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From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Interesting Link
Uncommon Sense
From Jeff Crook
Go to http://uncommonsense.20m.com
Thanks, Jeff.
Reader Question
Re: Harrison Ford
From Pattie O
Did you happen to see Harrison Ford on Letterman?
We were trying to figure out what the hell he was ON. Or does he always
have that flat affect? Or has Calista removed all his vital fluids? What
is going on there?
Any other readers pick that up?
~~ Pattie O
Jeez. Had it on in the background, then went to Bill Maher. Once worked with a woman who was stalking
Harrison. She actually managed to ingratiate herself into his first family. She brought in pictures from their
family photo albums that she swiped. Really creeped me out.
The Continuing Saga Of Seinfeld, Maher &
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
From TJ
Hunter Thompson Duped
Here's one of the faxes that add fuel to the whole HST / Seinfeld fire. Who
would have thought??? Enjoy!
~~ TJ
Thanks, TJ!
A Link From Alex
Dancing Bush
Dancing Bush
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Such an overcast day, the sun never broke through.
Saw a new commercial by the Bill Simon campaign. Somebody needs to tell Bill not to whine. I think that if he hadn't been born
to such wealth, holding a job at Radio Shack would be way beyond his capabilities.
The kittens are doing quite well. The orange one is larger than the calico. Any suggestions for names?
Bill Maher was quite brilliant in his open (again). Will look for the transcript - it's more than worth the effort.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS, once again has a 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'Touched By An Angle', and then 2 episodes of 'The District'.
NBC has the tv-movie 'Uprising'. The rerun 'Saturday Night Live' is worth watching, though. The host is Sir Ian McKellen and Kylie Minogue is the musical act. Sir Ian does a bit in the news segment that kicks major ass!
ABC has the movie 'The Spy Who Loved Me', the 10th James Bond movie, with Roger Moore.
The WB has the movie 'Dying Young'.
Faux, as is tradition, has 2 reruns of 'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has the movie 'The Presidio' (with Sean Connery, the 'real' James Bond).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In NYC
Former President Bill Clinton plays a game with children from the Family Life Academy of the Latino Pastoral Action Center in New York, Thursday, June 20, 2002.
Clinton visited the school as part of the first "National Service Day" sponsored by the Democratic Leadership Council. Alejandra Velasquez, 7, looks on at left.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
France Celebrates Solstice
Festival of Music
From string quartets to reggae singers to pop stars, musicians will fill the streets and cafes of France on Friday for free concerts celebrating the longest day of the year.
The annual Festival of Music — the idea of former national music director Maurice Fleuret — has spread to 118 countries since its 1982 debut in France.
In Paris, a concert sponsored by the Foreign Ministry has a world music theme, with the lineup including a Congolese singer and a Nigerian Afro-beat group.
Lenny Kravitz will play at the Place de la Republique in Paris. Revelers in the Brittany city of Quimper will dance to the region's traditional Celtic music,
while Jamaican reggae will fill the streets of Marseille.
Festival of Music
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart at 11 pm to 1 am [pdt]), Saturday, and 9 pm to 1 am, Sunday, on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
KIRO (Entercom) has stopped streaming audio. Boo. Hiss.
There's still the chatroom, but, it's not the same.
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
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Thousands Celebrate Summer Solstice
Stonehenge
Chanting and dancing to whistles and drums, thousands of revellers and a handful of robed Druids welcomed the summer solstice on Friday in one of the biggest-ever gatherings
at the ancient Stonehenge megalith.
The celebrations began Thursday night when a rainbow assortment of spiritualists, Druids and dreadlocked mothers pushing prams descended on the site for a once-a-year chance to
walk among its towering stones.
As dawn broke above one of the stone archways, Druids -- a pagan religious order dating to Celtic Britain -- joined with the crowds in chants and cheers of joy.
But the atmosphere was filled more with cannabis then incantation.
English Heritage, guardians of Stonehenge, a world heritage site, estimated the crowd numbers at 16,000, by far the largest gathering since it reopened the stone circle for the
solstice festival in 2000.
It was only the third time since violence marred the event in 1985 that English Heritage allowed the public among the stones inside the site, about 80 miles southwest of London.
Stonehenge
World Cup
US Fan
A US fan cheers prior to the World Cup quarter-final match between Germany and USA in Ulsan, June 21, 2002.
