Tonight!
George Carlin
Tonight, on HBO, at 10 pm (est), George Carlin: Complaints And Grievances' .
9 minutes have been cut, and the title has been changed....but, damn, it's George Carlin!
To hear a little Carlin, online, www.laugh.com.
At The El Rey Theatre
Mick Jagger
As showbiz celebrities and hired models watched in awe, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger
let it loose during a rare solo concert at a tiny Los Angeles club Thursday.
Jagger's new album hits stores next week, and he chose the 770-capacity El Rey Theatre near
Hollywood as the venue for his only concert performance to promote the release.
``This is the world tour for this album, 'Goddess in the Doorway,''' Jagger, 58, told the invite-only
crowd. ``You can say you were at every gig, OK?''
Wearing a sleeveless red T-shirt emblazoned with the Statue of Liberty over the slogan ``Liberte,''
and black corduroy jeans, Jagger whipped through seven tunes, including Stones nuggets ''Respectable'' and ``Miss You.''
He began and ended with his new single ``God Gave Me Everything,'' which ABC will screen during
a Jagger documentary, ''Being Mick,'' next Thursday.
Organizers paid dozens of young models $100 each to surround the small stage and catwalk, and shooed away
regular-looking people. The cute young faces earned their money by shrieking and clawing at Jagger's skinny
legs as he pranced past them.
Almost as excited was former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
``It felt like it was 1978 and people were worshiping the idea that Mick looked exactly like he did 23 years ago,''
Page told Reuters. ``He looked great.''
Other rockers in attendance included Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and his actress wife, Kate Hudson, former
Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit and Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. Actors included
Meg Ryan, Billy Crudup, David Spade, and Heath Ledger, as well as supermodel Naomi Campbell. At least two of
Jagger's daughters, Karis and Elizabeth, were also there.
As he exited the stage along with his six-member band, Jagger told the crowd: ``I loved every minute of it.''
He then retreated to a luxury trailer parked on a residential street behind the theater and received well-wishers.
``Goddess in the Doorway,'' Jagger's fourth solo album, will be released in North America Nov. 20. He has toured
only once without the Stones, swinging through Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia in 1988. He promoted
his last album, 1993's ``Wandering Spirit'' with an MTV concert at Webster Hall in New York. Along with Stones
guitarist Keith Richards, he performed two of the band's songs at the ``Concert for New York'' fundraiser at
Madison Square Garden last month.
Mick Jagger At The El Rey
In The Chaos Household
Last Night's TV
The 9 year old insisted we watch 'Charlie Brown' and 'The Pooh Thanksgiving', and
we gave in -- he said he wanted to remember the 'good old days'....
Next, gave in to curiosity and watched 'Iron Chef' on UPN...what a hoot!
Then watched the 'Barbara Walters Special'. With that much talent sitting in one room
there was no way the show was going to suck too badly.
Dave let Richard Harris talk, unabated, and normally, I'd sit back & enjoy,
but, since George Carlin was also scheduled, I knew every minute that Richard ate up
was coming at George's expense.
Have Conan on now, because I know that 'SCTV' comes on next, and it's time is
limited, to make way for Carson Daly.
Today (Saturday), NBC is pumping big iron with a 25th Anniversary of 'Rocky'.
CBS has 'Barbie In The Nutcracker' (which initially made me think of something more
Playboy Channel related than CBS 'The Tiffany Network')...
ABC has 'A Time To Kill'.
Billy Bob Thornton is hosting 'SNL'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
The Newest 'Miss World'
Agbani Darego
Nigerian Agbani Darego was crowned Miss World Friday, the first black African to take the title.
From 93 contestants, Darego, 18, took first place ahead of Zerelda Lee, of Aruba, and Scotland's Juliet-Jane Horne.
The pageant, emceed by talk show host Jerry Springer, was beamed to a projected global
television audience of 1.2 billion people.
``I am so, so happy. It's a wonderful feeling and its indescribable. ... I know back
home they were all watching out for me and I am happy I made them proud,'' Miss World
told Reuters Television on her zebra-patterned and golden throne.
``I've made history,'' Darego said, adding that she would continue her studies as a
computer scientist as well as carry out the duties that come with her crown.
Before being crowned the new Miss World, Darego told Reuters with a smile, ``black is beautiful.''
There have only been three winners from Africa in more than half a century and two of
them were white South Africans, in 1958 and 1974. The third, in 1954, was from Egypt.
Miss World had until now been dominated by winners from Europe, the Americas and India
and the majority have been white.
Miss Nigeria, whose victory was greeted by loud applause from the South African audience, had
said she wanted to be a computer scientist as well as a supermodel.
Her resume lists her hobbies as hiking and traditional Nigerian dancing. During questioning
she also told Springer that if she was alone on a deserted island, she would take a Bible
because she was a Christian and had a strong faith in God.
The beauty pageant was held in Sun City, a luxury resort of casinos and a variety of other
attractions known as South Africa's Kingdom of Pleasure.
Springer confessed to feeling like a child in a candy store during the two-hour ceremony, which
mixed glamour, African dancing, rap and a sense of amateur dramatics.
The contest has in the past been condemned as a meat market replete with gorgeous airheads
and demeaning to women.
The event goes on undaunted and the number of contestants is still growing, with entries
from China and Malawi for the first time in South Africa.
The Miss World contest was founded in 1951 by flamboyant British entrepreneur Eric Morley, who
died last year just weeks before the 50th anniversary celebration of the event.
