'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Ethan Hawk
My wife told me she saw an Ethan Hawke interview on GMA and he was asked the question "if you could trade places with someone for a day, who would it be?"
He asked if they REALLY wanted him to answer that question, and she said yes. What follows is what I was told he said:
"I would trade places with resident bush, fire everyone in the administration, resign the presidency, go to Crawford texas and sell the ranch to a REAL cowboy and move back to conneticutt"
Ralph & Sherry
Thanks Ralph & Sherry!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Comment
Re: KoKo
Is it true that the Bush administration is pitching its new reality TV show "Who Wants to be Homeless" to the networks?
Michael B
Interesing question, Michael.
The follow-up show could be 'Large Cardboard Box, River View'
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & still springlike.
Kid's still under the weather.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Cold Case', then the movie 'Proof Of Life'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a RERUN
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then
a FRESH 'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice' (William Shatner guests).
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then a FRESH
'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Oliver Beene', then a FRESH 'Simpsons',
followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has the movie 'The Last King'.
AMC offers the movie 'Thelma & Louise', followed by the movie 'Fletch Lives', then the movie 'History of the World: Part 1'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'Faking It' - Radiographer to Fashion Photographer;
[8pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 9;
[8:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Anita: Stanmore;
[9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Meeta;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[10pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 9;
[11:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Anita: Stanmore;
[12am] 'What Not to Wear' - Meeta;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[1am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 2;
[1:40am] 'The Telly' - Quarter 1 2004;
[2am] 'Faking It' - Radiographer to Fashion Photographer;
[3am] 'What Not to Wear' - Meeta;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Croydon;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 2;
[4:40am] 'The Telly' - Quarter 1 2004;
[5am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 9;
[5:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Anita: Stanmore;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Significant Others', followed by another 'Significant Others', then a FRESH 2-hour 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Barbra Streisand), followed by 'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie', then 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed'.
History has 'Dead Reckoning', 'UFOs', 'Modern Marvels', and 'History's Mysteries'.
IFC:
[6PM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[6:15PM] 'Hairspray' (1988);
[8PM] 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' (2000);
[9:45PM] 'No Looking Back' (1998);
[11:30PM] 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' (2000);
[1:15AM] 'Regeneration' (1997);
[3AM] 'No Looking Back' (1998);
[4:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[5AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Threshold', followed by the movie 'Sasquatch'.
Sundance:
[3:15PM] 'Sidewalks of New York' (Feature);
[5:05PM] 'Anatomy of A Scene: Sidewalks of New York' (Original Production);
[5:30PM] 'Tanner '88: The Great Escape' (Short);
[6PM] 'Delusions in Modern Primitivism' (Short);
[6:30PM] 'Revolution #9' (Feature);
[8PM] 'Shorts Program 117';
[9PM] 'Searching for Paradise' (Feature);
[10:30PM] 'Lisa Picard is Famous' (Feature);
[12:05AM] 'Swimming' (Feature);
[1:40AM 'The Crow' (Feature);
[3:25AM 'Fulltime Killer' (World Cinema);
[5:05AM] 'Shorts Program 117' (Short). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM -
[6am] 'One Foot In Heaven' (1941);
[8am] 'Royal Wedding' (1951);
[10am] 'The Merry Widow' (1952);
[12pm] 'The Wings Of Eagles' (1957);
[2pm] 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' (1970);
[4:30pm] 'Viva Las Vegas' (1964);
[6pm] 'An American in Paris' (1951);
[8pm] 'The White Cliffs Of Dover' (1944);
[10:30pm] 'The Raven' (1935);
[12am] 'Mare Nostrum' (1925) SILENT ;
[2am] 'Miracle of the Bells' (1948);
[4:15am} 'The Kissing Bandit' (1948). (ALL TIMES EST)
Singer Beyonce accepts the 2004 Sammy Davis Jr. Award for 'Entertainer of the Year' Female at the 18th Annual Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles, March 20, 2004.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Does Pushup, Receives Award
Jack Palance
At age 84, Jack Palance still likes to show he can do a set of push-ups.
In Scottsdale, AZ, to be honored at the Festival of the West, Palance dropped to the ground before a small group in a hotel lobby, recalling the one-armed push-ups he did at age 71 during his 1991 Oscar acceptance speech for "City Slickers."
Palance, whose trademark grimace and gravelly voice helped earn him roles in such Westerns as "Shane" and "City Slickers," was being honored Saturday with the Cowboy Spirit Award.
Palance was also showing off a softer side, offering autographs for copies of his new book of poetry and prose, "The Forest of Love." The former coal miner, boxer and World War II pilot said he draws from his life for his poems but doesn't really consider himself a poet.
Jack Palance
Radio personality Howard Stern, right, watches the game of the Nets versus the Knicks Friday, March 19, 2004, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Photo by Julie Jacobson
Cans Urinals in U.S.
Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic Airways has scrapped plans to install bright-red urinals shaped like women's open lips at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, saying it had received complaints they were offensive.
"Virgin Atlantic was very sorry to hear of people's concerns about the design of the 'Kisses' urinals to be fitted into our clubhouse at JFK Airport. We can assure everyone who complained to us that no offence was ever intended," Virgin spokesman John Riordan said in a statement on Friday.
Riordan said the company received several dozen complaints from people and groups including the National Organisation for Women after its plans for the urinals had been made public.
Virgin Atlantic
Tries to Help Journalists
Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien is trying to help the next generation of minority women journalists.