Photo by Shaun Best
Another Film in the Works
John F. Kennedy Jr
A second television movie about John F. Kennedy Jr. is in the works, co-starring Jacqueline Bisset as his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Portia de Rossi of "Ally McBeal" as his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
TBS said Friday it's still looking for an actor to play the late son of the late U.S. president in "America's Prince: The JFK Jr. Story," based on Christopher Andersen's 2000 biography "The Day John Died."
The movie from Fox TV studios is scheduled to air in December 2002 or January 2003.
Last month, CBS announced it was in the early stages of development on a Kennedy biopic called "American Son," based on the biography of the same name by Richard Blow, who was an editor at
Kennedy's defunct George magazine.
John F. Kennedy Jr
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Everyday Yoga
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Pro During Power Failure
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello could teach Britney Spears a thing or two about crowd control. When his sold-out show at the Beacon looked doomed after the sound system blew
in the middle of his first song on Wednesday, the crooner soothed fans with an acoustic rendition of "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes," and encouraged them to sing along.
At the end, he thanked everyone for listening with their "good ears," then hung around outside afterward, signing autographs and posing for snapshots.
Unlike the Britster, he didn't have to beg the audience — including John McEnroe, Bette Midler, Steve Buscemi, and Caroline Rhea — not to boo.
Elvis Costello
Never Saw Her Smile Before
Yoko Ono
Artist Yoko Ono speaks at a news conference for her show "Yes Yoko Ono" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco Friday, June 21, 2002. The show is the first American
retrospective of Ono's work and will be open to the public on June 22 and will run until September 8, 2002.
Photo by Justin Sullivan
Brazilian Bandits
Director, Producer Robbed
In the midst of what started as a routine research trip June 14 for the upcoming action-comedy "Helldorado," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, director Peter Berg
and producer Kevin Misher were waylaid in the Amazon jungle by armed bandits and robbed.
Oddly enough, the picture concerns a bounty hunter on the trail of an escapee in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The duo, along with line producer Ric Kidney and
production designer Tom Duffield, were held up for 15 minutes and relieved of their cash and a laptop computer, all as their Portuguese-speaking guides pleaded for
their safe release, Misher confirmed Thursday.
All in the party escaped unscathed and were able to take their ransacked car back to the nearby city of Manaus, where they reported the robbery to local police. Not
surprisingly, the director of "Very Bad Things" and his group shortened their trip and returned to the States on Sunday and Monday.
By late in the week the buzz in Hollywood had amplified: the group had been abducted for days! Their guides had been beaten within an inch of their lives! Universal
Pictures was going to pony up a ransom! Rumors of Misher's demise, he observed, have been greatly exaggerated.
Director, Producer Robbed
Time For Some Fries?
ann coulter
George Stephanopoulos was so confident about getting the anchor spot on ABC's "This Week" that he bought a house in Georgetown a month or so ago. That will be the family abode, and
they'll likely keep a pied a terre in Manhattan. The anger and jealousy over George's appointment to this plum post is really amusing - and indicative of just how small-minded many
of our TV talking heads are. Mouthy Ann Coulter, for example, was on "Crossfire" this week, suggesting Stephanopoulos was unfit for the anchor's job because he was "chief liar" for
Bill Clinton. Honey, if you were held accountable for past political expediencies, you'd be watching TV instead of starring on it.
ann coulter
Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture
Reginald F. Lewis
A new museum about African-American history and culture will be named for a late Baltimore-born philanthropist whose group is donating $5 million to the project.
The grant by the New York-based Reginald F. Lewis Foundation was announced Wednesday at a news conference in Annapolis. The event followed the state Board
of Public Works' unanimous vote to name the museum the Reginald F. Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture.
Lewis was head of the $1 billion TLC Beatrice International Holdings, the country's biggest black-owned business. He died in 1993 at 50.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for September in Baltimore's touristy Inner Harbor area.
The 80,000-square-foot facility, expected to cost $33 million, is scheduled to open in 2004. It will feature artifacts, interactive exhibits, historical documents,
clothing, tools and art spanning 350 years.
The facility will be the largest on the East Coast and second nationwide only to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Two other black history museums
in Fredericksburg, Va., and Washington also are being planned.
