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She's Changing Her Name
Angie Harmon-Sehorn
In this past weekend's Parade Magazine, on the inside cover, 'Walter Scott's Personality Parade' column
a reader asks about Angie Harmon.
The response was ''...After ('The Susan Wilson Story' on Lifetime Monday night), my name will be
Angie Harmon-Sehorn,' she tells us....''
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started the evening with 'King Of Queens', because Jerry Stiller was featured - sort of. The rerun of
'Raymond' had Doris Roberts at her finest. She & Peter Boyle are s-o-o-o- good!
Finally watched 'Crossing Jordan'. Next time something like that shows up, I'll be wise enough to either
flush or change the channel. Whining to her ex-lover, the too-hunky priest? Wounded deer as gentle and cute as Bambi?
In the middle of this morass was the ever-wonderful Andrea Martin as the pseudo-dead-Elvis-wife. Not to
mention The White Shadow (Ken Howard) as 'dad'...sorry...it made my teeth itch.
Since 'Dave' is in reruns this week, it was 'Leno'.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS is all fresh...'JAG', 'The Guardian', and
'Judging Amy'.
NBC starts the evening with a 'special', 'In Style Magazine: Celebrity Weddings II', then
fresh episodes of 'Frasier', 'Scrubs', and 'Dateline'.
Over on ABC, there is a fresh episode of 'The Chair', then reruns of 'NYPD Blue',
and 'Philly'.
The WB has a fresh 'Gilmore Girls', and a repeat 'Smallville'.
Faux has fresh 'That 70's Show', 'Undeclared', and '24'.
TCM shines with 2 personal favorites tonight....first, 'The Loved One' - when it was released (1965) it
promised something to offend everyone. Rod Steiger (as 'Mr. Joyboy') , Jonathan Winters in a dual role,
Forrest Lawn (OK, so it was called 'Whispering Glades'), and Liberace...yep, one of my all time favorites.
It's based on the book by the same name by Evelyn Waugh. The cameo roles are fabulous!
It is followed by the original Mel Brooks classic, 'The Producers'...and during the 'Springtime For Hitler' dance
review, one of the dancers provides a salute to pretzels. ; )
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Day
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., holds a book with the image of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., while asking
questions before reading to children in the Hempstead Public Library, Friday, Jan. 18, 2002, in Hempstead, N.Y. Clinton
has emerged with mostly high marks from colleagues and constituents for her low-key approach and strong work ethic, one
year into her term in the Senate.
Photo by Robert Mecea
Updated! (17 January, 2002)
Geneva, the official BartCop Astrologer, always has something interesting to read!
The stars say someone is lying!
Taking a look at the chart itself, the first clue I got that something
devious was going on is the appearance of Mars, in Pisces, in an exact square to
the North Node. Interesting thing about the North Node, some astrologers assert
that when it is in the exact degree of another planet, there is something
underhanded going on. In other words, someone is lying. And isn't it just so
fitting that Mars rules the Mid-heaven, the sector of the chart that represents
the Chief Executive. Further, Mars is in the most devious and evasive sign,
Pisces.
Olympic Opening Ceremony
Sting
Sting will share the same stage with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City Olympics.
The Feb. 8 event also will feature the Dixie Chicks, country singer LeAnn Rimes, former member of ``The Band'' Robbie
Robertson, and Rita Coolidge.
Other performers will be cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the six-man a cappella group Eclipse and Utah's Deseret String Band, which
played cowboy tunes at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Some of the artists already have held rehearsals with the 320-member Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony,
Sting's role was disclosed Sunday as he won the Golden Globe movie song category for a romantic waltz in the comedy ``Kate & Leopold.''
Olympic Opening Ceremony
Fund Raising
Bracelets
Fire engine red firefighter bracelets with proceeds going to WTC victims are ten bucks (each) at
www.firebracelet.com. There's also a blue cop's bracelet at
www.bppd.com.
Benefit Bracelets
Big Dog Watch
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton (R) shakes hands with spectators January 21, 2002 as he visits the place where two Palestinian suicide bombers killed 11 Israelis in Jerusalem's city center. Clinton said he backed the pressure Washington has put on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to crack down on militant attacks against Israel, but said Arafat was hindered by severe internal opposition.
