Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 1 March, 2003

Saturday

1 March, 2003

big hammer - bigger hammer

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'TBH Politoons'

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Thanks, again, Tim!

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NYC

'Horns and Halos'

"Horns and Halos"
Friday, February 28th
Cinema Village
22 E. 12th St.
NYC

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Winner "Best Documentary" - 2002 New York Undergound Film Festival
Winner "Best Documentary" - 2002 Chicago Underground Film Festival
Official Selection 2002 Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival
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Indiewire declared "Horns and Halos" one of the best undistributed films of 2002. So we decided we'd better distribute it.....
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Horns and Halos

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Overcast morning, sunny afternoon.

A couple of months ago, an older Siamese cat wandered into the yard - shortly after Ginger went missing. Turns out the Siamese is named 'Mocha', and he 'belongs' across the alley, over a fence & down a few houses. Mocha is over 12, and not doing so well. His 'owners' said they have no money to spare for him, and we're welcome to him - they don't want the 'mess'. So, the pantry is a hospice, again, and Mocha will stay here.

Bill Maher's show was quite good tonight. Eric Idle had a song at the end we should all be humming in the morning! Monica Crowley needs her sneer surgically corrected, and Larry Miller should be drawing unemployment after losing his job at Radio Shack.



Tonight, Friday, CBS opens the evening with a FRESH 'Touched By An Angle', followed by a RERUN 'The District', then a RERUN 'The Agency'.

NBC has a half-hour RERUN 'Fear Factor', and then the movie 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark'. Don't know for sure, but, 'SNL' is probably a RERUN.

ABC offers the movie 'Patch Adams', and then a FRESH 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here'.

The WB here has a basketball game - Sonics kicking the Clips collective ass.

Faux has a RERUN 'Cops', followed by a RERUN 'Cops', followed by 'America's Most Wanted'.

UPN offers the movie 'Platoon'.

TCM starts out celebrating 'what's the matter with kids today'  -   Oliver! (1968), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and American Graffiti (1973).
Then, they switch to children of another kind - from my people, eyetalian men. First up, it's Rocky (1976), then Martin Scorsese's amazing Raging Bull (1980)



Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?



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Nostalgia?

Communist Theme Park

Hoping to capitalise on a wave of nostalgia for Communist East Germany, a Berlin company is planning to build a theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain in the country that disappeared nearly 13 years ago.

Massine Productions GmbH hopes to recreate a 10,000-square metre (107,600 sq ft) replica of East Germany, complete with surly border guards, rigorous customs inspections, authentic East German mark notes, and restaurants with regulation bland East German food.

Nostalgia for East Germany has lingered ever since reunification in 1990. Known as "Ostalgie", a play on the German words for east and nostalgia, the spirit has given rise to scores of "GDR parties", books, songs and popular films.

A German film "Good Bye, Lenin", in which a man recreates East Germany in a 79-square-metre (850-sq-ft) flat to protect his ailing mother from the shock of reunification after she comes out of a coma, has surged to the top of the German film charts and more than a million people have been to see it.

Communist Theme Park


You know, I went to the original park, called USSR, and let me tell you...tons of fun!

~~  Alex


Thanks, Alex!
Go figure East Germans - guess they want their commie-lite...and their old toilet paper made from newspapers, with newsprint-chunks large enough to read a whole story.   
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Brazilian revellers wearing ties showing U.S. President Geroge W. Bush with a clown nose, parade during the Salvador Carnival late February 27, 2003. Thousands of revelers are expected to celebrate the famous international Salvador's Carnival which runs until March 4.
Photo by Inacio Teixeira

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Bill of Rights Defense Committee

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Sings 'Truckee Blues'

Paul McCartney

Regulars tapping to the beat of the Truckee Hotel's usual Thursday night jazz duo got a surprise when Paul McCartney took to the small stage for an impromptu song he called "Truckee Blues."

McCartney sang after he and wife, Heather Mills, dined incognito at Moody's Bistro and Lounge in the Sierra ski town's historic hotel about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from Lake Tahoe.

McCartney, the former Beatle who opens a European tour next month, played a few songs with Bob Greenwood's Jazz Duo, said J.J. Morgan, general manager of the restaurant in the hotel built in the 1870s.