Reginald F. Lewis
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Laments Legal Woes in New Song
R. Kelly
Grammy-winning singing star R. Kelly, facing 21 counts of child pornography, blames his legal woes on being famous in a new song released exclusively this week to a hometown radio station.
In the song, Kelly laments that his current legal predicament stems from his celebrity.
According to lyrics published in the Los Angeles Times, he sings, "It's all because I'm famous/You know what I'm sayin'/I mean if I wasn't famous/Then all this wouldn't be happening/I'm
just being real." He also sings, "church folks, you need to stop judging" and he urges women to "stop depending on us men/start depending on the man above."
Kelly, whose first name is Robert, was indicted in Chicago last Wednesday on 21 felony counts of child pornography. The charges stem from a 26-minute videotape that allegedly shows him
engaging in sex acts with a teen-aged minor. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
The 35-year-old singer has denied he is the man on the tape, while his lawyer has said the girl on the video is not under age.
R. Kelly
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And Scooby-Doo
Matt Damon
The only thing worse than watching your movie get steamrolled by "Scooby-Doo" is being ridiculed about it. Ask Matt Damon. His espionage thriller "The Bourne Identity" got
clobbered by the criticallypanned flick about a dopey cartoon character (no, not Freddie Prinze Jr.). A day after Scooby's box-office bonanza, Damon's buddy Ben Affleck had
a giant stuffed Scooby delivered to Matt with a note of congratulations.
Matt Damon
At The Minnesota Zoo
Pygmy Lorises
Two infant pygmy lorises make their public debut at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minn., Friday, June 21, 2002. The loris twins, which weighed approximately 20 grams
each at birth on June 3, 2002, now weigh approximately 60 grams each and are the first successful twin set ever born at the Minnesota Zoo.
Photo by Eric Miller
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Reality Rears Head On Writers
Riding With LAPD
Two writers on CBS' upcoming crime drama "Robbery Homicide Division" suddenly found themselves players in a real-life Los Angeles robbery and homicide division investigation earlier this week.
As part of their research for the Michael Mann-produced series, scribes Jan Oxenberg and Todd Tessler were riding along with two LAPD gang unit officers Tuesday
night when they came across a known gang leader, later identified as Mark Castillo, 35. When one of the cops got out of the car, Castillo pointed a handgun at
the officers and started firing.
The officers -- Bob Deamer, 40, and Floyd Curry, 33 -- returned fire, and the gun battle began. Curry pursued Castillo on foot while Deamer went after him with
the police vehicle, as a stunned Oxenberg and Tessler remained in the backseat. The car eventually struck Castillo, who was knocked to the ground. The car
then collided with a tree.
In an eerie twist, the writers were interviewing Officers Deamer and Curry about their experience with shootouts when the incident began.
No one was wounded in the shootout, although Oxenberg, Tessler and Deamer were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital. Castillo was held on $500,000 bail;
his handgun was recovered at the scene.
The ride-alongs were part of a comprehensive training program set up by "Robbery Homicide Division" producers to immerse writers and actors in the world of police
work. The program also includes firearms training and familiarization with the daily routines of police officers.
Universal Television, which produces the series, has discontinued the ride-alongs in wake of the shoot-out. All individuals who took part in the program were insured.
Riding With LAPD
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'Garfield' Fraud
A California man has admitted to one count of mail fraud after posing as rightful owner of TV's feline "Garfield and Friends" and collecting more than $328,000 in royalties doled out by the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
Trouble was, Raul Galaz had no connection to "Garfield," or to the other eight TV programs he tried -- unsuccessfully -- to collect royalties on. Those shows included "Unsolved Mysteries," "The People's
Court," "Walker, Texas Ranger" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
The MPAA said it's the first time someone has been prosecuted for bilking the retransmission royalty system, which has been in place since 1978 and falls under the umbrella of
the U.S. Copyright Office. Galaz pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, plus any restitution.
Under the terms of the royalty program, cable operators and satellite broadcasters pay into a pool of money administered by the copyright office. In turn, the copyright office
distributes the money to the MPAA and other groups, who actually cut the checks to the program owners filing claims.
Galaz, who set up nine bogus companies, filed a series of claims for the nine TV shows between July 1995 and August 1998. Because no one else had filed claims for "Garfield," the MPAA cut four checks to Galaz.
'Garfield' Fraud
Snarky Gossip
Angelina & Billy Bob
If you believe the Brits, it could soon be time for Angelina Jolie to have the Billy Bob tattoo lasered off.
