BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 21 July, 2005
Thursday
21 July, 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
Who's Minding the Homefront?
With all the hub-bub and utter bullshit going around, such as special prosecutors throwing journalists who probably didn't know a hell of a lot of the story behind the big story in jail, who's minding our homeland security?. The big story I refer to is how Karl Rove lied to the United States to throw off a blood trail of why in the hell we are in Iraq, and why the Republicans are so inextricably worried they are gonna get caught with their wiener in their zipper, that nothing is being discussed about the constant threat of terrorism that Bush used just weeks ago before the London explosions to throw off the blood trail of why in the hell are we in Iraq, get it?
Orange alerts, amber alerts, mauve alerts, have all gone by the wayside as Bush cockily strolls from the White House Lawn flanked by U.S. Traitor Numero Uno Karl Rove in the most arrogant photo-op in the past, oh, couple of days. For those of you who voted Republican to get truth back into the White House, have you figured anything, or I should say, have you learned anything about politics? Have you learned they are all lying jerk-offs and you must decide which lies and which men will do the least harm to your freedoms and rights as a United States citizen? Blow jobs versus war, ladies and gents.
Karl Rove categorically lied to the U.S. public when he told Scott McClellan he did not leak a thing to the press. McClellan said that Rove knew nothing of the leak at a press conference in 2003 and that Rove couldn't be the leaker. It would be logical to assume Rove lied to Scott. Why would Scott lie right off the seat of his pants? Now Scott's credibilty is shot with the White House press. Rove's credibility was suspect from the git-go of this whole fiasco.
But I'm serious about who in the fuck is minding our homefront. Both parties seem to be in such a partisan frenzy about the Rove deal that the London bombing was almost overlooked. Are men still on a vigilant watch in regards to U.S. citizens getting blown up by fuckwads who think they're up for 28 flowering virgins? I would think this would be a perfect time for an attack. Those Arabians are smart motherfuckers. Their ancestors built the most amazing pyramids whose engineering is unparalled even today. And they have money. Lots of money. Money and intelligence and hatred and America with it's pants down.
I watched a newscast on the Today show where the word Iraq WAS NOT USED IN THE WHOLE FUCKING SEGMENT. I hate to be the one to keep hammering this home, but I think it's a tad more important than tape with blond hair washing ashore in Aruba (the top story), or when and what Matt Cooper said to the special prosecutor going after who knows what. We're at war, goddammit. Enough of Natalie Holloway. She got murdered after being raped by drunken party rats. It happens every fucking year during spring break. Is it the color of her hair? Leave it alone. The boys who killed her might or might not get away with it, but that's way way down the road. The 24 hour news whores can jerk off down there and party their asses off, but NBC should know better, know that Natalie Holloway is not more important than one Iraqi life being extinguished by the hatred our leader has caused in the Middle East.
People are still dying every fucking day and it doesn't even merit mention. It's so goddammed outrageous the president ought to be impeached for throwing up this smokescreen regarding the Rove issue. I know the reason for the smokescreen, too. It's because the lies he told the U.S. regarding WMD's began around this point in time and it makes his tummy willy-nilly.
This could be the start of the breakdown of this corrupt administration. That's why the real issue of why Rove leaked Plame to Cooper, to throw off Cooper of the content of the report of Joe Wilson, who said Niger had not been approached by Iraq about "yellow cake" used to enrich uranium to lethal radioactive levels, which blew the truth out of Cheney's stance that Iraq was near nuclear capability, or at least trying to get there. Cheney dismissed Wilson's report as bullshit 'cause his cock had not been stroked properly by the guy they sent to find this information out, so out went the truth.
Folks, this is the beginning of what could be the Three Mile Island of this administration. If David Gregory or Norah O'Donnell would follow the money as Bernstein and Woodward did with Nixon, they could go down in history as the people who blew the lid off the White House of Lies that have been spoon fed to our Republic. And by the way, who will be watching our back doors while this meltdown will ultimately occur? God Save Our Queen. Shit. We have no Queen. God Save Our Republic (sing it to the same melody).
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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ALWAYS AT DOGPARK
WATERING....REMINISCING...
DON THE HOMELESS DUDE
Zen Man
(in Alameda Shoreline dog park)
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Today
Erin Hart Show
Erin is filling in for Jay Marvin on Boulder's Progressive Talk, AM760.net today
and Friday, July 21st & 22nd, from 5am to 9am (pdt) - (six to nine for you Coloradans).
Thursday guests will include Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni about Rep. Tom Tancredo
and his outraging comments about attacking Mecca; and on Friday, Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr. about his new book, "Crimes Against Nature".