The Newest 'Miss World'
TONIGHT
(It's Your Universe)
The Leonid Meteor Shower
The Leonid meteor shower will flicker and flash above North America late on Saturday,
Nov. 17 through early Nov. 18. All you need to see it are your eyes, a dark location,
and a little weather luck. This and a few other simple tips will assure a good view of
the event, which experts say should be spectacular this year.
The Leonid meteor shower is brought to us by comet Tempel-Tuttle, a ball of ice and
rock that orbits the Sun every 33 years, jettisoning tiny fragments of itself. Each
pass lays down a new trail of bits and pieces, or meteoroids, which burn from the
friction of the Earth's atmosphere as we cross the Tempel-Tuttle trails every November.
Tempel-Tuttle's path is slightly different each orbit, and the individual debris streams
spread out and drift through space. So each year the number of shooting stars varies
depending on which trails Earth passes through. Forecasters say 2001 should provide
the most spectacular show since 1966.
Because this peak occurs near dawn on the East Coast, West Coast watchers will have a
longer period following the peak to look for meteors, said Bill Cooke, a meteor forecaster
at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Residents around the Pacific Rim may see a more intense storm. The heaviest part of
the debris stream is expected to slam into the atmosphere over the western Pacific
Ocean. Top viewing in Australia, Japan, eastern China and the Philippines is expected
to occur between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m., local time, on Nov. 19. Rates during these peaks
could approach two shooting stars every second.
But like most meteor showers, the Leonids are notoriously difficult to forecast.
"It's now or never," said Robert Naeye, editor of Mercury, the magazine of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific. "People should take advantage of this year's Leonid storm, because
astronomers don't think we'll see another storm like this one until the year 2099. We will
probably never see a better meteor shower in our lifetimes."
Leonid Meteor Storm - Great Visuals & It's Free
Christmas Shopping Done Early
Barbara, The Younger
While her dad is busy saving the world, his daughter Barbara Bush is shopping up a storm.
The 21-year-old Yalie just ordered every piece from the very risque Heatherette line's
'80s-inspired Spring 2002 Collection and wants it delivered before the holidays. It
should make for an interesting Christmas at the White House.
Barbara quietly attended Heatherette's spring show in a club on West 23rd Street on
Sept. 8, accompanied by three Secret Service agents. The "highlight" of the show was
when twisted transsexual Amanda Lepore, naked and covered in hot pink paint, ran down
the runway, fake breasts bobbing in the front row's faces. Heatherette devotee Paris Hilton also modeled.
The clothes Barbara has ordered up include artfully shredded, very revealing satin and
leather cocktail dresses and skimpy bikinis emblazoned with the words "Look At Me" and
"You Turn Me On." Others are festooned with lip prints and gobs of glitter.
Heatherette is designed by former club kid Richie Rich and his boyfriend, former rodeo star
Traver Rains. Their fans include Foxy Brown, Mariah Carey, Steven Tyler, *NSYNC, Britney
Spears, Gwen Stefani, L'il Kim, photographer David LaChapelle and designer John Galliano.
The spring show was sponsored by Diandra Douglas, Michael Douglas' ex, and MAC cosmetics.
Asked whether he thinks Barbara will be able to sport her Heatherette wear at 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave., Rich says, "I think so. She's a fun kind of a girl. Some of our stuff is kinda racy, but
we've got some new T-shirts for charity that are very patriotic. I doubt she'll be wearing a
'Look at Me' bikini at the White House, but you never know."
Rich wouldn't say how much the order is going to cost, but with dresses running $800-$900 apiece, the
total should run to at least $10,000. "We'll give her a good deal," Rich says. "And we'll probably
throw in a couple of shirts for Jenna as well."
A spokesman said the White House does not comment on the Bush daughters.
Barbara, The Younger, Goes Shopping
Can you imagine if Chelsea had ever purchased trampy-trollop wear, and spent over
$10,000 on it? Have you ever blown over $10,000 on clothes, at one store,
in one shopping expedition? How about over $10,000 worth of stuff your mother would have
a stroke over?
And, if no stroke occurred, would you either look under mom's bed to see the pod, or be sneaking her
paxil, and smiling in that Stepford-way, too.
Re-Tweaking 'The Star Wars Trilogy'
George Lucas
During a report on US entertainment show E!, it was revealed that George Lucas has been shooting
additional footage for the original three films and will insert them into a later re-release of the classic trilogy.
No details on these additional scenes were revealed but it was reported that Lucas intends them to be added
to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi to fill out the story and, along with the prequel
trilogy, form the complete Star Wars story. The updated films are vaguely scheduled to appear "some
time in the middle of this decade."
Lucas has apparently finished writing Episiode III, and a slightly unexpected update on the possibility
of Episodes VII, IIX and IX was also reported. According to E!, Lucas plans to take 20 years off after
Episode III - making him about 80 - and only then will he think about the possibility of another three instalments.
Re-Tweaking The Star Wars Trilogy
Updated!
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Next Wednesday, On 'The Tonight Show'
Rodney Gets Respect & U2 !
Rodney Dangerfield is getting some respect from ``The Tonight Show'' for his 80th birthday.
Dangerfield will be saluted by ``Tonight'' host Jay Leno and in taped birthday
greetings from actors and fellow comics on the NBC late-night show Wednesday.
Dangerfield, whose long-running gag is that he gets no respect, turns 80 on Thanksgiving. He has
appeared in movies including ``Caddyshack'' and ``Little Nicky.''
For the holiday, the ``Tonight'' show will feature a first-time appearance by U2. The rock band
will be part of a special Thanksgiving Day telecast going live to U.S. troops worldwide on Armed
Forces Radio and Television Service.
The show will be seen on tape during its regularly scheduled time, 11:35 p.m. EST, on NBC.
