BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 3 March, 2005
Thursday
3 March, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
Kyoto Treaty: Beyond Bunnypants Comprehension
There's a few holdout scientists who studied geology during the last ice age that disagree with the Greenhouse Effect, but the majority of meteorologists, geologists and others who study the behavior of the earth and all its related functions, guys like paleontologists, stratigraphers, geophysicists, hydrogeologists, crystallographers, and the list goes on, agree about the harmful effects of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other toxic gases that are being emitted by the tons into our atmosphere on a daily basis.
The Greenhouse Effect is a measurable phenomenon, ladies and gentlemen, no brag, just fact. Just like evolution is fact even though people still call it theory, as they do gravity and thermodynamics, the Greenhouse Effect is fact. No bullshit about it. We're warming our atmosphere at an advanced pace, and have been since the dawn of mammals when they started farting methane into the air. Even though Commander-in-Chief Bunnypants is a holy man, he still lets out farts like everyone else, and he drives a car, and drills for oil, and eats beef, so our Commander-in-Chief contributes to the Greenhouse Effect just like every other human and mammal on the planet. There's no way gettin' around it if you're gonna breathe, eat and crap on this planet.
The Industrial Revolution, which began the rapidity of emissions of the gases that cause the Greenhouse Effect, started some two centuries ago. An agreement negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, attended by some 140 nations, agreed that 35 of the highest emitting gas-countries would cool down by reducing the gases known to cause the Greenhouse Effect, but one major problem arose. Clinton was participatory in the pact, and was interested in the concept, but the Bush administration stole the 2000 AD election. Subsequent to the stolen election, the United States of America being the biggest contributor to the pollution of the air humans breathe for sustenance, had no interest in the participance of the treaty. Well, that's a fine kettle of fish.
Commander-in-Chief Bunnypants decided that in 2001 that we (the U.S.of A.) would have no part of the whole deal. I mean, this might cost his flunkie oil buddies down in Texas to maybe have the cost of more air filters to be put on their multi-million dollar refineries that burn and emit these gases twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
That's right. It was going to cost big business a small chunk of massive profit to meet the standards proposed by the pact of participating countries. The implementation of the requirements were finally met by the participating countries after seven years, including Russia, but Bunnypants and the Republican Congress came up with the big fat lie that the reason the US was not signing the treaty was due to the fact that India and China declined to sign.
Who in the hell cares that two back-assed nations didn't participate? One country is still Commie and the other lets cows shit in their streets. If one, or many are gonna come up with an excuse, blaming the US's non-participance in the treaty on China and India is very lame. I used to come up with better excuses for sneaking out as a teenager.
Profit was the reason. Why can't Republicans just say profit was the motive? It's not that shameful, really. Since this country did re-elect the fool currently residing in the White House, and most voters knew big business owned him, and we are capitalists (some at all costs to the environment), why in the hell should we participate? Like Bush used to like to say, Bring 'em 0n!! What an idiot. They came on pretty hard, didn't they, Bunnypants?
This whole deal slipped through the "liberal" media pretty easily. Karl Grove has the "liberal" media right where he wants them. That man is one scary cat. I think he might be as paranoid as Nixon. Well, with that two percent win margin being a moral mandate, let's pollute the fuck out of the air until we start getting weird diseases. That was a misstatement. There is a concentric circle that can be drawn around the bays of Louisiana and Texas where the closer humans reside to the aforementioned refineries, cancer occurrence is way up. But that won't be reported by the "liberal" media for many years. I love a good mandate.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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Weekly Link
Humor Gazette
'Madman' Hussein to plead insanity
Legal analysts say Saddam Hussein plans to fight charges of war crimes and
genocide by pleading temporary insanity.
"I am Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq," said the disgraced ex-dictator,
adding, "Saddam I am. I do not like green eggs and ham."
Hussein told an Iraqi judge that he is also a CIA hitman, a Mesopotamian deity
and a porn star known by the stage name Dick Tater. The desperate Hussein also
claimed he partied with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld back in 1983-84.
