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Last Night
Mostly surfed between the rerun 'comedies' on CBS and 'Indiana Jones' on ABC.
Spent too much time looking for a picture of the Breughel painting stolen in Stockholm yesterday.
Tonight, Tuesday, in the middle of sweeps, CBS expresses its utter contempt for its
audience with 3 hours of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
ABC isn't much better, with 2 hours out of 3 stinking it up with reruns. The reruns are: 'My Wife &
Kids', 'Jim', 'Drew Carey', and 'Whose Line'. The only fresh show is 'NYPD Blue'.
The WB has a movie, 'Witchblade'
Faux has a fresh night with 'That 70's Show' (part 3 of 3), 'Undeclared', and '24' (which I will
try to remember to watch, Larry).
UPN has a double-header of 'Buffy' reruns.
Depending on where you live, in the afternoon hours (mostly), on AMC is one of the most campy of the anti-pot movies of the
50's - 'The Cool And The Crazy', with Scott Marlowe and Gigi Perreau at their finest! (Watch out for those motorcycles....)
AND, it is followed by 2 'classics' - 'The Grapes Of Wrath' (jeez-louise, where to start..)...one of the finest examples of
American novels translated to the screen EVER (John Ford does John Steinbeck, with the incredible photography of Gregg Toland) - Henry Fonda, John Carradine,
Jane Darwell, and so many more. One of the first American films to address social injustice. If you've never seen it, give it a whirl.
It airs twice, with 'Giant' (Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean whup some ass in Texas) sandwiched in between.
TCM salutes 'shorts'...as in 'Big Band Dance Shorts', 'Academy Award Winning Shorts', and even 'Early
Technicolor Shorts', among others.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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NAACP Image Awards
India.Arie & Alicia Keys
India.Arie and Alicia Keys are a few of the celebrities who will appear at the NAACP Image awards this year.
The show is set for Saturday at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles and will air on Fox on March first. National
National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice will receive the President's Award and Little Richard will receive the Hall of Fame
Award. Steve Harvey, Jamie Foxx and Angela Bassett are also scheduled to be on hand -- while comedian-actor Chris Tucker will
handle the hosting duties.
Both India.Arie and Alicia Kets are up for Grammy Awards this year. India.Arie's album is called "Acoustic Soul."
Key's debut album is "Songs in A Minor."
NAACP Image Awards
Self-Described 'Filth Editor'
John Waters
Filmmaker John Waters says he'd like to make more movies: "Holy Anorexia" — a film about the eating disorders of saints —
and anything starring Don Knotts.
The self-described "filth editor" revealed his plans while performing his standup routine "Shock Value."
He also told the crowd Friday how in 1988 he "accidentally made a family movie" — "Hairspray," which starred then-unknown
actress and present-day talk-show host Ricki Lake.
"I remember the day I got a PG rating. I held my head in shame," Waters said.
His other films include "Cry-Baby" starring Johnny Depp and Patty Hearst, "Serial Mom" with Kathleen Turner, and his most
recent release, "Cecil B. Demented," starring Melanie Griffith as a fading star who is kidnapped by guerrilla filmmakers.
John Waters
Launching 'Marsalis Music'
Branford Marsalis
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is making beautiful music on his own.
After having negotiated out of his recording contract last year with Columbia Records, his label of 20 years, Marsalis
launched Marsalis Music.
For now, Marsalis is the only artist on the roster. His "Footsteps of Our Fathers," a tribute to John Coltrane, Ornette
Coleman, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet, is due out later this year.
"The record industry is changing, and sooner or later we had to face the reality that there's not a lot of room at major
labels for any kind of creative music — not just jazz — that doesn't generate large sales," said Marsalis.
Marsalis has played with Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and his brother Wynton. He played in Sting's band and
joined "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" as musical director for two years.
Boston-based Rounder Records, which released a 1986 album by Marsalis' father, pianist Ellis Marsalis, will market
and distribute the new label's music.
Branford Marsalis
The Voice Of MSNBC
Dee Snider
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider may have been a bit too twisted for the suits at ABC's late night info-fest, "World News Now."
