Bartcop Entertainment - Monday, 4 March, 2002

Monday

4 March, 2002

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Great Site!

The Worried Shrimp

Got a note from The Worried Shrimp , and he has a new series ready...

Marc always has something interesting. : )

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Thanks To Fud

Hear The 'Trifecta' Statement

Read the transcript, & hear the quote, too!

(quoting)
'' And we've got a job to do at home, as well. You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine. ''

Scroll down 31 paragraphs to read it for yourself.

Hear The 'Trifecta' Quote Here.



Many Thanks, to Fud, a loyal bartcopper : )

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Health Warning For Dick?

BartCop Astrology


The subject is Dick Cheney's health and indications, from his charts, that show the likelihood of an upcoming hospitalization, probably in April 2002.

Solar Returns are set for the time, each year, when the Sun (Solar) comes back around (returns) to the exact place it occupied on the date and time of your birth. This obviously occurs on the birthday, usually, although it can occur the day before or after. In the Solar Return for Dick Cheney the first thing that captures the Astrologer's eye is 29 degrees Taurus on the Ascendant. This sector rules the physical body and well-being. 29 degrees shows a change over, with this being a year of transition for Mr. Cheney. The natal Mid-heaven, the career and profession sector of the chart, is exactly conjunct the Ascendant. This links the First House of the physical body to the career sector. With this information we can project that Mr. Cheney will undergo some kind of job related transition (Mid-heaven) due to his health condition (Ascendant).

Staying focused on the First House, we see Saturn is the rising planet, indicating Cheney will continue to deal with a chronic (Saturn) health condition. For the Tropical System Saturn co-rules Cheney's natal Sixth House, and rules the Sideral Sixth House outright. Further, natal Saturn is in the Solar Return Twelfth of confinement and hospitals. Natal Saturn is in square to the SR Mid-Heaven, indicating a change in status (Mid-Heaven) due to a debilitating health condition. With Saturn's position in the SR Twelfth, this will likely require a stay in the hospital for Mr. Cheney.


Thanks, Geneva! Some pretty interesting reading, again.

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From 'TBH Politoons'

Great Site!

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Caught the 'X-Files'....best line from the coming attractions was 'Bring me the head of Fox Mulder'. (Didn't Kim Manners' dad work on Sam Peckinpah's 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia'?) The Lone Gunmen are still a hoot.

Also saw some of 'The Who: Live At Albert Hall' on PBS.



Tonight, Monday, it's a fresh night on CBS - 'King Of Queens', 'Yes, Dear', 'Raymond', 'Becker', and 'Family Law. But, 'Dave' is a rerun.

NBC is also all fresh with 'Fear Factor', 'Third Watch', and 'Crossing Jordan'.

ABC, too, is also all fresh tonight with 'My Wife & Kids', the season premiere of 'The Wayne Brady Show', 'The Chair', and the return of 'Once & Again', once and again.

The WB is fresh too, with '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.

Faux has reruns of 'Bernie Mac' and 'That 80's Show', but, 'Ally McBeal' is fresh.

UPN is all fresh, with 'The Hughleys', 'One On One', 'The Parkers', and 'Girlfriends'.

TCM goes into Oscar-Overdrive this week! Today, it's 'Raintree County' (it's a long one, and tedious in parts...pick out the scenes before & after Montgomery Clift's accident), 'Show Boat' (not the Paul Robeson version), 'Inherit The Wind' (woo-hoo, Monkey-Trials --- and you know who lost), 'Jezebel' (Bette Davis won her 2nd Oscar for this role as a woman who goes too far), 'Gone With The Wind', 'Coal Miner's Daughter', and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (STELLA!)....all Oscar winners.



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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''Celebrity Boxing'' On Faux - Change Of Slate

Go, Tonya, Go!

Amy Fisher's out and Paula Jones is in as Tonya Harding's "Celebrity Boxing" opponent, Fox announced Saturday.

"Paula is eager to participate in the special, which certainly will make for a lively match against Tonya," Earley said. The program will air March 13.

Jones, who lives in Cabot, Ark., told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she's not concerned about the notorious skater. Her only fear: the safety of her new nose job.

"Of course, that's my first concern as a woman, messing my face up," she said. "I just got my nose done, and I don't want to mess it up."

