BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 20 March, 2005
Sunday
20 March, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Comment
rock and soul
hey, marty...
you write :
Thanks, Bryan!
That's pretty funny - and not too weird.
OTOH, I think it's overpriced at 50¢
yeah, but think of the fun one can have smashing it into a million tiny pieces. ;-)
not that I would ever do such a thing :::looking over shoulder::::
ducks
Thanks, ducks
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A SIGN OF SUCCESS
SYMBOL OF SUBURBAN BLISS
A WHITE PICKET FENCE
Zen Man
(on a Piedmont side street)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
James Beach: Who's to Blame for the High Cost of Textbooks. (The Irascible Professor)
"Welcome to the University of Richmond," one said with a huge smile as I forked over $629.87 to pay for the books I needed for my first semester.
Porter Bartlett: Confessions of an eBay opium addict (Reno News and Review)
A pleasure trip to the Internet auction site sent me into the hell of opium addiction. Could death be the only redemption?
ROGER EBERT: The Upside of Anger
Joan Allen and Kevin Costner achieve something in "The Upside of Anger" that may have been harder than co-starring in "Macbeth."
ROGER EBERT / March 18, 2005
It isn't the money's fault it got stolen.
Inside the Monkey Sphere
Pointless Waste of Time
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Reader Comment
Re: Zen Man
Hey, Marty!
Hope all is well.
Zen man continues to be a big hit with me. That picture of the dandelion is too gorgeous! Fun to see where he'll be or what he'll come up with next.
Thanks for my daily bit of Zen.
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda!
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Born Into Brothels'
Purple Genes' review of the movie "Born Into Brothels" (2004) Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman:
"Be thou as little children and yours is the kingdom of Heaven"! That's what Jesus said…and I've always loved this quote. But how about being a little child living in Hell? If I were a Christian, I would think long and hard about this. Being Buddhist, I don't have to think too long and hard because I think heaven and hell exist right here on earth….and for some, Hell is all there is. Take for instance the children of prostitutes living in the deplorable red-light districts of Calcutta……drugs, violence, incredible poverty and the sexual servitude of women….generation after generation with absolutely no way out……these are the children "Born Into Brothels" and condemned to live and die there!
Knowing the subject matter of this movie, I had a river of tears ready for release as I sat down in the Piedmont Cinema on Saturday afternoon. What a surprise I got…..As the movie begins, we are introduced to the eight amazing kids that helped make this film. As each childs' situation was described I fell sway to their sheer and boundless innocence and beauty….and as Zana Briski, the director, talks about why she decided to give each of these children a camera, you realize that she was not allowed into the brothels and the only way she could see IN would be through the eyes of these children and the cameras they now possessed.
This is a truly heart rending look, without judgement, into the lives of the most outcast souls in all of India….Imagine a father selling his 5 year old daughter to maintain his hashish habit……Imagine a mother forcing her daughter at 11 years old to join the "Line" which means sexually servicing men for money…….Then look at the faces of these children……still innocent and excited about the world….with their eyes in the lens of a camera shooting the scenery of their lives…..
It would be inevitable for Zana to get involved more deeply into these childrens situation. After seeing their homes and families and the utter destitution they are condemned to….she tries desperately to get them out….get them into boarding schools…and not being a well funded social worker, she raises money by having an Art showing in New York and raising interest in grant money. There is a series of scenes showing Zana going from agency to agency trying to get forms filled out for boarding school…being rejected because the kids parents are prostitutes and needing HIV testing…and then some of the parents themselves not wanting to let their kids go because they earn money by doing menial work for food….all of this frustrating and real….But when you see the photographs that come form them it is simply amazing…truly inspiring!
The end of the movie tracks the latest status of the kids ….and the little girl that I adored the most, Kuchi, was doing quite well at the boarding school…..one child ….saved maybe two…..it's a start…..
Purple Gene gives "Born Into Brothels" 10 totally happy tears out of 10 for this precious look into the lives of these precocious kids.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Rain and more rain.
KCAL, part of the CBS/Viacom/Infinity TV duopoly here, has 'The X-Files' scheduled Saturdays at 3pm.
Today was an episode from the 4th season dealing with the Peacock family in Home, PA.
The one with 'mom' stored in the drawer under the bed.
Nothing like incest for an afternoon's entertainment.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a FRESH made-for-TV-cheezefest 'Spring Break: Shark Attack'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'The Contender', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives' (runs 2 minutes long), followed by a FRESH 'Boston Legal' (starts 2 minutes after the top of the hour).
