Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 18 March, 2003
Tuesday
18 March, 2003
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #46
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
This is the only thing that's green in this special
Saint Patrick's Day Edition
of
ISSUE #46
is brought to you by
Condensed Version of Bush's Press Conference on March 6
"War against terror...captured the mastermind... September 11th...terror...attacks...threat... Saddam Hussein...terror...aggression... crimes...terror...terrorists...weapons of mass destruction...Saddam Hussein...threat...terrorists... dangerous dictator... murder... terror... terrorist... terrorists...terror...al Qaeda terrorists...weapons of mass destruction...nuclear arsenal...Saddam
Hussein...September the 11th...protect...terror... threat...Saddam Hussein...al Qaeda...Saddam Hussein...threat...good for...wealthy...war...protect... Bible... attacks... force... nations...France and Germany... we'll deal with them...I...a master of deception... with... weapons of mass destruction...a threat...to the Iraqi people... we love... totalitarianism... Liberty is not America's gift to the world...deal with it...Iraq's got money... So there's a lot more at stake than just American security...I hope we... go to war... Oil-for-Food...in Iraq...United Nations Security Council...I'm not worried about that... Turkey... We have to deal with them all militarily...we have to use our troops...I pray... America...hates...freedom... And therefore...we're at war...we...want anybody in harm's way...the journalists... the inspectors...We hope we...go to war...pretty soon... blackmail free nations... we're working the issue hard... regime change...for...the world...it's more than America!"
- Thanks to R. S. Janes -
Question Saddam Hussein Might Have Asked
If He Had Been at the Press Conference
"If I'm such a dangerous enemy, why have you told me, and the entire world, precisely where your soldiers are camping in preparation for invasion?"
Finally, Proof Right-Wing Fascists Have a Sense of Humor
Kucinich.com, the only site on the net with the balls to call presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich a hypocrite because he ate meat most of his life and recently turned vegan. How dare he change his mind! The bastard!
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Pick the Terrorist
Don't Take My Word For It
"The Gulf Wars remind me of the scene in Jurassic Park where the daddy Tyrannosaurus Rex breaks the legs of a man so his baby can get
some practice attacking humans. Now sonny boy gets to go to war, just like his daddy."
- Ira Gurgitate -
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
- Sigmund Freud -
"Fuck you!"
- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -
"That's the first step of a counter-attack, getting people angry."
- Penn Gillette -
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
- Yogi Berra -
"War is capitalism with the gloves off."
- Tom Stoppard -
"You no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
- Jeannette Rankin -
"Bush is oil. His number one donor is the petroleum and energy industry. We didn't hold an election. We held an auction, and they put up the money."
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Greg Palast, interview with LiberalOasis, Feb. 25, 2003 -
"Bush and his administration steadfastly maintain that this incipient war on Iraq is not about oil. Sure, in the same way that Michael Jackson's pajama parties with young boys is not about pedophilia."
- Max Publico -
"Bush is said to be pursuing every last bit of diplomacy to try to reach a reasonable agreement between nations so that we can go about the civilized task of barbecuing humans."
- Barry Crimmins -
"One can always identify a weak government by its eagerness to resort to force."
- Benjamin Disraeli -
"The cynical view on this is that Mohammed is still the relatively small fish we were first told he was, but the news of his arrest is being hyped because the Bush administration needs a victory in the war on terrorism before going to war in Iraq."
- Debra Pickett, the Chicago Sun-Times -
"There was that Abu Zabadudah (sp?) and that Ramsi El-Shenobi dude (sp?) -- both whom were also declared as MASTERMINDS behind 9-11...wow, so many masterminds!"
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
- Barry Goldwater -
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson -
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel."
- Patrick Henry
"We were talking about the love that's gone so cold and the people who gain the world and lose their soul. They don't know. They can't see. Are you one of them? When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there. And the time will come when you see we're all one and life flows on within you and without you."