Photo by Reinhard Krause
Planning New European Tour
Liza & David
Liza Minnelli is taking a new show on a European tour, beginning April in London.
The 55-year-old performer plans a five-night run at the Royal Albert Hall, followed by dates in Denmark, France, Germany,
Austria and Switzerland, publicist David Freed said last week.
The tour will begin after Minnelli's March 16 wedding to producer David Gest in New York. Pop star Michael Jackson,
who introduced the couple, is to be a best man. Elizabeth Taylor and Marisa Berenson, Minnelli's co-star in the film
``Cabaret,'' will be matrons of honor.
It will be a fourth marriage for the singer and the first for Gest.
Liza & David
Putting Down Roots In South Africa
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are putting down roots in Africa. The couple, who fell in love with the continent while
filming "Ali" there, have bought an estate in South Africa.
Smith had his eye on the rolling Durban spread of Eugene Jackson, Pennsylvania-born CEO of the pay-cable World African
Network. But a friend says that when Jackson wouldn't part with it, the Smiths turned to Cape Town. Word is they plan
to spend several months this year furnishing the house, which has a magnificent view of the Atlantic.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
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BartCop TV!
Damn near every show on TV must is listed - days & days worth of great reading.
31 Years Later - Back On The Top Of The Charts
''My Sweet Lord''
George Harrison's hit single ``My Sweet Lord'' has returned to the top of the British pop charts 31 years after its first
release and nearly two months after the ex-Beatle's death.
Harrison's widow Olivia and son Dhani agreed to the re-release of the single by record company EMI after strong public
demand, providing the cash went to a fund administered by the Material World Charitable Foundation, which Harrison established in 1973.
``It's especially appropriate that the Material World Charitable Foundation, a charity that George set up some time
ago, will benefit from the profits made from the success of the single, thus helping the needy all over the world.''
''My Sweet Lord''
Susan Lucci Is A Bargain
'Net' Worth
She is among the best of television's scheming soap stars and has appeared on "All My Children" since its debut in 1970,
but Emmy-winning Susan Lucci also turns out to be an incredible value for her big-bucks salary.
Compared to some of TV's best-known stars, the $1 million a year that Lucci takes home for playing Erica Kane on the
long-running soap opera works out to cost ABC just 23 cents for each viewer that watches the show.
Calculating Lucci's cost-per-viewer by dividing her salary by the amount of people who have been watching
"All My Children" so far this season. Applying the same formula to another 21 of today's biggest TV stars and their
megabucks salaries, compiled from industry sources and published reports.
The results are surprising. Despite "Today" show host Katie Couric's recent $65 million deal, the perky morning-TV
newswoman ranks seventh on the list behind big-bucks earners like "Late Show" host David Letterman ($3.16 per viewer)
and cable-news notability like Larry King (a whopping $5.78 per viewer), Bill O'Reilly ($3.82 per viewer) and Paula Zahn ($3.37 per viewer).
'Net' Worth
Non-Violent Message
Danny Glover
Danny Glover says the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have endorsed the actor's anti-death penalty message.
The civil rights leader is a man ``who died committed to defending the principles of nonviolence,'' Glover told
a congregation at Christ Unity Baptist Church on Saturday.
Glover, who starred in ``The Color Purple'' and the ``Lethal Weapon'' series, also clarified remarks made during
a November speech at Princeton University in which he was quoted as saying that Osama bin Laden should not be
executed, even if he is found guilty of being involved in terrorist acts.
Someone asked Glover, 54, if he would favor the execution of bin Laden during a question-and-answer session.
The actor said he repeated his opposition to the death penalty, without referring to the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Danny Glover
At The Golden Globes
Hef & Dates
Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine arrives with several Playboy Playmates for the Universal Pictures DreamWorks USA Films party following the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills January 20, 2002.
Photo by Rose Prouser.
Visiting Ground Zero
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cops at the Ground Zero viewing platform must not have seen Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Snow Dogs," and realized that he's a star.
As usual, crowds of people without tickets were hoping to get onto the observation deck just before it closed at
midnight Tuesday. Police were clearing the Fulton St. structure when Gooding approached them.
