'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~>11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
Please, if you have the opportunity, this is tv worth watching (and worth remembering).
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cool enough to turn on the heat today, even though it was bright & sunny.
Found out one of the kid's grandmothers will be visiting & staying here for a week, starting on the 17th. Last time she visited I got
hives. Better lay in a good stock of benadryl and preparation H. ; )
Penn State won and Notre Dame should never wear green...LOL
On Saturday, 14 December, 2002, Al Gore hosts Saturday Night Live!
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS opens the night with '60 Minutes'. Next up is a fresh 'Becker' followed by the movie 'The World Is Not Enough'.
NBC starts the evening with 'Dateline', then follows with a fresh 'American Dreams', a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and a fresh 'Boomtown'.
ABC begins the night with the made-for-tv movie 'Home Alone 4', followed by a fresh 'Alias' and a fresh 'The Practice'.
The WB has its usual RERUN of 'Gilmore Girls', then offers a fresh 'Charmed' and a fresh 'Angel'.
Faux starts with a RERUN 'Futurama' followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then, finally, the season premiere of the 'Simpsons' - 'Treehouse Of Horror XIII', followed by the season premiere of 'King Of The Hill', and
finally, the season premiere of 'Malcolm'.
UPN has 'Buffy', 'Enterprise', and 'Stargate SG-1'.
Weekly rerun of 'The Osbournes' on MTV.
TCM has The General (1927),
starring Buster Keaton, and considered
''the last great comedy of the silent screen.''
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Every Football Helmet
Big Dog Watch Continues - Part 1
Bill Clinton In Newark
Former President Clinton, left, embraces New Jersey Democratic senatorial candidate, former Sen. Frank Lautenberg at a rally in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002.
Clinton appeared with fellow Democrats Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and Gov. Jim McGreevey in support of Lautenberg's campaign.
Photo by Jeff Zelevansky
Rocked Key West
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett, known for his "Cheeseburger in Paradise" song about the American diet staple, surprised a gathering of avid fans with a rare impromptu street concert
in the Florida island city that he nicknamed "Margaritaville."
The 55-year-old Buffett greeted about 3,000 members of the Parrot Heads in Paradise Inc. fan club, celebrating their 11th annual Meeting of the Minds convention, with
favorite hits during a street festival on Friday.
Buffett played such hits as "Cuban Crime of Passion," "Havana Daydreamin"' and "Volcano."
Most had missed a late-night performance, also impromptu, by Buffett on Thursday at Margaritaville Cafe. In town to celebrate Buffett's music, they were attending another
beachfront concert by The Peter Mayer Group, which sometimes tours with Buffett, from St. Louis, Missouri.
Buffett is an active Democrat who now lives in Palm Beach, Florida.
He reportedly maintains a house in Key West, where he launched his career and co-founded Margaritaville Cafe. Buffett formed the Coral Reefer Band in 1975.
Jimmy Buffett
Says Bush Unconvincing
Woody Allen
Quirky U.S. film director Woody Allen says resident Bush's argument for war against Iraq is unconvincing, according to French weekly newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Allen told the newspaper in an interview that Bush had squandered America's post-September 11 goodwill because "he has no idea about anything."
"Like the majority of Americans, I think Bush has not advanced convincing reasons for war. So one has the disturbing impression that he is persisting for
personal and political reasons," he said.
Woody Allen
Big Dog Watch Continues - Part 2
Bill Clinton In Miami
Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, right, gestures as former President Clinton looks on during Get Out the Vote rally at Miami-Dade Community College in
Miami, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002.
Photo by Alan Diaz
Pays Tribute to Princess Di
Nelson Mandela
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, an admirer of Princess Diana's humanitarian work, paid respect to the late royal by laying a wreath at her family's country home, Althorp House.
Mandela had lunch Friday with Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and local dignitaries before laying a wreath of white lilies and pale blue flowers on her grave, which is on an island in a lake on the family
estate in Northamptonshire, north of London.
Wearing a gold patterned shirt with a dark overcoat, Mandela walked with the aid of a stick across a short pontoon bridge to Diana's final resting place.
Diana met Mandela during a visit to South Africa in 1997.
After her death in a car crash that year, he paid tribute to her as one of the "best ambassadors for Great Britain."
Nelson Mandela
Canadian Author Cancels US Tour
Rohinton Mistry
Celebrated Canadian author Rohinton Mistry has canceled the second half of a U.S. book tour, complaining of "unbearable" humiliation as a result of racial profiling,
the Globe and Mail reported on Saturday.
"He (Mistry) has been extremely unhappy about the way he has been treated in airports around the U.S. in the first half of his tour," the Globe reported a
representative of Mistry's U.S. publisher, Alfred. A Knopf, as saying in a memo sent to affected bookstores.
