BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 4 August, 2005
Thursday
4 August, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
I have come to the conclusion that George W. Bush is a sick man. Many of you might be saying "You're just now coming to that conclusion?". But what I mean is that he is really psychologically / pathologically: A Sick Man. I'm sure I've said in unpolite wine-drunk dinner conversation something like "Man, what a sick-assed motherfucker..", something along those lines. But I don't think I ever thought of him as being a really "fucked up in the mind" kind of sick.
Now there is just way too much evidence to NOT consider this man as being pathologically sick, dating clear back to his days as a coked-up drunk. But he's only one of a sick group of guys who cooked up the war we're currently in. War is to be avoided unless all other avenues have been totally exhausted. It takes pathologically sick men to sucker the majority of a country into believing a very avoidable war was necessary. This is exactly what happened when Bush's colleagues went to the U.N. and Colin Powell gave the false and purposely erroneous speech to the United Nations ( I think Powell got suckered also...) .
Recently I read that a poll resulted in that sixty per cent of the U.S. have thought the possibility of World War Three within their lifetime was "likely". There were four choices. One was "very likely", "likely", "unlikely", and "it won't happen". I'd bet you 58 per cent of the 60 per cent who voted "likely" voted for Bush. It seems very coincidental that George W. won the presidential election by roughly the same margin. Anyway, the article said that most thought WWIII would probably be with China, the rest thought the Middle East and/or something to do with Israel and Palestine.
Sixty per cent is a hell of a lot of people to think that World War III is a possibility in their lifetime ( the article never said how old these folks were). Does Bush's western -style "We'll get 'em, dead or alive" fuel these thoughts of world destruction by a majority of a survey? I would think most definitely. Shit, we can't even find a bearded man hiding in caves much less get in a serious conflict with China. Our military is stretched. Rumsfeld said you go to war with what you got. The armed forces are not having an easy time right now signing up new faces. Recruitment is very low. The kids know they'll be going to war. It's time to cool the redneck rhetoric from our president.
Bush wielded his mighty dull sword of a brain when he said, shortly after his first inauguration, and his largest arms sale in U.S. history to Taiwan, that we would defend the sovereignty of Taiwan with full force of our military. This was pre-9/11 rhetoric. He was looking to give shit to someone from day one. China responded that they would not let anyone interfere with their dealings with Taiwan. Oops. Georgy got his ass handed back to him on a cold plate. This seems like unnecessary provocation by our president with a country that could decimate U.S. cities in minutes with their nuclear power. A war with China wouldn't necessarily mean World War Three, but it would mean the end of our species if nuclear force was used by either side.
What if China decided that it's prime time for a takeover of Taiwan, knowing that our military is stretched as it is with the war in Iraq? Was Bush wielding nuclear destruction with his western-style of provocation? It seems to me Bush is like a little bully who's got a big older friend (Cheney) who will protect him on the school playground at recess time no matter what he says, and who he says it to. He's a little butthole.
Bunnypants Bush is the same man who just put John Bolton into the United Nations as an ambassador. Since it's a known fact that John Bolton was on the Taiwanese payroll in his very checkered past, that's like sending a "fuck you" right into China's face, right from the get go. What a fucking idiot. No other U.N. ambassadors will respect Bolton knowing that he was swept into the position while Congress was at break. Other nations know about Bolton, they have seen the reservations Congress harbored against him. He's a known pseudo-hardass. He'll serve no purpose and was an idotic choice. A sick choice.
This is our president pulling this crap. He hasn't figured out the United Nations was formed to promote peace. It has it's flaws, there have been some scandals, but it's the best there is right now. Since Bush isn't totally insane (he's pretty close), then he's trying to bully China right now at a time in which we don't need to bully anyone. He's too old to act like he's on the playground at recess time acting like a jerk-off. When one is 59 years old and president of the United States, and one has no more wisdom than a five year old at recess time, we're dealing with a sick infantile mind.
