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'Disinfotainment Today'
'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Have You Checked Out Nick's Site Recently?
Nick's Crusade
from Alex
Liz Smith
"There I was last Sunday morning watching "Meet the Press" in the com pany of one of the most
brilliant men I know and we were both astounded at what transpired on the box. The usual
suspects had all been rounded up and the subject matter was routine — WMD; where were they?
Israel and Palestine; can they? "Etc, etc." as the King of Siam would have said.
But suddenly they were showing clips of Bill Clinton talking about reversing the 22nd Amendment
on presidential term limits. "What is he up to?" the pundits on air asked one another. Then the
matter of Clinton running for mayor of NYC came up — again. (I thought this had been laid to
rest months ago!) But no, the "Meet the Press" guys were talking seriously.
So let's examine this briefly. Could Clinton win the Democratic slot for mayor of the greatest
city in the world? Of course, he could — in a walk. Would he make a great mayor administrator?
Well, probably. One thing is for sure, he would have a forum and he'd be back in the national
eye and maybe even New York and its problems would be enough to keep him busy. (He's only 56,
for heaven's sake!)
Liz Smith
Alex
Thanks, Alex!
Liz Smith is the only reason to read the NY Post.
from Tim H
Re: Janeane Garofalo
Is the ghost of Sen. Joe McCarthy alive and well in Hollywood? That is
certainly on the minds of many outspoken liberals in Tinsel-town these
days. The latest conspiracy theory focuses on the just-announced axing
by ABC of very vocal anti-Iraq war activist Janeane Garofalo's new
sitcom, ''Slice o' Life.''
Though the alphabet network had given Garofalo and Universal
Tele-vision a thumbs up on the show for next season, network execs
changed their minds, telling Daily Variety and other industry outlets it
was ''the direction of the series story line'' that led to the dumping
of ''Slice''--just days before the show's pilot was scheduled to be
taped in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A source close to Garofalo says the actress and comedian
was furious by the last-minute change and believes it's yet another
example ''of a network bowing to the perceived power of the Bush
administration. ... Janeane is convinced her politics and all the hate
mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind
all this.''
This is Garofalo's second recent TV stumble. A potential HBO project was
also shelved.
Janeane Garofalo
Tim H
Thanks, Tim! This story wasn't reported in LA.
Anthology Contest - Regional Writers Writing about the Region
The Best of Memphis
Once a year, the Memphis Writers Co-op produce an
anthology of the best fiction and poetry submitted by
Memphis area writers. The BOM anthology will showcase
the Memphis area writing community to our city and to
the rest of the world.
Theme: The work must contain an obvious link to
Memphis or some recognizable current, future, or
historical location within the 100-mile radius
residency area. Links can be tenuous, but the stronger
your link, the better your chance of having your work
accepted.
Residency Requirement: The anthology is open to
current residents and Memphis expatriates who live or
once lived within a one hundred mile radius of
Memphis. You must have sole authorial rights to the
work (or, if you collaborate, all authors must meet
the residency requirement).
All submissions for the first anthology must be
received no later than August 1, 2003. Selected
authors will be notified by October 15, 2003.
What we are looking for - quality. It's that simple.
Send your best literary fiction, poetry of all kinds,
science fiction, historical, horror, fantasy...
whatever you need to do to tell your story. There are
no restrictions as to style or genre. The Memphis
Writers Co-op supports all forms of fiction and
poetry.
There is a reading fee and other special requirements,
so before you submit, please check out our writers'
guidelines at our website
Anthology Contest
Regional Writers Writing about the Region
Confirmed judges are award-winning poet Beth Ann
Fennelly, Memphis Flyer book reviewer Leonard Gill,
the one and only Greil Marcus, best-selling author
P.J. Parrish, Partisan Review editor Don Share,
scifidimensions.com editor John C. Snider, and Rick
Wilber - author, journalism professor, and
administrator of the Isaac Asimov Award for
Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writing.
