BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 21 February, 2005
Monday
21 February, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
Orally Pleasuring the President
By Baron Dave Romm
Orally Pleasuring the President
Jeff Gannon is the new Monica Lewinski
Jeff Gannon and/or James Guckert is gay, advertising himself on gay
porn websites he owns. Perversely, conservative Republicans love
him. He got instant access to the White House, defying all the
rules. If he were a woman, the culture warriors would be asking,
"who did she sleep with?" It's a fair question now to ask of the
Bush administration, "who was he sleeping with?" His sex life is his
own. However, this is a liberal attitude and we live in a
conservative time; for conservatives to merely be in the presence of
such a flaming gay requires a large helping of moral relativism. How
did such an unqualified person get to stroke the president?
The Jeff Gannon Scandal is not a small one. Real reporters have been
kicked out of the White House Press Corps because Bush whined about
their "hard" questions. Gannon was deliberately given a White House
Day Press Pass -- for two years -- and given
access to classified documents on the Valerie Plame case. He was
ostensibly working for The Talon News, an organization created days
before Gannon was given access to the White House White House "rules"
state the news organization has to have been in existence at least
two years to be eligible. On the other hand, Talon bears the same
relationship to "news" as Pravda does to "truth".
Americans have long known that Bush
supporters have a loose grasp of reality. Scott McClelland,
White House Press Secretary, knew
Gannon had given a false name. Republicans love their sexual
deviants. In April 2004, Republican
activist Richard A. Delgaudio, a longtime Northern Virginia-based
fundraiser for conservative causes and personalities, was sentenced
to two years' probation yesterday after pleading guilty to a child
pornography charge. In October 2003, Anti-gay
preachers were arrested for soliciting sex with boys. Another
Republican who voted to impeach was having an affair at the time. Rep.
LaTourette wants divorce from his wife. And we know the Bush
family sinks this low. Neil
Bush admitted engaging in "sex romps" with women in Asia while on
suspicious "business" trips. Margie
Schoedinger files rape charges against George W. Bush 12/2/02.
Media ignored suit, Bush was never
served, and woman committed "suicide" 12/13/03, an event not
covered by the Conservative American press. These are just a few
examples. The right wing's loose grasp of reality occasionally gives
way to a loose grasp of morals.
You can usually tell what the Republicans are up to by what they
accuse the Democrats of doing. "Jeff Gannon" proves the case. The
radical right are insisting that the left is working with a "gay
agenda" when it turns out that a male prostitute is on a first-name
basis with the president. Who did he sleep with to get this job,
which he has kept through two Press Secretaries? Monica Lewinski had
a consensual affair with the president and the right was all over
this private matter. Where are the self-rightoaus culture warriors
now?
Jeff Gannon orally serviced the president during press conferences. What
he said wasn't journalism, it was pillow talk. The implication is
that some hanky panky is going on. The people involved are,
presumably, consenting adults but the impeachment set the bar very
low: A president's private life, and the private life of those who
he relies on for advice, deserve public scrutiny. Bush is afraid of
hard questions and he rewards people who protect him from hard
questions. What reward did Jeff Gannon get? More hits on his gay
porn web site? "Face time" with high-ranking Bush administration
officials? I don't know, but I do know this: I'd rather have a
president that gets a blowjob than one who gives them.
I suspect this scandal is much larger than one unqualified
person's access to presidential press conferences. Anyone want to
check up on who slept in the Lincoln Bedroom during the past five
years?
I am indebted to Democratic Underground's Top 10
Conservative Idiots No. 186, americablog.com's
research into Gannon's porn sites and others for much of the
research above.
Also from DU: 5
things you can do to make "Guckert" a household name. Do your
part to make sure that the Gannon/Guckert story -- and, most
importantly, the Bush administration's massive propaganda effort --
gets the media attention it deserves. A nice set of links from
Democraticunderground.com.
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual
artist and a noble
of Ladonia with a radio
show, a very
weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. Dave Romm reviews things at random for
obscure web sites. You can read all his music
recommendations from Bartcop-E , and you can hear the last two Shockwave
broadcasts in Real Audio (scroll down to Shockwave).
Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.
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"Thinking you're the worst person in the world is as bad as thinking
you're the best. You've given yourself a place in the universe you
haven't earned and you don't deserve."
-- (quote approx) Annie Potts
as a former nun, "Joan of Arcadia"
Thanks (again), Baron Dave!
