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what?
Republican operative Joe Gaylord said. "It's a problem only if a lot of people see it," referring to MM's 9/11 movie.
That's like the truth is a problem ONLY if people hear it.
Repugs are truly the lowest form of humanoid ever to slither across this planet
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Ahhnuld's stumping the state to get his budget passed...never mind what it is, just pass it or you're "girlie-men"!! Where's the Republican wing of the Kennedys? Not a single Republican will break ranks to protect higher education, etc. and the Media calls the Democrats obstructionist!
Oh...Larry King now says we need a plan for postponing (cancelling) the election. "You can't have an election with bombs falling." The steady drumbeat continues like the run-up to the Iraq War.
Also the 9/11 Commission releases it's complete report. They still have Flight 11 taking off at 8:00am, instead of 7:45am as was reported on 9/20/01, LA Times, front page.
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Last Night
Very nice summer day.
Last Saturday had a link that I thought was pro-smoking, only to be informed later (thanks, Brian) it was a fetish site. Jeez. Had no clue.
Crickets are very chirpy tonight.
Singer and actress Eartha Kitt responds to applause from the crowd after performing at the Blue Note jazz club Thursday, July 22, 2004, in New York.
Photo by Frank Franklin II
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Book Sells Out First Printing
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton's "My Life" needed just one month to sell out its initial printing of 1.5 million, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Friday. The audio version has already sold 150,000 copies, far more than most books in that format.
The former president received a reported $10 million for "My Life," which Knopf published June 22 with a suggested price of $35. The book sold 400,000 copies on the first day alone, believed to be a record for nonfiction, and more than 2.5 million copies are now in print.
Clinton has been touring the country in support of his memoir, and has personally signed more than 30,000 copies, according to Knopf.
Bill Clinton
No New Episodes Until 2006
'Sopranos'
The next season of "The Sopranos" won't debut
until January 2006, HBO chief Chris Albrecht told adoring critics
Thursday at Summer TV Press Tour 2004.
One female reporter -- an unfamiliar face at the press tour and clearly
not yet a convert to Albrechtology -- asked whether he was worried that
another break of more than a year between seasons might cause the mob
drama to lose momentum.
"No," Albrecht said curtly, giving her one of his amused "what are you,
nuts?" looks. The audience was delighted.
For a lot more, 'Sopranos'
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One-Day Record Shattered
'Jeopardy'
Will Ken Jennings ever lose? Not anytime soon. The "Jeopardy!" quiz master won his 38th straight game on Friday, shattering a one-day record by earning $75,000. Now his fans - and foes - have to wait while the show goes on hiatus until September.
Jennings, the 30-year-old Utah software engineer, has earned $1,321,660 during his nearly two-month stint. He's become an unlikely TV star, visiting Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show Thursday, and made geeks chic.
"Jeopardy!" goes into reruns starting next Monday. But new shows will resume on Sept. 6, and Jennings will be there to defend his championship.
While "Jeopardy!" producers will have to write Jennings a big check, that rules change has paid off: the game show's ratings have jumped by 50 percent during his reign.
'Jeopardy'
Author Stephen King arrives for the Los Angeles premiere of the film 'The Manchurian Candidate' in Beverly Hills, California July 22, 2004. The picture features Academy Award winning actors Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.
Photo by Robert Galbraith
Online Magazine Up for Sale
Slate
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, wants to sell its online magazine Slate and has begun talks with potential buyers, a source close to the talks said on Friday.
The eight-year-old online publication, founded by former New Republic editor and CNN "Crossfire" host Michael Kinsley, has attracted a loyal following of about 5 million readers per month, but has not yet produced a significant profit for Microsoft.
About five or six potential buyers have expressed interest in Slate, the source said, and a deal may be signed within weeks or months.
Slate
Musings Become Classics
Rumsfeld
In the run-up to the U.S. elections, at least two composers have turned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's words into fodder for classical song.
Phil Kline's acclaimed "Rumsfeld Songs" (released in January by Cantaloupe on his disc "Zippo Songs") puts excerpts of Rumsfeld's public statements -- such as his now-famous "As we know, there are known knowns" comments -- into a surprisingly elegant song cycle.
Springing from very similar ground, pianist Byrant Kong offers his own "Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld," with soprano Elender Wall on a recent release from new San Francisco-based label Stuffed Penguin.
Rumsfeld
Putting on Free Concert
Dave Matthews
The Dave Matthews Band is putting on a free concert in Golden Gate Park to benefit several San Francisco Bay area charities.
A general admission ticket will be required to attend the Sept. 12 free concert at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park, according to a statement placed in the band's official Web site.
