'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
He's Been Busy!
The Worried Shrimp
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The nice weather stuck around another day.
Way back when I was in college, we were taught the average commercial is seen/heard (on average) 4 times before it is consciously noticed. Keeping that in mind, the last couple of days the Lipton tea commercials with the Dixie Chicks have been in heavy rotation on local daytime
LA tv.
Radiohead's 'Hail To The Thief' is being advertised on Conan, too.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the Series Premiere of 'Cold Case', then a FRESH
made-for-tv-movie, 'Twelve Mile Road'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', the Season Premiere of 'American Dreams', then the Season Premiere of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by
the Series Premiere of 'Lyon's Den'.
ABC begins the evening with the Season Premiere of 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by the Series Premiere of '10-8', then the Season Premiere of
'Alias', followed by the Season Premiere of 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the RERUN 'Hilary Duff's Island Birthday Bash', followed by the 2-hour Season Premiere of 'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Futurama', followed by the movie 'There's Something About Mary'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by the movie 'Lost & Found'.
A&E has 'Forbes 400: Inside The Rich List', followed by 'Forbes 400: Inside The Rich List', again - just to rub it in.
AMC offers the movie 'Class', followed by the movie 'City Slickers', then the movie 'City Slickers', again.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 5;
[7pm] 'Ground Force America' - Miami;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Ballet Dancer to Wrestler;
[9pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - Flushed;
[10:20pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 5;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Ballet Dancer to Wrestler;
[12am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - Flushed;
[1:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 5;
[2am] 'Ground Force America' - Miami;
[3am] 'Faking It' - Ballet Dancer to Wrestler;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 4;
[4:40am] 'Coupling' - Flushed;
[5:20am] 'Manchild' - Episode 5; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the 'IFP Gotham Awards', followed by 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (Robert De Niro), then the movie 'The King Of Comedy'.
History has 'Dead Reckoning', 'Last Mission', and 'Mail Call'.
SciFi has 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestial', followed a RERUN of the first episode of the 10-part Steven Spielberg mini-series 'Taken'.
TCM has 3 by Elia Kazan in the evening &
Buster Keaton all night.
[6am] 'Good News' (1947);
[8am] 'On An Island With You' (1948);
[10am] 'Oklahoma!' (1955);
[12:30pm] 'Duel In The Sun' (1946);
[3pm] 'The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly' [Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo] (1966);
[6pm] 'On The Waterfront' (1954);
[8pm] 'Baby Doll' (1956);
[10pm] 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951);
[12:15am] 'Cops' (1922);
[12:15am] 'The Blacksmith' (1922);
[12:15am] 'The Balloonatic' (1923);
[1:30am] 'Dough Boys' (1930);
[3am] 'The Passionate Plumber' (1932); and
[4:30am] 'Spite Marriage' (1929). (ALL TIMES EDT)
An image of Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, protagonist of Federico Fellini's movie 'La Dolce Vita', is projected onto the Trevi Fountain, where one of the film's most notorious scenes was shot, during the 'White Night' festivities in Rome September 27, 2003. Famous Roman landmarks were lit during an all-night party to celebrate the eternal city's vibrant spirit.
Photo by Max Rossi
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Auction To Benefit
People for the American Way
Celebrity encounters and Hollywood memorabilia — including golf with Michael Douglas — will be auctioned Monday at Christie's, hosted by the People for the American Way Foundation.
The auction also will include walk-on spots on "Whoopi" and "Law & Order"; lunch with Richard Dreyfuss and Bob Balaban; signed scripts by Meryl Streep, the cast of "Frasier" and "All in the Family" creator Norman Lear, founder of People for the American Way; signed "Seabiscuit" film memorabilia; signed posters by Billy Joel, Paul Newman and John Sayles; and other items.
People for the American Way
www.pfaw.org/go/christies_auction
More than 10,000 anti-war protesters march through the streets of London, Saturday Sept. 27, 2003, as part of the first major demonstration against the Iraq conflict since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Photo by Fiona Hanson
Demolished In Truck Crash
Smart Studios
Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, where Nirvana recorded part of their ground-breaking 1991 album Nevermind, was demolished earlier this week when a truck crashed into it.
The studio, which is owned by Nevermind producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig, was destroyed when the truck hit a car on the road outside and veered into the building. Damages were estimated at $50,000. No one was in the studio at the time, although Garbage, who were recording their new album there, had just left the facility an hour before the accident.
The new Garbage album is due out in February or March of 2004. Vig described it as "a lot noisier and darker, less poppy than the last album."
Smart Studios
Demand Iraq Pullout
Marchers Worldwide
Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq took to the streets Saturday in London, Athens, Paris and other cities around the world, chanting slogans against the United States and Britain.
The protests, the first major demonstrations since Saddam Hussein was ousted earlier this year, come as the United States tries to gain international help in rebuilding Iraq. The demonstrations were organized in each country by local activist groups that have informal contacts with each other.
