'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The kid woke up with a sore throat, and as the day progressed, it's turned into a nasty cold. Wish I'd stocked up on Kleenex!
Tried to watch 'Miss America' but was grossed out by so many overt christian responses, to the point where it seemed if someone didn't mention that she had a personal lord & savior
the candidate must be the pageant's 'black sheep'. How sad religious-piety-for-mass-consumption is worth enough points to be an issue.
The kid spotted mites on Mo, the female lizard, which is a big bummer. Gonna spend a good chunk of Sunday cleaning & 'treating' habitats.
6 days til the big Vegas trip. Nothing like a road trip to make every thing all better.
Recommended reading - 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson. Hell, anything written by Hunter S. Thompson is worth reading!
The Emmys are tonight - check out The Big List of nominees.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS has the traditional '60 Minutes' followed by a rerun of 'Becker', and then a repeat of the movie 'Tomorrow Never Dies'.
NBC has 'The Emmy Awards'. Wonder how long it'll 'run-over' - LOL.
ABC opens with a rerun 'special' 'Favorite Stars: Then & Now', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.
The WB starts with a rerun 'Gilmore Girls', and follows with the season premiere of 'Charmed' (uh-oh, mermaids & pasties are involved).
Faux opens with a rerun 'Futurama' and follows with a rerun of the movie 'The Fugitive'.
UPN has a rerun of the 2nd season opener of 'Enterprise' and then the movie 'Set It Off'.
MTV has the weekly rerun of 'The Osbournes' at 10:30pm (edt).
HBO has fresh 'The Sopranos' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'.
Early in the evening (or mid-afternoon on the left coast), TCM has
High Noon (1952), starring
Gary Cooper - one of the best westerns ever made.
Much later in the evening it's The Bed Sitting Room (1969),
directed by Richard Lester (who also directed
A Hard Day's Night (1964) and
Help! (1965)).
The first time I saw The Bed Sitting Room (1969) was in my very first
apartment in the big city - er, Valley. Was watching "Toma" (1973) starring
Tony Musante, and fell asleep. When I woke up, The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
was on (as the late night movie). For awhile was awestruck by Toma's disguises. The lesson learned from that night was to always have a TV Guide handy.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Hosting Emmy Awards Tonight
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien subscribes to the baseball umpire theory of hosting an awards show.
A good umpire knows he's succeeded if nobody knows his name when he leaves the stadium. If his name is on everybody's lips, it's usually because he blew a call.
With the Emmys rotating networks each year, whoever is broadcasting the ceremony sees an opportunity to spotlight one of its stars. NBC decided to bypass Jay Leno and give exposure to O'Brien.
It's been a big year already for the 38-year-old comedian. He got married in January (to ad executive Liza Powel), and signed a new four-year contract that, by some accounts, doubled his salary to nearly $8 million a year.
He's still trying to figure how much prepared material he will need and how much he'll be able to simply respond to events.
For a whole lot more - Conan O'Brien
http://www.emmys.com/
Stamp To Be Issued In April
Cesar Chavez
A new stamp honoring farm labor leader Cesar E. Chavez was unveiled Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002, in Washington by the Postal Service. The 37-cent stamp will be issued next April. Paul Chavez, son of the civil rights campaigner, said
the "stamp is a powerful vehicle to introduce a new generation of Americans to his vital legacy, teaching them that through determination and hard work they can improve their own lives and communities."
More Underage Drinking Reported
Barbara Bush
Fun loving first daughter Barbara Bush made the scene at crystal queen Nadja Swarovski's dinner for wunderkind designer Zac Posen at Mr. Chow on Thursday night. She danced up a storm until 2a.m. with some college pals and swilled
several glasses of white wine while her tank top straps slipped off to reveal a bit of lacy black bra. No one asked for ID and her Secret Service detail was nowhere to be seen. SEAN Lennon and his wild-child gal pal Bijou Phillips
made the scene at crystal queen Nadja Swarovski's dinner for wunderkind designer Zac Posen at Mr. Chow Thursday night. Natalie Portman, k.d. lang, James King and "Die Hard 2" director Renny Harlin were also on hand at the bash.
Phillips tripped over some speaker wire at one point and nearly knocked DJ Marc Ronson off his platform. Later, she and Posen drew applause for their raucous rap-style dirty dancing.
Barbara Bush
No Criminal Charges Filed
Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin escaped criminal prosecution on Friday for punching a conspiracy theorist who wanted him to swear on a Bible that he really did walk on the moon in 1969.
Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file a misdemeanor battery charge against the 72-year-old ex-astronaut, who said he was defending himself and his stepdaughter when he clocked 37-year-old
Bart Winfield Sibrel outside a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9.
Sibrel -- who made TV documentaries and films debunking the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 -- videotaped the incident for a new film. He submitted the tape to Beverly Hills police and asked that
assault charges be filed against Aldrin.
Beverly Hills police said witnesses came forward during the investigation saying they saw Sibrel aggressively poke Aldrin with a Bible and that Sibrel had lured Aldrin to the hotel under false pretenses
so he could interview the space hero.
Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Ratinoff said the videotape showed Sibrel following Aldrin on the street with a Bible and calling him a "thief, liar and coward."
When the ex-astronaut struck Sibrel once in the face with his fist, Sibrel turned to his camera crew and asked: "Did you get that?" Ratinoff said.
Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin
Farm Aid 2002
Dave, Neil, Willie, John, & Matt
Dave Matthews, left, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Matt McConaughey are shown backstage before the start of Farm Aid 2002 in Burgettstown, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002.
Photo by Jasmine Gehris
Earth's Newest Satellite
Apollo 12
Earth's new satellite is most likely the third stage of a massive Saturn V rocket that lifted Apollo 12 astronauts to the moon in November 1969, according to astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Last seen in an elongated 43-day orbit around Earth, the bus-sized rocket stage escaped Earth orbit in March 1971, the laboratory's Paul Chodas said in a statement.
Known now as J002E3 and first seen by an amateur astronomer starting on Sept. 3, the rocket stage probably completed nine or 10 Earth orbits, then swung far enough toward the Sun to be pulled into a Sun-centered orbit, Chodas said.
The transition occurred through a special portal located at the L1 Lagrangian point, where the gravitational pulls of the Sun and Earth are about equal.
There is less than a 1 percent chance that J002E3 will hit either Earth or the moon before its departure from Earth orbit, the statement said. Even if it did, its relatively
small size -- about 60 feet long -- means it would not be considered hazardous.
If it is not from the Apollo 12 rocket, this object might be one of the four 22-foot panels that enclosed lunar modules from six Apollo missions or rocket stages from Soviet or U.S. unmanned lunar missions.
More information on J002E3 is online at http:/ neo.jpl.nasa.gov
Apollo 12
Seeking Injunctions
Directors Guild of America
The Directors Guild of America is seeking an injunction against a dozen companies that delete scenes depicting violence, sex and profanity from Hollywood films, saying the practice violates federal copyright law.
What these companies are doing is wrong, plain and simple," guild President Martha Coolidge said in a statement. "It is wrong to cut scenes from a film, just as it is to rip pages from a book,
simply because we don't like the way something was portrayed."
The filing Friday in U.S. District Court in Denver came as part of a counterclaim to a lawsuit filed last month by CleanFlicks of Colorado, which is part of the Utah-based rental chain CleanFlicks.
The company is seeking a legal ruling clearing the way to rent the edited movies. As part of that effort, it sued 16 directors, including Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman.
In addition to CleanFlicks, the guild included in its counterclaim: Video II; Video II President Glen Dickman; J.W.D Management Corporation; Trilogy Studios, Inc.,
which is the producer and distributor of MovieMask software; ClearPlay, Inc.; Family Shield Technologies, LLC, which is the manufacturer of a product called MovieShield;
Clean Cut Cinemas; Family Safe Media; MyCleanFlicks; EditMyMovies; Family Flix, U.S.A. L.L.C.; and Play It Clean Video.
Directors Guild of America Seeks Injunction
Directors Guild
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Launches New NBC Talk Show
Chris 'Tweety' Matthews
Talk about timing: as the nation prepares for a possible war in Iraq, one of television's highest-profile doves gets a new perch to preach peace.
"I'm as dovish as you can be on this war," said Chris Matthews, whose shock of white hair and fast-talking, high-volume style as host of MSNBC's "Hardball" has made
him one of the most visible talking heads on cable television.
Dovish perhaps, but not retiring. Matthews, who begins hosting a new nationally syndicated weekly news show this weekend, accused the Bush administration of taking advantage of the national grief over last year's attacks
on New York and Washington to lead America into war with Iraq.
As for resident Bush, "I don't use this word with any diminishment of his intent, but he has exploited the sentiments of 9/11 to take us to war with Iraq without ever arguing there's a connection," Matthews said.