Cops said the deck was closed, but an onlooker says that when Gooding told officers who he was, they immediately
let him and his group of friends through. Not only did they escort Gooding to the platform, they asked for his autograph,
and the Oscar-winner complied.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Golden Globes History
Pia
There was a sad and unmentioned coda to the Golden Globes evening. Pia Zadora, the "star" the Golden Globes honored
way back after her then-sugar daddy took them on a junket, appears to be having a fire sale. Pia, who says she's 47,
just unloaded her Malibu home and has put the Beverly Hills property on the market, according to the L.A. Times real estate section.
Pia Zadora
More Snarky Gossip
Madonna
The ex-boyfriend who made Madonna pregnant says he supported her decision to abort their baby.
Andy Bird, a penniless English drifter when he met the Material Girl - who'd already had daughter Lourdes - in
1997, insists neither he nor Madonna was ready for a child.
He now says the queen of pop wrote him an amazing letter after their bust-up, telling of her "profound and immense" love for him.
Although their relationship survived for another 14 months, Bird said the attention Madonna's fame attracted became more than he could bear.
More Snarky Gossip
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At The Golden Globes
''Sex In The City''
The female cast of "Sex and the City" (L-R), Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon, pose with their Golden Globes for Best Television Comedy Series, and Best Actress in a Television Comedy (won by Parker) at the 59th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, January 20, 2002. REUTERS/Andy Clark
Book Auction News
Capt. John Smith
A 17th century book by Capt. John Smith, founder of the English settlement at Jamestown, was sold at auction Monday for $48,800.
``The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles,'' published in 1632, went to an anonymous British
buyer at Bonhams' auction house in Bath, western England.
Smith took part in the colonizing expedition of 1606 under the orders of King James I. He was one of seven men elected to
govern the new colony from Jamestown and was captured by a Powhatan tribe in 1607.
He was saved from death when Pocahontas, 13-year-old daughter of the chief, interceded.
Smith, a cartographer and prolific writer, continued to govern the colony and explore the Chesapeake Bay region. He
also sailed to New England, mapping the coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Cod. He died in London in 1631 at age 51.
Capt. John Smith
Still More Snarky Gossip
''That 70's Show''
There is unrest on the set of "That '70s Show." Danny Masterson is a zealous Scientologist, say our spies, who is
prone to proselytizing. "He's rubbing some people the wrong way because he has turned into a preacher," says one
insider. "Most people are now avoiding him, except for Laura Prepon, who he is having some success in converting."
Meanwhile, Wilmer Valderrama (Fez) is worshipping his new girlfriend, pop singer Mandy Moore.
''That 70's Show''
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
``Crossing Over With John Edward''
Picked Up For 2nd Year
The psychic TV show ``Crossing Over With John Edward'' has been renewed for a second season.
Local TV stations covering more than 65% of the country have picked up season two of the show, which also airs on the
Sci Fi Channel. Among the stations on board for season two are WCBS New York, WPWR Chicago and KYW Philadelphia. The
show's syndicator, Studios USA Domestic TV, is still negotiating a deal for season two in Los Angeles, where it airs on KCAL.
``Crossing Over With John Edward''
Impersonating 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'?
Sela Ward
Actress Sela Ward poses during arrivals at the 59th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, January 20, 2002. Ward was nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama.
Photo by Fred Prouser.
The Kvetching Author
Jonathan Franzen
Author Jonathan ("The Corrections") Franzen is still kvetching about his falling-out with Oprah Winfrey. Now he's
complaining the picture which accompanied all the publicity over the spat doesn't do him justice. "It was the constant
reproduction of an exceptionally unflattering photograph, taken by an 86-year-old photographer, that pained me," Franzen
told London's Independent. The writer got kicked out of Oprah's book club when he implied the TV queen had lowbrow taste.
Franzen told the daily he was "obedient to the extent that I could manage it" with Winfrey, but that he was unprepared for
the attention. "I was having to accustom myself to success, after 20 years of reconciling myself never to having it. There
was a delay of some weeks while I was still imprisoned in old attitudes of resentment and doubt." The article also notes that
he uses sensory deprivation as a writing aid. "He likes window blinds, earplugs [and] blindfolds." Maybe he should experiment with a gag.
The Kvetching Author
Only In Italy?
Hobbit Camps?
