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Rejected Home Craft Ideas
From Sharon
The Top 6 Rejected Home Craft Ideas
6) Sit 'n' Spin Homemade Feces Rorschach cards
5) Complete set of patio furniture made entirely from AOL promotional CDs
4) Constipation Spoon
3) Knitted pubic hair blanket for the baby's room
2) Front lawn Velveeta sculpture depicting Elian's seizure by the INS
and the Number 1 Rejected Home Craft Idea...
1) Lil' Beaver's Home Bathtub Turd-dam
Thanks, Sharon! Can never know too many things to do with Velveeta.
Reader Toon
'Ring Throw'
Photoshop made me do it! I was just sitting there reading Bartcop, and this unexplainable force drew me into imagining what Saul of Liverpool might actually
have been singing, in light of his attempted "hole in one" with "the ring".
~~ Ray
Thanks, Ray! See yesterday's page, for the original reference - or, scroll down for today's version....
Reader Suggested Cool Link
Weather Underground
Weather Underground
A weather site that has radars, tidal charts, star charts, moon phases, specific area code forecasts - much more specific than the usual weather sites.
Thanks, Zeke!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Have little green tomatoes on 3 plants now! The pepper plants are still smaller than they should be, but are blooming, nevertheless. After this week's grocery shopping, won't be buying lettuce
for a few months. : )
It's official - Long Beach, CA, managed to re-elect a mayor who wasn't on the ballot (and circumvent state-mandated 'term limits)! Write-ins can work!
Watched 'My Adventures In Television'. What a great cast! Even made me laugh out loud.
In reading all about Queen Elizabeth's big party, wonder where was Ringo? Wonder why no one even asked.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts the night with another 'The Price Is Right' 'special' featuring American Military Personnel. It is followed by
reruns of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and 'The Agency'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Nicolas Cage and Jimmy Eats World.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Denise Richards, Jonathan Silverman, and Pet Shop Boys.
NBC has 5 reruns - 'Friends', 'Frasier', 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me', and 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Matt Damon, Nia Vardalos, and Avril LaVigne.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Chris Rock and Dan Naturman.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Dave Attell and Dashboard Confessional.
ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Whose Line', then follows with a fresh 'Regis', and 'Boston 24/7' continues.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Mark Walberg ("Temptation Island" host), Cheri Jacobus (republican strategist), Mimi Kennedy (actress), and Bob Costas (broadcaster).
The WB has 2 reruns of 'The Jamie Kennedy Experiment' and then a rerun of 'Charmed'.
Faux airs the '2002 Essence Awards' that was taped last weekend.
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown'.
MTV has 90 minutes of 'The Osbournes', starting at 7pm (edt).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Big Dog Watch Continues - 'Woodstock of the Mind'
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton couldn't believe his eyes -- he called Britain's biggest literary festival "The Woodstock of the Mind."
"Anywhere that has one bookshop for every 32 people in the town is OK by me," said the former U.S. president after flying in to speak on conflict resolution in Wye, a picturesque little
Welsh border town which is the self-proclaimed second-hand book capital of the world.
This year book fans can take their pick between poet and philosopher Maya Angelou and rock star turned fundraiser Bob Geldof. Best-selling novelists abound from Booker prizewinner Ian
McEwan to "Birdsong" author Sebastian Faulks.
The festival was founded in 1988 by the father and son partnership of Norman and Peter Florence. It pumps at least three million pounds into the local community -- a vital lifeline
last year when Britain's tourist industry and the local farmers were hard hit by a foot-and-mouth epidemic that swept through the country's livestock.
Its stature has grown from year to year. Hay, which runs this year from May 31 to June 9, has attracted world renowned authors from Norman Mailer to Salman Rushdie. American
playwright Arthur Miller famously asked about Hay-on-Rye before agreeing to come.
"What is that? Is it a type of sandwich," he asked.
Big Dog Watch Continues - 'Woodstock of the Mind'
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Johnny Carson Clips
Johnny Carson Clips
Signs New MSNBC Contract
Chris Matthews
"Hardball" host Chris Matthews has signed a new contract that keeps him at MSNBC through 2009 and moves his nightly political talk show to 9 p.m. Eastern.
