BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 20 June, 2005
Monday
20 June, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
Not In Stores
By Baron Dave Romm
Not In Stores
Music from Riverfolk, primeTime sublime
Community Orchestra, Scandinavian Accordion Club of New
York
Not every CD made winds up in the stores. Here are three that are
worthy of the extra effort to obtain.
A common caveat: I've known Riverfolk for years, and can
prove it with some great pictures of Chas & Becca, Andy Anda (sometimes
spelled "&e &a") though while I've known Roady almost as long as I've
known Andy I don't have a picture. Reviewing the work of friends is
always a bit of a pickle: I want to promote my friends' work but I
have to maintain journalistic integrity (such as it is these days)
and I don't particularly want to say bad things about people I like.
Fortunately, I get to say good things about Riverfolk today.
Meander is Riverfolk's first album, and it's excellent. In
concert, Riverfolk is an amorphous group of 2 to 5 musician friends
who play in a laid back folk atmosphere. They just love playing for
friends. The CD captures a lot of the folksiness while emphasizing
the vocals a live unmiked concert can't balance. The four main folk
are joined by others on some cuts so the sound isn't the same on each
song. Sometimes Andy plays fiddle, sometimes mandolin. Chas and
Becca's harmonies are allowed to intertwine and counterpoint. The
cover of the CD is a cutout of the four of them with a NASA photo of
the Arkansas river as it goes Passing Through Tulsa, a Tom
Paxton song that serves as the title cut. Like the river, Riverfolk
meanders through the folk genre with a steady tug. Unlike the river,
they sing of love and love lost; the folk don't expect a lot from
life, but they know what makes a home.
As a fan of wordplay, my favorite song is A Member of the
Rabble by Kevin Brixius, sung by Chas with harmony by Becca and
Sally Heinz, violin by Andy, bass by Nate Bucklin (another friend
I've talked about before):
I am a member of the rabble
I put em-PHA-sys on the wrong sy-LA-ble.
I do not meet with the social elite
I do not speak well I babble.
Or perhaps my favorite cut is the bouncy Home, featuring
the four Riverfolk, a love song about coming home. Chas and Becca
alternate singing their verses then sing them in counterpoint. Just
like home. Or even the Nancy Griffith Grammy-nominated song Love
at the Five and Dime, about young lust which blooms to true love.
Chas goes deep (but not gruff) in the Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg song
Way
Over Yonder In The Minor Key with a nice mandolin break from Andy
and harmonies from Becca and Sally. Or perhaps my favorite song
is... well you get the idea. Still, I would be remiss in not
mentioning the one song that works best live: Chas' love paean to
his wife, Bonnie's Song, which generally requires Bonnie being
around.
Meander is more than iPw (iPod worthy), it demonstrates
that Riverfolk are larger than the sum of their parts, and are as
good in the studio as they are live. Recommended.
Riverfolk's first album came to their doorstep less than
forty-eight hours before I'm writing this, and I was their first
sale. As yet, they don't have availability info on their web site.
I asked, and they said to write them about getting
the CD. Mention that you heard about it from Baron Dave.
And as long as I'm mentioning albums not available in stores, let
me again briefly plug Roady's 1996 CD, Rich and Roady. A nice
bunch of original folk tunes, including Minnesota-inspired The
Wood-Tick Song. Definitely iPw.
Sometimes, my friends will pop up with a CD and I say, "can I have
one of those?" Sometimes, CDs mysteriously appear in my KFAI mailbox
saying "check this out!" A few weeks ago Songs That Will Never Win A
Grammy by the (wait, let me get the capitalization right) primeTime sublime Community
Orchestra or pTsCO. Their web site contains the kind of hype I
strive to avoid, so you can read all their attempts to make what they
do sound more than it is. And what it is is: fun.
pTsCO is an electronic group, with electronic vocals and topics
that range from Nixon and Bush to sex. I don't know whether the
electronic vocals are entirely created by computer, as is Reed
Waller's Nellie and the
Drummers or everyone gets pumped through a synthesizer. Still,
the music is good -- highly orchestrated in a way that you can only
do with lots of money OR a lot of computer time -- and the lyrics
understandable. They try to be political and/or current, which
mostly doesn't work as comment on the news but does keep them fresh.
