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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The weather is much improved.
Jo, the (remaining) lizard is acting like he's about to molt.
We have a large mayonnaise jar where we store his previous skins - might not be everyone's idea of a 'hobby', but the kid is 10, and he sure gets a kick out of comparing how much Jo's grown.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the evening, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Becker', then the movie 'Instinct'.
NBC begins the night with a 1-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'American Dreams', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent',
followed by a FRESH 'The Restaurant'.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Paulie', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', then a RERUN 'The Practice'.
The WB has the usual RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then another RERUN 'Charmed'.
Faux has the next-to-the-last FRESH 'Futurama', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a
FRESH 'Banzai', then a RERUN 'Malcolm', followed by another RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Paul Newman), followed by the movie 'Mystery Of I-45'.
AMC offers the movie 'Saturday Night Fever', followed by the movie 'Reversal Of Fortune', then the movie 'One False Move'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force America' - Atlanta;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal;
[9pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 8;
[9:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[10:20pm] 'Coupling' - The End of the Line;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal;
[12am] 'Manchild' - Episode 8;
12:40am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[1:20am] 'Coupling' - The End of the Line;
[2am] 'Ground Force America' - Atlanta; and
[3am] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Full Circle With Michael Palin', 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (Richard Gere), and 'Cher: The Farewell Tour'.
History offers 'Broken Wings', followed by 'Titanic: High Tech At Low Depth'.
SciFi has the movie 'Candyman: Day Of The Dead', then the movie 'Hollow Man'.
TCM spends 24-hours with Peter O'Toole -
[6am] 'The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England' (1960);
[7:30am] 'Great Catherine' (1968);
[9:15am] 'My Favorite Year' (1982);
[11am] 'Casino Royale' (1967) (uncredited);
[1:30pm] What's New, Pussycat?' (1965);
[3:30pm] 'The Lion In Winter' (1968);
[6pm] 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962);
[10pm] 'The Last Emperor' (1987);
[1am] 'Goodbye Mr. Chips' (1969); and
[4am] 'Brotherly Love' (1970) [AKA: Country Dance]. (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Lucy the Elephant, a six-story oddity that was built by a real estate developer in 1881 in the hopes that it somehow would attract property buyers to this Atlantic City suburb, stands near the beach in Margate, N.J., July 10, 2001. The operators of Lucy the Elephant are trying to raise more than $375,000 to bring the historic landmark into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Soul legends James Brown and Patti LaBelle will headline a benefit concert for Lucy the Elephant Saturday, Aug. 2, 2003.
Photo by Brian Branch-Price
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Plays West Bank
Daniel Barenboim
Israeli musician Daniel Barenboim received a rapturous reception when he brought a program of Beethoven and Brahms — and a message of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation — to this West Bank town on Saturday.
The renowned pianist and conductor, a longtime critic of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, played a packed and sweltering auditorium at a Ramallah school, the scene of a visit last year that angered some Israelis.
Barenboim, 60, an Argentine-born Jew who grew up in Israel, received three standing ovations from an audience of about 350 Palestinians and a smattering of international diplomats.
He played a program of Beethoven sonatas, including a duet of the "Moonlight Sonata" with 26-year-old Palestinian pianist Salim Abboud, and performed some Brahms with his son Michael, 17.
Barenboim has long campaigned for Arab-Israeli reconciliation and has annoyed some Israelis with his forthright criticism of government policy toward the Palestinians.
In March 2002 Barenboim canceled a planned master class for Palestinian students in Ramallah after the Israeli army refused to grant him permission for a visit. He eventually traveled to Ramallah with a German diplomatic escort and played the concert last September.
Since the early 1990s, he and Palestinian academic Edward Said have run a summer workshop for young musicians from Israel and Arab countries in places like Germany, the United States and Spain.
Barenboim said the workshop's goal "is simply to fight ignorance and allow contact so that they learn to know the other. Whether they like the other or not is their own private business."
Daniel Barenboim
A Hungarian slides into tomatoes as he celebrates his team's victory at the annual tomato fight of the Sziget Festival on Saturday, Aug 2, 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. In the tomato fight two teams compete to fill two barrels full of tomatoes. More than 300,000 people visit the Sziget Fesztival, one of Europe's largest music festvals.