We are also working on guests to cover the naming of John Roberts to the
Supreme Court--will he and should he be confirmed? And a special guest to
talk about the Karl Rove scandal--you didn't think we'd forget, did you????
And we will check in with Marty (or is it Martha?) of Bartcop.com
about tasty links of the week early Friday morning.
And Saturday and Sunday nights on 710 KIRO Sunday night, 9pm to 1am (pdt),
we will cover Traitorgate, Downing
Street, Roberts and all the progressive news fit to talk.
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Reader Comment
Re: Monkey Mail
Hasn't got the stones to sign his name, gives a phoney e-mail address, and can't spell.
Cowardly AND brainless - just like Bush!
I don't know why he can't spell "loser" correctly. I'm sure he's been called that often enough during his lifetime.
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Beth Quinn: Pro-war parents: How to get your kid into uniform (Times Herald-Record)
This one is for you parents who think our fight in Iraq is a really swell idea.
Judith Coburn: Unnamed, Unnoticed (Tomdispatch.com. Posted on Alternet)
More than two years into our occupation of Iraq, there is still no official record kept of the civilian dead.
BUSH TWINS JENNA AND BARBARA ENLIST IN WAR EFFORT
"Like our dad said," First Twin Barbara Bush said. "The war is hard work." "So we will do some hard drinking," added Jenna Bush.
Iraq Coalition Casualties
Game: The Haggis Hurl
eclectech: Games, Songs, and Stuff
Ward Sutton: Fantastically Arrogant Four (Cartoon)
Operation Truth
Mainstreet Moms Operation Blue
Leave My Child Alone
militaryfreeschools.org: includes the Student Opt-Out Form
Mothers Against The Draft
The Holcaust: Heroes and Villains
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Another Rant
Avery Ant
AVERY RANTS ABOUT BENEDICT ROVE
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, humid & not very pleasant.
Raccoons striped the fig tree last night.
Watched 'American Masters: Bob Newhart' on PBS - brought back memories of playing "Hi Bob" back in college.
We'd watch 'The Bob Newhart Show' and everytime someone (on the show) said 'Hi Bob' an attempt at consciousness altering was mandatory. Guess calling it 'High Bob' would also be accurate.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Big Brother 6', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Courteney Cox, Elvis Costello, and Emmylou Harris.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Penn Jillette, Storm chaser Warren Faidley and Preston Clarke.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by another RERUN 'Joey', and yet another RERUN of the unwatchable 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then another RERUN 'Will & Grace', followed by still another RERUN 'Will & Grace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, and Phil Vassar.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are John Leguizamo, Christy Martin, and John Tesh.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Christina Applegate and Bill Burr.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', followed by a FRESH 'Hooking Up', then 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel Rerun Andy Roddick, Taryn Manning, and Nathan Trenholm.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Everwood'.
Faux has a RERUN 'That 70s Show', followed by another RERUN 'That 70s Show', then a RERUN 'The O.C.'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Silverado' (not the Neil Bush story), followed by the movie 'Winchester '73', then the movie 'Bandolero!'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 4;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Coffee Morning;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[4pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 8;
[4:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Potato;
[5:20pm] 'Blackadder' - Money;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Smith;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 29;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[10pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[10:30pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 29;
[12am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[2am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[2:30am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Mr. Neutron;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Party Political Broadcast;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Owl-Stretching Time;
[5am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 1;
[5:30am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Blow Out', 'Being Bobby Brown', another 'Being Bobby Brown', followed by a FRESH 'Being Bobby Brown', and another 'Being Bobby Brown'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Vanessa Hollingshead), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Lewis Black), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Todd Glass), 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Reno 911!'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Fareed Zakaria.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Little Big Horn: The Untold Story', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'This is Not a Film' (2003);
[7:30AM] Short film: 'Red' (2001);
[7:45AM] 'The Lady and the Duke' (2001);
[10AM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[11:30AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[12PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[12:15PM] 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1999);
[2:30PM] Short film: 'Red' (2001);
[2:45PM] 'The Lady and the Duke' (2001);
[5PM] 'Sweet Dreams' (1985);
[7PM] 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1999);
[9:15PM] 'Clockwatchers' (1997);
[11PM] 'The Daytrippers' (1996);
[12:35AM] 'All Over The Guy' (2001);
[2:15AM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2003);
[3AM] 'The Daytrippers' (1996);
[4:35AM] 'I Married A Strange Person' (1997). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Primal Force', followed by the movie 'Attack Of The Sabretooth'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/20/05);
[8AM] 'Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary';
[9:15AM] 'The Passion of Maria Elena';
[10:30AM] 'Bartleby';
[12PM] 'Gacaca: Living Together Again in Rwanda?';
[1PM] 'Julie Walking Home';
[3PM] 'Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary';
[4:15PM] 'The Support Group';
[4:30PM] 'Searching for Paradise';
[6PM] 'Birdy';
[8PM] 'It's All About Love';
[10PM] 'Pi';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/21/05);
[12:30AM] 'Julie Walking Home';
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (07/21/05);
[3:30AM] 'The Hanging Garden';
[5AM] 'Birdy'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM pays tribute all morning and afternoon to C. Aubrey Smith, who was born on this day in 1863.
