'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Review
'Andromeda'
I just watched the new season's first episode of 'Andromeda'. I was very
interested on how they were going to do this since they killed off most of
the characters in the last episode..
First thing I noticed is that its no
longer 'Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda', just 'Andromeda'. That alone makes me very
skeptical about its future.
Our brave Captain Hunt, sole survivour of the attack on the world
ship, falls to ground somewhere. Even he can't figure out where. From
High space opera to once upon a time in the future west. The only person
from his old crew he meets up with is Rhade who has become the Dean
Martin of the outworld. Dean as in Rio Bravo.
The plot is trying for deepness but ends up being so predictable. Why bother
having Rhade say and try to kill Hunt, if he did the series would end right
there. So we know he won't. Unless the series begins to halt the descent
into false drama, we can officially say it's jump the shark time.
Since it's being continued next week I will watch but I won't say after
that. I also need to note that they used to provide scenes from the next
weeks shows, not this time. Makes you wonder why.
~ Mr. Hawk
Kerry/Edwards
At stake is our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor
Great job - thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Reader Comment
Re: Oprah
The $7,000 tax on the car was to be expected but since most of the winners were poor disadvantaged women my first thoughts were that they would be removed from welfare and medicaid even if they sold the car.
$28,500 income would remove most people from any government assistance program.
This could be a disaster for most of their families......
Pete
Excellent points - thanks, Paul!
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Another Side of the News
Bush actually claims we're winning the war in Iraq!!! What's this guy smoking??!!?? The CNN propaganda machine tries to marginalize and paint Kerry in a negative light when he attacks back, and Chimpy has now unleashed the ultimate weapon on America, Cat Stevens!!! Feeling safer now than in 2000? That's his whole campaign. Oh...Zogby Gives Kerry 297-241 lead in Electoral College
We'll talk about legislation in the House and Senate (companion bills: S89 and HR 163) which will reinstate the draft as early as spring, 2005. Bush sells Bunker Busters to Israel while Powell says all options are open for attacking Iran. PNAC has been advocating that since 1997.
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Reader Comment
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Bush/Cheney: We Make War By Choice
Thanks, Bruce!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Just a bit cooler.
Had to get the kid new shoes - he's 11 & now wearing a men's size 9.
Decided to take the night off & splurge on fast-food, so asked the kid to make the choice. Usually, Burger King wins, but today it was McDonald's.
When I asked him why, he said Burger King made his poop smell like Windex.
Herb Jeffries, a singing cowboy hero of the silver screen, along with his wife Savannah, left, takes the first step on his new star along the Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, following dedication ceremonies on his 93rd birthday, Friday, Sept. 24, 2004. Jeffries was known as the 'Bronze Buckaroo,' the hero of a string of all-black musical Westerns in the 1930s, and also was an original member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the singer on the band's hit songs 'Flamingo' and 'Satin Doll' from the 1940s on.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Broadcasting 'Vote for Change' Finale
Sundance
Sundance Channel will broadcast the Vote for Change tour finale in Washington, D.C.
Along with live concert footage of the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band and James Taylor, "National Anthem: Inside the 'Vote for Change' Concert Tour" will feature pre-taped behind-the-scenes segments lensed by veteran filmmakers Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker.
Each of the dozen-plus artists are expected to perform for about 22 minutes at the Oct. 11 show, which wraps a 10-day blitz through upcoming presidential election battleground states.
"From the Kennedys to Dylan, the Beatles, and Stones, Al Maysles and D.A.Pennebaker are the pre-eminent observers of politics and music in our time," Sundance founder Robert Redford said. "Sundance is pleased to present these legendary filmmakers' view of the collision between pop culture and politics at this fascinating moment in U.S. history."
Sundance
Doesn't Plan to Vote
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota told an audience at the University of Illinois in Urbana that he won't vote in the presidential election because he doesn't like Democrat nominee John Kerry or resident George W. Bush.
"Look at the position I'm in," said Ventura, who served as Minnesota governor from 1999-2003. "If I vote for John Kerry, I'm going to get my taxes raised."
Bush won't get his vote because of the president's positions on social issues, including his opposition to gay marriage and stem cell research, Ventura said.
"It scares me when a president says he won't support stem cell research because it goes against God," Ventura said Wednesday. "I have news for you. If you're waiting for God to cure Alzheimer's, then we are going to be waiting a long time."
Jesse Ventura
Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour plays Fender Stratocaster 001 on stage at the Strat Pack Concert held at London's Wembley Arena, Friday Sept. 24, 2004. The Strat Pack concert was Celebrating 50 years of the iconic guitar in which musicians payed homage to the Fender Stratocaster at charity concert for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
Photo by Richard Lewis
Set to Pull Reporters
German TV
Germany's biggest television network, ARD, said on Friday it planned to pull out its two correspondents in Iraq after a foreign ministry warning that German journalists could be singled out for kidnappings.
Separately, the Spanish government has recommended to media that they withdraw their correspondents from Iraq following the increase in attacks and kidnappings there, the newspaper El Mundo said on its Web site on Friday.
More than 100 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq since April in a deepening campaign, among them two French journalists who are still being held. Most hostages have been released, but around 30 have been killed.
German TV
Says Mike Wallace Inspired Him
O'Really
Bill O'Reilly has revealed an unlikely factor in his career: Mike Wallace. The host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" says on this Sunday's "60 Minutes" that Wallace made a strong impression on him when he was growing up.
O'Reilly explains that he was inspired by Wallace's tough questioning on "Night Beat" and "The Mike Wallace Interviews" in the late 1950s. He claims, "If you don't like me, you go to Wallace."
A surprised Wallace asks O'Reilly if he is serious. "No spin," replies O'Reilly, echoing his program's No Spin Zone. "I mean, I'm serious about everything."
