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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beginning to think the menagerie is too large. Argh.
Running way late tonight. Got so busy, forgot about the farmer's market, and I've never done that before! Really gonna miss the
apricots magic with the kid this week.
The last day of 3rd grade went quite well, and I'm now the proud parent of a 4th grader. I think it's positive that the teacher said she'd 'always remember' the kid, but would miss having stories for her dinner table?
Tonight, Friday, CBS has reruns of 'JAG' and 'The Guardian'. They are followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Matt Damon and Mort Sahl.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are John McEnroe and Caitlin Cary.
NBC has a rerun of 'Providence', then an episode of 'Dateline', and then a rerun of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay is Chris Isaak.
Don't know who is scheduled on a fresh Conan.
ABC reruns 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then a rerun of a 'special' 'Tampering With Nature With John Stossel', and then '20/20', where Barbara Walters will interview Carol Burnett & make her cry.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Bryan Cranston (actor), Lisa Rinna (actress), and 2 TBA's.
The WB has reruns of 'Sabrina', 'Maybe It's Me', 'Reba', and 'Raising Dad'.
Faux has reruns of 'Dark Angel' and 'X-Files'.
My UPN is airing baseball - Disney's Angles visit Rupert's Doggers.
Check your local listing for 'NOW With Bill Moyers' on PBS.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Survey Says
Ozzy's a Good Dad
He'll probably never win father of the year, but a lot of mothers think Ozzy Osbourne's a pretty capable dad.
The 53-year-old heavy metal star — known for such songs as "Bark at the Moon," "Crazy Train" and "Paranoid" — came in third on a Parents magazine survey that asked, "Which famous dad would
be most likely to change a diaper or handle a night feeding?"
Osbourne's parenting skills have been on display this year, as he's starred with his wife, Sharon, 17-year-old daughter Kelly and 16-year-old son Jack in the hit MTV reality series "The Osbournes."
Parents magazine surveyed about 2,100 mothers. Mel Gibson was the mothers' first pick, and Will Smith came in second.
Ozzy's a Good Dad
10 Ten
U2 Tops Industry Earners
While U2 singer Bono is campaigning for Third World debt relief, his rock band topped Rolling Stone magazine's list of top-earning music stars last year.
Gangsta rap pioneer Dr. Dre (born Andre Young), who signed hit rapper Eminem to his Aftermath label, followed at No. 2 with net income of $51.9 million. The magazine noted that
Young received a reported $35 million payment when Vivendi Universal SA's Interscope Records boosted its Aftermath stake to 80 percent from 50 percent.
More than 30 years after they broke up, the Beatles came in at No. 3 with $47.9 million in net income, thanks mostly to sales of their worldwide hits album "1." On the other hand, the Dave Matthews Band had
to work for its No. 4 slot. It netted $43.4 million, most of it coming from touring.
Madonna, who also toured last year, ranked No. 5 with $40.8 million, driven by a reported $20 million to $30 million recording advance from a contract renegotiation with AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Music Group, Rolling Stone said.
Rounding out the top 10: rap mogul Master P. at No. 6 with $36 million; veteran guitarist Carlos Santana at No. 7 with $32.7 million; boy-band 'N Sync at No. 8 with $26.5 million; rock band Aerosmith at No. 9
with $24.2 million; and pop singer Sting at No. 10 with $24 million.
U2 Tops Industry Earners
Proving That 'Stupid Rules' With Disney
Bill Maher
Nine months after a post-Sept. 11 furor that refused to die down, "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" will end its five-year run on ABC later this month with a low profile gathering of his favorite guests.
The Walt Disney Co. owned network said on Wednesday it will air the final original episode of the provocative late-night show on Friday, June 28, then air repeats during the first week of July. The last episode will tape June 27.
Rather than booking A-list stars for his ABC swan song, though, Maher invited four guests he considers "steadfast friends of the show." Confirmed for the final night are columnist Ann Coulter, actor-comedian Christopher "Kid" Reid,
syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington and actress-singer Michelle Phillips, a former member of the Mamas and the Papas, a network spokeswoman said.
The ax fell last month, when ABC announced it was canceling the program.
The veteran ABC News program "Nightline," hosted by Ted Koppel, is expected to begin broadcasting a second half-hour edition once "Politically Incorrect" leaves the airwaves.
