'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Don't Gloat
Please don't gloat about the fabulous California weather - those of use
still back in Pennsylvania don't appreciate it :->
Keep up the good work, espeically love your plugs for the Best Show on
Broadcast Television - I got my apolitical S.O. watching it, and I've
overheard him using things he learned from the NOW guests and commentary
in arguments with his neaderthal-republican college buddies.
Question: Is Bill Moyers retiring and grooming David Brancaccio (sp?)
for his job? We were just wondering.
- Pattie O
Thanks, Pattie!
Sorry about the weather - dear old Dad isn't very happy about it, either - and when he's not happy, he likes to 'share.'
Don't know about Bill Moyers' plans, but sure hope he's around for a long time.
And, gratefully, David B. is erudite, competent & not ugly. ; )
Reader Correction
Photo Caption
I think the actor sitting next to the Bushs at the fashion show is Vincent Gallo, not Joaquin Phoenix.
Love the page, keep up the good work.
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
Reader Suggestion
Bill Maher
Have you read any of Ann "McCarthy" Coulter's latest scurrilous comments regarding Max Cleland?
Decided it was time to Send a message to Bill Maher!
" Bill, it's time your "friend" Ann "McCarthy" Coulter stops having undeservedly accessible platforms to spread her hatred (see her Max Cleland remarks).
If you think she helps your ratings, a lot of us won't watch the weeks she is on--can't take it! "
~ Perry
Thanks, Perry!
Adam's Apple Annie really stepped over the line this time.
from Mark
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Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny morning, cloudy afternoon.
Can't say I'm surprised the Canadian government is annoyed with Conan, but, damn, that was a funny show.
The 5th grade exchanged Valentine's today. The teacher gave the kids white lunch bags to decorate - partly as an artsy-crafty thing and partly to have something to carry home their cards.
The kid decorated his with 3 small ♥'s - and a large, technically correct heart with arteries & aorta attached...
Tonight, Saturday, CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Star Search', followed by a FRESH
'Hack', then a FRESH 'The District'.
NBC opens their traditional night of RERUNs with a FRESH 'Tracy Morgan', followed by a
RERUN 'Whoopi', then a RERUN 'Law & Order' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour), followed by a
RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (starts 1 minute before teh top of the hour).
'SNL' is FRESH with Drew Barrymore hosting, and music by Kelis.
ABC rolls out 'A Charlie Brown Valentine', followed by the movie 'The Princess Diaries'.
The WB offers the movie 'The Man In The Moon'.
Faux has 'Cops: Love Hurts'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH with Snoop Dogg.
UPN has the movie 'Three Amigos!'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Dustin Hoffman), 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'Bugsy', followed by the movie 'Scent Of A Woman', then the movie 'Legal Eagles'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Pregnant;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[8pm] 'The Vice' - Lovesick;
[10pm] 'The Sins' - Anger;
[11:30pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'The Vice' - Lovesick;
[2am] 'The Sins' - Anger;
[3am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[3:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'The Vice' - Lovesick; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Fatal Attraction', then the movie 'Fatal Attraction', again.
Comedy Central has 'Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied', 'Crank Yankers', another 'Crank Yankers', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show',
'Comedy Central Presents' (Louis Ramey), and another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Sheryl Underwood).
History has 'The Men Who Killed Kennedy' all day, followed by the movie 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'.
SciFi has the movie 'Faust: Love Of The Damned', followed by the movie 'Final Destination'.
TCM - Day 14 of '31 Days of Oscar™', where every movie is either an Oscar™ winner or nominee.
[6am] 'The Divorcee' (1930);
[7:30am] 'The Smiling Lieutenant' (1931);
[9:30am] 'Wuthering Heights' (1939);
[11:30am] 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (1939);
[2pm] 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' (1967);
[4pm] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940);
[6pm] 'Moonstruck' (1987);
[8pm] 'Tootsie' (1982);
[10pm] 'As Good As It Gets' (1997);
[12:30am] 'The Goodbye Girl' (1977);
[2:30am] 'Here Comes Mr. Jordan' (1941);
[4:30am] 'The Champ' (1931). (ALL TIMES EST)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) hosts a special screening of the Golden Globe award winning film, 'Osama' at the Motion Picture Association of America in Washington, DC on February 12, 2004. 'Osama' is the first film from Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
Photo by Jeff Snyder
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Canada Condemns 'Racist' Show
Conan O'Brien
Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual.
Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid $760,000 to help O'Brien -- who appears on the NBC television network -- bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS outbreak last year.
But the federal government said O'Brien had gone far too far with the show broadcast on Thursday in which he went to Quebec, a province which has had separatist governments for much of the last 20 years and is a delicate political topic in Canada.
At one point in the show, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog -- a hand puppet that is a regular on the show -- said to a Quebecer: "You're French, you're obnoxious and you no speekay English." It told another: "I can smell your crotch from here."
O'Brien's team were also shown replacing street signs in the province with those that read "Quebecqueer Street" and "Rue des Pussies."
Conan O'Brien
Wins Date With Actress on Leno
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich took his Democratic presidential campaign trail quest for a girlfriend to late-night television — and won a date with actress Jennifer Tilly.
The Ohio congressman asked questions of a trio of unseen women in a "The Dating Game" takeoff Thursday on NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Responses by Tilly, actress Cybill Shepherd and Los Angeles radio talk show host Kim Serafin blended sexual innuendo with politics and references to Kucinich's environmental concerns.
After he selected Tilly and she emerged from behind a screen, Leno presented Kucinich with a gift certificate to a Santa Monica vegan restaurant. The smiling congressman gave Tilly a kiss on the cheek but didn't say if he actually planned on taking her on a date.
Dennis Kucinich
A pair of black swans are seen at a zoo in Wuhan, Hubei province, February 13, 2004, the day before Valentine's Day.
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Honorary Doctorate From Sorbonne
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese maestro Seiji Ozawa will be awarded an honorary doctorate next month by the prestigious Sorbonne University of Paris.
The university said Friday that the March 29 honoris causa award would be conferred on Ozawa "to pay homage to one of the most eminent performers of our time who notably has conducted the greatest masterpieces of French music, from Berlioz to Messiaen".
Seiji Ozawa, who is 68, in 1983 notably created Olivier Messiaen's only opera "François d'Assise" at the Paris Opera where he will this season conduct a diptych by Puccini and Ravel from March 21 to April 7.
Seiji Ozawa
Named Cannes Jury Head
Quentin Tarantino
American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will preside over the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festiva, organizers said Friday.
Tarantino's celebrated crime romp "Pulp Fiction" won the festival's top honor — the Palme d'Or — in 1994. His earlier cult classic "Reservoir Dogs" was nominated for the festival's top prize in 1992.
To be president of the jury, the 40-year-old Tarantino said, was "the crowning achievement of a lifetime spent in cinematic obsession — a magnificent obsession."
Quentin Tarantino
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Inducted Into Gospel Hall of Fame
Al Green
Al Green and Sandi Patty led a diverse quartet of industry veterans inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Also inducted were Vestal Goodman, who died in December of flu complications, and BMI President Frances W. Preston.
The ceremony was taped Wednesday for broadcast later in the year on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the first time the induction ceremony will be televised.
Al Green
Two models display designs by Roberto Diz during the first day of the Pasarela Cibeles Fashion show in Madrid Friday Feb. 13, 2004.
Photo by Paul White
The bondage guy isn't a model?
Guesting on 'Law & Order: SVU'
Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas has signed on to do a five-episode arc on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Thomas will portray a judge who is known for speaking her mind and serves as a mentor to the show's assistant district attorney, played by Diane Neal. The first of Thomas' five episodes is scheduled to air next week in the drama series' regular Tuesday 10 p.m. slot.
Marlo Thomas
Sad Talk Show Was Canceled
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne says she's disappointed her talk show was canceled and would like to host another program with her husband, rocker Ozzy Osbourne.
