BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 8 February, 2005
Tuesday
8 February, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Cory!! Strode On Graphic Novels
Jack Kirby
Now, I know that I said I was reviewing comic books for people who don't read comic books, but one of the things about a good comic book is that it keys in to nostalgia. So, this week, I'm going to wallow in a bit of nostalgia, and hopefully give people a comic that is simply a fun read.
When I was first reading comics as a kid, I was drawn immediately to the art of Jack Kirby. I didn't know at the time that he was the co-creator of characters like Captain America, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Thos, The Silver Surfer, and many, many more. I just knew him as the guy who did stories that overwhelmed my imagination. He had just returned to Marvel Comics after a five-year stint at the competition, and was doing four comics a month.
That's right.
Writing and drawing four comic books of 22 pages each a month.
And I loved each and every one of them. Back then, I had to hope that they showed up at the grocery store and that I had the money for them, but I didn't need to check the credit boxes. I KNEW what books he was doing by the covers, filled with frenetic action that no other artist could put into a drawing, although they all tried.
One of those series was partially reprinted last week: The Black Panther.
At the time, the character (who Jack co-created in the 60's) had been in a comic called "Jungle Action" and was in the midst of a story "ripped from the headlines" about the Ku Klux Klan. Sales were poor, and part of Kirby's deal with Marvel was that he could take over one of a limited number of characters, so he picked The Black Panther.
The previous story was dropped, and Kirby let his imagination run wild. In the collected version, the story starts with a band, and just gathers speed from there, and by the time you have read the first 22 pages, you've been introduced to a society of collectors who are interesting enough for their own series, an advanced human after six million years of evolution and a quest to find King Solomon's Mines. Keep in mind that in 1975, this was the first issue of a new comic book!
The trade paperback reprints seven complete issues, but there is enough inventiveness and creativity to fill twenty. Kirby's art, while highly stylistic by this point in his career is some of the best storytelling in comic books, and you get the feeling that you just can't read it fast enough.
The funny thing to me, as a long time comics fan, is that when Kirby's Black Panther started, comics fans at the time complained about Kirby not finishing up the other creator's story before starting his own, and the fact that he didn't write the character as "relevant" with "realistic dialogue", which were the buzzwords in comics at the time. However, as the years have gone on, and comic writing improved, most of the so-called relevant and realistic comics of the time come off as horribly dated and filled with purple prose, while Kirby's take on The Black Panther is still now what it was then, a roller-coaster of a story that is as fun to read as any Big Blockbuster movies wants to be.
Cory!! Strode (The Best Dressed Man In Comics) has written comic books, novels, jokes for comedians, Op Ed columns, the on-line comic strip
www.Asylumon5thstreet.com and has all kinds of things on his website
www.solitairerose.com
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Weekly Link
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Super Sunday is over. In honoring the Bush Presidency, the city of brother love lost. And once again we bring you the most fervent punditry on the planet, once again.
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LONELY OAK TREE
LIKE A BLEACHING CADAVER
A DEAD MAN WALKING?
Zen Man
(in Napa)
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But Untrue
Strangely Believable
Yesterday's Fact: 2/7/05
In a fundraising letter for his senatorial library, retired Senator Jesse Helms called on Congressional Republicans to impeach Bill Clinton again, "now that we have the votes to make it stick."
~Jeff Crook
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left. ~ J. Howard Tuft
Strangely Believable but Untrue is now available online at the Untrue Fact of the Day web calendar. Help spread disinformation and misunderstanding by sharing this with your friends and enemies.
A casual stroll through a mental asylum shows that faith proves nothing. --- Friedrich Nietzche
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Cindy Sheehan: It Wasn't Worth It (AlterNet)
Robert Borosage: The Dreams of George Bush (The Nation)
Jim Hightower: Whacking Libraries (AlterNet)
Jessica Lyons: All In Her Head (Monterey County Weekly)
Marjorie Baumgarten: Bad Education: An Unsentimental Education (Austin Chronicle)
Gold Star Families for Peace
New American Dream
Campaign for America's Future
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Pete S.
Thanks, Pete!
Wonder what Bat Boy thinks of this turn of events...
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Reader Contribution
Mount Flushmore
I saw an ad in the Sunday paper with a picture that screamed "Photoshop
me!!!", so after applying some filters to emboss it into bas relief (or Bas
Humbug Relief as Chuck Dickens might have said) here 'tis.
