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Dave vs Dubya
I'm cataloging the amazing similarities and differences between me
and George W. Bush:
Dave vs Dubya
He's Been Busy, Again!
The Worried Shrimp
DeficitDubya35
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
At one point Saturday afternoon, all 3 network TV stations in LA had on golf. Love that diversity thing!
Watched a horse race.
The hockey playoffs were on in the background as the Lewis/Tyson fight was described online. The boxing commentator was far more entertaining.
Hockey game had lots of OT. Was rather looking forward to 'Thunderball'. Oh well.
Tonight, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', then follows with a rerun 'Touched By An Angle' and then part 1 of the movie 'Joan Of Arc'.
NBC has game 3 of the NBA Playoffs. It will intrude on primetime, so expect lots of programming of local origination. And an episode of 'Dateline', too.
ABC starts the evening with the movie 'A Knight In Camelot', then reruns of 'Alias' and 'The Practice'.
The WB has 2 hours of 'Witchblade' then the rerun of the 3rd season-opener of 'Angel' (shown in letterbox format).
Faux has reruns of 'Futurama', 'King Of The Hill', 'Simpsons', 'Malcolm', and then 'Looking For Lust: Fresh Meat Goes To Alaska'.
UPN has a rerun of 'Enterprise' and then an episode of 'Stargate SG-1'.
TBS has 'Atomic Twister'. Major Cheese Alert!
VH1 airs their edited telecast of 'The Queen's Jubilee: Party At The Palace'. Hey, how come nobody said anything about Ray Davies being there! (Woo Hoo!) Sharon Osbourne hosts.
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Out Stumping
Sheen & Reno
With her potential opponent's brother in the White House, Janet Reno looked to the next best thing — presidential portrayer Martin Sheen — to help her gubernatorial campaign.
Sheen, who plays President Josiah Bartle on NBC's "The West Wing," rallied at a retirement community on Saturday with the former U.S. attorney general seeking to oust Gov. Jeb Bush, the resident's brother.
Sheen headlined a $250-per-person fund-raiser for Reno at The Biltmore Hotel on Friday and planned to campaign with her over the weekend at events in Orlando and Tampa.
Sheen said the Florida governor's race is important for all the country's Democrats because of "what's been going on here the last few years and what happened here in the fall of 2000."
Sheen & Reno
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Kirk's Chair
Capt. Kirk's Bridge Command Chair
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart at near-regulation time (10 pm to 1 am [pdt] Saturday and Sunday, on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
KIRO stopped streaming audio. Boo. Hiss.
There's still the chatroom, but, it's not the same.
Thanks, Entercom. (To borrow a phrase, 'your children will curse you with language I teach them).'
Visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of the amazing 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
The Feud Is Over
Ali & Frazier
After many years, the feud between Muhammad Ali and "Smokin' " Joe Frazier is over. "I got into a car accident last month," Frazier said. "Muhammad called me to see how I
was doing." Frazier noted, "If Muhammad and I can hold hands, I want to go the [Middle] East and show these people how to love one another." As for his pick on tonight's Mike Tyson/Lennox
Lewis fight, Frazier swore he was "neutral" but added, "I think Mike learned his lesson. Sometimes he gets upset and excited, but he won't bite anymore."
Ali & Frazier
Supermodel Astronauts Wanted
Cosmonauts Request
The international space station's new skipper says forget 'N Sync singer Lance Bass as the orbiting outpost's next tourist. Send up Cindy Crawford!
"We would be very happy to see one of the supermodels," Russian Valery Korzun said Saturday in response to a reporter's question as he settled in for a long and cloistered stay.
He quickly added: "But this is a joke and we will be very happy to receive any space tourist. They're very welcome here."
Russian space officials, meanwhile, have yet to sell the empty third seat in the Soyuz capsule that is scheduled to be launched to the space station in October. The 23-year-old Bass,
who is the same age as Korzun's son, is hoping to buy his way on board, as is a 40-year-old former NASA official, Lori Garver.
Whoever snags the seat will be the third person to spend millions of dollars for a weeklong space station cruise.
Cosmonauts Request
NASA
Rejects Mushroom Cloud Plate
State Of Nevada
A license plate design featuring an atomic mushroom cloud was rejected as insensitive to the times, Department of Motor Vehicles officials said.
State lawmakers approved the special plates last year to commemorate the state's nuclear history and raise funds for the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation.
DMV director Ginny Lewis said Wednesday that because of state efforts to stop a proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain and the fear of new terrorist
attacks following Sept. 11, the new plates would be inappropriate.
State Of Nevada
Back Together
Lisa Marie & Nicolas
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presleyare an item again. The couple broke up after Cage's shenanigans during the Super Bowl in New Orleans, but the relationship got
back on track a month ago. Presley traveled with Cage during the international press junket for his new movie, "Windtalkers." And Cage didn't stay for the dinner
at the Hudson Hotel following the movie's screening the other night because he was so eager to be with his sweetie.
