BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 25 June, 2005
Saturday
25 June, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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From David Dvorkin
New Essay
Hi, Marty. Long time, no . . . um, essay.
I've added a new one to my site, but it's one you might be reluctant to
link to. Title is "We Are the Nazi Hordes."
David Dvorkin
dvorkin.com
Business Secrets From the Stars (a novel)
Why I'm Glad I Had Breast Cancer (by Leonore Dvorkin)
Thanks, David!
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This Weekend
Erin Hart
June 25th & 26th 2005 on 710 KIRO
Pride and Prejudice (Gay Pride and Karl Rove's Prejudice) on the Erin Hart
show, from 9 p. to 1 a. Saturday and Sunday night on 710 KIRO.
Special Saturday guests include: Michael Macafoose of Action NW and Jon
Wartes of Parents of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Don't MISS this counter
"demonstration" to Dr. James Dobson's shameless piggy-backing. (Okay, I
COULD make a joke, but I won't)
Then we will dive into the rank and utterly disgusting speech Karl Rove gave
in NEW YORK CITY to deafening silence about the "difference" between the
reaction of conservatives and liberals to 9.11.05. If you haven't heard it
(and NOOOOO, of course it wasn't beat to death as Dick Durbin's comments
were) prepare to be enraged.
Lots of fun events coming up. And do check in with
erinhartshow.com
and 710kiro.com
for more late breaking information.
Early heads up: Erin Hart is filling in again for Jay Marvin on Air America
in Boulder, CO on July 5th from 4am to 9 am (pdt).
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Freshly Updated
New Videos
Steve over at www.dickeatsbush.com
has a couple of new videos up.
Downloads
Streaming
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THIS SEWING MACHINE
IT WILL NEVER STITCH AGAIN
A RUSTY SINGER
Zen Man
(in the Garden of discarded icons)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Steve Perry: Gagging Dr. Dean (citypages.com)
So much for reinventing the Democratic Party: Dems join Republicans in ganging up on Howard Dean and the party's grassroots funders.
Paul Rosenberg: True Lies (Random Lengths News)
Gov. $chwarzenegger has raised community college fees 44 percent, while refusing to raise taxes on millionaires by a single penny-a microcosm of his reverse Robin-Hood politics. Now many claim he is lying to cover up budget shortfalls.
Steven Hill: Why the Democrats Will Keep Losing (motherjones.com)
Commentary: Biases built in to our electoral institutions hurt the Democratic Party every time.
Jonathan Krim: The Great Cannon Fodder Hunt (Seattle Times)
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department yesterday began working with a private marketing firm to create a database of all U.S. college students as well as high-school students between ages 16 and 18, to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment.
Annalee Newit:z On File (AlterNet)
The DOJ has wisely made the world safer by forcing anyone even remotely connected with publishing erotic images online to keep elaborate files on the true identities of everyone in said images for seven years.
Robert Scheer: Even Bush's GOP Allies Are Breaking Ranks Key (AlterNet)
Our military occupation fuels nationalist and religious insurgents and we should begin a phased withdrawal as soon as feasible, while increasing aid.
Joe Hallett and Mark Niquette: Taft didn't tell of golf outings (THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH)
Already under fire for his administration's role in an investment scandal, Gov. Bob Taft [a Repug Incompetent] admitted yesterday that he failed to disclose a number of golf outings as required by state law.
Sarah Schweitzer: Dean raises cash, party spirits (Boston Globe)
Critiques will remain 'in your face,' he says
Mark Leibovich: Father First, Senator Second (Washington Post)
Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.
Porn Star Mary Carey (Republican) Does D.C.
CAREY: I had a great time. You know, Republicans can party almost as much as porn stars. ... was getting propositions to have threesomes with wives or mistresses. I was offered money from oil tycoons! ... I'm a fully converted Republican now."
Zappa on Crossfire
(Also check out the "Most Popular Political to the right of the screen)
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Recruiting Effort
Operation Yellow Elephant
The objective of OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It's only right that they also experience it.
