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From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Funny Link
NitWitBush
NitWitBush
Thanks to The Editor!
Always Interesting Link
Uncommon Sense
From Jeff Crook
Go to http://uncommonsense.20m.com
Thanks, Jeff.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Quite a pretty day here.
Picked the first tomato of the season, and the kid ate it, smiling all the way.
Don't know why, but while digging up links for Audie Murphy, flashed on a movie I haven't seen in a long time, although I wonder
about it's 'PC-ness', currently. The movie in question is John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965).
Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov & Dick Crenna - and the damn thing is over 35 years old! Yes, it's a comedy, and yes, it's absurd, but, jeez, I'd sure like to see it again.
Tonight, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', then follows with a rerun 'Touched By An Angle', and caps the evening with the rerun
movie 'Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante & Kenny Kimes', with Mary Tyler Moore playing against type.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', then an hour's worth of 'Weakest Link', a rerun of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and rounds off the night with a
fresh 'Crime & Punishment'.
ABC starts the evening with a rerun of the movie 'Ruby Bridges', then a rerun of 'Alias', and finally a rerun of 'The Practice'.
The WB has the movie 'Money Talks' and then a rerun of 'Angel'.
Faux has reruns of 'Futurama', 'King Of The Hill', 'Simpsons', and 'Malcolm'. The evening is capped with a fresh episode of 'Fresh Meat To Alaska'.
UPN has the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise', then an episode of 'Stargate SG-1'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Webby Winner
'The Witches Voice'
Last week, the Webby Awards were handed out, and the winner of the 'Spirituality' category, (the 'People's Choice') was
The Witches' Voice.
On the right hand side of the homepage is a link to Wren's Nest on the Web.
The ever-fabulous Wren has been a contributor to this site. Congratulations!
Wren Wrocks! Go check it out!
Big Dogs Watch Continues
Bill Clinton & Seamus
Bill Clinton's new dog, a successor to the late, lamented Buddy, has joined the former president in Chappaqua.
The arrival of Seamus, a chocolate Labrador retriever like Buddy, was a Father's Day surprise courtesy of Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
said the senator's spokesman, Jim Kennedy.
"He was surprised with the dog when he woke up on Father's Day," Kennedy said. "The dog helped wake him up."
Clinton contacted a Maryland breeder and ended up with one of Buddy's grandnephews. During a trip to Ireland this month, Clinton revealed that he had
named the puppy Seamus, the Gaelic form of James.
Bill & Seamus
Amusing Link
The Clint Howard Show
The Clint Howard Show
Heroes & Wheaties
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Sen. Hillary Clinton has called on General Mills to put New York's Bravest and Finest on Wheaties boxes.
"In this age of celluloid superheroes, America's children have real heroes to look up to, especially in the wake of Sept. 11," Clinton (D-N.Y.) wrote to General Mills' chairman and CEO, Steve Sanger.
She endorsed an online petition, posted at www.petitiononline.com/sgt964/petition.html, that calls for
a Wheaties box featuring a New York firefighter, cop and transit police officer.
General Mills Vice President Tom Forsythe said the company had weighed the idea but decided it "didn't seem appropriate."
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart 9 pm to 1 am, Sunday (tonight), on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
KIRO (Entercom) has stopped streaming audio. Boo. Hiss.
There's still the chatroom, but, it's not the same.
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
Rest(aurant) In Peace
West 24
Yesterday was the very last for West 24, which opened late during the 2000 presidential campaign but didn't make it to the next election cycle.
Bipartisan power celebs James Carville and Mary Matalin were the restaurant's high-profile backers, using their fame and connections to attract gobs of publicity and lure the
likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, cable television spinmeister Paul Begala and the occasional Republican into the dining room -- where novelty dishes such as "Redneck Bouillabaisse"
were touted as "Mr. Carville's favorite."
Carville insisted that he, Matalin and some of the other investors are by no means finished with restaurant business. "We're hopeful that we're going to regroup and do something else,"
he said. "The sooner, the better."
West 24
20th Annual Mermaid Parade
Coney Island
A participant in the 20th annual Mermaid Parade on New York's Coney Island is wheeled on the boardwalk during the event, June 22, 2002. The parade, the largest annual
event held at the Coney Island recreational area of New York, is held to herald the arrival of Summer.
Photo by Ray Stubblebine
2003 Walk of Fame Honorees
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The 2003 Walk of Fame recipients in the film category include Kevin Bacon, Robert Duvall, Susan Sarandon and Martin Scorsese. Television honorees include Beau Bridges, Drew Carey,
Kermit the Frog, Larry McCormick, the Osmond Family, Isabel Sanford and Suzanne Somers.
Michael Bolton, Etta James, Carole King, Israel Lopez "Cachao" and Earl Scruggs will be honored in the recording category and live theater performers included Betty
Garrett, Doris Roberts and Carmen Zapata.
Posthumous stars will be dedicated in honor of Gilda Radner, for television, and Richard Rodgers, for live theater.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Useful Link
Flex Your Rights
Flex Your Rights
Texas Town Honors
Audie Murphy
A statue honoring World War II hero and movie star Audie Murphy was unveiled Saturday in a town where he grew up.
More than 300 people, including veterans and two of Murphy's sisters, gathered to pay tribute. "It was wonderful," said his younger sister, Billie Murphy.
Greenville sculptor Gordon Thomas created the image of Murphy in combat, perched on top of a 5-foot-high granite base. It was built with $100,000 in donations.
Murphy was the most decorated soldier of World War II and was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the troops in his company by breaking up a German attack
in France in 1944. He went on to become a movie star in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a poet and songwriter.
