Reader Review
Steeleye Span
By Dave Romm
Celtic Folk/Rock is my favorite type of music and Steeleye Span is my favorite group, and has been for more than 25 years, but I'll try to keep it short. I won't link to all the albums, but you can get many of them from Amazon here or here..
Steeleye Span has gone through a lot of changes in it's lineup since the band was founded in 1969 to the possibility of a tour in 2002, but to me the essence of their sound is Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. Tim's musicianship and arrangements with Maddy's soaring, plaintive voice with the wonderful song selection are what take this group to a higher ground than others drawing from the same sources (though your taste may vary). They take you into the culture of the time, and you don't merely listen to a song, you get caught up in the story.
Hart/Prior made three solo albums before and around SSpan (as I usually abbreviate it). They were part of a bubbling British folk music scene that produced a lot of albums and a lot of groups in the late 60s and early 70s. Their first two albums, Folk Songs of Olde England vol. 1 & 2, are okay, but no better than that. Their third solo album, separate from SSpan a couple of years later, is Summer Solstice, and one of my all time favorites. Maddy Prior's soaring vocals on False Kight On The Road, a song about a child meeting the devil on the highway and besting him in a game of questions, is unmatched by anyone else. Annoyingly, SSpan has covered this song, at least twice counting live albums, in a terrible version. She sings of Three Drunken Maidens and Serving Girls Holiday (which tells you a lot about what the lower class was doing for a living) and bemoans separation in I Live Not Where I Love while later Sorry The Day I Was Married. Tim sings emotionally or The Plougoy and the Cockney fighting over a wench and conjurs up the image of an elderly lady remembering the past while Dancing At Whitsun. A great album, done mostly with traditional instruments. I count this as the first Steeleye Span album, even though it isn't either Steeleye or their first, because of how it sounds in the progression of their musical development.
The first three albums are more traditional than later efforts, and not as well produced. Hark! The Village Wait features Gary and Terry Woods (Gay and Maddy doing duets) and Martin Carthy, some of whom would come back later. It's a good album, with the traditional celtic song Twa Corbies (Two Ravens) and The Blacksmith (which they would cover in a different version later) as well as starting off with A Calling-On Song. Please To See The King is uneven, with that lousy version of False Knight on the Road, but has the great Boys of Bedlam as well as jigs and The Female Drummer and others. Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Belvedere Rides Again is much more consistent, with excellent fiddle work even on mediocre songs like Four Nights Drunk. When I Was On Horseback keeps reminding me of Streets of Laredo, but what makes the albums is that they finally pick up on the trick of ending with a great, long song. Skewball (an old song covered by many, including Ledbelly as Stewball), about the race between and American and British horse, features Tim's singing and superb banjo playing.
If you're only going to get one from this group, it's Summer Solstice no question. As you get more into the group, you'll want the three SSpan albums; I currently don't have the two Folk Songs, and have no plans on getting them, but you never know.
Next up: They drift into using electric instruments and *shudder* drums.
Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
Thanks, Dave!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Didn't watch much tv tonight...was off on an adventure. Hadn't been in downtown LA at night in a
l-o-n-g time.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS is All March Madness, preparing for the Big Dance. Same song tomorrow night, too.
NBC is mostly reruns, with the exception of 'Leap Of Faith', which is after 'Friends', and before 'Will & Grace'.
After that it's 'Just Shoot Me' and 'ER'.
ABC starts the night with a rerun 'Whose Line', and follows it with a fresh episode of 'Whose Line'. After that,
it's 2 hours of Diane Sawyer & Rosie O'Donnell.
The WB is fresh with 2 episodes of 'My Guide To Becoming A Rock Star' followed by 'Charmed'.
Faux is all reruns. 2 episodes of 'Family Guy' and then 'King Of The Hill' and 'Futurama'.
TCM has the great, letter-box version of 'Spartacus'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
TV, Movies, Music
The Top Fives
TELEVISION
1. "CBS Sunday Movie: 9/11," CBS.
2. "Friends," NBC.
3. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS.
4. "E.R.," NBC.
5. "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS.
(From Nielsen Media Research)
FILMS
1. "The Time Machine," DreamWorks.
2. "We Were Soldiers," Paramount.
