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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Set up for 2-TV viewing - wanted to check out both 'Simpsons' and 'Enterprise' (well, to get technical, I really didn't see the need,
but was overruled) - as it turned out (uh-oh...anybody else read 'Cat's Cradle'), neither were worth the effort.
Surfed between 'Drew Carey' (where I rooted for the dumped girlfriend with a gun, and hoped she came from an NRA family) and the so-called
'Celebrity Boxing' on Faux. Hated seeing Horshak's nose bloodied.
Figured something bad would happen to Mark Harmon (no mention of a contract renewal) on 'West Wing', so caught some of 'Allies At War' on PBS.
Today, Thursday, sweeps are 'officially' over! Let the reruns begin!
CBS hits the rerun Trifecta with 2 episodes of
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and then 'The Agency'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Jon Favreau, David Rakoff, and Anton Figg.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Adam Carolla, Robin Tunney, and Penn & Teller.
5 reruns on NBC - 'Friends', 'Frasier', 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me' and 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Ben Affleck, Denise Richards (see below), and Jimmy Buffett.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Hilary Swank, Kathleen Turner, and Billy Campbell.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly is Mark Anthony.
ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Whose Line?', follows with a fresh 'Regis' and then 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Joey McIntyre, Christopher Titus, Charmaine Yoest, and Mimi Rogers.
The WB offers reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Charmed'.
Faux has the movie 'Blade'.
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Not Happy With Movie Poster
Denise Richards
The outdoor advertising gremlins in Hollywood have struck again. First they gave Gwyneth Paltrow an enormous bustline in the poster for "Shallow Hal." Now
Denise Richards is astonished to see her booty amplified to Jennifer Lopez proportions in the promotional shots for "Undercover Brother."
"I slammed on the brakes when I saw it," said Richards about her digitally enhanced behind. "I saw it at a bus stop and I thought, 'What the hell did
they do to my a—?' Plus I got all these phone calls from my girlfriends saying, 'What did they do to you? You look ridiculous.'"
Richards, who is engaged to Charlie Sheen, said she has no idea where the picture came from, because the one she approved was different.
"They twist the art around," she said. "I didn't approve that. That's not my a—, to be honest with you. … It's a computer."
Denise Richards
Check Out The Movie Poster - See Denise Richards' 'Enhanced' Ass
Violent Storm Strands The 2 Pauls
Bono & O'Neill
Pelting rain, thunder and lightning stranded U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and rock singer Bono in a northern Ghanaian town on Wednesday, the third day of an African tour.
The tropical storm kept the world's most powerful finance minister and the U2 frontman at Tamale airport waiting hours for a break in the weather to fly
back to Ghana's capital Accra.
They are due to head to South Africa early on Thursday for the next leg of a tour to look at the best way of spending billions of dollars to help the world's
poorest continent out of its misery.
The stopover in Tamale was designed to give them a taste of life outside the big cities and away from the smart hotels where they are lodging.
One guidebook for tourists off the beaten track warns visitors that Tamale lacks "the slightest cosmopolitan spark, and you're not going to want to spend an
inordinate amount of time here."
Bono & O'Neill
Dressing Room Shortage?
Divas Las Vegas
VH-1 is having problems with the stars of "Divas Las Vegas," which airs live tonight. There aren't enough dressing rooms at the MGM Grand. "It's awful," one spy
said. "You can't expect Shakira, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Cher, the Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks, Anastacia and [host] Ellen DeGeneres to share." Producers have
been working overtime to try and create "rooms" with velvet drapes, but there still aren't enough bathrooms. "They are even considering Portapotties," sighed the source.
Divas Las Vegas
Wants Show Like 'Osbournes'
Tommy Lee
If "The Osbournes" are bleeped nearly every sentence, imagine what would have to be censored if Tommy Lee got his own show.
The Motley Crue drummer, now a solo artist, told "Access Hollywood" he's in talks to do a show similar to MTV's reality series following the life
of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, his wife, Sharon, and their teen-age son and daughter. "The Osbournes" has earned the 21-year-old music television channel its best ratings ever.
Instead of being a home-based show like "The Osbournes," Lee said the cameras would follow him wherever he goes. That includes the road, the hotel, the
bus, the massage parlor and the head shop, he said.
He wants to call it "Never A Dull Moment," which is also the name of his new album.
Tommy Lee
Injured in Spain Bus Crash
Alien Ant Farm
The four members of American rock band Alien Ant Farm, famed for their amped-up cover version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal," were injured in a bus crash while on
tour in Spain, their record label said on Wednesday.