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Open E-mail to Republicans Politicians
from Bruce
I just sent this e-mail to my two Ohio Senators: Mike Dewine and
George Voinovich. Perhaps BCE readers will want to copy and send it
to their Republican politicians.
Does Karl Rove speak for you?
The New York Times reports Rove as saying: "Conservatives saw the
savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw
the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments
and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers ... Has there
ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in
fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator
Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater
danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."
As Atrios says, "For the record, my motives aren't to get more troops
killed. If those were my motives I'd ship them off to a war on false
pretenses without sufficient equipment to keep them safe."
To me, shipping "them off to a war on false pretenses without
sufficient equipment to keep them safe" is a good way to get more
than 1700 brave American troops killed.
Bruce
Thanks, Bruce!
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The Wall Street Poet
2 Poems
MasterCard admitted last week that stolen personal data may put 40 million credit card holders at financial risk...
Mary's Simple Credit Plan
Mary had a simple plan
Her credit score to grow;
She wouldn't run up excess debt
And never too much owe.
She'd learned 'bout plastic's dangers
From a course she took in school;
When it came to prudent spending
Mary was nobody's fool.
Then a hacker stole her ID,
For his sins she must atone;
Mary's credit is in limbo
'Cause she's got a shopping clone.
©2005
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Once upon a time, Washington really seemed to care about environmental protection. Now, environmental issues are finessed rather than addressed. How very foolish...
Bush Environmentalism
We have this great new way to meet the challenge of pollution,
It's a market-friendly, business-loving, faith-based full solution;
When environmental moaners say "Protect it or restore it,"
We just answer "Can't afford it," then proceed to just ignore it.
'Bout greenhouse gas we reckon there's not really much to fear,
If folks would stop obsessing it would surely disappear;
Melting icecaps that cause problems for a present shoreline native,
Will create new inland beach fronts when swelled oceans get creative.
Ozone holes and fished out oceans, mercury in food and air?
Kindly spare us the details, for in truth we do not care;
Drill the Arctic, log old forests, let our western parks get seedy?
It's utilities and drillers and tree loggers we find needy.
We dodge most green concerns today, at this we're most proficient,
And we're skilled in ways that render useful programs less efficient;
Trim some budgets, stall enforcement, from hard choices deftly scurry,
Plant a cherry tree on Earth Day, do some p.r., what's to worry?
©2005
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For more political and financial verse:
www.wallstreetpoet.com
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Batman Begins'
Purple Gene's review of the movie "Batman Begins" (2005) Directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento" - "Insomnia"):
I normally don't like comic book movies (Although I loved "Sin City") and I'm not normally enamored by big blockbuster summer releases. But it was Friday and I wanted to see a movie with my Son for late Fathers day so we decided to drive down to the good old Grand Lake (Grand Lake Theater Marquee said "What about Downing St. Memos Mr. Bush"!) to see the brand new version of Mister "Mormoops" (Bat Genus) or "Batman Begins"!!!
I had heard that Ebert & Roeper gave "Batman Begins" 2 thumbs "way up"…and the Chronicles Mick LaSalle echoed E&Rs sentiments verbatim. When my son and I sat down in the 3rd row armed with popcorn and fruit punch, the steroid enhanced soundtrack proceeded to pin us to our seats…….Little Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) falls down a well hole on his wealthy family estate. His friend Rachel Dawes (Emma Lockhart) runs off to get help….while laying at the dank and dark bottom, Bruce becomes traumatized when a horde of bats come flying out of a deep crevice…..Bruce's parents take him to the opera (Die Flëdermaus - The Bat) and poor Bruce gets scared and wants to leave early…..so his parents take him out the side door where a thug ends up robbing and killing Mr. and Mrs. Wayne…..poor Bruce is devastated………
14 years later we find an adult and very vengeful Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale - "American Psycho" - "Laurel Canyon" - "The Machinist") in an Eastern prison kicking bad guys asses for fun and education. Along comes Earle (Rutger Hauer - "Blade Runner" - "Omega Doom" - "Salem's Lot") who delivers Bruce into the highest mountains to a secret Ninja Cult headed by the mysterious Ra's Al Ghul (Ken Watanabe - "Tampopo" - "Kizuna" - "The Last Samurai") they teach him the martial arts and how to become a mystical mercenary…..after learning how to kick ass, he finds that he has other motives like truth and honor…so he burns down the monastery and escapes back to his home town - Gotham City…….
