Bartcop Entertainment News - Friday, 17 August, 2001

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Friday

17 August, 2001

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Reader Music Review

John Villani of the 'Arizona Republic' titled his review of last night's Eric 
Clapton concert "Clapton Lost Power In More Ways Than One", and he didn't give 
this concert very high marks.  I have to disagree with him on a number of points.

Steve and I loved the concert.  Clapton did start the concert relatively low key 
sitting down and switching different acoustic guitars to suit the range of tunes 
he played - moving from folk/blues on nylon string acoustic guitar to a Les Paul 
type jazz guitar to a steel string acoustic guitar for several more very bluesy 
turnes and a mellow arrangement of If I Saw you in Heaven.  I thought the 
virtuousity was masterful and a welcome shift from what I considered a very noisy 
and heavy bass electric guitar opening act by Doyle Dramhall II and Smokestack 
(who the AZ Republic reviewer seemed to love - yuck).

After these first five or six acoustic guitar tunes sitting down, Clapton stood 
up and strapped on his plugged in electric Fender Stratocaster and intensified 
the music selections and arrangements.  Yes, the crowd loved the intensity which 
was accompanied by a masterful light show and very interesting visual backdrop. 
(I could spend some time talking about the visual effects of that backdrop - but 
will just say now that I loved it).

The rest of the solid two hour show was filled with a variety of musical numbers 
that spanned several generations of music and included songs from his time with 
earlier groups like Cream.  There was of course a heavy emphasis on blues of 
various styles including a wonderful rendition of Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Koochie 
Man" (this was one of the few instances where I agreed with Villani's review).

The audience was a mixture of many generations of people (just as the music 
spanned a number of generations of style).  This seemed to me to be a testament 
to Clapton's adaptibility, virtuousity, and longevity by changing with the times 
but always remaining one of the best, if not the best guitarist on the music 
scene in the last 30+ years. 

The encore numbers went from a rip-roaring performance by Billy Preston, to 
Clapton again sitting down to play some very beautiful acoustic jazz.  I was 
struck by the 40's feel of the jazz when he started in on a very cool rendition 
of Somewhere over the Rainbow.  While it seemed an unusual number, it was 
beautifully done and seemed a fitting conclusion to the show.

I could say more, but suffice to say I loved the show.

 ~~Lori

Halle Berry - Miss World?

Ririex writes:

Halle Berry was never Miss World…….

From TFTJ, the #1 Web site in the world covering beauty pageants


  Miss USA 1986.

    Winner Christy Fitcher — Texas
   	 First Runner Up - Halle Berry - Ohio
   	   2nd Runner Up - Georgia
  	   3rd Runner Up - Mississippi
           4th Runner Up - California

In those days the first runner was set to Miss World.

  Miss World 1986

    Winner- Giselle Jeanne Marie Laronde- Trinadad-Tabago
	First Runner Up - Denmark
   	  2nd Runner Up - Austria
 	  4th Runner Up - New Zealand
   	  5th Runner Up - Venezuela
   	  6th Runner Up - Halle Berry - Miss USA

Thanks, ririex!

Reader Comment

United We Stand  Divided We Fall

This morning I got to thinking and that usually gets me into trouble, thinking 
about 'Individuation', and how we strive to be different from the rest, to think 
different, to act different, to look different, after all we are different, 
aren't we? And to be a leader, now who wants to be a simple-minded follower, just 
another sheep in the flock?.

But in the aftermath of "self-will run riot", gives pause,~~have I painted myself 
into a corner, am I looking down my nose at others? What makes me think that I am 
so unique? There is nothing so 'belittling', as personality, nothing will 
diminish my soul in its strength than too much concentration on my own selfish 
personal affairs and just forgetting the welfare of others.~~~~

Nature will not tolerate for long, persistent self-perferment  to the detriment 
of others; for the very fabric and structure of the universe is cooperation, 
spiritual union; and the human being who seeks self-perferment unremittingly, 
without any surcrease, ends up in that far-distant country of the 'isolated',
the land of tired forgotten hopes, the land of spiritual decay; for Nature will 
have none of me for long, for I have set my puny undeveloped will against the 
mighty currents of the cosmos, and sooner or later will be washed up onto some 
sandbank of the river of life, and there decay.~~~~~

Nature will-not tolerate persistent and inverterate selfishness. But how noble it 
is, how grand it is, for men & women to feel our common kinship with each other, 
to feel love stirring in the heart, to sense the feeling of our common 
Brother/Sister-hood, and live to the benifit of all mankind.~~~~

Now these lofty thoughts can be translated into everyday life, how good it feels 
to lift a few beers with my peers, but how bad it feels to wake up with a hangover 
in a small dingy hotel room all alone.~~~~~ah shit!
 

				Regards
                                                    
					ShadowCatcher

From 'Bucky'

"The Taking of the Empire, One...."

    When we last met Shrubius, the emperor, he had managed a minor triumph, no 
thanks to himself.  