"P.I." will be permanently replaced next year by a late-night show starring comic Jimmy Kimmel, host of Comedy Central's testosterone-charged goof series "The Man Show." That
program will premiere with a special edition Jan. 26, immediately following ABC's Super Bowl telecast.
Bill Maher
Deep Throat Book Imperiled
John Dean & Salon
Nixon White House counsel John Dean had been all set to lay out his latest theory Monday about the identity of the mysterious Watergate tipster who helped topple a presidency.
Online magazine Salon.com had promised in April that on the 30th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate burglary, "John Dean and Salon.com will unmask the real Deep Throat."
Now it seems, maybe not.
Dean said his Deep Throat information has been adamantly denied, and editors are making last-minute changes in the 40,000-word e-book.
Salon.com managing editor Scott Rosenberg said he's still aiming for a Monday publication date for the e-book. But he admitted what began as a project to remove the veil from one of
America's greatest political mysteries has become more complex in recent days.
The idea was to publish Dean's theories as an e-book available to paying subscribers, providing a financial boost to the struggling Internet company.
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who was guided by the secretive source, and colleague Carl Bernstein have never revealed Deep Throat's true identity. Woodward said he'll remain mum until Deep Throat dies.
John Dean & Salon
Youngest AFI Award Winner
Tom Hanks
Heaps of praise were bestowed on Tom Hanks by some of the industry's top stars as the actor accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
On Wednesday night, Hanks was the 30th recipient of the award given to movie immortals, and at 45, the youngest.
Steven Spielberg, who directed Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," presented the award to his friend at a ceremony in the Kodak Theatre, the new home of the Academy Awards.
On hand to applaud Hanks were Helen Hunt, his leading lady in "Cast Away"; Meg Ryan, his romantic interest in three films; and Haley Joel Osment, his son in "Forrest Gump." Comedians Steve Martin,
Dennis Miller and Tim Allen all had some goodhearted digs about Hanks.
In two decades, Hanks has progressed from the cross-dressing sitcom "Bosom Buddies" to back-to-back Oscar performances in 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump."
The Hanks tribute is scheduled to air June 24 on the USA cable network.
Tom Hanks
'V.I.P.' Headed for R.I.P.
Pamela Anderson
Even V.I.P.s can have the red carpet pulled out from under them.
Columbia TriStar Domestic Television said on Thursday it is pulling the plug on its syndicated action-adventure series "V.I.P." starring Pamela Anderson, citing the financial woes of its
production partner on the show, German media giant Kirch .
"As a result of our co-producing partner, Kirch's, financial difficulties, they were no longer able to continue with the show, which made the financial outlook untenable," Columbia TriStar,
a unit of Sony Corp., said in a statement.
Set in Los Angeles, "V.I.P." revolves around the character Vallery Irons, a small-town girl who comes to the big city and ends up as head of a professional bodyguard agency
now named V.I.P. for Vallery Irons Protection.
The show airs on 222 TV stations.
Pamela Anderson
On U.S. TV
Top 10 Canadians
Actors Raymond Burr, Jim Carrey and Michael J. Fox head a new list of the top Canadians in U.S. television compiled for this year's Banff Television Festival.
The list of "Top 10 Canadians in U.S. Television" also includes actors Lorne Greene and William Shatner; comedian Rich Little; journalists Peter Jennings, Robert MacNeil and Morley Safer; and game-show host Alex Trebek.
Included on the list of "The Famous 50 faces of 50 Years of Canadian Television" are singers Celine Dion and Anne Murray, and comedy shows "Kids in the Hall" and "SCTV."
Top 10 Canadians
Newest Animal In The Zoo...
Animal Crackers
The newest animal to join the Barnum's Animals® Crackers menagerie is the koala, thanks to consumers across the country who chose the lovable
koala over three other potential additions.
The koala, which beat out the penguin, the walrus and the cobra, will join the 18 other animals in Barnum's Animals® Crackers in September.
Animal Crackers
Auction News
Porsche Boxster
Brande Nicole Roderick's Boxster
Woo hoo - buy this baby, and take delivery at the Playboy mansion...
