'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Windy, clear & cold.
So, a few days back, was having problems with yahoo - and I think that's been resolved.
Today, it's ao-hell. Keep getting really crappy connection rates, followed by being knocked offline in minutes.
Maybe the modem is getting ready to take the big sleep.
Bottom line, I'm a bit past annoyed at the moment, and my jaw aches from clenching my teeth.
The page is a bit thin, so I'm padding with origami links. Why? Well, why not.
Tonight, Friday, CBS begins the evening with a FRESH 'Joan Of Arcadia', followed by a FRESH
'JAG', then a FRESH 'The Handler'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Kirsten Dunst, Paula Poundstone, and Alkaline Trio.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Scarlett Johansson and Story of the Year.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Miss Match', then a FRESH
'Third Watch'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Jennifer Connelly, and Ruben Studdard.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Matt Damon, Kevin Pollack, and Randy Newman.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Tracy Morgan, BRMC, and Chicago.
ABC opens the night 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 Dennis Haysbert, Eva Mendes, and Jack Johnson with G-Love, with this week's guest co-host Method Man.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then a RERUN 'Grounded For Life', followed by a
RERUN 'Like Family'.
Faux has a 'special' - 'TVs Naughtiest Blunders From Around The World 2', followed by a FRESH 'Boston Pubic'.
UPN has the movie 'Dr. No'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Holiday At Pops!', and 'Poirot'.
AMC offers the movie 'Von Ryan's Express', followed by the movie 'Airport 77', then the movie 'The Funhouse'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Smith;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Honeybourne;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms';
[8pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Hotel Inspectors;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[9:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[10pm] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Bo Derek;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Rachel Griffiths;
[12am] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Ep. 4 Hotel Inspectors;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[2am] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Hotel Inspectors;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 3; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', 'Celebrity Poker', another 'Celebrity Poker', and 'West Wing'.
History has 'Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked', 'Dead Men's Secrets', 'History Undercover', and 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', another 'Stargate SG-1', then 'UFO Invasion At Rendlesham'.
TCM features 3 from John Ford this afternoon, starting with the film that 'made'
John Wayne, 'Stagecoach', then 2/3s of Ford's unofficial Cavalry trilogy ('Rio Grande' is the missing movie). The last 2 films of the night make
powerful anti-nazi statements.
[6am] 'The Oklahoma Kid' (1939);
[7:30am] 'Colorado Territory' (1949);
[9:15am] 'The Gunfight At Dodge City' (1959);
[11am] 'Duel In The Sun' (1946);
[1:30pm] 'Stagecoach' (1939);
[3:30pm] 'Fort Apache' (1948);
[6pm] 'She Wore A Yellow Ribbon' (1949);
[8pm] 'Summer Stock' (1950);
[10pm] 'Kissin' Cousins' (1964);
[12am] 'The Roaring Twenties' (1939);
[2am] 'The Sorrow and the Pity' (Part 2) (1971) [AKA: Le Chagrin et la pitié] ;
[4:15am] 'The Cross Of Lorraine' (1944). (ALL TIMES EST)
Former President Bill Clinton, right, speaks to Jazz musician and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis at a panel on 'Jazz and Democracy' held at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003
Photo by David Karp
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Cut From Final 'Rings' Movie
Saruman
In "The Fellowship of the Ring," Christopher Lee appeared as the traitorous elder wizard Saruman, whose snowy white beard and robe hid his black-hearted intentions for Middle-earth.
In "The Two Towers," Saruman watched his power fade as enormous walking trees laid waste to his army of ugly orcs and trapped him in his stone skyscraper.
The final installment, "The Return of the King," reveals that Saruman is ... well, where is he? Certainly not in the movie.
All of the 81-year-old Lee's closing scenes were cut from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, a move that has angered thousands of hard-core fans and may confuse the casual moviegoer who wonders why one of the story's main villains has simply disappeared.
In the books by J.R.R. Tolkien, Saruman escapes his tower and overtakes the Shire, a peaceful Hobbit homestead. His death comes at the end of the books when Frodo and company try to eject him from their village.
That particular subplot was never filmed by Jackson. Instead, he shot an alternate climax for the wicked wizard character that he intended to place at the end of "The Two Towers."
But that didn't work out either.
