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Day 2
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Last Night
Well, of course, the Super Bowl ruled...the pre-game festivites were so entertaining I hid in the kitchen and cleaned
the refrigerator. The insert of the 'Playboy Bunnies On 'Fear Factor' was off by a few minutes, but, near
enough to realize that NBC had a real, live human there to 'switch' the show! (Long time ago I was a
'switcher' [and, yes, I know the technical/union-approved term is 'technical director'], but in a
situation like this, one 'switches' - no directing is involved).
The kid used today to come down with a respectible cold. Poor little guy, he's not sleeping too well.
Sadly, no (major) broadcasting outfit saw fit to counter-program the Super Bowl, except for 20 minutes on NBC.
Effing pathetic. Why don't they just tell us they've already divvied up the audience, and it's quantity, not quality
that matters. Look what de-regulation has done in broadcasting....what were hundreds of owners are now pretty much
combined into less than dozens. Or more correctly, fewer than a dozen.
Tonight, Monday, this being the first Monday of February sweeps, most everything on the nets is fresh.
CBS has it's 2 hour block of sitcoms - 'King of Queens', 'Yes, Dear', 'Raymond', and 'Becker'. They
are followed by 'Family Law'.
NBC has 'Fear Factor' (with non-celebs), 'Third Watch', and 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC has 'Regis' (with non-celebs), and the icky Robin Williams movie, 'Patch Adams'.
The WB has '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.
Faux weighs in with 'Boston Public' and 'Ally McBeal'.
AMC has what is considered to be a 'cult-classic' with 'The Candidate', starring Robert Redford.
It made quite an impression on me when I was much younger.
TCM has 'Spartacus' (with the 'implied' scenes intact).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Early Favorites
The Razzies
Every year, Hollywood filmmakers and actors work very hard to create the best film possible. And when the results
don't match their sincerity, what is the reward? All too often, it's disappointing box office -- and a nomination
for a Razzie award.
John Wilson and his Golden Raspberry Foundation send out preliminary ballots, which offer about 10 semifinalists,
with the opportunities for write-ins.
At least in the early tabulations, the big ``winner'' is Tom Green. Thanks to ``Freddy Got Fingered,'' he's up
for worst actor, director and screenplay, while ``Tom Green & any animal he abuses'' were in the race for worst screen couple.
Also in that last-named category: Tom Cruise & Penelope Cruz in ``Vanilla Sky''; Sylvester Stallone & Burt Reynolds
in ``Driven''; and Mariah Carey's cleavage in ``Glitter.''
This is the 22nd year of the awards. ``It started in 1980 when I saw a double feature of 'Can't Stop the Music'
and 'Xanadu.' I only paid 99 cents and it still wasn't worth it,'' Wilson said.
As for this year's crop, Wilson expressed great fervor for ``Freddy'' and ``Glitter,'' particularly for Carey. ``I
would say she's got a lock on best actress. She's the female equivalent of 'Battlefield Earth.'''
The Razzies
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Pretty Radical 'Eye-Job'
Greta Van Susteren
Plastic surgeons have mixed reactions to Greta Van Susteren's radical new look. The former CNN host, who jumped to
the Fox News Channel last month, has been the subject of conversation across the city since the Daily News disclosed
her facial surgery on Friday.
Van Susteren, the lawyer-turned-commentator whose profile became familiar to CNN viewers during the O.J. Simpson trial,
initially admitted to The News to merely having had an eyelift.
"Well, there are definitely substantial improvements in the eyes," said Park Ave. surgeon Dr. Elliot Jacobs. "If you
look at the outer portion of her upper eye in the 'before' picture, you see hooding. You can see she has a fold, that
heavy-lidded, tired kind of look. She looked tired before. That has been removed."
But Dr. David Abramson, whose office is also on Park Ave., observed other possible changes. "Her nose definitely looks
different, and her cheek folds look less than beforehand. Her eyebrows look higher."
Another surgeon, who wished to remain nameless, told us it's possible to get quite a bit done through the eyes. "She may
have had a midface-lift, where an incision is made through the eyelid and in the scalp. She could then say she just had
an eyelift, because the only visible scar would be below the eye."
Abramson noted that a patient having major work done would need several weeks to rest. Von Susteren left CNN around New
Year's Day; she makes her first appearance on Fox tomorrow night.
Surgeons we spoke to agree that it is rare to have a patient — particularly a public figure — request what effectively
is a whole new face.
