'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & very windy.
Kid still not quite up to par.
Speaking of Paar (sorry about that segue), was disappointed no one pulled out the 'spaghetti tree' film. Jack Paar did a wonderful pseudo-documentary on the spaghetti trees of Italy, showing different pastas 'growing' on trees, and the
harvest. My grandmother made pasta 6 days a week, so I got the joke, and felt so cool.
The clock cursor is back - must be a shortage of fun mail.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the 'Grammy Awards' - LIVE on the east coast, tape-delayed for the left coast.
NBC begins the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Pearl Harbor'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'Surreal Life'.
Faux has a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Oliver Beene', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
FRESH 'Bernie Mac', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'America's Top Dog', and a RERUN of 'America's Top Dog'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jaws II', followed by the movie 'Urban Cowboy', then the movie 'Urban Cowboy', again.
BBC -
[6:00 pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 6;
[7:00 pm] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal;
[8:00 pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 3;
[8:30 pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Poplar;
[9:00 pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Delia;
[9:30 pm] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[10:00 pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[10:40 pm] 'Wire in the Blood' - Behind the Scenes;
[11:00 pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 3;
[11:30 pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Poplar;
[12:00 am] 'What Not to Wear' - Delia;
[12:30 am] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[1:00 am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[1:40 am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Behind the Scenes;
[2:00 am] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal;
[3:00 am] 'What Not to Wear' - Delia;
[3:30 am] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[4:00 am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[4:40 am] 'Wire in the Blood' - Behind the Scenes;
[5:00 am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 3;
[5:30 am] 'The Life Laundry' - Poplar; and
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Charlize Theron), followed by the movie 'Places In The Heart'.
Comedy Central has 'Kevin James: Sweat The Samll Stuff', followed by the movie 'Black Sheep', then 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has the FRESH 'American Veteran Awards', 'Snipers', another 'Snipers', a FRESH
'Mail Call', followed by 'Tactical To Practical'.
SciFi has 'Peter Benchley's "Creature"' (part 1 of 2), followed by 'Peter Benchley's "Creature"' (part 2 of 2).
TCM - Day 8 of '31 Days of Oscar™', where every movie is either an Oscar™ winner or nominee.
[6am] 'King Solomon's Mines' (1950);
[8am] 'Body And Soul' (1947);
[10am] 'The Black Stallion' (1979);
[12pm] 'The Great Escape' (1963);
[3pm] 'North By Northwest' (1959);
[5:30pm] 'Red River' (1948);
[8pm] 'The Day Of The Jackal' (1973);
[10:30pm] 'Blazing Saddles' (1974);
[12:15am] 'Smokey and the Bandit' (1977);
[2am] 'In the Line of Fire' (1993);
[4:30am] 'The Window' (1949). (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Billy Bob Thornton, left, musicians Jackson Browne, center, and Dwight Yoakam, stand in front of a image of musician Warren Zevon on the large screen as they rehearse a tribute to Zevon, during rehearsals of the Grammy Awards show Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Grammy Awards will be presented Sunday, Feb. 8.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Weighs In On Janet J
Hugh Hefner
It will come as no surprise that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is disgusted by the fallout from Janet Jackson's flash of breat at the Super Bowl half-time show.
"Europe is probably laughing at us," he said Friday at the MusiCares dinner for Sting.
"It's a reflection of our hypocrisy related to sex and nudity. Much to do about nothing," scoffed Hefner.
Hugh Hefner
Comedian Chris Rock performs Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, at the Fox Theatre, at Foxwood Resort Casino, in Mashantucke, Conn. Rock is on his Black Ambition Tour and is also celebrating his 39th birthday Saturday.
Photo by Douglas Healey
MusiCares Person of the Year
Sting
Sting acknowledged feeling a little out of sorts as he was honored as person of the year by the Recording Academy's MusiCares foundation.
"I'm actually feeling an emotion I'm not very well known for — humility," the Grammy-winning artist joked Friday at a star-studded charity dinner.
He was honored for his charitable works, including his efforts to protect human rights and the rain forests. Among those at the musical tribute were Wynonna Judd, Mary J. Blige, Hugh Hefner, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Bob Geldof and Elvis Costello.
The MusiCares gala was one of several celebrity events leading up to Sunday's Grammy awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Sting
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Heading Back To Show
Tara Dakides
A champion snowboarder who was injured while performing a stunt for "The Late Show with David Letterman" was released from the hospital Friday and will appear on the show again Monday — this time to talk.
After receiving the good news about Dakides' condition, Letterman was able to make light of his show's regularly featured street stunts.
"Tonight's bungee jump off the Ed Sullivan Theater building has been canceled," he said.
Speaking of Dakides' ill-fated landing, he said: "I was thinking about it last night: as a matter of fact, there hasn't been a jump that ill-advised since I moved from NBC to CBS."
Tara Dakides
Music legend Ray Charles, left, talks with Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn before the mayor named him 'A Cultural Treasure' on behalf of the City of Los Angeles, kicking off the city's African American Heritage Month festivities. The mayor also announced that the area in central Los Angeles, where Charles built his offices and studios in 1960, and where he still headquarters his worldwide music activities, will be renamed Ray Charles Square.
