'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Alex's Entertainment Report
Alex
Reader Music Suggestion
'Rise Above'
from ~ Rob
Henry Rollins has released a compilation of 24 Black Flag songs to benefit
the defense fund for Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley and Jason
Baldwin...convicted of murdering three boys in West Memphis and the subject
of the HBO documentaries Paradise Lost I & II, as well as a book, "Devils
Knot" by Mara Leveritt.
There are some amazing performances of classic Flag songs...notable (i.e: my
favorites) are Lemmy (from Motorhead) covering "Thirsty & Miserable", Hank
Williams III covering "No Values", Iggy Pop doing "Fix Me"...The list goes
on....Mike Patton (Mr.Bungle, Faith No More, Tomahawk), Ice T, Neil Fallon
(Clutch), Tom Araya (Slayer)...even alt country boy Ryan Adams...and of
course Henry hissownself.
Support the west memphis 3 and get in touch with your punk rock roots (or
get some!) and check this out.
It's called "Rise Above".
The west memphis 3 website...updates, background
Henry's site...He sings, he speaks, he writes books....
~~ Rob
Turtle rescue, rehab and rehoming
Reader Contribution
from Rick R.
Thanks, Rick!
Reader Suggestion
from that Mad Cat, JD
Music Industry Spins Falsehood
By Janis Ian
The recording industry says downloading music from the Internet is ruining our business, destroying sales and costing artists such as me money.
Costing me money?
I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing: If a record executive says he will make me more money, I'd immediately protect my wallet.
The RIAA's claim that the industry and artists are hurt by free downloading is nonsense. Consider my experience: I'm a recording artist who has sold multiple platinum records since
the 1960s. My site, janisian.com, began offering free downloads in July. About a thousand people per day have downloaded my music, most of them people who had never heard of me and never bought my CDs.
On the first day I posted downloadable music, my merchandise sales tripled, and they have stayed that way ever since. I'm not about to become a zillionaire as a result, but I am making more money.
At a time when radio playlists are tighter and any kind of exposure is hard to come by, 365,000 copies of my work now will be heard. Even if only 3% of those people come to concerts or buy my CDs,
I've gained about 10,000 new fans this year.
For the rest of this enlightening article, Music Industry Spins Falsehood
Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
TONIGHT!!! ~~~> 10/24 (9 pm) KNME --- Albuquerque - Santa Fe, NM <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~> 10/24 (10 pm) WPTD --- Dayton, OH <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
TONIGHT!!! ~~~> 10/24 (10 pm) WPTO --- Cincinnati, OH <~~~ TONIGHT!!!
10/27 (12 pm) WGCU --- Fort Myers - Naples, FL
10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO
10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL
11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY
11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT
11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another cool, overcast day. Weather-geek on TV said the temperature is more than 10 degrees below what is normal for this time of year. Still, no rain.
The pink hibiscus is still blooming! Til I moved west, never thought of pink as a fall color.
Talked to dear old dad in PA. He's been hunting, practicing on squirrels. And, yes, he eats the squirrels - needs 3 to make a meal. Tomorrow is the first day of deer season, so I know where
he'll be. Brought back all kinds of memories of hunter safety courses, cold feet, colder fingers and the 'party' for processing...damn - could have done without the 'preparing the casings for sausage' flashback, though.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS opens the evening with a fresh 'Survivor: Thailand', then a RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', followed by a fresh 'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUN Dave, the scheduled guests are Jimmy Fallon and Dirty Vegas.
On a RERUN Craiggers, the scheduled guest is Clint Eastwood.
NBC starts with a RERUN 'Friends', then a fresh 'Scrubs', followed by a RERUN 'Will & Grace', then a fresh 'Good Morning, Miami', and caps the night with a RERUN 'ER'.
On a RERUN Jay, the scheduled guests are Jerry Seinfeld, Alison Lohman, and the Doves.
RERUN Conan, the scheduled guests are Christian Slater, George Gray, and Abra Moore.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 5/21/02), the scheduled guests are David Blaine and Coal Chamber.
