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From Michael Dare
Dear Frank,
In sounding out opinion along Broadway, they say that Lenny, once he is on stage, will do and say whatever he damn pleases to be spectacular, so what assurance have I from him that this will not come to pass? Our show does not go in for the Oscar Levant type of pyrotechnics.
I'm sure that you understand my position, so why not have Lenny prepare a script of exactly what he would do on our show and rush it along to me. Jack Carter has told me that Lenny is an amazingly amusing guy, and I'd love to use him if we had built-in safeguards.
Sincerely,
Ed Sullivan
'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
Blame for 9-11
An Exercise in Mental Masturbation
Let's see here, committees being formed wanting to know where the ball got dropped, understandable since blame needs to go somewhere. Well, according to Ashcroft, it's that guy who get's blown more than he does, Slick Willy Clinton. According to Rice of the Condo flavor, she just kind of said, "Hey, it wasn't MY fault..." Bush just fudged on the question two weeks ago on his "Goddam, I'm a Dumb President "speech.
I dislike our president more than any other I have lived under or studied. He's an idiot. But to put the blame of us getting kicked in the gonads by a terrorist organization on Bunnypants is bullshit, too.
He's a buffoon of a president who should own up to the blame of the mess in Iraq right now, but the actual fanatics going up to Allah with twenty-seven virgins via jetliners crashed into tall buildings causing the horrors of 9-11, logically is not Bunnypant's fault.
Sure, there was miscommunications between the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, but how does miscomminucation of those agencies fall into Bunnypant's pants? He's too goddam stupid to blame.
The question of why we are in Iraq should be the focus of the committee. Then we can string Smirky by his nuts, but Osama bin Laden is out there, and, shit, he got us, and where the hell is he? Why doesn't the committee quit their political show, say, ok, everyone fucked up, but why did we go fight Hussein instead of killing bin Laden? We now have more terrorists wanting to kill us than before 9-11.
We need John Kerry to start some diplomacy with Europe, quit being a stubborn mule like George W. (who still thinks the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do) , get some real diplomacy action happening, and don't act like the biggest kid on the block. It doesn't work. Have you ever known a bully who finally didn't get the living shit kicked out of him by a five- foot -five little guy who was so goddam mean he could have trounced the whole playground?
One night at a party in Tulsa, I saw an Oklahoma State University All-State wrestler get a beer bottle smashed across his nose from a guy that was five- feet-five. "Tough-Man-Wrestler- Boy"'s nose became a huge mass of cartilage with profuse bleeding occurring while "Tough-Man- Wrestler-Boy" was weeping for an ambulance. The big guy never looked the same. The little guy was applauded by the rest of the guys at the party who were sick of the big time wrestler's bullshit. I hope you may infer an analogy.
If Kerry doesn't win this election, with Bunnypants' Bully the World attitude, we'll be fighting guys like that little fucker from the above-described party for eternity, maybe even Armageddon.
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Last Night
Still sunny, breezy and quite pleasant.
Tried to watch 'Enterprise', but came to the conclusion T'pol isn't really a Vulcan, but comes from the planet Skank.
The kid has a book report due on Friday - the book has to be a mystery so he's been introduced to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes.
Instead of a traditional book report, the kids are to create a picture book that they'll read to a captive 2nd grade audience.
For the science fiction book report he had to create a board game based on his book ('War of the Worlds').
And, for the 'free choice' book they had to create a cereal box about the book ('Frankenstein').
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: All-Stars', followed by a RERUN
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 3/29/04) are Janet Jackson and John Mayer.
On a RERUN Craiggers (from 3/29/04) are Randy Jackson, Neal McDonough, and Van Hunt.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 'Friends', followed by a RERUN 'Friends', then a
FRESH 'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH 'Scrubs', then a FRESH 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Denzel Washington, Janeane Garofalo, and Mario Winans.
On a RERUN Conan are Samuel L. Jackson, James Carville, and Van Hunt.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Ben McKenzie, Max Kellerman, and Blondie.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a FRESH 'Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital', then 'Primetime Thursday'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Camryn Manheim and Frankie Vall.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', followed by a FRESH 'Like Family', then a FRESH 'Jamie Kennedy', followed by
another FRESH 'Jamie Kennedy'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Tru Calling', followed by a FRESH 'The Swan'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
Check local PBS listings for a FRESH 'Nova' - 'Son Of al-Qaida'.
A&E has 'American Justice', a 2-hour 'Cold Case Files', and 'Elizabeth Smart'.
