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Selected Sunday Readings
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Last Night
Cold & rainy - most atypical for these parts.
Running late.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then the movie 'Along Came A Spider'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH
'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover; Home Edition',
then a FRESH 'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'High School Reunion', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH
'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by
a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN of a RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Sell This House', followed by another 'Sell This House', then 'Airline', followed by another 'Airline', then still another 'Airline',
followed by yet another 'Airline', then 'Cleavage'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Breakfast Club', followed by the movie 'The Breakfast Club' again, then 'Backstory: The Breakfast Club',
followed by the movie 'Harry & The Hendersons'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Ardingly 23;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Kedleston 17;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Anthony;
[7:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hawkridge;
[8pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Buxton;
[8:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Sue Young;
[9pm] 'State of Play' - Episode 1;
[10:20pm] 'State of Play' - Episode 1;
[11:40pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[12am] 'State of Play' - Episode 1;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Anthony;
[2:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hawkridge;
[3am] 'Changing Rooms' - Buxton;
[3:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Sue Young;
[4am] 'State of Play' - Episode 1;
[5:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Cirque du Soleil's Solstrom', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Pierce
Brosnan), and the movie 'Far & Away'.
Comedy Central has '100 Greatest Stand-Ups', '100 Greatest Stand-Ups', '100 Greatest Stand-Ups', 'Chappelle's Show', and
another 'Chappelle's Show'.
History has the movie 'The Boys From Brazil', 'Inside The Great Battles: Iwo Jima', 'Band Of Brothers', and another 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Menace II Society' (1993);
[7:45AM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[8:15AM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[8:30AM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II';
[10:30AM] 'Trees Lounge' (1996);
[12:15PM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2002);
[1PM] Short: 'I Shout Love';
[1:45PM] 'Darien Gap' (1996);
[3:30PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[4PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I';
[6PM] 'Gray's Anatomy' (1997);
[7:30PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[8PM] 'Magnolia' (1999);
[11:15PM] 'La Femme Nikita' (1991);
[1:15AM] 'Magnolia' (1999);
[4:25AM] 'Chuck & Buck' (2000). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi celebrates all things Stephen King today - tonight's offering is 'Stepehn King's Storm Of The Century'.
Sundance -
[5:10AM] 'Riders' (Feature);
[6:45AM] 'Everyday Something: true stories from the 21st century' (Short);
[7AM] 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election' (Feature);
[8AM] 'Who Is Bernard Tapie?' (Documentary);
[9AM] 'A Shot at Glory' (Feature);
[11AM] 'Shorts Program 110' (Short);
[12PM] 'Nicholas Nickleby' (Feature);
[2:25PM] 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election' (Feature);
[3:15PM] 'A Perfect Candidate' (Documentary);
[5PM] 'Tanner '88 Episodes 1-3' (Feature);
[7:05PM] 'Tanner '88 Episodes 4-7' (Feature);
[9:10PM] 'Tanner '88 Episodes 8-11' (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger' (Documentary);
[12:55AM] 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election' (Feature);
[1:45AM] 'Nicholas Nickleby' (Feature);
[4AM] 'Fresh' (Feature);
[5:55AM] 'A Shot at Glory' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'They Drive by Night' (1940);
[8am] 'The Maltese Falcon' (1941);
[10am] '42nd Street' (1933);
[11:30am] 'Love Me Or Leave Me' (1955);
[2pm] 'Gaslight' (1944);
[4pm] 'Indiscreet' (1958);
[6pm] 'Annie Hall' (1977);
[8pm] 'Hold Back the Dawn' (1941);
[10pm] 'Midnight' (1939);
[12am] 'Squaw Man' (1913) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967);
[4am] 'Brass Target' (1978). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman is shown during an interview with Lady Heather Mills McCartney, guest host of CNN's 'Larry King Live,' taped April 15, 2004, in Los Angeles and telecast Saturday, April 17. Newman discussed his philanthropic work, his career as an actor and his love of car racing.
Photo by Rose M. Prouser
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Long-Lost 1922 Valentino Film Recovered
'Beyond the Rocks'
The Dutch national film archive has discovered a complete copy of the long-lost 1922 silent classic "Beyond the Rocks" starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in a private collection, it said on Saturday.
