BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 24 March, 2005
Thursday
24 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
Judgments Within Ten Seconds
Congress pulled an outrageous boner this week by entering into the Terri Schiavo case. This case has been bouncing around in the Florida court system for some fifteen years, the issue being the removal of the feeding tube that acts as Terri's life support. The issue was thought to have been finally resolved in the Florida courts when all of a sudden the House and the Senate actually got out of bed, went to D.C. to show how magnaminous they are, sailed a bill through both the House and Senate, and then awoke Bunnypants to sign the bill that opened up a floodgate of lawsuits that will be coming down the pike for the next few decades. Way to go, fellas.
The husband says he was told by Terri before her accident she did not want to live as a vegetable. Her family on the other hand says that she is not in a vegetative state, and her husband is not telling the truth regarding Terri's wishes. It's a big legal mess, and it's very personal, so what in the hell was Congress thinking when they awoke, got out of their drunken stupors and stepped in to step on the Constitution?
I would think after some fifteen years of court rulings that the case would have been resolved. Apparently the religious right had to get on the books though, and for some reason, all the Democrats followed suit so as not to appear like a murderous bunch, so bang! went the Constitution. In no designation of powers does Congress have to override Courts of Appeals of states. They apparently judged the whole case within ten seconds by watching the video footage that the media was satuating the telly with.
I feel the trampling of the Constitution by Congress may in the long run supercede importance of Terri's imminent death. To me, the weirdest thing to legally let her die is they have to pull the means of life support, which means they have to pull the feeding tube, which will dehydrate her before she starves. If the husband is correct and she wants to die, what's wrong with a hot dose of morphine? If I was the husband, I would request a lethal injection of morphine for Terri and save her the misery of starvation/dehydration. But then, if she is vegetative, she wouldn't know the difference. These are weird concepts to contemplate. I would think it would be hard for a think tank as dumb as our Congress to seriously weigh issues regarding the right to die to be resolved overnight.
The video clips that are airing on the television coverage of this family feud showing Terri smiling, bobbing her head back to and fro, are four years old for one thing. These are the media videos that are making people make a judgment within ten seconds, going, "Yeah!!She's got a right to live!!",what the fuck do they know? Another point the husband made on the Today show, saying there were 6,000 hours of other tape that show the true hideous condition she currently resides. But the family retorted saying Terri responded to the news of the Congress's intervention.
Who knows? I don't know anything of the fifteen years of testimony by experts, but the court system currently presided by Bunnypants little brother Jebraham, or Jeb for short, says the husband is in the right. How and why did it wind up in Congress? Well, I tell you what. The Bunnypant administration really took the American Republic for a ride on this little escapade. From now on out, will Congress convene every time a right to die decision pops up?. They occur daily. Will the euphemism "having the plug pulled" will only be decided now by Congress? Is that what those bastards were thinking? I'm as confused as the pundits and reporters are who are trying to make sense of this convoluted mess.
Most of the politicians are too dumb to realize the can of worms they have opened by their phony concern over one woman. They have taken precedence over several Courts of Appeals of the State of Florida, and have prolonged the fight of the husband who's been fighting for her for a decade and a half. As of this writing, some court in Atlanta somehow has the case now and so far the feeding tube has not been reinserted.
My wish for Terri is that she would not suffer the misery of the starvation/dehydration, yet if you are brain dead, I guess you'd never know. If the issue is a right to die issue, Congress should have had debates on why does the actual point of living, i.e. a feeding tube, an oxygen machine, any sort of machine that provides life, MUST be the point of inertia for someone to exist. I wish David Gregory would ask the prez at the next press conference where her soul has been since her accident. He'd stammer some idiotic response, still not realizing the thousands of cases where I guess Congress will have to have some say over now. Jesus Fucking Christ. You ought to be thinking of the souls being lost in Iraq, Bunnypants, you turdball piece of shit.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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SOMETIMES I GET STUCK
BETWEEN HOPE AND REALITY
ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Zen Man
(in the Japanese Garden)
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Reader Comment
Army missing recruiting goals (again)
In this article we find the following:
" The Army expects to miss its recruiting goals again
this month and next, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey
said Wednesday, and it is developing a new sales pitch
that appeals to the patriotism of parents who have
been reluctant to steer their children toward the
Army. "
As the father of three children (22, 20 and 16), I can
state categorically that the Army is trying their best
to contact as many young folk as possible to entice
them to signup. We've been getting phone calls from
the recruiters for months now.