The group's bus collided with a parked truck on a highway near Navalmoral de la Mata, some 125 miles west of Madrid, about 2:20 a.m. local time Wednesday, according to a
statement from Los Angeles-based DreamWorks Records. The driver of the bus was killed in the crash.
Singer/lyricist Dryden Mitchell injured his back, guitarist Terry Corso broke his ankle, bass player Tye Zamora also sustained foot injuries, while drummer Mike Cosgrove
suffered cuts and bruises.
The group's driver, an unidentified employee of a European tour company, was killed and six crew members traveling with the band suffered assorted injuries, the statement said.
Alien Ant Farm, which was nearing the end of a 10-concert tour of Europe, was traveling to a gig in Lisbon, Portugal from Luxembourg when the accident happened. Most of the
band and crew were asleep in their bunks at the time of the accident, DreamWorks said.
Alien Ant Farm
In Pretzel We Trust
Berlin
Ein als Freiheitsstatue verkleideter Demonstrant trägt in Berlin am Dienstag bei einer Demonstration gegen den bevorstehenden Besuch von US-Präsident George W. Bush
ein Plakat mit der Aufschrift "In 'Brezel' we trust". Präsident Bush hatte sich an einer Brezel verschluckt und ist darauf hin bewusstlos geworden.
To see more pictures of Berlin, Berlin Bonus
2 Pauls On The Road - Part 2
Bono & O'Neill
Irish rock star Bono broke into song Wednesday for school children in Ghana during a fact-finding tour of Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
Bono said he doesn't normally sing on request but a 12-year-old pupil who had never even heard of the U2 frontman until a cavalcade of gleaming four-wheel
drive vehicles descended on the school persuaded Bono to break his own rule.
Bono, whose tour alongside O'Neill includes Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia and Uganda, sang the 1987 U2 hit "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" while
the unlikely traveling companions were at the school.
"They told us he was a well-known singer, so I told him to sing for us," said Felicia Boateng, who attends the Richard Akwei Memorial school in a poverty-stricken
neighborhood of Ghana's capital.
"Normally I would say, 'No, I don't go there,"' said Bono, placing his trademark blue wrap-around sunglasses over the young girl's eyes.
"Thanks for making me do that," he told her, shading his own eyes with his hands. "You know what you are? You are genuinely cool. Maybe I'll get there when I'm 60."
Bono & O'Neill
Movie Deal
Will Ferrell
This just in: Will Ferrell, in his first deal since announcing his departure from "Saturday Night Live," will star in the romantic comedy "Action Newsman."
He will portray Ron Burgundy, a 1970s anchorman with raging hormones, perfect hair and inflated ego in the vein of Austin Powers. He's the most beloved teleprompter reader in
Portland until he's threatened by the arrival of an ambitious female newscaster who, unlike Burgundy, has mastered journalism.
Ferrell co-wrote "Action Newsman" with "SNL" writer Adam McKay, who will direct the project for Fox-based Regency.
Will Ferrell
Man With An Opinion
Al Sharpton
Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton bumped into Hustler publisher Larry Flynt yesterday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, and spent 20 minutes finding out they
see eye-to-eye on resident Bush. "We are dissatisfied with the lack of dissent," Sharpton said as he rushed to a meeting with Michael Jackson and Johnnie
Cochran. "Who knows? We might have a whole new coalition." Sharpton, who has eclipsed Rev. Jesse Jackson to become the nation's pre-eminent civil-rights
leader, is clearly looking to establish himself as a possible presidential candidate for 2004. But the preacher isn't worried about associating with a
pornographer whose product is far raunchier than Playboy or even Penthouse. "Sometimes politics makes for strange bedfellows," Sharpton chuckled. While
he and Flynt disagree on nudity and pornography, "we agree on some policy stuff. There needs to be a lot of heat put on resident Bush. He claims we're
winning the war on terrorism, that we smashed al Qaeda. But now they're warning us about nuclear bombs. Who's gonna get us, the Martians?"
Al Sharpton
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Hospital Visit
Jerry Lewis
Veteran comic Jerry Lewis returned home on Tuesday after an overnight hospital stay during which doctors checked the workings of a surgically implanted device designed
to ease chronic back pain from years of pratfalls, a spokeswoman said.
The visit to a Las Vegas hospital was a "routine follow-up" to the operation Lewis, 76, underwent in Houston on April 8, when he was fitted with the battery-powered
device, said Candi Cazau, a spokeswoman for the casino showroom where Lewis has a long-term contract to perform.
The battery-powered Synergy Neurostimulation System, implanted in the lower abdomen, emits an electronic pulse through wires connected to his spinal cord that Lewis
can regulate using a hand-held remote control.