Matthews will also be MSNBC's anchor on election nights in 2002 and 2004, under his new deal announced Wednesday.
'Hardball' will also air exclusively on MSNBC, with no reruns airing on CNBC, as has been done recently.
Matthews will displace a nightly news program with Ashleigh Banfield. A spokeswoman said Banfield's show will move to another time slot that hasn't been determined.
Chris Matthews
Voice of Bart Dreads 'Simpsons' End
Nancy Cartwright
It's been on the air since 1989, but "The Simpsons" actress Nancy Cartwright said she hopes the Fox TV series will go on forever.
"I just want to say right now we are in season 14, and I am on a personal campaign of 'Simpsons' forever," Cartwright told The Associated Press. Cartwright provides the voice
of the smart-aleck Simpson, Bart.
"Simpsons" creator Matt Groening told London's Financial Times in May that he was getting close to ending the series, whose longevity and consistent critical acclaim have
made it one of the best TV shows ever made. He retracted his comments days later, after fans loudly objected to the prospect of life without Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
Nancy Cartwright
7 Genuine Heroes (& An Actor)
Code Talkers
Actor Nicolas Cage, center, and Navajo Indian Code Talkers pose for a photo during the "Windtalkers" premiere at the Uptown Theater Tuesday, June 4, 2002, in
Washington. Nicolas Cage says when he read the script for new movie "Windtalkers" he knew little about the Navajo Indian Code Talkers who created the Marines'
unbreakable code used in World War II's Pacific front.
Photo by Rick Bowmer
For more about the Navajo Code Talkers, see BartCop Entertainment, Sunday, 25 November, 2001.
Wants 'The Osbournes' Treatment
Oasis
Godfathers of Britpop Oasis have joined the stars lining up for the fly-on-the-wall treatment made famous in the hit show "The Osbournes," which followed rock singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
Tour-bus footage of the famously foul-mouthed Gallagher brothers has already been released and singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher told music Web site
nme.com he is also keen for cameras to film his domestic life.
An Oasis spokeswoman said footage of tour-bus life with the had already been released as a 20-minute DVD recording with the single "Hindu Times" and there was more to come.
Oasis
Crashed, Again
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett lost control of his seaplane at the Palm Beach airport last Saturday and decimated a runway sign. Buffet was unharmed when "an updraft caused one of
his wingtips to take out a 'Hold Short' sign at the intersection of Runway 9-Left and Runway 13," FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. It wasn't Buffett's first
close call with his seaplane. In 1994, he crashed in Nantucket Harbor, managing to swim to safety, and in 1996, he dodged bullets from Jamaican authorities who mistook
him for a drug smuggler and forced him to land.
Jimmy Buffett
Amusing Link
70s Children's TV
70s Children's TV
Midseason Replacement Show - Only 6 Episodes
Nathan Lane
CBS has given a six-episode midseason order to the Nathan Lane comedy "Life of the Party," the actor's first series since NBC's short-lived "Encore Encore."
"Life" stars Lane as an actor-turned-congressman. Regina King ("Enemy of the State") also stars. The show is also Lane's first big gig since leaving Broadway's smash "The Producers" earlier this year.
Nathan Lane
Arrested on Child Porn Charge>
R. Kelly
Chart-topping rhythm and blues singer R. Kelly was arrested on Wednesday on charges of producing child pornography based on a videotape he allegedly made with an under-age girl that has become a bootleg
best-seller on street corners, officials said.
Kelly, 35, could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted, Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine said. He said the indictment handed up by a grand jury consisted of 21 counts of videotaping,
producing or soliciting for child pornography.
The indictment resulted from a 26-minute videotape sent anonymously to the Chicago Sun-Times in February, copies of which have been sold on street corners nationwide, that appear to depict
Kelly, whose given name is Robert, engaging in sex acts with a girl. The paper turned the video over to the police.
The tape was made at Kelly's luxurious Chicago apartment sometime between 1997 and when the newspaper obtained its copy, the indictment said. Kelly either knew, or should have known,
the girl was born in September 1984 and was therefore a minor.
Kelly, the target of numerous lawsuits or threatened suits from women who alleged they were under age when he had sex with them or videotaped them without their knowledge, has settled some for cash.
