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From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Correction
Re: ERB's Nationality
Re: Edgar Rice Burroughs's nationality
< ''Although Rice Burroughs is best known for having penned the iconic
"Tarzan of the Apes," the English writer's first book was "A Princess of
Mars." Written in 1912, it was serialized in All-Story magazine under his
nom de plume, Normal Bean. '' >
Oops! Tarzan was English, but his creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
was very much an American.
David Dvorkin
Thanks, David! You are absolutely correct and I should have caught it.
Briefly lived in Tarzana back in my 'Valley' days.
Official Website for the city of Tarzana, California
Here are some more links:
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer who created Tarzan and fantastic tales of science fiction, was born February 23, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois to Major George Tyler Burroughs and Mary Evaline (Zieger).
Edgar Burroughs unsuccessfully pursued a series of careers until he was 35 years old: soldier, cowboy, salesman, and other singular interests. It wasn't until his Oak Park years, between 1914 and 1919, that Burroughs became a successful author.
While living in Chicago and Oak Park, Burroughs created many of his most memorable characters. The first Tarzan book, Tarzan the Ape Man, was completed in May 1912.
Oak Park, Chicago
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago on September 1st, 1875. His father, George Tyler Burroughs, was a Civil War veteran and now a successful businessman. Major Burroughs and his wife Mary had five other boys besides Edgar, but two of the children died in infancy, leaving Edgar the youngest of the family.
ERB, Early Years
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By 1916 Burroughs felt that he had earned a vacation, and so he packed up Emma and the children (and their dog Tarzan) and set out on a cross-country camping trip. At this time there was no such thing as an interstate highway system ~ actually, there were very few roads at all. Heading out with a touring car, a truck and a trailer the party set off for Maine but eventually wound up in Southern California. Eventually the expedition made the return trip to Chicago, but the California bug had bitten Burroughs. In 1919, thanks to the success of Tarzan, Burroughs was able to purchase a large ranch north of Los Angeles. He named it Tarzana.
As the Lord of Tarzana, Burroughs had seemingly found the good life. Tarzan had provided him with a comfortable living, his books were selling worldwide (even in the Soviet Union, where such tales were not well regarded by the Communist government), and the nearby community of Hollywood was busy cranking out Tarzan movies. (Tinsel Town even provided Burroughs with a son-in-law: Jim Pierce, who starred in "Tarzan and the Golden Lion," married Joan Burroughs in 1928.) The ultimate compliment was paid by the citizens of the community that had sprung up around the Tarzana ranch: they voted to adopt the name "Tarzana" when their town was incorporated in 1928.
ERB Relocates West
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But financial success was overshadowed by the problems in Burroughs' personal life, as he and Emma divorced in 1934. He married Florence Dearholt the following year and in 1940, with war raging in Europe, the couple decided to head further west to Hawaii.
Even though he was entering the last decade of his life Burroughs continued to be physically active, and still wrote stories for the pulp magazines and his own company. Hulbert Burroughs came out to Hawaii to visit his father in late 1941, and on the morning of December 7th, as the two played tennis, the Japanese bombed nearby Pearl Harbor. Thus began the last adventure of Edgar Rice Burroughs' life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was too old to see active service in World War II ~ he was 66 at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack ~ but as an established writer he served the war effort by becoming a war correspondent. He was the oldest war correspondent to serve in the Pacific theater, flying from island to island (even bumping into his son Hulbert, who was serving as a war photographer), reporting on troop activities, even going out on bombing runs with the 7th Air Force. Burroughs came through this period of life unscathed, although he would send Tarzan out on a more danger-filled mission in Tarzan and the "Foreign Legion" (1944).
ERB - Oldest War Correspondent in the Pacific Theater of WW II
Reader Comment
Re: Shackleton
Michelle V
Slut that I am for all great true-life adventure stories, and complete shill for this greatest of them all, I wish to clue your readers about pricing/availability of the three DVD collection of ''Shackleton,'' loaded with extras.
