Bartcop Entertainment News - Sunday, 2 September, 2001

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Sunday

2 September, 2001

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Alan Greenspan
(The Real President?)

In The News

Even as a citizen, Bill Clinton's popularity remained presidential as he 
toured the 2001 New York State Fair on Saturday followed by thousands of fans. 

The former president listened to a speech on agriculture by his wife, U.S. Sen. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the couple took in several exhibits during a 
90-minute walk. 

It was Bill Clinton's third consecutive visit to the fair - a trip he said he 
intended to make a tradition now that he is a New York resident. 

The Clintons first visited in 1999, making Clinton the first sitting president 
to attend the state fair since Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. They returned last 
year to campaign for Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate race. 

"The crowds seem about the same, but it's a little easier for me to become 
invisible," Bill Clinton said. 

But with people standing five and six deep on both sides, the Clintons' 
stroll was more like a crawl. They covered about 500 yards, as both shook 
hand after hand and exchanged greetings.

To read the story, NY State Fair
 

New Web Site!

"In the Kitchen with Bartcop and Friends" is an electronic recipe file. 
These pages will attempt to catalog the best recipes from Bartcop and his 
readers. 

This idea was spawned by Bartcop's excellent Train Station Chicken 
recipe -- if you haven't tried it, you must! It's foolproof, perfect fried 
chicken.

We need more recipes like that; the dish that you always make for family 
gatherings, the one thing people rave about and demand you make for them. 
Please email them to recipes@pdxnet.netand I will review them and post 
them. Don't worry about the HTML, just send me text, or rich text, or a Word 
document, photos, video, whatever you have, and I'll take care of making it 
web-ready. Don't hesitate to write with any questions you may have and bring 
on the recipes!
 
 ~~Michele K

To check out 'Train Station Chicken', and more, In The Kitchen With BartCop



Then, welcome Michele to the BartCop Treehouse, and send her your best recipes!

 ~~Marty

TV News

Actress Anne Heche says she spent the first 31 years of her life suffering from 
mental illness triggered by sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

Heche, who landed on gossip pages for her romantic relationship with Ellen 
DeGeneres, made the comments in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters. 
The program airs on 20/20 Wednesday.

Her father, Donald Heche, was a choir director in a Baptist church who 
frequented gay bars at night. Heche found out about her father's double life 
at the age of 12, as he lay dying of AIDS.

Heche says she was insane throughout her three-year relationship with 
DeGeneres, the comic actress who made history by becoming the first lead 
gay character in a television series. In the interview, Heche reveals the 
intimate details of their romantic life and breakup.

She only regained her sanity about a year ago, she says, after she was found 
wandering in Fresno, Calif., in a confused and shaken state.

To read even more, anne heche

NEW!

Check it out at BC Astrology.

Have you ever checked out Eric Clapton or Chet Atkins' horoscope?

Pretty cool stuff!

TV News

Aaron Sorkin, the executive producer of "The West Wing" on NBC, says he hopes 
to break a longstanding network taboo this coming television season: he wants 
a character to curse in a way that uses the Lord's name in vain.

Steven Bochco, the executive producer of "Philly," a new legal drama on ABC, 
has proposed having a character use a scatological reference that has never 
before been uttered on an ABC series — one considered tougher than the 
profanities already in use on his police drama, "NYPD Blue."

Broadcast television is under siege by smaller cable competitors that are 
winning audiences while pushing adult content. In that climate, broadcast is 
fighting the perception that its tastes are lagging behind those of a 
media-saturated culture whose mores have grown more permissive.

The networks are also trying to satisfy advertisers who are tight with their 
money in difficult economic times and are grasping for a younger audience that 
has grown up with potty-mouthed realism.

This is not to say that anything now goes. Dick Wolf, the executive producer 
of NBC's "Law and Order," said censors have never been more sensitive when it 
comes to race and ethnicity.

The question now among television executives, producers and media watchdog 
groups is how far things will go — and how far the public will allow them to 
go. So far, there has been little outcry. And the F.C.C. said the number of 
indecency complaints involving television remained negligible and no actions 
had been taken against stations for network programs this year. Federal 
decency standards cover broadcast television and radio from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., 
when children may be watching.

Recently, Procter & Gamble showed its influence when CBS decided against 
showing some reruns of episodes of "Family Law" that the company had refused 
to sponsor. Those episodes, however, dealt with issues like gun control and 
the death penalty, not language or sex.

For the whole article, Bad words

In The News

You were more likely to spot a UFO than run into a woman at the first World 
Science Fiction convention six decades ago. 

But women were everywhere as the 59th convention opened its doors to 5,000 
fans this week. Men still outnumber women on the list of convention presenters, 
award nominees and panelists - but not by much. With a huge number of female 
authors and publishers on hand, the genre finally appears to be exploring its 
feminine side. 

