'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another way too hot day.
The kid & I walked over to the local Albertson's. It's not my favorite store, but it is convenient. Am I the only one annoyed by their new Patricia Heaton commercials? Shit - the one where she's in the back seat of a limo, hair being tended & she
decides she needs Jimmy the chauffeur to run by the store. He parks illegally in the fire lane while she runs in, then comes out overloaded with bags. Once back inside the limo, she tosses him a bag of cookies & says she didn't forget about him. WTF?
The hair-tender didn't deserve any cookies? Special people get to park in fire lanes? Cookies are a cheap tip? Isn't it wonderful to be a celebrity?
Jeez.
TV was so bad, ended up watching 'The A Team' on the Pat Boone channel. Long time ago had an old, old lady for a landlord who loved 'The A Team'. If you were unlucky enough to drop by while 'her' show was on, one was
expected to sit down on her scratchy brown couch, shut up and wait til the final credit rolled. Just another flashback of life in the Valley.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN 'Without A Trace', then a RERUN
movie, 'Breakdown'.
NBC begins the evening with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'American Dreams', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by
a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN movie, 'City Slickers', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', then a RERUN
'The Practice'.
The WB offers the RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a 2-hour RERUN 'Charmed' (the final episode of the 5th season).
Faux has a RERUN 'Futurama', followed by the tv-debut of the movie 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Biography' (the 'Mary Tyler Moore Show'), followed by 'Meet The Royals'.
AMC offers the movie 'My Fair Lady', followed by the movie 'Scent Of A Woman'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'Ground Force America' - Queens;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[9pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't;
[10:20pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[12am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren'tThe Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't;
[1:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'Ground Force America' - Queens
[3am] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[4:40am] 'Coupling' - The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't;
[5:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 2; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Full Circle With Michael Palin', 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (Harrison Ford), 'Boy Meets Boy', and another 'Boy Meets Boy'.
History has 'Dead Reckoning', 'End Of The World', and 'Bible Code: Predicting Armageddon'.
SciFi has the movie 'John Carpenter's Vampires', followed by the movie 'John Carpenter Presents "Body Bags"'.
Showtime blows chimpy.
TCM -
[6am] 'Journey For Margaret' (1942);
[7:30am] 'Tea And Sympathy' (1956);
[10am] 'Gentlemen Marry Brunettes' (1955);
[12pm] 'If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium' (1969);
[2pm] 'Yours, Mine And Ours' (1968);
[4pm] 'High Society' (1956);
[6pm] 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955);
[8pm] 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film' (2002);
[9:30pm] 'Annie Hall' (1977);
[11:30pm] 'Festival of Shorts #24' (2000);
[12am] 'Sea Hawk' (1924) (Silent);
[2:15am] 'Welcome To Hard Times' (1967); and
[4am] 'Dirty Dingus Magee' (1970). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Former President Bill Clinton celebrates with teamsters the 100-year anniversary of the creation of the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters during a ceremony in Washington Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003.
Photo by Susan Walsh
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Hollywood Walk of Fame Star #2235
David Spade
David Spade, 39, who uses smug sarcasm as shtick, claimed the 2,235th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at a ceremony Friday in front of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
"Getting this star really, really means a lot to me," said Spade, currently starring in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." "There's a rumor that it's somehow tied to frequent flier miles and I'm hoping that's not true."
Guests at the event included Spade's "SNL" colleague Chris Rock, and his "Just Shoot Me" sitcom co-stars Wendy Malick and Laura San Giacomo.
David Spade
Plays Taps at the Touch of a Button
New 'Bugle'
Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips.
Only some 500 buglers are on active duty on any one day, but about 1,800 people with military service die across the country each day and are eligible for honors ceremonies, Air Force Lt. Col. Cynthia Colin, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said Thursday.
So the Defense Department worked with private industry to invent the "ceremonial bugle," which has a small digital recording device inserted into its bell to play the music.
A member of the honor guard at the funeral simply presses a button on the device. A five-second delay gives the guards time to raise the instrument to their lips as if they are going to play it.
Use of the $500 instrument "is intended to enhance the dignity of military funeral honors," the Pentagon said.
New 'Bugle'
www.ceremonialbugle.com
Thanks, Steve!
