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Sunday Night, The 70th Annual
Hollywood Christmas Parade
Grand Marshall Peter Fonda, with wife, Portia Rebecca Crockett, waves to fans during the 70th
annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001, along Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles.
Photo by Lee Celano
Still In The Hospital
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was in a Beverly Hills hospital on Sunday after suffering a mild
heart attack on Thanksgiving, which was also his 80th birthday, his publicist said.
Cowan said the bulging-eyed comic -- famous for self-deprecating one-liners and the catch
phrase ``No respect'' -- will undergo tests on Monday including an angiogram, a test that
enables doctors to see whether any arteries are significantly blocked.
The publicist said Dangerfield maintained his sense of humor when admitted to the hospital
on his birthday, asking the staff, ``Who gave me this present?''
Dangerfield underwent double-bypass heart surgery in March 2000 and an operation in June
2000 to correct an aneurysm.
Rodney Dangerfield
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started the evening on faux, 'Star Wars - Phantom Menace', which is a lot
of fun when there is a 9 year old identifying with young Anakin in the room.
Initially, 'Weakest Link' creeped me out, but can take it in Least
Obectional Program doses, so watched the 'celebrity' edition, which turned
into a 'survivor women' episode.
Tonight (Monday), on CBS are the 4 sitcoms ('King Of Queens', 'Yes,
Dear', 'Raymond' & 'Becker'), followed by 'The Carol Burnett Show: Show
Stoppers'.
NBC really pushes the 'Weakest Link' franchise hard with an 'All-Star Trek'
edition, and of course, William Shatner participates. It's followed by 'Third Watch'
and 'Crossing Jordan', with the 2nd half of the 2-parter featuring Chris Noth.
ABC has MNF with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at St. Louis. Also, an episode of
'Regis', with another 'celebrity' edition.
Over on the WB it's a fresh '7th Heaven' & a 'Teen People's What's Next'
special.
Faux a new 'Boston Public' and a new 'Ally McBeal', where Elton John makes
an appearance.
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Wedding News
Bono - Baxley
Republican Rep. Mary Bono, who took her late husband's seat in Congress, has married a
Wyoming businessman nearly four years after Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.
Bono and Glenn Baxley, an ex-minor league baseball player, exchanged vows Saturday before
more than 300 friends and family at Our Savior's Community Church.
Guests included the Bonos' two children, Chianna and Chesare, and Sonny Bono's daughters
Christy and Chastity. Also attending were Reps. Steve Buyer, R-Ind.; and Ken Calvert,
David Dreier, Duncan Hunter and Jerry Lewis, all California Republicans.
Bono, 40, has served in Congress since winning a special election in April 1998 to fill
the seat held by Sonny Bono.
Baxley was drafted by the California Angels and played in the Midwest League, but was cut. He
went on to found Wyoming West Designs, a clothing company that designs Cowboy Up and
Cowgirl Up Western apparel, resort wear and custom and corporate logo apparel.
mary bono baxley
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A New Line From Cadillac?
The Snoop Deville
Snoop Dogg has tackled a number of industries, including music, film, pornography, and
apparel, and the automotive business is next on the list for the Long Beach, California-bred
artist. Snoop is in talks with Cadillac to issue a line of cars.
Snoop recently told LAUNCH the name of his forthcoming line, and explained some of the
special features. "Snoop Deville, it will be out next year," he said. "That's going to
be the limited edition with the hydraulics on it. We just gone come basic because we
don't want to scare people away from it, but it's gone be sharp."
The 'Snoop Deville'
Another Interview
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney thought of making his latest album into a modern dance music album to compete
with American popstars Britney Spears and Madonna, the ex-Beatle has told the Dagens Nyheter daily.
McCartney said it could have been a really good pop album but that friends would have complained,
and sticking to his own style was more interesting for him and his audience.
Wanting to experiment and not relying on the Beatles' success, has been important throughout his
career, McCartney said, but admitted that not all experiments were hits.
When the Beatles broke up in 1969, the four members knew they would have to live with the legend
for the rest of their lives.
``This Beatles monster has been a very nice monster. It's my friend. Even if one works in the
shadow of it. I usually ignore him, maybe wave to him or say hello, then I go on with my
business,'' McCartney said.
Another Paul McCartney Interview
New 'Gentleman's' Magazine
''Gene Simmons' Tongue''
It's a bleak time for the magazine industry, but kooky Kiss bassist Gene Simmons is launching a
new men's mag for his randy fans this spring. Titled "Gene Simmons' Tongue," it "is going to be
a hybrid between Maxim, Rolling Stone and Playboy - hopefully, with a sense of humor," Simmons writes on
his Web site genesimmons.com.
"The cover will depict a 'surprise' starlet with her tongue out. Inside, there will be columns such
as 'Tongue in Cheek,' which might delve into 'who's doing whom,' 'Foreign Tongue,' which will cover
everything overseas, 'Forked Tongue,' which will be our food section and possibly 'Tongue Lashings,'
our letter column." Word is that Simmons wants either former Details editor Joe Dolce or former
Detour editor Steve Garbarino to helm Tongue, a joint venture with publisher Sterling-Macfadden.
