BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 25 November, 2004
Thursday
25 November, 2004
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
Carlyle Group and Chief Pawn Bunnypants
I'm sure a lot of you guys out there in politico-blogland and most Bartcoppers have heard of this organization, but for those of you that haven't, this will serve as a public service announcement, courtesy of me, Vinnie the Mole.
Let's introduce these guys first, then we'll follow by indisputable facts of war-profiteering, and hopefully make aware how many hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake for the re-construction of Iraq, and how no-bid contracts are good things if you are connected, just like the mafia, but the mafia has much more honor than these fuckwads.
1. George Herbert Walker Bush : Former United States President; Former United States Vice President; Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; current Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Group ( he retired from Carlyle - 10/03, when the press started to make too many waves since his own fuckin' son is now the non-elected ruler of the Amerikan regime).
2. Frank Carlucci: Former Secretary of the Defense; Former Director of the CIA; current Carlyle Chairman Emeritus (whatever that title is; it's probably a cover to say when they get busted "Hey, I was just the Chairman Emeritus! Gimme a break! I had no idea we were charging 40,000 dollars for a toilet!").
3. James A. Baker (not the crippled good guy for gun control): Former United States Secretary of State; Former United States Secretary of the Treasury; current Carlyle Senior Advisor. This cat is gonna have to do some fast tap-dancing when the roof falls in on these motherfuckers.
4. Richard Darman : Former U.S. Office of Mangement and Budget; Former Assistant to President Reagan (cabinet position); Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; Former Assistant Director of U.S. Commerce, current Senior Advisor for Carlyle Group.
5. Fidel V. Ramos : Just a shady character, along with being former Filipino Hula Dancer and Money Launderer for Noriega, just kidding, no wanty the slander/ libel there, little Fidel, but who in the fuck are you and what are you doing with these motherfuckers who have had power oozing through their pores for fucking decades??? Oh, I was just told he used to be President of the Philippines, so you KNOW he's a sleazy fuckwad now. He was, get this, "Carlyle Asian Advisory Chairman" . By the way, this group of sleazebags must have gotten so bad for Fidel, he jumped ship and resigned this year, like three months ago. I wonder what he knows. I bet he winds up murdered. If he does, and I get shot afterwards, someone show this to the Village Voice, the only mag out there with an ounce of decency.
6. John Major : Prime Minister of England for seven years, eerily coinciding with Clinton's administration, which I find odd. Well, those are the major players in this god-awful story of men with no conscience and no interests other than self. These are evil men, as you will find if you look deep enough.
The Carlyle Group is the epitome of the military-industrial complex in full force, ladies and gents. It's in your face, fuck you, you're too stupid as to what we're doing you'll be a pauper by the time we get through. Their type of "global business" is surreal. Look at the collective resume of these thugs, better yet, if you have access to the internet, look at the propaganda on their website. The sneakiest SOB's on the planet joining forces and saying we're going to conduct business in a professional and ethical manner, sure, let me bend over and just grit my teeth and clench my fists as you ram it up my poop-chute.
To melt it down in layman's terms, this company makes bids on the reconstruction of the infrastructure of the invaded country of, oh, say Iraq. Then, with no-bid contracts, which simply means it was determined by the powers that be that no other firms have the expertise to perform these operations, so, no competition for these fuckers to get filthy rich, rather easily. Halliburton is the same type of deal, but all you do is look at all the familial interconnections between Carlyle and Halliburton and it doesn't take long to see that there are conflicts of interest so thick that people should be going to jail, so this connection has been lowered on the radar as much as possible.
There's a shitload of books out there covering this conglomerate in much more depth and seriousness than I would ever attempt, but bottom line is these cats have 20 billion dollars grouped together in a Limited Partership, that means the smell of people like me are not welcome, and I guess their power trip is world domination. Before I close, let me read you (and make a comment or two) a snippet from their website, and tell me if you don't think their ventures are prime for huge amounts of money from the pitiful catastrophe of Bunnypant's war in Iraq (unless things get so bad and we bail out).
