'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Opinion
from A PO'd Vet
Two Senators of the Democratic party have gone Repuglican - SENATORS LIEBERMAN and BAYH. Disgusting !!!!
An after thought - if Vice President GORE would have chosen any other running mate than Lieberman he would have gotten 60% of the vote and be our president today.
signed,
a pissed W W 2 Veteran
Thanks, Vet. At this point, more than 2 Dem's have forgotten to which party they belong.
So far as Lieberman blowing Gore's chances, well, think there're a lot of other factors, too. First off, dissing the Big Dog was just plain stupid! Who'd want to
run on 8 years of peace & prosperity?
Reader TV Review
from Sarah
First, I agree that Tuesday's are my favorite issues due to the Michael Dare
stuff. I am ready to vote for Satan for president. Nine times out of ten, I
find I bookmark at least one (and more often, multiples) of the web sites he
shares with us and I love his views/observations. Yesterday, he invited
readers to submit amusing Republican websites, and I bet he's still waiting.
Now, for brief reviews:
'Monk' - I love this show. I don't get cable tv so when it first came out on
USA, I had to go to my sisters house to see it. When ABC decided to show it,
I was pleased. (I wonder how long it will last up against Survivor and
Friends). It's a witty show, and for anyone who has any kind of "quirk", it
is also very amusing. Since I used to live in the SF area, I love the locale
shots too. The cast is good and they work well together. I don't remember
any of their names (I barely remember my own) except Tony Shaloub, but the
young lady who plays his "nurse" is wonderful and her boy is pretty good
too.
'John Doe' - I've only seen the first episode so far (I seem to miss it when
it's on, I need to look it up again) but I like the premise and enjoyed what
I saw.
Other than that, I agree about the 'CSI: Miami' show that Dave reviewed. It
just doesn't have the same chemistry that the original has. There are too
many cop/detective/crime/cia-type shows on this season and they all seem to
merge into each other. I like 'Law & Order' (the original and CI), but the
rest don't do much for me.
~~ Sarah
Thanks, Sarah. I agree about Tony Shaloub, and 'Monk'. But, there sure
seems to be a lot of outright crap so far this season.
Reader Alert
from Tim H
From Sneed in the Sun Times
''Jesse (Jackson) is at it again. His reverence
is being feted to a 61st b-day party at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel on Thursday at the Rainbow/Push
Coalition's awards dinner co-chaired by singer Barbra
Streisand and Motown's Berry Gordy. And the
legendary Ray Charles is gonna sing the song.''
Tim sez: How come I wasn't invited?
~~ Tim H
Thanks, Tim! Wish I'd been invited, too!
Thousands Jam Park
from Alex
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators - joined by fictional president Martin Sheen and activist actress Susan Sarandon - crowded Central Park yesterday to protest any American-led military strike on Iraq.
For more than four hours, protesters filled the East Meadow to question why the U.S. should use force to oust Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein - and to rail against the
American worldwide offensive against terrorism.
Organizers estimated the crowd at 20,000, while authorities at the scene put it closer to 10,000. Whatever the number, it appeared to be the largest anti-war protest in
the city since the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
"No war is good," said Emily Clark, 19, a sophomore at Marymount Manhattan College on the upper East Side.
The crowd also recited in unison the "Pledge of Resistance," which ends: "Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real."
They were joined by Sheen, star of NBC-TV's "The West Wing," who read the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Other celebrity protesters included Sarandon and her companion, actor Tim Robbins, who called on the crowd to stir up the anti-war movement.
For more, Thousands Jam Park
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another cool & breezy day.
The roofers arrived a bit later today - they had to wait for the shingles & stuff to be delivered. The truck that
delivered it had a cool moving ramp that rode all the stuff onto the roof. If the kid had seen it, I'd have been out there
begging them to let him take a ride...
Seems that the freezer in the garage was unplugged for some equipment day before yesterday. Tonight I found a gallon of ice cream soup,
squishy burritos, and defrosted blueberries. I'm bummed.
