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Issue #15
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
'The Boy Of Poppy'
by Alvin
With due apologies to Mr. Carlos Jobim, my parody of 'The Girl From Ipanema'
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The Boy Of Poppy
{Sung to "The Girl from Ipanema" by A. Carlos Jobim}
Dull and dumb, the boy of Poppy
The Supreme Court had crowned this dummy
But when asked questions,
Dumbya's answers, go:
"Huh?"
Yeah, he acts much like his daddy
When poll numbers down, he'll Wag The Bushy
And when asked questions,
Dumbya's answers, go:
"Huh?"
How... can he get re-elected?
When... he was really selected!
He's... dumb as we all suspected!
Is there something he actually knows?
You might want to ask Poppy's boy
Dull and dumb, the boy of Poppy
The Supreme Court had crowned this dummy
But when asked questions,
Dumbya's answers, go:
"Huh?"
Alvin
Cool Site
Jeff Crook
Have you checked out Jeff Crook lately?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another warm day, with a nice breeze. And, at least the humidity festival hasn't started - yet.
Finally got a comment on the clock. Thanks, Sarah. ; )
The momma cat seems to have gone AWOL. Hasn't been seen in over a day. Hope she comes back.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS has it's usual 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
On a rerun Dave, the scheduled guests are Harrison Ford and And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Buddy Hackett and Dave Pirner.
NBC starts the night with 2 episodes of 'The Rerun Show' - one of them should be fresh. They are followed by an hourlong rerun of 'Frasier', and then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Denis Leary and Lauren Ambrose.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Nealon and They Might Be Giants.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Alicia Silverstone and Goldfinger.
ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Jim', then follows with a fresh
Monk (well, fresh to ABC), and then follows with part 2 (of 4) of 'Widows'.
The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.
Faux offers reruns of 'That 70's Show' and the 'Simpsons', and then a fresh 'American Idol: Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has a rerun of 'Buffy' and then a rerun of 'N Sync Live! The Atlantis Concert'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
No Doubt/Garbage/Distillers Tour
2 Weddings & A Tour
No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale have planned not one, but two weddings next month. The first ceremony will take place on September 14
in London, while the second, as yet unannounced, date to follow will allow members of both families to take part in the nuptials.
Stefani will wear a dress by designed John Galliano, created especially for the wedding.
In fall, No Doubt and Garbage tour together, with the Distillers and Good Charlotte also appearing at select dates. No Doubt will also open several October concerts for the Rolling Stones.
The following are scheduled No Doubt/Garbage/Distillers dates:
October 15 - Kingston - RI - Ryan Center Arena
October 17 - Philadelphia, PA- First Union Spectrum
October 20 - Worcester, MA - Centrum
October 21 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Coliseum
October 23 - East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
October 24 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Arena
October 27 - Jacksonville, FL - University of North Florida Arena
2 Weddings & A Tour
Tribute To Chick
Snoop Dogg
Rapper Snoop Dogg poses with his jersey with a dedication to the late Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn at A Midsummer Nights Magic All-Star Game, hosted by "Magic" Johnson, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Wedding News
Presley - Cage
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, and Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage were married over the weekend in Hawaii, their publicists said on Monday.
Presley, 34, and Cage, 38, sealed their year-long relationship in a ceremony at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows on Saturday night, a spokeswoman for Presley said.
Among the guests at the family-only ceremony were Presley's mother, Priscilla, and her maternal grandparents, the spokeswoman said.
Presley's 13-year-old daughter, Danielle, served as a flower girl and her 10-year-old son, Benjamin, shared ring bearer duties with Cage's 12-year-old son, Weston.
The marriage is Presley's third and Cage's second.
Lisa Marie Presley, the sole heir of Elvis Presley Enterprises, and her mother are expected to attend a concert marking the 25th anniversary of her father's death in Memphis on Friday, a spokeswoman said.
Presley - Cage
Back On The Road
Aerosmith
After dismaying some fans by performing with pop princess Britney Spears last year, veteran rock band Aerosmith is hitting the road this week with some more appropriate musical stars in tow.
The Boston-based combo, famed for a 30-year string of hits including "Dream On" and "Love in an Elevator," will begin a three-month tour on Tuesday in New Jersey.
Its support acts include rap trio Run-D.M.C., whose 1986 cover version of "Walk This Way" reinvigorated Aerosmith's career, and Kid Rock, who inducted the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
After the tour wraps in northern California, Perry said Aerosmith would spend the winter recording a blues album, a concept that has been dear to his heart for years. He hoped to follow that with a tour
of intimate U.S. venues and a trek through Europe. The band's lineup is rounded out by singer Steven Tyler, guitarist Brad Whitford, bass player Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer.
Aerosmith
New Album
Rolling Stones
For the first time in their 40-year history, the Rolling Stones will release a greatest hits album that covers their entire career, the band's labels said on Monday.
The group famously lost control of its 1960s hits such as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Paint It, Black" to its former manager, New York accountant Allen Klein, in the early 1970s.
