'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The run to Sacramento went quite well, but I'm too tired to do much tonight.
Virgil came by & fed the fish & cats. The lizard & spider took care of themeselves. And, we took the kitten with us.
The kid passed his 'inspection' with flying colors.
Anybody else see Dave Letterman top 10 Friday night - the topic was chimpy's 35 day vacation. Will look for it online - unless somebody can send me a copy?
Tonight, Saturday, CBS starts the night with '48 Hours', followed by a RERUN 'Hack', and then a
RERUN 'The District'.
NBC RERUN 'Tim McGraw: Sing Me Home', followed by the RERUN made-for-tv movie 'Hunter: Return To Justice'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN - it's supposed to be 'The Best Of Molly Shannon'.
ABC RERUNs the movie 'Boys And Girls', followed by a RERUN 'Dragnet'.
The WB has the 'NFL Preseason Football' game of the day, followed on the left coast by RERUNs of 'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air' and 'Just Shoot Me'.
Faux has the tradtional RERUN 'Cops', followed by another RERUN 'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN here has the Cubs still visiting Rupert's Doggers.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'
AMC has the movie 'The Hunter', followed by the movie 'The Eiger Sanction', then the movie 'An American Werewolf In London'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 4;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 8;
[8pm] 'Red Cap' - Cold War;
[9pm] 'Parkinson' - John Cleese;
[10pm] 'The Meaning of Life';
[12:30am] 'Parkinson' - John Cleese;
[1am ] 'Red Cap' - Cold War;
[2am] 'Parkinson' - John Cleese; and
[3am] 'The Meaning of Life'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The American President', followed by the movie 'The American President'.
Comedy Central RERUNs all of 'Last Comic Standing'.
History offers 'Incredible, But True?', 'History's Mysteries', then 'Deep Sea Mysteries' (Holy crap - No 'Modern Mavels'!)
SciFi has the movie 'Octopus', followed by the movie 'Deep Shock', then the movie 'Reptilian'.
TCM pays a 24-hour tribute to Cary Grant -
[6am} 'The Grass Is Greener' (1960);
[8:00am] 'The Bishop's Wife' (1947);
[10am] 'Walk, Don't Run' (1966);
[12pm] 'Father Goose' (1964);
[2pm] 'Destination Tokyo' (1943);
[4:30pm] 'I Was A Male War Bride' (1949);
[6:15pm] 'Notorious' (1946);
[8pm] 'Operation Petticoat' (1959);
[10:30pm] 'North By Northwest' (1959);
[1am] 'Arsenic And Old Lace' (1944);
[3am] 'My Favorite Wife' (1940); and
[4:30am] 'Every Girl Should Be Married' (1949). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Director Heike Kueck, right, watches polar bear 'Lloyd' refreshing himself in his swimming pool in the zoo of Bremerhaven, northern Germany, Friday, Aug. 8, 2003. Meteorologists expect the heat wave to continue all over Europe.
Photo by Joerg Sarbach
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
FCC Member Rips Inaction
Shock Jocks
A communications regulator accused his agency Thursday of ignoring complaints about indecent programming in the year since two disc jockeys broadcast an account of a couple allegedly having sex in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral.
After the broadcast, the Federal Communications Commission was flooded with complaints about the show. The agency's chairman, Michael Powell, directed the commission's enforcement bureau to investigate.
"Nothing has changed over the past year in the FCC's enforcement of the indecency laws," Commissioner Michael Copps said in a statement. "When we allow complaints to languish for a year, the message is loud and clear that the FCC is not serious about enforcing our nation's laws."
Copps, one of two Democrats on the five-member commission, has pushed for harsher penalties against radio and television stations that violate indecency laws.
Copps said a decision pushed through by the FCC's three Republicans on June 2 that eased decades-old media ownership rules will lead to more indecency on the airwaves.
"As media conglomerates grow ever bigger and control moves further away from the local community, community standards go by the boards," he said.
Shock Jocks
To Receive Guthrie Honor
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp will be among the individuals honored at the Huntington's Disease Society of America's seventh annual Guthrie Awards dinner on Oct. 2. The artist will receive the Woody Guthrie Award "for his embodiment of Woody Guthrie's ideals."
Founded by Guthrie's widow, Marjorie, after the folk icon lost his battle with Huntington's Disease in 1967, the organization supports research into finding a cure and helps families affected by the disease, as well as educating medical professionals and the public.
All proceeds from the dinner, which will be held at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and hosted by Judy Collins, will benefit the Woody and Marjorie Guthrie Research Fund.
John Mellencamp
Indian artists paint inside the mouths of the idols of Hindu demon Putna, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, August 8, 2003. According to Hindu epics, Putna, a female demon, tried to feed Hindu God Lord Krishna milk containing poison when the Lord was still a baby. The idols of Putna are displayed in temples on 'Janamashtmi,' which is known as the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna on August 19.
