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Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist has seen the Broadway musical Cats 1,041 times - a Congressional record.
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Re: TV Listings
Hey, Marty!
Love your tv listings so much. I depend on you more than any other source of tv info.
I hate to admit that I'm up MUCH too late at night, but I am. After Carson Daly's show, NBC goes into re-runs of The Tonight Show and Conan O'Brien. Can you find out who the guests are on those re-runs each night? Would you consider listing the line-up on those programs?
If I've missed an interesting show, it would be great to know when it's being re-run so I could make plans to watch.
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda!
The rule of thumb for NBC Late, Late night is Leno & Conan repeat exactly 1 week (to the day).
There are exceptions - for example, the Carson Tribute show on Leno last Monday repeated that same night. Chances are, it will repeat again this coming Monday night (technically early Tuesday morning).
Even better than the repeats of Leno & Conan (at least to me) are the reruns of old 'Saturday Night Live''s at 3am Sunday morning. Currently, they're airing shows from the 1st & 2nd seasons.
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Visited White House Without Invite
Chris Rock
Comedian Chris Rock says he visited the White House, but he wasn't officially invited. Rock was filming a movie in Washington, D.C., a year ago and during a break took a walk past resident Bush's home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
"A black security guard spotted me and took me into the White House," Rock told The Associated Press recently. "I was walking around the whole White House. It was weird because Bush was there and they were hiding me from Bush."
Chris Rock
Raises Funds at World Forum
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone raised $1 million in five minutes Friday for mosquito nets in Tanzania, turning a panel on African poverty into an impromptu fund-raiser.
About an hour into the panel, when a U.N. official said 150,000 African children were dying of malaria every month because they didn't have bed nets, Stone suddenly rose from her seat in the audience.
"I'd like to offer $10,000 to help you buy some bed nets today," Stone told Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa, who was on the panel along with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and others.
Stone then implored others in the hall - packed with several hundred well-heeled executives and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum - to reach into their pockets.
Immediately an unidentified man promised $50,000.
Around 30 others quickly followed, and within five minutes, Stone had raised $1 million, said Sen. Bill Frist (R-Cat Killer), the Senate leader who moderated the panel discussion on how rich nations can best fund the war on poverty.
Sharon Stone
Grammys Add Tribute
Ray Charles
Ray Charles, posthumously nominated for seven Grammys, including album of the year for "Genius Loves Company," will be honored in a tribute at next month's awards show.
Bonnie Raitt and Billy Preston will perform in a segment honoring Charles, the Recording Academy announced Thursday.
Queen Latifah will host the show, which will air on CBS television.
Ray Charles
Producer Quits After Just 4 Months
'EastEnders'
Kathleen Hutchison, Executive Producer of troubled soap "EastEnders," quit on Friday just four months into the job, the BBC said.
Hutchison was brought in to revive the program after it suffered a barrage of criticism and the worst viewing figures in its 19-year-history.
EastEnders axed the unpopular Ferreira family from the soap in October after critics panned their dull plot lines and uninspired acting.
The program has also been dogged by a series of embarrassing headlines about its stars, and tabloid newspapers reported that Hutchison's dismissal followed disagreements with the cast.
'EastEnders'
Receives Walk O'Fame Star
Susan Lucci
The conniving Erica Kane, who has had a dozen careers and nearly as many marriages, made the trip from Pine Valley to Hollywood Boulevard Friday to see her alter ego, actress Susan Lucci, receive a star on the Walk of Fame.
Lucci is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the ABC daytime soap opera "All My Children."
Lucci joined the soap in 1970, just after graduating from college. She famously was snubbed for a daytime Emmy for 18 years, finally winning the honor in 1999.
Susan Lucci
Radio Show Is Canceled
Marie Osmond
The five-hour afternoon drive time radio show hosted by Marie Osmond has been canceled by its national syndication company.
"Marie & Friends," which Osmond did from a Provo office building, featured adult contemporary music and conversation geared toward women.
Despite being dropped by the Jones Radio Network, reruns of Osmond's show continue to air on KBEE (FM-98.7) each weekday from 2-7 p.m.
Marie Osmond
Ghost of Autocratic Past
'Serve Spain to the Death'
Spain last year removed giant stone letters that spelt out the slogan "Serve Spain to the Death" on a hillside near a military academy -- a legacy from the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, who died in 1975.