Kelly first married his 15-year-old protege Aaliyah Haughton in 1994, but the marriage to the future singing star was soon annulled. She died in a plane crash in
August. Kelly married a dancer in his touring group in 1996 and has two daughters and a son.
R. Kelly
AFI to Give Lifetime Award
Tom Hanks
Two-time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks will receive the American Film Institute's 30th Life Achievement Award, which will be presented by fellow Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg.
Hanks, 45, will receive the award during ceremonies June 12. The tribute show is scheduled to air June 24 on USA Network.
Celebrities expected to attend the ceremonies at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood include Tim Allen, Jim Carrey, Ron Howard, Helen Hunt, Steve Martin, Meg Ryan
and Gary Sinise.
Tom Hanks
Marijuana Charge Dropped
Dionne Warwick
The state of Florida dropped a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession against Dionne Warwick on Wednesday after the Grammy award-winning singer completed a pretrial program aimed at
giving first-time offenders a second chance, a court official said.
Warwick, 61, was charged with marijuana possession on May 12 at Miami International Airport when baggage screeners found 11 marijuana cigarettes in her lipstick case.
The five-time Grammy award winner, whose career has spanned nearly four decades, is best known for pop R&B hits such as "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" "I Say A Little
Prayer" and "That's What Friends Are For." More recently, she has been a spokeswoman for the Psychic Friends Network, a business that offers people a chance to chat by telephone for a fee with a "psychic."
Because Warwick was a first-time offender, she was allowed to enter a pretrial program that led to dismissal of the charge, said Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade County State Attorney.
As part of the program, Warwick underwent a medical evaluation that "confirmed that she does not have a drug problem," said her attorney, H.T. Smith.
Warwick also donated $250 to a program that supports infants born with the virus that causes AIDS, and made a public service announcement "warning our youth about drug abuse,"
Griffith said. She was not required to appear in court.
Dionne Warwick
Awarded $2.3 Million
Philip Michael Thomas
Philip Michael Thomas, a co-star on the 1980s TV police drama "Miami Vice," was awarded $2.3 million by an arbitrator over payments for his role in telephone "psychic" commercials, direct
marketer Traffix Inc. said on Wednesday.
The award caps an eight-year dispute in which Thomas claimed he was owed over $12 million.
After Miami Vice's run ended in 1989, Thomson acted in Italian and German television shows and became a pitchman for a telephone psychic network, leading to the dispute over payments.
The American Arbitration Association ordered Traffix to pay Thomas $1.48 million plus interest payments of about $785,000 due to the use of his likeness, the company
said. Traffix said it was reviewing the decision and its options.
Philip Michael Thomas
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Launches Record Label
Dave Stewart
British music industry svengali Dave Stewart is launching a new record label to nurture acts left out in the cold by the mass-produced pop phenomenon.
Stewart told BBC radio Wednesday that the big five record labels were overlooking significant talent in their bid to mass-produce fashionable hits.
Stewart says the music industry changed irreversibly in the mid-80s on both sides of the Atlantic.
The new label, which will also feature films, TV, books and visual art, has already signed Jamaican artist Jimmy Cliff.
Dave Stewart
Grauman's Chinese
Morgan Freeman
Actor Morgan Freeman places his hands in wet cement during a hand and footprint ceremony in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, June
5, 2002. Freeman joins Hollywood luminaries including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Nicolas Cage, John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor and Sean
Connery in the timed honored tradition.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Impending Nuptials
Heather & Paul
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has sent the world's media on a marital mystery tour after rumors about his plans to marry former model Heather Mills reached fever pitch.
The time and place of the show business wedding of the year has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent a media circus from hijacking the couple's big day.
The secrecy appeared to extend to McCartney's spokesman who said he had no idea where or when the wedding would take place.
British newspapers had earlier predicted McCartney would marry in New York at the Long Island home of John Eastman, the brother of McCartney's late wife, Linda,
who died of breast cancer in 1998.
The venue was reportedly switched amid fears fans and the media would swamp the ceremony.
Heather & Paul
Launched New Web Site
Wynton Marsalis
Getting Wynton Marsalis to perform at his Web site launch party was the easy part.