He died in 1971 in a plane crash and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy exhibit at the American Cotton Museum
Audie Murphy Movies
Audie Murphy Memorial Web Site
Audie Murphy
Audie L. Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy Gravesite At Arlington National Cemetery
My dad, the WWII Vet (''Front-Line Accountant''), had a thing for Audie Murphy & all his movies. Have lots of memories of summer nights at the old Kane
drive-in, my brother & I in the backseat, in our 'jammies', and watching Audie Murphy til we fell asleep.
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
'Product Placement' King
'Minority Report'
Product placements have been a subtle presence in Hollywood films for years. But audiences at "Minority Report" this weekend will witness one of the most extensive displays ever
of this phenomenon, as no less than 15 major brands appear in the Steven Spielberg-helmed picture toplining Tom Cruise.
The companies include American Express, Aquafina, Ben & Jerry's, Bulgari, Burger King, Century 21, Fox, The Gap, Guinness, Lexus, Nokia, Pepsi, Reebok, Revo and USA Today.
Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks, which co-produced and are distributing the picture, peg "Report's" final budget at $102 million. According to product placement reps, the
brands could have contributed $25 million to the final shooting budget, offsetting costs handsomely -- and guaranteeing a healthy future for the marriage of Hollywood and Madison Avenue.
In the picture, billboards can identify names and faces and try to make a personal pitch for characters to buy the product. So in one scene, Cruise's character is trying to make a getaway,
only to have his location identified by billboards that call out things like "John Anderton, you look like you could use a Guinness!"
Other brand placements include a scene set in a futuristic Gap store; Bulgari products as holograms and its label on digital watches worn by the characters; custom-built Lexus sports; and Nokia's
moniker emblazoned on videophones and other devices used by characters.
Spielberg, of course, was a pioneer with plugs, using Reese's Pieces in "E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial." Since then, plugs have ranged from subtle (a character drinking a Miller's beer) to unmissable ( Sean
Penn working in Starbuck's in "I Am Sam").
'Minority Report'
Interesting Link
Cthulhu Lives!
Cthulhu Lives!
Hong Kong International Kite Flying Festival
Crab Kite
Chan For-kwong from Hong Kong flies his mechanical crab kite during the Hong Kong International Kite Flying Festival Saturday, June 22, 2002. The event is one of
the festivities marking the 5th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover from British to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997.
Photo by Anat Givon
From Joby
''What's Amore?''
What's Amore?
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.
When an eel bites your hand, and that's not what you planned, that's a moray.
When our habits are strange, and our customs deranged, that's our mores.
When your horse munches straw, and the bales total four, that's some more hay.
When Othello's poor wife, she gets stabbed with a knife, That's a Moor, eh?
Thanks, Joby!
BartCop TV!
Drunkards & Fornicators Prevail
Preacher Beaten
LOXLEY, Ala. - Authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a preacher by funeral mourners who didn't like his blunt eulogy.
Glynis Bethel tells the Associated Press that her husband, Pastor Orlando Bethel, was attacked during a June 14 funeral and dragged out of the church. That's
because Bethel told mourners the deceased was in hell and that they were headed the same way.
The dead man was Mrs. Bethel's uncle.
Pastor Bethel referred to him as a "drunkard and a fornicator." Mrs. Bethel, who's also a preacher, says, "the fornicators didn't like what he said so they got up and beat him."
She says police didn't make any arrests, so she and her husband, who may have a broken nose, are taking out warrants.
Preacher Beaten
Fun Link
Villain Supply
Villain Supply - Home Lair
Your best online source for everything EVIL. If you are a supervillain, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you.
'The Temptaions of St. Antonio'
Pieter Brueghel
'The Temptaions of St. Antonio' by Pieter Brueghel, seen in this undated file photo is one of ten valuable paintings that were been recovered by police, Spain's
interior minister Mariano Rajoy said Saturday, June 22, 2002. Seventeen painings were stolen from Spanish bilionaire Ester Koplowitz's home in Madrid last year.
Honorary Degree
Schwarzenegger
Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger?
That's the latest title the film star and political activist will pick up when he receives an honorary doctorate from Chapman University.
University officials said Schwarzenegger will receive an honorary degree in humane letters during the Sunday ceremony at the Orange County campus.
Chapman President James L. Doti will present the degree to the former Mr. Universe for his work on behalf of young people in athletics and education.
Arnold
Fun Link
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In Memory
William D'Angelo
Television series producer William P. D'Angelo, whose credits include "Love American Style," "Room 222" and "Alice," has died. He was 70.
D'Angelo died June 8 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. No other details were given.
D'Angelo was raised in New York, graduated from Fordham University and he was drafted into an Army film unit as a cameraman.
After he was discharged, he worked briefly as an NBC page, then moved to Los Angeles, where he was hired at Warner Bros. as a story analyst. By 1966, he was helping produce the television series "Batman."
In the late 1960s, D'Angelo was producing episodes of "Room 222," "Love, American Style" and "The Young Lawyers." He went on to produce the series "Barefoot in the Park," "Alice," "Big John, Little John" and "Turnabout" and the special "The Nativity" in the 1970s. Along the way, he worked for every major studio and helped produce episodes of "Maverick," "Cheyenne," "Lawman" and "Hawaiian Eye."
His dream of starting his own production company was fulfilled in the mid-1970s when he was asked to head children's programming for NBC. His first program was "Run, Joe Run," starring his pet German shepherd Heinrich as a military-trained dog named Joe fleeing a former trainer.
D'Angelo followed that with "Westwind," filmed in Hawaii, about an underwater photographer who lived on a boat with his marine biologist wife and their two teen-age children.
He also produced "NBC Special Treat," an afternoon drama for young people, and in 1976, "Papa and Me," based on D'Angelo's New York barber grandfather.
Under what became D'Angelo-Bullock-Allen Productions, the producer also created the children's series "The Monster Squad."
William D'Angelo
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'The Osbournes'
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