Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 22 July, 2003
Tuesday
22 July, 2003
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #64
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
"All the News That Fits in about 300KB"
Issue #64
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The Most Un-Fucking-Believable Statement of the Week
"We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he [Saddam Hussein] wouldn't let them in."
- Dubya in a tribute to George Orwell -
Might I point out that Hussein, in fact, let in the inspectors? Was I just hallucinating, or was it Dubya who threw them out so he could kill some children and steal some oil? How much pot is that moron smoking to cause such a major example of short term memory loss?
"There's no plausible explanation, unless the president suddenly flashed back to his Yale sophomore philosophy seminar, grappling with the argument that everything we perceive is mere illusion. For the moment, however, let's just assume reality does exist. What possessed the president to make an assertion that everyone on the planet knows to be untrue?"
- Joe Conason -
Hey Joe, there's a word for people who ignore reality. Insane. Totally fucking insane. He'll say anything. Impeachment is too good for him. He should be locked in a stockade in downtown Baghdad and forced to listen to Noam Chomsky tapes 24/7.
Everyone Who Believes This, Raise Your Hand
David Kelley, the British Defense Ministry weapons expert who was the source for the story on doctored Iraqi intelligence files,
committed suicide.
Everyone Who Believes This, Leave Your Hand Where It Is
Calling All Roadrunners
Vietnam Redux
Picture Gallery of the Week
Why It's a Bad Thing to Sign the California Recall Petition
The recall of Democratic Governor Gray Davis is funded by Republicans trying to shift the blame.
Why It's a Good Thing to Sign the California Recall Petition
If Davis decides to resign instead of suffering the ignominy of a recall, Cruz Bustamante will become Governor.
Fan Mail I Haven't Bothered to Answer
(Presumably in response to this)
"I bet u get this alot but hows wazz flea and anthony when they were kids???? Plz im in lvoe with them i really want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Fake Headlines of the Week
The aircraft carrier USS Reagan enters into service
Promptly wanders off to sea
New Chip Can Be Implanted in Humans
Would keep track of those who initially refused the implant
VOICE PURPORTING TO BE BIN LADEN DISPUTES AUTHENTICITY OF VOICE PURPORTING TO BE SADDAM
But New Saddam Tape Calls Osama Tape into Question
Kobe Bryant Signs $10 Million Deal to Represent Viagra
Voldemort's Plans in Washington Move Ahead
"Muggle Enslavement On Schedule," says Dark Lord
Israelis, Palestinians Agree To Share Headline
Glass Eater Hospitalized by Burger Shards
A professional glass eater has spent the night in hospital after accidentally ingesting hamburger meat
Mixed Messages
After the attacks of 9/11, Osama bin Laden said that his primary problem was the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia.
Bush said we don't bargain with terrorists.
Earlier this year, America removed all its troops from Saudi Arabia.
Google Smackdown of the Week
vs.![](0721-md-5_googlebushnot.jpg)
and the winner is...
"Bush should be impeached" by 1,416
Shockwave of the Week
I Feel So Much Safer Now
Mongolia is sending 200 soldiers to Iraq for peacekeeping duties.
Gosh, you'd think the EPA, which actually contains the words "environmental" and "protection" in its title, would be doing something to "protect" us from breathing mercury and drinking rocket fuel.
Nope. Damn if it doesn't look like they're ENCOURAGING it. Oh well, as long as someone's making money.
Warmongers 'R' Us
The Bush administration is planning to pledge some of Iraq's future oil and gas revenue to secure
long-term reconstruction loans before a new Iraqi government is in place to sign off on the proposal, mortgaging their most important resource, and preventing future Iraqi leaders from deciding how to spend their own oil money.
Satan Doesn't Want You to Know
To keep lettuce fresh, wrap it in a couple paper towels and put it in a plastic bag that contains no moisture, then refrigerate.