"If someone comes to me who looks perfectly normal, who is reasonably successful in life, and they want something very
dramatic, it puts up a red flag for me," said Dr. Harvey Zarem, a top Hollywood plastic surgeon. "I would insist the person
go to a psychiatrist, and after a long period, both the patient and the psychiatrist have to convince me to do the work."
One conservative pundit told us she wouldn't recognize Van Susteren now if she passed her in the hall. "That doesn't look
like a puffy eye job to me," Lucianne Goldberg told us. "But she's gone to Fox. Greta has to be hot now, she has to be babelicious."
Greta Van Susteren
Appropriating Her Likeness
Rockette Suing
Pamela Everett says in a $2.5 million lawsuit against Radio City Entertainment that her former employer is illegally using
her photographs for commercial purposes.
The dancer says her likeness has appeared on dolls, postcards, pens, pencils, McDonald's placemats, Federal Express ads,
Nynex calling cards, disposable cameras, New York City subway maps and milk containers.
Court papers filed last week say Radio City has given some of Everett's photos virtual makeovers by changing her teeth,
eyes, nose, hair and eyebrows, by placing her head on another body and by giving her body non-matching hands.
Everett left the company in 1998.
Rockette Suing
''A Calliope Song Playing In Her Head''?
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart wishes ABC wouldn't make Barbara Walters try to be hip. The "Daily Show" comic thinks ABC's "20/20 Downtown"
is the "worst example of trying to figure out what the kids love — 'Oh, let's give them the same s--- in a black leather
jacket.'" Watching the 70-year-old Walters at her anchor desk, Stewart tells the New Yorker magazine, "it just looked like
there was nothing going on in there — you imagine a calliope song playing in her head."
Jon Stewart
Super Bowl Entertainment
Pre-Game & Half-Time
Lead singer Bono walked onto the field with a slow, shoulder-wagging swagger, singing the group's recent hit, ``Beautiful Day,''
as he climbed onto the point of a pink, heart-shaped catwalk that surrounded the stage.
As the first song wound down, a giant screen scrolled the names of victims in the attacks, and the group broke into the 1980s
hit, ``Where the Streets Have No Name.''
Unlike glitzy halftime shows of the past, the effects were limited to standard strobe lights. But all attention was on Bono
anyway, who pulled back his lapel to reveal an American flag to the roars of the crowd.
Sunday's pregame lineup opened with the Boston Pops. Wearing white coats and black bow ties, the musicians drew enthusiastic
applause when they finished their first session with ``Stars and Stripes Forever.''
The pregame lineup also featured Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, Marc Anthony, Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle, James Ingram,
Wynonna, Yolanda Adams and Mariah Carey.
Producers said most of the musical performers prerecorded their sound tracks to reduce the possibility of technical
problems. However, U2, played live.
Super Bowl Half-Time
Lovefest May Be Over
Rudy Giuliani
The Rudy Giuliani lovefest may be over — at least among AIDS activists.
"I'm so glad he's gone," loud-mouth actress Rosie Perez declared onstage at Thursday's Carnegie Hall benefit for
the Gay Men's Health Crisis. "I know he was great after the 11th, but that's what he's supposed to do! It's like
a father paying child support!"
Perez wasn't the only one there holding a grudge against Giuliani for cutting the city's AIDS-relief budget. The
concert hall erupted in applause.
Even more loudly applauded was the evening's honoree, outgoing AOL/Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company has
donated generously to the 20-year-old GMHC.
Emcee Whoopi Goldberg suggested that, before he steps down in May, Levin should greenlight an HBO show for her: "Old
Black Women With Big Butts in the City."
Also joining the show were R.E.M., Jewel and Sarah Jessica Parker, who all headed to the Russian Tea Room afterward.
Rudy Giuliani
He's B-a-a-a-c-k
Michael Cimino
After 20 years of silence, one-time Hollywood golden boy Michael Cimino is finally speaking out about living in virtual
seclusion, his ever-changing physical appearance, and those pesky transsexual rumors.
Cimino, who directed the Oscar-winning "Deer Hunter," turned into Tinseltown's biggest pariah after his 1980 flop "Heaven's
Gate," blamed for the collapse of United Artists studio. Since the flop, Cimino has rarely been seen in public and his
appearance, like Michael Jackson's, has taken a dramatic turn to the unrecognizable.