Lisa Marie & Nicolas
California's "One Book" Program
'Grapes of Wrath'
Thirty-four million Californians were given their homework assignment Friday: 455 pages of Dust Bowl misery as portrayed in John Steinbeck's 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
California's "One Book" program, modeled on those already implemented in states and cities across the United States, is aimed at encouraging reading habits by persuading Californians
of all walks of life to read the same book.
The United States' first "One Book" drive was launched in 1998 in Seattle, and similar reading drives have subsequently been undertaken in Chicago, Arizona, Arkansas, New York, Texas and other places.
Regarded by many as a prime example of a "California novel," the Pulitzer-prize winning "Grapes of Wrath" has not always found a receptive audience in the self-proclaimed Golden State.
The book, which painted a stark portrait of migrant life among California fieldworkers, was banned in several California communities and burned -- twice -- in the town of Salinas, Steinbeck's home town.
'Grapes of Wrath'
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'When Pigs Fly'
When Pigs Fly
Don Ho does 'Shock The Monkey'...
Devo does CSNY's 'Ohio'...
Leslie Gore does 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'...
Ohio Celebrates
Dean Martin Day
On what would have been his 85th birthday, Ohio celebrated its first Dean Martin Day in the entertainer's hometown.
Gov. Bob Taft went to the industrial community on the Ohio River to dedicate a historical marker to the favorite son who boxed, delivered bootleg liquor and dealt
cards in a local gambling room long before he was a crooner in Hollywood's Rat Pack.
Steubenville has marked Martin's birthday with a yearly town festival, but before now the only year-round public monuments to the singer were a renamed section
of a state highway and a mural painted on a Kroger grocery store. The state Legislature created the holiday last year.
Dean Martin Day
Dean Martin In Steubenville.com
Had to include this one. My Italian grandmother looked on Dean as 'her boy', like she looked at 'The Edge Of Night' and 'General Hospital' as 'her stories'. She was very old world, and
made pasta 6 days a week, getting up around 4am, every day. Normally, she went to bed between 7 & 8pm. Unless it was Thursday - the night of 'The Dean Martin Show', then she'd go to bed between 6 & 7pm and get up for an hour at 10, just to watch 'her boy'.
The top of her TV was like an altar. There was the Pope, Mary, Joseph & a couple of shots of Jesus - but even more pictures of Dean Martin. (Damn, I miss her.)
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Government Plans to Give Away 'Surplus' ('Privatize')
Looking For A Lighthouse?
Want a lighthouse? The Interior Department has such a deal for you.
It's trying to get rid of 301 of them, all considered government surplus.
The Coast Guard doesn't want them anymore, so it's willing to give them away to anybody who'll offer them a good home. There are a couple of catches: government and nonprofit
groups have first dibs; and lighthouses are expensive to keep up.
When the lighthouse giveaway is complete, only one lighthouse in the country will be required by federal law to have a lightkeeper: the Boston Harbor Light,
the nation's first one, established in 1716 on Little Brewster Island. It was blown up by the British in 1776, rebuilt, and has had a light burning again since 1783.
But anyone taking on a lighthouse can expect to spend millions of dollars, Smith said. It must be maintained according to strict federal standards, and the
transfer deed includes a clause that says the lighthouse reverts to federal ownership if it is not kept up.
Looking For A Lighthouse?
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He Wants The Tapes
Jeff Gordon
If NASCAR champ Jeff Gordon didn't realize at the time that he was being followed and bugged, he knows now. The race-car driver has filed court papers in Palm Beach demanding
that his soon-to-be ex, Brooke, hand over "all the surveillance material," including videotapes and audiotapes. The gorgeous Brooke claims her marriage is "irretrievably broken"
as a result of Jeff's marital misconduct. Her lawyer, Jeff Fisher, told Court TV's Smoking Gun.com that he won't turn the material over, calling it "highly confidential and sensitive."
Jeff Gordon
Thanks, Adrian
'The CLown'
Wedding News
Patricia & Bjorn
Five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg married Patricia Ostfeldt in the Stockholm archipelago island of Ingaro on Saturday, the wedding's organizer said.
Among the 125 guests were former tennis players Ilie Nastase and Mats Wilander. Borg's on-court arch rival John McEnroe, who had been invited, was unable to attend.
The 46-year-old Borg, who won 62 tournaments during his career including five Wimbledon and six French Open titles. began seeing Ostfeldt, 32, last year. It is his third marriage.
Patricia & Bjorn
BartCop TV!
CBS Recognizes Real 'Talent'
Lara Logan
Meet Lara Logan, "60 Minutes II's" new intrepid correspondent and the war reporter for Britain's version of "Good Morning America" on ITV - a former swimsuit model nicknamed "34D Lara" by the British press.
Logan, 32, takes over at "60 II" for Carol Marin - the award-winning broadcaster who almost died covering the World Trade Center attacks - and who was dumped by CBS News last February when she and her two producers were told the network couldn't afford to renew their contracts when they expire next month.
But the Chicago Sun-Times reports that CBS News did manage to pony up $1 million for Logan, who was reportedly reprimanded by military officials earlier this year for wearing "low-cut tops" and "skimpy outfits" and for "shamelessly flaunting her gender" while covering the troops in Afghanistan.
