Kennedy Center Honors Dinner
Jack & Julie & Quincy & Van & Luciano
Kennedy Center Honoree actor Jack Nicholson is all smiles as he arrives at the State Dept. for the annual gala dinner to honor the 2001 winners, December 1, 2001. The three-time Oscar winner joins actress Julie Andrews, pianist Van Cliburn, musician Quincy Jones and Tenor Luciano Pavarotti as this year's honorees.
Photo by Mike Theiler
The Kennedy Center Honors (con't)
The Group Shot
The 2001 Kennedy Center Honorees (L to R, rear) pianist Van Cliburn, actor Jack Nicholson, tenor Luciano Pavarotti and (L to R, seated) actress Julie
Andrews and musician Quincy Jones pose for the family photo at the State Department after the annual gala dinner to honor them for lifetime
achievement in the arts, December 1, 2001.
Photo by Mike Theiler
For Jane & Tort & Edith & Mariellen & Kelly & Kim & Deb & Keith & Jamie & Franz
Good Bye, TWA
Good bye to TWA
The end of an era....71 years!
Thanks to Jim Hilton
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Friday night, I was messing in the file manager of this page...the results, well, I prefer
to look at it as 'a learning experience', and hope to never visit that level of hell again.
Since it was Saturday, and pretty much the end of the season, there was a shitload of college
football watched. Bummed that Penn State had to blow any chance at anything close to a
bowl game.
The local ABC affiliate (KABC) ran 'Kingpin' to fill primetime, and was
struck by how many promo's and PSA's (Public Service Announcements)
there were...no revenue in either, and it's not a good thing.
Derek Jeter hosted 'SNL', and did a fine job. Will Ferrel is a much more palatable
dubya...in the open the line I liked best was 'If you hang out in the desert, have a long beard &
aren't ZZ Top'...
Tonight, Sunday for some unfathomable reason ABC has remade 'Brian's Song'. I know
of 2 movies likely to make men cry. The original 'Brian's Song' is one. The other is 'Deliverance'.
Anyway, the remake is on early enough that the kid's can watch, too!
CBS has a 2-parter of 'Jack & The Beanstalk', starring Matthew Modine, although they're claiming it's a
'mini-series'. The reviews have not been kind.
TNT unveils it's newest movie, 'Call Me Claus' (with Whoopi Goldberg), damn near to death, in a sad back-
to-back-to-back (as usual).
VH1 has it's 'My VH1 Music Awards', hosted by Eric McCormack of Will & Grace, with scheduled performers
including U2, Mick Jagger, Creed, Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, and Sting.
There might be more, but, I forgot to get a TV Guide (again), and my memory isn't what it once was...
Since sweeps are over, the product offered on the major networks is considered (by them) to be leftovers,
and there isn't a lot of network belief in their 'specialness'. (If they had believed in them, you bet your ass they'd
have aired in the previous 4 weeks.)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
At The Chicago 'House Of Blues'
Tribute To George
In the 60s, Denny Laine and his Moody Blues band opened for the Beatles. On Saturday he was
onstage again, this time with former Beatles drummer Pete Best paying tribute to George Harrison.
Two days after hearing Harrison, 58, had died of cancer, Laine, Best, Spencer Davis, and more than
a dozen other musicians remembered the ``quiet Beatle'' at the House of Blues.
``It was an uncanny feeling,'' said Laine, who also played in Paul McCartney's post-Beatles group,
Wings. ``George was a very close friend. It's comforting to play like this.''
As many as 16 musicians -- including the members of American English, a costumed Beatles cover
band -- packed the stage to play a range of Beatles songs, from ``Norwegian Wood'' to ``Let it Be''.
The segues between songs were often somber.
``George was a very special person,'' Laine said. ``I know you all loved him. I loved him. God bless you George.''
Best, who embarked on his own solo career, was silent through most of the show. His most animated display
came late in the concert when a chant of ``Best, Best, Best'' moved the drummer to stand and bow.
HOB Tribute To George
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A Final Album & A Knighthood?
George Harrison
Former Beatle George Harrison was secretly recording a last album in the months before he
died, according to British media reports on Sunday.
The Sunday Times newspaper said Harrison played tracks from the album to his family at a
Los Angeles hospital last Sunday, four days before his death from cancer at the age of 58.
Harrison gave the album the working title ``Portrait of a Leg End,'' a jokey reference to his
uneasy relationship with fame, the paper said.
The tabloid Sunday Express said Harrison's wife Olivia would decide if and when to release the
album, as the late Beatle was not signed to any record company.
Meanwhile, British politicians called for Harrison to be granted a posthumous knighthood, the
Sunday Express reported.