He can cloak himself in religion as much as he wants in his defense of his arrogance, but before he makes offensive remarks and actions thinking Jesus is protecting his back, he'd better think about what comes out of that monkey-faced pie hole of a mouth. Hopefully China will behave themselves in regards to Taiwan and leave them be until another president comes along in 2008, and everyone can come to a rational solution to that dilemma. America will put a man with some intelligence and wisdom back into the White House, and hopefully Democrats will regain the House and Senate. Then we can get off this roller coaster of destruction of this country that six short years ago was beaming with respect, peace and prosperity.
And by the way, World War III isn't going to happen anytime soon. We had a "Cold War" with Russia for about 45 years until capitalism won out. Sorry, guys, Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of communism. It's just that people like to own stuff, materialism wins over any other political philosophy. Stuff is more powerful than ideologies. Nike vs. Marxism? C'mon. Most kids these days can't spell Marxism.
Capitalism will topple the Commies in China. Just don't taunt them during their transition with talk of weaponry or attack plans. Taunt them with New Balance tennis shoes, hip-hop, rap, acid jazz, freedom, football, Mariah Carey, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, zoot suits, Krispy Kremes and Starbucks. Those things carry more weight than Bunnypants' hollow redneck bully tactics ever will.
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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.
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Readers To The Rescue
Re: Chernobyl Bike Ride
I asked:
Does anybody have a link to the woman on the motorbike riding through Chernobyl?
The replies:
www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
~ Bruce
Thanks, Bruce!
motorcycle report on chernobyl
Ellen
I wish outer-space guys would conquer Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little basket beds with my name on it.
Thanks, Ellen!
chernobyl kid
daninboulder
Thanks, Dan!
I think this link may be the one you are looking for about the woman who rides a motorbike through Chernobyl
MAM
Thanks, Marianne!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Rose Aguilar: Oklahoma Superstar (AlterNet)
Clara Luper was an integral part of the 1950s' civil rights movement. Here, she discusses her sit-in days, going to jail 26 times, and what the Democrats are doing wrong.
Michele Helberg: Interview with Brian K. Vaughan (afterelton.com)
Considering the recent rush of badly perceived representation of lesbian and gay images of TV and film recently, it's nice to know that some people out there are getting it right.
Editorial: It's All Happening at the Tulsa Zoo (NY Times)
Christian creationists won too much of a victory for their own good in Tulsa, where the local zoo was ordered to balance its evolution science exhibit with a display extolling the Genesis account of God's creating the universe from nothing in six days.
Audio: Howard Stern buries Rush Limbaugh
Stern ... played audio clips of Limbaugh railing on drug users in the past.
Bruce Campbell: Official Website
Stories in America
Brian K. Vaughan: Official Website
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Bit warmer, but still pleasant.
Talked to dear old Dad last night. He made a point of mentioning that 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is currently in rotation on 'Showtime', and that so far, he's taped it twice - for a couple of his pals viewing pleasure.
Aunt Vivian has been picking squash blossoms from his garden.
Hadn't thought of fried squash blossoms in a long time.
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 Vince Vaughn and Jessica Simpson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Sharon Stone, Mo'Nique, and Last Train Home.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a FRESH 'The Law Firm', followed by a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Rob Schneider, NHL #1 draft pick Sidney Crosby, and Michael Penn.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Johnny Knoxville, John O'Hurley, and Dressy Bessy.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 6/21/05) are John Waters, Mario Batali, and the Raveonettes.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', followed by a FRESH 'Hooking Up', then 'PrimeTime Live'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 7/29/05) are Hulk Hogan, Jerry Ferrara, and Jack Johnson.
