I've launched a new website for actress Anne Bancroft that is much needed -- up until now, there has been no site devoted exclusively to her, much less something as comprehensive as what I'm doing.
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Somebody's gotta do it. The site still has a way to go, I have literally thousands of photos yet to scan and I only am just now learning how to create Flash videos and other technical stuff that makes my eyes glaze over, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Peter Laufer: When AWOL Is the Only Way Out (AlterNet.org)
As explained in a new book, "Mission Rejected," the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around 'like a soccer ball' made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.
Roger Ebert: An Inconvenient Truth (PG; 4 Stars)
I want to write this review so every reader will begin it and finish it. I am a liberal, but I do not intend this as a review reflecting any kind of politics. It reflects the truth as I understand it, and it represents, I believe, agreement among the world's experts. Global warming is real. ... I did a funny thing when I came home after seeing "An Inconvenient Truth." I went around the house turning off the lights.
I like to head over to the Landmark California theater in the afternoon on Fridays so I can see the premiering of new movies …and miss the night time crowd…I was thinking about catching "X Men: The Last Stand"….then I thought…why not see Denis Leary's newest "Rescue Me"….I was even considering watching Jennifer and Vince in "The Break Up"……then I decided I could see all three of these movies together in one !!!!!!
How about a movie that ponders the end of the world …"X Men: The Last Stand" with an appeal from Planet Earth to "Rescue Me" and pictures of "The Break Up" of the Polar Icecap!!!!!!!! I know…it's a stretch…but picture me standing in line to see Al Gore do a slide show!!!!!!!! That's a stretch and that's what I did !!!!!!
"I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next President of the United States !" Yeah…that's the opening line in the new Docu-Drama limited release horror thriller about Global Warming called "An Inconvenient Truth"….and it IS Al Gore doing a slide show…..but you gotta see this movie…if there is an ounce of intelligence and compassion for this wonderful world we live in and are ruining, then you must go see this movie…and you must take a Republican with you…I know kicking and screaming….but DO IT !!!!!!!!!
This is a very valuable, science backed, history lesson with grave consequences and it is delivered in a measured and meaningful way…director Guggenheim keeps the "bore" level low and gives a convincing portrayal of Al Gore's epiphany in terms of the environment….and the science to back it up…..with pie charts, graphs and fantastic photos of his world and the whole world.
Unless this movie gets shown at the White House and at the United Nations, we may in our lifetime and our children's (the next 50 years) see the events that unfold in this movie actually snowball into world disasters that cannot be reversed. Over and over again Al Gore points to the preponderant evidence that pinpoints these problems and how we are at a pivotal moment…and there are things that each of us can do… all 6.5 billion of us!
Purple Gene gives "An Inconvenient Truth" 9 pointer sticks out of 10 for being informative, evocative and inspiring…and that's amazing considering it's Al Gore holding his finger on the touch pad tracker!!!!
P.S. Al Gore lives in Nashville, Tennessee now and is still married to Tipper poo!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NUMB3RS', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH in-house infomercial 'The 4400 Special', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Lindsay Lohan hosting, music by Pearl Jam.
The late, late 'SNL', is from 24 May, 1986, with Angelica Huston & Billy Martin hosting, music by George Clinton.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Toy Story'.
The WB offers an old 'Friends', followed by an old 'Raymond', then panders with 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case Files', and 'American Justice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jaws The Revenge', followed by the movie 'Lake Placid', then 'Hustle', followed by the mvoie 'First Blood'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] 'Sharpe's Rifles' - Ep 1 Rifles;
[4:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[5:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[6:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[7:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[8:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[9:00 pm] 'Sharpe's Eagle' - Ep 2 Eagle;
[11:00 pm] 'Riders';
[1:00 am] 'Sharpe's Eagle' - Ep 2 Eagle;
[3:00 am] 'Look Around You' - Ep 5 Computers;
[3:30 am] 'Look Around You' - Ep 6 Live Final;
[4:00 am] 'Black Books' - Episode 1;
[4:30 am] 'Black Books' - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] 'Black Books' - Episode 3;
[5:30 am] 'Black Books' - Episode 4;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', followed by the movie 'U-571', then the movie 'U-571', again.
Comedy Central has 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', followed by 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again', and 'Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Washington The Warrior', and 'Eighty Acres Of Hell'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Being John Malkovich;
[8:00 AM] Three Outlaw Samurai;
[9:45 AM] George Washington;
[11:15 AM] Get Bruce!;
[12:30 PM] The Road Home;
[2:00 PM] Three Outlaw Samurai;
[3:35 PM] George Washington;
[5:05 PM] This Is Spinal Tap;
[6:30 PM] The Road Home;
[8:00 PM] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind;
[10:00 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #10;
[10:30 PM] Samurai 7 Episode #10: "The Journey";
[11:00 PM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[12:30 AM] SXSW: Behind the Badge;
[1:00 AM] The Henry Rollins Show #10;
[1:30 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #10: "The Journey";
[2:00 AM] Indie Sex: Taboos;
[3:00 AM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[4:45 AM] IFC In Theaters;
[5:00 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: June. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Village Of The Damned', followed by the movie 'Boo'.