Rodney Dangerfield Turns 80!
I thought the best perfomance in a film by Rodney was 'Natural Born Killers'...really
creeped me out, wonder why that one isn't mentioned?
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Harrison Ford
'To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason," said the
novelist Gustave Flaubert. The great movie star Harrison Ford is just the opposite. He
has done a lot to keep himself out of the public eye since movie stardom turned him
from a simple carpenter into a leading man sex symbol. But the other night his gesture
of friendship to photographer Timothy White backfired.
White is about the only guy Ford lets take a picture of him. He turned up at the lensman's
Fahey/Klein gallery opening in Hollywood for the Rizzoli book, "Timothy White's Portraits."
Ford wrote the foreword. I guess no good deed goes unpunished. Ford pulled up in his two-door
black Mercedes convertible with a lady by his side. He has seldom appeared anywhere with any
female since his last and second separation from longtime wife Melissa Mathison. On this night,
the actor sent his ladyfriend ahead of him into the gallery to avoid being photographed with her.
Inside, the woman was waiting for Ford with drinks in hand and he seemed quite comfortable.
It appears this wasn't their first time out together. She turns out to be a stunning blonde,
a former actress named Robin Lyle, who says she is a movie exec.
Ford posed with White, who has snapped the likes of Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Anthony
Hopkins, Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, River Phoenix, Sophia Loren, Ray Charles, Shirley
MacLaine, Paul Newman and Mel Gibson (asleep with a pig).
The actor was very friendly with other photographers there, pretending to leave alone at one
point and waving to them. But when he came back and then departed after trying to protect
Ms. Lyle from their cameras, he lost his cool. He yelled at one, "Have you had enough?" and
sped off in his car blasting dirt and rocks on the people nearby.
Seems like it might have been simpler just to pose with Ms. Lyle, who is more than presentable.
Harrison Ford
Looking For Justice
Halle Berry
David Justice, who struck out nine times during the World Series, also whiffed big-time in the
eyes of his ex-wife, Halle Berry.
The 33-year-old actress, whose three-year marriage to the Yankee slugger ended in 1996, still gets
furious at the mention of his name.
Berry graces the cover of the next issue of Movieline, and shows her lingering anger when writer Lawrence
Grobel tries to read to her remarks that Justic made to People magazine around the time of their split.
"They're all lies," she snapped. "If he said it, it's a lie. I'll tell you right now."
Grobel read her the comments anyway. "I always felt I was walking on eggshells with her," Justice told People in 1996.
"Bull----," Berry now says.
"She was always suspicious," began another Justice quote. "I've never known a girl who could throw
a tantrum like she does."
Berry didn't deny having pitched hissy fits, but said Justice's off-the-field behavior caused them.
"If your husband cheated on you with prostitutes, strippers, every twinkie walking by with a skirt,"
she told Grobel, "you'd feel the same way. End of story."
But it's not the end of the story.
Berry said previously that she was so depressed after the split with Justice that she tried to commit suicide.
"I was the one who proposed to [Justice]," she said. "I was clearly in love. I don't think he ever was."
She's much better since marrying singer Eric Benet in January.
Halle Berry Looking For Justice
A Love-Fest For Rudy
In NYC
It started out as just another rubber-chicken dinner for an outgoing mayor, but Rudy Giuliani wound
up with a lovefest. Bette Midler may have expressed it best at Wednesday's tribute to Hizzoner when
she sang (to the tune of Cole Porter's "How About You?"):
"And when we hurt the most/
Who helped us heal?/
He has a heart of gold/
And balls made of steel
"
Midler later added:
"What mayor in the U.S./
Looks better in a dress?"
Putting their old feud behind him, Gov. Pataki also hailed Giuliani: "This city eight years ago
didn't have the confidence, didn't have the belief in itself. One man has again led it to believe in itself."
He recalled how, three days after Sept. 11, he was riding up West St. with Giuliani and President Bush.
"There were thousands of people cheering," said Pataki. "The mayor turned to the President
and said, 'Look at this outpouring of love from the people of Greenwich Village and the West Side, Mr. President.
I don't think you got one vote from all these people. Mr. President, I don't think I got four votes from them.'"
"Rudy," Pataki said, "they may not have voted for you, but since Sept. 11, they know
what we've known for a long time: You've been a great mayor."
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) needled Giuliani about the Yankees loss to his Diamondbacks,
but called Rudy "an indomitable mayor for an invincible city."
Also seen in the crowd:
Muhammad Ali, Yogi Berra, Beverly Sills, Chazz Palminteri, Phil Rizzuto, Kathie Lee and Frank
Gifford and Bill Fugazy.
The Rudy LoveFest
Ohhhhh - 'Fetish' And 'Kinky', Too
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson has a kinky new squeeze, appropriately named Dita Von Teese. The ghoulish rocker's
galpal is an L.A.-based fetish model and "burlesque performance artist" who bears a striking resemblance
to pinup icon Bettie Page. Von Teese performs a striptease at the New York debut of Perry Mann's "Exotic
Erotic Ball" Nov. 28 at Webster Hall. Teese and her sexy sidekick D'Lish are slated to peel down inside
matching 7-foot-tall martini glasses filled with glitter and baby oil.
Marilyn Manson
Rare TV Interview
Mick Jagger
In a rare interview with Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Vargas asks about his relationships with women, music and more.
After four decades in the public eye, Mick Jagger is still a mystery.
Since the early '60s, he has led the Rolling Stones and legions of revelers through an experiential odyssey
of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Jagger admits that he loves to shock people, although he says in the band's early years, "we
had no idea we were shocking anyone
we were very sweet suburban kids." As time passed, he
said, "we had acerbic tongues."
