3rd Time The Charm!
Emmy Awards, Version 3.0
Officials at CBS and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences now face the very real
possibility that this year's tighter-than-expected baseball World Series could extend to
Game 7 after the New York Yankees took a 3-2 lead Thursday.
Sunday's Emmycast Version 3.0 would have to face off against the game that determines
whether the Yankees or the Arizona Diamondbacks pick up this year's world championship.
The Yankees are one win away from their fifth title in six years with Games Six and, if
needed, Seven in Arizona Saturday and Sunday.
Emmy producers knew they might have to face a World Series Game 7 but decided to reschedule
the twice-delayed kudofest on Nov. 4 anyway. CBS research had calculated a 1 in 6 chance
that the fall classic would come down to the wire; those odds, of course, were thrown out
the window after Arizona shocked New York in Games 1 and 2.
Meanwhile, Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres got some good news Thursday: CBS has ordered six more
scripts for her rookie comedy ``The Ellen Show.'' The series has struggled in its Friday
time slot, but network executives like the show's creative direction.
Emmy Awards & Baseball
Reader Review
Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
a cd review
George Krausser
More Emmy Awards, Version 3.0
Barbra Streisand
After two postponements, the Emmy Awards is trying to end on a high note Sunday with
Barbra Streisand singing ``You'll Never Walk Alone.''
The singer, a nominee for the Fox special ``Barbra Streisand: Timeless,'' has been
invited to bring the Emmys to a close with the inspirational Rodgers and Hammerstein
song from the musical ``Carousel.''
Barbra Streisand To Perform On The Emmy Awards
In The Chaos Household
Last Night's TV
Started out with what is passing for the 'World Series'. Looks like they've
managed to maximize the advertisers investments & got their needed 7 games (I'm shocked, absolutely
shocked!).
When the score started getting too lop-sided, started to surf. Network TV had nothing to
hold my interest, but, local independent stations were airing 'Star Wars' (the first
one, although, to be technically correct it is Episode 4) and 'Predator'.
Finally, ended up killing the sound on the tv & listening to radio online.
So, did you see Dan Ackroyd on 'SNL'?
Tonight, 'World Series Baseball' continues on Faux.
The Emmy Awards, Version 3.0 will try to finally get on with the show on CBS.
It will be tape-delayed on the West Coast, and that SUCKS - hey, wait a minute --
just realized that it actually BITES, because if it sucked a purpose would be served!
ABC has Toy Story 2, and fresh episodes of 'Alias' and 'The Practice'.
HBO wraps 'Band Of Brothers' with its final installment, and Comedy Central
has the heavily edited Friar's Club Roast Of Hugh Hefner.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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The Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Buffalo
Former President Bill Clinton could not have been stronger in his support for President
Bush's pursuit of terrorists in Afghanistan during his Friday appearance in Buffalo.
"I support what he's doing," Clinton told reporters after addressing the state convention
of the Civil Service Employees Association in the Buffalo Convention Center. "It seems to
me that the idea that we ought to go after (the terrorists), and do it in a way that will
also get us a change in the government in Afghanistan . . . is the right thing to do."
But Clinton couldn't resist injecting a few of his own ideas into the mix. The United
States could avoid some elements of terrorism, he said, if it pursued a foreign policy
that emphasized its goodness - such as feeding hungry children or treating AIDS.
In the last year of his administration, Clinton said, the United States pledged substantial
dollars toward debt relief, $300 million for educating poor children and $300 million to an
anti-AIDS fund administered by the United Nations.
The former president included those same thoughts in his approximately 30-minute address
before about 1,000 CSEA delegates. Appearing relaxed and speaking mostly without notes,
he delivered a talk that was part defense of his administration's accomplishments, and part reassurance.
Clinton adopted an almost paternal tone as he discussed the events of Sept. 11 and the
sacrifices that must follow. As scary as the attacks were, he said, the 21st century
will not be as bloody as the 20th.
And he said that overcoming the fears stemming from Sept. 11 can be accomplished through
support for the president and improving the nation's defenses.
That's where the former president veered slightly off the Bush course. While the new
president has opposed the federalization of airport security personnel, his predecessor
said he "very much regrets" Thursday's 218-214 vote in the House of Representatives that
limited federal involvement to oversight of private airport security.
The Senate, he pointed out, voted 100-0 for federalization.
"Why not bend over backwards to do the best we can?" he asked. "If it doesn't work,
we can always change it."
He said the government also must spend more money on combating biological terrorism.
Clinton added, to the morning's most robust applause from his labor audience, that tax
cuts at a time when workers are losing their jobs is a bad idea.