3. "All About the Benjamins," New Line.
4. "40 Days and 40 Nights," Miramax.
5. "John Q," New Line.
(From Exhibitor Relations Co.)
SINGLES AND TRACKS
1. "Ain't It Funny," Jennifer Lopez (feat. Ja Rule). Epic.
2. "Always On Time," Ja Rule (feat. Ashanti). Murder Inc.
3. "How You Remind Me," Nickelback. Roadrunner.
4. "In The End," Linkin Park. Warner Bros.
5. "Wherever You Will Go," The Calling. RCA.
(From Billboard magazine)
ALBUMS
1. "Under Rug Swept," Alanis Morissette. Maverick.
2. Soundtrack: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Mercury. (Platinum — certified sales of 1 million units)
3. "Fever," Kylie Minogue. Capitol.
4. "Songs In A Minor," Alicia Keys. J. (Platinum)
5. "(Hybrid Theory)," Linkin Park. Warner Bros. (Platinum)
(From Billboard magazine)
The Top Fives
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton has canceled plans to go to Africa next week.
And some insiders say former President Jimmy Carter may be partly to blame.
Clinton was due to fly to South Africa to talk with President Thabo Mbeki about the continent's AIDS epidemic. But Carter put a chill
on that meeting during his own visit to South Africa on Friday with William H. Gates Sr., father of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates.
Carter riled Mbeki and the African National Congress by blasting the government's refusal to make the AIDS drug nevirapine available at
public hospitals. Then, while in Nigeria, Carter went on to say he'd just come from "another country where the president has avoided
this responsibility and AIDS is rampant."
"Clinton didn't want to follow on the heels of that criticism," an insider says. "It would look like there was a conflict between American Presidents."
Further complicating matters, Clinton's International AIDS Trust is working with South African eminence and former President Nelson Mandela.
Clinton's spokeswoman, Julia Payne, insists that Carter's comments had nothing to do with the change in plans, but that Clinton decided to postpone
the trip until September because stops in Ghana and Nigeria were taken off the itinerary.
Clinton Postpones African Trip
Mom In ''The Matthew Shepard Story'
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing wasn't nervous with the real mother of Matthew Shepard on the set because that's who Channing plays in the TV movie,
"The Matthew Shepard Story."
Actually, Channing met Judy and Dennis Shepard long before she was playing the role. Channing says Judy Shepard would visit the set sometimes.
"I had met Dennis and Judy a year before under totally different circumstances, an award dinner that we were at," Channing says. "I spent
a little time with them before the script was even written."
She also watched the scenes that were shot at the end of the day. Channing says the cast felt "very comfortable" when she was "monitoring
them," making sure they didn't do anything "off-base." "The Matthew Shepard Story" airs Saturday night on NBC.
Stockard Channing
Yoo Hoo
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Court Order To Ban New Movie
''Barbie Gets Sad Too''
Toy giant Mattel has obtained a court order banning a new movie that shows Barbie having lesbian sex. "Barbie Gets Sad Too," made in
Argentina, shows the anatomically impossible doll getting it on with her Latina servant. It was scheduled to debut at Mexico City's
Urban-Fest film festival, but Mattel successfully argued that it would spoil Barbie's image. "This is a pornographic video and the
company does not find it acceptable," a Mattel lawyer told the Reforma newspaper. The festival's director insists the movie is "a work of art."
''Barbie Gets Sad Too''
1826 Photo to Be Analyzed
The First Photo?
One summer morning, Joseph Nicephore Niepce peered from an upstairs window in his home in the French countryside, framed the view of a pear tree,
the sky and several farm buildings and did something remarkable: He took a picture.
Opening the lens of a rudimentary camera for eight hours that day in 1826, Niepce exposed a polished, thinly varnished pewter plate to produce
an image that is acknowledged as the world's first photograph.
In June, 176 years later, the faint image will arrive at The Getty Conservation Institute, where scientific experts will analyze it for the first
time since it was rediscovered and authenticated in 1952. Before it turned up, the photo had been missing for decades, misplaced by its owner
after it was last exhibited in 1898.
Exact details of its chemistry remain a mystery, leaving experts with precious little information about the science behind the photo.