"The Sharon Osbourne Show" was recently canceled because of low ratings, she said. She will shoot the program until May.
Sharon Osbourne
Readies Columbia Debut
Patti Smith
Veteran rock poet Patti Smith's next album, "trampin'," is due in stores April 27 via Columbia, her first for the label after spending her entire 30-year career with Arista Records.
Smith's ninth studio album, "trampin"' boast 10 original tracks in addition to the title song, a spiritual popularized by late opera singer Marian Anderson. That cut features the debut performance of Smith's 16-year-old daughter Jesse, who adds piano accompaniment.
Patti Smith
Dylan, Dead Head Join Lineup
Bonnaroo
Bob Dylan, the Dead, Phish's Trey Anastasio, Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews & Friends are among the highlights of the initial lineup for the third annual Bonnaroo festival (June 11-13), Billboard.com can reveal.
The event will be held on a 700-acre farm in rural Manchester, Tenn., about 60 miles south of Nashville.
Among the other acts set to appear are David Byrne, Wilco, Primus, Ani DiFranco, Gov't Mule, My Morning Jacket, the Black Keys, Kings Of Leon, Taj Mahal and Galactic.
Tickets this year will be priced at $139.50 and $164.50, up from $119.50, $134.50, and $149.50 for the 2003 event. They will go on sale Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. ET via the Bonnaroo Web site (http://www.bonnaroo.com).
Bonnaroo
Spreads Garage Rock Love
Little Steven Van Zandt
Little Steven Van Zandt -- guitarist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street band, gangster actor on HBO's "The Sopranos" and host of the syndicated "Little Steven Underground Radio Show" -- has grand plans to spread the good word of garage rock'n'roll.
"It has taken a little longer than I would have liked but we're trying to put together a circuit of clubs around the country that all of our bands can plug into and play and keep playing," Van Zandt told Billboard.com. "We would have 'Underground Garage' nights in each club. And we would work it out on a circuit, where every week we would just put another two bands on the road."
Van Zandt said he's also close to announcing the details for a three-day garage rock festival, featuring upwards of 70 bands, slated to take place somewhere in the Northeast in August.
Little Steven Van Zandt
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Reporters Swarm in Pursuit of 'AWOL' Story
Alabama
Newspaper and wire service reporters from around the country are swarming around Montgomery, Ala. -- until this week perhaps best known in some quarters as the home of country music legend Hank Williams -- in search of anyone who can remember resident Bush serving time as a National Guardsman at the local air base in 1972. For the most part, they have come up empty so far.
The New York Times, for example, has tracked down 16 retired personnel who served at the base in 1972 and none could recall seeing Bush.
Closer to home, Alabama papers have apparently done relatively little digging at and around Dannelly Air Base, a compound located next to Montgomery's airport and home to the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, judging from the scant reports on their online archives.
The Birmingham News did find retired Lt. Col. Reese Bricken, former commander of the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron, who lives in Montgomery. "He never did come to my squad," Bricken said, referring to Bush, in an article published Thursday. "He was never at my unit." After reviewing documents provided by the paper, Bricken added, "He was looking for a place to hang his hat, but he never came by."
For more, Alabama
The race car of NASCAR driver Terry Labonte has been painted with a promotion for the new film 'The Passion of the Christ', Mel Gibson's controversial film. Interstate Batteries, Labonte's sponsor, has painted its NASCAR race car with a big advertisement for the film, in time for Sunday's Daytona 500, which is the sport's biggest race and one of the biggest advertising events in the United States.
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Former Judas Priest Drummer
David Holland
The former drummer for heavy metal band Judas Priest was jailed Friday for eight years for the attempted rape of a teenager while giving him drum lessons
David Holland was convicted last month of one charge of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault on the 17-year-old youth, who has learning difficulties, at the drummer's rural English home in 2002.
Holland joined Judas Priest in 1979 and stayed for a decade, through its most successful period. The hard-rocking British band 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.
David Holland
UK National Gallery
'Madonna of the Pinks'
Britain's National Gallery has won its fight to buy the Raphael painting, "Madonna of the Pinks," which it calls the most significant old master in any UK collection.