The couple had been on a ski vacation at Lake Tahoe for a few days, he said.

Greenwood, who plays keyboards and base, and his drummer Dennis Steele, played McCartney's "My Baby's Request" before the former Beatle asked him if he knew an old jazz standard, "The Very Thought of You."

Greenwood said he didn't remember the words. So McCartney said, "Don't worry about it, I'll come up and sing it," the local Truckee musician said. "That floored me."

"He created three verses spontaneously. And the hook in the song was the `Truckee Blues.' That knocked me off my feet. I couldn't believe he could come up with lyrics like that," he said.

The local pianist said he had worked with David Crosby, played back up for Billy Preston, and performed before the likes of ex-President George W. Bush and baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.

"But nothing has ever come close to this. I had to pinch myself when it was over," Greenwood said.

Paul McCartney

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Opposed to War

Omar Sharif

Egyptian actor Omar Sharif says a war on Iraq would encourage terrorism and could lead to a clash between the Muslim and Christian worlds.

"The Islamic world is in danger of becoming completely radicalized. You're going to encourage a war of religion, East against West and Muslims against Christians, the Crusades. You're going to create more terrorists with this than ever you can imagine," the 69-year-actor said in an interview with The Associated Press.

"The whole world is of the same opinion — that this is ridiculous," he said.

Omar Sharif

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World's Longest Concert Underway

John Cage

First there was silence — 1 1/2 years of it.

But that was just a brief lead-in for Friday's opening notes in what's planned as the world's longest concert, a 639-year piece being performed in a former church in east Germany.

With 72 years already mapped out, the concert inspired by the American avant-garde composer John Cage challenges the creativity of future generations to keep the music playing.

"This is a project that conveys optimism," said Michael Betzle, a businessman who helps run the private foundation behind the concert. "When you start something like that, you're counting on people's creativity 200, 300 years down the road."

The project, driven by a group of German music experts and an organ builder, is centered around a Cage piece called "Organ2/ASLSP" — or "Organ squared/As slow as possible."

The unused St. Burchard's church in Halberstadt, a town with a proud organ-building tradition dating to the Middle Ages, serves as the performance space and the inspiration for extending the piece over centuries.

The foundation is seeking sponsors to fund the organ's estimated 200,000 euro (US$215,000) cost. People can choose a year to sponsor with a 1,000 euro (US$1,080) donation.

John Cage

www.john-cage.halberstadt.de

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Irish band U2 singer Bono (L) poses with his wife Ali Hewson (C) and President Jacques Chirac after he was awarded the Legion of Honour medal at the Elysee Palace, February 28, 2003. The U2 activist and Chirac are nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
Photo by Jack Dabaghian

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Lots of Real Appeal

Roseanne-Ozzy Meeting

A camera crew following Roseanne as she shopped at the Barney's New York store in Beverly Hills this week ran into another camera crew shooting Ozzy Osbourne as he -- you guessed it -- also shopped.

Of course, Ozzy's cameras caught the spectacle, as did Roseanne's, so expect to see two different takes of the random meeting on MTV's "The Osbournes" and Roseanne's upcoming ABC reality series.

In this reality-soaked TV era, the encounter was probably inevitable. While film shoots are easy to find while driving around the streets of Los Angeles, it's also become common to spot people going about their business as cameras tag along behind them.

Roseanne-Ozzy Meeting

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Joins Playboy Jazz Fest

Boz Scaggs

Pop veteran Boz Scaggs, saxophonist Boney James, singer Al Jarreau and the Dave Brubeck Quartet will headline the 25th Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival, which kicks off June 14 for two days at the Hollywood Bowl.

Jarreau will sing "Take Five" with the Brubeck band behind him; Brubeck had a million-selling hit with the Paul Desmond tune in 1959 while Jarreau did a scat version in '77.

Among those appearing on June 14 will be Scaggs, James, Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury, the quintet of Grammy-winning bassist Dave Holland and Latin jazz percussionist Poncho Sanchez with saxophonist James Moody.

Sunday's lineup will feature Jarreau, Brubeck, drummer Roy Haynes and his quartet, Guitars and Saxes, featuring Richard Elliot, Steve Cole, Peter White and Jeff Golub, as well as Cuban singer-songwriter Isaac Delgado, the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars and the Bobby Rodriguez Salsa Orchestra.

