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Last Night
Very pleasant weather.
Gas went up $.04 overnight, for a total of $.35/gal in the last 10 days here.
CostCo has 'Bowling For Columbine' for just under $18.00.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'Big Brother 4', followed by a RERUN 'Hack', then a RERUN
'The District'.
NBC begins the evening with a self-promoting infomercial - 'NBC 2003 Fall Preview Show', followed by a RERUN 'Fear Factor', then a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, of course.
ABC opens the night with the movie 'Hexed', followed by a RERUN 'Dragnet'.
The WB has even more 'NFL Preseason', followed on the left coast by 'Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air'.
Faux has the ususal RERUN 'Cops', followed by another RERUN 'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN here has more baseball, with the Mets still visiting Rupert's Doggers.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'MI-5'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Eiger Sanction', followed by the movie 'High Plains Drifter', then the movie 'Joe Kidd'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 6;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[8pm] 'Rebus' - Black and Blue;
[10pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Danse Macabre;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Dixie Chicks/Ashton Kutcher;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Sandra Bernhard;
[12am] 'Jonathan Creek' - Danse Macabre;
[1am] 'Rebus' - Black and Blue; and
[3am] 'The Holcroft Covenant'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', then the movie 'Selena', followed by the movie 'Selena', again.
History has 'History Now', 'History Now', 'History Now', and another 'History Now'.
SciFi has the movie 'Airtight', then the movie 'Absolon'.
TCM spends 24-hours with John Wayne.
[6am] 'Stagecoach' (1939);
[7:45am] 'Tall In The Saddle' (1944);
[9:15am] 'They Were Expendable' (1945);
[11:30am] 'Flying Leathernecks' (1951)
[1:30pm] 'The Wings Of Eagles' (1957);
[3:30pm] 'Brannigan' (1975);
[5:30pm] 'Rio Bravo' (1959);
[8pm] 'Chisum' (1970);
[10pm] 'Hondo' (1953);
[11:30pm] 'She Wore A Yellow Ribbon' (1949);
[1:30am] 'Angel And The Badman' (1947);
[3am] 'The Long Voyage Home' (1940); and
[5am] 'The Man From Monterey' (1933). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Andrew Franklin White-Cleary, 4 years-old, from Dale City, Va., looks at the words inscribed at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the uncovering of a granite landing commerating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, Friday, Aug. 22, 2003 in Washington. Four decades after King Jr.'s demand for equality stirred a nation, civil rights activists commemorated his 'I Have a Dream' speech Friday by celebrating the inscription of those words on the monument.
Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Fox Request Rejected
Al Franken
A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist Al Franken's new book, whose title mocks the Fox slogan "fair and balanced."
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the book — "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" — is a parody protected by the First Amendment.
"There are hard cases and there are easy cases," the judge said. "This is an easy case. This case is wholly without merit, both factually and legally."
"In addition to thanking my own lawyers," Franken said, "I'd like to thank Fox's lawyers for filing one of the stupidest briefs I've ever seen in my life."
"It is ironic that a media company, which should be protecting the First Amendment, is seeking to undermine it," Chin said.
Al Franken
Visits Refugees Near Chechnya
Angelina Jolie
Chechen refugees flocked around Angelina Jolie as she visited a tent camp Friday, but many were frustrated in their attempts to tell the Hollywood star about their plight.
Jolie, who is in Russia as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, spent about 40 minutes at the Bella camp near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, a region that borders Chechnya. Later she was expected to visit a second camp.
Though most of the refugees did not get a chance to talk to the actress, many said they were grateful for the attention.
Angelina Jolie
To Be Released on Web
Secret Kelly Files
The judicial inquiry probing the death of British weapons expert David Kelly said Thursday it will release almost a thousand documents dealing with a BBC report based on information provided by Kelly that questions the integrity of the government's case for war with Iraq.
The files include confidential Downing Street e-mails, classified memos and intelligence report notes.
The planned release of the documents is significant in both the contemporary nature of their content -- most are expected to describe events of the past few months -- as well as the behind-the-scenes picture it is expected to give of the government and the BBC.