Avery Brooks Stars
'Oedipus'
Under the Acropolis, a company of American actors will perform an adapted version of the Oedipus myth in a trip to the play's homeland that was conceived in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
The open-air performances by the Washington, D.C.-based Shakespeare Theatre under a full moon Wednesday and Thursday, the second anniversary of the attacks, are keenly awaited in Athens.
The cast is all-black and the story, told in English, has moved from Thebes to an "invented ancient world" in Africa where drums beat and dancers stomp. And two leading actors are known to moviegoers and TV audiences for their parts in "Star Trek" and "The Cosby Show."
"I think we have achieved a very clear and powerful story, and I don't really doubt that we'll be able to communicate that," said Avery Brooks, Capt. Benjamin Sisko on "Star Trek," who plays the gold-cloaked Oedipus, speaking by telephone during rehearsals in New York.
Earle Hyman, the "Cosby" family patriarch, is Teiresias, the blind prophet who counsels King Oedipus.
'Oedipus'
www.shakespearetheatre.org
www.hellenicfestival.gr
Members of the women's group Code Pink unfurl a banner in protest opposite the new campaign headquarters of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican candidate for California governor, in Santa Monica, September 5, 2003. Schwarzenegger is running in the October 7 California recall election.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
Matthews, Young, Nelson, Crow
Farm Aid
Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, and John Mellencamp are just a few of the big-name acts performing at Farm Aid 2003 on Sunday (September 7). The sold-out show takes place at the Germain Amphitheatre in Columbus, Ohio. The list of Farm Aid performers also includes Hootie & The Blowfish, Vanessa Carlton, Brooks & Dunn, and Emmylou Harris.
For those interested in watching the concert from the comfort of their home, show organizers will stream a video feed of the happenings on
farmaid.com. The suggested donation of $20 to view the broadcast will go to the organization's cause.
Farm Aid
Poised for Concert Tour
Simon & Garfunkel
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have reserved dates at concert arenas across the country, said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar, a concert industry trade publication. And they were scheduled to make a "very special announcement" at a New York nightclub on Tuesday, publicists said.
There has been talk of a tour since Simon & Garfunkel performed together to open the Grammy Awards ceremony in February, and they've done the logistical groundwork, Bongiovanni said.
They've reunited periodically, most notably for a concert tour of stadiums in 1983 and for a series of shows in 1993, Bongiovanni said.
Simon & Garfunkel
Pays 'Dues' with Canadian Indie
Sir Ian McKellen
Despite decades as a stage and screen legend, Sir Ian McKellen still felt he had dues to pay while spending last summer in British Columbia filming Hollywood blockbuster "X2" so he took a role in a small independent Canadian production.
"I felt rather guilty," the Academy Award-nominated actor said on Saturday. "There was I, a visitor, highly paid, making an American movie in your beautiful country. I didn't really think I'd quite earned the right to the wonderful time that I was having."
It was Canadian director Carl Bessai's good fortune that McKellen's X-Men role only required 15 days of work over 15 weeks, leaving him with ample time to "throw in with these local filmmakers."
Sir Ian McKellen
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
National Spokesman of Anemia Lifeline
Danny Glover
Actor Danny Glover said he saw the improvement in his father's life after he was treated for anemia while suffering from kidney failure.
Since then, Glover, 56, has become the national spokesman of Anemia Lifeline, an organization helping people with the condition that can stem from diseases like kidney failure, diabetes, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and AIDS.
Glover said it's important for people suffering with anemia, which can be detected with a blood test, to not just accept the problem as a condition of their disease.
Danny Glover
www.anemia.com
A member of Japan's 'Amigo Nippon' Mariachi band smiles during the 10th International Mariachi Encounter's opening parade Saturday Sept. 6, 2003, in Guadalajara City, Mexico.
Photo by Guillermo Arias
Hometown Weighs Tribute
Charles Bronson
Ehrenfeld, PA, the tiny hometown of movie tough guy Charles Bronson might honor him with a historical marker and a renamed street. Then again, it might not.
Many residents of the borough of 234 people say Bronson — born Charles Buchinsky on Nov. 3, 1921 — rarely visited or looked up childhood friends.
"Someone asked for permission to have a sign put up at the entrance of town about a year ago, and borough council voted against it," said council president Albert Keller. "They said Charlie didn't do a damn thing for this town."
