BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 29 July, 2007
Sunday
29 July, 2007
(Updated Daily)
[3 days in a row]
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jason Leopold and Matt Renner: Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression (truthout.org)
Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry.
BUSHIES WANT TO HEAR FROM MOORE ON CUBA TRIP (nydailynews.com)
and
BUSHIES WANT TO HEAR FROM MOORE ON CUBA TRIP (nydailynews.com)
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced that the Bush Administration has subpoenaed him in the wake of his recent trip to Cuba on the July 26 episode of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. - 12:37 a.m. ET). "I haven't even told my own family yet." Moore began, "I was just informed when I was back there with Jay that the Bush administration has now issued a subpoena for me."
Michael Moore: Michael Moore's Challenge to the Presidential Candidates (HuffingtonPost.com; Posted on AlterNet.org)
The Democratic presidential candidates are fighting to show how in touch they are with the plight of everyday Americans, but Michael Moore has a way for them to prove how serious they are.
To look this good takes doh (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)
People used to pity Matt Groening. Then he invented The Simpsons. Will Lawrence meets him as the show hits the big screen.
Scott Foundas: It Doesn't Suck! (villagevoice.com)
Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.
Nona Willis-Aronowitz: The Virginity Mystique (thenation.com)
Sex is a risk that makes human contact complicated and intoxicating. Women should not be chastised for taking that risk...
Alexander Chancellor: Spare us from all this preposterous, contradictory health advice - is nothing good for us any more? (guardian.co.uk)
It seems to be a law of nature that anything that's good for you also has a noxious consequence.
Obesity Map (cnn.com)
Michael Moore and Jay Leno (michaelmoore.com)
Commentoon: Eliz Edwards (womensenews.org)
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CATHEDRAL AND CRANE
A NUCLEAR REACTOR
FOR ALL THE FAITHFUL
zEN mAN (observing the construction of the $190 million dollar "Cathedral of Light" on Lake Merritt in Oakland....where do these Catholics get their money..? L.A. ?)
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Reader Comment
Hello Marty
Dear Marty,
My goodness, you have been offline for a ginormous time now!
Since we all know that you are definitely not ergophobic, I can only assume that you have gone off to some frigorific vacation spot, where you can cool off and perhaps get in some exercise in the cool temps? Perhaps you have found some time to work on your callipygian attributes? Hopefully, you haven't fallen into some astobleme and are gone from us forever? Well, just so you haven't become a become a digamist...
Please forgive my bafflegab here, it's just that I'm in meltdown wondering when you are going to return!!
But, I do hope you are having fun.
Please hurry back,
Sally P
Thanks, Sally!
I had planned to keep the page rolling along, but, after landing in the PA-backwoods, stuff happened, and there was only limited online access.
Very limited online access.
But, we're home now, and things are gradually returning to what passes for normal. ; )
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Bit cooler, but the humidity remains the same.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother 8', then a RERUN 'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN 'Shark'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', then a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN 'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old 'Reba', followed by another old 'Reba', then a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by a RERUN 'Pussycat Dolls'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Til Death', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN 'American Dad', then a RERUN 'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN 'Family Guy'.
MY has the movie 'Man On Fire', followed by the movie 'Deadly Encounter'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH 'Gene Simmons', then another FRESH 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH 'The Two Coreys', and another FRESH 'The Two Coreys'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather, Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 8 The Assassin;
[1:00 PM] The Gil Mayo Mysteries - Episode 8;
[2:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 14 Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Matt Lucas;
[3:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 5;
[4:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 6;
[5:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 7;
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 8 The Assassin;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Thing Or Two About Loyalty;
[8:00 PM] Layer Cake - Layer Cake;
[10:00 PM] My 100,000 Lovers - My 100,000 Lovers;
[11:00 PM] Layer Cake - Layer Cake;
[1:00 AM] My 100,000 Lovers - My 100,000 Lovers;
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Thing Or Two About Loyalty;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 6 Camberwell;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 5 Devon & New Zealand;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 9 Peterborough 1;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Kedleston 18;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Money Talks', 'Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid', followed by a FRESH 'Mind Of Mencia', then a FRESH 'American Body Shop'.