[6am] 'Daybreak' (1931);
[7:30am] 'The Man In Possession' (1931);
[9am] 'Never The Twain Shall Meet' (1931);
[10:30am] 'Son Of India' (1931);
[11:45am] 'The Florentine Dagger' (1935);
[1pm] 'Jalna' (1935);
[2:30pm] 'The Right To Live' (1935);
[4pm] 'Beyond Tomorrow' (1940);
[5:30pm] 'Free And Easy' (1941);
[6:30pm] 'Maisie Was A Lady' (1941);
[8pm] 'Winning' (1969);
[10:15pm] 'Grand Prix' (1966) [View Trailer];
[1:15am] 'Speedway' (1968) [View Trailer];
[3am] 'The Crowd Roars' (1932);
[4:30am] 'Indianapolis Speedway' (1939). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 07/22
TCM:
[6am] 'Secrets of the French Police' (1932);
[7am] 'Nine Lives Are Not Enough' (1941);
[8:15am] 'Steel Against The Sky' (1941);
[9:30am] 'Army Surgeon' (1942);
[10:45am] 'Sing Your Worries Away' (1942);
[12pm] 'Having Wonderful Crime' (1945);
[1:30pm] 'Journal Of A Crime' (1934);
[3pm] 'Crime Ring' (1938);
[4:15pm] 'Crime School' (1938);
[5:45pm] 'Crime By Night' (1944);
[7pm] 'Escape From Crime' (1942);
[8pm] 'Kiss Me Deadly' (1955);
[10pm] 'Detour' (1945);
[11:15pm] 'The Devil Thumbs A Ride' (1947);
[12:30am] 'The Hitch-Hiker' (1953);
[2am] 'Le Petit Soldat' (1963);
[3:30am] 'The Mask Of Fu Manchu' (1932);
[4:45am] 'The Walking Dead' (1936). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Brad Pitt talks to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association after accepting a $250,000 check on behalf of the Film Foundation Inc., which restores old movies, during the HFPA's annual installation luncheon Wednesday, July 20, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The HFPA, which presents the annual Golden Globe Awards in January, presents donations to Hollywood non-profit organizations and film schools.
Photo by Reed Saxon
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Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt is being honored for her devotion to social, environmental and community issues by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
The singer-songwriter will receive the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award during the opening session of NARM's 47th annual convention Aug. 12 at the San Diego Marriott.
Raitt, 55, has campaigned to stop war in Central America, participated in the Sun City anti-apartheid project and performed at the 1980 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. She's also worked for environmental protection as well as rights for women and American Indians.
In 1988, she co-founded the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, which works to improve royalties and financial conditions for R&B pioneers.
Bonnie Raitt
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Promotes Meditation For World Peace
David Lynch
Film director David Lynch wants to raise $7 billion to bring about world peace through a massive transcendental meditation program.
Lynch, 59, known for the quirky, avant-garde works like "Mulholland Drive" and the "Twin Peaks" TV series, is launching a foundation dedicated to bringing the benefits of the stress-reducing technique to school students across America, and ultimately the world.
The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-based Education and World Peace aims to fund in-school transcendental meditation programs and support research on the effects of the technique on academic performance, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression and drug abuse.
David Lynch
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U.S. actor Lukas Haas (R) and Sean Lennon pose for the photographers as they arrive for the premiere of the film 'Last Days' in New York July 19, 2005. Haas stars in the film directed by Gus Van Sant.
Photo by Dave Allocca
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Russian Medicine
LSD-25
A special initiative group of scientists is establishing the Russian Psychedelic Society. The new organization has a goal to legalize the use of psychoactive drugs in official medicine, the mysterious lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD-25, first and foremost. A prominent US scientist, Stanislav Grof, is expected to participate in the first congress of the new organization, which is slated to take place in November 2005. Like Sigmund Freud or Carl Yung, Grof is said to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in psychology.
