'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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from Alex
'Stuff'
Marty,
This story is good and bad at the same time.
It's good because it raises great points, asks the right questions...hence
the bad part, of course, it's from Britain.
Quote:
"Are American journalists simply spineless? Do they toe the line because they love the President? Or because their employers do?"
Alex
Thank, Alex!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Dr. Paul
The list of topics on which the administration was ... um ... misunderstood
is quite impressive. Billmon's WMD In Iraq quotes and Democracy in Iraq
quotes catalog the evolution, or dare I say revision, of the
administration's story on these two topics. Troop strength is another
issue which reeks of mendacity, incompetence, or both. As Thomas Friedman
points out in his NY Times OpEd, the Pentagon failed to plan to win the peace.
This brings us to http://www.digitalmediatree.com/onelap/?22666 Dr. Paul's
Words of Wisdom. In February, Wolfowitz derided the fools who said we
would have to be in Iraq for years. Do those fools include Senators Lugar,
Hegal and Biden of the Foreign Relations Committee? They recently
concurred that five years is a realistic assessment. And Senator Lugar
called upon Mr. Dubya to do some "real truth-telling".
Who's the fool now, Dr. Paul?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
No June Gloom, and warmer summer temperatures are on the way.
The kid & I made it to the Long Beach Aquarium for lunch. Last summer's big draw was a Lorikeet 'forrest'. This year, there's Newcastle disease in the area, and the sweet little
birds are now under quarantine, except for 4 that are kept on display. Before, you could buy a small cup of a nectar the birds enjoyed & they'd land on your hand & sip it. Besides, it was fun to guess who'd be the first shat upon.
The last 2 days, KCBS in LA hasn't been able to get through a dinner-time newscast without multiple major on-air fuck-ups. Yeah, consolidation is a good thing.
Thanks to Tim of TBH Politoons for featuring that Savage Weiner man.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Amazing Race 4', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Piedmont Bird Callers, Luke Wilson, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Roger Daltrey, Cindy Taylor, Da Brat. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Friends', followed by a RERUN 'Scrubs', then a RERUN 'Will & Grace', followed by a RERUN 'Frasier', then
a RERUN 'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Snoop Dogg, and Blu Cantrell. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Gillian Welch. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Luke Wilson, Greg Giraldo, and Guster. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
ABC starts the evening with the movie 'One Fine Day', and follows with 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Crispin Glover and Trapt, with this week's guest co-host David Cross. (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
The WB offers the movie 'The In Crowd'.
Faux has 'Stupid Behavior Caught On Camera', followed by '30 Seconds To Fame', then 'The Pulse'.
UPN kills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Julia Childs), followed by 'Columbo Goes To College'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Comancheros', followed by the movie 'The Eiger Sanction', and then the movie 'Castle Keep'.
BBC: [7pm] 'Ground Force' - Ground Force: Back To Its Roots ;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Aberdeen ;
[8pm] 'Father Ted' - Cigarettes & Alcohol & Rollerblading ;
[8:30pm] 'Father Ted' - New Jack City ;
[9pm] 'Faking It' - Vicar Turns Second Hand Car Salesman ;
[10pm] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal ;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Michael Richards ;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Steve Irwin ;
[12am] 'Faking It' - Vicar Turns Second Hand Car Salesman ;
[1am] 'Faking It' - Alex the Animal ;
[2am] 'Father Ted' - Cigarettes & Alcohol & Rollerblading ;
[2:30am] 'Father Ted' - New Jack City ; and
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Michael Richards. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Man In The Moon', followed by the movie 'Best Laid Plans'.
Comedy Central
On a RERUN Jon Stewart it's TBA (RERUNs ALL NEXT WEEK)
Scheduled on a FRESH Colin Quinn are George Carlin, Jim Norton, Nick DiPaolo, and Greg Giraldo.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by 'The Little Big Horn: The Untold Story', followed by another 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has the movie 'The Flintstones', followed by the movie 'Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas'.
