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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Not so foggy this morning, but the afternoon was warm enough to dig out a pair of shorts.
KCAL, the CBS-secondary station is running 'The X Files' - last Saturday was the first episode. A very young Seth Green was in the episode tonight.
Might take a drive out to the Valley in the morning.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a FRESH
made-for-tv-movie, 'Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation'.
NBC begins the evening with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent',
followed by a FRESH 'Lyon's Den' - unless they have no faith in their schedule against the World Series & dump it, again.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH '10-8', then a FRESH
'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'Tarzan'.
Faux has the 'World Series' - 'Simpson', 'King Of The Hill', and 'King Of Queens' RERUNs for the left coast.
UPN has a RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'The Kobe Case', 'Biography' (John Travolta), and 'Meet The Royals'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Untouchables', followed by the movie 'The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly', then the movie 'High Plains Drifter'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 8;
[7pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Birmingham;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Beckenham;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Lady Lisa;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 2;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - Inferno;
[10:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Lady Lisa;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 2;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - Inferno;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'Changing Rooms' - Birmingham;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Beckenham;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 2;
[3:40am] 'Coupling' - Inferno;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'Faking It' - Lady Lisa; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'The Restaurant', 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (Gwyneth Paltrow), then the movie 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes'.
History has 'Battleships', 'Battleships', 'Battleships', 'Mail Call', and 'Extreme History'.
SciFi has 'Taken' (part 3 of 10), followed by 'Taken' (part 4 of 10).
TCM starts the day out gently, then it's murder, mayhem & monsters. Woo Hoo!
Two films stand out - 'The Unknown' directed by Tod Browning, and starring
Lon Chaney as 'Alonzo the Armless,' an apparently armless knife thrower. The other movie is
'The Seventh Victim', about a group of NYC satanists.
[6am] 'Manhattan Melodrama' (1934);
[8am] 'Ninotchka' (1939);
[10am] 'The Belle Of New York' (1952);
[11:30am] 'Dangerously They Live' (1941);
[1pm] 'North By Northwest' (1959);
[3:30pm] 'In Cold Blood' (1967);
[6pm] 'Bonnie and Clyde' (1967);
[8pm] 'The Reptile' (1966);
[10pm] 'The Plague of the Zombies' (1966);
[12am] 'The Unknown' (1927) SILENT ;
[1am] 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' (1939)
[3am] 'The Seventh Victim' (1943); and
[4:30am] 'Children Of The Damned' (1964). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Ohio Democratic congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, left, and actor Ed Asner chant and cheer at a rally in support of striking supermarket workers at a Ralphs market in Los Angeles' Venice district Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. Kucinich, in the midst of a multi-city campaign swing, spoke at the rally to lend support to the workers, who have been on strike or locked out at Southern California Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores for a week.
Photo by Reed Saxon
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Declare Eco War
Alanis Morissette & Mike D
Alanis Morissette, Beastie Boy Mike D and producer Rick Rubin have joined environmental groups in an effort to oust the federal government's national parks czar.
In a letter posted on Morissette's Web site, the artists claim that Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles is failing to properly oversee such national parks as Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.
It asks fans to sign a petition demanding the dismissal of Griles at firegriles.com, a site and movement spearheaded by such organizations as Greenpeace and Americans for Energy Freedom.
Prior to joining the Department of the Interior, Griles was an oil, gas and coal lobbyist. The letter claims that he is still being paid $284,000 per year by an "old lobbying company ... which we feel is a pretty big conflict of interest." Firegriles.com names that company as National Environmental Strategies.
Alanis Morissette & Mike D
Additional Scripts Ordered
New Series
In a vote of confidence for its new comedies, ABC has ordered four additional scripts each from "Hope & Faith," "I'm With Her," "It's All Relative" and "Married to the Kellys."
Meanwhile, after a promising ratings spike Tuesday, NBC has ordered five additional scripts from freshman comedies "Whoopi" and "Happy Family." CBS has ordered six more from new drama "Joan of Arcadia," and Fox has ordered three more from its upcoming midseason drama series "Still Life."
The script orders bode well for the freshman shows as they often are a precursor to additional episode pickups.
