'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Suggestion
from tim h.
With the current rush toward war, it makes sense for peace activists to
read the classic (and more than a little bawdy) Aristophanes play,
Lysistrata.
There may yet be a way to stop the war!
Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata'
~~ tim h
Great suggestion, tim! (I remember this play - LOL!) ; )
Reader Suggestion
from kip
You need to listen to this great radio show. It's archived at
http://www2.bitstream.net/~rumpus2/text/pdlaunch.html
Playlist for Friday, October 11, 2002
To commemorate the launch of Sputnik I on October 4, 1957, the followup of
Sputnik II with Laika a month later, this month's 40th anniversary of the
Cuban Missile Crisis, and a nod to the first full-scale thermonuclear
(hydrogen bomb) test 50 years ago this month, the always historically minded
Radio Rumpus Room aired its own special:
FLYING SAUCERS VS. THE RED MENACE: SONGS AND SOUNDS OF THE COLD WAR
- Here's what went down when the warning sirens were sounded in the concrete-
and glass-block Radio Rumpus Room garage-turned-fallout shelter:
- - "I am not an atomic playboy" (Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander of Joint
Task Force I at Operations Crossroads, Bikini Atoll) (1946)
ATOMIC I (tests of the atom and tests of faith)
- - "You have a grandstand seat..." (spokesman for Mike Shot, Operation Ivy;
first full-scale test of H-bomb at Eniwetok Atoll, 1952)
- - Al Rex -- Hydrogen Bomb (1959)
- - Johnny and Jack -- Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1951)
- - "If everything goes according to plan..." (spokesman at Mike Shot, Operation
Ivy, 1952)
- - Louvin Bros. -- The Great Atomic Power (1961; first recorded in 1952)
- - Hawkshaw Hawkins -- When They Found the Atomic Power (1947)
SPUTNIK ("It's ironic; are they atomic?")
- - Ray Andersen & The Home Folks -- Sputniks and Muttniks (1958)
- - Dell Vaughn -- Rock the Universe (1958)
- - Nelson Young -- Rock Old Sputnik (1957)
- - Stan Beaver -- Got A Rocket in My Pocket (1957)
- - Billy Hogan -- Shake It Over Sputnik (1957)
ATOMIC II (Waving the Big Stick at the Russkies)
- - Hank Williams (as Luke the Drifter) -- No No Joe (1950)
- - Rep. James E. Van Zandt (Penn.) (1953 interview)
- - Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers -- When They Drop the Atom Bomb (1951)
- - "Statistically Very Few Casualties" (anonymous but assuring civil defense
department spokesman)
- - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys -- Advice to Joe (1951)
- - Johnny Tyler -- God's Going to Turn Us to Dust (1955)
COMMUNISM (The Red Menace)
- - "Let's give Jerry a real Red Nightmare" (excerpt) (introduction to "Red
Nightmare" by narrator Jack Webb; Warner Bros., 1962)
- - Grandpa Jones -- I'm No Communist (1953)
- - I Was A Communist for the FBI (introduction to radio show starring Dana
Andrews, broadcast '52-'54)
- - Spencer and Spencer -- Russian Bandstand (1959)
- - "Any last request, comrade Donovan?" (excerpt from "Red Nightmare", 1962)
- - Jim Eanes -- They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain (1952)
ATOMIC III (After the Bomb drops)
- - The Complacent American (excerpt) (civil defense "scare" LP, 1961)
- - Glenn Barber -- Atom Bomb (1955)
- - Bill Haley & The Comets -- 13 Women [and only one man in town] (1955)
- - Johnny Paycheck -- The Cave (1967)
SAUCERS (We are not alone)
- - Introduction and saucer landing, "Day the Earth Stood Still" (Lux Radio
Theater broadcast, 1954)
- - Buchanan Bros. & The Georgia Catamounts -- When You See Those Flying Saucers
(1947)
- - K-Pers -- The Red Invasion (ca. 1966)
And check out http://www.conelrad.com, an excellent site devoted to the cultural artifacts of the first 20 years of
the Atomic Age. An excellent example of how any topic, including this one,
can be dealt with in a smart, informed and non-smarmy manner. Look for lists
of the Top 100 Atomic Films, Top Atomic Platters, in-depth reviews of
essential Cold War films as "Invasion U.S.A." (1952) and "Panic in the Year
Zero (1962).
