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from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Gray, rainy day.
There's a lot of tile in the kitchen & it holds the chill of a day like today, so baked some cookies, mostly to have a reason to turn on the oven.
My grandmother used to make these cookies - they're very chewy and have lots of dates. The cookies also seem to nearly bond with the baking sheet, regardless of how well it's greased.
Reynold's makes a non-stick aluminum foil, and it's made baking Gram's cookies a lot easier - besides not leaving the bottom third of the cookies on the sheet anymore.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'King Of Queens', followed by the movie 'The Mask Of Zorro'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'Heartbreakeers'.
'Saturday Night Live' is a RERUN.
ABC has 'NFL Football' - the left coast is treated to the movie 'Four Weddings & A Funeral'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', followed by another 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', then a RERUN
'Jamie Kennedy', followed by another RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'The Color Purple'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'Colors', followed by the movie 'No Way Out', then the movie 'Bugsy'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Wedding;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 10;
[8pm] 'Red Cap' - Crush;
[9pm] 'Rebel Heart' - Part 4;
[10pm] 'The Sins' - Pride;
[11pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[11:30pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[12am] 'Red Cap' - Crush;
[1am] 'Rebel Heart' - Part 4;
[2am] 'The Sins' - Pride;
[3am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[3:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[4am] 'Red Cap' - Crush;
[5am] 'Rebel Heart' - Part 4; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'The Vanishing', then the movie 'Highlander'.
Comedy Central has 'Trigger Happy TV', another 'Trigger Happy TV', 'Reno 911', another 'Reno 911', 'Chappelle's Show',
another 'Chappelle's Show', 'The Man Show', and another 'The Man Show'.
History has the Premiere of 'Medieval Lives', 'When Cowboys Were King', and 'Winchester'.
SciFi has the movie 'Arachnid', followed by the movie 'Deadly Swarm', then the movie 'They Crawl', followed by the movie 'Arachnid', again.
TCM:
[6am] 'Larceny, Inc.' (1942);
[8am] 'Ministry Of Fear' (1944);
[9:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #21' (1955);
[10am] 'Guns For San Sebastian' (1968);
[12pm] 'Back To Bataan' (1945);
[2pm] 'The Satan Bug' (1965);
[4pm] '20 Million Miles To Earth' (1957);
[5:30pm] 'Marnie' (1964);
[8pm] 'The Day Of The Jackal' (1973);
[10:30pm] 'Run Silent, Run Deep' (1958);
[12:15am] 'WarGames' (1983);
[2:15am] 'The Window' (1949);
[4am] 'Fingers At The Window' (1942);
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #28' (2000). (ALL TIMES EST)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, watches the New Year's Day Junkanoo parade with an unidentified companion from a private enclosure as the parade makes its way along Bay Street in downtown Nassau, Bahamas Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. The annual street festival draws thousands of Bahamians and tourists to the streets in the early morning hours and continues on into the first day of the new year.
Photo by Tim Aylen
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Funding Cambodia Program to Buy Cows
Angelina Jolie
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is funding a program to donate cows to poverty-stricken Cambodian farmers, an associate said Thursday.
The plan is part of Jolie's nature conservation project in the country. Under the program, 300 families will get one cow each to help them earn money — hopefully dissuading them from logging and hunting wildlife for their living — said Mounh Sarath, director of the Cambodian Vision in Development project.
Jolie is giving the organization $1.5 million for its environmental protection efforts in remote parts in northwestern Cambodia.
The project aims to protect about 148,200 acres of forest in the Samlaut and Pailin areas, both former strongholds of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in 1975-79.
Angelina Jolie
A group of Comic division mummers sporting women's dresses and parasol's strut up Broad Street in Philadelphia during the 103rd annual New Years Day Mummers parade, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. The Mummers Parade returned to the original South Broad Street route after taking a couple of years trying other routes through the city.
Photo by Chris Gardner
Reality TV Show
Southwest Airlines
Reality TV is about to meet flight delays, singing flight attendants and passengers too large to squeeze between the armrests when a program on Southwest Airlines Inc. takes to the air on Monday.
The series called "Airline" will air on cable television's A&E Network and is scheduled for an initial run of 18 episodes. The series is based on a British TV show of the same name that pulled in solid ratings during its six-year run on the ITV Network.
Unlike some reality shows that highlight strange eating exploits and pushing the envelope on travel, Southwest passengers munch on peanuts and fly on an airline that bills its no-frills approach as one of its main selling points.
The network followed Southwest passengers and crew at Los Angeles International and Chicago Midway airports and some of the filming took place a few months ago when a blackout in the U.S. Northeast and Canada snarled air transport.
Southwest Airlines
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Remake '39 Steps'
Robert Towne
Screenwriter Robert Towne has struck a deal to develop a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The 39 Steps." Towne, who wrote "Chinatown" and "Mission: Impossible 3," will write and direct the thriller for Carlton International Media, Daily Variety reported on its Web site Thursday.
Hitchcock's version of the spy film was made in 1935 and starred Robert Donat, Lucie Mannheim and Madeleine Carroll.