Files of the as-yet-unseen documents will be uploaded to the inquiry's Web site,
www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk, on Saturday night, giving journalists and members of the public unprecedented access to a paper trail outlining the inner workings of the government and the BBC.
"This is a public inquiry," a spokeswoman for the inquiry said. "These documents relate to evidence submitted to the inquiry that is likely to be of relevance to witnesses and pertinent to a large group of people. This is not a court of law or a trial, so there aren't the usual rules of disclosure."
Secret Kelly Files
Protestors scream from behind a barricade as resident Geroge W. Bush and his motorcade arrives at the home of telecommunications billionaire Craig McCaw for a $2,000-per-plate presidential reelection campaign fundraiser at the exclusive Hunts Point neighborhood near Seattle, Washington on August 22, 2003. Bush is visiting Washington State briefly after a two-day stop in Oregon.
Photo by Anthony P. Bolante
Highly Recommended Reading
Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
by Gail Sheehy
In mid-June, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller III and several senior agents in the bureau received a group of about 20 visitors in a briefing room of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The director himself narrated a PowerPoint presentation that summarized the numbers of agents and leads and evidence he and his people had collected in the 18-month course of their ongoing investigation of Penttbom, the clever neologism the bureau had invented to reduce the sites of devastation on 9/11 to one word: Pent for Pentagon, Pen for Pennsylvania, tt for the Twin Towers and bom for the four planes that the government had been forewarned could be used as weapons—even bombs—but chose to ignore.
After the formal meeting, senior agents in the room faced a grilling by Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow whose cohorts are three other widowed moms from New Jersey.
Kristen and the three other housewives who also lost their husbands in the attack on the World Trade Center started out knowing virtually nothing about how their government worked. For the last 20 months they have clipped and Googled, rallied and lobbied, charmed and intimidated top officials all the way to the White House. In the process, they have made themselves arguably the most effective force in dancing around the obstacle course by which the administration continues to block a transparent investigation of what went wrong with the country's defenses on Sept. 11 and what we should be doing about it. They have no political clout, no money, no powerful husbands—no husbands at all since Sept. 11—and they are up against a White House, an Attorney General, a Defense Secretary, a National Security Advisor and an F.B.I. director who have worked out an ingenious bait-and-switch game to thwart their efforts and those of any investigative body.
Please, read the rest - Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
'Clown Paintings: From the Collection of Diane Keaton and Others'
Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum's "Clown Paintings: From the Collection of Diane Keaton and Others" is comical, sad and sometimes downright creepy. Not all the paintings, though, are great works of art.
The 100 or so paintings by anonymous, unknown and perhaps bitter and tortured souls, go on display Saturday at the Pittsburgh gallery.
The Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif., held a clown art exhibition last year that attracted an estimated 2,000 people, including Keaton.
Berman owns one of the largest known collections of clown paintings and has acquired works by Georges Rouault, Man Ray and Picasso. There are no recognizable names on the paintings at the Warhol, though some of Berman's pieces that are in the show are quite good.
For a lot more, Andy Warhol Museum
The Warhol
Robert Berman Gallery
Bests 'Lion King' as Top Animated Film
'Finding Nemo'
The fishy father and son heroes of summer movie hit "Finding Nemo" have bested "The Lion King" at the box office, breaking the long-held animated film record for U.S. ticket sales, tracking firm Exhibitor Relations reported on Friday.
"Nemo" had sold $328.7 million in tickets in the United States by the end of Thursday, topping the $328.5 million that "The Lion King" sold in its original release and a more recent large-format Imax reissue.
"The Lion King" still reigns over the worldwide box office for animated films, with more than $780 million in tickets sold, and since ticket prices were lower when "The Lion King" came out, Nemo still has a way to go before it can claim more a bigger audience, even in the United States.
'Finding Nemo'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Promoting Barbados
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Barbados tourism officials are planning a promotional campaign featuring former "Cosby" kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
The Barbados Tourism Authority plans to begin airing a series of ads by Warner and his girlfriend, actress Karen Malina White, on Black Entertainment Television in October, officials said this week.