For the rest, Saruman
www.christopherleeweb.com
Finds Home For 'Alien' Egg
Sigourney Weaver
The egg that spawned the freaky facehugger creatures in the 1986 sci-fi movie Alien has a new home - in one of the premier U.S. museums.
Sigourney Weaver, who starred in the movie, presented the 45-kilogram silvery-greyish egg to the National Museum of American History on Wednesday, along with an original script and several still photos from the movie. "It's a great honour for our movie," Weaver said.
The one-metre-tall egg doesn't look nearly as frightening as it does on the big screen. It will eventually be displayed with other movie memorabilia such as the ruby red slippers Dorothy wore in the Wizard of Oz and Harrison Ford's jacket and hat from Indiana Jones.
Sigourney Weaver
Catherine Zeta-Jones (L) answers a question during a news conference prior to tonight's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo on December 11, 2003, while her husband Michael Douglas (C) and singer Robert Plant look on. Douglas and Zeta-Jones are star hosts of the Nobel concert.
Photo by Michael Leckel
Being Sued by Snoop Dogg's Mom
Marion 'Suge' Knight
Snoop Dogg's mother and rapper Daz Dillinger's wife have sued Marion "Suge" Knight for allegedly slandering them in a song he produced.
Beverly Green and Maria Watkins filed the lawsuit against the rap mogul Tuesday in Superior Court.
They claim the song "Tha Row," from the movie soundtrack for "Dysfunktional Family," contains graphic lyrics saying Knight was sleeping with Watkins, the wife of rapper Delmar "Daz" Dillinger Arnaud.
The lyrics said Knight fathered her unborn child, a claim which resulted in Arnaud divorcing his wife and insisting on a paternity test, according to the lawsuit.
The song also states that Knight was sleeping with Green, a Baptist minister who's Snoop Dogg's mother and Arnaud's aunt.
Marion 'Suge' Knight
No Money But Plenty Of Star Quality
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich is running his presidential campaign on a shoestring budget compared to other contenders, but he does have a galaxy of endorsements from the intellectual 'literati' and Hollywood 'glitterati."
Next week, for example, Kucinich has a rally in San Francisco with Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker, author of the novel "The Color Purple."
A few weeks later, country music legend Willie Nelson headlines a benefit concert in Austin, Texas, with proceeds going to the Kucinich campaign.
Rock musicians Ani DiFranco and Michelle Shocked have also announced they are backing Kucinich. "He's not a self-aggrandizing strategist or corporate whore," said DiFranco. "He's the real thing."
Getting a Hollywood star to make an appearance "takes the campaign to new audiences, new communities," said David Swanson, press secretary for Kucinich.
Swanson pointed to the example of African-American film star Danny Glover, who has campaigned tirelessly for Kucinich in California's black neighborhoods.
For more, Dennis Kucinich
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Honorary Oscar
Blake Edwards
Veteran US filmmaker Blake Edwards, famed for his "Pink Panther" movies, is to receive an honorary Oscar when cinema's top awards are handed out in February, organisers said.
Writer, producer and director Edwards, 81, has been tapped for the honour by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in recognition of half a century of extraordinary work in Hollywood's film business.
The citation on the Oscar, the first of Edwards' long career, will read: "In recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen."
Edwards has never won an Oscar and has been nominated only once in his long career, for "Victor/Victoria," which starred his wife of 34 years, British-born actress Julie Andrews.
The 76th annual Oscars ceremony will be held in Hollywood on February 29 next year.
Blake Edwards
Actress Jayne Meadows (L) and Mrs. Joanne Rogers, widow of the late children's television legend, Fred Rogers, pose at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Tribute to Fred Rodgers in Los Angeles December 9, 2003.
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Turns 85
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory birthday message Thursday to 85-year-old Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose accounts of Stalin's repression and the Gulag labour camp system riveted Russians and shocked the West.
Solzhenitsyn, who spent a decade in a labour camp and documented life in the camps in his Gulag Archipelago trilogy, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 and was expelled from the Soviet Union four years later, making his home in the United States.
Solzhenitsyn's role as a moral arbiter and a literary star have declined since he returned to Russia in 1994, taking a train across the country to Moscow and criticizing the corruption and poverty of post-Soviet Russia.
