'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Suggestion
Egg Bush On!
Hey Marty,
Here's a link for all your British visitors, or for anyone who ever wanted
to throw an egg at Mr B.
Egg Bush On!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
T
Thanks, T! That's a good one!
KIRO In Seattle
Erin Hart
Erin is filling in for Mike Webb, from 10 p. to 1 a. Wed. Nov 26th-Friday Nov. 28th and then it's the weekend show, regulation times and place, Saturday and Sunday from 9 p. to 1 a.
Check out erinhartshow.com - drop by and wish 16Dem Happy Birthday--he has been webmaster for two years now, since he was 14Dem. Ask him about his other websites-bravo!
from Mark
Doofus in Chief
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & brisk, again. Very nice.
Have pies in the oven & a bunch of stuff to do - gonna have a houseful in about 9 hours.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS celebrates the holiday with a night of RERUNs. Starting the night is a RERUN 'Cold Case', followed by
a RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Tom Arnold and Moby. (RERUNs all next week)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Lauren Graham, Richie Sambora, and Puddle of Mudd.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Friends', followed by another RERUN 'Friends', then a FRESH
'special' - 'Harry For The Holidays'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Greg Kinnear and former POW Patrick Miller.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Bernie Mac and Boy George.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Laurence Fishburne, Shannen Doherty, and Wyclef Jean.
ABC begins the evening with a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'George Lopez', then a RERUN
'Jim', followed by a RERUN 'Hope & Faith', then 'Primetime Thursday'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 9/25/03), are Ben Stiller, 400-lb. competitive eater Eric "Badlands" Booker and Obie Trice.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', followed by a RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy', then another RERUN
'Jamie Kennedy', followed by still another RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy'.
Faux has the movie 'Dr. Doolittle 2'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Sam Walton), then the movie 'Pacific Heights'.
AMC offers the movie 'Coal Miner's Daughter', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', then the movie 'The Bounty'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Vita;
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Clapham;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Rugby/ Cawston;
[9pm] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[10pm] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[10:40pm] 'Behind the Screen' - Coupling;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Pamela Anderson;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Dennis Hopper;
[12am] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[1am] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[1:40am] 'Behind the Screen' - Coupling;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Rugby/ Cawston;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Pamela Anderson;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Dennis Hopper;
[4am] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[5am] 'Coupling' - Her Best Friend's Bottom;
[5:40am] 'Behind the Screen' - Coupling; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', still another 'West Wing', then 'Queer Eye', followed by another 'Queer Eye'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart it's TBA. (FRESH all next week)
History has 'Jesus Of Nazareth' all night.
SciFi has the movie 'Lake Placid', followed by the movie 'Hollow Man', and then the movie 'The Witches Of Eastwick'.
TCM -
[6am] 'War Paint' (1953);
[7:30am] 'The Half-Breed' (1952);
[9am] 'The Unforgiven' (1960);
[11:15am] 'Apache' (1954);
[1pm] 'Comanche' (1956);
[2:30pm] 'Geronimo' (1962);
[4:30pm] 'Run Of The Arrow' (1957);
[6pm] 'Bend of the River' (1952);
[8pm] 'Little Miss Marker' (1934);
[9:30pm] 'Born Free' (1966);
[11:30pm] 'The Black Stallion' (1979);
[1:30am] 'The Black Stallion Returns' (1983);
[3:15am] 'Treasure Island' (1934); and
[5am] 'The Yearling' (1946). (ALL TIMES EST)
Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden dolls are on display for the press at the Haifa Port Wednesday Nov. 26, 2003. Israeli customs agents seized on Wednesday 400 Osama bin Laden dolls and 50 more of Saddam Hussein, saying they constituted inciting material, the customs authority said in a release.
Photo by Baz Ratner
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
People for the American Way
Auction
Memorabilia associated with Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Elton John and the Ramones, among others, will be go on the block on eBay Sunday in a benefit auction for advocacy organization People for the American Way.
