'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Mr. Hawk's Notes
The Prisoner
Where am I
In the Village
This week's number has hit upon a near perfect scheme to find out why 6 quit. He will go into 6's mind and manipulate 6's dreams. Kind of like Neil Cavuto telling us the economy is doing fine when the DOW is about to go under 10,000 again. 6 is present with a variety of people but figures this scam out. He gives a nice twist at the end.
This is a more cereberal episode than some others but a bit sci fiy for me. Even today we can't get inside someone's dreams..... at least I don't think we can. Or did I just dream writing this?
~ Mr. Hawk
Kerry/Edwards
The battle for America has begun
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Weekly Link
Humor
Responding to fears that the Bush administration may cancel November's
presidential election in order to save democracy, the White House announced plans
to build a series of voting museums in major cities.
"Canceling elections doesn't mean people have to lose the joyous sensation of
choosing their leaders, or at least casting a ballot," said White House Press
Secretary Scott McLellan. "While we'd hate to cancel elections, it's good to know
that if we do, we'll be getting kids to visit voting museums with their families
instead of doing drugs or becoming gay."
The Voting Museums' curator, Kay McFarkle, beamed, "Our slogan is, 'The Voting
Museum -- it's more fun than voting!'
An Alert From Moose & Squirrel
Political Junkies Rejoice
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Go to: nationaljournal.com
Simply click one of the links to the right (ie ad spotlight), almanac, etc...They will then ask you to register (for free). After that you have to click another link to put in your email address so a cookie will know its your computer.
This is a bargain. Don't miss out on it!!!
Moose & Squirrel
Holy Cow! Thanks, Moose!
Reader Contribution
Possible Bush slogans ...
* Bush/Cheney: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Š Uh, never mind.
* Bush/Cheney: Do you feel safer than you did four years ago? Š Uh, never mind.
* Bush/Cheney: Iraq? Iran? What's the difference?
* Bush/Cheney: 900 American soldiers killed in Iraq. (Number subject to daily change.)
* Bush/Cheney: 9-11: It happened on our watch.
* Bush/Cheney: Because "moderate" is a dirty word.
* Bush/Cheney: Support your war - uh, make that peace - president.
* Bush/Cheney: Because they brought our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity to a halt.
* Bush/Cheney: Because you know Diebold will cast your vote for them anyway.
* Bush/Cheney: Because Jeebus would vote that way.
-- Bruce
Thanks, Bruce!
from Mark
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Reader Link
Kerry Leads
My head may explode . . ..
Returning To LA Radio!
Michael Jackson
On Friday my latest broadcasting adventure begins.
It is a great feeling walking into "Gower Gulch" as we used to affectionately refer to the building that has housed KNX radio and KCBS television for eons. (It's right in the heart of Hollywood, in sight of the giant sign, not too far from the studios that were Lucy's), on Sunset at Gower.
I remember back before the call-sign was changed, when it was KNXT television and we'd call it, with a hand mockingly cupped behind our ear, to hear our own sound, "KNX 2 Channel Tee". That didn't sit too well with management.
For the rest, and a great read, MJ's Journal - Michael Jackson Talk Radio
Thanks, Lar!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cooled down a bit more and the humidity is back to tolerable.
Was watching a Spanish diplomat on BBC speaking perfect, unaccented English, and got to wondering if anyone in the Chimpy administration has a 2nd language - other than Glossolia?
Ken Jennings won day #37 on Jeopardy - up to $1,246,660! Tonight is the final show of the current season - will Ken return in the fall?
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, demonstrates the set up on a 12-foot-tall effigy of resident Bush with fake flames shooting out his pants on Tuesday, July 20, 2004, in Spokane Wash. The ``PantsOnFire-Mobile'' is a trailer pulled behind a car. The Bush character is wearing a flight suit with the words ``Mission Accomplished'' emblazoned on the back, a reference to the president's declaration that major hostilities had ended in Iraq. An electronic ticker on the front shows what Cohen says are Bush's lies. The traveling 'PantsOnFire-Mobile' is touring nationwide, with its next stop in Seattle in two weeks.
Photo by Jeff T. Green
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Making GOP Nervous
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Republicans initially dismissed "Fahrenheit 9/11" as a cinematic screed that would play mostly to inveterate Bush bashers. Four weeks and $94 million later, the film is still pulling in moviegoers at 2,000 theaters around the country, making Republicans nervous as it settles into the American mainstream.
Two senior Republicans closely tied to the White House said the movie from director Michael Moore is seen as a political headache because it has reached beyond the Democratic base. Independents and GOP-leaning voters are likely to be found sitting beside those set to revel in its depiction of a clueless president with questionable ties to the oil industry.
