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Selected Saturday Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The nice weather remains.
The kid got back from science camp, bones & teeth intact.
While he had a great time, what seems to have impressed him most of all was the food.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS begins the evening with the Season Premiere of '48 Hours', followed by the Season Premiere
of 'Hack', then the Season Premiere of 'The District'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'Jerry Maguire'.
SNL is 'The Best of Chris Kattan'. Season Premiere next week.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Remember The Titans'.
The WB fill the night with the movie 'Lock Up'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Cops', followed by another 'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN here is baseball with Rupert's Doggers still visiting the Giants in San Francisco.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a RERUN of a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'.
AMC offers the movie 'Castle Keep', followed by the movie 'The Two Jakes', and then the movie 'Dillinger'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[8pm] 'Circus';
[10pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - The Problem at Gallows Gate-Part 2;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Chris Klein/Freddie Prinze Jr.;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Katie Holmes;
[12am] 'Jonathan Creek' - The Problem at Gallows Gate-Part 2;
[1am] 'Circus';
[3am] 'Being There'; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Philadelphia', then the movie 'Philadelphia', again.
History has 'History Undercover', 'Come Home Alive', and 'Dead Reckoning'.
SciFi has the movie 'Firestarter: Rekindled', followed by the movie 'Stephen King's the Night Flier', then 'Clive Barker's Lord Of Illusions'.
TCM -
[6am] 'Plymouth Adventure' (1952);
[8am] 'Beneath The 12-Mile Reef' (1953);
[10am] 'Born To Kill' (1947);
[12pm] 'Cattle King' (1963);
[1:30pm] 'Big House, U.S.A.' (1955);
[3pm] 'Ice Station Zebra' (1968);
[6pm] 'Kim' (1950);
[8pm] 'Boys' Night Out' (1962);
[10pm] 'It Started With A Kiss' (1959);
[12am] 'Lili' (1953);
[1:30am] 'Last Time I Saw Paris' (1954);
[3:30am] 'Don't Go Near The Water' (1957); and
[5:30 am] 'Festival of Shorts #24' (2000). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Former President Bill Clinton, takes a tour of a Princeton Review SAT/ACT prep class, Friday, Sept. 26, 2003 at Dunbar Magnet Middle School in Little Rock, Ark. Clinton announced Friday that the William J. Clinton Foundation and The Princeton Review will begin providing instructor training and after-school programs.
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Set For TV Return
'Doctor Who'
Legendary science fiction hero Doctor Who is time jumping once more, set to return to television more than a decade after he disappeared into space, the BBC says.
The cult series that aired from 1963-1989 to become the world's longest-running science fiction programme will return in 2005, but details about the new shows are being kept secret.
The original programmes chronicled the adventures of eight Doctors and their many companions who battled countless foes - human, alien and most notoriously the "Daleks" - as they travelled through time and space in a time machine disguised as a police phone box.
'Doctor Who'
To Comply With ADA
16 Broadway Theaters
Half the theaters on Broadway, including some of its most famous stages, will become fully accessible to disabled people under an agreement announced Thursday between the landlord and the government.
Work on the 16 landmark theaters operated by the Shubert Organization is to be finished by year's end.
The organization has spent $5 million over several years to improve wheelchair seating areas, restrooms, entrances, exits, ticket windows, concession areas and drinking fountains. But legalities formally bringing the theaters into compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act were completed only this week.
Under ADA regulations, 1 percent of all seats must be set aside for disabled people, as well as another 1 percent for companions; both the best and the least expensive tickets must be available.
16 Broadway Theaters
Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards speaks out in support of Gov. Gray Davis, left, during an anti-recall rally in West Hollywood, Calif., Friday, Sept. 26, 2003.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Stamps Sell for $2,000
John Lennon
Stamps designed by John Lennon to support a strike by postal workers sold for $2,000, double the pre-sale estimate, auctioneers at Sotheby's said.
The stamps, which depict a clenched fist, were part of a sale of rock 'n' roll and film memorabilia auctioned Wednesday at London's Olympia exhibition hall. The buyer and seller weren't identified.
A 1960s table from Lennon's former home at Weybridge, south of London, went for $3,800, and a signed copy of "Revolver," one of the band's most celebrated albums, sold for $34,000. But a collection of photographs of the Beatles in Adelaide, Australia, which had been expected to fetch $24,000, failed to sell.
