Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 21 January, 2003
Tuesday
21 January, 2003
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #38
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
ISSUE #38
is brought to you by
Five women who fucked the President
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE
Logic
So let me get this straight. If Saddam Hussein proves he doesn't have the means to defend himself, we'll leave him alone, but if the United Nations proves he DOES have the means to defend himself, we're attacking.
Another Way of Putting It
"Police across the nation estimate the crowd that avoided [Saturday's] anti-war demonstrations at about 289 million."
Doing George Orwell Proud
Mayor Daley is Turning in his Grave
Chicago became the biggest U.S. city to speak out against a war with Iraq when
the City Council voted 46-1 Thursday to oppose a pre-emptive military attack unless Iraq is shown to be a real threat to the United States.
"Why bother clamping down on dissent when it's so much easier to just ignore it?"
- Unelected Shmuck -
Two hilarious satires for our two favorite guys,
bin Laden (to the tune of
La Bamba) and
Hussein (to the tune of
Cocaine).
Comedy Video of the Week
Why Didn't I Think of That?
"It would be very inexpensive to mold desert landscapes into parabolic dish shapes with conventional construction equipment. The Landscapes would then be covered with reflective Mylar film. The light coming off of these parabolic shaped landmasses would then be automatically focused to a spot where the heat would run power generators... This could all be done for about 10% of the cost of a solar power plant that has movable mirrors."
- Howard Scott Pearlman -
Good Idea
Australian scientists have unintentionally created a "supervirus" that, instead of sterilizing mice as intended,
killed every last one.
Totally Wacko New-World-Order Site of the Week
(unless it's all true)
Dick Cheney's Secret Plan
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark told a crowd of cheering anti-American demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the impending war in Iraq on Saturday that he was launching a campaign to
impeach President Bush.
Conspiracy Question of the Week
If the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah building in Oklahoma City was a terrorist reprisal for the massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, why were
no BATF or FBI agents injured? Why was EVERY BADGE-CARRYING FEDERAL AGENT absent from work at nine o'clock on a weekday morning, their offices staffed only with civilian clerical workers?
Worst Way to Get Rid of a Bunion
I Feel So Much Safer Now
The
Israeli Mossad is now ordering its people to carry out assassinations of terrorists in the U.S.
Donald Rumsfeld has offered Saddam Hussein
immunity.
Israeli bulldozers are set to destroy
the entire village of Al-Daba' in the Qalqilya district of the West Bank as they make way to build a wall to cut off the area from Israel. The village consists of 250 Palestinians living in 42 houses. Sixty ton American made armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers will eliminate 42 houses, 600-700 dunums (one dunum is equal to 1000 square metre) of agricultural land, a mosque, and an elementary school for 132 children.
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg tried to serve summonses on
the Rolling Stones after he saw them smoking cigarettes on stage at Madison Square Garden during a live broadcast on HBO.
Contradiction of the Week
George W. Bush says
nothing but nice things about Martin Luther King, ignoring what Martin Luther King would unquestionably have to say about George W. Bush.
Futile Petition of the Week
We, the Citizens of the United States of America, do hereby declare that we support
H.R. 1146, and we declare that we accept no other authority on earth but the Constitution of the United States of America and its Amendments.
"I'm gonna go ahead and do what I want to do and it don't make one goddam bit of difference what anyone else thinks."
- Unelected Putz -
Calling All Terrorists
If you want to keep your weaponry a secret, don't have Time Magazine do a cover story about your
Ultra-Secret Weapon.
...whose mailbox is now so inundated with astonishing news that his newsletter, which used to be based upon a week's worth of news, is now based solely upon news he received that day only, ignoring six days of other astonishing news, with more than 1,500 e-mails sitting there right now, totally unread, which means he's got enough material to put this out every single day, but nobody's paying him to do this and he hasn't got the time or the strength to do what obviously needs to be done?
Dear Doc Hollywood,:.
I've been told not to include any camera moves in my script, but I've got this one sequence that HAS to be shot a particular way for it to work. Isn't it okay if I put in just one teeny-weeny little camera move?
Thanks,
Cameron
Dear Cameron,
Thank you for braving time and space to contact me.
