Hello there.
My name is Spanky Ward, I was
wondering if you could help me with something. I've pitched a project to an
investor, whom the project is also about, it's a true story and I'd like to send
him a sample scene to help seal the deal. The problem is, I'm having a little
trouble getting started. Until now, I've only written my own stuff. I'm having a
problem knowing how much creativity I can add to the truth that's already there.
I hope I'm making sense. How much creative license can I take with what is
there? I'm afraid to elaborate, or add stuff, for fear of losing the truth that
it's all founded on. Is it bad to add things that didn't happen, to change their
words, or character, kill someone off that didn't die? If you have any advice, I
could really use it.
Thanks a ton.
Spanky Ward
Spanky,
Thank you for braving
time and space to contact me.
Nothing is trickier than
writing a script that's supposed to be non-fiction. The artistic problems
don't even come close to approaching the magnitude of the legal problems. This
e-mail could go on for miles if I got into all the specifics, so let me start
by directing you to http://www.wga.org/craft/dare.html
where I tell my own personal story of how I turned my life into a movie of the
week. Rather than focus on how to DO the gig, let's focus on how to GET the
gig.
First of all, why should
your subject choose YOU to write a script about them when you apparently have
no experience doing such a thing? It's an enormously complicated task that
requires not just the skills of a screenwriter but of a diplomat and an
extremely anal lawyer. You don't just need permission from your main character
but from absolutely every other character, down to the smallest extra. Your
guy can't take a cab without your getting permission from a cab driver. If you
don't get permission from a cab driver, then you HAVE to fictionalize the
character so that they're absolutely nothing like the cab driver your main
character actually used. The job consists of balancing the true story of the
guy you've got permission from with the mandatory fictionalization of just
about everything else. If you don't have the skill and experience to do that,
then you are, in fact, not the right person for this job. If I were your guy,
I'd hire someone who knew what he was doing.
That doesn't mean you
can't get it. Skills can be learned, but it's going to take a lot of research
because every word you write is a potential lawsuit.
If you send your subject
your version of a scene from his own life, it's pretty much guaranteed you're
going to get some details wrong and you're going to piss him off. Don't do it.
If you're going to send him a "sample," make it a sample of your work that's
completely unrelated, something whose only purpose is to show your skill as a
screenwriter. You can't even begin writing individual scenes without extensive
research. Start with a treatment. The spine of the story. The very first
decision, and it's much more complicated than you think, is where the story
starts and ends. Like everyone, he sees himself as the hero of his own story,
but the hero's journey in any story has to contain their fatal flaw that they
overcome. A lot of people don't like to look at examinations of their flaws,
so I'm afraid you're going to have to fall back on flattery. Start out making
them look good, then, further down the line, start exploring their problems.
Part of the gig is THEIR fantasy fulfillment, especially if you're working for
THEM.
Movie of
the Week
Gallery
of the Week
Still from This is
Cinerama
Whether you have a
widescreen TV or not, you've got to be happy that so many channels are now
showing films in the letterbox format, without the sides cut off. For an
amazingly exhaustive and fun look at every film process that has ever existed,
don't miss The American
Widescreen Museum.
Prank of the
Week
Go into MS Word or similar program on a co-worker's computer and
add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will
send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace
the word "the" with the phrase "you're an idiot!" They will usually panic and
start scanning for viruses.
Your Government at
Work
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R.
3687
To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for
the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1464 of title 18,
United States Code, is amended--
(1) by inserting `(a)' before `Whoever'; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
`(b) As used in this section, the term `profane', used with respect to
language, includes the words `shit', `piss', `fuck', `cunt', `asshole', and
the phrases `cock sucker', `mother fucker', and `ass hole', compound use
(including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or
with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and
phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive
forms).'.
Don't Take My Word For It
"Knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire
it."
- Sudie Back
-
"News, far more than art, is
artifact."
- Marshall McLuhan -
"Faced with a drinking problem,
business failure and the potential loss of his family, he rediscovered Christ
through the Midland, Texas, branch of a Community Bible Study group.
"In the process, Bush moved to a belief system more absolute
than that of his Episcopalian family or wife Laura's Methodist upbringing. He
embraced evangelical Christianity, which considers the Bible to be the
unblemished word of God and heaven barred to non-believers in Christ's
divinity.
