'Best of TBH Politoons'
Reader Tip
Re: Al Franken Show
Marty,
Thought you'd be interested in this email received from Sundance about the Al Frankin show.... I removed my email address...
Pete S.
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Subject: RE: al franken show
Dear Viewer,
In response to strong audience demand, Sundance Channel is bringing back "The Al Franken Show," a televised version of the political humorist's weekday program on Air America Radio. "The Al Franken Show" premieres Monday, June 6, 2005, and will air weeknights (Monday-Friday - time TBA); the series is slated to run through the end of 2005.
"The news that Sundance has ordered a second season of episodes of 'The Al Franken Show' comes to me as a complete shock," said Franken. "Because the filming has been so unobtrusive, I had no idea that we were even off the air. I'm pleased, of course, that we'll be back but alarmed that I never knew we were gone."
Thanks for your interest and thanks for watching!
Sundance Channel
Thanks, Paul!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jack Rasmus: Who Benefits? (In These Times)
George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security has nothing to do with enhancing workers' retirement income.
Steven Rubenstein: Reader's Forum (The Athens News)
God gave humankind reason, and presumably wants us to exercise it
Terry Smith: Wearing Thin (The Athens News)
If executing children isn't 'cruel and unusual punishment,' then what is?
Jon Peters: Pulitzer-winning columnist shares views from 'the other side of the desk' (The Athens News)
Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography (CREW)
Indecency and pornography have become hot button political issues over the past couple of years.
ROGER EBERT: Robots
The thing that struck me first of all about "Robots" was its pictorial beauty.
ROGER EBERT: Downfall
"Downfall" takes place almost entirely inside the bunker beneath Berlin where Adolf Hitler and his inner circle spent their final days, and died.
Eight Questions We'd Love to See a Gay Etiquette Guide Tackle
Emily Post never said anything about this
Purple Gene Reviews
'SpiderBabe'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "SpiderBabe" (2003) Directed by Johnny Crash:
NEW LOW ALERT…..NEW LOW ALERT….This is a warning to anyone who believes in the plausibility of a parody…in the possibility of parity…I mean the making of Bad Bad Bad "B" minus bullshit barely viewable foolish phony faux fucking non explicit exploitive explosive excrement lost in lousy libidinous lesbian lust fantasy fare!!!!!!!
Any one ever heard of Misty Mundae??????? Try these titles….."Play-Mate of the Apes"….."Lord of the G Strings"….."Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde" …I can go on…but again I must warn you….NEW LOW ALERT ….NEW LOW ALERT….Why would I even spend the time watching, researching and writing about this CRAP……well, I am fascinated by the fact that millions and millions of dollars are being spent financing such adolescent and assinine retch….I'd would rather watch watch Hard Core Porn any day!!!!! This stuff is shown over and over again on Cable stations like Cinemax and Starz. I groan when I see the titles but I just had to, like a good soldier, GO IN…..
PLOT….Bitten by a genetically altered Spider, the normally demure Patricia Porker (Misty Mundae) becomes a sexy and horny superhero. She has her eyes on the local jock M.J. (Adam Cox) and her soul on saving the City. Meanwhile, back in her boudoir, we have Ms. Porker, porking, poking, pecking and tongue twiddling ever available female into naked lesbian nirvana…Why is she after M.J. when she seems to enjoy the girls so much????? I know ……..lots and lots of naked lesbian pseudo-sex !!!!!!!!!
After finding front page fame in the "Daily Bunghole" tee hee hee….. SpiderBabe keeps saving the world by climbing walls and jumping buildings every time some poor girls gets attacked by a gang of horny MEN….she performs martial arts on the bad guys and then performs Oral Arts on the lucky girl…….lots and lots of naked young girls having sex with SpiderBabe.
O course SpiderBabe has to come to the rescue of M.J. by licking then kicking the ASS of "Femtillicus" (Julian Wells) and in true SpiderBabe fashion gives M.J. an upside-down hanging HUMMER !!!!!!! Kids…Adults….stay away from this SHIT!!!!!
Purple Gene gives "SpiderBabe" 0 tittilating tongue twitters out of 10 for being such tawdry and trivial twaddle! Hee Haw
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Foggy morning, sunny day.
At Least 3 Years Away
'The Hobbit'
Fans of Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson, best known for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, will have to wait several years for his take on the fantasy book that started it all, "The Hobbit."
Asked how long it would take to begin shooting the movie about the small, big-footed creatures, Jackson said: "Three or four years would be accurate."
In Sydney to talk to fans about his films, the director said that the movie's production date was uncertain because of Hollywood studio MGM's sale to Sony Corporation.
'The Hobbit'
Pulled Over Low Ratings
'The Jane Pauley Show'
"The Jane Pauley Show" will call it a wrap next month.
NBC Universal Television Distribution confirmed Friday (March 11) that the first-run daytime talk show hosted by the former "Today" and "Dateline NBC" anchor will end production by the middle of April, though original episodes will run through early September.
"Jane Pauley" was last year's most high-profile talk show debut as NBC Uni sought to develop a talk show franchise that would serve as the late-afternoon bridge between entertainment fare and local news on its owned-and-operated (O&O) outlets, much as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" does for the ABC O&O station group.
'The Jane Pauley Show'
Brooklyn Museum Celebrates
Jean-Michel Basquiat
At 6 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat already had a museum membership. By his early 20s, he was an internationally renowned artist, counting Andy Warhol among his friends and collaborators. At 27, he was dead of a heroin overdose.
Basquiat's professional career may have been cut short but it was nonetheless important, said one of the curators of a new exhibition on the Brooklyn-born artist. "He isn't getting the type of respect he deserves in art history," said Marc Mayer, project director for the show.
