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Reader Contribution
Sad Saturday
I heard this on the radio this morning and
wanted to make sure it was sent to you. Layne Staley, the lead singer of
Alice In Chains was found dead this morning.
Layne Staley
~~ Joe L in the great Pacific Northwest.
Thanks for the 'heads-up', Joe! Tend to move late on the weekends. ; )
'Uncommon Sense'
The always-entertaining Jeff Crook has updated again -
this is the best one (yet)!
Check it out - 'Uncommon Sense'
Thanks, Jeff!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Way back in the 70's, Saturday night TV was nothing like what is currently foisted on the viewing public. CBS had 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Bob Newhart', just for starters. In the
80's, ABC had a lock on the night with Aaron Spelling stuff. Compared to what was offered tonight on over-the-air-commercial-TV, I must now refer to all Aaron Spelling programs as 'stuff' as opposed
to 'crap', because what was offered tonight was outright 'crap' (and that's the more polite term for what I'm thinking).
Once again, the evening's salvation was KOCE, PBS for Orange County rerunning 'Ed Sullivan', where Jim Morrison & The Doors still live.
Watching 'SNL' currently.
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS opens with '60 Minutes'. It is followed by a fresh 'Max Bickford' (where Marsha Mason guests), then a TV-movie, 'Two Against Time' with
Marlo Thomas - it's about a mom & daughter who both have cancer. Yeah, sounds like the feel-good 'special' of the season.
On NBC, it's 'The Weakest Link', then a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' and a repeat 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC has the fake award show 'World Music Awards' from Monaco, where scandalous daughters are an artform. It's followed by a fresh 'Alias', then a repeat 'The Practice'.
The WB starts the night with the movie 'Can't Hardly Wait' followed by 'The Jamie Kennedy Experiment' and a fresh 'Off Centre'.
Faux starts with the (fresh) season-ender of 'Futurama' (where the voices of the original 'Star Trek' - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy,
Nichelle Nichols, George Takei & Walter Koenig are heard), a fresh 'King Of The Hill', a fresh 'Simpsons' (where Homer is roasted by the Springfield Friars Club), then a fresh 'Malcolm', and
finally a fresh 'X-Files'.
UPN starts the night with the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise' and follows it with the movie 'Outbreak'.
The Discovery Channel 'exposes' the real Eve.
VH1 debuts its TV-movie, 'Warning: Parental Advisory'. Mariel Hemingway plays Tipper Gore. Griffin Dunne plays Frank Zappa. Dee Snider plays himself.
TCM offers 'Village Of The Damned' (1960), followed by the lame 'Children Of The Damned' (1964), then, the silent classic, 'The Monster' (1925), with Lon Chaney, Sr., and
wraps it up with 'House Of Wax' (1953), with Vincent Price and Charles Buchinski (Bronson).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
On The Mall Saturday
Just A Good Ole Boy
Anti-war protest sign about U.S. President George W. Bush is carried at a rally against U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan on the grounds
of the Washington Monument in Washington, April 20, 2002. The rally later marched to the U.S. Capitol.
Photo by Larry Downing
Rock's Most Dysfunctional Family?
The Ramones
Rock's most dysfunctional family isn't "The Osbournes"-it's the Ramones. After reading our story about the bad blood between the late Joey Ramone's family
and the legendary punk band's "creative director," Arturo Vega, drummer Marky Ramone tells says he wants to bring the feuding factions together. Marky says
he's going to both the memorial Joey birthday bash at Bowery Ballroom thrown by Joey's brother Mickey Leigh and mother Charlotte Lesher on May 19, and the
rival party at CBGB that he, Vega, Tommy Ramone and CJ Ramone are hosting the same night. "Both sides should unite and stop all this animosity," Marky said.
"I'm trying to get Mickey to come to our party." Marky, who had a falling-out with Joey but made up before the singer died of lymphoma last year, says that
guitarist Johnny, who never made up with Joey, and original bassist Dee Dee, who no longer speaks to Johnny, are boycotting both bashes. "They're not gonna
show up," Marky said. "They're harboring resentment from a long time ago."
The Ramones
From The Corporate Media
Ozzy Links
People.com | Photo Gallery | Ozzy Osbourne's Strange Journey
People.com | People Profiles | Ozzy Osbourne
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Erin will be on non-regulation hours Sunday, 10pm to 1am (pdt) 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
Fun Link
Kid Rock Exposed!
Kid Rock Exposed!
American Bandstand 50th...A Celebration
Michael Jackson
Performer Michael Jackson, left, talks with Dick Clark, host of the American Bandstand 50th...A Celebration as Jackson arrives for the taping of the show
Saturday, April 20, 2002 in Pasadena, Calif. The show will air May 3.