They stuck those tongues out at the establishment and became rock legends, earning three platinum and 38 gold albums.
Jagger, the 58-year-old multi-millionaire showman has always had two sides. He came from a
middle-class family and went on to study at the prestigious London School of Economics. And
the wild rock and roller has always been a doting father of seven children in private.
"I think you play good cop, bad cop with your children, to a certain extent," said Jagger.
"On some occasions you've got to be quite disciplinarian and other occasions you've got to be easygoing."
Despite his outrageous experiences, even Jagger has a tough time talking about sex with his
kids. "It's always a difficult subject telling your children about sex," he said. "I don't
think you can sit them down and tell them everything about sex in one go. You know, you just
tell them sort of little things as you go along and don't make it too, kind of a big deal."
In his 40 years at the cutting edge of cool, Jagger has embraced alternative lifestyles including
liaisons with much younger women some during his 20-year relationship with model Jerry Hall,
mother of four of his seven children.
"In our society, we're supposed to be monogamous, but we're not," he said. "In other societies,
you don't have to be monogamous, and we're all human beings, so supposedly we've evolved all
these different systems for dealing with this."
Calling women "fascinating," he said, "It's very odd, the relationships that men have with
women
Men like to still, after all this time, they like to find women mysterious."
He is reticent about discussing his relationship with Hall today. "We're very good friends.
There's no question about that," he said.
Asked if he's ever truly been in love, Jagger said, "I really can't answer that question."
He says he respects women, but can't answer if he'll ever marry again. "You never want to
say never," says Jagger. "Whatever you say is going to be wrong, isn't it?"
No matter how turbulent his love life, the one constant for Jagger has been his music. His
new CD, Goddess in the Doorway , reveals a more reflective side of the legendary rocker.
"I have mystic overtones," says Jagger. "I think everyone has a spiritual side, but I'm not
a very church-going, sort of regular religious person."
As for retirement, he says, "I think I can write songs for quite a long time." But he'll
only perform as long as he's able to do it his way. "I like to perform in a very physical
way. So I don't know how long I'll be able to do that."
Mick Jagger Interview
Hollywood Women's Press Club
'Golden Apple Awards'
Early next week, the Hollywood Women's Press Club will release its list of nominees for this
year's Golden Apple Awards, given to stars who are cooperative and available to female journalists.
For Female Star of the Year, the nominees are: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Nicole Kidman, Julianne
Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore.
For Male Star of the Year, the nominees are: Ben Affleck, Rob Lowe, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Ben Stiller and Kevin Spacey.
Winners will be announced Dec. 2 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
But there's one loser whose name can be revealed: Jerry Springer. He's getting the club's
Sour Apple Award, given to the least-cooperative entertainment figure of the year or to
someone who has brought dishonor to the industry.
'Golden Apple Awards'
Another Auction
Beatles Recording
A six-minute recording of a Beatles interview - bought for $5 at a flea market - sold for $10,400
at an online auction.
A U.S. man identified only as ``an avid record and music memorabilia collector'' since the
1970s had the winning bid, Dave Gioia, spokesman for Collector's Universe of Newport Beach, said Thursday.
``This particular item is by far the rarest item I have ever been lucky enough to purchase,'' the
winner said in a Thursday e-mail to the company. ``I am lucky, to say the least.''
The three-week auction that ended Wednesday night netted about 30 bids from as far away as
Australia and the United Kingdom, Gioia said.
The price, which includes a 15 percent buyer's fee, was very good for the apparently one-of-a-kind item, Gioia said.
The seller, a Los Angeles collector who bought it earlier this year, also remained anonymous.
The recording, made by Capitol Records, features phone interviews from March 11, 1964,
with all four Beatles, along with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and surf guitarist Dick Dale, Gioia said.
During the interview, the Beatles discussed the filming of their upcoming movie ``A
Hard Day's Night'' Wilson detailed the reasons he liked the group's music, and Dale
commented on the Beatles' haircuts.
The winning bidder especially likes the Beach Boys, and ``that's what prompted his desire
to buy this thing,'' Gioia said.
Beatles Recording Sold At Auction
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio online - what a concept! Listen from 9 pm to 1 am (pst) Saturday and Sunday
at www.710kiro.com
There's even a chatroom!
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more (like 'Cranberry Autumn Tea'),
In The Kitchen With BartCop
'It's The Post Office's Fault'???
SAG Elections
A bombshell dropped Thursday in the Screen Actors Guild's election mess with the disclosure
that there were 260 more ballots counted in New York than deposited at the official post office box by union voters.
The revelation by polling administrator Sequoia Voting Systems comes as guild members mount
challenges to the recent election, which was marred by a procedural snafu: 24,800 New York
ballots lacked a signature line or instructions to sign on the outer envelope, despite SAG requirements.
Sequoia executive Robbin Johnson, who has already admitted to removing those signature lines,
blamed the U.S. Postal Service for the new discrepancy. A total of 6,476 ballots were counted
in New York while there were records of only 6,216 ballots coming into the post office box.
``The post office did not count the number of ballots correctly,'' Johnson asserted. ``I'm not
surprised at the difference because it's quite frequent in elections. It does not mean
that there was any stuffing of the ballot box.''
In addition to other challenges already filed by the Friday deadline, unsuccessful presidential
candidate Valerie Harper, along with winning secretary Elliott Gould and treasurer Kent McCord
vowed earlier this week to file a joint challenge as protest to alleged procedural violations.
In addition to the missing signature line, they have also questioned an unannounced two-day
extension of the New York deadline and alleged staff involvement in the election.
