'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
'For Father'
by bill & alvin
pResident? Bush personalized a possible confrontation with Iraq
when he referred to Saddam Hussein as, "the guy who tried to
kill
my dad." The pResident's? remark referred to a 1993 plot to
assassinate Bush senior the U.S. accused Iraq of hatching.
MIDI
FOR FATHER
{Sung to 'The Letter' by The Box Tops}
{As Sung By pResident? Dubya Bush}
War is the ticket; bombs from airplanes
Bomb Baghdad and target Hussein
Point of no return, Saddam's gonna burn
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father
Few hundred billions that we gotta spend
After Saddam, it's just war without end
Point of no return, Saddam's gonna burn
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father
Shrub's avenging his father, stealin' oil from Iraq;
That's what this war is for
Weapons of destruction that Hussein 'may have someday'
Are reasons for war... any day now...
War is the ticket; bombs from airplanes
Bomb Baghdad and target Hussein
Point of no return, Saddam's gonna burn
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father
Shrub's avenging his father, stealin' oil from Iraq;
That's what this war is for
Weapons of destruction that Hussein 'may have someday'
Are reasons for war... any day now...
War is the ticket; bombs from airplanes
Bomb Baghdad and target Hussein
Point of no return, Saddam's gonna burn
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father
Bush Baby is doin' this for Father...
~~ Alvin D.
Thanks bill & alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Had to take pictures of the house to prove there's a new roof for the insurance company. Killed the rest of the roll with pictures of some of the 4-legged residents.
Also hit CostCo & the farmer's market, too. Lots of peppers (6 red or yellow or green bell peppers for $1), pomegranates & grapes.
Stopped by the library. They have a cart of 'for sale' books, and I'm a sucker for old books. Spent a whole quarter for ''Atomic Experiments For Boys'' from 1952. Have pretty much run out of
shelf space, need some ideas on creating more.
Way cool for Samuel L. Jackson to do Dave in a kilt!
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night off with '48 Hours' then a fresh 'Hack', followed by a fresh 'Robbery Homicide Division'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and comic Eddie Brill. -- Dave will be all reruns next week.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is Dispatch. -- Craiggers will be all reruns next week.
NBC opens the night with a fresh 'Providence', then 'Dateline', and finally a fresh 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Owen Wilson and comic Mary Ellen Hooper. -- Jay will be all reruns next week.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Johnny Knoxville, David Bowie, and Richard Lewis. -- Conan will be all reruns next week.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 6/28/02), scheduled guests are Adam Sandler, Gene Simmons, and Enrique Iglesias. -- Carson will be all reruns next week (just like this week).
ABC starts expressing contempt for what's left of their viewing audience with back-to-back episodes of 'America's Funniest Videos'. The first one is fresh - the 2nd is not. '20/20' wraps the night.
The WB has a fresh 'What I Like About You', a fresh 'Sabrina', a fresh 'Reba', and then a fresh 'Greetings From Tucson'.
Faux finally has a fresh Friday - first, a fresh 'Firefly', and then a fresh 'John Doe'.
UPN has the movie 'Man In The Iron Mask' - the Leonardo DiCaprio version.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Attendees At GQ 'Men of the Year' Awards
Sir Ian & Elijah
Actors Sir Ian McKellan, left, and Elijah Wood arrive at the seventh annual GQ 'Men of the Year' awards, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2002 in New York. McKellan was a recipient of the Supporting Film Actor of the Year award at the ceremony.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
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'Nothin' From Nothin'
To Enter Arkansas Black Hall of Fame
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Bill Clinton, once famously described by author Toni Morrison as "our first black president," is being inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame as an honorary member.
The former president will be the first non-black recognized in the hall's 10-year history. He is expected to attend the Saturday night event.
The honor is in recognition of Clinton's appointment of blacks to high levels in both state and federal government, and his post-White House efforts to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, Stewart said.
