From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Question
Barking Milla?
~~ Stephanie B dropped a note...
'' Milla Jovovich sang and barked in eulogy to a dead dog not slated for heaven. Saw one headlight, saw the other headlight, yaw, bark, scream.
Cannot find this on the web but if you can is surely worth sharing.
It's a really bad song- might beat Ashcroft! ''
Thanks, Stephanie -- Anybody know anything about a barking Milla?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The sounds of the 'Final Four' echoed throughout the house. Every room (except the kid's) has at least 1 TV, which allows for a
certain sense of continuity.
Did a lot of surfing. KOCE (PBS for Orange County) replays old 'Ed Sullivan Shows' on Saturday night. Tonight
saw some very early Barbra Streisand and some vintage James Brown.
Tonight, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', and follows with a fresh
'Max Bickford', and then the movie 'Analyze This'.
NBC has a fresh 'Weakest Link' (SLC Olympians), and a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
It's followed by a rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC spends the entire night (and then some) in a 4 hour, 45 minute version of the movie 'The Ten Commandments'. Its TRT
is 3 hours, 40 minutes, so expect some trimming.
The WB has a fresh 'No Boundaries', then a fresh 'Jamie Kennedy Experiment', followed by a rerun of 'Jamie Kennedy Experiment',
and caps the evening with 2 reruns of 'Off Centre'.
Faux is all fresh tonight with 'Futurama', 'King Of The Hill', 'Simpsons', 'Greg, The Bunny', and 'X-Files'.
UPN has its weekly rerun of 'Enterprise' and then a fresh 'Tracker'.
At 8pm (est), E! debuts 'TV Tales'. Tonight, it's behind the scenes of 'Saturday Night Live'. Starting Monday night, E! starts airing 'SNL', the
early years.
TCM has 'The Maltese Falcon'.
On MTV, 'The Osbournes' airs at 9pm (est).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Man With An Opinion
David Crosby
Veteran rocker David Crosby isn't universally impressed with what he calls the "shiny and new" in the music world.
"There's some good people out there, but there's a lot of fluff (too)," Crosby said. "Things like 'N Sync and Britney (Spears). These people
are about as deep as a birdbath."
Crosby also said there seems to be a prejudice against old-timers by the media, even though the band, which formed in 1968, got a good review from Rolling
Stone after its show in New York.
"They really don't even like having people like us still around," Crosby said. "They want to sell the newest product."
David Crosby
Salacious Sunday - Part 1
Erotic Easter Eggs?
Das Osterfest steht vor der Tür: Landauf, landab werden Ostereier gefärbt. Eine Reihe Ostereier der besonderen Art hat das Hamburger Museum für erotischen
Kunst am Donnerstag vorgestellt. Die Gänse-Eier, von der Künstlerin Karin Scholz bemalt, sind hier das ganze Jahr über ausgestellt ... und können zum Preis
von 125 Euro das Stück auch gekauft werden.
Photo by Christian Charisius
Getting Star In Hollywood On Monday
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, the author of "The Martian Chronicles" and other classic science fiction novels, will receive the 2,193rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.
Mayor Jim Hahn, actor Charlton Heston and other officials were expected to attend the ceremony.
Bradbury, 81, has been a Los Angeles resident since he was a teen-ager. He sold newspapers on street corners while developing his writing career. Some of his most
famous short stories, including "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," are set in the city.
Ray Bradbury
Break Out The Haggis
'Tartan Day'
Actor Sean Connery will lead a brigade of as many as 10,000 bagpipers through the streets of Midtown next weekend to celebrate Tartan Day.
Pipers from 30 countries, including Japan, Australia and Pakistan, are expected to fill the air with rich - and occasionally piercing - notes as organizers
try to break the world record for assembling the most pipers in one place.
Other celebrities expected to celebrate all things Scottish include "Star Wars" actor Ewan McGregor and "Cabaret" star Alan Cumming.
The little-known holiday - which is not celebrated in Scotland - marks the Scottish Declaration of Arbroath, which briefly established the country's
independence in 1320.
The parade next Saturday will travel north on Sixth Avenue from 43rd Street and end in Central Park.
