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Thanks, again, Tim!
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Re: Old Movies
Another wonderful old film finally coming to DVD - Grand Hotel
Glad to know you are also a fan of The Loved One.
Liberace as a casket
salesman - what inspired casting! And the scene where Bobby Morse gets his
lunch out of the refrigerator cracks me up no matter how many times I see it.
SusanNY
Thanks, Susan!
I love the The Loved One!
Based on the same-named novel by Evelyn Waugh, with a screenplay by
Terry Southern and
Christopher Isherwood, directed by
Tony Richardson, shot by
Haskell Wexler and edited by
Hal Ashby, it's a delight in black & white.
Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse), a young Brit visiting his uncle in Los Angeles finds he needs a job, quickly.
From the Guru Brahmin (Lionel Stander), his assistant
(Bernie Kopell), and the dependence of
Aimee Thanatogenous (Anjanette Comer), to the inside operations of
Whispering Glades, with Jonathan Winters in a dual role as
Henry and Wilbur Glenworthy, Mr. Starker (Liberace), the unforgettable
Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger) - and his 'Mom", some of the funniest cameos in any movie - ever
(Milton Berle, James Coburn,
John Gielgud, Tab Hunter,
Roddy McDowall, Robert Morley,
Chick Hearn, and Paul Williams),
this movie has something to offend everyone - or so the advertising said when the film came out.
Among the topics this film satirizes are the California way of death, social mores, and religious hypocrites. A great movie.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Very pleasant day, weather-wise.
The always fabulous Joe Bacon sent me the 'Razzies'™ and 'Stinkers'™ nominations - running late tonight, so hope to have the pages up by mid-day (the links will work then).
Michael Dare's Disinfotainment Today' may show up on the Wednesday page.
Doing the parental chaperone-thing for the 5th grade this morning - we're going to the opera. Yeah, I get all the 'fun' field trips.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Navy NCIS', followed by a FRESH
'The Guardian', then a RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
On a RERUN Dave are Charlize Theron and Dave Matthews.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Randy Jackson, Chris Kentis, and Yes.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Tracy Morgan', followed by a RERUN 'Whoopi', then a
'special' on the 'New Hampshire Primary', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Terry Bradshaw, Mia Kirshner, and Alison Krauss.
On a RERUN Conan (from 11/12/03), are Brendan Fraser, Marg Helgenberger, Ron Isley, and Burt Bacharach.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Greg Kinnear, Dontrella Willis, and the Rapture.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH '8 Simple Rules', followed by a FRESH 'I'm With Her', then a
FRESH 'Jim', followed by a FRESH 'Less Than Perfect', then a FRESH 'Line Of Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel is Keshia Knight Pulliam, with this week's guest co-host Fred Willard.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a FRESH '24'.
UPN has a FRESH 'One On One', followed by a FRESH 'All Of Us', then a FRESH
'America's Next Top Model' (which will be RERUN tomorrow night at the same time).
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Cybill Shepherd), and a 2-hour 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Terminator', followed by the movie 'For Your Eyes Only', then the movie 'Live & Let Die'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Vita;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Woodgate;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Gower Peninsula;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Singleton;
[9pm] 'Ground Force' - Castle Donnington;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Beckenham;
[10pm] 'Ground Force America' - Miami;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Singleton;
[12am] 'Ground Force' - Castle Donnington;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Beckenham;
[1am] 'Ground Force America' - Miami;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Woodgate;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Gower Peninsula;
[3am] 'Ground Force' - Castle Donnington;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Beckenham;
[4am] 'Ground Force America' - Miami;
[5am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Singleton; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', 'Keen Eddie', 'Queer Eye', and 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Crank Yankers'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Richard Perle.
History has 'Gold Rush Money', 'Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Beyond Belief', another 'Beyond Belief', then the movie 'Casper', followed by the movie 'Gremlins'.
TCM spends the day paying tribute on what would have been the 82nd birthday of
Donna Reed, and then celebrates cynicism all night long. Another one of my favorite movies surfaces very late/very early.
[7am] 'Mokey' (1942);
[8:30am] 'Eyes In The Night' (1942);
[10am] 'Calling Dr. Gillespie' (1942);
[11:30am] 'The Courtship Of Andy Hardy' (1942);
[1:30pm] 'The Human Comedy' (1943);
[3:30pm] 'Thousands Cheer' (1943);
[6pm] 'The Man From Down Under' (1943);
[8pm] 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' (1967);
[10:15pm] 'Modern Times' (1936);
[12am] 'The Hospital' (1971);
[2am] '...And Justice for All' (1979);
[4:15am] 'The Loved One' (1965). (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor and presentor Robin Williams, left, and comedian Eric Idle clown-around as they arrive for the In Style magazine and Warner Bros. party after the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
'Millionaire' Returning to ABC
Regis
Two years after the prime-time "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" died from overuse, ABC will bring the game — and Regis Philbin — back next month in a sweeps-month stunt with a $10 million payoff.
