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From The Guardian:
"However, it is certain that however much Bush may sometimes seem like a buffoon, he is also powered by massive, suppressed anger towards anyone who challenges the extreme, fanatical beliefs shared by him and a significant slice of his citizens - in surveys, half of them also agree with the statement "the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word".
"Bush's deep hatred, as well as love, for both his parents explains how he became a reckless rebel with a death wish. He hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an authoritarian fundamentalist. By totally identifying with an extreme version of their strict, religion-fuelled beliefs, he jailed his rebellious self. From now on, his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil.
"As Frum put it: "Id-control is the basis of Bush's presidency but Bush is a man of fierce anger." That anger now rules the world."
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Last Night
Sunny, cool and quite pleasant.
PLEASE - still need someone to report on 'Survivor'!
Sheryl Crow performs during an a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004.
Photo by Andy Manis
Visiting Letterman On Monday
John Kerry
Sen. John Kerry will probably avoid the "Will it Float?" routine but might opt to deliver the "Top 10 List" when he appears on the "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Monday.
The Democratic presidential nominee has appeared on such late-night comedy programs as "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and rode a motorcycle onto the set of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," but he has never been on the Letterman program, a frequent destination for candidates. In the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush appeared on the CBS show.
In making the announcement Wednesday, CBS also said Kerry's appearance marks the start of the fall season for Letterman.
John Kerry
2004 Inductees Named
Kennedy Center
Elton John and Warren Beatty will be among six entertainers to receive the annual Kennedy Center honors this year, the center said on Wednesday.
The other recipients will be the husband and wife team of actors and producers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, soprano Joan Sutherland, and composer and conductor John Williams.
The 2004 honorees will be feted at a gala performance in the Kennedy Center's Opera House on Dec. 5, expected to be attended by resident Bush and his wife, the center said.
Kennedy Center
Hosting Video Game Awards
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg will host Spike TV's second annual Video Game Awards on Dec. 14. The hip-hop star and other celebs will pass out awards to honor games, designers, animators, musicians and performers.
Snoop brings video game cred to the ceremony. The "Gin and Juice" artist appeared as himself in "True Crime: Streets of L.A." and "NBA Live 2003." He'll again appear as himself in the electronic brawl-fest "Def Jam: Fight for NY," due in stores Sep. 20.
Snoop Dogg
An acrobat performs in Las Vegas's newest Cirque Du Soleil show, 'KA', Wednesday Sept. 15, 2004, at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Photo by Eric Jamison
National Book Award
Judy Blume
Judy Blume, whose candid children's books have attracted millions of readers and a wave of censors, has been named this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for contributions to American letters.
The author's many books include "Deenie," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing." In 1986, she sorted through her considerable fan mail and published "Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You."
While past winners of the honorary award include Arthur Miller, Philip Roth and Eudora Welty, in recent years the medal has gone just as often to writers of genres once disregarded by the literary establishment. Ray Bradbury, the science fiction master, won in 2000. Stephen King, known for his best-selling horror tales, received the prize last year.
Judy Blume
AFI's Star Award
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey will receive the American Film Institute's Star Award at the 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in February.
Carrey, winner of Golden Globes for "The Truman Show" in 1999 and "Man in the Moon" in 2000, will be honored in a career tribute hosted by Conan O'Brien of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
Previous Star Award winners include Albert Brooks, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, the Monty Python troupe, Steve Martin, Mike Myers and Diane Keaton, who was last year's recipient.
The comedy festival is scheduled Feb. 9-13 in Aspen.
Jim Carrey
Donates to Troubled Children
Rupert Boneham
Rupert Boneham, the bushy-bearded giant from Indianapolis who was an audience favorite during two "Survivor" games, is donating $100,000 to help troubled children.
The donation will launch Rupert's Kids Inc., designed to help troubled youth and provide affordable housing for the poor in Indianapolis, Boneham said Tuesday.
The project is an extension of his work with Indianapolis-based Dawn Project, a social outreach organization where he worked for six years.
Boneham wants to identify troubled youths ages 12-20 and have them remodel dilapidated houses. The charity would then donate the homes or sell them for a nominal amount to a low-income families.
Rupert Boneham
NYC Renames Street
'Law & Order'
The folks on NBC's "Law & Order" will go to work on a familiar street. New York City on Tuesday renamed a short road that heads to Pier 62 on Manhattan's West Side "Law & Order Way" in honor of the show's 15th anniversary. That's where the show's offices are located and many of its episodes shot.
"New York City is as much a part of every `Law & Order' ensemble as the actors," said Dick Wolf, series creator.
The drama is welcoming yet another cast member this season, with actor Dennis Farina, a former police officer, replacing Jerry Orbach as actor Jesse L. Martin's detective partner. Orbach is heading to the new spinoff "Law & Order: Trial By Jury."