- George Harrison -
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
- Groucho Marx -
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
- Henry Ward Beecher -
"I'm not saying that George W. Bush shouldn't be allowed to kill as many people as he wants. After all he is the unelected leader of the most powerful country on earth, so if he can't do anything he likes, who can? And, in the years to come, we can confidently look forward to a lot more killing all over the world - certainly a lot more than ever Saddam Hussein managed in his own country."
- Terry Jones -
"Back when Hussein was using chemical weapons on his own people there wasn't a great deal of outrage from the Reagan-Bush White House."
- Ted Koppel, ABC's Nightline Town Meeting, March 4, 2003 -
"George W. Bush is taking this country in ALL the wrong directions."
- Dick Gephardt, of all people, on The Daily Show -
"The Bush press conference to me was like a mini-Alamo for American journalism, a final announcement that the press no longer performs anything akin to a real function. Particularly revolting was the spectacle of the cream of the national press corps submitting politely to the indignity of obviously pre-approved questions, with Bush not even bothering to conceal that the affair was scripted. Abandoning the time-honored pretense of spontaneity, Bush chose the order of questioners not by scanning the room and picking out raised hands, but by looking down and reading from a predetermined list. Reporters, nonetheless, raised their hands in between questions as though hoping to suddenly catch the president's attention. In other words, not only were reporters going out of their way to make sure their softballs were pre-approved, but they even went so far as to act on Bush's behalf, raising their hands and jockeying in their seats in order to better give the appearance of a spontaneous news conference."
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle -
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
- Mark Twain -
"The emperor has no clothes."
- Brother's Grimm -
"I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight."
- Gypsy Rose Lee -
Dueling Websites
Ridiculous Wastes of Time of the Week
Music Video of the Week
Film of the Week
I Feel So Much Safer Now
Doing George Orwell Proud
Benetton, Gillette, and other manufacturers, are starting to put
trackable chips, itty bitty radio transmitters, into their products that will remain intact throughout the life of
the item.
Calling Everyone in England with Bad Skin
Simon Pegg from the UK comedy show
Spaced is putting together a Zombie film and is looking for
extras to play Zombies.
Calling All Smart People
The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World." This medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation. It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.
Disinfotainment Today invites you to submit your interpretation.
I am actively seeking wheelbarrows full of cash. The next time you rob a bank in the neighborhood, won't you drop some by?
Calling All Screenwriters
Beware!
The paradigm is shifting.
Here is a leaked memo from a reader at Miramax...
Ignore it at your peril,
or go ahead,
maintain your artistic integrity and see where it gets you.
"During recent studies of audience interest, it was determined that most members are anxious for the 'setup' phase of the product to be completed so that the 'actual' movie can be seen. What this means to those of you who are reading for Miramax is that we think you should be focusing on shorter Act Ones.
"This doesn't suggest, however, that Act One does not need to contain all the proper elements as previous Act Ones paradigms. What it does mean is the Act Ones that are most audience-friendly will have the information necessary imparted as quickly as possible. (For example, if it takes five scenes to impart Character Traits, Emotional State, Backstory, and Conflict Introduction, it would be best to have that pared down to three scenes or less. Ideally, we would like to be able to impart all necessary information of Act One to an audience in the initial scene."
So that's the latest---at least, as far as Miramax is going. I can't vouch for the other studios, but I'm pretty sure they've got access to whatever report Miramax does.
There's going to be a whole new
slew of screenwriting tutors out there adjusting the model of screenplay writing now."
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
March 17, 2003
UNDO THE COUP
QUIZ FROM HELL
Which is the most important to George W. Bush?
a) Outright control of the world's second-largest oil reserve.
b) Removal of his hated personal rival, a US Frankenstein gone bad.
c) A pivotal military base in the heart of the Middle East.
d) Hugely lucrative contracts for both the destroyers and the rebuilders of Iraq.
e) The ability to test a new generation of ultra high-tech weaponry.
f) The chance to display the awesome killing power of that weaponry.
g) The chance to demonstrate a willingness to use that power.
h) The fulfillment of Biblical prophesy as seen through the eyes of religious fanatics.