Once pudgy with feathered dark hair and a prominent nose, Cimino now has "hair teased into a Rod Stewart shag," Steve
Garbarino reports in Vanity Fair. "It is very blond. His eyebrows are groomed into arches. His nose looks petite. His
lips are puffed up as are his cheekbones . . . he could be mistaken for an androgynous rocker."
Cimino - apart from admitting he lost 80 pounds and underwent jaw surgery - denies any facial alterations, chalking everything
up to his spiritual transformation.
"If you look at Buddhists," Cimino tells VF, "sometimes they appear like they are getting younger. If you're evolving, it's
going to show in your face. The premiere example . . . is Marlon Brando, who is getting nuttier every day."
As for long-time speculation that he was a pre-op transsexual, Cimino said: "Maybe everyone got me confused with [Gene Simmons],"
referring to the rocker who used to live on his property. "If [Simmons] keeps going, he's going to look like Bela Lugosi in drag."
Although Cimino claims his personal life is full of "work, sex and cars," his pals admit that he "snapped" after "Heaven's Gate" failed.
"Michael is the sort of person that if you take away his money, he short circuits," said Cimino pal Mickey Rourke. "Hollywood's hung
Michael by his heels, and that little [bleep] Robert Downey Jr.? He's gotten a million chances!"
Michael Cimino
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''When I'm 64'' For Allstate Insurance
Julian Lennon
The surving Beatles and their families are said to be very upset that Julian Lennon is recording "When I'm 64" as a promo
for Allstate Insurance. Julian got the rights from Michael Jackson, who owns the Beatles' songbook and has previously
licensed "Revolution" and "Good Day Sunshine" for commercials. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the George Harrison
estate would dearly like to buy those rights back from Jacko.
Julian Lennon
Filed Lawsuit
Irving Azoff
Music industry mogul Irving Azoff has filed a lawsuit alleging that brokers didn't tell him his multimillion dollar
home had structural problems when he bought the property.
Azoff, the former president of MCA Entertainment Group and producer of such movies as ``Fast Times at Ridgemont High,''
filed the lawsuit late last month, alleging negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation.
The lawsuit claims the defendants knew about the home's alleged defects, but didn't disclose that it had structural
problems or that its furnace and humidifier didn't work properly.
Azoff lives in Hollywood, Calif., where he runs the record label Azoff Entertainment.
Irving Azoff
The World Economic Forum
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (L) talks with Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros before a panel discussion at
the World Economic Forum in New York, February 3, 2002. Global leaders were warned that corporations and international
organizations must become more accountable or they will face mounting challenges from ordinary people and poor nations.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Has No Confidence?
Larry David
He co-created the phenomenal "Seinfeld" and made hundreds of millions of dollars, but Larry David still thinks he's a
loser. "I have no confidence," David, who has his own hit show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," on HBO, tells the March issue of
Esquire magazine. David bewails life as a prince of television and notes that he was "too enbarrassed" to drive around
Hollywood in his first Porsche. This admission brings a sardonic laugh from Jerry Seinfeld. "Yeah, Larry actually thought
people gave a s--- that he was driving a Porsche. He thought people noticed - in L.A.!"
Larry David
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Presenting Art Exhibition
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen is becoming an active supporter of the fine arts.
The Oscar-winning actress will be presenting a painting exhibition Feb. 21 at a Beverly Hills art gallery.
The exhibition will feature the works of Los Angeles-based portrait artist America Martin, who went to high school with
Steenburgen's 21-year-old daughter, Lily McDowell.
Steenburgen, a native of Newport, Ark., is inviting friends to the exhibit, which she said has a ``homegrown quality.''
Mary Steenburgen
'No Man Is A Hero In His Home Town'?
Joe Namath
Everybody knows about the greatest upset of them all and how Joe Namath guaranteed the Jets would topple the Colts in Super Bowl III.
One man above all, though, knew exactly what Namath was talking about that January day in 1969. That man was his
high school football coach, Larry Bruno. In 1960, Bruno got a hint of the player New York would one day fall in
love with as he stood on the sidelines with the senior, who also doubled as his punter.
This town is a 45-minute drive from Pittsburgh, and has gone through some tough times since Bruno and Namath guided the Tigers to a 9-0
season in 1960 and a state championship, but Bruno remains true to his school. He still lives here with his wife, Virginia.
Namath makes it home every once in a while, and his brother Frank owns an insurance agency here. Surprisingly, the town has never
named anything in Namath's honor. The main drag is Seventh Avenue, not Broadway Joe Boulevard. The legend himself is humble when asked about it.
