'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cloudy & windy.
The wind has blown a lot of camellias from the tree, leaving what looks like a red, lumpy shadow.
My Oscar picks:
Supporting Actor: Tim Robbins - in my 'perfect' world, it'd be Alec Baldwin.
Supporting Actress: Rene Zellweger seems to be a foregone conclusion - in my 'perfect' world it'd be Shohreh Aghdashloo or Patricia Clarkson.
Actor: Sean Penn - in my 'perfect' world, it'd be Bill Murray.
Actress: Charlize Theron - in my 'perfect' world, it'd still be Charlize Theron, but for sentimental-sake, Diane Keaton.
Director: Sofia Coppola - in my 'perfect' world, it'd be Peter Weir.
Best Picture: LOTR seems to be a foregone conclusion - in my 'perfect' world, it'd be Mystic River.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Cold Case', then the movie 'Rules Of Engagement'.
NBC begins the night with a 65-minute 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' (starts 5 minutes after the top of the hour), then a RERUN
'Law & Order' (starts 5 minutes after the top of the hour), followed by another RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' (starts 5 minutes after the top of the hour).
ABC has 'The Academy Awards', and 'Barbara Walters'. On the east coast, 'Barbara Walters' starts the night, followed by the 'Oscars'. On the left coast, it's 'Academy Awards', first, then 'Barbara'. The 'Academy Awards' will air LIVE on both coasts (!).
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by the movie 'Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory'.
Faux has the movie 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'.
UPN has the movie 'Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls', followed by the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', then 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Academy Awards), followed by the movie 'Dirty Harry', then 'Inside The Playboy Mansion'.
AMC offers the movie 'In Harm's Way', followed by the movie 'Patton', then the movie 'The Enemy Below'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 9;
[7pm] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[8pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 6;
[8:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Haslemere;
[9pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Lucy;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Bacup;
[10pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[10:40pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 6;
[11:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Haslemere;
[12am] 'What Not To Wear' - Lucy;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Bacup;
[1am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[1:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[3am] 'What Not To Wear' - Lucy;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Bacup;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[4:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 6;
[5:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Haslemere; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Keen Eddie', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (voice cast of 'The Simpsons'), 'Celebrity Poker Showdown' (game 5), and another
'Celebrity Poker Showdown' (the final game).
Comedy Central has the movie 'My Cousin Vinny', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', then 'Chappelle's Show', followed by another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has 'Samurai', 'Wake Island: The Alamo Of The Pacific', 'Last Mission', and 'Tactical To Practical'.
SciFi has the movie 'Stargate', followed by the movie 'Terminator 2'.
TCM - Day 29 of '31 Days of Oscar™', where every movie is either an Oscar™ winner or nominee.
[6:30am] 'Cimarron' (1931);
[8:45am] 'Chariots Of Fire' (1981);
[11am] 'On The Waterfront' (1954);
[1pm] 'In The Heat Of The Night' (1967);
[3pm] 'The Bridge On The River Kwai' (1957);
[5:45pm] 'Rocky' (1976)
[8pm] 'Grand Illusion' (1937) ['La Grande illusion'];
[10pm] 'Divorce, Italian Style' (1962) ['Divorzio all'italiana'];
[12am] 'Mother India' (1957);
[3am] 'Seven Samurai' (1954) ['Shichinin no samurai']. (ALL TIMES EST)
Talk show host Larry King (L) examines the hair of business mogul Donald Trump, proving Trump does not wear a toupee, during an interview on the CNN program 'Larry King Live' at the CNN studios in Los Angele February 27, 2004. Trump also discussed his reality television series 'The Apprentice,' his career in business and his family life.
Photo by Rose M. Prouser
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Bennifer Sweeps
Golden Raspberry Awards
The honeymoon's over for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, but their mob-comedy flop "Gigli" really cleaned up Saturday at the Razzies, the first movie to take all six top trophies in the annual dishonorable-mention awards.
Golden Raspberry Awards voters picked "Gigli" as 2003's worst picture, Affleck as worst actor, Lopez as worst actress and the two as worst screen couple. "Gigli" filmmaker Martin Brest also took the Razzies for worst director and screenplay.
The movie, which starred Affleck as a thug smitten by Lopez as a lesbian crime colleague, fell short of the record seven Razzies won by "Showgirls" and "Battlefield Earth."
"But those are much better bad movies, if that makes any sense," said Razzies founder John Wilson. "If you sit through them with the right people or the right brand of liquor, they can be strangely entertaining.
"But I don't care how medicated you are or what people you're watching it with, `Gigli' is just a pain in the posterior. It's one of those things that is, as opposed to enjoyably embarrassing, it's just skin-crawlingly embarrassing."
Among other "winners," Sylvester Stallone padded his Razzie resume with a record 10th prize, this time for worst supporting actor in "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over." Stallone's past Razzies include one for worst actor of the 20th century.
Golden Raspberry Awards
For a complete list of all the winners:
Locals rally at the start of the island-wide human chain with inflatable letters spelling 'PEACE' in the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's signature green color, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004 on Hoping Island in Taiwan's northern city of Keelung. Taiwan government supporters claim to have recruited more than 1million people to form a human chain over 487 kilometers (303 miles) _ from the northern port of Keelung to Pingtung County near the island's southern tip. Organizers and participants of 'Hand in Hand to Protect Taiwan' hope the display of people power will focus global attention on the island's threat of nearly 500 missiles pointed at the island from China.
Photo by Wang Fei-wa
2004 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award
Walter Cronkite
Journalist Walter Cronkite will receive the 2004 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award.