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MY DAD USED TO SAY
TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET
HOMELESS IN BERKELEY
Zen Man
(on Shattuck)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Mark Weisbrot: Show Me the Money (AlterNet)
Jim Emerson: The Unwritten Rules of Oscar (rogerebert.com)
Interview by Laura Sheahen: Can Play Heal?
German penguins can stay gay (The Advocate)
Kimberly Gadette: A letter from Mrs. CottontailŠ (The Advocate)
Postcards From Buster
Earl The Squirrel
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Purple Gene Reviews
T.O.K. at the Down Lo
Purple Genes' review of the worlds # 1 Reggae Dance Hall Group and recording artists T.O.K. at the Down-Lo Night Club in Berkeley on Friday Feb 18th 2005:
" Reggae Boy Band Booms the "Basement"" ! This was the headline for the much anticipated appearance of the smokin' hot foursome straight from Kingston Jamaica…..the smash crew with the current hit "Gal Yuh a Lead" and just released video "Footprints"…..I had no idea what I was in for….maybe "boyz II Men" - "Motown Philly"…"Millie Vanilli" - "Girl you know it's True" …….or "New Edition" - "Popcorn Love" …..even "Michael Jackson" - "I'm Bad" - "Billie Jean"…..4 really fine Young Jamaicans who ghost wicked rhythms live before adoring women…..I had no idea what I was in for……How could I!!!! This is NEW and fresh and right off the "Island"……I had no Idea…..
These guys started out in the 90s as a "Touch of Klass" playing high school glee club/choir/R&B/Motown party music……decided to get serious and do Jamaican inspired music and shorten their name to "T.O.K."…hooked up with Sly and Robbies' Taxi label for a time…found Richard Browne as an engineer and then manager and graduated them into hardcore Dance Hall - influenced by Jamaican music and American Hip Hop on MTV…..
We've got ALEX (Alistaire McCalla) - CRAIG-T (Craig Anthony Patrick Thompson) - FLEXX (Xavier Davidson) and BAY-C (Roshaun Clarke) flying from Kingston to Berkeley California to the Down-Lo Dance Hall - King of Kings - Soul Shake Down - Angel Magic production extravaganza - first time EVER live on stage .T.O.K…..Hanging out backstage as these 4 guys slipped in from their LIMO and chilled with groupies and wanna-be's and ME…….wow……the SHOES….the HAIR….the GUYS…you could tell they had PRESENCE…lots of it…..DJ Smoky screaming into the mike as the packed house pulsed and panted…."Are you ready???? Are you ready????? Straight from Jamaica….. the Worlds' # 1 Reggae Dance Hall Band……put you hands together for……T.O.K……………
With remote mikes in their hands T.O.K. started singing from backstage as the crowd was about to burst…."Flexx…YoYo….Bay-C….T.O.K……Gal yuh a Lead - Hey…..Yes Indeed - Hey Hey Hey - Gal yuh a Lead - Hey…..You Gone a Lead - Hey Hey Hey"….Pandemonium!!!!!!! The crowd is so huge that T.O.K. is literally in the middle of them and jumping and moving to the infectious rhythm….."Shake Ya Bam Bam"……"Hands in the Air"…."Galang Gal"……These guys are truly amazing…their vocal harmonies are flawless, their energy is infectious and their songs are Catchy…."Sexy Girl"…" Just got paid…got a little money to burn…I gotta get laid…gotta find me a Sexy Girl"…..well…….Ok maybe young, horny and corny! But my god…the women in this crowd came for the kill!!!! T.O.K. sang a Prince like song called "Eagles Cry" and then "She's Hot…Solid as a Rock"….Just as the whole place was about to blow T.O.K. slowed everything down for their finale….."Footprints"…….About a young boy who was shot down….."Help me lord…Help me father….When you cry - I cry…when you smile - I smile" Beautiful and so sad…T.O.K. exited the stage, snuck out the rear exit and disappeared into the night……
Purple Gene give T.O.K. 10 "Hey Hey Heys" out of 10 for being the next big thing….on VHI and MTV and Muzik Media!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another rainy day.