The original artwork for Led Zeppelin's 1973 album "Houses of the Holy" will be among the lots auctioned, as will an autographed "Hail to the Thief" Radiohead poster, an autographed pair of Bette Midler's Gucci loafers, a drawing by Moby, a collage by the B-52s' Fred Schneider, a snowboard signed by Sum 41 and a bass guitar autographed by No Doubt.
The auction will open at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, stretching through the following Sunday. Other music-related items include a Red Hot Chili Peppers gold record signed by bassist Flea, an airplane ride piloted by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, an autographed Rob Zombie guitar, Elton John's sunglasses, a signed Ramones poster, an acoustic guitar autographed by the Eagles and handwritten, signed lyrics by Billy Idol, Lou Reed and Blue Oyster Cult.
Auction
To Play Mrs. Claus in Parade
Harvey Fierstein
New York's annual Thanksgiving parade is famous for its giant balloon caricatures, but Mrs. Claus in drag may be drawing the second looks this year.
In lighthearted support of a recent Massachusetts high court ruling favoring gay marriage, Harvey Fierstein — Broadway's most famous drag queen — will dress as Mrs. Claus while riding downtown on a float.
Fierstein, star of the Broadway musical hit "Hairspray" and openly gay, wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times Wednesday promoting his planned homage to Mrs. Claus.
The 49-year-old playwright-actor, who wasn't immediately available for comment, wrote that "to the delight of millions of little children, the Santa in New York's great parade will be half of a same-sex couple."
"And guess who the other half will be?" he asked. "Me! Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery portraying the one and only Mrs. Claus."
Harvey Fierstein
www.macysparade.com
www.hairsprayonbroadway.com
Lettering on the 'Michael Jackson Auditorium' is obscured on the auditorium at Gardner Street Elementary School Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003, in Los Angeles. Officials have covered up Jackson's name after recent child molestation allegations.
Photo by Ric Francis
Hosting Launch Of Geneva Initiative
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss will host the launch of an alternative Middle East peace plan in Geneva next week before a rare audience of celebrities, business heads and ordinary people from both sides of the conflict, officials said.
Monday's ceremony, which is due to last two hours, will attract about 700 people, including 200 from the Israeli and Palestinian sides, representing "all sectors of civil society," said Daniel Levy, an official from the Israeli delegation.
The Geneva Initiative aims to demonstrate that a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains possible after three years of the intifada.
Richard Dreyfuss
Hospitalized With Pneumonia
Stephen King
Stephen King was expected to remain in a Maine hospital on Thanksgiving as he recovers from pneumonia, a spokesman said.
King is conscious and in good spirits, and is expected to recover fully, his spokesman, Warren Silver, said Wednesday. He's likely to remain in Eastern Maine Medical Center for several days, Silver said.
The best-selling author had been diagnosed with pneumonia in his right lung before a recent trip to New York to receive an honorary National Book Award for lifetime achievement. His condition worsened when he returned to Maine and the pneumonia spread to the other lung, Silver said.
"Stephen and his family ask only for good wishes and prayers, and at this time, when we celebrate the bounty of our country, that we remember those who are in need," said a statement from Silver.
Stephen King
www.stephenking.com/index_flash.php
www.nationalbook.org
Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection
Forgotten Films
Forgotten films discovered in an old warehouse 20 years ago now enjoy a new life across Texas, thanks to technology and an effort to preserve movies made for and by blacks during the 1930s and '40s.
Southern Methodist University got a grant last year to digitize nine feature films and seven shorts it obtained in 1983, when then-professor G. William Jones got a call about some old films found in Tyler, a town about 90 miles southeast of Dallas.
The collection, known as the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection, comes from about 400 films made in the early 20th century, including mysteries, comedies and vaudville-like shorts, that gave black audiences an alternative to the stereotypes portrayed in Hollywood productions.
The films were restored and copied onto DVDs, and this fall the university distributed about 1,000 three-DVD box sets to about 900 school districts and black museums statewide.