CELEBRITY PRANK PHONE CALLS FROM HELL
At
eBaum's World, the calls are not actually from the celebrities themselves, nor are they from people impersonating the celebrities. They are in fact made by collecting voice recordings from TV and then playing them over the phone to people who haven't a clue.
BUMPERSTICKER FROM HELL
"There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?"
CARTOON FROM HELL
SATAN DOESN'T
WANT YOU TO KNOW
You can keep your refrigerator fresh smelling by putting 2-3 tablespoons of fresh coffee grounds in a small open container and set it in the back of your fridge. It will remove the odors, not leave any odor behind, and it lasts longer than baking soda.
SITES FROM HELL
Crimethinc has lots of news items and superb anti-war graphics, posters, and pamphlets, free for the downloading.
Contact pResident Bush -
president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Saddam Hussein -
press@uruklink.net
Contact Kim Jong Il:
eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac -
france-presse@un.int
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started out overcast, sunny by noon, and then the big winds moved in. The kind of night where you can feel every draft or bit of window leakage, and brisk (for these parts).
Got the science project delivered to the school. 12 of the 34 kids in the class didn't hand one in.
Tonight on the news, the talking heads with the botoxed faces, perfect hair & vacant eyes all chattered about how 'talk radio' was overwhelmingly supportive of the march into Poland - er, Iraq.
Well, of course 'talk radio' is supportive. Seeing as how 'talk radio' is code for 'hate radio', where anyone who isn't an angry white man (with the magic 'R' after their name), and a differing opinion, is mocked, hung up on, or ignored. Big surprise there. (Another reason for BartCop Radio)
That's when I realized that 'talk radio' hosts aren't journalists. They aren't reporters. Might call them 'imparters', because they want to impart their opinion. But bottom line, they're 'entertainers', and also fall within the category of 'celebrity'.
Wonder why hate-radio chickenhawk opinions matter more than any other celebrity's? (We NEED BartCop Radio)
Hollywood is moving into full-Oscar-mode. Hollywood Boulevard will be closed, from Highland to Orange, til next Monday. Each day will see another street closed til the festivites are completed. Shit. These plans were in effect before we decided to be afraid of fear itself. Or each other.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS opens the evening with a FRESH 'JAG', followed by a
FRESH 'The Guardian', then a FRESH 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave wwith guest host Tom Dreesen are Kiefer Sutherland, Connie Nielsen, Suzanne Westenhoffer, and The Music.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Vivica A. Fox and wrestler Chris Jericho.
NBC has a FRESH 'Let's Make A Deal', followed by a FRESH 'Frasier',
then a FRESH 'AUSA', and finally, 'Dateline'.
On a RERUN Jay are Dana Carvey, 9-year-old tarantula expert Elizabeth Mule, and Goo Goo Dolls.
On a RERUN Conan are Julianne Moore, Simon Baker, and Blues Traveler.
On what appears to be a RERUN Carson Daly are Elisha Cuthbert and 30 Seconds To Mars.
ABC opens with a RERUN '8 Simple Rules', followed by a RERUN 'Jim', then
a FRESH 'Bonnie', followed by a FRESH 'Less Than Perfect', and finally, a FRESH 'The Family'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Geri Halliwell, Darrell Hammond, Supergrass, and this week's guest co-host Fred Durst.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls' followed by a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux has a FRESH 2-hour 'American Idol'.
UPN offers a RERUN 'Buffy', then a RERUN 'Twilight Zone'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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An anti-war message is sprayed onto the sails of the famous Sydney Opera, March 17, 2003. Australian troops will fight in a war against Iraq if the United States launches military action to disarm Baghdad of alleged weapons of mass destruction, Prime Minister John Howard said.
