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Last Night
Another too-warm-for-the-season day. Santa Anas are really blowing - that means it's warmer in Long Beach than Palm Springs, and fires won't be far behind.
Toeser, the 6-toed cat was limping, and on closer inspection, the nails on her 6th toes looked sore. So, off to the vet to find out that those nails were ingrown, needed clipping & will now become a bi-annual part of our routine.
The plumber came by to replace the hot water spigot on the bathroom sink. The drip became a trickle that became a steady stream. The house was built in 1937 & the bathroom fixtures are all original. The faucet unit had become one with the
pipe & there was no easy way to remove & replace it. Plumber had to use a wicked-looking saw, and while the little spigots no longer match, the hot water heater isn't kicking on every half-hour.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS opens with a fresh 'Survivor: Thailand', follows with a fresh 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', and caps it with a fresh 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Ice Cube and a performance from Broadway's "Hairspray".
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers - well, it's TBA.
NBC starts with a fresh 'Friends', then a fresh hour-long 'Will & Grace', followed by a half-hour 'special' of 'Will & Grace' clips in celebration of their 100th episode. The evening is completed with a fresh 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Sean Hayes, Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and Norah Jones.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Matthew Lillard and Jim Gaffigan.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Jeri Ryan and Phil Collins.
ABC rolls out 2 old favorites - 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' and 'A Winnie The Pooh Thanksgiving'. Next up is a 'special' - 'Extreme Makeover', then 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB has the movie 'Gossip'.
Faux opens the night with a fresh '30 Seconds To Fame', then a RERUN '30 Seconds To Fame', followed by the RERUN 'special' -
'Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
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Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Japan
Former President Bill Clinton delivers a speech before a young Japanese audience during the Mito Youth Forum 2002 in Mito, 100 km (63 miles) northeast of Tokyo, Japan
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002. Clinton is here for the forum hosted by local business representatives.
Photo by Chiaki Tsukumo
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Shrill Political Talk Spurs Threats
Hate Radio
Political discussion in the United States has taken on a shrill edge that has encouraged an increasing number of threats against public officials, Senate Democratic Leader
Tom Daschle said on Wednesday.
Daschle told reporters that the "very shrill edge" taken on by many radio and television talks show hosts has turned politics into entertainment and can spark an emotional response in people.
"What happens when (radio talk show host) Rush Limbaugh attacks those of us in public life is that people aren't satisfied just to listen," the South Dakota Democrat
explained. "They want to act because they get emotionally invested. And so, you know, the threats to those of us in public life go up dramatically, on our families and on us,
in a way that's very disconcerting."
Hate Radio
Huggy Bear In New 'Starsky & Hutch'
Snoop Dogg
Warner Bros. has asked Snoop Dogg to play the most famous snitch from '70s TV.
The rapper-actor has been offered the role of Huggy Bear in the bigscreen version of cult series "Starsky and Hutch" opposite Ben Stiller (Starsky) and Owen Wilson (Hutch).
The casting, which has been rumored for months, will see Snoop Dogg in the role of the jive-talking hustler -- played on TV by Antonio Fargas -- who provided the duo
vital info for cracking crimes, and much comic relief.
The picture has been greenlit for a February start, with Todd Phillips ("Road Trip") directing from a script by Scott Armstrong.
The concept of original series will be updated for the feature, which focuses on the formation of Starsky and Hutch's partnership.
Snoop Dogg
Moscow
New Year Tree
Russian workers assemble the carcass of the New Year tree in central Moscow, November 20, 2002.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin
Sparky Supported Pataki
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the one-time Mayor Lindsay aide who left Disney to co-found DreamWorks, threw a fund-raiser for Gov. Pataki in Los Angeles shortly
before the election. Katzenberg also gave Pataki the maximum $30,700.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Moves To HBO Late-Night
Bill Maher
Bill Maher, whose ABC series "Politically Incorrect" ended its run earlier this year, will return to TV as host of a new late-night talk show on HBO, scheduled to debut Feb. 21.
The Los Angeles-based hour will appear on HBO Fridays at 11:30 p.m., the time slot previously occupied by "Dennis Miller Live," which wrapped its nine-season run this summer.
Twenty episodes have been ordered of the yet-to-be-titled Maher project, which will be devoted to news and comedy. It will air live on the East Coast, and tape-delayed on the West Coast.
Bill Maher
NBC Wins Clearance to Buy
Bravo
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it has given antitrust clearance to General Electric's plans to buy Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Bravo cable network.
GE is the parent company of NBC, which announced earlier this month that it was buying Bravo in a $1.25 billion cash and stock deal. In return for its 80 percent stake
in Bravo, Cablevision gets about $1 billion in GE stock and about 53.2 million shares of Cablevision Class A common stock presently held by NBC.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., which owns the other 20 percent of Bravo, gets about $250 million in cash.
Bravo
TV Triple Play
Carol Leifer
Former "Seinfeld" writer-producer Carol Leifer has set up sitcom projects at ABC and Fox, and signed a deal with Comedy Central for her first standup special in nearly a decade.
