'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Holy crap, did it ever rain!
The drive to Blythe went well in spite of the deluge, and we were there in under 4 hours. Dear old Dad & the Babe are looking well.
Stopped at Cabazon so the kid could see the dinosaurs. The brontosaurus was open for business, and he got a real kick out of climbing all the stairs inside the critter to the souvenir shop. He was so stoked he even willingly posed for pictures!
Now I'm really in the mood for a road trip.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the evening, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH made-for-tv-movie, 'Lucy'.
NBC starts the night with Dateline, followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams' (where 'Third Eye Blind' impersonate 'The Kinks'), then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent',
followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC begins the night with a 'special' - 'Blunderful World of Sports', followed by another 'special' - 'Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement', then the 2-hour Season Finale of 'Alias'.
The WB has the traditional RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', and then a
RERUN 'Charmed'.
Faux opens the night with 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 'Oliver Beene'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
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Or reviews?
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Kentucky Derby fan Eric Williams of Chicago views the paddock at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, May 3, 2003. The 129th running of the Kentucky Derby will be run later today.
Photo by Tami Chappell
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Will Visit Baseball Hall
Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins will visit the Baseball Hall of Fame, even without an invitation from the Hall's president.
Robbins and Susan Sarandon, two stars of the popular film "Bull Durham," discussed their snub by the Hall of Fame on HBO's "On the Record With Bob Costas," which made its season premiere Friday night.
Robbins and Sarandon said they never planned to discuss politics during their visit. "We were looking forward to a weekend away from all the pressures," Robbins said.
Robbins said he'd accept an invitation to go to Cooperstown, but that wasn't necessary.
"Absolutely. But I'd go before that just to go with my kids," he said. "I love Cooperstown and I encourage people to go there. It's a great place."
Tim Robbins
Thousands Gather to Honor
Fred Rogers
About 2,000 friends, celebrities and strangers gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of Fred Rogers, the television pioneer whose "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" has been watched by generations of children.
John Rogers said his father met Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition of success: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived."
The public memorial was held a little more than two months after the 74-year-old creator and host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" died Feb. 27 of stomach cancer. His March 1 funeral was private.
Composer and violinist Itzhak Perlman, in town for a symphony appearance, learned of the memorial at the 11th hour and performed a Bach piece as a tribute.
"Fred Rogers played a very integral part in our household while our five children were growing up," Perlman said, a sentiment seemingly shared by every parent in attendance.
Rogers "personified friendship to a generation of children," said Teresa Heinz, the wife of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and a board member of Family Communications Inc., producer of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
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Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of essayist and historian Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, dated 1778, wearing a sceptical smile at age 82, just returned to France after decades of exile. The first large international show by the artist, titled 'Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment', opens Sunday, May 4, 2003, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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Celebrates 70th Birthday
James Brown
The Godfather of Soul is celebrating 70 — and feels good.
Brown, who celebrated his birthday Saturday, says he recently lost 13 pounds and is focused on good health.
"I'm getting back into my clothes again. I stopped eating late at night," Brown said.
The two-time Grammy award winner has recorded more than 110 charted singles including "Out of Sight," "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine," "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Out Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud."
Upcoming tours include shows in Russia, at London's Royal Albert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. "I'll also play for resident Bush in a few weeks," he said.
James Brown
Tapes Show For HGTV
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish opened his South Carolina home to a television crew from Home And Garden TV (HGTV) for the special Rock Gardens. The hour-long show will air in October and feature property and gardens of some big names in rock and roll. Other artists appearing in the special include Kenny Loggins, Joe Cocker, and Mark Hoppus of Blink 182.
With the taping of the TV special completed, Rucker and his bandmates can concentrate on their upcoming North American tour. Rucker said he's excited to get out on the road because he knows it's the only way to get people to hear the group's music and message. "You know, we really believe that if people hear it, you know, they're gonna like it and go buy it," Rucker said. "You know, you just got to get it out there and get it to them. And that's, you know, touring and stuff like that."
Darius Rucker
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Set To Make Music
'Comical Ali'
Iraq's former Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, whose colourful daily briefings earned him cult status during the Gulf War, is to take night clubs by storm.
Record producers are planning to record a dance track sampling some of his most popular catch-phrases.
With his trademark beret and sly smile, Sahaf astonished Western television viewers by appearing each day behind a sea of microphones often to deny events viewers could see on their television screens.
He regularly berated British and American troops as "infidels" and vowed "God will roast their stomachs in hell".
'Comical Ali'
Demonstrators dressed as cannabis leaves join the Fifth Annual International Cannabis March in London May 3, 2003. Approximately 1,500 people, many of them actually smoking cannabis, joined the march, which culminated in a festival in Brixton's Brockwell Park.
Photo by Hugo Philpott
First Legal Rave In France
Teknival 2003
Some 25,000 fans were expected to attend France's big rave, the three-day Teknival 2003 starting Thursday, while local environmentalists looked on in dismay.
This time the event will be official. The organisers are cooperating with the French interior ministry to make sure all goes smoothly at the venue in northern France.