The War Against Toads
Last month, Paul Krassner published an anthology,
Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy (Available at
paulkrassner.com). Todd McCormick, currently serving 5 years in federal prison for growing medical marijuana, contributed two stories about his experiences with psilocybin and ketamine. Krassner sent him a copy of the book, but it was rejected by the warden "because on pages 259-261, it describes the process of squeezing toads to obtain illicit substances which could be detrimental to the security, good order, and discipline of the institution," neglecting to mention precisely how an inmate in a Federal penitentiary could get ahold of an amphibian (a cane toad, to be precise, the only one that produces bufotenine) found mainly in South America and Australia.
"I wonder how much we pay the guy/girl who actually sits and reads every book that comes in for offending passages?" asked McCormick.
Allies from Hell
Did you know that Saudi Arabia is harboring Idi Amin, the insane former dictator of Uganda who tortured and killed more than 200,000 people, not to mention eating a few of them? They've got him on a respirator in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah. Gosh, I hope he's okay.
Calling All Screenwriters
Stop submitting your scripts to assholes. Just go
here, buy some used equipment, and make your movie yourself.
Stereo Instructions from Hell
"Well, from when has the shape of the human ear been lengthwise long and is still so now? Since then in the following 20 years, various knowhow has been piled and it might have been an age of grope for an ideal earspeaker (headphone). If earspeakers (headphones) concerned to listen music, more natural shape to the human ear that may transmit the sound matching the shape of the human ear, as it is with some sound unit should have been designed. Isn't it? Like all the creatures are, headphones also are developed. This can be a proof."
- Stax product brochure for an electrostatic headphone -
Quiz from Hell
We went to war because we were in immediate danger from WMDs from Iraq which turn out to be non-existent. So I guess we REALLY went to war to remove a dangerous tyrant from power, but it turns out that Hussein is
much more dangerous now than he was before the war. What three letter word is the only thing left on the list of why we went to war?
a) oil
b) ego
Don't Take My Word For It
"We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr. Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house."
- Spokesman for NorthWest commenting on a complaint from a Mr. Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill -
"Good fences make good neighbors."
- Robert Frost -
"You get cast in a show; you rehearse for five weeks; you get really close to your fellow company members; you open the show; and then wham! Sixteen years later the producer decides to close it."
- Actor Nick Wyman on the end of Broadway's Les Miz -
"The trick to getting what you want in life, my dear, is not wanting it until after you get it."
- Katherine Hepburn -
"What didn't the president know -- and why didn't he know it? And why does he know less and less every day? After all, it's becoming clearer by the day that just about everyone else involved knew that the president was using a bogus charge to alarm the nation about Saddam's nuclear threat. Whatever the opposite of 'top secret' is, this was it."
- Arianna Huffington -
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell -
"It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very, very hard to have a simple idea."
- Carver Mead -
"Only when the writer relinquishes the text, does the text come into existence. At that point, the existence of the text is a silent existence, silent until the moment in which a reader reads it. Only when the able eye makes contact with the markings on the tablet, does the text come to active life. All writing depends on the generosity of the reader."
- Alberto Manguel, novelist, anthologist, editor, and translator -
"One day, this Iraq War will be thought of as the Intellectuals' War. That is, it was a war conceived of by people who possessed more books than common sense, let alone actual military experience. Disregarding prudence, precedent and honesty, they went off - or, more precisely, sent others off - tilting at windmills in Iraq, chasing after illusions of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and false hope about Iraqi enthusiasm for Americanism, and hoping that reality would somehow catch up with their theory. The problem, of course, is that wars are more about bloodletting than book learning."
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks."
- Joe E. Lewis -
"From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card explaining why the administration waited until after Labor Day to start promoting its war on Iraq to the general public -
"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice went on Sunday TV talk shows to argue that Bush's statements about uranium were technically accurate because he simply repeated what the British government had said publicly about an Iraqi build-up two decades ago. Oh, please. This is like Bill Clinton's question about the definition of 'is' during Monicagate -- except this brewing scandal isn't about some White House affair with an intern. Indeed, the Bush administration's assertions leading up to the war carry the blood, sweat and tears of U.S. military men and women."
"Only two things are certain; the universe and man's stupidity; and I'm not so sure of the universe."
- Albert Einstein -
"The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship. Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warrantless searches, Patriot Act 2 is an Adolf Hitler wish list."
