'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: CNN
Hi Marty,
I saw a segment on CNN today that probably won't be
repeated, but I laughed like hell. A soldier's family
was being interviewed about the change in plans about
dad's return home. The wife said she was disappointed
and worried, then her little 5 or 6 year old son said
(as best I can remember) we thought daddy was coming
home soon, but President Bush lied again. The
interviewer seemed shocked and the segment ended
abrubtly. Oh, how I wish the VCR was taping. You know
the kid was repeating what he had heard, so maybe the
military won't be so inclined to vote as a block for
the asshole next election.
Tim
Thanks, Tim!
Have had several lessons regarding small children as tiny tape-recorders -- long time ago I referred to someone as a flake. Days later, the kid answered the phone, then yelled - 'Hey, the flake is on the phone'. (cringe)
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Kucinich-Dean Dynamic
Democratic presidential contender Rep. Dennis Kucinich is both a blessing and a curse for his rival Howard Dean. MSNBC.coms Tom Curry explains the Kucinich-Dean dynamic.
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New Film, Limited Engagements
The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook, limited engagement at Nuart (LA) & Village East (NY) July 18-24
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started out sunny & humid, then it rained a bit. Now it's just hot & more humid.
The kid has never been one to sleep in - well, til this morning, thanks to the work-out he had at the fair yesterday.
Emmy nominations announced today!
Tonight, Thursday, CBS opens the evening with a FRESH 'The Amazing Race 4', followed by a RERUN
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Ari Fleischer and Beyonce Knowles.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Carla Gugino, Jonathan Silverman, and the Sounds.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Friends' (that runs 45-minutes), followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace' (it runs 40-minutes), then another RERUN
'Will & Grace' (this one runs 35-minutes), followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Sean Connery, Gabrielle Union, and Chingy.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Martin Lawrence, Mandy Moore, and Joe Buck.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Regina King, Joshua Cooper Ramo, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
ABC begins the evening with a RERUN 2-hour 'special' - 'The Disco Ball', followed by 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are 5 year-old cherry pit-spitting champ Brady Krause, and Powerman 5000, with this week's guest co-host Jack Osbourne.
The WB offers the movie 'Bad Boys'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape', followed by a FRESH '30 Seconds To Fame', then 'The Pulse'.
UPN here has baseball, with the St. Louis Cards visiting Rupert's Doggers (we'll be attending the game on Saturday).
A&E has 'Biography' (James Garner), then 'Columbo: Murder In Malibu'.
AMC has the movie 'Highlander', followed by the movie 'High Plains Drifter', then the movie 'Joe Kidd'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Nelson Mandela;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Newcastle U. Lime;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Northowram;
[9pm] 'Faking It' - Lady Lisa;
[10pm] 'Faking It' - Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Susan Sarandon;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Gordon Ramsey;
[12am] 'Faking It' - Lady Lisa;
[1am] 'Faking It' - Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Newcastle U. Lime;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Northowram;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Susan Sarandon; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Gordon Ramsey. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Jacob's Ladder', followed by 'Queer Eye', then the movie 'Jacob's Ladder', again.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Martin Lawrence.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'US-1: Avenue Of America', 'US-1: Avenue Of America', and more 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has the expanded movie 'Dune'.
TCM celebrates James Cagney fom dawn til dusk, and
Melvyn Douglas (Illeana Douglas' grandfather) all night.
[6am] 'Torrid Zone' (1940);
[7:30am] 'Captains Of The Clouds' (1942);
[9:30am] 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942);
[12pm] 'The Time Of Your Life' (1948);
[2pm] 'Love Me Or Leave Me' (1955);
[4:15pm] 'These Wilder Years' (1956);
[6pm] 'Tribute to a Bad Man' (1956);
[8pm] 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House' (1948);
[10pm] 'I Never Sang for My Father' (1969);
[12am] 'The Great Sinner' (1949);
[2am] 'A Woman's Secret' (1949);
[3:30am] 'On The Loose' (1951); and
[4:45am] 'As You Desire Me' (1932). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Women's lingerie maker Triumph International Ltd's promotions model Tomomi Kudo shows off the Hanshin Tigers Bra, made in honor of the western Japanese baseball team The Hanshin Tigers, at an unveiling in Tokyo, July 16, 2003. Developed with passionate female Tigers' fans in mind, the bra has the Tigers' mascot Truckee as its main design motif, and comes with shorts and a detachable 'tiger's tail,' and will go on sale in a 500 set limited-edition from August 15 for 10,000 yen (about $85). The Hanshin Tigers, the current Central League leader, are hoping to capture their first pennant in 18 years.
