BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 30 January, 2005
Sunday
30 January, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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But Untrue
Strangely Believable
Yesterday's Fact: 1/29/05
During a recent visit to tsumani-devasted areas of Indonesia, Vice President Dick Cheney caused quite a stir when he attended a memorial service wearing Bermuda shorts, black socks, and a "Welcome to Margaritaville" tank top.
~Jeff Crook
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left. ~ J. Howard Tuft
Strangely Believable but Untrue is now available online at the Untrue Fact of the Day web calendar. Help spread disinformation and misunderstanding by sharing this with your friends and enemies.
A casual stroll through a mental asylum shows that faith proves nothing. --- Friedrich Nietzche
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Reader Correction
Bad Links
These two links in the "from Bruce" part of yesterday's page have a coding error.
Green Pages Online
Responsible Shopper
Dave
Thanks, Dave!
That's what happens when I forget to add an 'http://' at the front of a URL...
Have updated the archived page, and here they are in the correct form - Thanks.
Green Pages Online
Responsible Shopper
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Reader Suggestion
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter, appearing on
Canadian TV, sets ignorant Canadian masses straight on the subject of Viet Nam, and gets one up on
Joe Scarborough:
Source: firedoglake
Thanks, Molly!
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A Fresh Rant
Avery Ant
RANTING ANT AND PO'D PISMIRE
AVERY ANT IS RUNNING FOR POPE!
WE PRAY WE CAN COUNT ON YOUR VOTE...
Like the song goes...
When the moral judging is done
Oh, Popes, just wanna have fun...
Avery Pope Robe by Spud Fashions Inc.
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Norman Solomon: Of Death Be Not Proud (AlterNet)
Is Wal-Mart a Person? Thom Hartmann Tells Why It Is--Kind of--But Not Really (A Buzzflash Interview With Thom Hartmann)
PAISLEY DODDS : Gitmo Soldier Details Sexual Tactics (Associated Press Writer)
Vikram Dodd: US captors' 'systematic torture'
Jennifer Gonnerman: The Last Executioner (Village Voice)
Dahr Jamail: Destroying Babylon. Forget the elections - Iraq is falling apart. (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Kevin Mattson: Why "Active Learning" Can Be Perilous to the Profession
Life without Stern isn't looking pretty: Radio stations that dropped the ribald radio star a year ago have seen ratings plummet. (CNN/Money)
Jon Frosch: The French New Vague (AlterNet)
ROGER EBERT: Sundance #5: Talkin' bout revolution
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Reader Suggestion
'Children Of Iraq'
Thanks, Sean!
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Follow Up
Re: Cheney Attire
Yesterday when I was looking for a nice picture of Elmer Fudd hunting to accompany the picture of Dick 'Go-Fuck-Yourself' Cheney, as suggested by Terry,
found this one:
But before I came across it, found this one
Here.
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Bright Angel'
Purple Genes' review of "Bright Angel" (1991) Directed by Michael Fields:
"Script - Script - Script" !!! Without a good script, a movie sinks like a ship !!!
I couldn't sleep because of the rain last night so…. I made my midnight move to the Cable Hall of Fame….and tonight we have "Bright Angel"…a "Movie" that Roger Ebert describes as "perfectly matched to the Material"….too bad I had my hopes dashed by a supremely mediocre script….Wrong again Roger……the "Material" of this movie was at most MUNDANE!!! I had to watch the whole thing to be SURE !!!!!!
George (Dermot Mulrony "Bad Girls" - "Copycat" - "About Schmidt") is a lonely, brooding boy……His mother has left his angry father Jack (Sam Shepard "Renaldo and Clara" - "Paris, Texas" - "Days of Heaven") who is insolent and angry . George has to leave and find his own way…he heads off to a local café where he hooks up with Lucy (Lili Taylor "Mystic Pizza" - "I Shot Andy Warhol" - "Six Feet Under") who is weird, wasted, shallow and confused……But George and Lucy set off on mission to find a man that can be paid to testify in court to save her brother from prison….everything that happens after this is sketchy and random and strange….We meet Judy (Mary Kay Place) the reasonable mom type and Harley (Delroy Lindo) a wheel chair bound cackling buffoon and Claude (Benjamin Bratt) a violent and sadistic punk and Bob (Bill Pullman) and Aileen (Valerie Perrine) all wasted characters with nothing to really say (No Script) .