It said on Friday it would pay 22 million pounds ($41.75 million) for the painting -- so called because it depicts the Virgin Mary with a sprig of pink flowers.
But its presence in England was thrown into doubt when the Getty Museum in California offered to buy it for 35 million pounds.
The gallery's 22 million is about the same as far as the seller is concerned, because he would have had to pay some 13 million pounds in tax to send the painting abroad.
'Madonna of the Pinks'
Apologizes
American Airlines
The chief executive of American Airlines apologized after the pilot of a recent cross-country flight got on the intercom and asked all Christians aboard to raise their hands.
The pilot, Rodger K. Findiesen of Annapolis, Md., has been grounded while the Feb. 7 incident is investigated, Gerard Arpey said.
American Airlines
U.S. Losing Edge
Stem Cell Research
It's official: The United States has fallen significantly behind in mining the promising field of stem cell research to treat disease.
The script, many U.S. scientists say, was essentially written by the Bush administration when it decided to restrict federal funding for research in the politically charged field.
Some Christian and politically conservative groups oppose the research — especially cloning — as immoral because fertilized embryos must be destroyed to harvest the stem cells. Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, on Thursday called on Congress to ban all forms of cloning.
The Bush administration policy also forbids federal funding of all cloning research, even if the projects are intended solely to create stem cells like the project in South Korea, where donor eggs also are more readily available.
The private sector is far from alone in its struggles. University researchers complain that resident Bush's stance on stem cell research has hindered them and could contribute to a brain drain of talent overseas.
For the rest, Stem Cell Research
St. Louis Symposium
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams called this city "the place I dread," the "city of St. Pollution," where his unhappily married parents shuttled their dysfunctional family between apartment buildings the colour of "dried blood and mustard."
But Williams later acknowledged that his formative years here, from age seven to 26, profoundly shaped his writing. It's where he came to know the female psyche through his southern belle mother, Edwina, and beloved sister, Rose, and where he came to idealize and hate the male persona embodied in his bully father, Cornelius.
This weekend, it's where Washington University is holding an international symposium on his work.
It was in St. Louis where Williams's philandering father refused to take his son's writing seriously, calling young Thomas Lanier Williams, a budding homosexual who later took the name Tennessee, "Miss Nancy."
For a good read, Tennessee Williams
Apologizes for Grammy Show
CBS
CBS offered an apology Friday to Native Americans angered over a Grammy Awards performance by OutKast that featured frenetic dancing, feathers and war paint — which some called racist and degrading.
As the final act of Sunday's Grammy telecast on the network, OutKast's Andre "3000" Benjamin and several members of a dance troupe swirled wildly around a green teepee as he sang his "Hey Ya!" Costumes included war paint, feathers and fringe.
The San Francisco-based Native American Cultural Center called for a boycott of CBS and OutKast, which won three Grammys at the show; Arista, their record company; the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization that sponsors the Grammys; and CBS, the network that aired the show.
For more, CBS
Secretary Lashes Out at Helen Thomas
Scott McClellan
Scott McClellan finally lost it Friday, according to White House reporters. He doesn't see it that way.
The White House press secretary had kept his cool all week as reporters pounced on him about President George Bush's 1970s service in the National Guard. Facing perhaps his toughest week as press secretary, McClellan got testy Tuesday under questioning by CBS correspondent John Roberts during the televised briefing. He then blew up at old pro Helen Thomas during the private "gaggle" for reporters on Friday.
Thomas had gotten a tip that Bush might have been absent from duty in Alabama because he was performing court-ordered community service in Texas in 1972. She asked McClellan if that was accurate.
According to reporters in the press room, McClellan got red-faced and became so angry, it looked to some as if he were ready to pounce. He characterized the question as coming from "gutter politics."
For the rest, Scott McClellan
A cat joins its owner reading a book at a Tokyo cafe Friday, Feb. 13. 2004.
Photo by Katsumi Kasahara
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