"This budget defies common sense. Veterans' pensions and disability compensation are parts of the costs of defending freedom. Our nation cannot, in good conscience, commit men and women to battle, and reduce the meager, yet well-deserved, compensation for those who are wounded. Of all the citizens who benefit from mandatory federal funding, none are worthier than those who are disabled today because they risked all of their tomorrows fighting for freedom."
"In the first appendix to this book [
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn], Ravitch has compiled an exhaustive list of the words, usages, stereotypes, and topics that have been banned by textbook publishers. Forbidden words? Forefathers. Victim. Snowman. Warrior. Stereotypes to shun? 'Boys expressing anger.' 'Caucasians living in affluent suburbs.' Topics for exclusion? Junk bonds. Junk food. Rap music. Yachting. The best way to summarize this appendix is to say that it includes most of the contents of the real world, which children experience every day in their own lives and in the media."
"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our fathers used in the great struggle for Independence"
- Charles A. Bear -
"Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him."
"The ultimate weapon of mass destruction for any society is ignorance."
- James DePreist: conductor of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, in the
commencement address for the graduating class of Portland State University -
"Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
- Alphonse Karr -
"Lawdy! Lawdy! I don't know nothing 'bout finding no uraniams!"
Mr. Conspiracy Says...
When a scientist wants to find out something, he uses a very specific methodology. He asks a question, gathers information, then comes to a conclusion based upon all the information gathered. If some of the information contradicts other information, it isn't thrown out. The conclusion must encompass and explain the contradiction.
That's why "creation science" isn't science. Creation science starts with the conclusion, that God created everything, then works backwards, gathering information and conveniently throwing out all evidence that contradicts the foregone conclusion.
And that's precisely how George W. Bush went to war. It was "Political Creation Science." He didn't gather information and come to a conclusion based upon the evidence. He started with a conclusion, that he was going to attack Iraq, then worked backwards, gathering information and conveniently throwing out all the evidence that contradicted his foregone conclusion, presenting all the rest as justification for what he was going to do anyway. Does anyone actually believe that there was ANY information that would have prevented Bush from going to war? Rip me another one. Once he got the taste of blood in Afghanistan, he resolutely refused to allow any facts to stand in the way of his march to war in Iraq.
War profiteers have stolen our country. There isn't a single problem on earth that they don't see war as the answer to. They actually like it. They don't see it as a last resort, something to be avoided at all cost. They WANT war. They're puffed up with testosterone and itching for a fight.
This focus on the "16 words" that Bush spoke is nonsense that had nothing whatsoever with why he attacked Iraq. He went to war because he could.
Comedy Clip of the Week
In this hilarious
clip from Japanese television, a couple guys play ping-pong while going through all the moves from
The Matrix only without any expensive special effects.
Mandatory Listening
If
Meria Heller is the Rush Limbaugh of the left,
Harry Shearer is the Groucho Marx. Sure, he's a lot of voices on
The Simpsons, but that's just his day job. Listen to his show while reading this great
new interview with him.
The War Against Ourselves
Did senior Bush officials deliberately
blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security - and break the law - in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others? It sure looks that way...
Belated Christmas Gift from Hell
Everything Else
Want to avoid cons and rip-offs? Learn how they work at this
evil guide to everything from ATM cons to on-line pharmaceuticals.
Carolyn Kuhl has been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Bad idea, but only for those who breathe.
Know what's going on in Afghanistan? Of course not. The American media has the attention span of a gnat. Want to keep track of what's going on in Iraq as the American media moves towards totally ignoring it? Check out
Iraq Occupation Watch, which currently has an excellent
Guide to Baghdad Graffiti.
Through photographs and stories,
Palestine Today shows the daily life of people living in the Occupied Territories of West Bank and Gaza. The site is a joint effort of Al-Watan Center in Al-Kalil and Nonviolence International to share information about Palestinians and Israelis working for peace in the region.
Here are all the maps and charts of
Iraqi oilfields direct from Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force.