"Super Millionaire" will air five times in six days starting Feb. 22, the network said Monday.
The value of the show's easiest question will jump to $1,000 and the 15th and final question will similarly be worth 10 times what it was in the show's initial incarnation, said Lloyd Braun, ABC entertainment chairman.
The game will air at 9 p.m. EST when it debuts on the fourth Sunday of February, then at 10 p.m. the following Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Regis
Gift to Internet Age - Only 2 E-Mails
Bill Clinton
The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself.
"The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, which is raising money for the library, said Monday.
One of them may not actually qualify for electronic communication because it was a test to see if the commander in chief knew how to push the button on an e-mail.
Former Ohio Sen. John Glenn has the distinction of being the first American to orbit the Earth and the only person to receive an e-mail written by Clinton when he was in office.
Bill Clinton
Thousands of pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, January 26, 2004. About two million Muslim pilgrims from all over the world are expected to take part in this year's Haj pilgrimage.
Photo by Suhaib Salem
'Liberal' Is A Dirty Word
George Carlin
No other comedian consistently tweaks as many nerves, churns as many stomachs and terrorizes as many conservatives as George Carlin.
Being a gleeful irritant has its perks. Carlin's resume includes 24 albums, 12 HBO specials, three Grammy Awards and five Emmy nominations. His next book, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops," will be published later this year. Carlin also will enjoy his most significant acting role to date in this year's "Jersey Girl," which co-stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
At age 66, Carlin stands alone in his class.
Question: There aren't many big comedians over the age of 40. What keeps you so successful?
Answer: Uh, quality. It's a fact. I'm one of the best ones out there. I sell 250,000 tickets a year. There aren't many comedians in my age group that do that. Cosby probably does that ... I'm kind of singular now. I mean, I'm not being boastful or conceited. I'm being an accurate reporter of the facts. I'm pretty good at this. The reason it's lasted so long is I continue to grow and turn out new material.
For the rest, George Carlin
Tops UK's Scary TV Poll
Stephen King's Clown
Horror writer Stephen King's story of a child-killing clown who terrorizes a sleepy New England town has been named TV's most spooky program.
The small screen adaptation of King's best-selling novel "It" beat "The Twilight Zone," "The X-Files" and "Twin Peaks" in a poll for the BBC's Radio Times magazine.
The 1990 film starred Tim Curry as Pennywise, a malevolent force that took the form of a red-wigged clown and committed a string of murders. "I am everything you were ever afraid of," the clown tells children in one scene. In second place was "The X-Files," the Emmy award-winning series about FBI investigations into paranormal and extra-terrestrial activity. The BBC's "Ghostwatch" came third. The 1992 documentary about the paranormal featured a "ghost" seeming to appear in the studio to the shock of presenter Michael Parkinson.
Stephen King's Clown
Seeks Out Robert Redford
Fidel Castro
Cuban President Fidel Castro, who has charmed some of Hollywood's biggest names, paid a call on actor Robert Redford at his Havana hotel on Monday and discussed his latest film, on revolutionary icon Che Guevara.
Redford was in Cuba over the weekend wearing his producer's hat for a private screening of "The Motorcycle Diaries" for the widow and children of the legendary Argentine guerrilla fighter, who was Castro's comrade-in-arms.
The film, directed by Brazilian Walter Salles, is based on the diaries Guevara wrote on a nine-month trip through South America on an ancient Norton motorcycle in 1952 when he was an asthmatic 23-year-old medical student.
"The film is excellent," Guevara's widow, Aleida, who provided the diaries to the film-makers, said after the screening, also attended by Guevara's son and two daughters.
Fidel Castro
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Interviews Dalai Lama
Paul Simon
Singer Paul Simon interviewed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for a documentary about Nobel peace laureates.
The documentary, funded by the Nobel committee, will also feature interviews with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former South African president Nelson Mandela.
"So far we have Noble laureates like former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed by singer Bono of U2, and Jewish physicist Joseph Rothblatt interviewed by actor Michael Douglas," said production director Ines Stephan.
Paul Simon
Men dressed as what the locals call in the Basque Euskerra language, the 'Zanpanzart de Ituren' walk through the village of Ituren, northern Spain Monday Jan. 26, 2004 during a carnival celebration. The Zanpanzart de Ituren traditionally march through the village every year in a ritual to purify the harvest land from evil spirits and to welcome the coming Spring.