The former president reiterated that the nation is following a course that will make
democracy work through strength. Terrorism will not succeed, he said, unless the people
who are terrorized are unwitting accomplices.
Clinton called such struggles the "age-old battle of humanity," that has even plagued
America in the forms of slavery, Native American persecution or racial hatred.
"We are not perfect, but we are making progress," he said.
Bill Clinton In Buffalo, NY
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Lord Of The Rings Fan Club
Peter Jackson
Filmmaker Peter Jackson has decided to give credit to The Lord of the Rings fans. Literally.
The writer, director and mastermind behind the hugely anticipated LOTR celluloid trilogy is
going to give hardcore Hobbit heads a chance to be immortalized on the film credits of The
Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King when the movies are released on DVD.
Charter members of the new Web-based Lord of the Rings Fan Club can have their names appear
on one, two or all three films, depending on how much they're willing to spend.
A one-year membership at LOTRfanclub.com costs $39.95 and is good for a listing on The
Fellowship disc. The entry-level membership also includes a subscription to a bimonthly
movie magazine, a special lithograph and a 10 percent discount at the site store. A
two-year membership (and listing on the first two movies) is $69.95. A three-year
subscription (and credits on all three DVDs) will set you back about $100. The offer
is good through November 15.
Jackson has spent the past two years filming the three Lord of the Rings movies back to
back to back in New Zealand at a cost of $270 million. Although some industry observers
questioned New Line for making such a risky expenditure, the studio's gambit looks like it could pay off.
Jackson, himself an aficionado of the books, and the studio have carefully catered to
Frodophiles. The fan club offer, while a bit commercial, is also expected to generate
goodwill among diehard J.R.R. Tolkein geeks. That is, of course, if they can find their
names among the thousands of others scrolling by on the DVD (the list would take too long in the theater).
Says Madsen: "This is the first time a director has acknowledged the contribution of
fans to the creation of a film in this way."
Elijah Wood, who plays the trilogy's pint-sized star, Frodo Baggins, was purportedly so
psyched about the idea that he signed up as the club's first official member.
"Since I started working on these films, I've been amazed by how many people have been
impacted by this story and how much they care about it at a deep, emotional level. The
fan club creates one big, worldwide society of Lord of the Rings fans and I am proud to
be part of that.
"Besides," the actor cracks, "I want to be sure Peter puts my name in the credits of the film's DVD."
We're pretty sure Jackson won't forget.
'Lord Of The Rings'
The Seinfeld Curse Strikes Again
Buh-Bye 'Bob Patterson'
The Seinfeld curse strikes again: Jason Alexander's much-hyped, but little-seen ABC sitcom
Bob Patterson has officially been dumped by the network.
The move follows a string of behind-the-scenes shakeups, retoolings and power plays that
emasculated Bob Patterson's promising premise: the erstwhile George Costanza as a neurotic
motivational speaker whose advice has created a self-help empire, but whose personal life is a mess.
The show itself could have used some motivation. The pilot was such a huge disappointment
that one of the show's executive producers was forced out over those always pesky "creative
differences" and the key role of Patterson's estranged wife was recast. Then the show's
production company, 20th Century Fox Television, announced it was holding an open casting
call to find a "funny and overweight 17-year-old" to play the newly created part of Alexander's TV son.
It is the second fall casualty for ABC, whose ratings have gone in the hopper this season. Last month,
the network pulled the plug on another star-driven vehicle, Joan Cusack's What About Joan. Bob Patterson
is also the fourth rookie show to be dropped this fall after CBS' Wolf Lake, Danny and Citizen Baines.
For those keeping score at home, Alexander has become the second Seinfeld alum to have a seemingly sure-thing
show scuttled. In fact, the tortured life and quick death of Bob Patterson eerily mimicks the solo sitcom
history of Alexander's former Seinfeld buddy Michael Richards.
Now it's up to Julia Louis-Dreyfus to break the curse with her new NBC effort, 23:12, which is slated
to debut as a midseason replacement in early 2002.
But we aren't holding our breath: Earlier this week it was reported that NBC has wrested control of
the show away from the people who developed it, Carsey Werner Mandabach. Gulp.
In fact, it may come down to the unlikeliest of heroes to break the Seinfeld suck streak: Patrick
"Puddy" Warburton. He heads the cast for Fox's new and hysterically funny The Tick, which debuts November 8.