AMC offers the movie 'Catch-22', followed by the movie 'D.O.A.', then the movie 'Ordinary People'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Fry;
[7pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Court in the Act;
[7:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Dish & Dishonesty;
[8:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body;
[9pm] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 2;
[9:30pm] 'Velvet Soup' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[10:40pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Court in the Act;
[11:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Dish & Dishonesty;
[12:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body;
[1am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[1:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[2am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 2;
[2:30am] 'Velvet Soup' - Episode 2;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[3:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[4am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 2;
[4:30am] 'Velvet Soup' - Episode 2;
[5am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[5:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', the movie 'Silverado' (not the Neil Bush story), and another 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'The Man Show', and another 'The Man Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Arianna Huffington.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'American Steel: Built To Last', 'Modern Marvels', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Afterglow' (1997);
[8AM] 'Not One Less' (1999);
[10AM] 'Dinner Game' (1998);
[12PM] 'Me You Them' (2000);
[2PM] 'Not One Less' (1999);
[4PM] 'Darien Gap' (1996);
[6PM] 'Ghost World' (2001);
[8PM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon Episode 2' (2003);
[8:30PM] 'The Big One' (1997);
[10PM] 'Among Giants' (1998);
[11:45PM] 'Ballad Of Little Jo' (2001);
[2AM] 'The Big One' (1997);
[3:30AM] 'Among Giants' (1998);
[5:15AM] Short: 'I Shout Love'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Vampires', 'Mad Mad House', 'Scare Tactics', and 'Tripping The Rift'.
Sundance -
[4:30AM] 'Peter's Friends' (Feature);
[6:15AM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary);
[8AM] 'Derrida' (Documentary);
[9:30AM] 'The Swell Life' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'No Such Thing' (Feature);
[11:45AM] 'Stiltwalkers' (les Echassiers) (Short);
[12PM] 'Choropampa: The Price of Gold' (Feature);
[1:30PM] 'Borstal Boy' (Feature);
[3:05PM] 'Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story' (Documentary);
[4:05PM] 'Ghost Actress' (aka Don't Look Up) (World Cinema);
[5:30PM] 'McLuhan's Wake' (Documentary);
[7:15PM] 'No Such Thing' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Roger Dodger' (Feature);
[11PM] 'Exotica' (Feature);
[12:45AM] 'Borstal Boy' (Feature);
[2:20AM] 'The Crossing Guard' (Feature);
[4:15AM] 'Chain Camera' (Documentary);
[5:40AM] 'Ghost Actress' (aka Don't Look Up) (World Cinema). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM has a dog-day morning & afternoon, then features
Judy Garland all night.
[8:15 am] 'Tough Guy' (1936);
[9:30am] 'My Pal, Wolf' (1944);
[10:45 am] 'Banjo' (1947);
[12pm] 'Behave Yourself' (1951);
[1:30pm] 'It's A Dog's Life' (1955);
[3pm] 'Lassie Come Home' (1943);
[4:30pm] 'Son Of Lassie' (1945);
[6:15 pm] 'Hills Of Home' (1948);
[8pm] 'The Harvey Girls' (1946);
[10pm] 'The Pirate' (1948);
[12am] 'In The Good Old Summertime' (1949);
[2am] 'Summer Stock' (1950);
[4am] 'Easter Parade' (1948). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actors Richard Gere and Sharon Stone smile for the photographers as they arrive at the 19th American Museum of The Moving Image Salute honoring Gere, in New York, on April 20, 2004.
Photo by Albert Ferreira
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
U.S. Border Officials Apologize(!)
Ian McEwan
U.S. border officials have issued a rare apology to British author Ian McEwan after briefly barring him from entering the United States last month.
"Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience and delay the refusal process caused you," William S. Heffelfinger III, a deputy assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, wrote in an April 12 letter. "Be assured that this erroneous refusal will not impact your future applications to the United States."
McEwan, author of the best-selling novel "Atonement," was trying to board a plane March 30 at the Vancouver, British Columbia, airport for Seattle, where he was scheduled to speak before subsequent engagements in Portland, Ore., and Pasadena, Calif.
An American inspector kept him from boarding the plane on the grounds that the speaking fees McEwan was to receive for his appearances - $5,000 in Seattle alone - were too large to qualify as honoraria.
After a 24-hour flurry of activity that included legislators, border officials realized there's no rule limiting the size of honoraria one may receive. McEwan was admitted the next afternoon and arrived in Seattle an hour before his appearance.
Ian McEwan
Praises Canada for AIDS Fight
Bono
Rocker Bono praised Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin for showing "real political guts" in the global war on AIDS.