I once acted in a series of comedy shorts that were aired on the Playboy Channel. One of the shorts was about Wall Street Pranksters, including a pseudo-documentary on a CEO who insisted upon conducting
board meetings dressed as a giant chicken. You guessed it, I was the giant chicken.
It took hours to get into the chicken costume and chicken make-up, but finally I was ready to go before the cameras. The set was a standard board room with a long table. A dozen executives in suits sat on either side of the table, while I stood at the head of the table delivering a lecture on the bottom line.
It was a one shot gag. We rehearsed it once, then the director set up his shot. It would start with a close-up of me delivering the lecture, then pull back to reveal the rest of the board listening intently.
I knew instinctively that this was wrong. Comedy consists of set-ups and punchlines. The set-up is everything that ISN'T funny about the situation, and the punchline consists of what's actually FUNNY about the situation. In order for this gag to work, it had to start with what WASN'T funny, a normal looking board of directors listening to a straight lecture on the bottom line, then the camera needed to pull back to reveal what was FUNNY about the situation, that they were listening to a giant chicken. Set-up. Punchline.
This director was doing the exact opposite. He was starting with the punchline and pulling back to reveal the set-up.
You know what I did? Nothing. I let him shoot it his way, knowing it was wrong. You know why? Because THE DIRECTOR DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR FROM THE GIANT CHICKEN HOW TO SET UP HIS SHOT!
And he feels the same way about the screenwriter.
MD
"Writing is magic, and I say this not boastfully but in wonder. I'm not the magician, waving his wand, pulling a rabbit out of a hat. I'm not sure what I am. The wand, maybe. Or the rabbit, or even the hat. Who cares? It's all magic."
- Lawrence Block -
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
January 20, 2003
UNDO THE COUP
has been taken down by Earthlink
because it was "too popular."
Anyone wanna sponsor its reappearance somewhere else?
If Satan wins the election,
he promises to make you Secretary of State.
(Your duties will be to sodomize all DJs who don't play enough Slayer.)
BELATED CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM HELL
ARITHMETIC FROM HELL
Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters around the world + 1 megalomaniac who doesn't care what the world thinks = war.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FROM HELL
If not for the
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Mickey Mouse would be released into the public domain on April 15, 2003. On that day,
this website calls for all websites to display Mickey's likeness in protest of CTEA. Make sure it is a 1928 image of Mickey, such as in "Steamboat Willie."
POLL FROM HELL
They will help stop terrorists, but will also endanger legitimate political dissent: 10%
They will do little to stop terrorists, but they will endanger legitimate political dissent: 87%
ART FROM HELL
Pixilated paintings by
A. Connelly that only look like porn if you squint.
JUSTICE FROM HELL
In her new book, "Susan McDougal said that the best proof of what the story of Whitewater is about is the fact that there never WAS anything to hide, after the spending of 50 MILLION DOLLARS, the involvement of hundreds and hundreds of FBI agents, more than were devoted to any other case, including the Oklahoma City bombing, looking over every document they could find, numbering into the millions, and FINALLY, after all those years, they issue a report. The report says that they could find NO WRONGDOING on the part of the Clintons having to do with Whitewater. Period."
- BookTV on C-SPAN2 -
QUIZ FROM HELL
"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.....The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four."
This is the opening sentence of...
a) Gardening My Way by Stephen Hawking
b) Pansies and Peonies by Pete Townsend
c) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
LAWSUIT FROM HELL
John Gilmore, the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has sued United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging that the ID requirement stems from a "secret law" that violates his right to anonymous travel within the United States.
SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
QUOTES FROM HELL
"Go ahead and protest. You think I give a shit?"
- Guess Who? -
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"
- Paddy Chayefsky: Network -
"We shall unleash the Nihilists and atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirit will from that moment be without a compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."
- Albert Pike, on a plan for world conquest, written in a letter to Mazzini dated August 15, 1871. (From 1859 until his death in 1891, Pike occupied simultaneously the positions of Grand Master of the Central Directory at Washington, D.C., Grand Commander of the Supreme Council at Charleston, S.C., and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry. He was an honorary member of almost every Supreme Council in the world, personally receiving 130 Masonic degrees -
"If the public knew the truth, the war would end tomorrow. But they don't know and they can't know."
- Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, to Manchester Guardian editor C.P. Scott, 1914 -
"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States"
- Congressman John E. Rankin -
"and I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia I'm better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass"
- Umberto Eco: Baudolino -
"9/11 was not simply some profit-scheme cooked up by the Bush Cabal after Little Lord Bush came to the throne. It was much bigger than that and longer in the planning than most people want to believe. It was designed by the Globalist social engineers of the Bilderberg High Council to provide the necessary pretext for destroying all constitutional protections, thus dissolving national sovereignties into a centralized global government of, by, and for the UN-loving elites around the world, not just for the Bohemian Grovers and Bonesmen of the Republican Party."
"They [the Soviets] intend to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict. Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression."
- Anatoliy Golitsyn: The Perestroika Deception 1990 -
"One who is virtuous and wise
shines forth like a blazing fire;
like a bee collecting nectar
he acquires wealth by harming none."
- Buddha -
"We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms."
- Brent Scowcroft, August 1990, quoted in the Washington Post May 1991 -
"We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs July/August 1995 -
"To fight terrorism, you need the support of people in countries where the terrorists live. Cosying up to oppressive governments is hardly a way to build those alliances."
- Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch -
"I don't give 'em hell. I just tell 'em like it is and they think it's hell."
- Harry S. Truman -
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."
- George Orwell: 1984 -
"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead; to conceal the Truth, which it calls light, and draw them away from it."
- Albert Pike, 3rd Degree Mason in Morals and Dogma -
"Gore says the fix is in - best move is to try and take down BFEE Cabal from the outside, contribute "noiselessly". Everybody listen to what the man is saying - read between the lines. The next election has already been won by Bush - if indeed there'll BE one."
"How low we have sunk when dozens of legislators vote to permit a senseless massacre to take place at the whim of a court-appointed president because they are afraid to have their patriotism impugned?"
- Barry Crimmins -
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."
- Motto of the Mossad -
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handy -
CARTOON FROM HELL
SITES FROM HELL
If one picture is worth a thousand words, then
Slideshows has beaten Stephen King by a mile.
Remember the Republican's Contract with America? Joe Conason proves it is now, and always was,
bullshit.
Here's
a site entirely devoted to helping you get rid of all that crap that Windows loads at startup, and if your system resources keep diminishing during use, check
this out.
Spywareblaster is a free program that prevents any site from installing spyware into your computer.
Don't let this happen to you.
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY archives are mysteriously still
here.
All of Helen's columns used to be
here but Earthlink....
Dr. Hollywood archives used to be
here but Earthlink...
Acknowledgment
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY consists of information from dozens of sources, cut up, thrown in the air, and recycled randomly. It is sent all over the place, so I apologize if you're seeing the same thing twice. If you see a joke, graphic, or news item that came from or through you, thanks, send more, and please accept the fact that much of dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is unacknowledgeable, and if I sought permission from everyone whose bastardized material showed up here, I'd never get anything else done. Please note that I don't even put my own name on it. If you're still pissed off, hey, it's
fair use.
Thanks,
Satan
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is free and may be reproduced in any form.
It is made entirely by slave labor.
Unless you think I deserve to get
paid.
Many thanks to Michael Dare!
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather is still nice.
Does Simon Cowell of 'American Idol' wear a 'hair hat'?
Running late, so what else is new...lol
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS offers a fresh 'JAG', then a fresh 'The Guardian', and a fresh 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave is John C. Reilly.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is David J. Nash.
NBC opens the night with a 'special' - 'In Style: Celebrity Weddings', then a RERUN 'Frasier', followed by a fresh 'Hidden Hills', then a fresh 'Meet My Folks'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Julianne Moore, Sommore, and India.Arie.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Dave Chappelle, Wilmer Valderrama, and Jason Mraz.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Dennis Haysbert and Duncan Sheik.
ABC opens with a fresh '8 Simple Rules', then a fresh hour-long 'Jim', followed by a fresh 'Less Than Perfect', and a RERUN 'NYPD Blue'.