A&E offers it at $49.95 (plus shipping & handling), Amazon.com for $34.44 plus shipping & handling, but Sam's Club has it for $26 plus a few cents tax. (I found out the hard way after ordering from Amazon to see it next day at my local Sam's.)
Thanks, Michelle. She knows how cheap I can be...LOL.
Reader Observation
From 'Turtopia'
Reader Music Review
Humble Pie
By ~~ Turtopia Rob
Humble Pie - Performance - Rockin' the Fillmore
Recorded in 1971, this is one of the hottest live albums of the period. Steve Marriot had THE white boy blues voice of the era and he and
Peter Frampton's guitars blended in like Forrest Gump would say ''peas and carrots.'' The rhythm section was solid and they were great at improvising
blues classics into thier own. For example, Ida Cox's ''Four Day Creep'' - the album opener bares little resemblance to the original but still
retains the reverence British musicians had for the blues (or their version of it).
You can almost smell the whiskey and weed coming off the stage.
I bought the gatefold album when it came out at the base exchange for $4.99. I still have it, scratches and all. Imagine my joy when it was released on cd. You
can't use it to roll joints but it still rocks, and I don't roll joints anymore anyway. :)
Other highlights are a 24 minute plus ''Walk On Guilded Splinters'' and a rousing ''Stone Cold Fever.''
One of my absolute favorite albums. Any of you 20-somethings digging on Fu Manchu, Nebula or the other bands who had older brothers like me are
encouraged to discover some of their inspiration with this album.
I don't need no doctor...indeed. :)
~~Rob
Visit Rob's Website - Turtopia - Turtle rescue, rehab and rehoming
Thanks, Rob, for both the 'toon & the review!
Sunday Special
from TBH Politoons
Interesting Link
From 'Heckraiser'
www.geocities.com/arthursank/whitecoup.html
P. S. Some of the pictures didn't open for me, but the ones that did...
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Watched an old 'Ed Sullivan Show' on KOCE, PBS for Orange County. It had on the Rolling Stones, and they all looked so pretty! What's 25 years...LOL!
Then caught 'Volcano' and rooted for the lava.
Will stay up for Erin's show (she's baseball [oops - Mariner] delayed tonight) and then 'SNL'.
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', follows with a fresh 'Max Bickford', and then a
movie, 'The Pilot's Wife'.
NBC has NBA games, so prime time is going to be stepped on. Eventually, they should air a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' followed by a
rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC starts the evening with the movie 'Small Soldiers', followed by a fresh 'Alias' and a fresh 'The Practice' where John Larroquette does his yearly turn.
The WB has the movie 'Payback' then seemingly fresh episodes of 'The Jamie Kennedy Experiment' and 'Off Centre'.
Faux starts the night with a fresh episodes of 'Futurama' and 'King Of The Hill', followed by reruns of the 'Simpsons' and another 'King Of The Hill'. 'The X-Files' is fresh, if it matters.
UPN has the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise' and then the movie 'Just Cause'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Radio History In LA
80 Years Ago
Thanks to ~~ Radio Froderick
On this day in Los Angeles radio history...
Thought I would bring to your attention that Saturday and Tuesday are milestones in Los Angeles radio history. Saturday, April 13th, is the 80th Anniversary
of the first broadcast made by KHJ radio in 1922. On April 16th, it will be the 80th Anniversary of the first broadcast made by KFI radio in 1922. The following is excerpted from LA Radio.com :
KHJ's voice emerged first on Thursday night, April 13, 1922, from a small 10 by 12 foot room in the tower of the old Los Angeles Times building at First and Broadway.
The 50-watt signal was sent out to listener's crystal sets and early battery-powered tube radios from the station's antenna on the roof of the Times. The station's transmitter
was built by the C.R. Kierulff Company, run by Charles Rogers Kierulff. Dean Farren was the engineer/operator in charge. C.R. Kierulff was the licensed owner and operator of KHJ
and was contracted by the Times to operate the station, that is, get it on and off the air for each broadcast.
