'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Mr. Hawk Reviews
'Andromeda'
This weeks episode gave us a lot more hope for an improved season. Apart
from the fact that Romie is now Doyle (like we didn't know she was built out
of spare parts), we were shown a lot tighter scripting than we saw last
season. While the ending was slightly predictable and there is still too
much use of false drama, we are seeing the show put together some very
interesting scenes.
This show also gives us one of the possible futures for
the series. An android rebellion. While not original (the Clone Wars, B5's
telepath wars) if they carry it thru they could have a winner. It also looks
like someone has been going over the old scripts and noticed the "in" jokes
that were a part of the first season. This week Dylan reached into a weapons
locker and pulled out a sword. Nice touch.
A reminder that Farscape The Peacekeeper Wars begins on Sunday at 9:00 EDT
on sci fi. I'll try to review but as I will have to tape it and then view it
I may run a day late.
~ Mr. Hawk
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Link from Bruce
Jeff Blodgett
Reader Comment
Lynne Cheney's 'Sisters'
I did a little searching for Lynne Cheney's novel
"Sisters" and found something interesting.
It's a novel set in the Old West, and apparently deals
with some topics that Republicans just can't deal
with: prostituion, multiple-partner sex, and a
lesbian affair. Geez, how's come I missed this when
it was first out during the 80's?
In any case, if you go to Amazon, you can find a used copy for $500.
I think I'm going to make a few trips to the used book
stores.
Roma
Thanks, Roma!
Here's a sample chapter (Chapter 6) of Lynne Cheney's 'Sisters'.
And here's a pretty good read about Lynne Cheney (including her denial of Mary to Cokie Roberts [20 July, 2000]), and the secrets of 'Sisters'.
Reader Comment
Re: Condi
Condi is a browns fan
This is no revelation to me and other Steeler fans, but it could help explain why the Browns are evil.
Source
I hope that the Browns fans will realize that their
team is flirting with evil forces and that the
Halloween season does not make this a laughing matter.
(However, the Browns are always a laughing matter,
but that's another topic.)
Mick
Thanks, Mick!
Somewhere in the archives is an interview with Condi where she said her dream job would be football commissioner.
I grew up in Steelers territory, and the kid next door was a Browns fan - it was the closest he ever came to rebelling.
Back when the real Browns went to Baltimore & became Ravens, he saw the light & now lives to diss them.
from Mark
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Bill O'Reilly: Vibrator Commentator
Thanks, Bruce!
Paul Berenson
Another Side of the News
Thanks to computer redistricting, in 2002 98.5% of incumbents were returned to the US House. The framers of the Constitution designed the House to be the most competitive, shifting with popular opinion. Now the nonpartisan Center for Voting and Democracy says we're getting back to the divine right of kings.
Closer to home, the Santa Barbara City Council voted to put Measure A on the ballot. If it's approved they will get a pay raise from about $9,600 per year to around $32,000/yr. The Mayor goes from about $14,000/yr. to $40,000/yr. We should all be so lucky! The reason: so ordinary people can run for office. They forget to mention that people who work for a living can't take off 6 months to campaign or raise the $10,000 - $20,000 to run a competitive race.
Supporters say the money is already in the system. Who cares if a library or two closes? We can cut some after school programs for poor kids. They can't hire lobbyists, and besides, they don't even give campaign contributions!
Tune in to "Another Side of the News" with Paul Berenson, Saturdays 9am-10am (PDT) on KCSB-FM 91.9 or listen on our webcast
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Give Paul a listen - he's smart & funny.
Reader Comment
Trailer Park Sued
Love the website!
I didn't know if you were aware of this story
Essentially the Senior V.P. for Sinclair Broadcasting is being sued for violating federal fair housing law. Here is a quote from the story
"Todd Village has a clear connection to Sinclair Broadcasting, and I think that has caused a lot of interest in this case. And I wanted to make the point that when we first got involved in addressing the complaints of the people in Todd Village, we really didn't know who owned it and it really didn't matter," Coffey said.