The WB has a fresh 'Gilmore Girls', and a fresh 'Smallville'.
Faux has the season premiere of 'American Idol', followed by a 'special' of highlights from 'American Idol'.
UPN has a fresh 'Buffy', then a fresh 'Abby', and finally a RERUN 'Girlfriends'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Shamu the killer whale kicks a giant football tossed by trainer Robbin Sheets at SeaWorld San Diego, Monday, Jan. 20, 2003. After a few tries, Shamu 'kicked' a field goal straight through the uprights
as replays of Sunday's conference championship games play on a giant screen in the background. San Diego will host Super Bowl XXXVII on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003.
Photo by Bob Couey
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Real Tutu, Fake Nose
2003 Golden Globes
Mystery swirled around the red carpet at the 2003 Golden Globe awards Sunday, where the night's gilded display by Hollywood's hottest talents raised more fashion questions than answers.
Why did Lara Flynn Boyle appear in a tutu?
Why did Richard Gere say it would take hours to explain why he was wearing a Tibetan bracelet?
Why did Meryl Streep "smell like a camel?"
And, oh yes, why would one of Hollywood's most beautiful and respected actresses, Nicole Kidman, have a clown nose stuffed in her shoe?
Boyle, who appeared onstage to present an award, caused the biggest stir of the night with her outfit: an outrageous pink tutu accented by ribbons wrapped around her calves.
Streep, who was honored as best supporting actress for her role in "Adaptation," was complimented for her glittery neckless Giorgio Armani jacket, but cautioned that she had flown straight
from Rome where she was shooting "Angels in America."
"Don't get near me. I smell like a camel," Streep joked with reporters.
Then there was the enigmatic bracelet worn by Richard Gere, who took best-actor honors for his role in "Chicago" as a hard-hearted defense lawyer.
"It's a Tibetan thing," he told reporters backstage. "It would take hours to explain what it means."
Kidman, who won best dramatic actress honors, for her turn in "The Hours" as Virginia Woolf credited a prosthetic nose for part of the film's magic. More puzzling, she removed a clown's
nose that was tucked into her strapped heels.
2003 Golden Globes
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Playing Martha Stewart
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd has signed on to play Martha Stewart in NBC's upcoming telefilm about the embattled queen of domesticity.
Tentatively titled "Martha Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart," the Jaffe/Braunstein Films project is based on Christopher Byron's biography "Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,"
which hit the bookstores last spring, just as the scandal implicating Stewart in alleged insider trading related to the biotechnology firm ImClone began to snowball.
The film, written by Suzette Couture (CBS' "Jesus") and to be directed by Jason Ensler (NBC's upcoming "Behind the Camera: The Unofficial Story of Three's Company"), will touch on the tumultuous events from the
past year but will concentrate mostly on Stewart's rise to fame as a lifestyle guru and entrepreneur.
Cybill Shepherd
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A giant cow hot air balloon seems to jump over the crowd, on taking off in the Swiss Alps, during the last week end of the 25th International Hot Air Balloon week, in Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003.
More than 100 balloons from 19 countries take part at the event.
Photo by Martial Trezzini
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Taking Up Embroidery?
Egg Boy
Did Mayor Bloomberg do a slow burn when the Rolling Stones lit up cigarettes at their Garden gig Saturday night? Or is Matt Drudge just blowing smoke? The Drudge Report claims Hizzoner blew a fuse when Keith Richards and
Ron Wood began puffing away on stage and sent cops to issue summonses. "The cops watched the show instead of stopping the concert," the cyber gossip said. "The band raced out . . . after they finished their last number,
avoiding the police." Ed Skyler, who flacks for the tobacco-hating mayor, called the story "a work of fiction." A spokesman for the NYPD agreed and a cop who worked Stones security said he didn't see any colleagues arrive
bearing the message, "It's all over now." Seems the original bad boys of rock 'n' roll can still stir controversy in their old age.
Egg Boy
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TV Trade Show
NATPE Convention
Syndication sensation "Dr. Phil" and a gaggle of wannabes like "Ebay," "Ellen" and "Starting Over" will try to lift the pall over the 40th annual NATPE confab of TV station executives, which opened Monday in the Crescent City.
