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Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Interesting Link (Rerun)
Historical Costumes
Historical Costumes
Reader Contribution
from Alvin
By Alvin
DAD, YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING AGAIN
{Sung to "When Will I See YouAgain" by The Three Degrees}
{As Sung By The Bush Twins}:
Booze... wow
Broke your promise
Dad, you've been drinking... again
How can you be... our role model?
You're not a man... of your word
Will Mom have to suffer
And cry the whole night through?
Dad, you've been drinking again
Photos of you on the net
Those heads of state would not bend
At the G8 summit, booze your only friend
Dad, you've been drinking again!
Those heads of state would not bend
At the G8 summit, booze your only friend
Dad, you've been drinking again!
Dad, you've been drinking again!
And so are Chirac and Chretien!
Tony Blair and Putin!
~~ AlvinDover
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Had to go to the pet store today & buy dried cat milk. Had no idea such a thing existed. The momma cat went dry before 'Puffy' was weaned, and she isn't up to solids yet.
Reminded me of way back when I worked at post-production sound house (Mag City) in Hollywood. The company was hired to perform dialog and sound effect editing on Greg Nava's 'El Norte'. There were lots of sounds that weren't in
stock...needed a bunch of 'metal hitting bone' and 'wood hitting bone' kind of things. Non-stock sounds meant they needed to be created, and that would lead to some interesting shopping lists. Try to track down spare skulls, even in LA...LOL.
Turns out some ethnic groups enjoy sheep heads - roasting & then having at it. Found that Central Market downtown carried lots o'heads. Ended up with 8 sheep heads in the trunk, and almost hoped I'd be pulled over, and have to explain why...
The garden will have about a dozen tomatoes for dinner, but they're little ones, and I'll play dumb if the kid gets to them first.
Going to install the 'Steven Spielberg/Lego Filmmaker System' into the kids computer. Kind of looking forward to it.
Tonight, Sunday, well, the holiday threw my schedule off, and I forgot to get a TV Guide. There will be
one in the paper in the morning. Will try to update then. CBS will most likely open with '60 Minutes',
and follow with a rerun of 'Touched By An Angle', and then a rerun movie that would probably suck, or 2 rerun dramas.
NBC will slip in a 'Dateline', and Koresh only knows what rerun these days.
ABC will most likely start with an abysmal kiddie movie rerun, and follow with an abysmal adult movie rerun.
Won't even guess about the reruns on the WB.
Faux will have reruns of 'Futurama', 'King Of The Hill', 'Simpsons', 'Malcolm', and 'Fresh Meat Goes To AK', if it's still on.
UPN will have the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise', and then either 'Wolf Lake' or 'Stargate SG-1'.
TCM ususally hides a gem on Sunday night.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
A Great Read
Edward Monks
'' Talk radio shows how profoundly the FCC's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine has affected political discourse. In recent years almost all nationally syndicated political talk radio hosts on commercial stations
have openly identified themselves as conservative, Republican, or both: Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Michael Reagen, Bob Grant, Ken Hamblin, Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Robert Dornan, Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannity,
Michael Savage, et al. The spectrum of opinion on national political commercial talk radio shows ranges from extreme right wing to very extreme right wing - there is virtually nothing else. ''
and
'' For anyone old enough to remember 15 years earlier when the Fairness Doctrine applied, it is a breathtakingly remarkable change - made even more remarkable by the fact that the hosts whose views are given this
virtual monopoly of political expression spend a great deal of time talking about "the liberal media."
Political opinions expressed on talk radio are approaching the level of uniformity that would normally be achieved only in a totalitarian society, where government commissars or party propaganda ministers enforce the acceptable view with threats of violence. There is nothing
fair, balanced or democratic about it. Yet the almost complete right wing Republican domination of political talk radio in this country has been accomplished without guns or gulags. Let's see how it happened. ''
Edward Monks
Useful Link
ROGER'S PROFANISAURUS
ROGER'S PROFANISAURUS
Woman With An Opinion
Sandra Bernhard
As US comedian Sandra Bernhard brings her new stage show to Dublin and London Edward Helmore finds that her act has new targets - George Bush and his 'alien lizards'.
