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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Watched 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and was reminded of every Quinn Martin Production ever made. Only thing missing was 'original' music.
Will admit to watching an hour of reruns on CBS with 'Raymond'. Mother's Day, and all...
Saw John Stossel interview The Osbournes.
Got to play with the Kid's new computer, and it's in the living room, where the Dish is hooked up. Watched Larry Elder on Dennis Miller (no wonder I couldn't remember who was on), and
also caught most of 'Paint Your Wagon'. Who'd a thunk Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood could sing...LOL. Long time ago, the spouse of a pal LOVED this movie. It played in the
background a lot before they got their Dish. And I was grateful for the new technology. Very grateful.
Tonight, Saturday, it's all fresh on CBS with 'Touched By An Angle', the so-called 'World's Greatest Commercials' and 'The District'.
NBC has the TV-premiere of the movie 'Three Kings'. Also, it's fresh on 'Saturday Night Live' with as the guest host.
Once again, ABC expresses its contempt for what is left of their audience by regurgitating the movie 'Notting Hill', which they also aired on Monday. (And, remember, they aired 'Stuart Little'
on Thursday & Sunday). They can afford a good cheese for their fine whine.
The WB re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rerun 'Star Wars'.
Faux has its standard Saturday night - fresh 'Cops', rerun 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has the movie 'Crocodile Dundee'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Cancelled After 11 Years
'Talk Soup'
After 11 years, E! Entertainment's "Talk Soup" is at a loss for words.
The weekday show, which helped make a movie star out of Greg Kinnear, will stop production after its final episode airing Wednesday night.
"Talk Soup," hosted by Aisha Tyler since January of last year, is calling its quits as the heyday of the chat shows it feasted on is fading. Sally Jessy Raphael and Rosie
O'Donnell are signing off from their shows after this month; Oprah Winfrey has signaled her exit after the 2005-06 season.
Other "Talk" stirrers have included Hal Sparks, now co-starring in Showtime's "Queer as Folk," and John Henson. Debuting in 1991, "Talk Soup" was E!'s first breakout
show. With Henson at the helm, the show earned E! its first daytime Emmy for outstanding special class program in 1995. Since then, "Talk Soup" has been nominated four more times.
'Talk Soup'
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On Tavis Smiley's Show On NPR Friday
Bill Clinton
Former President Clinton said it's unlikely he'll start a new career as a television talk show host but admitted the idea had some appeal.
"I don't think this is going to happen," Clinton said during a National Public Radio interview scheduled to air Friday. "I'd be surprised if it did."
Clinton, a guest on NPR's "The Tavis Smiley Show," said a TV forum would allow him to address "things I care about in an environment where people
would be free to listen to larger numbers of people than I can speak to."
Clinton added that neither he nor the network were the impetus for the meeting. He was approached by a group of people, whom he didn't identify,
and asked for help in financing a show, he said.
Asked if he would accept a position in which he provided analysis or commentary, Clinton said he didn't know.
Bill Clinton
Man With An Opinion
Of Eggs & Pigs?
Drudge & Limbaugh
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On The Road To Europe
Pickles & Jenna
The first time Laura Bush traveled to Europe, she was just out of college and on one of those "17-day, 17-country trips" by bus and train. She returns next week by
Air Force jet for an official tour of Paris, Hungary and the Czech Republic with daughter Jenna.
Laura Bush, who leaves Monday for 10 days on her first international mission without her husband, wants to highlight U.S.-led efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
"We thought it's a really good time for us, for me, to have the chance to travel to Europe and thank all of the allies," Mrs. Bush said Thursday, previewing the trip for reporters.
She will travel as President Bush's official representative, having been briefed by State Department officials who will also accompany her, along with presidential counselor Karen Hughes.
The trip also is a chance to see old friends in their new homes.
At each stop, Mrs. Bush and Jenna, 20, will stay at ambassadorial residences with Texas friends and campaign contributors who won diplomatic postings from the
president: Jeanne Phillips, U.S. ambassador to the OECD; Nancy Brinker, ambassador to Hungary; and Craig Stapleton, ambassador to the Czech Republic, whose wife
is the president's cousin.
Brinker, one of the big-money "Pioneer" contributors to Bush's 2000 presidential campaign along with Stapleton, founded the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation. She recruited Mrs. Bush to help when she was first lady of Texas. At the National Institute of Oncology in Budapest, the pair will speak to
patients about women's health and to Hungarian officials about the role of philanthropy in public health.
