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Great Site!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Had 'You Only Live Twice' on in the background. Had no idea that the screenplay was by Roald Dahl.
Also had on the compiled reruns that comprised 'SNL' later.
Forgot to buy a TV Guide, so not much of an update for Today, Sunday.
CBS has on a tv-movie with good buzz about 'Rosa Parks'.
Faux has a fresh hour of 'King Of The Hill', followed by a fresh 'Simpsons', and a fresh
'Malcolm'. Then there is an hour of reruns ('Simpsons' and 'Bernie Mac') in place of the 'X-Files'.
UPN has a rerun of 'Enterprise', and then I don't know what.
Will try to update this part after the paper comes in the morning. ; )
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is to head a mission seeking solutions to Africa's problems ranging from AIDS to debt, a group of
center-left government leaders said February 23, 2002. Clinton is seen speaking to an audience of top Israeli businessmen in Tel Aviv on Jan. 21.
Photo by Havakuk Levison
Closing Ceremony
Olympics
After a dignified opening ceremony and 17 days of heavy security following the September 11 attacks, organizers will invite 2,500
athletes to let it rip on Sunday to the music of Kiss, Bon Jovi, Moby and Christina Aguilera.
"The tone of the closing ceremony will be completely different, it will be more of a celebration to entertain the athletes," producer
Don Mischer told journalists on Saturday.
At the opening ceremony the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's rendition stilled the stadium as the "Ground Zero" flag recovered from the rubble
of the World Trade Center was presented to the 52,000 spectators.
Boy band 'NSYNC come from the other end of the musical spectrum and still further out are 1970s heavy metal group Kiss who will
perform their anthem "Rock and Roll All Nite".
Incongruously, dancing to Kiss on the rink which fills much of the floor of Rice-Eccles Stadium will be double Olympic champion Katerina
Witt, the epitome of figure skating grace.
Dorothy Hamill, the 1976 Olympic champion, will dance to "Somewhere over the Rainbow", the theme tune of another Dorothy, before the
athletes are invited on to the ice, which will be sanded, to dance to Bon Jovi and Aguilera.
Organizers deliberately held back on fireworks during the opening ceremony but they are rubbing their hands in glee over a 4 1/2-minute
thunderclap that will bring the curtain down on the ceremony and the Games.
Ten thousand shells will be launched including eight 24-inch howitzers -- the Big Berthas of the fireworks world -- in a display that
will spread out from the stadium into the Salt Lake Valley.
Closing Ceremony
Band Writes For Band, Not Fans
Gwen Stefani
When No Doubt writes a song, it's for the band, not the fans.
Writing a song with the fans in mind would "be the biggest sellout hoax thing that we could do," singer Gwen Stefani told
Associated Press Television News. "First of all, we're not talented enough to do that. We don't have the skills to write a calculated song.
"But second of all, I think that would just be like backwards. We're in the band for ourselves, we're really selfish. We do it for us,
then we share it with you."
Stefani, 32, said No Doubt, which has a new album, "Rock Steady," is trying to simplify its sound.
"We always like to play like a million beats and have a hundred chords and 10 bridges," she said. "Trying to simplify our sound a little
bit more is something we always are trying to do. We tried to do it on our last record, it didn't happen. This record, we really think we did it."
Gwen Stefani & No Doubt
Flockhart & Ford - Just Friends?
Calista & Harrison
Aging action star Harrison Ford is stepping out with a new "friend" - reed-thin "Ally McBeal" star Calista Flockhart.
The couple, both bundled in winter jackets and wearing blue jeans and caps, were seen strolling together down Madison Avenue.
Ford, who divorced screenwriter Melissa Mathison last year, had been linked with "Good Will Hunting" actress Minnie Driver when the two
were caught after a pre-Golden Globes party in mid-January canoodling at the Hollywood restaurant Divino.
Just days later, Driver, who reportedly was Ford's date to the Globes, was nowhere to be seen. The actor arrived at a post-Globes party
with Flockhart on his arm.
Pat McQueeney, Ford's rep, said, "[Ford and Flockhart] are friends . . . [Driver and Ford] are also friends . . . Harrison has a lot of friends."
Flockhart & Ford
Getting Back To Normal?
Naomi Campbell
Just a week after giving testimony in her libel case against London's Daily Mirror, Naomi Campbell is back on the party circuit. Last
weekend, the supermodel stopped by Brooklyn bar Lux, and on Wednesday she went to several soirees. Naomi dropped by Jacob "The Jeweler"
Arabo's party at the Dylan Hotel and then dropped by Yehuda Berg's bash for his kaballah book at Flow. The kaballah convert showed with
two large bodyguards who walked in front of and behind her. She avoided speaking to anyone before grabbing a goody bag full of
Alive skin-care products and bolting.
