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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & clear.
Tripped over one of the cats while fixing dinner tonight. Didn't get hurt, but I'll be finding bits of salad for weeks to come.
Anybody need a cat?
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts the night with a RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', followed by a FRESH
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a FRESH 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Nathan Lane and Ruben Studdard.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Eddie Griffin, Leslie Bibb, and Arturo Sandoval.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Friends', followed by the Series Premiere of 'Apprentice' (the Donald Trump show), then a
FRESH 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
On a RERUN Jay (from 11/26/03), are Madonna, bra man Jason Dahmer, and Nelly Furtado.
On a RERUN Conan (from 10/9/03), are Uma Thurman, Josh Lucas, and North Mississippi AllStars.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 12/17/03), are Amanda Peet and Dido.
ABC begins the evening with a FRESH 'Threat Matrix', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover', then 'Primetime Thursday' (the Pete Rose confession).
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Vanessa Marcil, with this week's guest co-host Dane Cook.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', followed by a FRESH 'All About The Andersons', then a
RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy', followed by a FRESH 'Run Of The House'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Tru Calling', followed by a RERUN 'Simple Life', then another RERUN 'Simple Life'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Ricki Lake', and the movie 'Playing By Heart'.
AMC offers the movie 'Dr. No', followed by the movie 'From Russia With Love', then the movie 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Sheehan;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Hillingdon;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Belsize Park;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Dudley, West Midland;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Shirley, Solihull;
[9pm] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[10pm] 'Coupling' - Naked;
[10:40pm] 'TBD';
[11pm] 'House Invaders' - Dudley, West Midland;
[11:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Shirley, Solihull;
[12am] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[1am] 'Coupling' - Naked;
[1:40am] 'TBD';
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Dudley, West Midland;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Shirley, Solihull;
[3am] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[4am] 'Coupling' - Naked;
[4:40am] 'TBD';
[5am] 'House Invaders' - Dudley, West Midland;
[5:30am] 'House Invaders' - Shirley, Solihull; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', the movie 'Polish Wedding', 'Queer Eye', and 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'The Man Show', and another 'The Man Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Charlize Theron.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Stealing The Superfortress', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has the movie 'The Night Flier', followed by the movie 'Storm Of The Century' (part 3 of 3), then the movie 'The Cellar'.
TCM celebrates what would have been the 68th birthday of
Elvis Presley.
[6am] 'Quality Street' (1937);
[7:30am] 'Harum Scarum' (1965);
[9am] 'Double Trouble' (1967);
[11am] 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is 2001' (2001);
[12:45pm] 'Kissin' Cousins' (1964);
[2:30pm] 'Kid Galahad' (1962);
[4:30pm] 'Jailhouse Rock' (1957);
[6:30pm] 'Viva Las Vegas' (1964);
[8pm] 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' (1941);
[10pm] 'Words And Music' (1948);
[12:15am] 'Skyscraper Souls' (1932);
[2am] 'Little Miss Thoroughbred' (1938);
[3:15am] 'The Scarlet Letter' (1926) SILENT ;
[5am] 'Dear Mr. Gable' (1968). (ALL TIMES EST)
U.S. actor Al Pacino (R) waves as he stands beside an unidentified extra during a break in filming of William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' in Saint Mark's Square in central Venice, January 7, 2004.
Photo by Crossera Silvestri
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
When Eggboy Attacks
'Take Back The Media'
One of the finalists of the MoveOn.org ad contest is responsible for another heinous web video that compares Bush to Hitler, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
An ad by "Take Back the Media" is one of 15 Finalists in MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds Commercial Contest. Produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN], The ARMY OF ONE flash animation has been chosen out of over 1000 submission by nearly 3 million votes online.
But currently streaming on the Take Back site with ARMY OF ONE is another shocking advert produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN] --
alleging Bush/Nazi ties!
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004
Mini-Tour
Marky Ramone
Marky Ramone says his two-date "Marky Ramone and Friends (an evening of music by the Ramones)" mini-tour is designed to gauge audience interest in hearing the music of the legendary New York band live in concert again.