Not anymore. Sci-fi has come a long way from its early years, when female 
authors like Andre Norton took male-sounding pen names so they could get their 
novels published. 

The introduction of women to the events had another predictable consequence: 
Among the attendees are hundreds of married couples with young children, many 
of whom met at other science fiction events. 

``There was a time when you thought the slogan of science fiction fans was 
'zero population growth,''' said Anthony Lewis, 60, of Natick, Mass. 

For the rest, Sci Fi & Women 

BartCop TV Is Here!

Visit the site at BC TV

The 'Vidiot', has updated, again!

There is even more to check!

The Vidiot.

An amazing amount of information, on an amazing variety of TV shows, thanks 
to our Vidiot.

In The News

In Colorado Springs this weekend, about 250 conservatives who paid between 
$1,400 and $2,500 are gathering for the annual Labor Day weekend event known 
as Restoration Weekend. 

Although the relatively new gathering has yet to attract a powerful political 
leader - star billing belongs to Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris 
and Colorado Gov. Bill Owens - its conservative participants are pleased their 
issues at the forefront of national debate. 

"Most conservatives are happy because they now have a president who portrays 
us as we are, people friendly and compassionate," said David Horowitz, 
president of the sponsoring Center for the Study of Popular Culture. 

To read the rest, Colorado Weakend

In The News

All week the denizens of Black Rock City have toiled to build beautiful and 
elaborate works of art. 

It will all be torched on Saturday night with the climax of this year's 
Burning Man. 

Some of the sights and sounds of the week-long hedonistic celebration include 
Twinkiehenge, the Egg Chair, an evening procession of the Lamplighters, a 
7-story structure built from wooden jigsaw pieces and a full-size locomotive. 

Burn, baby, burn

To read a bit more, and see some interesting photos, Burning Man

Democratic Fundraiser

Join Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana at the Eastside Democrats 
Dinner and Fundraiser September 9, 2001 at the Bellevue Hyatt. Special 
guests include Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. 
Erin Hart of 710 KIRO is the Emcee.  

For more information, visit Erin's site (Erin Hart), 
and say 'hi' to Brian, the webmaster.  
(Or, Erin Hart for Netscape Users) 



Erin Hart is regularly scheduled Saturday & Sunday evenings, 9pm - 1am (pdt), 
on KIRO, in Seattle (but, with Mariners games, she may be pre-empted).  The 
audio streams, the chatroom is interesting, and the topics run from liberal 
to progressive.    


Besides, I know Erin.  A long, long time ago, she set me up on a 
date with a Reagan speechwriter, and I still speak to her! 

LOL -- remember that one?  *!*

 ~~Marty  
    

Not In The News

Found this tonight at www.buzzflash.com - (If you are at all aware of Vanessa 
Leggett, and the Kafka-esque situation she has found herself in, please, 
read on...)   

  "...Send postcards to Vanessa Leggett.

Postcards are no problem for prison workers to process through. Letters must 
be opened and inspected. Not necessarily read as such, just inspected. 
Threats to inmates can come through the mail. Postcards are easy to inspect 
and get to the inmate.

Federal Detention Center
PO Box 526245
1200 Texas Ave.
Houston, TX 77052-6245
Attn: Vanessa Leggett
ID # 1337-179

She can use all the post cards we can send. Send her one every day. Make them 
clever. Ask her to share with other inmates who get no mail. Write on an 
inspirational quote. You need not use anything but your given name. This is a 
big group, and you'll never know what a handful of cards on a daily basis can 
mean to a prisoner or a group of prisoners.  

And try to send pretty cards. They make the day a lot brighter for someone in 
prison....   "


Got that....postcards.  
And make 'em pretty.
Now, go to the local Target/K-Mart/Wal-Mart, and look over the postcards they 
provide, buy 10 or more, then send one every day or so...


Oh, and read www.buzzflash.com regularly.

Thanks,

 ~~Marty

In Memory

Oscar-winning makeup pioneer John Chambers, who did everything from put the 
pointy ears on ``Star Trek's'' Mr. Spock to turn actors into simians for the 
original ``Planet of the Apes,'' has died of diabetes complications. He was 78. 

During his 30-year career, Chambers worked on numerous movies and television 
shows, including TV's ``The Outer Limits,'' ``The Munsters'' ``Lost in Space'' 
and ``Mission Impossible.'' His film credits included ``The List of Adrian 
Messenger'' and ``The Island of Dr. Moreau'' 

For his efforts he became only the second makeup artist to receive an honorary 
Academy Award. A competitive category for makeup was established in the 1980s. 

Chambers also developed a new technique for making ``bald caps'' for actors. 
His invention, made from liquid plastic sprayed onto a metal form of an 
actor's head, remains the industry standard. 

He is survived by his wife, Joan. 

To read more about this remarkable artist, John Chambers
   

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