BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 23 July, 2005
Saturday
23 July, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Quote
I Like Ike
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are...a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54
Thanks, Lar!
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IT SURE GETS MY "GOAT"
WATCHING THESE "KIDS" CLEAR THE HILLS
4 LEGGED LAWN MOWERS
Zen Man
(up in Tilden Park in Berkeley)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Mrs. Betty Bowers: Geeks Who Leak: Karl & Scooter
Our dashing (usually away from pesky, fact-obsessed reporters) President, in more of a flop sweat than a flip-flop, changed His mind this week about firing anyone undermining national security for political gain.
SISTER LIGUORI ROSSNER: Not moral messages (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Scroll down to "Not moral messages")
As a teacher for the Diocese of Pittsburgh for 14 years, one important lesson I learned was that no matter what I said to the child, whatever the parents said superseded my message.
The Dark Side of Roald Dahl: Interview with Kris Rasmussen (beliefnet.com)
The beloved author may have held offensive views, but we can still find redeeming messages in his books
Christopher Stone: 30 Days: A Straight Man Visits the Castro (afterelton.co)
For his new FX TV series 30 Days, award-winning documentary filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) asks volunteers to live their worst nightmare, on camera, for 30 days. On last Wednesday night's "Straight Man in a Gay World" episode, he chronicles Christian conservative Ryan's own personal hell: living with Ed, a 38-year-old gay marketing consultant, in San Francisco's Castro District.
Google Moon
Advice: Keep zooming in as far as you can.
Google Earth
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The Wall Street Poet
The Reformed Financial Felon Poem
A few, a very few, of the corporate hustlers who made fortunes in various market scams are now coming to trial. Will they get the punishments they really deserve? Or will some of them - as this poem suggests - end up turning their 'tribulations' into another hustle?
The Reformed Financial Felon Poem
For many long years I lived in a prison,
A prison of vulgar materialism,
Acquiring goods was the aim of my toilings,
Ignoring all higher spiritual callings.
With all kinds of bought things I was long surrounded,
I owned countless gadgets, my boy toys astounded,
From autos and watches I carefully chose,
My wife was Miss Texas, she owned lots of clothes.
Then out of the blue came a dragged out recession,
Which at first I believed was just a digression,
I figured at worst it would trim down some perks,
Who knew it would linger and gum up the works?
Soon I was smitten with trials unholy,
They repoed my beamer, my condo, my Rollie,
Miss Texas, who'd sworn in her heart I was graven,
Took up with a lawyer, a class action maven.
My home life was bad, but at work it was worse,
I suffered indignities, crass and perverse,
While colleagues got wrist slaps when their sins were cited,
A pushy DA got me cuffed and indicted.
It was down hill from there, but why dwell on the past,
The big thing is that all this angst didn't last,
For I learned from the horrors with which I was gored,
That a far greater Wisdom I'd too long ignored.
I saw in a flash that my whole life was rotten,
That all the possessions I owned were ill-gotten,
To a judge I explained this, head bowed, meek and nervous,
He nodded and gave me community service.
From there I embarked on the road of contrition,
Proclaiming this Truth became my new mission,
And contrition, I found, is a marvelous hook,
Soon I had a good agent, a best-selling book.
The book was my passport and soon I was able,
My message to spread via columns and cable,
On Oprah I 'splained living simple's just fine,
And flashed a CD priced at $9.99.
Strange as it seems, I earn more than before,
By loudly espousing the joys of the poor.
To keep this new rich life, I need just decoy it
And straight-faced declare I don't really enjoy it.
©2005
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For more satirical verse:
www.wallstreetpoet.com
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Purple Gene
'Inside Story'
Purple Gene's "Inside Story"
Bet you didn't know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is Michael McClure!
He is 73 years old!
He was a "Beat" poet back in 1956!
I just saw him today at Olivetos Resaurant and took this picture!
We met at Tassajara Zen Monastery with Jane Hirshfield!
He used to hang out with Bob Dylan!
He used to hang out with Jim Morrison of the Doors!
