Blast From The Past - News and Views | Beyond the City
Sunday, May 27, 2001
On this Memorial Day weekend when our commander-in-chief suddenly finds himself less in command, we might think back to the day that 22-year-old Lt. George W. Bush of the Texas Air National Guard filled out a form that asked whether he wished to volunteer for duty overseas.
Overseas in 1968 meant Vietnam, and Bush had signed up for the Guard just 12 days before he was eligible to be drafted whether he wanted to or not. He returned the form with a check in the box next to the words "Do not volunteer."
Bush had no moral objections to the war, for he soon after took a four-month leave from the Guard to join the campaign of Edward Gurney, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida whose primary criticism of our Vietnam policy was that we were not fighting hard enough.
"Win or get out!" went one Gurney slogan.
Bush secured the job through his father, then a congressman who vigorously supported sending other men's sons to Vietnam, volunteer or no.
"Telephone calls were exchanged, and young George came to Orlando," recalls the campaign's media strategist, Pete Barr.
American boys were dying at the rate of 350 a week as the younger Bush traveled about Florida, sheepdogging the media and carrying the seat cushion his candidate required due to a bullet wound to the spine suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.
"Bush always says he was the pillow-toter," Barr recalls.
Gurney's wound made campaigning extra arduous, and he periodically retired to his Winter Haven home. Bush whiled the time away with Barr.
"We would play a lot of tennis and drink a lot of beer," Barr says. "He just had this very nice personality. Everybody liked him. Very polite ... a lot of fun ... a neat guy."
Bush would then grab the war hero's pillow and rejoin the campaign against the legendary former Gov. Leroy Collins. Gurney called his Democratic opponent Liberal Leroy, a reminder that Collins had been the first elected official in the South to speak out against racism.
Collins had excoriated storekeepers on the radio for barring black patrons and fought to desegregate schools when polls showed four of every five white Floridians opposed him.
In 1965, President Johnson had dispatched Collins to Selma, Ala., to serve as a peacekeeper between civil rights marchers and the police. A news photographer had snapped Collins negotiating with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the march.
Three years later — just six months after King's assassination and only days before the Senate election — this picture of Collins "marching" with the slain civil rights leader appeared on thousands of pro-Gurney leaflets and posters. Barr insists, "We didn't have anything to do with those pictures."
"We never used that photograph, but it crept in in places," he says.
Gurney won by 300,000 votes, thanks largely to a late surge among white undecideds. Bush returned to the Guard and took another leave in 1972 to work for a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama.
By 1988, Bush's closest political buddies included Lee Atwater, who proposed using the infamous Willie Horton commercial against Michael Dukakis when Bush's father ran for President. Atwater died repentant, but the younger Bush did not shy from similar tactics when he made his own bid for President last year.
Bush faced John McCain in the primary, and the pilot who had checked the box "do not volunteer" did not hesitate to smear a pilot who had survived the Hanoi Hilton. Bush then faced Al Gore.
On Dec. 10, a hand count that promised to determine the next President commenced in none other than the Leroy Collins Public Library in Tallahassee, Fla. Collins' retort to a rabid segregationist was inscribed on the wall.
"I don't have to get reelected, but I have to live with myself."
At 2:42 p.m., a cell phone rang with word that the U.S. Supreme Court had voted, 5 to 4, to halt the count. Bush became President despite losing the popular vote nationwide and continued to be viewed by many as a "neat guy."
A growing number have come to feel otherwise, notably including Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who bolted the Republican Party last week. The pillow-toter marks his first Memorial Day as commander-in-chief no longer in command of that august body to which Leroy Collins once sought election.
A Blast From The Past - NY Daily News - 27 May, 2001
Changes At Comedy Central
And Carmen Electra, Too
Comedy Central is making a host of original programming changes. Among them: the cable channel has hired radio comic Sal Iacano as co-host of ``Win Ben Stein's Money'' and cancelled ``The Chris Wylde Show.''
It has also added Carmen Electra and comedians Brad Wollack and Arj Barker to ``Battle Bots.'' And the network is previewing its new game show ``Beat the Geeks'' three times this month following ``South Park'' -- on Nov. 7, 14 and 28 -- before rolling it out as a 7:30 p.m. daily show Dec. 10.