If ABC gives so-called back-nine orders to "Hope & Faith," "I'm With Her," "It's All Relative" and "Married to the Kellys," it would mark the second year in a row that ABC has picked up all its new comedies for a full season.
An extra nine episodes would fill out an initial 13-episode order, making for a full season's worth of 22 episodes.
New Series
Panamanian salsa singer, lawyer, movie star and budding politician Ruben Blades, sings during a concert in Lima, Peru, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. Blades performed in a concert Friday night, 20 years after his last appearance in Peru.
Photo by Martin Mejia
The New 'Huggy Bear'
Snoop Dogg
If you thought Huggy Bear was flamboyant on "Starsky and Hutch," wait until you see Snoop Dogg play him in the movie version of the 1970s cop show.
Even though the TV character was a street hustler, Snoop says he was "kinda square," so he had to jazz him up a little for the film.
"I took the good that he had when he was on TV and mixed it with the good that I do and just made it more along the edges of what people really want to see on the big screen from a Huggy Bear character," Snoop told The Associated Press in an interview.
Snoop, whose previous films include "The Wash" and "Bones," says his version of Huggy Bear will have more attitude than the way Antonio Fargas played him back in the day.
"So he paved the way, but at the same time, it's all about me trying to take the role to the next level, and educate the kids who've never seen 'Starsky and Hutch.'"
Snoop Dogg
Judge Dismisses Suit, Raps
Eminem Ruling
A judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a former schoolmate of rapper Eminem — and she included a rap of her own to explain the ruling.
In a footnote to the opinion issued Friday, Judge Deborah Servitto added a 10-stanza rhyme, The Macomb Daily reported in Saturday's editions.
The verse stated, in part: "It is therefore this Court's ultimate position, that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition."
DeAngelo Bailey claimed that Eminem slandered him in the song "Brain Damage" from his 1999 disc "The Slim Shady LP."
In the judge's opinion, however, Eminem's lyrics are "stories no one would take as fact, they're an exaggeration of a childish act."
Eminem Ruling
Europe & Gypsies
Günter Grass
German writer and Nobel literature prize winner Guenter Grass said it was scandalous that Europe's gypsy population remained so disadvantaged and denigrated.
Grass said it was deplorable that Roma and Sinti gypsies had no representative to defend their interests in the European Parliament. "It's a scandal that Europe's largest minority still doesn't have the slightest lobby group," he told a rally in Bad Bentheim, northern Germany.
Grass said Europe's gypsies had never laid claim to a state of their own, were not in that sense nationalistic, and the rest of the continent therefore had a lot to learn from them.
Günter Grass
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Hits a Hole in One
Anne Murray
Anne Murray has another honor to add to her four Grammys, three Country Music Association awards and various other accomplishments: her first hole in one.
The country music superstar, performing this weekend at the Oneida Indian Nations Turning Stone Casino Resort, arrived a day early to play the new Kaluhyat Golf Club, which Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed.
Murray selected a 9-iron for her perfect shot on the 108-yard 17th hole. Her playing partners were two members of her orchestra, pianist-conductor Steve Sexton and drummer Gary Craig, said Oneida spokesman Mark Emery.
The 58-year-old singer said she was watching her partners hit off the 17th tee and thinking, "`This is a great golf hole and it would be great to get a hole in one here.' I visualized the shot going in the hole, and when I teed off, that's exactly what happened."
Kaluhyat (ga-lu-yut), which opened Aug. 1, is named for the Oneida Indian word to describe "the other side of the sky." Murray is both the first amateur and the first woman to score a hole in one on the 17th hole, Emery said.
Anne Murray
Cambodian Sek Yi (L), whose relatives say he is 122-years-old, smokes a large, hand-rolled cigarette, which he swears is the secret of his longevity as he sits in his bamboo hut in the village of Tuk Young.
Photo by Chor Sokunthea
Rocks Malaysia
Linkin Park
Linkin Park played to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 in Kuala Lumpur, the capitol city of Malaysia, on Wednesday night (October 15). According to emedia.com, the band performed in front of a simple blue backdrop bearing their name and had no problem sticking to the government's "artist performance ethics" code. The boys in the band were covered from shoulders to knees, refrained from swearing, did not indulge in any violent or erotic behavior, and did not jump around during their 16-song set.