Noted legal superstar Johnnie Cochran told Don Imus that he told Oprah that
Hussein's insanity defense is bolstered by the fact that President Bush has
called him a "madman" approximately 12,465 times since Sept. 11, 2001.
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PRETTY LITTLE FACE
BUT YOUR FUR IS SO SPINY
PINE CONE KITTY KAT
Zen Man
(in the woods on LSD)
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Reader Comment
Re: Mike Smith
Marty:
I saw the item re Chris Curtis of the Searchers on
3/2 Bartcop E. You may want to watch for developments related to Mike Smith, the lead singer and keyboard player of the Dave Clark Five. As you may know, he suffered an accident at his home in Spain in September of 2003 that has left him a quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator to breathe. At age 62, his recovery is a longshot. It's too bad -- he had recently formed a band and began playing on the oldies circuit. He was planning to relocate to Indiana (his wife's home), but he
currently lives in a hospital in England. Go to
Mike Smith Updates for all the sad details and photos.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I've been a DC-5 fan since 1962.
Best,
EJ2E
Thanks, Ed!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jim Hickel: Confessions of a Mail-In Rebate Junkie
How to Collect Your Mail-In Rebates ... Even Though They Don't Want You To
Ruth Conniff: Wal-Mart Wins (The Progressive)
The story about the failed organizing drive at the Loveland, Colorado, Wal-Mart lube shop is almost tragic.
Ellis Henican: Etiquette for Ex-Cons (AlterNet)
This Friday, Martha Stewart gets out of jail after serving five months. A former prisoner passes along some advice about adjusting to life outside.
Gay filmmakers take home Oscars (The Advocate)
The 77th annual Academy Awards seemed mostly dedicated to biopics and boxing, but there were some triumphs for openly gay filmmakers.
Boondocks: Bush, Weed, and Coke
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Reader Comment
Re: Snow
You say:
Dear old Dad had better than 2' of snow - he wasn't too happy about it.
Here is my reaction to Winter, at this point . . .
Marianne M
Thanks, Marianne!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
More rain.
Was watching 'Lost' and finally realized the 'crazy French woman' was
Mira Furlan,
Ambassador Delenn in
'Babylon 5'.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Palau', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Dan Rather and Poppy Montgomery.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Juliette Binoche, Stanley Bing, and Lara Logan.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'Apprentice', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE of 'Law & Order: Trial By Jury' (from now on 'Law & Order: #4').
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Sylvester Stallone, goose expert Nancy Townsend, and Lang Lang.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Drea de Matteo, Seth Meyers, and 22-20s.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover', then 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 2/15/05) are David Spade and Ludacris.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Summerland', followed by a RERUN of Monday night's 'Summerland'.
Faux has a RERUN 'The O.C.', followed by a RERUN 'Point Pleasant'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey', followed by the movie 'Death Warrant', then the movie 'Lionheart'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 9;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Forward Mr. Grainger;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - Locate and Destroy;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 100;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Brown;
[7pm] 'Blackadder' - Ink & Incapability;
[7:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 4;
[8:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Henry Tripshaw's Disease;
[9pm] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 1;
[9:30pm] 'Black Books' - Cooking the Books;
[10pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 6;
[10:40pm] 'The Long Firm' - Behind the Scenes;
[11pm] 'Blackadder' - Ink & Incapability;
[11:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 4;
[12:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Henry Tripshaw's Disease;
[1am] 'Manchild' - Episode 6;
[1:40am] 'The Long Firm' - Behind the Scenes;
[2am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 1;
[2:30am] 'Black Books' - Cooking the Books;
[3am] 'Manchild' - Episode 6;
[3:40am] 'The Long Firm' - Behind the Scenes;
[4am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 1;
[4:30am] 'Black Books' - Cooking the Books;
[5am] 'Manchild' - Episode 6;
[5:40am] 'The Long Firm' - Behind the Scenes;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', and a FRESH 'Celebrity Pool'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Paul Gilmartin), 'Ray Romano', 'South Park', 'Drawn Together', and 'Shorties Watchin' Shorties'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Ari Fleischer.