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 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Navy SEALS', followed by the movie 'Blade Runner', then the movie 'Mad Max'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'My Family' - The Last Resort;
[2:40pm] 'My Hero' - The Older Man;
[3:20pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Rag Week;
[4pm] 'Comics Unleashed' - Episode 2;
[4:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Dish & Dishonesty;
[5:20pm] 'Blackadder' - Ink & Incapability;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Posner;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 39;
[8pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Full Frontal Nudity;
[8:40pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Ant, An Introduction;
[9:20pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 10;
[10pm] 'Teachers' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 39;
[12am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Full Frontal Nudity;
[12:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Ant, An Introduction;
[1:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 10;
[2am] 'Teachers' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Full Frontal Nudity;
[3:40am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Ant, An Introduction;
[4:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 10;
[5am] 'Teachers' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List', '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' (Elvira Kurt), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Weekends At The D.L.', another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Tom Shillue), 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Reno 911!'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Miles O'Brien.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by the FRESH 'Quest For Dragons', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Bad Sleep Well' (1960);
[8:45AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[9:15AM] 'IFC August Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[10:15AM] 'Bad Behavior' (1993);
[12PM] 'The Brother From Another Planet' (1984);
[2PM] 'The Grass Harp' (1995);
[4PM] 'IFC August Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[5PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[5:15PM] 'The Brother From Another Planet' (1984);
[7:15PM] 'The Grass Harp' (1995);
[9:15PM] 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992);
[11PM] 'Jackie Brown' (1997);
[1:45AM] 'Baad Asssss Cinema' (2003);
[2:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[3AM] 'Jackie Brown' (1997);
[5:45AM] Short: 'Lollipops' (2002). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Forsaken', followed by the movie 'Bloodsuckers'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (08/03/05);
[8AM] 'The Last Just Man';
[9:15AM] 'Veronika Voss';
[11AM] 'Bejart into the Light';
[12:35PM] 'Melvin Goes to Dinner';
[2PM] 'Caesar's Park';
[3:15PM] 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie';
[4:30PM] 'Evenhand';
[6:05PM] 'Bejart into the Light';
[7:45PM] 'Zulu 9';
[8PM] 'Hope And Glory';
[10PM] 'Melvin Goes to Dinner';
[11:30PM] 'The Al Franken Show': (08/04/05);
[12:30AM] 'Going All The Way';
[2:15AM] 'Zulu 9';
[2:30AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (08/05/05);
[3:30AM] 'Evenhand';
[5:05AM] 'The Dog Walker';
[5:30AM] 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM spends 24 hours with Alec Guinness.
[6am] 'Hotel Paradiso' (1966);
[7:45am] 'The Swan' (1956);
[9:45am] 'The Comedians' (1967);
[12:30pm] 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) [View Trailer];
[4pm] 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) [View Trailer];
[8pm] 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949);
[10pm] 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951);
[11:30pm] 'The Ladykillers' (1955);
[1:15am] 'Murder by Death' (1976);
[3am] 'The Scapegoat' (1959);
[4:30am] 'All at Sea' (1958). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Friday - 08/05
TCM spends 24 hours with Katharine Hepburn.
[6am] 'Christopher Strong' (1933);
[7:30am] 'Little Women' (1933);
[9:30am] 'Undercurrent' (1946);
[11:30am] 'Suddenly, Last Summer' (1959) [View Trailer];
[1:30pm] 'Long Day's Journey into Night' (1962) [View Trailer];
[4:30pm] 'The Lion In Winter' (1968) [View Trailer];
[6:45pm] 'Katharine Hepburn: All About Me' (1993);
[8pm] 'Rooster Cogburn' (1975) [View Trailer];
[10pm] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940) [View Trailer];
[12am] 'Holiday' (1938);
[1:45am] 'Alice Adams' (1935) [View Trailer];
[3:30am] 'Dragon Seed' (1944). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Actor and racing team co-owner Paul Newman, left, speaks with members of the media in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, as Philadelphia Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. looks on after he and Champ Car World Series representatives met with city officials Wednesday, to discuss to possibility of bringing a Champ Car series race to the streets of Philadelphia.
Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek
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Fork-Sticking Time
Chappelle's Show
Time to face the facts: Dave Chappelle's hit Comedy Central series isn't coming back, says one of its stars. "`Chappelle's Show' is over, man. Done," comic Charlie Murphy told TV Guide. "It took me a long time to be able to say those words, but I can say it pretty easy now, because it's the truth."