I have come up with a redesign for Mount Rushmore (Mount Flushmore). After
all, the existing design insults the native Americans, screaming "Hi!
We're dominant white males, and we've come to loot and pillage your land,
and desecrate your mountains!"
I think it's not too late to return to Mount Rushmore and impose this
design where the presidents' faces now are. It even makes token
acknowledgment of the need to accommodate women.
If the Park Department disapproves of this design for Mount Flushmore,
maybe they could invoke it at Stone Mountain, Georgia where the confederacy
is memorialized, and rename it "The Urinal Mountains". That has a nice
Russian ring to it.
Ray
Thanks, Ray!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast, but no rain.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'NCIS', followed by the SEASON FINALE of 'Amazing Race 6'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Kevin James, Aishwarya Rai, and 3 Doors Down.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Randy Jackson, Samantha Daniels, and Greg Proops.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Most Outrageous TV Moments', followed by another FRESH 'Most Outrageous TV Moments', then a FRESH 'Scrubs', followed by a FRESH 'Committed', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Clint Eastwood, Shia La Beouf, and the 5 Browns.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Simon Cowell, Will Forte, and Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Dermot Mulroney, Stephen Colbert, Iron and Wine.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a FRESH 'George Lopez', then a FRESH 'Jim', followed by a FRESH 'Rodney', then a FRESH 'NYPD Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Joy Behar and Fonzworth Bentley.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a FRESH 'House'.
UPN has a FRESH 'All Of Us', followed by a FRESH 'Eve', then a FRESH 'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', another 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', and another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
AMC offers the movie 'Addams Family Values', followed by the movie 'Carrie', then the movie 'Pet Sematary'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 2;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Camping In;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Time to Die;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 7;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 7;
[7pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Westpoint 13;
[7:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[9pm] 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' - Glass House;
[10pm] 'Holiday Showdown' - Bangers/ Morocco;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[12am] 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' - Glass House;
[1am] 'Holiday Showdown' - Bangers/ Morocco;
[2am] 'Bargain Hunt' - Westpoint 13;
[2:30am] 'What Not To Wear' - Jane Anderson;
[3am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[4am] 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' - Glass House;
[5am] 'Holiday Showdown' - Bangers/ Morocco;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', followed by a FRESH 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', and 'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has 'Distraction', followed by a FRESH 'Reel Comedy', 'Reno 911!', 'Crank Yankers', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and a FRESH 'Distraction'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart is John Leguizamo.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Wild West Tech', another 'Modern Marvels', and yet another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Final' (2001);
[8AM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[9:45AM] Short: 'Blink Of Paradise' (2000);
[10AM] 'For Roseanna' (1997);
[12PM] 'The Luzhin Defence' (2000);
[2PM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[3:45PM] 'For Roseanna' (1997);
[5:45PM] 'Independent Spirit Awards 20th Anniversary Specia' l (2004);
[6:15PM] 'The Luzhin Defence' (2000);
[8:15PM] 'Sisters' (1973);
[10PM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[10:30PM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #201' (2004);
[11PM] 'Night At The Golden Eagle' (2002);
[12:30AM] 'Independent Spirit Awards Nomination Show' (2004);
[1AM] 'Dinner For Five #34' (2004);
[1:30AM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic #201' (2004);
[2AM] 'Night At The Golden Eagle' (2002);
[3:30AM] 'Sisters' (1973);
[5:15AM] 'Independent Spirit Awards 20th Anniversary Special' (2004). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi fills the night with episodes of 'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[6:25AM] 'The Battle Of Algiers' (Feature);
[8:30AM] 'This Charming Man' (Der Er En Yndig Mand) (Feature);
[9AM] 'With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America' (Documentary);
[10:45AM] 'The Navigators' (Feature);
[12:30PM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[2PM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording' (Documentary);