What is Michael holding in his hand?
To Sing in Japan for World Cup
The Three Tenors
Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, veteran stars of the classical music world, will stage a concert in Yokohama, Japan, in June to mark
the World Cup soccer finals, organizers said Thursday.
The Three Tenors are something of a fixture at soccer's top tournament, having performed at the last three finals in Rome, Los Angeles and Paris, but they
have decided this will be the last time they perform together at the World Cup, the organizers said.
The World Cup final is due to be held in Yokohama on June 30.
The Three Tenors
Reward Up To $1000 Now
Pipi Osbourne
The Pipi Osbourne saga has taken yet another turn.
Yesterday, "Live with Regis & Kelly" executive producer Michael Gelman threw another $500 into the kitty for information on the Osbourne dog's return - upping the total reward money to $1,000.
Gelman said the money will be donated in the name of "Live" - which has featured on-air pictures of Pipi several times this week.
"We're better than a milk carton, and we're on a campaign [to find Pipi]," Gelman said.
Pipi Osbourne
Toys & Cereal Boxes
Star Wars Collectors
The Star Wars Collectors Archive
The Comprehensive Star Wars Cereal Box Checklist
Cereal Boxes (USA)
Another Lawsuit Filed
Courtney Love
The two surviving members of the band Nirvana say they want Kurt Cobain's widow to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if incompetence is causing her to make bad business
decisions — like holding back the band's unreleased material.
Lawyers for bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer David Grohl asked a judge on Friday to order the test for Courtney Love, whose lawyer said there is "not a shred of evidence"
that she is mentally incompetent.
Love filed a lawsuit last May seeking to dissolve Nirvana LLC, a business partnership between Love and the two former Nirvana band members.
In that lawsuit, Love argued the agreement should be dissolved because her judgment was "significantly impaired" when she signed it three years after her husband's suicide.
But Lawyer Kelly Corr, who is representing Grohl and Novoselic, said a psychiatrist's evaluation would most likely show that Love was competent when she signed the agreement,
and that her competence has since deteriorated.
Courtney Love
BartCop TV!
May End Public Appearances
Kurt Vonnegut
The 1,300 people who were at Albion College to hear Kurt Vonnegut talk may have witnessed the 79-year-old author's final speaking engagement.
Only hours before Thursday night's speech, Vonnegut, best known for his 1969 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," said during an informal question-and-answer
session with faculty and students that he won't likely make any more public appearances.
He did not offer an explanation, though he did ask that his evening speech be videotaped so he "could see how he looks," said a spokesman for the small,
liberal arts school in south central Michigan.
Vonnegut, one of the most famous and influential writers of the late 20th century, was the keynote speaker at a research symposium. He peppered his 52-minute
speech with one-liners, observations and anti-war and pro-environment references.
He also played down his literary importance, joking that his real claim to fame is that he was once the father-in-law of a famous journalist and talk-show host.
"Isn't that worth coming out for — to see someone whose daughter was once married to Geraldo Rivera?" Vonnegut asked the audience.
Kurt Vonnegut
'Bernie Mac' & '24" Aren't Enough
Faux In A Fix
Fox has scheduled another of its "Magic's Secrets Finally Revealed" specials to run during May, explaining how magician David Blaine pulled off the stunt in
which he buried himself in ice.
What the network's executives might want to uncover, while they're at it, is who cast the spell that put a chill on their ratings.
The announcement this week that "Ally McBeal" would join "The X-Files" in ending its run next month represents a one-two punch to Fox, as the network loses two
shows that were once darlings with viewers and critics but whose ratings--even allowing for a flurry of cast changes--have plunged this season.
For a network that provides only 15 hours per week of national programming in prime time (as opposed to the 22 hours scheduled by ABC, CBS and NBC), the
departure of those two programs, coupled with other problem spots on its schedule, places Fox in an unenviable position: having to potentially add more hours
of new series next fall than can easily be promoted and advertised in today's fragmented media marketplace.
In a sense, Fox's troubles have escaped attention because they have been overshadowed by ABC, whose widely reported ratings descent has dominated talk within the entertainment
industry through much of the current television season--fueled both by the decline of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and the changing cast within its management soap opera,
including the replacement of programming chief Stu Bloomberg in January.
For the rest, Faux In A Fix
Informative Link
TV News U Won't See On TV
TV News U Won't See On TV
Anthony Quinn Award for Excellence in Cinema and the Arts
Antonio Banderas
Actor Antonio Banderas was on hand to accept the first Anthony Quinn Award for Excellence in Cinema and the Arts.
Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, met with reporters before the ceremony Friday, which kicked off the 10th annual Providence New Latin American Cinema Festival.
Quinn was born in Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles. He was living in Rhode Island when he died last year at age 86.