Photo by Michael Tweed
Jackson Flash Heightens Interest
Piercings
Piercing studios didn't pay for advertising during the Super Bowl, but they still got plenty of exposure.
Shops and distributors around the country are reporting a surge of interest in nipple piercing and adornments since Janet Jackson's breast-revealing performance at the game's halftime show.
Nipple shields like the silver sunburst revealed when Justin Timberlake tore off a piece of Jackson's costume have been hot sellers at $30 to $100, said Bianca Bubenik, who owns two tattoo and piercing studios in New York called Andromeda and Cassioppia.
On Hollywood Boulevard, Jason Price of Tattoo Zone said more than 20 people — including parents — asked about the procedure this past week, twice as many as usual.
Business was brisk at the Florida-based online distributor TheChainGang.com, with owner Russ Johnson saying he had sold about 65 Jacksonesque shields since the Super Bowl and had more than 40 on back order. Until the Super Bowl, he sold only two or three in a typical week.
Piercings
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
U.S. Hockey Players Recall
'Miracle'
Lake Placid residents witnessed a "Miracle" when three members of the 1980 Winter Olympics hockey team visited this upstate New York village.
"Miracle," which opened Friday nationwide, tells the story of the 20 players who upset the seemingly unbeatable Soviet Union 4-3, then defeated Finland to win the gold medal. Kurt Russell stars as the Cinderella team's coach, Herb Brooks.
Mike Eruzione, who scored the winning goal against the Soviets, Jack O'Callahan and Buzz Schneider attended Thursday night's screening in Lake Placid.
Schneider, whose son Billy played him in the film, said memories flooded back when he stepped on the ice of the 1980 Rink in the Olympic Center for the first time since the games.
'Miracle'
Costa Rican Boruca Indians dressed traditional costumes, and wearing masks perform an indigenous rite known as 'the little devil's game' in the village of Rey de Curre, 200 miles south of the capital San Jose, February 6, 2004. Residents of this small indigenous community perform each year 'the little devil's game' dressed with banana leaves, sacks and traditional masks they've made since colonial times when they were known as one of the groups in south Costa Rica that most resisted the Spanish Conquistadors.
Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate
The Idaho - Cuba Connection
Hemingway House Foundation
Cuba, where Ernest Hemingway lived for two decades, and a foundation in the U.S. state in which he died agreed on Saturday to swap information contained in books and documents the American writer left behind.
The co-president of the Hemingway House Foundation in Idaho, Martin Peterson, struck the deal with Cuban officials at Finca Vigia, the estate on the outskirts of Havana where Hemingway lived from 1940 to 1960.
Peterson gave the Cuban officials a black-and-white photograph of Hemingway on a hunting trip in Idaho during which he shot two antelope. Their stuffed heads hang in the sitting room at Finca Vigia.
Two Idaho Republicans, U.S. Sen. Larry Craig and Rep. C.L. "Butch" Otter, signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday under which Cuba's communist government committed itself to buying at least $10 million in farm products, including 5,000 tonnes of potatoes and 10,000 tonnes of beans.
Craig, who last year co-sponsored a measure to end travel restrictions on Americans wanting to visit Cuba, said it was time to start a fresh relationship with Havana.
Hemingway House Foundation
A group of protesters cross a bridge en route to the G7 Summit meeting of world financial leaders, in Boca Raton, Florida, February 7, 2004. A small band of anti-globalization protesters demonstrated outside the exclusive Florida resort where ministers and central bankers from the world's richest nations met, calling on them to bring talks on currency and debt into the public eye.
Photo by Gary I Rothstein
Amen
A Flash of Political Opportunism
The Janet Jackson peek-a-boo revealed far more than a fleeting glimpse of flesh.
It also showed just how rife political opportunism is in this election year, according to music industry veterans and others.
"Here we have Michael Powell upset about this happening in the Super Bowl, but the same Powell has been unwilling to do anything about the violence on television, where there has been much more research showing it has a harmful impact on kids," says Dr. Michael Rich, director of Harvard's Center on Media and Child Health.
Robert Thompson, founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, says, "Michael Powell is representing the Super Bowl like everybody in the family sits around knitting booties, or like it's the Macy's Day Parade.
"Come on. There's gambling, there's a lot of drinking, partying, a carnival atmosphere," he asserts.
Jay Rosenthal, attorney for the Recording Artists' Coalition, says the FCC's involvement is a smokescreen, a sound-bite attempt by the Republican-led commission to act as if it's doing something.
"When it comes to media consolidation issues affecting consumers and artists, they don't care about that. But when it comes to indecency, after ignoring it for years, all of a sudden they're snapping to attention," he says.
Simon Renshaw of management group the Firm says he finds it "inappropriate" that Powell is trying to distract people from the real issues of what's going on in the media today.
"What I find 'offensive' is CBS' refusal to carry moveon.org's ad during the Super Bowl." The ad pictures children working in factories to pay off the Bush administration's budget deficit.
A Flash of Political Opportunism
Carnival revelers wearin mock New York Police department uniforms stop a reveler wearing mobile phone clothing during pre-carnival festivities on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, February 7, 2004.
Photo by Bruno Domingos
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