Photo by Mark Baker
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Worth Over $20,000
Oscar Gift Baskets
The official gift baskets for the 75th Academy Awards that go to nominees, presenters and performers are full of goodies, gizmos and beauty products. The presents include a mini-tassel handbag in pastel-colored leather by Dooney & Bourke, Godiva chocolates, A.T. Cross' candy-colored pens, Sebastian International Shaper hair products, Enjoy perfume by Jean Patou Paris and Sjal holistic skin moisturizers.
Both Motorola and Sprint are sending new camera phones; Motorola's comes with free service for six months while Sprint's comes in a fancy Fendi case. Victoria's Secret is customizing a "good luck charm" bra and panty set with the initials of each actress nominee, and British hairdresser Charles Worthington gave out Dream Couture shampoo and conditioner, which contain extracts from chardonnay champagne grapes and Perigord black truffles.
Perhaps the most unusual item is a gift certificate for an accent table from Thomasville's Bogart Collection, inspired by Humphrey Bogart.
Oscar Gift Baskets
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Defends Hollywood Activists
Martin Sheen
Actor Martin Sheen defended the rights of Hollywood anti-war activists to express their views in an opinion piece published Monday in the Los Angeles Times.
"Whether celebrity or diplomat, cabdriver or student, all deserve a turn at the podium," Sheen wrote.
Sheen criticized those whom he said were trying to denigrate his and other Hollywood activists' views, "solely due to our celebrity status."
The actor, who plays the president on NBC's "The West Wing", said celebrity activists do carry added responsibility because their statements are likely to receive press coverage.
"As a result, we are often called to give voice to the voiceless and a presence to the marginalized," wrote Sheen, who has frequently expressed sympathy for the people of Iraq.
Martin Sheen
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A woman walks between two sculptures by American artist Alexander Calder during a preview to the exhibition 'Calder:Gravity and Grace,' in Bilbao's Guggenheim museum March 17, 2003. The review of five decades of the artist's work will open March 18 and will run until October 7, 2003.
Photo by Vincent West
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Hurt in Crash
Mark Knopfler
Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was rushed to hospital after a motorbike accident, a hospital spokeswoman said on Monday.
The 53-year-old singer and guitarist was taken by ambulance to St. Thomas' Hospital, central London, where he was treated for a broken collar bone and six broken ribs.
Knopfler was riding a Honda motorcycle when he was involved in a collision with a Fiat Punto car in London's smart Belgravia district in mid-morning traffic.
Mark Knopfler
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Deal Seen Likely
'Sopranos'
Actor James Gandolfini and HBO have cooled their rhetoric over Gandolfini's salary demands for a reported $16 million for a fifth season as America's favorite mob boss and were close to an offer "The Sopranos" star can't refuse, industry sources said on Monday.
Gandolfini and the cable network have apparently stepped back from pursuing the mutual lawsuits they filed against each other earlier this month in Los Angeles Superior Court, the sources said.
Brad Grey, one of the show's producers, helped break the deadlock between the 41-year-old actor and HBO officials during weekend talks at Grey's Los Angeles home, Fields said.
Last week, HBO called off filming, set to begin next Monday for cable TV's most popular drama, citing Gandolfini's refusal to return to work unless his salary was renegotiated upward from the $400,000 per episode he now receives.
The actor reportedly wants the cable company to more than double his salary to $16 million per season, to bring his earnings more in line with what stars on top-rated broadcast network shows earn.
'Sopranos'
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Daytona International Speedway
Dale Earnhardt Tribute
Hootie & The Blowfish and The Goo Goo Dolls joined the lineup for the inaugural Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert, a charity event being put on by Earnhardt's widow, Teresa.
Sheryl Crow, Kenny Chesney, Brooks and Dunn, and Alabama have also signed up for the June 28 concert at Daytona International Speedway. This will be the first nonracing event at the track.
Earnhardt appeared in a Brooks and Dunn video before his death. His son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., has starred in one of Crow's videos, and she and Hootie frontman Darius Rucker have made frequent appearances at NASCAR races.