FX has the movie 'The Last Samurai', followed by the movie 'The Italian Job', and 'Damages'.
History has 'Human Weapon', 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', and a FRESH 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[06:05 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[07:05 AM] Incident at Loch Ness;
[08:45 AM] Fall Time;
[10:15 AM] Gerry;
[12:00 PM] Incident at Loch Ness;
[01:35 PM] Fall Time;
[03:05 PM] Gerry;
[04:50 PM] Incident at Loch Ness;
[06:30 PM] Secrets & Lies;
[09:00 PM] Thirteen;
[10:45 PM] All over Me;
[12:15 AM] Sid and Nancy;
[02:15 AM] Thirteen;
[04:00 AM] All over Me;
[05:35 AM] IFC News Special. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Bone Snatcher', followed by the movie 'Trilogy Of Terror II',
Sundance -
[04:00 AM] Hail, Hail Rock 'N' Roll;
[06:00 AM] Travellers & Magicians;
[08:00 AM] A Good Woman;
[10:00 AM] Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family;
[12:00 PM] Mickybo and Me;
[01:00 PM] Mitchellville;
[03:00 PM] Episode 2;
[03:00 PM] Bhopal: The Search for Justice;
[04:00 PM] Fridays at the Farm;
[04:00 PM] Episode 2;
[05:00 PM] A Good Woman;
[07:00 PM] Plunkett & Macleane;
[09:00 PM] Dr. John, Leann Rimes & Massive Attack;
[10:00 PM] Chain;
[11:00 PM] Small Town Secrets;
[12:00 AM] Dumplings;
[01:00 AM] Soar;
[02:00 AM] Episode 4;
[03:00 AM] At Play In the Fields of the Lord. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM
[6:00 AM] Strike Me Pink (1936);
[8:00 AM] Double Harness (1933);
[9:15 AM] Double Wedding (1937);
[11:00 AM] After The Thin Man (1936);
[1:00 PM] Plunder of the Sun (1953);
[2:30 PM] Wake Island (1942);
[4:00 PM] The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (1966);
[6:15 PM] The Wackiest Ship In The Army (1961);
[8:00 PM] Singin' In The Rain (1952);
[10:00 PM] The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957);
[12:00 AM] Beyond the Rocks (1922) SILENT ;
[1:25 AM] Stolen Moments (1920) SILENT ;
[2:00 AM] My Life As A Dog (1987);
[3:45 AM] Tomorrow The World (1944);
[5:30 AM] MGM Parade Show #31 (1956). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Monday - 07/30/07
TCM
[6:00 AM] The Secret Place (1958);
[7:30 AM] The Square Peg (1958);
[9:00 AM] The Happy Thieves (1962);
[10:30 AM] Deadly Duo (1962);
[12:00 PM] A Place of One's Own (1945);
[1:45 PM] Meeting At Midnight (1944);
[3:00 PM] Three Bad Sisters (1956);
[4:30 PM] The October Man (1947);
[6:15 PM] Escape From East Berlin (1962);
[8:00 PM] The Diary of Anne Frank (1959);
[11:00 PM] Hope and Glory (1987);
[1:00 AM] Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987);
[3:00 AM] Kapò (1959);
[5:00 AM] Spanish Earth (1937). (ALL TIMES EDT)
USA has a FRESH 'Dead Zone', followed by 'Law & Order: Special Vicitms Unit', then a FRESH 'The 4400'.
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Willie Nelson performs at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, Saturday, July 28, 2007.
Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast
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Focuses On Dollars
Anti-War Protest
First they tried lines of empty boots, then ribbons bearing the names of the more than 3,000 dead U.S. soldiers. Now anti-war protesters are trying a fresh tactic: appealing to American worries about their wallets.
Proclaiming that one day of the Iraq War costs $720 million, or $500,000 a minute, the Quaker pacifist group American Friends Service Committee is taking the money-focused message to a dozen U.S. cities in a series of seven-foot (more-than-one-meter) banners.
The banners stress what could be bought with the war dollars: one banner says that the tax funds spent in Iraq each day could pay for 84 new elementary schools, while another says it could pay for health care for more than 163,000 people.