These are boom times for a comedian with a sharp tongue: the Bush administration, the war on terrorism, the dawning realisation that American capitalism is a rigged game, the unstoppable
obsession with minor celebrities. "A lot has changed since Bush stole the election," says Bernhardt. "The underbelly of corruption has been exposed and we're seeing the last vestiges of
the white man holding on to politics and big business. It's all coming out now. And I don't think it's a coincidence."
Not surprisingly the political animal in Bernhard has found prey in President Bush and his friends in power - whom she likens to alien lizards. "Of course I'm concerned," she says. "The
infrastructure of America and the world is caving in, and George Bush is a figurehead of that. I don't think he's an informed person, or intelligent, or interesting. I think he got waylaid
into the job by his family, he's in over his head, and he's kind of a dunce."
"The show is really just a proclamation that irony never went away. It's about the absurdity that we're all supposed to become jingoistic, nationalistic and jump on the patriotic bandwagon as
if to justify everything that's happening." To Bernhard, the mass flag- waving that took place after September 11 and the hero worship of firefighters that followed was an absurd way for
America to avoid looking at its role in the world.
"Americans are lazy," says Bernhard. "They don't want to look at the larger picture. They don't have a concept of how the world interacts with America or how the world interacts with itself.
That makes it easier for them to be denigrating to the rest of the world because it makes them feel safer. It's a little scary to be in a country so detached from reality and so ready to buy
into the propaganda that the enemy is out there lurking, ready to attack us again."
For the rest, Sandra Bernhard
''Recording Industry Is Racist''
Michael Jackson
Multiplatinum singer Michael Jackson, already feuding with his record company, charged Saturday that the recording industry was a racist conspiracy that turns
profits at the expense of performers — particularly minority artists.
"The recording companies really, really do conspire against the artists — they steal, they cheat, they do everything they can," Jackson said in a rare public
appearance. "(Especially) against the black artists."
Jackson, who records for Sony Music, also singled out company chairman Tommy Mottola, saying he was "mean, he's a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish."
Jackson also accused Mottola of using "the n-word" when speaking about an unidentified black Sony artist.
Sony Music issued a statement calling Jackson's comments "ludicrous, spiteful and hurtful. It seems particularly bizarre that he has chosen to launch an unwarranted
and ugly attack on an executive who has championed his career ... for many, many years."
"If you fight for me, you're fighting for all black people, dead and alive," Jackson said, adding: "We have to put a stop to this incredible injustice."
Michael Jackson
Funny that Richard Penniman (AKA: Little Richard), who personifies being screwed by the system, is not acknowledged. (I'm not laughing).
Interesting Link
Nick's Crusade
Nick's Crusade
London
Mardi Gras Parade
Participants in the Mardi Gras parade make their way through central London Saturda, July 6, 2002. This year's Mardi Gras marks the 30th anniversary of the first Gay Pride celebration in Britain.
Photo by Michael Stephens
''The Autobiography of Vivian''
DKNY Opportunity
Just when you thought publishing couldn't get any smarmier, Ballantine is unleashing a little book called "The Autobiography of Vivian." In a cynical attempt to cash in on such chick-driven
hits as "Sex and the City" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," the new "novel" follows the adventures of a sassy 20something making her way in the Big Apple. Vivian, however, isn't a literary character.
She and her poodle Omelet are marketing tools invented by former DKNY publicity director Sherrie Krantz to help sell accessories on the Internet. The pair started out as cartoon characters on a Web site to sell DKNY trinkets.
''The Autobiography of Vivian''
Children's Host Blocks Nude Photos
Xuxa
Lawyers for a popular children's television hostess stopped a bookstore from auctioning photo negatives of her posing nude.
The Universal bookstore canceled Thursday's auction of 12 slides showing Xuxa naked after her lawyers warned the images belonged to her and the negatives belonged
to the photographer, store manager Roberto Menezes said.
The photos were shot by the late photographer Indalecio Wanderley for the now-defunct men's magazine Status-Plus in 1981.
At the beginning of her career, the 39-year-old Xuxa, whose real name is Maria da Graca Meneghel, posed for several magazines including Brazilian Playboy.
Xuxa
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Decries Anti-Terror Measures
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico, the whistle-blowing ex-New York City cop, criticized the government's anti-terrorism measures at a July Fourth reading of the Declaration of Independence.
