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Thanks, again, Tim!
Fun Link
from Dan IB
http://planeturine.com/
Thanks, Dan IB!
'UNHAPPY CHRISTMAS'
from alvin & bill
We'll be happier if you give us a bit of your heart rather than
a piece of your mind!
MIDI
UNHAPPY CHRISTMAS
{Sung to 'So This Is Christmas' by John Lennon}
by alvin & bill
The POTUS* is bogus
Yeah, Shrub is still dumb
His second year's over
Time for another war
The POTUS* is bogus
But he thinks it's fun
Yeah, Shrub is a weird one
We're told he's a dunce
The POTUS* is bogus
Just a dumb right wing clown
Was never elected
But was handed the crown!
Was merry last Christmas
Was installed on his throne
He pissed off the world
Trying to go it alone
The POTUS* is bogus
He speaks for the strong
For rich ones, not poor ones
His far right wing throng
The POTUS* is bogus
With Ashcroft and Ari
Rove, Powell and Condi
Tom Ridge and Rummy
Not so Merry Christmas
Not a Happy New Year
The Shrub is still brainless
Tryin' to rule us through fear
Not so Merry Christmas
Not a Happy New Year
Shrub's not a good one
He's no cause for cheer
Not so Merry Christmas
Not a Happy New Year
If Bush's war starts soon
He's doomed in two years
War's not over, 'cause Bush wants it
War's not over, 'cause Bush wants it
War's not over, 'cause Bush wants it
War's not over, 'cause Bush wants it!...
(*POTUS: pResident Of The United States)
~~ Alvin D.
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Busy, busy day.
Was the first Christmas where the kid didn't get #1 on his list. He was quite happy with his haul, but what he wanted most of all was for Ginger to come home.
Dinner went well. Sent home plates, but still a bit of food leftover, not that I'm complaining. The kid has finally realized he likes ham, and that makes things fairly easy, food-wise, for a couple of days.
Thanks to everyone who sent seasonal greetings. : )
Tonight, Thursday, finds nothing fresh on CBS - RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', another RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', and then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
On a supposedly fresh Dave are Ashton Kutcher and New Jersey Net Jason Kidd.
On a supposedly fresh Craiggers are Henry Thomas, Leelee Sobieski, and Joe Cocker.
NBC also has nothing fresh - RERUN 'Friends', RERUN 'Scrubs', RERUN 'Will & Grace', RERUN 'Good Morning, Miami', and a RERUN 'ER'.
On a supposedly fresh Jay are Edward Norton, Tommy Davidson, and Tyrese.
On a supposedly fresh Conan are Roberto Benigni, Isaac Mizrahi, and Delbert McClinton.
On a supposedly fresh Carson Daly are Tom Brokaw and Clipse.
ABC offers a fresh, but final, episode of the recently cancelled 'Dinotopia', then a 2-hour 'Primetime Special Edition', where litters, er, multiple births are celebrated.
The WB has nothing fresh - RERUN 'Family Affair', RERUN 'Do Over', RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy', followed by another RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy'.
Faux has the movie 'Trial & Error'.
UPN kills the night with 'WWE SmackDown!'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Weather Was Too Bad This Year, Trip Cancelled
Washington Crossing the Delaware River
General George Washington, center, portrayed by James Gibson, steps from boat to boat during a re-enactment of Washington Crossing the Delaware River in Washington
Crossing, Pa., Wednesday, Dec 25, 2002. The actual boat crossing was canceled due to swift currents.
Photo by Chris Gardner
Visits Afghanistan
David Letterman
American late night TV star David Letterman spent Christmas Day with U.S. troops at a rugged desert base in southern Afghanistan where coalition forces
have been hunting down suspected terrorists for a year, the military said.
The "Late Show" host flew into the U.S. base at Kandahar on Christmas Eve and dined with troops there, said Maj. Bob Hepner, 36, from Mount Joy, Pa.
Letterman had also been due to visit Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan, but the trip was canceled because of bad weather.