The CNN anchor, who was honored Thursday by Ebony magazine, told The Associated Press that she aggressively helps journalists who are coming up the ranks so they will be prepared when the right opportunity comes along.
"It's time for us to do our part and make sure that we're helping the next generation of young female journalists come up and fill positions," said O'Brien, host of CNN's "American Morning."
Soledad O'Brien
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Berlin Museum To Be Closed
Wax Hitler
A waxworks museum in Berlin that featured a life-size figure of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has proved to be so controversial it is to be shut down.
In a reminder of how sensitive an issue Germany's Nazi past remains almost 60 years after the end of World War Two, the German bank which owns the building housing the "Galerie Art'el" and its effigy of Hitler has asked the museum to leave.
"I had to get rid of Hitler," said museum director Inna Vollstaedt on Friday. "My landlords have cancelled my lease and told me to close from today. I'm very disappointed."
Vollstaedt said the bank was worried about being associated with the Nazis and wanted her out as soon as possible.
Wax Hitler
A young boy holds a peace sign during an anti-war march in central Barcelona, March 20, 2004. Anti-war protests are taking place in many cities around the world on the anniversary of U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Photo by Victor Fraile
Trimming All-You-Can-Eat Deals
Red Lobster
Darden Restaurants Inc. said Thursday its Red Lobster chain will cut back on all-you-can-eat promotions, which generated customer traffic but hurt profit margins.
Last year, an all-you-can-eat crab promotion went awry when diners loaded up on numerous refills that obliterated profit margins.
"We're not going to discontinue them," chairman and chief executive Joe R. Lee said of such promotions in a conference call.
However, the Orlando-based restaurant company will be "moving more to a once-a-year strategy" which Lee said would mirror a strategy used by Darden's Olive Garden chain.
Red Lobster
Cancels 2 Concerts
Britney Spears
Britney Spears suffered a knee injury while performing in Illinois, forcing the pop star to cancel concerts in Chicago and Detroit, a spokeswoman for her record label said on Friday.
Spears, 22, was expected to resume her to "Onyx Hotel Tour" in Atlanta next Tuesday and would reschedule the missed concert dates for sometime in April, the spokeswoman said.
Britney Spears
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Photographer Claims Injury
Dara Kushner
A photographer says she was hurt when Courtney Love dove off a stage, less than a day after the rocker was arrested for allegedly throwing a microphone stand at an earlier performance that injured a fan.
Freelance photographer Dara Kushner says she was injured when Love bodysurfed through the crowd during her performance at a Manhattan music venue late Thursday night. Kushner was treated for a bruised and swollen neck at Beth Israel Medical Center and released.
Dara Kushner
Damian Bird of Irvington, New Jersey shows a button he was selling during an anti-war demonstration in New York, March 20, 2004. Thousands in New York city attended the rally, just one of the many anti-war protests taking place in cities around the world on the anniversary of U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Photo by Chip East
Bush Campaign Out Sourcing
Made-In-Burma
A "Bush-Cheney '04" campaign jacket sold on the Internet has stirred controversy because it was made in Myanmar, whose imports have been banned by the United States.
Although the company that shipped the fleece pullover, Spalding Group of Louisville, Kentucky, has said it did so in error, human rights groups blamed resident Bush's re-election campaign staff for not taking a more careful look at the origin of the products being sold in its name.
The Bush administration has had sanctions in place since September against Myanmar -- also known by its colonial name Burma -- in an attempt to punish the government over human rights violations.
The Bush administration has been trying to fend off widespread criticism of jobs being moved overseas. Democrats especially have pounced on the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs -- including many in the hard-hit textile industry -- as a presidential election campaign issue.
Made-In-Burma
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators protest on the one year anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Saturday , March, 20, 2004 in Hollywood section the Los Angeles Calif.
Photo by Nick Ut
The Miner Who Outsells Monet
Jack Vettriano
Prints of his paintings outsell those of master impressionist Claude Monet, making Jack Vettriano a very rich man. But he is still stung by the disdain with which the art establishment treats him.
His original works, rejected by both Britain's Royal Academy and the Scottish Arts Council in 1991, hang in the homes of celebrities like Jack Nicholson and regularly fetch upwards of 40,000 pounds ($73,000).
Born in 1951 in eastern Scotland, Vettriano -- at that time bearing the family name Hoggan -- left school at 15 and followed his father down into the coal mines.
Quickly realizing that was not the life he wanted, Vettriano took a variety of jobs, including working in a local shop before one of his string of girlfriends changed his life when she gave him a box of watercolor paints at the age of 21.
For more, Jack Vettriano
Papers Must Bridge
Credibility Gap
Newspapers must improve their credibility with readers to catch rogue reporters like Jayson Blair if they fabricate stories, a former New York Times editor said Saturday.
Readers assume what they read in the paper is often inaccurate, so they do not bother to alert newspapers when they know something is false, said Gerald Boyd, the former Times managing editor who resigned last year in the wake of the scandal caused by Blair's falsified and plagiarized stories.
It used to be that "if the Times got anything wrong, even a middle initial ... I heard from people," Boyd told editors at the Virginia Press Association winter meeting. "The fact that people don't respond (to inaccurate stories) speaks to the state of journalism."
For the rest, Credibility Gap
People bearing torches form a giant peace sign on Budapest's Hero's Square on Saturday March 20, 2004. 30 civil organizations planned the peace event to protest against the war in Iraq.
Photo by Bela Szandelszky
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