History has all 'Modern Marvels' all night.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Buffalo 66' (1998);
[8AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[9AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003);
[9:45AM] 'My Life As A Dog' (1985);
[11:30AM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[12PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II' (2004);
[2PM] 'Shadow Of China' (1990);
[3:45PM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[4:15PM] 'My Life As A Dog' (1985);
[6PM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[7PM] 'Muriel's Wedding' (1985);
[9PM] 'Buffalo 66' (1998);
[11PM] 'Tape' (2001);
[12:30AM] 'The Element Of Crime' (1984);
[2:15AM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[2:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters' (2004);
[3AM] 'Tape' (2001);
[4:30AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[5AM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Supernova', followed by the movie 'Alien Siege'.
Sundance -
[7:30AM] 'I'm Going Home' (Je Rentre a la Maison) (World Cinema);
[9AM] 'The Target Shoots First' (Documentary);
[10:15AM] 'Silverstar' (Feature);
[10:30AM] 'Nowhere in Africa' (Feature);
[12:50PM] 'The Cathedral' (Short);
[1PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Off the Map' (Original Production);
[1:30PM] 'I'm Going Home' (Je Rentre a la Maison) (World Cinema);
[3PM] 'Shorts Program 113' (Short);
[4PM] 'My Terrorist' (Documentary);
[5PM] 'The Girl On The Bridge' (World Cinema);
[6:35PM] 'The Target Shoots First' (Documentary);
[8PM] 'Igby Goes Down' (Feature);
[9:40PM] 'Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta' (Short);
[10PM] 'The Heart of Me' (Feature);
[11:40PM] 'Nowhere in Africa' (Feature);
[2AM] 'Shorts Program 113' (Short);
[3AM] 'Igby Goes Down' (Feature);
[4:40AM] 'Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta' (Short);
[5AM] 'The Girl On The Bridge' (World Cinema). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Guys And Dolls' (1955);
[9am] 'Mr. Skeffington' (1944);
[11:30am] 'Rebecca' (1940);
[2pm] 'Casablanca' (1942);
[4pm] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940);
[6pm] 'Double Indemnity' (1944);
[8pm] 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' (1938);
[10pm] 'The Great Dictator' (1940);
[12:15am] 'Alice Adams' (1935);
[2am] 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948);
[4:15am] 'Gaslight' (1944). (ALL TIMES EST)
Friday - 03/04
TCM celebrates what would have been the 92nd birthday of the fabulous John Garfield all morning and afternoon.
[6:15am] 'Blackwell's Island' (1939);
[7:30am] 'Dust Be My Destiny' (1939);
[9am] 'They Made Me A Criminal' (1939);
[10:45am] 'East Of The River' (1940);
[12pm] 'Flowing Gold' (1940);
[1:30pm] 'Saturday's Children' (1940);
[3:30pm] 'Dangerously They Live' (1941);
[5pm] 'Between Two Worlds' (1944);
[7pm] 'The John Garfield Story' (2003);
[8pm] 'Scarface' (1932);
[10pm] 'Gold Diggers Of 1935' (1935);
[12am] 'You'll Never Get Rich' (1941);
[2am] 'Ivan the Terrible' (Part 1) (1945);
[4am] 'Anna Karenina' (1935). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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U.S. celebrities Anna Nicole Smith (L) and Carmen Electra hug each other during a photo call after an MTV news conference in Sydney March 2, 2005. Both media personalities are presenting awards at the inaugural MTV Australia Video Music Awards to be televised from a Sydney fun park on Wednesday.
Photo by Will Burgess
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Joins 'Desperate Housewives'
Bob Newhart
Now look who's moving onto Wisteria Lane. Bob Newhart will begin a multi-episode stint on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" set to air in April. The 75-year-old actor-comedian will play Morty, the estranged boyfriend of Susan Mayer's mom, Sophie, played by guest star Lesley Ann Warren.
In the episode, Teri Hatcher's single mom Susan will attempt to get Sophie and Morty back together to keep her mother from moving in with her and her daughter.