Also on the special, former "Brady Bunch" star Barry Williams will be pitted against Danny Bonaduce, once part of TV's "Partridge Family." The network said the fights will be real, each lasting three rounds.

A third celebrity-boxing pairing has yet to be announced, Fox said.

'Go Tonya, Go!'

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Big Dog Watch

Bill Clinton

Tom Hanks will serve as master of ceremonies and Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the Natural Resources Defense Council's biennial fundraising event, "Earth to L.A.! II."

The event will be held May 10 at the Wadsworth Theater in West Los Angeles.

Larry David, Steve Martin, Dustin Hoffman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rob Reiner and Carole King also are slated to participate.

Proceeds will go toward furthering NRDC's environmental mission.

Bill Clinton

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Writers Guild of America

Awards

Screenwriters Julian Fellowes, left, and Akiva Goldsman. Photo by Craig T. Mathews

Top honors from the Writers Guild of America went to the screenwriters of "Gosford Park" and "A Beautiful Mind," adding momentum to both films' screenplay bids at the Academy Awards.

At the Saturday ceremony, Julian Fellowes won the best original screenplay prize for "Gosford Park," a class-warfare satire about murder among the wealthy at an English country manor.

Akiva Goldsman claimed best adapted screenplay with "A Beautiful Mind," based on Sylvia Nasar's best-selling biography of the schizophrenic mathematics professor John Forbes Nash Jr.

Both movies are also nominated in those categories at the Oscars, which will be awarded on March 24. "Gosford Park" has seven Oscar nominations while "A Beautiful Mind" has eight, and both are also contending for best picture.

Winners of the Guild's 54th annual awards, which are considered a bellwether for the Oscars, were announced in ceremonies held in Beverly Hills by the WGA-West, and in New York by the WGA-East.

"Gosford Park" defeated the revisionist musical "Moulin Rouge;" "The Man Who Wasn't There," a black-and-white thriller about a laconic blackmailer; "Monster's Ball," in which a racist white man and a black woman fall in love; and "The Royal Tenenbaums," a quirky comedy about a family of failed geniuses.

Competition for "A Beautiful Mind" included "Black Hawk Down," based on Mark Bowden's book about a deadly U.S. battle in Mogadishu, Somalia; "Bridget Jones's Diary," from Helen Fielding's novel about a single woman's romances in London; "Ghost World," based on Daniel Clowes' graphic novel about a disenchanted teen-ager; and "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," adapted from the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy.

David Angell, the co-creator of the NBC sitcoms "Frasier" and "Wings" who died Sept. 11 as a passenger on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, received a special posthumous award for excellence.

"In life, David Angell was a real gentleman, bringing a kindness and warmth to his scripts, his shows and his staff," said WGA-West President Victoria Riskin. "In death, he has become an inspiration to many who never knew him personally."

Other WGA winners announced Saturday:

TELEVISION:

Original long form: "Conspiracy," Loring Mandel.

Adapted long form: "Anne Frank," teleplay by Kirk Ellis, based on the book by Melissa Muller.

Episodic drama: "Pine Barrens" ("The Sopranos"), teleplay by Terence Winter, story by Tim Van Patten and Terence Winter.

Episodic comedy: "Italy", parts 1 and 2 ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Philip Rosenthal.

Comedy-variety, music, awards, tributes, specials: "The Kennedy Center Honors," written by Don Baer and George Stevens Jr., film sequences written by Sara Lukinson, Harry Miles Muheim.

Comedy-variety (including talk) series: "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Mike Sweeney, Chris Albers, Ellen Barancik, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Jonathan Glaser, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Andrew Secunda, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg.

Daytime serials: "All My Children," Agnes Nixon, Jean Passanante, Craig Carlson, Frederick Johnson, N. Gail Lawrence, Victor Miller, Juliet Law Packer, Addie Walsh, Mimi Leahey, Bettina F. Bradbury, Charlotte Gibson, David Hiltbrand, Janet Iacobuzio, Royal Miller, John Piroman, Rebecca Taylor, Neal Bell.

Children's script: "My Louisiana Sky," teleplay by Anna Sandor, based on a book by Kimberly Willis Holt.