Charles Bronson
Ho-Hum on Recall
Hollywood
Hollywood stars, never at a loss for words on politics, seem to have forgotten their lines when it comes to the upcoming California recall election and the candidacy of fellow actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As of Friday, the only major celebrity listed as a contributor to Schwarzenegger was "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer. He gave $1,000.
Actor Rob Lowe, onetime Democratic activist and former star of NBC's "The West Wing," was subsequently named as "celebrity coordinator" for Schwarzenegger. But his campaign has managed to enlist endorsements from just a handful of famous faces, most of them one-time Arnold co-stars, among them Jamie Lee Curtis ("True Lies") and James Caan ("Eraser").
Others include Jim Belushi, Tom Arnold, fellow muscleman turned action star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, comedian Dennis Miller and filmmaker Ivan Reitman, who directed Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop."
One surprising rebuff to Schwarzenegger came from Clint Eastwood, the former mayor of Carmel, who was recently quoted in his hometown newspaper as declining to endorse Schwarzenegger and warning the "Terminator" star to be "careful what you wish for" in his bid to enter political life.
Hollywood
Reschedule Beijing Concert
Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are planning to play their first concert in China in November after canceling shows earlier this year because of SARS.
The rock band is scheduled to play Nov. 14 in Beijing at the 17,000-seat Capital Gymnasium, Chen Jixin of the Beijing Time New Century Entertainment Co. said Friday.
The Stones also may play shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai, though dates haven't been confirmed, Chen said. She had no details on ticket prices or opening acts.
Rolling Stones
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Borrows From Scriptwriters
Ahnold
With lines like "Game over" and "Hasta la vista, baby," action hero (sic) Arnold Schwarzenegger is deploying an off-the-shelf arsenal of pop-culture catchphrases in his campaign for governor of California.
Schwarzenegger, who gained famed with the 1977 documentary "Pumping Iron" about his bodybuilding career, announced his gubernatorial run on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" by saying, "Hasta la vista, baby" about the incumbent. Schwarzenegger uttered the line in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
During the same appearance, Schwarzenegger borrowed the crazed anchorman's cry from "Network," a 1976 movie he did not appear in: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
The risk is that the candidate won't be taken seriously.
On Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart cracked that Schwarzenegger will be "up to `kiss my grits'" soon — then showed a picture of the feisty waitress Flo from the 1970s TV series "Alice."
For more, Ahnold
A helicopter crashes while filming the start of the 2nd National Water Ski Racing Association (NWSRA) Marathon race that was to begin within minutes at the Long Beach Harbor, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003, in Long Beach, Calif. All four occupants were rescued safely. The remaining two races for the day were canceled in order to investigate the crash site. Races were rescheduled for Sunday.
Photo by Richard Wisdom
Russian Film, Sean Penn Honored
Venice Film Festival
An intense Russian father-and-son drama, "The Return," won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for best picture Saturday, though first-time director Andrey Zvyagintsev remained shaken by the death of the 15-year-old star of the movie.
Other winners included Sean Pean for best actor in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "21 Grams," about three people thrown together by an accident.
Best actress went to Katja Riemann for Margarethe von Trotta's "Rosenstrasse," which deals with a deportation of Jews in 1943 Berlin.
The Jury Grand Prix Silver Lion went to Lebanese-born Randa Chahal Sabbag's "The Kite," a drama against the backdrop of the Mideast conflict. Japanese director Takeshi Kitano won best director for "Zatoichi," about a blind swordsman in 19th century Japan.
Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio won Outstanding Individual Contribution for the script of "Good Morning, Night," about the 1978 kidnapping and murder by leftist terrorists of politician Aldo Moro. Local reports said the director had his nose out of joint over not taking the top prize, and wasn't attending the awards ceremony.
In the Upstream competition for less mainstream films, the top San Marco Prize of $55,500 for best film went to Hiner Saleem's "Vodka Lemon," while Scarlett Johansson won as best actress in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation," a delightful crowd favorite also starring Bill Murray.
For more, Venice Film Festival
Royal Auditions
'Reed Dance'
Tens of thousands of bare-breasted young maidens danced in front of King Mswati on Friday -- many hoping to catch his eye and become his next wife.
A record 50,000 young women staged Swaziland's annual "Reed Dance," taking part in a traditional ceremony now seen as an audition to join King Mswati's many wives.
