BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 30 June, 2005
Thursday
30 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
BUSH IS A FLUNKIE
Why it took an election and another year of Bunnypants is beyond the imagination, but it seems his popularity is sliding, rather spriraling downward. He's running out of excuses for the miserable shape this country is in.
Things are not better in Iraq. They are not better domestically. Our allies are becoming sort of semi-allies. Our deficit is skyrocketing. We need more troops in Iraq to finish the job but Bush won't admit that he fucked up miscalculating every damn thing about the war. Yet every word out of the Pentagon or the administration is that things are improving. His monkey face is becoming unbearable as he looks into the camera and says we're doin' just fine. He needs to go to the reality bank and open an account to get the free toaster.
Senator Joe Biden is actually laying some shit on the table that needs to be looked at so we can exit Iraq without having that region that is so vital for oil blow up into a world war. These insurgents are sacrificing themselves with suicide bombings that will have to stop soon or the Iraqis who want freedom will turn around and say that's enough. Biden says we HAVE TO GET MORE GROUND TROOPS. No more shock and awe bullshit. We are fighting an insurgency that made Hussein's Royal Guard look like a volunteer fire brigade. We essentially have another war on our hands that must be won or that region will be an open battlefield.
Bunnypants has yet to realize the urgency that our troops need help. The shock and awe campaign was a failure. Face up to it and get a strategy to beat the shit out of the insurgents. The problem is that Bunnypants has no strategy. This idiot is supposedly worried about Social Security 45 years down the road as our Marines are perishing. Focus, George. You have a very dangerous bloody war still going on, sir. No mission has been accomplished when your enemy is willing to sacrifice themselves so they can cause terror blowing themselves and lots of others to pieces.. It's time to fight them with their own tactics. We have troops trained in guerilla warfare. We need them now.
Are the Syrians supplying the majority of Jihad? If they are, infiltrate and kill them. Capturing the son of a bitch that was responsible for 9/11 would be a boost for the country, as well. It seems like bin Laden is rarely mentioned these days with the exception of this new CIA guy who says HE knows where the guy is. He said it was politics that prevented us from getting him. I'd say political protocol has been violated by that man, and we'll get him wherever he might reside. C'mon, you fuckin' liars, do you really know where he is?
It sickens me when it seems like it has become blase when a newsperson rips through the news saying 23 Iraqis and three marines were blown up yesterday. I'm viewing the 5:30 Action Seven news as I write.
First comes the LATE BREAKING WEATHER (THAT BLEW THE ROOF OF FARMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT), that's what just came across first. Then they went to the weather to say every thing was gonna be fine... God almighty. It's been seven minutes and no mention of Iraq. It's disgusting. Let's see more newsdrones!!!!
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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GEORGE BUSH MAKES UP LIES
GEORGE BUSH TAKES AMERICAN LIVES
PUTS THEM IN HARMS WAY
Zen Man
(watching the LIAR on FOX)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Joshua Holland: Debtor Nation at Red Alert (AlterNet)
It is a dark wonder that one of the gravest threats to our economy, rising debt --and I mean tons of debt, mountains of debt at every level--is an issue so rarely discussed in polite company.
Harvey Wasserman: This July 4, let's enshrine the Ten Amendments, not the Ten Commandments, as America's true Patriot Act (Columbus Free Press)
As we approach our nation's birthday, its core values are under attack. Religious fanatics, who are profoundly unAmerican, are trying to impose their particular theology on us all.
Molly Ivins: Batten down the hatches (Creators Syndicate)
... I thought it would be much more useful to get bin Laden than to invade Iraq -- which, once again, had nothing to do with 9-11.
A queer approach to politics: Geov Parrish (WorkingForChange.com)
This past weekend -- as happens about this time every year -- I was queer.
Felice Prager: The Re-education of Cookie Monster (irascibleprofessor.com)
When I was a sophomore in high school, I never ate lunch.
Quotes from the American Taliban
Cartoons: Center for American Progress
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Another Rant
Avery Ant
WIN A MONTH AT REHAB WITH AVERY
BEFORE: ONE SICKLY ANT
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Purple Gene Reviews
'On The Record'
Purple Gene's review of Greta Van Susteren's FOX show "On The Record" live in Aruba:
Fuck the war in Iraq….Fuck the president's stupid speech….Fuck 12 GI's killed in Afghanistan….Fuck Karl Rove's stupid speech……Let's go live to Aruba where "Face-lifted" FOX whore, Greta Van Susteren has a breaking lead in the Missing High School Teenager from Alabama on a graduation trip to the Carribean story….Why it's a special interview with her step father …JUG TWITTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy fuckin' shameful exploitation horse shit…how did she get the SCOOP?????? I mean…hold the presses…we're talkin' JUG TWITTY….forget the inside interview with the former local Aruban detective who has deep insight into how the system works "Down Here"….forget the exclusive sit down talk with the club DJ who was arrested then released……forget Geraldo's exclusive up to the minute CHAT……Greta's got JUG TWITTY…….
