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"Pledge" common sense
from Michelle V
Finally some judges have had the guts to articulate the difference between coercion of children in a captive public-school setting , and voluntary cooperative choices made by adults with regard to voicing of religious beliefs at taxpayer expense .
Hail to the California Dad who wishes his child to be free from having to buy a government-sponsored belief system that has never subpoenaed "god" to testify either to his/her/its' existence , or demand that this entity come forward to claim any sort of allegiance whatsoever . Just because a ritual has become enshrined in hoary decades of practice doesn't make it impervious to review .
Oaths of all sorts are childish , and bespeak the wishes of some to ascertain loyalties . This would be fine if adults only would indulge among themselves , but becomes truly sick when imposed upon impressionable children whose only wish is to "become" , "fit in" , -- to be part of a group . Independent thinking is not encouraged for children , to the greater loss of society . No child I know of under the age of 10 even has a clue what the Pledge means anyway , other than a waste of time from learning or play . It is a "big people" imposition .
Parents should have the overriding right to determine which direction the academic / "spiritual" education of their children slants . If church and home aren't enough , this is fine ; -- as long as my government doesn't subsidize their agenda in public schools meant for all . Little Johnny shouldn't have to feel the outsider for declining the "offer" of anyone's "Truth" . The Pledge as is , is pure indoctrination into socio-religious formata , -- those who question need not apply .
In MY Democracy , those who don't buy the pretty wrappings are just as welcome as those who do ; -- with the distinction of Government endorsement , we run quite close to that "superior" feeling shared by those who run Government-sponsored/funded "Madrassas" in many Islamic countries where religion is much more of a government tool for mass - thought than it has been here yet . Lurking danger ...
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Went to the local library, and was so cool to see the kid's eyes light up like he was in a candy store. Enjoyed it so much we stayed way too long, and have been running late ever since.
The final Bill Maher was taped tonight. Disney has no other plans than filling with Nightline til Jimmy Kimmel is house broken.
NBC in LA is shilling for Oprah's guru, 'Dr. Phil'. Tonight I heard an ad that said 'tickets may be purchased'......WTF? TV shows are forbidden by law from charging for
attendance at a taping. At least it used to be the law. New one on me.
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with '48 Hours' and then follows with the tv-movie 'Diagnosis Murder: Without Warning'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Christina Ricci, Daniel Tosh, and The Late Show CBS Mailbag 2002 Biff Henderson Map Across America Summer Tour.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Warren Zevon and Bow Wow.
NBC kills time with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Lara Flynn Boyle, Steve Irwin and Nelly.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan is Margaret Cho.
ABC pisses away 2 hours with so-called 'Funniest Videos', and follows with '20/20', with Barbara Walters, where Tatum O'Neill is supposed to hurl some invectives at Johnny Mac...
Scheduled on the LAST episode, albeit taped Thursday night, of the last fresh Bill Maher. His final guests are Ann Coulter (French-Fry hustler), Christopher Tim Reid (comedian), Arianna Huffington (columnist), and Michelle Phillips (actress).
The WB has reruns of 'Sabrina', 'Maybe It's Me', 'Reba', and 'Raising Dad'.
Faux regurgitates 'Dark Angel' and an episode of the 'X-Files'.
UPN has the movie 'Border Patrol'.
Check local listings for PBS and 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Running late, but, AMC has the origial 'The Mummy'. Damn tana leaves!
Also, TCM is doing some kind of eyetalian special with the real '8 1/2', and 'La Strada'. Do yourself a favor & watch, or visit IMDB.com (on the left side, type in the movie title, and then click 'GO'), and see what you're missing.
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3rd Strike?
Bush Twins
We hope those fun-loving first twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, had a good time Wednesday night at Stetson's, the Texas-themed Washington saloon where they were spotted by multiple witnesses sucking down Budweisers and chain-smoking
cigarettes with a group of friends till well past midnight.
