Video You'll Never See on TV
Good Idea of the Week
Since a free and democratic Iraq is also our only hope for an Iraq without a US military presence (and the attendant slow bleed of US casualties), it is well past time for the Iraqi people to start hashing out what kind of society they want to live in. The first step of this process inevitably involves the creation of a document that forms the basis for their new government. The sooner we get on with the process of having the Iraqis come up with that document, the sooner we can transition power to them and get our kids home.
I would suggest that, with the firm encouragement of the American military if necessary, the Iraqi people would more or less be forced to start picking representatives for a Constitutional Convention. Once those representatives are selected, put them in a room, guarded by US troops if necessary, and let them form a government. The emerging Iraqi press should be allowed cover the entire process, and we should broadcast the whole event over Iraqi television and radio. I can envision no single spectacle that would better serve to put the final stake through the heart of the old regime than a full public display of this process. I can also envision no single spectacle that would better serve to engender gratitude for our military presence in Iraq to the Iraqi people. The fact that it is not happening is Bush's fault, not the Iraqis.
Awww, Poor Baby
Vladimir Putin is pissed off that Britain and the United States have squeezed out Russian firms from the post-war reconstruction of Iraq. ("Lower the price of caviar and vodka why don't you?" - Yoda -)
Creepy Picture Gallery of the Week
Whoever does Human Descent is a master of Photoshop who creates creatures that would make Dr. Moreau proud.
Good News
Kate and Spencer are back together again.
Congressional Acts of the Week
Congressional bill
HR 52 amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the luxury tax on beer.
The powers of the Federal Government are "enumerated" -- that is, they are listed in the Constitution. All legal Federal powers must appear there. Anything that isn't listed in the Constitution as a lawful function of the Federal government is beyond the power of the Federal government. Most of the time, however, our federal government goes outside the bounds of their constitutional authority. At least one Congressman wants to change that. Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) has introduced
HR 384, the "Enumerated Powers Act," which would do one simple thing: it would require that every new law cite exactly what part of the Constitution authorizes it.
Fake Headlines of the Week
Small Children May be Traumatized by Ann Coulter, Psychologist Says
AMA Seeks Stronger Tobacco Warning, Suggests, "Smoking Will Kill You, You Dumb, Fucking Sonuvabitch."
Ronald Reagan Remembered - A report from the Reagan Library indicated that former President Ronald Reagan remembered something earlier in the morning
Bush Sweetens Road Map Deal With Coupons
Lewinsky Ghost Writer Fellates Clinton Ghost Writer
FBI Issues Final Report on Tragic Matt Lauer Haircut
98% of Americans Against WMD's Lies If President Found To Have Been Fellated By Intern
Google Smackdown of the Week
vs.
and the winner is...
Bush by 363,000.
I Feel So Much Safer Now
A British scientist has put the odds for apocalypse at 50-50.
In Scotland, children as young as 10 will be electronically tagged under government plans to crack down on the nationwide epidemic of youth crime.
Meanwhile, the Joint Terrorism Task Force has invaded the small town of Rachel, Nevada, just outside Area 51, because Chuck Clark is giving tours.
It took 80 policemen, teams of dogs and a helicopter to apprehend Jose Bove, the leader of France's anti-globalisation movement, a man whose main weapons were his tractor and chunks of Roquefort cheese.
The Freedom of Information Act is basically dead.
Calling All Homophobes
"And we'll prevail, because we're a faaabulous nation, and we're a faaabulous nation because we're a nation full of faaabulous people."
Internet Doohickey of the Week
20/20 Hindsight
Don't Take My Word For It
"The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if he is unjust, the nation too is unjust and is punished for the sins of the leader."
"Every two days, Wal-Mart opens another superstore. It has more people in uniform than the U.S. Army. Last year, it banked about $7 billion in profits. In a study done by the San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, it found that an influx of big-box stores into San Diego would result in an annual decline in wages and benefits between $105 million and $221 million, and an increase of $9 million in public health costs. SDCTA also estimated that the region would lose pensions and retirement benefits valued between $89 million and $170 million per year and that even increased sales and property tax revenues would not cover the extra costs of necessary public services."
