'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Another Fresh One!
The Worried Shrimp
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Rained again, and had even more thunder!
Cousin Lisa called tonight & will be joining us for Christmas. She has a Ph.D in geography, and teaches where it gets really, really cold - time for her mid-winter thaw. : )
Printed signs and hung them about the neighborhood. Ginger is still missing.
Doesn't look like the update on the Links page will happen this weekend.
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS opens the night with '60 Minutes', then a fresh 'Becker' followed by a RERUN 'King Of Queens', and caps the evening with a fresh made-for-tv movie 'The Christmas Shoes'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline' followed by a fresh 'American Dreams', then a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' and a fresh 'Boomtown'.
ABC finally rolls out the movie 'Pinocchio' and follows it with a fresh 'Alias' and a fresh 'The Practice'.
The WB starts the night with the weekly RERUN of 'The Gilmore Girls', then a RERUN 'Charmed' and a RERUN 'Angel'.
Faux opens with a RERUN 'Futurama', then a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a fresh 'Simpsons', a fresh 'King Of The Hill', a fresh 'Malcolm', and then the
season premiere of 'Andy Richter Control's The Universe'.
UPN has the night of nothing new - 'Buffy', 'Enterprise', and 'Stargate SG-1'.
Comedy Central has a roast of Chevy Chase.
MTV reruns last Tuesday nights season opener of 'The Osbournes'.
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Legendary Photojournalist
Gordon Parks
Legendary photojournalist Gordon Parks hams it up for fellow photographers following a portrait session featuring himself and close to 100 other prominent African-American photographers, Saturday,
Nov. 30, 2002, in the Harlem neighborhod of New York. Parks was celebrating his 90th birthday Saturday. Some of Parks' works are included in a comprehensive traveling exhibition,
'Reflections in Black: Smithsonian African-American Photography,' currently on exhibit in Atlanta.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Manuscript
Ian Fleming
Rare original manuscripts for one of the best-loved children's' stories of all time go under the hammer next month.
The novel of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the flying car with a bubbly personality was originally penned by James Bond author Ian Fleming in 1961 as he recovered after a heart attack and is based on
stories he used to tell his son.
Originally written as three stories but published in 1964 under the name of Ian Lancaster as one, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was an instant success.
Fleming manuscripts are extremely rare. The major Fleming collection held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University does not even include an autograph manuscript or typescript of Chitty,
auction house Sotheby's said.
The manuscripts of the three original adventures as well as sketches of the car are expected to fetch at least 12,000 pounds ($19,000) when they go under the hammer in London on December 12.
Ian Fleming
Private Screening For Troops
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro will show his new comedy, "Analyze That," to 1,500 troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., two days before the movie opens in theaters.
Before the screening Wednesday, De Niro will join Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, in meeting with troops involved in the war on terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"Analyze That" is the first in a series of screenings for military personnel planned through the Tribeca Film Institute, which De Niro co-founded with his business partner,
Jane Rosenthal. Warner Bros also has offered prints of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" for screenings Dec. 7 and 8 at MacDill Air Force Base.
Robert De Niro
Tribeca Film Institute
Venice, Italy
St. Mark's Square
Chairs and tables from a bar float in a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice in this Nov. 17, 2002 file photo, after the morning's high tide didn't retract due to strong winds. Italy gave the go-ahead
Nov. 29, 2002, for an ambitious plan to build barriers that will block the tides.
Photo by Francesco Proietti
Remains Transferred To The Pantheon
Alexandre Dumas
France buried Alexandre Dumas, the fast-writing, fast-living author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo," in the crypt of the Pantheon in Paris Saturday, reuniting him with his friend Victor Hugo.
France's best-known writer of romantic adventures, equally renowned for his own torrid love life, was reburied in the state's official tomb of honor alongside his fellow novelist Hugo, Rousseau,
Voltaire and dozens of other French luminaries.
Dumas, who died in 1870, was transferred under a decree issued by President Jacques Chirac from a cemetery in the town of Villers-Cotterets north of Paris, where he was born in 1802.
Dumas, grandson of a female Haitian slave, enchanted readers worldwide with more than 250 plays and novels of romance and adventure, churned out with an army of assistants. But his own life
was perhaps wilder than those of his most fabled heroes.
He was widely credited with reviving the French romantic novel through serialization and had a huge story-telling talent that blended fiction and fact until they were indistinguishable.
Self-educated, he worked in his hometown as a clerk and left for Paris at a young age. He briefly stopped writing to join the revolution of July 1830, traveled to Russia,
and then to Italy at the invitation of the insurgent Giuseppe Garibaldi.
