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It may be Halloween, but it's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas! Yes, no
Rove today, but danger looms. . . WA Post Saturday. . . Libby charged on 5
counts and faces 30 years and more than $1million in fines. Meantime,
Bushie runs to Camp David with HHHHHHaaaaaHarriet, who was Thursday's dumped
Supreme Court Nominee.
Saturday's guests include Donnie Fowler, courtesy of the DNC. All the politics,
ramifications and speculation we can cram into the shows.
And we talk to Avichay, 23, and Noam, 26, two Israeli soldiers "who are
deeply concerned about the effects of occupation of the West Bank on Israel"
and who have joined Breaking the Silence.
On Sunday night, we talk to the Very Rev. Robert Taylor, Dean of St.
Mark's Episcopal Church and co-founder of Faith Forward about his recent
trip to the Middle East and the continued effort by the Bush Administration
to inject politics into policy.
Howard Zinn: It's Not up to the Court (progressive.org)
John Roberts sailed through his confirmation hearings as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with enthusiastic Republican support, and a few weak mutterings of opposition by the Democrats. And in nominating Harriet Miers, Bush is trying to put another rightwinger on the bench to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. This has caused a certain consternation among people we affectionately term "the left."
Bridget Whelan: Some 100 female OU students say OK to Playboy (athensnews)
College-aged men weren't the only ones drooling over Playboy this week. About 100 female Ohio University students attended interviews and photo sessions Tuesday and Wednesday to be considered for Playboy's "top 10 party school" pictorial feature, due out in the May issue.
CHRIS HAIRE: SMURF FILMS (weeklydig.com)
If UNICEF can use the Smurfs to warn people about war, there's no reason I can't use other cartoons to warn them about other evils.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Money
When movie critic Roger Ebert was a child, he met J. C. Penney, the founder of the famous department store. Mr. Penney, then an old man, gave young Roger a penny and some financial advice -- if you want dimes and dollars to take care of themselves, you need to take care of pennies and nickels. Roger saved 10 cents, then he went to see a movie for 9 cents. This left a penny, which he promptly invested in an all-day sucker.
This front page from our paper speaks volumes about what's wrong in our
society today. The stupid World Series game gets a 1-inch high headline
"EXTRA PAINFUL LOSS" and nearly half the front page area with a picture.
The 2000th death in Iraq gets a 1/4" headline, no picture, and less than
1/12th
of the page. It's a bit like telling Mrs. Sheehan, "It's no big deal.
People named 'Casey' die all the time."
I Love Hubert and his A A A A A A A A rhyme schemes:
This is dedicated to his iambic dreams:
HUBERT MUST BE
JUST IN PUBERTY
SPEAKING POETICALLY
AND NOT DIDACTICALLY
I CAN CLEARLY SEE
HIS RHYMING WIZARDRY
IS IN IT'S INFANCY
WHICH IS WHY ITS SO APPEALING TO ME!
PLEASE DON'T STOP !!!!
"If I can't make movies for theaters, I don't want to make movies," Shyamalan told The Times. "I hope this is a very bad idea that goes away." - source
Ok. Move over, M. Night. Give me your resources and your connections and I'll make movies for simultaneous release. Gladly.
Some movies need to be seen at a theater. They demand that large of an experience. But those movies are few and far between. Most movies aren't worth the price of the ticket much less the crappy concessions that seem so obligatory to the experience. Still, I enjoy going to the theater. And of those few movies that I will shell out the bucks to see, I would still shell out those bucks to see them in a theater, even if they are released on DVD the same day. The really good ones I will even go back to see in the theater again. There are movies that were made several years ago and several decades ago that I would gladly pay to see in a theater again, or for the first time, if given the opportunity.
The simple truth is, the old movie theater release model is dying, and there is no way to stop it. DVDs are doomed to die as well. When I can pay for a movie on Pay-Per-View or HBO, or better yet, download it, save it to disk, and watch it anytime I want from my own electronic library, what need do I have for DVDs? The pretty jackets? Please.
