'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
'I've Got You Under My Spell'
by alvin
MIDI
I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SPELL
{Sung to "I've Got You Under My Skin" by Cole Porter}
I've got you under my spell
I've got you deep in the heart of W
And deep in my heart I know I'm not really so smart
But I've got you under my spell
I tried to be cool to you
I said to myself, "This pRez will be the very best"
See, my underlings, I don't care, you all can go to hell
'Cause I've got you under my spell
I snatched away your rights in the middle of the night
For your sake don't tell me I'm fake
Listen to the warning voice that comes out my mouth
And repeats, will repeat in your face
You may call me a fool, you never can win
You doubt my integrity, wake up to reality
And each time, you will bow 'cause I'm W
Want me to stop before I begin?
'Cause I've got y'all under my spell
{break}
I snatched away your rights, in the middle of the night
For your sake don't tell me I'm fake
Listen to the warning voice that comes out my mouth
And repeats, will repeat in your face
You may call me a fool, but you'll never win
You had doubt my integrity, said I'm a carbon copy of Poppy
And each time, you will bow 'cause I'm W
Want me to stop before I begin?
'Cause I've got you under my spell
'Cause I've got you under my spell...
~~ alvin
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
It finally rained!
The kid woke up with another cold, and stayed home from school.
Got the birthday bike for the kid, but was unsuccessful in finding the Simpson's (Year 2) DVD. He'll have to make-do with Year 1 til Christmas.
It's finally late enough to bring the bike in from the garage. Think it'll look nice in the living room, right in front of the big TV. Harder to miss it that way, too.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS starts with a fresh 'Touched By An Angle', then a fresh 'The District', and caps it off with a fresh 'The Agency'.
NBC opens the night with 'Fat Albert Halloween' and then the movie 'Sleepy Hollow'. It's a RERUN 'Saturday Night Live'.
ABC has the movie 'Backdraft'.
The WB has the movie 'Angels In The Outfield'.
Faux has game 6 of the World Series (Go Giants!), and will fill what's left of primetime on the left coast with 'Cops'.
UPN has the movie 'A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton & Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Former President Clinton talks with Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at a campaign rally for Townsend at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Friday, Oct. 18, 2002.
Two days after Clinton's spouse, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., helped Townsend raise nearly $100,000 for her Democratic gubernatorial campaign, the former president paid
a visit expected to generate $500,000.
Photo by Roberto Borea
Schoharie Citizens Invited To Appear
David Letterman
Residents of this small town are debating the top 10 reasons why they should appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
Letterman has invited about 475 people who live or work in the upstate village to a taping of his show.
The show went as far as to advertise in a local paper, saying in the ad: "If you live or work in Schoharie, N.Y., you're eligible to receive a free trip to
and from New York City. . . . This show will feature people and locations that are near and dear to all Schoharians. And best of all, the entire audience
will be made up of Schoharie residents." The ad offered a toll-free number to obtain tickets.
Camera crews have been filming in the town, which is about 30 miles west of Albany. About 3,300 people live in Schoharie.
David Letterman
Warm Reception
Leonard Nimoy
Spurned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, former "Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy and his provocative photography got a warm reception at a synagogue.
About 450 people applauded Thursday night after Nimoy showed slides from his black-and-white art photo book "Shekhina," which includes images of unclad women with Jewish prayer garments and ritual accessories.
Many who came to Temple Beth Am said they wanted to show support for Nimoy. Some were Trekkies who wanted to see the actor who played Mr. Spock. Others came out of curiosity about
the flap, which drew national attention and was mentioned recently on "Saturday Night Live."
"Shekhina" is the mystical Jewish term for the feminine aspect of God.
"The book has awakened my own new interest in spirituality and given me a new pathway into it," Nimoy said before his presentation. "The real issue is not religious iconography,
it's not nudity, but the elevation of women in the hierarchy of the religion."
Leonard Nimoy
Parrothead Endorsement
Jimmy Buffett & Bill McBride
Singer Jimmy Buffett, left, and Bill McBride, the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, talk as they walk towards the media, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2002, at
the downtown seaplane airpark in Miami. Buffett endorsed McBride for governor Wednesday.
