BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 29 July, 2005
Friday
29 July, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Recommendation
"HORTON HEARS A HUMAN"
"HORTON HEARS A HUMAN"
(real player or quicktime)
Using the voices of George W. Bush, Powell, Rumsfeld and Howard Beale (from the 1976 film, "Network") this modern adaptation seamlessly weaves Suess' whimsical characters with sound bytes from current events.
The voice of reason in both films is written off as lunacy, though the message is clear today: If you want the world to be a better place, even one little voice, one vote, can tip the scale.
All of the sound bytes were downloaded from the CSPAN website- home to hundreds of speeches, UN committees, press conferences and State of the Union Addresses.
Dooley
Thanks, Dooley!
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MISSED TURN AT SIXTY
SIXTY YARDS OVER A CLIFF
THIS CAR TRIED TO FLY
Zen Man
(on Grizzly Peak ("Icarus" was not hurt))
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Reader Review
'Over There'
Summer is usually a time for nasty reruns, stupid replacements and other throw-away shows. Every once in a while a good one comes along and is picked up for continuation. FX's new show Over There is one such show.
The promos hyped it to be a gritty drama based on how things really are in Iraq. I was skeptical of how "real" anything on a Fox-owned network could be about Iraq, but I decided to give it a chance as it looked intriguing. I am glad I did for the show is still haunting me today as I reflect on it.
It tells the story of a team of "virgins" or company new to Iraq. We are given a glimpse into the lives of each character as they leave home and go "over there". We meet the token gung-ho type, Bo - 20 years old and only there for the GI Bill so he can take his partial football scholarship to Texas A & M. Added to this are Smoke, 20, who gets his name from the weed he smokes continually. There’s Angel, the 19 year old who tried to get into a professional choir and didn't. Rather than face shame back in Arkansas he joins the military. There's Doublewide - 20 year old mother of an infant, Mrs. B, a scared 18 year old girl and Dim, the 22 year old Cornell graduate turned soldier. The youth and financial need of this group is strongly pointed out; as is their remorse over going to Iraq. Well, except Bo, but he soon faces the reality of war.
They meet up with Sgt. Scream who berates them because he was due to go home that day but then got extended 90 days to train them. Their mission, as Sgt. Scream tells them, is to wait until the commanders decide how they want to play this PR game. He is brutally honest with his "virgins" and they see firsthand the ugliness, brutality and futility of war.
The show was everything the hype said. It is gritty and realistic. It shows how easy it is for the young and uneducated to be exposed and embrace the barbaric side of war. The script was somewhat formulaic but it worked well. The actors did a fine job of showing the faces and emotions of those in combat. The images were gritty and honest and I imagine a first for many viewers. I really enjoyed the convention of having the team video-mail home. It's much more poignant to see them put on a brave face than to have a letter narrated.
However, I think this show could turn pro-war very easily. The character of Bo could turn out to be huge hair-shirt and the fear of Mrs. B could turn her into a torturer too easily. I hope that FX continues to walk the line between honesty and entertainment but giving us more of what we saw last night. It makes you think and we, as Americans, need to do more of that when it comes to Iraq.
I give this show 3½ stars for being edgy, honest and realistic with this senseless war. I am anxious to see how the story progresses.
Heather
Phoenix,AZ
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Lakshmi Chaudhry: The Great American Job Scam (AlterNet)
Corporations get huge tax breaks from local and state governments, even when they rarely deliver the jobs and tax revenues that they promise.
Molly Ivins: Solidarity Later?
You may think the AFL-CIO split is none of your beeswax, but if you work in this country, you owe labor, big time. And I'm talking to you, white-collar worker.
David Sirota: The Democrats 2008 Choice: Sell Out & Lose, Or Stand Up & Win (huffingtonpost.com)
On the other side are progressives who want to see the party go back to what made it successful for decades: a willingness to stand up for America's middle class.
Sarah Stillman: The Sting That Keeps on Stinging (huffingtonpost.com)
After being lured to a fake "compulsory" OSHA meeting, 48 subcontracted workers were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on charges that they were illegal immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Ukraine.
Tour de Zing!
* I have watched thousands of kilometers of the Tour de France and have yet to see a single piece of roadside litter.