The pair will host an hour-long show featuring Barbadian musicians on the cable network's "Jazz in the Sun" series, and will do a Barbados Jazz Festival preview and a 30-second commercial.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
www.barbados.org
A Japanese Noh performer in a mask is seen during a Takigi Noh performance, held at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, August 22, 2003. The classical Japanese theatre form is a centuries-old combination of dance, drama, music, and poetry.
Photo by Eriko Sugita
'ER' Guest Arc
Bob Newhart
Comedy great Bob Newhart is embarking on a rare venture into drama with a recurring role on NBC's "ER."
He will play Ben Hollander, an architect suffering with macular degeneration. As his progressive loss of sight increasingly affects his ability to work, Hollander also begins to lose interest in the world. He befriends Dr. Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), who develops an odd attachment to him.
The first episode of Newhart's three-episode arc is slated to air Oct. 30.
Bob Newhart
Stations to Air Golf Instead
Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon
Television stations in some areas of the country plan to air a PGA tournament instead of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon's final hours, a time telethon organizers say is crucial to their fund-raising.
ABC-TV plans to broadcast the Deustsche Bank Championship at the Tournament Players Club of Boston in Norton, Mass., from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Labor Day. That essentially coincides with the final hours of the 21-plus-hour telethon, which has been a Labor Day fixture for decades.
According to a list of "Love Network" stations posted on the MDA's Web site, more than 50 of the stations that will broadcast the telethon are ABC affiliates.
For more, Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon
Sues Town Over Canceled Concert
Ted Nugent
Michigan rocker Ted Nugent filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming organizers who canceled a June performance wrongly accused him of making racist comments.
Nugent claims that accusations made by city officials and others, and the cancelation of the June 30 concert, damaged his reputation and career, according to a statement issued by his attorney.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, names the City of Muskegon; Mayor Stephen Warmington; City Manager Bryon Mazade; Meridian Entertainment, the concert's promoter, and others as defendants.
Officials for the Muskegon Summer Celebration canceled Nugent's appearance after the Motor City Madman did an interview with two Denver disc jockeys in which the DJs say he used slurs when referring to Asians and blacks.
Ted Nugent
Muskegon Summer Celebration
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
IRS Hauls Away Belongings
Peabo Bryson
The Internal Revenue Service used a large moving truck to carry away the contents of a mansion to pay back taxes singer-songwriter Peabo Bryson allegedly owes.
Bryson owed the IRS $1.2 million as of 2000, according to a federal tax lien on file at the Fulton County Courthouse. He couldn't be reached for comment.
Although Bryson isn't listed as owner of the house in the city's trendy Buckhead neighborhood, IRS spokesman Mark Green said the belongings confiscated Thursday belonged to Bryson.
Peabo Bryson
A Tibetan pilgrim takes a break at Yumbulhakang Monastery at Tsedang Town, Shannan Prefecture, in Tibet, August 22, 2003. Chinese officials admit that the Communist Party made a mistake by destroying thousands of monasteries and persecuting monks and nuns in the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, but they say the government no longer interferes in religious life.
Photo by Guang Niu
Sioux Falls, SD
Stolen Truck
Friday morning, KSFY's anchor Mitch Krebs was scheduled to talk live with Charlie Gibson on ABC's Good Morning America about the Janklow case. But as the satellite truck was being set up, it was stolen.
Around five Friday morning, an intoxicated man got into the cab of the satellite truck and took off from in front of KSFY's studio. He drove south on Minnesota Avenue and ended up on Highland Avenue north of 31st Street before Sioux Falls police pulled him over, about forty minutes after he took the truck.
Police on the scene confirmed the man was intoxicated - after a beer can fell out of the truck when he opened the door. The man arrested is 24-year old Anthony Runningcrane of Mission. He has been charged with Grand Theft and DWI, and is being held in the Minnehaha County jail.