George and Lucy wander through this landscape of losers without a clue! Of course all this interaction is leading up to meeting the man who wants to be paid to testify…..the main malevolent element in this whole movie….. Art (Burt Young) is a drooling, pathological demon!!!!!! Why would these two naïve kids ever trust a domestic terrorist like this….. well they do …and without spoiling the ending…enough to say that the unexpected violence comes as a complete surprise and George learns a valuable lesson…but none the less …. He hires on to an oil drilling crew after passing the test …kicking the ass of the boss….The final scene is Gearge in the back of a pick up truck being driven off to god knows where to do god knows what……..
Purple Gene gives "Bright Angel" 5 clueless "Huhs" out of 10 for a movie that had a great ensemble of actors and shit for dialogue!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, clear, windy & cold.
The kid's buddy had a birthday party - we spent the afternoon at
Go Kart World.
We had a great time.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a FRESH made-for-TV movie 'The Magic Of Ordinary Days'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then another RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Summerland', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge'.
Faux has a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Malcolm', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development', then a RERUN 'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons'.
UPN again pisses away the night with RERUNs of 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', followed by the FRESH made-for-cable movie 'See Arnold Run', then the movie 'See Arnold Run', again.
AMC offers the movie 'The Final Conflict', followed by the movie 'Carrie', then the movie 'Stephen King's "Silver Bullet"'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Founder's Day;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Takeover;
[3:20pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - It Pays To Advertise;
[4pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Do You Take This Man;
[4:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - A Bliss Girl;
[5:20pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Happy Returns;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Wetherby 4;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Newark 7;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Davies;
[7:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Peltier;
[8pm] 'This Life' - Father Figure;
[9pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 3;
[10pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Helena Bonham Carter;
[10:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'This Life' - Father Figure;
[12am] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Helena Bonham Carter;
[1:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 4;
[2am] 'This Life' - Father Figure;
[3am] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 3;
[4am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Helena Bonham Carter;
[4:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 4;
[5am] 'This Life' - Father Figure;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', another 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Robert Redford), 'Project Runway', and another 'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', another 'Comedy Central Presents', still another 'Comedy Central Presents', yet another 'Comedy Central Presents', still another 'Comedy Central Presents', and yes, one more 'Comedy Central Presents', followed by 'George Lopez: Why You Crying?'.
DISCOVERY has the FRESH (to the US) movie 'Pompeii: The Last Day', a BBC-Discovery co-production from 2003 that kicked ratings ass in the UK.
History has 'Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft Of WWII', 'Secret Allied Aircraft Of WWII', 'Secret Russian Aircraft Of WWII', and 'Conspiracy?'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Blind Swordsman #8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight' (1964);
[7:30AM] 'Condo Painting' (2000);
[9AM] 'An Angel At My Table' (1990);
[11:45AM] 'Fever Pitch' (1997);
[1:30PM] 'Condo Painting' (2000);
[3PM] 'At The Angelika #92' (2004);
[3:30PM] 'An Angel At My Table' (1990);
[6:15PM] 'Fever Pitch' (1997);
[8PM] 'Daytrippers' (1996);
[9:30PM] 'Under Suspicion' (2000);
[11:30PM] 'Daytrippers' (1996);
[1AM] 'The Element Of Crime' (1984);
[2:45AM] 'Under Suspicion' (2000);
[4:45AM] 'In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story' (1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Route 666', followed by the movie 'Resident Evil'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'Trembling Before G-d' (Documentary);
[8AM] 'The Whole Wide World' (Feature);
[10AM] 'Dopamine' (Feature);
[11:30AM] 'The Farm: Angola, USA' (Documentary);
[1PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/24/05) (Original Production);
[1:30PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/25/05) (Original Production);
[2PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/26/05) (Original Production);
[2:30PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/27/05) (Original Production);
[3PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/28/05) (Original Production);
[3:30PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/29/05) (Original Production);
[4:30PM] 'The Opposite of Sex' (Feature);
[6:15PM] 'The Support Group' (Short);
[6:30PM] 'Control Room' (Documentary);
[8PM] 'Pieces of April' (Feature);
[9:30PM]] 'World Traveler' (Feature);
[11:15PM 'Second Skin' (Short);
[11:30PM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/24/05) (Original Production);
[12AM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/25/05) (Original Production);
[12:30AM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/26/05) (Original Production);
[1AM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/27/05) (Original Production);
[1:30AM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/28/05) (Original Production);
[2AM] 'Festival Dailies' (1/29/05) (Original Production);
[3AM] 'Die Mommie Die!' (Feature);
[4:30AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Die Mommie Die!' (Original Production);
[5AM] 'Pieces of April' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'The Two Mrs. Carrolls' (1947);
[8am] 'The Big Sleep' (1946);
[10am] 'Skirts Ahoy!' (1952);
[12pm] 'State Fair' (1945);
[2pm] 'Splendor In The Grass' (1961);
[4:15pm] 'The Trouble With Harry' (1955);
[6pm] 'Spellbound' (1945);
[8pm] 'The Gay Divorcee' (1934);
[10pm] 'Seems Like Old Times' (1980);
[12am] 'The Temptress' (1926) SILENT ;
[2am] 'Sing and Like It' (1934);
[3:15am] 'Forty Naughty Girls' (1938);
[4:30am] 'This Could Be The Night' (1957). (ALL TIMES EST)
Monday - 01/31
TCM celebrates Jean Simmons (today is her 76th birthday) all morning & afternoon, then
pays tribute to Don Siegel all night.