"The concrete result is a president who is the leading
proponent of applying the evangelical movement's values to domestic government,
from opposing abortion and gay marriage to federally funding social programs run
by religious institutions."
"All religion is just someone who has an imaginary friend."
- Dylan Moran -
"Darkness is powerless in the presence of light. The relationship between
light and darkness in the everyday world reveals a profound secret of
spirituality. Spiritual darkness can exist only in the Light’s absence.
"It is a universal law that desire is increased when
others demand you to grow. It is very difficult to change by yourself because,
well, you are who you are. But if you pay close attention, you will find that
the people who come into your life are not there by accident. They are channels
for the Light, sent to awaken and inspire in you the desire to change. If you
are open, they can lead you to a whole new place of desire you're not even
familiar with."
"An actor is not quite a human being, but then, who is?"
- George Sanders -
"Cheney's biggest trick is making George Bush wake up every morning
and
believe he's the president."
- John Dean: Worse Than Watergate -
"There are two types of dictatorship. There is overt, in your face, control
like communism and fascism; and there is the most effective control of all - the
covert dictatorship that masquerades as freedom. People do not rebel
against not being free when they think they are."
- David Icke: The Fourth Reich is Masquerading as "Liberation" and the
"War on Terror" -
"Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates
hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of
euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble
to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of
empiric fact, common sense,and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating
sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled a
curmudgeon."
- Edward Abbey -
"No mulligans, except on the first tee."
- George W. Bush, speaking to reporters August 7, 2001, the day
after he was handed the PDB that Ms. Rice said only contained historical data
-
"Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;"
- W.B. Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death -
"Can you feel John Ashcroft's
hot, predatory breath bearing down on your life and your box of vibrators and
your adult DVD collection and snatching away your copy of "Weapons of A--
Destruction #2" and smacking you across the face with a Bible, all before
skipping off to the dungeon to feed the flying monkeys?
"Because while 9/11 and the process of gleefully decimating
your civil liberties via the USA Patriot Act may have delayed him a few years,
Ashcroft & Co. is back on the anti-porn warpath, hell-bent on slashing and
burning its way through the porn industry like a priest through an all-male
boarding school -- oh wait, bad analogy -- like a hot knife through butter --
nope, not that, either -- like a Halliburton exec through Baghdad -- there,
that's more like it -- as the U.S. Justice Department sets its sights on
punishing the sex industry and eradicating porn and making the world safe for
uptight danceless ultra-pious non-drinking white men once and for
all."
"I first figured that Gaza
might be for sale when Ariel Sharon was accused of corrupt real estate dealings
in Greece. And I was right too. Sharon has put together a real estate package in
Gaza that is a sleazy developer's dream: Trading that run-down Gaza dump for the
eloquent olive groves and high rises of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Score!
"That's like trading the South Bronx for The Garden State --
including Princeton, Washington Crossing AND Atlantic City. That's like dumping
Mediterranean Avenue and buying the Boardwalk. AND Park Place!
"But wait. Won't the Palestinians at least come out of the
deal owning Gaza? Isn't that a trade up for them? They will now own houses and
hotels, right? Wrong. Palestinians will not be passing Go. And they will not be
collecting $200. They will not be owning Gaza. Ariel Sharon will still own Gaza.
What the Palestinians will be getting from this real estate deal is the right to
continue to live in a prison, a jail and a slum.
"Being an Arab these days is
chillingly similar to being a Jew in 1939. The only difference I can see is that
instead of Prescott financing genocide, we now have his grandson
George."
"• When life
hands you lemons, make lemonade: When Bill Clinton won office in 1992,
Cheney lost his. His friends at Halliburton were more than happy to give him a
job - as CEO.
"• It's all about
the bling bling: By 2000, he was pulling in $36,086,635 from the
oil-services company.
"• Machiavellian
politics pay off: In 2000, George W. put Cheney in charge of a team to
select a running mate. Cheney chose himself.
"• Think outside
the box: After creating the Halliburton empire, Cheney turned his attention
to creating a new energy policy for the United States. Using his world-famous
Rolodex, the vice president merged two seemingly unrelated areas of
administration: dealing with rogue states and capturing oil fields."
"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying
down."