Break Out The Haggis
Unpublished Play Staged
Zora Neale Hurston
A play by Zora Neale Hurston about the lives and loves of blacks in a Florida lumber mill village, its typescript rediscovered after a half-century at the Library
of Congress, is running at one of the capital's leading theaters.
"Polk County" comes from the Harlem Renaissance that bloomed between the two world wars. It went to the library in 1944. Researchers found it in 1997 with nine other
Hurston plays among 450,000 typescripts registered as unpublished during most of the 20th century.
A prominent black writer in the first half of the century, Hurston studied at Columbia University under Franz Boas, sometimes called the father of American anthropology.
Research took her through the South, where she learned the peculiarities and poetry of rural black speech and music. Both are prominent features of "Polk County."
Hurston's reputation declined after World War II. She moved from New York to Florida, wrote three novels that publishers rejected and worked as a librarian,
substitute teacher and a maid. She suffered a stroke in 1959 and died almost penniless the following year, in a welfare home.
Zora Neale Hurston
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin, at regulation time tonight (Sunday), 9 pm to 1 am (pst) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
Things return to what passes for normal next week.
For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
Informative Article
Chew On This
Chew On This
Thanks, Marian (the school teacher)
'When Pigs Fly: Songs You Thought You'd Never Hear'
Ani DiFranco & Jackie Chan?
If you want to hear action hero Jackie Chan belting out a love duet with an angst-ridden grunge goddess, you're in luck. The kung-fu master and Ani
DiFranco are getting together to sing Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" for a CD of the most unlikely cover songs you could imagine. Titled "When Pigs Fly:
Songs You Thought You'd Never Hear," the album features Billy Preston doing Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" and the Oakridge Boys tackling Kansas' "Carry
on my Wayward Son," reports zentertainment.com
'When Pigs Fly: Songs You Thought You'd Never Hear'
Salacious Sunday - Part 2
Underwear
Not That Calvin Klein
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett's uncle says he owes his life to the country singer, who came to his rescue when an enraged bull charged, knocked him to the ground and mauled him.
Lovett, 44, faces months of rehabilitation following surgery to repair a broken right leg he suffered when he slapped the bull away from his uncle,
Calvin Klein, 67. "If it wouldn't have been for Lyle, I wouldn't be here talking to you," Klein said in Saturday's edition of the Houston Chronicle.
Klein, no relation to the designer, escaped with severe bruises after the incident Wednesday on his farm in suburban Houston. The bull, called Cotton, was Lovett's pet.
Lovett ran over and slapped the bull with his cap, and the bull turned on him, chasing him to a fence. The bull pinned Lovett's leg against the
rail and raked him over to a post, shattering his shin bone.
Lyle Lovett
Auction Update
Little Lucie Loses Lucy's House
Little Lucie's luck ran out in a bidding war for her mom's childhood home.
A "retired lady" from Florida who originally came from Buffalo, has outbid Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball, for the upstate New York house where the
beloved comedian spent her formative years, the real estate agent who sold it told a reporter.
The two-story house, in the village of Celoron, Chautauqua County about 60 miles south of Buffalo, was for sale on the Internet auction Web site, eBay, for $98,500.
It was Lucy's home from the time she was eight years old until she was midway through high school.
Arnaz and her brother, Desi Arnaz Jr., had been trying to buy the house and incorporate it into the Lucy-Desi Museum in nearby Jamestown, NY. The museum had
been under the control of the Chautauqua County Arts Council under a 10-year contract with the Arnaz family that expired this month.
Arnaz has reportedly been scouting locations around Jamestown to expand the museum and even wants to move Lucy's remains from a Los Angeles mausoleum to a cemetery
in Jamestown - about two miles from the museum - where the rest of her family is buried.
Little Lucie Loses Lucy's House
Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filed
Eminem
Eminem and his record label have been sued in federal court by a French composer who claims the Grammy-winning rapper stole one of his tunes.
The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Thursday in Manhattan, accuses Eminem and Interscope Records of lifting parts of "Pulsion" — a jazz fusion work by Jacques
Loussier — for the caustic rap song "Kill You." The suit, which names Loussier as plaintiff, seeks unspecified damages.
"Kill You" appears on Eminem's best-selling album "The Marshall Mathers LP." The song talks about killing women, with the lyrics, "I'm ready to play, I got the machete from O.J."