Here's the website: Picture two guys in suits with Republican hair standing near a Republican handrail perusing a Republican paper looking ever so pensive, then the Republican bullshit below kicks in:
"While open to opportunities wherever they can be found ( like Iraq, maybe? ed.), Carlyle focuses on sectors in which it has demonstrated expertise(bullshit...ed.): aerospace and defense, automotive (they fix imports, too? ed.), and transportation(huh???..ed.), consumer, energy and power, healthcare (the president of the Phillipines had an excellent health program..it was beg for food or starve to death while he lived in palaces, ed.),industrial, real estate (or how to make a fortune on blown- to- bits real estate, ed.), technology (that's a broad term for "corruption at all levels", ed.), business services, telecommunications and media (they're so cool they can get all the televisions and radios humming with static even as fly-bys are dropping smart bombs by Bunnypants,ed.).
So it's a shameful company that its pathology of "money at any cost" defies the imagination. May God, Allah, Jehovah, Satan, and any other deity or evil forces I'm leaving out jump on their ass and show them that success goes beyond your checkbook, because your checkbook in effect is paying for every bit of their seemingly "global opportunities".
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Reader Suggestion
Kurt Vonnegut
Have I Got a Car for You!
Kurt Vonnegut explains why he never won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Thanks, Bruce!
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Progressive Voice: an American Manifesto
Essay
Marty:
I just put this up on my Web site. It's my contribution to what I think we
should be fighting for:
Thanks, David!
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Arlo Guthrie
Alice's Restaurant
"This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.
For the rest, LYRICS - Alice's Restaurant
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Reader Recommendation
Tom Waits
Better Waits Than Never
By Kevin Canfield
Real Gone
By
Epitaph · $17.98
Tom Waits' long career has been marked by an aversion to explicitly political music. Dim light bulbs and graveyards, rifles that ring out at dawn, mules and very tall men, old dogs, old people, Oldsmobiles-all have been celebrated in Waits' songs. Never, though, has the eccentric and impossibly rugged-voiced singer waded into unabashed political commentary.
Thanks, Bruce!
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Purple Gene Reviews
Bill Maher on Larry King
Purple Genes' review of Bill Maher on Larry King Live on CNN 11/23/04:
"Americas' Most Controversial Comic"! That's what Larry King called Bill Maher in his introduction before the live interview last night on CNN. I've been intently watching Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO this whole last season and bi-golly - maybe Bill Maher is Americas' most Controversial Comic! He has certainly booked wildly opposing guests on his "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO (He got booted from Network television with his controversial show "Politically Incorrect") and I always looked forward to the fireworks. Well tonight he's getting grilled by the KING......LIVE...................
Here's a few Zingers from Bill.....................
Concerning the Allegations of marriage promises and legal action by former Gal Pal Coco Johnson....Bill says, "You're nobody until somebody SUES you"!
On the Basket-Brawl in Detroit....."If somebody throws a beer on me.....I go INTO the stands"!
"Going to miss Dan Rather"?......."Yes and No.........He's a conformist.....and an opinionated newscaster"!
On Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpsons' tirade on a Real Time segment......." I can understand being a sore loser, I can't understand a SORE WINNER"!
On "Why did Kerry lose"........" I think John Kerry could have won if he had just been more of a brawler. In those debates, he never called Bush OUT"!
On Bush's' mandate.........."55 million people FIRED his ass"!
On the Clinton Library........"It's a monument to EGO...it's a personality CULT"!
Why Bush won the election......."Because people (who voted for him) are more scared of BOYS kissing than Osama Bin Laden"!
On the Democratic party trying to look more Republican......"You can't be a little Republican........It's like positioning yourself as a moderate FANATIC"!
On being accused of being anti-American........."I don't dislike America. I love my country. I want it back from these MORONS"!!!!!!!
Larry King interspersed the interview with comedy clips from "Real Time" and they ended with some phone calls. I don't usually like Larry, but this was the epitome of his relaxed soft ball technique and it gave Bill Maher an atmosphere to be extemporaneous, to extol and to explain some of the quite amazing shows he's had. (especially with Ann Coulter!). It wasn't really a grilling - more like a marshmellow roast!!!!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives Larry and Bill 7 microphones out of 10 for a pretty damn good CNN LIVE.
PATRIOT COMEDIANS TO SAVE US!
Purple Gene
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, but cold.
