Who's Going To Hell This Week
Helen A. Handbasket
From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The lizard molted today.
Really wanted Eddie to have done better on 'Jeopardy'.
Watched 'Raymond'. Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts are wonderful. And, it serves to keep me reminded
why I'm on the west coast & most of the family is back east. : )
Watched 'The Honeymooners' on CBS. Can remember the night my Dad explained an outhouse bit. My first introduction to less than prurient humor...(thanks, Dad!).
Tonight, Tuesday, it's all fresh on CBS with 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Richard Gere and Indiana Pacers star, Reggie Miller.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Scott Bakula and Eugene Levy
NBC wastes the first hour with a 'Frasier' rerun, then goes fresh for the rest of the evening with another 'Frasier',
'Scrubs' and 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are David Spade and Eliza Dushku.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan is Corbin Bernsen.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Sarah Silverman and Nappy Roots.
It's all fresh on ABC with 'Entertainment Tonight Presents: Laverne & Shirley - Together Again', 'Favorite Stars: Then & Now -- An E!
Television Special', and 'NYPD Blue'.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Author Arianna Huffington; Author Adel Iskandar; Musician Salman Ahmad; Comedian Kevin Nealon.
The WB is fresh with 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.
Faux is all fresh with 'That 70's Show', 'That 80's Show', and '24' (9:00pm - 10:00pm).
UPN is all fresh with 'Buffy' and 'Roswell'.
MTV has 2 hours of 'The Osbournes', from 7pm - 9pm (edt) and then a fresh episode at it's traditional 10:30pm (edt) time.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Astro Forecast for period 5/5 - 6/21/02
Celestial Sass!
By gare galbraith
Virgo 8/23 - 9/22 Ahhh.... Virgo the Underestimated. Ever dependable, ever logical, ever practical. It's difficult for you to bear up when the world is not in these modes. And so it shall happen at times during the Mercury Retro (see the initial entry regarding this) from 5/15 - 6/8. There will be occasions in this period when you just "short out". Realize that it's not for you to take personally and that you can avoid trouble by being extra diligent in communication and in keeping those famous legs crossed. Titter, titter? At least if you swing them open, know that you're doing it for the reasons that you will post-analyze as the most practical. During the Retro period, the evening of (Shoot! i'm talking to Virgos! Be exact, for Debbie Boone's sake!)... I mean from 5:01pm EST 5/19 thru 11:53am 5/21 is the best period to ground yourself and rise above the confusion. Your best days in this period are from 10:23pm 6/15 - 7:29pm 6/17. Make and initiate vows you want to keep then and let the people who are causing messes in your life know that you will let loose your avalanche temper if they persist. Lay low all day of 5/7 as well as the evening of 6/1 thru 6:51am 6/4. Whatever sense you will try to impart will just be lost on escapist dreamers.
1st Decan Virgo 8/22 - 9/2 Love of careersecurity and those that bolster such will pervade from 5/20 - 5/29 and fights with those that want to f&*k with such will follow 5/29 - 6/15. After 6/13, you will feel less like a victim and more like a dynamic Lauren Bacall Virgo in taking your lifewounds and using them to process the world's madness.
2nd Virgo 9/3 - 9/12 As long as you foster security amongst co-workers, superiors and underlings, you will have expansion of career aim. Know that in order for you to prosper longterm ambitionwise, you almost have to be den mother to those around you... You can do it like Barbara Billingsley or Roseanne, but realize it's helpful for you to do this. You are in the middle of a yearlong process of rethinking/ANALYZing what you want from the work world and what you intend to put into it. There'll be much more clarity for you regarding this after your birthday.
3rd Virgo 9/13 - 9/22 The disruptions and upheavals that you've experienced regarding work, responsibility and basic health over the last 8 months will not smooth over completely, but i feel that from these last experiences, you can surf these waves until calm water is reached. Did i even have enough metaphors in that sentence to mix? It's all been about who/what/how you know regarding work this year and you have ANALYTICALLY ground those issues into finer sand to sift more readily thru your hour glass.
For Cancer's (Moonchildren) & Leo's's reading, see BartCop E! - Monnday, May 6th.
For Gemini's reading, see BartCop E! - Sunday, Cinqo de Mayo.
Great Site
Get Your War On
Get Your War On
At Paine College
Danny Glover
Danny Glover honored his mother during commencement ceremonies at Paine College, a historically black college in Augusta.
The actor's mother, Carrie Hunley Glover, graduated from Paine in 1942. In 1990, Glover memorialized his mother with a $100,000 donation to Paine
for an endowment in her name.
