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Last Night
Today, the battery decided to call it quits in my little car, the rolling money-pit.
Had a lot of errands to run, so had to put it all off while I bought a new battery & installed it.
There will be no update Saturday. Figure to be back before supper time Sunday, so there will probably be an update then - if not, Monday, for sure (or fer shure, as they say here).
Tonight, Friday, CBS it's ALL fresh - the 'series premiere' of the newly 'renamed' '48 Hours Investigates', then the series premiere of 'Hack', and the series premiere of 'Robbery Homicide Division'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Lauren Graham and Colin Quinn.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Kevin Sorbo and Frank Black.
NBC has a 2-hour long season premiere of 'Dateline', then the season premiere of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Jennifer Garner, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Erykah Badu.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan Jill Hennessy, Peter Gabriel, and Clyde Peeling.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Kyra Sedgwick, Juliette Lewis, and Daniel Bedingfield.
ABC has the season premiere of 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then the series premiere of 'That Was Then', and a fresh '20/20'.
The WB has a fresh 'What I Like About You', then a fresh 'Sabrina', followed by a fresh 'Reba', and wraps with a fresh 'Greetings From Tucson'.
Faux has a fresh 'Firefly' and a fresh 'John Doe'.
UPN here has baseball with the Padres visiting Rupert's Doggers.
Check local PBS schedules for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Nigeria
Former president of US, Bill Clinton, right, walks past Nigerian ex-military ruler Ibrahim Babangida, as he goes to deliver a lecture on Democratization and Economic Development, at Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday Sept. 24, 2002.
During the course of his speech Clinton urged the Nigerian government to forgive Amina Lawal, who has been sentenced to death by stoning for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Photo by Saurabh Das
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An Actor, A Comic, & A President Visit Africa
Kevin, Chris & Bill
They make an unlikely troika: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Chris Tucker and former President Bill Clinton.
But they're united in their cause of fighting AIDS and encouraging economic development in Africa.
Clinton, Spacey and Tucker are on a five-day tour of Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa; they head back to the United States on Sunday.
previous trips to Africa this year — first with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and later with Secretary of State Colin Powell — Tucker said he needed to visit the continent again to learn more about it.
Tucker also is watching Clinton closely in preparation for his starring role in "Mr. President," a movie about America's first black head of state.
The former president refused the red carpet treatment Rwandan authorities wanted to lay on for him, and instead plunged into a crowd of captivated patients at an AIDS health center his Clinton Foundation plans to support.
Kevin, Chris & Bill
Mulls Selling Comedy Central, Court TV Stakes
AOL Time Warner Inc
AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to sell its 50 percent stakes in cable channels Comedy Central and Court TV as part of an effort to sell non-core assets to pare down debt, its Chief Financial Officer Wayne Pace said on Thursday.
Comedy Central is a joint venture between AOL Time Warner and Viacom Inc., while Court TV is a 50-50 joint venture between AOL Time Warner and Liberty Media Corp.. Both Viacom and Liberty declined to comment.
Analysts pegged the value of each of those networks, both of which have over 70 million subscribers, at around $2 billion, putting AOL's stake at $1 billion.
Credit rating agencies have warned that the company faces a downgrade if it does not reduce its debt.
AOL Time Warner continues to look for partners for its struggling AOL Latin America Inc. division, but will consider exiting the business if it is unable to find a way to put it on a path to profitability,
Chief Financial Officer Wayne Pace said on Thursday.
AOL Latin America, facing a Nasdaq delisting, said on Thursday its chief financial operating officer Gustavo Benejam is leaving the company for personal reasons on Sept. 30. His job will not be filed.
AOL Time Warner Inc
Newest Star On The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Jack LaLanne
Physical fitness expert Jack LaLanne strikes a characteristic pose as he takes the first official step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his 88th birthday,
following dedication ceremonies Thursday. Sept. 26, 2002, on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. In the early 1950s LaLanne took his message of health and fitness to the
then-new medium of television, and his "The Jack LaLanne Show" was broadcast continuously for 34 years. LaLanne developed much of the exercise equipment now standardin today's gyms.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Seek OK for Online Music Sabotage
Record Labels
Frustrated by the continuing presence of free music on the Internet, the recording industry asked for Congress' blessing on Thursday to gum up the online networks they blame for slowing their sales.
Congress is considering expanded legal protection for record labels who resort to sabotage in their ongoing battle with "peer to peer" networks that allow users to freely trade music,
movies and other copyrighted material.
The recording industry offered a glimpse into its tactics, which include blocking transfers and flooding the network with dummy songs, and promised a House of Representatives subcommittee
that they would not disrupt the Internet or reach into individuals' computers.
The industry has tried different tactics recently, targeting individual users with automated tracking software and launching an advertising campaign to discourage illegal downloads.
Record labels have also turned to Los Angeles technology firm MediaDefender Inc., which floods peer-to-peer services with decoy songs in an attempt to crowd out copyrighted material.