"LSD-25 was studied very well 40 years ago. Remarkable qualities of the substance were used in the field of psychotherapy back then. - A spokesman for the initiative group, Anton Chuppin said. - Unfortunately, certain legal processes put an end to the research when psychedelic drugs were excluded from the list of legal medications. We believe that it was a wrong decision to make. A group of American scientists and cultural figures addressed to the US Surgeon General last year with a request to legalize LSD-25 to use it in medicine," Mr. Chuppin said.
For a lot more, LSD-25
Read the original in Russian
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Studio Buys Movie Rights
Notorious B.I.G.
Fox Searchlight Pictures on Wednesday said it has bought the rights to make a film about the life of slain rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G.
Fox Searchlight, a unit of News Corp Inc-owned Fox Entertainment Group, said the film will be produced by Voletta Wallace, the mother of the rapper, Wayne Barrow and Mark Sitts, his former music managers.
The Wallace family has claimed that former Los Angeles police officer David Mack, now in prison for robbery, arranged for a college friend to shoot Wallace. The family said Mack was tied to Shakur's music label, Death Row Records, and that Wallace, signed to rival Bad Boy Entertainment, was killed in retaliation for Shakur's death.
Earlier this month, Wallace's relatives vowed to renew a wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles after a U.S. judge declared a mistrial in the case and accused police of concealing evidence.
Notorious B.I.G.
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Drug Charge Dismissed
Scott Weiland
A felony drug charge filed in 2003 against rocker Scott Weiland was dismissed following the singer's stint in rehab.
A judge dropped the heroin and cocaine possession charge on July 12 after the Velvet Revolver frontman completed a drug program, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney.
Weiland also was discharged from probation a year early. The 37-year-old singer doesn't face any other outstanding drug charges in California, Gibbons said.
Scott Weiland
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This June 2005 photo supplied by the Eastman School of Music, shows the only full-size, Baroque-era Italian organ in the Americas, which is to be housed permanently in the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery, in Marburg, Germany, before it was shipped to Rochester, N.Y. Renowned German organ builder Gerald Woehl recently sold it to the Eastman School of Music for nearly $700,000.
Photo by Nils Hahmann
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Hospital News
Tammy Faye
Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner said Wednesday that cancer has returned to her lungs, marking her third battle with the illness.
Messner was first diagnosed with colon cancer nearly a decade ago and last year announced that the disease has spread to her lungs. It has since reappeared in her lungs, she said.
The Charlotte resident was just preparing for the premiere of a television documentary on her experience in beating cancer in 2004 when she found out that colon cancer had returned for a second time to one of her lungs.
The documentary titled "Tammy Faye: Death Defying," on Women's Entertainment channel July 25, was a way for her to help others going through the same troubles, she said.
Tammy Faye
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Missed Hearing in Civil Case
Michael Jackson
Neither Michael Jackson nor his attorney showed up Wednesday for a hearing in a civil case that accuses the pop star of sexual assaulting an 18-year-old during the 1984 World's Fair.
U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon scheduled an Aug. 17 hearing in which Jackson must show why he should not be held in civil contempt or have a default judgment entered against him.
Joseph T. Bartucci Jr. claims in the lawsuit that he was lured into Jackson's limousine, then held against his will and sexually assaulted during a drive to California and back.
Bartucci was 18 at the time and claims he repressed the memories until 2003, when he saw media coverage of a child molestation trial at which Jackson was acquitted. The suit asks for an unspecified amount of money to compensate for alleged emotional and physical damage.
Michael Jackson
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A solitary windsurfer sails across the waves of lake Chiemsee in Chieming, southern Germany, late Tuesday , July 19, 2005 at sun set. A low-pressure area has brought rain and storms to most parts of Germany, but the weather should become more summerlike for the upcoming weekend, according to meteorologists.
Photo by Diether Endlicher
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College For Free
Virgins
A lawmaker is offering to pay university fees for girls who are virgins when they graduate from high school, in part to help fight AIDS
"We want to encourage people to be morally upright and not to go into early marriages. We also want girls to resist defilement. We do not want these girls to get exposed to AIDS," Bbaale County Member of Parliament Sulayiman Madaada said Wednesday.
Health workers in the central Kayunga District will conduct gynecological examination on girls who want to take part in the project - which is also intended to promote the education of girls there, Madaada told The Associated Press.
Uganda was one of the countries hit hardest by HIV/AIDS, but an aggressive campaign led by political, religious and community leaders pushed down infection rates from as high as 30 percent in the early 1990s to around seven percent now.
Virgins
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Microchip Saves
Rare Cambodian Turtle
They're calling him "the lucky royal turtle" - a rare and endangered reptile that was saved from a likely fate in a Chinese soup pot by keen-eyed wildlife officers and a microchip.
