'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Wolfenheimer's Disease
Dr. Paul seems to be having some cognitive decline.
You've seen the signs ... more
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beautiful, sunny day.
Nearly every day, the foliage in Jo, the (remaining) lizard's terrarium is changed out. The biggest downside is being cornered by well-meaning, but very chatty neighbors.
OTOH, I'm sure caught up on the 'hood now.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the evening, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a 'Hallmark Hall O'Fame' FRESH
made-for-tv-movie, 'Fallen Angel'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a
RERUN 'Law & Order'.
ABC rolls out 'Charlie Brown Thanksgiving', and 'Winnie The Pooh Thanksgiving', followed by a FRESH '10-8', then a FRESH 'Alias', followed by
a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'Tarzan'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development' (with Liza Minnelli guesting).
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Columbo', a 2-hour 'Biography' (Andy Williams), then 'Meet The Royals' with Davy Jones.
AMC offers the movie 'The Quiet Man', followed by the movie 'The Searchers', then the movie 'The Undefeated'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 3;
[7pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Putney;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Barges;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[10:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'Changing Rooms' - Putney;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Barges;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 1;
[3:40am] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', a 2-hour 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Mike Myers), and another 'Queer Eye'.
History has 'Dead Reckoning', 'LBJ vs. The Kennedys: Chasing Demons', 'Mail Call', and 'Tactical To Practical'.
SciFi has 'Taken' (part 8 of 10) and 'Taken' (part 9 of 10).
TCM - Tonight's SILENT film,
'Tillie's Punctured Romance' (1914) is a movie milestone: it's the first feature-length comedy, stars Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler, & Mabel Normand, and was directed by
Mack Sennett.
[6am] 'It's A Dog's Life' (1955);
[7:30am] 'The Women' (1939);
[10am] 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' (1967);
[12:15pm] 'The Wheeler Dealers' (1963);
[2:15pm] 'The Last Voyage' (1960);
[4pm] 'Pork Chop Hill' (1959);
[6pm] 'Touch Of Evil' (1958);
[8pm] 'The Heiress' (1949);
[10pm] 'Free And Easy' (1941);
[11pm] 'Ladies Must Live' (1940);
[12am] 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' (1914) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Saratoga Trunk' (1945);
[4am] 'The Gay Bride' (1934); and
[5:30am] Festival of Shorts #22 (1999). (ALL TIMES EST)
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former US president Bill Clinton finished a visit to India dedicated to fighting the AIDS epidemic with a private tour of the Taj Mahal.
Accompanied by around two dozen Indian policemen, US Secret Service agents and archeological experts, a smiling Clinton strolled around the sprawling mausoleum for an hour.
Clinton last visited the monument to love alongside his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea in March 2000 during a state visit.
Clinton, the first US president to visit India in more than two decades, used the last trip here to highlight the need to control air pollution which environmentalists warn could devastate the 17th-century marble wonder.
Bill Clinton
U2 singer Bono and wife Alison Hewson pose as they arrive for an auction at Christie's in New York, November 21, 2003. Bono's original paintings will be auctioned to benefit The Irish Hospice Foundation.
Photo by Alex Oliveira
Scratches 'Thriller' From Macy's Parade
Bloomington High School North Marching Band
The molestation allegations against Michael Jackson have affected even the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where an Indiana marching band decided to drop the pop superstar's Thriller from its song lineup barely a week before the show.
Thomas Wilson, director of the Bloomington, Ind., High School North marching band, told Macy's producers he wanted to replace the planned number after the possibility of charges against Jackson surfaced.
The band will instead play the song R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. by their hometown star, John Mellencamp.
Bloomington High School North Marching Band
If 'Thriller' is so inappropriate, why is Gary Glitter's 'Rock & Roll, Part 2' played at every sporting event?
Nebraska Theater Honors
Henry Fonda
The late Henry Fonda is being honored with commemorative street signs near a theater in which he began his career.
Fonda, a graduate of Omaha Central High School, was encouraged to try acting at the Omaha Community Playhouse by Marlon Brando's mother. Dorothy Brando held the meeting in 1924 that led to establishment of the playhouse and she starred in some of its productions.
Fonda, who grew up in Grand Island but was raised in Omaha, started his acting career in 1925 on one of the playhouse's first temporary stages. He returned for performances over the years and helped raise money for the playhouse in 1975 after a tornado caused $250,000 in damage.
Fonda also led a $500,000 fund-raising campaign for improvements at the theater in 1981, a year before his death at 77.
Henry Fonda
www.omahaplayhouse.com
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Considering Five New Digital Cable Channels
NBC
A top NBC cable executive said on Friday it is hammering out plans to launch up to five new digital cable channels, just weeks after the General Electric-owned network agreed to purchase Vivendi Universal's portfolio of motion pictures studios, cable channels and theme parks.
"We're considering a number of digital nets," said David Zazlav, president of NBC Cable, in an interview with Reuters.