The rest of the world may see box office smash ``The Lord of the Rings'' as a mythical tale of hobbits and goblins
but some young members of Italy's far right hope to use the film to promote their political ideals.
Right-wing thinkers and publishers, who introduced the Italian public to the fantasy classic in the 1970s, see the
1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength, leadership and integrity.
The National Alliance youth wing is looking back to the 1970s when Italian rightists spun its own interpretation of
Tolkien's mythical world to bolster their image, already imbued with Celtic legends, knights and a cult of personal strength.
Tolkien always denied any political intent in the book.
``Only in Italy is ``The Lord of the Rings'' seen as right wing, no other country in the world has a similar reading of
Tolkien,'' said Valerio Evangelisti, an Italian fantasy writer.
In the 1970s, neo-fascist summer training centers nicknamed ''Hobbit Camps'' were set up by the National Alliance's
predecessor, the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI).
National Alliance's youth wing plans a campaign to boost membership, inviting students to ``enter the fellowship,'' an
allusion to ``The Fellowship of the Ring,'' the first book of the Tolkien trilogy.
Only In Italy
Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines
Workplace Safety
Workplace safety authorities in an Australian state have launched occupational health and safety guidelines for the sex industry.
No, the list was not topped by sexually transmitted diseases.
Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief
dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
Pamphlets published by WorkCover New South Wales, the state work safety authority, focus on cleanliness and workplace
equipment, besides touching on special dangers, such as slipping on a wet bathroom floor, or wrist strains from massages.
In addition to English, the pamphlets are available in Thai, Chinese and Korean.
Workplace Safety
In Memory
John Jackson
John Jackson, who went from gravedigger to one of the pre-eminent blues musicians in the country, died Sunday
from kidney failure. He was 77.
During his long career, Jackson played for presidents and in 68 countries.
Jackson earned a living as a cook, a butler, a chauffeur and a gravedigger before his music career took off. He was
playing guitar for some friends at a gas station in Fairfax in 1964 when Charles L. Perdue, who teaches folklore at
the University of Virginia, pulled in to get some gas. He listened as Jackson taught a song to a mailman he knew. He
and Jackson became friends, and Perdue eventually helped launch Jackson's career by introducing him to people in the music business.
The seventh son of 14 children, Jackson had just three months' education at the first-grade level. But he earned the
admiration of fans from all walks of life around the world.
B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Pete Seeger are among the performers he has played with and befriended.
John Jackson
In Memory
Miss Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as ``Is That All There Is?'' and ``Fever'' made her a jazz and pop legend, died Monday. She was 81.
Lee died from a heart attack at her Bel Air home, said her daughter, Nicki Lee Foster.
Lee repeatedly battled injury and ill health, including heart trouble, in order to maintain a career that brought her a Grammy, an Oscar nomination and sold-out houses worldwide.
During more than 50 years in show business, which began during a troubled childhood and endured through four broken marriages, she recorded hit songs with the Benny Goodman band, wrote songs for a Disney movie and starred on Broadway in a short-lived autobiographical show, ``Peg.''
Her vocal flexibility and cool, breathy voice brought sultry distinction to big band showstoppers, pop ballads and soulful laments. She was considered in the same league as Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith.
Her hits touched generations of listeners. Lee's more notable recordings included ``Why Don't You Do Right?,'' ``I'm a Woman,'' ``Lover,'' ``Pass Me By,'' ``Where or When,'' ``The Way You Look Tonight,'' ``I'm Gonna Go Fishin''' and ``Big Spender.'' The hit ``Is That All There Is?'' won her a Grammy for best contemporary female vocal performance in 1969.
Jazz critic Leonard Feather once remarked, ``If you don't feel a thrill when Peggy Lee sings, you're dead, Jack.'' Whitney Balliett, longtime jazz critic for The New Yorker, wrote: ``Many singers confuse shouting with emotion. Peggy Lee sends her feelings down the quiet center of her notes. ... She does not carry a tune; she elegantly follows it.''
And critic John Seagraves wrote: ``Peggy Lee can do more for a song by a mere rolling of her eyes or with a quick, crooked smile than most pop singers can with all the vocal diction training possible and years of dramatic tutelage.''
She was born Norma Egstrom on May 26, 1920, in Jamestown, N.D., where her father worked as a handyman and part-time railroad station agent.