The first broadcast of KHJ was heavily promoted in the pages of the Times and featured in a front-page story the next morning. It may seem trite and quaint by today's standards, but
Angelenos who had radios were thrilled at the prospect of having another signal to tune into, with each new radio station that took to the airwaves. Hearing voices and music through
the air without telephone wires was like nothing anybody had experienced before. The Times also started a radio club for local fans of this new medium. A daily radio column was also
printed that kept listeners informed on radio construction projects, how to set up an antenna to receive radio stations, and latest stories about radio broadcasting plus program
schedules of the local stations.
The dedicatory program was to go out over KHJ from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. that night. It started with the playing of The Star Spangled Banner, followed by opening remarks and a brief address
by the late Harry Chandler, publisher of the Times. Dean Farren also spoke briefly on behalf of the C.R. Kierulff Company, who installed the station and was to supervise KHJ's technical
operation. A soprano singer named Louise George Dorr performed next in front of the KHJ microphone, followed by Hal Skelly, who was a vaudeville headliner, then at the Orpheum Theater in
downtown Los Angeles. He treated the first KHJ listeners to part of his vaudeville act [for free!], called 'Ten Minutes of Fun.' The next performer to be heard on KHJ was Chicago Grand
Opera Company soprano Edith Mason. After that, direct from the news wires of the Los Angeles Times, the latest news bulletins from world centers were flashed to the astonishment of the
listeners-in. Amazingly, they were getting the latest news before the next edition of the paper would hit the streets! After the reading of the news, KHJ presented another Chicago Grand
Opera Company singer, baritone Josef Schwartz. This was followed by something for the kiddies, 'Bedtime Stories,' read for the first of many, many times over the next 5 years and 7 months
by 'Uncle John,' and a poem by James W. Foley. With that, the very first broadcast of KHJ was over, until the next night at 6:45 p.m. Those who spent hours building and adjusting their
cat-whisker crystal sets or who had recently bought a new factory built radio had been entertained and heard history being made. It was primitive compared to today's modern radio
broadcasting methods, but it worked.
LA Radio.com
Thanks, Froderick
Fun Link
OS Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film
George Lucas
George Lucas was presented the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-Los Angeles.
Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars" and the co-creator of the Indiana Jones trilogy, was honored at the 11th annual Britannia Awards ceremony Friday night
at the Beverly Hilton.
Since the mid-1970s, Lucas has directed and/or produced nine movies on location in the United Kingdom, including "Willow" and "Labyrinth."
Steven Spielberg was the last recipient of the Britannia Award.
Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who starred in the original Star Wars trilogy, hosted the event, which also honored Home Box Office with the Britannia
Award for excellence in television.
George Lucas
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Erin will be on regulation hours tonight, Sunday, 9pm to 1am (pst), on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
And there's a chatroom, too!
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
Planned In Louisville
Muhammad Ali Center
The design for the proposed Muhammad Ali Center includes towering images of the boxing great and an enormous metallic "torch" to symbolize his life and humanitarian ideals.
Plans for the $41 million center were made public Thursday. The six-story center is to have 93,000 square feet of exhibit space, galleries, classrooms, a library,
theater and cafe. Surrounding it will be a plaza with an amphitheater.
Ali proclaimed, "I'm here," as he entered the news conference at City Hall. But he sat quietly as his wife, Lonnie, and other organizers spoke.
Lonnie Ali said the center will embody her husband's dream of creating "a place that inspires adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be."
The center will be built in downtown Louisville, near the Ohio River, and will be visible from Interstate 64.
