BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 14 April, 2005
Thursday
14 April, 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
Time to Cheat Bunnypants
Tax time, boys and girls. Ah, yes, that time of year where you fork over dough to the Bush Family Evil Empire, so Bunnypants can blow it all on spending billions of dollars on another Viet Nam-style war. But if you have a subversive accountant, there are incredible hidden deductions and ways just to plainly cheat and not get caught. Look at it as getting even with our fool of a president.
Rich people have creative accountants where they shelter all their millions and never pay a dime, but the guy selling beer at the convenience store gets about 28% of his earnings taken away, then gets a refund since his earnings was held hostage for the fiscal year. That's why they're poor and the rich are rich. They know how to cheat. But they cheat legally. Here's one a fellow I know does every year. Check this out.
You want to open a used car dealership? $75.00 will get you a dealer's license and you can claim 100 square feet of your house as your office (check your state for specific details, but their all about the same). If anyone asks, your used car is for sale for 80,000 dollars. Bam, you're a car dealer. The oil and gas is also a notorious way to get away with tons of dough. Invest in an oil or natural gas well, and if you have a dry hole, then you deduct what you invested. Pretty cool, huh?
Even if your income is 20,000, don't take the standard EZ form. Deduct everything. There is one rule. You have to keep receipts for every purchase that could be applied to your car dealership. Toilet paper, coffee, computers, paper, postage (buy a meter for postage), paper towels, cleansers, gasoline, electric bills for the dealership, (I should say all utilities), anything a business can get away with as deductions, you can too, you used car dealer, you!!
I live in a state that has state income tax. It's a joke. You can rev up the used car and blow the state off completely. I can't really say what your state will allow, or you might live in a state that has no state tax. State workers can't even get you a driver's license without standing in line for five hours, they can't count either, so keep in mind you're a used car dealer, so apply all deductions that are applicable.
Charities! Tithing! Very difficult to get in trouble even if you get audited. No auditor wants to get into a morality argument with you. They're stepping on your religion and they usually don't want to question that kind of stuff. Just bring God into your conversation and the auditor will ease up. Thousand dollar suits to Goodwill! During tax time, find a dishonest Goodwill worker (slip him a twenty) and voila, the value of that single suit is a thousand bucks. Just get that receipt. If you're a churchgoer, deduct all your tithes. Multiply your tithes by five. That shouldn't raise any flags.
In closing, you have to look at taxes as an enemy, but fun, sort of like playing chess. The money you pay in is money that is spent on defense, while our schools don't have textbooks for the munchkins, where they are fed slop usually bidded to the cheapest "catering" biz . Fat is cheap, so our kids are fat. Fat, ignorant and illiterate isn't going to cut it while the Asian community and the Cuban community are academically blowing the socks off the WASPs in suburbia. The WASPs seem to have been so disillusioned with their peers and parents in suburban communities where dysfunctional families are churning out sick little people by the dozens, they're literally killing each other. Think of your tax as going straight to Rumsfeld and his cronies, you know, our War Criminals In Office. So cheat as much as you can. It's the only moral thing to do.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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National Library Week
April 10-16, 2005
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Nicholas Riccardi: Wages Lagging Behind Prices (LA Times)
For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut.
Paul Krugman: Ailing Health Care
(Click on "Columns," then on "Ailing Health Care.")
Those of us who accuse the administration of inventing a Social Security crisis are often accused, in return, of do-nothingism, of refusing to face up to the nation's problems. I plead not guilty ...
ROGER EBERT: Yojimbo (1961)
Almost the first thing the samurai sees when he arrives is a dog trotting down the main street with a human hand in its mouth.
Stress Management
What is Stress? Stress is the "wear and tear" our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative feelings.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny but cool day.
The school attendance clerk called around 9:30 - the kid wasn't feeling well, so he ended up back home & in bed for most of the day.
He slept for about 4 hours & then seemed pretty much 'healed'. I was particularly grateful the barf fairies didn't pay a visit.
When asked if he had been avoiding a test he said no - he had stayed long enough to take one in math.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Palau', followed by a FRESH 'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Anthony LaPaglia, Ana Gasteyer, and Mariah Carey.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Fran Drescher, Anton Yelchin, and Shooter Jennings.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'The Apprenctice', followed by a FRESH 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Farrah Fawcett, Gerard Butler, and the Killers.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are David Duchovny and Widespread Panic.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Charles Barkley and Joseph Arthur.