"Is it me or does it seem that every time Bush drops in the polls we are hit with another round of stories about how unbeatable he is because he has raised so much money? Coughing up fat-cat furballs after nights out romancing the over-privileged doesn't exactly endear the court-appointed prez to millions of working Americans. The Dems need to explain to voters that the millions Bush has raised for his bid to be re-appointed are nothing more than a nominal licensing fee for the fat-cats to steal billions from honest Americans."
"George W. Bush is well on his way to compiling the worst environmental record in the history of our nation."
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
- Aristotle -
"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
- George Orwell -
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
- William H. Borah -
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
- Abraham Lincoln -
"Bush is a coward. I am the one who took his place in Vietnam, so I should know." (Two medical doctor friends have warned me that President Bush might send a hit man after me because of my recent "Bush is a Coward" column. I have never had so many responses to anything I've written, although I expected I would get hate mail from right wingers. Am I ever surprised! In about a thousand responses (they are still flowing in) not one has been negative!!!}
- Jack Balkwill, U.S. Army, Viet Nam, USARV, Ret. -
"He had a moral obligation to put that plane in the water in an emergency landing. He violated the primary rule for a captain of a multi-crew aircraft: The pilot never leaves the airplane with anybody in it."
- Robert Flood, a former B-17 bombardier on former President George Bush's "heroic" parachute jump during WWII -
"Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad."
"Raise fewer dahlias and more hell."
- Mother Jones -
"I am so happy, but I am a bit sad, also. When I applied, I was a young man of 33 and had dreams about owning my own telephone. Now all those dreams are gone. My children will use the phone now."
- 60-year-old Mohammad Ismail who waited 27 years for the state-run monopoly Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board to connect his home to a phone line -
"By doing evil, one defiles oneself;
by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself.
Purity and impurity depend upon oneself:
no one can purify another."
- Buddha: Dhammapada 165 -
"This is how it is in the United States these days, massive tax cuts for the very wealthy at the same time that the poor and working classes are being clobbered by reduced services and myriad tax increases of one kind or another. For the students at CUNY, who have traditionally come from poorer backgrounds, a tuition hike in this case $800 a year is the equivalent of a tax increase. And it can be devastating... So it's too bad, kids, but this is the new American reality. You'd be getting a windfall if you were one of the high rollers at Bechtel or Halliburton. The game is rigged in their favor. But all you want to do is get a decent education so you can make something of yourself. We can't help you with that."
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other."
- Thomas Carlyle -
"We could legalize them gradually, beginning with the softer drugs like marijuana and later cocaine until we get to others. I am in favor of the legalization of drugs on a universal scale, not only in Brazil. If all the countries legalize drugs, they will save all the money that they spend on repression without success. They will reduce the corruption that narco-trafficking promotes. The police, the courts, the political and penitentiary systems, all of them are corrupted by narco-trafficking. With legalization, the fights between them, the burning of archives, the corruption of the State apparatus and the violence everywhere, will diminish. And a tax could also be collected on the production of drugs, which would be invested in treatment for chemical dependents and educational campaigns, although I don't believe in them...."
- Brazilian Senator Jefferson Péres: Narconews -
"People we don't know do matter. Each of us is less for losing any of us. Perhaps we are each important. Perhaps we should remember that."
- Noah ben Shea -
"Our world's greatest peril is Huxleyan mind control by means belonging to a few corporations in the North Atlantic. The upshot is that - in the absence of a Soviet foil - if you live near Israel and you have oil, you had better toe the US line. What the US has created, then, is a precedence for toppling all dissenting states. What the US has launched, however, is a process towards a world government in which all parts of the world exist only to feed the ever hungry maws of America's corporate queen bee. And, in that service, the US media - which make the greatest noise about correct information freely flowing in all directions - have willingly assumed the role of reducing all of us to a Brave New World. If weapons of mass destruction were the problem, then the US would itself be its personification and we would have seen it try to invade Russia, Britain, France, Turkey and Israel.
