time, "Tadpole" star Aaron Stanford has been set to play Pyro, a mutant who becomes part of the junior X-Men team. He has the
ability to manipulate fire.
Once again directed by Bryan Singer, "X-Men 2" will begin production in Vancouver on June 17. Returning is the original good guy cast of Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, James
Marsden, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin and Famke Janssen. Also back is Ian McKellen as the villainous Magneto.
Alan Cumming
Snarky Gossip
Corey & Michael
Something has come between Michael Jackson and his old buddy Corey Feldman.
Time was when the "Stand By Me" star defended the Prince of Pop against child molestation accusations. But now that he's launching his own music career, the 30-year-old Feldman thinks Michael turned into a megalomaniac.
In his song "Megalo-Man," Feldman sings:
"I believed in your words/
"I believed in your lies/
"But in September in New York/
"You left me to die."
"The song is derived from an incident that happened the week [of] Sept. 7," says Feldman, who was in New York then with his family for Jackson's 30th anniversary
concert at Madison Square Garden. "We got into a confrontation at the second night of the event [Sept. 10], which was the final nail in the coffin in our
friendship. … I felt very betrayed and hurt."
"Let's just say I was one of the people that was not taken care of in that manner," says Feldman. "I felt through his paranoia and delusion he closed the door
on one of the best friendships he's ever had."
Corey & Michael
''Letters From A Nut''
Pilot For ABC
Jerry Seinfeld's coming back to television -- or is he?
ABC has greenlit a pilot for a half-hour comedy based on "Letters From a Nut," the bestselling series of books by the enigmatic Ted L. Nancy, with introductions by Seinfeld.
There's been much published speculation that Seinfeld and Nancy are actually the same person -- a prolific letter writer who "sends seemingly serious, yet totally
absurd requests to corporate honchos, entertainment conglomerates ... and celebrities," according to ABC. The kicker: Recipients of the letters usually offer serious responses to Nancy.
Seinfeld has left unresolved the question of whether Nancy is his alter ego.
Adding to the mystery: Seinfeld was present during a series of meetings earlier this spring in which the project was pitched to ABC and other networks, leading to
a multinetwork bidding competish for the rights.
''Letters From A Nut''
Gee, these books don't sound anything at all like Don Novello's ''Lazlo Toth'' books. No. Not at all...
2002 MTV Movie Awards - June 6 at 9 PM (ET/PT)
Kelly Osbourne
MTV: Music Television today announced that Kelly Osbourne will perform her cover of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" for the FIRST TIME EVER at 2002 MTV MOVIE AWARDS. Ben
Affleck, Bow Wow, Vin Diesel, Eve, Jennifer Garner, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, and Charlize Theron complete the star-studded list of presenters. Hosted
by Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the eleventh annual awards show will be taped on June 1st at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and will air on June 6th at 9PM (ET/PT).
It was previously announced that Eminem and White Stripes are set to perform at the 2002 MTV MOVIE AWARDS. In addition, Kate Beckinsale, Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Damon,
Johnny Knoxville, Mike Myers, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Chris Rock and Will Smith are scheduled to present. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" tops this year's nominee list with six nominations.
Kelly Osbourne is the daughter of heavy metal rocker, Ozzy Osbourne. Kelly proves singing is in the genes with her smash new single "Papa Don't Preach." A re-make of the Madonna
classic, Kelly's edgy version of the song was the #1 most added single at radio in its first week of airplay and is already one of the most requested songs in the country. Kelly's
debut single will be featured on "The Osbourne Family Album," in stores on June 11 on Epic Records. She can also be seen on MTV's "The Osbournes," which features the real-life
drama of everyone's favorite rock-n-roll family. MTV cameras follow the family over several months, at home and on the road, documenting the ups, downs, highs, lows, and the just plain bizarre.
The official sponsors of the "2002 MTV Movie Awards" are 7-Up, GM, Loreal, Apple, Evian, Hyundai, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Visa, Wendy's and Mars.
Kelly Osbourne
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Checked Into 'Promises'
Diana Ross
Singer Diana Ross has entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center to "clear up some personal issues" before she embarks on a summer concert tour, her publicist said on Thursday.
Ross, 58, "voluntarily entered" the residential treatment facility Promises in Malibu about 10 days ago, spokesman Paul Bloch said.
He said he did not know how much longer she would remain at Promises but planned to be out in time for her world tour that begins this summer.
Diana Ross
Baby News
Kaczmarek & Whitford
Actress Jane Kaczmarek, who plays a manic mother to four scheming boys on the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle," is expecting a third child with husband Brad Whitford, her publicist said.
The baby is due in November, publicist Melissa Kates said.
Kaczmarek has been married since 1992 to Whitford, who plays Deputy White House Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman on NBC's political drama "The West Wing." The couple are
parents to a daughter and a son.
Kaczmarek & Whitford
Wants To Go To Oklahoma
Mark Fuhrman
Now that the Michael Skakel trial is coming to an end, former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman (who blew the O.J. Simpson case) is looking for something new. The other day
he was telling Court TV boss Henry Schleiff, for whom he's been covering the trial, that he wants to do a book about the "outrageous" rise in death sentences in Oklahoma,
where they're now executing more people than even Texas does.
Mark Fuhrman
'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'
David Bowie
Ziggy will soon play guitar again when Cowboy Pictures begins a national reissue of the David Bowie concert film "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars."
The film will open July 10 at New York's Film Forum, followed by a national rollout this summer and fall.