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 (from 3/22/05) are Andy Dick, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Louis XIV.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then an hour long compilation 'Blue Collar TV'.
Faux has a FRESH 'The O.C.', followed by a FRESH 'Tru Calling'.
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 'The Sands Of Iwo Jima', followed by the movie 'Hellfighters', then the movie 'The Green Berets'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 2;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - German Week;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'My Family '- Shrink Rap;
[4:40pm] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 2;
[5:20pm] 'Coupling' - The Naked Living Rooms;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - May;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Intermission;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[10pm] 'Shameless' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[12:00am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Intermission;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[2am] 'Shameless' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Intermission;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[5am] 'Shameless' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', yet another 'West Wing', and a FRESH 'Project Greenlight'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Dave Attell), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Otis Lee Crenshaw), 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Hollow Men'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is David Duchovny.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Last Days Of WWII', 'Band Of Brothers' (part 7 of 10), and 'Band Of Brothers' (part 8 of 10).
IFC -
[6AM] 'Life Tastes Good' (1999);
[7:30AM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[8AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003);
[8:45AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[9:45AM] 'Jane Eyre' (1996);
[11:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[12PM] 'When The Cats Away' (1996);
[1:45PM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[2:15PM] 'You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[3:45PM] Short: 'Ghost Of F. Scott Fitzgerald' (2002);
[4PM] 'Alice et Martin' (1998);
[6:15PM] 'Gray's Anatomy' (1997);
[7:35PM] 'You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[9PM] 'The Last Waltz' (1978);
[11PM] 'The Funeral' (1996);
[12:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[1AM] 'Life Tastes Good' (1999);
[2:30AM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[3AM] 'The Funeral' (1996);
[4:45AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #105' (2005);
[5:15AM] 'Film School #3' (2004);
[5:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Snakehead Terror', followed by the movie 'Snake King'.
Sundance -
[7:05AM] 'The Long Goodbye' (Feature);
[9AM] 'Abused and Catholic' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'Detective Fiction' (Feature);
[11:45AM] 'The Tune' (Feature);
[1PM] 'The Hours' (Feature);
[3PM] 'Persons of Interest' (Feature);
[4:05PM] 'The Long Goodbye' (Feature);
[6PM] 'Since Otar Left' (Feature);
[7:40PM] 'No Problem' (Short);
[8PM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 3&4' (Documentary);
[9:35PM] 'Detective Fiction' (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'What Alice Found' (Feature);
[1:05AM] 'MacArthur Park' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 3&4' (Documentary);
[4:15AM] 'Ali: Fear Eats The Soul' (Feature);
[5:50AM] 'Persons of Interest' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM pays tribute to Lee Tracy
(today would have been his 107th birthday), an incredible actor who created a minor international incident by getting drunk then urinating on a passing military parade in Mexico while filming Viva Villa! in 1934, that not only got him fired from the picture, but also effectively killed his career.
[6:15am] 'Blessed Event' (1932);
[7:45am] 'The Strange Love Of Molly Louvain' (1932);
[9am] 'Clear All Wires' (1933);
[10:30am] 'Turn Back The Clock' (1933);
[12pm] 'Wanted: Jane Turner' (1936);
[1:15pm] 'Criminal Lawyer' (1937);
[2:30pm] 'Fixer Dugan' (1939);
[3:45pm] 'Millionaires In Prison' (1940);
[5pm] 'Becky Sharp' (1935);
[6:30pm] 'God's Country And The Woman' (1936);
[8pm] 'House Of Wax' (1953);
[10pm] 'It Came From Outer Space' (1953);
[11:30pm] 'Kiss Me Kate' (1953);
[1:30am] 'Son Of Sinbad' (1955);
[3:15am] 'The French Line' (1954);
[5am] 'Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies' (2000). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 04/15
TCM salutes more April Fools starting with 2 films featuring
Norris Goff and
Chester Lauck, who were collectively referred to as 'Lum & Abner', followed by 4 films with
Wally Brown, and then spends the better part of the afternoon & night with
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello.