"Like your parents, my grandparents worked very hard to get my mother through college," Glover told the graduates. "My grandmother was a midwife, who
delivered everything from babies to eggs, to get that girl through college."
Glover shook every student's hand at Paine's 120th commencement, accepting a few hugs as well. About 100 students graduated from Paine on Sunday.
Danny Glover
Great Site
Question Mark #1
Question Mark #1
'Ain't It Cool?'
'Spoiler' Sites
The web is suddenly filled with sites ready to spoil the fun - uncannily specific reports from informed sources about what's in store for almost every
character on TV from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to President Josiah Bartlett on "The West Wing," weeks before the episodes air.
Fans are usually warned beforehand with a "spoiler alert," relieving the writer of any responsibility for revealing the information and ruining the
suprise for the reader.
"People who don't cry at the funerals of their own blood relatives can find themselves weeping uncontrollably when a television character sacrifices her
life to save another television character," says spoiler-king, Hercules the Strong, who agreed to be interviewed only by e-mail, thus protecting his identity.
Hercules is proprietor of the TV section of Ain't It Cool News.com, the popular site founded by film critic Harry Knowles, who became famous for reviewing movies
and TV shows long before they'd even been filmed.
"I've never looked on spoilers as something negative," writes Michelle - the Webmaster of
angelicslayer.com, a site devoted to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - who asked that her last name be withheld.
The source of spoilers remains a great mystery, although it's believed that most are e-mailed to Web sites from industry insiders - writers, producers, actors and even the
guys who get them coffee.
'Spoiler' Sites
BartCop TV!
Issue #1
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
Replacement In 'Terminator 3'
Claire Danes
Claire Danes has replaced newcomer Sophia Bush in a pivotal role in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," almost four weeks after the costly Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi picture started filming.
Danes started work Sunday, taking over as the romantic interest of John Conner (Nick Stahl), who is now in his 20s and once again partnered with his muscular cyborg pal while trying
to elude a more advanced TX model robot bent on terminating him to change the future (newcomer Kristanna Loken). Filming on the 100-day shoot began April 15.
Director Jonathan Mostow felt that Bush, who recently co-starred in "National Lampoon's Van Wilder," seemed a bit young for the part. Danes is 23.
Claire Danes
Great Site
Question Mark #3
Question Mark #3
Buys 'Chicago' Catalog
Rhino Records
Rhino Records has acquired the coveted catalog of Chicago, one of the best selling American rock bands of all time, and will begin rolling out the band's
original albums and new compilations beginning in July.
Chicago's 26 albums will be released chronologically in blocks of three after a two-CD "Complete Greatest Hits" is released July 2. Deluxe editions of "Chicago
Transit Authority," "Chicago II" and "Chicago III," which will include unreleased material, will hit retail stores July 16.
The timetable for the releases has yet to be determined, though the second set of three -- the multidisc "At Carnegie Hall," "V" and "VI" -- is penciled in
for late this year. Rhino plans to do thematically based compilations of the band's music, but a boxed set is way down the road.
Rhino Records & 'Chicago'
Travelling Portrait Exhibit
Patti LaBelle
Singer Patti LaBelle poses with her portrait as it was unveiled May 6, 2002 in Hollywood. LaBelle's portrait is featured in a travelling exhibit featuring portraits
of active women over 45 years of age done by photographer Jayne Wexler.
Photo by Fred Prouser
World Wrestling Federation Changes Name
WWF Now WWE
World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. Monday dropped its WWF name like a pile driver, tagging a new moniker that reflects the company's growing multimedia empire.
With the famous name and logo retired along with legends like George "The Animal" Steele and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, the company will now be
known as World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., or WWE.
WWF officials cited the company's losing battle royal with the environmental conservation group World Wildlife Fund over the WWF initials as one
factor behind the switch. Chief Executive Linda McMahon said in a statement the name change will "allay the concerns of the Fund."
Dispensing with the "federation" in its name also removes the vestigial traces of professional wrestling as an actual sport, rather than violent
theater. WWF founder Vince McMahon admitted in 1989 that WWF wrestling bouts were scripted, in part to avoid a tax on sporting events.
WWF Now WWE
Penthouse Sued in Photo Controversy
Not Anna Kournikova
The daughter-in-law of fashion designer Luciano Benetton sued Penthouse Magazine on Monday for publishing unauthorized photographs of her sunbathing topless while
allegedly misidentifying her as Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova.
Judith Soltesz-Benetton, 28, sued Penthouse's parent company General Media Communications for damages of more than $10 million. The suit, filed in Manhattan federal
court, also seeks a court order recalling the 1.2 million copies of the June issue of the men's magazine.