Photo by Eriko Sugita
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S.Africa To Mark 85th Birthday
Nelson Mandela
Hollywood stars and political powerbrokers join millions of South Africans this week in celebrating the 85th birthday of Nelson Mandela -- the increasingly frail icon of a nation's hopes.
Officially, Mandela's birthday Friday will be a low-key affair, marked by a few choruses of "Happy Birthday" from school groups and rugby players, a concert by a military band and a quiet evening at home with family.
Saturday, however, the big guns come out for South Africa's social event of the season as 1,600 people pack a Johannesburg auditorium in a birthday bash for Africa's revered elder statesman.
Organizers have been secretive about the guest list, rumored to include such Mandela fans as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and music stars ranging from Barbra Streisand to Michael Jackson.
While he now walks with difficulty and favors afternoon naps, Mandela is not shy about speaking his mind.
The U.S.-led war on Iraq sparked his ire -- he famously slammed resident Bush as a man who "cannot think properly" -- and he has waged a dogged campaign to raise South Africa's consciousness about HIV/AIDS, which infects close to five million people in the country.
Nelson Mandela
Votes to Block FCC Media Rule
House Committee
A House committee voted Wednesday to block federal regulators from letting companies purchase larger numbers of television stations, ignoring a Bush administration veto threat and handing a setback to the commercial television networks.
By a bipartisan 40-25 vote, the House Appropriations Committee voted to derail a new Federal Communications Commission rule that would let a single company own TV stations reaching 45 percent of American households. That new rule replaced a 35 percent limit, which has been favored by smaller broadcasters and an amalgam of groups ranging from the National Rifle Association to consumer advocates.
The Appropriations Committee's approval of the provision, which was attached to a must-pass spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments, breathed new life into an effort by congressional opponents to undo the June 2 FCC decision. Separate House and Senate bills to thwart the new FCC have bogged down, having run into opposition from pivotal committee chairmen.
Even so, with the White House threatening a veto, House Republican leaders backing the administration and continued opposition from the major commercial broadcast networks, the prospects for the provision approved on Wednesday were unclear.
For a lot more, House Committee
Suspends Publication
'Oxford American'
The Oxford American magazine suspended publication Wednesday, the second time the critically-acclaimed Southern literary magazine has shut down because of financial problems.
In statement to its staff, the magazine's editor said advertising revenues did not meet the expectations of owner At Home Media Group.
Editor Marc Smirnoff said in the statement that he and other staffers plan to do "all they can to continue publishing the magazine, in one incarnation or another, and to find new investors."
At Home Media Group has been publishing the bi-monthly journal devoted to musings, mores and mindsets of the South since January after buying out most of the ownership interest of Smirnoff and author John Grisham, who bankrolled the publication for years.
Smirnoff started The Oxford American in Oxford, Miss., in 1992, billing it "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing." He entered a partnership with Grisham two years later. The publication moved to Little Rock after it was bought by At Home Media Group.
'Oxford American'
Oxford American
An historic emerald, once owned by Robert Clive of India, Governor of Bengal and founder of British India, estimated value GBP650,000 - 850,000 (US$1,040,000 - 1,360,000), is unveiled Wednesday July 16, 2003, at Christie's in London, by the new star of the hit musical Bombay Dreams, Zehra Naqvi. Carved with exquisite Mughal carvings and set amongst dazzling diamonds, the emerald will be included in the Arts of India sale at Christie's on Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
Photo by John D McHugh
Toronto Show Adds Acts
Rolling Stones
The blockbuster lineup for the Rolling Stones concert in Toronto on July 30 has been expanded.
The Tea Party and Blue Rodeo are confirmed to take part in the event that's expected to attract 500,000 people to an old Armed Forces base in Downsview, in the city's north end.
Besides the Rolling Stones, the performers also include AC/DC, Rush, the Guess Who, Justin Timberlake, Sam Roberts, the Flaming Lips, Kathleen Edwards, the Isley Brothers, Sass Jordan and La Chicane.
But the star-studded lineup may not be enough to convince some people to attend. Fans continued Wednesday to speak out about restrictions being imposed on concertgoers, who are allowed to take in just two bottles of sealed water. They also will not be permitted to take in blankets, umbrellas, lawn chairs, coolers, video or recording equipment or food onto the open field.
Rolling Stones
3 Episodes Of 'The Practice'
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone will appear on three episodes of the ABC legal drama "The Practice" this fall.