Sundance -
[06:50 AM] Mermaids;
[08:45 AM] How to Draw a Bunny;
[10:15 AM] Comfort and Joy;
[12:00 PM] Commandments;
[01:30 PM] With No Direction Home;
[02:00 PM] The Human Behavior Experiments;
[03:15 PM] Manito;
[04:30 PM] Life Is Sweet;
[06:15 PM] Omagh;
[08:00 PM] Heathers;
[09:45 PM] The Eel;
[10:00 PM] Mysterious Skin;
[11:45 PM] The Living End;
[01:15 AM] Videodrome;
[02:45 AM] Orgazmo;
[04:30 AM] Puberty Blues. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Whoopi Goldberg speaks at the UNAIDS concert ''An Evening of Remembrance and Hope: Uniting the World Against AIDS' at the United Nations General Assmebly Hall in New York June 1, 2006.
Photo by Erin Siegal
Hundreds of urban farmers battling to hold onto a small patch of land in the middle of the city's gritty warehouse district got a shot of celebrity star power Thursday when actor Danny Glover exhorted them to ignore an eviction order and stay put.
With actress Daryl Hannah standing beside him and veteran tree-sitters John Quigley and Julia Butterfly Hill perched overhead in an old walnut tree, Glover said the farmers' 14 acres of beans, tomatoes, squash, watermelon and other fruits and vegetables were not only providing sustenance to some 350 families but also setting a worldwide example.
Glover said city officials "abdicated their responsibility" when they quietly returned the property to Horowitz, and he blasted the developer for putting profit ahead of conscience.
Paul Shaffer, Pam Anderson and Alex Trebek are among the homegrown celebs to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame Saturday.
Other 2006 inductees include singers Jann Arden and Robert Goulet, actor Brendan Fraser, comedian Eugene Levy and the surviving members of the Crazy Canucks ski team of Dave Irwin, Ken Read, Steve Podborski and Dave Murray. Murray died in 1990 after a lengthy illness.
The stars will have their names unveiled on slabs of sidewalk embossed with a stylized maple leaf. The Walk of Fame snakes through Toronto's downtown theatre district.
Actress Jane Fonda was on the wrong end of a celebrity roast Thursday, the target of spirited insults from actresses, comedians and - horror of horrors - her ex-husband.
CNN founder Ted Turner was among the celebrities who zinged the two-time Oscar winner to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, a group that aims to suppress the state's teenage pregnancy rate.
"She's one of the most beautiful women I've met," said the billionaire businessman. "She must have been - I gave up three mistresses for her."
Top-selling rappers Kanye West and Ludacris won a copyright infringement trial Thursday when a jury concluded their 2003 hit "Stand Up" did not copy a tune by New Jersey musicians.
Ten jurors returned the verdict after less than a day of deliberations in the two-week trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Ludacris said he never doubted the jury would agree that the song he and West created did not sound like "Straight Like That," a tune created by an East Orange, N.J., group named I.O.F., or It's Only Family.
Actress Angelina Jolie has reserved 24 domain names featuring various versions of her daughter Shiloh Nouvel's name.
Internet registration files show the Web addresses "shilohjolie," "shilohpitt," "shilohjoliepitt," "shilohnouveljolie," "shilohnouvelpitt" and "shilohnouveljoliepitt" -- with the extensions ".com," ".org," ".net" and ".info" -- were reserved as of May 27, the baby's birthday.
Jolie and Shiloh's father, actor Brad Pitt, appeared to have learned from the misfortunes of fellow stars Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, whose daughter's name, Suri, was co-opted by someone else who registered the URL "suricruise.com."
After a red-hot second season, the "Grey's Anatomy" cast is getting a little extra green from the show's producer.
Sources said Touchstone Television recently handed out $200,000 bonuses to each of the show's principal cast members, including Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Isaiah Washington, Justin Chambers and Kate Walsh.
Touchstone TV, which declined comment on the "Grey's" bonuses, has a history of giving cash bonuses to the ensemble casts of its hit series. In early 2005, the studio rewarded the principal cast members of "Desperate Housewives" with bonuses said to be about $250,000 each four months into the run of the show. The "Desperate Housewives" actors also received salary bumps. Meanwhile, in January, the "Lost" gang received salary increases, with Matthew Fox also getting a bonus.
TV personality Richard Simmons (R) looks at a hat adorned with tomatoes during a 'summer salad fashion show' at New York's Grand Central Terminal June 2, 2006.
Photo by Ray Stubblebine
Fox Broadcasting Co. has given a 22-episode pickup to the animated comedy "American Dad" for the 2007-08 season.
The early full-season order was required because of the long lead time needed for animation production. The half-hour series about a CIA agent and his family premiered in the summer and settled in well this past season behind "Family Guy" as a part of Fox's Sunday animation block.