The industry has used the decoy service heavily, to the point where nine out of ten versions on a peer-to-peer network may be empty shells, he said. Interdiction has been less popular, he
said, as it may run afoul of anti-hacking laws.
Record Labels
Returns to TV
Ron Howard
Actor-turned-filmmaker Ron Howard has dipped his toe back in the television waters, helping land a drama pilot at Fox.
Tentatively titled "Arrested Development," the project follows the exploits of a well-off Orange County family who lose their fortune in the wake of an accounting scandal.
Howard will executive produce along with Brian Grazer, his partner at Imagine Entertainment, the company behind Oscar-winning drama "A Beautiful Mind."
It's still unclear, however, whether Howard will direct "Arrested Development."
Meanwhile, Fox landed "Arrested Development" despite strong interest in the project from NBC. Executives there believed they had an inside track on the show and are said to be furious that Imagine
ultimately decided to sell the show to Fox. But other insiders said NBC and Imagine have other potential deals outstanding and that the brouhaha probably won't linger.
Ron Howard
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
TV Ads on Piracy
Celebrities
Pop princess Britney Spears, the bubbly dancing spokesgirl for Pepsi, will soon be hawking again but on a more serious note in a commercial to warn people of the evils of online piracy.
Spears, rapper Nelly, hip-hop diva Missy Elliott and other pop stars will be featured in coming weeks in TV spots funded by the world's biggest record labels to educate people about
illegal downloading of music, which the music industry blames for a protracted sales slump.
Industry estimates show that more than 2.6 billion music files are downloaded illegally from the Internet each month, mainly through unlicensed "peer-to-peer" services.
The TV ads will be shown at a congressional hearing in Washington on piracy Thursday, but will not be aired for a few weeks. The print portion of the campaign will be launched Thursday
with full-page ads in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and publications like Roll Call aimed at lawmakers.
The campaign is the brainchild of an alliance of several recording, publishing, musician trade groups known as Music United for Strong Internet Copyright (MUSIC) Coalition.
For some more, Celebrities
Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba
Jesse Ventura
Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura smokes a Cuban cigar while walking through the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002. Ventura is expected to attend
the upcoming U.S. agribusiness expo.
Photo by Cristobal Herrera
'Celebrity By Default'
Louis Osbourne
His dad hates techno. His stepbrother hates techno. Even Pipi the dog hates techno. But Louis Osbourne - Ozzy's 27-year-old son from his first marriage - loves
the electronic beats so much, he travels the world as a techno deejay.
"My dad doesn't really understand it," Osbourne told The Post.
"He comes from a rock background - guitars, drums, vocals. So he doesn't get it, really."
Monday night, Louis will make his New York deejaying debut at ClubNation, a nightclub convention at Webster Hall in the East Village.
His contract stipulates that there be no references to the Osbournes, MTV or Ozzy Osbourne on any billing.
"I find it belittles what I've striven to achieve in the past five years," says Osbourne, who grew up in Birmingham, England, and started attending raves at age 16.
"I'm not a celebrity deejay. But there's a lot of interest in me because of my family name. I play records for the passion of it, and this is all I
ever thought about doing. I'm a celebrity by default."
For the rest, Louis Osbourne
Not Much Of A Gentleman
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake has confirmed what many have long suspected about his relationship with Britney Spears: Pop music's biggest couple got it on, reports the New York Daily News.
When the 'N Sync singer stopped by New York radio station Hot 97, the station's morning DJ, Troy Torain (aka Star), promised he'd play Timberlake's new single, "Like I Love You,"
30 times a week if he'd tell just one secret.
Star asked Timberlake if he had ever shared a certain bedroom intimacy with ex-girlfriend Spears.
After much hemming and hawing, Timberlake broke down.
"I did it," Timberlake said. "I'm dirty. I'm in so much damn trouble, man. I'm gonna get calls from my mother!"
No word yet on Britney's reaction.
Justin Timberlake
Undergoing Kidney Dialysis
Barry White
Soul singer Barry White, battling kidney failure brought on by years of high blood pressure, is undergoing dialysis and is hoping to receive a kidney transplant, his record label said on Wednesday.
At the request of White's family, no details about his condition were disclosed, and it was not revealed whether he was hospitalized or living at home while receiving treatment on an out-patient basis.
A spokeswoman at the label said White had suffered kidney failure.
Barry White
BartCop TV!
House Being Razed
John Wayne
John Wayne's waterfront house is being razed.
The 7,105-square-foot, single-story French Chateau-style residence gave Wayne a commanding view of Newport Bay and the private dock where he parked his yacht, Wild Goose, a converted minesweeper.
Robert and Beverly Cohen, owners of Wayne's former home, filed construction plans two months ago that call for demolition of the 51-year-old residence to build a 12,437-square-foot estate, city
building director Jay Elbettar said this week.