Songs include Curb Your God, about "G_d poop"; and It Will
All Be Over Before You Know It, an electronic lounge song about
living each day as if it were your last.
These songs will never win a Grammy because they don't deserve to.
Still, they're off the beaten Top-40 path and if you like your music
a bit out of the ordinary, Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy
is iPw.
The Scandinavian
Accordion Club of New York has been performing since 1987. A
friend handed me their fifth CD, Have A Banana! from 2002,
distributed in a paper CD holder. They play at SkandJam in New Jersey, which is
a big Swedish gathering, and have played from Norway to South Dakota.
Here in Minnesota, we have a lot of Scandahoovians (one of whom was
the friend who gave me the CD) who are rightly proud of their
heritage. They can be proud of the Scandinavian Accordion Club of New
York.
The twenty-four cuts on Have A Banana! comprise twenty
mostly instrumental waltzes and polkas plus four short cuts of Dan
Knutson asking for a cup of coffee. Most people, I would imagine,
associate accordion dance music with Lawrence Welk, who was really
good and led a really good band. But where Welk was on tv and liked
bubbles, the Scandinavian Accordion Club of New York just plays for
folk. And they too are really good: danceable tunes played nicely.
If you don't listen to anything but rap and hip-hop, this probably
isn't for you. But these iPw cuts are going in the shuffle soon.
The CD insert says to order by e-mailing JWDragspel@aol.com but that was
from 2002; on the website is the same e-mail plus another contact
telephone #. Recommended for anyone making a dance mix or who just
wants some sprightly music around the house.
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.
--////
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still
a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
Thanks (again), Baron Dave!
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BROTHER BUFFALO
DON'T STICK YOUR TONGUE OUT AT ME
I'M YOUR ONLY FRIEND
Zen Man
(at J and S Bison store in Mendocino Co.)
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Check This Out!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
John Conyers, American Hero, Writes a Kick-Ass Letter
I write to express my profound disappointment with Dana Milbank's June 17 report, "Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War," which purports to describe a Democratic hearing I chaired in the Capitol yesterday. In sum, the piece cherry-picks some facts, manufactures others out of whole cloth, and does a disservice to some 30 members of Congress ...
MasterCard: 40 million accounts may be compromised (RAW STORY)
MasterCard International reported today that it is notifying its member financial institutions of a breach of payment card data, which potentially exposed more than 40 million cards of all brands to fraud, of which approximately 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards.
Jim Hightower: Food Marketing Trics (AlterNet)
It's time for another trip into the Far, Far, Far, Far-out World of Free Enterprise
Ben Bush: Chronicling Conflict (Bitch Magazine. Posted on Alternet)
Photographer Mimi Chakarova has traveled the world chronicling war, sex trafficking and assaults on human rights. But instead of shocking viewers, her images provoke important questions.
BOB GRIMM: Caped Comeback (tucsonweekly.com)
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Reader Comment
Late SNL!
Marty-
They're doing a sketch that I haven't seen since it was first done--and it's one that has stuck with me for years!
The interview with a man (Bill Murray) who has written a new book. And as the interview proceeds, the interviewer (Jane Curtain) realizes that the author still suffers from the affliction called "quintalexia"--only being able to say 5 words, always the same 5 words. As it turns out, the author must say "That's true. You're absolutely right" to everything. Of course, she starts making him say "That's true. You're absolutely right" to some awful things--your mother wears Army boots, you still wet the bed, etc. Sure wish I had Tivo and could have captured that. It's such an excellent skit.
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda!
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Another Rant
Avery Ant
The Ant Rants about George Bush
62 Million Dollars Spent on PR Firms
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast til noon, then a mostly sunny, breezy day.