"If you are a naive, uncommitted voter and wander into a theater, you aren't going to come away with a good impression of the president," Republican operative Joe Gaylord said. "It's a problem only if a lot of people see it."
Based on a record-breaking gross of $94 million through last weekend, theaters already have sold an estimated 12 million tickets to "Fahrenheit 9/11." A Gallup survey conducted July 8-11 said 8 percent of American adults had seen the film at that time, but that 18 percent still planned to see it at a theater and another 30 percent plan to see it on video.
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Reports Not Accurate
Linda Ronstadt
Singer Linda Ronstadt was not asked to leave a Las Vegas casino Saturday after she endorsed Michael Moore's controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11," the Tucson native told the Tucson Citizen Wednesday.
And she was not booed off the stage by a concert crowd that had erupted in mayhem, she said.
Speaking by phone from San Francisco, Ronstadt said that she left the Aladdin Resort & Casino immediately after the concert and was not aware that the management was irritated by her comments until an hour after she left the show.
Ronstadt says she has made the same pitch about Moore's film at each previous show in her summer tour, just before the encore, "Desperado." The audience reaction has been a mixture of boos and cheers, she said.
"I've been doing it all across the country, and I've never seen an audience response like this in my life. This country is so completely polarized," she said.
The Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported that Ronstadt was escorted off the property, not allowed to return to her room and booed off the stage and that people were throwing drinks by the close of her show.
None of those things happened, she said.
For the rest, Linda Ronstadt
Thanks, Bill (the master of Zen Ferrets)
Protests War in Iraq
Carlos Delgado
Fervently anti-war, Carlos Delgado quietly carried out his personal protest this season, refusing to stand when "God Bless America" was played at ballparks across the majors.
Most fans never saw him disappearing up the dugout tunnel or staying on the bench. And even teammates who disagreed with the Toronto slugger's political stance accepted his right to call the United States' invasion of Iraq "the stupidest war ever."
Until the first baseman spoke about the issue in early July to the Toronto Star, many people were not aware of how strongly he felt.
"It's a very terrible thing that happened on Sept. 11. It's (also) a terrible thing that happened in Afghanistan and Iraq," Delgado said at the time. "I just feel so sad for the families that lost relatives and loved ones in the war.
"But I think it's the stupidest war ever. Who are you fighting against? You're just getting ambushed now. We have more people dead now after the war than during the war," he said. "I don't support what they do. It's just stupid."
"I am not pro-war; I'm anti-war," he said. "I'm for peace."
Carlos Delgado
World War II and Korean War veteran Edward Jenkins, 77, of Boston, walks through an array of combat boots representing U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq at a memorial display on City Hall Plaza in Boston Thursday, July 22, 2004. Organizers timed the memorial to be seen just before next week's Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Photo by Chitose Suzuki
Uninvited From Event Near Convention
Margaret Cho
Fearing something of a Whoopi effect, edgy comedian Margaret Cho has been uninvited from headlining a gay and lesbian unity event scheduled to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.
The Human Rights Campaign, one of 10 gay and lesbian organizations hosting the Unity 2004 event in Boston on Monday, rescinded its invitation to Cho after officials there decided her material might take the focus off gay issues.
Cho was preparing to use material from her new "State of Emergency" tour as part of the unpaid benefit performance. The material is a no-holds-barred interpretation of current events. At a recent performance, her comments on the Iraq prison scandal prompted her to be escorted from a show in San Diego.
Margaret Cho
May Not Return to NPR
Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards, the former host of "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio, is declining to say whether he will stay with NPR after his book tour ends in two weeks.
Edwards, who hosted "Morning Edition" for more than 24 years, starting from its launch in 1979, left the show on April 30. "Morning Edition" is a highly popular daily program offering news, analysis, commentary and coverage of arts and sports.
Fans were upset at Edwards' departure. Journalist Linda Ellerbee wrote for The Los Angeles Times, "National Public Radio, apparently acting on the theory that if it's not broke, break it, announced that Bob Edwards was no longer its choice to host `Morning Edition' -- the program he began, shaped and, for the last 25 years, informed with his intelligence, wit and grace."
Edwards was reassigned as an NPR senior correspondent and then left on a book tour in early May to promote his latest book, "Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism."
Bob Edwards
Playing in Celebrity Tennis
Elton John
Tennis anyone? Elton John and Billie Jean King will play a celebrity doubles match to open the 12th annual World Team Tennis All-Star Smash Hits to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the National AIDs Fund. The Oct. 11 event will be held at the Bren Center at the University of California, Irvine.
The event also will include an exhibition match by Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.
