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He's Been Busy!
The Worried Shrimp
Reader Suggestion
Azadi!
Azadi!
A Benefit compilation for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
This extraordinary new 2 CD set featuring dozens of independent musicians has been produced by long-time supporter of RAWA, Steve Tobin. According to an article in the San Francisco Weekly, Azadi! is "is hands-down the most compelling collection of music activism to come along in years." The CD cover features the women of RAWA demonstrating for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan.
"Tahmeena Faryal, a RAWA foreign affairs representative ... is deeply appreciative. "It means a lot to us," she says. "Increased
awareness and even a little bit of financial support can help a lot; there is no peace or security or democracy in Afghanistan. The struggle continues.""
Azadi! is available for just $13 and 100% of proceeds benefit RAWA.
For more information and to order the CD, please visit www.museumfire.com/azadi.htm
For more about roots of Azadi!
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Mailing Address: RAWA, P.O.Box 374, Quetta, Pakistan
Mobile: 0092-300-8551638
Fax: 001-760-2819855
E-mail: rawa@rawa.org
Home Page: http://www.rawa.org
Mirror site: http://rawa.fancymarketing.net
Thanks, Lorena!
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Got warm early, and hot later.
Fred & Virgil & Jordie joined us for eats. Had baked beans from the freezer & forgot them in the fridge. Argh.
All fireworks are illegal here - even sparklers & snakes. Of course we didn't break the law, but it was astounding how many neighbors did.
Have been in this house 10 years & LA county over 30. I have never heard so many fireworks as I did tonight. Never.
While the local act of civil disobedience did me good, it sure has freaked out the cats.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS opens the evening with a RERUN 'The Price Is Right Salutes The U.S. Air Force', followed by a RERUN
'The District', then a RERUN 'The Agency'.
NBC has NASCAR in prime-time on the east coast, and local filler on the left coast.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN.
ABC has the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact'.
The WB offers the movie 'Bloodsport'.
Faux has the movie 'Scream 2'.
UPN has the movie 'L.A. County 187'.
A&E 'American Justice', followed by 'Cold Case Files', then a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'.
AMC repeats the original 5 'Planet Of The Apes' movies by day, followed by the movie 'American Graffiti', then the movie 'Smokey & The Bandit II'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[6:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[8pm] 'Red Cap' - Series Pilot;
[10pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Wrestler's Tomb (Part 1);
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Rupert Everett;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Rupert Everett;
[12am] 'Jonathan Creek' - Wrestler's Tomb;
[1am] 'Red Cap' - Series Pilot;
[3am] 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels'; and
[5:30am] 'Parkinson' - Sting Special. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo fills the night with the movie 'Apocalypse Now Redux'.
HBO 3 has the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather, Part II'.
History has 'Heavy Metal', 'History Undercover', 'Histories Mysteries', then 'Secrets Of The Ancient World'.
SciFi has the movie 'The Beast' and the movie 'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon'.
TCM celebrates films made in 1939 tonight. -
[6am] 'Lucky Partners' (1940);
[8am] 'Primrose Path' (1940);
[10am] 'The Shanghai Gesture' (1941);
[12pm] '3:10 To Yuma' (1957);
[2pm] 'The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad' (1973);
[4pm] 'Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger' (1977);
[6pm] 'On the Town' (1949);
[8pm] 'The Wizard Of Oz' (1939);
[10pm] 'Gunga Din' (1939);
[12am] 'Only Angels Have Wings' (1939);
[2:15am] 'Ninotchka' (1939); and
[4:15 am] 'Bachelor Mother ' (1939). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Retired astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn, left, and former astronaut Neil Armstrong cut the ribbon at the opening ceremonies to kick off the17-day celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight in Dayton, Ohio, Thursday, July 3, 2003.
Photo by David Kohl
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Dropped From WABC
Michael 'Savage' Weiner
Michael Weiner has been permanently dropped from up following the collapse of West Coast contract talks that used the Bronx-raised blabber's beloved New York affiliation as leverage.
WABC (770 AM) abruptly yanked Savage off the air earlier this month in solidarity with its San Francisco sister station, KSFO, during noisy negotiations with Savage, who's based at KSFO but is syndicated by another company.
Disney/ABC execs ordered the cancellation of Savage's high-rated WABC show following the controversial conservative's immediate jump to another San Francisco station after his KSFO-only deal expired on Tuesday.
"We were fine without the Yankees, we'll be fine without Savage," WABC programmer Phil Boyce told the trade publication Inside Radio.