In a hearing later in the day, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin barred the magazine from posting the photographs on its Internet Web site as had been scheduled for
Friday. He also ordered that no further copies of the magazine be distributed before a hearing next week.
Penthouse had allegedly obtained a number of unauthorized photographs of Soltesz-Benetton taken of her while sunbathing topless in Miami about seven years ago. The suit
alleged that the magazine then published a dozen pictures of the plaintiff misidentifying her as Kournikova.
The cover of Penthouse's June issue carries the headline "Exclusive Anna Kournikova Caught Close Up on Nude Beach."
Penthouse Sued in Photo Controversy
Reunion Show Airs Tonight
'Laverne & Shirley'
As a young girl, Penny Marshall hoofed it to school in the Bronx. Along the way, nonsensical phrases floated through her head.
Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox are the credited writers of "Making Our Dreams Come True," and Cyndi Grecco's voice turned it into a radio hit in 1976.
The series was a hit, too. Marshall and co-star Cindy Williams celebrate it with an hour of clips and recollections in ABC's "Laverne & Shirley Together Again," airing Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT.
The show is light on outtakes, unlike the Carol Burnett reunion that attracted 30 million viewers and started the current spate of reunions and anniversary salutes.
"We don't have that many, plus we cursed a lot," Marshall said, "so it would be all bleeps."
Joining the gabfest are Michael McKean (Lenny), David L. Lander (Squiggy), Eddie Mekka (Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa), and Betty Garrett (Mrs. Babish).
For the rest, 'Laverne & Shirley'
Fun Link
First Lines
First Lines
CBS To Make TV-Movie
'American Son'
CBS has commissioned a TV movie based on "American Son," the first full-scale biography of John F. Kennedy Jr.
The book, written by Richard Blow and published by Henry Holt & Co., hits book stores this month, following the buzz generated by an excerpt in Vanity Fair.
So that viewers won't be distracted by a celebrity performer trying to suppress his identity in the role of an even more famous celebrity, the producers
plan to seek an unknown actor to play JFK Jr.
'American Son'
Hosted By Ellen DeGeneres
''VH1 Divas Las Vegas''
The Divas have landed Ellen DeGeneres, and she will host their "VH1 Divas Las Vegas" show airing live May 23. Ellen knows how to have fun, so this is a great choice! Stevie Nicks and the international star Anastacia have also joined the lineup. You already know that Cher, Mary J. Blige, the Dixie Chicks, Celine Dion and Shakira are set to sing.
''VH1 Divas Las Vegas''
''Girl Next Door - The Search for a Playboy Centerfold''
Hugh Hefner
Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner is surrounded by the ten beautiful women all competing for the chance to be a Playboy centerfold in the Fox television network special "Girl Next Door The Search for a Playboy Centerfold" which is scheduled to
be telecast on May 10, 2002 in the United States. Pictured clockwise from top are Danielle Day, Jennifer Nahra, Wendy Culp, Jill Scott, Sara Schwartz, Alexis Taylor Contopulos, Katie Hadorn, Christina Santiago, Lauren Anderson, Shallan Meiers.
Photo by Joe Viles
Hosting Daytime Emmy Awards
Bob Barker
Bob Barker has agreed to come on down to host the Daytime Emmy Awards, which CBS will air live from New York on May 17.
In addition to hosting the 29th annual kudocast, the longtime face of "The Price Is Right" will be competing, as he squares off with "Jeopardy!'s" Alex
Trebek, Ben Stein and Nancy Pimental of "Win Ben Stein's Money" and Pat Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune" in the game show host category.
The Daytime Emmys will air 9-11 p.m., following a primetime episode of "Price."
Bob Barker
Book Names New Informant
Anne Frank
The enduring mystery of the Anne Frank story is, who betrayed her to the Nazis?
A new book suggests the informant may have been a business associate of Anne's father, the only family member to survive World War II.
On a warm summer day in 1944, four German and Dutch security police pulled up to the warehouse at 263 Prinsengracht and asked the employee, Willem Van Maaren,
where the Jews were hiding. Van Maaren pointed up the stairs, but the police already seemed to know exactly where to go.
Hours earlier, Karl Josef Silberbauer, the Austrian commander of the squad, received a phone call from the head of the Amsterdam security police who said
eight Jews were hiding in the warehouse.
Who tipped them off?
For the rest, Anne Frank
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
Anne Frank House
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Picking On Moby
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe is turning into a bully. The ornery Aussie apologized for shoving BBC producer Malcom Gerrick, who had the audacity to snip Crowe's poem
out of a BAFTA awards telecast. Now comes word that the burly "Beautiful Mind" star picked on pencil-necked techno titan Moby. Spin magazine reports
that the mega-selling Melville descendent was "grabbed, shoved and verbally abused" by Crowe, who apparently didn't feel like sharing the public men's
room of an Austrailian after-hours club. "He called me an American!," Moby tells the mag.