Jan van den Brink, a film historian and Valentino expert who works for the Filmmuseum, said the 1922 hit film had turned up among well over 2,000 film canisters bequeathed to the archive in 2000 after the death of a collector in the town of Haarlem.
The deceased collector, whose family van den Brink said did not want to be named, had a strange way of organizing his films, so it took the archive several years of searching through the reels to realize there was a full copy of "Beyond the Rocks."
Van den Brink said the 81-minute romantic melodrama about a woman pushed into a marriage with an older man who falls for Valentino's nobleman character on her honeymoon was in good condition apart from about two minutes which were damaged.
'Beyond the Rocks'
L-R Scott Painter, Los Angeles Mayor Jimmy Hahn, Lenny Kivuti Managing director of Geomaps, Quincy Jones, mayor of Kigali Theoneste Mutsindashyaka, actress Sharon Stone join hands at Jones' home in Bel Air Estates, California, April 17, 2004. Jones is hosting a luncheon at his home for the 'We Are the Future' children's centers in Rwanda.
Photo by Gene Blevins
Learns About Cancun Shelter
Jessica Lange
Actress Jessica Lange met with community leaders and children at a shelter in Cancun on Friday in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund.
Lange, 55, who starred most recently in "Big Fish" and "Normal," spent much of the day learning about a local program in which hotel workers and cab drivers are trained to report suspected cases of child abuse to authorities.
The coastal resort town was Lange's first stop on a nearly weeklong visit to Mexico.
Jessica Lange
Egypt Cuts God Lines
'The Matrix'
The final installment of "The Matrix" trilogy has made it past Egyptian censors with only minor cuts, the chief film censor said, noting it was an easier route to Egyptian theaters than the first two movies.
Madkour Thabit, head of the state-run censorship body responsible for audio and visual productions, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the focus of "The Matrix Revolutions" was different from the first two films.
Censors cut a shot of a topless girl at a nightclub party and two sentences in which the lead character, Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, proclaims himself both implicitly and explicitly as God, Thabit said.
'The Matrix'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
4th of July Picnic
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson will hold his famous Fourth of July Picnic at the Fort Worth Stockyards this year.
The daylong event will be held on a 27-acre concert field dubbed the North Forty. Besides Nelson, performers will include other country music icons, such as Merle Haggard, Ray Price, David Allan Coe and Kris Kristofferson.
Organizers expect about 25,000 people.
Willie Nelson
Britain's Prince William (R) watches with teammates while making his water polo debut for the Scottish national universities' squad in the annual Celtic Nations tournament against Wales and Ireland in Cardiff, April 17, 2004.
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Labels Monitor
Internet Pirates
Say what you will about Internet pirates, their downloads speak volumes about what's hot in music.
That fact hasn't been lost on record labels, which are increasingly subscribing -- albeit discreetly -- to companies that monitor illegal download traffic on peer-to-peer services.
"If we weren't looking at the data, we'd be pretty foolish," says Jeremy Welt, head of new media at Madonna's Maverick Records, one of the few labels that admits to subscribing to services that track illegal downloads.
But John Fagot, a consultant for Webspins, a company that monitors P2P services, says its data is being used at every major label.
BigChampagne, the other major player, acknowledges that Warner Bros., Interscope, Elektra, DreamWorks, Atlantic and Disney's Hollywood label have all used its data, as well as MTV and MTV2.
Internet Pirates
Back in 'Play'
Bootsy Collins
Funk legend William "Bootsy" Collins will release his first studio album in six years on June 8, with guests ranging from Snoop Dogg and Macy Gray to Bobby Womack and George Clinton.
"Play With Bootsy" will be released by Thump Records.
Anyone well-versed in funk knows Collins' bass licks pumped intense energy into songs by James Brown and Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic collective. Collins' own Rubber Band had a stretch of R&B chart success in the late '70s with "The Pinocchio Theory" and "Bootzilla."
Bootsy Collins
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Fear & Self-Loathing in Palm Springs
Log Cabin
Gay Republicans are stung by resident Bush's support for a ban on same-sex marriages and are divided over where to turn in November, with many weighing party loyalty against outrage.