He used to hang out with Allan Ginzberg.
He lives up the street from me in Oakland.
He wrote "Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz" for Janis Joplin!
He still writes a lot of really great poetry
Purple Gene DIGS him !
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sticky with humidity. Ack.
Was up bright & early for Erin's filling in for Jay Marvin on Boulder's Progressive Talk, AM760.net, while Jay sat in for Ed Schultz on Air America.
Had fun, but don't remember much - didn't sleep very well with the heat.
The Erin Hart Show Links page has been updated with Friday's links.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Big Brother 6', followed by a RERUN 'NCIS', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'West Wing', followed by another RERUN 'West Wing', then pukes back 'Revelations' (part 1 of 6).
'SNL' is a RERUN with David Spade hosting, music by Jack Johnson.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 31 July, 1976, with Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Notting Hill'.
The WB offers 'Bikini Destinations', followed by 'The Extremists', then another 'Bikini Destinations', followed by still another 'Bikini Destinations'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'The Specialist'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by a FRESH 'City Confidential', then 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blue Hawaii', followed by the movie 'Honeymoon In Vegas', then the movie 'Staying Alive'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Bicycle Courier to Polo Player;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Hull;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 8;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Singleton;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 3;
[8:30pm 'House Invaders' - Episode 2;
[9pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 8;
[9:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Potato;
[10:20pm] 'Blackadder' - Money;
[11pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 2;
[11:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[12am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 8;
[12:40am] 'Blackadder' - Potato;
[1:20am] 'Blackadder' - Money;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 3;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 2;
[3am] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 2;
[3:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[4am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 8;
[4:40am] 'Blackadder' - Potato;
[5:20am] 'Blackadder' - Money;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', then the movie 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', again.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Corey Holcomb), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Bruce Bruce), 'Stella', 'Reno 911!', another 'Reno 911!', 'The Mind Of Mencia', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Breaking Vegas', and 'Godfathers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Shadow Of China' (1990);
[7:45AM] Short film: 'Red' (2001);
[8AM] 'Blind Swordsman #18: Zatoichi and the Fugitives' (1968);
[9:30AM] Short film: 'Charnel House' (2002);
[10AM] 'Trust' (1991);
[12PM] 'Ulee's Gold' (1997);
[2PM] 'Blind Swordsman #18: Zatoichi and the Fugitives' (1968);
[3:30PM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[4PM] 'Hoop Dreams' (1994);
[7PM] 'The Ultimate Film Fanatic #206' (2004);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #43' (2005);
[8PM] 'The Grifters' (1990);
[10PM] 'Raising Arizona' (1987);
[11:45PM] 'The Grifters' (1990);
[1:45AM] 'Curse Of The Starving Class' (1994);
[3:35AM] 'Raising Arizona' (1987);
[5:15AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Dante's Peak', followed by the movie 'Volcano: Nature Unleashed'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] '7th Street';
[7:50AM] 'Neo-Noir';
[8AM] 'The Sharktank Redemption';
[8:30AM] 'Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story';
[9:30AM] 'Bullets Over Broadway';
[11:15AM] 'Doppelganger';
[11:30AM] 'Divan';
[1PM] 'The Heart of Me';
[2:45PM] 'Fansom the Lizard';
[3PM] 'Borstal Boy';
[4:35PM] '7th Street';
[6PM] 'Bullets Over Broadway';
[7:40PM] 'Doppelganger';
[8PM] 'Dogville';
[11PM] 'The Heart of Me';
[12:40AM] 'Ichi the Killer';
[3AM] 'Black Robe';
[4:45AM] 'Love Me or Leave Me Alone';
[5AM] 'Dirty Work'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'The Great Lie' (1941);
[8am] 'The Killing' (1956) [View Trailer];
[9:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #44' (2002);
[10am] 'Virginia City' (1940);
[12pm] 'The Secret Garden' (1949);
[1:45pm] 'Mighty Joe Young' (1949);
[3:30pm] 'Children Of The Damned' (1964);
[5:15pm] 'The Carpetbaggers' (1964);
[8pm] 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (1942) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'Jezebel' (1938) [View Trailer];
[12am] 'Wuthering Heights' (1939);
[2am] 'Pride And Prejudice' (1940);
[4am] 'The Heiress' (1949). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sunday - 07/24
TCM:
[6am] 'The Enchanted Cottage' (1945);
[8am] 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House' (1948) [View Trailer];
[10am] 'Summer Stock' (1950) [View Trailer];
[12pm] 'Now, Voyager' (1942) [View Trailer];
[2pm] 'The Shop Around The Corner' (1940) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'The Tarnished Angels' (1957);
[6pm] 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (1942) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Moonstruck' (1987) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'Mask' (1985) [View Trailer];
[12:15am] 'Tess of the Storm Country' (1922) SILENT ;
[3am] 'The Front Page' (1975) [View Trailer];
[5am] 'Five Star Final' (1931). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Elvis Costello listens as Emmylou Harris is interviewed during their appearance on the NBC 'Today' program summer concert series in New York's Rockefeller Center, Friday July 22, 2005.