At Bagram itself, troops celebrated the holiday with a buffet of sliced turkey, apple pie and tall glasses of "sparkling" grape juice in champagne-like bottles.
U.S. forces here are not allowed to drink alcohol on duty.
Meanwhile, Santa Claus, with a military police band around his upper arm, raced around the base in a black four-wheel drive handing out candy and chocolates to soldiers.
David Letterman
Says Andy Kaufman Feud Was Set Up
Jerry Lawler
Pro wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler has finally confessed: His famous feud with comedian Andy Kaufman was all set up.
The feud included a segment on the David Letterman show in 1982 when Lawler slapped the comedian and Kaufman later threw coffee at him — all while Letterman watched aghast.
Lawler writes in a new book, "It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes," that he and Kaufman decided on their own to have the confrontation on the show and that neither Letterman
nor his producer knew ahead of time what would happen.
Lawler writes that he worried after the show that he would be arrested. He also says he's sure that Letterman was angry about what happened.
Lawler writes that the details behind the Kaufman incident have been a well-kept secret for over two decades. Kaufman died in 1984.
Jerry Lawler
Seasonal Lights
Notre-Dame de Paris
La cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris a bénéficié d'un nouvel habit de lumières taillé sur mesure pour mettre en valeur sa façade majestueuse et sa riche statuaire.
Photo by François Guillot.
'Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)'
They Might Be Giants
"Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)," a documentary about quirky rock duo They Might Be Giants, will be released in New York next May, followed by openings in major markets.
Directed by rookie feature filmmaker A.J. Schnack, "Gigantic" tells the story of Brooklyn-based musicians John Flansburgh and John Linnell. It details the pair's 20-year history
through performance, animation, videos and commentary from Frank Black, "This American Life's" Ira Glass, author Dave Eggers and actors Janeane Garofalo, Michael McKean, Andy Richter and Harry Shearer.
Flansburgh and Linnell won a Grammy this year for their "Malcolm in the Middle" theme song.
They Might Be Giants
Hollywood Democrats
Cash & Kerry
With Al Gore bowing out of the bidding for the Democratic nomination last week, Hollywood is turning its full attention to 2004 presidential hopefuls John Kerry and John Edwards -- in that order.
Even with 9/11 and the faltering economy, the stream of Dems visiting Hollywood to fund-raise for their party or themselves never really slowed. Kerry, the sophisticated U.S. senator from
Massachusetts, has been spotted about the town the most, with Edwards close behind.
Just last week, Kerry met with Stanley Sheinbaum, who is something of a Democrat kingmaker in Hollywood circles, and other prominent local Dems at the Regency Club. And at a cocktail
party hosted by Daphna Edwards, Kerry kicked off a 30-minute speech with the emphatic statement "I am running for president."
Kerry, 59, boasts more is the more statuesque candidate and is earning marks from liberal Dems in Hollywood for speaking out against resident Bush without sounding shrill.
Sentiment is split as to whether the 49-year-old Edwards, with a folksy North Carolina drawl, is ready to run in '04. His advantage is that he's got a youthful persona and hasn't
been on Capitol Hill that long. Ergo, he doesn't have a lot of baggage.
If there's one thing most agree on, it is that the entertainment community won't ultimately throw its collective support behind Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The reason is his continuing
charge that Hollywood intentionally polluting America's children with violent, salacious images and words.
Myth has it that Hollywood is the country's campaign contribution capital, and that the fate of the Democratic Party rests in the hands of showbiz. In reality,
there are industries that contribute far more than showbiz to campaign coffers, but political support offered up by celebs and studio moguls receive far greater publicity.
Cash & Kerry
Lays Off Veteran Duo
CNN
In the middle of the holiday bustle, CNN has laid off two veteran reporters.
The contract of "Moneyline" senior correspondent and eight-year CNN and CNNfn vet Allan Dodds Frank was not renewed. Mark Potter, one of three
reporters in the cable channel's Miami bureau, also was let go.