"It is my opinion that never before have we, as a nation, stood in greater danger of losing our individual liberties as we are today," he said. "We, the people of this great nation,
are being punished for the transgressions of our leaders and their consorts."
Despite catcalls from the audience, he continued with his statement before moving on to the text of the historic document.
"When I still have the freedom to speak, I'll always use it," said Serpico, best known for fighting corruption within the police department in the 1960s.
Frank Serpico
Snarky Gossip
Xaviera Hollander
Even in the grave, Frank Sinatra can't escape being bad-mouthed by aging harlots. "The Happy Hooker" author and former prostitute Xaviera Hollander tells Night magazine
that Ol' Blue Eyes was no gentleman in the sack. "He was not a fun client. He was coarse and rude," she says. "He was usually drunk and loud and noisy. It wasn't very
classy." Hollander also claims Sinatra made her and her co-workers sign papers saying they were having sex of their own free will and they would not be suing him.
Xaviera Hollander
'Nude Adrift' Continued
Spencer Tunick In Chile
Rund 3000 Anhänger der Freikörperkultur hatten sich am Sonntag auf Einladung der amerikanischen Fotografen Spencer Tunick in Santiago de Chile versammelt. Ohne textilen
Ballast, für eine Aufnahme im Zusammenhang mit Tunick´s Projekt "Nude Adrift."
Foto: Max Montecinos
Captured In Cheddar
Tom Arnold & John Kruk
Actor Tom Arnold and former All-Star John Kruk, co-hosts of a TV sports show, can't deny the Wisconsin flavor surrounding the baseball All-Star Game.
Not when their likenesses have been captured in a 150-pound sculpture in cheese.
The cheddar block was transported Friday to Milwaukee's Miller Park, the site of Tuesday's game.
Fox Sports Net commissioned the busts of its "Best Damn Sports Show Period" hosts, cheese carver Troy Landwehr said.
Tom Arnold & John Kru
BartCop TV!
Performed Houdini Trick
Mike Schroeder
A trick often performed by the Harry Houdini was repeated outside the Houdini Historical Center on Friday for the hometown unveiling of the 37-cent Harry Houdini stamp.
Mike Schroeder, half of a comedy-magic team with Chris Cochrane, was strapped into a straitjacket by Mayor Tim Hanna and hoisted by his feet 40 feet above the audience.
Schroeder slipped the straitjacket five minutes later and received a standing ovation.
"I am at a loss for words," Schroeder said. "This is just amazing. To actually represent to the public a trick Houdini did. What an honor."
Houdini, born as Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary, in 1874, grew up in Appleton after his family left Europe. He embarked on a career in magic and escapes, becoming an
international star. He began his upside-down straitjacket escapes in 1913.
Mike Schroeder
'The Massacre of the Innocents'
Rubens
Auction house Sotheby's said on July 4, 2002 it would sell a long-lost masterpiece by Flemish master Rubens as well as a valuable Rembrandt, in what it called one of its most important sales of Old Master
works yet. "The Massacre of the Innocents" is an elaborate and gory painting which had long languished in a private collection misidentified as a work by a minor painter. The painting is expected to fetch more than $6.1 million.
Hanging With Steve Forbes
4th Of July
Among all the boats in the East River for the July 4th fireworks, the yacht Highlander, commissioned by the late Malcolm Forbes, may have had the most patriotic fervor. With a helicopter, "Capitalist Tool," on
the top deck, and a couple of BMW motorcycles in the stern, guests were reminded of America's unique "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Among those who celebrated with Steve, Tim and Kip Forbes and
their gracious wives and daughters were Ralph Fiennes, Chris Noth, Georgette Mosbacher, Noel Ashman, Betsy Gotbaum, and Mathew and Cari Modine.
Hanging With Steve Forbes
Bikers Gather at 'Wild One' Town
Hollister, CA
Tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts jammed into this sleepy farm town Saturday for a holiday weekend rally that recalled one of the pastime's darkest hours.
Tattooed and leather-clad bikers filled the narrow sidewalks, snapping up souvenirs, hot dogs and beer. Roaring motorcycles cruised the town's main drag - closed to all other traffic.
At a popular watering hole, Johnny's Bar & Grill, bikers were greeted by a life-size image of a young, leather-clad
Marlon Brando in
''The Wild One,'' based on the original Hollister run. The brawl-marred run 55 years ago cemented the image of the outlaw biker in American lore.