Baked 4 pies - pumpkin, pecan, apple & blackberry.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Vanuatu', followed by a FRESH 'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Natalie Portman and John Mayer.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Keith Olbermann, Ted Alexandro, and Auf Der Maur.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH hour-long 'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH 'Apprentice', then a FRESH 'special' - 'The Seinfeld Story' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH 'Craiggers' with guest host Damien Fahey are Pat O'Brien, Wes Scantlin, and Mike Birbiglia.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay Leno are Julie Scardina & Sea World animals, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Alison Krauss.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Steve Irwin, Paul Giamatti, and the Zutons.
ABC starts the night with 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving', followed by the movie 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 11/4/04) are Wilmer Valderrama, Thomas Haden Church, and Wyclef Jean.
The WB fills the night with the movie 'Samantha: An American Girl Holiday'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Spiderman'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and another 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard 2', followed by the movie 'True Lies', then the movie 'Unlawful Entry'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 4;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Fifty Years On;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 8;
[4pm] 'The Saint'- A Double in Diamonds;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 46;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'The Office' - The Office Special;
[9:30pm] 'Peep Show' - Episode 5;
[10pm] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[10:40pm] 'Brilliant!' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Spanish Inquisition;
[11:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Episode 2;
[12:20am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[1:40am] 'Brilliant!' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 7;
[2:30am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 5;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[3:40am] 'Brilliant!' - Episode 2;
[4am] 'Trailer Park Boys' - Episode 7;
[4:30am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 5;
[5am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[5:40am] 'Brilliant!' - Episode 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News' (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Long Way Round', a FRESH '100 Greatest TV Character' (part 4 of 5), and another 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', another 'MAD TV', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFOs: What You Don't Know', another 'UFOs: What You Don't Know', and 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Let's Talk About Sex' (1998);
[7:30AM] 'At the Angelika #90' (2004);
[8AM] 'Dinner For Five #30' (2004);
[8:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #27' (2004);
[9AM] 'Dinner For Five #32' (2004);
[9:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #25' (2003);
[10AM] 'Dinner For Five #26' (2003);
[10:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #28' (2003);
[11AM] 'Dinner For Five #29' (2003);
[11:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #31' (2003);
[12PM] 'Dinner For Five #36' (2003);
[12:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #33' (2004);
[1PM] 'Dinner For Five #21' (2003);
[1:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[2PM] 'Dinner For Five #35' (2004);
[2:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #29' (2003);
[3PM] 'Dinner For Five #31' (2003);
[3:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #30' (2004);
[4PM] 'Dinner For Five #27' (2004);
[4:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #32' (2004);
[5PM] 'Dinner For Five #25' (2003);
[5:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #26' (2003);
[6PM] 'Dinner For Five #28' (2003);
[6:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #29' (2003);
[7PM] 'Dinner For Five #31' (2003);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #36' (2003);
[8PM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[8:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #21' (2003);
[9PM] 'Dinner For Five #17' (2003);
[9:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #31' (2003);
[10PM] 'Dinner For Five #36' (2003);
[10:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #35' (2004);
[11PM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[11:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #21' (2003);
[12AM] 'Dinner For Five #17' (2003);
[12:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #27' (2004);
[1AM] 'Dinner For Five #32' (2004);
[1:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #35' (2004);
[2AM] 'Dinner For Five #33' (2004);
[2:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #21' (2003);
[3AM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[3:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #30' (2004);
[4AM] 'Dinner For Five #27' (2004);
[4:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #32' (2004);
[5AM] 'Dinner For Five #25' (2003);
[5:30AM] 'Dinner For Five #26' (2003) (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi fills the night with the movie 'Creature'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead' (Feature);
[8AM] 'Stranger Than Paradise' (Feature);
[9:30AM] 'Caesar's Park' (Feature);
[10:45AM] 'Life After War' (Feature);
[12:05PM] 'Aftermath: The Remnants of War' (Feature);
[1:30PM] 'Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead' (Feature):
[3:30PM] 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' (Feature);
[5PM] 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' (Feature);
[7PM] 'Stranger Than Paradise' (Feature);
[8:30PM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary);
[10PM] 'DIG!' (Documentary);
[12AM] 'Gigantic' (A Tale of Two Johns) (Documentary);
[1:45AM] 'Images' (Feature);
[3:30AM] 'Lan Yu' (Feature);
[5AM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary) (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM spends the morning and afternoon with
Abbott (Bud) and
Costello (Lou).