Photo by Ajay Verma
Tap Comic Crew
Emmys
The greenroom at the Shrine Auditorium will be awfully crowded at next month's 55th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony.
In a break from awards show tradition, Fox Broadcasting Co. and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) have opted to assemble a cavalcade of stars to anchor the Sept. 21 ceremony in lieu of a single host.
The comics who hosted the Emmy telecasts during the past three years -- Garry Shandling in 2000, Ellen DeGeneres in 2001 and Conan O'Brien last year -- will be among this year's emcees, along with "Everybody Loves Raymond's" Brad Garrett, Darrell Hammond, Wanda Sykes," George Lopez, Martin Short and Jon Stewart.
More stars are expected to be added in the coming weeks.
Emmys
Cambodia Approves Forest Project
Angelina Jolie
Cambodia has approved a forest conservation project funded by "Tomb Raider" star Angelina Jolie in two former Khmer Rouge strongholds.
Jolie has promised up to $1.5 million for community-based work over the next five years in remote areas in northwestern Cambodia.
The money will educate villagers about conservation awareness, draw demarcation lines to protect forest and wildlife sanctuaries and train local rangers, said Mounh Sarath, executive director of Cambodian Vision in Development, the local group in charge of the project.
He said the project aims to preserve some 148,200 acres of forest in the Samlaut and Pailin areas along Cambodia's northwestern border with Thailand.
Samlaut and Pailin are two former Khmer Rouge strongholds that served as battle zones between the guerrillas and government troops until 1998 when the Khmer Rouge movement collapsed. The areas are still littered with land mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the war.
Angelina Jolie
Talk Show Off To Slow Start
Sharon Osbourne
It seems like the moment it was announced that Sharon Osbourne was planning her own talk show, news has been trickling out that there's trouble on the set. Just a week ago, a staff person told the New York Post that the show's producers were unable to decide on the show's direction, which was resulting in lots of false starts and stops. Now comes word that the Osbournes matriarch herself caused the production staffers some headaches when she decided to stay in England rather than returning to the States last weekend to do some preliminary shooting.
PeopleNews reports that Mrs. Prince Of Darkness stayed in Britain and gave a last-minute call to the show's execs to let them know she was indisposed. The delay is thought to be temporary and not to affect the show's September start date.
The show is supposed to be a blend of the best of other talk shows--part celebrity interview, part stories about real people and a reality segment on Osbourne and her unconventional life--and it's set to debut on September 15.
Sharon Osbourne
Visits Congo As U.N. Goodwill Ambassador
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange, on her first assignment as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, said she wanted to draw attention to the use of rape as a weapon in the tribal violence that has spread through troubled northeastern Congo.
At a feeding center catering to hundreds of severely malnourished children, Lange scooped up several children and cradled them in her arms.
She also toured a camp for 14,000 displaced people. Droves of children followed her along the muddy paths between tents made of plastic sheeting.
Jessica Lange
Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Osmonds
It was a family affair as the Osmonds received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The star, located on Hollywood Boulevard near La Brea Avenue, honors siblings Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy Osmond for their decades of work in entertainment.
"I've never really known a family as talented," singer Andy Williams said Thursday after introducing the honorees. "They're like sponges."
The Osmonds
Drops Lawsuit Against ABC/Disney
Howard Stern
Radio talk show host Howard Stern has dropped a lawsuit against TV network ABC and the producers of the reality series "Are You Hot?" which he had claimed was a rip-off of a running gag on his show.
Stern's attorneys filed the dismissal in Los Angeles Superior Court on Aug. 1, and the dismissal was entered by the court clerk as of Aug. 5, according to copies of the papers posted on the SmokingGun.com legal Web site this week.
To support his claim, Stern noted in his suit that the show's producers hired one of his former sidekicks, Jackie Martling, to work on the show.
Howard Stern
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
NY Toy Store
Flash Mob
A growing flash mob craze -- when crowds organized by e-mail turn up in unexpected places -- brought a mob late on Thursday to the flagship Times Square store of Toys "R" Us, where a giant dinosaur roars menacingly at customers.
The mob of some 300 people gazed at the dinosaur, as if transfixed, then fell to the floor screaming and waving their hands in the air. As store staff hurried to call security, the mob dispersed as quickly as it gathered.
The flash mob was the sixth in New York and the latest in a string that has popped up around the globe. Organized by e-mail, recipients are invited to arrive at a certain place, at a certain time, and receive instructions for a particular mobbing event.
Other New York sites that have been mobbed are Central Park, where the crowd tweeted like birds and crowed like roosters, and a Hyatt Hotel, where the mob burst into applause.