I hope all these exploitive and annoying Gnats that jabber about jibberish and actually intervene in the sacred privacy of these poor peoples tragedy, have something equally sordid and painful happen to them……
Greta Van Susteren,
Bill O Reilly, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter….all these cackling creeps that take themselves soooooooooooo seriously!
This is the WORST SHIT I have ever seen.
Greta and her horde of whores gets a minus 100…cancel their lives.
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On Vacation
That Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Not a lot of cloud coverage this morning, and the afternoons are getting warmer.
This Sunday night at 9pm (pdt) I'll be a guest on the
Erin Hart Show on
KIRO in Seattle - audio streams live online.
Also, Erin Hart
is filling in again for Jay Marvin on Air America
in Boulder, CO on July 5th from 4am to 9am (pdt) - I'll be an early morning guest there, too.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'The Cut', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Jennifer Connelly and the Eels.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Astronaut Leroy Chiao, and Ty Barnett.
NBC begins the night with an hourlong RERUN 'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH 'Hit Me Baby One More Time', then a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
On a RERUN Leno (from 5/24/05) are Renee Zellweger, Dominic Monaghan, and Lisa Marie Presley.
On a RERUN Conan (from 4/14/05) are David Duchovny, Rachel Dratch, and Widespread Panic.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 4/28/05) are Jim Breuer, Donny Deutch, and Rhymesfest.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Toy Story', followed by 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 6/15/05) are George Lopez, Gabrielle Union, and Embrace.
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 a RERUN 'That 70s Show', then another RERUN 'That 70s Show'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case Files', then 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie '48 HRS', followed by the movie 'Smokey & The Bandit', then the movie 'Easy Rider'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 7;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Do You Take This Man;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;
[4pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 5;
[4:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Nasty;
[5:20pm] 'The Young Ones' - Time;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Gill Last;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Cycling Tour;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Nude Man;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Henry Tripshaw's Disease;
[10pm] 'Green Wing' - Episode 7;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[12am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Cycling Tour;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Nude Man;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Henry Tripshaw's Disease;
[2am] 'Green Wing' - Episode 7;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Cycling Tour;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Nude Man;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Henry Tripshaw's Disease;
[5am] 'Green Wing' - Episode 7;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Tommy Boy', followed by the movie 'Tommy Boy', again, then the SERIES PREMIERE 'Being Bobby Brown', followed by 'Being Bobby Brown', again.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jeff Dunham), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jimmy Pardo), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Adam Ferrarar), 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Reno 911!'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart is Kenneth Timmerman.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFO Files', another 'UFO Files', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Business of Strangers' (2001);
[7:30AM] 'IFC June Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[8:30AM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[10AM] 'A Room For Romeo Brass' (1999);
[11:30AM] 'At The IFC Center' (2005);
[12PM] 'Invincible' (2001);
[2:15PM] Short: 'Patti Burns' (2001);
[2:30PM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[4:15PM] 'IFC June Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[6:15PM] 'Invincible' (2001);
[8:30PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[8:45PM] 'Proof' (1992);
[10:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #107' (2005);
[11PM] 'Body Parts' (1991);
[12:45AM] 'Blade Runner' (2003);
[2:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[3AM] 'Body Parts' (1991);
[4:45AM] 'IFC June Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[5:45AM] Short: Patti Burns' (2001). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Tremors 3: Back To Perfection', followed by the movie 'Tremors 4: The Legend Begins'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon';
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/08/05);
[8AM] 'Playing for Change';
[9:15AM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill';
[9:35AM 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Singing Detective';
[10AM 'Springtime in a Small Town';
[12PM] 'John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk';
[1:35PM] 'Kiss of Life';
[3PM 'Santiago Calatrava's Travels';
[4:30PM 'Dummy';
[6:05PM] 'La Cage Aux Folles';
[8PM] 'Die Mommie Die!';
[9:30PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Die Mommie Die!';
[10PM] 'Margaret Cho's Revolution';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/09/05);
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (06/10/05);
[4:35AM] 'Fan Mail';
[5AM] 'Springtime in a Small Town'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM features films directed by
Anthony Mann all day.
