Telethon Tonight
``America: A Tribute to Heroes''
Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow and Paul Simon are
among the artists participating in America: A Tribute to Heroes, a two-hour,
commercial-free TV special to be broadcast live Friday night at
In addition to live music, America: A Tribute to Heroes will feature words of
inspiration from such Hollywood icons as George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jim
Carrey, Cameron Diaz and Robin Williams. Other musicians taking part in the
event include Neil Young , the Dixie Chicks , Billy Joel , Faith Hill , Tom
Petty and Will Smith .
The show will be broadcast live in the Eastern and Central time zones and run on
tape delay in the Mountain and Pacific time zones. It will also be streamed on
various Web sites.
See abc.com, cbs.com,
faux.com, nbci.com, aol.com,
or yahoo.com for further information.
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Also scheduled to appear are: U2, Sting, Limp Bizkit, Celine Dion, Wyclef Jean,
Willie Nelson, Jane Kaczmarek, Enrique Iglesias and Jimmy Smits have just been
added to the high-powered roster, which already included Bon Jovi, Amy Brenneman,
Jim Carrey, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Robert De Niro,
Clint Eastwood, Calista Flockhart, Dennis Franz, Kelsey
Grammer, Tom Hanks, Faith Hill, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Conan O'Brien, Tom
Petty, Ray Romano, Julia Roberts, Sela Ward, Robin Williams, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young.
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Jack Nicholson is ready to take your call.
So are Adam Sandler, Meg Ryan, Brad Pitt and Goldie Hawn, not to mention Danny
DeVito, Cindy Crawford and Al Pacino.
Other stars planning to answer phones during the two-hour simulcast include:
John Cusack, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock and Sylvester Stallone.
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The Canadian Perspective
Celine Dion to sing God Bless America on U.S. telethon for terrorism victims
CTV, Global and other TV and radio services in Canada plan to carry Friday
night's American celebrity benefit for victims of last week's terrorist attacks.
All were asked to dress casual and not to bring along their makeup artists or
hairdressers. There will be no live audience.
Star, the showbiz specialty channel, will also carry the star-studded special,
as well as a pre-show special from E, the American entertainment channel. CTV's
Talktv channel will not only carry the benefit but also a four-hour pre-show of
its own entitled A National Conversation, which will include political, show
business and charity representatives.
Some confusion remains about which 1-800 number will be used. Canadian
television simulcasts will have a separate number superimposed onscreen for
donations in this country. Global TV says money raised will go to the United
Way 911 Emergency Fund. Proceeds from the U.S. telecast will go to United Way's
September 11 Fund.
It will be seen on MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, MuchUSA, Star, CP24, Canadian
Learning Television, CourtTV Canada, APTN, and a network of radio stations.
There will also be a Webcast on muchmusic.com.
Celine
As wonderful as all this is, I gotta ask why is a Canadian citizen,
singing 'God Bless America'?
Big Brother 2 Wraps
Will Wins
Winner Will and runner-up Nicole smile after the conclusion of CBS' "Big
Brother 2" on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001, in Los Angeles. Will, a physician from
Miami, won $500,000 and Nicole, a personal chef from Atlanta, won $50,000. From
the seven returning houseguests who handed down the verdict, Will got five
votes.
Photo by CBS, Tony Esparza (AP)
Will & Nicole
Reader Music Review
"Head Hunter" By Herbie Hancock
Nancy Maynard
I ordered Herbie Hancock's Headhunters before 9/11/2001 - I remembered it from
College days and I thought, wow they have it on CD, so I ordered and it came
this week.
This week I brought this album into work, with its insanely happy funk and humor
I was reluctant to play it this week, but hell, I needed insanely happy funk and
humor, okay? - and I must tell you everyone - from the indie music freak to the
classical music deva in the office asked me, "what is that?" I think some
remembered "Watermelon Man" and they were really attracted to this album. I
didn't realize how really insanely happy this album was until I listened to it
this week.