The WB offers a RERUN 'Charmed', followed by another RERUN 'Charmed', then a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Malcolm', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Kelsey Grammer Sketch Show'.
UPN pisses away the night with RERUNs of 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Caesars 24/7', another 'Caesars 24/7', 'The First 48', 'Family Plots', another 'Family Plots', and a FRESH 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Missing In Action 2: The Beginning', followed by the movie 'Joe Kidd', then the movie 'Two Mules For Sister Sara'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Entertaining Father Stone;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 21;
[3:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 22;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The People Importers;
[5pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Liz Traves;
[6pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Julie Nicholson;
[6:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[7pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Mick Brown;
[7:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Sue Young;
[8pm] 'This Life' - Family Outing;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Mitchell;
[9:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Farr;
[10pm] 'The Long Firm' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'This Life' - Family Outing;
[12am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Mitchell;
[12:30am] 'Cash in the Attic - Farr;
[1am] 'The Long Firm'- Episode 3;
[2am] 'This Life' - Family Outing;
[3am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Mitchell;
[3:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Farr;
[4am] 'The Long Firm' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'This Life' - Family Outing;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Project Greenlight', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (George Carlin), and the movie 'Tommy Boy'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', followed by the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again', and the FRESH 'Jeff Foxworthy Roast'.
History has 'Days That Shook The World', 'Bible Code: Predicting Armageddon', 'Bible Code II', and 'Conspiracy?'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Zatoichi #18: Blind Swordsman And The Fugitives' (1968);
[7:30AM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[9AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[10AM] 'Looking For Richard' (1996);
[12PM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[1:45PM] Short: 'Blue City' (1996);
[2PM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[3:45PM] 'Looking For Richard' (1996);
[5:45PM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[7:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005);
[8PM] 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1999);
[10PM] 'Short Cuts' (1993);
[1:15AM] 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1999);
[3:15AM] 'The Night Porter' (1974);
[5:15AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas', followed by the movie 'Liar Liar'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary);
[8:45AM] 'The Substance of Fire' (Feature);
[10:30AM] 'Barrier Device' (Short);
[11AM] 'Rick' (Feature);
[12:35PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Door in the Floor' (Original Production);
[1PM] 'Bowling for Columbine' (Feature);
[3PM] 'House of Fools' (Feature);
[5PM] 'Shorts Program 112' (Short);
[6PM] 'The Substance of Fire' (Feature);
[7:45PM] 'Doppelganger' (Short);
[8PM] 'Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War' (Documentary);
[9PM] 'Control Room' (Documentary);
[10:30PM] 'Osama' (Feature);
[12AM] 'Bowling for Columbine' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'The Heart of Me' (Feature);
[4AM] 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Hills Of Home' (1948);
[8am] 'Babes in Arms' (1939);
[10am] 'Royal Wedding' (1951);
[12pm] 'Duck Soup' (1933);
[1:30pm] 'The Major and the Minor' (1942);
[3:15pm] 'Guys And Dolls' (1955);
[6pm] 'Adam's Rib' (1949);
[8pm] 'McLintock!' (1963);
[10:15pm] 'Support Your Local Gunfighter' (1971);
[12am] 'Ben-Hur' (1925) SILENT ;
[2:30am] 'War and Peace' (1956). (ALL TIMES EST)
Monday - 03/21
TCM spends the morning & afternoon celebrating director
W.S. Van Dyke (who was born on this day in 1889), then
features 3 films with 'The Fretful Frog', Claudette Colbert.
[6am] 'Guilty Hands' (1931);
[7:15am] 'Night Court' (1932);
[9am] 'The Prizefighter And The Lady' (1933);
[11am] 'I Live My Life' (1935);
[1pm] 'His Brother's Wife' (1936);
[2:30pm] 'Personal Property' (1937);
[4pm] 'Stand Up and Fight' (1939);
[6pm] 'I Love You Again' (1940);
[8pm] 'The Palm Beach Story' (1942);
[10pm] 'Since You Went Away' (1944);
[1am] 'So Proudly We Hail' (1943);
[3:15am] 'Far From The Madding Crowd' (1967). (ALL TIMES EST)
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Hundreds march during an anti-war rally marking the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Saturday, March 19, 2005.
Photo by Dave Miller
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Hosts AIDS Awareness Concert
Nelson Mandela
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, playing host to his second AIDS awareness concert on Saturday, told a crowd of 20,000 that women bear the brunt of the AIDS pandemic that has infected some 25 million people in Africa.
The disease "carries the face of women," whether through infection or caring for those who are ill with the deadly virus, said the 86-year-old Mandela.