Bob Newhart.com
Bob Newhart
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Film Company Has Serious Mission
Danny Glover
Danny Glover has a serious mission for his new movie production company: Louverture Films will develop and produce movies of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity.
Glover formed New York-based Louverture Films with co-founder and producer/screenwriter Joslyn Barnes, his Los Angeles publicist, Arnold Robinson, said Tuesday.
In all its ventures, Louverture Films "will support the employment and training of cast and crew from the African Diaspora, minorities and/or marginalized communities," the announcement said.
Louverture Films plans to produce six independently financed feature and documentary films over the next three years.
Danny Glover
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Motley Crue's Tommy Lee (L), Vince Neil (C), Mick Mars (2nd R), and Nikki Sixx (R) are joined by New York Stock Exchange President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Catherine R. Kinney (2nd L) for the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange, March 2, 2005. Motley Crue and executives representing Viacom Inc. rang the closing bell to celebrate the success of 'VH1 & VH1 Classic Presents: Motley Crue - Red, White & Crue Tour 2005.'
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
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Launching College Sports Network
ESPN
On Friday, ESPN is going back to school.
ESPNU, a 24-hour network devoted to college sports, will televise approximately 300 live events in its first year, in sports ranging from Division I football to softball.
The network, based in Charlotte, N.C., and available through various cable packages to about 3 million households, will be familiar to fans of ESPN and ESPN2. The presentation of the games and the formats of the studio shows will be similar and many of the anchors and game announcers appear on the other stations. ESPNU's lead anchor will be Mike Hall, the precocious 23-year-old best known for winning the inaugural edition of ESPN's "Dream Job."
ESPNU will televise primarily Division I football and men's and women's basketball in the first year. The network will also cover baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, hockey, wrestling, spring football and select high school football games.
ESPN
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Parody Band Forced Offline
Beatallica
They combine the classic melodies of the Beatles with the heavy-metal thunder of Metallica, but the rock band Beatallica certainly isn't music to Sony Corp.'s ears.
Sony's publishing arm, which owns the rights to the Beatles catalog, has ordered the Milwaukee band to take down its Web site and pay unspecified damages for recording songs like "Leper Madonna" and "Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice."
Beatallica says it is not ripping off Beatles songs, but parodying them in a loving tribute that is protected by copyright laws. The Web site has been taken offline while the band considers its legal options.
Beatallica formed in 2001 as a one-off Metallica tribute band for a local festival, but soon hit upon the idea of adapting Beatles songs to Metallica's heavy-metal format.
Beatallica
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75th Birthday
Lorin Maazel
It was billed as a concert celebrating conductor Lorin Maazel's 75th birthday, but it was more like a gift from the birthday boy.
Tuesday night's New York Philharmonic concert, with performances by actor Jeremy Irons, flutist James Galway and others, presented five compositions by Maazel. Only one had been performed previously in New York.
The program was a musical triptych to China and Monaco as well as Ireland, perhaps symbolizing Maazel's well-traveled route to the Philharmonic, where he has been music director since September 2002. Born March 6, 1930, in France to American parents, Maazel started on the violin at 5 and first conducted the Philharmonic at 11.
Lorin Maazel
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In this photo released by E! Entertainment Television actor Edward Moss portrays Michael Jackson during taping of 'E! News Presentation: The Michael Jackson Trial' Monday, Feb. 28, 2005. The start of the Michael Jackson trial also means the start of the Michael Jackson trial, the TV version. With cameras banned from the courtroom where Jackson is being tried on molestation charges, E! Entertainment Television will re-enact highlights of the previous day beginning Tuesday.
Photo by Brandon Hickman
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Offer Odes to Tractors, Toilets
Industrial Musicals
By day, Steve Young toils as a comedy writer for David Letterman. By night, he's an archeologist, historian and sociologist of sorts. Or maybe he's just a demented, obsessed collector.
Young has the definitive collection of industrial musical recordings. They are the vinyl souvenirs produced by companies who staged musicals about the glories of road graders and air conditioners, flush toilets and plain old electric light bulbs.