The idea for the shows -- Detroit (Jan. 15, Alvin's) and Cleveland (Jan. 17, Beachland Ballroom) -- came to Ramone last summer when he played Ramones material at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum with Cleveland musicians C.J. Gunn (guitar), Aaron Dowell (bassist) and David Divine (singer) sitting in. He says original member Johnny Ramone is no longer interested in playing music. But fans attending the upcoming special shows can expect to hear material from all eras of the Ramones' 20-plus year career.
"I want to see how it is going to go over," said Ramone. "But this isn't a tribute band, I want to make that clear. I just want to show people what I played in the Ramones, who weren't able to see the Ramones and how other bands have, I guess, imitated or copped things from the Ramones, and have put it in their own style, which is fine."
Marky Ramone
Urges Others to Support Clark
Madonna
The Material Girl hopes people pay attention to her latest offstage act: endorsing Wesley Clark for president.
Madonna, who announced her support for the retired general before Christmas, posted a letter Wednesday on her eponymous Web site urging others to follow her.
"I am writing to you because the future I wish for my children is at risk," said the mother of two, who criticized the current White House occupant. "I'm supporting Wes Clark because in him I see the qualifications, character and vision that we so desperately need."
Madonna, who now calls London home, pledges to do all she can to help Clark's campaign and includes a Web link for people to contribute to the Democratic candidate. She also will hold fund-raiser at her Los Angeles residence sometime in the future, said Clark spokesman Bill Buck.
Madonna
New Orleans Police Say...
Ray Davies
New Orleans police said that Ray Davies, founder of the pop group The Kinks, should not have tried to tackle the mugger who shot him in the leg.
"He pursued an armed suspect. We never recommend that people challenge anyone with a gun, because the chances of injury will escalate," said city police spokesman Sergeant Paul Accardo.
Davies was walking near the French Quarter with his New Orleans girlfriend when two men demanded the woman's purse at gunpoint.
She surrendered the purse, but Davies gave chase as they returned to their car. One turned and shot him in the leg.
Ray Davies
Reader Suggestion
Koko Taylor
Lacking the strength in her legs to walk, the wheelchair-bound Taylor made her first public appearance since her illness on New Year's Eve for the grand opening of Koko Taylor's Blues Cafe in the Buffington Harbor Pavilion that serves the Majestic Star and Trump casinos in Gary. It's Taylor's third nightclub venture, although the latest is more a fine-dining establishment than a blues bar.
For the rest, Koko Taylor
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Liza Minelli leaves Manhattan Supreme Court after a hearing in her divorce case against David Gest, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004 in New York.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
Returning to the Big Screen
'The Producers'
A film version of the hit Broadway musical 'The Producers' will begin shooting early next year with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick repeating their roles as the rapscallion producer Max Bialystock and his nebbish accomplice Leopold Bloom.
Mel Brooks will produce the film version and co-write the screenplay with Thomas Meehan who co-wrote the script for the Broadway musical with Brooks. Susan Stroman, who directed and choreographed the stage show, will direct the film.
This third version of the comedy that gave the world the song "Springtime for Hitler" could be out by Christmas 2005, Universal Pictures spokesman Michael Moses said.
'The Producers'
Unhappy About Limelight
Bush Twins
Resident Bush's twin daughters have shown little interest in their family's tradition of public service and are unhappy about the limelight they find themselves in, a new book says.
Jenna and Barbara Bush "have not campaigned or reined in their adolescent rebellions," Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart says in the book published this week, "The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush."
The book recalls the twins' run-ins with the law in underage drinking incidents. The girls regard their Secret Service agents as "their chauffeurs, bellhops and valets," the book says. It says "they persist in seeing themselves as victims of daddy's job."
"The only lesson they wanted to impart to their children, (their father) said during the presidential campaign, was 'that I love you. I love you more than anything. And therefore you should feel free to fail or succeed, and you can be anything you want in America.'"
Bush Twins
Names Successor to Plimpton
Paris Review
Four months after the death of George Plimpton, The Paris Review announced Wednesday that interim editor Brigid Hughes will permanently run the literary quarterly.
The 30-year-old Hughes takes on a role that Plimpton, who died last fall at 76, assumed with tireless enthusiasm for half a century. In deference to Plimpton, his official title — editor — will not be filled. Hughes has the newly established title of executive editor.
Paris Review
Woman With An Opinion
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington says the idea that Howard Dean is not electable is "nothing short of idiotic."