Mandela, who lost his eldest son to the disease earlier this year, compared the plight of women coping with AIDS to the isolation he felt when imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Islands for fighting against white racist rule.
The American actor and singer Will Smith said he agreed to a personal request from Mandela to be an ambassador for the 46664 campaign.
Nelson Mandela
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Reunite for Charity Show
Fugees
Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, former members of the Fugees, reunited onstage in an adrenaline-charged charity concert for tsunami victims.
An enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 people attended Friday's seven-hour "Force of Nature" show at Stadium Putra, which raised more than $2.6 million to rebuild tsunami-devastated communities in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
Hong Kong action film star Jackie Chan sang a tender Mandarin-language love ballad. Other performers included the Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas and Boyz II Men.
Fugees
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An unidentified girl stops to read a note placed by the family of one of the Iraq war casualties represented by pairs of boots in the 'Eyes Wide Open' exhibit which is on display Saturday, March 19, 2005, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles.
Photo by Phil McCarten
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University of Michigan to Build
Arthur Miller Theater
The University of Michigan regents have approved the design for the 250-seat Arthur Miller Theatre, honoring the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and 1938 graduate who died last month.
The theater plan that won approval Thursday will be part of a new $42.8-million Walgreen Drama Center at the Ann Arbor school.
The center also will house the departments of theater, drama and musical theater on Michigan's north campus. It was proposed in 1997 and will open in 2007.
Miller attended Michigan during the height of the Depression and said he did so because it cost only $65 a year.
Arthur Miller Theater
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Classical Pianist Interprets
Radiohead
Fans of Radiohead take their love of the band very seriously. Classical pianist Christopher O'Riley, however, has taken his admiration further.
O'Riley has recorded two full albums of Radiohead transcriptions for solo piano. His latest CD, "Hold Me to This," will be released by Harmonia Mundi's World Village imprint April 12. The new album, which follows 2003's "True Love Waits" (released on Sony Classical Odyssey), features many of the band's B-sides and rarities.
"I'm not arranging these songs just to have arranged them," says O'Riley, who also hosts the Public Radio International syndicated show "From the Top," which showcases young classical musicians from across the United States. "I'm doing the best I can to approximate the energy of a full rock band. And that's really always been part of the conceit and the seduction of piano reductions or arrangements of any kind of music. That possible range of color, and vitality, is the same thing that drives, say, Liszt's transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies."
"Hold Me to This" isn't O'Riley's only new Radiohead project; the pianist is also publishing all the arrangements he has recorded on both of his transcription albums in a striking LP-size book (available through his Web site, christopheroriley.com).
Radiohead
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Kravitz Gives Guitar to Brazil's Poor
Lenny Kravitz
U.S. rock star Lenny Kravitz gave a $5,000 electric guitar to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday to help him raise funds for his struggling campaign to wipe out hunger in the South American country by 2006.
The Epiphone Flying V guitar used by Kravitz on his Latin American tour will be auctioned on the Internet at www.fomezero.gov.br and proceeds will go to building water cisterns in poor regions of Brazil's northeast, state news agency Radiobras reported.
Lula has gained an international profile for his proposals to fight global hunger and his "Zero Hunger" program in Brazil.
Lenny Kravitz
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A University of Mississippi student cycles past the hundreds of jonquils in bloom, Friday, March 18, 2005, along University Ave. on the Ole Miss campus in University. The vernal equinox takes place in the northern hemisphere on March 20 marking the first day of spring.
Photo by Robert Jordan
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Producer Bought Out for $167 Million
American Idol
Elvis Presley may have left the building, but his estate is now under the same roof as "American Idol" and its "Pop Idol" siblings around the world.
Show business mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman, who gained control of Elvis Presley Enterprises in December, said Friday he has now struck a $167 million deal to buy 19 Entertainment Ltd., the British-based firm behind the "Pop Idol" television talent show craze and its hit U.S. spinoff "American Idol."
As part of the deal, 19 Entertainment founder Simon Fuller and his creative team will remain as partners in the venture with Sillerman's company, Sports Entertainment Enterprises, which does business as CKX Inc.
The purchase price includes $124.4 million in cash plus 1.87 million shares in CKX, valued at about $43 million at the midday share price of $23.05.
American Idol
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Goodfella Faces Drug Charge
Henry Hill
Former mobster-turned-chef Henry Hill, whose gangland experiences inspired the movie "Goodfellas," has been charged with felony drug possession.
Police said Hill's luggage was searched on Aug. 15 at the North Platte Regional Airport and methamphetamine and cocaine was found. On Friday, Lincoln County Judge Kent Florum sent him to district court on a felony charge of drug possession.