[6am] 'Sing Your Way Home' (1945);
[7:15am] 'The Bamboo Blonde' (1946);
[8:30am] 'Desperate' (1947);
[9:45am] 'Two O'Clock Courage' (1945);
[11am] 'Side Street' (1949);
[12:30pm] 'Border Incident' (1949);
[2:15pm] 'Devil's Doorway' (1950);
[3:45pm] 'The Naked Spur' (1953) [View Trailer];
[5:30pm] 'Cimarron' (1960);
[8pm] 'Roughly Speaking' (1945);
[10pm] 'Honky Tonk' (1941);
[12am] 'It's A Date' (1940);
[2am] 'My Bill' (1938);
[3:15am] 'Min And Bill' (1930);
[4:30am] 'Tugboat Annie' (1933). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 07/01
TCM celebrates the 89th birthday of the ageless
Olivia de Havilland all day.
[6am] 'It's Love I'm After' (1937);
[8am] 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade' (1936);
[10am] 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex' (1939);
[12pm] 'Dodge City' (1939);
[2pm] 'The Male Animal' (1942);
[4pm] 'The Heiress' (1949);
[6pm] 'Light In The Piazza' (1962);
[8pm] 'The First Auto' (1927) SILENT ;
[9:30pm] 'Speedy' (1928) SILENT ;
[11pm] 'Excuse My Dust' (1951);
[12:30am] 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (1942) [View Trailer];
[2am] 'Closely Watched Trains' (1967) [AKA: 'Ostre sledované vlaky'];
[3:45am] 'Hangmen Also Die' (1943). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Singer Tony Bennett holds his honorary diploma which he received from New York's High School of Art and Design during the school's graduation ceremony Wednesday, June 29, 2005. Tony would have graduated from the high school in 1945 but left to support his family by working as a singing waiter. Another of Bennett's early jobs was that of copy boy for The Associated Press.
Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek
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Wins Humanitas Prize
'Hotel Rwanda'
The screenwriters of "Hotel Rwanda" won the Humanitas Prize on Wednesday for their story based on a hotel manager's efforts to shelter victims of Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Writers Keir Pearson and Terry George received $25,000 in recognition of the film's "reminder of the importance and duty of universal concern," the Humanitas Prize organization said.
For the first time in 31 years, however, voters chose not to award a prize in the sitcom category because none of the scripts submitted measured up to standards, Humanitas Prize President Frank Desiderio said.
Other winners of the screenwriting awards:
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson won $25,000 for "Lackawanna Blues," a music- and dance-filled HBO movie based on his experiences growing up in a boardinghouse in the 1950s and '60s.
• Michael Kang received $10,000 for "The Motel," a film about a lonely 13-year-old boy who befriends a resident at his parents' hourly rate motel.
• John Wells won $15,000 for an episode of NBC's "The West Wing" in which the president calls for peace talks after Americans are killed by Palestinian terrorists.
• Kelly Ward and Cliff MacGillivray received $25,000 for an episode of the animated PBS children's series "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks" in which Piggley Winks helps a friend grieve over a pet fish's death.
• Karen Leigh Hopkins and Alan Marc Levy won $25,000 for the ABC Family TV movie "Searching for David's Heart" about a teen girl coping with her older brother's death.
• Film school graduate Erika Kennair received $10,000 for a spec script for "The Bernie Mac Show." Aspiring screenwriters write spec scripts for existing shows but they are not typically produced.
'Hotel Rwanda'
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NBC Drops Plans
'9/11' Miniseries
NBC has dropped plans for a highly touted miniseries based on the best-selling official narrative of the Sept. 11 attacks, but producers expect a cable network to pick up the project, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
An NBC insider said a key consideration in shelving the project was a similar program that rival broadcaster ABC was seeking to get onto its airwaves first. "We're not going to rush a project of this magnitude," the person said.
An ABC spokeswoman said the Walt Disney Co.-owned network is proceeding with its own six-hour miniseries based on the "9/11 Commission Report," which it hopes to air sometime in early 2006.
'9/11' Miniseries
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Indian dancers perform the classical dance 'Bharatanatyam' during a cultural programme in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, June 28, 2005. Picture taken on June 28, 2005.
Photo by Ajay Verma
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Broadens Schedule
BBC America
In a bid to enhance its appeal to middle America, BBC America has included what it terms some "very populist dramas" among its usual high-end offerings.