It was the site that failed to perform at the Jazz Standard on Monday night. Actually, it was the connection — the phone line was lost in the middle of
a demonstration of the jazz musician's new site, www.wyntonmarsalis.com.
Marsalis joked about the technical glitch once he got on stage with his septet.
The performance was broadcast live on Marsalis' Web site, which contains information on the Pulitzer- and Grammy-award winning musician, who is also artistic
director of New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Wynton Marsalis
BartCop TV!
No Media, Please
Richards - Sheen Nuptials
Just because Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards are celebrities, it doesn't mean they have to have a celebrity wedding.
"I don't want a showbiz wedding. We're having it very small. We want to keep it truly our closest friends and family. And if the press find out then we have security," Richards told
reporters. "I'm not even going to worry about it. This is what we're doing. If things get out, then that's the way it is."
The 31-year-old former Bond girl, and star of current release "Undercover Brother," said she's turned down every magazine's request to take pictures of the ceremony this summer.
Richards would not reveal the wedding date, but she was happy to discuss her secret to getting through the wedding gauntlet: her mother.
"I run just about everything by her," Richards said. "I'm one of those girls who talks to her mom just about every day. So she's my confidante, personally and professionally. My mom's
the one I trust the most."
Richards - Sheen Nuptials
Charity Auction
Celebrity Snapshots
Ever wanted to peek into a star's personal photo album?
Close to 100 celebrities will give their fans the chance to do just that, with a charity auction of disposable cameras containing 24 undeveloped private snapshots in aid of the Paris-based press
watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Among those taking part in the "Star Photos" project, headlined by Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche, are international celebrities including actors Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Michael J. Fox.
Proceeds will go to RSF, which campaigns for press freedom worldwide.
The auction will take place in Paris on June 12. Bidders unable to attend the event can register their offers on the organization's Web site (www.rsf.org).
With a week to go before the auction, veteran French rocker Johnny Halliday topped the bids chart with an offer of 460 euros for his snaps. Jodie Foster trailed behind, with one fan
offering 200 euros for her camera.
Celebrity Snapshots
Fun Clip
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Orson Welles Outtakes
Orson Welles Audio Outtakes
Economic Woes Silence Silicon Valley Symphony
San Jose Symphony Orchestra
The San Jose Symphony Orchestra, the oldest symphony in the U.S. West and a Silicon Valley cultural institution, said on Tuesday it would lay down its instruments as officials seek bankruptcy protection.
The 123-year-old symphony, saddled with debt estimated at $3.4 million, will play one final concert on Saturday before "going dark" for between 6 to 18 months while advisors devise a plan to
reinvent it as a leaner group with new artistic direction and fresh sources of funding.
The San Jose Symphony's economic woes mirror those of many Silicon Valley companies, which have seen profits and share prices plummet as the high-tech sector bears the brunt of the
current U.S. economic downturn.
The symphony's last official concert, a benefit performance on Saturday, will include works by Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky.
San Jose Symphony Orchestra
Atop Mauna Kea On The Big Island Of Hawaii
Gemini North Telescope
Optical technicians dressed in clean suits use common horse soap to clean the 26-foot mirror of Gemini North Telescope atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii,
Hawaii Tuesday, May 28, 2002. Cleaning the mirror requires a crew of more than 20, who must dismount the 24-ton mirror from the telescope structure, lower it five
stories to the basement, and mount it on a frame before then washing the aluminum-coated, 8-inch thick glass. The horse soap, purchased at a general store in Hilo,
Hawaii, is used because it is nonabrasive and leaves no residue, says Clayton Ah Hee, optics technician.
Denies Ad Report
Chinese State TV
An official with China's main state television network on Wednesday denied a report that foreigners have been banned from appearing in Chinese commercials.
A state newspaper said Sunday that authorities were ordering an end to the growing use of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and by Chinese advertisers.
But Guo Zhenxi, director of the advertising department of China Central Television, said no such order had been issued.
The report by the Beijing Times, a tabloid published by the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily, didn't say who had ordered the ban or why.
