'TBH Politoons'
Reader Question
Re: Iraq
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq.
Why don't we just give them ours?
It was written by a lot of really smart guys,
it's worked for over 200 years,
and what the heck, we're not using it anymore. "
Fred
Thanks, Fred!
from Mark
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Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cool & overcast.
Did anyone see John Dean on 'NOW With Bill Moyers (& David Brancaccio)'?
Will look for the transcript for the Sunday page. Damn fine TV!
Tonight, Saturday, CBS fills the night thanks to 'The Final Four' - Big Dance Monday night.
NBC opens the night with the movie 'The Thomas Crowne Affair' (Pierce Brosnan version), followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump hosting, music by Toots & The Maytalls'.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'The Emperor's New Groove', followed by a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos'.
The WB offers the movie 'Striptease'.
Faux has 'Cops', 'Cops', 'Cops', and another 'Cops'.
UPN has a FRESH 'Game Over', followed by another FRESH 'Game Over', then a
RERUN 'One On ONe', followed by a RERUN 'Rock Me Baby'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and another 'City Confidential'.
AMC is all '3 Stooges' all day & all night. Woo Hoo!
BBC -
[6pm] 'My Hero';
[6:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fashion;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 8;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 7;
[9pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 12;
[9:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[10pm] 'Trust' - Episode 6;
[11pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[11:30pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 12;
[12:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[1am] 'Trust' - Episode 6;
[3am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[3:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 12;
[4:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Kate: Croydon;
[5am] 'Trust' - Episode 6;
[6am] 'BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Twins', then the movie 'Junior'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Reno 911!', then another 'Reno 911!', 'Chappelle's Show', then another 'Chappelle's Show', 'The Man Show', and then
another 'The Man Show'.
History is all 'Jesus Of Nazareth' (parts 1 - 4) all night.
IFC -
[2PM] 'Samurai Trilogy - Part II' (1955);
[3:45PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[4:15PM] 'Kicking And Screaming' (1995);
[6PM] 'The Big One' (1997);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #12' (2002);
[8PM] 'Great Expectations' (1998);
[10:15PM] 'Afterglow' (1997);
[12:15AM] 'Great Expectations' (1998);
[3:30AM] 'The Thin Blue Line' (1988);
[5:15AM] Short: 'I Shout Love'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Merlin', followed by the movie 'Mr. Murder'.
Sundance -
[2PM] 'Ed's Next Move' (Feature);
[3:30PM] 'Peter's Friends' (Feature);
[5:15PM] 'Detective Fiction' (Feature);
[7PM] 'Bread and Tulips' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Women In Love' (Feature);
[11:15PM] 'Criminal Lovers' (World Cinema);
[12:50AM] 'Roger Dodger' (Feature);
[3:35AM] 'Chain Camera' (Documentary);
[5AM] 'Foxy Lady, Wild Cherry' (Short);
[5:30AM] 'Peter's Friends' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM :
[6:00am] 'The Gorgeous Hussy' (1936);
[8am] 'Phantom Lady' (1944);
[9:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #23' (1955);
[10am] 'Cheyenne' (1947);
[12pm] 'The Mark Of Zorro' (1940);
[2pm] 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955);
[4pm] 'Speedway' (1968);
[6pm] 'After The Thin Man' (1936);
[8pm] 'Rear Window' (1954);
[10pm] 'The Trouble With Harry' (1955);
[12am] 'Night Must Fall' (1937);
[2am] 'A Slight Case Of Murder' (1938);
[3:45am] 'White Zombie' (1932). (ALL TIMES EST)
Family and friends of late actor-comedian John Belushi honor him posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, April 1, 2004, in Los Angeles. In attendance, from left bottom row, Chevy Chase, John's sister Marian Belushi-Miles, honorary mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant, Belushi's widow Judy Belushi Pisano, his brother Jim Belushi and Jim Belushi's 4-year-old daughter, Jamison, and Leron Gubler, president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. From top left are Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi's nephew Adam Eichhorst, unidentified man, Jim Belushi's wife, Jenny, and producer Bernie Brillstein.
Photo by Nick Ut
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
To Air LBJ Rebuttal
History Channel
In response to an uproar caused by a History Channel documentary that claimed President Lyndon Johnson was involved in the Kennedy assassination, the network will air a challenge to that program by a panel of three historians.