Her mother died when she was 4, she recalled in a 1985 interview, and she was abused by a stepmother. She said the experience turned out to be good for her, because ``I learned independence.''
She decided to become a singer at age 14, when she would earn 50 cents a night at gigs for local PTAs. A few years later she traveled to Fargo where she sang on a local radio station. The WDAY program director suggested a name change, and she became Peggy Lee.
Lee eventually arrived in Hollywood with $18 in her pocketbook, supporting herself as a waitress and between nightclub jobs.
Goodman, then the King of Swing, hired her to sing with his band after hearing her while she was performing at a Chicago hotel.
A string of hits, notably ``Why Don't You Do Right?'', made her a star. Then she fell in love with Goodman's guitarist, Dave Barbour, and withdrew from the music world to be his wife and raise their daughter, Nicki. But she returned to singing when the marriage fell apart.
``I kept blaming myself for his alcoholism and the failure of our marriage,'' she said. ``And I finally understood what Sophie Tucker used to say: You have to have your heart broken at least once to sing a love song.''
Lee's sultry voice kept her a favorite in radio, on records and later in television. She became an accomplished songsmith, co-writing ``Manana'' and ``It's a Good Day'' with Barbour.
She recalled in a 1988 interview that her husband ``thought of me as a jazz singer. I never did. I didn't know what I was. I just liked to think of interpreting.''
She collaborated with Sonny Burke on the songs for Disney's ``The Lady and the Tramp,'' and was the voice for the wayward canine who sang ``He's a Tramp (But I Love Him).''
Her work on that 1955 film led to a landmark legal judgment 36 years later when a California court awarded her $2.3 million after she sued for a portion of the profits from the videocassette sale of the movie. The case hinged on a clause in her pre-video-era contract barring the sale of ``transcriptions'' of the movie without her approval.
In 1956, she was cast her as a boozy blues singer in ``Pete Kelly's Blues,'' and she was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar. She also appeared opposite Danny Thomas in an update of ``The Jazz Singer,'' but her film career was short-lived.
``My agents decided they could make more money from me on the road,'' she said.
She sang to standing ovations from New York to Australia. With her creamy-blonde hair and languid manner, she seemed to exude sex. She protested that it came naturally: ``Anything that's forced comes over fake.''
She recorded more than 600 songs and wrote many others, including themes for such movies as ``Johnny Guitar'' and ``The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.'' Her return to recording in 1988 after a hiatus of more than a decade netted her a Grammy nomination for ``Miss Peggy Lee Sings The Blues'' in 1989 and another for ``The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring'' in 1991.
In addition to Barbour, Lee was married to actors Brad Dexter and Dewey Martin and percussionist Jack Del Rio. ``They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties,'' she once said.
She was about to reconcile with Barbour, who had conquered his alcoholism, when he died in 1965.
She summed up her life and career in the Broadway show, ``Peg,'' which closed after 18 performances in 1984. She was perplexed by the cancellation: ``Audiences loved the show even if the critics didn't.''
With customary resilience, she immediately departed for appearances in Canada, Japan, Great Britain and Los Angeles. Longtime Peggy Lee fans detected a change of attitude in her onstage demeanor.
She once seemed aloof, but ``I feel free to talk to an audience now. I could do so in the past, but only to a degree. I was much too self-conscious, much too reticent to give of myself. Now I feel at ease with myself and the world. It's a great feeling.''
A diabetic, Lee was often troubled by weight and glandular problems. In 1961 she was felled by double pneumonia during a New York nightclub engagement.
In 1976 she had a near-fatal fall in a New York hotel. She used the period of recuperation to reflect on her past and began writing ``Peg.'' She was again seriously injured in another fall in Las Vegas in 1987.
In early 1985 she underwent four angioplasties - balloon surgery to open clogged arteries - and resumed her singing tour. While appearing in New Orleans in October 1985, she underwent double-bypass heart surgery.
She was back on stage the following April, telling a Los Angeles audience, ``Thank you from the bottom of my new heart.''
In 1998, she suffered a stroke which impaired her speech, requiring therapy to recover.
In addition to her daughter, Lee is survived by her grandchildren David Foster, Holly Foster-Wells, and Michael Foster; and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Peggy Lee
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Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