SAG staff has insisted that the election was run within Dept. of Labor rules but has refused
to elaborate on how it can violate its own rules. SAG has not issued a comment on the election
since Oct. 30; spokesman Greg Krizman maintained the no-comment policy Thursday.
President-elect Melissa Gilbert has said she is unconcerned about the challenges. She will
officially succeed William Daniels, who did not seek a second two-year term, at Monday's
Hollywood board meeting.
SAG Elections Funny Business
Host For 'Saturday Night Live' Christmas Show
Ellen DeGeneres
``My life is in a good mode,'' Ellen DeGeneres happily told me between rehearsals of her
show at CBS Radford on Thursday.
Not only was she pleased by the reception to her Emmy femcee'ing, but, of course, the
fact CBS picked up her series for the full season. And more -- she was just asked and
agreed -- to host ``Saturday Night Live's'' big Christmas show to air Dec. 15. ``I've
never done it before,'' she reminded me. ``And it is their huge show.''
When I warned her the show pulls no punches with its host (or anyone else on the show),
she said positively, ``I will refrain from doing anything mean about anybody. But the
hard thing for me to do will be to refrain from breaking up. For instance Will Ferrell
is such a genius!''
Asked about the thrust of her series now that it has the go-ahead for 22 episodes, she
said ``We will try to emphasize the 'fish out of water character' (hers) and show a little
more between the big city person set in the small town.''
She appreciates the fact the series will now get a chance to develop, reminding such great
shows like ``All in the Family'' didn't get off to a great start but got a chance to develop.
``And hopefully now people will realize this is a different series (than her first). I'm
aware people were on the fence from the last series.'' She's also hopeful the show can be
moved (by CBS Television resident Les Moonves) to Monday from Friday night. ``That's the
way it happened for 'Raymond'.''
Army Archerd On Ellen Degeneres
Newest Commander of the British Empire
Dudley Moore
British actor and comedian Dudley Moore was invested Friday as a Commander of the British
Empire by Prince Charles, one of his biggest fans.
The 66-year-old actor, who has a rare degenerative brain disorder called PSP, received the
award in the Queen's Birthday Honors earlier this year for his services to film and comedy.
He appeared frail and attended Friday's ceremony at the Queen's London residence Buckingham
Palace in a wheelchair.
Moore, best known for his comedy partnership with the late Peter Cook in the 1960s and
1970s and the 1981 film ``Arthur,'' arrived at the palace in a vintage Rolls Royce
with his sister, Barbara Stevens.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Moore won Tony awards, a Grammy, two Golden
Globes and an Oscar nomination for his role as a happy drunk in ``Arthur.''
He is involved in the Dudley Moore Research Fund, dedicated to finding a cure for PSP
(Progressive Supranuclear Palsy), and the charity Music for All Seasons, which takes
live music into hospitals, geriatric centers and prisons.
Moore was a musical prodigy as a child and won a music scholarship to Magdalen College,
Oxford, to study the organ.
He left university an accomplished jazz pianist and performed widely before finding fame with
``Beyond The Fringe,'' a comedy revue with Cook, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett.
His collaboration with Cook on the legendary TV shows ``Not Only -- But Also'' and ``Derek and
Clive'' paved the way for a Hollywood career, starting with the 1978 hit movie ``10'' and
leading to the high point of ``Arthur,'' co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Liza Minnelli.
Dudley Moore, Commander of the British Empire
The King Of All Media Pushes Forward
Howard Stern & CBS
Howard Stern's down, but not out, at CBS.
Stern's production company is developing a syndicated comedy that could fill the Saturday late
night slot vacated by the recently canceled ``The Howard Stern Radio Show.''
``Kane'' will follow the antics of an oddball Southern family and its strong-willed patriarch.
The lead character's life is altered when his previously long-lost wife returns home to him and
their group of eccentric children.
Ron Zimmerman (``7th Heaven,'' ``V.I.P.'') is on board to pen the script, while Stern will
executive produce. The show would be distributed by CBS' sister Viacom company King World.
CBS insiders promise the show will push some content boundaries thanks to its potential late-night time period.
``Kane'' would be the first weekly sitcom in syndication in years. Once a staple of the genre
(``Charles in Charge,'' ``Small Wonder''), firstrun comedies have all but disappeared from syndication.
It's not yet decided whether ``Kane'' will be developed as an hour or half-hour series. There
is also a slight chance that ``Kane'' could end up a candidate for primetime duty on the CBS network.
The deal comes as the hourlong syndicated ``Howard Stern Radio Show,'' also distributed by
King World, goes off the air after this weekend. Stern lambasted CBS CEO Leslie Moonves on
his radio show Thursday for the cancellation.
There will be no seamless transition between the old show and the new show, however. No pilot
has been shot as of yet, although sources said it's in ``very active development.'' CBS executives
are targeting the weekly comedy for later this season or the beginning of next season.
Insiders say CBS' owned-and-operated stations are on board to pick up ``Kane.'' Beyond that,
stations that ran ``Howard Stern Radio Show'' will be given first crack to clear the show.
For now, those stations are scrambling to fill the post-Saturday night news slot with other programming.
``The Howard Stern Radio Show'' now is seen in about half the country, although it premiered
in August 1998 on stations representing about 70% of the country. The series lost clearances
due partly to some local stations' concerns about the often risque content. Ratings also have
waned over the years, and the show has been in repeats since August.
Producing a half-hour comedy would not be new to Stern, whose ``Son of the Beach'' continues
to work for cable net FX.
Howard Stern & CBS
Egg-boy got it wrong, again.
