BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 9 June, 2005
Thursday
9 June, 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
I was just put on hold for about eighteen minutes, eighteen minutes of satellite time, which I'm sure could have been better utilized by calling a zoo for a lady companion for this evening.
The morons that run these companies, especially these start-up small businesses trying to be modern, couldn't make a bigger mistake than getting a phone system with auto answer. Jeez, I can see where Sears or Wal-Mart gets away with it because, well, they can.
Hell, they treat their employees just like vermin, why not the public? It's just good old-fashioned southern discourtesy, but how are you gonna stop a Wal-Mart? Face it, Bush likes this, this Wal-Mart economy, with all these great Wal-Mart- type jobs Bush is so proud of. People who do double shifts, the real kiss-asses, the beggars of authority. That way he can eliminate the middle class, all the way back to trusts, where five families rule the nation, or the globe for that matter. Full circle we have come. Teddy Roosevelt was a trust-buster. Hopefully our nation will be able to find another Teddy bear.
Ironically, as information becomes more broadbanded and wide open with virtual business competition awaiting, it will be a certain that businesses provide easy access to a human voice to survive. As computers throw us from department to department, of none that concern our needs, the true human voice awaiting is still eight pushes away. Small businesses don't want their customers pulling this shit. People hang up.
I've seen many a friend get put on hold, usually for a very short while before the "What?"s and "Goddammits!!! " begin. When they make you spell a employee's name on the phone dial is pretty entertaining to watch others do , but personally , I mean, c'mon. Can I have one operator, please?
Which leads us to, what the fuck is the operator doing hyperlinking all around the globe on the employer's time? I worked at Oklahoma Corporation Commission in 1996 and 1997, and watched a high-ranking manager (due to seniority) knit sweaters, while her phone was literally ringing off the wall. I was stunned, coming from Chicago, working in a high stress "fast paced" environment. If a client couldn't reach you in an instant, there were ten other firms that would take their call immediately. Truly it was a bonafide rat-race.
America needs to learn a lesson from France, or Mexico, countries that rarely if ever do you hear of people going postal. How many Ted Bundys or Hannibal Lecters do you hear coming from Mexico? I've never heard of the Guadalajara Strangler. I know why. They don't let stress rule their lives, which makes people mentally sick, which leads to further aberrant behaviour.
They sip wine with their meals, which are almost sacred events. They close businesses from 2 pm till 6 pm. They take naps. They come back to work for a couple of hours, usually six till eight pm.People call this being lazy. It's natural, folks. What is abnormal is having ten errands to run on a lunch hour while you get upset at the drive- thru Taco Hut while talking on a cell phone to make sure everything is ready for the 1:30 pm meeting.
Down in Mexico they have a saying: Manaña. Translation: Nothing is so important that it can't wait until tomorrow. And people think I'm nuts when I say I'm gong to retire in Mexico. Maybe the afore-mentioned manager who knitted while the phone rang was on to something.
Well, I still need a question answered from Microsoft, so I must plunge back into the swirling maze of pushing star buttons and pound buttons and spelling " Mike Kaminkiev" on the telephone pad.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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Reader Question
Re: Paris
Will Paris marry Paris in Paris?
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
There is probably a Paris wedding in her future, but not this time.
Seems to me that if there is a marriage, it'll strictly be a 'starter'.
Paris seems destined for multiple marriages, and loads of tabloid coverage.
And, just like Ana Nicole, but without the tits, she's trying to marry up.
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Lakshmi Chaudhry and George Lakoff and Van Jones and Adam Werbach and Wes Boyd: Start Making Sense: How To Talk To America (AlterNet)
Those who dwell in the nation's progressive oases must learn to communicate and connect with a much broader swath of Americans. Our panel of progressive thinkers tackles the problem.
Robin Templeton and David Soares: Excerpt: Interview with David Soares (Alternet)
An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section "Understanding the Election." Thirty-four-year-old Soares ran on a platform unapologetically opposed to the draconian "Rockefeller drug laws" in November, and became New York's Albany County's first African-American district attorney.
Arianna Huffington : Ken Mehlman gets the E-ZPass
Sunday's "Meet the Press," featuring RNC chair Ken Mehlman, was another classic example of why host Tim Russert is fast becoming journalism's answer to the "E-ZPass," those electronic tags that allow drivers to go through toll booths without having to stop.