ABC offers a RERUN 'Monk', then the series finale of 'Push, Nevada', and caps the night with 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB starts with a RERUN 'Family Affair', then a fresh 'Do Over', followed by a RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy', and then a fresh 'Off Centre'.
Faux has game 5 of the World Series, and will fill what's remaining of prime time on the left coast with reruns of the 'Simpsons', 'Drew Carey' and/or 'King Of The Hill'. (Go Giants!)
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown!'.
TCM celebrates demented and/or possessed children tonight with
Audrey Rose (1977), then
Poltergeist (1982), followed by
(the original) Village of the Damned (1960), and caps it all off with
The Exorcist (1973).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
The Sanchez Sisters
Linda & Loretta
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, right, and her sister Linda Sanchez, left, speak at the start of the Democratic Unity Tour in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 6, 2002. Aiming to be the first sisters in Congress,
Loretta and Linda Sanchez are campaigning in neighboring Southern California districts for the Nov. 5 elections. Loretta is already a three-term congresswoman and Linda is favored to join her.
Photo by Krista Niles
Could Return in November
'The Osbournes'
The Ozzy Osbourne clan could return to MTV as early as November with the second season of their hit reality show.
MTV President Brian Graden says "all systems are go" for the show. However, the network may still decide to postpone the show, possibly to January, MTV spokeswoman Vanessa Reyes said.
Details on the upcoming shows were not released and the debut date was not specified Tuesday.
'The Osbournes'
"The Osbournes" Web site
To Receive Lifetime Award
Walter Cronkite
Newsman Walter Cronkite will be a master of ceremonies at the Press Club of Dallas' Katie Awards, where he'll receive the organization's first Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 85-year-old Cronkite, who spent much of his lengthy career with CBS News, attended the University of Texas at Austin.
CNN technology anchor Renay San Miguel also will help host the Nov. 2 event. San Miguel is a former anchor and reporter at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Katie Awards are held annually to honor working journalists and communications professionals in Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Walter Cronkite
Brisbane, Australia
Chung Tian Buddhist Temple
Buddhist monk Cheuh Shan holds the head of one of five Buddhist statues that were beheaded overnight at the main entrance to the Chung Tian Buddhist Temple in Brisbane October 23, 2002.
Vandals who attacked a Buddhist temple in Australia's eastern city of Brisbane were misguidedly seeking revenge for bombings in Bali that killed scores of Australians, a state official
said on Wednesday. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie told the state parliament that police chiefs regarded the incident, in which the heads of five Buddha statues were knocked off with
a sledgehammer or an iron bar, as linked to the October 12 bombings in Indonesia.
Photo by Greg White
Group Tries To Save
James Dean's High School
Preservationists trying to save the high school where James Dean learned to act are battling with a basketball league over the crumbling building's future.
Historic Fairmount hopes to renovate the old Fairmount High School, which features the auditorium where Dean honed his acting skills.
But the Madison-Grant Youth Basketball League wants to keep using the school's gym as a place for young people to blow off steam.
Both sides go before the Fairmount planning commission Nov. 18 to discuss splitting the property, about 75 miles north of Indianapolis.
James Dean's High School
Roll With Stones Once More?
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman just might rock with the Rolling Stones one last time -- but only if they ask him.
The former bassist has no regrets about turning his back on the Rolling Stones when they creaked to their 30th anniversary in 1992 but admits to just the tiniest bit of nostalgia now the
world's biggest rock band has turned 40.
"As it is the 40th and it might be the very last tour -- and I think it quite likely that it is -- then maybe the one time might be nice to do," Wyman, 64, told Reuters in an interview ahead
of this week's launch of his new book on the band.
While the remaining Stones -- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood -- have spent the past year preparing for their "Forty Licks" world tour, Wyman has been compiling what
he hopes will be the definitive book on the band.
"Rolling With The Stones" is based on the diaries Wyman has kept all his life and features the kind of personal insights and insider information that fans will relish.