Adam Sandler To Produce Comedy For NBC
Jon Lovitz & Norm Macdonald
Adam Sandler's production company has landed its first TV project, a pilot at NBC starring
fellow ``Saturday Night Live'' alumni Jon Lovitz and Norm Macdonald.
Lovitz and Macdonald will play mismatched roommates in the untitled pilot, which Sandler's Happy
Madison shingle will develop with NBC Studios. The project is being targeted for fall 2002.
Sandler will serve as an executive producer.
The comedy will be penned by Tim Herlihy, who has written most of Sandler's features (including
``Big Daddy,'' ``The Wedding Singer,'' ``Happy Gilmore'' and ``Billy Madison'').
``We're thrilled to be in business with Adam Sandler and his first foray into TV,'' said NBC
Entertainment president Jeff Zucker. ``We're hoping he and Tim Herlihy will bring a sensibility
to this project that they bring to the feature world. There's a real male point of view here
that's absent from our schedule.''
You betcha there's a lack of male point of view on network TV....and it's only a cold sore, the check
is in the mail, and the Pope is a rastafarian...
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When Superstition & Ignorance Collide
Fargo, ND
A witchcraft controversy brewing in a North Dakota town forced a local school
to cancel a field trip to a screening of the new Harry Potter movie Friday.
About 100 students from Agassiz Middle School in Fargo were slated to attend the
opening day of the widely anticipated movie, ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone,'' which revolves around the adventures of a young wizard in a world of
nonmagical mortals known as muggles.
All the students, mainly aged between 12 and 15, had parental permission to attend
the trip to a local movie house during school hours.
But a few concerned parents and one local radio personality successfully killed the
trip after raising concerns about the movie's depiction of witchcraft.
The fact that some consider witchcraft a religion, the protesters said, meant that the
school-led trip to the movie theater would constitute a violation of the separation of
church and state and possibly lead to legal action.
``It's a little bizarre,'' said Fargo School Superintendent David Flowers, who supported
the field trip. ``We believe that we were on firm ground in letting the kids go. But
(the school) made the decision ... that they would just as soon not be embroiled in a controversy.''
When Superstition & Ignorance Collide
Koresh!
And I thought they were backward in my neck of the backwoods!
Truly Effing Pathetic!
``Music From a Man in a Hole''
Steve Goodman
Some musicians will go to great lengths to find just the right acoustics. Next month, Steve Goodman
will go into a hole in the ground.
Using grant money from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Plainfield musician will put on a production,
``Music From a Man in a Hole,'' at the Marengo Cave, located about 20 miles south of Paoli in southern Indiana.
The idea will take Goodman, his violin, chimes, and drum into the depths of the cave on Dec. 8-9.
The section of the cave where he will perform can hold about 70 people.
During an outing with his family, he discovered Marengo Cave and its interesting echoes and
reverberations. He's been going from his home in Plainfield to Marengo Cave on weekends
to practice for the concerts.
Music & Marengo Cave
TV Reunion Show
'The Facts Of Life'
The big hair, bad clothes and pimples are gone. The girls from the 1980s TV comedy
``The Facts of Life'' are women now, with a new set of issues.
Blair, of course, is still wealthy, attractive and spoiled; Natalie isn't as pleasingly plump;
Tootie demands to be called Dorothy, her real name; Mrs. Garrett is a world-traveling widow;
and Jo is nowhere to be seen.
Four of the five stars from the popular NBC series that lasted nine years return in ``The
Facts of Life Reunion,'' airing Sunday (Nov. 18) as part of ABC's ``The Wonderful World of Disney'' (7 p.m. EST).
``There is a little bit of cheese in this movie,'' said Mindy Cohn, who played Natalie
Green. ``Come on, it was an '80s TV series; you just got to embrace it.''
``Some of the memories are horrifying - the hairstyles, the acrylic nails and the big jewelry,''
Cohn said. ``We laughed a lot and I think that's why the show lasted as long as it did. People
saw that we actually enjoyed each other and we did.''
The series, with its exceedingly upbeat theme song, wasn't just played for laughs. Topics like
divorce, death, suicide, loss of virginity and braces reflected what the teen-age audience was going through.
Lisa Whelchel (Blair Warner) left show business after the series ended in 1988. Now a married mother
of three, she interrupted her family's yearlong cross-country trip in a recreational vehicle to film
the movie in Toronto, Ontario.
The reunion was made more appealing by a script that puts the four women in today's complicated world. Blair
suspects her husband is cheating on her; Natalie is a TV news producer with two men fighting over her; Mrs.
Garrett is a widowed Peace Corps veteran looking for love; and Tootie, er, Dorothy, hosts her own talk show.
``Sometimes TV has this ego about itself, that it has to not just entertain, but inform and blow people away,''
said Cohn, who still acts and does voiceovers.
``Sometimes people just need a feel-good and `Facts of Life' was a feel-good and there's no guilty pleasure in that.''
'Facts Of Life' Special
Another Opinion
Danny Glover
Danny Glover has called on the United States government to spare the life of Osama bin Laden, even if he
is found guilty of being involved in terrorist acts.
Glover, who starred in ``The Color Purple'' and the ``Lethal Weapon'' movies, made the comments Thursday
during an anti-death penalty forum at Princeton University, The Trentonian of Trenton reported in Friday's editions.
``When I say the death penalty is inhumane, I mean (it) whether that person is in a bird cage (jail) or bin
Laden,'' the 54-year-old actor told the crowd.
He also criticized the government for detaining hundreds of immigrants after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and
for seeking permission to listen to conversations between suspected terrorists and their lawyers.