The industrial music genre, which celebrated products and boosted corporate morale, was a major source of work for actors, composers and directors between the 1950s and the 1970s when corporate America funded lavish musicals for conventions and sales meetings.
He started collecting the records about 10 years ago after using a cut from one such production in the "Dave's Record Collection" segment of "The Late Show." His job was to make fun of the track but over time he came to admire this "thrillingly weird" genre.
Industrial Musicals
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Divorce News
Richards - Sheen
Actress Denise Richards has filed for divorce from her actor-husband Charlie Sheen, citing irreconcilable differences, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Richards, 34, is six months pregnant with the couple's second child. They also have a daughter, Sam, who will be a year old next week.
Richards - Sheen
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Working on Opera
Howard Shore
Having written a symphony, Howard Shore - the prolific composer whose music spans from Middle-earth to Howard Hughes' Hollywood days - is now looking to opera.
He's working on an opera version of David Cronenberg's horror film "The Fly" for a 2007 premiere by Los Angeles Opera, a collaboration with Cronenberg and librettist David Henry Wong of "M. Butterfly" fame.
Shore is also working on "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson's new movie, "King Kong."
For an interview - Howard Shore
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Unauthorized Use Of Writer's Image
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A great-grandson of the famed Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is suing a countrywide sports lottery for using his forebear's image on tickets without seeking permission.
Dmitry Dostoyevsky, 59, said use of the writer's image by Chestnaya Igra, or Honest Game, to sell lottery tickets was unauthorized - and insulting. He said Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, struggled for years to overcome a gambling addiction.
"To use the addiction of the great writer, which he was struggling to overcome all his life, for commercial purposes is insulting not only for me as Dostoyevsky's descendant, but also for many other people who love to read his works," Dmitry Dostoyevsky said.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson sings during the Festival di Sanremo Italian Songs contest, in San Remo, Italy, Wednesday, March 2, 2005. Mike Tyson is one of the international guests featured in the show aired on the Italian State TV RAI, from Tuesday through Saturday, March 5, 2005.
Photo by Luca Bruno
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Honorary British Knight
Bill Gates
Britain's Queen Elizabeth bestowed an honorary knighthood on Bill Gates Wednesday but confessed to the Microsoft chairman and philanthropist that she wasn't much of a computer buff.
"She said all the kids do (use computers) and they are very useful ... but typing is not as natural for her as it is for young people," Gates told reporters from beneath a black umbrella sheltering him from the London rain.
But like other U.S. recipients such as late President Ronald Reagan, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and General Norman Schwarzkopf, Gates will not be called "Sir" Bill because he is neither a British nor Commonwealth citizen.
Bill Gates
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Brother Says Suicide Unrelated to 'Contender'
Najai Turpin
The suicide of a contestant from NBC's "The Contender" was unrelated to the reality boxing series, the man's brother said.
It likely was a life of struggle that caused Najai Turpin to shoot himself last month, Diediera Turpin told "Access Hollywood" in an interview broadcast Tuesday.
"He came from nothing to do something because it's hard out here. The show was never the problem, boxing and all of that was never the problem. It was a personal problem," the brother said.
Najai Turpin
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The face of a decorated mummy inside an ancient wooden coffin, shaped like human body that date back to the 26th Pharaoh Dynasty that ruled from 672 BC to 525 BC, is seen in Sakkara, south of Cairo Wednesday, March 2, 2005. Australian archaeologists have discovered one of the best preserved ancient Egyptian mummies dating from about 2,600 years ago, Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities said.
Photo by Amr Nabil
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Made in Korea
Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson, his dysfunctional family and his friends from the middle-of-the-road American town Springfield were sent to Seoul long before exporting job overseas became a hot-button political issue in the United States.
A stone's throw away from a highway that tears through Seoul and upstairs from a convenience store called "Buy the Way," Homer, Marge, and the rest of "The Simpsons" have been brought to life for about 15 years at South Korea's AKOM Production Co.
The company has been animating "The Simpsons" at its studio in western Seoul since it premiered as a TV series in 1989.
