BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 1 September, 2005

Thursday

1 September, 2005

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Jazz From Hills

Trimmed Bush

The USA Is A Big Fat Liar

I was reading an article of mine from February, 2004 and realized how many criminally prosecutable bold-faced lies and actions this administration is getting away with, and the amount of dust that seems to just keep being swept under the carpet.

To fully realize the amount of crimes the BFEE has gotten away with, one must start at day one of Bush's first campaign. I know it's foolish to trust politicians. My grandfather told me that. He strongly disliked them, I don't know why, he died when I was ten, yet I remember he had a strong dislike for them. But this genetic dislike has trickled down to my asking others why, when where and how many Iran-Contras, Watergates, Monica's hummers, and other "scandals" of past presidents this president and others seem to get away with . If there ever was a Slick Willy, Bunnypants takes the fucking cake, hands down.

I don't understand the phenomenon because Bunnyboy isn't slick. He's as dumb as the guy in high school who flunked gym class. That's what makes it so incredulous. He's a stammering stumbling idiot who has no class but the press slides off him like butter.

His co-horts, former and current, aren't particularly slick in the Bill Clinton way, either. Bill Clinton can work a crowd, let's face it. Although I consider him to be one of the best presidents of the past century, he is still like a used car salesman who could sell ya a junker and still feel for your repairs you might have to pay for thirty days later, and make it seem genuine.

I think Colin Powell is going to have to come back and face some charges of going to the U.N. with a total piece of bullshit that helped lead us into war, if he wants to truly fess up. He's not really slick. He just was fucked by his own superiors. I kinda liked Powell, he just fell in with the wrong crowd, but now he'll never be president due to his U.N. speech.

Cheney is devious as hell, but I don't consider him particularly slick. I knew he was lying from the git-go. I think it's the Middle America people and the "liberal" press that are helping these people get away with lies and high crimes. What if Hillary Clinton had written a trashy novel like Lynn Cheney did a couple of decades ago? The Christian right was either unaware she wrote that sleaze (doubtful), or there is just some sort of inexplicable buffer that shields these people such as Ms. Cheney. And the fact their daughter is a lesbian , and somewhat of an activist, doesn't she have something like a "Right Wing Dyke Club" or something along those lines? Why does Pat Robertson not want to shoot her? And the Pat Robertson's calling for a covert assassination of the Venezuelan leader never hit page one. Yeah, a real right wing press we have. Pat should be up on charges as well.

Donald Rumsfeld has proven to be an enemy of the people on so many indictable counts that I could write an indictment for a grand jury without any sort of law schooling, yet he's still telling people things are going as planned. And Middle America still believes him. Are people that ignorant, misinformed, or just stubborn that their Christian Vice-Prez is making men die by the thousands in the name of the lord?

The United States was so goddammed unprepared when we went to Iraq that it was pitiful. Colonel Richard Hunt, now retired, said he called for 400,00 troops before invasion. Powell was calling for at least for 300,000, just for the reason that what is happening : Insurgencies popping up like, uh, poppy flowers. Yet Slick Bunnywad seemed to get his way. We went with under 100,000. Now ere in a Viet-Nam style quagmire where the best that will be the outcome is a civil war and more terrorists.

How did the Downing Street Memo get brushed aside so quick? Here was a memo saying all the intel was outdated, useless, yada yada yada, you know, the shit we heard over and over, yet they used it as fresh intel. The issue of a memo wasn't hot news when there was a damsel in distress, missing in Aruba. The memo went away in a week. Natalie Holloway is still weekly news.

Halliburton has raped the U.S. and Iraq's economies to the point of total insanity. See Bartcop.com for an ongoing account of Halliburton's sins, and they're the only E-zine I know that KEEPS UP WITH THE INSANITY!!!!! CNN, all the majors, most of the minors, and no other e-zines I have seen have keep a running account of the billions of dollars Halliburton has sucked from Iraq. They just don't care or don't have time till the latest greatest shit just poured down, which they need to send to a reporter to tell everyone everything is going as planned.