Huffington — the Republican activist-turned left-wing commentator and California gubernatorial candidate — has become a Dean devotee.
"Dean is electable precisely because he's making a decisive break with the spinelessness and pussyfooting that have become the hallmark of the Democratic Party," Huffington wrote this week in the regular column she posts on her Web site and that's published in some newspapers.
"Far from Dean not being able to 'compete' with Bush on foreign policy, he's the one viable Democrat who isn't trying to compete on the playing field that Bush and Karl Rove have laid out."
Arianna Huffington
Hobbits On Parade
Mardi Gras
Elijah Wood, who played Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" films, and Dominic Monaghan, who played his Hobbit buddy, Merry, will be celebrity monarchs in big Carnival parades before the Feb. 24 Fat Tuesday blowout.
Wood will be riding in the Sunday night parade of the Krewe of Bacchus, and Monaghan will be with the Krewe of Orpheus, the Monday night parade founded by singer Harry Connick Jr.
The two parades, with more than 1,000 riders in each, are highlights of the long weekend of parades and street parties leading up to Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Global Makeover
'Queer Eye'
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is going straight up the global sales charts, with NBC unveiling licensing deals for the hit makeover show in more than 30 territories worldwide.
The show has been snapped up by networks in France, Australia and Spain -- which also will produce their own local versions -- as well as Finland, New Zealand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and throughout Latin America.
It was previously announced that both the format rights and U.S. episodes of "Queer Eye" had been sold in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
'Queer Eye'
Off Air for Skin Procedure
Dan Rather
CBS News anchor Dan Rather is off the air for a few days after a minor dermatological procedure on his face.
The 72-year-old had some basal skin cells removed as a precautionary measure, the network said Wednesday.
Rather is expected back on the "CBS Evening News" sometime next week.
Dan Rather
Five of the sextuplets white tigers play at Buenos Aires, Zoo, Argentina Tuesday Jan. 6, 2004. A captive white tiger gave birth to sextuplets -three males and three females- on Nov.18, 2003, boosting these animals' endangered population. There are only 210 white tigers in the world.
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko
Baby News
Ryder Russell Robinson
Actress Kate Hudson and her husband, musician Chris Robinson, have had their first child, a boy.
Ryder Russell Robinson was born Wednesday in Los Angeles, weighing in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces.
Ryder Russell Robinson
Debuting a Line of Suits
Steve Harvey
Actor-comedian Steve Harvey is coming out with his own line of suits. Harvey says the suits will look like they're worth $2,500, but will cost $300.
"A person can buy a suit for $300 and it looks like a tailored suit," Harvey told AP Radio. "My fan base can't afford $2,500 suits. A guy with a job can't suck out that much money, so I wanted to create the look and the fabric quality of a $2,500 suit. And you don't know how hard that was. It took almost four years of planning."
The Steve Harvey Collection will be in stores next month.
Steve Harvey
Promoting Arena Football League
Jon Bon Jovi
A two-minute minimovie starring Jon Bon Jovi and John Elway that will preview the upcoming Arena Football League season will be distributed in movie theaters this month.
Bon Jovi and Elway both own teams in the indoor league, which begins its 18th season in February. Bon Jovi, whose hits include "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "It's My Life," is co-owner of the Philadelphia Soul.
Elway is co-owner of the Colorado Crush.
Jon Bon Jovi
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Divorce News
Mathison - Ford
Actor Harrison Ford and screenwriter Melissa Mathison have officially ended their marriage of nearly 20 years, according to court papers made public on Wednesday.
A final decree in the uncontested divorce, first reported by the syndicated TV show "Extra," was entered on Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the documents said.
A spokeswoman for the 61-year-old star confirmed that the divorce was final but had no further comment.
Mathison - Ford
Britney's Ex Speaks
Jason Allen Alexander
Although they were married for only 55 hours--Britney Spears' childhood pal, Jason Allen Alexander, has been thrust into the public spotlight. Speaking to both Access Hollywood and Inside Edition from his home in rural Kentwood, Louisiana the 6'2" junior at Southeastern Louisiana University said his wedding on Saturday (January 3) began while he and Spears were watching the movie the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in their Palms Casino Hotel room in Las Vegas. He also insisted they were both sober. "We were just chilling in the room, about 3:30, and we had so much fun, just looking out at the city and the lights, and we were, 'We're in Las Vegas, let's do something. Let's go get married,'" Alexander told Inside Edition. He added, the decision to get a quickie annulment was mutual and came to them the very next day.
