Wedding News
Liza & Conan O'Brien
Late-night funnyman Conan O'Brien tied the knot Saturday to Liza Powell, a Seattle ad executive he met
when she made an appearance on his show.
The pair became engaged last July, about a year after Powell met O'Brien while appearing on his show in a
skit about advertising.
O'Brien, 38, is in his ninth season on NBC's ``Late Night with Conan O'Brien.''
O'Brien's longtime friend and Harvard roommate, the Rev. Paul O'Brien, officiated. The two are not related.
The service, which was closed to all but invited guests, was attended by ``Friends'' actress Lisa Kudrow and
several on-air staffers from O'Brien's show.
The O'Brien's - Liza & Conan
You Be The Judge
The Two Faces Of Michael Jackson?
A trick of light or plastic surgery?
Michael Jackson has again been caught up in speculation over whether or not his face has been distorted by going under the knife.
The billionaire star appeared at the American Music Awards ceremony in Los Angeles sporting what appeared to be a cavity in his nose.
British newspapers splashed the picture across their pages on Friday with headlines such as the "Phantom of the pop world" and "Beauty and the Beast".
The 43-year-old was "heavily made-up, masking the damage done by years of plastic surgery", according to the Daily Mail.
But a second photograph discovered by Sky News Online and taken at the same time seemed to tell a different story.
The light can be seen reflecting off his glitter jacket and casting shadows across his face.
So was the "phantom" picture simply an optical illusion?
The second photograph was not used by British newspapers.
The Mirror newspaper apologised in 1998 for suggesting the star had been disfigured by surgery.
It followed a libel action prompted by the paper's description of Jackson as a "scarred phantom".
In 1999, he admitted he had had plastic surgery but it was very limited.
He told TV Guide magazine: "All of Hollywood has plastic surgery! I don't know why they point me out.
"The press exaggerated it. It's just to my nose."
Michael Jackson
For a quick run-through of almost all of Michael's faces, Click Here.
Many thanks to the ever-wonderful Gare Galbraith for the link.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The local PBS station, KCET had 'Laura' on, and while Gene Tierney's
overbite is charming, Clifton Webb is always wonderful.
SNL is supposed to be fresh with Josh Hartnett, so ended up in the
chatroom at KIRO.
Today, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts the evening with '60 Minutes', followed by
a fresh 'Max Bickford', and then 'The People's Choice Awards'.
NBC starts their all fresh evening with 'Dateline', 'Weakest Link' (with 'Seinfeld
Sidekicks - like the Soup Nazi, not George or Kramer or Elaine), 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent',
and then a 'UC: Undercover'.
ABC starts with a repeat of 'George Of The Jungle', then a repeat 'Alias', followed by
a fresh 'The Practice'.
The WB debuts their new 'Jamie Kennedy Experiment' (the program responsible for the fake jury duty
notices mentioned on yesterday's page), followed by fresh episodes of 'Nikki' and 'Off Centre',
and then 'Jamie Kennedy', again.
Faux is dumping 'Futurama' and 'King Of The Hill' and showing 2 episodes of 'The Simpson's as
a prelude to their new show 'The Chamber' (if you want details, see yesterday's page), and then a fresh episode of 'X-Files', if anyone still watches it.
If you have cable or satellite and get IFC, one of the finest documentaries I've ever seen, 'Crumb' is on today.
It's about the cartoonist R. Crumb and his family.
Locally in LA, KCAL has 'The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman' with Cicely Tyson.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Opie & Anthony &
Robert Clary
Robert Clary, best known for playing Corporal Louis LeBeau on the classic sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," won't be calling Opie
and Anthony's talk show anytime soon.
Clary, 75, phoned the WNEW duo on Thursday to plug his new autobiography "From the Holocaust to 'Hogan's Heroes' " - which
details his amazing journey from his childhood in a Nazi concentration camp to Hollywood stardom in the '60s.
When Clary first called the afternoon drive-time chatfest, he was put on hold while Opie and Anthony implied to
the audience that his "Hogan's Heroes" character was gay.
"Remember LeBeau, the French guy who always made the strudel for Schultz, so he'd let him do things?" Anthony asked.
"The gay guy?" Opie replied.
"French, gay, whatever," Anthony said.
Clary's temperature rose when Opie began playing audio sound bites that called him a "faggot." Anthony apologized
and told Opie to shut up, and Clary calmed down enough to describe his time in the concentration camp. But midway
through the harrowing tale, Opie played a canned laugh track - and Clary hung up.
A producer managed to get Clary back on the phone a few minutes later. After Anthony again apologized, Clary warned
him: "I am not a moron, I'm not a kid. [Opie] can have his joke with someone else, but I'm not going to put up with it!"