- Brian Weir -
"Greetings to you in the name
of our Allah i got your e mail through the help of my nurse who scanned the
internet and gave me your mail. I am Mrs Mariam Khalid a devoted muslim, a new
muslim convert of 74 years old after being converted from a christian
family by my husband. For quite a good number of years now, I have been
suffering from cancer of the breast and fibroid of the womb which has for a long
time now affected my health and from all indications my condition is
deteriorating by day and by my doctor's prediction I have less than six months
to live.
"My husband who is now late was killed during the US/British
attack against the president of my country (Sadam Hussain). My late
husband was a member of the contract award committee of the republican ministry
of petroleum and resources of Iraq under the regime of Sadam
Hussein."
- Hajia Mariam Khalid:
rewriting the Nigerian bank scam to take advantage of the war in Iraq
-
"It is only important to walk on the real ground,
to act on the basis of reality. The slightest phoniness, and you fall into the
realm of demons."
- Liao-an -
"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the
worst."
- Marcus
Valerius Martial -
"Make sure to be in with your equals if you're
going to fall out with your superiors."
- Jewish proverb -
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does
enlarge the future."
- Paul Boese -
"Generally speaking, the clever are not wise.
Neither are the wise clever; they are innocent. But there is a type of innocent
cleverness a combination which resides only in the mansions of superior
wisdom."
- Jacob Klatzkin: In Praise of Wisdom
-
"The days are too short even for love; how can
there be enough time for quarreling?"
- Margaret Gatty -
"One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond
his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of
it."
- Francesco
Guicciardini -
"An Iranian court has ruled the
United States should pay $600 million in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, the official IRNA news agency said
on Wednesday. IRNA said the money in the case, brought by Iranian war
veterans and disabled, should be paid to survivors of attacks on the town of
Sardasht which borders Iraq.
"Iraqi gas attacks killed thousands of Iranians and Iraqi
Kurds in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands died on both sides
and Iran has thousands disabled by chemical arms."
"A miracle cannot prove what is impossible; it is
useful only to confirm what is possible."
- Maimonides:
Guide for the Perplexed -
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we
explain the success of those we don't like?"
- Jean Cocteau -
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
- Carl Jung -
"Yearn to understand first and to be understood
second."
- Beca Lewis Allen -
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and
the old man who will not laugh is a fool."
- George Santayana -
"Leap, and the net will appear."
- Julie Cameron -
"If there's no wound on the hand, that hand can
hold poison.
Poison won't penetrate where there's no wound.
There's no
evil for those who don't do it."
- Dhammapada, 9 -
"Don't be afraid
to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small
jumps."
- David Lloyd George -
"Great ability
develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new
assignment."
- Baltasar Gracian: The Oracle
-
"I joined the Air Force to protect our
borders and our people, not the financial interests of Folgers, Chiquita Banana,
and Exxon. We've had enough corporate wars. No more Iraqs. No more El Salvadors.
No more Kosovos. No more Colombias. These are not isolated incidents of
stupidity. They are part of a long, bloody history of foreign policy being
conducted for the financial benefit of the wealthy few. It is a new colonialism.
It violates our Constitution. It endangers our people. And it is
TREASON.
"As a pilot who flew 101 combat
missions in Vietnam, I can tell you that the best thing our government can do
for its combat veterans is to quit making more of them."
"If you want to make God Laugh, tell him your
future plans."
- Woody Allen -
Everything Else
I came to that place, you know where it
is, where we all return once in a while, where everything stops and we
catch up with ourselves, where everything is new, where the dividing line
between past and future gets away with us, where we watch things happen rather
than wait to have them described, where we flow with the current, no matter how
fast its coming at us, no matter how treacherous the shores.
Today's satire becomes tomorrow's reality faster
every day, so don't let them get away from you, those moments where realities
coincide and you get a glimmer from what could be a gem of truth floating amid
the flotsamedia and jetsumedia. History and memory play tricks. The older
they get, the less defined are the distinctions.
Have memory and history started to contradict themselves? Has your
inner journalist kicked in? Have you started to question everything? Remember
this golden rule: "It's only memory if you actually remember it. It's only
history if it's false and people believe it."
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Reader Comment
Re: O'Really Vs. Canada
Bill O'Reilly Hates Canada?