Relations between the two camps have only just started to thaw.
With the band preparing to begin a two-year world tour in Boston next month, Klein's ABKCO Records label has joined forces with the Stones' current Virgin Records label to issue
a 2-CD compilation entitled "Forty Licks."
The first CD will cover the ABKCO years, the second will include the hits from 1971 onwards, including "Brown Sugar" and "Start Me Up," as well as four newly recorded tracks.
The album will be released on Sept. 23 in Japan, Oct. 1 in North America, and a day earlier in every other territory.
Separately, ABKCO will on Aug. 20 reissue digitally remastered versions of 22 Rolling Stones albums, including some that have long been unavailable on CD such as the U.K. versions of
1967's "Between the Buttons" and 1965's "Out of Our Heads."
Rolling Stones
Hockey Mom
Goldie Hawn
Hollywood's Golden Girl is leaving Tinseltown. "It's Wyatt's dream [to be a hockey star]," Goldie Hawn told W. So, Hawn is leaving Pacific Palisades and moving to British Columbia to
become a "hockey mom" to her and Kurt Russell's 17-year-old son. "It'll be an adventure," Hawn says. "We'll get out of this town; I'll have time to write. We're going to have fireplaces
in every room . . . it's going to be a whole different phase in our lives."
Goldie Hawn
Read French?
Bikinis
Plus de 2.000 femmes en maillots de bains défilent sur la plage de Figueira da Foz, pour battre le record du plus grand nombre de bikinis présentés sur un seul podium, en l'occurrence long de 250 mètres. /Photo prise le 11 août 2002.
Photo by Jose Manuel Ribeiro
Top-Earning Dead Celebrity
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, on Monday was crowned top-earning dead celebrity of the past 12 months, according to a list compiled by Forbes.com.
Presley earned $37 million from June 2001 to June 2002, according to Forbes.com, which ranked the earnings of the dead and famous for the second year in a row.
Coming in second behind Presley was "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz, who raked in $28 million for the year.
Rounding out the top five were Beatle John Lennon, at $20 million; race-car driver Dale Earnhardt, also at $20 million; and Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, at $19 million.
Among those bumped off this year's list were actor James Dean and artists Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.
Elvis Presley
NBC Reverses Decision
Josh Ryan Evans
NBC has reversed a decision to delete scenes shot with Josh Ryan Evans, the diminutive "Passions" star who died last week. A new episode featuring Evans aired Friday, and another will air this week.
Evans, who played living doll Timmy on the daytime series, was born with a rare disease that prevented his body from growing. The 3-foot-2 actor died during a medical procedure on Aug. 5 at the age of 20. Coincidentally,
Timmy died on "Passions" in an episode that aired the same day.
But Timmy's story line was supposed to continue, with Evans playing Timmy's spirit in future episodes. Evans had shot a number of episodes as the spirit, which NBC initially said would be deleted.
However, the network changed course. According to a statement released by NBC, the network and the show's producers "believe these additional scenes featuring Evans ... will provide a sense of closure for his fans."
Josh Ryan Evans
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Writing Her Version
Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal is hitting back.
The Oscar-winning actress, who had been laying low battling drug addictions and raising her family, is now penning her memoirs. A book deal with HarperCollins should be finalized soon.
O'Neal's call to action began in June when she appeared on "20/20" and on the cover of People magazine in response to "You Cannot Be Serious," the autobiography of her ex-spouse, tennis star
John McEnroe. His book is on the New York Times bestseller list.
Tatum O'Neal
First Woman Aerial Gunner In USAF
Airman Vanessa Dobos
Airman Vanessa Dobos of the 58th Training Squadron poses with a Gatling gun at Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico August 7, 2002. Dobos is to become the first woman aerial gunner in the USAF,
with an assignment to a search and rescue Pave Hawk helicopter, when she graduates from technical training in a few weeks, performing a combat duty that was formerly closed to women.
Photo by Dennis Carlson
Adds Four to Cast
'Madtv'
Ike Barinholtz, Simon Helberg, Josh Meyers and Ron Pederson have joined the supporting cast of Fox's latenight sketch comedy series "MADtv," which kicks off its eighth season on Sept. 14.
The performers join returning cast members Frank Caliendo, Mo Collins, Bobby Lee, Michael McDonald, Aries Spears, Stephnie Weir and Debra Wilson.
Jill-Michele Melean, who was hired in June as a regular this season, appeared in two "MADtv" episodes last season and is the show's first Latina cast member.
'Madtv'
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA
Concert Shut Down
A concert featuring rapper L.L. Cool J was canceled on Sunday night after members of rival gangs took over the stage and began clubbing people with metal bars, police said on Monday.
Police shut down the event at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in the Orange County city of Irvine, about 40 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, after security guards lost control of the crowd of 15,000, a police spokesman said.
The melee at the daylong concert began during L.L. Cool J's performance when taunts between two rival groups escalated to violence, police said.