Photo by J. Pat Carter
Writer Sues WB, Fox Over Age
Gary H. Miller
Maybe it could only happen in Hollywood: a veteran sitcom writer is suing the WB network and the producers of "Reba," a show about a middle-aged soccer mom, claiming he was denied promotion and
finally fired because they thought he was too old.
Lawyers for Gary H. Miller, 54, whose previous credits include "Laverne & Shirley," "Bosom Buddies" and "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," say he was let go after being told the network wanted to hire "greener
writers" than him, even though his work had been submitted for Emmy Award consideration.
According to the age discrimination lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Miller was the only staff writer older than 40 initially hired to work on "Reba," which is produced
by 20th Century Fox Television. The show stars country singer Reba McEntire, 47, as a Southern soccer mom struggling to keep her dysfunctional family together.
The complaint says writers over the age of 50 account for just 2 percent of the credits on evening shows broadcast by WB, whereas about a third of the Writers Guild of America's membership is older
than 50. The statistics are nearly the same for shows produced by Fox Television, the suit says.
Gary H. Miller
''Never Mind the Bollocks'' 25 Years Later
Sex Pistols
The seminal album of British punk rock celebrates its 25th birthday on Monday and shows no sign of growing old gracefully.
On October 28, 1977, the Sex Pistols unleashed their debut album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," on an unsuspecting world.
It shot straight to the top of the album charts and stayed there for an astonishing 47 weeks.
Everything about the album was designed to shock, from its provocative title, its 12 short, explosive songs and its garish pink and yellow pop art album cover.
A week after its release, a policewoman spotted a window display in a record shop which consisted of a dozen Sex Pistols posters and album covers, all with the "B" word prominently displayed.
She marched into the shop, ordered the display to be dismantled and arrested the manager, who was charged under the Indecent Advertising Act.
The case, heard in the central city of Nottingham later that month, revolved around the alleged indecency of the word bollocks -- British slang for testicles.
The decisive evidence came from James Kingsley, a professor of English at Nottingham University and a former priest, who successfully argued that the word was accepted
slang and had been in use for centuries.
For a pretty interesting read - Sex Pistols
To Host Stooges Special
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson has been tapped to host NBC's "Three Stooges' 75th Anniversary Special," a one-hour event celebrating the legendary comic trio.
All six characters who ultimately embodied the Stooges over the years will be featured -- Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Curly Joe Derita.
In addition to favorite routines, highlights include rare shorts, feature-film clips, solo appearances and TV performances, many new to network television.
Also, Stooge family members will share home movies, photos and memories.
No air date has been set.
Woody Harrelson
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Offers New Book
Bill Wyman
Believe it or not, there actually was a time when the Rolling Stones kicked someone out of the backstage for bringing drugs to their show.
Former bassist Bill Wyman writes about the incident in his new biography of the Stones "Rolling With the Stones," due out on Monday.
Wyman writes that it was in 1963 when the band was touring England with the Everly Brothers, Little Richard and Bo Diddley. During one of the stops on the
tour, some Bo Diddley fans came backstage and offered them marijuana.
"We had him ejected because back then we were somewhat naive," Wyman writes.
He also writes that a young Mick Jagger had no idea he'd still be touring and making music to fans in 2002. Jagger himself didn't even see the band lasting
beyond a few years, according to the book. Wyman quotes Jagger in 1966 as saying he figured he would be 50 years old in 1984 and called it "horrible." Jagger
is quoted as saying "I can see myself coming onstage in my black, windowed, invalid carriage with a stick." The book continues, ""Then I turn round, wiggle
my bottom at the audience and say something like, 'Now here's an old song you might remember called 'Satisfaction.'"
Bill Wyman
'An American Legacy, A Gift to New York'
Andy Warhol
Journalist Lillian Wachtel leans down for a closer look at Andy Warhol's 'Brillo Boxes,' during a press preview of an exhibition of American masters of postwar modernism, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2002,
in New York. The exhibition of 87 works entitled 'An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, ' opens to the public Thursday.