Documentary, current events: "Drug Wars," part 2 ("Frontline"), Lowell Bergman, Kenneth Levis, Doug Hamilton and Oriana Zill.

Documentary, other than current events: (Tie) "Hitler's Lost Sub," ("Nova"), Rushmore DeNooyer; "Scottsboro, An American Tragedy," ("The American Experience"), Barak Goodman.

News, regularly scheduled: "Wedding Disaster," Jonathan Kaplan; CBS-TV (WBBM).

News, analysis, feature or commentary: "The Cruelty Connection," Jonathan Kaplan; CBS-TV (WBBM).


RADIO:

Documentary: "Eye on Death Row," ("Weekend Roundup"), Wendy Zentz; CBS Radio Network.

News, regularly scheduled: "The Recount," Paul Farry; CBS Radio Network

News, analysis, feature or commentary: "Preserving American Sound," ("Perspective"), Scott L. Anderson; ABC News Radio.

On-air promotion: NBC Promotions Lori Sunshine; NBC.


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''Wetten Das...?''

Dustin & Lenny



Actor Dustin Hoffman and singer Lenny Kravitz (R) sing a duet after they lost a bet during the German television show "Bet It...?!" (Wetten Dass...?!) in Leipzig, March 2, 2002. "Wetten Dass...?!" is Europe's most successful game show.
Photo by Matthias Rietschel

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Great Quote

Best Director?

"Kevin Costner has won more Best Director awards than Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Francois Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Martin Scorsese combined" - Steve Erickson in Los Angeles magazine.

Best Director?

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Awards

Technical Oscars

It was geeks' night out in Hollywood as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the unsung technicians who have improved the ways movies are shot and shown.

Actress Charlize Theron presented the 25 awards Saturday night, three weeks and a day before the main Oscar ceremony, in a night defined by obscure points of engineering and their relation to movie magic.

The devices cited by the Academy as breakthroughs included an underwater camera that can shoot from a shark's point of view used in "Jurassic Park III" and a low-slung truck rig with a car body attached used to put actors in the middle of high-speed chase scenes in "The Fast and The Furious."

Industrial Light & Magic, the San Francisco-based special effects house founded by George Lucas in 1975, won awards for two computer software developments: a "Creature Dynamics System," used to animate the mummy-king Imhotep in "The Mummy," and a "Motion and Structure Recovery System."

A team of Eastman Kodak Co. engineers, for example, was honored for having developed a film system with a sound track that can be played at any theater, bringing down the cost of distributing movies.

More than a third of the technical Oscars went to technology that included new software for processing images, an indication of how closely tied the field has become to blockbuster productions.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Awards

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TV's 'First Reality Sitcom'

''The Osbournes''

The Osbournes, Ozzy, left, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly. Photo by Michael Yarish

The boxes are stacked outside the Beverly Hills home, ready to be carried in. Each is neatly labeled: "pots and pans," "linens," "devil heads," "dead things."

Plainly, Ozzie and Harriet aren't moving in.

This Ozzy is Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal rock star, and his family. Their arrival in the neighborhood heralds a hilarious new MTV series, "The Osbournes," that premieres 10:30 p.m. EST Tuesday.

MTV describes it as television's first "reality sitcom," a format that suggested itself naturally because nothing they could invent around the Osbournes would be as funny as their actual lives.

Two of the couple's three children — Jack and 17-year-old Kelly — are featured in the series. A third, older child opted out. Jack's something of an oddball having trouble fitting in at school. The pink-haired, high-strung Kelly is, like any teen-ager, appropriately embarrassed by her parents.

The Osbournes had been thinking of turning their lives into a television show for a while, after a well-received segment about their home life on the MTV series, "Cribs." Television executives they talked to wanted to build a fictional show around them. They didn't want to be like "Ozzie & Harriet," where the people were real but their television life wasn't.

So they agreed to live with cameras everywhere for a few months. "We all learned a lot about ourselves — that we all swear too much and have bad tempers," she said.

"We argue," Sharon explained, "but at the end of the day we all love each other."

''The Osbournes''

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Lengthy Interview

Christopher Lee

Horror icon Christopher Lee, who in person scarcely looks like he'll celebrate his 80th birthday in May (he doesn't even look 70), has been sinking his fangs into lots of juicy bad guy roles lately.