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Broken Arrow'
Purple Gene's review of the movie "Broken Arrow" (1950) directed by Delmer Daves and a bonus "Inside Story" about all the famous white actors that have played Indians:
I turned on the Western Channel tonight to watch Tom Jeffords (James Stewart - "Art Trouble" - "Born to Dance" - "It's a Wonderful Life") as ex-soldier and gold digger who wanders into the wilds of Arizona in 1870 and single handedly settles the war between the US Army and the Chiricahua Apache Indian Nation. Well, as westerns go, this has your stock plot…….
Hardened ex- soldier Tom Jeffords saves 14 year old Apache boy and gets respect from the tribe as he pans for gold in 1870 Arizona…..Then he watches the same bloodthirsty savages string up 3 white men and kill them slowly with fire ants. Well, the war is on and Tom manages to act as middle man with the General Oliver "the Christian general" Howard and Cochise…..Wait a goddam minute….holy shit guess who's playing Cochise?????? Jeff Chandler!... and guess who's playing the squaw Morningstar…… Debra Paget !!!!! STOP EVERYTHING!!!!!! Everyone….out of the closet….I can't believe this phony bullshit…this is so wrong…..
This is an abbreviated list (from over 400) of famous (or not famous) white actors who have played Indians……
Jeff Chandler
……… Cochise and dying Cochise
Rock Hudson……
Taza - Son of Cochise
Victor Mature….
Chief Crazy Horse
Chuck Connors…..
Geronimo
Elvis Presley….
Joe Lightcloud
Robert Blake….
Little Beaver
Mel Blanc…. Little Beaver
J. Carrol Naish….
Sitting Bull
Daniel Day Lewis…
Hawkeye
James Arness…
Indian Scout
Joey Bishop…
Indian Side kick
Johnny Butt…
Indian
Bill LeCornec…
Chief Thunderthud (Howdy Doody)
Maxine Miller Gerrard…
Princess Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring (Howdy Doody)
Donna Reed…
Sacajewea
Cyd Charisse…
Indian Girl
Debra Paget....
"MorningStar"
Barbara Hershey...
"LeLoopa"
Mary Pickford....
"Indian Girl"
Toni Basil....
"Indian Girl"
My favorite Indian movie directed by a White Man: "The Silent Enemy" (1930) directed by H.P. Carver and starring Chief Yellow Robe!
My favorite Indian movie directed by an Indian: "Smoke Signals" (1998) directed by Chris Eyre!
Back to "Broken Arrow"…..well Tom Jeffords marries Morningstar and befriends Cochise….but it's the same old story out in the old west….the ruthless Indians get killed by the ruthless soldiers and the white people just keep coming….with ranches and towns and strip mining and strip malls and…the Indians always get fucked over!
The truth is it's still happening today in Brazil and Indonesia and Somalia….but I digress!
Purple Gene gives "Broken Arrow" 7 phony Hollywood feathered head bands out of 10 for trying hard to make sense out of the devastation of the native population of this land!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, not too hot, not too humid.
Picked up fresh crickets for Jo the (lucky) lizard - they're quite vocal tonight.
Well, if leg-rubbing is considered vocalizing....
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a RERUN 'JAG', then a RERUN 'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Sean Hayes and Bonnie McFarlane.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Dermot Mulroney and Paul Feig.
NBC starts the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Jessica Simpson, Josh Lucas, and Willie Nelson.
On a RERUN Conan (from 5/6/05) are Jet Li, Jennifer Esposito, and Amos Lee.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 5/27/05) are Shannon Elizabeth, Patton Oswalt, and Keane.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN '8 Simple Rules', followed by a RERUN 'Hope & Faith', then another RERUN 'Hope & Faith', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Hulk Hogan, Jerry Ferrara, and Jack Johnson.
The WB offers a RERUN 'What I Like About You', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar', then a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'Living With Fran'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Arrested Development', followed by another RERUN 'Arrested Development', then still another RERUN 'Arrested Development', followed by yet another RERUN 'Arrested Development'.
UPN here fills the night with 'MLB Baseball' with the Cards visiting the Doggers at Chavez Ravine.
Check local PBS listings for a FRESH 'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio', the MOST IMPORTANT program on over-the-air-TV.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Bee Gees), another 'Biography' (Will Smith', followed by a FRESH 'Biography' (Arthur Shawcross).
AMC offers the movie 'Hoffa', followed by the movie 'Death Warrant', then the movie 'Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 4;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - New Look;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[4pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century;
[4:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
[5:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - You're No Fun Any More;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 7;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 35;
[8pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 3;
[9pm] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 35;
[12am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 3;
[4am] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo pukes back 'I Want To Be A Skank Hilton', followed by the movie 'Pulp Fiction', then the movie 'Pulp Fiction', again.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jim David), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Tess), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Retta), yet another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Drew Fraser), and 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly'.