Snarky Gossip
Elijah Blue Allman
Elijah Blue is no gentleman. The Deadsy frontman - the spawn of Cher and Greg Allman - dissed on his former lady loves on Howard Stern's show yesterday. Of Heather Graham, Blue cracked, "She's not
in danger of being recruited by Mensa anytime soon." Blue described fellow rock offspring Bijou Phillips as "wretched" and called their fling a "3 a.m. swap." As for Lionel Richie's lovely daughter,
Nicole Richie, they were - ah, yes - "just friends."
Elijah Blue
Exhibit to Celebrate 40 Years
Bond, James Bond
Secret agent James Bond, 007, is coming to London's Science Museum this autumn in an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Bond films.
Entitled "Bond, James Bond," the exhibition will feature some of the trademark vehicles, gadgets and images of the 19 movies, stretching back to "Dr No" in 1962.
"The exhibition is a behind-the-scenes exploration of the creative talents and skills of the production process that have made Bond an international phenomenon," a museum spokeswoman said.
Bond, James Bond
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Scores Big for Faux TV
'American Idol'
Fox's "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar," an adapted import of the British smash hit "Pop Idol," has stormed up the U.S. television ratings chart in its first
two airings, with the premiere giving the network its best ratings for the time period in over a year.
Starting next week, however, the show will adopt a viewer participation element -- one of the key components that made it such a hit in Britain.
In each of the next three weeks, a group of 10 remaining contestants will perform on the air. The judges will eliminate one of those, and then viewers will choose which of the remaining
nine they like best by dialing a toll-free phone number.
The top three vote-getters in each of the next three weeks will advance, and will be joined by a wild-card candidate brought back by the judges, bringing the total to 10 finalists. Those
10 will then engage in a "Survivor"-like competition, with viewers deciding each week who gets the boot until the last remaining person gets a multimillion-dollar recording contract.
'American Idol'
Feuding Again
Dominick Dunne
Dominick Dunne is feuding again. The writer, who has been trading wicked ripostes with Gore Vidal in Vanity Fair, refused to be interviewed by Mike Barnicle the other day on MSNBC. Dunne thought he'd be talking with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews about the Martha Moxley murder trial. But at the last minute he learned that Matthews was off in Rome and Barnicle was filling in. Dunne removed his headphones and walked off the set.
Dunne tells us that he regards Barnicle, who writes an opinion column for the Sunday Daily News, as "a phony" because he wrote that John Kennedy Jr. was "dumb" while Kennedy was alive — "but after he [Kennedy] died, he went on TV to weep like he was a member of the family."
Barnicle admits that he did "spank" Kennedy in a column, "but it was once and only once. I wish Dominick had called me if he felt that way."
Dominick Dunne
Salacious Friday?
Angie Harmon Image Gallery
Free Angie Harmon Image Gallery
Songwriter Honors
Jackson & Manilow
Michael Jackson, inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well.
Jackson, who wrote hits such as "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," "Billie Jean" and "Smooth Criminal," was among those to be inducted in the Songwriters Hall on Thursday night. Others
include Barry Manilow, Sting, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and Randy Newman.
Garth Brooks was to receive the Hitmaker award, and Stevie Wonder, already a member of the hall, was to get the lifetime achievement award. Another hall member, Carole King, was also being honored.
The show will be taped for broadcast on the Bravo network Oct. 7.
Songwriter Honors
'The' Star-Spangled Banner
Textile Conservation
Textile conservationist Amy Venzke takes color readings from the 189-year-old Star-Spangled Banner flag in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, in Washington June 13, 2002. The Smithsonian
released a new composite image of the flag Thursday showing the side of the flag that was previously covered with a protective backing and has never before been photographed.
Photo by Molly Riley
Hopes to Sing Again
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews has become an ardent supporter of a pioneering research program on vocal restoration that one day could help her sing again.
"At my age, I'm hoping that there will be some restoration. That actually is a possibility," the 66-year-old Andrews said Thursday of her singing voice.
Andrews spoke Thursday at a news conference with a team of five doctors and professors from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who head the collaborative research effort. The project will take into account the latest developments in phonosurgery, voice science,
laser technology and tissue engineering.
In 1997, Andrews underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous throat nodules, and the operation left her unable to sing. Claiming she hadn't been warned of the surgery's risks,
the performer sued two doctors and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount.
The actress said she passionately believes in the research effort, which has been underway for about a year. The voice is "something from your soul, from your heart. To be able
to help preserve that — at this particular time with the particular stresses that have happened to me — is just phenomenal," she added.
