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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Have you visited Jeff Crook recently?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Not as warm as yesterday. The kid & I went to the aquarium, where it was
windy. Windy and cool. Our little house is 2.7 miles from the beach, but it
never fails to amaze me how the temperatures 'tween here & there can vary.
Momma cat came back. Looking for a good home for her & the kittens. The little fluffy orange stripe is so smart. And his sister, the calico, well, hell,
she's a calico. Need I say more? Anyway, momma cat's gonna get fixed next week.
Going to AAA tomorrow to get some Las Vegas tourist info. The route to Vegas, from LA, isn't that difficult - the I-5 to the I-10 to the I-15. Nothing too tricky there...LOL
If you haven't noticed, today is Theo's birthday.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS has a fresh 'Big Brother 3' and then reruns of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and 'The Agency'.
On a rerun Dave, the scheduled guests are Tom Hanks and Dolly Parton.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Ted Danson, Lauren Ambrose, and International Noise Conspiracy.
NBC has reruns of 'Friends', 'Scrubs', 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me', and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay is Matthew Perry.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Steve Coogan, Wesley Snipes, and Oasis.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Kenny Mayne and Bow Wow.
ABC has the movie 'The Associate' and then 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB starts with a rerun of 'Reba', then 2 reruns of 'Jamie Kennedy', and wraps with a rerun of 'Off Centre'.
Faux has a fresh 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?', and then 'Pulse'.
UPN has 'WWE SmackDown!'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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''Snatch'' Premiere 2001
Gwyneth Paltrow
'Brits Are Dating Dopes'
Gwyneth Paltrow
Love-seeking actress Gwyneth Paltrow has complained that British men are useless when it comes to the dating game.The Oscar winner admits she only goes for "toffs" - but
says she was amazed that so few Brits had asked her out. On her last visit to London only two plucked up the courage to ask her on a date. The Hollywood star was last
in the capital for her stage performance in Proof.
Paltrow said she was usually happy to say yes if a man invited her out for dinner.
But she told Now magazine: "British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates.
"If someone asks you out, they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time. Yet in Britain, mostly what happens seems to be that people meet at work.
The 29-year-old actress, who has had high-profile romances with actors Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt, said she wished there was less interest in her love life.
She said: "If there's one 30th birthday present I'd wish for myself, it's that in future I can be known more for my acting and less for my private life."
Gwyneth Paltrow
Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins
All Nimoy
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Nimoy - The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins - the video
Introducing 'Baby' Osbourne
The Osbournes
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are opening their hearts and wallets to their daughters' best friend - who lost his mom to the same cancer Sharon is battling.
Robert Marcato's mom, Regan, died last week at 36 of colon cancer.
Now Ozzy and Sharon will "adopt" Robert, pay for his college education and feature him in the upcoming season of "The Osbournes."
"He wants to go to drama school, and we're sending him to the best drama school we can find," Sharon Osbourne told The Post exclusively yesterday.
"Right now, he wants to stay home in L.A. because he's a bit insecure because he doesn't have any family.
"We want to get him secure here, then we're going to take our time to pick the best college for him. Robert will be a part of the show as 'Baby Osbourne' - even though he's 18.
"We're moving him in as part of the family."
For the rest, The Osbournes
Provides Aid to Aging Musicians
Jazz Foundation of America
Just two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks the Jazz Foundation of America managed to stage a rapturous, star-studded concert at Harlem's famous Apollo Theater to raise money to help elderly jazz musicians.
But even with Bill Cosby, George Benson, Abbey Lincoln and a host of others lined up, the aftermath of the devastating attacks and the economy's current malaise are making it hard to gear up for this
year's fund-raiser, which is set for Sept. 26.
"If we don't make $100,000 we will be severely crippled," Oxenhorn said. "And who do you turn down? Do you turn down the 75-year-old guy who's on dialysis? And on the way to dialysis
fell down and broke his shoulder and couldn't play his saxophone? And we had to pay his rent for these couple of months or he'd get evicted?"
The Jazz Foundation has also helped get glasses and real food for an 80-year-old bebop saxophonist who is too blind to shop or cook and was subsisting on Slim Fast diet drinks.
One 77-year-old pianist was evicted before Oxenhorn could get involved and all the possessions of a long, music-rich lifetime were thrown in a basement.