Bill Cosby will return for the 23rd time as master of ceremonies, and on June 15 he will bring in his own group of veteran musicians: Dwayne Burno, Chancler, Pete Christlieb, Eddie Henderson, Harold Mabern, Bobby Hutcherson and Keschia Potter.

Boz Scaggs

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Back in US

Marcel Marceau

Renowned French mime Marcel Marceau brings his beloved character "Bip" back for what he says will be his final U.S. tour, playing 28 shows, kicking off on Sunday.

After 47 years of touring almost annually in the United States, including visits to small communities like Valdez, Alaska, Marceau will limit his activities after this year. The mime, who almost single-handedly revived the historic art form, will turn 80 on March 22.

Marceau, who famously spoke the only word ("Non") in Mel Brooks' film "Silent Movie," begins the tour in Clearwater, Florida and winds up in New Mexico, taking in 14 states and 19 cities. He will also attend a reception in New York City for the new non-profit Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of the Art of Mime Inc.

Marcel Marceau

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Fleet of Limos for 100-Yard Trip

J-Lo

American actress and singer Jennifer Lopez used six limousines to travel from one exclusive London hotel to another equally upscale hotel -- a distance of about 100 yards, British newspapers reported on Friday.

The Daily Mail said onlookers were dumbstruck as the singer and her 30-strong entourage spent 15 minutes clambering into the vehicles for the short trip along swanky Park Lane between the Metropolitan Hotel and the Dorchester hotel.

Newspapers have been full of stories about the 32-year-old booking 14 suites at the Metropolitan Hotel for $14,000 a night to house her team, reported to include dieticians and make-up artists.

Lopez has previously said media stories about her acting like a prima donna are exaggerated.

J-Lo

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

bartcook

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Set To Marry Childhood Sweetheart

Carol Channing

Carol Channing is getting married again — to her childhood sweetheart from 70 years ago.

The 82-year-old singer-actress said Harry Kullijian, with whom she grew up in San Francisco, tracked her down after reading about himself in her memoirs. Kullijian had been trying to reach her for 60 years, she said, and a mutual friend gave him her phone number.

"Since our spouses have both passed away, we were able to get together again, renew our love, and would like to announce our engagement," Channing said Thursday. "There are no immediate plans for a wedding date, but this is the happiest moment of my life."

Kullijian, 82, is a co-owner of the Mervyn's department store chain.

Carol Channing

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Gets Star on Walk of Fame

Martin Scorsese

Director Martin Scorsese holds a replica plaque of his star after he was honored with the 2,217th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, during an unveiling 
ceremony in Los Angeles, California, February 28, 2003. Scorsese is nominated for a best director Oscar for his latest film, 'Gangs of New York,' which is also nominated for a best picture. Looking on are actors Sharon Stone (L) and Joe Pesci, who Scorsese directed in the 1995 motion picture 'Casino.' Photo by Jim Ruymen

Martin Scorsese, a director known for chronicling the "Mean Streets" of New York, found kinder sentiment on a Hollywood sidewalk Friday.

Scorsese, 60, who was raised in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City, is best known for his films "Mean Streets" (1973), "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Raging Bull" (1980), "Goodfellas" (1990) and "Cape Fear" (1991).

Among those in attendance were his "Goodfellas" star Joe Pesci and "Casino" actress Sharon Stone. Scorsese was also set to receive a lifetime achievement honor Saturday at the Directors Guild Awards, where he was also nominated in the competitive category for his work on "Gangs of New York."

Martin Scorsese

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Cinderella at Opera Ball

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson has danced the night away among Viennese high society in the annual Opera Ball, an extravaganza of white organza, champagne and gilt that makes up the highlight of the Austrian social calendar.

Thursday's event with a $231 minimum entry price and a dress code of tuxedo or uniform for men and long gown for women, is often seen as an exhibitionist throw-back to imperial times and a brash night out for the nouveaux riches.

This year, Anderson courted the spotlight as the guest of a flamboyant building tycoon who has won column inches by paying the likes of Ivana Trump and Grace Jones to appear by his side.

