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Last Night
Bit warm today, but there was a nice breeze.
Incinerated chicken on the grill, made mac salad, cooked some corn, defrosted a bag o'baked beans, too.
Lots of helicopter traffic tonight. When they circle, the cats freak, especially when the 'copters search lights are on. Yeah, I love life in the big city.
Tonight, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', follows with a rerun 'The Agency', and then the movie 'The Color Of Love: Jacy's Story'.
NBC opens with a fresh 'Gymnastics: US Championships', then 'Dateline', followed by a rerun 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' and wraps with a fresh 'Crime & Punishment'.
ABC starts the night by rolling the movie 'Peter Pan' out of the animation vault and follows it with the movie 'The Wedding'.
The WB opens with 2 reruns of 'For Your Love', then a rerun of 'Charmed' and a rerun of 'Angel'.
Faux opens with a rerun 'Futurama', then a fresh 'Greg The Bunny', followed by reruns of the 'Simpsons' and 'King Of The Hill', and wraps with 2 reruns of 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the weekly rerun of 'Enterprise' and then the movie 'Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy'.
E! has a fresh 'Anna Nicole Smith' at 10pm (edt).
It's 'Celebrity Shark Week' on Discovery, and the kid is salivating already.
Animal Planet has a fresh 'Jeff Corwin', from Nepal.
MTV has an episode of 'The Osbournes' at 10:30pm (edt).
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New York City
Snow Globe
A tourist pays for the purchase of a snow globe souvenir across the street from ground zero, where the World Trade Center twin towers once stood, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, in New York. The five dollar snow globe features
a reproduction of the twin towers, which, before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2002, would have been visible between the two skyscrapers at center, rear.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
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Brazil Marks 40th Birthday
'The Girl From Ipanema'
It was the summer of 1962 when a tall, tan, young and lovely girl went walking on Ipanema beach, swaying like a samba past two awestruck composers and into music history.
This month, as "The Girl From Ipanema" turns 40, Brazilians are celebrating the song that became a symbol of Rio and its laid-back, beach-loving lifestyle.
Hundreds of fans turned out for a concert last week to hear the song and other bossa nova classics like "One Note Samba" performed by the Cariocas, the group that first played "The Girl From Ipanema" on Aug. 2, 1962.
The story goes that composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and his longtime collaborator, vinicius de Moraes, were sitting at a bar on Ipanema Beach when young Helo Pinheiro walked by and inspiration struck.
The result was "The Girl From Ipanema," and the song, with its blend of jazz, samba, and subtle, haunting harmonies, became an instant hit.
In 1964, an English version by singer Astrud Gilberto and saxophonist Stan Getz was released and quickly climbed to No. 5 on Billboard magazine's hit parade. It was nominated
for seven Grammy awards and won four, including best single, beating out the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
For a bit more, 'The Girl From Ipanema'
Friday Night
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
Soul diva Alicia Keys reigned at yet another awards show Friday night, winning four awards at the second annual Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards,
while silky smooth Usher took home three awards.
Keys won album of the year for "Songs in A Minor," top female artist, top new artist and top albums artist. She won five Grammys earlier this
year for her first album, which debuted atop Billboard's charts.
Usher, who had the most nominations with eight, won for top artist, top male artist and top singles artist. His single "U Got It Bad" topped
Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop charts this year.
Crooner Ginuwine won best single for "Differences." The R&B single also won for most radio airplay.
Timothy Mosley, also known as Timbaland, won awards for producer and song writer of the year.
Hosted by New York radio personality Wendy Williams, the show presented Founder's Awards to honor the influential careers of the Isley Brothers
in R&B and Afrika Bambaataa in Hip-Hop.
Aaliyah, who died in a Bahamas plane crash in August 2001, was nominated for five awards but wasn't among the winners.
Other winners were:
_Artist, duo or group: Jagged Edge
_Rap album: "Pain Is Love," Ja Rule
_Single, sales: "Loverboy," Mariah Carey featuring Da Brat & Ludacris
_Airplay: "Differences," Ginuwine
_Top rap single — Sales: "My Baby," Lil' Romeo
_Major label of the year: Island Def Jam Music Group
_Independent label of the year: TVT
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
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Robots & Kids
BattleBot Curriculum
Making robots? At school?