"No. Weapons of mass destruction are dangerous only if you oppose strategic US interests in your region."
"We are a village at the end of the world and we don't have Saddam Hussein here. We haven't seen him and we are not harboring him."
- Hamid Muhammad Abul Fahad, whose village on the Iraq-Syria border was attacked by American troops -
"Never in modern times have we beheld a Congress so easily manipulated by the executive branch. Last week, the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee caved in and dropped their opposition to closed hearings on whether Congress was lied to. How can they not be open to the public, which is expected under our system to hold the president and Congress accountable?"
"Under Saddam Hussein, Christians like Mr. Ghazali, 41, were allowed to sell alcohol and were protected from Muslim extremists. But lately extremists have been threatening to kill anyone selling alcohol. One day last month, two men walked over to Mr. Ghazali as he was unlocking his shop door and shot him in the head - the second liquor store owner they had killed that morning."
"When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness; when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government."
- Thomas Paine -
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry -
Lawsuit from Hell
Only an imbecile wouldn't be able to figure out that Faux News is a SATIRE of Fox News. I guess Fox News knows its audience because they're suing Faux News for copyright infringement. Imagine being accused of "incredibly poor taste" and being "highly offensive" by a representative of the network responsible for such benchmarks of good taste such as "Temptation Island 3," "Joe Millionaire," and "Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape." Unbelievable. They can't afford to fight it because we've got a system in which money wins, so the site will go down unless you're an attorney willing to represent them.
Mr. Conspiracy Says...
If you wanted to gather giant lists of people opposed to the views of the administration, wouldn't you create a site where people could create anti-administration petitions to be signed by thousands of people who think they're doing the right thing? Is Homeland Security that devious? Probably not. They've probably got your best interests at heart. What the hell. Go to The Petition Site and sign the petition to reject the nomination of Bush and Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize. Don't sign the petition to bring back Family Ties or I'll have to kill you.
Elimination of the California Arts Council (CAC) will devastate California's arts and culture programs, weaken arts education in California's public schools, threaten thousands of jobs, and undermine the economies of cities and towns across California. CAC's budget is only 200th of 1% of California's entire state expenditures. Cutting arts funding is turning a blind eye to creativity, the economic engine that is a cornerstone of California's economy. While the minuscule amount saved is NOT going to make a dent in the deficit, taking away that money will completely eradicate programs that serve over 800,000 school children, destroy many arts programs that provide rehabilitation to underserved youth and destroy the infrastructure of a parent organization that over 1600 organizations count on.
Will signing a petition do any good? Yep. The government appreciates lists of people opposed to them. Besides, all art is dead except pornography.
Tell the Bush Administration you DEMAND a cot in a relocation camp by urging the World Heritage Committee not to grant their request to remove Yellowstone from its World Heritage Sites "In Danger" list.
Was Brian Downing Quig killed by black ops? Could be.
The War on Plants
National park rangers in camouflage gear and bulletproof vests, toting M-16 assault rifles, waste their time combing the Sequoia hillsides in search of marijuana instead of helping tourists running from bears. Hint for morons: legalize it and growers won't have to use national parks.
History Lesson from Hell
The history of humankind has been marked by patterns of growth and decline. Some declines have been gradual, occurring over centuries. Others have been rapid, occurring over the course of a few years. War, drought, natural disaster, disease, overpopulation, economic disruption: any of these can bring about the collapse of a civilization. Internal causes (such as political struggles or overfarming) can combine with external causes (such as war or natural disaster) to bring about a collapse. What does this mean for modern civilizations? What can we learn from the past? Check out Why Do Civilizations Fall?
Encouraging Poll of the Week
Will You Vote For The Bush/Cheney 2004 Presidential Ticket?