Photo by Kathy Willens
Booted From Baghdad
CNN, NBC & ABC
In reaction to some critical reports about Iraq's government, officials have expelled CNN from its 12-year-old bureau in Baghdad.
Government officials have also ordered journos from NBC and ABC to leave the country as early as Saturday.
While the government has recently refused to grant visas to CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Wolf Blitzer and Richard Roth as well as MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield, Jordan
says that by shuttering its bureau, the Iraqi government "ratchets this up to a whole new level."
CBS, however, said it has heard nothing of the ban as yet.
CNN, NBC & ABC
UK Film Industry to Honor
George Harrison
Beatles star George Harrison will be awarded a posthumous honor for his contribution to British film at an awards ceremony next week.
Harrison, who died in November 2001 aged 58 after a long battle with cancer, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his efforts with independent film at the
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) next Wednesday.
His film company, Handmade, was highly regarded for its contribution to the expansion of the British film industry in the late 1970's and 1980's.
Harrison began working in film in the late 1970s, when he took a break from his music career and became a producer through Handmade Films, the company he formed with Dennis O'Brien in 1979.
Their first success was the British comedy group Monty Python's feature The Life Of Brian, which they took on after complaints that it would incur charges of blasphemy.
During the 1980s, Handmade produced a number of critically acclaimed movies like The Long Good Friday, A Private Function, Mona Lisa, Withnail and I, and Time Bandits
George Harrison
BartCop TV!
Receives Literary Award
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, author of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," has received the first Ross Macdonald Literary Award.
Bradbury accepted an engraved plaque from the Santa Barbara Book Council. The 82-year-old author said he had deep affection for the Santa Barbara detective novelist and his body of work.
Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Ken Millar.
Ray Bradbury
Thousands of pink condoms await packaging in a factory in this file photo. Hard-up students are being recruited to test condoms, rating them for their pleasure, comfort and performance qualities.
Selling Off Assets
Bob Guccione
Beleaguered porn publisher Bob Guccione has some new pictures he's selling to the public.
As his Penthouse magazine empire continues to crumble, Guccione now finds himself forced to auction off a portion of his beloved art collection, including
works by Picasso, Modigliani and Léger.
Unlike the "Pornikova" scandal of last May - when Penthouse printed the topless pictures of a private citizen it errantly identified, and promoted, as tennis
star Anna Kournikova - the collection has been authenticated by the art experts at Sotheby's auction house, which will preside over the sale on Nov. 5.
Prominent among the estimated $25 million collection is Pablo Picasso's "Le Fils de L'Artiste en Arlequin," a 1920s portrait of his young son dressed in a
harlequin costume, expected to fetch up to $3 million; and Amedeo Modigliani's 1919 classic, "Giovanotto dai Capelli Rossi," which could go for $8 million.
Penthouse has seen its circulation plummet from 5 million in the mid-1980s to 650,000. In the past few years, men's magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse
have lost ground to men's general-interest publications like Maxim and FHM that skirt overt nudity.
Bob Guccione
More Disney Family Values TV
'The Will'
Call it outrageous fortune: ABC and the producer of ratings hits "The Bachelor" and "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" are developing a reality show in which the family
and friends of a wealthy benefactor will compete in a do-or-die battle to win the bulk of his estate.
"The Will," which will be produced by Mike Fleiss' Next Entertainment, could bow by the end of the 2002-03 season or next summer. Fleiss' "The Bachelor" is doing whammo Nielsen
numbers for ABC. The fourth episode of America's hottest dating game pulled in 14.9 million viewers on Wednesday, just 2.6 million short of Fox's World Series baseball.
Details of "The Will" are still being finalized, with elements of the game dependent upon the man or woman who ultimately agrees to let his relatives and friends compete for
the inheritance. The basic structure is pretty much set, however.
Family members and friends who take part in the series will be put through a series of challenges each week, many of them designed by the benefactor. In these weekly competitions,
players will vie for a shot at some smaller portion of the benefactor's estate -- the BMW or the vacation house.
What's more, "The Will" will incorporate a vote-off portion in which friends and family members get a shot at eliminating someone from the game -- essentially cutting
that person out of the will. It's possible that a group of cousins, for example, could gang up to vote out cranky Uncle Lloyd.