Series creator David E. Kelley wouldn't discuss the character the 45-year-old actress will play. "That will be a part of our plot development that we'll want to keep for a surprise for the audience," Kelley told the Television Critics Association.
But Kelley said there's a possibility she'll stick around for more.
"The Practice" is returning for its eighth season without star Dylan McDermott and other cast members including Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton.
Steve Harris, Camryn Manheim, Michael Badalucco and Jessica Capshaw will be back, joined by James Spader and Rhona Mitra.
Sharon Stone
Miramax To Release In 2 Parts
'Kill Bill'
Quentin Tarantino's action flick "Kill Bill" is hitting theaters on the installment plan.
Instead of releasing what would be roughly a three-hour film, distributor Miramax is splitting "Kill Bill" into two parts of about 90 minutes each.
Part one will debut Oct. 10, the original release date scheduled for the film. A date for the second installment hasn't been determined, though it could come two to six months later, Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein told The New York Times in Wednesday's editions.
"Kill Bill," Tarantino's first film since 1997's "Jackie Brown," stars Uma Thurman as an assassin out for revenge against a hit man who tried to kill her.
'Kill Bill'
Cheap, Cheap, Cheap
NBC/GE
NBC News said Wednesday it would assign "campaign embeds," a person who will be both a reporter and camera operator, to follow each of the nine Democratic candidates for president.
The network's coverage plan is inspired, in part, by "Journeys with George," the film made by Alexandra Pelosi, a former NBC News producer, about her experience following President Bush's campaign in 1999 and 2000.
Their reports will be available on NBC News and its cable properties, MSNBC and CNBC. They will also be an integral part of "First Read," a new online newsletter on political news modeled after ones already produced by ABC and CBS.
NBC didn't identify any of their "campaign embeds." They will not be recognizable faces to NBC viewers; better-known network reporters will also cover the campaign, but not so intensively with one candidate.
NBC/GE
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Protests at Paris KFC
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders gave her vocal chords a workout Wednesday, joining animal activists in a loud protest outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in central Paris.
The rock star and a dozen others, including leaders of the animal rights group PETA, were briefly detained by police after blocking traffic on a main boulevard and smearing red paint across the restaurant's window to symbolize the blood of dead chickens.
After being brought to a nearby police station and released less than an hour later, Hynde praised the French police for their efficiency.
"In France, it's a very healthy protest scene and very common for people to take to the streets to air their grievances," Hynde told The Associated Press. "We went to a police station, we filled out a form, we'll pay a fine. That's it."
Chrissie Hynde
Bobby the penguin sits with a bowl of apples on a dining table made of ice in Old Billingsgate Market in London, July 16, 2003. The table was part of an ice house made of 30 tonnes (30,000 kg) of ice which took five weeks to sculpt and which will be used as a display area for one day by the Samsung home appliances company.
Photo by Stephen Hird
Retooled Albums
Jefferson Airplane
Almost 30 years after a host of lineup changes led psychedelic-era pioneers Jefferson Airplane to rechristen themselves as Jefferson Starship (later just Starship), BMG Heritage has prepared deluxe reissues of the group's first four albums, all set for an Aug. 19 release.
"Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," "Surrealistic Pillow," "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Crown of Creation" have each been digitally remastered from the original master tapes by engineer Bob Irwin and amended with rare or unreleased bonus tracks and liner notes by biographer Jeff Tamarkin.
Those four albums together capture the classic Jefferson Airplane period. Founded by singer/songwriter Marty Balin and also featuring principal guitarist/singers Jorma Kaukonen and Paul Kantner and bassist Jack Casady, the band solidified its most well-known lineup after the release of "Takes Off," when drummer Spencer Dryden and vocalist/songwriter Grace Slick entered the fold. Slick would be the genesis of the group's two biggest hits, "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit," both from 1967's "Surrealistic Pillow." The success of that album posited the band as one of the brightest musical stars of San Francisco's "summer of love."
Jefferson Airplane
Honored By American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
John Travolta
John Travolta flew his Boeing 707 to this southwest Ohio city to accept an award for his efforts at promoting commercial flying.
The 49-year-old actor, star of the movies "Saturday Night Fever," "Grease" and "Pulp Fiction," landed with a crew of six people at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
He took time off from a film he's shooting in New Orleans to attend the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards banquet Tuesday night at the Air Force Museum.
Travolta, who is ambassador-at-large for Australia's Qantas Airlines, was honored with the AIAA Foundation Award for Excellence for his efforts in promoting commercial flying.
John Travolta
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Museum Readies Show
Jordan Artifacts
Stone statues and other artifacts from Petra, the ancient city carved out of desert cliffs in Jordan, have been unpacked at the American Museum of Natural History in preparation for their first showing in the United States.