But we suspect that as a result of this item, President Bush's 20-year-old daughters -- who've had embarrassing scrapes in the past over their under-age drinking in public places -- won't be consuming much more alcohol in the nation's
capital, at least not until they reach the legal age of 21 on Nov. 25.
On the other hand, we hear they did enjoy themselves. Four Stetson's patrons, who told us they were sitting with members of a softball league at the next table on the bar's second floor, gave us a fill on condition of anonymity. "I don't
want to be involved in this story in any way, shape, manner or form," one 28-year-old witness, a government employee, told us urgently.
Witnesses said Jenna and Barbara, who were with half a dozen friends, had no visible security, and a source sympathetic to them told us it's understandable why they'd want to down beers in a bar: "They're college students on summer break.
It's hot outside. Duh!"
Under-age drinking is a misdemeanor in D.C., and if a fake I.D. is used, the penalty can be up to a year in jail and a $300 fine. Unlike in Texas -- where authorities merely cited the Bush girls when they caught them drinking in Austin -- D.C. law requires the police to arrest an offender and take them to jail.
For all the details, Bush Twins
Groundbreaking In Compton, CA
William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School
A groundbreaking ceremony for William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School is scheduled for Thursday.
William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School will be the first built in Compton Unified School District in more than 35 years, said CUSD board President Isadore Hall.
"Naming it William Jefferson Clinton furthers our message," Hall told the Los Angeles Times. "It will give the school an identity and some recognition that people will remember."
Clinton was not invited to the groundbreaking, though he may be asked to attend the school opening. His spokeswoman, Julia Payne, told The Times this week that "the president is very honored whenever something is named for him."
Construction is set to begin Monday on a 9.5-acre site in the 6500 block of East Compton Boulevard, and the school is scheduled to be completed in February 2003, according to the school district.
William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School
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Virtual Drumkit
from tort
KenBrashear.com - Ken's Virtual Drumkit
This is neat,,,takes a couple of minutes to load,,,,,have fun,,,,,,, read
the "key hints" so you do more than one drum at a time. :-)
Thanks, tort!
Looking To Move?
The Osbournes
New York could be getting its own version of "The Osbournes" - if Sharon Osbourne can close a deal for an apartment here.
Sources say the wife of the Prince of Darkness is seriously shopping the East Side of Manhattan for luxe digs large enough to house the family, friends, film crews and terminally unhousebroken pets.
The lost deal involved an East 69th Street penthouse apartment with an asking price of nearly $7 million. The 4,000 square foot pad has four bedrooms, a large living room, spacious terraces for the pooches to do their business and a custom gourmet kitchen.
Sharon, the acknowledged financial brains of the family who has made the list of the London Times' 100 wealthiest women in Great Britain - has properties and investments around the world. She is said to be looking to spend up to $9 million for a flat after MTV agreed to pay the family a reported $20 million for another year of their hit show. She is also said to be looking in another of Donald Trump's condominium buildings.
The Osbournes
Final Episode of 'Politically Incorrect' In The Can
Bill Maher
"Politically Incorrect" final guests included conservative commentator Ann Coulter, political gadfly Arianna Huffington, actress Michelle Phillips and comedian Christopher Tim Reid, formerly of the rap duo Kid 'N Play.
The end of the current-events talk show was announced in May, when ABC executives said they would replace the midnight time slot after "Nightline" with a comedy program hosted by comic Jimmy Kimmel.
But "Politically Incorrect" was destined for cancellation for months, with ABC attempting in vain to replace both it and "Nightline" with a new show hosted by David Letterman.
Politically Incorrect
Strike Deadline Looms
Las Vegas Casinos
With a strike deadline looming, the union representing thousands of housekeepers and waitresses at downtown Las Vegas casinos said on Thursday it was pessimistic about reaching a new accord in time to avoid a work stoppage.
The Culinary Workers union, which represents about 45,000 Las Vegas casino cooks, waitresses and housekeepers, signed new agreements with most of the major Las Vegas Strip casinos earlier this month, avoiding a strike
that could have crippled the gambling mecca.