Russell Crowe
Announces Songwriting Contest
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is offering fans a chance to collaborate with him.
Jackson, Tonos Entertainment and AOL have launched the Michael Jackson Songwriting Contest. Fans can enter for a chance to co-write a song with Jackson, producer
David Foster and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager. The contest runs through June 10.
Jackson will record the winning submission and may include it on an upcoming album. The winner will sit in on the recording session and get to meet The King of Pop.
All proceeds from the song will be donated to children's charities. Fans can register at AOL Keyword: Tonos or Keyword: Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson
Suing Columbia Pictures
Walter Matthau's Estate
The estate of Walter Matthau has sued Columbia Pictures, claiming it has been cheated out of profits on two of the late actor's films, "Cactus Flower" and "California Suite."
The breach of contract suit seeks at least $1 million in damages.
According to the complaint, filed Friday in L.A. Superior Court, Matthau was entitled to gross participation on the two films. But, the suit alleges,
Columbia accounted improperly by reporting only 20% of home video receipts, failing to report full cable receipts and obtaining secret profits, among other things.
Walter Matthau's Estate
Performing Together On The CMA's
Bocephus & Big Bob
Hank Williams Jr. is planning a duet with rocker buddy Kid Rock at the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards show, pending CBS' approval.
The awards show will air May 22 on CBS.
Williams will perform his song "The F Word" in a duet with Kid Rock. Williams' spokesman said both artists have received confirmation agreements with Dick Clark Productions
to appear and perform the song, but there's some question about the network allowing the two to perform it on a prime-time special.
Bocephus & Big Bob
Archaeologists Unearth Base
110th Pyramid
Archaeologists have discovered the base of a small, 4,500-year-old pyramid believed to have been built for a Pharaonic queen in the desert outside
Cairo, the head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council said Sunday.
The pyramid, made of stone blocks, was thought to have been built for the wife of Djedefre, whose father Cheops built the Great Pyramid at Giza,
about 10 miles south of the excavation site.
"This pyramid has been discovered by a Swiss-Egyptian expedition excavating near the pyramid of Djedefre, the son of Cheops, the famous king who
built the Great Pyramid," Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Antiquities Council, told reporters.
Hawass said the ruins were those of the 110th pyramid found in Egypt. Tourism is one of Egypt's main sources of foreign currency, and the Giza
pyramids are a star attraction.
110th Pyramid
Nominations for Selected Categories
Tony Awards
Nominations for selected categories for the 56th annual Tony Awards announced on Monday by the American Theater Wing:
Best Play
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia
Fortune's Fool
Metamorphoses
Topdog/Underdog
Best Musical
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown The Musical
Best Revival of a Play
The Crucible
Morning's at Seven
Noises Off
Private Lives
Best Revival of a Musical
Into the Woods
Oklahoma!
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool
Billy Crudup, The Elephant Man
Liam Neeson, The Crucible
Alan Rickman, Private Lives
Jeffrey Wright, Topdog/Underdog
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Kate Burton, Hedda Gabler
Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives
Laura Linney, The Crucible
Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
Mercedes Ruehl, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Gavin Creel, Thoroughly Modern Millie
John Cullum, Urinetown The Musical
John Lithgow, Sweet Smell of Success
John McMartin, Into the Woods
Patrick Wilson, Oklahoma!
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Nancy Opel, Urinetown The Musical
Louise Pitre, Mamma Mia!
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Urinetown The Musical
Vanessa Williams, Into the Woods
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Frank Langella, Fortune's Fool
William Biff McGuire, Morning's at Seven
Brian Murray, The Crucible
Sam Robards, The Man Who All the Luck
Stephen Tobolowsky, Morning's at Seven
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Kate Burton, The Elephant Man
Katie Finneran, Noises Off
Elizabeth Franz, Morning's at Seven
Estelle Parsons, Morning's at Seven
Frances Sternhagen, Morning's at Seven
Best Direction of a Play
Howard Davies, Private Lives
Richard Eyre, The Crucible
Daniel Sullivan, Morning's at Seven
Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses
Best Direction of a Musical
James Lapine, Into the Woods
Michael Mayer, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Trevor Nunn, Oklahoma!
John Rando, Urinetown The Musical
Best Special Theatrical Event
Bea Arthur on Broadway, Just Between Friends
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Mostly Sondheim
Sexaholix...a love story
Tony Awards
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