Play Ball!
Monday
When major league ball returns Monday, the standings and statistics will be
exactly as they were. Barry Bonds is still chasing Mark McGwire's home-run
record and more than a dozen teams are still in pennant chases.
``They asked me a few days ago when I thought we should play again,'' Minnesota
first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz said. ``I said spring training.''
Instead, with U.S. flags on players' caps and uniforms, fans wearing the stars
and stripes, and ``God Bless America'' set to replace ``Take Me Out to the Ball
Game'' during the seventh-inning stretch, the games will go on.
At Yankee Stadium this weekend, the team gathered on one knee at the pitcher's
mound, heads bowed. Two employees in the Yankees' ticket office lost sons in
Tuesday's attacks.
At Shea Stadium, vehicles with supplies for the relief effort gathered in the
parking lot while the New York Mets worked out inside.
On Monday night, the Mets will play the Pirates. Originally scheduled for Shea,
the whole series was shifted to PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
Play Ball!
TV News
Late Night TV Returns
Late-night entertainment shows have the unenviable job this week of trying to
make people laugh again, just a few days after the nation's worst terrorist
attacks.
Rosemary Keenan, a spokeswoman for the ``Late Show with David Letterman,'' said
it would resume taping Monday at the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan.
She had no details about what guests will appear, or what else will be in the
lineup.
``Both the mayor and the president have asked America to get back to business,''
she said. ``Therefore, we will be back on the air Monday night.''
Conan O'Brien's ``Late Night,'' taped a few blocks away in a studio in New
York's Rockefeller Center, is also due back Tuesday. Both shows are about five
miles north of the World Trade Center disaster scene.
On the West Coast, Letterman's rival, Jay Leno, will be back on NBC's ``Tonight
Show'' Tuesday, a spokeswoman said.
CBS' ``Late Late Show'' with Craig Kilborn will also be back on Monday, Keenan
said. The show, taped in Los Angeles, will not include its usual comic monologue
and will also eliminate its regular satirical ``in the news'' segment, she said.
Late Night
First Person Diary
Ray Berry
Ray has (temporarily, I hope) suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put
his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.
Ray has great observational abilities, a way with words, and has still been able
to keep his sense of humor.
To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com
In The News
Dolly Parton Busting Out
Dolly Parton's adventures and imagination as a youth in East Tennessee will be
part of a new $10 million section at her Dollywood theme park, the state's top
tourist attraction.
The expansion includes an interactive museum of stories and memorabilia from
Parton's life and career as a country music singer and actress and a 4-D action
simulator ride.
In addition to the new part of the park, Parton will open a new $25 million
Dixie Stampede dinner theater in Orlando, Fla. Dollywood owns other locations in
Branson, Mo., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Pigeon Forge.
``The use of ostriches, pig races, chicken chases and other animals will set
Dixie apart from all other dinner attractions in Central Florida and across the
country,'' Dollywood said in a statement.
Parton's beginnings in the Smoky Mountains will be part of an episode on
the BBC's ``So Graham Norton'' show.
Dollywood
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Music News
Britney Cancels
Teenage pop idol Britney Spears has canceled her promotional tour of Europe and
South America, Australian Associated Press reported on Saturday.
``After much thought and deliberation it is with great regret that I have
decided to cancel my planned European and Latin American promotion trips,'' AAP
quoted a weekend statement from her record company Jive as saying.
Her announcement meant she would not take her promotional tour to Cologne in
Germany and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil this month and would instead return to be
with her family in the United States.
Britney
Book News
Jim Jeffords, Anne Rice & Jack Welch
Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont has postponed until November the release of ``My
Declaration of Independence,'' in which he writes about his departure from the
Republican Party.
According to the Simon & Schuster catalog, Jeffords will explain in his
book ``why he was convinced that his party had moved away from the center and
from his own fundamental beliefs.''
Meanwhile, Anne Rice has canceled her tour for ``Blood and Gold,'' her
latest ``Vampire Chronicle'' novel. And Time Warner Trade Publishing has
postponed until October its promotion for Jack Welch's ``Jack: Straight From
the Gut.''
The publisher paid $7.1 million for the memoir by the retired boss of General
Electric and had committed another $1 million to promotion. The terrorist
bombings took place just as Welch's tour was to begin.