Muhammad Ali Center
Muhammad Ali Center Web site
Big Dog Watch - Austria
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is accompanied by unidentified security as he walks through the snow before delivering a speech in a specially built
glass studio Austrian Alp in the skiing resort of Ischgl, Western Austria on Saturday, April 13, 2002. Clinton said world leaders and regular people
alike must help make the world safer by working to reduce the gaps separating the rich and the poor.
Photo by Elisabeth Strobl
Wants Pay-Per-View Boxing
Howard Stern
Howard Stern is accusing the Fox network of spoiling his plans for a pay-per-view boxing match between K-Rock deejays "Stuttering" John Melendez and Crazy
Cabbie. Stern planned the punch fest for next month, but ranted to listeners yesterday that Fox was threatening to run a sequel to its infamous "Celebrity
Boxing" special the same night. "There's no truth to that at all," a Fox rep insisted to us yesterday. "We are planning to do another 'Celebrity Boxing,' but
we haven't found the right people yet." Fox's last boldfaced bout featured Tonya Harding pulverizing Paula Jones and Danny Bonaduce battering Barry "Greg Brady"
Williams. Stern has decided to drop his pay-per-view plans, but still wants to mount the bout in Las Vegas or Atlantic City. The early favorite is Crazy Cabbie,
the hulking former cabdriver, former crack-smoker and occasional bisexual who battered Stern regular Angry Black last April. One possibility for the undercard is
Stern joke writer Artie Lange taking on the man he replaced, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling.
Howard Stern
Issues Apology to Rio de Janeiro
Simpsons Say 'Sorry'
Don't Blame it on Rio -- James Brooks, executive producer of TV comedy "The Simpsons," apologized to Rio de Janeiro this week for a recent episode
of the long-running animated show in which the city was depicted with rats and monkeys teeming on its streets.
"We apologize to the lovely city and people of Rio de Janeiro," Brooks said in a statement on Friday.
"If that doesn't settle the issue, Homer Simpson offers to take on the President of Brazil on Fox Celebrity Boxing," he added, clearly unable
to resist having a little fun.
But the people of Rio de Janeiro weren't laughing at "The Simpsons" episode, titled "Blame it on Lisa," a play on the title of a 1984 movie, "Blame it on Rio,"
Rio tourism board president Jose Eduardo Guinle asked the board's legal team to look into what action could be taken.
"He understands it is a satire," tourism board spokesman Sergio Cavalcanti said at the time. "What really hurt was the idea of the monkeys, the image that
Rio de Janeiro was a jungle. ... It's a completely unreal image of the city."
Simpsons Say 'Sorry'
Home For Unwed Mothers
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda helped dedicate a home for unwed mothers she had lobbied the state to pay for.
"It's a too common misconception that when girls get pregnant too early that it's their fault," Fonda said Friday at Oak Haven home in Dalton.
Young girls face a number of pressures, and they need a safe place to break the cycle of despair, said the actress, who lives in Atlanta.
Oak Haven has room for six mothers and their children; there's a waiting list of seven more.
Jane Fonda
Fun Link
Tour The Instruments
Musical Instrument Encyclopedia: TOUR THE INSTRUMENTS
First North American Tour In 5 Years
Monks On Tour
There's a good reason, says Thupten Donyo, why you'll find white dust masks, the kind sold at any U.S. hardware store, among the tools he and his
fellow Gyuto monks used when they sat down to create a sand mural intended to bless their North American concert tour.
"You don't want to sneeze without one when you're doing this kind of work," the 41-year-old monk said with a chuckle as he stood over the
just-completed project called a sand mandala.
The intricately crafted work of art, built by arranging different colored sands grain by grain, took him and a dozen fellow Tibetan Buddhist monks three days
to construct in an exhibition room at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum.
And indeed the occasion on this recent day was special. The 13 monks, who make up the Dali Lama's personal choir at the Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala, India,
were about to begin their first North American concert tour in five years with a sold-out performance at UCLA's Royce Hall.