Chappelle's sudden "spiritual retreat" to South Africa on the eve of his show's third season has left the series in limbo since May. About half of a new season had been filmed before Chappelle left, Murphy said.
"I'm disappointed it ended the way it did, but I'm not angry with anybody," he said. "`Chappelle's Show' was like the Tupac of TV shows. It came out, it got everybody's attention, it was a bright shining star, but it burned out and for some strange reason, it burned out quick."
Chappelle's Show
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Supporters Mount Final Push to Save
CBGB
Supporters of the famed rock club CBGB's are planning a last-ditch series of events to save the birthplace of punk.
There will be a show almost every night at the space during August, the last month of CBGB's lease, and a big event on the 31st at Washington Square Park, said singer/songwriter/"The Sopranos" star Little Steven Van Zandt, who has been involved in the preservation efforts for the last several weeks.
The club is in conflict with its landlord, the Bowery Residents Committee, over back rent and an increase to the monthly rental cost, which is about $19,000. The committee provides shelter for homeless people in the building that houses the club.
CBGB
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French musician Jean Michel Jarre listens during a news conference in Warsaw August 3, 2005. Jarre will perform a concert in Gdansk in the end of this month as part of the 25th anniversary of Solidarnosc. The Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of the Solidarity trade union which toppled communism, will next month host international leaders for the 25th anniversary of the creation of the people-power movement, led by founder and former shipyard electrician Lech Walesa.
Photo by Katarina Stoltz
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TV Show Going Video On Demand
Howard Stern
In Demand Network on Wednesday said it has a three-year exclusive deal to begin airing a televised version of popular shock jock Howard Stern's ribald radio show on one of its video-on-demand channels starting later this year.
The deal, which comes 10 months after Sirius Satellite Radio agreed to pay Stern $500 million to leap to satellite radio, means that Stern, who became a poster boy for bad behavior on U.S. airwaves, will by January no longer be heard or seen in original shows on free radio or basic cable.
Under the pact, In Demand will produce and televise Stern's program, beginning with his remaining shows while he is still broadcasting on Viacom Inc.'s Infinity radio system, and continuing with shows taped once he moves in January to Sirius.
Howard Stern
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Art Attack
Banksy
First he turned back alleys into galleries. Then he hacked the MoMA and the Met. Meet Banksy, the most wanted man in the art world.
It's noon in London, and self-described "art terrorist" Banksy is preparing for his next installation. "I've created a cave painting," he says. "It's a bit of rock with a stick man chasing a wildebeest and pushing a shopping cart." The next day, Banksy carefully hangs his work - called Early Man Goes to Market and credited to "Banksymus Maximus" - in Gallery 49 of the venerable British Museum, accompanied by a few sentences of explanatory text. He does this without the knowledge or consent of museum officials; they learn about the latest addition to the collection only after Banksy announces it on his Web site.
Over the past few years, Banksy has emerged as an ingenious and dexterous culture jammer, adept at hacking the art world and rewriting its rules to suit his own purposes. He once closed a tunnel in London while he and his friends, disguised as overall-clad painters, whitewashed the walls. Then Banksy applied his own distinctive black stencils on the newly cleaned surface. "We called our friends, bought some beer, and staged a 'gallery show,'" he says with a chuckle. Last March, Banksy achieved a sort of art world quadruple crown when he snuck his works into four New York City museums - the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Brooklyn Museum - in a single day. Such feats have earned him worldwide media attention and the kind of rewards traditional artists would kill for, including an offer from Nike to work on an ad campaign (he declined) and an invitation to do a public painting for the 2004 Liverpool biennial (he accepted). The British Museum even added Early Man Goes to Market to its permanent collection.
For more, Banksy
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Nashville
Neil Young
Neil Young will be joined at his upcoming stand at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium by Emmylou Harris, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers and Carl Gorodetsky and the Nashville String Machine. The Aug. 18-19 shows will be taped for concert film by director Jonathan Demme.