The special, airing 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday, is called "The Guilty Men: An Historical Review."
The one-hour program is meant to rebut last November's broadcast of "The Guilty Men," which was based in part on a book published in 2003 by Barr McClellan, who claims the law firm he quit a quarter-century ago was involved in convoluted plots that link Johnson to at least 11 deaths, including President Kennedy's.
The historians along with other scholars were highly critical of "The Guilty Men" last fall, and of the History Channel's decision to air it. Former aides to Johnson, along with former presidents Ford and Carter and President Johnson's widow, Lady Bird Johnson, sought an independent probe of the claims.
The network apologized on Friday to its viewers as well as Mrs. Johnson and her family for the program. It said will no longer be aired or made available on home video.
History Channel
Man With An Opinion
Bill Clinton
Former president Bill Clinton, who signed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act which allowed individual states to ban same sex marriages, told the Washington Blade gay weekly that a constitutional amendment would be a "mistake".
The Washington Blade said it asked Clinton at a Democratic Party fundraiser on March 25 whether the Republicans will be able to use gay marriage to hurt the Democrats in this year's presidential election.
"I don't think so," Clinton told the weekly. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry "just needs to be really strong and straightforward about it."
"When I signed the Defense of Marriage Act," Clinton continued, "all it did was to say it's still a question of state law ... That's the way America's always been. And I think it's a mistake to get into this constitutional amendment business. I don't think it's right."
Bill Clinton
A battle droid display from the Star Wars boutique is among the items put up for auction at the FAO Schwarz toy store in New York, April 1, 2004. The FAO Schwarz toy store is closed for renovation and will re-open later this summer. FAO Schwarz will donate the proceeds from the auction to a variety of charities that benefit children.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
British Author Refused Entry
Ian McEwan
British author Ian McEwan nearly missed a lecture he was to deliver in Seattle after U.S. immigration officers at Vancouver airport refused to let him board a flight to the United States.
After much diplomatic discussion over his visa status, McEwan was given approval to board a flight at 5:15 p.m. local time Wednesday. He arrived in Seattle one hour and 25 minutes before his Wednesday-night lecture was to begin.
A distinguished novelist and screenwriter, McEwan has written more than 10 books, and his 2001 novel Atonement won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His novel Amsterdam won the Booker Prize.
McEwan said he believes he was caught in a "turf war" between Homeland Security and the U.S. State Department. He said the people untangling the situation told him the State Department wanted to permit him to enter but the Homeland Security Department did not.
For even more, Ian McEwan
Draws Thousands in L.A.
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson, winding up a week of television interviews to promote her new album, drew about 3,000 fans Friday for a live broadcast of "On-Air with Ryan Seacrest."
There were no wardrobe malfunctions — though the show aired on the East Coast with a seven-second tape delay, just in case.
The singer also took a few questions from Seacrest and a couple of fans. All spared her queries about her Super Bowl halftime number with Justin Timberlake.
Janet Jackson
Delays "The View," "GMA"
ABC
With the FCC putting pressure on broadcast networks to clean up their act following Janet Jackson's Super Bowl exposure, ABC--in an unprecedented move-- has decided to take the "live" out of its live shows.
The New York Post reports that the Alphabet has instituted a five-second delay for Good Morning America and The View, two daytime talkers that typically broadcast in real time. (The network had already slapped a delay on February's Oscar telecast.)
Ironically, the first guest on the day The View instituted the delay was Oscar-winning actor and liberal activist Tim Robbins who used the occasion to poke fun at the censors by flashing his own jewelry-clad nipple.
ABC
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Surrealist Salvador Dali's painting 'Angel of Port Lligat', 1952, is one of eight canvases in an exhibit, occasioned by the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The exhibit opens Friday, April 2, 2004, and closes April 20, three weeks before Dali would have marked his centennial.
Photo Courtesy of the Salvador Dali Museum, Inc.
Baby News
Romeo Jon Bon Jovi
There's a new addition to the Jon Bon Jovi family. Bon Jovi's wife, Dorothea, gave birth to a boy, Romeo Jon, the couple's fourth child, Monday morning at a hospital near their home in Middletown Township, according to the singer's Web site.