Snider, formerly known as the hulking drag queen who snarled the '80s anthems "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock,"
was invited on the show Thursday to deliver a two-minute commentary about the Enron scandal.
But sources say that Snider's humorous rant on "Enron venture capitalism" was lifted from an e-mail that's been widely circulated
on the Internet called "Enron's Cows," a take-off on the way capitalism works:
"You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies," The Enron version begins, "You have two cows. You sell
three of them to your publicly listed company." After a debt equity swap, a tax exemption, and a transfer of milk rights to a
Cayman Island company, there are eight cows and an option on one more.
ABC execs realized Snider swiped his material from the Web, and allegedly banned him from coming back on the show. A network
flack says Snider was not under contract, and that the former hair metal hedonist didn't get paid for the spot.
The tattooed and pierced Snider has been working for MSNBC since November, lending his raspy voice to promos for the likes of Brian
Williams, Ashleigh Banfield and Alan Keyes.
Dee Snider
Booga Booga
JP II & Exorcisms
Pope John Paul has performed three exorcisms during his 23-year pontificate, including one as recently as September, one
of the Catholic Church's leading exorcists said on Monday.
Father Gabriele Amorth told Italy's La Stampa newspaper that the Pope had carried out his first exorcism in 1982.
"This girl was rolling around on the ground. People in the Vatican had never seen anything like it. For us exorcists
it is run of the mill," Amorth said.
The Pope has since taken part in two more exorcisms, including that of a 20-year-old woman in September, to underline
the importance of the ceremony.
"I have seen many strange things...objects such as nails spat out. The devil told a woman that he would make her spit
out a transistor radio and lo and behold she started spitting out bits and pieces of a radio transistor," he said.
Amorth said the woman whom the Pope exorcised in September was still undergoing treatment.
Booga Booga
Hate to be too picky, but there is a crapperload of difference between 'a transistor radio' and 'bits and pieces of a radio transistor'!
CBS Special, Hosted By Robert DeNiro
''9/11''
The firefighters' movements are calm as they arrive at the burning north tower of the World Trade Center. Their eyes
grow wide as the magnitude of their mission becomes clear. Then come the thumps - one after another - and a voice
saying that people are jumping.
The horrific noises continue as the videotape shot by two French filmmakers keepolling: A drone followed by a sudden
bang accompanies the image of a second plane slamming into the south tower and later, a white noise builds to a
crescendo as that tower collapses and people run for cover.
The tape by brothers Gedeon and Jules Naudet is an extraordinary account of courage and dread, of composure under pressure
and of the cataclysmic moments that, for many of the men captured on it, were their last.
It has made the rounds of New York firehouses since Sept. 11 and was recently reviewed by The Associated Press. CBS plans
to air footage on March 10 to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the attacks.
The brothers were shooting a documentary about the life of a probationary firefighter, as they had been doing for many
weeks, when the attacks began.
The opening shot has been seen by millions. The camera, taping firefighters checking a gas leak in lower Manhattan, pans up and
captures the first plane slamming into the north tower. Most of the footage was shot by Jules, who accompanied firefighters to
the north tower where they set up their first command center.
What happens over the next two hours has not been seen by the public.
CBS Special, Hosted By Robert DeNiro, March 10th
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Going To Play In Vegas?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney has been offered a whopping $4 million to play for one night at the MGM Grand.
McCartney and his band would replace the derailed heavyweight championship fight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis,
which was set for April 6.
Officials believe a McCartney show could make just as much, if not more, for the nation's glitz capital.
Ticket prices for the 15,000-seat arena could be as high as $375 for the event. The hotel also has over 5,000 rooms
and a lavishly furnished casino.
Paul McCartney
Former Brother-In-Law
Injunction
A judge ruled that George Harrison's former brother-in-law is not allowed to sell Harrison memorabilia.
A judge granted a preliminary injunction against Carl Roles, who used to be married to the sister of Harrison's wife, Olivia.
Olivia Harrison claims Roles stole ten boxes of clothes, records and memorabilia from their home in the 70's, then tried to
sell it the day after Harrison died. Roles says he had permission to remove the things from the house and he denies he tried to sell them.
