'TBH Politoons'
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Dr. Paul's Fabulous Self-Financing Debacle
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The sun never broke through - poor Jo the (remaining) lizard missed his daily sunbath.
Picked up 'The Lion King' DVD for the kid - kept his attention almost all night.
The new kittens are little pooping machines. Haven't had any takers for them, yet.
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'Joan Of Arcadia', followed by a FRESH 'JAG', then a
FRESH 'The Handler'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Charlie Sheen, a Top 10 list presented by Gov. Gray Davis, and John Mayer.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Treat Williams, Jerry Hall, and Simply Red.
NBC begins the night with 'Queer Eye', followed by a FRESH 'Miss Match', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Lance Armstrong and Joe Henry.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Lucas, and Howie Day.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Carmen Electra, Vivica A. Fox, Rena Sofer, Jimmie Johnson, and Super Furry Animals.
ABC opens the evening with a FRESH 'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH 'Married To The Kellys', then a FRESH
'Hope & Faith', followed by a FRESH 'Bonnie', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Donald Faison, Nikki Cox, and Anthony Hamilton, with this week's guest co-host Bobcat Goldthwait.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Reba', followed by a FRESH 'Like Family', then a FRESH 'Grounded For Life',
followed by a FRESH 'All About The Andersons'.
Faux has 'MLB Baseball', so prime time on the left coast will be RERUN 'Simpsons' and 'King Of The Hill''s.
UPN has the movie 'Lethal Weapon 3'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by 'Poirot: Dumb Witness', then 'Meet The Royals'.
AMC has the movie 'The Searchers', followed by the movie 'City Slickers', then the movie 'Nightmare On Elm Street 2'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News' ;
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Sweet ;
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Jersey;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Isleworth;
[8pm] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 6;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[9:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[10:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 6 ;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Sheryl Crow;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Macauley Culkin, Kyle MacLachlan;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[12:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 6;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Sheryl Crow;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Macauley Culkin, Kyle MacLachlan;
[4am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[4:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[5:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo is all 'Queer Eye' all night.
HBO has 'K Street'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Dead Men's Secrets', 'Heavy Metal', and 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', 'Tremors: The Series', 'Stargate SG-1', 'Scare Tactic', and another 'Scare Tactic'.
TCM - This morning, pre-Hayes Commission comedies are featured - a bit more bawdy and a lot looser than the comedies that followed.
[6am] 'Goodbye Again' (1933);
[7:15am] 'The Meanest Gal In Town' (1934);
[8:30am] 'Forsaking All Others' (1934);
[10am] 'No More Ladies' (1935);
[11:30am] 'Cain And Mabel' (1936);
[1pm] 'Ever Since Eve' (1937);
[2:30pm] 'Live, Love And Learn' (1937);
[4pm] 'Four's A Crowd' (1938);
[6pm] 'The Feminine Touch' (1941);
[8pm] 'Requiem For A Heavyweight' (1962);
[9:30pm] 'Father Goose' (1964);
[11:30pm] 'Duel At Diablo' (1966);
[1:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #25' (2000);
[2am] 'Ivan the Terrible' (Part 2) (1946); and
[4:00 am] 'Song Of Russia' (1943). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during an international seminar on globalization in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003.
Photo by Jaime Puebla
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Jay Leno's Embrace of Arnold
The Right Comic
by Nikki Finke
That Jay Leno will do anything for ratings is hardly a Hollywood secret. After all, his August 6 hosting of Arnold Schwarzenegger's recall-candidacy shocker gave The Tonight Show a nice shove upwards in the overnight Nielsens. But his high-profile pop-up at the new California governor's victory party suddenly puts Leno and his popularity in a precarious position when it comes to the politics of personality. So the question has to be asked: Is the late-night king becoming just another political pawn?
But the real truth is that, for some time now, Leno has been leaning right and going soft on President Bush, judging by jokes on The Tonight Show.
Case in point: President Clinton hasn't been in office for nearly three years now. Yet there's Leno night after night still giggling about Bill and Monica. He even recently managed to combine his partisanship for Schwarzenegger with his criticism of Clinton in this guffaw: "On talk radio, they've been comparing Clinton and Schwarzenegger — you know, this whole thing, like, 'Oh, what's the difference between the Clinton women and the Schwarzenegger women?' I'll tell you the difference — about 200 pounds." The implication, of course, is that Arnold's non-consensual sex is somehow more palatable than Clinton's consensual sex because the actor had better taste in women.