Flash Mob
An 1949 inmigration document, reads the name of Helmut Greger, the name which Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele used when he entered in Argentina, shortly after the World War II ended. At the request of the Jewish human right organization Simon Wiesenthal Center, President Nestor Kirchner's adminstration ordered the opening of all secret documents regarding Nazi war criminals who entered Argentina, such as Mengele, Klaus Altmann and Erich Priebke. They, among no less than 50 Third Reich high officials, found refuge in the country, ruled then by General Juan Domingo Peron.
Photo by Marcos Brindicci
November Nuptials
Electra - Navarro
Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro has revealed that he will tie the knot with fiance Carmen Electra in November after a two-year engagement. Navarro popped the question two years ago this month. The couple had had been dating for some time before Navarro proposed. Details about the wedding--the exact date and place--have not been made public.
Navarro told LAUNCH that he's looking forward to starting a family with the stunning Electra and welcomes her with open arms on the current Lollapalooza tour, which Jane's is headlining. "She comes out on tour and hangs out with me all the time on tour, and obviously we live together," Navarro said. "We have a wedding planned in November. We have what I call a starter course in a family which is our assistant and our dog living with us. I see the bandmates around me--Chris Cheney has a pregnant wife who's due any minute. We're very lucky to have our family and friends close to us."
Jane's Addiction will wrap up the Lollapalooza festival on August 24. The band will play some dates overseas and is expected to be on the road through the fall before taking a break for Navarro and Electra's wedding.
Electra - Navarro
Takes Unpaid Leave
Maria Shriver
TV journalist Maria Shriver, wife of actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, is taking an unpaid leave from NBC News during his gubernatorial bid to avoid a potential conflict of interest, the network said on Friday.
"Maria requested a leave of absence, and we agreed to it, and we look forward to when she returns to work," NBC spokeswoman Caryn Mautner said.
Mautner said Shriver asked to go on unpaid leave for the duration of the recall campaign after a series of recent discussions with NBC News president Neal Shapiro. The spokeswoman said it was too soon to speculate about what might happen if Schwarzenegger were elected.
While Schwarzenegger has said his wife fully supports his campaign, she was absent from her husband's "Tonight Show" visit and his first two post-announcement public appearances.
Maria Shriver
Six Flags Ban
Marilyn Manson
A New York amusement park hosting a leg of the 2003 Ozzfest tour has banned shock rocker Marilyn Manson -- one of the show's headline acts -- from performing at the venue next week.
Manson is no stranger to performance bans. The androgynous goth rocker, known for his macabre lyrics and stage shows, is a regular target for religious and conservative groups who insist he exerts a dangerous influence on young fans.
The Six Flags park is the only venue on the 30-stop Ozzfest tour to have ruled against Manson performing.
Marilyn Manson
Reviving TV Ocean Voyage Genre
Jean Michel Cousteau
With a new generation of aquanauts on deck and high-definition cameras rolling, Jean Michel Cousteau has set sail to remote Hawaiian Islands in hopes of reviving interest in televised ocean exploration made popular by his late father Jacques Cousteau.
Cousteau and his 22-person crew pulled into Honolulu Harbor this week at the end of a six-week voyage to the Northwestern Hawaiian island chain with underwater footage set to air on French and U.S. television in 2004.
Cousteau, 65, hopes the one-hour documentary, called "Voyage to Kure," will further his crusade to persuade Congress to turn the vast 1,200-mile chain of islands into the nation's largest marine sanctuary, rivaling the size of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
He also intends the film to spark the same interest in marine conservation that children of the 1960s discovered in "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau."
Jean Michel Cousteau
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Figure Sells for $200K
G.I. Joe Prototype
His face may be battle-weary, but the 1963 G.I. Joe prototype is no longer an auction-block refugee, an auction house said Thursday.
The handmade 11 1/2-inch figure ended up capturing $200,000 in a private sale to comic book distributor Stephen Geppi, despite Joe's failure to bring a minimum $250,000 bid at auction last month.
Geppi, 53, bought the G.I. Joe figure from Don Levine, a Korean War veteran and former Hasbro executive who set out 40 years ago to develop a toy that would do for boys what rival Mattel's Barbie had done for girls five years earlier.
The result was a huge success. Hasbro sold an estimated 375 million G.I Joe action figures.
G.I. Joe Prototype
www.heritagecomics.com
www.gijoeclub.com
www.hasbro.com/gijoe
Australian Dingo Conservation Association President Barrie Oakman holds two dingo pups at his property outside Canberra, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003. Aborigines had dingoes as hunting companions for thousands of years, but modern Australians are debating whether these unique wild dogs should be kept as household pets.
Photo by Peter O'Connor
''An Evening with Joe''
'Stalin the Musical'
After Mel Brooks stretched the boundaries of musical taste with "Springtime for Hitler," now it is time for "An Evening with Joe -- Stalin The Musical."