Injunction
Playing Samantha's Niece On 'Sex In The City'
Britney Spears
Britney Spears has agreed to play a man-eating temptress on the HBO series "Sex and the City."
Britney - who claims she's going to remain a virgin until marriage - has been lined up to play the sex-mad niece of
Samantha, portrayed by sultry Kim Catrall.
In the episode, Britney will seduce Samantha's lover, stealing him from under her nose.
"Samantha thinks her niece is a virgin, but nothing could be further from the truth," a show insider said.
Catrall asked Spears to take part in the show after appearing with her in the film "Crossroads."
Britney Spears
Says He's Delusional
Will Smith
Will Smith, Oscar nominee for his starring role as legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, says he's delusional -- and
it's got him where he is today.
"There's a wonderful delusional quality I possess that allows me to attempt things that are really bad ideas," Smith told
reporters Monday ahead of the Australian premier of "Ali."
Asked about his chances of winning the Academy Award for Best Actor, Smith said with a chuckle: "I've got my fingers crossed.
I only wish Russell Crowe hadn't made a damned movie this year."
Smith, 33, said he spent a year and half following a program to transform the tall but slight actor into a copy of Ali in
his physical, mental and spiritual prime.
Smith, who began entertainment life rapping at parties when he was 12, said the film experience had left him able to
understand what it means to be great.
"Muhammad Ali's life had almost biblical proportions to it. He was playing David to Goliath after Goliath after Goliath,"
he said, adding he admired Ali's ability to stick to his beliefs in the face of enormous opposition.
Will Smith
Woman With An Opinion
Julia Roberts
Add Julia Roberts to the list of those who want to see Denzel Washington walk away with a best actor Academy Award next month.
"He should be on his third Oscar by now, and that might not be enough," Roberts told Newsweek magazine in its Feb. 25 edition.
"I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor."
Washington, who won an Academy Award in 1989 for best supporting actor in "Glory," is nominated for his turn as a bad cop in "Training Day."
In the 73 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began handing out Oscars, five black actors and actresses have
won for supporting roles and only one black actor has won for best actor: Sidney Poitier.
Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in "The Pelican Brief," called Washington "the best actor of this generation, hands down."
Julia Roberts
Personal Assistant Speaks
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell's personal assistant claims the catwalk cutie turned her into a highflying drug mule.
Well, hell hath no fury like a tabloid scorned — or a personal assistant. The News of the World grabbed hold of Rebecca
White, 27, who quit after the temperamental temptress allegedly turned her into a drug smuggler.
"When we were packing, Naomi said to me, 'Did you remember the stuff?' She always called her drugs supply 'my stuff.'
I said, 'Yes, I've got it,'" White said.
The "stuff" included Ecstasy tablets hidden in a vitamin pill bottle and cocaine packed in a tiny treasure tin that
opened with a skeleton key, White said.
White said Campbell pushed through her party favors like a snowplow. She recounted alleged binges at bashes thrown by
Sean (Puffy) Combs and Donatella Versace.
The breaking point, she said, was when Campbell got her to do drugs when they stayed at Miami's Delano Hotel. "She poured
a big pile of cocaine on one of the surfaces in the bedroom, chopped it up with a credit card, then snorted it through each
nostril very quickly with a 20-dollar bill," White said. "She'd do about half a gram in one go. On a bad night, Naomi
would do 3 or 4 grams, which is a lot."
Naomi Campbell
Warrick Brown on ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
Gary Dourdan
The actor who plays forensic investigator Warrick Brown on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" says it wasn't easy becoming
television's No. 2 drama — and won't be easy staying there.
"In our first season, (the show) didn't have any money. The other shows on the network got all the bread. And we kind
of came up fighting, like Mike Tyson, and just knocked everything out."
"CSI" is now second only to "ER" among dramas; CBS is looking into a spinoff for next season, which might be set in Miami.
Gary Dourdan
Loves Being The Villain
Ann Heche
Actress Ann Heche says she loves being the woman you love to hate in 'John Q.'
Heche plays the hospital administrator who stands in the way of Denzel Washington getting a heart transplant for his son.