Photo by Richard Drew
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'Oscars of Stupidity
World Stupidity Awards
The Canadian government secured a surprise win Friday, beating out such luminaries as Iran, North Korea and the United States, for the dumbest government of the year at the World Stupidity Awards.
Dubbed the "Oscars of Idiocy," host Lewis Black of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart led a team of comics and celebrities who handed out awards recognizing achievement in ignorance and stupidity.
U.S. President George W. Bush may not have led the dumbest government, but he was honoured with the award for the Stupidest Statement of the Year after telling a news conference: "They never stop thinking of ways of harming America, and neither do we."
Accepting the award for Bush was Darth Vader.
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter won the award as Stupidest Man of the Year. She beat out Bush, U.S. Senator John Kerry, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association director Bob Goodenow, and former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma.
For the rest, World Stupidity Awards
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Opening Bayreuth Festival
Eiji Oue
The Bayreuth Festival, the annual month-long summer music fest dedicated exclusively to the works of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), opens Monday with an eagerly waited new production of "Tristan und Isolde".
It will be the first time that an Asian conductor -- Japan's Eiji Oue -- has stood in the pit of the Festspielhaus designed and built by the composer himself.
Oue, 48, former protege of the late Leonard Bernstein, is currently music director of both the Osaka Philharmonic and chief conductor of the North German Radio Philharmonic in Hanover.
Eiji Oue
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Irish singer and composer Van Morrison performs on stage during his concert at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, Friday, July 22, 2005.
Photo by Sigi Tischler
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Daily Show's Rob Cordry To Cover Plight
Corn Cob Bob
Daily Show correspondent Rob Cordry snagged the plum assignment of the plight of Corn Cob Bob, the mascot for an ethanol industry group who was ousted from Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa this year. While the resident Canadian correspondent on the late-night comedy show, Samantha Bee, might have been the obvious choice for the news hit, Cordry got the job.
"Sam said, 'Now that I have my green card I'm never going back to that frigid hell hole. .. Send the bald guy,' " he said Friday. "It was something like that ... I'm paraphrasing."
While Cordry didn't come to Toronto to blow the lid off the Corn Cob Bob controversy, he did want to get to a deeper truth. While some believe the mascot - used to promote ethanol made from corn for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association - was shucked out of the Canada Day celebration at the request of event sponsor Shell, Cordry feels the real story is one of discrimination.
Corn Cob Bob
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Season Debut To Be Live
'Will and Grace'
The racy US television series "Will and Grace" will kick off its eighth and final season with a live broadcast that has network executives biting their nails, the industry press said.
The show, which follows the quirky lives of two gay men and a neurotic woman living in New York, will hark back to the early days of television by eschewing tape to broadcast its season debut live on September 29.
The "challenging live platform launch for 'Will and Grace'" would be a good way to "inaugurate their final season," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly told Daily Variety.
