BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 11 April, 2005
Monday
11 April, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
Uffington Horse
By Baron Dave Romm
Uffington Horse
Mythic World Rock
Dodeka Records always has good stuff. Bill
has been around a long time, making music and running conventions.
Bill
and Gretchen
Roper run a record company but don't have a website. You have to
catch them at conventions. At the latest Minicon, I picked up some
new CDs from old friends (which I reviewed last week) and also took a
gamble on a group I'd never heard of.
Uffington
Horse's debut CD is Enchantment.
Enhantment is a solid effort, showing a sophisticated
production technique coupled with great musicians and some fine
songs. Definitely a debut album, but still a A if just a smidgen
away from an A+.
I dunno. Somehow, Enchantment reminds me more of
Surrealistic Pillow than Below the Salt. More rock
while retaining Celtic influences. Darker in mood like a great
protest album, even as the subject matter is as morbid as Celtic can
get. Heather Alexander doesn't have the power of Grace Slick or
Maddy Prior, but that's not much of a knock. She has the chops to
handle anything from death by drowning to singing bullfrogs to a dark
cover of a sea chanty. Her guitar work is expressive. Andrew Hare's
bass is just the right intensity and mood for each song and Dan
Ochipinti's percussion sets the tempo and tone. The three work well
together, and are joined by a few Guests Artists who add a bit of
diversity. Most of the songs were written by Alexander and she tells
a good story, leaving a little left for the imagination to fill
in.
While not immediately apparent from the liner, the website notes a
movie on the CD. In fact, there is an entire web site on
Enchantment, accessed from any CD drive, that has the same
bio/info pages as the web site as well as a video of one of the best
songs, Animals All The Same. My favorite cuts are still
Ichabod Crane/Gold Frosty Morning (the one about the
bullfrogs) and Yo Ho! (the one with the cover of What Do
You Do With A Drunken Sailor, among other things). Certainly not
a kids album, it's all G-rated and I don't have to bleep any Bad
Words for the air!
Alexander has been around for twenty years and Uffington Horse was
founded in 1999. The experience of long-time musicians shows on
every track. Highly recommended.
And speaking of Mythic World Rock...
The Village
Stompers were one of my favorite bands from the 60s. They had a
hit with Washington Square, but were more than one-hit
wonders. They produced several fine albums. All instrumentals, all
in what was considered at the time Dixieland but would now be
classified closer to Klezmer. They drew material from all over the
musical and cultural maps. Two of their albums have been released as
one CD, and their music really holds up after forty years. The
combined Washington Square/More Sounds CD has 26 tracks,
including two bonus tracks not on the original records. Their
version of Midnight in Moscow is hard to get out of your
brain. They cover Dylan songs Don't Think Twice It's All
Right and Blowin' In The Wind. No one actually wants to
play it, so their version of When The Saints Go Marching In,
entitled The Saints, is simply definitive. If you can't
imagine a Dixieland/Klezmer version of Tie Me Kangaroo Down
Sport, you need to get this CD.
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. He reviews
things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music
recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use.."
-- Galileo Galilei
Thanks (again), Baron Dave!
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I KNOW FOR A FACT
ANN COULTER IS A VAMPIRE
BETTER WATCH YOUR NECK
Zen Man
(in the garden of evil)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
PETE YOST and MATT KELLEY: Records Give Voice to Guantanamo Detainees (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers.
Malinda Lo: Back in the Day: Coming Out With Ellen (afterellen.com)
Back in the Day is a monthly column by Associate Editor Malinda Lo that takes a look back at key moments in the history of lesbians and bisexual women in entertainment.
ROGER EBERT: Fever Pitch
It must be Nick Hornby who understands men so well, and how they think about women, and how women think about them.