Quinn was an honored guest at the film festival last year, and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for bridging cultural gaps.
Antonio Banderas
The Circus Returns to Town
Robert Blake
"Déjà vu all over again," boomed malaprop-ing talk show host Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel during a Thursday evening of media ranting and hyperventilating
after has-been actor Robert Blake had been taken into custody by Los Angeles police in connection with last year's murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
Yes, all over again, for hadn't the public walked this plank before when O.J. Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman, en route
to landing in a vast, turbulent sea of media frenzy?
Just when you think these 24-hour-news fruitcakes can't possibly get worse, more indulgent or more absurd in covering breaking, high-profile crime stories to the
exclusion of events more meaningful, something like Thursday night explodes onto the screen.
At an LAPD press conference touching on the cases against Blake and his handyman/bodyguard Earle Caldwell, CNN reporter Frank Buckley mentioned the possibility of
authorities being faulted for a "rush to judgment." They were rushing to judgment?
Before Blake even had been booked at Parker Center, a familiar assembly line of spewing heads on CNN, the Fox News Channel and MSNBC was rolling forward irrevocably,
arguing from every conceivable angle the legal case against him they initially knew hardly anything about. Only CNN's Charles Feldman--a first-rate journalist and
seasoned crime specialist who had been on the Blake story since its inception a year ago--provided measured, fresh reporting about Blake.
For the rest, The Circus Returns to Town
Art Show On The Go
Human Race Machine
Ever want to see what you'd look like as Asian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, black, white or Indian? Anything you aren't?
Step into the Human Race Machine and find out.
The machine is part of "Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson," a traveling retrospective that attempts to make an argument for human unity.
The show of 100 photos and multimedia works is on view at the Grey Art Gallery in Greenwich Village through Saturday. It then travels to the Blaffer Gallery in Houston, the
Weatherspoon Art Gallery in Greensboro, N.C., and beyond.
For those who miss the show, a Human Race Machine (there are several), will be on permanent view at the New York Hall of Science in Queens as of June.
The resulting photo, while not always recognizable, is eerie.
Known for her computer generated photographs of composite faces, she first gained national attention for her Aging Machine.
The technology, later purchased by the FBI, makes images of what a face might look like as it ages. Used to come up with the images of missing children as they age, it proved
so effective that it helped authorities find four missing children in the first year of its use.
Human Race Machine
Cited For DUI
Tonya Harding
Former figure skater Tonya Harding was cited for drunken driving early Saturday after she crashed her pickup into a ditch, police said.
Neither Harding nor her passenger was hurt in the 1:30 a.m. accident, in Battle Ground, just northwest of Portland, Ore.
Deputies from the Clark County Sheriff's office who arrived on the scene thought Harding appeared under the influence of alcohol, and she failed a field
sobriety test and breath test.
Authorities did not release Harding's blood-alcohol content.
Tonya Harding
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Snarky Gossip
Jackson Pollock
Painter Jackson Pollock not only cheated on his wife with pretty, young art groupies. Pollock, memorably portrayed by Ed Harris in a 2000 biopic, also bedded
erotic artist Harold Stevenson, best known for "The New Adam," a room-sized 1962 painting of a nude Sal Mineo. Stevenson, 73, tells Art Newspaper he knew Pollock
"in the biblical sense" and that they often got drunk together and "participated with one another" at a friend's Long Island cottage. "I didn't mind going to bed
with him," Stevenson says, "I just didn't want to paint like him."
Jackson Pollock
Entertaining Link
Too Stupid To Be President
Too Stupid To Be President
Historian Unearths 17th Century Book
'Womans Worth'
A historian in northern England says he has found a 370-year-old book proclaiming that women are better than men, a volume he calls an early voice for women's empowerment.
Alan Davies, heritage officer in Wigan, outside Manchester, said he found the 182-page book under a pile of papers in a town hall vault, where he had been hunting for something else.
The book, called "Womans Worth," carries the subtitle "A treatise proveinge by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men."
No author's name is given. Davies said the antiquated spellings and writing style and the binding appeared to date the book to the 1630s or '40s.
The book's first chapter is titled "Eve more excellent than Adam," and the author goes on to detail the ways in which women are better than men.
"Women do excell men in virtues and rare endowments of the minde, and I think we shall finde that herein also women doe farre outstrip men," the text says.
Subsequent chapter titles include "Women loved Christ more than men," "Women wiser than men" and "Women more valiant than men."
'Womans Worth'
Law Suit Filed
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston is facing the humiliation of having raunchy photographs of her discussed openly in court - after she launched a legal battle
against two magazines that published paparazzi pix of her sunbathing topless in the garden, London's Mail on Sunday reports.