Besides his acclaimed performance as the evil wizard Saruman the White in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," he's also wrapped the two sequels, due out at the end of this year and 2003.

And Lee has a key role in the summer's biggest movie, the latest "Star Wars" episode.

"I checked with George Lucas, and the only thing I'm allowed to say is that I play a disillusioned Jedi knight, and that could mean almost anything," chuckled Lee, in town recently to promote "Rings," which is up for 13 Oscars.

"For obvious reasons, we have confidentiality agreements. I was in special forces intelligence during World War II, so I can keep a secret."

"Casting agents thought I couldn't play comedy, so probably the most important thing I've done in my career is guest-hosting 'Saturday Night Live' in 1978, with the original cast at the height of their powers.

Lee is the only cast member of "The Lord of the Rings" to have met author J.R.R. Tolkien, back in the 1950s.

"I'd read the first one and thought it was one of the books of the century. I say that not because it's good publicity, but because I really do mean that," he said with complete sincerity.

"I was in a pub in Oxford with some friends of mine and I went over and practically knelt before him."

He deeply misses his late friend Cushing, who was in the original "Star Wars." Cushing died in 1994.

"We used to talk a lot, which is something I miss indeed," he said.

For a lot more, Christopher Lee

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Musical Fund-Raiser

''Songs for Sophia''

Doctors Michael Zasloff, left, and Fred Kaplan, 
right, pose with Metropolitan Opera stars bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, bass Samuel Ramey, top row left and right, mezzo-soprano 
Denyce Graves and soprano Constance Green, front row second and third from left, and five-year-old Sophia Forshtay at a benefit at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to help cure Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. Photo by Richard Drew

Metropolitan Opera stars including Denyce Graves, Bryn Terfel and Samuel Ramey sang at the Waldorf-Astoria to help cure a rare genetic disorder that turns children's bodies to bone.

The musical fund-raiser Thursday was called "Songs for Sophia," in honor of 5-year-old Sophia Forshtay, who suffers from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP. Sophia was still able to run around among the several hundred guests.

The program ranged from Cole Porter to Georges Bizet. Ramey, a bass, offered a swaggering rendition of "New York, New York" to a standing ovation. Mezzo-soprano Graves started the evening with an aria from Bizet's "Carmen," and concluded with the spiritual "This Little Light of Mine (I'm gonna let it shine)."

Constance Green, Sophia's mother and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, sang a lighter song, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

With tenor Placido Domingo as the event's honorary chairman, the Met lineup also included soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and tenor Ron Naldi.

''Songs for Sophia''

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Posed For Playboy

Tiffany

When Tiffany, that quintessential bubble-gum popster best known for her frothy hit "I Think We're Alone Now," came out with a new album in 2000, no one gave a damn.

The record, "The Color of Silence," her first in a decade, got some good reviews but barely registered on the buzz meter. Sales were zilch.

So she decided to show the world she was no longer a girl.

She posed nude for Playboy.

Tiffany won't sugarcoat doing the pictorial, which features her lying on a fuzzy pink blanket wearing nothing but a smile and a pair of white leather boots - along with a variety of other full-monty shots.

She even underwent breast augmentation surgery specifically for the spread.

"I did it for the opportunity to open doors," she said. "Playboy has done a lot for a lot of other people, and I knew it would be a shocker. It's going to definitely change my image. Rock stations are calling me now because I'm naked."

Tiffany

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Praising Muhammad Ali

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela praised his "hero," American boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Sunday at the South African premier of a film about the fighter's life.

"To move as he did, to float like a butterfly and to sting like a bee...I think he was the very first heavyweight to move on his feet," Mandela, South Africa's former president, said.

"He (Ali) brought a new kind of legend to boxing and I am very happy indeed to be here, to join you in paying tribute to my hero and the hero of millions right across the seas," said Mandela, who was wearing one of his trademark colorful shirts.

South Africa is a boxing-mad country and Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for his role in the struggle against white-minority rule, is a fan and a former amateur boxer.

Nelson Mandela

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Lucky Man To Work With

Jim Broadbent

Superstitious starlets hoping for a hit all want to work with Jim Broadbent, who appeared in three of last year's biggest movies: "Iris," "Moulin Rouge" and "Bridget Jones's Diary." The leading ladies of those pictures - Dame Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger, respectively - were all nominated for an Oscar. "Broadbent is hot," said one movie exec.