London's was the biggest protest, drawing 20,000 people. Demonstrators turned out in a dozen other countries, including South Korea and Egypt.
Some young marchers chanted, "George Bush, Uncle Sam, Iraq will be your Vietnam!"
For a lot more, Marchers Worldwide
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Daniel Pearl Music Day
Elton John
Elton John is appearing in a public service announcement on television and radio promoting next month's Daniel Pearl Music Day.
"Join me and thousands of music lovers around the world carrying on his mission of connecting people through words and music," the 56-year-old singer says. "Participate in Daniel Pearl Day promoting harmony for humanity."
The second annual Daniel Pearl Music Day will be celebrated Oct. 10, on what would have been Pearl's 40th birthday, in countries throughout the world, according to the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Elton John
www.danielpearl.org
The tearful daughter of Romania's Roma king Florin Cioaba, princess Ana Maria, 12, (C) is comforted by a photographer (R) as she has her wedding pictures taken alongside her 15-year-old groom, Birita Mihai, during their lavish wedding in Sibiu, 250km northeast of Bucharest, September 27, 2003. The unwilling bride, whose marital age is common among Romania's traditional Roma who are estimated between 500,000 and three million, walked out of the ceremony and had to be convinced to return by her relatives.
Photo by Bogdan Cristel
Signs With 'Curious George'
Will Ferrell
Comedian Will Ferrell has signed on to provide the voice of The Man in the Yellow Hat in an upcoming cartoon version of "Curious George," the children's tale about an inquisitive little monkey and the man who befriends him.
The film is planned for release in November 2005, Universal Pictures announced Friday. In the movie, the troublemaking primate is taken from the jungle and brought by The Man in the Yellow Hat to the city, where he gets into mischief.
The story is based on the children's book created by H.A. Rey and first published in 1941.
Will Ferrell
Tour Opens In Wilkes-Barre
Simon and Garfunkel
Fans in northeastern Pennsylvania will get first crack at seeing the Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour.
Ticket sales began Friday morning for the legendary folk-rock duo's first stop Oct. 16 in Wilkes-Barre Township. The rest of the tour is set mostly in large cities, including Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, New York and Philadelphia.
"This is fantastic, considering most of the shows on the tour are in 15,000-seat arenas and above," said Andy Long, general manager of the 8,000-seat Wachovia Arena.
Simon and Garfunkel
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Filming Halted By Hurricane Marty
'Troy'
Warner Bros. has called off filming of the historical epic "Troy" after its sets in Mexico's Baja California peninsula were destroyed by Hurricane Marty.
The cyclone also toppled housing for the nearly 1,000 extras already in Mexico. Many of the actors, most of whom were hired in Bulgaria, are now living in shelters along the Pacific peninsula.
The film, an epic about the Trojan Wars starring Pitt as Achilles, has already been hit by production snags. Filming was moved from Malta to Mexico because of security concerns.
'Troy'
The Reseau Voltaire, a Paris-based freedom of expression group, have printed and distributed a pack of playing cards depicting the '52 most dangerous American officials', September 25, 2003. Some 2,500 decks have already have been sold at the price of 8 euros. A spokesman for the organization said that it was in riposte to the 'most wanted' cards of Iraqi officials sent to US servicemen in Iraq.
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Best Year Yet at Oktoberfest
Beer Inspectors
Drinkers at this year's Munich Oktoberfest are getting better value for money than ever, say inspectors enforcing strict German standards at the world's biggest beer festival.
Up to four two-man inspection teams patrol the 31-hectare Oktoberfest site to conduct snap tests to ensure that so-called "Mass" glasses contain a full liter.
The surface of the beer must be no more than 15 millimeters below the liter mark on the glass, otherwise inspectors hand out a formal warning. In serious cases, they can bar the license holder from selling beer.
Beer Inspectors
Wedding With No Bride, No Groom Present
Double Proxy Ceremony
An American soldier stationed in Iraq married his Italian fiancee in a Montana double proxy ceremony that neither attended.
Instead, Pfc. David Gaynor's parents exchanged vows and rings Friday for the absent couple - and sealed their son's marriage with a kiss.
Gaynor's uncle and teenage sister stood in as best man and maid of honor for Gaynor, 21, and bride Ilaria Caon, 19. A justice of the peace presided.
After enlisting in 2001, David Gaynor went with the 173rd Airborne Division to a base north of Venice in Vicenza, Italy, where he met Ilaria, the daughter of an Italian policeman.
Both families were looking forward to the couple's wedding when the war began and David's unit got overnight orders to parachute into Kirkuk, Iraq, in March.
Attempts to arrange a single-proxy marriage in Italy failed, but Philip Gaynor learned that Montana was the one state in the country that allowed stand-ins for both bride and groom.
For more, Double Proxy Ceremony
Of Spies & Whiskey Distilling
Weapon of Mass Drunkenness?
