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Disneyland
"As a cast member at the Disneyland Resort, thought I'd share the 'Disney Approved Radio Stations' that may be heard on the shuttle from the cast parking lot to
Harbor Pointe, the cast member clock-in/clock-out area.
Radio Disney 710 AM
KNX 1070 AM
ESPN Radio 1110 AM
Country 93-9 KZLA
94.7 the Wave
95.5 KLOS
Star 98.7
K-Earth 101
102.7 KIIS-FM
KOST 103
KBIG 104
K-Mozart 105.1
During the recent grad nites, three stations were at the park hosting dance clubs: Power 106, KROQ, and Super Estrella KSSE 97.5/103.1. None are listed on the approved radio station list.
~ 'Fred'
Thanks, 'Fred'!
For the uninitiated, 'cast member' in Disney-ese means 'employee'.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The electric company in these parts is running a commercial featuring a gospel version of 'Power To The People', down to the freakin' ''right on.'' Grrrrrrrrrrr.
The first of the yellow wax beans from the dirt hole that's passing as a garden will be served for dinner on Sunday. Planning on incinerating some cow flesh on the grill, too.
The fluffy-orange-striped kitten started eating solid food today. Figure the calico will be doing so in a day or 2. They are still lacking names.
No Erin Hart plug this weekend. Erin's on vacation in her Puerto Rican homeland. ; )
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS opens the night with '60 Minutes', follows with a rerun 'Touched By An Angle', and caps it with part 1 of a 2 part TV movie 'Mama Flora's Family'. Part 2 airs Wednesday.
NBC has been claiming that 'Dateline' is fresh, followed by an hour of 'Weakest Link', then a rerun 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and wraps with a fresh 'Crime & Punishment'.
ABC starts the night with a rerun of the movie 'The Sixth Man', then follows with reruns of 'Alias' and 'The Practice'.
The WB begins the evening with 2 reruns of 'For Your Love', and follows with reruns of 'Charmed' and 'Angel'.
Faux has reruns of 'Futurama', 'King Of The Hill', 'Simpsons', and 'Malcolm'. A fresh 'Fresh Meat Goes To Alaska' follows.
UPN has the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise' and an episode of 'Stargate SG-1'.
VH1's 'Behind The Music' features Bob Marley.
TCM has a great night! Starting with one of my favorite movies - A Face in the Crowd (1957).
Just check these credits! Written by
Budd Schulberg and starring
Andy Griffith playing way against what became his 'type.' I love this movie!
It is followed by the original King Kong (1933) (note the lack of undergarments on Faye Wray).
Then, my favorite version of the politically incorrectly named
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
Next is a Lon Chaney (Sr) silent classic,
The Unknown (1927), written & directed by the always amazing
Tod Browning, who also made
Freaks (1932) ('Gooble, gobble, one of us, one of us.')
Anyway, in The Unknown (1927),
Lon Chaney stars as 'Alonzo the Armless' who is a knifethrower by trade.
They cap the night with Mad Love (1935), directed by the great cameraman Karl Freund, who started shooting film professionally in 1912, and worked steadily for over half a century. From
Metropolis (1927) to every episode of
"I Love Lucy" (1951), and lots more! In this instance, while the acting may leave a lot to be desired,
every frame in Mad Love (1935) is a composed work of art.
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Rises To Hero Status
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
resident Bush and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may be the new post-Sept. 11 heroes for most of the United States, but in liberal pockets across the country,
Congresswoman Barbara Lee - the Oakland Democrat who was the lone dissenter against the war on terrorism - is the leader du jour.
Saturday was declared "Congressmember Barbara Lee Day" in Santa Cruz where she was scheduled to speak to a sold out crowd in a revamped movie theater.
In Eugene, Ore., she's been named winner of the Wayne Morse Integrity in Government Award for 2002.
Lee's profile among the left rose dramatically after her Sept. 14 vote against a resolution giving sweeping war powers to the president.