I adored Hunter S. Thompson. Found a quote of his that perfectly summed up my experiences in broadcasting:
"The TV business is a cruel & shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves & pimps run free, & good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Still Standing', followed by a FRESH 'Listen Up', then a FRESH '2½ Men', followed by a FRESH 90-minute 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Stupid Pet Tricks, Bonnie Hunt, and competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Bob Schieffer, John C. McGinley, and Ani DiFranco.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Fear Factor', followed by a FRESH 'Las Vegas', then a FRESH 'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Chris Rock, Ian McShane, and Collective Soul.
On a RERUN Conan (from 10/20/05) are Claire Danes, Carson Kressley, and Mavis Staples.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Michael Rosenbaum, Jim Gaffigan, and Duran Duran.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do that?', followed by a FRESH 'Bachelorette', then a FRESH 'Supernanny'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jim Belushi, Shia LeBeouf, and Greg Fitzsimmons.
The WB offers a FRESH '7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH 'Everwood'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a FRESH '24' (Day 4: 4pm - 5 pm).
UPN has a FRESH 'One On One', followed by a FRESH 'Cuts', then a FRESH 'Girlfriends', followed by a FRESH 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'Growing Up Gotti', another 'Growing Up Gotti', followed by a FRESH 'Growing Up Gotti', then another 'Growing Up Gotti', 'Caesar's 24/7', and another 'Caesar's 24/7'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Civil Action', followed by the movie 'The Natural', then the movie 'On Golden Pond'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 1;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Up Captain Peacock;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Russian Prisoner;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 91;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Ollier;
[7pm] 'Hamish Macbeth' - A Pillar of the Community;
[8pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Angel Hair;
[9pm] 'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[10pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Angel Hair;
[12am] 'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[1am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 4;
[2am] 'Hamish Macbeth' - A Pillar of the Community;
[3am] 'Jonathan Creek' - Angel Hair;
[4am] 'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[5am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'West Wing' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Damon Wayans', 'Steve Harvey', 'Jamie Foxx Presents Laffapalooza', 'South Park', 'Blue Collar TV', and 'Reno 911!'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart is Eric Idle.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFO Files', 'Digging For The Truth', and 'Kennedys: The Curse Of Power'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Last Broadcast' (1991);
[7:30AM] 'Secret Ballot' (2001);
[9:30AM] 'At The Angelika #93' (2005);
[10AM] 'Country Life' (1994);
[12PM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[1:45PM] Short: 'Beancake' (2000);
[2PM] 'The Last Broadcast' (1991);
[3:30PM] 'Independent Spirit Awards 20th Anniversary Special' (2004);
[4PM] 'Ulee's Gold' (1997);
[6:00PM] Short: 'Beancake' (2000);
[6:15PM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[8PM] 'At The Angelika #93' (2005);
[8:30PM] Shorts: 'TBA' (2004);
[9PM] 'Slasher' (2004);
[11PM] 'Sexy Beast' (2001);
[12:30AM] 'Independent Spirit Awards 20th Anniversary Special' (2004);
[1AM] 'Slasher' (2004);
[2:30AM] 'At The Angelika #93' (2005);
[3AM] 'Sexy Beast' (2001);
[4:30AM] 'When The Cats Away' (1996). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', another 'Stargate SG-1', yet another 'Stargate SG-1', and 'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[6:35AM] 'My Babushka - Searching Ukrainian Identities' (Documentary);
[7:30AM] 'Elling' (Feature);
[9AM] 'Siddhartha' (Feature);
[10:25AM] 'Satin Rouge' (World Cinema);
[12PM] 'The Times of Harvey Milk' (Feature);
[1:30PM] 'Who Is Bernard Tapie?' (Documentary);
[2:30PM] 'Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War' (Documentary);
[3:30PM] 'Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties' (Documentary);
[4:40PM] 'With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America' (Documentary);
[6:30PM] 'Bush's Brain' (Documentary);
[8PM] 'Document 2004: Documentaries of Dissent' (Feature);
[8:30PM] 'Anatomy Of A Scene: Baadasssss!' (Original Production);
[9PM] 'The Same River Twice' (Documentary);
[10:20PM] '1 Giant Leap' (Documentary);
[11:40PM] 'The Tasty Bust Reunion' (Documentary);
[12:35AM] 'Sari & Trainers' (Short);
[1AM] 'Document 2004: Documentaries of Dissent' (Feature);
[1:30AM] 'Read My Lips' (Feature);
[3:30AM] 'Ripe' (Feature);
[5:05AM] 'Siddhartha' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Disraeli' (1929);
[7:30am] 'The Champ' (1931);
[9am] 'Trader Horn' (1931);
[11:15am] 'Lady For A Day' (1933);