John Lennon
Sponsors Face Charge for Stunt
David Blaine
American magician David Blaine's 44-day stunt of starving himself in a Perspex box in London will be more costly than he thinks -- the television company filming him has been hit with a bill from the capital's police force.
Thousands of Britons, including ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, have turned up to see 30-year-old Blaine suspended in his box from a crane above the River Thames since he began his quest to go 44 days without food on September 5.
But many have come to taunt him rather than admire his feat of endurance. Women have bared their breasts, onlookers have waved hamburgers, some have tried to hit his box with golf balls fired from nearby Tower Bridge and others have thrown eggs.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's Sky television is paying Blaine an undisclosed fee to show the incarceration on two channels around the clock.
David Blaine
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Stomach Problems During Tour
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley says she was suffering physically when she went on her first tour, opening for Chris Isaak.
"I was having a lot of stomach problems and acid reflux and this and that," she said in a telephone interview published Thursday in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"I had to fly home at one point and get an endoscopy on one of my days off. ... I flew back and I was on stage the next night."
"It was like a crucifixion to some degree," she said of the reviews. "I was on the frying pan. Every reviewer was there every night. That's not going to happen with the normal opening act. So I'm trying to be upfront about it. I wasn't trying to be dramatic about it, but I was having a really hard time."
Lisa Marie Presley
A Bangladeshi girl carries water lily plants for sale after collecting them from a swamp on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, September 26, 2003. The water-lily is the national flower of Bangladesh and is also a popular food.
Photo by Rafiqur Rahman
High School May Become Theater
James Dean
The stage of the Indiana high school where James Dean developed his acting skills could become a community theater.
"We'd like to restore that third floor and turn it into a community performing arts center," said Ray Willey, chief executive of Historic Properties Inc., which is handling the $1.6 million renovation of Fairmount High School.
As many as 30,000 people are expected to visit the town of less than 3,000 beginning Friday for the annual James Dean festival. An annual re-creation of his funeral procession will be held Tuesday.
James Dean
www.jamesdean.com/fans/festival
Selling Restored Chevy on eBay
James Hetfield
Metallica singer James Hetfield is selling the black 1967 Chevrolet Camaro he drove in the band's video for "I Disappear" on eBay for charity.
With seven days left in the online auction, the latest bid by Thursday morning was $70,100, up from a starting offer of $8,000. Proceeds will be donated to music programs in schools.
The car can be found at http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2 434079357.
James Hetfield
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Cancels Birthday Appearance
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Jerry Lee Lewis fan club had announced a celebration Saturday at the singer's farm in Nesbit for his 68th birthday. But a message Thursday on www.jerryleelewis.com said:
"Mr. Lewis has canceled his appearance and does not wish for the event to be held at The Lewis Ranch. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The Fan Club will be providing a gathering for the ticket holders, who are devoted Jerry Lee Lewis fans, with live music, fun and food."
Kerrie Lewis has been advertising the "5th Annual Jerry Lee Lewis World Fan Club Convention" to correspond with her estranged husband's birthday. Fan club members paid $200 a ticket to attend.
Kerrie Lewis is president of Lewis' JKL Enterprises Inc. fan club.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Le Réseau Voltaire, un groupe français de défense de la liberté d'expression, a publié un jeu de cartes représentant les "52 plus dangereux dignitaires américains", pour parodier les cartes des dirigeants irakiens distribuées par l'armée américaine à ses soldats.
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Host Apologizes for Remarks
Hate Radio
A radio talk-show host apologized for an on-air racial slur against the city's black mayor and said he will stay off the air indefinitely and attend diversity training.
Bob Lonsberry, who was suspended for a week by WHAM radio, has persistently baited Mayor William Johnson Jr., a Democrat running for Monroe County executive in the November election.
In taped remarks that aired Monday on his show, handled by a guest host, the 44-year-old Lonsberry apologized for "any interpretation of my words which would appear to be racist."
He made a stronger apology in a statement late Thursday: "I sincerely apologize for my offensive comments. ... Further, I want to personally extend my heartfelt apology to Mayor Bill Johnson. I am sorry for the pain I've caused by my shameful comments."