Clary returned to his Holocaust saga and talked about family members who had been deported from France and forced
into the gas chambers. But even while he was relaying the story, the shock jocks played audio of a pingpong game,
followed by snippets from a Hitler speech. With that, Clary hung up for good.
Opie & Anthony Seem Desperate For Material
Robert Clary's Home Site
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Speaking At Brown University
Oliver Stone
"JFK" director, Oliver Stone, who in October called the Sept. 11 attacks "a revolt" provoked by America's corporations, has now
declared that Osama "Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country, who told [President] Bush
not to go after him because it would p--- off the Saudis."
Speaking recently at Brown University in Providence, Stone also ranted about a Ground Zero coverup involving "limbs
getting cut off bodies for jewelry [and] a man walking off with $132 million," according to the Brown Alumni Monthly.
Turning to Washington's crusade against Hollywood violence, Stone said he cringed "when I saw [Sen. Joseph] Lieberman
and [Sen. John] McCain lecture us on marketing R-rated movies to children. I think both of them are disgusting men
who were moved by a tide of soccer moms who said that their kids were being subverted by 'Natural Born Killers,'" which Stone directed.
Stone instructed Brown students that studio heads are "chickens" and "concentration-camp guards" and branded "most
historians" as "a--kissers and tenure-seekers."
Oliver Stone
Life In A Fish Bowl
Prince Harry
Prince Charles took his youngest son Harry to a rehabilitation clinic to show him the dangers of drug and
alcohol abuse, after the young prince admitted having smoked marijuana and getting drunk, a Sunday newspaper reported.
St. James's Palace, the official residence of Prince Charles, said the matter was now closed.
There was no suggestion Harry needed treatment at the center, but merely chatted with addicts during a daylong
visit to learn about the dangers of drugs.
The newspaper said Harry experimented with marijuana over a two month period at Highgrove, in a rundown shed at
a nearby pub and at private parties held by friends.
Several British newspapers, including the Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday People tabloids, also
carried reports about Harry's alleged underage drinking at the pub near Highgrove.
Prince Harry
Throwing In A Monkey Wrench
Clive Davis
The National Academy of the Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), which runs the Grammy Awards, is under heavy
lobbying by J Records honcho Clive Davis to feature his new star Alicia Keys on the top-rated Feb. 27 show.
NARAS chief Mike Greene held an emergency meeting on "the Clive question" yesterday after Davis bought $3 million
worth of advertising on CBS, which carries the Grammys. "Clive started months ago. He called Mike 10 times a day,"
a source said. Davis also did what no record exec has done before - he started calling Les Moonves and other CBS
execs. "Clive even went out and bought $3 million in advertising. When Mike found out, he went through the roof.
This sets a horrible precedent. It's good for CBS, but really bad for the Grammys," our source explained. "Mike
is really mad." NARAS spokesman Ron Roecker said: "Mike and Clive are great friends. A CBS-Clive Davis-Mike
Greene meeting never happened . . . Clive doesn't need to woo anybody, and Alicia's talent completely stands on her own."
Way To Go, Clive!
``Everybody Loves Raymond''
Phil Rosenthal
Children are best not seen and not heard in the world of ``Everybody Loves Raymond.''
Even though Ray Romano's character in the hit CBS comedy has three kids, they're rarely seen. The show's creator,
Phil Rosenthal, said he wanted to do an adult sitcom.
``I wasn't interested in doing a show about cute kids,'' Rosenthal said. ``I wanted to do a show about people
who have kids.''
``Everybody Loves Raymond''
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''The Job''
Diane Farr
Diane Farr, the only woman in the cast of the ABC cop-comedy "The Job," might have felt more at home on "Oz."
The statuesque brunette had a rough-and-tumble adolescence growing up in Long Beach. L.I., drinking and getting into more than
her fair share of streets fights.
But nothing got her ready for her role as a single-mom detective like teaching acting at a maximum security prison in southern California.
Farr was running "Married . . . with Children" star Christina Applegate's restaurant in L.A. and scratching for parts when
someone approached her and offered her a 10-week contract to teach acting to felons.
Farr wore an emergency pin (a portable panic button) that would bring four or five armed guards in case of emergency. Two
guards were stationed with her at all times.
"It takes a long time to become a bad guy," she adds. "and there's a certain line that's appropriate."
"I learned more in two contracts there then I ever did in college about acting," Farr says.
On "The Job" - which is filmed in New York and begins its second season next Wednesday - Farr says she's "just one of the guys.