Loussier, 67, of Paris, gained fame by fusing classical music and jazz with his Play Bach Trio. He has released more than a dozen albums, selling six million
copies worldwide, the suit said.
Eminem
Salacious Sunday - Part 3
Return of Strip-Tease
Cancan dancers, sexy girls and absinthe once gave Paris a racy reputation but nightlife in the French capital had tamed, until, that is, strip tease returned
to offer an alternative to cabarets and peep shows.
This month, self-professed British playboy Peter Stringfellow became the latest night-club owner to open a pole and table dancing club just minutes from the
Champs Elysee, a move he says will revive Paris's hedonistic image.
Stringfellow's formula is simple -- attractive 19 to 26-year old girls are paid by clients to strip as they dance slowly and sensually around a pole on a back-lit
podium or just to sit and talk. No touching, no telephone numbers and certainly no sex.
While Stringfellow's London club is a success -- the man who famously gave the Beatles one of the band's first bookings, declined to discuss "vulgar" money issues -- he said
his Paris club had to be tailored to French "sophistication."
Return of Strip-Tease
Indicted On Assault Charges
Ketara "KeKe" Wyatt
A popular R&B singer has been indicted on assault charges for allegedly stabbing her husband with a steak knife on Christmas Day.
Ketara "KeKe" Wyatt, who has a hit with "Nothing in This World," was indicted on one count of second-degree assault by a Shelby County grand
jury on Monday. The singer could get 10 to 20 years if convicted.
Rahmat Morton, her husband, is also Wyatt's manager.
Shelbyville police responded to a domestic violence call at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 25 at the couple's home. Police arrived and found Morton with stab wounds
on his chest, arms and hands, a police statement said.
Part of the knife blade had to be removed from Morton's back at University of Louisville Hospital, the police statement said.
Ketara "KeKe" Wyatt
New Edition Published
Kama Sutra
A new edition of the 1,700-year-old Sanskrit sex manual, the Kamasutra, hits bedside tables this month but this time around women's needs
have wrestled themselves on top. This Indian postcard illustrates the Kamasutra, the world's oldest treatise on sex.
What's On TV In Ramallah Tonight?
Porn!
Porn movies and programs in Hebrew are being broadcast by Israeli troops who have taken over three Palestinian television stations of Ramallah,
irate residents of the besieged West Bank town have told AFP.
The offices of three local television and radio stations were occupied by soldiers yesterday morning, a few hours after tanks and hundreds of troops
stormed the town in Israel's biggest offensive against the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser Arafat.
The soldiers started broadcasting the porn clips -- considered extremely offensive by most Muslims -- intermittently this afternoon from the Al-Watan,
Ammwaj, and Al-Sharaq channels, the residents said.
A fourth local station, whose premises were not seized by the army, ran a written message across its screen letting people know it was the Israelis who
were behind the graphic scenes.
The Israeli military denied that it had anything to do with the pornographic programming and instead blamed the Palestinian leaders.
What's On TV In Ramallah Tonight?
In Memory
Queen Mother Elizabeth
The Queen Mother Elizabeth, a symbol of courage and dignity during a tumultuous century of war, social upheaval and royal scandal, died in her
sleep Saturday died at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London. She was 101 years old.
She was best known to younger generations as the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Prince Charles.
But those who were young when German bombs rained down on London in 1940 remembered her as the queen who endured the blitz with them and
visited their shattered homes.
The queen mother might have been expected to retire from public life when her husband, King George VI, died in 1952.
But after their eldest daughter's succession to the throne, she took a new title, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and a full load of royal
duties. She carried them into her 90s, and delighted in meeting people from all walks of life.
The former Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was married in 1923 to Prince Albert, Duke of York, second son of King George V.
They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and lived quietly until 1936. The duke's elder brother succeeded to the throne that January
as King Edward VIII, and by mid-December had abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
The Duke of York took the throne as King George VI, a reluctant monarch whom many believed unsuited to the job.
But the steadfastness and sympathy of the new king and his wife through the deprivation and danger of World War II cemented a bond with the nation
that held the queen mother firmly in British affections for the next half-century.
Queen Mother Elizabeth
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