Spudhawk
Thanks, Spudhawk!
Atrios provides some more interesting reading on the extracurricular activities of the gentle folk at
Sinclair. Back in September of 1996, David Deniston Smith, their president & ceo, "was arrested ... and charged with committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, city police said."
Quite a bastion of virtue, ethics & morality...and republican family values.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, but cooler.
If all goes well, the last kitten, Pepper, will be adopted this morning.
Spanks Tucker Carlson
Jon Stewart
STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
STEWART: You need to go to one.
The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk...
CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
STEWART: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey.
and
STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show. (LAUGHTER)
CARLSON: Now, you're getting into it. I like that.
CNN - Crossfire Transcript
Or, if you prefer video clips -
Part I
Part II
Part III
The Lincoln Bedroom - WTF?
Pickles, The Re-Decorator
Even now, the White House - or at least one room, the Lincoln bedroom - is being redecorated for President Bush's second term. The famous long bed will remain; so will the original Emancipation Proclamation in its glass case. But, dominating the room, above the bed, will be placed a large carved crown from which will flow, ceiling to floor, royal purple satin drapes. The crown has been sent to be gilded with gold in anticipation of Bush's triumphant return from his campaign.
Read the rest - The Lincoln Bedroom
and:
Whatever Election Day holds for her husband, Laura Bush is about to establish her own White House legacy in a bold transformation of the Lincoln Bedroom.
When completed later this fall, the nation's most famous guest room will retain the celebrated rosewood bed bought by Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861 as its centerpiece. Flamboyant rococo revival furniture by renowned cabinetmaker John Henry Belter will remain. And a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed in the room in 1863, will still be available for late-night perusal, in a glass case on a polished antique desk.
Heady hues of emerald green, golden yellow and deep purple will carpet the floor, drape the windows and envelop the massive, 6-foot-tall carved headboard. Walls will be papered in a restrained palette of cream tones -- a nod to contemporary tastes -- but the pattern has been derived from the Victorian Age. Two elaborate cornices such as might have topped windows in Lincoln's day have been carved and sent to the gilders. An opulent white marble mantel was commissioned to better complement a rococo-style mirror installed last summer.
The piece de resistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It, too, has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor.
More Lincoln Bedroom
AFI Lifetime Award
George Lucas
After creating "Star Wars," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "American Graffiti," Darth Vader might insist it was George Lucas' DESTINY to get the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award.
Lucas, 60, was picked on Friday to be the recipient of the organization's 33rd annual prize, following such recent recipients as Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks.
The gala dinner and ceremony, in which clips of his films will be presented by many of the stars he worked with over the years, is set to take place next June in Los Angeles.
George Lucas
Pre-Election TV Special Nixed
Michael Moore
The cable pay-per-view company iN DEMAND has backed away from a plan to show a three-hour election eve special with filmmaker Michael Moore that included the first television showing of his documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The company said Friday it would not air "The Michael Moore Pre-Election Special" due to "legitimate business and legal concerns." A spokesman would not elaborate.
The New York-based iN DEMAND, owned by the Time Warner, Cox and Comcast cable companies, makes pay-per-view programming available in 28 million homes, or about one-quarter of the nation's homes with television.
Michael Moore
Launches Get-Out-Vote Campaign
Leonardo DiCaprio
Before taking to the skies, Leonardo DiCaprio has rounded up some celebrity friends to weigh in on campaign issues.
DiCaprio, who stars as billionaire Howard Hughes in the upcoming film, "The Aviator," helped craft a set of public service announcements encouraging young people to vote in the Nov. 2 election.
He appears in the mostly black-and-white spots with six other actors and musicians including Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin and Samuel L. Jackson.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Guide to Wine
John Cleese
Since when does a Python worry about what kind of wine to have with a meal? Monty Python comedy veteran John Cleese decided to crush his grapes of ignorance and explore just what all the gourmet magazines and wine experts are talking about.
