BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 21 April, 2005
Thursday
21 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
Bolton as a Diplomat
Bush rears his ugly brain once again as he nominates this numbnuts Bolton dude. What was Bush thinking? He just got back from bullshitting all the foreign leaders and diplomats on his world wide tour saying America is going to be this wonderful cooperative nation with our foreign allies, and then: BAM, Bush nominates a guy who dislikes, or just doesn't understand diplomacy as a concept at any place or any time or at any level. Good move there, George. I'd bet a thousand I could beat George W. at a game of chess, and I'm no Einstein.
To be Ambassador to the United Nations, you need a man who has a diplomatic style to his personality. From past statements, and from statements of junior staff and statements from even the upper echelon in which he was a subordinate, he seems to have a very offensive type of personality who has contempt for the organization he is nominated to be liaison. The guy is a loose cannon. Bush reared his ugly intelligence and somehow yanked John Bolton from the few synapses that reside in the mainly gray jello that sits between his ears.
One poll I saw said that 66% of the United States think this is the wrong guy for this position of ambassador. I wonder where were these people during the national election of 2004. If a nation picks a stupid man to lead, stupid decisions will follow. But, the right wing wanted their brand of morality in the White House, the type where you are lied to in order to start a fiasco of a war.
I mean, Bolton has come down really hard on the UN He recently excoriated UN General Secretary Kofi Annan for trying to limit warfare and to establish the supremacy of UN forces in occupied territories. So he's already butting heads with the leader of the UN Where is the type of thinking that would lead Bunnypants to nominate this take no prisoners type of guy? It lies in George's brain jello somewhere, maybe left side jello thinking.
His past staff all hate his guts. One staffer of his called him a "serial abuser." The guy doesn't want any sort of dialogue with North Korea. He was on the Taiwan payroll in the past, trying to get them status into the UN and other funky horseshit with Nicaragua and the Contras. He has a horrible reputation as a bully. Way to choose an appropriate nominee, Georgie. You dumbshit.
The vote will go down on April 27th. Senator Christopher Dodd wants him to appear again before the Foreign Relations Committee for more questioning. The Democrats are fighting, but they're out numbered. The way it stands at present, Democrats are not strong enough to kill the nomination. They are outnumbered 10-8 in the Foreign Relations Committee and don't have any clear-thinking Republicans. It looks like the most hideous choice of a man to be ambassador to an organization who we blew off when we invaded Iraq will get the sensitive position.
"Disturbing style," "kiss up-kick down type of guy," these are descriptions of this scumbag nominee from past colleagues. Let's be comforted with the infamous ultra-right wing ideological racist Jesse Helms' endorsement as follows, and I quote : "John Bolton is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, if it should be my lot to be on hand for what is forecast to be the final battle between good and evil in this world." Why must we suffer these fools? Three fucking per cent put this madness back into power. It's looking more bleak by the day. By the way, the new Pope was a Nazi. Maybe this is a sign Armageddon is around the corner.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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ALIEN BEING
IS BLOOMING OUT MY WINDOW
"LIQUID AMBER" POD
Zen Man
(in the Garden of East Oakland)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency (Common Dreams)
What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?
BOB HERBERT: A Radical in the White House
Last week - April 12, to be exact - was the 60th anniversary of the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lisa Rowe Fraustino: Robber Barons in the Junk Mail (Common Dreams)
What fun. I just got off the phone with someone at MBNA, the credit card issuer that "earned 1.5 times more profit than McDonalds in 2004."
John Threlfall: Why I'm Not Afraid of the End of the World (Monday Magazine)
Not so long ago, we were hearing a lot about Generation X-their aimlessness, unfulfilled potential, and overall lack of faith in the future.
An Excerpt from the Newest Princess Diaries Book: Princess in Training
I do not think I am ready to TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF in front of Michael. It is bad enough taking them off in front of Lana Weinberger in the locker room first thing in the morning. I don't think I could ever take them off in front of a BOY.
Ann Coulter Lies
Weekly Reader
The Vast Left-Wing Consiracy: Cartoon
FDR Cartoons
I Drew This
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Freshly Updated
Sick Of This Crap!
Taxes are done, and as of the 16th, I'm back to being a liberal.