[6:30am] 'Lost In A Harem' (1944);
[8am] 'Jack And The Beanstalk' (1952);
[9:30am] 'Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd' (1952);
[11am] 'Abbott And Costello In Hollywood' (1945);
[12:30pm] 'Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy' (1955);
[2pm] 'Abbott And Costello In The Foreign Legion' (1950);
[3:30pm] 'Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man' (1951);
[5pm] 'Buck Privates' (1941);
[6:30pm] 'The Time Of Their Lives' (1946);
[8pm] 'Gone With the Wind' (1939);
[12am] 'Run Silent, Run Deep' (1958);
[2am] 'Command Decision' (1948);
[4am] 'The White Sister' (1933) (ALL TIMES EST)
Friday - 11/26
TCM:
[6am] 'The Secret Garden' (1949);
[7:4am] 'Hans Christian Andersen' (1952);
[9:45 am] 'The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind' (1988);
[12pm] 'Gone With the Wind' (1939);
[4pm] 'Meet Me In St. Louis' (1944);
[6pm] 'A Christmas Story' (1983);
[8pm] 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' (1977);
[10:30pm] 'The Wind And The Lion' (1975);
[12:45am] 'Blues In The Night' (1941);
[2:15am] 'The Wide Blue Road' (1956);
[4:15am] 'The Big Street' (1942) (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Two heritage, or 'heirloom' turkeys look at each other at S & B Farm in Petaluma, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. In the last three years, farmers in California and across the country are raising a growing number of turkey breeds that were originally consumed by the pilgrims and have become nearly extinct as the meaty, white-breasted turkey continues to dominate the U.S. market.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
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To Play For Flood Victims In Pittsburgh
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen has announced his participation in Flood Aid, a benefit for victims of September flooding in Pittsburgh, that will take place December 2 at the city's Heinz Hall. Springsteen volunteered to play after performing with his good friend Joe Gruschecky at the Light Of Day benefit concert in New Jersey earlier this month. At a press conference announcing the show, Gruschecky said, "I told how devastated everything was in these lower economic, working-class towns, that a lot of people had lost everything, that businesses had been destroyed. And he said, 'I'll do whatever it takes to help you.' It was pretty much that simple." Allegheny County officials, who are organizing the concert, hope to raise up to $250,000 for the Salvation Army to assist in flood recovery efforts. The Salvation Army will also collect nonperishable food items at the concert.
Springsteen has a long history of raising money for causes in Pittsburgh. His beneficiaries have included the Rainbow Kitchen food bank and United Steel Workers locals.
Bruce Springsteen
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Hooks Up Military With Cruises
Ellen DeGeneres
For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be. Studio audience members, all with a military connection, were surprised with the gift of a free cruise at a taping Tuesday. The episode of the syndicated talk show, with guest Tom Hanks, aired Wednesday.
A total of 250 seven-day cruises for four, along with taxes and fees, were given in appreciation of troops deployed from three California bases: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Camp Pendleton and Fort Irwin.
Celebrity Cruises is providing the vacations, available at any time to allow for troops overseas to take part on their return, according to a spokeswoman for the show.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Volunteers work on inflating the Kermit the Frog balloon Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, near Central Park in New York. The balloon is a traditional attraction in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which will take place on Thursday.
Photo by Julie Jacobson
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Black Family Channel
Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend first caught the film industry's eye with 1987's "Hollywood Shuffle," a clever satire about black actors trapped in demeaning roles. Now he wants the country to pay attention to what he calls a new kind of television, entertaining but with a sense of responsibility, especially toward young black Americans.
Black Family Channel, which Townsend joined as president and chief executive officer of production five months ago, is starting an ambitious slate of eight new programs geared for children, teenagers and families.
The major competitor is BET, Black Entertainment Television, owned by media giant Viacom Inc. and criticized in the past for giving viewers more music programming flash than substance.
Begun in 1999 as the Major Broadcasting Cable network, Black Family Channel will keep elements of the gospel programming that was part of its original mission. Music programs and documentaries also remain in place.
Robert Townsend
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258 Permits for New FM Stations
FCC Auctions
U.S. regulators on Wednesday said they had sold 258 permits for new radio broadcasting facilities around the country in its first-ever open FM auction.
The Federal Communications Commission said the permits had been sold to 110 bidders for a total of $147.4 million.