Carlton owns one of the world's largest catalogs of classic movies. The company's vault also includes the 1959 version starring Kenneth More and the 1978 version by Don Sharp.
Robert Towne
Mickey Mouse-inspired cucumbers are a new menu feature at The Garden Grill Restaurant at the Epcot Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, as seen in this image released January 2, 2004. The cucumbers are grown hydroponically in greenhouses behind the restaurant. When each cucumber is three inches long, a Mickey mold is attached to the vine and the cucumber grows into it. They take about seven to ten days to mature, in a natural process which yield about three or four per day.
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Must Remain in Custody
Cris Kirkwood
A judge has ruled that the bass player for the rock band Meat Puppets, who has been charged with assault, is a flight risk and a danger to others and must remain in custody.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia Mathis also ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence to try Cris Kirkwood, 43, in connection with a Dec. 26 incident at a Phoenix post office, said Harriet Bernick, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Kirkwood is accused of hitting a federal post office security guard in the head with a baton that the musician took from the guard during a struggle.
According to court documents, the guard then shot Kirkwood in the back. The incident began over a dispute about parking with another customer.
Cris Kirkwood
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Rush Guitarist in Fight
Alex Lifeson
The lead guitarist for the rock band Rush skirmished with sheriff's deputies, spat blood on one and was arrested on New Year's Eve after his son refused to leave the stage at a fancy hotel, authorities said.
Deputies said they had to use a stun gun on 50-year-old Alex Zivojinovich — known on stage as Alex Lifeson — for what they described as drunken, violent behavior at the Naples Ritz-Carlton hotel.
Zivojinovich was still in Collier County jail early Friday. Also arrested were his son Justin Zivojinovich, 33, and his son's wife, Michelle Zivojinovich, 30.
The guitarist spat blood on a deputy's face and pushed a deputy down a hotel stairwell during the struggle, a police report said.
Alex Lifeson
www.rush.com
Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Senator John Kerry (L), D-MA, serves chili to voters at a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post in Milford, New Hampshire January 2, 2004. A voter (R) wears a shirt protesting the results of the 2000 Presidential election, in which U.S. resident George W. Bush was ultimately awarded Florida's electoral voters and the election.
Photo by Brian Snyder
The Ed Norton Sanitation Facility?
Art Carney
Jackie Gleason got a bus depot when he died, so why shouldn't Art Carney get a sanitation facility?
Carney, a Westbrook resident who played Gleason's sewer-working sidekick Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," died last month. Since then, one local resident has been lobbying to name the nearby waste and recycling center after the Emmy-winning actor.
Richard Fleming said the Ed Norton Sanitation Facility would be a fitting memorial to the television star. He has begun a letter and e-mail campaign to persuade people to support the name change.
But First Selectman Tony Palermo, who received one of Fleming's e-mails, said he's not convinced. He wants to talk it over with other town officials and Carney's wife, Jean.
Art Carney
Hears Voices
Marion 'Pat' Robertson
Pat Robertson said Friday that God told him President Bush will be re-elected in a landslide.
``I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It's shaping up that way,'' Robertson said.
``The Lord has just blessed him,'' Robertson said of Bush. ``I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him.''
Robertson also said that this year will be one of ``extraordinary prosperity'' and that God will bless China in 2004 ``in a way it's never known before.''
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, a frequent Robertson critic and executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said he had a prediction of his own.
``I predict that Pat Robertson in 2004 will continue to use his multimillion broadcasting empire to promote George Bush and other Republican candidates,'' Lynn said in a statement. ``Maybe Pat got a message from (Bush political adviser) Karl Rove and thought it was from God.''
Marion 'Pat' Robertson
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
In Memory
David Bale
David Bale, an activist and the husband of feminist writer Gloria Steinem, has died at age 62.
Bale, the father of actor Christian Bale, died Tuesday of brain lymphoma at Santa Monica Healthcare Center, where he had been residing since November, family friend Carla Morganstern said Thursday.
"David went through the world with few possessions and great empathy for all living things," Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, said in a press statement. "He had the greatest heart of anyone I've ever known."
Born in South Africa, Bale grew up in Egypt, England and the Channel Islands. He worked as a commercial pilot, with the hope of providing aid to needy communities in Africa.
Bale was once banned from returning to South Africa because he opposed the apartheid government, Morganstern said.
He married Steinem in 2000 in a Cherokee ceremony in Oklahoma. It was his third marriage.
Bale was a board member of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and World Education Inc., a creator of adult learning programs in developing countries. He also was an active supporter of the annual Genesis Awards, presented to news and entertainment media for championing animal issues.
He is survived by Steinem; four children, Christian Bale, Louise Bale, Sharon Bale and Erin Kreunen; and four grandchildren.
In keeping with his wishes, there will be no public memorial.
David Bale
Siberian white swans swim on an artificial lake during an overcast winter morning in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, January 2, 2004. Each year hundreds of swans arrive to Croatia in search of unfrozen waters, during their regular winter migrations.
Photo by Nikola Solic
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