I'm a retired Air Force officer, I served as an Air
Liaison Officer with the Army for a year in Korea (so
I know how Army people think and work), I'm a Democrat
and totally against how the Administration is lying to
this country and how we're mismanaging the Iraq
quagmire. You now know where I'm coming from.
I'm extremely anxious to receive the first pitch from
these folks appealing to my patriotism so that they
can recruit my kids for their meat-grinder. In the
words of our "Dear Leader", "Bring it on." I'll let
you know how it turns out.
Roma
Thanks, Roma!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
DAVID BROOKS: Masters of Sleaze (NY Times)
Down in the depths of the netherworld, where Tammany Hall grafters and Chicago ward heelers gather amid spittoons and brass railings, a reverential silence now spreads across the communion.
JESSE JACKSON: Bush setting U.S. up for financial fall (Chicago Sun-Times)
Beneath the bluster of the Bush administration, our isolation is growing and our independence eroding. Our trade and budget deficits continue to set records. The administration and the Republican Congress don't even include the costs of the war in Iraq -- now headed toward $300 billion -- in their budget. The war is being fought on credit, with the loans coming from Chinese and Japanese central bankers, and the debt sent to our kids.
Ruth Conniff: Bringing Back Debtors Prison (The Progressive)
While the courts, the Congress, the President, and the national media have been caught up in the circus around Terri Schiavo, bending our whole system of government out of shape around this single right-to-life case, the Republicans have been pushing through legislation that will have a huge effect on thousands of people--with very little coverage at all.
Umbra Fisk: Surely You Gestate (Grist)
As I said the other time I touched this topic with a 10-foot pole, we don't make childbearing choices based on politics.
Camille Dodero: High Times: the Magazine for Serious Cannabis Smokers (Boston Phoenix)
After a brief stint as a slick, celebrity-driven version of the Nation, the pot-appreciation magazine High Times is back to its roots -- and readers are inhaling deeply.
Anonymous: Bisexual and booted from the classroom (The Advocate)
When sixth-grade students asked their new teacher whether he was gay, he told the truth, then changed the subject.
David Bruce: Wise Up: Animals (The Athens News)
Franco Corelli's dog was well trained. While Mr. Corelli was on stage singing, his dog was in Mr. Corelli's dressing room. If anyone entered and reached for Mr. Corelli's paycheck, the dog bit him.
Wired for Books: Author Interviews
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Reader Contribution
Bald Eagles
Marty
Pale Male and Lola doing better with the number of eggs in the nest. The Bald Eagle and his lady in Conn. have only one, laid March 3rd. A second one has failed to appear.
A bald eagle egg is slightly smaller than a domestic goose egg. The chick will measure 4 to 5 inches at hatching and weigh only a matter of ounces.
Bald eagles incubate their eggs for about 35 days. They begin incubation as soon as the first egg is laid. The second egg usually appears within 36 to 72 hours after the first. Occasionally a clutch of 3 eggs will be produced.
Marianne
Thanks, Marianne!
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Reader Suggestion
Bush's Soul on eBay
I'm selling it because it frightens me, and it appears to be useless.
" The object is in very poor condition. It appears to have been
subjected to extremely high heat. Initial asking price of $0.02 is
based on appraisal of trusted advisor. Buyer assumes all liabilities
accruing to possession of the object. "
Kevin
Thanks, Kevin!
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Another Rant
Avery Ant
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunn & windy.
Was watching the late, late rerun of Leno last night - and realized somebody screwed up & aired the same show as the night before - Nicolas Cage was the 'big' guest.
I might be on the radio this weekend - will know more in a bit.
Patricia Heaton (R-Everybody Loves Raymond) has been making a spectacle of herself on tabloid TV - and the
Guestbook of Patricia Heaton Online is not short on comments.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS fills the day & night with LIVE 'NCAA Tournaments - March Madness'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 2/28/05) are Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Solomon Burke, and snowmobiling star Jay Quinlan.