That
only makes me a more fervent Canadaphile, if that's possible.
Anything
on the shit lists of individuals like O'Reilly, Rush, Hannity, Coulter, ad
nauseam MUST be a GOOD thing.
Hell, ever since Rush the Vulgar Junkie
Pigboy started with the "feminazi" crap, I've been proud to call myself a
"feminazi."
If a neanderthal like him hates it, then it's THE thing to
be!
God, I love the Canadians!
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
If you'd like to read the
history of O'Really's snit -
Who's
afraid of the big bad Fox? Certainly not us - JOHN DOYLE
- The Globe and Mail - Monday, April 19, 2004
Fox
News. Not here yet, but already hilarious - JOHN DOYLE
- The Globe and Mail - Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2004
And
the laugh was still there - JOHN DOYLE - The Globe and
Mail - Thursday, April 29, 2004
Then the NY Times picked it up - Word
for Word: When a Canadian Insults Fox News, Them's [Expletive] Fighting Words!
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Another Bumpersticker
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Fun Link
Sick Of This Crap!
Alright folks, time for those May flowers for
which we endured the April showers, kinda like the flowers American forces were
to be showered with upon liberating a grateful nation of Iraqis.
Thanks, Rummy!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Over 100 again today, and I'm cranky.
The
school cancelled recess today because of the heat. The kids had to sit in the
auditorium & watch part of 'Charlotte's Web'.
Rosemary, the
Alaskan grandmother, will be here in less than 12 hours.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'Navy NCIS', followed by a FRESH 'The Guardian', then a FRESH 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Dave are Mary-Kate and
Ashley Olsen, and Adam Brody.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Jane Leeves and Crystal
Method.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Frasier', followed by another RERUN 'Frasier', then a FRESH 'Frasier', followed by the Season Finale of 'Scrubs', then a
FRESH 'Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Eric Bana, Bob Woodward, and
Lee Ann Womack.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Ray Liotta, Mila Kunis, and
Carly Simon.
Scheduled on a FRESH
Carson Daly are Kenny Lofton, Neil Patrick Harris, and Danny Aiello.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH '8 Simple Rules', followed by a
RERUN '8 Simple Rules', then a
FRESH 'Jim', followed by a
FRESH 'Less Than Perfect', then
a FRESH 'NYPD Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy
Kimmel are Jamie Foxx, Constance Marie, and Dom Irerra.
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 'Rock Me Baby',
followed by a RERUN 'Girlfriends'.
Check local PBS listings for a FRESH 'Nova' - "Battle Plan Under Fire".
A&E has 'American Justice',
'Biography' (Florence Henderson), and a 2-hour 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie
'Silver Streak', followed by the movie 'Urban Cowboy', then the
movie 'The Man From Snowy River'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News'; [6:30pm] 'Cash in
the Attic' - Episode 2; [7pm] 'House Invaders' - Linchfield
B; [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - St. Ives;
[8pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chinnor; [8:30pm] 'Changing
Rooms' - Warrington; [9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Julie
Nicholson; [9:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Jane
Anderson; [10pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Stride;
[11pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chinnor; [11:30pm]
'Changing Rooms' - Warrington; [12am] 'What Not to Wear'
- Julie Nicholson; [12:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Jane
Anderson; [1am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Stride;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Linchfield B; [2:30am]
'Changing Rooms' - St. Ives; [3am] 'Changing Rooms' -
Chinnor; [3:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Warrington;
[4am] 'What Not to Wear' - Julie Nicholson; [4:30am]
'What Not to Wear' - Jane Anderson; [5am] 'Cash in the
Attic' - Stride; [6am] 'BBC World
News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has
'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', 'Showbiz Moms & Dads',
another 'Queer Eye', and another 'Showbiz Moms & Dads'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV',
'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's
Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Amb. Joe Wilson.
History has 'Modern
Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and
a FRESH 'Wild West Tech'.