Naomi Campbell
Type Casting
John Rocker
John Rocker will be flinging bodies instead of baseballs when he makes his big-screen debut as a homicidal maniac.
The controversial Texas Rangers reliever is playing a slasher-killer in movie called "The Greenskeeper," Rangers spokesman John
Blake confirmed Saturday.
The film, produced by Atlanta-based Ghost Man on Third Productions, was shot in October in Senoia and other golf courses in Georgia.
Kevin Greene, one of the film's producers, said they called Rocker after a friend of a friend mentioned he knew the pitcher. Rocker
was initially surprised by the offer but became the consummate professional, Greene said, showing up on time and knowing all his lines.
John Rocker
Weddings & Travel Plans
Lorna & Liza
Although Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli supposedly mended their relationship a year ago, Luft won't be attending her half-sister's wedding
to producer David Gest on March 16. "I'm leaving for Australia to sing for President Clinton at the [Australian] Mardi Gras," she says.
"It's for the Prince's Trust, and I'm really looking forward to it. I made the commitment 11 months ago, so I knew I had to keep my
word." The Aussie event is also known as the world's biggest gay party - last year more than a million homosexuals and drag queens
descended on Sydney for it - so it came as no surprise when Luft told us: "It's so sweet. During Mardi Gras there will be a big tribute
to my mother [Judy Garland]. It's a really big deal, and 142 people are dressing up like her in a parade." Luft met Gest, who produced
Michael Jackson's comeback concerts at Madison Square Garden, for the first time last Thursday night at their engagement party at
the Mondrian in L.A. "Gest is a real sweetie and Liza seems very happy," Lorna says.
Lorna & Liza
On The 'Spanish Steps'
Chocolate Eggs
Two workers put the finishing touches on some 3,000 Easter eggs placed along the Spanish steps in Rome, early February 22, 2002.
The chocolate eggs were displayed to promote the coming Euro-chocolate fair in Rome.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
ESPN Founder Cops A Plea
William Rasmussen
ESPN founder William Rasmussen, accused of corruption for a failed golf enterprise, has pleaded innocent to separate charges he bilked
three investors out of $50,000 in a stock swindle.
Rasmussen returned to Naples from his home in Beaufort County, S.C., and turned himself in Friday. He pleaded innocent to one count of
organized fraud and three counts of communications fraud. He was later released from the Collier County Jail after paying a $10,000 bail.
He is accused in the new case of bilking investors in a stock swindle involving Stadium Naples and the A.S. Goldmen brokerage,
special prosecutor Michael Von Zamft said.
Rasmussen is one of five defendants charged with corruption in connection with Stadium Naples, the failed plan for a golfing development.
The others have pleaded no contest in the case.
The men are accused of conspiring to use financial benefits from the stadium to cull favorable treatment from four county officials.
William Rasmussen
More Olympic Closing Acts
Gloria Estefan
Five-time Grammy award winner Gloria Estefan will sing at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday.
The event marks Estefan's second Olympic appearance on the closing ceremony's center stage. Estefan sang the theme song at the
1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Joining her on stage will be singers Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Harry Connick Jr., and Earth, Wind, and Fire.
More Olympic Closing Acts
Complete Recovery Expected
Roger Ebert
Film critic Roger Ebert was in good condition after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous growth in his thyroid gland, doctors said.
Doctors removed Ebert's entire thyroid gland and selected lymph nodes in his neck, Pelzer said, adding that Ebert's vocal cord function appears normal.
The 59-year-old Chicago Sun-Times movie reviewer is expected to be discharged from the hospital within the next few days, Pelzer said.
Ebert was diagnosed with papillary cancer, one of the most common and curable types of thyroid cancer. He bounced back quickly from a similar procedure in 1987.
Before the surgery, Ebert said programs for his nationally broadcast "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies" television program had been taped in
advance, and he hoped to return to work without missing a show.
Roger Ebert
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Is Art Thiel right--are these the Blame Games? Now Russian and Korea are moaning. Canada had a righteous beef, but these guys???? And tune in to revel in what's up with Ohno-mania. Are you sporting the John Curley beardlet?
And is the War on Terror being waged effectively? Do you trust where we are headed?
Has 9/11 changed the way you look at God, spirituality and life? What cause do you believe is worth dying for?
And on Sunday, it's to your health with Maxine Chan who will give us tips on how to eat delicious ethnic foods without so much darn fat. Can food taste good without the fat?
Plus the usual suspects: 'Bush Bash', 'Where in the World Is Dick Cheney' and 'Short Attention Span Theater'!
Join Erin Hart at regulation time (9 pm to 1 am [pst] Sat & Sun ) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
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And there's a chatroom, too!