TCM [6am] 'The Mysterious Doctor' (1943) ;
[7am] 'The Last Ride' (1944) ;
[8am] 'Escape Me Never' (1947) ;
[10am] 'The Woman In White' (1948) ;
[12pm] 'Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde' (1941) ;
[2pm] 'The Actress' (1953) ;
[3:45pm] 'Bad Day At Black Rock' (1955) ;
[5:15pm] 'Blackboard Jungle' (1955) ;
[7pm] 'The Red Balloon' (1956) ;
[8pm] 'Mother India' (1957) ;
[11pm] 'Do Bigha Zamin' (1953) ;
[1:30am] 'Pyaasa' (1957) ; and
[4am] 'The Last Time I Saw Paris' (1954). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TNN premieres their new 'adult block' that was supposed to mark the channel's name change to 'Spike TV', with 'Ren & Stimpy', 'Gary, The Rat', and 'Stripperella' - starts at 10pm (EDT)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Hosting MTV Awards
Chris Rock
Chris Rock will be back as host of the MTV Video Music Awards, the cable channel announced Wednesday.
But he acknowledges that his stand-up skills are a little rusty.
So the comedian is going on a cross-country club tour to prepare for the 20th annual awards show Aug. 28 at Radio City Music Hall.
Rock won't announce his comedy show dates ahead of time — he wouldn't even say where the tour will begin next week. Tickets will go on sale in each city just 24 hours in advance.
"I've had two callings in life: stand-up comedy and fatherhood," added Rock. "Those are the only things I embrace."
Chris Rock
www.mtv.com/onair/vma/2003/
Bill Bennett's Name Dropped
'Doonesbury'
Moralist Bill Bennett was in the news for gambling, but not in The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y. Some people wondered if Bennett's name was dropped deliberately from this past Sunday's "Doonesbury" comic, but American Color (AC) said it was a production error.
The June 22 "Doonesbury" featured agent Sid being asked by "Walt" if he could supply a speaker for a convention. When Dr. Phil and Laura Schlessinger were deemed too expensive, Sid suggested "Bill Bennett for $250 and carfare." Walt replied: "Done. But I'll need a morals clause." But Bennett's name didn't show up in The Journal News.
Accounts Manager Andy Olsen of AC -- which handles Sunday comic sections for The Journal News and hundreds of other newspapers -- said The Journal News was the only paper missing Bennett's name from the "Doonesbury" strip. "It was a very rare error," he said. "There must have been a bad spot on the film that caused a blur. It was totally accidental."
'Doonesbury'
Must Post $2.5M Bond in Lawsuit
Spike Lee
Spike Lee, who's suing to stop Viacom International from renaming its TNN cable channel as "Spike TV," must post a $2.5 million bond to cover the media giant's costs if it wins the case, a Manhattan judge said.
Lee had posted a $500,000 bond June 13 after winning a temporary injunction against Viacom's plan to rename TNN. State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub gave him until Thursday to post the additional $2 million.
On Tuesday, the judge revised the amount of Lee's bond after hearing testimony from TNN vice president Kevin Kay that the network had lost millions of dollars since the injunction and could lose millions more before the case goes to trial Aug. 18.
Examples of lost money, Kay said, include $1.4 million for a launch party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and $5.7 million to advertise TNN as Spike TV. Kay said Viacom would spend at least $8.4 million after the trial to rename TNN, even if it must be called something besides Spike TV.
Viacom wants to change TNN's name to Spike TV to attract more men to an audience that's already about two-thirds male.
Spike Lee
Way Past Its Prime
Re: 'The Drew Carey Show'
BY PHIL ROSENTHAL
Many experts theorize that, in the aftermath of all-out thermonuclear
war, the only remains of life on what is left of our charred husk of a
planet will be certain viruses, cockroaches and, of course, ABC's "The
Drew Carey Show."
This is no mere case of a network airing leftover episodes of an already
canceled series to satisfy company bookkeepers. No sirree, bub. Barring
some kind of financial settlement with Warner Bros. Television, which
produces the series, ABC is on the hook for an entire extra season of 26
episodes of "Carey" beyond this remaining batch of 10 and at least has
to pretend they will run as a midseason replacement during or after the
2003-04 season.
Why in the name of all that is good, you ask, would that be?
Well, it's because, two years ago this week, some far-seeing lunatic at
ABC gave the series--then about to enter its seventh season and the top
comedy on the hit-deficient network--a two-season, 52-episode extension
at a little less than $3 million per episode.
Instead of getting to air a mildly hyped series finale in the spring of
'02, however, the brain trust at the Walt Disney Co. had another 52
episodes to look forward to at a cost of $152 million. Some bargain, huh?
For the rest, 'The Drew Carey Show'
Thanks, Tim H!