For a lot more, Bill Wyman
Record Low Ratings
World Series
The all-California matchup between the San Francisco Giants and Anaheim Angels has generated two of the three lowest-rated Series games in history.
Anaheim's 10-4 victory on Tuesday night got a 10.8 national rating, the lowest ever for the third game of the Series, Nielsen Media Research said Wednesday.
The rating fell 30 percent from last year's 15.4 between Arizona and the New York Yankees, which went up against Michael Jordan's comeback game to the NBA.
The last regional Series, the 2000 all-New York matchup between the Yankees and Mets, got a 12.4 rating for Game 3.
The low ratings could force Fox to give advertisers make-good ads to make up for the small audiences. Fox is in the second year of a $2.4 billion, six-year contract with baseball.
World Series
CBS Postpones Sniper-Themed Episode
'CSI: Miami'
CBS has postponed an episode of its hit crime drama "CSI: Miami" that deals with a series of shootings by a sniper because of the sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area, the network said on Wednesday.
A network spokesman said the episode has been filmed but no decision has been made about when it will air. He said that if the sniper shootings had never taken place, the
episode would have probably aired this year.
The show in question, first pitched to the network in August, features a sniper shooting people from a Miami high-rise building.
'CSI: Miami'
Last Of 3 Chicks Dies
California Condor
The last of three California condors that were first to hatch in the wild in nearly two decades has died, officials said.
The chick, which was about 5 months old, was found Tuesday in a remote sandstone cave.
The birds were the offspring of adults raised in captivity and later released. The first chick died three weeks ago and the second was found dead last week by a biologist monitoring a cave.
The deaths were a blow for wildlife officials who wanted to reintroduce North America's largest bird to its habitat.
It was not yet clear what killed the first bird or the last. A necropsy on the second chick turned up 12 bottle caps, shards of glass, electrical fixtures, screws and washers in the bird's stomach.
California Condor
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Cancelled After 7 Seasons
'Arli$$'
After seven seasons, HBO has canceled "Arli$$," the comedy series starring Robert Wuhl as a wheeling, dealing sports agent.
"We're going out with our highest-rated year ever, critically and numbers wise," Wuhl, who created and starred in the half-hour program, said Tuesday by telephone. "Everybody
has to work under a budget, and one of the decisions was maybe we should go out now."
Wuhl has a development deal with HBO and said, "I'm sure I'll continue to do projects with them."
'Arli$$'
Queen Of The Scorpions
Kanchana Ketkaew
Thai stunt woman Kanchana Ketkaew kisses a scorpion inside a glass room filled with some 3,400 scorpions at Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in the Thai resort town of Pattaya,
October 23, 2002. Kanchana set a new record for 'The Longest Stay With Scorpions' by staying in the scorpion filled room for 32 days. The previous record was set by a Malaysia
woman last year who stayed with 2,700 scorpions for 30 days.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang
Backs UFO Disclosure
SCI FI Channel
The SCI FI Channel joined with John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, in calling for declassification of secret government records on UFOs, the network
announced. SCI FI is backing a Freedom of Information Act initiative to obtain government records on cases involving retrieval of objects of unknown origin by the secret Air Force
operations Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly. Assisting SCI FI in its effort is the Washington, D.C., law firm of Lobel, Novins and Lamont, the network announced. "It is
time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon,"
Podesta said in a statement.
Explaining SCI FI's involvement, network president Bonnie Hammer said, "For the past decade, SCI FI programming has explored the often-blurred line that separates science fiction
from science fact. But when credible scientists conclude that 5 percent to 10 percent of UFOs cannot be explained by natural or artificial causes, we think it is worth taking a much
closer look at what is clearly a real and ubiquitous phenomenon."
For more details, SCI FI Channel
Nasty Turn
Whitney Houston
The battle between Whitney Houston and her dad's company has taken a nasty turn.