High crimes and misdemeanors is a full blown charge for a president. I wish I had the power to get it on the books somehow. You know he's guilty, you Republicans. He's a sick-assed flunkie who has totally destroyed two countries. I just pray there are only two countries that he fucks up. With his policies, a world war could easily ejaculate and spew forth throughout Iran, Syria, Jordan. But then, he'd have three years of being a know- nothing prez where his God better act quick.. I hope we can get through three more years before his pack of liars start Armageddon. And God Bless Bourbon Street.

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Posted by Phillip L. Vincent to Trimmed Bush.

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MeetWithCindy.org

Bring Them Home Now Tour

Alaska Gyrl

Peace In Pink Shoes

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LOOKS LIKE A BATHTUB

IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

COWBOY CATTLE TROUGH


Zen Man
(near Cow Mountain Wilderness area)

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Erin Hart Show Links

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

MALCOLM GLADWELL: THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH (newyorker.com)
Because the uninsured are sicker than the rest of us, they can't get better jobs, and because they can't get better jobs they can't afford health insurance, and because they can't afford health insurance they get even sicker.


Tom Engelhardt: A War of Words (Tomdispatch.com. Posted on Alternet)
The language Bush has used in recent speeches about Iraq and Cindy Sheehan illustrates why his message (and approval rating) is starting to fail.


Lynn Yaeger: Size Matters: A 10 Is Not a 10 Is Not a 10 (villagevoice.com)
American companies now start their sizing with zero and they're cutting far more generously, presumably so that the customer will think, "Oh my God, I'm an eight! I'm an eight!" and buy whatever she's trying on, even though she's the same old size she always was.


Ellen Goodman: The Equal Rites Awards, 2005 Washington Post Writers Group)
We give the Male-practice Award to those folks who approved Medicaid payments for Viagra, etc., to 800 sex offenders. Our gift to them: all the side effects on the Viagra label.


Andrew Tobias: THEOCRACY (andrewtobias.com)
Donald R.: "Would Jesus have blessed the IRS? Charity and welfare are profoundly different."
Andrew Tobias: "With charity the recipients feel like beggars. With income redistribution (progressive income tax, public education, earned income credit, Social Security, unemployment insurance and, someday, universal health insurance), the recipients feel like members of a caring community that recognizes that within limits -- and with TONS of room for self-interest, incentives, and wildly different levels of wealth -- we are all in this together.


Andrew Tobias: JESUS V. STEVE FORBES (andrewtobias.com)
Craig Gawel: "Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple, He didn't give them tax cuts."

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Ralph Cuts the Classics #6

'Grand Hotel'

Ain't Life Grand?

Ralph Cuts the Classics

A remake of a German film of the same name, Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel (1932) is a star studded affair, with box office bigwigs Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford. I'm going to mention Assistant Director Charles Dorian here, because the best performance in Grand Hotel (and it is a film with a number of great performances) is getting the movie made with the four giant, drunken egos being dealt with and dealing with actors was (I think) his job.

Garbo ticked off Crawford by seeking top billing (and getting it.) Crawford immediately set about finding out what ticked Garbo off (being late and Marlene Dietrich) and set about making her miserable throughout the filming. John Barrymore and Garbo were very wary about working together, but ended up getting along pretty well. To say nothing of the famous Barrymore family alcoholism, the assistant director had a lot on his plate during filming.



Set in Berlin at the turn of the century, the Grand Hotel is an angst-filled film about the emptiness of hotel life and the people that live it. John Barrymore plays a down on his luck count with plans to become a jewel thief. He's desperate to get out of his money troubles-too poor in fact to pay his hotel bills, but too honorable to cheat his new friend. If this sounds like a cliché, remember that Barrymore coined the cliché. Garbo plays a despondent ballerina, whose career is in decline and displays a personality that today we would heavily medicate.