Alexander said he and Britney remain close, though pals are saying that Alexander is actually hurt that Britney didn't take the marriage seriously. Jared Prescott, described by the New York Post as Alexander's best friend, claims that Alexander, who reputedly had been secretly dating Britney, meant what he said in his marital vows. "No one gets married as a joke, that would be stupid," Prescott told the Post.
Jason Allen Alexander
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California wear three-dimensional glasses to view 3-D images provided by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during a news conference, January 7, 2004.
Photo by Robert Galbraith
Slams Spielberg Over Cuba Trip
Robert Duvall
In a CBS "60 Minutes II" interview set for broadcast on Wednesday, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall sharply criticized filmmaker and DreamWorks SKG studio co-founder Steven Spielberg for visiting Cuba in November 2002.
"Spielberg went down there recently and said, 'The best seven hours I ever spent was actually with Fidel Castro.' Now, what I want to ask him, ... 'Would you consider building a little annex on the Holocaust museum, or at least across the street, to honor the dead Cubans that Castro killed.' That's very presumptuous of him to go there," Duvall told Charlie Rose, according to excerpts of the interview released by CBS.
The actor, who won an Academy Award for his role in the 1983 film "Tender Mercies," added, "I'll never work at DreamWorks again, but I don't care about working there anyway."
Spielberg's spokesman, Marvin Levy, responded by issuing a statement saying the remark Duvall attributed to the director about his meeting with Castro is "totally false."
Robert Duvall
Charges Doc with Souvenir-Hunting
George Harrison's Estate
The estate of former Beatle George Harrison filed a $10 million law suit on Tuesday against one of the last doctors to treat the late rock musician, claiming he violated patient confidentiality and misused his relationship to procure souvenirs.
The suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court claimed that Dr. Gilbert Lederman, director of radiation oncology at Staten Island University Hospital, a co-defendant in the suit, had coerced a failing Harrison to autograph his son's guitar and sign autographs for his two daughters.
Court papers say Lederman visited Harrison with his son and daughters and had Harrison listen to his son play the guitar and then placed it in the former Beatle's lap and asked him to autograph it.
When Harrison resisted, the suit claims Lederman reached out to hold his hand to help him write.
George Harrison's Estate
Interview
Teri Garr
There's a reason we haven't seen much of Teri Garr lately. It's very simple, she says. "My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me."
Ta-dum. That's a funny bit -- one that Garr told on "Larry King Live" and at the Independent Spirit Awards. The real truth is that Garr has multiple sclerosis or something very similar to it -- doctors can't agree -- and hasn't worked much lately.
"The whole MS stuff put the kibosh on my career," she said by phone from her Los Angeles home. "And I sort of let it go. I even have a friend who went to CBS and said, 'I want Teri Garr to be in this series,' and the head of the network said, 'Oh no, she's got MS.'
For the rest, Teri Garr
Comes Up Short
Reticulated Python
When a recreation park in Indonesia put a huge reticulated python on show last week, keepers insisted to reporters it was 49 feet long. That made it the longest ever caught.
But amid growing skepticism of the claim, a photographer working for Reuters returned to the Curugsewu park in the small central Java town of Kendal Wednesday with a measuring tape. The snake's true length -- around 21 feet
"I have no idea why the snake has shrunk," said one keeper when asked about the discrepancy, as the snake lounged on a tree branch inside its cage.
Reticulated Python
Retirement Complex
Gay & Gray
Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz want a retirement community they can afford, in a place they like, with assisted living if they should need it.
But the two grandmothers want more: a community of like-minded people with whom they feel safe and supported as a lesbian couple.
They have turned to RainbowVision Properties, which plans to break ground by the spring on a complex for the "gay and gray" that will offer condominiums for sale and independent-living and assisted-living apartments for rent.
The complex, which could open in 2005, will include a dining room, community rooms, studios for artists and a rooftop cafe.
For a lot more, Gay & Gray
Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz
RainbowVision Properties
A pony rubs his nose on a cat in the Budakeszi game park near Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, after snow started to fall in the morning hours in some parts of Hungary.
Photo by Mate Nandorfi
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