Reader Comment
Re: Martha Stewart
Hey Marty,
If you have any illusions as to why Martha Stewart is being so aggressively
indicted for what seems to be a small potatoes illegal trade, as opposed to
the hugely criminal YET TO BE INDICTED Ken Lay and other Enron Republican
scum, read this:
Pisser #1
Pisser #2
I am not defending Martha Stewart in this matter as a jury will decide her
guilt or innocence, but I strongly believe that if Martha had been in Bush's
inner circle like Kenny Boy, her case would have quietly put in the freezer
until doomsday.
I am sure that our resident told Ashcroft to go after her because of her
strong support to Democrats in the 90's. It is no accident that Bush's
contributors have gotten off relatively scott free so far and Clinton's have
been indicted for far lesser abuse of power.
Denise
Thanks, Denise.
That's kind of what I was getting at - for Koresh sake, Janeane, Natalie & Martha are being vilified on a near daily basis, careers hanging in the balance, but, compared to what the alpha
'Y' chromosomers have gotten away with, well, hell, it's like comparing a pedicure to brain surgery.
Yet, the media drums keep beating a subtext of 'when will those damn women learn their place & keep it?' while loudly tub-thumping 'fair & equal'.
Seems the bottom line is if I want 'fair' I have to go to Pomona in September, and if I want 'equal', I need to use the crap in the pink envelopes at Denny's.
from Alvin
MR. BUSH
MIDI
MR. BUSH {Sung to 'Mr. Blue' by Bobby Vinton}
{As Sung By pRes. Bush}
{instrumental intro}
I'm Mr. Bush
So I lied, impeach me
Our reasons for going to war
Were fabricated, so what's new? {you lied W!}
'Cause I'm Mr. Bush
I'm Mr. Bush
I won't say I'm sorry
I won't turn around, I'm headed to Iran
Exaggeratin' through and through {but why W?}
'Cause I'm Mr. Bush
Hundreds of mustard gas
Sarin and anthrax
The weapons' gone
Saddam and sons still on the run {what now W?}
I can't tell you {dumb are you!}
Let's forget the truth
My head is turning upside down
Like Tony, I've no clue {'cause you're W!}
Sleeping over it too
Hundreds of mustard gas
Sarin and anthrax
The weapons' gone
Saddam and sons still on the run
I'm Mr. Bush
So I lied, impeach me
Our reasons for going to war
Were fabricated, so what's new? {you lied W!}
'Cause I'm Mr. Bush
'Cause I'm Mr. Bush!
'Cause I'm Mr. Bush!
Alvin D (-.-)
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The sun never burned through the 'June Gloom' today, and that's OK with me.
Did the Farmer's Market/CostCo loop. Lots of cherries, 2nd crop of asparagus & some nice corn, too.
By the time I got home was wishing for a 2nd car horn - one that screams 'hang up the phone and drive, asshole!'
Tonight, Friday, CBS opens the night with the Season Premiere of 'Baby Bob', (a failed series from a year ago - now they're dropping the un-aired episodes as 'new'), followed by
a RERUN 'Yes, Dear', then a RERUN 'Hack', followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave (hosted by Tom Arnold?), are Eddie Brill and Train.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Eva Mendes and Buzzcocks.
NBC starts the evening with 'Dateline', followed by another 'Dateline', and then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Charlize Theron, broadcaster Chris Berman, and Michelle Branch.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Seth Green and John Mellencamp.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 2/21/03), are Ashanti, Barry Zito, Bill Burr, and D4.
ABC has more NBA Basketball. Prime time programming on the left coast will be strictly filler.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Cole Hauser, Kelly Osbourne, and the Datsuns, with this week's guest co-host Method Man.
A&E offers the movie 'Mansfield Park', followed by 'Justice'.
AMC has the movie 'Trespass', followed by the movie 'The Fury'.
BBC America offers 'Ground Force - Bordon' (7pm), 'Changing Rooms - Grantham' (7:30pm), 'a-list BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE' (8pm),
'The Office - Episode 1' (9pm), 'Manchild - Episode 7' (9:40pm), 'Absolutely Fabulous - Jealous' (10:20pm),
'So Graham Norton - Alice Cooper' (11pm), 'So Graham Norton - Jane Seymour, Carol Smillie' (11:30pm). ALL TIMES ET
Bravo has the movie 'House of the Spirits', followed by the movie 'Run, Lola, Run' (which is worth viewing if you've never seen it).
