'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another pleasant day, weather-wise.
The volume of SoBig-related e-mail is to the point where I could spend all my online time doing nothing but deleting. Also starting to miss the 'regular' spam - haven't had a single offer to enhance my penis in over a week.
For the time being, if you want to send me anything, here's a temporary addy - Marty.
Got a box of old pictures from dear old Dad in the mail today. Sure hope it stops raining back there so he stops cleaning the house.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the evening with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Without A Trace', then a RERUN
movie, 'Entrapment'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'American Dreams', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by
another RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC rolls out the movie 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', then a RERUN 'The Practice'.
The WB has the weekly RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then another RERUN 'Charmed'.
Faux begins the night with the self-promoting infomercial 'Fox Box Rocks', followed by a RERUN 'Futurama', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a
RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Malcolm', followed by another RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by the movie 'Strictly Business'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Jackie Gleason), then 'Kathy Durst Case'.
AMC offers the movie 'American Graffiti', followed by the movie 'Saturday Night Fever', then the movie 'Wild At Heart'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Ground Force America' - Summitt;
[8pm] 'Faking It '- Painter Turns Conceptual Artist;
[9pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[10:20pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Painter Turns Conceptual Artist;
[12am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[1:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Ground Force America' - Summitt;
[3am] 'Faking It' - Painter Turns Conceptual Artist;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[4:40am] 'Coupling' - Remember This;
[5:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 1; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo offers 'Full Circle With Michael Palin', followed by 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (Tom Hanks), then the movie 'Good Will Hunting'.
History has 'Incredible But True?', followed by 'XY Factor', then another 'XY Factor'.
SciFi has 'Peter Benchley's "Creature"'.
TCM celebrates William Holden, all day & all night.
[6am] 'Invisible Stripes' (1939);
[8am] 'Golden Boy' (1939);
[10am] 'Our Town' (1940);
[12pm] 'Picnic' (1955);
[2pm] 'The Horse Soldiers' (1959);
[4pm] 'Alvarez Kelly' (1966);
[6pm] 'The Bridge On The River Kwai' (1957);
[9pm] 'The Devil's Brigade' (1968);
[11:30pm] 'Executive Suite' (1954);
[1:30am] 'Network' (1976); and
[3:30am] 'Wild Rovers' (1971). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Japanese samba dancers perform along a downtown Tokyo street at the Asakusa Samba Carnival, August 30, 2003. Tens of thousands of spectators turned up at on Saturday to watch 4,500 dancers perform at the summer festival.
Photo by Issei Kato
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Montclair State University Honors
Abbott and Costello
Montclair State University has named its new recreation center for Abbott and Costello, the New Jersey-born comedy team best known for the "Who's on First" baseball routine.
"We wanted to not only honor our state's heritage but also be a little creative," Montclair State University President Susan A. Cole told The Record of Bergen County.
Lou Costello, the pudgy, animated half of the duo, was a Paterson native, and straight man Bud Abbott hailed from Asbury Park.
Abbott and Costello
www.montclair.edu
www.abbottandcostello.net
Gladiators fight as people watch 'Thunderdome' battles based from the movie 'Mad Max' at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada August 29, 2003. The Burning Man Festival has been celebrated annually since 1986 and draws around 20,000 people to the Black Rock Desert celebrating radical self expression.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
Attracts 30,000 to Desert
Burning Man
Rising from the desert in one of the most remote places on earth is an 80-foot temple topped by the stylized figure of a man.
It wasn't here last week and it won't be here after Saturday night — except for the pile of ashes expected from its ritual burning.
In one of the most bizarre rites of the Silicon Age, nearly 30,000 people are camped in the middle of the Nevada desert 90 miles north of Reno to build and then destroy a temporary city built around a religious icon.
At its most basic level, the annual Burning Man event is a weeklong bacchanalia. Yet since its spontaneous origin on a California beach 17 years ago, participants have often found deeper meaning.
The Aztec-style pyramid and its wood-and-neon Burning Man mark the center of Black Rock City, where streets are named Authority, Creed, Dogma, Faith, Gospel, Reality and Vision, and cross streets are labeled Sacred, Profane, Real and Imagined.
For the rest, Burning Man
www.burningman.com
Marrakech International Film Festival
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone and Ridley Scott will be among the guests of honor at the third Marrakech International Film Festival in October.
King Mohammed VI will present the country's highest award, the Wissam alaouite, to both directors at the festival, which runs Oct. 3-8. French actor Alain Delon also will be honored, organizers said Thursday.
Stone is filming his biography of Alexander the Great on location in the North African kingdom; Scott filmed "Black Hawk Down" and parts of "Gladiator" in Morocco.
Oliver Stone
Toga Party Marks Anniversary
Animal House
Fans of the film broke out the robes Saturday at a town-sponsored toga party, intended to be the world's largest, to mark the 25th anniversary of the film, which was made in Cottage Grove and Eugene.
An "Animal House" parade crawled up Main Street, a small-town thoroughfare that still looks the same as it did in the wild fraternity comedy. Thousands lined the street in this town of about 8,000, chanting, "Toga, Toga!"
Dozens of residents who had bit parts in the film compared fading photographs and memories.
The party animal award went Greg Hamilton, a health technician at a Portland hospital who resembles the movie's late star, John Belushi.
Hamilton said he became fascinated by "Animal House" while a student at the University of Oregon in the early 1990s, when he saw a hole, lovingly preserved, that Belushi had knocked in a fraternity house wall with his guitar.