Please read the rest, The Right Comic
Bono, lead singer of Irish rock band U2 (R) presents Dr. Alex Godwin Coutinho, Executive Director of the AIDS Support Organization (TASO), the 2003 Global Leadership and Humanitarian Action Award on behalf of The United Nations Association of the USA and the Business Council for the U.N., in New York on October 8, 2003.
Photo by Marion Curtis
Reports to Prison
Tommy Chong
Actor-comedian Tommy Chong reported to a privately run federal prison to serve his nine-month sentence for conspiring to sell bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet even as his attorneys prepared to argue for his release pending appeal.
Chong, 65, was sentenced Sept. 11 by U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab in Pittsburgh. He reported Wednesday to a minimum-security facility run for the Federal Bureau of Prisons near Bakersfield, Calif.
The judge has set an Oct. 16 hearing on a request by Chong's attorney to release the actor, best-known as the drug-addled Chong in the Cheech & Chong movies and comedy routines, while he appeals the sentence to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chong's attorneys argued that he should be sentenced no more harshly than any of the other defendants thus far in the national drug-paraphernalia investigation. They wanted him to be sentenced to no more than six months' house arrest and six months' probation.
Tommy Chong
Pranked By Canadian Radio
Paul McCartney
Former Beatle Paul McCartney was fooled by a radio presenter who called him on his mobile phone and pretended to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a British newspaper said on Thursday.
Montreal radio comic Marc Audette, speaking English with a heavy French accent, told McCartney he was being awarded the Order of Canada, the Sun reported.
It was only when Audette broke cover after littering his conversation with Beatles lyrics that McCartney realized he had been "pranked."
McCartney told Audette "we're going to sue your ass off," but then laughed and said no when Audette asked whether he was being serious.
Paul McCartney
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Says He Was Misquoted
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer says he sang New Mexico's praises during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine and was misquoted in the article.
The magazine's Oct. 16 issue features a story on Kilmer headlined "Mr. Difficult." It quotes the star of the new film "Wonderland" as saying he lives in the "homicide capital of the Southwest" and 80 percent "of the people in my county are drunk."
The 43-year-old actor, who owns a ranch in San Miguel County south of Pecos, said he'll ask Rolling Stone to apologize for the article.
He said another comment that he carries a gun in his car while driving with his children because there are so many drunk drivers in the area "doesn't make sense."
Rolling Stone spokeswoman Claudia Diromauldo said the magazine hadn't heard from Kilmer. "Our only comment is, Rolling Stone stands by the article," she said Wednesday.
Val Kilmer
British musician Sting waves as he wears his CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) award around his neck after receiving the medal from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, at Buckingham Palace in London, October 9, 2003. Married to actress Trudie Styler, a father of six and a devoted Yoga practitioner, the 51-year-old star received his CBE for services to the music industry.
Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth
Receives Knighthood
Roger Moore
Roger Moore, the former James Bond actor, 75, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on Thursday for his work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"(The Queen) congratulated me on my work with UNICEF, which she said must be very satisfying -- and she also mentioned 007 too," Moore told Sky News.
Moore became a television star in the 1960s series "The Saint" and took over the role of secret agent 007 from Sean Connery in the 1973 film "Live and Let Die." His last Bond film was 1985's "A View to a Kill."
Roger Moore
Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton
Baby News
Actress Helena Bonham Carter and film director Tim Burton are the parents of a newborn baby boy.
Bonham Carter gave birth to the couple's first child, whom they have not yet named, in London on Saturday, said Nicki Van Gelder, the actress' agent.
The two met when Burton, 45, directed Bonham Carter, 37, in the remake of the science fiction movie "Planet of The Apes." They live in adjoining houses in north London and recently connected the homes with a door.
"I don't know if we'll marry," the magazine Radio Times quoted Bonham Carter as saying. "I find it romantic bearing his illegitimate child and living next door."
Baby News
Maryland First Lady Apologizes
Kendel Ehrlich
Britney Spears can rest easy, Maryland's first lady doesn't really want to shoot the pop star. And now she's apologized too.
Kendel Ehrlich, wife of Maryland's Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, said through a spokeswoman on Thursday that she was sorry about an off-the-cuff remark she made at a domestic violence prevention conference while criticizing what she saw as the negative influence entertainers can have on youth.
There was no immediate response from Spears to the first lady's apology. Earlier in the week, her label Jive Records released a statement saying, "It seems that Mrs. Ehrlich has shot her own self in the foot by promoting violence as well."