This week's stories:
* Bill Frist, pushing the pendulum of the public political zeitgeist to its outer limit
* Anti-Choice battles at your Corner Drug Store
* Donald on How not to Politicize the Military
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Another Rant
Avery Ant
THE ALPHABET OF LIFE
FROM ARRIVAL TO ZOMBIE
LIFE SUMMED UP IN 26 LINES
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The Wall Street Poet
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay seems to be in some trouble these day. How very sad...
The Tom DeLay Poem
They all know my name today,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
I dictate and they obey,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
With this Congress I can play,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Play it the old Texas way,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
I ain't just no old boy hick,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
I know ev'ry dirty trick,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Jump my hoops and do it quick,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
You don't want to cross me, Slick,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Let me make this crystal clear,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Enemies I will not spare,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Anything to win is fair,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Work with me or live with fear,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay,
The Controller, Tom DeLay.
©2005
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For more satirical verse:
www.wallstreetpoet.com
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Purple Gene Reviews
'The Linda McCartney Story'
Purple Genes' review of the made for TV Movie "The Linda McCartney Story" (2000) and directed by Armand Mastroianni (TV series.."Friday the 13th" - "Virus" - "The Dead Zone").
I went to see Paul McCartney at the Shoreline Theater in Mt. View, California late last year. I had VIP passes and sat right behind Paul McCartneys' present wife Heather. I remember the look on her face when she watched Paul sing a schlocky little love song with Tony Bennett….she just loved it…and so did I….I wonder if she ever got a chance to see the made for TV movie "The Linda McCartney Story" Well it was playing on the Lifetime Movie Network last Sunday Night (the anniversary of Linda's death) and WOW…what a waste….
The year is 1967 and the Beatles are recording their "Sergeant Pepper" album and a well-to-do daughter of a lawyer, Linda Eastman, has been assigned a low paying job to go over to London and photograph the "Fab Four"…..as all LMN made for TV movies are based on real life events, this was truly a travesty of the TRUTH….and a severe stretch of cinema…..
Well, it's love at first sight when Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell - "Gia" - "Nurse Betty" - "The Beast") sees Paul (Gary Bakewell - "Backbeat" (as Paul McCartney) - "Neverwhere" - "Man and Boy") standing at a bar with the BOYS…..of course Linda comes into their world of music just as John Lennon (Tim Piper) has fallen for Yoko Ono (Linda Ko) and (seemingly because of Yoko) the Beatles are about to break up…what follows is the phony fairy tale story of Paul and Linda's life together…through all the trial and tribulations and the catch phrase "Some Love Affairs Never Die". Since nobody in real life would have anything to do with this film…everyone involved was played by a TV actor:
George Harrison - Chris Cound
Ringo Starr - Michael McMurtry
Lee Eastman (Linda's Dad) - George Segal
Mick Jagger - Matthew Harrison
Keith Richards - Claude Duhamel
Bill Wyman - Mitchell Parsons
Brian Jones - Rafe McDonald
Charlie Watts - Vince Flueck
Chrissy Hynde - Jane Sowerby
Dr. Bone Marrow - Barry W. Levy
And the list goes on…….There was no real approved soundtrack with Beatles music Blaring…..no real photos or video clips of the Fab Four…but there was disgusting dialogue and dumb direction …and asinine british accents.
I watched till the bitter end where Linda ends up dying of cancer and there is a moment in the movie where Linda says "I don't want my fans (her vegetarian food business) to know I'm dying because I've told them that if they don't eat meat they won't get cancer"!! She never said this…what a bunch of horse shit…and I didn't really didn't like Linda McCartney that much, but I found this version of her actually making me feel sorry for her …UGH….Why didn't Paul stop this movie from being made ???????
Purple Gene give "The Linda McCartney Story" 1 phony "love will last forever" TEAR out of 10 for trying too hard to squeeze emotion out of a Turnip…which is what this movie IS!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly sunny & cool - was nearly 20° warmer in NYC than Long Beach.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Palau', followed by a FRESH 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 4/5/05) are Drew Barrymore and Charles Barkley.
On a RERUN Craig (from 4/5/05) are Michael Clarke Duncan, Mary McCormack, and Becky Pedigo.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Joey', followed by a FRESH 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'The Apprentice', followed by a FRESH 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Sen. Bob Dole (R-Viagra), Karolina Kurkova, and Tori Amos.
On a RERUN Conan (from 11/26/04) are Colin Farrell, Craig Bierko, and Sparta.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Regina King and the Music.