"I got the landlord to let me in and with his son we went through 60 garbage bags," said Oxenhorn. "We saved his recordings, his radio interviews, his albums. He had original sheet music
you can't get anymore, beautiful old sheet music."
The music was all the elderly pianist wanted saved, along with a few photographs. The foundation helped him enter an assisted-living home, and bought him a keyboard so he could keep up his chops.
Oxenhorn has worked for several nonprofit aid groups, mostly helping the homeless. But coming two years ago to the Jazz Foundation ( jazzfoundation.org), which was founded in 1989,
she learned firsthand about the pride of these practitioners of the American art form.
For an interesting read, Jazz Foundation of America
Useful Link
The Memory Hole
The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information]
Portraying Camilla Parker-Bowles
Faye Dunaway
The latest Princess Diana documentary - this one from the point of view of her biographer - is set to air next month. "The Biographer: The Secret Life of Princess Diana" is the story of the doomed royal's "secret
collaboration" with Andrew Morton on his best-seller "Diana: Her True Story." Set in London during 1991-92, it shows how Diana, who was "living a lie in a sham marriage," sought out Morton to tell her story.
Faye Dunaway puts in an appearance as Camilla Parker-Bowles. The flick airs on CBS Sept. 1.
Faye Dunaway
Recorded Buddy Holly Tune
Megadeth
You may think, "That'll be the day." But two former members of the top-selling heavy metal band have teamed up with an aspiring singer to record an unfinished Holly tune called "That Makes It
Tough," more than 40 years after Holly's death.
Steve Richards of Mesa sat down at a studio on Sunday with Megadeth lead guitarist Marty Friedman and bassist Dave Ellefson, both of Scottsdale, to work on the project.
"I felt that song, whoever records it, would probably have a hit on their hands, because it's a great song," Holly's widow, Maria Elena Holly, told the East Valley Tribune. "When I heard (Richards)
sing, I knew it would be perfect for him."
The tune was one of the last Holly wrote before his death in a 1959 plane crash at age 22. He recorded it informally on what are called "The Apartment Tapes."
Richards recorded the vocals recently in Nashville, Tenn., with a distinctive country twang. When Friedman and Ellefson joined in at the Mesa studio, they gave it more of a rock 'n' roll feel.
Megadeth
''Y Tu Mama Tambien'' Premiere 2002
Gwyneth Paltrow
They're Back
Phish Returns
Phish announced Wednesday that it will play Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve. That will be followed by a three-date set in Hampton, Va., starting Jan. 2. More concerts are expected to be announced later.
Phish formed in Vermont in the early '80s and labored in relative obscurity for nearly a decade, slowly building a core audience with its near-constant tours, epic shows and long, experimental jams that
melded every type of music, from bluegrass to electronica. Their concerts drew fans worldwide, and they often played before tens of thousands of people.
But when the members of Phish — Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Michael Gordon and Page McConnell — wrapped up a tour in October 2000, they decided to go on a break.
Phish Returns
Phish
Ratings Down 25%
'The Anna Nicole Show'
Household cable ratings for the second episode of E!'s "The Anna Nicole Show" dropped 25% from the show's premiere the previous week, while viewership among key demographics was buoyant.
The second episode of "Anna," at 10 p.m. Sunday, earned a 3.0 rating, according to Nielsen. The Aug. 4 premiere earned a 4.1. The overall audience fell by a respectable 18% to 3.38 million.
Meanwhile, the show improved its performance among adults 18-34 week-to-week by 6%, moving up from a 3.5 to a 3.7. Among adults 18-49, the show was relatively steady, dipping a 10th of a ratings point to 2.7.
According to E!, the dip in the ratings was primarily due to reduced viewership among the 55+ set, a demographic not considered especially desirable on Madison Ave.
'The Anna Nicole Show'
But, isn't 55+ her preferred dating group?
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Today Is Her 90th Birthday
Julia Child
"Eat well and drink well," says Julia Child, "everything in moderation — and never snack."
Child, who more than 40 years ago began educating our palates about the wonders of French cooking, turns 90 on Thursday.
Chefs and fans throughout the world are celebrating the milestone with parties and events, culminating Aug. 19 with the opening of "Julia Child's Kitchen" at the National Museum of American History in
Washington. The Smithsonian exhibit reconstructs the room in which Child cooked for nearly half a century at her house in Cambridge, Mass.