After final payments are made and construction permits issued, winning bidders will have three years to complete construction of the new stations and begin providing FM service.
FCC Auctions
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Awarded Honorary British Knighthood
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary film maker who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido Domingo, became an honorary knight of Britain at a lavish ceremony in Rome on Wednesday.
The 81-year-old opera lover and director of films "Romeo and Juliet," "La Traviata" and "The Taming of the Shrew" received the honor for "valuable services rendered to British performing arts" from the British ambassador on behalf of Queen Elizabeth.
Zeffirelli's first contact with Britain came during World War II. While fighting as a partisan against the Fascists he was enlisted by the 1st Scots Guards as an interpreter.
In Italy, Zeffirelli, who is a member of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party, is also known for his conservative political views and the famous television series "Jesus of Nazareth."
Franco Zeffirelli
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Actor Robert Downey Jr.poses in front of his own artwork for his first album 'The Futurist' at Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004. Downey's new album contains eight of his own pop ballads as well as two cover songs.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
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TV Show Goes Over Like Lead Balloon
Richard Branson
Fox television's "The Rebel Billionaire," starring daredevil British tycoon Sir Richard Branson is going over with viewers like a lead balloon.
The show, subtitled "Branson's Quest for the Best," debuted to dismal ratings three weeks ago and has declined nearly 20 percent in average audience through its latest episode on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Promoted as Fox's answer to NBC's hit series "The apprentice," Starring real estate mogul Donald Trump, Branson's show has averaged fewer than 5 million viewers per week.
Richard Branson
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Sentenced to House Arrest
Robert Conrad
Former Wild Wild West star Robert Conrad will pay a price for his wild, wild ride.
The aging action hero has been sentenced to six months of house arrest, five year's probation and alcohol counseling for a 2003 DUI accident.
Conrad, 69, was piloting his Jaguar through California's Sierra foothills near his rural home in Calaveras County, 100 miles southeast of Sacramento, when he lost control of his car, swerved across the double-yellow line of Highway 4 and slammed head on into a Subaru. The car's driver, Kevin Burnett, was hospitalized with a broken wrist and leg.
Police said Conrad had a blood-alcohol level of 0.22 percent--nearly three times the state's 0.08 limit--at the time of the March 2003 crash.
In addition to the house arrest, probation and counseling, the county judge ordered Conrad to fork over about $4,000 in fines and restitution and forbade the actor from visiting bars while on probation.
Conrad's license has been revoked for a year. He also must install devices in all his cars that will prevent t all his cars that will prevent the vehicle from starting if booze is detected in the driver's system.
Robert Conrad
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A man looks at a picture of the White House, called 'Xanadu,' made of smoked cold cuts and cheese on wood, which is part of the 'Esa boca tan grande (that great big mouth)' exhibit at Daniel Maman Fine Art gallery in Buenos Aires, November 18, 2004. Argentines Agustina Picasso, Manuel Mendanha and Juliana Laffitte, members of the artist group called Mondongo, after a typical Argentine dish made of cow's stomach, create works of art using such unusual materials as cheese, smoked meat, cookies, plasticine and chopsticks. Some of their works have been purchased by the Museum of Modern Art of New York and London's Tate Gallery, and they were also ordered portraits of Spain's King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Prince Felipe, which they made using small pieces of colored glass. Picture taken November 18, 2004.
Photo by Marcos Brindicci
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Guilty in Knife Case
Brandon Boyd
Incubus' lead singer pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $250 for carrying a switchblade in his bag while trying to board a plane.
Brandon Boyd, 28, said Tuesday he bought the switchblade while he was in Amsterdam and brought it back in his suitcase. Later on, he went camping with his family and brought the blade with him in his toiletry bag and forgot about it.
Boyd was stopped U.S. Airways terminal at LaGuardia Airport when baggage screeners spotted the knife in his carry-on luggage.
Boyd was charged with criminal possession of weapon and was released after four hours in a holding cell. The charges were later reduced.
Brandon Boyd
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Auction
Beatles' Guitar
Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
The Gibson SG electric guitar, played by George Harrison from 1966-1969, is the star attraction among over 400 lots, ranging from Britney Spears' book report to a handwritten 1991 letter from the late Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love.
Another big draw at the Dec. 17 sale is a Keith Richards guitar from around 1964-1965, which he played when the Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Singer Mick Jagger also played the guitar during the "Beggar's Banquet" recording sessions. It is estimated to sell for about $400,000.