Had a lot of fun on the Erin Hart Show last night. Will be back in 2 weeks.
Got a nice note from Jorge -
his single, 'Girlfriend,' (from his album 'Possibly Now!') is being featured on 'Summerland' tonight. It was also heard on
'One Tree Hill' last year.
Drop by his site, Jorge's Music, and check it out!
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'Still Standing', followed by another RERUN 'Still Standing', then a RERUN 'Raymond', followed by a RERUN '2½ Men', then a RERUN 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Christopher Walken and Billy Corgan.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Allison Janney, Julian Sands, and Rilo Kiley.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Fear Factor', followed by a RERUN 'Las Vegas', then a RERUN 'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Martin Lawrence, Keith Olbermann, and Sugar Ray.
On a RERUN Conan are Gisele Bundchen, Johnny Damon, and Hot Hot Heat.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Mila Kunis, D.L. Hughley, and Erasure.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'The Scholar', followed by the movie 'Patch Adams'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Mekhi Phifer, Nancy Grace, and Ying Yang Twins.
The WB offers a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH 'Summerland'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Nanny 911', followed by a FRESH 'Hell's Kitchen'.
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'All Of Us', then a RERUN 'Girlfriends', followed by a RERUN 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', followed by a FRESH 'Airline', another 'Airline', 'Growing Up Gotti', another 'Growing Up Gotti', still another 'Growing Up Gotti', and yet another 'Growing Up Gotti'.
AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE of 'Celebrity Charades' (with Chad Lowe), and the movie 'Independence Day', again.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 6;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - A Change Is As Good As A Rest;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[4pm] 'The Avengers' - The Super Secret Cypher Snatch Game;
[5pm] 'The Avengers' - The Forget-Me-Knot;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - McKellin;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 6;
[8pm] 'Murder in Mind' - Echoes;
[9pm] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 6;
[12am] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Murder in Mind' - Echoes;
[3am] 'Prime Suspect' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'Murder in Mind' - Echoes;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'West Wing' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Reel Comedy', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Russ Meneve), 'South Park', 'Blue Collar TV', and another 'Blue Collar TV'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Ringo Starr.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH 'UFO Files', 'Digging For The Truth', and a FRESH 'Deep Sea Detectives'.
IFC -
[6AM] Short: 'The Last Frontier' (2002);
[6AM] 'Sexy Beast' (2001);
[7:30AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[8AM] 'Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control' (1997);
[9:30AM] 'Invincible' (2001);
[12PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[12:15PM] 'Dinner Rush' (2000);
[2PM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[2:30PM] 'IFC June Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[4:30PM] 'Love Liza' (2002);
[6PM] 'Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead' (2005);
[6:30PM] 'Invincible' (2001);
[8:45PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[9PM] 'Personal Velocity' (2002);
[10:30PM] 'Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead' (2005);
[11PM] 'Blade Runner' (2003);
[1AM] 'Personal Velocity' (2002);
[2:30AM] 'Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead' (2005);
[3AM] 'Blade Runner' (2003). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has all 'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/17/05);
[8AM] 'Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay and Lesbian Parents';
[9AM] 'Dummy';
[10:35AM] 'Marathon';
[12PM] 'Playing for Change';
[1:10PM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording';
[2PM] 'The Tunnel';
[3:30PM] 'Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay and Lesbian Parents';
[4:30PM] 'In The Mirror of Maya Deren';
[6:15PM 'Cinema Verite: Defining The Moment';
[8PM 'Hofmann's Potion';
[9PM] 'The Tasty Bust Reunion';
[10PM] 'Monster Road';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/20/05);
[12:30AM] 'Dummy';
[2:05AM] 'Fan Mail';
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/20/05);
[3:30AM] 'Margaret Cho's Revolution';
[5AM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM briefly celebrates what would have been the 81st birthday of the most decorated American soldier of WWII,
Audie Murphy, then spends the night with Ingrid Bergman.