Bob Patterson Doesn't Even Get To Go To The Back Of The Giant TV Refrigerator - Buh-Bye
Japanese Origami
Paper Cranes
Naomi Nakano-Matsumoto peers through paper cranes at a Buddhist temple in Mountain View,
Calif., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001. She is helping to organize others from across the country
in folding thousands of Japanese origami paper cranes in memory of the victims of the Sept.
11th terrorist attack, just as thousands did after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima.
Photo by Paul Sakuma
Folding Cranes
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Film Threat Online Movie Magazine
The 'Frigid 50'
Film Threat, the on-line movie magazine, is serving up a list of Hollywood's coldest
stars with its annual "Frigid 50." The snarky send-up of Entertainment Weekly and
Premiere magazines' sycophantic "power" lists skewers Tinseltown's most irritating eyesores.
Making the cut are Freddie Prinze Jr. ("three words that will make us run from a
theater"), Tom Green ("the next generation Pauly Shore"), Casper Van Dien ("a mannequin
with an agent") and Marilyn Manson ("the Tiny Tim of the 21st Century.") Others
who are singled out for censure:
* For Sharon Stone, who's done nothing lately "other than behaving strangely and having
a 'tiny' brain aneurysm," it's "time to get back to work and back to being naked,
exploding brain or no."
* Penelope Cruz is labeled "the least welcome Spanish export since the Inquisition."
The site notes, "[This] starlet du jour will evaporate once the Hollywood folks
realize absolutely no one is interested in seeing her on screen."
* "The stink bomb called 'Pearl Harbor' made it official," they declare. "Michael
Bay is the very essence of all that is evil in Hollywood, a vicious baseball-capped
humanoid cloaked in Satan's bleeping vapors."
* "With the Museum of Bruce Willis' Hair Pieces being a good 30 years off, we can
look forward to a bumpy high-speed barrel roll down the hill of not aging well," the site says.
* "Comically sleazy Lebanese dry-cleaning film-producing tycoon" Elie Samaha, who was
sued by his German backers for ripping them off, is guilty of "accost[ing] innocent
moviegoers" with 'Battlefield Earth,' 'Get Carter' and 'The Art of War.' "
* "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner is imagined saying, "Hey, I'm just a big schmo from
Miami who likes to kibbitz on my cell phone, keep my pinkie rings shined up, bang a couple
bimbos, and maybe direct a half-a-ed comedy flick from the back seat of my Humvee! Whaddaya want?"
* Courtney Love - "If she has any more plastic surgery, she'll almost look human . . . Her
acting in films like 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' and 'Man on the Moon' prove that she's
got talent, but her personality sure could use a makeover from Miss Manners. Courtney,
isn't there someone you should be suing someplace?"
Finally, Film Threat also singles out good actors who have lost their way, pleading
with Kevin Spacey to stop churning out "preachy pap" like "K-Pax" and "Pay It Forward,"
chiding Johnny Depp for "lately letting his hair and cheekbones do all the work," Marlon
Brando for having become "an obese, orange-hued parody of a once-great star," and Kevin
Costner for devolving into a "putty-faced idiot."
Film Threat & The 'Frigid 50'
One More Harry Potter Story
Richard Harris
Richard Harris had no choice -- his 11-year-old granddaughter said that if he refused to play in the Harry Potter film, she'd never talk to him again.
The actor had originally turned down the chance to play the worldly-wise Professor Dumbledore in ``Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' because he couldn't face the idea of being locked into a string of sequels.
Then Ellie got to hear about his decision: ``She called me up and said 'Poppa, if you don't play Dumbledore, I will never speak to you again.' I hung up and called my agent and said I'd do it. I can't afford to lose that kid,'' he said.
All is forgiven now. Harris, 72, will be taking her to the world premiere on Sunday in London. ``She's my date,'' he said.
Harris was a true Sixties hellraiser who, in the style of Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, believed life was living to the full with wine and women top priorities.
Now the veteran Irish star has kicked the bottle, told his two ex-wives the splits were all his fault and in his seventies finds himself busier than ever as an actor.
Dumbledore, which has Harris dressed up to look like an Old Testament prophet, was a difficult part to play.
``I had to find the voice first,'' he said of the headmaster's role, a challenge he relished.
And he was in fine form as the international press queued up to meet him at a press junket arranged by Warner Brothers at 15th century Knebworth House, a stately home north of London done up to look like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Potter film.
Harris, whose memorable roles have ranged from ``Camelot'' to ''The Field'' and ``This Sporting Life'' is constantly asked to write his autobiography. He keeps refusing.
``It is too private,'' he told Reuters. ``All the women I have had in my life are grandmothers who now have granddaughters. It is not fair. Relationships like that should be private. I have a great distaste for kiss-and-tell biographies.''