"I felt it was a shame that something that is such a source of pleasure should have become restricted by all this snobbery," Cleese told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his Santa Barbara, Calif. home - which is nestled close to the state's wine country.
The result: a new Food Network special "John Cleese's Wine for the Confused" (Sunday, 10 p.m. EDT) which explores everything from what words to use to describe flavor to how to take the wind out of a snooty restaurant sommelier.
John Cleese
Photo Collection Nets $900,000
Elton John
Is Elton John's fortune going multimedia? The British pop star, who usually makes his living tickling the ivories, netted $900,000 Thursday night by auctioning off a collection of photographs taken by some of the world's most famous photographers.
The top earner was a 1988 black-and-white Robert Mapplethorpe photo of a vase holding white tulips, netting $83,650, said Rik Pike, a spokesman for auction house Christie's New York.
In all, 73 of 78 photos offered were sold, many for well above presale estimates. All auction prices included Christie's 19.5 percent commission.
Elton John
Dali-Disney Collaboration Premieres
'Destino'
A narrow waisted, emerald-eyed brunette flits through a desert full of melting clocks and wacky perspectives, looking for her lover. Giant telephones levitate. Bicyclists with bread loaf helmets pedal by.
No, it's not a delusion - it's "Destino," a film by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney. Only six-minutes long, the fantastical jewel packs enough symbols to keep art historians and psychologists busy for years.
Begun in 1946 but shelved because of financial difficulties, the film was finally completed in 2003 by Roy E. Disney, Disney's nephew and son of Walt Disney Co.'s co-founder. It is showing for the first time in New York City as the centerpiece of a new exhibit at Animazing Gallery.
Roy Disney became interested in "Destino" while working on the movie "Fantasia 2000," and decided to animate it after learning that, legally, the company did not own Dali's work until the film had been completed in the manner first intended. He and director Dominique Monfery had the original recording of Armando Dominguez's ballad, "Destino," and the memories of studio artist John Hench, who worked with Dali on the story, as guides.
'Destino'
Covers Beatles, Stones for New Boxed Set
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne has returned to his satanic roots by recording a version of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" for an upcoming covers CD.
The disc, one of four to be featured in a boxed set due next February, also includes fresh takes on the Beatles' "In My Life," King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" and Arthur Brown's "Fire," Osbourne told Reuters in an interview at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday.
Mott the Hoople singer Ian Hunter shares vocals with Osbourne on the glam band's signature song "All the Young Dudes." Leslie West reprises his guitar work on power trio Mountain's "Mississippi Queen," and he "still absolutely kicks ass," Osbourne said.
The three other discs will include demos, rarities and outtakes from Osbourne's solo career, which began after he was kicked out of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1978.
Ozzy Osbourne
New CD
William Shatner
Just in time for Halloween comes a CD from a guy more likely to inspire a holiday costume than a musical following - William Shatner. The one-time James T. Kirk of "Star Trek" fame has released an 11-song collection this month, a follow-up to his 1968 spoken-word debut that garnered such critical infamy it became a camp classic.
So it must be asked: Is this a trick or a treat?
"It's a treat for me," Shatner, 73, said by telephone from Los Angeles, where he was taping an episode of "Boston Legal," his latest TV show. "I hope nobody turns a trick on it."
The new album - slyly titled "Has Been" - once again puts Shatner's choppy, emphasis-added words to music. But this time he's penned his own lyrics and tempered the cheese quotient with a few musical friends. Ben Folds, who produced and arranged the new album and co-wrote many of the songs, wrangled guest appearances by Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins and Brad Paisley.
For a lot more, William Shatner
The New 'Boss Hogg'
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson are in final negotiations to join Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson in the big-screen version of "The Dukes of Hazzard."
Reynolds, most recently in theaters with the hit comedy "Without a Paddle," would play the evil Boss Hogg, a role played in the original 1979-1985 CBS show by the late Sorrell Booke.