Mrs. Bush sounded especially eager to meet at Prague Castle with Czech President Vaclav Havel. "He was a playwright, he was an intellectual, he was not someone
you would think of as becoming the president," she said. She also meets Hungarian President Ferenc Madl.
She also hoped to keep Jenna out of the headlines. "Clearly Jenna is a private citizen and off-limits to the press and that's how she expects to be treated,"
said Noelia Rodriguez, spokeswoman for Mrs. Bush.
Pickles & Jenna To Hit The Road
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart Sunday (only) this week, at near-regulation time (11 pm to 1 am [pdt]) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
And there's a chatroom, too!
For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
Weather Junkies Celebrate 20th
The Weather Channel
They delight in watching the kinks in the jet stream. They follow wind-chill readings the way baseball fans keep track of batting averages. They know what "dewpoint" means.
The Weather Channel has made weather junkies out of some TV viewers.
This month, the weather junkies' 24-hour cable TV fix celebrates 20 years on the air.
Since its first broadcast on May 2, 1982 — when a forecaster welcomed viewers to "the non-ending weather telethon" — The Weather Channel has spread to 85
million U.S. homes and earned a place in American pop culture.
Its Web site, among the 20 most popular in America, gets more than 350 million hits a month. From the channel's headquarters outside Atlanta, it beams forecasts
to cell phones, pagers and handheld computers.
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
Spit Takes Ruining Your Keyboard?
Waterproof Keyboard
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Scores with 'Junkie'
Ozzy Osbourne
If there was any doubt that this is Ozzy Osbourne's year, it should be fading fast.
The latest accolade for the self-proclaimed "bleeping Prince of Darkness" and star of MTV's hit reality series "The Osbournes" is a Prism Award,
bestowed for presenting an accurate depiction of drug, alcohol or tobacco addiction in his new song "Junkie." (In his early Black Sabbath days,
Osbourne sang about the evils of drugs in "Sweet Leaf.")
The sixth edition of the kudos, held Thursday in Los Angeles, doled out 14 nods that met the aforementioned criteria. The ceremony, presented
by the Entertainment Institutes of Health Industries Council, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute
on Drug Abuse/National, was held at CBS Television City.
In the TV arena, nods went to the comedy "My Wife and Kids," the soap "All My Children," dramas "The Division" and "Third Watch" and the
miniseries "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," among others.
Winners were selected out of 56 nominees and 236 submissions. The ceremony was taped for national syndication by Tribune Entertainment and is
scheduled to air in August. A complete list of winners may be found at http://www.prismawards.com.
Ozzy Osbourne
Films & Foods
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese wasn't quite ready for lusty food critic Gael Greene at a Tribeca Film Festival panel discussion on food and film late yesterday morning
at the Screening Room.
While dining with the director on lasagna and other delights courtesy of Barilla, the 125-year-old Italian spaghetti manufacturer, New York magazine's
former "insatiable" food critic brought up the subject of erotica.
They then discussed the great eating and sex scenes in movies like "Tom Jones," "Tampopo," "Fellini Satyricon," "La Grand Bouffe," "Eating
Raoul," "Seconds" and Scorsese's own "GoodFellas" and "The Age of Innocence."
"I like to keep foreplay and fork play separate," Greene quipped. "I am a food purist and a sex purist. I think they should be in sequence."
When Scorsese was asked how he feels about food products being placed in movies, the pragmatist in him came out.
"I tried it once, with a candy bar in 'The Color of Money,' " he said. "I wasn't too interested in it. But if you're making a low-budget
picture, there's got to be a way you can work it in. You gotta get that extra day of filming!"
Martin Scorsese
It's B-a-a-a-a-a-c-k
'Dragnet'
ABC has wrapped up a deal for "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf's new take on "Dragnet," ordering 13 episodes of the project for a January launch.
Wolf is still writing the script; production will likely begin in Los Angeles by early September.
While other networks -- including NBC, home of the original series as well as the "Law & Order" franchise -- had expressed interest in the
new "Dragnet," ABC executives were easily the most aggressive, pouncing on the concept as soon as they heard it. The ratings-challenged network
will shell out north of $1.4 million per episode for "Dragnet."
No time slot has been finalized, but all expectations are that ABC will schedule the new "Dragnet" Mondays at 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., with a new installment
of spring reality sensation "The Bachelor" serving as a lead-in. ABC will also extensively tease the series during its "Monday Night Football" franchise.
Wolf said his take on the Jack Webb franchise won't be a simple remake but instead will serve as a "reconceptualization" of the landmark cop drama.