History offers the usual 'History's Mysteries', 'The XY Factor', and then 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', followed by another 'Stargate SG-1', and then 2 episodes of 'Scare Tactic'.
TCM celebrates musicals with 'How To Succeed In Business (Without Really Trying)', 'The Music Man' (that starts with 't', and that rhymes with 'p', and that stands for 'pool'), and then 'South Pacific'.
TNN (Spike TV), has 3 episodes of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'.
USA offers the movie 'Blown Away', followed by 'Monk' - could this be a new episode & the beginning of the new season?
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
ZZ Top singer Billy Gibbons; musican Earl Scruggs; singer and actor Dwight Yoakam; and singer Buck Owens, from left, pose after Yoakam's new star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 5, 2003. Yoakam was honored with the 2,227th star on the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Photo by Nick Ut
BuzzFlash.Com and BartCop.Com
Take Back the Media.Com
Take Back the Media.Com Gets the Savage Treatment: Wife of Website Co-Founder Slapped with Lawsuit - A BuzzFlash Interview
In an exclusive first interview with BuzzFlash.Com and
BartCop.Com, Mike Stinson, co-founder of the watchdog website,
Take Back the Media.Com, reveals why his wife and other websites are being sued by Michael Savage.
Hosting Tony Awards Sunday
Hugh Jackman
It wasn't difficult to get Hugh Jackman to host this Sunday's Tony Awards. He said they asked him and he said "Yeah, no problem."
He said he wouldn't go so far as to call himself a stand-up comedian. But, he's been talking with the show's writers about material and they'll be giving him ideas. But, he says "you have to make it your own in some way, give it your own flavor."
Jackman, who has a theater background, will also star in a new musical about Liza Minnelli's ex-husband Peter Allen "The Boy From Oz" this October.
Considering how flamboyant Allen was and the wild costumes he wore, Jackman hopes Wolverine fans aren't shocked to see the show. He joked that he has nightmares about Wolverine fans standing up in the audience and shouting "don't kiss that guy!"
Hugh Jackman
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Media Blitz Book Spoiled by Leak
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The publisher of Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir wanted people guessing about her revelations before publication, but those plans were spoiled on Wednesday as some of the book's most colorful details were splashed around the U.S. media.
Simon & Schuster paid $8 million for Clinton's inside look at eight tumultuous White House years and planned a media blitz for its release Monday. It gave no advance media copies.
But late Tuesday, those plans went awry when The Associated Press ran a story that quoted "Living History" extensively, winning play across the country.
The leak of the book sparked a potential legal battle.
Sources close to the situation said Simon & Schuster was planning to seek damages from The Associated Press for copyright infringement.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Blues legend B.B. King, left, and Mississippi Gov Ronnie Musgrove, right, pose at the unveiling of the First Mississippi Blues Trail historic site marker on Second and Church Street in Indianola, Miss., Thursday, June 5, 2003, where B.B. King at 17, began playing the blues. Musgrove presented King with a proclamation officially naming him as Mississippi's Blues Ambassador.
Photo by Shannon McMullan
Mocks Bush at Harvard
Will Ferrell
Just because Will Ferrell has left "Saturday Night Live," it doesn't mean he's left his resident Bush impression behind. He brought it out yesterday for what's called "Class Day" at Harvard University. It's the day before the actual graduation.
Ferrell was dressed in a sailor's cap, navy jacket and kerchief. He put on his best George W. Bush as he pretended to read a letter from the resident to the students.
In it, he said: "One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy." "In fact," said Ferrell, "the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert — slim and none, and slim just left the building."
Will Ferrell
Men Threw Underwear at Munich Concert
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger, staring 60 in the face, lamented the lack of women's lingerie thrown on stage at a Rolling Stones concert in Germany -- but said a few pairs of men's underpants were hurled from the crowd.