Tickets for the general public will be available through the band's Web site, www.davematthewsband.com, beginning July 24.
Dave Matthews
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Tony Stolen From Storage
Carol Channing
Carol Channing's Tony Award for her famed Broadway performance in "Hello Dolly!," as well as an Emmy and a Golden Globe, have been stolen from her storage unit in West Hollywood, her publicist said Friday.
Channing's other Tony Award, for lifetime achievement, as well as $50,000 worth of costumes and gowns, some by designer Bob Mackie, were also taken. The stolen Emmy was won for her comedy hour with George Burns, and the Golden Globe for her performance in "Thoroughly Modern Millie." None of the items have been returned.
Channing, 83, has had the storage unit for about five years, since her divorce from her third husband. The items were meant to be catalogued and divided, but she got distracted writing her autobiography "Just Lucky I Guess," and by her recent fourth marriage.
Carol Channing
A Storm Trooper from the Star Wars movies appears to keep watch over attendees of the 2004 Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 23, 2004. The Comic-Con is the largest annual comic convention and draws thousands of attendees, many in costume, from around the globe.
Photo by Fred Greaves
Baby News
Beckett Finn Pasdar
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines gave birth to a baby boy, her second son with husband Adrian Pasdar, the group's Web site announced Friday.
Beckett Finn Pasdar was born July 14. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
The couple's first child, Slade, is 3 years old.
Beckett Finn Pasdar
Baby News
Puma Badu
Grammy-winning singer Erykah Badu gave birth to a daughter, Puma, earlier this month at her home in Dallas, with friends and family present, People magazine reported Thursday.
The baby was born on July 5, Badu's publicist confirmed to the magazine. Badu, 33, has declined to name the father. "She is a big baby," Badu's representative was quoted as saying.
Puma joins brother, Seven, 6, whose father is Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000 of the hip-hop group OutKast).
Puma Badu
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Case to Take More Time
Bobby Fischer
A decision on whether to deport former world chess champion Bobby Fischer -- wanted in the United States for defying a ban by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992 -- will take more time, a Japanese immigration official said on Friday, one week after Fischer was taken into custody in Tokyo.
Fischer was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport last week when he tried to leave for the Philippines on an invalid passport.
A friend, Miyoko Watai of the Japan Chess Association, has said that Fischer, 61, was appealing the move to deport him and seeking help from lawyers in a bid to obtain political asylum in a third country.
Bobby Fischer
Swinburne University of Technology's center for micro-photonics have constructed a model of the Sydney Opera House, seen in this undated photo, that is about half the diameter of a human hair. With dimensions of 64 x 38 x 41 micrometers, or more than a million times smaller than the real Sydney structure, the model was built from a hybrid material of glass and polymer by firing intense laser light into the matter in a liquid state to create what to the human eye appears as an almost imperceptible dot, but under an electron microscope it contains the detail and the beauty of the iconic Sydney harbour side structure.
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Return to 'CSI'
Eads & Fox
Actors George Eads and Jorja Fox will both be back on the job next week at "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" after learning a lesson in hardball network politics.
Eads reached an agreement Friday to return to television's most popular drama after he was fired for skipping work in what CBS believed was a contract dispute, CBS entertainment spokesman Chris Ender said.
He rejoins Jorja Fox, who came to her own agreement to come back on Thursday.
Eads & Fox
24-Hour News Until Election
ABC
ABC News will run a 24-hour news service available on digital cable, the Internet and some cell phones through Election Day in what may be a precursor to a service offered full time in the future.
The venture, "ABC News Now," begins operating at noon Monday, presenting gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic National Convention, anchored by Peter Jennings.
The 10 ABC-owned stations will offer "ABC News Now" to its 3.5 million customers that have digital cable. Stations participating are in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh, N.C., Flint, Mich., Toledo, Ohio, and Fresno, Calif.
It's also available for those with broadband Internet access. Some services, like America Online, will offer it for free as part of its monthly subscriber fee; otherwise, it will cost $4.95 per month to subscribe.
Sprint PCS Vision phone customers will also be able to see "ABC News Now" for $9.95 a month.
ABC
Previous winners of the 'Papa' Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, including Bart Barton, left, George Burley, center, and Mike Stack, right, the 2003 winner, ponder over contestants during the first round of this year's competition at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla., Thursday, July 22, 2004. More than 140 men are competing for the coveted title during the island's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends Sunday. Hemingway lived and wrote in Key West from 1930 to 1939.
Photo by Andy Newman
Surrenders on Assault Charge
Courtney Love
Rocker Courtney Love surrendered to police Friday on an assault charge stemming from an April altercation at the home of her former boyfriend and manager.