The 100 Best Bush Jokes
Bruce Yergil
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National Library Week
April 10-16, 2005
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Red Letters'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "Red Letters" (2000) Directed by Bradley Battersby:
I was building a Japanese Tea House in Mill Valley a number of years ago for Peter Coyote's ex-wife Marilyn……since Peter was paying for it, I wanted to know where he was so we could talk about MONEY ! Well, he told me he was off filming in Southern California with Nastassja Kinski….on a shoestring BUDGET….he said he'd be gone 3 weeks!
Everything worked out fine…we finished the Tea House, I got paid and we all had tea together….the only thing that didn't work out was the movie that Peter was filming! It was called "Red Letters" and it went straight to video….It just happened to be showing the other night on Cinemax………..
Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote - "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" - "Erin Brockovich" - "Femme Fatale" - "Countless TV AD voice-overs") is a horny, harassing Hawthorne expert recently fired and starting a new job at a college campus in Southern California….he has to be on good behavior. But he is immediately besieged by all the bone-head English babes wanting to bone his English. One student in particular, Gretchen (Fairuza Balk - "Worst Witch" - "Shame" - "Almost Famous") becomes his buddy. His best friend is Thurston Clarque (Jeremy Piven - "Larry Sanders" - "Singles" - "Cupid") who happens to be going through a divorce because his wife suspects him of boning a student.
Dennis gets a letter from a woman in prison named Lydia (Nastassja Kinski - "Tess" - "Paris, Texas" - "Harem") who is horny and needs his help. So he goes to visit her. She is extremely cute and she tells Dennis that she was framed and could he help her (and bone her)….The plot THICKENS when Lydia breaks out of prison and is found by Dennis hiding in his apartment….what's a boy to do??????
Pretty soon the cops in the form of Detective Glen Teal (Ernie Hudson - "Ghost Busters" - "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" - "Miss Congeniality") are banging at his door…..what's a boy to do????? And on top of all that Thurston has run off with a BABE that just so happens to be using him to get money for her biker husband….and this babe just so happens to be Lydia's' sister….what's a boy to do?????
Lydia gets Dennis to go with her over to her ex-boyfriends' - George's' (Udo Kier - "Love Object" - "Evil Eyes" - "Bloodrayne") who turns out to be a Psycho himself and tries to kill Dennis and Lydia and the chase is on as Gretchen runs interference around Detective Glen to give Dennis and Lydia more time to prove that she was framed by George….and then George turns up DEAD……Lydia is looking pretty LIBEL……
Well everything comes out OK in the end….the bad guys get busted and Lydia gets boned by Dennis (I think in real life TOO) and the final scene is an uncredited Anthony (Pauly Shore - "Encino Man" - "Son in Law" - "Bio-Dome") cleaning the outdoor kids wading pool….Ah the cameos……..
Purple Gene gives "Red Letters" 5 cups of green tea out of 10 for being kinda tongue in cheek with a chaser but no script as an entrée !
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, clear & windy.
The kid can be hard on clothes, so we had to buy some more pants for school today.
We also looked for new carnivorous plants for his 'terrarium o'death' but were unsuccessful.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'Still Standing', followed by a FRESH 'Listen Up', then a RERUN 'Raymond', followed by a RERUN '2½ Men', then a FRESH 'CSI: The 2md One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Mickey Rourke and Ludacris.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Amber Tamblyn, Jim Caviezel, and Steven Hensley.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Fear Factor', then the FRESH 'Miss USA 2005', hosted by the hyperactive step-stooler Billy Bush.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Charles Barkley, Natasha McElhone, and Fantasia.
On a RERUN Conan (from 11/12/04) are Chazz Palminteri, Marcia Cross, and Arj Barker.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Carmen Elektra, Allison DuBois, and the Dears.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That?', followed by a FRESH 'The Bachelor', then a RERUN 'Supernanny'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Karl Malone, Meinhardt Raabe, and the Dan Band.
The WB offers a FRESH 2-hour 'Summerland'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Nanny 911', followed by a FRESH '24' (Day 4: 11pm - midnight).