But the slogan, in the northeastern Catalonia region, blazed forth with new visibility this week after snow fell in the area and stayed longer in the cavities where the stone letters used to lie than on the surrounding, ground, covered in vegetation.
"Until vegetation grows back on the ground where the letters used to be, you'll be able to see the words, especially if you know what was there before. It's true that with the snow, it's much easier to see," said a colonel at the academy.
'Serve Spain to the Death'
60 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall...
Richard Kral
A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.
He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.
He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."
Richard Kral
In Memory
Jim Capaldi
Legendary rock drummer and Hall of Fame inductee Jim Capaldi died on Friday after a brief fight with stomach cancer, his publicist said.
The 60-year-old Capaldi, born in England of Italian immigrant parents, died in his sleep at the London Clinic in the early hours with his wife and family at his bedside.
Capaldi, whose driving rock rhythms and songwriting ability helped make groundbreaking band Traffic a household name in the 1960s and 70s with -- among others -- Steve Winwood and Dave Mason -- also had an illustrious solo career.
Capaldi was inducted into the U.S. Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame in March 2004, just five months before being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
When Traffic finally broke up in 1974 after releasing 11 albums -- including the iconic songs 40,000 Headmen, Dear Mr Fantasy and Paper Sun -- Capaldi was already doing solo work.
Capaldi was five times winner of BMI or ASCAP awards for the most played songs in America and cooperated closely with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana and the Eagles among others.
In 1975 he married Brazilian-born Aninha and spent much time with her helping the street children of her native country.
Jim Capaldi
In Memory
Lucien Carr
Lucien Carr, a muse and catalyst of the "beat generation" who brought Jack Kerouac together with other writers to spark a counterculture revolution, died on Friday in Washington. He was 79.
Carr, a retired senior editor at the United Press International news wire service, died at George Washington University Hospital of complications from cancer treatment, said his longtime companion Kathleen Silvassy.
Carr was a student at Columbia University in New York in 1944 when he introduced Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, who formed the literary nucleus of the countercultural "beatnik" movement of the 1950s.
Carr served two years on a manslaughter conviction for stabbing dead an older man, David Kammerer, who had a romantic crush on Carr, and throwing his body into the Hudson River in 1944.
The killing and Carr's friendship with Burroughs were portrayed in the 2000 movie "Beat." Carr was also portrayed as Kenneth Wood in Kerouac's novel "The Town and the City."
Carr's 47-year UPI career began after his prison term and spanned most of the second half of the 20th century. "Lou Carr was a great editor: calm and unflappable as he handled bulletins and any political crisis that came in Washington," said former UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas. "Young reporters were in awe of him -- some of the veterans as well."
Carr is also survived by three sons, Simon, Ethan, Caleb - a writer whose works include the murder mystery "The Alienist," and five grandchildren.
Lucien Carr
In Memory
Mort Fega
Mort Fega, the hip, mellow-voiced New York radio personality who brought his listeners the music of jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane, died Jan. 21. He was 83.
Fega's radio career began in 1955 in his hometown of New Rochelle, N.Y. He went to New York City, where he started his Saturday show "Jazz Unlimited," becoming popular for his music selection and use of "jazz slang."
Fega hosted jazz shows at Carnegie Hall, Birdland and the Apollo Theater in New York, and at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island.
Fega worked as a jazz disc jockey in Phoenix from 1969 to 1975 before moving back to New York. In 1986, he moved to Florida, hosting a radio show, writing a column for The Palm Beach Post and teaching jazz history appreciation at Palm Beach Community College.
Mort Fega
In Memory
Jacques Villeret
Jacques Villeret, a French actor popular for his comic turns in films such as "The Dinner Game," died just nine days shy of his 54th birthday, friends told AFP.
The short, rotund performer, whose round face was topped by a thinning patch of frizzy hair, had a busy career as a supporting actor in more than 80 cinema and television productions.
Internationally he was best known as an obtuse and naive guest of a malicious Parisian socialite in "The Dinner Game" ("Le Diner de Cons" in French) which is regarded as one of France's top comedy films, based on a stage play in which he also starred.
Villeret also used his diminutive stature to mine pathos and win sympathy in other films such as "The Children of the Marshlands" and "Malabar Princess."
Jacques Villeret
