'TBH Politoons'
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Selected Sunday Readings
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Trailers of Mass Destruction
Powell in Space
Trailers of Mass Destruction has been updated with links to some stories that broke this week.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Answered the door this afternoon & there were 4 Kucinich campaign workers - they were also supporting a local candidate.
Been in this house 10 years - this is the first time anybody from a national campaign ever stopped by - although local council candidates show up every couple of years.
Jo, the (remaining) lizard molted today.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a
FRESH 'special' - 'People's Choice Awards'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH '10-8', then a
FRESH 'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then the Season Premiere of
'Surreal Life'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by another RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
FRESH 'Bernie Mac', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the traditional weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan', followed by 2-hour 'Biography' (Paul Newman), then 'Inside "The Lord of the Rings"'.
AMC offers the movie 'Thunderball', followed by the movie 'You Only Live Twice', then the movie 'The Eiger Sanction'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Hall Green;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Eastbourne;
[8pm] 'Murder in Mind' - Justice;
[9pm] 'Wire in the Blood' - Justice Painted Blind;
[11pm] 'Murder in Mind' - Justice;
[12am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Justice Painted Blind;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Hall Green;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Eastbourne;
[3am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Justice Painted Blind;
[5am] 'Murder in Mind' - Justice;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker' (Game 5), followed by a 2-hour 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Tom Cruise), then 'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', another 'Comedy Central Presents', still another 'Comedy Central Presents', yet another 'Comedy Central Presents', followed by
'Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied', then 'Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet'.
History has 'Mail Call', another 'Mail Call', 'Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft Of WWII', 'Secret Japanese Aircraft Of WWII', and another 'Mail Call'.
SciFi has the movie 'Rats', followed by the movie 'Sabretooth'.
TCM fills the morning with Fred Astaire.
[6:15am] 'The Gay Divorcee' (1934);
[8am] 'Top Hat' (1935);
[10am] 'Silk Stockings' (1957);
[12pm] 'The Prisoner Of Zenda' (1952);
[2pm] 'Song Of The Thin Man' (1947);
[3:30pm] 'Victor/Victoria' (1982);
[6pm] 'A Star Is Born' (1954);
[9pm] 'The Nun's Story' (1959);
[12am] 'Man With A Movie Camera' (1929) AKA: 'Chelovek s kinoapparatom' ;
[1:30am] 'New Moon' (1930);
[3am] 'Tovarich' (1937);
[4:45am] 'Scarlet Dawn' (1932). (ALL TIMES EST)
A Faberge Imperial Easter Egg presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at Easter 1897 is shown in an undated photograph released in New York Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004. The Faberge collection owned by the Forbes family, which consists of 12 Faberge eggs and a large collection of other gems, will be auctioned off by Sotheby's in April, the family announced Thursday.
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Moose & Squirrel
Donates $10,000 for Maine Trails
Paul Newman
Actor Paul Newman donated $10,000 to help build an 18-mile trail system for runners, bicyclists, walkers and skiers in central Maine.
Peter Garrett, president of Kennebec Messalonskee Trails Inc., said he wrote a letter to Newman in November explaining that the trail system would open up land along the Kennebec River and Messalonskee Stream for people to exercise and see wildlife.
Newman has donated to other local causes, including $10,000 to United Way of Mid-Maine Inc. and $15,000 to the South End Learning Center.
Paul Newman
Set to Close Animation Studio
Disney
The Walt Disney Co. is expected to close a feature-animation studio in Orlando, Florida, on Monday, jeopardizing the jobs of nearly 260 animators, the Orlando Sentinel said.
Some artists will be transferred to Burbank, California, where Disney's corporate headquarters is located, but most of the employees, whose credits include the films "Brother Bear" and "Lilo & Stitch," are expected to lose their jobs, the paper said on Saturday.
Disney
Father Roman rings a large bell in the Danilov Monastery on the eve of Orthodox Christmas in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004. One of Father Roman's prayers, for the return of 18 bells which by a historical twist of fate have been pealing at Harvard University for the past 73 years, may soon be answered.