Photo by Bela Szandelszky
Pay Visit to Playboy Mansion
Athletes
"I can't believe this is somebody's house," said tennis pro Nicolas Kiefer. "He has 100 employees and eight girlfriends. Unbelievable."
The house, of course, is the Playboy Mansion and its owner is Hugh Hefner, 77.
Kiefer, 26, of Germany and fellow players Wayne Ferreira of South Africa and Robby Ginepri of Marietta, Ga., were awed by their glimpse into the lifestyle of the Playboy magazine founder.
The players toured the gardens, tried out the pinball machines and fed monkeys in the zoo on the mansion's grounds during a visit between matches this past week at the Mercedes-Benz Cup tournament.
Athletes
All-Star Music Lineups
TV Specials
Superstars and all-star lineups are the driving forces behind several upcoming music specials on TV.
PBS will begin airing "Soul Comes Home: A Celebration of Stax Records and Memphis Soul Music" Aug. 9. It is a concert that took place April 30 in Memphis to benefit the city's Stax Museum.
Meanwhile, UPN will air "The 2003 Essence Music Festival," a two-hour, condensed version of the event that took place July 3-5 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The UPN program (at 8 p.m. ET/PT Sept. 12) will feature performances from Ashanti, Erykah Badu, Faith Evans, Jaheim, Patti LaBelle, Gerald Levert, LL Cool J, Chaka Khan, Tamia, Usher and Stevie Wonder.
This fall, cable network A&E will premiere new Paul McCartney and Sting documentaries at dates to be determined.
NBC also will have concert specials on Shania Twain, Elton John and Harry Connick Jr. Twain's special airs Aug. 19, while the latter two shows' air dates are yet to be determined.
TV Specials
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Lost In Transit
Stanley Cup
The first-ever visit of the Stanley Cup to Slovakia was delayed when the Austrian Airlines regular flight from Vienna to Kosice landed in the Eastern Slovakian city Thursday afternoon with two NHL guards but no Cup.
New Jersey Devils defenceman Jiri Bicek was expected to show the Stanley Cup in a celebration on the city's main street and the party was supposed to last till Friday noon when defenceman Richard Smehlik would help bring it to Ostrava.
After frantic search, the Cup was found at Toronto's Pearson International Airport: it never left the ground.
Following celebrations in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the Stanley Cup is supposed to travel to Russia.
Stanley Cup
A Gypsy man shows to his 10-years old daughter the ruins of a former Gypsy bloc in the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau near Auschwitz in southern Poland, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2003 during a ceremony to commemorate their people, 59 years after Nazis killed the camp's last 3,000 Gypsy inmates.
Photo by Czarek Sokolowski
Led Secret Double Life
Charles Lindbergh
Aviation legend Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, led a secret double life with a German woman who bore him three children, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Saturday.
The paper said Lindbergh, whose solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927 earned him an undying place in aviation history, met Brigitte Hesshaimer, a Munich hatmaker in 1957 when he was 55 but kept the relationship secret up to his death in 1974.
It said Hesshaimer's daughter, Astrid Bouteuil, had more than 100 letters which she said were from Lindbergh but had promised not to reveal the secret in her mother's lifetime.
Bouteuil and her brothers Dyrk and David Hesshaimer told the paper they met Lindbergh periodically when he visited Europe and knew him as Careu Kent but had no contact with his life in America.
In the United States, Lindbergh had six children with his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung quoted the children in Germany as describing their relationship as close but overshadowed by their mother's insistence on keeping their father's identity a secret.
Charles Lindbergh
Armani Crafts Special Ensemble
Barbie
Giorgio Armani has created a strapless, silk chiffon top and crepe skirt embellished with dark beads and covered with sparkle tulle for Barbie, the 11 1/2-inch doll. Both pieces are taupe. An evening purse, also in taupe crepe and dripping with beads, a matching necklace and earrings complete the outfit.
But couture fashion doesn't come cheap. The price of the limited-edition Armani Barbie, due in stores in September: $134.99.