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'Cuts', then a RERUN 'Girlfriends', followed by a RERUN 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Growing Up Gotti', another 'Growing Up Gotti', yet another 'Growing Up Gotti', and yes, still another 'Growin Up Gotti'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blue Hawaii', followed by the movie 'An Affair To Remember', then the movie 'Move Over, Darling'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 5;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Coffee Morning;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[4pm] 'The Avengers' - The Curious Case of the Countless Clues;
[5pm] 'The Avengers' - The Joker;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 11;
[8pm] 'Murphy's Law' - Jack's Back;
[9pm] 'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 11;
[12am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Murphy's Law' - Jack's Back;
[3am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'Murphy's Law' - Jack's Back;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'West Wing' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Big Trouble', 'South Park', 'Blue Collar TV', and another 'Blue Collar TV'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Byron York.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Last Days Of WWII', 'Band Of Brothers' (part 1 of 10), and 'Band Of Brothers' (part 2 of 10).
IFC -
[6AM] 'Baby It's You' (1983);
[7:45AM] 'Alice et Martin' (1998);
[10AM] 'Grateful Dawg' (2000);
[11:30AM] Short: 'Weightless' (2002);
[11:45AM] 'Character' (1997);
[2PM] 'For Roseanna' (1997);
[3:45PM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[4:15PM] 'The Last Days Of Chez Nous' (1993);
[6PM] 'Shadow Magic' (2000);
[8PM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[8:30PM] Short: 'Bliss' (2000);
[9PM] 'Unhook The Stars' (1996);
[11PM] 'Mr. Jealousy' (1997);
[1AM] 'Unhook The Stars' (1996);
[3AM] 'Mr. Jealousy' (1997);
[4:45AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003);
[5:30AM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has all 'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'The Way Home' (Feature);
[7:30AM] 'Shorts Program 106' (Short);
[8:30AM] 'Salt' (Feature);
[10AM] 'The Hours' (Feature);
[12PM] 'Shooting the War' (Documentary);
[1PM] 'Oporto of My Childhood' (Feature);
[2:05PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Narc' (Original Production);
[2:30PM] 'Alexei and the Spring' (Feature);
[4:15PM] 'Disbelief' (Feature);
[6PM] 'Oporto of My Childhood' (Feature);
[7PM] 'Shooting the War' (Documentary);
[8PM] 'Unfinished Symphony' (Feature);
[9PM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 3&4' (Documentary);
[10:35PM] 'Black Picket Fence' (Documentary);
[12:15AM] 'Hidden' (Short);
[12:30AM] 'Narc' (Feature);
[2:20AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Narc' (Original Production);
[2:45AM] 'Life After War' (Feature);
[4AM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 3&4' (Documentary);
[5:45AM] 'Disbelief' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM features Charles Chaplin all day and
Buster Keaton.
[6am] 'Chaplin at Keystone Studios' (1914) SILENT ;
[7am] 'The Idle Class' (1921) SILENT ;
[7:45am] 'The Kid' (1921) SILENT ;
[8:45am] 'Pay Day' (1922) SILENT ;
[9:15am] 'The Pilgrim' (1923) SILENT ;
[10am] 'A Woman of Paris' (1923) SILENT ;
[11:30am] 'The Circus'(1928) SILENT ;
[12:45pm] 'City Lights' (1931) SILENT ;
[2:15pm] 'Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin' (2003);
[4:30pm] 'Modern Times' (1936);
[6pm] 'The Great Dictator' (1940);
[8pm] 'The Paleface' (1922) SILENT ;
[9:45pm] 'Cops' (1922) SILENT
[10:15pm] 'Our Hospitality' (1923) SILENT ;
[11:45pm] 'Sherlock Jr.' (1924) SILENT ;
[12:45am] 'The Navigator' (1924) SILENT ;
[2am] 'The Scarecrow' (1920) SILENT ;
[2:30am] 'The Cameraman' (1928) SILENT ;
[3:45am] 'Buster Keaton: So Funny It Hurt!' (2004);
[4:30am] 'Free And Easy' (1930). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 04/12
TCM spends most of the day & all of the night with
Errol Flynn.