"As much as I revere women, guy's are so damn easy," she says. "The chicken, the ice cream, the eating, the smoking,
the never-ending cursing. It's like I joined the Navy."
Diane Farr
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Back to the usual time slot with the usual suspects--the Atty. General has recused himself from the Enron case--President
Bush is busy backpedaling--is this a tsunami that makes Whitewater look like a trickle?
And the latest on the Thomas Junta case; the hockey dad who killed the coach during their sons' match.
Is sports rage a defense?
Plus the jury is being selected in the case of Andrea Yates, who has confessed to the murder of her five children--is
insanity due to post-partum psychosis acceptable?
On the Seattle waterfront, Mayor Nickel has come out like gangbusters--is the City Council one of them? or is this the decisive Mayor many wanted.
That and the latest war news, and features. "Where in the World is. . . Dick Cheney?"--you might be surprised.
Plus "Tomorrow's News Today" and the "Bash". Join us!
Erin Hart at regulation time (9 pm to 1 am [pst] Sat & Sun ) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
And there's a chatroom, too!
For more details, visit Erin's homepage, http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
Unapologetic Sexist
Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley better sleep with his eyes open after his latest musings on feminism.
"I don't like any women sportscasters," the former hoop star declares in the new issue of the lad mag Stuff. "I don't
like women doing sports — it just bothers me."
Barkley admits, "I have no reason — it's just because they are women."
The unapologetic sexist adds: "I don't want women in the Army."
One place he does like seeing women is TV's bikini-mad "Temptation Island."
"If I had a good agent, I'd be on 'Temptation Island,'" he says. "I wanna be around a bunch of naked-bleep girls."
Meanwhile, Barkley probably won't be welcome in Chicago. The former NBA star calls the city's current court squad
"the worst team in the league." He surmises that general manager Jerry Krause has kept his job only because he "must
have pictures of his boss' wife having sex with a monkey."
Charles Barkley
Job Not Mentioned On Career Day
Otto Spoerri
The man who has decided for 24 years where celebrities are seated at the Academy Awards is stepping down from his post
as a behind-the-scenes Hollywood power broker.
The ceremony in March will be the last for Otto Spoerri, 68, who officially retired as controller of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Dec. 31.
The do's - and don'ts - of the jobs are considerable: Leading actor nominees, for example, are never seated together.
``You don't want to see a sad face next to a happy face,'' Spoerri said.
Otto Spoerri
Writer's 'Revenge' On School Bullies
Jackie Kay
An award-winning Scottish author has told how racist bullying at school started her on the path to becoming a writer.
Jackie Kay told a newspaper how she would write "little poems of revenge".
Ms Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961, but was adopted by Communist Party organiser John Kay and his wife Helen and brought up in Glasgow.
She told the newspaper that three boys at her school had taunted her because of the colour of her skin and forced her to eat mud.
"What I found excruciatingly embarrassing was that I was with friends. In a strange way you felt you were embarrassing your friends," she said.
She did not recall any of her friends sticking up for her.
The novelist, poet and playwright said she was no longer angry at what happened to her.
"I can't be bothered going on about it. I don't want to be 40 and going on about children calling me names," she said. But it still affects me, always will.
If I pass a group of laughing kids, even now part of me still thinks they're laughing at me."
Ms Kay's writing credits include the plays Chiaroscuro, Twice Over and Twilight Shift and an award-winning poetry
collection, The Adoption Papers.
Jackie Kay
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Nursing Carpet Burns?
Halle & Eric
Billy Bob Thornton was honored Monday at the National Board of Review Awards — along with his "Monster's Ball" co-star Halle
Berry. The actress, tapped by producer Lee Daniels for the challenging love story, deserves an Oscar for Sexiest Line:
"Can you make me feel good?" The now-notorious love scene with Thornton prompted Berry to thank her husband, Eric
Benet, "for helping to nurse those carpet burns."
Nursing Carpet Burns?
Pace Car At Daytona
Jay Leno
``The Tonight Show'' host and automobile enthusiast Jay Leno took a spin around the Daytona International Speedway to get
ready for his role in the Daytona 500.
``I'm going 130 mph and there are no cops behind me - it's the greatest day of my life,'' Leno said Friday as he prepared
for the Feb. 17 racing event, when he will help pace the opening laps.
With the Daytona race, Leno becomes the first driver to pace America's three biggest racing events.
Last year he was the pace car driver for the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400, both at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
``That's quite an honor,'' he said.
Jay Leno
Divorce #4
Michael Crichton
``Jurassic Park'' author Michael Crichton has filed for divorce from his fourth wife, his publicist said.