So, in watching the news from the DC area, a ''Tarot 'Death' Card'' has been mentioned. Wonder which version?
Rider-Waite? Crowley Thoth? Aquarian? Dali's Universal? Egyptian? Morgan-Greer? (There are a lot more!)
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts with a fresh 'Survivor: Thailand', then a fresh 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', and a fresh 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Michelle Pfeiffer and Bon Jovi.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Tim Robbins and Jurassic 5.
NBC has a fresh 'Friends', a fresh 'Scrubs', then a fresh 'Will & Grace', followed by a fresh 'Good Morning, Miami', and topped with a fresh 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Jerry Seinfeld, Alison Lohman, and the Doves.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Statham, and Otis Lee Crenshaw.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Taye Diggs and Brett Ratner.
ABC begins with a fresh 'Monk', then a fresh 'Push, Nevada', and follows with 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB has a fresh 'Family Affair', then a fresh 'Do Over', and a fresh 'Jamie Kennedy', and wraps with a fresh 'Off Centre'.
Faux is still land of baseball & local filler.
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown!'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In D.C.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton acknowledges applause as he arrives to deliver the keynote address to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars October 9, 2002 in Washington.
Clinton called on policymakers not to ignore the economic promise of Africa and to help in the scrouge of AIDS and consider debt reduction to deserving nations.
Photo by Mike Theiler
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Lawrence To Name Street
David Letterman
David Letterman is getting his wish to have a road named after him — even though it's not exactly what he hoped for.
The resolution acknowledges there has been public interest in naming a thoroughfare for Letterman. A recent gag on "Late Show" has had him asking Indianapolis
officials to rename Interstate 465 the "David Letterman Expressway."
Lawrence officials couldn't do that, but the council did rename as David Drive a portion of 59th Street near the former Fort Harrison.
It will cross an existing street called Letterman Road — named years ago for a hospital in San Francisco — which runs through an area that once was part of the fort.
As a result, there will be an intersection of David Drive and Letterman Road "that recognizes this Hoosier legend," the resolution states.
David Letterman
FX Doubles Up
'24'
FX has reversed field and has agreed to repeat each episode of Fox's "24" series twice within a week of its network primetime run.
A number of factors went into the decision of FX executives to change their minds after initially saying that the cable channel wouldn't repurpose "24" during its second season:
= The network will not have to play either of the repeat runs of "24" in primetime, so if the ratings turn out to be subpar, they won't count against the network's key primetime Nielsens.
FX's first "24" run will take place Mondays at 11 p.m. with the second airing Tuesdays at 5 p.m. The originals will play on Fox Tuesdays at 9.
= The license fee paid by FX is far less than the reported $150,000 an episode the network ponied up last year, when it ran "24" Sunday nights at 10. Part of the reason for the lower cost
is the disappointing ratings of many repurposed shows on other networks over the last two years.
= A strong bid by TNT to get the rights to repurpose "24" this season surprised Twentieth TV, which co-produces the show with Imagine TV, convincing it that the reruns had so much potential they should be kept inhouse.
'24'
New Commemorative Stamps
Sara Karloff & Gena Rowlands
Sara Karloff, left, and Gena Rowlands pose next to two new stamps that will be part of a series of 10 commemorative stamps honoring the 'behind the scenes' work in the filmmaking industry, at a ceremony Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
At left, is a stamp showing Karloff's father, Boris Karloff, being made up as Frankenstein for the 'makeup' stamp. At right is the stamp showing Rowland's late husband, John Cassavetes, for the 'directing' stamp. The 10 stamps will be issued in February 2003.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Slightly Snarky
Grace Slick
Even though she was on the ramparts during the sexual revolution of the '60s, Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick still had her limits. "I didn't like orgies. I'm not good at multi-tasking," Slick
told Rolling Stone. The girl who once threatened to lace President Nixon's tea with LSD is now 63, lives in Malibu, and has no regrets about her high living. "I pretty much nailed anybody that was handy.