In the wavering image of a webcam, the figures moved with the sinister intent of those whose mission is mayhem.
Thank heavens "Ursula" was watching ... If the slightest possibility exists that Bruichladdich distillery on Islay is a threat to world peace, we need to know.
For it has been revealed that Ursula, a spy with the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency - "Our mission to safeguard the US and its allies from weapons of mass destruction" - has been monitoring the island distillery.
Apparently, it takes just a "tweak" - her words - in the process of making whisky and Bruichladdich could be churning out chemical weapons.
For the details, Weapon of Mass Drunkenness?
In Memory
Mary Loraine "Peets" Buffett
Mary Loraine "Peets" Buffett, the mother of singer Jimmy Buffett, died Thursday. She was 82.
Buffett, who introduced her famous son and his sisters to music at an early age, was surrounded by her family when died at Thomas Hospital in Fairhope, said her granddaughter, Melanie Buffett.
"My mother certainly was the influence on the artistic things," Jimmy Buffett, an Alabama native who now lives in Palm Beach, Fla., told the Mobile Register in an April 2002 interview.
Known simply as "Peets," Buffett was born in Crystal Springs, Miss., and married the late James Delaney "J.D." Buffett 62 years ago. While raising their three children in west Mobile, the Buffetts worked on the Mobile waterfront - J.D. as an estimator, Peets as an administrator.
When J.D. Buffett died May 1, it was Peets, pushed in a wheelchair, who led the procession of mourners behind his casket.
"They were a swan couple," Melanie Buffett said. "Swans mate for life. When one dies the other soon follows."
Besides her son, Buffett is survived by daughters Loraine Marie Buffett McGuane of McLeod, Mont., and Lucy Anne Buffett of Point Clear, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Mary Loraine "Peets" Buffett
In Memory
Donald O'Connor
Entertainer Donald O'Connor, who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping "Make 'Em Laugh" number in the classic movie
"Singin' in the Rain," died Saturday, his daughter said. He was 78.
O'Connor, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of heart failure at a retirement home in Calabasas, his daughter, Alicia O'Connor, told The Associated Press.
In a brief statement, the family said that among O'Connor's last words was the following quip: "I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get."
O'Connor won an Emmy, but never an Oscar. He was best known for films he made in the 1950s — a series of highly successful
"Francis the Talking Mule" comedies and movie musicals that put his song and dance talents to good use.
Songs in movie musicals are often touching or exciting, but O'Connor performed a rare feat with a number that were laugh-out-loud funny.
The best, 1952's "Singin' in the Rain," also starred Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds and took a satirical look at Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures.
As he sings "Make 'Em Laugh," O'Connor dances with a prop dummy and performs all manner of amusing acrobatics.
"Someone handed me a dummy that was on the stage," he recalled in a 1995 Associated Press interview. "That was the only prop I used. I did a pratfall and we wrote that down. Every time I did something that got a laugh, we wrote it down to keep in the number."
The American Film Institute's list of the top 100 American movies ever made ranked "Singin' in the Rain" at No. 10.
Among O'Connor's other '50s musicals were "Call Me Madam," "Anything Goes"
and "There's No Business Like Show Business."
The "Francis" comedies, which featured a bumbling O'Connor and a talking mule, began in 1949. A few years later, the man who directed them created the "Mr. Ed" TV series.
O'Connor also had some success in television. He won an Emmy for "The Colgate Comedy Hour" in 1954 and appeared in
"The Donald O'Connor Texaco Show" from 1954 to 1955.
Born in Chicago to circus performers who went into vaudeville, O'Connor joined his family's act when he was an infant. He made his film debut at age 11 in a dancing scene with two of his brothers in "Melody for Two."
As a contract actor for Paramount, he played adolescent roles in several films, including Huckleberry Finn in
"Tom Sawyer — Detective" (1938). He was Bing Crosby's kid brother in
"Sing You Sinners" (1938), which he later ranked among his favorite roles.
When he grew too big for child roles, he briefly returned to vaudeville, but was soon back in Hollywood playing high-energy juvenile leads opposite such actresses as Gloria Jean and Susanna Foster.
In recent years, he continued working when he found a project he liked, such as appearing in an episode of "Tales From the Crypt."
But he said he had little desire to leave home for long stretches. He and his wife had moved to Arizona after their California home was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Donald O'Connor
A Gaetice depressus, right, and its exuviae seem smiling in this undated handout photo from Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie prefecture, western Japan. An 8-year-old boy picked the Gaetice depressus with about 1.5 cm shell on Aug. 30, 2003 when he went digging for clams at a beach in the prefecture and brought it to the aquarium. Employees at the aquarium doubted first that it was drawn by permanent marker but kept it. Even after the Gaetice depressus exuviated on Sept. 21, 2003, it still has the pattern like smiling clearly and it was proved that the pattern is by nature. The aquarium opened it to public Friday, Sept. 26, 2003.
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