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 4/8/05) are Sara Rue, Charlie O'Connell, and Dizzee Rascal.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Blue Collar TV', followed by a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then another RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', followed by yet another RERUN '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 'In The Heat Of The Night', followed by the movie 'G.I. Jane', then the movie 'Predator'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 3;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Top Hats and Tails;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;
[4pm] 'My Family' - Desperately Squeaking Susan;
[4:40pm] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 3;
[5:20pm] 'Coupling' - 9 1/2 Months;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Page;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
[10pm] 'Shameless' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[12am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
[2am] 'Shameless' - Episode 4;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - It's the Arts;
[5am] 'Shameless' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', still another 'West Wing', and a FRESH 'Project Greenlight'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Mike Britt), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Nick Swardson), 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Hollow Men'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Reza Aslan.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'NBAs Top Ten Greatest', and 'Godfathers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Ugetsu' (1953);
[8AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[9AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[9:15AM] 'Alice et Martin' (1998);
[11:30AM] 'You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[1PM] 'The Legend of 1900' (1998);
[3:15PM] 'Jane Eyre' (1996);
[5:15PM] 'You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[6:35PM] 'The Legend of 1900' (1998);
[8:45PM] 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' (1994);
[10:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #105' (2005);
[11PM] 'American History X' (1998);
[1AM] 'Dream With The Fishes' (1997);
[2:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[3AM] 'American History X' (1998);
[5AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi fills the night with 'The Odyssey'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'Salt' (Feature);
[8:30AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Stander' (Original Production);
[9AM] 'Swimming' (Feature);
[10:30AM] 'A Place Called Chiapas' (Documentary);
[12:10PM] 'Coffee With Pina' (Short);
[12:30PM] 'Palookaville' (Feature);
[2:05PM] 'Alchemy' (Feature);
[3:40PM] 'Lonelyland' (Short);
[4PM] 'Shorts Program 119' (Short);
[5PM] 'Salt' (Feature);
[6:30PM] 'Swimming' (Feature);
[8PM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 5&6' (Documentary);
[9:40PM] 'Mother of an Attitude' (Short);
[10PM] 'Pulp Fiction' (Feature);
[12:35AM] 'The Long Good Friday' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'The Staircase: Chapters 5&6' (Documentary);
[4:15AM] 'Palookaville' (Feature);
[5:50AM] 'frankly caroline' (Short). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM devotes the morning & afternoon to celebrating
Anthony Quinn, who would have been 90 today.
[6am] 'Ride, Vaquero!' (1953);
[8am] 'Guns For San Sebastian' (1968);
[10am] 'The Shoes of the Fisherman' (1968);
[1pm] 'Private Screenings: Anthony Quinn' (1999);
[2pm] 'La Strada' (1954);
[4pm] 'Lust For Life' (1956);
[6:30pm] 'Requiem For A Heavyweight' (1962);
[8pm] 'The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer' (1935);
[10pm] 'The Sundowners' (1960);
[12:30am] 'Second Chance' (1953);
[2am] 'No Way Out' (1950);
[4am] 'The Bedford Incident' (1965). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 04/22
TCM celebrates more April Fools with
Bert Wheeler and
Robert Woolsey in the morning,
followed by 2 from
Harry Ritz,
Al Ritz, and
Jimmy Ritz - collectively known as 'The Ritz Brothers' in the afternoon, and then goes on the road with
Bing and
Bob, and like Webster's Dictionary, they're Moroccan bound.
[6am] 'The Cuckoos' (1930);
[7:45am] 'Cracked Nuts' (1931);
[9am] 'Girl Crazy' (1932);
[10:15am] 'Hips, Hips, Hooray' (1934);
[11:30am] 'Kentucky Kernels' (1935);
[12:45pm] 'High Flyers' (1938);
[2pm] 'The Gorilla' (1939);
[3:15pm] 'Straight, Place, and Show' (1938);
[5pm] 'Road to Singapore' (1940);
[6:30pm] 'Road to Morocco' (1942);
[8pm] 'Road to Zanzibar' (1941);
[10pm] 'The Road to Utopia' (1946);
[12am] 'Road to Bali' (1953);
[2am] 'Davy' (1957);
[3:30am] 'East Side Kids' (1940);
[4:45am] 'Clancy Street Boys' (1943). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Anderson Cooper, left, and Jon Stewart arrive at the celebration for Time magazine's annual '100 most influential people' issue in New York City Tuesday, April 19, 2005.
