BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 17 March, 2005
Thursday
17 March, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
In God's Name
Don't Vote for the Religious!!
To steal a line from the old Kojak movies played quite regularly on Sunday nights, Telly Savalas was always fond of saying "Who loves ya' baby?", as he bolstered through some door and went to beat the shit out of a criminial.
The Bush 43 admin, just like Kojak, wants you to think they have you, your family, your livelihood, everything under their best interest. But the Bush admin wants all this sewed up in their pockets due to their participatipation in a religion that makes no sense and hasn't since the advent of science. They'll love ya right into poverty and starvation.
Are the next few elections gonna be a trial of religion? Are red states truly against blue states in the name of "GOD"? If it is, hopefully it will be one large expose` of all the shit that Bunnypants wants you to to think. This country was not formed on Christianity in any way. The men of the Declaration of Independence hated the oppression of the Anglicans, and was a driving force of that document. The great men who actually got the US of A's shit rollin' were not in any way a Christian sect of men. Quite the opposite, oh Holy Roller Bunnypants.
George Washington said "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine..."(see "Salvation for Sale" by Gereard Thomas Straub).
Thomas Jefferson neither detested nor loved Christians. His thoughts and writings were influenced and derived by a man named Thomas Paine, possibly the greatest expounder of RATIONAL THOUGHT since Galileo. Thomas Paine's remark about Christianty, The Torah, Judaeism, any religion or religious book you wanna come up with , was this: "I do not believe in the Jewish church, the Christian church, by the Roman church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
Tom Jefferson went on to say this: "It does me no injury for my neighbors to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.... I do not find in Orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
There are redeeming features in orthodox church creeds, as there are in scientific postulates and theories. Can't a rational man see the good qualities in both schools of thought?
It isn't really a smart thing to pluck your eyes out because you saw some ungodly hot babe, be it man or woman, because the Bible says to do so. Is it good to smout thou wiener with a rubber mallet into "Blivion O"Blivion" cause you had a boner when you read some porno story?
Give the goddammed sex shit a break. Other than food and shelter, sex comes in next. It's for the fucking sustentance of our own goddammed species that fucking exists. Period. Leave it be, jeez..........
Next comes "family values". What do you think family values has to do with politics? Nothing. Try education. Education should be right up there with defense of our nation. Educated people are far less likely to abuse their children than uneducated people. Child abuse, both verbal and emotional, costs this country far more than some intangible concept politicians love to leap on. Fifty percent of families split up. Does this mean they want more or less misery in marriages, or do they want happy children? If they want a happy kid, keep 'em away from organized religion unless their kids care to join after they can grasp concepts of that magnitude.
Crime. It has existed for a lot of years. It will never go away. Theft, rape, murder, should be dealt with swiftly, fairly, but don't intermingle it due to some family that divorced. If a parent can teach his or her child right from wrong, then your parenting skills are well accomplished. You don't need parochial schools to grasp the concept that rape is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Murder is wrong. Those concepts are grasped by the vast majority of little people unless they are suffering from some form of mental disorder, usually brought on by some form of abuse which brings you full circle back to education.
Let's cut the bullshit, folks. I'll bet the most educated physicist in Los Alamos, New Mexico wants the same thing for his family as do poverty-stricken Cubans in Miami want for their families. Peace, fair wages for time on the job, thugs being punished for heinous crimes, solid educations for everyone to be able to compete globally, and happiness, however they care to attain that concept, through religion, chemical ingestion, whatever trips your trigger. I wish just once, a politician would run on a platform of reducing how many laws there are on the books regulating our society. Erasing the regulations that are pure idiocy.
I worked about a decade ago at a firm that had the whole Code of Federal Regulations. The books made the Encyclopedia Britannica look like a few comic books. Revisions and new ones come in by the thousands daily, and they are unadulterated idiocy. These elected senators and representatives get paid so much money just to fuddle with language , it's unreal. That politician would probably go down in history as a paradigm-shifter. Let's get rid of the red-state/blue-state garbage, too. We're all Americans.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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WITH THAT WOODEN STARE
HE ACTS AS IF I'M NOT THERE
ACORN WOODPECKER
Zen Man
(in the Oak Forest)
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Freshly Updated
Humor Gazette
For your amusement, some cerebral doggerel about anthrax ...