Crawford's character is the upbeat young stenographer who dreams of being a movie star. Lionel Barrymore plays a terminally ill character, enjoying his last days with a spree in the big city. Wallace Beery plays an industrial magnate, a foil to the Count. These main characters engage in a two-day dance that ends up with one of them dead, another headed to prison and the hotel's spinning doors bringing new people in.

The "heroes," such as they are, are the terminally ill Kringlein (L. Barrymore) and the stenographer (Crawford). They are the poor that keep their even, positive disposition throughout the drama and their situations. The industrialist (Beery), the count (J. Barrymore) and the Ballerina (Garbo) are all moody throughout their trials.

Barrymore's unhappy count, nevertheless, keeps his dignity and honor, while the industrialist shows he is quick to judge, quick to temptation and is not the honorable businessman he takes pride in being (much like the Republican Party today.)

While not exactly disjointed, this film doesn't have a conventional story line. It's difficult to say who is the main character-if not the hotel itself. There seems to be not plot, but a number of subplots-all of which are admittedly excellent and interesting. In fact, while winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1932, despite its all-star cast it wasn't nominated in another category. Indeed, the ensemble cast never appear on screen together.

What's the point of "Grand Hotel?" As far as I can tell, it's that: 'Sure, you may be dirt poor, you may not have a job, but see, rich people aren't happy either.' The context of this film, coming out as the depression raged, displays an apologetic and sympathetic view of the vacuous wealthy inhabitants of the luxury Berlin hotel. They are bored, filled with seemingly unwarranted fear and unhappiness best summed up by the doctor's critique of the hotel: "The Grand Hotel. People come. People go. Nothing ever changes." Indeed he's right, as in the end, after a fabulous drama, life at the hotel goes on much as before.

And, unfortunately, that's where the movie leaves us in the end. Excellent acting performances. Quirky and interesting story lines. But no message and no central plot. What makes Grand Hotel worth seeing? Lionel Barrymore is, in my opinion, always worth seeing. Garbo is always worth seeing. The dialog is romanticized and well done and it is an interesting, if uninspired film.

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

INTELLIGENT DESIGN GETS STUPID

THE COMPASSION OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

ZELL MILLERS BANK

INTELLIGENT DESIGN MEETS ATOMIC CATASTROPHE MAN

BEFORE INTELLIGENT DESIGN STEPPED IN

BORK THE FUCKING BASTARD

INTELLIGENT DESIGN MUST DRIVE A HUMMER

LIVING AND DYING IN NASHVILLE

IT DOESN'T GET MORE FUCKING STUPID THAN THIS GUY

REPUG THUGS AND THIEVES

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Ark Of Darkness


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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Back to sunny & pleasant.

Ran out to the Valley - easily 20° hotter there.

The kid also had a pal over this afternoon - school starts next Wednesday, and neither boy is too excited.



Tonight, Thursday:

CBS opens the night on the East coast with a FRESH 'Big Brother 6', followed by LIVE 'NFL Preseason Football'.
On the left coast, the night opens with the LIVE 'NFL Presason Football', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother 6', then a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Florida Marlins bat boy Nick Cirillo and Spoon.
On a RERUN Craig (from 7/20/05) are Dave Foley, T-Boz and Chilli, and "National Dinner Tour" creator Mark Horowitz.

NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Joey', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a RERUN 'Scrubs', followed by another RERUN 'Scrubs', then a RERUN 'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
On a RERUN Leno (from 8/8/05) are Matt Damon and Tommy Lee.
On a RERUN Conan (from 6/9/05) are Russell Crowe, Kristin Davis, and Len Berman.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 10/14/04) are Rupert Everett, Dave Navarro, and the Hives.

ABC starts the night with the movie 'Shanghai Knights', followed by 'PrimeTime'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 8/22/05) are Amy Poehler, Ice-T, and Amy Miles.