Some 10,000 delegates have trekked to the Big Easy for the four-day trade show -- hosted by the National Assn. of Television Program Executives -- but those numbers are 50% off the total participation just two years ago.
And while there will be 350 exhibitors of programming on the convention floor, that number is off 70% from just two years ago.
Aside from consolidation, corporate cost-cutting, waning enthusiasm for U.S. shows abroad, the demise of dilettante dot-commers and an ongoing global ad slump have conspired to put a damper on media trade shows.
A number of syndication hopefuls -- Warners' "Sharon Osbourne" and "Ellen DeGeneres" -- just got their key group deals but have mid-sized and small markets to clean up. NBC Enterprises' "Starting Over" got
its launch group deal in December. Universal's "Fergie," starring Prince Andrew's ex-wife, is still struggling to find a launch group.
NATPE Convention
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Renews Radio Contract
Ryan Seacrest
Clear Channel Radio has re-inked with Los Angeles radio personality and "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, locking in the Star 98.7 disc jockey through the end of 2005.
As part of Seacrest's deal, he will travel airwaves to Clear Channel sibling 102.7 KIIS-FM to serve as an official fill-in host for Rick Dees on the "Rick Dees in the Morning Show." Seacrest will also
continue hosting duties on Star's "Ryan Seacrest for the Ride Home."
The KIIS-FM gig marks the first time Clear Channel has named an official backup for Dees. Seacrest returns Tuesday as the solo host for the sophomore edition of Fox's "American Idol."
Ryan Seacrest
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A member of the Mari-Mari carnival group dances during the annual festival in Gualeguaychu, some 200 miles north of Buenos Aires, early January 19, 2003. Around 1,000 dancers participate in Argentina's most important
carnival wich runs each weekend of January and February, ending March 1, and is expected to welcome over 200,000 spectators this year.
Photo by Marcos Brindicci
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Memoir/History
'I Slept With Joey Ramone'
Joey Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh and "Please Kill Me" scribe Legs McNeil celebrated their contract to write "I Slept With Joey Ramone" (Simon & Schuster) with a cocktail party at Global 33 on Second Avenue the other night. Leigh's family
memoir/Ramones history chronicles life with the late, great punk rocker. Mingling with the authors: former Ramones manager Danny Fields, Tommy Hilfiger's brother Andy - who plays bass in Mickey's band Stop - rock photog Bob Gruen, Punk
magazine creator John Holmstrom and Andy Shernoff of the Dictators.
'I Slept With Joey Ramone'
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Politics On His Mind, Films at His Feet
Robert Redford
As he presides over this year's Sundance Film Festival, actor Robert Redford has politics on his mind -- and the tapes of aspiring filmmakers at his feet.
Meeting with reporters on Sunday, Redford, founder of the premiere U.S. independent film festival, chastised the White House, saying it had some explaining to do to the American people before embarking on a possible war against Iraq.
Redford said that while movies were clearly on his mind, he could not forget about politics with anti-war protests flaring across the nation.
"There is clearly a rising swell demanding answers to something so consequential. Whether that happens in time to stop something that should or should not happen ... all I know is, I certainly haven't heard the answers," Redford said.
"There's a lot of attitude, but not much policy, coming to the American people to tell them how they should know what to do," he added.
Redford confirmed a story making the rounds in Park City -- that aspiring filmmakers here threw videotapes at his feet as he made a speech in the hopes he might take a look.
The star of "The Sting" and Academy Award-winning director of "Ordinary People" joked that he had fruit thrown at him before, but tapes were typically handed to him or stuffed into his jacket.
Robert Redford
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Settles $20M 'Whistle-Blower' Suit
Disney
Walt Disney Co. has settled a $20-million "whistle-blower" lawsuit brought by a former executive who says she was fired for refusing to help the company allegedly cheat the IRS.
The case, scheduled to go to trial Jan. 27, was settled late last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The terms were not disclosed.
In her March 2001 suit, Judy Denenholz said she was wrongfully terminated after a series of clashes with the company's chief lawyer. Disney general counsel Louis Meisinger allegedly was angered by her refusal to sign off on Disney's response to an IRS audit.
