'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
He's Been Busy!
The Worried Shrimp
Tip From Kip
Steve Wynn
Free Steve Wynn live album
We have a present for you - a complete Steve Wynn album! Which one? His most
successful album, Here Come The Miracles. You don't have to be disappointed
if this album is in your collection already because THIS version is totally
different to the original 2CD set: It contains LIVE versions of all the 19
songs, recorded at different locations and countries during the 2001 and
2003 European tours. All the songs are available for a FREE download (for a
limited time only - until the upcoming fall tour ends on November 2, 2003).
But that's not all - you can also download a cover and a tray card to make
your own copy of the album. You just have to buy blank CDs and a jewel case.
Steve Wynn: 'Here Come The Miracles'
Thanks, Kip!
from Mark
Dr. Paul
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still feels like its going to be an early fall.
E-mail is nearly back to what passes for normal. Yee haw! Spam again!
Watched the dem-debate on PBS - sure wish Joe Lieberman would start a new career as a lawn gnome.
Know I promised Michael Dare today, but this page is too big. Check back tomorrow.
Tonight, Friday, CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Big Brother 4', followed by a RERUN 'JAG', then a RERUN
'CSI: Miami'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Whoopi Goldberg and Ima Robot.
On a RERUN Craiggers are Stephen Collins, Brooke Burns, and Foo Fighters.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Conan O'Brien, Alexandra Wentworth, and Jane's Addiction.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are David Spade, Sara Rue, and Jim Gaffigan.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Rocco DiSpirito, Pat O'Brien, Jennifer Esposito, Miller Lite Girls, Miri Ben-Ari, and Fountains of Wayne.
ABC begins the evening with a RERUN 'America's Funniest Home Video', followed by a potentially FRESH 'Whose Line?', then another potentially
FRESH 'Whose Line?', followed by the Season Premiere '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Terry Bradshaw, Jillian Barberie, Howie Long, sportscaster James Brown, Jimmy Johnson, Frank Caliendo, and Mick Hucknall, with this week's guest co-host Mr. T.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by another RERUN 'Reba', then the
Season Premiere 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Bernie Mac', followed by a RERUN 'Wanda', then a RERUN 'Boston Pubic'.
UPN has the movie 'The Sixth Man'.
Check local PBS listings for the best show over-the-air - 'NOW With Bill Moyers'. (LA viewer note: KCET has moved 'NOW' to 8pm).
A&E has 'Poirot', followed by 'Biography' (Saturday Night Live).
AMC offers the movie 'Cape Fear' (the 1962 version), followed by the movie 'The Two Jakes', then the movie 'Ghost Story'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Parkinson' - Mel Gibson;
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Luton;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Ireland;
[8pm] 'At Home With The Braithwaites' - Episode 1;
[9pm] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[9:40pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[10:20pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Pamela Anderson;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Naomi Campbell;
[12am] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[12:40am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[1:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'At Home With The Braithwaites' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Pamela Anderson;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Naomi Campbell;
[4am] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[4:40am '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[5:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 1; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Boy Meets Boy', followed by the movie 'Ghosts Of Mississippi'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by 'Battle History Of The Air Force', followed by another 'Battle History Of The Air Force', and, of course, another 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Tremors: The Series', 'Stargate SG-1', 'Scare Tactic', and another 'Scare Tactic'.
TCM -
[6am] 'Festival of Shorts #24' (2000);
[6:30am] 'Dangerous Female' (1931) (first screen version of 'Maltese Falcon');
[8am] 'Satan Met A Lady' (1936) (remake of 'Maltese Falcon');
[9:30am] 'The Petrified Forest' (1936);
[11am] 'Escape In The Desert' (1945) (remake of 'The Petrified Forest');
[12:30pm] 'The Animal Kingdom' (1932)
[2pm] 'One More Tomorrow' (1946);
[3:30pm] 'High Sierra' (1941);
[5:30pm] 'Colorado Territory' (1949) (remake of 'High Sierra');
[7:30pm] 'MGM Parade Show #18' (1955);
[8pm] 'The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!' (1988);
[9:30pm] 'Top Secret!' (1984);
[11:15pm] 'Airplane!' (1980);
[12:45am] 'Zero Hour!' (1957) (this is the film that 'Airplane!' parodies);
[2:15am] 'Earth' (1930) ['Zemlya']; and
[4am] 'The River' (1951). (ALL TIMES EDT)
In full view of passers-by, water color artist Gordon King paints a semi-naked model reclining in the shop window of Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge, London, September 4, 2003. The live sitting was part of the launch of a $27 million art exhibition which includes works by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt and LS Lowry. The highlight of the collection is Claude Monet's 'La Mer Vue des Falasies,' a seascape valued at $1.25 million and the most expensive item ever offered for sale at Harrods.