Solzhenitsyn made favourable statements about Putin early in his presidency, but lashed out at him in 2002 for failing to crack down on tycoons who snapped up state enterprises in the scandal-tainted privatizations of the 1990s.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NARAS Heroes Award
Hall & Oates
Daryl Hall and John Oates, Ruben Blades and Nile Rodgers have been deemed "heroes" by the Recording Academy for their musical contributions.
The artists, along with BMI President Frances Preston, songwriting team Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and rapper-producer Timbaland, were to be feted Thursday by the New York chapter of the Recording Academy at the eighth annual Heroes Awards.
The Recording Academy hands out the annual Grammy Awards. The Heroes Awards honor the achievements of "outstanding individuals whose creative talents and accomplishments cross all musical boundaries and who are integral to the vitality of the music community."
Hall & Oates
Moved for First Time Since 1945
'The Nightwatch'
Dutch painter Rembrandt's 17th century masterpiece "The Nightwatch" moved from the heart of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum for the first time since World War II Thursday to make way for major renovations to the building.
The museum's most famous painting, depicting Amsterdam's civic guard, was packed in wood paneling with a protective cover including sensors to monitor temperature, humidity and vibrations and moved from the main building to an adjoining wing. It can still be seen by the public.
Rembrandt van Rijn painted "The Nightwatch" in 1642. The 4.54 meter (14 ft 10.7 in) wide and 3.79 meter high oil painting weighs around 170 kg (374 lb).
The Rijksmuseum is undergoing its biggest overhaul since it was built in 1885. "The Nightwatch" has only left the museum in 1898 and in 1939.
'The Nightwatch'
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Lawyers Argue
Diana Ross
Attorneys for Diana Ross argued Thursday that a Superior Court judge should review a lower court's ruling that allows the pop diva's breath test results to be used in her upcoming drunken driving trial.
Superior Court Judge Jan Kearney heard oral arguments in a special pretrial action brought by Ross' lawyers, who are trying to head off a Tucson City Court trial scheduled for Jan. 14.
Attorneys for the pop singer want to have breath test results from her Dec. 30 arrest tossed out. A Tucson City Court magistrate has already ruled the results are admissible for the trial.
The test results showed Ross had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent. Arizona's legal limit is 0.08.
Stephen Paul Barnard, Ross' lawyer, told Kearney that the state's so-called implied consent law was misapplied by the officer who arrested Ross and that the case is of statewide importance.
For more details, Diana Ross
This is an undated handout photo of Chuck Bowden's prize-winning drawing, titled 'The Tactics of Tyrants are Always Transparent.' Bowden called it a tribute to those who lost their lives in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 and he acknowledged the piece was meant to place blame for the attacks squarely on the shoulders of resident Bush.
Photo by Chuck Bowden
Files Innocent Plea
George Clinton
Funk musician George Clinton filed an innocent plea to drug charges Thursday, according to court records.
Clinton's lawyer, Tim Jansen, filed the plea and the case was assigned to Circuit Judge Thomas Bateman. No trial date has been set.
Clinton, whose age is listed as 62 or 63, was arrested over the weekend and charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. He was released on $2,650 bail.
George Clinton
Hopes to Build Casino
Max Baer Jr
Max Baer Jr. has gone to court in an effort to build his proposed $54 million Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino in a shopping center he shares with The Glenbrook Co. and J.C. Penney.
Plans for the casino include a 200-foot flaming oil derrick, 30,000-square-foot casino with 800 slot machines and 16 game tables, a 240-room hotel and restaurants — all keying on "The Beverly Hillbillies" TV series, in which Baer starred as Jethro Bodine.
In a petition filed Monday in Carson City District Court, lawyers for Baer, 66, said he has a legal right to develop his property.
Standing in the way of Baer's plans are restrictions barring development of a theater, bowling alley, nightclub or other place of recreation or amusement at the mall.
Signed in 1993 among the three major property owners at the time — J.C. Penney Co., Glenbrook Corp. and Wal-Mart — the restrictions limit the mall's use to commercial purposes "normally found in a retail shopping center." Wal-Mart had sought the restrictions, and they remained in place after the company's departure in July 2002.
Max Baer Jr
www.jethroscasino.com
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Crows take flight back to their nests in Srinagar, December 11, 2003.
Photo by Danish Ismail
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