I had been listening to an album my brother was given of the Air Force Singing
Sergeants called "America" and I'll tell you right now that the military has a
very high standard for the orchestras and choruses they have. That's one of the
great benefits of living in the D.C. area - we have these wonderful free
concerts from the armed forces. This album brought tears to my eyes many times
over the last week and a half. I don't think its available for public
consumption - I'm just trying to tell you where I come from here.
But I was so glad to listen to "Head Hunters" - I think everyone should have an
insanely happy experimental funk album and I recommend this one - a geniune
classic for we of the 40+, to young and old.
~~ Nancy (near the Pentagon)
Fun Link
Oh, Go Ahead!
BC 'Sanitized'
In The News
Bill & Cherie
Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair talks with former U.S.
President Bill Clinton at a memorial to fallen fire fighters lost in the World
Trade Center attack September 20, 2001 outside the Engine company 8, Ladder 2
station in New York. Blair met relatives of the ten men lost from the station.
REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Bill & Cherie
New! Updated!
BartCop Astrology
Check it out at BC Astrology.
"Guitar Greats" has been set aside for now, and replaced with an astrological look at the
WTC Tragedy using various, relevant horoscopes, including charts for Manhattan and the US.
Very interesting reading!
Film Gossip
Coppola, Keitel & Sheen
Until now, Francis Ford Coppola has never spoken about why he fired actor Harvey
Keitel from his legendary "Apocalypse Now." But with the re-edited epic doing
good business again, Coppola opened up to Webster Hall art curator Baird Jones
the other night.
"It was only two weeks into the movie, but I knew it was going
to be a long, long process," he said. "Harvey wasn't complaining, but you could
just tell that he was a completely city person. The jungle was already really
bothering him. And he was too active for what was a passive role."
So Keitel was fired and replaced by Martin Sheen, of current "West Wing" fame.
Apocalypse Now
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 (like 'Dump Cake' & Peach Cobbler),
In The Kitchen With BartCop
Music News
Dr. Dre's Donation
Dr. Dre is shown in this Aug. 3, 1995, file photo in New York. Dre contributed
$1 million on Sept. 17, 2001, to Los Angeles radio station KPWR-FM's
fund-raising campaign for the victims of last week's terrorist attacks. The
station is hoping to raise $1.6 million for the American Red Cross.
Photo by Mark Lennihan, File (AP)
Dr. Dre
As we say here in Long Beach, 'Westside is the best side'.
TV News
'The West Wing' Update
The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has asked that NBC postpone his show's season
premiere, which is still scheduled for next Wednesday, according to the Los
Angeles Times. Network sources told the paper that the request did not have to
do with any specific content in the episode, but Sorkin just had a general
concern with how viewers will respond to the Oval Office drama given its
political tone. The networks have already postponed their fall season premieres,
but no word on whether the Peacock is willing to delay it any further.
NBC Update
In The News
Bill & Cherie #2
Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is comforted by former
U.S. president Bill Clinton at a memorial to fallen fire fighters lost in the
World Trade Center attack. (Reuters)
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BartCop TV Is Here!
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The 'Vidiot', has updated, again!
There is even more to check!
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The Vidiot has been updating nearly daily!
Read all the latest.
TV News
'Friends'Update
After last week's devastating terrorist attacks, it's not just CIA shows that
are getting another look from producers and network execs.
Even NBC's hit comedy Friends is getting reworked following the tragedies,
according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Producers have reshot the third episode
of the season, which takes place entirely in an airport and features Monica
(Courteney Cox Arquette) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) arriving several hours
before their honeymoon flight.
"A lot of it had to do with how ridiculous it was for crazy, obsessive Monica to
want to get there three hours in advance," Friends executive producer David
Crane tells the Inquirer. "Two weeks ago, that would have been ridiculous. It's
not ridiculous now. Everybody's doing it now. A lot of the comedy in it didn't
feel funny, so we reshot the story line."
The episode is still scheduled to air October 11. But it's an odd moment for
Friends--a happy-go-lucky series usually only offensive for its portrayal of
New York as a city where young people can find or afford a 3,000-square-foot
apartment.