For even more - 'The Will'
Getting Last Laugh?
Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent says he's getting the last laugh.
The rocker said he used to get teased by Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon for not taking drugs.
"Jimi got high and Jimi is dead; I went hunting and I'm still Ted," he said at an appearance for middle school and high school students. Nugent spoke at The Community School of Naples,
where his 12-year-old son is a seventh-grader.
The kids seemed to like Nugent's anti-drug message, even if they were a little fuzzy on who he is.
Ted Nugent
In Memory
Richard Harris
Oscar-nominated Irish actor Richard Harris, whose stage and screen roles ranged from King Arthur of "Camelot" to the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry in "Harry Potter" films, died on Friday at age 72.
Harris, for years one of the hard-drinking wild men of the stage and screen along with British compatriots Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, died in a London hospital
after a battle with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphatic cancer.
Familiar in later years for his shaggy white mane of hair, Harris made his name with such films as
"Camelot,"
"This Sporting Life," and
"A Man Called Horse" as he carved out a distinctive acting niche for himself.
But like Burton and O'Toole, Harris gained as much notoriety for his hell-raising off-stage exploits as for his acting talents, though he swore off alcohol in the 1980s.
Harris, who was twice married and twice divorced, told Reuters in an interview last year: "I have made 72 movies in my life and been miscast twice -- as a husband."
The Limerick, Ireland-born actor with a habitual twinkle in his eye endeared himself to a new generation of fans with his role as the benevolent wizard, Professor Albus Dumbledore, in
last year's big-screen fantasy hit
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
It was a role he initially turned down, but was then nagged into taking it by his 11-year-old granddaughter, Emily, who threatened never to talk to him again if he refused.
"She called me up and said, 'Poppa, if you don't play Dumbledore, I will never speak to you again.' I hung up and called my agent and said I'd do it. I can't afford to lose that kid," he said at the time.
A brief statement from his three children announced his death.
"With great sadness, Damien, Jared and Jamie Harris announce the death of their beloved father, Richard Harris. He died peacefully at University College Hospital."
At a news conference earlier in the day to launch the second Harry Potter film,
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," producer David Heyman said he and director Christopher Columbus had
recently visited Harris in the hospital and he appeared to be fighting back.
"He did threaten to kill me if I recast (Professor Dumbledore). I cannot even repeat what he said. He still has got that fight inside of him," Columbus said.
Harris earned two Oscar nominations during his film career, once for his breakthrough 1963 supporting role as a bitter young coal miner who becomes a professional rugby star
in "This Sporting Life" and again nearly 30 years later for his comeback role as an elderly curmudgeon determined to hold on to his property in the 1990 drama "The Field."
Other film credits included the role of King Arthur in the 1967 movie adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot" and the portrayal of an English aristocrat captured and tortured by Sioux Indians in the 1970 western "A Man Called Horse."
Harris, whose gravelly voice made him an unlikely pop star -- despite his singing role in "Camelot" -- confounded critics by scoring a hit in 1968 with a recording of "MacArthur Park."
Harris spent several years on the British stage, including a London production of "View from the Bridge," before making his movie debut in the 1958 film
"Alive and Kicking."
In addition to his film performance in "Camelot," he starred in stage revivals of the show, including a career-reviving turn as King Arthur after Richard Burton fell ill at the end of a 1982 tour.
Harris ended up sticking with the tour for five years.
Other stage shows included "The Ginger Man,"" "Diary of a Madman" and a 1990 London run of "Henry V," which won several awards.
The actor, who long had a reputation as a hell-raiser, has said publicly he gave up drinking in 1982, going cold turkey after a "farewell" celebration in
which he and friends indulged in two $370 bottles of Chateau Margaux.
"When the bottle was empty, and I had this much left in my glass, I looked at my watch, and it was 20 past 11, and I said, 'This is my last drink.' And
I never touched the stuff again," he told the New York Times in a 1990 interview.
Richard Harris
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Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
10/27 (12 pm) WGCU --- Fort Myers - Naples, FL
10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO
10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL
11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY
11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT
11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
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