According to reports in papers overseas, those wholesome Hollywood spouses — who have had their adopted Cambodian son, Maddox, all of about a month — are
going to be dividing the marital assets.
Jolie — here this week speaking as a goodwill ambassador at the United Nations and wearing her wedding ring — is said to have already moved out. One English
paper blames the rift on Thornton's cheatin' heart while he's been recording a CD in Memphis.
Thornton, on his fifth marriage, shocked his last fiancée, Laura Dern, when he left her for the twice-married Jolie.
Angelina & Billy Bob
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National Retailers
Phasing Out VHS
Some national retailers, including Circuit City and Borders, are hitting the eject button on VHS movies in a nod to the growing popularity of DVDs.
"The people who are buying movie titles these days want to buy them on DVD," Circuit City spokesman Jim Babb said Friday. "People have embraced the
technology in a big way, and we're responding to that by increasing the space given to DVD titles."
Some of the Richmond-based electronics chain's stores already have cleared their shelves of all VHS movies. The company will continue to sell VHS movies
on its Web site and stock blank tapes and videocassette recorders in its more than 600 stores, Babb said.
Borders is largely phasing out VHS tapes except for sports and exercise videos, said Ann Binkley, a spokeswoman for the book and music seller.
Consumers continue to spend more on videotapes than on DVDs, but the gap is quickly narrowing. Figures complied by the industry research firm Alexander &
Associates show that DVD sales more than doubled to $4.1 billion last year while VHS sales remained flat at about $7.6 billion.
Despite the rapid growth of the DVD market, the president of the International Recording Media Association, a trade association based in Princeton, N.J., said
Circuit City's move is premature. Charles Van Horn noted that about 90 percent of U.S. households have at least one VCR, while only about 30 percent have a DVD player.
Phasing Out VHS
Salacious Saturday
Harley In Hungary
Eine Motorradfahrerin zeigt am Sonntag auf dem Harley-Davidson-Treffen im ungarischen Alsoors beim Plattensee ihre gebräunte Hinteransicht.
Foto: Laszlo Balogh
Dark Chapter of Aboriginal History
''Rabbit-Proof Fence''
"Rabbit-Proof Fence," a low-budget film by A-list Hollywood director Phillip Noyce, is set to expose world cinemagoers to Australia's most shameful secret -- a
government scheme to kidnap Aboriginal children.
The film tells the real-life tale of three young Aboriginal girls removed from their parents under an officially ordained assimilation policy aimed at
breeding out Australia's original inhabitants.
Many Australians still struggle with their conscience over the "Stolen Generation" -- tens of thousands of Aborigines taken away under a policy which
lasted for some 80 years until the 1960s.
The title comes from a fence which divided the continent north to south. The fence, to protect crops and pasture from rabbits, was built mainly by transient workers.
A 1997 Australian Human Rights Commission report said the policy of removing tens of thousands of Aboriginal children was a form of genocide aimed at wiping out Aborigines.
Aboriginal boys were used as virtual slaves on outback farms and girls were clothed in white dresses and put to work as domestic servants. Many were raped and beaten with whips.
For a lot more, ''Rabbit-Proof Fence''
''The Mind is a Place of Its Own''
Jeffrey Dahmer
David Jacobson, director of an independent feature film about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, says his goal wasn't to make a slasher movie but to examine what drove Dahmer to commit his crimes.
"Dahmer: The Mind is a Place of Its Own" portrays Dahmer at the end of his killing spree, with flashbacks to his adolescence to show the isolation that psychologists thought drove him to kill.
The fictionalized movie opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles.
Jeremy Renner, whose most recent role was a vampire on the WB's "Angel," plays Dahmer. "There's so much to work with there, to have to embody that emotional disturbance," Renner said.
The victims in the Peninsula Films movie are composites loosely based on some of Dahmer's victims. For example, Khamtay (Dion Basco) is based on Konerak Sinthasomphone, one of Dahmer's
last victims. Rodney (Artel Kayaru) is based on Tracy Edwards, who escaped from Dahmer's apartment with a pair of handcuffs dangling from his wrist and alerted police.
The director said a book by Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, inspired him to make the movie. In "A Father's Story," Lionel Dahmer questions whether his actions as a father might
have contributed to his son's crimes.
Jeffrey Dahmer
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