Woman soldier from Caldwell dies in Kirkuk, Iraq, bomb explosion (idahostatesman.com)
Spec. Carrie L. French, 19, of Caldwell died Sunday in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive exploded and hit a vehicle in which she was convoying.
Social Security Game
White Ho Reporter
Self-Arrest Form
East Point Police
Rock the Vote
Center for American Progress
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Reader Comment
Nixon Defenders/Apologists
With Watergate, the media did their job and were not the criminals' accomplices.
I've come to the conclusion that these right wingers are all Bizarros, like in the Superman comics that I used to read back in the early 1960s:
Smart is bad, stupid is good.
Right is wrong, wrong is right.
Tolerance and acceptance are wrong, bigotry and hatred are right.
Peace is bad, war is good.
Gay marriage is bad, serial divorce (especially by Republicans) is fine and dandy.
Sex is bad, violence and killing (especially for oil) are good.
People are expendable.....fetuses and the braindead, however, are sacred.
Yeah, they're inhabitants of the Bizarro World. Everything is ass-backwards with these people!
Oh, and let's not forget their cardinal rule: IOIYAR (It's Okay If You Are (a) Republican)!
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
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Reader Link
English Dialect Test
Thanks, Lori!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & cool. Very nice.
Today the car's starter stopped. Between cars & plumbing it's been an expensive couple of weeks.
So, was farting around last night & came across this site:
The American Taliban
While it's a lovely page, our good friends at
Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop were ripped off!
Here is their page - the original
American Taliban
As my grandmother would say, "tsk, tsk."
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with the 90-minute SERIES PREMIERE 'The Cut', followed by a 90-minute RERUN 'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Katie Holmes, Bill Scheft, and Shout Out Louds.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Toby Keith and Rick Schroder.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'Hit Me Baby One More Time', followed by a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Heather Locklear, John Leguizamo, and Foo Fighters.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Kristen Davis and Len Berman.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Chazz Palminteri, Tim Daly, and American Hi-Fi.
ABC has LIVE 'NBA Basketball Finals', and the left coast gets a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Cedric the Entertainer and yoga guru Yogi Ramesh.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', followed by another RERUN 'Blue Collar TV', then a RERUN of last night's 'Beauty & The Geek'.
Faux has a RERUN 'The O.C.', followed by another RERUN 'The O.C.'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lionheart', followed by the movie 'Missing In Action', then the movie 'Missing In Action 2: The Beginning'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 6;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - No Sale;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 2;
[4:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Boring;
[5:20pm] 'The Young Ones' - Bomb;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 54;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Spam;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Royle Episode 13;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Whicker's World;
[10pm] 'Green Wing' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 54;
[12am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Spam;
[12:40 am 'Monty Python's Flying Circus - Royle Episode 13;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Whicker's World;
[2am] 'Green Wing' - Episode 4;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Spam;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Royle Episode 13;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Whicker's World;
[5am] 'Green Wing' - Episode 4;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', still another 'West Wing', and 'Blow Out'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Robert Hawkins), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Darrell Hammond), 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Distraction'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Matt Lauer.
History has all 'Modern Marvels' all night.
IFC -
[8AM] 'A Room For Romeo Brass' (1999);
[8AM] 'A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries' (1998);
[10:15AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[10:45AM] 'East/West' (1999);
[1PM] 'Knife In The Water' (1962);
[2:45PM] 'A Room For Romeo Brass' (1999);
[2:45PM] 'A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries' (1998);
[5PM] 'East/West' (1999);
[9:15PM] 'Curse Of The Starving Class' (1994);
[11PM] 'Still Swingin': A Look Back At An Indie Classic' (2005);
[12:45AM] 'In The Company of Men' (1997);
[2:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #107' (2005);
[3AM] 'Still Swingin': A Look Back At An Indie Classic' (2005);
[4:45AM] 'Reservoir Dogs Revisited' (2005);
[5:15AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #107' (2005);
[5:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy', followed by the movie 'Crimson Force'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'Al Franken' (06/08/05) (Original Production);
[8AM] 'The Business of Fancydancing' (Feature);
[9:45AM] 'The Projectionist' (Short);
[10AM] 'Forbidden Wedding' (Documentary);
[11AM] 'Pripyat' (Documentary);
[12:40PM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill' (Short);
[1PM] 'The Tunnel' (Documentary);
[2:30PM 'The Business of Fancydancing' (Feature);
[4:15PM] 'Kenji's Faith' (Short);
[4:30PM] 'The Origins of AIDS' (Documentary);
[6:05PM] 'Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times' (Documentary);
[7:30PM] 'Anatomy Of A Scene: Girl with a Pearl Earring' (Original Production);
[8PM] 'New Waterford Girl' (Feature
[9:40PM] 'Little Black Boot' (Short);
[10PM] 'The Beat' (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'Al Franken' (06/09/05) (Original Production);
[12:30AM] 'Evenhand' (Feature);
[2:05AM] 'Terminal Bar' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'Al Franken' (06/09/05) (Original Production);
[3:30AM] 'Japon' (Feature);
[5:40AM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill' (Short). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM features 3
Alec Guinness comedies.