Sources say the shows are expected to encompass a complete performance of Young's new album, "Prairie Wind," due Sept. 27 via Reprise. As on the record, the artist will be backed at the Ryman by keyboardist Spooner Oldham, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummer Chad Cromwell, percussionist Karl Himmel and bassist Rick Rosas.
The only other shows currently on Young's schedule are a Sept. 18 appearance at Farm Aid outside Chicago and Oct. 29-30 at his annual Bridge School Benefit outside San Francisco. However, sources say he is mulling a handful of other dates in the fall.
Neil Young
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Back on Tour
Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall, diagnosed with lyme disease six weeks ago, returns to the road this weekend with John Oates. The pop music duo canceled touring plans in support of their new album, "Our Kind of Soul," after the 55-year-old Hall was diagnosed.
Hall and Oates are set to play six rescheduled shows, the first one in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday. Dates in late August and throughout September with rocker Todd Rundgren are also scheduled to take place as planned.
Daryl Hall
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Mexican actors hold up paintings of characters from the Simpsons cartoon as local media hold up microphones during a protest in Mexico City August 3, 2005. The union actors who dub 'The Simpsons' into Spanish are asking their Mexican audience for help as they fight for their livelihoods in a labour dispute that could silence the original Spanish voices from the 15-year-old animated comedy. The disagreement between the actors union and a Mexican contracting company is in the hands of government labour arbitrators.
Photo by Daniel Aguilar
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Advances in Detroit Race
Martha Reeves
Motown legend Martha Reeves felt like dancing. "I want to jump around up in here, but we're in the VIP room and everyone is being very sophisticated," Reeves said early Wednesday following a successful primary run for Detroit City Council.
Competing in a field of 120 candidates, Reeves advanced to the Nov. 8 general election along with 17 other council hopefuls.
Reeves moved to Detroit from Alabama when she was 11 months old. She said in a recent interview that her top priority is ensuring the city's neighborhoods are adequately policed. She said she's been unable to fix up some of the 18 old buildings she's acquired since 1999 with the intention of renovating because the neighborhoods are wild areas.
Martha Reeves
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Philly Exibit Salutes
'Mavericks of Color'
It might be hard for visitors to look at the gorgeous images on view in the new "Mavericks of Color" exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and understand the criticism they once spurred.
Vulgar. Garish. Lurid. That's what living legends like Walker Evans and Edward Steichen said in the 1960s of the work by young pioneers of color photography. When it came to photography, what constituted high art to the cognoscenti was a purely black-and-white issue.
The show of about 50 works from the museum's collection, some never before shown to the public, pays homage to four Americans who broke the "color barrier" in photography: William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz and Eliot Porter.
For the rest, 'Mavericks of Color'
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Avoids Felony Trial
Maribel Cuevas
Lawyers for an 11-year-old girl charged with assault with a deadly weapon for throwing a rock at a boy during a water balloon fight reached a deal Wednesday that allows the child to escape jail time.
Maribel Cuevas was prepared to face a felony trial in juvenile court Wednesday when lawyers struck the deal behind closed doors. Maribel will not have to plead guilty, but she will have to participate in a mediation program in which she will be required to meet with her young victim and talk about the fight.
Maribel was arrested in April for throwing a 2-pound rock at a neighborhood boy who had pelted her with a water balloon. The rock gashed the boy's forehead - requiring stitches - and the girl spent five days in Fresno's juvenile hall and a month under house arrest after police said she resisted arrest and scratched an officer's arm.
Maribel Cuevas
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In this photo released by Silicon Graphics, Inc., a high resolution state-of-the-art CT scan of a 2,000 year-old girl mummy in Stanford, Calif., taken Friday May 6, 2005, is shown. Silicon Graphics Inc. created 3-D models of the four to six -year-old girl's tiny body that let scientists visualize her resin-filled body cavities, her cause of death, even her baby teeth.
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'Afro Samurai'
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson has signed to star in and co-produce "Afrosamurai," a live-action feature film based on a Japanese "manga" comic.