Jagger, 59, said on Thursday there seemed to be fewer women in the crowd at the start of the European leg of the Rolling Stones "40 Licks" tour in Munich's Olympia Hall on Wednesday.
"It was all men," Jagger said at a news conference, noting a lamentable absence of the lingerie that is normally thrown at the band from the audience. However, he said he did see a few pairs of large men's underpants on the stage.
"I don't know what that says," Jagger said, laughing. "They left all the girls at home or whatever, I don't know. Usually we get a few bits of underwear on the stage. Last night there were a few Y-fronts."
Mick Jagger
Feature Film Debut
Gwen Stefani
Singer Gwen Stefani will make her feature film debut in the cast of "Aviator," the Howard Hughes biopic that stars Leonardo DiCaprio.
Director Martin Scorsese has also enlisted Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner, to join the cast.
Stefani will play Jean Harlow in the movie, which starts shooting next month in Montreal.
Gwen Stefani
Television Critics Assn. Awards
Top Nominations
Comedy Central's news spoof "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" was the surprise front-runner in the nominations for this year's Television Critics Assn. Awards, along with NBC's critically praised new drama "Boomtown."
The two programs garnered four nominations each, including mentions in the top program of the year category.
Among the networks, HBO snagged the most nominations with 10, led by the dramas "The Wire" and "The Sopranos" with three each.
In the program of the year category, "The Daily Show," "Boomtown" and "The Wire" compete with Fox's espionage thriller "24" and the reality megahit "American Idol."
"Boomtown," "24" and "The Wire" are also nominated in the best drama series category, along with FX's "The Shield" and HBO's "The Sopranos."
On the comedy side, "The Daily Show" faces HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Fox's now-canceled "Andy Richter Controls the Universe," CBS hit sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" and BBC America's "The Office."
In the acting categories, Edie Falco and James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos"), Neil McDonough ("Boomtown"), Kiefer Sutherland ("24") and Jennifer Garner (ABC's "Alias") round out the drama field, while Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, Brad Garrett ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Tony Shalhoub (USA Network's "Monk") and Bonnie Hunt (ABC's "Life With Bonnie") are in contention on the comedy side.
"Boomtown" and "The Wire" are also among the nominees in the best new program of the year award, along with the WB network's "Everwood," NBC's "American Dreams" and FX's "Lucky."
"The Daily Show's" fourth nomination is in the best news and information program category, where it will compete with CBS' "60 Minutes," PBS' "Frontline," ABC's "Nightline" and NBC News correspondent David Bloom, who died while covering the war in Iraq.
The five contenders in the longform category are TNT's "Door to Door," CBS' "Hitler: Rise of Evil," HBO's "Live From Baghdad," PBS' "Manor House" and Sci Fi Channel's "Taken."
Larry Gelbert, Don Hewitt, Carl Reiner, Aaron Spelling and Oprah Winfrey have been nominated for their career achievement, while UPN's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," NBC's "Law & Order," PBS' "Reading Rainbow," NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and "60 Minutes" are in the running for the Heritage Award.
The winners will be announced July 19 at a ceremony hosted by Wanda Sykes at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.
Top Nominations
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Fails to Sell at Auction
Hendrix Guitar
A guitar owned and played by the late Jimi Hendrix has remained unsold at auction after failing to reach its reserve price, a spokesman for auctioneers Cooper Owen said on Thursday.
The 1965 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster was billed as the highlight of a "Rock Legend" sale, with the auctioneers hoping to achieve a sale price of up to 150,000 pounds.
The reserve price was not revealed.
Hendrix Guitar
A protester from Myanmar shouts slogans as he holds a poster of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in front of Myanmar's Embassy in Seoul, June 5, 2003. Dozens of protesters urged the government of Myanmar to release opposition leader Suu Kyi, who was detained last Friday.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
Announces Deal With CBS
Boston Pops
The traditional Independence Day concert by the Boston Pops will be carried live on CBS this year, Pops officials announced Thursday.