Nelson would play Uncle Jesse, stepping in the shoes of the late Denver Pyle. Knoxville and Scott will play his good ol' boy nephews, Luke and Bo Duke, respectively, with Simpson on board as their sexy cousin, Daisy Duke.
Burt Reynolds
Wants to Rebut Film on TV
Kerry Campaign
Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, contending that Sinclair Broadcast Group wants to help resident Bush by airing an anti-Kerry documentary two weeks before the election, asked on Friday that each station carrying the program provide a similar amount of time to Kerry supporters.
Sinclair has contended that the program is news, covering an issue of interest and importance to viewers, and has invited Kerry to appear on a post-broadcast program. Kerry has declined.
A call for comment about the Kerry campaign request was not answered at Sinclair's main phone number in Hunt Valley, Md.
Kerry Campaign
Snubs Roman Appearance
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro was a no-show at his scheduled appearance to promote a film festival he founded. The American actor failed to appear with Rome authorities Friday, hours after he refused to accept an honor from the city of Milan, angering the mayor.
There was no explanation as to why he turned down the award Thursday, but the fury over his conduct apparently led him to cancel his appearance in Rome to promote an Italian showcase at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
De Niro has been stung by accusations that his Mafia-thug roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans. The Order Sons of Italy in America wrote to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship.
Robert De Niro
Tell-All Book
Tatum O'Neal
Former child movie star Tatum O'Neal is spilling the beans on the antics of her famous father and his pals in a shocking tell-all book that has Hollywood quaking.
O'Neal, now 40, claimed she was sexually abused by a friend of Ryan O'Neal, dragged to an opium orgy at the age of 12 by film star Melanie Griffith and fought off advances from a young Michael Jackson.
The actress, who became the youngest Oscar winner in history when she won the best supporting actress award for 1973's "Paper Moon" when she was 10, also suggested that her father may have punched her out jealousy.
Tatum O'Neal
Reveals Secret Daughter
Ingmar Bergman
In a book to be published Monday, iconoclastic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman reveals that he fathered a daughter outside of one of his five marriages, a secret he had kept for 45 years, his publisher said.
Bergman, 86, who is widely considered one of cinema's greatest directors, writes in the book he is the father of Maria von Rosen, whose mother Ingrid von Rosen later married Bergman 12 years after the girl was born, Susanne Nystroem, a spokeswoman for Norstedt's publishing house in Stockholm, told The Associated Press on Friday.
The book, which is co-authored by Bergman and Maria von Rosen, consists of their respective diary entries written around the time Ingrid von Rosen died of cancer in 1995, after a 24-year marriage to Bergman. It is called "Tre dagboecker," or "Three diaries."
Ingmar Bergman
Auction to Showcase Big Names
Heavy Metal
Headbangers, get out your checkbooks. Your chance to own a piece of heavy metal history is finally here. An auction of items from the genre's biggest names, including Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS and Van Halen, is scheduled for Nov. 6 at the Hard Rock Cafe in midtown Manhattan, organizers said Friday.
Online bidding for what's billed as the first metal auction will also occur at www.julienentertainment.com.
More than 100 lots are up for sale, including the original album cover artwork from Metallica's "Master of Puppets," expected to bring up to $7,000; the 1989 MTV Music Award given to Guns N' Roses for the "Sweet Child O' Mine" video ($3,000-$5,000); and an electric bass played by late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton ($7,000-$9,000).
Heavy Metal
`No More Bush' Campaign
Porn Stars
A group of porn stars who want to get George W. Bush out of office are taking the slogan "No More Bush" quite literally.
The "No More Bush Girls" -- eight porn queens including Angel Cassidy, Lisa Boyle and Penthouse Pet Sunny Leone -- have shaved off their "downstairs locks" because as Cassidy puts it, "We want to use our bodies to speak our minds to get rid of Bush. Sometimes your voice doesn't get enough attention."
She says she speaks for most of the adult industry who want Dubya gone because of his efforts to crack down on porn.
Porn Stars