If the movie theater industry wants to survive, it will have to cease being the pusher of every piece of schlock Hollywood cranks out. Let theaters become true theaters. Let 20 screen movie complexes become living libraries of the best movies ever made, running a hundred different films a week, some new, some old, and some that have proven their chops in DVD sales well enough to warrant a theatrical release. I can watch a crappy movie and eat microwave popcorn at home. Give me a reason to go to the theater and I'll go.
Picked up fresh crickets for Jo, the (lucky) lizard & Shelob, the tarantula. Rather like their chirping.
We've had visitors from:
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Third One', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with the movie 'Scary Movie', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Lance Armstrong hosting, music by Sheryl Crow.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 24 October, 1987, with Sean Penn hosting, music by LL Cool J & The Pull.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Monsters, Inc.', followed by a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Friends', followed by a RERUN'Raymond', then panders with 'Cheaters'.
Faux fills the night with RERUNs of 'Cops'.
UPN has a RERUN'Alias', followed by a RERUN'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by the movie 'The Shining'.
AMC offers the movie 'Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th -- A New Beginning', then the movie 'Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 5;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted - Ep. 8 Cigarettes' & Alcohol & Rollerblading;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 40;
[6pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 8;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 20;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 19;
[9pm] '2005 BRIT Awards' - 2005 BRIT Awards;
[12am] 'So Graham Norton' - Liza Minelli;
[12:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Rod Stewart/ Rosanna Arquette;
[1am] '2005 BRIT Awards' - 2005 BRIT Awards;
[3am] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Alternative Culture;
[3:40am] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Come On You Blues;
[4:20am] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Road Rage;
[5am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 3;
[5:30am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has '100 Scariest Movie Moments', parts 1 - 5.
Comedy Central has Thursday's night's 'Showbiz Show With David Spade', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters II', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Haunted History', 'History's Mysteries', and 'The True Story Of Hannibal'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Cecil B. Demented (2000);
[8AM] 'Kill! (1968);
[10AM] 'At The IFC Center (2005);
[10:30AM] 'IFC in Theaters (2005);
[10:45AM] 'Being Human (1993);
[1PM] 'Kill! (1968);
[3PM] 'Run Lola Run (1998);
[4:45PM] 'Being Human (1993);
[7PM] 'The Festival #4 (2005);
[7:30PM] 'The Festival #5 (2005);
[8PM] 'The Wicker Man (1973);
[9:45PM] 'Paperhouse (1988);
[11:30PM] 'Habit (1997);
[1:30AM] 'The Wicker Man (1973);
[2:15AM] 'Paperhouse (1988);
[4AM] 'Habit (1997);
[5AM] 'IFC October Short Film Showcase (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Gargoyle: Wings Of Darkness', followed by the movie 'Cerberus'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'A Foreign Affair;
[9AM] 'Slings & Arrows: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan;
[10AM] 'Kursk, A Submarine in Troubled Waters;
[11:15AM] 'Speed for Thespians;
[11:45AM] 'The Projectionist;
[12PM] 'A Foreign Affair;
[2PM] 'Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man;
[3PM] 'Village of Idiots;
[3:15PM] 'Amazon Women On The Moon;
[4:45PM] 'El Cielito;
[6:30PM] 'Ryan;
[6:45PM] 'Alter Egos;
[7:45PM] 'Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness;
[8PM] 'TransGeneration: Episode 6;
[8:30PM] 'I Am NOT an ANIMAL: My Fair Mare;
[9PM] 'Brighton Beach Memoirs;
[11PM] 'Who Killed Bambi?;
[1AM] 'Henry & June;
[2:15AM] 'Ryan;
[2:30AM] 'Alter Egos;
[3:30AM] 'A Certain Kind of Death;
[4:45AM] 'Brighton Beach Memoirs. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Sharon Stone gives a victory sign in the elevator of her hotel after arriving in Rimini, central Italy, Friday Oct. 28, 2005 to take part to the international Pio Manzu' center conference dedicated to energy issues.