The tour, which continues through May, takes them up the West Coast to Canada and across a good swath of the East Coast, including a May 4 performance at New York
City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. For a faith filled with elaborate rituals and metaphors, the introduction of a modern construction worker's mask, alongside
the ancient tools used to funnel and separate grains of sand, could easily be interpreted as just one more observance.
At the concerts, however, it is always the age-old chants that take center stage, drawing crowds of the curious. The monks captivate audiences with a vocal style
largely unheard of in the West, one in which each choir member holds three notes simultaneously, forming a chord.
For a lot more details, and a mention of Uma Thurman's father, Robert, Touring Monks
Gyuto.org
Art Teacher Barbie
Barbie & Cindy
Cindy Crawford unveils the new Barbie Art Teacher doll Saturday, April 13, 2002, as she speaks about the value of arts education, during the Entertainment
Industry Foundation (EIF) National Arts Education Initiative and "Barbie Cares Supporting Children in the Arts," event at the FAO Schwarz store at Los Angeles'
Grove Mall. EIF's National Arts Education Initiative raises awareness about the need for arts education in schools and funds exemplary arts programs nationwide.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Giving Advice
Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold's advice on how to make it in show business: Stay away from drugs and alcohol, follow your dreams and don't become famous by
marrying someone who was famous first.
Arnold, who didn't always follow his own advice (he is the ex-husband of former TV star Roseanne Barr), also told students at Birmingham High
School that being famous isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
"I thought if I was on TV, everyone would like me," the gregarious actor and former meatpacking plant worker said Thursday. "Turns out, that's
not necessarily true. ... You have to learn to enjoy the struggle. Even the big stars like Jennifer Lopez and Tom Cruise deal with rejection."
Tom Arnold
Lawsuit Filed
Michael Ovitz
The former head of the failed television studio started by Michael Ovitz has sued his ex-boss, claiming the onetime Hollywood super agent reneged on a
personal pledge to pay his salary and keep the studio afloat for at least five years.
Eric Tannenbaum, who resigned as president of Sony Corp's Columbia TriSTar Television unit in May 1999 to become president and CEO of Ovitz' Artists
Television Group (ATG), also said in his suit Ovitz falsely assured him that he had a billion-dollar line of credit for the studio from J.P. Morgan.
ATG produced a handful of short-lived prime-time network series under Tannenbaum's stewardship before running into financial difficulties and ultimately collapsing last summer.
Ovitz, the once-powerful Hollywood talent manager whose stormy 14 months as president of the Walt Disney Co. ended acrimoniously in 1997, has suffered
a string of setbacks in recent weeks.
And actor-comedian Robin Williams this week followed several sports stars in defecting from AMG's talent management roster.
Michael Ovitz
Fun Link
Lighthouses & Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Soul: Shakespearean Lighthouse Post Cards
In Memory
B.J. Baker
B.J. Baker, a backup singer who worked on hits with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke and Bobby Darin, died April 2 of complications from a stroke. She was 74.
Baker also appeared on several 1960's television shows, provided voices for cartoons and was a regular on Dean Martin and Judy Garland's TV variety shows.
Born in Birmingham, Ala., Baker sang in big bands and had her own Birmingham radio show at age 14.
She caught actor Mickey Rooney's eye when she competed in the 1944 Miss America contest. They were married later that year, but divorced a few years later.
She married Buddy Baker, who directed the Walt Disney Co. music department, in 1950, and was married to jazz guitarist Barney Kessel from 1961 to 1980.
Among the records Baker sang on were Presley's "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You;" Cooke's "You Send Me;" Sinatra's "That's Life;" Darin's "Dream
Lover;" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling."
In later years, Baker became a highly regarded vocal contractor, selecting and directing background singers for recording sessions.
B.J. Baker
BartCop TV!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'
C'mon....send your thoughts, your impressions, your views, your favorite quotes...
Scroll down for lots of addys to pick from (or 'from which to pick', for the truly anal retentive).
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