Pamela Anderson

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Staying Put at ABC

Sam Donaldson

Veteran ABC newsman Sam Donaldson was in talks with MSNBC about a prime-time talk show, but those negotiations have ended without a deal, network representatives said Friday.

Struggling MSNBC still has its eyes open for a new prime-time host, following this week's firing of Phil Donahue.

Donaldson's ABC radio program will originate from the Persian Gulf in upcoming weeks, and the 68-year-old will be available to ABC television broadcasts if hostilities break out, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.

Sam Donaldson

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Women With An Opinion

Guerrilla Girls

Feminist group the Guerrilla Girls is launching an assault on the "white male domination" of Hollywood in time for the Oscars. They plan to unveil a billboard in Los Angeles comparing Hollywood to the U.S. Senate, declaring, "The stodgy Senate and hip Hollywood have something in common: They both lag behind the rest of U.S. society in numbers of women and people of color in top positions." They note, "even the Senate" - with 14 female senators - "is more progressive than Hollywood . . . Even the interim government of Afghanistan is more progressive."

Guerrilla Girls

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World's First

Face Transplant

A 16-year-old Irish girl looks set to receive the world's first face transplant, it has been reported. In an operation that will make medical history - and cross the boundaries of science fiction - the girl will receive the face of a dead donor. Lena Marie Murphy suffered horrific facial injuries as a baby when her father's car exploded.

The operation, at London's Royal Free Hospital, will involve peeling away the face of a four-hour-old corpse.

It will then be grafted onto the Lena's face, London's Evening Standard reported.

Face Transplant

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

pissed

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Norwegian Teenager to Face Retrial

'DVD Jon'

A Norwegian teenager cleared of cyber piracy charges in a landmark ruling is to be tried again in an appeals court, his lawyer said on Friday.

Jon Johansen, aged 19 and dubbed "DVD Jon," was acquitted by an Oslo court in January of charges of theft after he developed a computer program to copy DVD movies which has been outlawed in the United States.

Johansen had admitted copying only legally-purchased DVDs using his program, and the Oslo district court ruled that he was entitled to do this.

Prosecutors, on behalf of Hollywood studies, lodged an appeal in the Borgarting appeals court in Oslo, objecting to the application of the law and the presentation of evidence.

Johansen has become a symbol for hackers worldwide who say making software such as his -- called DeCSS -- is an act of intellectual freedom rather than theft. There is no specific legislation in Norway to protect digital content, but Johansen's program has been criminalized in the United States under the Digital Copyright Millennium Act.

'DVD Jon'

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An unidentified member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in black and white face paint performs with seventies rock group KISS in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Feb. 28, 2003. The concert is to be shown on a pay-tv special with the 60-piece orchestra joining the group on stage in full KISS make-up.
Photo by David Callow

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Just A Bunch Of Good Ole Boys

Augusta & the Klan

The leader of a Ku Klux Klan splinter group plans to demonstrate in support of Augusta National Golf Club's all-male membership during the Masters, whether the club likes it or not.

"This equal rights stuff has gotten out of hand," Joseph J. Harper, imperial wizard of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said Friday. "We're not concerned with whether they want us there or not. We're concerned with their right to choose who they want to choose" as members.

Martha Burk, the lead advocate in pressing Augusta National to admit women members, said the club and the Klan deserve one another.

"It is not a surprise that the KKK supports Augusta National Golf Club, since the club embraces and flaunts discrimination," said Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations. "It must expect support of a like-minded group."

Augusta & The Klan

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Slammed

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson has been slammed by a group of New Zealand academics angry at the way his Maori tattoo design has been used as a fashion accessory.

Auckland University teachers Ngarino Ellis, Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Linda Waimarie Nikora - all Maori - are concerned that people are "misappropriating" the aboriginal New Zealanders' tradition.

Mike Tyson

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Fell in Yosemite

Two Giant Sequoias

Two giant sequoias that put down roots long before the United States became a country fell last weekend, the first of the age-old forest titans to fall in years.

The trees, thought to be between 300 years and 750 years old, were located in a grove along the Yosemite National Park's southern border. The park has hundreds of giant sequoias in three large groves.

Soil or root failure caused the collapse of at least one of the trees, which may have toppled the second sequoia as it fell, Park Ranger Deb Schweizer said.