But more recent history was on the minds of the city and rally participants. An army of law enforcement officers was hand to try to make sure the weekend in Hollister, which is about 40 miles east of Monterey, didn't turn into a repeat of violence that left three dead at a rally in Laughlin, Nev., in April.
While some motorcycle events around the country were canceled after Laughlin, three major runs last month, in Nevada, northern California and New Hampshire, were trouble-free.
Hollister city officials estimate the riders leave behind $6 million to $8 million over the three-day weekend event. Hollister's population swells from 36,000 to 100,000 or more with the rally crowd.
Hollister, CA
Hollister Independence Rally
In Memory
General Benjamin O. Davis
Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and the first black general in the Air Force, has died.
Davis, who was 89 and suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died Thursday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
Davis, a native of Washington, began his military career during the era of segregation and led a unit of airmen that was credited with a major role in bringing about the integration of the armed services in the years after the war.
He was a 1936 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and son of Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who rose to brigadier general in the Army.
In 1970, after he retired from the Air Force, Davis was put in charge of the federal sky marshal program designed to stop airliner hijackings. The following year, he was named an assistant secretary of transportation.
Davis left the Air Force as a lieutenant general with three stars and was the senior black officer in the armed forces. President Clinton advanced Davis to a full general in 1998, awarding him a fourth star.
As commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, Davis and his pilots escorted bombers on 200 air combat missions over Europe during World War II.
Davis, whose wife, Agatha, died this year, leaves a sister.
General Benjamin O. Davis
In Memory
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer, director of such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz," died Saturday. He was 72.
Frankenheimer died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of a stroke due to complications following spinal surgery, said his business manager, Patti Person.
Frankenheimer was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards in a career that spanned nearly five decades. His work ranged from social dramas to political thrillers, and included a highly regarded run of feature films in the 1960s, and a string of 152 live television dramas in the '50s.
He won four consecutive Emmys in the late 1990s for directing cable-TV movies. In 1998 his "George Wallace" won a Peabody Award and a Golden Globe for best television film.
"Full bore. You gotta give it everything. You just got to give it everything," he said in a 1998 interview with The Associated Press. "And sometimes that's not even enough."
"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), a satirical conspiracy thriller about a Korean War brainwashing victim, was the film that made Frankenheimer's name.
It was followed two years later by another highly regarded political thriller, "Seven Days in May," which starred Burt Lancaster as a renegade general planning a coup. Other films included "Seconds," "Black Sunday" and "The Train."
A native New Yorker, Frankenheimer got his first taste of directing movies while in the Air Force stationed in Burbank. He worked on some documentaries, and in 1953 walked into the CBS office in New York and convinced network officials to give him a chance as an assistant director.
Frankenheimer moved from weather and news programming to television shows. His early credits included 42 episodes of the "Playhouse '90" anthology series and his success with political thrillers followed. As producer Frank Mancuso Jr. once put it, "He made the template" for such movies.
In the 1970s, Frankenheimer ran into some personal difficulties, including a drinking problem, which followed the assassination of close friend Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was staying at Frankenheimer's house, and Frankenheimer drove him to the Ambassador Hotel the night he was killed in 1968.
Frankenheimer lost his touch, making such clunkers as "Prophecy," "The Challenge," "Dead-Bang" and "Year of the Gun." Job offers dried up in the '80s and he had to work to re-establish himself.
In the 1990s, Frankenheimer returned to television and found new success directing movies for HBO. He won a string of Emmys starting in 1993 for "Against the Wall," followed by "The Burning Season," "Andersonville" and "George Wallace."
Frankenheimer is expected to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in November.
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer,
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (a political and social thriller/drama ahead of its time), and
Seven Days in May (1964) (the quintessential political thriller).
IndieNetwork.com - MovieMaker Magazine John Frankenheimer
Five award-winning directors create short Internet films
E! Online - Fact Sheet - John Frankenheimer
Box Office Data for the Movies of John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer Interview: Well Rounded Entertainment
John Frankenheimer interview
Great Quote: ''There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There
isn't enough money in the world." - in Premiere magazine, April 1997.
(Frankenheimer directed the 1996 film "The Island of Dr. Moreau," which starred Val
Kilmer, with whom he reportedly had personal differences.)
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