"Romeo Jon joins sister, Stephanie Rose, and brothers Jesse James Louis and Jacob Hurley. All are healthy and everyone is ecstatic," the Web site said.
Romeo Jon Bon Jovi
Enters Rehab
Kelly Osbourne
Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon on Friday said their 19-year-old daughter Kelly entered a California drug rehabilitation clinic earlier in the day to grapple with her abuse of painkillers.
Sharon Osbourne told CNN's "Larry King Live" the couple confronted their daughter early on Friday after the family was contacted by an English tabloid seeking comment on a picture in which Kelly appeared to be buying drugs.
"She admitted it after a lot of twisting," she told CNN. "Literally, a couple of hours ago, she was admitted to rehab."
She said their son, Jack Osbourne, who underwent substance abuse treatment last year, took Kelly to Promises Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Addiction Center in Malibu, California.
For more, Kelly Osbourne
To Be Buried In Berlin
Helmut Newton
Acclaimed photographer Helmut Newton, who died earlier this year in a Los Angeles car crash, will be buried in the same cemetery as Marlene Dietrich in his native Berlin, his widow said Friday.
No date has yet been set for the burial at the leafy Friedenau cemetery, in the Schoeneberg district where Newton was born, June Newton told reporters.
"He might as well go home," she said of her choice. Newton will be buried two graves away from Dietrich, another Berlin native who shunned the city for much of her life.
Helmut Newton
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Hawks TV Reality Show With Whitney
Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown and his tumultuous life might be coming to the small screen. The 35-year-old singer — who's been jailed twice just this year — is trying to sell a show about himself to a network, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Brown's production company, B2 Entertainment, has been following him and equally troubled wife, Whitney Houston, around the Atlanta area, where the couple resides, the newspaper reported Thursday.
Her publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told The Associated Press on Friday that Houston will not be central to any show.
"As I understand it, the reality show is about Bobby Brown. If she can help her husband in any way, she of course will do so, but it's about Bobby," Seltzer said.
Bobby Brown
Afghan horsemen play Afghanistan's national sport Buzkashi Friday April 2, 2004 in Kabul. Buzkashi is played by up to 30 players on horseback who try to carry a goat carcass around the field and drop it into a goal area.
Photo by Ed Wray
'Yawning Boy' Joins Letterman
Tyler Crotty
Tyler Crotty, whose efforts to stave off sleep upstaged resident Bush on network TV earlier this week, woke up a star Friday: He was a guest on "Late Show with David Letterman."
The 13-year-old Florida boy took his seat beside Letterman in Manhattan wearing the same khaki pants, navy polo shirt and orange baseball cap he had worn last month at an Orlando speech by Bush.
On Friday's show, Tyler offered a reason for his sleepiness.
Tyler also confirmed that he was indeed at the Orange County Convention Center, thanks to his father, Orange County Chairman and Bush supporter Rich Crotty.
For the rest, Tyler Crotty
Jailed
Carlene Carter
Carlene Carter, stepdaughter of Johnny Cash and daughter of country singers June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, has been jailed, authorities said Thursday.
Sumner County jail officials would not say why the 48-year-old country singer was in custody. WTVF-TV reported her bond had been revoked because she failed a drug test.
Carter was charged in December 2002 with identity theft to obtain prescription drugs. A court hearing in the case is set for April 12. If convicted, she faces two to 12 years in prison.
Carlene Carter
Arrested
'Tigger'
Orange County Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested a Walt Disney World employee who worked as the character "Tigger" and charged him with molesting a 13-year-old girl and her mother while posing with them for pictures in February.
Michael Chartrand, 36, was charged with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child between 12 and 15 years old and one count of simple battery.
"As the photo was being taken, [the victim] claims that Tigger moved his right hand up to her right breast and started massaging it several times," the incident report states. [The victim] became very embarrassed and ashamed of the incident and claims that she did not say anything to her mother until they left the park."
Later, the girl learned that the costumed character had done the same thing to her mother with his left hand, the report says.
'Tigger'
5-week-old African elephant calf at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park joined the entire herd on exhibit for the first time on April 1, 2004. Since his birth, Vus'musi (vus-moo-see) has slowly been introduced to each of the adult elephants giving them an opportunity to develop a relationship with him and his protective mother, Ndlulamitsi (n-doo-lah-mitt-see).
Photo by Ken Bohn
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