Iacano, known to some L.A. radio listeners as Jimmy Kimmel's ``Cousin Sal'' from some former bits on KROQ, will replace ``Ben Stein'' co-host Nancy Pimental.
Kimmel was co-host for the first 65 episodes of ``Win Ben Stein's Money'' and returned for a two-week encore performance on the show in September. Kimmel is one of the stars and creators of Comedy Central's ``The Man Show'' and has a development deal along with his fellow ``Man'' creators to come up with a new show for next year. Pimental replaced him on ``Ben Stein.''
Shows featuring Iacano, who really is Kimmel's cousin, are going into production now and will premiere in April. He's been a writer for the show for a couple of years, Deborah Liebling, Comedy Central senior VP of original programming, said.
Pimental also is a writer both for ``South Park'' and in the feature world. Liebling said Pimental was leaving ``Ben Stein'' to focus on her burgeoning writing career.
Meanwhile, latenight entry ``The Chris Wylde Show,'' which has 10 produced episodes will continue to air in repeats.
``The show really did have a loyal fan base, but not enough to continue,'' Liebling said. ``Latenight for us has been a place to try things; there are so many great, wild, low-budget, easy ideas and we'll continue to try new things there.''
Over at ``Battle Bots,'' Liebling said the changes are part of the course of the show.
``'Battle Bots' has always been a revolving door for us in terms of faces. We are so committed to comedians and getting them on the air, and certain shows lend themselves to that,'' she said. ``We've had a different female presenter every season so far ... It's not inconceivable that in the future, there will be regular turnover on that show.''
Electra follows fellow former ``Baywatch'' babes Donna D'Errico, Traci Bingham and Heidi Mark, who all previously were featured on ``Battle Bots'' in a similar capacity. Wollack and Barker follow twin comedians Jason Sklar and Randy Sklar.
Changes At Comedy Central
In The Chaos Household
Last Night's TV
'Thelma & Louise' and 'Goodfellas' were both on local TV Sunday afternoon-into-evening...Put
me in a good mood.
The evening began with 'The Simpsons' & 'Malcolm', followed by 'The X-Files' -
the only night I seem to visit Faux. Rather than watch their version of 'news', caught
the last hour of the 'Lucy Special' on CBS.
Tonight, 'MNF' has the Ravens at the Titans, on ABC.
CBS has its usual line-up of 4 comedies and 'Family Law', where Judd Hirsch
makes a guest appearance (shades of 'Taxi').
NBC has a 'special' of WWF 'celebrities' on 'Weakest Link' (anyone else thinking it's
'jumped the shark'?)
Dame Edna Everidge is on 'Ally McBeal' again this week on Faux.
Almost forgot, but, tonight, on the 'A & E' series, 'Biography', the scheduled
'person' is 'Satan, Prince Of Darkness' - hope there are a lot of first-person-accounts...
Koresh, if Satan is only the Prince in that belief system, who is King? (And what does
that say about their viewer-base?)
Booga-Booga.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Quote Of The Day
Aaron Sorkin
"I don't mean to lend a comic face to this at all, but there's something about these
guys that seems so much like 'Batman' villains to me. These crimes are bizarre and theatrical".
- "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin on Osama bin Laden and his cave-dwelling comrades.
Aaron Sorkin
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former United States President Bill Clinton waves as he arrives for dinner in Calgary, November
8, 2001. Clinton is speaking and dining with people who paid $400.00 Canadian to dine with the
former President. Money raised goes to various charities.
Photo by Patrick Price
Bill Clinton In Calgary
'Horse To The Water'
George Harrison
New Harrison Song to be Released
George Harrison, whose battles with ill health have generated intense media speculation,
has recorded a new song to be released this month - and credited it to ``RIP Ltd. 2001.''
The song, ``Horse to the Water,'' was recorded with British pianist and bandleader Jools
Holland at Harrison's home in Switzerland last month, Holland's official Web site said.
The site describes the song as ``a cross between 1960s' Bob Dylan and 1970s' John
Lennon ... not a ballad and not rock.''