"There are legends about how it was done and with what materials, but no one really knows," said Dusan Stulik, a Getty senior scientist who calls
the work the "Mona Lisa" of the photo world.
The analysis is part of a joint photo conservation project involving Getty, the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology and
France's Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques.
For a lot more, The First Photo?
To Produce & Star
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford will appear in the role of American aid worker Fred Cuny, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Chechnya in
1995, German film company Internationalmedia said.
Ford, 59, will co-produce the film with David Fanning, whose 1997 documentary, "The Lost American," forms the basis for the movie. The
screenplay is by "Gladiator" screenwriter William Nicholson, Internationalmedia said Tuesday.
Cuny, who had worked in Nigeria, Guatemala and Bosnia, vanished in April 1995 in Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been battling
Russian government forces for years.
Harrison Ford
Look Who's Hissing & Spitting
Chris Matthews
CNBC/MSNBC host Chris Matthews ripped into ABC's Ted Koppel yesterday - accusing the embattled "Nightline" host of "mailing it in."
Matthews, addressing the Cable Television Public Affairs Association in Washington, said Koppel has been "overtaken" by cable news, according
to a report in Broadcasting & Cable magazine.
Matthews, who hosts "Hardball," also accused Koppel of being "not that good," and said "nobody watches the show" when he asked for a show of
hands of people who watch "Nightline" at least twice a week.
Matthews also chided Koppel for only hosting "Nightline" three nights a week. "If the show's so good, why doesn't he show up?" he said.
Chris Matthews
Green Card Hassles
Maddox Thornton
The U.S. Embassy hasn't approved Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton's adoption of a Cambodian baby, which means the Hollywood couple can't
take the infant to the United States immediately.
Jolie took custody of the 7 1/2-month-old boy in Africa, where she's shooting her next film. Her husband, Thornton, is in the United States. It's
unclear who brought the baby to Jolie.
U.S. Ambassador Kent Wiedemann told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the baby, named Maddox, is traveling on a Cambodian passport and does
not have a U.S. visa, "and thereby would not be permitted into the U.S."
In a statement released Tuesday, Jolie, 26, and Thornton, 46, said they met the child while visiting a Cambodian orphanage last November. He officially
became their son Monday after approval by Cambodian authorities.
Maddox Thornton
To Portray Bud Selig
Roger Corman
B-movie legend Roger Corman, who's acted in "Silence of the Lambs" and "Apollo 13," will help out his brother/director Gene Corman,
in his next movie, "Out of Her League."
The teleflick is based on controversial former Reds owner Marge Schott, who was forced to sell the Reds in 1999 after making some
controversial racial remarks. Roger Corman will portray current baseball commissioner Bud Selig. Anne Francis will portray Schott,
with Gabriel Schecter penning the script.
Roger Corman
Filed For Divorce
Marcy & James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini, the burly star of "The Sopranos," has filed for divorce from his wife, Marcy, The Post has learned.
His publicist, Stan Rosenfield, said Gandolfini initiated the split.
Marcy & James Gandolfini
Dating A 'Swarthy Man' She Met On The Street
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter's notorious post-Sept. 11 column for National Review Online -- in which she suggested that the proper U.S. response to
Muslim terrorists was to "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" -- is still making waves six
months later. But now the controversy features a jaw-dropping twist involving Coulter's love life.
After her Sept. 13 column, the tall, blond right-wing pundit was sacked by NRO when she refused to delete a reference to "swarthy males"
in a subsequent column and went on television to accuse National Review of censorship and denounce its editor, Rich Lowry, as a "girly-boy."
We hear that shortly after her September tirade proposing a modern-day crusade in Islamic countries, she began dating a gentleman of the Muslim
persuasion, a well-to-do financier in New York. Word is that they met by chance four months ago on a Manhattan street and have been an item ever since.
Coulter, an Episcopalian, declined to comment directly on this surprising circumstance. She refused to reveal the lucky guy's identity.
"It seems perfectly logical to me," she told us. "What? It's not like I'm dating a Democrat." She added: "If you go with this, I'll sic Mustafa -- not
his real name -- on you."