Acknowledgment
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is free and may be reproduced in any form. It consists of information from dozens of sources, cut up, thrown in the air, and recycled randomly. It is sent all over the place, so I apologize if you're seeing the same thing twice. If you see a joke, graphic, or news item that came from or through you, thanks, send more, and please accept the fact that much of dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is unacknowledgeable, and if I sought permission from everyone whose bastardized material showed up here, I'd never get anything else done. Please note that I don't even put my own name on it. If you're still pissed off, hey, it's fair use.
Thanks,
Satan
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS begins the evening with a FRESH 'Big Brother 4', followed by a
RERUN 'The Guardian', then a RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Kristin Davis and Jane's Addiction.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers is Robert Rodriguez.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Dog Eats Dog', followed by a FRESH
'Last Comic Standing', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Chef Rocco DiSpirito and Buddy Guy.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Pamela Anderson and Damien Rice.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Gabrielle Union, Djimon Hounsou, and Jay Mohr.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN '8 Simple Rules', followed by a RERUN 'Bonnie',
then a RERUN 'Jim', followed by a RERUN 'Less Than Perfect', then a RERUN 'NYPD Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Dick Clark and Idlewild.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', then a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Juniors', then a FRESH 'Parasite Hotel'.
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'Abby', then a RERUN 'Buffy'.
A&E has 'Who Killed Laci Peterson?', followed by the Series Premiere of 'MI-5', then another 'MI-5'.
AMC offers the movie 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', followed by the movie 'Saturday Night Fever', then the movie 'American Graffiti'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Prestwich;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Clapham;
[8pm] 'Ground Force' - Nantwich;
[8:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;
[9pm] 'Ground Force' - Putney;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;
[10pm] 'Ground Force' - Thuro;
[10:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Newcastle;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Martin Kemp, Jane Birkin;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Gilbert and George, Adam Rickett;
[12am] 'Ground Force' - Nantwich;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Stamford;
[1am] 'Ground Force' - Putney;
[1:30am] 'Ground Force' - Garforth;
[2am] 'Ground Force' - Thuro;
[2:30am] 'Ground Force' - Newcastle;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Martin Kemp, Jane Birkin;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Gilbert and George, Adam Rickett. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Cirque du Soleil: Varekai', then 'Queer Eye For The Straight Guy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Scott Glenn.
FX has the Series Premiere of 'Nip / Tuck'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Nature Tech', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'The Secret', 'Beyond Bizarre', and another 'Beyond Bizarre'.
From dawn til dusk, TCM celebrates films from 1950.
[6am] 'Nancy Goes To Rio' (1950);
[8:am] 'Duchess Of Idaho' (1950);
[10am] 'A Life Of Her Own' (1950);
[12pm] 'Mrs. O'Malley And Mr. Malone' (1950);
[1:15pm] 'The Reformer And The Redhead' (1950);
[3:00pm] 'Shadow On The Wall' (1950) this film has an interesting supporting cast -
Nancy Davis [as Dr. Caroline Canford] and
Barbara Billingsley [Beaver Cleaver's mom, June], as Olga);
[4:30pm] 'The Secret Fury' (1950);
[6pm] 'Born To Be Bad' (1950);
[8pm] 'You'll Never Get Rich' (1941);
[10pm] 'You Were Never Lovelier' (1942);
[12am] 'Picnic' (1955);
[2am] 'Pennies From Heaven' (1981); and
[4am] 'The Heavenly Body' (1943). (ALL TIMES EDT)
VH1 continues their '200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons' countdown.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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The Dixie Chicks (L-R) Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison pose after a press conference to announce a new internet campaign 'Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote!' to encourage young people to vote, in Santa Monica, California, July 21, 2003.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Fans Roll To Kentucky
'Big Lebowski' Fest
Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for the main character in the Coen brothers' 1998 mistaken identity comedy "The Big Lebowski," joined more than a thousand fans at the second annual Lebowski Fest — a celebration of bowling, white Russians and all things Lebowski.
In the film, Los Angles slacker The Dude — "I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback" — is played to perfection, Dowd says, by Jeff Bridges. He then becomes entangled in kidnapping and pornography when all he wants is restitution for his ruined rug — and he's mistaken for a millionaire of the same name.
"Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing," explains The Dude, who's accompanied in his misadventures by bowling partners Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi).