``We're putting everything back a couple of weeks. We're going to assess what
the mood of the country is,'' said Laurence J. Kirshbaum, chief executive of
Time Warner Trade Publishing.
Jim & Anne & Jack
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Another Show About 'Nothing'
"The Tick"
'Apocalypse Cow'?
There's something familiar about the quartet of self-absorbed thirtysomethings
sitting around the restaurant table.
The handsome one is the sort of guy who likes to debate such trivia as whether
or not Falco was the singer who recorded "Rock Me Amadeus." The lone woman is
fond of insisting that just because she's single and works alone, that doesn't
mean she's lonely. The big, weird guy obsesses about things like the gum that
recently got stuck to his foot. Meanwhile, his nerdy, insecure pal dreams of
leaving his dead-end job for something more exotic.
It's almost as if Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George have emerged from three
seasons of network hibernation. Except that the hangout is a rundown Chinese
restaurant and not a diner, the characters don't live in Manhattan but rather in
a place known simply as the City, and they all happen to be superheroes.
It's just another day in the life of the new Fox series "The Tick," which is
scheduled to have its premiere on Nov. 1. For years, producers have been trying
to copy the "Seinfeld" formula: a handful of young, single people endlessly
examining the mundane details of their daily lives. It's safe to say, however,
that none of those clones had their characters discussing the pros and cons of
fighting a giant bovine named Apocalypse Cow, who shoots flames from her teats.
'The Tick'
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More 'Juke Box Jury'
Lost Beatles Found
A lost 1960s audio recording of The Beatles playfully reviewing rock and roll
singles and chatting about Elvis Presley on a television program has been
presented to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The recording of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison speaking on a
December 1963 broadcast of the BBC's "Juke Box Jury" was made by a viewer using
reel-to-reel tape, the broadcaster said on Sunday.
On the show, which featured a panel of guests who picked pop songs as either
"hits" or "misses," the Beatles reviewed new singles by artists including the
Swinging Blue Jeans and their early hero, Elvis Presley.
"I love his voice and I love all the records like 'Blue Suede Shoes', but I
don't like the songs now," Paul McCartney sniffed at Elvis's "Kiss Me Quick" on
the tape.
A young George Harrison added: "Elvis is great but the songs are not for me."
The BBC, which recorded few early broadcasts of "Juke Box Jury," has appealed to
those who might have captured early broadcasts on tape to rummage through their
attics.
The Beatles, who made several appearances on BBC radio and television in the
early years of their career, released a collection of many of their live
performances on their 1994 album "Live At The BBC."
Lost Beatles
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In The News
David Carradine's Moving
Actor David Carradine has decided to sell his San Fernando Valley home,
according to his publicist.
The former ``Kung Fu'' star is asking $734,000 for the ranch-style house, which
has four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms, said the publicist, Nancy
Harding.
The home sits on a half-acre of land and has a black-bottom lagoon pool, a spa,
a tropical waterfall, fruit trees and a flower garden.
``Kung Fu,'' a mystical Western drama, was on TV from 1972-75 and attracted a
cult following. Carradine played a Shaolin priest hero, Kwai Chang Caine, the
son of Chinese and American parents who was orphaned and raised by monks.
Carradine House
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010915/en/carradine_1.html
In The News
From Philly
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From Alex In NYC
Alex
Address To Send Cards
I was just given an address where one may send cards. It is
guaranteed that the cards will be given to firefighters, police
officer and EMS workers that are either in the hospitals or on the
frontline in NY when they take breaks and are back at their home
stations.
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PO Box 2
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In Memory
Barbara Matera
Barbara Matera, a costumer for Broadway shows, the New York City ballet and the
Metropolitan Opera, died Thursday of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 72.
With her husband, Matera founded Barbara Matera Ltd. in 1968, which produced
costumes seen in the current Broadway productions of "The Lion King," "Beauty
and the Beast," "Aida," "Kiss Me, Kate" and "42nd Street."
As the costumer for the American Ballet Theater, Matera outfitted soloists and
corps of productions including "Swan Lake" and "Othello."
Among her film credits are "The Great Gatsby," "The Addams Family,"
"Moonstruck," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "The Age of Innocence"
and "Death on the Nile."
Matera also created the purple crystal-encrusted gown that Hillary Rodham
Clinton wore at her husband's first presidential inauguration.
Barbara Matera
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