[1pm] '42nd Street' (1933);
[2:30pm] 'The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer' (1935);
[4:30pm] 'Libeled Lady' (1936);
[6:15pm] 'Wuthering Heights' (1939);
[8pm] 'Gone With the Wind' (1939);
[12am] 'It Happened One Night' (1934);
[2am] 'You Can't Take It With You' (1938);
[4:15am] 'The Life Of Emile Zola' (1937). (ALL TIMES EST)
Tuesday - 02/22
TCM:
[6:15am] 'Hold Back the Dawn' (1941);
[8:15am] '49th Parallel' (1941);
[10:15am] 'Kings Row' (1942) [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] ;
[12:30pm] 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (1942);
[2pm] 'Double Indemnity' (1944);
[4pm] 'Johnny Belinda' (1948);
[6pm] 'The Heiress' (1949);
[8pm] 'The Best Years Of Our Lives' (1946);
[11pm] 'Going My Way' (1944);
[1:15am] 'Rebecca' (1940);
[3:30am] 'The Lost Weekend' (1945);
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #4' (1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Screenwriter and playright David Mamet holds the screen laurel award he received at the 57th annual Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California February 19, 2005. Looking on at right, is actor William H. Macy, who presented the award.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Saturday Night
57th Annual Writers Guild Awards
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a quirky love story about two people trying to erase their memories of each other, won best original screenplay Saturday night at the 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards.
The screenplay was written by Charlie Kaufman from a story by Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth. The film starred Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
Best adapted screenplay went to "Sideways," the road trip romp through Southern California wine country that charmed critics and audiences alike. The screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor was based on Rex Pickett's novel.
In other awards, Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" won long-form adapted writing for television for Kushner's HBO teleplay, which was based on his play. The long-form original writing award went to Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell for HBO's "Something the Lord Made."
Other WGA winners announced Saturday:
TELEVISION:
Animation: "Catch 'Em if You Can" ("The Simpsons"), Ian Maxtone-Graham, Fox.
Episodic Drama: "The Supremes" ("The West Wing"), Debora Cahn, NBC.
Episodic comedy: Tie - "Pier Pressure" ("Arrested Development"), Jim Vallely and Mitchell Hurwitz, Fox; and "Ida's Boyfriend" ("Malcolm in the Middle"), Neil Thompson, Fox.
Comedy-Variety, music, awards, tributes special: "The Kennedy Center Honors." George Stevens Jr. and Sara Lukinson, CBS.
Comedy-Variety (including talk) Series: "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," Mike Sweeney, Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Dan Goor, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Demetri Martin, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Allison Silverman, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg, NBC.
For the rest, 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards
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U.S. actor Will Smith and German entertainer Thomas Gottschalk (R) dance during the TV show 'Wetten dass, ...?' ('Bet that ...') in the eastern German town of Erfurt February 19, 2005.
Photo by Jens Meyer
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Welcomes Hip-Hop Covers
Patti LaBelle
Singer Patti LaBelle said she takes it as a compliment when younger musicians like Nelly and Kelly Rowland take on her music.
"Whenever they do my songs, I know I'm in the land of the living," she said outside Michael Jordan's party this weekend before Denver's NBA All-Star game.
Before the party, LaBelle, who lost three sisters to cancer before they were 44, received an award from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She has worked with a number of charitable organizations on issues like cancer, AIDS, diabetes and Alzheimer's.
Patti LaBelle
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Banned In Uganda
'Vagina Monologues'
A plan by women's rights groups to stage the graphic theater work "The Vagina Monologues" to raise money for war-affected African women failed when the government banned the performance as contrary to Ugandan values.
Several groups had planned to present American playwright Eve Ensler's performance on Saturday to help women affected by an 18-year insurgency in northern Uganda, as well as domestic and sexual abuse in this poor central African country.
On Thursday, Information Minister James Nsaba Buturo said the government took the decision to ban the one-day show because it did not focus on sexual violence as activists had said, but on women's private parts.
"This is the stuff that homosexuals and pornography promoters feed on," Buturo said in a statement.
'Vagina Monologues'
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Producers Tops Poppins
Laurence Olivier Awards
Mel Brooks' outrageous musical "The Producers" pipped "Mary Poppins" on Sunday to be crowned star of the show at the Laurence Olivier awards.