Among the new additions to its slate are the musical love story/thriller "Viva Blackpool" and the gritty medical drama "Bodies." Other new projects include a made-for-TV movie starring Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, the miniseries "Messiah: The Promise," the comedy-drama series "Love Soup" and comedy show "The Robinsons."
In addition, BBC America announced five British acquisitions: the drama "Teachers,"; the female prison drama "Bad Girls,"; the political satire "The Thick of It,"; the drama "Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky"; and the made-for-TV movie "Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle."
BBC America
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To Be Honored at VH1 Show
Notorious B.I.G.
Both Big Poppa and Big Daddy Kane will get their props from VH1 this year. The late Notorious B.I.G. - also known as Biggie Smalls, also known as Big Poppa - and old-school rapper Kane will be feted at the second annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors on Sept. 22 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. The show will air Sept. 26 on VH1.
Other honorees include LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Ice-T, Salt-N-Pepa and the 1991 film "Boyz n the Hood."
Notorious B.I.G.
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Estate Donates $5M to Hospital
Johnny Carson
The estate of comedian-TV host Johnny Carson has donated $5 million to Faith Regional Health Services.
The donation will be used to fund an endowment for the Carson Cancer Center to ensure that services remain available to people in northeast Nebraska, said Faith Regional Chief Executive Officer Bob Driewer.
The center was named in memory of Carson's parents, and according to the hospital Web site, Carson made the largest financial donation to the initial building fund.
Johnny Carson
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More Idiocy From Texas
Mikhael Rawls
Singing soprano is for girls only in Texas' elite All-State Choir, eliminating a 17-year-old boy's chance to audition for a statewide honor and raising questions about gender discrimination.
The Texas Music Educators Association on June 15 denied a request from Mikhael Rawls to audition this fall as a soprano, a part traditionally sung by girls.
Rawls sings countertenor, a little known male voice part that has surged in popularity in classical and operatic circles. He can sing an octave and a half higher than most boys his age, and he feels most comfortable singing in that range.
He has even won first place as a soprano in the University Interscholastic League's competition two years in a row.
Mikhael Rawls
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Sand sculptors carve a creation during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge in northern Belgium June 29, 2005. A team of fifty carvers from around the world spent five weeks building a giant sculpture to mark Belgium's 175th anniversary. Twenty-four tonnes of sands were needed to complete the sculpture which will be on display to the public between July 2 and August 28.
Photo by Thierry Roge
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The Musical
'Tarzan'
"Tarzan," the musical, will swing on Broadway next spring. A lavish stage version - with a cast of 34 - will open in 2006 at a theater to be announced, Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions, said Wednesday.
The musical, with a score by Phil Collins, is based on the 1999 Disney animated film which featured the voice of Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan and the voice of Minnie Driver as Jane. No casting has been announced for the Broadway version.
"Tarzan" will be directed by Bob Crowley, who will also design the show's sets and costumes. Crowley is best known for his sets and costume designs for Disney's "Aida" and the 1994 Lincoln Center Theater revival of "Carousel."
'Tarzan'
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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'Roger Rabbit' Verdict
Disney
The Walt Disney Co. must pay "Roger Rabbit" creator Gary Wolf at least $180,000 in underreported royalties, but the media giant prevailed on the larger issue of whether gross receipts must include the value of promotional deals.
The 15-week jury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court could leave Wolf with as much as $400,000 in damages but not the $8 million he had sought by claiming that his 5% royalty extended to the noncash value of promotional tie-ins with McDonald's and other outlets.
The case was closely watched in the entertainment industry because it could have profoundly altered the traditional notion that noncash promotional deals do not count toward gross receipts.
In the end, the jury found in favor of Disney's interpretation of gross receipts as meaning monies and things that are converted to money.
Disney
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In this photograph provided by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Female Head from Tamna, believed created in the first half of the first century is one of the pieces on display in 'Caravan Kingdom: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade', on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery from June 25, 2005 until Sept. 11, 2005.
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Seeks Divorce From Groove
Terry McMillan
Author Terry McMillan has filed for divorce from the man who inspired the 1996 novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," which chronicled the romantic adventures of a 40-something woman who falls for a guy half her age.
In papers filed in Contra Costa County Superior Court, McMillan, 53, says she decided to end her 6 1/2-year marriage to Jonathan Plummer, 30, after learning he is gay.
The revelation led her to conclude Plummer married only to get his U.S. citizenship, she said. McMillan met Plummer at a Jamaican resort a decade ago.