Chinese State TV
Finally Opens Book on Safety Moves at Theme Parks
Walt Disney Co
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday named a new executive to oversee public safety at its theme parks worldwide, and released an unprecedented public report on
steps it has taken to make them safe.
The moves were prompted partly by public concerns about safety and security after the hijacking attacks of Sept. 11, officials said. However, it also marked
a reversal of Disney's traditional reluctance to allow real-world concerns to mar the "magic" of the Disney experience.
As part of its new, more-open approach to safety, the company released a 35-page report on Tuesday detailing its safety policies at its theme parks, resorts
and cruise ships, covering everything from food safety to the braking technology installed on park rides.
Disney, along with other theme park operators, has faced criticism in recent years after several high-profile accidents.
In December, 1998, a 33-year-old man was killed at the company's oldest park, Disneyland in Anaheim, California, when he was struck at the dock of the ship Columbia.
Park officials cleaned up the scene before police arrived.
In September 2000, a four-year-old boy was severely injured in an accident at Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. After a state safety investigation, Disney was ordered
to make design changes to cars on the ride.
Walt Disney Co
The Engagement Ring In The Bushes Story
Paul & Heather
The glinting of diamonds and sapphires led a Miami hotel security guard with a flashlight to find Sir Paul McCartney's fiancee's engagement ring -- lost in the bushes below
the room where the former Beatle and Heather Mills stayed last month, the hotel said on Wednesday.
But a spokeswoman for the Turnberry Isle Resort and Club denied a British tabloid newspaper version of events that said the ring was lost when the former Beatle hurled it
out of the window during a furious argument with his fiancee.
The couple and McCartney's crew stayed at the hotel in Aventura for a few days in mid-May when the singer was winding up a U.S. tour in Fort Lauderdale.
The News of the World said on Sunday that McCartney flung the ring off the balcony during a blazing argument with Mills.
Ackerman said the couple did lose a ring, but the place it was found, directly below their room balcony, suggested it had fallen rather than being flung.
The hotel tried to find it the next day, the day the couple were leaving, and event rented metal detectors to comb the area but it was raining hard and the ring could not be found.
Hotel staff kept looking after the couple left and a security guard hit on the idea that a flashlight at night might show up the jewels, locating the ring in a patch of bushes.
McCartney provided a round-trip ticket to London for a hotel staffer to deliver the ring, and also gave the security guard a reward of an undisclosed amount, Ackerman said.
Paul & Heather
Stolen Art, The U.S. Army, Ted Olson & SCOTUS
'Hitler Art'
The U.S. Army may keep four watercolors painted by Adolf Hitler that were seized in Germany after World War II, the Supreme Court said Monday.
The court turned back a German family's challenge to the U.S. government's taking of the paintings and photographs — along with the family's claim for millions of dollars in damages.
Had justices intervened, they would have had to consider the rights of non-Americans for recourse against the U.S. government.
Heirs of the late German photographer Heinrich Hoffmann Sr. contend their father was the victim of wartime art pillaging.
Hitler's watercolors include street scenes and war landscapes painted before and during World War I. U.S. forces discovered them in 1945, not long after Hitler
committed suicide, in a German castle where Hoffmann had stored them during the war.
"The United States in acquiring those properties, was making quintessential public policy decisions," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote in a filing.
Olson also said the Hoffmann relatives have no claim in federal courts.
For even more details, 'Hitler Art'
Royal Airforce Red Arrows
Golden Jubilee
A flypast by the Royal Airforce Red Arrows Display Team over Buckingham Palace marks the end of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in London June 4, 2002.
Photo by Stephen Hird
Heat From FBI, Grand Jury
Franchise Pictures
The legal problems dogging producer Elie Samaha and his Franchise Pictures, the firm behind John Travolta bomb "Battlefield Earth," have gotten worse.
The indie film producer has for months been under criminal investigation by the FBI, which is looking at broad-based fraud allegations
involving the budgets of the films the company has produced.
Franchise, which has a domestic distribution deal at Warner Bros., confirmed Tuesday that it is aware of the investigation. The company is already involved
in a civil suit with its erstwhile German partner Intertainment.
A federal grand jury has been empaneled in Los Angeles and subpoenas were issued late last year in connection with the FBI probe.
For all the details, Franchise Pictures
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
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