Bartcop Entertainment - Friday, 25 October, 2002

Friday

25 October, 2002

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Had a bit of sun today, and the air was crisp - well, crisp for here.

Took the kid to Toys R Us under the auspices of looking for a toy for another kid. Figured it was one way to see what he really wants for his birthday (Saturday - it'll be his 10th) - thought he wanted a bike, but before that kind of money is laid out, best to make sure. So, we meandered over to the bike section & 'looked for our dream bikes.' Found his, and will pick it up tomorrow. Also have to pick up a couple of DVDs - The Simpson's-Year 2 (he's most specific about that), and 'Little Shop Of Horrors' (either version).

The fluorescent light burning 24/7 in the kitchen went into disco-mode yesterday, so had to go to the hardware store & pick up a replacement. They also had Venus Fly-Traps & a sad looking Cobra Lily, so picked up both. The kid just loves carnivorous plants (we've had a 'Terrarium O'Death' for a l-o-n-g time), and it's time to construct him a terrarium o'death he can call his own. Going to be a busy Friday around here.

He 'had' to wear a baseball cap to school yesterday - 'put a cap on drugs' day.

Great baseball game tonight - loved when Dusty Baker's son tried to take home base.



Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II' and follows it with a fresh 'Hack' and a fresh 'Robbery Homicide Division'.
On a RERUN Dave, the scheduled guests are Amanda Peet and Tom Dreesen.
On a RERUN Craiggers, the scheduled guests are Robert Evans and Alexandra Paul.

NBC opens with a fresh 'Providence', then 'Dateline', and caps with a fresh 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUN Jay, the scheduled guests are Jimmy Fallon, Kelly Clarkson, and Dixie Chicks.
On a RERUN Conan, the scheduled guests are Jarod Miller, Margaret Cho, and Jim Gaffigan.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 9/6/02), the scheduled guests are Jake Gyllenhaal, Shakira, David Duchovny, and P.O.D.

ABC rolls out 2 Old Standards - 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' and 'Boo! To You, Winnie The Pooh', then follows with a theoretically fresh 'America's Funniest Home Videos', and wraps the night with '20/20'.

The WB is ALL RERUNS! - first, a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then a RERUN 'Do Over', followed by a RERUN 'Reba', and caps with a RERUN 'Greetings From Tucson'.

Faux finally has some new stuff! First up, it's a fresh 'Firefly', then a fresh 'John Doe'.

UPN has the movie 'Woo'.

Check local PBS listing for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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Thailand

Pattaya

A Thai girl plays with a ball by the beach in the popular resort town of Pattaya, 100 km south of Bangkok on October 23, 2002. Southeast Asian tourist haven Thailand on Thursday denied allegations by Denmark that it was a potential target of terror attacks, and said it had taken all measures possible to protect foreign visitors.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang

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Says He Didn't Sell Out

John Fogerty

John Fogerty insists he did not sell out to Wrangler jeans, according to a published report.

The Creedence Clearwater Revival anti-war song "Fortunate Son" has been featured in Wrangler commercials. And Fogerty tells the Los Angeles Times that when people come up to him and say they saw his commercial, the first thing he says is, "It stinks."

Fogerty says he wrote the song as an anti-war protest and he's afraid that men of draft age during the Vietnam War will think he sold the song to get "a new boat or something."

Fogerty has no power over the use of the song in the commercial because years ago he signed away the legal rights to Creedence Clearwater's record label, Fantasy Records.

Fogerty is being paid because he wrote the song, but he says he was not consulted about licensing the song for the commercial.

John Fogerty

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

One-Stop Information!

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Survey Shows Not The Privilege Of Rich Nations

Freedom Of The Press

Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands enjoy more press freedom than other countries, while China and North Korea have the least, according to a survey of 139 countries issued Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders.

The survey by the press watchdog group shows that press freedom is threatened in all corners of the globe, and rich nations do not necessarily guarantee liberty of the press better than poor nations.

Slovenia and Costa Rica, for instance, placed 14th and 15th, respectively, in the survey — ahead of the United States which placed 17th. Switzerland shared 15th place with Costa Rica.