On a RERUN Craig (from 3/4/05) are Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dave Foley, Unwritten Law.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Joey', followed by a FRESH 'The Apprentice', then the SERIES PREMIERE of 'The Office', followed by a FRESH 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Cameron Diaz, Hugh Laurie, and Billy Idol.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Benicio Del Toro, Jordana Brewster, and Kings of Leon.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Laura Prepon and Matisyahu.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Jake In Progress', followed by another FRESH 'Jake In Progress', then a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover', followed by 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel are David Alan Grier, Bam Margera, and Arj Barker. (from 3/2/05)
The WB offers a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then 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 'The Silence Of The Lambs', followed by the movie 'Rocky III', then the movie 'Rocky IV'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 7;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - A Bliss Girl;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Gadget Lovers;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 55;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[7pm] 'Blackadder' - Amy & Amiability;
[7:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 7;
[8:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Grandstand;
[9pm] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 3;
[9:30pm] 'Black Books' - The Blackout;
[10pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 8;
[10:40pm] 'Look Around You' - Iron;
[11pm] 'Blackadder' - Amy & Amiability;
[11:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Episode 7;
[12:20 am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Grandstand;
[1am] 'Manchild' - Episode 8;
[1:40am] 'Look Around You' - Iron;
[2am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 3;
[2:30am] 'Black Books' - The Blackout;
[3am] 'Manchild' - Episode 8;
[3:40am] 'Look Around You' - Iron;
[4am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'Black Books' - Episode 8;
[5:40am] 'Look Around You' - Iron;
[6am] 'BBC World News' (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', and 'Project Greenlight'.
CARTOON NETWORK has the fourth of 5 FRESH 'Star Wars: Clone Wars'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The Original Kings Of Comedy', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH 'The Hollow Men'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is The RZA.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Joseph: The Silent Saint', and 'Hell: The Devil's Domain'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Truce' ('La Tregua') (1997);
[8AM] 'Delicatessen' (1991);
[10AM] 'The Vanishing' (1988);
[12PM] 'My Life As A Dog' (1985);
[1:45PM] Short: 'Blue City' (1996);
[2PM] 'Next Stop Wonderland' (1998);
[4PM] 'The Vanishing' (1988);
[6PM] Short: 'Blue City' (1996);
[6:15PM] 'Next Stop Wonderland' (1998);
[8PM] 'Love and Death' (1975);
[9:30PM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[11PM] 'Wild Man Blues' (1997);
[1AM] 'Love and Death' (1975);
[2:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005);
[3AM] 'Wild Man Blues' (1997);
[5:15AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Python', followed by the movie 'Pythons 2'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'Bollywood/Hollywood' (Feature);
[8:40AM] 'Bollywood Bound' (Documentary);
[9:40AM] 'Pieces of April' (Feature);
[11AM] 'Secret Honor' (Feature);
[12:30PM] 'Trembling Before G-d' (Documentary);
[2PM] 'Julie Walking Home' (Feature);
[4PM] 'Bollywood Bound' (Documentary);
[5PM] 'Bollywood/Hollywood' (Feature);
[6:45PM] 'Def' (Short);
[7PM] 'La Femme Nikita' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth' (Director's Cut) (Documentary);
[10:40PM] 'Gamblin' (Short);
[11PM] 'Pieces of April' (Feature);
[12:30AM] 'House of Fools' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'La Femme Nikita' (Feature);
[4:30AM] 'Julie Walking Home' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM: spends the afternoon celebrating what would have been
Steve McQueen's 75th birthday.
[6am] 'The Fred Astaire Songbook' (1991);
[7:15am] 'You'll Never Get Rich' (1941);
[8:45am] 'Escape Me Never' (1947);
[10:30am] 'Never Let Me Go' (1953);
[12:30pm] 'Never So Few' (1959);
[3pm] 'Hell is for Heroes' (1962);
[4:30pm] 'The Honeymoon Machine' (1961);
[6pm] 'The Cincinnati Kid' (1965);
[8pm] 'The Odessa File' (1974);
[10:15pm] 'The Ipcress File' (1965);
[12:15am] 'The Day Of The Jackal' (1973);
[2:45am] 'Suddenly' (1954);
[4:15am] 'Notorious' (1946). (ALL TIMES EST)
Friday - 03/25
TCM:
[6am] 'My Man Godfrey' (1936);
[8am] 'Nothing Sacred' (1937);
[9:15am] 'Meet John Doe' (1941);
[11:30am] 'Kings Row' (1942) [WARNING: stars Ronald Reagan] ;
[1:45pm] 'Fury' (1936);
[3:30pm] 'Lust For Life' (1956);
[6pm] 'Of Human Bondage' (1946);
[8pm] 'Superman II' (1980);
[10:30pm] 'Urban Cowboy' (1980);
[1am] 'Private Screenings: Anthony Quinn' (1999);
[2am] 'La Strada' (1954);
[4am] 'Bachelor In Paradise' (1961). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Former POW Jessica Lynch holds Carla Piestewa, 5, daughter of Lynch's fallen friend Lori Piestewa, during a ceremony Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in Phoenix. Two years after their company was ambushed, Lynch was in Arizona on Tuesday to honor her fallen comrade, Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, the first Native American servicewoman killed in the war with Iraq.