Photo by John Smock
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Creates Free Speech Scholarship
Michael Moore
Maverick film-maker Michael Moore on Wednesday announced a "freedom of speech" scholarship for students at a Southern California university who defy the administration and stand up for student rights.
Moore, whose popular documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" helped polarize America in the run-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential elections, established the $2,500 award for students attending California State University San Marcos.
Moore was barred from an October 2004 speaking engagement at the university, about 35 miles north of San Diego, because there was not enough time to arrange for a speaker from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Students responded by organizing their own protest and holding a 10,000-strong rally and concert at an off-campus venue where folk singer Joan Baez performed and Moore gave a speech.
The scholarship will be awarded to two students, for a minimum of four years, who have done the most to fight for issues of student rights by standing up to the Cal State San Marcos administration, Moore said.
Michael Moore
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Judge Judy Sheindlin (L) and Britain's Dame Edna Everage pose outside of the Tony Danza Show studio with a puppy from the North Shore Animal League in New York City April 19, 2005. The two were promoting April as Tour for Life month when dogs and cats, puppies and kittens are available for adoption all across the country.
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New London Play Fetes Activist
Rachel Corrie
A new play tracing the journey of Rachel Corrie from comfortable American home to death in a Gaza refugee camp paints the young peace activist as neither a traitor nor a saint.
The 23-year-old campaigner was killed in 2003 trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home in the Rafah camp in the Gaza strip. A personal testimony, the show makes no pretence of impartiality.
But far from being a political rant, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," directed by British actor Alan Rickman, paints a personal portrait, using Corrie's emails and diaries to reveal a poetic writer brimming with ideas, energy and quirky humor.
Rachel Corrie
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Selling House and Condominium
Anne Rice
Anne Rice's house in Kenner and a condominium she owns are up for sale.
Rice, who brought the undead back to life in the 1970s with "Interview With the Vampire," is editing the galleys of her latest novel, "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," said her New Orleans spokesman, Ross Tafaro.
Her new book is "fiction based on Biblical scholarship," he said recently.
Tafaro said Rice has moved to San Diego to be near her son, Chris Rice.
Anne Rice
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Estate Items to Be Sold
Marilyn Monroe
Over 200 personal and professional items from the estate of Marilyn Monroe will be put up for auction in June. Stored for 43 years, the items include her Joe DiMaggio divorce papers, her personal phone directory and an original watercolor painting Monroe made and inscribed to President Kennedy for his birthday.
The actress died in August 1962 before giving the painting of a rose to Kennedy.
Items in the auction also include her 1956 application to a New York City court to change her name from Norma Jean Mortenson to Marilyn Monroe and a pearl gray silk dress she wore in the 1960 film "Let's Make Love."
Marilyn Monroe
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Television and radio host Ryan Seacrest (bottom) poses with 'American Idol' television show judges (L-R) Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson, after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, April 20, 2005.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
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One More Posthumous Album
Tupac Shakur
Afeni Shakur, mother of slain rap star, Tupac Shakur, has announced that in addition to a spoken word project, there will be one more album of previously unreleased material from the late rapper. The untitled project will be released next year. MTV.com reports that Shakur is currently renovating the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation's Peace Memorial Garden And Visitors Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Shakur said, "When Tupac died, the first year and afterward, we thought the way to celebrate him was to have concerts and events every June in Georgia. And after we spent so much money and only affected the people right there, we decided we'd build a foundation and work with young people on an ongoing basis."
Each summer, the foundation hosts a performing arts camp for children from troubled homes. The foundation, which sits on nine acres, is slated to reopen on June 10 -- six days before what would have been the rap star's 34th birthday, June 16.
Shakur, who plans to add a life-size sculpture of Tupac to the foundation's garden next year, added, "This year, Tupac would've been 34 years old. He died when he'd just made 25. I perceive a crisis in young people and I want to share my concern. The most important thing for young people is to stay alive."
Tupac Shakur
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British Book of Year
'Da Vinci Code'
Dan Brown's best seller, "The Da Vinci Code" has been named Britain's book of the year.
Other winners at Wednesday's awards ceremony included former president Bill Clinton whose autobiography, "My Life," won biography of the year.