Cronkite, who was the anchorman and managing editor of the CBS Evening News for nearly 20 years, was selected "because of his lifelong commitment and dedication to the high ideas of truth in broadcasting," said Karl Zobrist, president of the award foundation.
The award is meant to honor people in public life who have improved the community and the country through citizenship, patriotism, self-reliance and service.
It will be presented on May 7 as part of the Truman Foundation's annual luncheon. It marks the 120th birthday of President Truman.
Walter Cronkite
Cartoonist Harvey Pekar, subject of the nominated best feature film 'American Slendor,' looks bored as he waits the start of the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Awards on In Santa Monica, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Saturday Night
Independent Spirit Awards
"Lost in Translation," Sofia Coppola's quirky tale of friendship in Tokyo, dominated Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards, winning best picture and three other prizes.
Coppola won directing and screenplay honors and her star, Bill Murray, was named best actor for his role as a has-been movie star shooting whiskey ads in Japan.
Charlize Theron won the best-actress award for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster," which also received the best first feature prize for director Patty Jenkins.
The supporting-actor honor went to Djimon Hounsou as an artist dying of AIDS in "In America," while Shohreh Aghdashloo was named best supporting actress as a compassionate Iranian immigrant in "House of Sand and Fog."
The Spirit Awards honor independent films at least partly financed outside the Hollywood studio system. The 9,000 actors, directors, writers and other industry professionals who belong to the nonprofit Independent Feature Project/Los Angeles vote on the winners.
Other Spirit Award winners:
_ Best film shot for under $500,000: "The Station Agent."
_ Best debut performance: Nikki Reed, "thirteen."
_ Best first screenplay: Thomas McCarthy, "The Station Agent."
_ Best foreign film: "Whale Rider."
_ Best documentary: "The Fog of War."
_ Best cinematography: Declan Quinn, "In America."
Independent Spirit Awards
www.ifp.org
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Back For May Sweeps
'Super Regis!'
'Super Millionaire" will return in May, ABC announced yesterday.
The revamped version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," hosted again by Regis Philbin, ended its one-week run last night.
"Super Millionaire" is averaging around 14 million viewers a night.
'Super Regis!'
The famous Jet d'Eau in Lake Geneva and the surrounding Alps sets the stage on February 27, 2004, for the introduction of General Motors' 2005 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible in Geneva, Switzerland. The sixth-generation Corvette will be introduced at the opening of the Geneva Motor Show, on March 2, 2004.
Photo by Joe Polimeni
Reads to Children
Peter Frampton
British-born rocker Peter Frampton knows how to pack the crowds — even at the local library.
Frampton, 53, drew dozens of children and their parents — many of whom were Frampton fans — to a children's book reading where he read Shel Silverstein's work, "The Giving Tree."
Frampton, who moved to suburban Cincinnati in 2000 with his family, has made time for several local benefit concerts and charity events.
"I try to squeeze as much time as I can to encourage reading and education," Frampton told The Cincinnati Post in Thursday's editions.
Peter Frampton
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
And CD Sales
Radio Consolidation
According to Edison Media Research, the most influential media impacting music consumers is radio. Amongst consumers who have purchased a CD in the past 12 months, a whopping 75% said their purchase was influenced by what they heard on the radio. Friends and family? A distant second, at 46%. Music television is third -- at least it was, back when MTV was actually playing music.
Consider this part 2 of basic lesson in simple math and economics. Radio is the dominant source impacting consumer purchases. They purchase what they hear broadcast. Due to consolidation, today Radio plays a fewer variety of artists, and airs less songs. Consumers hear less music.
You don't need a spreadsheet to figure out what happens next: Consumers buy less music. This phenomena is independent of any economic weakness we have previously discussed.
If the RIAA were smart -- and if you suspect by now I think they are not, congratulations, you've been paying attention -- they would hire a lobbyist to petition against pretty much everything Clear Channel Radio ever requests of Congress.
For the rest, Radio Consolidation and CD Sales
Ralph Nader, right, celebrates his 70th birthday with Bill Maher , left, as Maher presents him with a cake in the form of a Ford Pinto with lit candles in the rear on HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher' taped in Los Angeles, Friday, Feb. 27, 2004.
Photo by Chris Polk
Face Lift Repercussions
Silvio Berlusconi
Italy's plastic surgeons have their noses out of joint over a snub from image-conscious Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who opted to have recent cosmetic surgery done in Switzerland rather than at home.
"We can't understand why the prime minister went to a foreigner," said Maurizio Priori, president of the 300-member Italian society for aesthetic medicine and surgery (SIES).
"He should have gone to an Italian plastic surgeon because I don't believe that between us, there isn't someone able to do just as good a job," Priori told the society's annual meeting in Bologna.
Silvio Berlusconi
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Pay Homage to Helmut Newton
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana, who strut firmly at the sexy end of the style spectrum, paid homage to one of their greatest inspirations on Saturday in a collection dedicated to photographer Helmut Newton.
Surrounded by pictures by Newton, who died in a car crash earlier this year, models slipped into barely-there evening dresses that showed Dolce & Gabbana's famously sexy lingerie underneath -- about as Newton-naked as they could be.
The German photographer was known for his coldly erotic portraits of nude women, often sporting just a pair of stilettos or seam-backed stockings, two vital ingredients of Dolce & Gabbana's winter 2004 collection.
The collection, which was dreamed up months before Newton died, played with classic images of eroticism, starting with a series of black dresses and coats with white frill trims like a naughty French maid's outfit.
Dolce & Gabbana
Chandi, a White Tiger, plays with a snowman built by her keepers in her enclosure at Longleat Safari Park, England, Friday Feb. 27, 2004, where up to four inches of snow fell overnight.
Photo by Chris Ison
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