Jim Broadbent

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New Documentary

Metallica

In what is shaping up to be a juicy documentary, hard rock band Metallica has been trailed by a camera crew since last April -- a period covering fallout from the shock departure of bassist Jason Newsted and the rehab stint of singer James Hetfield.

Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, the duo behind "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills," have been granted an all-access pass to document the making of Metallica's new album as well as the personal lives of its members, the group said on its Web site (www.metallica.com).

They have shot hundreds of hours of footage, but consider the project only 30 to 40 percent complete. While there is no theme yet, the final cut will deal with the traumatic events that have shaken the band recently.

Newsted quit Metallica in January 2001 after 14 years, frustrated in part by his bandmates' opposition to his side project. The band then announced in July that Hetfield had entered an undisclosed rehab facility for "alcoholism and other addictions."

Berlinger and Sinofsky first met Metallica in the mid-1990s when they asked the band if they could license some music for "Paradise Lost," an Emmy-winning 1996 film about three West Memphis teenagers who were controversially convicted of gruesome murders. To the duo's surprise, Metallica not only agreed to give them some music, but waived its fee.

Metallica

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Dropping Hints?

Dave Letterman

Late-night TV funnyman David Letterman made a veiled reference to moving from his CBS studios - saying he was packing up and "ready to go."

"It's moving day here at 'The Late Show,'" Letterman announced as stage manager Biff Henderson carted away a large U.S. map following a segment.

Though the comments were made a day before news emerged that Letterman was contemplating to bolt for ABC, the comedian's banter could have been a veiled remark to the impending news.

On Friday, Koppel's boss, ABC News chief David Westin, ashen-faced and furious about being kept in the dark about the talks, said it "was a tremendous blow," The New York Times reported.

But corporate bosses said they couldn't tell Westin - himself a corporate insider with no journalistic experience - because he would have had to alert his assistants, the paper said.

The paper also said Letterman has made it clear he will not got to ABC if it means Koppel is out of job.

Dave Dropping Hints

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Model Nieves Alvarez displays blue patterned underwear created by Andres Sarda during the Fall/Winter 2002/03 Cibeles fashion show, February 20, 2002. The fashion week will run until February 22.
Photo by Sergio Perez

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Chuck Heston, Ed Asner & Dennis Weaver All Agree?

SAG Election, Version 2.0

A rerun of the Screen Actors Guild election pitting two TV stars against each other for president headed into its final week as political infighting in the fractious union reached a fevered pitch.

SAG, which represents some 98,000 performers, held an initial election last fall that was won by Melissa Gilbert, former child star of "Little House on the Prairie." But the outcome was contested by rival Valerie Harper, TV's "Rhoda," and her supporters over alleged balloting irregularities.

Over the past several weeks, the campaign vitriol has increased in both camps, climaxing last week when five former SAG presidents -- including Charlton Heston, Ed Asner and Dennis Weaver -- unleashed a tirade against Gilbert and the guild's chief executive, Bob Pisano, in an open letter to members.

The letter charges Gilbert and Pisano have ignored the authority of SAG's board of directors to advance their own agenda. It also accused them of "following the dictates" of the major studios, other unions and talent agents.

That followed charges by Gilbert supporters that the voting rerun is an attempt by Harper and her allies to hijack the election. They have filed a formal complaint against the new election with the U.S. Labor Department, sparking a federal investigation of the situation.

Ballots mailed out last month in the repeat race for SAG president and two other national offices -- secretary and treasurer -- are due back March 8 for tabulation.

SAG Election

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Rumor Has It...

Wonder Who

Rumor has it that a well-meaning friend of a woman who's about to get married again asked why she was hooking up with a gay man after having twice been wed to men of the homosexual persuasion. "Which two?" the bride-to-be asked, apparently in genuine confusion.

Wonder Who

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Special Guest - Greg Palast - 16 March

Erin Hart



Liberal radio - what a concept!

Saturday, March 16th at 10pm PST, Greg Palast visits with 710 KIRO-Seattle talk show host Erin Hart, and discusses his new book on globalization, ''The Best Democracy Money Can Buy''.