'Law & Order'
Trilogy Debuts on DVD
'Star Wars'
Making its DVD debut Tuesday, George Lucas' original sci-fi trilogy - "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" - began as an experimental foray into old-time studio moviemaking for Lucas, whose first two films had been far removed from usual Hollywood sensibilities.
Lucas' sci-fi satire "THX 1138" had been a commercial dud, but the energetic "American Graffiti" with its driving soundtrack and multi-character point of view scored with audiences, giving the director clout to try something bigger that had been on his mind.
Some will be miffed that the original theatrical versions are not included in the "Star Wars" boxed set, which features only the special-edition versions Lucas issued in the late 1990s, with added effects and footage, including a scene between Harrison Ford's Han Solo and crime lord Jabba the Hutt in the first "Star Wars."
'Star Wars'
A bear mask reflecting the culture of the Mad River Band of Yurok in Oregon by artist Rick Bartow is part of the opening exhibits at the National Museum of the American Indian, on preview in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004.
Photo by J. Scott Applewhite
Fellow Comics Visit
Rodney Dangerfield
He may not get much respect, but three weeks after his heart surgery, comedian Rodney Dangerfield is getting a lot of company from old friends like Jay Leno, Jim Carrey and Roseanne.
Dangerfield is conscious and in stable condition but has remained hooked to a respirator in the intensive care unit since undergoing a heart valve replacement operation on Aug. 25, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki.
Sasaki said several of Dangerfield's old friends, including Carrey, Roseanne, Andrew Dice Clay, Louie Anderson and Bob Saget, have stopped by to cheer up the man who helped launch their careers at his Manhattan nightclub.
Leno and Sandler, with whom Dangerfield appeared as Lucifer in the film "Little Nicky," have also paid recent visits, and Dangerfield's wife, Joan, has remained by his side around the clock since his operation, the spokesman said.
Rodney Dangerfield
Baby News
Carnie Wilson
Carnie Wilson, whose gastric bypass surgery five years ago was broadcast on the Internet, is expecting her first child.
Wilson, a member of the female trio Wilson Phillips, announced her pregnancy in an interview to air Wednesday on "Entertainment Tonight."
She and her husband, musician Rob Bonfiglio, have been married for four years.
Carnie Wilson
Shedding Pounds on Show
Former 'Bradys'
Apparently, a couple Bradys didn't own any exercise equipment. Former "Brady Bunch" actors Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen, who portrayed Peter and Cindy Brady respectively, as well as four other not-so-A-list celebrities signed up to shed excess pounds for Discovery Health Channel's "Body Challenge: Hollywood," a 12-week health and fitness competition.
The competitors, which included Erik Estrada ("CHiPS") and Charlene Tilton ("Dallas"), were given personal trainers and nutritionists to help in their transformation. Knight, 47, lost 50 percent of his fat mass during the competition, which was filmed last December.
The four-episode "Body Challenge: Hollywood" premieres Sept. 14.
Former 'Bradys'
Berlin
'Walk of Fame'
Berlin plans a Hollywood-style "Walk of Fame" in its city center honoring German screen legends such as Marlene Dietrich, the German film museum said.
The circular plaques bearing the stars' names will be embedded in the sidewalk near the Potsdamer Platz and unveiled during the Berlin film festival in February 2006.
The list of honorees is notable for how many of the stars left Germany, either to escape the Nazis (Dietrich, director Billy Wilder) or who weren't German at all (filmmaker Fritz Lang, again Wilder -- both Austrian-born).
Actress Hanna Schygulla, best known abroad as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's muse, and German cinema pioneer Max Skladanowsky will also win mention in the galaxy-like layout, designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid.
'Walk of Fame'
Court Reinstates Age Lawsuit
TV Writers
An appeals court has reinstated 23 class-action lawsuits brought by more than 150 writers who alleged that television networks, Hollywood studios and talent agencies have discriminated against those over age 40.
The 2nd District Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday that the law did not preclude the writers from filing their claims in state court after they had been dismissed in federal court.
The appeals court also ruled that the writers "have properly alleged class-wide claims of a pattern or practice of age discrimination in violation" of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and do not have to file individual claims as a Superior Court judge ruled when he dismissed the class actions in January 2003.
The three-judge panel also ruled that the claims of writers who did not apply for television jobs because of well-known patterns of discrimination are not barred by the state's one-year statute of limitation.
TV Writers
David Bailey, curator of the Western Museum, holds a pistol, at an Alferd Packer exhibit at the museum in Grand Junction, Colo., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, that he believes Alfred Packer used to kill Shannon Bell after Bell killed the other four members in their party and attacked Packer with a hatchet. The painting in the backgound shows Packer defending himself.
Photo by Ed Andrieski
Inducted Into Erotic Hall of Fame
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner was honored as the first inductee into the Erotic Museum of Hollywood's hall of fame for being "one of the most democratizing forces in sexuality in the last century," according to the museum.
Hefner said Wednesday he donated some artifacts to his exhibit, which was unveiled Tuesday in a ceremony hosted by comedian Bill Maher.