Kendel Ehrlich
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Urges Nuking
Marion 'Pat' Robertson
The State Department has protested to televangelist Pat Robertson about his "despicable" suggestion that someone blow up the department with a nuclear bomb, an official said on Thursday.
Robertson, a former presidential candidate, made the remark in an interview with Joel Mowbray, author of a new book entitled "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Endangers America's Security."
Introducing Mowbray on his Christian Broadcasting Network, Robertson said that a person who read Mowbray's book would reach the conclusion that a nuclear explosion at the State Department was the best solution.
"I read your book. When you get through, you say (to yourself): 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom (the State Department's main building), I think that's the answer' and you say: 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?" he said.
"It is," Mowbray replied. Mowbray himself did not make the suggestion, either in his book or in the interview.
A group of conservatives, including former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, accuses the State Department of undermining U.S. interests by protecting dictatorial governments abroad.
For more, Marion 'Pat' Robertson
'Chelsea Pensioner' Doug Woolford from the Royal Hospital Chelsea walks among fake gravestones placed in Trafalgar Square, central London, to launch the 'Control Arms' campaign to control the international arms trade, October 9, 2003. The campaign, launched by three charities Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms), is aimed at the world's most powerful governments who are also the world's biggest arms suppliers: France, Russia, China, Britain and the U.S.
Photo by Lee Besford
Ahnold Will Surprise Californians
Jamie Lee Curtis
Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger will surprise many and do a great job as California state governor -- or so believes a member of Hollywood royalty, actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
Curtis, 44, said she voted against the recall, but voted for Arnie in case the recall was approved.
"He's gonna surprise a lot of people," said Curtis, who co-starred with Schwarzenegger in the 1994 hit 'True Lies.'
Curtis spoke with AFP late Wednesday at an exibition of pictures by photojournalist Diana Walker, a personal friend, at the National Museum of American History.
Jamie Lee Curtis
House Opening to the Public
Louis Armstrong
The Queens house where jazz great Louis Armstrong lived and died is opening to public tours next week, giving visitors a glimpse into the life and style of Armstrong and his wife, Lucille.
Armstrong married Lucille, his fourth wife, in 1942. She purchased the red brick house in the Corona section of Queens in 1943 and decorated it, all without Armstrong, who was often on the road.
The first time the trumpeter saw it was when he returned home from a road trip. At first, when the taxi he was in pulled up to the house, he didn't believe he was at the right address, said Michael Cogswell, director of the Armstrong archives at Queens College.
"He came inside, fell in love with the place and lived here for the rest of his life," Cogswell said.
For more, Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong House and Archives
A hot air balloon made in the shape of a Smurf character is inflated at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Thursday was Special Shapes Mass Ascension Day but high winds kept a lot of the balloons on the ground. The Fiesta runs through Sunday.
Photo by Jake Schoellkopf
Ends Marathon Walk Under Loch Ness
Lloyd Scott
A man clad in an old-fashioned, lead-booted diving suit has clambered out of Scotland's famed Loch Ness for the final time at the end of an epic underwater trek to raise money for a leukaemia charity.
Lloyd Scott, who last year took five days to complete the London marathon above ground in the same diving suit and has worn the outfit in marathons in New York and Edinburgh, took 12 days to complete his 26 mile sub-aquatic ramble along a stretch of the loch.
Scott, 41, a former fireman and footballer who has already raised millions of pounds for charity, only had one serious scare during his lonely trip along a ledge some 10 metres below the surface of the immensely deep loch.
Lloyd Scott
Charges Dropped
Ben Affleck
Charges against Ben Affleck were dropped after New Hanover County officials said they found no evidence to support a woman's claims that the actor threatened to kill her.
District Attorney John Carriker said Tuesday that repeated attempts by Kure Beach police to contact accuser Tara Ray were unsuccessful and he dismissed the warrant.
Ray took out the warrant Saturday, alleging that Affleck threatened her on Sept. 25.
A spokesman for Affleck said the 31-year-old actor had never met Ray and was at his Georgia home that day.
Ben Affleck
The San Diego Zoo's 51-day-old male panda cub lays comfortably in the hands of senior keeper Kim Bacon, right, as associate veterinarian Karen Kearns, left, conducts a routine exam at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, in San Diego. The unnamed panda cub is progressing well, as evidenced by his little round belly. The cub tipped the scales at 5.3 pounds and measured 17 inches long. There's an estimated 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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