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Alex's Entertainment Report
Alex
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Hope to finish up the manuscript tonight. It's turned out to be a whole lot better than ever anticipated.
Last day of school for the kid is next Thursday. This will be the last weekend of the school seaaon, and he is stoked.
Really liked the open to Bill Maher. Damn Disney for replacing him with a post-pubescent nimrod. Yeah, there's a real shortage of upscale white-boy angst, whines & pranks. Jeez.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS has another Trifecta of reruns - 2 episodes of 'Touched By An Angle' and 1 of 'The District'.
NBC reruns the TV-movie 'The 70's'. 'Saturday Night Live' is a rerun (of course), and hosted by Jonny Moseley, music by OutKast.
ABC rolls out 'Thunderball', with Sean Connery as James Bond. It's TRT is 129 minutes, so expect editing.
The WB has the movie 'Red Sonja'.
Faux, as is tradition, has 2 (rerun) episodes of 'Cops', and then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has a movie (that I hated - and even found offensive), 'Powder'.
AMC has The Deer Hunter (1978). This movie struck a lot of nerves when it came out. The story takes place in Clairton, PA, which isn't far from where
I grew up. Lots of Vets and deer hunters back there. So, I figured, the locals would have some interesting comments. Weirdly, damn near everyone of them pointed out that the deer being hunted (in the film) is a 'mule deer',
and not a 'white tail' - they seem to have stopped paying much attention after that.
Also, AMC has Batman (1966) - the campy version with Adam West & Burt Ward.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Loses Web Site Dispute
Jerry Falwell
A Web site that pokes fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell and uses his name without his consent will be allowed to continue, an international arbiter of Internet domain names has ruled.
The World Intellectual Property Organization denied Falwell's complaint against Gary Cohn, owner of
www.jerryfalwell.com, in a decision distributed Thursday.
The Geneva, Switzerland-based arbiters' panel denied Falwell's claim that he has a common-law trademark on his name.
"The complainant has failed to show that his name, well known as it is, has been used in a trademark sense as a label of particular goods or services. There are many
well-known ministers, religious figures and academics. Are their sermons or lectures to be considered commercial goods?" the decision reads.
The three-member panel's decision also applies to www.jerryfallwell.com, another Web site that parodies Falwell.
"God has lifted his veil of protection over Jerry Falwell ministries," Cohn said of the decision, making light of comments Falwell made after Sept. 11 that
the terrorist attacks were the result of God lifting his protection from Americans because of their immoral behavior.
The dispute began last October, when a lawyer representing Falwell sent a cease-and-desist letter to Cohn. The WIPO got involved in February, when Falwell filed his complaint.
Cohn, a Highland Park, Ill., resident who sells electric lawnmowers for a living, created the site after hearing Falwell's statements about the terrorist attacks.
Jerry Falwell
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Northern Ireland
Some See UFO; Others Leave Disappointed
The 'Amazing' Kreskin
The Amazing Kreskin's prediction of seeing a UFO may have been true for some Southern Nevadans -- but not many.
Thursday night, the famed mentalist claimed that between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight, UFOs could have been seen near the Silverton hotel. Hundreds
of onlookers showed up for the sighting, but not everyone left convinced that there is life on other planets.
Kreskin promised that if there was no UFO sighting, he would donate $50,000 to charity. He'll hold a press conference Friday to discuss his prediction -- and its outcome.
For more, and video reports, The 'Amazing' Kreskin
To Abandon Terror Phrase
Lou Dobbs
The war on terror may be ending — at least on one CNN program.
Lou Dobbs, host of the nightly CNN business show "Moneyline," said on the air Wednesday that he is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" in favor of the more specific "war on Islamists."
He said the enemy is not terror, but radical Islamists who argue that non-believers should be killed.
"This is not a war against Muslims or Islam or Islamics," Dobbs said. "It is a war against Islamists and all who support them, and if ever there were a time for clarity, it is now.
We hope this new policy is a step in the right direction."
It was unclear Thursday whether Dobbs was permanently abandoning "war on terror" as a phrase or if he was simply, as a spokeswoman suggested, starting a dialogue with viewers.