Several other top men and women pros also will compete in men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. The players will form two teams, one captained by John and the other by King.
Elton John
Attending Parallel Democratic Convention Events
Michael Moore
Rabble-rousing US filmmaker Michael Moore will lead a rally and screen his explosive movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Boston next week, his publicist said.
The polemical director has been invited to events in parallel with, but not a part of, the convention, organised by the Congressional Black Caucus and the huge civil servants' union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Moore will address the caucus on Monday and be on hand Tuesday for a screening of his film and a panel discussion with members of the AFSCME.
Later Tuesday, the outspoken director will address a rally of around 500 activists under the banner, "Take Back America," following a speech by former Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean.
Michael Moore
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Strips at New Zealand Club
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland stunned a group of small-town New Zealand women with an impromptu strip routine at a club in the North Island community of Raetihi.
Sutherland slipped out of his socks and whipped off his shirt, waving it above his head to the tune of the Tom Jones' hit "You Can Leave Your Hat On" at Raetihi's Cosmopolitan Club, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported.
The women were watching Men of Steel - a male revue act - and Sutherland was drinking at an adjoining bar before deciding to join the act, the newspaper said. The 37-year-old actor, star of television's action-thriller "24," was then ushered off the stage.
Kiefer Sutherland
Planning Concert in Haiti
Wyclef Jean
Grammy winner Wyclef Jean is planning a Dec. 5 concert in Haiti to promote peace in his troubled native land.
Jean said proceeds from the concert will go toward efforts to stabilize the Caribbean country, but he did not provide details. He said he hoped 2 million would attend, no small feat in a nation of 8 million people.
Wyclef Jean
A worker at a cloud seeding station demonstrates how chemical shells are loaded into an old anti-aircraft gun now used to make rain on the outskirts of Beijing in this file picture taken July 19, 2004. From 1995 to 2003, China spent 2.2 billion yuan ($266 million) on cloud seeding nationwide and now there are 35,275 people in the business of making it rain, China Meteorological Administration statistics show. Years of drought in northern China have even sparked reports that some towns were complaining of others stealing their rain by seeding clouds as they passed.
Photo by John Ruwitch
Ready to Mouth Off
Green & Springer
Just when it seemed that the nation's political and cultural discourse couldn't get much more absurd, here comes the Tom and Jerry show.
Tom Green and Jerry Springer are developing a "week in review"-style program tentatively dubbed "Fairly Unbalanced," which would feature comedian-actor Green and talk show host Springer discussing headlines and newsmakers and generally offering their observations on political and pop culture-oriented topics.
Green & Springer
DVDs Get Color Options
'Three Stooges'
A DVD where you can choose between color or black and white at the touch of a button? Why, soitenly!
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE) is releasing two "Three Stooges" compilations as its first foray into what it calls ChromaChoice, a format that allows the user to toggle back and forth using the angle button on the DVD remote between colorized and black and white versions of older films. "The Three Stooges: Goofs on the Loose" and "The Three Stooges: Stooged and Confoosed" both debut Aug. 11.
The Sony-owned home video arm and other industry observers believe this to be the first case where such an option has been offered. Other studios have put out alternate versions, but they have been offered as two separate versions. ChromaChoice allows viewers to flip back and forth between color and black and white within seconds.
'Three Stooges'
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Nobel Laureate Arrested in Mexico City
Betty Williams
Betty Williams of Northern Ireland, winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, was handcuffed and detained on her arrival in Mexico City, a spokesman for the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation, the peace group that invited her to Mexico, said.
Williams said Mexican authorities apologized for the incident, but declined further comment, saying, "I don't want to talk about it. I came here only to talk about peace."
Mexican immigration authorities denied she was arrested.
Emilio Godoy, spokesman for the Menchu foundation, said the police had demanded that Williams, who speaks no Spanish, sign a statement written in Spanish, and told she would be prosecuted if she refused.
Betty Williams
The bat Babe Ruth used to belt the first home run ever hit in Yankee Stadium, and the largest signed Babe Ruth photo known to exist will be offered at auction by Sotheby's. The bat, signed by Ruth after his home run helped sink his former team, the Boston Red Sox, at the opening day of Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923, will be the highlight of a sale devoted to the history of baseball in New York at Sotheby's on December 2, 2004.
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Ex Claims Couple Never Married
Brandy
Two years ago, Brandy announced that she had been secretly married for months. It turns out the real secret may be that she was never married at all.
Music producer Robert Smith told New York radio station WBLS-FM that he and Brandy were never wed as she had claimed. Speaking to Wendy Williams on Tuesday, Smith said their supposed marriage was a ruse to protect the image of Brandy, who was then pregnant with their daughter, Sy'rai.