Sing along to "The Gulag Rag" and "Mrs Stalin Regrets." Enjoy a high-kicking, Moulin Rouge-style funeral for the Soviet dictator with a rousing chorus of "Sweet Stalin I'm In Love Again."
Cambridge student James Stevens, who wrote and directed the show now appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is the first to admit it may not be to everybody's taste but insists the musical is out to satirise, not trivialise.
The 22-year-old graduate felt strongly that he "wanted to get away from history as simply a collection of dry statistics and tell what is ultimately a very human story."
For more, 'Stalin the Musical'
Head-Butted Policeman
Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has been given a one-month suspended prison sentence and fined 1,500 euros for head-butting a policeman at a casino in the Paris suburbs.
Sharif, 70, had accumulated losses of around 30,000 euros at the Enghien-les-Bains casino on the night of July 5 when he got into an argument with a croupier, a court in the town of Cergy 30 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of Paris was told Wednesday.
When a policeman intervened, Sharif insulted and then head-butted him, leaving him off work for two days. The court ordered the actor to pay his victim 300 euros in damages.
The star of "Dr Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" told the court he could not recall the incident, officials said. However the scene had been caught on the casino's security cameras.
Omar Sharif
To Show Off Bugatti
Jay Leno
"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is preparing to show off one of his 150 cars and motorcycles — a 1927 Bugatti Type 40 Grand Sport.
Leno and designer Ralph Lauren are entering rare Bugattis at the 53rd annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on Aug. 17 along the Monterey Peninsula. Leno is a former Pebble Beach class winner.
"The Bugatti reflects a masculine, aggressive design," Pebble Beach co-chair Glenn Mounger said Thursday.
Jay Leno
www.pebblebeachconcours.net
Gibson Gives Conservatives Screenings
'The Passion'
Those who have seen Mel Gibson's film about the final hours of Jesus Christ have called it beautiful, magical, a great and important work.
Those who think "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism, however, haven't been allowed to see the film. Seven months before its release, this extraordinary vanity project is stirring passions over Gibson's exclusionary screenings and the potential for a negative depiction of Jews.
The star of the blockbuster "Lethal Weapon" movies and Oscar-winning director of "Braveheart" has spent nearly $30 million of his own money to produce, co-write and direct "The Passion," starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. Filmed entirely in the dead languages of Aramaic and Latin, it has yet to secure a distributor.
In recent weeks, the actor-director has been building support with invitation-only screenings for film industry insiders, conservative commentators, evangelical Christians and sympathetic Jews.
Gibson said in a June statement that he and his film are not anti-Semitic. "My intention in bringing it to the screen is to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgrounds (or none) who have varying familiarity with this story."
But what is Gibson's version of the story? His traditionalist religion rejects the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which in 1965 rejected the notion that Jews were collectively responsible for killing Jesus. The actor is building a traditionalist church in Malibu, Calif., for about 70 members, and intends to hold Sunday services there in Latin.
His father, Hutton Gibson, was quoted in a New York Times Magazine article in March as denying the Holocaust occurred.
For the rest (and a quote from Matt Drudge, too), 'The Passion'
Esquire Cancels Assignment
Jayson Blair
Esquire has canceled a movie review it commissioned former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair to write, the magazine said Friday.
Blair, who resigned from the Times after editors learned he had embellished and plagiarized parts of dozens of reports, was to have reviewed "Shattered Glass," a film about another journalist found to have fabricated stories, Stephen Glass.
David Granger, editor in chief of the 68-year-old men's magazine, said Esquire reversed its decision after news of Blair's assignment became public.
Jayson Blair
Fox Edits Kobe
Teen Choice Awards
Fox edited out a portion of Kobe Bryant's acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards this week where he appeared to make a reference to the sexual assault charge against him.
The Los Angeles Lakers star, accepting the award for favorite male sports figure, said, "an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere."
Fox's broadcast standards department felt the remark was not germane to accepting an award for his sports exploits, network spokesman Scott Grogin said on Friday.
Teen Choice Awards
'Adding Indifference to Injury'
Numbers
Around 20,000 civilians were wounded in the Iraq war and the U.S.-British occupiers are ignoring their suffering, a research group says in what it terms the first study of the conflict's casualty toll.
"The maimed civilians of Iraq have been brushed under the carpet," the Iraq Body Count (IBC) said on Thursday.
The Anglo-American group of academics and peace activists chided U.S. and British postwar administrators for failing to set up programmes for the wounded or pay them compensation.
For the rest, Numbers
A Hummingbird Hawk-Moth (Macroglossum stellatorum) hoovers above a verbena in the garden of the Philippsruhe castle in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003. Meteorologists expect the heatwave to continue in Germany.
{Photo by Ferdinand Ostrop
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Ark Group splits up. Steve returns to the bottom of hell, as the rest struggle through the storm raging at Kanda Feng.
'The Osbournes'
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