Julie Andrews
Snarky Gossip
Mariah & Eminem
Last year, when rumor had it that Mariah Carey and Eminem were seeing each other, both camps denied it, claming they were "just friends." Eminem now confirms the tryst, but in ungentlemanly
fashion. "There's truth to [the romance story]," he told Rolling Stone. "I respect her as a singer, but on the whole personal level, I'm not really feeling it. I just don't like her as a person. I
learned a lesson from it: Don't believe the hype . . . She doesn't really have it all together." Jerry Blair, who heads Carey's unnamed label at Universal, said: "This is inconsequential to
Mariah . . . she's dealing with real-life matters."
Mariah & Eminem
Writing Autobiography Was Agony
Maya Angelou
Writing the last volume of her autobiography was agony for poet and philosopher Maya Angelou.
Little wonder. For she reflects in sorrow on the Sixties when Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were both assassinated just as she was about to work for them as an activist.
Add the horror of Watts erupting into flames -- she was working in Los Angeles when the riots began -- and this a far cry from the carefree Swinging Sixties that some may remember.
"It was the most difficult of all the books," she said of the sixth volume in a series than began in 1970 with the prize-winning childhood memoir: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."
Don't expect any more. "This is the last one in the autobiographical series. I refuse to write about writing, which has been central in my life since then. I would bore the toenails off people."
For more, Maya Angelou
Reprising Role in 'Ben-Hur' - The Toon Version
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston will reprise his role of "Ben-Hur" for an upcoming remake of the movie.
But instead of the months of work he put in on the first one in 1959, his role this time required only a couple days in a recording studio and no elaborate makeup or costuming.
That's because the 77-year-old actor is starring in an animated version of the story, a feature-length video premiere movie tentatively set to be released in September
or October by GoodTimes Home Entertainment.
The "Ben-Hur" cartoon was put together by Agamemnon Films, run by Heston's son Fraser, and John Stronach. William R. Kowalchuk, who produced and directed the
computer-animated "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys," will perform the same tasks on "Ben Hur."
Although there was an intentional effort to downplay some of the Biblical elements included in the 1959 edition, Fraser Heston said, "It's foolish to deny there is a
large Christian audience. But the message of faith and love and forgiveness is one that anyone of any faith should relate to."
Charlton Heston
BartCop TV!
Charity Auction News
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Fans got a rare chance to snoop into the private lives of the stars when a French charity auctioned off disposable cameras full of snapshots by celebrities including actresses Jodie Foster and Sophie Marceau.
Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche, the patron of the event, joined stargazers for the three-and-a-half hour auction, which raised more than $47,000 for press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Proceeds from the auction, whose donors also included aged rocker Johnny Hallyday, France's equivalent of Elvis Presley, will be used to defend the freedom of the press worldwide.
RSF said 31 journalists were killed in 2001, eight of them in Afghanistan, and 119 remained locked in prisons from India to China.
Jodie Foster's camera went for $949, while that of her "Silence of the Lambs" co-star Anthony Hopkins, aka Dr. Hannibal Lecter, sold for $846.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Snarky Sony Gossip
Michael Jackson
The King of Pop's "crusade" against Sony Music is a face-saving strategy. Insiders say Sony is sick of the unprofitable Michael Jackson and is releasing two "greatest hits" albums
back-to-back next year, just to get rid of him. "Michael has two albums on his contract left, and Sony will deal with it in the only way it can be profitable - a greatest hits compilation," a
source reports. Jackson's last "original" album for the label, "Invincible," flopped upon its release last year. "Sony can't figure out what Michael's beef is with them," our source said.
"They were startled when he had that whole press conference with Johnnie Cochran and Al Sharpton, claiming he was a slave to the music industry." Sony was said to be caught completely
unaware. "Michael is trying to get some more publicity so that he can get a record deal with another company when the contract with Sony is up. Sony let him know a while ago they wouldn't
be re-signing him," the spy added.
Michael Jackson
Quizzes Bachelor Mayor
Jon Stewart
How do you pick up women when you're the mayor of New York City?
That's what Jon Stewart wanted to know from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his guest on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Wednesday night.
Stewart asked Bloomberg, who's a bachelor, which lines he uses: '"Good evening, I am the mayor of one of the greatest cities in the world,' or 'My name is Mike
and I run a 24-hour information network?'"