Run for your lives! Anthrax is back!
You remember anthrax: "Powdery poison slays five in mysterious postal attacks."
That was in late 2001, when the microscopic pathogen was all the rage. All day
long it was anthrax, anthrax, anthrax. Round-the-clock coverage on CNN, FOX
News and C-SPANTHRAX.
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Ruth Conniff: What If Women Ruled the World? (The Progressive)
Susan Estrich is right that there are not enough women on the op-ed pages, even if her attacks on Michael Kinsley are a trifle harsh ...
BuzzFlash interview: Robert Kane Pappas: Reflections on Orwell, 2005
Those journalists who speak too plainly, who dig too deep, disappear--not in the 1984 sense of being vaporized, but they disappear from the airwaves.
Annalee Newitz: Help Tech - Jail the Poor (AlterNet)
The new bankruptcy bill is going to bring outsourcing hot spots back home.
Kurt Vonnegut: Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller (In These Times)
She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.
Fred Goss: Around the world with the L.A. opera (The Advocate)
A grand tour of recent productions, from the stunning to the disappointing, with stops in Troy, Seville, Paris, Sweden, Egypt, and Verona. Many unlucky lovers will not survive the trip.
Jeff Gannon Video
Brenda Starr Cartoon
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Reader Book Reviews
from Heather
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon.
In Michael Chabon's first novel, we weaves a tale of the loss of youth and the entry into adulthood. It tells the story of Art Bechstein, the son of a Jewish mobster as he graduates from college and enters the world of adults. The cast characters are diverse and intriguing and you understand completely why Art would fall madly in love with them. Each of them is different - Arthur, the charming gay man who introduces Art to Cleveland, the doomed bad boy and Phlox, the eccentric librarian who becomes Art's lover. Each of these characters introduces Art to a world totally different from the sheltered life he lived with his flawed father. The novel is a classic Bildungsroman and allows us to see the evolution of Art into adulthood and his ultimate break from his father's life and control. It is as much a coming of age story as it is a loving tribute to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a firt novel it is lush and the language is lofty and the use of it and the imagery is brilliant. A delightful read which makes us all remember those days when we were finding our way in the world and deciding which path we would take in life.
I give this book 4 out 5 puffy clouds from the Cloud Factory.
A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
This book is like one long song by Jimmy . He weaves a tale of Tully Mars, the cowboy who takes his pony to the sea and goes out to find his place in the sun. Quirky characters and escapades throughout the Caribbean and coastal Mexico make this a fun and fast read. Throw in some adventures on a Schooner , the art of Flats Fishing and references to the movie The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and you have a love letter from Buffett to the things he loves and lives. There is nothing heavy or intellectual about this book and that's what makes it so fun. If you love the tales Jimmy weaves in his songs and the freewheeling lifestyle he leads then this book will give you plenty to smile about.
I give this book 5 out of 5 lost shakers of salt.
Heather
http://houndog2.blogspot.com/
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Reader Movie Review
'The Bank Dick'
For those who have not seen 'The Bank Dick', take some time sit down and enjoy. It has been called the last great film of the age of heroic comedy.
Made by
W.C. Fields it has staying power that even today.Fields is the consumate drunken braggart. He's harrassed at home and seeks refuge at his local tavern. Look behind the bar and you'll see Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges.
The character names are Fields writing at his best. The Sousé clan, the bank examiner named Snoopington, a film director named A. Pismo Clam.
Fields makes the English language fun. Back to the plot. He accidently stops a bank robbery and portrays himself as a great hero. Sort of like Bush portraying himself as a war hero after going AWOL. The grateful bank gives him a job as a guard.
He convinces his prospective son-in-law to invest in a beef steak mine with the bank's money and then the bank examiner shows up to go over the books. Fields convinces the examiner that he is deathly ill and keeps him from going over the books until the mines payoff. But just at that moment, the bank robber shows back up to rob the bank again.
~ Mr.Hawk
Airs tonight on TCM.
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and warm. Supposed to start raining again, though.
Got the state income tax refund so we splurged & visited the Royal Buffet.
In the 80s the building housed a 'Velvet Turtle' and in the 90s it was a 'Stuart Anderson Black Angus'.
Recycling, restaurant-style?