[6:15am] 'Small Town Girl' (1953);
[8am] 'Kiss Me Kate' (1953);
[10am] 'That Forsyte Woman' (1949);
[12pm] 'Never Say Goodbye' (1946);
[2pm] 'Escape Me Never' (1947);
[4pm] 'Desperate Journey' (1942);
[6pm] 'San Antonio' (1945);
[8pm] 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade' (1936);
[10pm] 'The Dawn Patrol' (1938);
[12am] 'Dodge City' (1939);
[2am] 'Santa Fe Trail' (1940);
[4am] 'Virginia City' (1940). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Actors David Duchovny (L) and Robin Williams laugh as they pose for photographers during the premiere of their film 'House of D' in New York April 10, 2005. Duchovny wrote and directed the film.
Photo by Bill Davila
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Pulitzer-Winning Playwright
John Patrick Shanley
Award-winning writer John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his play about a priest suspected of sexual abuse, says some policies on birth control and women's rights that were championed by Pope John Paul are criminal.
"He was extremely conservative in his papacy and at times very irresponsible," Shanley told Reuters in an interview on Thursday night. "To discourage the use of condom use in Africa is criminal."
He criticized the pontiff for reversing previous efforts to loosen church dogma, for ensuring female clergy members would never achieve equality and for appointing a succession of conservative cardinals.
He cited the elevation to Rome of Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Boston archbishop forced to resign for protecting sexually abusive priests, as an example of how the Catholic Church has failed to properly deal with its own clergymen.
"I have been very surprised there has not been a more enthusiastic prosecution within the church for committing the very serious crime of sexually abusing a child," he said. "From what moral place do they speak to their flock?"
John Patrick Shanley
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Actor Kiefer Sutherland arrives as a guest for Chrysalis' fourth annual Butterfly Ball, a fundraiser to help homeless people become self-sufficient through employment opportunities, in Los Angeles April 9, 2005.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Influential List
'Time 100'
Resident Bush, filmmaker Michael Moore and lifestyle trendsetter Martha Stewart are among the world's most influential people on Time magazine's second annual "Time 100" list published on Sunday.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who survived dioxin poisoning, and conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who presided over Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, made the list along with hip-hop artist Jay-Z.
Comedian and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who satirizes politicians and the media on television and in the best-selling "America (The Book)," also landed on the list.
Stewart has "a voice for democratic ideals and the noble place of citizenship, helped along by the sound of laughter," former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw wrote.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" takes on the Bush administration, appears in the "Artists and Entertainers" category.
'Time 100'
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Plans for Museum Take Shape
Ray Charles
Longtime Ray Charles manager Joe Adams has unveiled plans and artist renderings for the previously announced Ray Charles Museum.
Encompassing Charles' existing RPM studio site, the three-story, 18,000-square-foot museum is slated to open in late 2007 under the auspices of the Ray Charles Museum Foundation.
"The museum is something that Adams and Charles had been hashing around for a few years," says Jerry Digney, a spokesman for the Ray Charles estate. "Charles was always very active in supporting schools, including Morehouse, and he wanted to do something for the community. It will not only be a museum but equally a music education center available to locals and out-of-towners."
Built in 1964 under the direction of Charles and Adams, RPM was named a Los Angeles landmark in 2004.
Ray Charles
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo delivers the keynote address during the Hemingway/PEN Award ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts April 10, 2005. Russo was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, 'Empire Falls.'
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
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Caesars Palace
Pussycat Dolls
Eva Longoria of "Desperate Housewives" had a celebrity-laden crowd purring when she helped open a new lounge featuring the famous Pussycat Dolls at Caesars Palace hotel-casino.