For a lot more, Alexandre Dumas
''Star Trek: The Adventure'' In London
Starship Enterprise
Watch out for Klingons on the starboard bow -- The Starship Enterprise is landing in London's Hyde Park.
"Trekkie" fans of the cult science fiction saga will be in seventh heaven with the opening of the biggest Star Trek exhibition ever staged, says Martin Biallas, the brains
behind "Star Trek: The Adventure."
You can pose for a photo with Captain Kirk, battle the Borgs from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, ride in a simulator and have yourself superimposed on to a souvenir video clip.
The exhibition, to be launched in London on December 18, will go round the world from Europe to the United States and Australia "on a five-year mission to seek out new
audiences, to boldly go where Star Trek has never gone before," Biallas says.
Starship Enterprise
Professional Courtesy?
The Shark & The Attorney
A Santa Rosa attorney is recovering today after he was attacked by a 16-foot shark off Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County.
The attack caused bone-deep lacerations on forty-eight-year-old Michael Casey's legs. He was in stable condition after two hours of surgery on Thanksgiving
Day at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Authorities believe the shark was a great white.
A witness told rangers the shark approached Casey from behind, then tossed him into the air and let go as fellow surfers began screaming.
The Shark & The Attorney
40 Years Later...
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco 40 years ago - and it's a good thing for both the city and the singer that he did.
Bennett first performed the song that helped launch his star as a special ditty for his first big gig in the City by the Bay.
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was written in 1954, but Bennett didn't add it to his act until a 1962 show at the Fairmont Hotel.
Tony Bennett
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Baby News
Vivienne Rose O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell's girlfriend has given birth to a baby girl.
Kelli Carpenter, the comedian and former talk show host's longtime partner, gave birth to Vivienne Rose O'Donnell Friday at an undisclosed New York hospital, O'Donnell spokeswoman Cindi Berger said Saturday.
Carpenter and O'Donnell named the baby Vivienne after the main character in the book "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," and Rose after O'Donnell's mother, Roseanne, Berger said.
O'Donnell has adopted three children — Parker, 7, Chelsea, 5, and Blake, 3. This is 35-year-old Carpenter's first child. Berger would not say whether O'Donnell was formally adopting Vivienne Rose.
Vivienne Rose O'Donnell
Los Angeles
Horse In The Big City
Oba Babatundi rides his horse on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles in this 2002 file photo. Like legions of horse lovers throughout the West, Oba Babatundi does his
riding in close quarters to urban communities. Equestrians in the region are increasingly fighting developers and city officials who want to put homes across traditional
horse paths. In California, Arizona, and Montana, state horse councils lobby regularly in city halls and legislatures to preserve trails and trail access for riders.
Photo by Lynn Brown
Nicole's Little Sister
Antonia Kidman
Nicole Kidman's little sister, Antonia, is looking to break into the British fitness scene. Antonia, a television personality in Australia, is flying to England next week to
launch a yoga video. A pal told the London Sun: "The video will be a great introduction for Antonia. She is very proud of it and is sure the exercise technique will catch on
here. She and Nicole are close and look very much alike."
Antonia Kidman
Takes Maiden Name Again
Courteney Cox
When Courteney Cox Arquette went back to being just Courteney Cox, people wondered whether something was wrong with her marriage to actor David Arquette.
But the "Friends" co-star says she started going by her maiden name in some situations out of respect for her father, Richard Cox, who died of cancer last year.
"When I was a kid, I wanted to change my name so badly because I didn't like it. Now that my dad's gone, I don't want to lose it," the 38-year-old actress tells InStyle magazine for its December issue.
"It's not an issue for David. I am an Arquette, but I'm also a Cox. My social security card says Courteney Cox Arquette. And when we have children they will not be Cox-Arquettes, they will be Arquettes."
Courteney Cox
Hmmmmmm
New 'Doors'?
Bid farewell to The Cult for the time being. Ian Astbury has put his long-running group on hold to fulfill a dream gig. He'll front The Doors during their return to the music scene.
Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek says, "The music is Doors-like, but new. It's different from The Doors, but decidedly Doors-like. We're going in various directions musically. Astbury
joins Doors originals Ray Manzarek and Robbie Kreiger in the band, while Police drummer Stewart Copeland takes over the reigns from John Densmore, who bowed out due to ailing health.
In addition to touring, there's been talk of new Doors music being recorded.
New 'Doors'?
Has Fear of Being Poor
Michael Caine
Actor Michael Caine says even after 48 years in the entertainment business, with more than 130 films and television shows, poverty remains his greatest fear.
In a recent talk to members of the Screen Actors Guild, Caine said a childhood horror of returning to his poor roots drove him to make some less-than-inspired career choices. Among
them, he said, were roles in "Jaws: The Revenge" and "On Deadly Ground."