"They're getting rid of all the middle-aged veterans," said the 55-year-old Frank, who won a Gerald Loeb award in 2001 for his reporting on the
financing of Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks.
"You'll notice this when people are replaced by younger, less experienced reporters who are much cheaper."
CNN
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Go Dark January 5th
Guggenheim Las Vegas
The 15-month-old Guggenheim Las Vegas museum will close its doors Jan. 5, a reflection of funding troubles at its parent museum in New York.
The Guggenheim museum in Las Vegas is funded and controlled by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which earlier this year cut its hours and eliminated some administrative positions.
Museum officials in New York say that attendance at the museum there is down 25 percent this year, and corporate sponsorship has fallen. As a result, the budget is
expected to be cut by about $6 million next year. Also, the museum postponed two major exhibits until 2003.
Guggenheim officials say they're not sure yet whether employees will be laid off or will be reassigned to the much smaller Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, also located
in the Venetian, which will remain open. Each museum employs about 90 people.
The Guggenheim Las Vegas opened in September, 2001, with "The Art of the Motorcycle" and is now displaying a 39-painting exhibit called "Art Through the Ages."
Guggenheim Las Vegas
Indonesia
Jakarta
Ein indonesischer Taucher füttert als Weihnachtsmann verkleidet am Sonntag in Jakarta eine Schildkröte.
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Recovering, May Be Home Soon
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor is recovering rapidly after a car accident left her seriously injured and may return home in the next 10 days, said her husband Frederic von Anhalt.
Gabor, 85, remains in fair condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Gabor suffered broken bones in the Nov. 27 crash and received stitches to close wounds to her head, hands, arms and legs.The film and television actress was a passenger
in the front seat of a car that struck a light pole in West Hollywood. The car was driven by her hairdresser, who suffered minor injuries, police said.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Files Libel Suit Over Biography
Clint Eastwood
Actor Clint Eastwood filed a $10 million libel suit Tuesday against the author and publisher of an unauthorized biography, which he says portrays him as an
atheist and wife-abuser.
The federal lawsuit accuses St. Martin's Press and author Patrick McGilligan of lying about Eastwood and "setting out intentionally to destroy (his) reputation."
McGilligan stood by the book, "Clint: The Life and Legend." The author said he was upset, but not surprised by the suit.
"He has sued people religiously," McGilligan said Tuesday. "He's made a career of suppressing dissidence."
The book, first published in England, was released in the United States in August.
Clint Eastwood
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Inquiry May Hurt L.A. Effort
Entertainment Industry Development Corp
Seven years after Los Angeles-area politicians set up an agency to help stem the flow of Hollywood productions out of the area, its president has resigned and prosecutors are investigating its finances.
Although no criminal charges have been filed, the controversy is casting a shadow over Hollywood's most high-profile effort to stop runaway production.
Specifically, authorities are interested in whether the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. misused public funds by authorizing hundreds of thousands of
dollars in entertainment expenses and political contributions.
EIDC was set up in 1995 to keep movie, TV and commercial productions — worth an estimated $3 billion a year — in the Hollywood area and end a trend toward cheaper
locations with less red tape such as Canada, Australia and Mexico.
Los Angeles city and county officials created EIDC with the hope that it would act more like a movie company than a government office. Cody Cluff, then head of Los
Angeles' film permit office, was named president.
Industry members said the EIDC, with its quick turnaround, was a welcome change from the bureaucrats who once ran local film offices. The agency charges $450 per permit
and smooths the way for film shoots — arranging street closures, helping with access to public property and negotiating with police and fire officials and even neighbors.
In a search warrant affidavit signed in September, investigators from the Los Angeles district attorney's
office alleged Cluff spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lavish dinners and tips, membership in exclusive clubs, donations to his children's school and
payments to an Internet company run by an unnamed board member.
The EIDC's executive committee voted Cluff out last month, but he refused to step down until this week. He received a $287,000 severance package for salary, fringe benefits
and future legal expenses. He has agreed to reimburse the legal fees if he is charged as a result of the investigation and convicted.