"They have a pair of my pajamas, slippers, a pipe and a bunny costume," Hefner told The Associated Press. "And a very handsome oil portrait that was apparently painted in Russia."
Hugh Hefner
'Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry'
George Butler
Director George Butler says he hasn't seen the ads that attack U.S. presidential hopeful John Kerry's record in Vietnam, noting that his documentary "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," was well under way before the commercials were first aired.
When asked what he hopes audiences will take from the 90-minute profile of Kerry's war service patrolling the Mekong Delta on gunboats, and his subsequent role in the anti-war movement, he betrays more than a passing interest on getting the message out about his longtime friend.
"That John Kerry, contrary to some reports, served with distinction in Vietnam and was in ferociously heavy combat. I'd like to underline 'ferociously'," he told Reuters.
Relying on archived news footage and interviews with veterans, politicians and family members, Butler tells the story of Kerry's transformation from eager young soldier to committed anti-war activist.
George Butler
Wall-Eyed?
Rembrandt
Rembrandt, the 17th-century Dutch master known for his skill in using light to carry perspective, may have been wall-eyed, a U.S. researcher proposed on Wednesday.
An analysis of 36 self-portraits of the great painter suggest he had a strabismus -- a misalignment of one eye that caused it to point slightly outward.
This condition, popularly known as wall-eye, may have given Rembrandt van Rijn an advantage in translating three-dimensional scenes into two-dimensional paintings, said Margaret Livingstone, a Harvard Medical School neurobiologist.
An inability to see with world with normal depth perception can be an advantage to an artist, who must flatten a view to render it accurately, Livingstone said.
Rembrandt
A set of coins commemorating the 30th anniversary of Hello Kitty is unveiled by Japan Mint in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2004. The popular cartoon feline is the mint's third collection featuring popular cartoon characters, followed by Astro Boy and Mickey Mouse. A total of 200,000 sets of six coins valued between 1 yen (0.9 cents) and 500 yen (US$4.6) with a copper medal featuring the kitten's face packed in the Hello Kitty-shaped plastic case will be sold at 2,300 yen (US$21) from Wednesday, Sept. 15 by mail order.
Weekend Edition
Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones & Co. Inc. plans to launch a weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal next September, adding more lifestyle coverage to attract advertisers for travel, consumer electronics and luxury goods, the company said on Wednesday.
The new edition of the No. 1 U.S. business newspaper, currently published only on weekdays, will start on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005, delivered to subscribers at no additional charge. Analysts said it would challenge the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
The decision, which entails the hiring of about 150 new editorial employees and an expansion of the Journal's sales staff, is part of a move to broaden its base of advertisers as newspaper publishers wrestle with a slump in technology and travel ad dollars.
Wall Street Journal
Leaves '20/20'
Barbara Walters
Mind you, Barbara Walters isn't retiring. But she's about to do something almost as notable: Relinquish her role as co-host of "20/20" after a quarter-century with that ABC newsmagazine. Walters, who has interviewed almost every big shot worth interviewing and whose own celebrity matches many of her subjects, is ready to retreat from the spotlight - a little.
But first: Friday at 9 p.m. EDT, Walters will preside over a two-hour retrospective of many of the 740 interviews (but who's counting?) she has done for "20/20."
Then on Sept. 24, she will air one more: a conversation with Mary Kay Letourneau, the former sixth-grade schoolteacher who went to prison for having sex with a student.
She became a "20/20" fixture in 1979, joining forces with its then host Hugh Downs following the disastrous experiment that had brought her to ABC three years before: co-anchoring the evening newscast with Harry Reasoner, who quickly made it clear he wanted no one alongside him, especially a woman.
For a lot more, Barbara Walters
Johnny Ramone
Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band "The Ramones," has died. He was 55.
Ramone died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, his publicist said. He had battled prostate cancer for five years, and was hospitalized in June at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Ramone, born John Cummings, was one of the original members of the Ramones, whose hit songs "I Wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop," among others, earned the band induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
The band's singer, Joey Ramone, whose real name was Jeff Hyman, died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer. Bassist Dee Dee Ramone, who was born Douglas Colvin, died from a drug overdose in 2002.
Johnny Ramone founded "The Ramones" in 1974 with Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, the only surviving member of the original band.
A tribute concert and cancer research fund-raiser was held Sunday in Los Angeles to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. It featured performances by Los Angeles punk band X, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins and others.
Along with his wife, Linda Cummings, Johnny Ramone was surrounded at his death by friends Eddie and Jill Vedder, and Rob and Sherrie Zombie. Other friends who gathered at his Los Angeles home included Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo and Talia Shire.
Johnny Ramone
A sea lion is fed at Gulf World Mariorld Marine Park in Panama City Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2004. Although Panama City Beach oficials have called for a mandatory evacuation, several trainers and employees at the park will remain with the sea lions and other residents of the park through Hurricane Ivan, expected to hit the coast Wednesday or Thursday.
Photo by Eric Gay