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS fills the night with 'NCAA College Basketball - AKA: March Madness'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 1/21/05) are Debra Messing and Peyton Manning.
On a RERUN Craig are Andy Dick, Julian Fellowes, and Paul Gilmartin.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Will & Grace', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'Apprentice', followed by a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
On a RERUN Jay Leno (from 2/2/05) are Cate Blanchett, Jon Heder, and Ashanti.
On a RERUN Conan (from 3/17/04) are Carson Daly, Portia De Rossi, and James Lipton.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Jamie Kennedy and Gavin Rossdale.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Jake In Progress', followed by another FRESH 'Jake In Progress', then a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', followed by 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Jeff Foxworthy: The Early Daze', followed by a RERUN 'The Starlet'.
Faux has a FRESH 'The O.C.', followed by a FRESH 'Point Pleasant'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hard Times', followed by the movie 'Death Wish II', then the movie 'Death Wish 3'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 2;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - It Pays To Advertise;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 8;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Art Collectors;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 50;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Jenkinson;
[7pm] 'Blackadder' - Sense & Senility;
[7:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 6;
[8:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - A Book at Bedtime;
[9pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Dustin Hoffman;
[9:30pm] 'Black Books' - The Grapes of Wrath;
[10pm] 'Dylan Moran' - Dylan Moran;
[11pm] 'Blackadder' - Sense & Senility;
[11:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 6;
[12:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - A Book at Bedtime;
[1am] 'Dylan Moran' - Dylan Moran;
[2am] 'So Graham Norton' - Dustin Hoffman;
[2:30am] 'Black Books' - The Grapes of Wrath;
[3am] 'Dylan Moran' - Dylan Moran;
[4am] 'So Graham Norton' - Dustin Hoffman;
[4:30am] 'Black Books' - The Grapes of Wrath;
[5am] 'Dylan Moran' - Dylan Moran;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Elton John At Radio City', followed by 'Elton John At Radio City', again.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents', another 'Comedy Central Presents', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Hollow Men'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Craig Ferguson.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Rumrunners, Moonshiners And Bootleggers', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I' (2003);
[8AM] 'Trust' (1990);
[10AM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[11:45AM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[12:15PM] 'Buena Vista Social Club' (1999);
[2PM] 'Trust' (1990);
[4PM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[4:30PM] Short: 'Blue City' (1996);
[4:45PM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[6:30PM] 'Mr. & Mrs. Bridge' (1990);
[8:45PM] 'The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain' (1995);
[10:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005);
[11PM] 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (2002);
[12:45AM] 'Amateur' (1994);
[2:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005);
[3AM] 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (2002);
[5AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Skeeter', followed by the movie 'Mansquito'.
Sundance -
[6:15AM] 'The Brainwashers' ('Les Ramoneurs Cerebraux') (Short);
[6:30AM] 'Shorts Program 112' (Short);
[7:30AM] 'Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight' (Documentary);
[8:30AM] 'Security, Colorado' (Feature);
[10:05AM] 'Silverstar' (Feature);
[10:20AM] 'Fairy Faith' (Feature);
[11:40AM] 'The Substance of Fire' (Feature);
[1:25PM] 'Twilight of the Ice Nymphs' (Feature);
[3PM] 'Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight' (Documentary);
[4PM] 'Security, Colorado' (Feature);
[5:35PM] 'Don't Tempt Me' (Feature);
[7:30PM] 'Fairy Faith' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Betty' (Feature);
[10:45PM] 'Madame Bovary' (1991) (Feature);
[1:10AM] 'Soho Square' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'The Substance of Fire' (Feature);
[4:15AM] 'Zus & Zo' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Not So Dumb' (1930);
[7:30am] 'Dulcy' (1940);
[9am] 'Two Girls On Broadway' (1940);
[10:30am] 'Little Nellie Kelly' (1940);
[12:30pm] 'Irene' (1940);
[2:30pm] 'Three Cheers for the Irish' (1940);
[4:30pm] 'The Irish In Us' (1935);
[6pm] 'My Wild Irish Rose' (1947);
[8pm] 'The Desperadoes' (1943);
[9:30pm] 'Charley Varrick' (1973);
[11:30pm] '3 Godfathers' (1948);
[1:30am] 'The Bank Dick' (1940);