But a group that includes most casinos in the older downtown Las Vegas district has yet to reach a new deal with a deadline of June 30 at midnight fast approaching, said union spokesman Glenn Arnodo.
For a lot more, Las Vegas Casinos
Parade Grand Marshal
Ian McKellen
Actor Ian McKellen says he wants to ride in a pink Cadillac for his stint as grand marshal in this weekend's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade.
McKellen, who's starred in "Gods and Monsters" and "Lord of the Rings," will serve as a celebrity grand marshal along with actor Sharon Gless in Sunday's parade. Gless is best
known for her role in the 1980s television series "Cagney & Lacey" and has a regular role as the mother of a gay man in Showtime's "Queer as Folk."
McKellen says he's comfortable as an openly gay actor.
"You don't always have to say things to have an impact," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Apparently the sight of me and my boyfriend holding hands at the Oscars quite caught
people's eye. In regard to its impact, it was thought to be almost as good as an openly gay man getting an Oscar."
Sunday's parade begins at 10:30 a.m. PDT.
Ian McKellen
No Regrets
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford has no regrets about passing the part of Jack Ryan onto whippersnapper Ben Affleck in "The Sum of All Fears."
"I hated the script," says Ford. "Paramount said, commit to the development of this and we'll write another script for you. I had never made that
kind of long-term commitment, and I said, 'Bye-bye.'"
Ford calls "Sum's" story "dated and unworkable" and blasts the movie's main event, the killing of thousands of people at the Super Bowl. "How do you [bleeping]
recover from that? Emotionally, how do you care about one character when thousands have been killed?" he says to interviewer David Fleming in August's Playboy. "I'm
sure they changed it and made a good movie, but I just didn't want to go through that."
Harrison Ford
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Basic Cable Networks
Top 15 Rankings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 17-23. Each ratings point represents 1,055,000 households. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
1. World Cup Soccer: Germany vs. United States (Friday, 7:20 a.m.), ESPN, 3.6, 3.77 million homes.
2. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNN, 3.5, 3.71 million homes.
3. Movie: "U.S. Marshalls" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), TBS, 3.0, 3.13 million homes.
4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNN, 2.8, 2.97 million homes.
5. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 2.94 million homes.
6. "The Dead Zone" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.8, 2.92 million homes.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.86 million homes.
8. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.73 million homes.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.64 million homes.
10. "Real World XI" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.5, 2.58 million homes.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 4 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.53 million homes.
12. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 11 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.49 million homes.
13. "Law & Order" (Monday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.3, 2.47 million homes.
14. Movie: "The Waterboy" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.3, 2.41 million homes.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.3, 2.4 million homes.
Top 15 Rankings
Tom Cruise
Braces
Hollywood star Tom Cruise delighted his fans by going walkabout at the British premiere of his latest film Minority Report in London's Leicester Square, Wednesday June 26, 2002. The actor spent 90 minutes signing
autographs and chatting on fans' mobile phones, just as he did at last year's premiere of Vanilla Sky.
Photo by Myung Jung Kim
Kind Words from Jerry Seinfeld
Margaret Cho
Kind words from Jerry Seinfeld convinced Margaret Cho to make a living as a comedian.
Cho, whose stand-up film "The Notorious C.H.O." opens in Los Angeles Friday, won a college comedy contest whose prize was an opening spot for the comic, years before his groundbreaking TV series "Seinfeld" hit the airwaves.
"He told me that I was so good that if I decided to drop out of school and be a comedian that I would be very successful," Cho told The Associated Press.
Cho took his advice, but more than a dozen years passed before the two comedians met again.
Margaret Cho
Watch Fetches $14,450
Burton-Taylor
A wristwatch that was one of the first love tokens actress Elizabeth Taylor gave to Richard Burton was sold at auction for $14,450.
