'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
He's Been Busy, Again!
the worried shrimp
The Chosin Chickenhawk...
New TV Schedule - Season/Series Premieres
Sunday
(all times eastern) ABC 7 - 9 The Wonderful World of Disney (Sept 29) 9 - 10 Alias (Sept 29) 10 - 11 The Practice (Sept 29) CBS 7 - 8 60 Minutes (Sept 29) 8 - 8:30 Bram & Alice (Sept 29) * 8:30 - 9 Becker (Sept 29) 9 - 11 CBS Sunday Movie (Sept 29) NBC 8 - 9 American Dreams (Sept 29) * 9 - 10 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Sept 29) 10 - 11 Boomtown (Sept 29) * The WB 8 - 9 Charmed (Sept 22) 9 - 10 Angel (Oct 6) Faux 8 - 8:30 The Simspons (Nov 3) 8:30 - 9 King of the Hill (Nov 3) 9 - 9:30 Malcolm (Nov 3) 9:30 - 10 The Grubbs (Nov 3) * * Denotes New Program
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another lovely day, and the evenings are starting to feel a bit crisp.
Penn State's Joe Paterno and his Nittany Lions sure kicked the ass of Nebraska. Gonna be a happy night in Happy Valley.
Got fresh crickets for the lizards, and the little critters are chirping up a storm.
Prime time TV in LA was so sucky tonight that I ended up watching 'The Pat Boone Channel' (Ch. 56 - KDOC - and the home of Wally George), and watched an old
'MacMillan & Wife', which has a lot of unintended humor considering how things worked out...
Tonight, Sunday, as usual, CBS starts with '60 Minutes' follows it with a rerun of 'Becker' and then the movie 'Message In A Bottle'.
NBC has 'Dateline', then a fresh (to NBC) 'Forensic Files' followed by a rerun of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' and a rerun of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC kills an hour with a rerun 'Bloopers' then the movie 'Notting Hill'.
The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls', 'Charmed', and 'Angel'.
Faux has the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
UPN offers a 2-hour rerun of 'Enterprise'.
'The Osbournes' rerun on MTV at 10:30 pm.
'The Sopranos' return tonight on HBO. It's followed by the season opener of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'.
AMC has The Abyss (1989), which I thought was mis-named. Should have been 'The Abcess'.
TCM has the classic
The Lost Weekend (1945), unflinchingly directed by
Billy Wilder and starring
Ray Milland and Maureen Reagan's mom,
Jane Wyman.
For something a little more mindless, later in the evening it's
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), starring
Doris Day and
Rod Taylor (who was also in
The Time Machine (1960) and
The Birds (1963)).
This movie has a wonderful slate of character actors -
Paul Lynde,
Dom DeLuise,
Ellen Corby (Grandma Walton), and
Dick Martin (as in 'Rowan & Martin').
Edward Andrews and
John McGiver have been in hundreds of movies - their faces are probably more familiar than their names.
And, don't forget
Alice Pearce (Gladys Kravitz from 'Bewitched') &
George Tobias (Abner Kravitz from 'Bewitched'), again playing a couple.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Ohio
Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tim Hagan Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, in Cleveland. Clinton earlier attended a fund raiser for
Hagan's campaign against incumbent Gov. Bob Taft.
Photo by Mark Duncan
Set To Tour
Marsalis Family
The Marsalises, recognized as the first family of jazz, will open a rare tour together at the Place des Arts in Montreal on Feb. 25.
The five-date tour featuring Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo, Jason and Ellis Marsalis will include stops at Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, N.Y., on Feb. 27; New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark,
N.J. (March 1); Verizon Hall at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia (March 2); and Symphony Hall in Boston (March 3).
Branford Marsalis, the former "Tonight Show" bandleader, is touring on his own up to the family dates in support of his first album for his own Marsalis Music label, "Footsteps of Our Fathers," which is distributed by Rounder Records.
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is without a contract for jazz recordings, though he continues to record for Sony Classical. Sony Oct. 1 will release "All Rise," his epic work recorded a year ago at the Hollywood Bowl
with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Trombonist Delfeayo, drummer Jason and their pianist father Ellis are also unsigned.)
Marsalis Family
Mistaken for Another Chris
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker says he doesn't feel slighted when he's confused with another famous Chris.
While appearing at a forum on raising successful black boys, author Nathan Hare nodded in Tucker's direction and told the audience how pleased he was to be on a panel with Chris Rock. But Tucker,
co-star with Jackie Chan in the popular "Rush Hour" films, shrugged off the mix-up.
"You can call me anybody. I know who I am," Tucker said, a reference to the forum's theme of instilling self confidence in black boys.
Chris Tucker
Will He Stay Or Will He Go?
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe may have made the best "mistake" of his life when he quit "The West Wing." Sources close to the actor say three networks - including NBC, which airs the
hit - have contacted Lowe to develop his own show. "NBC was the first to call," the spy said. "There is lots of love for him there - his problem is with Warner
Bros. [the show's producer]." Lowe quit "West Wing" a month ago when Warner refused to negotiate his $70,000-per-episode salary. Star Martin Sheen had just gotten
a raise to $300,000 per. Meanwhile, Sheen and other actors have made public pleas for Lowe to stay on the show.
