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'Voodoo Child'
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Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Human Rights
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather is still nicer than usual.
The niece has decided to return to PA. Think it was a difficult decision, but there's a boyfriend involved.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then the movie 'Double Jeopardy'.
NBC begins teh night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN '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 a FRESH
'Surreal Life'.
Faux has 'NFL Football', so the left coast is scheduled to be treated to a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then another
RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN 'Simpsons'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'Biography' (Peter Boyle), another 'Biography' (Doris Roberts), and another 'Biography' (Patricia Heaton).
AMC offers the movie 'The Terminator', followed by the movie 'The Terminator', again, then a 'special' - 'Backstory' (the making of 'The Terminator').
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 3;
[7pm] 'Faking It' - Cellist Turns DJ;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Video Games Tester to Racing Driver;
[9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Rose;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Poplar;
[10pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[10:30pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Video Games Tester to Racing Driver;
[12am] 'What Not to Wear' - Rose;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Poplar;
[1am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[1:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[2am] 'Faking It' - Cellist Turns DJ;
[3am] 'What Not to Wear' - Rose;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Poplar;
[4am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[4:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[5am] 'Faking It' - Video Games Tester to Racing Driver; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Charlize Theron), and a RERUN of the final game of
'Celebrity Poker Showdown'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Revenge Of The Nerds', followed by the movie 'Office Space', then 'Insomniac'.
History has 'Attila' (part 1 of 2), followed by 'Attila' (part 2 of 2), 'Mail Call', and 'Tactical To Practical'.
SciFi has the movie 'Dante's Peak', followed by the movie 'Virtuosity'.
TCM spends the whole day celebrating the career of
Cary Grant, on what would have been his 99th birthday.
[6am] 'Penny Serenade' (1941);
[8am] 'Arsenic And Old Lace' (1944);
[10am] 'Night And Day' (1946);
[12:15pm] 'Operation Petticoat' (1959);
[2:30pm] 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House' (1948);
[4:15pm] 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
[6pm] 'Notorious' (1946);
[8pm] 'Suspicion' (1941);
[10pm] 'Indiscreet' (1958);
[12am] 'Cabiria' (1914) SILENT ;
[2:30am] 'Light In The Piazza' (1962);
[4:30am] 'City Lights' (1931). (ALL TIMES EST)
U2 front man Bono, left, kisses Coretta Scott King, right, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following a news conference Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, in Atlanta. Bono, whose thoughts and understanding of King's teachings and life led the singer to write a song about the slain Civil Rights leader, a 1984 hit called 'Pride (In the Name of Love)'' was to be honored Saturday accepting the Humanitarian Award, one of the highest honors from The King Center, an organization founded by Coretta Scott King.
Photo by W.A. Harewood
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Top Tour in 2003
Rolling Stones
Bruce Springsteen and his mighty E Street Band put up some huge numbers on the road in 2003. But Springsteen was not the top touring artist of 2003, despite numerous media claims to the contrary.
From start to finish, the Stones' Licks tour grossed $299,520,230 from 113 shows dating back to September 2002. We lumped the entire tour into 2003's Billboard Boxscore stats because we received them all at once from promoter Michael Cohl's office at the end of the tour. We do not estimate.
For the year, Springsteen's reported grosses totaled $181.7 million worldwide. If you take away the $90 million or so the Stones did in fall 2002, the band still easily outpaced Springsteen. The Boss' tour grossed $221.5 million from 121 shows, so tour for tour, the Stones also topped Springsteen's by more than $70 million.
Rolling Stones
Rallies Faithful at Convention
Roy Disney
Roy E. Disney got a standing ovation Saturday as he brought his campaign to oust Walt Disney Co. chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner to lovers of all things Disney.
Disney said management decisions have dulled the creative edge of the entertainment giant.
"One of the reasons for my leaving, other than the fact that they fired me, was that I saw that quality slipping away from us," Disney told about 200 collectors of Disney memorabilia at their semiannual meeting.
The 72-year-old son of company co-founder Roy O. Disney resigned from the board of directors in November after learning that that the board's governance and nominating committee was going to enforce the mandatory retirement age of 72.
Roy Disney
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Jimmy Walker wears a mock flight suit to make fun of U.S. resident George W. Bus, before a campaign stop for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate retired General Wesley Clark in Pembroke, New Hampshire, January 17, 2004.
Photo by Brian Snyder
Explains Cell Phone Time
Kiefer Sutherland
Spending so much time on the cell phone isn't easy for Golden Globe nominee Kiefer Sutherland in Fox's drama, "24."