The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Everwood'.

Faux RERUNs Monday night's 'Prison Break'.

UPN fills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.

A&E has 'American Justice', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case Files', and 'The Anatomy Of September 11th'.

AMC offers the movie 'K-19: The Widowmaker', followed by the movie 'Firefox', then the movie 'Missing In Action'.

BBC  -   
 [2pm]    'I'm Alan Partridge' - Series 1;
 [2:40pm]    'Coupling' - Size Matters;
 [3:20pm]    'Blackadder' - Sense & Senility;
 [4pm]    'Little Britain' - Episode 3;
 [4:40pm]    'Blackadder' - Plan A-Captain Cook;
 [5:20pm]    'Blackadder' - Plan B-Corporal Punishment;
 [6pm]    'BBC World News';
 [6:30pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Crawley;
 [7pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
 [7pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
 [8pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Attila the Hun Show;
 [8:40pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Archeology Today;
 [9:20pm]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Archeology Today;
 [10pm]    'Teachers - Episode 5;
 [11pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
 [11pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 4;
 [12am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Attila the Hun Show;
 [12:40am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Archeology Today;
 [1:20am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body;
 [2am]    'Teachers' - Series 1;
 [3am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Attila the Hun Show;
 [3:40am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Archeology Today;
 [4:20am]    'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body;
 [5am]    'Teachers' - Series 1;
 [6am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'West Wing', followed by a FRESH 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', 'Being Bobby Brown', and another 'Being Bobby Brown'.

Comedy Central has 'Distraction', 'Steve Harvey', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Pablo Francisco), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Drew Fraser), and 'Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Rumrunners, Moonshiners, and Bootleggers', and another 'Modern Marvels'.

IFC  -   
 [6AM]    'Lianna' (1983);
 [8AM]    Short: 'Shame No More' (1999);
 [8:15AM]    'The Emerald Forest' (1985);
 [10:15AM]    'Sunshine State' (2002);
 [12:45PM]    'Ten Tiny Love Stories' (2001);
 [2:30PM]    'Stardust Memories' (1980);
 [4:15PM]    'IFC September Short Film Showcase' (2005);
 [5:15PM]    'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
 [5:30PM]    'Ten Tiny Love Stories' (2001);
 [7:15PM]    'The Emerald Forest' (1985);
 [9:15PM]    'Malena' (2000);
 [11PM]    'Punk Attitude' (2005);
 [12:35AM]    'The Flats' (2002);
 [2:30AM]    'At the IFC Center' (2005);
 [3AM]    'Punk Attitude' (2005);
 [4:30AM]    'An Affair Of Love' (1999).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has the movie 'The Bone Snatcher', followed by the movie 'Pterodactyl'.

Sundance  -   
 [7AM]    'The Al Franken Show': (08/10/05);
 [8AM]    'Look Out Haskell, It's Real: The Making of Medium Cool';
 [9AM]    'The Housekeeper';
 [10:25AM]    'It's All About Love';
 [12:15PM]    'World Traveler';
 [2PM]    'The Game of Their Lives';
 [3:30PM]    'Pieces of April';
 [5PM]    'Funny Ha Ha';
 [6:30PM]    'Hermitage-niks': A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 1 - A Glimmer in the Eye;
 [7PM]    'World Traveler';
 [8:45PM]    'At the Quinte Hotel';
 [9PM]    'Clockers';
 [11:15PM]    'Kenji's Faith';
 [11:30PM]    'The Al Franken Show': (08/12/05);
 [12:30AM]    'Intimacy';
 [2:30AM]    'The Al Franken Show': (08/12/05);
 [3:25AM]    'Clockers';
 [5:35AM]    'The Housekeeper'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM spends the day with Yvette Mimieux
 [6am]    'The Time Machine' (1960)     [View Trailer];
 [8am]    'Where The Boys Are' (1960);
 [10am]    'The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm' (1962)     [View Trailer];
 [12:30pm]    'Light In The Piazza' (1962);
 [2:30pm]    'Joy In The Morning' (1965);
 [4:30pm]    'Dark Of The Sun' (1968);