Kip
Thanks, Kip!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
While watching the 'coming attractions' on 'Enterprise', seems it'll be in reruns already next week! Boo. Hiss.
Got the silliness with the city over the 'hedge' that was really a fence rectified (in writing) today.
Talked to dear old dad in PA - he wasn't real happy about the snow flurries. The kid's gonna be 10 next week, and he wanted some gift suggestions. Don't know why - he'll send $ & expect me to buy
whatever is decided upon...LOL. This year Grandpa will be getting the kid a dvd. 'The Simpsons - Year 2'.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS offers a fresh 'Survivor: Thailand', then a fresh 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', and a fresh 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Samuel L. Jackson and Santana.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are David Arquette, Maria Bello, and Box Car Racer.
NBC has a fresh 'Friends', then a fresh 'Scrubs', followed by a fresh 'Will & Grace', then a fresh 'Good Morning, Miami', and finally, a fresh 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Salma Hayek, Jason Statham, and Rod Stewart.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Sen. John McCain (who is hosting 'SNL' this Saturday night), Katie Holmes, and Mike Lupica.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 6/11/02), the scheduled guests are Tom Tolbert and the Hives.
ABC starts with a fresh 'Monk', then a fresh (and near final) 'Push, Nevada', and then 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB has a fresh 'Family Affair', then a fresh 'Do Over', followed by a fresh 'Jamie Kennedy', and wraps with a fresh 'Off Centre'.
Faux kills time with the movie 'Election'.
UPN is all 'WWE Smackdown'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Connecticut, Part 2
Former President Bill Clinton, center, works the crowd during a fund raiser for 2nd District democratic congressional candidate Joe Courtney, in Enfield, Conn., Monday, Oct. 14, 2002.
Photo by Steve Miller
ABC Renews Series For Next Season
'NYPD Blue'
ABC said on Tuesday it will bring back police drama "NYPD Blue" for the 2003-2004 season, the show's 11th, a move the network said would add stability to its schedule as it searches for a formula to bolster ratings.
The show has finished first in its time slot in the adults aged 18-49 demographic in each of its three airings this year. That age group is key to advertisers and is closely watched as a measure of a show's popularity.
Of all the shows on the major broadcast networks, "NYPD Blue" ranks 28th for the season through Oct. 13, according to Nielsen Media Research
'NYPD Blue'
Case Has Suspect
'Clones'
A 30-year-old former employee of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' northern California facility has been arrested for allegedly stealing images, storyboards and video files
from "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones," including, according to the Marin Independent Journal, the near-completed copy of the film that was clandestinely screened for
Aintitcool.com critic Harry Knowles a full two months before the picture's bow back in May.
Shea O'Brien Foley, employed at NBC's facilities department in Burbank, was taken into custody Oct. 8 after the ever-secretive Lucasfilm staff tracked the March leak of the film
to a screen name "Shay" used in Star Wars chat rooms. Foley worked at the Marin county-based Lucasfilm as a production assistant when the "Clones" copy made its way to Knowles.
Knowles, the online curmudgeon who built his name leaking advance spoilers and commentary on pictures in the works, is reportedly not being targeted by the investigation.
'Clones'
2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
Angie Harmon
Actor Angie Harmon arrives at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
Tuesday Night
VH1 Vogue Awards
At Tuesday's VH1-Vogue Fashion Awards, actors, models and musicians-turned-designers were feted for their penchant for looking absolutely fabulous.
Platinum-blond rapper Eve was given the Breakthrough style award; she thanked her nail stylist, among many others.
And singer-actress-turned-designer J.Lo, or Jennifer Lopez, was named the most influential star of the year. But anyone hoping that she might wear some of the sexy, jaw-dropping
fashions of previous awards shows were likely disappointed; she was demurely dressed, like a schoolgirl, wearing a white tam, a white shirt covered by a black sweater and a flared white miniskirt.
The show, hosted by "Will & Grace" star Debra Messing mixed music with fashion; performers such as Pink and David Bowie sang in between tributes to designers such as Ralph Lauren
and Alexander McQueen; and mini-fashion shows. Celebrities paid homage to designers, and vice versa.
Other honorees were Karolina Kurkova, who was named model of the year; Hugh Grant, who was selected leading man; "Igby Goes Down" star Kieran Culkin, picked as Newcomer of the
year; and Gywneth Paltrow, was got the Red Carpet award.