Hollywood RockWalk Honors
Lou Reed
Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side, down to Hollywood's RockWalk, where he placed his handprints and signature outside the Guitar Center music store on Sunset Boulevard.
"I think that's fantastic," he said of the honor Tuesday. "I'm very, very surprised and really get a kick out of this."
Best known for the 1972 hit "Walk on the Wild Side," Reed recently came out with a compilation spanning 35 years in music called "NYC Man — The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection." Other albums from the founding member of the seminal avant-garde rock group the Velvet Underground include "Berlin," "Metal Machine Music" and "Transformer."
"I've tried to always think about and represent people who don't have very much: the underdog, people who are on the outside," the 61-year-old said.
Lou Reed
Could Face Criminal Charges
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg could face criminal charges in connection with the arrests of three men who delivered the rapper-actor to the BET Awards in a gray armored van, authorities said.
Two of the three arrested outside Tuesday's awards show were unarmed but wanted by authorities for unidentified misdemeanor crimes. The third, who was also unarmed, was wanted on parole violations.
Six others were armed and detained by authorities. They identified themselves as Snoop Dogg's security detail, said Joe Gordon, assistant special agent in charge for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
They were released but Gordon said charges would be presented to federal prosecutors that could involve Snoop Dogg, who was not detained but spoke briefly with his lawyer outside the Kodak Theatre.
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was convicted in 1990 of possession of cocaine for sale, and authorities said it is illegal for a felon to possess weapons or hire armed security guards.
The charges carry a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison
Snoop Dogg
Dangles Doll in Jackson Imitation
Eminem
The real Slim Shady stood up and made fun of Michael Jackson by dangling a baby doll over a hotel balcony.
Rapper Eminem also wore a surgical mask over his face Tuesday in an obvious swipe at Jackson, who dangled his baby, Prince Michael II, over a balcony railing in Berlin in November.
Eminem, who was staying at the Art House Hotel in Glasgow, went further than Jackson by tossing the doll into the air and catching it.
The Daily Record said he took over 50 rooms at the hotel for his entourage.
Eminem
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
New Book
Jefferson Airplane
The drummer for Jefferson Airplane is also the nephew of Charlie Chaplin.
Author Jeff Tamarkin, who wrote the new book "Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane," says drummer Spencer Dryden hid that fact for years, even from the band. Tamarkin says Dryden has all sorts of stories about growing up in Hollywood and hanging out with Boris Karloff and Stan Laurel. Dryden even spoke with a British accent until he was a teenager.
Another anecdote covered in the book is whether singer Grace Slick really wanted to name her daughter God rather than China, or if it was a joke for the press.
"She claims that she never intended to name China God. She said that she was just toying with a religious nurse that came into the room and asked her what the baby's name was. But as it turns out in my research I discovered an article I believe in Rolling Stone magazine that had been published several weeks before the baby was born in which she said she was going to name the baby God," Tamarkin told AP Radio.
Jefferson Airplane
Che's Daughter Defends Cuba
Aleida Guevara
The daughter of Latin America's most-recognized revolutionary, Che Guevara, said that revolution still isn't easy.
"We don't say others should do what Cuba has done," said Aleida Guevara, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Guevara's birth in his native country, Argentina.
Her father, Ernesto Guevara, was born in Argentina on June 14, 1928. He joined Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries in Mexico and they invaded Havana from the hills, taking power on January 1, 1959.
Guevera, nicknamed "Che," became the minister of industry. But the romantic got restless, resigned and opted to spread the revolution around the world. He was killed doing just that in Bolivia in 1976.
Aleida Guevara is the oldest of her father's six children. She is a pediatrician and a Communist Party member.
Aleida Guevara
Lawsuit In The Works
Ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne is planning to sue Sheron Lutz, who claims
her 6-year-old son (whom she calls "Ozzy Jr.") is the son of the famous
TV dad and metal rocker. Lutz says the child was born after she had a
1996 fling with Osbourne and points to the boy's speech impediment
(which she calls similar to Ozzy's) as proof Osbourne is the father.
Ozzy's rep says it is all ridiculous and the woman--who Osbourne insists
he has never met--is simply taking advantage of the singer's fame. On
top of that, Osbourne says he underwent a vasectomy 17 years ago and
only is the father of the five biological children and two adopted kids
he clearly claims.