Photo by Jon Dimis
Resurrects Dog for Fan Club Single
Pearl Jam
The first full-fledged on-stage reunion in 11 years by members of Seattle rock supergroup Temple Of The Dog is spotlighted on the upcoming holiday single for members of Pearl Jam's Ten Club fan organization.
The single sports Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell joining Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron for a 10-minute run through Temple's "Reach Down" at an Oct. 28 benefit concert in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Temple Of The Dog's self-titled 1990 album was recorded prior to Pearl Jam's 1991 breakthrough, "Ten," and introduced the music world to Vedder via his harmonizing with Cornell on the single "Hunger Strike." The group's members had not played live together since the 1992 Lollapalooza tour.
Pearl Jam
Released from Rehab
Jerry Lewis
Comedian Jerry Lewis, looking more like his old self after shedding 50 pounds gained from steroid treatments, has returned home from a three-month hospital stay, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
Lewis, 77, had checked into the rehabilitation center of an undisclosed Las Vegas hospital in mid-October to undergo a managed withdrawal from prednisone, which he had been taking for the chronic lung ailment, pulmonary fibrosis.
He was discharged from the facility on Jan. 16 and plans to make a return engagement March 3 at Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where he had been a regular performer before his health worsened nearly three years ago, said publicist Candi Cazau.
Jerry Lewis
Looks to Monty Python for Tips
Bill Gates
Microsoft's Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is looking to classic comedy for clues on what to expect when he receives an honorary knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
"All I know about the ceremony is what I saw on Monty Python," Gates told a conference in London Monday.
He was referring to the British cult comedy troupe, whose film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" featured the mythical King Arthur roving through medieval England recruiting knights.
Bill Gates
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Super Bowl Ads
Voting on which television ad was best each Super Bowl has become a pastime for millions of online Americans.
Now, America Online and CBS have converged to take that concept a bit further, intending to let Internet users determine the best Super Bowl ad in history, and then counting down those choices during a TV show dedicated to the endeavor.
The contest, though, is a bit skewed from the get-go as Internet users are offered only 10 commercials (out of 2,200 that have aired since 1967). CBS executives selected the 10, with help from USA Today, and visitors to AOL.com or CBS.com and AOL subscribers are allowed to view them and then are asked to pick their favorite one.
Some of the ads chosen include the 1984 Apple Computer spot and a 1973 Noxzema shaving-cream ad starring Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett.
Super Bowl Ads
The sun rises over the twin volcanic peeks of Popocatepetl, right and Ixztaciahuatl, east of Mexico City on Jan. 21, 2004.
Photo by Jose Luis Magana
More Republican Family Values In Action
Neil Bush
In the annals of embarrassing presidential relatives, Neil Bush is no Billy Carter or Roger Clinton.
His messy divorce has produced some eye-opening disclosures. Among them: He had sex with women who showed up uninvited at his hotel rooms in Asia; he had an affair and may have fathered a child out of wedlock; and he stands to make millions from businesses in which he has little expertise - including a computer-chip company managed in part by the son of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
It seems certain opportunities tend to present themselves when your name is Neil Bush.
It is not the first time Neil Bush has caused his family some trouble. At the end of his father's presidency, Neil was among a group of defendants who agreed to pay $49.5 million to settle a negligence lawsuit over the $1 billion collapse of the savings and loan he directed in Colorado.
Get your blood pressure up & see how the other .1% live - Neil Bush
1967 Journal
Ken Kesey
When Ken Kesey was kicked loose after spending the 1967 Summer of Love in jail for a marijuana bust, the guards asked the famous author, psychedelic explorer and prankster if he was going to write a book and include them in it.
"I think so," Kesey replied. Two years after the author's death, Kesey's Jail Journal is out. The book includes two dozen colour plates of collages Kesey made from ink drawings entwined with his handwritten reflections. They were all laid down in notebooks that were smuggled out by a buddy who was busted with him.
Looking for something that went beyond the two novels he had already written, Kesey melded words and drawings in a psychedelic 1960s version of an illuminated manuscript that contains echoes of the battle between freedom and authority he described in his most famous book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
For a great read, Ken Kesey
British celebrities model Jordan, right, and Johnny 'Rotten' Lydon of the Sex Pistols get acquainted with a Koala at a wildlife park on the Gold Coast, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. The pair are competing with eight other celebrities in the British television program 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here ! ' which begins today in the Australian jungle near Murwillumbah, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Brisbane on Australia's east coast. Each celebrity will be voted for by the British public with the winner announced in the final show on Feb. 9.
Photo by Brian Cassey
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