France, where Reporters Without Borders is based, placed 11th — in 8th position among members of the 15-member European Union. Italy ranked 40th.

The first non-European country on the list is Canada — in 5th place.

The survey reflects the degree of liberty that journalists and the media benefit from in the countries listed, as well as the policies put in place by each state to ensure press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders. The survey concerns the period from September 2001 to October 2002.

For more, Freedom Of The Press

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Georgetown University

Hoyas

Thousands of protesters against a U.S. war on Iraq plan to meet in the U.S. capital on Oct. 26, arriving in 250 buses from states as far afield as Texas, Vermont and Florida. Georgetown University students hold a 'die-in' protest against the possibility of the United States going to war with Iraq, October 23, 2002 on campus in Washington.
Photo by Jim Bourg

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Picked Up For 2nd Season

'Anna Nicole Show'

E! Entertainment Television has ordered a second helping of "The Anna Nicole Show."

The reality series, which follows Anna Nicole Smith's daily misadventures, will come back for a second season, the cable channel announced Thursday.

Production on 13 more episodes begins next month, with new shows scheduled to begin airing in early 2003. The first season wraps up on Nov. 3.

"The Anna Nicole Show" debuted in August with the highest ratings ever for an E! program. Since then, its numbers have slipped.

'Anna Nicole Show'

"The Anna Nicole Show" Web site

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Announces Retirement, Again

Art Bell

Radio host Art Bell, famed for his lengthy discussions on creepy conspiracy theories, will announce his retirement on air in the wee hours of Thursday, his syndicator Premiere Radio Networks Inc. said on Wednesday.

Plagued with ongoing back problems, Bell, 57, will name guest host George Noory, 52, as his successor during his overnight radio show, "Coast to Coast AM."

This is not the first time Bell -- who plans to serve as an occasional guest host -- has left the air.

"Coast to Coast AM" will continue its current broadcast schedule, which features Bell for three nights, Noory for three nights and host Barbara Simpson for one night until Dec. 31, 2002.

As of January 1, Noory will host the show five nights a week, with Simpson hosting on weekends.

Art Bell

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UPN Orders Full Season

'The Twilight Zone'

UPN has reached into another dimension and ordered a full season of rookie remake "The Twilight Zone."

The new version of the classic anthology series continues to hold around 73% of its lead-in "Enterprise" audience among total viewers. According to UPN, that's the network's best-ever retention for a series airing behind either "Enterprise" or its predecessor, "Star Trek: Voyager."

Season to date, "Twilight Zone" has averaged 3.9 million viewers and a 1.7 rating/4 share among adults 18-49. That's still down from last season's Wednesday 9 p.m. entry, "Special Unit 2," which benefited from a stronger "Enterprise" lead-in.

'The Twilight Zone'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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N.J. Street Renamed

Kevin Smith

A street has been renamed in honor of director Kevin Smith, a New Jersey native who is filming "Jersey Girl" in this southern New Jersey community.

Tyler Street became Kevin Smith Way during a ceremony organized by borough officials, who wanted to thank Smith for staging the production in the Gloucester County town.

Kevin Smith

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Hindu Festival of Karwa Chauth

Henna

A married Hindu woman shows her hands decorated with Henna paste on the eve of the Hindu festival of Karwa Chauth in New Delhi October 24, 2002. Married Hindu woman observe a one-day fast during the festival and offer prayers for the wellbeing of their husbands. The fast begins before sunrise and ends in the evening after worshiping the moon.
Photo by Kamal Kishore

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Her Little Secret

Christina Aguilera

A bad day means a new body piercing for Christina Aguilera, sometimes in very secret places, she tells a music magazine.

Aguilera tells Rolling Stone she gets a body piercing when she has a bad day. So far, she says she has 11 piercings — five in her ears and one each in her nose, her lower lip, and right nipple.

But wait — where are the rest of them?