NBC Entertainment president Jeffrey Zucker told Reuters that a crime channel built around NBC's hit "Law & Order" franchise and another that played movies from Universal's film library were two possible ideas.
With the emergence of digital broadcast, whose signals can now be split into as many six different channels, regulators are now set to vote on whether cable operators will be obligated to carry all of them.
NBC
A sea anemone shares its ocean floor neighborhood with the reddish finger coral in Cozumel, Mexico. An inspection of deeper-water Caribbean coral reefs found them healthier than previously believed, scientists said this week.
Photo by Margie Mullet
Won't Censor Posthumous Albums
Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur doesn't let her musical taste determine which of the unreleased songs by her son, rapper Tupac Shakur, will be available on his posthumous albums.
"What I don't do is censor. I wouldn't censor any artist, so I won't do that. I won't say, 'This is not good because it says something that's not nice,"' she said in an interview.
"If he wrote it, I put it out, because my job is to put his music out, not to decide whether it's good or bad."
Shakur created Amaru Records after her son was shot to death in 1996, and has released best-selling albums of his unheard works.
Afeni Shakur
To Appear on New TV Series
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd will guest on the debut episode of music video network Fuse's "7th Avenue Drop." Premiering Tuesday (Nov. 25), the show will feature interviews and performances by major artists, on the day their new albums are released, in Fuse's street-front New York studios.
Adding an interactive element, the Fuse Web site will solicit questions from fans and votes for what songs will be performed. Audiences for "7th Avenue Drop" tapings will consist of artist fan club members and Fuse Web site visitors. Each episode will re-air throughout the week.
Puddle of Mudd
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Won't Be Revoked
1932 Pulitzer
The 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to a New York Times reporter accused of deliberately ignoring the forced famine in Ukraine will not be revoked, the board for the journalism awards said Friday.
Ukrainian groups complained Duranty's reports intentionally made no mention of the 1932-1933 forced famine in Ukraine that killed as many as 7 million people. Josef Stalin's regime created the famine to force Ukrainian peasants into surrendering their land.
The review of Duranty's work did find that his 1931 work, "measured by today's standards, falls seriously short," the statement said. The board added that its finding echoed those of scholars and the Times itself.
In the 86-year history of the awards, no Pulitzer has ever been revoked. The prize was once returned, however, when Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke surrendered her Pulitzer in 1981 after admitting she had fabricated stories.
1932 Pulitzer
Biped robots 'OmniDream' (L) and 'Yokozuna Great Shiranui' fight in a makeshift ring in the Robo-One Grand Prix, a combat competition among biped robots, at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo November 22, 2003. Organizers said the Robo-One Grand Prix was held with hopes of promoting robot technology and their user-friendliness.
PHoto by Issei Kato
Unveils 1826 Photograph
Niepce Symposium
An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world's earliest photograph is the subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk.
The fresh portrait of the first photo was unveiled Friday during an Austin, Texas, symposium celebrating the life and work of pioneer photographer Joseph Nicephore Niepce (pronounced Nee'-sah-for Nee'-yeps).
The best-known image of Niepce's photograph had been a hand-retouched mosaic compiled from several partial images. Along with the new, unmanipulated reproduction, scientists are presenting the results of an unprecedented checkup on the condition of the 8-inch-by-6.5-inch image, which shows the view from a window of Niepce's family home.
The first photograph was rediscovered in 1952. The center acquired it in 1963. Today, it displays the faint image alongside a Gutenberg Bible, a first in its own right. Altogether, the center houses 5 million photographs, 1 million rare books, 36 million manuscripts, about 60,000 works of art and hundreds of reels of movie film.
Niepce Symposium
Ransom Center
Niepce house Web cam
Five king penguins are photographed with their reflections in the water in their enclosure at Munich's Zoo November 21, 2003. King penguins are the second-largest in the genus, standing 85-95cm tall with an average weight of 13 kg (29 lbs) and are found on sub-Antarctic islands around the Southern Ocean.
Photo by Alexandra Winkler
Spanish Artist
Victor Mira
Victor Mira, hailed as one of Spain's finest artists, died under a train near his German home in an apparent suicide hours after an accidental house fire destroyed some of his work, police said.
Around midday Tuesday, a short-circuit in the kitchen of his home near the southern town of Breitbrunn set off a blaze which was quickly brought under control but caused damage estimated at 50,000 euros (59,000 dollars).
A few hours later, the 54-year-old appeared to throw himself under a regional train, a spokesman for Bavarian police said.
Born in Zaragoza, northern Spain, Mira fled the Franco dictatorship and emigrated to Germany in 1968. Since then, he divided his time between his home in Germany and one in Barcelona.
Last February, the artist was called "the most important Spanish artist alive" during the annual Madrid International Art Exhibition (ARCO).
Victor Mira
Des dizaines de kangourous, redevenus sauvages, peuplent la forêt de Rambouillet, près de Paris, comme s'ils étaient chez eux, en Australie.
Photo by Philippe Desmazes
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