IFC -
[6AM]
'Fresh' (1994); [8AM] 'Cry, The Beloved Country'
(1995); [10AM] 'Vertical Ray Of Sun' (2000);
[12PM] 'Golden Bowl' (2000); [2:15PM] 'Rosetta'
(1999); [4PM] 'Vertical Ray Of Sun' (2000);
[6PM] 'At The Angelika 84' (2004); [6:30PM] 'Golden Bowl'
(2000); [8:45PM] 'IFC In Theaters'; [9PM]
'Dinner For Five 25' (2003); [9:30PM] 'Rocked With Gina
Gershon Episode 4' (2003); [10PM] 'Heaven's Burning'
(1997); [11:45PM] 'Gallipoli' (1981);
[1:45AM] 'Beautiful Thing' (1996); [3:15AM] 'Heaven's
Burning' (1997); [5AM] 'Running With The Bulls'
(2002). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has
'Stargate SG-1', followed by the mvoie 'Dragonheart', then another
'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'Our Times' (Documentary); [7:15AM] 'Unhook The
Stars' (Feature); [9AM] 'If I Should Fall From Grace: The
Shane MacGowan Story' (Documentary); [10:40AM] 'Fairy
Faith' (Feature); [12PM] 'No Man's Land'
(Feature); [1:40PM] 'Eat This New York' (Documentary);
[3PM] 'Stealing The Fire' (Documentary); [4:40PM]
'Unhook The Stars' (Feature); [6:30PM] 'Cane Toads - An
Unnatural History' (Documentary); [7:30PM] 'Elling Petter
Naess' (Feature); [9PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Off the Map'
(Original Production); [9:30PM] 'All or Nothing'
(Feature); [11:40PM] 'Our Lady of the Assassins' (World
Cinema); [1:25AM] 'Vampire's Kiss' (Feature);
[3:10AM] 'Scratch' (2002) (Feature); [4:45AM] 'Branson:
Musicland USA' (Short); [5AM] 'Elling Petter Naess'
(Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM spends the day celebrating Audrey Hepburn, who was born on this
day in 1929.
[6am] 'Affair With A Stranger' (1953);
[7:30am] 'The Actress' (1953);
[9:30am] 'Green Mansions' (1959);
[11:30am] 'The Nun's Story' (1959);
[2:30pm] 'The Children's Hour' (1961);
[4:30pm] 'Wait Until Dark' (1967);
[6:30pm] 'The Fred Astaire Songbook'
(1991);
[8pm] 'I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang'
(1932);
[10pm] 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
(1948);
[12:15am] Johnny Belinda (1948);
[2:15am] 'Gold Diggers Of 1933' (1933);
[4am] 'Manhattan Melodrama'
(1934). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 05/04
TCM pays tribute (all morning & afternoon) to Norma Shearer
[6am]
'The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney'
(1929)
[8am] 'Strangers May Kiss' (1931);
[9:30am] 'Private Lives' (1931);
[11am] 'Strange Interlude' (1932);
[1pm] 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street'
(1934);
[3pm] 'Romeo And Juliet' (1936);
[5:15pm] 'Marie Antoinette'
(1938);
[8pm] 'Blood And Sand' (1941);
[10:15pm] 'South Pacific' (1958);
[1:15am] 'It Happened One Night' (1934);
[3:15am] 'I Walked With A Zombie' (1943);
[4:30am] 'The Gay Divorcee'
(1934). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any
opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Los Angeles radio and television personality Pepe Barreto, from Peru, is
honored with, the 2,254th star on the 'Hollywood Walk of Fame' by Johnny Grant,
the honorary mayor of Hollywood, left, Monday, May 3, 2004, in Los Angles. Los
Angles Mayor Jimmy Hahn applauds at right.
Photo by Nick
Ut
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Returns to High School
Dick Van Dyke
Sixty years after he graduated from Danville High
School, Dick Van Dyke returned over the weekend to be honored by the community
he left to become a television star.
"A lot of memories are popping into
my head," Van Dyke said. "It's just incredible, the sights, the sounds, the
smells."
Van Dyke watched a student production of "Bye Bye Birdie," a
play he appeared in on Broadway just before he starred in "The Dick Van Dyke
Show."
Dick
Van Dyke
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Actresses Jennifer Lopez, left, and Jane Fonda laugh on the first day of
shooting their new comedy, Monster-in-Law, Monday, May, 3, 2004, in Los Angeles,
Calif. The film, being directed by Robert Luketic, is scheduled for release in
2005.