Mary Zerkel, a spokeswoman for American Friends, said the $720 million includes money spent in Iraq for troops, equipment and rebuilding projects as well as money spent to care for wounded soldiers and to pay the interest on the war debt.
"Every kid in the country could have a four-year scholarship to college with this money," Zerkel said. "Where are our priorities?"
Anti-War Protest
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Actress Sean Young, right, poses with model John Coulter, left, dressed as a Spartan, at a DVD release party for the movie '300' held at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego Friday, July 27, 2007.
Photo by Denis Poroy
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Case Dropped
Ray Davies
Prosecutors have again dropped charges against a man accused of shooting Ray Davies during a holdup in the French Quarter, and for the same reason: Davies wasn't in court.
The lead singer and co-founder of The Kinks said prosecutors notified him only a few days earlier that trial was scheduled for Thursday. He just didn't have time to get to New Orleans from London, he told The Times-Picayune.
"I am very disappointed with the way this case has been handled," Davies said Thursday. "I intend to pursue it further."
It was the second time Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan's office dismissed armed robbery and aggravated charges against Jerome Barra, 28, because of Davies' absence from court.
Ray Davies
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Donald Fagen of the U.S. rock group Steely Dan, performs during the concert of their heavy rollers tour 2007 on Friday July 27, 2007 at the Blue Balls Festival in the Congress and Culture Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Photo by Sigi Tischler
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'In Talks'
Led Zeppelin
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin are in talks to reform and play live in 2008, according to reports.
Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones are said to be discussing plans to tour together for the first time in almost 30 years.
The news comes as the rock legends confirm news of a new greatest hits collection, the 24-track Mothership compilation, which has been specially chosen by the group.
Led Zeppelin last toured in July 1980, just months before the death of founding drummer John Bonham, playing again with numerous one-off shows in the intervening years.
Led Zeppelin
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Hospital News
Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley, a singer and guitarist with rock band Kiss, was forced to pull out of a show in California on Friday after his heart started beating at more than twice the normal level, he said on his Web site.
The apparent tachycardia happened while the band was rehearsing for a performance at a casino in San Jacinto, California, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
Tachycardia, or rapid heart rate, can cause palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting or near fainting, the group said on its Web site.
Stanley said he was advised performing would be risky, and the show went on without him. Fellow principal Gene Simmons told fans the group would play as a trio, and turned the show into a tribute to his ailing bandmate.
Paul Stanley
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Writer Frank Miller, left, poses for a photo with John Coulter, right, dressed as a Spartan, at a DVD release party for the movie '300' held at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego Friday, July 27, 2007.
Photo by Denis Poroy
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Wedding Cancelled
Foster - Raymond
The wedding between multiplatinum singer Usher and his longtime girlfriend, Tameka Foster, was scheduled for Saturday. The pair are expecting their first child together sometime this fall.
However, a statement released by publicist Patti Webster read: "It was announced today that the wedding ceremony for Usher Raymond, IV and Tameka Foster was canceled. No additional information will be given regarding the circumstances of the cancellation, but we hope the privacy of this matter will be respected."
Foster and Usher announced their engagement earlier this year, and later, that she was expecting his first child. She has three other children from a previous marriage.
Webster would not comment on whether the two were still engaged or even a couple.
Foster - Raymond
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Bodyguard Ticketed In Vegas Scuffle
Britney Spears
A bodyguard for Britney Spears must face a battery charge after he scuffled with two men trying to photograph the singer and her young sons at a Las Vegas Strip resort, police said Friday.
The bodyguard, Cesar Julio Camera, 37, was accused of grabbing and punching one photographer and pushing another into a wall about 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the spa at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino.
Camera was issued a misdemeanor battery summons after the scuffle.
No serious injuries resulted, police said. Neither Spears, 25, nor the children - 22-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 10-month-old Jayden James Federline - were reported to have been hurt.
Britney Spears
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A road sign that reads 'Frank Zappa Street' is pictured on Saturday July 28, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. The street to the ORWO-house that houses around 70 rehearsal rooms, shared by approximately 140 bands, has been named after the American composer and musician Frank Zappa.