[2:50PM] 'Gigantic' (A Tale of Two Johns) (Documentary);
[4:35PM] 'The Swell Life' (Documentary);
[5PM] 'The Origins of AIDS' (Documentary);
[6:35PM] 'Anatomy Of A Scene: Baadasssss!' (Original Production);
[7PM] 'With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America' (Documentary);
[8:45PM] 'Mt. Head' (Short);
[9PM] 'Tom & Viv' (Feature);
[11PM] 'Osama' (Feature);
[12:30AM] 'The Battle Of Algiers' (Feature);
[2:35AM] 'The Goddess of 1967' (World Cinema);
[4:30AM] '1 Giant Leap' (Documentary);
[5:50AM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6:15am] 'White Banners' (1938);
[8am] 'Dark Victory' (1939);
[10am] 'A Patch Of Blue' (1965);
[12pm] 'Possessed' (1947);
[2pm] 'Blossoms In The Dust' (1941);
[3:45pm] 'Splendor In The Grass' (1961);
[6pm] 'Kitty Foyle' (1940);
[8pm] 'Same Time, Next Year' (1978);
[10pm] 'The Bridges of Madison County' (1995);
[12:30am] 'Now, Voyager' (1942);
[2:30am] 'The Divorcee' (1930);
[4:am] 'Sister Kenny' (1946). (ALL TIMES EST)
Wednesday - 02/09
TCM:
[6am] 'Dangerous' (1935);
[7:30am] 'Lili' (1953);
[9am] 'Butterfield 8' (1960);
[11am] 'Suspicion' (1941);
[1pm] 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (1964);
[3:15pm] 'Madame Curie' (1943);
[5:30pm] 'Sunrise At Campobello' (1960);
[8pm] 'Coal Miner's Daughter' (1980);
[10:15pm] 'Magnificent Obsession' (1954);
[12:15am] 'Long Day's Journey into Night' (1962);
[3:15am] 'Anna Christie' (1930);
[4:45am] 'Their Own Desire' (1929). (ALL TIMES EST)
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Or reviews?
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Comedian Chris Rock poses next to a large Oscar statuette as she arrives for the Academy Awards nominee luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills February 7, 2005. Rock will be the host of the The Academy Awards telecast which will be presented in Hollywood February 27.
Photo by Fred Prouser
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Follow Up At Cinemocracy
Sore Winners
Cinemocracy went out in search of the Citizens United billboards this weekend, and we found two of the three. Last week, we exposed as a lie the group's
erroneous claim that celebrities will see the "thank you" messages as they walk down the red carpet on their way into the Academy Awards. Turns out, one billboard actually is on Hollywood Boulevard, but a good four blocks away from the Kodak Theater at the corner of Hollywood and Whitley. It sits just above Mr. Rogers's star on the Walk of Fame, and, yes, that is
Frederick's of Hollywood right next door.
Cinemocracy: Cinemocracy Goes Billboard Hunting
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Commentator Charged in Alleged Scam
Courtney D. Smith
Regulators filed criminal and civil charges Monday against a financial commentator who was paid more than $1 million in cash and stock to hype shares of marketing company a during appearances on CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV.
The commentator, Courtney D. Smith, helped "artificially inflate" GenesisIntermedia Inc.'s stock after the company went public in 1999, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a civil lawsuit filed Monday.
Authorities claim he was secretly paid about $95,000 in cash and received about $1 million of GenesisIntermedia's shares.
Genesis' biggest lender and shareholder was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian millionaire known for his role as a middleman between former President Ronald Reagan's administration and its arms sales to Iran.
Courtney D. Smith
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John Hurt, left, Kim Cattrall and Jonathan Pryce, right, arrive at the Evening Standard Film Awards, at the Savoy Hotel in London, Sunday night, Feb 6, 2005.
Photo by Andy Butterton
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Station Reeling From Tsunami Parody
WQHT-FM
The music swelled, sounding the familiar first notes of the vintage charity hit "We Are the World." Then the lyrics kicked in - a torrent of bad taste, ethnic slurs and cruel insults about the killer south Asia tsunami.
The "parody," aired during morning drive time on New York radio's WQHT-FM, lasted three short minutes. Nearly three long weeks later, the self-proclaimed "premier hip-hop station in America" is still reeling: one of its morning co-hosts was fired, the show's producer was dumped, and five other employees remain suspended.
The "USA for Indonesia" song offended not only tens of thousands of listeners but advertisers like McDonald's.
"It's a mess," said Tom Taylor, editor of the trade publication Inside Radio. "It's taken on a life of its own. Clearly, this has touched a nerve."
WQHT-FM
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Announces U.S. Tour Dates
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello & The Imposters have announced a U.S. tour in support of their Grammy-nominated album, "The Delivery Man."
Costello and his band will begin the tour on March 2 at the House of Blues in Orlando, Fla. The tour will wind down at the Beacon Theatre in New York on April 22 and the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 23.