Among others slated for induction are R&B and gospel singer Al Green and Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first black graduate of the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Past inductees include poet Maya Angelou, Ebony and Jet magazine publisher John H. Johnson Jr. and former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
Bill Clinton
Returns Home After 45 Years
Andy Griffith
As sheriff of Mayberry, Andy Taylor never carried a gun because he wanted people to listen to him out of respect, not fear.
The TV character's real-life alter ego saw an outpouring of that respect and more, as Andy Griffith made his first official visit home in 45 years.
"This is the biggest day of my life," the 76-year-old actor — easily Mount Airy's most famous son — told hundreds of fans and dignitaries who turned out in
foul weather Wednesday to see a stretch of highway named in his honor.
Griffith toured the town Tuesday and spent the night in his childhood home, bought by his father for $800, which has been turned into a bed and breakfast.
Andy Griffith
Talking To Jane Pauley
Barbara Walters
ABC's Barbara Walters and her daughter are breaking their silence about their troubled relationship - on NBC.
Walters and Jackie Danforth sat for an exclusive interview with Jane Pauley airing on tonight's "Dateline," in which they discuss Jackie's troubled teen years - which
ultimately led to Walters placing her daughter in an alternative school for troubled teens in Idaho.
Walters - an NBC mainstay before jumping to ABC in 1976 - and then-husband Lee Guber adopted Jackie in 1968. By the time Jackie was 13, her parents were divorced - and
Jackie was sinking into a life of truancy and drug use.
In the summer of 1984, Jackie, then 15, ran away from home. For a month, Walters didn't know where her daughter was - and when she found Jackie, she shipped her off to Idaho.
Danforth stayed in the program for three years - and, in the process, turned her life around.
After marrying Mark Danforth, Jackie established a camp in Maine called New Horizons - catering to troubled young girls.
Barbara Walters
Stacking The Deck
KPWR-FM
The owners of an L.A. radio station said on Thursday it will tell listeners that it has business ties to a local rap artist whose work is played more on the station than any other station in the country.
Emmis Communications Corp., an Indianapolis-based radio conglomerate, said it plans to tell listeners about its business ties to rapper Shade Sheist whose heavy airplay on station KPWR-FM has drawn media fire.
"We're going to air disclosure, if it makes people feel better as they scrutinize," said Rick Cummings, president of Emmis' radio division, but said the company had not committed any illegal act.
Cummings said the decision to air disclosure came as a result of a Los Angeles Times article this week which detailed the relationship between Sheist and KPWR-FM.
"If a radio company and radio station both have a vested financial interest in an artist, the basic ethics of broadcasting would require them to disclose that," said
Peter Hart, an analyst for the New York-based media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
The Sheist's airplay flap is one of several controversies dogging the radio industry.
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation's biggest radio company, has also come under criticism for using its dominant market position to shut out competitors.
KPWR-FM
120 Jobs Slashed
'Rosie' Magazine
A month after talk show host Rosie O'Donnell severed ties with the magazine bearing her name, publisher Gruner+Jahr suspended publication of "Rosie" and eliminated
most of its employees -- 120 positions.
The publisher, who is suing O'Donnell, the magazine's former editor, for breach of contract, blamed her for the job cuts saying, "As a result of Rosie O'Donnell's
decision to terminate her participation in 'Rosie' magazine, Gruner+Jahr is left with no choice other than to reduce staff levels until further plans, if any."
G+J, owned by German media giant Bertelsmann AG, said the magazine's farewell issue goes on sale Nov. 12.
'Rosie' rose from the ashes of McCall's magazine 18 months ago and was a moderate success, until Rosie announced in September that she was leaving because the
publication no longer represented her "vision and ideas." At the time, she encouraged the company to publish the magazine under a new name.
Before leaving, O'Donnell gave $10,000 checks to most staff members.
"They were gifts, not severance," she said.
'Rosie' Magazine
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Career Takes Seamy Turn
Greg Kinnear
Before they portray real people, actors often try connecting with their characters by peering at moldy TV footage, listening to radio broadcasts or reading biographies.
For Greg Kinnear's latest role, it was watching porn.
To tackle TV actor Bob Crane — the "Hogan's Heroes" star with a real-life predilection for videotaping his sexual conquests — Kinnear squirmed through several of the actor's, uhem, home movies.