Stolen Truck
Trial Launch
MTV Magazine
Cable television channel MTV said on Friday it aims to rock the print publishing world with a two-issue trial run of a new publication, MTV Magazine.
MTV Magazine will debut in late October with an issue themed "Spankin' New." The launch is tied to a new music week airing on Music Television in November, and articles will also review trends in DVDs, movies, technology and games.
MTV Magazine will have an initial run of 300,000 issues priced at $5.99 each. The October issue will include a mini-magazine and a CD-ROM with video extras.
MTV Magazine
Statue Turns 90
Little Mermaid
She's been beheaded twice, her arm has been amputated and vandals keep pouring paint over her. Despite all this, the Little Mermaid has made it to her 90th birthday. So Copenhagen officials plan to hold a party Saturday to celebrate the longevity of the Danish capital's most famous landmark.
There will be speeches, performances by the Royal Ballet and a Danish Navy band. Fire brigade boats will salute with water cannons and 90 mermaids are expected to be swimming in the water behind the statue.
The statue is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, published in 1837, about a mythical sea king's mermaid daughter. Carl Jacobsen, founder of Denmark's Carlsberg breweries and an arts patron, commissioned Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in 1909 to create a mermaid statue.
Eriksen created the topless, girl-sized bronze and used his wife, a ballet dancer, as model. The statue was ready in 1913.
Little Mermaid
Files for Separation
Ricki Lake
Talk show host Ricki Lake and her husband of nine years have filed for a separation, according to court documents.
Lake and husband Rob Sussman have two boys, Milo, 6, and Owen, 2. Court documents show the couple filed for a legal separation Aug. 13.
The 34-year-old has hosted the syndicated "Ricki Lake" show since 1993. She and her husband lived in New York for eight years before moving earlier this year to Los Angeles.
Ricki Lake
Unveils WWII Relics
Shrinking Danube
As the mass of tangled iron emerged from the water, wide-eyed townspeople marveled at the catch, a World War II German military jeep, coughed up by the drought-shrunken Danube River.
Batina fire chief Josip Valkai ran an expert eye over the so-called Kuebelwagen just dragged out by a truck. "The Volkswagen insignia and motor in the rear make it a dead giveaway," he said. "So does the faintly visible Nazi swastika on gasoline cans we found tucked inside."
Until now, the leftovers on this pivotal battlefield have been small — spent cartridges, the occasional skull. But as months of drought have drained the Danube to its lowest level in a century, larger relics are coming to light.
Among the items awaiting recovery this week are a tank whose turret surfaced several days ago and an armored personnel carrier.
For a lot more, Shrinking Danube
Top 20 Rankings
Basic Cable Networks
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Aug. 11-17. Each ratings point represents 1,067,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. Movie: "Red Water" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), TBS, 4.1, 4.4 million homes.
2. Auto Racing: Michigan 400 (Sunday, 2 p.m.), TNT, 4.0, 4.21 million homes.
3. "Nefertiti Resurrected" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), Discovery, 3.3, 3.47 million homes.
4. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.2, 3.41 million homes.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 3.0, 3.18 million homes.
6. NFL Exhibition Football: Philadelphia vs. New Orleans (Monday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 2.9, 3.08 million homes.
7. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.7, 2.9 million homes.
8. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.87 million homes.
9. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.85 million homes.
10. Movie: "Deep Blue Sea" (Sunday, 6 p.m.), TBS, 2.5, 2.63 million homes.
11. Movie: "A Date With Darkness" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Lifetime, 2.5, 2.62 million homes.
12. "The Cheetah Girls" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.4, 2.58 million homes.
13. "Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.3, 2.44 million homes.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 4:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.2, 2.39 million homes.
15. Movie: "Red Water" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), TBS, 2.2, 2.38 million homes.
Basic Cable Networks
Caprice the Greyhound is seen in a convertible car wearing sunglasses as her owner Oliver Luik drives in Munich August 22, 2003. The special sunglasses which protect dog's eyes from the wind and the sun and are available in three different sizes.
Photo by Alexandra Winkler
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Ark Group reunites and Flazer fulfills his destiny.
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