'Will and Grace'
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BAFTA To Honor
Elizabeth Taylor
The Los Angeles branch of Britain's BAFTA film academy said it would honour London-born American screen legend Elizabeth Taylor with its Britannia award for excellence.
The 72-year-old double Oscar-winner, once hailed as the world's most beautiful woman and seen as the last great star of Hollywood's golden age, will receive the award at a ceremony in Hollywood on November 10.
Also being honoured by the body on that date will be Tom Cruise, who will receive BAFTA's Stanley Kubrick Britannia for film, and director Mike Newell, who gets the John Schlesinger Britannia for directing.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Off The Road For A Year
Ani DiFranco
Singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco will begin a year-long hiatus from the road this month because of worsening tendonitis in her wrists and hands.
A West Coast tour due to begin Aug. 30 in Boise, Idaho, has been canceled to accommodate the artist's recovery.
DiFranco will begin the hiatus after her July 31 gig in Floyd, Va.
Ani DiFranco
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A visitor walks past sand sculpture 'Prayer for Mankind' made by Czech sculptors, Frantisek and Josef Balek, during a festival of sand sculpture in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Friday, July 22 , 2005 with St. Isaac's Cathedral and Admiralty building in the background. Teams from Europe take part in the IV International Festival of Sand Sculpture with motto 'Revolution' at the beach of the St. Peter and St. Poul Fortress.
Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky
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Going on the Road
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain is going out on the road in September with the play "On Golden Pond."
Chamberlain will play college professor Norman Thayer Jr. in Ernest Thompson's family drama, which recently had an abbreviated run on Broadway. The production folded last month after its star, James Earl Jones, had to leave the show because of a severe bout of pneumonia.
Richard Chamberlain
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Takes Arab-American Wrestler Off Show
World Wrestling Entertainment
A company that organizes wrestling entertainment has agreed to remove an Arab-American character from a popular television show after receiving hundreds of complaints about an episode that aired the day of the deadly London bombings.
World Wrestling Entertainment said it would no longer feature Muhammad Hassan on its "SmackDown!" program, which draws more than 5 million viewers a week.
Hassan will be featured Sunday on a pay-per view event. Beyond that, his future is uncertain. The WWE's Web site said the character "has taken a leave of absence from SmackDown."
World Wrestling Entertainment
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Wins Vanity Fair Libel Suit
Roman Polanski
Filmmaker Roman Polanski on Friday won his libel suit against Vanity Fair magazine over an article that accused him of propositioning a woman while on the way to the funeral of his murdered wife, Sharon Tate.
The Academy Award-winning director was awarded 50,000 pounds, equal to about $87,000, in damages plus court costs.
The jury of nine men and three women took 4 1/2 hours to reach their unanimous verdict at London's High Court.
After the verdict, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter said he found it "outrageous that this story is considered defamatory, given the fact that Mr. Polanski cannot be here because he slept with a 13-year-old girl a quarter of a century ago."
Roman Polanski
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Voda the polar bear holds a frozen fish popsicle in her mouth as zookeepers provide the bear with frozen treats to keep the animal cool at the Denver Zoo, as the temperature rises above 100 degrees for the fourth day in a row in Denver, Friday, July 22, 2005. Forecasters predict that the temperatures in the Denver Area will cool slightly over the weekend only to increase again as workers return to their jobs on Monday.
Photo by David Zalubowski
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Cost Climbs to $2.7M
Jackson Trial
County taxpayers are on the hook for $2.7 million for the unsuccessful prosecution of Michael Jackson on child molestation charges, and the bill is climbing.
Most of the money went to sheriff's deputies who were posted at the Santa Maria courthouse from January 2004, when pretrial hearings began, through mid-June, when the 14-week trial ended. Crowd control also consumed a substantial amount of the money.
Not included in the costs are prosecution, investigative and grand jury expenses, Jette Christiansson, business manager for the County Executive Office, said in a statement.
Jackson Trial
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Scales Back Plans
Thomas Monaghan
Thomas Monaghan had a choice: Pour his fortune from the Domino's Pizza chain he founded into building the largest Roman Catholic church in America, or the best Catholic university.