SERIES PREMIERE 'Weekends At The D.L.', with D.L. Hughley at 11pm (edt)
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Last Days Of WWII', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Mail Call', and another 'Mail Call'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Grey Zone' (2001);
[8AM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[9:30AM] 'IFC July Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[11:30AM] 'Sunshine State' (2002);
[2PM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[3:30PM] 'Stardust Memories' (1980);
[5:15PM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[5:45PM] 'Sunshine State' (2002);
[8:15PM] 'Raising Arizona' (1987);
[10PM] 'Dinner for Five #44' (2005);
[10:30PM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #201' (2004);
[11PM] 'Night At The Golden Eagle' (2002);
[12:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[1AM] 'Dinner for Five #44' (2005);
[1:30AM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #201' (2004);
[2AM] 'Night At The Golden Eagle' (2002);
[3:45AM] 'Raising Arizona' (1987);
[5:30AM] 'Dinner for Five #44' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Firefly', followed by a FRESH 'Stargate SG-1', then a FRESH 'Stargate Atlantis', followed by a FRESH 'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/28/05);
[8AM] 'The Inner Tour';
[9:40AM] 'Divan';
[11AM] 'Mondo Plympton';
[12PM] '7th Street';
[1:20PM] 'The Heart of Me';
[3PM] 'Birdy';
[5PM] 'Borstal Boy';
[6:35PM] 'Playing for Change';
[7:45PM] 'Fits & Starts';
[8PM] 'Bullets Over Broadway';
[9:45PM] 'The Heart of Me';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/29/05);
[12:30AM] 'Dirty Work';
[1:30AM] 'Shorts Program 117';
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/29/05);
[3:30AM] 'The City of Lost Souls';
[5:15AM] 'Playing for Change'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM spends the morning & afternoon celebrating
William Powell, who was born on this day in 1892.
[6am] 'One Way Passage' (1932);
[7:15am] 'The Key' (1934);
[8:30am] 'Fashions Of 1934' (1934);
[10am] 'Reckless' (1935);
[11:45am] 'Rendezvous' (1935);
[1:30pm] 'Star Of Midnight' (1935);
[3:15pm] 'The Ex-Mrs. Bradford' (1936);
[4:45pm] 'The Emperor's Candlesticks' (1937);
[6:15pm] 'The Heavenly Body' (1943);
[8pm] 'Back to the Future' (1985) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'Batman' (1989) [View Trailer];
[12:15am] 'It Started With A Kiss' (1959);
[2am] 'Ordet' (1955);
[4:15am] 'The French Connection' (1971) [View Trailer]. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Saturday - 07/30
TCM:
[6am] 'Love Crazy' (1941);
[8am] 'The People Against O'Hara' (1951);
[10am] 'The Outrage' (1964);
[12pm] 'Girl Happy' (1965) [View Trailer];
[2pm] 'Operation Petticoat' (1959) [View Trailer];
[4:15pm] 'Comanche' (1956);
[6pm] 'The Outlaw' (1943);
[8pm] 'The Merry Widow' (1934);
[10pm] 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court' (1949);
[12am] 'Duck Soup' (1933) [View Trailer];
[1:15am] 'The Prisoner Of Zenda' (1937);
[3am] 'Harum Scarum' (1965) [View Trailer];
[4:30am] 'Youth Runs Wild' (1944). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TVLand has bumped the 2-hour block of 'SCTV' to 2am (edt)
USA has a FRESH 'Monk'
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Oscar-winning director Michael Moore addresses the inaugural Traverse City Film Festival, which opened Wednesday, July 27, 2005, in film Mad Hot Ballroom in the renovated State Theatre in downtown Traverse City, Mich.
Photo by John L. Russell
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Filed Suit
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor has filed a lawsuit against director Penelope Spheeris over the first film that Pryor ever starred in, which he claims Spheeris has, or had, in her possession.
The never released 1968 comedy, about a white man who goes on trial for having raped a black woman, is best known as Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales, but is variously titled Uncle Tom's Tales and Bon Appetit.
Copies of the early Pryor work were rumored to be non-existent after Pryor's former wife supposedly shredded the negative due to her frustration with his constant work on the would-be opus.