'Friends' Update
Film News
'Citizen Kane' On DVD
In what is expected to be one of the most extravagant publicity events of the
home video industry, Warner Home Video and the American Film Institute will
celebrate the remastered DVD debut of Orson Welles' classic "Citizen Kane" by
re-creating the film's original West Coast premiere tonight at the El Capitan
Theatre in Hollywood, just as it took place May 9, 1941.
Look-alikes of such past stars as Bette Davis, James Stewart and Mae West are
expected to join present-day real celebrities Robert Wise (the Oscar-winning
director who edited "Citizen Kane"), Peter Bogdanovich (a Welles biographer),
Elliott Gould, Dennis Hopper, Stacy Keach, John Landis, Jack Klugman, Donna
Mills and Alan Thicke, among others.
The stars will arrive in antique cars at the theater along Hollywood Boulevard
and walk the red carpet under a replica of the original "Citizen Kane" marquee.
After remaining out of circulation for many years, "Citizen Kane" was selected
by a panel of film critics in the early 1960s as the greatest film of all time.
It also topped the AFI's 1998 list of the greatest American films.
The "Kane" double-disc DVD has a suggested retail price of $29.99, and the VHS
will sell for $19.98.
Citizen Kane
Music News
Beatles Letter Auctioned
Beatles memorabilia, including a letter from George Harrison to the ``fifth
Beatle,'' won the highest bids at a rock auction Thursday, but the Sex Pistols
nearly stole the show.
The Hard Rock Cafe restaurant chain paid $11,926 for a three-page letter from
Harrison to Stuart Sutcliffe, who played bass during the band's formative years
and has been called the fifth Beatle.
The 1960 letter urged Sutcliffe, who was living in Hamburg, Germany, to return
to Liverpool for a series of performances.
``If we get a new bass player for the time being, it will be crumby as he will
have to learn everything and it's no good Paul (McCartney) playing bass, we've
decided,'' it reads.
Sutcliffe quit the band the next year and died of a brain hemorrhage in
April 1962.
Hard Rock also purchased unpublished photographs of the Beatles for $8,519. The
company said it planned to display them in two new Hard Rock hotels.
Also auctioned were hotel registration forms for the Beatles and manager Brian
Epstein from their stay at a hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. They sold for $14,481.
Beatles Letter
More Music News
Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky
The man who introduced the nation to The Twist now has meatier goals.
Chubby Checker brought his new brand of beef jerky to several grocery stores
Wednesday.
Fans had other things on the their minds, however. Checker spent most of his
visit signing autographs, posing for pictures and chatting with fans.
Checker debuted ``The Twist'' - his cover of the song by Hank Ballard and the
Midnighters - in August 1960. The following month, the song had topped the
charts, eventually selling more than a million copies.
His 1962 re-release of ``The Twist'' became the only single to hit No. 1 on U.S.
charts on two separate occasions. He hit the Top 40 again with a rap version
of ``The Twist'' in 1988.
Chubby Checker
Film News
Remaking 'The Bellboy'
Actor-turned-helmer Keenen Ivory Wayans is in negotiations to direct MGM's
remake of the 1960s comedy feature "The Bellboy," with Jackie Chan attached to
star.
The original "Bellboy" stars Jerry Lewis as a bellboy at the Fountainbleau in
Miami Beach, Fla. Lewis made his directorial debut on the film.
The Bellboy
Music News
Sex Pistols Collection Auctioned
British punk legend Johnny Rotten's famous ``Anarchy'' shirt sold at auction
for 4,000 pounds ($5,860) Thursday.
Rotten wore the stained and ripped shirt bearing the slogans ``No Future''
and ``Antichrist, anarchy'' on stage during the Sex Pistols' infamous 1970s shows.
It was sold to an unnamed telephone bidder at a west London sale held to
celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ``Punk Special'' concerts that helped
launch the alternative music scene.
A concert poster for a gig at London's 100 Club on August 10, 1976 made 3,055,
more than twice the pre-sale estimate.