Gotham City has been taken over by Crime bosses and thugs and so Bruce Wayne returns to the family mansion where Alfred the old family butler (Michael Caine - "Alfie" - "Blame it on Rio" - "Jaws 4 the Revenge" - "Bewitched") aids him in finding an underground hide-out and a good front (like the "Scarlet Pimpernel) as a handsome rich playboy……little does Gotham City know that Brucy has a secret side….so he employs the aid of the company scientist Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman - "Pawnbroker" - "Driving Miss Daisy" - "Million Dollar Baby") to outfit with a new car (the coolest batmobile ever), a new costume (black bat suit - with ears) a new "Come-along" (a devise for him to jump across tall buildings) and a cool new cave (full of bats)…
Remember Bruce's childhood friend who watched him fall down the bat infested hole??? Well she's grown up too…..she's now Rachel Dawes the crime fighting assistant D.A. (Katie Holmes - "Dawson's Creek" - "Phone Booth" - "Pieces of April" - Soon to be Mrs. "I'll join your CULT" Tom Cruise) who is, of course being threatened by the bad guys.
Well there's no Joker, no Riddler, no Cat Woman nor is there a Robin…but we have Dr. Jonathon "the Scare Crow" Crane (Cillian Murphy) who is trying to poison the water supply of Gotham City with "Bad Acid" ……when he doses Rachel, she start seeing Dr "J"s face become a maggot infested gunney sack….yuck….So…..Batman to the rescue……….
He's gonna save the girl and the whole damn city…………James Bond meets Superman and it takes almost 2 and ½ hours…….
Purple Gene gives "Batman Begins" 8 highly explosive car crashes out of 10 and Christian Bale is the best Batman so far….But what in the hell does Tom Cruise see in Katie Holmes????? (or Her in Him)!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny & a bit cooler.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN '48 Hours', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One', then another '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with the movie 'End Of Days', followed by 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Will Ferrell hosting, music by Queens Of The Stone Age'.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 10 February, 1979, with Cicely Tyson hosting, music by Talking Heads.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Pocahontas', followed by a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos'.
The WB offers 'Bikini Destinations', followed by 'Xotic Xtreme', then another 'Bikini Destinations', followed by another 'Xotic Xtreme'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'Silver'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by the movie 'Escape From Alcatraz', then 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Jewel Of The Nile', followed by the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', then the movie 'An Affair To Remember'.
BBC -
[12pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Ep. 3 Wedding;
[12:45pm] 'Fawlty Towers - The Ep. 4 Hotel Inspectors;
[1:30pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Ep. 2 Builders;
[2:15pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - Ep. 2 The Psychiatrist;
[3pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - A Ep. 1 Touch of Class;
[3:45pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - Ep. 1 Communication Problems;
[4:30pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - Ep. 5 Gourmet Night;
[5:15pm] 'Fawlty Towers' - The Ep. 6 Germans;
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 6;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 2;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[9pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[9:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[10:20pm] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[11pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Basic Alan;
[11:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 5;
[12am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[12:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[1:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 2;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Basic Alan;
[3:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 5;
[4am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[4:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[5:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'The Birdcage', then the movie 'To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything'.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed', 'Larry The Cable Guy: Git-R-Done', and 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie'.