The proposed two-story estate will have four bedrooms, five bathrooms and a three-car garage. Blueprints show there will also be a 3-foot-high memorial to Wayne in a side yard.
The Cohens own the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
John Wayne
Traffic Signals
Abou Dhabi
La municipalité d'Abou Dhabi, capitale des Emirats arabes unis, est rouge de honte, devant faire machine arrière après avoir installé" des feux de circulation rouge, orange et... bleu.
Photo by Johnny Egitt
Keep Their Kids Away from TV
Cruise & Spielberg
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg, two of Hollywood's biggest celebrities, said on Thursday that they strictly limit how much television their children watch and emphasize reading rather than viewing.
"They are allowed about three and a half hours of television per week -- if they do very well in their school," he said. "I really don't like them using computers."
Spielberg, who directed Cruise in "Minority Report" and spoke at a joint news conference ahead of its Berlin premiere, is a twice as permissive as Cruise when it comes to television.
"My kids are allowed to watch TV one hour a day -- if their homework is done," he said.
"They can't come home from school and watch TV," he said. "They have to do their homework, do their chores, finish dinner, get into their cozy clothes, as we call it, after they take their bath,
and after they are in their cozy clothes, they get to watch TV for an hour."
"I don't let them watch the news because the news is much more uncensored than it was when I was growing up and things are so frightening right now that I like to news to come from me," he said.
Cruise & Spielberg
Restored After Killer Quake
Giotto Fresco
The saint did not go marching in. Fractured, fragmented and fragile, he was gingerly returned to the wounded ceiling of one of the world's greatest basilicas as a sign of hope five years after a killer quake.
Giotto's 13th century fresco of St. Jerome, splintered into tens of thousands of pieces on September 26, 1997, was unveiled on Thursday after one of the most ambitious and painstaking restorations in art history.
The fresco, which Giotto is believed to have painted in 1288, ends the second phase of a three-part restoration of the ceiling of St. Francis' Basilica, greatly damaged in the 1997 quake.
The pieces were scanned and electronically cataloged by size, shape and weight, and, most importantly, shades of color.
Then, computers programmed with photographs of the frescoes taken before the quake helped restorers match fragment by fragment, shard by shard, splinter by splinter.
For the rest Giotto Fresco
Burgled & Bound
Michael Crichton
Police are hunting for two armed men who tied up "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton and his 13-year-old daughter in the middle of the night and ransacked their home.
Crichton and his daughter were unharmed by the two masked men who broke into their home in suburban Santa Monica at about 5 a.m. local time on Monday
and stole undisclosed personal items, a spokesman for the 59-year-old writer said.
A police spokesman said two suspects entered the home wearing ski masks and bound Crichton and the girl at gunpoint before ransacking their belongings.
After the gunmen left, he said, Crichton and his daughter were able to untie themselves and call police.
Michael Crichton
Says She Hasn't Changed a Bit
Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell, who in six months has come out as gay, quit her cheery TV talk show, ditched her magazine after a fight with publishers and got a radical new haircut, said in an interview released on Thursday that she hadn't changed a bit.
O'Donnell said there was no conflict between the headline-grabbing stories of her recent edgy stand-up jokes or screaming matches with publishers and her "queen of nice" talk show image.
O'Donnell denied tabloid newspaper rumors that she and Carpenter were splitting up, saying that would never happen. "We are not now, nor have we ever considered, nor will we break up. I know public figures
aren't supposed to say that because, well, what will happen if we do? But I am telling you, inside my heart, I know this to be true."
O'Donnell spoke to People just days after quitting her magazine Rosie after 18 months following a bitter fight with publishers Gruner&Jahr USA over editorial control and accusations that she had screamed at her staff.
O'Donnell admitted to People that she had shouted at top executives at the magazine, but said: "I am never abusive to my staff."
Rosie O'Donnell
To Wear Madonna Tartan
Miss Scotland
The only dress made in a tartan designed for Madonna and her British film producer husband, Guy Ritchie, is going to Japan.
Miss World runner-up Juliet-Jane Horne said Thursday she'll wear the unusual garment in blue, yellow and purple when she competes in the Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo in October.
Horne, who is Miss Scotland, Miss United Kingdom and Miss Europe, wore the dress on its first outing, at the launch of the Scottish Tourist Board's "Romantic Scotland" campaign to attract more loving couples to the land of haggis and bagpipes.
The pattern blends blue, after Madonna's "True Blue" album, with yellow for her "Blonde Ambition" tour and white in reference to her single "Like a Virgin." It also includes purple notes, to represent Scottish heather.
Miss Scotland
Put Another Croc On The Barbie?
Crocodiles
Zum Tag des Denkmalschutzes am morgigen Donnerstag grillt ein südakrikanischer Mann am Mittwoch Krokodile auf einem Rost. Passend dazu hat er seinen Stand vor dem Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria aufgebaut.
Photo by Lefty Shivambu
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