"Dad" hails from "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane and Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman.
Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz "have decided to split," Cruz spokesman Robert Garlock told The Associated Press Friday. McConaughey's rep, Alan Nierob, confirmed the breakup, first reported by People magazine.
Cruz, 32, and McConaughey, 36, parted ways four weeks ago due to busy work schedules, People reports.
Uri Geller's dream of turning the first home Elvis Presley owned into a museum dedicated to the paranormal has been dealt a setback nearly as bizarre as the spoon-bending trick that made the Israeli-born psychic famous.
Geller, who thought he had purchased the Memphis property in an eBay auction last month for $905,100, learned on Friday the sellers had turned around and sold the 3,000-square-foot (280-sq-metres) house to a foundation set up by Mike Curb (R - Yawn), the longtime music producer.
It was not immediately clear what Curb, elected lieutenant governor of California in the late 1970s, paid for the four-bedroom, two-bath home Elvis bought in 1956 with royalties from "Heartbreak Hotel."
What was clear late on Friday was that Geller was preparing for a protracted legal fight to get the house back. "We are absolutely, mind-blown angry," Geller told Reuters by telephone from his home in London. "Of course we're going to sue."
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (C) celebrates his 80th birthday accompanied by Playmates Bridget Marquardt (L) and Holly Madison at a party in Rome June 1, 2006. Picture taken June 1, 2006.
Photo by Remo Casilli
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. radio broadcaster, was accused in a lawsuit on Friday of violating federal anti-trust laws by curtailing concert competition and jacking up ticket prices.
The proposed class-action, filed in Denver federal court, names Clear Channel's broadcasting unit and former concert promotion arm Live Nation Inc. as defendants. It comes three months after a U.S. Justice Department probe into similar matters ended with no action taken against the company.
According to court papers, the suit accuses the defendants of breaking the law by limiting radio airtime for musicians who used competing concert promoters and inflating musicians' fees, "in some cases more than 100 percent of gross sales, in order to exclude competitors from the market."
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for the illegal downloading of movies through filesharing, said it planned to reopen two days after Swedish authorities shut the site down.
"We should have the site up and running again this (Friday) evening," one of those behind the site, Fredrik Neij, told AFP.
"We are not worried about further police action because we have hired servers in the Netherlands," Neij added.
A fire boat shoots colored water into the air as the Lady Washington, left, and Hawaiian Chieftain, center, sail up the Willamette River, Thursday, June 1, 2006, in Portland, Ore. The ships are taking part in the 2006 Portland Rose Festival.
Photo by Rick Bowmer
The headline in the New York Post's Page Six gossip column might read, "Editor busted after boozing at exclusive club." Or maybe not, since this story is about Page Six editor Richard Johnson.
Johnson, 52, was charged Friday with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while impaired. Police said they spotted him talking on his cell phone just after midnight while driving a 2005 black Ford Escape in the Meatpacking District.
Police arrested Johnson after he refused to take an alcohol breath test. He was arraigned late Friday morning in Manhattan Criminal Court and released on his own recognizance, authorities said.
A Learjet registered to religious broadcaster Pat Robertson crashed in Long Island Sound while flying in heavy fog Friday, killing both pilots, authorities said. All three passengers escaped without serious injury.
Robertson was not aboard.
The plane was registered to Virginia-based Robertson Asset Management. The company is owned by Robertson and is separate from the Christian Broadcasting Network, spokeswoman Angell Vasko said.
Artists from around the world work on a sand sculpture as part of the World Sand Sculpture Festival at the marina in Brighton, southern England Thursday June 1, 2006. Around 60 international artists are gathered in Brighton to create giant sand sculptures around the theme of ancient Rome. The festival opened Thursday with the artists working on site until Sunday, while the festival itself runs until Sept. 10.
Photo by Johnny Green
Television pilot production in the Los Angeles area for the upcoming season fell more than 23 percent from last year's levels, costing more than 1,000 jobs and draining up to $70 million from the local economy, a new study concludes.
Twenty-five other states have used tax incentives to lure away pilot production, which takes place from February through May, according to FilmL.A. Inc., a private group that promotes the city's film and television business.
In 2005, Los Angeles hosted 105 pilot projects, which represented 85 percent of those filmed. In 2006, the number of pilots fell to 81 and the city's share slumped to 68 percent.
The main road to Yosemite National Park was closed after a rock slide buried it under 300 feet of debris and threatened to knock out electricity to the park, officials said.
No one was injured in the slide about 12 miles west of the park on Highway 140, but rocks continued to fall Thursday, preventing crews from removing an estimated 250-300 tons of debris, fire officials said. It was not clear when the road would reopen.
The slide, which is 600 feet long, 600 feet wide and 300 feet deep, threatened to topple two power line towers carrying 72,000 volts of electricity to the town of El Portal and the park, said Mariposa County Fire Chief Blaine Shultz.
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