Matthews, a former speech writer for President Jimmy Carter and aide to former Democratic House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, says the public has been confused, wrapped up in "the fog of war (that)
has been coming out of the West Wing."
His new program, produced and distributed by NBC, "The Chris Matthews Show," is billed as a thoughtful and topical round-table that will shun a steady diet of political chatter for broader discussions of popular American culture.
Chris 'Tweety' Matthews
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
100 Years Old
MoonPies
MoonPies ride on the chocolate coating assembly line at Chattanooga Bakery in Chattanooga, Tenn., Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002. The sticky-sweet confection of marshmallow-stuffed graham cookies is 100 years old and its makers are
asking consumers for nostalgic recollections of the southern treat.
Photo by Jim Myers
Released From Hospital
Maddox Jolie
The baby son of actress Angelina Jolie was discharged from a Liverpool hospital on Friday after three days of treatment for an undisclosed minor injury, a spokeswoman for the actress said.
Maddox Jolie was admitted to the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, northwest England on Tuesday after suffering what the hospital described as a very minor injury.
The 27-year-old actress gave her thanks to all the hospital staff for caring for the baby, the spokeswoman said, but no details of the boy's injury were released.
Maddox Jolie
Endorses Carl Marlinga
Robert Redford
Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga's run for Congress is getting Hollywood support: an endorsement from Robert Redford.
Marlinga's first paid advertisement is a testimonial from Redford, who is deeply involved in environmental issues. It began airing on radio this week, the
Detroit Free Press reported Saturday.
Redford touts Marlinga's record as a fighter for a cleaner Lake St. Clair and urges voters to protect Michigan's environment.
Robert Redford
BartCop TV!
Austin Faces Assault Trial
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, one of the best-known performers in American professional wrestling, will face at an Oct. 9 trial a charge of beating his wife in June, a Texas judge ruled this week.
Austin, a Texas native whose real name is Steve Williams, said nothing during his brief appearance before County Court-at-Law Judge Bill White.
The World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. star faces a misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury, which carries a punishment ranging from probation to up to a year in jail.
Austin, who has not appeared on WWE shows since a dispute with management that flared just days before the incident that led to the criminal charge, turned himself in on Aug. 13 and is free on $5,000 bond.
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
Official Hermit-In-Residence
Ansuman Biswas
Ansuman Biswas poses for photographs in Shugborough, England Friday Sept. 20, 2002. Biswas, a performance artist, arrived Friday to spend the weekend alone in a remote cave after beating 200 other applicants for the privelege of being hermit-in-residence
at Shugborough Hall, a stately home in central England.
Photo by Martin Rickett
Virtual Prison Tour from the Florida Department of Corrections
Addresses GOP Fund-Raiser
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston joked about his Oscar-winning "Ben-Hur" role during a Republican breakfast fund-raiser.
Walking slowly but unassisted to the podium, Heston spoke softly but emphasized his punch lines. He spoke only for a few minutes, reading from a file card when talking about the Alabama campaign.
Heston was last in Mobile in 1996, campaigning for U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, who's running for re-election against Democrat Susan Parker.
The $100-a-plate breakfast drew 250 people, with funds going to the Alabama Republican Party.
Charlton Heston
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Ticket Pricing
Rolling Stones
It might cost you up to $350 a head to see the Rolling Stones in concert, and Mick Jagger says God bless the U.S.A. "It's America. We're not living in a socialist society
where we're all paid so low and no one can afford it," the rockasaurus tells the upcoming issue of Fortune, which estimates that the Stones have raked in $1.5 billion since
their 1989 Steel Wheels tour. Jagger, 59, says ticket-pricing "is the one aspect of the business that I really try to control as much as I can. Pricing a concert ticket is
very different from pricing a Lexus or a toothpaste. It's more like a sports event. And you are prepared to pay the market price." Also an astute businessman, guitarist Keith
Richards admits that many of the band's decisions are based on avoiding taxes. "It's why we rehearse in Canada and not the U.S. . . . We left England because we'd be paying
98 cents on the dollar. We left, and they lost out. No taxes at all. I don't want to screw anybody out of anything," Richards adds, "least of all the governments that I work
with. We put 30 percent in holding until we sort it all out."
Rolling Stones
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München
Oktoberfest
A waitress in traditional dress whistles her way through the crowd while carrying a load of beersteins to thirsty customers during the opening of the world renown Oktoberfest beer festival, the world's biggest,
in Munich, southern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002. Millions of visitors from around the world are expected.
Photo by Diether Endlicher
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