The unidentified seller, who had been a personal assistant to the Welsh-born actor, said Taylor gave Burton the 18-karat gold automatic Patek Philippe watch on
the set of the movie "Cleopatra" in 1963, at the beginning of their romance, according to Christie's auction house.
The watch's inscription, "W'i'n' Dy Garu Di," is Welsh for "I love you," it added.
The buyer, who wishes to remain anonymous, made the journey to London to buy the lot, beating competition from several telephone bidders, a Christie's spokeswoman said.
Burton-Taylor Watch
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Buried in Indiana
Elvis Time Capsule
Fans held a ceremony Wednesday to dedicate a marker honoring Elvis Presley at the former site of Market Square Arena, 25 years to the day after the concert that would turn out to be his last. Presley died in 1977.
"People around the world know of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Market Square Arena just because Elvis was here," said Kay Lipps, chairman of the Taking Care of Presley Memorial Committee. "Even though it has been 25
years, his music still touches people and makes them happy."
The marker is in a gravel parking lot where the arena stood before being demolished last year. A time capsule encased within holds Presley memorabilia including a scarf he gave Lipps, letters from fans across the
world, and a bootlegged recording of one of Elvis' last shows.
A bronze plaque reading "Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building" sits atop a stone column, just as Elvis' show announcer Al Dvorin would say at the end of each of Presley's shows.
Elvis Time Capsule
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Had Dave's Surgeon
Charlie Rose
PBS talk-show host Charlie Rose is on the mend after elective heart surgery this week.
Rose, 60, went under the knife at a New York hospital to repair a faulty valve, described as a congenital defect. His surgeon was Dr. Wayne Isom, who performed a heart bypass on comedian David Letterman.
It's not clear yet when Rose, who is also a correspondent on CBS' "60 Minutes II," will be back at work, said Yvette Vega, executive producer of "The Charlie Rose Show."
In the meantime, PBS will air a mixture of reruns and fresh shows with guest hosts. CBS' Bob Schieffer has already filled in, with CNBC's Ron Insana and sportswriter Mike Lupica in line for others, Vega said Thursday.
Charlie Rose
A Map Is A Map Is A Map?
Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman, liver transplant recipient and star of television's "Dallas" shows the crowd his organs T-shirt during the opening ceremony of the National Kidney Foundation 2002 U. S. Transplant Games
Wednesday, June 26, 2002, in Orlando, Fla. The U.S. Transplant Games opened with more than 1,500 transplant recipients ready to compete in 12 sports.
Photo by Jay LaPrete
Forgives Bull
Lyle Lovett
Lovett told The Dallas Morning News that the creature who trampled him back in March and shattered his right leg in 20 places isn't bad.
"He was just doing his job, protecting his territory," the 44-year-old singer-songwriter said. "It's a farm accident, stuff like that happens."
Lovett is still walking with crutches and taking physical therapy weekly, and he will have to wear a wire frame to support the bone for at least three more months.
But Lovett is back on the concert circuit with his Large Band, and he's even done some recording. Last month, he met the legendary Irish band the Chieftains in Austin to record a track on their album of traditional bluegrass songs.
Lyle Lovett
BartCop TV!
Over Arizona
Heritage Flight
An A-10A Thunderbolt II (Top) leads a P-38 Lightning (C) and a P-51 Mustang through a turn over the Arizona desert, as part of the United States' Air Force (USAF) Heritage Conference 2002 training flight, on June 26, 2002.
The conference brings together civilian Heritage pilots and USAF Demonstration Team pilots to discuss safety and practice formation flying in a non-airshow environment. The USAF heritage aircraft and modern day fighters
routinely team together to perform at airshows in the "Heritage Flight" formation, but must be certified before the airshow season begins each year.
Photo by SSgt. Greg L. Davis
Snarky Gossip
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is trolling for young kids. The self-styled King of Pop is attending a "fan party" at Webster Hall on July 6, and his fan club, mjfanclub.net, is advertising for children to join him, reports msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls. "Kids needed," blares the annnouncement. "We are looking for young singers. Is your child age 3-15 and planning to attend the party? If yes, please contact us." Jackson's career never fully recovered from child molestation accusations a decade ago, even though the pop star paid off his accuser and the case never went to court.