The opinionated anchor attracted attention earlier this spring with a vigorous defense of auditors Arthur Andersen during the Enron scandal. Dobbs criticized the Justice Department
for indicting the auditors, while acknowledging past business relationships with Andersen.
Lou Dobbs
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Top Ten Commandments
Top Ten Commandments
'Sexiest Woman in the World'
Anna Kournikova
Mammary-obsessed men's mag FHM has tapped Russian tennis temptress Anna Kournikova as the "Sexiest Woman in the World." Other flesh-baring babes rounding out the top 10 were
Britney Spears, Halle Berry, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Lopez (last year's No. 1), Jessica Alba, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Angelina Jolie, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Carmen Electra.
The biggest losers on the mag's Top 100 list were Kelly Ripa (No. 99) and Shannon Elizabeth (No. 100) - who were both inexplicably bested by muscle-bound Joanie Laurer, the
former wrestler known as Chynna (No. 98).
Anna Kournikova
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart at near-regulation time (10 pm to 1 am [pdt] Saturday and Sunday, on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
KIRO stopped streaming the audio. Boo. Hiss.
There's still the chatroom, but, it's not the same.
Thanks, Entercom. Hope you enjoy selling out to Clear Channel or Infinity. To borrow a phrase, 'your children will curse you with language I teach them.'
For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of the amazing 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
''The House of 1000 Corpses''
Rob Zombie
"The House of 1000 Corpses" may live again, with MGM in talks to pick up the horror picture that writer-director Rob Zombie was forced to buy back after horrified
Universal executives refused to release it.
Zombie let slip news of the negotiations, which MGM confirmed, while interviewing Ben Affleck for MTV's "Movie House" show.
The picture originally was slated for release last summer, but Universal backed out of the project after studio president Stacey Snider viewed a rough cut. She called
it a "significant accomplishment" for Zombie, but said then that it had a "visceral tone and intensity that we did not imagine from the printed page." Zombie then bought
back the picture and has been shopping it since.
Zombie, who previously directed music videos for his own songs and those of other heavy metal heroes, wrote and directed the $7 million picture. He also recently finished
recording music for the film's soundtrack.
Zombie, who was a production assistant on "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and a magazine art director before hitting it big in music, litters his film with over-the-top imagery and
the kind of mayhem common in '70s-era gorefests. Viewers of early test screenings writing on fan Web sites said the picture was visually excellent but relied on many shopworn
plot devices out of horror films past, possibly as homages. They credited Zombie with much potential as a stylish horror director.
''The House of 1000 Corpses''
Bet That's Where They Shop!
Olsen Twins
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. president and CEO Lee Scott, left, talks with Ashley Olsen, center, and her twin Mary Kate Olsen, right, during the Wal-Mart shareholder's meeting in Fayetteville, Ark. on Friday,
June 7, 2002. The Olsens have an exclusive apparel and accessory line with Wal-Mart.
Photo by April L. Brown
J.Lo Living Solo
Jennifer Lopez
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez and her husband of less than nine months, choreographer Cris Judd, are now living apart, but they remain friendly and continue to see each
other, a source close to the situation said on Friday.
A spokesman for Lopez, currently starring in the film thriller "Enough" as a young mother who fights back against an abusive husband, declined to comment on reports
surfacing in gossip columns and the TV show "Access Hollywood" that the couple had split.
No third party is involved in their split, said the source, who dismissed as "bogus" a gossip report in the New York Post that Lopez was back together with her former
boyfriend, rap impresario Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.
Jennifer Lopez
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Boosts Film Archive
Ingmar Bergman
Film director Ingmar Bergman will donate raw footage, photographs and manuscripts from his films and plays to a new foundation to be set up in his honor.
The archive material will help researchers study the thought processes that went into Bergman's work, Swedish Film Institute spokesman Jan Goeransson said Wednesday.
The foundation will be set up by arts institutions and media organizations, including the film institute and Swedish Television.
Goeransson said more details would be presented at a news conference next week.
Bergman, 83, whose film classics include "The Seventh Seal" and "Fanny and Alexander," is producing a 90-minute television play for Swedish Television.
