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Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Page is a little on the thin side today. Got in a bit later than anticipated. Although, Nashville is a damn fine airport if one is to be stranded by weather.
I don't think I'd be too out of line in saying JulieFest was a rousing success, thanks to the incredible efforts of Christian and Bart (and let's not
forget the tolerance of Mrs. Bart), and a wonderful crowd of great people. James Carville, Joe Conason, David Brock and Mark Carlin from Buzzflash.com were there to join in the festivities.
Chinaco ran like water (but, the really good, bottled kind). Oh, and the chocolate!.
Julie was even cooler than imagined. And funnier.
Yes, a video was made, and pictures were taken (but, the film was turned over to Bart).
It was a weekend where the only thing in short supply was sleep, in spite of DC not being a late night town at all. I'm really tired. More eventually.
So, last Friday, we're standing in the big baggage check-in line for Southwest at LAX. A black stretch limo pulls up & Ralph Nader gets out, to go wait for his Southwest flight.
Just struck me funny.
Tonight, Monday, it's all fresh on CBS, from 'King of Queens', 'Yes, Dear', 'Raymond',
'Becker' to '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Charlie Sheen, the 'Survivor: Marquesas' castoff of the week, and Paul Westerberg.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Ted Danson, Lauren Ambrose & International Noise Conspiracy.
NBC is also fresh with 'Fear Factor' (featuring twins), 'Third Watch', and 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are David Duchovny, Ari 'The Liar' Fleischer, and Brooks & Dunn. (Sounds like a good night to leave your boots on).
Conan's traditional Monday night rerun has Halle Berry, Ryan Phillippe (Mr. Reese Witherspoon) & Jud Hale.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Jeffrey Ross & Lit.
ABC is also fresh, and devotes the night to Gilda Radner. The first hour is creatively named 'Gilda Radner's Greatest Moments' (hosted by Molly Shannon), and following 2 hours
are a made-for-TV-movie, 'Gilda Radner: It's Always Something'. Why is this on ABC?
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Carrie Fisher, Andrew W. K., Larry Miller & the always annoying Laura Ingraham.
The WB is also fresh with '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.
Faux has fresh episodes of 'Boston Public' and 'Ally McBeal'.
UPN also has fresh episodes of 'The Hughleys', 'One On One', 'The Parkers' and 'Girlfriends'.
This week, PBS starts airing 'Frontier House' (based, of course, on a British TV program), where 3 families try to survive as 19th century pioneers.
'The Osbournes' from 11pm to midnight (edt).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
New Book For ParrotHeads?
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett may sing about wasting away, but he's been keeping himself busy touring for his latest CD and writing a new book.
"It's part-fiction, part-nonfiction," Buffett told Parade magazine in Sunday's editions. "I haven't yet signed a contract. These things take a long
time, and it's hard work. If you talk about it too much, they begin to smell the money and pile on the pressure to get it finished."
Buffett is already an accomplished writer, one of only six authors to have a New York Times No. 1 best seller in both fiction and nonfiction.
Buffett, touring for his new CD, "Far Side of the World," calls himself "just an old performer from Margaritaville" and said he has many musical influences.
Jimmy Buffett
Visited Downing Street
Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson, the wife of U2 singer Bono, joined other protesters in Downing Street to hand in postcards from the Irish people against the Sellafield nuclear
reprocessing site, April 26, 2002. The protest coincides with the 16th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster.
Photo by Stephen Hird
Must Attract 'Bad' Women
Michael Greene
The powerful music industry executive who helped turn the humble Grammy Awards into a major international event while fending off complaints
about his combative style, resigned after being cleared in a sexual harassment probe, officials said on Sunday.
Michael Greene, 52, stepped down on Saturday night as president of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) during an emergency
meeting of academy trustees who had flown in from around the country to discuss a probe into allegations of sexual harassment against him.
"(A) full and fair investigation of alleged misconduct by Mike was completed and it revealed no sexual harassment, no sex discrimination and no
hostile work environment at the Recording Academy," said academy Chairman Garth Fundis.