Hate Radio
Publisher Embraces Unpopular Books
Lyle Stuart
Lyle Stuart knows many of the books he publishes are objectionable to the average American, but he still wants people to be able to read how to make bombs and to learn the inner thoughts of a pedophile.
Stuart, 81-year-old president of maverick publisher Barricade Books Inc., is an old hand at testing the limits of free speech and believes people should not be told what they can read. "The strength of this nation is its First Amendment, its freedom to express all kinds of ideas, and that the public has to make their own determination," Stuart said in a recent interview at his Fort Lee, New Jersey, office.
"You can best describe me as a First Amendment fanatic because this is something I very deeply believe in," said Stuart whose career as a reporter started after he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
For the rest, Lyle Stuart
Ghost Radio
KCDX
Adam Marsland, an indie rock singer-songwriter who, by his own accounts, spends most of his life on the road, discovered KCDX purely by accident one day while riding in his tour bus across the Arizona desert.
"I usually don't listen to the radio because it seems like it's always the same old crap, no matter what city you're in," says the 30-ish guitarist from L.A., currently on tour with John Mayer and the Counting Crows. "But one day I was flipping around the dial, and I heard a song that I never heard before that was kind of odd. Then I heard another song I didn't know, then another one, then a song I kinda knew, then a couple of songs by some bands I recognized, but they weren't the songs you usually heard by those artists. And it was really weird. I was calling up my friends in L.A., saying, Who does that song called "Creature From the Black Lagoon"? Was that Dave Edmunds? Well, they're playing that on the radio here!' And they're like, No way!'"
Weirdest of all, Marsland heard absolutely no commercials on the station, all the way from Globe until nearly New Mexico, where the signal finally faded out. "It was like Internet radio, but on the airwaves," he says.
Marsland figured the station was a bizarre fluke, sure to be gone by the time his tour circled back to California. But sure enough, when Marsland passed through Arizona again weeks later, there it was, "still commercial-free and still playing one classic rock obscurity after another," he recalls.
The only interruption Marsland heard was a recorded station ID that flew by once on the hour, announcing "103.1, KCDX, Florence."
For the rest of a great read, KCDX
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Australia Says Good-Bye
Slim Dusty
Australian country music icon Slim Dusty was farewelled at a state funeral which saw Prime Minister John Howard belting out beer-drinking songs in Sydney's normally sedate Anglican cathedral.
The service at Sydney's St Andrews Anglican was broadcast live on three television channels and mourners from across the country travelled thousands of kilometres for the event.
Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett said Slim, real name David Kirkpatrick, had a career spanning more than 60 years that took him all over his beloved outback.
Garrett said Slim was the first artist to tour Australia's remote Aboriginal communities and was a figure cherished by indigenous people.
Howard, who has hailed Slim as an icon who redefined Australian country music, joined the congregation in singing the artist's biggest hit "The Pub With No Beer".
The 1957 song, about a stockman who travels hundreds of miles to the nearest pub only to find it dry, remains the top-selling single in Australian recording history.
Slim recorded a total of 105 albums over his career, after writing his first song "The Way the Cowboy Dies" at age 10.
His work linked US country music with the bush ballads of Australian poets such as Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson.
Slim performed the Australian standard "Waltzing Matilda" in front of a worldwide audience of four billion people at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Slim Dusty
In Memory
Stanley Fafara
Stanley Fafara, the actor who played Beaver's buddy "Whitey" on "Leave It to Beaver" and later struggled with drugs and alcohol, died Saturday following complications from a surgery last month. He was 54.
Fafara had been admitted to the hospital in late August for surgery on an intestine constricted by a hernia. He suffered complications from the surgery, including a blood clot in his leg and underwent two more operations, which weakened an already frail body.
Years earlier, Fafara had contracted hepatitis C while using drugs. The surgeries strained his liver and kidneys, all of which shut down during the past several weeks. On Saturday, he slipped into a coma, and the life-support machines were removed.
"Leave it to Beaver" aired from 1957 to 1963 and made Fafara a celebrity.
In the early 1980s, Fafara started breaking into California pharmacies for drugs before he was arrested and sent to jail. When he got out, he worked as a roofer, waiter and janitor, but eventually Fafara began dealing drugs.
In the summer of 1995, Fafara checked in at a detox center, stayed for two weeks and graduated to a clean-and-sober house for addicts where he lived for two years.