Michael Jackson
Hosting South African Show
Jerry Springer
U.S. talk show host Jerry Springer said Thursday he will host a late-night show in South Africa that promises to be more "traditional" than his popular tabloid series.
The weekly program, called "Jerry Springer Saturday Night," will resemble traditional U.S. late-night talk shows, featuring interviews with local and international celebrities,
an opening monologue and a live studio audience.
Springer, who was in Johannesburg negotiating the contract for 26-episodes, declined the to say what the deal was worth. He said he would travel to South Africa once a
month and shoot four shows at a time. The series was set to begin in November on local pay channel M-Net.
"I'm lucky for a guy with no talent," he said. "It's like, how the hell did all this happen to me?"
Jerry Springer
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a case of curiosities
Warner Bros.
Hick Pix in Mix
They're rednecks and Warner Bros. sees big-screen green.
And now, the as-yet-untitled feature -- a country take on "The Original Kings of Comedy" based on Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall's "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" -- has brought "The Osbournes" helmer C.B. Harding on board.
The picture will also feature yukmeisters Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White. Over the past two years, the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" has grossed more than $12 million and produced a bestselling live album released last November.
The film will present the show in its entirety, as well as behind-the-scenes sequences that focus on the individual performers.
The "Blue Collar" tour film will shoot this summer and could be released as soon as the end of this year.
While the tour's participants may hardly be household names in Los Angeles or New York, Middle America has embraced them with open arms: Foxworthy has sold more than 13 million units of comedy albums and is the author of 11
bestsellers; Engvall has sold more than 2 million albums, and his comedy CD, "Cheap Drunk," will be released in August on Warner Bros. Records. Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White have become two of the country's top comedy-club draws.
Hick Pix in Mix
'Women of Enron'
Playboy
Playboy's "Women of Enron" reveal much more than shady accounting in a 10-page pictorial that hits newsstands Friday.
Ten past and present Enron women shed their threads for the Chicago-based adult magazine's August issue, though some showed more of the naked truth than others.
'Women of Enron'
Avoids Birthplace Questions
Miss Cleo
Television psychic Miss Cleo repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday, refusing to discuss a birth certificate showing she was born in Los Angeles to American parents.
Miss Cleo, whose real name is Youree Dell Harris and who has claims to be a Jamaican shaman, was giving a deposition in a civil suit filed by Florida.
Assistant Attorney General Dave Aronberg told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that on Wednesday, he went line by line through Harris' birth certificate, asking her if it was accurate. Each time she took the Fifth Amendment, he said.
"I won't give the devil his due. I praise the father for every day that I have," said Harris.
Miss Cleo
Mystery Left Intact
Melungeon People
Might the Melungeon people of the U.S. Appalachian mountains be descendants of Moorish and Turkish sailors who escaped the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Or are their ancestors Portuguese
settlers, Indian gypsies or one of the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Historians remain confounded by the mystery of these olive- and copper-skinned people who have lived in isolated pockets across Appalachia over the past several centuries.
A just-completed genetic study of some of their 15,000 to 50,000 modern-day descendants failed to find the ethnic smoking gun to explain their origins.
Melungeons were first documented in the late 18th century here in the mountains of east Tennessee, and in neighboring Virginia and North Carolina -- but where they came from and how they got there has remained a mystery.
Some oral histories of the Melungeons trace their origins to Portugal, while other theories connect them to the Lost Tribes of Israel, the Spanish conquistadors, or Mediterranean slaves who fled into the Appalachians during U.S. colonial times.
Many Melungeons practiced Christianity and described themselves as "Portyghee," which gave credence to their supposed Portuguese ties. But to confuse ethnologists, many spoke Elizabethan English, and the term Melungeon may refer to a French word for melange, or mixture.