[6am] 'MGM Parade Show #28' (1955);
[6:30am] 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' (1934);
[8:30am] 'Imitation Of Life' (1934);
[10:30am] 'Madame Du Barry' (1934);
[12pm] 'David Copperfield' (1935) [AKA: 'The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger'];
[2:30pm] 'Captains Courageous' (1937) [View Trailer];
[4:30pm] 'The Red Badge Of Courage' (1951);
[6pm] 'To Hell And Back' (1955) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'The Bells Of St. Mary's' (1945) [View Trailer];
[10:15pm] 'Casablanca' (1942) [View Trailer];
[12am] 'Gaslight' (1944) [View Trailer];
[2am] 'Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde' (1941);
[4am] 'Saratoga Trunk' (1945). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 06/21
TCM spends most of the day paying tribute to an aerodynamically enhanced
Jane Russell (today is her 84th birthday), then
features science fiction most of the night.
[7am] 'Private Screenings: Mitchum/Russell' (1996);
[7:45am] 'Gentlemen Marry Brunettes' (1955);
[9:30am] 'The French Line' (1954);
[11:15am] 'The Las Vegas Story' (1952);
[12:45pm] 'Montana Belle' (1952);
[2:15pm] 'His Kind Of Woman' (1951);
[4:30pm] 'Double Dynamite' (1951);
[6pm] 'The Outlaw' (1943);
[8pm] 'Soylent Green' (1973);
[9:45pm] 'Westworld' (1973);
[11:30pm] '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) [View Trailer];
[2:15am] 'Logan's Run' (1976) [View Trailer];
[4:15am] 'No Blade Of Grass' (1970). (ALL TIMES EDT)
USA has the 'AFI Life Achievement Award: George Lucas' (RERUNs Thursday on BRAVO)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Horror film director George A. Romero poses on the red carpet with zombies just before the premiere of his latest motion picture, 'Land of The Dead,' during Cine Vegas, Saturday, June 18, 2005, at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Photo by Eric Jamison
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Spin Magazine Picks As Best CD
Radiohead
Spin magazine named Radiohead's "OK Computer" the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive "even when its words are spoken by a robot."
The British band's album edged out Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and Nirvana's "Nevermind" on a list in Spin's 20th anniversary issue, currently on newsstands.
Sandwiched between Radiohead's straight-ahead rock disc "The Bends" and the more experimental, electronic "Kid A," "OK Computer" was the album that propelled Radiohead to worldwide, stadium-sized popularity. Though it never went higher than No. 21 on the Billboard charts, it won critical raves and a Grammy for best alternative music performance.
Also in the top 10, in order, are Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted," The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead," Pixies' "Surfer Rosa," De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising," Prince's "Sign `o' the Times," PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" and N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton."
Radiohead
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In this photo released by NBC Universal, Brian Williams, Lorne Michaels, Suzanne Wright, Steve Martin, and Bob Wright are seen in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, June 18, 2005. Steve Martin was honored at The NBC Universal Screenwriter's Tribute at the 10th Annual Nantucket Film Festival.
Photo by Lisa Berg
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Wins at Imagen Awards
'Motorcycle Diaries'
"The Motorcycle Diaries," the tale of revolutionary Che Guevara's life-changing 1950s journey across Latin America, swept top honors at the Imagen Awards, including best picture, director and supporting actor.
The film, based on Guevara's diaries of his 1952 trip with Alberto Granado, also garnered Jose Rivera the Norman Lear Writer's Award.
The show Friday honored contributions by and about Latinos and Latino culture.
'Motorcycle Diaries'
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Human Rights Campaign
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson was in no mood for jokes when she got a cheeky introduction from actor Alan Cumming as she received a humanitarian award from a gay rights group.
After Cumming joked that she was never one for controversy, Jackson apologized for her own lack of humor in her first public appearance since brother Michael Jackson's acquittal on child molestation charges.
"My family and I have just gone through the least humorous chapter of our lives," she explained in accepting the award Saturday night from the Human Rights Campaign. "I'm going to leave the jokes to the late-night (comics), if that's OK."
