BartCop Entertainment News - Saturday, 11 August, 2001

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Saturday

11 August, 2001

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A Salute To The Role Models Currently Available For Republican Women?

Where's Jenna?

This week, both 'Star' and 'National Enquirer' have stories about Jenna, but, 
oddly (?) neither tab is advertising their Jenna stories on the front cover...

In 'Star' there is a 2-page spread (pages 6 & 7), with 4 pictures, and a story of 
Jenna's newest beau, the grandson of ex-20th Century Fox boss Marvin Davis.

The 'National Enquirer' story is only 1 page (page 29), but, it's titled 'It's 
Another Wild Party Week For Jenna', and has 3 pictures...one has the dear girl 
holding what appears to be an 'adult beverage', and another of a seemingly 
hung-over Jenna.

She is still 19, and the legal drinking age in CA is still 21.  Using her 
father's time-scale, she can screw up and off for at least another 20 years, and 
still excuse it as a 'youthful indiscretion'.

But, then we shouldn't forget that rules are for the rest of us, and do not apply 
to the Bush family.

Fun Link

Shakespearean Insulter.

Forgotten Mom?

Neal Travis of the NY Post is reporting that few of the TV and radio reports of 
the death of Maureen Reagan mentioned her mother, Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning 
(for "Johnny Belinda") first wife of Ronald Reagan. Even in L.A., Jane has become 
a non-person this week. 

Miss Wyman lives quietly in Palm Springs.

To read the rest, Jane Wyman.

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Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

Well its a muggy, buggie morning, bugs that creep and bugs that crawl, down the 
hall and up the wall.~~~~Who ya gonna call? Ghost Busters, or the Terminator?

Spider webs, feather dusters and clusters of stars.  I've been dream talking, 
sleep walking, all night long, shape-shifting, short-shifting, and just drifting 
along.

There's a rumble in the jungle and lightning in the South.  Flaming clouds in the 
East and a rainbow in the West.  And I'm getting wet, but I've got a hot, dry 
mouth.  There's a siren going off, is this for real, or only a test?

And on the news, I see that Dubya went walking down that yellow-line, stepping 
over dead Amadillos on the issue of Fetal-Cell tissue, trying to have it both 
ways, stepping on the graves of the Red-Socks & the Braves.

While the ghost of Maureen Reagan waves in the twilight.  And poor old Ronnie 
doesn't know she's gone.  Bush-wacked, by the Skipper nothing much for the Gipper.

Now I've been a thinking about the frequency of juvenile delinquency, the 
subliminal criminal that creeps up into adulthood in the bedrooms of the wealthy 
and in the Hoods.  Shadows creeping, while we are sleeping, and that cool
'Easy-Ryder' tears down the lost-highway on a dark mission that's impossible to
tell, is he going to heaven or to hell?

Yesterday while I was watching some crazy dude that the cops were chasing down 
the highway, where they finally blew out all four of his tires, and he was just 
sitting there in his car in the middle of the freeway, surrounded by an army of 
cops, just a-waiting for him to get out, then this scene got 'pre-empted' by
our president, and I never did find out what happened to that crazy guy, did he 
want to die or what?


Damn it George, can't ya just, please!,~~~ Shut-Up!.
 
                                          Regards

                                              ShadowCatcher

The Curse of OJ?

Neal Travis of the NY Post is reporting this odd tale.

LOS ANGELES has always been a strange kind of town, where the famous, the 
infamous and mere nonentities cross paths from time to time. The other day, when  
Bernie and Barbara Lewinsky (Monica's dad and stepmother) were having some 
furniture delivered to their West Side home. 

The two moving men, who came in a big white van, were large and efficient - and 
one of them seemed to Barbara strangely like someone she knew. She called a friend 
and was told the familiar-looking guy was none other than A.C. Cowling, the former 
football star who was O.J. Simpson's driver when the white Ford Bronco was 
"chased" by police all over the L.A. Freeway system.

Before A.C. got involved with the troubles of his friend O.J., he was doing very 
well in life. He drove a nice car (rather than a moving van) and was seen in all 
the best restaurants and clubs. Simpson, it seems, has messed up the lives of a 
lot of people who used to be around him. 

But back to the Lewinskys. I hear they can't get over the coincidences between 
Monica's D.C. experience and that of the missing Chandra Levy. Both Bernie and 
Chandra's dad are oncologists in California, their daughters each dated older men 
before becoming Washington interns, and both young women fell in love with 
politicians. 

To read even more, Another LA Story.

Fun Link

Mopy Fish.


This is a free screensaver, that rewards you for using your printer...collect 
enough points, and your fish will even 'kiss' your screen.

Mine is named Mopy Dicklyss.

X-Files Update

Facing it's ninth season, 'The X-Files' has signed on 'Princess Bride' star Cary
Elwes for the recurring role of FBI assistant director Brad Follmer, the 
ex-boyfriend of Annabeth Gish's special Agent Monica Reyes.  
 