[6:30am] 'The Actress' (1953);
[8:15am] 'Affair With A Stranger' (1953);
[10am] 'Young Bess' (1953);
[12pm] 'She Couldn't Say No' (1954);
[1:30pm] 'Guys And Dolls' (1955);
[4pm] 'This Could Be The Night' (1957);
[6pm] 'Until They Sail' (1957);
[8pm] 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956);
[9:30pm] 'Madigan' (1968);
[11:15pm] 'Charley Varrick' (1973);
[1:15am] 'Hell is for Heroes' (1962);
[3am] 'The Big Steal' (1950);
[4:15am] 'Telefon' (1977). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Jack Nicholson, left, and Chris Rock watch the New Jersey Nets play the Los Angeles Lakers, Friday night, Jan. 28, 2005, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
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Received Award From Putin
Francis Ford Coppola
The American film director and winner of five Oscars, Francis Ford Coppola, was awarded the order of the golden eagle by Russian President Vladimir Putin, local television channel NTV reported.
"I give you this golden eagle for your contribution to world cinema," said the Russian president to the director of the "Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now".
"I understand that the rewards no longer surprise you as you have received so many but we are happy to see you in Moscow," Putin said.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Competitors in the '2005 Idiotrod' finish their five-mile race from Brooklyn to Manhattan, pushing shopping carts throughout New York January 29, 2005. The race, a spoof of the Alaskan dog race Iditarod, involves teams in groups of four pushing grocery carts over a five-mile course throughout the city for cash prizes.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
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Letterman Fall Adds to Star Power
Tara Dakides
Tara Dakides is one of the most decorated and influential athletes at the Winter X Games, someone who can't walk through a ski resort without being recognized. She can thank David Letterman for that. What would have been just another appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last February turned into a media frenzy when Dakides went flying off a makeshift snowboarding ramp outside the studio and fell onto the street below.
Nicknamed the "Terrorizer" for her go-for-broke style, Dakides also has been an innovator, becoming the first woman to land a backside rodeo 540 - 1 1/2 flips with a full twist landed backward - and is constantly pushing the boundaries of her sport.
She's won seven Winter X Games medals, including five golds and a silver in slopestyle last year in her first major event since wrecking her knee nearly two years earlier.
But none of it prepared her for the flurry her visit to the Letterman show created.
Tara Dakides
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Finally Gets A Name
Comic Book Guy
The elusive real name of Comic Book Guy will finally be revealed in "Simpsons" episode No. GABF02, Act 1.
The blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment airs in the show after the Super Bowl on Feb. 6.
Comic Book Guy, the snobbish know-it-all, pops up in the episode clad in a "Nerds do it Rarely" T-shirt. Since the series began in 1991, his real name has never been used.
Comic Book Guy
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Taking Up Residency in N.C.
Branford Marsalis
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis and the other members of his quartet have agreed to be resident artists for the jazz program at North Carolina Central University.
Marsalis, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts will share their expertise and artistry with students four consecutive days a month throughout the spring semester starting Monday, said Ira Wiggins, director of the jazz program. The program has about 35 jazz majors, two big bands, four combos and a vocal ensemble.