As you enter Beaver Falls, there is not even a mention that this is Namath's hometown. At the high school, there is a
small "shrine" for Namath in a trophy case.
Joe Namath & Beaver Falls
Jeez, even Kane, PA pays tribute to Chuck Daly, their native son...
'Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me'
Michael Dare
Michael Dare - 'The Life and Death of Captain Preemo'
Fashion Show
Naomi Campbell
British top model Naomi Campbell presents this creation for Brazilian designer Ocimar Versolato as part of his 2002
Autmun-Winter high fashion collection in Sao Paulo, February 3, 2002.
Photo by Paulo Whitaker
He Believes In Rules
Jimmy Fallon
He's cute as a button, but "Saturday Night Live" heartthrob Jimmy Fallon can get ugly if you play a song twice on the
jukebox. Blabbing to Spin about his pugilistic past, Fallon, 27, says, "Back then I'd just start a fight for no reason,
like if someone would play [Billy Joel's] 'Scenes From an Italian Restaurant' twice on the jukebox . . . I'd be like, 'I
just heard this song! There's a thousand songs on there and you played it twice! We're not in your apartment, we're in a
bar!' There are rules in pool, there are rules in darts, there should be rules for the jukebox."
Jimmy Fallon
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Super Bowl Pre-Game Entertainment
Patti, James, Barry & Wynonna
Singers Patti LaBelle, (L-R) James Ingram, Barry Manilow, and Wynonna Judd perform a patriotic medley of songs during pre-game ceremonies at Super Bowl XXXVI, in New Orleans, February 3, 2002.
Photo by Win Mcnamee
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``Collateral Damage''
Arnold
Colombian activists Sunday said an action movie that was delayed after the Sept. 11 attacks is insulting to Colombians and firefighters.
``Collateral Damage'' stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a firefighter whose wife and son are killed when a Colombian rebel leader
sets off a bomb in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger travels to Colombia to seek vengeance against the bomber.
At a news conference Sunday, the film was criticized by the Rev. Brian Jordan, a Franciscan priest who ministers to workers at Ground Zero.
``It is discriminatory against Colombians,'' said Jordan, flanked by professionals and politicians of Colombian
descent. ``The sins of the few should not be inflicted on the rest,'' he said, referring to the guerillas in Colombia's civil war.
Jordan also said making the main character a firefighter who becomes a vigilante is an insult to the firefighters
who became heroes after the terrorist attacks.
Arnold
More Fashion Show
Joanie Laurer (AKA Chyna)
Fans of iron-pumping she-hulks shouldn't miss the Lane Bryant lingerie show Tuesday. Joanie Laurer, formerly WWF vixen
Chyna, will be strutting her considerable stuff on the catwalk for the first time as rock grandaddy Gene Simmons and the
rest of Kiss perform. Also walking the walk are models Anna Nicole Smith and Carre Otis. Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard
will fill out the front row while the rest of the drooling droves look on from afar.
Joanie Laurer
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Mike Tyson
Embattled boxer Mike Tyson could get slammed by a one-two punch - now that Las Vegas police have recommended the
former heavyweight champion be charged with sexual assault in two cases.
Prosecutors and police met for two hours Friday night to discuss a September complaint by a Nevada woman and a
November 2000 allegation from another woman who both claimed they were attacked.
New rape charges would not necessarily stop the 35-year-old heavyweight from fighting Lennox Lewis in another jurisdiction
since Nevada prosecutors would have no problem with him traveling out of state.
Other states, including Florida and Michigan, have expressed an interest in staging the April 6 bout.
Mike Tyson
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Speaking To The German Parliament
Richard Gere
American actor Richard Gere will make a cameo appearance in Germany's parliament in April to discuss human rights in
the Himalayan region, a spokesman for the Reichstag said Sunday.
The parliament's human rights committee said that Gere, 52, had been invited for a hearing on April 17 because of
his extensive knowledge of Tibet.
Gere published a book in 1997, ``Pilgrim,'' that features black and white photographs he took of the Tibetan people.
Proceeds went to Tibetan charities.
Richard Gere
More Super Bowl Pre-Game Entertainment
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney holds up his guitar in front of a stylized Statue of Liberty after singing his song "Freedom," during
the pregame show for Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, February 3, 2002. The New England Patriots meet the St. Louis
Rams in the matchup.
Photo by Win Mcnamee
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