[6am] 'Two Weeks to Live' (1943);
[7:30am] 'So This Is Washington (1943);
[9am] 'Seven Days Ashore' (1944);
[10:30am] 'Adventures of a Rookie' (1943);
[11:45am] 'Rookies In Burma' (1944);
[1pm] 'Girl Rush' (1944);
[2:15pm] 'Africa Screams' (1949);
[3:45pm] 'Abbott And Costello In Hollywood' (1945);
[5:15pm] 'Abbott And Costello In The Foreign Legion' (1950);
[6:45pm] 'Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd' (1952);
[8pm] 'Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man' (1951);
[9:30pm] 'Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy' (1955);
[11pm] 'Buck Privates' (1941);
[12:30am] 'The Time Of Their Lives' (1946);
[2am] 'The Ladykillers' (1955);
[4am] 'Always Leave Them Laughing' (1949). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Members of the Destiny's Child, from left, Kelly Rowland, Beyonce Knowles, and Michelle Williams, donate coins to a 'Get Well Soon' box at the Donald McDonald House in Setagaya, Tokyo, Wednesday, April 13, 2005. The popular R&B group paid a goodwill visit to the house, a boarding house for ailing children and their families, as part of the McDonald World Children's Day charity.
Photo by Itsuo Inouye
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Fourth of July Picnic
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson is returning to Fort Worth for his Fourth of July picnic - and he's bringing Bob Dylan with him. His 32nd annual picnic will be at the 27-acre North Forty concert field, just east of Billy Bob's Texas. Last year's concert at the same site drew 19,000 people.
Los Lonely Boys will perform, and about 20 more acts will be announced over the next month.
This year's picnic will honor the memory of Rick Smith of Fort Worth-based Smith Music Group, who died in August of complications from a heart attack.
Willie Nelson
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Family Gets Home Makeover
Lori Piestewa
The family of Spc. Lori Piestewa, the first woman killed in the war in Iraq, is getting a new home courtesy of ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
Piestewa's parents and two children, ages 5 and 6, live in a trailer home in the Navajo community of Tuba City, but ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will build them a new home in Flagstaff.
The show usually tears down the existing home and builds something in its place, but the Piestewas don't own the trailer they live in now and told producers they wanted to move to Flagstaff, said Eric Snider, vice president of sales and marketing for Shea Homes, which is sponsoring the building effort.
Crews will begin excavating the site Thursday; the Piestewa episode is scheduled to air as the season finale May 22.
Lori Piestewa
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Actor Paul Newman and actress Julia Roberts are shown during a taped interview with ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer broadcast on 'Good Morning America' April 13, 2005. They discussed an upcoming benefit and charity auction for Newmans's non-profit 'Hole in the Wall Camp' which provide a social and camp environment for seriously ill children. The benefit will take place in New York City April 21.
Photo by Ida Mae Astute
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Says Bush Policies Help Terrorism
Salman Rushdie
The Bush administration helps the cause of Islamic terrorism by failing to engage in serious dialogue with the international community, author Salman Rushdie said on Tuesday.
"What I think plays into Islamic terrorism is ... the curious ability of the current administration to unite people against it," Rushdie told Reuters in an interview.
Rushdie said he found it striking how the "colossal sympathy" the world felt for the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been squandered so quickly.
"It seems really remarkable that the moment you leave America ... you find not just America's natural enemies, but America's natural allies talking in language more critical than I, in my life, have ever heard about the United States," he said.
"It's really important at this particular moment in the history of the world that ordinary American people should get as broad a sense of how the world is thinking."
Salman Rushdie
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Ladies Launch New Charity
'Clothes Off Our Covers'
The ladies of Wysteria Lane left the kids, the hunks and the neighborhood to launch a new charity, "Clothes Off Our Covers."
One of the items to be auctioned is the Versace dress Teri Hatcher wore on her cover shoot for InStyle magazine, which hits newsstands in May. But it was a spill-all article in the current "Vanity Fair," claiming the ladies are more hysteria than Wysteria, that dominated talk on the red carpet.
"Housewives" co-star Nicolette Sheridan took time to explain the details behind the new charity, which is an offshoot of the Clothes Off Our Backs campaign earlier this year, where stars auctioned off the outfits they wore to award shows.
'Clothes Off Our Covers'
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Gives $100M to MoMA
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, chairman emeritus at the Museum of Modern Art, has made a $100 million pledge to its endowment, the largest cash gift the museum has ever received.