Some Minnesota educators hope that a pack of robots will soup up a new generation of tech kids like Zac for jobs in engineering and technology.
They want to join 100 schools nationwide that have implemented some form of the BattleBots IQ curriculum, course work created two years ago by the founders of the Comedy Central
program "BattleBots." On the show, machines armed with hammers, saws and limbs of destruction try to conquer one another.
About 12 high school and college instructors designed and built their own steel robots this week at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, Minn., putting them to the test
Thursday in front of cheering fans.
The self-described "big kids" hope to use the knowledge gleaned from a weeklong crash course in robotics in the classroom come fall.
Instructors said the curriculum is about challenging kids to use their math, science, communication and design skills to build machines that can weigh as much as 120 pounds.
For a lot more, BattleBot Curriculum
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Crawford, Texas
Welcome To Crawford #1
A billboard with a picture of President Bush welcomes drivers entering a small, cactus infested area of Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002. Bush is taking what is being billed as a "working
vacation" by the White House, on his nearby ranch.
Photo by Ken Lambert
Another Lawsuit Filed
'Six Feet Under'
For the second time in a little over a year, a writer has gone to court to try to bury the makers of HBO's Six Feet Under.
The funeral parlor-based dramedy, which just racked up a leading 23 Emmy nominations, including Best Drama, was the target of a $30 million federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court by a Los Angeles screenwriter,
who claims execs at the cable network and its parent company, Time Warner Entertainment, stole her idea.
Gwen O'Donnell says she wrote her mortuary oeuvre, The Funk Parlor, nearly five years ago and registered the script with the Writers Guild of America in February 1998. She sold the screenplay to an indie production company
called Funky Films (which is currently putting the finishing touches on the feature).
The complaint claims that Chris Albrecht, at the time HBO's head of original programming, "gained access" to the script in the summer of 1999. Months later, the cable network had corralled Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning
writer of American Beauty, and convinced him to make a show about a family and their funeral parlor. Six Feet Under premiered on HBO in the summer of 2001.
O'Donnell and Funky Films call Six Feet Under "a blatant ripoff" of The Funk Parlor, citing several similarities between the indie flick and the TV series. Among them: Both focus on a dysfunctional family that lives in
their funeral home; each begins with the "untimely and unexpected" death of the family patriarch; the families in both include a gay younger brother and a smart-alecky teenage sister. The success of Six Feet Under, the
suit concludes, is "directly attributable" to The Funk Parlor and the plaintiffs are suing for copyright violations.
Production begins this month on the third season of Six Feet Under.
'Six Feet Under'
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Visited Angola For UNICEF
Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow, the actress and UNICEF special representative, said on Saturday the United States had a responsibility to help the southwest African country of Angola as it recovers from a 27-year civil war.
The United States had helped to fuel and sustain the war, which had made Angola one of the poorest countries in the world despite its large reserves of oil and diamonds, she said.
Traveling with her 14-year-old son Seamus, Farrow visited humanitarian and development projects in the capital, Luanda, the strategic town of Kuita and the provinces of Malange and Huila.
Farrow is a goodwill ambassador for the UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.
The purpose of her mission had been to better understand the problems Angola faces and take that back to the United States.
Farrow expressed concern over the unknown numbers of child soldiers who were forced to join either the Angolan Armed Forces or UNITA rebels.
Mia Farrow
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Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams & More
Canadian Benefit Concert
Five of Canada's leading musicians-- Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams, the Barenaked Ladies, Chantal Kreviazuk, and Jann Arden--will perform in a landmark October 10 concert presented by the BC Cancer
Foundation at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia. At a press conference in Vancouver on Thursday (August 8), all the artists performing said they are passionate about their involvement,
having all been directly affected by cancer.