On Saturday night, 900 people gathered at the AMF Rose Bowl in the garb of The Dude, Walter and Jesus — The Dude's purple-clad bowling nemesis played by John Turturro — to roll a few frames and discuss the film in which "The Dude abides."
Friday night, 500 showed for a midnight screening with crowd participation rivaled only by "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
It also was being taped for a future documentary.
For more, 'Big Lebowski' Fest
www.lebowskifest.com
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Hotel Moskva, covered by advertising posters, Monday, July 21, 2003, is seen at left alongside some of Moscow's landmarks. At far right is the Kremlin's Corner Arsenal Tower and next door the Historical Museum buildings. The last six guests in the hulking Hotel Moskva checked out Monday as workers prepared to raze the hotel, whose facade is known around the world, featured on the Stolichnaya Vodka label.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko
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Making Sense
Michael Jackson
Pop superstar Michael Jackson on Monday hit out at a proposed new US law that would make the musical piracy on the Internet punishable by a possible jail sentence.
The self-styled "King of Pop" feels that, while he would like to see the practice of stealing music off the Internet stamped out, the legislation against the downloading of copyrighted material was too harsh.
"I am speechless about the idea of putting music fans -- mostly teenagers -- in jail for downloading music," he said in a statement from his Neverland Ranch in the western state of California.
"It is wrong to illegally download, but the answer cannot be jail. Here in America we create new opportunities out of adversity, not punitive laws, and we should look to new technologies ... for solutions.
"This way, innovation continues to be the hallmark of America. It is the fans that drive the success of the music business," the "Gloved One" said.
Michael Jackson
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Rolling Stone Gives Journalist Another Chance
Stephen Glass
Stephen Glass, a writer who was fired from the New Republic magazine for fabricating stories, is being given another chance by Rolling Stone, another magazine he wrote for.
Glass has been assigned a story on Canadian marijuana laws, Stu Zakim, a spokesman for the magazine, said Monday. The assignment was first reported by New York magazine.
A previous story that Glass wrote for Rolling Stone resulted in a lawsuit. D.A.R.E, an anti-drug program, sued the magazine in 1999 over Glass's story about the group, part of which he admitted making up.
Zakim said Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner felt it was worth giving Glass another chance. Wenner himself was not available for comment.
Glass was fired from the New Republic in 1998 after admitting to fabricating stories for that magazine and others where he freelanced.
Stephen Glass
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Says Best Is Yet to Come
Martin Lawrence
He's worked as a stand-up comedian, he's appeared on a TV series and in movies, but Martin Lawrence said he feels he's just scratching the surface of his career.
Lawrence, now starring with Will Smith in the film 'Bad Boys 2,' said he's just beginning to understand "the game" and the talent he's been blessed with.
Lawrence flirted with dramatic acting in the movie "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate." But said he'd like to flush that out more. Depending on the script, he said he'd love to work with someone who could help him develop into a dramatic actor. For example he says he's never played a villain, but he believes he could do it and do it well.
"There's never been a director that's ever challenged me to go there," Lawrence said.
Martin Lawrence
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An Iraqi woman walks past a portrait of Saddam Hussein that has been covered with a 'smiley face' symbol in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 21, 2003.
Photo by Saurabh Das
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Signs Television Comedy Deal
John Stamos
Actor John Stamos has inked a one-year deal with Brad Gray TV and 20th Century Fox Television to star in and possibly produce a comedy show developed for him targeted for a fall 2004 launch.
Sources said that at least two broadcast networks have expressed strong interest in a comedy series starring Stamos, which would be his first since ABC's "Full House."
Stamos will next be seen in the independent feature "Knots."
John Stamos
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Baby News
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe announced Monday that his wife, Danielle Spencer, is pregnant with their first child, which is due in January.
"Danni is 14 weeks and three days. So it is a lot of fun and she is feeling all the effects of it," Crowe told Australia's Channel Nine television.
The 39-year-old actor married Spencer, 32, on April 7 at his sprawling rural property of Nana Glen near the east Australian beach resort town of Coffs Harbour. Rumors had circulated since June 11 that the couple was expecting a baby.