History has 'Automaniac', 'The French Revolution', and 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Talk To Her';
[8AM] 'Blind Swordsman #12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert' (1965);
[9:30AM] 'Invincible' (2001);
[11:45AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[12:15PM] 'The Road Home' (2000);
[2PM] 'Blind Swordsman #12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert' (1965);
[3:30PM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[4PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[4:15PM] 'Like Water For Chocolate' (1992);
[6:15PM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[6:45PM] 'The Ultimate Film Fanatic #202' (2004);
[7:15PM] 'Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead' (2005);
[7:45PM] 'BaadAsssss Cinema' (2002);
[8:45PM] 'Reservoir Dogs Revisited' (2005);
[9:15PM] 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992);
[11PM] 'Jackie Brown' (1997);
[1:40AM] 'BaadAsssss Cinema' (2002);
[2:40AM] 'Jackie Brown' (1997);
[5:30AM] 'Reservoir Dogs Revisited' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Maximum Velocity', followed by the movie 'Tornado: Nature Unleashed'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'Bejart into the Light';
[8:05AM] 'Springtime in a Small Town';
[10AM] 'The Tunnel';
[11:30AM] 'Playing for Change';
[12:45PM] 'Tulip';
[1PM] 'Love Me If You Dare';
[2:35PM] 'Marathon';
[4PM] 'Star Wars Dreams';
[5PM] 'Springtime in a Small Town';
[7PM] 'Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights And The News';
[8PM] 'New Waterford Girl';
[9:40PM] 'A Girl's Guide to the Galaxy';
[10PM] 'Love Me If You Dare';
[11:30PM] 'The Beat';
[1AM] 'Zus & Zo';
[2:45AM] 'Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary';
[4AM] 'Garden';
[5:30AM] 'Marathon'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'On Borrowed Time' (1939);
[8am] 'Double Indemnity' (1944) [View Trailer];
[10am] 'Fastest Gun Alive' (1956);
[12pm] 'Escape From Fort Bravo' (1953);
[2pm] 'Support Your Local Sheriff' (1969) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool' (2004);
[5:30pm] 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Steamboat Bill Jr.' (1928) SILENT ;
[9:15pm] 'The Adventures of Mark Twain' (1944);
[11:30pm ] 'Frankie and Johnny' (1966);
[1am] 'Show Boat' (1951) [View Trailer];
[3am] 'The River' (1937);
[3:45am] 'The Plow That Broke the Plains' (1936);
[4:15am] 'Intruder In The Dust' (1949). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sunday - 06/26
TCM features films with or about the too often dismissed, and generally under-rated
Marion Davies - after midnight.
6am] 'In Name Only' (1939);
[8am] 'Key Largo' (1948) [View Trailer];
[10am] 'Brigadoon' (1954) [View Trailer];
[12pm] 'The Farmer's Daughter' (1947);
[2pm] 'After The Thin Man' (1936) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'The Long, Long Trailer' (1954);
[6pm] 'Steamboat Bill Jr.' (1928) SILENT ;
[7:15pm] 'Sherlock Jr.' (1924) SILENT [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'The Way We Were' (1973);
[10:15pm] 'The Front' (1976);
[12am] 'The Patsy' (1928) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies' (2001);
[2:30am] 'Florodora Girl' (1930);
[4am] 'Citizen Kane' (1941) [View Trailer]. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Howard Stern and his girlfriend Beth Ostrosky arrive to the premiere of War of the Worlds, Thursday, June 23, 2005, in New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
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Gets Star on Hollywood Walk O'Fame
Roger Ebert
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert isn't a movie star but he critiques them on TV - so memorably that on Thursday he received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A crowd of family, friends and fans cheered as Ebert's star was unveiled in front of Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre. Attendees included director Werner Herzog, actress Virginia Madsen and actor Tony Danza.
Ebert, who began his journalism career as a 15-year-old sports writer for The (Champaign, Ill.) News-Gazette, was named the Chicago Sun-Times film critic six months after joining the paper in 1966. In 1975, he became the first film critic to receive a Pulitzer for arts criticism.