While the high profile vote drew Lee laudits from anti-war activists, it prompted death threats and vehement hatred from other Americans who felt she was unwilling to stand up for her country.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Lee is a self-described army brat - her father is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. She studied social work and was a community organizer before seeking
office. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the traditionally Democratic ninth district of California - including Berkeley and Oakland - in a 1998 special election to fill the
seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Ron Dellums for whom Lee had worked as an intern.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Colombia
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton poses for a photo with local residents in a street of the historic port of Cartagena, June 29, 2002. Clinton is in Colombia
participating in a seminar on the Colombian private sector.
Photo by Jose Miguel Gomez
Looking For NYC Digs
The Osbournes
The Osbournes may be America's favorite dysfunctional family, but Upper East Side residents have mixed emotions when it comes to welcoming them as possible neighbors.
The Prince of Darkness and his kooky kin have been thwarted in their efforts to buy a $7 million, 48th-floor spread with 360-degree views in the Trump Palace condominium
at 200 E. 69th St., owned by Donald Trump. "Their application listed three dogs," said a Trump Palace insider. "The building no longer allows new dogs on the premises.
Only the ones that were here when the rules changed can stay."
Sources say Sharon Osbourne appealed to The Donald himself for an exception, to no avail.
So they've turned to music CEO Tommy Mottola - whose Epic label features the Osbourne Family Album - as their ambassador to the neighborhood. Mottola, who owns a massive
townhouse on East 64th Street, is said to have made several calls to brokers on behalf of the Osbournes, whose unusual home life has been featured in a top-rated MTV show.
But being connected is not always the key to a key on the Upper East Side.
Trump Tower might be a better choice for Ozzy. The building has seen its share of cameras filming the building's many celebrities. It's also where Michael Jackson spent his
honeymoon with Lisa Marie Presley. The Osbournes might be tame by comparison.
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From The Washington Post To The NY Post
Jenna & Barbara
Hard-partying presidential progeny Jenna and Barbara Bush have been caught in the act of boozing once again.
On Wednesday night, the 20-year-old, fun-loving fillies sucked down Budweisers and smoked like chimneys at Stetson's, a Texas-themed Washington saloon, reports the Washington Post.
The women, who were with a group of friends and seemed to have ditched their Secret Service detail, stayed well past midnight, and one of them got down on her knees at one point
to help an inebriated pal perform a party trick.
The bar's owner, Rob Deisroth, told the paper he wasn't on the premises that night and doesn't know how the Bush twins were able to buy liquor. D.C. law requires cops to arrest
anyone caught drinking underage.
The incident was just the latest alcohol-fueled escapade in the sisters' wild lives. Last month, the Web site firsttwins.com reported that Jenna and her new frat boy beau,
Cooper, ordered drinks while out to dinner with his parents in Austin. In April, Barbara hit New York and went partying with friends at Lotus.
Jenna & Barbara
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Substitute Bass Player
The Who
British rockers The Who, set to begin their U.S. tour on Monday just four days after the death of bass player John Entwistle, have hired session musician Pino Palladino
to fill in for their fallen comrade.
The group's guitarist/songwriter, Pete Townshend, said on his Web site on Saturday he had made only one request of the Welsh native -- "that -- at first -- he play as
loud as he can bear!" The Who made the 1976 Guinness Book of Records for playing the loudest concert.
With singer Roger Daltrey leaving the decisions to Townshend, The Who surprised fans on Friday by saying that the tour would go ahead as a "tribute ... to an irreplaceable
friend," starting on Monday at the Hollywood Bowl. The tour had the blessing of Entwistle's son, Christopher, who said his father would have wanted the show to go on.
But Townshend said on the Web site www.petetownshend.co.uk that he was not actually sure what his late colleague would have wanted. Nor
did he view the tour as a memorial.
"I simply believe we have a duty to go on, to ourselves, ticket buyers, staff, promoters, big and little people. I also have a duty to myself and my dependent family and
friends. I also want to help guide Roger and the rest of the band at this time, all of whom have been shaken by John's death."