O'Reilly, long a favorite of conservatives, surprised Wallace with some of his views on political issues.
He said he is pro-gun control, against the death penalty, for civil unions and for gay adoption (as a last resort instead of state custody). And O'Reilly said he's not necessarily voting for resident Bush this November.
"I've known (Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry for 25 years. He's a patriot. I'm listening to what he has to say," he tells Wallace.
O'Really
U.S. actor Jeff Bridges delivers his acceptance speech as he holds the Donostia award during a ceremony at the San Sebastian's International Flim Festival in Spain September 24, 2004. Bridges was honored with this award for his lifetime achievement.
Photo by Pablo Sanchez
Filming Resumes
'The Real Gilligan's Island'
Filming has resumed on a "Gilligan's Island" reality show after the Gulf of Mexico island where it is being shot was evacuated for Hurricane Ivan last week.
The Atlanta-based cable network TBS said "The Real Gilligan's Island" - based on the '60s comedy that starred Bob Denver - will premiere as scheduled on Nov. 30.
"The Real Gilligan's Island" will feature seven castaways: a real-life skipper, a first mate, a millionaire couple, a movie star, a professor and an innocent farm girl. The show will pit them against the elements to see if they can devise a way to get off the island.
'The Real Gilligan's Island'
Joining New 'Law & Order'
Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth, who played Lilith the psychiatrist on the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier," is getting serious with a role as the latest member of the "Law & Order" family. Neuwirth will play a tough Manhattan prosecutor in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury," coming to NBC next year.
She joins actor Jerry Orbach, who's moving over from the original "Law & Order" series.
An air date for the new "Law & Order" has not been announced.
Bebe Neuwirth
To Serve Time In France
Bertrand Cantat
Lithuania will allow French rock singer Bertrand Cantat, imprisoned in Vilnius for the murder of his French actress girlfriend, to return to France next week to serve out the remainder of his eight-year sentence, his lawyer said.
Cantat, 41, lead singer of the group Noir Desir, was jailed for eight years on March 29 for beating his French girlfriend Marie Trintignant to death during a row in a Vilnius hotel a year ago. The case drew a great deal of attention in France.
Trintignant, the daughter of veteran French film star Jean-Louis Trintignant, had been in Vilnius to shoot a television movie about the French writer Colette, directed by her mother Nadine, when she was killed.
Bertrand Cantat
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, right, will be auctioning off a one-of-a-kind Cabbage Patch Kid in her likeness to benefit The American Red Cross and Noahs Wish, to aid in their efforts to help those affected by the hurricanes, as seen during a taping of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' at NBC Studios in Burbank, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004. This episode airs Monday. Viewers can bid for it on ebay beginning Monday noon, Pacific Time.
Photo by Jason Merritt
Mormon-Mocking Halftime Show
Stanford Band
Stanford Athletic Director Ted Leland publicly apologized and the Stanford Band agreed to impose sanctions on itself after it performed a halftime show that mocked Mormonism at a home football game against Brigham Young University on Sept. 11.
Spokespeople for both the Athletic Department and the Stanford Band refused to say what the sanctions were, though The Daily has learned that they include - and may be limited to - a formal apology and a one-game suspension for Band announcer Mark Ruben, a recent Stanford graduate.
The halftime show, whose script was approved by the Athletic Department, featured several jabs at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which sponsors BYU.
Most controversial was a swipe at polygamy in which the Band's assistant manager, senior Tom Hennessy, pretended to marry all five Dollies, who donned wedding veils for the skit. Ruben spoke through the public address system about the sacred bond "between a man and a woman . . . and a woman . . . and a woman . . . and a woman . . . and a woman."
Stanford Band
Cheesemakers take a round of cheese out of storage to pile it in lots during the annual 'Kaesteilet' in the Justi valley in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland September 24, 2004. In September the landowners and their families gather on the Spycher mountain where the cheese stores are located. The cheeses made during the summer on the alps are taken from storage and piled in lots and allocated by lottery.
Photo by Ruben Sprich
Brother Loses Claim
Jimi Hendrix Estate
The brother of rock legend Jimi Hendrix is not entitled to any money from the guitarist's estate, a Seattle judge ruled on Friday.
King County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell ruled instead that Janie Hendrix, stepsister to Jimi and to Leon who brought the lawsuit, will continue to manage the bulk of the estimated $80 million estate.
Jimi Hendrix died in London in 1970. His father Al Hendrix eventually received the rights to his music but died himself in 2002. He left the bulk of his estate to his daughter Janie, whom he adopted after marrying her mother.
The judge also ruled on Friday that Janie and her cousin Bob Hendrix should be removed as trustees of that trust fund, saying the pair had breached their administrative duties.
Jimi Hendrix Estate
In Memory
Francoise Sagan
French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
"Francoise Sagan died today," said Yves Buzen, spokesman for the hospital in Honfleur, in Normandy, where she died. He said she had spent the last few days there and died of heart failure, but gave no other details.
Sagan was born in 1935 into a wealthy family, and burst onto the literary scene with Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) in 1954, a tale about spoilt children of the bourgeoisie.
The story of a 17-year-old girl's plot to break up her father's engagement to his former mistress was seen as a breath of fresh air and was an immediate success. It was later translated into many other languages.
Also a playwright and screenwriter, Sagan was known for her dispassionate portrayals of bored, amoral middle-class people.
Sagan was found guilty of fiscal fraud and given a 12-month suspended jail sentence in 2002 for not declaring 830,000 euros (then $723,600) to the tax authorities.
Francoise Sagan
A model walks down the side of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 508-meter (1,667-foot) Taipei 101, performing in the first vertical catwalk in Asia on September 24, 2004.
Photo by Richard Chung