The move would require a change in Britain's honors system under which only military personnel
can be given the title ''Sir'' after their death, the paper said.
``Considering the type of people who get knighthoods, how can you not give one to the man
wrote ``Here Comes the Sun,'' opposition Conservative member of parliament Boris Johnson
was quoted by the Sunday Express as saying.
A Final Album From George?
Egg-Stra, Egg-Stra....Somebody Got The Story Wrong
Al Gore & ''His'' Restaurant
Thursday November 29 1:51 PM ET
Al Gore Says Now Restaurateur in Tennessee
LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore told a Nigerian audience on Thursday
that he now runs a family restaurant in Tennessee.
``This has been a time of transition for me and it hasn't been easy,'' Gore told an audience
at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.
He also told the capacity audience that he had started the new family enterprise in his home state.
``We have started a family restaurant in Tennessee and we are running it ourselves. It is a low-cost
restaurant,'' he said. ``I am also a visiting professor or VP for short.''
Spokesmen in the United States were not immediately available to provide further details.
Gore, who became a vice chairman for U.S. investment firm Metropolitan West Financial Inc earlier
this month, said playing with his grandchildren has become another priority since leaving office.
Al Gore, The 'Restaurant' & Egg-Boy Got It Wrong
Egg-Stra, Egg-Stra -- Here's The Correction
Corrected Al Gore Story
Friday November 30 6:23 PM ET
CORRECTION: Al Gore Restaurateur Story Withdrawn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Nov. 29 LAGOS, Nigeria, story headlined ``Al Gore says now
restaurateur in Tennessee'' is wrong and is withdrawn. The story was based on an erroneous
hearing of Gore's remarks.
According to a transcript provided by a representative for Gore, the former vice president
said ``... we stopped at a little family restaurant in Tennessee. We were eating there by
ourselves. It was a low-cost restaurant called Shoney's.''
There will be no substitute story.
CORRECTION: Al Gore Restaurateur Story Withdrawn
Egg-Stra, Egg-Stra -- And Here's The NewsMax Spin
Al Gore Story Remains The Same (as of 2 Dec, 2001, 02:23, pst)
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Friday, Nov. 30, 2001 12:06 p.m. EST
Chef Al Gore Gives Hillary Head Seat at Presidential Table
Al Gore's announcement that he's now personally running his own Tennessee restaurant has more than a few White House watchers speculating that he has now all but officially retired from politics, a decision that's sure to gladden the heart of at least one ambitious Democrat - New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
"We have started a family restaurant in Tennessee and we are running it ourselves. It is a low-cost restaurant," Gore told a stunned audience in Africa this week.
With Gore waiting tables and slinging hash, it's Hillary who now occupies the head seat at the Democratic Party's 2004 presidential table.
In poll after poll Democrats say that if they can't have Gore in '04, they want Mrs. Clinton to head the ticket, preferring her to other likely contenders such as Sens. Joe Lieberman, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, John Edwards and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.
In August, 34 percent of Democrats told Gallup/CNN/USA Today they'd nominate Gore again. Hillary came in a relatively close second, with 21 percent. The only other Democrat to break into double digits was former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, with 12 percent.
Former V.P. nominee Joe Lieberman was backed by just 9 percent.
A survey of Iowa Democrats in April also showed Mrs. Clinton running behind only Al Gore.
Hillary has repeatedly denied she wants to run for the White House in 2004 - but virtually no one believes her, since she said the same thing about running for Senate while she was first lady.
NewsMax Version Of 'Al's Restaurant'
This article is verbatim from the NewsMax site as of 02:23 pst, 2 Dec., 2001.
World AIDs Day 2001
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, reads names of people who have died of AIDS as part of the
eighth annual World AIDS Day vigil Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001 in New York. Housing Works hosts the
vigil at the Harlem State Office Building Plaza.
Photo by David Karp
New!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
She Who Brings Shame To The Name 'Martha'
That Stewart Woman
Martha Stewart is asking restaurateurs who've been featured in her magazine or on her TV show
to "donate" dinners to be raffled off to her staff as Christmas presents.
Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef at the well-regarded East Village restaurant Prune who was on
Stewart's show earlier this year, was "shocked," sources said, when asked to donate for Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia's annual general meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hamilton declined to comment, but according to the pal, she angrily declined to comp the Stewart
staffers and hung up the phone.
Stewart's spokeswoman said, "Martha Stewart has a private annual meeting that is always held at the
Met. Every year there is a raffle of eight to 10 items for employees that are donated by people who
have participated in the magazine or television show or featured in any way. The people are very
happy to donate these items."
Stewart's budget-paring scheme came to light just two weeks after she canceled her firm's traditional
Christmas party and leaned on top execs to host a series of smaller bashes in their apartments.