My only regret is that I didn't get Jimi Hendrix or Peter O'Toole." Hey, Grace - Peter's still around.
Grace Slick
Who Wants To Be A Cosmonaut?
Russian Game Show
Space agency Rosaviakosmos and Russia's state-owned First Channel have joined forces to create a high-stakes television game show that will send the winner blasting off on a mission to the
International Space Station (ISS).
The game show is the latest in a string of creative efforts to make ends meet by the cash-strapped Russian space program, struggling since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Rosaviakosmos was the first agency to send paying tourists to the ISS.
The First Channel reported that according to the deal, signed Tuesday, anyone can apply for the program. Sixteen candidates will then be chosen to train in the Star City cosmonaut center outside Moscow.
Television viewers will be able to see preparations for a space launch happen in real time, the First Channel reported.
The winner will be the third member of the Russian crew scheduled to travel to the ISS in October 2003.
For a bit more, Russian Game Show
Radio Interview
Harry Belafonte
Singer Harry Belafonte lashed out at Secretary of State Colin Powell in a racially charged radio interview, likening the former general to a plantation slave
who had sold out his principles "to come into the house of the master."
Belafonte, 75, who has long been outspoken on civil rights and other political issues, leveled his criticism at Powell during an appearance on Tuesday on a morning
talk show airing on AM station KFMB in San Diego.
A partial transcript of his remarks, and a link to a recording of the interview, were posted Wednesday on the radio station's Web site (www.760kfmb.com).
The entertainer, who like Powell is a black man of Jamaican descent, criticized the secretary when asked by radio host Ted Leitner whether he thought Powell had
taken a low profile as the Bush administration pressed its case against Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. Powell initially had been seen as a leading
proponent in the administration for seeking U.N. support for any military force against Iraq as opposed to unilateral action by the United States.
Belafonte went on to suggest that Powell's presence in the Bush cabinet amounted to racial tokenism, saying, "What Colin Powell serves is to give the illusion that the
Bush cabinet is a diverse cabinet, made up of people of color ... when in fact none of that is what is true."
For more, Harry Belafonte
Or, listen to the Harry Belafonte Interview With Ted Leitner On KFMB 760 San Diego.
Cable/Satellite TV Acting Up?
'Sun Outages'
Twice a year satellite downlink sites in the Northern Hemisphere experience reception interruptions due to the transition of the sun. Close to the Spring and Fall Equinox (usually April & October) all Geostationary satellites
experience a period of approximately ten days when sun interference will affect the ability of earth stations to receive programming.
This interference is the result of the sun aligning directly above the satellite and the downlink antenna. Radiation from the sun overpowers the signal of the satellite, decreasing the signal level received
by the earth station antenna. Sun outage interference gradually increases through the transit time period, peaks, and then subsides as the transit period ends.
For more information: SpaceCom: Customer Tools: Sun Outage
And here's a handy calculator: Sun Outage Calculator
Monday Night's
Hollywood Film Festival Awards
If there's ever a prize given to the low-profile awards dinner garnering the most major names, Monday's Hollywood Film Festival Awards gala would be the hands-down winner.
The parade included Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Warren Beatty, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford, Jodie Foster, Mike Myers, Billy Crystal Arnold Schwarzenegger, Drew Barrymore and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
As Hollywood's biggest stars kept appearing on the Beverly Hilton stage, one incredulous question kept rippling through the audience: "How did they ever get these people to show up?"
There were a few keys to the drawing power: the honorees knew in advance they were winning (nine of 21 kudos were life achievement-style awards); each honoree secured his own mega-name presenter; and, even
though it's early October, awards-campaign season has shifted into gear.