Photo by Misha Japaridze
To Attend Hip-Hop Event
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu and Lil' Romeo are expected to attend a Jan. 31 event at Texas Southern University sponsored by the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.
The artists will lead discussions about the hip-hop industry, the importance of voting and other issues such as the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Admission is free, but attendees must register to vote to get a ticket. Organizers hope the event will draw 10,000 people, the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.
The Houston summit will be followed by similar voter registration and community awareness drives in cities nationwide.
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs
www.hsan.org
Up After 3-Year Dry Spell
PBS Funding
The flow of corporate money to PBS has increased after a three-year dry spell, but a sponsor has yet to be found for "Masterpiece Theatre," the public television network's president said Saturday.
PBS has committed to funding the venerable drama series for two years in the absence of a sponsor, President Pat Mitchell told a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
Exxon Mobil Corp., which had given "Masterpiece Theatre" $300 million over 35 years as sole sponsor, will end its association with the program after this spring.
PBS Funding
Visits Venezuela
Danny Glover
Actor Danny Glover was among a delegation of black American activists who began a nine-day visit to meet President Hugo Chavez and study the situation of blacks in Venezuela.
Andres Izarra, spokesman for the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, said the delegation also includes Patricia Ford of the Service Employees International Union, economist and writer Julianne Malveaux and James Early, director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
The group, which began its trip Wednesday, planned to meet with Chavez and other Venezuelan government officials, visit local communities with a strong African heritage and attend the inauguration of a public school named after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Danny Glover
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Returning to Talk Show
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne will be back on the air Monday as host of her syndicated talk show.
It will be her first appearance on "The Sharon Osbourne Show" since her husband, rocker Ozzy Osbourne, was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident in England last month.
"We heard from Prince Charles and — never let anyone say he's a bad guy 'cause he's all right by the Osbournes — he sent my husband a bottle of scotch, which of course he's not going to drink!" Osbourne tells the audience. Excerpts from the show were released Friday.
Sharon Osbourne
Quart jars of moonshine, one with strawberries, right, confiscated by Lawrence County Sheriff Garrett Roberts in Dec. 2003, are shown at his Louisa, Ky., office in this Dec. 12, 2003 file photo. Tourism officials say many urban visitors to Appalachia tend to equate mountains with moonshine, which has pushed the price of the black-market elixir to $20 to $30 a quart.
Photo by Kevin Goldy
Selling Music, Art, Autographs Online
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill has taken to her official Web site to sell art prints, autographed posters and a poem titled "The Middle Man."
For $15, visitors can purchase a video clip of Hill performing a new song titled "Social Drugs" on guitar.
Some of the autographed items are selling for $500, while "The Middle Man" is being sold for $75. An excerpt of the poem on the site reads, "If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence -- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world but suffering real consequences."
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill's web site
'Jango Fett' Injured in Motorbike Accident
Temuera Morrison
New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison, who appeared as bounty hunter Jango Fett in recent episodes of the Star Wars series, is recovering from injuries suffered in a motorbike accident, his sister Zella Morrison said Saturday.
Morrison, 42, who received international acclaim for his portrayal of the violent Jake Heke in the New Zealand film Once Were Warriors, broke his leg in two places when he fell from his Harley Davidson.
He was recovering at his home in Rotorua after spending five days in hospital and having two pins inserted in his injured leg, Zella Morrison told reporters.
Temuera Morrison
Songwriting Team
McKean & O'Toole
Christopher Guest's marvelous cinematic folk-music mockumentary "A Mighty Wind" lovingly sent up an entire genre. It also marked the debut of Michael McKean and his wife, Annette O'Toole, as a songwriting team.
The pair contributed "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow." It is perhaps the key song of the film's Grammy Award-nominated DMZ/Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax soundtrack.
During a reunion concert featuring three fictional 1960s folk acts, the performance of their signature song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" climaxes the regrouping of the "legendary" Mitch & Mickey folk duo. But while the tune seems to hew to traditional folk-music conventions, it was really modeled after the popular song era of Stephen Foster, the American music pioneer who died 140 years ago this month.