Michael 'Savage' Weiner
Chicago Dedicating Fireworks to Ann Landers
Eppie Lederer Day
The city of Chicago is dedicating its annual Fourth of July holiday fireworks show to longtime advice columnist Esther "Eppie" Lederer.
Known to readers across the country as Ann Landers, Lederer died of bone marrow cancer on June 22, 2002. She was 83.
To commemorate her life and work, Mayor Richard M. Daley will declare Thursday "Eppie Lederer Day" and dedicate to her the lakefront fireworks show and Grant Park Orchestra concert.
Maggie Daley, the mayor's wife, said she came up with the idea for the tribute after remembering that Lederer and her twin sister, Pauline Phillips, were born on July 4. Phillips, also known as Abigail Van Buren, followed Lederer into the profession as writer of the Dear Abby column.
Eppie Lederer Day
Takeru Kobayashi, from Nagano, Japan, recovers at the end of the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on New York's Coney Island, July 4, 2003 in New York. Kobayashi won the contest for the third consecutive year in a row eating forty four and one half hot dogs in twelve minutes, but he wasn't able to break his record from last year of fifty and one half hot dogs.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
Files Petition Against Ex-Manager
J. Lo
Jennifer Lopez has filed a petition with California's labor commission that accuses her former representative, Benny Medina, of failing to have a valid talent agent's license while managing her career.
The singer-actress fired Medina in June after five years of service.
While the state has different rules governing the activities of managers and talent agents, Lopez's attorney, Barry Hirsch, said Medina — who worked as her manager — inappropriately performed talent agent functions, such as negotiating deals for her upcoming film "Shall We Dance?" and a sponsorship agreement with L'Oreal cosmetics.
Medina told The Associated Press Wednesday that Lopez always had a talent agent while he worked with her and denied that his activities crossed over into that territory.
The document filed Wednesday, which "Entertainment Tonight" first reported, seeks to invalidate all remaining partnerships between Medina and Lopez. It also said Lopez, 32, wants Medina to repay everything he earned while working for her, plus 10 percent interest.
J. Lo
Puts 'Trading Cards' on 'Net
Linkin Park
Linkin Park are giving you behind-the-scenes looks at their new video, but they're making you work for it.
The band has scattered six Linkin Park "trading cards" around the Internet. Each one corresponds to one of the band members and features the video for their new song, "Faint."
Each card also features that band member's take on making the video. Collect all six and you'll have access to bonus material and enter a random drawing for a limited edition collectible of the real cards matted and framed. To find the cards on the Internet, start at
www.linkinpark.com. A new card will be released each week.
Linkin Park
Back On Fall Schedule
'Becker'
"Becker" is back on CBS' fall schedule, while "The Stones" are rolling to a midseason launch.
CBS confirmed Wednesday that it will give the returning Ted Danson sitcom "Becker" the Wednesday 9:30 p.m. slot in the fall. "The Stones" had previously been slated to air in that time period behind "The King of Queens," which is making its own move next season from Monday 8 p.m. to Wednesday 9 p.m.
Moreover, "Becker" will ensure that CBS' new Wednesday 10 p.m. drama from David E. Kelley, "The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H.," will have an established show as its lead-in.
"The Stones" stars Jay Baruchel and Lindsay Sloane as a brother and sister who are still living in their childhood home with their parents (played by Robert Klein and Judith Light), who are in the process of divorcing but are still on good terms.
'Becker'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Cites Parenting Skills
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne tells MTV News that he and wife Sharon believe the mistake they made with Jack is that they never set any boundaries.
He says the couple never gave their kids a curfew and they just let them be free. He admits he and Sharon are still learning how to be parents.
Jack recently spent time in a Los Angeles-area hospital for addiction to the painkiller OxyContin. Ozzy says he tried to keep the dialogue open between him and Jack, but Jack never showed his feelings or gave any indication of his problem.
The 17-year-old Jack returned home June 18 after two months of treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. He entered a Pasadena, Calif., hospital after an epiphany he had while partying with pals.
Ozzy Osbourne
Space entrepreneurs plan to beam best wishes on July 4, 2003 to five sun-like stars, hoping intelligent beings will get the message. The broadcast to the stars will emanate from a 230-foot (70 metre) wide dish at the Evpatoriya Radio Astronomy Facility in Ukraine. Mission control is at Roswell, New Mexico, where some believe an alien spaceship came to Earth 56 years ago this week. This specially-designed message uses a mathematical language to convey information about Earth and humanity to any extraterrestrial that may intercept Cosmic Call 2003. The language is based upon research by SETI scientists dating back to the early 1960s. The message was created by Yvan Dutil and Stéphane Dumas.