Actor Ossie Davis offers an introduction on the DVD collection. He said it shows the "do-for-self" spirit of blacks just after the turn of the century. "They had to make do with nothing. And look what they did."
Forgotten Films
www.smu.edu/blackfilms
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
MPAA Denies Control Over
Screener Ban
A lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America denied responsibility Wednesday for a policy partially banning distribution of special video copies to awards groups, something small filmmakers said could ruin them.
The lawyer, Richard Cooper, made the denial as he urged a federal court judge to reject a demand by small filmmaking companies to order the distribution to resume. That would let awards voters watch films at home rather than at studio screenings.
"The MPAA has no control over the studios," Cooper said. "It is a mere mouthpiece."
Fourteen filmmaking companies sued the MPAA in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday after the trade group announced Sept. 30 that it was banning distribution of "screeners" because some copies had ended up on eBay or as bootlegged DVDs.
For an interesting spin, Screener Ban
Several dozen angry seniors gathered outside AARP's Boston office, Monday Nov. 24, 2003, to criticize the group's support of the Medicare bill. Senior citizens angry over the AARP's endorsement of the Medicare bill are ripping up or burning their AARP membership cards and flooding the lobbying group's Internet message board with complaints in what could be the biggest revolt in its ranks since the 1980s.
Photo by Charles Krupa
Bolshoi Ordered To Reinstate
Anastasiya Volochkova
A court ordered Russia's Bolshoi theatre to reinstate a ballerina fired for being too heavy, Russian media said.
Moscow's Tverskoi court ruled that Anastasiya Volochkova had been illegally dismissed and ordered the Bolshoi to pay her the equivalent of 6,400 dollars (5,400 euros) in damages, the RIA Novosti news agency said.
The simmering feud between the famed theatre and Volochkova flared in September, when the Bolshoi said the blonde ballerina with model looks was too heavy for male partners to lift, and fired her.
Anastasiya Volochkova
Checks Out From PR Plan
Paris Hilton
Thanks to videotape and Internet file-sharing, many Americans are now intimately familiar with the energetic love life of Paris Hilton. But the willowy hotel heiress and her new PR rep are making few friends in the TV business.
On Tuesday, Fox will premiere "The Simple Life," a reality series that deposits Hilton and fellow child of privilege Nicole Richie on a hardscrabble Arkansas farm. In terms of publicity, the debut could hardly come at a better time for Fox, given that clips from a sex tape the blond socialite made with a former boyfriend turned up on the Internet this month.
But in a turn of events at least as odd as the homemade porn tape itself, Hilton's New York-based publicist, Dan Klores, has angered Fox officials by abruptly canceling all of her scheduled appearances, including "Live! With Regis & Kelly," MTV's "TRL," CBS' "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" and Sharon Osbourne's daytime talk show. Hilton's inhospitality also roused the ire of CBS host David Letterman, who was supposed to welcome her to "Late Show" Wednesday night. For the past four nights, Letterman has begged Hilton to come on the show while attacking her PR rep on-air as a "goon" and "pond scum" for nixing the original interview.
For the rest, Paris Hilton
Trial Set
Vince Neil
An April 22 trial date has been set in Dayton Justice Court for former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil, who is accused of battery on a prostitute at a Nevada brothel.
Neil is charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly grabbing Andrea Terry by the neck and throwing her against a wall at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Mound House on July 10.
Neil stopped by the brothel after a concert in Reno with Poison and Skid Row.
Vince Neil
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Republican Family Values In Action
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell blamed his drunken-driving arrest this week on the accidental mixing of alcohol and a prescription anti-anxiety drug.
"I'm taking Lexapro and you can't have alcohol with it, and I did. I forgot. That's just it in a nutshell really," the country music star told the East Valley Tribune on Tuesday, the day after his arrest in Phoenix.
Breath tests showed Campbell had a blood-alcohol level of 0.20, according to court documents. Extreme drunken driving applies when results are above 0.15 percent. The legal limit for Arizona drivers is 0.08 percent.