That's not to say that all the attendees were in a festive mood. Several were seen to be grumbling about the whole thing, and the acceptance speeches were sassy. When Spielberg accepted the movie of the
year award for "Minority Report," he said: "A lot of unusual things happened this year. 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' outgrossed my big fat Tom Cruise movie."
And as with most kudos dinners, self-absorbed gratitude was the norm for most of the acceptance speeches; however, there were a few stellar moments.
For a lot more, Hollywood Film Festival Awards
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Has Multiple Sclerosis
Teri Garr
Actress Teri Garr, whose movies include "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," said on Tuesday she had multiple sclerosis but it was no worse for her career than being a woman over 50 in Hollywood.
Garr, 56, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that one of the symptoms, limping, first appeared 10 years ago but it was not until recently that she had been diagnosed with MS, an inflammatory
condition of the central nervous system.
She compared her lack of roles to the FBI's witness protection program. "I used to say the William Morris agency put me in an actor's protection program, it's really working very well."
Garr said she had been relatively free of severe symptoms. "I'm going on with my life, I raise my daughter, I work," she said.
Teri Garr
'Portraits' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon poses in front of a photograph of actor Bert Lahr in Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' part of a the exhibit 'Richard Avedon: Portraits,' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wednesday,
Oct. 8, 2002, in New York. The show is the city's first major exhibit in almost 30 years of Avedon's portrait photographs. The show includes works from the past 40 years.
Photo by Kathy Willens
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Statue Breaks After Fall
Conservationists should be able to restore a 15th-century marble statue of Adam at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that toppled over and broke into dozens of pieces, the museum's director said.
The life-size nude by Venetian sculptor Tullio Lombardo fell after its pedestal gave way, Philippe de Montebello said Tuesday.
The fallen statue was discovered at the Manhattan museum's Velez Blanco Patio around 9 p.m. Sunday, more than three hours after closing time, by a security guard who heard a crash.
Conservators were immediately called in to survey the damage.
The statue, dated 1490-95, came to the museum in 1936 and is part of its permanent collection, according to the museum's Web site.
The statue of Adam holding an apple was noted for the purity of its marble and its smooth, elegant carving. A serpent and a grapevine on a tree trunk alluded to the fall and redemption of man.
Statue Breaks After Fall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Banned From Iran & Iraq
Christiane Amanpour
CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has been banned from two countries that fought a nearly decade-long war in the 1980s — Iraq and Iran.
On Wednesday, Iran barred Amanpour from accompanying British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who is visiting the region. She had to get off the plane in Kuwait.
The Iranian-born Amanpour is also one of three CNN reporters, along with Wolf Blitzer and Richard Roth, who are currently refused entry to Iraq, the network said.
Iran Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Amanpour was banned in retaliation for U.S. treatment of Iranians who want to visit the United States.
In recent weeks, ABC briefly had trouble getting visas approved for visiting journalists in Iraq because of Claire Shipman's interview with a former mistress of Saddam Hussein's.
ABC correspondent David Wright is now in Iraq.
Christiane Amanpour
Parole Denied
mark david chapman
Mark David Chapman, in prison for murdering former Beatle John Lennon more than two decades ago, has lost a second bid for parole, authorities said on Wednesday.
Chapman, serving a sentence of 20 years to life for slaying Lennon outside his apartment on Dec. 8, 1980, is behind bars at Attica prison near Rochester, New York. The
decision to reject his parole request was issued on Oct. 9, which would have been Lennon's 62nd birthday.
This was the second time Chapman's parole was denied. He was also turned down two years ago. His next parole hearing was scheduled for October 2004.
According to the board, Chapman has acknowledged he planned Lennon's murder for several months, "intending to wipe out this international celebrity for being a hypocrite living a decadent lifestyle."
mark david chapman
BartCop TV!
Dismissing Drug Charge
Winona Ryder
Prosecutors said on Wednesday they have requested the dismissal of a felony drug charge against actress Winona Ryder, who is due to go on trial next week accused of shoplifting.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office said it was making its request "in the interests of justice" after receiving a sworn statement from a defense witness. The details of the
statement, disclosed during the pretrial discovery phase, were not immediately available.