Bono, frontman for Irish band U2 and an AIDS-awareness crusader, commented Tuesday on changes to proposed legislation that would speed cut-rate drugs to developing countries.
"This kind of thing keeps Canada in the lead," Bono said in a statement. "This is a real breakthrough and shows real political guts from Paul Martin."
Bono
Robert Howe, left, of Placerville, dressed as a vote-eating computer, demonstrates against the touch screen voting systems, while Laramie Crocker, of Berkeley, right, sings against the use of the same machines outside the Secretary of State's office in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 21, 2004. More then a two dozen activisits rallied against the use of electronic voting machines citing the lack of a paper verification
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
Visits Women's Project in Uganda
Natalie Portman
U.S. film star Natalie Portman toured charity projects in Uganda on Wednesday and appealed to international donors to do more to help African women deal with crippling poverty and the AIDS pandemic.
Portman, best known as Princess Amidala from the Star Wars movies, spent the first of two days in Africa meeting women who have started small businesses with loans from the Washington-based Foundation for International Community Assistance.
The aid group runs 23 programs in 22 countries around the world, including six in Africa. It started work in Uganda 10 years ago and has assisted 100,000 women.
Natalie Portman
Entering Rutgers Hall of Fame
James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini, star of HBO's "The Sopranos," is among 11 Rutgers alumni to be inducted into the university's hall of fame on May 1.
Gandolfini, who plays New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano on the HBO series, has made commercials and appeared in billboard ads for the school's athletics program.
James Gandolfini
Promoting U.N. in Cambodia
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan will be in Cambodia next week to promote the work of the U.N. children's and AIDS agencies, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The Hong Kong star, known for his daredevil movie stunts, will visit the capital, Phnom Penh, and Siem Reap, home to the country's cultural icon, Angkor Wat, during his three-day stay, a UNICEF statement said.
Chan is scheduled to arrive Monday. He will visit projects focusing on HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation for land mine victims and land mine education, the agency said.
Jackie Chan
www.jackie-chan.com
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Guitar Fetches Over 100K At Auction
Kurt Cobain
A rare guitar once owned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was sold for $117,500 at the Icons Of 20th Century Music auction, conducted on Saturday (April 17) by Heritage Galleries of Dallas, Texas, according to Billboard.com. The sale marked the first time since Cobain's 1994 death that one of his instruments was made available for auction.
Cobain purchased the guitar, a rare "Mark IV"-style Mosrite Gospel, in 1990. Although it was factory-built for a right-handed player, the axe was modified for the left-handed Cobain. He sold it in 1992 just as Nirvana was achieving their massive worldwide success.
Kurt Cobain
Elton John wears a bird beak as he performs the 'Woody Woodpecker Song' Wednesday, April 21, 2004 during the annual Rainforest Foundation benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Photo by Chad Rachman
Touring Again in Summer
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel will return to the U.S. concert circuit this summer, beginning the second leg of its Old Friends tour June 10 in Albany, N.Y.
As was the case with the first leg, the Everly Brothers will join Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel during the summer concerts.
The 2003 Simon & Garfunkel outing grossed more than $55 million and played to 500,000 people across 32 concerts, according to Billboard Boxscores. It was the pair's first major tour since 1983.
For confirmed concert dates: Simon & Garfunkel
Holds Auction for Nonprofit
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase and his wife, Jayni, are auctioning off items donated by their famous friends to raise funds for the Center for Environmental Education's Web site.
The online auction at www.charityfolks.com starts Thursday and continues through May 6. Backstage passes and tickets to a David Bowie concert, a two-week internship at Rolling Stone magazine and lunch with former President Clinton and Chase, a former "SNL" star, are among the top items up for bid. They hope to raise at least $250,000.
Chevy Chase
New Book
'No Chimp Left Behind'
NO CHIMP LEFT BEHIND - An Explanication Of The Presidential Origin Of The Speechities
By Cassandra Sagan, with illustrations by Winky Wheeler
Fox Picks Up Four
Prime-Time Shows
TV broadcaster Fox on Wednesday renewed four of its most successful prime-time shows for the 2004-2005 season, while the fate of a few others was still up in the air.
Fox ordered a new season of family comedy "The Bernie Mac Show," real-time thriller "24," teen drama "The O.C." and offbeat comedy "Malcolm in the Middle."
Fox also gave a three-year extension to its late-night sketch comedy show "MADtv," keeping it on air through 2008.
The network had previously given full-season orders to comedy "That '70s Show" and animated mainstays "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill."
A spokeswoman for the network said the fate of shows like the critically acclaimed comedy "Arrested Development" and the drama "Tru Calling" were still up in the air and would be decided over the next month. The network plans to announce its full fall schedule on May 20.