Hill, portrayed by Ray Liotta in "Goodfellas," had sought refuge in the witness protection program after agreeing to testify against his former mob bosses from New York.
However, he left the witness protection program and now lives in North Platte with his wife, who is from the area. He has been working as a chef and helping establish an Italian restaurant. Hill also wrote "The Wiseguy Cookbook," released in 2002.
Henry Hill
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Bangladeshi children dry cow dung cakes under the sun beside an embankment in Dhaka March 19, 2005. People from the slums in Dhaka collect cow dung from different cattle markets to make cakes that they use as fuel for cooking and selling.
Photo by Rafiqur Rahman
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Releases Tsunami Aid Record
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
Yusuf Islam, the pop musician known as Cat Stevens until he converted to Islam 30 years ago, was set to release a new record in aid of tsunami-orphaned children in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
The new song in response to the disaster, "Indian Ocean", features Magne Furuholmen of Norwegian group A-Ha and Neil Primrose of Britpop band Travis.
The British singer's own charity, Small Kindness, set up a regional office in Indonesia and will work on projects "to keep families together" by helping orphans in the predominantly-Muslim Aceh.
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
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World renowned bubble artist Fan Yang breaks his own Guinness World Record by encasing 18 people in a soap bubble at Toys R Us Times Square in New York on Saturday, March 19, 2005. The event sponsored by Gazillion Bubbles was held to kick-off National Bubble Week and the arrival of Spring.
Photo by Jim Sulley
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Asks Court to Dismiss Kelley Suit
Glynn Wilson
A freelance writer has asked a court to dismiss his $5 million lawsuit accusing author Kitty Kelley of plagiarism in her best-selling book about resident Bush and his family.
Glynn Wilson said Friday that he decided to drop the suit, filed in November, because he feared that U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon was about to rule that copyright law didn't cover his story on the Internet about Bush's days in Alabama when he was in the National Guard in the early 1970s.
Wilson claimed that Kelley's book, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," lifted large parts of a story he first posted on his Web site, Southerner Daily News, in February 2003, specifically passages about Bush's drinking and drug use. Doubleday, a subsidiary of Random House, Inc., published Kelley's book last fall.
In court documents, the publisher denied plagiarizing Wilson's work and said that Wilson failed to obtain a proper copyright before putting his story on the Internet.
Glynn Wilson
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A model presents Jose Antonio Tenente's Autumn-Winter design at the Lisbon Fashion Show March 19, 2005.
Photo by Nacho Doce
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Heavily Redacts Clinton Papers
White House
The Bush administration blacked out almost all the information in hundreds of documents before releasing them to a conservative organization looking into President Clinton's controversial pardons four years ago on his last day in office.
The only items not deleted from the material are the names of the person who wrote the document and the person it was sent to.
The government accountability group Judicial Watch said Friday that it received the Justice Department documents following a court battle that featured a Republican administration fighting to keep secret documents generated by its Democratic predecessor.
The Bush White House has argued that releasing pardon-related documents would have a chilling effect on internal discussions leading up to presidential action on such requests.
White House
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In Memory
Philip Lamantia
Philip Lamantia, who befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac as a young man and was one of the founding Beat generation poets, died of heart failure at his home March 7, his publisher announced. He was 77.
Lamantia and four other poets gave a legendary reading at the Sixth Gallery in San Francisco that is widely considered the launch of the Beat generation. But he later largely avoided the celebrated literary movement.
Lamantia was just 16 when his first work appeared in a respected literary magazine.
Despite his early start, Lamantia never gained wide recognition. From the mid-1950s, he suffered from drug dependence and periodic depression.
He also shied away from public attention and traveled extensively, at one point living with the Cora Indian tribe in Nayarit, where he experimented with peyote.
Lamantia was fascinated by linguistics, mysticism and obscure religious texts. He wrote a number of books of poetry, beginning with "Erotic" (1949), which he referred to as one of his "adventures in pure psychic automatism."
Lamantia married Nancy Peters, co-publisher of City Lights Books, in 1978. He lectured on poetry at San Francisco State University and San Francisco Art Institute through the 1970s.
Philip Lamantia
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Three yellow-eared parrots perch on their nest in a wax palm tree in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, in this May 23, 1999 photo. The Roman Catholic Church, in an effort to save the endangered parrot, is asking Palm Sunday worshippers to use the fronds of palms other than the traditionally used wax palm, home of the parrot.
Photo by Ricardo Mazalan
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