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Wasn't Scripted Says Landis
Belushi Scene
Director John Landis says one of John Belushi's more memorable scenes in the 1978 frat-house comedy, "Animal House," wasn't scripted.
On HBO's "On the Record" with Bob Costas, which airs Friday (11:30 p.m. ET), Landis describes the scene in which Belushi destroys the guitar of folk singer Stephen Bishop in midsong during a Delta House toga party, and then sheepishly apologizes.
"That's a good scene. That's not in the script, we just made that up. But that's key to Belushi's character — Bluto is sweet. That's the thing John was capable of doing," Landis says in excerpts released in advance by the cable channel.
"I told him he was like Harpo and the Cookie Monster, and both Harpo Marx and the Cookie Monster are about appetites and what's unique about Cookie and Harpo is they're both totally destructive and completely sweet."
Belushi Scene
www.hbo.com/ontherecord/
Promotes Film in Iraq
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger joined U.S. troops in a former Saddam Hussein palace at Baghdad International Airport on Friday for the screening of his latest movie, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
"It is really wild driving around here," he said. "I mean the poverty, and you see there is no money, it is disastrous financially and there is the leadership vacuum, pretty much like in California right now."
Arnold
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
In Nutley Hall of Fame
Martha Stewart
It was a tough call, but Martha Stewart has earned a spot in the township's Hall of Fame.
The home decorating diva will be among the first group of inductees this fall, even though some residents say her recent legal problems are reason enough to reconsider the honor.
Stewart was among nine people — including two college professors, a supermarket magnate and a pharmaceutical president — who were named to the hall last week. The former Martha Kostyra graduated from Nutley (N.J.) High School in 1959 and worked as a model and stockbroker before setting up a catering business and eventually establishing a multimillion-dollar lifestyle company.
To be considered, nominees must have been born in the Essex County community, graduated from its high school or lived there for at least 10 years. Residents submitted ballots that were reviewed by a selection committee, which announced its decision last week.
Martha Stewart
Colombian Maria Gabriela Ruiz, 66, and Nicolas Salazar, 32, (rear), who are buried up to their necks in the ground, stage a protest in a popular sector of Cali, July 4, 2003. Three people, two men and a woman, buried themselves three days ago in protest against the government because 150 displaced persons have not been relocated to a safe sector of Cali.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
Filing Sealed
Pooh Lawyer Exits
The Los Angeles judge in the long-running legal battle between Walt Disney Co. and the owners of merchandising rights for Winnie the Pooh ruled on Thursday that a key court filing should remain sealed.
The filing from the former lawyers for the heirs of Pooh rightsholder, Stephen Slesinger Inc., detailed the firm's unexpected withdrawal as Slesinger's legal counsel.
Earlier this week, a lawyer for the Los Angeles Times newspaper said he would ask Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige to unseal that filing.
Last year, the newspaper won a motion to make public most of the documents in the case which has dragged on for more than a decade and which Disney says could cost it hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Slesinger firm, owned by the family of the literary agent who acquired U.S. merchandising rights to the honey-loving bear from British author A.A. Milne in 1930, accuses Disney of shortchanging it on royalties it believes could be worth $1 billion or more, including penalties.
Pooh Lawyer Exits
In Memory
Barry White
Velvet-voiced R&B crooner Barry White, whose lush baritone and throbbing musical compositions oozed sex appeal on songs like "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," died Friday. He was 58.
White, who had kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, had been undergoing dialysis and had been hospitalized since a September stroke. He died about 9:30 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his manager, Ned Shankman.
The heavyset musician enjoyed three decades of fame for songs like "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" and "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me."
Although his popularity peaked with several disco hits in the 1970s, White's music was introduced to a new generation by sample-hungry rappers. He received belated recognition for his work in 2000 when he won his first two Grammys, for best male and traditional R&B vocal performance for the song "Staying Power."
Don Cornelius, founder of the "Soul Train" TV show, remembered White as "a true master."
"There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever," Cornelius said. "It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything."
"Love was a very important aspect of his life," Cornelius said. "He had this tremendous love for the lady. He wasn't just singing for your mate and your bedroom, he was singing and writing for his own bedroom."
When Cornelius visited White in the hospital two months ago, the singer was almost completely incapacitated.
"The man really suffered," Cornelius said. "At times he was full of tubes. If it wasn't for the fact that he was an abnormally strong man, he would've been gone a long time ago."