An unnamed punk fan from central England paid 2,280 for a copy of the Sex
Pistols' controversial republican song ``God Save the Queen.''
The fan described his purchase as ``the Holy Grail of all punk singles.''
Sex Pistols
In The News
'Good News' From Napoli (?)
Thousands of Neapolitans crammed into the city's cathedral Wednesday to witness
the liquefaction of their patron saint's blood -- a good omen for Naples and the
world, according to the faithful.
After an hour of prayer, Archbishop Michele Giordano held aloft the silver and
glass vial purported to contain the dried blood of Saint Gennaro and thousands
craned their necks to see if the blood had indeed liquefied.
The substance usually turns to liquid twice a year -- on September 19, the
saint's feast day, and on the first Saturday in May. In the past, disaster has
struck when the blood has remained dry.
Some Neapolitans, traditionally very superstitious, fear disaster may strike the
city if the blood of the fourth-century martyr does not turn to liquid.
Disaster has struck at least five times after the blood failed to liquefy,
including in November 1980 when some 3,000 people died in a massive earthquake
that struck southern Italy.
Scientists have confirmed the substance inside the closed vial is blood but
cannot explain why it turns to liquid.
St. Gennaro
First Person Diary
Ray Berry
Ray has (temporarily, I hope) suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put
his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.
Ray has great observational abilities, a way with words, and has still been able
to keep his sense of humor.
To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com
Radio News
Liberal Talk Radio
The military might of the United States is on the move--what kind of new
challenges will be faced in the new war on terrorism?
Do you feel safe at home? And what civil liberties are you willing to sacrifice
in the legal combat against the terrorists?
Please join Erin Hart on www.710kiro.com and
710-KIRO in Seattle this weekend, Saturday & Sunday (September 22nd and 23rd) from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.(pdt).
Today's Vulgar Story
A Real Woody?
Beauty is not the only thing that's in the eye of the beholder, Thurston County
Sheriff's deputies are discovering.
What's considered funny and in good taste also can vary by individuals, a
reality that has landed law officials in the middle of such a disagreement.
Regardless of differing opinions, deputies say there's nothing they can do about
a 7-foot penis carved out of a tree stump in the driveway of a house on Union
Mills Road.
The fact that two American flags are waving from the top of the sculpture
doesn't change that, officials say. Freedom of expression is protected by the
U.S. Constitution.
"We've received calls about it over the last couple of months," sheriff's
Capt. Dan Kimball said.
"I sent one of the lieutenants out there, but he said he didn't know what we
could do about it. And neither do I," Kimball said. "We don't have a county
ordinance that I know of that says you can't carve your tree into a penis."
The flags are meant to be supportive of the United States, said Jean
Paul "J.P." Parshall, who carved the tree stump during a week this summer.
"The landlord wanted to take the tree down. I was sitting there one day and
thinking, 'I know what I can make out of that.' I told him to leave a 7- or 8-foot
section," said Parshall, 25, a builder at J&M Steel.
One morning recently he found an older couple in the yard saluting the statue,
he claimed.
"I get all kinds of amusement out of that thing," he said.
"People who don't have a sense of humor, I feel sorry for them," he said.
When the rain returns, he plans to put a large condom on the sculpture and
promote safe sex, Parshall said.
Later, he plans to move it to his porch and hang Christmas lights on it, he said.
In a similar situation last year, Pierce County officials discovered they could
do nothing when a south county resident displayed lighted cutouts of reindeer
mating in his front yard.
A Constitutional Matter?
In Memory
Fred De Cordova
Pallbearers carry the casket of former "Tonight Show" executive producer Fred De
Cordova out of the chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery following funeral services in
Culver City, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001.
From left are comedian Don Rickles, unidentified, former "Tonight Show" producer
Peter Lassally, actor/comedian Bob Newhart, former KNBC general manager John
McMahon, and actor/comedian Garry Shandling.
Photo by Reed Saxon (AP)
Fred De Cordova
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