The inventor of the lost weekend will stay a free spirit till the day he dies. The message to both wives was the same: ''I want to put it all on the table. It was 100 percent my fault. You were absolutely correct to throw me out. The only thing that amazes me is that it took you so long.''
Harris, who would go out for a packet of cigarettes and not come back for two weeks, said: ``I have made 72 movies in my life and been miscast twice -- as a husband.''
And like Burton and O'Toole, Harris has no regrets.
``I wanted to savor every minute of it. Richard was identical, Peter was identical. There was no burning ambition on our part to be the best Hamlet, the best Lear.''
And what then would their motto be? Without hesitation, he said: ``Get laid, get pissed, move on.''
Richard Harris On Harry Potter & More
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The Aladdin, Bankruptcy And...
Carmen Electra
Carmen Electra might one day headline on the Las Vegas Strip, but it appears her
new show is no longer wanted by the financially struggling Aladdin hotel-casino.
The bankrupt $1.2 billion resort has filed a request with a U.S. Bankruptcy Court
judge as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reject a 30-year lease held by Showclubs of America.
Showclubs had hoped to open a $12 million to $14 million combination nightclub and
1,200-seat showroom at the Aladdin early next year. Construction was supposed
to have started last month.
Electra, a former ``Baywatch'' star and Playboy model, signed a two-year deal in July to
be the star of the show housed in the showroom. The 29-year-old was to perform 12 times
a week for an undisclosed sum.
But with the delays, it is undecided whether Electra still will be a part of the
``Lumiere'' production, said David Tumaroff, the show's executive producer.
``Carmen Electra is saying to us, `What's the deal? Where is the show going to be?
When could it open?','' Tumaroff told the Las Vegas Sun for Thursday's editions.
``With what the Aladdin is saying (in court documents), what can I say to her?''
Electra and Showclubs could receive their answer during a Nov. 6 bankruptcy hearing.
Officials with the show and nightclub, who say they've already put more than $750,000
into the effort, aren't planning to let the lease go.
The lease called for Showclubs to secure acceptable financing by early September, and
start construction in early October. Neither has happened, the Aladdin said in its bankruptcy filing.
Carmen Electra In Vegas
Through The Eyes Of Kids
PBS' 'Liberty Kids'
Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg and Ben Stiller are set to star as the voices of famous American Revolutionary figures in a new 40-part animated series from DIC Entertainment, "Liberty Kids," which recounts the struggle for independence.
The PBS series already has veteran broadcaster Walter Cronkite on board as the voice of Benjamin Franklin.
Confirming that Hoffman, Goldberg and Stiller are now also set to take major voice roles in the series, DIC chairman and CEO Andy Heyward said: "The series is such a prideful thing that everybody is getting on board. It is a very timely and very topical undertaking that began a couple of years ago."
Heyward added: "Not one of them came through their agents. They wanted to commit to this. And these are all very significant roles. We are talking to a number of other celebrities about partaking." Heyward praised DIC senior vp talent Marsha Goodman for bringing the project to the attention of leading entertainment industry personalities.
Hoffman is taking the voice role of Benedict Arnold, Stiller will play Thomas Jefferson, and Goldberg takes the role of Deborah Sampson, a Mayflower descendent who enlisted in and became a hero of the Continental Army disguised as a man.
The PBS series was conceived by Heyward during an educational trip to Washington a few years ago with his children, he said. The tragic events of Sept. 11 brought the concept into a new realm, he added. The series is set to debut on PBS on Memorial Day. It will be supported by a massive nationwide school outreach educational program organized by DIC senior vp marketing Kathie Sharpe-Ross. DIC president Brad Brooks has played a major role in all aspects of the undertaking, Heyward said.
The story is told through the eyes of three children -- an American boy, a British girl and a French boy -- who work in Benjamin Franklin's print shop.
'Liberty Kids'
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BartCop Astrology
Check it out at BC Astrology.
This week, the official BartCop Astrologer has provided two charts.
One who's talent (and hearing, as well), is on loan from his god, and for contrast, an American visionary,
national treasure, and real-life role model, Helen Keller.
Very interesting reading!
Liberal Radio
Erin Hart
Yes, there is some (not much) liberal (i.e. non-hate based) radio still out there.
Join Erin Hart regular time, 9 p. to 1 a. (PST) Sunday nights.
The battles at home and abroad continue: are we losing the battle of word and images in the war on terrorism?
What about those of you who have lost your jobs to the war on terror?