It hasn't always been clear whether the EIDC is a public institution beholden to taxpayers or a private enterprise with the ability to spend extravagantly to impress clients.
For the rest, Entertainment Industry Development Corp
EIDC
Yanked From Wal-Mart
Midge
She is Barbie's oldest friend, happily married and visibly pregnant with her second child — and some parents think she's a little too real for their children.
The pregnant version of Midge, which pops out a curled-up baby when her belly is opened — has been pulled from Wal-Mart shelves across the country following complaints from customers, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Midge was introduced in 1963, a freckle-faced redhead and the first of a slew of friends and family members for Barbie, the blue-eyed blonde who first appeared four
years earlier and has been one of the world's top-selling dolls ever since.
In Barbie-land, Midge married boy-doll Alan in 1991, and the happy couple already has a 3-year-old son, Ryan.
The pregnant Midge, who wears a tiny white wedding ring, has a detachable magnetic stomach that allows easy "delivery" of the baby.
Midge
Does this means Wal-Mart would prefer the doll 'single', unhappy, & pregnant? (And, btw, wonder whatever became of Poindexter? [Or am I the only one who played that board game as a kid?])
Moldy Grapes = Great Wine
Noble Rot
There's something rotten in Napa. And it tastes delicious.
Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes covered with spores of mold cling to vines well after most other grapes have been picked. By late November, they become unsightly and raisin-like - perfect for Dolce.
Pronounced dol'-chay, the golden-colored, late harvest wine has aromas of pineapple, apricot and butterscotch and a rich taste of honey and tropical fruit flavors.
Credit the mold - botrytis cinerea, or more commonly known as noble rot. It's a parasitic fungus that, under the right conditions, attacks grapes and concentrates their sugars
and complex flavors. Botrytis-ridden grapes produce some of the greatest sweet wines of the world, including Sauternes from France.
Producing wine from noble rot is difficult. Botrytis demands a period of high humidity to grow and spread, followed by drying conditions to concentrate the sugars
and flavors. If the mold does not occur, the grapes are unable to be used for any other purpose, and the harvest becomes a complete loss, as happened to Dolce in 1987 and 1988.
For a lot more, Noble Rot
In Memory
Susan Marx
Susan Marx, who appeared in more than a dozen films in the 1930s opposite such stars as John Wayne and W.C. Fields and later married comedian Harpo Marx, died Sunday of a heart attack. She was 93.
Marx, who was born Susan Fleming, started her acting career in New York City during the 1920s, where she appeared in the Broadway musical "The Ziegfeld Follies."
She moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s to appear as Wayne's love interest in the western "Range Feud" and Fields' daughter in "Million Dollar Legs."
As part of a publicity campaign for the 1932 comedy, Marx's legs were insured for a million dollars.
Fleming and Harpo Marx adopted four children and later settled in Rancho Mirage. Harpo Marx died in 1964. Susan Marx served on the Rancho Mirage Planning Commission and was active in the League of Women Voters and the Palm Springs Unified School District.
Susan Marx
In Memory
Kenneth 'Ken' Tobey
Ken Tobey, who had seven prolific decades playing small roles in movies such as 1951's
classic The Thing From Another World, (1951) and in numerous television shows, died Dec. 22. He was 85.
Tobey often played a law enforcement officer, a soldier or military brass. His nearly 100 films ranged from Westerns to B-movie thrillers. He also made
dozens of appearances in television from the 1990s back to 1949, when he played a sheriff's deputy in an episode of "The Lone Ranger."
Perhaps his most memorable role was Capt. Patrick Hendry in 1951's "The Thing From Another World." The film was remade as "The Thing" in 1982.
He also starred in the TV show "Whirlybirds" (1957), playing the co-owner of a helicopter-for-hire.
Ken Tobey
Other credits include:
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953),
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), and
The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958) (TV), and a LOT more!
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