Photo by Hugo Philpott
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
BBC To Dramatise Life
Stephen Hawking
The story of scientist Stephen Hawking's fight to overcome motor neurone disease to become a world-renowned physicist is to be made into a television drama, the BBC says.
The programme will trace his rise from an ambitious student to his success as a bestselling author, defying doctors who at one stage gave him two years to live.
It is being filmed in Cambridge and London over the next month and is due to be shown on BBC Two next year.
Stephen Hawking
Disavows Anti-American Quotes
Johnny Depp
Denying any anti-American sentiment on his part, actor Johnny Depp said on Thursday that quotes attributed to him as likening the United States to a "dumb puppy" were inaccurate and taken out of context.
"I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it," Depp said in a statement released by his Los Angeles-based publicist. "It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful."
Explaining his comments a day later, Depp he had been using a metaphor that was taken "radically out of context," adding, "There was no anti-American sentiment."
"What I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation," he said. "My deepest apologies to those who were offended, affected, or hurt by this insanely twisted deformation of my words and intent."
Johnny Depp
Stern Magazine
Johnny Depp-Interview
"Bush ist einer der schlechtesten Lügner"
Hamburg - Der Hollywood-Star Johnny Depp hat in einem stern-Interview die US-Regierung heftig kritisiert. Präsident George W. Bush sei "einer der schlechtesten Lügner, die ich je gesehen habe", sagte Depp, dessen neuer Film "Fluch der Karibik" in dieser Woche in Deutschland angelaufen ist, dem Hamburger Magazin. Bush gehe es im Irak "nur ums Geschäft".
Die Bush-Administration, "erwachsene Männer und Frauen in Machtpositionen", hätten sich mit der Irak-Politik und mit ihrer Beschimpfung der Franzosen als "Idioten" geoutet, sagte der 40-jährige Schauspieler, der mit seiner Frau, der französischen Sängerin Vanessa Paradis, seiner vierjährigen Tochter und seinem einjährigen Sohn hauptsächlich in Südfrankreich lebt. "Endlich zeigt ihr der Welt, was für Volltrottel ihr seid," so Depp über die Regierungspolitiker in Washington.
Amerika sei für ihn kein Thema mehr, betonte Depp im stern-Interview. Er habe zwar noch ein Haus in Los Angeles und könne sich vorstellen, gelegentlich mit seiner Familie dort zu sein, "aber nie für länger". Er möchte, dass seine Kinder Amerika als Spielzeug sehen. "Man spielt ein bisschen damit rum, guckt es sich an. Und dann nichts wie weg. Sie merken von allein, dass es im Grunde ein kaputtes Spielzeug ist."
Johnny Depp-Interview
Woman With An Opinion
Liz Smith
'It is not easy in any given case - indeed it is at times impossible until the courts have
spoken - to say whether it is an instance of praiseworthy salesmanship or a penitentiary
offense," wrote Thorstein Veblen long ago of questionable public practices.
Editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's leads off this month's tirade against the George W. Bush
administration with this remark and goes on to question the entire integrity of what's going on.
He says that the president let it be known that he intended to run the government as if it were
a business "and two years later I don't know why it comes as a surprise that the 10-year federal
budget projection has been reduced from a $5.6 trillon surplus to a $4 trillon deficit, or that
our splendid little war in Iraq turns out to have been sold to the American public in the manner
of a well-promoted but fraudulent stock offering."
Now that I've read Joe Conason's new book "Big Lies," I don't feel so bad about promulgating a
questionable statement about the administration and its frothing-at-the-mouth defenders such as
Ann Coulter. For Conason convinces us in hard print that the idea of a "liberally biased media"
is simply not true. Most media in the U.S. is owned by conservatives and if reporters try to get
away with liberal rants, they can only get away with what their bosses allow.
I try to consider both sides of these questions and I am a fan of Bill Buckley Jr.'s National
Review and of Bill O'Reilly's excited broadcasts. But there is no question that Bush
conservatives are in the saddle, and it is probably the right and the need for ink-stained
wretches of both persuasions to try to put a burr under that saddle.