[2:45am] 'Odds Against Tomorrow' (1959);
[4:30am] 'Vacation In Reno' (1946);
[5:30am] 'Cartoon Alley #4' (2005). (ALL TIMES EST)
Friday - 03/18
TCM:
[6am] 'Strange Bargain' (1949);
[7:15am] 'A Woman's Secret' (1949);
[8:45am] 'Tension' (1949);
[10:30am] 'A Dangerous Profession' (1950);
[12pm] 'Walk Softly, Stranger' (1950);
[1:30pm] 'Bunco Squad' (1951);
[3pm] 'The Man With A Cloak' (1951);
[4:30pm] 'The Hour Of 13' (1952);
[6pm] 'Clash By Night' (1952);
[8pm] 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955);
[10pm] 'Three Guys Named Mike' (1951);
[12am] 'Arsenic And Old Lace' (1944);
[2am] 'The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse' (1933) [AKA: 'Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'];
[4am] 'Gambit' (1966). (ALL TIMES EST)
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Joseph Barbera, one of the founders of the legendary animation studio Hanna-Barbera, poses with three of the characters 'Scooby-Doo (C) along with Tom and Jerry (R) that he and William Hanna created, as a sculpture was unveiled at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honoring Hanna-Barbera in Los Angeles March 16, 2005. Among the cartoons the pair is noted for include 'The Flintstones,' 'The Jetson's,' 'Top Cat' along with 'Tom and Jerry' and 'Scooby-Doo.'
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Gives Red Sox Makeover
'Queer Eye'
Johnny Damon flicked his long locks, Kevin Millar rubbed his beard and the makeover artists who turn hairy men into neat gentlemen sized them up.
The Fab Five from the television show "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" faced their challenge on Monday when they met five members of baseball's wacky World Series champions.
Taping began Monday at City of Palms Park for the first episode of the show's next season on June 7. Four players did on-field scenes before Varitek arrived late in the afternoon by a helicopter that landed behind second base after he played against the Baltimore Orioles 120 miles away in Fort Lauderdale.
More taping will be done at the Fort Myers stadium after Wednesday's game against St. Louis. The production will raise money to help rebuild a nearby little league field damaged by hurricanes.
'Queer Eye'
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An aerial view of the Queen Mary hotel and attraction in Long Beach, California is pictured in this undated publicity photograph. Queen's Seaport Development Inc., which operates the hotel and attraction for the city of Long Beach, filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles March 15, 2005, one day before a deadline set by Long Beach for payment of a disputed $3.4 million in back rent. The Queen Mary, widely considered an Art Deco treasure, was brought to Long Beach Harbor 37 years ago amid hopes it would make the city a tourist magnet.
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Hosting Tony Awards Again
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman is back, serving as host for the 2005 Tony Awards, which will take place June 5 at Radio City Music Hall.
The Tonys, which celebrate the best of the Broadway season, will be televised by CBS.
Hugh Jackman
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Playing Roskilde Festival
Snoop Dogg
Denmark got the Dogg. Snoop Dogg, that is.
Organizers of the annual Roskilde Festival said Wednesday the rapper was set to play the annual music show this year.
Other artists scheduled to play during the June 30-July 3 festival include Black Sabbath, The Go! Team and Junior Senior.
Snoop Dogg
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CNN Renews Deal
Larry King
CNN has renewed its contract with veteran talk show host Larry King in a deal that keeps the cable news outlet's top-rated personality at the network through 2009, the network announced on Wednesday.
The contract extension, which network sources said would pay King nearly $7 million a year, ensures that CNN's flagship program remains intact for four more years as the network battles further prime-time losses to archrival Fox News Channel.
So much a part of the pop culture has he become that King has made cameo appearances as himself in more than 20 movies over the years. And while some detractors fault him for an interview style they see as letting guests off too easy, a recent study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism credited him as the cable television host least likely to offer a personal opinion on the air.
Larry King
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A picture taken from a helicopter shows another helicopter, bottom left, flying near Switzerland's most famous mountain, the Matterhorn near Zermatt, as it is illuminated by Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter on Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Hofstetter used two helicopters to project images and words on the precipices of the Matterhorn. With his action Hofstetter tries to draw attention to global warming and the regression of the glaciers. The spectacle lasted for about 30 minutes.