She says it's "a kind of a fun challenge to be the one people aren't going to have any sympathy for." She also understands
that if you have no sympathy for her, it helps you be more sympathetic for Denzel Washington's plight.
Ann Heche
Aguilera, Church, Bon Jovi, 'Nsync, Estefan and Connick
Closing Acts For Olympics
Christina Aguilera, Charlotte Church, Gloria Estefan and Harry Connick Jr. are among a raft of stars slated to perform at Sunday's closing ceremony for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The entertainment for the show at Rice-Eccles Stadium above downtown Salt Lake City will also include Bon Jovi and 'Nsync, organizers said in a statement Monday.
Former Olympians Kurt Browning, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Katarina Witt and Kristi Yamaguchi will also be part of the ceremony.
"This will be a party for the athletes and for the world that could only happen at the Olympics," said Don Mischer, executive
producer for the closing show.
Aguilera, Church, Bon Jovi, 'Nsync, Estefan and Connick
I Like This Story
Miss Earlene
Miss Earlene was the first student to arrive at the prom committee meeting before school on Wednesday. A church friend
is making her prom dress, size 6, not bad for a woman of 78.
Earlene Acworth will graduate this spring from Philadelphia Regional High School, where she is the oldest student - give or take - by 60 years.
Miss Earlene's granddaughter, who lives with her in West Philadelphia and is now flourishing with a secretarial job and community college
classes at night, graduated from there last year.
Miss Earlene grew up in North Carolina and dropped out of school at 15 to pick cotton and help the family. She never went back, but was
so impressed by her granddaughter's experience, she told principal Alan Liebowitz, half kidding, that she'd like to go back.
On the first day of school, she didn't show.
Liebowitz assumed she got cold feet, backed out. But she showed up the next day.
"She told me she had to have a pacemaker put in," he said. "Now that's one excuse I hadn't heard before."
She has had perfect attendance ever since, made the honor roll, written for the school paper, and been named student of the month. She
takes the minutes at student council meetings.
For the rest of this inspiring story, Miss Earlene
Thanks, Marian, the teacher originally from Philly. ; )
Dave
van Ronk is my favorite male vocalist, though not necessarily my
favorite male singer. Nobody could put more expression in a song
than Dave. His raspy but controlled voice mirrored his grizzled
appearance and his hard life. His world is one of hookers, junkies,
sinners, children and fellow blues performers. He likes his sex
dirty and his religion clean. Too many folk musicians of the early
60s smiled their way to fame and fortune. Dave stayed true to his
roots and sang from the heart. He bent a little for commercialisms
sake, but he never broke.
Dave van Ronk died on Feb. 10, 2002 at age 65. Most obituaries, if
they ran at all, credited him with being
a mentor of Bob Dylan. While his influence is still felt in
subtle and not-so-subtle ways, his own performances stand out. He
was the essence of the urban folk music scene, growing up in Brooklyn
and living in Greenwich Village from the 50s on. When the producer
of the group who would become Peter Paul and Mary was looking for
musicians, they auditioned him. Things would have been very
different.
Despite the hard-drinking, hard-loving image he presents, Dave's
range can be seen with a superb rendition of Teddy Bear's
Picnic. A bit on the scary side, it still works as a children's
song. Not at all saccharine sweet, but cuddly and protective.
Similarly, Swinging On A Star never felt quite right with Bing
Crosby crooning it; Dave van Ronk's authoritative growl is far more
fruitful as a cautionary tale. On the other side, his
obscenity-laced anti-Vietnam scream, Luang Prubang, is a
simple song told with power; the flip side of Eric Bogle's The
Band Played Waltzing Matilda. His version of the Weill/Brecht Alabama
Song warns of the dangers of obsession more effectively than The
Doors could muster.
