'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Weekend Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Reader Comment
from Tiera
Hi, Marty!
I just wanted to send a great quote I found...I think it's pretty pathetic!
Tiera H.
"As President watchers know, we have a President who likes secrecy. He has hired tested leak-proof and loyal staffers, effectively sealing the Bush White House.
He has had his records as the Governor of Texas hidden, shipping them off to his father's Presidential library, where they are inaccessible. He has stiffed the
Congressional requests for information about how he developed his energy policy - refusing to respond . . .Not since Richard Nixon has there been as concentrated
an effort to keep the real work of the President hidden, showing the public only a scripted President, as now."
- John Dean, former legal counsel to President Richard Nixon
Thanks, Tiera - great quote!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
June Gloom til mid-afternoon.
So, the kid came home from school with a long face. Asked him what was up - seems he was kicked out his classroom today for farting. It was a silent, but smelly one, he made no fuss, but
the kids around him did. The teacher, who has made an issue of gas in the past, read him the riot act before sending him outside.
The teachers I grew up with would have read the kids who were acting up the riot act, and then explained that while it isn't 'nice', it happens, so move on.
Anyway, in an effort to be spontaneous (and make the kid feel better), we're taking to the road tomorrow. Don't quite know where we're going yet, and since I don't know how late we will
be in returning, figured it was better to header this page as both days.
Depending on when we get back, I'm planning on putting up a 'real' Sunday page, but, just in case...
Things will return to what passes for normal on the Monday page.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS starts the night off with a RERUN 'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', followed by
a RERUN 'The District', and then a RERUN 'The Agency'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'Inidana Jones & the Last Crusade'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Jennifer Garner.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Anna & the King'.
The WB offers the movie 'Dangerous Minds'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Cops', followed by another RERUN 'Cops', and then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN offers the movie 'Outbreak'.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday Night, CBS opens the evening with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Becker', then the movie 'Message In A Bottle'.
NBC starts the night with the RERUN '100 Years Of Hope & Humor', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another
RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Toy Story', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', then a RERUN 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', and then a FRESH 'Black Sash'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Cops', followed by another RERUN 'Cops', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a
RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then an old 'Married With Children', and finally, another RERUN 'Simpsons'.
UPN opens with a RERUN 'Buffy', followed by the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', and then 'Stargate SG-1'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant, left, and actress Betty Garrett unveil her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Fiday, May 23, 2003, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
Photo by Nick Ut
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Cannes Fundraiser
Cinema Against AIDS
Celebrities got up and boogied to an impromptu duet from Elton John and Lionel Richie during a star-studded AIDS fundraiser hosted by Elizabeth Taylor Thursday evening.
The 10th annual Cinema Against AIDS gala for the American Foundation for Aids Research (amfAR), raised more than $1.3 million by auctioning off anything from tennis lessons with Monica Seles to a vanity case designed by Sharon Stone.
Singers Richie and John lifted the mood by getting up on stage and singing "Three Times a Lady," "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues." Their rendition of "Twist and Shout" and "Great Balls of Fire" had the black-tie audience going wild.
U.S. singer Macy Gray also got up and sang -- wearing huge black trainers under her black and silver evening gown.
Other stars who took the stage at the glittering event included British model Elizabeth Hurley, dressed in a shocking pink satin gown and seated next to her Indian millionaire beau Arun Nayar, and sassy society diva Ivana Trump.
Actors Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan, model Iman, director Steven Soderbergh and Indian screen star Aishwarya Rai also took part.
Since 1985, amfAR has raised around $207 million to fund its fight against AIDS, including $12 million raised in Cannes.
Cinema Against AIDS
Drug Quip Backfires In Sweden
Stephen 'Steve-O' Glover
A quip by MTV show "Jackass" co-star Steve-O to Swedish newspaper that a drugs-packed condom was lodged in his intestines did not amuse local police.
They arrested Stephen Glover after he told a paper that prior to arriving in Sweden -- one of Europe's fiercest opponents of drugs -- he had swallowed a condom filled with marijuana. He said he was afraid it had got stuck.
"He is now sitting in a cell on a special toilet with an alien object in his stomach. We are waiting for it to come out so we can analyze the contents," prosecutor Gunnar Fjaestad told Reuters on Friday.