 [6:30pm]    'Signpost to Murder' (1964);
 [8pm]    'Executive Suite' (1954)     [View Trailer];
 [10pm]    'The Hucksters' (1947);
 [12am]    'The Power And The Prize' (1956);
 [1:45am]    'Baby Face' (1933);
 [3am]    'The Wheeler Dealers' (1963);
 [5am]    'Private Screenings: James Garner' (2001).    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Friday  -  09/02

TCM:
 [6am]    'Suzy' (1936);
 [7:45am]    'Sinner Take All' (1936);
 [9am]    'A Star Is Born' (1937);
 [11am]    'Sweethearts' (1938);
 [1pm]    'The Little Foxes' (1941);
 [3pm]    'Weekend for Three' (1941);
 [4:30pm]    'Saboteur' (1942)     [View Trailer];
 [6:30pm]    'And One Was Beautiful' (1940);
 [8pm]    'The Freshman' (1990)     [View Trailer];
 [10pm]    'The Nutty Professor' (1963)     [View Trailer];
 [12am]    'Where The Boys Are' (1960);
 [2am]    'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' (1995);
 [5:30am]    'MGM Parade Show #14' (1955).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



Any opinions?

Or reviews?



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Musician Carlos Santana, right, bows to Occidental College students as Kenyon Chan, school president, from left, Catherine Young Selleck and John Branca, both board of trustees members, congratulate Santana on his honorary degree of Doctor of Music at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.
Photo by Jae C. Hong
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Appearing on 'Letterman'

Rumsfeld

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will make his first visit to the "Late Show With David Letterman" next week, CBS announced Wednesday.

Rumsfeld, who has been secretary of defense to resident Bush since January 2001, will appear Tuesday night.

Rumsfeld

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For Hurricane Relief

Celebrity Auction

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has helped organize an online auction to raise funds for disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The auction, which also includes corporate-donated items, will open Friday on the Charity Folks Web site, an online auction venue, and run until Sept. 16, it was announced Wednesday.

Proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

Celebrity Auction

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Deborah Harry of Blondie sings at the 'Save CBGB's' concert in New York City on August 31, 2005. Nine bands and hundreds of fans came out to Washington Square Park on the last day of CBGB's lease to show their support for the club and their desire to see the lease renewed.
Photo by Seth Wenig
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Landlord Won't Renew Lease

CBGB

As several hundred enthusiastic supporters rallied to keep CBGB's open, the landlord of the venerable punk club announced Wednesday that the lease on the 32-year-old landmark will not be renewed.

The Bowery Residents' Committee, landlord of the building on the Bowery, "believes it is in the best interest of our clients - the homeless and neediest New Yorkers - to sever this relationship," BRC executive director Muzzy Rosenblatt said.

The existing lease was to expire at midnight Wednesday. The statement from Rosenblatt called for CBGB's to "vacate the premises both voluntarily and expeditiously" - a scenario that appeared unlikely, given the promises of Little Steven Van Zandt and others to wage a battle to the end on behalf of the bar that launched punk rock.

CBGB

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Recurring Character On 'ER'

John Leguizamo

Actor-comedian John Leguizamo will join the team of TV doctors saving lives on NBC's hit hospital drama "ER" when the veteran show returns this fall for its 12th season, the network said on Tuesday.

The Colombian-born performer has signed on initially to appear in 12 episodes of "ER," starting as a recurring character rather than as a series regular, an NBC spokesman said.

John Leguizamo

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Favorite TV Teacher

Gabe Kotter

"Welcome Back, Kotter" isn't just the show that started John Travolta's career. According to Inside TV magazine, Gabe Kotter is TV's most memorable teacher.