20.8% Definitely (217 responses)
75.4% Absolutely Not (786 responses)
3.8% Undecided (40 responses)
Terminator 4
Songs You'll Never Hear on the Radio
Blue Canyon Productions has dozens of satirical songs, from "Mouse Limburger, the World's Greatest Talk Show Host" to "Bosses of the World, Unite! (The CEO Fight Song)," but I suppose my favorite is "Remember September 12th."
The War Against Ourselves
Calling All Gullible Idiots
Bush now says the Iraqi weapons sites were looted just like the museum.
Calling All Terrorists
Ooops
Everything Else
If you're a fan of the films of Kevin Smith (You're not?), you've definitely got to check out the
View Askewniverse.
Please help performance artist Lizzie complete her collection of dicks in dresses.
A pill which could help people live to the ripe old age of 120 is to be tested in Scotland.
The Hacktivist is dedicated to examining the theory and practice of hacktivism and electronic civil disobedience while contributing to the evolution of hacktivism by promoting constructive debate, effective direct action, and creative solutions to complex problems in order to facilitate positive change.
Google Watch takes a look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the Web.
Don't let this happen to you.
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY archives are here.
Boo hoo
I can't afford any pot
because none of you bastards are
Acknowledgment
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Thanks,
Satan
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Comment
Hillary Clinton Book Signing
Marty:
I got there at 8:30 and the line went all the way around the block.
Vroman's turned us away because they had over 800 people in line and
they ran out of books. so, a bunch of people went home empty handed.
The good news was that there were NO FREEPERS IN SIGHT
:-(
Joe B
Thanks, Joe! Jeez, the book signing didn't start til 11!
The local news all had brief footage of a short line inside (making it look like there hadn't been much of a turn-out), and then focused on the 5 sorry losers across the street 'protesting'.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather's nice, running late & large.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS begins the evening with a RERUN 'JAG', followed by a RERUN 'The Guardian', then a
RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
On a RERUN Dave are Antonio Banderas, Heidi Klum, and Liam Lynch.
On a RERUN Craiggers are Andy Dick, Aisha Tyler, and Butch Bradley.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Dog Eat Dog', followed by a FRESH 'Last Comic Standing', then a
FRESH 'Meet My Folks'.
On a RERUN Jay are Chris Rock, Hilary Swank, and Sean Paul.
On a RERUN Conan are Ray Liotta, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Burning Brides.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Mila Kunis, Nick Cannon, and Stereomud.
ABC starts the evening with a RERUN '8 Simple Rules', followed by a RERUN 'Life With Bonnie', then a RERUN 'Jim', followed by
RERUN 'Less Than Perfect', then a RERUN 'NYPD Blue'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 4/11/03), are Regis Philbin and Godsmack, with guest co-host David Alan Grier.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', then a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Juniors', then a FRESH 'Keen Eddie'.
UPN has a FRESH 'America's Next Top Model', followed by another FRESH 'America's Next Top Model'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Bernie Mac), and 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC has the movie 'To Catch A Thief', followed by the movie 'Lorenzo's Oil', and then the movie 'Raggedy Man'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Yorkshire;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;
[8pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chertsey;
[8:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Ripley Castle;
[9pm] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Putney;
[10pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Hayley;
[10:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Meeta;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - James Van Der Beek;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Jerry Hall;
[12am] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Putney;
[1am] 'What Not To Wear' - Hayley;
[1:30am] 'What Not To Wear' - Meeta;
[2am] 'Changing Rooms' - Chertsey;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Ripley Castle;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - James Van Der Beek; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Jerry Hall. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Family Business', followed by the movie 'Family Business'.
Jon Stewart is a RERUN - TBA.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Nature Tech', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'The Secret KGB Psychic Files', followed by 'UFO's: Above & Beyond', then 'UFO's: Top Secret'.
TCM celebrates the birthday of Leslie Caron from dawn til dusk.