The musical, as big a hit in London as it has been on Broadway, won the coveted Best New Musical Award when Britain's top theater prizes were handed out.
Nathan Lane, who stepped in at the last moment to replace Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss in the London production, was named as Best Actor in a Musical.
But Mary Poppins, the magical nanny who has helped to revive London theater, did not go away empty-handed.
For more, Laurence Olivier Awards
Full List of Winners - 2005 Laurence Olivier Awards
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Actor Nathan Lane, left with his British co-star Lee Evans pose for the cameras after they picked up the award for Best New Musical 'The Producers' at a central London hotel late Sunday Feb. 20, 2005.
Photo by Alastair Grant
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Undergoes Big Changes
CNN Headline News
For a network that has built its reputation on predictability, CNN Headline News is undergoing some dramatic changes on Monday.
The network will debut a new prime-time lineup that dispenses with its usual continuous "wheel" of news. Like all-news radio stations, Headline News has run half-hour newscasts throughout the day and evening for its entire 23-year history.
The new lineup includes an hour-long entertainment program, a legal talk show with Nancy Grace as host and an hour-long newscast at 9 p.m.
CNN Headline News is also revamping its onscreen look. A few years ago, the network instituted a graphics-heavy format with several different elements, designed to appeal to computer-savvy viewers. The network is stepping back, making pictures the dominant element on the screen.
CNN Headline News
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Product Placement 'Oscar'
Pepsi
PepsiCo Inc. may be only the world's No. 2 soft drinks maker, but in terms of product placement on the big screen it outranked every other brand on the planet in 2004.
Brandcameo, a product placement offshoot of consultants Brandchannel (www.brandchannel.com), awarded its top tongue-in-cheek "accolade" to the maker of Pepsi, Aquafina and Mountain Dew on Sunday after the Pepsi brand featured in no less than one in five No. 1 U.S. movie box office smashes last year.
Featuring in movies as diverse as "Alien vs. Predator" and "Dodgeball," Pepsi beat arch-rival Coca-Cola and its ubiquitous Coke brand into second place, where it tied with Motorola and Nike.
Pepsi
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Demonstrators gather in central Brussels February 20, 2005, to protest against the impending visit to Belgium of U.S. resident George W. Bush. Several hundred people protested against the visit of Bush, who is due to arrive later on Sunday to attend meetings at NATO and with the EU leaders, as well as meeting Belgian authorities.
Photo by Yves Herman
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TBS Series
Pauly Shore
Pauly Shore, the critically reviled comedian whose wacky stoner persona brought him a degree of fame in the 1990s, may be getting the last laugh.
TBS has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of a reality show that follows the star of "Encino Man" and other dubious classics as he attempts to revive the Comedy Store, a Los Angeles club founded by his mother, as well as his own career.
Production already is under way on the project, which is tentatively titled "Minding the Store." No airdate has been scheduled.
Pauly Shore
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A group of men dressed as Star Wars characters stand outside the American International Toy Fair with police officers in New York, February 20, 2005.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
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Bans Pictures Of His Many Cars
King Mswati
Swaziland's King Mswati has barred photographers from taking pictures of his growing fleet of royal limousines amid criticism that the luxury car purchases are an embarrassment to one of Africa's poorest countries.
Mswati stirred up a storm in December when he bought a new $500,000 (264,000 pounds) DaimlerChrysler Maybach 62 -- one of the most expensive cars in the world -- and recently hit the headlines again when he splashed out for new BMWs for each of his 10 wives.
The royal edict barring photos of the cars came after Mswati appeared in an even newer and more expensive stretch Mercedes S600 limousine for the opening of parliament on Friday.
The 36-year-old king, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, has run into flak for extravagant spending despite the fact that his tiny, impoverished kingdom suffers frequent food shortages and one of the world's highest AIDS infection rates.
King Mswati
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In this photo provided by Monster Energy, Scott Fountain of Hawaii puts his hand through the back wall of the Banzai Pipeline on the first day of the Monster Energy Pipeline Pro, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, on the North Shore of Oahu. The contest helps determine which surfers will be eligible for the World Championship Tour of the Association of Surfing Professionals.
Photo by Carol Cunningham
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75th Birthday
The Maltese Falcon
For lovers of the hard-boiled crime story, life began with the black bird. It was 75 years ago this month that The Maltese Falcon first appeared between hard covers, just weeks after it was published as a five-part serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask.