British actress Sheila Hancock was named author of the year, for her book, "The Two of Us: My Life With John Thaw," a frank account of her marriage to the late Thaw, also an actor.
'Da Vinci Code'
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Loses Case Against Disney
Franck Le Calvez
A French children's book author who claimed Disney's blockbuster Finding Nemo copied a fish of his creation, was convicted of fraud Wednesday and ordered to pay about $80,000 US in damages and legal fees.
Franck Le Calvez had argued that the lovable title character in Finding Nemo was based on his smiling orange-white clown fish named Pierrot.
He had already lost one legal battle last March when a court ruled that the two fish were similar - both have big smiles and sport three stripes down the side - but that their similarities were not enough to confuse people.
The court ruled that Nemo had existed before Pierrot and that Le Calvez was aware of the Disney character when he created his own.
Franck Le Calvez
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Dr. Andrew Weil arrives at Tives at Time magazine's 100 most influential people dinner in New York City, April 19, 2005. The special issue of the magazine was published April 11th.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
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Missouri Man Spits
Jane Fonda
A man spit tobacco juice into the face of actress Jane Fonda after waiting in line to have her sign her new book, police said.
The man ran off but was quickly caught by police Tuesday night and charged with disorderly conduct.
Capt. Rich Lockhart of the Kansas City Police Department said that although Fonda did not want to press charges against Michael A. Smith, 54, of Kansas City, he was arrested on a municipal charge of disorderly conduct after off-duty officers caught him just outside Unity Temple, where Fonda was signing books.
Smith, a Vietnam veteran, told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday that Fonda was a "traitor" and that her protests against the war were unforgivable. He said he normally does not chew tobacco but did so Tuesday solely to spit juice on the actress.
Jane Fonda
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A visitor takes a close look at a composition named 'Timepiece,' in the form of the mechanical dragonfly by a Russian artist Nikolai Syadristy at Moscow's polytechnic museum, April 20, 2005. The head of the dragonfly is clockwork driven by two electric motors.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin
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Sign Extensive Multimedia Deal
Army & ESPN
Army and ESPN have reached a five-year multimedia agreement, guaranteeing live television coverage of every Black Knights home football game to fans and troops around the world.
Under the agreement announced Wednesday, all games at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y., and select neutral-site games in which Army is the home team will be available on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ESPNU, its new college sports station. ESPNU also will offer coverage of seven additional men's or women's Army athletic events a year.
In order to maximize exposure, Army will play at least one game a year on Thursday or Friday, and potentially two contests in Saturday prime-time.
Army & ESPN
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Thomas The Tank Engine has been making tracks to great destinations for 60 years, but no Thomas journey was more fulfilling than this one April 20, 2005 at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, where Thomas helped make Lukas Jira's (Canton, Michigan) dreams come true. Lukas, diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), was sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation to attend the Day Out With Thomas 2005: The Celebration Tour as the 'Honorary 3 Millionth Day Out With Thomas Passenger.' The avid Thomas fan helped engineer the beloved train engine out of the station's roundhouse as part of his wish. 2005 marks the 60th Anniversary for the introduction of The Railway Series, the classic storybooks of Thomas & Friends, as well as the 10th Anniversary of the Day Out With Thomas tour.
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Officer To Be Reprimanded
Emmanuel Lewis
A police officer will be reprimanded for not giving a speeding ticket to former child television star Emmanuel Lewis after he was clocked driving 25 mph over the posted speed limit while towing a trailer loaded with an sports utility vehicle.
Lewis, the former star of the '80s television series "Webster," got off with only a verbal warning when he gave his autograph and posed for a photo with the police officer and the police chief in this southwest Georgia town. Lewis, who now lives in the Atlanta area, was clocked driving through town at 70 mph in a 45 mph zone.
Although police officers can use discretion in issuing tickets, the Warwick City Council concluded Tuesday that Officer Ron Kirk's actions were improper. The council ordered that the officer receive a written reprimand and that the police chief review his department's policies on giving verbal warnings.
Emmanuel Lewis
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Hani, left, and Paji, Brookfield Zoo's new shaggy sloth bears, snooze in the sun Wednesday, April 20, 2005, in Brookfield, Ill. The 2-year-old sisters, each weighing approximately 200 pounds, arrived from Capron Park Zoo in Attleboro, Mass., last fall but have only recently been able to go outside because they are more acclimated to warmer temperatures.
Photo by Nam Y. Huh
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