Rob Lowe
Women in Journalism Stamps
Helen Thomas
Journalist Helen Thomas, left, helps unveil the Women in Journalism stamps during ceremony marking the stamps first day of issue Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002, in Fort Worth, Texas. The U. S. Postal
Service honored four accomplished female journalists, Nellie Bly, Marquerite Higgins, Ethel L. Payne and Ida M. Tarbell.
Photo by Jennifer Long
Releasing Lost Beatle Track
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is to release a Beatles track unheard for 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda's photographs, The Sunday Times said.
The 14-minute "Carnival of Light," first recorded by the Beatles when they were making their Sgt. Pepper Album, had last been played at a London avant-garde festival in 1967.
Beatles producer George Martin was quoted by the paper as saying: "It was one of those weird things. It was a kind of uncomposed, free-for-all melange of sound that went on.
The paper said McCartney now planned to use it as the soundtrack to his "photofilm" of Linda's photos of the world's most famous pop group.
Paul McCartney
PBS Helping To Re-Write History?
Re: 1950's Blacklist
A ghost is haunting Hollywood -- the specter of the long-abandoned anti-Communist blacklist of the 1950s.
In a testament to the staying power of the controversial list, the widow of famed liberal film producer Stanley Kramer is thinking of suing the Public Broadcasting Service
for a documentary she calls "a hatchet job" on her late husband and his relationships with a blacklisted writer of that era.
Karen Sharpe Kramer says that the documentary, "Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents," scheduled to air on PBS Sept. 17, defames her husband by suggesting that
he turned against partner Carl Foreman, depriving him of credit for the film "High Noon," after Foreman was declared an "uncooperative witness" by a communist-hunting congressional committee.
Kramer, who died last year at age 87, produced such socially conscious movies as "Judgement at Nuremberg," and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." He is also credited as
producer of "High Noon," whose script was written by Foreman. The PBS documentary, produced and directed by film writer and self-styled neo-conservative Lionel Chetwynd,
contends that "High Noon" was originally a Foreman production but that Kramer "hijacked" his colleague's executive producer credit after Foreman was blacklisted. Foreman
continued to be listed as writer of the film.
Mrs. Kramer says that far from being an unsympathetic film industry kingpin, Stanley Kramer stood up for blacklisted writers and gave them work. "Stanley always said he didn't believe in
the blacklist," Mrs. Kramer said in an interview. "He said, 'I'll hire anybody I damn well please."'
For all the details, Re: 1950's Blacklist
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Nude Photos Back on Market
Marilyn Monroe
The "Red Velvet" photo collection depicting a nude Marilyn Monroe will go on sale once again.
After an unsuccessful attempt to auction the collection on eBay, Ventura photographer Tom Kelley Jr. says he is continuing his search for a buyer.
Kelley inherited the photos when his father died in 1984.
The collection includes six pictures of Monroe leaning against a red velvet curtain. Along with the photos come the intellectual property rights, which allow the buyer to use the images for trade and advertising.
The photos were on a 1952 pinup calendar and became Playboy magazine's first centerfold. They are credited with helping launch Monroe's career.
Marilyn Monroe
'Unseen Cinema — America's Avant Garde 1893-1941'
National Gallery of Art
A series of 75 short films spanning half a century — movies as a form of modern art — will open Saturday at the National Gallery of Art.
Like some 20th-century paintings, titles such as "Tomato Is Another Day" and "Mr. Motorboat's Last Stand," both made in 1933, can lure an audience but provide little idea of the work's content.
Both films are on Saturday's program, called "A Mirrored Romance."
The overall series has the general title "Unseen Cinema — America's Avant Garde 1893-1941."
The films are presented in seven batches of about 90 minutes each, ending Sept. 28 with a group called "Ecstatic Moments Along the River of Time." The final batch includes footage shot in Mexico
by the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein for his projected epic "Que Viva Mexico!" It was never produced in the grandiose form he intended.
Though some experts see art movies as going back only to the period of World War II, the National Gallery sees them beginning as early as the first film cameras of the 1890s. Many the gallery
is showing are not mentioned in the usual texts on art films.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery
First Son
Louis Osbourne
He's the Osbourne that MTV forgot - but in-the-know nightclubbers will be bobbing their heads to Louis Osbourne when he deejays at Webster Hall this month. Sired by Ozzy during his first marriage, Louis, 26 - who headlines gigs
alongside the likes of Basement Jaxx - spins for a hipper-than-thou crowd of 5,000 clubland professionals at ClubNation, the first-ever national nightlife seminar, at Webster Hall from Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
Louis Osbourne
Event At University of Tampa
Greg Palast
When: Saturday, September 21st 7:00pm
Where: Falk Theater, University of Tampa
How Much: $10 advance, $15 door
FILM and SPEECH: UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Not only the Tampa premiere of the new film, with the film's co-director Joan Sekler
(co-founder of The Independent Media Center) but also a speech by BBC
investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN
BUY.