Police presence at the venue, Stadium Merdeka, was heavy, both for traffic control and in case of any potential protests of the show. Several religious groups in the predominantly Muslim nation had asked the government to ban the concert, concerned that it would corrupt the morals of Malaysian youths.
The band will perform at this year's Smokeout Festival on November 15 in San Bernardino, California. Cypress Hill and Pennywise are also confirmed to appear. Linkin Park will announce their own headlining tour soon.
Playing 'VH1 Big in 2003'
Shania Twain
Shania Twain will be among the performers at the "VH1 Big in 2003" awards show — if you can call it an awards show.
With categories including "Biggest Gay Hero," "Biggest Guilty Pleasure" and "Really Big Reality Star," the second annual event is more of an irreverent celebration of the year in pop culture — and winning for "Biggest Mistake '03" isn't exactly a coveted prize.
Besides Twain, Kid Rock and Matchbox 20 are among the performers lined up for the Nov. 30 show.
Shania Twain
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Broadcasting 14th World Series
Tim McCarver
Tim McCarver is broadcasting's Mr. October, credited with covering more World Series than any announcer in history.
More than Mel Allen. More than Curt Gowdy. More than Vin Scully. More than anybody.
And those other guys didn't get to catch Bob Gibson or Steve Carlton.
McCarver was ready to match Yogi Berra's records this weekend, working his 14th World Series and 75th game behind the microphone. Berra's games came in a chest protector and shin guards, equipment with which McCarver also is familiar.
This World Series journey began in 1985. ABC had just fired Howard Cosell, and 10 days before the Series between Kansas City and St. Louis, McCarver was drafted.
For a lot more, Tim McCarver
Concorde arrives at Heathrow Airport, London, Saturday Oct.18, 2003, from New York. The British Airways Concorde is to fly its last scheduled flight on Friday, Oct. 24.
Photo by Tim Ockenden
Playing Hollywood Madam
'Meadow Soprano'
Jamie-Lynn (Sigler) DiScala, best known as Mafia princess Meadow Soprano on the HBO series "The Sopranos," will play former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss in a cable TV movie.
The USA Network film, tentatively titled "Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss," will detail her oft-told saga of running an upscale escort service, which ended with a three-year prison term for Fleiss.
The movie is scheduled to air early next year.
'Meadow Soprano'
Playing Venue's Swan Song
ZZ Top
That little ol' band from (Houston) Texas, ZZ Top, will bid a fond farewell to one of its best-loved buildings when it plays the final concert at the Compaq Center (formerly the Houston Summit) Nov. 22.
The venue will be transformed after the show into Lakewood International Center, a ministry facility.
ZZ Top played the first of its 22 concerts at the Summit Nov. 25, 1975.
Dusty Hill says the building may need a "heavy cleansing" after ZZ Top does its last show there, and he didn't completely rule out the band's ever playing the arena again. "We could always do 'Jesus Just Left Chicago."'
ZZ Top
Cursed By Hundreds
Black Magic
US resident George W. Bush has been trapped in a clay pot and tossed into a river in northern Thailand -- or at least his spirit has after being cursed by hundreds of farmers protesting US agriculture policy.
A photograph of the US leader was sealed inside a pot amid black magic mantra chants, then tossed into the Ping River Friday by demonstrators after they rallied at the US consulate in Chiang Mai, a farm group leader said.
"This is a traditional northern Thai ceremony aimed at keeping his spirit down on the riverbed so he could not come and exploit our natural resources or suppress our (farming) brothers with his superior influence," Weerasak Wan-ubol, an executive of the Northern Farmers Alliance, told AFP Saturday.
The act was also a protest against Washington's military intervention in sovereign nations, the Bangkok Post reported.
Black Magic
Two rare Red Panda cubs, Tenzing (L) and Babu, have gone on show at Bristol Zoo Gardens after spending the first four months of their lives hidden away in a nesting box with their mother.
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