Adams organized a benefit concert in Canada in 1998, and along with supermodel Linda Evangelista he raised more than $1 million to build a breast-cancer screening center at the St. Catherine's General
Hospital. He later published a book of black-and-white photographs of Canadian women last year titled, Made In Canada. Celine Dion, Joni Mitchell, and Alanis Morissette were among the women featured
in the book, which raised money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. "As many people probably know, I've been supporting breast cancer probably since the early '90s," said Adams.
A large number of corporate supporters have pledged their support by donating all concert facilities and promotional costs so that 100 percent of the proceeds will go towards the new BC Cancer Research Centre in
Vancouver, which is scheduled to open in 2004. Tickets are priced between $79.50 and $129.50 and they will go on sale at 9:30 a.m. PT on Saturday (August 17).
Canadian Benefit Concert
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Former Bouncer
Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel, star of the new film "XXX," says working as a nightclub bouncer hurt him when he first started auditioning for acting roles.
"When you bounce, you speak with a certain strength. And it's hard to leave that strength behind," the 35-year-old told reporters in Los Angeles recently.
"So you can come into a room and say, `Hi, my name is Vin Diesel.' And you have the threat of `If you don't like me, I'll punch you in the face' kind of feel, which is
not what you really want to do when you're going on auditions."
Vin Diesel
Crawford, Texas
Welcome To Crawford #2
A sign on the road leading into Crawford, Texas, welcomes U.S. President George W. Bush home, August 8, 2002. The president is spending the remainder of August at his ranch outside Waco.
Photo by Larry Downing
Argentina's Game Show
'Human Resources'
In Argentina, where one in five people is unemployed, one game show host doesn't ask, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Instead, the question is a bit more mundane: Who wants a job?
One of the country's top-rated programs, "Human Resources" is a game show that reveals how far the one-time richest economy in South America has fallen. In the midst of a four-year
slump that has battered the peso and pushed half of Argentina's 34 million people into poverty, it offers its two contestants a shot at regular employment.
On a recent cold day in the southern hemisphere winter, Fabian Godoy and his opponent, Cristian Diaz, sit inside a television studio awash in stage lights, watched by family sitting on bleachers behind them.
As their relatives clap, Godoy and Diaz stare into the camera from high metal seats 15 feet apart. Their goal: to no longer be among the 21.5 percent of Argentineans without a job.
Both men are nurses, both unemployed for months, and both need to woo home viewers who phone in during the hour-long show to cast votes for the winner of a 40-hour-a-week job at a home nursing care business.
For the rest, 'Human Resources'
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25th Anniversary
Elvis Presley
Sporting blue suede shoes and pompadour wigs, thousands of Elvis Presley fans will shake rattle and roll their way to Presley's famed Graceland mansion this week, still captivated by burning
love of the rock and roll king on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Beginning Thursday and stretching into the early morning hours of Aug. 16, the date in 1977 Presley died of a drug-induced heart attack at age 42, fans bearing candles and tributes will file
past his grave in the garden of his white-columned home on the outskirts of Memphis.
Organizers of "Elvis Week," which kicked off on Saturday in this river town along the muddy Mississippi, said they expected between 50,000 to 75,000 devotees to show up from around the world.
The Mississippi-born Presley's fame only seems to grow with each passing year, illustrated by the June release of a remix of Presley's little-known song "A Little Less Conversation." The song,
punched up with a techno beat by a Dutch disc jockey, is a No. 1 single in much of Europe, giving Presley 18 lifetime No. 1 hits in the United Kingdom and edging him ahead of the Beatles on that score.
Elvis Presley
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Plays Abused Wife in TV Play
Rosie Perez
Actress Rosie Perez was in for a surprise when she arrived at Lexington's KET studio to co-star in a PBS adaptation of "Poof!"
"You know all the stereotypes about the South and Kentucky ...," she said.
"At first I was wondering, 'Oh my gosh, what's this crew going to be like and everything?' I felt so stupid because I walked into this fully equipped, fully professional,
well-awarded studio. I was such a jerk," Perez said. "I have never experienced a tighter, faster crew than this one. They're just great."
Perez plays an abused housewife in Lynn Nottage's one-act play. "Poof!" had its premiere at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1993 and went on to win the Heideman Award.
