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MTV Video Music Awards
Some Views & Some News
Macy Gray As A Billboard
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'N Sync With Michael Jackson
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Fatboy Slim, Spike Jonze & Christopher Walken
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Mudvayne
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Britney & Pal
For 2 excellent reviews, go to Review #1 and
Review #2.
Here's a list of all the 'winners'.
VIDEO OF THE YEAR:
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
MALE VIDEO:
Moby (w/Gwen Stefani), "South Side"
FEMALE VIDEO:
Eve (w/Gwen Stefani), "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
GROUP VIDEO:
'N Sync, "Pop"
NEW ARTIST:
Alicia Keys, "Fallin'"
POP VIDEO:
'N Sync, "Pop"
HIP-HOP VIDEO:
Outkast, "Ms. Jackson"
DANCE VIDEO:
'N Sync, "Pop"
R&B VIDEO:
Destiny's Child, "Survivor"
RAP VIDEO:
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"
ROCK VIDEO:
Limp Bizkit, "Rollin'"
VIEWERS' CHOICE:
'N Sync, "Pop"
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
VIDEO FROM A FILM:
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
DIRECTION:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
SPECIAL EFFECTS:
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ"
ART DIRECTION:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
EDITING:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
VIDEO VANGUARD:
U2
MTV2 AWARD WINNER:
Mudvayne, "Dig"
Entertainment News
Alex's Entertainment Report
Alex
Former "Sopranos" star Vincent (Big Pussy) Pastore was detained by U.S. Customs on Sunday when officials in
Minnesota found a $400 box of Cuban cigars in his luggage. Pastore and a friend, actor Paul Borghese,
had been in Canada scouting locations. According to Borghese, Pastore believed he was singled out
"because he looked the part." Borghese complains, "They wrote him up and detained him for 45 minutes.
Vinnie felt he was being discriminated against." Borghese adds that, after officials confiscated the cigars,
they asked Pastore for his autograph. He says, "They had the nerve to ask him for his autograph. He
signed, 'Dear customs officer, thanks for breaking my f*cking balls.'"
`````
Daryl Hannah has been injured in a horse-riding accident. The actress, 40, fell off and fractured a vertebra
as she tried to jump a fallen tree.
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Former Baywatch babe Gena Lee Nolin has finally agreed to get naked in Playboy magazine. The busty
blonde, about to reprise her role in a Baywatch movie, turned down the glossy publication six times, before
eventually succumbing. The married mother-of-one will grace 14 pages on the December edition.
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Sexy star Jennifer Love Hewitt has been caught out by internet pranksters who spotted her appearing in a
jeans commercial in Japan. The gorgeous Love stars in the ad for Levi's jeans in the Far East - a
commercial that is not meant to be shown in America. In the ad, the 22-year-old actress shocks
passers-by and turns heads as she struts sexily along a street wearing a pair of breath-takingly tight
jeans, before locking into a steamy embrace with a mystery man.
Note from Alex: if anyone knows the address of a site that has the clip, feel free to email it to me!
~Alex
Last week, Angelfire wiped out Alex's site.
Go see how much he's been able to reconstruct.
Alex's Site
TV News
Dennis Miller & Monday Night Football
``MNF'' wound up with its worst average Nielsen rating ever in 2000, a 12.7. But
Dennis Miller, the comedian who moonlights as a color commentator for ``MNF,''
said Wednesday the rating should have fallen even further because ``we had four
games compromised last season'' by running on audience-challenged nights.
``One of the things I learned is to be constantly aware during the broadcast of
where we are in the game,'' Miller said. ``When a close game is on the five-yard
line, I don't want to be whipping out a profile of one of the players.''
For the new season, Miller said his watchword will be: ``Less is more.'' Then he
added, ``I survived the first year by doing the rope-a-dope and taking body
blows from the media, which find it much easier to write stories about somebody
not doing so well.
``This season I'll be more demure. I call it the bonsai school of
broadcasting -- I'm pruning back a little.''