Earlier this year NARAS agreed to pay $650,000 to a former employee, Jill Geimer, who alleged that Greene once pinned her against her car, put his hand
up her skirt and sexually assaulted her. Greene denied the allegations and was cleared by an internal probe, but NARAS opted to pay a settlement and avoid a nasty public battle.
But NARAS hired a private investigator to look into Geimer's allegations as well as those by other women. Greene had previously been the subject of complaints by six other women, and
some were settled out of court. Greene denied those allegations and was cleared by an internal probe. Saturday's meeting was to discuss the private investigator's report.
A series of reports in the Los Angeles Times four years ago detailed how MusiCares spent only one-tenth of its annual income on its key mission -- providing medical and financial help for
ailing or indigent musicians -- while spending heavily on fund-raising, professional services, and other expenses. The series triggered an Internal Revenue Service probe and legal threats
against the Los Angeles Times by NARAS and won the paper a Pulitzer Prize.
Last year, Greene got off-side with Miami city officials after he abruptly moved the nascent Latin Grammys back to Los Angeles over concerns that protests by Cuban exiles against artists from the
communist nation could threaten the safety of performers and spectators. The event was ultimately canceled because it was scheduled for Sept. 11.
In 1998, he began a feud with then-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani after Greene reportedly berated and threatened a city staffer. As a consequence, the Grammys have been held for the past three
years in Los Angeles. With Giuliani now out of office, the Grammys will return to New York next year.
Michael Greene
BartCop TV!
''Tour of Seven Continents''
Spencer Tunick
Braving a chilly morning and scores of giggling onlookers, more than 1,000 people stripped naked in Sao Paulo on Saturday to pose for a series of mass nude photographs
by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick.
Tunick's volunteer models -- men and women of all sizes and colors -- posed for at least six different shots in three locations around Sao Paulo's central Ibirapuera park.
The "art event" or "installation" as Tunick referred to it, was the last in a series by the 36-year-old New Yorker called "Nude Adrift" in which he has photographed
hundreds of ordinary people posing nude in 30 cities on seven continents.
"This is the end of a journey. I was just in Antarctica photographing nudes and now I'm in Sao Paulo," Tunick told reporters after the shoot.
"I was expecting 600 to 800 people. To get 1,200 is a big surprise," he said, adding that most of his shoots in Europe gathered only about 400 people.
Many in the crowd of mostly young adults could not wait to peel off their clothes.
The photographs of anonymous naked bodies, sometimes limp on the ground and other times standing, have reminded some of Holocaust pictures. Tunick says his
artwork is about creating a piece of public sculpture that reaffirms the body and uses it to create an abstract photograph of the urban landscape.
The event was hosted by the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial art show and was Tunick's second photo shoot in South America after photographing 450 Argentines in the
nude in Buenos Aires earlier this month.
Spencer Tunick & ''Tour of Seven Continents''
They're B-a-a-a-a-c-k
M*A*S*H Reunion
Actor Alan Alda and the rest of his surviving pals from the 4077th will be returning to prime-time television for a "M*A*S*H" reunion, but
not on the network that originally carried the show, CBS.
The Fox Broadcasting Co., too young to fully indulge in the wave of TV nostalgia sweeping the networks, will present a two-hour "M*A*S*H" 30th
anniversary special on May 17, courtesy of the network's sister studio, 20th Century Fox Television, which produced the series.
The original show, which became one of the most enduring hits on television, debuted in the fall of 1972 and aired for 11 years on CBS.
The last original episode, a 2 1/2-hour finale on Feb. 28, 1983, was a highly publicized national event that drew the biggest U.S. audience
ever to watch a single TV program.
The Fox special will feature a reunion with all the surviving regulars, including Alda, Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John" McIntyre), Mike Farrell
(B.J. Hunnicut), Loretta Switt "Hot Lips Houlihan), Gary Burghoff (Corp. "Radar" O'Reilly), Jamie Farr (the cross-dressing Klinger), William
Christopher (Father Mulcahy), Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman Potter) and David Ogden Stiers (Charles Emerson Winchester).
M*A*S*H Reunion
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Soon to be updated.
Put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'
C'mon....send your thoughts, your impressions, your views, your favorite quotes...
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