Kinnear's starring role in "Auto Focus" represents the darkest move yet for the former talk show host, who began his film career with fluffy comedies.
The new movie focuses on Crane's final 17 years, tracing his rise as a TV star and his descent into sexual addiction, which would cost him two wives, professional success and eventually his life,
when his skull was crushed by a camera tripod in 1978.
For a lot more - Greg Kinnear
See Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 8 June, 2002 for a related story.
New Postal Stamp
Cesar E. Chavez
A stamp honoring farm workers' organizer Cesar E. Chavez is shown in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002, after is was unveiled by the U.S. Postal Service. The stamp is to be issued
in April, 2003. Chavez, who died in 1993 at age 66, is best known as the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, which he led for nearly three decades. He also worked as an
advocate for nonviolent social change.
Photo by David Paul Morris
Iranian Film Director Says 'No' to American Prize
Bahman Qobadi
Iranian film director Bahman Qobadi has handed back a Chicago film festival prize in protest at the U.S. government's failure to issue him a visa to collect the award, the director said on Wednesday.
Qobadi's film, "Marooned in Iraq" a follow-up to his hugely successful 2000 debut "A Time For Drunken Horses," was awarded the 38th Chicago International Film Festival's Gold Plaque.
"With many thanks to the festival organizers I am handing over my prize to the American government in order to teach them how to respect artists," Qobadi told Reuters.
Qobadi was the second leading Iranian film figure in less than a month to fall foul of tighter U.S. immigration policy. Earlier this month, acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami
also failed to obtain a U.S. visa to attend the New York Film Festival.
"What they did to Kiarostami is terrible, he is a famous film director and does not deserve such behavior," Qobadi said.
Bahman Qobadi
Man With An Opinion
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte went on Larry King's show on Tuesday, and instead of apologizing to Secretary of State Colin Powell for calling him a "house slave," he said that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
is a house slave too. Last week, the singer declared, "There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house
if you served the master." On King's show, he called Powell a "sell-out." When King asked, "Do you have the same views about Condoleezza Rice?" Belafonte replied, "Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Even more so."
Harry Belafonte
DVD For 15th Anniversary
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'
Disney is pulling out all the stops for the March 25 release of the 15th anniversary double-disc edition of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
The package will feature rare new animation of Roger and other animated characters from the groundbreaking combination of live-action and original cartoon characters and legendary animated stars from every studio.
It marks the closest thing there may ever be to a follow-up of Disney's unprecedented and since unmatched collaboration with Warner Bros., filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall,
Kathleen Kennedy and Don Hahn, and a who's who of cartoon voice talent.
Also included on the special edition will be an audio commentary track, which was recorded by the filmmakers for a previous laserdisc edition.
Other extras include two scenes from an "Invisible Man" movie where actors were filmed doing their scenes with rubber dolls being held and carried around by people approximating where the toon characters would be drawn in later.
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'
BartCop TV!
Few Celebrities Attend Games
Disney's Angels
For a team owned by the Disney movie studio, the Anaheim Angels aren't exactly a star magnet.
Maybe it's because they play in Orange County, some 40 miles from Hollywood and the celebrity-choked neighborhoods of Los Angeles' west side.
Attending games at Edison Field requires a trip behind the so-called "Orange Curtain," a loathsome idea to a Reds loyalist such as George Clooney.
How about Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Charlie Sheen, three actors known for their baseball movies?
Costner graduated from high school and college in Orange County, and starred in the bullpen comedy "Bull Durham" and the baseball fantasy "Field of Dreams."
For the rest, Disney's Angels
'Animal Photo Of The Year'
Elephant Family
Das Tierfoto des Jahres: Die Kenianerin Angie Scott gewann bei dem von der BBC-Zeitschrift «Wildlife» initiierten Wettbewerb den ersten Preis mit einer Elefantenfamilie,
die einen Graureiher beobachtet, aufgenommen am Luangwa-Fluss in Sambia.