Stewart also asked the mayor, a reported billionaire, about opting not to live in the official residence, Gracie Mansion.
"You must have a nice house to be able to say, 'That mansion? Ehhh,'" Stewart said, to which Bloomberg laughed and said, "Suffice it to say, I'm comfortable."
'Daily Show'
More Auction News
Biggest Single-Crystal Diamond
Buyers will have a chance to bid for the biggest single-crystal diamond to hit the world market when a sparkling 179 carat gem is auctioned in France later this month.
Auctioneer Charles Peiffert said experts spent some 15 years chipping and polishing away at the black, pear-shaped gem, named "The Vulcan," the largest single-crystal diamond to go on sale.
The size of an egg, it is likely to sell for up to $1.13 million when it goes under the hammer in Saint-Amand-Montrond in central France on June 27, Peiffert said Thursday at a press showing in Paris.
The diamond is mounted onto a platinum and white gold broach that would risk tearing all but the toughest of evening dresses.
Peiffert last year auctioned the world's largest black multi-crystal diamond, which weighed over 498 carats, for $1.7 million.
The much smaller Vulcan would not fetch as much when it is auctioned on June 27, but is worth more money per carat, due to its perfect form, Peiffert said.
Biggest Single-Crystal Diamond
Snarky Gossip
Regis & Kelly
Next week's National Enquirer has a big splash on "Regis and Kelly's Bitter Battle" in which it's claimed that Regis Philbin has had it up to here with his new
co-host, Kelly Ripa. The story claims that Philbin thinks Ripa is too flashy, unprepared and a camera-hogger. It sounds like he's missing her predecessor, Kathie
Lee Gifford, a whole lot.
Regis & Kelly
Pushing Cross Promotion, Not Programming
Disney
To boost ratings at its flagging ABC network, The Walt Disney Co. is marshaling its vast resources to promote new fall shows in its movies, theme parks and
even on drink coasters in its ESPN Zone sports restaurants.
Disney will attempt to boost audience share at ABC by targeting the tens of millions of people who walk into Disney retail stores, log onto Disney Internet
sites, buy music from its record labels and consume Disney-branded cereals and juices.
At Disney, ABC has often been called upon to help promote the release of a new feature film or the opening of a theme park. But since Disney acquired ABC in
1996, the network has never needed the favor returned — until now.
Prime time ratings have slipped badly at the network, which just two years ago was No. 1 thanks largely to the success of the game show "Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire?" Since the popularity of that show has waned, ABC has slipped to third behind NBC and CBS.
To read more, Disney
The Market Is Competitive?
FCC Extends Ban
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday extended for five years a ban on cable companies like Comcast Corp. from keeping certain programming like the Golf Channel and home
shopping network QVC off rival satellite services like DirecTV.
Cable operators that own programming distributed via satellite have been barred for the past decade from entering into exclusive contracts with other cable operators for carrying the
content, an effort by Congress to safeguard competition and diversity in the pay television market.
The ban also ensured that those areas of the country not served by cable operators but by satellite services like EchoStar Communications Corp. or Hughes Electronics' DirecTV would be able to receive the programming.
The extension of the ban came despite lobbying by cable firms who own affected channels like Comcast, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp.. They argued the ban was not needed because the market was competitive.
Satellite providers countered that cable companies would try to cut off access to programming without the protection.
FCC Extends Ban
Documenting Pregnancy
Brandy
Over the years, Brandy's fans have watched her grow up on camera. Now, they'll be able to watch her baby before it's even born.
Starting Tuesday, MTV will broadcast "Diary Presents: Brandy-Special Delivery." The reality miniseries, which is expected to run four or five episodes, will follow the
R&B singer as she goes to the doctor, attends her baby shower, and prepares for the birth of her first child.
One thing that you won't see, however, is Brandy giving birth. MTV says cameras will not follow Brandy into the delivery room, but fans will get a chance to see the baby after the birth.
Brandy
Visiting Vegas
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman will receive the inaugural Marquee Award during the fourth annual CineVegas Intl. Film Festival at the Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday.
Before the presentation, he will participate in a celebrity blackjack tournament fund-raiser at the Palms Casino along with James Woods, Kevin Pollak, Joe Pesci and Chazz Palminteri.
Dustin Hoffman
By Aaron McGruder
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'The Osbournes'
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