Personally, my favorite album of his is Songs for Aging
Children, which seems to be unavailable. Followed by No Dirty
Names, which I also couldn't find listed on the net. They show
his range and depth. Of
the CDs available here and here, I suspect Sunday Street is a good first look. On
Shockwave I played Last
Call from Going Back To Brooklyn, a solo a cappella piece
about alcoholism and loneliness, and got a call wondering exactly
what that was. Several cuts on that CD can't be played on the air,
so I'm glad I hit one with power, and that CD too is recommended, but
not for the untested listener. If you want to approach him from a
different angle, Hummin' To Myself features a lot of showtunes
and a few cuts with Christine Lavin.
Too many of his earlier records seem like studio cuts of songs done
more forcefully in concert. They lack the single-take rawness of
Ledbelly and the polish of The Kingston Trio. Ah well, these are
what we have. Inside
Dave van Ronk and The Folkway Years are
good collections of tunes that are NOT children's folk music.
Goodbye Dave. You will be remembered for being a relentless observer
and critic of the society around you but mostly what we'll remember
is a damn good singer.
Tribute
Dave van Ronk
Dave van Ronk, 1936-2002
Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites.
In Memory
Grover Krantz
Grover Krantz, one of Bigfoot's most passionate believers has died of pancreatic cancer Thursday. He was 70.
Krantz was a professor of anthropology at Washington State University for 30 years until his retirement in 1998. Some say his stance on the creature - a sort of Northwest version of the "abominable snowman," or Yeti, of the Himalayas - hurt his career.
Krantz wrote several books on Sasquatch and appeared as an expert on the "In Search Of ..." television series in the 1970s and the 1999 "Sasquatch Odyssey" documentary.
Krantz served in the Air Force from June 1951 to 1952 in Salt Lake City and Clovis, N.M., before he was discharged from active duty as an airman.
He was a professor of anthropology at WSU from 1968 until he retired and moved to the Olympic Peninsula.
Grover Krantz
In Memory
Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith, whose career as a newscaster ranged from World War II as one of "Murrow's Boys" at CBS to roles as co-anchor and analyst for ABC, is dead at age 87.
Smith died of pneumonia aggravated by congestive heart failure on Friday evening at his home in Bethesda, Md., his son, Jack, said Monday.
Although out of the public eye for nearly a quarter-century, Smith was a broadcasting pioneer and, from television's infancy, a presence on the air.
Along the way, he made at least two appearances of lasting impact even beyond the journalistic.
In 1960, he served as the moderator of the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate, a seminal TV event generally thought to have played a decisive role in Kennedy's election.
Smith also is memorialized in Robert Altman's 1975 political satire "Nashville," in which Smith portrayed himself as a broadcast commentator covering the presidential campaign of the never-glimpsed candidate Hal Phillip Walker.
Howard Kingsbury Smith was born May 12, 1914, in Ferriday, La., and, after attending Tulane University, began his years as a foreign correspondent working for United Press in Copenhagen and Berlin.
In 1941 he joined CBS News as a member of the team assembled by the legendary Edward R. Murrow during World War II, and in 1946 succeeded Murrow as CBS's London correspondent. He covered Europe and the Middle East for CBS until 1957, when he came to Washington, D.C., as a correspondent and commentator on the network's nightly TV newscast.
With the civil rights struggle heating up, Smith narrated a 1961 documentary, "Who Speaks for Birmingham?," in which he quoted Edmund Burke's observation that "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." When the quote was deemed "editorializing" by his bosses and cut from the program, Smith resigned from the network.
Joining ABC News soon after, Smith served as a correspondent and anchored several series, including the respected mid-1960s documentary program "Scope," which focused on the Vietnam War.
In 1969 he became co-anchor with Frank Reynolds of "The ABC Evening News," then two years later was joined at the ABC anchor desk by his former CBS colleague Harry Reasoner.
In l975 Smith gave up his co-anchor role but continued as a political commentator. Four years later, after denouncing a flashy four-anchor evening-news format that uncomfortably married Reynolds, Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters and Max Robinson, Smith retired.
His several books include the 1942 bestseller "Last Train from Berlin," which describes Hitler's rise to power and his own experiences as the last American correspondent to leave Berlin after war was declared, and his 1966 memoir, "Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter."
His numerous awards include a Peabody and an Emmy.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Benedicte Traberg Smith, and one daughter and one son and three grandchildren.
Howard K. Smith
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