"Basquiat" opened Friday at the Brooklyn Museum and runs through June 5 before traveling to Los Angeles and Houston. The show contains over 100 of the artist's vividly colored paintings and drawings.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
ShoWest to Fete
Matt Damon
Matt Damon will be honored as the Male Star of the Year at ShoWest 2005's closing-night ceremony Thursday (March 17) at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas.
Damon, who starred last year in "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Ocean's Twelve," stars in Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming "Syriana," written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, as well as Dimension Films' "Brothers Grimm," directed by Terry Gilliam. He next films Martin Scorsese's "The Departed."
Matt Damon
Wedding News
Lancaster - Stewart
Veteran rock singer Rod Stewart is engaged to be married to Penny Lancaster after she accepted his proposal during a romantic trip to Paris, Stewart's record company said Saturday.
Record label BMG said Stewart, 60, went down on one knee and proposed to 33-year-old Lancaster at the top of the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday.
BMG said the couple, who have dated for more than five years, planned to marry later this year.
Lancaster - Stewart
Benefit Concert
Malaria
Some of Africa's biggest stars gather in Dakar for a weekend music extravaganza billed by Senegal's Youssou N'Dour as the continent's response to Live Aid, ambitiously aiming to raise enough funds to eradicate malaria.
The all-star Africa Live lineup led by N'Dour, a recent Grammy winner for his album "Egypt", includes Senegalese hitmakers Baaba Maal and Orchestra Baobab, a flock of songbirds from Mali including Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Toure, Salif Keita and Rokia Traore, and Cheb Khaled of Algeria among others.
Also taking the stage on either Saturday or Sunday will be Tiken Jah Fakoly of Ivory Coast, French rapper Joey Starr and Seun Kuti and Tony Allen, the son and drummer for Nigeria's most famous musical export, the late Fela Kuti.
Malaria
Says He Didn't Cheat on Taxes
Richard Hatch
Richard Hatch, the winner of the first season of the CBS hit reality show "Survivor," said he did not cheat on his taxes and thought the network had to pay the government a share of his $1 million winnings.
Hatch, a motivational speaker, said on Friday he was innocent, one week after he pulled out of a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax fraud.
In television and radio interviews aired on Friday, Hatch's lawyer said CBS should have withheld federal taxes for the game show contestant because the network should have classified him as an employee under California law.
Richard Hatch
Causes Nuclear Scare
Typing Error
A stenographer for the U.S. Congress generated alarming headlines in the Sudanese press this week by giving the mistaken impression the United States conducted nuclear tests in the African country in 1962 and 1970.
The Sudanese government asked the United States for an explanation and began its own investigations into a Web site report that a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee had talked about the tests in Sudan.
But Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who had summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires on hearing the news, said Thursday it turned out that the word Sudan was merely a typing error for Sedan, the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada.
Typing Error
Re-Enactment Of 'Salt March'
Mahatma Gandhi
Thousands of people began the long march across a vast expanse of arid western India to honour the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, India's independence hero and apostle of non-violence.
The re-enactment of Gandhi's famous "salt march" of 1930 from Ahmedarch" of 1930 from Ahmedabad to coastal Dandi village in western Gujarat state, was flagged off amid much pomp and show by ruling Congress party president, Italian-born Sonia Gandhi.
Similar marches to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the first acts of defiance in India's fight for independence from Britain were to be held in 15 cities around the world including in Durban, South Africa where Gandhi took his first political steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
120th Annual Roast
Gridiron Club
John Kerry's wife sang about how happy she is that he wasn't elected. Karl Rove revealed his successful strategy for winning President Bush a second term. Wannabe presidential candidates pressed for advantage in the 2008 race. It was as close to "Saturday Night Live" as Washington gets, as journalists assumed the personas of politicians in song, dance and wisecracks at the Gridiron Club's 120th annual dinner.
In a nod to 2008, they parodied the White House aspirations of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, featured speakers at the white-tie dinner.
Richardson compared the Bush's administration's treatment of U.S. allies over the Iraq war to the NCAA basketball tournament.
"Sixty-four teams start and they're whittled down to just one," Richardson said in prepared remarks. "Kind of reminds me of what we've done with our allies."
Prison-striped Democratic leaders were seen trying to figure a way out of "Gitmo," the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the government is holding suspected terrorists.
For the rest, Gridiron Club
In Memory
Joanne Brough
Joanne Brough, a pioneering television producer who helped return the soap opera to prime-time television with such popular shows as "Dallas" and "Falcon Crest," died Feb. 24 in her native Joplin, Mo., of esophageal cancer, her daughter said. She was 77.
After working for Los Angeles station KTLA-TV in the early 1960s, Brough joined CBS, where she helped develop such hit series as "Kojak," "All in the Family," "Hawaii Five-O," "M A S H" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
She went to work for Lorimar in 1978, and it was there that she was executive producer of "Dallas" and "Falcon Crest." She also held the title vice president of creative affairs.
Brough, meanwhile, went on to work for Lee Rich Productions in 1990, where she produced television movies and the documentary "America's Missing Children."
She moved to Indonesia in the mid-1990s to work for the nation's leading television network, RCTI. There, she created an in-house drama department and produced a soap opera similar to "Dallas" called "Dua Sisi Mata Uang" or "Two Sides of the Coin." She had completed 26 episodes when civil unrest forced her to flee the country in 1998.
Before moving to Indonesia, Brough had spent two years in Singapore, creating a similar series called "Masters of the Sea."
Joanne Brough