Branford Marsalis
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Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, holds Khaidir, a 4-year-old boy who was orphaned in the tsunami, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005, on the outskirts of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Islam has composed a new song, 'Indian Ocean,' in response to the disaster and recently recorded it with musicians including A.R. Rahman, the prolific Indian composer/producer, Magne Furuholmen of A-Ha fame, and Travis drummer Neil Primrose. It will be released in February to raise money for children orphaned by the earthquake.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
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Utilities Warn Over Shocking Segment
'Fear Factor'
There's no such thing as a safe shock.
That's the warning that U.S. electric utilities gave to the producers of NBC's gross-out stunt show "Fear Factor," which is planning a segment next week where couples will compete to see who can get zapped by high-voltage electricity.
In a letter to the NBC network, the Edison Electric Institute, which represents most major U.S. utilities, raised concerns about the spectacle.
"It's important for viewers to realize that there is no such thing as a 'nuisance shock,"' and copycat pranksters could face serious injury or death from electrocution, wrote Tom Kuhn, president of the Washington lobbying group.
A spokesman for the show on NBC, owned by General Electric Co., was not available for comment.
'Fear Factor'
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Still Smoking
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
The king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan, which outlawed tobacco sales last month, says he plans to keep on smoking but is trying to light up less.
"I am a smoker. I am trying to cut down on cigarettes," King Jigme Singye Wangchuck told reporters in New Delhi as he wound up a six-day official visit to India, media reports Saturday said.
Last month Bhutan, the country of 734,000 people nestled between India and China, became the first nation in the world to ban tobacco sales and also banned smoking in public.
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
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Brazilian Pop superstar and Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, right, kisses Grateful dead lyricist John Barlow during the World Social forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Saturday, Jan 29, 2005.
Photo by Nabor Goulart
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Urges Refugee Aid
Angelina Jolie
Going back to making movies isn't easy after doing something as rewarding as helping refugees, says Angelina Jolie, the actress turned U.N. goodwill ambassador. Jolie, one of the celebrities attending the World Economic Forum, said acting cannot compare with the voluntary job she signed up for with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees in 2001.
"If I've had a few months I'm having trouble going back to work because I'm finding that my time at home with my son and taking him around and traveling to UNHCR programs or other parts of the world is just more fulfilling and more interesting to me and I know is more important," Jolie said Saturday.
Jolie, who spoke to reporters a day after actress Sharon Stone raised $1 million from forum participants raised $1 million from forum participants to fight malaria in Africa, said she thinks celebrities can serve a valuable role by publicizing the realities of world problems.
Angelina Jolie
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Masked reveller strolls through St. Mark's Square during traditional Carnival in Venice, northern Italy, January 29, 2005. Thousands of people are expected to come to the lagoon city this weekend for the carnival celebrations.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
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Shrinking in a Warming World
Glaciers
Up and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.
In east Africa, the storied snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are vanishing. In the icebound Alps and Himalayas of Europe and Asia, the change has been stunning. From South America to south Asia, new glacial lakes threaten to overflow and drown villages below.
In the past few years, space satellites have helped measure the global trend, but scientists such as Rajendra K. Pachauri, a native of north India, have long seen what was happening on the ground.
For a lot more, Glaciers
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Bolivian musicians perform in the Civic square in Oruro, Bolivia, 200 kms south of La Paz, January 29, 2005. An ensemble of some 5,000 musicians from 54 bands played Oruro's carnival music in unison, during the fourth Festival of Carnival Music Bands, as practice ahead of the big parade on February 5.
Photo by Jose Luis Quintana
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Company Won't Pull Straightjacketed Bear
'Crazy for You'
A straightjacketed "Crazy for You" teddy bear has drawn rebukes from the governor, mental health advocates and human rights groups - but it's a hit among shoppers. The $69.95 bear, which is accompanied by commitment papers, is selling well despite complaints that it insults and stigmatizes those with mental illness.
Vermont Teddy Bear Co. President Elisabeth Robert says the bear is meant as a funny Valentine's Day greeting and has been popular among customers.
Robert said the company had planned the bear as a one-time offering for Valentine's Day, and that it will continue selling the bear until it is sold out.
'Crazy for You'
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A young girl has a little taste of a cookie attached to a Volkswagen Beetle coated with white chocolate flavored with the use of strawberry as it was created by popular chefs and on display at Harumi Triton shopping complex in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005 ahead of Valentine's Day. In Japan, Valentine's Day virtually became the day of chocolate given from women to men as a result of massive sales promotion by confectionery makers.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
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