Roger Ebert
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Lends Support to Mentoring Group
Alicia Keys
By the time Alicia Keys was 17, she was already an accomplished pianist and singer with a recording contract. But even with all of her talents, Keys says she could have benefited from some mentoring - "to have a place that you can go to, for people to reach out to you and say, `Here's how I did it, or here's what I think.'"
Keys, 24, is providing some of the items for an online auction to benefit the Florida-based mentoring group Frum Tha Ground Up, including VIP passes to her performance at the upcoming Essence Music Festival in New Orleans and a chance to be her guest while she tapes her "Unplugged" album next month. Bidding ends June 30.
Other items up for bid at the online auction, featured on www.charityfolks.com, include lunch with Halle Berry on the set of "X-Men 3" and a private tennis lesson with Andre Agassi.
Alicia Keys
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Tom Cruise, right, kisses director Steven Spielberg at the premiere of War of the Worlds, Thursday, June 23, 2005, in New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
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Some Voters Called Wrong Number
Dancing With the Stars
An apparent phone number mix-up has voters for an ABC reality show calling a central Michigan answering service instead. Fans of "Dancing with the Stars" were mistakenly calling a toll-free 888 number to vote for the dance team lead by actor John O'Hurley, known for his role as J. Peterman on the sitcom "Seinfeld."
The phone number to vote for his team was an 866 number, according to ABC's Web site.
Kathy Klein, owner of Mt. Pleasant Answering Service, said she was getting 200 to 300 mistaken calls on Wednesdays, when the show airs.
"You can tell when the show ends at every time zone because the phones ring off the hook at the top of every hour," she said.
Dancing With the Stars
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Hollywood Walk O'Fame
2006 Honorees
Vanna White has a new venue for letter turning. The "Wheel of Fortune" game show fixture will be unveiling V-A-N-N-A W-H-I-T-E on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year. She's among the many celebrities who'll be honored in 2006 with stars on the walk.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on Friday released a list that also included Lou Adler, Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Judge Judy (Judith Sheindlin), Shecky Greene, Isaac Hayes, Nathan Lane, Steve Martin, Wink Martindale, Ray Romano, Charlize Theron and Motley Crue.
2006 Honorees
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Estate Wins 'Cybersquatting' Case
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The literary estate of French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Friday won a cybersquatting case to evict a Virgin Islands operator whose Web Site sells memorabilia linked to the creator of "The Little Prince."
Arbitrators ruled La Societe Civile pour l'Oeuvre et la Memoire d'Antoine de Saint Exupery-Succession Saint Exupery, set up by relatives to manage his literary estate, had proved The Holding Company had no right to three disputed domain names.
The Holding Company, which registered the domain names, had used a "valid, registered trademark in a commercial context, i.e. with the intent to generate commissions on sales of books and other memorabilia concerning Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This does not constitute bona fide use," the ruling said.
Saint-Exupery, a pilot whose fable "The Little Prince" is considered a classic of flight, love and loneliness, disappeared in July 1944 during a wartime aerial reconnaissance mission.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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An android of science fiction author Philip K. Dick is displayed at NextFest in Chicago, June 24, 2005. The android was created as a tribute to Dick, who had written many science fiction books concerning androids. Inspired by World's Fairs of the past, NextFest will showcase cutting edge technology over three days this weekend in Chicago.
Photo by John Gress
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Museum Acquires Stamp Album
John Lennon
Beatles star John Lennon collected stamps as a schoolboy - and the public will soon have a chance to see them. The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum announced Friday it has acquired Lennon's stamp album and plans to display it in October.
The museum said the album contains more than 550 stamps from around the world, including many from former British colonies such as India and New Zealand.
The collection did not focus on stamps featuring music, but it may have indicated some artistic interest on Lennon's part. The album's title page had images of British monarchs, to which beards and mustaches had been added in blue ink.
John Lennon
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Lost Love Poem Published
Sappho
A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year.
Her works once filled nine volumes and the ancients called her the "tenth muse," but little has survived to modern times.