Photo by Roy Dabner
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Joining Air America Lineup
Jerry Springer
More people will be able to hear trash TV host Jerry Springer under a deal announced Wednesday to take his radio program nationwide.
Springer's show will go live weekdays on the Air America Radio network beginning April 1. The liberal all-talk network currently broadcasts on 51 radio stations and on the Sirius and XM satellite networks.
Springer will be heard on about 45 of those stations initially.
The "Springer on the Radio" show, which began in January on WCKY-AM in Cincinnati, has expanded to other Clear Channel Radio stations in Cleveland, Detroit, Miami and San Antonio. Springer said the deal with Air America will not affect his relationship with Clear Channel.
Jerry Springer
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Ignorance Rules!
IMAX
IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs.
The film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," makes a connection between human DNA and microbes inside undersea volcanoes.
IMAX theaters in Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas have declined to show the film, said Pietro Serapiglia, who handles distribution for Stephen Low, the film's Montreal-based director and producer.
IMAX
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Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of the Ocean Futures Society, poses with a movie poster of his new film 'Sharks 3D' in Berlin on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 which will have it's premiere Wednesday night.
Photo by Fritz Reiss
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To Perform In Vietnam
Peter Yarrow
Pop singer and former anti-Vietnam war activist Peter Yarrow, from the band Peter, Paul and Mary, will perform in Hanoi next week at a charity concert, a statement said.
Yarrow, a songwriter, performer and social activist, will visit Vietnam for the first time to play on March 29 in Hanoi opera house. All proceeds will support the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange.
This mission's project is to "help establish safe, compassionate and nurturing environments for schoolchildren," the statement said.
Peter Yarrow
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'Error' Leads to Revote
'American Idol'
The 11 contestants left on Fox's reality hit "American Idol" are getting another shot at stardom.
Phone numbers that allowed viewers to pick their favorite contestant were incorrectly displayed during Tuesday's show, prompting a re-vote during the show scheduled to air Wednesday, the network said in a statement.
Phone lines will remain open for two hours following the episode, when another singer will be booted off this week by viewers. The contestant with the fewest votes goes home.
'American Idol'
That splash you hear is 'American Idol' jumping the shark...
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Donates $1M to Northwestern
Bob Barker
Bob Barker has donated $1 million to Northwestern University's School of Law to endow a course on animal rights law.
The Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights Law will allow students to earn credits on topics such as how humans interact with and use animals, species protection and international wildlife law, the school announced Tuesday.
Barker, the host of "The Price Is Right" and a longtime animal rights activist, has given similar funds in recent years to law schools at Duke, Stanford, Columbia and UCLA.
Bob Barker
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A Chinese youth works out next to a personal trainer, left, and the character of Ronald McDonald, right, on a tread mill with a Hamburger pasted at the front, during a media junket organized by Mcdonalds with Olympic Athletes as spokespeople, centered on a campaign to raise awarness of the need for physical activity, at a Bally Fitness Center in Beijing Wednesday March 23, 2005. Today, pockets of hunger exist among China's poorest. But most young urban Chinese have never gone hungry. KFC and McDonald's both have hundreds of restaurants in hundreds of cities. Just a decade ago, only one in 10 Chinese was overweight, with very few classified as obese. Estimates showed that by 2000, just under a third of all Chinese adults were overweight.
Photo by Elizabeth Dalziel
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Dubai Firm Buys Waxworks Museum
Madame Tussauds
Tussauds Group, home to the famous waxwork museums, was sold for 800 million pounds ($1.51 billion) to a private equity firm owned by the government of Dubai, the companies said on Wednesday.
Charterhouse Capital Partners, the buyout firm which owned Tussauds, agreed the sale to Dubai International Capital after its first attempt to sell the group fell through last year when bids came in below its threshold.
For Dubai International Capital, the deal is the second investment the private equity firm has made in 2005. In January it bought a $1 billion stake in DaimlerChrysler AG.
Madame Tussauds
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Russian Wing Nuts Make Trouble
Bolshoi
The stage is set for the opening of the Bolshoi theater's first new opera for 30 years on Wednesday, but Russian critics are branding it pornographic and conservatives want it banned before the curtain even goes up.
The scandal over "Rosenthal's Children" has nothing to do with its content since critics had not even read the text before they condemned it, but everything to do with the libretto's author Vladimir Sorokin and his past.