Venus and Serena Williams, Claire Danes, LL Cool J, Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts were among the other celebrities who took part in the two-hour show, which aired live on VH1.
VH1 Vogue Awards
Gala Tribute Set
Rosemary Clooney
An all-star gala tribute featuring her movie-star nephew, George Clooney, and hosted by old friend Merv Griffin is planned for December to honor the late singer Rosemary Clooney, organizers said on Wednesday.
Early talent booked for the event, to be held Dec. 10 at Griffin's Beverly Hilton Hotel, includes veteran vocalist Tony Bennett, jazz stylist Diana Krall, pop-gospel singer Debby Boone and rock star Linda Ronstadt.
Also appearing will be members of the Bing Crosby family, as well her nephew, George, and her brother (George's father), former game show host Nick Clooney. Organizers said additional
performers would be announced later.
All proceeds from the event, organized by Clooney's children, will go to the Mayo Clinic Rosemary Clooney Pulmonary Research Fund established in the singer's name at the cancer treatment facility.
Rosemary Clooney
Granted Honorary Fellowship
Sherlock Holmes
Victorian supersleuth Sherlock Holmes has become the first fictional character to be granted an honorary fellowship by Britain's prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry.
The pipe-smoking detective, a creation of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was honored in a ceremony Wednesday near his famous London address -- 221b Baker Street.
The Society awarded Holmes a medal, which they hung around the neck of a statue of the detective. The man chosen to convey the honor was Doctor John Watson, a present day fellow
of the society and namesake of Holmes' hapless sidekick.
In 1893 Conan Doyle killed off Holmes in his story "The Final Problem," but the detective resurfaced nine years later in perhaps the best known tale: "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
Sherlock Holmes
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
U.S. Postal Service Issues Stamp
Cary Grant
Giving new meaning to the term "first-class mail," the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday dedicated a postage stamp bearing the likeness of one of Hollywood's most debonair leading men, the late Cary Grant.
Sixteen years after his death, the suave, charming British-born actor famed for such films as "The Philadelphia Story" and "North by Northwest," became the eighth big-screen
luminary honored by the "Legends of Hollywood" commemorative stamp series.
The stamp pictures Grant, sophisticated as always, wearing a tuxedo and fixed with the slightest hint of a smile on his chiseled features. The self-adhesive stamp was
issued on Tuesday exclusively in Los Angeles and will be made available nationwide starting Wednesday, postal officials said.
Born Archibald Leach into a working-class family in Bristol, England, in 1904, he left school at age 14, joined a troupe of performers as a teenager and emigrated to America
in 1920. He struggled for several years in odd jobs and vaudeville before landing his first screen role in "Singapore Sue," a one-reel film released in 1932. The same year,
he made his feature debut in "This is the Night" and began calling himself Cary Grant, the name he legally adopted when he became a U.S. citizen in 1942.
Cary Grant
St. Clement's Theater, New York
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
Actress Ruby Dee is joined by her husband Ossie Davis at a New York news conference, Tuesday Oct. 15, 2002. Dee will star in a new play, 'A Last Dance for Sybil' by her husband, at
New York's St. Clement's Theater, scheduled to open Nov. 6, 2002.
Photo by Tina Fineberg
Photographer Fed Up with 'Hollywood Bimbos'
Helmut Newton
Photographer Helmut Newton, famed for his portraits of beautiful naked women, said on Wednesday he had met far too many stupid models in his career.
Newton, 82, has courted controversy with his portrayals of sexual violence, sado-masochism and fetishism. But the renown photographer told Germany's Stern magazine that
working with beautiful women had often been boring and tiresome.
"Either they are so dumb that they can only sit there silently staring straight ahead with vacant looks on their faces, or they get on my nerves because they can't stop
blabbering," said Newton, an Australian who lives in Berlin.
"And then there are those who believe they have to talk about important issues," he added. "Those are the worst of all."
Newton said he had become so bored that he had nothing to add to memoirs which tell the story of his life until 1982.
"What could I have written about the last 20 years? That I met an awful lot of incredibly boring Hollywood bimbos, that I earn a bit more money now and that I only fly first
class," he said. "Not much more has happened."
Helmut Newton
New DVD
'E.T.'