[6am] 'The Man With A Cloak' (1951);
[7:30am] 'Glory Alley' (1952);
[9am] 'Private Screenings: Leslie Caron' (1999);
[10am] 'The Glass Slipper' (1955);
[12pm] 'Gaby' (1956);
[2pm] 'Gigi' (1958);
[4pm] 'The Doctor's Dilemma' (1959);
[6pm] 'Father Goose' (1964);
[8pm] 'The Elephant Man' (1980);
[10:30pm] 'The Remains of the Day' (1993);
[1am] 'The Lion In Winter' (1968);
[3:30am] 'Audrey Rose' (1977); and
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #19' (1999). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Actor Danny Glover, right, walks through the Civil Rights Garden at Carnegie Library in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday, June 30, 2003. Glover is to perform Monday evening in 'Randolph and Robeson: Laboring for Our Rights,' theatrical readings based on the words of A. Phillip Randolph and Paul Robeson, as part of the annual Mayor James L. Usry Lecture Series in Atlantic City . Many of the quotes selected for reading are etched in the pillars throughout the garden.
Photo by Mary Godleski
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Sings Praises of Eminem
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, praised American rap star Eminem on Monday, calling him as influential in popular culture as Bob Dylan and John Lennon had been in their heydays.
Heaney, 64, was speaking before the start of the Prince of Wales' Educational Summer School in Norwich, where he was a guest.
He was asked by journalists in the eastern English city whether there was a figure in popular culture who aroused interest in poetry and lyrics in the way that Bob Dylan and John Lennon did during the 1960s and 70s.
Heaney, a former professor of poetry at Oxford University, said: "There is this guy Eminem.
"He has created a sense of what is possible.
"He has sent a voltage around a generation.
"He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy."
Heaney is considered Ireland's greatest living poet and his many anthologies include "North" (1975) and "Field Work" (1979), which explored the horrors of Northern Ireland sectarianism.
Seamus Heaney
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Says He Could Help Democrats
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer says that his fame could help revitalize the Democratic Party if he is elected to the U.S. Senate next year.
The former Cincinnati mayor, best known for his television talk show in which guests frequently throw chairs and spew obscenities, acknowledged his fame isn't always an asset. The program's outrageous reputation would make the race very difficult to win, he said.
Springer said that his supporters are trying to help him take the focus off the "clutter" of the show and that his decision to run will be influenced by the success of those efforts.
Jerry Springer
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), author and children's advocate Cheryl Saban (center) and Marion Anderson (right), co-chair of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles Board of Trustees react to an ethusiastic crowd after the dedication of the Saban Research Institute, June 29, 2003 in Hollywood, California. Cheryl and Haim Saban made a $40 million contribution to support and stimulate pediatric medical research at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The donation is believed to be the largest single gift of its kind to a children's hospital in North America.
Photo by Bob Riha, Jr.
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Will End After 6 Seasons
'The Sopranos'
Fans of the hit HBO crime family drama "The Sopranos" should not even think about the chance for a seventh season.
The first of season five's 13 episodes is scheduled to begin airing in March. Production for the sixth and final season will begin in early 2005.
James Gandolfini stars as the acting boss of the New Jersey-based DiMeo family. Season four ended with Tony and wife Carmela (Edie Falco) getting into a violent argument, and subsequent break up, over his extramarital affairs.
'The Sopranos'
"The Sopranos"
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Photo Exhibit In Brussels
Rolling Stones
A photo exhibition chronicling the drug-fuelled recording of one of rock's most legendary albums, the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street", is on show in Brussels to mark the band's 40th anniversary.
French photographer Dominique Tarle spent six months in 1971 living in Keith Richards' villa on the French Riviera, where the band cut the album during self-imposed exile from the clutches of the British tax authorities.
Forty of the resulting photographs, shot unobtrusively to show the band, their women and entourage in relaxed intimacy, are on display at the Museum of Art and History at the Parc Cinquantenaire in the EU quarter of Brussels.