Viewers have noticed his character's on-camera phone time. Sutherland explains it's easier to talk on the phone while he's on the run than with somebody else.
"It has become a device where my character can internalize a panic, can express a thousand different things while having a conversation with someone else and have a vocal tone that's completely betraying everything else that you can see," he said.
Kiefer Sutherland
Honored In Bavaria
Peter Ustinov
Oscar-winning British actor Peter Ustinov won the 2004 prize of honour at the Bavarian film awards on in recognition of his lifetime's work.
Ustinov, 82, has won two Oscars and starred in some 40 films. His latest was "Luther", a US film that came out in 2003 about the German reformer.
The actor, who is also an ambassador for the United Nations children's fund UNICEF, was unable to attend the ceremony to collect his prize because of illness.
Peter Ustinov
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
40-City Tour
Aerosmith & Cheap Trick
Fresh off a hot-ticket co-headlining tour with Kiss, Aerosmith has confirmed a 2004 tour with support from fellow classic rock titans Cheap Trick.
The trek will begin March 11 in Lubbock, Texas, and visit 40 cities before wrapping June 28 in Cleveland. Venues have yet to be announced. As previously reported Aerosmith will also headline the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show on Feb. 1 at Houston's Reliant Stadium.
For more, and a list of dates & venues, Aerosmith & Cheap Trick
Archbishop Desmond Tutu shows off his Martin Luther King Jr. stole after the ordination ceremony of his daughter Rev. Mpho Tutu on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, in Alexandria, Va.
Photo by Evan Vucci
Recording Album
Jai Rodriguez
Jai Rodriguez, the culture maven of Bravo/NBC hit reality series "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," is in the studio recording his debut album.
If initial tracks are any indication, the full-length release will encompass dance ("Love Is Good"), R&B ("Back to L.A.") and pop ("Shining Star"). And don't fret, Rodriguez can sing.
Before joining the Fab 5 on "Queer Eye," he performed on Broadway ("Rent") and off-Broadway ("Zanna, Don't!"). Last March, Arrive at Eleven Productions issued Rodriguez's "Love Is Good." The track became a favorite in New York, prompting a performance by Rodriguez at the Roxy club. Then came "Queer Eye."
Jai Rodriguez
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Such A Gentleman
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell, promoting Monday's start of the third "American Idol" season, recently was drawn into a discussion with the Television Critics Association about the physical attributes of today's stars.
"Britney (Spears) is cute, isn't she?" Cowell said. "Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking."
"She's a housewife!" Cowell said.
Simon Cowell
A team of rafters carry their two inflatable rafts to the Nile River, Saturday, Jan 17, 2004 in Jinja, Uganda as they start an expedition that will take them through three countries as they navigate the Nile river. The 6,690-kilometer (4,157-mile) journey will take up to six months, starting from Uganda and passing through southern Sudan's vast Sudd swampy region and the deserts of northern Sudan and Egypt.
Photo by Mike Odongkara
Marking Beatles Trip to New York
Fab 40
It may seem like only yesterday but the Beatles' much-heralded first visit to America was 40 years ago, and a group of die-hard fans wants to mark the occasion for Beatles lovers here, there and everywhere.
The Fab 40 Committee will kick off the Beatles celebrations with a party and concert at New York's Hard Rock Cafe on Feb. 9, 40 years to the day after the British group first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, organizers said on Friday.
The city's Lincoln Center arts complex will host a film and television tribute to Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr and the American Film Institute will put on a similar tribute on Feb. 7, the date the Beatles arrived in New York in 1964 and were greeted by thousands of screaming fans.
Fab 40
Sentenced in Attack
Scott Bairstow
Actor Scott Bairstow was sentenced to four months in jail for an attack involving a 12-year-old girl.
Bairstow originally was charged with second-degree child rape but entered a modified guilty plea last month to a reduced charge of second-degree assault. Bairstow, who has been in the Snohomish County Jail since Dec. 5, could be freed in 37 days with credit for time served and good behavior, authorities said.
In the Alford plea, Bairstow, 33, maintained he was innocent but conceded he would likely be convicted if the case went to trial.
Bairstow, who appeared on Fox's "Party of Five" in 1998 and 1999, also was ordered to undergo a sexual deviancy evaluation and 12 months of supervision after his release.
Scott Bairstow
More Integrity...
Cheney & Scalia
Government watchdogs are raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest for Justice Antonin Scalia because he had dinner and went on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney while the Supreme Court was involved in a case about the vice president's energy task force.
Scalia and Cheney, longtime friends, had dinner at a restaurant on Maryland's Eastern Shore in November, two months after the Bush administration asked the justices to overrule a lower court's decision requiring White House to identify task force members.