AKOM gets the storyboard, camera and coloring instructions, as well as the voice tracks. It then turns out the episode about three months later. Music and other finishing touches are added back in the United States.
For a lot more, Homer Simpson
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Congratulates Prince Charles
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne sent his congratulations to Prince Charles on his upcoming marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Osbourne weighed in on the issue while in Sydney to host the first MTV Australia Video Music Awards, calling Charles a "mate" and saying he should be allowed to marry Parker Bowles in peace.
"It's his business you know. His first wife got killed so what's he expected to do, be single for the rest of his life? If he likes her and she likes him or whatever, good luck on them," Osbourne, the former lead singer of Black Sabbath, told reporters.
Ozzy Osbourne
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Man Charged in Theft of Tapes
Ray Charles
Bail was reduced for a longtime sound engineer of the late Ray Charles following his arrest two weeks ago on allegations of stealing the singer's master recordings, authorities said.
Terry Howard, 48, of Burbank is charged with two counts of grand theft by embezzlement from Ray Charles Enterprises and one count of receiving stolen property.
At a hearing Tuesday, Superior Court Commissioner Dennis Mulcahy said Howard had no prior record and reduced bail from $1 million to $100,000.
An executive with Ray Charles Enterprises called police after visiting Howard at his home last month and seeing boxes of the singer's recordings, including master recordings, according to KCBS-TV, citing police.
Ray Charles
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A snowman holding a can of beer sits on a bench in Vondelpark, in the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday March 2, 2005. According to the Dutch Weather Service the Netherlands was hit by the heaviest snowfall in 20 years, causing schools in the north of the country to close and disrupting traffic.
Photo by Peter Dejong
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Woman Who 'Tastes' Sounds
Music
Music can be a mouth-watering experience for one Swiss musician who "tastes" combinations of notes as distinct flavors, according to a report in the science journal Nature.
The 27-year-old woman known as E.S. is a synaesthete, someone who experiences sensation in more than one sense from the same stimulation, researchers said on Wednesday.
When E.S. hears tone intervals, the difference in pitch between two tones, she not only can see the musical notes as different colors but can taste the sounds.
Music
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In Memory
Peter Foy
Peter Foy, who specialized in giving flight to theatrical performers for more than four decades, died Feb. 17 of a heart attack. He was 79.
Foy founded Flying by Foy, a 48-year-old theatrical flying effects company that gave Peter Pan his wings and sent performers like Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby soaring across theater stages.
Foy also worked in television and film, sending aloft such stars as Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis. He flew Garth Brooks over Texas Stadium, Nadia Comaneci over Times Square and flew Liberace and his piano.
Foy went to work for the premier theatrical flying company in Britain, Kirby's Flying Ballets. In 1950, he supervised the flying for a Broadway production of J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," starring Jean Arthur in the title role and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook.
In 1957, he started his own company, Foy Inventerprises, known to generations of theatergoers as Flying by Foy.
Among Foy's Broadway credits are "The Lion King," "Angels in America," "Aida," "Fool Moon," and "Dracula, the Musical." He worked on the film "Fantastic Voyage," which won an Academy Award for special effects; the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Olympics; the Ice Capades; and numerous rock extravaganzas, operas and ballets.
Peter Foy
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In Memory
Bubba
He dodged lobster pots for decades, endured a trip from the coast of Massachusetts to Pittsburgh and survived about a week in a fish market. But a trip to the zoo proved to be too much for a 22-pound lobster named Bubba.
The leviathan of a lobster died Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Capp and Bob Wholey, owner of the fish market.
Bubba died in a quarantine area of the zoo's aquarium, where he was being checked out to see if he was healthy enough to make a trip to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, Capp said.
Bubba will be examined to try to figure out why he died, although Capp and Wholey guessed it may have been the stress of being moved.
Bubba
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A square-lipped or white rhinocerus cools himself in the water of lake Nakuru in Kenya in this January 8, 2005 file photo. A Dutch zoo is giving its rhinoceroses sunbed treatment to make up for the lack of sunlight during the cold grey winter months.
Photo by Radu Sigheti
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