D.A. Pennebaker ("Don't Look Back") captured Bowie's final live performance as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1973, filming Bowie both on stage and backstage.
Bowie's album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" celebrates its 30th anniversary June 6. To mark the occasion, EMI will release an enhanced version of the album containing an additional CD with outtakes and demos.
David Bowie
Sued Over T-Shirt Slogan
The Osbournes
Proving that sudden stardom has its downside, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have been sued for $15 million by a clothing manufacturer who claims the couple stole his T-shirt
slogan: "F--k My Family I'm Moving In With The Osbournes."
The suit, filed Tuesday (May 28) by T-Shirt Hell, Inc. in New York District Court, alleges trademark infringement by the couple and other associated business entities when they
authorized the production and sale of its own shirt with the catchphrase: "*&@# my family! I'm moving in with...The Osbourne Family."
Court documents claim that representatives at Ozzy's label, Epic Records, knew of the earlier shirt before making its own, producing as evidence a series of email communications
from March 2002 between an employee at the label and T-Shirt Hell discussing the purchase of 40 of the shirts. The Osbournes' version was authorized for manufacturing and sale in May, the suit alleges.
Epic Records and parent company Sony Music are also named in the suit, among others.
The Osbournes & T- Shirts
BartCop TV!
''Tatum Made Me Starstruck''
John McEnroe
Even though he was a celebrity himself, John McEnroe admits he was a little awed when he met Tatum O'Neal, the actress who would become his wife and the mother of three of his children.
The tennis star describes in his new autobiography "You Cannot Be Serious," excerpts of which appear in the June 10 issue of People magazine, how he met O'Neal at a party in October 1984.
"I went over and introduced myself, even though no introductions were needed. I knew very well that Tatum O'Neal had been the youngest person to win an Oscar, in 1974,
for `Paper Moon.' I was all too aware that her father was Ryan O'Neal, the Tom Cruise of his day.
"Was I overly impressed? A bit star-struck? Maybe," he writes. "Maybe Tatum was too."
But in 1992, they divorced after six tumultuous years of marriage.
John McEnroe
Abandoned Western Lifestyle?
Sultan of Brunei
The high-flying Sultan of Brunei has grounded himself in his tiny nation on the island of Borneo.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has withdrawn from his usual haunts in Europe and Los Angeles, where he owns the Bel Air and Beverly Hills hotels.
"The sultan has abandoned his Western lifestyle and come under the influence of fundamentalist Muslims," an international businessman said. But sources
deny a rumor that he has grown a long, Osama bin Laden-like beard. "He has a mustache, but no beard," said one well-connected authority.
Meanwhile, the sultan's younger brother Prince Jefri is said to be under virtual house arrest, his passport under lock and key.
A group of 13 investigators - brought to Brunei from Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Malaysia - were also detained there for over a week.
Their detention came as former President Bill Clinton paid a private visit to the sultan on his three-week swing through Asia. Clinton dined with him on
Sunday. "They didn't play golf because the sultan doesn't golf," said an insider.
For a lot more, Sultan of Brunei
Files For Divorce
John Endicott
The husband of red carpet fashion maven Melissa Rivers has filed for divorce, according to court records.
John Endicott, who married Rivers, 34, in 1998, is seeking to dissolve the marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, according May 24 Superior Court filings.
The couple have a 1-year-old son named Edgar. Endicott seeks joint custody of the child.
John Endicott
Man to Be Tried for Heckling
In Texas
A man who yelled an expletive at former President Bush and disrupted a speech he was giving at the Texas Capitol should be tried for heckling, a state court ruled.
Thomas Markovich was a university student in 1998 when he stood up in the House gallery and yelled at Bush, who was speaking as part of the Texas Book Festival. Others
joined in the shouting or clapped in support of the former president, making so much noise that Bush stopped talking.
"At some point, I think Bush made a reference to Nicaragua," said Markovich attorney Kenneth Houp. "That's when Markovich stood up and yelled (expletive) and
was hauled off by the gendarmes."
Officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested Markovich on a misdemeanor state charge of disrupting a meeting.
A state district judge initially dismissed the charge, saying the law was too vague, but prosecutors persuaded the Third Court of Appeals to reinstate it. Markovich's
attorneys appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court for criminal cases. It ruled 6-3 on Wednesday that he should stand trial.
Texas Justice?
In Memory
Fumiko Emily Takei
Fumiko Emily Takei, mother of "Star Trek" actor George Takei and a survivor of the forced internment of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, died Saturday. She was 89.
Takei, whose son played "Mr. Sulu" on the original television series, was born in Florin, Calif., in 1912. At 10, she was sent by her parents to Japan for her education. She returned to California and was married in 1935.
In 1942, Takei, her husband and three young children, were sent to internment camps, first in Rohwer, Ark., and later at Tule Lake, Calif. The family returned to Los Angeles after the war.
George Takei, who was 4 years old when the family was interned, remembers her strong will and courage in the face of extreme difficulty.
"When we were taken into the internment camps, they told us not to bring anything sharp or mechanical," Takei said Wednesday. "My parents sold off everything we had. But she had a brand new portable sewing machine she didn't want to give up. She marched right past armed MPs with that sewing machine wrapped up in her clothes.
"When I think back, I'm even more grateful and in awe of her strength and will and resilience."
Fumiko Takei was widowed in 1979. She was active in a Buddhist temple and served as a volunteer at a senior citizen's hot meal program.
Fumiko Emily Takei
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