Simmons is a masterful marketer - he's sold Kiss-brand coffins, condoms, chocolate bars, cigars,
jigsaw puzzles, dartboards and golf bags, and is also said to be starting a beef company called Eat My Meat.
Gene Simmons' Tongue
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop
Wedding News
Hunter Reno
Model/TV host Hunter Reno, who used to date tennis great Martina Navratilova, is getting married - to
a man. The sexy niece of former Attorney General Janet Reno, who lives in Florida and is repped by
Elite's celebrity division, is set to tie the knot with computer entrepreneur Peter Rabbino in December.
Martina must be wondering where she went wrong.
Hunter Reno
''Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life''
Larry Hagman
If Larry Hagman were writing his memoirs as J.R. Ewing Jr., his rascally character in the old TV soaper
"Dallas," it would be loaded with recrimination against his enemies.
But Hagman isn't J.R. (tell that to those little old ladies who beat him over the head with their handbags
for being so mean). And so his autobiography, "Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales about My Life"
contains surprisingly little payback time.
"I didn't put anything in that I thought was going to hurt someone or compromise them in any way," he
insists. "Not that I had too many of those things in my life."
Hagman's madcap days ended in 1995 when he was diagnosed with acute cirrhosis of the liver, the result of a
drinking habit that began when he was 14. It was also discovered that he had a malignant tumor on his liver.
He was told that unless he had a transplant, he would die. After months of frantic waiting, a liver became available.
Hagman appears the picture of health, much younger than his 70 years. His nights in barrooms were exchanged
for meetings with 12-step disciples. He swims regularly and works out in the gym. With his glasses and shiny
pate he could pass for a college professor.
When he told his mother of his ambition to be a cowboy, she sent him off to live with his father
in Texas. On a hunting trip in Mexico, they visited a bar-brothel where the boy had his first
exposure to sex. When he couldn't perform, he paid the woman $5 to say otherwise. His father and
his friends were impressed when she raved about his prowess.
Dropping out of college, he appeared in a circus and summer stock, becoming convinced that an actor's
life was for him. During the Korean War, he spent four years with the Air Force in London, producing
and directing service shows. While there, he met and married Maj.
Larry Hagman & His Autobiography
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New Memoir
Russell Simmons
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons may have some explaining to do to Eddie Murphy.
In his new memoir, "Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God," the Def Jam founder takes aim
at the "Dr. Doolittle" star as having gone "really Hollywood" and becoming a "recluse" — contending
that "a lot of what's going on in the world outside his bubble is foreign to him."
Simmons also says Murphy once told him that he didn't work with black directors because "they
don't have a big enough vision."
Simmons also suggested rap godfathers such as Run-D.M.C. saved our culture from Michael Jackson.
"When Run-D.M.C. got on MTV, there was nobody black on there but Michael Jackson," Simmons told
us. "And he got his nose straightened and his hair straightened. And Run-D.M.C. got on and they
said, 'No curls, no braids, peasy-head [unkempt hair] and still get paid.'"
Russell Simmons' New Book
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''Both A Genius And A Bleephole''
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein's steadfast refusal to let Martin Scorsese's violent epic "Gangs of New York"
run 3 1/2 hours long led the director to throw his telephone out a window.
Scorsese plays down the incident, but there's no denying the Miramax chief's hardball tactics.
Frustrated by budget-busting extra months of shooting in Rome, Weinstein has ordered sound
and film crews to cease working on the flick.
Scorsese was just one of many movie people given a chance to kick the controversial Weinstein in
New York's long-awaited cover story.
"He's both a genius and a bleephole," says director James Ivory, who bought back Merchant-Ivory's
"Golden Bowl" from Miramax when Weinstein demanded changes based on a single screening. "He is a
bully who feels that if he screams and yells and punishes you enough, that he is going to get his
way. And he has the adolescent appetites to go with it. He has no finesse whatsoever."
Even one of Weinstein's biggest fans, Gwyneth Paltrow, takes him to task for pressuring her
to don S&M gear to sell the first issue of Talk.
Hopefully his people skills are improved enough for his next project. Weinstein will get behind
the camera for the first time next year, directing Leon Uris' Holocaust epic, "Mila 18," with
Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as likely producers.
"I'm preparing to direct a movie about the Warsaw Ghetto," he says. "About Jews killing bleeping
Germans in great numbers."
Harvey Weinstein
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Write Your Own Caption
A moulded figure of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden holding the Pentagon in one hand,
is seen next to a depiction of the World Trade Center towers in flames after they were hit
by highjacked aircraft, on a Beijing street, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001. The figure can be bought
in a Beijing market for 30 Yuan ($US3.60) while the WTC towers sell for 15 Yuan (US$1.80) each.
Photo by Greg Baker)
New! Updated!
(20 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " In January 2002, New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani will intimately know an experience and feeling that more and more of us are reluctantly facing: He'll join the ranks of the unemployed. Due to term limits Giuliani has not been able to seek re-election, after 8 years as one of New York's more popular mayors.