For more, McKean & O'Toole
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
New Season of 'Monk'
Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub is an actor's actor, the kind who thrives on working with other really good actors.
This is made abundantly clear in the new batch of "Monk" mysteries set to debut Jan. 16 on cable's USA Network.
John Turturro guest stars in the second of seven new episodes, "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies," as the phobia-addled, obsessive brother of Shalhoub's obsessive-genius detective Adrian Monk.
Shalhoub and Turturro did an off-Broadway production of "Waiting for Godot" together in 1998, and it shows. (For "Monk" maniacs, the episode also has the bonus of being packed with insights into Adrian Monk's dark back story.)
Tony Shalhoub
Washer men wash clothes in the River Gomati as fog envelopes the atmosphere in Lucknow, capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004. The cold wave seeping north India has killed more 320 people in the state.
Photo by Ajay Kumar Singh
Blasts China for Killing Civet Cats
Brigitte Bardot
French actress Brigitte Bardot has sent a letter to China's president criticizing the killing of civet cats in its fight against the SARS virus.
The southern Chinese province of Guangdong has targeted 10,000 civets for slaughter — by drowning, electrocution or incineration — by Saturday as part of its battle against the spread of the virus.
Researchers have found similarities between a virus found in the civet — a weasel-like animal prized as a delicacy — and in Guangzhou's SARS patient.
Brigitte Bardot
Leasing Out Neverland Ranch
Michael Jackson
Singer Michael Jackson intends to lease out his Neverland ranch, the lavish spread that police searched two days before arrested him on child molestation charges, media reports said.
"The 37,000 square foot (3,400 sq meter) estate is a rental," said People magazine, adding, "Jackson is said to be serious about staying away from Neverland for good."
The ranch is located in the community of Santa Maria in western California. It boasts a ferris wheel, amusement rides and a small zoo.
Michael Jackson
Exhibition to Open in St. Louis
Lewis & Clark
Seven years ago, the Missouri History Museum embarked on what would be the largest, most ambitious project in its 137-year history. The challenge: Assemble the largest collection of artifacts, documents and other materials from the Lewis and Clark expedition for an exhibit commemorating the 2004 bicentennial of their journey West.
The exhibition, which opens Wednesday in St. Louis and travels the country through 2006, features 500 rare and priceless objects that dispersed after the Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis in 1806.
Among the most important: William Clark's elk skin field journal and rifle, a letter of credit President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Meriwether Lewis in July 1803, and a brass and wood telescope Lewis took on the trip.
For a lot more, Lewis & Clark
In Memory
Paula Raymond
Paula Raymond, a leading lady in 1950s movies who went on to a TV career, died Dec. 31, friends said. She was 79.
Raymond appeared in about 30 movies, ranging from Westerns to musicals. She was Cary Grant's wife in 1950's
"Crisis" and appeared in films with Dick Powell, Robert Taylor and Esther Williams.
One of her best-known films was the 1953 thriller
"The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," about a frozen dinosaur revived by nuclear testing. It was a hit and became a cult classic.
Raymond got her first film role during a visit to Los Angeles in the 1930s, playing a spoiled child in the 1938
Jane Withers comedy
"Keep Smiling."
Raymond also made dozens of guest appearances on television shows including
"Perry Mason," "77 Sunset Strip" and "Have Gun Will Travel."
Paula Raymond
Thai veterinarian Somsak Jittaniyom, right, looks at an 80-year-old female elephant Morakot being fed bananas by Thai girl Knitporn Benjarongt after being fitted with custom-made dentures in Kanchanaburi Province west of Bangkok Saturday, Jan 10, 2004. The aging elephant has gotten a new lease on life after a veterinarian fitted the animal with the dentures since she had been unable to chew her food because she had lost her teeth. At left is Pornchai Benjarongrat, father of the girl.
Photo by Sakchai Lalit
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