The 35-year-old king, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, now has 10 wives and one fiancee -- a royal luxury that has drawn criticism as his small southern African kingdom battles poverty and a raging AIDS epidemic.
"I am tired of being poor. I want to be a queen. I hope the king sees me," said 17-year-old Nomsa Gama, wearing the traditional dance costume of a small piece of beaded fabric around her waist.
While women's rights activists have slammed Mswati's marriage habits as feudalistic and health care workers have raised concerns they send the wrong message about AIDS, the prospect of joining royalty has a strong allure for many young Swazi women.
"I want a limousine, and a house like they give the queens. I want my children to school in England," said 14 year-old Phindile Thwala, one of this year's dancers.
'Reed Dance'
CA History From 1934
Upton Sinclair
California appeared to have gone mad. The Democratic Party's choice for governor had been rejected, a celebrity was getting all the headlines, and officials feared for the state's future.
It was 1934 and novelist Upton Sinclair was running for office.
The recall vote on Gov. Gray Davis and the candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger make for one of the weirdest campaigns in recent memory. But it's not the first time that a race for California governor has threatened the party establishment, or that Hollywood is in the middle.
"Sinclair's campaign was an unprecedented example of Hollywood's involvement in politics and was the first real media campaign of the modern era," says Neil Gabler, author of the Hollywood history "An Empire of Their Own."
In the early 1930s, California was suffering from the Great Depression and was at a loss about how to sustain the wave of people fleeing from other states, somehow believing the Golden State would save them.
For a good read & an interesting history lesson, Upton Sinclair
Not on Hunger Strike, ICRC Says
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
The Red Cross, the first independent agency to meet Aung San Suu Kyi since she was reported on hunger strike last week, said on Saturday Myanmar's detained opposition leader was well and not fasting.
Two officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met Suu Kyi privately for one hour earlier on Saturday.
"This afternoon the ICRC paid a visit to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to deliver the family messages," the statement said. "According to the ICRC, they found her well and also that she was not on hunger strike as alleged by some quarters."
The State Department first reported the hunger strike last Sunday, a day after new Myanmar Prime Minister Khin Nyunt promised a "road map to democracy" in a speech three months after Suu Kyi was detained.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
In Memory
Gisele MacKenzie
Singer-actress Gisele MacKenzie, who became one of early television's biggest stars through her appearances on "Your Hit Parade," has died of colon cancer. She was 76.
MacKenzie died Friday at Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, said her daughter, Gigi Downs.
Once known as Canada's first lady of song, the daughter of a Winnipeg doctor and musically gifted mother moved to Los Angeles with her family in 1951.
Two years later she had joined "Your Hit Parade," whose regulars would sing the seven most popular songs of the week.
In 1957, she left the show to headline her own musical variety program, "The Gisele MacKenzie Show." It lasted half a year.
She returned to weekly television in 1963 as a regular on "The Sid Caesar Show."
"She sang, played the violin, worked in the sketches — she did everything," Caesar told the Los Angeles Times. "She was a wonderfully, wonderfully talented woman. She was a great singer and a great musician and had a great sense of humor."
MacKenzie began singing and playing the violin and piano as a child in Canada, studying at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. She appeared on her own Canadian Broadcasting Corp. show, "Meet Gisele," before moving to the United States.
In Los Angeles, she began appearing on radio with Edgar Bergen and Morton Downey and was a regular on Bob Crosby's Club 15 show and a featured performer on radio's "The Mario Lanza Show."
In 1952 and 1953 she toured with Jack Benny, who recommended her for a spot on "Your Hit Parade."
She continued to appear regularly on television into the 1990s, on such shows as "Studio One," "The Hollywood Squares," "Murder, She Wrote," "MacGyver" and "Boy Meets World."
Survivors include her daughter and a son, Mac Shuttleworth.
Gisele MacKenzie
Two birds of paradise (paradise minor), one of the most well-known and famous species in Indonesia's remote Papua province, sit on a perch August 27, 2003 at an aviary built by Dr John Manangsang, who cares for birds shot and injured by poachers. Manangsang wants to set up a bird sanctuary in a nature reserve not far from his home to help the birds, among a number of protected species being threatened by illegal smuggling.
Photo by Beawiharta
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