A young sequoia in the grove fell in 1998. Before that, that last sequoia known to have fallen in the park was in 1969.

Sequoias reach maturity at about 1,000 years. The Grizzly Giant, the grove's oldest tree, is believed to be 2,700 years to 3,000 years old. Schweizer said foot traffic around the base of the fallen trees could have damaged the root systems and contributed to the collapse.

Two Giant Sequoias

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Playboy Looking

'Women of Starbucks'

Much to the chagrin of Seattle-based Starbucks Corp, Playboy Magazine has issued an alert: "Calling all coffee-making cuties!" to pose nude for an upcoming issue featuring the "Women of Starbucks."

The company has offered a frosty statement: "Starbucks Coffee Company is aware that Playboy Enterprises has issued a call for entries for a 'Women of Starbucks' section in a future magazine. Starbucks is not affiliated with this project and does not endorse it. All further inquiries should be directed to the contact at Playboy, Theresa Hennessey."

In recent years, Playboy has scored big with other corporate-themed pictorials such as "The Women of Enron" as well as 7-Eleven.

'Women of Starbucks'

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Superstition Rules!

Kentucky Mountain Bible College

After months of asking for a new telephone number, the Kentucky Mountain Bible College has finally dropped the 666 prefix that disturbed Christians who recognized it as the biblical mark of the beast.

The 666 prefix had been the only one available in Vancleve since telephone service arrived here. The need for more phone lines forced telephone companies to add new numbers, and the college tried for several months to get the new 693 prefix.

"We were glad we could finally get a number that the school is happy with," said Kaye Davis, general counsel for Access Point, a North Carolina-based telephone company that serves the college.

Davis said it took longer than expected to change the prefix because the college wanted to keep the last four digits of its number — 5000.

Kentucky Mountain Bible College

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Joining CNN in Kuwait

Wesley Clark

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, who commanded NATO during the 1999 air campaign against Serbian forces, will work for CNN in their Kuwait bureau offering expert comment on military affairs and the showdown in Iraq, CNN said on Friday.

Clark has been working for over a year in the United States as a military analyst for CNN. "We plan to send Clark to Kuwait as a military analyst," said CNN spokesman Matthew Furman.

Clark, the former supreme allied commander of NATO who has also been mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential hopeful, resigned as managing director of Little Rock-based banking group Stephens Inc. in order to pursue other interests, company spokesman Frank Thomas said.

Clark, a former Rhodes Scholar, orchestrated NATO's 11-week bombing campaign in 1999 in response to Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Wesley Clark

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NBC Delays Show

'Around the World'

The possibility of U.S. military action against Iraq has prompted NBC to delay production on its global relationship series "Around the World in 80 Dates."

The series takes a single guy and flies him around the world, allowing him to hook up with new potential gal pals from different countries.

NBC's eight-episode commitment to "80 Dates" remains in place, though a new production start date is up in the air.

'Around the World'

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Wins First Legal Skirmish Over Footage

Michael Jackson

Pop star Michael Jackson won an early skirmish on Friday in his legal fight to ban a British television company screening unseen footage from a controversial behind-the-scenes documentary about him.

The American singer had asked the High Court in London to grant an injunction preventing Granada Media Group showing any more footage from its hugely popular "Living with Michael Jackson" show but lawyers for both parties said they had managed to reach a private agreement.

This means the footage will be kept under lock and key until the full hearing and that Granada will be unable to release the program in video or DVD form or broadcast any material from the interview which has so far not been screened.

A statement issued on behalf of the 44-year-old singer this week said Jackson was seeking to have all previously unseen footage -- especially that showing his children -- locked away until a wider dispute between the two sides and Bashir was resolved.

Michael Jackson

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Tourism Ads Shot in Other Locales

Bermuda

Bermuda, the picturesque Atlantic island famed for its pink beaches, has admitted using pictures shot in other locales in tourism ads, a newspaper reported Friday.

Three photographs in the advertising campaign were stock images that were not shot in the British colony, the island's Royal Gazette newspaper quoted the Department of Tourism's assistant director of marketing, Michael DeCouto, as saying.