``This clearly is a slippery slope,'' Glover said. ``We must stand vigilant against (President) Bush in these times.''
The event was sponsored by the Mercer County chapter of Amnesty International, which opposes the death penalty.
Danny Glover
Concert From Hawaii, On HBO
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson will star in ``Janet Jackson: All for You: Live in Concert From Hawaii,'' which is
scheduled to air Feb. 17 on HBO.
The special will be presented from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Nancy Geller, senior vice president,
HBO Original Programming, announced Thursday.
It will be the 35-year-old singer's second HBO concert event.
Janet Jackson Concert From Hawaii On HBO
New! Updated!
(6 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " "The influence of the opposition across the 3rd/9th axis may indicate
we have more to fear from domestic terrorism than a foreign entity. Sagittarius on the cusp
of the foreign 9th house, with ruler Jupiter in Cancer, the sign most closely associated with
home and country, in the home 4th, shows the source of anthrax and other bio-chemical threats
are more likely from within our own borders; by a home grown group of domestic terrorists. The
recent wave of breast beating, chest thumping, and flag waving can be attributed to the most
excessive planet (Jupiter) transiting the most exorbitantly patriotic and jingoistic sign (Cancer).
Jupiter also has jurisdiction over religion, so the source of these dreadful bio-terrorist attacks
could very well be a group with a strongly opinionated religious axe to grind. "
Very interesting reading!
New Logo For Universal Studios
Elliott & E.T.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial next year, the studio has revamped
its famous logo. Now, the loveable alien and his pal Elliott will be flying their bike across the Universal globe.
The new logo will be used to promote the 2002 rerelease of Steven Spielberg's hit movie. The new
image will also be plastered over all things Universal--movies, home entertainment, theme parks,
publishing, online, music and merchandise.
The logo will first whirl on screen next week when the Robert Redford-Brad Pitt thriller Spy Game
opens nationwide. Keeping with the E.T. theme, John Williams' Oscar- and Grammy-winning "Flying"
score from the film will be woven into the traditional Universal fanfare playing under the logo.
Universal will stick with the E.T.-enhanced logo at least through the end of next year.
Spielberg, who has already taken heat from avid E.T fans for digitally tweaking the rerelease, says
in a statement that E.T is his "most personal film" and that he's "honored" to have his alien hero
become Universal's equivalent of Disney's Mickey Mouse.
E.T. is still Universal's top-grossing domestic hit and third worldwide behind Spielberg's dino flicks
Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
New Logo For Universal Studios
This Week's 'Survivor' Update
Buh-Bye Lindsey
She may be gone, but her screechy whimpering will forever live in our darkest nightmares.
Perhaps that was a tad harsh...okay, maybe not. Lindsey Richter, the teary-eyed, 27-year-old former ad
executive from Oregon, got her torched snuffed by the Samburu tribe on Thursday's episode of Survivor: Africa.
With Lindsey's youngster alliance foiled by last week's tribal switcheroo, the Samburu tribe was split
evenly between Lindsey's co-conspirators and the former Boran faction. An initial vote left an even
3-3 tie between Richter and goat farmer Tom Buchanan, so it came down to who had more past votes--Richter
had four, Big Tom had none.
Both sides knew a deadlock was imminent. And the final vote came despite Lindsey's best efforts to conceal
her ugly Tribal Council record and convince her new ex-Boran tribemates to vote for Brandon or Kim,
who each had clean slates.
"If we have a tie, it comes down to who has more votes," Richter said. "I already have four votes against
me, so I'd be gone. I'm going to try to save my own butt. I don't want them to have any clue about my situation."
Surprise, surprise--they found out. The Boran tribe members initially planned to vote for Brandon, until
Kelly overheard Brandon talking about their plans. Members from the Boran tribe offered some clues of
their own, giving the Samburus an "L" hand sign during the challenges to signify that Lindsey had the most votes.
"Tonight's vote was a surprise," Richter said in her final words. "I thought that they would vote for
Brandon, but to be honest, I had four votes stacked against me at the previous tribal council, and
I was mentally prepared to go today."
'Survivor' Boots Lindsey
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What a great site! Information and reference materials of the first order!
Between 'Moose & Squirrel' and 'Google', who needs 'refdesk'!
Copping A Plea
Yasmine Bleeth
The 33-year-old former Baywatch pinup pleaded innocent Friday to felony drug charges after she was allegedly
caught with cocaine in her pocketbook following a Detroit-area car accident.
The actress appeared before Judge Tina Green in a Romulus, Michigan, courtroom, where she was arraigned
on two felony charges of cocaine possession (less than 25 grams) and a misdemeanor count of operating
a vehicle under the influence of narcotics.
The felony charges each carry a maximum sentence of four years in jail and a fine of up to $25,000,
while the misdemeanor carries a maximum 93-day sentence, or up to a $500 fine or 45 days of community service.
Bleeth, who most recently starred on Nash Bridges and Aaron Spelling's short-lived soap Titans, was
busted September 12 after she and a companion (31-year-old Detroit resident Paul Cerrito) were in a
car accident while driving on Interstate 94. She and Cerrito were heading to the nearby Detroit
Metropolitan Airport when her car pulled off the highway and wound up on a median.
No one was injured, but police--believing Bleeth appeared intoxicated--took her into custody. Cops
later searched her purse and allegedly found four syringes containing a liquid form of cocaine and
a small plastic bag with cocaine residue, according to lab tests that police received back this week.
Bleeth spent the night in jail, and she's currently free on $10,000 bond. A day after her arrest,
police obtained a warrant to search her room at a Romulus Doubletree Hotel. "More cocaine and
narcotics paraphernalia were found in the room," says police Commander David Early.