Universal reversed field Tuesday, announcing just a week before the DVD release of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that the original 1982 theatrical version would also be included on the lower-priced "limited collector's edition" DVD ($22.95).
The studio had said in June that the original version would be offered on DVD only as part of a $70 "ultimate collector's gift set" edition of this year's revised theatrical release.
'E.T.'
BartCop TV!
Talks About Her Husband
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos remembers the first time she saw the man who would become her husband. She was 13, and he was one of the stars of a new sitcom called "Full House."
"I totally remember seeing John Stamos walk in with his guitar in hand and that dorky haircut, the double-decker mullet," the 29-year-old model-actress tells Jane magazine for its November issue.
Years later, she turned on the television one night, and there was "Full House" again.
"I saw it for the first time after seven years," Romijn-Stamos said. "I was like, 'Oh, my God, look at John Stamos. He's fine! Wow! He turned into a really good-looking guy.'"
They met a few months later backstage at a fashion show, and have been married since September 1998.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
Maya Rudolph & Donatella Versace
Maya Rudolph, left, and Donatella Versace do a comedy skit during the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002.
Photo by Mark Lennihan
Wedding Said Set
Anderson - Ritchie
If Hank Williams Jr. is right, Pamela Anderson is getting married next month.
Williams, who has recorded with Kid Rock, told a concert audience last weekend that the wedding will be next month at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Anderson and Kid Rock have been dating since April 2001, when they met backstage at VH1's diva salute to Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. They got engaged in April of this year after Kid Rock,
whose real name is Bob Ritchie, proposed to her in the Las Vegas desert.
It will be the second marriage for the former "Baywatch" star, who is locked in a nasty child custody battle over sons Brandon and Dylan with ex-husband Tommy Lee.
It will be the first marriage for Rock, who has a young son he raises with the help of his sister in northern Michigan.
Anderson - Ritchie
Show Goes On Minus Ailing Drummer
ZZ Top
The drummer for ZZ Top has undergone an appendectomy in Paris, forcing the Texas rock trio to play shows without its original line-up for the first time in its history, the group's publicist said on Monday.
Frank Beard -- the only member of ZZ Top without a beard -- will be replaced on the drums on its European tour by roadie John Douglas until he recuperates.
Beard was stricken over the weekend after he and his hirsute bandmates, guitarist Billy Gibbons and bass player Dusty Hill, had arrived in Paris for a show on Monday. ZZ Top's one-month tour is scheduled to wrap in London on Nov. 1.
ZZ Top canceled its last European tour, in 2000, when Hill, was diagnosed with hepatitis C; he is now in remission.
ZZ Top
Calling It Quits
Sports Illustrated Women Magazine
Time Inc. said on Wednesday it is closing down Sports Illustrated Women magazine, citing the dismal advertising environment.
The move by Time, the AOL Time Warner unit that is the world's largest magazine publisher, comes about a week after it closed down Mutual Funds magazine, also because of dearth of ad revenues.
Sports Illustrated Women, an offshoot of Sports Illustrated that was launched as a bimonthly in March 2000, focused on women's sports. Like its older brother, it featured a swimsuit issue.
The magazine's December issue will be its last.
Sports Illustrated Women Magazine
Over Million Watched
Bon Jovi Webcast
More than a million music fans around the world have watched the Internet broadcast of a Bon Jovi concert in London that kicked off the group's latest tour, organizers said Wednesday.
The Sept. 18 concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire — Bon Jovi's first European club performance in a decade — showcased material from their new album, "Bounce," and previous hits
such as "Living On A Prayer," "Keep The Faith," and "It's My Life."
A global audience of more than 375,000 viewed a live Web cast of the gig, but hundreds of thousands have since watched a recording, which remains available until Friday.
Bon Jovi Webcast
Teotihuacan, Mexico
New Artifact
An archaeologist presents an artifact Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002, found at the Moon pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico. A new discovery at the pyramids of Teotihuacan reveals a pre-Hispanic past that was
probably less egalitarian and peace-loving than some scholars believed. Recent archaeological digs have turned up the first evidence of a ruling elite and provided more evidence of mass human sacrifices
at Teotihuacan, a vast complex of pyramids outside Mexico City that was a thriving metropolis of 150,000 at the time of Christ.
Photo by Eduardo Verdugo
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