"I'm going to have a hard time going with Bush. In my good conscience, I don't know how I can support him," said Shawn Gardner, one of several hundred party members attending this weekend's annual convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP organization that backed Bush in 2000.
Chris Barron, political director for the Log Cabin Republicans, said it's unclear whether the group will endorse Bush. A decision by its 23-member board is expected around the time of the GOP's national convention in New York, which begins Aug. 30.
"We would never endorse a Democrat," Barron said.
If you need more, Log Cabin
In the center of a group of grazing kangaroos, two adult males fight each other in Namagi National Park near Australia's capital city Canberra April 15, 2004. Native wildlife is returning to areas that are regenerating after they were blackened by devastating bush fires that swept through the Canberra region last year. Photograph taken April 15, 2004.
Photo by Tim Wimborne
World's Tallest Man
Leonid Stadnik
At age 33, Leonid Stadnik wishes he would stop growing. He's already 8 feet, 4 inches. Recent measurements show that Stadnik is already 7 inches taller than Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest living man. He's also gaining on the 8-11 Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history.
"My two-year-old suit's sleeves and pants are now 30 centimeters (12 inches) shorter than I need," said Stadnik. "My height is God's punishment. My life has no sense."
Stadnik's height keeps him confined to this tiny village 130 miles west of the capital, Kiev.
"Taking a public bus for me is the same as getting into a car's trunk for a normal person," he said.
For the rest, Leonid Stadnik
Frat Brothers Steal, Fry
Koi
Two former fraternity brothers Friday were sentenced to community service - but escaped jail - for stealing and eating a jumbo goldfish at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The men were drunk when they snatched the 18-inch koi fish, which was referred to as both Midas and Goldie, that lived in a university-owned pond. The men fried the fish and fed it to fraternity pledges last year.
Casey Loop, 23, and Matthew Cox, 22, last month pleaded no contest of misdemeanor grand theft and vandalism.
The incident was filmed for the MTV series "Fraternity Life," but never aired. Prosecutors used subpoenas to obtain out-takes.
Koi
Flowers sit between skulls of some of the victims of the Khmer Rouge at the Cheung Ek Killing Fields memorial, 8 kilometers (5 miles) south of Phnom Penh Saturday, April 17, 2004. Today marks the twenty-ninth anniversary since the Khmer Rouge started their reign of terror which killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians in 1975-1979.
Photo by Andy Eames
Closing Hat Factory
Stetson
Buyers of Western wear are not topping off their outfits like they used to, forcing noted U.S. hatmaker Stetson to close a major factory in Missouri.
Due to declining sales, Stetson will close its factory that produces high end, fur-felt cowboy hats and other headwear in St. Joseph, Missouri at the end of June, eliminating 110 jobs, said Al Luiz, a vice president of marketing for Garland, Texas-based parent Hatco.
The Stetson Hat Company started in 1865 and the brand name is synonymous with the West. Stetson hats have been the favourites of cowboys, cowgirls and even former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
Stetson
Birders Mourn Falcon
Mae
Birders around the world are mourning the death of Mae, the first known peregrine falcon to nest at a power plant, who became an Internet star through a Web cam that allowed thousands to watch her during nesting season.
Mae was killed this spring in a territorial battle with another falcon at an Xcel Energy Co. smokestack in Oak Park Heights, about 20 miles east of St. Paul. Sympathy cards have arrived from as far away as Germany since her death, said Bob Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project and overseer of Xcel's "bird-cam" and nest-box programs.
Since claiming the nest as a young bird 15 years ago, Mae raised 37 falcons in the small wood box overlooking the St. Croix River. Xcel Energy installed the "bird cam" in 1997, and during Mae's first nesting season the Web site generated more than 800,000 hits.
Mae was killed by a falcon dubbed Belinda, who had taken over the nest box when Mae migrated south for the winter. The battle over the nest box was not unusual, Anderson said.
The "falcon cam" will continue to track Belinda and her five babies, which should hatch in mid-May. But Mae will be difficult to replace, Xcel spokesman Paul Adelmann said.
Mae
birdcam.xcelenergy.com/kingfalcon.asp
Four-month-old lion cub, Joy, plays with its father's tail as his sister Juna and mother Kiri look on, during a warm spring morning in Frankfurt's Zoo, April 14, 2004.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
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