Glover was touring Sweden with his own show, and will probably have to stay at least two weeks for the investigation.
Stephen 'Steve-O' Glover
Former President Bill Clinton speaks outside his presidential library, Friday, May 23, 2003, being built in Little Rock, Ark. Clinton was at the site to oversee the traditional topping-out ceremony on the multimillion-dollar presidential library.
Photo by Mike Wintroath
Springsteen Covers Album For Charity
'Light of Day'
Elvis Costello, Joe Ely, Graham Parker, Pete Yorn, and Billy Bragg are among the artists who have contributed tracks to "Light of Day: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen."
The two-disc covers collection was released this week in Spain; a U.S. version with extra tracks will be issued in August. Proceeds will benefit the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and the Kristen Ann Carr Fund, which raises money for research and treatment of sarcoma.
While several cuts have been previously released -- Costello's "Brilliant Disguise," Yorn's "New York City Serenade," and Bragg's "Mansion on the Hill," among them -- many artists have contributed new recordings. Joe Grushecky and his band the Houserockers added a new version of "Light of Day," Elliot Murphy offered a take on "Better Days," and Joe Ely has covered "Workin' on the Highway."
Others who have offered tracks include Cowboy Mouth, Patty Griffin, E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren, Willie Nile, Dion, Steve Wynn, and Rosie Flores.
For a lot more, 'Light of Day'
Outfits Up for Grabs Online
Britney Spears
Britney Spears has started an online charity auction and is offering a plethora of memorabilia, including more than 50 costumes she has worn in concert appearances, video clips, and films. The auction is being held at GottaHaveIt.com through June 5.
Other lots for bid include personal experiences with Spears. Sitegoers can bid for the opportunity to meet the artist on the set of a video shoot or attend the Britney Spears Camp for the Performing Arts. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Britney Spears Foundation, an organization the artist founded to help children in need.
Among the costumes up for auction are the green bra top and miniskirt worn by Spears during her 2001 MTV Video Music Awards performance. Other items up for bid include four seats to a show on Spears' next tour, along with soundcheck party passes and a chance to meet the artist, book reports the artist wrote in junior high school, and the ears she wore as a cast member on "The Mickey Mouse Club."
Britney Spears
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Illness Postpones Milwaukee Concert
Cher
A concert that was to have been held Thursday night by Cher at the Bradley Center was postponed due to a sinus and throat infection.
The visit as part of her "Living Proof" tour was rescheduled for Aug. 16.
Alyssa Rach, director of marketing for the local office of Clear Channel Entertainment, said word of the Milwaukee postponement came down early Thursday before any of the tour's 13 semitrailer trucks of equipment had been unloaded.
Her show Tuesday in Rockford, Ill., was also called off, as was her show scheduled Friday night in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Cher
A biologist with the Colorado Division of Wildlife holds two lynx kittens near their den in San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, Wednesday, May 21, 2003. The kittens are the first offspring of lynx that were released in the area in 2000, according to officials.
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Vow To Quit
Vincent Gallo
U.S. director Vincent Gallo is so hurt by the scathing reaction to his film "The Brown Bunny," that he has vowed to make it his last.
"I'll never make another movie again. I mean it," Gallo told Reuters, after his road movie had a disastrous reception at the Cannes film festival and he was booed at a press conference.
"It is a disaster of a film and it was a waste of time. I apologize to the financiers, but it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film," he said.
Critics guffawed openly at the screening of "The Brown Bunny," which Gallo wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and groaned at the highly graphic oral sex scene at the end.
Screen International has ranked the film the worst of the 20 films competing for this year's Palme d'Or.
"Vincent Gallo's monumental folly has already become a defining moment in Cannes history. Awestruck future generations will ask: 'Were you there the night they screened The Brown Bunny?"' one of the magazine's critics wrote Friday. A clearly depressed Gallo said he had hardly been able to face his friends since Cannes critics, bored by what they say is a miserable harvest of films, started laying into his movie.
Vincent Gallo
Letters Fail to Sell
Princess Diana
Personal letters from Britain's Princess Diana to a late fashion editor failed to sell last month because they did not reach the reserve price.