"I never thought I was going to get another (movie), so I always took 'em," said Caine, 69. "If you come from a very poor family, everybody around you is poor. It's the old cliche,
he's a young boy, he's got to buy his mother a house. I bought everybody a bloody house."
Michael Caine
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Serial Philanderer Proposes
Rudy Giuliani
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Judith Nathan, who was at the center of Giuliani's high-profile divorce.
Giuliani confirmed his plans to marry Nathan at a book signing in New York on Saturday.
He proposed to Nathan last Sunday during a business trip to Paris.
Rudy Giuliani
Rio de Janeiro
'New York City Shopping Mall'
A man walks near a replica of the Statue of Liberty adorned with a Santa Claus costume at the entrance to the 'New York City Shopping Mall' in Rio de Janeiro, November 26, 2002. The decorations
are popular during the Christmas holiday season in Brazil.
Photo by Sergio Moraes
'Box of Smile'
Yoko Ono
It's that time of the year when wacky gift-giving ideas pop up all over the map. The latest folly is from John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who is selling her
wares through the SoHo store Troy on Greene Street. For just $85, you can buy an Ono-designed "Box of Smile" - a black box which "opens to an empty box with
a mirror inset on the bottom to reflect the viewer's smile," its publicity states. Ono recently re-entered the music market with a techno version of her song, "Open Your Box."
Yoko Ono
Shoppers Held Hostage In Liquor Store
Bees
Marauding bees held shoppers hostage inside a Los Angeles-area liquor store for two hours on Thanksgiving while engaging firefighters in a tense stand-off, officials have said.
The bees showed up suddenly at the front door of Sam's Mini Market in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Chatsworth at about 11 a.m. on Thursday as customers were making
last-minute holiday purchases, said store owner Kawaljit Singh.
"A lot of them came in a second," Singh told Reuters on Friday. "One customer, he was trying to walk out and he said, 'Look at that!' There was a dark cloud."
The bees, which had built a hive under the liquor store sign, trapped Singh, two customers and an employee inside the store for about two hours as firefighters
repeatedly doused the insects with firefighting foam.
"All of them got dead but they were still coming from somewhere," Singh said, adding that as one swarm of bees was killed, another wave would appear.
Bees
A Seantoon
'Dr. Phil', DNA Testing & An Amputated Foot?
Laurie Bembenek
A former Milwaukee police officer trying to prove her innocence in a 20-year-old murder case had her right foot amputated Friday because of injuries suffered when she fell trying
to flee out a Los Angeles hotel window three weeks ago, her attorney said.
Laurie Bembenek fractured two major bones and severed an artery in the foot when she fell from the window of a second-story hotel room where she was being kept for the "Dr. Phil"
television show, said Mary L. Woehrer of Milwaukee, Bembenek's attorney.
Bembenek, who is hoping that DNA evidence will exonerate her of a 1981 murder, was in Los Angeles for a taping of the nationally syndicated TV show when the accident happened Nov. 10.
The program paid for DNA testing of evidence in her case and put her under "bodyguard type" surveillance in an effort to shield her from the media reports, Woehrer
said. Bembenek was expected to hear the test results for the first time on the show.
But Woehrer said the restrictions the show placed on Bembenek were excessive and triggered memories of Bembenek's imprisonment, causing her to try to escape.
For more, Laurie Bembenek
Puts Heat on Real Investigators
Crime TV
The public's fascination with crime dramas, most recently "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," has people nudging and questioning real-life coroner's investigators and forensic scientists.
It is unknown how many coroners are hearing more from the public, but some say more people are calling with increased expectations.
Medical examiners and coroners say they received calls when the drama "Quincy, M.E." was televised in the 1970s and early 1980s. Now, as the CSI shows spotlight investigative techniques, people
want their local investigators to do the same.
James Baroni, investigator with the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office in southern California, said relatives want to know why investigators cannot pinpoint an exact time of death or wonder
why it takes them so long to get test results.
"It isn't uncommon for them to bring up CSI," he said.
He said it takes at least two weeks to get a DNA profile and up to four months to get toxicology results.
For a lot more, Crime TV
National Association of Medical Examiners
Atascadero, CA
California Condor
Atascadero police officer Brian Dana watches over a dead California condor near the roadway in Atascadero, Calif., Saturday Nov. 30, 2002. According to Ventana Wilderness Society's executive
director Kelly Sorenson, the 3-year-old tagged bird was released from their sanctuary just over two years ago and had burned feathers, signs of hitting a power line. The California condor,
an endangered species, has struggled in its return to the wild as it encounters man-made obstacles. This bird's death brings the total number of remaining birds to 199.
Photo by Michael A. Mariant
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