Palast's speeches on WMNF's Radioactivity program have caused a
torrent of interest from listeners. The film is the riveting story about the
battle for the presidency in Florida during the 2000 election. It also tells how
Republican political operatives used their access to voting lists to
undermine the black vote.
This event is being sponsored by WMNF, 88.5FM
Season Premiere Tonight!
'The Sopranos'
Sopranos cast members Lorraine Bracco, left, Tony Sirico, second from left, John Ventimiglia, center in blue, Steve R. Schirripa, rear, and James Gandolfini, unseen rear, throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002, before
a game between the Yankees and Chicago White Sox.
Photo by Paul Hawthorne
Fights For Malibu
Don Henley
Rock singer Don Henley has urged the state Coastal Commission to severely limit development of Malibu.
"Most people think of Malibu as movie stars and mansions and fancy cars," Henley told a public hearing in Los Angeles on Thursday.
But "for those who live in Malibu and cherish it, and for the many who come to visit, Malibu is defined by the way the mountains meet the sea, the wide-open natural spaces,
and the rugged mountain canyon vistas," he said.
Henley, who has owned land in Malibu since 1974, urged the commission, which has final authority over coastal land use, to adopt a plan halting the Malibu City Council's
proposal for development around its downtown civic center.
Don Henley
BartCop TV!
Fund-Raiser In U.K.
'Simpsons' Marathon
Ten fans in Wales have started a 25-hour marathon watching "The Simpsons." They'll be watching 70 episodes of the cartoon to raise money to send the Welsh Special Needs
Power Lifting Team to the World Championships in Dublin, Ireland.
They hope to raise about $1,500.
The event was to take place in a store window overnight. Participants were armed with cushions to keep comfy during the marathon.
'Simpsons' Marathon
Construction Worker
India
An Indian construction worker stacks bricks on her head as she labors at a building site in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002.
Photo by Richard Vogel
Honored at Americana Awards
Johnny Cash & Emmylou Harris
The notion that something has gone wrong with country music got heavyweight support this weekend from Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris.
Both were honored Friday night at the Americana Awards Show, and each made it clear they feel more at home on the margins of the industry — where they feel its real heart is.
The Americana Music Association's first awards show promoted a rawer, less flashy version of country than the music of Shania Twain and other mainstream Nashville stars.
The highlight of the night was a rare appearance by the 70-year-old Cash, who has had health setbacks in recent years including diabetes and bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis.
Johnny Cash & Emmylou Harris
Americana Music Association
Turns 18 Today
Prince Harry
Britain's Prince Harry received an offbeat 18th birthday present on Saturday -- his own coat of arms -- and one of the world's top celebrity photographers transformed the young redhead into a right royal sex symbol.
Harry was involved in designing his coat of arms, and showed his determination to cherish his mother's memory by incorporating in it an emblem from her Spencer family coat of arms.
The crest -- a shield with a lion on one side, a unicorn on the other and above it a coronet and another lion -- also features a small, red escallop from the Spencer coat of arms.
Harry, who turns 18 on Sunday, is keen to shed his "wild child" image after revelations earlier this year of his dabbling in marijuana and under-age drinking.
Buckingham Palace, masters of media management, carefully choreographed the birthday celebrations, during which Harry visited a children's hospital and also met young offenders. Then
came the Testino set of birthday portraits.
Prince Harry
Must Make Do On 'Only' $50,316 A Month
Lisa Bonder Kerkorian
The most high profile child support case in recent U.S. history ended on Friday with a judge ruling that the 4-year-old daughter of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian
must make do with $50,316 a month instead of the almost $500,000 a month her mother wanted.
The judge instead awarded her $50,316 a month to take care of Kira, more than double Kirk Kerkorian's offer of $22,206 per month and just $316 more per month than Kerkorian now pays.
The 84-year-old tycoon has accepted paternity for the child, though both sides agree that he is not the biological father.
That amount includes no money for housing -- the judge noted that Kerkorian gave his ex-wife more than $3 million to buy a Los Angeles-area home and another $3 million to remodel it. Bonder Kerkorian
then took a lien against the property and used it to buy $2.5 million worth of jewelry, the judge said.
Among the monthly expenses the judge allowed were: $5,708 for two nannies; $2,400 equestrian activities; $1,400 for French, ballet and piano lessons; $2,000 for clothing; $3,500 for auto leases;
$360 for aquarium care; $602 for pets; $187 for toys and $4,240 for household staff.
Lisa Bonder Kerkorian
Off Gijon, Spain
Giant Squid
Marine biologists measure a giant squid captured by Spanish fisherman off the northern coast of Spain near Gijon Saturday, Sept 14, 2002. The squid, measuring
6 meters (19 feet 10 inches) and weighing 50 kilograms (110 pounds) is another example of the rare marine animal that scientists are efforting to learn more about.
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