Photo by Venanzio Raggi
Nelson Mandela launched a new comic book about his life on Friday but said he could not comment much on his role as the main character for fear of exaggeration.
The Mandela Foundation's Center of Memory commissioned the nine-part series as part of its plan to preserve the legacy of Mandela, who sacrificed 27 years of his life in apartheid jails in his fight against racist white rule in South Africa. He was elected the country's first black president in 1994.
The first of the nine comics, "A Son of the Eastern Cape," covers Mandela's birth on July 18, 1918, in the mud hut village of Mwezo, near Qunu in what was then the Transkei region of South Africa, up to his arrival in Johannesburg as a precocious lad in 1941.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party reacted furiously to a satirical television show watched by up to 15 million viewers, calling it a "premeditated lynching" of their leader.
"Rockpolitik" had the nation rocking with laughter late Thursday as top comedian Roberto Benigni mocked the head of the centre-right coalition government with a series of gibes, including an extended gag routine in which he pretended to agonise desperately in an attempt to find at least one Berlusconi policy decision that was good for Italy.
This was the second week in a row the TV programme had gone to town on the prime minister, who is himself also a multi-millionaire tycoon owner of three Italian television channels.
"Benigni was outstanding," said channel director Fabrizio Del Noce. "He gave us great television, real satire, and viewing figures are excellent."
ABC has given the green light to a comedy pilot to be executive produced by Elton John.
The project, dubbed "Him and Us," revolves around an over-the-hill rock star, his manager and the rest of his colorful entourage. Cindy Chupack, a former executive producer of HBO's "Sex and the City," is writing the script.
'Dancing With the Stars' will fill in for "Alias," which is going on hiatus to accommodate Jennifer Garner's maternity leave, ABC said Friday. Garner is expecting her first child with husband Ben Affleck later this year.
The dance show's second run will start Jan. 5. It feature new celebrities to be announced later, ABC said. Spy drama "Alias" will return in the spring with original episodes.
Shinichi 'Sonny' Chiba, veteran martial arts actor, poses in Honolulu, Hawaii October 27, 2005. Chiba is in Honolulu to receive the film festival's 'Maverick Award'.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
"Futurama" will have a new cable home starting in January 2008.
Comedy Central said Thursday that it has signed a multiyear deal with syndicator Twentieth Television to acquire all 72 episodes of the animated comedy series. (Cartoon Network, which airs the show as part of its "Adult Swim" programming block, has rights through 2007.)
A whirling dervish performs during an Iftar night in the Dubai desert October 28, 2005. Ramadan is a special month of the year for Muslims, marking the time they believe the Prophet Mohammad received the first revelation of the Koran. It is a common practice for Muslims to break their fast at sunset with dates (iftar). This is followed by the sunset prayer, then dinner.
Photo by Jack Dabaghian
Rambo is back in business. Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as gun-toting John Rambo in the upcoming "Rambo IV," said Ben Nedivi of Millennium Films, which is producing the project with Emmett/Furla Films.
The 59-year-old Stallone also intends to bring boxer Rocky Balboa out of retirement. He will write and direct "Rocky Balboa," the sixth film in that franchise, with shooting set to begin next year.
Production is set to begin after "Rocky Balboa" wraps.
A member of the 1960s family singing group, The Cowsills, Barry Cowsill had recently moved to New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina ripped through on Aug. 29. He left a message on his sister Susan's cell phone that was retrieved a few days later. He said he was holed up in his apartment. He said he'd seen looting. He asked for help.
That was the last his siblings heard from Barry Cowsill.
That was nearly two months ago.
At the National Center for Missing Adults, the scroll of people missing from Katrina runs 165 pages long. Barry Cowsill is on page 33.