Jackson told the crowd, "Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love."
Janet Jackson
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Weeps at Dad's Painting Exhibit
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro got choked up at an exhibit of paintings by his father in northeastern France.
"This is a magnificent exhibit," said De Niro, whose father, Robert De Niro Sr., passed away more than a decade ago.
"I'm sad that my father is not here," De Niro said Saturday, dabbing his eyes.
The 56-painting exhibit, in the recently opened La Piscine Museum in the town of Roubaix, is the first European retrospective of the elder De Niro's paintings. Hundreds gathered outside the museum, housed in a renovated Art Deco poolhouse, hoping to spot the actor.
Robert De Niro
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Janet Jackson, recipient of the Human Rights Campaign's Humanitarian Award, arrives for the organization's gala at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California June 18, 2005. Jackson was recognized for her generosity in civil rights and charitable causes, as well as her support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
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Censored A-Bomb Stories Published
George Weller
An American journalist who sneaked into Nagasaki soon after the Japanese city was leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb found a "wasteland of war" and victims moaning from the pain of radiation burns in downtown hospitals.
Censored 60 years ago by the U.S. military, George Weller's stories from the atom bombed-city surfaced this month in a series of reports in the national Mainichi newspaper.
By hiring a Japanese rowboat, catching trains and later posing as a U.S. Army colonel, Weller, an award-winning reporter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, slipped into Nagasaki in early September 1945, Mainichi said - about a month after the Aug. 9 bombing that killed 70,000 people.
Weller, who died in 2002, was the first foreign journalist to set foot in the devastated city, which Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation in Japan, had designated off-limits to reporters, the newspaper said.
George Weller
Mainichi newspaper
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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No Date
Miss America
In any other year, Miss Delaware Becky Bledsoe would be making her travel plans. The folks at Fischer Florists would know when they have to deliver all the corsages and bouquets. Boardwalk Hall would have a two-week period blocked out for pageant rehearsals, preliminary competitions and the crowning of the new Miss America.
But this is not any other year. Miss America doesn't have a date, and the uncertainty has her world in a tizzy.
With three months to go before its traditional start, the beauty pageant is still without a TV contract and has yet to establish a date for the crowning, which traditionally is held in early September.
Dropped by ABC last fall because of record-low viewership, the Miss America pageant has been searching for a new television outlet to carry the 84-year-old pageant.
Miss America
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Visitors at the 36th Art Basel in Switzerland examine a bar of soap believed to be made from fat pumped from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after he had a face lifting and liposuction operation in this June 14, 2005 file picture. Gianni Monti's work called 'Clean Hands' -- the title is a play on the name of an anti-Mafia group -- sold in less than an hour for 15,000 euros ($18,000) to a private Swiss collector, according to Monti's Galerie Nicola von Senger of Zurich. Picture taken on June 14, 2005.
Photo by Siggi Bucher
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NBC/Universal to Launch Teaser
King Kong
NBC Universal will present an unprecedented motion picture preview "roadblock" as all nine of its networks simultaneously telecast the world premiere of the first trailer for Universal Pictures' King Kong, the dramatic adventure helmed by Oscar®-winning director Peter Jackson, on Monday, June 27, from 8:59:30-9:02 PM ET.
As part of the ambitious, multi-pronged effort, the two-minute, 30-second teaser trailer will be broadcast at the same time on NBC, SCI FI, USA Network, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, Mun2 and Universal HD. The trailer will be offered in high-definition on NBC and Universal HD. The estimated potential audience of the combined networks would exceed 109 million viewers, surpassing the total distribution of any previous promotional broadcast.