Beatles' Guitar
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Visitors look at jellyfish at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 24, 2004.
Photo by Kimimasa Mayama
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Wal-Mart Heiress
Paige Laurie
Wal-Mart heiress Paige Laurie got rich off "Everyday Low Prices" - but she allegedly paid top dollar every day to hire a fellow student to do her homework.
Laurie paid her former college roommate $20,000 to write papers and do out-of-class assignments for much of her academic career at the prestigious University of Southern California in Los Angeles, according to ABC's "20/20."
Elena Martinez claims that Laurie, the granddaughter of one of the department-store chain's founders, was clueless about the life of the average Americans.
Martinez said she eventually had to drop out of USC because she couldn't afford its $30,000-a-year tuition, although she joined the Army Reserves, worked summers and took out loans.
That's when Laurie allegedly took advantage of her old roomie's free time and pressed her into full-time service as her homework servant - freeing the heiress to go positively Paris Hilton with a string of celebrity parties.
Laurie's parents were so proud of their daughter's achievement, they forked over $2 billion (sic) to the University of Missouri for a new stadium - and demanded it be named in her honor.
Paige Laurie
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Won't Be Named For Wal-Mart Heiress
Mizzou Arena
The University of Missouri is removing the name of a 22-year-old Wal-Mart heiress from its brand-new sports arena, a week after she was accused by a classmate of cheating her way through another college.
Elizabeth Paige Laurie's parents have agreed to allow the school to rename the $75 million Paige Sports Arena, which was built with a donation from the Lauries and opened three weeks ago, the university said Tuesday.
The move comes months after billionaires Bill and Nancy Laurie angered Mizzou fans, students and alumni by announcing their plan to name the arena after their daughter, who did not attend Missouri. The couple were given the naming rights after donating $25 million toward the building campaign.
Then, last week, Paige Laurie's freshman roommate at the University of Southern California, Elena Martinez, said in an interview on ABC's "20/20" that Laurie paid her about $20,000 over 3 1/2 years to write papers and complete other assignments for her.
Mizzou Arena
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Brazilian Indians from various nations bathe in improvised showers and wash their clothes at the Porto Seguro Convention center, November 24, 2004. The VII Indigenous Nations' Games, which were postponed due torrential rains, restarted today and will run through November 27, in the coastal Brazilian state of Bahia.
Photo by Paulo Whitaker
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Favor GOP Candidates 10-1
Top-Giving PACs
The top-giving corporate political action committees didn't hedge their bets in the fall elections despite the narrow division between the GOP and Democrats in Congress.
They favored Republican candidates 10-to-1.
Of 268 corporate PACs that donated $100,000 or more to presidential and congressional candidates from January 2003 through the middle of last month, 245 gave the majority of their contributions to GOP hopefuls, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Political Money Line campaign finance tracking service.
For a lot more, Top-Giving PACs
Political Money Line
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In Memory
Larry Brown
Author Larry Brown, who wrote about the often rough, gritty lives of rural southerners, died Wednesday at his home, his publisher said. He was 53.
Brown died of an apparent heart attack, North Carolina-based Algonquin Books announced. "I'm just paralysed like most people when they lose a loved one they admire," said fellow Oxford-based author Barry Hannah.
Brown's novels included Big Bad Love (1990), about marital malaise, and Joe (1991), which teamed a hard-drinking ex-convict with a 15-year-old boy whose father was a drunken migrant worker.
Brown won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award twice.
Brown did not start out as a writer, only briefly attending the University of Mississippi before working in a series of jobs including carpenter and lumberjack.
He began writing fiction while working as a firefighter with the Oxford fire department, a job he held from 1973 to 1990, when he quit to write full time.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Annie Brown; two sons; a daughter; and his mother.
Larry Brown
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In this photo released Nov. 23, 2004, by the Catalina Island Conservancy, a Catalina Island Fox is seen just after being released into the wild on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, in the interior portion of the island near Avalon, Calif. The fox, a unique subspecies that is about the size of a house cat, is back from the brink of extinction and can survive on its own thanks to a captive breeding program, the head of a nonprofit group that manages most of the island said Tuesday. Santa Catalina Island sits just off the coast of Southern California.
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