Bleeth apparently met Cerrito while staying at Promises, the Malibu-based rehab facility
where celebs such as Paula Poundstone, Ben Affleck, Charlie Sheen and Tim Allen have
all sought treatment for drug or alcohol abuse.
Yasmine Bleeth
''Collateral Damage'' To Open
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger's ``Collateral Damage,'' a terrorist thriller whose release was postponed after
the Sept. 11 attacks, has been rescheduled for early next year.
Warner Bros. plans to release the film Feb. 8, said Dan Fellman, the studio's head of distribution.
The film originally was slotted for an October release.
``We made the decision to hold 'Collateral Damage' because it was the right thing to do, and we
needed to let America grieve and heal following the attack on our nation,'' Fellman said this week.
Schwarzenegger plays a Los Angeles firefighter on a revenge mission against the Colombian terrorist
whose bomb killed his wife and son.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Collateral Damage' To Open After All
Elvis Presley Enterprises Laying Off Employees
Hardtimes At Graceland
Hard times and a slump in foreign visitors since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington have
turned Elvis Presley Boulevard into Lonely Street.
The company that keeps the singer's memory alive in a complex of tourist attractions centered around his
grave and home said Friday it has had to lay off 50 people recently, about 15 percent of its work force.
Elvis Presley Enterprises said revenues were down on the back of a drop in visitors from outside the country,
who account for nearly a third of its business. Tourism was already down before the Sept. 11 attacks but
the trend has continued, it said.
Jack Soden, chief executive officer of the company, said the drop-off of business at Graceland parallels
what other U.S. tourist spots have been experiencing.
``It's everywhere you turn,'' he said in an interview. ''Airline flights are down, which particularly
affects our foreign visitorship and frankly there has been a little weakness in tourism in general
for the last year and a half.''
He said he had no figures on the drop-off in visitors, but those from outside the country ``appear to be
the segment that has been most dramatically impacted.'' In a normal year Graceland and related properties
usually draw about 650,000 visitors.
The Economy And Elvis
Auction News Results
The Tolkien Collection
First editions and letters of British fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien sold for 57,000 pounds ($81,650),
outstripping experts' estimates, a spokeswoman for the London auction house Christie's said on Friday.
A collection of proof copies, first editions and a sequence of 14 letters about his best-selling fantasy
``The Lord of the Rings'' fetched 50,000 pounds at auction, twice the estimated figure.
A hand-written six-page letter Tolkien wrote to his friend George Sayer after the funeral of estranged
friend and novelist C.S.Lewis in 1963 sold for 7,000 pounds, seven times its estimate.
Thomas Venning, specialist in autograph letters and manuscripts at Christie's said: ``The individual
letter was really unexpectedly high. It's a wonderful letter. Very odd and interesting. It starts
off talking about C.S.Lewis and turns into an anti-Catholic tirade.''
In one of the letters to Sayer, Tolkien asked for help writing publicity for the book which some
100 million people went on to read.
``I find myself quite unable to think of anything that is not too apologetic for ``publicity'' or
too much the reverse to contemplate. It is like being asked...why you are fond of one of your children.''
``Tolkien sells well in general,'' he said. ``When you get something as interesting as this
you always get hot competition.''
Tolkien Auction Results
In Memory
Albert Hague
Albert Hague, a refugee from Nazi Germany who became a Tony-winning Broadway composer and played
the kind but stern music teacher in the movie and TV series ``Fame,'' has died at age 81, friends said Friday.
Hague, who was married to Broadway actress Renee Orin until her death last year, died Monday, reportedly
of cancer, at the Daniel Freeman Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Marina del Rey.
The Berlin-born Hague arrived in the United States in 1939 as a penniless teenager, and 16 years later
celebrated his first Broadway success with the opening of the hit 1955 musical ''Plain and Fancy,'' an
Amish-themed show that featured Barbara Cook and the popular song ``Young and Foolish.''
``I'm living proof that America works,'' Hague wrote in an unpublished autobiography.
Hague went on to win a Tony for his score for the 1959 Broadway musical murder mystery ``Redhead,''
starring Gwen Verdon and directed by Bob Fosse. And his score for the animated 1966 TV version of
Dr. Seuss's ``How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' became an annual holiday classic.
His last musicals, ``The Fig Leaves are Falling'' in 1969 and ''Miss Moffatt,'' starring Bette Davis in
1974, were unsuccessful, and during the 1960s Hague taught classes in how to audition for musical theater,
counting Lynn Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Roy Scheider among his students.
Hague's experience as a music and acting coach served him well for his late-starting acting career, which
he began by playing a gruff musical instructor at the New York City High School for Performing Arts in the
hit 1980 movie ``Fame.'' He reprised his role as Mr. Shorofsky, but softened the character somewhat, in
the ``Fame'' television series, which debuted in 1982 and aired on NBC for one season, then ran on syndication for several years.
Born Albert Marcuse into a Jewish family in Berlin, he was raised as a Lutheran to protect him from Nazi
persecution. He fled Germany to Italy in 1937 as he was about to be inducted into the Hitler youth movement.
After attending a music conservatory in Rome, he obtained a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati and
immigrated to the United States to avoid being conscripted by German military authorities.
Arriving at age of 18 and unable to speak a word of English, he took the last name of his adopted father, Elliott
B. Hague, an eye surgeon with close ties to the university. The younger Hague graduated in 1942 and served in
the U.S. military for more than two years before embarking on a career as a composer.
Albert Hague
Still Really Like This One....
"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Gonna let it ride for awhile.
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