Other memorable teachers on TV, according to the magazine, are Lydia Grant (Debbie Allen) on "Fame," Charlie Moore (Howard Hesseman) on "Head of the Class," Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) on "Little House on the Prairie," Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) on "Friends," Mark Cooper (Mark Curry) on "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper," Fonzie (Henry Winkler) on "Happy Days," Carol Vessey (Julie Bowen) on "Ed" and Max Medina (Scott Cohen) on "Gilmore Girls."

Gabe Kotter

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bartcook

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Returns to Acting

Mary Badham

When Mary Badham's mother took her to a 1961 cattle call for the film "To Kill a Mockingbird," the 9-year-old had almost no acting experience. She made up for it at the audition in Birmingham, Ala., with innocence and a memorable Southern drawl - exactly what director Robert Mulligan and star Gregory Peck wanted.

Badham won the role of feisty 6-year-old tomboy Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, living in a Depression-era Alabama town. The screen version of Harper Lee's novel followed Scout and her father, Atticus, played by Peck, who agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman.

Today, Badham is a 52-year-old mother who works at a community college, does art restoration and is just now returning to acting. On the eve of the Sept. 6 DVD release of "Mockingbird," The Associated Press got to know Badham a little better by, as Atticus Finch would say, stepping inside her skin and walking around a little.

For the interview - Mary Badham

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Michelle Lyn Banta, second from left, the first recipient of the Fred Roger's Memorial Scholarship, poses with Joanne Rogers, left, Andrew J. Sale of Ernst & Young and David Newell, who plays Mr. McFeely in 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' during the presentation in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. The scholarship was established by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to honor Fred Rodgers, the creator and long-time host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Photo by Jae C. Hong
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'Tree Of Life'

Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick ("The Thin Red Line") is in talks to direct and write "Tree of Life," a project in which Colin Farrell may play one of the leads, Mumbai-based co-producer Percept Picture Co. said Tuesday.

Malick is in postproduction on "The New World," New Line Cinema's update of the Pocahontas-John Smith story, which stars Farrell. His other directing credits include "Days of Heaven" and "Badlands."

Terrence Malick

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Sues More US File-Swappers

RIAA

The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday filed its latest round of copyright infringement lawsuits, targeting 754 people it claims used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in songs.

The lawsuits were filed in federal district courts across the country, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

RIAA

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Peruvian Archaeologist Luis Enrique Zavaleta, shows a crown dating back more than 1,700 years to the Moche culture in Trujillo, 300 Miles (485 Kilometers) northwest of Lima, Peru on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Zavaleta told The Associated Press the piece, forged in copper and coated in gold, was disocvered, along with a tiara, during a 16-month excavation in the Temple of the Moon northwest of capital.
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ABC to Air

'This Is Your Life'

"This Is Your Life," an audience favorite which ran for nearly a decade in the 1950s and '60s on NBC, is making a comeback in a new version on ABC.

The original series, created and hosted by Ralph Edwards, was a reality TV pioneer. Each week, a person was surprised with an often-emotional recounting of his or her life by Edwards, friends and family.

The new show will be produced by Fox Television and Ralph Edwards Productions. Edwards, now 92, lives in Los Angeles but won't be involved with the series.

'This Is Your Life'

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War Profiteering

Runaway CEO Pay

Chief executives at U.S. defense contractors have seen a 200-percent pay raise since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, widening the chasm between compensation in the corner office and wages on the factory floor, a new report said Tuesday.

Average CEO pay--$11.8 million in salary, stock options, bonuses, and incentives--rose last year to 431 times what the average worker earned, $27,460, according to the report from the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies and Boston-based United for a Fair Economy. In 2003, CEOs had made 301 times their average employees' pay.

''If the minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay since 1990, the lowest paid workers in the U.S. would be earning $23.03 an hour today, not $5.15 an hour,'' the research and advocacy groups said.

