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Last Night
The kid has one helluva cold and stayed home from school. 'The Iron Giant' and 'A Bug's Life' served as our matinee.
The CBS sitcoms were on in the background as the evening progressed. Finally saw 'Baby Bob'. Jeez, I really like
Adam Arkin & Elliot Gould - hope the concept looked better on paper.
Wonder why ABC was tempting the Darva-Rick evil-spirits in conjuring up 'The Bachelor'?
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS is all fresh with 'JAG', 'The Guardian',
and 'Judging Amy'. 'Dave' is fresh, too!
On NBC, 3 out of 4 sitcoms are reruns. Rerun 'Frasier', 'Watching Ellie' is fresh (if
it airs at all), then reruns of 'Frasier' and 'Scrubs'. They are followed by 'Dateline'. 'Jay'
is fresh, too.
ABC has a fresh night. 'Dharma & Greg', 'Spin City', 'NYPD Blue', and the series
premiere of 'The Court' with Sally Field.
The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.
Faux is fresh with 'That 70's Show', 'Andy Richter Controls The Universe', and '24' (4pm - 5pm).
UPN has a rerun 'Buffy', and then fresh episodes of 'As If' and 'The Random Years'.
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Don't Piss Him Off!
Hunter S. Thompson
The Godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, says the dark forces of the government are out to get him once again - and this time it's not even his fault.
The "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" author faxed his Wylie Agency rep, Jeffrey Posternak, recently, claiming that "White House officials" have been stopping by
his farm in Aspen, Colo., to question him about an article they believe he posted to the pop culture Web site getunderground.com.
The article is full of salacious rumors about Barbara and Jenna Bush - including a made-up story about an exotic body-piercing. Its author is not Thompson
but an anonymous Web writer who goes by the pseudonym Asterisk. And while Thompson's clearly miffed to be credited for what he calls "some swill about the
Bush twins," what's really got his blood boiling is another story by Asterisk - which Thompson says was plagiarized from his own unpublished copy when it
was with a former agency.
"Savagery of the Flighty White N- - - -r" details the author betting on the outcomes of school shootings with a bookie at a Miami bar called Lola's.
Thompson claims the story is his, telling Posternak, "OK, so this spineless pighead changed the name of the location in his stories from Woody Creek
Tavern to some gaff named Lola's, but I still have my original carbons and there'll be no doubt in any jury's mind that this crackpot's cut-and-paste
bullbleep is nothing but sheer plagiarism.
"It's time to start firing up the boys in the pinstripes," he continues, "because the stench of one motherbleeping, King Hell of a lawsuit is beginning
to roast my olfactory nerves."
Thompson also demands, "Put down your crack pipe for a minute and get on top of this cheap-ass Ayn Rand of a ripoff."
Hunter S. Thompson
Parental Duty Beckoned
Will Smith
The Oscar night of best-actor nominee Will Smith was cut short due to his daughter's illness.
Smith, nominated for the title role in "Ali," left the Kodak Theatre with his actress-wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, on Sunday after security officials
informed them that their 1 1/2-year-old daughter, Willow, was suffering an ear infection and 103-degree fever, a family publicist said.
The couple drove to Santa Monica, where the child had been taken for treatment, the family spokeswoman said, declining to be identified by name.
Smith was seen earlier in the ceremony. But when the best-actor nominees were announced, a photo of Smith was shown along with a photo of no-show
Sean Penn ("I Am Sam") and live shots of fellow nominees Russell Crowe and Tom Wilkinson. The trophy went to Denzel Washington for "Training Day."
Will Smith
Lawsuit Filed
Jello Biafra
A rift between singer Jello Biafra and his former band, Dead Kennedys, is growing wider with more legal action.
Biafra's attorney has filed suit in Alameda Superior Court alleging his former bandmates are recording new music with a Biafra impersonator.
The real Biafra, whose birth name is Eric Reed Boucher, also alleges his former bandmates used his name, picture and identity to promote new live
recordings and performances.