Age has not withered America's French Chef — her opinions remain strong, voiced in her own peculiar warble. But her 6-foot-2-inch frame is somewhat stooped, from the years and from recent back surgery.
Child was in her 50s when she first appeared as public television's "French Chef" in 1963, a sensible A-line skirt covering her lanky frame.
As fads have come and gone and cooking methods have changed, Child has adapted, though she steadfastly clings to some ideas. She doesn't mind the microwave. It sometimes comes in handy. But try
to cut corners with butter, and she won't stand for it.
"If you're afraid of butter, as many people are nowadays," she said in one of her more recent television shows, "Just put in cream!" she proclaimed, with a twinkle in her eye.
Child is never afraid to say what she thinks.
During one program with chef, author and friend Jacques Pepin, Pepin suggested that both white and red wine are good for picnics. He asked Child what she preferred.
"I like beer," she said emphatically, pulling out a well-chilled bottle of beer and two glasses, so they could split it as they cooked.
For a lot more, Julia Child
See Julia Child's kitchen
www.copia.org
'Sex, Lies and Headlocks'
UPN & WWE
Wrestling fans won't see any ads for Shaun Assael's new book, "Sex, Lies and Headlocks," while they're watching "Smackdown" on UPN. The book is an unauthorized biography of
WWE mogul Vince McMahon, and the suits at UPN won't accept ads for it, at least while wrestling fans are tuned in. Diane Kuri, publicity director for CBS and UPN, sent a memo
to all advertising managers saying: "Please do not accept any advertising in connection with this unauthorized biography for one hour before, through one hour after, 'Smackdown' airs."
'Sex, Lies and Headlocks'
Oscar Night 2002
Gwyneth Paltrow
Earns Millions
Graceland
When Elvis Presley died, his finances were in such sad shape that the managers of his estate considered selling Graceland. His white-columned, Georgian-style home was just too expensive to maintain.
But instead the house was opened to tourists, and 25 years after his death on Aug. 16, 1977, Graceland attracts 600,000 visitors a year and has made his sole heir, daughter Lisa Marie, a very wealthy woman.
Among dead celebrities, Elvis is listed the top earner last year in a new ranking by Forbes Magazine, ahead of cartoonist Charles Shultz and musician John Lennon. Forbes estimates that Presley's
estate made $37 million between June 2001 and June 2002. Graceland contributing $15 million in admission fees alone.
Graceland refuses to give figures on the estate's income or its overall worth.
When he died, he had $1.4 million in a non-interest-bearing checking account and about $750,000 in savings — not exactly broke, but for an entertainer of his stature, not rich, either.
Short on cash but long on hope, the executors of Presley's estate — First National Bank of Commerce, accountant Joseph Hanks and Priscilla Presley, Elvis's ex-wife and Lisa Marie's
mother — agreed to take a risk and open Graceland to tourists in 1982.
For a pretty interesting read, Graceland
Unusual Gossip
Plant Covering For Jagger?
The locals on Martha's Vineyard are abuzz over the possibility that the Rolling Stones will warm up for their tour, which starts in Boston, with a gig at the 100-seat Hot Tin Roof. Keith
Richards is a regular on the island, and Mick Jagger has visited. Word is the lush-lipped lead singer has rented a house for the end of the summer. Some say Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant
will play the tiny club. Others say Plant is merely a cover for the Stones. Stay tuned.
Plant Covering For Jagger?
Book of Comic Essays
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres is writing a book of comic essays to coincide with the launch next year of her syndicated talk show.
DeGeneres' previous book, "My Point ... and I Do Have One," was a No. 1 bestseller on The New York Times' nonfiction list.
The new book, currently untitled, will be published by Simon & Schuster in the fall of 2003, at the same time DeGeneres begins her talk show. Her editor will be
Rob Weisbach, with whom she worked on her first book.
"I'm thrilled to be working with Rob again," DeGeneres added. "I can't imagine doing it with anyone else. A book, that is."
Ellen DeGeneres
BartCop TV!
Adding American Kids
'Teletubbies'
"Teletubbies," the popular PBS children's show, will add an educational component next year and feature American children for the first time.
Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po — the four bouncing, cooing characters — will appear in the 10-minute "Teletubbies Everywhere" to kick off every episode of the program starting in January.