Animal House
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Pessimistic on 'Reality'
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif was at the Venice Film Festival to present his comeback film "Monsieur Ibrahim" and receive a career Golden Lion award. The Egyptian-born actor said he was positive about "the adventure of life" but pessimistic when it came to "reality."
"There is this terrible disparity between the rich and the poor that generates violence, creates differences, sows hate," he said in Saturday's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
As for the past, Sharif had wonderful memories, especially as he recalled some of the great actresses he'd known.
"Barbra Streisand was different from all the other women. Sophia Loren used to sensually cook spaghetti for everyone in the evening, better than at a restaurant. When I met Ingrid Bergman, it was a moment of religious beauty," he said.
Omar Sharif
Mosadi Seboko is draped in a leopard skin to symbolize her supreme authority as the first Botswana woman paramount chief in Ramotswa village outside Gaberone, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003. Seboko, who was appointed by a council of elders after her brother died, will now officially rule the Balete people of Botswana in traditional matters. Her appointment makes her among the most high-ranking women in traditional leadership in Africa.
Photo by Obed Zilwa
Wedding News
Stella McCartney
Pop star Madonna and model Kate Moss were among celebrities expected at the wedding of fashion designer Stella McCartney, daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, to publisher Alasdhair Willis on the Isle of Bute in western Scotland this weekend.
Besides Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie, famous guests were to include Chrissie Hynde of the group The Pretenders, Chris Martin of the group Coldplay and American movie star Liv Tyler.
The former Formula One racing driver Johnny Dumfries, who bears the ancient hereditary title of seventh Marquis of Bute, is reported to have made his historic family home at Mount Stuart on the island available for a lavish wedding reception.
Stella McCartney
The Right Wing Attacks
Ahnold
A prominent California-based religious group is calling on Arnold Schwarzenegger to set the record straight over a 1977 interview in which the Republican candidate for California governor discussed taking part in an orgy and using marijuana.
Californians for Moral Government said it wanted the action star to "come clean and fully repent and repudiate the years of sexual promiscuity that have been reported," the Rev. Louis Sheldon, the group's chairman, said on Friday in a letter.
Californians for Moral Government is a project of the Traditional Values Victory Fund, part of the Traditional Values Coalition. The Anaheim, California-based TVC touts itself as the largest non-denominational, grass-roots church lobby in America with a membership of about 43,000 churches, including most Christian denominations.
The letter was addressed to 20 of the state assembly's 32 Republicans who have endorsed Schwarzenegger, the leading Republican candidate fighting to become California's next governor. Schwarzenegger and 132 others are battling for the top job in the nation's richest state in an unprecedented recall vote on Oct. 7.
Ahnold
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Egypt Casts Doubt on Discovery
Queen Nefertiti
The mummy a British Egyptologist says could be the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, renowned for her beauty, is much more likely to be a man, Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Saturday.
Joann Fletcher, a mummification specialist from the University of York in England, said in June there was a "strong possibility" her team had unearthed Nefertiti from a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor. The Discovery Channel publicised the find in a television program aired this month.
But Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Hawass, expressed doubts about the find and said there were questions over the gender of the mummy.
"Nefertiti gave birth six times, so her hips should be very broad, but this mummy's hips are very narrow," said Hawass, who inspected the mummy on Friday.
Hawass said Nefertiti was widely believed to be at least 35 years old when she died, but Brothwell's expedition report concluded an age range of 18-30 for the mummy.
For more, Queen Nefertiti
Various 'castellers' begin to fall after forming a human tower in Villafranca del Penedes in Catalunya, eastern Spain Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003. The human tower is built on a base which is formed by about a hundred volunteers who form a foundation for the structure by pushing inwards with their arms.
Photo by Bernat Armangue
Banned In China
Tomb Raider II
Chinese authorities have banned the second Tomb Raider blockbuster starring Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie after complaining that it portrays the country negatively, it was reported.
The report said censors had axed the film because it damaged China's reputation, giving the impression of a country in chaos, with no government and over-run by secret societies.
Ironically, the movie was partly shot in Hong Kong, with several sequences showing relic-hunting action hero Lara Croft, played by Jolie, parachuting into the city's famous Victoria Harbour.
Tomb Raider II
Brenna Dinkel, 8, from Wasilla, Alaska, puts the blue ribbon on her 77.6 pound winning cabbage during the 8th annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-in at the Alaska State Fair, Friday, Aug. 29, 2003. Brenna, who weights 47 pounds, beat 20 other cabbage growers to claim the $2000 prize and bragging rights for the year. The second place cabbage, grown by Scott Robb weight in at 75.7 pounds. The record cabbage is 105 pounds.
Photo by Al Grillo
Officials Probe Bizarre Bank Robbery
Erie, PA
A pizza delivery man told police he had been forced to rob a bank and asked authorities to help him minutes before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and killed him.
On Saturday, federal agents and police in northwestern Pennsylvania were trying to solve the bizarre case of 46-year-old Brian Douglas Wells, who left to deliver a pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped to his body.
No one else was hurt in Friday's explosion, which happened in front of law enforcement officers as they waited for a bomb squad to arrive.
WJET-TV of Erie captured audio and video from Wells as he sat handcuffed in front of a state police cruiser. "Why is nobody trying to come get this thing off me?" he asked.
The tape shows Wells telling authorities someone had started a timer on his bomb under his T-shirt, and that there was little time left.
"It's going to go off," Wells said. "I'm not lying."
For more, Erie, PA
A tiger female licks one of her two 45-day-old tiger cubs at the Matecana zoo of Pereira, August 30, 2003. Three tiger and three lions cubs were baptised before being relocated to several zoos throughout Latin America.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
'Ark of Darkness'
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