    Shrubius enjoyed the laurels tossed to him by his lapdog scribes.  The scribes 
went to the public forum each Sunday morning and said, "Our Fearless Leader, 
Shrubius, is not to be underestimated!"

    "It would be impossible," whispered the lackadaisical public, while worrying 
that their aqueducts were going dry, and their sundials ceased to work. 

    In the halls of the Senate and of the plebeian assembly, it seemed that 
Shrubius and his cohorts had won the day.

    Minions worked diligently to transfer gold from some people to others...it 
would be called "welfare," except the transfer was from the poor to the wealthy, 
and therefore it was called "justice."

    This is soon to end.....

    One Senator, a man of deep roots in a far northern province, and an ally of 
Shrubius, began to feel uneasy. 

    He met with the emperor's henchmen. They chastised him for his unease, and 
threatened to remove all the bread and circuses from his province.

    And the Senator, Jefordus, cried, "But what of your promises? What of all the 
things you said when trying to woo the people?" 

    At this, they laughed. Everyone knew the difference between a promise and a 
promise! It all depended on what you promised to whom! 

    Jefordus, despite his allegiances, and his roots, grew more concerned.

   And then Shrubius announced a plan...he would place a canopy over the entire 
empire, through which no catapulted missile could penetrate!

    It would take food from the mouths of babes, and medicines from the sick, but 
the empire would be safe from rogue catapults, and the projectiles thereof. 

    And in the pristine waters of the life-giving river, they would dump sewage. 
And in the pristine air above the empire, they would pump smoke. And in the 
pristine forests, they would fell trees. And the aqueducts would be full, and the 
sundials would run on time.

    Jefordus could take it nor more. 

    He went to Shrubius and yanked up his toga...a wedgie of epic proportions!

    And then he gave the Senate to the enemies of Shrubius...and the people 
cheered.

 The End.

Music News

A piece of the Jimi Hendrix experience was drawing brisk bidding on Thursday at 
eBay Inc.'s auction Web site, eBay, where one 
of the late rock legend's boyhood homes went on sale this week.

The top bid for the 900-square-foot, two-bedroom house on Thursday reached 
$26,100, which would be a steal in Seattle's red-hot real estate market, except 
that the buyer will have to move it to make way for condominiums, the eBay 
listing said.

The musician's father, Al Hendrix, bought the house in 1953, where Jimi was 10 
years old, and the future rock star lived there, along with his brother Leon, for 
a few years, the seller says, citing Al Hendrix's book, ``My Son Jimi,'' and a 
copy of the original deed.



Read the whole story at Hendrix Home.

BartCop TV Is Here!

Visit the site at BC TV

The 'Vidiot', has been hard at work, and has a lot to show for the effort!


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Check out all the pages.

VCR ALERT!

"Nightline" will air shocking, never-before-heard tapes of jazz great Louis 
Armstrong expressing his anger over racism - and much, much more - on tomorrow's 
show (11:35 p.m.). 

The tapes, uncovered by Chicago Tribune arts critic Howard Reich, are more of an 
audio diary Armstrong kept from the 1940s until his death in 1971. In the tapes, 
which include conversations with friends, Armstrong plays against his upbeat, 
smiling public image - revealing a man who felt angry over the way he was treated 
by the music and film industry. 

Dave Marash interviews Reich, George Avakian (Armstrong's former record producer), 
Michael Cogswell (director of the Armstrong archives) and Armstrong friend Selma 
Herlado. 

To read more, Louis Armstrong

NEW!

Check it out at BC Astrology.
Have you checked Ben Affleck's horoscope lately?

TV News

Executive Producer Al Jean told the Cinescape Web site that "The Simpsons," 
coming up on its 13th season, will definitely allow Homer and Bart to let their 
hair down. 

"In one episode, Jane Kaczmarek of 'Malcolm in the Middle' plays a judge who 
punishes Bart by shackling him to Homer," Jean said. 

"In another, Homer gets his jaw wired shut and it makes him into a really decent, 
wonderful human being. 

Then "there's a show where Homer gets addicted to medicinal marijuana, and one 
where Bart creates an Internet cartoon based on Homer, who becomes a laughingstock 
all over the world. 

"And we have a show where Marge finds out that the sugar producers are trying to 
illegally pump sugar into all the Springfield food, and it's like 'Erin 
Brockovich.'" 

Jean said Halloween will feature a special episode in which the Simpsons get a 
computer to run all of their home appliances. 

"The computer develops a crush on Marge and wants to kill Homer. In the same 
episode, there's a Harry Potter satire timed to the movie," he said. 

To read more, Simpson's

TV News

UPN's new "reality" series Manhunt is facing scathing new charges of manipulation-
-from one of the people who created it. 
    
Manhunt, which debuted August 3 on UPN, sent 13 contestants on a six-day journey 
through Kauai while being chased by paintball gun-wielding "hunters." But in a 
new round of claims unearthed by investigative reporter Peter Lance, co-executive 
producer Bob Jaffe says he quit the show after Paramount TV executives allegedly 
asked him to rig two challenges, change the rules and reshoot new scenes--complete 
with scripts--in a Los Angeles park. 