The announcement comes weeks after former Xena star Lucy Lawless signed on for a 
guest stint. 

X-Files creator and executive producer Chris Carter plans for Elwes' character to 
be the perfect foil for by-the-numbers G-Man John Doggett (Robert Patrick). 

Fans who still actually give a rats ass can expect to see Elwes delving into 
conspiracies and little green men when The X-Files kicks off its newest season  
November 4 on Fox.

Read more about it at Cary Elwes.

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Fun Link


Ray Berry 'Toons.


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Quentin Tarantino No Orson Welles



'Royale With Cheese' vs. 'Rosebud'



According to Hollywood's screenwriters, Quentin Tarantino is no Orson Welles. 
Movie scribes have named Citizen Kane the best screenplay of all time, while they 
singled out Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as the most overrated and (believe it or not) 
1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day as the most underrated, according to an 
informal survey by the Library of America. 

Also making the library's best-of list: 1942's Casablanca was second, 1972's The 
Godfather in third place, followed by Chinatown (1974), All About Eve (1950), 
Some Like It Hot (1959), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Annie Hall (1977), The 
Graduate (1967) and The Godfather, Part II (1974). 

Notably absent, however, are any films made after 1977. 

Joining Pulp Fiction on the library's list of most-overrated films are Gone 
With the Wind in third place and last year's drug-war thriller Traffic in fifth, 
followed by American Beauty, Titanic, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and It's a Wonderful Life. 

The library also saw fit to name off five of the most underrated screenplays, 
which yielded a mishmash of unconventional picks: Groundhog Day, written by 
Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, led the pack, followed by Robert Redford's 1994 
scandal pic Quiz Show, Aliens, The Wizard of Oz and The Best Years of Our Lives.
 
To read the rest, Quentin vs. Orson.



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I Gotta Ask...



Is It Jim Nabors Week? (cont.)
Or Is It A Secret?


Last Sunday, the New York Times crossword puzzle was titled 'Homonames' (as in 
homophone or homonym, depending on the years of ones basic education).  In the 
puzzle, readers were asked to come up with phrases that sound like famous 
people's names.  For example, the answer to "Ruins a good book?" was "WRECKS 
READ," a homonym for New York Observer movie critic Rex Reed. "Gomer Pyle" star 
Jim Nabors showed up as "GYM NEIGHBORS."




By Tuesday, they were damn near apoplectic in their explanations.
'Homonames'.





Wednesday, word of Mr. Nabors character, 'Gomer Pyle', being promoted in that 
'Semper Fi' way appeared online.  Both a 'Captain Jones' and a 'Fort Smith' were 
involved.




Gomer Gets A Buck-Up.


Thursday brought the news that Gomer's promotion had happened, albeit, without 
the presence of 'Sgt. Carter' (the late Frank Sutton).




The 'Promotion'.

Friday brought the pictures...see above.



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Fun Link


EarthCam.


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In Memory



Alan Rafkin



Emmy-winning director Alan Rafkin, whose credits include four decades of 
television's most popular comedies, including ``The Andy Griffith Show'' and 
``M-A-S-H,'' has died of heart disease. He was 73.  

During his prolific career, Rafkin directed episodes for more than 80 prime-time 
television series, including ``The Dick Van Dyke Show,'' ``The Mary Tyler Moore 
Show,'' ``I Dream of Jeannie,'' ``Laverne & Shirley,'' ``Murphy Brown'' and ``The 
Jeff Foxworthy Show.'' 

He won an Emmy in 1982 for an episode of ``One Day at a Time'' and two cable ACE 
awards, in 1988 and 1990, for ``It's Gary Shandling's Show.'' 

His 1998 memoir, ``Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow: Tales from TV's Most Prolific 
Sitcom Director,'' displayed his curmudgeon-like nature. 

The book's title was taken from one of Rafkin's first television jobs, cuing the 
puppeteer who handled a bunny on the old ``Captain Kangaroo'' show. 

The memoir gave the director an opportunity to sound off on the many television 
stars he worked with over the years. 

He said Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams of ``Laverne & Shirley,'' were 
``undisciplined and bratty,'' while Brooke Shields of ``Suddenly Susan'' was 
``the most gracious, funny, respectful young lady.'' 

``To this day, Ron Howard at the age of 6 is no different than Ron Howard is at 
whatever he is today. He is a delightful, gracious human being,'' he said of 
``The Andy Griffith Show'' actor who grew up to be a prominent Hollywood director. 

Of Shandling, he said: ``He can whine until your teeth crack, but he's always 
ready to work, no matter what.'' 

Rafkin was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University's School of 
Management. He began in show business as a nightclub comic and later acted 
occasionally in prime-time series and soap operas. He also directed movies in the 
1960s and '70s starring Don Knotts.

To read more, Alan Rafkin.


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