Runaway CEO Pay

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An image released by Britain's Natural History Museum in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, showing Natural History Museum expert Stuart Hine with a giant centipede 'Scolopendra gigantea', which was found in a north London home. Aaron Balick, 32, a psychologist from Islington, north London, trapped the venomous centipede in a plastic box after he found it behind his TV and took it to the Natural History Museum. There, experts identified it as 'Scolopendra gigantea' - the world's largest species of centipede. The creature measured nine inches long by just under an inch wide (not including its legs).
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Farmer Gets 700 Replies

Pieter DeHond

A farmer who planted his own personal ad in a cornfield has received more than 700 replies, but he's only been in touch with the writer of one.

Western New York cattle-and-crops farmer Pieter DeHond, a 41-year-old divorced father of two, planted a lovelorn message in his cow pasture using 50-foot (15-meter) letters made from corn stalks.

It said "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n" (Single White Female Got to Love Farming). Since it was planted in May, the cornfield ad has generated media attention as far away as South Africa.

Pieter DeHond

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Mrs. Beckham Reads

Posh Spice

Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, pop star wife of England capitain and Real Madrid star David Beckham, does read books after all, she says. It's only that, as a young mum, she often cannot finish them.

"I always start them, get distracted, and never seem to get the time to finish. I'm sure all mothers with three boys know what I mean," she revealed in an interview Wednesday, protesting claims that she doesn't read.

Posh Spice

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Hong Kong ballet dancers perform during a rehearsal of 'The Last Emperor' at Madrid's Albeniz theatre August 31, 2005. The Hong Kong Ballet is performing for the first time in Madrid 'The Last Emperor', a signature piece on the tragic story of the last Manchu emperor, from September 1 to 4.
Photo by Andrea Comas
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Basic Cable Networks

Ratings

Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Aug. 22-28. Each ratings point represents 1,096,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.

    1. "2005 Video Music Awards" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), MTV, 5.0, 5.48 million homes.
    2. Sharpie 500 (Saturday, 7:25 p.m.), TNT, 3.9, 4.25 million homes.
    3. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 3.6, 3.93 million homes.
    4. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.5, 3.80 million homes.
    5. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.4, 3.69 million homes.
    6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 3.1, 3.44 million homes.
    7. NFL Pre-Season: Atlanta vs. Jacksonville (Thursday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 2.9, 3.15 million homes.
    8. "Fox News Live" (Sunday, 6 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.8, 3.08 million homes.
    9. Hurricane Katrina Coverage (Sunday, 5 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.8, 3.06 million homes.
   10. "Real World XVI" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.8, 3.05 million homes.
   11. Hurricane Katrina Coverage (Sunday, 10 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.8, 3.04 million homes.
   12. "Fox Report Sunday" (Sunday, 7 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.7, 2.97 million homes.
   13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.90 million homes.
   14. Hurricane Katrina Coverage (Sunday, 9 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.6, 2.89 million homes.
   15. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.6, 2.85 million homes.

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In Memory

Michael Sheard

Michael Sheard, who played Adm. Ozzel in "The Empire Strikes Back" and Adolf Hitler five times, including in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," died Wednesday at the age of 65, his agent said.

Sheard appeared in more than 40 feature films, working with Lawrence Olivier, David Niven, Roger Moore and Sean Connery.

He is best known in Britain for his role as Maurice Bronson, the teacher who terrorized his pupils in the long-running teenage soap opera, "Grange Hill."

Sheard is survived by his wife, Ros, and three children. Funeral details were not immediately available.

Michael Sheard

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Petra, a baby Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, peeks out from the safety of her keeper's shirt during a photocall at Sydney's Taronga Zoo September 1, 2005. A baby boom coupled with warm weather prompted the zoo to bring out a selection of baby animals, some who are being hand reared and requiring round-the-clock care.
Photo by Will Burgess
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