The 12-line poem, only the fourth to have been recovered, was found on papyrus wrapped around an Egyptian mummy. It was published with an English translation in the Times Literary Supplement.
Sappho
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Protestors wearing masks with the likeness of California Arnold $chwarzenegger (R - $pecial Intere$t $shlampe) protest against $chwarzenegger outside the NBC studios in Burbank, Calfornia June 24, 2005. $chwarzenegger appeared as a guest on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' at the studios. The placards parody titles of films starring $chwarzenegger, who announced on the show that when he makes a decision on running for re-election for California governor, he will of course announce it during an appearance on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Justice Statues Disrobe
Spirit of Justice
With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.
Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.
The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft (R - Religiously Insane) to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.
Spirit of Justice
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Marlon Brando's annotated script from 1972's 'The Godfather' film, is displayed by a Christie's employee, in New York Friday June 24, 2005, at a preview of items of Marlon Brando's property, which is to be auctioned in New York, Thursday June 30, 2005.
Photo by Richard Drew
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White House Spins Spinmeister's Lies
KKKarl Rove
Responding to criticism of remarks made by Karl 'Turdblossom' Rove (R - Goebbel's Atwater's Protege), the White House on Friday said the president's political strategist was attacking a liberal organization and filmmaker Michael Moore when he said liberals responded weakly to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Ken Mehlman (R - Manly Man), chairman of the Republican National Committee, said on Thursday, "It's outrageous that the same Democrats who stood by Dick Durbin's libeling of our military are now expressing faux outrage over Karl Rove's statement of historical fact."
White House counselor Dan Bartlett told Fox "News" on Friday that Rove's criticism was specifically directed at Moveon.org and Moore, and that "he wasn't pointing out Democrat Clinton or Democrat Schumer or the other folks who came out with the outrage."
KKKarl Rove
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Takahiro Takeda, a postgraduate student of Tohoku University, dances with the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot, a robot dance partner, in Chino, central Japan June 21, 2005. The 1.65 metre robot developed by Japan's Nomura Unison Co. and Tohoku University can move in all-directions on its three wheels, is equipped with a sensor that allows it to deduce how a person is trying to dance and is programmed to execute dance moves to match the person's movements.
Photo by Issei Kato
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Cruise Clashes With Lauer
'Today' Show
High school drop-out Tom Cruise criticized NBC "Today" show host Matt Lauer on Friday when Lauer mentioned Cruise's earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants. Cruise told Lauer he didn't know what he was talking about. "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do," Cruise said.
The interview became more heated when Lauer, who said he knew people who had been helped by the attention-deficit disorder drug Ritalin, asked Cruise about the effects of the drug.
"Matt, Matt, you don't even - you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."
When asked if he could be with someone at this stage in his life who doesn't have an interest in the Church of Scientology - girlfriend Katie Holmes has said she's embracing the religion - Cruise told Lauer: "Scientology is something that you don't understand. It's like you could be a Christian and be a Scientologist."
'Today' Show
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In Memory
Shana Alexander
Trailblazing journalist Shana Alexander, whose verbal skirmishes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS' "60 Minutes" were spoofed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit, has died of cancer. She was 79.
Alexander wrote for magazines including Newsweek and National Geographic and was the first female staff writer employed by Life magazine. She was also the first female editor at McCall's magazine.
But Alexander was best known for her "Point-Counterpoint" segments with Kilpatrick at the end of each "60 Minutes" broadcast in the late 1970s.
Alexander reported on some of the biggest news stories of her time, including the early days of the women's rights movement, President Nixon's handling of the Vietnam War and the slaying of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Shana Alexander
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Mother cheetah Zazi (back) looks on as three of her five cubs, born April 14, play for the media at the National Zoo in Washington on June 24, 2005. The new cheetah cubs, the second litter to be born at the zoo since November 23, 2004, will go on public display starting June 25.
Photo by Jonathan Ernst
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