[7am] 'A Slight Case Of Murder' (1938);
[8:30am] 'Arsenic And Old Lace' (1944) [View Trailer];
[10:30am] 'Monsieur Verdoux' (1947);
[12:30pm] 'The Trouble With Harry' (1955) [View Trailer];
[2:30pm] 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949);
[4:30pm] 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951);
[6pm] 'The Ladykillers' (1955);
[8pm] 'The Bank Dick' (1940) [View Trailer];
[9:15pm] 'Duck Soup' (1933) [View Trailer];
[10:30pm] 'Touch Of Evil' (1958);
[12:30am] 'The Asphalt Jungle' (1950);
[2:30am] 'The Killing' (1956) [View Trailer];
[4am] 'The Last Command' (1955). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 06/10
TCM celebrates what would have been the 83rd birthday of the always fabulous
Judy Garland all morning & afternoon.
[6am] 'Babes on Broadway' (1941);
[8am] 'Girl Crazy' (1943);
[10am] 'Meet Me In St. Louis' (1944) [View Trailer];
[12pm] 'The Harvey Girls' (1946) [View Trailer];
[2pm] 'Easter Parade' (1948) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'In The Good Old Summertime' (1949) [View Trailer];
[6pm] 'Summer Stock' (1950) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' (1941);
[9:45pm] 'The Age of Innocence' (1993) [View Trailer];
[12:15am] 'Fahrenheit 451' (1967) [View Trailer];
[2:15am] 'Seven Samurai' (1954) [AKA: 'Shichinin no samurai'] [View Trailer]. (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Or reviews?
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Whoopi Goldberg finishes reading a passage from 'Anne Frank; The Diary of a Young Girl' during the Anne Frank 75th Birthday Tribute gala honoring the life of Anne Frank, Tuesday, June 7, 2005, in New York. Proceeds from the tribute will benefit the Anne Frank Center USA in New York City.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
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Meets With Comedy Central
Dave Chappelle
Comic Dave Chappelle has met with executives at Comedy Central for the first time since his unscheduled "spiritual retreat" in South Africa forced the suspension of the third season of his show.
Comedy Central President Doug Herzog met with Chappelle Friday in Los Angeles, network spokesman Tony Fox said.
Fox would not talk about what was discussed and when - or if - Chappelle would return to the network. A spokesman for Chappelle did not immediately return a call for comment.
Meanwhile, Comedy Central sold another 400,000 copies last week of its DVD of the show's second season, for a total of 1.4 million so far. The first season's DVD has sold 2.9 million copies, the biggest-selling DVD of a TV series of all time.
Dave Chappelle
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Slack Sales Sink Shit
O'Really
A cruise featuring Fox News star Bill O'Reilly that had been shilled on the conservative pundit's popular cable show has been cancelled due to a lack of interest.
The week-long Caribbean cruise, themed "The Battle for American Values," hoped to have 800 passengers on board, but it fell "well short" of its goal, according to The Thomas More Law Center, which was to get a share of the revenue.
Passage on the November cruise cost between $1,099 and $1,629 before taxes - which would have scored two private appearances by the star of "The O'Reilly Factor," as well as a lecture from former U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton (R-Ala.) and a symposium on "How to Combat the ACLU."
The Thomas More Center asked the organizing travel agency, Corporate Travel Services, for an extension to book more guests, but it still wasn't able to sell enough tickets to make the voyage feasible.
O'Really
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Chilean dancers perform the 'Cuerpos Pintados' (Painted Bodies) multimedia presentation in Vina del Mar, 112 km (69 miles) west of Santiago, June 4, 2005. The presentation is inspired by Pablo Neruda's Art of Birds novel and performed by dancers from the National Ballet of Santiago with their bodies painted by different Latin American artists. This presentation in Vina del Mar is the world premiere for the show, which will tour Latin America and will participate in the next Biennial of Art in Venice.