For the rest, Ann Coulter
Not A rush Fan
Sally Jessy Raphael
Sally Jessy Raphael can't get off TV fast enough for Rush Limbaugh, who still bristles over a confrontation he had with the daytime talker a decade ago.
Raphael's show was canceled yesterday after 19 years - but Limbaugh could not resist doing some dancing on her TV grave. "There is
something seriously wrong with her," Limbaugh told his listeners yesterday. "She may still be a candidate for the little men in white coats."
"One of the reasons her TV show is a problem now is [that] she needs to be a guest on her show rather than the host," Limbaugh
said. "People have worn out with her."
"My TV show lasted 19 years: his lasted 19 minutes," Raphael said though a spokesman yesterday.
Sally Jessy Raphael
He's Back
Hulk Hogan
After almost two years in retirement working on books and in the movies, professional wrestling's Hulk Hogan is making a comeback, along with his
biceps -- the self-described "24-inch pythons" of 15 years past.
Oh, but it's not just any comeback.
"The Hulk," one of the most visible superstars of 1980s pro wrestling, returns to the ring against current star "The Rock" on Sunday.
The two will lock biceps at WrestleMania X8, the 18th version of the WWF's showcase series, at which Hogan was the star attraction in the event's early years.
Hogan, who turns 50 in August, said he was motivated to return by both a desire to be "the Babe Ruth of wrestling" and an admonition by his 88-year-old
father, who passed away late last year, to go back to the profession.
Hulk Hogan
Just An 'Errant Shadow'
The Big Ticket?
When the folks from the sales side of our operation peek over the wall and offer up a story idea, it's usually greeted with the same
level of enthusiasm as the latest product sample from Metamucil. So when a couple of our co-workers came running in the other day waving
the March 1 Star Tribune sports section and pointing to a photo they alleged had been doctored to depict Timberwolves star Kevin Garnett
with his penis exposed, we shooed them away with a few stern words about responsible journalism and the sanctity of the press. But the
topic reared its head again that evening, when a bartender at the Monte Carlo proffered the photo for our happy-hour amusement. And a
few days later, when we got a call from some "journalist" in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, we knew we'd have to relent.
Now hear this: The Star Tribune did not print a picture of Garnett that had been purposely altered to exhibit any hidden assets. It was a
fluke. The purported appendage depicted in Ann Haisenfelt's Associated Press photo is actually the unfortunate confluence of the All-Star
forward's baggy shorts and some perfectly natural shadows.
"The photo editor wasn't looking for an errant shadow and that shadow played a trick on the eye," explains the Strib's reader representative,
Lou Gelfand, who was compelled to write about the episode in his column this past Sunday, after local radio got onto the story and people began
calling the paper.
The Big Ticket Or An Errant Shadow?
Harlem Renaissance
Pickles Salutes Black History Month
The White House's stately East Room seemed more like an intimate salon Wednesday as first lady Laura Bush played host to a lively discussion of the literary
and cultural legacy of the Harlem Renaissance.
Surrounded by massive chandeliers, formal portraits of former White House occupants and ornate draperies, about 150 scholars, teachers, students and other
literature lovers were treated to a three-hour retrospective on the prolific, Harlem-based black arts movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
Mrs. Bush, a former librarian who has made teaching and early childhood development her signature issues, noted that the historic heart of African-American
culture provided a "welcome haven" where blacks fleeing the racism of the South could find well-paying jobs, have fun and write what they wanted.
"The writers of the Harlem Renaissance whom we focus on today celebrated their culture in poetry and prose while capturing the stark realities of being
black in America," she said. "In committing their words to paper, they shaped a rich literary history and become agents of change."
Attendees included Lucy Hurston, niece of novelist Zora Neale Hurston, who was celebrated alongside fellow Harlem Renaissance writers like Langston
Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen and Jean Toomer.
It was the second in a series of symposiums being held by Mrs. Bush to salute America's greatest authors. The Harlem Renaissance was chosen to
coincide with February's Black History Month, even though scheduling difficulties delayed the actual event, said Noelia Rodriguez, Mrs. Bush's spokeswoman.
February Is 'Black History Month'
Take Him To The Cleaners, Jane
Jack Welch
Former General Electric chairman Jack Welch said yesterday he's hoping for an "amicable" divorce, but experts said his estranged wife
may have the upper hand when it comes to divvying up his fortune.