Townshend said his immediate mission was to complete the three-month tour "in good heart, and to remember John in my quiet and private times.
The Who
Tizzy In Philly
'Saint Jack's'
This is a copy of an ad published this month in a Philadelphia weekly which spoofed King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand whilke promoting a Thai-themed barroom, Saint
Jack's restaurant in Olde City Philadelphia. Apparently the Thai government doesn't think the illustration depicting the 74-year-old monarch dressed like an urban
hipster was funny. For days, the restaurant has been besieged with angry phone calls from Thai diplomats demanding that she withdraw the ad and apologize - or risk
souring relations between Thailand and the United States.
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Reunion Will Go On In Wisconsin
Grateful Dead
The Walworth County Board late Friday afternoon reversed its earlier decision to deny Clear Channel Entertainment a permit for a Grateful Dead reunion show.
That vote clears the way for "The Terrapin Station -- A Grateful Dead Family Reunion" to go on at Alpine Valley, in East Troy, Wis., Aug. 3 and 4.
Every member voted that the show should go forward after hearing that there is a plan in place for crowd and traffic control.
The promoters hired a security company to patrol the concert and will post agents at homes near the concert site.
They've also promised to hire 40 tow trucks to tow away illegally parked cars and have a helicopter on standby in case of a medical emergency.
Officals have said that as many 200,000 fans from around the country could show up for the two-day reunion, but concert promoters are telling fans who don't have tickets to stay home.
Grateful Dead Reunion Will Go On In Wisconsin
Woman With An Opinion
Margaret Cho
Comic Margaret Cho is dishing about the elephantine endowments of former boyfriends Quentin Tarantino and Chris Isaak. She tells New York magazine's Amy Sohn that Tarantino was "great" in
bed and Isaak was "really masterful. He knows a lot about women and about sex." Cho also reveals that Isaak had a a special trick when he made love. "He had a ukulele on the wall, and he
would pull it off and play it . . . He was adorable, but I could never relax because I had loved his music for such a long time."
Margaret Cho
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Battle Mountain, NV
Armpit Festival
Battle Mountain residents thought they took an unfair hit last year when a national magazine listed their rural northeast Nevada town as the nation's armpit. Now, many hope that story was opportunity knocking.
Reacting to the Washington Post Magazine article, the community is holding a "Festival in the Pit" - with new events such as a deodorant toss replacing the old-fashion egg toss.
"You know, when you talk about armpits, you think it was an awful, horrible thing to be called," says Shar Peterson, executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce. "Armpits are
stinky and sweaty. But it doesn't have to be something bad. We can springboard off this."
In the end, the "Festival in the Pit" planning took a middle road, with a mix of events favored by both factions.
For the "any publicity is better than none" crowd, there's the deodorant toss and the event's name. Miles away, down busy Interstate 80 that runs through Battle Mountain, there's a billboard that
says, "Make Battle Mountain your next pit stop."
And for those who don't like the "pit" theme, there are some expected small-Nevada town festival favorites: a concert, a pie contest, Basque dancing, cowboy-shepherd poetry and a Rocky Mountain
oyster cookoff. For the uninitiated, those "oysters" are fried sheep testicles.
For a lot more, Armpit Festival
www.battlemountain.org
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Clinton Recognized In Colombia
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton greets a woman in a street in the historic port of Cartagena, June 29, 2002. Clinton was in Colombia participating in a seminar
on the Colombian private sector.
Photo by Jose Miguel Gomez
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Reveals 'Diary' Author
Stephen King
The mystery has been solved: Stephen King is not the author of "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer," a best seller based on the fictional character from King's "Rose Red" TV miniseries.
"Now it can be told — the actual author of `The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer' is suspense novelist Ridley Pearson," said King, whom many assumed had written the book. He made the
announcement in a message posted this week on his Web site.
"Ridley did a great job — I couldn't have done better myself."
Stephen King
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Finally Bought A House
Al & Tipper Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent town of 3,000 bordering Nashville.