Born Sept. 12, 1944, in Galveston, Texas, to a single mother, White and his younger brother, Darryl, spent most of their childhood in south central Los Angeles. He said he had a lifelong love for music. During his early teenage years, he began singing in a Baptist church choir and was quickly promoted to director.
In 1990, White told Ebony magazine that his voice changed overnight from the squeaky tones of a preadolescent to the rumbling bass that made him famous.
"It scared me and my mother when I spoke that morning," he said. "It was totally unexpected. My chest rattled. I mean vibrations. My mother was staring at me, and I was staring at her. The next thing I knew, her straight face broke into a beautiful smile. Tears came down her face and she said, 'My son's a man now.'"
He was jailed at age 16 for stealing tires, a punishment he credited with helping him straighten out his life and dedicate his efforts to music.
White joined the Upfronts soul group as bass singer and cut six singles. For several years, he stayed away from performing and focused on work behind the scenes as a songwriter and producer.
He married a childhood sweetheart, identified only as Mary in his autobiography, and fathered four children with her before they separated in 1969 and later divorced.
White discovered the female trio Love Unlimited — which included his future second wife, Glodean — and produced their million-selling 1972 single "Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love."
The next year, White returned to performing with the song "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby," which topped the R&B chart and hit No. 3 on the pop chart.
He is credited by some for helping launch the disco phenomenon with his orchestral "Love's Theme" in 1973, which he conducted with his group, The Love Unlimited Orchestra.
In 1974, his album "Can't Get Enough" climbed to the top of the pop charts on the strength of the signature hits "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything."
That year he also married James. The couple had four children together and collaborated on the 1981 album "Barry & Glodean," which featured the songs "I Want You" and "You're the Only One for Me." They divorced in 1988, but he said they always remained good friends.
After working on more than a dozen albums in the 1970s, his career waned over the next decade as he attempted small comebacks with the albums "The Right Night & Barry White" (1987) and "The Man is Back!" (1989.)
He enjoyed a larger resurgence with 1994 album "The Icon Is Love," and his ballad "Practice What You Preach" became his first No. 1 hit in 17 years. Toward the end of the 1990s, his songs were regularly featured on the Fox comedy series "Ally McBeal" and he made an appearance on the show as himself.
His single "Staying Power," off a 1999 album of the same name, won White two Grammys and proved he hadn't tamed his libidinous lyrics. "Put on my favorite dress, the one that oozes sexiness," he cooed in the title track's opening lines.
White's survivors include eight children, grandchildren, and his companion Catherine Denton.
Barry White
In Memory
N!xau
An African herdsman who became the world's most famous Kalahari Bushman after starring in the apartheid-era film "The Gods Must Be Crazy" has died collecting wood in the Namibian countryside.
N!xau, whose name is pronounced with the typical Bushman click used in southern Africa, gained worldwide recognition for his roles as a primitive hunter-gatherer in the controversial 1980 film and several sequels.
But the glamorous lifestyle never appealed to the reluctant star and he returned to the southern African bush when his film career petered out in the early 1990s. He was believed to be about 59 years old, associates said on Friday.
N!xau's signature role was Xixo, a member of the Khoisan or "Bushmen" tribes of Africa's Kalahari desert who finds a Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an aeroplane and mistakes it for a gift from the gods.
The movie was slammed by some critics for reflecting the racism of apartheid South Africa in its depiction of the Khoisan, southern Africa's earliest inhabitants who have seen their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle undermined by the relentless encroachment of modern civilization.
But the film became a worldwide comedy hit and N!xau developed into an unlikely star, jetting to Europe, the United States and Asia, where he appeared in a number of Hong Kong kung-fu movies.
N!xau never had much use for stardom. Director Jamie Uys told one interviewer that when his protege received his first $300 for working on the film, the star let the banknotes blow away because he did not see the value of cash.
And in a rare account of N!xau's life after stardom faded, the Namibian newspaper reported in 2000 that he had built a brick house and bought a second-hand car -- employing a chauffeur because he himself did not know how drive.
The newspaper said N!xau owned several head of cattle and farmed maize, pumpkins and beans on a small plot of land. He received royalties of about $200 per month from his movies, but had to support a large number of children and grandchildren, the newspaper said.
N!xau
Orson, a Brazilian jaguar at the San Diego Zoo, investigates a special red-white-and-blue enrichment item in his exhibit, July 4 as part of the Zoo's 'Close Encounters of the Zoo Kind.' The San Diego Zoo's animal care staff distributed the icy-treat, filled with elephant dung for Orson to engage in foraging, playful and problem-solving behavior.
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'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
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