Under the headline "Put those Bazookas away, Lara" a London tabloid quoted military officials complaining about her conduct and appearance.
Lara Logan
Interesting Link
The Dirty Word Art Project
The Dirty Word Art Project
Author's Life Becomes Murder Mystery
Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson has written two military novels based on his experiences in Vietnam, and plans a political novel gleaned from his unsuccessful races for city offices in Durham.
But today his life is a murder mystery.
Peterson's wife died early Dec. 9 in a puddle of blood at the bottom of a staircase in the couple's luxurious home. Michael Peterson said she probably fell down the steps, but prosecutors said
there is no doubt Peterson killed her.
Peterson has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kathleen, 48, his wife of five years. An autopsy said lacerations on the back of her head were consistent with a beating.
Peterson said his wife must have fallen but that he doesn't know for sure. He said he had been outside by the pool and came in at 2:41 a.m. to find her dying on the stairs. They had been drinking,
he said, to celebrate a movie deal for one of his books.
Peterson, 58, has been free on bond since mid-January. Prosecutors have agreed not to seek the death penalty at his trial, which probably won't begin until next year.
For a lot more details, Michael Peterson
Slams Show on Gay Issues But Appears on It
Jerry Falwell
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has slammed an upcoming cable TV special about gay parents and their children on the youth-oriented Nickelodeon network as a show that aims "to invade
the minds and hearts of children."
But among the guests appearing on the program he so strongly denounces is Falwell himself. While disapproving of gay parenting in his comments on the program, the conservative
Christian evangelist also says homosexuals are entitled to respect and should not be "in any way harassed or robbed of their civil rights."
The program, a "Nick News Special Edition: My Family Is Different," airing on June 18, also features comic Rosie O'Donnell, herself a gay parent of three adopted children,
discussing the issue with a group of teenagers and host Linda Ellerbee.
Falwell started out with a sort of disclaimer of his own, saying, "the Bible condemns homosexuality as wrong" and "I feel that gay parenting is not overall a good thing."
But according to a transcript of his remarks, he goes on to say that while he and like-minded Christians cannot approve of homosexuality, "We cannot disapprove
of them. We love them. We care for them. We communicate with them, and we show them the same love and respect that we would expect to be shown us.
He ends by saying, "It is important to respect one another. ... Hatred, malice, particularly violence, whether it's verbal or physical, is wrong always."
However, Falwell sings a somewhat different tune in disparaging remarks about the show published in The Washington Post on Friday.
Falwell added he agreed to appear on the program because he "felt there needed to be a kind of gracious voice from the other side."
Ellerbee said the program will air Tuesday, June 18, at 9 p.m., rather than her usual 8:30 p.m. Sunday slot, to focus on the older range of her youthful audience
and encourage viewing with parents. It opens with a disclaimer, voiced by Ellerbee, saying, "It does not deal with issues such as how do you know you're gay.
It is not about sex. It does not tell you what to think."
Jerry Falwell
Ignore That Man In The Golf Cart
'Watcher In The Woods'?
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney watches a press conference of President George W. Bush with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential retreat in Camp
David, Maryland, June 8, 2002. Cheney arrived on a golf cart where he stayed through the press conference and departed on the golf cart.
Photo by Hyungwon Kang
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Free Gun Course
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Forges New Art Career
'Genuine Faker'
A convicted forger who conned the world's greatest art experts for years is to have his own exhibition -- of fakes -- a British gallery owner said on Friday.
Alan Elkin approached master faker John Myatt on Myatt's release from prison in 1999 and arranged to put on a show at his gallery in Warwick, central England.
The exhibition is due to open in September but has already generated much interest, with several pieces sold in advance for between $370 -- $3,700.
Myatt achieved notoriety when it emerged at his trial he had got away with forging "lost" works by 20th-century masters -- his specialty -- for the best part of a decade.
Myatt began his forging career in 1984 when he decided he needed to work from home after his wife left him with two young children to look after.
Giving up his job as a schoolteacher, he placed a small advertisement in the satirical magazine Private Eye offering "genuine fakes" which he sold -- legitimately -- for around $370 a time.
For the details, 'Genuine Faker'
In Memory
Signe Hasso
Signe Hasso, a Swedish actress whose decades-long stage and film career included nearly two dozen Hollywood movies such as 1943's "Heaven Can Wait," has died. She was 91.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center spokeswoman Leslie Porras said Saturday that Hasso died at the hospital, but she had no other information.
The Swedish news agency TT reported that Hasso died Friday night and that fellow Swede Peter Stormare, who has appeared in "Chocolat" and "Armageddon," was by her side.
Hasso, who held dual Swedish and U.S. citizenship, is one of a few Swedish-born performers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She was born Signe Larsson in Stockholm on Aug. 15, 1910. At 12 she appeared as an extra in stage plays at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and at 16 became the youngest person enrolled in drama studies there.
Hasso appeared in numerous Swedish films in the late 1930s before moving to Hollywood in 1940, where she appeared in feature films, including George Cukor's "A Double Life" in 1947.
Signe Hasso
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'The Osbournes'
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