A warrant was issued for Love's arrest earlier this month after she failed to appear for her arraignment on the assault charge. At the time, her attorney, Michael Rosenstein, said she was hospitalized in New York City.
On Friday, Love was photographed, fingerprinted and then freed on a $150,000 bail bond and ordered to appear for an arraignment on Aug. 20.
Courtney Love
Land in Canaries After Naval Exercises
Dead Whales
Two dead whales have landed in Spain's Canary Islands, raising fears they may have been hurt by NATO military exercises off Morocco and that more could have died, officials said on Friday.
The two whales arrived in the area within 24 hours and were dead for several days before their bodies drifted ashore, said Tony Gallardo, environmental expert with the local government of the island of Fuerteventura, one of the Canaries, which lies only about 60 miles off the southern Moroccan coast.
"There is a strong suspicion that their deaths were related to the NATO exercises that finished a few days ago," Gallardo told Reuters.
Naval and air force units from 10 countries involving 20,000 troops and more than 20 warships took part in U.S.-led NATO military exercises off Morocco from July 11 to 16.
Fourteen whales beached in the Canaries in 2002 during multinational military exercises there. It was one of several mass strandings of whales that scientists have linked to the use of naval sonar systems.
Dead Whales
In Memory
Illinois Jacquet
Tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, who defined the jazz style called screeching and played with jazz legends including Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Cab Calloway during a career spanning eight decades, died Thursday. He was 81.
Jacquet, who was known as much for his trademark pork pie hat as the innovative playing style, died of a heart attack in his Queens home, said his longtime friend and collaborator Dan Frank.
Jacquet played with nearly every jazz and blues legend of his time, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Jo Jones, Buddy Rich, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Gene Krupa.
He played tenor sax in the Basie and Calloway bands and since 1981 performed with his own band, the Illinois Jacquet Big Band.
Former President Clinton, an amateur saxophonist, tapped Jacquet to play at his inaugural ball in January 1993. The duo jammed on the White House lawn, playing "C-Jam Blues." Jacquet also performed for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
During his heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, Jacquet recorded more than 300 original compositions, including three of his biggest hits, "Black Velvet," "Robbins' Nest" and "Port of Rico."
Born Jean-Baptiste Jacquet in Broussard, La., his mother was a Sioux Indian and his father, Gilbert Jacquet, a French-Creole railroad worker and part-time musician.
The nickname Illinois came from the Indian word "Illiniwek," which means superior men. He dropped the name Jean-Baptiste when the family moved from Louisiana to Houston because there were so few French-speaking people there.
Jacquet, one of six children, began performing at age 3, tap dancing to the sounds of the Gilbert Jacquet band. He later played the drums in his father's band but discovered his true talent when a music teacher introduced him to the saxophone.
After graduating from high school, Jacquet moved to California where he soon earned a reputation as a little guy who played a lot of sax.
His first exposure was a command performance by Cole, who lined up bass player Jimmy Blanton, Sid Catlett on drums and guitarist Charlie Christian from the Benny Goodman Orchestra and told Jacquet he wanted to hear what he could do.
Years later, Jacquet told an interviewer that playing in that jam session "was like playing with God, St. Peter and Moses" yet he wasn't nervous because "when you play with the greatest you play even better."
When he was 19, he performed the standout tenor saxophone solo on "Flying Home" with Hampton. He likened that performance to a religious experience and said, "Something was with me at that moment. It all came together for some reason."
Jacquet appeared with Calloway's band in the Lena Horne movie "Stormy Weather" and in the Academy Award-nominated short film "Jammin' the Blues" with Billie Holiday and Lester Young. He replaced Young in the Count Basie Orchestra in 1946 and was given the nickname "The King" by Basie.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he toured extensively in Europe. In 1983, he became the first jazz musician to become artist-in-residence at Harvard University. His stint as guest lecturer at the Ivy League school caused him more angst than any performance of his life, said Carol Sherick, his longtime companion and manager of more than 20 years.
"When he's on stage with a horn in his hand, he's comfortable, but put him in front of a class, just talking ... that's a whole different thing," she said.
Despite his fame, Jacquet lived quietly in the St. Albans section of Queens. His wife said he followed Basie to Queens in 1947 but stayed because "the cost of parking his car in Manhattan was more than the rent on his apartment."
Illinois Jacquet
An iguana rest next to the heliport of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, before the visit of Argentine and Venezuelan Presidents Nestor Kirchner and Hugo Chavez in Puerto La Cruz's oil refinery, 200 miles east of Caracas July 23, 2004.
Photo by Jorge Silva
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