Rockefeller, 89, said the gift was aimed at enhancing public programs at the MoMA, which has just completed an $858 million expansion. The museum will receive the money after his death, but he will give it $5 million a year as though the money were already being invested.
David Rockefeller
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This undated illustration released by George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens on Tuesday, April 12, 205, shows the differences in President George Washington's face as he aged. This computer model, by the Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling, shows Washington's face in his 50's, represented by the the gray sculpture underneath. The longer chin represented by the black lines shows Washington's face looked in his 40's. Computer images will be used to develop realistic life-size models of the Founding Father at various stages of his life for a new exhibit at Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.
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To Host Show on Sirius
Bill Bradley
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on Wednesday said former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley will host and create American Voices, a talk show that will launch in May on Sirius Talk Central.
The weekly show will feature stories, personalities and opinions from America and the world.
Bill Bradley
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Seek Gay, Lesbian Audiences
3 New Networks
Three new TV networks catering to gay and lesbian viewers are trying to establish themselves and all say they support one another - at least publicly.
Competition breeds interest and shows doubters the business is viable, said Frank Olsen, president of the Q Television Network. He once applied the same theory when he owned four gay and lesbian bars near each other in Seattle.
Sure to be the most visible is MTV Networks' Logo, scheduled to start as a basic cable network on June 30. Q and Here are both pay services operating now and available to a limited number of viewers.
For a lot more, 3 New Networks
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Honored In France
Bruce Willis
France honored American movie star Bruce Willis Wednesday, making him an officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the country's top awards for cultural achievement.
Willis, 50, thanked both France and the minister for what he called a "great, great honor."
The actor, who does not speak French, read from a script during his brief speech but still managed to make some grammatical slip-ups.
He concluded by saying, "Vive la France!"
Bruce Willis
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Religiouos Insanity
Gerhard Haderer
An appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction of Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer for blasphemy over a comic book portraying Jesus as a marijuana-moking hippie.
Haderer, 54, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence in January for "maliciously insulting the Orthodox Church" and his book The Life of Jesus was banned in Greece - causing protests from European human-ights groups and other cartoonists.
The book, published in several European countries, portrays Jesus as a hippie surfer who enjoys smoking marijuana with friends and celebrities including Jimi Hendrix.
Gerhard Haderer
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A fibreglass head of scientist Albert Einstein is delivered to the Science Museum in London, Tuesday April 13, 2005, ahead a new exhibition: 'Move Over Einstein: The Next Generation Is Here' which opens to the public on Saturday.
Photo by Fiona Hanson
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Sanity Prevails
Arizona
Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have allowed pharmacists to refuse to provide abortion-related medications if doing so conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs.
Napolitano, who supports abortion rights, said in her veto letter to lawmakers that pharmacies and other health care providers "have no right to interfere with the lawful personal medical decisions made by patients and their doctors."
Arizona
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To Be Honored
Merv Griffin
Who is ... Merv Griffin? The "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" creator will be honored by the Museum of Television & Radio at its annual New York gala on May 26. The gala will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
Griffin, 79, began as a 19-year-old radio singer. His pseudo-Cockney interpretation of "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" sold 3 million copies in 1950.
He was often a substitute host on the "Tonight Show" before Johnny Carson took over, and later had his own long-running talk show.
Merv Griffin
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Unpublished Poem Found
Tennessee Williams
A previously unpublished poem by Tennessee Williams, described as having been "written out of absolute, complete despair," has been discovered in his blue test booklet from a college course in 1937.
The 17-line poem, titled "Blue Song," has been acquired by Washington University in St. Louis, where Williams, as a student in his mid-20s, plummeted into depression before fleeing the city he said he despised.
Williams left Washington University - and St. Louis - over his humiliation with the reception of "Me, Vashya" and because he was failing Greek. Williams also spent unhappy times here because of familial infighting and dysfunction that Schvey said formed the crucible for his best work. Williams later acknowledged his formative years in St. Louis profoundly shaped his writing.
Tennessee Williams
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An Afghan man rides his motorcycle past the remains of the Giant Buddha destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001 in central Bamiyan province March 30, 2005. Today the ruins, along with other historical sites in scenic Bamiyan, Afghanistan's cultural heart, may just provide a lifeline for this impoverished province.