The high-rolling Welch, 66, could lose half his $680 million nest egg because a prenuptial agreement between him and his wife, Jane,
has expired, divorce lawyers said.
"My wife, Jane, and I are involved in a divorce, which we both expect to be amicable," the executive-turned-author said in a statement.
"All details regarding our marriage and divorce are personal to both of us, and I hope the media will respect our privacy."
Jack Welch's personal life burst into the headlines this month when the Wall Street Journal reported on his relationship with Suzy
Wetlaufer, who was then editor of the Harvard Business Review.
Jane & Jack & Suzy
On '60 Minutes', 27 March
John Forbes Nash
John Forbes Nash, the schizophrenic Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life was the basis for the critically acclaimed and controversial
film "A Beautiful Mind," will talk publicly about the movie for the first time on CBS's "60 Minutes," the network said on Wednesday.
CBS, which will air the interview between Nash, 72, and correspondent Mike Wallace on March 27, did not provide details or a transcript about
what was said in the meeting.
The network announced the interview on the same day that Sylvia Nasar, author of Nash's 1998 biography, wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Times
answering recent claims that Nash was gay, an adulterer, a bad father and a rabid anti-Semite.
Critics have also charged that the film oversimplifies Nash's life in order to turn his struggle with psychosis into a love story that revolves
around his relationship with a devoted wife.
In fact, Nash had an affair, fathered an illegitimate child and was divorced by his wife in 1963. They remarried last June. Nasar dismissed
a 1967 letter written by Nash against Jews as a product of his paranoia, and said that while he had "intense emotional relationships with other
men" in his 20s, there was no evidence he was gay.
John Forbes Nash
That Little Old Bridge Burner
Bobby Knight
Indiana University's president said on Wednesday he was dismayed by personal attacks in fired coach Bob Knight's new autobiography, adding he did
not wish to fuel the controversy over Knight's firing.
In "Knight: My Story" (St. Martin's Press) to be published later this month, the mercurial Hall of Fame coach rebuts his critics who believe he was
rightly fired after 29 years at Indiana for a pattern of abusing players, fellow coaches and staff.
Knight, now the first-year head coach at Texas Tech University, writes he should have quit as soon as Brand instituted a "zero-tolerance" policy
regarding misbehavior. He also refutes a videotape that supposedly shows him choking a player.
The last straw for Knight was his berating and apparent grabbing of a student.
Bobby Knight
Special Guest, Saturday, 16 March - Greg Palast!
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Saturday, March 16th at 10pm PST, Greg Palast visits with 710 KIRO-Seattle talk show host Erin Hart,
and discusses his new book on globalization, ''The Best Democracy Money Can Buy''.
Live streaming audio available at
www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com.
Listener calls at 1-877-710-KIRO
And there's a chatroom, too!
For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com.
Or drop me a note at one of the addy's below....after all, I am Erin's 'LA Producer'.
Grain Of Salt? How About The Whole Salt Mine?
Celebrity 'Boxing'
Rumour has it that, last week, when they stepped into the ring in L.A., disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding walloped Clinton-accuser
Paula Jones, that Danny Bonaduce ("The Partridge Family") bested Barry Williams ("The Brady Bunch"), and that Todd Bridges ("Diff'rent
Strokes") melted down Vanilla Ice (aka Robert Van Winkle).
Not that you'll necessarily see those outcomes.
Multiple endings were taped for each fight. For instance, in one version Bonaduce is said to be disqualified. A rep for the show tells
us the alternate endings were taped so that the live audience wouldn't know the outcome until it aired.
But some suspect the program, which promises "Real Stars, Real Fights, No Joke," is a cheap farce.
The show's rep insists that the fights aren't shams. Says Lynch: "Take it with a grain of salt."
Celebrity 'Boxing'
Diane Sawyer's Interview Tonight
Rosie O'Donnell
Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, publicly discussing her homosexuality for the first time, said her own experience as a gay parent proves that
the state of Florida and President Bush are "wrong" in their opposition to gay adoption.
"I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like," O'Donnell, the mother of three adopted children, told correspondent Diane Sawyer in
a televised interview to air on the ABC News program "Primetime Thursday." "I am the gay parent."