Featuring hits such as "Tumbling Dice", "Rocks Off" and "Sweet Virginia", "Exile on Main Street" was recorded in the villa's cellars in the south of France in a chemically induced haze and released in May 1972.
Rolling Stones
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Bad Film Accent Awards
Sean Connery
Scottish actor Sean Connery created the worst accent in the history of cinema in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables", according to a poll conducted by British film magazine Empire.
Although the James Bond smoothie won an Oscar for his role as Jim Malone in Brian de Palma's film, a jury of industry professionals crowned him top of their bad accent list, which appears in the magazine's July issue.
Close behind, in third place, came US actor Brad Pitt for his role as an Austrian mountaineer in the 1997 film "Seven Years in Tibet".
In seventh position, Hollywood icon Julia Roberts was also singled out for her linguistic performance in the 1996 movie "Mary Reilly".
Sean Connery
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Prepped for Another Reissue
'The Harder They Come'
A remastered, two-disc version of "The Harder They Come" will hit stores on Aug. 5 to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark reggae album's original release.
The first disc of the Universal Music Enterprises "Deluxe Edition" is a remastered version of the soundtrack to the 1973 film starring reggae great Jimmy Cliff as Ivan, an aspiring musician turned gangster. Both the film and the 12-song soundtrack, half of which was comprised of his songs, went on to make Cliff an international star.
The second disc collects some of reggae's most commercially successful singles to predate the April 1973 release of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Island debut, "Catch a Fire." Included are a number of additional tracks from the same artists on the original disc -- Cliff ("Vietnam"), Desmond Dekker ("Israelites") and the Maytals ("54-46 (That's My Number)").
'The Harder They Come'
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A woman known as 'Miss Saturn' performs a hula strip act during the ' This or That!' burlesque TV game show at Coney Island in New York June 27, 2003. The show picks random audience contestants to compete by spinning 'the wheel', which could challenge the players to do just about anything. Players who earn the most money are given the opportunity to choose between two curtains ' This' or 'That'. One of the curtains is guaranteed to contain a world class variety burlesque act, and the other an embarassing act for the contestant.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
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Votes Being Counted
Union Merger
Movie and television actors will decide Tuesday whether it is better to join forces in the face of media consolidation or to veto another in a long line of attempts to create a unified actors union.
Ballots from members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists were due Monday and will be counted all day Tuesday. The consolidation must be approved by 60 percent of the voting members of each union.
Whether this latest attempt to unify the unions will succeed is anyone's guess. Both unions have campaigned vigorously for the consolidation since approving it in February. But SAG members have been bitterly divided, with both sides staging rallies and protests and gathering lists of high profile names for and against the plan.
Union Merger
Actors opposed to the merger
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
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Thousands Turn Out For Concert
Dale Earnhardt
Thousands of fans turned out for the inaugural Dale Earnhardt Tribute concert, honoring the late NASCAR champion, at the Daytona International Speedway.
A massive thunderstorm interrupted the Speedway's first-ever major concert midway Saturday, but the festival-like event resumed after a 45-minute pause and continued in light rain.
As the country and rock artists performed, videos of Earnhardt's racing feats played behind them on massive video screens.
Dale Earnhardt
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ABC Cancels
'Port Charles'
Low ratings have taken a bite out of "Port Charles," forcing ABC to cancel the daytime drama.
The series, a spinoff from "General Hospital," debuted in 1997, making it still a newcomer in the slow-moving soap opera world. It was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for best series this year with a well-received vampire story line, but didn't win.
"Port Charles" is scheduled to end Oct. 3. The time slot will be given to local ABC stations to program, the network said.
'Port Charles'
ABC "Port Charles" Web site
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Arrested in Los Angeles
Marion 'Suge' Knight
Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight has been arrested for allegedly punching a parking attendant outside a Los Angeles nightclub -- a possible parole violation, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections said on Monday.
Knight was arrested on Friday by state parole officers "somewhere in Los Angeles," said prison spokesman Russ Heimerich. The alleged incident happened on June 21, he said.