Listener calls at 1-877-710-KIRO

Live streaming audio available at www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com.

And there's a chatroom, too!


For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a note to erinistas@aol.com.


Or drop me a note at one of the addy's below....after all, I am Erin's 'LA Producer'.

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Quoting Bill Clinton

Will Smith

Promoting his film "Ali" in South Africa, Will Smith said Sunday African Americans needed to focus their efforts if they wanted to help people on this continent

The actor said he recently got some good advice on the matter from former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

"You have to have an "it" — what exactly do you want to do in order to be able to get a bill passed," Smith said Clinton told him.

Smith, 33, who has been nominated for a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Muhammed Ali, was scheduled to open the film in South African along with former President Nelson Mandela.

But he said he had no plans to portray Mandela in any future movies.

Will Smith

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Telling Cincinnati To Chill

O.J.

O.J. Simpson urged the crowd at a hip-hop concert to leave recent racial unrest behind and work to improve the city's image.

The concert, attended by about 1,200 people, was described as a "healing" event for Over-the-Rhine, a neighborhood rocked by riots after a white police officer fatally shoot an unarmed black man in April.

The former football star said Cincinnati was a fun city where he had good times during his playing days. He threw three autographed footballs into the crowd.

O.J.

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MTV & VH1 Too Nasty

Carlos Santana

MTV and VH1 are nasty, says Carlos Santana.

The still-riffing rock relic says the popular cable TV music nets "show too much candy, flash and shallowness. They show all the nasty stuff. They show only the lowest common denominator of humanity."

Apparently unafraid that his videos will never again be shown on the outlets, the guitarist suggested a new "best of humanity" channel is needed.

Carlos Santana

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Shame On Oprah, Ricki Lake, even Jenny Jones

Siblings Reunited

They wrote to Oprah, Ricki Lake, even Jenny Jones, and asked the talk show hosts to help publicize their search for each other. Besides a postcard with Lake's picture on it, Angela Younghusband and her sister, Annette Hix, never received a reply.

Instead, an exhaustive search on the Internet helped 39-year-old Younghusband reunite with Hix after 30 years apart. Younghusband, Hix, a brother and a sister were separated by adoptions.

The siblings and their maternal grandparents and uncle for years have been searching for each other.

Along with the appeals to talk show hosts, Younghusband searched the Internet to help find her family. Over in Anniston, Ala., Younghusband's maternal uncle, Delbert Worley, was also looking for her online. They found each other through a genealogy Web site, and together Worley and Younghusband found Hix with some help from a "Web detective" - an expert Internet surfer who makes a living helping people find information on the Internet. They paid him $500.

The sisters spent a week catching up. Besides having matching red curls, freckles and green eyes, they discovered they both love steak and country music.

They promised to stay in touch and visit each other more often. And they vowed they would focus on finding their mother and sister, Sherry.

Shame On Oprah, Ricki Lake, even Jenny Jones

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More Big Dog Watch

Bill Clinton

Security guards forcibly removed a heckler from a charity dinner Friday after he stood up and began arguing with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The man, a paid guest at the black-tie dinner, was carried out of the function attended by 700 people after a verbal clash with Clinton.

Seven minutes into Clinton's speech, the man, whose identity was not immediately released, began objecting to the former president's comments on the war against terrorism and said that the United States had been beaten in the Vietnam war.

"Hang on, North Vietnam beat you. They shot you down," the man shouted.

Unfazed, Clinton pointed out that North Vietnam had the fifth-biggest Army in the world.

As the heckling continued and other guests told the man to sit down and be quiet, Clinton invited him to address the dinner in his place.

"I'd be happy for you to give this speech. I've been talking every night. I'm tired," he said. Clinton is on a speaking tour of Australia.

Security guards moved in to take the heckler away, but Clinton urged them to let him stay.

"Be nice to him. Listen, most of these things are highly predictable. Don't throw him out," Clinton said. "Let him sit down. Just sit down and have a good time. Relax, chill out."

But as the interruptions continued, guards moved in and carried the man out.

Bill Clinton & The Heckler

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BETTY BOWERS Cooks!

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

A New Look & Even More Information!

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'Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me'

Michael Dare - 'The Life and Death of Captain Preemo'

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