Do read Mr. Lapham and Mr. Conason, too, they are very interesting.
The always fabulous Liz Smith
Thanks, Alex!
News and Documentary Prizes Presented
Emmy Awards
PBS once again walked away with the most News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday night, but reaped only half of the rich bounty it secured a year ago.
PBS won seven Emmys, with "Nova" earning three awards, the most of any show. CBS earned five Emmys, followed by ABC, NBC, MSNBC and Discovery Channel, all of which took home three. CNN, TLC, CNBC and HBO copped one award apiece.
Multiple winners included:
= ABC's "Nightline," for its "Hearts of Darkness" series on the Congo in the longform current story area, and for breaking story in a newsmagazine for "Rescue: Tragedy on Mount Hood."
= NBC's "Dateline" for best interview for "America Remembers: 9/11 Controllers," and investigative reporting in a magazine for "Slaves of Fashion."
= CBS' "Evening News" won for breaking story in a newscast for the D.C.-area sniper attacks, and for investigative journalism for a story about the Red Cross' disbursal of relief funds after Sept. 11.
= CBS' "60 Minutes II" won for continuing story in a newsmagazine for "The Church on Trial" and for "Lost Boys," about Africans who found a new life in the United States.
For more, Emmy Awards
Visitors look at Albrecht Duerer's icon 'The Field Hare' prior to the opening of the exhibition in Vienna's Albertina gallery, September 4, 2003. With the Albrecht Duerer exhibition, the Albertina presents a comprehensive overview of the greatest renaissance artist north of the Alps for the first time in over three decades.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
Chilean Author With An Opinion
Luis Sepulveda
Best-selling Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda blasted the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling it the act of a group of "dangerous and fanatical subjects" who are in power in Washington.
"The United States are the premier terrorist nation," he said in an interview published in Portuguese newsweekly Visao.
"When subjects as dangerous and fanatical as (US Defence Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld and (his deputy Paul) Wolfowitz, or that sort of perverse Michael Jackson who is (national security advisor) Condoleeza Rice, assume power, the consequences are terrible," the 54-year-old author added.
Luis Sepulveda
No Beef With Lucy Liu
Bill Murray
Bill Murray, speaking to "Access Hollywood," acknowledged the two had a disagreement on the set of the first "Charlie's Angels" movie. But he said it lasted for all of 20 minutes when they went to their "separate corners and, you know, fired hand grenades and bottle rockets at each other."
Murray said it was only "a misunderstanding about a scene" they were going to do. He said he asked Liu how she could want to say certain lines because he thought they didn't make sense.
Murray said she got mad at him and "took it as a personal assault." But he said it turned out she didn't like the lines either.
Bill Murray
The Gum Was A Nice Touch
Britney Spears
In a truly bizarre interview pairing, pop princess Britney Spears sat down for an interview Wednesday (September 3) with CNN's conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson. Wearing what appeared to be a blonde wig with red streaks, and chomping on a piece of gum, Spears answered questions ranging from her now-infamous kiss with Madonna, to her view of the war in Iraq .
The youthful-looking Carlson, wearing his trademark bow-tie, asked Spears about the kiss with Madonna onstage last week during MTV's Music Video Awards show. Spears said, "I didn't know it was going to be that long and everything," explaining that during rehearsal Madonna had told her they'd just play it by ear during the performance. She also said that she'd never kissed a woman before, and wouldn't again--unless it's Madonna.
Carlson then steered the interview to politics, asking Spears if she'd supported the war in Iraq. Spears answered, "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." She declared that she trusts resident Bush, but when asked about the president's political future, Spears told Carlson that she doesn't know if he'll get re-elected.
Britney Spears
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Prime-Time Awards Show
Reality Television
Reality television shows will get their own prime-time awards program so that "Joe Millionaire" can rub shoulders with Oscar.
ABC said on Thursday it will, in conjunction with Don Mischer Productions, create a prime-time awards show honoring broadcast and cable reality programs.
Programs airing in the 2002-2003 season, including this summer, are eligible for nomination, the network said.
Reality Television
Academy Moves to Curtail Oscar Campaigns
New Rules
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday issued new guidelines for members aimed at curtailing brazen and often nasty campaigns waged in recent years to win the U.S. film industry's highest honors, the Oscars.