One features a model shot on a beach in Hawaii. Another shows a scuba diver surrounded by fish, thought to have been taken in the Seychelles. The third shows a woman swimming with a dolphin, photographed in Florida, the newspaper reported.

The advertisements appear in the February editions of Travel and Leisure magazine and Conde Nast Traveler. They are part of a campaign launched in January and created by New York-based Arnold Worldwide, which did not return a call from the newspaper for comment. Stock images are often used in ad campaigns to save costs.

Bermuda

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In Memory

Tom Glazer

Tom Glazer, 88, a folk singer who was best known for his hit children's song "On Top of Spaghetti," died of complications from a stroke last Friday at St. John's Home in Rochester, N.Y.

Mr. Glazer, who grew up in South Philadelphia but spent most of his adult life in the New York area, suffered a stroke in December en route from his home in Chestnut Hill to his son John's home in Rochester.

A member of a generation of troubadours who popularized protest songs, Mr. Glazer recorded an album, Songs of the Spanish Civil War, with Pete Seeger in 1943 and later recorded Songs of Peace, Freedom and Protest on his own.

He was a prolific songwriter for others, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Bob Dylan, who recorded the ballad "Talking Inflation Blues" in 1960. His composition "Because All Men are Brothers" was recorded by Seeger, the Weavers, and Peter, Paul and Mary, and he wrote the words to the Kingston Trio hit "A Worried Man."

But it was his 1963 recording of "On Top of Spaghetti," a fanciful tune about a wayward meatball, that Mr. Glazer was best known for. The song was a reworking of the old standard "On Top of Old Smoky."

Betsy Brown, a longtime friend of Mr. Glazer's, said he was frustrated because the song overwhelmed his body of work. Although he recorded many songs, compiled many songbooks, and was a concert performer for 60 years, he was often recognized only for the spaghetti song.

Mr. Glazer was born in South Philadelphia to Russian immigrant parents. His father died in the 1918 flu epidemic, forcing his mother and the children to live with relatives. Mr. Glazer, who was 4 when his father died, lived for several years in an orphanage.

At 17, he hitchhiked to New York and attended City College before going to work at the Library of Congress in Washington. There, he discovered the folk-song archives and was inspired. Mr. Glazer, who already knew how to play bass and tuba, learned to play guitar.

To gather material for his songs, he traveled in Appalachia, Brown said. He also was inspired by poetry and classical music, she said.

In the 1940s, he returned to New York and began performing. He sang ballads on radio and hosted a children's radio program in the 1960s.

He performed in many places. Beginning in the 1950s, he regularly appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra on its children's concert programs.

Mr. Glazer had a gift for conversing with children, Brown said.

He published many song collections, including Tom Glazer's Treasury of Songs for Children, which has been in print for more than 40 years.

When his repertoire needed to be updated - early in his career it included songs about Paul Bunyan and Daniel Boone - he wrote a series of songs about space. The songs were part of his album Tom Glazer Sings Space Songs.

Mr. Glazer, who lived in Germantown for several years in the 1980s, moved to Philadelphia for good in 1999, settling in Chestnut Hill.

He is survived by sons Peter and John; a sister; two granddaughters; and his former wife, Miriam Reed Eisenberg.

A memorial service will be scheduled in New York in the spring. Burial arrangements are private.

Tom Glazer

Thanks to Tonyfel1963 for sending along this obit - it's way better than the one I used originally.

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Daniel Hill, of the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, pays his respects to the late Fred Rogers at Mister Rogers' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Thursday evening, Feb. 27, 2003. Others left notes, candles, candy and a sweater. Rogers died Thursday after a bout with stomach cancer at his Pittsburgh home, leaving generations of people who grew up watching him in mourning. He was 74.
Photo by Zachary Singer

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Take Back The Media!

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PersephonePlus

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The Complete List of Grammy 2003

The Complete List of Oscar Nominations - 2003

The Complete List of Nominations - The Razzies - 2003

The Complete List of Nominations - The Stinkers - 2003

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Who served?

The Chickenhawk Database

Draft Dodging Conservatives

Congressional Members with Military Service

Who Died and Made You President? :: The Bean Magazine

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Daily, hour-by-hour listings

Internet Radio/TV For Progressives

World Media Watch, updated M-W-F

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100 Most Banned Books

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