In a suit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Pryor says he put up the money for the production and hired Spheeris, then a film student, to help shoot and edit the envelope-pushing movie. He says that all negatives, positives, prints and soundtrack went missing from his house in the mid-1980s--around the time he was recovering from a free-basing incident gone awry and his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.
Richard Pryor
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Donates $80,000 to San Francisco
Robin & Marsha Williams
San Francisco is famous for making the personal political. And so it was when Robin Williams and his wife, Marsha, offered to donate $80,000 to fix a retaining wall and median strip near their home in the city's Seacliff neighborhood.
City supervisor Gerardo Sandoval balked, fearing Williams would be getting preferential treatment. Sandoval said he didn't want the city to go "down the slippery slope" of putting privately funded projects ahead of those needed in less affluent areas.
But after city staff assured him that Williams' generosity would free up funds for poorer neighborhoods, Sandoval joined nine colleagues in voting unanimously Tuesday to accept the comedian's gift.
Robin & Marsha Williams
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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, left, walks with 93-year-old Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in Wiesbaden, Germany, Thursday, July 28, 2005 to a 'Friends for a Friend' event. The start of their friendship was told in the movie ' Seven Years in Tibet.' The film tells the story of Harrer's capture and escape from British troops in India during World War II and his life in Tibet where he tutored the Dalai Lama.
Photo by Boris Roessler
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Has Newfound Respect for Eminem
Moby
Moby says he has newfound respect for Eminem - who once mocked him in a song - because the rapper criticized President Bush and the war in Iraq on his last album.
"I found myself respecting him for doing that," Moby told reporters during a promotional stop in Hong Kong for his latest album "Hotel."
Eminem bashed Bush and Iraq policy in his song "Mosh," which said, "Let the president answer on higher anarchy / Strap him with an AK-47, let him go fight his own war."
Moby
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Donates $5 Million to Alma Mater
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson's donations to his alma mater now total more than $11 million. A $5 million endowment to support theater, film and broadcasting programs was announced Tuesday by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The $5 million will be used to start the Johnny Carson Fund for Theatre, Film and Broadcasting. Annual income from the endowment fund will be used to support the Department of Theater Arts at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and the broadcast program at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In November, he donated $5.3 million to UNL. Of that, $4.3 million was earmarked for renovating and expanding the Temple Building. In 1988, he donated money toward building the Lied Center on the south end of the downtown campus, and his name is affixed to a small theater that is connected to the Lied.
Johnny Carson
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Summer Box Office Trend
'March of the Penguins'
At summer film box offices plagued by slow ticket sales, the hottest documentary this year is about a very cold topic: Emperor Penguins in Antarctica.
"March of the Penguins" is rising fast up the charts and on Thursday is expected to top $12 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, said Mark Gill, president of domestic distributor, Warner Independent Pictures.
This week, the cinematic tale of the penguins' mating season will surpass hits "Winged Migration" and "Super Size Me" to become the fourth highest-grossing documentary of all time in domestic theaters, according to box office trackers.
'March of the Penguins'
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Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (R) poses with U.S. actor George Chakiris, her co-star in the 1963 film 'Bebo's Girl', before a screening of her 1965 film 'Sandra' as part of 'The Legendary Performers Series' at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California July 27, 2005. The screening was sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the American Cinematheque.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Lyric Sheet Sells for $1 Million
John Lennon
A handwritten lyric sheet for "All You Need is Love" used by John Lennon in 1967 was sold for 600,000 pounds ($1.04 million) at an auction in London on Thursday, organizers said.
The "All You Need Is Love" lyric sheet was used by Lennon during a television performance by the Beatles and could be seen on film footage dropping to the floor after the song was performed, said a spokesman for auctioneers Cooper Owen.
A girl working for the BBC at the time retrieved the manuscript from beneath Lennon's music stand. She provided a letter of authenticity for Thursday's sale.
John Lennon
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Appoints Brit As 'Nightline' Chief
ABC
ABC News has appointed a veteran British broadcast journalist as its chief executive behind "Nightline," the news show that faces changes later this year with anchorman Ted Koppel's departure.
James Goldston, who joined ABC News in 2004, will replace Tom Bettag, who's departing with Koppel. Goldston reportedly beat out a Washington-based producer, Sara Just, who has been supervising some on-air prototypes of a new "Nightline." She'll remain second in command.
Before joining ABC, Goldston was the executive producer of Britain's most popular current affairs program, "Tonight with Trevor McDonald," on ITV1. He produced a series of documentaries, and presided over the show's coverage of the Iraq war.