Mistry, who was born in India, has had three works short-listed for the Booker Prize, including "Family Matters" this year. He and his representatives were unable
to be reached for comment.
Canada's government last week urged Canadian citizens born in Middle Eastern and Muslim countries to think carefully before entering the United States, after
Washington said anyone born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen would be subject to extra scrutiny.
Mistry is not Muslim and was not born in one of the affected countries, but said that he had been treated badly during the first half of his U.S. book tour.
"As a person of color he was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way -- to the point where the humiliation for both he and his wife has become
unbearable," the newspaper quoted the memo as saying.
Rohinton Mistry
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
AFI Achievement Award
Robert De Niro
The American Film Institute is talkin' to you, Robert De Niro.
The film organization's board of trustees selected the 59-year-old star of "Taxi Driver" and "Goodfellas" on Friday to receive the 31st AFI Life Achievement Award.
De Niro is set to accept the honor at a tribute on June 12 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, site of the annual Academy Awards.
De Niro, who most recently appeared in the crime drama "City by the Sea," won a supporting actor Oscar in 1975 for playing young gangster Vito Corleone in "The Godfather
Part II" and a best actor Oscar in 1981 for his portrayal of a broken-down boxer in "Raging Bull."
He had Oscar nominations for "The Deer Hunter," "Awakenings," "Cape Fear" and "Taxi Driver," in which his disturbed vigilante stares down his own mirror reflection
and repeatedly taunts, "You talkin' to me?"
De Niro is best known for playing emotionally withdrawn men who are prone to fury and violence, but in recent years he has softened his image with comedic roles
in "Meet the Parents," "Analyze This," and "Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle."
Robert De Niro
Portland, OR
Tonya Hot Sauce
A bottle of hot sauce, shown here in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, is named after disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding and sports an unflattering
caricature of her standing outside a dumpy trailer, cigarette in mouth, ice skates in one hand and a hubcap in the other. Harding doesn't think it's very funny
and her lawyer has requested that bottles of the sauce be pulled off store shelves.
Photo by Don Ryan
Returns to Old School
Hal Holbrook
Actor Hal Holbrook reminisced with students as he returned to Culver Military Academy, joking that they have it easier than he did while attending the school in the 1940s.
Holbrook, who has performed his one-man stage show, "Mark Twain, Tonight," more than 2,000 times since its 1954 opening, visited as part of Culver Academy's Montgomery Lecture Series.
Holbrook, who was named the school's first "Man of the Year," graduated in 1942. He participated on the cross-country team and was a boxer.
Culver also was the place he discovered acting.
However, Holbrook said he turned to drama only after failing algebra. He said he needed extra credits to graduate and was told drama wouldn't involve any homework.
Hal Holbrook
BartCop TV!
Gets Honorary Doctorate
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon has received an honorary doctorate in art from the University of Greenwich in south London.
The Irish-born actor, who has appeared in films including "Gosford Park" and "Charlotte Gray," recalled performing frequently at the local Greenwich Theater early in his career.
Earlier this year, he played President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the HBO movie "Path to War."
Michael Gambon
Motorrad-Rallye
Dubai
Durch die Wüste
Motorradfahrer durchqueren am Freitag, dem dritten Tag einer Motorrad-Rallye in Dubai, die Wüste in der Nähe von Lewa, südlich von Abu Dhabi.
Issues Rare Caution on Travel to U.S.
Canada
Canada, in a highly unusual travel warning, on Wednesday urged Canadian citizens born in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia to think carefully before entering the United States, saying
they could fall afoul of tough new U.S. anti-terrorism laws.
The Foreign Ministry said it issued the advisory after Washington stipulated that anyone born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, or Syria needed to be photographed and fingerprinted on arrival in the United States.
This includes citizens of Canada, a country which is traditionally regarded as one of the closest allies of the United States.
"It's not something we approve of and we've registered our strongest disapproval with the United States authorities," Foreign Minister Bill Graham told reporters.
"We can't tell the Americans what to do on their own territory. What we're telling them is that we don't accept this and we find it very troubling...I am certain that in due course
common sense will prevail." The Foreign Ministry advisory, posted on its Web site, is another indication of how ties between the two neighbors have soured in past months amid disputes
over trade, policy toward Iraq and immigration policies.
Canada's ties with the United States are already under strain over a protracted trade dispute about Canadian lumber exports, fresh tensions over wheat exports and
Ottawa's opposition to a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq.
Canada
Jahara, Kuwait
Camels
Camels enjoy feeding time at a farm near Jahara, Kuwait, close to the new desert border of the 'no go area' implemented by the government and American forces Saturday Nov. 2, 2002.
The restricted area has closed off a quarter of the country to the public and bedouins.
Photo by Adam Butler
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