In a recent interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Lewis said the device has left him pain-free for the first time in more than 30 years, and joked he also can use it to "open my garage door."
Jerry Lewis
Baby News
Evan Joseph Asher
It's a boy for actress Jenny McCarthy and her husband, director John Asher.
McCarthy, 29, gave birth to Evan Joseph Asher on Saturday at an undisclosed location, spokesman Scott Tejerian said Tuesday. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
McCarthy and the baby were both in good health.
The boy is the first child for McCarthy and Asher, who were married in September 1999.
Evan Joseph Asher
BartCop TV!
Record Price For 'Rosie the Riveter'
Norman Rockwell
"Rosie the Riveter," Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting of the iconic symbol of U.S. women who took to the work force when the men went off to fight World War Two, sold for
nearly $5 million on Wednesday, shattering the previous record for a Rockwell work.
"Rosie" was bought by telephone for $4,959,500 by a gallery in Aspen, Colorado, that represented a Dallas-based asset management group. Sotheby's, which auctioned the piece,
had estimated a sale price of between $3 million and $5 million.
The previous record for a Rockwell was the $937,500 paid for "The Watchmaker" in May 1996.
Rockwell's "Rosie" appeared on the cover of the May 29, 1943, edition of the Saturday Evening Post magazine. Considered one of his most famous images, she is
the embodiment of feminine strength. Clad in overalls, she sits eating lunch with a huge pneumatic riveter resting on her lap and a backdrop of the American flag behind her.
Norman Rockwell
Sale Looms
The Muppets
The lingering auction of children's programming giant Jim Henson Co., home of Kermit and Miss Piggy, appears finally to be heading into the home stretch.
Things are expected to heat up just after the upcoming U.S. Memorial Day weekend, with new bids expected from studio parents and other suitors. A management
buyout proposal also is in the mix.
Current owner EM.TV, the financially beleaguered German media group, first disclosed its intent to sell the well-known L.A.-based Henson unit in March 2001.
EM.TV hired blue-chip investment firm Allen & Co. to conduct an auction, a process initially expected to last only a few months.
But various circumstances --including Sept. 11 market disruptions -- have prolonged the process interminably. Robust TV production continues on the company's
historic lot in Hollywood, despite an understandable anxiety spreading among Henson troops eager to see the process reach its conclusion.
At least a half-dozen companies were conducting due diligence recently in a document room set up by those conducting the auction. Suitors are believed to include
Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc. and AOL Time Warner Inc., as well as at least a couple of smaller, European-based companies.
The Muppets
Uncle Jesse & Daphne!
Cabaret
John Stamous is the new Emcee and Jane Leeves now plays Sally Bowles in the long-running revival of ``Cabaret,'' playing on Broadway at Studio 54.
Photo by Joan Marcus
Denies Assault, Damage Charges
Adam Ant
British pop star Adam Ant on Wednesday denied charges of assault, causing criminal damage and possessing an imitation gun following an arrest outside a London pub in January.
The 47-year-old singer, who had several hits during the 1980s, spoke only briefly during a short hearing at the Old Bailey in London. He was released on bail until July 3 when a trial date will be fixed.
The bespectacled star, whose real name is Stuart Goddard, was arrested after he was accused of pulling out a gun in a pub in the posh London suburb of Primrose Hill.
He is also alleged to have thrown a piece of a car engine through a window and attacked a man in his 40s.
Adam Ant
In Memory
John de Lancie
John de Lancie, an oboist whose talent as a player and teacher helped create a new repertoire for his instrument, died Friday from leukemia. He was 80.
De Lancie's style became a signature of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he joined in 1946 and served as principal from 1954-77. He was then appointed director of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia conservatory whose graduates include Leonard Bernstein.
"You could immediately recognize it was the Philadelphia Orchestra from his oboe playing," said Richard Woodhams, now the orchestra's principal oboist and a de Lancie protege. "It was sort of bright and dark at the same time, and had a kind of suppleness to it."
Students of Mr. de Lancie also occupy principal chairs in Boston, Montreal and Minneapolis.
As a 24-year-old soldier stationed in Germany during World War II, de Lancie approached Richard Strauss about writing a concerto for oboe. The 81-year-old Strauss said he had not considered such a work, but went on to create a score that joined the standard repertoire.
De Lancie entered the Curtis Institute at 14 to study with the legendary French oboist Marcel Tabuteau. De Lancie entered the Army in 1942 and played in the Army Band.
While stationed in Paris, he met his wife, Andrea. They had two children: Andrea, a playwright, and John de Lancie, an actor who played the character Q on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
John de Lancie
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