What do you think of Bush pushing such a disastrous tax break/refund aimed mainly at the wealthy and corporations disguised as economic stimulus? Will the Senate stop the House and the President?
I want federal workers checking my bags at the airport, how about you?
And the threat at home, just what are you afraid will be attacked?
And on a lighter note--will the Randy and the Diamondbacks prevail against those Damn Yankees?
The Erin Hart Show begins at 9 pm (pst) Sunday on www.710kiro.com.
That's 9 pm to 1 am Sunday.
Listen online, and join in the chatroom.
We usually have a pretty good time.
Federal Investigators & Your Rights
If An Agent Knocks
If An Agent Knocks
Harper's Bazaar & A Butt Shot
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow asked for no ifs, ands...or butts. But after getting a glimpse of an
A-list rear end, Harper's Bazaar apparently couldn't resist.
In what's turned into a case of "Don't ass, don't tell," Paltrow is "really upset" with
the women's fashion mag and French photographer Patrick Demarchelier, after she says they
broke a promise to crop out her bottom from a bare-all photo shoot.
But sure enough, there in the November issue--in all its splendid, dainty glory--is Paltrow's
bum. The magazine's profile and pictorial feature two black-and-white pics with Paltrow in her birthday suit.
While speaking to reporters about her new flick, Shallow Hal, Paltrow said Demarchelier "lied
to me and said he wasn't going to put my whole bottom in the picture--and he did."
Demarchelier and Bazaar, however, deny they broke any promises and claim she was a willing
participant in the nekkidness. The photos "are extremely tasteful and truly exquisite," reads
a statement from the magazine. "Gwyneth was very cooperative about posing for us, and we've
had a wonderful response."
For his part, Demarchelier told the New York Post, "I didn't force her. I asked her to do
some nudes and she said yes. She's probably joking."
Paltrow publicist Stephen Huvane says the 29-year-old Oscar winner didn't actually see her
full moon in print until she received an advance issue three weeks ago.
"She was promised the picture would be cropped further up," contends Huvane, who also attended
the photo shoot several months ago. "She takes responsibility--she was there and she understands
it was her own free will to do that. But she just feels there was an agreement that wasn't completely honored."
Paltrow's body has been stirring up quite a bit of news lately. The Shakespeare in Love star
can be seen in various shapes and sizes in the new Farrelly Brothers comedy Shallow Hal, in
which she plays the enormous love interest of a hypnotized Jack Black. Paltrow not only straps
on a fat suit to play the supersize role of Rosemary, but her slimmer self also wears a padded
bra to get a curvier look as Black's idealized dream girl. (For the film's poster, Paltrow's
butt was also reportedly airbrushed to appear more shapely.)
Prior to the rear-end battle, Paltrow exposed a few other personal bits and pieces to Bazaar--like,
for instance, that she does not care for her butt, and she supports ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck's
decision to enter rehab for alcohol abuse.
"It was absolutely the right thing to do," she says, "and I completely support him. He's brave."
Paltrow also confides, "I'm a very sexual person," and that, with relationships, "I'm lucky if I get
past six weeks. The make-or-break is six weeks. And then there's another make-or-break after three months."
Oh, and by the way, her ideal man is "tall and thin but muscular, to start with the superficial. A
gentleman. Someone who's well educated, funny, witty, artistic and has a lot of integrity. He
doesn't have to grab all the attention in the room. A good kisser."
Unhappy Gwynnie
In Memory
Sandy Lehmann-Haupt
Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, one of the 1960s Merry Pranksters and a principal source for the best-selling book ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,'' has died at the age of 59.
Lehmann-Haupt died Oct. 29 of a heart attack at a hospital here near his home, his family told The New York Times.
At age 22, he rode aboard novelist Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus, which helped define the hippie generation.
Lehmann-Haupt, a sound engineer, met Kesey when the author visited New York for the opening of the stage version of his book ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.''
Lehmann-Haupt then moved into Kesey's home in Palo Alto, Calif., and experimented with LSD, then legal, with a group of Kesey's companions who became known as the Merry Pranksters.
In 1964, Kesey bought a school bus and Lehmann-Haupt installed its sound system and occasionally drove it.
The bus, painted in psychedelic colors, became a counterculture icon.
Lehmann-Haupt later described his experiences on the Merry Pranksters' LSD-fueled bus trip across America to author Tom Wolfe, who immortalized the journey in his 1968 book ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''
Over the last decade, Lehmann-Haupt stopped using drugs, took a job as an advocate for the mentally ill, married and bought a house.
Sandy Lehmann-Haupt
Still Really Like This One....
"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Gonna let it ride for awhile.
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