The specific schedule for the airing of the teaser trailer on each of the NBC networks is as follows:
NBC -- immediately following Fear Factor
USA Network -- immediately following Law & Order: SVU
SCI FI Channel -- immediately following Stargate-SG1
Bravo -- immediately following West Wing
Universal HD -- immediately following Airport '77
MSNBC -- immediately following Countdown with Keith Olberman
CNBC -- immediately following Cover to Cover
Telemundo -- immediately following La Mujer en el Espejo
Mun2 -- teaser trailer will premiere during the two-hour block of The Roof
King Kong
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A paraglider hovers in the sky during his training flight at sunset 20 km (12.4 miles) from the southern Russia's city of Stavropol June 19, 2005.
Photo by Eduard Kornienko
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Sets 100 Meter Record
Kozo Haraguchi
A 95-year-old Japanese man shattered the 100 metres world record in the 95-99 age group at a seniors athletics meeting on Sunday, organisers said.
Kozo Haraguchi splashed through the rain to clock 22.04 seconds in Miyazaki, southern Japan, slicing almost two seconds off the previous world record of 24.01.
After being informed of his achievement, Haraguchi beamed: "Oh dear, really? Thank you very much."
Five years ago, Haraguchi set a world record for the 90-94 age bracket with a time of 18.08.
Kozo Haraguchi
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Two restorers adjust the painting 'Insula dulcamara' by Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) in the new Zentrum Paul Klee in the Swiss capital Berne, June 16, 2005. The Zentrum Paul Klee will open June 20, 2005 and will show a large part of the world famous avant-garde artist's work.
Photo by Ruben Sprich
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Mandatory Reading
Conyers vs. The Post
There is painful irony in the fact that, during the same month that the confirmation of "Deep Throat's" identity has allowed the Washington Post to relive its Watergate-era glory days, that newspaper is blowing the dramatically more significant story of the "fixed" intelligence the Bush Administration used to scam Congress and US allies into supporting the disasterous invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Last week, when the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Michigan Democrat John Conyers, chaired an extraordinary hearing on what has come to be known as the "Downing Street Memo"--details of pre-war meetings where aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the fact that, while the case for war was "thin," the Bush Administration was busy making sure that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy"--the Post ridiculed Conyers and the dozens of other members of Congress who are trying to get to the bottom of a scandal that former White House counsel John Dean has correctly identified as "worse than Watergate."
Post writer Dana Milbank penned a snarky little piece that, like similar articles in the New York Times and other "newspapers of record," displayed all the skepticism regarding Bush Administration misdeeds that one might expect to find in a White House press release.
To his credit, Conyers hit back.
In a letter addressed to the Post's national editor, the newspaper's ombudsman and Milbank, the veteran House member was blunt.
For the rest, Conyers vs. The Post
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In Memory
Lorna Thayer
Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie "Five Easy Pieces," died June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 85.
Her career spanned 40 years during which she appeared in more than 40 motion pictures and had dozens of guest roles on television shows. Most of her work, however, consisted of bit parts. She often was cast in movies credited only as "flower vendor," "warden" or "suntan lady," although she co-starred in the 1956 horror cult favorite "The Beast With a Million Eyes."
Lorna Thayer
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In Memory
Georgie Woods
Legendary radio broadcaster Georgie Woods, who introduced Philadelphia to the sounds of Stevie Wonder and the Temptations and took part in the 1960s civil-rights movement, died Saturday in Boynton Beach, Fla., likely of a heart attack, according to his longtime companion, Doris Harris. He was 78.
Woods came to Philadelphia from New York in 1953 and went on to use the airwaves of WDAS-AM and WHAT-AM to bring the city emerging talents such as the Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Known on the radio as "the guy with the goods," Woods also brought James Brown, Aretha Franklin and other acts to shows at the city's landmark Uptown Theater.
Woods marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr. and helped charter 21 buses to bring Philadelphians to King's historic 1963 march on Washington.
Woods was planning to travel to Philadelphia in November to be inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.
Georgie Woods
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Two dolphins swim in the port of Ancona, Italy, Sunday, June 19, 2005. The dolphins - not a common sight in this area - arrived in the port Saturday, possibly following a ship from open sea. The Cetacean Foundation is now planning to rescue them before they start suffering from the water pollution in the port.
Photo by Slobodan Antic
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