Denenholz, who was senior vice president of the company's worldwide anti-piracy division, claimed that Disney had substantially understated what it owed the IRS.
Denenholz said her bosses were angered when she refused to approve a statement to the IRS indicating that Disney owed back taxes of $676,000. She believed the company was omitting millions of dollars in legal expenses.
Soon after, in January 2000, Meisinger told Denenholz her services were no longer needed, according to the suit, ending a nearly 20-year career at Disney.
Disney has said Denenholz was not fired, only that her contract was not renewed after it expired and that her allegations were baseless.
Disney
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A Chinese worker puts finishing touches to a giant red lantern in Beijing January 20, 2003 for the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Goat. Chinese worldwide will celebrate the Lunar New Year on February 1 this year.
Photo by Wilson Chu
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Doesn't Like Freddie Prinze Jr?
Richard Roeper
Movie critic Richard Roeper doesn't like Freddie Prinze Jr.. Roeper's new book of film lists, "10 Sure Signs a Movie Character is Doomed," contains such interesting and informative talleys as actresses
who have done girl-on-girl kissing scenes and "The 40 Worst Movies I've Ever Seen." Roeper also dedicates a section to Prinze, titled, "12 Reasons Why I'll Never Attend a Freddie Prinze Jr. Film Festival."
It lists every lead role the young actor's ever had.
Richard Roeper
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Form Colony in New Mexico
Vampire Bats
The littlest vampire lurks in the shadow, nestled under her mother's wing to nurse.
This new arrival is the first captive birth in the United States of a rare vampire bat - one of two bat species that feed solely on bird blood.
The white-winged vampire pup, her mother and nine other bats were brought to this rural town in the eastern Sandia Mountains from an almost certain death on the island of Trinidad.
Bat researchers from three states on opposite sides of the country worked in tandem to get the tiny vampires to their new home.
"They are all being eradicated," said Daniel Abram, founder of the New Mexico Bat Research Institute. "So our thought was, 'Now is the time to intervene, to preserve the genetic material, to establish a viable breeding colony and to educate the public.'"
For the rest, Vampire Bats
Basically Bats
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In Memory
Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld, a caricaturist known for his drawings of Broadway stars, died on Monday. He was 99.
Hirschfeld died in his sleep at his Manhattan home, his wife, Louise Kerz, told Reuters.
Hirschfeld was known for witty and graceful caricatures of performers ranging from the Marx Brothers to Barbra Streisand. His pointy pen strokes showed Katharine Hepburn with hardly any eyes at all and Colleen Dewhurst as all jaw all the time.
"I come out of the theater with a lot of abstract little markings that I then translate into line. The important thing is that the drawing look a little bit like the actor I am drawing. There is a lot of trial and error and a lot of erasing until I can get it as far as I can, before the final inking. It is not a pretty process," Hirschfeld told Reuters in a 1999 interview.
His work appeared in the drama pages of The New York Times for seven decades, as well as in books and the collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
Then 95, he told Reuters in the 1999 interview that he was finally getting good at his work.
"After 70 years of drawing you have to improve, otherwise you are a dolt. It is a question of elimination and understanding, of trial and error, and suddenly something happens, an epiphany," he said.
The artist also was known for playfully hiding the word "Nina," the name of his daughter, in the lines of his drawings.
Finding the "Ninas" in his newspaper caricatures became an American ritual. The U.S. Department of Defense once used his drawings in an exercise, blowing them up on a giant screen and giving 100 pilots 20 seconds to find the hidden names.
Hirschfeld won a special Tony award for his art. The 1996 film documentary, "The Line King" told the story of his life.
Hirschfeld was born on June 21, 1903, in St. Louis.
Survivors include his wife, daughter Nina, who is the daughter of Hirschfeld's late wife Dolly Haas, and two step-sons, Jonathan and Antony Kerz.
Al Hirschfeld
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Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) ride on camels during a rehearsal for the 'Beating the Retreat' ceremony which marks the end of the annual Republic Day celebrations in front Presidential
Palace (background) in New Delhi, January 20, 2003. The Indian Republic Day is on January 26.
Photo by Kamal Kishore
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