Photo by Angie Scott
Admits Past Drug Abuse
James Gandolfini
"The Sopranos" star James Gandolfini, immersed in a divorce from his wife of three years, has admitted he once struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, a spokesman said.
The 41-year-old actor, who plays mob boss Tony Soprano on the Emmy-winning HBO drama, had "a problem that existed in the past," said Gandolfini's spokesman, Dan Klores.
Gandolfini filed from divorce from his wife, Marcy, in March, and allegations of his substance abuse came up in the proceedings.
James Gandolfini
Not Just A Digital Creation
'Rikki Lee Travolta'
There's a strange postscipt to the item the other day about the Internet rumor that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have created a computer-generated actor called "Rikki Lee Travolta."
A rather odd actor named Rikki Lee Travolta does in fact exist, and held a press conference in Chicago Tuesday to prove it. "It's good to be alive," he stated. "I am an actor. I am a human
being." Travolta, who is of Italian and Native American extraction and claims some family connection with John Travolta, appeared in "West Side Story" on Broadway. He wrote a novel, sports
a gunshot wound and claims a doctorate in religious studies.
'Rikki Lee Travolta'
For Threatening L.A. Times Reporter
Man Charged
For months, a top Los Angeles show business reporter has been slammed in the alternative press for her claims that she was being harassed by someone intent on stopping her from writing about an
alleged shakedown plot against action star Steven Seagal.
Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch was vindicated on Wednesday, when a man was jailed for allegedly leaving a dead fish, a rose and a note saying "STOP" on the hood of her car, and also shooting
a bullet through the vehicle's windshield.
At a hearing on Wednesday, a federal magistrate in Los Angeles denied bail for Alexander Proctor because of his prior drug and burglary convictions and prosecutors' claim that he is a flight risk,
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders said.
Busch, a longtime entertainment reporter and former editor of the Hollywood Reporter, an industry trade paper, stopped working on the Seagal story and took security measures recommended by police after finding her
car windshield shot up in front of her home on June 20. Reports said that the measures included living in different hotels.
New Times Los Angeles, a now-defunct alternative paper, had called Busch's allegations "a wacky tale" and said Busch's colleagues were skeptical of the "cloak-and-dagger" story.
For more, Man Charged
Surfaces at the Top
'SpongeBob'
Nickelodeon boss Herb Scannell remembers his reaction to a rough cut of the very first "SpongeBob SquarePants" cartoon.
SpongeBob — a bright-eyed, knickers-clad, sea-dwelling kitchen sponge — had realized his lifelong dream: He got hired as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab diner, where, right away, he proved his worth by single-handedly serving
an invasion of ravenous anchovies.
But here's the kookie part: The sequence showing SpongeBob work his magic at the grill is accompanied by a 30-year-old recording of Tiny Tim warbling "Livin' in the sunlight, lovin' in the moonlight, havin' a wonderful time!"
"When I heard that," says Scannell, enjoying the memory, "I thought, `This show is gonna go places we don't really expect.'"
And how. Premiering weekends on Nickelodeon in July 1999, "SpongeBob" won a weeknight berth two years later, and, soon after that, its benthonic hero was the biggest star in kids TV.
"SpongeBob SquarePants" recently completed a year as the top-rated show on broadcast or cable among youngsters 2 to 11.
It routinely claims several of the top 15 weekly cable-ratings slots and soaks up 61.5 million viewers per month, one-third of whom — reflecting its unexpectedly broad appeal — are adults 18 to 49. (It airs Monday through
Friday at 8:30 a.m., 5 to 6 p.m., and 8 p.m., as well as Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 10 a.m.)
For a lot more, 'SpongeBob'
2 Heads Are Better Than 1?
'Macroprotodon Cucullatus'
A two-headed 'Macroprotodon Cucullatus' snake is displayed after it was found by workers in a hotel garden on the Mediterrannean island of Palma de Mallorca, October 17, 2002. This
kind of snake reaches a length of 60-70 centimeters and its bite is not lethal for human beings.
Photo by Dani Cardona
'The Osbournes'
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'The Dirty Dozen'
