'TBH Politoons'
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Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Clear, sunny & warm - a beautiful day.
KNBC, the local NBC-affiliate in these parts ran a story tonight about 'Rock 4 Choice', and described it as 'running a feminist agenda.'
KNBC is the freaking network O & O (Owned & Operated) in Los Angeles, the 2nd largest market in the country, and they call that reporting? Shameful.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Star Search', followed by a FRESH
'Hack', then a FRESH 'The District'.
NBC, as usual, throws away Saturday night with nothing-but-RERUNs - RERUN 'Tracy Morgan', RERUN
'Whoopi', RERUN 'Law & Order', and a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, not that it really matters.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Bug's Life', followed by a FRESH 'Monk'.
The WB here has 'NBA Basketball'.
Faux has the usual 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has the movie 'The Cutting Edge'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hurricane', followed by the movie 'Earthquake', then the movie 'Airport 77'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Girlfriend;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[8pm] 'The Bounty';
[10pm] 'Parkinson' - Mel Gibson;
[11pm] 'The Bounty';
[1am] 'Parkinson' - Mel Gibson;
[2am] 'The Bounty';
[4am] 'The Bounty'; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
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Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'The Player', then the movie 'The Player', again.
Comedy Central does double-shots all night with '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 'Medieval Lives With Terry Jones', another 'Medieval Lives With Terry Jones', 'Barbarians', and more 'Barbarians'.
MTV is all 'The Osbournes' all night.
SciFi has the movie 'Dragonheart', followed by the movie 'Dragon Fighter', then the movie 'Dragon Strom'.
TCM:
[6am] 'The Big Hangover' (1950);
[7:30am] 'The Magnificent Yankee' (1950);
[9am] 'A Life Of Her Own' (1950);
[11am] 'Never A Dull Moment' (1950);
[12:45pm] 'Mrs. O'Malley And Mr. Malone' (1950);
[2pm] 'Walk Softly, Stranger' (1950);
[3:30pm] 'The Big Steal' (1950);
[5pm] 'Crisis' (1950);
[6:45pm] 'Outrage' (1950);
[8pm] 'The Young and the Brave' (1963);
[9:30pm] 'Sands of Iwo Jima' (1949);
[11:30pm] 'Fort Apache' (1948);
[2am] 'Rules of the Game' (1939) [AKA: 'La Règle du jeu' ] ;
[4am] 'The Woman On The Beach' (1947);
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #28' (2000). (ALL TIMES EST)
National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters gather for a group photo, reminiscent of Art Kane's 1958 'A Great Day in Harlem,' in New York Friday Jan. 23, 2004. Included in the photo are George Russell, Dave Brubeck, Nat Hentoff, Louie Bellson, David Baker, Percy Heath, Billy Taylor, Chico Hamilton, Jim Hall, James Moody, Randy Weston, Ron Carter, Jackie McClain, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones, Horace Silver, Anita O'Day, Benny Golson, Frank Foster, Cecil Taylor, Roy Haynes, Clark Terry, and NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, standing at right.
Photo by Richard Drew
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Show Stinks, Blames Simon Cowell
NBC Moves Trump
Donald Trump, a usually fearless business mogul, has backed down in the face of a challenge by a group of off-key singers, wannabe stars and surly record executives.
NBC, working quickly to protect one of its newest hits, said late Thursday it would move Trump's reality series "The Apprentice" next week to Thursday nights right after the hit shows "Friends" and 'Will & Grace," to protect it from the Wednesday night juggernaut that is Fox's "American Idol."
Starting Jan. 29, "The Apprentice" will run Thursdays at 9 p.m., while "Will & Grace" will remain on Thursdays but move back to the 8:30 p.m. time slot after "Friends."
NBC Moves Trump
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and retired General Wesley Clark (R) is joined by actress Mary Steenburgen (L) and her husband actor Ted Danson, after attending a campaign house party in Windham, New Hampshire, January 23, 2004. Steenburgen and Danson later joined Clark at a campaign rally.
Photo by Brian Snyder
Teen Agrees to Rename Web Site
Mike Rowe
A Canadian teenager whose Web site address bothered a certain giant software company will find a new home on the Web, Microsoft Corp. said Friday.
Mike Rowe, a 17-year-old resident of Victoria, British Columbia, has agreed to pick a new name for his Web site, currently called www.mikerowesoft.com, said Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler.
Desler said Microsoft would cover Mike's costs of changing to a new Web site and redirecting traffic from the old site. Microsoft also had agreed to help the teen get Microsoft certification training and other gifts, including an Xbox game console, he said, and has invited Mike to a technology festival in March at the corporation's headquarters in suburban Redmond.
Desler said Friday that Microsoft believes it's important to take steps to prevent widespread infringement of its name. But he conceded Microsoft's original approach was "admittedly maybe impersonal."
Mike Rowe
mikerowesoft
Man & Horse
Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci has garnered only one Academy Award as an actor. But he has already won two races as a horse owner.
His undefeated namesake, Pesci, will make its stakes debut at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, and the actor known for tough-guy roles expects another win from the 4-year-old filly.