The 200 busts and other objects, dating mainly from the first century A.D., will be on view from October through July 2004, then move to the Cincinnati Art Museum, a co-sponsor. Other showings in the United States and Canada also are planned.
The 7.5 tons of Petra sandstone, and Greek, Roman and Byzantine marble, terra cotta and alabaster, were still in half-opened crates as museum officials conducted a preview Wednesday of what will be, for many North American audiences, the first physical contact with Petra.
Founded in the second century B.C. by the Nabateans, an ancient civilization of desert nomads turned urbanites, Petra was for nearly five centuries a highly developed, agriculture-based society and crossroads of the silk and spice trade among Asia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Its importance waned after a devastating earthquake in 363 A.D. By 700 A.D., it had all but vanished, until rediscovered by a Swiss explorer in 1812.
For more, Jordan Artifacts
American Museum of Natural History
Francisco Mendez, right, a student at the University of California at Los Angeles, takes part in a student demonstration held to protest budget cuts and increased student fees, Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at California State University, Long Beach, in Long Beach, Calif. University of California regents recommended raising student fees by as much as 30 percent Wednesday, saying they have no other choice in the face of a disastrous state budget.
Photo by Nick Ut
Extortion Trial Might Be Delayed
Rene Angelil
Lawyers for a couple accused of trying to extort money from singer Celine Dion's husband, Rene Angelil, said they may withdraw from the case, and a trial next month might have to be postponed.
Yun Kyeong Kwon Sung, 47, and her husband Ae Ho Kwon, 50, both of California, were due for trial Aug. 25 in Clark County District Court.
Lawyers Robert Langford and JoNell Thomas said they might ask a judge on July 22 to let them withdraw from representing Sung and Kwon, respectively.
Kwon said in an interview after a brief court hearing that he and his wife were having trouble paying legal fees.
Rene Angelil
Ex-Wrestler Paints Official Portrait
Jesse Ventura
The artist who painted former Gov. Jesse Ventura's official Capitol portrait describes the much-anticipated work as surprising, but not shocking.
"This is a dignified, loving portrait of a statesman," said Steven Cepello, aka Steve Strong, aka the California Terminator. A tag-team partner of Ventura's in the late 1970s, Cepello was smearing paint on canvas in his spare time, even as he did the same to opponents in the ring.
"It is outdoors because Jesse loves the outdoors," said the Los Angles-based artist. "His instruction to me was, `Just do a dignified portrait of me.'"
The 36-by-48-inch portrait has a gilt, hand-carved frame, which marries nearly perfectly to the painting, Cepello said. It's a three-quarter pose.
In 2001, Cepello used a Las Vegas wrestlers' conference to unveil a portrait of Ventura designed to hang in the Governor's Residence. In that image, Ventura is wearing a suit of armor, sitting on a white horse and holding an American flag.
Jesse Ventura
Guggenheim Shows Hidden Mural
Joan Miro
A hidden treasure — a mural by Spanish artist Joan Miro — is on display for the first time since 1990 as part of a new show at the Guggenheim Museum highlighting classics of modern art.
The 20-foot-long mural comprises 190 ceramic tiles, with the name "Alice" in huge exuberant letters surrounded by Miro's characteristic celestial shapes.
The artwork was permanently installed in 1967, but it is usually hidden behind a false wall to accommodate the museum's revolving array of special exhibitions.
It fits in perfectly, however, with the Guggenheim's new exhibit: "From Picasso to Pollock: Classics of Modern Art," which opened last week and continues through Sept. 28.
Along with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, the show features 130 paintings and sculptures by 48 artists, including Vasily Kadinsky, Willem de Kooning, Marc Chagall and Piet Mondrian.
The mural is on the first wall visitors see as they begin to ascend the Guggenheim's spiral ramp. It was commissioned in 1963 by Harry F. Guggenheim — then president of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — as a memorial to his wife, Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, the founder and publisher of Newsday who died unexpectedly that year at the age of 56.
For more, Joan Miro
Guggenheim Museum
Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk
Frequent Masturbation
Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research.
Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.
They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the gland.
"The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them," Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.
Frequent Masturbation
Two ring-tailed lemurs at the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, attempt to settle the dilemma of one ear of corn between them, Wednesday, June 26, 2002. The indri, the largest of Madagascar's lemurs, is heading for extinction.
Photo by Phil Coale
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
Grab a box of Kleenex and follow the adventurers as they confront their darkest inner demons.
'The Osbournes'
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