The eight letters and a Christmas card fetched $47,500 at an auction by Cyr Auction Gallery in Gray, Maine. The auction house had declared them sold at the time but because they failed to meet the reserve prices the sale did not ultimately go ahead.
Andrew Tilberis, husband of late fashion writer Liz Tilberis, told Reuters he had decided to set high reserves on the letters. A reserve is the lowest possible selling price and typically is not disclosed to buyers.
"I was of two minds about selling them at all," said Tilberis, 61, an artist and inventor who lives in New York. "I'll keep the letters and put them away safe, and they may be of value to my children down the road."
Princess Diana
Summer Airing on TNT
'Boomtown'
NBC's ratings-challenged cop drama "Boomtown" will be recycled on TNT in the summer.
Beginning Monday, the Peabody Award-winning series will air exclusively on the cable network Mondays at 10 p.m.; NBC will not repeat "Boomtown" during the summer. If its ratings are on par with the "Law & Order" reruns that aired previously in that time slot, TNT can elect to "repurpose" the second season of "Boomtown" as well, but four months after new episodes air.
The cable network will pay about $100,000 per episode for the second run of "Boomtown," according to sources familiar with the deal. While the sum may seem low for a primetime hour, NBC is hoping a second run on a cable network with a strong lineup of syndicated dramas could lure new viewers to the series, which was far from a shoo-in for another season on NBC because of its soft ratings.
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Arrested for DUI
Jeff Conaway
Jeff Conaway, former co-star of TV's "Taxi," was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of a depressant drug, authorities said Friday.
California Highway Patrol officers stopped Conaway on the Harbor Freeway Thursday for weaving in and out of a traffic lane in a black 1979 Porsche, CHP Officer Alex Delgadillo said.
The 52-year-old was booked for misdemeanor driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Delgadillo said, adding that the actor allegedly was using a central nervous system depressant.
He was released that night on $5,000 bail and ordered to appear June 12 in Los Angeles Municipal Court, authorities said.
Conaway recently sued the owners of the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas casino, claiming security guards broke his arm last summer. Casino officials have declined comment.
Jeff Conaway
Hikers walk on Hadrian's Wall, northern England Thursday May 22, 2003, where, for the first time in 1600 years, hikers will be able to follow the entire length of the wall - 84 miles - along an unbroken path. The Hadrian's Wall Path is part of a 6 million pound, US$ 9.8 million investment by Britain's Countryside Agency, and is expected to attract 20,000 people a year by 2006. Hadrian's Wall - a World Heritage Site - was built by the Romans from 122 AD as one of the most northerly frontiers of their empire.
Photo by Owen Humphreys
As Believable As Their News
Faulty Numbers
Turns out "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest can read.
On the Fox talent-search show's finale Wednesday, Seacrest twice announced incorrect numbers in describing how close the final vote was between winner Ruben Studdard and runner-up Clay Aiken.
"It wasn't his fault," Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said Friday. The first incorrect figure — 13,000 — was displayed on the TelePrompTer; the second — 1,300 — was written on a card given Seacrest.
The actual spread between the two contestants, out of nearly 24 million votes counted, was about 130,000, according to the network.
Grogin did not detail how Seacrest was given wrong information or by whom.
Faulty Numbers
Lawyer Wants Tests Tossed
Diana Ross
Diana Ross' attorney in a drunken driving case is asking a judge to throw out breath test results and statements the singer made to police on the night she was arrested.
Ross, 59, was arrested on Dec. 30. She has pleaded innocent to the charge. Police said she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.20 percent. The legal limit in Arizona is 0.08 percent.
Defense attorney Stephen Paul Barnard has filed a motion arguing that police conducted a search without a warrant, which "raises the issue of the legality of the arrest and subsequent search and seizure."
Prosecutors said the argument is misplaced. Under Arizona law, anyone arrested for drunken driving automatically consents to blood alcohol content testing.
Diana Ross
A northern spotted owl sits on a fir tree branch in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., May 8, 2003. The red tree vole, one of the owl's main food sources, could be among the dozens of plant and animal species affected by revisions to the survey and manage section of the Northwest Forest Plan.
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'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
'The Osbournes'
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