Aguilera says one "really beautiful and expensive" piercing is in a place known only to her doctor and her boyfriends. She also says she's gotten a lot of compliments on the diamond-studded piercing. She only hints that it's "in a place that most people wouldn't have the guts to do it."

But even with all those piercings, the girl does draw a line. She says she would never get her navel done because it's "too played out."

Christina Aguilera

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Auction News

Liza Minnelli

Life is indeed a cabaret if you can afford to pay $15,000 for a pair of ruby slippers.

The splendid shoes are among the items being auctioned by Liza Minnelli and her movie memorabilia-mad hubby, David Gest.

About 1,200 blocks of movie and Minnelli knickknacks - clothes, awards, scripts and jewelry - went on sale online yesterday at Sothebys.com.

Getting top billing in the sale is the 1928 "Best Performances" Oscar awarded to Janet Gaynor for "Seventh Avenue Street Angel" and "Sunrise." But it's more like best comedy for the budget-conscious.

The gold statuette belongs to Gest, and auctioneers believe it will sell for between $250,000 and $350,000.

Schagrin said that because of a clause forbidding the sale of Oscars awarded after 1950, few of the trophies are available.

Liza Minnelli

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Comes to Pay-Per-View

Britney Spears

A two-year-old Britney Spears concert will premiere on pay-per-view next month.

"Britney Spears in Concert," recorded at London's Wembley Stadium on Nov. 11, 2000, will bow at 8 p.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 23, for a suggested retail price of $19.95. Footage includes such hits as "Oops ... I Did It Again," "Lucky," "(You Drive Me) Crazy," and "... Baby One More Time."

It will be distributed by on-demand TV programming provider TVN Entertainment Corp., which has secured carriage deals with In Demand, DirecTV, EchoStar, Viewer's Choice Canada, Bell ExpressVu and Canal Indigo for the event. Combined with TVN's affiliate base, the distribution base will reach nearly 50 million homes.

Britney Spears

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Lures Filmmakers To Tennessee

Dolly Parton

"Y'all c'mon down, now, ya hear?" said Dolly Parton, Tennessee's new ambassador for film and music, in town last week to boost her state at a soiree held at the W Hotel in Westwood. The Tennessee Film, Entertainment & Music Commission hosted the event.

Parton was appointed in September, launching the first marketing campaign to boost Tennessee as a land of extraordinary locations and the pre-eminent place to produce film music and soundtracks.

Tennessee offers a rebate of up to 9-1/4% of dollars spent in sales and use tax on goods and services purchased in the state.

Dolly Parton

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Start Family Web Service

Disney & Microsoft

Bill Gates, (R) Microsoft chairman and chief software architect and Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company pose with Micky and Minnie Mouse at the launch of Microsoft's MSN 8 in New York City, October 24, 2002. Microsoft and Disney have joined together to deliver Disney on MSN, a co-branded Internet service that combines the new MSN 8 software and Disney content. Photo by Jeff Chistensen

Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp's MSN on Thursday banded together to launch a family-friendly Internet service in a bid to challenge embattled industry leader America Online.

In an interview, Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner insisted the deal was not the first step in a larger alliance with Microsoft, which still trails America Online, the world's No. 1 Internet service provider, by a wide margin.

The service, Disney on MSN, will be available immediately at $21.95 per month, matching Microsoft's regular MSN service, and slightly below AOL's price of $23.90.

Disney, which has failed to make headway with previous Internet attempts, last year shrank its Web division, shuttered its Go.com Web portal and took a non-cash charge of more than $800 million.

Disney & Microsoft

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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit

Chuck Berry

A federal judge has thrown out a royalties lawsuit against Chuck Berry by former collaborator Johnnie Johnson, ruling that too many years had passed since the more than 30 songs in dispute were written.

Johnson, a piano player, sued Berry in November 2000 in U.S. District Court here over royalties generated by songs written from 1955-66. They include some of rock 'n' roll's most famous songs, including "No Particular Place to Go," "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Sweet Little Sixteen."

After the lawsuit's dismissal Monday, Berry attorney Martin Green said his 76-year-old client, now living in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, has no hard feelings for Johnson, 77.