In an eight-page booklet, the Academy called on Oscar voters and contenders to adhere to a sense of "fair play" and laid down a "code of behavior" when discussing films, writing published stories, buying ads in magazines or newspapers or holding parties for nominees.
The new standards are viewed by the Academy as a set of ethical guidelines. The Academy wants members and contenders to self-police their behavior and does not set out penalties.
New Rules
Activists of Myanmar pro-democracy groups shout slogans during a demonstration in New Delhi asking for the release of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The US State Department recently claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi had begun fasting to protest against her three-month detention at the hands of the country's military rulers.
Photo by Raveendran
Score of Songs Rediscovered
'Lost' Sibelius
The score of four lost songs by Finland's national composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) have been found in a bank vault in the northern city of Oulu, it was reported.
The existence of the songs, composed by Sibelius for his favorite singer Ida Ekman, was known, but they were considered lost as nobody knew their whereabouts or had copied them down.
The four pieces were part of a cycle of 12 songs written for Ekman. The eight others are held in collections abroad, FNB reported.
'Lost' Sibelius
On Display In Germany
Japanese Noh Masks
A rare and valuable collection of Japanese Noh masks goes on display in Germany on Friday, the first time they have been exhibited outside of Japan.
The "Divine Age - Eternal Youth" exhibition of 30 wooden masks, some dating from the 16th century, will remain on show at the Art and Exhibition Hall in the western city of Bonn until October 26.
The masks, made by some of Japan's most notable carvers, depict gods, immortals, young women, demons and nobles and are part of the renowned Naito collection.
Japanese Noh Masks
Asked Psychic To Contact
Aaliyah's Mom
Aaliyah's mother Diane Haughton asked celebrity psychic John Edward to contact her daughter, according to the psychic's new book, After Life. Haughton had a private session with Edwards in a New York hotel last February in an attempt to contact Aaliyah, who was killed in a plane crash in August of 2001, according to New York's Daily News.
Edward told Haughton during the session, "I need to make sure that you know that she's okay...and she's making me feel like it's really important that you know she appreciates everything you tried to do and that you continue to do."
Aaliyah's Mom
'Cosmo' Ban Dropped
Singapore
Hoping to shatter its prudish image, Singapore will end a 21-year-old ban on "Cosmopolitan" magazine but says "Playboy" is still too racy.
In a once-in-a-decade censorship review, a government advisory group said the toughest rules should stay because the country's conservative majority was not ready for more radical steps.
Under the review, sexy images could still be scissored from movies, magazines and cable TV, but some long-restricted fare, such as U.S. TV sitcom "Sex and the City" will finally be aired, though under the watchful eye of censors and late at night.
Films with homosexual themes can, for the first time, be seen in commercial cinemas rather than film festivals. But these, too, may be edited by censors.
Violent films will face new restrictions. People under age 18 or 21 would be kept out of movies such as "Gladiator" and "We were Soldiers" under a new rating classification system.
Singapore
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
To Give File Sharers Amnesty
Recording Industry Assn. of America
The Recording Industry Assn. of America plans to announce an amnesty program this week that will let individual online copyright infringers off the hook if they change their ways, sources say.
The amnesty program would apply only to alleged infringers who have not been sued by the music industry trade group or identified by Internet service providers as a result of the trade group's subpoena process. Alleged commercial pirates will not receive amnesty.
According to sources, the RIAA will not pursue legal action if infringers delete all unauthorized music files from their computers, destroy all copies (including CD-Rs) and promise not to upload such material in the future. Each infringing household member will have to send a completed, notarized amnesty form to the RIAA, with a copy of a photo ID. Those who renege on their promise will be subject to charges of willful copyright infringement.
Recording Industry Assn. of America
Broke Arm in Car Crash
Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch broke her left arm in a car accident and is recuperating from surgery, her publicist said.
"She's OK, she fractured her arm in several places and is in pain," publicist Jill Bushinsky said Wednesday.
The accident happened in the Bel Air Estates area when Welch's vehicle rear-ended a BMW that was waiting to make a left turn at an intersection, said police spokeswoman Renee Montoya.
Raquel Welch
German artist Claudia Rogge poses with her mobile transparent truck named iL2, which contains an art installation made up of 66 life size, kneeling, naked male bodies made of fiberglass, on Westminster Bridge in London, September 3, 2003. Since June, Rogge's installation tour, which deals with the topic of mass and mobility, has traveled through various cities in Germany and France before arriving in London on Wednesday.