The author of the sci-fi novels ``The Andromeda Strain'' and ``Sphere'' separated from Anne-Marie Martin last summer
and has since filed to end their marriage of 14 years, according to the writer's spokesman, Joseph Marich.
Crichton, 59, moved out of the couple's Bedford, N.Y., home and now lives in California with their 12-year-old daughter, Taylor.
The separation was amicable, Marich said, and the couple share custody of their daughter.
Michael Crichton
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, always has something interesting to read!
Caught On Tape
Documentary
The videotape is raw.
It shows the black wedge of an airplane slamming into the north tower of the World Trade Center. It shows commanders in the
building's lobby scrambling to figure out how to send scores of firefighters into the burning building.
It captures the radio transmissions ordering everyone down to the lobby after the second plane hits. It shows the gout of
dust and rubble as the buildings suddenly collapse. It shows the booted foot of a Fire Department chaplain who is being
carried through smoke and the din of screaming. It shows the faces of anxious men only minutes before they die.
While there are other tapes of ground zero on that day, none come close to capturing the catastrophe at such close range.
It is an extraordinary view of history at the moment that it happens. It is so immediate, so vivid, so graphic, so raw
that viewers can almost taste the bitter smoke in their throats and feel the grit of concrete on their teeth.
It begins at the corner of Lispenard and Church Streets, where Jules Naudet, the filmmaker making a documentary about
the training of a probationary firefighter, is taping Battalion Chief Joe Pfeifer responding to a report of a gas leak
under the street. After a meter reading is taken, the roar of a plane is heard.
The camera pans up to follow the path of the plane as it rams the north tower. There are expletives and flames and smoke.
Click here for the rest...
51st Governor of New Jersey
Jim McGreevey
Jim McGreevey is already a favorite with the Hollywood crowd. When the Democrat is sworn in Tuesday in Trenton
as the 51st governor of New Jersey, there could be several movie stars in the crowd wrangled by cop-turned-producer
Bob DeBrino. DeBrino met McGreevey, whose grandfather was a cop, at a benefit for families of Port Authority officers
killed on Sept. 11. DeBrino persuaded Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Dennis Quaid to attend. "Politics is not
my bag, but I was most impressed with the governor-elect," DeBrino said. "You can see his heart is really into it."
51st governor of New Jersey
Going Bi-Lingual
'Got Milk?'
As it enters its ninth year, the now-famous "Got Milk?" campaign for the first time will include a Spanish-language
ad, set to run on ABC, CBS and NBC beginning Jan 14.
The 30-second spot is designed to reach Spanish-speaking teenagers who frequently watch English-language television.
It comes amid reports that milk consumption is declining among teens, according to the client, the California Milk Processor Board.
Created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco-which launched the "Got Milk?" effort in 1993-the spot
evokes a mythical figure from Mexican folklore known as "La Llorona," or "The Weeping Woman." The ghostlike figure
is seen wandering through a Mexican family's house. When she finds a carton of milk in the refrigerator, she says
"leche," the Spanish word for milk. When she discovers the carton is empty, she sobs. The tagline "Got Milk" then appears in English text.
Manning noted that the spot will air nationally as part of the California board's arrangement with dairy boards
nationwide. While the California group will spend about $25 million this year on advertising, the combined national
effort is expected to reach $180 million, he said.
Tengo Leche?
Half Squirrel, Half Rat
Sqrat? Scrat?
The Scrat may be the ultimate New York City creature — half squirrel, half rat. It's also a cartoon character in
the upcoming animated feature "Ice Age," with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary as voices for Pleistocene-era
mammals who save a human baby. The movie, set for release in March, is touted by 20th Century Fox as a
potential blockbuster, complete with merchandising.
There's just one problem. New Yorkers may remember that Ivy (Supersonic) Silberstein created the Sqrat (as she
spelled it) in 1999. In fact, CNN's Jeanne Moos did a segment on Silberstein and her crossbreed that June, reporting
that Silberstein had trademarked her cartoon version. Howard Stern featured Silberstein's critter, and so did The
National Enquirer, a dozen radio stations and various British newspapers.
The trouble started after Silberstein pitched the Sqrat as a cartoon character — to Fox in L.A., even staying at
a Fox executive's house there. "License" magazine then announced the Sqrat's availability.
"Fox thinks I'm just an impoverished girl from New York and that they have all the money behind them and they can
step on anybody they want to," Silberstein told us. "But they're going to have to pay. And they're going to have to pay for a long time."
Carol Sewell, Fox's senior vice president for publicity, and Daphne Gronich, a Fox trademark attorney, did not
return our calls. Blue Sky animation studio executive John Donkin had no comment.
Sqrat? Scrat?
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Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