Photo by Miguel Villagran
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Killer Stabbed In Prison
Robert John Bardo
The man convicted of stalking and killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 was stabbed repeatedly by another inmate in the prison where he is serving a life sentence, corrections officials said.
Robert John Bardo, 37, suffered 11 stab and puncture wounds Friday at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, authorities said. He was treated at University of California, Davis, Medical Center and returned to the prison, officials said.
Bardo was housed in a maximum-security unit for inmates with sensitive needs, including former gang members, notorious prisoners and those convicted of sex crimes.
State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said he was stabbed in the prison yard while inmates were on their way to breakfast. Two inmate-made weapons were found at the scene. The suspect in the attack was identified as a man serving an 82-years-to-life sentence for second-degree murder.
Robert John Bardo
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Bahraini Wafa Yaqoop is crowned Miss Arab World 2007 by Miss Arab World 2006 Claudia from Iraq during the second Miss Arab World contest in Cairo July 28, 2007. Candidates to the contest came from 16 Arab countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Palestine.
Photo by Nasser Nuri
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Second Arrest In Extortion Case
Tom Cruise
A second person has been arrested in connection with an attempt to extort money from actor Tom Cruise by trying to sell him stolen pictures of his Italian wedding to actress Katie Holmes, authorites said Friday.
Stephen Tidwell, the head of the office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here, named the second suspect as 33-year-old Mark Gittleman, who was taken into custody late Thursday.
On Thursday, the FBI arrested David Hans Schmidt, 47, suspected of involvement in the same case.
Tom Cruise
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A male Asian red panda named Pemba looks out from his bamboo-sided shelter at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., Friday, July 27, 2007. The red panda which is native to the mountains of Asia and lives in the wild in trees is housed in a new exhibit at the zoo that is planted with bamboo trees.
Photo by Mike Derer
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'Vulgar' Underwear Ads
India
Two television ads for underwear were banned in India for being "indecent, vulgar and suggestive," broadcast regulators said Friday.
The TV commercial for Amul Macho Underwear shows a young housewife suggestively washing her husband's underwear on a riverbank as other women eye her curiously. The Lux Cozy Underwear ad shows a man with only a towel wrapped around him answering the door where he is met by a young woman. The towel slips and the woman's eyes gaze downwards.
After airing for months and stirring up a heated public debate, both ads were banned by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. It warned broadcasters "to be more careful in future" with their choice of advertisements.
India
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Computer analyst Slavisa Pesci shows a reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' during a press conference in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The computer analyst claims to have discovered new images in Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper,' one of the world's most loved religious paintings. But some experts were skeptical, dismissing the claim as another spin-off of Dan Brown's best-selling novel 'The Da Vinci Code.' Pesci claims to have discovered new images in the 15th mural in the dining hall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie church by superimposing a reverse image on the original image.
Photo by Luca Bruno
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Strives To Conserve Rare Turtles
Taiwan
People once thought nothing of killing the green turtles on these islands for their meat and eggs, decimating the rare species' ranks along the way. But local efforts to save the creatures - through a nesting reserve, a veterinary clinic and even a beach patrol - still aren't guaranteed to revive the species' numbers, authorities say.
Worldwide, there are only about 200,000 of the green turtles, conservationists say. Fewer than 20 females have been laying eggs on Penghu, a collection of picturesque islets about 25 miles off the western Taiwanese coast.
Green turtles are large hard-shelled sea turtles, an endangered species protected by conservation laws in many countries. They get the name from the greenish color of their bodies, rather than the color of their shells, which varies from black to yellow to brown.
Penghu's great green turtle die-off reached its peak 20 years ago, when residents and visitors killed them in great numbers.
Taiwan
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A pair of 49-day-old emperor tamarin twins, nicknamed Rice and Beans, clutch to their dad?s back Friday, July 27, 2007, at the San Francisco Zoo's Primate Discovery Center in San Francisco. The twins are the first emperor tamarins born at the zoo in the last 10 years and are the first for the parents Anna and Big Twin. Emperor tamarins are primates and they inhabit tropical rain forests, living deep in the forest and also in open tree-covered areas.
Photo by Amy Frankel
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