Knight, 37, was being held without bail on Monday at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.
Marion 'Suge' Knight
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Legendary silent film actor/director Charlie Chaplin is shown in a scene from the 1940 film 'The Great Dictator,' his first film with dialogue, in this promotional photo. Chaplin plays the dual roles of a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator. Four of Chaplin's films 'The Gold Rush,' 'The Great Dictator,' 'Modern Times,' and 'Limelight,' are being released on DVD July 1, 2003, from Warner Home Video, as the first in a series of ten titles included in 'The Chaplin Collection.'
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Israel Claims 'Biased' Reporting
BBC
Israel said Monday it had severed contacts with the BBC over what it termed coverage akin to the worst "Nazi propaganda," but Britain's state broadcaster can still report from the Jewish state.
Israeli officials have criticized BBC coverage of a 33-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood and one official described as the "last straw" a documentary called "Israel's Secret Weapon" on alleged nuclear and chemical arms programs.
Israeli officials said the Government Press Office (GPO), the Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office would no longer grant BBC correspondents interviews or offer them services usually provided to foreign journalists.
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Reflects On Career
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire was honored with the Country Radio Broadcasters' Career Achievement Award Thursday (June 26), during the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall Of Fame ceremonies in Nashville. The award was presented to McEntire for her significant contribution to the growth of country music and country radio.
McEntire says that when she looks back over her long career, she would like to be remembered for accomplishing one thing. "To hopefully influence young people to go into this business," McEntire says, "and to let them know that you can fulfill your dreams, because I was a little ol' kid from southeastern Oklahoma that didn't really have a clue what I was gettin' into in the music business."
Reba McEntire
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In Memory
Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as "The Music Man," "The Love Bug" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," has died, his son confirmed Monday night. He was 79.
Hackett died at his Southern California beach house either late Sunday or early Monday, Sandy Hackett told The Associated Press Monday night. His body was found Monday.
Hackett was invited to join the Three Stooges when "Curly" Howard, the bald-headed member of the comedy team, suffered a stroke in 1946. But Hackett declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style. Playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish.
His career grew with appearances on the variety TV shows of Jack Paar, Arthur Godfrey and others. Soon he was earning top money in Las Vegas, Florida and Las Vegas. In the beginning his material was suitable for family audiences, but in later years nightclubs advertised his show "For Mature Audiences Only." His performances in those days were noted for their prolific use of four-letters words at a time when that just wasn't done.
He was born Leonard Hacker in a Jewish section of New York City's borough of Brooklyn on Aug. 31, 1924. For a time he apprenticed in his father's upholstery shop, but at school he found he had a talent for making his fellow students laugh. That was a necessity to offset the taunts about his roly-poly shape.
After graduating from New Utrecht High School, where he played on the football team, Hacker spent three years in the military during World War II, then reinvented himself as Buddy Hackett, standup comedian.
Using other writers' jokes, he flopped in New York City. Realizing only he could write for Buddy Hackett, he moved on to Los Angeles and scored at a small showcase club. He began making big money across the country, and audiences called for his most noted routine, the Chinese waiter.
The comedian appeared on television from the medium's beginnings, starring in two short-lived series: "Stanley" (1956-1957) and "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1968).
He turned down numerous other offers from TV series, complaining that he could rarely get along with network executives.
"That ends the meeting," he once said of network executives telling him how to structure a comedy show. Hackett was married to the former Sherry Dubois, whom he met at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills. They had three children: Ivy, Lisa and Sandy, who did a comedy opening act at his father's appearances.
Buddy Hackett
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Irgendwie Affig: Benni war es zu heiß, der Schimpanse aus dem Karlsruher Zoo nahm gern das Eis, Marke Fruchtjoghurt, das sein Pfleger ihm gegeben hat. Benni sollte sich mit dem Eis beeilen: In den nächsten Tagen wird es kühler.
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