"Melungeon" also sounds exactly like an Arabic word meaning "cursed soul," a self-deprecating term for one who feels abandoned by god. It was also used by 16th century Ottoman Turks and by "Conversos," Jews and Moors who converted to Christianity around the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
For a lot more, Melungeon People
Claudia Schiffer
Prince William
Britain's Prince William kisses model Claudia Schiffer after being presented with the Porcelanosa Cup as a member of the winning polo team during a charity polo competition
at Ashe Park, England, Thursday June 27, 2002.
Photo by Matthew Fearn/pool
Gitmo Translator Source?
Los Angeles Phone Book
How do you find a Pashto speaker who can interrogate a suspected terrorist?
Try the Los Angeles phone book.
Cold-calling people with Afghani surnames worked for Titan Corp., which has supplied the majority of the foreign-language interrogators interviewing detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
Internet news groups, newspaper ads, language associations and word-of-mouth have also helped the San Diego-based defense contractor find qualified speakers of Pashto and Dari, which are the predominant languages of Afghanistan,
as well as Urdu (Pakistan), Uhygur (China), Uzbek (Uzbekistan), and Arabic.
All are men with one exception: a single mother of three from China who's fluent in Uhygur, the language of Eastern Turkestan.
Titan, which won the contract in 1999 to supply linguists for the military, got a call Dec. 26 from the Army to find translators who could speak Pashto and Dari.
Los Angeles Phone Book
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Cow Falls On Car
A 36-year-old woman was injured after a cow fell on her car, landing on the hood, police said. It turned out the animal had strayed from a hillside onto
the flat roof of a tunnel and toppled off just as the car emerged.
The woman's husband was not injured, said the Austria Press Agency. The couple was not identified and the victim's injuries were not detailed.
The animal was killed by the five-yard fall near Salzburg.
Cow Falls On Car
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In Memory
Nellie Monk
Nellie Monk, wife and muse of the jazz musician Thelonious Monk, died Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 80.
Born Nellie Smith in St. Petersburg, Fla., she moved to New York with her family and met Thelonious Monk at the age of 16.
Throughout their nearly four-decade relationship, Thelonious Monk, who was known as an eccentric absorbed in his work, depended on his wife for financial and emotional support.
Nellie Monk worked as a seamstress during World War II, and afterward occasionally made clothes for her husband and others.
While she was never her husband's official manager, she paid musicians, collected money from promoters, and made sure band members had plane tickets.
Thelonious Monk wrote a famed ballad, "Crepuscule With Nellie," when she was undergoing surgery for a thyroid problem in 1957.
The couple was together from about 1947 until Thelonious Monk died in 1982.
Nellie Monk
More links:
T. S. Monk Photo Album
THELONIOUS MONK
Presentations on the Music and Life of Theonious Monk
Thelonious Monk: Listen to the Stories
T.S. Monk - Monk On Monk
In Memory
John Entwistle
John Entwistle, the bass player for veteran British rock band The Who, died in Las Vegas on Thursday at age 57, just one day before the group was set to begin a North American tour in the city, the Clark County Coroner said.
Entwistle, a bearded, taciturn type affectionately known as "Ox," died at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, said coroner Ron Flud. An investigation was under way into the cause of death, he added.
The Who, known for such hits as "My Generation," "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again," were scheduled to begin their three-month tour in a small club at the hotel.
With Entwistle's death, The Who are down to just two original members, singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend. Original drummer Keith Moon died of an accidental pill overdose in 1978.
In addition to playing bass, Entwistle helped out on backing vocals. His songwriting contributions to The Who were sporadic, mostly limited to a few album tracks and B-sides. He released a half-dozen solo albums.
Entwistle, who was born in the London suburb of Chiswick on Oct. 9, 1944, joined Daltrey in a forerunner of The Who in the early 1960s while working as a tax clerk. The band ultimately took shape in 1964 and made an immediate impression with its "Mod" stylings and its expensive habit of trashing all its stage equipment after each set.
John Entwistle
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'The Osbournes'
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