Brandy released a statement that read: "I am deeply hurt and shocked by the things that Robert has been saying. We had a spiritual union and true commitment to each other, and we still share a common bond through our daughter, Sy'rai.
Brandy
Sidelined for Emmy Red Carpet
Joan & Melissa Rivers
The stars of American television can breathe a little easier when they stroll down the red carpet at the Emmy Awards this fall. Fashion cops Joan and Melissa Rivers won't be there waiting to spring on them.
Three weeks after the veteran comedian and her daughter announced they were leaving the E! Entertainment Television for a lot more money at the TV Guide Channel, it turns out E! still holds exclusive rights to red-carpet Emmy coverage under a contract with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
As a result, TV Guide acknowledged on Wednesday that it will have to sit out the first big event that Joan and Melissa were hired to host for the cable channel as part of a three-year deal that has been valued at between $6 million and $8 million.
Joan & Melissa Rivers
A Mayan piece made of deer bone, showing the face of the last monarch of the Copan Ruins Yax Pasah is displayed in the 'Huellas Mayas Desde y Hacia la Eternidad' exhibit at the Antigua Casa Presidencial, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, July 21, 2004. Copan Ruins is a Mayan city some 395 km (245 miles) northwest of Tegucigalpa, and was discovered in the XVI century but began being excavated in the XIX century. This exhibition will be presented until Sept. 30.
Photo by Ginnette Riquelme
Florida 'Winter White House' Torn Down
Dick Nixon
Demolition crews ripped into the former Florida home of the late U.S. President Richard Nixon on Wednesday, tearing down a key building in the Key Biscayne compound once known as the "Winter White House."
Nixon made Key Biscayne, the ritzy island linked to Miami by road and bridge, famous during his years in Washington. He was a frequent visitor and owned two houses where he sought subtropical refuge from the rigors of politics.
Heavy equipment chewed into the two-story bayfront home, fittingly painted white, to make way for a modern mansion.
Dick Nixon
Basic Cable Networks
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 12-18. Each ratings point represents 1,084,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "Home Run Derby" (Monday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 4.7, 5.04 million homes.
2. "The 4400" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.5, 3.8 million homes.
3. "Law & Order" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 3.2, 3.42 million homes.
4. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.1, 3.4 million homes.
5. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.0, 3.22 million homes.
6. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.8, 3.05 million homes.
7. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.7, 2.95 million homes.
8. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Spike, 2.7, 2.88 million homes.
9. "American Chopper" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Discovery, 2.6, 2.83 million homes.
10. "Family Guy" (Wednesday, 11 p.m.), Cartoon, 2.6, 2.78 million homes.
11. "The Dead Zone" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.6, 2.77 million homes.
12. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.74 million homes.
13. "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.5, 2.7 million homes.
14. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Tuesday, 4 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.68 million homes.
15. "Futurama" (Wednesday, 11:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.64 million homes.
Ratings
In Memory
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer Jerry Goldsmith, who won an Oscar for the music to the 1976 Satanic thriller "The Omen" and also composed the scores for "Alien," "Rambo," "Chinatown," and "Patton," has died at age 75, his family said on Thursday.
Goldsmith was also known for his music for some of television's classic shows including "The Waltons," "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "The Twilight Zone," "Dr. Kildare" and the annual Academy Awards, for which he composed a still used fanfare.
He died on Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home after a long battle with cancer.
A five-time Emmy Award winner, Goldsmith also received 17 Academy Award nominations over a career spanning nearly a half century. He won his only Oscar for the chilling film "The Omen," in which Gregory Peck leads a doomed effort to stop the son of Satan from growing up and taking over the world.
Goldsmith's widow, Carol, said her husband always refused to choose a favorite among his works saying, "My favorite score is the one I haven't written yet."
Among Goldsmith's film scores were the music for the "Star Trek" film series, "Chinatown," "Patton," "Basic Instinct," "L.A. Confidential," "The Blue Max," "Poltergeist," "Rambo," "The Mummy," "Lonely Are the Brave," "Total Recall," "Mulan," "Hoosiers" and "Planet of the Apes."
He won fame in the industry for the speed with which he wrote and recorded the score for "Chinatown," a feat Mrs Goldsmith said was accomplished in nine or 10 days and which involved a full orchestra with four grand pianos.
Besides his wife, he is survived by five children, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Jerry Goldsmith
An aerial photo of the famed spiral-tailed monkey is seen like it is losing its tail in Nazca, Peru on July, 2004. Extensive high-resolution aerial photos of the Nazca Lines taken by Peru's air force after three decades showed what conservationists have been warning for years.
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