The five-year agreement with WBZ-TV, the network's local affiliate, includes a multiyear deal with CBS to broadcast the concert's last hour nationally, from 10-11 p.m. The earlier part from 8-10 p.m. will air locally, station spokesman Don Lowery said.
"All the networks were approached and CBS was the one whose needs most closely met our own," conductor Keith Lockhart said
For 11 years, the Pops concerts on Boston's riverfront Esplanade have been carried on the cable channel A&E.
Boston Pops
Mom Gives Interview
Luther Vandross
In the days before he suffered a stroke, Luther Vandross couldn't stop overeating, according to his mother.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mary Vandross also blamed her son's hectic schedule for his April 16 stroke.
A few days before his stroke, Vandross, 52, visited his mother in her Philadelphia home. Although the visit was a good one, she worried about him because he was "eating everything in sight."
"I asked him, `Are you upset about something?' He said, `I don't know, but ... when you go to your mama's house, you're supposed to eat,'" she said.
She visits him in the hospital often. If she is not there, another relative or friend is by his bedside.
"He's doing excellent now in comparison to what he was," said Mrs. Vandross.
Luther Vandross
Pledges Funds to Fight AIDS
Carlos Santana
Rock guitarist Carlos Santana on Thursday pledged the proceeds of his summer tour -- estimated at up to $3 million -- to battling AIDS as South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu predicted the disease may prove more devastating to his country than the scourge of apartheid.
Proceeds of the 2003 U.S. Shaman Tour, consisting of 23 concert shows, will go to the Artists for A New South Africa, a group formed in the late 1980s to support the economic sanctions aimed at toppling South Africa's then white-ruled apartheid regime.
Representatives of the group, including actress Alfre Woodard and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Tutu, joined Santana in announcing the pledge on Thursday.
Currently, there are over 42 million people living with either HIV or AIDS worldwide, including 29 million in sub-Saharan Africa.
Carlos Santana
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Asks For Continuance
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx is trying to get a little more time before he has to deal with his case in New Orleans. The lawyer for the actor has asked the judge for a continuance of the case and the judge may rule on that request today.
Foxx is free on $1,900 bond. He was arrested in April on charges of trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest. Authorities say he fought with police after Foxx and his entourage refused to leave a casino near the French Quarter. The beef started when Foxx, his sister and their group were asked to show identification before going into the casino.
Foxx was in New Orleans to film the movie "Unchain My Heart." He stars as Ray Charles in the film.
Jamie Foxx
Bangladeshi villager Mohammad Ismail shows his palms affected by arsenic contamination in Sonargaon near the capital Dhaka, on June 3, 2003. Doctors removed Ismail's two badly arsenic-affected fingers to save his right hand three years ago. One of the biggest problems in Bangladesh is arsenic contamination, which has forced authorities to seal thousands of wells across the country. Health officials say one-third of the country now had arsenic contamination in wells, while rivers -- many drying or polluted by chemical waste -- were no longer a source of safe drinking water.
Photo by Rafiqur Rahman
Planned By CBS
Reagan Miniseries
CBS is planning a two-part miniseries about the family life of former President Reagan and wife Nancy.
The story is based on Carl Sferrazza Anthony's 1991 book "First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power, 1961-1990."
"The Reagans" miniseries is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, whose previous credits include the acclaimed TV biopics "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," "The Three Stooges" and the recent "Lucy."
Production is set to start over the summer and could be broadcast as early as November.
Reagan Miniseries
L.A. Police Want Interview Too
Phil Spector
Legendary rock producer Phil Spector has told Esquire Magazine that actress Lana Clarkson killed herself in his Los Angeles mansion by putting a gun in her mouth and blowing her head off -- details about the death he apparently hasn't shared with police.
Spector touched off an uproar on Wednesday with his interview about the death that led to his arrest on suspicion of murder because police say he hasn't granted them an interview since Feb. 3., the day the 40-year-old B-movie star died.
A source close to the case characterized the Esquire interview and a previous e-mail circulated by a Spector associate that claimed the producer would not be charged as part of "a calculated campaign" to pressure officials not to prosecute him.