ABC
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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DNA Says Hair Is From Bison
Teslin Sasquatch
A hank of hair purported to come off Bigfoot may well have come off someone's wall instead.
"You can't fool us with a hair sample," wildlife geneticist David Coltman said Thursday in announcing the hair was from a bison. Coltman's University of Alberta team performed DNA tests this week on the hair reportedly plucked from a bush near Teslin, Yukon, earlier this month.
"The DNA sequence from the Teslin hair sample produced a 100 per cent match with known bison sequences," said Coltman at an occasionally hilarious news conference Thursday.
Teslin Sasquatch
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People re-enact the landing of Berber pirates on the beach of Villajoyosa, eastern Spain, during the town´s Moors and Christians festival July 28 2005. For over 250 years Villajoyosa has been celebrating its Moors and Christians festival in honour of Santa Marta, commemorating the events of 1538 when the town fought to prevent the Berber Pirates led by Zalle-Arraez from pillaging it and razing it to the ground. More than 30 Moorish vessels took part in the mock sea and beach battle.
Photo by Heino Kalis
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Carburetor Breast Fantasy Wins
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
A Microsoft analyst has won an annual contest celebrating bad writing by comparing fixing carburetors to fondling a woman's breasts.
"As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual," went Dan McKay's winning entry in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
The California San Jose State University contest challenges entrants to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels and has attracted entries from around the world for 23 years.
It was inspired by 19th century novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" with the now immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
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Hot air balloons take off from the base of Chambley, eastern France, Thursday, July 28, 2005, during the Mondial Air Ballonos, the largest European gathering, attended by some 1000 crews from all five continents.
Photo by Philippe Gisselbrecht
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Remains Replanted
Bob Hope
Bob Hope's family is saying thanks for the memories with a garden celebrating the late entertainer's life. Hope's remains were moved from a mausoleum at the San Fernando Mission's cemetery this week to the mission's new Bob Hope Memorial Garden.
His family and close friends, including actors Mickey Rooney and Red Buttons, dedicated the garden Wednesday. It opens to the public on Friday.
Visitors to the historic mission's chapel will find the garden by taking a winding stone walkway from the chapel, past a memorial wall of bronze reliefs depicting high points in Hope's life.
Bob Hope
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The Russian tall ship Pallada sails under the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco Bay, Thursday, July 28, 2005, during the opening of the Sail San Francisco! 2005 International Maritime Festival. The 356-foot full-rigged Pallada was built in Poland in the 1980s and is used for training marine-college candidates. The festival lasts through July 31.
Photo by John M. Harris
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Make Annual Swim
Wild Ponies
Between 150 and 200 wild ponies made the annual swim to the shore of this resort island in dense fog Wednesday morning.
"You couldn't see the crowd," said Evelyn Shotwell, the chamber of commerce's office manager. "It was really foggy."
Shotwell said the town of about 3,500 seemed to be crowded with about the same number of people as the 40,000 who came for last year's event.
Wild Ponies
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In Memory
Catherine Woolley (Jane Thayer)
Catherine Woolley, who wrote 87 children's books under her name and the pen name Jane Thayer, has died at age 100.
Woolley, who was so prolific that her publisher advised her to use the pen name, continued to write into her 90s but had been in failing health in recent years, said her niece, Betsy Drinkwater of Enfield, N.H. Woolley died Saturday at her home in Truro on Cape Cod.
For older children, Woolley used her real name on books such as the "Ginnie and Geneva" series about the adventures of two girls. She used her grandmother's name as a nom de plume on the many picture books she wrote for younger readers.
Woolley, who did not marry or have children, often drew on her own experience and world travels in her writings. She wrote on a Remington typewriter and never used a computer.
"After her 100th birthday last summer, her goal was to live long enough to vote in the 2004 election, and she did," Drinkwater said of the lifelong Democrat.
Born in Chicago, Woolley grew up in Passaic, N.J., then attended both Barnard College in New York and the University of California at Los Angeles, earning her bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1927.
Catherine Woolley (Jane Thayer)
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A five-month-old native Australian Common Wombat sleeps in a makeshift pouch after feeding time at Sydney's Taronga Zoo July 28, 2005. The orphaned baby wombat is being hand-raised by keeper Darrelyn Rainey who takes it home with her every day, and must feed it every four hours for at least the next three months.
Photo by David Gray
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