Holland, former keyboard player for the band Squeeze, met Harrison during filming of
the ``Beatles Anthology'' documentary in 1995.
``George suggested we do a track, and it was wonderful to work with one of the great,
legendary artists in the world,'' Holland said in comments carried on the site.
The song, co-written by Harrison and his son Dhani, appears on Holland's album
``Small World Big Band,'' which will be released in Britain by Warner Music on Nov. 19.
The song's publishing credit is listed as ``RIP Ltd. 2001,'' apparently short for
``rest in peace.'' Holland's site said the credit ``reveals George's dark sense of humor.''
Recent media reports have said the 58-year-old Harrison has undergone experimental
cancer treatment at Staten Island University Hospital in New York. Neither the
hospital nor Harrison's representatives have confirmed the reports.
Harrison, the youngest of the four Beatles, underwent radiation treatment for cancer
earlier this year. In May, his lawyers announced he'd had a cancerous growth
removed from one of his lungs.
In 1998, Harrison was treated for throat cancer, which he blamed on smoking. In
1999, he suffered a punctured lung when he was stabbed by an intruder who broke
into his country home near London.
After the Beatles broke up in 1970, Harrison, the youngest and quietest of the Fab
Four, went on to a successful solo career with hits including ``My Sweet Lord.'' He
had success again in the 1980s with the Traveling Wilburys, but has recorded
infrequently in recent years.
New George Harrison Single
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The Future Of Entertainment?
Karl Rove & Hollywood Fealty
Over 40 top Hollywood executives met with a key advisor to President Bush on Sunday to discuss
ways they could contribute to the war on terrorism, but officials stressed there will be no
White House involvement in creating movies or television shows.
``Content was off the table,'' said Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of
America, which represents Hollywood's major studios in Washington, D.C.
On the agenda in the two-hour meeting with Bush aide Karl Rove were ideas like mounting
USO shows to entertain troops, getting first-run movies overseas quickly so soldiers and
sailors didn't have to watch the same old films over and over, and producing TV public
service announcements to reassure children and families during the war effort.
Rove laid out seven key themes of the Bush administration for executives like Viacom Inc . Chairman
Sumner Redstone and Walt Disney Co . President Bob Iger to keep in mind as they gave the green
light to upcoming movie and TV projects.
He said those points included the Bush theme that this war is not a war against Islam or
any religion, but was a war on terrorism and a war against evil. Other topics were that
this is a chance to issue a ``call to service'' for the United States, and that the
deadly Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center affected the world and required a global response.
``Finally, we talked about no propaganda,'' Rove told reporters at the Peninsula Hotel in
Beverly Hills, where the private meeting was held.
Valenti called the meeting ``unprecedented'' in his 35 years of dealing with the politics of show business.
Rove added that even during World War two, when the major studios cranked out numerous
patriotic films, the U.S. government was not involved in helping develop content.
Paramount sponsored the meeting, which was attended by 47 executives, Valenti said.
At the meeting were trade union leaders, top executives from all the major studios
that include Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Universal
Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. MGM.N, and DreamWorks SKG, as well as officials
from all major U.S. broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN and WB.
Paramount CBS and UPN are units of Viacom Inc. Disney Studios and ABC are owned by The Walt
Disney Co., Warner Bros and the WB network are part of AOL Time Warner Inc, and the Tribune Co.
is a part owner of the WB. NBC is owned by General Electric Co. . Universal Studios is a unit
of Vivendi Universal, and Columbia Pictures is a division of Sony Corp.
Karl Rove Goes To Hollywood
`Night of Heroes'
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis and the News kicked off a fund-raiser for disadvantaged youth with an a capella
version of the national anthem.
The event Saturday raised money for Willie Mays' Say Hey Foundation, which supports community
groups that work with youth and funds college scholarships.
``It's great hanging out with Willie Mays,'' Lewis said. ``We were talking about golf and
the '64 World Series.''
The evening included a cocktail reception, dinner, and performances by Lewis, Linda
Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.
Other notable guests included Sean Penn, Rob Schneider, Reggie Jackson, Barry Bonds and
former President Clinton.