"No matter how the race is run, I think she'll kick their a--," Pesci told reporters Friday about the $500,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Distaff for fillies and mares.
The distaff is one of four races comprising the Sunshine Millions program at Gulfstream. The event pits horses bred in California and Florida in a total of eight races at Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park.
Joe Pesci
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Breaks Wrist In Fall From Stage
Ryan Adams
American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams broke his wrist in a fall from the stage during a gig in Liverpool, his publicist said Friday.
Adams, 29, plunged from the stage during a concert Thursday at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre. Fans said Adams struggled to continue the show before retiring, clutching his arm.
A spokesman for the Royal Liverpool University Hospital confirmed Adams had been treated for a fracture to his arm.
Ryan Adams
A Bolivian artisan shows a traditional statue of the 'Ekeko' (god of fortune) at her stand at the 'Alasitas' fair, in La Paz January 23, 2004. Thousands of people will participate on Saturday buying miniatures of the things they hope and wish for, such as cars, houses, food, money.
Photo by David Mercado
To Have Surgery
Heather Mills McCartney
Paul McCartney's wife, Heather, must undergo major pelvic surgery nearly two months after the birth of her baby, her spokeswoman said Friday.
Metal plates inserted in her pelvis following a road accident 11 years ago need to be replaced as a result of the pregnancy, spokeswoman Anya Noakes said.
"The weight of the baby has caused the plates to come apart," Noakes said. "She is feeling very uncomfortable."
Heather Mills McCartney
Denies Abuse At Wife's Hands
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge physicist who penned the best-seller "A Brief History of Time", rejected claims that he has been the victim of assault at the hands of his wife.
Hawking, 62, said he was "profoundly disappointed" by the circulation of "inaccurate information" quoting nurses as saying that he had been physically abused by his wife Elaine, 53.
At least 10 nurses or carers have given statements to police, who have yet to question the physicist, currently undergoing treatment for pneumonia at a Cambridge area hospital.
Hawking was married for 26 years to his first wife Jane, with whom he had three children, before leaving her in 1990 for the former Elaine Mason, who was one of the nurses who had cared for him around the clock, The Times said.
Stephen Hawking
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
FBI Make Arrest
Movie Piracy
FBI agents said Thursday they have traced the bootlegging and illegal Internet distribution of films such as "The Last Samurai" to an Academy Award member, and arrested a second man in connection with the case.
Carmine Caridi admitted in an affidavit released Thursday that he sent every so-called "screener" videotape he's received for the past three years to an acquaintance in the Chicago area, Russell W. Sprague.
Sprague, 51, was arrested at his home in Homewood, Ill., on Thursday after a search of his home turned up hundreds of films, many of which had been converted to DVD format and had the Academy's encryption code erased, along with an array of duplicating equipment, authorities said.
Caridi, 69, said he sent VHS copies of about 60 movies he received each year to Sprague via Federal Express. Once Sprague made a copy, he'd send them back to Caridi, the FBI said.
Movie Piracy
The Indonesian ship the Borobudur leaves Cape Town en route for west Africa, January 17, 2003. The 57-foot wooden vessel, based on an 8th century Indonesian design, left Jakarta in August and is on its way to Ghana -- seeking to prove that trade links between Africa and southeast Asia were thriving more than 1,000 years ago.
Photo by Mike Hutchings
Former Judas Priest Drummer Convicted
David Holland
The former drummer for heavy metal band Judas Priest was convicted Friday of attempting to rape a teenager whom he was giving drum lessons.
David Holland had denied assaulting the 17-year-old, who has learning difficulties, at the drummer's rural English home in 2002. The youth cannot be named for legal reasons.
A jury at Northampton Crown Court found Holland guilty of one charge of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault.
Holland joined the hard-rocking British band in 1979 and stayed for a decade, through its most successful period. Judas Priest churned out a string of heavy-metal classics, including "You've Got Another Thing Coming," "Living After Midnight" and "Hell Bent for Leather."
Holland left the group in 1989. Leather-clad singer Rob Halford departed for a solo career in 1993 but announced last July that he was returning for a world tour and a new album.
David Holland
Gets 2 1/2 Years
Anthony Pellicano
Celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, whose clients once included Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison Friday for possessing firearms and explosives.
Pellicano, who was also fined $6,000, remains the subject of a grand jury investigation into whether he may have conducted illegal wiretaps of celebrities. Federal officials have declined to provide details of the investigation, and Pellicano has said he is refusing to cooperate.
His career collapsed last year after investigators raided his office, seeking evidence to link him to threats made against a Los Angeles Times reporter. Two practice hand grenades, altered and filled with flash powder, were found in a safe along with military explosive and detonators.
Pellicano, 59, pleaded guilty in October to a felony count of possessing unregistered firearms and a felony charge of possessing C-4 explosive. He agreed to begin serving his prison term in November, although he had not yet been sentenced.