Photo by Eliseo Fernandez
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CNN Hires To Sub For 8 Wives
Bob Costas
Bob Costas will become a regular substitute host for Larry King on CNN, conducting prime-time interviews about 20 times a year, the network said Wednesday.
The veteran sportscaster is currently host of "Costas Now" on HBO.
King, 71, celebrated the 20th anniversary of his show last week by interviewing former presidents Bush and Clinton, Watergate sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and CBS' Dan Rather. Despite a swirl of change around him, he's still CNN's most popular personality.
Bob Costas
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Closes Bone Marrow Appeal
Brian May
Queen guitarist Brian May has closed the British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal, which he supported for more than 15 years.
The British charity, which kept a register of potential bone marrow donors for leukemia patients, is winding up after its function was taken over by Britain's public health service, the NHS.
May said the charity, which on Tuesday donated leftover funds of $1.8 million to blood services across Britain, should be proud of what it had achieved.
Brian May
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Unknown Composition Found
J.S. Bach
A previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered in a crate of 18th-century birthday cards removed from a German library shortly before it was devastated by fire, researchers said Wednesday.
Experts say the aria for soprano and string or keyboard accompaniment composed for a German duke's birthday is the first new music from the renowned composer to surface in three decades.
Researcher Michael Maul of the Bach Archiv foundation found the composition, dated October 1713, last month in the eastern city of Weimar. The Leipzig-based foundation said there was no doubt about the authenticity of the handwritten, two-page score.
J.S. Bach
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Theresa Linnihan performs 'The Bell of Amherst,' a one-act show with shadow puppets in the New York Puppet Library inside the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch at the Grand Army Plaza in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, May 28, 2005. The New York Puppet Library is one of two national Puppet Free Lending Libraries that gives the public the chance to rent puppets for up to two weeks for community events, neighborhood parades, celebrations, demonstrations, or other occasions.
Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek
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Cuts Short European Tour
Velvet Revolver
Rock supergroup Velvet Revolver abruptly cut short its overseas tour Tuesday, leaving many wondering if the band's future was in jeopardy.
A newspaper and television station in Finland reported that the band had split, but Velvet Revolver spokeswoman Kristine Ashton-Magnuson disputed those reports.
The band, which features former members of Guns N' Roses and the Stone Temple Pilots, launched its European tour on June 3 in Germany, and will perform shows through July 2, including an appearance at rock guru Bob Geldof's "Live 8" charity event in London. However, Velvet Revolver has scrapped the final five gigs it had scheduled from July 3 through July 10.
Velvet Revolver
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Pleads Guilty
Macaulay Culkin
Former child star Macaulay Culkin pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of possession of medication without a prescription and marijuana and was given a deferred sentence.
Culkin, star of the 1990 movie "Home Alone," was arrested Sept. 17 after Oklahoma City police stopped a car in which he was a passenger. Officers found over a half-ounce of marijuana and several tablets of Xanax, a prescription medication used to treat depression and panic disorders, court records show.
Culkin, wearing a gray suit and a white open-collared shirt, entered the pleas during a brief hearing before Special Judge Russell Hall, who gave Culkin a 1-year deferred sentence on each of the charges and assessed a total of $940 in fees.
Macaulay Culkin
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A girl reacts as she is administered a fish with medicine in Hyderabad, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Wednesday, June 8, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of asthma sufferers gather to swallow live sardines coated with secret herbs, convinced the ritual will cure them. Every June, on a date chosen by astrologers, patients from all over India get the free treatment from the Goud family, which claims it received the formula from a Hindu saint 162 years ago.
Photo by Mustafa Quraishi
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Delayed To 2006
'Pink Panther'
Sony Pictures said Monday it has pulled the Steve Martin comedy "The Pink Panther" from its summer schedule, delaying the movie until Feb. 10.
The Shawn Levy-helmed comedy, starring Martin in the role made famous by Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, was one of the films absorbed by Sony when it acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. in April, and was scheduled for an Aug. 5 bow.
Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Dukes of Hazzard" and 20th Century Fox's untitled project from Mike Judge ("Office Space") are still set for release the weekend of Aug. 5.