Armed with a horse whip, wearing knee-high leather boots and a zebra-striped mini skirt, Longoria introduced the sexy song-and-dance group to Las Vegas with a provocative meow on Saturday night. The Pussycat Dolls have long performed their cabaret-style shows around Los Angeles, and often feature celebrity guest performers.
"I've always been desperate to be a pussycat," Longoria, 30, said while prancing around a stage at the center of the lavish room. "And here I am, a bona fide, show-stopping pussycat."
The shows - which include no nudity - have long attracted Hollywood's A-list crowd.
Pussycat Dolls
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Saw Siegfried, Roy As Threat
Cole Ford
A former pro football player accused of shooting at the compound of Siegfried & Roy wanted to "warn the world" of the threat posed by the illusionists, according to a psychiatric report.
The evaluation was performed by psychiatrist Norton Roitman after Cole Ford was charged with firing several shotgun blasts at the Las Vegas home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn.
"While watching Siegfried and Roy, he had a sudden realization that what was wrong with the world was linked to the illusionists' treatment, dominance and unhealthy intimacy he saw them having with their animals," Roitman wrote.
Ford told Roitman that he thought the entertainers' contact with their animals was sexual and related to the development of viruses such as AIDS.
Roitman said Ford was not paranoid schizophrenic but had shown symptoms of the illness. Ford had been working as a laborer in the Las Vegas area before he was arrested.
Cole Ford
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Actress Bai Ling arrives as a guest for Chrysalis' fourth annual Butterfly Ball, a fundraiser to help homeless people become self-sufficient through employment opportunities, in Los Angeles April 9, 2005.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Replacing Child Jockeys With Robots
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, under pressure to stamp out the use of children as camel jockeys, plans to introduce robot riders this year.
"The mechanical jockey is light in weight and receives orders from the instructor via a remote control system fixed on the back of the camel," the daily Gulf News said on Sunday, quoting an official statement.
It said President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan was behind the initiative. The Gulf Arab state last month enacted new laws to crack down on the trafficking of under-16 camel jockeys, a practice internationally condemned as a form of slavery.
The paper said the first prototype mechanical jockey was tested on Saturday and the first batch would go into service in August in the lucrative sport, popular among Bedouin Arabs.
United Arab Emirates
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Surrounded by thousands of worshippers, temple officials start the parade of the Chinese Matsu, god of the sea, at the Dajia Matsu Cheng Lan Temple, early Sunday morning, April 10, 2005, in Dajia, on the central east coast of Taiwan. Said to watch over fisherman and sailors, Matsu sets off on an eight-day pilgrimage from the Chen lan Temple, with a parade of over 100,0000 well-wishers, floats and shooting fireworks. Matsu and a throng of followers will travel some 280 kilometers (174 miles) to sister Matsu temples throughout Taiwan's south before returning to Dajia.
Photo by Wally Santana
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Suspends Sexy Dance Team
San Jose State
San Jose State has suspended its dance team after a sexy routine at a basketball game triggered a confrontation involving an elderly alumnus and and a 20-year-old dancer.
The confrontation, captured on videotape by a parent, erupted after a dance during a March 5 home game to the raunchy lyrics of "Move Somethin'" by LL Cool J.
"It was vulgar," said Ray Silva, 74, a San Jose businessman and major university booster. "It was like a burlesque, with bumps and grinds. I just came unglued."
Dancer Tarah DiNardo confronted Silva at the end of the game, gesturing emphatically as the two shouted at one another. John Glass, an associate athletic director, stepped between them and grabbed DiNardo's arm, apparently bruising it.
"I don't want people to lay hands on my daughter," said businessman and ex-Marine Joey DiNardo. "There's too much dirty dancing going on," he acknowledged, but added: "You don't grab anyone or call the girls trash."
San Jose State
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Snow clings to statues on a monument at Denver's City Park on Sunday, April 10, 2005, as a spring blizzard passed through the area. Flights were cancelled at Denver International Airport and roads closed as more than a foot of snow fell.
Photo by Ed Andrieski
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