Two weeks ago, the doyenne of the domestic arts e-mailed 65 staffers requesting that they each host
10 co-workers. To make it even more awkward, they wouldn't get to pick their guests, but would be given a list.
Stewart then offered each "volunteer" $300 "to help defray some of the costs of hosting." Bean-counters
quickly figured out the small parties would cost Stewart a measly $19,500, instead of the $100,000 or
more a real party in a restaurant or catering space would cost.
Unsurprisingly, volunteers were slow to come forward to host a potluck crowd, even though Martha said
she'd do it herself. Sensing their reluctance, Stewart e-mailed another edict, laying a guilt trip on
her underlings and even accusing them of cowering before Osama bin Laden's terror crew.
That Stewart Woman
Also, see BartCopE, Monday, 19 Nov., 2001
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio online - what a concept!
What is John Ashcroft doing? Why does the President need military tribunals? Are we going
after Saddam Hussein? Can a civilian government work in Afghanistan? Still feeling depressed
after 9.11? Are too many questions buzzing in YOUR head too?
All that and it's the start of the holiday season! Ho HO HO Hey!
Saturday and Sunday 9 p. to 1 a. Pacific Standard
www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
There's even a chatroom!
We generally have a pretty good time...
Also, Wednesday, 5 December, if you're in the Seattle area, Erin will be emceeing a
fundraiser for Democrats from local districts for the 2002 campaign season.
As a special treat, they will feature a Deep Fried Turkey cooked by Washington State Representative
John Lovick (and, as featured on KIRO's Dori Monson show).
For more details, visit Erin's homepage, http://www.erinistas.com/.
And say 'Hi' to Brian, the Webmaster, too.
While you're there, check out Brian's computer tips!
Power, Sex, And Republicans?
Vanity Fair
This month's Vanity Fair article about power and sex in Washington continues to stir up a
ruckus. Diana Davis, the self-obsessed aide to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), claimed in the
story that she once slept with a man because he "knew [Rep] Tom DeLay [R-Tex.,]" and
therefore was "powerful."
DeLay told a Republican conference in D.C. the week before Thanksgiving, "I just want you
all to know that using 'Tom DeLay' is not a pick-up line!"
To which Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) cried out, "I should know - I tried!"
Afterward, male staffers for DeLay joined in and said: "We had no idea we were so sexy."
Davis, who was fired after the story ran and blackballed in official Washington, was said
to be looking for jobs in New York, but shocked insiders said she was still trying to interview in D.C.
Meanwhile, reports Roll Call, Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) expects a retraction. Allen never drank
with staffers at the Capitol Grille. It was a case of mistaken identity.
December Issue Of 'Vanity Fair'
Statistically speaking, check out the numbers here.
Tabloid Highlights
The Globe (11 Dec, 2001)
This week, The Globe reports:
'''Alias' spy Jennifer Garner received an unusual
call from the wardrobe department - come to a seedy West Hollywood sex shop for a fitting. When she
got there, she was ordered to strip naked and cover her body in baby powder. Turns out the
skintight Latex dress she had to wear would only go on if she was powdered down and required two
assistants to help wiggle her into it. '' (page 14)
Recipient Of The Thurgood Marshall Award
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told a group of law school students that she has seen greater interest
in government and politics among young people since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
Clinton, D-N.Y., received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the Black Law Student Association
at Quinnipiac University.
In a speech Friday, she said she has noticed ``the extraordinary reactions young people have
had to government and public service, a role they may shape for themselves to expand the circles
of opportunities at home and around the world.''
Past recipients of the award, which is named for the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice,
who died in 1993, include comedian Bill Cosby and lawyer Johnnie Cochran.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Recipient Of The Thurgood Marshall Award
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Planning For The Academy Awards
Post-Oscar Parties
As with so much else involving the 74th Academy Awards next year, the party scene was
supposed to be different.
The award show's move to the new Hollywood & Highland development would, it was hoped
by many, bring all the post-event celebrations under one roof at the new location. Alas, that is not to be.
There's one insurmountable brick wall this idea has run smack into: the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences says it's not going to happen. And it's adamant about this. AMPAS
has in its lease that all businesses at Hollywood & Highland be closed on Oscar night. That
includes the restaurants and clubs. And the academy is believed to be trying to get permits
to close off surrounding streets, thereby ruling out other nearby venues.
For party planners and event organizers, the post-event gatherings are viewed as a chessboard
upon which two kings are glued and the other pieces decide where to align themselves. The long-reigning
sovereigns are the Academy's Governors Ball and, as has been the case since 1994, Vanity Fair's soiree.
``It's like there are two elephants and we walk around them,'' said one planner.