Meanwhile, Lt. Dan Rosenberg of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told Reuters that detectives were just as eager as Esquire's editors to land an interview with the reclusive record producer.
No charges have been brought against Spector and Rosenberg said investigators were waiting for evidence to be analyzed by the county's crime lab.
Phil Spector
More from Mark
Dr. Paul's Words of Wisdom
Foes Take to Street
Actors Union Merger
Nearing a referendum on the proposed merger of the Screen Actors Guild with its sister union, AFTRA, foes of the plan staged a rally on Wednesday to counter the ongoing informational campaign of those favoring consolidation.
Hoisting signs with such slogans as "Merger: Same Pig Different Lipstick" and "This Merger Stinks!," about 100 protesters from the SaveSAG opposition group walked a picket line outside SAG headquarters, calling on fellow members to vote no in the upcoming referendum.
The merger plan would create a new umbrella union, called the Alliance of International Media Artists, consisting of three largely autonomous branches representing actors, broadcast talent and recording artists.
"This is a bad deal, and we are here to reflect that and tell you about that," said SAG recording-secretary Elliott Gould, who led off a string of speakers, including board member Frances Fisher, treasurer Kent McCord, former president William Daniels and organizer Mark Carlton.
Actors Union Merger
May Change Careers If Movie Tanks
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger, long mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for governor, told Esquire magazine for its July issue: "Yes, I would love to be governor of California. ... If the state needs me, and if there's no one I think is better, then I will run."
Schwarzenegger is on the cover of the magazine that hits newsstands June 13. A cover line reads: "The Next Governor of California. Really."
But Schwarzenegger's political adviser, George Gorton, said the statement didn't represent a change in the Austrian-born actor's thinking.
He said the 55-year-old actor will decide whether to run after the July 2 opening of "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," and only if it becomes clear the recall will qualify for the ballot. Supporters must collect nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make that happen.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Marks 35th Anniversary
Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles marked the 35th anniversary of the assassination of US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy with a sombre ceremony at the hospital where he died.
Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the city's Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968 just after winning the California Democratic primary election and becoming the frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination.
"This hospital was an unintentional witness to a dark and sad day in American history," said the president of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Andrew Leeka at the ceremony held in a small, spartan chapel.
Kennedy, the 42-year-old brother of slain US president John F. Kennedy, was shot three times as he attempted to leave the now-shuttered hotel through a back door after making a victory speech.
For more, Los Angeles
In Memory
Natalya Reshetovskaya
Natalya Reshetovskaya, an author and the first wife of Nobel literature laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has died at age 84.
Reshetovskaya died in her sleep on May 28, the newspaper Izvestia reported on its Web site. The cause of death was not stated.
Her death came just days before the planned release of her sixth book, "APN — Me — Solzhenitsyn (My lifetime rehabilitation)." Aside from her work as an author, she was head for 30 years of the chemistry faculty at an agricultural institute in the city of Ryazan.
Reshetovskaya and Solzhenitsyn were married in 1940. Five years later he was arrested by the Soviets and sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp, the start of the torments he described and analyzed in novels beginning with 1962's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."
In 1951, Reshetovskaya separated from Solzhenitsyn and later married another man. She remarried Solzhenitsyn in 1957 after his release.
Solzhenitsyn's work attracted extraordinary attention, and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. The pressure from abroad and at home frayed the marriage, and the couple finally parted in 1973. Solzhenitsyn married another woman.
Reshetovskaya published several volumes of memoirs, including a 1975 book, issued in the United States as "Sanya — My Life With Alexander Solzhenistyn."
In a 2002 interview with the newspaper Argumenti i Fakti, Reshetovskaya said: "It's possible that it may seem strange and even improper to someone, but, alas, I love him right up to this moment. And the thought never leaves me — will I really never see him again?"
She was to be buried in Ryazan.
Natalya Reshetovskaya
A royal Bengal tiger walks in a pond at New Delhi Zoo June 5, 2003 during a heat wave. Indians prayed for rain at temples and mosques as the death toll from the heat wave that swept the country reached 1,200 on Wednesday.
Photo by Kamal Kishore
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
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