To read the rest, MNFMF
Movie News
Mark Wahlberg & Airbrushing
Jeannette Wall of MSNBC.com is reporting " Mark Wahlberg shows a lot of flesh
in "Rock Star," but there's one thing of his that the audience won't see.
The actor and former rapper has a third nipple a few inches beneath his left
one. It's visible in some scenes in his film, "Boogie Nights," but a source says
that Warner Bros. honchos decided that it would be "too distracting" in "Rock
Star," his new film, which opens Friday.
"There was a big debate over whether or not to remove it," says a source. "They
decided it was just too weird, so it was digitally removed. How many rock stars
do you know with three nipples?" The offending nipple was also airbrushed out of
the ads that Wahlberg once did for Calvin Klein.
For the details, 3rd Nipple
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Don't worry about the HTML, just send text, or rich text, or a Word document, photos, video, whatever you have, and Michele will take care of the rest. Don't hesitate to write with any questions you may have and bring on the recipes!
To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more, In The Kitchen With BartCop
TV News
Reality Ratings - Not Real Good
TV viewers were offered an exotic trip around the world Wednesday night: CBS
hosted a harrowing bungee jump in Africa. NBC airdropped a bunch of blindfolded
people into the middle of nowhere. And ABC gave us, um, a spaceship ride to
Fresno with Anne Heche.
But only Heche and Barbara Walters came away as the big ratings winners, as CBS
and NBC's much-hyped reality battle between The Amazing Race and Lost ended in a
dead heat.
NBC's Lost battle with CBS was much bloodier. The Survivor network's latest
adventure, The Amazing Race, sent 11 teams on a journey around the world in a
quest for $1 million. It was the more critically acclaimed of the two shows,
featuring breathtaking scenery alongside bickering couples, a well-dressed pair
of gay partners and two bald New Yawk frat boys. (Key quote of the night:
"Swing, you fat bastard!")
But no matter how "Amazing," the 9 p.m. series couldn't do much damage to a new
episode of NBC's summer hit Fear Factor. Both shows averaged about 11.8 million
viewers apiece, according to preliminary numbers.
An hour earlier, NBC's new series Lost, which drops teams into the middle of
nowhere as they try to make their way back to the Statue of Liberty, scored 9.3
million viewers. Lost snagged a demographic victory among adults 18-34, but
overall, the series couldn't top a special Wednesday 8 p.m. edition of CBS'
surprise late-summer comeback hit Big Brother 2, which averaged 10.8 million
viewers.
For the rest, Reality Ratings
BartCop TV Is Here!
Visit the site at BC TV
The 'Vidiot', has updated, again!
There is even more to check!
The Vidiot.
You'll find an amazing amount of information, on an amazing variety of TV shows,
thanks to our Vidiot.
Cartoon News
Gary Trudeau & 'Doonesbury'
``Doonesbury'' creator Garry Trudeau has apologized - sort of - for a Sunday
strip that cited an Internet hoax that said George W. Bush had the lowest IQ of
any president in the last 50 years.
The strip depicted a purported conversation between an unseen Bush and an
adviser in the White House. It cited a purported ranking of presidential IQs
based on public statements and writings.
In the ``study,'' Bush was said to have an IQ half that of Bill Clinton and a
little more than half the average presidential vocabulary.
The ``Doonesbury'' Website acknowledged that the ranking was an Internet hoax
and said that citing it was ``a regrettable error, although perhaps inevitable,
given that this feature uses the same fact-checking house as `Saturday Night
Live' and The Drudge Report.''
``Trudeau takes full responsibility, acknowledging the use of fictional material
from an outside source instead of simply making it up as he usually does,'' the
site says. ``The creator deeply apologizes for unsettling anyone who was under
the impression that the president is, in fact, quite intelligent.''
To read the whole article, Doonesbury
Music News
Picking On Madonna
PageSix.com is reporting " Months of grueling touring and reported marital
troubles with Guy Ritchie have turned Madonna into an ill-tempered terror. The
Material Mommy has allegedly become so mean and nasty on her "Drowned World"
tour, her touring troupe have tagged her with an appropriately cruel nickname.