The Fox project is inspired by the popular femme-focused Web site VivianLives.com. The ABC project is about a dysfunctional family. Leifer will write and
executive produce both, but has no plans to appear in front of the camera.
The Comedy Central special will tape next month at New York's Hudson Theater and it will likely be broadcast in February. It comes as Leifer, most recently
executive producer of "The Ellen Show," mounts an aggressive return to the comedy-club circuit, playing numerous dates around the country -- including a
two-night gig opening for Jerry Seinfeld Jan. 17-18 in Cincinnati.
In addition to the three projects, Leifer is lending her voice to The Alan Brady Show," a cartoon being developed for Nick at Nite. She'll play Tilly, a comedy writer
on the fictitious show-within-a-show inspired by "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Carol Leifer
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Trinkets War Turns 'Malicious'
Princess Diana
Princess Diana's mother and sister are being sued for malicious prosecution in the latest twist in a bitter transatlantic fight over memorial trinkets marking Diana's death.
Frances Shand Kydd and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, as executors of Diana's estate, and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund set up after the princess's death in a 1997 car crash, are
named in a $25 million lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles courts by the U.S.-based Franklin Mint Co. Kidd is Diana's mother and McCorquodale her sister.
Franklin Mint last June won a lengthy legal battle over its right to sell plates, dolls and jewelry bearing Diana's likeness despite objections by the Memorial Fund.
After Diana's untimely death and the emotional outpouring of grief around the world, the Fund authorized 20 companies -- but not the Franklin Mint -- to use Diana's name and likeness
for souvenir items in the United States, with profits going to Diana's favorite charities.
Despite having won its case in a California appeals court in June, Franklin Mint on Friday counter-sued, claiming that the 1998 lawsuit brought by the Diana Memorial Fund was "malicious, wanton and despicable."
Princess Diana
Ghani Khiel, Afghanistan
Poppies
An Afghan girl cuts into a poppy bulb to extract the sap, which will be used to make opium, at a farm near the eastern Afghan town of Ghani Khiel, home to Afghanistan's biggest
drug market in this April 26, 2002 file photo. Farmers who voluntarily destroyed their crop were supposed to get $500 for their good deed. Instead they got a little chit that
verifying they destroyed their crop and then got turned away when they tried to collect their money.
Photo by Amir Shah
2-Year Deal With Disney
Rob Schneider
Actor-writer-comedian Rob Schneider has entered into a two-year first-look production deal with Walt Disney Studios.
Schneider stars in the Disney comedy "The Hot Chick," which opens Dec. 13. He plays a self-centered high school girl who takes on the appearance of a 30-year-old man.
Schneider and his production shingle, From Out of Nowhere Prods., in which he is partnered with brother John Schneider and Michael Chinich, are developing
several projects. First up will be "Deuce Bigalow II," a sequel to the 1999 Disney hit "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," with Tom Brady, co-writer/director of "Hot
Chick," set to write and direct.
Rob Schneider
New Film Stock
Kodak
Film manufacturer Eastman Kodak Co. on Wednesday unveiled a new motion picture film aimed at maintaining its dominant share in the movie and television industry even
as new digital tape makes inroads in that market.
Rochester, New York-based Kodak, the world's No. 1 supplier of photographic film, said its new Vision2 color negative film provides more detailed pictures when filming
and, because of enhanced detail, gives filmmakers more choices in editing.
The combination should boost the competitive position of Kodak's film stock as it competes with lower cost digital tape that is quickly becoming the darling of low-budget
independent filmmakers and, in some cases, TV producers.
Many movie directors like Steven Spielberg swear by film, arguing that it provides better quality images for audiences. Others like George Lucas say digital tape
offers just as good quality when shot on high-end "24P" cameras and more choices to enhance special effects and other details in editing.
The high-speed film stock captures more details of a picture, whether in bright light or darkness, and because it captures more data, editors and cinematographers
can do more to manipulate images once converted to digital files for editing.
Kodak
Restraining Order Against Stalker
Maria Shriver
Journalist Maria Shriver, wife of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has obtained a restraining order against a man she claims is stalking her.
Shriver told the court she began receiving phone calls about a year ago from a man, identified as Bruce Fiorani, claiming to be a high school friend.
Fiorani, she said, had subsequently left phone messages asking to be picked up on his arrival at Los Angeles airport, and had tried to get into the studios of NBC where Shriver
works, as well as its Los Angeles affiliate KNBC.
The restraining order was granted by a Los Angeles judge in August and was served against Fiorani earlier this month. Shriver declined to comment on the case on Tuesday.
Maria Shriver
BartCop TV!
300th Episode
'The Simpsons'
To celebrate "The Simpsons' " 300th episode next year, Bart Simpson is going to try to divorce his parents.
The show, now in its 14th season will hit the landmark episode next February.
Details of the future episode came out Monday night at a rare gathering of all six of the shows' main actors - Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright,
Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer - during a taping of Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio."
It is the first time Kavner has ever appeared in a group interview with the rest of the "Simpsons" cast.
The Bravo show, in which actors discuss their careers and offer acting tips to drama students, is slated to air the same night as the 300th "Simpsons" episode.