Stanley Fafara
In Memory
Robert Palmer
British rock star Robert Palmer, who struck a hit MTV image in the 1980s with his sharp suits and a backup band of mini-skirted, glossy-lipped models on songs like "Addicted to Love," died Friday in Paris of a heart attack.
Palmer died suddenly at the luxury Warwick Hotel near the Champs-Elysees after a calm night of dinner and a movie, his manager, Mick Cater, said. The singer had received a clean bill of health from doctors in Switzerland just a few weeks ago.
Palmer, who has lived in Switzerland for the last 16 years, was on a two-day break in Paris with his partner of 20 years, Mary Ambrose, following a television recording session in Britain, Cater said.
The impeccably dressed rocker scored big in the 1980s with hits including "Addicted to Love." He won a Grammy for that single in 1987 as best male rock vocal performance and another two years later for "Simply Irresistible."
A side project, Power Station, formed in 1985 with John Taylor and Andy Taylor of '80s supergroup Duran Duran, scored U.S. Top 10 singles with "Some Like It Hot" and a cover of the T. Rex hit "Get it On."
The son of a British naval officer, Palmer was born in Yorkshire, England on Jan. 19, 1949, and spent his childhood in Malta. He began developing his soul-rock style as early as 15, when he joined his first band, the Mandrakes. He had his first hit album and single, "Sneakin' Sally through the Alley," in 1974.
In his 20s, Palmer worked with a number of small-time bands including Dada, which later became Vinegar Joe, and the Alan Bown Band, occasionally appearing in opening acts for big draws including The Who and Jimi Hendrix.
Palmer is survived by Ambrose and two children — James, a musician who joined him on his last record, 2003's Drive, and Jane. A private ceremony will be held next week in Switzerland, said his publicist, Elizabeth Freund
Robert Palmer
In Memory
George Plimpton
George Plimpton, the gentleman editor, literary patron and "participatory journalist" whose fumbling exploits included boxing, trapeze-flying and, most famously, quarterbacking for the Detroit Lions, has died at 76.
Plimpton died Thursday night at his New York apartment, his longtime friend restaurateur Elaine Kaufman said Friday. She had no information on the cause.
Praised as a "central figure in American letters" when inducted in 2002 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Plimpton was beloved among writers for The Paris Review, the literary quarterly he helped found in 1953 and ran with boyish enthusiasm for 50 years.
Plimpton also enjoyed a lifetime of making literature out of nonliterary pursuits. He boxed with Archie Moore, pitched to Willie Mays and performed as a trapeze artist for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus. In his book "Paper Lion," he documented his punishing stint training with the NFL's Detroit Lions in 1963.
He acted in numerous movies, including "Reds" and "Good Will Hunting." He even supplied his voice for an episode of "The Simpsons," playing a professor who runs a spelling bee.
A native of New York, Plimpton was born into society — diplomat's son — and was a Harvard man with an upper-class accent.
Starting in the 1950s, when he began his vocation as a "participatory" journalist, he practiced the singular art of narrating panic. In a culture where millions fantasized about being movie stars or sports heroes, the lanky, wavy-haired Plimpton dared to enter the arena himself, with results both comic and instructive.
Just days before his death, Plimpton reunited with 40 Lions to mark the book's 40th anniversary. "We had a good time last weekend. I got to roast him a bit. I told him how he was a light in my life," said former Lions star Roger Brown.
Plimpton seemed to know everybody: writers, actors, athletes. He had deep connections to the political world, dating back to childhood, when Adlai Stevenson — the two-time presidential nominee — was a family friend and Jacqueline Kennedy a debutante he would see at dances.
Plimpton maintained a light touch in his work, but he knew tragedy firsthand. He was a volunteer with Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and was walking in front of him as the candidate was assassinated in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel.
Plimpton was married twice: to Freddy Medora Espy, whom he divorced in 1988, and to Sara Whitehead Dudley. He had four children.
George Plimpton
'Bubbles', a Manta Ray that has been part of the underwater exhibit at Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas for almost two years, is hoisted away by helicopter and released to the open ocean Wednesday, September 24, 2003. The twelve foot animal, began to outgrow its viewing facility at the resort, which is the home for over 50,000 fish and marine life.
Photo by Tim Aylen
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