'Dragnet'
Interesting Link
This Day in Music History
This Day in Music History: Friday, May 10, 2002
Auction News
World's First Press Photos
Historic pictures of the Paris uprising of 1848, the first photographic images to be used in a news story, sold for $265,000 on Thursday, auction house Sotheby's said.
The two daguerreotypes -- images on metal plates -- were taken by a pioneering French photographer named Thibault during the tumultuous June revolt in which
more than 3,000 Parisians were killed.
The plates were turned into engravings which appeared in the newspaper "L'Illustration Journal Universel" alongside a story about the uprising.
Thibault's first photograph of the rue St. Maur on June 25 shows a deserted cobbled street piled high with debris to form barricades. The second image,
taken the following day, is of the same street, this time filled with inhabitants and soldiers with cannons.
World's First Press Photos
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Bootlegged Already
''Attack of the Clones''
A week before its scheduled release, illegal copies of "Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones" are already appearing on the Internet.
One copy of the movie making the rounds online appears to have been recorded at a private showing, using a tripod-mounted digital camcorder
pointed at the screen, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Another copy apparently used a more sophisticated version of the same technique.
Both were distributed via Internet Relay Chat, a computer protocol that allows users to copy files at high speed from other computers on different networks.
Industry observers said movie piracy probably will not affect box office revenues for the "Star Wars" sequel, but may hurt its videotape and DVD revenues.
The previous "Star Wars" installment, "Episode I — The Phantom Menace," also was available online before its official release in May 1999. The current
blockbuster "Spider-Man" appeared on the Internet a day before its official premiere.
''Attack of the Clones''
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JAZCLASS
JAZCLASS : Jazz Lessons, Blues Lessons, Saxophone Lessons, Music Lessons by Michael Furstner
Moves to Westchester Estate
Dave Letterman
Forsaking his longtime Connecticut home, comedian David Letterman has moved into an 88-acre Westchester estate he bought eight years ago.
The main house, built in 1986, is 8,300 square feet and has six fireplaces, six bathrooms and an outdoor pool. It's in North Salem, not far
from the Bedford home of Letterman's "Late Show" bandleader Paul Shaffer.
North Salem residents reported seeing the 55-year-old talk show host shopping or jogging.
"He's not a big, happy guy in the morning," said town highway chief Drew Outhouse. "We'll all wave at him and he doesn't wave back anymore."
Dave Letterman
Flop To Return
''The Mole II: The Next Betrayal''
ABC's reality series "The Mole" will emerge to see the light of day again.
The network said on Friday it will bring back its second rendition of the reality series later this month, after pulling the show last October because of dismal ratings.
"The Mole II: The Next Betrayal" will re-premiere on May 28 after the important May "sweeps" period, giving the show plenty of exposure during the lower viewership summer months.
The series will begin with back-to-back episodes on its premiere date, followed by another double-episode night a week later. It will then move into a regular one-hour
time slot on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EDT.
''The Mole II: The Next Betrayal''
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$20 Bill Remembrance of 9/11
$20 Bill Remembrance of 9/11
Porn For Finals?
Villanova
A porn flick started showing on Villanova's campus TV. The swap might have been a senior prank, students said.
Students cramming through the night for final exams at Villanova University yesterday may have gotten the jolt they needed to stay awake from an unlikely
source: the school's television station.
SGTV, the student government's 24-hour station, available only on campus, is programmed to run a continuous mix of PG13- and R-rated movies. But at 2 a.m.
yesterday, instead of the scheduled thriller Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck, a hardcore pornography flick titled Cheap Thrills appeared on the screen.
The movie ran for about a half-hour before campus security officers shut it down.
The movie, say those who viewed it, left nothing to the imagination.
Villanova is a Roman Catholic university.
For the rest, Villanova
Receives Quran Written In Own Blood
Saddam
Saddam commissioned the work in 1997 to thank God for having escaped unharmed from a life full of dangers
- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has taken delivery of a copy of the Quran he ordered written in his own blood to thank God for escaping unharmed
from his long political career, Iraqi newspapers reported Sunday.
The special-edition Quran, the Muslim holy book, took three years to finish and was handed over to Saddam during a ceremony Saturday at the Dar
Al Nasser presidential palace in Baghdad, papers said.
The Iraqi leader commissioned the work in 1997 for his 60th birthday to thank God for having escaped unharmed from "a life full of dangers, during
which I will have lost a lot of blood."
Saddam's Quran
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be restored the morning of Sunday, May 19th, 2002.
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'The Osbournes'
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Put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'
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