Fiercely private Aniston, 33, was livid when the revealing photos of her wearing nothing but white panties appeared in porn mags Celebrity Skin and
High Society - and filed a lawsuit in California saying they caused her "shame, hurt and embarrassment and distress."
Now a judge has ordered her to produce evidence of each time she has appeared "partially nude" in print or on film for hearings in the lawsuit, reports the Mail.
The case is to be heard in July.
Jennifer Aniston
History Through Plants
Heirloom Plants
Even among heirlooms, some loom above the rest. Take plants and flowers as an example.
Certain horticultural heirlooms are the darlings of the DAR. Some are petal pioneers from the Lewis and Clark expedition. Others are culinary or herbal
colonists cultivated by the nation's founders. Still others are tree seedlings taken from the properties of authors, rock stars and battlefields.
Want some slips from boxwoods that grew at Mount Vernon in George Washington's time? Visit the home of the nation's first president 16 miles south of his
namesake city and buy a living souvenir.
Care for a seedling from the original tulip poplar at Thomas Jefferson's plantation at Monticello? Order from an extensive plant catalog.
For a pin oak that has its roots at Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis, consider the American Forests' Historic Tree Nursery.
Peggy Cornett is director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello, just outside of Charlottesville.
To help commemorate next year's bicentennial celebration of the Lewis and Clark expedition, her staff is marketing a seed sampler kit with several of the flowers mentioned
in the journals. Those include Lewis' Prairie Flax, Clarkia, Blanket Flower, Snow-on-the-Mountain and Skunkleaf Jacob's Ladder.
Horticulturalists at Mount Vernon specialize in growing plants and flowers with 17th- and 18th century origins, spokesman Dean Norton says.
Old Sturbridge Village, Mass., also is a good source of heirloom herbs, flowers and vegetables. The village operates a horticultural interpretive program that, among other things,
develops seeds with the Sturbridge label.
Want a tree with historic origins? Select one or several from the American Forests' listings. Their authenticated tree kits are arranged in categories from "A," notable African
Americans, to "W," for noteworthy women.
Collectors can choose a sycamore seedling from a tree that's a direct descendent of one fronting Brown Chapel at Selma, Ala., where Martin Luther King Jr. preached; a red maple
from Henry David Thoreau's Walden Woods; a Japanese cherry from the Tidal Basin at Washington, D.C.; a southern magnolia from Helen Keller's girlhood home, or scores of others.
For the rest, Heirloom Plants
Monticello/Historical Plants
Mount Vernon
Old Sturbridge Village
U.S. Botanic Gardens
American Forests
Recommended reading: "America's Famous and Historic Trees" by Jeffrey Meyer.
American Bandstand 50th...A Celebration - Part 2
More Michael Jackson
Entertainer Michael Jackson performs "Dangerous" during the taping of American Bandstand's 50th anniversary show Saturday, April 20, 2002, in Pasadena, Calif.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
ADULT CONTENT WARNING
It's Motorized
X-RATED - The Infamous Moto-Penis
In Memory
Layne Staley
Layne Staley, lead singer and guitarist for the grunge band Alice in Chains, was found dead in his apartment, authorities said Saturday. He was 34.
Tests were required to establish the identity because the body, discovered Friday, had started to decompose. The King County Medical Examiner's
office did not release his cause of death.
"It was natural or an overdose — that's the way it was determined by our investigators," said Seattle Police spokesman Duane Fish.
Police did not immediately release details on anything that was found at the scene, and a spokesman did not respond to several messages.
With Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, Alice in Chains was one of the most prominent bands of the Seattle grunge scene of the early '90s. The group was
known for its dark, menacing sound, which combined grunge and heavy metal, and often wrote about heroin.
In a 1996 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Staley spoke of how his drug use influenced his lyrics.
"I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them," he told the magazine. "Here's how my thinking pattern went:
When I tried drugs, they were (expletive) great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me — and now I'm walking through hell,
and this sucks."
The group's first album, "Facelift," was released in 1990. It later released "Dirt" and "Alice in Chains." The group's hits included "Man in the Box,"
"Them Bones," "Rooster," and "Would?"
The latter song was partly inspired by the 1990 heroin overdose death of Andrew Wood, singer of the seminal grunge group Mother Love Bone.
Staley's body was found just over 8 years after Nirvana singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Heroin was found in Cobain's bloodstream, and his head had been so mutilated that he could not be immediately identified.
In the 1996 interview, Staley reflected on Cobain's death: "I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I didn't know him real well, but I just
saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person who could hardly get a 'hello' out. ... At the end of the day or at the end of
the party, when everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
Layne Staley
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Recently updated.
Put up a page devoted to 'The Osbournes'
C'mon....send your thoughts, your impressions, your views, your favorite quotes...
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