"He likes him very much, considers him a friend and expects to play with him in the future," Green said. "He doesn't blame Johnnie for the lawsuit. He blames some of Johnnie's advisers," specifically the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and bluesman Bo Diddley for recommending that Johnson pursue the case, Green said.

Chuck Berry

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''Come Together and Worship''

'Chevrolet Presents'

Chevrolet is linking up with an evangelical concert tour for a marketing campaign, a move criticized as crossing the line between religion and the board room.

The "Chevrolet Presents: Come Together and Worship" stage shows begin Nov. 1 in Atlanta and end at the Palace at Auburn Hills on Nov. 23.

The Chevrolet tour includes a multimedia worship service with preaching by the Rev. Max Lucado, a Texas pastor and author, and a distribution of free evangelical literature. The headline musicians, Michael W. Smith and the rock band Third Day, are among popular acts in the contemporary Christian music genre.

'Chevrolet Presents'

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Prince of Asturias Prize

Woody Allen

U.S. film director Woody Allen said Thursday he did not feel worthy to rank with the likes of the Brazilian soccer team and playwright Arthur Miller in winning one of Spain's most prestigious cultural prizes.

"I don't deserve it," Allen said in an interview with Spanish state TV.

Woody Allen

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New Book Claims Murdered by Mossad

Robert Maxwell

British media tycoon Robert Maxwell was murdered by the Israeli secret services, according to a new book, which also alleges that the flamboyant millionaire was an Israeli spy and had links to organized crime in Eastern Europe.

"Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy," to be published in December by Carroll and Graf, claims that Mossad decided to get rid of Maxwell because he was threatening to expose his knowledge of Israeli secrets unless he received Israeli help in propping up his failing businesses.

Maxwell's sudden death at sea in November 1991 off the Canary Islands brought about the collapse of his worldwide publishing empire and triggered theories ranging from suicide, murder or accident.

The new book, by British thriller writer Gordon Thomas and Irish journalist Martin Dillon, is based on interviews with former Mossad agents and chiefs including David Kimche, a former assistant deputy director-general of Mossad.

Thomas and Dillon claim that Maxwell was killed by Mossad agents who boarded his private yacht under cover of darkness and plunged a needle filled with a lethal nerve agent into Maxwell's neck. They then lowered his body off the deck and into the sea.

Robert Maxwell

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Second Gamer Dies After Massive Binge

'Internet Overdose'

Just days after the first 'internet overdose', another addict has died after a marathon games binge.

The 27 year-old Taiwanese man collapsed after playing computer games for 32 hours non-stop.

Police confirmed that Lien Wen-cheng started playing at the cyber cafe in Fengyuan in central Taiwan at 10.30pm on Thursday.

At 7am on Saturday, a staff member found the man on the floor of the cafe's toilet foaming at the mouth and bleeding from the nose. "They rushed him to hospital but he was already dead," local police said.

Less than 10 days ago, a 24 year-old South Korean man died at an internet cafe in Kwangju, 260km outside Seoul, after playing continuously for 86 hours.

'Internet Overdose'

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Great Read

Where's PBS?

The Florida fiasco changed this country. Why won't PBS show the untold story?
BY DANNY SCHECHTER

IN A TYPICAL understatement, the New York Times called the 2000 vote in Florida the most "flawed and fouled up election in American history." Everyone knows who won, but few realize how many voters lost, or that a whopping 175,000 ballots went uncounted in balloting that turned on 537 votes when the Supreme Court stepped in. Even fewer know about purges from the voter rolls or how the recount in key counties was undermined, if not deliberately delayed, and, in effect, sabotaged.

When it was over, George W. Bush's new administration asked Americans to forget Florida, to "move on" and "get over it." Much of the media did just that — never fully investigating the charges of voting irregularities and claims of disenfranchisement by minorities. (Even the Justice Department sued three Florida counties on voting-rights issues.) After September 11, the "newspaper of record" quipped that the Florida debate shifted from "Who won?" to "Who cares?"