The question on most New Yorker's minds and lips is "What is Rudy going to do NOW?" Well, maybe The Stars can give us some clues.
"
Very interesting reading!
Disney To Do 'Alamo' Movie
Ron Howard
Disney has enlisted Howard and screenwriter John Sayles to retell the story of the 1836
battle in which Texans defended their San Antonio fortress against Mexican Gen. Antonio
Lopez de Santa Ana. (The 1960 United Artists film starred John Wayne as Davy Crockett
and Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie.)
"Howard wants to capture the post-Sept. 11 surge in patriotism," a source tells us. "John
Sayles is a liberal, offbeat writer who may be taking a revisionist approach. But it's
going to be about the martyrdom of Bowie and others."
Howard's producer-partner, Brian Grazer, insists that the flick won't ally itself with Mexicans or Texans.
"It's not so much about patriotism as about individuals who take a stand," Grazer tells the
L.A. Times, in an apparent effort to head off criticism from South of the Border.
"It's about how Americans struggled to survive. You could say it reminds us of who we are."
Ron Howard To Direct Disney Alamo Movie
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Hindsight Being 20/20
Boris Becker
Fallen tennis star Boris Becker, who could be jailed over tax evasion in Germany, now says he
regrets cheating on his first wife and wishes they were never divorced.
The three-time Wimbledon champion, who turned 34 last week, said he never got his birthday wish.
Becker said of ex-wife Barbara: "I have never changed my mind about her. I loved this
woman before, and I love her now. The greatest birthday surprise of all would be if she
stood before my door with the children."
Becker's seven-year marriage ended after he fathered a baby girl by Russian model Angela
Ermakova in a 1999 liaison at London restaurant Nobu.
Becker is being pursued by German revenue collectors seeking $10.3 million in back taxes,
fines and interest on earnings. German authorities say Becker falsely listed Monaco as
his official place of residence during the 1980s and early 1990s but spent most of his
time in his homeland.
Boris Becker
Once Addicted To Coke
Paul McCartney
Former Beatle Paul McCartney has confessed he was addicted to cocaine and only his late
wife Linda's love saved him from destroying his life.
McCartney said Linda - who died in 1998 after a three-year battle with cancer - had helped
convince him taking cocaine was "uncool" after he went on a terrifying, yearlong binge.
"A lot of my mates were quite shocked when I got into coke," McCartney says in an interview
in the music magazine Q.
"I was into it for about a year, but then I went off it. I was lucky to have Linda because
there were certain things I was going off on and she could pull me back, like drinking and
drugging and getting crazy.
"Linda would say, 'Are you sure you want to do that tonight?' and I'd go, 'Oh, is there an alternative?'
"She reminded me there was this real life out there that I liked a lot."
More McCartney Monday
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In Memory
Norman Granz
Jazz promoter, producer and manager Norman Granz, who forced many concert venues to
become integrated in the 1940s and 1950s and whose legendary recordings brought the
music to a wider audience, has died in Geneva, associates said on Saturday. He was 83.
Granz, who recorded most of the major names in jazz including Louie Armstrong, Count
Basie and Billie Holiday, died Thursday of complications from cancer, said Virginia Wicks,
a Los Angeles-based publicist and friend.
``He was a great man,'' Wicks said in a telephone interview. ''To Norman it wasn't the
color, it was the music that mattered.''
At the height of his career, Granz was one of the most powerful non-musicians in jazz. He
is credited with presenting the music as an art form by bringing performers out of small
clubs and into larger concert halls and theaters.
A love of jazz also spurred Granz to record many artists on his four labels whose records
did not sell in an effort to get their music heard, Wicks said.
``We would have less than half of the jazz music that we have today if it hadn't been for
Norman Granz,'' she said. ``Many of the people Norman recorded weren't sellers but he said
he wanted them to be heard.''
Born on Aug. 6, 1918, Granz grew up in the Los Angeles area in a family of Ukrainian-Jewish
ancestry. During World War Two, he served in the Army Air Corps and later in a special branch
charged with entertaining the troops.
In 1944 while working as a film editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios he borrowed $300 and
began presenting ``Jazz at the Philharmonic'' -- concerts in large venues that helped to end
segregation across the United States.
Ten years later, Jazz at the Philharmonic, Inc. had a turnover of $4 million and the release of
the first Jazz at the Philharmonic records bolstered Granz's national reputation.
As a promoter, Granz helped to end a discriminatory salary system by paying his black and white
performers equally. He also made sure there was no discrimination in lodging or restaurants on
the road and was not afraid to cancel shows if there was any such racism.
In 1947, Granz told Down Beat magazine, he lost $100,000 by turning down bookings in segregated
concert halls across America.
``Time and time again, Norman stated that his three goals were to promote integration, present
good jazz and to show that good money could be made from promoting good jazz,'' Tad Hershorn,
an archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University who is writing a biography
of Granz, told the Los Angeles Times. ``He succeeded in all three.''
Granz is survived by his wife Greta.
Norman Granz
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Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