Russell Crowe
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Will Reunite Says Jermaine
Jackson 5
In an interview with the BBC's Three's Liquid News, Jermaine Jackson claimed that the original Jackson 5 will be reuniting for a tour that will include Michael Jackson. He said the brothers are working on a new album that will be released around the time of the tour. The original Jackson 5 included Michael, Jermaine, Jackie, Tito and Marlon.
Jermaine left in 1976, and was replaced by Randy, though he returned for the 1984 Victory tour. Jermaine confirmed that Michael was "absolutely on board" for both the tour and album, though he couldn't confirm any concert dates or a release date for the album. Jermaine noted that, "Michael turned into this beautiful entertainer because of the foundation of the Jackson 5."
During the interview, Jermaine also defended Michael's abilities as a parent and said the recent attacks on him were just TV "propaganda" to bring up ratings.
Jackson 5
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Start Anti-Bush Ad Campaign
Democrats
Democrats are launching a television ad that accuses President Bush of misleading Americans on the nuclear threat from Iraq.
The Democratic National Committee has been raising money through an e-mail campaign that began July 10 to help finance the ad, which sharply questions Bush's veracity on Iraq's weapons.
The ad says: "In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush told us of an imminent threat. ... America took him at his word."
The video shows Bush saying, "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
The ad continues: "But now we find out it wasn't true.
"A year earlier, that claim was proven false. The CIA knew it. The State Department knew it. The White House knew it.
"But he told us anyway."
The ad squabble comes at a time when public trust in the president has been eroding, according to results released Sunday from a CNN-Time poll.
Democrats
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A man dressed like Hindu goddess Shakti dances at the yearly 'Ujjaini Mahankali Celebrations' in Secunderabad, India, Monday, July 21, 2003. Shakti is the female manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva.
Photo by P. Anil Kumar
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Post-'Friends' Spinoff
Matt Leblanc
Sources say talks are accelerating among NBC, Warner Bros. TV and Matt LeBlanc to cut a deal for a "Friends" spinoff sitcom revolving around LeBlanc's Joey Tribbiani character.
Sources stressed that no deals are in place for the spinoff, but it's understood that the principals have stepped up the negotiations in an effort to secure a commitment with LeBlanc in the near future.
Sources say that those players also have settled on veteran "Friends" writers and executive producers Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan to pen the pilot script should a deal be hammered out.
Matt Leblanc
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May Avoid Jail On DUI Charge
Carl Lewis
Nine-time Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis may avoid going to jail on drink driving charges stemming from a freeway crash in his new sports car, his lawyer said.
Lewis was scheduled to be arraigned Monday, but Judge Michael T. Sauer postponed the plea entry hearing until August 19.
The California Highway Patrol arrested Lewis on the evening of April 21, after he allegedly lost control of his new Maserati on the freeway.
He failed a series of field sobriety tests, police officer Joseph Pace said.
Carl Lewis
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Changing Name
Hemlock Society
Hemlock Society, R.I.P. The right-to-die organization founded in 1980 announced Monday that it is changing its name to End-of-Life Choices.
The nonprofit group supports the right of dying patients to commit suicide if they wish. It publishes literature on the subject, including a how-to-die guide called "Final Exit."
The Denver-based group claims to have more than 30,000 members in 70 chapters and community groups around the nation.
Hemlock Society
www.hemlock.org
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The world's first two bottlenose dolphins conceived through artificial insemination using frozen-then-thawed semen were born recently at SeaWorld in San Diego. Baby Mcguire, (TOP) seen here swimming with his mother Toby (BOTTOM) at Sea World in San Diego July 21, 2003, was born on May 30, 2003 from the sperm of a male bottlenose dolphin at the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program. Baby Charlie (not pictured) was born to mother Purina 12 days earlier, both dolphins weighed 40 to 45lbs were 3 1/2 feet in length and are in good health.
Photo by Mike Blake
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'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Ark Group discovers a final member of the last expedition in a place dominated by Murphy's Law.
Chapter 15 - Wizard's Treasure Room
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This Friday
Chapter 16 - Gateway
Let me know what you think!
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