The men went duck hunting in Louisiana this month, not long after the court agreed to hear the case.
Scalia says there is no reason to question his ability to judge the case fairly. Cheney's office referred questions about the propriety of the social encounters to the court.
Scalia, in a written statement to the Los Angeles Times for its story Saturday on the duck hunting trip, said: "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned." A court spokeswoman, Kathy Arberg, confirmed the statement Saturday and said Scalia would have nothing more to say.
Cheney & Scalia
Archive to Go Online
WWII Aerial Photos
A huge British archive of World War II aerial reconnaissance photos, including pictures of the D-Day landings in Normandy, is to go on the Internet on Monday.
Under the digitalization project announced Saturday, some 5 million Royal Air Force photos of Western Europe will be available to the public on the Web site
www.evidenceincamera.co.uk., archivists said. The site did not appear to be accessible on Saturday.
The photos, a key source of intelligence for Allied commanders during the war, include American troops landing in Normandy on D-Day, the effects of the bombing of Cologne, Germany, and the German battleship Bismarck being hunted by the Royal Navy.
WWII Aerial Photos
In Memory
Philip Crosby
Philip Crosby, son of legendary crooner Bing Crosby and an entertainer in his own right, has died of a heart attack. He was 69.
Bing Crosby had four sons from his marriage to former jazz singer and actress Dixie Lee: Gary, Lindsay and twins Dennis and Philip.
Philip Crosby's show business career was brief. He had some recordings and small parts in films such as "Robin and the Seven Hoods" and "None but the Brave," both starring Frank Sinatra.
Crosby's appearances on stage also were sporadic. He told People magazine in 1983 that his last gig was at an Elks Club party in Burbank.
He had been married four times by then. His first three wives were Las Vegas showgirls.
Philip Crosby
In Memory
Ray Stark
Ray Stark, a publicist and actors' agent who became a Hollywood power broker and producer of such movies as
'Funny Girl' (1968),
'The Way We Were' (1973), and
'The Sunshine Boys' (1975), died Saturday after a long illness. He was 88.
Stark was considered the last of the great independent producers, following the pattern of Samuel Goldwyn and David O. Selznick. Like them, he made films that were often based on best-selling books or hit plays, rich in production value and cast with major stars.
But unlike Goldwyn and Selznick, who thrived on publicity, Stark preferred to remain out of the limelight.
He gave only a handful of interviews during his career, and then only if he had an ax to grind. He issued only a few details in his official biography and was even sketchy about his age. He indicated his birth date was 1914, but gave no month or day.
A news release from Stark's family Saturday said he was born Oct. 3, 1915. (Note:
IMDB gives the date of birth as 3 October 1914)
Stark's career as producer was notable for his association with Barbra Streisand.
'Funny Girl' (1968) won Streisand an Oscar as best actress (shared in a tie with Katharine Hepburn (news) for "The Lion in Winter"). She made three more films under her contract with Stark —
'The Owl and the Pussycat' (1970),
'The Way We Were' (1973),
'Funny Lady' (1975). Even after they parted, they remained friends.
Stark films also won Academy Awards for
George Burns ['The Sunshine Boys' (1975)],
Richard Dreyfuss ['The Goodbye Girl' (1977)] and
Maggie Smith [California Suite (1978)].
Stark was educated at Rutgers University in New Jersey and first worked as a reporter and publicist. After World War II, he entered the agency business, starting with radio writers as clients, then moving up to authors such as John P. Marquand, Thomas Costain and Ben Hecht.
Stark was long married to Frances Brice. They had two children, including a son who died of a drug overdose. Stark owned a horse farm where he raised thoroughbreds for his racing stable, and he and his wife accumulated one of the most impressive art collections in the film community.
In a rare public statement, Stark in 1999 answered a Los Angeles Times request for his philosophy about film making. In his essay, Stark deplored the trend toward homogenization of movies:
"Films work best when they're specific; oddly enough, the more specific, the more universal the story. For example: check those artists who've had an impact on films: Orson Welles, Chaplin, Bergman, Hitchcock, John Ford, and writers like Neil Simon, Ben Hecht, Tennessee Williams. They never tailored their works for the largest audience possible. Instead, the largest audience came to them."
Ray Stark
A horse emerges from the flames during the 'Luminarias' annual religious celebration on the night before Saint Anthony´s Day, Patron of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares some 100 kilometers north west of Madrid late January 16, 2004. According to tradition, people from the area ride the horses through the fire to purify the animals.
Photo by Desmond Boylan
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