Photo by Denis Emery
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Checks Into Rehab Again
Billy Joel
Singer Billy Joel has checked into an undisclosed rehabilitation center "for treatment of alcohol abuse," his spokeswoman said.
Joel, 55, entered the clinic after suffering "a recent bout of severe gastrointestinal distress," spokeswoman Claire Mercuri told The New York Post for Wednesday editions.
Billy Joel
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Italy Axes TV Show
Paolo Rossi
With his bulging eyes staring out from beneath a big black wig, comedian Paolo Rossi plays a quack doctor selling useless cure-alls to gullible people - in an undisguised mimicry of Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
That was in the first part of "This Evening We Perform Moliere."
Then state television canceled the second and final part.
Why?
Because of foul language, the broadcaster maintains.
Because it makes fun of Berlusconi, free-speech advocates allege.
Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, has direct or indirect control over 90 percent of Italy's television market: His family owns Mediaset, the country's largest private broadcaster with three national channels, and as premier, he holds influence over state-funded RAI's three channels.
For a peak at our broadcasting future, Paolo Rossi
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Canaletto's Venetian view, 'Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day' on display at Christies, London Wednesday March 16, 2005. The work by the 18th century Italian master, part of the Champalimaud collection, is expected to fetch around ?5 million (?7.2 Million, $9.6 Million) at auction in July.
Photo by Fiona Hanson
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Tied to Attacks on Canadian Jews
Mel's 'Passion'
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" on Tuesday was cited by a report as the cause of an upsurge last year in Canadian anti-Semitic attacks, now running at a record pace.
The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, releasing its 2004 audit of anti-Semitic attacks in Canada, said last year's media coverage of Gibson's film and its alleged depiction of Jews as the "Christ killer" led to an often violent spike in attacks against the Canadian Jewish community.
"Whereas only nine incidents in 2003 had religious connotations to the story of Jesus' death, there were 32 such incidents in 2004, nine of them in February when the movie opened and a further 15 in the three months following its release," the B'nai Brith study found.
Mel's 'Passion'
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A Chinese visitor touches the brass knob of a gate at the Forbidden City in Beijing March 16, 2005. Beijing's 600-year-old Forbidden City is undergoing a massive renovation project that is keeping 1,400 workers and engineers busy repainting, retiling, and rebuilding most of the crumbling imperial relics. Costing more than 100 million yuan per year ($12 million), the project began in 2001 with help from the World Cultural Heritage Foundation - a U.S protection organisation for cultural relics.
Photo by Jason Lee
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A Must For Any Respectable Italian Clan
Pope In The Family
It makes them just that little more special -- businessmen, actors, journalists, even a heartthrob Big Brother participant -- Italians whose families gave the Vatican at least one pope, if not four.
As the recent relapse of ailing Pope John Paul II increases speculation on the next "papal family," the descendants of such clans continue to mark Roman life even millennia after their ancestors ruled the Holy See.
Some families have not moved far at all. Luigi Savelli, whose family claims an impressive four popes, runs religious art shops that are simply addressed: St. Peter's square.
Some families have retained over the centuries a place beside the pope, being assigned the title of Gentleman of His Holiness, as Prince Prospero Colonna, whose 15th century ancestor was Pope Martin V and who still lives in the family's sumptuous palace at the heart of Rome's city center.
For a lot more, Pope In The Family
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The covered statue of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco is taken away on the back of a truck in Madrid in the early hours of Thursday March 17, 2005. The statue, the last ramaining in Madrid, was finally removed Thursday, 30 years after Francos death.
Photo by Paul White
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La Scala Orchestra Demands Resignation
Maestro Riccardo Muti
The orchestra and personnel of Milan's prestigious La Scala opera demanded that its musical director Riccardo Muti step down after weeks of bitter in-fighting, union officials said.
More than 700 of the opera's 800 staff voted against Muti in a no-confidence motion, demanding that he and commissioner Mauro Meli resign. Only two members voted in support of the maestro.
Theater officials on Wednesday denied persistent rumors that Muti, a world-famous conductor who has directed La Scala since 1987, had already resigned. Meli told reporters that he had no knowledge any resignation.
Maestro Riccardo Muti
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A Talapoin Monkey (Miopithecus Talapoin) screeches from his cage at the Santillana del Mar's Zoo in northern Spain, March 16, 2005.
Photo by Victor Fraile
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