Actor-director Mel Gibson gestures during a news conference at Veracruz port in Mexico October 28, 2005. Gibson is currently scouting Mexican locations for his new film 'Apocalypto,' a violent action movie set in an ancient civilisation around 3,000 years ago.
Photo by Felipe Courzo
Ridiculous hair. A talent for overstatement. There was more than enough of both to go around Friday as Donald Trump led a roast of Don King at the Friars Club.
The boxing promoter merrily withstood a barrage of jabs, hooks and uppercuts. While King's electrified 'do seemed the obvious avenue of attack for Trump and the 12 roasting friends and comics, they instead began with a smoking gun.
"I have a catch phrase: `You're fired,'" Trump said. "Don King has a catch phrase: `Not Guilty.'"
When it came time for him to take the podium, King lapsed into his trademark flurry of adjectives, including claims that he was "the father of hip-hop" and that "George Walker Bush is a revolutionary."
Several rock "fantasy camps" have popped up in the past few years, as baby boomers who traded their electric guitars for golf clubs years ago look to rekindle their rock 'n' roll dreams.
Jeff Carlisi, former guitarist with .38 Special and co-founder of the camp, said he came up with the idea in 2003. Last summer, he hosted a camp for teens in Atlanta. This year he'll host weeklong teen camps in Atlanta, Dallas and Houston, as well the adult camp - dubbed Camp Jam EXP - and Camp Jam Kids for younger children.
The weekend camp costs $1,195 per person. At Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp, with sessions in Los Angeles and New York City, participants pay $6,000 to $8,500 to spend a week playing with and learning from the likes of Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead and Roger Daltrey of The Who.
An Elizabethan portrait thought by many to depict the young William Shakespeare is not the bard, experts at the National Portrait Gallery have concluded.
The "Grafton Portrait," which shows a dark-haired, highbrowed young man in a rich scarlet jacket, has appeared on the cover of books about the writer. Gallery experts dated the painting to 1588, when Shakespeare was 24 - the age given by an inscription on the picture for its subject.
Only two likenesses of Shakespeare are widely accepted as authentic: a bust on his tomb in Stratford's Holy Trinity Church and an engraving used as a frontispiece to the Folio edition of his plays in 1623.
Artgoers look at sculpture , 'Big Man' by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibition 'Melancholy-Genius and Insanity in the Western World' at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The exhibition runs until January 16, 2006.
Photo by Francois Mori
Portraits of frolicking nudes, pensive children and fashionable Parisians are among 34 Renoirs being shown for the first time in a century, unique reproductions of original pastels discovered in a French estate.
"Renoir: The Pastel Counterproofs" are mirror images of 19th-century portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the renowned impressionist. They are being offered for sale at Adelson Galleries in Manhattan through Dec. 23, at prices up to $350,000.
The one-of-a-kinds were produced in 1895-1905 by French lithographer Auguste Clot at the behest of Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard, just as Renoir's originals were coming into high demand.
A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault.
In the past month, the interim president of Cornell University and the dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine have both spoken on this theme, warning in dramatic terms of the long-term consequences.
"Among the most significant forces is the rising tide of anti-science sentiment that seems to have its nucleus in Washington but which extends throughout the nation," said Stanford's Philip Pizzo in a letter posted on the school Web site on October 3.
Cornell acting President Hunter Rawlings said the dispute was widening political, social, religious and philosophical rifts in U.S. society. "When ideological division replaces informed exchange, dogma is the result and education suffers," he said.
A pair of African lionesses play with the remains of a pumpkin at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park October 28, 2005. The pumpkins were filled with minced meat and were given to the three-member lion pride as an enrichment item that helped set the Halloween mood.
Photo by Tammy Spratt
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"If I can't make movies for theaters, I don't want to make movies," Shyamalan told The Times. "I hope this is a very bad idea that goes away." - source