The white frame, colonial-style home sits on a little over two acres filled with magnolia trees. The deed was signed June 17, records show.
Belle Meade, home to an exclusive country club, a botanical garden and art museum, is the nation's fifth-richest town. The annual per-capita income is $104,908, more than five times the state average of $19,393.
Gore has been teaching classes at Fisk University and at Middle Tennessee State University. He also has joined a Los Angeles-based financial management firm, and is working on a book.
He plans a retreat this weekend in Memphis, when he could indicate whether he intends to make another run at the White House.
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Virginia City, NV
Ron James, Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer, displays a Tabasco brand hot sauce bottle believed to be 130-years-old, in his Carson City, Nev., office, Thursday, June 27, 2002. The bottle,
the oldest style of Tabasco bottle known to exist, was reconstructed from 21 shards of glass excavated from beneath the site of the Boston Saloon in the historic Old West mining town of Virginia City.
The saloon was owned by a black man from Massachusetts and catered to blacks and whites alike from 1864-75.
Photo by Cathleen Allison
Prepares for U.S. Tour
Patti LaBelle
Forget about life beginning at 40, for soul diva Patti LaBelle it didn't really get going until about halfway past 50.
"I think I've gotten better, stronger. More sexy — if that's possible!" the singer quipped during a recent phone conversation while preparing for her
current U.S. tour. The secret, said LaBelle, 58, was learning to handle something all women her age face, menopause.
Until she did, LaBelle says, it threatened to destroy her career, and it may have ended her marriage of 31 years to L. Armstead Edwards. The couple divorced two years ago.
"Part of the reason, I think now, that I divorced is maybe I just drove the poor guy crazy," she says, sighing deeply.
Patti LaBelle
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MoMA In Queens
'The Starry Night'
This Vincent Van Gogh 1889 oil painting, "The Starry Night" is on display at The Museum of Modern Art facility in the Queens borough of New York. The
museum, which first opened its doors 72 years ago, was forced to move from its midtown Manhattan address on West 53rd Street for a $650 million expansion
project. The site will be closed through 2005.
Sells Honolulu Home
Richard Chamberlain
Actor Richard Chamberlain has sold his Honolulu home for $4.4 million.
The nearly two-acre property includes a four-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guest house, a separate office and an art studio.
Coldwell Banker Vice President Sachi Braden said the purchaser is a financier affiliated with a European trust company who plans to live on Oahu part time.
The buyer was impressed with the spirituality of the property and consulted with a feng shui master in China before making the purchase, Braden said.
Richard Chamberlain
Wedding News
Fred Thompson
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., poses with his bride Jeri Kehn after their marriage in Naperville, Ill. Saturday, June 30, 2002. Thompson, 59, has known Kehn, 35, since the two
met in 1996. The couple are planning to honeymoon in France.
In Memory
Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney, the mellow-voiced singer who costarred with Bing Crosby in "White Christmas" and staged a dramatic comeback after her career was nearly destroyed by
drugs and alcohol, has died. She was 74.
Clooney died shortly after 6 p.m. at her Beverly Hills home surrounded by her family, her publicist said. She had been hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a recurrence of lung cancer.
Clooney soared to fame with her 1951 record of "Come on-a My House," becoming a star in television and films. Her career was sidelined by her marriage to Oscar-winning
actor Jose Ferrer and the births of their five children. The pair divorced, and her attempts to return to performing were sabotaged by her erratic behavior.
Having undergone a series of emotional upsets, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the blond singer cracked up during a 1968 engagement in Reno.
She walked off the stage in a rage without finishing her act. As she recalled in her 1977 autobiography "This for Remembrance," she "fumed" in her dressing room. She wrote:
"Nobody could approach me. I was like a hand grenade with the pin pulled. Nobody could tell whether it was a dud or the real thing, because one minute I could be completely
sweet and kind, the next, a raving monster."
She underwent harrowing confinement in a psychotic ward, then began rebuilding her life, gradually resuming her career and reaching new heights as a singer.