Ingmar Bergman
Swedish Film Institute Web site
A Product Whose Time Has Come!
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Gossip Columnist Speaks
Jose Lambiet
Gossip columnist Jose Lambiet has written plenty about people behaving badly. But the former Sun-Sentinel gossip slinger told journalists in a speech last weekend in Fort Lauderdale
that the bad behavior in the major leagues of dish has been morally unsettling — even to him.
The Belgian-born Lambiet left the Sun-Sentinel a year ago for a much higher-paying job — with a first-class expense account — at the Star, a supermarket tabloid owned by Boca Raton-based
American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker hired him, he says, after he wrote about an incident in which Pecker's black Corvette was keyed in the company parking lot and Pecker suspected employees.
At first, Lambiet was uneasy about paying sources for information, an absolute no-no in regular journalism. He was offering people thousands of dollars to feed him dirt about their friends,
associates, siblings, lovers, spouses, and children — and they were taking it.
But the columnist saved his harshest contempt for Los Angeles law firms that specialize in trying to scare tabloid reporters out of writing negative pieces about their clients.
Recently, Lambiet said, a lawyer wrote an eight-page letter warning him not to denigrate the size of actor Greg Kinnear's penis. Kinnear was set to play a nude orgy scene with actor
Willem Dafoe and an actress in the new Martin Scorsese film. But, according to Lambiet's sources, Kinnear felt thoroughly outclassed when Dafoe, reputedly the best-endowed actor in
Hollywood, doffed his shorts and unveiled his equipment. The lawyer's letter defended the comparative size of Kinnear's organ, Lambiet said.
The Star ran the story anyway, but softened it a little. "Eight pages for something as puny as that," Lambiet said.
Greg Kinnear's Penis
Salacious Saturday Continues
Jodie Kidd
British model Jodie Kidd in a spider diamond dress arrives at the British premiere of Spider-Man in London's Leicester Square, June 5, 2002. The film broke box office records in North
America after recording the biggest opening of all time with 78 million pounds (114 million dollars) in its first three days.
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid
BartCop TV!
Civil War Submarine Yields Gold Watch
H.L. Hunley
Archaeologists have recovered an ornate gold pocket watch from the excavated Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in battle, project officials say.
The watch has not yet been opened, leaving unanswered the question of what time it stopped, which archaeologists say could help them piece together the mystery of the final moments
of the Confederate submarine, which disappeared on Feb. 17, 1864.
The timepiece, decorated on both sides and including a gold chain and fob, belonged to Lt. George Dixon, captain of the Hunley when it sank the USS Housatonic.
The 43-foot (13-metre) hand-cranked submarine was lost until 1995 when a dive team financed by adventure novelist Clive Cussler found it four miles (6.4 km) off Sullivan's Island, South
Carolina. It was raised in August 2000 and forensic anthropologists have been studying the remains of its eight crew members.
Opening the watch will be a delicate task. archaeologists want to X-ray it to check the condition of its mechanisms but first need to make sure radiation will not damage any photograph it
might contain, senior archaeologist Maria Jacobsen said.
For a bit more, H.L. Hunley
World's Most Endangered Feline
Iberian Lynxes
A pair of Iberian Lynxes, the world's most endangered feline, are seen in their special enclosure at Jerez de la Frontera zoo in southern Spain in this undated picture. The
two-month-old females are the focus of an emergency breeding plan to prevent the Iberian Lynx from becoming the first feline species to go extinct since prehistoric times.
To The June 10 Solar Eclipse
Viewer's Guide
Viewer's Guide to the June 10 Solar Eclipse
Recontructing Chopin
Jeffrey Kallberg
Feverishly ill and hallucinating, Frederic Chopin was staying on the island of Majorca in 1839 with his mistress, writer George Sand. It was raining, and he was trying to finish his preludes — 24 in all, one in each key.
The Romantic piano composer tried in E-flat minor to convey his fraught state of mind by using a continuous trill in the left hand. He later abandoned that effort in favor of a different prelude in that key — but he saved his notes.