The new segment will include counting exercises, simple games and music designed to help develop children's cognitive skills, Ragdoll Productions, the British company that makes the show, said Wednesday.
Ragdoll will also venture out of Britain to the United States and elsewhere to film children for its live-action segments.
'Teletubbies'
Oscar Night 2002
Gwyneth Paltrow
Cablevision Busts Union
Rockettes
Negotiations between the union representing a group of Rockettes and the owners of Radio City Music Hall have broken down, with the owners kicking out the dancers' claim to job guarantees.
Veteran Rockette performers in New York City — like those in other places — must try out in open auditions for parts as leg-kicking dancers, under new terms that management imposed.
Cablevision Systems Corp., owners of Radio City Entertainment, had set a deadline of Tuesday night to resolve a dispute with 41 Rockettes who work in New York and are members of the American Guild of Variety Artists.
The dancers, whose contract expired in February, wanted a job security clause that would guarantee they be rehired for new shows.
The owners offered earlier to buy out the union members from their contracts, and guarantee to rehire at least half the veteran Rockettes.
Chief union negotiator John Hall said the New York Rockettes earn between $20,000 and $24,000 for their 15-week work schedule. He said Cablevision had offered to pay them $3,000 for every year of employment.
The 10 dancers who've been employed for more than 10 years would be offered buyouts worth $45,000 under the Cablevision proposal.
Bethpage, N.Y.-based Cablevision Systems Corp., seeking to save money on many of its interests, plans to close 26 of its The Wiz stores and put its 59 Clearview Cinemas up for sale.
Rockettes
Felons and Fallen CEOs
New Cottage Industry?
Bookstores will be piled to the rafters next year with books about jailed CEOs, shady accounting practices, and other business and government scandals.
Publishers are already expecting an outpouring of books by ousted CEOs, each hoping to air his view of the circumstances surrounding his downfall. Former Vivendi Universal chief Jean-Marie
Messier is at work on his next magnum opus, "How I Was Betrayed."
Publishers have made a cottage industry of memoirs that double as rehabilitation projects for authors who've fallen from grace. Think Marion "Suge" Knight, New York judge Sol Wachtler, Michael
Milken or Henry Hill. Will Dana Giachetto, the disgraced financial adviser to the stars, be next?
"Book publishing is usually the first stop for a scoundrel on his way out of town," says one editor.
In February, a California Supreme Court struck down the state's Son of Sam law, which had forced convicted felons to turn over profits from books or movies to their victims. The ruling was a
victory for Barry Keenan, who was implicated in a plot to kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1963, and later sold the story to Columbia Pictures for close to $500,000.
For a lot more, New Cottage Industry?
New Stamps
Bats!
Four stamps illustrated with bats found in the United States will go on sale Sept. 13, the post office said Tuesday.
First day ceremonies will be held at Austin, Texas' famous Congress Avenue Bridge, which houses the largest urban bat colony in the world.
Some 1.5 million bats emerge each evening at dusk to devour insects. The stamp ceremony has been scheduled for 7 p.m. so the bats will be included.
The 37-cent stamps will go on sale nationwide the following day.
Featured on the stamps are:
_The red bat, found throughout much of North America. The red bat is solitary, roosting alone in dense foliage. When it hangs upside down by one foot, its predators may be fooled by its resemblance to a dead leaf.
_The pallid bat is found in western North America, where its pale, sandy color allows it to blend with its desert surroundings.
_The spotted bat, which lives in the western United States, British Columbia and Mexico where the staple of its diet is believed to be moths. Its ears, the largest of any bat on the continent, measure nearly two inches.
_The leaf-nosed bat, a resident primarily of caves or abandoned mines in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico. Its large ears allow it to hear the extremely faint sounds of insects such
as grasshoppers and caterpillars walking amid dense foliage, and its large eyes provide excellent night vision.
Bats!
U.S. Postal Service
Bat Conservation International
National Wildlife Federation
Leipzig, Germany
Underwear
Dessous der Firma Wolford Deutschland GmbH praesentieren Models waehrend der Eroeffnungsmodenschau der Modemesse "Body Look" in Leipzig am Samstag, 10. August 2002. Mehr
als 180 Aussteller aus 16 Laendern zeigen bis zum 12. August 2002 die Trends fuer Fruehjahr/Sommer 2003 der Waesche, Dessous, Strumpf- und Bademoden.
Photo by Eckehard Schulz
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