Biafra is asking for punitive and compensatory damages of more than $25,000 from the three remaining original Dead Kennedys, including Ray Pepperell
("East Bay Ray"), Geoffrey Lyall ("Klauss Flouride") and Darren Henley ("D.H. Peligro").
The band started in San Francisco in 1978 and developed a worldwide following for its anti-establishment songs such as "Kill the Poor" and "California
Uber Alles." The performers formed a partnership called "Decay Music" that supposedly ended when the group split in 1986.
A jury ruled in favor of Biafra's bandmates in 2000, saying the singer didn't promote the band's music or pay back royalties as promised. Now, Biafra
claims the band is also failing to dissolve Decay Music partnership assets as ordered by the San Francisco court in 2000.
Jello Biafra
No 'Intense' Relationships
Britney Spears
Britney Spears said Monday that she's not "in an intense relationship with anyone," fueling speculation that she and 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake have broken up.
The 20-year-old pop singer faced the British media at a news conference to promote "Crossroads," her coming-of-age road trip movie, which opened in the United
States last month. Journalists were warned beforehand that Spears would ignore questions about taboo topics, such as her love life.
But when a reporter asked whether she was involved in an "intense relationship," Spears replied: "No, I would not say I was in an intense relationship with anyone at the moment."
Later, she told ITV television that she felt entitled to protect her privacy.
Britney Spears
''Women of Enron''
Playboy & Enron
For those who said that all the Enron scandal lacked was sex, the wait is almost over.
Playboy, the men's magazine famous for its centerfolds of nude women, Monday said it is planning a photo spread entitled the "Women of Enron" to
showcase current and former employees of the ruined Houston energy company.
The Chicago-based magazine said the open call for models is a second chance for Enron Corp. employees who may have lost their jobs as the one-time
Wall Street darling plummeted into the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history.
Interested models are asked to send a recent full-figure photo of themselves in a bikini, along with a headshot.
Playboy & Enron
His First Oscar Appearance
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, a New Yorker famous for shunning the Hollywood establishment, made a surprise appearance at the Academy Awards on
Sunday to pay tribute to his native city and its resilient spirit.
Allen, who is also a jazz musician and usually spends Oscar night playing the saxophone at Michael's Pub in New York, received a standing ovation
from Hollywood's finest inside the Kodak Theater and said, "Thank you very much ... that makes up for the strip search" -- a reference to the strict
security surrounding the Oscar presentations.
The winner of two Oscars and nominee for some 20 awards joked that he panicked when he received a call from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences about four weeks ago.
"I thought that they wanted their Oscars back," he said.
But then Allen moved to the matter at hand, introducing a retrospective of films made in New York City, celebrating Hollywood's love of the
nation's largest city more than half a year after the hijacking attack on the World Trade Center.
"I plead with you to please come make the films there," said Allen, a famous booster of the city where he has based nearly all his films.
Backstage, Allen said "I'm not a big awards person. I don't feel comfortable with ... any kind of artistic competition.
"It was hard but I wanted to do something for New York," Allen went on. "The opportunity was presented on a silver platter. New York has
had such a tough time of it, there was no way to resist it."
Woody Allen
Making A Documentary?
Oliver Stone
Hollywood director Oliver Stone filmed a meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat site Monday for what he described as a documentary on world conflicts.
Stone visited Arafat's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah as U.S. mediators struggled to secure a halt to 18 months of Middle East bloodshed, and as Israel
weighed allowing the Palestinian leader to attend an Arab summit in Beirut.
The Oscar-winning director, who has specialized in controversial political movies, said he was on familiar ground.
"There's always a similarity in world conflicts everywhere you go," he told Reuters. "What is the common denominator? Maybe pride, maybe human ego, maybe the sense of
humiliation, all these factors."
The director declined to discuss his latest project, saying only that it had started recently and involved Spanish and French television companies. But a
member of the production team said the documentary would focus on 72-year-old Arafat.