Sorokin provoked outrage with his 1999 novel "Blue Lard" because of a sex scene involving clones of Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Josef Stalin. While the opera has no link to the book, some say none of his work is fit for the historic Bolshoi.
The opera does feature more clones as it tells the story of a scientist who creates genetic copies of composers Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Verdi and Mozart who hang out with tramps and prostitutes.
Sorokin says the opera is not violent, pornographic or even erotic and was generally well-received at dress rehearsals.
Bolshoi
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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UK Libel Trial?
Ahnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger edged closer to facing a British libel trial on Wednesday after he failed to block a legal action brought a reporter who alleged the actor-turned-politician sexually assaulted her.
British television host Anna Richardson alleges she was libeled by the California governor and two of his campaign workers in a 2003 article over the assault claim.
On Wednesday, High Court judge David Eady upheld an earlier ruling that said legal papers could be legally served against Schwarzenegger in the United States and that he was "not peripheral" to the case.
Ahnold
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A portrait of deceased female U.S. Army soldier SPC Alyssa R. Peterson, of Flagstaff, Arizona, is part of a collection of portraits of more than 1,300 U.S. military men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan on display at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington Nation Cemetery, March 23, 2005. The exhibit, 'Faces of the Fallen,' contains work of nearly 200 artists who worked from pictures of the dead.
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Enters Rehab Again
Whitney Houston
A year after her first reported stay in rehab, Whitney Houston has again checked into a rehabilitation facility. "Whitney Houston has re-entered a rehabilitation facility today," her publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told The Associated Press Wednesday. She declined to provide details.
The news was first reported by syndicated entertainment TV show "Access Hollywood."
Houston, 41, has been working with producer Clive Davis on a comeback album.
Whitney Houston
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No-To-Bac, a colored relief print by American artist Maxfield Parrish dated late 19th century, is part of the new exhibit 'Quack, Quack, Quack' currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibit features prints, posters and pamphlets by accomplished artists who created advertisements for elixirs and gadgets that were central to medical quackery.
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Hyundai To Offer
XM Satellite Radio
Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it plans to offer XM Satellite Radio as standard equipment on all U.S. models around 2007, sending XM's share price up more than 5 percent.
Hyundai, the No. 7 automaker and one of the fastest growing brands, plans to put XM radios in 75 percent of its vehicles by the end of 2006, with remaining models following quickly and totaling 500,000 units by 2007.
Buyers of Hyundai's Sonata, Santa Fe, Elantra and other upcoming models will receive three free months of XM's service and will have an option thereafter of paying to keep the system active. XM's nationwide service offers more than 100 channels of music, sports, news and talk, most of them commercial free.
XM Satellite Radio
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Filipino penitents wearing colourful wooden masks and dressed as centurions walk down the streets in Mogpog town, in the Philippine island of Marinduque, March 23, 2005. The penitence, locally known as 'Moriones', is an annual ritual in the predominantly Roman Catholic country for residents to remember the suffering of Jesus Christ during Lent.
Photo by Erik de Castro
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Wanted In Vegas
Michael Jackson
What do Wayne Newton, Celine Dion and Michael Jackson have in common? If Donald Trump and his partners have their way, they all will have a resident performing gig in Las Vegas on their resumes.
Trump's Las Vegas partners have been courting Jackson to perform at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, Us Weekly magazine reports. New Frontier owner Phil Ruffin and partner Jack Wishna have reportedly spoken to representatives of Jackson about a long-term residency.
"There'd be moral clauses in the contract," Wishna told Us. He added that Jackson would draw more than the $80 million Dion grossed in 2004. Dion continues to perform at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Newton is touring the country.
Michael Jackson
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In Memory
Rod Price
Guitarist Rod Price, founding member of the blues boogie band Foghat, died Tuesday after falling down a stairway at his home, a family friend said. He was 57.
The London native's solos drove Foghat to three platinum and eight gold records during the band's quarter-century career. After many years of touring he settled in Wilton in 1994.
Many in town knew Price as a loving dad who never missed his son's baseball, soccer or basketball games. Fewer people knew of Price's musical background.
Price had played with Champion Jack Dupree, Duster Bennett, Eddie Kirkland, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon and Honey Boy Edwards.
In recent years, Price concentrated on his blues projects, cutting several CDs in past few years and giving private guitar lessons at his his home.
Rod Price
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U.S. horse Saratoga County gets a morning workout at Dubai's Nad al Sheba race track March 23, 2005. The $6-million Dubai World Cup, horse racing's richest single event, will be held on Saturday at the Nad al Sheba race course.
Photo by Anwar Mirza
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