Glen Campbell
Indian Muslims bow during the morning Eid prayer at the Jama Masjid in Delhi's old quarters November 26, 2003. Muslims across India are celebrating the festival of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims comprise 12 percent of India's population of 1 billion.
Photo by B. Mathur
Holiday In Myanmar
Mick Jagger
Veteran rocker Mick Jagger vacationed in Myanmar free of the fans and paparazzi who usually dog him, officials and news reports said Wednesday.
Accompanied by a woman friend and a bodyguard, Jagger arrived on a private plane last Friday and left on Tuesday, the Myanmar-language 7-Day News journal said.
Jagger spent a night in the luxurious, 102-year-old Strand Hotel in Yangon, which costs more than $900 US per night, said a hotel staff member on condition of anonymity.
Mick Jagger
Needed To Test Machine
Women Wanted
Wanted: women to test new orgasm machine.
No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers.
"I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.
Although the device has been compared to the orgasmatron featured in the 1973 Woody Allen film "Sleeper", Meloy envisions patients using it temporarily to retrain their sexual response.
The women in the trial described it as "really excellent foreplay."
Women Wanted
Bush Mispronounced State Name
Nevada
Nevada memo to George Bush: When making a first presidential visit to a state, use the right pronounciation of its name.
Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.
Mispronouncing the state's name "sets people's teeth on edge," said state Archivist Guy Rocha. "He's the president, and he ought to get it right. Nothing personal."
Nevada
Mishap Blamed on Poor Maintenance
Big Thunder Mountain
A roller coaster accident at Disneyland that killed a rider was the result of improper maintenance and operators who weren't told to take action if a ride starts making an unusual noise, state investigators said Wednesday.
The report, issued by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, said outside machinists did not understand or follow the park's maintenance procedures and operators were not given the right guidelines.
Marcelo Torres, 22, of Gardena was killed Sept. 5 as he rode the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster. Authorities said the lead car, which looks like a locomotive but has no engine, lost the assembly that carries the rear wheels, causing the car to strike a tunnel roof. The first passenger car then ran under the airborne "locomotive," killing Torres.
Big Thunder Mountain
Revisits 'The Far Side'
Gary Larson
Crafty cows, restless chickens, talking insects and dorky scientists are invading bookstores across the nation. This can mean only one thing: Gary Larson is back.
"The Far Side" creator broke the hearts of twisted-humor fans everywhere when he retired at the height of his popularity in 1994 to pursue his love of jazz guitar.
But Larson has returned to the monster-filled closet of his past to release a massive anthology, two volumes containing more than 4,000 cartoons that tell the complete story of "The Far Side."
For a lot more, Gary Larson
In Memory
Hal Walker
Award-winning journalist Hal Walker, the first black to be a correspondent for CBS News, died on Tuesday at age 70, the television network news organization said on Wednesday.
Walker had been suffering from prostate cancer.
During 12 years with CBS News he covered foreign and domestic stories from Washington, including the inaugurations of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He also reported from Capitol Hill, on campus unrest and on riot-torn areas of Washington for "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite."
Walker was hired in May 1968 as a reporter in the CBS News Washington bureau after winning the Capitol Press Club's "Journalist of the Year" award for anchoring the CBS Washington affiliate's special report about the Washington riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King.
He was promoted to correspondent in September 1969.
Walker went on to work for ABC News, where he served as a bureau chief in Bonn and in Frankfurt. He retired from the London bureau of ABC News in 1995.
Hal Walker
The San Diego Zoo's male giant panda cub gets ready to take a step during an examination Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003, at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station. Described more as a waddle by the Zoo's animal care staff, the 3-month-old cub took his first steps. Weighing 11.4 pounds, the unnamed male cub continues to develop well and has begun to develop teeth. There is an estimated 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild. The San Diego Zoo is home to four giant pandas, two females and two males.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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