Photo by Toby Melville
Philanderer Says 'No Hard Feelings'
Billy Bob Thornton
You won't hear Billy Bob Thornton play "Angelina" on his current tour. Or see his Angelina tattoo on his forearm.
Thornton told AP Network News that he isn't performing the song he wrote about Angelina Jolie because his ex-wife's fans might get upset to hear about how wonderful their relationship was.
Thornton has also covered up the Angelina tattoo with another tattoo of an angel and the word "peace."
"It's basically my way of saying no hard feelings," he added.
Billy Bob Thornton
Other News Networks Fall
Faux News Gains
Fox News Channel was the only cable news service in August to grow in viewership from a year ago, gaining 20% in primetime and 29% across the entire day, according to Nielsen Media Research.
By comparison, CNN fell by 9% in primetime and total day, while MSNBC lost 21% in primetime and 11% for the day. Headline News and CNBC also suffered losses greater than 20% compared with August 2002. It marked the 28th consecutive month that Fox led the news channel pack.
Among individual programs (excluding the final two nights of the month), Fox showed consistent growth from 7-11 p.m. EDT, with "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" shooting up 47% to 1.1 million viewers as competitor "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" lost 12% to 643,000.
For more, Faux News Gains
Bodyguard Shoots Self by Accident
R. Kelly
A bodyguard for R&B singer R. Kelly accidentally shot himself in the leg at a Marietta nightclub after being asked to remove the gun before entering the club.
Maceo Price, 32, of Covington, La., was escorting Kelly and Ronald "Slim" Williams, co-founder of Cash Money Records, into Vegas Nights on Saturday night, according to Marietta police.
Price was asked to remove the gun before entering the nightclub and it went off as he was taking it out of the holster, said police Officer Brian Marshall.
R. Kelly
Train Carriages Vandalized
Harry Potter
Graffiti artists have vandalized two of the railway carriages used in the Harry Potter films, causing up to $4,700 damage, police said Thursday.
The carriages were pulled by the Hogwart's Express in two films, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," but are now covered with green and silver spray-painted "tags."
The carriages were in their shed in Scarborough, northeastern England, but the steam locomotive that pulls them in the film was safe in a different depot.
Harry Potter
Town Scraps Raid Memorial
Polygamy
Less than a month after its dedication, a stone monument commemorating the 50th anniversary of a police raid on this polygamous community (Colorado City, AZ) is gone, and a related museum was closed.
The monument dedication and opening of the old Short Creek Schoolhouse Museum and Heritage Park - renovated with volunteer help and restored with $20,000 in grant money - were celebrated July 26 by several hundred residents of Colorado City and nearby Hildale, Utah.
Most of the residents of the towns on the Utah-Arizona border are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church members believe plural marriage is essential to their salvation.
Last month, a former area police officer was convicted on felony charges of bigamy and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Other news stories drawing attention to the region have focused on allegations of welfare fraud by polygamist families and the state attorney general's recent polygamy summit.
Polygamy
In Memory
Susan Chilcott
Susan Chilcott, one of Britain's leading opera singers, died Thursday from breast cancer. She was 40.
Chilcott, a soprano, had performed across Europe and with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She died at her home near Bath in southwestern England, her family said.
Chilcott made her Royal Opera House debut in Covent Garden last June to glowing reviews, playing Lisa in Tchaikovsky's "Queen Of Spades" opposite Placido Domingo.
One critic wrote that she was "a natural: tall, beautiful and seemingly fearless on stage."
She made headlines when a candle set her dress on fire during one performance and she calmly carried on singing after staff members had put out the flames.
Chilcott was married to her agent, David Sigall, and she had a four-year-old son by a previous relationship.
Since making her operatic debut with the Scottish Opera, she had appeared at Glyndebourne and sung with the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera and Opera North.
In July 2002, she performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Helena in Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Chilcott was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, and she underwent surgery and chemotherapy.
In the midst of her treatment, she sang with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London, later describing the performance as "probably the most important in my career."
Her last public performance was at a Shakespeare evening in Brussels three months ago. Together with actress Fiona Shaw and pianist Iain Burnside, she had devised evenings devoted to songs based on the writings of Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.
Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
Susan Chilcott
Indian painted storks fly in a New Delhi zoo, September 2, 2003. There are more than 2,000 species of birds in the vast Indian sub-continent. Until 1991, India was one of the largest exporters of wild birds to international bird markets.
Photo by B. Mathur
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