In truth, millions do care. Many were shocked when new ballot machines misfired once again during Florida's 2002 primary. Others commented that voter turnout had fallen to 30 percent nationwide. One TV journalist suggested that there might be a "voter boycott" under way. Many of these problems surfaced for all to see during the 2000 election, which was covered and mis-covered like a horse race, as if only the main candidates had stakes in its outcome. Later, the networks were forced to apologize to Congress for "serious mistakes" in their screwed-up, deceptive, and inept election-eve forecasting. When it was over, they dropped the story like a hot potato with no follow-up. Their long-delayed "media review" was an incomprehensible mishmash interpreted by some newspapers, but not all, as validating a Bush verdict. Many media analysts criticized the big-media consortium for misrepresenting their findings and "burying the lead," which showed a narrow victory for former vice-president Al Gore.

Please read the rest of this very enlightening article - Where's PBS?

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Reader Alert

'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'

from tim h

In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.

Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose before the mid-term elections.

10/27 (12 pm) WGCU --- Fort Myers - Naples, FL

10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO

10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA

11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA

11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL

11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC

11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY

11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT

11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT

11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY

11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA

11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC

11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA


For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html

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In Memory

Adolph Green

Adolph Green, a lyricist whose six-decade collaboration with Betty Comden helped create such joyous stage celebrations of New York as "On the Town" and "Wonderful Town" as well as the classic movie musical "Singin' in the Rain," has died. He was 87.

Green died at home in Manhattan late Wednesday, his son, Adam, said Thursday.

On Broadway, Comden and Green (the billing was always alphabetical) worked most successfully with composers Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Cy Coleman. The duo wrote lyrics and often the books for more than a dozen shows, many of them built around such stars as Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Lauren Bacall.

Their best lyrics were brash and buoyant, full of quick wit, best exemplified by "New York, New York," an exuberant and forthright hymn to their favorite city. Yet the songwriters' biggest pop hits — "The Party's Over," "Just in Time" and "Make Someone Happy" — were simple, direct and heartfelt.

It was "On the Town," a musical comedy expansion of Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free," that introduced Comden and Green to Broadway in 1944. The story of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in wartime New York was tailor-made for the time.

The music was by Bernstein, an old friend of Green's. Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics, and included two plum roles for themselves.

It wasn't the only time they combined performing and writing, most notably in their two-person show "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green," first done on Broadway in 1958 and periodically revived over the years.

They won five Tony Awards, with three of their shows — "Wonderful Town," "Hallelujah, Baby!" and "Applause" — winning the top prize for best musical. The duo received Kennedy Center honors in 1991.

On film, their most celebrated work was the screenplay for "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), considered by many to be the finest movie musical ever made.

The story of the silent movie industry's transition to talkies starred Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor.

In 1953, they had another film hit with "The Band Wagon," starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. That same year, Comden and Green reunited with Bernstein on Broadway for "Wonderful Town," a musical version of "My Sister Eileen." Russell scored a personal triumph as plain-Jane magazine writer Ruth McKenny. Edie Adams was her winsome sister Eileen.

A succession of collaborations with Styne followed, including the 1954 Mary Martin "Peter Pan," in which the pair were brought in to augment an already existing score; "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), written specifically for Holliday; and "Do Re Mi" (1960), a raucous look at the jukebox industry that featured Silvers and comedian Nancy Walker.

One of their biggest Broadway successes was "Applause" (1970), a show for which they wrote the book but not the lyrics. The two did an expert job tailoring the film "All About Eve" to the talents of Bacall. And with Coleman, they wrote "On the Twentieth Century" (1978), which starred John Cullum, Madeline Kahn and Imogene Coca.

Comden and Green had their share of stage flops, too, most famously "A Doll's Life" (1982). It was a misguided attempt to figure out what Nora did after she slammed the door and walked out on her husband in Ibsen's "A Doll's House." The musical ran just five performances.

Their longest-running show, "The Will Rogers Follies," opened in 1991, a Ziegfeld-styled retelling of the life of the famous humorist. Keith Carradine played Rogers in the lavish production directed by Tommy Tune with music by Coleman.