Photo by Melissa
Moseley
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Says Held Prison Abuse Story
CBS News
CBS News delayed reporting for two weeks about U.S.
soldiers' alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners, following a personal request from
the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Gen. Richard B. Myers called
CBS anchor Dan Rather eight days before the report was to air, asking for extra
time, said Jeff Fager, executive producer of "60 Minutes II."
Myers
cited the safety of American hostages and tension surrounding the Iraqi city of
Fallujah, Fager said, adding that he held off as long as he believed possible
given it was a competitive story.
For more, CBS
News
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Being Rereleased
'Life of Bryan'
Monty Python's Flying Circus alumnus Terry Jones
doesn't mince words about why the troupe's film "Life of Bryan" is being rushed
into rerelease this month.
"It's shameless commercial opportunism on our
part," Jones told the Philadelphia Inquirer in Sunday's editions.
The
original plan was to get the movie prints out in August, the month that marks
the 25th anniversary of the Python's tale of an accidental messiah. Then came
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
"We just saw the opportunity
and thought we'd take it," Jones said. "We're definitely trying to cash in on
Mel's enormous success."
'Life
of Bryan'
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Hoakalei Hina Kamauu, queen of Hawaii's annual Lei Day celebration, sings a
chant while offering the Mayor's grand prize winning lei before the crypt of
Kamehameha during a ceremony at the Royal Mausoleum or Mauna Ala (Fragrant
Mountain), in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2, 2004. The 77-year old annual ceremony
consists of offering elaborate leis from Lei Day festivities and placing the
hand-made flowered necklaces on the tombs of famous Hawaiian monarchs.
Photo
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Charges Dropped
Jason Patric
A second charge against actor Jason Patric has been
dropped following his arrest in March. Travis County Attorney David Escamilla
said his office decided not to pursue the resisting arrest charge after
reviewing evidence and determining that Patric's actions didn't constitute
resisting arrest under Texas law.
"Merely retracting your arm or some
other similar uncooperative action won't suffice to support a conviction,"
Escamilla told the Austin American-Statesman.
The city attorney's office
also dropped a public intoxication charge against Patric last week from the same
arrest.
Jason
Patric
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Compares Mob Characters
Paul Sorvino
If Tony Soprano and Paulie Cicero, the don from
"GoodFellas," put contracts out on each other, who'd get whacked first?
"Paulie is much more lethal," the actor who played him, Paul Sorvino,
told AP Radio. "Jimmy (Gandolfini, who plays Tony) does a wonderful job, but in
terms of the way the characters are set up, Paulie is much more Machiavellian,
Paulie is much more of a ponderer and a thinker. He does very little by impulse
and that's a much more dangerous person."
Paul
Sorvino
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A member of the Blue Man Group performs during a rehearsal for their
multimedia show, 'Animated Rods,' in Berlin May 3, 2004. Founded in 1987, the
U.S. based group debuted in New York 1991 and now performs with some 30 'Blue
Men' and more than 50 musicians and the European premiere will take place on May
8, 2004 in the German capital Berlin.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
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Court Won't Hear Dispute
Ozzy Osbourne
Two musicians who claim they've been cheated by
rocker Ozzy Osbourne got no sympathy Monday from the Supreme Court.
Justices refused to consider the appeal of bassist Robert Daisley and
drummer Lee Kerslake, who sued in 1998 seeking royalties for their work on
Osbourne albums "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman."
Los Angeles
attorney Nate Kraut said his musician clients have been denied credit for
writing songs that are now used in television commercials and during NFL games.
Ozzy
Osbourne
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Capsizes Approaching Nude Beach
Party Barge
A double-decker party barge capsized when dozens of
passengers moved to one side of the boat as it approached Texas' only nude
beach.
Sixty people on the boat were rescued Sunday from Lake Travis,
including two with minor injuries, authorities said.
The accident
happened during Splash Day, a semiannual event hosted at the clothing-optional
area by the Austin Tavern Guild, a gay and lesbian bar association.
Party
Barge
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A flower lay on the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial to mark the World
Press Freedom Day, Monday, May 3, 2004, in Arlington, Va. The names of 20
journalists who died during the war in Iraq last year and an Associated Press
Television News cameraman killed while filming violence in the West Bank were
among 53 names added Monday to a memorial to those who died covering the news.
Photo by Lawrence Jackson
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