The actress was allegedly found with the painkillers during her arrest last December on charges of shoplifting some $6,000 worth of designer goods from the posh Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills.
Ryder's defense lawyer, Mark Geragos, has maintained all along that the actress had a prescription for the painkillers.
Winona Ryder
Asian Games
Sun Dan
Sun Dan of China executes her hoop exercise during the rhythmic gymnastics team finals of the Asian Games, October 8, 2002 in Pusan.
Photo by Tom Szlukovenyi
Scraps Cuba Trip
NBC
NBC canceled Matt Lauer's planned trip to Cuba for Friday's "Today" show and accused the Cuban government of failing to deliver a promised interview with Cuban President Fidel
Castro — who decided to talk exclusively with ABC's' Barbara Walters.
"We committed to doing the show down there a couple of weeks ago with the understanding we had an interview with Castro and when the Cuban government reneged on our agreement,
we changed our plans and will cover the story from here," NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said.
The U.S. television networks were interested in speaking with Castro for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.
Lauer was going to anchor "Today" from Havana.
ABC was planning to make the most of its interview, scheduled to run on Friday's edition of "20/20." The network will also run excerpts on "Good Morning America,"
"World News Tonight" and probably on "Nightline."
NBC
Returned To Italy
Stolen Sunken Treasure
The British government handed back to Italy on Wednesday a treasure-trove of diamonds, coins and even a nautical toilet plundered by modern day pirates from a ship that sank in Italian waters in 1841.
Scotland Yard recovered the haul, which was lifted from the shipwrecked vessel by a group of illegal salvagers using cranes, when the looters tried to sell it at an auction in West London.
The loot, valued at about 1.5 million euros (dollars) by Italian police, included diamonds and other jewels, more than 300 gold coins and a couple of thousand silver coins, antique ceramics,
portholes from the wooden ferry and the ship's head, or water closet.
The pillagers, three Britons, discovered the wrecked sea vessel Pollux two years ago in more than 320 feet of water near Elba, a Mediterranean island off the Tuscan coast.
The Pollux is believed to have been a ferry carrying some 100 passengers and their valuables between France and Italy.
Stolen Sunken Treasure
John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved
Straightening Out A Bad Story
Buzzcocks
The Weekly Standard's "contributing humorist," Larry Miller, tells the following heartening story, related to him by a friend who went to a Southern California punk-rock festival:
"Buzzcocks" came on, played their first song, and the lead singer stepped forward and shouted this (verbatim from Jack, he wrote it down) into the mike: "F--- GEORGE BUSH! DON'T LISTEN TO HIM.
WE HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN IRAQ, NO MATTER WHAT HE SAYS." And here comes the good news.
There was a long pause, complete silence. And then they started. The boos. One here, one there. Then everyone. Everyone. Louder and louder. Jack told me how the puzzled singer blinked in surprise,
looked at the rest of his band, and then stepped forward again to try to save the moment. "NO, NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I SAID F--- GEORGE BUSH. F--- HIM." The boos grew even louder, and then people
began shouting back up to the stage, "NO, MAN, F--- YOU!" "YEAH, F--- YOU, A-----E!" More and more, ceaselessly rising, until the shaken band caucused quickly and just blasted into their next song.
Wall Street Journal Passing A Lie Forward
buzzcocks.com | News, for the real story.
Ramallah
Cat
A cat peers from the rubble of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's heavily damaged headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah Tuesday, Oct. 8 2002.
Palestinians started rebuilding works on the compound. Palestinians are laboring around the clock to clean up Yasser Arafat's battered compound, stacking up
smashed cars and makeshift sandbags as a protective wall, but the work is far from completed, 10 days after Israel ended its latest siege.
Photo by Vadim Ghirda
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