Proceeds will benefit the Dale Earnhardt Legacy Program, which will donate money to children's, wildlife and educational programs.
Dale Earnhardt Tribute
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An Indian vendor sells colored powder on the eve of the Holi festival, in the central Indian city of Bhopal, March 17, 2003. Colored dust is extensively used in the Hindu religious festival of Holi, which heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India.
Photo by Raj Patidar
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Louisiana At It's Finest
Dixie Chicks
Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact disks and other items, a few hundred protesters, referring to themselves as backers of resident Bush and Barksdale Air Force Base, lashed back at lead singer Natalie Maines.
The protesters Saturday night in Bossier City were largely country music fans, some of them recent fans of the Dixie Chicks.
"Until they made that statement, I was glad to listen to them," said Rusty Sullivan, adding that his company has been flooded with requests to strip Dixie Chicks songs from the jukeboxes it operates.
Radio stations nationwide are boycotting the Dixie Chicks, even though Maines publicly apologized for her statement in London.
Dixie Chicks
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Oscar Campaigning Lament
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, who received a Best Director Oscar nomination this year for his critically acclaimed "Gangs of New York," says Hollywood has grown increasingly aggressive in campaigning for Academy Awards.
"If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking," Scorsese told Time magazine.
Scorsese, who has never won an Academy Award for Best Director despite being nominated three times, says he feels obligated to be interviewed about the film.
"The reality is, if I don't do p.r., I'm hurting the picture," Scorsese said. "And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down."
Martin Scorsese
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Anniversary Party Upset
Liza & David
Plans for what was being billed as THE showbiz party of the year have been put on hold because of the gathering Iraq war clouds.
"We held off sending our invitations out because we want to have our party when the world is at peace and people can come and enjoy themselves," said singer-actress Liza Minnelli. She had planned the celebration of the first anniversary of her marriage to producer David Gest for April 15 at New York's Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square.
"With the threat of war imminent and considering more than 1,200 guests would be traveling from many different parts of the world, Liza Minnelli and David Gest have decided to postpone their anniversary party," spokesman Warren Cowan said.
Minnelli and her fourth husband, Gest, married last March in New York in a star-studded ceremony whose guest list included Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.
Liza & David
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A broken ancient stone tablet some experts believe may date to the 9th century B.C., providing rare confirmation of biblical narrative, is seen during a press conference at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem Monday, March 17, 2003. An antiquities collector suspected of illegally possesing the tablet turned it over to the police Monday. While transporting it, police broke the slab of black sandstone.
Photo by Oded Balilty
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Artifacts Bring New View of Old West
Virginia City
From a brass trombone mouthpiece to a hot sauce bottle, more than 40,000 artifacts recovered from the 1860s site of a black-owned Nevada saloon are changing the way historians view the Old West.
Some of the items recovered from the Boston Saloon in the historic mining town of Virginia City are the staples of Hollywood's "Wild West" - poker chips, shot glasses, beer mugs and bullets.
But the mostly black patrons who frequented the upscale tavern from 1866-1875 also drank from ornate liqueur glasses and crystal-stemmed goblets, played dominoes by the light of newly patented gas lamps and ate some of the region's finest cuts of meat, including leg of lamb.
The site lends itself to careful study because a large fire that destroyed much of the town in 1875 left behind a black charcoal line archaeologists use to date events before and after the blaze.
Some intact wine and champagne bottles have been recovered. But most were reconstructed from shards of glass.
There are clay pipes, coins and beads from fancy dresses, along with several testaments to the varied ethnicity of the miners who descended on the Comstock Lode in search of silver beginning in 1859 - a bottle of Gordon's dry gin from London, mineral water from Germany, soda water from Dublin, Ireland.
For the rest, Virginia City
Virginia City History
Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs
Comstock Archaeology Center
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A baboon yawns in its compound at a zoo at the start of a warm day in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 17, 2003.
Photo by B. Mathur
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