O'Donnell, who turns 40 this month, said she was moved to openly discuss her sexuality and motherhood after reading about the case of Steve Lofton
and Roger Croteau, a gay couple suing the state of Florida to overturn its ban on gay adoption.
Asked by Sawyer what she thought about President Bush's statement that children ought to be adopted in families with a woman and a man who are married,
O'Donnell replied, "Well, he's wrong. President Bush is wrong about that."
She added, "if I could take a pill to make myself straight, I wouldn't do it, because I am who I am, and I've come to this point in my life, and I'm very happy, you know.
But it's a lot easier in the world to be heterosexual than it is to be gay."
Rosie O'Donnell
Quite A Pisser
Britney Spears
Pop queen Britney Spears fled for cover after having urine thrown at her as she filmed a TV ad.The star was bombed with buckets of urine
by angry neighbours as she sang on location in the early hours of the morning, according to the News of the World.
Residents staged their protest at around 4am in downtown Los Angeles, hurling bucket-loads at the 21-year-old singer as she performed in the street below.
The star fled for cover in a nearby trailer and filming was abandoned shortly afterwards, the paper reports.
One resident reportedly said: "Sure, I opened the window and yelled shut-up - but I would never have done such a vile thing."
But the resident added: "We kept hearing the same song over and over but what made it worse were two 100ft spotlights. They
lit up our apartment like it was daytime.
Britney Spears
$50 Million To Design New Battle Uniform
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Army is hunting for a new military uniform that can make soldiers nearly invisible, grant superhuman strength and provide instant medical care.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is up for the task.
The school said Wednesday it has been awarded a five-year, $50 million dollar grant to develop the armor, which could detect threats and protect
against projectiles and biological or chemical weapons.
"We're not there yet, but it's not science fiction," said Ned Thomas, director of the MIT-affiliated Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
MIT's research centers had been working on nanotechnology ideas long before getting involved with the Army, but not with military applications in
mind. But the groundwork has been laid for revolutionary advances, Thomas said.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Offal Dish
Squirrel
A leading London chef known for his love of offal dishes is offering the capital's gourmets a new -- bushy-tailed -- eating experience.
Fergus Henderson, of the fashionable St John restaurant, offers grey squirrel "gently braised with wine, boletus mushrooms and wild garlic
leaves", according to newspaper reports.
He said the dish was popular at his restaurant, where he also serves up lamb testicles, bacon and mash and smoked eel.
The chef pointed out he would not cook Britain's native, endangered, red squirrel, whose population has been largely supplanted by the
bigger, more aggressive American species.
Got Enough Squirrel In Your Diet?
Snarky Gossip
Liza Minnelli
Either Liza Minnelli is losing her grip on reality again, or she spins one hell of a tale. Last week, Minnelli told a reporter at the
London Telegraph a gruesome story about visiting Ground Zero and coming across her old pal Ben Vereen. "I walked over to him," she
said, "and he was more crippled than I've been with my hips and knees and everything, and he was holding a human hand. Just a hand!" We
wondered why the actor would pick up a body part while visiting the site. And, of course, he wouldn't. Asked to explain Minnelli's macabre
account, Vereen's manager, Trevor Baptiste, blamed the Telegraph. "Liza would never make such a statement that is so patently, blatantly
false," Baptiste told PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman. He added, "The only reason why I'm calling you back is because of the dear friendship
between Ben Vereen and Liza." Minnelli also supposedly told the British paper her gala wedding reception at the Regent Wall Street next
Saturday is just what the city needs to cheer up after the Sept. 11 attack.
Liza Minnelli
Before & After
Sharbat Gula
Sharbat Gula, who captivated audiences with her haunting green eyes when she appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine
in 1985, is seen in the magazine's 1985 cover photograph (L), and today (R), 17 years later. The story of her life and how she was
located after nearly two decades is featured in the April issue of National Geographic magazine.
Photo by Steve McCurry
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Thanks To Fud
Hear The 'Trifecta' Statement
(quoting)
'' And we've got a job to do at home, as well. You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine. ''
Scroll down 31 paragraphs to read it for yourself.
Hear The 'Trifecta' Quote Here.
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