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At The New York Aquarium
Gay Penguins?
Wendell and Cass would be more comfortable in a Greenwich Village one bedroom apartment than their current home at the New York Aquarium.
The male penguins, each about 14 years old, can't get enough of each other. The couple has been together for the past eight years, and the
two have sex with each other whenever they can, which is often.
Presumably penguins can tell the guys from the gals, but aquarium officials apparently can't. For years they thought the pair was one of
each. The truth didn't come out until aquarium staff carried out a blood test.
Angie Pelekedis, a spokeswoman for the aquarium on Coney Island, said: "They're one of the most dedicated couples in the penguin enclosure."
Penguin keeper Stephanie Mitchell added: "I was only seeing one mate with the other, but then one of the other keepers saw it happen the
other way round so we did a blood test that proved they were both male.
"Cass tends to be a rather aggressive bird. Wendell is very nervous; always has been. He's on edge all the time. They're
currently in a dispute with another couple over their nest. It seems to be one of the most desirable places in the penguin enclosure."
Gay Penguins?
From 'TBH Politoons'
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Thanks, again, Tim!
Finally Honored In Hometown That Once Shunned Him
John Steinbeck
Mist shrouds the hills that hem in Monterey Bay, and cattle still graze the valley where farm workers pluck romaine and red leaf from
the soil. But little else remains the same in this fertile spread where John Steinbeck set many of his stories.
Neighbors in his hometown once called him "no-good Johnny Steinbeck." Now, they're leading the country in a yearlong celebration of the
author's 100th birthday that includes art shows, film festivals and a gala tribute March 19 at New York's Lincoln Center.
In the 1930s, when Steinbeck called Salinas home, it was a dusty town of about 5,000 people. Wealthy landowners knew their place. So did
their workers, until the dark-skinned migrants were joined by "Okies" - white Midwestern farm families who fled drought and came West in
search of a better life. They hoped to find it in the lettuce fields of Salinas Valley - Steinbeck's "green gold."
Steinbeck not only captured the region's beauty in such novels as "East of Eden," "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Cannery Row," he uncovered its seamy
side as well. He wrote about the exploitation of farm workers, prostitution and social injustice - issues that resonate today. "He had a real
sympathy for his people and I thought he had a great eye for American life and could represent a place extremely well, like California," said William
Kennedy, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Ironweed."
Every time the economy tanks, "Steinbeck sales climb through the roof," says his son, writer Thom Steinbeck. The more a "heartless corporation" abuses
people, "and the moment people feel they've lost their free will, Steinbeck goes off the bookshelves."
With "The Grapes of Wrath," Steinbeck did more than just break one town's code of silence. Coming on the heels of the Russian revolution and the Depression, he
fed a collective fear that his writings would radicalize the nation.
The response was swift, the hatred palpable.
"The vilification of me out here from the large landowners and bankers is pretty bad," Steinbeck wrote at the time. "I'm frightened at the rolling might of
this damned thing. It is completely out of hand - I mean a kind of hysteria about the book is growing that is not healthy."
No one would rent him office space. When he walked down the street, people crossed to the other side. The local wartime rations board harassed him when he
tried to get fuel and wood.
The sheriff warned him that his life was in danger, Thom Steinbeck said. "He said, 'John, don't go into a hotel room without a friend, sit with your back to
the wall in the restaurants and always carry a gun.'"
For the rest, John Steinbeck
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More In Memory
Chuck Jones
Academy Award-winning animator Chuck Jones, best known for making Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig and other beloved characters come
to life, died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 89.
Jones worked on more than 300 animated films in a career that spanned more than 60 years. Three of his films won Academy Awards and he was awarded
an honorary Oscar in 1996 for lifetime achievement. He also received an honorary life membership from the Directors Guild of America.
Jones also produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for the animated television classic "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
One of Jones' most popular films, "What's Opera, Doc?" was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992 for being "among the most culturally,
historically and aesthetically significant films of our time."
Three of Jones' films won Academy Awards: "For Scent-imental Reasons," "So Much for So Little" and "The Dot and the Line."
After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of Arts), he began making a living drawing pencil
portraits at a Los Angeles marketplace. He landed his first job washing animation cels in 1932, working for legendary Disney animator Ub Iwerks.
A few years later, he became an animator at the Leon Schlesinger Studio, which was later sold to Warner Bros. He headed his own
unit at the Warner Bros. Animation Dept. until it closed in 1962.
He also worked for MGM Studios, creating episodes for the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon series.
His autobiography, "Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist," was published in 1989, followed two years later
by a second book, "Chuck Reducks."
Chuck Jones Foundation
Chuck Jones Enterprises
Chuck Jones
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