Some of the proceeds from the event, called a ``Night of Heroes,'' will benefit victims
of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Huey Lewis & Willie Mays
'Taige Wuzi' And 'Gao-Er Fu'
Tiger Woods
The call him "Taige Wuzi" and the game he plays is "gao-er fu" - but when Tiger Woods stepped
out for the first time in China yesterday, the game he plays better than anyone in the world
proved to be a universal language.
The world's No. 1 golfer was mobbed by admiring Chinese fans, who in recent years have rushed
to adopt the game that was once banned in their country because it represented all that was
evil about capitalism.
But times have changed in China, and the country now has 130 golf courses. After making his
first long-haul international flight since Sept. 11, Woods is being hosted this weekend by
the luxurious Mission Hills Golf Club in China's much-vaunted special economic zone city of Shenzhen.
Fans reportedly paid $138 each to follow Woods as he played an exhibition 18 holes with
several local players yesterday. Several well-heeled members of the club will fork out $18,000
each to partner with Woods in another exhibition round today.
But the highlight yesterday was when Woods conducted a coaching clinic for several budding
young Chinese stars, including one youngster who received a mighty compliment from his hero
after he had hit a sweet shot off the tee.
"Sit down," the world's best golfer told the boy. "You're too good."
Tiger Woods In China
ESPN Going Into 'Made-For-TV-Movies'?
Brian Dennehy As Bobby Knight
Brian Dennehy poses at the 7th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, in this March 11, 2001 file photo, in Los Angeles.
Dennehy is set to portray Bob Knight in a made-for-television ESPN movie that chronicles the 1985-86 season
of the Knight-coached Indiana Hoosiers, according to Sunday's editions of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Brian Dennehy As Bobby Knight
NBC Considering Schedule Changes
'Scrubs'
If you want to know what time slot ``Scrubs'' will occupy come January, pay close attention
to this Thursday night's ratings.
The rookie hospital comedy gets a special airing in the coveted post-``Friends'' time slot
at 8:30 p.m. Unless viewers completely reject the show, NBC execs have essentially decided
that ``Scrubs'' will move into that time slot permanently come the first of the year.
Expected to fill the 9:30 p.m. Tuesday slot currently occupied by ``Scrubs'': the new Julia
Louis-Dreyfus comedy. ``Inside Schwartz,'' which started the season Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.,
has largely been written off for dead -- though there was some buzz late last week that NBC
may yet order additional episodes of the rookie sitcom.
'Scrubs' And 'Sweeps'
New!
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Another Chapter In The Book
'Fleetwood Mac'
Fleetwood Mac, the Anglo-American pop group that shrugged off bitter internal rivalries to
emerge as one of music's great survival stories, is back in the studio recording its first
album since a successful 1997 reunion.
The band hopes to tour late next summer ``with any luck,'' co-founder Mick Fleetwood told
Reuters, alluding to its wildly unpredictable 34-year progression from British blues combo
to California rock institution.
But it would not be a Fleetwood Mac project without some drama. In this case, singer/keyboardist
Christine McVie, one of three key songwriters, has retired from rock 'n' roll. Tired of the travel,
she lives in an English castle and indulges her passion for cooking.
That leaves drummer Fleetwood, bass player John McVie, Christine's ex-husband, and songwriters Lindsey
Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, the American half who are former lovers.
Fleetwood denied recent reports that rocker Sheryl Crow, who collaborated on Nicks' recent solo
album, will help out.
``We're happily a four-piece and are creatively, artistically handling to some degree a new chapter
of Fleetwood Mac without Christine, and it's going extremely well,'' Fleetwood, 54, said in a telephone interview Friday.
Fleetwood Mac has endured many changes over the years, but the best known lineup came together in 1975
when Buckingham and Nicks joined Fleetwood and the McVies. They powered the band to mega-success with
the 1977 album ``Rumors,'' which sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.
``Rumors'' documents the chaos enveloping the band at the time: the McVies were breaking up, as were
Buckingham and Nicks. Fleetwood's wife was sleeping with his best friend. Drug abuse was rampant.