Anthony Pellicano
Daughter-In-Law Sues
Dom DeLuise
Dom DeLuise's daughter-in-law is suing him for $2 million US, claiming the comic actor conspired to cut her off financially.
Brigitte DeLuise, who's estranged from her husband, actor David DeLuise, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Superior Court. She alleges that her husband assured her that all assets would be "both of theirs."
After a falling out with Dom DeLuise, her lawsuit claims, her father-in-law conspired with his financial advisers, Page & Ma Business Management, to limit her rights and access to funds. Ownership of a West Hollywood home is part of the dispute.
Brigitte and David DeLuise, who married in September 1994, have two daughters. She sued for divorce last May.
Dom DeLuise
St. Petersburg Show
Dolls From WW2
Dolls and stuffed toys belonging to children who suffered through the Nazi siege of Leningrad 60 years ago are on view in the Russian city, now called St. Petersburg.
The exhibit opened Thursday, timed to coincide with Jan. 27 events marking 60 years since the end of the siege - a powerful symbol of Soviet suffering and survival during the Second World War, which killed millions of Russians and remains the landmark event in the lives of many others.
The exhibit includes dolls used in shows meant to raise the morale of front-line soldiers. One of the dolls, dubbed Nastya - short for Anastasia - was used by puppet studio teacher Klavdia Razdolskaya, who performed puppet shows for wounded soldiers in Leningrad hospitals, and 12 other hand puppets on show were used for children's performances during the blockade.
Dolls From WW2
Case For Defense Of Marriage?
Colorado City
A power struggle has emerged in a small, tightlipped community known for polygamy, with a number of men getting kicked out of the church-owned town and their wives and children being "reassigned" against their will to other men.
Now authorities in Arizona and Utah are stepping up their years-long investigation into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with the family "reassignments" sparking concerns of forced marriage of underage girls.
In a rare show of defiance in the typically secretive community, one man who was ordered to leave is refusing to do so, and is sharing information with authorities about church leader Warren Jeffs.
In an apparent move to solidify his control, Jeffs on Jan. 14 ordered 20 men to leave the area, but without their wives, children and personal property. Jeffs said a vision from God told him to force the men out. He later purged more men from the community, including Chatwin.
Women and children are considered property and have no rights under church laws.
Colorado City
Naked Rambler
Steve Gough
A Briton fulfilled his ambition Thursday of walking naked through the length of the country, despite being arrested several times over the course of his half-year trek.
Steve Gough, 44, reached John O'Groats at the very northern tip of Scotland, after a 900-mile walk which began at Land's End in the southwest corner of England in the middle of last year.
Walking often in near freezing temperatures, he was wearing only socks, walking boots, a hat and a rucksack.
Gough said he was blazing a trail against antiquated British indecency laws and establishment attitudes.
Steve Gough
In Memory
Helmut Newton
Newton, a fashion photographer whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle and Vogue, was best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos.
Newton lost control of his Cadillac while leaving the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood and crashed into a wall across the street, said Officer April Harding, a police spokeswoman.
Before hitting the wall, the car brushed an Associated Press photographer who was arriving at the hotel on an unrelated assignment.
Newton was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died a short time later, Harding said.
Newton, who was Jewish, fled Germany for Singapore in December 1938, a month after Nazi-led pogroms. He eventually settled in Australia and became a citizen, then took up residence in Monte Carlo.
Helmut Newton
In Memory
Bob Keeshan
Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76.
Keeshan, who lived in Hartford, Vt., died of a long illness, his family said in a statement.
Keeshan's "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS in 1955 and ran for 30 years before moving to public television for six more. It was wildly popular among children and won six Emmy Awards, three Gabriels and three Peabody Awards.
The format was simple: Each day, Captain Kangaroo, with his sugar-bowl haircut and uniform coat, would wander through his Treasure House, chatting with his good friend Mr. Green Jeans, played by Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum.
He would visit with puppet animals, like Bunny Rabbit, who was scolded for eating too many carrots, and Mr. Moose, who loved to tell knock-knock jokes.
Keeshan, born in Lynbrook, N.Y., became a page at NBC while he was in high school. He joined the Marine Corps in 1945.
His first television appearance came in 1948, when he played the voiceless, horn-honking Clarabell the Clown on the "Howdy Doody Show," a role he created and played for five years.
Later he played Corny the clown, the host of a noontime cartoon program in New York City.
"Captain Kangaroo" debuted on Oct. 3, 1955, and Keeshan remained in that role until 1993.
Keeshan, who moved to Vermont in 1990, remained active as a children's advocate, writing books, lecturing and lobbying on behalf of children's issues.
He was critical of today's TV programs for children, saying they were too full of violence. And he spoke wherever he went about the importance of good parenting.
Keeshan's wife, Jeanne, died in 1990. He had three children.
Bob Keeshan
A Kazakh female hunter releases her eagle before a national competition of hunters with birds in Taldykorgan, some 270 north of Almaty, January 23, 2004. Hunters with birds from all over Kazakhstan gathered for the two-day competition to revive this ancient nomadic tradition.
Photo by Shamil Zhumatov
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