Elvis Costello
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Award winning television producer Pierre Cossette (L) holds a replica plaque of his just unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California February 7, 2005. Standing with Cossette is actress Anna Maria Alberghetti.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
pierre-cossette_020705
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Managing Comedians
Montel Williams
Emmy-winning daytime talk show host Montel Williams has launched a talent management firm specializing in stand-up comedy and focused on developing clients for TV and film projects.
The firm, called Letnom Management, further extends the industry presence Williams has through ventures like his production firm Letnom Prods.
Williams said he hopes to start building a roster by signing about five performers in the coming weeks and possibly expand that to about 10 during the next six months. From there, he plans to build the business based on demand.
Montel Williams
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Extends Oscar Broadcasts Deal
ABC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out Hollywood's Oscars, has extended the deal to air its annual awards show on the ABC television network for 10 years, Academy President Frank Pierson said on Monday.
Pierson declined to give financial details of the pact with the network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
Pierson said this new deal gives ABC the right to air the telecast through 2014. ABC has broadcast the Oscars for nearly 30 years, reaching tens of millions of U.S. viewers and bringing in lucrative revenues from expensive advertising.
ABC
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A carnival float shows U.S. resident George W. Bush with a machine gun during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German town of Duesseldorf, February 7, 2005. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
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Work Begins on Installation
'The Gates'
Under bright, sunny skies on a warm February day, hundreds of workers began the weeklong process of erecting thousands of poles in Central Park for "The Gates," the large-scale public work of art by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
"The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005," a temporary work, opens Saturday and will consist of 7,500, 16-foot-high gates along 23 miles of footpaths. Free-hanging, saffron-colored fabric panels will be unfurled from each gate and dangle 7 feet above ground. The 16-day installation will be in place until Feb. 27.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are paying for the project without sponsorship or donations. They have said they hope it will cost less than $21 million, but the final figure will not be known until the piece is completed.
'The Gates'
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A dancer performs on a float of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 7, 2005.
Photo by Renzo Gostoli
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Says He Delivered Goering's Poison Pill
Herbert Lee Stivers
A former US Army private who was a guard at the Nuremberg trials says he gave convicted Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering the poison capsule that enabled him to commit suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.
Entire books have been written pondering how the heavily guarded Nazi leader managed to evade justice. And while Herbert Lee Stivers's story cannot be proven, several experts on the era have said it rings true, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
Stivers, 78, a retired sheet metal worker from southern California, was a 19-year-old army private assigned to an honor guard that escorted Nazi defendants in and out of the courtroom during the post-World War II war crimes trials.
Stivers said he agreed to take "medicine" to a supposedly ailing Goering to impress a flirtatious local girl who approached him one day on the street.
Herbert Lee Stivers
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Bolivian Aymara indigenous descendants dressed as Chutas, a parody of white man, and Cholitas dance during carnival celebrations on an impoversihed neighborhood of La Paz, Bolivia on Monday, Feb. 7, 2005.
Photo by Dado Galdieri
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Sets Around-The-World Sailing Mark
Ellen MacArthur
Ellen MacArthur has endured stormy seas, 65 mph winds, a broken sail, burns, bruises and exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale. The payoff: a solo around-the-world sailing record.
The 28-year-old Englishwoman completed the 26,000-mile circumnavigation at 5:29 p.m. EST on Monday by crossing an imaginary finish line between Ushant, France, and the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on the south coast of England.
MacArthur's journey began Nov. 28. Since then, she has slept an average of 30 minutes at a time and four hours in any day. She has reheated freeze-dried meals on a single burner stove while living area measuring 5 feet by 6 1/2 feet. Her water supply is desalinated from the sea.
Ellen MacArthur
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In Memory
Karl Haas
Karl Haas, who brought classical music to millions of listeners through his syndicated radio program, "Adventures in Good Music," has died. He was 91.
"Adventures in Good Music," an hour-long program in which Haas blended music and talk aimed at casual listeners, was syndicated to hundreds of stations in the United States, Australia, Mexico and Panama and was broadcast by Armed Forces Radio.
Among the honors he received were two George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award in 1991. In 1997, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and Museum in Chicago.
A pianist, conductor and musicologist, Haas settled in Detroit after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936. He taught piano and founded the Chamber Music Society of Detroit in 1944.
Haas began doing radio commentary in the 1950s, and "Adventures in Good Music" debuted in 1959 on WJR-AM. In 1970, WCLV began producing it and distributing it more widely.
Karl Haas
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Narren begrüßen Mainzer Rosenmontagszug
Mehr als eine halbe Million auf den Straßen
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