The story centers on No. 2, the Afro Samurai, who travels the road looking for revenge on those who murdered his father in front of him when he was just a boy. His nemesis is No. 1, a three-armed gunman who is the lord of the dark swordsman's road.
Production is slated to begin next year, with the film targeting a 2007 release. An animated TV version of "Afrosamurai" is scheduled to air on Spike TV next year before being reverse imported to Japan, where it will air with Japanese subtitles. Jackson also will lend his voice to the series.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Joins Parents At Madame Tussauds
Prince William
A model of Britain's Prince William was already attracting admiring eyes after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London.
The smiling prince, with his hands in his pockets, is dressed in a black lounge suit, blue shirt and red tie.
He stands in the World Stage area alongside his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, father Prince Charles and late mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince William
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'Fake' Critic Settlement
Sony Pictures
A US judge has finalized a settlement of a lawsuit brought by disgruntled movie-goers who accused Hollywood's Sony studio of using a fake critic to trick them into seeing mediocre films, lawyers said.
Sony Pictures' Entertainment agreed to pay 1.5 million dollars to resolve the class-action suit filed in 2001 claiming the studio invented a bogus critic to heap praise on its movies, said the movie-goers' attorney Norman Blumenthal.
The settlement class includes anyone who, between August 3, 2000, and October 31, 2001, purchased a movie ticket to see "Hollow Man," with Kevin Bacon, "Vertical Limit," "A Knight's Tale," "The Animal" or "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson in the United States.
Sony Pictures
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A Chinese woman wearing a 60-metre-long bridal gown, shares a moment with her partner in a park in Binzhou, east China's Shandong province, August 2, 2005. It took 20 workers more than four months to finish the gown. Photo taken August 2, 2005.
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Disputes IRS Claims
Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton is disputing Internal Revenue Service claims that he and his wife owe $1.8 million in taxes and penalties from 1997 through 2000.
The dispute was outlined in tax court filings in Washington. An April 13 notice of deficiency accused Newton and his wife, Katherine, of failing to report the sale of an Arabian horse, wrongfully claiming losses on antique car sales, failing to report income and taking improper deductions.
Newton and his wife issued a statement in Las Vegas saying they relied on the advice of their accountants and tax lawyers.
Wayne Newton
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Rejoining Broadcaster Trade Group
ABC
The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC television and radio network said on Wednesday it would rejoin the National Association of Broadcasters after a two-year hiatus over policy differences.
The network left the lobbying organization, which represents scores of local television and radio stations, because of differences over media ownership limits being set by the Federal Communications Commission.
ABC had complained that broadcasters used the group to lobby for strict ownership regulations on the networks while working to ease limits on local TV station ownership. ABC had considered forming a coalition with the other major networks.
ABC
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In Memory
Gary Belkin
Gary Belkin, an Emmy-winning comedy writer who worked on hit sitcoms and classic television shows including Sid Caesar's "Caesar's Hour," "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Sesame Street," has died. He was 78.
Belkin began his career writing jokes for radio comedians and proposing cartoon ideas to the New Yorker magazine. His break in television came on Caesar's variety show, which ran from 1954 to 1957.
He spent eight years on "The Carol Burnett Show," and also wrote for "Get Smart," "The Doris Day Show," "Three's Company" and "Newhart," as well as specials for celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Anne Bancroft and Day. He also wrote quips and poetry for Muhammad Ali.
Belkin was on the writing staff that won Emmy awards in 1970 for "Annie, The Women in the Life of a Man;" and in 1974 and 1975 for "The Carol Burnett Show," according to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Web site. He was on writing staffs that were nominated for Emmys four other times.
Gary Belkin
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Blizzard, an 8-foot adult albino alligator, one of only 40 known to exist, peers out from its exhibit at the Maritime Aquarium in South Norwalk, Conn., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Blizzard will be on exhibit at the aquarium through Sept. 5.
Photo by Mary Schwalm
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