The TV show "Celebrity Justice" says the singer and her husband, Bobby Brown, are listed as suspects in a police report about a possible death threat. The report from police in
East Orange, N.J., is about an alleged threat received by Kevin Skinner — the business partner of Houston's father, John.
In the police report, dated March 26, Skinner says a man named "Malik" told him: "Nippy and Bobby are planning to have you done!" (Nippy is Houston's nickname.) Skinner says right
after that, he got a call saying: "Watch your back, you're dead."
The company is suing Houston for not paying them for management services the company claims it did to resurrect the singer's career after a drug arrest a couple of years ago.
Whitney Houston
Joining 'The Stepford Wives'
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman will be joining the ranks of "The Stepford Wives."
She'll star in Paramount's remake of the 1975 thriller, which revolves around a group of husbands who transform their feisty wives into robots that cater to their every whim.
Frank Oz ("The Score") is directing.
The concept will be contemporized by more than having the wives carting kids around in minivans and SUVs instead of station wagons. While the original adaptation of the Ira Levin novel was a straight
thriller, the revamp is considered to be more of a sophisticated black comedy. It was scripted by Paul Rudnick, who has mined that genre with the comedies "In & Out," "The Addams Family Values" and "Marci X."
Kidman will play the role originated by Katharine Ross, a newcomer to the neighborhood who realizes something is amiss with the housewives who seem a bit too interested in household chores and other
ways of pleasing their hubbies. Aside from comedy, the new film will feature special effects involving the femme transformations.
Nicole Kidman
Joins 'Idol' Judges Panel
Angie Martinez
New York-based radio personality and recording artist Angie Martinez is close to signing on as the fourth judge on Fox's upcoming "American Idol" sequel.
Martinez, who hosts afternoon drive on New York's WQHT-FM, "Hot 97," joins returning judges Simon Cowell, who re-inked earlier this summer, and Paula Abdul and
Randy Jackson, both of whom re-enlisted last week.
Martinez appeared on the Grammy-nominated single "Ladies Night," which featured Missy Elliot, Lil' Kim, Left Eye and Da Brat, and released her first album, "Up
Close and Personal," in 2001. Her latest Elektra release, "Animal House," came out in August. Martinez has been heard on Hot 97 since 1994.
Angie Martinez
BartCop TV!
Pumps Actors Union in Washington
Melissa Gilbert
Seeking to dispel the image of actors as limo-riding superstars, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) president Melissa Gilbert has pledged she will seek a higher profile on labor
issues for the union's 98,000 members.
Gilbert made the comments while meeting Tuesday with officials at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington with a goal of boosting SAG's support for other sectors of the
union movement, ranging from nurses to airline baggage handlers to longshoremen.
Gilbert, who has spent the past year as a VP on the AFL-CIO executive council, said she has been pushing for SAG to deepen ties with the umbrella organization. While
stressing there is no single issue driving the alliance, she noted that the guild can provide high-profile thesps to support union causes, while the AFL-CIO, which
contains labor organizations comprising more than 13 million members, can supply strategic expertise and legislative know-how.
Melissa Gilbert
'Throught The Flames'
Afghan Policemen
Afghan policemen are seen through the flames during a ceremony to destroy confiscated drugs in Kabul, October 22, 2002. The Interior Ministry of Afghanistan on Tuesday
destroyed 922 kgs (2,033 lbs) of opium and 971 kgs (2,141 lbs) of hashish which were seized in Kabul on their way from Afghanistan's eastern province of Ningarhar.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
Ditches Talent Agent
George Clooney
George Clooney has ditched his talent agent amid a furor over a finder's fee for a posh villa in Italy. Michael Gruber in turn abruptly resigned from Creative Artists Agency, according to a
terse statement Tuesday from the talent firm.
No official reason was given for the departure, but agency insiders say it stems from a dispute over a fee that Gruber was to have received -- though eventually didn't -- from a real estate
transaction he helped set up for Clooney in Italy.