Terry McMillan
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ABC Pulls Reality Series
'Welcome to the Neighborhood'
"Welcome to the Neighborhood," an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut.
The six-episode show, which was to debut July 10, follows three families in Austin, Texas, who are given the chance to choose a new neighbor for a house on their street.
They must choose from families that are black, Hispanic and Asian; two gay white men who've adopted a black child; a couple covered in tattoos and piercings; a couple who met at the woman's initiation as a witch; and a poor white family.
'Welcome to the Neighborhood'
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A 646.2-pound (293 kg) Mekong giant catfish, netted in Thailand, may be the largest freshwater fish ever found. The fish was documented as part of a World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic project to identify and study and conserve freshwater fish around the world that exceed 6 feet in length and 200 pounds in weight.
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Draws Career-Low TV Audience
Iraq Speech
Resident Bush's latest address to the nation, urging Americans to stand firm in Iraq, drew the smallest TV audience of his tenure, Nielsen Media Research reported on Wednesday.
Live coverage of Bush's half-hour speech on Tuesday night from the Ft. Bragg military base in North Carolina averaged 23 million viewers combined on four major U.S. broadcast networks and three leading cable news channels, Nielsen said.
Designed largely to bolster sagging public support for the persistently bloody conflict in Iraq, the speech fell 8.6 million viewers shy of Bush's previous low as president, his Aug. 9, 2001 address on stem cell research, which was carried on six networks.
Iraq Speech
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Devotees of Saint Peter, patron of fishermen, escort his image in boats, at the Chorrillos port, in Lima, on Wednesday, June 29, 2005. Peruvian Catholics celebrate this day in coastal communities throughout the country.
Photo by Martin Mejia
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Ordered to Rehab
Nick Carter
Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter was ordered into a three-month alcohol treatment program after pleading guilty to drunk driving.
Carter, 25, entered the plea Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court. The judge also ordered Carter to pay $1,200 in fines, placed him on three years' informal probation and restricted his driving privileges for 90 days, said Deputy District Attorney Tate McCallister.
The singer has said through his publicist that he was on prescription medication at the time "and was unaware of its interaction possibilities."
Nick Carter
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In Memory
Robert Clark
Robert Clark, a college president best known for his support of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos following their civil rights protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday. He was 95.
Clark was president of San Jose State College in the 1960s when the two sprinters, who both attended the school, raised their gloved fists and bowed their heads in protest during the playing of the national anthem at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City - one of the most indelible moments of the modern games.
After the protest, Smith and Carlos were kicked out of the Olympic village and made a target of scorn nationwide. Back at San Jose State, however, Clark called them "honorable young men."
"My father was always opening his door to the angry and saying 'You may be right,'" his daughter, Suzanne Clark, said in a statement. "This was true whether the rebellious one was an eight-year-old or Vietnam protesters carrying torches."
Robert Clark
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In Memory
Chris Griffin
Chris Griffin, a member of the acclaimed trumpet section in Benny Goodman's big-band orchestra, has died. Griffin, 89, died June 18 at Danbury Hospital. The cause was melanoma, according to his fiancee, Louise Baranger.
Griffin was a member of what critics called "The Biting Brass" trumpet threesome in Goodman's orchestra, playing alongside Harry James and Ziggy Elman. Duke Ellington once called the three "the greatest trumpet section that ever was."
Born in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 31, 1915, Griffin learned to play the horn at age 12 and moved to New York City as a teen to become a musician.
After leaving Goodman's orchestra, he went on to play lead trumpet in television orchestras, including the "Ed Sullivan Show" and the "Jackie Gleason Show."
Chris Griffin
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In Memory
Domino Harvey
Domino Harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter whose life is being depicted in the upcoming action movie "Domino," died Monday. She was 35.
The British-born Harvey was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said coroner's Lt. Larry Deitz. She was taken to the hospital after being found in her West Hollywood home, police said.
Harvey, the daughter of the original "The Manchurian Candidate" star Laurence Harvey, gave up a lucrative Ford modeling career and socialite life to become a bounty hunter.
She was arrested in West Hollywood in May on drug charges. She also faced federal charges of conspiring to distribute drugs, crossing state lines for unlawful activity and having property used in or obtained through criminal activity.
"Domino" (view trailer) is scheduled for release on Nov. 4.
Domino Harvey
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In this photo provided by the Alaska SeaLife Center, shown is a baby walrus, that was found on a beach in the Alaska village of Kivalina, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, Tuesday, June 28, 2005.
Photo by Jason Wettstein
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