Recording of the new album, under way in a Los Angeles house the band leased for a year, appears to
be going more smoothly. In fact, Fleetwood said the band has too many songs, and has considered issuing
a double album, something it has not done since 1979's ``Tusk.'' Fleetwood hopes to complete the album
in six to eight months.
Fleetwood Mac last released an album in 1997, when Buckingham and Nicks rejoined the band. ``The Dance,''
a live album culled from three intimate performances on a Los Angeles soundstage, sold more than 4 million
copies in the United States and paved the way for a successful U.S. tour.
The last studio album featuring Buckingham and Nicks was 1987's ``Tango in the Night,'' but Nicks'
involvement was limited and Buckingham declined to go out on tour. Fleetwood and the McVies
subsequently kept the band half-alive with hired hands, releasing albums in 1990 and 1995.
Guitarist/vocalist Buckingham, 52, is firmly at the musical helm of the re-energized band, ``and
we all put our penny worth in,'' Fleetwood said. Buckingham, author of such hits as ``Go Your Own
Way'' and ``Tusk,'' is producing and engineering the album, which will likely use some songs from
his unreleased fourth solo release. His contributions are already in the can, and the band is now
working on tunes by Nicks, 53.
Fleetwood said the absence of Christine McVie, 58, who wrote such tunes as ``Don't Stop'' and
``You Make Loving Fun,'' has inevitably affected the band's chemistry. Instead of bouncing ideas
off her, Buckingham has worked more closely with Fleetwood and John McVie, 56, resulting in a harder sound.
``You'll smell an element of the ... power trio, where we like to grind it out a bit,'' Fleetwood
said. ``But equally there's some blissfully, very cool harmonic, melodic stuff that just
sounds modern. But it's us.''
Return Of Fleetwood Mac
More 'Curse Of The Bambino?'
Matt Damon
Boston's rivalry with the New York Yankees suffered another serious blow when native son and
Red Sox fan Matt Damon confessed he rooted for the Yankees during the World Series.
``For the first time in my life, during the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series,
I was shocked to find myself rooting for the Yankees,'' said at the recent New York
opening of the film ``King of the Jungle,'' the Boston Sunday Herald reported.
``As a die-hard Red Sox fan who has hated the Yankees all my life, I thought I would
never utter such words. But my flimsy logic is that the Yankees are from the same
division as the Red Sox,'' said Damon, who grew up across the Charles River
from Fenway Park in Cambridge.
The Yankees have dominated the Red Sox in the 80 years since Boston sold Babe Ruth to New
York, bringing upon themselves the legendary ``Curse of the Bambino.''
``If word gets back to Boston that I said any of this I'm going to get strung up by
my thumbs,'' Damon said.
Matt Damon & The Yankees
New! Updated!
(6 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " "The influence of the opposition across the 3rd/9th axis may indicate
we have more to fear from domestic terrorism than a foreign entity. Sagittarius on the cusp
of the foreign 9th house, with ruler Jupiter in Cancer, the sign most closely associated with
home and country, in the home 4th, shows the source of anthrax and other bio-chemical threats
are more likely from within our own borders; by a home grown group of domestic terrorists. The
recent wave of breast beating, chest thumping, and flag waving can be attributed to the most
excessive planet (Jupiter) transiting the most exorbitantly patriotic and jingoistic sign (Cancer).
Jupiter also has jurisdiction over religion, so the source of these dreadful bio-terrorist attacks
could very well be a group with a strongly opinionated religious axe to grind. "
Very interesting reading!
Concert Venues Changing
A New Trend?
Television sets are beginning to rival local civic centers as concert venues.
CBS is airing a two-hour Michael Jackson concert special Tuesday and begins a run of
three weekly Garth Brooks shows on Wednesday. NBC presents Jennifer Lopez on Nov. 20
and 'N Sync is on CBS Nov. 23. ABC gives Mick Jagger a prime-time hour on Thanksgiving,
part biography, part performance.
Largely ignored by network television for many years, pop concerts have become a
programming genre of their own.
``The mainstream, middle American television audience in the year 2001 are people who
grew up going to concerts and for whom concerts remain a regular part of their entertainment,''
said Bill Flanagan, a VH1 executive. ``That's different from what it used to be.''