Now, by transcribing Chopin's shorthand, University of Pennsylvania music history professor Jeffrey Kallberg has resurrected the piece.
It is not a perfect piece of music, Kallberg said, but it provides new insight into Chopin's musical ideas and work process.
The piece is dark, turbulent and not at all typical of the composer.
For a lot more, Recontructing Chopin
Kallberg's Web site
Late Paying Residuals
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has admitted it is too slow delivering residual checks to members, with delays stretching to more than three months.
The issue has been a long-running headache for the guild, which took the extraordinary step a year ago of apologizing for the delays and promising to improve performance. The problem
persists in the face of an embarrassing Towers Perrin consultants report, issued in 2000, which described the guild's operations as "organized chaos."
Residuals are vital for many of SAG's 98,000 members, most of whom are unemployed. Payouts last year totaled $606.6 million last year, or 37% of the total compensation subject to pension
and health contributions. Commercial residuals were the largest category, with $302.6 million, followed by film with $160.9 million and TV with $142.9 million. Delays can be problematic
since issuers may impose a 60-day or 90-day limit on honoring checks.
SAG executives insist they're working on fixing the problem by spending $4.4 million to upgrade internal computer systems and seeking a new residuals chief.
Screen Actors Guild
52-Pounds, 8-Ounces
Blue Catfish
Steve Ness, of Browerville, Minn., poses with a 52-pound, 8-ounce blue catfish near Lac Qui Parle, Minn., Wednesday, May 22, 2002. Ness caught the fish on the Minnesota River
using chicken liver for bait. Common in other areas of the nation, blue catfish are so rare in Minnesota that an official state record didn't exist.
Photo Courtesy Department of Natural Resources
Thief Asked to Help Find Paintings
David Duddin
Two English aristocrats have enlisted the help of a convicted art thief to recover stolen masterpiece paintings worth more than $20 million.
The Marquess of Bath and the Marquess of Cholmondley are hoping that the underworld connections of David Duddin will succeed where police have failed, a private investigator
hired to direct the search said Thursday.
Duddin, 57, was jailed five years ago for selling stolen antiques, including a $5.8 million Rembrandt.
Duddin, who is free on bail after being released from jail in August, is using his contacts to make inquiries and publicize a $140,000 reward for each recovered painting.
He was approached for the sleuthing job while still in jail by Charles Hill, a former detective chief inspector who was in charge of Scotland Yard's arts and antique unit.
Since retiring, Hill has set up a private consultancy to recover stolen works.
One of the paintings, Titian's "Rest on the Flight to Egypt," stolen in 1995, is worth at least $14 million but is so well known that experts say it will be impossible to sell.
"The White Duck," by French artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry, stolen in 1992, is estimated to be worth $7 million to $14 million.
Duddin said he believed the two paintings were still in Britain but he said he did not know exactly where.
He speculated that the paintings have gone through several pairs of hands and were no longer in the possession of the original thieves.
David Duddin
Newborn Named in a Tribute to NASCAR
Winston Iroc Nascar Yerian
A Logan mother wanted to stay true to her family's first love when her son was born.
Winston Iroc Nascar Yerian was born to William II and Malinda Yerian of Logan at Fairfield Medical Center on April 16.
The name pays tribute to NASCAR (the professional stock car racing organization), the Winston Cup (the stock car championship) and the International Race of Champions (an all-star racing series).
Winston is destined to continue the family tradition, Malinda Yerian said.
"My dad (Dirk) is a race car nut. He has recorded every race on VHS since he was 18 years old," she said. "I have been going to races with him ever since I could remember. Hopefully, he'll (Winston) be a big NASCAR
fan. All the other grandchildren are already big fans."
Winston Iroc Nascar Yerian
Guwahati Zoo
Rhinos
Kleines Nashorn
Ein neugeborenes Nashorn-Baby steht am Mittwoch im Zoo von Guwahati im indischen Bundesstaat Assam in der Nähe seiner Mutter "Baghekhati". Die vom Aussterben bedrohten Nashörner leben in wenigen
Regionen Indiens und Nepals.
Foto: Utpal Baruah
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