Born in Maysville, Ky., on May 23, 1928, Rosemary Clooney started singing with her younger sister, Betty, on WLW radio in Cincinnati in 1945. Their salary: $20 apiece.
Bandleader Tony Pastor heard the girls when he was touring Ohio, and hired them. "The Clooney Sisters" made their debut with the band at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City in 1947.
Two years later, Betty tired of barnstorming with the Pastor band and returned to Cincinnati. Rosemary also decided it was time for a change. She headed for New York.
Clooney played a few dates on radio and early television shows and recorded for Columbia. One day in 1951, Mitch Miller, the mentor of Columbia Records, offered her a song with lyrics
by Armenian-American author William Saroyan. It was called "Come on-a My House."
"I think it was a musically snobbish time in my life," she wrote in her memoirs. "I really hated that song. I hated the whole idea, and my first impression was, what a cheap way to get people's attention."
When she refused to record the song, Miller threatened to fire her. She agreed, using an Italian accent instead of Armenian "because it was the only kind of accent I knew."
The song became a huge hit, her first royalty check amounting to $130,000. Rosemary Clooney catapulted to stardom. In 1952 she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and was hailed as "the next Betty Hutton."
Paramount starred her in four musicals: "The Stars Are Singing," "Here Come the Girls" (with Bob Hope), a Western spoof "Red Garters" and "White Christmas" (with Crosby and Danny
Kaye). Musicals were going out of style, and after a cameo in "Deep in My Heart" at MGM, her film career was over.
Personal matters slowed the Clooney career. In 1953 she married Ferrer, the Puerto Rico-born actor and director whose brilliant stage career had been followed by success in films (Academy
Award as best actor in "Cyrano de Bergerac," 1950; nomination as Toulouse-Lautrec in "Moulin Rouge," 1952).
It was the first marriage for Clooney, 25, the third for Ferrer, 41. Their first son, Miguel, was born in 1955. He was followed by Maria, 1956; Gabriel, 1957; Monsita, 1958; Rafael, 1960.
Clooney had also starred in two TV variety series, and the conflict of maintaining a career and a home for her husband and young children began to trouble her. Ferrer's womanizing caused
her to divorce him in 1961. After a three-year reconciliation, they divorced for the final time in 1967.
More misfortune befell the singer. A two-year liaison with a young drummer ended when he walked out on her. She was devastated by King's assassination. She was present with two of her children
in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Robert F. Kennedy was shot.
For years she had taken pills to assuage personal grief and maintain her double life as a singing star and a single mother. Overeating had caused her to gain 60 pounds. Her children and
associates became alarmed at her irrational behavior.
Miguel recalled in a 1976 interview that his mother became "wild, uncontrollable. Once she told a cab driver she had a gun and would kill him. When I started to cry, she shoved her
rosary in my hand and told me to pray for him."
"My brink of despair was rushing up to meet me like the end of a runway for a plane lumbering in vain to get off the ground," she wrote in her autobiography. She detailed her transfer
to a double-locked room ("I was a violent case in a violent ward") in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where she had given birth to her five children.
Clooney's book was adapted for a 1982 TV movie, "Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story," with Sondra Locke portraying her.
After four years of therapy, Clooney return to performing in 1972 at Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens. For the first time in years, she found joy in entertaining an audience.
"Then at Christmas in 1975 Bing called me," she said in a 1985 Associated Press interview. "He said he was going to do a concert at the Los Angeles Music Center. Would I appear with him?"
She agreed, thinking it would be a one-time benefit. But the pair continued on to Chicago, New York and London. The Clooney career was reborn. She won a new record contract, and singing dates poured in.
Critics detected a new quality in Clooney's singing. Wrote Philip Elwood in the San Francisco Examiner:
"She really loves singing, singing just for the hell of it. She opens her mouth, gives a little smile, half-closes her eyes and vocally fondles the lyrics of `Everything
Happens to Me' or `How Long Has This Been Going On?' or `I've Got a Crush on You.' And subsequently, listeners wonder why these songs never sounded so good before."
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