About a decade ago, the Academy started throwing the Governors Ball in a tent attached to the Dorothy Chandler.
They were tired of losing stars who stopped at Swifty Lazar's bash while driving to the Governors Ball at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
It was not uncommon for some of the biggest stars -- even winners -- to bypass the Governors Ball altogether,
in favor of Swifty's party. For the Academy, it's better to keep all the glamour in one place. Don't look for
the Academy to assist anyone in siphoning it off.
Planning For The Oscars
Swifty's been dead a while.
Tabloid Highlights
Star (11 Dec, 2001)
This week, Star is reporting:
Farrah Fawcett has had a Michael Jackson-like nose-ectomy. There are
pictures. (page 20)
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Rosie O'Donnell Throwing A Fundraiser
for Janet Reno
Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell will host a fund-raiser for Democratic gubernatorial candidate
and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, a campaign spokeswoman said.
Tickets for the Dec. 30 event are $250 a person. It was not clear where the reception would be
held, Reno campaign spokeswoman Julie Simon told The Orlando Sentinel on Friday.
O'Donnell owns a home on Miami Beach's Star Island, a gated ring of mansions facing Biscayne
Bay. But that house is in use, and organizers will have to find another venue for the fund-raiser, said Simon.
Reno did not have much to say yet about the event.
``We're working on it,'' Reno said.
Rosie & Janet In Florida
New! Updated!
(20 Nov, 2001)
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, has provided another eye-opening set of charts!
A brief excerpt: " In January 2002, New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani will intimately know an experience and feeling that more and more of us are reluctantly facing: He'll join the ranks of the unemployed. Due to term limits Giuliani has not been able to seek re-election, after 8 years as one of New York's more popular mayors.
The question on most New Yorker's minds and lips is "What is Rudy going to do NOW?" Well, maybe The Stars can give us some clues.
"
Very interesting reading!
Re-Signed With Curb
LeAnn Rimes
Singer LeAnn Rimes has ended her year long legal standoff with Curb Records and signed a new
contract, a spokeswoman for the record company said.
Rimes released a statement saying she is ``looking forward to continuing to evolve creatively
and professionally as an artist.''
She sued Curb a year ago, shortly after turning 18. In March, a chancery judge ruled against her request
to be released from the contract.
Terms of the new deal reached with Rimes were not released, Curb's Liz Cavanaugh said Friday.
Mike Curb Was Once Lt. Gov. Of California
Tabloid Highlights
The National Enquirer (11 Dec., 2001)
This week, The National Enquirer:
Has a picture of Britney Spears fairy tatoo, and it's not quite where one would expect. (page 1)
Says It's The Last Album
Elton John
Fans cheered his music, but sighed in disappointment when rock legend Elton John announced his
newest CD, ``Songs From the West Coast,'' will be his last.
``It's the last record that I ever make,'' he said Friday from the stage at the sold-out Verizon Wireless Arena.
``I'm fed up with it. I like playing to you guys but I hate the record industry,'' John said.
``I've made 40 albums and its about time for me to get out.''
The CD, issued in October, features guest appearances by Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston. It
also marks the first full-album collaboration between John and longtime songwriting partner
Bernie Taupin since 1997.
John ended Friday's concert with a tribute to George Harrison. He said when he first came to
America, and his album ``Elton John'' was number 18 on the charts, Harrison sent him a congratulatory telegram.
``I've never forgotten that gesture. It was such a mind-blowing gesture,'' John said. ``I want
to dedicate (Your Song) to him for all the wonderful music he's given us over the years. Wherever
you are, George, be happy. God Bless You.''
Elton Says 'No More Recording'
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Puddy Vs. The Tick
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton squeezes himself into a blue latex bodysuit to play a live-action comic-book
character on Fox television's new comedy ``The Tick.''
``Looks good, pro; uncomfortable, con,'' he told reporters recently. ``It's latex and it doesn't
breathe. It's very constrictive.''
Warburton said he wasn't looking for a project where ``potentially (for) five years I might have
to wear this uncomfortable wet suit.''
But, he added, ``It looks good. And I get to be The Tick.''
The 37-year-old actor played David Puddy, Elaine's boyfriend, on the sitcom ``Seinfeld.''
``Puddy was a man of few words. The Tick will go off and he's very enthusiastic. They have
different energies and there's no similarities - I hope.''
Since ``Seinfeld'' ended, Warburton has tried to fit in more feature films, including last
year's ``Scream 3,'' this year's ``The Dish'' and the upcoming Tim Allen film ``Big Trouble,''
directed by ``Tick'' executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld.
Patrick Warburton Is The Tick
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"Boondocks" (9 Oct 01)
Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