A disused former NATO base in the remote countryside of Marigny-le-Grand came to life as more than 10,000 youngsters assembly by Thursday night.
Teknival has been a big pull to 20,000 to 50,000 French fans for 10 years. But this year's is the first such large-scale rave organized in cooperation with the interior ministry.
The regional administration has spent some 30,000 euros on police, medical teams and equipment including water tanks, toilet facilities and bottled water.
Teknival 2003
Buy Georgia Homes
Lopez & Affleck
Actor Ben Affleck and his actress-singer girlfriend Jennifer Lopez have bought two houses on one of Georgia's last undeveloped barrier islands, Hampton Island.
The houses, both 10,000 square feet, are newly constructed but designed to look old. The Big House is an antebellum-style mansion with a columned veranda connecting two wings. The Oyster House is rustic in style with hammocks, rocking chairs and picnic tables on the porches.
The 2,300-acre island 35 miles south of Savannah was bought recently by Atlanta developer E. Wade Shealy for $16 million and will be developed as a low-density, luxury community.
Lopez & Affleck
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Facing Bankruptcy
Florida Philharmonic Orchestra
The cash-strapped Florida Philharmonic Orchestra has one week to raise money to cover a $2.9 million deficit, but has been authorized to file for bankruptcy.
The Florida Philharmonic, founded in 1984, is one of several orchestras suffering financially.
In March, the debt-ridden Colorado Springs Symphony dissolved itself in bankruptcy court, ending its 75-year run, and the San Antonio Symphony couldn't pay its musicians, who already had accepted a 20 percent pay cut. In February, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra canceled the rest of its season after it couldn't pay a $1.2 million debt.
Florida Philharmonic Orchestra
Phil Marston, left, a professor of physics at Washington State University, talks with banjo maker and player Steve Huber, right, following a presentation at the 145th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Thursday, May 1, 2003, in Nashville, Tenn. The group tries to always have a session on musical acoustics and they took advantage of the local music culture of Nashville to do so this year.
Photo by Mark Humphrey
Stuck With 30,000 Mice
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City police succeeded in busting an illegal rodent farm but now authorities are faced with the problem of what to do with 30,000 white mice seized in the raid.
Police raided the rodent farm on Thursday night, responding to a tip from a citizen who complained about a foul stench emanating from a barn in the south of the city.
When police arrived, they found the mice living in cages soaked with urine and faeces, said Oklahoma City animal welfare supervisor Steve Lira. He said the mice were being raised as live feed for snakes kept as pets.
Lira said officials are now trying to determine what to do with the mice, which are being stored in numerous plastic cages in a garage at the city's animal control facility.
Police charged Steven Burgess, 44, of Oklahoma City, with three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty in connection with the unsanitary and unhealthy conditions in which the mice were kept.
Burgess reportedly told officials he wanted the city to take control of the mice because there were too many of them for him manage.
Oklahoma City
San Francisco
Masturbate-a-Thon
More than 100 men and women have gathered in famously liberal San Francisco this weekend for what organisers said was the city's second annual public "Masturbate-a-Thon".
Organisers said they have taken the event "from the sheets to the streets", offering volunteers -- 18 years or older -- the opportunity to overcome their inhibitions in "a safe environment" and raise money for charity.
Men and women ranging in age from the early 20s to the 50s, mingled at a local performing arts centre in San Francisco's South of Market district, known for artists, galleries and nightclubs, before getting down to business.
To the strains of soothing new-age music, the men and women -- a number of them couples -- were shown into rooms for men, women or both.
The event is a fund-raiser for the local Centre for Sex and Culture, a non-profit organisation that provides sex education.
Masturbate-a-Thon
Saint's Blood Liquefies On Schedule
San Gennaro
Thousands of Neapolitans breathed a collective sigh of relief as the dried blood of the city's patron saint liquefied, an event which according to tradition will safeguard their city from disaster for another year.
In an event derided by skeptics but hailed as a miracle by believers, the dried blood of third-century martyr San Gennaro liquefies at least twice a year, on the first Saturday of May and on his September 19 feast day.
Naples archbishop Cardinal Michele Giordano triumphantly proclaimed the good news during prayers in a packed Naples Cathedral, and showed the substance to local dignatories, including the left-wing mayor Rosa Russa Iervolino.
The archbishop had earlier led a traditional procession through the streets of the city, as thousands of people tried to catch of glimpse of the dark dried substance contained in a gold reliquary.
The blood of the saint, known in English as Janaurius, turned liquid after it was placed near the saint's skull, which is kept in the cathedral.
Neapolitans revere the third century martyr as a protector of their city against disaster, especially eruptions from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Failure to liquefy is taken as a bad omen.
San Gennaro
Eine 30 Kilogramm schwere Grüne Schildkröte wird am Mittwoch in Sydneys Taranga-Zoo untersucht. Das Tier wurde wegen Atembeschwerden in die Klinik gebracht.
Photo by David Gray
'Ark of Darkness'
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