Rosie Perez
Crawford, Texas
Welcome To Crawford #3
A sign on the road leading into Crawford, Texas, welcomes U.S. President George W. Bush home, August 8, 2002. The president is spending the remainder of August at his ranch outside Waco, Texas.
Photo by Larry Downing
Long-Canceled Show to Be Held
Elvis Presley
Twenty-five years ago this month, the Cumberland County Civic Center was sold out for back-to-back performances by the king of rock 'n' roll.
But Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, and more than 17,000 heartbroken fans were left holding tickets to the Aug. 17 and Aug. 18 concerts.
In observance of the 25th anniversary of Presley's death, the Civic Center will present a two-hour musical tribute, "The Concert That Never Happened," on Aug. 17, featuring Elvis impersonator Jack Smink.
The Florida-based Smink, who refers to himself as a tribute artist, wants his Aug. 17 show to duplicate as closely as possible the one Presley would have presented, from the song
list to the elaborately embroidered costume.
The master of ceremonies for the show will be Dick Grob, who was Elvis' chief of security.
Elvis Presley
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Dietrich's Daughter Wins in Court
Maria Riva
A German court ordered two publications to pay thousands of dollars in compensation Friday to the daughter of Marlene Dietrich for printing what
they claimed was a nude photo of the late movie star.
Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, sued the newsmagazine Focus and the daily Die Welt after they printed the picture of a naked woman last summer and said it was Dietrich.
In March, a lower court barred Focus and Die Welt from publishing the picture again, but decided that Riva had no right to compensation. The upper
state court in Munich, however, ruled that they must pay Dietrich's daughter $4,840 each.
Focus said it would appeal the ruling in federal court. It issue a statement saying the ruling was an "inteference in press freedom." It was not
immediately known if Die Welt also would appeal.
The court said in a statement that Dietrich never appeared nude in public, and that the publication of the picture after her death infringed her rights.
Maria Riva
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'No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel'
Janice Dickinson
It's possible other top models from the '70s made more money or graced more magazine covers, but none of them had more fun - or more men - than Janice Dickinson, who has written it all down in her memoir.
In "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel," Dickinson reports:
* Jack Nicholson, who was with Anjelica Huston at the time, told Dickinson the morning after they'd had sex, "Do me a favor - don't tell anyone." As for his overall performance, Dickinson notes: "You were OK, Jack. Really. And you can take that any way you want."
* Warren Beatty, Nicholson's best friend at the time, vied for Dickinson's attentions for weeks. When they finally slept together, Dickinson woke up at 3 a.m. to see Beatty "admiring himself in the mirror . . . in the morning when I woke up, he was standing there again, playing with his hair."
* When Mick Jagger kissed Dickinson, it was "like two over-sized electrical hookups made for each other." The night after she'd slept with the rocker, he tossed $400 on her bed and told her to "buy yourself a new frock." Later, when Jagger's then girlfriend Jerry Hall found out about the affair, she called Dickinson and said, "Stay the [bleep] away from Mick. I have a gun in my purse and I know how to use it."
* Bill Cosby - who promoted Dickinson's still-born singing career - became nasty to her in 1984 when she turned him down for sex, claiming she was tired. "Exhausted," the rejected comedian fumed. "After all I've done for you, that's what I get?" - and slammed a door in her face.
* Liam Neeson tried to seduce a then-married Dickinson, but she turned him down.
* Sylvester Stallone had arms that were "massive - bigger than Christy Turlington's thighs" and had an annoying habit of saying, "Bam Ham Slam," after sex. Dickinson slept with Stallone during her affair with TV producer Michael Burnbaum and when she became pregnant, told Stallone the baby was his. When Sly found out the little girl wasn't, he left with these parting words: "Say nice things about me, and I'll say nice things about you."
* After Stallone ditched her, Dickinson ran to Ron Galotti. He met her at a Versace party and said: "Lets blow this popsicle stand and you can tell me all about it." After an all-night chat, he left saying: "Janice, it's time to face the demons."
Now living in Los Angeles and still modeling and working as a photographer, Dickinson says she is now quite single.
Janice Dickinson
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