'Pink Panther'
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Public Apology
Russell Crowe
A chagrined Russell Crowe apologized for throwing a telephone at a hotel concierge this week, saying he reacted poorly to being a lonely family man away from home.
"This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life," the Australian actor told David Letterman on Wednesday. "So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid."
Along with a few hours in jail on an assault charge, the Gladiator star earned himself a new tabloid nickname: Jerkus Maximus.
Crowe used the Late Show platform to apologize to his wife and to Nestor Estrada, the concierge hit under the eye by the flying phone.
Russell Crowe
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Fernando Diaz adjusts his sunglasses while posing as the Statue of Liberty in Battery Park on Wednesday, June 8, 2005, in New York. With temperatures in the upper 80s Wednesday, Diaz used the umbrella hat and glasses to help cope with the heat under a rubber mask and heavy costume clothing for eight hours of the day.
Photo by Julie Jacobson
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FTC OKs Acquisition of Caesars
Harrah's
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday gave Harrah's Entertainment Inc. permission for its $5.2 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Inc., the companies said.
Harrah's and Caesars said they were notified that the FTC had closed its investigation into the proposed deal, leaving Harrah's one step closer to regaining its title as the world's largest gambling company.
Nevada gambling regulators still must sign off on the deal before Harrah's takes control of its Las Vegas-based rival, the companies said in a joint statement.
Harrah's
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Sues Online Service
Warhol Foundation
A foundation overseeing Andy Warhol's estate accused an online art gallery Wednesday of selling unauthorized reproductions of his paintings, saying the practice deprives the group of money that could be used to support thousands of artists.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago seeking a court order enjoining Chicago-based Arts-Studio.com from selling reproductions of approximately 40 works without permission. The lawsuit, which claims the reproductions violate federal copyright laws, seeks monetary damages equal to the amount of money the gallery made from the sale of the paintings, said Jeff Cooper, an attorney for the foundation.
On its Web site, Arts-Studio.com offers hand-painted reproductions of Warhol works, ranging in price from $209 to $329. They are among copies of more than 2,000 works by more than 60 well-known artists advertised by the service, which also offers to copy any oil painting desired by a customer.
Warhol Foundation
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A Sotheby's employee, displays a rare intense purple-pink cut-cornered rectangular mixed-cut diamond ring weighing 28.03 carats at the auction house in Geneva May 10, 2005 . The diamond, mounted in platinum and 18 carat rose gold, is expected to fetch seven million U.S. dollars when auctioned in Geneva on May 18, 2005.
Photo by Denis Balibouse
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Prepares "Sex Huts" Ahead Of World Cup
Dortmund
A German city is rushing to install a series of drive-in wooden "sex garages" in time for next year's Soccer World Cup and an expected boom in the local sex trade, a city official said on Wednesday.
Dortmund, one of 12 cities to host World Cup matches, is anxious to keep prostitutes and their clients off the streets by providing them with discreet places to do business.
Experts estimate as many as 40,000 prostitutes may travel to Germany to offer their services to fans during the tournament.
Prostitution is legal in Germany in designated areas.
Dortmund
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In Memory
David Tebet
David Tebet, a television talent executive who recruited Johnny Carson for NBC's "The Tonight Show" and later rose to vice president of Carson's production company, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke at the home of his nephew, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 91.
A former theater publicist in New York, Tebet in 1959 became NBC's vice president for talent, where his job was to spot and recruit stars for the network. Among entertainers he landed were Michael Landon, James Garner and Dean Martin.
When Jack Paar was about to leave "The Tonight Show" in 1962, Tebet spotted Carson on daytime television and lobbied to bring him to NBC. He eventually became one of Carson's closest confidants, The Times reported.
When Carson set up his Johnny Carson Productions and bought "The Tonight Show," Tebet resigned from NBC and became executive vice president of the new company.
Born Dec. 27, 1913, in Atlanta, Tebet grew up in Philadelphia, where he began his entertainment career as a theater usher. After studying journalism at Temple University, he moved to New York to publicize Broadway shows.
David Tebet
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Three young fish cats are shown to the press by the "Tierpark Friedrichsfelde" Zoo in East Berlin on Tuesday, June 7, 2005. Three years ago the fish cat couple "Perak" (6) and "Lenya" (7) were brought from the British animal park Port Lympne to Berlin. On April 30, 2005 the three young fish cats were born and their weight is now 700 grams each. Fish cats live in India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java.
Photo by Fritz Reiss
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