Prime-Time Shows
Injured in Pub Attack
Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan, former singer with Irish folk-rockers The Pogues, suffered facial injuries during a beating in a central London pub, a British newspaper reported Wednesday.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the motive for the assault was unknown. Two men, ages 20 and 21, were questioned, released on bail and ordered to return to a police station later this month, police said.
Shane MacGowan
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
$66 Million Loser
Madonna's Maverick Records
Madonna's Maverick Records label, home to the Material Girl as well as Alanis Morissette and Michelle Branch, has lost $66 million since 1999, according to recently unsealed court documents filed by its adversary and partner, Warner Music Group.
The documents relate to the latest spat in the 12-year-relationship between Maverick and Warner Music, which was recently bought from Time Warner Inc. by an investment group led by Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Last month, Maverick sued Warner Music for $200 million, claiming breach of contract and fraud. The Warner documents were part of a pre-emptive claim filed in a Delaware court asking a judge to find that the company had fulfilled its commitment to Maverick.
Madonna's Maverick Records
A tourist walks around the Cabeza Colosal Olmeca, property of the Mexico's Antropologic Museum of Xalapa, in a Buenos Aires art gallery, Wednesday, April 21, 2004. The sculpture, part of a collection of pre-Columbian works produced by the great cultures of the state of Veracruz, will be exhibited in Buenos Aires, Argentina, through June 20.
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko
Pub Loved by Poet Up for Auction
Dylan Thomas
A hotel pub whose regulars served as inspiration for some of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's best-known works goes up for auction Wednesday after drawing interest from across Britain and North America.
Browns Hotel in Laugharne, Wales and its main bar were a second home for Thomas, who lived on and off in the village for 15 years and is considered one of the 20th century's greatest poets.
The building is hardly changed from the 1940s and 50s when Thomas frequented it with his wife. It includes the table and chairs he sat at and other personal memorabilia.
The pub's owner, Tommy Watts, said the poet would sit for hours watching and chatting with the clientele, some of whom appeared in works like the radio play "Under Milk Wood."
Dylan Thomas
Inspires Impressive Art Collection
Absolut
Absolut ... perfume? For Andy Warhol, yes. Back in 1985, the pale prince of pop art confessed to the Swedish vodka's importer that he preferred a splash of Absolut to anything by Chanel.
"He went on to say that he loved the design of the Absolut bottle, and he wanted to paint something," recounts art curator Marion Kahan. Warhol delivered a dark rendition of the Absolut bottle - and an unlikely art collection was launched.
"The Warhol" was quickly joined by an assortment of Absolut-centric works: a Keith Haring painting, a Gianni Versace dress, a Steven Meisel photograph. The priceless collection now numbers about 700 items, all based on the familiar Absolut bottle.
For more, Absolut
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Rock Against Bush
Part Believed Found
Ancient Necklace
An ornate trinket found in an English field by a metal detecting enthusiast is probably the missing part of an ancient gold necklace at the British Museum.
But the museum dismissed widespread speculation Wednesday that the ornament belonged to Boudica, a British warrior queen who led a failed rebellion against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago.
Photos of the trinket appeared to show it is the missing end-ring - or terminal - of a gold torque found in Sedgeford 39 years ago that now belongs to the British Museum, museum spokeswoman Hannah Boulton said. A torque is a twisted metal collar or necklace that was worn by ancient Teutons, Gauls and Britons.
For the rest, Ancient Necklace
British Museum
'Dixieland' Opened To Public
Thomas Wolfe
Craftsmen have spent the past two years restoring an 121-year-old house to its condition of 1916, the year Thomas Wolfe left Asheville to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wolfe's mother, Julia, bought the boarding house - named the Old Kentucky Home - in 1906 and added a dozen rooms in 1916. Notoriously tight, she often reused building materials and settled for cheap materials and even cheaper labourers to work on the 555-square-metre, 29-room house.
Wolfe, born in Asheville in 1900, became one of America's most famous writers with the 1929 publication of his autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel, a thinly veiled depiction of Asheville and its residents. He also wrote of his mother's boarding house, called Dixieland in the book.
Thomas Wolfe
It looks like an ordinary old-fashioned cookie tin, but the hidden drawing of two dogs having sex in the grass makes it an instant collectors' item. Biscuit makers Huntley and Palmers sold thousands of tins of treats featuring a copy of an early 20th century illustration of a genteel picnic -- without realizing that a disgruntled employee had hidden sexually explicit drawings in the scene. An example of the cookie tin is shown in this undated file photo.
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