Monaghan, who entered the pizza business in Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1960, opted for the latter. And on Thursday he unveiled a new, scaled-down design for the Oratory of Ave Maria, the planned centerpiece of the town and university, both named Ave Maria, being built by the former pizza baron near Naples, Fla.
Monaghan, 68, who has spent two decades seeding conservative Catholic causes, said escalating costs of construction and engineering forced him to give up the dream he made public 16 months ago of building America's largest Catholic cathedral.
Thomas Monaghan
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A sailor repairs masts and rigging of a boat during wet weather at the harbour of the Baltic sea coastal village of Schilksee near Kiel, Germany July 20, 2005.
Photo by Christian Charisius
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Rip Bush Over Rove Leak
Ex-CIA Officers
Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized resident Bush on Friday for not disciplining Karl Rove in connection with the leak of the name of a CIA officer, saying Bush's lack of action has jeopardized national security.
In a hearing held by Senate and House Democrats examining the implications of exposing Valerie Plame's identity, the former intelligence officers said Bush's silence has hampered efforts to recruit informants to help the United States fight the war on terror. Federal law forbids government officials from revealing the identity of an undercover intelligence officer.
"I wouldn't be here this morning if President Bush had done the one thing required of him as commander in chief - protect and defend the Constitution," said Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst. "The minute that Valerie Plame's identity was outed, he should have delivered a strict and strong message to his employees."
For the rest, Ex-CIA Officers
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Tinfoil Hat Warning
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In Memory
John Herald
John Herald, a noted bluegrass musician who recorded with Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, has died. He was 65.
Herald was best known as a guitarist and lead vocalist for the Greenbriar Boys, who were at the forefront of the early 1960s folk scene in Greenwich Village. The band toured with Joan Baez, and Herald's song "Stewball" was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary.
In an interview with the BBC five years ago, Herald said he was inspired to sing when he met folk musician Pete Seeger at a summer camp in 1954.
John Herald
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In Memory
Long John Baldry
Blues legend Long John Baldry, who is credited with shaping British blues, rock and pop music in the 1960s, has died at the age of 64, his agent announced.
Baldry, who performed and recorded over 40 albums with Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Jimmy Page, Jack Bruce, Rod Stewart and Elton John, passed away at a Vancouver hospital late Thursday after fighting a severe chest infection, said agent Frank Garcia.
Baldry earned the nickname "Long John" because of his stature -- six feet, seven inches (two metres) tall. He had lived in Canada for past 25 years.
Long John Baldry
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In Memory
Eugene Record
Eugene Record, founder of the legendary Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites, died Friday after a long battle with cancer, the president of the group's booking agency said. He was 64.
Record was the composer of many hits including The Chi-Lites classic, "Have You Seen Her?" and "Oh Girl," among others.
The Chi-Lites were formed in Chicago in 1959, and Record slowly emerged as the group's lead singer, songwriter and producer, according to the group's Web site. He retired in the mid-1980s from the group.
Record started The Chi-Lites with Marshall Thompson and Robert "Squirrel" Lester.
Eugene Record
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In Memory
Michael Gibson
Michael Gibson, a trombone player known for brassy orchestrations of Broadway musicals such as "Grease" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman," died July 15 of lung cancer according to his wife, Ellen. He was 60.
He had been nominated for two Tony awards, for best orchestration of "Steel Pier" (1997) and the recent revival of "Cabaret."
Gibson worked as a studio musician in New York before orchestrating "Grease" in 1972. He also did the platinum album of the film's soundtrack in 1978.
He worked for more than 20 years with the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, including their "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1995) and several revivals of their "Cabaret."
Michael Gibson
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A five-month-old sow called 'Miss Piggy' starts her leap of 3.31 metres (10.8 feet) into a pool of water at the Royal Darwin Show July 22, 2005. Miss Piggy was hoping to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by making the longest jump by a pig, but a spokesperson for the records book said it will have to be selected from thousands of others before being published.
Photo by Glenn Campbell
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