Poachers snatched the animal, a species called "Royal Turtle" in Cambodia because its eggs were once fed to kings, from a Cambodian river two months ago and toted it across the Vietnamese border on a motorbike with a stash of other, more common, turtles.
A raid on the smuggler's house in southern Vietnam's Tay Ninh province was the turtle's first stroke of good luck. About 30 turtles were confiscated and transported to a wildlife inspection center, where workers noticed there was something different about this one.
For the rest, Rare Cambodian Turtle
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Performers rehearse a scene from the musical Heidi staged on Lake Walen in the town of Walenstadt, about 75 km (47 miles) outside of Zurich July 19, 2005. The musical blending the story of Switzerland's most popular novel Heidi with the life story of its author Johanna Spyri premieres on July 23. Picture taken July 19, 2005.
Photo by Siggi Bucher
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Archaeologists Unveil Treasure
Pompeii
Decorated cups and fine silver platters were once again polished and on display Monday as archaeologists unveiled an ancient Roman dining set that lay hidden for two millennia in the volcanic ash of Pompeii.
In 2000, archaeologists found a wicker basket containing the silverware in the ruins of a thermal bath near the remains of the Roman city, said Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, head of Pompeii's archaeological office.
The basket was filled with the volcanic ash that buried the city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. When experts X-rayed it, they saw the objects preserved in the ash, which killed thousands of people but kept the town almost intact, providing precious information on domestic life in the ancient world.
Experts have spent the last five years extracting and restoring the 20 pieces of silver that were left behind by their owners as they fled the eruption, Guzzo said as he presented the treasure to authorities and the media in Rome.
Pompeii
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In Memory
James Doohan
James Doohan, who played engineer Montgomery Scott, the scrappy Scotsman who repeatedly gave the Starship Enterprise "all she's got" in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan inspired the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," although Capt. Kirk never issued that order until the fourth movie. He told his family he wanted his ashes blasted into space, Stevens said. Houston-based Space Services Inc., which specializes in space memorials, said it would send Doohan's remains, along with 125 others, aboard a rocket later this year.Doohan will join "Star Trek" series creator Gene Roddenberry, whose ashes were launched into space six years after he died in 1991.
When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his dentist, who advised him: "Jimmy, you're going to be Scotty long after you're dead. If I were you, I'd go with the flow."
"I took his advice," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just lovely."
James Montgomery Doohan was born March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of four children of William Doohan, a pharmacist, veterinarian and dentist, and his wife Sarah. As he wrote in his autobiography, "Beam Me Up, Scotty," his father was a drunk who made life miserable for his wife and children.
At 19, James escaped the turmoil at home by joining the Canadian army, becoming a lieutenant in the artillery. He was among the Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. "The sea was rough," he recalled. "We were more afraid of drowning than the Germans."
The Canadians crossed a minefield laid for tanks; the soldiers weren't heavy enough to detonate the bombs. At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he usually managed to hide the missing finger on the screen), four in his leg and one in the chest. The chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case.
After the war, Doohan on a whim enrolled in a drama class in Toronto. He showed promise and won a two-year scholarship to New York's famed Neighborhood Playhouse, where fellow students included Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall and Richard Boone.
Doohan's first marriage to Judy Doohan produced four children. He had two children by his second marriage to Anita Yagel. Both marriages ended in divorce. In 1974 he married Wende Braunberger, and their children were Eric, Thomas and Sarah, who was born in 2000, when Doohan was 80.
James Doohan
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In Memory
Gerry Thomas
Gerry Thomas, the former poultry-company executive who helped marry American television with mealtime as inventor of the TV Dinner, has died at age 83, his family said on Wednesday.
Thomas, honored with a Hollywood ceremony in 1999 to mark the 45th anniversary of his innovation, died of cancer at a Phoenix hospice on Monday after a long illness, according to his wife, Susan Mills Thomas.
A decorated World War II veteran, Thomas was a marketing executive at C.A. Swanson & Sons in the 1950s when he conceived of the frozen TV Dinner as a solution to the company's post-Thanksgiving surplus of turkeys. Swanson is now a unit of Pinnacle Foods Corp.
Initially sold for 98 cents, the original TV Dinner featured turkey, corn-bread dressing and gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes, all packaged in a three-compartment tray.
Gerry Thomas
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A Toucan seized from illegal vendors is seen after being recovered by workers of the National Zoo in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, July, 20, 2005. The zoo received an order of eviction from the government on this piece of land where a clinic was operating that would help recover animals seized by illegal vendors.
Photo by Esteban Felix
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