"This was a situation where I introduced friends to George," Gruber told Daily Variety, adding, "I was not involved in the negotiation of the transaction by any means. While a finder's fee
was discussed, and disclosed to Clooney, it was never expected and it was never received."
However, the sellers of the eight-figure estate apparently assumed that Gruber would duly receive a payment of up to $250,000 for the introduction to Clooney. Sometime after this arrangement was
disclosed to Clooney the actor became upset and refused to continue being represented by Gruber.
George Clooney
Gets Own Doll
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith now has her own action figure in the form of a bobblehead doll.
The 8-inch doll, which is being promoted on a Web site, is dressed in a figure-revealing black, shiny evening gown. The doll set also includes the former Playboy
playmate's little black poodle, Sugar Pie, at her feet. The eonline.com Web site says the doll is in limited production and costs about $15.
Smith, who has her own show "The Anna Nicole Show" on E!, is best known as the former stripper who married a millionaire and posed nude for Playboy magazine. Smith met J.
Howard Marshall in 1991 when she was working as a stripper. The couple married three years later when she was 26 and he was 89. Marshall died in 1995 at age 90.
Anna Nicole Smith
Michigan Court Throws Out Verdict
Jenny Jones
A Michigan court on Wednesday threw out a $29.3 million verdict against the "Jenny Jones Show" stemming from the 1995 murder of a guest who revealed his romantic fantasies for
another man during a segment on secret admirers.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in overturning the wrongful death verdict against the talk show, its owner Warner Bros., a unit of AOL Time Warner, and producer Telepictures
that they "had no duty to anticipate and prevent the act of murder."
Jonathan Schmitz shot and killed Scott Amedure in March 1995, three days after they appeared together on the show. During the taping of the show, which was never aired, Amedure
described his daydream of covering Schmitz with whipped cream and strawberries.
The three-judge panel said on Wednesday that the Jenny Jones episode "may be regarded by many as the epitome of bad taste and sensationalism." But the show could not
have foreseen that Schmitz would react violently, it said.
Jenny Jones
Starts Jail Term in Crash
Lizzie Grubman
Publicist-to-the-stars Lizzie Grubman began serving a 60-day jail sentence Wednesday for backing her Mercedes SUV into a crowd of people
outside a Hamptons nightclub in an incident that exposed class tensions in the Long Island resort community.
Grubman, 31, admitted last month that she had backed her luxury vehicle into a crowd outside a trendy Southampton club in the summer of 2001.
Sixteen people suffered injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones. Grubman was whisked from the scene in another vehicle. By the time police tracked her down, it was too late for her to take a breath-alcohol test.
The crash heightened tensions between locals on the east end of Long Island and the wealthy out-of-towners who arrive every summer. The seasonal Hamptons crowd is often regarded as condescending
to year-round residents, and Grubman has been held up as an example of the rich and spoiled.
With good behavior, she could be out in 40 days. She could have faced up to seven years in prison if convicted of the most serious of the original charges, which included felony assault.
Lizzie Grubman
Charged With Using GHB
Nick Nolte
Actor Nick Nolte was driving under the influence of the "date rape" drug GHB when he was arrested last month, dazed and drooling, behind the wheel of his automobile, prosecutors charged on Wednesday.
In a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Nolte, 61, is charged with driving under the influence and use of a controlled substance, both misdemeanors, in connection with his Sept. 11 arrest.
The two-time Oscar nominee, who checked himself into a substance abuse clinic in Connecticut three days after his arrest, is to be arraigned on the charges on Monday, said district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons.
The complaint identifies the drug found in Nolte's system as the synthetic depressant Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, a clear liquid chemical, which, like the drug Rohypnol, has a history of being used
by "date rapists" to sedate their victims. More recently, GHP has gained popularity in party circles as a recreational drug and sometimes goes by the street name Liquid Ecstasy.
Nick Nolte
New Hampshire
Warner
An early blanket of snow covers the foliage in Warner, N.H. along Bartlett Brook Wednesday Oct. 23, 2002.
Photo by Jim Cole
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