As for that ''speech impediment'' claim, Osbourne's rep bluntly told the
New York Daily News that Ozzy's slurred speech has nothing whatsoever to
do with genetics, but rather the Black Sabbath legend's years of
''life-style'' issues stemming from his heavy drug use.
Ozzy
Thanks, again, Tim H!
World's Top Art Collector
Sheikh Saud al-Than
A member of the Qatar royal family, Sheikh Saud al-Thani, has been identified as the art world's biggest spender.
According to the New York-based ARTnews magazine summer issue, the sheikh topped the annual list of the world's 200 most active collectors
Among the well-known names in the top 200 were British singer David Bowie and "Cats" composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Sheikh Saud al-Than
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Celebrate Black Music Month
Bushes
Resident Bush and the first lady celebrated Black Music Month on Tuesday with a musical tribute to the Harlem Renaissance especially created for the White House.
The cast of George C. Wolfe's musical "Harlem Song" and the Harlem Jazz Museum Artists combined for a unique presentation, melding three Duke Ellington pieces with four songs from the Broadway musical.
Also on hand for the ceremony were jazz legend Herb Jeffries, "go-go" impresario Chuck Brown, gospel stars Bobby Jones and Marvin Winans, Grammy Award-winning modern jazz artist Kirk Whalum, President Mireya Moscoso of Panama, and several sports figures.
Also attending were Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Education Secretary Rod Paige.
Bushes
Former President Bill Clinton laughs during a Little Rock, Ark., announcement Wednesday, June 25, 2003, Little Rock, Ark. The Central Arkansas Library System in cooperation with the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Foundation announced the inclusion of the Clinton gubernatorial papers with a collection of those of other Arkansas governors to be housed under one roof in Little Rock.
Photo by Danny Johnston
Pair Pull Strings in Terror Pic
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
After ridiculing Saddam Hussein in the animated feature "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut," the cartoon's creators are taking on terrorism, marionette-style, in a new film project.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing the untitled project, previously known as "American Heroes," which Paramount Pictures is expected to distribute. Parker and Stone will direct and voice the film as well.
According to several sources, the project in development is a marionette movie about superheroes on a mission to eradicate such things as terrorism and certain celebrities who have outworn their welcome in the public eye.
Parker and Stone most recently created an animated segment called "A Brief History about the United States of America," illustrating the role that violence has played in the country's history, which was featured in Michael Moore's Oscar-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine."
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
Curves Economic Indicator?
Playboy Models
"Boom or bust" may take on new meaning as researchers theorize a link between U.S. economic conditions and subtle changes in Playboy centerfold physiques.
According to researchers, a comparison of the faces and figures of Playmates of the Year from 1960 to 2000 suggests men may prefer stronger-looking women in hard times, and softer, more vulnerable types when bull markets resume.
"In short, we want someone to have fun with when times are good, and we want someone to take care of us -- and themselves -- when times are bad," said psychology researcher Dr. Terry F. Pettijohn II, of Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The study, co-authored by undergraduate student Brian Jungeberg, was presented earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, in Atlanta.
Previous research has suggested that ideals of beauty and sexual attractiveness change between cultures and over time. A handful of studies have discerned a slight trend toward thinner bodies among both Playmates and Miss America contestants over the past few decades.
However, according to Pettijohn, his study is the first to consider "how social and economic conditions may have influenced these changes."
For the rest, Playboy Models
Video Focuses on Terror
'Sesame Street'
The Muppets have more to offer than lessons on numbers, letters and shapes — now they're teaching children about fear, violence and war.
The nonprofit group behind "Sesame Street" announced plans Wednesday to distribute 75,000 copies of a video called "You Can Ask!" that encourages children to ask their parents when they are confused about feelings.
The video, paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is aimed at helping children cope with repeated media images of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and other violence in the world.
The videos will be distributed this summer and fall to schools, mental health offices, crisis counselors and child-care programs in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The producers hope to take the program nationwide.
'Sesame Street'
"You Can Ask!"
A group of vicunas in Pampa Galeras National Reserve in the Andean highlands of Ayacucho, June 24, 2003, prior to being sheared. The buzz cut, takes part during the 'Chakku', a traditional ceremony to shear the vicuna's wool, an effort by farmers, the government and conservationists to save the animal from black market poachers who have been shooting and shearing the vicuna for its valuable wool.
Photo by Pilar Olivares
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
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