When the rapper stopped singing because of the disruption, the groups rushed onto the stage, police said. They grabbed metal bars used to build concert seating and began hitting people indiscriminately, police said.
More than 100 police officers responded and closed the show down before the next act could perform.
Concert Shut Down
Launches Farewell Tour
Cher
Cher delivered a Vegas-sized spectacle to sold-out audiences this weekend as part of her current farewell tour and issued some advice to up-and-coming divas.
Cher's shows on Friday and Saturday had many of the same elements as others on the Las Vegas Strip, including a circus act with a paper elephant and seven dancers who performed Cirque du Soleil-inspired acrobatics.
The singer-actress sported at least 10 different costumes and wigs from over her four-decade career. Songs were interspersed with video clips from TV variety shows, movies and television interviews.
Cher sang hits ranging from "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" to "Believe," and told the 14,200 in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena that this is the last time she plans on touring.
After some fans booed the 56-year-old's announcement, she responded: "Give me a frigging break. I've been a frigging diva for 40 frigging years. This is the last time I'm going to do this."
Cher
BartCop TV!
Funeral Bills Still Unpaid
Aaliyah
Virgin Records has stiffed a Bahamas funeral home for $68,000 - the cost of preparing R&B singer Aaliyah's body and flying it home after her death in a plane crash last year.
Loretta Turner, director of Butlers' Funeral Home in Nassau, the Bahamas, told Time magazine that the label is not shelling out the money it said it would pay to take care of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight other passengers who died in the Aug. 25 crash.
Attorneys for Aaliyah's parents, Michael and Diane Haughton, have prepared a lawsuit against Virgin that says the company never filled its promise to pay Brooklyn-born Aaliyah's funeral expenses.
Turner says she plans to hold on to the death certificates of the passengers and pilot, which will be needed before Aaliyah's estate is settled and before any lawsuits can be filed.
Aaliyah
Full Make Up
Boy George
British singer Boy George poses for photographs in front of a newly unveiled sculpture at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, August 12, 2002. The sculpture unveiled
shows George in the persona of Leigh Bowery, the flamboyant 80's character he plays in his new hit musical Taboo.
Photo by Matthew Dunham
Baby News
Elle Macpherson
Supermodel Elle Macpherson said on Monday she and her fiancé Arpad Busson are expecting their second child.
The baby is due in early February, Macpherson said in a statement.
Elle Macpherson
Appearing In 'Muppets' Christmas Special
Snoop Dogg
Apparently Snoop Dogg, whose stage name partially derives from his resemblance to the Peanuts character Snoopy, isn't only fond of four-legged hounds, he also likes frogs.
Well, at least, Kermit The Frog, the lead puppet for the popular Muppets series.
Snoop Dogg will make a cameo in A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie scheduled to air during the holiday season on NBC. When LAUNCH recently spoke to the rapper, he was
anticipating traveling to Vancouver to tape his appearance with Kermit. "Naw, I seen the script. It's tight. It's just kids' stuff, ya know. You know that I'm saying, just
something for the kids. And I got three kids. So I think I'm going to take my kids with me out there so they can meet him too, you know. And do something special. Yeah,
me and Kermit The Frog. Imagine that," he said.
Snoop Dogg
But Don't Call It Nepotism
Walt Disney Co
Walt Disney Co. has disclosed that four of its independent directors each had a close relation who was employed by the company last year.
Disney is one of the few firms to release such details as the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission fine-tune new rules regarding corporate directors. Disney's board, in
particular, has long been criticized for its close ties with CEO Michael Eisner.
As CEOs of major media companies topple around him, Eisner has promised to stay the course. It's not clear how long he will be able to keep the reins if the stock resumes its downward trajectory. The
details released Friday in a filing with the SEC could ratchet up the heat -- but not nearly as much as if they had leaked out piecemeal.
The NYSE has proposed new standards requiring listed companies to have a majority of independent directors on their boards. A director would not be considered independent if, among
other considerations, he or she had a relative who had worked at the company over the past five years. The SEC is expected to approve the new regulations.
For names & more details, Walt Disney Co
How The Other .01% Live
Bill Simon
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon plans to seek another extension for filing his 2001 tax returns, meaning he could file by Oct. 15 — three weeks before the election.
Simon previously received a four-month extension from the April 15 deadline after paying estimated taxes of $1.5 million for 2001. That extension is due to expire Thursday.
Simon, who is running against Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, had been criticized for refusing to release his previous tax returns and eventually allowed reporters to see 10 years of returns for a few hours last month.
The limited disclosure came after the Internal Revenue Service sued two accounting firms over foreign tax shelters they allegedly set up for wealthy investors, including Simon, who says he has not invested in any offshore tax shelters.
Bill Simon
Antwerp, Belgium
Ferris Wheel
Two cars take a ride on a ferris wheel in Antwerp, Belgium, Monday Aug. 12, 2002. The drive-in wheel, designed by Dutch artist John Koermerling, can take
four cars up to 35 metres (590 feet) high where people find a panoramic view over the city.
Photos by Yves Logghe)
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