Green was born in 1914 — some references give a later date — in the Bronx, the son of Daniel and Helen Green. After high school, he worked as a runner on Wall Street as he tried to make it as an actor. He met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying at New York University.

They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed in the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Out of necessity, Comden and Green began writing their own material. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvin, who changed her name to Judy Holliday when she got to Hollywood.

After "On the Town," Comden and Green's next two musicals, "Billion Dollar Baby" (1945) and "Bonanza Bound" (1947) were not successful. Discouraged, they left for California where they found a home at MGM.

There, they wrote screenplays for "Good News," starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford, and the film version of "On the Town," which scrapped most of Bernstein's melodies in favor of music by Roger Edens. The film even sanitized the lyrics to "New York, New York." Yet the movie, starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, was a huge hit.

More recently, Comden and Green participated in the unsuccessful Broadway revival of "On the Town" in 1998, and streamlined the book for a version of "Die Fledermaus" for the Metropolitan Opera that same year. And last year, there was a short-lived revival of "Bells Are Ringing," with Faith Prince in the Holliday role.

Green married actress Phyllis Newman, who had been Holliday's understudy in "Bells Are Ringing," in 1960. He is survived by his wife, son and a daughter, Amanda. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Adolph Green

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In Memory

Harry Hay

Harry Hay, a pioneering activist in the gay rights movement, died Thursday, according to family members who said he had suffered from lung cancer. He was 90.

Hay, among the first to argue that gays represented a cultural minority, devoted his life to progressive politics and in 1950 founded the secret network of support groups for gays known as the Mattachine Society.

"What we haven't been doing in the 20th century is discovering what we bring with us to contribute, which the United States needs, but doesn't necessarily have," Hay told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "Then our cultural minority appears in order to serve a purpose, instead of spending all our effort, time and money finding sex because it is the one thing that's been denied to us."

Hay's contribution to the American political landscape can be traced to his involvement in the Communist Party and the labor movement in the 1930s.

He was an actor living in Los Angeles in 1934 when he first became active in left-wing politics. Hay quickly realized he needed to do similar organizing in the gay community.

Hay and his partner of 39 years, John Burnside, moved to San Francisco three years ago after a lifetime in Los Angeles. Hay was diagnosed several weeks ago with lung cancer and died peacefully in his sleep at his San Francisco home early Thursday morning, family members said in a statement.

"Harry Hay's determined, visionary activism significantly lifted gays out of oppression," said Stuart Timmons, who published a biography of Hay in 1990. "All gay people continue to benefit from his fierce affirmation of gays as a people."

Hay formed the Mattachine Society in 1949. Based in Los Angeles, it was the first sustained homosexual rights organization in the United States.

But at the height of the investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Mattachine members feared investigation. They decided to make the group public and purge it of any Communist influence, including Hay.

Hay was called before the committee in 1955, but refused to testify. The committee considered him insignificant and he was dismissed.

Throughout the 1960s, Mattachine grew and Hay was a step ahead when patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in 1969 in an incident considered the birth of the modern gay rights movement.

"The importance of Stonewall is that it changed the pronoun from 'I' to 'We,'" Hay told The AP. "When I told them at Stonewall that I had been thrown out of the Mattachine Society because I insisted that we were a cultural minority and not individuals, they couldn't believe that. By the time of Stonewall they thought we had always been a cultural minority."

Hay is survived by Burnside and his adopted daughters, Kate Berman and Hannah Muldaven.

Harry Hay

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Chats Britanniques

Un tueur de chats en série soupçonné d'avoir fait au moins 10 victimes à Birmingham, dans les Midlands (centre de l'Angleterre), est activement recherché par les autorités locales.
Photo by Johnny Eggitt.

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The Chickenhawk Database

Draft Dodging Conservatives

Congressional Members with Military Service


Mark Twain - The War Prayer

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Daily, hour-by-hour listings

Internet Radio/TV For Progressives

World Media Watch, updated M-W-F

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