Photo by Ahmad Masood
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Cancels Nightly News Program
BET
BET canceled its "Nightly News," saying it instead will offer news briefs throughout the day, specials about newsworthy events and an urban affairs show, "The Cousin Jeff Chronicles," that will run four times a year.
Robert Johnson, founder of the leading cable channel for black viewers, said the change does not represent a lessening of BET's news commitment. He said it would improve how BET offers news.
BET
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Wisconsin Governor Rejects Idea
Cat-Hunting
A proposal to legalize the killing of feral cats is not going to succeed, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday.
"I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats," said Doyle, a Democrat who neither hunts nor owns a cat. "What it does is sort of hold us up as a state that everybody is kind of laughing at right now."
He told reporters his office had received calls from around the country denouncing a proposal adopted Monday at meetings of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, a public advisory group, that would classify wild, free-roaming cats as an unprotected species that kills song birds and other wildlife.
Cat-Hunting
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British rock singer Rod Stewart's underwear is displayed at a charity fundraiser in Sydney, Australia April 13, 2005. The underwear is one of 30 pairs signed by celebrities that will be auctioned to raise money for testicular cancer treatment and research.
Photo by David Gray
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Suit Filed
Alex Trebek
A woman has sued "Jeopardy!" TV quiz show host Alex Trebek in connection with the disappearance of a $100,000 broodmare she delivered to his central California horse breeding farm.
The lawsuit demands that Trebek and Creston Farms return the mare named BeBe Trando, or reimburse the woman, Marion Warner, for her loss plus damages and legal fees.
Warner sent BeBe Trando to Trebek's 700-acre (280-hectare) facility in Paso Robles on Jan. 21 to be bred to Trebek's stallion, Iron Cat, court filings say.
On Feb. 24, Creston Farms staff called to tell her the horse would be bred the next day. Then on March 2, the farm's manager informed her the horse had become sick during the night and had to be euthanized.
The suit says she later learned that the veterinarian who had supposedly put down the horse had not euthanized any horses at Creston Farms the day that BeBe Trando was said to have died, or in the previous week.
Alex Trebek
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For Special Interests
Special Rules
Tribune Co. on Wednesday received a temporary waiver from federal regulators to own a Hartford, Connecticut, newspaper and an area television station through early 2007, despite a ban on cross-ownership.
The Federal Communications Commission granted the media company permission to own the Hartford Courant newspaper and the Waterbury, Connecticut, television station WTXX, which serves the area, until the broadcaster's license comes up for renewal in April 2007.
Special Rules
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In Memory
Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like "Roll Over Beethoven" and "No Particular Place to Go," died Wednesday. He was 80.
Johnson died at his St. Louis home. The cause of death was not immediately known, said publicist Margo Lewis. He had been hospitalized a month ago with pneumonia and was on dialysis for a kidney ailment, said John May, a friend and fellow musician.
Though he was never a household name, Johnson and Berry's long collaboration helped define early rock 'n' roll. Johnson often composed the music on piano, then Berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics. In fact, Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was a tribute to Johnson.
After he and Berry parted ways, Johnson performed with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley, among others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 in the "sidemen" category.
Johnson was born in Fairmont, W.Va., and began playing piano at 4. He moved to Chicago after World War II, where he played jazz and blues in clubs. He moved to St. Louis in the early 1950s, forming his own R&B band, the Johnnie Johnson Trio.
When a band member became ill on New Year's Eve 1952, Johnson hired Berry to fill in.
Johnson and Berry parted ways in the early 1970s, and in 2000, Johnson sued Berry, seeking a share of royalties and proper credit for what Johnson said were more than 50 songs the men composed together. A federal judge dismissed the suit in 2002, ruling that too many years had passed since the disputed songs were written.
The lawsuit contended that Berry took advantage of Johnson's alcoholism, misleading him into believing that only Berry was entitled to own the copyrights "and reap the monetary benefits."
Johnson is survived by his wife, 10 children and several grandchildren.
Johnnie Johnson
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A bright pink butterfly orchid is displayed at the 2005 Taiwan International Orchid Exhibition in the southern county of Tainan on April 11, 2005. Taiwan says it is the world's biggest producer of orchids, a perennial plant famed for its exotic flower and sophisticated pollination mechanism.
Photo by Richard Chung
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