For a lot more, 'The Simpsons'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Titian's 'Madonna of the Roses'
An unidentified woman looks at Titian's 'Madonna of the Roses' painting at the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy, in this June 11, 2002. Italy's power company Enel has threatened
to cut electricity at Florence's Uffizi Gallery unless the museum pays an overdue bill for 280,000 euro (US$280,000).
Photo by Fabrizio Giovannozzi
Seals Deal for ABC Sitcom
Janeane Garofalo
Comedian Janeane Garofalo, famed for her acerbic wit and scorn for thin actresses, is developing an ABC sitcom set at a prestigious newsmagazine show.
"Slice o' Life" would star Garofalo, 38, as a mid-30s woman in New York who produces the hokey feature pieces that air at the end of the newsmagazine.
Scribe Bill Diamond ("Murphy Brown") created the concept, and will serve as executive producer with Garofalo.
"I'm pleased to be in business with Uni Studios and the Mouse House for a laffer with scribe Bill Diamond, and I look forward to a long run with this skein and hope never to have to
ankle the Alphabet Web," Garofolo said, doing her best Varietyspeak impersonation. "I'd have more to say, but I'm preparing for my first colonoscopy. Gotta run."
Janeane Garofalo
Scene At Dreamworks
Agent Pitches Hissy
Endeavor Agency executive Darren Statt showed up on the DreamWorks lot a week ago Tuesday without a scheduled appointment and then became apoplectic when he
was told production executives were unavailable to meet with him, according to a studio spokeswoman.
Statt is said to have begun shrieking obscenities at the assistant to DreamWorks theatrical production executive Adam Goodman, demanding a meeting with him
and other executives, and was ultimately asked to leave.
Informed of the episode, DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg asked that production president Michael De Luca lodge a formal complaint with Endeavor's partners.
De Luca did so, and Statt was promptly placed on a two-week suspension, which ends next week.
Agent Pitches Hissy
Sculpture Unveiled
Charlton Heston
A new sculpture at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum portrays Charlton Heston in his role as a cowboy in the 1968 film "Will Penny."
The statue, unveiled Tuesday night, shows the actor holding a lariat in one hand and a rifle in the other. It was donated by members of the National Rifle Association, an organization headed by Heston.
Heston was at the museum in April 1998 to dedicate a statue of Ronald Reagan, who was unable to attend then because of his Alzheimer's disease.
Gov. Frank Keating and actor Tom Selleck spoke about Heston during the gala.
Charlton Heston
Arrested on Alleged DUI
Queen Latifah
Actress-rapper Queen Latifah was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol early Wednesday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
The hip-hop star was driving in North Hollywood when she was stopped about 3:15 a.m. for making an unsafe lane change, officer Alex Delgadillo said.
The 32-year-old artist, who was driving a 2003 Cadillac Escalade, presented a valid New Jersey driver's license bearing her given name, Dana Owens, and then failed a sobriety test, Delgadillo said.
She was booked and released, police said.
Queen Latifah
Calls Hotel Event 'Mistake'
Michael Jackson
Media scolded Michael Jackson on Wednesday for endangering his young son by dangling him over a fourth-floor balcony railing at a Berlin hotel, with outraged British tabloids demanding an investigation of the star.
After video images of the squirming baby in a blue jumper shocked viewers in Europe and the United States, the reclusive pop legend issued a statement saying he made a "terrible mistake"
by holding Prince Michael II aloft from a window 60 feet off the ground.
The boy's face was draped with a white cloth, which German newspapers reported was a precaution to protect his children from being kidnapped.
Berlin prosecutors said they were not investigating the incident, although an inquiry could be opened if any complaint were filed against Jackson.
Jackson had plenty of supporters and appeared unfazed by the trans-Atlantic flap as he toured Berlin on Wednesday, taking two of his children, their faces covered with burgundy-colored
scarves, to see gorillas at the Berlin Zoo.
Despite the furor over his parenting skills, Jackson's appearance in Berlin has added a hint of glamour to the gloomy pre-winter, with radio and newspapers reporting Jackson
sightings — eclipsing parallel visits by Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry to promote the new James Bond film and Robbie Williams to launch his latest record.
Michael Jackson
People's 'Sexiest Man Alive'
Ben Affleck
Hollywood actor Ben Affleck was named on Wednesday as People magazine's "sexiest man alive" of 2002 -- but girlfriend Jennifer Lopez says she didn't need an outsider to tell her just that.
Affleck followed in the footsteps of James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, who was named People's sexiest man last year. Past winners have included George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
People Magazine named 23 other sexy men for 2002, including Clooney (sexiest director), British actor Hugh Grant (sexiest import), Enrique Iglesias (sexiest pop star), and Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (sexiest cabinet minister).
Ben Affleck
Movie Premiere
Rodney & Gary
Comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield (L) poses with actor Gary Busey at a party following the premiere of his new romantic comedy film 'The 4th Tenor' November 19, 2002 in
Los Angeles. Dangerfield stars in and wrote the film's screenplay about a restaurant owner who can't sing. Dangerfield will celebrate his 81st birthday November 22, the day
the film opens in the United States.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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