The concert specials have filled the niche that variety programs like ``The Ed Sullivan Show''
had in the 1960s, Flanagan said.
They don't necessarily get big ratings. A one-hour condensed version of the ``United We Stand''
concert on ABC Nov. 1 drew 6.2 million viewers, a fraction of the 27 million who saw ``Friends''
the same night. CBS ran highlights of the ``Concert for New York City'' the night before and
attracted 5.6 million viewers.
But the concerts generally bring in a younger audience than typical prime-time network fare,
enabling the networks to sell time to different advertisers, said Jeff Gaspin, head of
alternative programming at NBC.
That's particularly important at CBS, which traditionally has the oldest audience on network
TV. CBS has been the most aggressive of the four major broadcasters in airing concerts; Celine
Dion, Shania Twain and Ricky Martin have all done CBS specials.
Since CBS' parent company, Viacom, also owns MTV, VH1 and Country Music Television, musicians
are eager to do business with the network.
The three Brooks concerts this month will surely draw a bigger audience for CBS than ``Wolf
Lake,'' the struggling drama whose time slot is being filled. In a ratings ``sweeps''
month, that's money in the bank.
Brooks had announced that he wouldn't be doing any more concert tours.
``CBS has given me the opportunity to take the music to the people in a new way, to have the
fun of performing it live, and do it in such a way that I don't have to be away from home
for long periods of time,'' he said.
He'll do one show from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and another at The Forum in Los Angeles.
The third show, on Nov. 28, is at a site yet to be announced.
For the most part, seeing a concert on television is a lot like watching fireworks on TV - it's just
not the same as being there, Gaspin conceded. Yet the price of concert tickets is getting steep, and
many fans don't have the opportunity to see their favorite acts, he said.
Network executives say they try to create something that can't be duplicated at the local civic center.
Since Lopez, Jackson and Brooks aren't out on the road, TV is the only option for their fans.
``We try to create a very powerful package that nobody can come close to,'' said Jack Sussman, senior
vice president for special programming at CBS.
The success of shows like ``Behind the Music'' on VH1 convinced network executives that music can work,
said Gaspin, a VH1 executive before joining NBC. Previously, the broadcasters had pretty much left
music to the cable stations.
Concerts on TV have come a long way from the shows that aired post-midnight in the 1970s, and not
just the hairstyles. Camera angles can make fans feel like they're onstage, Flanagan said.
``Just getting the sound mix right for television took about 30 years,'' he said.
TV Concerts The New Trend?
Experiencing A Commercial Rebound
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp is pleased with having something of a commercial rebound, but says that at age
50 he is ``irrelevant'' in terms of the charts and MTV.
His 16th studio recording, ``Cuttin' Heads,'' debuted at No. 15 on Billboard magazine's albums
chart last month. ``John Mellencamp,'' his 1998 release, opened at No. 40 and slipped off the
top 200 in a matter of weeks.
Mellencamp does measure success, however, by personal responses to the music.
``Did you like the record? Did you relate to any of the songs? I had a frustrating - but
good - time making the record,'' he says. ``That's how I feel about it.''
After promoting ``Cuttin' Heads'' heavily on radio and television in recent weeks, the Indiana
native is on hiatus until a 50-date arena tour begins in March.
The album has fared well critically, with many reviewers comparing it to his 1980s releases
``Scarecrow,'' ``The Lonesome Jubilee'' and ``Big Daddy.''
``All of these records seem the same to me,'' he says. ``That's why I'm so surprised when
people distinguish that one record is better than another. I've been writing the same way
for years. I go up to my art studio, I have an acoustic guitar, and I have nothing particular
in mind that I want to write about until I start noodling around.
``I try to express a few things that aren't too offensive or, you know, too sappy.''
John Mellencamp
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Sunday Night, In Hollywood, On The 'Boulevard'
Halle & Peter
Cast members, Halle Berry, left, and Peter Boyle meet at the premiere of the film "Monster's Ball,"
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2001, at the Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
Halle Berry & Peter Boyle
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Still Really Like This One....
"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Gonna let it ride for awhile.
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