Stone was in Havana last month making a documentary on Cuba and its president, Fidel Castro (news - web sites). American cinema publication Variety
said the film, tentatively titled "Looking for Fidel," would include extensive interviews with the 75-year-old communist leader and was produced by Spanish film companies.
Oliver Stone
10 Minutes To Write 'Vanilla Sky'
Paul McCartney
Former Beatle Paul McCartney, reflecting on Hollywood's patriotic mood after the September 11 hijack attacks, said on Monday it was important that Americans won this year's Oscars.
And he had no hard feelings about losing to Newman who was ending a 15-Oscar losing streak when finally capturing the coveted award for his song "If
I Didn't Have You" from "Monsters, Inc."
The 59-year-old McCartney said: "If I had to lose to anyone, Randy was the man because he has been nominated 16 times. He is a great guy and I am a big fan of his anyway."
The former Beatle took just 10 minutes to write "Vanilla Sky while sitting at the kitchen table and he said: "I wrote it very quickly so it
wasn't like what I thought was my greatest song ever. I was very pleased it got in there."
McCartney, who is currently preparing for his first American tour in almost 10 years, is to marry former model Heather Mills in New York in June.
Paul McCartney
Woman With An Opinion
Courtney Love
Courtney Love says Russell ("A Beautiful Mind") Crowe is a selfish bastard. Love tells Entertainment Weekly she's steamed at the Aussie star for
criticizing her when she had a miscarriage last May. Crowe felt she should have made it clear he wasn't the impregnator. "Here I am having a miscarriage,
and Russell's worried about his image," Love fumes. "I demand an apology!" In any case, says Love, "We didn't [bleep]."
Courtney Love
On Her Idol, Bette Davis
Whoopi Goldberg
Oscars presenter Whoopi Goldberg says her idol is Bette Davis. But the one time she met the legendary star at Elizabeth Taylor's birthday party,
her reception was less than warm. Goldberg tells the April issue of Interview that she walked into the room and heard a voice saying, "Madonna?
What the [bleep] is a Madonna? And what the hell is a Whoopi Goldberg? She's in the business 10 minutes and she's a star? My ass!" Goldberg was
about to confront the speaker when she realized it was her idol Davis.
Whoopi Goldberg
Wedding News
Chuck & Dusty
ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill and his girlfriend for the past decade, actress Charleen "Chuck" McCrory, finally tied the knot.
The couple exchanged wedding vows Saturday at Tony's Ballroom in Houston in a ceremony before 200 guests with state District Judge Joan Huffman presiding,
Hill spokesman Bob Merlis said Monday from Los Angeles.
ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard was best man and Beard's wife Debbie was maid of honor. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons was also on hand.
The bride, dressed in a Reem Acra gown and Sergio Rossi boots, entered the room as the Austin band Duck Soup performed a version of the ZZ Top hit "Rough
Boy." Hill wore a Hugo Boss suit and J.B. Hill boots.
Chuck & Dust
There's One Left
Heaven's Gate
After three years of regimented life within the Heaven's Gate cult, Rio DiAngelo walked away in 1997 because of a "disturbing" feeling that he needed to escape.
One month later, he received a message from Heaven's Gate members that drew him back to the group's rented hilltop mansion in Rancho Santa Fe. On March 26, 1997, DiAngelo uncovered
the worst mass suicide on U.S. soil.
Five years later, DiAngelo is keeping the faith he shared with 39 men and women who believed they were shedding their earthly "containers" to catch a ride on a spaceship trailing
the Hale-Bopp Comet.
"I'm really the only one left," the 48-year-old Los Angeles resident said.
"What I've gained from this group is phenomenal," he said. "If he is just a gay music teacher from Texas how he could teach all these advanced ways of being that really work?"
And in an example of his newfound wisdom, DiAngelo said a tabloid offered him $1 million for exclusive rights to his story five years ago, but he
refused, preferring to preserve the dignity of his departed friends. Today, he says, he'd take the money.
Heaven's Gate
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