One former contestant also claims participants were told they wouldn't receive 
any cash prizes if they didn't play along and shoot the new scenes. 

Jaffe, a 20-year reality show veteran and former creator of American Gladiators, 
says he quit the show in March, after battling with executive producer Chris 
Crowe, Paramount TV chief Kerry McCluggage and UPN chief Dean Valentine over 
concerns that footage he shot in Kauai didn't have enough conflict. The reshoots 
allegedly went on without him, he says, and new scenes were filmed not in Hawaii, 
but in L.A.'s Griffith Park and outside an editing suite in North Hollywood. 

"They brought in palm trees to make it look like they were in the jungle," Jaffe 
tells E! Online. "My relationship ended in mid-March, and it had just reached a 
point where they wanted me to do a number of things I didn't want to do. They wanted 
to make it into a fictitious representation of what might have occurred." 

Paramount vehemently denied the charges in a statement Wednesday, saying "UPN and 
Paramount have not supported and would not support persons or practices designed 
to manipulate the outcome of the show." One Paramount Television source contends 
that Jaffe was actually fired, and that the claims were simply the byproduct of 
a disgruntled employee. 

To read the Ex-Producer's spin, 
Manhunt Producer's spin - It Was Rigged!.

To read the investigators report, with pictures, The StingRay
 
And, now that the fecal matter is dripping, here is UPN's most current response...
UPN Mulls Pulling 'Manhunt'

To find 'Pick A Winner', visit gwbush.com.
	Then, scroll down....
	     Past 
	'There Ought To Be Limits'...
             Past
	'Parody Radio Ads'...
To the black bar with 'See Bush Pick A Winner' in it...
	It gives an option for '  WindowsMedia  '  or  '  QuickTime  ' .

Make your choice, download & watch at your convenience...


For the Bremerton stuff....visit Robot Wisdom.com
	 
	Then scroll to the bottom of the link-list...(RWWL Archives)
		And start scrolling up, slowly.

	'Kabblah' should jump out of the left margin, and (spellcheck in blue 
			should be on the right---or beneath...).
		4 (four) links up from there is 
			" More evidence the Navy is jamming keyless remotes (Bremerton) "
	
	That's the link!  It will take you here...Bremerton Mystery, 
			the Bremerton Sun.

This is the article they published 13 April, 2001

BREMERTON 
Keyless mystery returns 
By Angela D. Smith Sun Staff 
 
The failure of keyless entry devices is more limited this time. 
Bremerton residents and businesses once again reported a mysterious failure of 
vehicles' keyless entry devices for several hours Thursday afternoon. 

The problem is similar to a more widespread phenomenon that occurred March 21-26. 
But this time only certain types of devices were affected, and the outages lasted 
just a few hours. 

In March, the keyless entry failures began at the same time the aircraft carrier 
USS Carl Vinson returned to Bremerton. Thursday, the outages began one day after 
the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. 

Navy officials again denied any relationship between the outage and any ships at 
PSNS, and had no further explanation for the occurrence. 

But in an interview two weeks ago, a government official familiar with a Federal 
Communications Commission probe into the outage said it was "very possible" that 
the problem could be related to military presence in the area. 

Margaret Mull of East Bremerton said when she tried to open her 1992 Buick Le 
Sabre shortly after noon Thursday, her remote device was not working. 

"Last time, I bought an extra remote for $80, and now neither of them are working," 
Mull said. "I'm lucky to have a key for mine." 

She said her remote began working again at about 3 p.m. 

While some auto dealers in Bremerton reported that they had no problems with the 
cars on the lots, others reported that certain vehicles were not responding or 
that there was a delay in response. 

Bill Shelby of Heartland Toyota said that when he went to check on new cars in 
the lot, the remotes would stop working for about 30 seconds, then work for 10 
seconds. He said no customers had called to complain. 

Mark George of West Hills Honda said one person had called to complain, and when 
he went to check cars on the lot, he found that although the remote entry devices 
for Honda Civics worked fine, none of the devices for the Honda Accords or 
Passports was operational. They began working again about 4:30 p.m., he said. 

An official from the Federal Communications Commission declined to comment on the 
matter until investigation of the March incident was complete. 

Published in The Sun: 04/13/2001 

 ~~M.

Ricky Thanks dubya

This morning, Jeannie Williams of USA Today reported "Rick Schroder says he and 
wife Andrea are "ecstatic" about the birth of their fourth child, an event shared 
with their other children.



The actor told TV critics this summer that he left NYPD Blue because of family 
and "time-management" issues. He declined at the time to reveal the fate of his 
character, detective Danny Sorensen, saying he didn't want to spoil Blue 
creator Steven Bochco's surprise. He says he's still waiting for the right project since leaving the show.



Schroder also is happy about President George W. Bush, for whom he campaigned. 
"I got to deposit a $600 refund check today from the IRS, and I told the cashier 
that's thanks to President Bush."



Read the whole story at RS Thanks dubya

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