"They're calling her Andrea, as in Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who drowned her
children," a Madonna mole tells the Las Vegas Tribune-Review. "Even when she's
around, they use the name because she doesn't have any idea."
The loose-lipped source further reports that Madonna's backstage contract rider
calls for two bottles of Absolut vodka - not for boozing, but to remove
unsightly sweat stains from the superstar's Jean-Paul Gaultier duds.
To read it all for yourself, Madonna
Check it out at BC Astrology.
Have you ever checked out Eric Clapton or Chet Atkins' horoscope?
Pretty cool stuff!
Music News
Rock Stars Oppose Bush's Energy Plan
David Crosby, the mustachioed, silver-haired third of Crosby, by Stills & Nash,
claims not to think when he plays. "Gets in the way," he said.
So on a cool night at the PNC Bank Arts Center here recently, he said he was on
autopilot of sorts, tapping into something visceral, when he stepped up to the
microphone after the trio's third song, "Déjà Vu," and urged audience members to
sign a petition at intermission against the Bush administration's energy policy.
"You'll find that most of us, most musicians, are very vocally opposed to not
just what's laughably called an energy policy," Mr. Crosby said later, "but to
this administration's complete disregard for the planet."
Riled by an energy plan they call a sop to business and a grave threat to the
environment, Crosby, Stills & Nash and about a dozen other popular bands joined
together over the summer to stir their fans to action, as Congress prepares to
consider significant energy legislation this autumn.
Part of an effort, organized by the drummer Michael Diamond, or Mike D., the
founder of the Beastie Boys, with the help of several major environmental
groups, performers as disparate in style and following as Jackson Browne, Moby,
Matchbox 20 and the Barenaked Ladies have permitted volunteers to canvass their
concerts for signatures against the energy plan. Most, like Mr. Crosby, have
urged fans to sign petitions at the stadiums or online.
There's more to read - Rock & Roll
Democratic Fundraiser
Footloose In Seattle?
Erin Hart
Join Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana at the Eastside Democrats
Dinner and Fundraiser September 9, 2001 at the Bellevue Hyatt. Special
guests include Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
Erin Hart of 710 KIRO is the Emcee.
For more information, visit Erin's site (Erin Hart),
and say 'hi' to Brian, the webmaster.
(Or, Erin Hart for Netscape Users)
Erin Hart is regularly scheduled Saturday & Sunday evenings, 9pm - 1am (pdt),
on KIRO, in Seattle (but, with Mariners games, she may be pre-empted). The
audio streams, the chatroom is interesting, and the topics run from liberal
to progressive.
Besides, I know Erin. A long, long time ago, she set me up on
a date with a Reagan speech writer, and I still speak to her!
LOL -- remember that one? *!*
Then there was the Hollywood record producer...
...heh heh heh...
~~Marty
In Memory
Heywood Hale Broun
Heywood Hale ``Woody'' Broun, a television commentator and sports correspondent,
has died. He was 83.
Broun was a CBS sports correspondent for 19 years and was the son of newspaper
columnist Heywood Broun.
Broun's father, a columnist in the 1920s and 1930s, founded The Newspaper Guild.
The guild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America, has sponsored
the annual Heywood Broun Award for distinguished journalism in his name since 1941.
For more details, Heywood Hale Broun
In Memory
Justin Wilson
Justin Wilson, the Cajun humorist and chef whose distinctive accent delighted
viewers of his ``Cookin' Cajun'' television show, has died. He was 87.
He referred to himself as JOOS-tain and became known for the expression: ``I
ga-ron-tee!'' (guarantee), from the Cajun ``J'vous garantis.''
Originally a safety engineer, he was inspired to pursue a career in public
speaking after he met Will Rogers in the 1930s.
``He told me always to tell 'em clean, and always tell your audience something
serious - or they'll think you're a complete fool,'' he recalled.
To read more, Justin Wilson
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