To today's reader, Dashiell Hammett's masterpiece can seem vaguely antique, its characters too stereotypical: the cynical detective who works both sides of the law; his spunky and loyal secretary; the trench coat-draped gunman who talks from the side of his mouth; the wily femme fatale who manipulates men with the promise of sex.
But to 1930s readers, every line was a revelation. The Maltese Falcon is a novel of astounding originality that virtually invented the noir style.
Before the black bird, most crime stories were puzzle mysteries in which murders were committed in libraries and drawing rooms and solved by bloodless detectives who collected clues and fingered the guilty by employing brilliant (and improbable) deductive reasoning.
For more, The Maltese Falcon
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In Memory
Sandra Dee
Actress Sandra Dee, the blond beauty who attracted a large teen audience in the 1960s with films such as "Gidget" and "Tammy and the Doctor" and had a headlined marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday. She was 63.
At Universal Studio, Dee was cast mostly in teen movies such as "The Reluctant Debutante," "The Restless Years," "Tammy Tell Me True" and "Take Her She's Mine."
Occasionally, she was able to do secondary roles in other films, such as "Imitation of Life," "A Portrait In Black" and "Romanoff and Juliet."
After a one-month courtship, Dee married Darin in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1960. A son, Dodd Mitchell, was born to the couple the following year.
Born Alexandra Zuck in Bayonne, N.J., Dee became a model while in grade school.
Sandra Dee
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In Memory
John Raitt
John Raitt, the robust baritone who created the role of Billy Bigelow in the original New York production of "Carousel" and sang with Doris Day in the movie "Pajama Game," died Sunday, his manager said. He was 88.
Raitt, the father of the blues and rock singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt, died peacefully from complications with pneumonia at his Pacific Palisades home, his manager, James Fitzgerald, said in a printed statement.
Raitt had become well known on the West Coast for his handsome presence and ringing voice when in 1944 he was invited to New York to try out for the role of Curly in the road company of "Oklahoma!" He was rushed from Penn Station to the St. James Theater and an audition with Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers. Raitt was hired for the Chicago company of "Oklahoma!"
Rodgers and Hammerstein had been working on their second collaboration, "Carousel," and they chose Raitt for the role of the doomed hero Billy Bigelow.
Raitt's star status on Broadway was assured, and after the long run in "Carousel" he appeared in "Magdalena," "Three Wishes for Jamie" and "Carnival in Flanders." He lacked a big crossover to film until "The Pajama Game" in 1954.
"The Pajama Game" became a successful movie with Raitt and several others in their stage roles and Doris Day for popular appeal. The numbers "Hey, There," "Steam Heat" and "Once a Year Day," choreographed by Bob Fosse, helped make the 1957 film a delight. Despite his good notices, it was Raitt's only starring movie (he had played two minor roles while briefly under contract to MGM in 1940).
In his later years, Raitt was overshadowed by the fame of his blues-singing daughter. He delighted in her success and approved of her campaigning for civil rights, peace and other causes. "She used to be known as John Raitt's daughter; now I'm known as Bonnie Raitt's father," he observed.
John Emmett Raitt was born Jan. 10, 1917, in Santa Ana, Calif. At Fullerton Union he excelled in track, winning a scholarship to the University of Southern California. He concluded his college education at the University of Redlands in 1940.
In his 80s, he continued touring with a one-man show, "An Evening with John Raitt," and made appearances with Bonnie on the Boston Pops broadcast and her own concerts.
Bonnie and two brothers, Steven and David, were born to Raitt's first marriage to Marjorie Haydock. They divorced in 1971. A second marriage to Kathleen Smith Landry ended in divorce in 1981. Later in 1981 he married Rosemary Kraemer.
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In Memory
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.
Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.
Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's visit to Las Vegas, he also wrote "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72." The central character in those wild, sprawling satires was "Dr. Thompson," a snarling, drug- and alcohol-crazed observer and participant.
Thompson is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine.
An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson also wrote such collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998.
Thompson also was the model for Garry Trudeau's balding "Uncle Duke" in the comic strip "Doonesbury" and was portrayed on screen by Johnny Depp in a film adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
Other books include "The Great Shark Hunt," "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness."
Born July 18, 1937, in Kentucky, Hunter Stocton Thompson served two years in the Air Force, where he was a newspaper sports editor. He later became a proud member of the National Rifle Association and almost was elected sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party banner.
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