The Milan, Italy-based designer is donating his royalties to YouthAIDS, a global initiative to educate and protect at-risk youth from HIV infection, and Room to Grow, which works to improve the lives of babies born into poverty.
Barbie
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Heinola, Finland
Sauna World Championship
Braving 230-degree heat, a dozen men and women sweated in wooden cubicles Saturday as long as they could stand it, aiming to grab the Sauna World Championship title in southern Finland.
With a time of 13 minutes, Belorussian Natalia Trifanova won the Sauna Queen title under the watch of doctors and judges, beating out local favorite Annikki Peltonen.
The men's winner, Timo Kaukonen, a Finn from nearby Lahti, lasted 16 minutes, 15 seconds. He beat three-time champion Leo Pusa from the capital, Helsinki, by 7 seconds.
About 3,000 spectators cheered wildly as the finalists — six women and six men — sat in separate wide-windowed hexagonal saunas on the stage of an outdoor theater in this sleepy lakeside town, 85 miles northeast of Helsinki.
Before the final round, competitors included 65 men and 15 women from Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine, as well as the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Sauna World Championship
International Solidarity Movement activists demonstrate against the security fence. Clashes broke out between Israeli soldiers and around 1,000 Palestinians and foreign peace activists protesting against the barrier which Israel is building.
Photo by Pedro Ugarte
Challenges Illinois Governor
Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent says Gov. Rod Blagojevich is more than welcome to visit him backstage before his Aug. 11 performance at the Illinois State Fair.
The rocker and gun-rights advocate, known for the song "Cat Scratch Fever," is itching to tell Blagojevich how much he dislikes Illinois' gun laws.
The 54-year-old co-author of the cookbook "Kill It & Grill It" said his main complaint is what he called Blagojevich's "refusal to stand up for the Second Amendment."
Ted Nugent
Keeps Commune Going
Hippie Capitalism
Three decades after the golden age of the hippie, about 200 of them are still thriving in a self-supporting commune some three hours east of glitzy Graceland.
Known simply as The Farm, the sprawling collective operates, among other things, a midwife service, a soy products company, a mushroom grower and a factory producing personal radiation detectors.
Established on a 1,800-acre site in 1971, The Farm has outlived nearly all of its tie-dyed contemporaries with a mix of entrepreneurship and idealism, and a touch of sweat.
"We were hippies wanting to live together, and we accepted the discipline it took to do that," said Stephen Gaskin, the founder of the commune.
The early days, which Gaskin says were guided by agreements "looser than handshakes," made it though tough times. Some bad investments and an equally poor national economy in the late '70s put The Farm about $400,000 in debt, says Douglas Stevenson, a Farm resident since 1973.
For a good read, Hippie Capitalism
The Farm
Gets His Come-Uppance
Drunken Flasher
A drunken Croat flasher got more excitement than he bargained for when he pushed his penis through a woman's fence and her dog bit it, local (Zagreb) newspapers said on Friday.
The visibly drunk man was walking down the street and started swearing and shouting at the woman for no reason. He then shoved his penis through her fence, unaware her dog was on the other side, police said.
The 36-year-old was taken to hospital with light injuries but later sent home. He will be charged with "insulting the moral feelings of citizens" and "violation of public order."
Drunken Flasher
Devoted To Elvis
New Cemetery
Elvis Presley fans looking to cement their devotion will soon be able to buy burial plots near the King's birthplace.
William and Judy Kinard broke ground Thursday on a cemetery dedicated to Elvis, located within walking distance to the small rural house where he was born on Jan. 8, 1935. An official Mississippi landmark, the house draws an estimated 50,000 visitors each year.
The city of Tupelo has given the initial OK for the cemetery, which still needs final approval for the project design.
Burial costs will range from $1,500 for an urn niche, $2,500 for a plot and $5,000 for a mausoleum.
New Cemetery
City of Tupelo
Elvis.com
A bald eagle eats a fish on the shores of Lake Winnipeg near Matlock, Manitoba, Aug 2, 2003. The bald eagle is Canada's largest bird of prey and is endangered in many parts of North America.
Photo by Shaun Best
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Group finally comes face-to-face with Satan, himself.
'The Osbournes'
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